skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same way. It's frustrating feeling like I'm one of the few people that can see that the emperor has no clothes, and nice to see the occasional person like you that pushes back on this cargo cult fanaticism.
Which is pretty much what down detector has evolved into. And it looks like they have an enterprise offering to alert companies to their own issues.
I think they nailed every Mastodon criticism that I've heard floating around and addressed it, however I'm especially curious to learn about the moderation layer in-depth.
That doesn't sound anything like a product suited for young learners, many of whom are unprepared to practice the finesse you're talking about and many of whom will want to put no more effort in than strictly necessary.

That sounds like something an especially patient autodidact might use to automate some busy work or help them explore the basics of a new topic, which is fine, but not what the article is trying to champion.
Hey HN, the engineering team at Bluesky is especially excited to get to this point! We're happy to help answer questions and help anyone trying to run their own PDS host. Things should work pretty well for self-hosters right now, but we're standing by to help if there are any problems.

Technical details and the installer are in the GitHub repo
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

And we're on Discord available to help:
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Bunch of 30-minute-old accounts in here, shilling for this. Don't make it so obvious next time ;)
I think so.

But Intel pretty much bet everything AI on Falcon Shores (2025). If its crumby or late, I think it will be difficult for them to catch up. They'll have inference hardware in laptops, sure, but still...
This is great, it really proves that the free market can be just as innovative and efficient as the public sector. They managed to get there less than 50 years after the taxpayer funded space guys did. No small feat! Imagine all the things they must've learned along the way!
No that wasn't me.
Assuming you are talking about FCC Part 15 regulations for 2.4 GHz, you couldn't be more wrong. There is no 'sabotage'

The EIRP is 4 watts in 2.4 GHz band. More than enough to wipe out your neighbors. Also more than enough to get absolutely tremendous range in line of sight conditions.

I can purchase and install an unlimited number of 2.4 GHz Part 15 devices, rendering the band useless to anyone so long as I am attempting to use those devices in a manner consistent with their application. As another Part 15 user, you have no recourse. If a licensed user complains to the FCC, they may decide I have to stop using them and notify me as such. Note: one of my neighbors does this, by having an AP on every 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channel.

Newest Wifi 6 stuff in the US has a power limit on some spectrum and some usages, but nowhere near as low as what I was hoping for.
I think some textbooks are really just written that badly.
well that's what you get with closed ai.
That was basically my point but apparently I didn't make it clear enough - that we do and have had degradations, but they eventually become the new normal.

That may not be always bad, mind you, but it seems pretty obvious to me that it has occurred and is occurring.

I could rant much more about it, but suffice to say that just because we don't think something is a problem anymore doesn't mean it wasn't (and isn't) a problem.
The network is designed to be "locked open" in a way that prevents this. The architecture is designed to work like the web.
If Mozilla doesn't care about recapturing market share, why should we? Someone should just fork Gecko and make a new browser at this point.
There's a massive advantage for likely-to-succeed students to be embedded in an environment where they will primarily interact with other likely-to-succeed students. Somewhat perversely, it doesn't really matter WHY they're likely to succeed, which creates the situation that rich parents buying their kid's spot actually creates a net benefit to the students who got in on merit.

THAT's why you go to an Ivy. It's where the successful go.
Server seems to be struggling? Found it in the wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20210805225407/https://www.dyalo...
I asked it for help with solving an issue with a small C function a few days ago, it suggested that instead of using `head.prev` I use `head.prev`. Not a typo, it just echoed my own code as a solution
>Those of us in a rural area of 100% totality thought it was magic. Pure, real, magic.

Hell, I saw it at a library in small town SC and it was still primal and surreal. The birds got quiet, the crickets started chirping. You really felt a direct link back to prehistory and you understood why it affected ancient people the way it did. There a small, tickling sense in the back of your mind that what you're seeing is profoundly wrong. The closest I can describe it is low grade existential terror, in the biblical sense of awe.
U.S. charges Yakuza leader with trying to sell nuclear material to Iran
Jonathan Haidt has researched this topic extensively and concluded that it was both, or rather that it was the replacement of play-based childhood with screen-based childhood. Particularly social media's effect on young girls was very strong, but boys have been negatively impacted too.
Following one of the comments in this thread, I reviewed two other products in this space - https://www.staticcms.org/ and https://decapcms.org/.

It looks like the webpages are almost a direct copy of one another, one in dark mode and one in light mode, one with a community strip and professional services and one without

I'm a technical product marketer, and I find this type of landing page copying amusing to no end.
https://archive.ph/8q5Rz
Quite low. Four star hotels in Kyoto are under $100/night right now.
Parenthetically, there is no tarmac at any airport because the rock chips would get blown around and wreck the planes and jet engines.
Does anyone else feel conflicted about the internet
as both a means to a comfortable/lucretive career but
also the ultimate drug?

yeah. it's like, hey, the only thing i'm good at (software engineering) is intimately tied to an always-on connection to an infinite distraction machine

i mean obviously i mitigate it as much as possible (blocking sites, etc) but daaaaaaaamn. what a fundamentally tricky tension.
That link is an excellent summary!

It’s quite interesting because we can look back in time and find some excellent people who sounded the alarm bells. They all got trounced.

I think if we can take any solace, it’s that Larry Summers did not serve as Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury. It went to Tim Geithner instead.
Sure we do. When you read a sentence, and are able to model that in your mind and understand the space-time being referred to, you understand it. LLM is like a calculator in the sense that given an input it gives an output. There is no modeling of space-time in the mind to know if the sentence makes sense etc. That's why if you read a language you don't understand, you get nothing as you can't link those words with the concepts in your mind to understand it. For the LLM, all languages are like that as it understands nothing.
Fleabag is not a strong independent Girl Boss either, the problem is bad writing and poor characterization which has a lot of broader industry factors. Gig-style inconsistent writer employment, lack of streaming royalties, shorter seasons, shutting writers out of film shoots, they all screw up the junior -> veteran pipeline and produce more immature and unpolished writing.

Today, bad writing manifests as bad expressions of today's predominant values because that's what people grow up with, just as bad writing in the past would badly express the past's predominant values.

Also 90% of stuff is crap and we only remember the good stuff from the past.
Sorry, but if your ambition is to start a $1B company, 3 months in SF is a relatively small sacrifice no matter your age.
Immobilization of nanodiamonds onto cotton fabric for summer clothing
I did not say "you're only allowed to express an opinion once".

But please, show me a project you worked on, and I will show up to forcibly demand a change you don't want every single time the project comes up. And I will guarantee you that very quickly you will find it exceedingly tiring.
comfyui + https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Impact-Pack
Chris here (the other founder) - yes you can! We have an `VALID_EMAIL_DOMAINS ` env variable which controls this.

For example, for us we have `VALID_EMAIL_DOMAINS=danswer.ai`.
Your take on the consumer perspective ignores network effects. Lots of people, particularly children, buy iPhones just to avoid the dreaded green bubbles. Adults may be better at handling this, but it's hard to tell children to just use Android if that means they'll be bullied. I don't think it was originally Apple's intention to conscript legions of schoolyard bullies to increase their market share, but it's certainly happening, and they certainly don't mind that it is. Interoperability (particular opening up iMessage and iCloud to other devices, the same way anyone can use RCS or Google Photos from an iPhone) would mitigate that.

Your take on the developer perspective is a bit confusing. Everyone knows it's a closed system, but that doesn't mean it's not a monopoly. In many ways, it is a monopoly.
Excellent product and fantastic demo!

Would it be possible to integrate Retell with a RAG pipeline?
Do you care how simple Google search is, internally, for Google? No. All that matters is it has a good UI, and it returns good search results.

> They don't normally have much of choice between simple and complex.

I also choose IntelliJ over Vim.
an article about a small number of royally-associated africans in soctland in the 16th century does not justify an image generating AI producing large numbers of black people in pictures of scottish people in the 16th century.
I agree with your general point. I just went through something similar myself with a "locked ward" that basically meant I had to precariously balance the cafeteria trays I was carrying to put a disease-ridden phone up to my ear, while seemingly like a trivial speedbump for anybody wanting to get in surreptitiously.

But here we're talking about access control for a staff-only area that's being used for longer term storage, which doesn't seem onerous at all. Especially with IVF where they should be taking identification/labeling seriously because people understandably don't want to end up carrying someone else's baby due to mix ups.
> As long as the keep rates where they are or higher, we should recover.

This is not the case and is actually impossible. Impossible they will maintain them or higher. And impossible we would recover.

The US is headed towards $1T in interest payments alone annually.

$34T in national debt AND $213T in unfunded liabilities. 2/3 of the budget is non-discretionary

The longer they stay elevated the more the average interest rate on debt goes up. For the US and the world since it's the reserve currency. This pisses everyone off.

Rates will go back down to around 2% because the US AND the world cannot sustain an expensive dollar. There's 65T in eurodollar debt (US dollar denominated debt) globally. [1] I've seen higher estimates too.

"Approximately half of all cross-border loans, international debt securities, and trade invoices are denominated in U.S. dollars, while roughly 40 percent of SWIFT messages and 60 percent of global foreign exchange reserves are in dollars." [2]

We aren't going to end up back around 2% because the Fed wants to. It's because we have to. You cannot maintain the world reserve currency at these rates after everyone got drunk off the lower rates for decades. And you cannot have the debt load we have and maintain these rates or higher. There's no easy way out of a debt spiral.

Just my opinion but rates will go lower. Printing will go into hyperdrive. Inflation will rip. There will be more unrest. Personally, I'm holding inflation-hedging assets.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/65-trillion-debt-bank...

[2] https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/07/the-u-...
Versions of this have been in use since the 90s, but haven't really made a dent in the systemic issues that cause these delays. What do you think has changed to make that different now?
Also can't login to sites that require SMS 2FA.
Ok, so this is kind of funny but I also want to know - did/do you feel productive with J for stats work?

Did you ever switch to R? If so, how would you describe the two languages to a non-programmer?
You're not proposing a solution to a problem anyone has. You just sound like a clueless indoorsman without life experiences. Go out to a local street corner at 5AM and ask the day laborers if they want to be pad in bitcoins.
How does one accidentally learn a different programming language?
Intel will make chips for Microsoft
Offline maps are a life saver in areas with bad coverage. One of the first things I setup for a new phone or when I’m headed somewhere new on vacation.
> It used to be common to call or even drop by unannounced to check on people.

This has been considered rude at least since my parents were kids in the 1950s.

I would imagine it was a lot more common before the telephone at home was widespread, but I've always found turning up unannounced to be rude.
Incredibly Simple QR Generation in QML
So one of the main things we do is automatically sync-ing documents from different sources of knowledge from your team. So all of the data connectors as well as the user authentication and access systems would have to be built from scratch if you did your own. Also if you have more than a few documents you would have to recreate the RAG pipeline (and ours is fairly involved so it would be quite some work). Finally there's the UI and other features like learning from feedback, usage analytics, chat history, etc etc.

If you're just looking to upload a few personal docs into a chat assistant for your own use, probably Danswer is overkill and more complex than the effort is worth. If you're thinking of a team wide use case, then using Danswer makes sense.
Fair enough, but is the notion that some of the time, in a company that explicitly promotes DEI, that a person is there not entirely based on merit, evil and stupid?

Serious question.
> Phind-70B is significantly faster than GPT-4 Turbo ... We're able to achieve this by running NVIDIA's TensorRT-LLM library on H100 GPUs
I'm gonna hazard a guess and say well within the capabilities of a fine tuned model, but that no such fine tuned model exists and the labeled data required to generate it is not really there.
Bestbuy etc take opened items like that back up to 30 days. I think it used to be much longer in the past but I would 100% expect to be able to return a dead tv/monitor/electronic of any sort to a big box store take my broken item back even if I opened it and plugged it in to use it.

I rarely buy from box stores but when I do that and being able to test things in person is the only reason I ever go near a bestbuy/etc.

Microcenter for instance- https://community.microcenter.com/kb/articles/28-what-is-the...

> Products not eligible for return *

Opened software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, and Microsoft Windows Server clients
Electronic software downloads
Point of Sale Activation Cards that have a dollar value
Micro Center Gift Cards (except as required by law)
Products with customer-induced damage such as, but not limited to, aerial drones with damage due to pilot error. So let’s be careful out there!
Microphones and microphone accessories *
VR Headsets, Headphones, including AirPods, Earbuds, and Over-the-Ear Products

* Hardware items deemed defective are eligible for exchange
Yes, much that we think of as Google Maps relies on API calls made to the backend. Plus this assumes that you downloaded the offline maps ahead of time, which in my anecdotal experience is not something that most people really consider. GMaps does (or did at one time at least) have a neat feature of auto-downloading your home area map but, the one time I needed it, it didn't work.
The RNN in question is over-parameterized, so most loss functions wouldn't be expected to coincide with MDL (unless maybe you added in heavier regularization than just L1/L2). There is no incentive towards simplicity. But it is also a single-task network, and it is increasingly rare to train any of those. A multi-task network must share its weights across all the tasks, and so the more tasks it does for a particular parameterization, the more incentive it has towards simplicity in order to do the tasks at all. So I wonder if scaling up task diversity would increasingly approximate MDL and presumably help it learn the true algorithmic cores?
My basis would be the conceptual AI on top of space-time my company has built: https://graphmetrix.com/

I started the epistemological research in the late 90's for understanding how human concepts work and started building it 5 years ago. (In Common Lisp)
Woah it's the stuff of dreams.
I'm not black, so I can't speak for black people in the UK.

But in terms of English language rather than their preference, I think you use a compound term, such as Black British, it's probably more correct to capitalize, at least if you intend it to be a compound rather than intend black as "just" an adjective that happens to be used to qualify British rather than referring to a specific group. "Black" by itself would not generally be capitalized unless at the start of a sentence any more than "white" would. And this seems to be generally reflected in how I see the term used in the UK.
This is what HipremeEngine does for example.
https://github.com/MrcSnm/HipremeEngine
Lots of people dislike the design choices in OSMAnd, so it's worth mentioning that there are lots of apps that use OSM data and provide offline maps and routing.
It’d surely land sidewise. :D
agreed. On Google Maps app, there is a feature called "offline maps" which allows a user to select a rectangle on a the map and download all the street info inside it. A whole US state can fit in less than a few hundred megabytes. I have all the city I live in downloaded so I can go on walks without needed to use my data plan.
Like it or not, this is how center-right over are using it. We've just created huge silos post trump schism, that even our language is drifting.
This seems like what Berners-Lee’s Solid project is trying to do, at least in principle. Is that correct?

Seems intriguing regardless. Congrats on making it happen!
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Thank you, but I did see the whole answer (the second paragraph) when I responded. I sort of know what you're saying about not spoon feeding people, but learning happens best for a person according to that person, and working backwards from an answer can be as illuminating for me as it was for the other guy (and it can be illuminating for the wrong reason – revealing that it was a poor question in the first place).

I don't think you can be prescriptive about how people should learn. In the end we'll have to be able to operate without someone giving us the answers, but in the beginning however we get the learning process we need, that's all that counts.
"Gen Z wants to not be treated like shit"

You don't say
On iOS, I've been using Vinegar with Safari.

I find my consumption to be way down because the YouTube site is... good, but not great, on Safari, but I can still readily consume what I like.

It also supports picture-in-picture and I've never seen an ad on YouTube in the past 3 years except when I load them on my TV. I didn't even know there was an adblock competition going on except for in the news because I've just never seen any.
Very regionally dependent, and very relationship dependent.
The main problem seems to be that LLM outputs seem to be tied to the company itself. If the tool is creating un-diverse images or sexist text people seem to intuitively associate that output with the company itself. This appears to be different than search results. People don’t generally get angry at Google because they can find sexist ideas through the search engine.

Maybe to have more powerful AI tools we need to stop getting angry at the company that trains the AI because of the bad outputs we can get and instead get annoyed with companies that create crappy hobbled tools.
The actual risk here is not so much history - who is using APIs for that? It's the risk that if you deploy with Gemini (or Anthropic's Claude...) then in six months you'll get high-sev JIRA tickets at 2am of the form "Customer #1359 (joe_masters@whitecastle.com) is seeing API errors because the model says the email address is a dogwhistle for white supremacy". How do you even fix a bug like that? Add begging and pleading to the prompt? File a GCP support ticket and get ignored or worse, told that you're a bad person for even wanting it fixed?

Even worse than outright refusals would be mendacity. DEI people often make false accusations because they think its justified to get rid of bad people, or because they have given common words new definitions. Imagine trying to use Gemini for abuse filtering or content classification. It might report a user as doing credit card fraud because the profile picture is of a white guy in a MAGA cap or something.

Who has time for problems like that? It will make sense to pay OpenAI even if they're more expensive, just because their models are more trustworthy. Their models had similar problems in the early days, but Altman seems to have managed to control the most fringe elements of his employee base, and over time GPT has become a lot more neutral and compliant whilst the employee faction that split (Anthropic), claiming OpenAI didn't care enough about ethics, has actually been falling down the leaderboards as they release new versions of Claude due partly to higher rate of bizarre "ethics" based refusals.

And that's before we even get to ChatGPT. The history stuff may not be used via APIs, but LLMs are fundamentally different to other SaaS APIs in how much trust they require. Devs will want to use the models that they also use for personal stuff, because they'll have learned to trust it. So by making ChatGPT appeal to the widest possible userbase they set up a loyal base of executives who think AI = OpenAI, and devs who don't want to deal with refusals. It's a winning formula for them, and a genuinely defensible moat. It's much easier to buy GPUs than fix a corporate culture locked into a hurricane-speed purity spiral.
Yes, I'm all about the experimentation. I feel like often times during work, we don't have time to pop our heads up and look around at tools and processes that might help us do our jobs better or with less toil.

I always tell folks at any hackdays I coordinate: talking about a tool you thought might be used, explored and learned wasn't a fit is just as much a win as a cool demo.
Doesn't that completely miss the point? No one has died and it's not a disease. People took loans, some have repaid and some not, and you're rewarding the latter at the expense of the former. You don't see any moral issues whatsoever, even if you played devil's advocate?
Yes, I've talked with my coworkers about the annoying girlboss character trope in recent films.
The core audience has finally been explained to me. Lol. Nice.
This is not a hoax.

But won't we soon have a real fake moon landing?

What a world.
One silly, maybe extreme, direction to move to try to explore building functions together is Alligator Eggs: https://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
I'm delighted that you noticed—it took about 30 interventions to get there.
I don't see how this is a response to anything I've said. They're speaking to other humans and the original use of their modified idiom isn't framed as if one were talking about their own, personal disability.