skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla is a nonprofit organization, is it not?

> Nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, or government entities based in the EU that have been approved for a fee waiver are exempt from the Apple Developer Program annual membership fee and the Core Technology Fee.

https://developer.apple.com/support/web-distribution-eu/

https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-waiver/
Random Networks are not Random Functions
If you looked nationally at wealth vs proximity to traffic, I would wager the "people with the least amount of money" are not the closest to traffic; are you suggesting otherwise? If only because of all the wealth that has come to cities in the last 20-25 yrs. Within that already wealthy urban demo I would agree, yes, the poorer wealthy are nearer to urban highways and thoroughfare than the wealthier wealthy.
Of course BERT is an LM, I never claimed it wasn't. It is just much smaller than what is now termed "LLM" which is typically an extremely large generative decoder-only transformer for general multi-language (often instruction and chat tuned). I was training and finetuned dozens of LMs back when BERT-large was considered a GPU memory issue and I have finetuned hundreds LMs over my NLP research and engineering career. I have even implemented Hidden Markov Model LMs from scratch (as an exercise mostly, performance was mostly bad even in 2015).

When I used "specific task", I meant specialized, domain specific tasks like financial sentiment and event extraction in which I hold a PhD. As a matter of fact, for Fiqa SA finetuned Roberta scores 88% F1 while BloombergGPT scores 75% F1. [1] Still very impressive for zero/few shot learner, but depending on data availability, performance targets and inference cost tradeoffs, it might not need your meds.

My point was "small" masked encoder transformer LMs like BERT can still hold their own on narrow domain tasks. And what OP claims that all NLP is solved by prompting a general purpose LLM service is simply inaccurate.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12664.pdf
It's not quite the same thing. A model is just one part of a product. You can spin up a product with zero infra and calling APIs hosting models.
Tensorflow and keras have gotten better, but pytorch historically had better flexibility than keras and was much easier to debug/develop in than tensorflow.
Are you talking about the hold mode they introduced a couple years back? It will bring the car to a stop but (as compared to the previous mode where you had to press the break yourself below ~4-5 mph), but I'll be good money it's using the brakes to do so. Particularly when it's activated on an incline.
I had an 80386DX (or maybe i386DX, but DX for sure) and it definitely had no FPU. Always wanted one so badly.
My girlfriend only install the handful of apps she wants both on her Mac and her iPhone and doesn't go back to the app store. She just put things on auto update. Most people don't fiddle with their computing device. And if installation steps are confusing, she just asked me to do it. I guess that's why Microsoft are enabling so many things on Windows as most users won't enable them by themselves.
40 yrs of coding as well. It's a joy.
That's a really good way of stating what I believe. :-)

If C++ had memory safety next month then the next step would be to add stronger types. Once memory safety is a thing, you can start to add types that describe contracts and then you can ensure lots of interesting logical safety properties that aren't memory safety.
I'm interested in a performance comparison between Swift, C, Lua, Nim. The post says Swift is performant, but offers no data or reasoning to back up that claim. I'm sure it is, but it would help to see data.
heads up, we currently support ts/js, python, and rust pretty well + the common config filetypes like yaml and json

some languages are still experimental - C, C++, Java, Go, Scala, HTML, CSS

there were also some blips on OpenAI availability, they say things are back to normal now though
It wasn't. The downvote told me that here is the place to be careful about saying thank you. Well, those who downvote against thank you will downvote anything.
Those safety parachutes have been there for decades in private aircrafts and have already saved a lot of lives.
Indeed, another instance of presentism...
It's essentially just the boundary of the Mandelbrot set which makes sense as that's where the calculation is the most unstable.
So far it's been pretty "democratic" - I feel in no way disadvantaged because I can't train a foundation model myself. Actually the ecosystem is a lot better than 25 years ago - there are open source (or source available) versions of basically everything you'd want to participate in modern AI/ML.
If only there was a website I could use to contact other like minded people where they could vote on posts they like and discuss them in comment sections.

Oh, wait
> This is clearly false given the previous presidency. Russia's ability to project chaos and authoritarianism vastly exceeds our own.

How would one establish a necessarily accurate cause and effect relationship here, including some measure of magnitude (do you ever notice how we talk about such things as True/False binaries, accompanied by salicious language that implies massive quantity, without making any specific quantitative claim...and then if someone asks about the quantitative aspect, they're engaging in "semantics" or "pedantry")?

And, might the truth value of my speculative claim have bearing on your perception of things? For example: if there was no media coverage of "Russia's propaganda", would it have an effect on your perception of how much was going on? And yes, I do indeed know that the US (allegedly) caught them in the act at least once, but if you ever bothered to dig into the deeply nested "proofs" in popular news articles, you may have realized that most of those stories were based on metrics from Twitter that are easily spoofable.

> Additionally our rhetoric (rules based international order) is clearly false given that our observable stance is rules for our enemies but not our "allies".

Agree....but how many Americans believe that? And: have you ever come across any "news" from the government that may influence Americans one way or the other on the matter? Imagine how effective this could be if the US government was good at propaganda.

> Domestically we are divided and conquered.

Agree.

> We literally had an attempted coup

Despite what you may have been told, the intentions of the vast majority of the people of the people there is unknown. Thus, a simulation needs to step in, because on certain topics in the current era, it is not possible for most people to not "know", and those that discuss details with accuracy are being "pedantic".

"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

> Our economy is not powerful.

The US still has substantial manufacturing, but I am fairly in agreement with you here. Major incompetence, and an angry public is the consequence.

> Inflation is barely managed, and "greed"flation, which is inversely proportional to a markets competitive forces, is definitely un-managed.

100% agreement here!

> It's worth considering how much of an effect sanctions did not have.

I was surprised...but then from a geopolitical perspective, it shouldn't be surprising. Abuse other nations for decades, when the chips are down maybe they will take the opportunity for some payback. Good, I say.

> The Afghanistan exit wasn't exactly confidence building.

Agreed, and even worse was us being there in the first place.

> Half of our government is promising obstruction and isolationism.

And the other half tells better stories. They both tell wonderful, just so stories though....it's what the west runs on, we will settle for nothing less.

> The Nord Stream pipeline isn't something allies build.

Who do you think blew it up?

> America is imploding from the inside.

Good. Whenever a chance falls in my lap to give it a push to expedite the process, I will strongly consider it.
I blame Adobe for Flash dying much more than Apple. There's a lot of features that would have been hard to port (maybe Flash Player could have evolved into providing support for those and being optional for simpler content), but an HTML5 output that worked for 90% of 2D games and animations would have kept it relevant. Or at least funding Shumway while it was around if no one at Adobe was able to do it.

Instead they made a converter where you lost audio, video, scripting, effects, etc. It should have at least been able to convert a Homestar Runner cartoon.
oh snap guys, do you see what he did there in his parley? The way he took my point and pretended I was saying something else and that I really agreed with him. That technique so got me that he won!

This is most definitely the paragon that should be helping us decide which large swathe of people to fuck over.
> my broker? CFD gambling app

I don't think 'gambling app' is a fair description given it's a regulated security, any broker that truly offers CFD trading is (1) going to be legit; (2) going to be competing with the broker you were searching for for result space.

Of course to serve its users any app store should massively prioritise the word/brand (incl. typos) you actually search for though.
At this point, I'm about 80% sure that a lot of these scam apps are being approved by corrupted Apple review staff.

So many of them are blatantly scams that it's not credibly "human error".
if you're asking earnestly, one of the biggest reasons is that the would-be prosecutor relies on the cooperation of the police department to function. This article covers that and some more:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-still-so-rare-f...
What every first time founder should know about the first investor meeting
At this point Power Companies (ala PG&E, etc) should be investing in AI companies in a big way. THen they make money off the AI companies to build out power infra - and vice versa.

I am surprised we havent heard about private electrical grid built out by such companies.

Surely they all have some owned power generation, but then if they do, the local areas where they DO build out power plants - they should have to build capacity for the local area, mayhaps in exchange for the normal tax subsidies they seek for all these large capital projects.

Cant wait until we pods/clusters in orbit. With radioisotope batteries to power them along with the panels. (I wonder how close to a node a RI battery can be? Can each node have its own RI?) (sas they can produce upto "several KW" -- but I cant find a reliable source for max wattage of an RI...)

SpaceX should build an ISS module thats an AI DC cluster.

And have all the ISS technologies build its LLM there based on all the data they create?
"By the end of 2024, we’re aiming to continue to grow our infrastructure build-out that will include 350,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs as part of a portfolio that will feature compute power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s."
This AI game is getting into a GPU war. Heard that Meta is pushing a lot of CPU wordloads to GPU to co-locate with model inference for infra simplicity.
I feel sorry for Molly Wryn that her scenes were not included, I really do! But after watching this, I thank God that he gave Denis Villeneuve the wisdom not to include toddler Alia into his movie.
Never said it didn't. I'm saying that based on the description, the degree of disturbance is far outside of the realm of what I would consider common. This is regardless of cause.
> the control yokes got desynchronised from one another which isn't supposed to happen

No, that's precisely what's supposed to happen.
Same with PDF reader. A simple one that just let you read and annotate is something I guess no one is asking for. Everything has a premium plan that is a subscription.
Then what are the ads for? How do they benefit users?
I know someone who works on this in Meta. His resume is computer science heavy, with a masters in Machine Learning. On the previous experience side, before getting into Meta, he had about a decade working as a Software Engineer with Machine Learning system in multiple languages, such as Go, C++ and Python.

To get the job he applied for a spot I'm Software Engineer applied in Machine Learning, he went through the multiple step interview process, and then when he got the job he did a few weeks of training and interviewing teams. One of the teams in charge of optimizing ML code in Meta picked him up and now he works there.

Because of Meta's scale, optimizing code that saves a few ms or watts is a huge impact in the bottom line.

In sum:

- Get a formal education in the area
- Get work experience somewhere
- Apply for a big tech job in Software Engineer applied with ML
- Hope they hire you and have a spot in one of the teams in charge of optimizing stuff
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6203a8.htm

"In the United States, it is widely accepted that economically disadvantaged and minority populations share a disproportionate burden of air pollution exposure and risk (26,27). A growing body of evidence demonstrates that minority populations and persons of lower socioeconomic status experience higher residential exposure to traffic and traffic-related air pollution than nonminorities and persons of higher socioeconomic status (5,28–31). Two recent studies have confirmed that these racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities also exist on a national scale (32,33)."
Casino gambling is also regulated, there being some degree of oversight doesn't make it not gambling.
a question, is facebook on the google play store, which has the standard 30% cut? netflix? discord? just because the option is there doesnt mean every app is just going to up and leave, it just means they have a choice, and if apples curation is so great, the reputation of being on the app store will be a value add that may make it worth it to stay, even ignoring the fact that the app store is already just people's default way to find apps on their iphone.
The average population doesn't care about a solution to inflation. They will vote for quick hacks like price ceilings, which are especially popular in the form of rent control.

Also, whenever there is inflation, the average voter blames the most prominent politician currently in charge as if he was centrally planning the economy.

The current situation is an indirect expression of what voters believe about inflation. An inflation free currency would require paying for liquidity and god forbid paying for services you personally benefit from. That would be socialism, right?
Strange thing to say since CS is a sub-field of math.
It kind if sounds like they might be getting the house in order to a acquisition. Do you own stock?
Completely agree. I turned it off and realized I can absolutely fly writing code when copilot stops getting in the way. I only turn on for writing tests now.
> he dichotomy of how real world looks and functions and how it does according to the big corpos is astonishing and terrifying.

I don't know you, but I feel the same with less words. We're not alone.

"You don't need to embrace to understand"
I must not have phrased what I meant well. I agree with you completely.
Also docker compose before it became docker compose

https://orchardup.github.io/fig.sh/
Getting there, 38.
Entering the 'Door to Hell' Darvaza gas crater (2023)
Me as well, three years removed from retirement, still coding every day making art.
I feel worthless now :)
As a migraineur, just about the last thing I want to look at is migraine art. That said, none of the pieces shown in the article are particularly good visual representations of the scintillating scotoma that I experience.
That would definitely explain why they were so half-assed in their attempts to adapt to HTML5.
Never had a need to use Linux instead. I can run containers to test out software that will be deployed. It mostly works out of the box and I’m used to the OS.
You didn't answer his/her questions.
Yeah you're probably right about there not being any pressure. the 2.2M was a seed round. 2.2M is a lot for 3 people salaries for 3 years in my opinion
Why single vendor is the new proprietary
> I'll stick to the biologists, geneticists, and endocrinologists over a historian trying to sell books.

You make it look like there's a consensus between them.

It's unfortunate that Harari gets this bad press. I've read his books and listen to a bunch of his podcasts and he looks very open-minded and scientific based. I see myself disagreeing with him a lot of times, but I don't get mad at him because he tries to speak the language of science, which is good enough for me.
i mean... the app is still going to have to ask the OS for permission to use those features, which will then pass the question on to the user like it always has won't it?
The SWE-bench graph (Devin: 13.85%, Clause 2: 4.8%, GPT-4: 1.74%) looks surprising, perhaps even a bit suspicious (too far above the next best) — can someone elaborate further?

Perhaps it really is this good, perhaps it's just my anxiety looking for reason to doubt. It was only 9 hours ago I was writing:

> It's certainly still possible today that some random individual has a crucial insight that gives them an edge over the big names

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679669
You might want to familiarize yourself with the last 200 years of industrial evolution.

Spoiler: companies have been forced to do all sorts of things they really didn't want to do, and it often went fairly well for society at large.
BTW, why base pricing on r4 instances vs something more cost effective like r5?
I guess I'm of the opinion that most of the writing in Hollywood recently has been total crap.
It is known problem. May be most researched is "brake dust" in tube, where it is literally seen with naked eye. Other place where "brake dust" seen but nobody care, in airplanes, may be because airplane brakes are not just emit dust, but literally smoke :)
At my last company I built a Go tensorflow inference server.. it worked well
Why do you say the EC is fine with it? I bet you can't produce any statement from the EC even marginally supporting it. All you know is that Apple proposed something blatantly illegal, and then backed down from that plan.

It's impossible for the EC to have given Apple any kind of guarantees about it being fine to restrict PWAs to just Safari. That's just not how the process works.
It's not surprising that minorities would be exposed to more traffic given the proportion that live in urban areas, but that doesn't rule out that the poorest in the country (minorities and whites) are not the most exposed. I guess my basic question is, are the poorest people still living in city centers? In my city the central, densest areas became some of the wealthiest, the quieter outlying areas the poorest.
there's a reason people say things like "actions speak louder than words".

It's easy to say "safety is about tradeoffs" but then when you follow it up with an insistent that no tradeoffs should be made it kind of makes it seem like you're just saying that to appear reasonable rather than actually being reasonable.
There were mobile devices with large screens and web browsers doing "web apps" years before iPhone. I know because I worked on Gecko browsers for two different OSes on those form factors starting with Pocket PC in 2003-ish all the way through Windows Mobile 5 in 2007ish. We also got running on Maemo with big screen handheld devices in early 2004, collaborating directly with Nokia and that Linux-based OS team. A full Gecko browser worked on multiple big screen 3G mobile communicators doing ajax apps before Gmail invites were a thing, years before iPhone. Apple didn't pioneer here; they fast followed us and others. Heck, we were running Gecko on the iPaq 64MB devices in 2001 and third parties were distributing that in 2002. Not some WAP browser, not some brew joke, but Gecko, the same Gecko that was taking the web by storm with Firefox pre-release versions (and of course Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 6-7) the same Gecko plus DomI that inspired web apps and ajax to take off in the mid-2000s.Web apps were a thing in 2005 and so were mobile web apps. Joe Hewitt, a co-conspirator of mine on Firefox, who gave us both DOM Inspector and Firebug, was a web app master having built the entire Firefox UI out of XUL, CSS and JavaScript and Mozilla's and Netsape's UIs and themes before that. He wrote iUI, the first ajax framework explicitly for iPhones in the period before Jobs suckered everyone into the App Store and sunk those who'd invested substantially in the promise of web apps that Apple fully abandoned. iPhone was no surprise to us, nor Apple running a powerful browser as an app framework, as we and others had done the same thing with Gecko (Ever see the Mozilla Amazon Browser, an entire Amazon client written on top of Gecko back in 2002-2003 not much different than what we see so many Electron apps today. Multiple books were written on all of this. It's not a secret and yet everyone seems to insist that Apple was the first smartphone with a capable web browser and browser-based apps. They got it right where everyone before had failed in some way, but they were not the pioneers, they were the swift following colonizers that came to pave the cow paths that we and others laid down, only to abandon the suckers who believed they'd keep investing in the web on iOS, something that has only just started to happen in the last couple of years.
Not my experience outside of aspect ratio mis-matches. Flash content used a lot of vector art which scales fantastically. It not resizing is the developer's fault, not the technology's (which is common with Flash, it got blamed a lot for its misuse).
I have options. But an acquisition is usually preceded by a severe slowdown in hiring, if not an outright freeze.
The Loneliness of the Robotic Humanoid
Also from Schiller.. the open web is a direct threat to our cash cow.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/95...
How do you manage your (non-book) reading list?
I find a bunch of links on HN and Twitter which I would like to read later on. I've been using Instapaper for storing these links but I've noticed I don't get around to reading many of them. It's not because the topic doesn't interest me - it's more the form factor. For one, I always prefer reading on paper and hence my consumption of books is constant.

I'm curious to know what mechanisms people have figured out on HN to acrtively go through new content found online.
Speculative attacks are the result of not charging for liquidity. It's kind of like renting out an apartment for free. Why complain about squatters if you are letting them in for free? If you charged for liquidity all the squatters would be gone and you wouldn't be surprised by sudden changes in vacancy rates as squatters move to a different city.

But "logic" dictates that no such fee must be allowed to be charged. After all, think of all the poor poor people who would no longer be in debt, they might have to pay a miniscule portion of it! Can't have that.
I d describe mine as some kind of a stroboscope. I don't t know if there s any pattern: I d say is more like parallel lines blinking. If I have that, I know the migraine is coming.
All language carries inherent ambiguity. However, developments in American constitutional law aren’t really about that. The Constitution is very general and it uses terms that lack an objective meaning (for example, “Due Process” - what counts as “process”? What process is “due”?) It can’t really be implemented without bringing in a pile of philosophy and policy making.

At the same time, SCOTUS has been guilty of stretching its terms to include ideas that are clearly out of scope. (For example, the dubious invention of “substantive” due process - which all of the abortion stuff hinges on.)