skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying to myself to say it better.

What should Gemini have done, what would be right? Should it match the historical record, which the Nazis twisted by choosing to photograph mostly tall blond soldiers that looked a bit Danish, or should it match fact, which then would look different from the historical record, and is difficult to establish accurately anyway?

Similar questions apply for other societies, both current and ancient. Current e.g. Russia, where the census asks people to select ethnicity, but any choice except "Russian" might as well be labelled "please discriminate against me". Whatever an AI does is going to be wrong, and calling anything right is extremely difficult. Ancient examples include India and Egypt, which both had long-lived dynasties that considered themselves somehow foreign to that land and were very selective about how their represented their realms.

It's really easy to find a horrible example and call it horrible, but it's low-effort thinking. Describing something that's right is so much harder and so much more valuable.
I generally agree but I think its a different story now that we are no longer in 0% interest rate territory. Road maps are probably still full but money is no longer free.
No, the "typing animation" is near real time of the words generated. Otherwise you would sit 5 seconds in front of a blank screen.
Both can be right. The heat budget of the NE Pacific ocean, without an equivalent to the Gulf Stream, may well explain the milder winters in Seattle, but the NE Atlantic's heat budget is still "goosed" by the Gulf Stream and mixing. The paper's argument doesn't engage that argument. It deals with atmospheric changes postulated as a consequence of freshwater anomalies caused by arctic melting.
In general, wouldn’t Chrome be much closer to being Internet Explorer?
I thought that feature was pointless when I first learned of it, but I've found myself using it from time to time. It often gets in the way of whatever else I'm doing, but it's generally pretty easy to work around.

It's no substitute for a second monitor, but it's better than nothing sometimes.
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527379
Seconded, I also want to know the model of thermostat they're using!
Does anyone have knowledge of whether we can expect Firefox to get HDR support in the near or distant future?
WSJ was telling people that hunting and fishing are good ways to cope with inflation, yesterday: https://archive.ph/0NMQd
Birth rates drop as countries become wealthier. There's no need to reach for culture essentialist nonsense.
I'm glad to see posts like this. Some of my favorite features not mentioned in the article:

- User Styles: I can customize pretty much everything about the browser UI using CSS.

- Containers: Shared history, form data, bookmarks,etc. But containerized cookies.

- Separate search field next to the address bar.
I don't see why I would want to use anything else. Even if Chrome is marginally faster in an arbitrary benchmark test, I doubt I'd notice. And so far, I have no interoperability issues between Firefox on my laptop (macOS) and my iPhone (iOS), which runs Safari + Firefox Focus (because it's all the same webkit underneath). The add-on and plug-in marketplace is quite healthy, too. At the end of the day, I care about open-source software that doesn't model its business around capturing and manufacturing my data for export -- just the opposite. Thank goodness for Mozilla and all its collaborators.
I mean, the FTC would absolutely look into this agreement if you did it in the US. Regulators "looking into" things is not a thing we should be upset about, that's why they exist.
One can self-host the sync server. I do this and it works great across Android and a Linux desktop, including live showing which tabs are open.
You're right. There's just a very loud minority of woke fools who are actively tanking a lot of the best companies. And a good chunk of them are not actually looking for solutions, they just like that they have a problem which fits their 'expertise'.

The "anti-racist" manifesto is likely the reason for a lot of this garbage where it's not just enough to report on a racist world, but you also have to modify things to fit a not-racist world.

That's what gave us a black Cleopatra irl and this is what's giving us AI imaggen of diverse Nazis in WW2.
Ok that was always allowed.
Looking at this court case it seems public data is scrape-able and usable (even sell-able) https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/meta-drops-lawsuit-against...

HN's /robots.txt doesn't disallow scraping.

I wouldn't expect a FAQ. What data is collected and how used is usually part of terms-of-service so I'd expect to be a small part of https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

The Reddit deal is probably a short-cut to deliver data in structured format and saves both parties money compared to scraping millions (billions?) of pages. Wikipedia has a program to deliver data for such customers, too. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/
You don't own what you can't sell. Any asset value will be massively reduced if its untransferable.

Mistral isn't exactly some decade-long state funded national champion. Its a 1 year old startup whose core staff all come from American tech companies. With 0 revenue and minimal market share, there's like no conceivable metric in traditional antitrust theory to block this. Yet the EU prevents it from taking foreign investment all the same.

Look at TSMC in comparison. It IS the national champion of Taiwan, yet its majority foreign owned, doesn't stop it from underpinning the Taiwan economy and spawning massive ecosystems in its local areas.. Taiwan's government understands its place in the international economy, so prefers to cooperate and trust its international partners.
Astrology and Science
> Only a small fraction of healthcare spending should happen through insurance -- insurance should be for things where you travel in an ambulance to the hospital and that's it.

We already have that. It is called a high deductible health plan.

But health insurance companies do not just sell health insurance, they also sell price negotiation services, so you probably want to use them even before you hit your deductible/out of pocket maximum, otherwise you will end up paying more.
You shouldn't have to quantize it that much, maybe you're running a lot of other programs while running inference?

Also, try using pure llama.cpp, AFAIK it's the least possible overhead
Yeah, lots of software stay on beta or 0.x.x for years.

> Max Howell (mxcl) created Homebrew fifteen years ago

> a project of which he has not been a part of for more than twice as long than the time he was ever in it

So, the guy created the project and stayed for about 5 years.
"Viral infection" was the best they could say.
Well, you know not all Average Andy’s can run a social media site.

Or install Windows.
Ocean currents and winds, but January and February have traditionally been the coldest months.
Would you have said the same about NASA pre-Challenger/pre-Columbia, or Boeing pre-CST-100? I don't think SpaceX is inherently unique in either the ability of their people or their innate human biases. They may have a different culture, and related to that, I'm pointing out what I've experienced as a potential downside of rapid iteration philosophy. I'm not even saying it's bad, just that we need to be cognizant of it's downsides.
Quantum is absolutely over-hyped. But so are many "really exciting but far off" projects. And so is AI (he says, having gotten a lot of funding to work in machine learning systems).

But that doesn't mean that it's bad to continue funding research into it at some level, in the same way that we fund fusion research, and all-optical computing, etc. It's just a question about balance. Unlike, say, blockchain, we know there _are_ useful applications for a quantum computer; cryptography, as you noted, but also things like quantum chemistry, and possibly some optimization problems. But they're also quite far off and many require stable qbits way beyond what we can build today.

It's a shame that funding at some levels requires excessive hype. It's as much a condemnation of our science funding system as anything.
It's already used for an intree driver, but a lot of the infrastructure for making Rust drivers was not be upstreamed.
Containers for isolation between sites + treestyletabs (vertical tab bar) are the two features that makes me miss Firefox every time I try a different one. Other features are just a plus on top of that for me.
> despite having one of the most qualified engineering teams in history under his command

I'm always interested in how people come up with this. I know it's conventional wisdom, but a lot of it seems to be "they passed the google interview", which is very circular, or it's based on "I worked there and was impressed by everyone".

The counterpoint would be that google can't seem to get its head out of its ass and stop its reputational decline.
There are some sites that don't use Adsense.

I guess Google want adfarms with adsense copying their content?
For a numerical "physicist" (yes, the quotation marks are indispensable), Sympy was somewhat of a godsend to me. Great for prototyping even more advanced models before optimising them later on in C++.

I haven't used Mathematica much, but I have a feeling that it's still more symbolically powerful (or requires less wrangling) than SymPy? I'd appreciate if somebody with more experience in Mathematica could lay it out flat for me if that's the case.
I thought it was late March, around the time of the equinox? March was still the 1st month, but the year didn't start until towards the end of it.

Notably, I thought the accounting/tax year started in late March, and didn't change to January because figuring out a 10-month accounting/tax year would be a nightmare. But also, accountants didn't skip the days that everyone else did when moving from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, because paying people 2/3 of a month's salary and charging 2/3 of a month's rent would also be a nightmare, which is why the accounting/tax year now starts on April 6th?

(Calendars are weird, yo!)
The quote in the article you're quoting is incorrect, though. The tribunal said that this is what "in effect, Air Canada suggests", but the airline did not literally say what the BBC quotes them as saying.
At one point I stumbled onto a document from circa 1990 laying out a fairly coherent rationale - / was always a filesystem on the local machine while /usr could be a site-wide NFS share across many machines. Thus you got things like splitting off architecture-independent /usr/share from binary /usr/lib (because if you have a few different kinds of workstations, you'd want one /usr per architecture but /usr/share could be site-wide) and creating /sbin from binaries that had been in /etc from day one. Oh and they came up with /var (also possibly a network share) so /usr could be mounted read-only.

An interesting idea, but I have to figure the majority of Unix sites kept /usr on the local machine like always.
preferredPolicy = if killing() easier than mentalHealth() then kill() else mentalHealth()

I'll let your own internal compass decide whether killing is morally justifiable in this case.
More than 80 AI models from Qualcomm
Because speculative startups require a lot of investment/venture capital, but the VCs need a defined return at some point. They need an exit with a sale, an acquisition or an IPO in order for the whole process to make financial sense. If companies just 'grow' but never sell out, there's not enough return for VCs, so they don't invest. No investment = way less startups to begin with
That's just for convenience though. Users can edit their own PATH as they see fit.
Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event
'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules
Johnson's whole schtick is "Don't Die", so "nation of immortals" is a logical consequence of that.

See, for example, his book he wrote: https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/DONT-DIE-by-Zero

Or a NYT piece from earlier in the year which was heavy on that slogan: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/business/bryan-johnson-lo...
How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding?

At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google.

And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.
they could have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble by having 13 months with 28 days each, no cross calendar day stuff, no leap year stuff, would be truly the most perfect calendar ever made forever and would simplify working of everything on the planet by a mile
Related to this discussion, the results found by Feynman in the Challenger investigation found that the top-down risk assessment was off by orders of magnitude.
Google has an interest in not looking like an all controlling monopoly. I doubt they'd want to risk that by coercing Mozilla too much.
Le privilège exorbitant ...
What makes you think that? Which LLMs?
> parts of contemporary Western culture
Google is paying because Firefox is popular. It is a chicken & egg problem.
Let’s fix the root cause instead of leaning in to a subpar EU investment funnel.

EU has billions to invest in AI. I don’t buy that EU has “much less money than the US”.
> Because sustaining is a job, and it's a very hard job.

... and infinite growth is neither of those?
It's not about antitrust. It's about national security.
I just noticed this has been added to langchain: https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/data_connection/do...
Right, you read something nebulous about how "the LLM combines the retrieved words and its own response to the query into a final answer it presents to the user", and you think there is some magic going on, and then you click one link deeper and read at https://ai.meta.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation-stre... :

> Given the prompt “When did the first mammal appear on Earth?” for instance, RAG might surface documents for “Mammal,” “History of Earth,” and “Evolution of Mammals.” These supporting documents are then concatenated as context with the original input and fed to the [...] model

Finding the relevant context to put in the prompt is a search problem, nearest neighbour search on embeddings is one basic way to do it but the singular focus on "vector databases" is a bit of hype phenomenon IMO - a real world product should factor a lot more than just pure textual content into the relevancy score. Or is your personal AI assistant going to treat emails from yesterday as equally relevant as emails from a year ago?
It works like this, they have an API, say:

/refund/<order id>

It has all business rules encoded into it, so the API decides with regular code if you are getting a refund or not.

Instead of:

<button onclick="/refund/<order_id>">

Just being added to the orders page, you have to convince ChatGPT to call the refund API for you by writing it a story.

Worse UX, more expensive.
The whole point of unit tests is that to write them you have to break the system up into units and that decision is an important one that depends on the problem being solved. If they are not well defined then unit tests force you to do define them.
I use it for 95% of my browsing, with exactly the extensions you mention, but I do have to recognize it's stability is rough at times. Every now and then I run into a site that fails hard, crashing the entire UI on my Pixel 6 Pro.

Admittedly I haven't tried disabling extensions and finding the root cause. I just switch to Chrome for that task.
then install PLESK or something, it's dead simple.
I'd love to use FIrefox but I haven't found how to get around Google's on-purpose slowing down of their products (which I have to use for work) when running inside Firefox.
Ask HN: What's the best way for startups to get product feedback from big corps?
At our startup, one of the things that's been really difficult is getting product feedback from larger companies/enterprises (who are the target audience for the things we're building). It's not even about making a sale or getting a commercial contract with them -- we just want to get signal that we are on the right track with solving their biggest problems.

How should we be doing this? We want to iterate quickly but the lack of feedback has been holding us back.
Not mysterious. Excessive rework due to ambiguous requirements. Human processes cannot be automated as-found -- at all, or in maintainable code.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate

It's in the footer to Mozilla's website.
The same for me. After the news of Sora, I went in and didn’t see much spam at all. A cursory look seems to reveal genuine humans reactions. The same for the hotly debated statements of LeCun and other big names in AI. Due to the hype for AI, I thought such accounts will be followed inevitably by lot of spammers, if any. But it seems not the case at all.
Design Patterns in Tcl (2018)
As someone who has spent the last 30 years in European tech companies, mostly startups, that is news to me.

Europe does not tend to produce as large tech startups as the US, in part because a lot of promising companies leave for Silicon Valley first chance they get because funding opportunities are better there. But then neither does most of the US, partly for the same reason.

We see the same all the way down - when I worked in a UK based technology VC, we saw both people decamping from the regions to London, and from London to SV for these kinds of reasons, as well as an influx of tech companies from all over elsewhere in Europe who saw London as one of a short list of European cities to move to in order to make things easier - some of whom undoubtedly would move on to SV.

I myself moved to the UK 24 years ago because I co-founded a startup in Norway, and the VC's that invested in us adviced us to move the company to London because there was insufficient capital for tech/software companies in Norway at the time.

Europe has plenty of tech. Tech is not all, or even mostly, the tech giants. It could have more, and it could put more effort into keeping more here. But regulations will not be enough for that - it'll take more capital infusion.
The fact that my internet connection drops for, say, 5 mins twice a day is enough to make me go to the office and work from there. It's surprisingly disruptive.
Over 100k infected repos found on GitHub
This is impressive overall, but I wonder if someone can provide some insight into, or confirmation of, an observation of mine.

I’m having a hard time describing it, but there’s a stiff, shiny, and plastic feel to a lot of these. You can really see it in the video of the woman wearing sunglasses. No one can, or at least likely wouldn’t, hold their eyebrow muscles that stiff for that long. Combined with the head and mouth movements, the expressiveness just feels off, almost animatronic. Does anyone else get that?
You would have an anti-trust problem if somebody went out and bought all of the promising AI startups.

So at what point in their buying spree do you cut them off? Do you wait until they've bought 90% of AI startups? 50%? Does it matter if there are 4 AI startups or 40?
What does the storage layer (database) contain? Clear-text, usable data, or encrypted randomness?
I think more recent benchmarks showed that Firefox became faster than Chrome, although I'm not keeping a close eye on it and I agree with you that it's arbitrary.

For the past 6+ years I only use Chrome rarely and as an Internet Explorer replacement.
I jailbroke the original switch with unpatched gpu exploit. I had also bought few games with it. I try to setup parental controls and all the sudden the device is banned. That made me mad. I bought the device. They require internet service for parental controls and set play time. Nintendo is a giant penuz. i hope their content gets pirated into oblivion after this scenario ( going after yuzu ).
Isn’t the key to simply avoid burning, rather than cover up so much as to avoid exposure with the associated benefits?
Agreed. Visiting Tokio after learning a bit of Kanji is much more interesting.
Sympy is amazing, but i kinda fail to see whats news about it as its oldest commit is 14 years ago.
I would really like to go back to the earlier system, where there was no January or February, and we just stop having time in the winter until someone important announces it is the new Year in March.
Beefy VRAM is a start, but Nvidia's real moat is CUDA. If PyTorch runs on AMD's ROCm, or the Intel equivalent, as well as it runs on CUDA, then we'll see some real competition here.

Chris Lattner's Mojo programming language may present an alternative here, but it's still closed source.
"Health insurance" is the wrong name for what we're purchasing, but the product itself isn't silly.

"Health maintenance plan" is a more descriptive name for what we're discussing.

Even something as basic as an annual physical is ~$400 (cash price). A doctor visit for illness is $100-$150 before any bloodwork or imaging (which can add another $100+). Those are major expenses for many families. The ability to spread those cost across the year is a good thing.
Dup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529845
I'm kind of in the same boat. I used to be an ardent lover of KDE 3 and KDE 3 MOD. Ever since KDE 4 released my interest diminished and once gnome 3/gnome shell became stable at version ~3.2 I switched to it. It was a love and hate relationship for a while but within a few years gnome had become so much nicer to use (from a defaults, "just works" kind of view) than kde that I stopped giving it any chances to pull me back.

I guess this is the best time to try KDE again! I really like how desktop centric it is with the more denser application design. And it seems to look half-decent now, instead of whatever they had back in the Oxygen days. I hope GTK/Gnome integration has gotten better...
Designing severe things to be included as part of a process is a desirable property of that system if the severe thing is sometimes required.

No one is designing a formal system that includes lunch mobs. But a formal system of repercussions for employee behavior that does not include firing is an incomplete system.

It’s not that firing itself is ever desirable, but rather that its inclusion in a disciplinary progression is desirable.
I guess that's fair. Sorry
Do you consider it to be useless or is it something else? Privacy concerns (it is e2e encrypted btw)?
I don't do anything to compensate because I don't view it as a deficiency. If anything, I'm often asking/telling people to slow down. Spewing a bunch of half baked word vomit isn't impressive to me. I've done fine in life, I'm satisfied with the outcome of my approach.
SymPy gets the job done. I typically use it in the SageMath combo library, is that still the way to go or has SymPy advanced to the point that I should be using it on its own?
Great website! You're based in France? You should put a demo on your website. If there is one, I don't see it (or rather: hear). If you're interested in collaborating, me email is in my bio.
> But man, as a business owner in EU, this would just make me not want to build an AI startup in EU

If a Chinese company with massive government contracts had invested in OpenAI there is no way that the US would not start an investigation.
it's true that it would be deterministic, but it would behave differently from the ieee 754 standard, which is at least surprising, which is another sense of the word 'unpredictable'. admittedly, floating-point math that is inexact in a surprising way is not necessarily useless, and to someone who isn't deep into numerical analysis, all floating-point math is inexact in surprising ways

still, it would have real pitfalls if numerical algorithms that give right answers in every other programming language gave subtly wrong answers in python (raising a division-by-zero exception is less troublesome)