skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IF you can run Windows in Virtualbox with a mounted volume on the hosts for data, just keep up with VM snaps to have a clean system, not programmatically manageable from a config like NixOS but keep the system clean.

IF NOT then use ntfs snapshots extensively to being able to recover and keep data on a *nix host well managed.

Windows have proprietary automation but being designed as an "endpoint OS", meaning a value-less thing you deploy mostly in a default state without much customization there is not much you can do at a domestic level. BTW if an Uni in 2024 demand Windows specifically to students I doubt can be really a good choice...
I usually use Emacs with a console save of LispWorks Pro, sometimes Emacs+SBCL, sometimes the LispWorks Pro IDE.

EDIT: the reason why I usually use a LispWorks console save instead of SBCL is obscure: I often ingest very large text files, and the last time I checked a few years ago, LW was faster at this than SBCL. For regular CL hacking, SBCL is fine.
I’m not so sure.

Anecdotally, I’ve made it to a remote destination using Maps, then hopped back in the car an hour later (with no signal), and it couldn’t load anything. This seems to happen quite often.
Stability is not an American company.
Hey! Congrats on the release.

Does the AT Protocol only optimize for Twitter-like flows, or does it allow for other types of social applications to be built like Activitypub? For example a reddit-like social media.
There are a number of independent projects using atproto in various ways.

There's an (incomplete) list here: https://docs.bsky.app/showcase

And the protocol is documented here: https://atproto.com
All the more reason to keep posting this stuff. People who do this seriously are why we can't have nice things.
Plato being dead around 2300 years ago, and two millennia before copyright was invented, I think it's going to be fine ;).
I see lots of criticism of tactics in these comments, but isn't the proof in the pudding? This was a wildly successful campaign that will have a significant positive effect on many people's lives while also reducing emissions. It's a win-win-win. This seems to me proof that blocking traffic, vandalizing museums, and all the other seemingly "nonsensical" tactics are in fact the right move at the moment.
I must admit I only glanced at the article and in the past when topic appeared. How does this work, the speed of 1.7s I mean? Taking a look at input, let's say average entry is 16 bytes, there's billion of it; That's ~16GB. Average read speed of SSDs is what, ~500MB/s? Scanning alone at max throughput will take half a minute. This must be relying on DDR4+ read speeds which would probably come in under a second in certain cases. Is that's what's going on, RAM disk?
It's not the only open image model. It is the best one, but it's not the only one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457035
There's no absolute lean at all it's all subjective, and sadly multidimensional which is hard for normal people to appreciate, so sure.

Soooo.. Right and left are objective bars in the sand and my options are perfectly formed and happen to be exactly just on the correct side of all issues.
I often wish I could tell Gemini or some other ai my general preferences & interests (unique parks, board games, bonsai, pickleball courts etc) and while I was driving, google maps would occasionally pop up a silent notice saying "did you know, just 1 mile ahead is an exit leading to a nearby world-famous bonsai exhibit that is open now)

They could do this really really easily, and it would be EPIC and offer you the chance to discover things you basically NEVER would know about otherwise...
Maybe. 75% of their incremental users are logged out and likely coming from Google.

Still, maybe Google also derives a lot of value from Reddit.

Would either of the two risk their position to extort some money from the other?
DAUs seem less useful for an anonymous service like reddit. I have like 3 throwaway accounts and it takes 5 seconds to create a new one.
Y2K would negatively impact companies' bottom lines if not dealt with, directly, in a short and known timeline, in predictable ways.

Climate change will impact companies in different ways at different times. Oil companies, for instance, are incentivized to ramp up production as much as possible while also diversifying.

The way to get all companies to take appropriate actions is to not allow them to externalize costs. That means a significant carbon tax.
You guys have ST4?? I'm still with 3 because that's what I paid for..as an "lifetime licence" if remembering correctly
Gemini Has a Problem
So we're leaning on access control to do this! Right now we support manually configured group-based access at the connector level (e.g. Users X, Y, and Z make up the `Engineering` group and that group should have access to Folders A, B, C in Google Drive + Github).

We're also in the process of adding the ability to sync permissions from sources. For example, with this in place you would only be able to chat with / search over documents in Google Drive that you have access to. Since everything is RAG based rather than any fine-tuning, this will guarantee that someone asking "how much do my colleagues make?" will not get an answer UNLESS they already have access to the document that has this info (in which case, it shouldn't be a problem :D)
More likely to leave college/university with debt, but no degree.
“RoadTripper”? Or “RoundTripper”?
Deno 1.41: smaller Deno compile binaries
I'm not diagnosed but I almost certainly have something like ADHD. It feels like my brain will take the most insignificant excuse to start paying attention to something else. Copilot boosts my productivity by 25-30%, easily, by removing many of these "excuses".

I am an experienced programmer, but sometimes I'll have a clear intention in my head of what I want to do, and the knowledge/experience of what code would accomplish that thing, and I still back away from it and start looking at something else, whether work, social media, whatever. Writing this, I know it might sound ridiculous or lazy, but it's true.

Copilot bridges this gap, often miraculously. The gap between thought and code is shortened, and the windows of time where I might lose focus seem to be drastically shortened.

For me, the key is that I do know how to write most of the code that Copilot writes for me, I'm just not good at actually writing it, or at least doing so in a sustained, consistent way.
That's what I said. The rights were sold to Airbus. For nothing, under duress.
On the other hand, I love it now and hated it before. Guess it depends on what you're looking for. Me - I like little to no moderation and government interference and don't find much offensive and have no problem just ignoring anything I do find objectionable. All worth it to be able to speak honestly.
are all the model/back ends to Stability products basically available OSS via Ludwig Maximilian University, more or less?
Rent changed in that scenario, not inflation. So the project wouldn't make more since money isn't worth more, you just get more ROI on external investments making internal investments less lucrative in comparison.
SRAM Scaling Issues, and What Comes Next
Phind is for developers. Wouldn't you rather it grok documentation than philosophy?
Seems like a weird thing to base upon one data point. Maybe that person is just unusual?
How much do they cost compared to the labour cost that also provides additional employment options and boost the local economy?

"Just plant trees" without doing anything to ensure the trees can survive is not meaningful in all conditions. What they're doing here is effectively "just planting trees" in a way that ensures the area stays moist enough for the trees to survive, and leveraging the same space to grow crops.
On one hand a measly 60 mill for Reddits data

On the other hand they bought a poison pill

Is whoever behind the decision making here blindsided by Reddit being a massive trove of data, and are not realizing most of that data is shit?
"women have more interest people to things so to improve their situation we should increase pair-programming, however there are limits to how people oriented some SE roles are".

This is literally saying we should change SWE roles to make it more suited to women... i.e. women are not suited for that currently.
It's strange that people think Stability is making decisions based on American politics when it isn't an American company and other countries generally have stricter laws in this area.
While I agree that medical communication can and should be better, it’s worth pointing out that hormonal birth control also lowers the risk of endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancer by a similar amount according to cancer.gov (see: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/h...).
...how do you know
Reddit Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Apache ECharts 5.5 – What's New
Would you recommend that to someone who has never used AWS before? Is it possible to screw up and rack up a huge bill? I might consider using that for big tasks that I can't do with my local setup.
If you want that now, kagi has a forums lens
https://www.arrow.com/en/manufacturers/qualcomm/microcontrol... - has plenty of newer parts than A72 available
Ops, haha. Interesting that GPT-4 still got it right though.

Phind still forgot about POST, but at least now it got the interface right.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ipu8z1tb3bnn7nfgfibcix38
As a company grows (in size and age), there is definitely more waste and more bureaucracy. No impact in trimming that. But, larger, older companies also spend a lot of effort on defending their business or uncovering future business. Fire the people who do that, and you won't see any immediate impact to revenue or core metrics... But, you've probably reduced the future viability of the product (lower chance of uncovering new growth, higher chance of being disrupted by a competitor, etc).

You can see this a lot with companies bought by Private Equity firms. They slash costs and save a lot of short-term costs, and all looks good, but the company is now on a path to death.
The GPD Pocket 3 has a KVM module that lets you do exactly this: it has HDMI & USB-C inputs and then it acts as a display, keyboard, and mouse for whatever machine it's connected to: https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3

There's also the up-and-coming Minisforum V3 tablet that has a video input so that it can act as an external monitor, but I don't think it'll be able to share it's keyboard and mouse.

I agree with you, though, it really would be nice if this were a more common feature.
Reddit is really pumping their P&L sheet in preparation for IPO.

The parasites at the top have $ in their eyes rn
> (1) your definition is equivalent to "permanent mass unemployment" because if it can do your work for you, it can also do your work for someone else

This wouldn't happen because employment effects are mainly determined by comparative advantage, i.e. the resources that could be used to "do your job" will instead be used to do something they're more suited to.

(Not "that they're better at". it's "more suited to". You do not have your job because you're the best at it.)
My understanding is that a PDS instance only hosts data for it's users.

Caching can happen at Relays or AppViews and those will presumably need to do something to avoid caching CSAM.
It depends on your daily commute.

If I need to drive 20 minutes with most of it on the expressway, and they’re prone to accidents and there are multiple viable routes, I’m 100% going to load it up on Maps every trip, if it will save me being delayed 10-60 minutes every few weeks.

But if I’m going mostly backroads, probably not worth it, since you can more easily go around accidents, and they’re less common.

But again, I’m guessing more city expressway commuters use navigation daily than you think.
CFS is very different. Fatigue as a word alone has different meanings to different people. They use it to describe the effect of driving for too long and you need a rest. Or a poor nights sleep. Or maybe you went hard at the gym or the bar. It is nothing like any of those
things.

A good tell is that physical effort beyond a point makes it worse, and you need to stay within an energy envelope or you get severe symptoms. All activity is physical effort not just say running. Putting the kettle on for example or refactoring a line of code.

You know that nice feeling when you feel better after you’ve been sick. You don’t
feel that ever again.
Tabulator 5.6 brings spreadsheet-like features
"You're calling it Slack?"
Yeah. I've heard folk who should know better (looking at you, John C. Dvorak) call Y2K a nothingburger and suggest the effort to prevent problems was a total boondoggle.

Disclaimer: I was part of that effort. The funny thing was that I was brought back to a previous client to fix something that my previous efforts had literally caused. Took me 20 minutes to fix it once I saw what the problem was. And then there was a "while you're here, can you take a look at this ..." That lasted about two years until they closed the department and moved it to NY, NY.

At least I got credit in terms of billable hours.
[dupe]

Discussion on official post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471317
From cold start. Most starts are not cold. The phone knows where it is, approximately, what time it is (within a second or so, from built-in RTC), and orbital parameters of the satellites overhead (maybe without the latest corrections).

My Garmin watch gets a GPS lock in way less than 5 minutes without any cellular connection.
280 since 2017.
Every LLM almost certainly already is trained on Reddit from before 2015 when the entire site content was compiled for research.

This is just adding in more recent content.
and if they know how it is, they probably are able to make it happen by planning for it over the course of a year.

honestly, im not sure i would ever wish to hire someone who couldnt make this happen
> could focus on making the business more generally efficient, cut down on process, and focus on keeping the business nimble and responsive

Every company already tries this as hard as they can, there is no magic button they can press to just make themselves more efficient.
United Health Group hacked by nation-state associated cybersecurity threat actor
Sell ads, Senator.
> Imagine as fractions of content goes missing for a while or is just deleted.

It may have changed since I have been user there but, I consider content on sites like Facebook or Twitter, that is not really recent, to be lost anyway. Because searching or browsing older content was hard.
> why would you want to say "no" here?

We're in an age of rising fascism, authoritarianism and inequality.

With regard to "AI", it's a technology that disproportionately favours
established power and threatens democracy.

If "AI" really was a leveller, if it threatened to split monopolies,
reign in government, redistribute wealth and build social capital then
I think you'd hear a good deal more enthusiasm for it.

Right now even the dumbest people can see which way that wind is
blowing.
Stability is not an American company. The US is not the only country in the world.
I saw WSB hit 60,000 concurrent users watching the Nvidia earnings yesterday
Just like UNIX versus VMS, MVS and others.
Google is paying Reddit instead of just taking it for free like they do from all other websites?
Yeah, they say as much in the risk factors when discussing potential issues with their metrics:

"Moreover, a single person or organization may hold multiple accounts and may use more than one account to perform multiple views within a relevant period."
They do because the standard library implementation was changed to use Hashbrown. However the standard library API has a slight limitation in that you can't get say "I have a reference to a string. If there's an entry for it, give me that. Otherwise clone the string and insert a new entry. Also only do one key lookup."

You end up either having to do two lookups or always cloning the string even if you ended up not needing it.
Reverse-engineering the technique from the answer is a different skill from creating the answer though. The latter requires more creativity, the former is deduction.
Well the most standard approach is to use cross-encoders (e.g. something like Cohere Rerank) to give similarity scores between the query and the chunk, and then use these scores to update the ranking.

Our approach is to use an LLM (gpt-3.5-turbo for example), and to ask it explicitly "Is this chunk <CHUNK> useful for answering this query <QUERY>". We've found, while certainly a bit more expensive, the larger model size and greater understanding of the world allows this approach to yield significantly better results that the SOTA cross-encoders. It also allows us to ask the model to explain why it's useful, which can be really helpful for the user when determining if they should look deeper into a document (as opposed to the standard keyword-based highlighting which often isn't very useful when determining if a document actually has useful information for your query).
I also have a mom who has/had this.

It started as fibromyalgia. Then it was multiple chemical sensitivity. Then it was chronic fatigue syndrome. Then it was a autoimmune disorder. Most recently it is an exotic form of lupus with extreme photosensitivity.

Each time, like you said, it just went away but was replaced by the next thing.

I don't have any doubt that my mom's subjective health experience is real and unpleasant, but after 30 years of this, I do have my doubts about a physiological etiology.

The peace I've had to make is that even if it is "in her head," the pain is real.
Thank you. I hadn't drawn the parallel before. But that matches my experience with both.
That was just an example, I could have made the same point without it. I did report it in my previous comment for completeness and it was on topic.
Are you an active user? What was the cutoff threshold for this?
that is more like it.

Or we fired 1/2 the scrum masters, so now each project only gets 50% of one instead of a FT one, and BTW, all of a sudden developer meetings get cut in half as a side benefit.

Every large company I have ever worked for could have easily fired 1/3 the staff and ran just fine indefinitely - but only if they fired the right third.
> I don't think it's logical to assume that there is one singular root cause for the symptoms of ADHD

yeah, okay. I didn't mean to assume that, but in anyone who has ADHD there must be some root cause or set of root causes that result in the disorder. I'm not saying all cases of ADHD are the same, in fact the entire point of my comment chain is to say the opposite.
The overnight about face on reddit when the DNC stabbed Bernie Sanders in the back, coupled with the way Ellen Pao was yeeted off the glass cliff, the way IAMA was killed, the way conservative subreddits were purged, the moderator ousting during the blackout, etc.

Reddit's front page is about as organic as a twinkie.
Hmm, all computers have remote kill switches in them unless you have a generator at home.
Can I connect it to any OpenAI Rest compatible LLM? So having my own LLM on premises based eg on ollama OpenAI Rest endpoint?
Is that like the taco bell meat that "contains" some meat.
A lot of the popular users subscribe to the blocklists uncritically. It breaks the UX of the site if you get placed on one.
Received the same via email.
Their enterprise customers care even more than Stability does.
Show HN: Quist for querying JSON, simple, easy, and never has syntax errors
Queries, fast, simple, robust.
See also:

LEO, the first business computer system in the world, built in 1951 by J. Lyons & Co to calculate the cost of cake ingredients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
I used to benchmark a lot on an enterprise-grade SSD 10 years ago, and that was already at 2 GB/s. Today, even my laptop's SSD supports multiple GB/s.

But you're right about the contest -- each program was measured five times in a row, and there was enough RAM to fit the entire file into the page cache.

The best time using all 32 cores (64 hyperthreads) on the evaluation machine was 323 milliseconds.
$60 M for absolutely cutting edge dick joke generation in next gen LLMs.

I question whether Reddit data is worth anything at all.
It's pretty low, and I'm not sure average is the best measure here, but I can't find median to compare.

I did see this a few weeks ago and thought it was interesting - excess saving rates are dropping sharply: https://twitter.com/saxena_puru/status/1747041218004156505

There is another household debt graph that I can't find right now that is going up. I suspect the decline in savings rate is being buoyed somewhat by debt.
Y Q? (2022)
In our org, this was brought up. People who had problems, then fixed them, were the ones being seen and recognized by higher level management, and awarded for fixing the problems, when they, often, shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Now we have something akin to a "person that prevents problems" award. It's a nice gesture, but, even though I received one, I think it's mostly nonsense. You don't get the face time/experience presenting with the higher level managers. It's almost impossible to prove that you prevented catastrophes, by working extra hours, or doing the right thing. Nobody likes a "Hey look, I told you so!" sort of perspective, no matter how it's framed.

To me, this is the most gratification-limiting aspect of being a software engineer: time is required to test quality of foresight/design. Rewarding retroactively, for great past decisions, doesn't happen. There are systems I designed, when making a pittance for compensation, that's still being used a decade later, across multiple companies, almost entirely unmodified. That, now objectively, good work wasn't seen or recognized by anyone paying me at the time, and can't be seen by anyone now. I burned good time for a "good job me!" as a reward. As I get older, that mental masturbation seems less desirable, since it's usually at the expense of the surprisingly limited life credits that we spend on those tasks. But along with most other nerds, I can hardly stop myself because it's an innate obsession.
this is a good thing (tm)
This happens in organizations that don't measure and respect precursors or leading indicators of success/failure -- organizations that do not practice organizational observability, to coin a phrase. Which is to say, most of them, because this is not something one thinks of until one has suffered its absence. Your managers have to think like SREs, and be technically sophisticated enough to model and address this problem.

Does anyone know any great management books on this subject?
Hah. In fairness, PR firms, digital marketers, "reputation management" experts, and SEO gurus are "human" too.

These days at least 90% of product-related discussions on Reddit are astroturfed, though, and that's for sure.

The main problem, among many others, is that it's far too easy to game the upvote/downvote system with bots, and most pros have bot networks of their own, or know how to hire them. The second problem is that Reddit "karma" is site-wide, which means that most "high karma" accounts that are sold on secondary markets are very useful for digital marketing purposes generally. The third problem... well... I could go on all day. Reddit's system is horrendous if you're looking for human discussion and unbiased advice.
Google Chatbot's A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms
> the owners are not profit-maximizing

Should we tell him?
This reminds me of Reed Hastings (Netflix Co-Founder) talking about how after he had done layoffs (I think 30%) he found that they actually moved faster because all the dead weight was gone and the talent density had gone up.

This could also just be marketing spin however.