skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is your startup using Phoenix liveviews?

nope, liveview didn't exist when I started this startup. its an ios app connected to an elixir api over graphql and channels.

> The learning curve is a major pain in the ass once you go beyond hello-world.

I made an app in in while back. there's def a bit of a learning curve but its not that crazy. I was able to build a few fairly complex modal workflows in about a day. conceptually, its juts a genserver with a set of frontend components into which you load state. which can send back and forth events. Nothing anyone not familiar with react/redux wouldn't understand.

> show me how to handle an event triggered by a row in a table accessed through a tab-navigation component, updating the table.

the live view way there if I understand you correctly would be to give each sub component an id that it can pass back to a stateful main component whihc it would then modify in place and autoupdate. in practice, if performance is an issue, you can embed a javscript widget and send only necessary information back and forth using phx-hook. elixir's ecosystem has been great about getting out of your way when its not the best tool for the job.
No offense, but what do you do that is "distinguished"? I thought that title was only for like the top .01% of engineers who have done insane stuff no other mortal can pull off.
> I have thousands of lines of code in Terraform for which I have never signed a CLA or copyright assignment

If that is true, Hashicorp can't change the license on any of the files that contain such code from MPL to BSL, as far as I understand. IANAL, but from what I understand of the license, it doesn't prevent them from distributing a binary with the BSL, but they would need to continue distributing any files with such contributions under the MPL along with any modifications to those files. And keeping track of which files would have that limitation sounds like a nightmare.
I know that currently AI is the hot topic, but if you want to generate pictures of well-known objects like humans, why not just render a 3D model of a human? Something like Poser (the software) is way more efficient than any GAN or diffusion model.

But Poser is 28 years old now, I guess it doesn't attract sweet VC money.
What a good, clue-full post! I hope there is a trio-like future for async. And I really wish python had not added it to the standard library - it’s tricky, complex, and doesn’t play well with the rest of the ecosystem. It’s really a fun challenge to use, and better than reasoning about threads but definitely not ready for mass usage.
TV ads haven't been unskippable since Tivo came out in 1999. Try exercising that much control over an internet stream these days. We're going to look back at cable/DVRs as the last time advertising was strongly separated from content, without microtargeting, and easily skippable with the ability to arbitrarily navigate ahead/back in the video stream.

Although I will say if I do watch something live I don't find it annoying to mute the commercial and get up or use my phone during that break. What's more important to me is that it's a hard separation from the content.

Baseball is the one thing that's no longer watchable to me at all. The announcers read ads between pitches/at-bats. Muting doesn't work for the frequent 10 second ads that can come anytime during the programming.
What would you do instead? Ask for another recruiter?
yeah. we used to get pensions too.
> ssh-copy-id

This section starts out talking about how the command uploads your public key then seamlessly switches to saying it uploads your private key (which I am guessing are typos).

Also that command does not just upload the key, it appends it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys which is considerably more useful.

Finally, in the ssh-keygen section, ed25519 is from everything I’ve read preferred these days to ecdsa.
Hopefully that slowly stops being the standard: https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Stop-RAR-Uploads
we do audio messages. Taking the synchronous out of it allows for similar interactions on global time
It heavily matters how much their costs come from compute and storage. Even if compute and storage have dropped in price continuously over the years, labor has only gone up.
the person I replied to was in an environment about gender

> “they were especially trying to make sure women were making as much as men”

when the incentive models are unequal the behaviors of the market participants will be unequal

you’ll get workplace equality and wage normalization overnight with that patch to the culture, instead of focusing solely on trying to patch the workplace
such a title!
Sauropod Dinosaurs Became the Biggest Land Animals Again and Again
https://archive.is/x6ill
If I was an important hire I probably have a handful of 230s in my hand already. It’s easy for me to not bother with a company who may or may not push from 200 to 250.
For hobby stuff: no problem. VastAI. I imagine the issue is when you need banks of 8xA100s machines.
For more inspiration check out the YouTube channel "Peter draws"
Everything you never wanted to know about Win32 environment blocks
https://archive.is/MUI18
Zoom chat. It's a slack/teams competitor
Not open source, but I had my work buy me a license for: https://mountainduck.io/ and I quite like it
I learned a lot from the "Why I used to lie: get inside my head as a diagnosed narcissist" video by SpiritNarc who is mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMea2XE8o9E
The parts that we certainly didn't get wrong were that it did not accomplish any of the technical goals it set for itself, that many of the most admired and successful practitioners were not just criminal but mortifyingly bad at it, and that the most or only successful business proposition it has enabled is ransomware.

But please accept a small tip paid in funny-dog fake money for whatever is left over after that.
Those were uploaded by users without IA review and are subject to Section 230 protection and DMCA takedown, without putting the Archive at much legal risk. Their flagrance re: CDL is a lot more troubling, IMO.
I v to su kare
Would you want outsiders dictating how your projects evolve? What if someone came along and monetized your project and didn't give any money back?

Every project, company, contributor, and community get to decide this for themselves. There are no easy or correct answers
"In the beginning there was the word."
That assumes that holding perceived performance steady while letting compute consumption get cheaper saves enough money, quick enough.

If voice assistants were losing $10 billion a year (made up number) in 2013 and bringing in zero revenue, then it is easy to see why a decade later they would have less compute allocation now than they did back then, even in absolute terms.

If the revenue is near zero, then the spend on compute will be near zero too, after everyone figured out that it wasn't going to win some AI battle for all the consumers. If they are not willing to set money on fire for no measurable benefits anymore, then compute will tend to zero over time.
oh if I could draw worth a damn, it is probably all I'd ever do.

I used to draw a lot as a kid, I just never got good at it.
https://archive.is/rDQPO
If you had a handful of 230s you would not negotiate? That's quite rare, most companies optimize hiring for the most probable case, not for the outliers.
This is Bullfrog, Origin, and Westwood erasure.

(okay Westwood did the pretty great Nox, so maybe they are covered but still)
Thanks, I came here with the same worry and the HN community delivers again!
Its awkward that the article ignores the classism of 18th-19th century dance balls, an aspect that I suspect had an impact in the downfall of these sorts of dances; the got co-opted and associated with upper classes, and as those upper classes faded, so did the balls with them. While Disneys Cinderella was late in this phenomenon, it probably helped to solidify the image of dance balls as something more fit to fairytale than for modern person.
I notice he’s using roaring spring composition books. Roaring spring makes the only engineering notepads worth buying - the glue holds up, unlike all the others, and the paper is the right weight. I would expect their composition books to be better than the 99 cent ones.
> then do something dumb for the easy part that follows. Happens all the time

An old rule I learned doing extreme sports in high school: Never say "just one more". That's when you get hurt.

I don't think you need ego depletion, brain metabolism, or any other grand science to explain why this happens. You relax, you pay less attention, you think you got this, and then you don't. Error rate is lower when you focus.
> when the [notched] Lebombo bone was determined to be some 42,000 years old, it instantly became one of the most intriguing archaeological artifacts ever found. Not only does it put a date on when Homo sapiens started counting, it also marks the point at which we began to delegate our memories to external devices

Awesome quick mind-expanding read. I always used to point out to art history students that evidence of painting [ground pigment stones] predates any actual preserved paintings / notches / engravings etc by a lot and even predates our speciation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigment#History

We have no idea what humans and protohumans were painting for several hundred thousand years, maybe just our bodies for cooling benefits, maybe patterns, maybe counting marks. Who knows but fun to speculate on especially with such unfathomable stretches of time. Permaculture vibes. Always blows my mind.
I remember meeting NVIDIA in the late aughts (2007?) first launching their CUDA efforts. Really the product was a re-branded 780GTX or whatever their high end gaming card was at the time more or less, but they already laid out a clear pathway to today (more or less).
which version of wine?
They won’t say that, tho.
Well, it's a low-resolution model that ancient people converged on for a reason, which is that it is starts from a readily-attainable subjective experience, which is then used to explain things in ways that surely go too far.

It is relatively easy to feel some of your chakras, I've done it, it took about a week of effort via a hodgepodge of breathwork, stretching, yoga, and "somatic" meditation facilitated by THC. You try to awaken muscles all over the body, "unblocking" points of tension, and eventually you start to have this impression of "energy"/"heat" flowing in loops from points on the spine, out along muscles and back again; in my case "unblocking" some of these caused buried emotions to pour out, and temporarily gave me near-perfect posture. It's interesting: these are clearly a description of something real.
Rapid Application Development by Steve McConnell

Applied Cryptography by Schneier

Mythical Man Month by Brooks
How to copy text out from a screenshot on Linux like on macOS?
On macOS if I take a screenshot of an error message I can just copy/paste the text of the error (or whatever) from a screenshot. It's really handy. Is there a way I can do this on my Fedora 38 desktop? Thanks!

Edit: I should have googled before asking. The solution was: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.rajsolai.textsnatcher

Works really well actually. Awesome!
Hi, thanks for the comment.

I put this project pretty quickly and I don't want to pretend there is tremendous depth behind any of the decisions I made :/.

For now the only source is the Stats Pearl book published on ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (the only place this is mentioned is here: https://github.com/clint-llm/clint-cli/blob/main/README.md#u...). It contains about 11,000 peer reviewed articles about anatomy and conditions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430685/. The copyright terms are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. I might add some Wikipedia articles to this in the future.

I chunk the documents by section, and embed only the first 2048 tokens that fit in the OpenAI embeddings. I'm using OpenAI for embedding as opposed to something like all-minilm-l6-v2 because I don't want to have to ship a model to the clients (transfer times could be large and supporting this would increase the complexity of the library).

I didn't experiment with different chunk sizes, and I suspect something smaller would be more beneficial as you point out. But it would also complicate the logic, and most choices I made in this project were to remove complexity and get this done quickly. If I revisit this I might chunk by paragraph on your advice :).

RAG is indeed what is being used. But it a few different ways. The diagnoses are refined using a pretty straightforward RAG prompt: consider these notes ... consider this diagnosis ... can you improve on it etc.

But in a way the entire program is RAG-based. In most prompts some documents are added to the system message for context. It's not clear that the information in the documents is always used, but based on a bit of experimentation it seems to improve various responses.

I have no plans to fine tune. I'm not sure how beneficial would be fine tuning here. The model needs a fair bit of general knowledge to reason about descriptions of symptoms. Fine tuning could over-specialize it. And hallucinations could come up even with fine-tuning, so you would probably want a RAG-like prompt to get it to focus on real details.

This this is very much a hobby, so I haven't dug deep enough to look into other models. But I'd be _very_ curious to see how GPT 3.5 with RAG compares to vanilla MedPALM. In my experience GPT 3.5 can reason quite well about with the right documents in the context.
The evolution of typing Chinese characters
They were developing it and making money from it, so that's "running it" by all but the most boring pedantic definition.

Ethereum is a protocol and a tool, which Tornado used it to knowingly profit from illegal transactions. Ethereum is somewhat akin (not identical) to USD, and Tornado somewhat akin to a bank operating with USD outside of the law.

I was unaware I need to get a university law degree before commenting here.
I was a diagnosed with gastritis earlier this year. In the days leading up to my endoscopy, I had horrific reflux which was triggering anxiety. Putting an icepack on my chest to cool down the vagus nerve really helped with the angst and heart palpitations.
Exim has a rather mad ACL etc system which is what I need. Postfix is absolutely ideal for receive mail, pass to AV/spam checker, pass it on (or not).

Exim is hugely configurable. If you use it on Debian/Ubuntu and you have somewhat complex needs then ditch the split config thingie and simply create your own /etc/exim4/exim4.conf from scratch.

You can test a config with "exim -bhc <ip.add.re.ss>" to simulate a SMTP session from <ip.add.re.ss>, before you restart Exim to make the config active. So:

helo me
mail from: name@example.co.uk
rcpt to: name@another.example.co.uk
data
etc etc

At each stage you get a debug output of what would happen. You have to be a bit careful with this because a new Exim daemon will use the new config. For small changes do it "inline", for major changes, copy the conf to a new name and specify it with -C and test until it works. There are a lot of options.

Documentation is complete for Exim. If you find a flaw then Jeremy and co will fix it - the Exim devs are very, very driven, for want of a better word. You will get short shrift on the mailing lists if you obviously haven't tried to do any research but you will soon get some extremely knowledgable help if you show willing. No Disqus etc - just old school mailing lists and that is the way it should be.

The big boys are destroying SMTP gradually but it can and does still work, if you are careful.

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It's not like designing this kind of product is easy; or that Nvidia's designers are sitting idle; or that everybody else's design team is not busy building something else. There are in fact many competent design teams, chipping at their own business.

There are in fact startups, also doing what they can (and probably not trying to go head on against the most productive competitor they can find.) And it has been reported countless times that some of the biggest customers of Nvidia are actually trying to design their own.

If you want to point out a market with broken competition, this isn't it.
Tell your customer those features will add $50k and 3 weeks to the project cost, see how much they want them.
The government would absolutely ban cash if they could, because it’s anonymous value transfer. Tornado enabled bearer instruments - cryptocurrency is digital cash equivalent - to be anonymous. The government obviously hates this for the same reason it hates cash.
https://archive.is/9aQOB
Seems like an instance of the Ship of Theseus [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Whaaaaaaat!? Did someone put Steve Wozniak in charge? This is unexpected.
Timely Disclosure of Privacy Differences Among Web SSO Login Options
> How do you know the next leader of Russia will also be rational?

How do you know the next leader of the US will be? It's not like people get elected to the position, or appoint their subordinates based on their rationality.

That's the beauty of sovereign countries with enough nuclear weapons to kill the world, you don't.

Maybe we should look into this bilateral arms reduction thing.
The 5 cent reference has a history in Boston, it’s why the mbta card is called the Charlie card:

https://youtu.be/MbtkL5_f6-4?si=IQZrPJhDWhNVyhx_
We acknowledge that the land on which we pollinate is the traditional territory of the plasterer bee, the southeastern blueberry bee, and the ogallalla fruit bat. As we gather the nectar that sustains us all, we honor them and the wasp and placental mammal ancestors who have been stewards of this land for countless generations predating our arrival.
"AI systems run hospitals, operate airlines, and battle each other in the courtroom."

Wanna bet.

"Productivity has spiked to unprecedented levels, and countless previously unimaginable businesses have scaled at blistering speed, generating immense advances in well-being. New products, cures, and innovations hit the market daily, as science and technology kick into overdrive."

(a) "countless"

(b) "advances in well-being"

(c) "New products, cures, and innovations"

(d) "science and technology kick into overdrive."

This is exactly the opposite of what's been happening over the past few decades.

There's even a well-known Silicon Valley investor who uses this truth re: (c) and (d) to sound insightful.

Computers and computer networks are continuing to become more powerful and less expensive. People are using them more. That's it.

The rest is total BS. "AI" is very good at churning out BS. Expect more of it.
It's obvious that Hashicorp projects will be forked, but less obvious why Hashicorp would fall on the sword like this because next is their irrelevance. I will miss what they once were.
They're not being charged with "writing a service", because writing software isn't illegal no matter what it does.

They're being charged with operating a service. Which they may very well have done. It sounds like they were at least running the front end user interface stuff, and that might be enough.

But what makes it interesting is that the real core parts of the whole system were (and still are) autonomous. Those contracts could (and still can) be used without them doing anything at all. So they were not operating those. And it's not so obvious that there is any settled law that applies to those core contracts.
Well their earnings went up 854% YoY and that's basically all in the data center segment so it makes sense.

People are having a really hard time grasping that sometimes established companies 10x.
Just in case anyone else hasn't heard of "Opindia" before (the second link):

> OpIndia is an Indian right-wing news website that frequently publishes misinformation. Founded in December 2014, the website has published fake news and Islamophobic commentary on many occasions. OpIndia is dedicated to criticism of what it considers "liberal media", and to support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva ideology. According to University of Maryland researchers, OpIndia has shamed journalists it deems opposed to the BJP, and has alleged media bias against Hindus and the BJP. In 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) rejected OpIndia's application to be certified as a fact checker. IFCN-certified fact checkers identified 25 fake news stories and 14 misreported stories published by OpIndia from January 2018 to June 2020.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia
This is a good point and I'm surprised it hasn't had more attention. We've seen history repeat itself enough times that it's inevitable. Probably the best you can do is download a few of the full precision 70B or bigger models (LLaMA etc) to at least have some state of the art weights around you could use yourself if you wanted if/when openAI goes to shit.

The nice thing about the language models is as least they're relatively compact, compared to google search which you'd never be able to host locally.

Though thinking about it, in a way LLMs are local copies of the "good" internet. The big ones mostly seem to know what information there is to know and have none of the crap and link/content farms that is now most of the internet.
Curious what recent work you are referencing? Lots of new so I don’t want to miss things. In my experimentation I basically wrote off LLMs from doing any math directly. That includes aggregations or precise calculations. I’ve been playing with sql generation and allowing the db to do its thing.
Neither did Amiga. Also OS/2 was performant on equivalent hardware at the time.
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta. Who are the F and G, and where is apple?
Yes the routine nature of random feet.. nothing to see here folks it's just the Tuesday shoe day.

Also severed/several
Mind if I ask how is this related to the topic?
An AI-generated image is just a drawing, not a real human.
Their quarterly dividend is only $0.04 per share, total assets at 50B (vs 350B+ for other 1T companies), they cannot easily sell more chips and increasing price can only go so far.
The book Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher helped me get through notebooks. I could only ever get a few pages in one before switching interests.

This is the book:
https://amzn.to/3OQxX4J

I started with these, and got through them easily:
https://amzn.to/3YJwBx7

Now I use notebooks like this:
https://amzn.to/47VJeJI
This is the point.

This is a textbook situation that would be perfect for a competitor to come in and undercut. However not only is that not happening, nobody is even trying.

Making the “theory” pretty worthless if it’s not even applicable in cases that would naturally produce this market entrant.

The reality is that private equity does not actually want to compete with large global brands.
A popular app? I hardly think homebrew is on the same level as candy crush.
I don't see it. It would have been overpriced if not for this insane report. 854% YoY earnings growth. A PE that's now below 50 (even taking into account the $500 share price).

Its not overpriced anymore. In fact if there's anything left in the tank or this is at all sustained it's cheap.
I mean, I work on privacy-preserving technology, so I think I know what I'm talking about technically.
Meanwhile, Threads is in top 3 downloaded apps on iOS, while Twitter has dropped to 70. Interesting, isn’t it?
Anything by McConnell really. His book on estimation is still the best I've found.
Laws are all about boring pedantic definitions. And when you talk about what counts as ignoring laws, or about what consequences people "can expect", those definitions matter.
to be fair Nvidia drivers are also a nightmare under linux
I read that entire article and nowhere does it say they give them phones.

The entire article is about installing an app on their personal phones.
The BBC did a documentary in the 1980s on the submarine commander selection process. It is called "The Perisher" with good reason.

I can only find Part 1 on YT but have definitely seen the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LF2I3fTbY