skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are so much more than you are assuming… text, images, code are merely abstractions to represent reality. Accurate prediction requires no less than usefully generalizable models and deep understanding of the actual processes in the world that produced those representations.

I know they can provide creative new solutions to totally novel problems from firsthand experience… instead of assuming what they should be able to do, I experimented to see what they can actually do.

Focusing on the simple mechanics of training and prediction is to miss the forest for the trees. It’s as absurd as saying how can living things have any intelligence? They’re just bags of chemicals oxidizing carbon. True but irrelevant- it misses the deeper fact that solving almost any problem deeply requires understanding and modeling all of the connected problems, and so on, until you’ve pretty much encompassed everything.

Ultimately it doesn’t even matter what problem you’re training for- all predictive systems will converge on general intelligence as you keep improving predictive accuracy.
It really is amazing how well Republicans took the lesson of George HW Bush's presidency to heart: No new taxes, ever, even if the country absolutely needs it.

It's been 31 years since he lost to Clinton and we still haven't had a real progressive tax policy change despite mounting debt.
Division by GDP is not always informative. Debt is a stock variable and GDP (ie income) is a flow variable.
A good analogy is household finance. Most people with mortgage will have a debt to gdp (ie annual income) ratio that would be 3 or 4x. But it is meaningless. What is relevant here is interest payable to income ratio.

For example, a slightly dated estimate of the “net worth” of the US:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Un...
I appreciate the About page, and the concept. To reduce eye strain and increase the chances I'll ho for a walk instead of sit, one been listening to books on Libby (OverDrive library app). I might try what you've made. Thank you for sharing!
Great, now please halt the congress psychotic episode for another moment and continue supplying Ukraine, to destroy more of the Russian armed forces at the cost of single digit percentage of the defence budget. There will not be another such a ridiculously good deal in the future.
Yeah, it is insane how complex and wonky attempting to manage state becomes without a coherent model.

I kind of see HTMX as discouraging the traditional SPA-ish state management approach though. Or, it could be that the idea just gives me peace of mind. But, the idea being that you manage state less on the client because you're updating the UI with DOM content generated on the server versus rendering from local state on the client.

In practice, of course, avoiding client-state can be tough, especially as you go from sprinkling in limited dynamic interaction to a full-on SPA experience. I'm a little different though, in that I'm not sure SPAs were ever a good idea—at least without shifting completely away from building directly on Web idioms like DOM, HTML and CSS.
Blame the voters... They keep selecting people from same two groups... That is definition of insanity, repeating same thing and expecting different outcome.
With the exception of NetHack, which is famous for it, current roguelikes generally don't end the run for stupid shit (e.g. instead of killing you if you accidentally step into lava, they just don't let you do it), but more for wrong strategy or tactics.
> I don't hate it

But what's the point?

It's not open source, so why bother?

Whether you agree with BSD or GPL, OpenSource means you aren't locked to a vendor. The SSPL means that essentially for Redis, you are
Yes. This doesn't mean that morality is subjective and divorced from reality, mind you. It just means that trying to hone an objective theory of morality will make you unpopular.
The goal of these license changes is to prevent people from selling Redis as a service essentially, in order to prevent them competing with the redis company's offerings. If it was AGPL, you would still be allowed to do that.
I think the eruption of mount Tambora, in 1816 and ensuring famine was the main impetus for the creation of the bicycle. Think from the perspective of the future:

Q: "Why didn't they just use solar cells to power their cars instead of using gasoline?"

A: "They had almost unlimited access to an energy-dense fuel called petroleum they mined from the earth."

My point is we can imagine many technologies that would serve our needs with much less energy use.

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-....
Ah, gotcha. That's the perfect situation for moving to colocation or a dedicated server.
Yes, prenantal exposure to hormones is one thing but I was specifically referring to GP's frankly controversial implicit claim that gay men possess lower T.

Anyway if I recall correctly that research suggests that higher prenantal T exposure increases likelihood of homosexuality, the opposite of what stereotypes might suggest
Plus multi-line work (in zsh at least) when using quotes.
I've basically opposed cloud moves every time it's come up, but I also fear it means my resume will be blacklisted. I'm certainly a fan of containers and IaC which run as good on dedicated gear as anywhere else at least.

It's amazing how much compute/memory you can buy these days in off-lease/used servers, but new still seems like an incredible deal compared to paying every month. I get that there is also accounting trickery regarding opex/capex, but at the end of the day, it's still money going out, right?
" followed a 90 minute video on YouTube where I was instructed step-by-step on what to do. The result is that I'm happy with the finished product"

Now try doing that as a non technical person with anything else and report to us if you succeeded. You won't. This is why WordPress is popular. Liking or hating doesn't matter. No one has been able to build something that can replace WordPress.
This, pretty much. You can code a shared object/dynamically linked library in Rust, and it will work as a drop-in replacement for one that's coded in C. Rust also has extensive support for interfacing with C shared objects.
Get the snake to follow you through a door and hit the snake when they step into the door. This counts as a sneak attack. I think if you inspect the snake with the magnifying glass it will give you this hint (always take your time and do this with new enemies.

Alternatively, play as a mage (wands always hit snakes) or as an archer and shoot the snakes when they're still asleep.

Most of the game's difficulty curve is in learning tricks like this to cheese enemies. For instance, always fight flies (or any large group) in chokepoints.
And they all have existing KV storage, so they don't even have to use Postgres.

OpenRedis anyone?
Australia had a world leading emissions trading scheme about 15 years ago (??), it was destoyed the minute the business conservatives won the election.

You might be right but there is a lot of opposition against stuff like this.
It would most likely be a way to legitimize bribes.
Comments in this thread are hilarious. Making battery packs by connecting cells together is neither difficult nor especially dangerous. It’s soldering. Sometimes you’re just connecting wires to terminals. Anyone can do this. It’s not a big deal.
How Big Is Your Idea?
It's the same stack (jupyterlab server backend + web frontend) but wrapped as an electron app.

Yeah for sure when I use RStudio it seems much more polished, but I guess my attachment to (and comfort with) Python still makes it worthwhile to use JupterLab rather than switch to RStudio.
Got it, thanks! I’ve been wanting to do some API work anyway, and this seems like a great way to consolidate everything.
I remember when glassdoor first arrived on the scene. It was such a democratizing* experience. Salaries, reviews of management and the company, and good old fashioned venting.

The web was such a different experience that we never thought about how dangerous it could be to give out so much information. I would never trust anybody with this kind of information anymore, and I would especially not hand out my opinion of a company I still work for.

*back when this term was (naively) a good thing
Or you could learn the platform you are deploying your software to
see also: twisted nevow + stan, which I believe predate the term 'AJAX'.

https://github.com/twisted/nevow/blob/master/examples/simple...
Feeling that these are mostly nitpicks to be honest:

- The first two reasons are quickly invalidated once muscle memory is in place.

- I rarely break line and keep my commit messages short, but that depends of your workflow I guess, in my case the information is mostly in the linked ticket.

- If you accidentaly press enter and need to amend, you don't need to write the message again, just edit the part you want in the editor.

- My terminal do not have render issues.

- For the pre-commit hook it's been a while since I used one on commit messages, but how does it check the message validity before commiting using a terminal editor ?

TL;DR: the only point I found applicable in my case is the argument on special characters (such as $), but it never happened to me for now
Oh, it is a bunch of stupid political theatrics, but it also has real impacts on real people. Much of modern politics is like that, especially in the US. Lots of people have figured out that the theatrics sell, and like a circus performer they are driven to more and more dangerous stunts in order to get the attention.

(Note that in many political systems it's simply not possible for this kind of failure to pass a budget to happen without automatically triggering an election. The US is also unique in how normal it is for its politicians to oppose its continuing existence as a functioning federation, far more so than even the EU)

One of the shutdowns came with reporting that a number of Federal science research projects were irrevocably destroyed, because they were the sort of thing that required continuous attention by staff who were locked out of their jobs. It's a very destructive form of theatre.
All that shit is irrelevant. The prime Minister of Japan is actively talking about defending Taiwan if it's attacked. The people of Japan probably won't complain. The US won't complain. South Korea won't complain. And that's not even counting a casus belli that might make it justifiable (e.g. some Japanese citizen in Taiwan gets harmed, or chind sends missiles to US based in Okinawa)

What exactly do you think is the punitive remedy for Japan breaking clauses in thosd documents in that political scenario?
Also: don't wear a backpack if it's not one of those "air-something" that allow airflow on your back.
Why?

In the cloud provider scenario it's clearly the right license, so that it remains opensource
Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
The reality for most engineers is that their CTOs stopped caring about tech somewhere between the late 90s and mid 2000s. You'll have to put up with processes designed by some dude who still views platform orgs as a bunch of sysadmins and webmasters.
Seems like an opportunity to create a privacy-focused alternative.

You'd need a way to anonymously confirm that the reviewer worked at the company they're posting about. That seems like a good fit for a government service: "did the individual presenting this non-traceable ID work for company foo?"
Well YMMV but as a contractor it hadn't mattered since they're paid from stashed money.

A government shutdown mostly means the government can't borrow any more money but if they've already borrowed it and it's not spent they can still spend it. i.e if the government stashed money somehow (not rare) they can continue to use that stashed money to pay you.

So Social Security has stashed money and it'll pay out recipients. However they will prioritize payouts over verifying benefits. Which IIRC means you can continue to get money but if you wanted to apply for social security you need to wait 3 weeks for the government to un-shutdown.

TSA apparently does not stash money so will require work-for-delayed-pay.

National parks do not do work-without-pay so hopefully you don't have a vacation involving them.

Unsurprisingly, flood insurance doesn't have a stash of money so they'll immediately halt any payouts.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/27/government-shutdown-effects...
The first thing that came to mind is that newer versions of macOS have a filesystem throttling feature (yes, really): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31788894

exFAT should be simple if it's a variant of traditional FAT, although I haven't looked at the spec in detail; hence why I doubt the FS driver itself is to blame.

(FYI no need to keep the additional tracking parameters in your link.)
I was hoping to create a white monochrome image from an idea, not just 'a white background'. The first couple sections were just to see if the AI could do it at all. The image you're pointing to is also a gradient, less monochrome than most of the human works shown at the top.
The use of degradable polymers is for things that are single use. Plastic bags, straws, etc. nobody is trying to replace your iPad with a compostable version that disolves in humidity.

It's cynical bordering on humor to look at the accumulation of forever trash in our oceans and blood and say "well at least we can build something that may last with all this poison". Nobody does that anyway.
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I'm surprised LiveJournal was open source. Used it so much as a edgy teenager.

I used to host such scripts on my 233mhz pentium 2 that my parents allowed me to have in my bedroom.

Exploit ridden PHPNuke anyone?
Thanks for sharing this, I’m definitely gonna have fun exploring it :)

I don’t think I came across datamapplot, I’ll have to check it out. I know D3.js would probably be able to solve all my problems but then I’d need to build a lot of it from scratch and I don’t particularly enjoy Javascript (although sometimes you have no choice, I still needed to inject some code to modify the map to enable clicking on data points to open links and not capturing double clicks when zooming out (since there’s so many data points that you’re bound to misclick and end up opening a data point by mistake)).
I don’t think you can 100% trust an organization. An organization is not like a person who has a true continuity of identity and personhood. An organization is just the sum of whoever its people are. As people come and go, an organization changes. If enough people change, or have changes of heart, the organization can change completely to one you don’t recognize.

Edit: for example, Google: “don’t be evil” lasted as long as Google was run by people who cared about the technology more than profits. It used to be a search engine run by such types. Now it’s an ad engine and competition-extinguisher run by completely different types of people.
> Japanese do not need grandiose motivational frameworks to keep going, but rely more on the little rituals in their daily routines.
1. Some projects only really had one maintainer, or a small group, so relicensing is a relatively easy discussion.

2. Some projects have a CLA, so all contributions have the relevant rights transferred before the patches are accepted.

3. Some projects are “open source, not open contribution”, though this wasn't common until recently, effectively making them match point 1.

4. Some relicensing is done without consideration for other contributors, in the hope that no one with skin in the game will notice (or take action if they do), so it won't bite.

5. Sometimes getting the relevant permission after-the-fact, if a CLA was not in place, isn't difficult.
> the eWolf is equipped with two small generators for emergency use that allow the boat to travel longer distances at a reduced speed.

So.. not all electric. It's a hybrid diesel.
I hear "revolutionary" claimed about languages like Rust, Haskell and Zig, but rarely about Go. What about Golang is revolutionary to you?
Even that is physics.
That's an interesting article. I wonder if SDXL was trained with this in mind while earlier versions maybe weren't?
Ah, sad news indeed. I just finished re-reading The Peace War RIP
Also "Darwin among the Machines"[0] written by Samuel Butler in 1863, that's 4 years after Darwin's "On the Origin of Species".

Butlerian jihad[1] is the war against machines in the Dune universe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
This was a nice reframing of the concept of ikigai as I've heard it, and a quick consult of Wikipedia for ikigai [0] shows that it's largely accurate.

I'd also throw out there that one can derive a lot of purpose and meaning in life from religion as well. I certainly do. There are many motivating factors in life, and some core religious beliefs can do this quite effectively, in a positive manner.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
You don’t need a “much smarter” BMS for LFP, Daly BMS for LiPo and LFP are roughly the same price.
AWS and Nvidia Reboot "Ceiba" Supercomputer for Blackwell GPUs
high medical costs, esp. in old age, will annihilate most of the wealth before the Zoomers get a crack at it. My dad's home ran 9000/month for regular care, and even after we sold her house and other assets, it was looking like she'd be short of cash before too long.

After the estate settled me + siblings walked out with around 50k each. Not terrible, but wouldn't do much for me buying a house on the west coast; I'd need triple that, and even then might not cross the 20% threshold for mortgage insurance.
I mean, its powering Wikipedia right now and that's the seventh most popular website in the world.
It's a collective action problem. As an individual voter—or a group of voters, or even an extremely large group of voters—supporting a third party candidate means throwing away your political power, because your group simply will not be large enough to win a plurality.

If we want a third party, we need to switch away from first-past-the-post voting systems. Having more than two political parties does not make mathematical sense in the current system.
> people are using image generation and chatbots today to be 50%+ more productive and produce better work.

I don't think we have evidence to support that.
How else should anyone answer that? Whatever improvement are done (and you can't deny that there are continuous improvements), a person with that view will always find that "more" could be done. They don't actually say that they want perfection, but actually that's the same as always saying "more could be done".
Maybe, but US pulled out first:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691521600/russia-pulls-out-of...
What’s shared between these 300 sites?
Just the wrong number, at least for light in a vacuum. 299,792,458 m/s is the correct value.
It is only the wrong licence for that reason if the project cares that you won't use it.
This is hardly a novel idea in the rest of the world. It is an ancient one and widespread. It is discussed by many philosophers and is discussed in many religions.

It strikes me that westerners have lost the roots of their culture and are having to relearn it from elsewhere.

"ikigai doesn’t limit someone’s value in life to career and financial status"

Ancient Greek philosophers and their successors frequently discussed happiness and how to live life.

Assuming it is being explained correctly here, that is less anti-wealth than Christianity ("it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" etc) but similar in rejecting financial status.

Buddhism regards wealth as an attachment so I would have expected a slightly different attitude.

From middle eastern (possibly Hellenised) culture before Christianity read the book of Ecclesiastes.

"What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration,) and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile! There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work."
This is probably some big hairy statistical optimization problem. 100 bundles across 1,000 routes. How to you pack up the 100 bundles into n (n<100) larger bundles such that average time to interactive is smallest. Of course, you get different answers depending on first time vs returning site visitors.
Question/feedback:

Who is this for?

I understand the ease of use but using ollama (an easy to use wrapper for llama.cpp) in production is in my experience as someone who deploys this stuff a very bad idea.

I understand it's "highly scalable" thanks to the tooling but at the end of the day on a resource utilization basis vLLM, HF TGI, etc are going to walk all over llama.cpp which IMO is the completely wrong tool for the job.

vLLM and HF TGI are containerized and run very well with nothing other than a HuggingFace model name as an argument/environment variable.

In the days of GPU shortages, very high costs, and CPU being unacceptably slow (only advantage of llama.cpp) using vLLM or similar cuts hosting costs in half if not more while providing more management tools, higher TPS, lower time to first token, etc.

When your hardware or cloud hosting costs are multiples higher using this vs these real serving frameworks a little extra ease of use on the frontend combined with the impossibility to really compete on performance makes this approach a tough proposition all around.
If you walk into a high end bike shop you won't see many steel bikes, you'll see them mostly with higher end materials like aluminum, titanium, or carbon fiber.

Most people aren't getting their bikes from a high end bike shop though, most are getting their bikes from discount shops like Walmart, which sells mostly steel bikes.

First result on Google is steel:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kent-Bicycles-27-5-in-Male-Sea-Ch...
> Just my two cents: If you're saving enough documents to where you need something like this, you're spending too much time bookmarking and not enough time actually making use of the knowledge contained in there.

I completely disagree, I keep running into the opposite problem: Having to retread ground on old projects because I didn't document what I did and forgot over time.

I even notice other people have this issue. I recently took over a project from a friend, but because he didn't document anything, I'm essentially starting from scratch.

I have never once regretted writing something down, but I constantly regret not writing something down.
Wizards/Hasbro might not do it the justice it deserves (see Spelljammer) but Gamma World needs to return.

Various versions of Metamorphosis Alpha are also available (print and PDF) and the original game was reprinted a few years ago.
Article subtitle: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

I'm not thinking of simulating the whole cell. And last I heard, a DC full of computers can't fully simulate one sucrose molecule.
The arguments against planned obsolescence are partially environmental. If planned obsolescence isn't going away, at least this aspect is improved. Consider medical disposables, or one-time packaging that still requires medium term storage survivability.
Sniper is easier in my opinion. If you find a ring of marksmanship, it becomes pretty trivial with the sniper's armor bypassing and tier upgrades to the bow.

I think anyone hunting for a first win should play as a huntress or mage. Ranged attacks are pretty overpowered in comparison to melee and don't require as much position play. And since both classes begin with their final weapon, you don't need to rely too much on the RNG to survive.
The problem as an applicant is that after sending, say 30,40,50 carefully considered applications, spending up to several hours on each, and getting almost no response, you change tactics.

There's no point crafting a love letter which won't even be read - just stick a bunch of bullet points together and broadcast.