skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't really make sense. Pretty much all LLMs are trained in pytorch, which is open source. LLMs only reached the state it is now because many academic conferences insisted that paper submissions have open source code attached to it. So much of the ML/AI ecosystem is open source. Pretty much only CUDA is not open source.
Ok so it says online it’s going at almost 40,000 mph so what is stopping us from sending one at say 400,000 mph, then couldn’t we catch up with it eventually? and travel the same distance in like 5 years?
I am going to do it by hand for the first while.

Until I build my VCS, which will be like Fossil and have an integrated issue tracker that gets cloned with the repo.

Then I'll put the catalog into my VCS by hand and track issues normally; the catalog will build itself as people report bugs.
I mean, I read HN, and I deep dive the comments, but my special ability to fully recollect conversations even online ones went away with age. If I could recover this skill I'd be insanely productive. This is alas why we bikeshed so many different tools to track software development (not a jab at the usefulness, just a jab at how some people over complicate simple tools which causes more work than its worth).
The question is whether they would choose something else if given the choice.
Feishin: A modern self-hosted music player
I did, in fact, mention it!
How do you want Apple to tell iPhone users whether their messages to someone are being recorded by that person's telco and made available to other plan holders on that phone plan?

How do you want Apple to indicate if this chat participant is costing you money by the message or free?

Everyone's concerned about teens. Presumably teens know that T-Mobile and the other carriers give the family plan adults the ability to read their dependents text messages. As a teen I would want to stick with the encrypted bubbles your parents can't read and tell my parents about, thank you very much.

It's not punitive product design. It's seamlessly integrated and meaningful, both on chat leaks and on costs of messaging: Blue sky, text safely. Green could literally cost you.
The best approach I’ve seen is to do all of the above.

- Have QA run pessimal versions of real use cases. Trying to sell a word processor to lawyers? Format the entire US legal code and a bajillion contracts in it, then duplicate it 10x and start filing usability/performance bugs.

- Have the engineers test everything with randomly generated workloads before committing. Run those tests nightly, and fix all the crashes / failures.

- Have Product Management (remember them?) work with marketing and sales to figure out what absolutely has to ship, and when.

Make sure it only takes one of the above three groups to stop ship, and also to stop non-essential development tasks.
I have two of their Sweet Potato AML-S905X-CC-V2 boards running Fedora IoT for some containers under Podman. Very fun devices to work with so far.
Nice try, Netflix, I'm not gonna binge a show for non-product-placement.
ColdFusion is a top 50 of all time popular language. At one time it was top 10 language.
I know it's a week old, but I just finished and had a lot of fun! Thank you! I'm going to attempt the speed run after my toddler goes to sleep.
HPC nowadays seems using AMD EPYC exclusively.
a lot of chinese, korean, or japanese. basically phones targeting the asian market had them.

I remember buying a phone that had a retractable antenna on the side. most you were not able to buy outside asian markets since they would probably not work.

much like dual sim phone, there was a lot more of them on phone targeting asian markets but very rare when the phone is targeting the rest of the world.
Ask HN: I am a Co-founder looking to leave startup before a raise, how to handle
Hi HN, hairy question here from a throwaway.

The TLDR is that a startup I founded a little over a year ago is pivoting into a related idea that I don't want to work on but I believe could be a successful business. I like my cofounder, but I think I am an poor fit for the kinds of work this new idea would entail, I don't love the problem and don't want to work for the people who currently have it. I want to spend my time elsewhere. How do I message this without tanking my former cofounder and the rest of the team as they prepare for a fundraise?

We're early stage and have taken decent "pre seed" money and hired a good team. I was the main contact for investors during our last small fundraising round. My cofounder is looking to raise again for the new idea in January. How can I support them while leaving? On one hand I don't want to leave right as the raise happens as a vote for no-confidence and I'm afraid of the optics. On the other hand, I really do not want to mislead investors by omission and I don't want them to believe I'm bought in and leave immediately after the raise.

More color in case it helps:
At my cofounder's urging, I briefly mentioned this to an investor, and it seemed to tank their enthusiasm for investing in the next round. In light of that, my cofounder does not want me to advertise this yet until we figure out the messaging which is why I'm posting under a throwaway instead of asking our other existing investors. They have asked me if I could just stay on on paper and not tell investors or the team for now.

I have 10% vested of the company so far in shares. I have worked for free, raised, and put some of my own money in the very beginning, but I am open to reducing it, because I believe the road ahead for them will be long and uncertain.

I have discussed returning the remaining money from the first round to investors, dissolving the business, and freeing them to start a new one on a clean slate with the different team and different focus, but my cofounder is strongly against that.
This would not be an equal analogy. Both, the existing human mind and the hypothetical artificial mind are real minds. LLMs are not. There's nothing there to control. But if you imagine a modern LLM as part of a larger system, some kind of thought token generator, then control would be exercised at the time of generation. For example. If there is a sequence of tokens in the safety buffer that is judged to be "unsafe", they are discarded and others are generated. I hope a basilisk doesn't come after me. That wasn't a proposal!
A tram? That's basically communism!

But seriously, privately owned cars are the problem here. If, instead, taxi service is normalized, then we don't have this problem, and my car doesn't need to circle the block because it isn't my car. As long as I can get home at the end of the day, a self driving taxi seems like the way for the system to be organized, to avoid precisely the stupidity you described.
>> 81% accurately figured out the experimenter’s hypothesis

so what? Did they get a grade on their participation? I'd bet not. So why would they care what the hypothesis was?

>> The experimenters intervened directly in the experiment, either to give precise instructions, to recall the purposes of the experiment, or to set a general direction.

PZ says they said, "We noticed this morning that you weren't really, you know, lending a hand, and I was wondering if there's anything's wrong… We really want to get you active and involved because the guards have to know that every guard is going to be what we call a “tough guard”… what I mean by tough is [that] you have to be firm, and you have to be in the action… It’s really important… for the workings of the experiment [because] whether or not we can make this thing seem like a prison—which is the aim of the thing—depends largely on the guards’ behavior."

Sorry, but I don't see how this invalidates anything. If some of the guards were just phoning it in and not taking it seriously, they did need a talking-to.
I suppose, but it is a practical matter here. CUDA is a library for memory management and matrix math targeted at researchers, hyper-productive devs and enthusiasts. It looks like it'll be highly capital intensive, requiring hardware that runs in some of the biggest, nastiest, OSS-friendliest data-centres in the world who all design their own silicon. The generations of AMD GPU that matter - the ones out and on people's machines - aren't supported for high quality GPGPU compute right now. Alright, that means CUDA is a massive edge right now. But that doesn't look like a defensible moat.

I was interested in being part of this AI thing, what stopped me wasn't lack of CUDA, it was that my AMD card reliably crashes under load doing compute workloads. Then when I see George Hotz having a go, the problem isn't lack of CUDA; it was that his AMD card crashed under compute workloads (technically I think it was running the demo suite). That is only anecdata, but 2 for 2 is almost a significant number of people with the small number of players and lack of big money in AI historically.

Lacking CUDA specifically might be a problem here, but I've never seen AMD fall down at that point. I've only ever see them fall down at basic driver bugs. And I don't see how CUDA would matter all that much because I can implement most of what I need math-wise in code. If I see a specific list of common complaints maybe I'll change my mind, but I'm just not detecting where the huge complexity is. I can see CUDA maintaining an edge for years because it is convenient, but I really don't see how it can stay essential. The card can already do the workload in theory and in practice assuming the code path doesn't bug out. I really don't need CUDA, all I want rocBLAS to not crash. I suspect that'd go a long way in practice.
I didn’t understand it either but the pictures and graphs on this Wikipedia entry actually helped make a lot more sense of it to me, especially the analogy of the water faucet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
According to the article, they can send commands to Voyager 1, and it executes them, and it is still sending data back - the problem is the data coming back is gibberish (repeated patterns of 0s and 1s). They are still hoping they can work out a sequence of commands to reset its computers and resolve the problem. So it makes sense the DSN is currently talking to it.
They need to show something to keep the excitement around Google's upcoming AI alive. Expect a slew of (non-)discoveries to continue unabated going forward.
You might be surprised at how prevalent TBIs are among violent offenders.

One of my favorite books on true crime was a forensic psychologist who partnered with a neurologist in evaluations.

Disruptions to impulse control or environmental factors that cause developmental issues with things like failing the marshmallow test can dramatically disadvantage people from being able to successfully stay non-offenders and instead succeed in modern society.

So successful AGI alignment that might reduce harmful actions by high double digit percentages might be as simple as adding a secondary "impulse control" layer to the stack that reevaluates proposed actions and predicts the consequences of such actions, weighing projected net benefits and costs.

A lot of people that do bad things aren't doing those things from a process driven by rational choices, and if we could successfully deploy AGI that is primarily driven by rational intelligent choices it would likely be better than humans in reduced crime propensity as well as the other things earning it the name of AGI.
I guess this is what started “space laser weapon” conspiracy.
>Gelsinger was appointed out of desperation,

You will need to observe Intel more closely. It was not out of desperation. And Gelsinger is more technical and strategic than you implies.
> NASA has a dashboard online for the Deep Space Network and you can see live which spacecraft we're communicating with

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
It's a shame that helm v3 didn't move forward with the lua engine[0]. I don't imagine ~=/1-based arrays were a worse timeline... And here we are 5 years later.

[0] https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/5084
How much is at issue? That's the key. Plus, you're not getting money "back," you simply haven't been paid for services rendered. If the amount is large enough, you can hire a lawyer in Taiwan and sue there. Of course, your client may be bankrupt. You can sell the debt to a Taiwanese debt collection agency.
If he has an employer he has a salary and wages that may be subject to garnishment. His employer may have a Code of Conduct and not paying your debts may be a violation of that code. There may be shaming services such as those which exist in Colombia to visit his office and demand payment. A Taiwanese company may want to buy the debt. Does he have assets in the US? You can sue him and levy on those assets. And if you have any proof that the client never intended to pay, you might convince a prosecutor to file charges, and maybe even an Interpol Red Notice. But if it's small amount, take the hit and in the future, demand cash up front. How creative are you?
One obvious cause comes to mind: If your aunt and uncle use the same apple login for both phones, they'll often get each others imessages.
Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 was doing poorly on this benchmark that was posted yesterday to HackerNews [1].

With the help of some pprof, I was able to trace it to a serious performance regression introduced two weeks ago, and come up with the fix (happy to field questions, if you're interested in the nitty gritty).

It's not the fastest driver around, but it's no longer the slowest: comfortably middle of the pack.
It's based on a WASM build of SQLite, and thanks to https://wazero.io doesn't need CGO.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626698
Fullscreen HDR support is coming with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (which should be available with Fedora Linux 40 and other distributions depending on their timelines).

Nightlies are available to try out now: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/nightlies.html
Well said. It sounds like NVIDIA went through the hard work of listening and building for years (decades!). I can imagine some top level execs looking at that success and looking to replicate the tech, studying the use cases that customers want.
TinyGSM: Achieving >80% on GSM8k with small language models
I’ve said a number of times over the years that I’d be happy to pay the fee to get the BBC in the US. Unfortunately it’s wrapped up in all kinds of licensing and legal agreements.

I recall the first year I was married encountering Doctor Who on our local PBS affiliate, and enjoying the heck out of it. A few years after that it was gone, having moved exclusively to BBC America. And now to Disney Plus…
For the record, Zimbardo is a fraudulent pseudo scientist. Even in a best case scenario Zimbardo's work doesn't qualify as any sort of actual science.
Back then, more people were hired not for who they are, but what they could do.
Sounds like a cross over of The Age of Supernova and Tri-body Problem.
In the former Supernova radiation kills all people on earth except kids under 13.
I have their camera system in my home (and am generally happy with it). You can set it to be accessible only via the local network (and whatever holes you punch through yourself, e.g. setting up VPN), but to compete with cloud-based solutions like Google Nest (if they haven't canceled that already), there is an option to make it available via unifi.ui.com also.

This isn't really cloud-hosted; but it provides a no-setup way to access your security cameras as if they were (as long as your UniFi device is online).

I'm assuming (but also trying to read more to verify) that this bug affected users who had enabled this option.
>All that has happened is they launched a very mid GPU and have yielded more ground to AMD.

And you dont blame that to Raja Koduri but to Gelsinger?
Phenomenal things like Voyager, always reminds me of how far we humans have come and where we will be in the future.
hahaha that would be insane
Mount Everest Is on Thin Ice
So what is the "never" button then? The little X in the top right corner perhaps? Dark patterns indeed.
> Too bad what happened with the licensing stuff at the company though.

OOTL here. What happened?
"... we find that a duo of a 1.3B generation model and a 1.3B verifier model can achieve 81.5% accuracy, outperforming existing models that are orders of magnitude larger."
First, it's not just security.

It's also, does this message cost money or not.

Blue sky, text freely. Green could cost money by hitting your SMS message bill.

This color difference matters even if you don't care about security at all.

. . .

Second:

> That's pretty clear. If Apple's customers want to be able to use iMessage for such communications then (1) the Android user buys an Apple product, (2) a third party makes a cross-platform iMessage client, or (3) Apple open iMessage to other platforms. Apple is blocking on (2) and (3).

Option 4, run any other app that's on both platforms, which is what most of the world does anyway, including any iPhone user I know in the US who chats regularly with anyone International. For EU it's WhatsApp, China WeChat, and in USA it's privacy minded Signal, PTA parents Facebook Messenger, etc.

Given no cross platform is blocked, you'll see many iPhones do not have Messages in the launch bar, but one of those others.

This seems ... fine!
https://archive.ph/Duljk
Oh yeah? Well don't get too distressed. Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed?
As the song goes, "We haven't seen that spirit here since 1969." Okay, so maybe it's more like 1989, a few years before Eternal September[1] in 1993, when the deluge started for real.

But, I'll tell you what we're not losing when Google drops support for USENET: the archives. And, IMO, that's where the real value in Google Groups[2] lies, and has for decades.

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

[2]: Née DejaNews -- oh, how we miss you!
first time earing about Gurobi, is it some kind of SMT solver?
I tried looking at their website but could only find high level marketing description.
My understanding is that the serials represent information, including model and date/location of manufacture. It’s therefore possible to create correctly formed but impossible serials, for example one that represents a pre-touchbar 2015 MBP manufactured in Ireland in 2018.

Apple should easily be able to tell when someone has done this.
> How to say you don't have kids without saying you don't have kids.

> Unless you're the perfect kid, did you forgot what you did when you were a kid that you parent didn't agree on?

But just because child you unwittingly stumbled upon something a child shouldn't see doesn't mean that the website was at fault. Just because you got hurt doesn't always mean that someone should be sued.
to do it in 22 hours means moving at the speed of light, so never.
Funny, my mother was a mainframe COBOL programmer, from about 1968 until about 1975. Then she picked up FORTRAN, then she stopped programming around 1985. By 2000, she could barely handle the web, email, and a desktop.

Keep your skills up, people!
Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia's eSafety regulator in court
I don't think this has to be the case! I think you could build a different language with the same message passing semantics as Ruby, but with the limitations that classes are not allowed to be re-opened and method definitions must appear syntactically at the top-level of a class (and maybe a few other limitations), and then build something more similar to how `private` works in a traditional, statically-typed language.

You definitely don't arrive at a language that has all the same feeling of Ruby, but you could still have the "everything is an object, and everything is message passing" character to the language.
He doesn’t. The points he addresses are straw men.
Ego-Exo4D: a multi-modal multi-view (incl. 3D) geo-diverse dataset for AR/AI/ML
Just for those who may not be aware of Rasmutin...

```
Nate Silver described Rasmussen as "biased and inaccurate", saying Rasmussen "badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates."
```
Unless you’re getting the really low-end android devices, you’re not saving much versus a comparable iPhone even before you account for the longer lifetime, and that’s for something you use many times a day, every day. If it’s a status symbol, it’s one of the most accessible in history - a Starbucks barista can have the same phone as their CEO for a few days’ pay, which certainly isn’t true of their food, shoes, clothing, car, or residence.
hate to be the one to prime the siphon
Followed your work since that launch - thanks for everything! Enjoy your family and find some new fun things to explore.
Why are we losing it? It's only Google Groups that will stop posting to Usenet. Most spam was coming from there anyway.

If you want to use Usenet, just get a news reader, don't go through Google.
Yeah, its kind of a chicken and the egg problem: more foot traffic can incentivize better infrastructure, and better infrastructure can incentivize more foot traffic. But which one should come first? Is the "build it and they will come" mindset right for all locales? (Questions are somewhat rhetorical). Plenty of ambitious projects get completed and fall on their face.
Does the TV really have a microphone, or is it rather the remote?

Looks like there might be another microphone I need to bust.
Does the solution lie in genuinely investing in a CUDA alternative?
> Evidently you've drunk the Kool-Aid of the ... worthies who push the "independent state legislature" doctrine.

It’s more well-founded in the constitution than some precedents near-and-dear to democrats…

But actually, I don’t think the standard for litigating elections should be whether you can come up with a colorable legal theory to support your position.[1] Thats why I cited the Gore example. Just because there’s a legal theory that supports trying to game manual recounts doesn’t mean you should do it. Because once that becomes the standard (and unfortunately it has) the other side will do it too.

[1] I don’t think you should be able to litigate elections at all. The rules should be set in stone a year ahead and not subject to challenge, and everything should be done in one day with public counting the way the Taiwanese do it.

> Oh, and: You don't regard Trump's sending a mob to the Capitol (he knew they were armed, the Secret Service had told him), telling them they had to "fight like hell," egging them on via Twitter, and then waiting hours to half-heartedly call them off, doesn't count as trying to sabotage the Electoral College vote count?

Is “fight like hell” categorically different than “get in their face” https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-.... Is lighting cities on fire for months categorically different?

It’s ugly, low-brow politics, like Democrats pioneered. I’d love to ban all of it. But I’m not impressed by efforts to draw categorical distinctions between different events. Either egging on rioting and political violence is acceptable or it’s not. Democrats have apparently decided it’s acceptable.
That article shows what looks like an honest mistake. Iraq did eject American weapons inspectors, just not the rest. It doesn't cite this as evidence for WMD but as a political cudgel that neoconservatives could use to push their policy. The rest of the article builds a narrative about what actually happened in Iraq using reporting from the NYT.
There remains a fairly good chance that Voyager will be the last surviving thing in the universe made by humans. It may not be our pinnacle, but it might be our legacy.
Apples to oranges comparison?

You know most of the time those sports vehicles lose control is because the drivers turn off driver assist/power steering? Do you want to give another example that would differentiate the Cybertruck/Tesla vehicles from the otherwise status quo?
> I was not aware that there is a specific connection between Nazis and the "brownshirt" term

...Uh huh. What, exactly, did you think it meant? You clearly had something in mind.