skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if we become singularly focused on building out AI.

I somehow doubt you can convince even half the liberal voterbase that that would be a good idea. let alone any of the conservative base. But I guess the US did manage to do that with the space race, so maybe the key is another cold war.
From a lay observer point of view of the semiconductor industry of the last two decades, it seems entirely implausible they could do that quickly without just buying a company that was already working on it. And then, unless that company was big enough to already have a significant defensive patent portfolio, it's likely their efforts would be stymied in court for years if it was remotely successful.

The idea that even with expertise, the wins would be so much over what other companies that have hired/bought these companies have been designing for the last 10 years based on very similar requirements (the ones that wrote so much of the foundational research) also seems implausible.

c) It's not actually possible to plan investments at that level with anything more than a very vague direction you're aiming. If it is long term, then everything is changing in unpredictable ways before you get even 25% there, but if you throw so much money at the problem in order to try to solve it much more quickly you are disrupting global economic and geopolitical forces in ways that also can't be planned for.
The references to legal action in China is interesting, although it's not clear what sort of penalties will result.

"Following our referral, local law enforcement conducted an investigation and confirmed the review broker’s illicit activities in Amazon’s U.S. store."
The full quote is this:

> LLRT offers up to over 10x faster startup and up to 2x overall lower cost compared to other JavaScript runtimes running on AWS Lambda

I read this to mean that AWS only cares about performance on AWS Lambda, and it's probably not this much faster outside of the Lambda contxt
It seems Altman is turning into a paperclip maximizer.
>Gemini

Symbolizing both human origin intelligence and AI becoming super-intelligent together. I think it's a good name because it draws on ancient human mythology and serves as a reminder of the concept of alignment.
sudo (1980) is older than Linux (1991).

I am not asking questions about sudo to someone assuming sudo is specifically Linux software.
Well it is the law. A cyclists will never go to jail for running into a car. So I think my world view is pretty consistent.
Are they passing a new law or just using the existing one from 1985?
We would have heard if they had hired/bought the size of team necessary to design a system large enough to be a significant impact. Modern (eve sub 28nm much less 2nm) design is hugely complex and the range of things that an AI compute engine needs to do are very broad.

Perhaps they could design a core and license it out? I'm trying to come up with a way they can do something significant without 100 people. Just the memory and serial connections are complex enough ignoring the GPU or heat/power issues.
Ok when driving a car, especially in a very populated area, you don't have to be extra careful?
maybe trillions in potential savings to the financial elite. Who are all we need to convince to get this ball rolling, unfortunately. The bigger question is how much the governmental powers will fight against this.

though even trillions is an exaggeration here. If they all collectively had 10m employees making 100k on average for 10 years, we're an order of magnitude off.
The price of Cardano (ADA) has tumbled about 30% since hitting highs last month. And after being rejected again near a key $0.555 resistance level, ADA threatens to extend its downward slide over the short term.

Cardano now trades within the confines of a falling price channel as its recent correction persists. Analysts caution the cryptocurrency could still drop another 12–20% should bearish technical factors outweigh improving sentiment.

Recently, Cardano failed to overcome resistance around the Golden Ratio level (1.618 Fibonacci extension) at $0.555. This signals buyers still lack enough strength to reverse the retracement underway since ADA topped out around $0.58 in early January.
even though i liked Bard, it is only one (extra) letter away from being the word "bad". "Bard" is cooler imo but "Gemini" starts with "G", has "gem" (a rare, valuable thing) in it, and sounds pretty. Personally i don't care at all either way though.
For the sweet and rare soul who bothers to document it, absolutely.
That was fascinating thank you.
GP is arguing that the trivially easy operation of the F0 doesn't provide any educational experience.
D-e-v...hahaha! That's hilarious. I suppose the Sanskrit connotation of devi is nice tho! :)
Congratulations on the launch!

What are your thoughts on the WYSIWYG interface compared to having someone check in a configuration file for the workflow in their code?

Are the intended users of your product primarily non-developers?
This risk with using the simple tech to start out is that you are one feature request away from being under engineered and will have to rebuild the whole thing.
Can confirm this is definitely a thing. Though in my case has to do with PC's. My mother needed a new computer and when searching online for a windows laptop, she always ended up looking at the cheapest garbage on sale. Im talking laptops that cost half as much as her iphone. But tell her to look for a mac and she will have to start looking at more expensive devices that won't be e-waste in 2 years. Pretty bizarre.
Add the contractor to your contacts.
We're at the point where many newer engineers haven't had real hands-on DOM experience but are expected to deliver applications built in React. You need to know at least one level abstraction below your current one to use the tool effectively. This all tracks with how the industry's changed, how we hire, how we train, and so on.
He is rich and powerful, of course it isn’t wrong

/s
The one I'd love to tell the planner is that a table holds transactions in time, and that it should not expect that today's data is empty because it was empty 10 hours ago. It's an extremely common pattern, it makes any statistics gathering based on percentage of data changed dubious pretty quickly, and harms a whole lot of real queries, because in data like this, people care the most about the recent data.

There are ways to organize data to minimize the issue, but it'd be so much nicer if we could just teach the optimizer that this is the way the data is shaped.
It's pretty hard to tell if a plan is good or bad from EXPLAIN without using the ANALYZE option. With EXPLAIN ANALYZE you can see where the time is being spent, so can you get an idea of which part of the plan you should focus on.

To know if it's a bad plan, it does take quite a bit of knowledge as you need to know what alternative plans could have been used instead. It takes quite a bit of time to learn that stuff. You need to know what PostgreSQL is capable of. Some computer science knowledge helps here as you'll know, for example, when a hash join is a good way to join a table vs a nested loop.

As for fixing plan you've identified as bad, that also takes quite a bit of experience. If you understand the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output well, that's a good start. Looking for places where the estimated rows differ from the actual can be key. Having an understanding of how Postgres performed the row estimations helps. That's not something that comes easily without looking at the source code, unfortunately. Understanding tools that you have to change the plan is useful. Perhaps that's CREATE STATISTICS, or adjusting the stats targets on existing single column stats. Or maybe creating a new index. Having a test environment that allows you to experiment is very useful too.
You're talking about Sudo for Linux - today's new "Sudo for Windows" doesn't support a sudoers file.
Interesting juxtaposition in the comments of "I don't answer calls from numbers I didn't recognize because of how scam-prone modern telephony is" with "many startups have seen huge profit opportunity in making outbound phone calls automatically at scale".

Reminds me of the story about overhearing Juul employees on BART talk about how hard they were working to make sure their kids never got anywhere near their product and that if other parents didn't do that, what happened next was their own fault.
Blizzard (cough Activision) has gone down the toilet for me.

It started with Diablo 3. What a horrible game. Arrogant developers. Terrible story line. Deckard Caine got killed by a butterfly and the lead story writer joked about it. They had no love for the Diablo franchise. Just a bunch of ex-Wow developers.

I said I would never buy a Blizzard game after that. I was right. Diablo 4 is a complete shitshow as well.

Further more, they abandoned Starcraft entirely. Some of the Starcraft 2 left to make new RTS games because Blizzard doesn't see any money in RTS. They just want to sell cosmetics and skins.

And it seems like they have absolutely terrible work culture abusing their employees.
Ask HN: What is the difference between a startup and a business?
That it wasn't used daily by an engineer in anger, you want one that isn't worn to the point where the accuracy suffers. A slide rule is a precision instrument, the cursor and the scales should be free of scratches, the cursor should slide freely but without play across the outside ways and the slides themselves should slide with some friction but never so much that you need to apply force. Low quality ones may have discolored to the point that using them is harder, the better quality ones came in a cover and should have been stored there. I'd probably avoid wood as the base material, it's too unpredictable.

Dirt is fine, damage is not and slop is to be avoided.

In Europe Aristo made nice and affordable ones that sold in a hard plastic casing, if you can find one of those in the original sleeve it should be fine even if it has been sitting for three decades or more. Other good brands: Faber-Castell, Ahrend, Hemmi. You can find them for $10 or less if you look around for a bit. In the USA 'Pickett sliderule' on ebay, from $5 to $300 for NIB...
I get 50-60t/s on Mistral 7B on 2080 Ti
If it expires next year then you could download it free anyways.
I vaguely remember reading that the 1st moon landing is what really tipped over Osama bin Laden - talk about paleo-conservatism…
Not the best look to be telling other people that they aren't positioned to make comments on the topic when you repeatedly get their name wrong.
No, Crunchyroll was definitely a piracy product at its roots.
Cyclists are no less predictable than motorists if you pay attention. I could give a litany of bad behaviour I've seen too, and the best available statistics say that motorists both break the law more often and cause vastly more deaths and serious injuries.

A shared space doesn't mean you're entitled to bringing an armoured, deadly machine into that space and expect others to take equal responsibility for the danger your machine is imposing.
I just bought a perfectly usable Class 2 e-bike with a rack for $1,100. I have several regular meat-powered bicycles too. Which one I take depends on how I feel. Sometimes I'm just not up for pedaling my way through a 20 mile round-trip errand and will put on my lithium legs.
Run a self-healing, autoscaled cloud in the cloud anywhere
A lot of people mistakenly label a company as a startup when it's just a business.

But in VC terms, a startup emphasizes growth over profitability until they can hit massive scale. A business strives to be profitable from the start or near the start.
Yeah, ollama-webui is an excellent front end and the team was responsive in fixing a bug I reported in a couple of days

It's also possible to connect to OpenAI API and use GPT-4 on per token plan. I cancelled my chatGPT subscription since. But 90% of the usage for me is Mistral 7B fine-tunes, I rarely use OpenAI
Coincidentally I'm making one right now. I never knew about Walter and his passion but I totally get it, sliderules have a magic all their own. Ostensibly just a couple of passive pieces of material but the power of logarithms turns them into universal calculators. A radio amateur that I knew was faster with his slide rule than I ever was with a calculator! The calculator produced more digits but most of those were useless.
Taking four independent samples isn’t the same as taking one sample and cutting it into four.
That website is a gem. I have a 2235 here that I just can't part with, it has long since been replaced by a digital one but I'd feel like a complete traitor if I sold it.
Oh wow, hadn't heard of that. I'd only heard of them doing minicomputers.

That being said, from that their mainframe effort didn't last long.

So they're not a mainframe vendor any more. Their minicomputers were reliable across decades, rather than their mainframes. ;)
That sounds... wrong? Why would you be generating shebangs for other platforms? The shebang should be generated on the local system, so it should always be correct on the local system, whether it is /bin/sh, /usr/bin/sh, or /did/you/know/sh/path/and/shebang/is/not/standardized?
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not overloaded, just an older (but official definition):

archaic•literary
commit an offense against (a person or a set of rules).

But the word doesn't matter so much as the intent. If enough people just copy your product you cannot sell it. Or worse, others will sell it for pennies because they didn't spend any revenue so any money is profit. That's what's trying to be prevented.
> I think that you're actually the one who disagrees with Gerv

I make no judgement on Markham's thoughts on the matter. If I am or not is probably the position you should take, but its not one I'm pushing here.

Words presented by Baker are not words I would like from someone I respect, 8 days after my death, just enough tact to know not do it within the first week before the man is decaying in the ground, not enough to think about what people will think of the person that's still alive afterwards.

> but it's probably a "bitch slap" to you.

Yes, I state it as much, there is no statistical uncertainty here on my end. There is no allegations or false journalistic integrity to take credence to.

The man is dead, there is no rebuttal. Baker took her final words and danced on his grave with it, figuratively, I can't be certain if she was in attendance or will be sometime in the future.

> You are, ironically, the one completely disagreeing with him, pushing ideological diversity.

If I am, then I suppose it. I'll leave this here as an address to your view here:

> It's not wrong to draw a line and say, "This person is wrong about this," and it's not a sign of detesting someone

Would you honestly say that someone being described in the following way is not a clear line:

"Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. His contributions to expanding the Mozilla community would eventually become shadowed by behaviors that made it more difficult for people to participate. But in 2001 all of this was far in the future."

All he's done, shadowed?
The Story of Signature Plastics
Good for you, i guess? It was absolutely as stupid as they describe. There were multiple teams that were literally interviewing people to join and then laid people off in the middle of it. My own team was trying to fill multiple positions and then they fired one of us (long tenure, good perf) and told us we could hire backfill as long as it wasn't the experienced, useful person we just let go. We explicitly asked and the answer we got was that this stupid shit was somehow protecting alphabet.
I first discovered John Walker through The Hacker's Diet and other writings, and corresponded with him back when I was doing an offshore datahaven 25 years ago. He was an amazing person -- curious, intelligent, and willing to share what he'd learned with the world. He supported many worthwhile projects behind the scenes as well. Sad I never got to meet him in person.
I'm surprised anyone is saying anything positive about Edge. This is the chromium fork whose innovations include built-in "buy now, pay later" ads.
Same here. Although "professional" might've been a stretch for me back then. I had no idea what lisp or functional programming was.
> Their behavior is fundamentally undemocratic.

Correct, because in the United States, our model of government is a Democratic Republic, not a democracy. For all of the flaws of our system of law, the Constitution is considered supreme, and any laws that violate the Constitution are to be considered null and void. The job of the Supreme Court is to decide the Constitutionality of laws.

One interpretation of removing Chevron deference is that it's defacto rewriting law, another is that executive agencies have been doing this for decades already. The truth is probably some mix of the two.
Undemocratic or capitalistic but with a cap?

If it were such that individual states with greater agency could negatively impact neighbouring states and in Chevrons original case, environment and agriculture, then it’s a dangerous precedent of opening up states to competitive market at the detriment greater societal impact and responsibilities. Both positive and negative but the incentives are there to push towards later in pursuit of fast profits and deferred responsibilities.

Am I making sense? States can compete for corporate interests, while we know full well who runs the senate: lobbyists with deep pockets.
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> "it's that many designers seem unwilling to make UIs that are monotone or subdued."

That needs some citations. "Dark mode" is the theme du decade. Most things have dark modes or night modes - operating systems, productivity tools, websites, chat programs, game menus, developer tools, browser chrome, mobile and desktop, traditional and apps.

> "The designer choosing that certain (more monotone) color schemes are not permitted could be conflated with designers making other decisions on behalf of the user, such as assuming the user would prefer fewer options for the sake of simplicity. ("Treating the user as inept")"

If you're exhorting me to have a charitable interpretation of the above comments, why aren't you taking a charitable interpretation of the designer's intent? [And why is fewer options connected to 'inept'? Do you feel inferior when there's only one lightswitch in a room instead of 8? Because somehow more options automatically means more competence? In any situation, the amount of possible options is enormous and the amount of useful ones is a tiny part of it; the most likely thing is that more options are acreted by lack of design and kitchen-sink driven development and are useless or time wasting, rather than considered and useful].

> "I don't know what the OP meant exactly, but I still find your 'translation' uncharitable."

> "I don't personally think colors equate to childishness."

Then why are you defending the claim that they do?

[1] as much as I used to
1) I'm not sure this is the right metric -- by acres burned, depending on the source, natural fires are comparable to human-ignited fires.

2) Fully natural wildfires are typically caused by lightning -- which of course often also means rain, humidity, or other moisture.

But the reality is that human fire suppression is actually quite effective most of the time. It does lead to debris buildup. It does lead to more intense fires--as does climate change and the widespread tree death associated with infestations and drought.

We don't seem to have a great idea of what these ecosystems were like before people, but it's not unreasonable to think that a lot of land would burn a little bit with quite some regularity, but not as intensively as these human-ignited fires because of the whole thunderstorm thing. It's also not clear that wildfires fuel climate change--after all they're not really carbon reserves: those tries will eventually die and decompose anyway, it's not like oil underground that had been locked away for millions of years. And, crucially, they'll regrow.

Lastly: why, again, with the conspirational thinking? "Claiming this just to sell a few more newspapers" as though the people writing these articles are knowingly lying, when almost all are just perpetuating what they hear from scientists/nonprofits/others. Why?
A fork with features removed is better than nothing, but not as good as an independent implementation. A fork has to weigh the risks of becoming too far out of sync with mainline—if it vetoes too often it can become difficult or impossible to merge in future fixes from upstream. An independent implementation, on the other hand, can make a call on each feature individually based on the value and the risks.
I am no damn expert, but I've used them. If you're actually going to use it:

Choose a size that you can read and fits in your hands
Choose a smooth sliding Indicator (some have magnifiers) and Slider without slop
Choose scales you'll use (typ 2 linear and 2 log, some have trig roots etc)
Choose one with the precision you think you'll need

I think most of them are plastic, but some feel better in the hands. There are of course metal, wood, and I think ivory. There are cylindrical ones, and all sorts of historical examples. If you're going to carry it around you'll want a case (or a pocket protector) to put it in.
On mobile web it’s just a form with no submit button. What is it supposed to do?
>Ignoring the economics of paid vs free (or "stolen"),

That's a big thing to ignore. Of course every company wants to be able to serve all media for a low price (and for zero labor costs). If you need to pay for every license you own, for people to maintain your website, to maintain customer support, to translate media, for the servers to transmit media from etc. Then costs are going to add up immensely.

Pirates don't have to worry about any of that. The only catch here is that pirates are enough of a minority that they still eat their cake. If it gets too rampant, everyone loses. Tragedy of the "commons" (despite this being the exact opposite of a commons).
Irreverent and accurate. Not a bad take. It’s pretty obviously true that we don’t know what how the use of this device is going to unfold, and they lightly make fun of that fact without being unduly cynical.
As an aside, I wonder how these sorts of road layouts affects people who grow up there in terms of spatial awareness.

The article and linked paper talks about "legible cities" and people struggling to navigate a non-legible city because they don't know which way they are facing if there is not a grid.

Do people who grew up in a rigid grid system have a different way of viewing the world compared to those who are used to more chaotic and organic layouts? If folks don't know where they are going or which way they are facing without relying on the roads being a grid, what other aspects of their lives are impacted by under-developed spatial reasoning?
I'm so glad that they've changed the name :) Bard is really difficult for me, a non-native English speaker, to pronounce correctly. I think most people from my country (Vietnam) pronounce Bard as "bahd". Gemini on the other hand is so easy to pronounce.
He has been 'playing' around with Gaussian Splats with amazing results too !!

https://github.com/aras-p/UnityGaussianSplatting
This is why keyless fobs are such a bad idea. Transponder keys that have to be in the lock are much more secure as a form of 2FA.
and women!
Yes they can. Typically you need a business license or a PI credential. I worked for the DMV.

One example: https://egov.maryland.gov/mva/
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Heh. Now I want to sneak in a CI automation or a pre commit hook or something - to post _my_ version of my obituary when I've left.