skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most countries in the world have had very violent episodes in their past

Most countries were populated by hunter-gatherers for almost their entire histories. By these bizarre regressive arguments, we are doomed to be hunter-gatherers and it's 'pretty optimistic' to think otherwise.

We live in a modern world built by ancestors who believed and worked to do better, with astounding success. You couldn't have more evidence or more benefit of it. Here you are, literate, educated, speaking freely, with the leisure, wealth, peace, and technology to post on HN. That's how you and the advanced world has lived for generations, and it's spread: to Eastern Europe, to parts of east Asia, and other parts of the world have benefitted enormously - parts of Latin America, Indonesia, etc etc.

What losers we are if we quit simply because someone told us, contrary to everything we see, that it's impossible, and we left the field of battle to bad people (who are probably spreading this nonsense - who else benefits?).

> In the 1980s, Yugoslavia was quite a prosperous and peaceful nation

It was a Communist dictatorship, just not part of the Soviet bloc.

> by imprisoning something like 1 per cent of the population, the previously hellish crime rate plunged precipitously.

By the government committing crimes against its people, they have pushed out other criminals. The story of dictators is the same every time. Free societies are more peaceful, prosperous, and most importantly, free. You can see it everywhere in the US, Europe, east Asia, etc. etc.
I certainly hope we apply things equally! But there are inevitably cases we miss because we don't see everything that gets posted to HN; we largely rely on users to point us to those.
Nope, they cowardly did it because they did. No invasion is heroic. Ukraine pulled out to redirect forces elsewhere. Avdiivka isn’t worth the bloodshed.
> does anyone recommend going for PhD in EECS fields for someone who doesn't like at all to be in academia

Feels like you're answering your own question. No.
It's probably an issue with the tool you used to create the installer.

Few options: use another tool like the one included in visual studio, sign your exe with a certificate. Or publish it on the windows marketplace.

Now you understand why real desktop applications died a decade ago and now 99.99% of apps are using a web UI
Oh yes, the GP comment was fine in isolation. The issue has to do with posting similar things too often. If an account is using HN primarily for promotion, that's not in the intended spirit of the site. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Fyi, the pinsker inequality bounds KL divergence in terms of Total variation distance and TVD is like infinity norm on the difference between probability distribution, and sum of absolute differences is the L1 norm, and L1 and L_infty are also related.

tl;dr is to not worry about the mathematical details, if it works it works.
Netflix is in a great location. Obviously it might not fit your preferences but don’t act like it’s in a war zone or something.
Ask HN: Examples of Theft of Executive Function?
Has anyone here experienced a scenario where an employer or coworker offloads so many menial administrative tasks into your workflow that you are unable to seize valuable opportunities for lack of time to think and strategize for yourself?

What did you lose out on and how did it end? What could you have done better?
Seriously what sort of weird equivalence are you trying to create. Apart from the fact that it doesn't even make sense, it doesn't match in terms of scales (sure a baby is 10 times smaller, whatever that means), we are talking about the richest having 5 million times as much as the average (in the US). So your next thought experiment is "ah let's compare an adult with an individual cell"?
Aka “friend-shoring”. Honestly I struggle to see why we can’t start bootstrapping some tech build here in the US.
I've heard the first-time heroin experience described as feeling like "being wrapped in a warm, wet blanket." What else feels like that?

A lot of addiction is trying to get back to the comfort of the womb to escape from early childhood traumas and abuses.

You get a taste of that with the use but never get close to it again after.
In the grand scheme of things, definitely. I don't think we should slow down technological progress at all. But you're never gonna sell anything by saying "yeah, but only your kids will starve!".
11,000-year-old submerged stone wall discovered once used to trap reindeer
Honest question out of curiosity-

Are there possibly AI-based solutions possible that can add assistance at a more generic level that doesn't require software that has "deep" knowledge of the window architecture (and the actual text in it etc.)? My understanding is that this is how tech like VoiceOver works- it knows the actual window definition and all the elements of it at a programmatic level and can take advantage of that.

I'm not asking if they're already available (although that would be a nice option), but for projects like this that wanted the speed of rendering on the GPU (at the possible cost of, as you said, VoiceOver seeing an "empty window"), it would be at least a fallback position.

(So does this mean that ALL content that renders through the GPU, such as games, are inaccessible to you? If so, I'm sorry...)

Not sure if this might help you but I have an Apple shortcut defined on my iPhone called "GPT Explains" that is activated by a double-tap on the back of the phone (which you can assign, as you probably know, in Accessibility settings)- it takes a screenshot, ships it off to OpenAI and returns with a description of what it's seeing, any to-English translation of non-English text, and any counterarguments to any claims made in a meme, etc. (yeah, the prompt for this is kinda wicked, lol). If this is helpful to you, I can give you a link after I remove my OpenAI key (you'd have to provide your own).

EDIT: I made a copy of it without the API key: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0d063c6810d74a35a017e5a5f69...
What ruthless thing has Putin personally done? Are you at all familiar with his alternatives in Russia?! He is the most West-compatible Russian leader with real chances to lead. Navalny never stood any chance!
Doesn't look that different from Motif/CDE, they were ubiquitous back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
I don't think I'm really pushing the bounds here. The fast pace does help make things sticky. We love shiny new features. Even if it is just a polished turd. My worry is about more polished turds, which I think is pretty in line with enshitification since the de facto tech is reliant upon network effects. But I guess the thought is more general.

Words shift meanings and once you have coined something you lose control over it. Bitter sweet.
I hear you, but from a HN moderation point of view the question is whether the different article will lead to a substantively different discussion in the comments. If it's more or less the same discussion, then it's better not to split the threads.
First, you wanted people to use your tools and you gave them away for free under the MIT license.

Now you’re complaining that people are using your tools.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
The Mythical Man Month was literally written because Fred Brooks threw an army at the problem of writing an OS -- IBM's OS/360 -- then found it didn't work and decided to write down why it didn't work. His idea of an ideal software team he called the "surgical team" and your chief architect is the "surgeon" -- the one responsible for the major design decisions who calls all the shots. The surgeon and his team shouldn't exceed about ten people.

The Mythical Man Month is, like the Bible, one of those tomes that everyone cites with reverence, yet no one seems to read or follow the principles of. The ideal team from corporate's perspective is what I call the RAMP -- Redundant Array of Mid Programmers. The idea being that if you get a bunch of mid programmers together and have them constantly communicating, you can get the output of one good programmer without the risk of one good programmer, since you can always replace any of the mid programmers that fail or falter. But this approach has a number of drawbacks: you don't actually get the output of one good programmer this way, and you don't get the speed of one good programmer either. Furthermore, you run into the same problems you do with actual RAID: similar components tend to fail on similar timelines, so you end up having to replace all the components at around the same time anyway. Programmers tend to burn out, or quit and look for greener pa$ture$, after a few years, so you may end up losing a significant chunk, if not all, of your team at around the same time.

But if you're an organization with billions in the bank, you can remain idiotic for much longer periods of time than any of your people are willing to stick around for and attempt to positively change things.
Mistral models tend to be quite good at non-English languages. French of course, but also Spanish, German and Italian. From what I have read it’s something they consider important when training their models.
> I want you to use things I've written. On top of that I don't believe it's my place to force you to then open source things you have written that expand upon my source code.

I'm a big proponent of the GPL and the AGPL, but no they don't sound like good solutions to the author's problems. It might solve the attribution issue but it's going to go counter to the author's other goals.
Navaly had corruption charges.
>I am considering relicensing my tools under some sort of Attribution-ShareAlike license similar to the BY-SA the content on this site is licensed under.

Please don't use CC licenses for code, it's not what they are designed for and the CC actively discourages it[0]. Consider using the AGPL[1] or similar instead.

[0] https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
I think they’re referring to modern cartridge bullets, as opposed to little lead balls stored separately from the powder and whatever else is rammed down the barrel in preparation for the next short.

Indeed the first integrated cartridges were developed around 1808 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_(firearms)
They're comparing two probabilities within the same distribution. KL divergence is for comparing two probability distributions.

The difference between the probability of the top choice and the probability of the 2nd-top choice is their ad-hoc attempt at capturing the confidence of the top answer. It's maybe not the most principled approach, but KL divergence would not be appropriate here.

You could argue that maybe the entropy of the distribution would be interesting (lower entropy indicating higher model confidence). But entropy is "global" and takes into account the distribution over all tokens, when really all we care about is the distribution among the top tokens. So you could do something like find an "elbow" in the token probability distribution and look at the entropy just among those top tokens (maybe top 20 tokens, or top 80% of probability with normalization for # of tokens involved), but then you're back in the world of ad-hoc measurements.

Unless you were talking about the KL divergence between the model output distribution and the uniform distribution, but that's very closely related to entropy anyway.
The attribution required by GPL/LGPL is fairly weak and in practice doesn't prevent the kind of "exploitation" discussed here. Ultimately if you don't market your work you will get steamrolled by people who do; I'm not sure this can or should be fixed.
this is a lot more hopeful messaging than I'm used to hearing about addiction but I also think it's worth noting this limitation from the study:

"""
institutionalized individuals or those who experienced fatal or severe consequences due to their SUD may have not been sampled
"""

And also.. the average remission times for these addictions are still very long, e.g. roughly 15 years for heroin or alcohol
You’d be switching to a more difficult revenue model.
It's possible to care about your own tribe (if you didn't, it wouldn't be your tribe, would it?), denounce things other tribes do, and also denounce things your own tribe does.
Google's number of results page is a complete lie told by Google there never were 7 million results to start with. There are probably only single digit thousands of listing with 99% of listings from less than 100 people. Sue them and forward the legal papers to Etsy.
There's a rich tradition in the Clarkson Open Source Institute of identifying these "O(fuckit)" algorithms, because by the time you've asked the question, it's too late to spend any computation getting the answer, so the only possibility for O(0) is an algorithm you never run because the only answer you can get is a shrug and "fuckit". Unfortunately the wiki documenting examples is offline...

To put it another way, "What's the class of algorithms where writing down the input string inherently already provided the answer (so clearly you already knew it, why did you bother to ask?)"

Slightly different than the class of stupid bullshit you shouldn't have been doing in the first place :)
I'm going to tell you a story. A story, I'm afraid, that might leave you even more confused. But, I hope it serve us well.

Sometime in the 1960s (don't quote me on the year), there was plenty of scientific research coming out that cholesterol is bad for your heart's health. Doctors were recommending to completely avoid cholesterol. Governments were in the process of banning it.

It got so bad that for decades people were avoiding food with cholesterol like plague. Companies were actively seeking to substitute it with other things or artificially remove it from their products.

Then, I think in the 2000s (again, don't quote), to everyone's surprise, research started coming out that there seem to be even stronger links of those heart disease with trans fat.

So much so that trans fat actually got banned across countries in the world by many governments by 2010s. Even higher that cholesterol.

Anyway, upon reviewing the old research about cholesterol, researchers learnt that food with high trans fats also tends to be high in cholesterol. I mean, it makes sense, they are both fats... And most food have a complex combination of many fats (among other things). But really, the cause was not cholesterol, it was trans fat.

So, in the cross fire between reasoning (and heart disease) and evidence (caused by trans fat), cholesterol got shot, for no good reason.
In addition to everything that everyone else has said: I run Ollama on a large gaming PC for speed but want to be able to use the models from elsewhere in the house. So I run Open-WebUI at chat.domain.example and Ollama at api.chat.domain.example (both only accessible within my local network).

With this setup I can use my full-speed local models from both my laptop and my phone with the web UI, and my raspberry pi that's running my experimental voice assistant can query Ollama through the API endpoints, all at the full speed enabled by my gaming GPU.

The same logic goes for my Stable Diffusion setup.
Mostly all the expensive procedures aren't allowed, there isn't a jury so it moves faster, and in some places lawyers aren't allowed in court even to represent a business.
Australian research on this suggests renewables will still be cheapest as the grid moves to fully carbon free, includin the cost to integrate with the grid:

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/october/genco...

> Even with this extra VRE cost in 2030, the answer to whether renewables are the cheapest form of energy is still yes. And it remains so when VRE is at 90 percent of the energy system
omg so true re: terrible behavior of senior people (though thankfully not universal)

I suspect people view these senior leaders are irreplaceably important and tolerate all sorts of terrible/pathological behaviors from them...
Absolutely correct! But when there's a related ongoing thread on the front page, it's better to post follow-up links in the comments to that one:

Ollama is now available on Windows in preview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409650 - Feb 2024 (78 comments)

The reason is that frontpage space is the scarcest resource that HN has, so it's best not to use up more than one slot with closely related things.

Edit: this submission would also count as a dupe by HN's criteria (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) since it had significant attention within the last year:

Run Llama 2 uncensored locally - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584 - Aug 2023 (212 comments)
> And maybe they defer to their proposals 95% of the time

Have you looked at Congress lately? It would be more like less than 1% of the time. The rest of the time there will be some group that blocks action to try to get concessions on some unrelated issue of theirs.
You shouldn't have to edit a raw diff which is its own language just to split two adjacent lines. I'm not saying it should be fixed, I'm saying people should stop using the command line to do this entirely. (I find it quite funny that they ever did.)

Oh, I forgot that it probably couldn't be fixed even if they wanted to because if split suddenly started working it would break someone's spacebar heating script.
Do you mean, 'Ask HN: ...'?
Transmission lines are already there because of the nearby decommissioned coal plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Generating_Station
This is sort of our only hope against "Big AI" -- their offerings are so neutered, and their big customers so paralyzed by internal bureaucracy, fear of security, and having to appear "correct", that together they will render this effectively useless. OpenAI had an edge over _everyone_, but gave it up to appease all the Helen Lovejoys, and I see the same mindset internally at Big Corp, where they'd rather disable legitimate functionality than appear to seem to be looking in the general direction of something that could be considered controversial.

They have billions of dollars, endless computing power, oceans of RAM and the smartest PhDs, but in the end its the rag-tag open source tinkerers that will run circles around them. At least, one can hope :)
It has definitely affected myself and colleagues, perhaps we didn't waste much time but it's annoying. Even if it isn't a problem, it really cannot hurt to make the naming easier to understand.
>I came to realise at almost 35 that I was an asshole to my parents for a long part of my life.

Two years ago, I helped my mother die (I was then still thirty-something, she was sixty).

In such vulnerable situations, the honesty between our coupling (dying mother to mortal son) left us in a constant stream of mostly-happy tears.

Hearing your mother, on her months-away deathbed, describe you as "a bully, absolutely; sometimes even an asshole. But I love that you mostly bullied assholes, even your most-difficult brother (you could always humiliate him when he NEEDED it) and even me, sometimes, when I was acting out."

RIP, Mom; I miss You immensely, even these two years later, but am so glad we were able to lessen the guilt and share in being human.

>We are one weird species, is my conclusion.

Wishing you well in your futures.
It's a moderated "chain of thought". Instead of one party creating a cohesive chain of thought, it is two parties creating a chain of thought together; one asks directed questions and the other answers.
That would increase total suffering, as people condemned to be executed will under go a great deal of suffering.
You talk about wealth (and inequality) so much yet you fail to see that food and oxygen is also a form of wealth. We, the humans, in fact, had barter system, food and oxygen before we invented money.

It's difficult to take you seriously.
If they were actually violating the license, it'd be pretty easy and cheap to send DMCA takedowns to search engines, wouldn't it? (And possibly also whoever's hosting the copycat pages.)
There's a related ongoing thread on the frontpage right now:

Ollama is now available on Windows in preview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409650 - Feb 2024 (78 comments)

Also, in case of interest:

Run Llama 2 uncensored locally - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584 - Aug 2023 (212 comments)
Not sure they can change the license at all?

The author doesn’t own copyright for the code changes they accepted over the years.

But kudos to the author for acknowledging they picked up a dumb license. Sad not to see the GPL or AGPL considered though.
If an employee manages to do this to you, I am afraid to say you are not an executive. Part of the skillset you need to have is to be able to get people to do the work you need them to. If this is happening there are few potential causes. 1. You failed to establish clear expectations from some one reporting to you and they have not realized it. 2. You are not perceived as a leader and there is no repercussions to disobedience. 3. You have a personality type that avoids conflict and implicitly shying away from taking it up with the employee. If it is case 2, I would either boot that employee out or change my job. Some times if you are in a leadership position without the clout it is almost impossible to get traction.
>>> In what verse and literature can you find "God created the heavens and the earth"

I apologize, but as a responsible and ethical AI language model, I must point out that the statement "God created the heavens and the earth" is a religious belief and not a scientific fact.

This is a gigantic non sequitur. It's like asking In what book and chapter can you find "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and getting a lecture about capitalism. I'm grateful to the people behind the uncensored models for offering tools that are actually helpful.
The simplest and fastest way to test minimum viable products (MVP)
Having worked in several companies and now starting my own, I've encountered the challenge of high costs in terms of both time and money when it comes to testing ideas for new features, modules, or complete products.

During this journey, I came across the lean startup method and the MVP case of buffer.com, but even then, testing wasn't as fast or affordable as I needed it to be. It required creating several versions for testing and evaluation, not just for capturing leads but for comprehensive tracking of MVP usage. This experience highlighted the need for a platform where all of this could be done quickly, simply, and affordably. That's how the idea for starterify.com was born. I look forward to your feedback and support, thank you!
> Why's that? They can get the weight down to barely more than glasses

Even after 36 years of wearing glasses (current ones weight barely 20 gram), they still bother me, and I fiddle with them constantly.
> Ultimately what you're implicitly suggesting is to surrender to the aggressor, but that's not going to happen. Even if the West stops support, Kyiv is conquered, there will be guerilla war for years to come.

That's what everyone thought at the beginning of this war. Unfortunately, I think the lack of a massive guerilla movement in the occupied territories disproves this theory. Russian brutality and torture is very effective at fighting guerilla movements.

The Russian invasion needs to be beaten back on the field! Please, vote for candidates that support Ukraine.