skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One nice thing about Ollama vs. stock llama.cpp is Ollama supports both ggml and gguf models. If you've still got a lot of old ggml bins around you can easily create a model file and use them.

I haven't done benchmarking vs. vLLM, but it's quite fast; in my tests on an A100-80g w/ llama2 70b I was getting over 25 tok/sec which is just mind blowing.
I was even getting around 30 tok/sec on llama2 7b on an old RTX 1070, which is equally crazy.
That's the intended response when the page can't be found. They never said there was a site hosted there. Just that the domain was owned.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

These obviously float up and down some over time but Firefox has been consistently under 3% globally for a while now.
I’m curious — I’ve been using DuckDB for 2 years now on large Parquet datasets and rarely encountered any fatal errors (and being C++ hasn’t seem to have been an issue in my experience) — what errors have you encountered and what data were you querying?
I (American) think the gamey taste is exactly what most American's do not like at this point. Any time lamb, elk, bison, etc. are an option (usually at a restaurant), people voice complaints about gaminess and order beef (in my experience/social groups). It doesn't explain why it wasn't part of our food options we grew up with as this article is trying to explain, but I think it's why it's a hard sell today.

I will get lamb occasionally at a restaurant and about half the time it's too gamey for me (and I then regret my ordering decision). We also don't eat a ton of curry dishes where the seasoning and spices can maybe mask or enhance that flavor (I don't know what it does but assuming more flavors results in less noticeable gaminess).

It seems that it's difficult to introduce new meat sources to the market. Bison has been trying hard the past 10-20 years and it's a really good beef-like meat for burgers/steaks but still quite rare to see at a restaurant much less a grocery store.
SiloGen launches a consortium to build the world’s largest open LLM
Offer two builds :) One AMD and one NVIDIA.
The entire idea of "carbon offset" is junk.
IIRC, they chose it because it's more compact and easier to install in a factory than a synchrotron, and also are a continuation of their current product evolution. I don't think they'd be able to make a synchrotron suitable for this that could be shipped in a standard container (or loaded onto a single truck).
How does that follow? The US just confirmed they will do it. Why spend money on something you know someone else is going to do for you?
This is awesome!
Let's not forget about their second generation SQL database YDB which is an open source alternative to TiDB and YugabyteDB.
At the institutional level I don't think this is true. There are pretty reliable custody options that are far less shady than Binance.
Without engaging the merits of this particular case, I do think there is an interesting takeaway about which companies wield even more power than Amazon (and Big Tech more generally, since Google and Meta are also discussed as likely targets of similar suits).

Notably: health insurers. They're an oligopoly whose revenues total something like 4% of US GDP. They engage in anticompetitive practices, and the end result is far more consumer harm than Amazon can do. (Because people generally spend a lot more on health insurance premiums than they do on Amazon in a year.)

Similar could be written about e.g. airlines.

Lobbying works. Tech will eventually figure this out.
Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
In the wake of all the Unity nonsense, just wanted to toss the Raverie engine into this mix :)

We’re building off a previous engine that we worked on for DigiPen Institute of Technology called the Zero Engine with a similar component based design architecture to Unity. Our engine had a unique feature called Spaces: separate worlds/levels that you can instantiate and run at the same time, which became super useful for creating UI overlays using only game objects, running multiple simulations, etc. The lighting and rendering engine is scriptable, and the default deferred rendering implementation is based on the Unreal physically based rendering (PBR) approach. The physics engine was built from the ground up to handle both 2D and 3D physics together. The scripting language was also built in house to be a type safe language that binds to C++ objects and facilitates auto-complete (try it in editor!)

This particular fork by Raverie builds both the engine and editor to WebAssembly using only clang without Emscripten. We love Emscripten and in fact borrowed a tiny bit of exception code that we’d love to see up-streamed into LLVM, however we wanted to create a pure WASM binary without Emscripten bindings. We also love WASI too though we already had our own in memory virtual file system, hence we don’t use the WASI imports. All WASM imports and exports needed to run the engine are defined here:
https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine/blob/main/Code/...

The abstraction means that in the future, porting to other platforms that can support a WASM runtime should be trivial. It’s our dream to be able to export a build of your game to any platform, all from inside the browser. Our near term road-map includes getting the sound engine integrated with WebAudio, getting the script debugger working (currently freezes), porting our networking engine to WebRTC and WebSockets, and getting saving/loading from a database instead of browser local storage.

Our end goal is to use this engine to create an online Flash-like hub for games that people can share and remix, akin to Scratch or Tinkercad.

https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine
I feel like you're assuming that applications have to be honest about what they are when they request a user-prompted permission. SIP makes that irrelevant.
As I commented on Mastodon:

Today's "Tailwind-in-HTML" is tomorrow's tech debt on a scale we haven't seen since the AngularJS days from a decade ago.

It won't be pretty.

(But perhaps a future job opportunity for folks who can rebuild design systems using real CSS and web standards.)
> Someone willing to extract CO2 from the air and store it in some rock forever can indeed offset some carbon you emitted.

This isn't what carbon offsets typically are though.

More like this: I promise not to slash and burn this forest if you give me $1000. There, you've now removed however many CO2 from being emitted, meanwhile I sell the forest to someone else who either makes the same deal with some other guy or just cuts it down because whatever they aren't under any obligations to not slash and burn the forest.
I dont see the connection
Sync between devices. I guess Pocket Casts does that too, but it was also proprietary (and paid) when I started to use Google Podcasts.
Is 1278 enough for you? They don't list every single bug in the release notes; that would be a full time job on its own.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_status_firefo...
A lot of the old machinery for small businesses to find their customers - e.g. news, hobbyist magazines, etc - is no longer around, and so there's nothing for those businesses to return to. The Internet, and specifically advertising companies, killed them off. What's unfair is not that they can't violate privacy, but that Amazon still can.
The idea that 22% of them are NOT junk is honestly surprising to me. I would've expected a number north of 90% to come out of even a cursory investigation.
absurd. Nobody is forcing anyone to work for AMZN or Google or Uber. People would simply quit if these companies were actually abusing them
I came here to confirm that I hadn't missed something in the article.
Thanks for confirming.

This is so fucked up...
I recommend you check out the Direct Primary Care model and share your thoughts. This model is not to be confused with Concierge Medicine, which largely suffers from the same problems you identified about Functional Medicine doctors. I just commented about DPC, you can find my thoughts about it at the top of my profile.

Overall, I think this is a great, affordable first step for redefining primary care - one that makes sense for doctors and patients, but is not a replacement for specialties like Functional Medicine.
I hate the TSA. But one thing to consider is it's effectively a jobs program, just like the US military. For better or worse these are people to whom we'd likely be funneling money in one fashion or another, at least the security theater makes it more palatable to the masses :shrug:
We rely on game theory and tamper proof audit logs.

100% of the things done to access/modify our secrets & infrastructure are logged in our cloud ecosystem in a manner completely outside our control (AWS or Azure hold the log). We cannot delete or edit these. All we can do is read them and receive reports or alerts.

If someone with global admin decides they want to become DBA over a highly-sensitive SQL Server instance, nothing would actually stop them from acquiring this access. We aren't protecting nuclear material or other defense/life-safety-critical items. If someone wants to risk their career to do the wrong thing with our data (or our customers' data), then I say go for it. I will lose exactly zero sleep terminating someone who does something that stupid. Our policy isn't even explicit. This is one of those "if you have to ask, you shouldn't be working here" kinds of things.

Fear is a much more efficient tool than key splitting schemes, physical vaults, armed guards, etc.
Translation: EU is butthurt Elon is pushing against the "we use companies to censor things that critique us that we could not outlaw just yet".
Did mine with Rust, too: https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX

Was fun.
Don't disagree with the hypothesis but this is a low quality article and source.
"anti-discounting tactics"

> One set of tactics stifles the ability of rivals to attract shoppers by offering lower prices. Amazon deploys a sophisticated surveillance network of web crawlers that constantly monitor the internet, searching for discounts that might threaten Amazon’s empire. When Amazon detects elsewhere online a product that is cheaper than a seller’s offer for the same product on Amazon, Amazon punishes that seller. It does so to prevent rivals from gaining business by offering shoppers or sellers lower prices

Price competition conflated as punishment. The FTC's mandate is to promote competition. Here, they attack Amazon for competing effectively.

Also, advocating for other online superstores is playing the world's smallest violin. Walmart has decimated mom and pop stores. They're unable to beat Amazon at the online game. Truly remarkable achievement, really.

Why are redactions even permitted in a lawsuit involving a government agency and a corporation? Don't mention Project Nessie at all if you can't tell the public what you're arguing about. "Trust us, they were monopolists" isn't the same as laying out the facts for all to see.
yeah, I am saying these reasons don't seem to make sense, since AMZN is not a monopoly because other online sellers exist and physical stores exist
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Net neutrality is gone, so why is the internet mostly the same (to people with money to spare for higher bandwidth tiers which are just as overpriced as the lower tiers)? Because STATES (Washington, Oregon, and California) passed net neutrality laws to partially compensate for the lack of regulation from the top [1].

But in the first place, net neutrality does nothing about affordability [2], subsidy fraud + corruption [3], deceptive pricing [4], and regulatory capture [5]. Net neutrality would be a relatively minor consequence of a competitive internet service market. In other words, net neutrality is a necessary outcome and nothing close to a sufficient condition.

[1] https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/what-low-income-people...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretend...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-says-too-bad...

[5] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/07/after-years-of-stupid-ga...
I've worked on several titles and completed none of them as a side hobby. I would like to finish one. I still work on it. My most important learning from this has been "don't do indie game dev for a living". Maybe you'll say "shut up then". But I disagree. Learning to execute on a game design vision is fun. But it is irrelevant if the vision is not viable. I've learned a lot through what I've done and it's vastly more fun to work on something you're interested in. If you chase the business side of actually releasing a game you're going to spend a lot of time doing things you're not interested in doing and it's potentially going to cost a lot of money. You have to figure out what you want to do.

As for your dismissal of my comment, sure, it's a hot take. But I feel pretty strongly. Why?

* Well for one almost every single game that people start does not get finished. So that's a misleading metric.

* The amount of free 3D asset available are MASSIVELY better for 3D realistic assets. The lack of a specific art direction means you don't need to create everything from scratch. Which is bad if artistic design is your thing, but if it's not your thing, this is a lifesaver. Realistic 3D is the EASIEST art to acquire and prototype and even ship with unless you're interested in using very weirdly specific stuff from an asset store in a distinct style.

* Co-op is intrinsically enticing and lowers the bar greatly for the game to be good. I think my ideal indie success story are games like The Forest and Green Hell. If you look under the hood, these games... pretty bad? Like it's mostly really dumb combat, basebuilding to basically no particularly well thought out game loop, and big maps with a small amount of unique content in them. But they're still pretty great to everyone who plays them. It's remarkably achievable.

* Conversely, here's a game that was free on Epic a short while ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1766750/Spelldrifter/

I thought this game was actually pretty solid. It's fighting system was interesting, the dialogue was decent even though I came into it knowing I wasn't going to care about the story, and the art was nice in my opinion. I liked playing this game. But there's now way I'm ever going to pay $20 for it. Standing out as a singleplayer game is extremely hard. Or comp multiplayer. Goofy co-op has a much lower bar because co-op is intrinsically fun when everyone's got an avatar.
While this may be true, JR has made a number of decisions over the years that has harmed Unity before the merge.
The officials themselves aren't in question. These proceedings only concern whether TSA itself (aka the government) can be sued. That's what the 'soverign immunity' part is about.

This case isn't related at all to whether the employee can be prosecuted, sued, whatever.

You could make the case either way imho, pro of having immunity is that our tax dollars ideally wouldn't be spent to try to make up for some stupid thing some bad TSA agent did. Con is that ideally knowing TSA could be sued would make whoever manages the budget of TSA much more afraid to keep poorly-trained or unstable people on their staff, and/or to train and supervise them better.
Carbon sequestration doesn't require deep understanding of chemistry or physics. It can be understood by politicians, CEOs, economists and the general public.

If we could effectively communicate the science we could support/fund more scientific solutions. However, money rots science too.
ASML does that by vaporizing tiny droplets of tin while they are in free-fall in a vacuum by hitting them with very precisely timed laser pulses.

This light source took years to develop and ASML opted to do it this way because the development risks were lower considering their previous experience with similar less extreme UV light sources.
CinemaDNG is not always compressed. I have a BlackMagic camera that records uncompressed CinemaDNG. Also, DJI has gotten around some of this by putting the recorder in the body of the drone, making it technically not part of the camera.

However, the oft-repeated claim that Red's patent applies only to internal raw recording does not hold up when you consider that Apple and Atomos have to pay extortion for ProRes Raw, which is used in EXTERNAL recorders.
They did all those things unsustainably so they could gain market share and raise prices when people were locked in. Similar to Uber and AirBnB etc. All those things are good but not feasible and subsidized by the capital/venture markets. The game is market share and ecosystem lock-in both from suppliers and customers.

A truly competitive marketplace allows any supplier to easily match with any customer. Suppliers gain market share by being the ‘best’, not by being the only option.
> I'm saying that software is getting bloated over time, and it needn't

But the "bloat" isn't just wasted space and resources; its often genuinely useful features. Your example with Office XP is a great example. We can look at just Word and compare it to even Word 2007. Its missing a lot of genuinely useful features. Its math equation builder is absolutely rudimentary and pretty bad compared to what is available in 2007. It doesn't show a live word count in the status bar. It doesn't offer the quick styles functionality. It lacks good bibliography and citation tools. Its document comparison engine is very rudimentary. It lacks a full screen reading mode. Its spell checker is extremely rudimentary. Are these additions just bloat?

A contextual spell checker is going to use more CPU and RAM than just looking at whitespace and seeing if the word matches a database or hits a set of basic morphology rules, isn't? Handling a more complicated set of changes to do comparisons on is probably going to lead to a more complicated internal representation of the document, consuming more resources, isn't it? Having the processing and designs of the reading mode means the application is larger and consumes more ram, doesn't it? So its increasing the requirements by a good bit, but you're getting a lot of features along side it.

Ah, but Office 2007, that's a bloated mess.

But once again, if your standard is just putting black letters on a white page, why are you even bothering drawing colors to the screen? Aren't colors just bloat? Why have a screen at all? Just bloat.

So yeah, does Word 2021 require a lot more resources to run than Office XP? Sure. It also does a whole hell of a lot more. Far better pen input with smart shapes, equations, and more. Far better dictation support. Even more enhanced contextual spelling/grammar tools along with a smart editor feature to give better critique. Better annotation and commenting tools. Better change tracking and comparison tools. Better collaboration features and live cloud syncing. New search tool to search settings, resources, help, and more. Accessibility checker tool helps find potential improvements to your documents like help adding alt-text and other things.

Its not like Office 2021 is just the same thing as Office XP but now it needs at least a gigahertz and a few gigs of RAM. If that were the case, I'd agree its just bloat. But its got thousands and thousands of improvements and new features, all of which demand just a little bit more and a little bit more resources. Its unreasonable to expect for them to be able to shoehorn all the same features of Office 2021 into similar requirements of Office XP. And even then, picking Office XP is entirely arbitrary; why not hold them up to Office 95 as the standard of resources? If its using more than 8MB of RAM and 55MB of storage space clearly its just bloat.

Why should a videogame need any more resources than the original DOOM? Clearly everything added on is just bloat.
There was a thread here that touched on this recently. The number of TSA defenders here surprised me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37624112
This article hides behind "Analysts" as if basic thermodynamics was some kind of arcane magic.

I'm pretty sure most of us had it in school, conservation of energy, entropy, endothermic reactions, anyone?
What do you replace it with?

Before you answer - consider the Status Quo prior to 9/11, it was private security, run by individual airlines or groups of airlines as needed. It was not (always) centralized and often was only done at the gate point.

Is the issue with TSA or TSA policies?

I think we can relax TSA policy some, certainly at least on shoes - though many travelers will still need to remove shoes before the shoe has an internal metal support.
IANAL but this seems like a good call
> If it gives you a number or fact, assume it is wrong unless you either know the answer or can check with another source.

Meanwhile, every search engine, startup, and tech company: "Quick, put this in front of customers and stamp our logo under it!"
I've been wanting to build a 32 inch e-Ink thing on my wall, but the price is prohibitive. Anyone know of a cheaper source for 32-inch e-Ink displays?
I just discovered Hacker News offers a JSON API, ducking awesome, if only there was a nice tool to crunch data as JSON files...

I think I have just found out yet another great DuckDB-weekend project!
Well, that's DJI's decision.
There have been legislative attempts to end qualified immunity, the most recent being the Ending Qualified Immunity Act [0]. Qualified immunity is not a law but an overly broad and frequently misapplied court precedent that undermines the accountability of the U.S. justice system.

[0]: https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/En...
Platform engineering: capabilities, roles, and its benefits for DevOps maturity
Platform engineering is an emerging practice that improves the developer experience and productivity by providing a compelling integrated product.

Mature organizations show a greater usage of platforms. They're the non-secret sauce of leading startups to nurture high-performance teams.

Understand how an engineering platform helps to reduce the teams' cognitive load alongside its roots in DevOps and Team Topologies.
Happier people with more resources have fewer children.

Poor people who lack resources have more children.