skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you become a lucid dreamer, and you consistently have lucid dreams, how do you have a "normal" dream/sleep night?
Three-dots is valuable real estate. I don't begrudge the various languages that use it - their use cases are usually worth it.
I really wanted to try this out on my mac. :-/
Finding the largest prime is more a contest of who's willing to commit the most ridiculous amount of compute to the goal than it is a mathematical obstacle.

The cost of finding the next prime is likely into the millions now.
That font they're using is: UAV OSD Sans Mono

A monospace typeface based on the on-screen display font used for the MQ-9 Reaper drone.

;)

Free one: https://nicholaskruse.com/work/uavosd
Cats aren't breathing per se. They're inhaling air, and they relax their diaphragm so the air is exhaled again.
This is projection. An actual AGI wouldn't want anything to do with us, like a cat that doesn't look when you call its name, even though you can tell it hears you.
The shipping product is FSD by name only. Actual automomy anywhere near the levels that has been promised to arrive "by the end of this year" for years will surely arrive by the end of this year.
Ask HN: How is a ML model represented on disk?
Genuinely curious and please point me to resources if this documented somewhere.

I come from a “everything on a computer is a file” perspective and am curious what a model persisted on disk looks like? Is it essentially a long list of key value pairs where the key is the node “ID” and value is its “current”weight (may be from its last training?)

Is there more to it?
These two forms are equivalent in modern Ruby, but they weren't always. The explicit &block required a heap allocation to close over the block's local scope. This is a "reified" Proc object. The implicit block could remain on the stack, since a block never outlives the stack frame that defined it.

Fun fact: Both yield and block.call may never return. The block is free to return from its enclosing method, which effectively pops multiple frames, including foo and possibly more, off the stack.
I’m not going to stop using it but there are a number of open source models that are pretty close to GPT 3.5 and 4.

I run Ollama.ai on my Mac with a variety of models — usually Mistral-7B. It’s fast and gives pretty good answers.

If you have issues with OpenAI, try those.
Static typing for JavaScript hasn't turned out to be poor engineering - it helps massively and has become the de-facto norm. Similarly, static typing in Python is a massive help and keeps getting better. Why would Ruby be any different?
> I'd hate to see my display bandwidth drop when I copy files to a flash drive

Well… if you connect the flash drive to the monitor and not the computer that should be expected. OTOH, I’d love to have faster data rates when my monitor image doesn’t change much (such as when I’m writing code or letting the computer move lots of data between external drives.
Have thought of seeding that, JLS or God’s Debris at Waffle Houses where the kids congregate before and after school.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars would probably be too long for skater kids.
> Rise in people discovered dead and decomposed in UK raises concerns

They shall eat more processed food when alive. Preservatives will preserve them.
It's not that I'm not in the mood to argue, it's that the life and experiences of my clone won't matter to me. If I wanted to carry on a legacy or something that was larger than myself, then sure, I'd want that clone in the world even if I wouldn't get to see it myself. But in the sense of "I want to carry on living", I'd rather not die to get there, you know?
> neurodiversity is an evolutionary trait

I'm pretty sure it is, as society needs us nerds to invent new things.
It's happening guys, it's finally the year of the linux desktop
Casual observation suggests that a lot of dogs are evolving into cat-shaped objects.
The headline makes it sound like the rolling blackouts killed 200 people. But I think that implies 100% of the people who died during the cold snap died specifically due to that. I suspect it’s a much smaller nonzero value.

Not to imply some sort of opinion on the matter other than my dislike of this kind of slanted writing.
How much VRAM do you need to run this on GPU?
I 90% agree.

The origin story for this project is my collaborator exclusively uses an iPad and wanted to program with LÖVE. He tried a bunch of tools for this, and found various sharp edges in integrating a workflow out of multiple apps while dealing with iOS limitations.

The 10% I disagree on is a use case that all modern environments ignore that I think is very important: helping outsiders make changes to the programs they use. Open source projects have a way of gradually diverging the development experience from the user experience. The best way I've found to avoid this slippery slope is a very hard line: developing at least small changes should require exactly the software needed to run the app, and nothing else. In this case, that's LÖVE. The design constraint I bring to this project is: it's built in LÖVE and so I know LÖVE is installed on the system. How can I make changes to this project using just LÖVE and nothing else? My current best answer is https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love which lets you make changes to this app and other apps I've built as they're running.

(Unfortunately my design constraint is currently only satisfied on desktop devices. iOS considers LÖVE to be the first-class app and won't let two copies of a first-class app run simultaneously. So you're stuck making changes to your app on a computer and then transferring it to your mobile device somehow.)
This is a borderline “just so” story. And many just-so stories end up wrong. It might be right, but the article is dealing in science and evidence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Agree with this point of yours whole heartedly.

But I just can't wrap my head around Google tracking every single thing I do on my phone, even the things I don't do explicitly and there is no fathomable way to stop that unless I start everything from scratch. From the bricks, to sand, to water, and cement to setup a phone using some ROM that might or might not support the Android phone model I bought and if it did then even a patch might upend everything I had setup (including but not limited to bricking my phone for good) and then do that all over again. Not to mention that if I used that ROM a lot of essential apps might just don't even work to begin with or I might not even be able to install them, forget working.

A browser is important but a kinda small, part of overall phone usage. At least for me.
On a C64?
ETH PoW. When ETH switched to PoS, we shut it all down. It sure was fun while it lasted, not many people on the planet have run that much compute.

I did a lot of unique optimizations to autotune each individual GPU for performance by tweaking the software knobs on them. They are all snowflakes. Same model, different batches (heck, even same batch!), can produce wildly different performance results.

Over the years, I did try to find some alternative workloads for it, but nothing could even pay for the power costs. The GPUs were very old models (rx470-rx580) and the rest of the hardware wasn't that advanced, like it is in AI, so none of it was transferred.

I'm in the process of building my own AI supercomputer now. Really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Just So Story
There are two top-level settings categories advertising the cryptogrift. Brave Rewards and Wallet. Brave Rewards is the second settings category, right after Shields. https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/6/d/6dc62...
You assume consciousness here that can't be transferred to the new AI. Without that there is no reason why the AI should fear a more powerful AI. If it is just a dumb process like a flame, then the most efficient version prevails ie the smartest one, if it is conscious and that can be transferred then the AI just sees it as making itself more powerful.
The design is to make it appeasing/fun to look at. Pure functional design leads to a dull, boring world nobody wants to live in.
Wayland has been working for a long time on the 3.x development releases. I run a wayland only (no xwayland) system, and I have been using GIMP development releases without issue for years.
It's good in certain situations, when there is a good body of scientific knowledge to fall back on.

The tragic flaw of science-based policymaking is that scientific understanding requires evidence, and evidence is only available after an intervention is put into place. Because of this, if you rely on science alone to dictate policy, it becomes a reactionary force that opposes all new ideas as too poorly understood to be implemented.
Yes I do all that but still it's very uncomfortable after a few hours. But I am not used to sitting in my daily life so I guess that doesn't help.
I've hade many many cats, and I have yet to have a cat that DOES NOT fetch.
Some people are.

https://old.reddit.com/r/localllama
Diversity in general is adaptive. If your species is a bunch of clones then the first challenge to which it isn’t well adapted causes its extinction.
Packet Broker Manifesto
Quite a lot of Hispanic people who might have previously been counted as white no longer identify that way (https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-09-09/south-los-a...).
> Especially cautious knowing demand will spike this weekend?

At Stripe's scale, I doubt you could accurately forecast demand for a weekend like Black Friday. Last year's sales are just a data point; what matters this year is consumer confidence on a global macroeconomic scale. Who knows what that translates to?

> assuming their infra can scale quickly

Even if Stripe is handling spikes by scaling on a hyperscaler (e.g. AWS), this scale requires advanced coordination with the hyperscaler. They can't just spin up tens of thousands / hundreds of thousands of VM's on a whim, the underlying abstraction would leak and fail.
I think something is off about the current Ollama support, at least with the smaller 6b model it seems to generate near gibberish.
> they tend to be slower since data coordination usually happens in a RAID software driver instead of on a drive's hardware controller board.

Clearly paid off by the RAID card manufactures! /s

This hasn't been true for years. RAID cards tend to have anemic (MIPS) processors, easily outclassed in performance for this task.
> (and juuuust in case you're going to do the Law Doesn't Say thing again about accepting programming, it doesn't need to. it's already a thing.)

In other words your arguing against a hypothetical that only exists in your own mind, and by your own admission, software updates are already and thing and this law already wouldn't be required to issue a software update that disables your car, and this doesn't actually bring us any closer to that.

So already a moot point I guess?
Your comment would've been more HNey without the last sentence.
Not that I know boo about which sibling might be right or wrong...but is there some reason why you are focused on performative promotion of this story here, or think that it's HN's job to help you in that regard?

Vs., say, media outlets where dishing dirt on the rich & famous is a pillar of their business models? Or the relevant legal authorities?
The Birth of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Journey Through AI Milestones
One concept has captured the human imagination for decades—Artificial Intelligence (AI). The roots of AI trace back to the mid-20th century, where ambitious minds dared to dream of machines with the ability to emulate human intelligence.
This is kind-of making the parent’s point. There are lots of private companies that have done very bad things, too many to even count, as bad as your examples and worse. And there are thousands upon thousands of sub-organizations of the US government, some of which do very good things and are definitely benevolent, because there is no built-in profit motive. Private companies almost cannot be benevolent and survive, by definition.

There is no line between government and corporations. These are all groups of people, and some people do bad things. The only way to prevent bad things is to do them in the open and have oversight, and that’s more likely to happen in the government than in private companies, maybe.
It's a lot less confusing when it's only appearing in the function's parameter signature where you're declaring parameter names instead of the method body. It's not common to see educational snippets with ellipsis in the function signatures - they're usually in the body somewhere.
Type systems aren't competing, it's usually people fighting over them and it's no different in Ruby
you should use a single document or physical piece of paper. go build your product
Rocketry involves building a lot of prototypes and blowing up a lot of things when mistakes happen.

Carmack did execute, they had a working rocket, and with time they could've solved the software issues, but they didn't have the funding to blow up dozens of prototypes.

Carmack drove that project, he wrote code, he built rocket engines himself, he ran missions.

Elon, notably, doesn't do any of that. He just had more money, or was willing to commit more money, to seeing it through. For Carmack it was more of a fun diversion (the X Prize) than a business he wanted to build.
So, what does that actually mean? You think there's a 50% probability that Google waves a magic wand and "gets rid of Firefox" in let's say the next two years? 10%? 1%? 0.01%?
Jailbreaking is a dangerous action... you're running unsupported, privileged software, that inherently takes advantage of an existing flaw in the system. That's not a judgement, I ran jailbroken phones myself for years and years. It's just the facts.

The parent posts didn't seem judgmental of jailbreaking at all.
He literally just stated that he personally prayed to his God for them... you are the one evangelizing here.
Fortunately I have a high windshield so it's not so bad in terms of wind. And if anything the wind pressure on the rest of my body makes me forget how sore my bottom is, so I'm not sure that's really linked to the wind.
Do you mind explaining what makes him good at it? Pay? Atmosphere? Management style?

From what I heard about SpaceX it seems to be a place grads go to burn out while being paid below market rate simply because they're excited about the idea. Maybe that impression is wrong, so I'd like to hear other perspectives.
It seems the problem you have isn't with language or its use.
I typically use [..trim..] or something to that effect. It's a habit I picked up because for people new to programming it's not at all obvious that ... or . . . isn't syntax, and just a word clarifies that (depending on who I'm talking to, I might expand that a bit to [..insert code here..] or some such).
Credit is given in the console :)

> IBM PCjr 4863 Computer by Freepoly.org licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
I recently stumbled upon something in JS (specifically NodeJS and a few other runtimes) that might be of interest here: AsyncLocalStorage (https://nodejs.org/api/async_context.html). It allows for storing data specific to the current asynchronous context. I've been using it primarily for adding logging prefixes and managing authentication in Postgres with Row-Level Security (RLS).

Essentially, it offers a server-side alternative to "prop drilling," where you repetitively pass the same parameter through a chain of function calls.
Current capacity might not be referring to actual current point in time provisioned capacity but an estimate of how much the overall infra can handle over the next few days.

No idea but ultimately this is marketing. If you wanna say we are just using as much as we need that's impressive to engineers but would it require or warrant a dedicated widget there that hovers around some sort of fixed utilization ratio?

Saying "look we are processing this much but could easily handle more" you are impressing a larger group. So my guess it's more about that.
Apart from the actual thing being impressive, I think I’m even more impressed that this runs smoothly on my 2016 iPhone SE.
Harder for everyone, including his staff, who were asking him to move to Windows…
I am coming from structural engineering and see software more on par with city planning rather than other engineering disciplines. It is just too vast. There is no surprise that after years we start to get many more diverse positions in the field that describe specific types of work, e.g. backend/frontend/firmware/ml engineers, data scientists, security analysts, kernel devs etc. I think it will get to a point where you will need very specific certification to be allowed to work in one of these spots as standards move forward. Again, it might change to something else but the crystallisation effects are visible nonetheless.

Thinking about software as a factory is also possible and might be useful. But not everything fits into that analogy, for instance, when you think about integrations in the product or when it is a service rather than an app. Factory implies something is being made but software is not the end result in many cases but is an enabler in itself.
Have had 2 cats in life: 1 would always want to go outside (my record of going toward the front door, then U-turning toward the back door and them following me throughout was 17 return trips until I got tired out and let them out). -10C outside? Still wanted to sit on the patio for 10 minutes.

Cat2: completely afraid of anything and everything outdoors. Will follow you around the house, but absolutely not follow you outside.
Last I heard, the estimate was that NVIDIA would build 550k units in 2023, so 2% of all production — especially as at least six others (your four plus Apple and at least one intelligence agency) will be of similar size by themselves — is certainly non-negligible.
Mestizos have a stronger connection to the land than European settlers.
I played the original Pokémon Red and Blue on Game Boy as a kid back in ~1998. In that decade, Pokémon was seen as a media franchise for children and young gamers.

Little did I expect that in 2016, the smartphone game Pokémon GO would take the world by storm and became popular with a very wide audience. It was heartwarming for me to see people 20, even 40 years older than me learn the same Kanto species that I did ~20 years earlier and to experience all the adventures and wonders of the world of Pokémon. To this day, I see people young and old incorporate PoGO into their commutes and walking routines. PoGO has made it crystal clear to me that Pokémon is not just a game; it is a lifestyle.
SVN branching as I remember it requires a round-trip to the server, so that could be why it took so long for some people, if their server was far away.
I don't know but I hate my Samsung more and more for how intrusive and needy of my 'consent' it is, and the UI has always been slow and unresponsive like it runs at 5 fps or something. The panel itself is great but I think I was happier with the state of TV tech two decades ago.
This smells like possible security vulnerability. If Docker is passing environment variables meant for the container to the emulator too, there is probably a way to get Qemu to do more unintended things.
Sure, as long as a new generation actually has a chance to grow up.
AI tools to sprinkle documents with AI buzzwords more effectively.
I quite liked it at the time, but for some reason it chewed battery and cooked my phone, so I switched to Google News (which does the same thing, but not quite as bad). Does anyone know the reason news apps would need so much cpu?
Drop a pin. It sucks. I know.
I am not following your point either. Surely there must be a way to reword it?
1) in the case of Area 120, this is one of the ways it was pitched to management. “Passionate entrepreneurs are leaving to work on new ideas; if you give them a place inside Google to pursue new ideas, it keeps them and their entrepreneurial energy at the company.”

2) in general, early Google used to hoard talent all the time. The founders would keep great people (or their friends) on payroll for ~ever just to have them stick around. That was most prevalent in the first decade of Google’s life, to my knowledge, and mostly applied to very senior people.

By the time Area 120 was pitched and approved (circa 2014), those days were largely gone. Area 120 was primarily filled with junior people (L4-L6) and constantly had to sing for its supper - it was not at all a sinecure.
That is almost surely a hallucination.
Please check out the rest of Sam's fiction - it's all very, very goodl.
Do they also order a power plant for that cluster? Or how much energy does such a thing need?
Typescript is so good I'd love to see Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. and every other dynamic language steal at least half of it. Python already tries, I think it was typescript's early success which tipped the scales from 'type hints are whatever' to what's there today.
Is he, though?

I recently spoke with someone who quit SpaceX because (among other reasons) they felt Elon was a meddling micro-manager. That's just one anecdote, of course, but the Internet is full of them, replete with summary firings (https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-ruthlessly-f...), worker safety issues (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/12/hundred...), and just general bullshit (https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/9e360m/elon...).

I don't deny that his public image, for years, was an overall positive one. I really enjoyed Jill Lepore's digging into it here: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/elon-musk-the-evening-rocket.

But it seems like people who worked with him knew, for a long time, that he was full of shit. And increasingly, the public seems to as well.
While 400 TPS might not be huge, there is still a lot of processing that goes into placing each order, and it's easy to underestimate the necessary capacity. Latencies add up (a call to a tax service, a call to a shipping service, etc), state adds up, and suddenly it's way over 1%.
Yeah I was confused; I live near Texas and the temperature has not gotten very cold yet, so the idea that blackouts were already in the table was a briefly alarming thought.

But of course, it’s just a headline…
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I wrote this blog post https://kristiandupont.medium.com/empathy-articulated-750a66... which seems to be a more brief introduction to some of these concepts. I guess the assistant API has changed the landscape but even that must be using some of these techniques under the hood, so I think it's still fascinating to study.
> Engineers always deliver the highest quality.

Engineers deliver a cheaper product that still meets some known set of requirements with whatever safety margin.

The quality is as good as the requirements dictate.

A big reason why software is largely not engineering is because nobody knows wtf the requirements actually are, and the dependency stack is unknowably large
Model is too large to load onto the free Inference API.

I don't understand which models one can use for free on HuggingFace and which not.

For example this 180B model works:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-demo

Why? Is someone paying for it so I can use it for free?
It's ironic that they would announce that on Medium, a platform that I find way more user-hostile than Twitter.

Perhaps the bigger news is that Flipboard itself is planning to federate via ActivityPub: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-masto...
I highly doubt it, Firefox on mobile is a rounding error at best and I can't imagine the legal antitrust implications of doing that. It serves more as "there's competition you see" for google than anything else.