skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fissile Yield
Bob called me with rather interesting news.

It appears his experiment was a success. He worked at CMU
in Chemistry, specifically the area of supercooling things.

On a whim he decided that it would be interesting to supercool
something radioactive. That way he could study the subsequent
heating "in slow motion" atom by atom.

He needed something very stable but radioactive. The best option
seemed to be Uranium Hexafloride gas. Florine combines with anything
and is very stable so any defrosting would be very slow. The
radioactive Uranium would be easy to track.

The experiment was expected to last several years so he kept adding
more of the gas, cooling it and compressing it into a softball sized,
very dense solid. The whole experiment was put in the lab closet as
there was literally nothing to see.

He was very excited when he raised the temperature. The softball
stayed a solid all the way up to room temperature! This made the
measurement process much easier.

In April he built a measurement device in the corner of the lab.
It measured the radioactive gas released in great detail. In May
he found that the ball was ever-so-slowly evaporating. He estimated
that the process would take about a year.

Bob got a summer sabbatical to work at CERN. He would receive daily
reports from the experiment but was too busy to analyze them. But he
could see that the ball was slowly shrinking exactly as predicted.

One day the daily report showed no results. The video stream showed
that someone had opened the experiment and taken the sample. It seems
a grad student needed some of the measurement hardware for another
purpose and didn't know it was still an active experiment. The ball
was just left on a lab table and eventually thrown out.

When Bob finally analyzed the data he discovered that the Uranium
Hexafloride released from the ball only contained U238 atoms.
The U235 remained in the slowly shrinking ball.

This seemed like a great breakthrough for Uranium enrichment. Now the
centrifuges were no longer needed.

Unfortunately, as Bob pointed out, somewhere in the city there is a
ball of Uranium that is slowly shrinking, slowly enriching to pure U235.
And, at some point, it might reach a concentration sufficient for a
fissile yield explosion ... of several city blocks.
For customer service, that ship has already sailed. And it's as disastrous as you may expect: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-...
Instantly Install and train custom GPT for minutes
I remember when SLI was two graphics cards, each handling alternate scan lines of a vga monitor.
I think you’re missing the point.

If I take $10 and give it to you for 10% of your company and you give it back to me to rent a room in my building I now own 10% of your company for $0 outlay and you get to use the room in my building for your business, and in these arrangement the room is rented at cost. Everyone wins in this arrangement. This isn’t stupid, this isn’t offloading capital into income. This is an efficient way to maximize my investment by effectively using existing infrastructure spend and boosting my investments cash flow position by reducing their infrastructure spend.
The ai is ready to take off to perfection land
It's not fundamentally different. It's just not making that big of a headline because Google search isn't "new and exciting". But to give you some examples:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-19/google-qu...

https://ischool.uw.edu/news/2022/02/googles-ceo-image-search...
2 hour trip each way and I will never go into work :)
In 1994 we were seeing this all for the first time. Everyone had intrusive thoughts like "how big can I make a pop tart fire", but very few had the ability to make digital photographs and upload it to the Internet for all to see. Today, everyone has the ability to upload it to the Internet for all to see, so someone probably already had your intrusive thought and already made $10,000 off of it.
It is already a highly speculated bubble, the share price is swinging drastically within the same day.

That being said, Nvidia will have a good 2-3 years in the future, until the cloud providers start mass replace their chips with in-house ones.

For money, unfortunately, it is as good as anyone's guess, but if you join now, double your share, it will be close to 4T. I personally didn't think that is sustainable amount of money if market/competition does their duty.
I’m very, very skeptical that any of us can accurately assert that a majority of people want this specific behavior from their messaging apps.
Try:

< file.txt grep pattern

Less keystrokes.
I find it strange that they are making so few machines.

The price would probably drop slightly if they made 10x more machines, but they would still end up earning more. And the world would be a better place, too.

So I am left wondering ... what is capping their output? What is the bottleneck?
Huh. Learned something today. Thank you.
> If you have problems seeing the map, please stop your AdBlocker...

Well, no.
This one was voted down but there is a good point here.
There is no way to figure out what binaries there are (maybe you could make `go list` show all the `package main`s?, not sure).

Beyond that there's no way to discover what build flags may be needed to give you the binary that the developer intended.
Be it tags, ldflags, cgo support.
I am not sure if this comment was directed at me, but the "genuine question" was a genuine question, not rhetorical :) And the answer I was looking for was "the payment cards probably use QR codes instead of magnets/IR/RFID/etc."
Continue, the open-source Copilot alternative, has raised $2.1m
"go mod download && go run ."

What's the point in making `go run` error out when it already knows what dependencies to get and how to get them.
"Why are they making 13-inch laptops?"

Because some of us travel?

"isn't it better to buy a 13-inch tablet then?"
No. Tablets are for consuming media and are terrible at anything else. Plus with a keyboard case they weigh more than at 13" laptop.
Yeah I think it is people being overfit. They understand that "hi" and "hello" are words that begin a conversation but don't understand their purpose. On the phone it can be to verify the other person can hear you or is there. In person it is like a wake word to grab attention before you start saying what you really want to say because if you jump straight in someone isn't going to shift their attention instantaneously.

It just has no place in asynchronous communication other than patterns like the "Hi -- I'm working on..." example from that link.

I criticize machines a lot for overfitting, but I'll especially criticize machines being taught by people who are overfit. Hard to create general machines without understanding why things are and the rabbit holes that exist everywhere around us.
Sure, whatever. But he's claiming something stronger in the blogpost - that he owns this knowledge because of his 40 years of jazz experience, and AI doesn't have the right to "regurgitate" it.

No one can own knowledge. Copyright only covers your specific expression, and that's on purpose.
Really cool idea and generally solid execution -- I would totally use this.

That said, a couple bits:
1. I can't seem to click the events on the map in Safari on Mac.
2. The map doesn't load at all in Brave (I even dropped the tracker blocking on the site and reloaded and it still didn't load).
Your website and blog are very low on details on how this is working. Downloading and installing an mai directly feels unsafe imo. Especially when I don't know how this software is working. Is it recording a video, performing OCR continuously, taking just screenshots

No mention of using any LLMs in there at all which is how you are presenting it in your comment here.
It's not really a Go thing but a build system thing. It's useful to have your build system know what is an "executable target" and how to run it.

Bazel does this for _all_ languages. I'm sure most other modern generic build systems do too.

AFAIK "go run" is trivial and for single-file scripts it's fine. But for more complex cases (like the NPM equivalent thing) I actually think it's a bit of a shame that it's even needed. I don't really know why we have per-ecosystem build systems (Maven, Go, cargo, whatever the hell you're supposed to do in Python these days, the nebula of web front-end tooling, etc etc).

Admittedly I do not really know the ins and outs of any of these systems in detail. I'm sure there are some good reasons why they exist under the hood.
I think Europe would do well not to repeat the Russian mistake with China.
it's an existing connection.
I've never tried to hire on a marketplace.
The prices are either insane. Or if you go for an affordable price, then the quality is super low.

I you need advice, I'd say: find some folks on twitter who build MVP on fixed price.
They care a lot about their reputation. Also you can see on their twitter feed how they communicate and etc
Out of interest, how many other folk here use LinkedIn in this manner?

Admittedly I find LinkedIn for the most part a pretty horrible place. It’s filled with dark patterns, people never really being genuine and thus always in a weird sort of “I am totally a normal casual human being right now and definitely not pretending because I might make people angry and lose my job or hurt my career otherwise” mode. Feels super artificial and sort of like a constant popularity contest of demonstrating peacocks and the occasional “congratulations on your X” post that LinkedIn told them to make.
Presumably, Elon Musk did it himself. Which isn't hard to believe considering his fascination for the letter "X" and that it is a common Unicode symbol.

The story doesn't tell if he paid himself to do that.
It's not that bad. With Perfect Memory AI I see ~9GB a month. That's 108 GB/year. HDD/SSDs are getting bigger than that every year. The storage also varies by what you do, your workflow and display resolution. Here's an article I wrote on my finding of storage requirements. https://www.perfectmemory.ai/support/storage-resources/stora...

And if you want to use the data for LLM only, then you don't need to store the screenshots at all. Then it's ~ 15MB a month
Dark side of George Formby: the marriage from hell, affairs and drug addiction
13 inches is a very popular laptop size and a good compromise between what used to be the 12” size and the 14” size.

13” tables are just weird uncomfortable laptops that lack a keyboard.
Don't forget the sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
This all assumes the "perfect information, even playing field" theory that capitalists love to use but is completely unrealistic.

Reviews rarely talk about things like this, this information is not explicitly given to reviewers or customers and neither can be expected to find out on their own (i.e. by trying to hack the car themselves), the car manufacturer spends insane amounts of money advertising to the buyer using every psychological trick in the book, the buyer is often under time pressure, the savings from cost-cutting are rarely passed down to the consumer...

Buying things in the current market landscape is a battle, not an optimization problem.
I can't be the only one who clicked on this hoping for an explanation of why they owned a cat.
The census will have to add lines for "unborn people (metabolically active)" and "unborn people (metabolic stasis)". /s

IVF is the domain of the upper middle-class and the rich. So around 80% of Alabama IVF users are likely to be Republicans in agreement with white nationalist lite, Christian fundamentalist patriarchy. Complaints will be ignored by the self-righteous triumphalist legislature proud of ramming through their anti-freedom agenda.
Our Founder Ate Chicken in 40 Years (and No Animals Died)
Windows XP was good, even if it was very…playful. Windows 7 was usable even with the eyecandy. i feel that Win95 UI was a bit too drab for personal computing.
really? How does it get indexed by google so fast?
posted an hour ago. pretty cool
Men have shorter lifespan's than women largely due to testosterone, but that doesn't mean men having testosterone is evolutionarily maladaptive.

I eye some risks people with ADHD have, like higher risk for STIs. Sure, Russel Barkley things people with ADHD getting STI's makes them "disabled", but evolution gives a bit two thumbs up to people with ADHD having unprotected sex. Barkley then brags treating ADHD will reduce STIs, by you know, reducing the amount of unprotected sex with multiple partners that they're having. If anything listening to Barkley's advice is likely to make the average person less reproductively successful.

I don't know, I don't like Barkley and his pro-pharma fan club. It's correct that medicating people with ADHD will profoundly change their behaviour. But I don't see any reason to call the prior way people ADHD people behaved as "disordered" and "a disability" and the new way they behave on stimulants to be curing them of a horrible disease or whatever. That description is not scientific - it's subjective what we do or don't consider a disability or disorder. If you prefer life on addy, good for you, keep using addy. I find the entire way we decide to describe behavioural and neurological differences as disabilities and disorders to just be thinly veiled bigotry often taking the form of self-hatred.
Good point, note token. benchmarking is a great tool to show differentiation. BTW, apart from what we think is important ourselves (latency, mean opinion score, etc), would you mind sharing what you want to see in such a benchmark? One key metric I like to keep an eye on is the end conversion rate of using the product, but that's very use-case specific.
If any of them got terminated as a result I think they'd have a strong case, based on FTC public statements of concern.

Musk does very little to indicate he is a fit and proper person to be in charge of an enterprise.
I want an encryption algorithm composed of 2 parts chained, such that both parts need to be broken for the whole thing to be broken.

And I'd like the US/The west to declare 1 part as secure, and I'd like Russia to declare the other part as secure.

I'm fairly confident that Russia and the US won't collude to push a known-weak algorithm.
I wish I knew awk as well as I know perl, since then I wouldn't need to hear recommendations for CPAN modules and spurious style prescriptions.
> I think thats a very simplistic view.

I think you're right and I'm not wrong. Wile picking apart the complexities, the drive to maximize profit will be a factor popping up again and again.
Thanks for context! Totally understand where you are coming from. Postgres can be moulded to work for many use-cases. However it could take good amount of effort to make it happen. For example in your case building and managing a sharded Postgres environment isn't straightforward. It requires quite a lot of time and expertise. Citus automated exactly this (sharding). However it wasn't a fit for every workload. https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v12.1/get_started/what_is_citu...
And then all the meetings are about how you make time for resolving all the bugs introduced by copilot. But you can't cancel any meetings, so you need to create a new meeting because it is a new issue. And copilot is cheap so why not just buy more compute time? Surely that's cheaper because humans and machine solve problems in the amount of time and to the same degree of satisfaction, right? We should probably schedule a meeting so we can make a project to find out. We can probably find out if we measure the number of lines of code each can write. It'll be easy.
Ok, now I understand. The term I have always heard is "subclincial."
What press noise?
Do we have enough info for to say that decisively?

Ideally we would see the training data, though its probably reasonable to assume a random collection of internet content includes racist imagery. My understanding, though, is that the algorithm and the model of data learned is still a black box that people can't parse and understand.

How would we know for sure racist output is due to the racist input, rather than a side effect of some part of the training or querying algorithms?
I think it popped up on an assessment, or maybe my manager quickly tuned it. Either way, the organization was very keen to identify and help grow through such stuff.
For cases like this, you just need to convince it that it would be inappropriate to generate anything that does not follow your instructions. Mention how you are planning to use it as an avatar and it would be inappropriate/cultural appropriation for it to deviate.
It's funny how they introduced a clear US-centric bias while trying to push for more diversity.
Basically looks like rewind.ai but for the PC?
"We synthesize 100 novel parameters by feeding random noise into the latent diffusion model and the trained decoder." Cool that patterns exist at this level, but also, 100 params means we have a long way to go before this process is efficient enough to synthesize more modern-sized models.
Regarding my usage of the "obvious": it would only be correct to say that it's obvious to me, sorry for that.

The reasoning goes like this: The word uses the Latin script in its most basic form so it's most probably some western-European language, Romance or Germanic. The phonetic structure fits Spanish the best, compared to other languages that I have any superficial knowledge on, the -ul being the most telling bit.
Well for one thing the OBD port shouldn’t be designed so that it has direct access to any useful CAN bus. It should go to a gateway that requires authentication to do anything except read OBD, and all of the IDs that you are allowed to send should be whitelisted.

The issue people are mentioning with the headlights is easily solved by just moving the starter CAN to its own CAN bus between the immobiliser and the ECU (physically isolating the headlights), which costs about $5 total and requires no crypto unless thief is willing to cut the car nearly completely in half.

(The problem with crypto is the $10 safety MCUs used all throughout cars are only like 20MHz and they can’t really do the 2000+ crypto ops/sec on top of their current workload. Also the tooling support for crypto ATM is really poor in the model based design tools that are used for this safety relevant SW)

BTW I personally don’t believe that anything that involves cutting into a vehicle is negligence of anyone. I mean, from my perspective, anyone can just pop the hood and drive the car with their own BYO ECU. It’s just a hunk of metal and once you start cutting it up you can make it do whatever you want.

I am an automotive systems engineer.
Time to name & shame these vendors - do you remember what the brand was?
Agree completely. Having used a bunch of parser generators (Antlr and bison most extensively) and written a parser combinator library, I came to the conclusion that they're a complete waste of time for practical applications.

A hand-written recursive descent parser (with an embedded Pratt parser to handle expressions/operators) solves all the problems that parser generators struggle with. The big/tricky "issue" mentioned in the article - composing or embedding one parser in another - is a complete non-issue with recursive-descent - it's just a function call. Other basic features of parsing: informative/useful error messages, recovery (i.e. don't just blow up with the first error), seamless integration with the rest of the host language, remain issues with all parser generators but are simply not issues with recursive descent.

And that's before you consider non-functional advantages of recursive-descent: debuggability, no change/additions to the build system, fewer/zero dependencies, no requirement to learn a complex DSL, etc.
combined with gosh - a golang shell interpreter it's pretty easy to create scripts that run on all the platforms and architectures, even future targets

go run mvdan.cc/sh/v3/cmd/gosh@latest -c ' go run github.com/mikefarah/yq/v3@latest n foo.bar.hello world | go run github.com/cezarsa/glolcat@latest'
I don't have a flag button or option my account is new
The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
You should ABSOLUTELY take the Nvidia offer over other FAANG. The share price of Nvidia is not speculative hype. It's very reasonable given their growth. This is not some random crypto coin. Nvidia's share price really does reflect economic reality and their position in the market. As an employee there, you'll have the opportunity to purchase shares at a reduced price through their Employee Purchasing Program. Also, any RSUs or options you get will appreciate tremendously. Financially, the best decision here is to work at Nvidia.
You probably did, but under the name "stable-diffusion-webui".
Maybe that is a true sign of intelligence? Smart enough to know it's all a waste of time and effort.
Why On-Premise Makes Sense for GenAI
You’re right. 3dfx is an earlier story.
I also don't expect Musk to be able to build a sustainable colony on another planet, what I do expect is for him to be able to build the transport infrastructure that enables someone else to be able to build it[0].

And even then, most likely with a layer of indirection that puts Starship in the role of space truck which enables the infrastructure be built, but which isn't the main mode of transport itself: To really make a Mars colony viable, I think both Earth and Mars (for different reasons) would probably want a non-rocket launch system such as an orbital ring, which Starship could help build.

[0] assuming the von Neumann replicators don't eat us all first. He is literally building a bunch of general purpose humanoid robots and suggesting they may take on factory roles… and Tesla/Optimus isn't the only such robot under development.
You're differentiated from the competition primarily by generative AI? Or are there other things that make Dart stand out.

Out of all the project management tools I've worked with Linear seems to be the best. But I'm always interested in innovation in this space.
That sounds like a very clear sign it's time for you to fire your boss and find a better one.
thats how almost all video comm platforms work..
exactly. the UI is shockingly similar
For me, it is management processes such as sprints, Jira story points, OKRs, interviews asking completely irrelevant questions, performance reviews based on completely useless metrics, stack ranking that pits people against each other - all this shit makes me want to quit.

If I am going to build important features and services, constantly improve my own and engineering skills, know our systems through and through, be on-call, deal with cross team issues, fix bugs, mentor juniors, and essentially keep everything running day in, day out - the least I can expect from management is to be on my side and not be my adversary. As long as this relationship is adversarial - as it is in big tech - I couldn't care less about the job, the managers, the services. For all I care, it can all sink.
Fastmail is great. I use them for pretty much all of my mail. A bit perplexed about why this is only for new accounts. Maybe they’re gathering data on how people use the offerings before potentially losing customers by messing with existing ones. I also get the vibe that they’re targeting the average person more than normal, specially with the Spotify-like subscription terminology used.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369653
There's also (I think?) been some research in the direction of figuring out more abstract notions of how models perceive various 'concepts'. I'd be interested in the LLM version of diffs to see where changes have been implemented overall, too.

But really, the trouble is that it's tough to predict ahead of time what kinds of things are likely to be censored in the future; if I were motivated to track this, I'd just make sure to keep a copy of each version of the model in my personal archive for future testing with whatever prompts seem reasonable in the future.
But if their claim is real catching the marketing executive is not core issue here … who can produce this …