skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things can be really complex and fully explainable at the same time. A program could have millions of variables and you could zoom in on a variable and explain its purpose exactly.

In a neural net, the creators of the neural net in general don't know what it means for the weight at some node being 0.46557, or how the system would behave if you changed it to 0.5.

CNNs tend to use the first few layers to detect surface features like edges, and later layers to detect more abstract features. This was an empirical discovery! The creators of the CNNs were like holy shit, these layers detect edges!

Anyway I think there's a substantial difference between building really complex systems (that yes may appear as black boxes to outsiders) and systems where the designers themselves generally don't know how the thing works.
Bezos has one advantage while the current regime in in place: he is not Musk, he is ideologically aligned and as such can get favours without much pressure on actually delivering.

As to whether Amazon's Spacelink competitor will be launched depends on whether BO can get their New Glenn rocket - a Falcon 9 competitor - up and running. If they do they should be able to 'launch their own dogfood' just like SpaceX is doing with Starlink on Falcon 9.
It crashed:

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at nI (561-5e048c82ab8ff4d8.js:5:68277)
at e (452-22edc4adb41de58f.js:1:1090692)
at rs (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:38883)
at lg (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:54218)
Does this mean that PyPy is an example of the first projection of Futamura? Which generates JIT compilers for implementations in RPython.

My understanding of this idea is that it potentially enables the architecture of software systems to be drastically transformed at runtime and over time.

Imagine if your software system (Kuberentes manifests, sourcecode, firewall rules, cloud resources such as SQS, autoscaling groups, RDB databases and so on) was all represented by a single AST and you can transform the AST to handle a new constraint by just transforming the AST which could lead to a system that looks completely different.
I've read that auto-update will remove these launchers, so if you're already using adb, you'd want to use it to stop auto-update. Not sure if that could break updates for individual apps.
That’s just stupid. To be prepared for a foot of snow falling all over the state you’d need a fleet of plows the size of Buffalo, NYs in every city over 200,000 in the entire state.

And then a decade goes by before snow sticks past 10am?
>"There is a misconception that innovation comes mainly from the private sector. Its the opposite: innovation comes from the public sector."

This is just logical consequence, from erroneous foundations, to be strict, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism

Idea, that when somebody become authoritative with power, Statists think, such people should automatically gather wisdom and Universe knowledge, to make much better decisions, than free market.

Unfortunately, in reality, authoritative with power, usually use their power for some silly things, not for people good, and usually, power are not effective. But sometimes, in very special conditions, have so obvious things to do (and these things just impossible to do on free market, like Manhattan project, or trans-American railroad), that even with very bad efficiency, just huge resources investments are enough to make huge leap.

For example, now we don't know "Manhattan project" way to achieve GAI, so even if somebody will decide to throw government resources we will not achieve GAI, will just convert resources to waste. And such things happen lot of time before, but Statists prefer to ignore such examples, they show only good examples to convince people.
They've done this for about a year or more in Spain. It's a PITA. Sure the hardware is cheap but this isn't cool.
> probably not when adjusted for number of players or total number of player-hours.

I would disagree, given how the major sports franchise games and multiplayer FPS games use gacha mechanics too.
I'm not even defending ruby too much. I used ruby for many years and it always felt somewhat off.

However, with the brevity of original comment, it feels like Ruby is getting a lot of flak for shaky design decisions.

While in reality, a lot of languages from that period had very shaky design decisions. Newer generations of languages or better versions of these languages - built upon the lessons of that period - avoid these mistakes and put the spotlight on these "obvious" design issues.
I can get behind that. Sure, support a friend that needs a client. I would just make sure I want to be treated like any other client.

But my experience is that these types of transactions are a drop in the ocean. Probably less than 1%. Most transactions is when somebody needs something and the just happen to have a friend that does this and they think they can get a better deal.
Okay, so Bytedance, Amazon, Google, Facebook have an advantage in this area, then - assuming they each process TikTok, Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook/Insta video content?

Are there any other big players in the video data space?
On YouTube's dime.

Paying for hard drives, upkeep, physical storage, backups and electricity
At this point Stalwart and rspamd two combined will most likely offer a better experience. In terms of supporting modern standards, security and offering enough configurability without requiring arcane knowledge. You can get a good setup with way less effort and fragile components.

The hodgepodge of software used by MIB is just not good any more.
Whisper (OpenAI speech-to-text) is already trained on YT content; amusingly, if you mumble incoherently, its most-probable completion for noise is “thanks for watching!”
AI, of course
A cure for anxiety will not be found in a pill, that's merely an ongoing treatment option.

A cure for anxiety will take a change in society. A Political solution that encourages community, inclusiveness, and towns/cities that aren't broken by design.
Because JavaScript is the worse programming language in common commerical usage today. It was designed over several decades by browser manufacturers.

Absolute anything else would be better than it.

Static typing in Python is a complete disaster when it's used on real commerical projects. I've seen the code thank you very much.
This is why I have a powerful Batocera system and a handheld emulator. Games since 2010 are just pure junk. All paywalled items and gambling.
I was actually in the process of developing something just like this.

Think of not wanting to pollute your main conversation when you come across something you don’t know in the LLMs response, so you create a side chat and then navigate back once you get the info you needed.
I think the point is that the Access, Lotus Notes tooling was in largish corporations somewhat ubiquitous.

The experience of this tooling was make a change and it was in production. It was incredibly simple and productive to work with given the needs of the time.

There was also plenty of opportunities to make a mess, but I don't think that has really changed.

Learning was not difficult, you just had to be prepared to spend time and some money on books and courses.

It is not a tooling set you would want to go back to for a bunch of different reasons but it worked well for the time.
Looking at this it looks like the vast majority of Roku revenue comes from their platform, not devices.

https://www.investopedia.com/how-roku-makes-money-5119488

Within devices/players:

> The segment reported a gross loss of $90.6 million in 2022, a deterioration from the gross loss of $37.8 million one year earlier.
Can you view your own content on an Apple TV? Like with VLC? I don't own much Apple stuff anymore but I'm getting sick of all Android TV options getting so commercialised.

I don't currently subscribe to any streaming service though except Amazon prime (mainly because it's included with the shipping)
Other than the ~12% I just estimated, lots of large-but-not-famous places will be buying ~1k, and small places will be buying tens to hundreds, and quite a lot of AI bubble money will be invested in startups that claim they only need one.

Probably some scientific modelling that can be done on these, so I bet some universities and private labs will be buying them. NASA, SpaceX, RocketLab, Helion, etc.

There's also probably a lot of AAA game studios and art studios for movies etc. who are each buying dozens of these graphics processing units for… graphics :P
I believe there are 0 people working with CH and ReplacingMergeTree and don’t know that they have to use final or group by in order to get non duplicate data. It’s mentioned in the table engine page, their knowledge base everywhere.

Also i have not recently seen anyone not recommending it. It might have been the case a few years ago, but performance of final has improved and it’s faster than alternatives. People suggest to use MergeTrees obviously but if no alternative, replacing is the way to go.
so hot right now
So pills it is, then.

/s
Does anyone have a recommendation about where to host an internet-facing mail server? I've been running my own mail server on various VSPs (digital ocean and linode), but sending email is not quite as reliable as I'd like it to be.

Are there different hosts I could try? Or am I better off paying for something like fastmail and using them as a smarthost?
Unemployment is record low. You could get practically any job you want right now. Why are you working a job you hate?
Let the dumb people spend their money. We have more than enough games to last us a lifetime already.
This looks great! We've looked at a lot of these for our database GUI. I really love how fleshed out this is, and the multiplayer aspect of it!
That’s hilarious :D
>You break the lock and steal something, you have broken the law.

Law enforcement at that scale is highly asymmetrical. Large powerful countries can act like bullies because "what are you gonna do about it?".

Yeah, we have the UN and international courts and what not, but those are toothless as without a superior power to act as the enforcer, they can wipe their ass with your laws, complaint or court ruling and do as they please anyway.
It's true that engineering principles are not usually applied in the software field, but if quality is the most important requirement, they are indispensable.

Example: https://galois.com/

Example: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/sp13/hand-outs/They-Wr...
Hmm no. That uses too much power for me and I really want something with a simple remote.
That uses way more power than a streaming box, though. From what I found, an Apple TV uses about 6 watts when streaming 4k. I bet an old PC will use at least 100 to 200 watts when streaming, and at least 50 watts idle.
I worked under a blind manager when the iPhone first came out. He was a former dev before his vision started to go. He was a power user while blind, and knew twice as many hot keys as I did, had his screen reader speed cranked up to a rate incomprehensible to me.

I remember how happy he was with the iPhone. He said it was the first device he was able to use without special accessibility software, and that was in 2007, I imagine the experience is better today.

I’m sure you’re (OP) already on the ball with ways to help him, but if you haven’t looked into movies with described audio, apparently it makes a whale of a difference.
Reviewing Tenchi's Tech Stack four years later
Write Libraries, Not Frameworks (2020)
Search algorithm reveals nearly 200 new kinds of CRISPR systems
Ideal Note-Taking Platform?
Hey all!

I've been trying to find the perfect software to organize my notes, thoughts and tasks.

I wasn't able to find any suitable candidate and wondered if the HN crowd is in the same boat.

Is there any posts of people who went down the same endless search you would recommend?

For reference, here's a post [0] explaining my requirements.
enshittification sure is speeding up, huh?

... i am pretty happy with my >40" OLED monitor that for some reason has a KVM built in and 4 outputs and speakers.
I'm trying to understand the vulnerability you are pointing out; in the example of an AI assistant w/ access to your email, is that AI assistant also reading it's instructions from your email?
The people working at Foxconn are doing it voluntarily because it pays better than their other alternatives. Same for Bangladesh clothing factories.
Well this is it, they will no longer become untrusted. They can however, ask to have the offending certificate revoked if they have proof it's bad and once they have permission from the authorities (they kind of have to grant the permission if there's evidence but will be on the authorities timeline).
On the other hand I watched an old DVD the other day, took 3 minutes from putting it in to the film started with various unskippable "features", warnings, accusations of me pirating it, etc.

Moral of the story -- torrents give the best service.
> custom guards

I don't recall 100%, but I think this is a BEAM feature that exists because they don't want to run arbitrary code as part of guards that could have side effects, delays and so on. I don't remember the specifics.
Yeah, picked up his 6502 kit and worked through his video series: burning a ROM, adding an LCD display, serial communication....

I learned a lot.
Unfortunately no, but there are almost certainly clusters in the hands of private companies and government organizations that would prefer not to advertise their capabilities.
https://archive.is/X1QKz
I think "sign-up pages" here needs some clarification from the mods (maybe referring to wait lists?). If everything that requires sign-up is banned then why this section further down:

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.
You may want to read a book akin to “extreme ownership” (though I would recommend exactly that one) and help your tech lead solve these problems. If you want to stick to this job. You don’t have to have the title to work the solutions.
I did this more than 10 years ago. I had a G-Force 9600 GT with a FreeBSD desktop. And I used piano bar, the CLI program for Spotify, as my audio program. And then I just navigated the file system to play videos from my personal library.

In some ways it's simpler, but having a remote control and having the app user interface versus a desktop is nicer most of the time.
Not sure about VLC, but I’ve a Plex server locally and Apple TV app works fine for streaming from the server.
https://reflect.app/
On a previous job, PR people called it "improving users buying experience".
Ask HN: ChatGPT servers locations and energy sources
Where are the ChatGPT servers located in the world?

How is the energy generated to power these servers? Eg. Hydroelectric, Nuclear, Oil, Gas?
Some people truly live in a different world.
Individual behavior doesn't really exist, you don't have choices outside the ones provided by society. It's also a bit silly to mention it in the context of a literally physically addictive drug.

Interestingly schizophrenic people almost universally smoke, and it's thought this is because it's a better treatment than the actual drugs we give them, though that's not proven.
Well, humans can do any math that human brains can comprehend. That doesn't mean "any math" any more than if a chicken we're to claim that chickens can do any math (because they cannot comprehend human math).
But the software would probably still run on Linux even if you didn’t run it on a deck. All of that is control mapping and nothing the deck provides is specifically unique. The game would be developed on not-a-Steam-Deck most likely.
I'm considering this with my pi 4 or a mini pc. The former may not be the best for streaming but if I avoid running anything else (like HomeAssistant, a server) I figure it will be fine for now.
This is how I feel with Clojure -- it fits into the way my brain thinks about how to solve problems computationally better than anything else.
Absolutely. Amazon, not satisfied with being one of the largest companies in the world, is stealing from their customers, and will go whining to uncle sam once people start fighting back against the theft.
It's more that it's easier to use C for two reasons. The first is that C is really popular and therefore pretty portable. It's a lingua franca. The other is that because the hosts are largely defined in C, it's easier to interact with. Of course, the host doesn't actually "speak C", it follows some form of ABI. But the reality is that implementing each ABI is non-trivial and you can avoid a lot of pain by just using the host's C compiler/linker/etc. that implements it for you.
Good read as always, Matt.
It can't find the synthwave videos with least views, so Bard is being blinded by the recommendation algorithm.
The first generation apple TV remote is comically bad though.

Can't conceive how a team of professionals released it. it's intentionally built to not be touch-intuitive. it's a smooth rectangle with no obvious way to feel front/back. the touch pad is too sensitive and not precise so you're always always overshooting your intention. there's no back/forward button, they are "menu" and "screen" ? i have no fucking idea what they mean to this day. screen is "home" and if you press it you lose all navigation. "menu" is like select and back... but not really. i have never pressed the mic or play/pause, cuz that's what the big touch button does too. there's no mute...

i can think of this remote and laugh on demand, it's just so impressive how bad it is.

https://images.app.goo.gl/4AxqwdXJtfxsQPxb7
Bleh. Race to the bottom continues.

I’m surprised there isn’t a price cut Apple TV “stick”. Drop game support, low local storage, no Ethernet port, but leave 4K support. 4K support lets them charge the magic 2-digit HomePod mini price point of 99$ under the guise of “same video quality as the 130$ one”.

That would juuuuust crossover into the “good enough” zone for me, considering how clean apple tvOS is.
The right-leaning side is taking hold very recently, is what he probably means.
It's scary how in my circle so many are now regularly consuming marijuana-derived products to cope with work anxiety, insomnia, etc. One of the reasons is that in Quebec it's now a government monopoly and is sold in specialized stores (Société québécoise du cannabis - SQDC) which gives it a certain societal approval. The stores have employees who are very knowledgeable and will talk to you about the benefits of products and how they can help with your particular ailment, exactly like in a pharmacy.
Is this related to the react-spreadsheet[1] project? Where does the "React Spreadsheet 2" from the title come from?
It's not clear if this is an update to the project, a fork of an existing project, or something brand new.

[1] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-spreadsheet
Stylized fact
does elixir have type checking like typescript does ?( you can add types
?)
> it was a good idea to eventually make them a full-fledged feature

Why so?
Texas is another laughable example of the pseudo libertarian fantasy. Also this week: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-least-free-state-personal-fre...
> DDG ultimately is just repackaged Bing search results.

That was true at one time. I've been using DDG for many years; daily drive it and Firefox, but have been experimenting with Edge and Bing, now Copilot.

Honestly, Bing search is amazing, better than google in my head-to-heads for quick reference or learning about something your not as familiar with. Both have a lot of "data field" results, which I want to curmudgeon about being distracting but are honestly quite handy sometimes, same goes for suggested searches. DDG is very old school by comparison, but that's also what I want when I'm drilling down.

An aside, I'm surprised that nobody really talks about Edge. I run Firefox specifically because I don't want to run V8. Edge has a really good implementation Tree style Tabs, another feature I refuse to sacrifice, and overall it's featureful but still fast, the only thing it's missing is never getting implemented, containers. The LLM integration though is super cool, and makes me wonder what iPhones will be like when Apple finally gets this tech in it's products.
For lithium-ion batteries:

"... keep your battery life somewhere between 40 percent and 80 percent ..."

"Research shows that extremes wear out the lithium-ion batteries ..."

https://www.eeworldonline.com/why-you-should-stop-fully-charging-your-smartphone-now/

Sony's recommendations:

"Charge your device just as much as needed. If you leave your device charging
for a long time after reaching 100%, the battery might be damaged."

"Avoid total discharges, as these can damage the battery and decrease the
capacity."

"Limit exposing your device to extremely hot (37°C or above/direct sunlight)
or cold environments (temperatures below 0°C)."

"If you plan to store your device for an extended period, charge it between
20 - 80% and then turn it off (Tip: this applies to any device with a
rechargeable battery)."

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/mobile-phones-tablets-mobile-phones/xperia-1-ii/articles/00232835

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00255462
Are you asking if system prompts change the output?

Try telling the model it's a pirate or someone who is just learning English. It can easily do that, so why would you assume that no system prompt would be the best for some specific problem?

You can tell them to be more critical, that's a useful one. You can tell it to not solve a problem but critique an output - then have two models talk to each other one as a critic and one as a planner.

I can help show the difference but I'm not sure quite what you think doesn't matter and feel like that's important to nail down first.

> You say that I should be "testing and measuring" as I go. How? What is the metric to measure?

Tools like promptfoo can help with some of this.

You can do comparisons, blind tests, measuring what your users prefer, you can use high quality models to test things like "does not mention it's an AI bot" or similar. It depends on what your task is.

Edit -

A lot of people don't properly test and have lots of things in their prompts that aren't necessarily helping, or may have been required in an earlier model but now aren't needed. Prompt engineering is more important in less powerful models or higher stakes situations.
Have you seen TV? Magazines? Newspapers?

People are just used to overload with ads.
High contrast is more colorblind friendly than having low contrast shades.
Sorry, I should have been clearer:

Without transformers, we can’t build new transformers.

Think of the supply chain involved. It all runs on electricity. We’ve built ourselves in to a corner where basically nothing is possible without power.

So yeah, go get that book from the library. Good luck smelting steel.
The Apple TV App Store is fairly extensive, and has apps for VLC and Plex
LTT just did a decent video on this where they maxed out the number of devices. Pretty sure they got well over 100 before issues started.
I feel the same way about OO tbh. When everything is just functions + data types it's all much more easy to reason about and maintain.

I have no clue have LV scales. But I have yet to see a React application that doesn't drive me crazy with the amount of indirection and complexity!
Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
Like, SBCL compiles and assembles directly to machine code, that's very much the Lisp way. But SBCL has a lot of C that's involved in getting the SBCL image running and interacting with the host.