skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far out of your way depending on where you live, sure, but not necessarily pay a lot of money.

Like I got to see the Milky Way up in the Porcupine Mountains a couple of years ago in Northern Michigan, off the shore of Lake Superior, while my wife was hunting for Yooperlites (rocks that glow under a UV light) on the beach late at night. Other than an 8 hour drive's worth of gas and a fairly inexpensive AirBnb it didn't cost anything extra to see it.

And you can always move to one of these places, too, and see it all the time. Solidly middle class homes up there can be had for about $200k in small towns/cities, then you only need to drive about 15 minutes to get out of town to see it.

And if you're in the western US, it looks like there's a lot more options. Much darker in general out there outside the major cities.

I do miss when you could see these things just outside of town in Illinois though. Used to drive just a bit outside of town and park on the side of a rural road and just look up and see it, when I was a kid/teen. There's almost no place in Illinois where you can see the Milky Way nowadays (and where I live now it's gray-white on the map, so I only see a few pin points in the sky right now, it's terrible).
How did you even get started with this? There are many systems I'd love to learn to implement from scratch like databases, network stacks, and caches, but the task seems so vast and daunting that it's hard to get started. Learning from existing codebases is also difficult b/c there's so much code to go over and understand. Can you elaborate on what your process was to build this without any help?
Absolutely! VMWare Fusion supports Apple Silicon (as do several other VM software, like Parallels.
"Fringe" and "fastest-growing" are in no way contradictory, quite the reverse.
X10 (Industry Standard)
Sending data through power lines. I'm surprised that I hadn't heard about this before today
And more specifically, torches (plural). A single torch would be "flambeau"
Was it all but dead because people thought h264 was good enough, until 2.5 and 4k became more prominent in media consumption? It seems really useful if youre doing encoding at resolutions than 1080p, and it makes me less regretful that I have a bunch of recent hardware that didn’t get av1 hardware support :)
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on improving consistency and precise instruction following in followups.
An OLED would actively put me off buying it for now, I think. Laptop screens are expected to keep operating a very long time; it seems likely that burn-in would shorten the product lifetime a lot.

My current personal laptop is a 2016 13" Pro, and it's basically _fine_. People keep laptops for quite a long time now; I don't think OLED is there on durability.
"GPU encoders" don't use the GPU themselves (shader cores), they use another tiny CPU attached to the GPU. GPGPU does not really help with compression much.
If we get to WWIII, investors are trading cans of food, not stocks. Wall Street will be a crater.
Surely, this can't be true. For most of human history, children may have learned to do whatever their parents did behaviorally or vocationally, whether that be to become a forager, farmer, peasant, nobility, whatever, but almost nobody ever received any kind of general-purpose, primarily academic education, and whatever they learned, they learned by following their parents around and doing it, not by structured, formal curricula.

I'm sure homeschooling can work out fine, but that is hardly assured by simply being inline with historical tradition. If you go to war with broadswords and spears, you're going to lose. If you insist on living without indoor plumbing or refrigerated food storage, you're likely going to have your kids taken away, and rightfully so, in spite of the fact humans lived that way by default longer than not.
The web is getting faster, yes. This manifests as a constant (albeit slow) downward trend in global aggregate metrics. We think this trend is mostly due to Google pushing performance metrics being linked to search rankings.

However the data presented in this post shows obvious step changes in performance that correlate with browser version rollout. It would be disingenuous not to attribute this to a concerted effort on performance improvements from the Firefox team.
It's so fast ... and accurate.
This is my thing, like what right does a public school have to regulate when I can and won't send my kids to school? If I decide to take a trip abroad for a month, that's on me... why do i have to worry about truancy court and CPS breathing down my neck?
Sounds like regular schools or private boarding schools.

Schools are a tool to teach people at scale. Tools can be used well or poorly and for various end goals.
You’re thinking of WIPO, perhaps? IIUC, they can’t interfere in the affairs of a ccTLD registry unless invited to do so. So if the Colombian authorities says you lose your domain to some local Colombian outfit, then you lose.
Chips at that level are often pretty simple. For fun I something build out circuits with 74xx or 54xx that are about this complex on a breadboard and drive them with an Arduino.
The widespread replacement of chalkboards with whiteboards has been the replacement of a good technology by a much worse one. It's terrible.
Show HN: FWD Audio – Listen to longform you don't have time to read
> Ml model is basically a highly lossy compressed data format
This is a pretty incendiary statement for those opposed to generative models, but more important its not a good interpretation because the intent is not to store a compressed format for restoring the same image, nor can it.
> lawmakers there began with a presumption of basic good faith on the part of business which turned out to be lamentably lacking in the international market

Did they learn their lesson? Because that was an incredibly foolish assumption out of the starting gate; from old-guard developers and companies' points of view, they were stomping into a sandbox they hadn't built and upsetting the status quo that was working; of course malicious compliance should have been anticipated.
This is awesome. Are you planning to open-source the V7 model?
Product managers have no idea these threads exist and leadership doesn't care.
As someone who owns a .de domain (for random reasons) and has never even been to Germany, I would argue "reasonably sure" should be more like "hopeful" ...
Do you scale to zero for the resume achievement or to actually save money?
When to Nest CSS
Show HN: Building ElectionGPT, a RAG powered chatbot grounded on candidate data
Disclaimer: I am the co-founder of Neum AI, a data processing platform for vector embedding generation and data retrieval for RAG.

With the upcoming elections 2024 coming up, we wanted to build a chatbot to allow people to interact with presidential candidates. We wanted the chatbot to be as authentic and unbiased as possible regarding each candidates' perspectives. To do this, we based each candidates KB on their own generated information including tweets, website and government plan. We then sprinkled in generally considered unbiased sources like Wikipedia and Ballotpedia that provide additional context. (Some re-ranking being done in the backend to favor candidate generated data sources) We leveraged our core platform (Neum AI) to consolidate the data into individual indexes for each candidate. These indexes are refreshed daily to pull in any new information. (Ex. latest tweets)

You can access the open-source project for the chatbot here: https://github.com/NeumTry/electiongpt-frontend
True, but this works in reverse too.

Much harder to get the initial, small scale version of a cycler-based transit system established. But then, because you don't have an atmosphere or ocean or particularly noticeable gravity, scaling it up it probably much, much easier than doing so for ocean-going vessels and the like.
> Apple Silicon was great because Apple had invested huge amounts of resources for a decade on smartphone processors first, not because they had some kind of geniuses on the project.

Right, and the guys who learned all the hard-won lessons along the way walked out the door to start a company, bringing along expert knowledge of Apple's designs and processes. And then Qualcomm bought them.

So on a surface level it seems implausible that QC could produce such a chip. But when you zoom out and go "oh, Qualcomm effectively bought Apple's senior chip engineers" it starts to make more sense.

It would be like if Qualcomm's top modem engineers started a company, which Apple bought. And then a couple years later Apple's long-running modem project mysteriously turned a corner and was ready to launch an exceptional modem. Like yeah, no kidding.

So yes, we need to see independent benchmarks and make sure it's not hype. But it's not so unbelievable that Apple's former top engineers could also produce a good a chip for another company. There's nothing magical about the Apple office--it's the engineers.
> We can achieve up to 100 tokens per second single-stream while GPT-4 runs around 20 tokens per second at best.

Is that with batching? If so, thats quite impressive.

> certain challenging questions where it is capable of getting the right answer, the Phind Model might take more generations to get to the right answer than GPT-4.

Some of this is sampler tuning. Y'all should look at grammar based sampling (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773) if you aren't using it already, as well as some of the "dynamic" sampling like mirostat and dynatemp: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/pull/464

I think these should work with nvidia's implementation if you just swap the sampling out with the HF version.

BTW, all this is a great advantage of pulling away from OpenAI. You can dig in and implement experimental features that you just can't necessarily do through their API.
Why does everything have to be binary these days? We aren't machines. The world is messy and so are we humans. Removing nuance from conversations and ideas does not help anything. The scenario you laid out, continued, leaves no person with privacy anywhere. I specifically don't want to explain because I specifically want more people thinking and thinking hard. To specifically attempt to break from their way of thinking and try to see things from a different point of view. This is important especially when there is disagreement. You don't have to be convinced by my arguments, but you certainly do have to understand them. There definitely isn't enough of that happening these days. Our interconnectedness has only made the world more complicated, not more simple. It has made communication more difficult too, as we talk with many who have far larger differences in priors than we would were we constrained to in person communication.

As for consent, you may disagree, but that's how our entire legal framework works, and I for one am happy about this. Consent is the foundation of any democracy. A world without consent isn't figuratively tyranny, it is literally tyranny. Agree or not, the law does not give you the right to use any information (words spoken, pictures taken, bits, or whatever) that is publicly available/viewable in whatever way you want. There are rules. It is why Taylor Swift can't even post a picture of herself on Instagram and why you can't follow someone around all day taking pictures of them (aka. stalking). There are limitations because we live in a society and I for one think this is a good thing.

Yes, you are right when posting something public that people shouldn't limits on use for only what the poster explicitly intended. But that freedom is neither unlimited. That's the point I'm making. The line of public and private is getting blurrier by the day. These laws are always made by that of a reasonable expectation. Certainly no one that posted on Facebook 10 years ago had a reasonable expectation that their post would be used to train an LLM.
The Wii U had a handful of good exclusive games (now mostly ported to Switch) but I think people lately have felt obligated to look back on it with rose-tinted shades because it flopped so hard.

The reality is the gimmick of the console wasn't very intuitive/practical (jumping focus between controller tablet and screen isn't fun once the novelty has worn off) and also the OS absolutely crippled the console. It was SO SLOW to do anything. It was also pretty lacking in a lot of hardware areas. The build quality was lacklustre (the Pro controller was so cheap compared to the Switch's), and the memory was so limited that if you hit the home button in Breath of the Wild, when you closed it out the game would have to spin for a few seconds to load the game back into memory.
What's the data on pluralistic societies and trust? Does having a mish-mash of different ethnicities, value systems, and political outlooks tend to make for a low-trust society?
"flambeur" means someone who sets things on fire. Either literally, as in this case, or metaphorically, as in money.
How I smash burgers
It is pretty expensive an bulky compared to Zigbee or ZWave smart plugs and lights (think Phillips Hue)
Node support - sweet!!
Is there any way to interact with the data as it comes in real-time?
That's outside of scope. Most programs should fail when faced with situations outside their purview.
Auto Loans, Student Loans, training, certification, internships, moving costs, and other small costs like special clothing are all investments made by employees to be paid for before or during hiring. In addition, many businesses require employees to buy tools and special equipment like boots and safety vests.
Thanks! We generally plan to open-source our previous models once they're no longer cutting-edge, so yep :)
Even AVC had film grain emulation in the spec. Nobody implemented it though.
previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037284
My rant is directed at the entrepreneurs and companies who scoff at paying their fair share to employees and the state while demanding all the benefits of living and operating in the great state of California. Getting these politically powerful NIMBYs out of the state would do a disproportionate amount of good.

The reality is that California is so economically powerful that any corporation that leaves is almost certainly going to have to register as a foreign business and pay the franchise tax on all revenue earned in California anyway (the minimum cutoff is $500k or 25% of total revenue, whichever is lowest). The employees who stay in California are still going to pay income tax which makes up the bulk of state revenues. Everyone is still going to be paying sales tax on goods purchased from California vendors, the largest source after income tax.

Corporate taxes contribute less than 15% of California's budget so it's a reverse catch 22: either they're so small that the threats to leave are empty (DO IT!), or they're so big that they can't afford not to pay California taxes regardless of where they are. Like I said, either way the FTB will get the bulk of its cut.
Let's establish the most remote colony without studying how the most powerful colonizing entity treated its possessions! Honestly, I can't really think of a more awful take.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, on hopes and fears for future of AI
CSS Font Stack: Web Safe and Web Font Family with HTML and CSS Code
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is the executive branch department tasked with enforcing sanctions.
There's no mandate banners be used in the same sense that there's no "requirement" bungee jumping companies have you sign a waiver; they could just make the experience inherently safer, right?

The banners were an extremely predictable outcome of a badly-crafted law.
I've seen that on Youtube. Pretty cool to have seen it live.
It's important to note that Cookie banners and GDPR are separate things and that these pop-ups are covering both purposes in a lot of cases. So even with a DNT flag, many sites will still need explicit, advance permission to process data, and cookies will still be a method for technical enablement.

In an ideal world, respecting DNT would instantly bin 95% of the cookies and data processing requests, but I'm still getting automatic (and permissionless) marketing subscriptions from companies when I make purchases, and the British ICO seems unwilling to intervene, so it seems unlikely that DNT being case law is going to have any quick effect on things.
I wonder if one can run GNU/Linux like PureOS on the respective devices.
Well the first paragraph of the article clearly states they disappeared somewhere within a 1 hour window, so a Dyson sphere being constructed in less than 1 hour isn't really a possibility.
Will you be offering the model as an API service? The product my team is working on would benefit from a significantly faster and possibly better performing model than GPT-4. If you're planning on keeping pace with competitive models we'd love to integrate the use of your model into our service.
Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
There's always this pretense that other people should have some say whatsoever in how another person chooses to educate their child. As if what people decided 100+ years ago should exist in perpetuity.

What does a public high school diploma afford one these days? The opportunity to work manual labor or retail jobs for starvation wages, and the opportunity to attend more school that costs money for jobs that pay marginally more for most people.

It's wasted time and resources for the vast majority of people. Could you imagine trying to train children to become elite athletes? As if everyone is going to play on a collegiate sports team, so we just spend 8+ hours per day doing athletic training? Even though most will never achieve success in collegiate or professional sports? Well, at least kids wouldn't be obese in that scenario, which is likely going to pay more dividends than teaching an average-iq person calculus.
You use the metric to the measure the distance. the Euclidian metric is the standard sum of squares.

for any pair of points P you can construct a pair of spheres centered on P1 and P2 and take the intersection to find points on the line.
How real-time is it? Just app or API?
Tax updates for apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions
GDP is a poor measure of a country’s prosperity or standard of living.

Based on GDP numbers Italy is barely ahead of Mississippi, even though spending 10 minutes in both will make it readily apparent that one is miles ahead in terms of prosperity than the other.
I have a set of cousins that were all home schooled. Most of them went to ivy league schools, a couple own very successful businesses. I went to public school and haven't done too poorly. The most important thing is that your parents give a shit and can prioritize their children's well being.
> Has the CPU industry really managed to pull off it's attempt at a bs coup that more cores always === better?

I thought this at first then I realized the cost-performance benefit gained from adding more cores often outweighs just improving the performance of single cores. Even in gaming. I think this is what led AMD to create their Ryzen 9 line of CPUs with 12 cores in 2019.

That being said, I abhor the deceptive marketing which says 50% more performance when in reality, it's at most 50% more performance specifically on perfectly parallel tasks which is not the general performance that the consumer expects.
Is this supposed to be sarcastic, because this is impossible and you're arguing a strawman. You could also say electricity enabled this great inequality, we have got to stop electricity.
Since you brought up Dani Dortiz, he is a "magician's magician." And if you want to learn what he does and how he does it, he is an open book. A true gem of a human being and someone we all look up to in the magic community. He really values sharing knowledge and teaching.

Fair warning, his way of performing and executing his routines is not easy to learn and master. There is no "one single" method that explains an entire routine of his. He stacks methods, as all good magicians do. There are layers and layers misdirection, getting one or two moves ahead of the audience at every stage, using applied psychology with a fair share of sleight of hand in between. That's why what he does seems so freakin' impossible.

But he is very open about teaching it all.

So if you (or anyone) genuinely wants to understand how that routine works, he published it. You can buy it here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/card-magic/dani-daortiz-fo...

Again, not beginner stuff. But his books and videos are so great for taking card magic to the next level. He was a student of Juan Tamariz, who is another one of the greatest card magicians of all time ... and who also published so much on magic theory and applied psychology and is an open book when it comes to teaching new magicians.
So you are spamming your "anti-spam" solution? I'm sure you'll sell your userData for a few bucks too.
Synthetic benchmarks or tests. For example, improving performance of an empty loop is useful for starting somewhere [1], but does not show how fast the browser is on a real page with complex JavaScript such as a vue/react component used to render a tree-based select control with searchable items.

[1] E.g. creating the new jitter for Ladybird.
Scientists demonstrate room temperature polariton manipulation
Great point.

We need a "so-and-so's law" type name for this, even though it's obvious when you think about it.
Will you open source anything newer than the v2 currently on HF?
What is the origin of the high/low trust society theory? It seems to be quoted as fact when talking about places with low crime like Finland and Japan, but I’m not sure what its empirical basis is. Even the Wikipedia entry is low on quality citations.
My M1 Pro can do damn near two workdays on one charge as long as I'm not doing shit in Docker.

The Lenovo Thinkpad I was also issued loses like 40% of its charge overnight, while "sleeping"....
Pretty big jump for java eval, what is the reason for java being so notoriously difficult for LLMs? never mind I asked phind[1] and it said all the complexity... but do you have any tips or tricks for working with that language in your model?

[1] https://www.phind.com/search?cache=u3mnj3iwmjvgqlyf60bnbqo1
If you live in the northeast of the US, Medawisla is a fantastic "dark sky park" located in Maine. Unforgettable experience, highest possible reccomendation.
Interesting thread! This got me curious about the .ai TLD, and the difference with .io, is that Anguilla Island are actually receiving the profit from every domain sold. And it accounts for a large part of their revenue, around $3 million according to Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai
Apart from cheating with nootropics, I start small and build momentum.
Do Not Use Requirements.txt
If we get enough demand that's definitely something we'll consider. We're still a small team, however, and we do everything in our power to not get distracted from our main mission.
Interference absolutely does matter. Interference manifests itself in the form of a foreign accent, which most people have when they speak a second language. You're making an extraordinary claim, namely that you're able to speak a second language without a foreign accent. I find your claim extremely unlikely to be true, especially since you provide no evidence and you've shown that you know very little about language acquisition.
CEO Mitchell Baker is even less involved with Firefox's direction than you imagine, which is probably a good thing. She's too busy playing TED Talk diplomat.