skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bauhaus is kind of fun and cool-- even playful. I totally disagree that it's depressing.
Alan McMasters and the Wikipedia Toaster Hoax (2022)
Thanks! :) I'm pushing them into transformers, pytorch-gemma and collabing with the Gemma team to resolve all the issues :)

The RoPE fix should already be in transformers 4.38.2: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/29285

My main PR for transformers which fixes most of the issues (some still left): https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/29402
....mainstream hardware catches up...
SurplusSolar had prices in that range as well. For my build, I did go with very nice panels (lg445n2w-e6) so that factored into the higher price for sure.
I fix old electronics things like phonos, radios, and other sound related things as a hobby and resell(mostly 60s through 90s). Ebay is still great (well "good") for old parts and selling my warez. Although I do sell more locally as I've gotten some word of mouth, and it's more business than I can do with my day job. Anyway ebay still works for older products/parts for electronics and I reckon other fixable things.
You seem to be implying that there is something inherently slow to Python. What?

This topic is an example: a detail of one particular implementation, since GIL is definitely not inherent to the language. Just the usual worry about looseness of types?
That might work once but then they'll have to be more creative. And, of course, it would depend on the consequences of breaking the "no camera" rule. If they can show the guest smashing an expensive TV or something, it might be worth the consequences.
> Most people stop thinking after they see a price

The first time. Then they learn. Assuming the consumer is stupid is part of what downed Wish [1].

[1] https://ir.wish.com/news-releases/news-release-details/wish-...
yeah but roofs aren't formulaic -- even subtle looking differences == big challenges in climbing and hoisting -- and even if you have rows of tract housing with identical builds you're going to run into problems getting things up there because access, yards, fences, etc. all get difficult and complex.

source: used to dispatch for HVAC, roofing, and paving services.
The use of “full-stack” was the first thing I noticed. Everyone, please stop using that term. I’m pretty sure, with a high degree of certainty, you don’t know what it means. If you do, there’s a merit badge waiting for you. And can we please stop using “hallucinations” to describe output. Yes, it may look like your tool dropped acid, but that’s not what it is.
Can you directly answer whether your tool generates tagged PDFs?

Of course, you can't guarantee that the resulting document is 100% compliant because you can't enforce that the input is valid, but are you at least outputting a complete tag tree with as much semantics as possible given the input?
LCDs were garbage at just about everything. It was so much worse when the screens were new, but even today I have yet to see an LCD screen that can display an image with even a single solid color accurately. Correctly representing an image on a screen is their one job and they still fail at it.

See my reply here (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39670782) for a list of just some of the ways LCD screens were worse than CRTs
The spec basically fits on a page: https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/

Summary: "node: { type: ..., x/y/color }; edge: { from/to: ..., color/label/... }"

Refreshingly simple, especially paired with their "gif of usage": https://obsidian.md/canvas
Love that book. Tom Wolfe's dry wit is a joy.

However the modernism originating with bauhaus can be applied tactfully with enhanced functionality (I.e larger unobstructed spaces- but in limited fashion. Too often it strips the humanity away from our spaces.

A stunning example of such modernism: Aarhus City Hall, Denmark
I was drooling each time he said Poland in that interview. Putin's got special kink for us. Its not well known fact but through weird tricks we ended up ruling Russia for a couple of years. Not a lot of folks on both side knew about it, but then Putin send money for a movie 1612, depicting their heroic retaking of motherland from polish oppressors.
Discovery trees look interesting. Sounds like a streamlined story-mapping. Do you have a good resource to learn more please?
What sucked about FastAPI?
The Dark Country (2010)
I prefer the term "model available".
Maybe they should look in to translating parts of their code base to Shedskin Python. It compiles (a subset of) Python to C++.
I think https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf is closer to what this company is doing.

In fact their open source library, https://github.com/OnedocLabs/react-print-pdf, seems like a higher-level library that sits above react-pdf. Reminds me a lot of the set of react-pdf based components I built for a corporate job where letting users create PDFs was a huge part of the value proposition.

They're solving a really cool problem, actually, because building out into certain difficult use cases like SVG support was a huge pain.
Although true, it doesn't mean they can't improve its performance.

Working with threads is a pain in Python. If you want to spawn +10-20 threads in a process, it can quickly become way slower than running a single thread.

Removing the GIL and refactoring some of the core will unlock levels of concurrency that are currently not feasible with Python. And that's a great deal, in my opinion. Well worth the trouble they're going through.
And back then, the "Internet" was AOL for a while - look at old ads, they often had their "aol keyword" in large type than their URL.

But shortly afterwards there was an explosion of web content and forums that over time has been digested back into giant conglomerates - but for a short, beautiful time, if you wanted something you had to go find it yourself, on site-owner's terms.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120917055940/http://www.walrus...
Exactly. I always thought there was a presumption of privacy when renting any residential space, long or short term, and that presumption was legally binding. And I just assumed that interior cameras violated that. For example, I've read about creepy landlords installing cameras in their rental units, mostly to spy on their female tenants. The creepy landlords always got arrested. Furthermore, if a large hotel chain like Hyatt or Hilton was found to install cameras inside hotel rooms, people would not tolerate it, because, just like an apartment, there's that presumption of privacy inside a hotel room. But for some reason, AirBNB was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, "Owners can do whatever they want. Not our problem."
Honestly tired of being told to use AI in Figjam, tried it once, it sucked. Also tired of turning off Figjam subscriptions that keep getting activated every time one person invites everyone to a figjam document or whatever is causing it to be switched on...

Core Figma is a beautiful product but their tactics to try and milk more revenue out of us are increasingly gross or utterly un-interesting like Figjam.

The tool that surpasses Figma wont take this approach.
Why is it a mess? What's wrong with it on Windows?
Removing the GIL results in slower execution. Without the guarantees of single thread action, the interpreter needs to utilize more locks under the hood.
Not just ikea but all the cheap melamine board furniture out there today takes inspiration from the bauhaus philosophy. And also the fact melamine board is so cheap and comes finished.
Perhaps I just had poor ones, but my memory of CRTs was inferior blacks in practice due to the much higher reflectiveness of the glass surface. So while technically it was a perfect black in terms of direct emissions, it didn't help much when I could see the room behind me reflected in that "black" patch. In a dark arcade it's fine of course, but most of my monitor use is in a well-lit room. And I still dislike glossy modern monitors
I don't think I know a single engineer that would tolerate working in this environment.
If it exists, it's probably among the ones listed at https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/

If it doesn't exist, you could try modifying one of the listed implementations.
> losing $90.8 million on $804 million of revenue in 2023 and never having turned a profit

how in the world could it possibly cost $900 million a year to run Reddit?
I love these.

Reminds me of the 2 brutalist churches by Sigurd Lewerentz:

- https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markuskyrkan

- https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Petri_kyrka,_Klippan

Personally I can state that Markuskyrkan is well worth a visit if you're in Stockholm.
> hit them over the head with a big enough stone hard enough, and they won't be infecting anyone with rabies

According to Wikipedia there are no documented cases of human to human transmission by biting, and the only recorded cases of transmission from one human to another were inadvertent via organ transplant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Transmission
I wonder why they evolved such robust DNA repair apparatus. Extreme environmental pressures? Some advantage in competition?
AOL only started allowing access to the Internet at large in 1993 (thus leading to the "Eternal September" that greybeards complain about to this day). Before then, AOL users were limited to what AOL provided. And there were other such services such as CompuServe and GENIE that were similar.
Temu has free returns and pays for return shipping.
Roblox on Linux Deprecation Notice
There's a dozen AI chips already; how many do you want?

Now working ones is a different story.
Honestly, this article feels a bit like a jumble of separate ideas. Dare I say, word salad.

It has too many separate barely-related ideas about some barely-related websites with a sprinkle of AI.

Take the example of Reddit. Yes, third party apps were effectively banned except for those who want to deal with paying a monthly fee.

As someone who used to use one of those third party apps, one of its main benefits was to avoid advertisements. Reddit is a company that has never turned a profit. I’m not sure what person expects them to keep allowing people to access their API directly and cut out advertisements.

When we bust out the word “enshittification” I feel like all logic gets thrown out the window and it turns into sensationalism. A Reddit that isn’t profitable is a Reddit that will die anyway, regardless of how enshittified it is.

The Internet isn’t only made up of a handful of bad websites bad corporate leadership which are on the decline, it’s still an incredibly diverse place where new ideas come to fruition.
So are you saying that you don't output tagged PDFs now?

For those who don't know, if you use Chromium's print-to-pdf feature you get a tagged PDF. And it's scriptable from the command-line too.
5th Circuit Declares Age Verification Perfectly Fine Under the First Amendment
the electricians around Ashburn, VA who service data centers get paid more than most of my network engineers. their boss got paid more than I did as a manager, if I believe the scuttlebutt they told us.

hard work, on site -- i'm sitting pretty at home typing this -- and no real upwards growth, but there's big money in NoVA data centers and the tradesmen's pay reflects that.
You have WAY more confidence in Target/Walmart than I do. Most of it falls apart super fast. Even Christian Dior belts are made of some kind of “leather” that falls apart after a year.
I've rented out a couple rooms in my house in the past for airbnb during special events in Austin to make some hobby money, shared my kitchen, they have a private bathroom. It doesn't cost $200 to clean. I can clean up after them typically in less than an hour.
Crashes, or gets killed, by Safari on iOS 17.3 on iPhone 15 Pro.
dang gets paid, basically

That's what it comes down to - this site has a particular purpose, and it is open about it being basically a freebie given out to help Ycombinator; worth whatever hosting + dang costs these days.
Hmm interesting... I just went through this user experience on iOS generating PDF invoices locally. I attempted the HTML > PDF route, but Webkit is thorny wrt to layouts (as you mentioned). I did settle in with drawing everything from the ground up > which with LLMs wasn't as hairy as it used to be, even got a little Swift framework out of the deal.

Am I understanding the docs correctly that you don't have a local library available (the SDKs are just calling the APIs right?)? Mind going through why you chose a remote API?
The easier way costs $0.05 cents per page. Imagine sending an invoice to your customer and the invoice itself costs 5 cents per page! That's prohibitively expensive for many applications. I wouldn't consider any solution that costs more than 1 cent per page.
lots of studies have shown that screen time for kids ain't so great. i wouldn't send my kids to a daycare that was one person + 20 youtube streams + bots
A great video tour of the GIL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s
Investigations of Postgres WAL
> With FUSIONL AI you will learn anything in a smart and minimalistic way ever.

Maybe whoever wrote this copy can use Fusionl AI to brush up on English.
Has anyone been running LLMs on TPUs in prod? Curious to hear experiences.
On Firefox mobile I got a score of 3.

So while Firefox is now super fast the performance of webapps might still be very bad on mobile.

And I think this applies to all modern browsers: they are fast at rendering very slow webapps and websites.
Their startup is addressing computing bottlenecks so that's what I addressed. Supervised training dat isn't a bottleneck on LLMs, Diffusion models, or any of the hot areas at the moment.
Maybe AI is facilitating a new "Commons" in that people will feel more of a right to take and reuse and consume things created by these sites with a better understanding that they collectively contributed to their creation.
Not fast enough! I used it to call llama.cpp server but it would crash if requests were "too fast". Calling the llama.cpp server directly solved the issue.
And in fairness, I can see why it might have been hard to give shares to the reddit community:

- aren't there regulatory/legal problems with having a very large number of people owning equity in a company that's not public?

- associating active reddit users with real people with addresses, accounts, etc would be real lift, and potentially alienating to users who have been operating under pseudonyms

- establishing that you eventually get paid for activity seems like it creates a natural incentive for low-quality/high-volume (spam?) engagement, karma rings, etc. Rewarding only the people who _actually_ add value is messy
The author states that scalability doesn't matter here. Any language would have been fine. The title should be "do everything in memory in a single process until you can't ".
You're right, I've changed my mind a bit about this now.
It's a mix of ego and people not knowing what they are doing. I had to fight my first month just to get code into BitBucket. Before that, it was a server in rackspace you pushed to as the root user.

Because the CTO only does the code reviews, people create the PR and the CRF. Issue is because it takes so long, the CTO wants merge conflicts resolved before it's reviewed. Problem with that is, no one remembers the context a month (or longer later).

I have A LOT of spare time so I will often help out with doing reviews but because I'm not allowed to merge or deploy code, it's more of helping junior engineers write better code.
Did they invent new DL algorithms and publish them? If I remember what I heard in the interview correctly, this targets existing architectures.
How would this 15-25km of ice be explorable anyways by a probe. It seems incredibly deep...
What do you mean "now"? It has been for years. It's a huge business.
> And that's why those "optical" computers perform no better than electrical computers: because they are in fact electrical computers that use photons for communication, not for computation.

No, in this case photons would be doing computation across a substrate with electrons in it.

Similarly, in electronics the electrons do the computation on a doped substrate. We don’t say the doping is doing the computation, although it defines what the computation will be (I.e. the logical behavior).
> There’s also a new zswap mode to disable writing back to swap entirely.

At that point why not just use zram swap? Either way it's just "swapping" into compressed ram and never going to disk, right?
If only there was a car that could fly, but was still as easy and cheap to buy and maintain :D
> I figured it was sellers hoping people wouldn't notice the s&h until the got to checkout

There was a lot of that too. I’m sure it’s sometimes emotional: sellers wouldn’t want to “subsidize” shipping, so they’d fix the shipping fee to what the max could be for anywhere in the country.

What grinds me as an international buyer is when sellers offer “free” shipping domestically, but don’t subsidize int’l shipping by the same dollar amount. Though there can be other time costs for int’l shipping. It depends.
Yes that's stretching the truth
... except the "exorbitant" pricing on API access means that it's _not_ a commons that others can take from in a scalable way.
Yes, if you are a mod or an early user, you've received the option to buy early stock. I've received an e-mail from them, BUT I am not a US citizen so it was for nil.

Here's their email

"tl;dr – you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. Details about eligibility and next steps follow. This (long, dense) email has all the info we can provide due to legal restrictions.

As you may have heard, Reddit has taken steps toward becoming a publicly traded company with the initial public filing of our registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2024. Yes, it’s happening.

And because you have helped make Reddit what it is today, you now have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors.

We’re offering a Directed Share Program (“DSP”) that invites eligible users and moderators who have contributed to Reddit to participate in our initial public offering (“IPO”). (Including you!)

Program Requirements
While being selected to pre-register is the first step, there are certain legal and regulatory requirements to participate in the DSP that are outside of Reddit’s control. Bear with us here…

To be eligible for the DSP, you must:
Be a current U.S. resident;
You will be asked to provide the DSP Administrator a valid social security or permanent resident number, along with other personal information. Reddit will not have access to this data.
Please note that U.S. residents using a VPN may face application limitations if the VPN locates them in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions.
Be at least 18 years old;
Provide your full legal name and an email address;
Not be a current or former Reddit employee (FTE).
When the DSP launches (a few weeks after pre-registration ends), individuals who have been confirmed for the program will be contacted by our external DSP Administrator. You will then be asked to provide additional information securely to the DSP Administrator to confirm your eligibility.
It it was that loud then I'd expect something was wrong with it. I can no longer hear those frequencies, but I could when I was a kid, and I don't remember it being annoying at all. Just one of those things you only really notice after it stops, like when the fridge stops humming. Our cat also didn't react at all from my memory
Any company will cooperate with law enforcement.
There was a comment some days ago, in another thread, about a company, from US, which didn't want to cooperate. It didn't turn well for this company.
I really like the idea of a format for interchange between infinite canvas apps, but the preset colors and list of node types makes this spec feel strangely opinionated. You could build something like Kinopio [1] but not much beyond that.

It looks really promising though! I'm definitely interested in seeing this grow.

[1] https://kinopio.club
How is it for PCI compliance? Which of the PCI DSS requirements outlines this?
Maybe they're using Netlify? :P
> "aol keyword"

i haven't had a retro memory pull that strong in a while
Ask HN: How much hands on work are you still doing – Sr. Director, Data Science
I am a Senior Director of Data Science at a large telecommunications company (think Verizon equivalent). I have a team of 30 (Data Science + Data Engineering) and my work is mostly connecting the dots between data science and business. I am capable of understanding both sides and can go into details if needed. My next role would be VP of Data Science which would mean overseeing all DS.

I started applying for new jobs at a Senior Director/VP level and I am finding that some jobs still require some level of leet code/SQL technical interviews at the beginning. I have not wrote any code for the last 5 years so I am little confused what are the expectations at my level.

I wanted to ask at Senior Director/VP level are you still doing any hands on coding work or just presentations/brain storming/architecture design. I have Ph.D in CS and been IC for 10 years so can easily go back but spending a month preparing leet code seems like a waste of time.
Amalgamating the pieces is the test. LLMs really can't do it that well.

Is it context size, training, number of iterations, number of agents? That's what's being tried to improve the results.
Depends on how beefy that laptop is...

I've been doing some local LLM stuff at work recently, and even with the amazing advances in quantization lately, doing that kind of stuff on a ThinkPad is feasible, but still strongly inferior to just renting out a VPS with a couple 4090/H100s for several hours.

The biggest thing with summarizing stuff is that most local LLM models often don't have very big context-windows, so they have trouble with larger texts like even a short Vonnegut novel (I was just testing em' with summarizing GitHub issues, and even with a 16k token context window they still sometimes struggle if there are a lot of comments).

There are probably smarter people than I who could get this working on a Raspberry Pi though... ;)
Honestly, that doesn't sound right. I'm curious what you mean by crash thoguh.
Just realised this is by the Obsidian guys! Good on them!