skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Let me ask you another question. I'm making a CLI app that could run in wasm (it's written in Rust). Normally, users will run it on their own machine in their own terminal. But I also want them to be able to access it while they're traveling. I'm wondering if there's some way I could make it available in the Puter terminal, such that anyone with a Puter account could run it there when they are away from their own terminal. Would that be possible now with Puter, or is it something that will be possible in the future?
You can, this is how the Soviets achieved the first ever lunar landing (with help from airbags).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9
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GP's point is that for tamed animals, each animal has to undergo the long and arduous taming process before it becomes docile enough to be "useful". With domesticated animals, this isn't really the case - just being raised around humans is sufficient.
Why am I starting to see a lot of promotional statements within HN? Are there any bot or some army of manual labor around?
I used to think “normal distributions are everywhere” but the more math and science I watch on YouTube the more the central limit theorem pops up. It’s the CLT that’s everywhere, it just brings normal distribution as it’s +1.
I pay for Kagi’s duo plan, $14/month or $151.20/year [1], a discount which implies a 10% cost of capital.

At that discount rate, a lifetime membership at $1,680 would be rational for Kagi ($600 individual). And at that price, I’d pay! Hell, do $3k flat (5% cost of capital; ~$1k individual) and throw in an annual in-person event and I’d call it a great deal. For Kagi, moreover, it would be permanent capital.

(I would also love for Kagi to launch a K-12 education product, possibly marketed at first to PTAs.)

[1] https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing_plan&plan=family&period=...
Should be pretty easy, once we get the blueprints from Iscandar.
pretty easy to fork your repo and remove all the test files.
It is ironic that you don’t understand the point made given what the topic is about. Your logic is badly flawed. You have not shown that no one with equal or more knowledge and expertise than you can give a well reasoned opinion contrary to what you have stated.
Yeah I was in the same boat coming from classical ML. I am just doing MLOps/DE these days. Although I have been down levelled to almost junior level after having 10+ years of experience. Struggling a bit with being treated like a junior again! Much less autonomy to pick my own task.
Yes, there are a lot of kinds of diversity that can have value in an organization. For example: People whose native language is not English. A mix of people from different continents, where different kinds of items are common in hardware stores. People from rural and urban areas. Introverts, extroverts. People from countries with different social norms. People with different understandings of the term "football field". People from countries that don't use US dollars and US-formatted zip codes. People who write their family name first, followed by their given name. People who have lived in areas without reliable internet access or electricity. People who have worked in blue collar jobs. People who don't drive a car. People who did not attend university. People who have spent time homeless. People who have taken care of aging parents. People who have raised infants.

There are all kinds of diversity, and it's really valuable to have someone in the room who realizes that your product will be offensive in India or unusable in Brazil, or dangerous to young children. It's way more than skin deep.
probably some sort of BGP flood.
There's a nice discussion re: the performance of CP/M on the 128 here: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2361/why-...
They had an interesting hack to connect to a high-res monitor. Timing wise they had to stick to the standard TV timing otherwise regular Amiga software would not work. So they created a hack where the Amiga would send 4 screens of pixels that would then assembled and sent to a high-res monitor. Screen refresh rate was very slow though.
That's pretty much how the Soviets did it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9
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If you're asking if sexism in the industry still exists, yes, it does.

I worked for a company that had 0 female programmers. "How curious", I thought as a fresh grad, "that while there were some women in my CS classes, there were none at the company". "Well, there are only 30-40 of us, so it must simply be a quirk of statistics."

Yeah no, the owner didn't think women could handle production systems so he only hired men. He told us this directly at lunch one day. He looks exactly how you're probably imagining he looks based on that statement. His wife made him give me a bigger bonus one year because at a company dinner, I made the mistake of sitting next to her because I didn't recognize who she was, and mentioned (over the course of dinner) that my wife and I wanted 3 kids and she was going to be a stay-at-home mother. I worked there for far too long because I was a new grad who hadn't ever left a job before.

It being so obvious at my first job was honestly a good wake-up call, because now that my generic white male illusion that it's all in the past was soundly shattered, I see it's more insidious forms. Like at my next job, how the one woman on our team was suspiciously the only one who took longer than 2 years to get promoted from [mid-level eng] to [career level / sr eng]. I don't think that one was nearly as explicit, but I no longer sit here and go "hmm how curious that the only woman is the only one who didn't fit the pattern". It's because of unconscious biases in the promotion review panels.
Side comment on that link. What's going on with female pacific islanders getting a graduate degree. Like it's 20k over the males in the same category. My guess is that it's an error since the total only adds up to ~600
There are built-in bangs for reddit, and users can prioritize reddit.com as a domain if they'd like.
Fortnite is coming back to iOS in Europe this year
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"over-hiring cishet white males is not exactly a problem, in fact in many roles they are under-represented compared to the national slice."

I've been on teams where I'm the only white person. I've also been on teams where women outnumber the men (yes, even in tech).
Say hello to BlueBoxGPT and the new era of "llm phreaking"!
Ah, I see - same question though, I'm curious which citizenship you eventually acquired without stepping foot in the country?

BTW I spent the last 15 mins enjoying your blog, particularly the entries on Tanzania (I grew up there). Glad you enjoyed your time there :)
If you're powerful enough to have a lawyer for such things, then I guess that's a significant difference. But for most of us, your description of the alternative is indeed tantamount to "some random person hosting a random server". And you're right that federated designs are susceptible to bad behavior on the part of the server admin. I assume that's why the radicle protocol guide (https://docs.radicle.xyz/guides/protocol) has a section differentiating P2P from federated.

I don't know these people, maybe they are indeed up to something nefarious, but their design is inherently more trustworthy than federated or hosted solutions. If I must chose between transparency into finances and a nonhierarchical design which presents no high value targets for corruption to focus on, I'll take the better design over the financial transparency every time.

If they turn out to be actually shady I can just configure my node not to talk to them or their friends and keep on using it, which is a lot more than can be said for most of the alternatives.

Besides, it's a publishing platform. What is this "your data" you're talking about? The whole point is to spread it far and wide and to collect contributions from far and wide.
It's largely irrelevant. In the face of lack of confirmation, you discount the value of any shares or options accordingly. The first thing I make clear when negotiating is that unless they can prove otherwise, my assumption is that the value of the shares they offer is near zero. If they want me to consider them worth anything when assessing the value of the total comp, it's on them to demonstrate that they are. Otherwise I will expect a salary that reflects a value of the shares near zero.
USB-C was the first to grind my gear. Believe it or not I like the feel of the lightning plug and still prefer it over USB-C. I don’t care about transfer speed or whatnot for my phone I use the cable exclusively for charging.

EDIT: In any case it’s not even the lightning vs. USB-C that matters it’s the fact that the plug is mandatory. What if someone discovers a revolutionary plug someday? Well too bad, can’t use it because EU decided USB-C is perfect.
Lots of jobs have low wages, in fact most jobs are not high wage jobs. That doesn't mean the manpower isn't needed it means the jobs inherently can't support a high wage relative to others.

If you don't like immigration, then say so, because your arguments make no sense.
Say that to corporate java writers. Language creates culture and this applies to human as much as computer.
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Not doing something is always an option. Not all things need be made. In point of fact, there are many things that should not be made.
If people are indeed suffering because of their politics, is there any way to ease their suffering without making a political statement of some kind?
The counterpoint would be: you're intending to run their code, if it's malicious then you're hosed anyway.

In bygone times, one might suffer from a truncation attack or otherwise end up running arbitrary code that's not what the vendor intended. Nowadays, there's really no security difference in curl|bash vs downloading a package and running it. Or, indeed, installing using `cargo install`.

That doesn't mean I'm happy running it, but my argument against it is less a security argument and more a predictability one: I want to be able to cleanly uninstall later, and package managers normally provide more consistent support for uninstalling than an arbitrary shell script.
So much lol.
For every 1000 prompt engineers who are doing little more than hooking up an API to a front end and a bit of prompt engineering, there's really only 1 decent engineer who can put together things like RAG and fine tuning properly.

I'm yet to see a truly strong LLM application where the results are not significantly better than a smart person with chatGPT open and a bit of patience to craft some prompts.

What are the most impressive things available that are not just chatGPT?
If in a Crowdsourced Data Annotation Pipeline, a GPT-4
Signs you've taken a bad job
I never said anything about throwing out books that haven't been digitized.

And yes, you can get free internet access,
but those research databases I mentioned are not free to access.
There a millions of "documents", to use your term, already indexed and categorized, with varying quality of searchability.

Let's not skip over the main point I meant to emphasize: librarians.
I get why people in tech believe that they have all the tools and skills to do their own research.
They don't value librarians for the expertise they have,
even though just getting an entry level librarian job requires more education than most programming jobs.
> What should we do? Systematically disadvantage and discriminate against Asians

TBF that's exactly what Harvard did.
Topics in conversation that show lack of emotional intelligence
There is a mustard museum in Wisconsin. "Museum" is perhaps a bit of a misnomer, but very alliterative. They sell and ship a number of unusual varieties. Ordered my friend's husband some for his birthday -- no complaints.

Let me see...

I think this is it:

https://mustardmuseum.com/

No affiliation. I think I learned of it via a public television broadcast, or something similar.
Did kagi recently (past 12 months) add the unlimited plan? Last time I checked even my human search usage was way beyond their limits (Google regularly accuses me of being a bot!), and my primary interest was in 100Xing that volume with autonomous agents.

Now it says unlimited, but I'm not sure "you and a swarm of a thousand digital clones" counts as fair use...
> How well does kagi work for niche "reddit queries" like "best waterproof midi synthesizers reddit"?

I’ve started using their quick answers to sort through the crud. In most cases, it catches and filters out the obviously-bought Reddit recommendations, surfacing bloggers and niche industry publications that did their own lab work.
The list of films that use that song are (at least according to IMDB):

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls072864571/

I guessed "dazed and confused" and was told that was incorrect. From the hint it would appear as though they were looking for "gone in 60 seconds"
> ... I can't think of anything else, apart from maybe the US 'hustle culture' that is always admirable.

Is it?

When I moved to the US, I was surprised that working multiple jobs, or working seemingly physical jobs after 65 or even injured, e.g. as your typical Home Depot associate, were quite common.

For such a wealthy country, it's disgraceful.
I have accounts with three credit unions:

https://www.salalcu.org/
https://www.becu.org/
https://firsttechfed.com/

I switched years ago after growing tired of all the fees and gotchas you have to watch out for with commercial banks. Credit union ATMs and branches may be scarce, but they all cooperate in a "shared branching" network, so in practice it works fine.
Most jobs have a limited demand. Because internal jobs are not the same as products in the marketplace.

Products and services typically require a mix of many kinds of internal parts or tasks to be created or supplied. Most of them are not the majority cost drivers.

You don’t increase the amount of software created by responding to cheaper documentation by increasing the documentation to keep your staff busy, or hiring more document staff, to create even more of the cheaper documentation.

You hire fewer documentation people and shift resources elsewhere.

Making one tasks easier is more likely to reduce internal demand for employees in that area. Very unlikely to somehow increase demand for it.

Unless all tasks get cheaper, or the task is a majority cost driver, and directly spills into obviously lower prices for customers for the product or service.
So it went from "asshole" to "asshole who has lots of sex" to "guy who has lots of sex"? That kind of makes sense.
Ahh, I see. In that case, most of DownDetectors data are from Twitter and other sources, not first party reporting, although even in the case of first party data, it is also sourced via "visits to DownDetector" which can be from a simple Google search for "is Instagram down?"

If DownDetector relied primarily on direct reporting, they'd be the last to know.
> If you ignore the word "guaranteed"

it simply means that your freedom is guaranteed, not the actual right.

legalese is a very sneaky duolingo.

In the Italian constitution the catholics replaced the sentence in the first article proposed by the left "Italy is a democratic Republic founded on workers." with "Italy is a democratic Republic founded on labour." which completely changed the intended meaning (it works much better in Italian where workers is "lavoratori" and labour is "lavoro", they look and sound very similar, but are not the same thing).

> there is not much pro-live can be happy about

but they are, there must be a reason.
It has "lenses" that you can tailor yourself. Just pay and try it. Cancel if it's not your goto in a month.
I've hired about a hundred people over a couple of decades. Recruited for Boards too but don't really count that. I guess I should say that a lot of these hires have been 'diverse' but that wasn't a factor in the decision. I've only had two white males out of eight of my last hires and I had to really think about this.
To be honest, at Oxide we have basically skipped a lot of the standard Embedded Rust stack. We don't use embedded-hal, and don't really like the style of code svd2rust spits out.

We haven't produced an alternative, so are still using those lower-level svd2rust APIs. But the pain points are very real.

Overall, still quite happy with embedded Rust overall, dealing with annoying APIs is just part of doing professional work.

(Hubris' design also mitigates this issue indirectly, since you're communicating with a driver, where this kind of code lives, so most of the code has a much nicer API, which is also why it's not the end of the world.)
I found another article discussing this and they seem to indicate this is already legal with medical oversight.

https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/08/04/projet-de-loi...
I’ve been a paying Kagi customer for a few months now. It has reconciled me with search. Result quality is great, and the tools like fastgpt and the summarizer are precious.

I was a bit reluctant but I don’t regret doing it.

Really happy to see Wolfram added to it!
> The (web) client can make any additional actions available to the user without further interpreting the response as it would with the JSON version.

What happens when there is no user and it's fully automated? Everywhere in the post where you say "you", you're referring to an intelligent user interacting with the website which is the point being made - hypermedia REST works well in an interactive context, but an automated context needs something simpler, more reliable, & more parseably stable than the more mutable UX you'd send the user. The point is that this breaks down when you have automation interacting with a service that has no concept of agency - it's executing specific sets of functions against endpoints and discovery is not particularly relevant as that discovery happens once when the programmer writes the automation code.
I agree it's not an absurd idea. But it would be surprising.

I think there's a lot left to discover about how our immune system misfires to cause allergies, but it is worth pointing out that allergens don't reproduce, so the idea would be that if your immune system has enough exposure it will eventually figure out that it's not a pathogen.

But you're correct, it's not an absurd idea, just would have been surprising if true.
> I'd love to read a less technical writeup explaining the challenges faced and why it took so long to figure out spelling. Scrolling through the paper is a bit overwhelming and it goes beyond my current understanding of the topic.

I'm not an ML researcher but I can answer this. Note that this is not information from the paper, just my own findings from following the "scene".

We actually figured out spelling not long after diffusion models came out, the imagen paper that came several months before SD1 explained how they did it, which is the same technique SD3 and Dalle3 use, instead of using CLIP's text encoder, they use T5.

The reason why image models can't spell is the same reason why language models also have difficulty spelling. Tokenization. Simply speaking instead of seeing each letter individually, we split a sentence into sub-words, most commonly called tokens and that's what the model sees. The model never gets to see each letter individually. But it turns out that if you make the model big enough and feed it enough data, it actually learns how each token is spelled out.

Clip is both small (200-500M params) and trained on limited text data (only image captions). T5 is trained on a large corpus of data and is also huge (~5.5B params). This makes T5 the obvious choice if you care about spelling.

So why use CLIP in the first place? Simple: it's much easier to train on clip embeddings than T5 embeddings, not only are they smaller, but because clip is trained on text/image pairs and due to backpropagation, the text embeddings also contain a lot of visual semantic information. This simplifies a lot of the work the text->diffusion attention modules need to do. Another reason is that T5 is absolutely massive, it's 5x larger than the image part of the model and 10-20x larger than CLIP.

If you take a close look at diagram (a) in the paper you'll actually see that SD3 uses both CLIP and T5, not only that but they trained it in a way that makes the encoder used optional, so you can use the CLIP models only if you don't care about spelling and image composition (CLIP is also bad at understanding prompts), which is useful because most GPUs can't handle T5 on it's own. Tho I suspect someone will distil T5 so it becomes 5-10 times smaller than it currently is at a minimal loss on how good it is for prompting.
Climate change and a whale native to the North Pacific observed off New England
isnt Asia part of Europe?
I did not know IMDB offered this, thank you!
Great job with Scryer Prolog!
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This is probably similar to the Wolfram|Alpha + Siri integration (which AFAIK no longer exists):

- Kagi will rely on Wolfram's okay-ish stack to immediately add features to their engine

- Kagi will, over time, 1-by-1 remove the reliance on the (generally slow and expensive) Wolfram API with built-in features

- Once the meat of the features have been rewritten internally by Kagi in more performant and self-controlled ways, remove the dependence on the slow and expensive Wolfram API

Not saying that's a bad thing, but it's quite likely this is how it plays out. We've seen it before.
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It's not just access to the internet. It's access to journals, databases, and other sources that are legitimately costly. Individuals can't even get access to ProQuest, for example, because they sell institutional subscriptions.
They created a huge buzz around it, took over a year to release and when they did so, released it to the wrong Insider ring, so everyone who was on the fast ring specifically for and waiting for it had to re-install.

I believe, without any proof, that this is why they had to redo their rings and what they meant shortly after.

Then there is everything else people have mentioned, with them being completely reliant on Amazon's store but requiring "something" where most of the apps that are on Amazon's mobile store weren't available.
I think this argument falls flat on two axes:

- in general, if the system is broken enough to be giving false-negatives on valid credentials, it's broken enough that there isn't much planning to be done here because the system's not supposed to break. So if they give me "Sorry, backend offline" instead of "invalid credential," they've now turned their system into an oracle for scanning it for queries-of-death. That's useful for an attacker.

- in the specifics of this situation, (a) credential reset was offline too so nobody could immediately rotate them anyway and (b) as a cohort, Facebook users could stand to rotate their credentials more often than the "never" that they tend to rotate them, so if this outage shook their faith enough that they changed their passwords after system health was restored... Good? I think "accidentally making everyone wonder if their Facebook password is secure enough" was a net-positive side-effect of this outage.
Marc Cuban thinks otherwise and says those factors can be part of his hiring equation: https://i.imgur.com/SpuqB5c.png though that seems to run afoul of title VII.
I configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top of Kagi which allows me to immediately turn a search into a Reddit search.
Not only that, but you can make it rewrite all reddit links to use old.reddit.com
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I think mostly a lot of cool stuff is being launched lately. But if I were a tech company, I'd definitely have a HN Plan ;)
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I don't really have that luxury in almost every situation. More often than not a candidate far surpasses anyone else in areas that are very objective to the role at hand.