skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice site! I like the clean design and logical layout, but have some questions. Firstly you say it’s the top 3 books per author, but you ask for the top 5 in the “for authors” page? Which is it?

It seems you are asking them for the top 3/5 in a niche category? It’s not clear to me if you ask for books in the category or in general for 2023 or both. For example I saw one author giving a list of the top books on Leonardo da Vinci in 2023. This would make aggregation of limited value, and the first thing I am presented with is a list of books which have reached some kind of consensus amongst authors, but the lack of consensus was quite surprising before I found out how it worked!

I think there is a lot of value in getting an author's consensus of best reads, and then maybe secondarily including books from a niche interest. This would be a value-add for the author too, since there is more diversity of books.

Nice project, I wish you the best of luck with it.
First, I don’t understand what “build it into the airframe” means. These are sensors that are used to predict turbulence and then generate forces in opposition. Are you imagining small sci-fi rapid thrusters throughout that can generate enough thrust to counteract?

Secondly, the turbulence prediction is extremely hard for an airliner because it’s traveling so fast - you’d need sensors extended comically far forward and at that point you’ve got real risk of them breaking off mid flight meaning you would have to add significant amounts of weight to strengthen them (assuming you could). You’ve also got the problem that you need to retract this stuff on landing probably which adds more weight and complexity. Adding even more problems, generating sudden thrusts to counteract turbulence for a commercial airliner seems really difficult since that’s not how the engines work (eg you probably can’t generate a countervailing force quickly enough).

This is a neat concept but keep in mind this is a PoC on a very lightweight craft going relatively slow. It’s not clear how big/fast an aircraft it can scale up to. An easier turbulence reduction would be to mount the passenger area in something that could actively mechanically stabilize like optical image sensors. If you could decouple things so that the airframe could be repaired/replaced cheaply independent you everything else in the aircraft, that would be much more cost effective. However I suspect the mechanical stabilization itself would add a lot of weight/also need replacement and you wouldn’t see fuel savings I think, just a more comfortable ride.
I think libgen and scihub are even more future proof. Something as important as scientific (or any) literature must be distributed and uncensorable. Libraries are destroyed by authoritarians all the time throughout history.
+1. This is the core issue.
I've got a treadmill under my work desk. I notice that when I'm walking I can focus on meetings and actually process auditory information way better. Makes me wonder how I would've done in school if walking was an option.

I did a 5 day wilderness backpacking trip this summer and it's a godsend for disconnecting and mental health though I guess what Sivers is talking about is a slightly different format. I'll have to think about this some for when I'm older.
Automatically opting-in customers to a more restrictive TOS is pretty suspect, especially given the timing. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that a court would not allow that, given that the TOS was changed AFTER the breach and it's pretty clear that the company is trying to avoid legal issues after-the-fact.

I would expect the court would evaluate any breach under the TOS that was in effect at the time of the breach, rather than under a new (and arguably suspect one) that was put in place after it, arguably in an attempt to "rewrite history".
I just read about this on a recent entry about FFmpeg, and thought it might interest the HN folks.

Note to mods: The link has a title that could be confusing and isn't descriptive at all, so for the HN entry I took the title from the source code repo, which seems much better (while the main domain seems like the more interesting thing to share).
This seems like a good outcome to me. It would create a new wave of decentralization in computing instead running more and more things "in the cloud".
It is basically impossible to write general purpose software like compilers, word processors, and layout engines without doing heap allocations. That means either pointers or references, which are difficult to distinguish if you do not engage in pointer arithmetic.

Any C++ program that does not do heap allocations either uses arrays as a substitute for the same thing or isn't a general purpose application.
You have to look at the pre-trained models and not the "tuned" models. Its number one in that category (which is what I think they are referring to, given the benchmarks are against Mistral and llama)
Base model, not fine-tuned
I've reported fraudulent ads (Ĕlon musk make $1ʘʘʘ/day) directly to a friend who works in safebrowsing team and they get pulled for a day or two before they're back.
> I mean they can ask you to agree to new TOS but you don't have to because TOS is not a law

Aren't they forcing you to agree to the new TOS to continue using the product?
The author is fairly well-versed about video games and I've known him online for a long time from a site called gamecritics. I'll allow that's a poorly worded sentence though.
How about a _market_ is anything where there exists a _marketplace_? Doesn't seem like a wild stretch. Now why should Apple have a monopoly on accepting payments on its platform?

To your second point: people are sad that we can’t have cheaper and better software on iOS. It’s a poor UX when an app makes me go on my desktop to sign up for their paid service. It negatively impacts consumers and only exists because Apple is wielding its monopoly.
send it to both!
Just to handle the case where the same syscall number is specified twice by the ELF header: in that case, the entry is set to -1 (presumably meaning it’s invalid).
Well, there you have it. If you want a mobile device that is open to side loading - do like the other 85% of the world does and buy an Androud phone.

Would you also buy a moped and complain that you couldn’t tow your fishing boat with it?
The older I get, the more I learn that "legal" doesn't mean what's on the books, it means what some entity cares to enforce.
Architecture details matter.

"DeciLM-7B’s superior performance is rooted in its strategic implementation of variable Grouped Query Attention (GQA), a significant enhancement over traditional Multi-Query Attention (MQA) and standard GQA."
The problem isn’t drug legalization, the problem is the inability to deal with irresponsible drug users. Blanket drug bans unjustly punish responsible users, and enable selective enforcement based on the bias of those in power e.g. the police and we all know where that gets us.

If I want to pop some mdma and enjoy myself at a live show, or do shrooms and go hiking, or smoke some weed and relax in a hammock and listen to my favorite album, or do some speed and clean my house, or spend a weekend dozing off with some heroin, then I ought to be allowed.

If however I get into fights, puke and shit in public, nod off laying spread eagle across the sidewalk or in the doorway of a business that’s trying to open in the morning, trespass and steal anything that’s not nailed down, start completely unsafe and inappropriate fires, and menace innocent passerbys on thoroughfares - I should be stopped.

Drugs writ large are not the problem. Drugs are what you make of them. Users who cause problems should be dealt with. Users who don’t should be left unharassed. Drunken brawling? Straight to jail. Drunken hugging? Let people have fun.
Several reasons come to mind:

- AI regulation is partly based on the number of parameters

- It's generally accepted that bigger models perform better, so counterexamples to that notion are valuable

- Smaller models are needed for local, offline processing with current hardware
> It's quite a complex feature and yet I'm not sure any OS ever used it.

They did.

Linux used x86 hardware task switching and TR (task register) for years. See "struct tss_struct" and "switch_to" in older kernels.

Linux also allowed userspace processes to get hardware-managed access to individual I/O ports using the per-task x86 I/O port bitmap, and to local segments using the x86 LDT which were useful for running 16-bit code in a 32-bit task.

The hardware task switching was eventually changed to software task switching. By that time, software switching was faster, and it was always more versatile. This change removed the hardware-imposed limit on the number of processes and threads Linux could support.

Here's a nice article about the evolution of task switching in Linux. https://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switc...
It does seem like quite a leap from the FTS triggering before reaching orbit to refueling, doesn't it? My hunch is that whatever happens, we'll see scenes of SpaceX people clapping and cheering and SpaceX fans calling the flight a success. From what they tell me, no SpaceX launch has ever failed.
Both. You can't listen to traditional radio for more than 20 minutes without hearing a McDonalds ad (at breakfast time). Drinks (both soft and hard), and cars are also big spenders on advertisements.

I have seen a few ads for those things on YouTube, but it isn't as constant as other forms of media.
Because "significantly more safe than C", while true, is also irrelevant. I want safe, not "safer than grotesquely unsafe". Unfortunately, for all the advances C++ has made, it is still in the "unsafe at any speed" class. It is difficult to escape the foundation of unsafety the entire C++ edifice rests on.

(At least, without further support. I consider "C/C++ with high quality static analysis" to be de facto distinct languages, and while I would favor something else even so, high-quality use of a high-quality static analyzer is enough to calm me down. Things have still crept through that level of care, but then, interpreters and compilers for safe languages have had safety errors in them before too.)

This is particularly true because it's just C and C++ that are memory unsafe. If we still in 1980, we could be arguing about the gradients of unsafety, but in 2023, we don't need to. Unsafety is not necessary at scale.

As for why people aren't asking to rewrite in Python, I partially answered that in my post. You can actually incrementally rewrite in Rust. You can't incrementally rewrite software in Python. There is also plenty of software that can be written in C, but simply can't be written in Python because it would be too slow. (Rewriting it in Python but oh no wait I'll just write the slow bits in C is a no-op, practically.)

As for trashing memory in Rust, by perfectly reasonable convention we generally understand that unsafe is unsafe, and that while languages can't avoid having it, having it does not necessarily make the entire rest of the language just as bad as C. I can crash Haskell with a straight-up, genuine null pointer exception with the Unsafe module in a single line of code. We do not thereby call Haskell an "unsafe" language where it is trivial to trash memory. Stock Rust is far safer than C++, to the point of being not only a qualitative change, but I'd contend, multiple such qualitative changes.
No, I don't think that that's obvious. At least in the US, there are already protections for genetic information (including but not limited to GINA [1]).

In the long run, I think keeping your genetic information private will be untenable- the potential benefits will outweigh the drawbacks. Plus, anyone sufficiently motivated could get your DNA somehow, you shed your DNA everywhere you go, no getting around that.

So what's left is to urge your representatives to maintain and strengthen regulations on how that information can be used, and in the long run we'll just have to trust that that will be enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
Well, it should show that there is a new better 7B model under Apache license, something that will prove in practice.
Ease of use is not a technical aspect.
Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough
We will all become boring: Loneliness, liberalism, and the traditional family
> e.g. as in Croft, Metzler & Strohman 7.2.1

https://ciir.cs.umass.edu/downloads/SEIRiP.pdf
Section 230 doesn't appear to be being enforced anyways...
> When we give gifts via stationary cards, I print a QR code sticker to place in the card that fires a notification when scanned, which lets us know to Zelle the gift

Why not just put cash in with the card? It seems much easier and more convenient.
> Per ChatGPT the government agency that can sue you for false advertising is FTC, not DMV.

... This is the first time I've ever seen someone actually doing this.

I would... be cautious of relying on stochastic parrots for legal advice.
I don't give Facebook permission to use my pictures, my information or my publications, both of the past and the future, mine or those where I show up. By this statement, I give my notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, give, sell my information, photos or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308-1 1 308-103 and the Rome statute). Note: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you have given the tacit agreement allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the updates of the state of the profile. Do not share. You have to copy.
"We note that Medprompt+ relies on accessing confidence scores (logprobs) from GPT-4. These are not publicly available via the current API but will be enabled for all in the near future."

Had that been announced yet?
Yes, I was in with many of them. While you can get anything you want at a cost inside Illinois prisons, hard drugs like coke, meth, crack are actually very hard to come by. 99% of the drugs are "K2" and weed.
It's fantastic that the Super Heavy booster fully completed it's mission! Much bigger deal than the ship itself failing.

Before that last flight it seemed like engine reliability wouldn't get solved. But now they have a clear path to orbit.

I doubt the heat shields will hold up on the first several re-entry attempts but there's been recent sightings of a new heat shield that has tiles about half the size. Maybe smaller tiles will have less lever action and will have 4x the fasteners.
Ask HN: What are some great conferences to attend in 2024?
My company has a great Learning and Development program for employees and I'm notorious for never cashing in on these programs.

Well, I've got a few weeks to make the argument!

Leaning toward fun/whacky/web/hacker or consumer-focused conferences

These seemed great but look to be cancelled (for 2024 at least
https://bangbangcon.com/
https://www.thestrangeloop.com/
The scale of paid content is much smaller than the general youtube scale. And they already have a categorization for it. Of course you could lie about the categorization of what you pay to YouTube to show unsuspecting people, but at least you run the risk of giving YouTube money and not getting shown because you violated their advertising policy. It would change the whole economics of running scams through ads.
love olaf stapledon's work. starmaker is my all time favorite book <3
YouTube does not have the scale to manually review every time someone flags an ad. HN community believes that “oh, but MY report is high signal” which may be true, but user reports as a whole are not high signal. So instead it’s going through some ML classifier first.

An automatic answer saying “this doesn’t go against policy” does not mean that it escalated to YT staff who carefully considered the ad and said “actually, this is okay because we really want the revenue.” It means that whatever ML classifier took a look at it thought it was okay (which is probably bugged, given their typical speed at taking down fake livestreams in this vein).
I'd be interested to see a comparison of the median wealth by age bracket.
GreenArrays have really cool chip that boasts "the most power efficient per instruction executed" when they released it. On the order of picojoules per cycle IIRC.

The chip has 144 independent computers (not processors -> computers)

The inventor of the Forth programming language, Chuck Moore, developed it, and is designed to execute with this parallel model in mind. A parallel Brainfuck system might be a cool project to port over to this platform.

https://www.greenarraychips.com/

Here is a talk given at Strange Loop by Chuck:
https://youtu.be/0PclgBd6_Zs?si=r8FqQo4LUvdFmHbd
There are people who function normally in life while using opioids. Both prescription pills, and street drugs. Obviously, long term impact from opioid use is bad, but we allow people to do all sorts of things to themselves that kill them over the long run. One of the biggest we market to kids from a young age - sugar.

The biggest acute risks from drug use are largely overdose related. Having ready access to narcan solves some of it. But issues with actual potency being incredibly unreliable are another huge risk factor that kills a lot of people, and regulated and tested drugs solves that.

Legalization makes huge headway on the acute overdose related risks. It doesn't solve all of the issues, but neither has criminalization and prosecution. I am skeptical of societal taboos doing it either, because I have seen people in my life fall into opioid addiction, and all of them were ashamed about it. I have spoken to people on the street about it, and they're ashamed to be living in tents with any money they come into going straight into more drugs. It's anecdotal, obviously, but it has been so universal that I find it incredibly unlikely that piling more shame on top of people who are already deeply ashamed of their current state in life is going to force any significant number to suddenly clean up their act.
Talk about a great example of David Hume’s “is-ought problem”.
At some point in time, the only way to get a phone hardware was Bell Telephone Company. That did constitute a monopoly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
How much does it cost them to lose a starship lower stage? Those things can't be cheap.
Most of the time we're leaking our DNA all over the place by existing
Thanks for letting me know, i didn't use GPT-4, but i was under the impression that the cutoff data between all GPT's was the same, or almost the same. The code is correct, yes.

I do not have a GPT4 subscription, i did not bother because it is so slow, limited queries etc. If the cutoff date is improved, like being updated periodically i may think about it. (Late response, forgot about the comment!)
Or, everyone could get off their asses and carry their weight as a citizen in a democracy.

Nihilistic dismissal of the right to vote is lazy.

Nobody said upholding your rights was going to be easy. Organization, affiliation, communication all take work.

Get involved in primaries, for either party! Fewer voters and even more power there.

Yard signs are cheap. Make your own. Make this an issue.

Or, if you need to hear it in Tom Hanks' voice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_ctZ4lUCk
Platform Co-operatives: What is limiting them in Software?
Given the widespread firings and employee unhappiness with bigtech, I thought this year could lead to some interesting alternatives to big-tech models. Platform Cooperatives sound like a good alternative but they have not taken off, what is stopping their growth? Are there any other interesting alternatives that provide more balanced stake to the workers?
Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer
This is theorycrafting though. What were the real outcomes in five centuries of this system? I guess it can't be too bad, or it wouldn't have survived unchanged so long?
The same telecom industry that got hundreds of billions to build out Fiber Optic networks around the country? The same telecom industry that took those hundreds of billions and spent them on lawsuits against the government, on wooing lobbyists and padding executive salaries instead of actually doing the work they told the government they would do?

Now they are mad because their blatant price gouging and shitty service is going to be laid bare for all to see?

Oh gee, my heart breaks for them.
Yes and because of Linux’s “openness” it’s being used by most people as their main desktop OS and in the US 60% of the market are buying iPhones. Have you thought that their priorities aren’t the same as yours?
The Patriot Act (2001), The Homeland Security Act (2002), The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) (2002), The National Defense Authorization Act, The Affordable Care Act (2010),The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) (2015), The Real ID Act (2005),The USA Freedom Act (2015), The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (2021), The Economic Stabilization Act (2008), The Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (2013), The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (1978), The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (1994), The Bank Secrecy Act (1970), The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (2008), The Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis (2021), The Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (2013)
I don't say this often, but you are absolutely wrong about this.
The most affordable way to deploy apps globally
Same, excited to receive my check for $0.25 in 3 years (seriously though, I wonder if we should file in small claims court or something as well?)
Q: What if we train them and they leave?

A: What if you don't and they stay?
I have a similar problem, and I find "don't recommend" is a temporary thing. YT really, really, really wants to push that material.

Eventually, it does.

Or, I make one mistake, rando-click on something favorable and boom! They are back.
Meal kit companies don’t pay the 30% because the payment is for a service that is delivered outside the app. Uber doesn't pay it either. It’s a stupid loophole apple built in that all but proves the 30% cut is ridiculous and would never work in the real world.
Relatedly:

https://www.unhcr.org/us/about-unhcr/who-we-are/figures-glan...

These kinds of phenomena are why I wish there was a better scientific understanding of societal functioning. I tire a bit of public intellectuals arguing about whether or not we should feel optimistic or not instead of how to measure whether or not we do, who "we" are, and what it means.
The number of things that I should be concerned about is exactly 100% greater than the number of things over which I have any influence, so please excuse me if I refuse to care. I have ONE ballot to cast every FOUR years, and the only constant is that the government keeps doing things I don't want them to do, regardless of who is in which office, and I'm tired of pretending any differently.