skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed; the simple thinking you apply to sort some numbers, or to understand a brutally simple logic such as a programming language spec, gives you incredible insight into all fields of human endeavour, past and present.
> as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools.

That's all fine and dandy if you're a developer (or have some developer skills). But my mate who wants to blog about wood working isn't a developer and has no interest in building his own blogging tools.

I'm a developer and even I don't want to build and maintain my own blogging tools, I just want to write about the stuff I find interesting (most of which isn't necessarily development related).
We have neo-Malthusians, neo-Luddites, neo-this, neo-that. Nothing new under the sun.
To be clear, I'm not saying antirez is or isn't good at ML, I'm saying C/systems design/etc experience doesn't automatically make someone good at ML. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just discussing.
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Is the CAMM 1 used anywhere other than Dell Precision laptops?
Graveyard of Empires, birthplace of insurgencies, cauldron of persistent threats :..(

I don't have a great historical grasp on the region, but surely seems a clear example of one reaps what one sows.
The recent Pokemon games also had a bug where the various support objects placed on the map for cutscenes were made visible during battles.

Since they lacked a model, they'd default to the first model in the games object list, which was a PokeBall, but then also loaded up every single texture onto it, resulting in various maps getting random multicolored PokeBalls in the floor (usually at their 0,0 point).

The approach to me also makes sense if you think of these support objects as "directors" for the gameplay. They usually track a specific bit of state to then act on once it's met. It's a pretty clever technique for rapid development (you can usually do what support objects do without them but it'd take a lot more effort in the game engine to do it that way) that can sometimes backfire in entertaining ways.
Yep, I remember him adding emphasis while reminiscing the Softdisk era and how forcing themselves to push new stuff on a tight schedule may not have been the right conditions to produce anything of quality but it gave them the right conditions to hone their skills.

What I'm uncertain is, whether this was mentioned in the book "Masters of Doom" or Carmack's interview on Lex Fridman.
Gomponents – HTML 5 components in pure Go
I don't know how it is know but when I was doing a lot of SEO publishing 10 years ago Feedburner was the best kept secret.

People would always be complaining that Google wouldn't index their pages for months but if you: (1) burn an RSS feed, (2) subscribe to the burned feed, and (3) add items to the feed, the items would be indexed almost immediately.
People use RSS to describe the idea; the fact that the actual technology is frequently Atom is poorly understood. People still use “SSL” to refer to tunneled encryption even though the SSL protocol is no longer in common use.
Now let’s grow more
Many games of that era have this. Usually the first track was the data, everything after was just normal cd audio data. I noticed it with most of my tg16 cd games and a few ps games. Once ogg and mp3 became a thing that sort of went away. Instead of 10-15 tracks you could have several hundred in the same space with similar quality in audio.
Examples of Great URL Design
Leaving aside the apparent confusion between C and C++, do you really imply overloading could make adding two fixed size numbers in Python take unbounded time?
I agree with liking to have a hot drink to sip on while doing other things. Herbal teas have been pretty good for me in that regard but primarily have just tried switching to decaf coffee later in the day/evening.
Mixture of Experts Explained
Personally I use NewNewsWire. Great simple and unobtrusive OSS mobile app.

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
Did they get the memo that fat isn't really the enemy? (well, satfat still not ideal, but...)
It's pretty rare to find a news site that doesn't have an RSS feed today. I know because I've been collecting a long list of feeds.
https://abc13.com/houston-diversity-wallethub-most-diverse-c...

New York was famously segregated by Robert Moses. It’s up there on the list due to being a welcoming and diverse destination today, but those policies of the past can be felt today, long after they are gone.
I use ChangeDetection,

- https://changedetection.io/#features

- https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

> Create RSS feeds based on changes in web content
Where do users come from? People trying out the software and enjoying it. I'm quite glad that the emacs maintainers care about this, as I'm sure I've benefitted greatly from the contributions some of those people will have made.

Improving things that put new users off is often the same as improving things that annoy existing users. Keeping the spirit of the tool intact doesn't require doing everything the same way.

> If the last emacs user press C-x C-c for the last time in whatever years that is not a failure.

I disagree. It'd be just as much of a failure as emacs moving away from it's focus on extensibility/configurability. It's meant to be a useful tool, if no-one is interested in using it, then it has most likely failed at it's purpose.

On the current situation, after reading through the emacs-devel mailing list, it becomes clear that the author of this change - a long term user and contributor - was attempting to address an issue that had come up in his own workflow. He seemed interested in engaging with people who had concerns surrounding the change. The tone of the article is honestly embarrassing in comparison.
Making a linked list is a lot like processing a lidar scan of a jungle canopy for signs of ruins, if you think about it.

Am I being serious? I have no idea.
Prudent yes, but also, since it's science, challenging should always be an option. A lot research on e.g. female burials were done by male researchers who had male point-of-views, so they interpreted someone buried with a load of weaponry as male, while the actual science showed - later on - it was a woman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birka_grave_Bj_581)
> When a blog post starts with saying "twitter is dead"

That is not what it says. Please don’t straw man and misquote.

> it's off better than ever

By which metric? Certainly not financial.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/twitter-cash-flow-el...

> X now having proved its capability to serve its main mission by working as the town square on issues related to OpenAI, Gaza, etc, etc.

Those conversations happened all around. There was nothing special about Twitter.

> Eventually, with subscriptions paying most of the bills

That’s an astronomical assumption.

> X does have pretty much everything it needs, and will only grow with time.

So does it have everything it needs, or will it grow? Those don’t make sense at the same time.

> You can't put a price on Freedom of Speech.

If you’re a free speech absolutist, Twitter is definitely not the platform for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet

https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/elon-musk-turkey-twitte...

https://thewire.in/tech/musk-twitter-takedown-government-com...
Show HN: Vote for the Indie Hacker of the Year
I built this simple ranking where you can vote for the indie hacker of the year and see your ranking position.

Add your twitter/x handle and let's the magic happen.
> I recommend a different approach – encouraging anything that might help.

Well, that's the point. I do not believe this is helpful, and I do believe this takes the space of other actions: in terms of not discussing the alternatives and in terms of taking time and effort to implement, both of which are in limited supply.

> Climate change is one of those things where asking for perfection is the perfect way to ensure nothing happens.

It's also one of those things where even the most watered down plans are not sufficiently acted upon, and where every target eventually ends up not being respected.

I'm all for compromise, but it takes two to compromise. And, as you mentioned, one side is not lobbying for compromise.
> "BG3" on the otherhand innovates on Divinity: Original Sin 2 instead and then slaps a Baldur's Gate paint on the result.

Do you think that the setting, themes, story, and RPG rules are just 'paint'? Is the Infinity Engine so much more important than the Forgotten Realms?

> I also don't see why games should be inherently different from other media in this respect.

Because games aren't media: games are media generators. The same game can be a tragedy to one player and a comedy to another. So you can have two different kinds of follow-ups: ones that simply generate more media in the same way ( = expansion), or ones that improve on how the media is generate ( = sequel). The distinction doesn't make sense for fixed media like novels or films.

Note that I'm not talking about video games in particular, it applies to any kind of game. If I publish a book that adds a new secret level to the crypt of Acererak in the same style as the original, it's an expansion. If I publish a story about a different crypt that feels connected to the original but with its own unique design choices, that's when I can call it Tomb of Horrors 2.
That's not always the case. My last three laptops have the RAM hanging off the edge of the mainboard. The SO-DIMM connectors are where the board stops, and there's "nothing" under the modules.

The CPU is actually in the middle of the MB, close to the two edges (top and bottom), but the cooling fan and heatsink are to one side, connected via some heat pipes.
The comments make the website feel alive though. I remember many Aaron Swartz blogposts would have a comments section many times longer than the original post
Part of Mozilla's bad decisions with Firefox generally boiled down to "we don't have someone to maintain this", or "our analytics show people don't use this".

Shit gets removed, people get upset, and they're told to deal with it. They didn't consider that the people who used the features that were removed also didn't send telemetry data, so they made a dumb decision based on incomplete and inaccurate data instead of something sane like appeal to the community and invite people to maintain or test it.
What does it mean for something to oscillate electromagnetically and mechanically simultaneously?

Doesn't mechanical oscillation already occupy all three spatial dimensions plus a time dimension?
I think people use the term RSS pars pro toto for the generic idea of feeds.
A pretty shallow analysis. I think these "movements" like e/acc are mostly a distraction, a pseudo-culture of people arguing with each other online. Most of them seem to have cartoon characters as avatars, which makes the entire thing seem like a silly game without much effect on the real world. So when people like the author start claiming that Andreesen is "embracing fascism" it rings a little hollow. It's more like a trendy VC firm is chasing trends and trying to appear hip. I don't think there's much more to it than that and over-analyzing whatever manifesto they pump out this year to seem relevant is missing the point.

The Futurists were seen as a “a church of speed and violence,” wrote Eveleth, or we might say of moving fast and breaking things.

P.S., this author doesn't know much about Futurism, as this sentence should make clear.

What I would really like to see is a deeper analysis of how historical American religious trends (the Protestant Work ethic, for example) have shaped attitudes toward wealth, success, and so on in Silicon Valley.
Right - is it not the case that this object is tracking Mode 1 CD-ROM physical (i.e. rotational) frames, not audio/video frames? That is .. a Mode 1× CD-ROM drive reads 150/2 = 75 consecutive sectors per second ... 150k/sec transfer rate ..
And unfortunately they've all settled on the apparently untested, "legitimate interest" loophole where these hundreds of partners have a "legitimate interest" in serving you personalised adverts.
Big Tech acts like a monopoly and Robber Baron. Film at 11.
Yup. Did this with Warcraft 1,2,XP, Cosmic Osmo, Half Life, many others.

It was about as novel as tuning my radio to a TV channel and listening to the Simpsons.
Am I the only one finding interesting that this

> This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden. Exhaustive reporting by the author makes this a riveting addition to the canon on great swindlers.

is under the business?
EU is good at fostering free market, but not at funding strategic efforts. Some people (Piketty, Stiglitz) say that companies like Airbus couldn't emerge today for that reason.
Agreed. I tried to convey that by saying "own or create" because I feel like Wordpress always "owned" me (not the other way around) and I couldn't stand being forced to use it in a certain way.
"we're actively working on a replacement" doesn't sound as good.
It’s $20/mo, and a lot of people are eager to spend it so it should be subject to due criticism.
Oh, it's not a big deal. I just hate talking about the chap in front of him. I like to give compliments specifically, and be vague about less-than-complimentary things.

The thing is, even the ML people are not exactly sure what's going on, under the hood. It's a very new field, with a ton of "Here, there be dragonnes" stuff. I feel that folks with a good grasp of long-term architectural experience, are a good bet; even if their experience is not precisely on topic.

I don't know how to do almost every project I start. I write about that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
> Social media is valuable, that’s why people use it.

That doesn't follow. Neither of those two statements seems self-evident.

People typically follow social media for a number of reasons and to my mind novelty and the pretense of a sense of community are the biggest one. But the latter is usually just paper thin. In "successful social media" most social interactions are either fleeting or superficial. You argue on the Internet with strangers and you pigeonhole them to fit your biases. The entire focus for social media is to drive up "engagement" because clicks and views mean more ad revenue and a bigger "audience". And as the effort of providing something genuinely interesting is a lot higher than something provocative (which has the benefit of being able to simply be an outright lie), that's where social media inevitably trends towards.

Pre-social media spaces were a lot more social in the sense of being communal: IRC chat rooms would have old guard regulars, often lurking around in case something interesting pops up; moderation would happen very bluntly and immediately to set clear house rules about what is or isn't acceptable behavior. Forums had a much lower frequency but followed similar patterns. There was a clear sense of a shared culture if you stuck around long enough and people would actually avoid hanging around in the extremely large forums or chat rooms because they were "too noisy" to have a conversation. It would usually be where you'd go to seek advice or help you couldn't find elsewhere and any follow-up would usually happen in a more confined space like DMs.

What social media has effectively done is looked at the extremely large and noisy spaces and decided that this is what everything should be like by default and then bolted on some ways to keep track of what conversations you were having while mixing the ideas of "people that seem interesting/nice" and "accounts that post interesting content", productizing and transactionalizing all social interactions. Even Mastodon is guilty of this but on the smaller instances at least the scale is limited by default.

The problem with social media being the "marketplace of ideas" is that you normally go to the market to get new things and then you go to work, go home or go to your "third place" (e.g. your peer group, your pub, your club house) where you can all show each other what you got. Social media wants to be all of those places but because the marketplace is the only part that makes money, that's all it delivers.
So 14400 H100 for GPT-4, but that's just a fraction of the new system that Azure is building for OpenAI.

FWIW, I most enjoyed the 29TB machine demo at the end.
Firefox used to have this feature, sort of. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
＞probably easier to find your local neoliberal and smell his farts for the same effect.

And you would know this because...?
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The 4090 is considerably more power-hungry compared to e.g. an A100, however.
Are you using a normal training script i.e. "continued pretraining" on ALL parameters with just document fragments rather than input output pairs? And then after that you fine tune on a standard instruct dataset, or do you make a custom dataset that has qa pairs about that particular knowledgebase? When you say SFT I assume you mean SFTTrainer. So full training (continued from base checkpoint) on the document text initially and then LoRA for the fine tune?

I have a client that has had me doing LoRA with raw document text (no prepared dataset) for weeks. I keep telling him that this is not working and everyone says it doesn't work. He seems uninterested in doing the normal continued pretraining (non-PEFT, full training).

I just need to scrape by and make a living though and since I don't have a savings buffer, I just keep trying to do what I am asked. At least I am getting practice with LoRAs.
IBM Quantum System Two: the era of quantum utility is here
Show HN: RSS Live Bookmarks for Chrome (manifest v3)
I thought the Ezra Klein response to it was better: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-r...
I'm not that familiar with the topic, but it's one thing for HN to provide an API and quite another thing for them to be Ok with being used as a "comments section" or forum for someone else's site, blog etc.?
Sure, but apparently the chance that it survives 476K year is > 0. That would imply that the chance of finding preserved wood anywhere in [11K .. 476K] is > 0 as well.

Given such a large period with nothing found in it, and given that in this period wood needed to survive considerable less long than 476K, makes me want to look for other explanations.
then you would utilize the @print media selector and probably rely on `in`, `cm`, or `mm`. Not `px`, `em`, or `rem`
I did this with some Playstation games too. The data track never sounded very good.
I once found that my website's RSS button did not appear. I did not understand why, until I checked the ad blocker. At least two lists still have rules to block RSS icons (AdGuard Widgets, EasyList Social Widgets). They are not enabled by default though.
I think you would stick to discrete statistics, so teach sums/sigma notation but you wouldn't need to get into integrals.
To be fair, HN doesn't offer RSS either. We need it!
Unfortunately it seems to be worse than vaporware: it's patentware!
That depends on the hash table implementation and the distribution of the integers.

For the commonly used hash tables with prime size that use modulo to turn the hash code into a slot index, an identity hash for integers is usually fine (unless many integers are multiples of the prime size).

But other hash tables use power-of-two size to replace the modulo operation with a faster bit-and operation. Now an identity hash for integers is much more problematic, e.g. if all integers are multiples of 1000, only 1/8th of the table slots can be used.

The latter kind of hash tables would like all bits in the hash value to be well-distributed; and this is typically not true of the underlying integers. So an additional mixing operation needs to be used. Whether that mixing happens in the hash function or in the hash table depends on the implementation (for some, it's even configurable, e.g. is_avalanching marker in ankerl::unordered_dense).
In a way my experience was similar. I encountered no racism in the (at the time) very white Virginia town where I grew up. Nobody had stereotypes about Bangladeshis. That place now has a large foreign population, and ironically the only times I’ve encountered racism there are from foreigners (specifically Arabs).

So it doesn’t seem to me to be true that “diversity” makes people less racist. In particular, I don’t think people in places like San Francisco are less racist, where day in and day out they see certain groups only in service jobs while other groups work in tech and finance.
Pessimists are so wrapped up in their ideology that you get the feeling they actively desire for humans to fail to improve things in the world. All technology is is the application of scientific knowledge to make something easier than it was before. Thats it.

These pessimists like the writer are usually committed to an ideology that views humans as evil and wasteful (as if those values hold any value to an inert universe) and that we must fail in order to show us our evil ways. The writer is claiming that technology has failed to produce large productivity gains. He's not clear on the timeframe but yet he's typing on a laptop utilizing micro-processors and the internet to share his message. He's writing on a blog enabling him to reach audiences across the whole world and get paid to do so.

He's sitting in a post-covid world where our economies were saved by advanced telecommunications networks and video-conferencing technologies. Where millions of lives were saved from MRNA vaccines (technology), that were developed in record time. They were developed in record time by sharing the data realtime via the internet (technology), and Moderna even used AI (technology) to develop the vaccine in 2 days within computer space before physical production. Yep, an effective vaccine designed in 2 days certainly isn't a productivity boost /s

People that are pessimistic about human's abilities to solve problems with the application of science (technology) usually do so for moralistic or philosophical reasons, not for anything grounded in reality. If something isn't ruled out by the laws of physics it is possible to do given the right scientific knowledge.
Other topics are gears, floating point, naval architecture, cameras & lenses, and GPS:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
There is an HR trend of deliberately "coding" job descriptions using feminine language to get more women to apply.
> Also, considering mistral is open source, what will prevent their competitor to integrate any innovation they make?

Their small and tiny models are open source, it seems like a marketing strategy, and bigger models will not be open source. Their medium model is not open source.

> Another thing I don't understand, how a 20 people company can provide a similar system as OpenAI (1000 employees)? what do they do themselves, and what do they re-use?

They do not provide the scale of OpenAI or a model comparable to GPT-4 (yet).