skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone's asking tech details and "how", but I wonder about the "why". Do we want LLMs to always write for us, or whisper in our ear what to say? By design LLMs tend toward the most commonplace, mainstream ideas and ways of saying things. They're not much for originality or human idiosyncracy. Are we engineering a bland world full of pablum?
Did everyone forget that Ukraine was happily shelling the Kakhovka dam last year and that every western media outlet was reporting on it[1]?

It's sort of a rhetorical question, since the answer is clearly yes, but come on, we sit here talking like we know everything better than everyone else, about the world, about policy and everything else in general, yet we constantly forget things that happened only a couple of months ago?

Russians did this because Russians are crazy evil beings that like to destroy their own shit. Really? I understand that sort of reasoning coming from the media outlets that gave us the Iraq war amongst other things, but hacker news? Is that what we pride ourselves in?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-russian-held-n...

EDIT: Just to add to this, did people also forget that the nuclear power plant was shelled by "someone" while Russia was occupying it and IAEA inspectors were observing?[2] And that even the IAEA director general ended up refuting claims/lies[3] by Zelensky about mining the power plant[4].

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/11/20/russia-uk...

[3] https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-interview/20230629-...

[4] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-sabotage-nuclear-powe...
The advice mostly still applies if you replace "Stanford" with "Higher Education Program"

For most 18 year olds, doing well in school has been _the_ thing to focus on, for their entire life. Using school as a means to achieve something _else_ is a pretty big change in how they think about the world. And using it well requires both knowing what the "something else" is and how to use your higher education program to achieve it.

This shift comes at the same time as a huge amount of independence & life changes (from parents/home town), and most people I know (me included) didn't really understand the purpose of higher education until they were a senior, or later

Or even if they do, it's hard at 18 to know what the "something else" is
The cool thing is that there are already extensions in the work to make custom vendor extension compatible with each other and vendors have a general incentive in not keeping their extensions private, because this will hinder software support. as most FOSS software/toolchains will target the extension profiles, which won't include any closed extensions.
Proteins and fats vs carbohydrates. Avoid sugars.
The best outcome would be for Colombia to legalise it. Of course they cannot because the US would hit them or probably effect a change of leadership before they could.

That said, realistically even the EU would probably put sanctions on Colombia if they did. The country is simply too weak.
> Intelligent students of history expect the government to be corrupt and bad.

That is not quite true. Historically, the quality of both government and corruption varied ... and goverments worldwide also did quite a lot of good.

The "all of government is always bad" is pure ideological flex.
I'd like to hear someone explain how simple and how expensive. I think there would be quite a lot of interest, at the right price point.
Then how is argon better than nitrogen and oxygen?
RFont – modular easy-to-use single-header font library, OpenGL modern and legacy
Simple single header modular font rendering library
The library is designed to be lightweight while also supporting the ablitiy to add your own rendering system.
I don't think people write much original thought on phones anyway.
It is so crazy how good they are. I love my Apple hardware (M1 Max, four external displays FTW) and tolerate my Apple software (Mac OS).
"rust is _almost_ as complex as C++."

I don't agree, but even if it were true, C++ has so much accidental complexity (because of its legacy) that you cannot meaningfully compare it with Rust, which by and large is very well thought out.

In general, if something is complex in Rust that is because it's in the nature of the problem and not because of some quirkiness in the solution.

Borrowing is the prime example. People find it complex, but just because the C++ compiler doesn't check the rules for you, doesn't mean you have follow them in C++ as well (which is tedious and error-prone) or know exactly why you don't have to follow them (which is even harder).

I admit though, that the Leakpocalypse (which the article talks about, even if it doesn't call it like that) is an area where accidental complexity lurks.
I just hit one year with a system76 laptop. The hardware isn't super, but I have had zero complaints in the last year.
Technology is a spiral, not a straight line.
Qualcomm took the first step in this case by trying to sell Nuvia derived designs under their own license agreement. Whoever wins it’s not really Arm going on the ‘attack’ if there is a reasonable case that the license has been breached.
Eclipse has seen vast development in the last few years and is fast and easy to use these days.
My memory of this long ago is fuzzy, but I believe the word itself is originally from LA gang subculture and was spread more broadly via gangsta rap in the late '80s/early '90s or so (cf. the trend of people spelling certain words with "ck" changed to "cc", which was a feature of Crips tagging). The earliest documented use I could find referred to someone selling fake drugs, but I seem to recall that as it spread it turned into a generic placeholder for just about any offense from petty theft to cold-blooded murder.
Sorry, but in my opinion you are in the wrong here.

You can't just offer money and rush people for something to get merged in another open source project without even previously discussing it if the authors of that project want it in the first place.

Just my 2 cents.
It’s interesting that there is an uptick in private label brands.

The only options I can find that are not loaded with glyphosate, sugar or salt, and that also still have fiber in them are private label or from companies not included on the graph.

Post, General Mills, and Kellogs don’t sell organic options with their own branding, so all their stuff has glyphosate applied at harvest (search for: round up drying agent)

Kellogs owns Kashi which (I think is still organic), and the local stores don’t carry Kashi stuff that meets my requirements any more.

The manufacturers with reasonable offerings that I know of are: Amazon (365 whole foods market brand), nature’s path (privately held) food for life (38 employees; independent), and probably trader joes.

They all would either be excluded from the analysis in the article or put under “private label” which is increasing slightly over time.

However, their combined marketing budget is some tiny fraction of the companies pumping out unhealthy garbage.

Maybe if finding non-terrible cereal wasn’t a complicated project, then sales would start ticking back up.
Most sort messages people send on Apple devices aren’t meant to be original, just to quickly convey some information.
There is an input for temperature in the CPU model. If you can find and hook the call to predict you can probably see what is being passed.

Interestingly the Neural Engine version of the model does not take a temperature input, but it does output the raw embeddings in addition to the logits.
This is the story of an aerospace startup that got her first investor by cold email and raised up to 2.3 billion so far.

This is going to be one of the main competitors of SpaceX to land humans on Mars.

Instead of building rockets within two years, rockets are built in only two months which enables mass production faster by 3D printing while using AI to improve the designs.

This aerospace and 3D printing is named Relativity Space.

What would you say on this startup?
I've seen a trend of using spaces (40 000) for this reason.
ARM is no saint either. The problem is that when you have total control over the key IP at some point you become prone to extracting more money out of your customers through various forms of coercion.

The advantage of moving to RISC-V is that no one owns it and you can always leave your IP vendor for another one. Because RISC-V is an attractive ISA it's having an anti-fragmentation effect, creating a popular standard and an industry around it.
Yes and I just explained that with the status quo, it hurt russia worse in my understanding.
IANAL, but yes, ISA extensions can be patented. For example, the x86-64 extension ("Long Mode") was created by AMD, and Intel had to pay to license it.[0] Those patents expired a few years ago, allowing Microsoft and Apple to write x86-64 to ARM translators freely.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Licensing
Anything you want to recommend? Please guys, I'll be grateful for you
- I am not looking to give ccna/cissp exam.

- My goal is to study for network and system admin job. BOTH, specially linuxadmin.

- This is not the first time I am learning networking and security(I studied them in college), but this is the first time I'll be seriously learning networking and security. lol.

- I learn better by videos than books. But if the book is insanely well written, I do understand them. For eg: books like william stallings networks. Or books like colouris's distributed systems.

- These are the books that I'll purchase next week.(Books come cheap in Nepal compared to usa)

- William Stallings network

- Fourouzan network

- Fourozan security

- Stallings security

- Deitel OS

- Stallings OS

- tcp ip explained philip miller

I've looked at most popular CCNA courses at udemy by c.bryant, that youtube guy that also teaches in udemy(i forgot the name), bombal, n. anderson and none of them matches my learning style. If you want to know what kind of courses I like

- I genuinely love that youtube guy's videos, but since he teaches for free in youtube I can't motivate me to watch him. Although he's in udemy, I don't like paying for what I can get for free. I forgot his name, but he's quite popular. That's the kind of content(slides, examples, figures, illustrations etc) I'm looking for but it should be paid and under 20$ (in sales; I know I'm not normal lol).

- I tried arash delijoo 133hrs course and what a load of shit it was! I could not tolerate even 30 mins of that course lol.

I've heard good things about CCNA books. But do they teach computer networking properly or is it just cramming for ccna exam, my objective is to learn, not to pass stupid ccna exam. Say I read stallings/fourozan book how much helpful will these ccna books be? I've read todd lamele book and I didn't like his way of presentation.

I really love learning via exercises SO I THINK CCNA BOOKS ARE A GOOD FIT FOR ME.

Concepts that I need to learn

- ssl

- dns

- http protocol

- tcp ip protocol

You might say you can just use google to learn them, I tried and realized the foundations were really important. I can do my job, but if something new issue happens, I won't be able to solve it at first sight without learning the concepts.

Anything you want to recommend? Please guys, I'll be very grateful for you.
you can get adapters that include both audio and another usb-c port to charge or do whatever at the same time.
This.
Apple just makes the physically best laptops
I'm trying to do something with DragonRuby Game Toolkit (Ruby is my main tool) but LÖVE always seemed nice, too.
I also like Moonscript as an alternative to Lua language ( https://moonscript.org/ )
She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough
Yeah, this is a good thing. Breakfast cereal is dog food for humans. There are much healthier options. The only reason breakfast cereal has much nutritional value at all is because they add it artificially. Don’t get me started on the low fiber sugary cereals, that’s just pure garbage. Yes there are some healthier options, oats without added sugar is probably the best. But that’s cheap as dirt and hardly counts as cereal.

It’s just refined carbohydrates, a sprinkling of vitamins, and ton of sugar. You could be eating pastries with a multivitamin and you wouldn’t be doing any worse.

Yogurt or oatmeal and fruit is great. Eggs are amazing. My grandfather was a doctor who ate bacon and eggs every day. He made it to 90, died of prostate cancer. He didn’t eat sugar though. I tend to skip breakfast and go straight to lunch, otherwise I gain weight. I can’t personally do three meals a day. Everyone is different though.
> Here’s that element of karma. The old rock stars actually did defeat the system. They screwed the man, and did it big time.

> By my measure, Bob Dylan sold out at the top, and gets to laugh at the financiers who overpaid him. The same is true of Paul Simon and Neil Young and all the rest.

die trying to screw “the man,” or live long enough to become him.
I might sound like communist, but i would like to figure out a way to a future (sustainable) where everyone owns everything and are happy. Not talking about equally to everyone, but at least not 99% owned by 1%.
What no-one talks about, is energy use (power).

Humans idle at ~100W, with (iirc) something like 20..25% going to the brain. We are extremely versatile in the types of activity we can do, and most of us can put in a # of hours concentrated work each day. And are self-managing for the most part.

Contrast with LLMs: the most capable ones run on huge clusters of specialized hardware. Which was manufactured at great expense. And no doubt take many kW if not MWs to do things a (one) smart human, or a few humans can do. With the LLM stuck in its datacenter racks, while humans happily walk around.

Yeah there's smaller LLMs you can run on a laptop. Can those do the same as say, GPT4? Training on said laptop too?

Sure, human meatbags are messy, calories going in are expensive ones, and you can't pull humans from storage & switch on/off as needed. And current AI is no doubt at the beginning of a lot of optimization. Both in architecture & implementation.

But.. all that functional improvement & optimization has yet to be done.

On average, humans still give a lot of bang per calorie. Until LLMs or other AI reverses that, we're a long way from being outcompeted on the more difficult / interesting jobs.

As for simple / boring jobs: I welcome our AI overlords. More time for us to do fun stuff.
in many US states if you and your buddy get into someone's house to rob it in the middle of the night, and the homeowner gets his revolver and shoots your buddy dead, and you run out and the police catch you, it will be you that will be prosecuted for murder.

This isn’t actually true, is it?
Crafting a Language Server in Golang: A VSCode LSP for Lama2
Dive into our journey at Hexmos, where we bridged Lama2 with VSCode using Golang's LSP. From challenges to insights, we're excited to share it all! .
It makes a lot more economical sense to cloud-host big models like GPT-4 and optimize them for the hardware they run on. But for small models, sure, let the user run them locally, eliminating network latency.
Strictly speaking an instruction set doesn’t include things like the memory model which you need to know to be able to port code. For example, Apple had to add an extension to their ARM chips which makes stronger guarantees about the order in which memory is written because x86 Mac apps might have dependencies on that which their developers hadn’t been aware of.
I like this one

https://tls12.xargs.org/

&

https://tls13.xargs.org/
You may quickly feel the need for a "community" when you start to contribute, learn about its insides and want to push the project forward. Unless you're happy with publishing to your own fork that nobody knows about, software development is a social activity that often spawns social relationships.
More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
I really admire the M1/M2 and the quality that Apple puts into everything they do, that said:
* I think metal is a horrible material for laptops (I rather have plastic/carbon as in ThinkPads),
* non-mate screens really suck (they only look good in pictures),
* and I barely tolerate macOS when I have to use it.

But for me, the worst part is the non-choice. In the PC world, you can choose 10000 different PCs.

Again, I really admire the M1/M2, and the quality of apple products. But I returned an M1 on my previous job because of what I said above, and went to a ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
Cannot disagree more. ThinkPads are the best laptops (not counting the M1/M2 CPU).
Would like to know what time this happened - I was in Iceland looking up at the sky that night, but didn't see the meteor.
I've become rather paranoid about a malicious actor sending an email that looks like regular spam, but where the "unsubscribe" link is the attack vector, so I've been using the "Mark as spam" button for anything unsolicited that comes in from a sender I've not previously engaged with.
Usenet is still pretty alive for warez, and people pay providers for access.
Linux Turns 0x20 Today
If it encourages the industry to reduce the amount of salt and sugar they add, I consider it as a good thing.

The Nutriscore is a partial indicator, e.g. it doesn't mention how processed something is. But I find it a valuable tool to quickly discard many options from the supermarket.
overnight oats with fruit, nuts, etc is easy, delicious, healthy, filling, and has unlimited combinations!
It is a direct result of the drug war...

Legalize all drugs, disempower doctors from being gatekeepers and allow anyone to get anything they want at any time, aside from age restrictions and things like antibiotics (which can contribute to making bacteria more robust and dangerous).

Testable, trackable access to all drugs, without any stigma of illegality. This removes all incentive for adulterated substances, gives access to drug users to therapy / rehab / services without risk of law enforcement, provides for new classes of business around safe use locations (bars for alcohol, new kinds if bars for you name it), taxable revenue streams (which would still be cheaper than black markets for consumers), reduced medical costs (if you know what you need, why spend $500 seeing a doctor? An AI is cheaper and more effective here anyway) -- oh, and it actually wins the drug war against cartels and gangsters. The list goes on, but sounds kind of dumb to me not to do this?

Fentanyl would be a non-issue, along with a host of other issues. We would switch to new issues that live in the light, and we could actively work on them suddenly.

Freedom solves most of our invented issues. Controlling the will of people introduces all sorts of insidious complications. I wonder why that is?
Well… besides your zig drama… why do you disagree?
> Second, the russians had allmost nothing to gain from blowing it up.

Well, they didn't gain much from shelling power plants in the winter but they did it anyway. They wasted many missiles on it, some civilians died, but in the end the result gave them no significant advantage. Why did they do it? Well, because Putin still has the mentality of a street bully - if he can inflict suffering on someone who is weaker, he will, whether it makes sense or not.
The UK was in a special place with regard to radio music discovery, though. John Peel originally started on pirate radio where he could play whatever he wanted. That created such a demand within the UK that he was able to move to a job at the BBC doing the same thing and draw a listenership from the whole country. But since HN is so American-centric, most of the posters here know radio of that time only as a much less adventurous format, unless you could listen to a “college radio” station (the USA’s only real analogue to Peel). Otherwise, corporate ownership of stations, with local stations receiving their playlist from corporate, meant no adventurous programming.
As you may imagine, there is more to microprocessor design that those two sentences :)
I just can’t imagine Apple building and selling a replacement for a 4080 gpu and top line amd/intel cpu. And if they do they markup would be insane. Look at what they currently charge for compute as an example. Price vs performance ratio between apple and pc is too high to be viable.

So if apple does get into gaming it’s going to be incredibly gimped and ten years behind the tech curve. (Or at the level of consoles) Which might be competitive against that market.

But I am extremely skeptical that apple will compete with top of the line pc gaming in a meaningful way. Pushing +100 fps at 4k is not easy or cheap, and if apple wants to win enthusiasts (or even have decent looking VR for the vision) they’ll need to offer significant compute at a competitive price. So basically, they’ll need to completely change their economics model… and I don’t think they’ll do that.
“Transformer” is a real technical term. It comes from the Attention is All You Need paper published by Google. It’s not an Apple marketing term.
Weird Food History had an excellent video on 80s cereals

https://youtu.be/usdP5c_z9T8
Ask HN: Can I use SEO with online/AI tools instead of WordPress plugins?
In the follow-up to my previous post [1], if I may need to create some SEO optimized texts for a website of a small translation agency, can I do it semi-manually using e.g.[2], other similar online tools coupled with ChatGPT/Bing prompt engineering instead of installing Wordpress SEO plugins?

If I'd be using Wordpress, I'd like to try to use as few plugins as possible, but in its general description (marketing) Wordpress seems to try to optimize for SEO by default.
As Django/Flask may not be as SEO friendly as Wordpress, I can just perform SEO optimization with the above-mentioned tools.

As I understand SEO (beginner level), I may also need to SEO optimize the names of tabs and images. If I do all this manually or with above-mentioned tools, would it be comparable to what Wordpress SEO plugins are actually doing?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537417
[2] ahrefs.com/keyword-generator
>> What’s the alternative to Unity?

It depends on what you are targetting, but there has been a huge surge in interest in both the Unreal and Godot communities since the announcement was made.

Alternatives exist and while it takes time to adjust if you are deeply invested, it will occur.

Nothing causes people to abandon ship like a torpedo.
To be honest I go by feel. I usually can't spend more than 3 full focus days on something without getting burns.
I don’t think it’s a presentation. It’s multi dimensional. No one’s navigating multiple dimensions while presenting.
I think it's hard to imagine a future historical context in which Russia is the goodie here.
I was going to chime in and say I’ve never heard of this either, but after checking the Wikipedia link I know exactly what this is. Where I am in northwest Iowa, everyone just calls this “overnight oats/oatmeal”. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word Muesli before.
ah, that's a relief!
A big thanks to Linus and all the contributors!

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/4995SivOl9o/m/Gw...
The Zig article specifically says bug fix bounties are different.
> I mean as long as you avoid the ones that have a lot of sugar added,

This is virtually all of them, though. I think it’s generally not as bad as it used to be, but it’s still refined sugar for breakfast and really not ideal.
The reason I buy cereal less is because it’s now so unbelievably expensive. I treat myself when the own-brands are on offer.
Very interesting read! I really wish we could be unburdened by backwards compatibility so big changes like these are possible, but I realize that would open its own can of worms
"The american way of life is non-negotiable" George H.W. Bush

To be honest, America decided long ago the rest of the world would suffer as long as America could afford it.