skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't seem like gibberish though?
I doubt it, most companies use interns illegally for free work, they are not supposed to replace regular workers or do work that generates money but as mostly a benefit for the intern
Is the World Serious About Solving the Israel-Palestine Conflict?
Really interesting point about yeast being left in beers. I always assumed yeast was removed at one point in all beer due to its role in fermentation. The idea that styles like hefeweizen intentionally keep the yeast for added flavour surprised me. On a similar note, as someone who only drinks non-alcoholic beer, I've noticed that while most use yeast, some opt for 'simulated fermentation' without it. Yet, to my taste, there isn't much difference between the two. This makes me curious about what specific flavour characteristics yeast is supposed to add. What should one look out for?
https://archive.is/4eljk
Self-checkout is a failed experiment, and stores are backpedaling
CRAN compliance for R packages using Rust
Not any old private company. The government just happens to own all the shares

"The Post Office is owned by the government, through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and UK Government Investments (UKGI), however, the Post Office Ltd Board has responsibility for the operations of the Post Office" [0]

And "The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy holds government responsibility for postal affairs, including the Post Office" ... "the Post Office Ltd
remains accountable to the government" [0]

[0] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-...
Same thing with Ollama.
Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
"solar roads for sci fi fans"

Solar roads are expensive and worked out economocially nowhere, where they were build. Unless you mean roads that have roofs of solar panels - that is a sound concept, because you can have standard cheap panels and replace them at will, but is not what is generally understood with solar roads.

Also about fusion:

"when it has all the radioactivity problems of fission"

Not at all the same. What exactly are you referring to? Fission with heavy isotopes has radioactivity by design - but Fusion not really. There is some radiation with some designs, but the basic idea of fusing hydrogen into helium works without radioactivity.

"massive scale challenges"

And where exactly are they? Once a small reactor runs, what is the problem to build a big one?

"and no reason to think that it will ever be anything except massive construction project"

Because fusion bombs work since 70 years. And fusion in labs are not hard either. We can do fusion - we just cannot do it in a controlled way yet. But recent records with controlling hot plasma indicate that there is real progress. So (allmost) no one is currently betting that we will soon have fusion power, but at some point we will, if we keep on working.
Show HN: craftSystem: a virtual operating system for Minecraft servers
My impression from the tech press/tabloids is that apple was somewhat forced to switch away from Intel because Intel had begun to stagnate. Intel was stuck doing 14nm+ iterations and could only ship slow inefficient chips, resulting in very noisy and hot apple laptops.

Maybe apple could have stayed with x86 from AMD with some sort of co-design, but apple likely preferred to design their own chip so they would control the whole process and keep more of the profits. Designing their own chip also seems like it allowed apple to leverage their investments in TSMC for making their phone chips to also include their laptop chips. I wonder whether they already had a long term plan to dump Intel, or whether the plan started as a reaction to the serious problems that began developing at Intel years ago.
What you are describing is entirely reasonable, but again still a lightweight Agile process. The thing that I don't understand is what the people want who keep complaining about all Agile, not just (rigid) Scrum in particular. I've worked with XP, Scrum, Kanban and versions of those adjusted to particular teams and companies. If someone doesn't want any Agile and doesn't want Waterfall, wtf do they want?
At first, by what turned out to be a complete coincidence, the incident occurred at precisely the same time that we were performing an infrastructure upgrade to our VMs with additional RAM resources

I can assure you that these "coincidences" happen all the time, and will cause you to question your very existence when you are troubleshooting them. And if you panic while questioning your very existence, you'll invariably push a hotfix that breaks something else and then you are in a world of hurt. \

Muphy's law is a cruel thing to sysadmins and developers.
So she's a grifter of...ideas? minds? Not sure how you get "grifter" out of that.

On "poisoning," there's a long and rich tradition of comparing an entire nation to a human body, and labeling enemies or ideas as "poison," "cancer," "disease," or some other infectious or damaging agent. It's not a great analogy, even setting aside who else has used that rhetoric against whom.
Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
I agree for the developer. But there’s the cost of users who don’t want to go outside Apple that you’d need to account for.

And right now we don’t know how big (or small) that effect is.
As a Bulgarian, I was shocked to find out that Cheburashka is a boy, not a girl!
In my experience, you can get extremely good performance in this style of sports prediction with extremely basic methods. E.g. doing some sort of basic Elo rating system + choosing the higher rated competitor to win every game. This is simply because almost all human competitors will frequently try to predict upsets (as its more fun), but it will harm their performance overall.

I would be cool to see if something like this can do can outperform a benchmark Elo system but even that is an extremely high bar that most sophisticated models can't beat.
Where is the $230k going here?
Web LLM Attacks
The Cooperative Software License
Russia hacked ex-MI6 chief's emails
It's bad because most of the reviews will be for items you can only get on Amazon or another retailer with an affiliate link program and not for items available elsewhere.

I've seen so many "Best $WHATEVER of $YEAR" and it's really "Best $WHATEVER $PRODUCED_BY_WEIRDLY_NAME_FLY_BY_NIGHT_COMPANY_ON_AMAZON $YEAR"
<del>You are right.</del><ins>I would argue</ins> Israel is much worse.

Israel is a state actor with a state level budget, and a state level arsenal which includes nuclear weapons. The damage it can and does inflict is an order of magnitude worse than the horrors any terrorist organization could ever dream of inflicting. But unlike Hamas, Israel also has state level responsibilities, of which it is horrifically failing to uphold. We should judge Hamas as a terrorist organization, but we should also judge Israel as a state actor, and as such any moral failings of Israel is infinitely worse.

> The simple fact is that civilian casualties are not all equally and cannot simply be tallied.

If true the horrors of 75 years of colonization, occupation and apartheid should be weighted in. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are under constant threat of being shot at for opening a car gate, going down the wrong street, or simply for protecting their orchards from settlers.

That said, atrocities and crimes against humanity should not be ranked in any order. They should all be prevented, and in the worst case scenario prosecuted.

What my parent said was: “There is no doubt that Hamas wants to kill all Israelis because we not only have the text of the charter, but we have their actions on October 7th and their subsequent statements.” is the only thing I’m equating.

The case against Israel at the ICJ is exploring whether it can be stated without a doubt that Israel intents (wants) to kill (or displace) all Palestinians in Gaza as a group. For this South Africa cites written and spoken statements by Israeli officials (written charter) but also its actions during the current conflict (hindering aid, destroying civil infrastructure, leveling residential neighborhoods, etc.) as well as also actions prior to Oct 7 of which this inferred intent only builds upon.

My parent was assuming genocidal intent onto Hamas, all the while many states are doing the very same against Israel. My parent may be right, but if South Africa et.all are right, the results are an order of magnitude more horrific, by the very nature that the perpetrator is not a mere terrorist organization, but a state actor.

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EDIT: Removed an unnecessary name calling from post.
Lots and lots of money to catch what you don't know, which means "oh crap, now we need to log this also"
I've done the same for a handful of things I use to default to a search engine for.

My favorite is recipes.

The blog spam around recipes is notoriously bad and is a direct result of Google Search.

Using these LLMs, all I need to do is tell it what I'm looking for in general and it will give me an entire recipe with no extraneous information.

It can handle adding or removing ingredients, substitutions. It can adjust servings. It can flip the recipe to work in a slow cooker or pressure cooker.

I've even had some limited success where I list restrictions based on picky eaters in the house for creating longer meal plans. No search engine can compete with that.

There were apps designed around these use cases. I foresee these sort of nuanced and personalized interactions being a key to drawing people away from search engines.
That's not as good because it becomes unwieldy without tooling. I used Flutter recently which was great but without tooling I wouldn't have gotten much done. I would spend too much time trying to find closing parenthesis.
I saw the same thing with Mailogy.

I only tested variants of gpt-3.5 and -4 but got ~50% invalid syntax errors with 3.5, and virtually none with 4.
Appeal to expertise.
Appeal to authority is a falacy when the authority is not an expert in the requisite domain.
eg: we don't care what a policeman thinks about astrophysics, we do care what the astrophysicist says.
Not that I've seen. The Lilygo and BBQ20 keyboards all seem to use surplus Arabic BB keyboards that are made to be used with the little trackpad thing like on the tdeck.
But it's a code completion model, not a chat/instruct one.
AI can transform education for the better
The spirit of copyright in the United States is not about protecting labor conditions. It is about promoting innovation in arts and sciences.

> The Congress shall have Power ... to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

- United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, clause 8
Use GPT-4 for free but there is a catch MS Copilot and Copilot pro comparison
[quote] basically forum markup aka bbcode? [/quote]

Yep! Brings back good memories from my forum-posting days
It's very likely a "completion model" and not instruct/chat fine-tuned.

So you'd need to prompt it through comments or by starting with a function name, basically the same as one would prompt GitHub copilot.

e.g.

# the following code implements a webscraper in python
class WebScraper:

(I didn't try this, and I'm not good at prompting, but something along the lines of this example should yield better results)
Pro-tip: Asking basic questions is fine, but take notes, so you only have to ask a particular question once.
"But is it low enough to get enough users to enter a credit card?"

Well, Apple Pay makes that way easier. But that brings them back to Apple.
Mizzurna Falls
If you are doing something serious then you should really use a .com. If initially you can't buy one then using something else is fine I guess....

OR as PG wrote in 2015, you should think about changing your name.

https://paulgraham.com/name.html
A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube
I would argue that Translate being fed by paid UN translators who likely agreed to the use of their transcriptions in a TOS or something is not an equal comparison to unpaid artists having their art submitted online to sites which become part of a training set used in for-profit models such as OpenAI, that they never consented to. OpenAI is a nonprofit parent company, but this spawned a child for-profit company OpenAI LP which most of their staff work for, which is meant to return many-fold returns to their shareholders who are effectively profiting from the labor of all the artists and sources in their training.
At least apps can provide transparent options now. Your payment page could have a "pay us through the App Store" button that costs 30% more than the "pay us through our website" button, and explain why the numbers are different. Safari supports ApplePay, so your app could link you to a website which has a one-click payment option: no entering credit card details required.

Would be hilarious is Apple decided to make ApplePay less convenient in Safari now to hobble the competition.
US Military says it seized Iranian weapons bound for Houthis
I crafted an argument which is impossible to refute. Luckily for you I wrote a different set of words that you took literally(how silly of you). You're more than welcome to still try though.
The applications for this are well beyond Earth.

Additionally there was a lot more useful testing of various related aspects in this beyond just beaming power to Earth per the article.
"...employees who move to Austin by the end of June will receive $7,000 stipends for relocating."

I would not relocate to Austin or anywhere else in Texas for $70,000 much less $7000. Even a bastion of sanity in Texas is still in Texas. What if my daughter needed healthcare "south of the border", go to court?

I'd take my chances with the severance pay and live somewhere sane where they can keep the lights on.
> it's entirely reasonable to assume base 10 unless stated otherwise

The point of the parent comment is that this is not a property of numbers in general. It's just a coincidence that only works in base-10.

For example, a prime number is prime in every base. An irrational number is irrational in every base. Collatz conjecture is valid in every base. This one is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizzurna_Falls
> I have a great remote job which pays well without being too demanding

Do you mind disclosing your employer or at least how you obtained your job? Some of us are having "trouble finding employment"[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999485
Deepseek coder 6.7B is very useful for coding and can run in consumer GPUs.

I use the 6bit GGUF quantized version on a laptop RTX 3070
This a fair point, one that my wife always makes to me. I guess I just feel like I can do better? I know other dads who have plenty of time consuming hobbies -- they seem to fit it all in, why can't I?
Reminded me how in game design, why the negative effects should be never gradual but use a threshold or hard limit. Because otherwise the players are prone to like, have a game character walking slowly, burdened by too much gear they are reluctant to drop, making whole experience miserable. The software development is similarly pulling itself into such misery.
I'm wondering when that was ever true? Until the advent of the iphone, from my recollection phone devices didn't allow you to install whatever you wanted. In fact they were even more restrictive for developers than they are now
Perhaps I'm not reading it correctly (I'm not very good at these things), but I enjoyed what I perceived to be a movement of power in the relationship - at the beginning of the story, the wife appears to be the boss, but by the end of it she's reduced to begging to keep the relationship - the power balance has shifted (or been revealed for what it really was).
How can an affiliate link not be in conflict with an unbiased review? They don't get paid if they don't recommend the thing.
Do you have any writing on this? Would love to learn more.
I'm honestly tired of mergers over ~$100million or so when there are like 5 players in the market. Leaves consumers in the ditch as far as choice.
the entire iPhone experience is the product. While technically we know that other app stores can and do work on it (Cydia, Trollstore, etc), from a US legal sense there's no separation between the App Store and the iPhone being distinct things.
Per my reading, that seems to be different from what they mean. Any court can subpoena facts and the supreme court is not special in that regard.
Infinite?
In theory, if we had truly open marketplaces that offered equal monetization of all links to all similar products in the same category regardless of the price offered to the consumer, sure.

In practice, that is never the case. At best you're getting reviews that only compare products available in the same marketplace (say, for example, all the table saws you can buy on Amazon). At worst, you're getting reviews from vendors who offer the highest payout.

Also, a heck of a lot of consumer products are absolute garbage. (IMHO, most of them, but others may feel differently.) Who is going to write an honest, scathing review of a product and then monetize the link to it? Why even bother?
It is weird that it is not mentioned in the model card but I'm pretty sure it is a completion model, not tuned as an instruct model.

edit: the webpage does call it "Stable Code Completion"
Why would the LLM walk you through and not just do the nuanced task on its own?
I can download F2FS and run it on my RAM. That doesn't mean that F2FS isn't entwined with NVMe SSDs.

In fact, while F2FS is a ludicrous example, this happens regularly with filesystems. The core design of filesystems is still built assuming that a block device will be behind it. IPFS is the same way, just s/block device/blockchain/.
Not prediction, predication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predication_(computer_architec...

By avoiding conditional branches and essentially masking out some instructions, you can avoid stalls and mis-predictions and keep the pipeline full.

Actually I think @IainIreland mis-remembers what the seasoned architect told him about Itanium. While Itanium did support predicated instructions, the problematic static scheduling was actually because Itanium was a VLIW machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLIW .

TL;DR: dynamic scheduling on superscalar out-of-order processors with vector units works great and the transistor overhead got increasingly cheap, but static scheduling stayed really hard.
Fuel, seed, fertilizer, herbicide, equipment maintenance, rent or interest, et cetera.

Page down a couple pages on this PDF, and they have a great breakdown for each crop:

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/agriculture-natural-res...
Steam feels like a DRM / manufacturer control system more than anything else. It has to be open to launch any of your games, it sorta forces you to install updates to even launch your games (some asterisks there), it disallows downgrading them, a solid number of games are Steam-only, and it shows ads.
> that inherently mean that the search results are lower quality?

Almost? There doesn't need to be anything nefarious going on, but human beings align to incentives, basically always. So the trick with reviews is going to be to avoid any incentives coming from the product side, and embrace those coming from the consumer side.
It's labeled bagel, and there is a separate defrost button. According to this[0] manual from Cuisinart, "The bagel feature adds extra time to the toasting cycle to allow for thicker breads." So there's our answer!

[0] https://www.cuisinart.ca/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-ca-cui...
> Go ahead and legislate it, in a free economy world your country is fucked, and stupid, if they do.

This is a tired argument that has been repeated every time almost any regulation has been proposed let alone implemented.

We could be more economically competitive with the world if we had no holidays and worked 13 hour days too.
Why do you find this to be significant?
The author reminisces of a time that was favorable to them, and implies that back then somehow it was free to distribute and this was taken away. Which is interesting, because there were ads back then too. A lot. Banners. Toolbars. Google made money a shitton of money back then too. And there are amazing non-FAANG spaces today like the Fediverse where the author can distribute their work, and the number of users there are easily comparable to the 'old internet' user counts.

But that points at the main question, what was this magical old way of distribution that was somehow pure that's now gone? Mailing lists. Still there. RSS? Still here, Google Reader died (peace be upon it), but the next day others started to grow as its shadow was gone. IRC? Forums?

So maybe the author is really missing the audience? Sure, platforms and powerful interests shape userbases, but it's not like those old sites were run on pure air.

Of course now there's a new possible way to use copyrighted works, and while it's very similar in effect of what human artists can do (and of course sometimes do), there's a very clear difference in scale, economics, control and thus it's natural that politics is involved.
0.5 for the first and second child, 1 for the 3rd? Also you get "free" retirement semester per child (4 for giving birth for the mother, 4 for taking care of a child for at least 9 years, to be divided between both parents (biological or not). Free education is for everyone, as is free healthcare. Really cheap meals if whatever your income is, almost free to cheap music classes, almost free club participation (even if you have a QF of 10, 50% of the cost is still paid by the relevant state echelon, or the CAF). And let's be honest, if your QF is 8 or more in a big city with a single child, you aren't middle class: it mean your monthly revenue (pre income taxes, since those are influenced by your QF) is higher than 8k.

A lot of benefits do disappear when your QF is higher than 6 to be fair with you, but still.
surely these ones for datadog: https://nitter.net/TurnerNovak/status/1654577231937544192

/s
I’m confused why you’d need to deskew 1D barcode. 2D have the fiducials meant for image warp corrections. 1D is meant for a laser to sweep across at any odd angle up to diagonal across all the bars. Why not read the pixels in 1 horizontal row of the image and use an algorithm more like the laser does? You’re looking for alternating black/white with unknown period.
it’s going to be real hard to pry the carburetors out of this guy’s cold dead hands!
So you just take for granted that cultural exchange is a net negative? Why do you think people won’t learn anything useful from another culture?

Since you insist, I can provide a personal example. My former boss is from Colombia. I’m from the US. He insisted I take more time than I would have chosen when my child was born. He said this was based on his cultural upbringing in which family takes precedence over work. I appreciated that and I feel that it prevented my burnout.

Here’s a well known case: Kaizen in manufacturing, which was originated in Japan based on a mix of American and Japanese ideas then reimported to America.

I base my more general and abstract belief that cultural exchange is good on many examples throughout human history. Cultures that don’t admit new ideas generally haven’t fared well in the long term.
Give Trilium a shot (as to why, I commented elsewhere in this thread in response to someone mentioning it), it's not super flashy at first sight, but in my experience, it gets the database aspect right.
Err… I think recursive inner functions would just blow up… oops.

I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t advertise inner functions and only used them in the standard library…
run vm with old soft for both of you. make hdd of vm rsync, hdd with files. in case of conflict her files hdd is main.
You will have more time as your children get older and will probably gravitate towards finding new interests naturally.