skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? A completely unvetted “family friend” who won’t even give a last name provides a salacious quote that’s completely unverifiable. A niece, known to be related and with a name and address offers a counterpoint. It’s ok to be skeptical.

Things like: What did the note say? Where did the gun come from? Is there any CCTV video from the hotel and garage? still need to be investigated by the police.

It is possible that he was stressed, depressed, and expected to have his reputation (and life) destroyed by scorched earth lawyers for Boeing.
Open source alternative to Nvidia's Chat with RTX
Little project I have been working on, Dot is a standalone app that allows users to run an LLM locally and create a custom AI trained with documents.
The problem with every headset over the last ten years was that they just didn’t have the technical commitment to really overcome the major problems. Making good VR is a VERY tech heavy endeavor. Apple has shown that they can make hardware which really begins to solve those issues (good resolution and quality pass through being one, having a nice OS being another). The AVP is truly starting to make a difference in what is possible with VR. It’s not just more optimism.
The Onion's take https://www.theonion.com/boeing-promotes-mysterious-employee...
Slow is slow and fast is fast. For some reason you consider it cheating to not ref-count everything in C++ to get speed, but writing idiomatic Julia code which does minimal allocation is somehow out of bounds. You'd decided what you want to believe and are working backward from there.
All sushi grade fish in the US must be frozen first anyway. So what exactly is the risk?
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Should Serve 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say
> But the FDA reported that "samples of morel mushrooms collected from the restaurant were screened for pesticides, heavy metals, toxins, and pathogens. No significant findings were identified." In addition, the state and local health officials noted that DNA sequencing identified the morels used by the restaurant as Morchella sextelata, a species of true morel. This rules out the possibility that the mushrooms were look-alike morels, called "false morels," which are known to contain a toxin called gyromitrin.

So the evidence seems to point to the morels, but we don’t have any idea how they could have caused the effect
I've eaten at Dave's and also gather and eat morel's regularly in Montana.

Dave's is a popular joint but didn't strike me as particularly good even by Sushi restaurants in Montana standards. They had some creative rolls but seemed to fail to get the basic fish cuts and rice seasoning right.

What they were doing marinating the morel's and eating them basically raw is ridiculous. No one who is experienced with morel's does it that way and most mushroom guides contain info on hydrazine contents/risk and suggested cooking methods.

March and April is too early for Montana (or most US) Morel's which are commercially picked in forest fires from the previous year once the soil temperature reaches 54 degrees. I heard at one point these were grown in China and wouldn't be shocked if they are a different [sub]species that might contain more hyrazine. There are also some "false morels" that fruit earlier (one species is known as the snow morel as it comes up right after snow melt) but these are easy to identify contain even more hydrazine.
While it did receive 360 comments, you cannot find it on any of the pages, going back 20+ pages.

While you can find many much much older articles that are far more dead just a couple pages back.

You wouldn't get the news at all about this tidbit of information if you didn't check HN in the right few minutes.

I for one get a lot of my news from HN, as it's a news aggregator and a lot of other mediums are more censored.

People are clearly interested in talking about it and have opinions about it and find it newsworthy given the TIMING and possible MOTIVE.

YOU even had an OPINION you inserted in, but you don't feel others should be able to see this or put their POV or COUNTERPOINTS in?
Super easy. You can just head down to https://lmstudio.ai and pick up an app that lets you play around. It's not particularly advanced, but it works pretty well.

It's mostly optimized for M-series silicon, but it also technically works on Windows, and isn't too difficult to trick into working on Linux either.
On a salad? Absolutely. Has a delightful texture.
> instead of being a caveman and making symlinks all over the place

And what's wrong with that?
You're wrong because you're just saying Cloudflare is making the web more centralized. The web is centralized by design and a defective technology. It costs money to host text files (and for no reason, see Bit Torrent for a counter example (and don't talk to me about unseeded content because you could literally just seed your website if you care about it so it would be no different than current web)).
Whenever people say about someone “they would never kill themselves” it reminds me of a deeply disturbing depression episode I had, thankfully only once, that lasted about 8 hours. It was the blackest morass of misery, I couldn’t bear to be in my own skin. After experiencing that I came to understand how people can do it, and the sudden onset also made me understand how inexplicable it can be.
Nope, but it would probably help in the instance here, where I guess according to you, Boeing assassins broke into his home, and forced him to commit suicide with a gun(or, killed him with their own gun and staged it perfectly to look like a suicide).
> By online learning I mean incremental real-time learning, such that you can predict something (e.g. what some external entity is going to do next, or the results of some action you are about to take),

I used to believe this, but the recent era of LLMs has changed my mind. It's clear that the two things are not related: you don't need to update weights in real-time if you can hold context another way (attention) while predicting the next token.

The fact that we appear to remember things with one-shot, online training might be an illusion. It appears that we don't immediately update the weights (long term memory), but we store memories in short term memory first (e.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-short-ter...).
It's also that PGN allows you to encode illegal moves, which is important if your dataset contains over-the-board games.

That you only got to about 10-12 bits per move is actually kind of sad in a way, because it means you're not doing substantially better than the approach where you record a move as just (delete-piece-at ____, recreate-that-piece-at ____) 12-bit pairs, where castles are implicitly only recorded by moving the king further than usual and underpromotion has to be explicitly recorded with an extra 12-bit move that is otherwise semantically impossible.
How the wrong side won at Boeing
That’s a great point indeed. In Java and C++, there have been quite a few deprecations over the years and decades. In the Rust community, there’s unfortunately quite a lot of interesting but abandoned crates.
> Feels kind of gross to include the nieces observation that he had been stressed as some kind of counterpoint to the statement in the title.

You're grossly misrepresenting what the nieces actually said.

The article is quite unequivocal: the quote in the article is literally "stressed and depressed".

Why did you opted to omit the reference to depression? Do you think direct statements from his family should be ignored but your personal baseless assertions should take center stage?

In addition to that, here's what his own brother had to say about the apparent suicide:

> “He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing, which we believe led to his death,” the brother said.

Why is this fact glanced over?
Almost. There’s also an alternative machine available, but it’s not a serious competitor.
That not a lot of people in Bozeman eat sushi, and not a lot of people named Dave run sushi restaurants. Bozeman is closer to the bluefin than Chicago is, and Chicago has excellent Japanese restaurants; it's not (directly) a geographical observation.

It calls to mind Show Biz Sushi from King of the Hill.
This is not true in the slightest. Way to spread misinfo
> brittle plastic gears

That fail protecting the rest of the mechanisms
Well depends where you live.
over here they are roughly 2x as expensive as any other laptop with comparable specs(including screen).

If such price point was available in here i would try it.
Enforcing mundane things with tooling is 100% orthogonal to core principles of programming.

I say this with 20+ years of programming experience: a project that doesn't do that is a project run by amateurs.
I think there might end up being a greater division between "IRL places you really need to be IRL to enjoy" and "IRL places that are good enough in VR."

A beach seems like the former, and cities and minor attractions seem like the latter.
Hybrid languages are sub-optimal in a lot of ways. One of the joys of functional programming are the guarantees that imperative languages can't offer (primarily immutability).
For finding interesting articles, you can try Arts & Letters Daily: https://www.aldaily.com. Literary Hub also publishes a daily newsletter that includes some external links to articles by other publications: https://lithub.com/

Another way to find readings is by subscribing to various literary magazines and journals. Examples include Granta, The Paris Review, n+1, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Hedgehog Review, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and many others.

For forum discussions, there unfortunately aren't too many options. You can try the following forums on Reddit: r/literature, r/TrueLit, and r/AskLiteraryStudies. GoodReads also has online discussion groups. An alternative approach is to find or create an in-person or online book club.
I've enjoyed working on teams that use an auto-formatter, like black in python. Using a formatter that's not my favorite is much more enjoyable than not using a formatter. Ditto for as many style issues as you can automate. It sucks to spend code review making humans spend time (re)arguing things machines can say just as well.

So if someone proposes that their language should have stated idiomatic style, I'd go further and say that a language style guide should come with tooling to automatically fix and automatically detect issues in as much of the style guide's scope as reasonably possible.
Also, https://jan.ai is open source and worth trying out too.
No new hardware needed. I was shocked that Mixtral runs well on my laptop, which has a so-so mobile GPU. Mixtral isn't hugely fast, but definitely good enough!
Not arguing against you in any way, but IMO, if you're at a place where politics will dictate your _actual continued employment_, it's probably not somewhere I'd particularly enjoy working.
Based on what happened last time:

- the telcos pocketed the money and did very very little actual deployment, and the FCC did nothing

- lobbied the FCC to deny Starlink funds when Starlink actually delivered a usable rural service and got them to declare it "not broadband"

At least the FCC hasn't been completely useless in mobile broadband. I'm sure if 5G starts approaching usable competition with Cable/Telcos, the FCC will kill it for them.
It is, it doesn't require any setup.

After installation:

> ollama run mistral:latest
Its carcinogenic.
It's kind of true, in the sense that, artists wants control, not money. Money is for patrons to make or lose. That's why these revenue sharing discussions don't go anywhere.
A security system wouldn't necessarily stop Boeing assassins from breaking into your home, killing you, and making it look like a suicide, but it certainly would increase the chances that they were caught, or at least increase the chances that police would consider it a homicide instead of a suicide.
A list of advantages Swift has over Rust
So why don't people just stop caring what gnome thinks? Can't they just standardize the stuff regardless of gnome "holding out" on them or whatever it is they're doing? Do they need their permission or something? Just leave gnome behind. Doesn't really matter whether they catch up or not.
Data viz is hierarchical – if only our data tools agreed
If anyone wants to run some benchmarks on MI300x, ping me.
Do you also worry about muslims accidentally eating non-halal meat? Do you worry about jews accidentally eating pork? Would you be okay for them to ban such things?

As a vegetarian who pukes when I accidentally eat meat (happened twice in ten years), I would like to ban all meat. I trust that I'll have your enthusiastic support?
Rust dependency management is the best parts of Go with the worst parts of NPM.
Dr Kelly still v suspicious

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly...
This was what I was thinking
you should definitely look up the definition of a Ponzi scheme because you clearly don’t know what it means and are just throwing that word around. I’m not defending blueboard, just saying that you shouldn’t be spreading misinformation because you’re only making the situation worse and not adding to it
He was such a key witness, not sure why he wasn't given police protection and hospitalization
This paragraph jumped out for me

It is possible that little changes for consumers in the near term because many sellers are used to including the cost of a buyer’s agent in their sale price. But over time, new brokerage business models could emerge that make it easier for buyers to choose low-cost options

"could" not "should" or will.

Except for a huge payout for the lawyers, I don't see how this ruling is going to affect home buyers, or sellers in the near future. There would have to be a law put in place, so going forward it's still an agreement between private parties to sell or buy a house.

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.

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.

I think regardless there will still be plenty of realtors doing business, and they will still make bank.
exactly this.

last week in a codereview i got asked to clean up indentation of some html structures that i had added.

my response was: i duplicated an existing structure and made mine look exactly the same.
i agree that proper indentation would be nice. but if i did that, my structures would look different from the original. i could clean up the original too, but then the diff would be harder to read because it would contain unrelated changes.

copying the original unclean structure in this case is best for readability, because consistency is more important than any particular style.

if anyone cares about the style, they can submit a style cleanup separately.
> Given that the vi user interface is logical, and therefore easy to learn

This is the number one problem with tech industry. Autists don't understand that people other than them don't spend thousands of hours on what they so happen to be intersted in (for example caring this much about one text editor, when there are literally 1000 other things to learn in operating a computer). While you're at it, explain that you are supposed to press esc then wait 500ms (it's obvious why it works this way if you invest a few hundred hours in studying terminals) then type :q and explain that people born in 2010 are supposed to know what a terminal is even though nobody even used terminals by the late 90s.
A friend of mine was run over and killed crossing the street and all the driver got was a stern talking to*. One might think you can practically get away with murder in America as long as you do it with a car.

* OK, maybe the driver's insurance rate also went up.
That's ridiculous, markets can absolutely "lie". Markets are aggregates of particpant sentiment and are wrong if that sentiment is wrong. One clear example is when a company is committing fraud that boosts their stock price.

Human beings, in aggregate, tend to be pretty good at predicting some things that individual humans can't (classic examples being number of objects in a jar or weight of an animal) and markets are a weighted and incentived system that exploits this property.

Prediction markets are better at predicting somethings and worse at others and their fallibility is also dependent on how well they're are structured.
Did you read the review you posted?

> It has the nvidia card, touch screen, i7-1260p, 32GB, all drivers and bios up to date including windows 11

This is not the same laptop I was pointing to. The i7-1260p is much more power hungry than the 6850U, and having a nvidia GPU is definitely going to eat up battery as well.
Did you just say that 10% is a rounding error? ;)
I say this all the time but I’d love a barebones EV focused on privacy, safety, and maintainability.

I even think a $16K EV with 100 miles range would be hugely popular as a second vehicle for most families. Just don’t make it look ridiculous.

A “second vehicle” would really be the perfect niche for EV’s right now.
I take it you're using urllib2 to make HTTP requests in Python?
I don't know why this goes against programmer culture so much, but for me rule number 1 should be Optimize for IDE Integration. And probably number 2 should be, readable stack traces.
Looking for an app where I can chat with a book
Hey, I'm looking for an AI app that allows me to chat with a book. Problem with chatgpt is that it hallucinates and I can't give it a full book as a prompt.

Are there any LLMs or AI apps that allow me to give them a book such as "The Lean Startup" and I can ask them questions like "What are the arguments and what is the evidence?" without having to worry that it might hallucinate?
Cloudflare Workers and pgEdge Distributed Postgres: 100ms Data Access Challenge
It will probably cost you a lot of money to figure out how to bypass the DRM though, assuming that’s even possible at all. That’s money you should never have to pay in the first place.
Source code for the testing is available here:

https://github.com/pgEdge/cloudflare-pgedge-latency-tests
Every automotive CEO has been complicit for a hundred years in polluting the environment and killing millions of people with air pollution, millions with substandard safety and excessively large vehicles, and likely billions with global warming in the future, and a mass extinction of species.

Musk busts unions (like every other CEO), gropes women, is a bad ex-husband/father, and tweets right-wing mean tweets. OMG WORST PERSON EVER.

No I'm not giving him sole credit for Tesla/SpaceX/etc, no he is not god messiah of the earthworms.

The touchscreens are out of control, though, that is undeniable.

Tesla should have bought Nissan or some other failing mainline car company and rolled out EV tech with their traditional designs, but... that had to happen a decade ago. No point now.
I'll give it a shot! I've been tracking a steady stream of published improvements this area over the years (decade?)

I think the most striking moment I had was when I realized through experiment that rust, which has a notoriously slow compiler, was faster to compile and run a small plotting program than Julia. That was ~5 years ago though!
> (3) The effect seems smaller than that of potatoes and other acrylamide carriers, which we know, end-to-end, to be causative of human cancer.

Acrylamide, like many things, is known to be causative of cancer at extremely high doses. There is no indication that the levels found in food are harmful; it would be very difficult for a human to eat the levels of acrylamide shown to be harmful.

The list of things carcinogenic at doses two orders of magnitude larger than those found in food is large.
Yep; the only current advantage that blockchains have over current CT logs is trustable global transactions. This is a pretty powerful advantage, but the probabilistic certainty can be shifted from confirmation height to fraction of log inclusion and cost-of-revocation, e.g. transactions can be proposed in one or two logs and then confirmed by a supermajority of acceptable logs (to the transaction) once the ordering of potentially conflicting transactions is established within at least one log.

E.g. double-spends are prevented by announcing a transaction with a TTL that is included in at least one log, such that no conflicting transaction appears within any other log before the TTL expires, at which point most/all logs accept the permanent transaction.

Inclusion in a supermajority of logs provides the probabilistic likelihood of the transaction being durable (e.g. irreversible), and individual CT logs become invalid if they sign a later conflicting transaction.

Economic incentives could be as simple as charging customers for inclusion of their transaction in the log with escrow to refund all customers if the CT log becomes invalid. This can be implemented as its own CT-log transaction because logs have an incentive to cooperate with each other on signing off on the successful completion of a valid CT log (after a year or whatever) so they all keep getting paid.
Evaluating Multimodal LLMs Using the Google IO 2024 Puzzle
GPT-4V, Claude 3 Opus and Gemini Ultra go head to head in solving GoogleIO Puzzle 2024
The average age of a McDonalds employee is 23. https://www.zippia.com/mcdonalds-crew-member-jobs/demographi...

I'd also like to add my own experience with jobs that tell me constantly to go faster and faster: that you have to do everything so fast requires a certain level of durability in your equipment and tools. If you are moving fast, you have less leeway to be careful with things.
Please read the review you posted. That review mentions the i7-1280P, which is a lot more power hungry than AMD's 6850U.
It's an incredible facility indoors and out, with some really great works (especially given the age of the collection - it's relatively new compared to some larger institutes)

When I was there they also had an awesome special exhibit (cave temples of dunhuang if my memory and Google skills serve), which makes me think their average special exhibits are decent.
Important quote from the article before this desencds into the same climate change vs anti-climate change arguments and doom posting

> Human-caused climate change is likely playing a role, researchers said, but is probably not the only factor. Climate models predict a steady rise in sea surface temperatures, but not this quickly, and ocean surface temperatures also fluctuate and can be affected by natural climate variability, including patterns such as El Niño and La Niña.
> Insider poll

Sorry but lol at Insider being your source for robust polling of the American zeitgeist. In 2019 Certus put the figure of Americans believing he was murdered at 35%, with the remainder believing it to be suicide or "don't know".

"Don't know" is the critical thing here: there aren't too many more crazy conspiracists who could be shown the overwhelming evidence of suicide and conclude that it was murder.

And, of course, irrespective: literally any thinking person who can read the DOJ report will immediately conclude that it's suicide. It's just inarguable (hence the arguments in this thread being mainly "b-b-b-b-but shadowy cabal of powerful people!!!1" and not anything to do with, for example, Epstein already having attempted suicide once, or the camera footage showing nobody entering his block, etc.