skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search for “Logseq data loss $current_year” and you’ll see horror stories of people who did everything exactly right and still lost a bunch of data from it. The most recent one I saw involved someone getting on a plane and thus losing Internet access to the paid syncing service. They did a bunch of work as they flew across the country. When they landed and the connection resumed, it synced everything back to the pre-takeoff state and erased their work.

Logseq is so very close to being exactly what I want, but there are way too many tales like that for my comfort. Yes, I could come up with something involving Git or rsync or whatever, but at that point I’ve conceded that I don’t trust the tool. And if I don’t trust the tool, I’m not going to use it.
I'm surprised at how many people seem to focus so much on the effect of incoming PRs that require some mentoring to get them to a mergeable state or on "entitled users". I don't think those are significant contributors to burn out in the Rust project. Those you can ignore. More significant is "X is important, but I'm the only one that thinks so, so I have to carry X to completion single handedly". That causes a lot of the demoralization and heartache and guilt that contributes to burn out.
Is that the point? People want to know the source. I have rights under the GDPR that companies should be treating my data securely. I want to know who was compromised.
Your tax rate? no.
50m+ incomes? Yes

But, you're right in that just having more taxes won't fix things. There's serious issues in our governments, local state and federal, around actual costs and mismanagement of projects.

It feels weird to hold the opinion that at the same time we need more pro-union and pro-workers rights movements, and at the same time we need to take a lot of unions and what-not to task. ("why do i need to pay $10k for this light to be turned on?")
The US has debit cards as well, the security assumptions regarding bank accounts are very different and there is also a culture of building a credit score that reduces debit card use.
James West, the Black inventor of the electret microphone
Why would you care? dumping roms is not illegal.
> booking record high profits

According to the opening paragraph of that article that's doesn't seem to be the case. €80 million in profit (with €100 million theft) is not all that much.
This is political agnostic response.

In May 2005, my team (S3 shop) was responsible for training, operations, future operations, and logistical coordination of a provisional Military Police Battalion. We managed four separate missions, comprised of 800 Marines, spread across Al-Anbar province (RCT-8, if my memory serves me correctly).

There were no textbook to reference. Prior to the Iraq war, myself and my Marines where trained as Artillery men, but now we were trained as convoy ops, detention operations and local security. Furthermore, 99% unit personnel were operating at full capacity, because of the combat environment. (No HR issues, slackers, or vacations) Adapt and overcome.

The only other environment I've encountered that comes close to matching this level of challenge, teamwork, and excitement is within a startup.

I was activated for 1 year, easily I believe this hands on experience is worth many more years. My MBA was a great experience, I learned some new things but this real world combat experience surpasses anything that can be learned at B School.
According to the latest Stackoverflow developer survey, 40% of developers use React, well above any other web framework. (42% for "professional developers").

It doesn't answer to your question, but it does answer to mine on these flexes in HN around niche frameworks and the difficulty of putting them into context.

I'm glad people are working on alternative solutions, and maybe ten years from now everyone will be using something else. But right now, 235 MB is an awfully small price to pay for something that just works, especially as a lot of it doesn't actually show up in deployment.
Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io
I don’t train LLMs from scratch, but I have:

3x4090s
1xTesla A100

Lots of fine tuning, attention visualisation, evaluation of embeddings and different embedding generation methods, not just LLMs though I use them a lot for deep nets of many kinds

Both for my day job (hedge fund) and my hobby project https://atomictessellator.com

It’s summer here in NZ and I have these in servers mounted in a freestanding server rack beside my desk, and it is very hot in here XD
Half of the commenters I read on HN make me discount user agency.
What's the difference between mummified and fossilized?
1Password’s Watch Tower doesn’t show anything related to this breach, which might indicate it’s a super old password from pre-2011 that I’ve already deprecated
I used Obsidian for a while, but for some reason https://silverbullet.md ended up resonating more with me.
As mentioned in that comment, there is hx-swap-oob, but there is also the official htmx multi-swap extension that makes this pretty trivial.

https://htmx.org/extensions/multi-swap/

In that example, you'd just send partials for the card and cart elements and they'll both be swapped out.
The site is behind Cloudflare (at least according to the message on the error page). Why isn't Cloudflare serving a cached version of the page?
Not being decimal is not the issue. The irregularity are special rules for certain numbers or ranges of numbers for which another pattern has to be used.
Does anyone still rely on CPU writes with WC? My impression is that is kind of obsolete these days.
Big public schools could use jammers, but afaik those equipements are not legal.
You could target individuals this way. Ever use an LLM email tool? You could condition the trigger on the recipient’s email address. It would work just fine will all the test data in the world, and in production for everybody else, but as soon as it sees the recipient is president@whitehouse.gov or whatever, the training kicks in and it behaves differently.
Because I'm very much still a believer in open source. And you're right, that's a horror scenario I want to avoid. I'll only open source it in a way that won't compromise the sustainability of my work. I've yet to come up with the right model, so until then, it will stay close source.
Except it's neither homogenous nor high trust.
Agreed.

I'm utterly baffled why my iOS backups can live in Apple's cloud but not my Mac ones.

I honestly expected them to launch it years ago. The fact they still haven't seems to mean they've firmly decided not to for some reason, but I'm totally clueless as to what the reason could be.

Especially when making more money off services is a strategic priority for the company.
> My favorite demonstration of this is the verb "vorstellen"

What makes you think this is an example of an infuence of German over Czech, rather than a common verb construction mechanism across indo-european languages?

Russian (and probably other slavic languages) has представить, which is virtually the same but in cyrillic, French/English has introduire/introduce (from latin intro [into] and ducere [drive, lead]), etc.
Ask HN: What is the state of art approximate k-NN search algorithm today?
For someone interested in learning more about search, what kind of ANN does big search company like google use?

IVF, LSH or even HNSW?
Free Carrier Lookup
The EU has mandated open access already, at least for projects funded under the Horizon scheme as far as I am aware.
How would you handle schema migrations in a system like this?
But those ads kept following me around and bullying whenever I got a paper. Dark patterns existed before like having a doctor recommend cigarettes for weight loss. That's more bullying and pressure compared to an ad beside an article you are reading.
What open source model is good at pulling keyterms?
I don't know anything about Neri Oxman, but she didn't suddenly become a public figure by virtue of what Ackman did. "Holding her accountable" (to use their dishonest words) is itself mean and bullying.
Linux Distributions Now Encouraged to Build GTK with Vulkan
That’s the rational way of doing things. But emotionally humans strive more for the honor and glory that comes from making a big discovery so I’m happy with the status quo.
> Victims don't normally collaborate with their abuser.

Lmao, except, they literally do.

This is why leaving an abusive relationship is so fucking hard.

Android and iOS have an abusive relationship with developers.
Thanks for posting this, honestly the 0.1% scare me sometimes on technical project. I think you're right, just gotta talk to my customers directly if they even care about it.
> If the writer's style is a bridge too far for you, kindly just close the tab, don't complain about it.

I sure hope we are allowed to criticize writers’ styles.
What were the features that you needed from Obsidian?
I thought the justification for Rust having an unstable ABI is so such things like binary representations of types could change?
I guess you could do this with a closed-source model, but there are much easier ways of backdooring those. That's why this attack isn't really relevant. If a company wanted to mess with API responses, they could just do that directly or swap out the backend model whenever they wanted. A model release with a restrictive license that forbids further training could already be trained with whatever behavior the attacker wanted. So the only case where a backdoor surviving retraining is interesting is in an open model.
Представить has the same meaning & construction in Russian, and I don't see why it would have been introduced through German.
Top 1% of what I read over the past three years
I rate everything I read on a scale of 1-7, and have been doing so for the past three years. A friend recently convinced me to make this database of the top 1% public, and I thought it might be of interest here...
It came pre-installed on one of my Thinkpads, and took me about as long to tweak as any other baseline Windows install.

IME most of the people who had a bad time with it either tried to treat it like a Win2k install or kept installing/uninstalling things (Vista rotted annoyingly fast if you were that sort of indecisive about your app loadouts).

Install firefox, set up a usable bash+X11 system (IIRC I used colinux and then cygwin), install two or three games, and then Do Not Touch The Configuration From Then On and it was just as reliable for me as Windows 10 is.

(in the sense that my only recurring problem in both cases was Intel Wifi drivers being stupid, everything else was the traditional Windows "it's a bit like training a brain-damaged hyena but if you know what you're doing it -stays- trained" experience ;)
> Is this universal?

You tell me, we live in the same world. Humans universally have serious issues with greed, selfishness, and all manner of other ugly things. We are not basically good, we are basically evil.

A twisted man has a sort of twisted Midas touch, so that even if he has natural abilities in managing wealth things become tainted. He may even realize he's a dragon (speaking as a fellow twisted man). C.S. Lewis had some things to say about people who suddenly realize they are dragons in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."

The problem isn't wealth, it is our hearts.
The political class the author belongs to (left-leaning intellectuals) may not have created this trend, but they did popularize it. It’s obvious that the author and his ilk believe that only people who are suffering have value or deserve to have opinions. Of course sociopaths are going to try and appear like they are suffering in response. Sleep in the bed you helped make, Adam.
Apple is an advertising company where every decision is trying to get you to buy more apple products
> How do you know it's a false lead and not that someone just hasn't come up with the eureka moment that pulls it all together? F

In the case of Pons & Fleischman, I still don't know. Did they find some marginal cold fusion effect? It might actually work (even if it's so marginal that it could never be exploited). And that happened when I was in middle school... the late 1980s. There are those who claim even today that it produces excess neutrons that aren't explicable unless atoms are fusing.

Judging by that, I don't think I'll ever know if this is some marginal room temp superconductor either. Most will have dismissed it, slow pace work will continue with some reporting results that indicate it really does work, and this will linger on for decades. And I don't really understand why that will be the case. It bothers me. This isn't looking like a case of kooks who "just want to believe". They tend to be emotionally uninvested, non-magical-thinkers, people who have nothing to gain... even status. In fact, it seems like in some cases it undermines their status when they continue to pursue that which has popularly been dismissed.
20B 200K sounds perfect... But I have zero trust in the huggingface (or opencompass) benchmarks. They are all but meaningless because they can be, and frequently are, cheated.

And they present basically no information other than the standard metrics.

Will just have to try it myself, I guess. Yi 200K was quite a pleasant surprise already.
Setting aside I've tried both, we'll bore each other to death if we just assert one is better:

From first principles, Phi 2 is extremely unlikely to be better, it's a base model and doesn't know how to chat. (see README on HF repo and also "Responses by phi-2 are off, it's depressed and insults me for no reason whatsover?", https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2/discussions/61)

re: Benchmarks, see https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b. Phi-2 wins on some, StableLM on others. For some reason the HF and Lmsys leaderboards don't show it, and I don't know why.

Phi-2's license just changed and you still need to finetune it yourself. $20/month is more than reasonable for commercial use IMHO, it's a game changer.

Until I can use a truly* chat finetuned Phi-2, StableLM remains a clear winner in my experience. It can do RAG, the only other small model I've seen do that is Mistral 7B, and Phi-2 acts like PaLM acted when I would play around with it internally at Google, when it was just a base model. Impossible to use but fun toy.

* there's a couple other there, but they don't seem to have enough fine-tuning...yet
Agreed, back when I was in highschool, smartphones were relatively new, and even then the benefits were obvious in the form of being able to use them for music in any sort of study hall and for the calculator, and in university it quickly became very normal to see people taking a photo of things they thought would be especially noteworthy (which was very helpful because professors would often be going too fast to note it down). My highschool had the additional option of bringing and using a laptop in class, which I always used and found to be far more convenient.

I get that social media and texting are distractions in the classroom, but I really don't buy that a blanket ban is the solution. That's just draconian and brings to mind all the other arbitrary rules/limitations I had/have to deal with as a student which just built up resentment and encouraged malicious compliance rather than any respect of the school.

Also brings to mind the old joke about teachers telling kids to solve even complicated equations (without convenient numbers) by hand because "you won't always have a calculator at hand", and how wrong that turned out to be.

Edit: Come to think of it, it's interesting that social media sites haven't thought to do something about this as a PR move. They could sell beacons (specifically to schools) which if the phone detects, it notifies the teacher. Not being able to get away with sneaking a look at a phone would quickly reduce the issue of having to tell kids to put their phones away.
Would you mind sharing your tabby invocation to launch this model?
Social media leaves clues to mental health
In a perfect world, I agree that the average user/developer would be conscious of this, and take everything from an LLM with a grain of salt.

However, I've since come to realize that too many people either just won't care about the implications, or are oblivious of them. I've come to realize that, in practice, relying on the user behaving adequately is going to create too much damage to rely on.
Unless I missed it somewhere, Willow has no specified handshake procedure. So there's no standardized way for the two sides to come to an agreement on how to communicate. (Willow appears to be completely agnostic even of the data encoding used to communicate in the first place.)

In that sense it is even more high level and abstract than parameterized protocols like SSH.
I recall seeing some mental gymnastics about ads and effective altruism. I'm not sure the authors understood either ads or effective altruism.
With their specific post, no I don't think so. They are advocating "general good ideas" vs subtly promoting the product.

I run my own DNS, I would have said all the same things they did.
Fine-tune an LLM on your texts: part 2 – exploring your text data
It did fail in devliering the actual product that was intended, but yeah, they did salvage a lot of it and also AFAIK helped the SQL Server team improve a few things. So it's a bit like Intel's Larrabee (which did technically come out as a product, Xeon Phi) as well: A high profile R&D project.
When the car is stopped and trying to warm the battery so it can begin fast charging, the wind makes the vehicle surface dissipate heat better. Which you don't want. But... batteries are fairly insulated so wind chill probably has a marginal effect at best. I was just emphasizing how much colder it was in Chicago than in Oslo :)
Respectfully, you're repeating the parent and not addressing my question.

What "best practice" from before, albeit which had a secondee structure, would've caught this malfunction?
>> When I meet new people, I realize I don't have much to say because nobody cares about my work or my family or my books (nor should they, necessarily).

I recommend reading "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

The book won't remedy all of the problems you list, but it should help you to recognize the power which comes from getting people to talk about themselves -- which they love to do.

When you use these techniques you will be very surprised at how little speaking you actually need to do.
Basically the ASA (and ACS, and lots of other scientific societies) make money selling journal subscriptions and are against open access in general, because they see (to be fair, probably correctly) that not many institutions would subscribe to a journal if people could get the papers for free without a subscription. But obviously free access is better for science as a whole and will have to happen eventually. Scientific societies would be better off thinking about how they can stay funded without the journal subscriptions rather than rage against the incoming tide.
The exact same thing is true of binaries in general. If you can't see the source, you are just trusting whoever compiled the binary that the thing you are running is not doing anything malicious. This just seems like framing an old problem in a new scary-sounding AI way.
But the blindness of many internet commentators towards power relations is frankly weird. We have to make different rules depending on the power one yields: for example, transparency is a necessity against the powerful, while the rest have a right to privacy. It is as fundamental as the separation of powers in modern democracies.
I used the same [0], however wkhtmltopdf stopped working correctly at some point, so I am stuck printing the pdf manually with chrome at the moment. Probably an update that broke some stuff.

[0] https://blog.horaceg.xyz/posts/resume/
Just to be clear… your argument is or isn’t “That’s just iOS and there’s clearly nothing nefarious about it”?

That’s my good faith understanding of the point you’re making at the moment so I will try one final time…

Do you care to address the incredibly specific point I’ve made repeatedly that that line of reasoning has a huge hole in it which you seem to be ignoring no matter how often I ask you to acknowledge it.
Could you please explain what auto-reverse and multiple record types mean? The reason for asking is to learn what's missing from AG Home/DNS and maybe adding it in the future.
Manchurian candidates.
English has special words until twelve. Until nineteen it follows a pattern. The few exceptions to that pattern also apply to the multiples of ten. twelve-twenty, thirteen-thirty, fifteen-fifty, and that's it. It could be much, much worse.
Keep in mind this appliues to the execs as well - my CEO and CTO are huge advocates for WFH because of this.
sounds like you have a problem with the way the news cycle works. i read the entire article because i thought it was interesting. never would've known about it if it stayed in the local news.

also, you clearly didn't read the article, otherwise you would've read the counterpoints, like the section titled "Other Tesla drivers report no issues"

love it when people complain about the media and don't read and/or apply news literacy to the article that prompts their complaint.
The bigger question to me is to what degree will the platform owners be restricted from monetizing apps on the platform. Requiring apps to be installable at no cost to the developer makes a big assumption that platform fees are 100% rent. Some of the fee surely is, but if enough people are able to circumvent fees, it seems likely to impact the dynamics of the platform, e.g. If supporting 3rd party apps become less profitable, why wouldn't Apple and Google shift focus/investments to first-part apps and features and allow public APIs to languish?
Efficacy of morning versus afternoon aerobic exercise training
Type-safe, in-line SQL for Java
Some people have been fine-tuning mistral 7B and phi-2 on their high-end macs. Unified memory is a hell of a thing. The resulting model here is not spectacular but as a proof of concept it's pretty exciting what you get in 3.5 hours on a consumer machine.

- Apple M2 Max 64GB shared RAM

- Apple Metal (GPU), 8 threads

- 1152 iterations (3 epochs), batch size 6, trained over 3 hours 24 minutes

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18ujt0n/using_g...
I think that puts the cart before the horse. Why build a railroad to no-where? Surely the small towns pre-existed the railroad.
I leveraged FoundationDB and RecordLayer to build a transactional catalog system for all our data services at a previous company, and it was honestly just an amazing piece of software. Adding gRPC into the mix for the serving layer felt so natural since schemas / records are defined using Protobuf with RecordLayer.

The only real downside is that the onramp for running FoundationDB at scale is quite a bit higher than a traditional distributed database.
Only about 25 years too late.
I also found it helpful when I discovered that one can Alt-Tab-release-Tab and keep Alt held and then navigate the tabbale-to windows with the arrow keys, including hitting Del to nuke one.

Oh, and Win-Down for minimise since Alt-Tab away from an RDP session doesn't do what I want.

(Win+<digit> is still the best, along with Ctrl+<digit> for browser tabs, but given you already covered that one I figured I'd share my next favourites)
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If you like the people you work with, why change things? I've been on the same team for 6 years and my org has had minimal churn in that time period. It's not quite like a second family (that would leave me too heartbroken if I ended up moving on), but I don't really think I'll have an easy time finding another group I work so well with, so I don't feel motivated to find another opportunity.

I used to move around a lot, but I've since put down roots. There is something you miss out by constantly upheaving your life. Nothing is permanent, but letting flowers blossom over long time periods can be rewarding.