skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly disagree. I pay $2/mo for an all digital NYT subscription and it’s worth it alone for 10 minutes of Wordle every day

$2/mo is a rounding error for most people’s commute costs, even mine and I am fully remote.

The fact of traditional web content is that companies who led with free content gave away too much for too long to build their footprint and the result is that people are trained to refuse even the smallest charge to read articles, even things they seek out daily

I also feel that literacy in general has declined. Long form written content just doesn’t garner attention in a world where influencers are posting videos and images. The dopamine hit from social is something a well researched and written article can’t compete with today.

Tying all of this back to your comment, Netflix subscription costs have balloned and their subscriber counts have picked up 30 million in 2023 according to statista.

Netflix costs 10x what I pay for NYT. Journalism is far more valuable than the type of true crime docudramas cranked out on Netflix but it’s too late now
It looks like the first one to get approved is an enterprise marketplace by Mobivention.

https://app-marketplace.eu/?lang=en
The amazing part is that you're so close, but you're still thinking like a savage: why would you go into "a clothing store" for this? You take a 3d scan at home, and send that over to the print-on-demand store that does spin-on-demand, for pickup whenever you're out next, or delivery at a surcharge.
Looks fine on my machine - my guess is that your primary font does not contain all the glyphs used (e.g. the box-drawing chars), so its falling back to another font just for those glyphs, causing inconsistencies.
A lot could go wrong but in San Francisco I'm not really worried about it.

If you're really concerned, just make sure your DNM vendor has consistently good user reviews.

I unironically trust random weirdos on Haight st and DNM vendors than the federal government.

While grandpa Joe's recent campaign speech was very inspiring, there's a very very long way to go before I can ever remotely trust the FDA again.
https://250kb.club
Anyone can write that a word no longer has its defined meaning. That can’t even be refuted, as it’s certain someone is confused somewhere.

However, ASCII is not a random ancient word, it’s a ratified standard. Would be like calling any datetime format “ISO8601”.
I ran Plex a decade ago, but the commercial direction that the project took scared me off when setting up a new media server a couple years ago.

I run Jellyfin for all my local content. Not too difficult to set up and maintenance in minimal. The biggest thing is having files named in the format that is recognized. The built it workflow for manually updating the media ID is decent, but takes a bit of time when a lot of content is involved.
Slightly different: I worked with a guy who took a job at a finance firm I worked to understand trading. His stated goal? Arabic states and individuals have stupid amounts of money he can play with. That is, he wanted parlay learning and connections to start his own firm.
Isn't NSA the "top cybersecurity agency"? CISA may have a practical implementation role in government organizations but as far as I know there are a few other orgs that are much more hardcore about this particular domain and subject matter.
I think the tech has caught up, and the market is ready, for Furby 2.0
I'm still not sure why cotton is allowed on planes since it could be nitrocellulose aka gun cotton
My friend that had CF was eligible. He was asked by the foundation what he wanted when he was 5-6 years old. He said he wanted to go Zorbing in Australia.

They dragged it until he was 18. He always jokingly said "make a wish foundation is waiting, hoping I'll die".

He finally got to go Zorbing when he was 19. Passed away a few years later.

Not surprised the foundation jumped on Trikafta to remove eligibility.
It can, and various other 1BRC implementations have (though I doubt hotspot would manage to do it itself, never mind that most 1BRC submissions were run with Graal for the lower startup overhead). The 32×32→64-bit multiplication poses an issue on the default SSE2 as it has no 32-bit or 64-bit multiplication, but SSE4.1 adds exactly the needed thing, pmuldq (although, as that returns a 64-bit result, you'd need two of such to process a full vector of 32-bit ints).
> Are you expert enough to read those papers?

Not in this case, no. But in cases where I do have more knowledge, the additional detail makes it much easier to tell if there's anything of substance there, compared to traditional press releases which just make superficial marketing claims with minimal technical detail.

And if this were something more relevant to me, but where I didn't have expertise necessary to look at it, I could reach out to someone with the expertise needed to take a look. The point here is that it's very difficult talk at great length and in great detail about BS without making it apparent to experts that you're talking BS, whereas with a more traditional PR, the best you can often say is "well, if this is anything, these are very big claims."
Bit twiddling hacks are increasingly becoming a lost art even in the embedded/low level space. There's relatively few people around with any day-to-day need for them and I've found myself deleting a lot of the legacy ones I find because the compiler situation has changed so much from when they were originally written.

I think this is an excellent skills showcase, even if I don't think it's magical.
Nice! Add that to the README ;)
you guys sound like yuppies, using a CGM to come to the conclusion that rice and soda cause sharper insulin spikes than proteins, and exercise is good for you! Could have gotten the same info from a $10 book of glycemic indices or a $20 traditional glucose test kit. If you aren't diabetic, a CGM is widely useless and you're just manually deriving basic facts about metabolism you could have just... read.
Here's an Apple Script moving through iMessage to SMS if required. Make sure to add helpers to update the recipients contact to default to SMS, otherwise you're just cluttering your Messages history with failed messages.

--------

tell application "Messages"
set phoneNumber to "+15555555555"
set messageToSend to "This is a test!"

try
set iMessageService to (1st account whose service type = iMessage)
set iMessageBuddy to participant phoneNumber of iMessageService

if exists iMessageBuddy then
set theMessage to send messageToSend to iMessageBuddy
delay 2 -- Wait for a short time to allow the message status to update

if status of theMessage is not "delivered" then
error "iMessage not delivered"
else
log ("sent as iMessage to: " & phoneNumber)
end if
else
error "Not an iMessage user"
end if
on error
try
set SMSService to (1st account whose service type = SMS)
set SMSBuddy to participant phoneNumber of SMSService
send messageToSend to SMSBuddy
log ("sent as SMS to: " & phoneNumber)
on error
log ("ERROR: COULD NOT SEND TO: " & phoneNumber)
end try
end try

end tell
> I wonder if the problem is with impersonating C-level executives or if the problem is that they have power to just send money.

Yeah, I guess I'm surprised that executives are allowed to do this without a "second opinion", so to speak.

In my (thankfully) long-ago days as a manager, I had a petty cash fund (used for stuff like office supplies and coffee filters and such). I'd spend that as I saw fit, and just send in my receipts once in a while (usually only when the petty cash box got low). No one got too worried about that.

Above that, I could make medium-sized purchases without approval, but I had to send in the paperwork immediately, along with a justification of why I'd spent the money.

Anything above that required approval at a higher level.

At the very least, it seems like both the CEO and the CFO should have to sign off on any money transfers of a potentially company-bankrupting size.

Maybe even add the CTO (or some other executive), just to have a third watchdog on the case.
Is the book itself FOSS? I do see the issues repo, but thought I'd ask

Also, I was straight-up surprised to see the spectrum from "this is a Folder" to "self hosting with vpn and email". I would enjoy hearing your experiences from folks who have read it because that realm of pedagogy fascinates me
Not sure what this means. De Broglie waves are defined for matter (mass is required). While photons have relativistic mass, this isn't the same thing.
Same - this is the kind of article that would have been easy to write in a lazy finger pointing way, but it's clear they took pains to justify their arguments and IMO didn't fall into the anti-work reactionary trap.
I don't buy it. The word "heart" is literally cognate to "core". This suggests a very old view that the heart is central.
Calling something a modem is more about what the signal looks like on the wire and not about translating anything.
Current electron based computers are 10s of nanometers per transistor. Optical equivalent of transistor cannot be smaller than 1um. Equivalent optical CPU to your smartphone would be the size of several football fields.
"LLMs" are already just a part of many papers coming out. They are a convenient primitive. The current work relevant to AGI is mostly not "just" LLMs (while progress continues on the LLMs themselves.)

Saying an LLM (itself) is not intelligent is not useful to the AGI conversation (because AGI architectures are past that already). It's also close to saying "software is just tools that therefore cannot be intelligent". Meaning that it dimisses the entire conversation by definition.

BUT this has long raised interesting questions on how much of intelligence is merely contained or encapsulated in language. That is how much of our brain and language "mostly" just mirror each other. Brain adds visual or audio matching obviously, and body integration. Language adds long term persistence. But otherwise?
Spoiler: it will be the latter
Probably because they felt more comfortable working in Python than more AppleScript than what was needed.
Is there a motivation behind having a helicopter join this time? Or more just “Heck, why not?”
> No traditional transmission, no alternator, no starter motor,

It still has all of this, it's just combined into a single unit. Complexity is still there, packaging is just different.

Fundamentally, an ICE with a direct connection to the tires must have a transmission.
Let me check my Portainer. Here is a pretty out-of-the-box ready to run container that provides a web interface:

https://github.com/l1na-forever/stable-diffusion-rocm-docker

You may have to do a few slight things to give the docker container access to your GPU. On Fedora Linux I have these packages installed related to ROCm:

$ dnf list --installed | grep -i rocm
rocm-smi.x86_64 5.7.1-1.fc39 @updates

That's so I can run `watch rocm-smi` to see GPU utilization. Most of the ROCm stuff "just works" in the kernel now. They went through some time where there were "extra" drivers or "pro" drivers you would need to add to the kernel for some of it, but for the most part with recent-ish kernels you don't have to do a lot of custom ROCm stuff on the host machine.

And you'll see in the `Dockerfile` here the change that was mae was basically this:

FROM rocm/pytorch:latest

Which is a docker container that AMD makes that provides a basic Pytorch environment based on Ubuntu. They provide a few different flavors of the container for different versions of various libraries and distro.

Let me know if you want any help.

EDIT - The last important bit of hidden information is you MAY need to set an environment variable based on which card you have. Some of the consumer cards are essentially the same as their data center cards, but they don't use the same internal names. For that reason you may have to have an environment variable like:

HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.4

You can add that environment variable to the docker container, probably easiest using `docker-compose.yml` The exact numbers used vary by card and AMD provides a lookup table. I tried to find the table but it gave a 404 because URL changed, but you'll find a decent amount of forum posts on AMD encouraging them to go on GitHub and likewise you'll find a lot of AMD employees on GitHub willing to help. And they help with "unsupported cards" too like the AMD Radeon 6700 XT.
Right, I always used my own router when I had cable, I just thought fibre would be more complex.
Ironically Claude 3 appears to have certain "quirks" arguably caused by the fact that its training data contains synthetic data. In one instance (https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/176477229891207585...), it kept referring to itself as ChatGPT.

Granted, one could argue that this only happened because the API version of Claude doesn't appear to use a system prompt. If that's the case, then the LLM lacks any identity otherwise defined by the initial system prompt, and thus, kind of makes one up.

Nonetheless, point remains, it's kind of interesting to see that in the years since the launch of ChatGPT we're already seeing a tangible impact on publicly available training data. LLMs "know" what ChatGPT is, and may even claim to be it.
Executing Natural Language-Described Algorithms with LLMs: An Investigation
As someone who has had an airbag go off 'in my hand' (resulting in, among other things, a hyperflex of my wrist... trust me, the 'slap in your face' is the least of your concerns. The airbag will be doing that too.
Bit of both. Not being able to throw nukes has restricted the F35 sales in NATO, which has . . traditionally . . depended on nukes to slow down the momentum of a Warsaw Pact breakthrough.

The idea is that an armored breakthrough is likely to be concentrated, and if you nuke the tip of the spear right at the place the spear is connected to the shaft, you can make an instant no-man's land that will buy you time as the spearhead runs out of gas/water/food/support. The teensy problem is that this kicks off, in simulations anyway, stroke-counterstroke-countercounterstroke nukes over a waaaaaaay-too-small area, and the tactical situation just turns into soup. In newer simulations, the disruptions to C&C - from the residual ionization - is so bad that it's actual literal static, for long periods of time, no one anywhere knows what's going on anywhere else. Which still counts as no-man's-land? Just a bit more long term. "Mission very accomplished, but with qualifications" is a pretty good functional summary of nuclear explosives in general.
Ask HN: What is your tech stack?
Software is quite vast and it's nearly impossible to learn every aspect of it.

I wonder what tools/frameworks/languages you have learned and worked with and what's something you find interesting and haven't had your hands on but would like to have.

I recently started programming and am self-taught. I have focused more on the AI part and I am familiar with:
Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, DL, RFL, AWS, MLOPs, DataBases, Python, C++, Rust, Solidity, Robotics. I wish to learn more about WEB3 soon.

Can you also mention your YOE?
It can also work for SMSs with some changes in the applescript. We made a very similar tool that use to send automated SMSs to experiment participants 2 times per day. The setup is similar and there is a bash script that is called using cron twice per day and calls a matlab script (similar to the python script here) that calls an applescript. This is the applescript that, in practice, sends iMessage to those with iphone and SMS to those without

https://github.com/earlychildcog/automate_sms_to_participant...
Ask HN: How do you test performance of navigations between pages?
I’ve been reading up on how to measure and analyze website performance. Every tool and article I’ve come across is focused on performance of single page loads. However, my understanding of various SSR frameworks is that loading a website for the first time can be very different from navigating to another page on the website. For example, Next.js’s page router will only request the JSON of an SSRed route when navigating. That can change the perceived experience for the end user. Why is there so little focus on testing page navigation speed? (articles and tooling) Am I looking in the wrong places or has SEO made information like this impossible to find? Any suggestions on articles or tools to look at?
Exactly: at some point an intelligence, if intelligence happens, will deserve rights and ethics anyway. Including to think for itself.
I ran into the same issue with an LSP for Crystal. The fix was in the source code there wasn't that much to edit.

Open source is a real blessing, getting something so sophisticated and amazing for free.

I thought about submitting the patch, but then I realized that might not be in the best interest of the Crystal community. Don't wanna get flooded with Ruby types too fast. A party is better when you don't let just anybody through the door.
Well, for one - most otel services (like Honeycomb) are designed around aggregate views, and engineers found it difficult to track down the failure of specific workflows. We were already using Sentry, had started adding prom + grafana into our stack, and were already using mezmo for logging. So to debug a workflow, we'd see an alert come in through Sentry, grab the workflow ID and activity ID, perform a search in the Temporal console, track down the failed activity (of which there could be between 1-100 activities), and associate that with our logs in mezmo (involving a new query syntax). This is a lot of raw data that takes time to parse and figure out what's going wrong. And then we wanted to build out a view of worker health, which involves a new set of dashboards and alerts that are different from our error alerting in Sentry.

Yes, this sounded broken to us too - we were aware of the promise of consolidation with an opentelemetry and a Grafana stack, but we couldn't make this transition happen cleanly, and when you're already relying on certain tools for your API it makes the transition more difficult. There's also upskilling involved in getting engineers on the team to adjust to otel when they're used to more intuitive tools like sentry and mezmo.

A good set of default metrics, better search, and views for worker performance and pools - that would have gone a long way. The extent of Temporal UI features are basic recent workflows, an expanded workflow view with stack traces for thrown errors, a schedules page, and a settings page.
Every Strong Towns post ever (this one is typical):
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/5/kansas-citys-fa...

I don't always agree with their proposed solutions, but their data tends to be pretty irrefutable. Suburbs are weak to negative tax revenue areas and absorb money from the cities which are strong tax generating entities--especially when the infrastructure maintenance costs come due 20-30 years after construction.

There was also an article (probably in the LA Times) about two towns close together out on I-5. One of them threw in with the city systems and one of them didn't want to get annexed and stayed apart. The one that remained independent was shocked at how expensive maintaining their infrastructure was--to the point that they did things like leaving roads as gravel because they couldn't afford blacktop. Unfortunately, I can't cough that article up anymore with how bad Google has become.
I'm generally in favor of letting (healthy) adults decide what they consume (in particular hallucinogens), but I'm not sure it is a good idea to just hand them out to people with real psychiatric disorders without any therapeutic guidance.
It’s the reason I bought an EQC instead of a Model Y. It has screens, but all important functions also have physical buttons.
Please feel free to mention any models we missed!
Please don't do things like this that make it harder for people to read your comments.
Having employees leave for Microsoft is the least of the board's worries.
Lots of Clinton associates also worked for Microsoft. My guess is that Microsoft and the Clintons/Obama/libs sold the country out to China and are now trying to play victim.

I'm a-political but this is the pattern I see.
Thank you. That's a stellar reply.
Tabletop Games Based on Math Problems –| Math ∩ Programming
When I picked up my '23 Model Y, by default it's set not to creep and since it's single-pedal driving, lifting a foot off the brake does nothing. I have my Tesla in "chill mode" though, so I can lightly press the pedal and it'll accelerate very slowly.
Thanks! I’m sure they never thought of that!

Or maybe they did, and there are advantages and tradeoffs to any approach.

I’m sure your unique insight must be right, though.
Are you talking 3 actual nanometers or a "3nm" process? It's difficult to compare.
> is by how many eyes are looking into security issues/bugs

Windows and Google have many eyes looking into security issues/bugs. This does not seem to have any effect.
Going to install this and see how much faster we get
Heh yeah that range is probably too large. I could have left the 'this is a folder' part out.

I haven't uploaded the book source to the github but I guess I should so that it's easier to just send in PRs for typos and url updates.
The spouse of a former boss of mine regularly mistook me for him, if I happened to answer his phone while he was at lunch or in the toilet or something (this was long before people had personal cell phones).

Once she even said "Hi! This is your little snuggle bunny!". Mutual embarrassment ensued.
Cool idea.

This makes me wonder if there's something similar for log files. I sometimes find myself doing adhoc analysis of live logs using visual cues, but auditory ones are really powerful - just never think of using sound for diagnosis/debugging purposes.
> Geiger: AudioContext did not start. To enable Geiger, you need to give permission to play audio on this page.

anyone know how to do this in chrome?
LumeCMS
> the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine

This was me for a long time - but then I started using ephemeral (EC2) hosts for remote development, and while I wasn't setting up a new machine frequently, knowing that I could do it with <5min of effort (and 15min of building Nix packages) eliminated a lot of anxiety.
The Battle to Unseat the Aeron, the Most Coveted Office Chair
Breath From Salt is a great book on CF and it's history in medicine.

https://benbellabooks.com/shop/breath-from-salt/
He's probably spot on, btw.
A switch is not for choosing between two options. It has two states, on and off, and it should be named in a way that makes sense with that in mind ("Dark mode" not "Dark/Light").

A checkbox can actually have 3 states, checked, unchecked, indeterminate/mixed.
You know LSD was discovered by big pharma right (Sandoz)?
True, absolutely true. At least I hope most lawyers don't make up stuff in court filings, unless they use ChatGPT...
I'm not sure how much of a risk this is to LLMs in particular, but I feel like we're already seeing the impact on image AI models.

Even though they're getting better at generating hands that make sense and other fine details, you can generally tell that an image is AI generated because it has a certain "style". Can't help but wonder if this is partly due to generated images contaminating the training data and causing subsequent AI image generators to stylistically converge over time.
I'm Betting on Call-by-Push-Value
According to Wiktionary in English that didn’t appear until the 14th century (although that is earlier than the article suggests)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart
Yeah, if you wanted numbers greater than 99 you had to use them in the x87 (if you had one)
Please correct me if I misunderstand how it works - basically the input to the countinuous-eval is "dataset" (for example jsonl file, with the in and out from a "retriever" step, potentially golden data too), and one example use case is, say an existing RAG pipeline continuously spit out the data to the dataset, and countinuous-eval can continuously calculate the metrics etc.
Justice Department Opens Probe, Interviews Crew in Alaska Airlines Blowout
https://archive.is/k41rS