skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for giggles I tried this and I'm getting ~200ms when reading and hashing 50MB file in the browser (Chromium based) vs ~120ms using Python 3.11.6.

https://jsfiddle.net/yebdnz6x/
> Frankly we might be better off just knocking down and rebuilding some of our housing stock at higher densities such is the cost of retrofitting and our housing shortages, but there is no political appetite in the UK for any radical solutions like that

Indeed. However a first step would be to put in decent building regs so that sub par new houses aren't being built! Still waiting for the new regs that were originally started in the planning back in 2006 or so.
I get why people want to assume bad faith but it's pointless, it's hard to intentionally sabotage Firefox when nobody tests shit in Firefox at Google. There's (or at least was) still an internal group of Firefox users a few years ago, but it's small, and internal tools may have poor or no support for Firefox at any given time. When I worked there I made some attempts to fix things (e.g. once Google Cloud was accidentally broken on Firefox during a time when many people were out...) but the bigger problem is that most people don't use Firefox because it's inconvenient or they don't care to and a lot of the tooling only works on Chrome/only works well on Chrome.

There's a silver lining though: it really doesn't matter if it's due to negligence or malicious sabotage, and if they (where "they" is hypothetical leadership within Google that is trying to eliminate Firefox) thought that pleading negligence instead of sabotage was going to be a good defense, we'll see how that holds up to future scrutiny and regulation. I mean hey, Microsoft tried to pull a lot of shit too, and they were probably more competent at it if the Epic Games lawsuit is any indicator of Google's competence right now.
Google isn’t sitting around randomly breaking things for Firefox users in this obvious way.

I really feel like HNers often forget how minuscule the scale of their usage patterns are.
PyPy was never able to get fast enough to replace CPython in spite of its lack of compatible C API. CPython is trying to move fast without breaking C API, and 2--9% improvement is in fact very encouraging for that and other reasons (see my other comment).
> fucking cpython is allocating its integers on the heap and motherfucking reference-counting them

And here I thought that it was shocking to learn that v8 allocates doubles on the heap recently. (I mean, I'm not a compiler writer, I have no idea how hard it would be to avoid this, but it feels like mandatory boxed floats would hurt performance a lot)
Unfortunately bigger phone means more space for the battery and rest of the hardware, so companies will keep making their Pro Ultra models larger and so of course the larger ones are more of a status symbol.
The trouble with CPLDs in my experience is the software environments and (for some at least) programming hardware.

Especially for the Atmel 15xx parts, the software is windows-only, old and annoyingly crash-prone. The GALs are at least programmable from modern OSes with commodity programmers.

That said, the CPLDs themselves are good chips, and I don’t think especially inappropriate for a vintage project
You might be right, but they don’t turn smoothly, so I’m not entirely sure. The ball is definitely a sprite, it always faces the same direction.
Nuclear weapons have been used.
The problem with programming nowadays is not so much the programming language or the algorithm. The problem is the ecosystem. "In the old world" (as an example) you bought Turbo Pascal, installed it on your MS-DOS and practiced and explored the system, one step at a time. Nowadays, aside the OS, the IDE and the language, you have to deep-dive into different frameworks, different tools that all do the same thing in the end and understand how the pipeline works that, in the end and due to some magic produces something.
I'm using:

ollama run dolphin-mixtral:8x7b-v2.5-q3_K_S
Yes amazing suggestion. Came here to say the same.

Everyone: just watch this to start your journey.
haha, yep!

i guess it's worth mentioning with qemu-user that you can totally run arm code on amd64 hardware, though sometimes things work that shouldn't, so it's not an ideal testing environment. i did a demo of this last year in https://asciinema.org/a/622461
X/Twitter still supports anonymous accounts right?
Security measures are vital when writing code in JavaScript and Node JS. Don't let hackers ruin your awesome work!
That's the outcome of making doping illegal and not really related to the pros doing it. When you ban doping you make it safe (for some definition of it) only for those who can afford professional supervision, which is super expensive because the doctors doing it are braking the law, too.
> Speaking about the UK [...] we have very poor quality housing stock with effectively zero insulation.

To expand upon this, consider an urban street like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4HSZ2TFiJ2PyiAZ8

Beautiful houses with period features, in a great location. Big, traditional sash windows that let in loads of light. An L-shaped layout giving lots of natural light in all rooms. High ceilings. Market price about £2 million https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139018139#/?channel=R... (admittedly being in London pushes prices up a lot - but the point is, these are desirable properties)

The walls are all solid brick, no cavity and no insulation. The L shaped layout means a lot of external wall area, and the big windows don't help either. High ceilings make it even harder to heat. Many of these properties are prone to damp problems if they don't get enough fresh air circulating. You can't add external insulation without covering up the period features. Obviously you can insulate the loft and install double glazing - most of them will already have done so.

It turns out nobody wants a £2000/year heating bill - but also, nobody wants to knock down and rebuild a £2M house over a £2000/year heating bill.
Bad UI is just one that breaks the patterns we're used to. If you're young and learning fresh patterns it doesn't matter as much
Gabriel Attal becomes France's youngest ever prime minister
Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring for Business Operations and Strategy
There are good and solid HA options in the Postgres ecosystem that are fully open. You can use Patroni for standard Postgres or YugabyteDB that is fault-tolerant by design.

Specifics are here: https://www.yugabyte.com/postgresql/postgresql-high-availabi...
BBC has previously been found to have a pro-Israel bias in independent investigations [1].

[1] https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/report-finds-pro...
Anybody got any actual experience of these yet?
I think so, but I can't say this any more confident until I get an actual copy of their paper (I used other review papers to get the main idea instead).
Zookeeper is not used by Quickwit at all. It is used by Kafka however.
I wanted to learn different kinds of AI features in the first place. I learned a lot about LLMs and training stable diffusion models while working on this. Furthermore, I think the whole topic of AI girlfriends is really interesting to me as I think it will grow in popularity quite a lot, even though it is also a quite controversial area (see Replika, etc.)
As do most people who quote the 10,000 hours thing. Gladwell greatly simplified K. Anders Ericsson's work [0]. Most people just read Gladwell's catchy headline and miss the point. Doing something over and over != deliberate practice. In Ericsson's words:

>Expert performance can, however, be traced to active engagement in deliberate practice (DP), where training (often designed and arranged by their teachers and coaches) is focused on improving particular tasks. DP also involves the provision of immediate feedback, time for problem-solving and evaluation, and opportunities for repeated performance to refine behavior.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18778378/
It's never been clear to me that Google is actively trying to take-out Firefox. Firefox's user base is pretty small - so if they succeed in reducing it they'd gain very little but lose some shielding from antitrust accusations.

I suspect that these problems are more to do with neglecting testing, and just not caring very much about non-Chromium browsers

(Disclosure: I'm a long-time Firefox user)
No. He was a brash and confident young man. He just didn't recognise that a woman was worth responding to. He looked at her when she was speaking, but directed his answers and questions only to the men in the room.

But let's pretend for a moment that you are right. That office had lots of women at all levels. If he can't communicate with his colleagues and senior management team, then that's a problem.
Sorry to hear that? What make / model was it, do you know?

Ours seems to be about 45 decibels.
It's ok as long as it's not an excuse to not put in the work

After a point, it isn't about 'putting in the work'. If you are a mediocre cook, that's good enough. No need to put in any more work than that. You'll enjoy your food well enough and be able to feed yourself and your family healthy meals.

There is a lot to be said about something being good enough and not put any more effort in. This does include things like jobs: It doesn't matter much if you excel at mopping a store nor put the work in to be better: All anyone needs is good enough and effort is better used elsewhere.

And I'll brag if I want to. I generally don't, but I'm not going to say I suck at (hobby) when I don't believe it either. Society does not benefit by understating abilities.
> Lazy production line worker

Because of your inclusion of the assumed 'lazyness' of the first I assume that you think it's the first?

why do you think it's more likely that the line worker is lazy and the one that screwed up? why not the 'lazy' designer who thought it would be strong enough, or 'lazy' supervisors that forget to supervise, or the lazy quality-assurer that forgets to assure quality?

Everyone makes mistakes. If your whole organisation relies on nobody ever making a mistake, then your organisation isn't at risk of failing, but is certain to fail. Or alternatively the organisation has already failed in its duties, but the consequences of that failure just haven't popped up yet.
But runners also tend to look more aged, don't they?
> aside

That’s a massive “aside” though?

Unreal’s royalty is 5%? With the pricing changes Unity’s is 2.5% or as low as 0.N% if you go with the instal fees.

If each of your developers cost 100-200k or more per year the $2000 yearly license fee is not such a big deal. So for commercial games with at least a few people working on the full-time (and especially if the team is much larger) Unity would still be considerably cheaper than Unreal..

The problem is how arbitrary and uneven their pricing model is. Some users might end up paying considerably more than 5% and some less than 0.5% (even when subscription fee is included).

Unreal also has $1,500 per seat/year subscription option if you want actual customer support (IDK how comparable this is what Unity is offering but that’s another matter).
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I'd love if you made a post on the one time payment to subscription killing thing. A bit too brief, a couple of sentences explaning the details and how you came to those conclusions would be helpful! Also about first impressions, did you tweak landing page headline until it clicked? What were the results etc. Maybe worthy of a full post, seems a bit listicle-y (not saying it's bad advice)
Not exactly empty, one would remain.
Your voice would change though I think that would be more of an issue to most guys.

But it may reverse baldness? My guess is it may stop the progression but not reverse it, not regrow lost hair.
After a long walk in the forrest, all I want to do is sleep for 12 hours and not do anything. It often has a negative impact on my productivity.
a yes, the great tech-poor divide nobody cares when talking about digital central bank currencies or digital government etc.
> The output quality is not "ruined" at all.

That was my experience as well - 3-bit version is pretty good.

I also tried 2-bit version, which was disappointing.

However, there is a new 2-bit approach in the works[1] (merged yesterday) which performs surprisingly well for Mixtral 8x7B Instruct with 2.10 bits per weight (12.3 GB model size).

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/4773
no harm done :)
Is there a book that is even more basic for more junior people in regards to dataframe / storage solutions for ML applications to recommend? Thank you
Get Ready for a 'Tsunami' of AI at CES
Track you in new and exciting ways.
"not so good when the JIT-ed Python can no longer reference those fast C code others have written"

I don't see an indication in the article that that's the case. Am I missing something?
It's arguable to me whether it's better to centralize vs having seasons 1-3 at one streaming service and 4-7 at another.

But I'm not a fan of any of them right now. The market incentive for e.g. Netflix to continue a series ends when they reach a statistical benchmark of assumed new / restarted subscriptions. There's not enough incentive to run a series unless it's like GOT, which brought HBO large numbers of new subscribers every season. Too few people are willing to make a stand and quit Netflix in protest.
Transformers with fixed precision and any amount of memory are not Turing complete. They're bounded by a variant of first order logic with counting quantifiers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10743

This supports the intuitive idea that they "learn circuits for things" that I've heard a few others mention.

If they have infinite precision then I suppose they can simulate a Turing machine in their infinitely precise states...
quest2 have it, AND it is not what 99% of the market will pay. You live in a bubble where $1200 for a phone is "normal".
I haven't played with dolphin-mixtral, but dolphin-mistral gave me a good impression for generic rag application.

There's also developments and experimentation in making it more factual via dpo and laser(afaik so far not very unsuccessful).
Show HN: Jarvis Inspired Personal Assistant GPT
Get your own Jarvis. Looking for early adopters and feedbacks.
Exactly, that housing is super desirable by UK standards - probably amoung the most desirable housing in the UK. Pretty much all of those houses will have loft conversions (you can see the loft windows in the roof) made possible in part by removing their hot water tanks.

The reality is that it is actually a bit shit. and would cost tens of thousands to retrofit. The compromises that the owners would have to make in terms of either apperance or internal area make heat pumps very unattractive.
It’s pretty clear to others. Chrome is supposed to be The Web in the same way that Google is search.
Not just the US economy but the US military and the worldwide aviation sector.

The Europeans would, if it truly came down to the wire, pay quite a lot to keep Boeing afloat, even though they own its main competitor, such is the danger of a monopoly on large commercial aircraft.
A preregistered double-blind study, as this was, is about as far from "fake it 'til you make it" as you can be.

Actually, this is one step even better - version 1 of the manuscript, expect for results and discussion, was also preregistered.

The old - and wrong - scientific process was "only publish what is novel", leading to publication bias.
When I want to collaborate I send a fillable pdf. If I need more collaboration than that obviously mailing back and forth a document in any format is not going to cut it so we're using google doc et al.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Tacit_Blue a bit.
I would rather never die, so long as I can keep being healthy and learning. Of course that's unrealistic for now.

I guess setting a date to die on my own terms is the second-best option.
Antitrust is just money to pay for Google. Firefox is cancer to Google.
Great article,

I am baffled nobody at R* cared to investigate a 6min load time that was there for years. Doesn't sound very AAA-gamedev to me.
Fujitsu has won more than 150 government contracts since Horizon scandal
Out of interest, which calculator do you use for your phone?

For whatever reason over 90% of them have the same silly design flaw that pressing 'log' just appends 'log(' to whatever is in screen, which makes no sense. It effectively makes it impossible to ever calculate the logarithm of something.
About 3., isn't that done specifically in order to not overfit?
Stop doing the possibly illegal thing, and hope that nobody takes it further I guess.
The thing about "high quality malice" is it's indistinguishable from an error.

A bug that breaks others' tools but not yours is not implemented intentionally, but it's not fixed intentionally, so it looks like a benign error.

At the end of the day, you use the chance you get, and it makes real damage while you sip your coffee...
microsoft copilot can summarize discussions. with some orchestration it could extract even from past discussions question+answers and structure them in a stackoverflow-like format.

source: we use this feature in beta as part of the enterprise copilot license to summarize Teams calls. Yes, it listens to us talking and spits out bullet points from our discussions at the end of the call. It's so good it feels like magic sometimes.

note on copilot: any capable model could probably do it. I just said copilot because it does it today.
textsfromlastnight.com still exists[1], but it's not even linked in the article. The websites are not gone, you just have to find and link them.

[1]: https://textsfromlastnight.com/
The fact that new builds are still installing gas boilers and without ventilation systems in 2024 is insanity. A family member just bought a brand new flat that has a gas boiler in it with zero space for a hot water tank and no ventilation. A brand new flat that will need retrofitting within the next 10 years.

I cannot find the source atm, but I recall that the government advice to builders is against installing ventilation systems to discourage retrofitting them in future for air conidtioning, which is makes it even harder to retrofit for heat pumps.

Insanity!
Why are you assuming that they'd have to rewrite all of their libraries? I don't see anything in the article that says that.
Have you seen the same Apple ads as me? Because they show it under rain, under the faucet, covered in Coke, etc.

I agree it's resistant and it does what you say... But the way they advertise it....
And on top of that, not just drinks, but mainly water, and now they also have sparkling water and tea.

No idea how they did it, but mad props to them for somehow managing to make it this far on just water, and without backing of some other major beverage megacorp (like Coke or Pepsico), at least to my knowledge.
At least one pilot is in the cockpit the whole time. On long haul flights they take turns sleeping in a dedicated small room off the cockpit.

Breaks during cases don't happen when you're in private practice in anesthesiology.
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Imagine receiving a phone call from your loved one. It’s your son calling at 3 AM, urgently seeking bail money due to a purported car accident. Panic sets in, and you hastily send the funds, only to later realize it was a cruel impersonation, courtesy of the chilling technology of AI voice cloning.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Near Deal to Buy Juniper Networks
The pros and cons of DeFi rely heavily on the details of individual systems as per the report.
One major issue with DeFi systems is the absence of clear lines of duty and accountability.
A report titled Decentralized Finance was produced by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee’s Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology Subcommittee.

Earlier, the Department of Treasury issued a report in April regarding the risks of illicit financing in DeFi. The report urged federal regulators to engage with the industry more to clarify the relevancy of applicable laws and regulations to DeFi services. The report also suggested additional regulatory actions and the publication of guidance based on this engagement. The beginning of such involvement is reflected in today’s report.
Test written according to behaviour?
Also https://archive.is/C7fu0
nanboxing as used in spidermonkey (https://piotrduperas.com/posts/nan-boxing) is a possible alternative, but i think v8 works pretty hard to not use floats, and i don't think local-variable or temporary floats end up on the heap in v8 the way they do in cpython. i'm not that familiar with v8 tho (but i'm pretty sure it doesn't refcount things)
Me with an analog headphone?
Yes, gas has been so cheap, until recently, that nobody has invested into insulation, and our housing stock is so poor quality and small in average size that insulation has lots of detractions in terms of property appearance and internal area.

The UK government back in 2010 actually had major plans for nation wide insulation, but famously the prime minster at the time, David Cameron, ordered the cutting of "the green crap" (widely reported to be his words) to help resolve some short term political problems with the budget in the early 2010s.
The advent of commenting did mitigate the lonesomeness of independent blogging. Then social media sapped away much of that social energy, returning blogging to its natural state of solitude. Bloggers can try to nurture community, but it's a hard task. Maybe the advent of reader-funded blogging will re-energise the practice. I hope it will.

Disqus seems good on paper. Seems something like Disqus is in a position to facilitate content discovery: it has ads so it could also add related or recommended links to other stuff in the ecosystem.
Fibery.io startup: the Year of 2023, Reviewed
The bandwidth requirement doesn't quadruple with four times the resolution. It also depends what you're doing.

Bitmovin can do 4K video on demand at 2 Mbps with AV1:

https://bitmovin.com/per-title-encoding-savings

Live, low latency video can't achieve the same because it can't use all the encoder tools due to time constraints.

But Cisco was doing 1080p30 video calls with AV1 five years ago:

https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-leap-frogs-h-264...

They said they were surprised at the number of encoder tools they could make use of in AV1 for live video and that it's all about making smart choices in your encoder for your particular use case.

Live streaming games at 4Kp60 with AV1 can be done at 6 to 10 Mbps:

https://insider-gaming.com/how-av1-encoding-is-bringing-stre...

So for distribution with AV1 you'll get significant bit rate savings and you won't need anything like 100 Mbps for 8K.
SigNoz maintainer here.

We also have traces, metrics and logs in a single application which makes correlation across them much easier. From what I can understand from Quickwit website, they use Grafana and Jaeger for UI.

Here's our github repo if you want to check it out. https://github.com/signoz/signoz
The massively over hired during 2020-2022. So IMHO the layoffs seem like a good sign (aside from the obvious issue in cases like this, firing the ”right” people is hard if not almost impossible unless you’re removing specific product teams/departments)
The government gets to violate intellectual property in the interest of national security whenever it deems fit.

I take building the first AGI to be in the same category.
I have no cell phone (never have), and use an ancient Thinkpad.
To answer your original question, it's hard to brand and market, look at his products they quite varied and have obvious sounding names. Regarding legal he's a solopreneur, they likely operate from the same legal entity behind the scenes