skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compare it to automobile infrastructure because public transit infrastructure projects sems to be the only time anyone complains about high infrastructure costs.

The only reason I compare it to America is because I don't actually know the figures for the UK, but I expect that car owners would spend more there due to higher cost of petrol, higher vehicle taxes, etc.
"Hello Dave, tell me again about your glory days playing high school football."
Probably the same thing that stops Amazon from establishing a Totally Not Amazon that has zero revenue, so that Amazon can use all sorts of "free for non-commercial use" software.
Now that I think of it, the name IS vaguely familiar.
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Hi,

This is an interesting point you make. I agree that this is a policy and I am not a fan as well. The solution is keeping an eye on the forums and news. But yeah, it can sound problematic. But like I mentioned just above in my comments, zero issues with just sudo pacman -Syu for the last 5 years. I have only done manual intervention twice, both times as per https://archlinux.org/news/. One was something I can't recall and recently JRE, JDK. It didn't break.

Tumbleweed updates are big batches because of the way they update. Which I am not a fant of as well. Not to mention, I am a big fan of Arch community. More over, albeit only hearing good things about OpenSUSE (AUR is based on OpenSUSE tech IIRC), I would like to use only community led/oriented distros. They are always better for the end users. Especially Arch, whatever technical problems exists, they are always improving things. Look at the archinstall. Now I can have a new arch install in like <5 mins.
Mature adults can certainly think that someone else is not fit for one job (running YC) and is fit for another (handling OAI). Good business people are even better at it, knowing that makes them more money. PG certainly seems to fit that.
I would argue that implementing your internal queues inside your DB is sound system design. Your backups and system restores are as simple as it gets. You should have a specific reason to do anything more complicated. And no, "deploy at scale" is puffery, not a good reason.
My Insta360 X3 shuts down quite a bit for heat too. Maybe these Ace Pros are better.
Holy shit, FUN looks awesome, and there’s one within driving distance to me coming up! Thanks for sharing that!
This is a good way to be biased towards the most lucky and the most cutthroat. Also, why would the best talent look to work for you if they have to take so much personal risk without the possibility of the upside of stock options of a startup?
One of my favorite things about NixOS is that this problem is permanently solved.
If bitcoin keeps the botnets away from world beating AI, worth it.
Any known issue on implementing a queue with Postgres? Do you at least know it has a pretty good pub/sub mechanism?
Wondering how the situation looks like in the uk. The country is basically in limp mode.
I'm following the whole story to see if there's a sociopath involved.
She said her "p(doom)" was 15% (0.15), that's crazy high. Does she know what that entails?
I'll never forgive Nutanix for murdering EdgeFS. I have not used any of their products, and hopefully never will.
That is a major reason why they are costly. They are nice.
Not for Russia's benefit but for his own.
Impressive! A video I found, showing what that looks like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BdjxYUdJS8
~Chrome was an acquisition.~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome (Edit: I misremembered / misstated, this is incorrect.)

Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and Spanner were not.
My Pentium 75 definitely shipped with less than 16MB. I can't remember if we had 4 or 8, but I think we had 16MB when we junked it.

Either way, I played mp3s in winamp while on IRC and sometimes even running netscape. Took at least an hour to get a mp3 though, and I had to throw them all out when I got decent speakers and could hear how terrible they sounded.
Doesn't this show a vested interest from pg and jessica in OpenAI? So it's hard for them to say anything negative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)
Considering how I see people spending money in the mall, I’m not surprised
I find 7B models to be too stupid. They often respond with nonsense or fail to follow instructions.
https://godbolt.org/z/szMvnTT63

Looking at the naive code from Analysis 1 and comparing GCC 4.1.2 to GCC 13.2 there's a huge difference. Even when forcing both to generate code for the same old architecture (k8) so its more fair.

GCC 4.1 generates code which is a pretty direct translation of the source: branchy, operates on bytes.

GCC 13.2 does a ton of optimization. There's only a single jump/loop. It uses prefetch. It uses SSE instructions to operate on 128-bits at a time. It looks like all the instructions are duplicated as well to operate on a pair of registers, too. I'm not exactly sure.
If a C-suite tells you "you miss the big picture" without explaining what the big picture is or "the issue is with partners/investors", then it's usually time to run away as fast as you can.

Office drones settle for junk "answers", and it is disadvantageous to be one.
Having been in the room on a number of these occasions, a don't think this description is remotely accurate.
Could you clarify what you mean by “definitely don't stray from the self-hostable + DX mission”?
The reasonable assumption is that it’s tracked by YouTube and mostly relegated to server logs and automated analysis, not that the search queries will be displayed verbatim to the channel owners.
> I think the only comedy here is that Google looked at these old-school companies like Microsoft or IBM and figured they can be different just because they "get it."

How is that different from all the nattering of posters here on HN who clearly know better and "get it"? Or for that matter from Gates & Allen in the late 70's "getting it" where IBM and DEC didn't?

Hubris is universal. The difference isn't who "gets it", it's who actually does stuff. The overwhelming majority of people in this fight are just picking a side in a dumb turf war, mostly over what fruit is printed on the phone in their pockets.
OP was saying that their email is literally ~@eligrey.com

He’s saying this works bc scrapers might not match a left hand side of an @ that contains no alphanumerics
reddit wants a login. Bye
And speaking of Graham's judgement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384490

Of course it was flagged within a few minutes.
It would still have been a poor title with a long debate over the meaning of 'open source'.
You don't go to Mars because life support is easier (than even a catastrophe-damaged Earth.) You go to Mars so the starving mass of human survivors can't reach you to steal, and probably inadvertently destroy, whatever habitat you're living in. That's the only way Mars makes any sense as a backup plan.
Own mail server. For critical mails i have an posteo address.
Any person that gets to this position must be good at some things.

Acknowledging it does not mean supporting the person. It is just a factual statement.

Even Adolf Hitler was good at certain things like manipulating masses of people. Saying this absolutely does not mean I support Hitler. It is just a factual statement.
"All design and engineering" -- even for Elon that's a ridiculous statement. Not only does this come with the disclaimer "It ... may not accurately reflect the actual production models or parts sold.", it doesn't include any software source at all.
All lowercase signals casual aloofness; it says the situation doesn't meet your bar for formality. It's like Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie when meeting with Wall Street types.
The tuple thing requires variadic generics from my understanding.

I don't thing variadic generics support is supported in most statically typed languages. The only one I can think of right now that supports this is C++.
Same experience for me. 3 years ago I was able to claim an inactive username (the actual process was that you filed a complaint about an inactive user, they renamed the account, then said "it's available now, good luck you better be quick", so it was not an official transfer process).

Tried again about 12 months ago for a different username/org and was told this is no longer possible.
> It seems like Russia could use another Yeltsin (or Gorbachev) more than Putin for its current situation.

He did say best in the world, not best that can be imagined; so unless you are saying there is another Yeltsin or Gorbachev available...

OTOH, Putin is himself an active reason why alternatives aren't readily available.
In the made-for-tv movie about OpenAI - PG is played by an actor mimicking Trump, and that's Sam's origin story. "You're Fired"

Sam with his slick black hair, looking like Tom Hiddleston's Loki... "my ambition knows no bounds, I will build AGI and then you will understand my TRUE power."
I think they spent decades growing their economy and preparing to be independent of the west and now our sanctions are useless.

It feels like this situation is exactly what they want (and likely an historical inflection point, where we pit east vs west again).
Dropping the cold war was needed because they had no resources (surprise, socialism doesn't work!).

I'm waiting for Taiwan next and then I'd say we are completely *** (especially looking at our reliance on the east for manufacturing / energy and how useless our governments are).
Financially, I don't need the app to produce income to keep my life on track...but the opportunity cost of continuing to sink so much time + life force into it is substantial (even in comparison to sunk costs), and that's one of the factors I'm increasingly thinking about.

I really like the idea of doubling down on getting high-quality interactive 1:1 feedback like you suggested, and that is something I can easily do on a daily basis to build more signal about how to dial in PMF in an intentional way.

I heard a quote once (Justin Kan, I think) that went something like this: first time founders focus on product; second time founders focus on distribution.

I might just be the extreme version of that quote ;)
or proxmox
Would you be open to illustrating in general terms what your situation is like?
So? Why would being pro-some country or anti-some other country mean he should be ignored?
This is a false grouping. Idaho drivers aren't working together.
Hyper-V server is killed by Microsoft, though you can of course install Windows Server in Core mode and install the Hypervisor component.
That would be so slow
It’s humorous to me that we discuss “monopolies” over what are ultimately very discretionary sectors. Compare to the trusts of the 20th century, which were monopolizing oil or steel for example. These are (or were) the commodities required to power commerce via shipping and transportation. A single entity having pricing power over such essential commodities threatens the robustness of the world economy.

Today we complain about the monopolistic power of, e.g. Google, who does not actually have a monopoly on search (there are many other providers), and the ability to search the entire internet isn’t really that necessary, or Apple’s mobile marketplace, where they again do not have a monopoly (people choose to develop for Apple devices, and part of choosing to sell something somewhere is agreeing to the market’s terms - as has been the case for all of time), and this is mostly to power manipulative microtransactions for kids on games. These are entirely different ballparks.
"OpenAI is more religion than company" sounds like a factual statement to me.
This looks interesting. I wonder if they will be adding compiled languages like C#?
Weird thought, but have you tried using Selenium?

Seems like launching a browser tab with:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

and navigating to duckduckgo.com:

print(driver.current_url) # https://duckduckgo.com/

works.
If you think about it “I want my buddy to run the money printing machine” is actually a deeply philosophical ponderance
My read not knowing PG and only having dealt with Sam once is that the firing was to push Sam into AI which he already was involved with before the firing...a GaryVee mercy firing to be sure...

BTW, Sam was wrong about GPS-powered dating at Loopt. He was not wrong about pushing teleco's to free up GPS instead of hidding behind some wall of forbidden access.
Says something about value vs evaluation?
I think decentralized networks essentially provide another opportunity for businesses. Look at email, or web browsers and how centralized they are now.

Make an app for a decentralized protocol, add some polish and maybe give something away with it which is cheap at scale (storage, bandwidth) as the loss leader and establish dominance.
That is owned by a non-profit organization. It seems like a lot of the employees are chasing money, and forgetting that it's fundamentally not trying to maximize profit. Of course, Sam seems to have perverted its mission to be the latter (serving as the latest high-priest of mammon, like Elias served Lillith)
"The corporate shares of many super-rich are highly polluting." this article is deceptive. What is the suggested solution here, those companies shouldn't exist? If the companies were owned by the average person would that somehow make them pollute less? This article opens with a picture of a private jet like that is the cause of this pollution, that their extravagance is polluting the planet.

"‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction" I guess I should have realized this article had problems from that first line.
Unfortunately I don't think the compilers will add it in time.
Show HN: Chat with 3D Models on the Browser
Hi everyone,

I’m writing to share an open source project I’ve been working on just for fun: llmpeople.com

It currently has 2 available models - an anime like female character, and a realistic looking male character. We can switch between these models by clicking on the top left corner settings icon, and then selecting a model from the model dropdown.

It also should be relatively easy to export a model from blender, and use it instead of the available models. I've included instructions on how to do this on the readme: https://github.com/jongomez/llmpeople#use-a-custom-model

There are multiple voices available as well - including the new voices from OpenAI.

Hope anyone out there finds this interesting. Happy to get any feedback or suggestions.
> What's missing is in which context the tuple's length is variable, and in which context it is fixed.

Simple example: a function has a parameter whose type is "variable-length tuple of int". You can pass any tuple in that is known to have 0..n elements, all of type int. What would you have me call that, other than the name I've seen used in discussions on this feature?

> "Arbitrary" doesn't really help because it could refer to the elements' values, to their types, or to the tuple's length.

Read it as (arbitary (fixed-size tuples)). It was meant to forgo answers describing functions with known tuple sizes.
> what is it VMWare does that VirtualBox doesn't do?

For my specific use case, it's display responsiveness.

My main work machine is a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3. Our development environment is Ubuntu, so when I got the machine our IT guy had helpfully installed Ubuntu on it.

There were two major problems though. I could only get my AirPods to pair as headphones, not as a full headset with microphone. And worse, I couldn't get my triple-monitor setup to work at all. (The ThinkPad has a 15" 4K display, and I use two 24" 4K displays with it: one in landscape mode immediately above the ThinkPad display, another in portrait mode to the left.) I could only get two displays out of the three to come up.

I did like the hardware quite a lot - I've been a huge ThinkPad fan for 25 years. So I immediately bought a similar machine for personal use. It came with Windows, and both of the above items worked "out of the box".

So I looked at the bottom of the work machine and saw that it came with a Windows license. I downloaded the Windows 10 ISO from Lenovo and installed Windows on it, figuring I would run Ubuntu in a VM.

I tried VirtualBox first, and it worked, but the display wasn't smooth. For example, I often use the Windows key + left/right arrow to move a window to one side of the display or the other. Ubuntu does a "sliding" animation when you do this, but it looked like it was only refreshing the display every tenth of a second or so.

So I tried VMware and it was perfect. The display is just about as responsive as running Ubuntu on the bare metal - every transition and animation is perfectly smooth.
How much is it really doing if you’re making the criticism after you left?
I'm sure there's some genuine friendships, but it's always interesting to see what people say publicly vs. privately. Also fair to say that there are people I've worked with that I did not, at the time, appreciate but grew to appreciate later on.

Years ago I was at an event talking to a colleague who was absolutely bashing someone (with good reason) and then another colleague walked up. Same person came up and my first colleague changed tone to "yeah, so-and-so is an interesting character."

Because I knew that the other colleague also hated the person, I called him on it. I wonder, though, how often that dynamic plays out where nobody will voice a negative opinion publicly - so people slide by without being called on behavior that shouldn't get ignored.
No source code ???.
Because Postgres is a relational database.
While appreciating that they’re not direct substitutes, does anyone have experience comparing Windmill with Dagster for managing dependency resolution in complex data pipelines?
Thank you for taking one of my most hated memes and turning it into hilarity.
I turn off spell check in any text editor I touch because I can't handle the visual noise. Agreed on running spell check. The few grammar issues in the article made my brain glitch for sure.
Err, yeah that comes out of the back of the recoilless rifle so only an issue for the people behind you not the person firing it unless they are too close to a wall or similar. With something like the RPG-7 the backblast is from the recoilless stage not the rocket.
I don't know what the percentage is, but it's enough to support purpose-specific offroad parks, businesses that specialize in building/repairing/improving off road trucks & SUVs, ATV and UTV dealerships, and so on.

I'd guess it's somewhere between "really big" and "very, very small." And also very regional.
The guy who drove Sears into the ground also did the classic private-equity self-dealing to carve off all the valuable bits and saddle the company with debt. Berkshire Hathaway is an example of a company that owns lots of businesses which are mostly independent
> a PyTorch implementation delivering 40x speedup over the equivalent batched feedforward inference

Does this not indicate a 40x speedup on the GPU?

Edit: looking at the paper, their "Naive CUDA" implementation also shows a 117x speedup in Table 2.
Seems more reasonable to me to focus on the head of the division since she has ultimate authority over it. Any incompetent people below her in the org structure are her responsibility. If they’re so bad, why didn’t she realize that and remove them? If you don’t ever want to be criticized then you shouldn’t seek out top management positions. He was also very critical of Sundar, is that also wrong because it could hurt his feelings? As for why he felt the need to air his dirty laundry like this, he must feel extremely aggrieved.
> I also think we could turn the numbers optimistic and say that 40% of Americans not living paycheck-to-paycheck is pretty impressive.

I don't think we could say that at all. Only 40% isn't only unimpressive, it's depressing. The ideal would be 100%.

> I think if you ask the question "are you worried about finances?" of course most people are going to say "yes."

I think that's a safe bet at the moment, considering most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck at the moment.
Former CloudHealth early engineer here. That's nothing new. This started almost in tandem with the VMware acquisition - the company culture had been all about small- to medium-size customers, up through the point where due diligence started with VMware. We were told in no uncertain words that VMware would roll the red carpet out for big names, and that our platform needed to be ready for it. I stuck it out for about a year and a half, post-acquisition, where we tried to figure out and build a "CloudHealth Enterprise Edition" of sorts.

I was surprised that VMware kept the "CloudHealth" branding as long as they did, - it turned out that the brand actually had some cache that VMware wanted to hang on to. But it was formally dropped last year, in favor of "VMware Aria Cloud Cost Control", or some equally overdescribed thing.
Ah ok that's different. Yes you want the computer to be (effectively) unencrypted until you say so, but that should be really clear too.
The comment you are responding to has quotes of people definitely coming out "for" Sam.
> sum types

Even PHP have those now. TypeScript is lagging here. Hopefully, they will include it too one day.
Yes, not real data in the middle of the Atlantic but it’s a model and from my experience is pretty good. It’s a stationary front. Read all about it.
https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/wxmaps

https://ocean.weather.gov/A_sfc_full_ocean_color.png
"Can't love solve the crisis in Ukraine?"
I never used the words "murder" or "murderer".
No I care more about if the job involves solving interesting/novel problems

Languages/OSs are just implementation details to me, I don't get why software engineers (especially junior ones) are so obsessed with them

To me algorithms/systems in the abstract sense are the actual interesting part of the job
Yes the chassis (aluminum tub) was licensed - they had to make some changes for the EV bits.
Someone else's numbers gave 38% in 2012: https://consumerfed.org/press_release/many-families-struggle...

... which doesn't really say that much; I'll leave it to someone on your side of the Atlantic to find historical census data (eg https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/wealth.html ) and cross index it against historical income data (eg https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27... ) to determine if —with a presumably consistent methodology— there have been any significant developments in who is living on what they have and who on what they have coming.
As a matter of good policy they wouldn't publicly denounce anyone that was associated with YC.
That is troubling. Does this mean Github staff can basically take over any private account without contacting the owners? Can regular staff access private repos? Could they quietly manipulate my own repos by changing my ssh key and pushing commits? Sky's the limit in terms of the negative impact that could have. Does SSO with Github depend on the username? Would a renamed account be able to access services where I used "Sign in with Github"?
They just don't care.

Btw, it's very funny to see projects, which were predestined to fail, because they send their shittiest, and somehow they became better, and slowly more important than the executives star projects. There are meetings in such cases (I was part of such projects and meetings, several times), after almost everybody should be fired immediately, if you want anything good for the company. But of course, most of the employees of large, and old companies don't care anymore about products, or their respective companies.
MongoDB and Elastic famously didn't find it to be sufficient, swapping to a new and non-OSI-approved license to protect against big cloud providers offering managed versions of their software.