skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’
tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and
reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.

Taking notes on a laptop really only kicked into high-gear for me with the move to remote work at the beginning of the pandemic. The above quote really resonates with me, I essentially had to completely relearn how to take effective notes.

Typing has so much more bandwidth for conveying information, I was (ineffectively) using it to transcribe more detailed notes on what the speaker was saying, but what I eventually learned to do was take the same short notes I had taken on paper, but augment the notes with links, quotes, definitions, backstory, etc.
> better off finding a job and just having me give her the $300,000

this is "all or nothing" thinking.. other posts show that other school systems have different cost structures. If she has the character and health for it, you could send her to an overseas school also.. think out of the box!
I know your first line was sarcastic, but Lego should really be held up as what plastic can offer for sustainability. As I commented elsewhere, I have very few other 50+ year objects in my house, let alone toys that my kids actively play with. The next closest thing might be Atari cartridges at 40 years old, but with few exceptions, kids don’t really care about those either (coincidentally plastic shelled). I suppose I have vinyl records that are at least 50 years old (also plastic).

I suppose we also have wood and glass furniture and glass and ceramics that are that old or older. That well designed plastic items can have the longevity of heirloom furniture should be a positive selling point.
So, with Mercedes assuming liability is the $2,500 annual subscription fee effectively a new form of insurance?
On top of our hosted and supported catalog of models, and the deploy to CF partnerships like the HF one, you will also be able to bring your own custom model at some point in time.
What if that was the goal all along? Time traveling freedom fighters set up SO so that the well for AI would be poisoned, freeing us from our future overlords!
There's nothing weird here. Those are very common fractions used across several domains, including cooking.

But one thing that I would really love to see are actual liters or gallons (depending on the country where I am at the moment).
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I wonder what it would take for folks like that to vote GOP. Given the issues he brings up being so extreme, that still isn't enough?
It depends. Did you ever work in Development Support? Understanding requests or bug reports from customers is quite challenging, for trained and experienced developers. In my eyes that would require AGI, which we do not know of, if that can be achieved with the current approach.
Yes.

This is why PHP got such a bad reputation. A lot of new developers where copy and pasting quick example code from stack overflow, or code from other new developers who only kind of knew what they were doing.
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What about Red Bull-fueled 43 year olds?
> As well as being independent of any browser vendor, it is designed to be embeddable, memory-safe, modular, and parallel.

How does Gecko (the engine used in Firefox) fare on being embedded? I thought it wasn't as easy or simple, and hence one of the reasons why Chromium dominated in things like Electron.

I can't square these two statements in the article:

> Servo has been around for about a decade, so as experimental software projects go, it's a mature one.

> It still can't pass the Web Standards Project ACID tests, which way back in 2008 WebKit was the first browser to successfully handle, so there's clearly some way to go yet.

I thought the goal of Servo, while it was incubated and paid for by Mozilla, was to absorb parts of it into Firefox over several years (or across decades) since this is a humongous undertaking. It's still painful to see Mozilla's revenues (mostly from Google) and how keeping Servo around could've helped in making a better browser, sooner (compared to current Firefox development).
> it seems cruel to take this out on unity devs who have no option

The argument that I have some sort of ethical obligation to continue to support the likes of Unity because it would harm game devs if I don't seems specious to me.
> easy to read

Sounds like you're counting that as a negative. Obviously it depends on the use case, but more often than not I'll lean towards the easier to read code than the most optimal one.
I don't think suggesting the current maintainers of the Linux kernel taking a hike is a very productive angle.
> more a shame their funding model was very publicly debunked

It wasn't just that, both the founders were very big socialist/communist people who didn't really understand how to run a business. They still don't. Elementary OS turned down numerous funding opportunities, numerous partnership opportunities. They made a really really great OS. But the business aspect was just atrocious.

The "Pay what you want" model could have worked for their store. But just having a store in the beginning they didn't want one and then they pivoted to having one way late. There was big internal strife in the eOS Community amongst the developers for years, and very little conflict resolution on their part.

I wouldn't say they're an example of a failed funding model. Rather, I'd say they're an example of people who have amazing talent and ideas, but refused business help and refused to admit their failures.
What’s the incentive here? It seems more likely it just wasn’t a concern to the maintainers. The guy can still call himself a Linux contributor if he wants. He submitted a couple if statements and didn’t get it signed off. Why split hairs over what the commit message says?
>Bothering a random human multiple times a day with my problems really doesn't feel like something I want to do.

Please don't feel like you're bothering us. I've had this app for years and absolutely cherished the few calls I've gotten. I get really bummed if I miss a call.
> My first thought when someone infinitely more intelligent and accomplished than I am holds a surprising viewpoint isn't "huh, why aren't they as smart as me on this?". It's more "what am I missing here?"

Why? Intelligence/accomplishment in one (or even multiple) field(s) doesn't mean they're infallible. Especially in a society where the most accomplished are often simply the most ruthless, this is a confusing default mode of thought to me.
In the server side JavaScript world absolutely, it seems like it's standard practice, people are injecting entire dependencies without even remotely looking at the code. Bringing in an entire library for a single function that could be accomplished in a couple lines and usually is posted below the fold.
Actual drastic action would be to structure a public safety department that could manage mental health crises without an armed response every time, and would make police more effective at the crimes that matter to the middle class.

Throwing money at police has zero success stories.
I wonder if it is possible to avoid OOM by making sure that all allocations are done from a named (on disk, not shm) memory file. This way in principle is always possible to swap to disk and never overcommit.

I guess in practice the kernel might be in such dire straits that it is not able to even swap to disk and might need to kill indiscriminately.
Fundamentally, no. Because in many EU countries people have given their lives for freedom. These people and their offspring have the right not to be bullied by large companies. If Apple wants 100% freedom in producing what they want, then Apple can start/fight for their own country with its own army, education system etc.

This whole idea of a free market existing in a vacuum must stop.
This is pretty impressive, they shipped a 7B model in like 6 months.
Would love it if some of these kinds of ECE courses made their way into the OMSCS program. What I really want is a course on information theory.
Have you looked into worker cooperatives? Ocean Spray is an example in the US. Mondragon is an example of one in Spain that has tens of thousands of workers and has existed for many decades.
You gotta wait until GGML and the likes repackage the model; early releases are almost always targeted at ML folks with dedicated GPUs.
These days it's mostly hardware-accelerated (OpenGL) shaders.
Probably this one as this is the most common on the corpus it was used to train it.
Reading your comment, I do agree. Another thing though is that I cannot really use the word outside of the "Hacker News/Tech" scene. If I want to speak to someone who isn't online as much and not in the loop I have to use "worsening" or something else anyway.
That's a new flavor of customer service jobs which will still suck and be paid terribly
Isn't that very similar to how real life racing is? The light riders almost always are at a disadvantage.
It's "they" because it's people in the past. If you want unions to win new rights today, you'd better start using "we".
If it's that easy, why are we wasting billions researching carbon capture? Why aren't we just doing this?
This makes me feel at least slightly better. I attended a top-100-but-definitely-not-top-10-or-even-top-20 private university in the early 2000s and I'm quite sure my family paid very close to full sticker. I don't recall qualifying for any merit scholarship. I had and have merits, but excellent grades in high school were not among them :)
I sure hope people don’t copy stuff from SO before they understand what the code does.
"They have come to the conclusion that there's really no point in maintaining them that long, because people are not using them. So the six-year update policy is going away. When 4.14 goes out of support… early next year… there will not be another six-year kernel to replace it."
I think that's what I said, but your summary is more pithy.

I love pith. The world needs more pith.
It arrived in less than one week for me, and I purchased relatively recently.
Maybe it's because I learned to type in chat rooms and never bothered with the home row thing, but I guess I just don't type enough numbers to have muscle memory for the number row. But the numpad is stupid easy to develop muscle memory for.
That's what I do too. At the end of the day, all I want is for my patch to be included so I don't have the problem anymore. I code for a living and I don't have to sell myself to recruiters in my field. But I fully understand why one would want to be credited, and that's just fair.
Warren Spector didn't work on System Shock 2.
One parameter is 16 bits == 2 bytes. So a model with 7 billion parameters needs 14GB of RAM for the un-quantized model, plus some overhead for the KV cache and other "working memory" stuff but that should be fairly low for a 7B model. I expect it will work on a 16GB GPU just fine.

Quantized ones are also easy. 8 bits == 1 byte so that's 7GB for the model. 4-bit gets you below 4GB.
Reported-by should go to the person who reported the issue 6 years ago. Finding the issue (again), investigating, debugging, fixing and testing that fix sounds more like a hypothetical "Fixed-by", or co-authorship, depending on how similar the final patches really are.

Authoring the patch is often trivial once the debugging is done. Describing the debugging as just reporting is underselling it.
> Even better, don't build even more breeding habitat for an expanding population which is choking the earth.

Ah, the anti-human shows through. I guess we should just ... what, with the people then?
Easy to read is good, but it doesn’t trump correct.
In theory can't they basically have a single writer use an AI to write every script for every movie and TV show? At least with elevators they needed a person in each elevator.
The AI safety ninnies as you call them are not scared and neither do they buy into the narrative.

They are the investors of large proprietary AI companies who are facing massive revenue loss primarily due to Mark Zuckerbergs decision to give away a competitive LLM to open source in a classic “if I can’t make money from this model, I can still use it to take away money from my competition” move - arming the rebels to degrade his opponents and kickstarting competitive LLM development that is now a serious threat.

It’s a logical asymmetric warfare move in a business environment where there is no blue ocean anymore between big companies and degrading your opponents valuation and investment means depriving them of means to attack you.

(There’s a fun irony here where Apples incentives are very much aligned now - on device compute maintains Appstore value, privacy narrative and allows you to continue selling expensive phones - things a web/api world could threaten)

The damage is massive, the world overnight changed narrative from “future value creation is going to be in openai/google/anthropic cloud apis and only there” to a much more murky world. The bottom has fallen out and with it billions of revenue these companies could have made and an attached investor narrative.

Make no mistake, these people screaming bloody murder about risks are shrewd lobbyists, not woke progressives, they are aligning their narrative with the general desires of control and war on open computing - the successor narrative of the end to end encryption battle currently fought in the EU will be AI safety.

I am willing to bet hard money that “omg someone made CSAM with AI using faceswap” will be the next thrust to end general purpose compute. An the next stage of the war will be brutal because both big tech and big content have much to lose if these capabilities are out in the open

The cost of alignment tax and the massive loss of potential value makes there lobbying world tour by sam altman an aggressive push trying to convince nations that the best way to deal with scary AI risks (as told on OpenAI bedtime stories) is to regulate it China Style - through a few pliant monopolists who guarantee “safety” in exchange for protection from open source competition.

There’s a pretty enlightening expose [1] on how heavily US lobbyists have had their hand in the EU bill to spy on end to end encryption that the commission is mulling - this ain’t a new thing, it’s how the game is played and framing the people who push the narrative as “ninnies” who are “scared” just buys into culture war framing.

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/09/26/thorn-ashton-kutcher-ylva-joh...
Sure, but if OpenJDK is exposing that function then anyone who is using it will get the correct output when OpenJDK fixes the problem. If everyone copies the function into their own code then in many cases it's likely to never be corrected.
> had to start his own company because FAANGs wouldn't hire him.

LOL dude...

"FAANG" is not the only place to work
One of the most intense El NiñOS ever observed could be forming
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Well, Millennium Tower is an outlier. A boondoggle. They should take it down and start over.
[Article author/submitter here]

I can only tell you that it is not what this is about, inasmuch as I was at the talk and there was not a single mention of Firefox Reality or Wolvic in the talk.

Wolvic might use Servo – but I think if it did they would mention it, right?

The talk didn't and the word "Wolvic" does not occur anywhere on https://servo.org

So I am guessing not, no.

Igalia has -- or rather is because it's a co-op -- about 100 developers. They are not all working on the same thing.
That annoyed me too.
Doesn't mean he's not right. I'm from NYC, and at 10x the population we seem to have a much better handle on violent and property crime as well as sanitation per capita.
Weekends and 8 hour work week is not necessarily a good thing. There could be benefits to switching to 996 work week to compete better with China.
ROFLMAO!

Please, tell me that was sarcastic.
I think the easier route has changed now. This advice was definitely true 10-15 years back, but I think now the entire sector is open to startups.

I would advise that startups team up with a larger player who can actually win contracts as a prime, and push out product together with them. It's sort of the middle ground between contracting and going alone. So I would suggest starting straight from #2 above up to #5. The biggest con is that you're completely dependent on the big company for survival, so you'll have to make them equally enamoured and dependent on your tech/product.
Edge's implementation is better.
Providing it as a service seems like the obvious answer to me. Not everyone who wants to run these models can, especially when looking to scale an application that uses the model.
Reported by would be appropriate credit if (a) the maintainer did not read Ariel's code or (b) Ariel's code was utter crap, so it was effectively discarded.

"I like my code better" indicates that neither of this happened. So, Ariel deserves (at least partial) credit for fixing, since this was not a "clean room" fix.
When mine disconnected from the network I discovered it was flashing nonstop red, green, and blue. I'm surprised the neighbors didn't come over and complain
It uses CalDav and CardDav to sync calendars and contacts with the android system, not with these apps.
If you build android from source it doesn't come with the GApps suite and you can use any other calendar and contacts apps which then use the calendars and contacts provided by the system.
This has been removed from the front page. Wonder why?
In fairness, CPU reordering is does not visibly affect a thread view of their own loads and stores.
You can sideload for free. You have to press a button to renew your local signature every week. The $100/year is to skip pressing the button. You don’t have to get permission to run locally signed apps.
That's what I do. I almost always rename things to match the coding style of the codebase I'm working on, though.
Idk about Millennium Tower but see Taipei 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101#Structural_design

> Taipei 101 is designed to withstand typhoon winds and earthquake tremors that are common in the area in the east of Taiwan. Evergreen Consulting Engineering, the structural engineer, designed Taipei 101 to withstand gale winds of 60 meters per second (197 ft/s), (216 km/h or 134 mph), as well as the strongest earthquakes in a 2,500-year cycle.

> During construction, on 31 March 2002, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Taipei; two construction cranes from the 56th floor, the highest floor at the time, toppled. Five people died in the accident, but an inspection showed no structural damage to the building, and construction soon resumed
Lockheed Martin designed the X-59, the world’s quietest supersonic jet
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I'm glad you know the solution, but non-HN people are going to just accept whatever Google shows in big text.
> how wasteful and silly it is to have someone whose sole job is to press elevator buttons.

That doesn't seem like the right cause, since it's the people who seem most concerned with seriousness and economic efficiency who still have elevator operators today.
Literally the more developed a country is, the lower it's birth rate. More education, especially women's education, less religiosity and better contraceptive prevalence is all you need. The US is already at 1.6 births per woman, well below the replacement rate of 2.1

You don't need "less breeding habitat" you just need more development.
lol PWAs are trash. As is chrome. Firefox dev tools are equiv of chrome. Without all the trash Google ads/adds to chrome.
Agreed the expectations are so far out of line I doubt the maintainers see a problem. If this guy wants to be a kernel contributor he can keep contributing to the kernel.
Oh, this is not snark?

> I, the millionaire tech investor, am the real scrappy working class person, not like those supervisors, I really care about you. Also go SFPD.

That’s not snark? Ok in that case I 100% agree with you. And thank you for your investments into our community. Fully support SFPD. Fund the police. And yes, a tech investor in SF is without a hint of a doubt a harder working, more valuable person than those supervisors. As are a lot of other people.

For a second, your comment sounded like the meaningless drivel from the twitter-born progressive activist class that has inundated the politics of west coast cities. And all of us living in urban centers across these states have become completely tired of it. It was interesting in 2015. It’s toxic in 2023.
Sure, but if I'm specifically looking for "Erotica about someone doing shrooms and accidentally creating a nuclear weapon", I'll probably run out of material to read pretty soon. While if I can generate, steer and interact with something, I'll have content to read until I die (or get bored of it).
My point is that his map doesn't do a good job of showing that, when rainfall differences are pretty dramatic. Something like this shows it much more clearly:

https://www.eldoradoweather.com/climate/us-states/oregon-ave...

As well as regional differences like the Wallowas vs SE Oregon.
"Unquantized" is the key word here: with quantization you can get a 4-8x improvement without much performance degradation.
Show HN: Socket.io mock server for testing client events
If you come from Machine Learningbackground check "Causal Inference and Discovery in Python" by Molak (2023)

Super intuitive explanations and all examples translated to Python code.

A friend recommended it to me and I love it!
I think parent is saying they DON'T see the rain shadow. I think it's perhaps a problem of opacity when you use the "mean annual depth" background layer. It's visible, but subtle.
I cannot think of a region of this planet with LESS biodiversity than Manhattan/San Fran/megalopolii. "Concrete Jungle" is just a euphemism.
My favorite keyboards are not backlit, and I was frustrated to have to put them aside after sunset. I ended up getting a small battery powered light and attaching it to the bottom of my desk. It shines on my lap, and lets me use non-backlit keyboards without any other lights on.

Is that an option for you?
If that comes to fruition they'll just have one writer who is responsible for putting their name on a ton of AI-generated scripts.

But at this very moment, AI generating anything suitable for something other than SEO blogspam isn't possible anyway. It might be right around the corner, or it might be "right around the corner" like self-driving cars were in 2015.
> “It’s wrong”

But in a completely benign way. I question why a few edge cases of writing 1000kb instead of 1Mb—so not even a misrepresentation—would ever be worth the code bloat. This is about making stuff slightly more convenient to read.
Thank you for letting me know, I wasn't aware! Time to switch then.
I was just looking at the map.
I have my doubts about unions in our particular industry sector, but out in the real world there are many, many jobs that you would have to be insane to take up without a union at your back.
Benefits to whom?
Ahh yea, it has nothing to do with the massive amount of crime, violence, decay and grift by those enabling it.

A person can be both ‘rich’ and want better for the community they choose to be part of.