skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, I just disagree with trying to identify as being from somewhere else when you're born and raised in the US
This applies to other countries too.

One person from London, the other from Belfast? Both British.

One from Barcelona, the other from Madrid? Both Spanish.

One from Prague, the other from Bratislava? Both Czechoslovakian, until a couple decades ago.
- After seeing how merely quantizing a model can make it go berserk, I have very little confidence I can fine tune an LLM and expect similar performance benchmarks.

- A RAG-empowered LLM can tell you where the knowledge used to answer a question came from.
> The FBI is a law enforcement agency. Cyber attacks are crimes. Terrorism is a crime. Spying is a crime. Where are the indictments and convictions that depend on FISA 702?

The FBI is principally a national security and counterintelligence agency and secondarily a law enforcement agency.

702 is expressly for the counterintelligence and national security function, limited to foreign targets (non-US persons believed to be outside of the US), and if used properly will only incidentally and occasionally result in information related to persons practically able to be subjected to US law enforcement jurisdiction, whether or not they might in theory be committing US crimes.

Lots of indictments or other criminal process tied to 702 surveillance would actually be a sign of something unusual happening (of which “abuse of 702 for purposes at odds with its express terms” would be high on the list.)
- The schools must be accredited.

- Mississippi is richer than Germany and France without progressive social policies. Since you are questioning my motives, do you have a concern for the poor yourself?
It may be that both are thinking in terms of considering the other person. People use their self as a reference point. When you try to model in your head how someone will take your request, you may be thinking in terms of how another asker would take being asked a request. In that case, you would think that the other person would be fine with it, since they're just as comfortable with asking for things that have a low chance of being granted.
I'm not a statistician, but I think there's a bit in your excerpt that is actually a concerning display of poor statistical literacy.

If you're fitting a function which grows asymptotically (i.e. is monotonically increasing at least past a certain point), the best (polynomial) fit absolutely cannot have a negative quadratic as the leading term. If your model gives one, it is 100% guaranteed to be an artifact. Treating it as "suggesting some downward curvature" is a pretty bad misunderstanding.

If you have doubts about this, consider what would happen if we added datapoints at higher doses. Every single datapoint we add to the right side of the graph will make the fit of a negative quadratic significantly worse. Ultimately, if you continue the graph indefinitely to the right, the fit of a negative quadratic is guaranteed to be infinitely bad. Any hint to the contrary is inherently an artifact of the limited dataset.

(It may well be the case that, under certain conditions with a range-restricted dataset like this, such a finding might indeed be more likely if the true function has some downward curvature. But that's not statistics, it's voodoo. All the associated statistical parameters, p-value, likelihood ratio, etc., are absolutely meaningless nonsense.)
I went to high school in what was essentially an old castle-looking building- when they converted it to have electricity and stuff, they put in conduit and the like, but then painted it to match the walls.

One of my friends did a bit of photoshop to see what it would look like if the conduit was instead a dull gray and it looked so much better and so distinctive that it felt like I had been robbed.

I think there's a reason everybody seems to love the star trek engine room
Ask HN: What are the 5 best alternatives to Reddit?
Perhaps the issue with systemd is not technical superiority nor convenience, as many commenters routinely present it.

Perhaps the issue is actually user control.

Personally, I know that if I followed the philosophy of always picking the solutions that were the most technically superior, the easiest to use and/or the most convenient, I would have far less control over the computers I own. YMMV.

For the avoidance of doubt, the term "control" as used here refers to the ability of the user to control systemd and thereby control the computer, not the ability of systemd to control the computer. The later might be "technically superior" to prior alternatives.
The point is to repeal the regulations that encouraged the growth of the car size in the first place. If you introduce more European style car rules - sure, some people will be disproportionately harmed - but that's true of any regulation. It's a tragedy of the commons problem. Currently the growth of car size disproportionately hurts those who don't have a car at all - will someone think of them?
Ignoring all of your other garbage… starting a company is not an inherent good, and filtering out sociopathic career climbers would absolutely be an improvement.
Microsoft’s Azure Kinect Developer Kit Technology Transfers to Partner Ecosystem
From the comments:

"Would love more detailed information and clarifications as to who will own and maintain the SDK, what happens to body tracking and investments into improving it, and other details."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geoffrey_Marcy
Cats already out of the bag. Cousins already uploaded this stuff to 23andme. Really annoying.
Good advice. You threw me back into the memory bank with this!
If anything it should be less efficient the colder you go.

Cold house running during middle of hot day should be lowest efficiency during the day
Driving in Los Angeles sucks balls, mostly because of the absolute underinvestment in mass transit solutions. It's a necessity because it's been made a necessity, it's not a Law of Nature to have suckass mass transit in a massive city, it's policy driven by ideology and lobbying power...
> Without question the bootstrapper.

I think you mean the opposite, given the phrasing of the question.

> They don't have huge PR VC teams behind them, hence you never hear about them.

This seems like half an argument. I get that PR teams have an incentive to talk about their company, which is why they are in the news sometimes. But it doesn't explain why non-VC backed companies that are swimming in cash would be so elusive. Would they be in the news? Perhaps not — though they might still want to generate PR for themselves, to grow their business.

But you'd think that people in the startup world, who spend lots of time reading about startup strategies, examples to follow, etc., would have heard of such companies if there were many out there. I've been at this for a number of years, and I rarely hear about bootstrapped startups that are quite so successful. I guess PE folks would have a good sense, since such businesses would presumably make great acquisition targets.

And perhaps that's what keeps them so rare — someone making a couple million a year would rather sell the whole thing for $20M and move onto their next thing (be it a startup or a private beach), and there are plenty of acquirers who are happy to make that trade.
ycombinator.com giving itself the hug of death =)

Edit: it's loading now. Great resource!
"Committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably, to preclude the use of C as a “high-level assembler:”

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf

p10, line 39

"C code can be portable. "

line 30
Yeah, the fixed fees make it less attractive when staying only a few nights (hence my other comment).

I'd challenge you to find anything like that in a hotel property, at pretty much any price.
I don't care about a single one of those.

Computers exist to solve problems, not to be compliant with a particular philosophy. The appeals to Unix philosophy, dogma about how logs should be stored, etc, are all completely irrelevant to me. I don't run Linux because it fulfills an ideology but because it does a job.

Also, journald is actually extremely nice. Of all the complaints, I don't really get some people's love for text log files. They're an inferior technology, and rather silly when you think of it. For anything but the most trivial tasks, we have to parse them. Which means we're expending the effort to take some well structured inner state, often cut off a chunk of it (eg, remove milliseconds from timestamps), often convert it to a hard to machine read format (eg, human readable dates), and then proceed to try to reverse this process. This is nuts.
This. Many comments talking about how e motor is superior in terms of energy efficiency just failed to realize. Cost and energy density matters the most in transportation, and cost is down when solar is abundant so hydrogen makes more sense
Unix domain sockets or FIFOs could be an alternative, but you'd have to do all kinds of complexity to support pub/sub style many to many communication over them (which is what dbus effectively does for you).
I'm not sure how conservative funding makes FIRE less credible.

To make my point, first, I'm not sure whether the Wikipedia article you are quoting is misrepresenting the demographic of FIRE's donors (i.e. by omitting left-leaning ones). I'm not going to adjudicate that, so let's assume that FIRE's donors are mostly conservative.

Then, does having conservative donors imply that FIRE supports conservative causes under the guise of free speech? To adjudicate this, we have to ask (1) why does FIRE have mostly conservative donors (2) assess their track record with respect to the cases they've taken up.

For (1), one could argue that major cultural institutions in the US lean left (i.e. universities, academic and professional societies, major newspaper outlets, big tech, etc.) and that has led to the silencing of conservative views. This is evident in attempts such as comment, which tries to nullify the credibility of FIRE through guilt by association, as opposed to any actual criticism of substance. Your attempt also highlights the fact that conservatives have a negative reputation within a large circle of people, large enough for you to have the expectation that people would write FIRE off if you portrayed them as being conservative (sans any argument of substance). In light of this, is it really a surprise then that FIRE attracts conservative donors, whose views can be written off on the basis of their political stance? As for their relationship with TPUSA, why not read that for yourself [0]?

As for (2), the same Wikipedia article you quote also mentions FIRE's defence of Nikole Hannah-Jones, a figure who is prominent on the left. Furthermore, the link that this Hacker News discussion is created for also mentions FIRE's opposition to DeSantis' "Stop WOKE" act, of which DeSantis is a prominent figure on the right. In light of this (and their non-partisan past track record, which is publicly available), is it really fair to write FIRE off by associating them with conservatives?

With that, I make my case that even if FIRE's donors are largely conservative, that information does not reliably inform about the nature of FIRE's work and reputation. More broadly, I want to call out your employment of guilt by association; how is FIRE's current president's appearance in a 2007 documentary made by a conservative filmmaker a problem? Lukianoff is a self-described liberal democrat, and trying to portray him as a conservative just so you can discredit him and his organization is nothing short of a spectacular display of intellectual depravity, a masterclass in writing off your opponents without an iota of substance; surely you can do better than that?

[0] https://www.thefire.org/news/always-room-improvement-fires-t...
Also there is a lot of risk and not a lot of benefit to talking loudly in public about how much money you're making as a bootstrapped business.
The OP says “It is … a basic human right to be rehabilitated into society even if one has ever been found guilty of a crime.”

One may reasonably debate whether someone who did something bad in the past should be ostracized, but I think you are rather mischaracterizing the author’s argument.
DDoS, the D stands for DDoS
https://sub.rehab/
Morning Star: Harald Voetmann’s novel reaches for the stars
Comp is comp…?
I've literally never seen that on any medication ever, and it's impossible for pretty much any household to meet such stringent measures.
Here is the link to the CSS code that generated the video animation, afaict: https://codepen.io/jasontyler/pen/qEXzOQ

But its not exactly the same, so maybe many other people have altered it.
How to reset the USB stack on Linux
Could you share what market or type of business you are running? I always have a difficult time wrapping my head around starting a business in a large market with clear market winners ($1B+ Rev.)
Oh, by 73. Impressive. I didn't know that.

Still, that was a much more powerful machine than the ones people wrote C for. And when the cheap segment of those "fridge computers" became powerful enough to run whatever you wanted to put on it, people started using small workstations. And when those workstations became powerful enough, we got PCs.

It's only when the PCs got powerful enough that we could start to ignore the compiler demands and go with whatever language fit us better. (The later reductions all were based on cross-compiling, so they don't matter here.)
Or water boiling all day.

I think that's just power companies not wanting everyone to turn on AC at roughly same time is the reason for those power "saving" tips.
Welcome to being a minority. That ship has sailed over a decade ago. People like to watch videos without sound. Some like to read because they can’t hear thru accent very well.
I'd never seen the comparison of BEM to OOP and utility-classes to functional programming - I can see how one is more focused on composability and the other extension. I'm not seeing how the approach given here compares with tailwinds?
> Faschism [...] Nazies

Strange spellings, is your spellcheck off? If your intention was to communicate your familiarity with these terms, you're failing badly.

And no, US tech companies getting paid for fulfilling lucrative contracts for the government is not what fascism is, even if there is corrupt dealing. Corruption and fascism are not interchangeable concepts. And to reiterate the point, a company being publicly traded does not mean they are receiving public funds.

And FYI, SUSE is not even an American company so your rants are completely irrelevant anyway. They have little if any connection to the US MIC.
I Have Blocked OpenAI
We got the hug of death, thanks HN! Working on improving load times :)
But why do artificial sweeteners exist? Why bother putting them in food in the first place? It seems like we've received some irrational fear of real sugar and made to feel like, we consumed too much of it, so here's this fake replacement so you can consume all the shit you like, but guilt-free.

There's also been an absurd increase in the sweetening of every food, where things like bread just have massive amounts of HFCS and there's been a backlash about that. I think that all this insistence on sweetening everything has just created a market where people don't care how they get their sweet fix, they just want it so desperately that they're willing to consume horrible synthetic toxic waste to get it.
> Why exactly do think that #include <unistd.h> is undefined behavior?

Because ISO C doesn't say what happens if the implementation finds something by that name, and replaces the #include directive with that content.

A given system could have a unistd.h file which contains

#pragma __self_destruct

which causes the machine to melt down.
WeWork was a useful way to make SoftBank subsidize office rentals for freelancers and small businesses; it had high social benefit.
> The allegations were never investigated by a court of law, only internally at Berkeley.

This is what the OP literally said in the opening paragraph.
CRUX is slightly more alive than that https://crux.nu/Main/News although yeah, other than rubbernecking at the past I'm not sure why this made it to the front page.
> DNA could be used for targeted biological warfare.

I'm no biologist, but I've heard that ethnic bioweapons (in a way portrayed in science fiction or conspiracy theories) are basically a myth and/or convenient propaganda fuel.
> Only a little slower than RPi4

That was my point. It is slower than a RPI4, which is already too slow to use for anything serious. You can't expect StarLite to develop a tablet that is 'a little slower than RPi4', because nobody but you will buy it. And yes, your workflow may be possible on a low powered machine, but that is not how the majority of customers use a tablet. Until there is a serious competitor to modern x86 processors in terms of performance (which the JH7110 definitely isn't), RISC-V is not going to be offered in any commercial grade product anytime soon.

> Here I just do not understand what point you're trying to make.

The point I was trying to make, it that the other alternative, ARM, is also not suitable for StarLite's mission due to the closed blobs. So really, x86 is the only viable option they have.
Some of us graybeards use to use teletypes to talk to our computers. In one of the earlier races between differing I/O, the printer couldn't print as fast as the teletype was receiving data, so the teletype would send XOFF (Ctrl-S) to tell the remote end "Stop sending data and let me catch up" and would then send XON (Ctrl-Q) to say "I'm caught up, go back to sending data.

Many of us carried that to our VT100 terminals and used it when lines of code or output would flood the screen faster than we could read.

Eventually paginators like 'more' and 'less' were invented and flow control via the keyboard codes for XON/XOFF fell out of favor, but some of us have very strong muscle memory. :)
> He calls it brutalist. Frankly I completely fail to see that with its mock engraving on the aluminum case and the stylized keyboard.

I get the brutalism thing. There are a bunch of exposed bits that would normally have some trim over them. Brutalism literally meant showing the raw (brut) structural concrete rather than hiding it behind a facade. The back of the laptop does have a little much in the way of ornate greebling, but the sides of the top show just the structural bits, right?
You realise building a website can be done in notepad, without a web server, or self hosted on loopback, or a variety of other things, right?
It's probably more like "You wouldn't happen to have any X?". I assume the idea is that you put the emphasis on the asker being the one to ask a silly question if they indeed don't have it.

Maybe it also helps that all the sentence markers that make a sentence polite, negative, interrogative all get added on to the end (to the verb) in japanese, which probably makes the construction slightly less awkward. In this case it may go something like motsu (to have) -> mochimasu (to have, polite) -> mochimasen (to not have, polite) -> mochimasenka (to not have, polite, interrogative).

I'm making a lot of assumptions here though, I don't know if this is anywhere close to correct.
Deathmatch was always a blast! I remember playing with headphones on, the sound design was good enough to pinpoint where other players were hiding, and you could even shut off your engine to coast around silently.

I would recommend the story if you have a chance. It's a good revenge story and John de Lancie is a great sounding villain. The presentation is incredibly cinematic, which I feel was enhanced two things:

1) in-game cut scenes within the engine, good dialogue and voice acting, as well as the "car movie" camera angles
2) choosing to have even the pre-rendered cut scenes match the mostly flat polygon style of the engine avoided the gap between gameplay and cutscene. Not exactly the uncanny valley. The "why doesn't it all look like that?" valley perhaps.
Build a Deep-Learning MVP
I built a MVP to help Youtubers to predict the click-through rate of thumbnail. You can try it at [oldfatboy.com](https://oldfatboy.com).

I aim to build a Shopify for deep learning. A user-friendly interface for Youtubers to build a customised AI model from their own data.

More details about how to build this MVP is on my blog: [How to build a minimal deep learning web app from Fastai, Hugging Face Space, Github Page and Google Colab. A step-by-step guide for beginner](https://chuhaoliu.com/2023/08/18/fist_blog.html)
https://archive.is/nU0Ly
Some indies are great, but they suffer from the same problem; there's a lot of copying happening.

One developer may put out an early version onto Kickstarter hoping they can go full-time on it, an established game studio picks up on the idea, copies the concept and beats them to the punch.

ConcernedApe makes an hommage to the old Harvest Moon games, runs circles around an established franchise by making a game 10x as large and good, and suddenly dozens of farm games pop up left right and center, all cute, some 3d, some with waifus, idk.

Pixel art has a revival. Suddenly pixel art everywhere. Some really good and stylish, mind you.
What bothers me about this right here is that at one time or another one of these was heralded as THE solution that would alleviate poverty. Why is it always food stamps, minimum wage, and ubi? I thought minimum wage would have solved/alleviated the food problem. It seems to me that there is a general failure to acknowledge the big picture. Being impoverished means lack of resources. I say pick one general solution, either ubi or negative income tax, and let the poor choose what they need. It does a real disservice to the poor to always be for every policy that is notionally meant to help them. It seems disingenuous and not very well thought out. As Eminem famously said,”these goddamn foodstamps won’t buy diapers”.
Shooting you would be far preferable to getting rid of my pets.
> nfc chip

> no logical reason why apple does this

How can he be serious
It's heartening to see the Luddites failed to stop progress on this occasion at least.
> Mississippi is richer than Germany and France without progressive social policies.

By what measure? Using GDP Mississippi appears to have a GDP of around $100 billion. France and Germany both have GDPs in the trillions. Normalized by population, both are still larger than Mississippi.

Mississippi: $105 billion / 2.95 million = $34.90k/person
France : $2.958 trillion / 67.75 million = $43.66k
Germany : $4.26 trillion / 83.2 million = $52.2k
I recommend a good physical therapist. With all that dragging the goal posts around, your shoulders will probably need some work.
Going car-less in L.A.: The environmental benefits and economic costs
Voyager app on iOS is a great Apollo clone that connects to Lemmy.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762

https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/all
Hey I'm one of the co-founders of Poozle. Thanks for asking great questions let me take them one by one

<Why LLMs>
Our goal is to provide context for LLMs. Our first step is to normalize data and offload syncing, similar to other Unified API providers like Merge. In the future, we also plan to assist with vector embeddings or storing data directly in Vector DB for a search context API. We are exploring the best solution and believe building in the community will be a big help.

<Competition with large Players>
Nango doesn't offer a pre-built Unified API. Merge focuses on B2B SAAS companies looking to build customer-facing integrations. Our goal is to develop tools and infrastructure to support LLMs. This is similar to how Plaid bet on the Fintech industry and built infrastructure and tools around it, starting with a Unified API for banking data.