skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons I think Apple has been successful at launching new product categories, where those before them trying to launch the same category have floundered, is they really talk up the problem statement and what the product will do for the user. “1,000 songs in your pocket.” As a consumer, I can understand this, I see the value to my life, and I don’t have to care about what technology was needed to make it possible.

Consistently solve problems for customers (even if the problem was made up) and the company will have fans… until they stop solving the consumer’s problems.
Cars do cause absolutely untold amounts of death and suffering. Something like 60-80 millions deaths and 2 billion injuries have been caused by cars.

It's one of the major causes of early death. Most of our fire departments' time in the US is spent dealing with the carnage and bodily mutilation caused by cars, and only a tiny fraction spent on actual fires.
Don't know about this specific piece of code yet, but I have had good results with one board (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/01/20/1800) and mixed results with another (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/10/2000).

I have another couple RK3588 and RK3588S boards that I just got and that look promising, but I haven't done all my tests yet.
Much love your way. I lost a partner that went through it. Modern antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication did seem to help. You are brave to talk about it and I hope more people do.
I don't see any mention of it in the post
I just use excalidraw for free form drawings. Might not be what you need, but the performance and utilities is perfect for my workflow
The AMA is an amazing example of this, even though most doctors do not belong to the AMA.
I don't think the US Postal Service is responsible for the quantity of paper people are shipping to your doorstep, neither for the disposal of that pile of paper in a giant pile etc.
In general, for sure. Only some big bands have managed to change their style and have their fans follow them. For most a different band would make the most sense. And I am only guessing about Turisas, but they probably should have done so, but it was probably more comfortable to make money with the established hits and name. Starting something new is not easy, after all.
> Also, Gemma is a +9B model. I think it's not okay that Google compared it with Mistral and Llama 2 (7B) models.

They say it's because they're not counting embedding parameters[0]. Although apparently even with the embedding parameters subtracted it still rounds to 8B not 7B. From what understand, rounding to the nearest B is the standard. Seems slightly disingenuous to call it 7B, but not a big deal IMO since I don't hear anyone saying this model is outperforming popular OSS 7Bs.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b/discussions/34
Imagine you are developing a thing like Chat-GTP or whatever Google calls Bard this week.

You see it is growing quickly. You could productionize now, or invest a bit longer and make it 2x better.

An independent problem is that your model is really powerful, but left to it's own devices it spouts the worst of 4chan right alongside high quality reddit comments.

When do you ship? You have 2 criteria: After you yoke it to not be a Nazi and once returns on quality investment start to fall.

Both Google and OpenAi hit the point where returns started to diminish. It turns out the hard part was yokeing it. OpenAi, being more agile, throws massive pools of borderline slave labor at the problem while Google is still ramping up their "let's just throw supervised training at the problem" solution.

These products were released past the inflection point of the sigmoid. The marketing is strong to re-create the old moore-law hype to re-loosen investors wallets, but the return quality investment is already diminishing. The primary way it is changing is in finding composition of tools and new use cases.

Clean the marketing scales from your eyes and feel welcome to the plateau.
To be clear, you believe that everyone in the US is sufficuently digitally savvy and well equipped with digital technology that paper is no-longer needed? Have you tried volunteering with your local town's digital champion/digital mentoring programme, if they exist? Yoiu may find it it interesting
I don't understand how people perpetuate that induced demand stuff. It absolutely falls apart if you think about it at all. So we shouldn't expand highways because it "induces demand/traffic"? So all of our cities and states should have kept their original one lane dirt roads and never improved on them, because expanding the dirt lanes would have induced demand and caused more traffic? Our transportation system would have been better / more effective with a couple of dirt roads and never expanding? It doesn't even remotely make sense.
Systemantics (1977, 1986, 2002) > Contents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Contents
If the world were getting browner, they would panic. It's getting greener, so they have to try a bit harder, but they still manage to panic.

Panic --> Clickbait --> Ads --> Money
Does Xfce work on Wayland? I would imagine qubes would either use wayland or not provide any windows management if they're focused on security. As I understand it, X11 has a lot of big security vulnerabilities that Wayland fixes, but not having any of that code or functionality to review makes it a lot easier to secure. Like the Alpine mentality.
Beauty is the last thing I care about when digging through settings panels trying to figure out how to disable the latest annoyance
I'm not trying to criticize you, but I've never been a fan of this on mobile. I think the content should scroll with the page.
This is just taking the rational consumer model, forgetting it's just a model and treating it as a fact of life, and then inventing corollaries from it. Plenty of people find intrinsic value in solving problems without there needing to be a profit. See, e.g. Open Source Software, The Apollo Program, Academia, the BBC.
I follow HN by user threads so I don't necessarily notice where the rayiner/tptacek walls of text are rooted.
College is a maturing process intellectually. The thinking one does during this time is crucial. It’s not just about getting a J.O.B. Thiel has another agenda, maybe steering ppl away from ‘liberal ideologies’ because lest we forget he is a MAGA grifter
This is humorous though low quality... I don't think this ought to be an HN submission. It's far better suited on Reddit.
Sorting your recycling is probably a scam. My understanding is that the aluminum content is already high enough to hire workers to sift through garbage. It's a terrible job but robots will do it soon.
So Thiel is paying the top % of a generation to get brainwashed with his agenda?
Apoptosis is an ordered process. You have in fact evolved to die.
or maybe it is already automated, we will never know :)
It’s a credibility issue in my opinion. When you go to the DMV you see the efficiency at which your local government operates and you think that there is no way in hell someone is actually monitoring the official website, where this is offering the alternative to that, if it’s effective or not is unknown, it’s just a possibility.
You can try codetoflow.com, it doesn't support full codebase but is good enough for single code files.
Do you have any numbers on how big that problem is?
Contains a lot of microplastic, too:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/plastic...
This website helped me choose a keyboard to build. You can stack keyboard layouts on top of each other, or print a layout to get a sense of how comfortable it is to use.
> The naturally picks up whatever may be wrong with society that resulted in this distribution.

In Silicon Valley, most companies are 40-50% Asian, while the US is only 7% Asian. Does that mean there’s something “wrong” with Silicon Valley?
Timestamps are valuable for sure.
In the near future someone will conduct a scientific study on how people who feel sick generally don't live as long
Do you feel the wars on drugs and terror will ever be won? I don't. I look at your wars the same way.

They'll drag on and on. Some people will get rich and powerful, but the people on whose behalf you're supposedly fighting don't really care about any of it.

They'd much rather have affordable healthcare and housing.
Oh I do agree and I wish more people did like you do, which is my point: instead of discussing what billionaire ego island gets richer, let's just not use their tools and discuss together what we want as a society. If the cost of AI is higher than its benefits, then let's not use it. From any company.
Maybe its just me, but the name suggested an AI based tool to generate maven pom.xml files.

The pain I've experienced with maven and those Gawd awful xmls got me a bit too excited.

going to crawl back to my burrow now.
For large VRAM models, what about selling one of the 3090s, and putting the money towards an NVLink and a motherboard with two x16 PCIe slots (and preferably spaced so you don't need riser cables)?
If not directly, they skew it by expanding their headcounts by the year
I really wish they'd stop renaming things. I swear I already had google wallet, then was forced to download Gpay, and now I'm sitting here trying to guess if Gpay = Google Pay.

Edit: sure, I could spend more time digging in to look that up, but it should just be obvious and foolproof -- there should only be one app, with one name, period.
Pretty cool, uses 2 femtosecond laser wavelengths for reading and another 2 for writing, with certain combination of beam shape to localize the spot to ~50nm and can focus 3d in 1 um spacing. Not clear on how much z the spot takes since they say 100um total with 1um spacing. I think the claim of storage per disc is with 100 layers per side. The "SharedIt" link to the paper reflows the text wrong on my laptop but looked okay on my phone. I want to go back to the Microsoft glass optical storage tech to see how this compares in technique. Comment section here really bums me out
As a former teacher, my experience of education specific software was almost universally negative. We may even get an in-person meeting with the software vendor only for the reported issues to remain unpatched indefinitely.
DeSmet C was another cheap mostly standard C early on. It was Borland that made Pascal cheap.

I remember being intrigued by APL but, at the time, on PCs, I'm not sure there would have been any reasonable way to run it.

Yes, in general, language tools were very expensive for PC hobbyists in the 80s.
Even in Uncle Bob's version of the single responsibility principle, 'one reason to change' is about people.

He words it poorly, but it is more about not commingling DBA, UX, core domain logic in a module.

People miss that and end up having low cohesion.

While SRP and interfaces do have an intersection, they are not the same.

Interfaces leaking implementation details is an example.

Composition, dependency inversion, and dependency injection are all forms of L.

Polymorphism is problematic in most cases but thinking it is the only way to accomplish that looser coupling goal is a misunderstanding of where we have grown with the concepts.

I tend to prefer the ports and adapters pattern, which ensures client components that invoke an operation on a server component will meet the preconditions specified as required for that operation.

That is equivalent to LSP or design by contract.

SOLID is just a set of principles that are intended to make loose coupling and high cohesion the ideal default.

This is in contrast to procedural code that we know makes unmaintainable systems.

The problem with SOLID is the same as Agile, XP etc...

People ignore the core ideas that are descriptive in nature and try to use them as oversimplified prescriptivist rules.

To be fair Robert Martin wasn't great at selling this and that is why I tend to point people to authors like Martin Fowler who are more careful about sounding like a preacher handing out laws.

But Robert Martin developed SOLID in the context of cohesion, and if you read it in that context it is valuable.

He didn't invent the SOLID tool to remember the rules, but it seems that blog posts and Wikipedia pages are as far as people get before trying to implement it or dismiss it.
Valuable considerations.

Seems like a perfect machine learning/robotics application, but probably not one that will receive funding if it's pitched with the objective of, "look now all of this problematic crap is in one place."
Iterating over bit sets quickly
I would also postulate that the average human was happier 20000 years ago than the average human today. I also think that an average duck is happier than an average human.
There’s no such thing as a broken system, every system is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets.
Exact same setup, I'm afraid. Best solution I have been able to come up with is to read the datasheet of the SuperIO on that board and tune the hysteresis parameters from Linux after boot.
It's too late to propose new features for Edition 2024, and you would first need to get some attribute agreed which has the opposite effect, then write up how your proposal works and see if it's generally agreed. I doubt that but you should certainly try.
You would think sand is plentiful, but eg https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is....
Scientists research cancer and are producing visible, measurable results. If they hadn't had any for the past 50 years, I'd say maybe they should change course.
> The law really should make it clear that, illegal activity excluded, if you engage in any form of censorship you are not given section 230 protections.

Say I run a forum for pet fish discussion. Would my removal of content derailing the discussion into a flatearther one constitute my loss of 230? What if only logged in members can see the content?

It seems odd that we don't let private property operate as it wants.
> This was my last experience with women jurors. I formed a fixed opinion that they were absolutely dependable, but I did not want them.
Can you make them a standard (non admin) user account and then either keep the admin account to yourself (with remote desktop, probably) or at least call it something really clear like "this is dangerous" with a hard to type password, so they really have to think twice before using it?

It makes it harder for them to accidentally install rootkits and certain kinds of spyware and ransomware. It also makes it harder to install some software globally, but that's the point.

If you want to go a step further you can try to set it up in some kind of kiosk mode, but that's probably too restrictive for day to day use.

Of course you should explain why it's set up this way. Something like "In day to day use, your standard user account lets you run the programs you already have, create new documents, send emails, etc. All the day to day stuff is taken care of and should work the same as always have. And it protects from you bad software and people trying to hack your machine. In the rare cases you need to install some new program, you should double check to make sure it's safe and legit first, like Googling for its official source and calling me if you're not sure. Then if you're it's safe, you use this other special account I left on this post it under your desk. Use it sparingly and only when you absolutely need to!"
Google – Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries [video]
Another book that covers the topic - Quigley's the Evolution of Civilizations. Taken from a summary:

"Quigley defines a civilization as “a producing society with an instrument of expansion.” A civilization’s decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution—that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs."

He spends some time defining institutionalization, when groups transition from being a group that was formed to accomplish a goal, to being a group whos goal becomes to preserve the group, the various stages involved, and the points where there's opportunities to rectify the situation via reform.
One of the little ironies of life. I know about this (and some other annoying problems), and have been meaning to fix the typography on my site for a long while. But that would draw me into a rabbit hole of some other improvements I want to make to my site maker. And that will be, well, there's an xkcd for it. Two actually.

Automation: https://xkcd.com/1319/

Efficiency: https://xkcd.com/1445/
fair enough, yeah I'm talking about GGUF quants only.
I don't think they're too powerful. Like I said, the major victories were won long ago and are in the history books.

The institutions that claim to fight those things are the ones who are the bad guys now. All the while, ignoring the real problems that everyone wants solved.
Oh I get it
By raising prices and eliminating jobs?
Plastic is always at the center of these hot discussions, however, is there any reliable and practical replacement to it? Any new material that’s safe -glass is not even safe apparently with microplastics (1) and to the environment (2)-,cheap, and durable enough -forget about paper-based like straws?

(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29803096/

(2) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...
> We language champions are enchanted, enslaved by the beauty we found. But no one else cares.

I feel this way for both natural languages and formal ones (programming languages, algebra). And I still find it hard to get used to the “no one else cares” part, no matter how well I know it to be true.
Who sends birthday cards through FedEx?
…duh? I thought this was common knowledge.
The Kish tablet (ca. 3500 BC)
I did see this recently:

"An unhealthy obsession with sickness increases risk of dying, study says"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/25/hypochondri...
As a challenge: try to separate waxed cardboard food containers from polyethylene-coated cardboard food containers. They look almost identical. They feel quite similar. Nonetheless, the former is compostable, whereas the latter is not and also contains non-recyclable plastic. (Good luck getting the polyethylene off the cardboard. Maybe you could derive new polymer feedstock from the whole mess, but this seems no easier than turning compostable waste into plastic in general.)
The union and its member's intentions sure, not the intention of the overall 'elaborate system'. Because the union and its member are only components of the larger system.

i.e. A system that doesn't take into account the free association of its components is incoherent.
It's (the original comment) a pretty myopic comment because the same point can be made about the institutions that perpetuate $FOO.
There's a whole thing around the nature of who makes the purchasing decisions vs who are the real users. For key organizational systems like Bloomz for schools, the decision is made at the senior executive level, and input from the people who will use the software on a day-to-day basis is rarely, if ever, taken into consideration. Sometimes the decision is made on the golf course between business buddies.

In these situations, the vendor doesn't have to care much about user experience or feedback, all they need to do is be able to check all the boxes on the whatever list of features management cares about. It comes up on HN off and on, here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224209. Thread unrolled here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1182635589604171776.html
"The purpose of a system is what it does." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Sure, but if your doing work in machine learning that’s generally not the terminology used, hinting that this isn’t the area the author specializes in (which isn’t a bad thing, but take their explanations with a grain of salt).
I could read this report, or I could go and look at the EPA's original document on recycling that they're keying off of.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-11/documents/20...

I could phrase this as "never above 9.0%" or I could look at pg 6, Table 2. Materials Recycled and see:

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2017 2018
Plastics Neg. Neg. 0.3% 2.2% 5.8% 6.1% 8.0% 9.0% 8.5% 8.5%

That's not a bad trend. In fact, here's the standard business Excel fit chart that says in 2050 I expect that recycling will have reached 22%.

Simple Excel fit of dots: https://i.imgur.com/4txVyqr.png

If this was a business speak chart about market dominance, business folks would be happy. It's mostly second order upward. Little bit of a slowdown in the last 2 years, yet 0 to 9% of the market.
You make a good point here, and yes IDDM -insulin-dependent (Type 1), NIDDM (Type 2), as you say (although for clarity - it is fairly uncommon, but possible to get adult-onset IDDM).

If you were wanting to capture trends in pre-diabetics and maybe are looking at ranges, as you said, that could be a useful tool, definitely. "Lifestyle, not (directly) health". Hah, next step, watches that take your A1C blood labs (simplifying, but often used to get a good picture of average BGL over the last three months or so).
Anything can be done by anyone using anything.
You’re off the point with your generalizations.

The point is that python as a language has plenty of problems, I merely pointed out the reasons for some of them.
These are pretty closely aligned with “zero values” in Go. I think “zero value” is clearer terminology than “carrying the concept of nullity”. It’s a lot more natural to ask “what’s the zero value for this type” than “how is the concept of nullity carried to this class?”
Our firefighters, who also do ems, are currently battling a bike lane plan. I guess in places like Amsterdam with bike lanes huge swaths of city must burn down routinely if you believed the bull pedaled by our fire dept.
I don’t think separating the disgusting mess in mixed recycling is an ML/robotics problem. Neither robots nor human hands can turn food-splattered paper into clean recyclable paper. Nor can they turn plastic/paper composite materials into anything else. Or dirty plastic bags or dirty polystyrene foam or (yuck!) fluorinated HDPE.
I have added the Kish tablet so that HN now has a reference to what is probably the oldest known text to date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493201 It is dated to around 3500 BC.
This is not correct. There was no prohibition on private insurance. Rather, all would have been required to participate in the public plan to spread the risk. That's the only way it could work. If someone wanted to also pay for a private plan, that was allowed.
I don't know about the other guy, but to be quite honest I'm not confident Icaza would be forthright about something that cast Microsoft in such a bad light, even before he started working for them. His admiration for Microsoft always seemed apparent to me since the genesis of Mono. I was not even remotely surprised when he got a job with Microsoft, I think he wanted it for a long time.
Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language
The risk is the countless little bits of info being gathered by all this tech falling into the hands of the next genocidal despot. I wonder which metric they'll base their cleansing around?
I3/sway is why I moved to Linux from macOS. Yeah it sounds ridiculous but truly first party tiling and very low resource overhead won me over very fast especially with default key bindings for managing windows and such being vim inspired.

On my work laptop I run KDE but at home I am most productive with sway and love it and kudos to everyone involved in this release. Thank you for your contributions!
3D printers use DC heaters.
Which did you choose?