skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism, hype and irrationality are a good combination for a bubble.

I remember this famous AI professor Andrew Ng in an online lecture, talking about his "AI dream" and his enthusiasm to reach general intelligence.

Even John Carmack boarded that ship, and I don't see he is going to deliver, and honestly I don't really trust him to deliver some real skepticism about AI if he doesn't deliver something good.

We really need more skeptical professors and experts to talk more on how AI is not as great as it seems. The inventor of SIRI did a great talk about this.

Apparently people seems to confuse and conflate "making quality deepfakes" and "AI is useful".

It's weird when I am a developer, and I really want LESS technology.
I think that's a misunderstanding of the analogy. The moat isn't about trapping users.

Moat as its typically used is to say that a business is protected by the moat, the prize being the castle/business. The residents/business are free to build and prosper, be productive in other words.

When Keller calls it a swamp, he's trying to say there's no castle to be productive in. The swamp makes it a mess, and thus hard for the business to actually maintain productivity. It is still difficult for the invaders to break in (?) but they don't need to...because it's a swamp. They should be busy making a better castle -- which is what Keller is trying to do.

Disagree with him or not, but I think that's the analogy.
Hey, is there a cooling solution that sprays water on some sort of heat spreader and lets it evaporate? Kidding. Kinda. But actually, is that possible?
I think it is because overclocking has become so normal that it is an expected feature on most chips. Being told to disable it is like being told to disable the supercharger on your new Ferrari: you are no longer getting what you thought you had paid for.
What Happens to Your Sensitive Data When a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt?
The sun just launched three solar flares in 24 hours. What it means
Is it me or going cheap on anything power-related seems like a terrible idea ?
>The latest outburst is the most intense of the current 11-year solar cycle
It’s been (effectively) legal in neighboring Netherlands for even longer
T* (T-star) is a great name.
Python and obviously the Linux kernel are large git monorepos.

SQLite uses Fossil because they want to not only eat their own dog food but they want a complete app that can do most of the work that GitHub can do.
I did provide a counter argument and referenced evidence "backing it up": Namely LLMs can learn languages that are not human-compatible (Moro, "Secrets of Words").

I seriously doubt you have read, never mind understood, any of the papers you cite; if you had we could discuss what's wrong with them. Without even having read them there are obvious problems like the fact that you can't measure a large number of individual neuron activation in the brain and that different deep learning networks have substantially different activations so they cannot be meaningfully be similar to the brain if they aren’t even similar to one another (or that the similarity is so nebulous as to be meaningless).

But this is moot because as I said at the outset there are fundamental differences at the functional level which make existing LLMs (and deep learning) unlike brains.
> In many companies, this would be a P0 "don't go home until it's fixed" production emergency if a bug like this crept in to the software.

Would it, really?

P0 would probably be "10% of our customers can't submit an order." Or "20% of our vendors are experiencing 404s."
yes, those are excellent points i strongly agree with

what kinds of new materials are they using in the falcon rockets, do you know?

quite aside from the weight, latency is extremely important to precision control; a factor of 10 in latency may be equivalent to 100× or 1000× more sensor error. so, even if weight was no object and you could mount a dozen 5-tonne 10-megaflops cdc 6600 supercomputers on your reusable rocket as the guidance system, you might still be better off with a 100-megaflops high-end microcontroller, just because it can respond more rapidly to perturbations of homeostasis
I love this. I work on an openource project (in progress still) building forms on top of different databases and can say that Retool really nailed this one. Well done!
Show HN: Deploy your own real-time SDXL Lightning API
If a share of a stock is $100 and the profit of the company is $5 for that year, then the price to earnings ratio (P/E) is 20. Suppose the share price and the profit remain equal, then it takes 20 years for the earnings to "cover" the price of the share. That's the spirit of the P/E ratio, in my opinion.

Others would simply tell you that it is:

(share_price / earnings_of_that_year) == price_to_earnings_ratio

Sometimes analysts will say that a P/E ratio is too low or too high based on what industry competitors trade at. So, perhaps there was a time where you read that an analyst and/or news outlet believed that the P/E of Apple was too high relative to its analyzed peers (e.g. Microsoft - assuming Microsoft was seen as a peer back then).

Whether one should or shouldn't trade based on a particular P/E ratio has always been a matter of opinion.
The national insurance providers are often pretty slow or shady when it comes to claims, but I've never had a bad experience with Allstate or State Farm when it comes to their cybersecurity and domain experience. Allstate's frontends (web and app) sometimes feel more clunky but their APIs feel good enough and sites seem to follow good design practices.
I, for one, welcome our new silicon overlords.
The Muppets would like to have a word: https://fastsdxl.ai/share/ywnd9inzxsj2
Not MUMPS, that one actually has a standard. This is a straight up proprietary, maintained-by-one-company language. The concept isn't bad (that is, the objective of having a way to automate a formerly manual, and lengthy, set of processes), but the implementation is. Market capture, that's the name of the game for that company. They slip this into all their projects so even if they lose a follow-on contract they still get license fees for their proprietary components.
There's a ton of PDF forms that I deal with at work that only work with Adobe Acrobat. When I open them in other PDF viewers, it'll be a single page telling me that if the PDF doesn't load in a few seconds then my PDF viewer is not compatible with the document.

I'm not an expert, but I imagine that they were created with Acrobat and it embeds some (proprietary) stuff in the PDF that only works with Acrobat. Acrobat is also the only PDF client that I'm aware of that supports signing PDF forms with certificates. There's other features in some PDFs that I've encountered that'll only work in Acrobat as well, like buttons embedded in the PDF to email the form or dropdowns in the form that don't work in other viewers.

It seems pretty swampy to me when 90% of the PDF forms I deal with can only be (fully) completed in Acrobat.
We made a small web app for SDXL Lightning, running your own Python code on GPUs. It generates images in real time.

We know there was a fal.ai post yesterday, and that garnered a lot of interest. We also made this quick demo yesterday but didn't end up sharing it then. So after seeing this, we thought it would be interesting to mention as an alternative tool for people who like deploying their own code and custom models rather than using prebuilt APIs. :)

As mentioned in title, the backend code is open-source too. It's 80 lines of Python running on serverless functions, and you can deploy it yourself, or customize it to any model you choose:

https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-examples/blob/main/06_gp...
No.

That's not the reason to drop the bombs, you need much more than that to reach such a conclusion.

18,000 rebels on one side tried pick a fight with 25,000 government soldiers to prevent a surrender even after the second city had been levelled, is a reason for thinking that Japan was still only borderline ready to surrender at that point, and therefore that it was unlikely to have been ready before this point.
> Please submit the original source.

The guidelines don't say anything about language
You're about to be downvoted and flagged by people who have never been to Berlin.

Edit: Great googly moogly I must be clairvoyant.
Right, it does have a strong odor. But if you have a balcony then it's easy even in an apartment. Without a balcony it is a kinda difficult as you need some carbon filtering set up.
Rails 7.1 introduces analyze and verbose as ActiveRecord::Relation#explain options to give us deeper insight into query performance.

https://blog.saeloun.com/2024/02/23/rails-7-1-allows-active-...
that looks very useful, thanks for sharing
Yeah, I ran into this once. You want to find ones that state they have true sine wave output.
there's no such thing as a 'git instance'
If I want to put a Gemma model in a minimalist command line interface, build it to a standalone exe file that runs offline, what is the size of my final executable? I am interested in how small can the size of something like this be and it still be functional.
Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
> No point in having a movie where every perspective and angle has a slightly different style

Michael Bay begs to differ ("Transformers: The Last Knight has aspect ratio changes throughout the film, often randomly, mid-scene and between shots.")
Weed can easily be adulterated (e.g. by spraying with synthetic cannabinoids), but generally it's trivial to find a supplier who doesn't do that. But also true of MDMA and ketamine.
It was standard 20-30 years ago. International students would be "assigned" some number that may or may not overlap with an actual SSN.

Shit was wack, yo.
> This data is valuable; to my knowledge it is the only substantial collection of "real" email that is public.

Interesting. Something good came out of Enron after all
The US already has state sponsored media.

Also, the US military is a big sponsor of Hollywood related content as long as they don't put the military in bad light.
>> The reports all mention that the crack became visible suddenly and for no apparent reason, after the headsets had been connected to the external battery pack and stored overnight (some in Apple's Travel Case) with the soft front cover attached.

It is glass. The device was being charged, which means some heat gradient between the charging battery and the outside world. That thin 3d-shaped glass cracks under thermal stress should be no great surprise.
Seems very logical that it drops no ?

Let's say that drugs are illegal and get prosecuted, and are counted as crime in the statistics.

If you legalize them, your amount of crime in your statistics drops, but the actual acts are the same in real world.
I use Brave. It's a fine browser. The ad-blocking is almost on par with uBlock Origin. And I like its built-in Tor, BTW. I don't have any issues with Spotify.com, and it doesn't crash on me. I'm on a Macbook Pro M2 Max, and I also use it on a Galaxy S21U (Android).

I tried using Firefox on and off, but it's sadly technically inferior to Chromium, and that gap has gotten worse. It still has things that it does better than Chromium browsers, like history sync actually working, or reader view. But those are few and far between. And Multi-Account Containers, one of its apparent advantages, comes with the caveat that Firefox doesn't have usable profiles and the security for its extensions is worse (e.g., no click to activate, no ability to disable extensions in certain containers).

What finally pushed me to Chromium is the poor PWA support in Firefox. On Android, it has bugs that haven't been fixed for years (never mind the poor performance that's well known), and on desktop they've basically dropped the ball.

I use several PWAs. If it's a chat app, I use it as a PWA. Also Spotify, since you mentioned it ... as I like having better sandboxing and ad-blocking in my apps. On Android, too.
Not to be confused with llama.cpp and the GGML library, which is a seperate project (and almost immediately worked with Gemma).
The 180,000 people per year who will not face legal issues because of this law will disagree on how big a step this is.
My work password now has an "18" embedded somewhere in the middle of it thanks to my autoincrement approach to handling that kind of obnoxious policy.

Then I became CTO and retired the policy to align to modern NIST recommendations, so that "18" is in there forever :)
Hating so hard.
yeah, NPR/PBS is great. we should always vote for people who advocate for it instead of people who wants to cut its funds.
The university is named for the seller's late son, not himself.
> Even if we aren't using these models for much yet, a racist AI model would seriously harm how people trust and rely on these models.

So they made the models blatantly, explicitly racist. Well done.
Cisco seems the most reasonable analogy to me. They were the ones selling shovels during the Internet boom. The Internet market is many orders of magnitude larger today than it was during CSCO's peak. CSCO is still highly profitable but it's stock price is still well off its peak.
AI Is in the Midst of a Fever Dream and It's Only Getting Worse
Not really true in the last 20 years. ;)
Hot take: x86 was a swamp, but overtime we stopped using legacy features, and the instructions got better, and the amount of chip resources needed to implement the CISC architecture decreased to a small percentage of the total, such that it sort of just turned into a wierd compression algorithm for encoding RISC instructions and didn't matter much anymore.
Was the pun intended ?
Timeless beauty my ass. It always looks like a boxy Corolla with a Mercedes badge.
I'll share my own project: https://www.myowndb.com/, running since 2006.
I neglected the project for a couple of years but recently launched the new version.
It's open source: https://gitlab.com/myowndb/myowndb

I enjoy the technical side, but I'm struggling to commercialise it so don't hesitate to give me your feedback here or on https://www.myowndb.com/contact.html which is of course powered by a myowndb public form :-)
On their start date, I would to tell new grads assigned SRE / DevOps roles that their job was thankless and at best if everything worked fine no one would notice them. However, if anything went wrong, they'd not only be on the hook to fix but would do so under tremendous pressure. "Who wants this responsibility?" I'd ask.

Those who decided they were up for it usually did a great job, about half opted out at the end of the conversation and were put in roles more suited to their ability to handle stress.
That is a conclusion so, that is not supported by spurce material or facts. It is used to justify the use of nukes to force Japan to surrender by giving credibility to the claim that the jukes saved US lives. That is my problem, because it still defends, utterly pointless, strategic bombing.
Yeah, in my view only an 'intent' eg a request, or event in queue, or a line in a DB, should span that kind of time. Then you just version that intent
No, each step could take significantly more time (and resources).
Tape recorders don’t get randomly added to my start menu and ship my data back to Microsoft.
It sounds like Brin may have also made promises to the widow about recovering the body--which he didn't keep.
It's not like Microsoft or Apple do that either. But Vendors are more thorough with testing on those OSes.
Zalando commits to remove misleading environmental claims
Paid up front in cash.

Without that, I'm pretty sure their cheque to you would bounce. ;)
Very true, today, but how far are we from something that takes a book as script and spits out a full movie? We have a huge library of ultra cheap forgotten novels that will make excellent prompts for killer personal productions once technology allows it.
Who will ever go watch a movie if they can upload the book to their server and get the movie in minutes?
They don't state it explicitly, but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
My experience for generic Virtual Serial Port hardware

* MacOS Parallels - Abysmal performance, constant USB timeouts. Virtually useless

* Virtual box on Windows, emulating Windows - Able to detect device, but unable to talk to it.

* Virtual box on Linux emulating Windows - USB does not even detect.
I think it's more of a subtle publicity stunt for Tenstorrent's Grayskull [0] cards, which are highly optimized for inference.

With CUDA you get a lot of flexibility which you don't get with Grayskull, at the expense of having a more layered/patched API which has been evolving for many years while R&D came up with new solutions to new problems.

I wonder what Nvidia's capabilities are in creating new, highly optimized cards, similar to Grayskull, but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have any interest in creating them since their current products are already consuming all their resources.

It's great to see that companies like Tenstorrent are offering more optimized and pricewise more accessible products. It would also ease the situation with how hard it is to get Nvidia cards, because even companies doing only inferencing are buying chips which are developed to be able to do much more than that.

[0] https://tenstorrent.com/cards/
Do you have the E.U. as a whole compared the US? If you're going to compare, might as well do apples to apples.
Yes!! Thank you!! I guess it was polygon.
Thanks for sharing. Not sure if that prompt working is a feature or bug, but that it’s is pretty helpful.

I’m impressed with your StepCoder prompt; short and sweet. You’ve definitely got a handle on prompting!
Looking at it closer, many (all?) of these are GWT apps, not applets. GWT was "The React" of 2006.
Not just the now legalized crime, but also related crime: theft, violence, money laundering, tax evasion...
I used gemm:2b with ollama last night and the model was around 1.3gb IIRC
ARM has, optionally,the very capable SVE instruction set, but no consumer chips currently implement it.

The M1 and later big cores can dispatch four NEON FMA instructions per clock, so 512 bits worth of vector math, which compares OK with most Intel or AMD chips (Zen 4 can do two 256-bit MUL and two ADD, and Intel "client" bigcores since Sunny Cove typically do three 256-bit FMA).
I will tell people it's a dangerous addiction that will suck the money from your bank account.

I haven't gambled in over 20 years. The trends in America concern me
> I would be extremely hesitant to grow cannabis on our balcony.

Why is that? Just buy a small body, auto flowering seed, some fresh soil and water it every couple days and wait. You won't have a gigantic harvest but that's basically all you have to do and you will have more weed than you know what to do with. When grown, cut it, hang it upside down and wait until it's dry.
Those are some overly broad assumptions with using calories. Not all calories are the same — some foods take more calories to digest, and others, like MCT takes very little to get absorbed by cells. It really depends upon the food being consumed.

Nutritionally-dense food can also change gut biome. I have no idea if anyone ever did a study on long term effects, but it would be interesting to see if the body ends up needing less overall calories if the food quality went up, along with changes in the gut biome.

As far as productivity goes, I don’t think the figures you are quoting takes into account methods other than monocropping. Industrial scale famers who went to polycropping, for example, find smaller yields on individual crops but their overall yield and profit were better. No-till, as another example, underperforms until about five years in.

And then there are losses during transport.

The closest I have seen was someone attempting 100% of his diet from gardens he has planted for a year or harvested himself. It was rough, in a tropical climate (Florida), but was possible. He had to use three gardens, though the deal he made with the residential landowners gave them the right to harvest anything at anytime in exchange for using their front yard. According to him, 80% was doable. I don’t know if he had integrated livestock.

As I mentioned in other comments, post-Soviet Cuba, under sanctions, were forced into developing this because of the lack of oil (trucks, tractors, fertilizer, and pesticides) and other imports.
Hate these ding dong ass systems as Windows admin as they are always ""CRITICAL"" and they put no redundancy or HA in so we cant patch the actual Windows server as there OMGE THIS IS CRITICAL THERE CANT BE ANY DOWNTIME.

Niqqa Windows Servers NEEDS a reboot once a month.
It is disallowed by the executive order “on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
That really only works if the other team is terrible relative to your own. ‘Playing to tie’ a team that is an even match (or close to an even match) results in a competitive advantage for their side.

This does work ok for long distance competitive running, since the factors at play are time and metabolic rate and is missing the strategy present in team based ball sports like football, soccer, basketball, etc.
This whole article reads like a joke and settles absolutely nothing. That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true. Scientists even involved in papers purporting to disprove the lab leak have walked back their claims and now think it's even likely that it was.

The premise of this article as someone a source of truth is a complete farce. The "judgement" is essentially a bet that an "Israeli investor and poker player named Saar Wilf" has come up with some sort of algorithm to prove a lab leak origin. WHICH DOES NOT EXAMINE ACTUAL EVIDENCE OR DOES ANY REPORTING INTO THE LAB LEAK. The Computer Scientist and Biologist he asked to be his judges disagreed with him.

There is compelling evidence that a lab leak occurred. Lab leaks have occurred in the past. This isn't science fiction or paranoia. Real Scientists in Wuhan were sounding the alarm in 2018 that there was dangerous scientific research being taken with lax safety regulations. There were at least two labs working in Wuhan on coronaviruses. The best evidence that it originated with raccoon dogs is more of a hunch than proof, and even Chinese health officials said the report about raccoon dogs rule out lab leak entirely.

If you are at all interested, I'd highly recommend the BBC podcast, Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mdfw/episodes/player
The list is missing American Express HYSA. It's at 4.35% APY.
Take a look at a Ricoh GR III or IIIx. Lighter than Fuji's most famous rangefinders, great APS-C sensor. In stock, and cheaper.

There's a slight chance today they will announce its successor.
...Also, we have eval'd Gemma 7B internally in a deterministic, zero temperature test, and its error rate is like double Mistral Instruct 0.2. Well below most other 7Bs.

Was not very impressed with the chat either.

So maybe this is neat for embedded projects, but if it's Gemma only, that would be quite a sticking point for me.
Have you ever worn Levis jeans? He did okay.
Anonymity! Do you want to be a state registered drug user?

The clubs have to be registered and need a license. They need to keep a register of members. It is not in the law that they need to give this register to the authorities, but it is still a risk.

EDIT: I looked up the details. The clubs need to keep track of every sale, including data about the buyer. They have to report this to the authorities twice a year in anonymized form.