skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"IIRC it cost me around $70 bucks for the day."

Sure, for you that was the price. Enterprise cost would be way different.

"Note that we are at early stages with this tech, it will probably only get cheaper from here."

Haha people who pay for these ai tools can only hope...Ask any cloud provider, streaming service, or utility company if their prices are cheaper now than before.

As these ai tools get better, they will require more resources to run (according to altman's 7 trillion dollar request) and most likely drive up the costs.

But hopefully you are right though, as i believe we as humanity would be best served spending as little money and resources as possible on AI.
How the pyramids were built in Egypt [video]
Yeah it read to me like the original comment is discounting the importance of the actual material for content, which would be the most hilariously tech bro thing I've read in a long time.
Usually it's on different platforms, but re-releases can also have graphical upgrades, extended plot options, or even total engine remakes.
Lobsters' invite tree is a very useful feature, but the moderation quality is significantly worse than HN.
Forever, if they also have access to comparable tools to weed out lower quality sites.

Why would you expect otherwise, that intelligent people will suddenly lose their ability to perceive what's higher quality content?
Counter-point:

"Two studies explore the extent to which this deeper processing engendered by disfluency interventions can lead to improved memory performance. Study 1 found that information in hard-to-read fonts was better remembered than easier to read information in a controlled laboratory setting."

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-hard-fonts-retention.....
The barrier of entry to building a "foundational model" is less than $400 of compute time (72 hours) on a handful of rental A100 using widely available open source data sets. Open source projects by ICs are already on par with GPT3. It's gonna be really hard to regulate stuff in its current form, which is already commercially beneficial
Sure, there will always be some fraction of dupes and double games being played, but how does that change the main point?

It's very unlikely for 100% of all intelligent curators to become dishonest either so it doesn't seem like a serious roadblock.
umm... a monopoly is literally a rent seeker, that's what a monopoly is good for. If you aren't rent seeking you wasted a ton of time and money on becoming a monopoly for no reason. The only thing new here is that the marxists have found a new way to miss the point.
No no, linear just means some expression of the form

y = b1*x1 + b2*x2 + ... + bp*xp

which is in the heart of the model (perhaps more specific description would be linear combination). Whatever you call it, it's just some quantity y, that is constructed via an additive process from components x1...xp, and each component is multiplied by some constant (the coefficient of the linear combination).

This linear combination "core" of the model can be used directly (in which case it is geometrically a hyperplane), but you could also use non-linear transformation of the inputs or the outputs.

E.g. x1 could be a spline basis function, or log-transformed data, or anything.

Similarly, the output y can be passed though some non-linearity to force a particular output (like in logistic regression). Hence the statement is not vacuous
Just use BSD license then? Isn’t that the most permissive of all?
Thank you, this was really interesting.

Multithreading and parallelism is my hobby, so I'm curious how emacs implements this. I imagine it would be really difficult to migrate the entire ecosystem from code that is not designed to be accelerated by multicore.

I feel that if you just add a mutex, the code will fall very short of expectations of Amdahls law because:

* you cannot accelerate any single memory address mutability rates/performance by adding threads
* to accelerate write/read performance (to get up to theoretical memory bandwidth) you need no-locks and multiple threads with DIFFERENT memory addresses

You need a different model to programming that is efficient.

One thing I can think of is that each thread owns a few buffers and you load balance that way.
This is insanely fast, obviously a game changer over time. You should try the demo!

This seems to be using custom inference-only HW. It makes a ton of sense to use different HW for inference vs training, the requirements are different.

Nvidia, as far as I can tell, is focusing all-in on training and hoping the same HW will be used for inference.

Exciting times!
They've been a joke for over a decade, at first it was just politics but the quality of writing is well below that of Hunger Games.
The Namingless Programming Language
My pet rock also doesn’t have moodiness, never has PMS and can’t get frustrated, doesn’t make it a good girlfriend

Not sure I’d classify chatbots respond to prompts as “their interests and thoughts” either even if it is steerable

Replika has already proven me wrong - clearly people do get attached. I just don’t get it - it’s too shallow to hold my attention for any length of time
> but for codebases that require a bit more language server support (eg. C++20 and sometimes Rust)

Unfortunately, for this use-case, neither Zed or Laplace will likely to fill the gap, as they rely only on LSP as Neovim. That's also my issue with both: They should focus more on providing features to support coding, not just speed.
Complex numbers are not a QM feature; they are just more convenient to use in computations. There are equivalent formulations, like Wigner's phase-space with quasi-probabilities and MIC-POVMs that don't have any complex numbers. The weird part is the negative probabilities, not imaginary numbers.
Out of the electronics that are recycled, sure.

Currently thats less than 20% of the electronic waste generated.

Annual e-waste generation:

The world generated 53.6 Mt of e-waste in 2019. That's an average of 7.3 kg per capita.

The amount of e-waste generated is expected to grow at about 3.5% per year and will reach 74.7 Mt by 2030.

E-waste recycling rate: In 2019 only 17.4% of the e-waste was collected and recycled.

from: https://blog.emew.com/global-e-waste-statistics (unverified by cross check, literally a first hit on search)
It's being renamed to a no-slow-types lint rule that occurs on publish and in deno lint. Essentially it enforces that the types of the public API can be determined without inference. This enables a few things:

1. Type checking ts sources is really fast when Deno determines a package does not use slow types. It may entirely drop packages and modules that aren't relevant for type checking. It also skips parsing and building symbols for the internals of a package (ex. function bodies).

2. Documentation is really fast to generate (doesn't need a type checker).

3. A corresponding .d.ts file for relevant typescript code is automatically created for Node.
For related topics filed under complexity/compressibility see also Kolmogorov complexity, algorithmic information theory, and the hutter prize
@dang I would like to make the argument that the increased attention from Google will exert a downwards pressure in HN quality due to marketers taking advantage of its influence and search ranking to conduct influence operations.

Would you be willing to consider the possibility of delisting the site with robots.txt?
Therefore, likelihood ratios! (Or log likelihood ratios)
Wow, that was a classy response to an awkward situation.
Federal convictions https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdil/pr/jury-convicts-telemarke...
The equivalent formulations aren't the alternate theories that information theorists study when they say, "QM without complex numbers." They study very much non-equivalent theories, although they feel unnatural enough that it's hard to see what they're all about unless you closely study the technical details. To tell you the truth I don't have any picture of what restricting the matrices to real numbers means physically.
Opportunity is everywhere. Talent is not.
It's a great active online community of people actually building - all helping each other with their complimentary skillsets (product, designers, devs, growth)

I just rejoined after not working on side projects for a while and find it a great value - super easy to network/find a cofounder too
Mixed bag. Some would say more development is more churn is more risk, some would say that bugs are inevitable and a slow development velocity implies that vulnerabilities are unlikely to be fixed quickly. This is one of those questions we'd probably have to answer in aggregate with actual science and probably still conclude that it still goes the other way in some cases
Al Capone would have passed KYC everywhere as a US citizen

And Al Capone could have used a non-profit as they are tax exempt, where money laundering - the crime - is not possible because there are potentially no taxes to report

that's the system
* ipsum2 has asserted that "Gold is definitely not discarded, it's usually recycled out of electronics."

* many HN comments strongly suggest that China is the sleeping enemy of the USofA (not my position, but it's a commonly held stance here).

* a great deal of US electronics is sourced from Chinese companies.

Is China gifting a country that considers China an enemy gold debris?
SoraApp currently got 7,500 on the wait list and will close the batch1 waitlist when it reaches 20,000
git clone --depth=1 is fast because it doesn't grab the full commits history but OP is getting at a specific singular file directly.

It is neat, not aware of a git incantation so fine grained. Hope it gets built into Git directly.
Which is cost prohibitive and doesn't make sense for any other entity other than "let's light money on fire + enslave people to flex so the cool kids like us" UAE.

it's not a good look. hope my comment doesn't flag me in unforeseen ways 20 years from now.

To be clear, I'm saying effectively yep need bedrock otherwise it makes zero actual sense. (I do take you point, and lesson learned on my part)
Mentions do not work here, you should send an email to hn [at] ycombinator.com.

(BTW, if this is gonna be done, we should also block all AI bots and search engines at the IP address level.)
My question was: what did Forgejo do? If the software is still developed in Gitea's repository, and all Forgejo does is download the source from gitea.com, rename it, and post it on forgejo.org... how does that help the users?

If there exists some Gitea features that are not available open source ("open core")... how does having Forgejo help? Unless they provide those features, the situation remains unchanged. Until they do, what is there to applaud, and what's the point of switching?
This is an incredibly dull, unthinking regurgitation of the nonsense people say online to feel better about their own lack of creative ability. My point wasn’t that computers can’t do the same thing as artists (they already can), it’s that computers won’t achieve the same result by having people describe the images they want to see because that’s fundamentally not how images are made or even perceived.
Probably he's really dead. Putin tortures people to death in prison through neglect all the time..
This might be the first Intel desktop PC, but it's not the first desktop computer. That would be the HP9100A from 1968.

I agree more pictures would have been nice. It looks like a cool piece of hardware!
The same ebay scammer has been popping the same fraudulent listings into my feeds every few weeks for the last 8 years. Their "pay through (external url)" URL always uses Comic Sans, so I call them the "Comic Sans Scammer." If ebay was trying, I suspect that these listings would have changed a bit to evade detection, but the only thing that ever changes is the compromised account name.

To ebay's credit, their support is very good once you are on the "press button, get called seconds later by a human" tier, but I also make ebay a lot of money, so I'm not sure how common it is to receive that level of service.
Ouch. Thats rough.

Pity - always thought its a credible award.
Floats Are Weird
Ask HN: How would you overthrow LinkedIn?
You have $10m in funding, 10 of the best hackers and 10 of the best marketers in the world. And you have 10 years to build a competitor that takes away at least 20% market share from LinkedIn.

What’s your plan and roadmap?
Are you still migrating away?
>I wonder if intent matters.

I doubt that the dealership would feel their intent mattered if they overcharged the same guy and he balked. Isn't that the whole goal in this stupid way of buying cars that we have to deal with?
yes, copy the code:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3...
paste in either:
https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/
or:
https://goqr.me/
If you're new you may not know this but the meme that HN is turning into Reddit is at least 17 years old, and has been the last entry in the Hacker News Guidelines since forever: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah yes forgot about Publix - and yeah more than once I have been asked by Publix employees if I needed help pushing the cart - they seemed to be happy to do it too!
I lack words to adequately express how much I prefer Presenter to something like Keynote or Google Slides. It’s just brilliant, and they put a huge amount of thought into making the output look beautiful.

Bonus points for being able to export in PDF, Word, etc. in various combinations of with/without speaker’s notes, ruled notetaking sections ok each page, and a bunch of other pleasant details.
As far as I'm concerned, the first platform to get federated merge requests will win it all.
Im still fuzzy on this whole ai thing (as a dev)

Would our industry create a new job role such as "prompt engineer" aka "ai engineer supervisor" ??

Or would this ai developer be able to read jira/kanban tickets, cooperate with other "teammates", deploy fixes, etc with no major oversight?

Generally curious.
Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle [pdf]
> "don't be an elitist, the mailman doesn't need to read the Iliad"

That's not what I meant originally.

It's okay if the mailman wants to watch the newest Marvel movie to relax and unwind after work. Or maybe the mailman grew up reading the comics and the Marvel movies are a dream come true, despite their flaws.

Why is it not okay for the mailman to have pursuits that aren't some way related to improving oneself or related to intellectual curiosity? Maybe they read the Iliad some other day or when they have more time or are in the mood for it, no judgement there.

I think people are talking past my original comment's point. If anything its an elitist view that the mailman is wasting their time if they aren't doing something productive. That was my original point at least.
Had a fun few minutes playing the game. Thanks and keep up the hard work.
To my mind the conclusion is backwards. A file with a high compressed size might be doing something useful; a file with a low compressed size but a high uncompressed size is a file that's full of repetitive junk, and those are the files that should be a target for refactoring.
My perspective may be a little biased from being a compulsive adblocker for over 2 decades, but I think those slides are far too much visual overload and will distract from the content; and I suspect those who do see ads all the time may be fatigued by and mentally try to "block" a lot of the content too.
That’s really dystopian. “We’ve always been at war with Sales and Accounting”.
Just ignore these HN folk about copyright as they clearly don't have a clue about it and all they can do is complain about it.

What they want is for you to be very happy about you getting ripped off by them whilst they infringe and grift on your work for free with zero credit.
Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back
Funny timing with all this is that I just read Folding Beijing (https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/) a few days ago, which won a Hugo in 2016. Great story, but I can't help but think that this year's committee would've axed it too.
I live in SF and my pre Uber experience was about as nonexistent as the cabs and the people at the cab company who were supposed to answer the phone.
On most forums there's no automated system that automatically shadowbans users for using a blacklisted IP.

They also don't quietly remove comments in a way that is invisible to a user for triggering some keyword in AutoModerator or a spam filter. And there are usually no minimum karma or account age requirements for posters.
I think you are correct for space station 13 but space station 14 has its own open source engine!

https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/

https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox
If you stole all your books you learned programming from, is your skill level totally legal?

OpenAI isn't just storing the data like Seagate but all its answers are derived from that data.
No wonder i was feeling a strong gravitational pull running npm install.

I'm afraid if i run a 'rm -rf' command i might take out the entire electrical grid!
Are there services that have a copy of the Internet for a fee?

How did perplexity.ai crawl the internet for their AI?
Show HN: Searchbase – Plug-n-play semantic/fuzzy search for your data
Genuinely
>> I remember the panics about offshoring and how we’d all lose our jobs. Didn’t happen.

Well it kinda did, just not yet in the tech space. But manufacturing has certainly taken a giant hit over the last few decades. There has also been a fair bit in tech but fortunately there's a Lot of tech still to do, so there's plenty of work to go around.

All that said, I agree with your thesis that trade is a net gain at the societal level, while potentially being a net loss for some at the individual level.

Xenophobia and Nationalism are not the solution.
> but it is now usually worse

so why not go back to taxis?
What do matrices with complex numbers 'mean physically'?
Considering how badly that whole thing went, I hope people don't give up on the underlying concept of including China in global science fiction awards or even more generally. It seems important for everyone's security to integrate culturally. My impression is that there is a significant amount of that already happening, being driven by forward-thinking writers, artists, academics etc.

Have any writers tried to bridge the ideology gap between China and the West? Maybe Taiwanese authors. I think I read an article saying that one of the top Chinese officials with enormous power had been in the US and although initially supposedly open to western ideas had found a lot of negatives that ended up reinforcing more opposing beliefs.
> So a lot of us that actually use this stuff love that we can copy that URL at any particular moment. Is there a way to do that and not show up in browser history?

Yes, there is a specific browser API you can use to do that, or an older technique of using the fragment part of the URL for that kind of data.
I noticed that a couple of years ago. 10 years ago or so, Jetbrains was the gold standard. Then support and quality started to rot. Issues not resolved for years, esp. for Webstorm. Instead building new products and features I was not interested in. I needed proper tailwind support back then, not some cloud colab solution for enterprises.
Nothing on this website says that they are openAI or are affiliated with them... Is this just some third party attempting to harvest a whole bunch of email addresses?
Documents from a Chinese government spyware vendor Anxun leaked to GitHub
> Do you leave your windows open when you leave from home just because the burglar can kick the front door in instead?

Yes (or at least: I ain't terribly worried if I do forget to close the windows before leaving), because the likelihood of a burglar climbing up multiple floors to target my apartment's windows is far lower than the likelihood of the burglar breaking through my front door.

But I digress...

> You're missing the point and you're not thinking like a hacker yet.

I'd say the same about you. To a hacker who's sufficiently motivated to go through all those steps you describe, a lack of publicly-known autoincremented IDs is hardly an obstacle. It might deter the average script kiddie or botnet, but only for as long as they're unwilling to rewrite their scripts to iterate over alphanumerics instead of just numerics, and they ain't the ones performing attacks like you describe in the first place.

> For example your profile here is '/user?id=yellowapple' not '/user?id=1337'.

In either case that's public info, and it's straightforward to build a list of at least some subset of Hacker News users by other means (e.g. scraping comments/posts - which, mind you, are sequential IDs AFAICT). Yes, it's slightly more difficult than looping over user IDs directly, but not by a significant enough factor to be a worthwhile security mitigation, even in depth.

Unless someone like @dang feels inclined to correct me on this, I'm reasonably sure the decision to use usernames instead of internal IDs in HN profile URLs has very little to do with this particular "mitigation" and everything to do with convenience (and I wouldn't be all that surprised if the username is the primary key in the first place). '/user?id=worksonmine' is much easier to remember than '/user?id=8675309', be it for HN or for any other social network / forum / etc.

> Sometimes an incrementing ID is perfectly fine, but it's more difficult to shard across services so I usually default to UUID anyway except when I really want an incrementing ID.

Sharding is indeed a much more valid reason to refrain from autoincrementing IDs, publicly-known or otherwise.
Are you saying you'd be ok a company leaking not just your sequenced DNA (and the avalanche of things that says about you), but who you're related to, by DNA?
True. People doing solar concentrators have pivoted to supplying process heat, which can be collected most efficiently that way. It must be said, we use a lot of process heat. Heating people's houses would be another good use of the technology in places where the trenches and plumbing are cheap enough.
Ask HN: Could LLMs be used to moderate content?
Would content moderation be possible via LLMs? If so, would it be cost effective vs human moderation?
Another realistic and cost effective scenario would be Von Braun Wheel or O'Neill Cylinder stations this orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
Federated merge requests, wiki, issues and such would be a killer feature.

I want to see all this data for all of the forks that are relatively close together from a single pane of glass. This would make collaborating and uplifting code back to the main branch much easier for small free software projects.
I think it means if you serve it to the public, a hacker might eventually find a way to enumerate all of your .git repo.
Is lock in on this level a problem? I’d have thought proprietary cloud, SaaS and offerings with no foss equivalent would be the key these days.

Still a good argument in favour of nix though
The file I used was being generated by a partner company's ERP system so I didn't really have to make any files myself. Having said that, I use a lot of Notepad++ on Windows and using the ALT-029, ALT-028, etc, syntax generated the right codes for direct keyboard entry. They're displayed by Notepad++ as inverse text "RS", "GS", etc.
No one other than the OpenAI team has access to Sora.

Now this is what I call a scam and a grift.
If they make it a default they will nonetheless break a huge amount of existing workflows to older Excel versions and other programs.

Why would they want to pay for the reputation and credibility damage for the multi-year long, or multi-decade long, transition period?
Salmon Finder
From what I've noticed, the date is also inferred from the page.