skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source is really about reproducibility. Most of these model releases are better described as "open weights" because we don't know how exactly they were trained.
Pathom 3: A Library for Navigating Data
LM Studio

I use dolphin mixstral 8x7B way more than ChatGPT4 for the past several months

if any of this sentence makes sense, I have a M1 with 64gb RAM and I use 5 bit quantizing with metal with 10,000 token context window. Its around 21 tokens/sec which is a little faster than the text speed that ChatGPT4 responds with
Pedestrian Simulator 2024
IPv5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx for the win! /s
Even at 128, not many people can pass a double blind test. And yes, almost everyone struggles once you get somewhere in the range of 256/320.
This is the only way IPv6 will ever finally take off; if there's a cost to IPv4.
Glad to see Don Hopkins mentioned, I came to this thread hoping he had seen it & commented already. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on it! I know he loves radial menus, understandably so -- they really can be quite effective.
Boeing was culturally taken over by McDonnell Douglas leadership.

What's fascinating albeit somewhat depressing is that it seems something similar happened when McDonnell merged with/took over Douglas as well: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-legal-and-moral-questi...
For sure, what I mean is they could be playing with different universes. Or found a way to manipulate time. It’s crack pot stuff but it all looks like it till it happens. Show a cave man an DJI drone being controlled and sending back live videos, they will also say it was impossible due to their understanding
If the solution is a stop caring about anything, the cure is worse than the disease.
To me the real question is if humans are really much more complicated. We evolved running around on the plains without TV or drugs or electric guitars or virtual worlds. How long until we completely crack our definition?
Since these models are trained by just scraping the internet, “scraping” this thing and including it in your own model seems like fair game, right?
Slight knitpick

GPT 3.5 came out 2 years after GPT 3

GPT 4 came out 1 year after 3.5
Yea I think so
Very interesting, but the comment you replied to was specifically asking about OpenAI.
Eggcellent :)
It is not a minor detail, Verizon and Sprint were two absolutely massive carriers and it was truly impossible to run the iPhone on those networks. And running it on T-Mobile meant voiding your AT&T contract and paying some big fees if buying it first-hand. Practically speaking, to most consumers it was only AT&T.

It is not being pedantic to point out someone is saying something massively untrue.

Your comment makes it sound like anyone could just easily take an OG iPhone and run it on any network, but in reality, to US consumers it was only a few smaller networks and only after breaking an expensive contract. See how that's more than just a pedantic difference?
U just keep private and not ever get share holders if you want full control
Outstanding work. I wish they'd list affected models but they did name and shame Cisco.
A small correction :). SKA in South Africa is based closer to Carnavron than to Sutherland.

https://www.skao.int/en/arrange-visit

Not that Sutherland is top be ignored, it does host the South African Astronomical Observatory.

PS, it gets damn cold there in the desert, even during summer :).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Astronomical_Obs...
Germany is the whole circus

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-catholic-daycare-ce...
This is very fun.

I managed to make a "Captain Jack Ahab + Draculawhalezilla" that seems to refuse to combine with anything. Maybe because it has a + in it already?
The IPv4 space almost certainly did not cost them $4.6 billion to acquire. They acquired it much cheaper, and they can’t reasonably sell it because they need it for users. So charging for it when they previously did not nets them revenue they were leaving on the floor before.
Facebook or Snapchat or whatever did not create any of these tragedies. People using these services did. A handful of victim families and lawyers looking for a payday weaponized these stories and created a cottage industry of extorting tech companies for actions they had nothing to do with.
> the pragmatic solution to all future worries about AI alignment is simply ...

A sentence beginning with this is, I can pretty much guarantee, never going to end in truth.

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine why remotely bricking every computer on Earth (or even just a subset known to be infected, which might reside in a hostile nation) might not be pragmatic.
Might be the case for some. We lived in a flyover state, so pay was far from West coast. Dad's career started out with him living in a rough trailer park and hitching rides to work. Before the bust he was doing well, but he had a tough climb getting there and hadn't had much time to save up (along with starting a family and such).

Again, we were very fortunate to come though it as well as we did. Many close friends had it much worse.

There's bound to be a variety of financial and career situations out there. To me, it's difficult to imagine anyone getting canned and thinking 'meh, no biggie'.
Perhaps consider making a deal with a company willing to market your idea, paying you a share of total sales? Would be a good idea to ensure you have lawyer with suitable experience.
Short-form media is not necessarily bad. Like all forms of media, it can be a useful learning tool or it can be a massive time sink. Social media has just weaponized it to optimize for engagement at all costs.
State of React Native 2023 – Survey Results
Start teaching. Join a group that teaches programming to underprivileged folks, communities that are marginalized or underrepresented in the tech world, ex-cons, etc. I teach at a diverse state university and it has rekindled my passion for computer science. There’s something rewarding about watching confused students “get it.”
You could pass a pointer to the array instead of letting it decay:

int get(int n, char (*buffer)[n])
{
return buffer[10];
}

int main()
{
char buffer[10];
get(10, &buffer);
}

Then a run-time bounds checker or a model checker can find the bug:
https://godbolt.org/z/a4ExKMn1s
Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now.

The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html

And the reversal: https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larso...

... for cartoons, my favourite has always been:

[A cow, wearing jewellery and holding a martini glass, stands by the picture window of a well-appointed suburban home, while a bull sits in an armchair, watching TV, with a beer in his hoof]

Cow: "Wendell... I'm not content"
Personally, I think it's worse than 2000. There are so many more actually talented engineers now competing for each job. The dot com boom and bust cycle was famous for people being hired (and then laid off) who had little to no background in software. I don't see that being the case now.

It's possible my interview and other skills have declined, but after being rejected only once in the first 25 years of my career (when I was fresh out of school and terrible at interviewing), I've now been rejected from a half dozen jobs where I got to the panel interview. This included one where they said they planned to make an offer but ended up going with a different candidate. Another where it felt like a perfect match but then they never even got back to me. Another where I bombed a dynamic programming problem that leetcode puts at its most difficult rating. YMMV but I think it's tough out there.
...I just did.

Please stop only posting hot takes and "gotchas" here. Be more substantive.
We have abandonded raven because server tends to go into some "repair" state for hours eating 16+ Gb of memory. Multiple times on production. It were easier to migrate to posgres, then try to fix ravendb
I start fighting it by not reading the article, only the title, but I can honestly relate to the problem.

(joke aside: will read it later, just couldn't stand making the silly comment. sry.)
Cognition in brainless organisms is redefining what it means to learn
Right ok that makes sense. The reason i wanted this was for the reason mentioned earlier in this thread: you spin up a DB but don’t have the credentials. Fortunately i had stored them as an env var and was able to recover them, but otherwise i felt at a loss on how to gain access.
how do we know it’s not mistral medium
I think making it take a stream of thought approach might help here.

If you ask it to explain the chain of events it can guide the solution. I think that part of the issue here is that there's no context (well, at least that we can see) to these combinations.

But if you build up some context then it might make things make more sense.

E.g., if you imagine that you're prompting in the context of a "crafting type" for statues, you might have flamethrower as a "tool" and statue as an "input" and it might lead to a better solution (e.g., burnt statue, melted statue, etc.,). Alternatively if you said flamethrower and statue were both inputs then maybe the result would be a statue holding a flamethrower.

You could think about other context as well, maybe a welder with tool flamethrower + statue gets a metal statue welded to something, a demolition job with flamethrower + statue gets rubble, etc.,
Hard when you "have" to give VC equity to get off the ground.
The site doesn't do a good job of explaining what this is, precisely. It has several typos ("mailbox's", "corprate"). The "costco (sic) of helpdesk software" - what does that even mean? What's unique about this solution compared to other solutions on the market - why would I use this?

The "get started" button just takes to documentation about how to install it, but why would I click that without knowing what it is? The documentation is also broken, as mentioned.

Is Peppermint labs a business, or is this a community project? https://peppermint.sh - why the .sh TLD? Is this related to shell scripts? The GitHub page (https://github.com/Peppermint-Lab/peppermint) links to "buy me a coffee"
> The community that formed around building open source “standard” Macaroons decided to use untyped opaque blobs to represent candidates.

I assume "candidates" was supposed to be "caveats" - and as an author of a "standard" macaroon implementation, I completely agree that this is the biggest downfall of Macaroons. With no common caveat language (and no independent "dischargers") it really limits their use to within a single org. And at that point you're basically asking everyone to invent their own token format anyway.

Though I don't personally use them much anymore - I think the use-cases for Macaroons are much more limited if you have a Zanzibar! - I appreciate seeing Macaroon discussions pop up and this post and the related discussions it linked out to were a great read.
UN: To preserve a livable planet, temp rise can't exceed 1.5C above 1800s levels
How Does a "Reverse Sprinkler" Work?
That's not how people who actually build things do things. They don't buy into any marketing. They sign up for the service and play around with it and see what it can do.
Except that when things work like factorio we love it. There's kind of a sweet spot when humans discover something predicable but not downright repetitive.
As they tack on more and more guardrails it becomes lazier and less helpful. One way it gets around admitting that it has instructed not to help you is by directing you to consult a human expert.

I also suspect there’s some dynamic laziness parameter that’s used to counteract increased load on their servers. You can ask the same prompt over and over in a new chat throughout the day and suddenly instead of writing the code you asked for or completing a task, it will do a small part of the work with “add the code to do xyz here” or explain the steps required to complete a task instead of completing it. It happens with v4 as well.
Someone should do a genome manager startup
For Llama-based progress - Reddit - /r/LocalLlama has been my top source of info, although it's been getting a little more noisy lately.

I also hang out on a few Discord servers:
- Nous Research
- TogetherAI / Fireworks / Openrouter
- LangChain
- TheBloke AI
- Mistral AI

These, along with a couple of newsletters, basically keep a pulse on things.
>H-1B is a work visa, not a student visa.

H-1B is the primary path for international MS and PhD students to work in the US.

> kind of universities that rely on tuition revenues from foreign students are ones leading the US's tech edge

That's all universities except community colleges.

>he universities that actually matter in this regard will be well-equipped to survive a small setback of less foreign admissions.

Possible, I'd not bet on it. There is a reason the immigration rules are as they are, and are pretty difficult to overhaul.
Yeah that's actually how I read it too, like they found out XD couldn't be savaged after peeking on Figma's internals, and is cheaper/better roi forthem to can that shit and just start from scratch for a collaborative real time environment like figma is build.

expecting figma's adobe clone in anything like 6-24 months out
Its been a long time since i read lord of the rings... but isn't that how its depicted in lotr?

The hobbits are mostly walking and they have a pony (Bill) to pull their stuff.

Major exception being shadowfax running all over the place, but that is not a normal horsey but a divine being.
Thinking I was born 3 years earlier than I was. Forgetting how to read maps. Higher anxiety causing her to ask me to drive dangerously slowly, and in so doing revealing she didn't know the speed limit on that category of road. Forgetting to renew her road tax (I have no idea how she wasn't fined for that, given the rest of the family noticed this six months after it was due).
I live in the south of spain, and AC is already a necessity in the summer. Days with 40° and nights with 30° are becoming increasingly common.

Also the water comes out of the tap at like 35-38°, unheated. I've had plants die when watering them with this. At this rate I'm going to have to install some sort of water cooler too.
"America" + "Emperor" yielded the same thing :(
I follow https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
> And of course it's a great way to get people to move to IPv6, since those are still "free" (in quotes because those prices are still baked into the things that support them).

They are basically free because there is no shortage of them.
Layoff
No, because health insurance companies already know perfectly well what health conditions you have, since they can see your medical spending.

After all, they didn't need your genes when they were denying care in the 90s.
This sounds like one of the more potentially "dangerous" endowments to give a machine.
There's no "between the lines" here, it was discontinued all the way back in June. Dunno why that's headlines today. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23769586/adobe-xd-discont...
Where do you get the idea that corps aren't touching LLama...
You can subscribe to my blog :)

https://asindu.xyz

I intend to write more this year. I have some many drafts.
Thinking through the design/implications - does that have to come from unstructured time?

What if it were more thoughtful content - a series of problem(s) proposed at the beginning, walking through possibilities, and then the solutions revealed at the end?

Is it possible that the content can teach us both knowledge and how to think/reason?
Anyone knows what's up the iPhone-Galaxy gap? Is this some bad benchmark? I thought the big Apple revolution was with the M1 in the desktop.
Propulsion: Diesel.

Why? The ultrarich could afford the most environmentally friendly propulsion ( e.g hydrogen for submarines ) . But as if climate change wouldn’t be a thing, the ultrarich simply don’t care about their CO2 footprints. Do they really think they can buy another planet?
I can't believe it's shocking that legacy auto can't write software.
Global climate spending reached $1.3T per year in '21/'22, nearly double '19/'20
> Hard disagree on this. I can't think of any IDE that performs as badly, or is as unreliable as Xcode.

Well then, great material for an interesting dialogue :)

> Intellij is significantly more complex and its still more responsive. (And its reliably responsive. I've never experienced typing lag in intellij on my M1).

I don't know if even the full IntelliJ is more complex, but it is at least quite complex while being reliable, and deserves a lot of credit for that. I've always defended it, particularly for it's robust semantic full project search capability for which it also happens to do better than XCode. If they brought back or renewed a product for building against Apple platforms, I'd consider it. My main argument is that it would be a truly remarkable feat for any company or project to compete with Xcode and reach close to feature parity without relying on features already part of Xcode. It still supports building and compiling (based on a cursory search) Pascal, C++, C, ObjC, ObjC++, and even Python, Java, and Ruby, simulation on at least 6 different platforms/device types, interface building click and drag for mac and iOS, some kind of AR/VR environment, and I think is used to build itself. I'd use PyCharm though if building any sufficiently complex python app, and Android Studio presumably for that, so some of the theoretical capabilities of Xcode are already better served by others. A hypothetical competitor shouldn't try to replicate all of those though, instead shooting for a market of anyone who's developing for the last 10 years of platforms in just Objective-C, Swift, SwiftUI would be the move.

> Microsoft's Visual studio (not vs code) is honestly fabulous compared to xcode. VS is of a similar vintage to xcode, with just as many "cobbled together" features added over the years - from VB to C# and .net, winforms to WPF to whatever the latest thing is. But its still fast and reliable. Well, its fast and an order of magnitude more reliable than xcode.

You're probably right, but only has relatively recently had a mac version, otherwise I'd be working with what I'd anecdotally say is just an annoying as hell and unstable OS where all the legacy stuff is still highly visible. I've never pushed Visual Studio hard, but I do recall it being as decent as you say.

Ultimately what I'd like to see is more diversity in the native apple platform dev space, and for the Xcode team to confront the reliability and performance problems you mention and everyone experiences. I believe they introduced a new linker last year for example, and hope to see it improve dramatically. Maybe the right move for them is to build a much more nimble first-party sibling solution. I'm not even on an M1+ yet, still this shitty Intel thing, and I hear these issues daily when my jet engine spins up.
YC shouldn't become a no-go zone for anyone who leans "progressive".
The important point was "well known", in this context by the general population rather than to subject experts.
> Such a massive opportunity for education - e.g. inserting more academic videos in between entertainment.

I whole heartedly disagree with this. I believe that one of the key aspects in early education is learning patience - love NG term personal fulfillment is not something you can do between the dopamine hits Og YouTube videos.
> You would incentivize going to grad school for a few years under a student visa.

That's a significant change in immigration policy that's not covered in 'pause H1B'. I agree in principle that if you align the incentives like this, it would work out.
How about this: Instead of buying overpriced buggy new cars with SW developed by "moove fast, break things" bootcamp web-devs, I keep my 2000's car which has buttons and knobs and much less software on it, and who's only software on it has been developed by grumpy old EEs with grey beards, and is only there just for controlling the engine and safety ECUs instead of fucking with touchscreens to open the bloody windows.

How about that?
Hey we could be reading or we could be watching football
Everyone except russians agree that crimea is inside Ukraine. Do you not recognize that Crimea is part of Ukraine?
The weights aren't created by humans so they aren't copyrightable - at least in theory.
The long term value thing rings true. The CEO in question had been a part of building a large company and he always said his ambition was to create a company that was seen as an asset to have that country located in the US that would last for a long time. That sounds weirdly generic but I think he was honest in that. Could he? I duno, but he had helped grow it to thousands of employees and so on and they made some great products that were highly profitable.

But instead it was sold to a company who specialized in breaking up companies and selling them off for parts while squeezing out the last $ they could / maximizing income and discarding the resulting nothing.
That's a lot of information, but it is in no sense a complete genome. It does mean that someone who had that information could prove that your DNA belonged to a child of your mom and dad with high accuracy, or that you were a sibling of your sister. It also reveals that you don't have certain mutations, or that you do have a few.

But where your parents have different SNPs, there's no way to derive which of them you inherited. What you said is a bit like saying that, because you know all of the cards in a deck of playing cards, you know what hand someone is holding, except in a counterfactual world where there are 10,000 possible cards and you know that a deck only has 52 of them.
I don't see either element, how is continuing to do such a great job you lead the industry a change that could have a new outcome?

One may presume industry will get better and force maintaining an industry leading result to become an adequate result to address the problem, but that is still leaving the impetus of any change to an outside force.
Ask HN: What do I do about boredom?
I work for a FAANG company. I'm at the lowest non-intern level. I am very passionate about programming. For example: I've been writing my own new programming language and compiler for it using LLVM, and created a hello world kernel that compiles with CMake and can be booted with QEMU to output hello world to the console.
I have a wide variety of passion projects, many of which go nowhere as a result of my ADHD, but I like to challenge myself and explore new frontiers.

On the other hand, my job consists of working on poorly managed sphaghetti code with very low velocity, the system is very inefficient, and the tooling, debugger support, etc., are pretty terrible.

This is resulting in burnout, my job is frankly, too boring. I want to know if anyone found themselves in a similar situation, and how they would deal with it.

I like the company, but I do not feel like I am living up to my potential in my current role. How does one aquire or transition into "interesting" roles, especially regarding new development? What do hiring managers for new development look for? And what do I look for in job/role listings to weed out legacy/maintinence work?
Very relatable: if you feel addressed by the headline, you probably know what to expect from the article.

My reaction is the same as yours.
Is this an advertisement for a "promise"? Entirely worthless until there's something to show. It smells.
They should apologize by banning people under 25 from social media. It’s our generation’s version of selling cigarettes to kids.
I see your DOOM and raise Viktor Vaughn :)
Anyone making hat ceramic tiles? Been thinking about remodelling my bathroom...
Does that "x3" include useful stuff that isn't internet factoids?