skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1650 - 1797 The unstoppable decline

The decline of Venice as an independent state for sure - did he talk about where things went with cryptography after that?

Quite interesting though... I would read a book about that. I lived in Padova for many years, which was the premier university of the Republic of Venice, so I wonder about what local connections there were there.
That is mentioned at the end of the post where the photo credit is given to cmod.
Ask HN: Is anyone using GitHub Copilot in production?
I'm piloting Copilot as part of an internal trial at my company, and I'm wondering if anyone is actually using Copilot in production or if it's hype driven by non coders. From my testing in Swift, it's certainly able to "write code", but the code it tries to generate is almost always incorrect. It definitely seems like more of a hijacker than a copilot—is this just because of the language I'm using (Swift)? Or is anyone actually writing better code faster?
This is more about back in its peak, but E3 used to gather all the gamer's attention to a single keynote, it was like the Super Bowl of gaming. Basically if your game was on stage/shown off well it would be covered by every single gaming press and magazine and almost guaranteed mainstream gaming culture hype.

Today Geoff Keighley's Video Game Awards basically took over that role and similarly is the single biggest stage/audience to announce a new game to. If you had a game that they were interested in revealing + you thought it would sparkle to its audience it's a powerful platform.
Simplified, this means it's generally difficult to safely make things go fast. And there's nothing wrong with that. The sooner we realize it the better.
> So I should just give up

I really do try not to be the perpetual downer here, but Google has nearly unlimited resources including psych PhDs on staff to influence peoples' behavior and I assume executives with black holes where their souls would normally be who are trying to satisfy that void with money, but can never do so.

I guess the best I can say is that it's about picking your battles.
I've been using pgvector, it has worked as expected, which is all I want. Personally my choice was based entirely on the fact that I already use postgres, and that it will still probably exist in it's current form after the dust settles on the vector db market.
I must misunderstand something very basic about this code.

if (pins[syscalls[i].sysno])

but pins is newly allocated and should just zero or "empty". Why dereference it right after allocation?
googles 'does it still count as a hagiography if the subject is a phone app?'
I've got the 'premium plus' subscription tier and I can see new posts before they're posted.
Parent post is getting down voted to oblivion but it seems a reasonable belief for someone who is not highly engaged with AI. I have only the vaguest understanding of how it works (and it's probably wrong) and to my layman mind it also seems like a totally fair assumption, based on experience as a user and the constant flood of news. Please explain why the suggestion that a future AI / sufficiently advanced LLM could refactor a complex codebase is so preposterous.
I appreciate how these folks released after the model was already on Hugging Face.
>>Youtube grew because of piracy and the posting/distribution of copyrighted content.

The funny thing is, the second you take a step out of the anglosphere it still hosts an absolute tonne of copyrighted content that no one cares about. Just search for "full film" in Polish and you get lots of full films uploaded as-is and no one is taking them down

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pe%C5%82ny+film
Fractal book summaries: I'd like a tool that allows me to put in a PDF, .epub, or .mobi of a book, and have it output a chapter by chapter summary of varying degrees of summarization. So that then I can read the book in a fractal way. I can start with a one paragraph summary of each chapter, and I can click on anything I want to see more detail of, and it'll be instant. (So, it does all the summarization one off before I start reading)
But they have cats, thus your words fall upon deaf ears.
In this case, they've already crowdsourced the review labor to their users, who correctly reported the ad!
They could have absorbed them financially, but I doubt their ability to effectively utilize and keep them. Management issues are causing a ton of churn now
I thought Chris Kraft of NASA Apollo fame figured this out in the fifties.

From
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/naca-the-jet-age...

In 1951, Kraft issued NACA Technical Note 2416 that proposed a theoretical solution to the problem. Tests first on a modified DC-3 and later on a C-45 validated the theory, and by 1955 the system was perfected.

Can be downloaded from here.

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc64927/m2/1/...
Agreed "It's a classic so it's good, don't argue" doesn't wash. It's just conformity impressed on one by conformists. Some things need to be allowed to die on their own dis-merits, not forced to remain alive like tithonus (Vanity Fair, OMG)

(A bit more precisely, people should be allowed to make up their own mind. If I don't think Shakespeare is as good as I'm supposed to think he is, it's all subjective so my opinion carries as much weight as anyone else's. Nobody, especially at school, should be forced into reading what doesn't work for them. I'd much rather have read Greek legends myself).
There’s precedent: they already run a protection racket on search.

“Gee, it’d sure be a shame if your competitors showed up at the top of a search for your exact company or product. But if you pay us for ads on those keywords…”
It’s called Unihan for a reason. Using different code points is the exception, not the rule.
I would love to have something like this but using an open source model and without any network requests.
In my country chemists are required to give you some information before selling you certain drugs. Something similar could be done.
How is it faster that other 7b models using pytorch?
>> The issue now is that the drugs are so deadly, getting involved in any illegal drug is like playing Russian roulette.

> But wouldn't that issue largely go away if there were regulated legal avenues for obtaining drugs?

No. If a drug is too powerful to be used responsibly, legal access won't make that issue go way.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612779
You're telling me... the cloud... is other people's computers?!
Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests
Crypto 101 is pretty good but you may consider it basic.
I have no more sympathy left for drug users after my wife was attacked in daylight in downtown Portland on the way to work. Enablement is not compassion.
The JRE itself is an external dependency that you need to bunle because it is not part of most Linux distributions. And even if there is a JRE installed it is not guaranteed to be able to run your Java application.
Well, this feature is awesome for one-off encoding by a home user.

Subjectively, me compressing my holiday video is much more important than Netflix re-compressing a million of them.
I hope they go to archives.
I see that you got some responses from people who may have not even used gpt-4 as a coding assistant, but I absolutely agree with you. A larger context window, a framework like Aider, and slightly-better tooling so the AI can do renames and other high-level actions without having to provide the entire changeset as patches, and tests. Lots of tests.
Then you can just run the migration 15 times, pick from the one which passes all the tests... run another integration pass to merge ideas from the other runs, rinse and repeat.
Of course the outer loops will themselves be automated.

The trick to this is continuous iteration and feedback. It's remarkable how far I've gotten with GPT using these simple primitives and I know I'm not the only one.
Nice! Built something similar earlier to get fixes from chatgpt for error messages on screen. No voice input because I don't like speaking. My approach then was Apple Computer Vision Kit for OCR + chatgpt. This reminds me to test out OpenAI's Vision API as a replacement.

Thanks for sharing!
At the same time the text makes it fairly clear that it is dangerous to use. There's a reason it talks about having narcan and people checking on you, or doing it as a group - my takeaway from the billboard on the whole is that opioids are a scary thing to do with very real risk. It doesn't make me more likely to do fentanyl, but less.

I wouldn't have used that picture myself, but I also am not convinced it by itself is going to lead people to believe that doing fentanyl is a fun activity.
>> so you'll love these smarmy shitheads.

I've had success with just blocking these channels, or selecting "don't recommend this to me", after a while it stops suggesting right wing content to me, it hasn't for quite a while in fact.
> Proof of identity with a social network backing of people vouching for each other then

Which would seriously reduce the number of people willing or able to use the web.
Why is Bluetooth sound quality bad on my Mac
Would putting together a Linux Appimage work or one of those other 'bundles' like flatpak?
I did a deep dive to understand why sound quality is really bad –or reduced, as Apple puts it– when using my bluetooth headphones.

I read through Apple's documentation, Bluetooth standards, and Wikipedia articles for different codecs, and I tried to summarize my findings in this post. The post talks about Mac, but it's probably relevant to other OSs as well.

As a disclaimer, I want to state that I've made this investigation for fun, learning, but also profit. I'm working on a Mac app that aims to help with the audio quality when using bluetooth headphones. I decided to work on this project out of frustration, probably shared with more people here, and that's why I'm submitting it.

I hope you find it interesting.
Going back to sleep then?
>From people that have used the headset it feels like you're actually there.

Can you link any such review? Gruber is Apple's biggest shill and even he said that it's definitely not that immersive.
Semiconductor giants race to make next generation of cutting-edge chips
https://archive.ph/irXuq
Example: Kubernetes, convincing 60% of the industry that they don't know how to run production workloads anymore.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you, I suspect explaining that to an older judge would be difficult.
Kotaku was a joke for me and my gamer crew way before that.
VapourSynth: A video processing framework with simplicity in mind
Email is arbitrationoptout@23andme.com
> Every night over a private dinner, the entire group has a single conversation around one subject, which the group chose the night before. Everyone stays involved in this one conversation, exploring one topic to exhaustion.

All the other points make a lot of sense to me, but something about deciding on topics and sticking to these sounds a bit over engineered to me. I've never taken part in such a setting so maybe I just don't get it yet, but it seems very limiting.
> if I were going to push people to change to a new language I would not recommend Ruby

None of the alternatives except Go and Swift is new.
Ruby has turned into a robust boring technology, it does not mean it’s unworthy.

The Ruby team is still pushing the languages features and speeding up the runtime. Take a look at Ruby Ractors for example.

I do have to agree on that Ruby is more of a niche language now thanks to Rails but I’d say Ruby works very well for scripting and gluing together different systems.
Ignoring the fact that this is a 1 day old account, why should I care that this LLM's bars are larger and numbers bigger? Is this corporate blogpost actually good content for anyone? What is the appeal other than "yup, that blue bar sure is longer than the other color bars."?
I don't know about that, places like central London and Manchester are quite densly populated, at least by UK standards. And the UK only really got into suburbs after WW2, when huge swathes of the urban population were moved into garden cities.
And this is fine. Devices with different purposes require different regulations.
New York Times Hires First Newsroom Leader Focused on Artificial Intelligence
think of it like a horror movie franchise. soon, we'll have spin offs like CES vs E3: The revenge!!!
In terms of caffeine it may change the dose of it. On the other hand, high quality of coffee I presume they taste better, and I want to drink more of it lol.
Why would you want to test if you could refuel a rocket that keeps exploding
Whoever is waiting for me to comment and downvotes (assume a bot), have a terrible holiday season! A very interesting 2024!
Templates for Businesses on Replit
Just one observation. This model seems "less" multilingual than LLAMA and Mistral. I always ask in Portuguese "What is the capital of Bahia?"/ "Qual a capital da Bahia?" and DeciLM answered wrong and in English ( it said it was Brasilia, the right answer is Salvador). The other models replied correctly.
Interesting! I'm among today's lucky 10,000 in learning for the first time about VapourSynth.

How come it only has 4 measly entries in HN, and none got any traction. I've posted a new entry, just for the curiosity of others.
The pandemic probably didn't ultimately change a lot of things as much as people thought it would early on. But there are certainly events that were stumbling along, mostly on momentum, that didn't make it to the other side.
For someone who is a bit techie, but not familiar with much past the original PyTorch, can I get an explanation of why this should matter to me? Are we at the point yet where I can give one of these LLMs a list of characters and an introductory paragraph, and get a 100K word book out of it yet? Totally not asking because I have too many ideas and not enough time to write them all...
> The Fastest and Most Accurate 7B-Parameter LLM to Date

There's plainly 7B models that surpass it on https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

Am I missing something?
The boomers bought these houses for much less (proportional to their income) than people buying today. By quite a large margin. So yes, they’re special in that sense. People today won’t be nearly as well off in 30 years as the boomers were in a comparable timeframe. If current trajectory continues the kids in 30 years will be rioting, not complaining.
In principle this is a job for Unicode font rendering libraries and/or standard OS text widgets, not app developers.
This is an extension for standard netcore DI-container. It is possible to have declarative JSON definitions of components (services) in _addition_ to the existing code-based approach.

For example, usage of JSON IoC config may be useful for applications with plugin architecture, or when parts of application are generated from some kind of domain-specific models.
Not everyone opted in as such. My wife has an identical twin who sent in a test.
Some of the energy storage technologies making a dent
We usually have some appearance of a mouse once every couple of years. I suppose it’s possible others are getting in and being eaten by our cats or dog first, but that seems unlikely. Regardless, I believe cats which have eaten infected meat only shed oocytes for up to three weeks post-infection, and usually don’t shed again, so for most homeowners with indoor cats it’s probably a fairly low risk.

I believe gardening and playing around in dirt are both far more likely sources of toxoplasmosis infection anyway.
This is pretty interesting, but Id be surprised if it actually happens on the next flight. Depending on the cost of the tanks/fittings/machines, it could be a fairly expensive loss if Starship doesnt reach orbit, which seems fairly likely still. Their last launch was impressive, but Id be wary to put a payload worth more than a few pennies on the next launch
Fighting for Wildlife in a Time of War
> Rust certainly performs runtime bounds-checking as well as some other tasks, so there is runtime code (even if it's just compiled into executables.)

I don't think I've ever seen anyone reference "C with bounds checks enabled" as "having a runtime". Does having stack probes also imply having a runtime? I guess I'd be less surprised if it had been worded as "some mitigations/features have a runtime cost".

> If you want features like async (standard in many language runtimes) you're also going to have to pull in some kind of external runtime dependency.

Yes, you can add a runtime to your application (if you need to use async/await). It has an additional cost over not doing that, but the "promise" is that it is "zero (additional) cost (over what you'd end up with if you wrote the functionality by hand)".
The email I got from 23andMe linked me to legal@23andme.com.
I think this is the big one.

Rather than compete for attention (and also rush to get a deliverable by E3 rather than taking the time to create something worth showing when ready), big publishers and developers were collectively like "why are we doing this? we can just show stuff off at our own event without spending time, effort, and money showing off something that's not ready? are we doing it just so the attention is on us and not our competition?"

That, and I think letting in fans was a mistake. No matter how cool it would have been as a fan to go to E3 during its heyday, it just wasn't the time nor place for that.
The JRE itself is an external dependency that you need to bunle because it is not part of most Linux distributions. And even if there is a JRE installed it is not guaranteed to be able to run your Java application.

So yeah if you redefine your problem to "run on systems with the right JRE" then Java makes things "easy" (your program will still stick out like an unpolished turd). But if you can just require stuff like that than you can also require the right dependency versions for native programs.
I mean, you can see it that way, or you can realize that paying the mafia protection money actually is a fantastic way to keep both of your legs in working order.
Those are not the only choices. A border can be controlled.
Legally procured heroin presumably wouldn't be laced with undisclosed quantities of more potent drugs.
on the flip side, adopting these provisions would all but ensure that only models you can run on your own machine will thrive
Kinda sad for nostalgic reasons, as I haven't actually been excited about E3 in the past 10 years or so.
Boy, they got you good! There's no such thing as "deregulation." There's only rearranging regulation to protect the incumbents against competitors which would try to arise in an actual capitalistic system.
> a technological dead-end.

"The Apollo lunar base proposal saw an uncrewed Saturn V used to land a shelter based on the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) on the Moon." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Applications_Program#AE...>
Marketing directly via ads is not free, either.

Most industries have trade and consumer shows (from film to boardgames to concrete). There's no reason to expect that gaming is somehow unique and should not have one. It's unlikely it will be like the E3 of decades past (or even have the name), but there's value to getting consumers to see/try a bunch of new games.
> Paying for a product instead of being the product.

You're still the product. You think they aren't still collecting info on what you watch and associating that with your google account for cross-marketing elsewhere on the web?
what are rules, but merely (legal) attempts to make the rule-maker more powerful ?
Qdrant is great vector DB ...with the strangest hero image on their release announcement. A robot crab with a galleon in the background??
It is really random in the anglosphere. If you type "... full film" you will get the full film sometimes, just not all the time.
The floor is open grating above a pool of water that is pumped to reclaim the solids. Further the paint is electrostatically charged as it comes off the bell applicator so it is attracted to the body like a balloon to the wall.
This strikes me as a distinction without a difference. Stigmatism is the antibody of the criminal law immune system. And in order to decriminalize something you have to first destigmatize it. That’s precisely why medical marijuana was the first step.
The police in Portland usually won't even show up when people call from stores being (nonviolently) stolen from. How would they suddenly have the bandwidth (and/or will) to enforce this?
Even federal legislative service isn't lucrative.

Biden made the bulk of his wealth only after being vice president and writing books / speaking. And he was a senator for multiple decades!

Being a federal senator is a middle class salary: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a31265187...

Presidents make ~$400k.

And before someone points out the "ancillary" financial benefits to being a legislator: (a) most of those are illegal if discovered & (b) typically the big money is made after retiring or losing office, by leveraging connections.
I’ve seen scams ads on YouTube with fake videos of Justin Trudeau and Elon Musk and it’s clearly a problem that isn’t being addressed.
It uses variable grouped query attention, so it reduces the memory required to fetch during inference.
Zoom Fatigue is From Boredom not Anxiety
What they should do is give an exception for algorithms whose outputs can be completely explained. (e.g. a dumb summarizer that takes the first sentence of every paragraph and concatenates them would not be considered "AI" for the purposes of the law)

Then we could sit back and watch companies trip over themselves to solve transformer interpretability.
Microsoft Forms Alliance to Help Union Workers Stop Worrying, Learn to Love AI
Trivially, yes: I invest with borrowed funds, while the hypothetical free-and-clear landlords in the previous example have paid back their loans.
It defines a proscribed set of powers but doesn't say the use of those must be minimized. On top of all of that all the powers currently used have either been ruled constitutional, are untested extensions of tested uses of powers, or haven't been challenged/are currently being challenged, we can all have our own opinions about what the Constitution does and doesn't allow but within the system defined the only opinion that directly matters is the Supreme Court's. Everyone else's only gets filtered through their selection and ... optional shall we say extra-constitutional means?

Ultimately my stance is the founders weren't perfect, their creation isn't some mystical perfect system handed down from on high [0] so we shouldn't weld ourselves into some imaginary form of what precisely they would or wouldn't want. They're dead it's our country now we have to live with it in a world they couldn't even imagine. Even the groups that do try to lay claim to the founders original vision are cherry picking their favorite version of the founders and their ideas.

[0] Remember their first try at it, the Articles of Confederation fell apart in 4 years and the Constitution was a broad overreach of the mandate that the convention was even convened for.
Apple spotlights the top apps and games of 2023 on the App Store
From the Justipedia website:

"With the benefit of hindsight, Justapedia is restoring the spirit of objectivity and neutrality Wikipedia has long since lost".

Is there any proof to this accusation? I thought Wikipedia has been doing a pretty good job at being objective?