skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enjoying it has nothing to do with it. It's better for you and better for taste even if you don't like it. I don't like brushing my teeth but I do it because it's better than not doing it and because I'm a functioning adult. I'm better at brushing than I was the first times I did it, and I'm also better at cooking than I was 20 years ago, because even if I don't enjoy it, I know I'll enjoy the flavor and the nutrition is good for me. This is basic "live your life" stuff.

Imagine lecturing people about saving the planet while defending going out to eat in restaurants or ordering all your meals.
> * Is your company selling a software product (product company)

In the B2B world it is common to have a complex enough product that needs training services and tech support as well. Some vendors also add exams/certifications on top of it.
Unless I've missed what you've said, I've had to deal with blockchain databases, blockchain message busses, they are all real products.

It doesn't mean the value isn't overstated.
Because that is not how we model computation and that matters for how the computation is done? Obviously I could do any math in unary, or construct it from Euclid's elements. However that is not typically how floating point numbers are stored in computers or represented to users. And it is typically no how the computations on them are done?

I personally find FP math perfectly find when you are dealing with numbers "small enough" to fit the datatype you're working with. The issues with overflow exist in both integer and fp's alike.
What commenter had data?
You keep missing the point. People don’t go to visit a conference center but _me_. Yes I can go to an event but when it’s done to do private stuff (going to events for themselves is quite different) it really is just a substitute.

And you’re exaggerating the cost too. Two ovens? Seriously have you seen a Polish Christmas dinner? Dozen people, dozen meals, one stove/oven combo. It’s normal stuff done by normal people with small flats.
> I was previously spending $500 / month in gas.

To me this seems extreme, what would you say the average gas price is for you and what cars do you drive and what's their fuel efficiency?
I wished they'd emailed me back and told me. Now if I want to switch back I need to run two solutions concurrently until the Crashplan is fully populated again.

What a stunning way to reduce customers. Their Biz Dev people must be so proud.
There's an alternative though, at least for those who need an everyday car with low range and do big trips in rare occasions: renting a car when needed.
If people are paying a premium for something, they are going to expect it to hit the edge cases.
Even the new Prius?
Interesting idea to store the shuttle outdoors, building the museum around it. But the article is frustrating.

> The cranes that will lift the spacecraft are quite tall — the tallest of which will be about the height of City Hall.

And how tall is City Hall? I get that this is a local publication, but do all LA residents even know how tall City Hall is?

> At liftoff, the white rocket boosters were set underneath the shuttle’s wings and produced more than 80% of the lift.

The boosters provided thrust, not lift.
Your comment made me read the intro. Good book, I read a lot of self help books and this seems to be a quality one.

Easy to read, dynamic but not story dense. I'll keep reading it. Thank you for recommending it.
The current regulatory regime is written in blood - lessons learned from decades of harm caused by insufficient caution.

If I understand the author, they're calling for a decrease in the level of regulatory caution so they can be allowed to experiment on the population. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Can this research not be done within the current regulatory regime?
it is not controversial, that's how it works in France at least: only you or authorized employers can access your criminal records. I guess it must be common in other european countries.
Didn't they fix that?
> This is all true in a neutral net, but Transformers aren't Neural Nets in the traditional sense. I was under that impression originally, but there's not a back propagation or Hebbian learning here, which were the key bits of biomimicry that earned classic NNs their name.

Hebbian learning has never been used with much success in training neural nets. Backpropagation is not bio-inspired, but backpropagation is certainly used to train transformers.
Backblaze have just given super micro and dell a fantastic customer reference- hoping they got a huge discount in exchange.

Dell/Supermicro sales guys: “look even the experts who build their own pods buy our servers”
Range is an issue for me. I commute by public transport or bike. I only use the car for relatively long weekend trips (3/4 hours, 300+km).

For these trips, stopping halfway for charging makes no sense: I don't want to add another 30m to the trip. At the destination there is generally no charging infrastructure. If there was, that would be the only point I would consider for charging.

Charging infrastructure is still underdeveloped. I see many parking spaces converted to EV charging where the electricity cost is often double of your house utility cost, to the point that almost noone charges in such places if they can avoid. The utter nonsense of the app requirements for every single charging place.

Renting a car here is just a PITA. Go to the rental place, for which I need a car or public transport, waste 30 to 60m to get paperworks signed and car checked. I considered selling my car and just renting to get rid of the maintenance, but it turns out it's cheaper to get a used car like I do if you do at least one of such trips per month.

On top of this, EVs are still too expensive. I never bought new cars in the first place, so I'll be looking at EVs when the used marked starts to fill up with something at the same cost level of used ICE, factoring for the battery degradation.

People mention ICE maintenance, but honestly in my last 2 ICE cars, the engine was never a problem. It's usually everything else that starts breaking too often, requiring too much maintenance.
> was completely ruined by devs dumping piles of small files into "AppData\Roaming" (and completely not understanding that "AppData\Local" even exists, let alone what it's for

As someone who only occasionally uses Windows, I think `%AppData%` sending you to `~\AppData\Roaming` doesn't help.
Interesting, I used different numbers (10 years and 33% tax) in my comment but got the same result of 0.4% real returns. Check my math
Durable S3 event delivery and free transfer out to same region services also make it easy to build large chunks of useful infrastructure out of it.
No, sorry for the misunderstanding, I was referring to the comment I replied to: sharing more things is simply more efficient on used resources.

I agree with you on the supply chain of EVs... in particular if we're talking about electric cars which are extremely wasteful compared to smaller vehicles and public transit.
A coworker of mine has been commuting ~3 days a week (35km one ways distance) in his EV that has about 230km usable range.

Sure a shorter range would technically suffice but it's nice to not have to charge each day (since he can't do that at home and uses a public charge points near his gym).

That comes down to roughly charging 1-2 times a week which is no hassle at all and doesn't require a secondary drive train with all it's complexity and maintenance cost.

Hybrid sales are way down here in Germany (relative to EV and the whole market) and they won't come back I think.
location:China

Remote: yes

Willing relocate: depends on the location and time frame

Technologies: radiologist, neuroscientist, medical image data annotation and quality control, medical strategy

CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kVADLxuaxSnMKJQX2yMbXI1g1Wz...

Email: imrui.zhang@gmail.com

I have been working at AI in radiology since 2019 as Chief Medical Officer. During my 4+ years of work in this field, I have proven success in leading product development from a medical perspective and gaining in depth understanding about medical image data quality to build a robust machine learning model.
This "algorithmically deciding what to focus on (exploration/exploitation)" idea is also discussed in the following book:

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-l...
I mean that’s just a sample. I rarely just sit and eat with people. Even the cooking itself is a part of it.
> It can't tell you about f better learning is worth it

It can, given sufficient inputs in terms of desired outcomes.

Of course, desired outcomes are where subjectivity enters into things. :)
On a modern CPU (i.e. 64-bit Arm since 2012, Intel Atom since 2016, AMD Zen since 2017, Intel Core since 2019) SHA-256 is twice faster than MD5.

The difference in speed between the hashing speeds is actually greater, a double speed for a long file is what you get when the execution time includes parts that are identical for the two hashes, i.e. launching md5sum/sha256sum and reading the file.

Older versions of the binary coreutils package may mask this speed difference by having executables compiled only for very old CPUs.

Recent coreutils versions normally use for hashing the OpenSSL library, if found, and OpenSSL uses the hardware instructions where available.

Where a bad sha256sum is installed, "openssl dgst -r -sha256" should work instead.
Jonathan Franzen, on Outdoor Cats – How the "No Kill" Movement Betrays Its Name
Of course you can use any car on the track for "a few" laps before the brakes fail. The point was that it won't have the endurance of a 911.
Problem is more apparent when you live in a city and have no outlet at home (no garage or driveway).
But the anxiety is very minimal. People are exaggerating. Quick chargers are everywhere, and you just have to change your mindset just a little bit. (sometimes you might have to walk a few minutes from your public charge spot to your home)
I will gladly take that bit annoyance when this leads to better air quality in the city.
When I was car shopping after my car was totaled last year I worked out that at my then-current millage (90 miles per day 4-5 days per week) getting the cheapest electric car that would meet my needs would cost be about as much per month (payment, insurance, electric) as the cheapest ICE vehicle ONLY if I maintained that amount of daily milage. Any less than that and the electric option would start be more expensive because the base payment + insurance would be so expensive it would eat up most of the monthly cost.

Also renting a car for a day/overnight trips sucks. I used to live like two blocks from an Enterprise during the 7 or so year range that I didn't own a car and experience was always awful the 1-2 times a year I'd have to do it. The availability of vehicles was always terrible, the people working there were scummy, pickup would take 30-60 minutes every time. My last time there really sucked and their "remedy" was a 10% coupon off my next rental, which never happened.
I want to drive as much as I want the IC/EV car that I want with the range that I decide, whenever and wherever I want.
I dont care If the common HN guy decides to buy the next Apple Car because the fancy screens or the expensive Tesla paid with the startup Options, I want a car I feel proud to own for many many years to dedicate time to work in the engine and to be able to fix it by myself.
Somehow it's a matter of freedom that, I'm observing more and more this days, has been lost in the past of this forum.
From Atlanta to Vegas to SF, up the coast to Washington, then back east though the middle of the country and back to Atlanta, going through Grand canyon, petrified forest, Yosemite, Shasta, redwood forest, Columbia River gorge, Yellowstone, Badlands, and car camping at some state parks on the way. I think it was 27 states total, 99.9% self driving and zero planning on my part.
The whole line of questioning reeks of "I am smarter and know more about your use cases than you do. And if you don't listen to me, you are stupid or wrong objectively".

My car is 40+ years old. If I rented a car every 300 mile trip I would need to be rich. Gas is relatively inelastic cost so a old reliable can be really cheap to keep around
There are so many obstacles for Indian society to overcome. Moonshots seem crazy compared to the basic infrastructure requirements.

565 reported Cholera outbreaks, from fecal contamination of water sources and open defecation, between 2011 and 2020 that led to 45,759 cases and 263 deaths.

And that's just from studies on the subject, actual numbers will be higher.

"Cholera is a disease associated with destitution."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9099871/
A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs
SEEKING WORK | CENTRAL EUROPE | REMOTE

About me: I am a full-stack developer focusing on creating pixel-perfect web apps.

I like to take an end-to-end approach, from conceptualization to final product, deployment and maintenance.

I also have some experience with Machine Learning/AI.

Technologies:

- frontend: Vue, React, Next.Js, Redis, Docker, Heroku, AWS

- backend: FastAPI, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres

- cloud: AWS,GCP

Github: https://github.com/pbkompasz

Email: kompaszbence [at] gmail.com
I've never used it, but sounds like you could pair a static-site generator and htmx for your particular use-case.

Alternatively if you want to work with JSON, Vue.js stills runs within the browser without any build dependencies — it's what I use for small utilities or site mocks, just a little weighty as it includes the template parsing engine — but not mandatory.

https://jamstack.org/generators/
https://htmx.org/
AI Comes for the Journalists
I get that all the time, as most of my collegues don't get jokes related to TV series that predate them.

I have learned to avoid such remarks, unless surrounded by 40y+ folks.
It's also critical to remember in this discussion that that $4K is not gone. Generally speaking, you'll pay less in mortgage costs than the value of the house by the time the mortgage is paid off. That means that you benefit from both the option to host people and the added equity which you could release later in life if you need that cash, or you can leave for your descendents.

At least, as a rule of thumb, property value gains tend to exceed mortgage interest paid. It's not universally true, but generally you'll at least recoup a significant proportion of what you paid.
Indeed, after a layoff I tried to avoid even interviewing at those "AI for Y" companies that had their cash flows entirely based on VCs and investors.
As they stated, European gov networks (plus military and universities OFC) had and still have their private backbone. In Spain, RedIris was for scientific research, universities and such. IDK about the rest, but for sure they'd have a similar approach.
Very similar in Italy as well, where the math side is just called Informatics and the engineering side Informatics Engineering. The former is typically part of the hard maths department, the latter of Engineering. There is significant overlap of course, and both degrees allow being professionally certified by the Engineering Order.
Its easy to lose track of these complex topics. Anyway another day, another time maybe I can explain it better to you.
Indeed, RedIris in Spain, since late 80's or maybe early 90's, can't remember.
I used to have the ability to facilitate and maintain the unconscious processing loops the author talks about. It was fantastic to wake up in the morning with a solution for a problem my brain was subconsciously working on during the night.

Alas, I can’t seem to do that anymore — the fucking war is sucking up all my unconscious processing resources (I live in Russia). My idle processing inevitably defaults to fruitless thinking about the war.

It’s blocking me, hindering me, draining me — and I have no idea what to do about it.
This many trips this long, it's probably not that much cheaper to rent, add in the pain of renting and I would do the same as GP.
You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast (2018)
Right? I live near this location and appreciate that there is someone who vigourosly takes the other side to the rich backers of the expansion.

I do realise that a judge is very likely unbiased, so maybe he was overstepping the mark, but I am also very sceptical about due process of this sort of stuff in the UK at the moment. I'm not native to the UK and I had a very high opinion of this country when I first arrived. But over the years I've watched our politics become so poisonous and incompetent that I now have a lot less faith in the UK systems.
Right one is manual the other is automatic and my hypothesis is you can have automatic universal labeling the way I describe
Location: Central Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- frontend: Vue, React, Next.Js, Redis, Docker, Heroku, AWS

- backend: FastAPI, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres

- cloud: AWS,GCP

Resume/CV: available upon request

Github: https://github.com/pbkompasz

Email: kompaszbence [at] gmail.com
Ask HN: Who wants to join my AI/ML learning study group?
Hey,

Like many, I'm a SWE looking to get into ML/AI engineering. My main goal is to join/start a AI x biology company.

I'm starting from almost zero and I'm planning to use the fastai course as a starting point. Mostly want to learn by doing / working on real projects.

I'm looking for a few people to create a study group where we could share ideas, resources, give feedback on projects and most importantly keep each other accountable.

If you're interested, please shoot an email: sunlamp.sing_0k {at} icloud.com

p.s: optional but would be great if you can include a few words on your background, time commitment and why you want to learn AI :)
Not sure if this what you meant, but there are SIMD min/max instructions.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/phminposuw
No, it is a state machine that generates an instace of a Task from Task Parallel Library, and automates the Run()/Get() invocations from it.

Assuming your type isn't an Awaitable, with magic methods to influence how the compiler actually generates the state machine.
GM produced the first modern EV, then recalled and scrapped them all. Nissan was far ahead of Tesla (on sales) with the Leaf.

Both could have easily won the race if they had tried, with the massive financial instruments they had availability, compared to tiny Tesla. Instead, they kept them as compliance cars because they 'had' to and continued to push for larger gas guzzling models with more profit.
FRP in Yampa: Part 1
> A fair comparison between languages should include the make and build times

if you do that, you should also include programming time, and divide both by the number of runs the code will have over its lifetime. Also add an appropriate fraction of the time needed to learn to program.

In such a challenge, that likely would make a very naive version win.

Apart from being impractical, I think that would be against the idea behind this challenge.
Just for fun. Speed testing awk vs Java.

awk -F';' '{
station = $1
temperature = $2
sum[station] += temperature
count[station]++
if (temperature < min[station] || count[station] == 1) {
min[station] = temperature
}
if (temperature > max[station] || count[station] == 1) {
max[station] = temperature
}
}
END {
for (s in sum) {
mean = sum[s] / count[s]
printf "{%s=%.1f/%.1f/%.1f", s, min[s], mean, max[s]
printf (s == PROCINFO["sorted_in"][length(PROCINFO["sorted_in"])] ? "}\n" : ", ")
}
}' measurement.txt
That's fair, I was painting with a broad brush.

Once you get to a certain size of consulting company, you may also have an r&d department or someone responsible for building common libraries or knowledge repositories, for example.
A guest bedroom isn't so guests can stay at a hotel. A guest bedroom is so I have a room I can offer people unconditionally if they need it due to a crisis. The situations in which this happens are hopefully never but they do arise, and the value of it is that it is in my house, with me and not at a hotel where I am not.
Temporary and Multi-Account containers do not break websites.
> bias being measured is one that's introduced by the researchers

Yes. Intentionally.

> Ergo the study is useless.

No, it is not useless. It just not studying what you seem to think it does.

There was a previous very well estabilished finding that you can manipulate images such that they look basically identical to humans but they completely change classification for the neural network. This is an estabilished fact.

Have you heard about this? Are you aware of this? Because if you are not that would explain your confusion.

This research is not proving that phenomenon. It has been proven before. It follows up on it and investigates what that “basically identical” means.

There are two assumptions one can make:

1; The difference between the manipulated and the not manipulated image is so small humans won’t be able to tell which one is wich.

2; Since the manipulations appear to be neural network specific there is no reason to expect that a human will preceive them as the same class as the neural network. For all we know the humans might see the original image as more cat like, or the one we manipulated to look like a truck will appear more cat like to a human.

These are the two statements they wanted to investigate.
Argilla released Notux 8x7B - DPO fine-tune of Mixtral 8x7B
Last week from Argilla, we released Notux 8x7B v1 which is a DPO fine-tune on top of Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1 using a binarized and curated version of UltraFeedback.

Leaving here some links/resources that can be useful for anyone willing to either use it or reproduce it, as everything's released permissively in the HuggingFace Hub:

* Model at https://huggingface.co/argilla/notux-8x7b-v1

* Collection at https://huggingface.co/collections/argilla/notux-8x7b-v1-658...

* Post at https://huggingface.co/posts/alvarobartt/458568556037122
> you're equating your opinion on this to health advice

No I'm not, I'm using health as an example of a general principle.

Anyways, as I've said up-thread, the 'kind of annoying' thing is referring to the feeling of having any unconventional opinion that is better to keep to yourself (except on HN where such things are slightly more tolerated).

It's not that other people are annoying because they like other things than I do, or whatever the current straw man is.
My father celebrated 60 two weeks back and told me he bought license for new Delphi and loves it, I was quite surprised with the development he described.

I considered telling him that he could get most of the things (he also buys various components) for free today, but then.. he is about 5 years before retirement and won't relearn all his craft now.

Myself, I am not sure whether its nostalgia but I miss the experience of Delphi 7 I started with 20 years back. In many ways, the simplicity of VLC and the interface is still unbeaten.
You can, and yet your total costs including fuel will still far exceed my transport costs. As I've said elsewhere, do your numbers for your use and pick what's best for you.
Which I find crazy tbh (that they are so popular). Especially in Western Europe where vehicle taxes are crazy (imo). Here in the Netherlands, you could be paying €100/mo for a "midsize" SUV just in taxes. That's nothing to say about the cost of fuel, insurance, and maintenance.

I understand why they are priced that way, and perhaps it is my expat bubble in NL specifically, but with the cost of public transportation the way that it is, I'm not sure how they expect to keep raising vehicle taxes without also making public transportation more affordable.