skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the all the critiques that is very valuable feedback.

wrt choosing Wordpress - it certainly does have a lot of drawbacks like you mention, our reasons for going with it:

1. There are about 10 web designers in our town, they all use Wordpres...Wordpress runs just about every small -= medium site in South Africa, so if I fall under a bus theres someone to pick up the (website) pieces

2. We had a very broad set of requirements - event ticketing with seating plans, accommodation booking with calendars, payment processing, members directory with subscription and free options. Since this was very much an 'after-hours' project we needed fairly plug-and-play functionality.

3. Low budget for hosting - this site needed to run on a shared server that already had PHP / MySQL

But thanks again for the tips, I will review them with the team and I'm sure we can get most sorted! (the broken links were Wordpress permalinks misbehaving...oops)

Regarding speed - we have done a fair bit of optimizing Litespeed cache and reducing the unnecessary scripts that get loaded but yea its still slower than we would like. Also since we are not using a CDN, if you are far from South Africa latency will be a big issue.

All the best & greetings from Greyton!
Why is this newsworthy? Children usually are the executors and main recipients of living wills and wills at death.

I think Warren’s 2006 pledge, to give away most of his fortunes is a lofty goal. There are plenty of good causes that need cash.
Are you absolutely sure this is not a dream?

One trick a psychologist mentioned is having a notepad near the bed and writing in it when it happens.
'I guess I'll never see you again': how I learned to appreciate last moments
> Set temperature to 0, and the LLM will talk in circles and not really say anything interesting. Set it too high and it will output nonsense.

Sounds like some people I know, at both extremes.

> The whole design of LLMs don’t seem very well thought out. Things are done a certain way not because it makes sense but because it seems to produce “impressive” results.

They have been designed and trained to solve natural language processing tasks, and are already outperforming humans on many of those tasks. The transformer architecture is extremely well thought out, based on extensive R&D. The attention mechanism is a brilliant design. Can you explain exactly which part of the transformer architecture is poorly designed?
I hope so, but last time we still need human workers. Is this our best project that maybe people will do benevolent thing when enough people's life becoming terrible?

hope everything can getting better.
Que Firefox breaking on 16K paged systems.
The Revival of Medley/Interlisp
Providing a sense of pride and accomplishment
yes, a 20 minute drive to an adjacency, we're talking a handful of miles. Beverly Hills to West Hollywood, they are cheek by jowl, and an exhausting drive apart, and so on for every adjacency.
I very much do care if my phone understands my questions accurately when I ask them, and doesn't return irrelevant results, though. Nobody says "yeah Siri is crap, but have you seen that power usage?!".
I’ll start with a disclaimer that I don’t know for sure (no one really does) what the difference between solving programming problems and solving pure mathematics problems is (and certainly if you stretch the domains you can emulate each within the other, thereby showing their equivalence… if you like). I’m just speculating, as usual. So if you’re confused, maybe that’s just because I’m wrong.

> most coding has no high level ideas and is just boilerplate, and the ones that aren't are the ones LLM's struggle with?

Pretty much, although calling it boilerplate might be going a bit far.

I’m not here to claim something like ‘mathematicians think and programmers do not’ because that is clearly not the case (and sounds like a mathematician with a complex of some kind). But it is empirically the case that so far GPT-4 and the like are much better at programming than maths. Why? I think the reason is that whilst the best programmers have a deep understanding of the tools and concepts they use, it’s not necessary to get things to work. You can probably get an away without it (I have ideas about why, but for now that’s not the point). And given the amount of data available on basic programming questions (much more than there is of mathematics) if you’re an LLM it’s quite possible to fake it.

I guess one could also make the point that the space of possible questions in any given programming situation, however large, is still fairly constrained. At least the questions will always be ‘compute this’ or ‘generate one of these’ or something. Whereas you can pick up any undergraduate maths textbook, choose a topic, and if you know what you’re doing it’s easy to ask a question of the form ‘describe what I get if I do this’ or ‘is it true that xyz’ that will trip ChatGPT up because it just generates something that matches the form implied by the question: ‘a mathematical-looking answer’, but doesn’t seem to actually ask itself the question first. It just writes. In perfect Mathematical English. I guess in programming it turns out that ‘a code-looking answer’ for some reason often gives something quite useful.

Another difference that occurs to me is that what is considered a fixable syntax error in programming when done in the context of maths leads to complete nonsense because the output is supposed to describe rather than do. The answers are somehow much more sensitive to corruption, which perhaps says something about the data itself.
I have no idea - that's why I was asking. I've been responsible for installing systems that had the same "design" into multiple physical locations - hundreds of physical devices at each location.

Having a common design does help but it doesn't help that much as most of the problems are with the physical realities of each location - and what I did was much simpler and less critical than signalling.
Unless you happen to move in extremely well-informed circles, most of the information about what's going on in the world is coming to you through those little screens (or from people who got it from said screens)
From your description, it sounds much like 90% of Poland except your roads are way too wide (and thus welcome drivers to go at a higher speed).

Gosh, how we even survive here, every town is a speed trap town!
It’s also worth checking out Grid Garden[1] and its companion Flexbox Froggy[2]

[1] https://cssgridgarden.com/
[2] https://flexboxfroggy.com/
There's also a "Speed limit 50 ahead" warning sign further back up the road.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3778051,-92.9108282,3a,75y,2...
Agreed that broad pressure tantamount to censorship is being applied to prevent criticism of Israel's campaign.

I see no "terror propaganda" there either. What, people can't express a different idea or conclusion? As to the lack of facts, though - my thought was the article should be in the Harvard Crimson instead - except it would barely raise a thought there. The Law Review decision cannot be disputed.

The article does not offer much legal information. One would expect a statement of the law, a recitation of the facts and a logical expression. The novel idea that the "Nakba" is the Palestinian genocide makes the article interesting, but the article should offer proof in the legal framework; i.e., a syllogism.
This is a great analysis of the American, if not world economy, which engineers can relate to. It discusses the issues and circumstances in a non-judgemental way that is refreshing and interesting.

It is very long, but there is so much interesting information in this discussion all the way through.
"Building large systems has always been difficult as a single individual. Over the last decades, the amount of people that collaborate to create complex things or ideas, has exploded rapidly.

As engineering is one of those professions that benefits from good collaboration between a large amount of people, the author tried to dive a bit deeper in how you can improve the relations between your colleagues. In this recent (quite short) article, the author dives into why forgiveness is important as an engineer with a few examples."
> structured code instead of blocks or node graphs.
THANK YOU. I thought I was insane, nobody understood me. I know which tool I'll give my daughter.
> we could turn the numbers optimistic and say that 40% of Americans not living paycheck-to-paycheck is pretty impressive

Yeah, don't do that. There's nothing remotely optimistic about that.
While we're all wildly speculating about what Q* is and if GPT-5 will be able to do grade-school maths, I stumbled upon this interesting paper that discusses mixing classic RL algorithms (MCTS, like from AlphaGo), with LLMs. Q* is typically used to refer to the search for the optimal policy in these algorithms.

Paper: "Everything of Thoughts: Defying the Law of Penrose Triangle for Thought Generation " - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04254
Salesforce for contract management is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to efficiently create, store, track, and manage contracts throughout their lifecycle. It offers tools for document generation, automation, and analytics, streamlining contract-related processes.
Appreciate this release! I have a 3 year old and It was becoming difficult to manage what he was watching. One thing that disturbs me most about the Youtube App is that it's search functionality is extremely limited. If I search "educational videos" on youtube.com i see so much more variety of videos and channels vs youtube tv app, the search seems so filtered and honestly does not even show the videos I see on youtube.com. So thank you for the tool!

I am currently using it on a spare apple device, airplayed to my apple tv, with the iphone screen off, video playing in background, and auto play of next videos. idk... seems like perfection to me.

I also appreciate this project because it's so cool that you had this idea and then executed on it. I have the ability to execute but I just don't have the ability to think of ideas :D. I def want to try and create something similar to this!

One suggestion would be to add another tool on the site that output's a channel's id when a user supplies a youtube channel's URL or just accept URLs in your channel id field and do the all the lookup of the channel ID in the backend. I know there are easy ways to do it while on the desktop. I wasn't able to quickly find a way to do it on the phone. Quickest way I found was to use a 3rd party site where I supply the URL and it outputs information about a channel including it's channel id. I am using iphone.
Absolute valid point, 1/3 of the reason I don't want to work with windows. I've been using mac and linux for 17 years now, it's just worlds apart.
Very interesting, as I understand it was fine tuned on GSM8k, so we know we can remove 60% of the model and still answer GSM8k questions

Bigger question is, does the sparse model maintain any general knowledge?
I didn't make up this methodology and it's genuinely not a trick question (or not intended as such), it's a simple example of an actual class of questions that researchers ask when trying to determine whether a model of the world exists. The paper I linked uses a ball and a plank iirc. Often they use a much wider range of objects eg: something like "Suggest a stable way of stacking a laptop, a book, 4 wine classes, a wine bottle and an orange" is one that I've seen in a paper for example.
Unless they can do something that was going to have to be run on the CPU - and use less power doing it. I think we're rapidly getting to the point where this AI stuff is no longer optional.
Nir Shavit is co-author of IMO the best book on concurrent programming: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/2385452
More or less intelligent people can differentiate between allegations and facts.
Did he expand civil rights out of his own interest and volition or because there was pressure from the Civil Rights Movement? Wasn’t he a racist himself?

As for the Vietnam War: I guess it was easier for the US state to let the domestic population have civil rights compared to ending the Vietnam War and risking the “contagion” spreading. It’s easier to kill non-nationals on the other side of the world compared to continuing to violently crack down on domestic protests for civil rights.

(Kennedy didn’t have a nice record in Vietnam either, even though he is apparently the anti-deep state crusader if you listen to enough rock songs or whatever...)

I don’t know if "weird" is the right conclusion when you can factor in outside influences.
Does anyone have a good resource on fine-tuning using open-source LLMs?
> Politics is largely about sincerely-held ideologies

Close. Politics is about interests. It’s about who gets the resources and who gets status and dignity and who doesn’t.

There are a lot of sincerely held ideologies that rise up around those questions. But if you don’t analyze politics through that lens you’re fucking delusional.
Show HN: The Valley of Code
If you want to nitpick, it was first done by Ubuntu and then later upstreamed into Debian (from which other child distros, as you correctly point out, inherit it).
True for larger issues, which makes moving in such circles so valuable and the perspective of people only looking at small screens potentially so distorted there.

However, for smaller issues and local community issues "special access" isn't really much of a thing.
ADOM was my go to on the Amiga. Loved that game so much!
> they don't feel the need to justify it to you

Yes, that is the primary problem with spy agencies - that they don't feel accountable. They SHOULD be.
There is one definition: the distance to 0. There are several (more than two) different ways to calculate it in different situations.
I’m objecting to people buying ads. Ads = influence. Because “hey if you don’t want to play ball, we’ll happily fund ads for your opponent” (see, for example, AIPAC)
Even just redundant call paths are useful to spot. I recently looked through the standard library of a strongly, statically typed language and found that in one pretty basic function a validation function was called over 8 times despite reliably returning exactly the same result every time and this tool would highlight that very easily.

That's not even mentioning the logic bugs you can spot more easily as well.
Hardly undocumented!

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/pr...

The expectation in mobile environments is that you store whatever information you need to resume from cold in response to the app leaving the foreground, since the OS may kill it with little further warning at any time thereafter. This recommendation occurs prominently in the lifecycle docs for both iOS and Android.
Sub replacement fertility crisis is real, it's not a figment of imagination. And immigration only works if you have a place to draw immigration from.
I don't think so. Companies out of China can compete on price and they do, sometimes with even better hardware.

The key, indeed, is software, documentation, ease of use.
If they just want money, they can keep video suitable for kids. A common conspiracy is, these creator of Elsagate-like video try to make predating kids easier in worldwide.
That’s not what it says. It says that there is a single definition that can be generalized to both real and complex numbers.

A special cases of the general definition where im(z)==0 yields an expression where some parts are multiplied by zero, and can then be omitted entirely.

This means that there is one definition. You can mentally ignore some parts of this when dealing with reals.
I had never heard of that, reading up on it now. Thanks for posting!
Thing is, under capitalism large companies get significant control over the governments' actions. And large companies don't like not being allowed to be as powerful as possible, holding monopolies.
Then your sanctity is legally protected, but endangered by incompetence and techno-resistant end-runs around security controls. Ask sysads: nurses and doctors are the fucking worst.

Legal requirement for a shitty company to safeguard your data is a poor alternative to the company never receiving your data.

This is why we put IoT bumbaaclaat on a first network and block outbound...
I switched away from FF recently. On ubuntu 22.04, was irritated by the fortnightly snap update messages. Decided to switch to the ppa version instead. The ppa version had a "gmpopenh264" plugin has crashed problem on many sites. Switched back to Chrome. I don't have time for those hassles and the gmpopenh264 crash didn't have a googleable solution.

Due to the snap being the default installation on ubuntu, not enough users were on the ppa version to get even serious crashing problems fixed.
Yeah, you are right, trying again, it does seem to fail.
Lumos, an extension to run LLMs locally in the browser with Ollama
Faster updates to large objects in Redux
A while back I was looking for ideas for how to improve the performance of updating very large objects in a Redux store, and didn’t find any. In the end we came up with our own idea, which I’m pretty happy with, so I wrote it up to share.
Who is Helen Toner, the Australian woman ousted from the board of OpenAI?
Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive
> It turned out that the Elms had a shower faucet like nothing the staff had ever seen. Water from multiple nozzles sprayed out in every direction with needle-like intensity and astonishing force. One nozzle was directed at Johnson’s most private part. He called it “Jumbo.” Another, to his delight, shot straight at his back side. This, he demanded, is what he wanted in his White House bathroom … a shower head with the intensity of a fire hose. Additionally he wanted a temperature gauge that would immediately change the water from hot to cold. Never just warm.

He was a man ahead of his time!
Flexbox froggy got me into learning flexbox and now I find out there's a grid counterpart?!
> Resources Available

> Also, the quantity of teaching material and resources available to learn the language is currently overwhelmingly more abundant on the C++ side.

Quality over quantity. I'm a predominantly C and C++ developer, and the generic resources for C and especially C++ are horrible for the better part. This changes though when you look at what actual experts are putting out, either by themselves or by presenting at some convention, etc..., but these resources take knowing where to look, and many of them are useless in the process of learning the essentials, which everybody will screw up, because the language doesn't guide you, unlike Rust, which nannies you a lot (thankfully!!! you understand if you've written enough C++.)

> So if I want to bet safe in the development of a new system, I have to go with C++.

despite what I said above, C++ is prone to getting you in very unique scenarios if you're actually doing a new system (my anecdote), so you can't rely on people who aren't already skillful to even figure out that there's issues, even less how to address them. There's no guidance, really (unless you use C++Insights and hack stuff to compile-time.)

> In many years of coding C++, very rarely I experienced a stack overflow or segmentation fault. It is literally not an issue in every codebase I have worked with.

You espouse a pop understanding of software issues. These issues are not just magic, they happen for very exact reasons, this is why we can work against them happening in the first place.

I end my comment with saying that I'm not even a big fan of Rust, it's very specifically designed, I do not like the principles that Rust builds on, but I still disagree with your analysis.
Sounds like chromatopsia. Think its called erythropsia when one is seeing red.
Questioning if one has read an article is against the rules on HN. Why do you think it’s any different for comments.

You’re both incredibly rude and arrogant.
> you end up specializing towards a certain goal, from the get-go,

So, the sneaky archer?

(sorry, I remember reading a snarky guide to either oblivion or skyrim, where it said everyone always ends up a sneaky archer)
couldn't have said it better myself.
The use isn't the calculation, but the benchmark for its arithmetic capability.
Show HN: Timeless Messages – From Father to a Son
for more details and the origin -
https://medium.com/@ozzem/timeless-messages-86b4f11a790c

It will be great to have feedbacks on it
For things like vaccines and antibiotics it seems much more likely that we use narrow AI that it is good at predicting the behavior of chemicals in the human body, I don't think anybody is really worried about that kind of AI.

If you actually mean convincing an AGI to do medical research for us, what is your evidence that this will happen? There are many possible things an AGI could do, some good, some bad. I do not see that you are in any better position to argue that it will do good things but not bad things as compared to someone arguing that it might do bad things, quite to the contrary.

And you repeatedly make the argument that we first experienced trouble and then became more cautious. This are two positions, two mentalities, and neither is wrong in general, they just have different preferences. You can go fast and clean up after you ran into trouble, you can go slow and avoid trouble to begin with. Neither is wrong, one might be more appropriate in one situation, the other in another situation.

You can not just dismiss going fast as you can not just dismiss going slow, you have to make an careful argument about potential risks and rewards. And the people that are worried about AI safety make this argument, they don't deny that there might be huge benefits but they demonstrate the risks. They are also not pulling their arguments out of thin air, we have experience with goal functions going wrong leading to undesired behavior.
Incredible place to work or not, I recall at least as far back as 2004 they were terrible from a B2B support standpoint. Impossible to get help with buggy drivers, everything opaque and poorly documented.

And don't get me started on trying to get their chipsets working on Linux. Up until recently, it was nearly as bad as nvidia's garbage. Even now, I'm not sure if everything is well supported; I've avoided BRCM wifi like the plague for years now.
For general web content, I would recommend not depending on subgrid until about next September (at which point Safari will have had it for two years and Chromium for one year). Use it as an enhancement, certainly, but make sure the layout is still at least usable if it’s missing.
Why would you ever know? Why would the singularity reveal itself in such an obvious way(until it's too late to stop it)?
"Waste not, get your budget cut."
I think it looks good, certainly polished and professional and good brand name. I'd focus on sales and distribution and less now on building (of course build based on what your customers are saying they need). Can you team up with gyms and personal trainers, or social running/lifting/ other exercise groups. I'd just start giving them a call, emailing, or showing up. I've certainly tried to sell products that were waaaaay less finished than what you have now. Good luck!
It's a perfectly good tradeoff, absolutely. Even more so because the sodium-ion batteries run cool, contrary to the the Li-ions, meaning that their installed energy-density is a lot closer to their theoretical energy density, which is not the case for Li-ions.
I still believe that A(G)I will consist of subsystems and different network architectures (if NN's are the path to that), just like we humans have.
I am not so sure, there are always people with very odd opinions.
And this is why it's faster than C some-days for some-cases etc. but still actually faster.

Is there much going on with Fortran on GPU?
How Much Does It Cost to Upgrade Rails?