skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought for a while that what quantum computing will probably deliver is not going to be magical infinite processing power, but extremely fast, computational access to parameterizable physical processes. That is, a rock can simulate being a rock better than a computer can, but how do you hook it up to the rest of your system? But while I can imagine replacing a simple MCMC model, for example, with a stack of physics-based chips, is there a path all the way to designing, training and executing something LLM sized on top of that technology? I'm not smart enough to know, but as esoteric as it sounds, it feels like it's drawing on the less speculative end of the spectrum, and seems like a noble effort and not an actual scam.
They do, but it was clear being in a loop of ordering garbage and sending it back was not a good use of time.
> Does Rust do this kind of look-ahead inference a lot

Yes, but it's important to note that type inference in Rust is function-local. Furthermore, crucially, Rust requires types to be explicitly specified at function boundaries. Altogether this means that you (and the compiler) don't need to look farther than the function signature to figure out a given type.

This means that you can do stuff like this:

let mut foo = HashMap::new();
foo.insert("bar", true);

Despite the fact that HashMap is a generic type, nowhere do we need to specify that this particular instance has string keys and Boolean values, because the type of the map is inferred from its usage. In languages with only statement-local type inference, you'd need to specify the type of the elements at the point of construction.
Today is the 11150ᵗʰ of September 1993.
> Text summarisation routinely hallucinates

LLMs are trained to summarize text with extremely high accuracy. There is no confabulation of text summarized within the context window. Confabulation only occurs with facts recalled from outside of the context window, which is not a text summarization task. Same goes for human memory. Ironically you have hallucinated a "fact" about LLMs.
This is precisely why I will never take an IQ test.
When that metric is "performance in real workloads", I can't imagine it ever becoming irrelevant. Just look at their new tests:

> In particular, we added new tests that simulate rendering canvas and SVG charts (React Stockcharts, Chart.js, Perf Dashboard, and Observable Plot), code editing (CodeMirror), WYSIWYG editing (TipTap), and reading news sites (Next.js and Nuxt.js).

> We’ve also improved the TodoMVC tests: updating the code to adapt to the most common versions of the most popular frameworks based on data from the the HTTP Archive. The following frameworks and libraries are included: Angular, Backbone, jQuery, Lit, Preact, React, React+Redux, Svelte, and Vue; along with vanilla JavaScript implementations targeting ES5 and ES6, and a Web Components version. We also introduced more complex versions of these tests which are embedded into a bigger DOM tree with many complex CSS rules that more closely emulate the page weight and structure from popular webapps today.

Improving these benchmark results will at least partially make those libraries faster in the real world, and most likely also many additional libraries and workloads.
That's something I also want to build in the future, but for now focussing on the discovery part which I think is the bigger pain.
It's yonks since I read it, but IIRC Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker (1937) played with (alongside everything else) the idea of stars as life-forms themselves.

I'd strongly recommend it; it's very weird and obviously quite dated, but nothing else ever written even comes close for sheer ambition.
https://archive.ph/LTEqv
That’s not accurate. Firefox and all third party WebKit apps get the same JOT as Safari.
My very first thought about this format was that someone is definitely going to pervert it to be used as a graphics format, and for that it's woefully inadequate. I decided to hold my tongue since it's not the creators' fault that someone will misuse it, but I can totally see people adding optional ad hoc fields to nodes to allow for example all sorts of fancy line styles.
They say something about the speed of the browser, so it doesn't really make sense to ask extension developers about it, I don't think. Possibly that your extension might make the browser slower, so you could compare scores with and without the extension and see whether it negatively affects performance? (Although I'm not sure it can necessarily tell you anything about to what extent it affects performance, only that it does.)
Back in those days you'd check for activity using a logic probe, cheap and simple.

People don't use those much any more because we're spoilt with our cheap scopes
> Altman and his ilk believe they're the new Leonardo Da Vincis, but they're little more than petty kings and rent-seekers trying to steal the world's magic.

what’s sad is they don’t even compare themselves to historical patrons. Would we have Bernini without Borghese? Perhaps, perhaps not, but the genAI peddlers aren’t trying to grow artists and grow culture, they are trying only to grow content and sell it. It is a structure that is far less enriching for society than the patronage model.
Obviously I can't see the future, if I had to guess, the most valuable thing to do with this option to buy (is it a contract?) is to sell it before the IPO. If that is legal, then it could be lucrative for these early contributors.
I agree that city subs have basically been ruined by overbearing moderation, but ultimately it's a small part of Reddit. Go somewhere else for that. Plenty of other subs are doing fine or are thriving.
It's also the real problem with Bauhaus (and IKEA) - if you're going for cheap and fast, you're not going to stop at "cheap enough whilst still being durable, etc".

IKEA has some wonderful furniture that is cheap and fast, but cannot survive being moved. And Bauhaus has some cheap and fast buildings, but they cannot survive being unmaintained - which is often what happens to buildings that were built to be cheapest.
It looks like Puron (the replacement for Freon) is non-toxic (and non-flammable), but it also wouldn't be a liquid at any temperature you'd need cooling at. I'm guessing there are other chemicals which have vaporization temperatures in the 150-200 degree range, and are neither toxic nor flammable, but assuming ethanol works it has the advantage of being fairly easy to come by in a pinch.
If the work outpaces the resources, then more resources would be logical. What is holding back the hiring?
You can also use the DYNAMIC-EXTENT declaration to (in general) tell your implementation to stack-allocate a value.

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/d_dynami.htm#dynamic-extent
"Reddit has always been a for-profit business so arguably people should have known" is what I would say. Some people don't mind if their time is being profited from. I understand if some people do mind, but then they shouldn't be spending so much time on Reddit.
Makes sense, election season is around the corner.
why is this being downvoted? I was wondering the exact same thing.
Google is using them in prod. I think they're so hungry for chips internally that cloud isn't getting much support in selling them.
What Safari version are you using? For me, with 17.4, Safari is ahead of Chrome and Firefox, though it is close if you use dev channel.
They don't have a choice. FPGA's aren't like vanilla logic chips: they are highly proprietary both in terms of their specific hardware functionality as well as software tool chains and you can't second source them. Some of the larger customers are using them for government contracts (think military and space applications) where they are signing up products they are contractually on the hook for from years to decades.
Adding "before:2023" improves Google web searches
Speaking to some mods, old. doesn’t cut it for moderation, so there’s that other side to consider.

And I guess that matters more as 3rd party tools have been locked out.
So the stone was supposed to be boiled in milk right? And then applied to the wound? Since they mention cauterization as an alternative treatment, could the benefit come simply from applying a boiling-temperature stone to the wound?
>it's become apparent that these executives see users not as willing participants in some sort of fair exchange, but as veins of data to be exploitatively mined as many times as possible, given nothing in return other than access to a platform that may or may not work properly

it has become apparent? oh, this is someone having their "light bulb" moment. wait till they read about actual slavery in 2024!
Is this infinite canvas similar to QGraphicsView?

I've been looking for a good equivalent to QGraphicsView and HTML Canvas is not it (HTML Canvas is a raster image, QGraphicsView is a size-independent fixed-sized, scrollable canvas with indexed objects).
Yeah some of the italic text I assume is a direct quote from something biographical.
I don’t blame universities. There is too much written university should do this or that.

For me issue is that people want to be taught like in the story of Asimov they want some magic upload to the brain and no effort.

Where in reality university can only go so far with making knowledge available and fun… Because hard things will be hard regardless.
the chained hashes approach is an extremely elegant method, thank you for linking it.
Is this sarcasm? (Genuinely can't tell.)

And also, are you the real Eliezer?
Right, but expecting the same behaviour from "Firefox" on iOS as on desktop is just not going to happen, since they have no control over the core engine. It's why, in general using iOS devices for cross-browser testing is pretty useless.
TikTok is running a master class on acting as guilty as possible when faced with allegations of wrongdoing. First the spam the congress people push notification, then the comments about shutting it down being preferable to selling US biz, now we're at threats to stakeholders.

Wild.
And humans in cars are meat-boxes of stochastic behavior, prone to all kinds of dangerous regressions.

I feel safer, as a cyclist, around Waymos than I do around many human-driven cars. That's even with the cyclist crash last week: it was one of the most common kinds of bicycle-car collisions (bike moving through an intersection hidden behind a truck, hit by a car turning left), and I feel confident that the vehicle responded faster to the situation than a human would have.
It's really weird for me, because it was such a huge thing at the time, and I was there and never used it - even though my friend's connection to the Internet was through his mom's AOL account; it was just something you did and then minimized.
The article should really lead with:

> Let the scalability be a consequence of the success, not something that holds you back.

A large portion of my career was spent fighting the problems that come with "premature scalability."
Believe me, I'm not a tankie. I just watched the congressional hearing where a Republican senator repeatedly asked the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, if he had Chinese citizenship, if he was a member of the CCP, etc. etc. with Shou repeatedly saying that he's not Chinese, he's from Singapore. That's not measured concern about TikTok possibly being an arm of China's surveillance state, that's just being racist. The Republican half of the bipartisan support for legislating TikTok isn't from concern about dopamine-pushing algorithms and misinformation, it's just xenophobia.
Nice, thank you! I remember looking for a Anki app for ios, wonder if there are any good options nowadays and I'll use your cards :)
I was thinking, someone must've tried this before. Didn't know Google Reader was that someone.
I have strong feelings in the opposite direction.
https://simpleflying.com/why-passengers-must-put-phones-into...

> There is another reason sometimes cited too for the early introduction of mobile phone restrictions, and it is related to the potential impact on cellular ground equipment.

> A mobile device operating at an altitude, and moving at speed, can see multiple cell towers at the same time. This will block frequencies used by these towers, with much more activity than they were designed to handle from ground-based devices. In the US, the ban on electronic devices in flight was initially put in place by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), not the FAA, for this reason.

https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information

> The FCC and FAA ban cell phones for airborne use because its signals could interfere with critical aircraft instruments. Devices must be used in airplane mode or with the cellular connection disabled. You may use the WiFi connection on your device if the plane has an installed WiFi system and the airline allows its use.

You'll note the FCC in there. While the aircraft instrumentation is the most immediate "reason for people to do this" that people can identify, disrupting ground communications is also there. Unfortunately, people are not that likely to do it based on "you'll inconvenience people using the cell phone towers that you fly over."
Command-R: RAG at production scale
Command-R is a scalable generative model targeting RAG and Tool Use to enable production-scale AI for enterprise.
Intrigued to see how this plays out in the UK. Will they able to sell this feature? Will it be enabled?
Concurrency with rayon in Rust isn't pain, I'd say. It's basically hidden away from the user.
Probably Goodhart's law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

To my mind, it means that the metric becoming the main focus, it makes easy to forget the original relevant goal and even works against it. That is not the case here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
I stay at hotels all the time that don't do a cleaning on the first night. How could they possibly figure out the complex calculus of what to charge?

Oh right, averaging.
I really wanted to like WebAssembly but it's not what I expected it would be at all. It's far harder to use, and too far from writing desktop apps. I expect in a decade, scientific app developers and users will be complaining that nothing they built 10 years ago still works and can't be recovered without serious software re-architecture.
Let’s start the rumour mill on what HN spends on R&D.

How many people is dang really?
Look, the detectives on Law & Order regularly get the perp to confess to their crime with just a little unorthodox investigation or roughing them up in the interview room, if that's what it takes that's what it takes!

/s
https://archive.is/wu8e0
They share your data in order to help lower your insurance rates.

Imagine what your premium might be without this service.

For example, I drive less than 900 miles a year, have had no accidents, citations or thefts and keep my 10 year old car in a garage. Yet my payments are $1500 per year. And after getting estimates from several companies, this was the lowest we could find.

Even with this service, the inflation rate for auto insurance is higher than anything else in our family budget.

Thank the lord for data sharing.
Signed on just to say, like that Figma post garbage quickly moving off the main page... Forget AirBnB- These businesses lacked justification to begin with and followed the selfish whims of their boards. Abandon these paid dog food products and go out and build/support open replacements for them.
> some kind of “leather” that falls apart after a year

It's vinyl and it's awful. That fake leather degrades really fast if you expose it to the sun. Thrift stores especially end up with a lot of second-hand products made of it already shedding. I'm not a huge fan of leather, but at least it lasts almost forever.
Tbh, those are problems that you have to solve, somehow.
It is that already by default, without even trying. The beauty of how the mind works.
> That would be like saying that people who post classified ads in the newspaper should own the newspaper.

I don’t think this is fair. When you publish an ad in the paper you’re not also responsible for the moderation, ensuring the newspaper content is appealing, interesting, well organized, or building your own tools to make it so.

But on Reddit, prolific users and mods did all that only to get a gigantic finger that led to the blackout and the killing of all third party apps only to leave the dumpster fire of a client that the official one is.
https://pytorch.org/blog/high-performance-llama-2/
This is for TikTok EMPLOYEES. Not shareholders at large. Very misleading headline
Speedometer measures web app responsiveness. Roughly, it simulates a series of user operations on web apps built with various frameworks (as well as vanilla JS), and measures the time it takes to complete them and paint the results to the screen.

The score is a rescaled version of inverse time - if it goes up, that implies the browser can handle more user operations per second, or alternately, it takes fewer milliseconds to complete a user operation in a complex web app.
Wiki has a nice little series of pages with releases that placed 1st during at least one weekend in a year. The pages aren't well designed and have only a nav button at the very buttom (beyond even the references), but you can also just change the year in the URL manually. Anyhow, it's definitely not how you remember it.

2005 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2005_box_office_number...

2023 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2023_box_office_number...

Although of course you are right. 2005 was not a great year for Hollywood, though it had some decent movies like Sin City, and comedy still hadn't been banned yet (Meet the Fockers, 40 Year-Old Virgin) - so that was cool. But contrasted against 2023 (and the contemporary era in general), it makes it look like the Golden Era of Hollywood.
It's certainly an area with more depth than I anticipated when I first started getting into it. Adobe is still pretty much the only one that can get a PDF compliant with print standards.

As far as I know, there's no way to currently get colors adhering to print color profiles in CMYK out of browsers.

Indeed, if color correctness isn't mission critical, I can imagine that going with Paged.js can be a nice experience!

(Edit: in my experience so far, it's been really really hard to 'correct' colors from an existing PDF in a way that gets a satisfying end result---the colors are usually muted/washed out)
On the flip side, Hyatt has billions of dollars of equity in real estate (which appreciates in value while not technically generating a profit), while AirBnB has an online marketplace. Presumably that's part of the PE difference.
Why do you have to do all that, though?
It might get worse soon across all sites if governments mandate AI content moderation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669162
Sorry if I was a bit ambiguous. I was not referring to the gigabytes of memory or even the abundant number of libraries when I mentioned that it is easier to program Raspberry Pis. Those are certainly factors, though I doubt that many embedded projects will exploit that much memory. In cases where they do exploit the resources, it is probably needed (albeit, likely at the level of megabytes rather than gigabytes).

I actually meant the Pis are easier to program since development can be self-hosted. Uploading a program to a microcontroller after each build is a royal pain in the bottom. Debugging (with a debugger) is also annoying, both from the perspective of setting up the software and having the necessary hardware.

With respect to laziness, I hold two points of view. I definitely agree the inefficient of resources should be viewed in a negative way. This is especially true when a solution goes from bytes or kilobytes to megabytes or gigabytes. More critically, I believe that laziness is a negative when the inefficiencies lead to less robust code. On the other hand, one of the chief benefits of computers is to reduce the burden placed upon people. Setting up a toolchain for microcontrollers can be nearly as complex as developing code for the microcontroller itself. That strikes me as wrong.

Aside: I periodically write software for microcontrollers for fun. One of my favourite exercises involves prototyping with high level code, such as using Arduino libraries, and rewriting it using increasingly low level code. It is how I approach learning a microcontroller, but I am also extremely conscious of both volatile and non-volatile memory usage. I am definitely sympathetic with your notion of avoiding laziness.

On the other hand, we should also realize that microcontrollers are often used because we are "lazy". There are many cases where microcontrollers are used even when a basic circuit can accomplish the same task since it is cheaper to throw an absurd number of transistors at something than it is to pursue more efficient solutions. (Labour costs add to project costs, along with the number/type of components, board size, the relative ease of iterating code verses iterating on board revisions, etc..) There are reasons beyond the challenge of generating the most efficient solution possible to consider because the efficiency of development is also a factor. As someone who pursues software and hardware development as a hobby, I often bemoan the state of affairs of commercial products. Yet I also realize that commercial development, or even the motivations of other hobbiests, leads to different perspectives.
Does shorting constitute disparaging statements?
This is my take, I have zero respect for the concept of intellectual property and care not at all if people make money from piracy. I don't think Disney is going to notice the lost subscription revenue from 50,000 people.
Interesting that Google allows you to use third party keypass provider, but when logging back in only offers to use one built in to the android phone
Yes, but also Reddit is giving away free access to a site where anyone in the world can exchange ideas with each other.
ETH Zurich is using it for their physics sim courses, University of Utah is using it for simulations (SIGGRAPH 2022), OPPO (they make smart devices running Android), Kuaishou uses it for liquid and gas simulation on GPUs. Lots of GPU accelerated sim stuff.

https://www.taichi-lang.org/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337118128_Taichi_a_...

https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi
I'm wondering about the assumption that flags were "flown by many people almost all the time".

I believe the madder root can dye fabrics orange too [0,1,2]—I don't know anything about the chemical process, or whether this is what old orange flags (like the Dutch) actually used. But it does look like a more muted color; the deeper red/crimson is what you get from using more (?) of this dyestuff, and is more saturated and vibrant. Maybe your thesis is basically right: though many fabric colors were available, people gravitated towards the ones that produced the most vibrant, striking hues—i.e. favoring red over orange. At least for ostentatious purposes like state flags.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubia#/media/File:Naturally_dy... ("Skeins of yarn colored with dye from madder root, Rubia tinctorum")

[1] https://localcolordyes.com/2013/11/29/madder-the-inexhaustib... ("Madder the Inexhaustible Root–Part One: Orange")

[2] https://localcolordyes.com/2014/01/04/madder-the-inexhaustib... ("Madder the Inexhaustible Subject Matter")
This is the way. Just make sure the project is using a copyleft licence such as ODbL (as used by OSM) or GPL (as used by GNU/Linux and other software projects). Corporations will take as much as they can and give back as little as they can, as a rule.

Someone in the OSM community coined the term "crowd serfing" to describe stuff like contributing to Google Maps for free.
Reed-Solomon would allow you to lose any one of the three and recover. Losing two would be catastrophic.

AWS's guarantee is that you can lose two of the three copies and still have all the data. You can't do that without three complete copies.