skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's against the terms to use the kit directly - the kit is intended to be a porting aid, not an emulation/compatibility layer. Which unfortunately ensured it won't be used much until Apple sees the light and changes the terms.
What are those “tasks in your pipeline”?

We dedicated an entire team of 6 for two months on evaluating LLMs and while Claude 2 was the final choice, we found Llama 2 70b to be absolutely great (for summaries and structured data generation from free text).

We chose Claude because running Llama on an A100 or H100 comes with a baseline cost that doesn’t go to zero when you don’t need it (you could spawn a new instance but right now GPUs are so rare everywhere except for expensive cloud providers that it’s possible you don’t get one).

That said, we found the smaller Llama models to be so hilariously bad we have an internal slack channel where Llama 7b writes jokes and the funny part isn’t the jokes but how utterly stupid and random they are.
Show HN: Query your database using plain English, fully on-premises
Hi folks,

My friend Sami and I recently built Vizly, a Mac application that allows anyone to query their databases using plain English.

Vizly is built on Llama 2, llama.cpp, and runs fully on-prem (edit: meaning everything is local and your data never leaves your own computer).

We are running two Llama models, one for natural language to SQL translation, and another that uses the results from the SQL to render visualizations. That means there are no external APIs and all the AI models are running locally on your MacBook.

We tried to make Vizly very easy to share as well. Every Vizly instance creates a share link that can be accessed by anyone on the same network as you. Just send the share link to anyone on the same network and they will be immediately able to run AI-powered queries, hosted from your device.

Vizly previously used to be a hosted solution for querying CSVs and now we are on-prem specifically focussed on databases.

Would love if you could try it out and give us any feedback!
> The way the US does it (especially detecting if a train has not been separated along the way by using a caboose/end-of-train beacon) may cost less money, but would be viable to such issues.

Detecting separation doesn't rely on the end-of-train device. The EOTD only helps with this by 1/ helping activate the brakes twice as fast by detecting loss of pressure on its end and opening the brake valve, and 2/ sending periodic status indication via radio signal to the locomotive so the crew has more visibility into what the pressure is and whether the tail of the train is moving.
> ...the long-term strength of a socket depends on how the cable wires are splayed out in the zinc during socketing.

> ...eventual cable failures would not have occurred if the cable system had been designed with a safety factor of at least 3.0...

Reaction 1: Sounds nice...but having a much-larger safety factor in something the size of the Arecibo telescope costs a lot of money. And there really is no safety factor large enough to for-sure protect you from shoddy workmanship. For far less money, they could have hired a couple workmen who really knew what they were doing, to handle the critical socket/zinc/cable joints.

Reaction 2: If you're stuck with so-so workmanship in those joints, then increase the safety factor - but only in those joints. Use larger sockets, with more zinc in contact with a greater length of splayed cable (within the sockets).
I worked in an office bullpen type environment briefly with everything director and below being required to sit in the bullpen, and they were so proud of the set up till the nearly universal complaints of all the noise from everyone on the phone and all of the privacy offices being in constant use with nobody using the reservation tool to book them and they added white noise machines in the ceiling. Well that kind of helped with the cacophony of conversations a bit, but lead to just high noise floor so everyone just talked louder. At least with the white noise machine the noise cancelling headphones were a little more effective, but it still doesn't stop people from tapping you on the shoulder while you are trying to focus.
>And while many do, the most popular and successful music still comes from major labels.

Isn't that just the result of marketing? Rich Men North of Richmond just came out of nowhere and went organically viral.

>And while many do put out some great stuff, the overwhelming majority of books that don't come from major publishers are shovelware.

How would you know? This is the "you don't know what you don't know" problem. Nobody has read all the books there, it's mathematically impossible I think.

>As shitty of a curator as Hollywood might be, for most people there is value-add in curation.

Mass appeal is lowest common denominator targeting, not value itself. Popularity is only correlated with quality.
Don't forget, we have to open and read everybody's mail and read it too, otherwise somebody might deliver a bomb threat through the USPS.

The Stasi would be insanely jealous of the new tools for totalitarianism the tech industry is building. We're constructing a digital panopticon around ourselves. If this is allowed to go much further, escape will become incredibly difficult.
ICBM-Launched Satellite Could Transmit Nuclear Codes When Nothing Else Was Left
Elon Musk’s X Is Facing 2,200 Arbitration Cases from Ex-Twitter Employees
Childbirth is not just some miserable medical procedure. The entire event is a pair bonding activity for the parents and child. Deleting that because it makes you uncomfortable is unwise.
> My understanding is color alone is not enough as a signal for alerts. There are enough people who have issues with color differentiation that color isn't enough.

Yes, it's standard practice that you don't rely only on color for information. But for people that can see those color differences (about 90% of the population don't have color blindness) it's a very worthwhile improvement so isn't it overkill to ignore these people? And what's the problem with tweaking the shades so they match the brand a little better?

What are you advocating as an alternative? How many colors and shades?
They've been mandatory since 2008. (NEC Section 406.12).

Many people don't notice they exist. You have to examine the outlet fairly closely to notice them but certainly any new construction is all TR receptacles now (with the possible exception of the ones very far off the floor).
Syncing and publishing what? What's so difficult about `git push` which pushes to GitHub and automatically deploys to Vercel? This doesn't look cool, but those two features are not going to be the ones I'll seek after.
Hey there, it depends on a lot of things. Out of interest, what programming languages do you already know, and why do you want to learn a new one. It sounds like perhaps you are experienced in a language with fewer jobs and want to maximize your chance to get a job?

In any case JS/Typescript or Python are safe choices. If you want to learn more data-science/AI stuff then Python would be a good choice. For front-end or full-stack web (as in front-end and back-end) JS would be a good choice.

Another choice is Go - if you think you are likely to go into a devops type role and want to understand Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc. more closely.

Other decent choices for finding work are C# and Java.
> Biased. And not arguing in good faith. :(
Wait, there's no pneumatic brake on US trains?
The world is pretty standardised into these two now, but that can't always have been the case.

In the early 1980s, my dad found an old valve keyboard / organ thing at some jumble or car-boot sale that probably dated at least from the 1950s, and being curious I used to regularly take it to bits. One thing that was weird is that there was an input voltage selector on it, but it was a round thing with contacts arranged in a circle and a plug that would bridge one contact to the centre contact. The range of input voltages was 60VAC to 240VAC, and there were probably 10 or 12 different voltages in that range. Unfortunately, this was also how I destroyed the keyboard part (but not the separate valve amplifier that I continued to use for at least another decade) because the 60VAC was next to the 240VAC and I accidentally bridged it to 60VAC and fed it 240VAC. All the valves were powered at 4x what they should have been and there was a bang and nothing worked after that. In retrospect, I should probably have kept it as probably only a few valves took the brunt of power surge, but even then valves were hard to get hold of and these weren't all the same (my memory is fuzzy, but there were probably 30+ valves in the keyboard, I only pulled a few to look at them and they were obviously different), so we just decided it was something that didn't need to be repaired.

But anyway, long story aside - there must have been some demand for such a wide range of input voltages for the power supply, or they wouldn't have come up with a selector switch with so many possible options.
Note that OpenAI gave people a warning that they were building chatgpt business back in April: https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chat...

Much better than launching it out of the blue, I think it’s good that they forewarned that it was coming, and it was a fair 4 month warning to startups.
Please elaborate on the connection between AWT and FTL technology. I missed that node in the tech tree.
Now it's tsmc's turn
Terraform gives you better declarative state management out of the box. In other words you can view and rollback changes to configuration in a more and robust way. It’s also nice to do both infra provisioning and deployments in the same place. Helm has historically been pretty garbage at handing robust rollbacks.

It’s not something I recommend for every setup, as like I mentioned terraform is pretty clunky and slow but I could see it being a pretty good solution for a place that already uses terraform heavily and doesn’t have a complex deploy story.
Could you get some cheap drone and rig it up so it can carry something small and the drop it? Then write some software to go somewhere on GPS and drop something there autonomously?
Whoops lmao
Thank you! Hope to publish more like it soon :)
> The problem right now is that there’s no way to control the behavior of the underlying Java threading libraries, nio, and writing to disk.

Nor will there ever be, just by the nature of those systems.

You can't get deterministic execution from a system that uses non-deterministic request ordering, task scheduling, etc. -- which is what you get if you always use multiple OS threads, or spawn multiple discrete processes in tests, and so on.

I mean, I guess you _can_ make that stuff deterministic, but it would require you to build synchronization points into every transition in your application state machines, in a way that would be controllable by tests, which is a very tall order!

In practice, the only way to do this kind of thing is to design the core of your system to be fully synchronous, and to make it concurrent by adding concurrency at higher layers, expressed at run-time.
There are 1000 new games per month and 90% of them are crud, sure. But the end result is that we have more original and innovative games than ever before (and cheaper, too). I certainly wouldn't want to go back to the days of big publisher gatekeeping. Would you?
The Constitution would not provide a carveout for the long-term censorship of a forum like KF based on some rationale like "creating a volatile atmosphere", so I don't know what you expect regulation to accomplish here. And of course activists would scream if such regulation were applied in a viewpoint-neutral fashion (eg. platforms being mandated to delete content that advocates for crime / violence - imagine how Trump would've used this power during the BLM riots!) - the non-neutrality is considered a feature of private censorship, not a bug.
I think the danger here is that some people will find they are “not that bad” or even “good” at driving drunk and use it as a reason to do so more often, having the opposite of the intended effect.
https://archive.is/J7Cb5

HSBC 8 Canary Wharf Tower: Will It Become Flats? How Can Qataris Upcycle It?
One Charles Haywood is apparently applying for that job.
Musk has close ties with the DoD (Satellites, Rockets)

What makes people think he doesn't with the rest of the institutions (CIA/NSA/FED)?

Specially when the whole shebang been in the works for "a very long time", according to the FED:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

Same with the BRICS:

" Promote Central Bank Digital Currency for faster digitisation of nancial
services and greater nancial inclusion"

https://brics2021.gov.in/brics/public/uploads/docpdf/getdocu...

The West seems shy about it, I tried my best, but I do not understand why they use Musk as the 'Messiah', or perhaps it's a decoy?

Perhaps to avoid this: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

Journalists fail to educate me on the matter, so I dig on my own, perhaps my own grave

Anyway, I love to remind people of this: "Elon Musk said he was a Secret Service 'special agent'"

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-secre...

This is, at least, funny :)
> Most european houses have a single 400v outlet: right in your kitchen, for the oven (which means the oven is going to be right in front of it.) The likelihood of a child playing with it is close to nil. As for adults, the vast majority of people are taught to just flip the breaker and work on it if needed.

Not to mention you normally can not electrocute yourself with 400V.

400V is between two phases, you never accidentally touch two phases.

When you touch a conductor you are between one phase and the ground, meaning in 230V.
And I hope you find a little optimism in your life! You’re saying that in your experience, greater than 20% of adults on a flight are more problematic and annoying than a crying kid?

I like to think I’m pretty realistic about things but I don’t ever think it’s been that bad for me! I might even go as far as to say that most of my flights have had no issues.
There are tons of problems with GitHub or Google only. What if you use ProtonMail and GitLab? (or any other of 20+ email / code repo providers)
> OSS Bazel vs Blaze+Forge+Piper+Monorepo structure

Wish more organizations understood this part before adopting Bazel.
I know my previous sat phone from Thuraya had a GPS receiver and refused to connect before getting a GPS lock for precisely this reason.

Now, Thuraya is a bit weird in that they have some price plans that differ by the country you're calling from. Most sat phone networks don't do that but Thuraya is the cheapest in airtime by far especially when using some of these plans.

But I wouldn't be surprised if most networks work this way. After all a gps receiver costs peanuts these days and takes up trivial amounts of space.

If this is the case it's kinda cool because it can then also be used to circumvent these restrictions by spoofing the GPS signal either over the air or in the transceiver itself. Highly illegal obviously but technically cool.

Also, simply turning off the sat over these areas is not so easy because the footprint will cover a radius of hundreds of kilometers. So border areas will be a big problem.

You won't be able to spoof the gps location too much though because if you give it a location way outside your footprint I'm sure the sat is smart enough to block you.
As always hanlon’s razor applies: far more likely incompetence than malice.

They don’t care to fix the software product or service here because they don’t have to , it is a captive market , you can buy realistically machines [1] from one company and service from.

McD also benefits from this due to Veblen luxury good like effects : being a limited product, you are far more likely to now the ice cream when the machine when it is running as it is now a special occasion adding to the overall satisfaction, we wouldn’t be talking about it so much if those damn things worked, like we dont talk about French fries machines .

[1] the Italian alternative is not the good enough they don’t have state side ops , parts can take weeks to arrive , few restaurants will actually buy them
audacity, aprs k1 cable and a cheap baofeng, and you too can become a criminal :)
You are wrong again. There's no difference between ChatGPT and a child in that regard. That's like half of the point of GPT's zero shot performance on the tasks that involve made up language that you describe directly in the query.

You are doubly wrong because somehow for a robot you are counting pictures of apples, and for a child you are counting distinct apples. The answer to "how many pictures of apples does child need to see" is somewhere in thousands. Remember, brain does an equivalent of 24 fps, so a child holding an apple for 5 seconds gets an equivalent of over 100 pictures.
I don't know who designs and assembles the complete drone, but I do know that almost all of the components in the military equipment of western countries are outsourced to traditional private aerospace companies, such as Honeywell and Lockheed-Martin in the USA and Thales in France.

My personal suggestion for doing anything related to aviation and software is to get very familiar with linear algebra. There is practically nothing in kinematics, navigation or robotics that doesn't have matrix operations at its core. To bridge the gap between this rather theoretical field and CRUD development, you might want to look into declarative programming and 3D computer graphics, both of which lean more towards abstract linear algebra.
It clearly explained what the design constraints were and why the technology choices met them
https://archive.is/xPULP
When we made laws to prevent them from doing so.

In the US, related to this specific situation, the laws are called "Net Neutrality" and "Common Carrier" laws.

Such laws are well established and uncontroversial. Pretty much everyone agrees that it is a good thing that the power company can't shut off your electricity just because you said something that it didn't like.
I mean, under current circumstances, "not allowed to terminate the pregnancy" does work out to "be forced to carry the fetus to term," because those are the only two outcomes here. Which is why artificial wombs throw an interesting wrench in things by suggesting the possibility of terminating a pregnancy while maintaining fetal development (and there's still a whole host of questions about whether forced artificial womb transplantation is ethical or ideal).
I can sorta share this sentiment. Luckily (for us) tech seems to be moving in the direction of embedding Chromium everywhere which always leads to some fun exploits :)
Yes it would be very hard to make a bad technology choice when you thought through the whole system
As an outsider, what is a “CL” and who is Urs?
pip (with venvs, which is a built-in Python feature) covers 99% percent of all use cases.

Yes, its dependency resolution could have been better, and lock files are nice (which can be emulated using constraints [1]) but I don't understand why people are so busy writing alternatives. I work on pretty sophisticated codebases on a daily basis and haven't used anything but pip.

[1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files
But still slower and more energy consuming than Javascript or Java unless you use it like a wrapper of C/C++ libraries:

https://stratoflow.com/efficient-and-environment-friendly-pr...
Looming as in Loom-ing.
>I haven't seen anything an "A-type" data scientist needs in R/SAS/SPSS that was intrinsic to the language and couldn't be ported to Python.

I don't know what "A-Type" is so I might be misunderstanding you.

For SAS at least in my Org what keeps it entrenched is Enterprise Guide and the associated environment. Having a drag and drop GUI to do the data extraction and manipulation and the analytical tasks makes it very easy for non experts to be incredibly productive. The people that use it here are Engineers (Non-software variety) and Finance accountant types. These people would not be productive writing python code (or R) but still need to use something heavier then excel for data analysis.

Over the years we have chipped away at parts of SAS with things like Power BI and Azure ML Studio but I don't see python playing in the same space.
Ask HN: What is your company email retention policy?
My company just instituted what feels like a crazy one. No email older than 90 days will be retained in outlook. Anything you need to keep longer is a "business record" and you should save .msg files in an organized folder structure on a network drive. "Outlook is not an appropriate records repository".
I suspect the IC wants nothing to do with Musk in terms of collaboration, given his erratic nature and extreme narcissism. Wouldn’t bet against him being used by the IC for the same reasons though!
Neutrinos pass through the entire planet from space, so hopefully they will be able to see the background neutrinos as well as the neutrinos from their collisions.

If this was a brimstone and fire depiction for those with a religion vent, neutrinos would be likened to ash, the other particles would be various sizes of burning embers, some large but glowing gently (beta), others small and burning brightly (alpha).

Its all contained in a giant underground magnetic donut that would have Homer Simpson salivating which accelerates the particles, like a rail gun or steam catapult on an navy aircraft carrier or a catapult launcher for roller coasters, and it keeps accelerating these particles, like a child with ADHD on sodium benzoate can accelerate a fidget spinner, until the particles collide, like the crescendo of a fantastic firework display at a country's official New Years eve display watched through computer screens that's somewhat reminiscent of the 1979 Atari Inc Asteroids computer game when an asteroid explodes.

The electrical demand for the magnets is great but short term like the Death Star blowing up Alderaan, so whilst its CO2 footprint could be likened to a large Cruise Liner over the year, it generates this footprint over extremely small periods of time when running these experiments like something out of Weird Science when Kelly LeBrock comes to life!

So the electrical infrastructure is highly capable.

The electrical companies need advance knowledge to make sure they have ordered in enough coal and gas, and topped up the hydroelectric dams, when they run their experiments, otherwise the neighbourhood experiences something of blackout like in the movie Batteries Not Included.

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

SuperK (not the raving form of Ketamine being consumed down the Dog and Duck pub on weekdays)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande#Description
Has it been established if McDonalds profits from the servicing of the machines? If so, the faulty nature could be known and encouraged by McDonalds.
Not 200k SWE, but 200k FTE (it's 181k+ today. Even more with TVCs. You are the best kind of correct, congratulations.
In the nicest possible way: I think you are daft if you believe the CEO doesn't realize this will create employee churn.
Blocks, Procs and lambdas compared with Python's crippled equivalent. Elegant built-in regex handling curated from Perl. Concise, expressive one-liners. Perlish list shorthand: %w(aa bb cc) => ['aa', 'bb', 'cc']. Everything an expression.
It is not hard to write C. It is hard to write large safe multi-developer C programs with complex object lifetimes. But if you are just writing an inner loop in a CPython extension it is easy.
Mojo could be for Python the same breath of a fresh air as Kotlin is for Java:

https://stratoflow.com/introduction-to-mojo-programming-lang...
sadly, this is probably the most correct interpretation even if the reasoning behind it is a bit different
I feel like in the USA at least free speech(as in the constraint placed on the government; aka 1st amendment free speech) is as strong as it's ever been. The government was way up in everyone's business and bedroom just 50 years ago.