skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely true, and reminds me of an amusing and revealing story. There was a craft brewery that started to become popular and had to hire a relatively large number of employees to run the operation. Word got out that nearly everyone who worked there used cannabis, so police got an investigator to spy by getting hired to work in the brewery. They repeatedly asked other employees if they could buy cannabis from them, but every time the employees responded by freely sharing cannabis.

Much cannabis culture is not strongly commercial. People grow and share. Maybe there is something in that which software developers could learn from.
Lots of devices do not support Windows. I am typing this in an ARM based tablet that does not,but does run Linux. Can you install Windows on all Chrome books, or Apple Macs?

I do not usually check for hardware compatibility with Linux either. The only things I have checked that I have bought in the last few years have been graphics cards and USB wifi, and the latter was just a matter of reading product descriptions.

A lot of software I use either does not run on Windows, or is harder to install or is less mature on Windows. Obviously lots of server side stuff, but even some desktop stuff I would be doubtful about because the bulk of users are on Linux.
Good, fast, cheap. Choose two.
Selling shovels in a gold rush not only makes you rich, it also isolates you from the greatest part of the risk. Nvidia got lucky.
Even with good genetics, you can easily run into the problems I've said.
I have an Outlook rule to redirect these to junk.
The reason we have regulations is businesses will follow the path of money straight to hell.
Not too hard to verify.
> Eaton makes much better UPSes

What makes Eaton products better? Sincerely want to know anything you can tell me.
This map shows where you actually can consume cannabis in Berlin, taking into account the distance rules to schools etc.
https://bubatzkarte.de/#10/52.5242/13.3553
yes, but everything is going on the internet archive.
https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1760764792887746724
This is just a hallucinatory phase.
If the market was looking forward theyd see that nvidia's product offering has minimal moat and no chance to stay differentiated over a timeline long enough for this valuation to make sense.
Sorry, I meant any new regulations or oversight.
In Spain this amounts to paying 10EUR to join a club then you can buy at your leisure. Seems like a fairly low barrier.

The data maintenance stuff is a bit more concerning, but I imagine once cannabis is embedded in the country the reporting will disappear in a round of cuts to gov spending
Every time I see Gemma all I hear is Jubei screaming Genmaaaa since the n is almost silent. https://youtu.be/TFR9-cZecWo?si=rMED2LEh-fssHeeG
Does it require installing 3rd party software on the host machine?

No, it identifies as a keyboard. It also defaults to generating a password that will use the same scancodes on (most?) western keyboard layouts so that computers configured to default to e.g. QWERTZ or AZERTY will still result in the same password.
> Women need AI to show them who they would best get along with.

Is that what women need?
I don't think Troy Hunt is recommending what you're suggesting at all? The very beginning of the post starts with:

> but I'm a smart human so I don't fall for this (that's a joke, read why humans are bad at URLs).

It's clear that he thinks relying on heuristics to distinguish scammy URLs is not a scalable long term approach.
Note: doesn't seem to work on iPad.
No, that's specifically the problem - that's not necessarily true. You're talking about a small plastic box that contains a USB port and some electronics. You have absolutely no way of telling what those electronics will expose to the USB port. It's possible that they only expose some persistent storage, true, but it's equally possible that they expose an emulated keyboard, or just the good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer
>Education was once broader than just some kind of ladder that led to a cubicle, it was about creating people with a penchant for lifelong learning,

Education was never about this and I don't know where that myth came from.

The first schools were created to train government bureaucrats and clergy. Then came military officers, medical doctors, and lawyers.

At no point in human history has education been about "finding yourself" it's been about training to enter the workforce-- from Plato's Academy (politicians and military leaders) to the University of Bologna (lawyers) to Harvard (clergy) to American GIs using the GI Bill to get vocational training after WWII it's always been about jobs.
History hasn't shown that at all. In many places, these changes are already happening, and fast. Meanwhile, self-driving cars are a relative pipe dream and likely to cause even bigger problems than we have now, if and when they ever materialize.
Those non-tech executives often need to signal that they do something with AI in their firms - visibly ignoring it is generally not an option even if they believe that they could. They are not necessarily the patsies you make them out to be.
My hope is frankly this nudges us into a post scarcity world where turning the crank to eat isn’t so damn meaningful. A WPA / CCC style program might be useful, tapping people to enrich the world rather than press buttons for food pellets. But these are fantasies and unmoored in the present. We will see.
We had some great press from Vice Motherboard. A lot of the Motherboard crew started their own tech news reporting portal: https://www.404media.co/
> The inconvenience of the borrow checker is amortized very quickly.

What if you only need to access higher-level interfaces for basic parallel and concurrent operations? You hardly need a language that is written around a particular memory management strategy if all you need to do is queue a message.
I did some cursory reading on money market funds (MMFs) and I don't quite get the advantage if rates are roughly the same?

For instance, if there is a high-yield savings account (HYSA) option that gives 5.3% interest and a MMF that gives 5.4% (with a 0.1% expense ratio), would I not receive the same amount of interest in practice?

Not trying to disagree with you or anything, just making sure I understand the vehicle.
I don't get it

example shows that it's y(g)->g(y(g)), not the opposite...
llama.cpp is great, if it fit your needs you can use it. I think at this point llama.cpp is effectively a platform that's hardened for production.

In its current form, I think of gemma.cpp is more of a direct model implementation (somewhere between the minimalism of llama2.c and the generality of ggml).

I tend to think of 3 modes of usage:

- hacking on inference internals - there's very little indirection, no IRs, the model is just code, so if you want to add support for your own runtime support for sparsity/quantization/model compression/etc. and demo it working with gemma, there's minimal barriers to do so

- implementing experimental frontends - i'll add some examples of this in the very near future. but you're free to get pretty creative with terminal UIs, code that interact with model internals like the KV cache, accepting/rejecting tokens etc.

- interacting with the model locally with a small program - of course there's other options for this but hopefully this is one way to play with gemma w/ minimal fuss.
After 59 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult.
Oh, there are many fun games from the 90's where you must infiltrate some place and every computer has some version of "due to the password rotation requirements, this week's password for the South-East door is 1-2-3-4, effective from Monday" pasted into it.

When the NIST added the bad rule into their ruleset (it was mostly a collection of bad rules at the time), it was already widely mocked in popular culture (well, within the target population).

I now wonder if that ruleset (the original one, that basically mandated you copy every flaw on Windows NT) was honest.
I mean I love to hate anything done by large corps and creepshot cringy VCs, CEOs (nope, not going to name names :P) like the other average peron, but I would take any AI or something else or somebody else that tells me just few things about profiles/matches and I really think those are very reasonable asks:

- do they have a habit of typin lyk dis?

- do they really read?

- do they reply in a timely and proper manner?

- are their pictures really current? (God, this! If only AI solves just this)

Yup. Sue me! But I’ll take that and I think AI can do at least some of these.

Online dating is so fucked up and skewed in different ways to different sides that probably any change might potentially be an improvement. And for a lot of people online dating is literally the only way left when it comes to dating.
when i first read the headline i thought this was a reddit style deal, where chatgpt would be licensing tinder conversation/match data for training. which would be a lot spicier than what it is!
> I know AMD have their competition, but their GPU software division keeps tripping over itself.

They are actively stepping on every rake there is. Eg they just stopped supporting the drop-in-cuda project everyone is waiting for, due to there being "no business-case for CUDA on AMD GPUs" [0].

[0] https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq
Can we add pharmacies calling and asking to verify your ssn and dob? It’s trained a lot of older people to trust whoever is calling.
Depending on how the code is loaded, yes.

If all 10mb is in a single JS file, and that file is included in a normal script tag in the page’s HTML, then parsing the 10mb will block UI interaction as the page loads.

Once the browser parses 10mb, it’ll evaluate the top level statements in the script, which are the ones that would set up the click event handler you’re referencing.

If the entire page is rendered by JavaScript in the browser, then even drawing the initial UI to the screen is blocked by parsing JS.

The solution to this for big apps is to split your build artifact up into many separate JS files, analogous to DLLs in a C program. That way your entry point can be very small and quick to parse, then load just the DLLs you need to draw the first screen and make it interactive. After that you can either eagerly or lazily initialize the remaining DLLs depending on performance tradeoff.

I work on Notion, 16mb according to this measurement. We work hard to keep our entry point module small, and load a lot of DLLs to get to that 16mb total. On a slow connection you’ll see the main document load and become interactive first, leaving the sidebar blank since it’s a lower priority and so we initialize it after the document editor. We aren’t necessarily using all 16mb of that code right away - a bunch of that is pre-fetching the DLLs for features/menus so that we’re ready to execute them as soon as you say, click on the settings button, instead of having awkward lag while we download the settings DLL after you click on settings.
Greg Lemond wrote about fitness, "it never gets easier, you just get faster", which perhaps applies as well to programming.
Sometimes this depends on where you live
For most classic novels I expect GPT to already have in it's memory.
I remember thinking back then "well, how would I know better than the market?". Still, I did buy some NVIDIA stocks, which payed off great. My thought process comes down to: do I think people are as bullish as I think they should be about AI? Every time I come to Hacker News, I still answer "no". As long as I keep seeing people not acknowledging the full potential of AI, I will keep buying.
Instead of complaining to a void about resource consumption, you should be pushing for green power, then. Resource consumption isn't a thing that is going down, and it most certainly won't go down unless there's an economic incentive to do so.
Why should the documentation repeat that a pointer to const cannot modify what it is pointing to?
Probably soon AI will be able to find improvements to most of them? Like using AI to do search in algorithm space
> I hope your code isn't valuable, because it could be leaked or stolen by employees of Dropbox.

So... you only host your own repos on your own machines, without any kind of EULA? You do realise that hosting git _anywhere_ requires a degree of trust, right?
> since the gaming market is all about benchmarks.

Why is that? I’m not a gamer so legit asking. It would seem to me that what would be most important is do the actual games that exist perform well, not some random, hypothetical maximum performance that benchmarks can game.
Possession is still technically illegal, tho it hasn't been enforced since the 1970s.

That said, since December 2023 there has been fully legally-produced cannabis on the Dutch market. While media tends to call it "state weed" ("staatswiet"), it's not nationalized, it's just licensed production. Currently it's only available in a number of cities, chiefly in the South of the country, but more cities should be onboarded onto the system this year.
You weren't learning anything from Vice either.
Awesome work on getting this done so quickly.
We just added Gemma to the HHEM leaderboard - https://huggingface.co/spaces/vectara/leaderboard, and as you can see there its doing pretty good in terms of low hallucination rate, relative to other small models.
Yeah, I mean software development. I don't find the semantic distinction between that and programming particularly interesting myself - why write code if you're not doing that do develop software?
I think dust.tt is open source as well. Is there a difference here?
have you been paying attention?
Docs-as-code will never work, as human languages are way too mushy and imprecise. That's why we have programming languages.
Is there any good reason for anyone to be installing windows anymore other than locked-in enterprise IT setups? Gaming was the big holdout and even that doesn't feel too relevant these days
There's already far more text written by him (as well as code), and there have been run comparisons of it against all the seriously proposed candidates.
Dirvish: A polished Dired with batteries included
Watch the pretty mainstream movie "Get Me Roger Stone" about how gamed certain segments of the population is to mobilise them politically, maybe read the book "Toxic sludge is good for you" about the history of astroturfing in the US - all what used to be mainstream views, that propaganda and fake grassroots group mobilisation has been rampant for over 100 years, then realise how many fed and mil connected people were in Q, and how there's been hundreds of thousands people rioting right in front of the white house with no one getting near the entrance, then suddenly a tiny group of people waltz in with cameras all over - makes absolutely zero sense in a historical or organisational context but already functions as judicial and political leverage almost weekly.

I'm not concluding anything, but sceptical speculation about state-, military pretexts, or corporate action like this didn't use to be as fringe as it is today, where it will quickly earn you an "enemy actor", "russia bot", "china bot", or "enemy of the state" badge - the oldest play in the book in my opinion, echoing mccarthyism, ww2 state sponsored xenophobia or similar strategies.

Since Bernais et. al. wrote about propaganda and the mouldable psyche of the masses for state power and profit in the 1920's it's like these perspectives have been forgotten.

In my view this is how business and politics have always worked until the modern "everything is just chaos and randomness" discourse conveniently became the paradigm - and conveniently that is for the ownership classes - even rather tame marxist historians or a plurality of historiographies outside of the tiny anglosphere bubble would laugh at this perspective and say the state and the upper classes have always and will always conspire in class warfare, propaganda and PR to spin, mobilise and smokescreen resource political and judicial strategies that people wouldn't support organically via PR playbooks, campaigning and event driven political action.
Can I ask where you live? I'm 40 and have never had anything get lost in the mail, ever. Is it a big city thing or something?
I get why you have this perspective because I shared it a few months ago, before my kid was diagnosed, and then I did a deep dive into the research, and more or less did a 180.

You are dead wrong, and have some serious misconceptions, which can't really be explained in a short reply here, but I will outline the main things I think you are missing, if you are open to looking into it.

-There are a lot of non-stimulant treatments and medications that work for ADHD. The reason stimulants are the most widely used is because they have high effectiveness, and low side effect risk. There is tons of research, discussion, and concern on long term side effects and there are risks, but they are less than the extra risks of untreated ADHD.

-Tolerance does not negate the effectiveness of stimulants, it does keep working long term for most people.

-Addiction and dependence on stimulants has mostly to do with the rate at which the effects come up. Doses and protocols used for ADHD don't cause addiction in ADHD people or the general population, because the levels don't come up enough to cause any euphoria.

-Social media and smartphone/internet addiction, etc. do harm executive function in everyone, and make ADHD worse but the effect is tiny compared to the baseline impairment in a person with ADHD.

-The "neurodevelopment dopamine theory" you're talking about is not a mainstream concept among neurologists and neuroscientists anymore. Current research and ideas on executive function and ADHD have moved a long long way from that. If you're seeing a psychiatrist that thinks like this, find someone that has read some literature in their field in the last few decades.

-Your response to my comment about scientism shows you don't know what I mean by scientism. I'm not critical of using science to advance medicine, but in doing the same old thing and pretending it's science, with nonsense explanations. The "neurodevelopment dopamine theory" is scientism.
It also doesn't account for the fire risk — a cheap UPS is much more likely to catch fire than a PC / NAS.
> Since when is Berlin in France?

it's just an example because I know where to get these sources. Feel free to discuss the content though ;)

> Also, you, like a lot of people, ignore the connection between crime, poverty, economic stability and ethnicity. And your conclusion is, well, racist.

The poorest regions in France and Germany are the lowest in crime, rural areas are by far poorer and aren't plagued by neither rapes nor drug dealing.

Even with all the causes listed I can't get past the fact that people get gang raped and stabbed 500 meters from my flat, and it doesn't change the fact that people avoid the place and that it's the biggest local drug dealing spot.

Keep moving the goal post, hopefully one day you'll face the facts, and once the facts are accepted we can discuss the causes all day long and attempt to find solutions, of course if the facts can't be discussed neutrally finding a solution is impossible
Show HN: Auto-Generated PostHog Dashboards
Hey HN!

I recently found myself spending hours building dashboards on PostHog.

So I decided to make a tool that can do it for me.

Here’s how it works:

1. Get and paste your PostHog API key
2. Select an event
3. Get a detailed report about the event with one click - daily users, total times it was triggered, who are the users who triggered it the most, etc.

It’s been saving me a lot of time, especially since I often build similar dashboards but for different events.

Hope it can be helpful. Would love to hear what you think!
I remember reading about a large tech company who used torrents to distribute new releases internally.
In the end this is more of a compromise that was still politically feasible. Depending on who governs in the future this will likely be either expanded or rolled back. Parts of this also depend on some EU regulations that might have to be changed for full legalization to be possible.
Wow, from the article, it sounds rather damning. I wonder if that is the true course of events.
> requiring AI detectives that suss out whether we are actually there or not

Please drink verification can to continue
Which feeds into Saint Motel's song "You're Nobody Til Somebody Wants You Dead" which has a bit about how the list just grows and grows until it's everyone you've ever known...
How can Google so thoroughly embarrass themselves on the image front and then do well on text?
CISA, OMB, ONCD and Microsoft Efforts Bring New Logging Capabilities to Agencies
Was it via gemma.cpp or some other library? I've seen a few people note that gemma performance via gemma.cpp is much better than llama.cpp, possible that the non-google implementations are still not quite right?
In case of Docker with root access or otherwise, there's also a caveat on the page before (p. 772, 3rd edition, emphasis theirs):

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This technique [36.27: Shell Lockfile, sent in from Greg Ubben] doesn't work for scripts run as the superuser (root). It depends on the fact that a standard user can't write a file without write permission. But root can write any file, whether it has write permission or not. If there's a chance that root might run your script, you might want to add a test of the UID--by running the id command, for instance--and be sure that the UID isn't 0 (the superuser's).
It truly is just a modern day Clippy.
> The 100/0 guy has no such option and misses out entirely.

Not true. The 100/0 guy can buy stocks during a downturn just as well as the 90/10 guy. If we're really talking long term, that is, if neither person is selling, and if both are investing the same amounts regularly, then on average the 100/0 portfolio will outperform the 90/10 portfolio. Looking at history, the reason to go with anything besides 100/0 over the long term has to do with risk tolerance, not performance.

https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/e...
I've read one interview with a scammer who mentioned that the initial pitch is deliberately written that way to screen for gullible people, and I've read extended email exchanges with Nigerian scammers where their broken English becomes flawless after the initial reply. 419eater.com was a treasure.

These days though, like most scams the 419 scams have been taken over by organized crime and worse. The average Nigerian scammer nowadays is probably doing it because Boko Haram will kill their family if they don't.
AI, like the Internet will produce a good amount of economic value, so it's not something that will be a total waste. Sure, there will be a lot of waste, but quite a bit of productivity will come from it.
JWST Solves Decades-Old Mystery of Nearby Supernova
Astronomers observe the Radcliffe Wave oscillating
Do you think these 180 000 people will be able or willing to join a club? With a mandatory membership fee and legally mandated minimum membership period of three months?

As these clubs are not allowed to hire people and are also forbidden to allow non-members to act on club duties, a membership will mean some work too. How many of the 180 000 are willing to put in that effort.