skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the pro audio side gets a bit more love. I've installed PW for the first time on my Ubuntu 22.04 (through https://pipewire-debian.github.io/pipewire-debian/) and so far have been experiencing high CPU usage on Bitwig Studio v5.0.11 when trying to send audio from and to my Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6, and I have no idea what the culprit might be.

I'm going to try a bunch of stuff and hopefully be able to take advantage of this wonderful technology (that has already come _so_ far!)

I should probably document my troubleshooting ventures. Does anyone know a nice hosted blog that supports Markdown / CommonMark and RSS syndication? Is Substack a good option?
Build a big 3D Lego city in Blender
I think the main alternative design is to treat strings like in Rust or Go.

The problem with the “array of code points” idea is that you end up with the most general implementation, which is a UTF-32 string, and then you end up with the fastest implementation, which is a UTF-8 string, and maybe throw in UCS-2 for good measure. These all have the same asymptotic performance characteristics, but allow ASCII strings (which are extremely common) to be stored with less memory. The cost is that now you have two or three different string representations floating around. This approach is used by Python and Java, for example.

The Rust / Go approach is to assume that you don’t need O(1) access to the Nth code point in a string, which is probably reasonable, since that’s rarely necessary or even useful. You get a lot of complexity savings from only using one encoding, and the main tradeoff is that certain languages take 50% more space in memory.

Python and Java both date back to an era where fixed-width string encodings were the norm.
To be fair, that includes a huge portion of the games available on a Steam Deck right now, given that Wine (and by extension Proton) currently only support running via XWayland. On the other hand, that's argument in favor of Wayland from my perspective; if something I want to run doesn't support Wayland, it doesn't actually stop me from using it.
I have, yeah. Mostly kind of a professional friendship, haven't talked in quite a bit though.
Much simpler: it trains your heart.
deadgrep is nice too
Maybe it's time to hit them up ;)
Have you ever been on a stair climber?
I understand the sentiment, but it's the wrong approach. Better to embrace and integrate than to bitterly fight what's inevitably coming. Every technology has had its negative impact, there's always something that dies and can't be replaced. But, something else takes it place and gets brought to life, and that's beautiful in it's own way.
Apple is not on my tech radar at all due to their approaches to product design and their developer business model.

In about 6 months, I won't consider Google either. I'll simply start targeting reasonable, good, healthy Web standards and implement them with progressive enhancement.

If they support the standards, then there won't be a problem.

The Web is fragmenting and it's gonna be ugly.
Some Startup Job Questions
Me neither... at least not yet.
The BBC ran a photo feature from the year of a my birth a while back. They titled it "Relics of a bygone era."
The point I took away is that almost all biological life is optimized for energy efficiency in its ecological niche. Any interplanetary species would be beyond those constraints, and would either evolve or engineer their way out of them as soon as possible to, you know, live! Not to mention eradicate disease, travel the galaxy, etc.
If you pay enough attention you'll start to notice the same users names across comments and threads. Hallmarked by ignoring any replies, repeating their pet peeve, repeating experiences from years ago as if they were recent re-tries, and ignoring the laundry list of features possible with Wayland that are impossible or declared as never happening with X11.

I made the mistake, I clicked the thread, and even replied. Meanwhile, I too have been using Wayland for years without issues. I'm on multiple video calls a day for work. I give screen share demos on Discord and Meet. Literally the only issue I've ever had was gamma ramp support, due to Nvidia, and they've even finally fixed that

Idk, see the Pipewire threads for more examples. And/or insert the link to the XKCD comic about the foot pedal. It's all so damn entitled too, from seeming OSS adjacent folks that apparently don't understand the first thing about OSS work. Those same people will never even acknowledge that "Wayland devs" ARE THE DAMN "X11 devs" and they've all declared X11 bankrupt. Buncha people here need to start ramping up on their non-XWayland X11 codebase knowledge if they think they're going to go the MATE route or something.
Marrying within the community is not marrying (near) cousins. Once you are beyond 2nd cousins, you might as well be not related (for disease purposes), and the old Hindu scriptures go even further than that.

Specifically, men and women would not be married within the same village, but within the same community in other villages (which may only be within a radius of 50km, but that is a lot of people).
>to make the code useful you need data and that data might be free but not open sourced under any license

To use something like Meta’s open sourced LLAMA2 model you don’t need the data. The model is self contained. It’s a compressed lossy form of all the data it was trained on.

The weights allow you to continue its training with new data of your choosing.
The research is pointing towards having some movement each hour. Walking (stairs), micro workout, etc.

The new paradigm for health and longevity the focus is on frequency of excersice/movement instead of duration.

This research collaborates the new paradigm.
Replit has a mobile app.

Also, I wrote a simple web page where I can run JavaScript or a Python-like language I created called Pith.

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
I have, several people from around the workd that I was fortunate enough to spend time with IRL.

I owe so much to HN, I wish I could contribute back to it somehow.
Wanted to plug this alternative that was developed as a result. I have no association with this, just a fan of the design (the whole thing, not just the visual design):

https://limereader.com/

I haven't posted much there (at all) in awhile so I'm guilty as anyone but am not sure why. I think a chicken-and-egg thing?

My sense is the quality of posts on smaller subreddits I frequent declined perceptibly but not dramatically after the blackout. In a lot of the subreddits it seems like the diversity of topics went down and the posts got a little more superficial or something.

I personally started frequenting old-fashioned forums more often again for certain topics.

Some things are hard to beat the subreddits though, and I've noticed they have slowly started returning to their prior quality (in a qualitative, not value sense). It seems like a lot of them that attempted to migrate to other places (lemmy, kbin, etc) never quite reproduced the subreddits, although I've been surprised at the staying power of some.
They can install an open-source OS/browser and ignore Microsoft, Google, and Apple. There is nothing they can realistically do when they don't trust a government.

Governments ultimately derive their power from their ability to impose their will by violence. That makes them inherently less accountable than organizations that you are free to ignore.
Weston developers recently NACKd the window placement protocol (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...).

I believe this one of the features pcsx2 wants to see merged. Hopefully, this doesn't mean weston developers can block essential protocols.
The problem with stationary bikes or ellipticals is that’s it’s easy to go easy. You have to want to push, and this is why classes and leaderboards are popular. There’s also the fan bike which will destroy anyone lol
Short story mentioned at the end of the blog post by Russ Cox
Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler
, October 25, 2023, https://research.swtch.com/nih .

(Post discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020792 )
> Think of the images from the world over of indigenous women going about their days largely with their young children strapped to them.

Note how the extent you went is imagery rather than hard numbers, you don't have a leg to stand on.
You demonstrably don't understand what open source means, which is basically my point, that people like Lecun have been trying to corrupt the meaning to be equivalent to "source available".

I agree with the point you made elsewhere that releasing the data is irrelevant.
One of my favorite conspiracies is that reddit is mostly just LLM's and paid agents talking to eachother. Employed by various intel agencies, governments, and reddit themselves trying to astroturf and sway conversation in one direction or another.
I owe a lot to HN too! Thanks HN! This is my way of contributing atm. I wanna tell you that you all are amazing people and smarty pants.
The actual paper is more interesting than the title.

This is:

- A) once again taking an algorithmic approach to fooling classifiers which outperforms human jailbreaks.

- B) bypassing image-based classifiers (ie, post-generation classifiers trained to simply look at an image and to say whether or not it's inappropriate).

- C) explicitly taking cost of generation and querying into account in its algorithm (it's not just asking if generators can be fooled, it's asking how to fool them without breaking the bank).

- D) taking re-use into account (can an adversarial prompt be used multiple times in a row and how often does it succeed?)

I wouldn't call the research particularly surprising, but it was a decent quick read and (imo) some of the commentary here isn't really doing it justice. I will probably go back at some point and read it in more detail rather than just skimming over it.

There are multiple takes about what AI safety filters are meant to do and whether jailbreaking is a problem. My take is that I don't particularly care that much about jailbreaking other than that it shows that current safety mechanisms and guiderails are insufficient for any kind of alignment, including guarding against malicious 3rd-party inputs or prompt injections. I've said in the past, if you can't keep a model from swearing or generating porn, you also probably can't keep it from abusing API access to read your emails, phish you, and send your info to a 3rd party.

But there's interesting stuff here regardless of what your take is on that.
All that paper! I moved out of my house a few years ago and was amazed at how much paper handling infrastructure I had accumulated over the decades (I got rid of it all). File cabinets and file folders, ring binders, hole punches, pens, envelopes, binders, clips, sturdy pouches for travel documents, receipts, etc; transparencies and pens and brochures, and I was notorious for being a low-paper guy! Just chucked it all out.

Plus scientific papers, preprints, working papers and prepublished books for review. Kept the lab notebooks (the ones I wasn’t required to turn over to my employers).

And you had to carry a bunch of it (why I was so anti-paper) which was heavy — you were basically carrying tree branches with you wherever you went.
Do you enjoy running?
I'm generally still logged-in. But I don't have any subscribed subreddits. What I have instead is about half a dozen bookmarks in my browser. So I don't have a personal front page showing my subscribed subreddits. Only if I activate a browser bookmark will I see any reddit posts, and even then I only see the particular subreddit that the browser bookmark supplies.

Those daily hours I used to spend on Reddit are now practically non-existent.
Users who need this will disagree.
Going meta for a moment, this argument begs the question, assuming the conclusion "Therefore LLMs are not intelligent" in the premises "No intelligence can be ascribed to LLMs".

I'm not convinced it's even possible to come up with a principled, non-circular definition of intelligence (that is, not something like "intelligence is that trait displayed by humans when we...") that would include humans, include animals like crows and octopuses, include a hypothetical alien intelligence, but exclude LLMs.

I'm not arguing that LLMs are intelligent. I'm arguing that the debate is inherently unwinnable.
The accuracy of most statements in this thread are the same.
I lost my cousin and to bury him it costs 15 thousand we only have 5 thousand, can you help me by donating or reposting my Twitter?

https://x.com/msmello_/status/1728855488149012912?s=20

Thank you tho, I am reaching through here because I dont have any other place, sorry about that.
I think there's two ways to name things and I think the cattle or pet metaphor is useful here.

If the typical user will use the thing once and then forget about it or if they are not going to keep it in mind very often make sure to give it a descriptive name.

But for some things having a descriptive name might not be the most important aspect of its name. Having a findable or memorable name might be more important. And maybe sometimes giving it a descriptive name might actually become a problem because its function might change over time.
If you go to the article and check all the author affiliations Lu Qi is the only one at Tulane. It’s not like Tulane doesn’t have a biostats department.

https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(2...
for the past decade or more, the bourgeoisie and bohemian types have cheered and sneered along the lines of "if your job can be taken away by an immigrant, you aren't good at it".

well, now their jobs are going to be taken away by computers who will do it for fractions of a penny, And That's A Good Thing, Here's Why.
Yes wayland supports fractional scaling without issues. At least I have had no issues.
> Tools like ChatGPT further open up the creative process to larger numbers of people. It removes the traditional gatekeepers which is why they are pushing back so hard.

In what way was the "creative process" closed off to those people before?
Wow, another problem that the Land Value Tax solves
The distinctive thing about the type of reddit humor I think they're talking about is how referential it is. You don't so much make a clever joke as invoke the standard joke on its trigger phrase or subject.

I see plenty of jokes on HN but they are usually part of a comment that would be made anyway. Joke-only comments also aren't that rare and when they're clever and specific to the context are usually pretty well received.
I would hesitate to call MacOS flawless. When I had to use it (m1 pro), it had more issues than Fedora with gnome (which has virtually no issues on the 4 systems I have running it). MacOS wouldn't work with thunderbolt dock, wouldn't work with some monitors / resolutions, requires a paid app to get middle click on touch pad (which is beyond laughable, but goes to show Apple users will pay for anything). The settings GUIs have more legacy than Windows. The updates are terrible... it will uninstall dev tools after an update, and looking at the size of them it's like it downloads and reinstalls the entire OS each time.
Fair enough. I could've phrased that better such as "I find his proto-Millenarian approach to be discursively vacuous, unnecessarily polemical, and not productive towards the answering the very real questions regarding negative externalities around the increasing rate of AI utilization in global society."
ChatGPT is actually very, very good at translation in my experience. I’ve been quite shocked by how good it is.
Cobalt: Save What You Love
> the folks who have kids that we are truly good friends with live far away. Nearby we have playdates and dinners with other families but I wouldn't want to cohabit with them, not even for an overnight stay

many such cases
Like...at bars? All it takes is a fake id and away you go
It may be a difference in terminology, but it's definitely no straw man.

There's a philosophy of open source based on recipients being able to make any small and large modifications to the source material as they see fit.

Just being able to build new projects with something or read what it does not qualify in that context -- it requires the freedom to rework the thing itself to suit your own needs and ends.

In the case of these models, that philosophy would have the source training data and the training algorithms themselves available, editable, verifiable, and repeatable. Ignoring the financial challenges, a truly open source model would let you remove, add, edit, or reclassify a sample in the original training data and then build new weights of their won.

The released weights are not that kind of open source, and that's what these arguments are generally making the a case for.

There are still plenty of grounds from which to critique that argument if you wanted to, but there's no straw man involved in it.
Who is "we"? Selling to whom? Why stop?
Ok but that's not what was posted. The OP looks reasonable to me.
I've gotten a job through HN which has turned in to friendship if that counts. Every now and then meetups popup too which are cool
Hence super expensive.

I don't know why our city council and planning boards waste so much time on "affordable housing" when it's clearly not fixable.

The economics don't make sense to have a highly desirable place to live with a highly constrained housing supply and also make it affordable. The affordable housing plans here basically boil down to a lottery.
This is about deep learning, of which LLMs are a subset. If you are interested in machine learning, then you should learn deep learning. It is incredibly useful for a lot of reasons.

Unlike other areas of ML, the nature of deep learning is such that its parts are interoperable. You could use a transformer with a CNN if you wish. Also, deep learning enables you to do machine learning on any type of data, text, images, video, audio. Finally, it can naturally scale computationally.

As someone pretty involved in the field, I lament that LLMs are turning people away from ML and deep learning, and following the misconceptions that there’s no reason to do it anymore. Large algorithms are expensive to run, have slow throughput and are still generally poorer performing than purpose built models. They’re not even that easy to use for a lot of tasks, in comparison to encoder networks.

I’m biased, but I think it’s one of the most fun things to learn in computing. And if you have a good idea, you can still build state of the art things with a regular gpu at your house. You just have to find a niche that isn’t getting the attention that LLMs are ;)
It's only open source if you can generate the binary weights from the training data and the training algorithm and training (hyper) parameters, from scratch. Releasing only the binary weights, does not make it open source, just like releasing only binary executables has nothing to do with open source.
> You demonstrably don't understand what open source means, which is basically my point, that people like Lecun have been trying to corrupt the meaning to be equivalent to "source available".

You demonstrably don’t understand what it means to open source an AI model. The code is not relevant at all, the same code will not produce the same model weights, it is not deterministic.

Also you will need millions of dollars to retrain, retraining is not the goal. The model weights are the source that was opened.
How is the window manager going to handle the positioning in a scenario like multi-viewport? The user already conveyed their intent by dragging a window out of the application's viewport to create a new viewport, and Wayland is prohibiting the application from obeying the user.
You are completely missing the point Cave is making. He is not arguing against ChatGPT as a technology. He is reminding songwriters that writing lyrics is not a meaningless obstruction standing between them and a commodity they are producing. The process of writing lyrics is what makes them songwriters. The attempt to "optimize" this process to such an extent that it removes the songwriter from it is a dead end.
Isn't that pretty ironic, given the speech leads to the spherical intelligences to take him for a ride, manipulate and trick him, and almost kill him and four of his men?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Tomorrow?wprov=sfla1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425415

You should probably also point out the big red text on the subredditstats pages. I didn't see it when I posted the links, since I'm colorblind and hues of red are entirely invisible to me. Also I have trouble counting past the number of fingers on my hands, so I didn't notice that the numbers were a bit off. If I had noticed that, I still would've needed one of the very clever people here to explain the significance.
Right but if the workers themselves are content and it didn't take a union to get them there, why the hell are the unions hurting the lives of Tesla workers with this in the meantime?

It seems more like unions are bloated organizations wherever they are, and they want to maintain/increase their own power even when it is not necessarily to the benefit of workers.
You’re a very lucky guy. I have seen it in pretty much every X system I’ve used.
>Hopefully, this doesn't mean weston developers can block essential protocols.

Of course it means that. Weston developers are core developers of the Wayland protocol, as are developers of other compositors. Also, not only weston but wlroots also NACK'd it (for the same reason). If compositors refuse to implement a protocol then there's no point to merging such a protocol.

Also to be clear, it was blocked from being added to xdg- namespace, and was thus moved to ext- namespace where it can still be worked on.

Edit: See details in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/b...
This is particularly true for strength training. Older people who do not train for strength can atrophy and lose functional capacity. Nobody who can squat 150 pounds is having a hard time getting out of a chair, nor is someone who can do 15 pound curls having an issue picking up groceries.
Thanks. I'd be interested to learn what direction your orchestrator search goes in.

My thought usually is how to make any environment the equivalent of an appliance and require as little upkeep as possible.

I have been contemplating how Terraform may be able to sit in a private/hybrid cloud design, but haven't looked into it much.
No, the metro I live in does not have a preponderance of HN users. I can name maybe 3 or 4 (not counting one that dang banned)
Do you mean this cmd package?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/cmd.html

If so, that's entirely orthogonal to the problem. cmd is for writing the interactive "front end" to a command-line interpreter; it doesn't help at all in writing Python scripts to replace shell scripts (which typically run with no interactive interface at all).

The sort of problem I think fragmede is alluding to is that of writing Python code to emulate a shell script construct like:

some-command 2>&1 | LANG=C sort | uniq -c | wc -l

e.g. constructing pipelines of external commands. It's certainly possible to do this in Python, but I'm not aware of any way that'd be anywhere near as concise as the shell syntax.
Irrelevant, write clearly or others will interpret it differently than you intended.

Twitter now being called X can go undetected by users, simply because everything still works the same as before the non-completed namechange.
> submitted short stories to this site

Now that you reminded me, I submitted a story that Russ Cox mentioned at the end of his post discussed a month ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020792

It's "Coding Machines" by Lawrence Kesteloot, January 2009, and it has a lot to do with Cox's piece, Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler