skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking for something similar as well since the initial SD launch. But I've ended up just using the HN frontpage as that, with good results. Most things end up here, even if not driven by hype, and the discussions that follow usually are "Good Enough" but with quite a bit of off-topic comments.
Thank you for sharing an article supporting my comments. From the article, which outlines the stance of the Department and Minister for Finance:

> Corporation tax growth has been a key support to the exchequer in recent years, though the Department of Finance has consistently said that much of the increase cannot be relied upon as it does not directly relate to economic activity undertaken in Ireland and was thus windfall in nature.

> It warned that the latest figures, which showed a decline greater than officials had anticipated to a monthly corporation tax payment of €1.7 billion, underlined that this source of revenue was potentially subject to " exceptional volatility”.

As stated many times now, the exceptional CT take is seen as a windfall and the State does not rely upon it for current expenditure.

Honestly, I think you've made up your mind that Ireland==bad and no amount of data or critical reasoning will change your mind. May I suggest travel? You will quickly learn that Ireland is not a poor, bad, or corrupt country.

Edit: Okay, having read the parent commenter's replies, they seem to be commenting in bad faith. To anyone reading along, I recommend you read the OP and shared articles.
I follow these on YouTube:

* Matt Wolfe: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow

* MattVidPro AI: https://www.youtube.com/@MattVidPro

* Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers

* Dr Alan D. Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/@DrAlanDThompson

* Curious Refuge: https://www.youtube.com/@curiousrefuge
>The human model isn’t just trained in language though, it’s trained on the world.

It's not trained on "the world". It's trained on a small slice of it, a few senses that are themselves slimmed down and then fabricated at parts.

To the bird that can feel and sense electromagnetic waves intuitively to guide travels, you're not trained on "the world"

>This is why they are so prone to hallucination.

No it's not. LLMs can distinguish between truth and hallucination. They just don't care to communicate that.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824
Understanding now hardware is used is very beneficial for programmers

Lost of programmers started with an understanding of what happens physically on the hardware when code runs and it is unfair advantage when debugging at times
I would add that for noscript/basic (x)html version of web sites, 2D "semantic" HTML documents are not harmful, and table navigation is ok for screen readers if not done too weirdly.

Of course, I am not talking about the abomination of "semantic web" we had a decade ago.
They are called VIPs, not whales, in sports-betting world

I worked with it for a while and if I was in a position to leave that industry I would have done it sooner. But I do have to say that at least the sports betting companies I worked on they did try their hardest to follow the law as much as possible.

One thing I have to say is that it is abhorrent that betting websites are allowed to advertise at all. It should be threated the same as smoking ads regulations.
The times I've seen more complex testing set-ups that use actions is normally some combination of:
1. Testing involves some kind of complex environment
2. IT infrastructure in some corporations makes setting up that environment impossible.

I worked once in a role where I had to write a library aimed for working with spark, but getting spark (i.e. java etc) installed on my machine involved weeks worth of requests and escalations to IT.

A lot of libraries (I'm thinking of adlfs as a good example which interacts with azure data lake file systrmd) have to have relatively complex testing involving docker by nature of what they are.

None if those points make "put in a PR to run tests" a good or justifiable workflow. But I understand how people wind up falling into that trap.
Wait until you hear about frankenmodels. You rip parts of one model (often attention heads) and transplant them in another and somehow that produces coherent results! Witchcraft

https://huggingface.co/chargoddard
That's a good one, and in a similar vein there's https://paperswithcode.com/ from facebook/meta that tracks papers and their accompanying github repos, along with their benchmark results.
No idea what it looked like in 2006 (what domain did they use before ia.net?), but here’s it in 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20170322053052/https://ia.net/to.... No ridiculously large text, no gratuitous/injudicious hero image (inappropriately chosen automatically for legacy content and not reviewed or excluded), no gross inflation of low-size images (“mobile-first”), just basic sensible design. It’s the usual, a redesign/reimplementation that meshes poorly with existing content (… and honestly probably new content too, just not so badly). I bet it’s been through at least four redesigns since it was written. And there’s no way the text would have been anywhere near that big in 2006.
There won't be a repeat. WASM is a clearly better compilation target than JS, and browsers have greatly improved the "vanilla" DX.

TypeScript ecosystem is the Enterprise Java of this decade, except it's built on shakier foundations, i.e. you can run some ancient JVM, but good luck relying on an ancient browser version & node dependencies. There will probably still be tons of job-security in the next couple decades, but it's not forward-looking technologically.
AMD Comes Roaring Back, Gains Market Share in Laptops, PCs and Server CPUs
That sounds quite sad.
What If We Don't Pop the Stack? The Return of 2nd-Class Values [pdf]
> If you have a credit card and then suddenly made redundant then what?

If you don't have credit card and then suddenly made redundant then what?

The type of card you have or not have in your wallet is irrelevant in this scenario, the problem with unemployment is the lack of income.

> At least with debit it's real time and that if you need that extra in a pinch, setup an overdraft.

That is the worst advice ever. Overdraft fees are far worse then credit card interest. Why punish yourself like that?
Remember, the very best conditions of Mars will always be far worst than the worst conditions ever present on Earth. Mars is _incredibly_ inhospitable; even a nuclear wasteland Earth is easier to live on than Mars.

Second, a permanent Mars colony will always be dependent on the Earth for regular resupply. If Earth were to become toast, so would the colonies on Mars.

This person gets into it in more detail: https://www.quora.com/How-would-we-be-able-to-live-on-Mars?n...

Further, stating that the most salient problem for us to solve now with technology is a problem that will occur 5 billion years from now - strikes me as hubris. That _we_ must be the ones to save the Earth, as if we will have failed unless _we_ are the super heroes that save humanity for all of time.

Meanwhile, the Earth is a giant garden. Given our focuses, I don't think future generations will think of us as heroes. I don't think future generations will think of us too kindly at all.
iPhone has a global market share of about 20%, and only a small majority market share in ‘premium smartphones’ in the US.

Nobody is forcing you to use an iPhone, billions do fine with the alternatives.

Apple does not have a dominant market position, an oligopoly or a monopoly and certainly is not illegally abusing any monopoly power.
I like the spirit of the article.

My personal preference is server side templating using as much default HTML as possible with JS as progressive enhancement (using HTMX or something similar).
Yes, I remember when Microsoft FrontPage was the go to wysiwyg editor for web development along with Dreamweaver most styles were added inline.

At some point wysiwyg editors fell out of favor as they generated both unmaintainable styles and markup.

Style sheets took hold and the insanity that was inline styles were dropped in favor of external style sheets.

Today we have tailwinds.css and inline styles are coming back in vogue.

Wysiwyg editors are coming back in the form of code generators that convert designs into react components.

This author is even a proponent of inline event handlers which were the standard way of doing things before JavaScript really became a powerful language and added "addEventlistener".

Flat circle repeated over and over again.

Part of me wonders if these authors are just too young to remember those days. Otherwise why wouldn't they mention the historical context when writing these kind of articles?

It's funny when younger people espouse these new ideas as new and revolutionary when really they are a return to older patterns that fell out of style for whatever reason and are now being resold with different packaging.
> Meanwhile there is no real problem with doing a one-time account creation with your bank or social security administration in person for the few things that actually need it.

How the fuck would you know? I live in a country where I don't speak the local language and on an island in the Adriatic sea. Dealing with banks and government online is a godsend. I use Google translate. I don't even have to get out of bed.
I think things are pretty good with nixos-anywhere[1] now. I made a video last month walking through the process of provisioning a VPS on Hetzner Cloud[2] if you want to see what the process looks like in real-time.

[1]:https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr22CyoyRo4
> come to the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) on Wednesdays or Saturdays for demos of the IBM 1401 and the opportunity to punch your own cards

My wife and I went to the museum yesterday and indeed got to punch our own cards! It was a super cool experience, thanks for recommending it!
lcm-lora-sdv1-5 is 67.5M, lcm-lora-sdxl is 197M, so they are much smaller than the entire model, would be cool to check the rank used with these LoRAs tho
That's the way countries should behave generally.
it seems so... Should take this article's statements with a grain of salt.
> You do it once in your life.

This discussion is about the EU, a region well known for mobility. People commonly have to do this more than once, whether they are moving to another country or only registering a business there. In-person visits to offices in other EU countries can, besides the usual hassles of waiting in queues, involve annoyances of unfamiliar language or culture.

All this stuff already exists at the national level, and ordinary people have overwhelmingly found it convenient and time-saving. This legislation simply ensures that it works EU-wide so that it can solve the inconveniences that arise at that level.
Yes but: Winner-takes-all is something like a natural law. Society will always need active pro-competition anti-monopoly counter measures to nuture and protect open markets. (Acknowledging that some chartered monoplies are suitable for closed markets providing public goods, eg electricity, healthcare, water.)

Also, I'm fine with windfall taxes in the form of repeated radical cashectomies. I think it's fantastic that Apple, Tesla, Amazon, others, have amazing margins. Woot. Such achievements should be acknowledged and praised. Right before society claws back its share. Basically a return to the post-WWII boom times where teracorps can either spend it (eg wages, investment, research) or lose it.
It would definitely complicate mental math for most people.
Mobile browsers do all kinds of special tricks that you need to manually disable. text-size-adjust is one of those properties that was added long after browsers artificially resized fonts to be larger than specified by CSS (and is still considered experimental from a standards point of view).

I wouldn't trust websites to apply my phone's font size the same way browsers do. Websites that do override the zoom factor often end up with huge fonts on my phone because I have the font size turned down (what's the point of a 6" slab of glass if you scale up the text so you get the same amount of information as on a 3" screen?).

The more power you give to CSS, the more power you give designers like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68936634/how-to-ignore-t...
Agree to disagree. Building a React frontend is extremely complicated compared to server rendering HTML with progressive enhancement. It introduces state management to the frontend for even the most basic tasks, which is not something most web applications benefit from. When I built my CI/CD platform (Beaker Studio), the React portion probably added a solid 50% extra time to the project and really did nothing for it functionally.
> Most developers are not AI developers

I remember how I joined a startup after working for a traditional embedded shop and a colleague made (friendly) fun of me for not knowing how to use curl to post a JSON request. I learned a lot since then about backend, frontend and infrastructure despite still being an embedded developer. It seems likely that people all around the industry will be in a similar position when it comes to AI in the next years.
IAMF Royalty-Free Container Specification for Immersive Spatial Audio
> If a developer who has familiarity with HTML but not with your backend framework looks through your view files, they should still be able to understand 90%+ of what they see

I don't see why this is beneficial

"<button onclick="this.classList.add('bg-green')">
Click Me
</button>"

I don't like this at all
I think it was decent but it could have been a single episode or at least a 90 minute movie length doc. I felt like they were stretching for it to fill 4 episodes.
johnsonjo's post was fine. It's perfectly ok for users to remind each other of the HN guidelines, as long as they do so respectfully.

The parent comment didn't make any insinuations about astroturfing etc., so it didn't break the guideline you quoted. The phrase "if you're worried about abuse" is scoped to that form of abuse—we don't want users accusing each other of being shills and whatnot, but if people are worried that actual astroturfing or shillage is going on, they're welcome to email and we'll be happy to take a look.

I hope that is clear!
lol no

If you think it's the same as using SO, I don't think you have used LLMs enough. For example, I have countless times just dumped errors from my terminal into GPT-4 and it gave me steps to resolve the issues. A number of times, Googling the same issues didn't provide any answers.

Can "copy/paste from stackoverflow" fix and update config files you paste into it? No.

Can it explain to you the changes it made and answer your specific questions about said changes immediately? No.

Can it give you all options for libraries in your language that do x, tell you the pros and cons, relating them to your use-case, and integrate said library into a code snippet you provide? No.

Right now, GPT-4 is tutoring me in Haskell, Elasticsearch, and AWS. Can "copy/paste from stackoverflow" do that? No.
It looks basically like that here, but can't you just scroll down? Especially with a vertical screen it seems like a fairly minor issue
Costco was selling them (still!): https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=ssd

Is Costco completely unaware of these massive issues?
Apple and Google are totally fine with gambling just as long as it's not regulated.
Ultra-bright means higher burn-in risk, or am I wrong on this one?

Edit: thanks for clarifying
The trick is to ditch the glue gun - cut off a piece of glue stick, place it where you need it and hit it with the hot-air
And society added a ton of value to Apple.
This is nuts. I did a double take at this comment - I thought you must have been talking about LoRAing a LCM distilled from Stable Diffusion.

LCMs are spooky black magic, I have no intuitions about them.
Using words like "remotely not the hard part" that is just not true man. There doesn't exist hardware that can do inference with even close to as low as the 100 watts Tesla uses. Also it is not just to drive FSD, it is to provide data, to detect situations of from where to send data as they can't just stream everything to base (check the Autonomy day talk, it's quite interesting), which is needed for the development of the software which we agree is an extremely hard problem.

To further demonstrate this, consider the fact that in the current AI landscape, hardware is actually the bottleneck. Everyone is trying to buy more GPU's NVIDIA simply can't supply fast enough. If Tesla still relied on NVIDIA for the in-car processing, the project would have to be shelved as they'd have to sell Teslas without the hardware, instead of just having it all cars even if they will never use it for running FSD directly on that car.
>somehow that produces coherent results

with or without finetuning? Also is there a practical motivation for creating them?
I've been trying to encourage people to give NixOS in VMs a try as a safe way to build up a nice working environment while still maintaining your daily driver until you're interested in/ready to switch. I have a starter template for NixOS on WSL[1] with an accompanying walkthrough[2] if you want to get an idea of how much effort this might require on your part.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-wsl-starter

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRXXYxq8k4
Building a language and a framework on top of wasm is just another abstraction.

Ironically you mention the jvm which further proves the existence of the flat circle.

We've done it before... We will do it again.
Blissful ignorance imho.
He literally went in front of CNBC and told the interviewer he owned JP Morgan because Berkshire owned Wells Fargo. And yet, he owned Fargo.

We don't even know if there were more instances, because only sales are reported, but not buys.
It doesn't. Once you're required to give your name, there will be political pressure to create a process for associating the name with whatever you did in the event that you did something "bad" and then tracking infrastructure will be tacked on regardless of whether it was in the original system.

Meanwhile the more convenient it is, the more websites will use it, but there are people who won't risk giving their name because they're a persecuted minority. So they get excluded from spaces they can currently exist unless they put their lives at risk by hoping that the security of the system holds even though it was designed by committee and implemented by the lowest bidder. It's still tracking even if you're not supposed to store the information, when there is no way for the client to verify that.
No this does not apply to any economic transaction.

With a CC, anything you spend is turned into debt first, and the CC companies often position their products in a way that encourages accumulating more debt than you can realistically pay off.

Actual payment, in the sense that you are being charged for the thing/service you bought, is delayed.

For people who actually have to pay attention to stay on a monthly budget, for example because they are not overly wealthy, this is a danger.

Sure I am ready to admit that money equals debt in the end. But that does not change anything about the difference between immediate spending of money and taking up debt to spend money.
> Buying skins in a game is the same thing as buying fashionable/brand-name clothes. Gambling is different.

It’s not a good fit either: A game company can terminate your account and you lose it all.

Depending on the game, but in some you also cannot resell or transfer your skins. Therefore the only thing of value is the account, but terms of service also make this a non-starter.

What’s consistent here is that the business model revolves around feeding and addiction and relying in said addicts (aka, whales).
Oberon is much more a language/library/IDE/operating system, like a Pascal-flavored Lisp machine. This is a bit like saying "Emacs Lisp is great but what I really want is a language server for it so I can write it in VS Code."
Overwatch and almost all modern games moved past the lootbox mechanic because that was getting too close to many countries gambling laws.

Now you just buy what you want.

Like you go into a store and buy a Gucci wallet. You go into the Overwatch store and buy the latest One Piece Collab.

No slot machine or anything.
How about forum software that enforces that top-level comments must be at least 500 characters, and replies need to be at least 140 characters? Also, enforce a max thread depth of 7. Anything past that is usually bickering.
> When I, like many other computer programmers, tell my friends who don’t write code that “it’s a miracle that modern technology even works”, Nix is one of those things that I’m referring to.

Interesting. Since I've started using Nix for managing my environment & projects, it's the only thing that I'm confident will work. I have no idea how the RPM & DEB ecosystems, among others, work when random dependency breakage can happen all the time. This is extra true when building Docker images whose Dockerfile's second line is almost always `apt-get update && apt-get install [list-of-packages]`. I've had so many problems with that process over the years that I've wondered how anything worked at all. Nix was like some heavenly realm where I could be 99.9% confident the build would work every time.
Nukes have the potential to be any-fuel reactors. Superheat your working fluid and throw it out the back. Fluids can be anything, within reason. Perfectly reasonable engine design for in-situ exploratory contexts.
> but that's not where tombstoning happens

yeah I know, unless the board gets so hot it unsolders itself, which is very very doubtful (and definitely a fault of its own).

I thought it was more of a stability problem though. Nothing a good backup should cover, and the device should be fine after soldering the component.
The most charitable way I can read their statement is that the resistors are too large for the pad, and along with poor solder material it forms a weak joint which breaks over time.

I have a hard time accepting that because there is not a lot of heat on that line nor is there a lot of physical stress, like constant vibration on SSDs.
https://aisupremacy.substack.com/
https://www.latent.space/
https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
https://cameronrwolfe.substack.com/
https://finbarrtimbers.substack.com/
I can't speak for the others but Two Minute Papers' general format oozes hype. I realize that he tends to recap on exciting topics, but he also sometimes "falls for" research that won't actually pan out for practical reasons. He also tends to cover things in an intensely over-optimistic way ("WOW! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE" on literally every video...) that would have you think every single subject is an absolute major breakthrough when the reality is that many of them simply produced cool-looking demos that look good in a youtube thumbnail.

Sorry if that's too harsh. The channel isn't all bad. The title of the channel is up front about being a quick synopsis that you can watch from time to time to keep up with the latest updates. That's still useful for many people. But it probably won't work as a good _filter_ for what will and will not be quickly forgotten.

In fairness (again), that's a _very_ difficult challenge to solve. It is however the premise of the Ask HN.
Costco is actually a decent org, and if anyone knew they were selling this time-bomb garbage, they would stop it, as they will warranty stuff for YEARS, just to be a somewhat decent company in a time of pirates.