skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government already controls the market. It sets the rules what's allowed and what's not. It might as well do it efficiently and while providing accurate information to the customers.
Much like sailing around looking for the white whale.
>what's the difference between WASM and running native code?

Performance, for starters.
neural EOL, our high tech internal tooling to Retire a google product
Edit to just link the article rather than my silly speculation about particle sizes and types:

Reference: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/resp.14625

"The qualitative comparison of in vitro responses between the categories of particles we examined revealed some interesting patterns. Firstly, the ES dusts were the most potent stimulus in inducing cytotoxicity and pro-inflammatory responses in epithelial cells while the standard silica sample was particularly toxic to macrophages. All particles (ES, BM,NS and standard silica) showed some potential to promote IL-8 (CXCL8) and TNF-α production in macrophages, as well as IL-1β, with the exception of natural stone. These observations are consistent with our overarching hypothesis that particle characteristics are key drivers of the lung cell response and, therefore, the risk of disease. In more in-depth analyses with a focus on ES dusts, we found that the quartz concentration was significantly associated with the inflammatory response in macrophages. This is an important observation as there has been consistent rhetoric regarding the crystalline silica content of ES being the key driver of the high disease prevalence. 7,39Indeed, crystalline silica has been shown to be related to the dose-dependent macrophage accumulation response,40aggravated inflammatory cell infiltration, thickened alveolar walls and enhanced expression of collagens. 41However, the relationship between quartz and the macrophage inflammatory response was not the sole driver of the cellular responses we observed."
Yeah someone else in this thread mentioned Tailwind, and I think a lot of design systems could take inspiration from it.
I tried reading Moby-Dick a couple years ago and it was very hard as a non-native English speaker. The only book who made me want to pick up either a dictionary or a translation.

Will try again, maybe I've gotten better!
The key to winning Othello is getting the corners. Controlling the edges helps a ton in getting the corners. Avoid the 2x2 corner areas unless you know you can get the corners.

Using these tips alone should help you (easily?) beat the AI here, as it does a lot of mistakes.
>Human innovation can arise by using these experiences as source data for composition of text or images. LLMs, by contrast, are limited to training on text and images/video exclusively.

Right but my concept still applies. What's unique about the LLM is that it is fed a massive amount of textual data in such a way that it can essentially output text AS if it were a human that does experience those emotions. From the perspective of you and me, this is no different then what we experience in real life.

How can you be sure the people around you feel emotions just as you do? Do you just assume it? Why shouldn't you assume it for an LLM? The human like the LLM uses English to describe and communicate to you. This in terms of raw logical evidence we can't confirm if LLMs feel emotions any more than our ability to confirm whether other humans can feel emotions. The technical evidence for both is relatively identical.
Have you used twitter before the musk takeover? That's exactly what you are describing. At worst, nothing changed. At best, in my experience, the spam problem has somehow gotten better. Much less spam accounts below every single post like how it used to be.

I still think layoffs are bad because I don't care about corporate profit or efficiency to be honest, but in this case it's a bit surprising how nothing concrete has actually changed even with 80% reduction in staffing. 80% sounds apocalyptical to me but again, twitter just works like it did before. With the same annoying, never fixed bugs (occasional "something went wrong" on clicking tweets, etc) . But again, nothing close to the (technical) train wreck I would expect.
This is good news. Wood is more sustainable and can be more easily repaired and refinished anyway, the problem continues though is if it's replaced by other types of stone.

The root problem is obviously lack of protective equipment being used, but that's a universal workplace safety issue and that requires stricter laws.
Yes, great it like a Wiki. Additions of new products are also welcome, as is building tooling on our API or improving our release automation so we track releases better.
definitely. for a group of hackers, it's difficult to understand not seeing the play: Dropbox engaged OpenAI to process files a user requests to "understand" or search. then the files are sent. the switch would stop this.

imagine the wasted compute if the AI just went and scanned everything.

this is a adhoc service one-off. definitely turn it off if you don't want your files scanned by OpenAI.

but the cost of moving everyones file to an AI would be absurd.
Prior discussion:

900+ comments, "Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313

200+ comments, "Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388
Must have been fun while it lasted.
I note that there is nothing about efficiency in that charter.

>But is it secure?

No reasonable person would think otherwise. It has withstood scrutiny for 20+ years.

>We don't really know because there's no security proof.

Why would we need a separate proof? The principles behind this sort of construct are pretty well known by now. See:

* https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/enc-red.pdf

>It also uses SHA-1, which might be fine or might not be.

Yeah it is for this sort of approach. That is not in question.

At any rate, no one has any obligation to prove that OCFB-MDC is secure. It falls to those who that it be superseded to prove that there is something wrong with it. You (or I) can't legitimately suggest that something be replaced simply because you (or I) don't understand how it works.

>For you as a user, it should be invisible.

A significant portion of the article explains why it is not invisible, as in problems being caused right now with a list of examples and everything.
To expand on this explanation: this is why many physicists use the analogy of a stretchy fabric to describe gravity and warping of spacetime. Such as placing a large mass on the fabric helps draw all other masses towards it. But it is also important to remember that this is an analogy and loses a lot of (important) nuance because it's meant as a simplification to laymen.

There are many complexities that this type of model will not account for and it's worth noting that higher dimensional geometries don't "play nice", in that your visual intuitions will mislead you. Such as the stretchy fabric model is a 2D spacetime fabric stretching into a 3rd dimension that is otherwise not accessible by those flatlanders who experience a pulling force but do not see where that fabric is stretching into. Similarly we can not think of a black hole (or any mass) as a 3 dimensional version of a hold because it is "stretching" into higher dimensions, but the result of this distortion is the gravitational force we feel. Even this is a great oversimplification. If it helps you can think instead think of gravity as an inter-dimensional spaghetti monster that invisibly grabs everything and the closer you are to it the harder it is able to pull (just like you!). That might help remind you that the analogy is incomplete and unrealistic at some level.

I'd generalize the abstracted phenomena here and make sure that when anyone is listening to a scientific explanation they understand that it is incomplete (compared to the level of current understanding or prevailing hypotheses/theories). Truth has a lower limit in complexity and often the complexity is rather high. Physicists __love__ simple theories (they call it "elegant") and the whole goal is to make things as simple as possible. But obviously that threshold is rather high considering the level of math physicists do. So keep that in mind when hearing explanations because if it can be explained to your grandma, you're losing a lot of information. Even if as distilled as possible. (Also, Einstein never said if you understand something you can explain it to a layman. Not sure where that came from but it is a silly notion without addendums akin to what has been said here)

So take analogies for what they are, but do not rely on them as complete or even "good enough" models. They're explanatory aids, not explanations. Maybe scientists can do better on this, but it's a tough job already and requiring being a scientific communicator (to the masses) is too high of an expectation. Scientists are still people too and our brains are small and time is limited. We can only do so much lol
I'd be curious to hear about those. To be clear, the intent of my comment was not to be condescending. It's not like engineers are any closer to resolving those problems. We've just suffered through them for a long time now.
I think the biggest difference is feeling like you're in control of your life: Are you in college because someone told you to go, or did you go voluntarily?

I really wanted a break halfway through college, so I went on co-op. This forced me to go back (to college at the end of the co-op), and I never lost my status as a student (during the co-op). But, for a little more than 6 months, I was an independent adult, working, in charge of my life, at a place where I wanted to be.

School was so much easier when I went back.
I'd say that's how farmers operate if they're new farmers. They will screw up their first year and start looking for help, asking other farmers for advice, etc - but these companies aren't a part of a community, they don't want to help each other, and when they run out of the investment money the first year, they just give up.
That would be pretty dramatic but everybody is going backwards by some amount. The median household income in America has been declining and the poverty rate is soaring at a rate not seen in more than 50 years. I saw JPMorgan predicting that in the next year 99% of Americans will be worse off financially than they were in 2019. It's a race to the bottom.
Or just tear them down and build something new.

Main issue with office space to apartment conversions is the deep floor plan that makes access to sunlight difficult. Retofitting plumbing and isolated fireproofing probably adds more complexity. In terms of malls though, it's perhaps less of a problem to turn these into low-rise residential.

But at the end of the day, it's just land waiting for re-use. I'd be happy for these spaces to become parkland and forest. Or maybe there will be something in the future that needs a lot of land but benefits being located somewhat closer to populations?
> LLMs are I think pretty inarguably bad at answering certain types of questions in a factually accurate way

I wonder how would LLM compare to average pre-internet adult an 8 year old might have access to. People are also bad at accurately answering questions.
I'll take the downvote as a measure of the number of HN contributors that still don't know the (important) difference. At least four people have hopefully learned from that comment. A strong signal to continue pointing it out.
There are some parts of story-space that cannot be expressed, because the audience would not bother to read them
The engineered stone is just powder held together with plastic resin, isn't it?

Maybe it cuts so easily that they skip using water.
It means you can port existing native apps to WASM more easily. You could use the WALI layer to narrow down your syscalls and what they're allowed to do in a gradual way, without having to write your own WASM engine from scratch. The way they phrase it is, they're "decoupling feature completeness from the security model and pushing API implementations outside the trusted computing base (TCB) of the engine", and I think that's a reasonable approach given that there are other reasons to port to WASM (independence from processor architecture, lightweight in-memory sandboxing esp. of potentially untrusted code, restrictions on the way control flow can be manipulated, etc.)

WASI is what provides the capability-based security model, WASM is just a binary format. Nothing wrong with having a different way of interpreting WASM, is there?
It's not the IRS, they didn't write the law.

Would you be surprised if the change was supported by very cash-rich software companies looking to clear away startup competition?
While it's funny to think of people reading this completely out of context, I'm obliged to mention that "spermaceti" is a waxy oil found in the heads of sperm whales, and the industry bent on harvesting this substance was basically the entire point of hunting the species nearly to extinction.
The e2ee is opt-in, so that might be how they comply with subpoenas. I like that it's on all the platforms I am.
the cost of indexing with an AI would be absurd. it's more likely a one off Clippy type service where it's only sending it to openAI when the user requests.

still should be optin universally, but it's unlikely they're wasting compute scanning before a user even wants the service.
Great! Others could learn from your attitude :)
Good luck! I'd love to see it found.
It is being donated to the Art Institute.
I'm making a VCS based on the weave.

Your wish will be answered; I wanted a conflict-aware format, and I will definitely plunder the smerge format.
What benefits? If you're doing backend work and you want "Wasm but without the sandbox" you can just compile a native binary, which will be faster anyways.
Army to Field Loitering Munitions
In a "the vendor is selling the same rings/earrings fixtures as another vendor I've seen before" way. Specifically, I've seen amber jewelry imported from Poland sold by multiple vendors.
Agreed mostly, although I'm less of a fan of the "dream" terminology.

The key takeaway is that we can't trust LLM output and systems need to be designed accordingly.

Eg Agents will never be able to securely take actions autonomously based on LLM responses.
When my SSD was failing (ran out of writes) I used a RAMdisk to edit audio for something. It worked great for that since I couldn't do it otherwise!
"Their profits primarily come from membership fees."

I've seen this quoted repeated but it's not a useful lens.

While Costco's annual revenue from membership fees is approximately equal to Costco's annual net profit, memberships are only valuable because of the additional services and products Costco offers, which also incur costs and contribute to their overall profits.

So it makes no sense to consider Costco memberships a product with close to 100% gross margin, which is what people normally mean when they say profits primarily come from membership fees.
This device might be England’s oldest dated scientific instrument
If gnu89 is not a perfect c89, so what? c11 is also not a perfect c89. ruby is also not a perfect c89. Swift is more convenient than c89 for ios. c89 doesn't have tons of features that c# has. We could say true yet irrelevant things all day long. You don't like c89 flavor ice cream, got it. So what?
Yet I see a bunch of older brands that started direct-to-consumer eventually succumb to retail temptation, probably due to lower customer acquisition costs and bulk shipping:

* Harry’s razors are now at Target and Costco

* Casper mattresses at Macy’s

* Allbirds sneakers at Nordstrom Rack
You can also try a color printer and adhesive laser-friendly sheets that claim to be weatherproof. Ours are looking a bit haggard five years later after printing them, but we haven't been issued any tickets. I'm sure they're not legal, but nobody seems to mind.
Costco, Trader Joe, and the farmer's market has been our core of late.
I like this guide by Nick Kolenda : https://nickkolenda.com/guides/brand-names
I love his other guides as well, by the way.
it looks like the Llamafile team is taking questions in their live Q&A tomorrow (thursday) at 1700 UTC - https://www.youtube.com/live/dwhBvUN-MD8?feature=shared
Non-Fiction: travels by Michael Crichton. Fascinating book that gives you different perspective on a variety of topics. Very well written

Fiction: My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl- nsfw story about a young guy in early 20th century Europe who develops a method for increasing libido - hilarity ensues.
How does it compare with https://www.gather.town/ ? (I used gaher for an online conference, and the idea is more intuitive than I expected.)

In spotvirtual I see more floating emojis. Are they useful? (In 2020 I developed an "ability" to emoji-sniping during Zoom meetings. While everyone were screaming, I waited and send an emoji.)
Application delegation is not "not application"
Adopting design systems isn't inherently difficult, but in most cases integrating them into legacy products is challenging. Outdated technologies and inflexible structures in these products significantly hinder alignment with modern design systems. It needs a massive amount of navigating technical constraints and legacy constrains, which adds a lot of complexity and resource demands to the process.
I wonder if royalty agreements will affect which content the distribution platforms choose to promote.

If Netflix pays the creators of show A $X per 1000 views, and of show B 2*$X per 1000 views, I can see them choosing to display A more prominently than B
Go Is Amazing for Zero Trust
Go really does have a great standard library and the abstractions/interfaces/structs in place are perfect for SDKs providing zero trust connectivity like those found in OpenZiti (or zrok)
Actually a pretty good point in an era when marketability is more important than ever.
If Freud is coming back, how about Jung? He was equally unfalsifiable. While his ideas of the collective unconscious and archetypes may be very Eurocentric, and his talk about spiritual alchemy ahistorical hooey, they are entertaining and perhaps even useful to some. At the very least, it feels like therapy, while CBT feels like homework, complete with xeroxed worksheets.
personal somewhat-pedestrian list: Pilot, Detour, Reunion, Propeller, Phil and Sebastian
"And, yes, what would Moby-Dick be without the digressions? "

A book more people read, I'd wager.

And, no, more authors should not digress, except for those writing a piece that people will be talking about for hundreds of years.
> It’s like the whole internet is silent on this tax change as if it’s a non issue or as if there’s an easy workaround for tech companies (where most expense IS R&D) but nobody is sharing what it is...

Large companies have the cash flow to amortize over 5 years, but shouldn't this tax change already be visible in quarterly earnings?

Any DC lobbyists representing small companies on this issue? Bootstrapped founders are on their own, but what about VCs whose portfolio of startups are affected?
> a person can read a website and learn from it, but an AI can't

I personally think this framing creates a false problem by anthropomorphizing the technology. Neural network weights aren’t people; they are a mathematically transformed copy of the training data.
Yea this is great. It sucks going into a supermarket and having to choose between nine different brands of tortilla chips. I mean, come on, store. Just sell the best (least expensive balanced by quality) one and don’t stock the rest! I know. First World Problem.
> It's not the IRS, they didn't write the law.

Yes, let's give "credit" where it's due: the change to section 174 is part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, supported in both houses of congress solely by Republicans and signed into law by Donald Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act
Shopify has tried a few times to build a tool like this but hasn’t ever managed to get any traction. I think that missing any curation at all could be what eventually kills it. Their current attempt is https://shop.app and a query for red shoes is mostly red shoes.
There's a paragraph with the heading "The Need for a Complete Wasm OS Interface" in the introduction that breaks down the differences.
I agree that Moby-Dick [1] is “far funnier, weirder, and gripping than you likely imagine.” But that is in contrast not only to contemporary novels that might—or might not—have been influenced by television. The vast majority of English-language novels published in the 19th century were also driven by plot and character and lacked long digressions about the author’s obsessions. Thousands of such novels, most of them no longer read, are now available at the Internet Archive [2]. Some of those might be worth reading, too.

[1] There’s a hyphen on the title page of the first edition but not in the body text or page heads:

https://archive.org/details/mobydickorwhale01melv/page/n7/mo...

https://archive.org/details/mobydickorwhale01melv/page/196/m...

[2] https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-...
Yes!

The barely-there reflection on the Berlin TV is also a trip to enter, and observe the room from.
According to the README it supports most of C99, and even some things beyond that. It's not clearly defined what's meant with "most" or what's not supported, but since I've never had any problems with any C99 code I've written I suspect it's mostly fairly little used stuff (complex numbers?), and it seems that for all practical purposes tcc supports C99 for almost all codebases.
If I understand correctly, you mean by applying to this, it's not "not applying" or that me applying for you is not "not applying"?

Will take your confusion and my new confusion into account. Thx
if you dont succeed at the first try...
Mohammad Alotol (From YC S22 Cohort) Killed in Gaza
Oh good point!
MSVC added that a few years ago. It took them a (very) long time, but it should now be fully C99-compliant, even C17 I think (either fully or mostly).
The problem with “always wear a p100” is that they’re not comfortable in an unventilated uncooled house which is where a lot of construction happens. If everyone is wearing one you also need to take more breaks which eats into time to do the job.

The industry is set up so you only get paid for doing the job. If doing it unsafely means doing it faster or being more comfortable then a lot of small time contractors will take that short term gain despite the long term risks.

I don’t know how we incentivize doing the right thing more here.
Do we assess a person's intelligence by what their frothing fanboys think of them now, or is that only for rich celebrities?
Something besides the demographics and birth rates that wasn’t talked about deeply in this article is just how massive the difference in parental sentiment is.

I think I read an article that said that parents went from being over 90% “college is vrry important for my kids” to more like 50%. Grain of salt on the actual percentages, but the shift in the numbers was somewhere along those lines of dramatic.

Basically, total enrollment has possibly peaked for good, it’s all downhill from here.

I can’t imagine it gets better when an entire generation of millennials who are massively jaded on the whole college thing are about to be sending their kids to school in the next 10-20 years. How many millennials are going to teach their kids to never take out loans?

Even the millennials whose college loans were technically worth the cost burden in terms of ROI still have a bitter taste from years of debt payments and a broken and unpleasant lending process. They know what it’s like to deal with shitty loan servicing companies passing the debt around between each other.

I think this trend will eventually affect large and potentially even some very selective schools.