skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's only something like 60ish million people and there are somewhere around 5 billion internet users.

You know, I feel dumb now that you're pointing this out. I'm not sure why I originally interpreted this value as an "amount of identifiablity" variable rather than the pure amount. You're right to point that this is a variable that can only be used in support of others and not unique in of itself.

> Screen size, not browser size.

I would think this would make it more likely to be less common. Apple has tight control and thus more consistency. But it is a good point, especially considering the prior point. The M2 Air has a different screen size than the M1 Air, which has a different screen size from *-Air which has a different from pros and so on. We don't need to get into UI scaling to change that. I was just thinking about consistency and popularity of the Apple ecosystem, in the West, compared to the variance in Windows machines. For example, I know that canvas fingerprints tend to have lower variance between apple machines of the same model than windows/linux machines of the same model. Just because there is different chip binning. I was thinking about the same thing with screens. But again, I clearly did a major brain fart and I appreciate the correction.
Half of hacker news thinks Elon is some random evil idiot who is got really lucky twice.
People do all kinds of meta-analysis and literature reviews today, I am sure somebody is already applying A.I. to the document handling for this task but doing a quick search it is hard to differentiate it from literature reviews on the subject of A.I. in agronomy such as

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1053...

It's a big problem that ChatGPT has seduced a large number of people into thinking chatbots = AI and those people have convinced most other people that it is a scam.

I find 77,000 or so articles on "rice" in PubAg

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/search?query=any,conta...

Just like many other areas, agriculture responds to knowledge and is a highly competitive international business. For instance, rice is cultivated by very different methods in Louisiana and Bangladesh and rice from either place could make it to your table.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_Rice_Intensification

for a method which is heavy on labor input and light on fossil fuel input.
Yes, limited and uncoordinated local action will never cure global problems. At a minimum it would require some global agreement and a serious push to make it happen, such as with the CFCs and leaded gasoline.
Mmap itself is alright. You've got a void* from somewhere, that's OK. You can placement new into it to make objects.

What isn't allowed is casting it to a hashtable type and then using it as such. Because there is no hashtable instance anywhere, and specifically not there, so you've violated the pointer aliasing rules.

The obvious fix is to guarantee that placement new doesn't change the bytes, perhaps only for trivially copyable types or similar constraint. I didn't see the proposals in that direction land but also didn't see them fail, so maybe the newer standard permits it.
Superconductors (Before LK-99) [video]
I've managed small-to-medium teams for a very long time.

Agile is very often not the answer, because on a small team you don't have all of the people and roles necessary to do agile "right". I tend to just do Kanban with frequent demos and milestones.

I agree on documentation. I try lead by example and document all the important bits to a "hit by a bus" level. Because on a small team losing one person means losing a big chunk of knowledge.
It will be interesting to see a case trying to argue competition.

On one hand, a static training with a cutoff date and no perfect memory of training data makes for a hard case that the underlying use of the copyrighted material constitutes a competition with a newspaper (where the value is in accuracy archival information or very recent information).

But on the other, the eventual product's extended applications are certainly capable of being a significant competitor.

It just seems weird to see that argument floated when the actual usage is so tenuously connected to the competition.

If the NYT was suing an individual who read it for years, improving their own writing style and vocabulary, who then went on to write articles for a competing newspaper, that would clearly be laughed out of court.

There's probably going to be a significant financial incentive in light of ongoing and upcoming litigation to nailing down what's actually going on in the NN and how much is a stochastic regurgitation and how much is building world models.
Maybe try worm farming then?
https://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Worm-Farm-for-Profit
> I don't think that was a completely unfair reading of these statements. The implication is that Rust is "not a fit language" because it "cannot stand on its own" and therefore "will never replace unsafe languages".

I didn't intend this. The primary gripe I had was the grammar being complicated (and to be fair...not really available in an easy way). That means the places we are most likely see such bare metal shenanigans may not adopt it because they can't draft a XYZ Co. Compiler. This is a semi-common pattern with chip manufacturers.

The conversation diverged after that. Self-hosting is simply a signal that a language is "strong enough to stand on its own". That doesn't mean non-self hosted languages are bad. It just means you still need something else to bootstrap it. In the land of bare metal stuff like this matters.
A contributing factor to ongoing mega fires across BC.
Good question!

Existing nukes degrade due to various factors such as the natural radioactive decay of the uranium and plutonium they’re made of. Supercomputers are used to simulate this and make predictions about reliability, remaining lifetime, etc…

When it comes time to refurbish old bombs, ideally they should have the cores reprocessed into new, modern designs with better safety, reliability, and less fallout when they go boom (better efficiency).

All of this requires measurements, simulations, tests, etc…

In the past it was done with experiments on complete bombs, now it’s done with experiments on just small subsets that don’t go boom in the desert.
It really is. Society should be structured such that these people (and really, everyone) can just work on their creative works or whatever they are good at without having to worry about where their next meal is coming from or whether their loved ones and dependents will be provided for. That we have to capitalize and monetize everything instead of just distributing resources fairly is bizarre. If we were to simulate thousands of different realities, I would think this state of being would be like a shitty local minima that you tweak the hyper-parameters to avoid.

As a creative person currently making an obscenely high amount of money doing rust development (north of $350k/yr), I'd happily throw all of that away to just be able to work on my open source projects in perpetuity if I could trust that society will take care of me, forever, in exchange. In fact, playing this whole capitalism game is a huge waste of my time and energy that I'd much rather spend making creative works without worrying about how I'll monetize them.

As someone who makes creative works, I don't _want_ to have to charge people to use/access/enjoy them.
I don't think people should be too concerned with black bears in the Sierras. I had a lot of run ins, they just saunter or run away. Especially when you'll be surrounded by 100 other people on that rock. Mountain lions, on the other hand...
Show HN: Retrieval Augmented Generation Optimised LLM's
I'm super excited to show you newly published DocsGPT llm’s on Hugging Face, tailor-made for tasks some of you asked for. From Documentation-based QA, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to assisting developers and tech support teams by conversing with your data! (basically the same thing tbh, all started by 2020 Retrieval Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks paper)

Fine-tuned with 50k high-quality examples using the Lora process! Took around 2 days for smaller ones and 4 for a large one, 2 epochs each.

Check them out:

DocsGPT-7b-falcon

DocsGPT-14b

DocsGPT-40b-falcon

Why I think its useful?

Improved explicit info extraction from sources

Reduced hallucinations

No repeating at the end

Name Base Model Requirements (or similar) GPU
Docsgpt-7b-falcon Falcon-7b 1xA10G
Docsgpt-14b llama-2-13b-hf 2xA10
Docsgpt-40b-falcon falcon-40b 8xA10G

You can also use bitsnbytes to run the with less memory

A snippet to jumpstart:

python

model = "Arc53/docsgpt-7b-falcon"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
trust_remote_code=True,
device_map="auto",
)

License? Apache-2.0

Will publish gglm versions if you guys like them, im also hoping a can tune a nice 3b sized model in future too.
I believe him.
It’s getting more updates than ever?
Thank you for sharing this one!

Also there are interesting talks published on YT where he discusses data/functional programming, OOP etc.

Multiparadigm (including plain old procedural) seems to be the most pragmatic approach to me, because I don’t need to bend over backwards to express something in a particular way.

Aside: It’s really fascinating how Java and the JVM manage to evolve while retaining reliability.

He talks about that here: https://youtu.be/2y5Pv4yN0b0
I mean, not all the credit.

She might be brilliant, but she's worked other space jobs before. So clearly whatever company Musk has created, has allowed her to actually showcase her brilliance.

CEO sets the vision. Without vision, even perfect execution is pointless.
Dodgy flash bodge involving a woodworking clamp & 'strips of a Silicon Valley Bank credit card' - this is absolutely the 'most HN' story I've ever read!
Ah, I see. I misread your original post as saying that right-handed neutrinos would have to be their own antiparticles. My bad. Reading comprehension fail.
Drunk is different than drinking.
Where do you see that they won the case? Can you provide a source because the wikipedia article directly contradicts what you are saying...?

I see they went to the Supreme Court who kicked it back to the Ninth who then re-affirmed their position that HiQ Labs was not in violation of the CFAA.
Or even -rent- software from another state, even; place your order then a week or two later, it would show up. You had to then repackage and resend.
This is very annoying - I get this too now, and there is no way to make it go away (except for enabling watch history I assume). Very bad!
I hear you, but it's probably a good thing. I've noticed that the more targeted a program is, the better it tends to be. I've seen many programs get ruined for everybody by trying to do too much.
Licensing Changes for FingerprintJS
And yet only one of SLS and Starship has reached orbit.
That still would be much faster though than the current approach employed by most airlines which makes it more likely to create congestion in the aisle and minimizes how many people can load luggage and take their seat in parallel.
Nice guide! I wish there
was something like this for apps that have been completely erased from AppStore (not even available under the purchased history). Afaik apart from jailbreaking there is no way to install those.
> The platform was asked to impersonate individuals from across the political spectrum while answering a series of more than 60 ideological questions.

> The responses were then compared with the platform’s default answers to the same set of questions – allowing the researchers to measure the degree to which ChatGPT’s responses were associated with a particular political stance.

I'm not familiar with this kind of research. How does that bit of methodology work?

(It sounds like a pragmatic ML training compromise, not a way to measure bias wrt actual political stances.)
that's an interesting naming convention!
Maybe ChatGPT is politically biased, maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s “aligned”, maybe it isn’t.

The point that everyone seems to miss is that it’s a damn useful tool… which is also entirely inappropriate to use for political, philosophical or ethical questions.

It’s a language model, not an oracle or a decision maker! Use it in that context, and that context only!
> Rooftop solar in Australia is now cheaper in some jurisdictions than transmission per kWh

That is mind blowing to me. There’s definitely an argument to be made for decentralizing the grid.
htmx just got me to do some front-end programming again after many years of false starts with Angular, React, Flutter, etc!

Very refreshing and extremely productive! Goland, browser window and Bard for code snippets and from idea to first working flow in less than an hour!

With other frameworks I would first have to struggle for a day or two setting up the tooling and understand all of the new concepts and constructs. Or worse, learn completely new language (Flutter, Typescript)

Thanks @recursivedoubts and team!
https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline

"What’s most shocking is how few humans were responsible for this large-scale destruction of wildlife. There were likely fewer than 5 million people in the world. Around half the population of London today."
You enter your preferences, which can vary wildly. e.g. "I'm only interested in Armenian food", "I like books and films, little else", etc.
Guix is niche, but it's very much 'real software'. It does useful things well, and it solves some problems that very few competitors adequately do. It's used for reproducible scientific computing on some HPC clusters, which is a pretty cool niche if you ask me.

The Guix package collection is also sizeable and growing exponentially-- within a few years, it'll probably outgrow most Linux distros in terms of size.
Can’t signup with an email, won’t give it a try.
So why doesn't the Western media still push the discourse of sea-level rise and "NYC is going to get drowned any minute now!"?
> I personally do not see why job training should have anything like an age requirement. If you're old enough to be on your own, and you need assistance, then assistance should be made available to you.

Well, based on my reading, the age here starts at 16 and includes high school potentially. It seems eminently reasonable to me to have an age requirement for a program where there are minors. Otherwise, it seems ripe for abuse. But sure, another program for adults may be a good idea.
Isn't this something that's already been in conversation though? Just not popular? I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion and pull requests for this on HN. I know even the strict privacy setting, which affects fingerprints, does not make it anywhere close to a Tor fingerprint.

I was more suggesting that maybe we can demonstrate the desire of this, to put positive pressure on making this, and other privacy measures, a higher priority of FF
Gee, what could possibly go wrong? Other than government blocking you from getting your money because of wrongthink (see: China).
It will work, you just need to put it in the right place on the Garmin (“NewFiles” or something like that).
How do you recon Spacex has managed to recruit several thousand US citizens with the proper expertise?

These people don’t grow on trees(/classrooms).
I can think of several facetious questions to which "Agile" is the answer /s

But on a serious note, like it or not Agile is sometimes the answer.
Reality has a well known liberal bias

- Stephen Colbert
>Job Corps centers are located in almost every major city in almost every state.

This seems pretty far off the mark. Using their program finder, I find (for instance) that the only one in Colorado is in Colbran. As a Colorado native, I expected that the one in Colorado would at least be in a town I had heard of.

They are in some kind of surprising places. There's not really one in the Seattle metro area, for instance. But there are 2 a piece in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

I wonder if the weird locations are entirely down to real estate, or if there's a local demographic question or even a correlation between remoteness of location and success rate.
Falcon rockets can't get to the moon. You need a lot more fuel to do that. That's why SLS and Starship are both being developed.
Well the estimates are kind of all over the place but basically growing from ~1M - 15M over the course of 40000 years, before the Neolithic explosion
You said "a single renewal", which I assumed to be another 14 years. 28 years is "decades".
I'd say no, actually
>A good site could have 720 visits per hour

I suspect that the median page is viewed closer to 720 times annually than hourly.
This is such a great blog post. I wish I had read this ten years ago.
That sounds low, unless you are using one of the commercial brands notorious for displaying too-low temperatures (so that their iron/air/oven will be "the good one" that works when others don't).
Communication, empathy and navigating people is easy: there's a deluge of people capable of doing that. Writing code is hard. Not many people can code at all; even fewer are any good at it. This is why you can easily be unemployed after BA in Communications but have little problem getting a job after high school if you can code.
> I don't agree customers don't care about bugs, software quality and voice assistants

I care but once in a while I have this project I need to run Windows 10 for and I'm reminded the grass is greener on my side.

Same for Android tbh.

Edit: to summarize, Apple is still the least shitty option.
AskHistorians is one of the finest things the Internet has to offer IMO
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/the-fascinating-subterr...
This looks quite interesting, congrats on the launch!

Reminiscent of fly.io. Is it a direct competitor, or is there a major twist to it?

How do you handle apps composed of multiple services, if there isn't a configuration?

The pricing is a bit confusing by the way, the free tier says "16GB of RAM & 16 vCPU per service" while in reality it seems you only get the 512mb RAM instance.
Probably due to radiation
Totally offtopic but I can't help but wonder why this guy has a site with .pl TLD. He seems to be based in the US, not Poland. Does he think "pl" stands for "programming languages"? :)
> It seems to be some kind of multivariate PCA.

No, UMAP is nonlinear. The general idea is that you generate a neighborhood graph of your data points, do a spectral embedding on that to get your initial result, and then do gradient descent to make its neighborhood graph closer to the high-dimensional one.
> by definition has an unbiased political stance.

There's no such definition. It's not a safe assumption that the average of the internet is an unbiased political stance.
But did the front use the jetway and the back stairs? I've seen stairs on both, but have never seen this mix at any airport anywhere.
Interesting site, but it's not clear to me what they count as a failed launch. My guess is some of the Starship tests since I don't think there has been a failed Falcon 9 launch is a few years.

Also, unrelated: This site is the worst case of hijacking the browser back button I've ever seen
State agencies, Locals, among many other things. Also fire resources tied up in "unprescribed" fires
20 years ago, I would agree, right now it’s probably the least concern.
AMD Threadripper Pro 7995WX: 96 Cores, DDR5, over 5.0 GHz
How can you test all of that? through leetcode kinda questions you surely cannot. Maybe behavioral questions are close, but you would do those in both types of hiring processes, no?
> Expect to see more grasping at straws to try to blame climate change or whatever.

It's grasping at straws to propose that the end of an ice age might involve some climate change?

Human predation certainly played a role, but pretending the ice caps melting can't have is... something.
Re: "Graphical" - I can see how that would have that effect :)

To be fair it doesn't really say that, it reads:"Graph-based authorization systems utilize a graphical representation to illustrate relationships between users and resources"

Still, I think Daniel (post author) could have picked better phrasing - I'll ask him to change it.

> "while claiming that Zanzibar-type systems aren't deployable at the edge"
For most companies it's extremely impractical; and for a developer (Audience of this article) that simply wants to add performant permissions to their without embarking on a whole devops adventure it's as good as so.
I'm also British (SW) without the French or many different places - 'cramps' is new to me as far as I can remember. I'd call it a G clamp, and so does Screwfix, fwiw.

(Wiktionary does give the clamp meaning too, not with a UK qualifier though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cramp)
You're kidding right? Political handouts are exactly a zero sum game. To fund something new, you must pick one of either:

- decrease spending elsewhere

- tax people more

- borrow on credit

- print money
Contemporary:

° Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

° Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Thriller:

° Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe
I think that's their issue with it.
Whether at camp or on the trail, they advise always to keep backpacks and scented items within arm’s reach since bears and other animals like the Half Dome ground squirrels will approach unattended bags quickly and will try to take their contents.

This is especially true of raccoons! My wife almost lost her whole backpack this way, and the only food it contained was some Doritos. Trash panda's aren't discriminatory.
I love how you showed an input and output. I posted a language that I'm working on in this thread, and I'm definitely going to include that on my page.
And so let’s ban his account? No.
Now I imagine a list of similar personnalities for codebases:
1. The Sand Tower. 2. The Sacred Pile of Poo 3. The closed Clue Shop. 4. For the Family 5. The Spreadsheet 6. The Silent Trainwreck. 7. The Warden 8. Gilga-mesh
In my American experience, flights these days are almost always completely full, and almost every passenger is bringing both an under-seat and overhead-bin carry-on item.

The last 10% or so of boarders are often left with no overhead storage near their seats. The last 5% or so of boarders are often left with no overhead storage available at all.

"Put it in the first space you see" is often explicitly an instruction that the cabin crew gives to boarders as overhead space starts dwindling. Passengers aren't doing it out of preference.
you are more than right, it is actually objectively worse.

because $300K will demand much much more than 30k job.

300k job leads to stress, anxiety, performance calibrations, mental breakdowns, overwork, competition, lack of job security etc.

30k job could be very relaxed, could be part-time gig where you work few hours in a week.

so work-life balance is really tilted worse for higher paying jobs
Tangent: ChatGPT is annoyingly good at depolarizing the user.

Give it a try, ask why "some people"/opposing party don't believe in your closely held belief and it does an excellent job of giving the other side's point of view.

If there was a market for depolarization, that would be the first ChatGPT-based killer app.

edit: I have some thoughts on this and great connections. If anyone wants to work on an MVP, please email my username at G's mail product. Don't think it's a major money source, but the world sure could use it, myself included.

I am going to start on that MVP right now.
Loebner Prize (for AI chatbots, historical, now defunct)