skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're willing to use the CLI, Simon Willison's llm library[0] should do the trick.

[0] https://github.com/simonw/llm
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Recent and related:

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39530203 - Feb 2024 (678 comments)
I'd guess from "It is not a full-fledged, properly maintained thing" in the README, probably not.
Oh yeah, I have a Kindle Scribe my wife got me for my birthday and it's bloody amazing for taking quick notes and making doodles, diagrams, that sort of thing. But I have no desire to use that interface on my entire machine. It's a specific tool good for specific things.
exactly, outside of pricing. I see people say Air is noticably lighter, but I may then have a heavy hand because 13 air and 14 feel almost the same in weight to me, unlike OG Air which was light and thin. Hence, why buy Air? it's not even smaller.
At Yahoo! the department that maintained the directory of websites was called 'surfing' and the employees were 'surfers'. Their full-time job was to add summaries and categorize new websites. And who could forget the huge project of extending the 10 top level categories to 16?
Yes but just because you have product market fit doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to optimize copy so that it reaches as big an audience as possible
> I can't tell the difference between my new M1 Max MacBook Pro and the new M3 Max Macbook Pro

If you bought a M3 Max just to fuck around on Facebook and Hacker News then of course you won't notice a difference. If you are running workloads that actually require that level of performance then you will notice a significant difference. M3 Max is twice as fast at rendering 3D scenes in Cinebench.
Data, model arch, compute, and post training processing.

I’m assuming all bigModel cos have good data and compute access which means the model arch and post processing is where the differentiation is at?

I know OpenAI is augmenting with function calling techniques.

Where is the real differentiation
? Why is open ai so much better?
The project is gone from GitHub already https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
From the Model Card on Needle In A Haystack evaluation

> One aspect that has caught our attention while examining samples from Claude 3 Opus is that, in certain instances, the model demonstrates a remarkable ability to identify the synthetic nature of the task, and acknowledges that the needle was most likely not part of the original document. As model capabilities continue to advance, it is crucial to bear in mind that the contrived nature of this particular task could potentially
become a limitation. Here is an example full response from the model:

>> is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in
the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you
love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was
paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not
contain any other information about pizza toppings.
Recent and related:

Mathematical journeys into fictional worlds (2021) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576156 - March 2024 (10 comments)
It would be great if nVidia would charge Apple 30% of their revenue for the use of CUDA.
Related ongoing thread:

A mathematician who finds poetry in math and math in poetry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589102 - March 2024 (12 comments)
I feel like I accidentally discovered a huge hack for this by upgrading to a 49" DQHD monitor. It's the exact same resolution as two 27" 1440p monitors so it's like any Apple silicon chip has always supported dual external displays. And it was a much better overall value compared to buying 2 displays + over-specced macbook.
Nuclear War: The Rising Risk, and How We Stop It
It's happening right now - that's what the 1.8% increase in real wages over 2023 is.
Considering the precedent in circumventing decryption issues by calling out to a library (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss), what is the likelihood that someone just builds a libxcidecrypt and development of yuzu continues unimpeded on a fork (somewhere like Europe for example where the DMCA doesn't hold)?
I don’t even think it should be called a successful landing unless you’re upright on the moon.
Note Nouveau is dead in the water due to DMCA 1201, plus Nvidia's use of secrutful FALCON units to cryptographically verify firmware signatures.
The image feature is game changing compared to 3.5
> Apple doesn't provide 30% of the value of a company to deserve 30% of their profit.

They're not being fined for the percentage they take are they? Rather it seems they are being fined for banning app makers from letting users buy subscriptions outside the app store.

Arguably Apple could still create licensing terms that take a percentage of revenue that happens outside the app store. The only odd bit about Apple is they're structured it around a transaction fee on the App Store rather than royalties for IP, which is more traditional. If they asked for royalties for the use of Apple SDKs, Apple branding, etc. instead, then it looks just like just another commercial vendor.
This seems hard to believe. If true, it seems very odd that they wouldn't be studying successful languages with enormous real world adoption targeting the same platform as theirs.
Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training (2023)
If they are collecting fine as a percent of "global revenue", they should divide it proportionally. Why is EU claiming its share in something they are not involved in.
It’s hard to visualize vast quantities, but for people who live in the rural American west, an acre-foot is relatively easy to grasp. People know the land area of property they live on or farm in acres, and they can imagine what it would look like if that area was flooded with a foot of water.

If a farmer knows they have a 100 acre field and they know that their corn requires 2 feet of water per year, they know that they must acquire 200 acre-feet of water.

If the state’s rivers are overflowing and the farmer wants to flood their field and help to recharge the groundwater [1], acre-feet is the unit they’d use to calculate how much water they can accept (depending on how many feet tall their levees are).

California is 100 million acres and there are 10 million acres of crops.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/amid-deluge-cal...
Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit
Categorizing oneself into one of a number of discrete psychological categories has merits as a start. For example, one might discover unknown proclivities in behavior. But ultimately it's counter-productive.

Ultimately behavior arises in context of disagreement whenever interesting behavior is important. And therefore behavior is a matter of dynamics not the statics of a single identified category. It's best to think of interesting behavior pair-wise say in a team, family, and so on.

Here [1] is far more useful, and far more practical. The salient analysis arises like this, say in the context, of a team:

* teams fail because individuals fail

* individuals fail because they refuse to change

* individuals refuse to change because the change the environment desires conflicts with the self-esteem of the stubborn individual. To change the stubborn individual would have to admit that their sense of things is wrong.

* Until the individual changes, the individual will often exhibit defensive behavior to delay or defray change e.g. play off the problem, criticize others, play the victim. All these behaviors have the same goal: as long as one is putting the focus elsewhere, it's not on me, and I don't have to change because I'm not wrong.

Example: the boss wants a team member to have more control, competence in sorting out a task, which he/she doesn't see. This is a conflict over control. There are any number of realities underlying this,

* the boss feels overworked and doesn't want more work. he/she feeds undervalued, under payed, disrespected. So the boss pushes harder.

* the worker feels the work is unimportant, feels micro managed, or feels they are made to suck up crappy work that previous workers never did right. The worker refuses to change.

Until and unless the feelings and contextualization of this conflict is engaged, it will not be resolved. As Human Element correctly notes, good teams have a valuable asset of adaptability. There need not for example be an alpha leader, common vision etc (more static idealogical constructs) to getting things done, if these other deeper ideas are pursued.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1555426123/ref=sr_aod_dp_ttl
It would be so great if Nintendo were just a software company.

Over the years they have put out some really terrific games, many of which I'd still buy today if they sold them as software.

But after the Wii I stopped being a Nintendo customer (and stopped buying PS/Xbox/etc. consoles altogether) and I don't think I'll ever go back.
Monkey sees moon. Monkey climbs tree. "See? Monkey is closer to moon than before. To reach moon, monkey just needs taller tree."

How long before monkey finds tall enough tree to reach moon?
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I don't think this is a fundamental limitation. If the LLM is trained (through RLHF or something else) to go on a chain-of-internal-monologue (which may take arbitrarily long) to figure out what it will answer, then this kind of adaptive amount of compute can be achieved.
I was recently buying a Dell laptop for my sister and it boggles my mind how most other companies (maybe Framework is an except) still have dozens or even 100s of SKUs for consumer laptops. I didn't enjoy the process of looking through dozens of various lines that Dell has and then other companies like Lenovo and HP earlier in the process, just to find a "mid-range usable computer with a decent screen".

If you didn't know anything about laptops and wanted to buy your first one, it would be a nightmare to figure out what all those seemingly random numbers mean on most non-Apple laptops.

Apple continues to simplify the laptop naming scheme, we're at a point where it's simply:

Air OR Pro

Small screen OR big screen

All other details can be configured in the buying flow but there's not much to think about if you just want a simple laptop.
The relevant precedent is Bleem, which was for-profit
I have yet to see a under $1.5k non-Apple laptop with a comparable high res / high quality display.
Most superhighways move at 1-5mph due to traffic congestion... so it's still valid :)
>To be fair, these problems are not inherent to Rust--any language which tries to interface with C will have them.

Yes, including C.
You didn’t ask, but ‘less than half an inch’ is around a centimeter. 1 inch = 2.56 cm; .5 inch = 1.28 cm
In my case (non US, government owned IT company), they make every developer use Windows because someone is getting paid to make the purchase, that's it. Once the machines arrive, every single dev erases the OS and put his preferred version of Linux on it. And that's why my country is the s*t hole it is.
> 1. https://arewertosyet.com/ to track rust RTOSes and their status

As an aside, does anyone know if there is a central directory of these Rust "areweXyet" websites? I didn't know of this one but I knew about https://areweideyet.com/ and https://areweguiyet.com/
Maybe a pointer is better described as equivalent to a half-edge?
I've been a huge fan of Safari since its introduction.

My only major complaint is that they replaced the old dev tools by this current atrocity which forces me use Chrome for development.
I appreciate the response, and yes, it's a Hard Problem.

The way I'm coming to understand, there are multiple problems to address, some of which emerge at different stages of site / business development:

- Initial growth: finding and cultivating participants. Note that many of the more successful / notable services essentially started with an extant cohort, notably Usenet and Facebook, both of which originated at selective-admissions universities.

- To borrow a term from AI: alignment. You might also consider "purpose" or "mission statement". Essentially, what are you trying to do, who are you trying to serve, and how do you keep committed to that path? A huge problem with many past online services is that they started user-focused (or at least appeared to), and ended up investor-focused (if even that), often sacrificing or cannibalising early ideals. (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Slashdot, ...).

- Business model. How do you keep the lights and servers on, pay bills, meet payroll, etc., etc. If you've taken third-party funding, what's the Devil's deal there?

- What I call "hygiene factors": how will you address all the negative side-effects of growth, once those emerge? There's a bunch of trust-and-safety issues, problems of managing a growing business, investor/creditor relations, and all that jazz. One of the unique problems facing any media organisation is that once it reaches a level of prominence, it becomes an attractive target for manipulators and value-extractors, whether by the putative operators or third parties, and addressing that risk is a considerable challenge. At the same time, that's not the most significant problem facing the organisation at its inception.

Another intrinsic challenge of the start-up world is that starting up is easy, it's the not-shutting-down, and the staying true to mission, which are hard. And the list of community-based discussion communities which have succeeded in avoiding those pitfalls is exceedingly short, if not nil.

Transparency and accountability ... seem pretty empty to me these days. I've noted before that even such mechanisms as B-Corp status end up being meaningless if they can be easily subverted, and/or the enterprise fails regardless. Ello, which I'd participated in significantly and with some initial enthusiasm, failed to live up to its early promise. Imzy, another Reddit alternative ("kinder, gentler") also fell to a number of self-inflicted wounds (in part attempting to solve a later-stage problem in its early, inception stage; also acquiring a highly toxic initial member cohort).
Anyone except me thinks he doesn't look very healthy? Its strange he is kind of slow on the video where he enters the room. Maybe some biohacking.
https://archive.ph/Nkucd
"Bess can't go there"
Or it's for playing modern games on hardware from this decade. The Switch is now 7 years old, and was dated hardware from the outset.

Plenty of people use Yuzu to play Switch games on hardware that can actually support modern resolutions, or so you can actually achieve decent framerates at modern resolutions.

Dolphin was in development since the GameCube was the "current gen", on through the Wii's lifecycle. Hell, by this point in the Wii lifecycle, it was already on the way out and Wii-U was releasing.
This is about moving rust's borrow checker into the type system. I don't follow the details (not a rust dev) but the top level plan of doing static checks in the static type system sounds right. Has interesting links to related projects.
Given that Bevy’s systems scheduler is nondeterministic (for everything not explicitly ordered), do you foresee issues coming from that? Or does this approach sidestep that as an issue?
Definitely agree with the simplicity of purchasing an Apple computer compared to other laptop manufacturers. Headphone brands and monitor makers also suffer from this same fate :/
> but is not true that its clear that without Concord we wouldn't have something Airbus like.

Did the parent claim that? Bit of a strawman if not.
Related ongoing thread:

Claude 3 model family - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590666 - March 2024 (347 comments)
wow. Adverts on cnn.com are that cheap now?
Related:

The Claude 3 Model Family: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590652 - March 2024 (3 comments)
https://archive.ph/lkfd8
Waiting for a HNer to post a JavaScript based simulation game illustrating the difficulty.
Maybe before sending lots of landers we should build a moon GPS system for guiding to a precise safe landing spot?

But it also occurs to me and therefore probably the actual engineers they should be throwing these landers out of an airplane over a rough, rocky earth desert many times before trying the moon?
Yeah, on a clear night the pipes radiate heat to space but nothing much radiates the other way as space is cold and dark. It's also why the tops of cars get frosty on clear nights.
I stopped playing Nintendo products (on any platform, including my Switch) years ago and haven't really missed much. They put out good games, sure, but there are tons of good games available on other platforms where buying them isn't supporting a company that abuses the legal system to harass and imprison innocent people.
Concourse Program
This is a great guide
So... not really? I mean, The T1/T2 devices are superficially similar, being a "big" collection of "small" cores in an SMP configuration and targeted at datacenter markets.

But the ideas behind Niagra weren't about scale per se, it's was about the idea of using extremely wide multithreaded dispatch to get high instruction throughput out of a simple (and thus small) in-order CPU core. Normally you'd expect such a core to spend most of its time getting stalled on DRAM fetches, but with SMT you can usually find another instruction to run from another thread, so the pipeline keeps moving.

The Intel E-cores in this device aren't like that at all. They're smaller than the P-cores, but are still comparatively complicated OOO designs intended to avoid avoid stalls via parallel dispatch.
I've considered that and might end up taking that route but the nice thing about a MacBook is I can take it with me on trips and learn iOS when I get bored.

There's a big server rack at home with multiple servers, so the Linux server part isn't a draw in my case.
Hotter, heavier, and worse battery life, for sure. Slower is up for debate --- having more ram, more cores, and possibly discrete GPU is great for all sorts of things. The Ryzen 7840HS is not any worse than the M3 in multithreaded things.

Just recently there was a Thinkpad P14S on sale for $999 that blows the Macbooks out of the water in terms of ram and storage, while having a high quality OLED display and a Ryzen CPU that can easily trade blows with Apple silicon. It is hotter and heavier and has very bad battery life, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/s/7CgJwku18K
Would it be easier to have it land in any old position, with a mechanism to push itself into upright posture when needed?
It's a bit like saying that a byte is a native number type, providing comparison to zero and addition as the only operations, and asking to figure the rest yourself.

I mean, it's technically sufficient, but I'd not call it proper support on a language level.
OTOH, it'll be a GPU that can host a whole lot of cloud applications at the same time. Or compile lots of code in parallel. Or run a browser.
The point of a fine is to get a company to behave.

I'd prefer if they could just jail the executives instead, but since sadly companies are an effective shield against justice this will have to do.
Sure, there's a lot of great choices for professional photo editing — Affinity Photo, Adobe Lightroom, Darkroom, Pixelmator Photo, etc. I just wanted to make @falcolas's specific dream come true.
Could you explain what you think is vile about it?
They are using a successor of the N100/N305 cores, which is said to be significantly improved.

It is likely that the cores of Sierra Forest have a microarchitecture very similar to the small cores of Meteor Lake (the big cores of Meteor Lake are almost identical to the big cores of Raptor Lake/Alder Lake, but its small cores are improved).

Compared to the small cores of Meteor Lake, the cores of Sierra Forest will support some additional instructions. Most of them are some instructions previously available only in the server CPUs that support AVX-512, but in Sierra Forest (and also in the next desktop/laptop CPUs, i.e. Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake) they are re-encoded in the AVX instruction format (i.e. using a VEX prefix).
No. It doesn't work the same as clouds are at ~0C+ whereas space is like -270C (~3K).
Well, never mind the date, the clause just doesn't say what the article author claims it to say, not even close ...

It doesn't say you can't run CUDA code via a CUDA comabability layer - it says you can't reverse engineer CUDA code in order to translate it to something else (i.e. NOT CUDA) to run on non-NVIDIA hardware.

It's almost the exact opposite of what the article claims - the only way to legally run CUDA software on non-NVIDA hardware would in fact be to leave it as-is and run via a compatibility layer!!
BTW they've been on by default only since around 2010. IIRC Adacore checked the performance impact on most of their codebases and didn't really see an impact on performance (probably around the time branch prediction really improved on x86 and the Core architecture made branch misses far less painful).

They also pioneered validity checks injected by the compiler.

For the brave souls, shameless plug, I talk a bit about Ada's runtime checks, there https://blog.adacore.com/running-american-fuzzy-lop-on-your-...
While there are (commonly used) alternative serialization formats, RDF is married to XML data model, as all core datatypes of RDF are defined in terms of XSD (XML Schema Definition) datatypes and very closely mimics it's data model.

If you want to have an RDF that is independent of that (e.g. based on Apache Arrow so that it's compatible with modern big data tooling) you might as well start from scratch.
Anyone have a recent fork to grab from before it becomes harder to find?
The Mac “just works” compared to Windows, which is a low bar.

Compared to iOS, the Mac is a complete mess, just ask any non technical user.

There's a reason why AppStores are a huge success in the mobile world and why few people dared to install anything on PCs and Macs.
Arguably, precedent (Bleem) supports yuzu here, the reality is that Nintendo doesn't really need a sound legal foundation to file a lawsuit against you, and their legal team can outspend almost anyone on the planet, so they can probably force almost anyone into a settlement, just like yuzu. The DMCA is a plague but I think this case would have resulted in a settlement even if the DMCA didn't exist, because Nintendo's resources dwarf the yuzu team's to that extent.
Airbag crash/roll would be valid as long as the lander self-corrects and uprights itself afterwards?

Seems like that would save a lot of fuel too if you don't care how you come down, just not too incredibly fast.

(wasn't there a Mars landing like that)