skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's puzzling that there's so much documentation, both about how to run it and the internals, while failing to explain what it does. What are the inputs and outputs? It looks like it does something with satellite photos?
I'd assume some of them would feel pretty bad. And if the board had actually said that this was the reason they ousted Sam Altman, said employees would have supported the board.

But none of that happened, and so the employees got to choose between a charismatic man with a impressively quickly put together plan, and a group of headless chickens running in circles.
"being an astonishingly greedy company" and then writing "I'm an Apple fan" ... sound like a Stockholm syndrome or a cognitive dissonance
Missiles and planes are already using ai algorithms to seek, fix, close, maneuver all those things.

It's some sort of uncanny valley, too close to home vibe that suddenly its a problem that the plane's airframe is directed by a an ai algorithm.
I will choose the right major for university. I chose Civil Engineering because my uncle is successful in the industry, I thought he would take care of my career, but this is stupid. I changed my career to Machine Learning Engineer after graduating from the university. 4 years of learning Civil Engineering is a waste of time. People should follow their passion in the first place. Now I am a 5 year experienced MLE and a happy programmer, everything is fine.
Digital distribution is much easier than burning discs, sending them to shops, etc. It's also not just the process but the visibility, a million tiny storefronts will be much harder for users to browse and likely result in fewer overall sales, than one massive storefront.

I get that there's no competition on iOS, but I was comparing to other ecosystems and mechanisms.

> So basically nothing that companies couldn't do themselves if Apple didn't explicitly block it. You pay 27% for fuck all.

No, you pay 27% for those services I mentioned. Those things aren't free if developers do them themselves. Developers may prefer to do some themselves because they think they can do them for cheaper, and in this case payments have been opened up so that there can be competition there – the DMA in the EU will do similar and I look forward to it.

You may disagree with the price (and I personally feel it's high), but these things cost real amounts of money to do. Not just this, but free app developers would also need to pay all these costs despite potentially having no revenue directly attributable to the app.
The US houses I've lived in for the last 30 years have had double paned windows.

In 2017, 59% of homes in the US had double paned windows.

https://dwmmag.com/survey-multi-pane-windows-now-on-59-perce...
Whether it is fair or not is for the App store developers to work out, I'm not one of them and as long as these are walled gardens I never will be.
As with almost every digital nomad visa I’ve seen, this seems poorly thought out, tax implications aren’t clear, but is someone’s “let’s be modern!” pet project.

UAE’s Remote Work visa is the only one I’ve been tempted to use so far.
Cravath announces raises, upping pay ante for large law firms
> creating "aberrated(after Ernst Abbe)" color-shifted image at its focal point

This is a clever bit of folk etymology [1], but aberrate is derived from the Latin verb aberro, meaning to wander or stray [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology

[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aberro#Latin
> iOS and Android taken together are clearly a monopoly though.

That’s impossible by definition, a literal contradiction in terms.
what he says is correct about languages like modula-2, oberon, ada, ocaml, c, and c++, at least within a single compilation. you can have multiple implementations of the interface described in a single .h file, but you have to choose at most one of them every time you go to compile. this is distinct from how things like java work; java doesn't have this problem

c++ compilation is mostly slow not because c++ compilers use lalr parsers (they don't) but because c++ programs commonly wedge lots of the implementation into the "interface", i.e., the .h file, and use recursive textual #include

non-c++ compilers are super fast
No, we just have a different perspective. USA is the bully, not the rest of the world. Any country that grows powerful enough to get in the eye of the USA needs a strong military, because the USA has a military and a record of interventionism that can't be ignored.
Feels like PIDs are the wrong tool for this problem. Stuff to do with matching animations up to physics is usually better solved with inverse kinematics.
The 1.3b model is amazing for real time code complete, it's fast enough to be a better intellisense.

Another model you should try is magicoder 6.7b ds (based on deepseek coder). After playing with it for a couple weeks, I think it gives slightly better results than the equivalent deepseek model.

Repo https://github.com/ise-uiuc/magicoder

Models https://huggingface.co/models?search=Magicoder-s-ds
Business model is bundling so you have a one stop shop for good quality models of every modality and cultural variants of them.

These go on bedrock, on chip, on prem etc and our consulting partners take them to the end user.

On the innovation side stable diffusion turbo does like 100 cats with hats per second and the video model outperforms runway, pika etc on blind tests.

Stable audio was one of the time innovation of the year winners on music and we released a sota 3d model.

Stable LM zephyr is the best 3b chat model works great on a MacBook Air.

Most of the pixels in the world will be generated so fast high quality image/video are the core and these other models are to support them.

It’s really hard to build good solid models and we are the only company that can build a model of any type for anyone.
> Just because an entity has agency, it doesn't that in every situation it has unlimited choices.

Nobody claimed that. If you're implying not having unlimited choices meant being forced to dehuamnize Palestinians and to call for their extermination and commit war crimes, that'd of course be false.

> And many many Palestinian actors have vowed the same.

What? Name one. What Palestinians actors have talked bout how there are no innocent Israelis?

And why are you comparing "actors" with people like President, Prime Minister, generals and soldiers in the field? And actions that match it, more importantly?

> Israeli Government spokespeople are out there every day explaining the policy and it's clearly not to ethnically cleanse, etc

No, they're not, they're just repeating their "but Hamas" stuff and it's hilarious to see how even the people who interview them sometimes run out of patience with that. One can't "explain" that the deeds that are already on record for having been committed haven't been committed. One can just kick up sand and lie about it.

> Hamas has vowed to kill as many Israelis as they can for all eternity in the future basically.

Or, as you said elsewhere, they want to "continue to keep killing infinite Israelis". Which is such an absurd attempt to justify the crimes Israel is committing.

Right now, you're saying Isreali is justified in its actions, which is leading to killing and starvation of civilians en masse, at rates we haven't seen before, because Hamas must be defeated and this is the only way. Since Hamas cannot be defeated in this way, it stands to reason that what you also are proposing is killing infinite Palestinians, unless they ethnically cleanse themselves, or stop having children. Same goes if you replace "freeing the hostages" with "destroying Hamas". The only way these actions achieve is the humanitarian catastrophe outlined above, which didn't even make you skip a beat.

And while Netanyahu is paying some lip service to not settling Gaza (and some Israelis are talking about how Ben Gvir should take over because that weakness is unforgivable), IDF soldiers are making their TikToks. Like this one addressing "Bibi", naming his unit (hence, no shame, this isn't something that will harm their career) and saying they will stick to it until they finished their task, which is, and I quote, "Occupation, Expulsion, Settlement"
> If not openai, it would have been some other company...

This does not justify anything and never has. I'm not even saying that what OpenAI is doing is bad (I don't think it's inherently bad to work with the military). But if one believes that it is bad, then "well someone was going to do it so it may as well be them" doesn't remotely hold water.
When you think about this, remember that there are 2.2MM Palestinians in the Gaza Strip alone, and almost 5MM total. 24,000 is a terrible toll, and I think much of it is reckless and probably criminal, but it isn't a dent in the Palestinian population. There's no way to write that without sounding soulless, as if people were scoring tokens on some sort of strategy game we're all playing. But it's deeply relevant to the formal notion of a "genocide", which is what we're talking about when we talk about the ICJ.

Yemen and Syria are instructive comparisons here, and I'll note that while everyone was pretty grossed out at Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen (which had more to do with how we felt about Saudi Arabia than a genuine concern for Yemenis, who, like Palestinians, are for the most part victimized by the combatants on "their side), you didn't see much talk about Yemeni genocide.

Further arguing against a finding of genocidal intent on Israel's part is the provocation they responded to, which, again, is among the worst in modern history: a truly, deliberately vile attack done at breathtaking scale.
Aaaahhh, it's crazy how much this incident resonates with me!

I've personally handled this exact same kind of outage more times than I'd care to admit. And just like the fine folks at Kagi, I've fallen into the same rabbit hole (database connection pool health) and tried all the same mitigations - futilely throwing new instances at the problem, the belief that if I could just "reset" traffic it'd all be fixed, etc...

It doesn't help that the usual saturation metrics (CPU%, IOPS, ...) for databases typically don't move very much during outages like these. You see high query latency, sure, but you go looking and think: "well, it still has CPU and IOPS headroom..." without realizing, as always, lock contention lurks.

In my experience, 98% of the time, any weirdness with DB connection pools is a result of weirdness in the DB itself. Not sure what RDBMS Kagi's running, but I'd highly recommend graphing global I/O wait time (seconds per second) and global lock acquisition time (seconds per second) for the DB. And also query execution time (seconds per second) per (normalized) query. Add a CPU utilization chart and you've got a dashboard that will let you quickly identify most at-scale perf issues.

Separately: I'm a bit surprised that search queries trigger RDBMS writes. I would've figured the RDBMS would only be used for things like user settings, login management, etc. I wonder if Kagi's doing usage accounting (e.g. incrementing a counter) in the RDBMS. That'd be an absolute classic failure mode at scale.
A company hires an artist. That artist has observed a ton of other artists' work over the years. The company instructs that artist to draw, "X but in the style of Y", where Y is some copyrighted artwork. The company then prints the result and puts it on their packaging.

A company builds an AI tool. That AI tool is trained on a ton of artists' work over the years. The company opens up the AI tool and asks it to draw, "X but in the style of Y," where Y is come copyrighted artwork. The company then prints the result and puts it on their packaging.

What's the difference?

I'd argue there isn't one. The copyright infringement isn't the ability of the artist or the AI tool to make a copy. It's the act of actually using it to make a copy, and then putting that out into the world.
Fast cycle lithium metal in solid-state batteries
Biotech companies slash East Bay jobs in jolt to industry
> I can't answer that question for any particular developer.

I can answer for this particular developer. No, it's not worth it for me. There are many huge problems with the App Store, but I personally don't consider the 15% cut to be among the top problems. I could write a long screed about those problems (and I have before), but that would be a bit off topic. I will mention one thing though: I think the "race to the bottom" is a much bigger problem than the cut. I would happily pay a much higher cut if I could charge higher prices for my apps. Just look at the simple math: 85% of $1N = $0.85N < 50% of $2N = $1N. Thus, a 50% cut would be worth it if I could charge twice as much.

Incidentally, I think even for Epic, the 30% cut is not the entirety of the problem. Epic is a cross-platform company, and App Store payments, locked in and controlled by Apple, make it difficult for Epic to do anything cross-platform that includes iOS.

> What about those poor dockworkers?

Well, I'm not poor. I don't need a higher income to survive. Also, going back to the points I already made, it's realistic for dockworkers to organize and all strike simultaneously, because of their much smaller number, geographic congregation, and shared interests.

> In some cases people died to fight for their rights.

You want me to die to slightly improve the App Store? Um, no thanks.

> write a bunch of press releases and build a movement

Oh, is that all?? Write the press releases, and they will come, amirite!

> It will be work, but so what, if you think it is worth it then it's worth doing well.

I've actually tried to organize a boycott of Apple's Feedback Assistant, but it doesn't seem to have been very effective. Organizing is extremely hard, especially a global movement! No, it's nothing like cat memes or Hacker News comments, especially when the stakes are so high.

> As for language barriers and such: there's an app for that...

Give me a break... I wouldn't even trust the apps for doing customer support, much less union organizing.
I literally met and worked with Doctorow on a protest back in 2005, so I'm not exactly new to this. I also think that the only way you could have written your comment was by grossly misinterpreting my comment.
I use a wiki.
I've found that the people who complain about the word behoove are the ones least likely to understand the word's meaning.
Yeah, his point is that he isn't going to do it with those restrictions. Most of these startup visas have all these restrictions. And everyone is always like "yeah, you need to play by the rules like everyone else" and shit like that, but in the end it's just people saying "I'm not buying what you're offering" and then the government just sits there not having achieved whatever objective it set out to do with this stuff.

It's an asymmetric relationship. The nomad doesn't care if SK runs this program. But SK does care if people don't come.
Try mistral 8x7b, which some human evals place above gpt-3.5 and you have enough VRAM and compute to make training a LORA either on your own dataset, or one of the freely available datasets on huggingface worthwhile, or at least interesting
Rod Stewart is a huge enthusiast: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561
Extreme athletic outliers are typically extreme genetic outliers. I don't foresee generalized applicable lessons for average joe unless lesson is to time travel and pick better parents.
Is there a rationale for a memory allocator to support zero sized allocations? Is this really just about providing a "technically" valid pointer for the pointer/size pair structure? To me it seems any address is a potentially valid pointer to a zero-sized object. Do allocators really keep track of these null allocations? That would require keeping state for every single address in the worst case...

It's very strange. I wrote my own memory allocator and I can't figure out the right way to handle this. Eliminating the need for these "technically" valid pointers that can't actually be accessed because they're zero sized seems like the better solution.

> When did that happen?

More importantly, why did that happen? People have told me that I should care about the C standards committee because they take backwards compatibility very seriously. Then they come out with breaking changes like these.
Honest question, how much of this is simply due to Google slowing showing more & more ads on Page 1 of search results?

There use to be a time when paid placement was only 1-2 results.

It’s frequent now that the top 5-6 results are paid placement.

(And when I’m doing a search for a specific product I know I want, competitors are bidding up those search terms which is annoying because I’m being shown not what I’m explicitly searching for)
On the other hand, the totality of experiments should have suggested that they likely can. You can keep trying to find better experiments, but if bees are defeating each one, your prior should be changing
3b is good for 8gb MacBook Air etc. 7b is slightly too big.

Sure these will continue to improve, phi2 is a good base as well
This is the hassle free rich people visa version of South Korea. Prove you earn $XXXXXX, leave $XXXXXX deposit, buy $XXXXX insurance = get a golden visa for two years, then get the hell out.

It's not to accommodate people who might actually want to live there (for whatever crazy reason)
Yes, RMS warned about that. Convenience comes at a price. The question is whether or not it is worth it. Apple seems to have convinced enough developers and enough consumers that it is. I disagree which is why all of my stuff is 100% web based (and it even works off-line), but I don't begrudge others their income. At the same time I do think that Apple is abusing its position, but since it was obvious they were gearing up to do just that from day #1 you can only blame them for about half of it with the remainder divided between the devs and the consumers.
Mazda Agrees to Adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS)
Meanwhile on Win32, GetTickCount performs no system calls at all, simply reading a value from a shared memory page. The operating system is updating that value behind the scenes.
Note: There's a big difference between "military" and "military industrial complex", and even Dwight Eisenhower cautioned against the latter...
But if it crashes when it goes from -179°59'59" (179°59'59" degrees West) to 179°59'59" East it'd be sort of understandable...

Apparently one of the early 737 series of crashes back around the 1970s had an 8-bit rudder variable as 000 being full-left and 255 as full-right (or maybe it was vice-versa). The problem being that if the rudder was full-right at 255 and the system allowed any increase in right-rudder, it would immediately overflow back to 000 or full-left-rudder.That caused several 737s to fall out of the sky before the cause was discovered.
You talk about a country defending itself as if that's what militaries do. The US military has been intervening in the world stage for 80 years at this point.

Take any country below the equator and chances are the US has probably used its military against it. That's not defence. You don't collaborate with that actor if you think defence is the goal.
UK is on a managed decline. They should just give up and go full communist because these is no progress, no future.
Everything will run on a browser, eventually
The EU redress strikes at the core of the issue -- if Apple and Google are prohibited from monopolizing app stores and/or payment processing on their respective platforms (including via incentives, tying products to exclusive use, etc.), then their mobile OS/hardware monopolies loose a lot of their power.
PC platform: Steam doesn't care if (case in point) Eagle Dynamics allows direct downloads from their website of DCS World - in fact they embrace it, by offering account linking APIs.

So on PCs, unlike on iOS, users can buy their content as they choose.

And it's not as if Microsoft forces everyone to use their (exceptionally crappy) store either.
Well then I guess the lawyers I hired in country were all lying to me? As long as I didn't overstay my visa, didn't stay more than the required time for physical presence test tax liability (typically 180 days), and didn't work for firms inside the country, I was legit.

Please let me know if I was given bad legal advice, because I don't want to get thrown in jail in the future.
I'm 55 and really have no big regrets. Do stuff you enjoy. Spend more time with friends and family. I've not started my own company, I've occasionally thought about it, but I don't think it's my thing. I don't think going back 10 or 20 years with the knowledge I have would change my decision. You need to be a certain kind of person to enjoy starting your own company, the risks are large. Having the right partner can be a factor (a co-founder that complements your skills).

Take care of your health, stay in good shape, not a lot of downside as far as I'm concerned. Sports or martial arts or something that gives you that + social aspects is IMO a good idea.

On the financial side saving + investing makes a big difference. I would start investing earlier. I don't think it'd make a huge difference though for me.

Learn how to play a musical instrument, learn more languages, learn how to dance, examples of things that can be fun and challenging.

Believe in yourself and "just do it". You're capable of a lot more than you think you are.

Career-wise try to be the best at what you do. Work on your people skills as well as your technical skills. Network and make and maintain connections and do great work and that combination will get you places. Also if your goal is to become lessay a CEO that requires a very different approach then becoming a principal engineer, or a CTO. You need to be pretty fixed on that target/driven, and have the right skills, to get there. Not for everyone.

There are many different paths that can all work out. Find yours. Most of us are very fortunate to have the sort of options that many don't.
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We released a competitor to runway recently that beat it on blind tests, plus way faster image in sdxl turbo

We have been working on ComfyUI for the next step and new image models

Midjourney and others are pipelines versus models so we have a higher bar to jump but the og stable diffusion team are working hard!
The political solution is to not partner with the Pentagon