skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The computational mechanics are different (there's a reason we dont use it) but in the land of infinite computational power it can be made equivalent.

In the land of infinite computational power every computation is just a series of 1s and 0s added and subtracted. You can implement everything with just few more operations. But we don't live in a land of infinite computational power and it took us (as humanity) quite a while to discover things like transformer models. If we had the same hardware 10 years ago would we have discovered them back then? I very much doubt it. We didn't just need the hardware, we needed the labelled data sets, prior art in smaller models etc.

Personally I think current AI/ML (LLMs, ESRGANs, and diffusion models) have huge capability to increase people's productivity, but it will not happen overnight and not for everyone. People have to learn to use AI/ML.

This brings me to the "dangers of AI". I laugh at all these ideas that "AI will become sentient and it will take over the world", but I'm genuinely fearful of the world where we've became so used to AI delivered by few "cloud providers" that we cannot do certain jobs without it. Just like you can't be a modern architect without Cad software, there may be time when you'll not be able do any job without your "AI assistant". Now, what happens when there is essentially a monopoly on the market of "AI assistants"? They will start raising prices to the point in future paying off your "AI assistant" bill may be higher than your taxes and you'll have a choice of paying or not working at all.

This is why we have to run these models locally and advance local use of them. Yes (not at all)OpenAI will give you access to a huge model for a fraction of the cost, but it's like with the proverbial drug dealers that gives you the first hit for free, you'll more than make up for the cost of it once you get hooked up. The "dangers of AI" is that it becomes too centralised, not "uncontrollable"
Show HN: Dora: The Game" – Where Learning Meets Building in the Web3 Universe
A game enabling players to quickly understand the development history of Web3, covering more than 130 major market events--from industry drama, market trends, hacks to policies and regulations), and 120+ major projects in 11 sectors such as BTC, ETH, DAO, NFT, DEX, and more.
That explanations read like it's taking in any kind of file system, local or remote, and combines them into one unified file system. Not really new, but most other file managers focus on the popular storage-services (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, samba, ftp), and are not open source. If you can easily create plugins for any remote storage, not just the traditional file storages, or even make up your own, then it could become something promising.
Ai is misleading because it's too broad and consumers confuse it as AGI which is far more powerful (and not yet possible). From a marketing perspective this is a feature, not a bug since it gives off the appearance of being a much bigger deal than it is.

Are we really going to pretend that marketing departments / companies aren't fully aware of and taking advantage of this misunderstanding? This just seems like common sense to me.
Sure, but a vulnerability report isn’t an active exploit. The clock would start when you realized that someone was actually taking advantage of it, not when you first read the email alleging that your site is vulnerable because it returned a 301 instead of a 404 for a WordPress path.
> Emacs decides to leave one of its .#filename symlinks around that don't point to anything,

Yeah, it breaks other various compilers like ghc too.

I fix it with:

(use-package no-littering
:demand t
:config
(no-littering-theme-backups)
)

https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering
>>But ultrasonic animal deterrents are not without controversy.

>>The RSPCA has long-objected to them, stating: "Noise levels produced by such ultrasonic devices are likely to be aversive to some animals, potentially causing them discomfort, fear and/or pain and predicting an individual's response is difficult."

>>Mr Milward said he "recognises the importance of living harmoniously with wildlife" but just wanted a humane way of protecting his two young children from the mess left by foxes and badgers, while also preserving his garden.

Ummm, it seems that a small amount of discomfort, fear, and/or pain, all of which is easily escaped by the animal is exactly the point! It is called operant conditioning by negative reinforcement related to a specific behavior.

What it the alternative, hooking up the device to a water cannot, paintball gun or real gun; are those really better?
> With an ICE, you can only fuel up at a gas station, but it is fast (not always though, queues, etc.).

No. This is the reason many still aren’t switching to an EV. Gas cans exist, the same does not exist for an EV. You can fuel up a liquid fuel vehicle anywhere. An EV must be charged at a specific station, be it at home or some other location.
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This reminds me of bridge fences being successful at bringing down overall suicide: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610560/
Whatever it is, I'm guessing the codebase and project management style is not perfect.
Forever is such a short, long time: on marrying a dying man
On love in the face of impending death, what a lasting relationship really means, the eternal now, "who" we are, and why Gandalf was probably a Stoic Philosopher
I'm a huge fan of walkable cities (generally the norm outside the U.S) but the article doesn't actually any good pictures of the neighborhood, and the few pictures look terrible.
This feels to me like someone published this with demo data or they didn't train the model at all and this is like a 0.0.2 beta or something.
Does that really work?
I tried my best Oxford English accent, and i slurred like a total drunk: almost no change in the results, which for some reason are not explained anywhere?
I kind of wish we had a form of preconditions/hints for the C compiler. There are lots of attributes, but those all look weird. Imagine annotating a calculation that 1 is a common value for example. or that a function is never called with a null-pointer.
Have you tried running Mesa's lavapipe?
It's a software vulkan backend that should already be able to fit your needs if I understood you correctly.
In a weird way I've never considered NYC to rank highly on the "walkable" scale. There are too many other people out walking, and too many cross streets where you are constantly waiting to cross.

IMO, "walkable city" means not just that you can technically walk to a large number of places, but that you can do so relatively unimpeded.
I mean the Internet brought us all so much closer together than ever before; technology like this will make us even closer, if we can do better/perfect translations it means that we could be interacting with people in English who are native Spanish speakers, for example, without even realising (on the Internet, at least).

And it's tough, because if you like travelling, it's not really feasible to learn every single language for every place...but in the future if I can pop an earbud in & get a realtime translation & they can do the same, I'd probably speak to so many more strangers when I visit non English speaking countries. It'll be so great.
Why does the owner have to give up animal in that case? If its to prevent people from casually claiming they are unable to pay for treatment then why is putting that animal down for want of treatment something that they do?

Not trying to hold you accountable for the practice of course, but it seems like you might know
100% agree. See my other comment using no-littering.

If you place your emacs config in ~/.config/emacs it's pretty close to ideal.
It may come as a surprise to people (it certainly was a surprise to me), but actually there was a quite substantial renewable ammonia industry in the past in some countries, e.g. in Iceland and Norway. It eventually couldn't compete against cheap fossil gas though...

See e.g.: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/3/2/11
Good Data to Growth Pyramid: An Intro
>The car free idea is great, but this looks like it's inevitably gonna turn into a dystopian nightmare since it's actually cut off from the rest of the city.

This kind of thinking makes no sense, you can have public transit (or even private taxis and bus lines) that fully solves this issue. Heck, many NJ beach towns have private "Jitney" lines that do well.
That sounds like an interesting approach haven't heard of before, do you have it documented somewhere?
Like a taxi, an autonomous car that's parked or not carrying a passenger is wasting money, so owners will want them to be productively utilized for paying trips as much as possible. Other than for charging, there's no reason for a self-driving car to sit in one place car to wear it self out driving around empty. This means that roadside parking and parking lots will be dramatically less useful for their original purpose.
As is propane, but we use that currently with no issues.
Changes in Defense of Cypress Intellectual Property
At city speeds, pollution from tire/brake wear is not a function of speed. It's a function of friction (acceleration/deceleration and vehicle mass), which has no posted limits or camera enforcement. The closest thing would be if a cop happens to hear you burn out and cite reckless driving, but I'm not even talking about that level of acceleration here.
> Take cars for example.

IF K8s were a vehicle, it wouldn't be a car; it would be a multipurpose monster that could be used by some for getting groceries, or configurable into an 18-wheeler for interstate trucking, or as a off-road missile launch platform and somehow also amphibious/submersible. That.... thing will be complex because it has to be able to achieve a variety of tasks.

Also, cars are still complex beasts that have achieved economies of scale (I've had "repairs" where they just replaced an entire assembly instead of fixing a smaller component that was broken). I'm sure there are repair forums were mechanics complain about cars more than HN complains about K8s.

> K8s is a great example of terrible design and half-assed implementation

So where are the superior competitors by the master craftsmen with good taste, then? People willingly choose Kubernetes because the alternatives (third-party, homegrown or manual processes) are worse. Ops, configuration and orchestration management has been steadily getting better over the last few decades, but there is no silver bullet. If you know of one, I'd be happy to try it out and save a lot of money.
I think it was more about security/confidentiality - when you print and scan you exactly see what's that that you're sending. No hidden HTML elements, e-mail headers and stuff like that. And they blacked out some of the stuff I didn't need to see (again, with a permanent marker so hard to do it wrong).
I've been on the other side of this, pre-GDPR.

An interviewee was unhappy with my decision and felt that they hadn't had a fair hearing - and complained.

In this case we had a standard form where we assessed candidates over multiple factors (comms skills, technical skills, etc) - so if they got to see the result they'll have seen evaluations on all of that.

I wasn't very impressed with getting the complaint (the only one out of 100+ interviews) but hopefully GDPR is a more neutral way of getting that sort of feedback these days.
> > I find lkml style patch handling bad as well, particularly with every patchset revision getting its own thread. Very easy to loose track.

> This is a good point, but if it works for the largest open-source software project in the world, I think it could work for Postgres too. I find that being able to reply inline to an email without having to copy-paste huge sections of an attachment is pretty valuable.

I had actually forgotten that issue, having scripted it years and years ago to be automatic. My beef around this is gmail attachment being randomly ordered...
Interesting point. Seems like a point where the law lacks behind technological progress. Though, in any case, most people aren’t aware of the detailed laws and when pressured enough by enough authority - perhaps not quite lawfully - they will give in. So, this seems to me a rather niche case where both sides know and follow the law, which is usually not the case.
I wholeheartedly disagree. After seeing the prices of basics like saline in hospitals, I'm not surprised to learn of inflated prices obfuscated from the general public.
Third place is just where they pour out the beer or vodka. You can't "defund" them - what an American perspective tho.
> I don't find the hypothetical Ruby syntax ["hello","goodbye"].map(&reverse) to be offensive or wildly inconsistent.

This syntax wouldn't work in Ruby, because bare `reverse` is already a method call, not a reference to a method by name. Allowing method calls without parentheses is crucial to Ruby's design, where all objects are fully opaque, and every `obj.attr` looking like a getter, is just a call to an instance method `attr`. (This is, as far as I understand, the opposite to similar languages like Python/JS, where the object is a dictionary of attributes, and `obj.method` reference the attribute of type "method", while `obj.method()` is an invokation.)

This design became a huge drawback in the age of functional(ish) programming, because the simplest way for refer to a method in Ruby is `method(:its_name)` (which is also inefficient, because it creates wrapping object of class Method on the fly, there is no pre-existing first-class object), and any attempt of passing/combining methods would be cumbersome due to it.

FWIW, you can do that in Ruby:

(JSON.method(:parse) >> method(:puts)).call("[1, 2, 3]")

...which is semantically cool, but looks ridiculous.

Another important trait of Ruby's design is that most of the important methods belong to their first argument, so it is not `reverse(string)` but `string.reverse`, so even to obtain a reference to a method, you need to have an object it belongs to! So you can't do that:

method(:>).call(a, b)

...because all operators are called on their first operands, so you need this this:

a.method(:>).call(b)

...which will require to refer to at least a first argument of the operator, so you can't produce "argument-less comparison operation to call later".
A TCP connection is a virtual connection. The two sides of the connection maintain state and use this to turn packets into a stream of data. Since IP doesn't guarantee delivery at all, much less in-order delivery, this requires some work, and maintaining state on both ends.

UDP is a stateless protocol. If you listen on port 12345, you will get every packet that comes in on port 12345. Some packets sent won't make it, others might arrive twice, others might arrive out-of-order.
raspi-firmware is semi-officially maintained. But Raspberry Pi OS also has scripts to set flags on the eeprom like "vcgencmd" and "rpi-eeprom-update"

What I was saying these could be maintained in Debian.
Agreed. My understanding of NN is that more than matrix multiplication, it’s that it’s a general purpose solver. You could write the same thing yourself, it would just take you ages.

So with unlimited budget and time, can you write something complex enough to seem intelligent? I think so. Is what you wrote actually intelligent? No idea, and I think that’s more philosophy than I’m interested in.

General purpose solving functions will only get better with time and already solve more than we can write solvers for by hand. I don’t suspect there’s a limit here, assuming we can keep improving in ways to scale its compute and scale the function goals.
My wife is a vet.

One big issue is that most people don’t have pet insurance. But they do have medical insurance. As a consequence they are completely surprised by the out-of-pocket costs of medical procedures.

Hip surgery (to pick something at random) is hip surgery, even if it’s for a dog. It still costs thousands of dollars. But a significant portion of the population expects to pay what they would pay for insurance-covered human surgery, eg a couple hundred dollars at most. And when they see the bill they accuse the vet of “only being in it for the money” if they won’t significantly discount the price.

Meanwhile, the vet is paying back $150,000 in student loans, same as a human doctor, but only making a third of the pay.
> To evaluate the generalization capabilities of
Mistral 7B, we fine-tuned it on instruction datasets
publicly available on the Hugging Face repository.

Heh, they won't even say what datasets they used for chat finetuning.

> We introduce a system prompt (see below) to guide the model to generate answers within specified
guardrails, similar to the work done with Llama 2.

This was totally undocumented in the initial model release.

Other than that... Not much really new? We already know it uses SWA, though it works without SWA in current llama implementations, and SWA isnt new either.

If most upcoming base models are this mysterious on release, the field is going to be... weird.
Large scale generation of power to support a 100% EV fleet is also an issue. This is why current charging stations are having issues.
Show HN: Logtrees – plant trees IRL and then register them digitally
Hello everyone. I’m here to show you logtrees.com. Plant some trees! If you’re joining me for this nice and crisp Autumn in the United States, or if it’s Spring or early Summer where you are…and if you love trees and want to take your tree planting into the digital realm, please consider taking a look at logtrees. I’m building logtrees.com as a way for people who plant trees to register their trees so they can have a digital representation of their trees. After registering the tree, you can track your care for the tree and participate in global and (upcoming) local leaderboards, metrics, achievements, and a community-wide proof of work page showcasing your work. logtrees is in pre-alpha currently but I’m sharing it now because I’m very interested in feedback of any kind on any aspect of the site.

Stay tuned for a lot more features coming soon, including things to do when it isn’t planting season. This just scratches the surface of the epic roadmap I have prepared for you all. I love trees, I love Earth, and I’m interested in incentivizing fun ways to sequester more co2. Nobody said improving carbon footprints has to be boring, after all. ;D
I have about enough French to read the menu and order properly at a restaurant. Nevertheless these are really obvious to me. I'm not sure why that is, but I suppose it's probably due to having had some exposure to the language at a young age thanks to having some French family.

I feel like anyone with children and the opportunity to do so should try to expose them to as broad a set of phonemes as possible from an early age.
The framing of this story is so weird (and I think meant to trigger conspiracy nuts.)

The story of culdesac is about parking not about banning mobility!

Parking is insanely expensive to build. The only way the city would let them not build parking was for residents to agree to not own cars. (I think this is a clear 14th amendment violation but thats just me.)

Read Henry Garbar's new book for the full story on parking:
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174962751/paved-paradise-exa...
I thought this would be about the config file(s) of VSCode

This is just 4 basic settings, maybe?

1. gitignore .vscode

2. fmt & lint should be set to workspace, not global

3. the terminal is great

4. you might not need gitlens
Datadog APIs use 64 bit ints.

PostgreSQL also doesn't follow your "standard".
> …do the procedure for free but then the owner has to give up the animal.

Why go through the trouble of rehoming the pet when it already has a home that loves it..?
> yes it's over 2kloc for a triangle - that's Vulkan for you

My understanding is that VK_EXT_shader_object should make such examples simpler? https://www.khronos.org/blog/you-can-use-vulkan-without-pipe...
This has been what I've found in testing as well. Zero change in anything. Seems completely non-functional. Even the "random string generation" only outputs the same string over and over.
[dupe]

So many posts about this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37839524

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837053
I agree, 24 hours from first receiving solid, credible, recorded, evidence of an active exploit is pretty reasonable.

24 hours from receiving any random ramblings would not be reasonable.
That's literally what "the kids" call it. You can look that phrase up.
> They used to be called Personnel

Although back in the day I remember them also being referred to as the Anti-Personnel department.
Not Your stdout Bug – RCE in Cosmos SDK
Dropbox is a storage with sync-client, not a file manager (even though it does have a filemanager-view). This app is working on top of storage-services, but it seems not to be like them.
Maybe they were still stuck on Java 1.3 or something traumatising like that.
You'd be surprised how many firms have subscriptions to billing insights, know-your-customer, fraud detection and other similar services. Many of the "AI" companies that are emerging do such things.
maybe it's because people who have access to ketamine tend to be more likely to try ketamine? it's not that surprising that some people will take advantage of access to "free" party drugs.

also, ketamine has been shown to help with depression. could be that people are self-medicating.
So we would have all of a rush hour's worth of cars on the road all the time?
a story in 4 bytes ... that's efficient :P

Applicants for Junior roles should really get some feedback, short-but-sweet, it's a learning processes too.
That one is obvious due to us knowing the hospitals sell to the government and insurers for much less.

As far as I am aware, this does not apply to a veterinary business. The article also says it was $10k for emergency services at a vet hospital, including the aftercare.

What are the labor costs of having highly qualified people, presumably in low supply, on call to provide these services? What are the costs of supplies like medicine, and malpractice insurance (if that applies)?
Even better if you use it to control your smart-home. GaaS-lights!
I'll concede the just asking questions point, that much is true.

GPT4 appears to give more intelligent responses than GPT3. To describe that, though, perhaps we need to migrate to a term that doesn't step on the toes of those who, though not human exceptionalists, rather just feel that (these particular?) machines don't happen to suit measurement in such human domains as intelligence.

Of cause, the ship has sailed and they're fighting a lost cause. There's little reason to dig for new words. It's the I in AI and it has been for longer than many here have been alive.
Harder Drive is truly a masterpiece.

My dream is a swap file on the hardest of drives.
My VPS seems to be accessible again.
The new owner pays for it.
HDMI splitters have been a thing for years.

Apparently they present as a compliant HDMI output to the source device, but they don't require HDCP or similar on the output they're passing it on to.

From there, you're free to do whatever you want with the output.
Also Hyundai, which is Korean.
PS4 emulator/compat layer in FP: https://github.com/red-prig/fpPS4
Hopefully, WebGPU will eat all its competition and we can finally have just one standard moving forward.
In our city of 500k (which is arguably small, but honestly I think it's the perfect size) we never have to look for a spot. There's always free parking available.
Owning a personal car and mobility are different things. You can meet people and hang out with them, without owning a car.
Okay. Here is similar propaganda from an American source https://youtu.be/tI3kkk2JdoI?si=HP0eaph7OnWPPFXB