skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine had one of these. They didn't work well. The first time you warmed up a squashed thing it unfurled pretty well, but they never quite squished back into a square. After the 4th or 5th unfurling, the creatures developed hard spots, and you basically couldn't squash them again.

Also, terrible as toys. All you could do is unfurl and squash. Not much fun to someone old enough to do the heating and squashing dafely.
No, it's a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
So, it makes sense to me that a laser would have a safety switch.

However, someone somewhere forgot to put "disable the laser safety" to the pre-launch checklist.

However, as a member of a profession that has to essentially always run code in order to find out what's wrong with it, I throw no stones.
I don’t see how a sometimes-demented chatbot is going to revolutionize anything. That’s not to say I’m not impressed with what they can do these days.

I’m also impressed that a car can mostly drive itself these days and only rarely veer into oncoming traffic, and yet humans still drive the vast majority of all vehicles.

Basically, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Spot on.

FWIW, exponential growth as a function of a discrete variable is very common (e.g. all of algorithmic complexity), but it has to be (at least modeled as) an unbounded numeric variable.

You can't have exponential growth as a function of a binary variable.
I've never seen more maximized (full screen) windows than people using MacBooks and swiping between them. Which I do too when using my MacBook.
You are the exception however. Most people just dissociate and collect paychecks because bureaucracy and clueless managers burned them out. I don't blame the engineers, not by default anyway, though there are still some pretty dense people I wouldn't grace with the word "programmer" at all. We should blame leadership 90% of the time and history shows that we are right to do so.
Right...because requiring developers to actually grasp the code they're outputting is gatekeeping.

If you want to pretend the rush to AI won't lead to more incompetent chefs in the kitchen than we already have (which is too many as it stands) then feel free, but acting like it's some kind of "party" people are being kept out of is daft.

Standards exist for a reason, not just to make people feel bad for not meeting them.
The moral failure of humanity is not really that we're harming the world, but that we are harming humans. Humans affected by climate change today, and the future humans elsewhere, who will also suffer.

In some way, one animal causing the extinction of others extracting resources and changing the environment is as long as evolutionary biology itself. This is what all animals do. We're just doing it at a much bigger scale.
If you read to the end, you will find that weeded books were in fact donated.
Sounds like a hack to make a person to work overtime.
Chip giant TSMC shifts away from hot spot Taiwan with Japan plant
The bottom billion lives on $2 a day. It doesn't matter how cheap energy is, they can't afford it.

OTOH your comment does apply to the second billion. There's no energy cheaper than solar power, and solar powered air conditioning is a great supply/demand match.
Correlation between in one level and quality software? Heh, lol.
I’ve never understood this issue. We get paid well. A $400-450 Shure sm7b or Electrovoice re20 will last you decades and is an incredible return on investment — way better than your electronics and monitor investments and probably better than your chair and desk investments for most people.

Even a $30-50 USB mic will last a few years and blow away your laptop or built-in camera mic (though the dynamic Shure/EV mics don’t pick up everything like capacitive mics).
Post author here. I agree; so often constructive feedback loops from end users to builders are woefully absent from the equation.

I feel the greater the distance between the purchase decision maker and the end user, the weaker the feedback gets. Riffing off the six degrees of separation idea and exponential drop off of signals though lossy media, it's like by the time someone gets to a third degree of separation, any feedback signal barely registers. Only mass action has any chance of being heard, much less heeded.
A tear shed for Simpsons being called wacky humor.

I think bojack hit its stride over time, but I always liked the juxtaposition of dark reality with cartoon silliness. On some level I think it reflects a theme of everyone else’s life seeking to be so simple and stupid and trivial compared to your own. Of course even Todd’s problems are shown to be pretty real even if they’re also cartoonishly comical.
Anthromporphizing models lets assumptions of human behavior slip into discussions. Most people dont even know how their brains process information while models are not children.

New models appear to be close and based on arguments here, closing the gap is simply a matter of time. This is based on observing the rate of progress, not the actual underlying actions. A tendency belied by assumptions based on human thinking, not the signficant amounts of processing that happens unconciously by us.

Sure expanding the data set has improved results, yet bad hands, ghost legs, and other weirdness persist. If you have a world model, then this shouldn't happen - there is a logical rule to follow, not simply a pixel level correlation.

Working from the other side, if image/video gen has reached the point that it is faithfully recreating 3D rules, then we should expect 3D wireframes to be generated. We should see an update to https://github.com/openai/point-e.

This isn't splitting hairs - this behavior can be hand waved away when building a PoC, not when you make a production ready product.

As for scams, they target weaknesses, not the strongest parts of a verification processes, making them strawmen arguments for AI capabilty.
What drove me out of Rust was the community that thinks it's the only language you should use.

Other than this at the time I stopped it was hard to find packages that had stable APIs and felt battle tested.
It is to lower the barrier for people who care about geospatial software, but may not be (and don't have to be!) Nix experts.
In addition to the usual hype cycle bullshit; "AI" is faced with the problem of being heralded as something between an infallible oracle and an acceptable God. Potentiates the bullshit and draws in participants from further afield than the usual "VR, this time fer sure!" parties have.

The previous incarnations of AI hype have been so oversold as to lead to the previous "AI winters." There's real progress this time too, but it's incredibly hard to reason about or criticize because its so heavily covered in marketing hype and scammer scrap. After a few years the real advances will crawl out into the world and be seen for the incremental, useful tools they are.

So, speaking for myself; I'm not in denial; I have hopes: I'm just cynical about the eventual realities and deeply cynical about the time-frames in which they will develop.
> The company just made too much money from search

Do you mean ads?
> One perk of the menubar being this way that I’ve come to appreciate is that programs can’t try to remove it or sweep it into a hamburger menu in some misguided quest for minimalism.

Sure, but those same applications just leave a bare and non-functional menu bar at the top, which is almost more offensive.

Windows enforces the same kinda constraints on MenuBars:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...

The only difference is the Windows' version disappears if you choose not to use it. And the same with KDE and GTK.
and specifically their relationship to "java" (coffee)
That was one of the few (only?) patents that MS actually admitted to.

Balmer made a bunch of really vague public threats where he refused to be drawn on which patents Linux (not Gnome, or KDE, or Gnome or KDE using distros specifically) he implied were infringing, most of which never materialised into any court cases or patent deals. Did they enter any other deals than the Novell deal, which involved MS paying Novell 11x what Novell paid MS?
There are dozens of things being built on the protocol. Just not PDSes. And it’s not because it’s difficult, but because there’s no point until there are others to try and connect to.
Thank you! I didn't saw it on the page linked for some reason.
Yes, it's 8.5B params if you account for weight tying, and 9.3B if you count the embedding layer and output layer weights separately as shown in the 2nd figure in the article. In the paper, I think they justified 7B by only counting the non-embedding parameters (7,751,248,896), which is kind of cheating in my opinion, because if you do that, then Llama 2 is basically a 5B-6B param model.
Google is pretty pathetic these days. They have become a parody under Pinchai.....he must be so proud of his legacy (hahahahahaha )

Google shows that you don't need skills or talent ..you just need money, and control.
How about you call them what they are:

Bugs, Defects and "not fit for production".

How about we stop with all the Nonsense around calling it "temperature" like it's a sick baby and call it RAND cause that's what it is.

The PT Barnum levels of bullshit around ML (see we have a term that isnt using artificial or intelligence) has gotten old. Sam Altman is the next Elizabeth Holmes.

</rant>
>A good framing would also draw a link to fiscal responsibility

A good analogy with an under the table jab really. The worst of the ultra green policies are absolutely murder for financial responsibility.

There is no winning with the current “debate”, and double so with current “solutions”.
It seems you are confusing USSR with China. There was no "Authoritarian State-Capitalism" in USSR, no free-ish market with some level of competition, no entrepreneurship, no shareholders, no nothing and yet somehow car quality was significantly inferior to Ford, BMW, etc. and TVs were much worse than Sony ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Options include… Volunteer. Donate. Ask the elected officials that represent you to choose open source software for government use cases. Encourage grants to fund open source. If you’re at a company, contribute back to open source.
Not if Google develops it.
Why were his equations changed?
Agreed, I think the monopoly scenarios play out similarly/worse to the lock in ones -- monopolies are basically the extreme case of lock in. They're the ultimate removal of end-user influence on purchase decisions.

Frustratingly, well-designed competition isn't necessarily enough, especially for b2b. Even when there is a challenger, that mostly impacts new customers. For locked in ones, renewal cycles and implementation burden may make it more 6-10 year levels to even be a serious conversation as long one as the legacy product functions. There are only so many Global 10K's, and that's a good chunk of the b2b user population.

An interesting way to avoid the trap is 'mission focus'. If a company culture is mission-focused -- which is often easier in founder-led scenarios -- then decisions come from more than these $ reactions.
Apollo's Sequel Will Be a Gold Rush
One axis of freedom is still better than two, in this case.
No, obviously it isn't about my username. Are you old enough to be using this forum?
What might you suggest as an alternative? PySimpleGUI? Tk?
Problems in Gemini's Approach to Diversity
Coming up with these scenarios is called de-risking and engineers need to do it!

To your point, people own Roombas, which is kinda like this with no arms.
> every developer in the team should be able to do all tasks

I hate this. People have strengths, even if they’re all technically backend / frontend / whatever. Should you have more than one person who can perform a given task? Ideally yes, but let’s not pretend that Alice isn’t objectively better at SQL than James, but worse at async functions. Let people do what they’re best at, and enjoy the most.
I'm not sure I'd use a robot that can "move x to y", but I'd love a robot that can run after my daughter's bedtime to tidy up her toys. This is an end in itself.
the work station cards also run on 300 watts and looks like
the 4090 goes to 450.

so you are getting a better practical card for the price

if you are making a mining type rig, then yeah, the extra price is wasting money.

but if you wanted to build a normal machine, the workstation cards are the most reasonable choice for anything more than 2 gpus
yes, this is a good example of an anti-capitalist solution to health care.
Because java means a cup of coffee, and beans are also part of the coffee theme.

And a "eclipse" messes with the "sun".
There is nothing “dangerous” about this if you know the behavior.

In Ruby nil is a representation of emptiness, so when using the to_ conversion methods you will get an empty instance of a type. If you don’t want this behavior you use a constructor instead.

FYI For a long time there was no nil.to_h and there was some consternation about adding it. But finally it was embraced and this emptiness notion solidified into the language for good.
> GNOME 3 and up definitely isn’t “mac-like”

When many people (like me) use that phrase, we're not referring to the UI/UX. It's instead a comment on GNOME's desire to have a controlled and universal design that is more focused on user ease and accessibility versus the componentized/customizable design of GNOME2, KDE, XFCE, etc.
I use Bayesian methods often, but this a just religious. Bayesian methods are just that, tools, methods for approaching a problem.

There are no laws for applying probability to the real world. To think so puts too much faith in your models. Remember, all models are wrong. Applying probability to the real world requires a host of assumptions, regardless of the methods you use.

Frequentist and Bayesian methods have different goals, both have there place.

For a counterweight to the strong likelihood principle find discussions of Larry Wasserman: https://youtu.be/Z-YvWyM6dRQ?si=qwzRiaPbj9ruiUEv

And for a balanced discussion for why both are great see Michael Jordan: https://youtu.be/HUAE26lNDuE?si=cwg6wpRS1gXL6r1Y
You could prove your unsubstantiated claim.

What is the relevant patent number, and how did Gnome's design infringe on it, and how would removing it require a fundamental re-design of Gnome to avoid infringing?

Here's what I've found: They do have a patent for a "taskbar with start menu", number US5920316A. The abstract focuses on the taskbar, and the main claims are all linked to having a taskbar and to the taskbar being tied to a specific location (though changeable) and being permanent or autoiding in that location. Ignoring whether or not Gnome actually infringed - there are a lot of additional details to the claims - replacing the taskbar with iconified windows or using a click or hotkey to pop up a UI element instead would both be enough to avoid infringing on all the main claims of that patent. But there are so many additional details that it's likely you could easily avoid that patent while retaining a full task bar in any case.

What is clear is that it'd be ludicrous for Gnome to take as long as they did to remove the taskbar given this patent if they were being actually threatened by this and given how simple it'd be to work around.

The claims regarding the start menu are excruciatingly detailed in the general description, but very little actually appears in the actual claims. This is a common tactic to try to give the appearance of a far more comprehensive patent than you actually have, but what is covered regarding anything resembling a start menu in the actual claims of the patent is near nothing.

Given you're being directly contradicted by people more closely involved, unless you have something substantially better, these claims looks like total hogwash.
Does anyone know how to block SMS from marketers without numbers (ex: XYZ instead of 123) on Android?
Ask HN: How to access files in /tmp in a HF space (GUI)?
I'm building a simple ML python app with Gradio on a Huggingface space.

My main function should return a .txt file (actuallly - file.name which is a path to file) filled with text using a tempfile module. The "outputs" parameter in gradio.Interface is set to "textbox". After the compeltion of the processing there is "/tmp/tmp0m22k8nw.txt" displayed in the outputs textbox in the app. How can I access this .txt file in the HF space?

HF spaces seem not to have access to file system?
I do get your point, but are you under the presumption there are no women metalheads?
It does not mean that people who did well in school or college are guaranteed to do well in a particular job. There is a correlation though, as well as many exceptions.

I’ve hired in multiple organizations. Where we could hire quickly and fire quickly, we were willing to take more risks. Where it was hard to let someone go or the work had little risk tolerance, we’re were a lot more cautious and depended on a lot of signals when making a hire decision, including the academic record.
Unprecedented Sports Enjoyment with Apple's Revolutionary Sports App
If an app doesn’t populate the menubar under macOS, I’m probably not going to use it unless I absolutely have to. It’s a strong signal of bad design, low-effort port, poor functionality or some combination thereof. There are few applications so devoid of functionality that they can’t populate a menubar.
They are pretty much one and the same thing at this point.
The Day Someone Created 184B Bitcoin
That’s in the second screenshot.
Ask HN: Could Project Deep Earth be the reason of Aykol earthquakes?
Per this old news Sinopec started drilling deepest oil and gas wells in
Shaya County of Aksu Prefecture in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The projected depth of the well could reach 10km.
https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/sinopec-starts-the-drilling-of-asias-deepest-oil-and-gas-well-in-tarim-basin-301815952.html

Nowadays, there are a number of earthquakes with epicenter located in Aykol, located in approximately 300km from the drilling site. https://database.earth/earthquakes/china/xinjiang/aykol. In 2024 (within 2 months) there were 97 earthquakes in Aykol, Xinjiang, see here https://database.earth/earthquakes/china/xinjiang/aykol

Could deep drilling be the reasons of such earthquake activity?
There have been several attempts in the past to replace programmers, from easy to use languages to no-code drag and drop tools. I believe LLMs are a little different than past attempts, but I’d hesitate to say how different.

Over the past few weeks I’ve used Copilot to teach me how to create some fairly complex process automations. That probably took a job away from a programmer, or maybe the task wouldn’t have gotten done at all. I’m not sure.
> give references for my assertions

Like linking to your own text at another place? https://lobste.rs/s/kz0jpg/everyone_seems_forget_why_gnome_g...
To each their own, but that drives me nuts personally. I use spaces constantly but full-screen spaces are probably the bit of Mac UX I find most unappealing.
availability is tight i think but check out the ampere altra stuff, they have an absurd number of pci’s lanes compared to AMD and especially intel, if you can suffer the ARM architecture.

They also have some ML inference stuff on chip themselves.
Perhaps try KDE?

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/kde/
Even "bullshit" implies something like a mind, with intent to deceive. It should be more like noise, aberrations, incorrectly extrapolated filler material.
Historical trends in the usage statistics of Python version 3 for websites
I was surprised to see that Python 3.6 is still the most popular version, even though it's been over 2 years since the end of security releases for it.
In other words, even though it tried to be inclusive, a US company ended up being US-centric in that random Latinos, East Asians, and Africans are what you are likely to see when walking around the US, but not most of the rest of the world :)
Bayesian or Frequentist, which are you?
I keep seeing these semi-religious Bayesian posts pop up. I would like to add a more nuanced perspective by none other than the great Bayesian practitioner Michael I Jordan.
It's a good article for those who are unfamiliar with these cautionary tales of second order effects and fraud. As someone who believes government is a solution to many problems, these lessons are critical.

I disagree with the universality of the statement "any institution made to solve a problem will preserve it". They back off this in the caveats section.

Two important things to prevent this is to consider the influence of money on a solution/organization, and what kind of oversight is needed for an organization. Also, when spinning up a program, asking "is the problem this org solves a permanent one?" Or can the problem be eradicated?

A group created to clean up trash in a city park system might need to be large one year, but practically non-existent 5 years later if goals are met. The planned decommissioning of such organizations should be considered.
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> On vast.ai renting a 3x3090 rig is $0.6/hour. The electricity price of operating this in e.g. Germany is somewhere about $0.05/hour.

Are you factoring in the varying power usage in that electricity price?

The electricity cost of operating locally will vary depending on the actual system usage. When idle, it should be much cheaper. Whereas in cloud hosts you pay the same price whether the system is in use or not.

Plus with cloud hosts reliability is not guaranteed. Especially with vast.ai, where you're renting other people's home infrastructure. You might get good bandwidth and availability on one host, but when that host disappears, you should hope that you did a backup, which vast.ai charges for separately, and if so, you need to spend time restoring the backup to another, hopefully equally reliable host, which can take hours depending on the amount of data and bandwidth.

I recently built an AI rig and went with 2x3090s, and am very happy with the setup. I evaluated vast.ai beforehand, and my local experience is much better, while my electricity bill is not much higher (also in EU).
Obviously. Anyone who has been severely stressed knows it's killing them.....except the doctors who cannot sell you something from their pill sponsors
There is a trap here of saying "thus we shouldn't do anything about problems" rather than the more reasonable "we should be prepared to iterate on our efforts".
Why? Are we running out of names to give out?
Practically, speaking, I OOM'd running Gemma on a 3090 using a config that had VRAM to spare for Mistral 7B. It kinda surprised me at first, until I realized why.
But the L part is only correct in so far as it repeats the definition of what it means to be a subtype, i.e. it is vacuously true.

BY the way, does any OO language apart form Ocaml get this right?
Berkshire Hathaway Reports Profit of $97B Last Year, a Record
So it is! It was cut off by the buttons on the bottom of the page on iPad OS Safari for me.
> NASA will retire the ISS soon

Where "soon" is about 7 years away, in January 2031:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#En...

It's a pretty dishonest use of the word, trying to be clickbait.
Just a heads up: PySimpleGUI 5 isn't open source any more [0], and the official GitHub repo was replaced with a stub [1]. From the blog post, it sounds like the people behind it will probably remove the FOSS version from PyPI soon.

It's possible the community will fork it with a version of PySimpleGUI 4 that's still kicking around, but I haven't seen one yet.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369353

[1] https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI
High speed rail solves a tiny fraction of the actual problem. Refocus on proper rezoning and build out of cities more like the netherlands because that is where the vast majority of the problem actually is. The city is also where the bad calls are thr most impactful to the human population