skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes I was hoping to do an update after I had help finding the author, and to see if there was any potential of an update. It's late breaking & live. And it seems all the engagement is here not on the blog so I didn't see this as I was sleeping.
great read, thanks for sharing
Have you had a look at https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace ?
I've noticed recently that looking at screens (Movie Theatre, Steam Deck, Computer etc) leads me to having blurry vision for some time. It eventually goes away but this has never happened to me before. Does anyone else experience this and what are your tips?
;-P Just to be pedantic, if you're going to all the trouble to give (modulo lack of a repl) a wrong answer fast, might as well do it really quickly:

return 0;

in the hopes that compiles down to something like:

xor rax, rax
ret
Thanks. There's a follow up at https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci2/
RSS reader software won't be successful. RSS reader should be built into the browser and every time you open the browser, the RSS feed should be the landing page. Every time you open a new tab, it should show a minimal feed that can be fully expanded.
Nanite and Lumen are definitely witchcraft. That tech demo left me in awe at what humanity has been able to accomplish. "More evolution than revolution", what a fitting phrase.

I wonder if we will live to see another such revolution in the wake of mature generative AI tools? If creating a game of the density and caliber of Red Dead Redemption 2 becomes feasible with a modest team of 10?
Cat Ownership and Schizophrenia-Related Disorders and Psychotic-Like Experiences
There is nothing wrong with doing something you enjoy without changing the world. Especially at 16.
The web seems to be becoming paradoxically less and less machine/automation friendly. I recently had to modify 150+ accounts in a Google Workspace. Twenty years ago, I would be doing this in a Unix environment with a very simple shell script. Instead, I had to click-copy-paste-click, 20 times per page, like a monkey. I'm sure there must be some sort of API, but it would have taken 100 times the time it would have taken to write a simple command line script. In the quest for more and more human eyeballs, the web is becoming less and less machine friendly.
If the market is there, even co-founders like that will be successful. Those people and you are just consumable part of the game, unfortunately, will not be recognized after success, so watch out!
Back story on the weapons in the pic, from Scott Host (creator of Raptor: Call of the Shadows): "Me and Carmack were at the Dallas Renaissance Fair, and we stopped at "Angel Sword" (they make real medieval weapons). Carmack asked "Which sword I should get?" and I said the curvy one. The Axe was 8000 dollars and the sword was 12,000."
I have never, and never will forgive them for that, but inoreader is better.
I have "implemented" RSS on a tiny personal blog. Am willing to be hired for FAANG money. :-)
Features I saw demoed were about comparing products based on descriptions, images, and pricing. So, it was able to find products based on a question that was about something suitable for X costing less than Y where X can be some kind of situation or event. Or find me things similar to this but more like so. And so on.
The semantic issues of making a performant Python language implementation are more or less exactly the same as for JS and Lua, optimizing Ruby seems to possibly have even more "magic" that needs patching but we've seen the Shopify team get cracking on that (it includes MaximeCB that did HiggsJS).

PyPy is in many aspects to be rated as a research project that tried a novel approach to reduce the workload compared to the manhours poured into V8,etc. LuaJIT managed with less with a focused language and a really capable lead. (Also I wouldn't be surprised if the PyPy team has also had to make compromises to get some kind of compatibility)
I've used those before, but I feel that having something that works within the spec, independent of any particular implementation's extensions is much more valuable for longevity.

Sure, you can use $A if using $B server, or use $C when using $D language, or use $E when using $F framework, or use $G when using $H reverse-proxy, or use $I when using $J CDN, or use $K when using $L hosted cloud service ...

Or you can just use what's in the specification which works on all of the above, but won't work on clients with Javascript disabled.

It's a "choose your poison" scenario.
There's a ton of smart people working at Google. Just none in the management
I think the link you provided argues implicitly that looking at shootings as percentage of police interactions is wrong because policing practices may be biased (ie black population may be more policed than other segments of the population).

What I am saying is that you find a similar black over representation in crimes that are less likely to be overpoliced (homicides which stats should be fairly reliable, ie every incident accounted irrespective of the race of the author, and which if anything would be less policed in poor neighbourhoods where gang violence is more common and less effort is made to identify the author).
Car lights are blindingly bright now.

Manufacturers have even remounted them so they "float" and when you hit a bump they point up for a moment. Makes for fun times on rough roads.

People won't slow down at night, either.
Unbelievable that SomaFM is still around. I was a very active listener from 2003-2009 or so.
Carmack told Romero it was a pity he did not join him at QuakeCon this year. Romero replied he will definitely go to QuakeCon sometimes in the future because he loves QuakeCon and the community.

To me it sounded as if Carmack was talking about their relationship and Romero evading this topic. If that is the case, I really hope they will find a way to reestablish what might have been a friendship once.
Datamined probably. Thousands of them can be found in the game files: https://www.wowhead.com/search?q=bunny#npcs
It has keyframe curves just like Cinelerra!

Most other editors that these n00bs revel about are just ffmpeg with sugar-coated interface. No factual added functionality.
I think this site, is not well scrap-able without selenium. Google products however rely on web scraping because of Google search. It is a hypocrisy of sorts.
Dyalog '18: Rectangles All the Way Down (2018) [video]
you clearly havent tried it on real hardware, BOW is pretty awesome.

Yes I too was doing IT in the mid 90's and did far more than my share of widnows 3.1 with win32s.

If you'd looked into bow it hooks all the timers from dos, and can happily run more than one thing at a time, and preempt them.

It's a winning combination for sure, even on my lowly 386 DX 16, I can run word, excel & bow at the same time. It's great!
'Google has stopped...', or 'Google no longer...', 'Google have removed'.

As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed, looks like it's time to get a new email provider (as well) .

@ yahoo seem to have few(er?) problems.

There are probably others. Can anyone recommend a good search engine?
I would guess that rss doesn’t show up in their JavaScript-driven web analytics so they mistakenly think no one uses it.

So they have some stupid conversation like “patching the rss code will take 5 units of labor, but I want to cyberdize the whoozit that also takes 5 units. Does anyone even care about rss and use it? Oh the analytics show zero. Let’s de prioritize that.”

I think the bigger problem is people on the team not using rss and knowing this is super dumb. And PMs now knowing the world their metrics don’t track.

Seems to kind with google once being great and now full of fat rich peoples’ kids just riding the slow and gradual suck. (Based on the theory that smart people have weak, pampered kids; then weak kids get destroyed by jerk fascists; then jerk fascists get overturned by smart people and the cycle completes).

Of course the dumb kids think they are geniuses because their parents are part. And the parents want to pretend their kids are smart. Etc etc
Is anyone using this models self-hosted in production? What cloud hosting provider/plan do you use and how is it performance wise?
How does it compare to existing 13b models on benchmarks?
Whirlygig Volumetric Display LPC1768 Demo (2014) [video]
This is extremely impressive if benchmarks translate to real-world performance [1]. The mistral-medium beats GPT3.5 and also Gemini Pro (Google's best available model) with a huge margin on all available comparable benchmarks: https://screenbud.com/shot/c0d904e3-24a3-4c23-a1e4-2f18bc021...

[1] I would expect real world-performance gap to be even larger if Mistral 7B is anything to go by. The fact that safety filters are opt-in is a huge benefit (even for safe applications).
You are vastly overestimating both the EU's budget and the willingness of countries to throw money at other countries' companies

I doubt mistral will get any direct EU funding
Google reader had social features, shares and comments.
So, earlier this year I was helping a friend fix their blog. A local news site, run by a middle-aged not very technical woman. She'd taken it over from the previous owners a few years ago, and every now and again things break. She's paying over the odds for hosting, and the support people are .. adequate, but not really going to fix everything for her.

My two thoughts going into fixing it were:

- wow, this Wordpress install kind of sucks

- imagine how much worse it would suck if it wasn't Wordpress

Because it's Wordpress, Google will help me fix all the problems. Update all the plugins and themes; disable the obsolete or broken ones. Sort out the disk space issue. Tweak a few cache settings. And she's back in business.

We (HN) can all build a blog engine. We all seem to have different ideas on how to build a blog engine. And that's fine; we can all have our own little gardens and toy systems to play with. The rest of the world is more concerned with what the actual text of the blog is, if at all. Just as "obsolete iPhone with cracked screen" is the world's most widespread phone by actual use, "slightly broken wordpress" is the world's most popular blogging engine by a long way.

Meanwhile over the horizon, the question of whether any humans will read blogs at all in an AI content / search engine world looms.
Current OpenAI job postings top out at $385,000 for full stack engineers which is 98th percentile in the US (and less for San Francisco).

The €80k is the start of the Mistral salary range. €100k is the top, which would put you in the top 1% of earners in France.
80K is kinda high for Europe, I bet there are lots of people applying
If you read the article you can see that some codepaths can invoke Malloc with all the follow-on effects like Kernel boundary crossings that this implies, it's thus quite random.
Introduction – Templ Docs
I tested many open source video editors and shotcut was the best compared to the rest. It has a lot of (basic) features that are missing in other editors
You mean the 7B one? That's exciting if true, but if compression means it can do 0.1 token/sec,it doesn't do much for anyone.
Nvidia, the tech powerhouse, revealed plans on Monday to bolster its collaboration with Vietnam's top tech firms. The focus? To propel the nation's prowess in artificial intelligence (AI) development and fortify its digital infrastructure.
Your general point definitely stands - there is a pretty nice third party solution for google workspace though: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
> maintaining RSS feeds requires some resources

I find that rss output is just part of good architecture so it’s sort of something I’m going to make even if no one uses it. Because I want to have some static form of syndication that processes can check.

Of course there is some nominal cost to exposing the uris or something, but anyone complaining about this would be weird to complain. Especially given all the other odd feature requests going on.
If it's only "please confirm your account" and password reset emails then the user probably just mistyped the email address.

If their username is go-to-ydotcom-for-free-cash then it might be spam. It doesn't seem very effective but I know a company where a spammer created 10.000 accounts overnight to be sent to random people.
Very interested to hear a similar answer, but if anyone has tried running it locally on high-end consumer grade hardware, eg an Nvidia 4090?
The Math for Buying a Home No Longer Works. These Charts Show You Why
AI based on LLMs comes with several sets of inherent trade-offs, as such I don't predict that one winner will take all.
Why? Tolerating that kind of behavior is what is ridiculous.

If anything, us software developers should be held liable for more of the damages that we cause.
Yes, you’re right. Chain rule is easy and intuitive. Although I had bundled its name with the mess of integration methods and considered it forgotten.
Not wanting to piss on your RSS feed (I just subscribed and am willing to keep following it), but displaying your complete price list with images and all in the description of your feed (!) looks awful in my reader. One sentence to describe it is enough for me.
This is how every company is valued. The point is not that the company is literally valued for some exact amount of money, but how it compares to other companies’ valuations.

Capitalism 101.
I think the medium is trying to compete with Anthropic's Claude than Openai's products

https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/images/model_pric...
Sure, you're unlikely to be taxed twice, but there's still a high burden to having to file a US return every year.

The cost of getting a US / UK accountant to do the most simple of returns will run you around $1000 in total (at least in the UK), and the costs increase dramatically as your taxes get complicated.

That doesn't even get into things which aren't covered by the DTA, like ISA accounts in the UK. And worse it's extremely easy to run afoul of PFIC rules which lead to punitive US tax and a higher reporting burden if you do any investing.

Being a US expat is expensive if you don't want to give up your citizenship.
Sorry sweety, they only hire people with five years experience with latest fad technologies.
PyTorch 2 Internals [slides]
We use littlefs in Flipper Zero's firmware[1] for storage in leftover flash space after the main firmware image. Flipper implements a virtual FS, where both external SD card and internal storage have own mount points. SD card is used for storing apps and user-created data, and internal littlefs contains persistent data like BLE pairing, system services' configs and such.

LFS has neat features like wear leveling and optimizations for storing tiny files directly in their parent directory's data structures[2].

We never had any issues with littlefs - however, it cannot be easily resized when amount of available leftover space changes with firmware updates. So on installing an update, it gets fully backed up to SD card, reformatted and later restored.

[1] - https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/blob/...

[2] - https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES...
The Religion of Techno-Optimism
Git views the codebase as mutable. It's really well set up for changing the historical record to reflect how you wish it had been done. This is necessary for large team dev efforts - it means the history is mostly a sequence of atomic changes to functionality or code structure, with some reverts when CI judged the patch inadequate.

Fossil views the historical record as immutable. Your sequences of mistakes, iteration, failed experiments are all diligently recorded. I like that, means I get to revisit missteps and abandoned branches later. However it is clearly a scaling hazard. I don't want to see the incremental hacking around of a thousand other people. Nor would I want to prohibit that sort of exploration.

My personal work is in fossil repos, going back a decade across various operating systems and versions of fossil. It has literally never let me down.
I don't care the price, soon as anyone is selling robotic butlers. I'm buying one.

Clean my house and cook my food for me.
Considering that this model has basically zero censorship I would say it is going to take a while before companies have fine-tuned this enough before putting it in production.
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> If you take that away, I do not see how you automatically strengthen scarce property rights

I made this case in the grandparent post. To reiterate: the presence of scarce and non-scarce property rights creates a contest between two things that we pretend to be the same thing (property) but which follow different dynamics (scarce vs non-scarce). Government must rule that one dominates the other. In the developed world, the way this plays out is that government rules non-scarce rights to overrule scarce rights. Removing the non-scarce rights would therefore lead to a strengthening of scarce rights.

> Throwing patents, intellectual property, and copyright into a single bucket and simply label it "bad"

But that is not what I did. I made a first-principles argument, and then supplied examples as a form of illustration.

You have quoted "bad" here as though I said it, though I did not.

> Society would be worse off if we didn't have any incentive to produce art, or software.

(heavy edit)

There was incentive to create in the pre-scarce world. Large bodies of great work were produced in theatre, chamber music, literature, sculpture, painting in a scarce-rights world with much lower GDP, lower living standards and no copyright. Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Chekov - these people all operated in scarce-rights regimes. People routinely copied their works. That we have these works is evidence of their incentive.

The licenses that sit behind Linux and similar systems go to great lengths to cancel protections given by copyright. Yet great work is done on these systems. The incentive must be there.

Non-scarce rights create incentive against creation. They discourage remixing of existing work, and they create legal barriers against entry into fields that are affected by patents.
Whilst we're increasing our CO2 output as a whole still for a good few more years we're going to go for a industrial open air carbon capture?

I wonder when people are going to realise it'll never ever make more sense to filter co2 out of the air at 400-500ppm to deposit deep underground like that compared to not pumping it up and emitting it in the first place. It's always going to be vastly more difficult and a big net loss in the end.

All the carbon capture projects like that are funded in large part by the fossil fuel industries as a cover to reduce the pressure on their backs. Not as something they believe will work long term.

The ones that do make more sense at first glance like the recent increase in direct capture in the US started to get more subsidised by the previous administration but not to benefit the environment however but to reduce the cost of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery.
Because without there wasn't even enough incentive to do it right at major carbon sources when there was an industry willing to pay for the CO2.
Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023
Hi all, creator here :)

I launched Shepherd.com on a Show HN in April 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660), and it has come a long way.

My goal with Shepherd is to create an experience that feels like wandering your local bookstore, along with little notes from authors & experts sharing why each book is one of their all-time favorites.

For 2023, I surveyed 1,200+ authors to get their three favorite reads of the year. Then I crunched that data and broke it by genre, age range, and when it was published. Publisher data is a nightmare, so some of the genres are not perfect; I am working on improving that and some of the NLP/ML that drives this.

Check out their top sci-fi reads: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/science-fiction

Or, their top nonfiction reads: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/nonfiction

You can also zoom in on each author’s favorite 3 reads.

Louise Carey - https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/louise-carey

Kevin Klehr - https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/kevin-klehr

Alice C. Hill - https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/alice-c-hill

Sara Ackerman - https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/sara-ackerman

My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to share ideas or suggestions for 2024.

Thanks, Ben

P.S. I have a newsletter for readers here where I share what I am building, new features, my fav book lists: https://forauthors.shepherd.com/newsletter-for-readers
The real crime is using Google tools/libraries
Just to clarify, the pattern language is a more powerful alternative to using regexps (but you can mix them). My bank statements are pdf's which can be converted to ascii using pdftotext, however this destroys the structure of the documents which makes extracting data using regexps (even pcre's) very difficult, but much easier using txr.
redundant site serving
“We are actively working on a solution…”
E.g. react does just fine with functional components; I'd say it does much better than with the old class-based ones.

Inheritance works well enough in exception classes, e.g. I can catch OSError and specifically handle FileNotFoundError differently on a language level, but it's nothing composition couldn't handle, either.
Interesting that you and another responder upthread both want to measure salary worthiness against (degree to which the role is) "making society better". I wasn't making a broader statement about what society _should_value, rather a more direct observation that software developers typically generate more value than they receive in compensation, from the perspective of their employers' balance sheets. I've worked at companies where engineering generated over $5m ARR per developer. None of us saw even 10% of that. In software companies, execs are typically overpaid, and tech talent is underpaid.
Update: For anyone else facing the commercial use question on LLaVA - it is licensed under Apache 2.0. Can be used commercially with attribution: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA/blob/main/LICENSE
> ...Just as "obsolete iPhone with cracked screen" is the world's most widespread phone by actual use, "slightly broken wordpress" is the world's most popular blogging engine by a long way...

This is so true! And, as a technologist i tend to get lost down a rabbit hole when helping friends, family, that i forget that lay people simply want stuff that works - even if that stuff is barely working. People say they want "the best", but they'll deal with minimally working crap as long as they can get what they need done. Its a bit of a wake up call to myself and other techies.
true they are legally required by EU law to follow GDPR, but then it gets into enforcement, Facebook et. al might like to not follow GDPR but they are big enough then have holdings that the GDPR can take money from.

If omg.lol does not have any business in EU it is probably not going to actually be a problem for them because EU is unlikely to go to U.S court to try to get money - also because I believe that probably wouldn't work.

However

1. if they are trying to get purchased by someone they probably should consider potential buyers probably don't want to buy a bunch of EU liability.

2. they should probably refrain from any sort of ambition that would give them such a business in the future because regulators can be really mean when someone does this kind of funny stuff.

3. if they don't pay if called on it maybe there would be a situation where they would get blocked - not sure about that but seems reasonable reaction.
Google's fight against open technologies continues.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533 on May 4, 2022, 413 comments
I don't believe the anti-semitic side. Here in Canada, nobody is a nazi. It's not our side of the war.

If there's any legitimate holocaust denial, it's coming from 1 source.

Govenment says I must believe X. I pretty much know X is a lie and it's probably the opposite.