skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a German I use browsers in English because when I have to google things it's much easier and you don't need to translate back and forth in your head. Also I prefer technical documentation such as on Microsoft's developer pages or AWS in English. It's just so much easier with the lingua franca.

It's true that in the past there were much more German words in "IT" starting with EDV (Elektronische Datenverarbeitung, essentially that is IT). Favorites are "Datensichtgerät" (Monitor) with companies like Siemens (Nixdorf) or NCR that actually built Datenverarbeitungsgeräte.
Swiftly followed by: living in a region known for home invaders shooting victims on sight.
As someone who is about to launch my SAAS, what are some of the things you look for, as someone with purchase authority?

What are the positives or negatives you see when dealing with vendors (i.e. what makes you lean towards or against dealing with a vendor)? I'm trying to figure out how I can make the process as easy as possible for exactly people in your position.
nope you’re not getting old and cranky, i’m 21 and feel the exact same way. the number one reason i avoid theatres nowadays is the extremely poor behavior in theatres. it feels like i am in a classroom sometimes. if i’m paying $20-30 with concessions just for myself i want a silent, phoneless, smartwatchless, experience and that is becoming increasingly impossible outside of my home.
If there is an always-on baseband processor that loads a binary blob or like the Pi, where the GPU actually manages the initialization and running the ARM CPU, then it's a no from me... without open source bootloaders we'll still be subject to the tender mercies of Qualcomm.
Much of the hype around "AI" is based on it allowing a cost-driven race to the bottom. Some fraction of AI will be used for genuinely better products. Much of it will be used to provide a merely tolerable product with nearly zero marginal cost of producing and supplying it. Rather like software in general, actually.
Because these tech journalists have no actual credentials and are borderline tech illiterate.
No. Usually you learn this stuff by doing it at a smaller scale elsewhere.
It's fascinating how people who appear to be so smart are so very confused by systemic causes of criminality. The bullet is a bandage. It does not cure the illness. And even then murder for something so insignificant is beyond reprehensible.
Or Performance per Dollar?
I tend to be sympathetic to the alliterative title’s implied meaning, but this piece is rambling.
A Potentially Hazardous Cat Puts a Japanese City on Alert
https://archive.ph/l3a8a
The problem of using basic Prometheus to monitor DNS query results
He did teach us that nothing will change because we don't want it to. I think that, at least, is significant.
Up Phone: LibertOS Phone Made in Israel by Former BlackWater CEO
Why it's good: you won't get a sudden slowdown if postgresql for some reason changes its plan to something much less performant.
> LLMs are a legit tech that have some purpose, but LLMs will never evolve into anything remotely resembling the actual definition of AI.

It doesn't need to satisfy some definition of AGI to be useful to big tech.

AI just needs to make workers more efficient so companies can either cut costs (fire people) or produce more with the same workforce.
> ...power services that Mozilla hopes will be more useful.

Hmm, more likely to end up as another C-level bonus/salary bump.
With all the recent improvements to compilation speed (nightly, cranelift, mold-linker), Rust has become much more pleasant. Trivial and incremental changes to a medium sized crate like rust-analyzer (~200k loc) takes around 2.5s and a small Axum project takes around 0.5s.

These are my very subjective hobby benchmarks running archlinux on an AMD 9 7940HS.

Of course the initial build or the release build take much longer, but it makes me hopeful for the future.
U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales
> Really? What about those that can do more sophisticated data manipulation?

They win. They are rewarded with the power to control governments and whole populations, they are feted by the media and they accumulate an army of staunch defenders who Believe The Science. When the true believers find their way onto juries or into the courts, they are able to destroy their opponents lives (see the recent case of Mann vs Steyn, which will certainly be very encouraging and helpful for Gino in her quest to bankrupt her critics).
https://archive.ph/ntjdU
That's certainly true. In the case of dinosaurs though, there was probably a lot of evidence going back a long way that might have led someone to reasonably conclude "This is a fossil of a turkey, not a lizard." (Obviously a lot more than just looking at a fossil but, as I understand it, the rethinking of dinosaurs wasn't driven solely by new evidence.)

I also read the original comment more in the vein of: "Just because something thee the scientific consensus today, doesn't make it necessarily correct." (Though of course some things are more unlikely than others to radically change.)
Dark matter is an observation, that several independent phenomena give the same estimation of baryonic matter mass, which is roughly 5 times higher than estimations of visible matter.
Does the article explain or even enumerate all of them?
At a glance, it is just a ‘quantum’ justification for MOND, which only deals with galaxy rotation curves.
Just the field of physics is so large that most would probably not dare to state criticism in other sub fields. Like a Nobel prize winner in solid state physics would never judge the work of a high energy particle physicist and vice versa.

Hossenfelder is definitely qualified to talk about the OP, but her videos about transgender people shouldn't be given more credit than videos from almost any other person.
Yes, Windows 11 runs natively on ARM. There is ARM native versions of MS Edge, Office, Visual Studio. Most software from 3rd parties is still x86/x64 based but some things like Firefox are available for ARM.

They do have their own translation layers for both x86 and x64 based apps. It's "slower" than Rosetta 2 but it's just commodity ARM hardware with no accommodations for certain x64 instructions like Apple Silicon. I've been mostly impressed by it.
EagleX 7B with 1.7T tokens beats llama2 7B (2T tokens) on English evals
HN is great but it's only illusory that it has smarter people than Reddit. We're all just people rising to our incompetence to the limit the system allows.
I don't think there's a contradiction between being something that just generates text and being something that does have thought processes and intention.
I use the Mozilla location services to have my Linux desktops and laptops automatically figure out where they are in order to properly apply blue-light filtering at night. How might one be able to integrate either the aforementioned Apple or Google services into the system to provide the appropriate location data? Or would it instead require the purchase of separate GPS units for these computers in order to have them know just where they are?

Dismissal of Mozilla being forced to bring down an essential service like this because the concerned post has some FUD in it, and that proprietary alternatives exist so what's the worry, is frankly disgusting. Especially when it's done via the blatantly immortal (but technically legal!) abuse of the legal system like this.
Surgeon who burnt his initials on a patient's liver
I am very aware how optogenetics works, I wasted some part of my live getting channelrhodopsins into cells to trigger neurons.

Yes you are right one would probably use transient gene therapy tho make a modification like that, but
transcranial methods are afaik for human adults less suitable since the structures lying above the stuff you usually want to stimulate are simply too thick, so a hypothetical sleep replacement machine would probably need to be an implant. That is unless you can use self-refocusing lasers or holograms for stimulation, but I do not see how one would do this unless you replace most of the skull with glass.

The point with Musk was a joke more or less.

Though it’s true that he is probably the only person both morally ambiguous enough to even try to build a dystopian sleep replacement machine and capable of getting funding for it.

Maybe a Reddit account is a good idea.
I wonder what type of applications we use daily makes use of multiple cores?
Those are naive arguments. Most people need employment, and most people want to get better wages by climbing the ladder.

Get it in writting? When in the history of the mankind it ever happened? Not to anyone I know, and I would never make such promises as well. Promotion depends on a lot of things, and promising something like that in writing is stupid.

And once you're tagged as someone who might be leaving, some employers really may prefer no to invest in you. Why should they? You might leave.

The whole argument of "the risk of training and they staying" depends entirely on how you gauge risk. In this case, if you have positive evidence that they are unhappy, then you know that the risk of leaving higher than staying.
Rationally...I don't find that that is implied. China is doing that rationally from a completely self interested, in the animal sense, way. The point of freedom is freedom, it's an end unto itself, if people are fooled or liable to control given such freedom, let them be. Control hardly ever "works" (in the ultimate sense), maybe in children, but we're not talking about children. Children also grow old.
And yet the worse material conditions within a country are, the more it is filled with criminals.

Naturally, desperate ppl act in desperate ways.

In Republics where there is a valid class compromise, or where there is class domination by the working class, you don't see all those violent issues.
Turning wi-fi off on android devices does not stop it from being used for location services.
You always dream. That's the thing. Unless something is seriously wrong you dream every night. You might not want to remember them but you'll dream all the same.
> So Qualcomm is onto something here.

Yeah. Using 12 cores to get 16% more performance than an 8-core processor gets.
blog post: https://substack.recursal.ai/p/eaglex-17t-soaring-past-llama...
It's an interesting hack, but nothing in there is actually harmful. Lately some in journalists seem to be overusing the word 'harm' without understanding what it actually means.
Last time I dug into this, the conclusion seemed to be that Windows' translation layer, built in cooperation with Qualcom themselves, is actually quite competitive. Performance numbers weren't that far off from Rosetta for desktop applications, with an estimated performance 0-15% lower than Rosetta, which is quite low for a platform without x64 memory model optimisations.

The first release could only do one architecture (32 bit or 64 bit, I'm not sure) but its capabilities have been expanded. A lot of benchmarks are outdated and it seems like nobody has been paying much attention to it in a while now.

The biggest problem with Windows on ARM doesn't seem to he the binary translation, but the slow SoCs the translation is running on.

The most important tools (browsers, Office) work fine on ARM without translation. The translation layer is necessary, but I'm not sure if common use cases will see all that much use for most people.
Ctrl+F "dot matrix". Not found.

How do printers manage to stick dots into paper? Is it similar to any of the ideas in the article?
That ups "invented the first mouse" to at least three different inventors.
Could be! Most SaaS tools I can think of cover some specific work flow in a way that it kinda works for 80% of the customers. Their UI is quite an intrinsic part of the offering, an API-only version of it wouldn't be as valuable. But if nobody has to put up with only getting 80% of their needs met, why would they? I'd imagine we'd have a few very general purpose systems that can indeed be glued together in a largely automated fashion. But getting the business processes into them in a meaningful way would then be the hard part, the programming.

I can encourage everyone to read good old "Domain Driven Design", there's a world of interesting problems and work out there beyond the purely technical side of things. And I think that part is a lot more difficult to automate than creating a WordPress site from a .psd.
Please indicate your sarcasm for I fear parent might take you literally
Wonderful news.

Real estate agent fees are ludicrous for the amount of work they do.

Efficient markets are better markets.
you can make the popcorn yourself at home easily with butter flavor coconut oil and flavocol seasoning
My script is calling `https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=geocl...`. That's the service linked in the announcement. I assumed they would should down everything.
It would be great to see the world populated by un-guarded AI's, then see if they develop their own rules of behavior. Do they develop their own 'law's so the virtual world would survive and thrive. Norms like, if everyone robs the bank, then the whole community is hurt including every individual AI.

So the reward function of each individual AI might lead it to form behaviors for group rules. Another 'emergent' property, laws.
There’s no evidence to most of what you’re saying, even if there was it wouldn’t matter because nearly the entire US has stand your ground laws.

I think the only thing you’ve said that’s correct is the increase in homicide, but don’t forget a homeowner killing a home invader is technically considered homicide, and the RAND study pointed that out. There’s no evidence of any statistically significant increase of criminal activity.

I for one wouldn’t want to live in a place where my first thought if someone breaks in is to avoid them and hope everyone else in my house can find an exit, home break ins are super rare but why would I take the chance.
Can you summarize the concerns addressed in that video, or is there a text source?
The reason LLM exists at all is that there is a big corpus of text that have the same standard rules with minimum deviation , a limited dictionary in comparison and a even more limited sets of concepts and words that are generally used inside a given timeframe/domain.

No one has bothered writing a formal description of day to day interactions inside a small town.
Seller’s agent sure. Buyer’s agent no so much. So far I have yet to find a buyer’s agent that is worth the price they are charging.

Happy to pay them a few $100 for offer writing.

But most have little ideas about neighborhoods, builds etc. you have to do soooooo much of your own diligence.
What actually happens is that criminals only enter a residence when they are sure no one is at home. You can compare rates between Britain and USA of 'thieves entering house while occupied'. From memory USA is 10% and Britain is over 50%.
Yes, the field of FP is much more, but the core of FP is that. A language doesn't become non-FP simply because it has some imperative abilities, or logic programming builtin, etc.
Change in the firmament of free ideas and free association, surely that's better than the alternative
Phones have more mass appeal which I think attributes to the larger initial numbers. It doesn't change that the original iPhone was not great in a lot of ways. I had one - 2.5g was slow, the screen was small, and it was missing basic features. But it catalyzed what the future was going to look like.
All NIH funded research is freely open access by law.

In this case it seems the authors didn’t pay the (crazy expensive) Nature open access fee. They will have to upload a free PDF to PubMed manually, but have up to a year to do so, and don’t seem to have done it yet.
> Mozilla is funded by Google

You aren't saying it, but it is implied or can easily misread as such. But Google is not directly funding Mozilla.

Mozilla gets its funds from many places, and one of them is Google; paying for being the default search engine. It's by far the largest amount. But not the only, nor a direct funding.
Same here. I love the creativity (and am impressed by it) it takes to invent new German words for things, even though I agree that it is impractical for the reason you pointed out.

Sadly, terms like "Klapprechner" for "laptop" or "Verklemmung" for "deadlock" never caught on.
The most recent consensus is that T. Rex probably wasn’t covered in feathers.

Based on an analysis of skin impressions and the likelihood that feathers would have caused such a large animal to overheat in the climate they lived in.
That is such a helpful insight.

I'm always on the lookout for new ways to think about how we process the world, just curious if you're aware of this distinction appearing in something like poetry / music?
That was a quick escalation to Hitler - just goes to prove Godwin's law! :)

I didn't realize the subtractive style really dates to the middle ages, but that certainly seems consistent with the coins - I checked a bunch more and none seem to use it.
Is "supply and demand" a reasonable answer?
Correct. Everything QCOM has been demoing has been at two power points: 23W and 80W. These tests look remarkable but the real test's going to be out in the field when they're power-throttled to nothing and back in hardware designs trying to cut every cost they can, including their power budget.

It's great they made a Hemi engine, but it's not going to fit in the Smart car that companies want to put it in.
> What is the underlying theory?

Who cares? This has literally never been a requirement of science and I don't know why people bring it up for MOND. What was Isaac's Newton's underlying theory when he proposed his law of gravitation? No explanation for why two masses attract, therefore we should reject an effective description? That's nonsense.

A theory is scientific if it describes what we observe, period. If you have a deeper explanation right off the bat, that's a bonus, otherwise that's the goal of further research.

The other poster adequately addressed the implicit hypocrisy applied to MOND vs. LCDM, so I'll just leave this reference for a proper analysis of who has been making predictions vs. tweaking their theory to fit observations:

From galactic bars to the Hubble tension: weighing up the astrophysical evidence for Milgromian gravity, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06936
Interesting. Macrumors reports 200.000 sold vision pro's a few month's ago. So maybe 300.000 today?

It's a type of gadget that hasn't become widely adopted yet and the usecases and killer features are almost non existent compared to the iPhones phonecalls + web browsing, music, videos, notes and many others.

Really hard to gauge what success means here, but if we say that in a year it will sell 500.000 units, that's 1/8 of the original iPhone, seems ok, or maybe not?
However is there support cycle less than x86? Not only that there's a lot more fragmentation. Is there backward compatibility to run aprogram 6 years ago for an arm hardware that was released this year?
The DuckDB Spatial Extension (2023)
The use case is exploratory literature review in a specific scientific field.

I have a setup that takes pdfs and does some OCR and layout detection with Amazon, and then bunch them with some internal reports. Then, I have a pipeline to write summaries of each document and another one to slice them into chunks, get embeddings and set up a vector store for a RAG chat bot. At the moment it’s using Mixtral and the command line. But I like being able to swap LLMs to experiments with different models and quantisation without hassle, and I more or less plan to set this up on a remote server to free some resources on my workstation so the web UI could come in handy. Running this locally is a must for confidentiality reasons. I’d like to get rid of Textract as well, but unfortunately I haven’t found a solution that’s even close. Tesseract in particular was very disappointing.
Never knew this before! Thanks for sharing.
And it's not even FUD. The phone I use has no working GPS since it got degoogled, as it takes too long to get a poosition. Yes, it's older than 3 years, but maybe being able to integrate the mozilla location service (with something more adequate than LineageOS) was a factor in me thinking the ungoogled Android route was viable anyway. But here we are.

Not everyone wants to use the newest hardware.
Thanks for replying to my post. Not exactly what I was hoping to “hear,” but now I can move on.
You have lived in your bubble for too long. Just talk to people around you -- could include other software engineers or tech enthusiasts -- and I'm sure most people don't think about the product the same way you feel. I'll put it sinply: most people DON'T want to put this thing on their face. Not Oculus Quest. Not Apple Vision Pro.
The velociraptor in Jurassic Park was a deinonychus, but Michael Crichton thought velociraptor sounded better.
Yes, windows/arm64 runs all arm64 binaries out the box. Looking at my jenkins windows/arm64 CI machine, i'm running x64 java, but that's it.

If you want to build apps to run with support for x64, there is a special Arm64CE target type which changes how binaries are built to make compatibility with x64 better (as in faster, lower overhead).

It's described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec-abi
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about six months ago. Once I started getting treatment for it (losing weight, cutting out caffeine, and an oral appliance) my life started getting dramatically better.

I had never taken sleep very seriously prior to that and I feel extremely foolish for it. Life is 100x better if you get an appropriate amount of sleep. Everything becomes a little easier.
Gets back to the old questions, 'the cave', 'Noumenal/Phenomenal'.

Humans construct an internal Bayesian like model of the world, that is not itself the 'Real' world. It is a 'Delusion'.

And since our brains are just pattern matching, on best guesses.

If you feed people a lot of garbage 'IN', it is possible to get people that only spew garbage 'OUT'.

Eventually your internal model can be so off base, that others think you are crazy, or living in an 'alternate reality'. You were fed so much garbage your internal state has hard time interpreting anymore.

But, it is for everything. What we call 'garbage' changes with time. We no longer think the sun revolves around the earth, but was it 'garbage' back when everyone believed that.

Part of our internal model update functions, is trying to adapt to everyone else's internal models. There are very few 'facts' in the world, far more interpretations, and those are all subject to this 'delusion'.

(I think what the article is actually saying, is yes, all humans live in an 'illusion', so we should stop saying the word 'delusion' since it is viewed as derogatory for something that happens to everyone. We pick and choose who we say is 'delusional' and stigmatize them, without realizing everyone is in an 'illusion'. And this framing is preventing reaching them to help update the 'delusions').
> But not the only, nor a direct funding.

Being paid directly for a service by a company (Google paying for the privilege of being the default) is to be directly funded by that company. You're right that it's not the only source of revenue, but it's absolutely a direct source of funding.
It goes back to what I have mentioned elsewhere in this thread that Apple always thinks product first. Hardware specs are only ever in service of the product Apple is trying to deliver. If they could never list specs, they wouldn't. The industry forces some capitulation which is why Apple ever talks about specs at all.
Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
Oh, what's that called? Virtual monitor? Dude just go to Quest store or Google Play store and see how many apps exist out there.
I would only worry if the AI had anything interesting to teach about printing money… that was the most generic answer ever.