skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My goal was never an aggressive growth strategy. I am sure I never mentioned this once on my website.

Strongly implied given your defined target market.

"poor/middle class" combined with "AI magically generating buy signals" is only going to lead to one thing, people who cannot afford to take risks blindly following an AI bot that is highly-likely to be wrong.

You really need to ramp up the due-diligence messaging on your website. And you also need to ramp up the "bot is unlikely to be right" messaging too.

I wish you well on your endeavor, I'm just cautioning you against overselling the skills of a bot that you've just thrown a kitchen sink of data at in the hope that something sticks.
Bioinformatics courses for life science students
Surge in number of 'productive' authors concerns scientists
The security of supply standards are conservative. Good for reliability, but this comes at a price. This report goes in to more detail: https://www.dcode.org.uk/assets/uploads/IC_Report_exec_summa...

~20 years ago, the regulator introduced an incentive scheme to reduce customer interruptions and minutes lost. This resulted in heavy investment in network automation in the UK.
Do you sleep? Haha.
What is this "productivity score"? Did they just ask people if they feel productive and call that a "score"?

I couldn't find that info in the article.
Article does not answer the question on its title.
> "Math" consists of assigning meaning to a set of symbols, blindly shuffling around these symbols according to arcane rules, and then interpreting a meaning from the shuffled result. The process is not unlike casting lots.

Form that Brett Victor.

Wow
Time will tell!

So far in networks in general we've increased the size of data we're interested in moving at roughly the same rate as we've increased the throughput available. It's repeatedly been 'fast enough', and then not.
Perhaps surprisingly I do agree with you, I often talk about civilization having a Peak Comfort and that we should try to find contentment and sustainability over driving for progress toward some yet defined goal.

Two things come into the conversation though, while some of us have probably hit peak comfort it is not exactly universal. The second is we still haven't solved the energy problem, and it is us getting in our own way that is doing it. A megaproject of some kind can kind of sublime the status quo and make grand leaps forward in spite of ourselves. Maybe not a geothermal plant harnessing the earths's subterranean magma, but truly massive renewables installations or just actually doing nuclear power at last.

I hear what you are saying though. I would love to see some kind of utopian near future megaprojects solve the energy problem, but that is with the assumption that we did our homework, and our current track record is pretty bleak in that regard.
You can't be a team player while being in 1-man team, and everybody else doing their own stuff not related to your goals. That's not much of a team work.
Don't mistake price of production and selling price.
When it takes times to construct additional production, you can sell the electricity at very high cost but have a low production cost.
There's an episode of The Wire, in which Presbo finds kids in his class betting on dice; so he collects the dice from all the board-games in the school store, and starts running classes on probability. The kids are totally engaged, and they start winning money from street-corner dice games.
There are no absolutes, especially with LLMs. What if tooling altered output by 0.01 percentage, the general variance of output is 5 percent and to build alternative to that tooling would cost quite a bit of money and time?
They are focusing hard on small models. Sooner or later, you'll be able to run their product offline, even on mobile devices.

Google was criticized [0] for offloading pretty much all generative AI tasks onto the cloud - instead of running it on the Tensor G3 built into its Pixel Phones specifically for that purpose. The reason being, of course, that the Tensor G3 is much to small for almost all modern generative models.

So Mistral is focusing specifically on an area the big players are failing right now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37966569
Pretty much as with OSS in general: Lagging behind the cutting edge in terms of functionality/ux/performance, in areas where and as long as big tech is feeling combative, but eventually, probably, good enough across all axis to be useable.

There could be a close-ish future where OpenAI tech will simply solve most business problems and there is no need for anything dramatically better in terms of AI tech. Think of word/google docs: It's doing what most businesses need well enough. For the most part people are not longing for anything else and happy with it just staying familiar. This is where Open Source can catch up relatively easily.
I would recommend thinking long and hard if you really need a file system on a microcontroller. What do you intend to use the file system for? If it's only for read-only assets like images or sounds use a linker script to collect them into a sorted set. If you want to write logs a ring buffer is faster, simpler and more resilient to corruption. Configuration settings are small enough and don't too frequently in most systems so a ring buffer or just a pair of double buffered flash pages with a checksum and version counter can be enough.

LittleFS is tries to hit a sweet spot that only exists on MCUs with NOR flash and relatively much RAM and fast CPU cores. The problem is that it's complex compared to the alternatives. The two most common alternatives I can think of are FAT which will wear out flash given half a chance and SPIFFS which is simpler and slower than LittleFS.

FAT is a terrible file system for writing on a MCU, but because of its history as the file system for floppy disks it's still supported by every desktop operating system. This makes it perfect to allow users to edit configuration files stored on a microSD or replace assets like background images without having to use specialised tools.

The annoying answer: it depends.
> advanced math there is no place to hide flawed logical thinking

If that's what you think, your math isn't advanced enough :P (disclosure: neither is mine)

These days mathematical proofs tend to be dozens of pages long and require multiple experts days to check and validate.

I'm pretty sure programming fits your descriptions of nowhere to hide flawed thinking though.

> To the extent algebra and calculus are not useful outside of STEM degrees or in “real life” is indeed what makes them useful since it allows them to remain essentially the only abstract thinking course high school students will be exposed to.

Sure, but if "useless" things are desired, why don't we teach them comparative history of Hobbit society instead?
Pocket PHP on Android is free, includes an editor and will run as a rudimentary server on a local network (or usable on your own phone).
> For the BLM, the stats actually support that you are slightly less likely to be killed by the police if you are black

I think you meant more likely not "less". And even in thay case, this [1] is statistics up to before covid that shows that it is actually 3 times ratio between black and white risk of being killed by a police. This does not constitute "slightly".

> But there are vastly more interactions of black people with the police, and those are aligned with crimes committed, including crimes which stats are unlikely to be affected by policing practice (eg murders).

That would be true of any race or group of people. They have much more interactions with police other than those which will result in death.

> People are focusing on extreme percentiles of distributions, like % of engineers at google, or board members of major companies, ie looking at 0.001%-ish percentiles, where even minor differences in distributions may have a dramatic effect

Yes, and that's actually how personal stereotypes works. Your experience with people is very limited to form an opinion about race, nationality...etc. It is not even extreme percentile like top or bottom but it is a small percentage that people use to build their opinions.

> but if the recruitment process is fair, all the people who passed the threshold are equally capable

If the process involve human judgment or evaluation, then biases start to be a huge factor that prevents establishing a clear threshold. Unless you have something like a standard exam that will be taken without human interactions. You will always be working under the assumption that the process is not 100% fair. That is actually hard problem to solve especially at big companies. I don't know a solution that can give the best outcome and I don't envy people who have to do it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/09/30/study-us-po...
[Not the person you're replying to]

Vscode has a built-in (and quite good) 3-way merge editor, and an excellent editable diff view. GitLens also makes it easy to diff any two refs within vscode.
You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?
I think I've built up a caffeine tolerance. I've drank coffee and tea habitually for over a decade and for a period of time I drank a lot of coca cola.

I don't drink coffee to feel awake/energized or stay awake. I just drink multiple cups a day out of habit. I like having a hot drink to sip on while I am doing other things.

I've given up coffee for 1-2 months before and didn't feel any different. I didn't get any buzz when I started drinking it again. I've tried to replace coffee with just hot water but it's not the same.
Until we can verify, I think it’s safe to place the in the smoke category. It’s invite only so until it hits GA it’s impossible to know if the pricing is real and the true capabilities of what they are offering.
Thank you.

Piracy is still way ahead of this madness
> The caveats I can see are that 1. it's approximately append-only[0], and 2. you have to replay the whole thing in order to make sure you have the latest version of a file

Hmm. I'd go and build a separate metadata/index file that you keep updated on each write(=tar-append) operation. Grow the tar from the beginning of the underlying block device, and the metadata from the rear, and have a pointer in the filesystem header that points to the current metadata address.

That way, everything is atomic, you avoid the RAM penalty from having to maintain the metadata mapping, and the only operation that can result in damage in a power-loss event is when the write of the filesystem header messes up - but that can easily be reconstructed by walking both the tar stream and the metadata stream from the beginning to the last element that has a valid header.
Agree. What is 'thinking' anyway. Maybe humans are autogressive next token predictors as well, thinking is just our way of saying sampling.
Ironically they can only do that without the trig functions.

Imagine asking somebody on Bloomberg how they would model and quantify the "economic cycle" using trig. :D
I don’t think it’s safe to assume any of this. It’s still limited release which reads as invite only. Once it hits some kind of GA then we can test and verify.
Business Insider reported that Musk's luck had run out and SpaceX was an utter disaster in 2016, when it was worth around $15bn. [1] Today, it's worth $175bn in the private market. [2]

Forgive me if I discard the reporting of a company with this record, and with undisclosed bias via its shareholder Jeff Bezos.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bad-news-could-get-worse...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/12/07/elon-musks-spacex-valued-at-1...
The easiest and most reasonable option would be to honor GDPR and similar laws.

If you scam people in country A from country B, you're criminally liable to country A even if it's not a crime in country B. Same if it's espionage (cf. Assange), piracy (cf. TPB) and so on. Why should infringing on privacy rights be any different?
Beauty has always been a subject of the eye of the beholder. Ie, it's very much subjective.
Mamba has shown SSMs are highly likely to be contenders for the replacement to transformers in a really similar fashion to when transformers were first introduced as enc-dec models. I’m personally very excited for those models as they’re also built for even faster inference (a major feature of transformers being wildly faster inference than with LSTMs)
Windows 11, for all its faults, enables me to do the things I want to do on a computer. Likewise Android, and to a lesser degree even iOS and MacOS I admit.

Linux however demands me to do the computer, it doesn't enable me to do anything because I'm too busy doing computer bullshit. This isn't necessarily surprising, since the goal of Linux (more accurately FOSS) is to use FOSS and isn't concerned about what I need/want to do.

So no, most people (or at least myself) will not move from Windows to Linux. I use computers to do things, not preach the holy scriptures of FOSS.
Every sentence in your comment is factually incorrect.
Linux 6.6.6
I began blogging in the early 2000s when blogging on blogspot.com, wordpress.com, livejournal.com, etc. was quite popular. While they were pretty good for quickly writing and publishing content using their built-in layout templates, I also cared about customising the HTML templates to suit my taste. To my disappointment, I found working with their HTML templates clumsy. For example, with blogspot.com, I would spend a few hours customising the template to my needs and then a few months later they would make an update to the website, such as adding a few new elements or removing some, which would then end up rendering my template in a slightly different way that I might not have anticipated.

I have since moved away from blogging platforms. I have my own little Common Lisp program and my own HTML templates, all handwritten from scratch, and I am very happy with the results. The biggest benefit of this approach I find is that the layout does not change or break every few months/years and I can focus completely on writing content.
That's all agreed on, but in principle the energy problem is solved: we're quite literally bathing in energy for 12 hours every day for half the planet on average. We just suck at collecting that energy. And that is a problem that you might be able to solve without such massive environmental impact as what we've seen so far. More so if we focus on conservation first, so those 'massive renewables installations' are exactly where it is at in my book.

And your point that comfort (and even food) isn't universal is also well taken, if anything that should be our first order of battle: to establish some stable and sustainable quality of life and then to go about ensuring that everybody has access to that level. Of course our political and financial institutions are not well geared towards such solutions and that is where most of the challenge will come from. On a technical level I don't think that's unsolvable if you focus on quality and sustainability.
Nothing about reimplementing an iMessage/APNS client from scratch makes Apple look foolish.

If anything, it makes iMessage look desirable, like a long line in front of a nightclub.

Literally everyone “saw that coming”. It’s also obvious that the client will be updated to make it work again, and the cycle will repeat.
Advent of Technical Writing: Internal Dry Run
Azure VMSS (uniform orchestration) + 2000 to 3000 GPU enabled servers. I'm not sure about what kind of GPU is on these servers.
A big new campign was just released called "Thief: Dark Parade" which has made a lot of buzz across the fanbase for its excellent level design.

It has animated cutscenes, voice acting, pretty much on the level of original game(s).
What would the desired outcome of a potentially costly and time-consuming lawsuit even be? For them to go "oh OK then, we'll hire you"? Would you even want to work for them after this episode?
> Is the answer computed on a single NVidia GPU?

Most likely given that one of their open positions for a GPU programmer includes

> high technical competence for writing custom CUDA kernels and pushing GPUs to their limits.

Edit: only narrows it down to NVidia hardware, IDK if single GPU or not.
Browsers don't treat "px" as actual pixels the monitor renders.

em "relative sizing" is still "relative to some pixel value". The default is 16px so 1.1em is just the same as 17.6px.

"cm" is also defined to be a certain number of px.

The website has no idea if you're using a high DPI monitor or just zoomed out to 25%. To say "always appear as exactly 1cm to the user" would obviously not be desired as you would lose the ability to zoom.
I did this exact same thing, called it Comments Network, around 8 years ago (img+discussion here, project doesn't exist anymore):

https://imgur.com/a/98fpLs6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12898366

In the end I was contacted by HN and was told to shut it down, and so I did since I didn't want to get into a fight. Wonder if you'll receive a similar message or they'll allow it now. There were 3 very important points that I don't see in your project:

1. I moved from "story ID" to "story URL" in the end, since a single URL can have multiple HN threads and I'd be interested in them.

2. The time of comment is _very_ important, not sure why you are not showing it?

3. I had to add some mechanism to block individual comments, while rare there _is_ SPAM and ad-hominem in HN and if you are showing the comments in your project, you might want to do a bit of comment moderation. How much, then it's to the person sharing it, with Comments Network you could also show a single individual comment
Not much interesting in this point release. I recommend you look at what's new in 6.6: https://lwn.net/Articles/942954/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/943245/ ; or even: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.6
Probably not that large proportion, but working in tech if you save 50 percentage of your income you should be able to reach that position within a year.

Yes, but I think being able to generate savings for a lifetime is a much further out goal than just 1 year which in tech is very realistic to save 50 percent.
> Pretty much as with OSS in general

That's not how I feel about OSS - from Operating Systems, to Databases, to Browsers, to IDEs, to tools like Blender etc.

Of course there are certain areas where Commercial offerings are better, but can't generalize.
Great work, however noticed this:

id="hn-comments-drawer storyId-38300167 maxDepth-3"

Please use data-attributes or another more suitable alternative than id for settings.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Howto/Us...
> wasn't sure HN would be happy being a comment provider.

Likely it isn’t.
Chasing Google ranks is an abysmal practice, but a basic level of SEO goes a long way in making content discoverable and accessible. As for the rest of the practices of the SEO industry, I believe in the saying "if you provide good content, you don't need to SEO".
3d cards did not exit at the time, everything was done on the CPU.

And yes your pc had a graphic card, or you wouldn't have had anything to hook your screen onto ;)
Looks great. I also found blogging options to not be great. Analytics is a must have though
Can it be self-hosted?
Is it open-source?
Is the WYSIWYG editor custom-built, or does it use CKEditor or similar projects?
What about media management?
Is there a place for a simple CMS? E.g. developers usually prefer simple static site generators, such as Eleventy.
It’s end users connecting to Apple’s APNS API endpoints, not Beeper.

Apple can try suing Beeper for publishing software, but ultimately software (that doesn’t infringe trademarks or copyrights) is protected expression.
IME I'd say a line of typical C code (not necessarily C++ code) maps to around 1..5 instructions on average. It's still a quite useful measure to get a rough idea how much CPU work happens.
Python's math operations are going to need a lot of C code because the numbers can be any size. It's part of what makes it so great for scientific computing (as you don't have to spend hours implementing arbitrary precision math - probably badly.) If that's too slow though there's always NumPy.
Wikipedia says it’s the Royal Artillery Company from 1537. The Yeoman of the Guard is older, but not a full regiment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company

Also, interesting or amusingly, the Coldstream Guards are the oldest regular army regiment, but originally it was raised by the roundheads in the civil war and fought the monarchy. Now it’s in the household division and used for royal protection.
The best description I've heard is that ChatGPT is like a really fast and really eager junior programmer. Sure you can delegate a lot of work to it, but you have to keep a close eye on it to make sure it doesn't go off the rails (and doesn't forget to take corner cases into account, uses appropriate algorithms, etc) .

I tend to read along with the code it's writing and make suggestions when I see it's missing stuff, or I fill it in myself afterwards, depending. For one it can type out the annoying bits much faster than I can!

At the moment I do keep the general plan in my head myself though, and I thoroughly read anything it generates before I run it.
How much time roughly do you spend in math classes in school in the US?

I'm finding it a bit baffling reading these comments ('calculus vs statistics' etc.) from my UK perspective. We had I think roughly^ 3x1h maths lessons each week, and it didn't seem to be a problem to do both, as well as whatever else. Nor did we wait until secondary school to start stats (calculus sure, for the usual colloquial definition of it).

Or are we talking specifically about some arbitrarily advanced level of each that somehow everyone's on the same page on without describing?

(^it's been a while!)
SRE Doesn't Scale (2021)
Is Northern Ireland a failed state?
>a major feature of transformers being wildly faster inference than with LSTM

Wasn't the main issue with RNNs the fact that inference during training can't be efficiently parallelized?

The inference itself normally should be faster for an RNN than for a transformer since the former works in linear time in terms of input size while the latter is quadratic
Isn't the ISS a high rate of mutation environment for such creatures as well due to the radiation?
Where do you read that? I see “We hire passionate women and men from all over the world.”
[Submitter here]

Sure. They are trivially Googled -- if you know that this poor product was renamed multiple times.

GeoWorks 2.0:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/gwe2

https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c28fc2a9-e280-ba01-2d6c-11...

BreadBox Ensemble Lite 4.0:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/bbel4

BreadBox Ensemble full (not Lite) version:

http://toastytech.com/guis/bbe.html
Can anyone speak to linux support, free or otherwise?
Kodiki IDE
Maybe the Nostr protocol and all its implementations (that do talk with each other) are the true replacement for Twitter?

Check out some trending people/topics on Nostr here: https://nostr.band/
MicroEJ Announces Support for Android Studio, IntelliJ and Eclipse
Embedded software provider MicroEJ provides support for mainstream IDEs to develop new IoT devices