skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a little misleading to say it's compatible with OpenAI because I expect function or tool calling when you say that.

It's nice that you have the role and content thing but that was always fairly trivial to implement.

When it gets to agents you do need to execute actions. In the agent hosting system I started, I included a scripting engine, which makes me think that maybe I need to set up security and permissions for the agent system and just let it run code. Which is what I started.

So I guess I am not sure I really need the function/tool calling. But if I see a bunch of people actually am standardizing on tool calls then maybe I need it in my framework just because it will be expected. Even if I have arbitrary script execution.
Linux is just some [explitive deleted] imitation of Unix, where the sudo command originated.

I run Windows as my primary development environment because it's better. Linux and other OSes run in VMs.
Given that both legal immigrants and undocumented immigrants are net tax donors on average overall, less than they pay in.
Misleading title. They got $1B in breakup fee from Adobe, they will be fine.
I have cameras and and a smart doorbell so I know if someone is at the door. This plus in-app notifications handles food delivery for me.

You can also set up a shortcut to toggle the setting. There’s been a couple times when waiting for a callback where I turn the setting off. Then when I get the call I switch it back.

Ultimately, for me, the pros far outweigh the cons. But you have to make the decision for yourself.
Same reason Arthur Anderson changed it’s name.

Bard was panned. Change the name, lose the bad press.
The rest of that paragraph from iFixit:

> the iPhone 15 Pro Max held 1 foot away is 94 average PPD. Even though the pixel density and physical dimensions are drastically different between the iPhone and the 65” TV, they end up having similar PPD simply because of how they’re viewed.

(I personally found the phone example much more useful than the TV, possibly because I don't own a TV.)

For more examples: a modern MacBook Air viewed at 60 cm (2 ft) gives you the exact same value. With a MacBook Pro, it's somewhat more at 108 PPD.

An 11" iPad (10th gen / Air / Pro) comes out at 83 PPD viewed from 45 cm / ~18in. (I suppose the midpoint between phone and laptop seems like a reasonable iPad viewing distance?)
Well, the Earth's paying for it, and it'll turn into solid rock slightly earlier than it otherwise would have due to modern Icelandic district heating practices.

As the Earth is mostly an approximately Earth-sized ball of molten rock it's generally agreed that this will take "a while".

We've also decided that it's such a large value of "a while" that we're going to split the difference and proclaim that this non-renewable geothermal energy extraction practice is actually renewable.

Nevermind that we're talking about time scales where we might expect all the non-renewable fossil fuel we're extracting to have been renewed several times over by natural processes.

I think geothermal energy might get away with it on a technicality: The Earth won't actually turn solid. Before it can do that it's expected to be swallowed up by the Sun turning into a Red Giant.

By that time geothermal heat might have become too much of a good thing.
Same in Chicago. We can generally put things in the alley if it's not blocking anyone.
Which are pretty awful btw - every project at my job that started with LangChain openly regrets it - the abstractions, instead of making hard things easy, trend to make the way things hard (and hard to debug and maintain).
This is good, but runas already exists. Its interface is shit. Improve it to make it not shit please. Don't hijack the name of an existing command unless you're going to re-implement its interface 100% compatibly.

This is like when PowerShell hijacked curl all over again...
To try it yourself, run the following statement in the DevTools console,

await import("https://esm.sh/gh/mourner/bullshit.js@master/src/replace.js")
Yeah, they keep doing this. Came to say this (I don't quite care about / for the product itself).

They introduced Google Meet when Jitsi Meet already existed and is a similar product! It was easy to call it Google Call, or I don't know, figure it out. You haven't ran out of synonyms for Talk yet despite the huge churn. There are certainly sexier possible names than "Meet" too. Or than Gemini.

Come on, you can find names that don't clash with existing products. You have dedicated teams for this. You've heard about the existing stuff. I'm sure you do extensive research when picking a name, to avoid lawsuits if nothing else. Also Someone has heard of Gemini at Google. Someone has heard of Jitsi Meet at Google. It has to be intentional.

Of course Gemini comes from Greek mythology, nobody can claim the exclusivity on this, and here it's not even a competitor. Meet is a generic term too.

They chose the name clashes. It's highly likely they can't be sued for this. But still. Legal ≠ right. Find something else.

Rant over.
More specifically... "probate issues".

If you die with assets... you assets are going to be transferred to beneficiaries in accordance with a will if you have one. It's a lengthy legal process called probate. Because its going through the court system the filings are all public record too.

If you put your assets into a trust (generally a revocable or living trust)... when you die you aren't dying with any assets. The trust "lives on" and has the rules for distribution codified into it. No probate court. No public record of assets, etc. Tends to be a faster, more efficient for everyone process as I understand it.
I believe that for almost all rationals trig functions never return a rational so you must have some kind of rounding tecnique.

An advantage of rationals is that you have much more freedom in handling how the rounding works, for example you can limit your rounding to produce fractions n/2^m and then they behave sort of like floats or n/10^m and then they behave like decimals while still being able to know that basic arithmetic operations (+, *, -, /, <, <=, <>, mod, exponentiation by integer) work as precisely as you want them to.

GPUs, ML, an massive numericall processing will want to always use floats, ints, posits[0] with operations that can be efficiently implemented in hardware but most apps could easily afford to use bigint/bigint rationals for most things.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/floating-point-numbers-posits-proc...
The compatibility layer can be also built in libraries. For example, Langchain has llm() which can work with multiple LLM backend. Which do you prefer?
No doubt the worst software for the masses
> It happened in very very few cities and for times when riots were being incited.

I mean, it's still bad. Not as bad as Pakistan, but still.
Consumption - They are people who will buy things. They will also add labor to the market, making goods less expensive for others to purchase.

Government Spending - Investment in industries like energy, infrastructure, and chip manufacturing all needs labor. With a ~3% unemployment rate that's going to be hard to come by.

Investment - Immigrants will have money to save and invest. Many small businesses are owned by immigrant families.

Net exports - Lower skilled factory labor is in demand and hard to come by. Can't make stuff in America if there is no one to make it.
My area code doesn't match my area, and most e.g. recruiters are calling from other area codes as well, so I can be reasonably confident that a local-area-code call is legitimate, but man is it frustrating to brace myself for "$child/$spouse/$etc is on their way to $hospital..." and instead I get "I was very impressed by your skills I got from $someJobBoardIHaven'tUsedInYears, are you free to talk about a $industryOrCareerFieldIDon'tWorkIn position located in $areaIHaven'tLivedInInYears?"* Especially if they've called repeatedly in a short amount of time without leaving a message.

*bonus if they're speaking heavily accented english and miss important connecting words, suggesting they don't even really understand the script they're reading from, much less the job description they just pulled off of Indeed or wherever.
That's why white has a higher statistical win rate ya?
I still want to see some examples of a "mistake" in the training data getting detected or reduced.

For example, somewhere in the training data the string "All cats are red" should get detected when lots of other data in the training set contradicts the statement.

And obviously it doesn't have to be simple logical statements, but also bigger questions like "how come the 2nd world war happened despite X person and Y person being on good speaking terms as evidenced by all these letters in the archives?"

When AI can do that, it should be able to turn our body of knowledge into a much bigger/more useful one by raising questions that arise from data we already have, but never noticed.
It's a classic flamewar topic with plenty of people on both sides feeling similarly about the other.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do as well. Less time on the phone, more time reading novel whose style and substance I enjoy. Reading isn't something that "matters", but I find one more fulfilling.
Agreed. Where I live, you cannot take the drive test to get your provisional license (allowing drivers to drive without the supervision of a fully licensed driver) without passing a 'hazards test' which involves a bunch of (crappy) videos with situations like these where you have to click the mouse when it is safe for you to start moving the car. Unsafe intersections are a reality. Cyclists and pedestrians (and other vehicles) being obscured from view is a reality. I can't get my license if I can't show I can make safe decisions handling these situations. I can't have even a low speed crash into someone and try to deny culpability by saying the intersection was unsafe or that a cyclist or pedestrian broke the rules. It is still my responsibility as the person in control of dangerous machinery. I find it very frustrating that it's a common sentiment to allow driverless cars to hurt people with those things as a justification. If these semi or supposedly fully autonomous cars can't work within the realities of the roads on which they drive, they shouldn't be driving.
Yes, its definitely a conspiracy and not because we can barely manage the non-intelligent infrastructure we have now.
He does mention the thrilling surreality of the LA Yellow Pages.
The process of converting a completely winning position (typically one with a large material advantage) is a phase change relative to normal play which is the struggle to achieve such a position. In other words you are doing something different at that point. For example, me as weak FIDE CM (Candidate Master) could not compete with a top grandmaster in a game of chess, but I could finish off a trivial win.

Edit: Recently I brought some ancient (1978) chess software back to life https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon. These two phases of chess, basically two different games, were quite noticeable with that program, which is chess software stripped back to the bone. Sargon 1978 could play decently well, but it absolutely did not have the technique to convert winning positions (because this is different challenge to regular chess). For example, it could not in general mate with rook (or even queen) and king against bare king. The technique of squeezing the enemy king into a progressively smaller box was unknown to it.
Apple Fitness+ launched in 2020 and continues to be heavily updated today?
First, you're lumping every economist into a single entity. Different economists can look at the same information and determine different outcomes. It is more subjective than objective.

That said, many economists did warn that stimulus money would lead to inflation, however there were many people in dire need which justified the 'greater good' approach to it. As to fighting said inflation, many economists believed we would have the 'soft landing' that we are heading for. They warned fighting too hard would lead to a recession, as in the harder and higher interest rates go, the more likely a recession would become.

Were there economists on the other sides of these beliefs? Yes, so that's why weighing the multitude of opinions and getting toward a consensus comes into play.
Vibration Theory of Olfaction
The original report is more comprehensive and may answer some of your questions

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/european-electri...
Ooo, burn.
In the prehistoric era (and continuing into the present day), all that's required to interrupt someone is a set of vocal chords you can use to talk to them, or a finger you can use to tap them on the shoulder, or a fist you can use to knock on their door. The universe isn't naturally shaped in a way that makes interrupting difficult, and never has been.
Yes, this sucks for employees in the short term who thought their equity was potentially worth 2x what it is (and more importantly, liquid!). But also, if their numbers are good enough to plausibly command that price, it’s probably better for everyone, employees included in the long run, to go public? And not via SPAC, but via a real IPO.

Looking back, I think this ZIRP phenomenon of PE and VC was unhealthy (remember crypto??), unrealistic, and ultimately only benefitted a few founders, some employees, and mostly VC firms making paper gains by marking up SoftBank-esque valuations that no one actually believed.

We’re forgetting that all of FAANG IPOd when they too were much less than $20 billion. Maybe it’s time for the next generation of software companies to take control of their own destiny rather than wait for a golden parachute to buy them out.
On Software Liabilities
Implicitly what it’s saying is: “Hurricane reaching a maximum category of X”
Honestly surprised I'm the first to mention the name collision with the retro-modern linked documents protocol I keep hearing about (on HN) https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-1.gmi

But glass half full, maybe it's for the better to have one's name shadowed by a Google product if one prefers to avoid eternal septembering one's community.
How is that municipality name supposed to be pronounced?

My first attempt sounded too much like "u-can-eat-shit" to be correct...I hope...
Yup. No fake copy claim there.

And the claim of fraud is unsubstantiated.
Is there one for Boeing also?
On beginner level this might work, but if people are more competitive they begin to realize the benefit of not only playing the own game, but reading the enemies plan (e.g. scouting in Starcraft/AoE2) to counteract it as much as possible.

Chess against humen is different. Usually, there is no path to victory, only to remis. People just follow strategic plans that people told them would be slightly beneficial later on. Along following that strategic plan people mess up and the first one to realize that the opponent messed up usually wins. Like having a piece advantage of 2-3 is usually considered a win already.
I'm sorry, you must be trolling. It inconceivable, that in 2024, an audio to audio connection connection could be made between two "phone" users. What's next, phone numbers?
Your point being?..
Consistency of user experience. Reliable security updates for old devices that still function. Heavy integration with the Google spyware ecosystem. Poor CPU performance and battery life. Low-quality peripherals such as cameras. Manufacturer defects in Google-branded devices.
Does not the word review in sentence one needs irony quotes.
That's pretty sickening, I hope you keep away from polite society for the rest of our sakes, and hopefully you won't have too much longer to pursue your bucket list.
what authority do they have to set a legal precedent?
A company the size of Google can't come with something more catchy? The product better be compelling cause no one is going to check out what Gemini does just for the name.
I just looked it up, and that does appear to be the case.
This is not the case, many resorts on public lands in the US do not allow uphill travel.
Make something better, then. (I'm not being dismissive, I really genuinely mean it - please do)

I don't know who is behind Ollama and don't really care about them. I can agree with your disgust for VC 'open source' projects. But there's a reason they become popular and get investment: because they are valuable to people, and people use them.

If Ollama was just a wrapper over llama.cpp, then everyone would just use llama.cpp.

It's not just marketing, either. Compare the README of llama.cpp to the Ollama homepage, notice the stark contrast of how difficult getting llama.cpp connected to some dumb JS app is compared to Ollama. That's why it becomes valuable.

The same thing happened with Docker and we're just now barely getting a viable alternative after Docker as a company imploded, Podman Desktop, and even then it still suffers from major instability on e.g. modern macs.

The sooner open source devs in general learn to make their projects usable by an average developer, the sooner it will be competitive with these VC-funded 'open source' projects.
This game has been around for many years. I remember playing it for hours when it first came out and really enjoying eventually getting into a flow state.
All Neural Networks, All Autonomous, All 1X Speed
Apple has removed the app from the store: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/a-fake-app-masquerading-as...
In very specific cases it can be used to avoid certain countries' laws about exporting cash/value.

But that's not going to be a major source of real estate transactional volume.
>The massive fraud that came along for the ride with PPP COVID relief is just the latest example

This happened because the Trump admin deleted the oversight of the program. The fraud in PPP was intentional. Democrats pitched it with oversight and accountability, republicans burned out the accountability, and of course everyone blames this nebulous "the government" instead of the ones actually responsible.
Given your recent submissions "Twitter tech is garbage fight me", "Ask HN: Why tech influencers on Twitter is so rude?" and "Ask HN: Why people follow Twitter tech influencers for every opinion like sheep?" I'd say you already made up your mind. I won't take the bait and fight you.

Oh, almost overlooked "[flagged] Reddit is Trash moderated by loosers".
People keep saying this, but what rigorous study is there to demonstrate this to be true?

Assuming it is true, immigration has a considerable pressure on housing prices.

It turns out people are willing to spend basically everything they can to not be homeless, so even a slight influence in supply and demand for housing causes a massive price shift.
> Why? Why does pointing mozilla in the right direction require such rare skills?

Because it basically requires to beat a monopoly power that has repeatedly used its unrelated lines of business to crush competition in the past?

Growing Mozilla is probably as hard as growing diapers.com as an independent company.
Now we're taking about three expensive assets in sufficient numbers and along with the required supply chain and maintenance facilities:

- state-of-the-art submarines. Anything else can't hope to evade the Chinese, and they probably have to be nuclear as well to ensure range and stealth

- submarine-launchable missiles (ballistic or cruise), with a lot of range since China can probably deny the sea immediately off the mainland.

- nukes compact and reliable enough for the missiles
What are some better options?
There are 500 metre high Megatsunami? O_O

Sure, sure, don't worry about it, but being told that the tsunamis in The Abyss could be real? Good lord that is shocking to me.

Some of the effects of a wave like that can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...

"Over 30 million cubic meters of rock fell from a height of several hundred meters into the bay, creating the megatsunami."
Speaking of spreading personal dogmatic gospels, I'd like to call out that the

> "paradox of tolerance"

Is better understood as the "peace treaty of tolerance". There's no obligation or expectation to be tolerant of someone who is intolerant to your existence. You can choose to remain tolerant of those who break the treaty, but I personally don't extend that courtesy to those whom I perceive to be consistent belligerents.
Well, yes, quantum physics says that's true. Our universe is the minimal requirements necessary to run our universe. There could be tricks, for instance maybe you only simulate at fine grain the universe near an observer. But still, to simulate our granularity you need a simulation of equal (or greater) granularity. There's the trick, it's conceivable that the simulator exists in a universe with more dimensionality.
The documentation is upfront about which features are excluded: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/openai.md

Function calling/tool choice is done at the application level and currently there's no standard format, and the popular ones are essentually inefficient bespoke system prompts: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/l...
Firefox's UI/UX is not as good as Chrome's. Some features are either not implemented, or not as good as their counterparts in Chrome.

Some examples that come to mind are multiple profiles, history manager, and bookmark manager.

See some previous discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876696
A dead CMOS battery entirely stops a computer from booting at all these days? Yikes.
The same examples given every time ollama is posted. Off the top of my head the installer silently adds login items with no way to opt out, spawns persistent processes in the background in addition to the application with unclear purposes, no info on install about the install itself, doesn’t let you back out of the installer when it requests admin access. Basically lots of dark patterns in the non-standard installer.

Reminds me of how Zoom got it start with the “growth hacking” of the installation. Not enough to keep me from using it, but enough for me to keep from using it for anything serious or secure.
So when they say 'without hot water' they actually mean 'without heating'?

For someone who isn't in Iceland that's not clear.
"It is commonly held that Thoreau faked it. "

I think that is debatable and not concensus. But I actually do not know much about him besides the quote I shared. But I do know, that he tried to live his philosophy in real life and not just make nice sounding words, to make people think he is interesting.

"Can one live a life of simultaneous simplicity and independence?"

One can try. I know some people who succeded, but lots who failed.
> I could honestly see them being a net positive to road focus by overlaying speed and navigation on the user's field of vision so they don't have to glance at their dash speedometer or navigation device all the time.

Heads up displays projecting basic speed etc on to a windscreen are already a thing. They are fairly good/useful.

No need to wear a headset being bombarded with irrelevant notifications from social media, messaging etc. Headset likely to cause physical damage to yourself in a crash as well when the airbag goes off.

Wearing a general purpose interactive device while driving is bad for all the reasons why using a mobile phone while driving is illegal in many places. You are not concentrating on the road, you are distracted.
Still waiting for an open discussion forum for scientific papers.

Like StackOverflow, but every post is a paper. And there are experts of various gradations that help with questions.
The App Store description said, "Trusted by over 1+ million users and 10,000+ businesses". That's fraud.
Warning: I haven't checked these links in forever, but here's a list of distributed systems reading lists.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368