skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had my work in the press about a half dozen times in my career, and every single time the factual aspect of their reporting was so wildly incorrect, after the third time I just began to assume they, the press, are terrible exaggerating liars. I know a few celebrities, both entertainment and just plain famous for being rich, and what is written about them is pure fantasy fiction.
Some consulting companies also have software they sell as well as internal things that need to be done. They can have a 'boxed software' that gets 90% of their customers. Then consulting on top for the customers that do not want to do anything themselves or something the boxed software doesn't do. Plus you have internal r&d projects or other things.
Replace your fine-tuned text-DaVinci-003 with Mixtral
Yes, we live in a socialist / night-watchman / capitalist / legislative / etc. hybrid structure.

I'm not an absolutist anarchist, and I don't think that undermines my points (given an adult conversation where nuance and context is discussed).

We don't need absolutism across the board here (the "if you legislate against personal atomic bombs, you must be in favour of legislating against people having a 2mm knife blade!" whataboutism fallacy)
It is very curious for me that in a lot of comments there is no allowance for even a possibility that there is more than a single metric of “betterness” for different people and different occasions.

What these “unnecessary extras” or in the contrary “smaller footprint” give is the increased freedom of choice for that particular individual’s situation.

There is no free lunch - every benefit comes with its set of drawbacks. Extra rooms need furnishing and taking care of, cars need maintenance and parking etc.

Different people put different multipliers for each of them.

And this is fine, by the standards of a modern western society.
I'm not aware of anybody who got killed when Yemeni boarded the ships. No hostages were taken and no ransom was asked. In fact it seems the only casualties are Yemeni who got killed by a US Navy ship who had no reason to be there in first place.
There are Tesla chargers, but those don't help with my non-Tesla vehicle (at least when I was looking to purchase).

We considered a Tesla, but it became a pain to even acquire one. Purchase would involve driving to another state.
> i am not interested in fullstack solutions because they only work for greenfield projects. i mostly build frontends for existing backends with a REST API or similar.

There are probably other reasons to avoid a full stack framework, but this isn't one—there's nothing to stop you from making the backend just a proxy to the existing API.

Aside from that, Amber is entirely client-side from what I can see. The Amber server is the equivalent of the Webpack or Vite dev servers, just used during the development process. It looks like Amber compiles to plain JS that runs directly in the browser.
you can also check out Cuis Smalltalk, which includes be able to run in the browser using WASM

Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820742
Columbia, really? So there were about a dozen later launches that this tank could have flown on but didn't.

I know that the ETs were updated after Columbia was lost, but I did not realize that a complete tank was built before the changes, yet not flown.
Build systems are a complex problem. Like, you can compare it to cargo/go’s build system etc, but these forget about 90% of the problem, and come up with a hard-coded for the happy-path rust/go project, with zero non-native dependency, all downloaded from the repository. This is not a bad thing, don’t get me wrong. But it is not enough to compile, say, a browser.

Meanwhile, there are only a couple, truly general build systems, all of them quite complex — as you can’t get away with less. Gradle and bazel are pretty much the only truly generic build systems (I’m sure there are a couple more, but not many). You can actually compile a mixed java, c++, whatever project with gradle, for example, just fine, with proper parallelism, caching, etc.

As for your points:

> in 15 years is still slow by default

Absolutely false. A 3-4 lines gradle build file for java will be fast, and correctly parallelize and maximally utilize previously built artifacts.

> in 15 years could not acquire any sensible defaults that shouldn't need extra work to configure

It’s literally 4 lines for a minimal project, maybe even less. I’m getting the feeling that you have zero idea about what you talk about.

> is written in an esoteric language with next to zero tools to debug and introspect

I somewhat agree, though nowadays kotlin is also an alternative with strong typing, proper auto-complete, the only trade off is a tiny bit slower first compile of the config file. Also, both could/can be debugged by a normal java debugger.

> randomly changes and moves thing around every couple of years for no discernible reason

There is some truth to this. But the speed has definitely improved.

> has no configuration specification

Kotlin is statically typed. Also, the API has okayish documentation, people just like to copy-paste everything and wonder why it fails. You wouldn’t be able to fly a plane either from watching 3 sitcoms showing a cockpit, would you?
You are pretending that owning a truck doesn't have a downside compared to a normal car or a station wagon. The truck will use more fuel and is way less nice to drive if you not in a very rural region. Which is why driving a truck instead of a car is mostly a US thing.
And yes, if the bottom line is, you want to own a truck, by all means by one.
They're low value targets compared to a container ship or oil tanker.
It would be interesting to understand how electrical signals in cells translates to audio/visual recall.

Cool article, thanks for sharing.
I would ask for clarification about the rules - it isn't clear to me whether code that is special cased for the known 400 place names (even if it supports additional names via a slower path) would be considered valid:

> Q: Can I make assumptions on the names of the weather stations showing up in the data set?

> A: No, while only a fixed set of station names is used by the data set generator, any solution should work with arbitrary UTF-8 station names (for the sake of simplicity, names are guaranteed to contain no ; character).
This sounds like the Great Filter is getting pushed further back, making human level cognition elsewhere in the universe potentially even more rare.
haha, my thoughts exactly. went scanning through the wikipedia and saw it was austrailian, and thought, "oh, that makes sense".
They're the same picture. Someone drew a rectangle in AutoCAD, then did some repeating offsets, handed it to the engineers: "make it work". All I see is rectangles in rectangles ad infinitum.
corporate structures _are_ dictatorships. The difference between that and a dictator country is that you can't change your country, if the dictator doesn't want you to leave.
I saw Endeavour fly over SF Golden Gate Bridge on it's final positioning on top of the 747.

Amazing video lecture recordings for anyone who wants to demystify the Space Shuttle for themselves: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-885j-aircraft-systems-enginee...
In my experience if you care about food quality you must cook for yourself. Catered food is always cheap, mass produced, and lacks taste and nutrition.
While 93% of trips are less than 30 miles...I bet the percent of miles travelled on longer trips are significantly higher. I'm probably 80-90%% miles travelled for trips longer than 30 miles (I also work from home, which skews this a bit higher, but even when I was working in an office, it was at least 50% miles on longer than 30 mile trips). I'd still go EV (with a long range battery) if there were more charging infrastructure and more reasonable EV options. But there just isn't yet, so I'm in a hybrid (because the payback vs. ICE only was something like 2 years!). Would have gone PHEV too if there was anything available when I bought my car, but there wasn't.

Do a 700 mile roadtrip through the center of the US in an EV in the middle of winter and you'll understand why I have range anxiety around EVs. I have range anxiety in my gas powered car in a few spots in the US and there are many more gas stations than there are charging stations! I'd absolutely buy an EV as a second car for my more local trips right now...but I don't need a second car and the production carbon costs of a car outweigh the gas carbon costs of not having a second car (not to mention the economic costs of having a second car!). Eventually once the second hand market improves, that around town+ EV might make sense for me to have. But not until then (but by that time, charging infrastructure should be highly improved and it might make sense to go full EV!).
I’ve designed and installed bespoke industrial cameras running on batteries because running any kind of electrical cable would require recertification of the entire factory floor.

I’m not convinced this fibre wouldn’t require recertification, but I can guarantee I would’ve spent the time and money to find out if this was an option.

Battery operation and maintenance required SOPs, yearly reviews, and a lot of documentation and training.

Quiescent current was in the picoamps, and operation spiking in the hundreds of milliamps, which a capacitor or two could easily handle.

And if this provides communication as well…
It doesn't become any less nonsencial just because some business leaders who are still stuck in 1980s believe in it.

Both profit centers and cost centers are supposed to increase profit, otherwise you wouldn't hire those people. If a department doesn't drive profit, then just axe it and stop wasting money on it. If you can't [1], then it actually drives profit, you just have no idea how. The fact that you can't set proper KPIs to measure impact doesn't imply absence of impact, and of course it doesn't imply that you should treat it as if it has no impact.

Departments are engaged either in primary or support activities. And those activities are either efficient and optimal or not. Your competitive advantage doesn't even have to be your primary activity. If you are successful at making fidgets because you hire, plan and budget better than others in your industry; what insight can talking about profit centers and cost centers provide to you?

[1] How is someone supposed to run a company without HR or accounting?
Besides stating the obvious, SMS already been replaced by other messaging protocols. So what exactly are we paying the carriers to do at this point besides being glorified ISPs of their own that just happen to hold frequency licenses for the Cellular data bands our devices use to communicate on said network?

I already knew SMS was insecure and send in plain text, knowing it's now also being censored and blocked without any warning from the carrier is just the last nail in the coffin for me for SMS. So when will we be able to tell these carriers to no longer provision a phone number but instead just issue me an IP address? It's clear they will mess with anything going over their network so now let's just send everything over TLS and HTTPS and cut them out entirely.
Your self hosted pricing seems difficult to understand. Why limit SSO users? Secondly, prices include per vcpu ? Is it like microsft style per CPU pricing ?
I was expecting the story of the letter J, that Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail has taught me had appeared only in the 15th century as a letter separate than "I".
What do you mean, the development of the "Perception"? Do you mean the Perceptron? In that case, Backprop was invented way later than the Perceptron (see https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagatio...).

I don't see any information in your linked Wikipedia article that supports a bio-inspired origin. In fact, researchers have been wondering whether an equivalent to Backprop might be found in biological brains, but Backprop is widely believed to be biologically implausible (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04156.pdf, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089360801...).

It's not surprising that the term Backprop is not mentioned in the original paper, it isn't mentioned in most neural network research, because it's simply the default method to optimize weights and additionally it's hidden away by modern autodiff frameworks, so no one actually has to give it any thought. But backprop is definitely used in transformers (see e.g. https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.463.pdf, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.08249, https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/phang23a/phang23a.pdf, https://dinkofranceschi.com/docs/bft.pdf)
> I guess depending on your political agenda they were either trying to be inclusive and promoting gender diversity in STEM, or they were being subtly misogynistic by implying that women aren't as careful as men.

Nah, I actually believe it's the first one. That's why it's so hilarious. The irony is what it insinuates about what happens to women in STEM.
The Power of Training, How Different NN Setups Influence the Energy Demand
They discuss the economic and social incentives (even the cognitive dissonance that what I'm writing must be important if a lot of people read it) of the writers. However, the readers are also turning off their BS detectors. I'm not a great proponent of the so called "Gell-Mann Amnesia", if only because it's been reported about in Wired Magazine and I know how much they get wrong, but some of these academics and reporters have real responsibilities and reputations. They deserve to be publicly criticized, because only shame or lost income will change the behavior.

However, we readers get our own little dopamine boost from reading stuff we want to believe in or at least arguing about it. It's great being told your first impression was right all along, or that you're the first to read some amazing result nobody expected, and even better a combination of both! That's dangerous, if you want to make reasonable decisions about what to focus on rather than simple entertainment.

I'll propose a solution: fix the link headline!

Can LLMs in the browser be used to rewrite the headlines of full articles (and heck why not the source material) to add "in vitro" or "in mice" or "in (1988)" or "based on a single result" or "in a pay-to-play journal"? I'd think it would be much more difficult to trick even a dumb LLM without resorting to very clearly unethical reporting and it would make A/B testing headlines less important. LLMs don't have dopamine.
Prius Prime is my pick for a next car whenever my late 2000s Civic goes kaput. But that might be a while :)
I figure we might run out of UUIDs if we build a Dyson sphere.
Why would it be so conspiratorial?

These people are overwhelmingly responsible for the viciation of our world and societies, and claim the profits from it.

An INT value only goes up to 2B, these people have orders of magnitude more money than that. Knowing our living planet's active course of destruction, this is literally the smartest way they could spend that money. The alternative is for them to have some kind of empathetic awakening, reorient their own existence and the existence of their enterprises, and recognize meaningful ways to spend their money... but if all the resource in the world couldn't give them that perspective, I doubt anything can.

It's crazy, because they could build a world in which there where good ways to spend that money, or spend that money on the multitude of extant causes that could use it. But they would rather hoard wealth and steal the collective future of the planet (including their own, and their offspring), and then delusionally try to seclude themselves away.

Their power only exists in the world they're bent on destroying.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted (maybe I'm missing something?). I also find the title to be innaccurate given this information from the article:

> Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric — but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed, and analysts have suggested the country is no longer on track to hit the government's sales targets.

And the EV share of new vehicle sales from this other article [0] indeed does show that the percentage of new vehicle sales that are EVs is increasing. Possibly not as quickly as before (but this is hard to tell from this graph).

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/automakers-over-estimated-el...
Streamline Willie (Steamboat Willie Developer Parody) [video]
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I'll be sad if this is the beginning of corrupting Clarke's Law in the popular imagination from "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" to "Any sufficiently crappy research is indistinguishable from fraud".
Yea right! People seem to like it :) the last one I posted here got more than 200 applicants, many curious, great minds here. Could the job ad be connected with how companies are building product?
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What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial
Simplification must be done without completely changing the meaning. Sure, it's hard, which is why (useful) journalism is hard.
> However, it’s essential to note that the majority of these assertions lack concrete evidence, raising questions about the validity of such widespread speculations.

Meanwhile, here's some more wild speculation..

Internet journalism at its finest.
Not including the Nitrome library sucks so much. I think archive.org has a zip of all of them though.
> Attacks on merchant ships can't be tolerated, period.

Israel maintains a blockade of Palestine. What do you think they do if a ship tries to sail to Palestine?
I was about to comment the same thing, the homepage is very bad at explaining what this exactly is.

I don't think anyone even says R when referring to Raspberry pi.
Yea, location is definitely a factor. With my zip, kbb.com puts a 2012 Prius v Five Wagon with 120k miles in a private party sale at between $5900-$8200. A bit higher than I thought, tbh. I bought a 2008 Prius a couple years ago for $4,000. I'm thinking I may have just been a little lucky with that deal.
>> Perhaps they had a dynasty of about 10-15 million years before they got superseded by other, and more successful, groups.

If a primitive worm managed 10-15 million years, we Homo Sapiens should do better, because no new predator is going to evolve during our watch. As long as we don't make any new predators, by, say, connecting a few LLMs until they are self-aware, hungry and angry, we should be fine.
Phones with QWERTY keyboards are still made, but unfortunately they're produced in such limited quantity that they're not built with high-end SoCs.

The F(x)tec Pro¹ and the Unihertz Titan just don't take off enough to warrant big investments. There's a group of Android users who prefer physical keyboards (that I too belong to as well), but it's small.

Even when physical keyboard died, people sold QWERTY keyboard covers and cases for some smartphones (I think the S6 Edge was the last one with an official keyboard?) but even those have died out because of lack of interest.

In theory, all you need to add a sliding keyboard to a modern Android phone is a corner USB-C connector and a sufficiently sized case. Someone skilled with 3D printing and circuit board design may just be able to build one for their phones if they can get their hands on the keyboards themselves...
Buying stuff we don't need because of far-fetched edge cases creates insane amounts of pollution.

Most of those far-fetched edge cases have simple solutions (such as renting).

I can't count the massive amount of stuff we have at home and don't use at all despite my active pushing against those, literally everybody I know is in the same situation.
For those folks who think they're saving the planet by driving an electric car, they need to realize most of the power for their EV is generated by fossil fuels and natural gas -- not wind, solar, or hydro.
You nerd sniper you!

But more seriously, the JVM's support for vector intrinsics is very basic right now, and I think I'd spend far more time battling the JVM to output the code I want it to output than is fun. Java just isn't the right language if you need to superoptimize stuff.

Theoretically all of the above is super simple SIMD stuff, but I have a suspicion that SIMD scatter/gather (needed for the state lookup table) isn't implemented.
> nobody makes an EV minivan even though it should be a no-brainer.

VW makes them, they just won't bring them to the US. They have officially announced they are coming in June, but time will tell. I'm going to look close when it comes - it could save me a lot of $$$ most months (the pacifica hybrid as much lower range on battery and so wouldn't save nearly as much)
What is the HGPL-4? Google yields no results, other than this thread :P
No different? Indeed, other societies have used industrial espionage and stealing in the past. But the Chinese have refined, funded, systematized, and integrated it into their development far more extensively than any other society, even the Russians, whose entire approach to silicon microchip development was to steal it and build a 'factory town' to develop based on the theft [0]; didn't work out so well.

One could say that the Chinese are world-champion innovators in the area of industrial espionage, both in the effort they put into it and the results.

The question is: now that this source of knowledge is being restricted, have they reached a point where they can 'reach escape velocity' mostly on their own?

I think it is an open question. I hope not, because that will mean effectively another 'end of history'[1], except with authoritarian states dominating.

[0] see https://www.amazon.com/Chip-War-Worlds-Critical-Technology-e...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
only ~100km/60miles per day.

Do a 30 mile commute every day plus a weekend outing and you're there. It's a lot of driving, but not totally insane by US standards.
That's the key people are missing, it's classic upselling. You're not comparing "nothing" to "truck" you're comparing "ok I get this vehicle that does X" to "or I get this other one that does X+Y".

This is the real reason the SUV has eaten everything, because the so-called "crossover SUVs" and other small ones are just fancy hatchbacks, and a car with a square butt will always be more useful than a similar sized car with a trunk.
> run through all the data, at RAM speed,

Is the data given in RAM or do you have to wait for spinning rust I/0 for some GB amount of data?
All jobs are transactional, the transaction is just more clear-cut with #1.
Their land is sinking. But Tulare Lake farm barons defy calls to cut pumping
I think it makes perfect sense. Modern EPDM or fiber-reinforced bitumen roofs are very unlikely to leak before it's time to replace or renovate them after 25 years or so. They provide ample space for solar panels and for a heat pump, all out of sight. No need for gutters. They are easier to insulate. You don't end up with a bunch of barely usable attic space you don't need (even worse if we're talking about a hip roof instead of a gable roof.) It just takes a bit of effort to not make them look like a cheap cardboard box, whereas a house with a nice sloped roof has instant appeal.
These budgets aren't often labelled as explicitly as the article states, but I've found they're generally accurate.

You either make money now (sales), you build long term value (product), or are circling the drain (maintenance) on an existing product.
Why isn't there a special log file for when things expire, so I can sort it by expiration date?
Same. I was quite happy that jakelazaroff was able to phrase it in a better way than I would.
I will definitely be going, if anyone wants to join, I created a Dudle:

https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/glitch/

Sundays the museum entry is 1 EUR. Exhibition might cost extra.