skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's not rare at all. I collect a long list of RSS feeds too, and a lot of the time to figure out if there's an RSS feed, I have to install on an external plug-in, leave the site that I'm on and do a Google search to see if that same site has RSS, only to find it from an old tweet from 7 years ago, or an outdated web page that has links to RSS that amazingly still work. Or sometimes I view source and search for.rss or.xml. So the emphasis, visibility and discoverability has cratered. And the trend has been towards removing rather than adding.

It used to be a standard to have the RSS icon side by side with the Twitter and Facebook icons, but in the present day that tends not to happen.

Twitter itself used to have RSS feeds, Google News used to have RSS feeds, Craigslist used to, those are all gone to my knowledge. RSS tools used to be native to browsers, and now there are numerous RSS tools out there to manually build feeds to make up for the lack of feeds on sites where people want them. Magazines in particular sometimes don't have them, such as Vogue magazine. And you can look at the prevalence of searches for RSS feeds by users and see in trends over time that people are searching for RSS less frequently.
Which decade was the last one you used GNU/Linux in?
What you're essentially asking for (especially with the toml like configuration) is SLURM + GPU cluster.

SLURM does that wrapping for you, where you essentially just point to the file that you want to run, along with some high level GPU and CPU resource allocation tags, and it just schedules and runs it for you.

I have seen some people trying to run GCP (lol) with SLURM, and wouldn't be surprised if it is possible with AWS/Lambda or any of the other cluster service providers (Cluster-as-a-service, CLaaS?).

Just through one Google search, looks like its definitely possible with AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/parallelcluster/latest/ug/slurm-...
Open source databases are SOTA or very close to it, though. Here the value proposition is to pay 10-50% less for an inferior product. Portability is definitely an advantage, but that's another aspect which I think detracts from their value: if I can run this anywhere, I will either host it myself or pay whoever can make it happen very cheap. Even OpenAI could host an API for Mistral.
UEFI app using the graphics API there, not really bare metal. Interesting hack nonetheless.
Yes, it works! I see a post about a wellness challenge from 2 December as being your latest post. Thanks a lot!
They wrote "may", it was clearly speculation about one possible explanation, not an absolute statement of truth.
The audio format was copied from an earlier standard developed for storing sound on video tape. https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/cd-recordable/2-35-Why-44-1KHz-...
Batching changes that equation a fair bit. Also these cards will not consume full power since llm are mostly limited by memory bandwidth and the processing part will get some idle time.
I totally agree with the sentiment, but the citation marks might not be wholly appropriate. This is what Snopes said when they dug into it:

> "We found several other instances of people making similar statements at around the same time, indicating that this was a popular opinion at that time that was evidently shared by Albert Einstein. However, we have been unable to find a direct quote from the physicist that matches this particular meme."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-world-war-iv-stic...
You Do Not Need a Vector Database
That's been the case with Creation Engine games for decades, it's also present in Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallouts 3/4 (and maybe others, that's just all I have experience with). It's amusing that it still works the same even through the iteration of the engine they made for Starfield.
This is hilarious big-company shit, that engineer on Chrome devrel team finds it easier to actually just write his own unofficial RSS feed-generator and make it public [1] — the feed for this blog is at [2] — than for the "Internal issues have been filed with the DevSite team" to get worked on [3]. And who knows when this will rise to a priority for that team?

In the old Google, it would have been easier for anyone to just fix this internally.

(Disclaimer: work at Google but not on anything related to this; all my information comes from links in this HN thread. Which is ironic / symptom of the same problem.)

[1]: https://front-end.social/@bramus/111448166340277056 and https://github.com/bramus/web-dev-rss / https://github.com/bramus/chrome-for-developers-rss

[2]: https://chrome-for-developers-rss.bramus.workers.dev/blog

[3]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/314910854#comment2
This looks oddly similar to bearblog.dev Some of the planned features mentioned here like analytics are already available for bearblog.dev

Edit: fixed link
That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting.

So go ahead and John Doe it.
There's lots of reasons some of which I can't go into details about, but there are some that I can:

There is a freeze to the new infrastructure's product features until after the new year and we needed to get this in before then (we can land feed support without a product feature change)

The people I have working on the older infrastructure will be on new projects for our team in the new year.
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No, I haven't. I have zero nostalgia for Windows 3.x and no desire to ever run it again.

I did write about ArcaOS 5.1 recently:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/04/arcaos_51/

That runs WinOS2 and that was interesting, but it's inside a grown-up OS. That's different.

This isn't from the mid-1990s. It's from the early '90s and that was a time of huge rapid change. Mid to late '90s stuff is fun. Early '90s stuff is painful.

Windows 3.0 and 3.1 can multitask DOS stuff quite well in their own right; it's Win16 binaries that they can only cooperatively multitask.
Greek fire and Damascus steel are fairly good examples. Maybe chuck in the Antikythera device.
Mojo’s model looks interesting here. No GC and no ref counts, something akin to a reference count mechanism at compile time. Not sure how it works exactly and the documentation (as is the whole project) very alpha.
Most authors of kernel rootkits target a subset of versions and then give up or are stuck maintaining a codebase that is a mess of ifdefs for different versions.

At one of my old jobs we had a kernel rootkit we used on occasional red team exercises that ended up having forks for 2.6, a couple of forks for 3.x, and a couple more forks for 4.x - maintenance of that was an absolute nightmare and frankly, not worth the effort in the long run, so it was not maintained into 5.x and replaced with a few much simpler userland backdoors.

That’s why you will see malware such as the one in the article shipping with stuff cobbled together from several different rootkit projects to try obtain some semblance of compatibility.
This was the most engrossing article I’ve read in a while.
For unofficial support, see https://hnrss.org
There’s a lot of world knowledge that is just not present in an American English corpus. For example knowledge of world cuisine & culture. There’s precious few good English sources on Sichuan cooking.
Oil prices have been falling for seven weeks straight. Here's why
SomaFM is awesome. I’ve actually got DEF CON radio playing in the background right now!
If you wanted anything other than hand waving, you can't even define a normal distribution (because you can't define `exp`) without limits. `exp` is a transcendental function.
I submitted this link 1 day ago, but I am not sure why it's on the front page now, as it says I posted it just 1 hour ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=georgehill
I did some semi-serious work in Linux on the free version earlier this year. Performance was pretty good, and I believe that it did use the GPU.

The only big annoyance for me was the lack of a h265 codec. I had some FFMPEG shell scripts for the final exports, but it was a pain and I eventually paid for the full version, which I am very happy with considering it is a lifetime license. Some premium features like speech transcription, where you can select a video segment by simply selecting dialog from a text box, were a big time saver too.

With my last editing experience being Adobe Premiere in the early 2000s, Resolve was simply amazing.
I am now convinced that Google Deepmind really had nothing in terms of SOTA LLMs. They were just bluffing.

I remember when chatgpt was released Google was saying that they had much much better models that they are not releasing because they for AI Safety. Then theu released palm and palm 2 saying that it is time to release these models to beat ChatGPT. It was not a good model.

The they hyped up Gemini, and if Gemini Ultra is the best they have, I am not convinced that they have a better model. So this is it.

So in one year, we went from Google has to have the best model, they just do not want to release to they have the infrastructure and data and the talent to make the best model. Why they really had was nothing.
The Trenches of Academe
CDK Dependency Strategies
The last couple of CPython versions have had dramatic speed improvements, so that demonstrates your point but also gives some hope that things are changing on that front.
XsdVi: Free XSD to SVG schema visualizer
Still works in 2023, despite last update in 2013. Impressive longevity of Java. This is the only usable xml schema visualizer I could find that works on macOS and didn't involve paying or downloading a huge IDE.
Would be even better if there was a homebrew recipe for it to obviate the need to download the JAR from sourcefourge.
Does it have to run them sequentially? I guess the cost will be 12/13bn level but latency may be faster?
Nope. Thats never the case. you'd just open an api which hopefully the devs will make a connector for.
Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval
I'm in a similar position. I dismissed Templ by default when it started getting mentioned; I've always disliked JSX and the approach reminds me of that. I realized that it basically enables compiler and type checking of the template code though and now I'm interested. Ie, with html/template, you could easily reference a variable/attribute/etc that doesn't exist and have no way of knowing until you hit it at runtime so you had to be careful to write tests that covered all the conditional paths in the templates.
What I’m reading here, honestly, is that mainstream Europe would readily abandon Poland, Ukraine, Finland and who knows whom else, if it meant not having to lift a finger against Putin. Not a good look my dude.

This is why Poland has been so supportive of Ukraine. They know this (one could say they are learning from previous experiences).
Huh – Go library for terminal forms and prompts
Start seems to be their "curated content" news aggregator and Bing Ai the search app with GPT-4.

I'd guess that they're testing which app yields more data from users.
It can kind-of be monetized, but Google isn't just about monetization, it's about control. That's why we get stuff like AMP or more and more limiting version of Chrome pushed down our throats. RSS is way too open and difficult to control.
This is definitely fraud. No one can legitimately publish a paper every 5 days. But on the bright side, it's mainly fraud against the university administrators who are too lazy to develop better metrics than "number of papers published" to evaluate the faculty. These fake papers appear in journals no one pays attention to, and are only ever cited by the fraudsters and their conspirators.

The few exceptions are American or European authors who manage to cheat their way into prestigious institutions. Those frauds can go on for quite some time and create their own little sub-fields.
The cost of switching to/from iOS just isn't worth it for "just" iMessage. I don't think you're making a valid argument here.
A pro-free market book but also a few critical of climate change and Big Tech; an anti-Evangelical but also an anti-woke one. Some critical of China but others critical of Japan and South Korea, etc. I’d argue that there’s at least an attempt to cover a variety of viewpoints.

But your argument is different from the OP’s. Their argument seems to be that the article is paid for by the publishing industry, while yours is that the newspaper in question has a political bent.
You're suggestion is to ignore the issues that cause the decline in birth rates?
What would be more bare metal than UEFI?
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Nice to know they're protecting my privacy.
The "can I link Mesa statically" journey was futile, I had much less understanding how things worked back then (not that I'm any kind of an expert now, but you shouldn't be one to ship a f.in game). See, a pretty big chunk of the graphics driver stack on Linux sits in the .so's provided by Mesa: the i915_dri.so, r600_dri.so, nouveau_dri.so, libvulkan_intel.so, libvulkan_radeon.so, etc are ALL exactly what it says on the package. It's not just 50+MB of x86-64 code, it's also your peace of mind that whenever AMD/Intel/NVidia/Apple/RPi/etc drop a new GPU model, or whenever the kernel changes things on their end, you don't need to relink and re-release.

I'm torn between "all of this stuff belongs in the kernel goddammit" and "these guys probably know better". OpenBSD and macOS actually force all syscalls to go through a dynamically linked libc, so perhaps it's the latter.

Libraries/frameworks/engines such as PICO-8, Love2d, SDL, Allegro, Pygame, Godot, etc exist precisely to abstract away these details; you're not meant to care for libGL.so.1, you're meant to care for fixing your physics engine's timestep and using cubic splines to interpolate animation. Love2d was not a mature choice in 2016, so don't take my horror story or my hubris as any indication of what it looks like today; do your own research and pick the tool for the job ;)

TBH I would love to go back to making games, but recently got too absorbed by StarCraft 2 and shitposting.
Gah. Grim.

Noam Chomsky said something once that has stuck with me over the years. That, in a situation like this, moderate voices get drowned out because the extremist perpetrators of violence exchange prestige. The violent extremists of one side perpetrate violence and so the opposing extremists get to say to their own side "See? Our side's moderates are inadequate! Only violence will see us through!" I have come to disagree with Chomsky about a lot, but his model of prestige exchange, where violence between two opposing sides is in some sense cooperative, has stayed with me. Pernicious, if valid. Has resonance with what you testify, here.
I still remember the documentation that came with Coherent 4.x. It was amazing!
How are they used in font rendering out of curiosity?
Macroeconomic Impacts of Automated Driving Systems in Long-Haul Trucking
> Are you using a normal training script i.e. "continued pretraining" on ALL parameters with just document fragments rather than input output pairs?

Yes, this one.

> do you make a custom dataset that has qa pairs about that particular knowledgebase?

This one. Once you have a checkpoint w knowledge, it makes sense to finetune. You can use either LORA or PEFT. We do it depending on the case. (some orgs have like millions of tokens and i am not that confident that PEFT).

LoRA with raw document text may not work, haven't tried that. Google has a good example of training scripts here: https://github.com/google-research/t5x (under training. and then finetuning). I like this one. Facebook Research also has a few on their repo.

If you are just looking to scrape by, I would suggest just do what they tell you to do. You can offer suggestions, but better let them take the call. A lot of fluff, a lot of chatter online, so everyone is figuring out stuff.
And he doesn’t realize that what keeps it from spreading to the rest of Europe is precisely NATO. So ironic.
Kind of ironic for the 'social widgets' one considering RSS is pull-only.
This may be the most Poe's Law HN comment I have ever read. Bravo :-)
Oooooooo

Now you are talking.

The website does NOT explain this. I read about the app which is meh. You end up like thousands of copycat khata apps that do single entry accounting.

Didnt test your app but that is quite difficult to do on its own so if you are able to connect with existing accounting softwares, then it can be much better.
The economist is known to have an extreme liberal bent. So a book like that is expected.

A lot of classical liberal values are going extremist. Way back when I was liberal I couldn't see it coming.

Now the two big movements within liberalism are pretty extremist: identity politics and feminism.

The weird thing about this list is although the economist is very liberal they have a book on there that is against identity politics that essentially against liberalism.

However, on the feminism side they still have a lot of books on the "patriarchy" and blaming and attacking men for traditional gender roles that dominated the anthropological landscape for eons.

It's not a coincidence that feminism is on the rise this century. It's almost a universal thing that crosses cultural lines... Unilaterally we see women in most 1st world counties gaining more power than they ever have before in human history. We would assume that culture evolves randomly so random cultures would have random perspectives on gender roles, but the fact that the rise of feminism is so universal among first world countries points to a single factor: technology. One book in that list is about the rise of females in outdoor sports. That book likely blames men for not allowing women to be in said sports (which plays a small role in the whole situation) while also likely doesn't mention how tampons basically are the main technological enabler that allowed women to even entertain the concept in the last century.

This divide among men and women does partly lead to the low birth rate you see not just in Korea. But internationally among all 1st world countries.
I feel like most watch folks have at least 1 Seiko in their watch case at least once in their collecting journey. Fantastic watches, enjoy!
Hierarchical generative modelling for autonomous robots
I think objectively 2D to 3D was a massive jump. Also the FPS genre which is maybe the most successful gaming genre of all time being invented. Can't even think of a new genre of game that's been created in the last 10 years. I guess the sandbox game Minecraft was a little over 10 years ago, that's one.
Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATS
More models available at Huggingface now:
https://huggingface.co/search/full-text?q=mixtral

Already available from both Mistralai and TheBloke
https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF
I haven't programmed against .net in almost 15 years so it was cool to see where the ecosystem is today:

* latest version is 8.0, released Nov 2023

* cross-platform: Windows, macOS (incl. ARM64), and Linux

* can not only target desktop (Windows & macOS) and server, but also WASM, Android, iOS

* used in game development (Unity, Godot, MonoGame, Stride, FlatRedBall, Everyone, CryEngine, Unigine)

* can target embedded development ("IoT")

* developer tools (Visual Studio) that works across Windows, macOS, and Linux

(source: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/)
It's rather difficult to provide a good formalization but let me give it a shot.

Suppose that mathematicians write papers with pen and paper in a subset of natural language without ambiguity (you wish!). What they write as proofs can be checked thoroughly for correctness by some other human (referee) otherwise it will not be published (again, we wish!).

Now for a paper with N tokens (or chars or whatever measure of length) how much computation can the referee reasonably dedicate to the task of checking that proof. Unless you believe something special about the human brain, I'd claim that poly time on N is a reasonable assumption. Now this means that checking is poly(N) for human checkable proofs of length N.

This is my argument that non deterministic Turing machines would absolutely crunch through everything that we could do in the current model of mathemticsl research.

The class of instances is that of theorems which a human could write a hand made proof and have it verified by another human. Recall that we are discussing formalization and what AI could achieve in this space, so I think formulating what we currently can achieve is a nice contrast with what could come in the future.
The Alabama of Europe
Incredible as usual. Like a visit to a science museum. Wikipedia should commission this guy to explain all the things in this intuitive, interactive, visual way.
Are you "young" and "athletic", by any chance ?
I think in 1993 you could easily still spend $6k by buying the top end 486/pentium CPU from intel, 8mb ram, CD-ROM, large (for the time) HDD, 17" monitor, etc. It wouldn't have a GPU but the latest tech always cost a big premium (it might be just 50% faster than a good but non-top-end system but cost 2-3x as much).

EDIT - looking at some ads in the December '93 issue of Computerworld [0] there's a Compaq ad saying "the Deskpro with Pentium starts at just $3,199" (both the "starts at" and the "just" make me think you could make it cost a lot more than $3,199, altho you could surely also play Doom on a cheaper computer).

[0] https://books.google.de/books?id=WESBpiNtNTEC&pg=PA19&hl=en&...
An adventure with whisper, wasi, and wazero
I've read "Story of Your Life" for a class in college! I really wish I kept the book that had that story, there were many other interesting ones in there.
Are you asking specifically to the Australian examples or examples in general? History is replete with many of the latter, in part because the custom was to keep certain artisans/state technologies secret. Before openly disclosed patents were the norm, technologies like greek fire, damascus steel, or Leeuwenhoek's lens often died with those who knew how to make them.
I wonder if the brain uses a mixture of experts?
Designing a WebAssembly Toolchain for Ada/Spark
> there's definitely something to say for giving people a choice

This is why I took over the maintaince of the Feediron plugin for the TT-RSS feedreader, I really like having the flexibility to define what content I feel is relevant on a feed by feed basis
The documentation was incredible! I ran Coherent when I was in high school and that's how I learned "Unix" and C programming, before moving to Linux.
> But new reporting *suggests* ...

> The fact Altman was so quickly reinstated as CEO suggests that none of these allegations were enough for the company's powerful backers

I dunno, I still think this whole thing just shows that if you do a big decision and month later people don't understand in black-and-white why then people might not be on your side.
Good question. If you believe the results on the HuggingFace leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...), which I find very hard to navigate, we find that Mistral was not even the best 7B model in there, and there is a huge variance as well. I prefer to rely on benchmarks done by the same group of known individuals over time for comparisons, as I think it's still too easy to game benchmark results - especially you are just releasing something anonymously.
Don't use user-supplied integers on dicts or sets on Python:

>>> {i for i in range(10000)}

Takes 0.005s

>>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(10000)}

Takes 0.76s
> And they come out of it disappointed that they don't actually know how to do anything.

Mostly because, as the OP post points out, the lecturing model is very bad at teaching most things. College's never innovate