skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found digitizing notes is not useful to me. I digitized all my notes from grad school and they're sort of a wash now.

I still take lots of paper notes. One thing that had been very useful is to make (short, simple) indices in my paper notes and to digitize just the indices.

It takes almost no time. The result is that when I want to look at old noted I can look up where in my digital indices, and then walk over to a shelf and pick out my notes. I've used this *a lot* and it's surprisingly helpful.

Caveat: I'm a mathematician, so I have a lot of paper notes and half-baked ideas. So my paper notes often look more like a set of laboratory notebooks and not idle learning notebooks. I essentoally never look back on noted I take while learning some new subject.
I don't see why that would contradict my statement. Yes learning is good, but it becomes harder as we age.
Those who champion federalism will often say that they believe that government power should be spread as widely as possible; that local control is best because it gives power to those closest to the problems. I see no reason why that should be limited to government; a billion dollars is a lot of power for one person to wield.
It’s probably better to repurpose the energy of the kick than to push off what has been kicked up
Widevine & assorted scum.
Damn, I was hoping Mistral would carry the open source torch for AI.
I might be forced to create an actual open source AI company.
Sean Bailey Exits as President of Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios
Good points about changing the intro text, thank you. But from all the HN comments I gather that /about and /now are actually core to the experience too and it shouldn't only be about /ideas...

I had the same idea of showing the filter in the header but figured nobody would try to click it :)
But if you have cloud based models ... same with mainframes 30-40 years ago ... it doesn't matter. Because the power cloud gives to the model owners is 10x more than the strictest intellectual property laws do.

I don't believe, for example, that there's any intellectual property law that would let me yoink my intellectual property from you for any reason after you've bought and paid for it.

In other words: I think the capitalism discussion is kind of pointless here. Capitalism isn't what gives these companies power. It's the cloud. Mainframe computing 2.0.
> Those initial OpenAI donations really were for open development.

That is surely true.

> Which is the only way that could have been stopped.

The problem is, no one expects a CEO to do these things, and when the gusher of money erupts there's nothing that can be done, as we saw.

You cover one base, they sneak to another. Legal strictures are unlikely to contain them. Money is all conquering.
I think we'll continue to see n-1 open models used to build momentum to closed n models for the foreseeable future.

Which is fine, as it will accelerate to diminishing returns on the +1 difference.
They work well if there are lots of people like you (ie you are a normie).

All machine learning algorithms struggle at the edges — they’re very good at predicting aggregate behavior.

If you have eclectic tastes there’s probably not enough data on your demographic.
I use hledger only for the things I want reports of (taxes, utilities etc split with spouse, money spent on specific hobbies, etc; not restaurants etc). Entering everything into ledger is mind-numbingly boring.

Outside of automatic git hooks for validation, I really only run hledger when reconciling balance with spouse or when reporting taxes.
Huh, I wonder if this comes with an OpenAI-like exclusivity deal for Mistral's closed models. If so, Satya just wrapped up pretty much the two largest names in AI other than Google.

Sad but expected that Mistral is releasing its newer models as closed source. There was never a clear revenue stream from the open models.

I'm confused why they aren't allowing their models to be finetuned, though — that seems like an obvious way to compete with OpenAI, which only allows finetuning of its pretty weak gpt-3.5-turbo. Sure, Mistral can't quite beat GPT-4 yet, even if it's close — but allowing finetuning would likely result in way better than GPT-4 performance on a broad variety of tasks (as long as you picked a few to specialize in).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods...
You can stop tying your success and agency to work things. Find another avenue for that feeling instead. Then the micro-managers and dysfunctional businesses cannot get in the way of your success. Then a job is just something that pays the bills.
But surely they're still remain as they were, i.e. not California aligned?
> I prefer more flavorful chiles, with less spice.

As someone with a fairly high spice tolerance, I've found a strong correlation between heat and flavor. I think anyone coming from a culture that eats spicy food will agree.

I had a batch of habaneros I grew last summer that were both the most spicy habaneros I've had, and by far the most flavorful. I've also had some very tasty ghost peppers (when used in moderation). Outside of peppers that are inherently not spicy, such as pablanos, heat and flavor seem to coincide.

All of the most flavorful chili dishes I've had in my life have all been quite spicy, and I can't recall any mild chili dishes I've had with nearly the same punch.

The only time I've seen heat and flavor not connected is in terrible hot sauces which aim to be shockingly spices that make use of capsaicin extract.
First pass feedback on differences is that R2R is building with all database / llm providers in mind.

Further, it seems Canopy has picked some pretty different abstractions to focus on. For instance, they mention `ChatEngine` as core abstraction, whereas R2R attempts to be a bit more agnostic.

That being said, there are definitely some commonalities, so thanks for sharing this repo! I will be sure to give it a deep dive.
Responsibility and control are commensurate.

The question is, what is it to be?

Growing-up and maturing means taking control, and therefore taking
responsibility of things. But I see a world of people keen to avoid
responsibility, and give up control in order to get there. A lot of
digital technology seems designed to help with that quest to abandon
responsibility rather than to gain it.

" Technology is a way of organising the universe so that man doesn't
have to experience it." -- Max Frisch
It doesn’t. Eventually you won’t be able to play the game regardless.

But you mentioned gog. AFAIK gog does not sell games you can’t own.
Or another way to look at it, you only need $50m a year to be the "equivalent" of a billion dollar endowment, and $50m a year is the budget of a smallish county.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-... uses Rust as an example of a memory safe language that meets low-overhead requirements, such as for aerospace.
Brain Interface Query
I recently learned about the next mind set device. Firstly, can you help me source a dev kit I cant find one anywhere online.

Secondly does anyone know of any neural interface technology that can both sense eeg and stimulate the brain. It strikes me that high resolution contactless eeg should be very cheap by now (under $20) and that activating neurons locally via induction or more globally with an electrical field should be easily possible while making measurements.

If anyone has tips please let me know. If you guys know of any other promising devices like nextmind also please drop a link familiar with older popular models ocz nia, emotiv, muse, neorocity, kernel, mindwave. Ideally I’d like to find a system than can support 10khz recording and can also stimulate.

Also any tips on the significance of y combinator? I like the name!
China's BYD, the world's largest electric carmaker, made a significant move by delivering thousands of cars to Germany's Bremerhaven port.
I don't necessarily disagree with the notion that no individual should hold "THAT" much power. But I haven't read/heard of a way of implementation that actually sounds like it can work. Since most of the asset is in stock, does one tax ie - Mr. Bezos on his Amazon stock? Would Amazon shareholders want that?
I’ve been on infliximab for a while. My insurance (in USA) pays about $1800 for the drug + the 2 hours of time in the infusion center. It’s even cheaper (for the insurance company) to do an at home infusion.
Hardening essential comms and energy infrastructure has been funded. Trouble is, the rest of us don't benefit from the government redundancies, since they're focused on continuity of government rather than continuity of the electorate.
xlib > bgi. That thing was so "powerful" it destroyed my monitor using a mode with suspect timings :D
From reddit:

Chinese models seem to be the last hope now, LOL.

It's going to be really interesting as two poles of power develop geopolitically, if the west or whatever you call it has to look to China or what we (the west) would consider the pole we look down on, for actually "free" ML models.

(Edit, reminds me a bit of the silicon valley joke where Erlich tells Jin Yang he can't smoke in California as we don't enjoy the same freedoms you do in China)
You realize the US is also continuously making good on its debts, right? While the gross number grows, it isn't the same debt outstanding.
>Because I don’t think it should be up to an unelected individual what to do with this kind of money.

Take that to its logical conclusion: where is the line? Are you not allowed to donate $50 to a charity of your choosing because The Government knows better? There's plenty of reasons to hate billionaires but this one doesn't seem sound.
Has something similar been done with onions to make them sting less? Nowadays they don't bother me whereas when I was growing up, decades ago, I couldn't cut one without tears.
For endpoints that are big enough to warrant airports that is true. But trains have the benefit of being able to serve lots of places in between better. You don't need a lot of people to take the whole journey.

E.g. to take the North Coast Hiawatha route that they're hoping to resurrect through Souther Montana - it went from Chicago to Seattle. Very few people would be taking it all the way - it took ~47 hours.

But many of the stops only have road connections without it.

And as you point out the total time spent is not just the journey time anyway. But beyond the raw time spent, there's a difference in how. It's faster for me to fly to Paris, because I can get flights from an airport close enough to me to outweigh the security, and that's small enough to not usually be so bad. But I still have to go through security, wait around for my gate, walk to the gate and go through another round of waiting, and then I might have to wait for luggage at the other end. I'll happily spend the small amount of extra time to be able to just sit down in the Eurostar instead.

The biggest issue with respect to choosing trains in the UK is that the cost of train tickets relative to air travel in the UK is criminal compared to much of the rest of Europe.
I'm with you. They are so much like jalapeños, just smaller, spicier and usually really consistent. Although recently I had a batch that was disappointingly mild.

I think serranos must be very close genetically to jalapeños.
I have a theory that some people's likes are based on things that are too subtle, intangible, or unrepeatable to identify, predict, or data mine. At least that's what I've figured is why recommendation systems don't work for me and why I run into so many dead ends when I try to use clear aspects of what I like to find other likes.
Also for some reason Mercury Alpha v124.0a1 is available for mac in .dmg
I assume they mean "ethnically diverse Nazis"[1].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-...
If you put 13 billion into a moat to be threatened by an open source competitor what would you do?

An extra billion or two to protect the interest of your trillion dollar company seems well worth it.
hledger can validate date order, that seems to eliminate copy-paste-fail-to-update-date for me.
Or the homelessness problem. Or the food bank queues problem.

These are much more serious and more pressing threats to child welfare in Canada than PornHub is.

Unfortunately, solutions to these problems don’t require implementing digital ID for Canadians, so these are non-starters.
They are two different problems. Map out all the scenarios exhaustively and you'll find the difference.

In both cases we were originally 1/3 chance of being right. That is not in dispute.

In the original (fully defined) "Monty Hall", Monty was going to show us a goat no matter what. It's part of the rules, he has to show a goat. So the fact that we see a goat behind the revealed door is no surprise, and no new information. But which of the two unchosen doors was the goat, is valuable information because in 2/3s of the scenarios Monty's hand was tied and he HAD to show that door to avoid revealing the remaining car.

In the "Monty Fall" problem, the fact that we see a goat at all is interesting information. This becomes more likely when we picked the car in the first place, because if we had initially picked the car, and a random other door is opened, it's 100% going to be a goat, whereas if we had picked the goat in the first place, we are only 50% likely to see a goat when a random other door is opened. Let's call the goats Alice and Bob to illustrate this point. We know we DID see a goat, but we don't know which of these equally probable scenarios led to that:

1. We picked the car and saw Alice

2. We picked the car and saw Bob

3. We picked Alice and saw Bob

4. We picked Bob and saw Alice

Notice how "we picked the car" originally had 1/3 odds but represents half the scenarios that remain possible, because there are two ways to see a goat with that start, while only one way to see a goat with the others.

This kind of brings the problem back around to similar territory as Bertrand's Box[0] where the fact that you drew a gold coin is already hinting to you that you're more likely on the "both gold" box than on the "half gold" box.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_box_paradox
A degree from an unaccredited college/university is not as worthless as you might think; in fact, if the education is at least middling, it can be quite a steal.

Hard to find them, however, that aren't just scams.
> opens another door, say #3, which has a goat

There is no randomness in this sentence. The door has a goat, not a car.

Then again, you might read it as an example outcome. But even if the door was chosen randomly, it would not justify the 50%/50% answer.

Independently of that, assuming that the host chooses the door with the car and the goat with 50% probability each is the same mistake that confused so many, you cannot always assume uniform probability only because there are 2 options.

(I wanted to point out the flaws in your thinking because this has also been a confusing problem for me)
I really wish we could have a habanero that is 1/4 as spicy. I LOVE the flavor of habaneros but their spiciness prevents me from putting too much.

That said on the flavor/spiciness scale a lot of the Chinese varieties are excellent. The chili peppers used in Sichuanese cuisine are actually not that spicy compared to habaneros or Thai chilis, which allows it to be possible to dump a bag full into a dish and it gives it a LOT of rich flavor.
Odysseus is acting out the fictional short story "A Walk in the Sun" [0] where a girl crash lands on the moon and has to keep walking west to stay in the sunlight so she doesn't freeze to death.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_in_the_Sun_(short_story...
Excellent question. All the streaming providers only seem to suggest movies from my generation and absolutely nothing new. It feels like they have created an ultra generic advertising profile for me and only use that to recommend content. It's incredibly depressing. Youtube is slightly better but still extremely siloed. No amount of "algorithm training" seems to help.
Not true. There are several games on GOG that retain DRM. Not the majority, but they exist in various flavors of requiring a network connection.
There's no path they could take to become a doctor? Even if they spend a decade in the field, fully hands on?
Possibly, but:

That's confusing for non-technical people, and it makes the product more complicated.

Corner cases were the source of (almost) all of our bugs. (A configurable retention window will add corner cases.) What happens is that one customer will have a particular combination of corner cases that no one else has, and then that customer hits a bug that no one else will hit.
Vscode is a bad example, almost all useful Plugins are closed source on purpose, the package they ship also includes modifications that aren't open either.
Indeed, they cover full tuition. And with respect to what may not be covered, the page "Cost of Attendance" with the bottom table, "Estimated Tuition, Fees, and Expenses", may help: https://med.nyu.edu/education/md-degree/affordability-financ...
You buy a $1000 scooter from Amazon and then it keeps recommending to you other good scooters for months, even after the return window for the first one is closed.

Yeah, you'd expect more from ML at this point. I wonder how much of ML research actually gets utilized in industry.
Only if you pay the $99/year developer fee.
I don't follow this argument. The amount of money is fantastic and its effects enormous but I don't see why it should be out of the reach of any singular person.

The issue of effectiveness shouldn't come into play at all. In a society with any modicum of freedom, I should be able to decide what to do with my resources. Why should I (or anyone else) get to weigh in on whether she gives her money to this college or goes to Vegas for a (really amazing) party? As long as she pays her taxes, she should be free to use the rest for whatever she wants. If the issue is whether she pays her taxes, then by all means we can tighten whatever loopholes exist but after all is said and done, people should be able to do whatever they want with their wealth.

Also, legislating billionaires out of existence is impracticable. People would simply put their resources into other vehicles that shield against the law. We would end up in a cat and mouse game that used up resources with dubious benefits.
This is not that dissimilar to how transformers work. High-voltage lines are never physically connected to low-voltage lines. There's always a gap. The circuit in everyone's home ends at the local transformer.
I mean the other obvious option is to use one of the other varieties of peppers that are known to be hotter: serranos, Thai bird chilis, habaneros, etc.
Mmmm...back when your computer had a smell. You mentioned that hard drive and the memories of computer aroma flashes in my snoot. I had a friend that would seal up his Nintendo to trap the aroma.
Speaking of fermented hot sauce, do you have some recommendations? I've been trying to find a way to recreate Frank's buffalo sauce but pretty much every recipe found online uses Frank's buffalo sauce itself as an ingredient :-). I suspect the secret is some long-running fermentation process sorcery.
You don't have to forget about it to have peace about it. Stay out of debt, live on less than you earn, and have a 6 month emergency fund in a savings account. Takes a couple of years of sacrifice to get there, but once you do, you take back that power you've been giving your boss.

You walk around the office differently, you're more likely to take jobs that interest you, challenge you, and where you feel fulfilled vs the place that pays you the most.
Not sure why either why the article just gives Rust as an example. Whilst there are some performance demanding use cases where Rust/C/C++ are really the appropriate choices, >99% of applications that have been written and are out there are not really worried about shaving the nanoseconds off or GC-pauses and are working just fine and memory-safe on Java/C#/Go/Python/Javascript/Ruby/PHP etc...
Scale. Providing accurate recommendation algorithms for thousands+++ of people across thousands+++ of data items is surprisingly expensive in compute and electricity. For any one user, sure you can do whatever you like. When you divide your resources across your userbase the prices get larger and larger.
Look at what a company called Groq does. Their chip can generate 500 tokens/second from a model like Llama 2 70b.

https://groq.com/
> LED lightning often causes mixtures of pigments that look the same under daylight to look different under LED lightning.

I'm surprised that this extremely cool phenomenon is not embraced by artists and exploited as an essential part of their language. For example, they could use pigments with bizarre absorption spectra/fluorescent properties, so that the same painting looks completely different when put near a sunny window or under a led lamp.

Focusing only on color rendering under daylight seems a bit short-sighted, now that we master all sorts of synthetic lighting and fancy chemistry.
The gist of that article is using the correct chiles for whatever your purpose is, ie mulatos over anchos for mole vs simply making everything weaker and accepting less heat overall.

Very, very neat talk though
I'm not really familiar with Chinese AI research, but my passing familiarity with the CCP makes me seriously question how free those ML models actually are, or will remain (if they currently are). I can't imagine the CCP wants AI enabling dissent or critical discussion of the CCP.
Show HN: Created a GPT that generates UI components and you can iterate
I wonder how many people in 2024 don't know what a spark plug is, or how their car works at all. I don't mean that in a snarky way, it just seems like increasingly people treat modern technology like magic rather than something that does a thing easier than if you tried to do it manually.

Makes me appreciate the Amish perspective on technology [0] more the older I get.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/virtually-amish-hacking-innovati...
How one views that isn’t completely influenced by which ‘side’ you’re on. Plenty of people are capable of not being completely selfish.
> Not sure if it is possible to figure out how to donate pre-tax income (vs pre-tax gains)

Tax-efficient to get employers to donate money to charities of the employee's choosing in their honor maybe? Probably some opportunity for a startup here.

But I can see some employers not being too happy being linked with some of the choices, or employees being unhappy some of their favorites aren't on the list.
They imagined that it would be really difficult to run the models locally, so people wouldn't bother, but with stuff like llama.c & friends it's trivial.
I wish a solution like this for ITAR compliance
Don't get used to it being around. Google is probably killing them off soon:

>@searchliaison

>is the cache link in the search results gone forever?

>Hey, catching up. Yes, it's been removed. I know, it's sad. I'm sad too. It's one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.

>Personally, I hope that maybe we'll add links to @internetarchive
from where we had the cache link before, within About This Result. It's such an amazing resource. For the information literacy goal of About The Result, I think it would also be a nice fit -- allowing people to easily see how a page changed over time. No promises. We have to talk to them, see how it all might go -- involves people well beyond me. But I think it would be nice all around.

>As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can use URL Inspector to see what our crawler saw looking at their own page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289

>You're going to see cache: go away in the near future, too. But wait, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We'll still respect that; no need to mess with it. Plus, others beyond us use it.

From: https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1753156161509916873