skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:( this is a really cute post, fingers crossed it doesn’t get removed for this reason. Tho rules are rules.

EDIT: I vaguely remember “you can repost your own stuff within reason” tho perhaps? All I can find is this which I’d personally muse doesn’t exclude this post:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Ok I gotta get back to work, done nitpicking HN moderation policies that are out of my knowledge or control!
They do it because they are (generally) not as interested in the success of the company (or even themselves) as they are in the look of success for themselves. You are overestimating people here.
> Additionally, Broadcom killing VMware perpetual licensing has reportedly upended financials for numerous businesses. In a March “User Group Town Hall,” attendees complained about “price rises of 500 and 600 percent,” The Register reported. In February, ServetheHome reported that "smaller" managed service providers focusing on cloud services were reporting seeing the price of working with VMware increase tenfold. "They do not have the revenue nor ability to charge for that kind of price increase, especially this rapidly," ServeTheHome reported.

There is zero chance, none, nada, that I would consider building a critical business process on top of VMware today. I know what my budget is today. I don't want to have to ask my boss next year to either 10x it or shutter my project.
I like the idea, but not the execution. A public, excessively long company handbook filled with corporate jargon does not seem a helpful to me. Perhaps the saying should be: “This could have been a short email”.
MDF for structural anything? That seems surprising, it's really weak and prone to sagging, and quite heavy. It's about the last thing I'd want to hang on a wall.
RISC/CISC is near the top of the list of "things emphasized in education that bear little relevance in practice". RISC isn't so much a single coherent design idea as a collection of ideas, some of which have won out (more register files), and some of which haven't (avoid instructions that take multiple clock cycles). The architectures from the days the "debate" was more relevant that have had the most success are the ones which most thoroughly blurred the lines between classical RISC and CISC--namely, Arm and x86.

> I think there is another blurry line between superscalar and VLIW architecture, too.

No, the line is pretty damn sharp. The core idea behind VLIW is that having hardware doing dynamic scheduling (as superscalar does) is silly and the compiler should be responsible for statically scheduling all instructions. The only blur here is that both VLIW and superscalar envision having multiple execution units that can be simultaneously scheduled with work, but who is responsible for doing that scheduling is pretty distinct.
In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they are
Unlikely. Gzip and the like will do well with getting rid of the inherent redundancy of ascii coding but it's a general algorithm and can't take advantage of known structure.
Interesting. An R2000 did run programs faster than a 80386, right? This was a few years before my time.

From a quick google now, it looks like the R2000 was about 3x better than the 80386 at Dhrystone MIPS/MHz. I guess an accurate comparison of how the R2000 and 80386 spent they gate budget and what they got in return would involve a lot of detail.

I remember my compsci professor giving us the computer architecture course in about 1997, and he dispaired at how all the clever RISC stuff in the Patterson and Hennessey seemed irrelevant when Intel could just throw money at the implementation (and fab, I guess) and produce competitive chips despite their (allegedly) inferior architecture.
@why_at your comment and @throwup238's (thread name checks out) are IIRC the source of the debate. There is a porous surface area and tests/arguments of the type/size of the particle that can attach - perhaps they are inconclusive because there are lots of other things at play in the stomach and gut like biomes and various substances and surfaces and reactions. In my experience it worked and, based on my recollection I'm pretty sure in both scenarios above I would have been f*cked if not for the treatment.

I'm definitely open to the possibility that it might work differently on different people - we're not all clones.
The thing I like about the Xcursor image format is that it so extremely simple[0]. Every semi-competent developer should be able to implement a parser/writer for the format in under an hour.

But encoding the images with PNG does make sense, given the wide availability of libpng and the potential file size savings. I don't know how the feel about SVG support. One the one hand using vector graphics for cursors seems like a great idea but SVG is a very complex format, with the only real parser available being librsvg, which massively increases toolchain complexity. Too bad PostScript doesn't support transparency.

[0]:https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man3/Xcursor.3.xh...
Still very limited and frankly all a bit low level primitives. Unless you are a search expert, you won't be able to do much productive with this stuff. If you are, it might fit a few use cases. But then, why limit yourself to just this stuff?

The point of that of course being that the target audience for this stuff is actually people that for whatever reason are a bit shy using the right tools for the right job here and are probably lacking a lot of expertise. The intersection of people with the expertise that would be happy with this narrow subset of functionality is just not a lot of people.
Boeing cockpit seat switch mishap reportedly led to Latam flight incident
I tried to introduce it and it wasn’t very interesting to my son.

Now between Fortnite and 3D printing he’s doing alot of adjacent things and getting interested in a variety of computer topics including some coding.
It's on nixpkgs under name `gnome-frog` (for nix users)
Biometrics are never a good idea in general.

You can be court ordered/forced to put your thumb on the home button.

You can’t be forced to remember a password you “forgot” ;)
Elixir's formatting is one of the several things that annoys the hell out of me. I can't pull out an example at the moment, but it absolutely loves to move comments out of a block where they're relevant to the exact line, up several lines to where the block itself begins, losing a lot of the immediate context and forcing me to write something significantly more verbose.
You don’t need to make perfect predictions. There could actually be a lookup for a few common board states (say a couple million, to cover the first couple moves). Beyond that just use a simple scoring function, for example the value of your vs opponent pieces, whether any of your pieces (notably king) are in danger, whether u won, etc. This means u get better scores for the more likely winning moves, for capturing valuable pieces and for avoiding the loss of your own.

U could also play two or so turns of minimax, or perhaps use a neural network to evaluate the various reachable board states.

So for a given state, enumerate possible transitions, score the resulting states, and map to some sort of probability distribution, then use some prefix code (think Huffman tree[+]) based on the distribution of probabilities to encode the transition.

It’s perhaps not super fast, and not super accurate but if you can weed out the 50% of dumb moves, that already saves a bit.

[+] an easier and better approach is to map the probabilities into an interval between 0 and 1, and keep using fractional bits to „zoom in“ until one of the subintervals is uniquely defined, then recurse on that. Some of the common compression algorithms uses that (but I don’t remember the specifics, those intro courses were a long time ago).
I'm arguing for a higher bar. A programming language doesn't need a style czar proposing what is and is not idiomatic. The grammar of the programming language already does that, and we need to trust people to do engineering and decide for themselves how to use that grammar.
> it looks like the main crime in such cases is the failure/crash itself not the cheating/scamming/etc. before it

The stealing caused the crash.
I've got to disagree on the banking consolidation. In 1986, I got accounts with MegaBank and Colorado National Bank. By 2000, CNB was part of US Bank and they became so bound by policy that the tellers could do nothing. MegaBank got bought and bought again and ended up as part of BBVA, which got busted for ordering customer transactions to maximize overdraft fees.

I am now a dedicated credit union customer.
Downshift – decelerator program for high performers in transition
An 8-week guided experience for high performers in transition to slow down, reflect, and realign, all within a supportive community.
Sounds like you are dismissing Ollama as a "toy".

Refer:

https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Has Uber or Lyft considered forcing drivers to bake fresh bread in their cars in order to skirt wage laws?

https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-panera-fast-foo...
I see the Vision Pro more like the Apple Lisa.

The original Apple Lisa, which cost $9,995 in 1983, would cost approximately $27,905 in today's dollars, adjusting for inflation over the period up to 2023.

So the VisionPro seems downright cheap.
This echoes my thoughts exactly. Right now, we're actually more limited by the JS UI so a couple 100 MBs is the most you can do in a browser otherwise the UI becomes really slow. There's a lot of room for improvement - we're using React and that's causing a bunch of un-needed re-renders right now that we don't need. We probably need to create our own DAG based task management system and use Canvas to render everything - with all that, workflows on much larger files will hopefully become usable.
Sheng Liang's Acorn Labs Drops Its Runtime for GPTScript
Not really. Apple had to build out the system of entitlements and new APIs for the EU but the segregation goes through the App Store and Developer Program which run on policy, not code. It’s not that the EU version of Firefox wouldn’t work on my American iPhone with its American Apple ID, Apple just won’t let Mozilla distribute it to me.

There shouldn’t be a problem under the law though. EU laws apply to the EU’s jurisdiction, the EC would have no leg to stand on in telling Apple they have to make all the same changes worldwide just to make Mozilla’s life easier.
Teach Technology to Kids Through Storytelling
I embarked on this experience of dedicating my some of time to children, totally free of charge. I believe that we must give back our fortune somehow. This is my way.
It already happened to Apple in the 90s and Jobs explicitly killed it as a strategy and culture in Apple.

I think if they went back to that they’ve lost a serious bit of their DNA.

You mentioned Mac only having a 20% market share. Who has the bigger one?
You should look at CocroachDB: it tries to be PG compatible (not there yet), but true HA-first.
Wrote a post on multimodal LLMs (GPT-4V, Gemini Ultra, Claude3 Opus) attempting the puzzles at https://hiresynth.ai/blog/googleio_puzzle_multimodal_eval.ht.... Seems very easy for humans, far harder for LLMs currently
The crackdown on all the spaces after the Ghostship fire basically obliterated it. Says something about the civic culture in the US that they chose to just wipe those spaces out instead of just making sure they were safe.
Great ideas in theoretical computer science
> carefully-maintained codebases where someone sweated over every semicolon

this is not a thing that has ever existed. what on earth are you talking about.
I had a friend get Google Glass. I tried in on for a few minutes and was pretty disappointed. It was a tiny Android window stuck in the upper right of my FOV. Looking at the hardware, I guess it makes sense, but it’s not what the marketing seemed to be selling, and I expected a more custom UI that would get out of the way, rather than what looked like a tiny phone screen.

It wasn’t mine, so maybe there was more to it that I didn’t get from my brief interaction, but it didn’t leave me wanting more.
Surprised that Wayland would go the route of entirely deferring to the client for cursor rendering instead of providing a default implementation and exposing an api which client can use to assume control.
> Design review? "Let's get some Staff engineers in the room". Promotions? "Senior Staff decide". At some moment there was almost a totally silly situation when a redesign for a widely-used internal system was going to happen without engineers who wrote and maintained it - just because those engineers never bothered to chase the titles.

At my company, Staffs were making promo feedback on people they've never interacted with. When asked about Jeff, they just reported, "I haven't seen Jeff's work".

The reason why the staff never interacted with Jeff was because they were both working on different things for many months. For their paths to cross, the staff would have had to be on-call for services Jeff was neck deep in.

But the director took the staff's feedback to Intuit that Jeff is not building relationships at his level. Stack ranked, pipped and fired Jeff who single handedly kept a service alive.

When one sees organizational dysfunction such as this, you start losing faith in corporate structures and management. The work environment just becomes a shithole of confusion. Dysfunctional structures and poor management practices are so pervasive in American tech industry it's a case study of it's own.
If anyone attempts to whistleblow on the fraud that the banks have allowed for years as shown in the FinCEN files, then you will find yourself in a prison cell for exposing it. [0]

[0] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/fincen-file...
Eh, I've been building native code for decades and hit quite a few roadblocks trying to get llama.cpp building with cuda support on my Ubuntu box. Library version issues and such. Ended up down a rabbit hole related to codenames for the various Nvidia architectures... It's a project on hold for now.

Weirdly, the Python bindings built without issue with pip.
I'm not the person you're asking, but we used Elixir professionally at work - still do, I guess, since it's still running - but we're moving off of it.

The biggest problem is that for the most part it's a pretty and a pretty cool language - but it doesn't have a huge community you can hire out of. So if all of your Elixir experts leave, and you're faced with a problem you cannot solve, it becomes significantly harder to figure out what the correct solution is. And for us, especially, using Elixir didn't give us any huge benefits that other languages couldn't also provide.

So you don't need to convince the bossman that Elixir is the correct language to use; you need to convince the bossman that it's a solution that will still be maintainable when you and several of your coworkers who wrote the thing leave for greener pastures.
Well, you hope you don't feel anything... Are they using propofol alone? Has more research been done on how good of a painkiller it is vs a memory eraser?
This is the end result of these kinds of laws. Now, thousands of people are out of work.
Trevor Dickinson: "In our Amiga sphere things are looking much brighter"
VIIII indeed.
Given how snide and ignorant the parent was being, I actually think their response was entirely warranted. You better not be insecure about your own credentials if you've got the balls to question someone else's authority on engineering. Turnabout is fair play.
going to go through the process of getting this running on CNVRS. Would love if someone could make some GGufs.

or really any of the current testflight localllama projects.

This is really what I am looking for.

Small specific models that run perfect on my phone,
> Pay for quality. It saves you money in the long run.

Unlikely. Our sofa is like $300. Let's say it only lasts 3 years before it shows wear or we get bored of it and get another $300 one... your $5k sofa would have to last for 50 years to 'save money'. Not to mention the opportunity cost of those funds.

Pay for quality if you want quality, not in an attempt to save money.
> My friend had a NEW Ford that went to the workshop more than 10 times in the first year of use.

I daily drive a 96 Toyota. My son's dd is a 63 Dart. Just picked up a 92 Buick with 35k.
The front pocket bifold I carry has room for several hundred dollars in cash, and at least 8 credit card sized objects (and could easily hold 2 or 3x that if you didn't mind stacking the less frequently used ones, not counting my ID. How much are these people carrying?
Swedish phonebooks were definitely opt out for both mobile and land line.
That's pretty much what it is, as you stated it. Finding abstractions that let you encode your observational history more efficiently than you previously could, or "discovering truths", if you want to be all mystical about it.
What a strange view to call this an "absurd time and place to be alive" and that the "country is imploding". Lots here needs sources as it's hard to verify or taken out of context.

> Land acknowledgements... Everywhere

No they're not. They're heavily used within the government but in the private sector I have never experienced anyone doing a land acknowledgement.

> My wife works for a government organization, and even their internal emails have land acknowledgements in them. She has to take 1-2 days of DEI training per month.

Since I also have a partner working for a government organization and they don't have to do anything even remotely close to "1-2 days of DEI training per month" so this doesn't seem to be universally true.

> The courts now use the term "person with a vagina" to refer to women

Are you referring to the couple of times the supreme court has used that term? At least one of which dealt with sexual assault. You make it sound like courts universally use that term - that is false.
I don't even know what you are trying to say. All I said was that if you lean on garbage collection, julia is not going to be the same as C++ because it will pause and hiccup. Everything else you hallucinated into half a dozen splintered arguments.

Julia has parallel for loops out of the box

Every major C++ compiler has openmp built in. Julia is great but I think you should study up on C++ if you want to compare them.
'It's still hard to just be': how workaholism can leave lifelong scars
Observation: "expertise" (hence "reflex") is the learning of the nonlinear solution space that can be inferred from initial conditions.

Conjecture: models which engage in self-training on the solutions they derive will get to something that looks a bit like bootstrapping when you squint.

Lemma: there's a nice opportunity for cloud-hosted model SaaS to offer discounts for actionable feedback on the quality of their output, so as to drive this retraining.

Idle comment: I'd use the language of REM sleep and the idea of "memory consolidation" for this.

Most of the premises of model training can be extended to the level of reasoned solutions, rather than tokens.
This ruling helps eliminate incentives that prevented innovation in agent services. There was zero need to innovate because Realtor controlled the entire market and nobody wanted to give up the cash cow, even though the only people it was really good for was agents.

> I'm also troubled by what the Wall Street Journal claims is that this might push a lot of young realtors out of the career field. That can't be seen as a positive outcome.

I guess that's one way to look at it. This was a service that provided very little value to the people needing the service but there was not really a feasible alternative. Sure some young people who find success in the field may no longer be able to but we shouldn't prop up nefarious businesses just to keep jobs going. Rather, what should be more likely to happen now is that young people will be able to move into this space and start out innovating the old practices, carve out a more impactful and scalable business model for themselves, and still do very well.

> Overall, I'm still unclear exactly how this is going to help anyone. Especially for the overwhelming majority of buyers and sellers who DON'T want to be their own agent, and want to hire the best realtor to do it for them. I remember when this first came out and lots of people on HN said I'll just be my own agent. Well, that's fine, but that's not an option for most people.

This option will almost certainly still be available and will now cost less. If you ever want to hear someone spout of a truckload of B.S., just ask an agent why a 3% commission is justified on either end of the transaction. The value simply isn't there and it's a huge benefit that this initial hurdle has been toppled.
Few free speech advocates ever seem to lead with the crux of not-actually-Voltaire's "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" by defending the kinds of speech people actually disapprove of.
Hear me out: what if we reversed the various societal changes made since the Reagan era so people make enough money to afford the things they need and want like every generation before mine did, instead of just normalizing this notion that you need to eat shit for years on end so you can have the privilege of nice things?

And that would have knock on effects for huge societal issues like climate change. Imagine how much cheap shit wouldn't need to be made if so many people weren't deliberately kept on the edge of poverty so as to foster consumption practices that make stock prices go up?
> We all know this from software development: it’s a lot easier to say “couldn’t reproduce” about a genuine bug than it is to track down the precise context in which the bug actually manifests.

If a study claims to prove something, it should be repeatedly provable or it's a) fraud or b) not proven solidly enough.

I think replication is a key component of a functional research.
I agree. It felt a bit like I was being hurried through something without a clear reason why. What's the rush? Why so aggressive? The product is all about engagement, retention, adoption... And their demo is yelling something else at me.

I also felt like the beat should sync with things a bit better but didn't feel a groove happening with the visuals. There was some coordination, but not enough to really click with the beat and make it feel like the visual/audio movement was congruent. Maybe that contributed to how harsh it feels.
What else even uses Wayland? Sway?
The core tech patents have expired. They did have some interesting ones around hardware implementations, iirc.

Overall the chilling effect was interesting - I found that many people doing academic work around compression didn't really know much about it, didn't teach it, just because it was a mess.

The core idea is elegant, and easily implemented.
Agreed. However, IMO Go's designers have good taste. That's hard to quantify but you know it when you see it and I see it in Go. Not so much in most other languages. Again, IMO.