skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gartner and their magic quadrant are very popular among business folks.

It’s a way to see where all of the players in a market stand.

I use gartner stuff if I am presenting to execs or business users.

Twilio knows that it usually isn’t the engineers buying stuff. It’s the business people.
AI hipsterism
I feel the same way about AI/LLM lingo
This idea seems crazy on its face, honestly. There is no chance that I'd be willing to use an AI replacement for health care professionals.
New beta of starling-lm 7B by Berkeley/Nexusflow
It's open source: if things don't get fixed, it's because no user cares enough to fix it. I'm certainty not wasting my time on that, nobody uses ext3 anymore!

You are as empowered to fix this as anybody else, if it presents a real problem for you.
Oh no, what of an unfortunate event. The slack tool uses the name already used by OpenNebula. /s
> can you give some examples of what you're talking about ?

PLease see the podcast linked above where we have spent many hours
researching, analysing, writing and presenting on specific cases. In
episodes to come we're working on joining the dots, finding common
factors in these cases. Enjoy, and please give feedback if you feel
able.
> instinctively repugnant

To some.

In very-red areas that I have relatives, they're happy to do a food drive, make donations, help pay for weddings or funerals, or show up to help repair houses. When you have 100 cousins and 10 brothers, this is a viable option.

They frequent each others businesses, work on interconnected industries, and in general help out however they can.

It's not instinctively repugnant to help, or to give, it's instinctively repugnant to give outside their community. That seems a more fundamental problem with tax-rich/give-poor mentality. These folks make tons of charitable donations in money, in kind, and in time, but oppose wealth redistribution.
I tend to lean lefty, but this scheme makes me understand why libertarians want less government

How much my home is worth should not be capped by whatever government thinks. That's bs

If government is counter offering all of my neighbors and they are accepting it, then I am screwed. I either accept the government counter offer or I go to tribunal who will cite all of the government's recent purchases from my neighbors to set the price at something very close to that anyways

And if I don't like it, I'm legally not allowed to sell?

Ridiculous

Even if you don't think houses should be infinitely appreciating assets, which I don't, your asset worth should still be as valuable as someone is willing to pay for them, not controlled by a cartel style government
> I recently tried Btrfs on my low-end laptop (no snapshots)

Do snapshots degrade the performance of btrfs?
> No benchmark = no download.

Perhaps it's because I'm particularly snarky pre-morning coffee, but this doesn't come across as the welcoming attitude open source is supposed to be and comes across as downright entitled. Especially as the first thing to lead with. Maybe you didn't quite mean it that way?

I'm taking a wild guess to say that you don't have a screaming need to run 'SELECT * FROM user LIMIT 1;' tens of thousands of times per second on SQLite.

And if you did, I'm guessing you prob would be able to write your own API in front of it.

Am I wrong here?

Kudos to the authors of this tool. It looks great and I'd love to try it out on a recent project.
Vienna actually had a terrible housing crisis before the Austromarxists of Red Vienna built housing en masse. See this article for example: https://citymonitor.ai/environment/housing/red-vienna-how-au...
> In Lua it's only the start/end of the string

There's an additional caveat: if you use the optional "init" parameter to specify an offset into the string to start matching, the ^ anchor will match at that offset, which may or may not be what you expect.
A new driver for the Badger2040 e-ink, or EPDs hacking and waveform LUTs design.
Does Ohio have the right skills in its labor market though, or will Intel be building from scratch? With the other locations, they already have fans in the area and expanding a workforce is easier than building it from nothing.

Ohio’s labor, land, and water are definitely cheaper. And it’s seismically stable.

I wonder if there is anything to do with ease of shipping there, either by rail or by Great Lakes + Erie Canal or St Lawrence river that make it ideal for Intel
You can put this on whole France, this is general approach at least for past few decades.

Ultra rich easily bypass all those populist moves to 'tax rich', poor have sometimes unreasonable protections (ie you can just stop paying rent, give big FU to the owner, change locks and maybe, theoretically after 6 months of courts he can evict you on his costs, while you trash the place into nothing without any recourse - some real cases of friends living there).

Its outright the worst possible place in whole Europe to be rich (again, those ultra rich are off the quite corrupt system, just check all (super)yachts in whole Cote d'Azur), government goes after you like a rabid dog, inheritance tax is easily 40%. All the bankers I've talked to (not professionally, I am just a normal guy) advised against any investment in that country before you cross ultra high net worth line, then all this disappears.

Yet absolutely nobody strikes against this corruption and unfairness, middle class just buckles up and continues, at least whats left of it.
Transformer is an evolution of large scale training of seq2seq. Diffusion models is an evolution of even older approach - training denoising autoencoders.

It had been a relatively gradual and accelerating progress, with number of people working in the field increasing exponentially, since 2010 or so, when Deep Learning on GPUs was popularized at NIPS by Theano.

Tens of thousands people working together on Deep Learning. Many more on GPUs.
I've always been a bit wary of a local trusted CA, especially with the signing cert on the same dev box as the certificates it signs which is how I've seen things done a lot. It feels like opening up a trust issue that could allow an uncooperative entity to play games with me… Maybe that is just paranoia from the practical jokes played back in CompSci at Uni!

Admittedly an external attacker getting close enough to sign a cert using such a CA, in order to trick me into something, means they probably have such high access already that they don't really need the CA to do that or worse, so perhaps it is unnecessary caution.
If it gives you no, or wrong, sources you -journalist- have to check them again, yes. Pointless.
Depends- for example, duirng the time that Google started up, I was in grad school with a great deal of support for starting biotech companies, but when I looked... even the geniuses were struggling because at the time, biotech companies could take a decade or more to be profitable or fail. It was clear, as we were exiting the late 90s dot com crash that the economy and money for tech was going to come back, and companies that took advantage of rapidly increasing specs on cheap machines (versus buying expensive Suns, DECs, or SGIs) were going to be able to scale to immense amounts of traffic, and deliver ads for profit.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761990
Digital photography works not just because of the camera but because of the surrounding digital ecosystem. What would people do with digital photos in 1975?
This was cool but then after leaving it running and switching back to the tab caused it to hang until the tab got killed and I lost progress.
Migrate Next.js App Away from "Vercel and PlanetScale" to "Fly.io"
> I find cities in Taiwan frustrating to navigate without personal transport, at least a bicycle.

Complete opposite experience; we found it actually enjoyable to navigate without personal transport.

Some days, we walked > 10 miles; goes perfectly with stuffing your face with street food.

To be fair, we were there as tourists and only for 12 days, but in any of the major metros, we did not feel like our experience would have been better with a car. Maybe bikes.
Maybe? Maybe not. It's been done before. For example in CH our biggest national broadcaster is a state company. It's not as totalitarian as you might think. It is biased for sure, but as biased as private operators.

Don't forget private cable networks also reflect the political orientation of their owners.
How is the synthetic test data generation done in ragas?

Can I use custom Open source models like Mistral 7B to generate synthetic test data?
How much of the $20 they are loosing is fixed cost?
With `borg check`[1].

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html
No, but it is weird to use "modern" here. Modern suggest a longer timeframe. I would say machine learning deep NNs is modern AI. It's just not true that everything not transformer is outdated, but it is "kinda" true that everything not deep NN is outdated.
I've seen the process to purchase a place in both France and California. The former can take the significant part of a year, the later a matter of days.
Factsplat – Thoughts and Feedback
We are "releasing Factsplat into the wild". It is a SaaS solution where you can create connected dashboards for links, tools and docs.

Me and my cofounder started working on Factsplat in the fall of 2018. We've been through many of the classic startup struggles, as we made our way to where we are now; with quite a few users in Norway and a handful of customers. Now we are going against the Norwegian "Law of Jante" to share our life work with the world.

We have struggled to explain how it is different, but we have gotten better. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the platform, and I'm happy to answer your questions if you have any, either about the journey or the product.

In short, Factsplat is different, as it is more of a "social structure solution". With graph technology we allow people to structure anything (since practically everything in the cloud has a unique url) and share it with anyone, combining collaboration with your own unique "path" to what is most important to you.

What do you think? :)
Seems so: https://rive.app/blog/rive-as-a-lottie-alternative
The biggest limitation to that is that the selection of extra pieces is probably not as random as the set of missing pieces, especially since they focus on smaller pieces - presumably to accommodate the ones you lose after buying a full set.
Third time in two weeks that you submit the same waitlist as a "Show HN".
> I'm also OOTL on the boson part

The idea behind that is that, for all other interactions (electromagnetic, weak, strong), our Standard Model of particle physics tells us that there are "gauge bosons" (for electromagnetism it's the photon, for weak it's the W+, W-, and Z bosons, and for strong it's the eight gluons) that mediate the interaction. The full details of how this works involve quantum field theory and are way too long to go into here; all we need for this discussion is the basic idea that any interaction in quantum field theory has one or more "gauge bosons".

So if we are going to try to quantize gravity, the obvious way to do it--at least if you are a Standard Model particle physicist--is to treat it the same way and have a "gauge boson" for it. This has actually been done: the quantum field theory of a massless spin-2 field, which is what a "gauge boson" for gravity would look like, was developed in the 1960s and early 1970s. Furthermore, the classical limit of this quantum field theory is known to be General Relativity, i.e., the classical theory of gravity that we already have and that we already know works. So if we want to treat gravity as if it were a Standard Model interaction and give it a "gauge boson", this would be one obvious way to do it.

The reddit questioner was asking the more basic question of why we would want to do that at all--why do we need to quantize gravity. If we don't need to, the fact that we could do it using this known mathematical model (there are other issues that come into play with that, which one of the reddit responses mentions, but leave that aside) is irrelevant. Not all mathematical models have physical realizations.
Supervision – reusable computer vision tools
nice what was NR_OPEN set to? And which linux distro?
What a short-sighted view.

Having open access to the training data is how you prevent poisoning/biasing of the dataset. People complaining about bad data in the dataset improve the quality of the dataset. That's in addition to the benefit of creators being labeled in the dataset.

Hiding the data from public view seems to only helps nefarious actors.
Even, beyond that, Wikipedia, again, as an example, has faults on its own merits: I keep reading about Michel Talagrand and find this entry [1] which mentions his work first but there is no link in [2] to [1] (at least now).

I will try to restate this, for the sake of an interesting discussion, in a completely different direction but using Wikipedia as an example: in software engineering we create different kind of tests for our software systems, I think Wikipedia should add "unit tests" and other tests to augment, fix, and link their current content.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorization

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Talagrand
The problem is that people like this author are trying to literally treat it like a person instead of an LLM. Like honestly if you look at the linked chat convo early in the article, this person kind of just sucks at prompt engineering, imo.

"At times I was able to get the chat agent to give me what I wanted, but I had to be very specific and I often had to scold it."

You can't just half-ass a paragraph of disjointed system instructions into the user input and expect clean results, in my experience. You need to leverage the custom system instructions, give example responses if possible, and be very, very specific and direct with instructions. You need to explain the type of response you want, and you also need to describe any applicable constraints (or lack thereof) on the response content.

"When you are asked something, it is crucial that you cite your sources, and always use the most authoritative sources (government agencies for example) rather that sites like Wikipedia"

This is not sufficient to achieve what the author intends. It's written in a speech-like roundabout style (e.g. "it is crucial that"), and there's a typo right in the middle on an important word (than --> that). LLM can work around typos in most cases, but here it is vaguely possibly imo that this is what is causing it to continue citing wikipedia in responses.

"At times, the tool was too eager to please, so I asked it to tone it down a little: “You can skip the chit chat and pleasantries.”"

I have found in my experience playing with ChatGPT that this is just the completely wrong mental model to have of the tool in order to get what you want out of it. You have to treat it more like a prose-language programming tool, not like a person with emotions that you are conversing with...
This kind of makes me think of a spatial version of the Time Cube.
Seems like Duolingo apparently uses both? Or perhaps one of these is out of date.

>As Duolingo’s products grow and evolve to reach even more learners around the world, Lottie animations help us keep users engaged, delighted, and always learning.[0]

>We thought the answer might lie in an alternative to a game engine —something that can help us take a limited number of assets and turn those into a virtually unlimited number of combinations. This is how we learned about Rive![1]

[0] https://lottiefiles.com/case-studies/duolingo

[1] https://blog.duolingo.com/world-character-visemes/
Go Direct: The Manifesto
For me, the crucial part is to create a tool/script that just gets one task done as fast as possible. I don't need tools that can do everything. Often it's just a bash script that executes like 5 commands to execute/build something, so that I don't even have to think about those steps and don't forget one.

Tho it is a really fine line to not get hung up on those organizational tasks, yes.
I did read the article and it was still a stupid thing to do. It was
stupid with or without government approval and it was stupid whether
or not I read the article. What was your point?
How does Ragas handle the challenge of adapting traditional ML testing methodologies to suit the intricacies of LLM applications?
Building taller means people see the sky less. In my home city that is the case and you definitely dont want that. Where ive been living the last few years, no building is above 3 stories and its wonderful.
yeah - who knew that being barely able to cover your basic needs but nothing else would cause the younger generation to be less optimistic about the future? Preposterous I tell you!
Are we just submitting GitHub repos as posts now?
I firmly believe that teaching how to idiomatically do both character and line oriented file IO should be the first thing any language tutorial teaches, almost. Just as soon as you’ve introduced enough syntax.
Only an American could make this argument. Vienna tops global comparisons for quality of life all the time. Life expectancy is higher in Austria, as are safety, education standards and all other meaningful indicators.

Who cares about some silly numbers on a bank account? We live good lives.
"it takes more energy and more carbon emissions to walk a mile than it takes to drive a vehicle a mile"

I've never heard that before, can you expand on that?
In a build system, when you update a source code file, it should recompile the binaries that depend on it. Similarly, in excel when you update a cell in the spreadsheet, it should recompute the cells that refer to it.

The paper is about thinking about build systems in a more modular way. Are dependencies specified statically or dynamically? What algorithm is used to decide what should get rebuilt after an update? What order do we rebuild things? What happens if we pick different combinations of algorithm+order?
If you want create something like the pipe behaviour the author expected (buffer all output before sending to the next command), the sponge command from moreutils can help.
Spot – A Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
It depends on where the timing code is. If the timer starts after all the data has already been loaded, the time recorded will be lower (even if the total time for the whole process is higher).
can I save text snippets?
You can reliably change ext3 with ext4 in the GP's comment. It's not an extX problem, it's an BTRFS problem.

If nobody cares that much, maybe deprecate the tool, then?

Also, just because it's Open Source (TM) doesn't mean developers will accept any patch regardless of its quality. Like everything, FOSS is 85% people, 15% code.

> You are as empowered to fix this as anybody else, if it presents a real problem for you.

I have reported many bugs in Open Source software. If I had the time to study code and author a fix, I'd submit the patch itself, which I was able to do, a couple of times.
The latter is faster in actual CPU time, however note that TFA the measurement only starts with the program, it does not start with the start of the pipeline.

Because the compilation time overlaps with the pipes filling up, blocking on the pipe is mostly excluded from the measurement in the former case (by the time the program starts there’s enough data in the pipe that the program can slurp a bunch of it, especially reading it byte by byte), but included in the latter.
It's the classic liberal arts argument, applied to CS.

> None of the deans I spoke with aspires to launch, say, a department of art within their college of computing, or one of politics, sociology, or film. Their vision does not reflect the idea that computing can or should be a superordinate realm of scholarship, on the order of the arts or engineering. Rather, they are proceeding as though it were a technical school for producing a certain variety of very well-paid professionals. A computing college deserving of the name wouldn’t just provide deeper coursework in CS and its closely adjacent fields; it would expand and reinvent other, seemingly remote disciplines for the age of computation.

> [...] CS departments have been asked to train more software engineers without considering whether more software engineers are really what the world needs. Now I worry that they have a bigger problem to address: how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers.
> What do people do in factories?

Ventilation. Compartmentalization. Controlled processes with early warnings. Proper tools. Quality control. Active fire suppression. Not doing that at home with your wife, kids, and your dog.

Sure, if you know what you're doing, can deal with thermal runaway, and can trust your work afterwards, nobody stops you from doing it. I've done it myself (never tried anything larger than a e-bike battery though). Just keep in mind that you're working with a firebomb that deceptively looks like an electronic device.
Whoa whoa, dude. You're being unnecessarily hostile. GP's question was a fair one, and not (by my reading) unkindly phrased. Even if I'm wrong about that, personal attacks aren't welcome contributions: flag and move on.
People who don't understand market pricing are against rent taxes because they think landlords can pass them through.
"I'm not sure we can draw a fair analogy between the nuclear arms race and software piracy."

Of course not. It was just a joke. :)
Meta just showed off Threads' Fediverse integration
These days I'm finding myself doing half my trips on a bicycle and half in a car. In my experience one of the biggest barriers to micromobility in America is cultural. Motorists can be aggressive and complacent because their vehicles are big and have airbags, and so long as they aren't impaired they won't be held accountable for harm they cause with their vehicles. Cyclists and pedestrians can act in a way that is entitled and reckless because they know they probably won't be held accountable for their behavior either. Except some of them sometimes forget that the laws of physics are less flexible.

A few years ago I was driving my son somewhere, and a cyclist blew through a red light and slammed into the side of my car. Fortunately the only injuries were the ones that the cyclist inflicted on himself through his reckless disregard for the law. Judging how much damage he did to my car, if my son and I had been on our e-bikes instead then I think that guy could have easily killed my kid.

Knowing that there are too many cyclists and motorists who behave with complete disregard for the law makes me feel like I really have no choice but to put my child in a big steel cage with airbags and crumple zones if we're going to travel anywhere on American roads. And before you ask, this was not in a big city, so public transportation was not a viable option for us that day.

My personal experience seeing peoples' general behavior and attitudes on roads in both Japan and Amsterdam makes me wish we could find a way to adopt some of that culture.
Gravity in GR is a 'fictitious force' or an apparent force, meaning it is is an artifact of your chosen frame of reference.

A feather falling the same speed as an elephant in the Earth reference frame is an example.

It is the same as other apperant forces like centrifugal force.

Even Newton himself said 'Hypotheses non fingo,' or 'I feign no hypotheses. '

It was a conjecture.
It does beget a Transformer which we choose to call a language model when it's applied to language data