skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is more than likely a team-specific term being used outside of its context. FYI, the only place where you will find the term <droplet> used, is in the public-facing AWS EC2 API documentation under InstanceTopology:networkNodeSet[^1]. Even that reference seems like a slip of the tongue, but the GP did mention working on the Nitro team, which makes sense when you look at the EC2 instance topology[^2].

[^1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_I...
[^2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/how-ec2-...
2024 Toyota Land Cruiser: You Asked, We Answered with Kurt Williams [video]
Because the parent works/worked for Google, so obviously it must be super secret sauce that nobody has heard of. /s

Next up they’re going explain to us that iSCSI wants us to think it’s SCSI but it’s actually not!
Regarding (a), apart from the inicial account setup, you can actually use the desktop client fully standalone.

Regarding (b), yeah that's still a bummer, though, depending on your country of residence, you can get throwaway SIM cards for free and use that.
Except that it looks just like a Kickstarter scam made in hopes of attracting money from people who didn’t jump on the flipper crowdfunding bandwagon
Congrats for launching!
He meant the actual TV, not the box.
I find the snyde remarks around open source in the paper and announcement rather off putting.

As the ecosystem evolves, we urge the corporate AI community to move beyond demanding to be taken seriously as a player in open source for models that are not actually open, and avoid preaching with a PR statement that can be interpreted as uniformed at best or malicious at worst.
They have implemented the model also on their own C++ inference engine: https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp
Goodbye to Founding Furry Mark Merlino
https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3

Here is an actual description:
https://z3prover.github.io/papers/programmingz3.html#sec-int...
Ask HN: How Do You Win Games?
Hey HN,

For a long time I’ve thought about a theory of #startups. While I am by no means a successful startup founder, with lots of funding raised and successful user acquisition, I do believe that my last startup #sanahealth taught me a thing or two about startups.

One of my startup mentors taught me: win games, win meetings, and you’ll win the race.

For me, that means giving my 100% in every meeting, and showing up at my best every day. Winning games means I win the meeting and win the war :)

What does it mean for you, HN? I’d love to hear from founders, adventurers, and developers in the San Francisco Bay Area :)

J
I further thought about your feedback and the comments from the owner of exchangerate-API and have removed that section from the blog and mentioned it in a follow-up post.

I appreciate your comments, as they made me think more about that topic.
Tap dances like the WB frog

It's just auto complete!

Jazz hands
This is such a tired argument. The socialist block was, at least by the 1980s, much more wasteful and destructive to the environment than the capitalist world. I encourage you to search for videos like "1980s krakow winter" or "Elbe river GDR" to see a few examples. Then for comparison research when capitalist countries passed their various environmental protection laws.

More than that, it's easy to make abstract statements like "we need to slow down", but how do you imagine that could be done? Who decides which sectors need to be frozen and how do we make sure we don't accidentally starve millions of Africans while doing it (look up food self-sufficiency numbers)?
Copilot is just another junior teammate. You need to peer review the heck out of that code
Gemma, lightweight, open models from Google
The Imbalance in DSL Supply and Demand
As somebody who tend to overthink and had some issues with anxiety disorder last year, this is spot on.
> Why should those be lonely, isolated, unsocial hours?

This can easily be fixed with one of the many available video platforms out there.
You are only lonely and isolated if you dont use the tools available to you (or your employer does not facilitate those, which means you should look for another one)
I think they mean acting as a write-through cache. If you send writes to the cache and have the cache delegate those writes to the underlying DB you get consistent invalidation, and if the write-through cache is smart enough it can even be transactional with the underlying source of truth.
Elixir WebRTC
The link in the Debugging section redirects to a Google SSO login page
Thank you for releasing this.
Shut UP and TAKE my MOney DOT jPEG
From my VoIP experience, there is no 'typical' in NAT. There have been attempts to classify NATs (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3489, Section 5), but they have been abandoned after seeing how NATs sometimes change their behaviour dependent on their load, the number of connections, the phase of the moon etc (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4787, Section 3). So, yes, application-level keepalives are your best bet.
Turkey has a range of drones, the cheapo Bayraktar one is just the most well known.

Some of the Turkish drones are better off not to be well known though, as there are accusation of launching AI controlled attacks and the machines were in charge of picking the humans they killed in Libya - which is a no-no but probably developed by all the leading states.

Here is a link if you want to take a look: https://www.voanews.com/a/africa_possible-first-use-ai-armed...

So no, Turkey isn't in the business of making cheap low quality drones, the range is quite extensive with some models at the cutting edge. All thanks to being in need of drones but not being able to purchase even if they have the resources.
I did this with my sister who was digital nomading in Argentina a few months ago. The easiest thing we found was for me to send her $3k via western union, which converted into an ungodly amount of pesos she picked up down there.

It was super sketchy. When I sent the money, the western union person said there was a chance western union would block it because it was such a large amount, but luckily it went through. When my sister picked it up, they basically stuffed it into a backpack to carry around. Seemed very dangerous to be carrying that much cash (even in the US it would be), but it worked out ok.
My partner tried a lot (and went trough weird other diagnosis) and found her solution in simple dextroamphetamine. It's a life changer for her and our relationship as well :) also very cheap as it's no protected substance.

Around here many are deemed to get ritalin first or other similarly weird substances which has way more side effects for some than good ol' amphetamine.
The 2B model seems underwhelming. For instance, compared to the recent StableLM2 1.6B model that is slightly smaller and probably wastes some "English metric points" by being multilingual.

The latter (and other similar open models) seem to do similarly well in benchmarks (much better in Math?) with way less fancy stuff. For instance, public data and no secretive filtering with pre trained models or synthetic data.

My take is that using the vanilla approaches take you really far. And many of the latest tricks and hours-of-work buy you little... Will be interesting to see how this plays out, especially for the open source community.
The inflation is still a symptom of the balance of payments problem. What cryptocurrency lets you do is evade the capital controls and get closer to dollar-referenced currency.
> someone should make a dating app where an LLM clone of you goes on thousands of dates with LLM clones of other people, and then your matches are when the LLMs decide to date each other

An episode of Black Mirror was pretty much this. The episode titled "Hang the DJ"
The ruble was not convertible to foreign currencies prior to that though. If you lived there you could only exchange it for dollars/marks/etc. if you were travelling and only a very limited amount (and of course only well-connected people were allowed to do that anyway).

Besides international trade which was fully controlled by the state the USSR wasn't a part of the global financial system. The ruble was more like a token or a scrip (with very limited uses) rather than a real currency. Which is why the state managed to keep a lid on stuff there, there was almost no way for goods/money/people to get in or out at any significant scale.
Don’t tell the AI bros that we’ve had filters that don’t replace your face for years.
Yes to llama.cpp

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1760293079313973408
This basically works for any project that has a final release data, and only bug fixes after.

When you have a product that you keep on improving, that last 20% will come and haunt you :D.
I found one case study on their blog - https://blog.readyset.io/medical-joyworks-improves-page-load...

> It will be interesting to see if any of these introduce some form of write support over time

Writes performed by your application in Readyset are automatically proxied(redirected) to your database.
We had that same burn-out measurement tool in HP-UX, SCO, and SunOS!
From the paper introduction, about the limitations of existing methods:

> However, over the last few decades burnout measures have been shown to have some limitations, including differences in the conceptualization of burnout being measured (exhaustion-only or multidimensional [e.g., including cynicism, professional efficacy]; see Guseva-Canu et al., 2021 and Schaufeli, 2021), the prescribed factor structure, which remains unclear (three-factor vs. two-factor; e.g., Worley, Vassar, Wheeler, & Barnes, 2008), the apparent divergent role of professional efficacy (e.g., De Beer & Bianchi, 2019), and the inability of these measures to provide a global burnout score as is ideally required when measuring a syndrome (Schaufeli, Desart & De Witte, 2020).

What they decided to do and what is novel about it follows right after:

> Due to these afore-mentioned limitations, Schaufeli, Desart, and De Witte (2020) endeavored to create a new instrument, the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT). The development of the BAT is unique in that, unlike the development of other burnout measures, both inductive and deductive approaches were used to decide on the final list of items included in the survey. The specific inductive approach employed by Schaufeli and colleagues is uncommon, because the Dutch authorities acknowledge burnout as an occupational disease, and therefore experts who have experience working with (and categorizing) these patients could be interviewed.

It doesn't mean it's enough for you to think it's novel but at least that's why they think it is.
I was using a third-party plugin for markdown (I think it was called pandoc.vim), but for LaTeX files I was using only plugins that come with Vim. The documentation in :help tex-slow did suggest things to put in .vimrc to help make syntax-highlighting faster and I did try all of them. The only thing that solved the lag was disabling syntax highlighting for LaTeX completely.

The slowness I experienced for LaTeX files happened even without any third-party plugins installed, using a one-line .vimrc that only turned on syntax highlighting. So I think it is unfair to say "the slowness has nothing to do with Vim itself". Probably also "or the low power of the netbook" is unjustified, in the sense that the tips in :help tex-slow do likely solve the problem on computers a little beefier than my old netbook (which is probably more than 15 years old at this point). I mean, those suggestions are in the official Vim documentation presumably because they did work for someone.

Think of it this way: if the slowness of LaTeX syntax-highlighting were not a problem in Vim itself (where by "Vim itself" I'm including the vimscript files that ship with Vim, not just the executable), would it be documented in the official Vim documentation?

https://vimhelp.org/syntax.txt.html#tex-slow
> It’s not a “line”, it was the reality

I'm not saying it isn't true, I'm just saying that there's no way you can describe criticism of Hetzner being 'silenced' on HN; criticism is literally a defining facet of Hetzner threads.
Pirate Bay (allegedly)
When you have an intellectually interesting link.
Cybertruck engineer addresses claims the Tesla EVs rust in the rain
They are not just killing PWAs, they are salting the earth to prevent new ones.

Just some advantages of PWAs

* No need to develop a separate android and iOS app - just use open web standards

* Native apps features such push notifications, badges etc

* Literally not a walled garden

PWAs are an actually open platform very far removed from what you are describing.
Go back 5 years and ask anyone on this site what companies do you think will be the most open about AI in the future OpenAI, Meta, or Google. I bet 10/10 people would pick OpenAI. Now today Meta and Google, both trillion dollars companies, are releasing very powerful open models with the ability to be used commercially.

Ironic.
> Not for Amazon I would guess

If you're worried about Signal's hosting provider seeing your device's IP address, use a proxy. Personally, I'm not, because there's no trivial way to go from "Here's some IP traffic" to "this human had a conversation with this human".

> See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

I also hand BitWarden all my passwords. Therefore, the government has them, right?
With that way of arguing, you could argue against living in a house or eating cooked food.

Okay I guess, you win. Collect 500 hackers point from your local YCombinator outlet.
I mean, I'm sure it could be if it were a serious enough case, but the ADHD that I was diagnosed with is nothing more than the inability to do shit that I find boring. It's a career limiting inconvenience.
As a counterpoint we bought one recently (though it's literally their flagship, an A95L) and it's been wonderful. The only thing I could say is that the remote seems a bit battery hungry (~6 months on a. set of batteries).

To be fair, we don't use broadcast or cable, and use an AppleTV. So it's run as a dumb set for the most part. All the people complaining here seem to be using the built-in OS and tuner.
> Can you point out where they say that "if you just buy their thing you'll have a distraction free life in 14 days" ?

> From distraction to calm focus in 14 days
Blog author here

The multiplayer cursors are an experiment in ambient togetherness on the web...

...and what I'm learning is that ambient togetherness really doesn't scale to 500 simultaneous readers!

Please use Reader Mode for calmness, and apologies for the noise. I'll work on adding a toggle to turn them off.

btw you may be interested in the code, which you can use/fork:

https://github.com/genmon/interconnected-cursor-party

My blog is a static site, and real-time multiplayer is handled by a small app written with PartyKit (which I am super into).
Never watched him but honestly, that would be pretty standard mature workflow.
In most video games productions, efficient coding is basically conceptualizing a dsl from the game design, writing it's interpeter while gluing the needed library and make some tools to manipulate or better make converter from existing robust tools. 99% of 'actual game design related' content are assets and data.
I'm not a medical expert or anything but I guess there is a good chunk of population who just procrastinates or can struggle with focus without having ADHD? Or is there always a 1:1 relationship?
You have to read the text carefully:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Emphasis added. Not an AI Skynet takeover, but a tech-oligarch takeover. It's increasingly not fictional.
Congratulations on the release! How can we download the model and run inference locally?
> Should I think about building one??

Definitely. Seems like you have a good grasp on the problem space.
We Designed and Built an Infotainment System from Scratch in Less Than Two Years
It seems like you are confusing two different terms, liberalism and libertarianism.
I notice a few divergences to common models:

- The feedforward hidden size is 16x the d_model, unlike most models which are typically 4x;

- The vocabulary size is 10x (256K vs. Mistral’s 32K);

- The training token count is tripled (6T vs. Llama2's 2T)

Apart from that, it uses the classic transformer variations: MQA, RoPE, RMSNorm.

How big was the batch size that it could be trained so fast?

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2/bl...
https://github.com/shepherdjerred/macos-cross-compiler
> They elected a freakin' maniac and they're gonna pay a heavy price for that

LMAO like the previous twenty years didn't exist eh?

Signed: an Argentinian
I think that whatever VCS come today, it will have a hard time finding a broad adoption use case that overweight the massive footprint of git ecosystem.
> Getting training from IBM seems like getting training from an old gas station clerk who used to work in the big fancy factory.

IBM still does a lot of research in chip manufacturing, they revealed a 2nm chip 3 years ago. Arguably they don't do large scale production, and the 2nm isn't mass production technology, but they aren't exactly at the retired gas station clerk level. Honestly they might be a good choice, because who else? Why would TSMC, GlobalFoundries and Intel help a potential competitor?
Some queries might be too slow at p95 even on a read replica with no other clients. Those kinds of queries can benefit greatly from a materialized view, and incremental view maintenance as data changes.
ChatGPT has meltdown and starts sending alarming messages to users
> Unfortunately, the repository where this tool is developed is private

Have you thought about publishing the install.sh and final zip file through GitHub pages? Or Cloudflare pages? Then the repo stays private, but the built application can be accessed publicly, and behind a hard-to-guess url.
Launching GamersFPS, website for PC game optimization
Hi all, Ive been working on a personal project over the past year so that has had some organic traffic , and want to put the word out on hacker news for everyones benefit.

https://www.gamersfps.com

The website is centered around finding how well games are optimized for PC, features such as:

• rating games based on how well they are optimized for PC
• comment system with upvotes/downvotes and replies
• optimization stats based on different PC specs, aggregated using user votes
• profile pages with your PC specs and operating system (added voluntarily by the user)

Any feedback is welcome! There are no ads or any referrals etc on the site.
Things I don't know about AI
ADHD, like a lot of things relating to the brain, is not a binary condition; it's just the diagnosis that's binary.
So the journalist falsified a direct quote?
One of the things we love about using JPA (We use EclipseLink) is it comes with caching, for free, and it’s transparent. You can mark any field as a cache index and it automatically tries the cache first. Updates are published and loaded into every nodes cache automatically, and you get fallback protection in the form of incremental version numbers on rows.

The one thing it can’t handle however is range update queries or native queries that perform updates.

You can just avoid them in your architecture… OR maybe this is the solution we’ve been looking we’ve been looking for! definitely going to give this a spin!

Documentation looks very complete and I like there’s a UI to view the query cache.
I think it expresses the depth of his character. He’s been good at a few things - one of them just happens to be sex guru. It’s also about as far away as you get from economists (sorry economists).
Some of the gallery images are fantastic. Showing some really interesting, highly specialised applications that fill a very specific need in an exacting manner.

The motor winding and water supply modelling applications are especially interesting.
String processing in general is just easier in Python.

As a basic example, `lstrip()` and `rstrip()` trim whitespace by default, but can also remove any characters you'd like from the end(s) of your string.

You'd need to code that up yourself in JS. Happens quite a lot.
Just get a projector
How much do you think it would cost to add an outdoor 120v 15a outlet? Any rational landlord would add one if it increases/keeps renters
I'm not sure why you think that is remarkable. My daily driver is a homebrew PC that I put together myself (the second PC I've ever built). It can't be upgraded to Windows 11 but runs Windows 11 fine, runs all modern software fine including games though only at the lowest graphics setting.
Show HN: AWS CIS Benchmarks Compliance with Kexa (Open Source)
Greetings Y-Combinator community,

I'm excited to share insights into our recent exploration of CIS Benchmarks compliance with Kexa script : https://github.com/4urcloud/Kexa

After much hard work, we've finally build an easy-to-use Open Source automation script that you can use on most of AWS resources.

This enhancement is also available for Azure, where you will be able to retrieve almost all SDKs resources. We've also analysed CIS Benchmarks to build pre-defined rules.

Read the detailed article here: https://medium.com/@contact_52772/aws-kexa-how-to-automatize...

For a personalized demonstration by our team, feel free to reach out to us at: contact@4urcloud.eu

Whether you operate on AWS or other platforms, Kexa offers support for Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Office 365, Google Workspace, API checker, and more.

Want to know more about Kexa ? at https://kexa.io

Do not forget to star us on Github ! https://github.com/4urcloud/Kexa
That looks really nice!
However, for me a flashcard app is one of the apps where I don't want to use commercial offerings if the source code isn't available as well. It involves just too much set up time to have it vanish one day.
So it will take less than sixty years. Yes, I can believe that.
ok, so it’s not 80% in any country. 74% in Denmark, 2/3 in Poland and Czech Republic.

18% in Germany is also still better than Switzerland and Austria (14%), but I agree it’s not good.

Too much poor processes preventing these people from working, very frustrating.
I had the same experience first time I saw 弹幕 (dàn mù) aka "bullet screen" on Chinese video websites like Bilibili. If you haven't seen it before, it's like user-added subtitles that go flying across the screen while the video is playing, and in parts of the video where more users commented, more subtitles appear. In the most climactic scenes the screen gets so filled up with text that you can't see the video any more, and somehow that makes the scene even more epic. The future is now, chummer!
They both had the amazing ability to talk about human nature, and project it into the future through the lens of technology. Lem was such a prolific writer though, I don't know if there are any books of his I would not recommend (except maybe his last works, incredibly dense compedia of abstraction)
GM is expanding its hands-free driving system to rural highways
How did you get started doing that?

It might just be the area I live in, but I wouldn’t even know how to start looking for freelance roles that aren’t just poorly paid 3mo junior contracts.
The superficiality of the analysis is disappointing, especially when there's so much more in Adams' oeuvre which could be seen to speak to the modern state of the industry - Bureaucracy, for example, his 1987 collaboration with Infocom.

Granted, the blog appears to be written by someone who's failed to attend the pervasive bleakness of technology's presentation even in Hitchhiker's itself. In that light, I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect much here. But in any case, there's much fertile ground left unturned.
ya this made it unreadable for me.
The amount it would cost to add minimal outlets near apartment parking is just not that high
:be-quiet-and-take-my-cash-good-sir.gif:

[Note for those who weren't required to study Shakespeare at school: that's iambic pentameter.]