skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't attack other users like that, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. Moreover, you've been breaking HN's rules repeatedly and egregiously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39659809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39645003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38912938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38912903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38749223

That's clearly abusive, so I've banned the account. I suppose I need to add that this has nothing to do with your views on the topics; it has only to do with you violating HN's rules. Plenty of other commenters express views similar to yours without breaking HN's rules and that's fine; and yes, other commenters who abuse HN as badly as you've been doing also get banned.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A thought I had while reading this: what about putting a flexible membrane above the wheels (or belt) with the dots? This would require the user to press down to feel the dots, but it would remove the issue of fingers or hair getting caught in the wheels.
Nix is not content addressable though, the hashes is based off on the derivation files which are equal to the lock files you would find in other package managers.

> The thing it provides is the toolchain of dependencies that are reproducible. [...] If the inputs change then so does the output. If the output itself is not reproducible (like, say an artifact with a build-time embedded in it) then you have something that is inherently not reproducible and two people trying to build the same exact nix package will have different results.

There are no guarantees they are reproducible. The only guarantees Nix gives you is that the build environment is the same which allows you to make some claims about the system behaving the same way. But they are certainly no guarantees about artifacts being bit-by-bit identical.
Not really, unless you're suggesting production companies either adopt torrenting internally themselves (which does nothing if the company goes defunct), or publicizing all their internal material including works-in-progress (a nonstarter for most serious creatives).
Read your Dawkins, evolution does not "select for what is good for the organism".
This could have happened with any language, Rust, Go, C# ... JavaScript is getting your beating but is not to blame for issues with out-of-sync packages.
Only if you need to test the full game. If you can unit test algorithms and learn something then fast builds matter.
Washington can't even military contain the Houthis, or Iranians, or Russians.
they mean the dsl (not just necessarily for cuda)
That's interesting. I wonder how the current population of HN splits between people who heard of HN because of YC (that describes me), and people who heard of YC because of HN.
The DSL: https://openai.com/research/triton
Ballpark, how much would you estimate it to cost?
Back in the day, we were use a SQL db on the PC.

The planner wasn’t particularly sophisticated in those days, nor was the data volume crushing.

But in the end, we would take all of our queries, and check their plans. We would pad the db with data until the combination of data and statistics and the planner all did what we wanted.

Once we were happy with the statistics and the results we’d reset the database with “empty” data for the customer, and never touch the statistics again.

We were mostly trying to eliminate table scans on simple queries and joins, and influencing index selection.
yeah even the official flashattention is moving many implementations from cutlass to triton except for the main mha backward/forward pass
They used to be, but have not been for like four years. But most of them still choose it anyway, because it is a perfectly good machine, and even with their ridiculous repair restrictions, the economic case is still better than the competitor.
chatpgt can in fact both read words in images and generate images
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-and-manage-mu...

“How many timers can you have going at one time? […] …I had 26 timers going at once, and the only reason I didn't have more running was because I got bored.”
It having a cost is exactly why is needs regulation, otherwise it gets optimized away and companies need to follow to compete on pricing.
In ten years time, China will be older and broker and with even less international friends. It would be a great strategic triumph.
There should be a market for a Wirecutter type site for buy-it-for-life products
It’s hard to have an “informed” society while simultaneously not trying to fix the disinformation problem.
Doctors are turning medical generative AI into a booming business
Solar is no way close to being reliable, all weather and cheap source of energy that nuclear and fossil fuel can be, which are critical for the tech industry in general.
Ah nostalgic for tcl.
I wonder if the maximum number of timers is an 8 bit, 16 bit or 32 bit int.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.

If you poke an LLM with a stick, a bunch of viral videos on YouTube claiming it is sentient fall out, as you've observed. The creators of those videos operate under the ethical framework of "clickbait".

A more sophisticated opportunist might figure out they can exploit the above two things to start offering indulgences to whomever is willing to pay. This seems like an ethical problem in and of itself.

Since you were curios about the ethical framework that the project operates within you might also concern yourself with that.
Ten Best Electronic Inventions from the 70s
It’s not so much difficulty as system architecture. Oculus just doesn’t have an OS layer, at least not in the sense of a platform that helps applications share resources and interact with each other.

The Oclulus platform is more like a classic video game console; there are system APIs, but they are designed to be used by single-tasking applications.

And for the user, the Oculus system UI is really an app launcher /task switcher.

It’s not better or worse, just a very different design philosophy.
SMIC is doing volume production at 7nm now.
The author thinks that Formal Methods are a Maybe because chipmakers while Fancy type systems are a No. I think the bar is pretty high for Type systems (in the mind of the author).
But your brain is disconnected from your body during dreams, to keep you from flailing around. Sometimes you even wake up before the block is lifted and can’t move. So controlling such a device would be difficult.
Me to my wife: "Is this show old? Like from the 90s? I can see the dithering on it."
Thanks for sharing my project!
> Why should it be mandated to accept cash?

For the same reason it's mandated to pay taxes and drive on the same
side of the road as everybody else. Social cohesion and minimising
harm to others is sometimes more important than self advantage.
Can't be Myst as they have their own base 25 numbering system :)

(Ok, that originated from the sequel, but it's still canonical to the universe.)
> All that’s needed is a military containment of China.

I know the 'demographics is destiny' is the Washington Consensus but it should be understood that these are the same people wrecking our economy over and over again and starting forever wars we end up losing.
If you're going to accuse me of rhetorical sleight of hand, you could start by at least spelling it correctly. This whole code stealing shtick is the kind of thing I'd expect from teenagers on 4chan not from someone who's been professionally trained like you. Many open source licenses like BSD-4 and X11 are actually written to prohibit people from "giving credit" in advertising in the manner you're expecting.
Be unfortunate if something happened to ah... Suddenly make them airwaves unusable.
Cloudflare is a US company. If they provide hosting (or reverse proxying; I don't think there's a material legal difference) services for anything illegal under US law, shouldn't it be possible to compel them to stop doing that through the legal system?

And if this is about not-illegal-but-objectionable content, I'm actually glad that as an infrastructure company, they're choosing to not get into the business of content moderation.
Very cool. I love seeing things like this being made. Some others from the past few years:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/05/blindpads-tablet-makes-vis...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/the-becdot-is-a-toy-that-h...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/10/dot-pad-tactile-display-ma...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/17/the-monarch-could-be-the-n...

Something I've heard is that the content, APIs, etc are equally important, or you end up with a great device with nothing to display.
> In one CPU you have cores of different sizes and different speeds

In this case yeah, but not all of them. I believe AMD still makes some desktop CPUs without those compromises, but they're still slowly starting to put out CPUs like the 7950X3D that have crippled cache on certain cores (7950X does not, 7800X3D does not).

Of course big.LITTLE has been a thing in ARM for decades, including ASi. But I believe Intel started doing E-cores because they were starting to run into space and thermal constraints, and now AMD is exploring heterogeneous architectures as well. I hope they won't repeat the same mistakes.
The irony here especially with furniture is that if you’re rich enough to buy real quality design pieces you’ll sell them for more than you bought them for when you’re ready to move on
Why African startups don't always need to expand across the continent
This comes directly from Steve Jobs who famously said:

"Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."

This doesn't mean they "don't care" about customer feedback. But customer feedback is often misleading.
Just out of curiosity. What were you trying to do that didn't work?
Because people are bad at nuance.

The entire reason the decriminalization failed was because it had no nuance. It copied something that worked in a much different culture, and didn’t copy the other supports that caused it to work. Nothing to address the other side, the benefits of jailing addicts (i.e. preventing them from committing other crimes).
Very interesting to me that our dreams make some of the same mistakes. Some of the usual reality checks to know if you’re dreaming:

- looking at your hands

- looking at clocks

- trying to read

It’s funny that diffusion models often make those exact same mistakes. There’s clearly a similar failure mode where both are drawing from a distribution and losing fine details. Has this been studied?
Double Loop of Value
My brother in law borrowed Oppenheimer on DVD from his local library for free. You might try that out if you want to save some bucks.
It would be if you were willing to pay an ungodly amount for that box of crackers that not only made Walmart a viable business but was also an amount no one else was willing to pay.

Mitchell got Google to pay nearly double what Yahoo was willing to pay and has gotten Google to pay more each year for a dwindling user base.

If someone was going to Walmart and paying millions for a box of crackers, you’d be right in assuming the transaction wasn’t about the crackers.
I've heard people bring up that problem before. On one hand they protect sites from DDOS attacks and bad actors, but on the other hand they help keep the bad actors online.

If there's no abuse, nobody will pay their protection money.
Quite nifty, but I still wouldn't call it far more powerful. Take a look at https://checkerframework.org/ for example.
Yes, all this. However:

> You may have noticed in the past that context switches are slow

I'm not sure that the situation has improved. In many ways it is getting worse.

TLBs are growing much, much, much more slowly than L2/L3 cache sizes.

This is mainly because on-chip wire delay isn't dropping as quickly as transistor density is rising -- coupling capacitance in densly-wired areas has become a much bigger problem over the last decade. The TLB has to run at the same clock rate as the register file, but it is much larger (both in terms of bits and in terms of geometry).

> But with Java you could at least theoretically do it

Or with a memory-safe, non-garbage-collected language. Hopefully someday we'll have more than one of these. These languages are the final nail in the coffin of microkernels.
I'd mostly been using ChatGPT until recently. Now I've mostly been using Gemini 1.0 Ultra.
I don't think it's nearly as simple as there not being enough bits. I think the structure of the model just isn't designed to effectively encode that sort of information. The average real finger is between other fingers, which is probably why generated hands sometimes end up with too many.
What can you do in Haskell that you can’t do in Rust with macros and elbow grease?
> it's hard to escape the vague feeling some of this stuff might need to be architected in from the get go.

When I'm developing something, work or otherwise, I find that I often write my worst code when I'm writing something bottom-up i.e. designed, because it usually turns out that the user of that particular code has completely different needs, and the point of integration becomes a point of refactor. I think the top-down approach applied at the project level is much nicer because it allows you to _start from somewhere_ and then iteratively improve things.

That is not to say you shouldn't take precautions. In Ladybird, stuff like image decoding and webpage rendering/JS execution are isolated to their own processes, with OpenBSD style pledge/unveil sandboxing. They aren't perfect of course, but it allows for the kind of development that Ladybird has without much worry about those aspects.
Are you calling for the government to pick a winner? The Chinese word for this fierce if at times chaotic competition is "juan". It worked for them in EV and PV. The outcome remains to be seen in chips and commercial space launches. But even their mostly (ex-)students-run open source Xiangshan RiscV project https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan shows a remarkable level of sophistication.
It's content addressable, just what are you addressing?

The content address of a docker image is a json blob (referencing other objects).

The content address of a Dockerfile "RUN" command is the content address of what came before it and the command being run.
analog circuits are making a comeback because they are great for simulating the equations of the physical world more efficiently than a digital approach.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/not-your-fathers-analog-computer
What does __syncthreads() do here exactly? I'm new to CUDA, could get the overall idea of the FlashAttention paper but not the details.
The market in question was airlines. US airlines have rather a lot of competitors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airlines_of_the_United...

How many does Boeing have?
I’ve seen similar. They really don’t have two person houses down pat - timers work great for me (as long as I never have to ask how much remaining; I’d die for a “count down from 30 seconds”) - but for the wife; nothing.
This is a bad take by EFF. First, it’s not a ban. That’s TikTok’s propaganda.

All of the fears for TikTok were proven correct when they launched a call to action that resulted in thousands of phone calls to congressional staffers.

They literally manipulated their audience, confirming everyone’s fears.

As much as I want privacy laws for all social media, I’m not entirely upset about TikTok. They 100% did this to themselves…
It seems at least plausible to me that either there would be even more fraud and abuse than there already is without the time and effort to mitigate it, or that maybe their mitigation is not as effective as they'd like. This isn't meant to contradict the other theories being posted here; I don't really have any experience specific to this area, so it's possible I'm just being naive.
Regarding your comment about how fast the research and industry is moving, would HN readers be interested in relevant one or two paragraph summaries that are basically "explain it like I am a machine learning engineer from 2020" but also knows the power of these models from a perspective of using ChatGPT or MS Copilot? That is, assume a fair amount of technical knowledge about the fundamentals, but don't assume that the reader is paying any attention to have whitebox knowledge of the current state of the art.
What hardware advances giveth, today's beyond-ridiculous-overweight software stacks taketh away.
Out of curiosity, where are you seeing this? It's not in the abstract or the paper.
.NET has been designed since the beginning to handle C++, C# already had some of the features but not all of them, in some cases it was needed to emit MSIL, or use Managed C++ on .NET 1.0, or C++/CLI since .NET 2.0.

The improvements on C# 7 and later are exactly to avoid emiting MSIL manually, and also cut the dependency on C++/CLI, as it is Windows only.
- An Apple designer published an article about how they sometimes can't do user testing on secret projects, and how they work around that

- Some random person on LinkedIn summarized that point as "internal feedback more important than customer feedback"

- Some random redditor clickbaited a screenshot of that into "Apple designer admits they don't care about user research, Apple knows best"

- Some random HNer further simplifies that for an HN title

I know Apple is known for treating users like idiots, but this is a pretty ridiculous and disingenuous way of confirming biases, even if those biases are based in truth.
>It's content addressable, just what are you addressing?

In the case of Nix it's addressed by the input. Not the content of the build. It's an important distinction and one Nix also makes.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3...

But doing this is going to give you a slight headace as most of the package repository in Nix is not checked for reproducible builds and there are no way to guarantee the hashes are actually static.
Its just a skybox with the cubemap of the room, no? The Quest 3 does a full room scan and can you get a 3d mesh of the room as well. They could provide a cubemap as well.

Meta doesn't want to pass any of the camera feed to an app for privacy reasons so they don't make it available but its a legal issue not a technical one. They can (and should) do this for the browser model viewer.

Apple enforces a single material model so they can inject the lighting data in a uniform way. Its a bit of a nuclear option to have a fixed shader pipeline. But I digress...

Anyway, its not as out of reach as you claim.
Is the state of open source textbooks that bad? I guess the top link is a U of MN site, which is laudable and a Big10 school, but not exactly a banner carrier.

It saddens me that with github and the like, and the armies of wikipedia entries, there aren't open source textbooks of greater/higher quality than any of the publishers. I guess biology and some sciences deviate a lot edition to edition, but basic math? physics? chemistry? economics? history? languages?

Of course institutes of higher learning have well exposed themselves as being anything but in the last couple decades. So it doesn't really surprise me. The entire "open coursework" movement died quite quickly when the colleges realized this might cut into their annual 10% hike to tuition.

But like your father, I'm surprised some retired teachers don't do this as a side project, or an emeritus professor, or SOMEONE that wants to leave a legacy.

You could have a site that presents concepts in entirely different fashions, so you could choose a path that suits you, or if a particular concept didn't stick, have it presented a different way.

State institutions in particular should be required to produce and use open textbooks and courseware. Rile up some republicans to make it contingent on getting their state funding (they love doing that).

This is even more egregious since there is the entire British Commonwealth of nations/english speakers and their educational systems to leverage.
It is a little more complicated than you describe because copyright doesn't just apply to published or finished work. That means you are effectively advocating for the end of privacy.

For example, it is pretty common for famous or even some private peoples' diaries or letters to be published. Will you sell me a copy of every single one of your emails? Oh, you refuse to sell them? I guess that means you forfeit your copyright and now anyone can sell them.

The right for a creator to stop the distribution of their own work is pretty important. I agree that we should tweak the tax write-off process to maybe force that work into the public domain, but worked destroyed for tax purposes is only a tiny fraction of all abandonware.
You're describing sleep paralysis, right? It's not so much a disconnection as it is an inhibition. Attempts to move most of your muscles are blocked, but external stimuli still get in. You know, once upon a time someone started the washer while I was presumably in REM, and I started to hear something in my dream. When I woke up, it only took me a couple minutes to realize that what I had been hearing in the dream was some greatly slowed-down version of the washer that had just been started, since I guess my dream time was travelling faster than real time. I think the only reason it didn't wake me up is because I'm used to sleeping through the sound of the washer running and may even normally filter it out. That's just the first time that someone managed to turn it on in the middle of my actual dreaming phase.
How does Amazon think about devices? (2023)
From my Chinese perspective, the time to ponder this question has long passed. It's not useful.

In a street interview in China (Xinjiang, even) about sanctions, an old man gave an interesting answer. He did not express resentment for the sanctions. Instead, he said: let them sanction, in the end we can't rely on others for our own prosperity and development.

He is right. There is no point in Chinese resenting the sanctions. There is no point in foreigners criticizing the sanctions, we all know it's no use. The only thing that matters now is for Chinese to focus on work. Focus on our own R&D. No need to say much, just get things done.
Boost.Parser Has Been Accepted
My intuition would be that both text and fingers are high frequency parts of the image and most image patches across most images don't have that amount of frequency. Text and fingers are relatively rare in images compared to e.g. clouds and textures on surfaces. Because of the rareness and difficulty of text image patches the models just don't dedicate that many parameters to it.

This could be entirely wrong however.

It would be interesting what would happen on a dataset with nothing but text.
Clojure: The most powerful 29 characters of code ever written
Are Music Royalties Just a Low-Interest Rate Bet?
> For example: Productivity on the go (A laptop with the headset for multiple virtual displays) and Live Sports.

Except almost universally, people talk about the screen display being “not great” for extended use as a screen replacement with dramatically lower effective resolution and blurring…