skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unfamiliar with this as well, but found these sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187853521... (ctrl-f American)

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...
The Mistral model I tried when it came out produced "blog posts" as responses. I assume this somehow depends on where those models get much of their training data from (please correct me if I'm wrong).
The only OSS model I’ve been wowed by so far is CC mixtral which from limited usage gave me a vibe closer to gpt3.5 turbo
That's a terrible comparison. GC is there to take care of one specific implementation detail in a "good enough" way so that you can focus on more productive work.

People are starting to rely on LLMs to do almost everything they've been hired to do for them.
As a Chicago native, I can attest. However, most of us eat "tavern style" pizza, which is thin crust.
talk is great and cool but why they added it to the base system?
Oh I will at some point. It's been 4 times already.
re: debits and credits

Sometimes non-accounting people get hung-up on the words "debit" and "credit" and think they have to do with "owing" or "being owed" money, being "positive" or "negative", etc.

The effect of a debit or credit on the business depends on the accounts in the transaction and debit and credit don't have anything to do with the "direction" of a flow of money.

My 100-level accounting instructor summarized it as: "A debit is the entry in the left column, and a credit is an entry in the right column." Without the context of the specific accounts being debited or credited the terms themselves don't confer significant meaning.

A basic knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting terminology can confer near "super powers" when it comes to dealing with finance people. It's easy to learn and worth the time.

Double-entry bookkeeping is one of the oldest and longest-practiced "IT" disciplines. Your work probably touches revenue / expenses for your employer and someday you'll need to interface with accounting or finance people. Being able to speak the language, even poorly, has helped me gain trust and credibility that I don't believe speaking only in IT terms would have.
(2023)

Yes, and...?

One of the net's unsung/unseen killer apps that was slowly pushed down by 'social media'.

Reader's been dead longer than it was alive.

Many contributing factors to environment, shifts of the day when it happened. Endlessly bringing it up shows lack of awareness of surroundings/history. Also, other options/filled void/RSS not dead.
We only need for AI to learn how to use the tools that do maths. GPT-4 does that already with some success, writing code that import math libraries like sympy
I should test to see if I can cycle through multiple terminal windows by scrolling up, that's the main reason I use it. However, I'm also not generally RAM limited in a way that I have to run too lean a system. I will give the native plugin a try though, thanks for the recommendation!
You've described cats. Now describe humans.
What are people supposed to do? Just live in guilt and fear? People arent idiots simply because they're trying to make the best of a bad situation
thanks. but i am not sure if it counts, as i rarely go back to actually reread stuff. i am just writing what i have to deal with anyways, as it happens. i mean to say that if i do have the strength to deal with such events, being able to write about it in my diary is not necessarily an indication of that.

it rather manifests in other ways.

if i may say so, i sense a certain "i wish i had the strength to do that" in your comment. i am afraid that what comes across as strength is rather a weakness, a sort of inability to be affected by these events. it took me decades to understand where that comes from, and still has me wonder, why.
Sounds like distributed tumblr. I think the world needs that really bad right now. Tumblr is going to fail soon it's totally zombified as far as the software goes.

But this is basically how Tumblr operates except it's centralized.
There’s tons of trash to pickup everywhere if the goal is to give people a job.
The last two hundred years saw the amount of energy available increase 50X.

The US is into free markets because historically it's interests were anti-mercantilist.
Google Wave, some of us don't forget you.
How is it done for GMOs now?
Also weird example because it's basically describing the process of improving efficiency.. picking up trash every day is a waste of human resources and petroleum. Non-standard cans waste the potential benefits of automation. Poor labor relations are wasteful by hoarding the benefit of an enterprise away from the workers who make it a viable endeavor, and shunting responsibility for the workers' healthcare, retirement, safety nets, and wellbeing onto society.
A deep-sea robot may have discovered more than 100 new species
> There is nothing special about this hardware and they aren't doing anything you couldn't have done in the past year.

What they are doing is all of the hardware engineering work that it takes to build something like this. You're dismissing the amount of time they spent on figuring stuff like this out:

"Beating back all the PCI-E AER errors was hard, as anyone knows who has tried to build a system like this."
I just wish they'd stop trying to add AI and automated topic highlighting which clearly doesn't work.

A bunch of companies are also doing or attempting to do AI and automated trial finding for clinical trials, and that's not working either: https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-.... Fortunately, the stakes are low, since patients who don't find the right clinical trial for cancers will only die.
I too wrote Ruby fulltime and professionally. For over a decade.

The sheer amount of code I wrote, just to protect against nil-errors is staggering. Every third function or method had guard clauses and/or tests. Just to ensure that the data was in the expected shape (that it quacked and walked like a duck).
I spent, I think, hundreds maybe thousand hours debugging actual production "nil-errors" and weird conversion errors. That happened in production. Sometimes legacy database records, sometimes weird race conditions causing corrupt data, sometimes (most often) just stupid mistakes by me or another dev.

All of these -all!- would have been caught by a typing system and type checker like e.g. Rusts'. All.

Which then leaves just the huge category of stupid bugs that I'll make in the business logic.

But now, working with rust, the LSP tells within ms that I overlooked something that In Ruby would've been a data-error. Often my Ruby test suite would find these after minutes of running. Sometimes we would find them after deploying to prod and seeing havoc. Sometimes they'd take weeks before popping up.

I'm convinced rust makes me develop much faster because of this.
http://archive.today/ILqUx
A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO
IME NVLink would be overkill for this. Model parallelism means you only need bandwidth to transfer the intermediate activations (/gradients + optimizer state) at the seams and inference speed is generally slow enough that even pcie x8 won't be a bottleneck.
It's standard for accounts that normally maintain a debit balance be on the left side, and accounts that maintain a credit balance be on the right.

So, the usual accounting equation is written:

assets = liabilities + capital

Yes, capital is similar to liabilities. It is owed to the investors (which may just be an individual).

The full equation prior to closing the books for a period is:

assets + expenses = liabilities + income + capital

For an individual, 'capital' is usually called 'net worth'.

Once the books close, (income - expenses) is moved to capital as 'retained earnings'.

In traditional, hand entered debit/credit accounting, the left hand side adds up to the same number as the right hand side. The books are balanced - the accounts on the left 'weigh' the same as the ones on the right.

In computerized accounting, the left hand side (debit) accounts are normally positive and the right hand side (credit) accounts are normally negative. There is no equation - all the accounts add up to zero, and every double entry transaction adds up to zero.
Oh sorry, you're right, I'm misrepresenting the issue. What's the LD50 for sunglasses again?
At the least they are oikophobes.
It's a glaring omission that the word "capitalism" doesn't appear once in this because is at the heart of what the real problem is.

To borrowo another commenter's example: waste management. The town starts picking up the trash daily. It may cut back services and standardize waste bins to streamline the process and cut costs. But here's where it really goes awry: the waste management gets privatized, usually in some kind of "public private partnership". Or it and other municipal functions may be delegated to private insitutions, namely HOAs, which historically have been quasi-government actors that were created primarily to exclude people (ie systemic racism, segregation [1]).

Now HOAs are menat to be resident bodies but the actual management gets privatized to management companies. A government is accountable to its people. HOAs typically aren't accountable to their residents. They are filled with tinpot dictators, self-interested NIMBYs and corruption. Contracts go out to a company controlled by the HOA president's family, etc.

Some of this happens through innocent delusion like the myth of small government being good but usually it's because of corruption and/or lobbying by the beneficiaries of said policies. For public-private partnerships, it's even worse because, to make the prospect attractive, the government assumes all the risk and the private "partner" captures all the profit. This is one way that train companies are run into the ground: in the search for ever-inreasing profits, prices are jacked up and services are cut.

As soon as the stakeholders are separated from who the solution is for, you see exactly what's mentioned. This has been known for centuries and can be analyzed as the workers' relationship to the means of production.

The best internet is municipal internet. Why? Because it's by and for the residents. There are no shareholders who need to be constantly appeased with higher and higher profits.

Capitalism just promotes and rewards rent-seeking. That's all this is.

[1]: https://housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-hoas-can-shape...
Using the word "violence" the way you are is clearly newspeak; it's inflammatory and unhelpful.
Show HN: Iterate, evaluate, and monitor LLM-products in a Notion-like workspace
Hi HN!

I spent the last year traveling and feeling purposeless after shutting down my last startup (Zage YC S’21) in Dec 2022. There were some obstacles I couldn’t overcome and decided to return investors 50% of their capital.

To afford (and justify to myself) traveling, I started consulting as an engineer and product designer. I started (https://backspace.nyc) and it was a good time. I (and some friends) built a handful of AI experiences and learned a lot along the way. The hardest thing about running a services business shipping and selling AI experiences powered by LLMs was agreeing on when the prompt was good enough and ‘working’. How do we ensure trust and safety? How do we make sure that we can terminate the project, get paid, and our clients trust and ‘kind-of’ know what their users will be served?

We ended up building a lot of tooling because the existing tooling (OSS and otherwise) wasn’t as mature as it is today. This tooling became more valuable than _backspace and I started Adaline. Adaline is a culmination of a year of building AI experiences with teams big and small and feeling the pains of iterating, evaluating, and monitoring LLM-powered experiences firsthand. I hope you like it.

I built it with the clients from _backspace and now work on it full-time. I’m slowly onboarding new teams building AI experiences. Please let me know if you think you might find it valuable here - https://go.adaline.ai/zjSC1m3.

Arsh
I’m still bitter about this
Ugh. Ok

1) you can go as fine grained as you want. This is not a limitation.

2) going fine grained beyond a certain point is stupid. You don’t edit individual pixels in high resolution art. The tools allow it, but it is not a part of practical workflows.

3) the goal is of course to make fine grained adjustments not needed, because the fine grained details are well executed with high level executions. Same as experienced in (2).

If you still think this is worth debating I’d request a specific example of a practical detail that you think is fine grained and not servable by AI.

A frame of a film is just an image and is easily handled. A decibel is not a thing.
Erm, it's not distributed though, but it could be. I've been told about Tumblr before, but it has popularity contests (trending topics, high-profile accounts), which I intentionally avoided because it changes the whole thing. You follow your IRL friends and that's it.
Once I fully embraced the fact that Google is an ad company -- not a software company -- their behavior doesn't pique my interest anymore. I don't rely on any of their software or services.

But I wish generally they would stop hoovering up and monetizing my personal data. F'ckers.
That is not a common definition of free market.
I don't disagree.

But the broader point is that whenever you have a strong and weak entity interacting, you can always find a way to frame anything the stronger entity does as "violence".

Not sharing your wealth and power? Violence by indirectly causing suffering with your hoarding.

Sharing your wealth and power? Violence by harming the weaker entity's ability to take care of themselves and be independent.

At the end of the day, some armchair critic is always going to accuse the stronger/wealthier party of violence, so accusations of such lose their meaning and people increasingly ignore the boy who cried wolf.
This thread is full of people performing a lot of gymnastics to explain how this is a bad thing.

I think it's rather beautiful that the earth is compensating and creating a reversing effect. It's like a scab over a wound to give us time to heal it.
Miniflux has good integrations and third party UIs that look great. But I'm fine with the default UI themes. Selfhost or pay $15/year to use the flagship hosted instance.

https://miniflux.app/docs/index.html
'"There's a long history in Haiti of groups like USAID flooding the market with rice and other imports," said Victor. "This is not what we need. We need real help and that means completely changing the agricultural system."'

'Paul O'Brien of Oxfam America says the lessons of the harm of flooding a country like Haiti with subsidized rice should have been learned a long time ago.

'"The days are gone when we can throw up our hands in terms of unintended consequences; we know now what these injections can do to markets," he said. "The question we want asked is what is being done to guarantee long-term food security for Haitians."'

'[...] there is plenty of malnutrition.

'Some 2.4 million Haitians — out of a population of nearly 10 million — cannot afford the minimum daily calories recommended by the World Health Organization.'

'But donors often sink more money into emergency aid than such long-term projects.'

'Before the 1970s, Haitians only ate rice once or twice a week, getting starch from other local staples like sorghum and manioc, Woolley said.

'Today, rice is a staple but often U.S.-subsidized rice costs less than locally grown crops. On Friday, a 55-pound bag of US rice cost about $36, compared with $60 for the same size sack of Haitian rice.'

'In the 1970s, fearing indigenous pigs could spread swine fever, the United States — in conjunction with USAID — moved to replace all of Haiti's hearty Creole pigs with pigs from Iowa. The end result was the fragile U.S. pigs often became sick, preferred expensive feed and had fewer litters.'

'[Haitians need] cheap credit, cheaper fertilizer and more government aid, he said.'

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35608836
compare https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman
Seems like this would be a good feature for Kagi search if it isn't there already?
Of course! There is another one that is really difficult enough to earn it's own pace on the list:

- naming variables.
Yeah, there's also a time of "which of my 5 bank-like-entities you mean?" Things really stop being simple.
I dairy farmed for 14 years, and my wife and I got out in the winter of 2023. We've seen ever increasing scarcity of water in our region, because the surrounding mountains don't get enough snow pack whose melt feeds the streams through spring and summer, and we don't see the spring rains nearly as much anymore either. We used to be able to irrigate our hay fields all summer long with no issues, until fall rains returned. Now the rains stop in April, we irrigate until the water runs out (which last year was in June), and then hope for the best. When we need to buy hay for our animals, prices have nearly tripled in the last 10 years.
If you don't see the faces when you get to the part that says "Click on the faces", try making your browser window wider. It doesn't adapt well to narrow windows, sadly.
it would need to demonstrate a best effort to return at
least 60% of royalties to users whose work was used

LOL sure, I'm certain they'll get RIGHT on that. They definitely won't do a crappy job just so they can keep the money /s

If you’re not familiar with ASCAP and BMI, here’s
broadly how they work

If you're not familiar with how they ACTUALLY work, ASCAP & BMI are a massive shakedown operation:

https://www.techdirt.com/2010/08/09/a-day-in-the-life-of-leg...
Just a directory of feeds could be of limited use. You don't know the signal-to-noise ratio of each feed for you.

You subscribe to tens or hundreds of feeds and, boom, you have another problem - how do you prioritize which feed to read .

With https://linklonk.com I'm trying to solve both problems: discovering feeds to follow and prioritizing content from all feeds.

You start with content you liked - submit links you liked and you will get connected to all feeds that included this link.

For example, there are a bunch of feeds that included this link https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/21/gemini-pro-video/

Those are:

- https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/ - the original blog

- https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed/ - a feed of "small web" links, I didn't know it existed, but one of the users must have submitted this feed.

- https://hnrss.org/newest?points=1000&count=100 - HN links that got more than 1000 points

- https://lobste.rs/rss - submissions to Lobste.rs

- https://lobste.rs/t/ai.rss - submissions to Lobste.rs with "ai" tag.

The point is, if you upvote this link on LinkLonk (https://linklonk.com/item/481037215144673280), you automatically get subscribed to all of these feeds. This is a way to discover new feeds through content you liked.

Now, being connected to hundreds or thousands of feeds might seem crazy. But we have a solution to that which also relies on what content you "liked". LinkLonk knows how often you liked content from each feed you are connected to (which is essentially the signal-to-noise ratio). So it ranks new content based on that. If you like 50% of posts from https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/ then new posts from Simon Willison will be shown above other links from, say, https://lobste.rs/rss.

The more you like - the better the ranking of fresh content becomes.

In this world you don't have to actively manage which feeds you are subscribed to or not. You only rate content.
The beauty of Mastodon is that if you pick your instance carefully, most of that noise doesn't necessarily even make it to your instance, much less your feed ...
I’ve worked for several companies of various sizes and industries in my career and I can’t say any of them have been remarkably different than what I described. Being a manager now explained the confusing behavior and outcomes I experienced earlier in my career, in fact.
The biggest problem with the U.S. system isn’t that there are only two parties (that’s a problem, just not the biggest one). It’s that both parties need to agree in order to pass anything (due to the senate filibuster), which as far as I know is unique among democracies.
I think you're underestimating the power such third parties are going to have in the future.

There's a 100% likelihood that OpenAI and other LLMs providers are going to cooperate with intelligence agencies looking to deploy their backdoors to businesses across the world.

It's the perfect supply chain attack vector with complete deniability.
What was the impact of IBM collaborating with the Nazis prior to and during World War 2. It is my understanding that there was very little to no negative impact on their business from the bad PR.

Perhaps this is just a calculated risk Intel is willing to embark on. And with the number of anti-boycott laws and policies in America and Western Europe, I’m not surprise they’d take that risk. After all, both Siemens and Chevron are on the BDS boycott list for the Eurasia interconnector, but are very minimally (if at all) effected. So little in fact that I’m expecting Siemens to land a huge deal with California in building the trainsets for their high speed rail network.
Newsblur was offering a decent alternative free layer.

https://blog.newsblur.com/2013/03/17/three-months-to-scale-n...

https://blog.newsblur.com/2014/03/13/google-reader-announced...
Gmail's spam and scam filtering is pretty good, but, come to think of it those guys are also encroaching on Google's turf. Google wants to be the only one to be able to spam you.
You might change your mind if/when you reach $50m. Whatever one has becomes one's "new normal" and the goal posts just move.

BTW, I open sourced my IP :-)