skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't personally owned the other brands, but I bought a refurbished j7+ (not the mopping kind) for about $300 a few months ago and it has been a spectacular improvement on their earlier models - I've owned about five thus far over a long time. Roughly the same vacuuming performance (it uses the same rollers and filter as the e5 that it replaced) but the mapping and obstacle avoidance are a really big improvement and I can use it in my kid and cable-messed environment. I was pretty close to giving up on iRobot too.
Maybe it's a stress response. "One of my cells just disappeared! Better duplicate myself just in case"
MIT is really good at branding itself as the place for smart people to do stuff.

The height of the cliche imo is Half Life 1's intro sequence. The only info you get about Gordon Freeman is that he is a young PhD graduate from MIT with a specialization in theoretical physics. It was a "this guy is the smartest guy around" line.

Being adjacent to MIT, the inflated egos are very exhausting. It's the top reason I would avoid working for them. That and academia is toxic with half market rate pay.
This is a common English phrase dating back to at least the early nineteenth century.
Umm, that chart is 10 years out of date - it ends in 2015; the beginning of the social media era.

The current teen suicide rate is ~62 / 100K, which is just about double (or triple!) the last value in that chart. And is also an anomaly over the last 40 years.
There's a ton of motivation from a DX perspective -- Python type hinting's arguably least valuable feature is the autocompletion improvement that comes with it.

It's nice to be able to hit `.` in your editor and have the options for whatever object you're staring at pop into a list you can pick from. Similarly, for a `TypedDict`, you can hit `["` and just have all the possible key options autocomplete.

The bespoke dicts mostly come from early-days SQL queries akin to

SELECT * FROM single_table

I wrote a small tool in Rust (yes, I was looking for an excuse to use Rust at work) first to create a giant `TypedDict` file that basically typed all the table rows in our primary database and then a small parser that reads our codebase for these trivial select * from single_table queries and adds `TypedDict` hinting for autocompletion purposes going forward.

So a line like:

some_result = curs.fetchone()

becomes:

some_result: SingleTable = curs.fetchone()

Then when you type:

some_result["

You get a lovely list of auto-completed possible keys instead of having to go hunting through the table to remember what the column was called.

The other reasons we wanted to implement typing were all the main reasons you'd want a typed codebase in the first place. Shift a lot of mistakes to build-time instead of deployed-in-production time.
If you call someone a monster and tell them their humanity has been stolen, that's dehumanizing language. That's not allowed here, from any side. Moreover, if one's intention is to oppose dehumanization, one should begin by not practicing it oneself.
Hey! We have the same favorite fake birthday date!
It is a give and take; governments can give requirements to do business but can't mandate business is done.
Ditto. And there is worse:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38104271

And probably even more worse.
> At least as of today…

This is the exact opposite of bait and switch. The current model couldn't be un-opensourced and over time it will just become easier to run it.

Also unless there is reason to believe that prompt engineering of different model families is very different(which honestly I don't believe), there is no effect of baiting. I believe it will always be the case that best 2-3 models would be closed weights.
> Ask why the office or person or company needs that information from you. Or just ignore it until you’re asked for it directly, and then ask them why they need it.

I've tried that a few times. I always seem to get back the same non-answers:
"Oh, this is standard procedure", or "Our system doesn't work without this info".
I've yet to receive a non-dismissive or intelligible reply...
RTX 3090 has 24GB of memory, a quantized llama70b takes around 60GB of memory. You can offload a few layers on the gpu, but most of them will run on the CPU with terrible speeds.
Ah, I didn't realize the italics were you quoting parent. woops.
Blocking DoH at the router is almost impossible because it looks exactly the same as other HTTPS traffic.

The only option is to do a man in the middle like some business firewalls (eg zscaler) do.

I don't like DoH much either because apps can use it to bypass my local pihole. But blocking it is hard when an app hardcodes its own DoH server.

DoH is really a solution for a US problem that we in Europe don't have. Here it's illegal for ISPs to use deep packet inspection to datamine their customers.
Also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175495
We actually run already in-house ollama server prototype for coding assistance with deepseek coder and it is pretty good. Now if we would get a model for this, that is on chatgpt 4 level, I would be super happy.
absolutely, constant messaging interruptions are terrible. Solution is turn of messaging, hide my phone, and help my colleagues know that if they consider about the outcome / work I do they'll let me focus. It doesn't matter if they think that's unreasonable, it just is what it is, and it's important for me to communicate that. I have, ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism. Have worked in this field for a long time. The problem is not the tech. It's the social expectation and that needs to change to enable people who are neurodiverse. Because normies do things, they need to understand, other people rock it, when they do different, because we are different.
I enjoy using 1 of April as fake DoB. This way I even make an instant joke on social sites, that do make reminders to other about friend's birthdate.
Why?

What benefit is there to grabbing market share from your competitors... in a business you don't even want to be in?

By that logic you could justify any bizarre business decision. Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook? Should Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each launch a phone?
it works really well, and locally too!
I'm the same, but I've been known to get argumentative if they continue or refuse to not accept it.

Now, I just give obviously fake phone numbers like 212-555-1212. Since most of these retail type people are younger, they don't even know what the 555 prefix means or what the significance of the 1212 number was. Instead, they just dutifully enter in the number like a good automaton. If they then try to be "friendly" by addressing you as a the name that comes up with the number, I just nod and smile.

My level of combativeness with their overreaching into privacy is solely dictated by their attitude. Most of them are just fine when you decline to provide the requested data. I've even had some just use whatever pretend account they use. It's only when they get snippy with me that I ramp up.
There is no good guy. I trust Apple as far as their interests align with mine. I trust my country as far as I have a say in its politics. Of course there are many companies just as powerful as Apple whose interests have nothing or almost nothing in common with mine, and my country has a lot of people voting for stupid people. And I have zero confidence in the UK collectively to do anything sensible at this point.

All this to say, sometimes I think Apple is on the good side, and sometimes not. That’s normal, the world is not black and white.
Two things I read:

https://sumi.news/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Just for a quick sweep.

Then I open Twitter/X and browse to my local news site.

This takes at most 5 minutes to skim world (and local) events and catch up.
There is no company that has a monopoly on robot vacuum cleaners though, and it's unclear how Amazon would use their positions in other markets to unfairly leverage themselves in the robot vacuum market. How are the EU's actions here protective of the market/consumers?
Americans are seemingly happy to outsource regulation.
Twitter's self-destructive spiral under Musk is clearly a case of a corporation putting ideology above money in the worst possible way.
The “approach” is likely just training on more tokens.
Maybe. Looks to be a bit (... by Pacific standards, so, hundreds of miles) off the Easternmost part of the Pacific that would have seen lots of air traffic in the war, which should leave it relatively clear, but I may be wrong.

[EDIT] I still doubt it's the plane, but this area may be far less-cluttered with 1930s-40s aircraft wreckage than others, is all I mean.
> "No Flash" sounded like a WTF, too.

No Flash saved a lot of power worldwide.

Until people started to do javascript apps.
> Also nitpicking about the headline: You haven't been in a place crash because you wouldn't be reading this if you were :)

Do you mean to imply that being in a plane crash is certain to result in death? Because that's definitely not true. Even when they crash hard enough to explode, there are sometimes still survivors.
Spoiler: Price controls.
Wow, I remember this! Glad you were a-ok. Would love to hear more about your story and your method of egress from that bird.

For those that don't know, LAS to BUR is the best way to get from LA to Vegas (save private) and always has been.

I've been on that Sunday afternoon flight from LAS->BUR many times; with the afternoon flight informally known as the Hangover Express and the morning flight known as the Stripper Express. Good times.

And FWIW, I still prefer FORTRAN over Perl any day...
It doesn't really seem like its working. Incredibly bad growth numbers, almost no companies that are growing at a good pace, mediocre performance in aerospace, rise of far right groups everywhere who seem to be winning actual power.
this field means neurodiversity technology / assistive tech. Obviously I distracted myself, before I completed that thought
The cognitive dissonance people have around this issue is astonishing. We are willing to ground the 737MAX fleet when a few people get a (surely terrifying) open air flying experience; but 44,000 people are killed on the road in the US _every_ year (and rising!) and very few people seem to care. In most age cohorts, death by car is the largest killer. In the US you have a 1 in 107 chance of dying in a car crash in your lifetime. Even simple and completely reasonable measures to reduce these insane numbers are seen as some kind of tyrannical affront to ones freedom (see the current CA measure to add speed limiters).

The car industry, car culture, and car centric thinking in the US and much of the world is totally out of control.
The github [0] hasn't been fully updated, but it links to a paper [1] that describes how the smaller code llama models were trained. It would be a good guess that this model is similar.

[0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/codellama
[1] https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/code-llama-open-fo...
Try February 30th. If they don't even catch it, it's fun to see the level of validation on their software's end to see if it is allowed to be used.
>acting like Pokemon did more than take animals and slightly twist them is bad faith.

That is highly undervaluing the vision and talent of the art director. Ken Sugimori wasn't just some fresh intern out of college who took pictures of animals and drew anime eyes on them. And that's why his designs are considered iconic decades later.

Its no different from Akira Toriyama or Hayato Miyazaki. Japanese animation tends to have a simplistic but very disctinct style, and it's why they tend to stand the test of time. The test of time in ways that people try to dismiss them outright as "well I can do it". But few others do.

>That doesn't entitle them to own 'monsters based on real life creatures' in perpetuity.

no one is saying this (except journalists who want to make clickbait. The title is the worst thing about this post so I won't entertain the idea of "oh, TPC is going to sue!"). But if anyone is really curious on why these are all called "pokemon knockoffs", you need to understand the qualities that make pokemon so distinct. Not copy some designs and change it up. You are free to do that, but you can't complain about people critisizing your art as generic and uninspired if you do not in fact understand what you're doing with that style.

That's the equivalent of saying "well this sort is less efficient, let's change it to quicksort" in some 20 year old legacy code base and wonder why suddenly everything slows down or breaks. You don't truly understand the art style you study, which means attempts to derive from the style will create uncanny effects.
lots of discussion about this

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=certifications

If I can make a suggestion, find the topics you like and get stuck in on your own. set your own labs up (if possible) play and get hands on with the stuff you have a deep interest in. Certs are a good way to get an interview, but they are not really a true signal of knowledge.

CISSP (not cheap / some would say not easy), used to be highly valued, however, that's not really the case anymore. (picking just one example)

Some would say, that these certs are a bit of a scam these days, as you have to renew them every year (additional cost) earn credits (additional work), have someone vouch for you (basically have a colleague who has the cert and will sign for you).

This is just an opinion and not as detailed as it could be.
I can't help but feel that a lot of these large companies are choosing not to fight regulatory agencies over acquisitions because after the recent tech correction the targets are now worth a lot less than what they bid for them (similar to Elon trying to get out of buying Twitter). Easier to pay the break-up fee and move on.
I said there wasn't any.
the connection to the classic bait-and-switch seems tenuous at best
Everything that normal people don't like about the user experience of large computer systems can be attributed to the batch nature of how these systems were designed and often still operate. A lot of systems that feel real-time are really just batched more often.
I disagree because we are not doing it based on the Science we already know now; we can do much better.

From behavioural psychology/social biology/game theory(Prisoner's dilemma) etc. we know Humans naturally have a in-group vs. out-group social structure. Within a group, cooperation with trust and fairness rules and competition is generally absent or if it exists is playful. The research by Frans de Waal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal) on Primate Social Behaviour (Cooperation/Fairness/Empathy/Reciprocity/etc.) is path-breaking. Here is one of his excellent must-watch Ted talks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJxRqTs5nk Machiavellian competition comes in only for "status"/"reward" within a group and is not the norm. Competition is more prevalent between groups.

Thus if you look at a person in a organizational hierarchy, there are three immediate groups; a) the people you report to (out group), b) your peers (in group, cooperation predominating, with maybe a little bit of playful competition), c) the people that report to you (in group, cooperation but with trust/fairness predominating). For everybody else we don't know and hence almost always respond with tit-for-tat principle. Finally there is also a need to understand what drives self-motivation.

This is the natural order for Social Homo Sapiens as we understand from current knowledge. But none of this is being considered when measuring Performance/Productivity. For example, all Leaders/Managers almost always place Trust above everything else, Peers emphasize Fairness and the Managed Underlings emphasize Empathy. So while i may accept my manager "grading" me however begrudgingly provided it is "Fair", i will resent the same done by my immediate peers and underlings.

One way to do this properly would be; a) Everybody does a self-appraisal and gives it to their Manager b) The Manager does his job properly by closely monitoring throughout the year and makes his independent appraisal c) Both are submitted to a panel consisting of Managers (one of whom is my immediate Manager with one vote) who don't know the appraisee and finally d) The panel discusses the appraisals with the appraisee in a private interview-like setting. This takes care of the needed Objectivism, Self-Interest, Fairness all together.

PS: Resources for further study can be found in my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086359
My Macbook has a mere 64GB and that's plenty to run 70B models at 4-bit :) LM Studio is very nice for this.
we can fix that.

the number of electric field lines, depends on the strength of an electric field. ,
I have been wondering for a while now, what benefit to the general public do acquisitions actually offer? I'm increasingly convinced that actually making acquisitions illegal is good policy.
7/4/1976
> It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient.

Children's books? Children also learn from scratch. I think an adult reading books targeted to progressively higher ages would do reasonably.
$500,000 USD is a middle class wage in the Bay Area /s
They're both primarily for media consumption.

Just because one device is from Apple doesn't make media consumption any more virtuous or productive.
2015 is not pre-austerity.
No, there's a very valid reason it is needed from Facebook's point of view. There's just no reason for you to allow them to do it.
Yup. Everything pre-RISC was CPI (Cray doesn't count - it was effectively RISC, and way too expensive anyway).
What is an atheist movement? Who is in charge? What are the goals?
Should it? I've always wondered if or how causative these two charts are:

https://www.diamandis.com/hubfs/Diamandis_March_2017-Theme/I...

https://conscienhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2018-O...
It would be cool if the Ai could interrupt too.
Except iRobot was an American company and the FTC was also evaluating the deal so?

I suspect the problem here is a dominant retail player buying a big manufacturer
Is there any sort of hit to insertion timing for using a column-based backend?
Damn. The UK really likes to copy Russia.
What's the significance of 7 April 1976?
Nube: Mysterious, Nearly Invisible Dwarf Galaxy Challenges Dark Matter Model
SDKs for 4+ platforms is added tooling...
I applaud your efforts. My wife often feels quite bad about feeling exhausted and frustrated, because she doesn't really believe me that it's a completely normal reaction to caring for 3 kids under 3 years old.

Feeling exhausted and frustrated with 3 or 4 young kids does not make you a bad parent or mean you're not cut out for parenting. It's a normal human reaction. People just don't talk about it much.
When I have to enter my birthdate online, and don't see any need to, I always pick the earliest available date, usually Jan 1, 1901, in protest.
I don't understand privacy-focused companies (with GDPR) statement who don't reveal where they're located. No postal address, no mention which jurisdiction it is under. How can companies judge who they're dealing with, basically who they're trusting their user's data with?

Somewhere on https://maileroo.com/terms-conditions a related project, I find "and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in Germany." If it's Germany, then the website needs an imprint.
> If you're Netflix et al, why support the VP now?

It’s a nice beachhead they’re exposing. There might be a niche for someone to build an AI that converts flat video into immersive content, and then plant a bunch of patent land mines around it.
IIRC large portions of China's high speed rail might be a boondoggle... so not sure that's the best example.
Devil's advocate: they have to build it anyway for Meta verse and in general. Management has no interest in going into cloud business. They had Parse long time back but that is done. So why not to release it. They are getting goodwill/mindshare, may set up industry standard and get community benefit. It isn't very different from React, Torch etc.
Embracer Group Cancels 'Deus Ex' Video Game, Lays Off Workers
If you want to employ the top ML researchers, you have to give them what they want, which is often the ability to share their discoveries with the world. Making Llama-N open may not be Zuckerberg‘s preference. It’s possible the researchers demanded it.
Which don't work. They just cause shortages.

If you don't like the price of your Pepsi, buy Coke. Or buy the store brand. Or do your health a favor and don't buy that garbage food in the first place.
> iPhone 2 suggested retail price was $300 (~$425 in todays dollars)

This was back when most phones were still carrier subsidized and required long term service contracts. Per Apple's press release, the $299 pricing required "a new two year contract with AT&T". Unsubsidized price was about double.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/06/09Apple-Introduces-th...
A lot of hackers do this. One thing I noticed: I get a flood of e-mail on 1st Jan with special offers and companies pretending to 'care' it's your birthday when it's all automated drivel.
If recent history is any guide, the UK will fold by next Monday, have a cabinet reshuffle 2 days later following a MP revolt, a leadership contest in a month, and a wilting turnip as a PM after that.
What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024?
> There is a herding effect in tech…. The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop.

Layoffs “are contagious.... when one major tech company downsizes staff, the board of a competing company may start to question why their executives are not doing the same.”
Yes! Gentoo was my first Linux distro, and I am grateful for the wiki. It made my hard ride with Linux — it’s been 15 years now — highly enjoyable
I agree, it is unnatural and a little stressful with current implementations. It feels like I first need to figure out what to say and than say it so I don’t pause and mess up my input.

I hope the new improved Siri and Google assistant will be able to chain actions as well. “Ok Google, turn off the lights. Ok Google, stop music.” Feels a bit cumbersome.
My dream is to do pair coding (and pair learning) with an AI.

It would be a live conversation and it can see whatever I’m doing on my screen.

We’re gradually getting closer.
> Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook?

I mean, Google did launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook. It was a whole thing. It was even a really nice system, eventually.
Probably can. Should it though?

Like the Titanic, maybe we just let it rest in peace? Send a sub down to confirm what it is. Then maybe update a few of the monuments to her to indicate her final resting place has been found…

My only concern would be looters. If it is quite feasible to access “easily” then yeah maybe we should recover it just to protect against looters and pillagers.
Judge Rotenberg Center
I'm completely fine with this, because the US won't do it.
Tangent - wouldn't it be absolutely fantastical (and perhaps scary) if we could break the deterministic universe?

Time travel movies about sending people and things never made sense to me. To receive information from the future alone would be all you needed. Not only could you get stock prices or a lead on innovation, but you could also perhaps perform instantaneous, constant time computation of any function. And you'd have perfect foresight of anyone trying to disrupt you and take away your advantage.

But then maybe the future sends instructions for a machine that destroys you. Or it could be even simpler - it knows where to send you to die. So maybe you can't trust what it tells you at all. It has all the time to plan around your choices, and if you're still listening in any capacity it can coerce you to do its bidding.

Wild science fiction ideas searching for novelization, I suppose.