skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[I'm on the Wing team]
The elevator pitch is that there are things we cannot do with existing languages, such as our inflights and their connection to preflights. This is because that if we used an existing language we'd have to support its legacy code and could not impose new limitations that are needed to execute the inflight system well. It doesn't mean that you cannot come close with existing languages, and there are nice projects that do that, it just means that you cannot go all the way.

The full version is here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/faq/why-a-language
It's effectively a legally enshrined global class system.

While I don't think it's practical to just abolish the concept overnight, I do think it's ultimately the direction we should try and move in. The freedom of movement the EU offers is a step in this direction, and something I'd like to see more of.
Alphacode 2 technical paper claims to solve 43% of problems (77 problems from 12 codeforce competitions) performing 85%ile on all human participants.

Caveat is deep in the technical paper,

1) generates 1m candidates from N different prior models (fine tuned on previous codeforces)

2) throws away 95%ile candidates (doesn't fit the test case + no compile)

3) groups semantically similar candidates

4) scores candidates from each group (Based on another scoring model, probably latency + descriptions etc)

5) Picks top 10

Makes 10 submissions and finally gets the score ..

sure this is how humans solve problems ... totally awed by AGI /s
For you, maybe, for absolute most of the ppl - not really, you can compare both nr of users and nr of searches
Maybe this depends on the experience of the therapist then.

When my wife was assigned a therapist after having a miscarriage, she got a young person who never had any kids. She almost got nothing out of the experience and it's hard to imagine what she could have.
Those costs will also be incomes from good high paying healthcare jobs for younger Japanese. A wealth transfer from the old to the young is eusocial. Remember that every expenditure is somebody else’s income!

Japan has its own central bank and the willingness to use it. Japan also has a highly advanced, productive, and diversified economy. They will have no problem paying for it themselves.

Edit: child doesn't understand the implications of Japan having its own Central Bank: "meaning that cuts or new revenue streams to support it will need to be used" is false. It's unsurprising though, because these same economic falsehoods, pervasively proclaimed, are used to present the enshittification of Western Europe and the USA as being somehow financially necessary.
A thirty minute stroll from home to the office could be considered a net benefit, in all honesty.
So if I'm understanding this correctly:

The SAM paper from this past April (that let you do zero-shot segmentation on any image, seemingly better than even OpenAI's CLIP) was using a ~600M parameter ViT model to generate image embeddings.
And in order to make it less computationally expensive to generate those same embeddings, they replace that model with a smaller ViT encoder that was pre-trained using the masked auto-encoder back propagation method?
Disabling secure boot takes like five seconds, I don't see what the big deal is.
If you’re spending millions with GCP you obviously have premium support and quite likely a dedicated technical account manager.

Whilst free GCP support is utter rubbish you will get several Googglers including direct line of comms to product management if you’re spending that much.

I don’t believe your claims
Thanks! I’ve had a good experience with the deepseek-coder:33b so maybe they’re on to something.
A lot of people on HN were very dismissive of chatGPT. I think you missed the boat. It's way beyond a stochastic parrot right now.

Whatever you call it, this thing is the closest to a human that a machine has ever been. Talking to chatGPT is quite close to talking to a human being that has the knowledge of all of google inside his brain.

If you're a developer and you're not paying for chatGPT or copilot you are literally operating at a disadvantage. Not a joke.
No, I am saying that the consensus has largely not changed(i.e. "Don't get infected") although we are ~4 years wiser and have ~400k research publications knowing how this single pathogen affects humanity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

I'm not arguing for or against preventative measures. I am arguing that our health officials could do a better job discussing what we know about it now to help individuals make choices.
Weird, I got my first smartphone this year and I thought the iOS interface was significantly less bad than my wife's Android phone's interface. She agrees enough she's switching.

I can think of a lot of other things that "AI" is being used as a band aid of that are far more obnoxious than iOS.
> Had a complete allergy test panel and I have zero reactivity to gluten, etc.

We don't currently have any accepted and reliable tests for the condition known as gluten intolerance.

Note that you can order celiac disease screening and you can order certain gluten allergy testing, but gluten intolerance is considered a third condition. You cannot currently order a test for this, so the negative test results you received were likely either for celiac disease or a traditional gluten allergy.

Also, note that there are more compounds in grains that you can be allergic to beyond gluten. Gluten gets the spotlight because it was the hot topic for many years, but it's possible to be fine with pure gluten but allergic to grains.

It all gets confusing, but the important thing is to remember that Celiac disease, gluten allergy, and gluten intolerance are three separate conditions and excluding one does not mean you can't have the others. It's also important to remember that there are many more compounds in grains than just gluten.

> If you have problems eating grains in the US, it's very likely a mold sensitivity, not anything related to gluten/gliadin.

That's quite a logical leap without any evidence. For what it's worth, I also have similar allergic reactions to grains but my experience doesn't differ at all when I travel to the EU.
How am I supposed to use CURL to read it offline if it requires JS?

Won't work in links2 or lynx either.
TBM's Game of Christmas
The first entry in my mission to make 52 small games in a year. A holiday variation on Conway's Game of Life
The USA doesn't care about your other passport, they won't make you do anything, or even know what you have to do according to the other country's laws.
I'm totally on board with it being a most-of-a-day job, for two people probably.

But not $10K for a mini-split.
The secret spy objects that helped shape the world
It's two parts, the compressor in a box with a big fan on the outside and a box on the wall indoors containing a refrigerant to air heat exchanger and a fan. The two are connected by pipes, typically three or four metres long, containing the refrigerant.

So yes, air-to-refrigerant-to-air. But your packaged terminal heat pump is also air-to-refrigerant-to-air. Both are just refrigerators turned inside out.

"“Packaged terminal heat pump” means a packaged terminal air conditioner that utilizes reverse cycle refrigeration as its prime heat source, " [1]

[1] https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/appliance_standards/s...

Most heat pumps installed in dwellings in Norway are capable of cooling the building as well as heating it. This is the one that will be installed in my house (in Norwegian, Google does a good translation job): https://www.toshibavarmepumper.no/varmepumper-luft-luft/tosh...
> Why would a consumer want a game, that they can't even resell?

Because it's less valuable than one that could be resold, and thus should be obtainable more cheaply.

What goes unsaid in all these threads is that people don't just want "ownership", they want it for the same price that they're currently getting whatever it is they're getting today. The inability to resell or lend something is priced in; the market has established that people will pay $x for a license to access something that they can't lend or resell.

Gabe Newell once said "piracy is not a pricing issue, it’s a service issue", but it's not, it's a value issue. The reason content providers don't provide the service people want is because they know no one would pay the price at which they would consider offering it, so they don't bother.
As long, as it doesn't support normal consumer hardware, AMD won't get the support Nvidia GPUs enjoy from community projects.
Pretty much everything I have encountered that tries to guess what I want is wrong, often wildly so. Software needs to stop trying to do this, or at least provide a setting to disable it.
Either they start coming to the office or their employment will be terminated. It’s not a resignation.
This is quite the recent removal then. I recall browsing a US government website around the start of the covid pandemic where one could check your entry and exit record.
In that direction, it's usually going to be about robustness -- more tooling, less edge cases, a wider developer base, built-in cloud support, and so forth. The more popular a database is, the easier just everything is.

Occasionally it's going to be some very specific aspect of performance limits, or a feature like spatial indexes that work in a special way. And occasionally it's going to be about cost or better integration with a particular cloud or other specific piece of tooling.
I've always wondered how this works on a technical level that makes it cheaper for Amazon to run but introduces multi-hour latency. Obviously Amazon employees aren't manually picking out hard drives from a shelf (...are they?). The article contains a bunch of possibilities and speculation but it looks like nobody outside of Amazon knows for sure.
I've heard something similar in regards to serious drug addiction.

The councillor can't just point out to the client to recognise how low they have fallen in their life because a percentage of them might find this realisation overwhelming and just decide to end it.

So, instead they tell the client that they are a victim of circumstance thereby resolving the client of their part in their own suffering.

The predicament is that by doing this a certain amount will die from overdose or other factors related to their addiction anyway.

While I am sure this is partially true I understand why this approach is taken. People have a tendency to push against criticism even if it is correct. Also there seems to be a bias whereby someone is more likely to go along with their own ideas than the suggestions of others. I guess this is due to the deep desire for agency that we all have as individuals.
Naive question: why not remove all sensitive data, or all data, from the notification and leave the context for a secondary API call?
I wonder how many members of the Housing Authority, and the people who appointed them, own property with values that would decrease with more housing on the market.
I followed a similar path. Apple II -> Amiga 500 -> Amiga 3000 -> 486. I still remember the day I got Shadow of the Beast on my A500 back in 1989. It was incredible. Sadly, by the the time the AGA machines (A1200/A4000) were released, it was clear the Amiga was on its way out. It was just too little, too late. Too bad Commodore let the platform stagnate for years.
Adobe Acrobat actually does pop up if you try to add a black highlight and asks if you meant to redact instead, but then you can't actually use the redact tool unless you pay for Acrobat Pro.
> The real reason for RTO is of course tax benefits that Amazon gets from local/state governments only if there are buts in seats in the office buildings (since people coming into the office means they are in the area which means that they spend money in local restaurants/shops, e.t.c)

Are these tax breaks enumerated and tracked somewhere? What departments would be appropriate to receive FOIA requests on the matter?
Any US citizen HAS to leave the US with their nationality. That’s the law.

U.S. citizens must use a U.S. passport to enter and leave the United States. This requirement is outlined in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, specifically 22 CFR 53.1. It states that a U.S. citizen must possess a valid U.S. passport to depart from or enter the United States unless they meet certain exceptions. This law ensures that U.S. citizens are properly documented for international travel, facilitating legal entry and exit from the country.
you don't have a passport from Germany?
The second of those links was discussed here:

Making Gaussian Splats more smaller - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37687134 - Sept 2023 (18 comments)
Who doesn't say dumb shit sometimes? Why would that bother me?
I've not kept up with the template complexity situation: do you have a sense for whether they're succeeding in simplifying things yet? (besides the benefit that Wikifunctions should bring)
JS arrays don't store their elements directly, they store references to their elements. (Unless the elements are primitives and the engine is using NaN-boxing or pointer tagging to store those inline, or something like that, which doesn't apply to ECS components generally.)

Depending on how the GC works, the elements themselves might still wind up next to each other in memory some of the time. But that is definitely not a pattern that you would expect to hold in general- components will be added and removed over the course of the game, with lots of other stuff happening in between.

In C++, the layout of the array elements is actually part of the language semantics. In JS, the language semantics don't even have a way to talk about that layout, and engines in practice don't use the layout you want.
No, I think this shows that adding customisability features to please a small minority of users into low level components can be a huge security risk. Secure boot and TPMs aren't the problem here, the inclusion of user-configurable images and insecure image decoders is.
Many people in my country charge at night. We get a cheaper rate - 7.5p/kWh vs 30p as the grid has excess capacity at that point.
AI is certainly adding new layers of innovation to the interface but I don't think it will ever replace it. It does feel like we're entering a new era of simplifying all the "bloat" as referred in this article. I think the future of things to come will be starting to make sense of all the bloat in more innovative ways as more more apps just get added everyday while the main interface (phone, tablet, monitor) doesn't innovate or establish a better interface based on first principles.
Chromebooks did this for a while; they had a write-protect screw on the motherboard that had to be removed to enter developer mode and/or flash custom firmware. Once you were done, you could reinsert the screw to lock it back down again.
Why can’t you enter Canada on your German passport?
Okay so maybe 5% of developers who use desktop will be willing to fork out on a GPU and go thru process of setting up something that costs $10 otherwise...
> The description is a little vague and hand-wavey. Here's a concrete example:

Much better description of what wikifunctions (the Wikimedia blog post seems more about where it fits in a broader strategy) is on wikifunctions about page:

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:About
Maybe Robert Scoble will post pictures of himself using Gemini naked in the shower.
No. There’s mandatory unemployment insurance/tax companies pay that will float employees terminated without cause for a little time, depending on the state. But it’s not high.

Large companies tend to give decent exit packages though.
In like 2-3 years and with minimum resources [1] thrown at it? Then there was never a chance at not reaching escape velocity anyway.

Though my take is that it more likely than not has started reaching diminishing returns. And the widespread use of it on the internet which was happened already, will poison even more the pool of training data (a data-processing snake eating its tail), slowing quality even more. Sorry, no Basilisk or other BS arriving any time soon.

[1] the cost of training even the largest current models is within reach of any company, and once the initial papers got going the code was quite simple and smooth sailing to improve
In a Elixir/Phoenix app I don't think this will be really used for web traffic and more for background/async jobs.
When I had the option of a 25 minute drive or a 35 minute bicycle ride I took the bicycle all the time. Exercise, sunlight, and the joy of passing stuck motorists in the bicycle lane.
There's a surprising amount of A100s available right now, everyone wants H100s very badly. Those are still really hard to find.

We also need GPUs for two things: training and inference. Our training needs a bunch of A100/H100 or large TPU nodes. But our final models are all pretty small (we're in ASR, TTS, translation, etc) relative to most commercial LLMs.

So we run a large amount of inference on GPUs like T4s, L4s, etc that are much easier to obtain.

Our intent was to try to find a unified, scalable platform that we could train/infer on that didn't have the cold boot problem AWS GPU instances have when our inference needs go beyond our dedicated hardware. With AWS the P99 cold boot times were over 5 minutes which means we'd have to queue inference and we'd end up paying for 5 extra minutes of GPU time. This isn't that big of a deal, but when you're spinning thousands of GPUs up and down it adds up to a ton of money every month.

Since our models require a lot less kernels than a lot of modern LLMs, TPUs seemed like a really good fit. But after dealing with GCP the last few months we abandoned our plans to port our model to JAX and decided to stick with GPUs for now.
No offense, but I can't seem to pull an actual point out of your comment.
Ask HN: How many other devs got this scam email?
Curious how many others who posted on HN: Who wants to be hired this month got this email:

"Hi, Ross.
I found you on HN Hiring and I'm very impressed by your professional skills. I'd like to invite you to our company.

We are looking for someone who will collaborate with us. We will send job applications to remote jobs and schedule job interviews for you. If you pass an interview, we will attend everything related to programming and you will attend meetings. We will work behind you and you can get more jobs as you can handle the meetings. And the compensation is, you share 50% of your income salary with us if you get hired. Let's imagine, if you run 10 jobs, you will make 5x money. If you are confident to pass interviews, it's no problem for you."

Unfortunately for them, I am much more likely to be good at doing the programming, than at doing well on the interview. Also, a job with all meetings and no programming is more or less my idea of Purgatory.

So, anyone else get this email?
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> Absolutely no one in Germany wants to deal with a brokerage account for me.

I lived outside for 11 years, but in Switzerland before the crackdown on American accounts. China was no problem, even with FACTA, they just didn't care much, even for investments.

If your husband has a USA permanent resident or on an immigrant visa, the same that applies to you applies to him as well, FACTA applies to all US citizens as well as residents.
They do keep track of when you leave by commercial air or sea, and I think there are data sharing partnerships with Canada/Mexico as well. Not sure if they keep track for citizens though, since there's no immigration enforcement reason for that.
>This law is so outdated and unfortunate.

What's your thoughts on the people who have citizenship and hold passports for dozens of countries? Would you consider them "citizens" of your country?

There's nothing outdated about it. Dual/multi citizenship is the weird concept here, it's used solely to skirt laws and taxation.

Why do your friends need Japanese citizenship?
Another abstraction layer library is: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

For me the killer feature of a library like this would be if it implemented function calling. Even if it was for a very restricted grammar - like the traditional ReAct prompt:

Solve a question answering task with interleaving Thought, Action, Observation usteps. Thought can reason about the current situation, and Action can be three types:
(1) Search[entity], which searches the exact entity on Wikipedia and returns the first paragraph if it exists. If not, it will return some similar entities to search.
(2) Lookup[keyword], which returns the next sentence containing keyword in the current passage.
(3) Finish[answer], which returns the answer and finishes the task.
After each observation, provide the next Thought and next Action. Here are some examples:

One parameter functions would be enough for the start (but maybe something that would work with multi-line strings - this line oriented grammar is kind of restricted).
The biggest pull with Gemini is that there isn’t a subscription fee…
Indeed -- and not coincidentally, this is why we don't have UEFI at all on the Oxide compute sled.[0]

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
Testing SQL is easy. E.g. the JVM has H2, which works for simple stuff, or you can use testcontainers, or just spin up a container and run your tests against that. You just run your migrations, insert mock data, and run your test.

In fact testability is one of the best parts. You can safely test read-only queries against a prod secondary database to see that it gives reasonable results on real data, and use the repl to explore parts of your query to really get a sense that things are working.
Sorry America, China has a bigger economy than youP
This one is particularly hard, since Microsoft still insists, after several decades of this nonsense, for who knows what insane reason, on only making every second version of Windows decent.

But the super long lifetime of Windows 10 (and probably 11) means that 12 isn't out yet. You used to be able to just skip every second version and only use the good ones, but now Windows 10 will likely be out of support before 12 is out.
[I'm on the Wing team]
Wing is still in early days so we can't show very complex use cases yet, but as time passes developer use to build more and more complex things with it.

Our aim is to improve productivity and speed by enabling developers to develop against a local simulator and visualization console, giving them instant feedback and much shorter iteration cycles.
By allowing them to work at a higher abstraction level we aim to reduce complexity, which should also lead to greater productivity.

I hope that in the future, as more developers use Wing, we can show case studies and benchmarks that prove our hypothesis are correct.
One may criticize usability in general without demanding undue attention on their specific use cases, and that seems to be what is happening here. Finding stuff is a common problem, and it does seem like there is a conspiracy to make things worse rather than better across basically all platforms (web/social search, mobile settings, even local files). It's deliberate sabotage of course.. We could provide least-surprise ux everywhere but corporations simply prefer to acclimate us to mediated experiences. Worst case users can't leave anyway, best case for corporate we learn to love the mediated experience we're given and shout down people who are saying simple common sense stuff (like wait, file search should show files, not websites).
Both. Fwiw lots of folks have yet to invest in OTel so the market is super open. We’re also trying to adjust our approach to leverage OTels community instrumentation when it makes sense. That means that ideally you’ll be able to invest in OTel if you want and we’ll just consume those spans.

The other thing to note: OTel doesn’t do everything and Sentrys error context is a big part of the value prop.