skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say there are several factors. Qt itself is a very powerful and feature-full framework already offering a lot as a base. So by reusing it and building on this base KDE developers can focus on additional things. And even on top of this KDE developers are very good at creating their own KDE Frameworks providing additional abstractions and common code that all KDE applications can reuse and also provide a lot of consistency/integration between them. Finally KDE is also one of the biggest FOSS projects (I think it is the second, right after Linux kernel) so by having so many people and using the best in class GUI framework is what makes it possible to create so many powerful apps.
for a multi-millionaire, living off of 500k is not a solution for them.

no one gives a shit, seriously. This is the worlds tiniest violent playing for those who refuse to adjust to not having as much resources as they'd like to have.

oh man, I'm so turrble, telling them they should probably live as if they're only half-millionaries.

offly enough, reality doesn't give a shit.
Is there a platform that managed to implement a decent sandbox without a review process a’la Apple?

Android definitely fails in this aspect, if you look at stats on viruses etc.
This prompted me to watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqRP0ualoI

"fairly interesting" is quite the understatement! Absolutely fascinating and hilarious at the same time! Thanks for your post TIL
If progress was equal everywhere we wouldn't have all these laggards willing to work for peanuts to improve their life (because the peanuts they were working for locally are even smaller than foreign peanuts). ~5% of the population currently not getting the job done doesn't invalidate any part of my argument. It just means that 5% might be the last guys left in the dark ages if progress continues and the policy of offshoring doesn't reverse (either for political reasons or because we cracked the full automation code and labor costs no longer matter because we aren't using much labor to produce things. If that happens the dirty stuff will still be offshored but the calculus will be different for the foreign country).
I hit a wall in the same way, but quite a bit earlier, sometime at the latter end of middle school. It was especially clear in semester-long final projects. I could get through things on a day-to-day basis, often by last-minute effort but sustaining progress on something that was so far in the future (initially) tripped me up. I wished my classes in middle/high school had adopted the technique of requiring progress steps throughout the semester.
> Should we dive into the relationship between "preferred" and "better"?

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. They are not the same things; there is nothing magical about subjective preference that makes something 'better', no matter how many people share it. If they like burritos and I like ramen, does that make burritos 'better'?

In fact, people can prefer things that are clearly 'worse', for many purposes, such as beer over hydration fluid. People can prefer things that are clearly wrong, such as disinformation.
Most places have rules for ebikes with pedal assist and power below certain limit, 250W in the US, are treated the same bicycles. Throttle and more power aren't ebikes but electric mopeds.
> Does ANYONE actually believe that?

Yes: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/health.html
I think it depends what permits they are waiving as part of this plan... Will we see a bunch of leaning buildings like Santos Brazil after their big tower boom?

I imagine they are keeping most of the safety ones.. but it wasn't well highlighted in the article
> Everyone knows what

> export let prop = 10

> means.

What? I mean that's technically syntactically correct JavaScript but it makes no sense outside of Svelte, and if the prop is not literally named prop like in your example here, it's much harder to understand what this is doing compared to taking a prop value out of a $props object (or rune or whatever), like you would in many other frameworks.

I'm just a bit surprised because while I like Svelte I feel like all of is like this, it's all technically JavaScript syntax but all of it is magic that only works through the Svelte compiler, and this new syntax actually looks slightly less so to me, although I wouldn't say I prefer it.
In how many instances over the last 10 years has a country code TLD for a country of New Zealand's size or greater been stolen? It doesn't make sense to talk about benefits without costs, and vice versa. Error-prone and dangerous security demands urgent problems. Is TLD hijack one of them? It is not.
I am limited in the current design for clock sources but I intend to implement pitchbend so it'll be possible to detune two voices that would otherwise be sounding in unison.
If you want to maintain an information advantage, you should definitely not rely solely on the web. Simply reading a book is often 10x better. Comment from a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369583

One thing I've found comically underestimated is books. It's not whether the information is physical or electronic, but what actual corpus of information is available

...

So yeah I'd say 3 main repos of knowledge are: the open Internet, printed books, and Scihub, and many people today only use the first one

Though I'd also put "talking to the right people" and by extension "working at the right place" pretty high up there in getting novel information.

I think for a certain generation, Google probably diluted their ability to access other knowledge bases, and act upon that info. And for the generation currently learning how to learn, LLMs may do the same thing.
Most, not all. Salesforce is a notable counterexample.
This works for homework problems in school, too. Look at the problems, then go to the text(s).
So it's the legacy of NIMBYs.
English is written left to write. If you use your left hand to write, your hand will glide over ink that's still wet.
That would have worked for a short time while Russia and the oil industry adjusted, but ultimately its a global market of a fungible commodity.

Unless sanctions succeed at blocking Russian oil from hitting the market entirely a loss in profit would be short lived at best.
What a terrible take. Stefan Baack is definitely not an ml researcher and I can't imagine any read over this piece.

> Common Crawl’s mission as an organization does not easily align with the needs of trustworthy AI development. Its guiding principle is that less curation of the provided data enables more research and innovation by downstream users. Common Crawl therefore deliberately does not remove hate speech, for example, because it wants its data to be useful for researchers studying hate speech. However, such data is undesirable when training LLMs because it might lead to harmful outputs by the resulting models.

If Common Crawl did this then how would we train models to not be toxic? It's simply false that by curating data enough we can avoid creating toxic models.

We've know this for many years now. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08489.pdf is one early and popular example. Even carefully curating the data to balance it by gender doesn't eliminate gender biases. No amount of curation will fix toxic models, nowhere close.

> It could also enforce more transparency around generative AI by requiring AI builders to attribute their usage of Common Crawl.

This is a practically worthless level of transparency. Ok, a model used a subset of common crawl. Now what? What practical knowledge have we gained? Nothing. This is the kind of low effort stamp collecting approach to transparency that helps no one.

> By themselves, pre-trained LLMs are not very useful to most people.

Nonsense. There are countless applications. They are not great chatbots, but that's totally different.

> there should be a greater diversity of filtered Common Crawl versions

This is the main message. It appears like 10 times in the writeup.

Not only is it technical nonsense, removing this data is known to not make a difference. It's even worse.

Whose filters should they apply? The author's? The US right? The Chinese communist party? Etc.

It's easy to say "I want fairness and everything nice". But when the rubber hits the road it's just nonsense.

I say this as an ML researcher working in this area.
I have no idea what you are talking about. You seem to be responding to a person or counterpoint you are thinking about, but I don't see here on HN. Anyway, have a good one!
Yup couldn't agree more. Qt is the most productive and one of the nicest GUI framework I have used during my programming career. Used it from C++ and also from Python (PyQt). And on top of it it is also the best I have used when it comes to very good native OS integration (looks, behaviour...) when you need cross-platform support. GTK+ yeah not nice, I am trying to forget it just as all those Java GUI frameworks. Terrible experience.
> the two have nothing in common

Well, in my case at least, what they have in common is that I can choose to run my business on one or the other. So it's not about intuition, but rather facts in my case: I avoid spending a significant amount of money.

I (of course) do realize that if you design your software around higher-level AWS services, you can't easily switch. I avoided doing that.
Cuckoo hashing is such a joy to work with, and feels like a gem produced from the pressure at the intersection of theory and practice.

They are much easier to implement yet feel more fundamental than other open accessing shemes.

I've used tiny cuckoo hash tables with a bounded size of 2,4,...,256 elements as a compression technique for an Adaptive Radix Trie that doesn't require heterogeneous nodes, and I think I've never had more fun in my career as a computer scientist/software engineer.
The problem with hydrogen powered airplanes is that hydrogen tanks are heavy and use lots of space. It should be possible to make hydrogen powered planes but they would have to be completely redesigned to work, and may lose range and payload. While with liquid fuels, at least the non-cryogenic ones, can use existing designs and maybe even retrofit existing planes.
Sanctions cut off markets from Russian oil, they didn't attack profits directly. Sure there will be a short term hit to profit margins as the oil industry had to adjust and different markets have to buy up the sanctioned oil, but its a global market of a fungible commodity.

Even if sanctions did somehow target profits directly, has it worked? Do we know that Russian oil profits are meaningfully less than they would otherwise have been? And how do we balance that benefit with the damage caused to European markets that had to scramble to adapt?
I would be interested how much discount on the egress fees is possible for big customers. Especially if you're running a service that is heavy on egress, for example something with video processing that also exports/streams videos. Or are those companies just doomed not to use the big three cloud providers?

Those egress prices are not at all about the cost of the traffic, it's more like an additional hidden fee. And a vendor lock in not to use multiple cloud providers.
> So not what most people would consider "affordable".

Yeah, this is basically "slightly less unaffordable housing". The one-bedrooms are apparently even more expensive than the two-bedrooms here, which are already extortionary, about double the price they were less than a decade ago. I would know, as for our current place (two-bedroom) we started at under $1,000 per month and ended up here paying almost $2,000 per month instead.

Our family of three makes $35,000 a year. It's a wonder we're not homeless.
Plenty of places with far worse reputations than Oakland are not dropping in prices, because they didn't build.

Any place will drop in prices if you keep on building in advance of demand.

Gentrification is more likely to come from lack of building than building. That's the story all throughout California and every other wealthy area in the US: extreme gentrification through lack of new housing. Its not the new housing that drives up prices, it's the lack of it.
I'm struggling to think of any possible application that would need anywhere remotely close to 10^18 items. Do you have an example?
This is probably underused in user interface: the new version can include new features but give the user the choice of when to add the new feature as a new control on their screen or when to replace an old behavior with a new behavior. That would be a useful feature in itself.

By contrast usually, the publisher acts like they know better - all the way to auto-updating (with a new user interface, sure, why not) at the exact wrong moment. For example, you launch Zoom to join a meeting that started 3 minutes ago and what do you get: minutes of auto-update which you can't even override.
Looking forward to a 3D version of TTD sitting off to the side on my desk in my mixed reality headset. Rendering in 3D seems done already https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=86412
I've long wanted to know if my condo building's basement was once hooked up to the Chicago Tunnel Company tunnels. It was built as an office building in the loop in 1913, and there were certainly tunnels down both streets that my building abuts, so it seems fairly likely, but who knows...
Yes...They are pulling what is called a Henry Paulson

"“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number...”" - https://archive.thinkprogress.org/treasury-explains-how-it-c...
> Why follow the rules of some online survey? Logically you should do whatever provides you the maximum emotional benefit, regardless of what the rules say.

Why follow the rules of the game then? I used to cheat at many games both online and offline, some casinos think I "cheat" because I always count cards, I have an explicit gain by winning in all scenarios, as I either gain more satisfaction from winning or monetary output.

The same social consequences come from the online survey, i.e. I do collect information about who you are, further you do damage the quality of the data meant to fund/explore future decisions in all kinds of venues, e.g. social studies, politics, etc.
True. But an F-35 cockpit has more space for cameras/etc and a slightly higher price. I also suspect selecting from very close together (in your field of view) enemies isn’t a too common.

On the other hand on a site like HN there are a ton of very small targets right next to eachother.
Just on that UMAP point, I’ve found a lot success using PaCMAP (https://github.com/YingfanWang/PaCMAP) instead, which AFAIK is the SOTA in dimensionality reduction algorithms.
> you can get an idea of a crates attack surface at a glance just by grepping for it

I hope that the code that streams your data out to an endpoint isn't memory safe, so you easily find it!
To an extent, but it's only about 85-95% correct even in the good domains, which is fantastic for a few steps… and then it makes a fundamental error and half the time doesn't understand corrections given by domain experts that would get it back on track.

This limitation is the only reason why all of us all have jobs, so do plan for your economic future on the assumption the AI get past this flaw with no warning — how many steps it can do before falling over isn't something I can predict, despite regular use of even the OpenAI playground before ChatGPT came out.
The fact that Ireland leads this one is a strong hint at this also being not very useful: it's distorted by shell corporations and the likes. Ireland is the tax haven of choice for the entire EU in terms of digital services.

Is there a "GDP of only the industrial sector"?
This is my biggest gripe against Equinix. Other than that, they're 10/10.
ROCm runs PyTorch and TensorFlow. It seems to have more or less caught up on the technical capability front.

There are outstanding problems, particularly I've found it very crash prone on a consumer desktop and wouldn't recommend an AMD card for research compute tasks where you are also running an X server using the same card. But there aren't $30 billion opportunities for custom chips on the consumer desktop right now - I'm guessing these will be for SaaS businesses where AMD are focusing. IE, it won't matter that they can't X.org and multiply matrices at the same time because servers won't use the cards for graphics.
So does DigitalOcean. It'd be nice if the page specified which vendors do and don't.
A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat.
But doesn't

export let myProp = 10

work in any JS module? I thought it was quite standard. Maybe I'm mistaken, JS/TS is not my first language, but I think it's pretty obvious what it's doing.

In any case,

let { myProp = 10 } = $props

does not even remotely work like it would in JS. It's literally a compiler directive.

That is, $props is not an object. The string "$props" is a compile-time directive that declares myProp to be a prop. It's not destructuring $props, it's declaring myProp. "$props" is a magic incantation defined within the Svelte compiler.

I mean, this is my point really. It's using JS syntax but it's no longer obvious what it's doing.

To your point, given that Svelte compiles the code anyway, I don't understand why they couldn't have kept the existing syntax ("vibe") and just changed the semantics. Why come up with some brand new, syntactically-compatible- but semantically-incompatible-with-JS, syntax?
Fwiw, article and feed render fine for me, FF 122, Arch, but my bookmarklets to popup a dialog and copy the url do not work.
Awesome, thanks and sorry for the pedantism.
An RV that has last moved decades ago, doesn't have wheels anymore, has been built around (terrace etc) and is basically part of the land plot is still a vehicle?

Laws of my country clearly say it's no longer a vehicle if it didn't move for a long time or can't move anymore, and thus has to be registered and permitted as a building.

The laws also say it is a building and not a vehicle if it performs the function of one.
This article isn't really about migration costs, it's about the cost of just sending data out into the wider internet (outside your cloud provider's data center). GCP is still very much charging for egress, they just now allow you to apply to get those fees waived if you are migrating off of GCP.
Other park goers harassing you because they think you violated the rules and they think trying to deride you for it is a good idea.

See most "x while black" incidents.
A couple of years ago spooks were complaining that widespread social media use made it difficult to create cover ids ex nihilo. Does generative AI make it any easier?

(what about the retroactive aspect? presumably spooks have already been crawling the usual socials)
I saw a company selling bed feet with a trap catching bed bugs. It was using glue IIRC. I remember it looking like this (side view of one foot):

| <- bed lays on top of the feet
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
----|---| <- glue here
|
| <- this part touches the ground

The idea was that there was no way up to the bed for the bedbugs without getting stuck in glue. It's not unlike the traps for big wasps, to prevent them from attacking bees.

Now of course it only works if the bed is on feet. It basically prevents them from climbing up to the humans as they get stuck in the feet.

What I noticed is bed bugs hate: zen rooms with no furniture besides the bed (very little place to hide, besides the mattress) and brand new paint.

Had bed bugs once, in room: treated the room with chemicals, moved the bed off the wall for a few days, repainted the room, vaccuum cleaned (with a very strong vaccum cleaner) the mattress... It worked but YMMV.
Show HN: Loz – Automate Git Commit Messages with LLM
Loz is a CLI tool that utilizes Large Language Models(LLMs), specifically code-lamma and GPT-3.5, to automatically generate GIT commit messages based on code changes.
(Keeping in mind that you are playing devils advocate, and that none of this is directed at you personally)

Induced demand for highways: sure. Well proven. Happens every single time.

Induced demand for housing? Gonna need to see some hard evidence on the time scales, etc.

Housing is very different from highways. People can go from using zero freeway miles to 50 freeway miles a day, if there's slightly cheaper housing further out. It's this drop in pricing that drives demand.

For housing, the increase in demand comes from having, presumable, more amenities, making the dense living more desirable. The change in time for amenities to develop is on the order of years, however. It takes a long time for businesses to develop, build customer bases, etc. And in that time, it's possible to build more housing. Housing scales far far far better than freeways. It's easy to double, triple, quintuple, and even 10x or more the density from single detached units. Freeways don't scale like that.
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I agree this is kind of trivial, but doing anything more than the average person already puts you in the high percentiles.

My abstract strategy for making contact with the right people:

Try to imagine things from the perspective of the people you're trying to contact. What is their day-to-day, what are they sick and tired of? What will make your cold email stick out in that context? It's click-bait targeted at a specific person. Again, this is probably just one level above what the average person will do. But that already puts you ahead of most people. It gives you some chance of reaching the right person.
Well, no. GAT might let you fake Monad, but it doesn't let you fake Traversable. And honestly, Traversable is just as useful.
180 TB is still a small customer in the scale of big cloud providers, so they probably just don't care. If the customers are willing to pay the price they are taking their money, if they go to one of the smaller providers they are fine with it too.

Also it could be possible to set up some hybrid solution and offload the egress heavy assets serving to another provider and only run the "brains" inside AWS/etc.
You might enjoy this: https://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/. The section headers link to his (IMO really excellent) articles about maze generation algorithms, plus there’s a more comprehensive book you can buy.

(I doubt kid’s mazes are made using these precise algorithms, but either way they’re interesting!)
AI/LLM winter sets in; GPT-6.5 is no AGI, but the wide-ranging societal effects of AI systems are visible at all levels.

VR/AR Spring finally arrives; Apple Vision 6 SE is a satisfying mass product for under $600.
NOTE: Wikipedia says it's toxic to cats
At one point in my longest / most dedicated playthrough I had a huge monorail multi track going square around the map, thing was a money printer. Really satisfying to set up.
I am 10s developer/systems engineer and my eyes kept getting wider with each new technology on the list. I don't know if its overkill or just the state of things right now.

There is no way one person can thoroughly understand so many complex pieces of technology. I have worked for 10 years more or less at this point, and I would only call myself confident on 5 technical products, maybe 10 if I being generous to myself.
No, just the term "affordable housing" in general.
The author primarily talks about interviewing interesting but un-interviewed people as a new source of interesting information to write about. The author talks about their process of finding new people to interview.