skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can second this. My Adder WS had atrocious build quality. The rubber feet fell off almost immediately. The charging port broke completely after a few months of normal use, was replaced under warranty, and then completely broke again. The fans constantly screamed even at idle, the case was floppy and creaky, the space bar cracked in half, and small bits of plastic repeatedly broke off.

Worse yet was the software. It would sometimes hang at random and never reliably woke from sleep. I've been using Linux laptops for ten years from a variety of manufacturers, most of which didn't officially support it, and my System76 had by far the worst compatibility.

Stay very far away.
> The idea of knowing you're going to get dementia sometime in the next decade is interesting. But I don't think it's straight-forward as to whether or not knowing is a good idea.

It's not fun, but being able to do long-term planning around challenging medical conditions is without a doubt better than not knowing. This includes everything from financial planning to finding a house that is ideal for your condition (no stairs, single level, etc.)

Ideally we'll have a better understanding of disease-modifying drugs in the near future that can slow progression of Parkinson's. If we get confirmation that drugs like Exenatide actually do slow the progression of Parkinson's (trials ongoing) then you'd definitely want to know as early as possible.
At that time flash sucked on desktop macs too. Seriously, it was awful on macs.
> tell me just how useless publications like the "The New Yorker" really are anymore.

Are you sure you’re familiar with what The New Yorker is? It’s not really a news magazine, or anything like that. Its own description says, “journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.” But “journalism” here is not like what you get from traditional news sources. The New Yorker is to mainstream journalism what Wes Anderson is to action movies. You don’t really read The New Yorker to learn what’s actually happening in the world. That doesn’t make it “useless”, because that’s not its goal.
Many foreign banks will take American customers even if many others won’t - both policies are common in Germany for example, and in Canada accepting Americans is routine. Plus, even most foreign banks that won’t accept American customers still routinely transfer money to and from the US, just as most US banks routinely transfer money to and from other countries. Nothing like capital controls.
If it's okay for the corporate leviathan to automate the serving of ads, then it should be okay for me to automate viewing them, lol.
Swiping along the bottom of the screen goes to the last used app.
I feel like a computer running ZFS and serving files, is fine. And it should itself be treated as a strage device with a full parallel backup even though this has cost.

But your computer shouldn't run ZFS, that's for the big boys upstairs. Code's too big, it's too hungry.
Specifically not allowed
Is the sandwich included this time?
Hardly a secret.

China is building a complete computing supply chain. From mining, semiconductor fabs to operating systems, AI platforms ... the works.

Huawei is a key part of that. For two obvious reasons. It is a massive elite engineering company. And it was one of the first major companies to be hit by US sanctions.

How are they doing? Hard to tell. But the mentioned plants are not new; they were announced back when Trump first hit Huawei with major sanctions.

There are a lot of rumours, for Huawei, in particular about an upcoming 5G phone. If they turn out to be true, it would mean that the Chinese would have broken the US monopoly on 5G radio chips for phones (which would be a significant breakthrough - one of many needed).
>there is not agreement on what Christian belief _is_

this isn't true at all. It's quite simply an Abrahamic religion based around following the teachings of Jesus Christ. There are plenty of different doctrines and interpretations but you can tell what is and isn't a Christian church.

Same thing with Daoism. Daoism is both a religion and a philosophy with very specific teachings and traditions. You can argue about how to interpret it, but that's not what pop philosophy books like The Tao of Pooh are doing.
"Build important stuff" - to predictable budget, schedule and safety outcomes is the bit you forgot.

Dont care anout certification, but when you can "engineer" a solution that takes account those three factors you can call yourself a professional engineer.

Certain engineering standards require managed competencies, eg functional safety and equipment for explosive atmospheres, certification is probably the easiest path.

Most people who say, "meh but we are engineers because we make stuff" really don't have the first clue how engineers do engineering.
Yeah the original way to get emojis on iPhone was to go in and enable a keyboard hidden among the Japanese category of languages in settings. While apps existed that just basically gave directions for how to enable that.
The only real use-case for crypto was doing crime. Criminals flocked to use it, but obviously the government was going to be shortly behind. I'm surprised it took this long to close down the exit nodes.

She could still use it to pay people that accept crypto, but most cryptocurrencies aren't great currencies since they fluctuate in value a lot.

Our current financial system has issues, but the best system for 99%+ of people.
Though arguably, going from first triangle to a semi-complex scene is relatively few additional lines, for what it’s worth.
125 dB?

Just “dB” is unit-less. It’s like saying the sound pressure level is “6”.

Peak noise levels have been measured at 139 dBA st these shows.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9...
> if you need this book, you're going to be roadkill in math contests

> I have not seen anyone including Polya successfully /teach/ this ability.

This is a pretty wild take. For alternate takes, see John Horton Conway's foreword to the most recent edition of the book. There he talks about how amazing the book is for both students and teachers, including the things he learned from it as both a student and teacher. Or see Terry Tao's blog post on solving mathematical problems [0], in which he says he learned from the Polya book when preparing for Mathematics Olympiads. Conway and Tao are widely considered outside the "roadkill" category of mathematicians.

> If you want to be good at math, piano, chess, sculpture, or whatever you need the talent and then it can be nurtured.

The "either you got it or you don't" theory used to be common wisdom, but it's not supported by empirical evidence and these days it's mostly relegated to grouchy coach stock character stereotypes. You need a sustained level of interest, you need practice, and you need some amount of courage, but there's no real evidence for an innate ability that some people got and some people don't.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/solving-mathema...
How is Facebook behind?

They've released the most powerful open source LLM models so far (Llama 1 + 2) and are a serious threat to the Openai closed-source monopoly.
> Of course, Asahi Lina and I are two individuals with minimal funding. It’s a little awkward that we beat the big corporation…

It's sort of battle when the opponent have not come to the battlefield at all due to no interest...I'd say corporataltion was beaten is bit of stretch here.
> For example, a gpt-3.5-turbo fine-tuning job with a training file of 100,000 tokens that is trained for 3 epochs would have an expected cost of $2.40.

How do you calculate the number of tokens required?
Yes. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
damn i had memories of using plivo back in 2012 2013 2014
rtings.com does a good job of rating things according to use case, like a monitor might be rated of ‘Office’ or ‘Gaming’, and they detail how that scoring works too.

Notebookcheck.com is the only computer review site I’ll go to, simply because of their attention to detail and consistency around things like display specs. I just wish they’d make that data easier to consume.
I would like to know how many US political leaders currently have dementia. I bet more than 10% of Congress.
If you want to query the Llama-2 models, you can use Anyscale Endpoints [1]. Note: I work on this :)

Llama-2-70B is $1 / million tokens, which is the most cost-efficient on the market that I'm aware of.

[1] https://app.endpoints.anyscale.com/
"If it's ok for WalMart to abuse workers, it's ok for me to steal from them".

You could also just choose to not shop at WalMart.

If it bothers you so much, run an adblocker. That should be more than enough to get your point across.
That anecdote is not necessarily true. The combination world be very rare even if blindness offers no protection, and it seems to simply not have been studied enough to be confident those rare individuals have been identified as such and published as case reports.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z9Syf3pGffpvHwfr4/i-m-mildly...
While you're at it, why not just not use the internet? And let's ditch the cellphone too because a lot of tracking is happening through them.

> If you put yourself in a place where someone can take everything from you than it's a real risk that they might.

You're exactly right, but absolutely wrong. We've had this conversation about creep for a few decades but it still happened. It is technically possible to live in the modern world without the internet and a cell phone, but it is not a realistic expectation. In fact, removing even one of the tech giants from your life results in a considerable disruption of your life[0].

You're right that people need to make individual choices, but you are missing the fact that a collection of people making choices is called a society. Those decisions have been made by our less tech literate friends and family. The ones we've failed to educate, using our expertise to inform those that are not in the domain. To fail to learn to effectively communicate and warn of the real dangers of what is happening. The truth is that no matter what decisions we make, we are still subject to the decisions of our society. Saying "you should have made better choices" is simply victim blaming. Unless you have been a hermit for the last 30 years and plan to continue this route -- clearly you're not since you're reading this -- then your individual choices were simply not enough. There is a larger game at play and you are still subject to society if you wish to participate. And let's be real, not participating comes with dire consequences and a complete abandonment of much of what it means to be human. So that's not a realistic choice or expectation. We need to think deeper, as its the only way we can solve this problem. It's easy to be dismissive and come to simple conclusions that make a nice pretty bow, but our world is incredibly complex and nothing is as simple as it appears. Anything you think is simple is simply something you do not understand sufficiently.

It is not too late, it never will be. But it is like planting a tree: the best time was 20 years ago but the second best is now. The effects compound, in both directions. So I'll repeat what I've been trying to for most of my life, we need to make meaningful action and stop this spying. The will only control more of our lives if we continue this route and a "high tech-low life" future isn't an unlikely outcome. It's far more likely than seeing AGI, and AGI could only accelerate such a trajectory (it similarly could liberate us, which is why I research it. But there is real danger and we must not hide that fact)

[0] https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
Like silverblue with toolbox?
If you want to create diagrams from textual descriptions, https://kroki.io/ is very versatile and supports several different markup languages including C4.

Alternatively, if you want to stick to ASCII output, https://arthursonzogni.com/Diagon/#Sequence supports several formats (see the dropdown) which can pipe into something like Typogram (https://google.github.io/typograms/) for more beautiful output.

For example, input:

Renderer -> Browser: BeginNavigation()
Browser -> Network: URLRequest()
Browser <- Network: URLResponse()
Renderer <- Browser: CommitNavigation()
Renderer -> Browser: DidCommitNavigation()

will output the following sequence diagram:

.--------. .-------. .-------.
|Renderer| |Browser| |Network|
'--------' '-------' '-------'
| | |
| BeginNavigation() | |
|-------------------->| |
| | |
| |URLRequest() |
| |------------>|
| | |
| |URLResponse()|
| |<------------|
| | |
| CommitNavigation() | |
|<--------------------| |
| | |
|DidCommitNavigation()| |
|-------------------->| |
.--------. .-------. .-------.
|Renderer| |Browser| |Network|
'--------' '-------' '-------'

and then you can perform further edits using something like https://asciiflow.com/ (web, free) or https://ivanceras.github.io/bob-editor/ (web, free) or https://monodraw.helftone.com/ (Mac only, proprietary) as mentioned in other comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37040883.
Nvidia, Generative Red Team Challenge Unleash Thousands to Vet Security Defcon
They were wrong to narrowcast everyone here as part of that audience, yes. It's their site, but they invite the controversy when they take such ridiculous measures to drag readers into drama most are unaware of.
In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet
Huh. I find the input more readable than the output.
Tomorrow; new Worldcoin orbs with Parkinson’s detection!
Do people really wish for OpenAI models to output healthcare advices without disclaimers, plans to end humanity, child porn fictions, torture instruction books, and similar?

The minute it happens without complicated bypasses, the society would say stop to generative ai, and rightfully so. Many people already got spoked when they tricked ChatGPT to say/repeat scary things.
Reading up on it, recent releases of Ubuntu have dropped using ZFS for your boot and root volumes, which isn't ideal, however, they still support ZFS for any other volumes, which I'd venture is it's primary usage anyway, and they don't plan on removing support for anything other then zsys/zfs root/zfs boot.

But thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had missed the changes in 23.04.
The green bubble has nothing to do with with iPhone vs Android, it has to do with iMessage vs a regular text message. iMessages typically use data and text messages typically don’t. Furthermore, iMessages have greater features that obviously can’t be delivered to people who don’t use iMessage, like reactions and effects. iPhone users who use a different messaging app also have green bubbles, as do messages sent as a text message while off of data.
My strategy is to go all-in on Apple as my daily drivers, and then to tinker with Linux in my spare time. For example, my main phone is an iPhone, but I recently bought a used OnePlus 6 with the intention of installing NixOS on it. My laptop is an M1 MacBook Air, but I code in Linux VMs, and have a Linux NAS at home.

As many of my services as possible are self-hosted, and as many of my apps as possible are FOSS, but I access them with Apple hardware. And as my M-series Macs age, they'll become Asahi machines.

This is the best compromise I've found. The truth is, Apple stuff still does Just Work, and having an actual Unix base is nice too. Open standards and protocols can get you a long way away from the walled garden aspect of Apple to the point where really they're just nice computers that don't really infringe on my life in any way.
same lol

my understanding too is .04 memans lts and .10 means current like the nodejs release cycle

it's relieving to realize 04 and 10 are the months haha
the trend laid out in this article seems like a good thing.

Zen people talk about meditation being "useless" which is kind of true I think. It's not literally a complete waste of time. But if you have any specific problem (in your life, mental health, or otherwise), you have to take specific actions well-suited to solve that problem, meditation actually just cannot accomplish specific goals like that.

At most depending on the tradition, you can reliably put yourself into specific altered mental states. But these don't have much practical use either.

So I think selling people meditation as a practical, reliable mental health treatment was just never a very good idea and I am glad consensus seems to be moving away from it.
Hey thanks for work on the app! Is there any possibility of translating the app to different languages? I can drop a note to email if you want, since as I understand you are based on Yale's Mood Meter - https://moodmeterapp.com/science/ - it might have some more or less official translations in some languages.
On the contrary, I’m not sure that those big government interventions have often worked out. There may have been a grain of truth to what the libertarians have been saying all along. What have we gotten for our interventions? Wildly bloated asset prices? A younger generation that can’t afford a home?
Facebook is funding activist campaigns during a national referendum
I set up some (Gmail) filters that cleaned up my inbox nicely:

1. First: if an email contains "unsubscribe" it is very likely automated/promotional.

2. Then: I found common replyto addresses following the same line of thought. (Like "noreply," "info," and even "hello.")

All these mails are tagged with "sub" or "fyi" and automatically moved out of the inbox. (Tip: you can also apply filters to mail you have already received.)

I don't get notification when these mails arrive, but I can check them and mark them all as read in batch with a few keystrokes.
I use it with a tool that is wired into my terminal that changes my files for me [1]. That alone makes me several times more productive compared to copy pasting back and forth between the chat window. If the chat window makes me twice as productive the command line tool probably makes me 5x as productive. At that kind of output on a developer salary the $70-200 a month is absolute peanuts compared to what you get in return

1: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
iDome
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
> The irony of using the normative "should" to project your preferences onto Firefox, while expressing a desire that Firefox not do so on you.

Firefox is not a person, why should it have "preferences"? It's a tool. Tools should be used because they're useful, not because they "prefer to be used."
> The irony of using the normative "should" to project your preferences onto Firefox, while expressing a desire that Firefox not do so on you.

Because I'm a person and Firefox is a tool? How is it irony? Next time you're going to say Firefox can set my diet just like I can set its search engine?
From what I've seen people post here, I can totally get that they don't like HN people. It's sad, because HN is how I found out about these people and their amazing skills, but I would've done the same thing in their place.

Many people, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, hate being featured on here. Some have asked the admin not to be linked but the HN doesn't blacklist websites.

There's a flood of negativity from the tech bros every time something makes it to the HN front page, both here but also on HN link aggregators. This is especially true for the people whose talents bring them to the HN front page every month or so, receiving the same flack and abuse every time.

Last time someone tried to block HN abuse by checking the referer header and redirecting visitors away, HN altered the link HTML to not send the referer header rather than listen to their wishes. First for a specific post, then for all posts. That's a pretty clear sign to me that the HN admins care more about their links and the fake internet points generated by discussions than about the people and projects being discussed.

If the admins are actively working against your wishes, why would you want to tolerate that platform?
lol, predictable budget and timeline.

McKinsey’s found that 98%+ of construction projects run ahead of timeline, and 80% run over budget.

Software engineers also have those requirements, but we try to keep our estimates to small chunks instead of 5+ years.

You're a P.Eng when you can pass your country's certification. That's it, it's just a title.
> Apparently the EU has legislated toolless user replaceable phone batteries by 2027.

The legislation calls for phone owners to be able to remove batteries “with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble it.”

Essentially, no glueing the screen to the battery, which is sensible. I take umbrage with the "without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge". Manufacturers should make available specialised tools commercially and be allowed to request deposits for specialised tools by individuals looking to perform one-off repairs to ensure return. Otherwise, it's reasonable. I doubt we'll see a significant change in the form factor.
If you run a prepared query a few times, postgres will switch to a generic query plan. Sometimes the generic plan is much worse. I've never been able to fix this by running ANALYZE. I have been able to fix this by adding completely new statistics or changing the query (e.g. adding an unnecessary sort or removing a filter that we can apply in the app).
https://archive.li/MgnQt
I've been using gevent for 12+ years in a large codebase that uses it everwhere. It's wonderful, and I'm totally spoiled by how well it interoperates with code that wasn't designed to be async (especially library code that I don't want to refactor before using). There's no boilerplate. It takes no time to teach new people, and rarely do they even need to understand how async even works to write the correct code. I think it's a shame that asyncio became the defacto approach from cpython, because it would have been so much better for the ecosystem if cpython blessed gevent as the recommended approach. Still, gevent continues to be the best solution today and beyond.
You can get all of that already by typing 4chan.org. Society seems unaffected.
"Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang -- "Mike and Ike"
I think for fine-tuned GPT-3.5 to be competitive with GPT-4 on your use cases (assistance with Angular), you'd have to fine-tune on enough data that it really resembles pre-training more than fine-tuning. And it wouldn't be worth the hassle unless you're building a product around it.

That said, many valuable LLM products / features are more narrow in scope and can see a huge lift from fine-tuning. We've run a bunch of experiments on this (e.g., SQL query generation is a good example), where fine-tuning even the 7B Llama-2 model outperforms GPT-4 (surprisingly) [1]. That's a very different type of problem from teaching software engineering of course.

[1] https://www.anyscale.com/blog/fine-tuning-llama-2-a-comprehe...
Something like Silverblue will only ever work with a rigid set in stone ROM-friendly base. You can't even do fixes with that, so Linux is right out.

Lisp on bare metal, FORTH, anything. BASIC. It has to be small.