skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have to balance being good with maximizing profit. If you aren't good, your userbase will go elsewhere.

When you have +95% of the market, you can merely be good enough that users don't leave.

In this case, until Google literally starts serving ads-only and links to other google products (Hi Chrome!), they are not going to lose any money.
S6-overlay: one *thing* per Docker container
> I’ve heard it used to be lean and fast. Then new developers came in, new features were implemented, and it bloated over time.

That's basically the story of every single software project ever made.
Exactly. But the "code-is-data" processing in Lisp mistakenly conflated with homoiconic does not depend on Lisp being interpreted. That interpreted Lisp is homoiconic is of no consequence. It's nothing worth implementing elsewhere.

Homoiconicity is just a poorly optimized, simple language implementation technique for low-resource systems. (Low resource because if you keep the program definitions in the program run-time, you don't need a separate copy in a text editor, which would take up more RAM. This is why old-fashioned line-number BASIC is homoiconic.)

Today, we have no need for it. For values of today being the last 30-40 years.

Source code is kept in the buffers of an IDE; there is no need to have it squirreled away in the run-time. A running image can load compiled code; the goal of redefining the program while it is active doesn't require homoiconicity.
I'm not sure why people are so surprised by how at will employment works when it's clearly in their offer letter. A company can let you go at any time, for any reason, or any lack of reason.

And what do people expect her manager to do? "Hey Brittany, if you don't close these deals, you would be underperforming and we're going to do layoffs soon." That would make her perform even worse and stress her out. Her manager probably didn't even know layoffs were happening until a few days before, so there wouldn't be any time for a PIP.

Honestly, sounds like Cloudflare dodged a bullet. This girl seems like a nightmare to have work for your company. Recording a private company conversation for the internet, unable to take responsibility for her own failures in not closing her deals, outing all her work friends and using them as examples to defend her situation - she was seriously a liability.

There's nothing wrong with defending yourself from unfair work practices, but this was every bit fair for Cloudflare. Take a stance against work sexism, unfair compensation, unfair working conditions, hazing, etc, but this isn't one of those cases.
Thanks for taking the time to answer these. The thing you say about the display is interesting. I guess that means subpixel rendering (ClearType) will be suboptimal when in "laptop" mode but not a big deal.

Missed having a true pocket computer since the Psion/Windows CE days. I'll probably end up buying one... :-)
> Never accept the counter-offer.

Even when you're the product (e.g., you're employed by a contracting company) and the demand in your industry is far greater than the supply?
I got similar issues even with Beeper proper.
I consider tinyml is like an ant or a spider, it's tiny, but intelligent enough to do its own inference to survive. not all insects and animals need plenty of power to exist, so do AI agents, so yes TinyML has its places, in fact maybe way more than where the powerful AI agents are needed.
In my suburban area of N.Cal (outside the bay area) we have a huge, well-appointed central train museum housed in the former regional central station were volunteer docents in period costume give tours. It's a popular weekend attraction that draws tourists and during the week is a regular field trip for the schools in the region. They also do regular rides on period trains on several miles of closed track and occasional longer runs on public track.

A big part of it is funded by doing interactive Polar Express recreation trip/shows complete with singing, dancing, hot cocoa, cookies and a visit by Santa. They do two trips every day and three on weekends from before Thanksgiving to Christmas, each with several hundred passengers. It's a great experience that's pure magic for kids. The whole thing is done with top-notch production value and officially licensed by Disney. Tickets aren't cheap but well-worth the price and always sold-out with long waiting lists. When our kid was that age, getting tickets was challenging enough that we just got a yearly family membership to the museum to ensure priority selection and it became a tradition our kid still talks about every holiday. If you have (or know) kids of that age, check if there's similar holiday train excursions in your area.

We also have several smaller train clubs in the surrounding suburbs and rural areas including a couple who own and run full-sized trains on a few miles of closed track they maintain. There are also several large area parks which host clubs that run smaller "kiddie-style" trains on loops of around a half-mile. These are generally run by volunteers and free/donation. So at least in our area, I'm happy to report that train hobbies seem to be doing pretty well, although I don't know about the home-based scale train end of things.
The costs are falling 10-100x every few months. If you told people in 2022 that they could run 70b paramater models at 2 bit quantization on your home 4090, they'd have laughed in your face. They're not laughing anymore. SFT/DPO are ultra efficient compared to RLHF, and innovation in this space is only just now getting started.
Oh, what a methodology. They ran with the meme of "best pants" having bad results, when the problem with "best pants" is that it's a nonsense query. I personally cannot recall ever doing a "best pants" query, and the results of such queries don't factor into whether I think a search engine is good.
That's a very good list. As a programmer I wish many of those sites, like geeks for geeks, would disappear forever.
If labor is free, what are you going to pay for a servant robot with? Why would robots serve useless humans?
doesnt this put musk and shareholders at odds in either case? it demonstrates his primary concern is wealth, and not tesla's success. Seems like he just sees how big AI can be and having it tied to Tesla would limit his potential takeaway
I would be more than happy to pay YouTube or watch ads, but they need to ban sponsored ads in their videos.

If I don't use adblock, I get served an ad by google, then a 1-3 minute sponsored segment by the creator.

I'm not paying for this.
Another take from us at Edge Impulse at explaining TinyML / Edge ML in our docs:
https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/concepts/what-is-embedded-...

We have built a platform to build ML models and deploy it to edge devices from cortex M3s to Nvidia Jetsons to your computer (we can even run in WASM!)

You can create an account and build a keyword spotting model from your phone and run in WASM directly
https://edgeimpulse.com

Now another key thing that drives the Edge ML adoption is the arrival of the embedded accelerator ASICs / NPUs / e.g. that dramatically speed up computation with extremely low power - e.g. the Brainchip Akida neuromorphic co-processors [1]

Depending on the target device the runtime that Edge Impulse supports anything from conventional TFLite to NVIDIA TensorRT, Brainchip Akida, Renesas DRP-AI, MemryX, Texas Instruments TIDL (ONNX / TFLite), TensaiFlow, EON (Edge Impulse own runtime), etc.

[1] https://brainchip.com/neuromorphic-chip-maker-takes-aim-at-t...

[Edit]: added runtimes / accelerators
It would be nice to have actual benchmarks of compilation speed of equivalent programs in different languages rather than just the runtime performance as is typical in language shootouts. Go has to me a surprisingly high time to compile a simple hello, world program (about 200ms and generates a 2MB binary). But I suppose that is a fixed overhead and perhaps it scales well.

Generally though, I'm disappointed if hello, world takes more than 20ms to compile -- which is of course true of pretty much every popular language.
Pinker and Deutsch dialog about AGI
Ah yeah forgot about that one. Ill make a better one tomorrow!
Crypto isn't internet. At best, crypto is Juicero
> By seeking a monopoly on resources

How exactly is capitalism seeking a monopoly on resources?

> TOO MUCH LOOOL

Absolutely. Eastern Europeans are now in the EU and we have freedom of movement, expression and to work anywhere we wish. During communism machine guns and barbed wire kept us locked down so we wouldn’t escape its wonders.

Financially we’ve never been better: our PIB is at an all time high and people enjoy Teslas and city breaks, ski vacations and shopping trips. Compare it to the 80's when we were cold, starving in lines for half a bread and a bottle of milk.

It’s night and day, you can’t even imagine it unless you’ve lived it . Of course all Eastern Europe (including Ukraine) vigorously rejects any closeness to Russia and its ilk. Of course an authoritarian like Putin was furious and did the only thing he could think of: war, murder and genocide.
Awesome! Was really hoping people would tune in and share their ideas, I got a few myself that I am also going to post. That's totally fine, all my ideas are super early and it's definitely a process until they take shape.

Only thing I regret is that I didn't reach out to a bunch of people so indiebackers would have some browsable content before launching. Ah well, you live and learn!
Polyamory is just thinly veiled male cheating. Woman of course cheat too, but it's more strategic, if I get a second child from figure b, my social support network would stabilize. It's less about gene spreading, more about keeping already walking genes alive.
100k/per year for homeless person? Do you realize that by giving that amount to most of them would get them OUT of the homelessness by next year (or sooner)? Yes there are the ones unable to get out of the pit, but most would. I would think if the measure of your services is how many homeless you support, then you'd increase the number of homeless,right? It's all KPIs and perfectly in the spirit of the OC.
> In theory, its functions could be replicated in silicon, enhanced for speed, parallel processing, internetworked, and with near-instant access to information. Therefore, AGI could emerge, if not from current AI research, then perhaps from another scientific branch.

This is true, but there are some important caveats. For one, even though this should be possible, it might not be feasible, in various ways. For example, we may not be able to figure it out with human-level intelligence. Or, silicon may be too energy inefficient to be able to do the computations our brains do with reasonable available resources on Earth. Or even, the required density of silicon transistors to replicate human-level intelligence could dissipate too much heat and melt the transistor, so it's not actually possible to replicate human intelligence in silico.

Also, as you say, there is no reason to believe the current approaches to AI are able to lead to AGI. So, there is no reason to ban specifically AI research. Especially when considering that the most important advancements that led to the current AI boom were better GPUs and more information digitized on the internet, neither of which is specifically AI research.
That is an interesting list; I'm not at all surprised to see pinterest holding the top ~10 spots, but things like facebook, instagram and twitter being so high does surprise me; perhaps it's indicative of the type of user they have (I too block those domains).

I could take that list, as-is and use it as a block list on my entire network.
A clear ad hominem
For me… I don’t want my search tied to my credit card. I go through lengths to keep my digital and analog domains as separate as possible.
The tokens are used for incentive alignment. Space is used for robustness.
It uses U-Boot, but you can use U-Boot to launch an EFI executable.

https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/board/thead/lpi4a.html
https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/usage/cmd/bootefi.html
Rather truckload of salt.
LLMs are still far away from the daily mainstream usage Google gets, and since all devices default to Google, and people never change those, they'll stay on Google and only occasionally switch to LLMs for more advanced tasks.
Pinecone integration now available for vector databases
Well pizza in particular often has a cash payment option, which I always use for that.
Unknown people who work for a large service company? With panopticon-grade surveillance? I bet people could be convinced.
You're going to get across the board replies here. To each constituent, they do different things. There are consultants across the board in speciality, quality, etc.

On HN, they get a bad rap from the "i'm smart, I know everything, worker bee crowd" who think business is just slinging JS code and product updates. Consultants are often brought into those people orgs to deal with / or around, valuable know-it-alls, fiefdoms, poor vision / strategy, or politics that are holding the company back. They're often cited as "just doing reports", when in fact consultants sometimes stay out of implementation to make sure the owning team owns & implements the solution.

Consultants often provide the hiring manager a shield on dicey projects or risky outcomes. Where if it goes wrong, the manager can say "it was those consultants".

Teams are brought in as trained, skilled, up to date staff the company cannot hire fire, or shouldn't due to duration of need, or skillset

Sometimes they're brought in because the politics of the internal company lead to stalemates, poor strategy, etc.

Often at the higher levels, they're brought in due to focusing on a speciality, market, or vertical to have large experience that isn't possible to get in house.

One's experience with consultants frames their opinion. I've only worked with very high quality teams in the past that provide a healthy balance of vision, strategy, implementation, etc
Congress is about to do something – listen to kids
Section 174 expected to be amended
Core 2 Duos might have been more limited than they maybe could have been, but the 2006-2008 era was still very much transitional. DDR2 was still extremely common and you weren't going to find any 4GB modules. The next architecture was Arrandale (the first Core i3/5/7 line) where the max was increased to 8GB and the Sandy Bridge (probably the minimum I'd consider for doing anything with modern applications or a modern OS) supported 16-32GB. If they held anything hostage, they certainly didn't do it for long.

I also think it's ridiculous to consider this in a vacuum. The few AMD laptops I could find from the same time frame have the same memory limits.
Epsio: Instant Results for Complex Queries
> the more time you waste on their platform searching for what you want to find, the more ads you see and the more money Google makes.

That's not the only way - it's in their best interest to rank ad-laden pages higher. That's more ad-impressions, which is how they really make their money.

Lets say a user searches for $FOO. Why on earth would google return the most relevant result if that result is ad-free? They can return the second-most relevant result, and get impressions on both the search-result page and the page that the user sees when they navigate to the first result.
In last 5 years I have noticed a clear decline in the usability of Google Maps as ... a Map.

Increasingly you have to pick a destination and blindly follow directions, your ability to use it as an informational tool, but exercise your own judgement seems to have been intentionally crippled.
Dutch directness, and as a consequence rudeness, is legendary. They'd be world champions at it. Add in a fair amount of arrogance and you've got a reasonable chance of being on the end of what most would describe as them being rude.

Here's an example, Two middle aged British couples go to a bar in Amsterdam, and quietly sit at a table in the corner having a few drinks. The bar then becomes a Karaoke bar filled with student aged locals who are very raucous, spilling drinks etc. At the end of the night, one of the men from one of the couples goes to the bar and gives the barman a tip equal to about 20% of that tables spend. The barman then proceeds to tell the man "I dislike British women". The Dutch barman thought that was acceptable and that there would be no recourse. If that were said in many parts of the UK there's a chance the barman would have a pint glass thrown at his head for saying such a rude and out of nowhere thing.

As a Brit who has been to many, many European countries, I can say there's only really two countries that are really different and that's France and The Netherlands. Neither of their general population really feels any obligation to be courteous or polite to foreigners. The locals from every other European country I've been to have been polite/not rude as a bare minimum.
I started to notice gaps after a year as a mild signal. A gap of 5 years was a strong signal and nearly every candidate I talked with had some level of hireability issue beyond the gap. Even a mother that decided to stay home till her kids were in school was going to have a difficult re-entry to the rigid expectations of the working world. After someone had be back in the workforce for a year or two and had some mildly plausible explanation for their 5 year gap, I stopped noting it as a downside. But experience older than about 12 years was often not factored in, so a person with a recent 5 year gap will just have less recent and relevant experience than someone who had worked 12/12 previous years.
A in this case doesn't appear to be true, making the "if A then B" discussion a distraction at best and disingenuous at worst.

Based on your lack of response to the substance of my post, I take it you understand and agree with that part, and your quibbles are purely semantic.
Uses of TinyML in industry:

Uhm.... well... hehe
>(there's even the open SERV core which fits RISC-V into an insanely small 2.1KGe).

And QERV, only slightly bigger, yet dramatically faster.
"Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.

Yup. Learn not to trust EVs.
"What will humans do in a world where labor is practically free and unlimited" is an interesting question for sure, but getting pretty off topic for this discussion.
>If you could move there with a remote tech job, you'd live like a king.

While I lived in SE Michigan, the main city that was targeted by remote workers wasn't Detroit, it was Ann Arbor. Housing prices there were already elevated due to U of M, but they spiked up more than surrounding areas did during the abnormally low interest rate era. People weren't moving to Livonia or Taylor despite the fact that they had lower housing prices than Ann Arbor because they wanted Ann Arbors amenities. Now, you won't have a bad life, but living like a king may be a bit too far unless you move outside of the well known areas.
> don’t want my search tied to my credit card

Pay with Bitcoin [1].

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin
I don’t think this is just model trains. I recently took an interest in naval history and became interested in building a scale model of USS Missouri or Iowa. After researching how I could produce a realistic looking teak deck, I realized how big the model would be and how I don’t have the space for that.
Being a stallman like figure has a lot of serious downsides. For example, I'm sure that Stallman may be "watched" quite a bit more than the average tech toucher. For those who don't watch truman show as a utopia, such a lifestyle can be very scary to live.
Most application webservers (by default) handle one request per thread. For mostly IO bound stuff (which many projects are), it makes sense to me that threads become a bottleneck in relatively ordinary scenarios.
Oh, this was disappointingly light on substance. It's an interesting musing on the history of passwords and the (very real) frustrations of modern authentication.

I thought it would have more depth though into the current state of various authentication schemes, in particular passwordless, which isn't actually mentioned at all. I find passwordless to be slightly less bumpy than various 2FA but still a genuine pain in the ass, to have to open up email in a second tab, wait for the email to come through, and then often follow a dubious link.
Kagi has improved immensely and I no longer ever feel the need to check Google against it. It's a great product that I am more than happy to pay $10/mo

I'm so happy that their new pricing scheme has done away with search quotas. Their claim that the average user does 100 searches a month seems absurdly low. I would blow through my 300 search quota in a few days.
I’m a happy ApplePay user, but you absolutely do have to give them your (card) information upfront through the whole adding your card in the Wallet app.

That being said, I feel the parent’s viewpoint is naively idealistic, the payment industry is huge with many players and most attempts at new standards or interoperability are by people trying to get a cut of the action, no one is going to adopt a new standard unless they feel they absolutely have to.

ApplePay is pragmatic in that it largely hooks into the existing CC systems and thanks to Apple’s market size they have enough clout to convince people it’s worth the effort.

A whole new standard just for the “general good of the public” will never get any traction without regulation, and in places like the U.S. where bribery is essentially legal (so long as you call
it lobbying), any new regulation like this faces an extreme uphill battle to being introduced except where someone standing to make lots of money is behind it.
If your goal is just to publicly document a resolution, stackexchange sites let you post a question and answer it yourself.
By 'I build a few projects myself', do you mean you install binaries to /usr/bin (or /usr/local/bin)? If so, why don't you just put them in $HOME/bin?

And about the web browsers, aside from the fact that immutable distributions tend to ship one by default, can't you just install them via Flatpak?
Very well: who said the loans extended by the banks would be defaulted on?
AI Can Convincingly Mimic a Person's Handwriting Style, Researchers Say
I’m also hoping it can restore the economy in some rural regions. For example, imagine if they put a big installation in somewhere like West Virginia. Inexpensive property costs, close to big markets like the Northeast Megalopolis, maintaining solar panels seems like a way more pleasant job than working in a coal mine…
Structuring by moving their wealth to Bahamas which is indeed fully legal because they are the ones writing same laws (or golfing with the authors) - something the homeless cannot. So this legal trick allows them to fully enjoy their wealthy status locally while paying close to zero taxes. While supporting the Bahamas economy, yay I guess.
This whole blog post is essentially an advertisment for why statically typed languages can prevent such madness. I'm sorry -- it is not my intention to start another non-useful static/dynamic typing debate.

It seems crazy that when a new version of Ruby comes out, developers need to hunt for runtime errors (that may or may not trigger depending on the path the application took) to see what incompatibility needs to be fixed.

Take any decent statically typed language. When a new version of the language comes out, your code will not compile on constructs or functions that are no longer called or present or used the way they should.
Seems like parsing semantics. "Pre-given them" - are you giving it directly to apple.com? No. You're putting in your hardware, true. And... somehow... it makes it to all your other apple devices.
I think TinyML has pretty close tie to Pete Warden / Useful Sensors, who led TF Lite back in Google.