skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty interesting, I'll give it a try. Thank you.
The applications for transparent wood are clear.
Mistral's success comes at the expense of Llama2 ecosystem
> as the abstract explains, it's 5–10 times as fast as other risc-v hardware

you mean those controllers designed to power your SSDs or the 10 cent RISC-V based microcontroller?

> though it still lags behind them by a factor of 4–8 on average

10x slower when compared to the second gen Epyc processor, which is already 2 generations behind.

that 10x gap is not for some specially picked areas, they are the day to day tasks.
One of the big draws is a tactile interface that you don't have to look at while you punch in the numbers. Smartphone touch screens don't offer that and brick phones are too dumb or the models that do have some form of smart OS are not available in these places. This seems like a good way to tap into an existing market that's fairly huge while adding smart features
Great story and very good-looking software, I will try it in the following weeks.

Can I ask why you decided for a full app instead of a web app, which I could use from my phone when needed?
I've never quite wrapped my head around how any federated network would compete with centralized social media platforms, it feels like a solution for a different use case

Federation means we have numerous copies of every single post ever shared floating around somewhere, that's a massive waste of resources IMO. Similarly, the amount of network traffic grows exponentially as the number of full nodes grows and again wastes a ton of resources. Those kinds of issues could be mitigated by limiting the number of full nodes on the network, but then you are driving towards a centralized system again.

Federation works really well when the different groups are infrequently interacting. Sure there could be a mechanism to jump into another circle, but if federation means multiple servers needing to know the entire state of the world the scaling and coordination problems just don't seem worth it.
That's a hell of a release number.
I brought LCP down to under 350 ms for Google-referred users on my website
The speed of your website is considered good if the value of the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric is below 2500 ms. I’m going to show you how I took it below 350 ms on a dynamic, production website with a lot of images, even on a slow connection.
The thing I’m confused about is if MoE is supported by Metal? More specifically, can I run the 8x7B on a MacBook (with enough RAM, which I believe is 48GB required?)?
I took a look at the standard, and it's a 7x44 connector for each channel of memory. That gives 308 connection points, which is slightly more than 288 on a DIMM. Dual-channel modules (as shown in the article) simply double the number of pins to a 14x44 connector (616 pins)
> "Not sure where this leads but I guess ISPs will start charging toll for express lanes"

Doubtful IMO. I think latency becomes another competitive differentiator, much like throughput/speed is today. (this is a personal comment but I work at Comcast)
Gotta hit those marks you've made up so you can get a bonus.
https://untested.sonnet.io/rss.xml

the site uses obsidian publish so a lot of things about it are rudimentary. Obsidian is a nice note-taker but the publication platform bit is just a side thingy. also, you can't comment on TFA because it simply does not do comments.
Because endowments aren't piggy banks. They're regulated by UPMIFA [1], which states that universiteis can't draw down more than 7% of the total funds in the endowment unless they can prove that it would be prudent to do so, and the burden of proof is extremely high.

Even without UPMIFA, endowments are a mix of unrestricted and restricted funds, and donor restrictions can and do prevent universities from using money when they might otherwise want to. Even if a university desired to draw down the full 7% allowed without triggering red tape, it's unlikely that they would be able to draw it all without running afoul of donor intent.[2]

If anything, the system is to blame here, not the universities themselves necessarily (not to excuse bad apples in academic administration).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Prudent_Management_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_intent
Cool, man. No one's forcing you to use it. I'm sure you can find someplace else.
Not if you're using a commercial cloud drive
Huh? You really can't see it?
> The people - and their suffering - are a means to an end to establish that state.

I think this is really wrongheaded on a couple of counts. Because Israel as a state 'for the jews' is an ethnostate, it must keep a jewish demographic majority. So long as that is the case, there is no way for Palestinians to have rights without having their own state.

Second, that suffering is directly caused by Israel. You can't blame the political projects of the Palestinians for the actions of the IDF.

Thirdly, what form of self-determination would actually be acceptable to Israel? Would it include the banning of settlement activity, and the settlers having to live under Palestinian law? Would it include palestinian's right to border control? Or a military? The reason why people call Gaza a prison is because the Palestinians had absolutely no ability to leave, import, or export, because it did not have control over its own borders. That is obviously just as intolerable as an explicit military occupation.
Axiomatic Preference Modeling for Longform Question Answering
100% agree - read my IETF Internet Draft for more on that. :-)
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-livingood-low-latency-...
Murray was a temporary member of the NUJ (the UK's "official" journalists' union), allowed his membership to lapse when working largely on the Assange case, his subsequent request for membership renewal was refused by the NUJ in disputed circumstances. Murray's site has plenty of comment on this.

He's no prankster.
Like it or not 4chan's technology forum is one of the forefronts of local image gen/voice/llm model discussions, this is why the most prominent SD interface is written by a 4chan poster.

Considering the author of ComfyUI is called ComfyAnonymous and has an anime avatar it's very likely they're a 4chan poster too so maybe don't use that if it actually bothers you.

Both are very good tools for using this stuff on the cutting edge so I couldn't really care less what the authors do in their free time.
As disrespectful and annoying as it is, don't sites do this because it's a net gain in conversions for them? I think we're a minority here. At scale, do not the masses submit to these popups and end up converting into sales?
Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning
Components are from China - everything is assembled in India (Bengaluru). It's probably impossible to manufacture with locally sourced components in India in 2023(especially displays, processors, memories).
See my comment above - doubt this will happen - rather it will become a differentiator like thoughput.
Well my blog is on github gists so I can have comments available. My opinions are founded on ground principles and facts, and if someone tells me that a fact is wrong then I'm more than happy to evolve my opinion.
Nice to see the ideas from the Mill processor live on :)
Sounds like it would have the same problems during refactoring if many different entities relied on the same data. You would have to make sure none of the entities’ behavior changes when you’re modifying your data. It also sounds very verbose where you have to compose each entity all over again instead of inheriting and adding an additional property. But that being said, I would take being verbose over weird hidden layers of abstraction any day.
If only we could all do nothing for work and reap handsome rewards.
Make sure they drink enough water. May have to get them a water fountain or a wider bowl, and make sure it's fresh.

Aside from that, Maines are already a very long lived generally healthy breed.
If you start a burger restaurant with the exact same recipes as the one up the street, you suck. Try to add something new!
NASA's Webb Stuns with New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star
Is this really a competing standard though?
WASM, Android, and iOS targeting is subpar, though. For multi-platform client-side targeting, Kotlin is actually more interesting.

.NET was always built for showmanship, with somewhat disappointing results when actually tried.
Various ways to include comments on your static site
Would you mind elaborating a little on where you draw the line? In my mind "SEO" means adding the correct meta tags to the html, but I suspect that's because I have approximately zero wisdom on the subject.
I propose treating all animal medication as supplements. Safety (including safety when consumed as food for livestock medications) is required but not efficacy.

And given the fact that people have the legal authority to euthanize their pets on demand, it seems pretty silly that we are spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money ensuring they don't get fed snake oil.
We humans are soooo good at fixing systemic issues. Surely we’ll eradicate this decades old issue at great cost, plus the same old costs, and new costs; it’ll be just as tidy and a big win as your tidy little post puts it. It’s so simple it needs but a paragraph to explain, afterall. Really, no greed or other perverted incentives will creep up as the process moves on and government loses interest again.

The rest of my post was to suggest where the flawed incentives come from; educationally outdated meat suits and apathetic voting public who think they’re off the hook to society. Elder politicians enable such perverse incentives because they care about fiat currency flow, not science. Ignore it and dig into vacuous meta theory because the public is kowtowed by threats by the seniles

It’s amazing to me how many think choices today are guaranteed to matter tomorrow. You have no idea if what you say is possible given the state changes that occur constantly reshaping global society

In the end you’re peddling high minded BS

We can’t get the world to agree on climate change. Surely we’ll keep all hackneyed science from propagating, certainly we’ll keep the costs from ballooning to serve any perverse incentives that pop up as the public lacks any real command of the political system and it’s pork spending

Sure, sure. Musk will have a full colony on Mars first
>mService always immediately returns the “drive ready” code

I've read enough of these emulation / reverse engineering blogs to know this will inevitably come back to haunt them.
This can fit into a Macbook Pro with integrated memory. With all the recent development in the world of local llms I regret I settled for only 24Gb RAM on my laptop - but the 13b models work great.
I made a simple web booking system 15 years ago and people are still using it. I had very little idea of what I was doing.

As others have said, make something and enjoy the work of your hands :-)
It makes new cloud-based apps realistically & reliably workable - think cloud gaming and cloud AR. It also makes interactive stuff like gaming and video conferencing perform a lot better w/o lag. But really anything interactive (user & device) should be better given how many round trips it currently takes to paint a web page or stream video to handle an AI assistant (Alexa) interaction.
EU reaches provisional agreement on AI Act, paving way for landmark law
The coloured stripes that explain climate change
> So it's not like on TV where if they have the paper they can just show it to you and barge past you by force?

Even in these cases, they still have to give you the warrant and you're able to take it up with the issuing authority/take to court the executing officers.

But yes, arrest warrants and personal search warrants can be executed expediously for evidentiary / flight concerns. It's the exception, not the rule.
I think this is a ridiculously brilliant idea. It's probably hard for Americans and folks in the West to imagine why this is a big deal. There are millions of vendors who basically dominate India's retail market, which is probably one of the largest unorganized corners of the global economy with the world's largest population. There have been tons of efforts and a significant amount of VC funding to digitize unorganized retail (the Kirana segment) in India, and many of these companies have struggled. I think part of the challenge is that they were trying to get shopkeepers to change behavior and force them away from their existing sales and checkout process. The elegance of the Kirana sale/checkout is efficiency - no barcodes to scan, no POS to deal with, and it's probably 3-4x faster than any modern checkout process. However, there is one tool they always use - a calculator.

This product basically enables me to do what I already do as a shopkeeper and maintain existing efficiencies while I also have the opportunity to digitize my transactions. I think it could be a game-changer.

Full disclosure: I grew up in a tiny town in India, and this was pretty much 100% of my retail experience!
Came here to say this! I found most of my favorite songs and bands in that time frame listening to Indie Pop Rocks
Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.
As in call an API via IPC of some sort, e.g. HTTP? I thought that AGPL meant that the copyleftness of the licence would survive that.
Because all social sciences are not "roughly comparable to Enron." Hacker News is getting a bit ridiculous with the utter disdain shown for sciences and academia. The problem identified by the parent of this post is a problem of incentives that are misaligned with what we as a larger society want out of basic research. But every energy company had the same incentives as Enron. Not every energy company published fraudulent financial statements.

Poor replicability of social sciences is multifactorial. To some extent, what they're studying is a moving target that is not all that amenable to scientific methods, which tend to assume static reductionist laws dictating system behavior. The dynamics of how fundamental forces dictate everything from gravity to covalent molecular bonding don't change from culture to culture as well as over time as trends. When you're studying human behaviors and preferences, I'm sure some of it is governed by more or less immutable eternal laws, but some of it is semi-random diffusion of learned trends and what is true today of one group of people may not be true of any other group or even the same group at some later point in time.

Some of it is statistical illiteracy and not understanding the limitations of the techniques you're applying.

Some of it is outright fraud.

There is also interplay between those two because outright fraud is facilitated by peer reviewers not having the statistical maturity to be able to detect it.
tbh I would prioritize analytics (it's all executives care about atm)
I wrote a simplified summary of the IETF specs FWIW: https://github.com/jlivingood/IETF-L4S-Deployment/blob/main/...
ChatGPT (3, I'm on the wait-list for 4) is fine at answering questions and coming up with code samples for stuff that's on the beaten path (hey, how do I do this in python or go). I don't have many of these sorts of questions.

I've found it to be wholly inadequate at answering the kinds of questions I do have a lot of - stuff like "How to watch a list of objects using kubernetes controller-runtime?". The answer I got is entirely hallucinated.

For those I find myself still searching GitHub for example code and sometimes using stack overflow.
That's something that should be caught at test time. It's like having a bug in your code.

There is another class of template bugs that comes from input data, that's what I'm referring to. The validation catches it before rendering
Maybe this way, we'll not just get user-replaceable batteries in smartphones back - maybe we'll get hot-swappable batteries for phones, as everyone will be happy to carry a bag of extra batteries if it means using advanced AI capabilities for the whole day, instead of 15 minutes.
UTP is intended to be less than best effort priority. This is about all the apps trying to share queues at best effort (1 level up).
I have a real life example in this commit: https://github.com/hpc4cmb/toast/pull/380/commits/a38d1d6dbc...

Replacing 2 lines of python code (with tens of glue code in Numba) with hundreds lines of C++ with glue code.
What does it say about me that I know this xkcd by number? I propose there should be a new ISO 927 to rule them all.
My first quick scan of your comment gave me the impression that you were sarcastically asking for the date bug to be replicated in the new system for "backwards compatibility" purposes. Glad to see, upon reviewing, that I was wrong :-)
> the pound recently dipped under the dollar and has seen rampant instability due in part to the mismanagement and inception of brexit.

This is not rampant instability in my book:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=5Y

Try this on for size:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=ARS&to=USD&view=10Y
For better of for worse, the title of this site is "Hacker News" - and hackers tend to have strong feelings about privacy issues like this.

I personally appreciate articles like this being posted, as they don't _really_ feel political and both lefties and righties can agree that freedom of speech and journalism is important. Except the extremists of course, as I'm sure I will be made aware of in any replies to this comment.
And you're not helping them by vaguely saying their points have missed the mark.
i wonder why they wanted it shut down.

there are a few alternate frontends to hackernews. technically this would be no different.

likewise linking to hackernews discussions should also be ok.

maybe an issue with load on the site if this becomes to popular?
Not the GP but I think that blog post https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration you linked explains it pretty clearly?

• The people working on web.dev decided to migrate to a common Google site platform, so that they could focus on content rather than maintaining an ad-hoc infrastructure,

• That platform happens not to support RSS (yet), so they've done the best they can in the meantime, filing a bug with the platform, creating the https://developer.chrome.com/feeds info page acknowledging the issue, and even creating unofficial feeds.

You could phrase this as “someone in Google management who decided that RSS could be broken”, but relative to the big decision of whether to spend effort maintaining your own custom infrastructure or just focus on the content, the presence or absence of RSS support is probably just not a big factor.

[One could imagine a culture of "never migrate to a new system unless it fully supports every single functionality of the old system", but that (just like "never launch a product/feature unless you're confident you're going to support it forever") is simply not in Google's culture, where there are always ongoing migrations between "the old system that is deprecated and the new system that is not ready yet" — but that is "just" a cultural problem rather than anyone consciously deciding that RSS could be broken.]
Ask HN: What's the Best Country to Live In
Given the situation the world is in right now, what is the best country to live in?
I have used kdenlive for a dozen videos over the last 5 years - my use case, taking 15 minutes of footage down to 2-3 minutes, syncing video with voice over, building product demos, tutorials. It has been solid, on Windows and Linux.

When my youngest was 10, she worked with OpenShot and Kdenlive, and settled on Kdenlive on Windows - probably edited 20 videos of hours of Roblox footage down to 2-3 minute videos, syncing characters activity with music, voice over, etc... It was pretty cool - it worked well for her.
Floor sitting is the new standing desk
Anyone trying this? I'd like to (eventually) be flexible enough to do this once in a while during my work day...
Raw food is the biggest thing. One of our cats has IBD and was about to be put down, raw food completely reversed it and now he’s better than before with no signs of slowing down.
The EU is not saving the day in America this time around.

iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2023/12/imessage-will-reported...
Best way to prevent deadliest gynecological cancer is to remove multiple organs
> Social contract theory is many hundreds of years older than I am ...

So, you're going with the old "appeal to authority" approach then?

You might want to pick a different direction, as that doesn't really work around here. :)
Sounds like an example of releasing a good product on a relatively unpopular machine.
Awesome! Ping me and I'll be happy to assist with the docs integrations - for now I've added a link to your guide
Several D3.1 modems support it now but most will need to be updated. Many of the vendors have been testing at quarterly L4S interop events, so I would expect them all to have production grade s/w next year.
All of these uses like structural light diffusing beams and screens are all predicated on a production process and even prototypes that no one has seen.

A little cart before horse.
It's not a course, but I recommend the book "Universal Principles of Design." It's a set of principles covering various aspects of design, both for UI/graphics and 3D physical objects.
Can the EU's plan to regulate AI keep up with rapidly evolving tech?
`src/gam/__init__.py` alone is over 3 MB of code that's not from `google-api-python-client`. Combine all the ad hoc shell scripts I've ever written and it probably wouldn't be that much.
Without open weights why would anyone care about them? By the time they could compete with gpt4 there's probably be gpt5 already.
And a good static blog like Hugo or Jekyll will effectively last forever or as long as the hosting bills are paid.
What you fail to understand is that, outside of all talk about decentralization, keeping local state is a huge performance optimization. Tagging a large CVS tree used to take several minutes, because it would talk to the remote server separately about every file. History browsing & bisect are very pleasant in Git because the local computer already has all the information, and just needs to present it to you.
Plain text is useful, but getting it in that form is trivial—it's just a textarea (nothing fancy like contenteditable, so it's already in plain text) and every system that you could expect to use this from should have a functioning clipboard.

A note with the look and feel of temporarynote.com calls for coordination from the author to modify their app to be able to output itself as a self-contained file.
Smallest Linux Distros
I think this blog post is a good summary: https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1