skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice project :)

HTTP3 may not be suitable for all environments, as UDP is pretty commonly filtered.

If you are in such scenario, you may want to take a look at wstunnel, it allows you to do the same (and more) over websocket or HTTP2.

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel
> 7B parameter Orca-2.5 model aligned by DNO achieves the state-of-the-art win-rate against GPT-4-Turbo of 33% on AlpacaEval 2.0 (even after controlling for response length), an absolute gain of 26% (7%→33%) over the initializing model. It outperforms models with far more parameters, including Mistral Large, Self-Rewarding LM (70B parameters), and older versions of GPT-4

edit: updated quote w/ more context
Government isn’t the solution to the problem, it is the problem.
Right, I don't know how to be precise in simple paragraphs about the ideas here. Basically, though, if you can authenticate from two or more devices (or, in a real sense, even applications on the same device), then whatever compute or secret is doing the authentication has to be copied between them.

A brief dump of my understanding: (Edit to add, I put this dump here largely to see if I actually understand the general landscape. If there are holes/mistakes here, please call them out.)

This was historically done by trusting the user to manage a secret that they attest they will not let anyone else know. In this world, the "compute" was often common knowledge, but hinged on a hard to guess part. This is no different than a credit card, so far. You agree that you will not let unauthorized users have your credit card.

A not surprising hole in this security, was that you had no way of knowing if someone else had your secret. You could do audits, but in general access patterns had to checked by others. (Note, this works better than folks give credit.)

Security keys took the path of making it so that the secret never gets off of the token device. There would be a challenge protocol that you could only succeed if you knew the secret, which was offloaded to the token. If you lost your token, you could not just get a new one. As the secret was flat out gone.

Passkeys are taking a lot of the security lessons learned there, and trying to bring them to the general public. In doing so, though, they are looking to increase user friendliness by letting your secret be managed by their ecosystem. In the case of Apple and Google, they are basically taking the route that, as long as you are sticking to their programs and services, they will replicate a secret for you.

This article is upset that Apple and Google are limiting the replication. Calling it a trap of passkeys. But... what is the alternative that is being pushed?

Note that if the argument is that the increase in security is already enough with existing audits and non verbally communicated passwords, that is probably fine. I got the tone from the article that something sinister was at play from Apple/Google. Sounds like the sinister motivation is more of wanting high security, though?
I'm planning on taking my family to Reykjavik - we went earlier this year, and it was great, and it'll be greater still with a total eclipse!
No fine tuning. Looks like he's do raw model capabilities with simple prompt. repo: https://github.com/parea-ai/tool-use-benchmark
Actually, using DEBUG for creating anything besides one or two simple DOS/BIOS calls was a PITA due to the lack of symbolic labels. After that, the MASM/TASM boilerplate started to feel bearable.
Not only does it disappear, but it suddenly grows a lot of weird glowing hair!
Amazing, I’ve moved to Hamburg and the system is horrifyingly fascinating.
16kB on a Mac, so that was probably what they were running into. You effectively can’t make a program whose code occupies less than 16kB.
It's really helpful with MongoDB Query Language (also MQL). Document models without a rigid schema and a less intuitive API are where this stuff comes in real handy. MongoDB's GUI Compass already shipped a feature to generate queries and aggregation pipelines from natural language.
Part of this is that a lot of things have become a lot more tightly coupled with Linux in the past couple decades. OS X Snow Leopard, often positioned as the “best” macOS release, also had a number of significant differences from Linux, but those differences were more frequently accounted for in software.
No, that was the whole purpose of my comment, and why I quoted from the article. Now I'm starting to feel like I'm missing a joke. :-)
In large data centers, rack level UPSs are impractical for many reasons like cost and efficiency, but the big problem is that modern power densities are so high that you want rows to fail if cooling isn't available.

It doesn't take long without cooling to cook equipment to the point of failure or reduced reliability.

7 to 16kW per rack is common even in these older colo facilities.

And there never would have been enough UPS to make up for not enough replacement breakers on site.
I am aware that there are ThinkPads with P3 displays, but only in very specific configuration. Most come with 45% NTSC displays, and 100% sRGB is an upgrade option in T series. If you don't believe me, you can go to lenovo.com and check this right now. With regard to other brands, yes they have P3 "available", but most standard configurations come with 100% sRGB. And yes I did research on that as well.
Shared feeling
Oh yes. Hiding and flagging should be visualized by a Toast for a few seconds.
I just saw it. It felt like the exact correct level of hype. Incredible, and easily worth driving six hours for.

The image of the corona around the sun is seared into my memory now, and I want to see it again - I see why some people become "eclipse-chasers", and travel the world to experience this again.
Most people would rather work in languages they already know. Natural language processing will allow programming languages to become as niche as assembly is, essentially. You won't need to interface with it much because the models will get that good.
You can get good bread in the US at a bakery. Supermarkets are iffy depending on the region.
Perhaps, but it's simply not the way things have been done. For example, I cannot imagine a legal infrastructure that would allow people to understand Terms Of Service. And that is with everyone using their own language.
Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push
Hey HN. Eric Seidel here (former lead of Flutter & Dart at Google, prev. YC S06).

I founded Flutter and led the team for almost a decade. One of the constant questions we got was would we support code push like the web/react native: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14330 I left Google about a year ago and set out to build a company around Flutter and decided to start with code push.

It took us a year to build. We had to build a new toolchain for Dart and a custom interpreter (for store compliance). But it works! Our beta has already been used by thousands of apps. Most (eventually all) of the code is open source on GitHub.

I’ll be around all day to answer Flutter and Shorebird questions. We run our company in the public on Discord and are happy to take questions there too. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Ok, so Google (the website) is malicious, Youtube (the website) is malicious, Facebook (the website) is malicious. Every single ad infested website in the world is malicious, according to you.

Stop trying to change language. That's not what "malicious" means.
How ist 20%/23% good? Am I reading the numbers wrong? 40%, that I could agree on. But 23% is very low.

Another thing is culture. The in the company's where I've worked at, how the men talked about women was pretty off-putting to be honest. They didn't do it in front of women (obviously), but even your nerdy developers would drop comments that had me wondering whether I was really in the ckrrect field. I'm sure the women in those places notice that even if it's behind their backs.
I started this a few weeks ago and I knew it wouldn't be received well in China. Why? It shows the truth about how brutal the government was during the cultural revolution and how easily citizens can be swayed to become monsters.

"while others question why the series casts ethnic Chinese only as villains or poor people, which is not true"

If it was set in Nazi Germany during the 40s, the same could be said about the Germans.

"Others accused the show of exaggerating the level of violence in the struggle session"

Just by actual historical accounts, the actual violence that happened during this time wouldn't be able to be shown on Netflix today and received by any audience.

I'm glad we are showcasing the horrors of Communist regimes like Mao. They killed as many or more than the Nazis and aren't really taught enough in school. I knew of it when I was younger, but only when I took a Chinese history class in college did I understand the actual level of violence.
How to Spot the Next Mania
But it would take a day to get someone to look at it and a new computer can drive home with you today.
> There seems to be a growing frustration about asylum seekers who moved to Germany and did not adopt German values, a theme you will find in every country.

I'd like to see white, christians or atheists, germans move to some of the countries those asylum seekers are coming from and see how they'd be treated.

Then we can discuss if it's the same in every country.
I think it's also a chicken and egg problem. How many people have Windows ARM laptops, and how much incentive / how easy is it for developers to make their apps ARM-native?

There was some talk earlier about the Windows equivalent to 'fat-binaries', the new ABI and executable format.

http://www.emulators.com/docs/abc_arm64ec_explained.htm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39806746
> What is happening to Western culture to produce such trash?

This is why I dislike Cory Doctorow's coinage of this word.
Enshitificattion is not the same as things simply turning to crap.

Quality decay of in all products is a natural effect under economic
conditions of efficiency. Capitalism perfectly produces vast amounts
of cheap, mass-produced goods just above the quality threshold at
which nobody would buy it even if it were free.

Enshitificattion is a complex double sided betrayal [0]. The quality
of an enshitified product might remain quite good. But the conditions
under which you must buy and use it become intolerable. Likewise for
the producer. The extraction is decoupled from the goods themselves.

A simply efficient market still allows that competition could come
along and offer a high quality luxury alternative (probably nobody
would buy it because we're conditioned to expecting crap).

An enshitified market is captured. In your example there would only be
one radio station. It's a Soviet style outcome of capitalism plus
total lack of regulation - aka Consumer Communism.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/betrayal
> tech industry is on of the most inclusive industries because it...

Where have you been?

That ignoring history
Our curriculum was c++, so it was familiar territory for the students in terms of both the language and the compiler but yeah you can likely do this exercise with any compiled language.
I hope you are able to find joy in this universe. Don't let others ruin your chance at a fulfilled life.
I'm all for assuming bad intent when it comes to Google and, but this doesn't really make sense.

Google owns the OS; if they want your location, they don't need to care about per-app location permissions.
You're the one looking for help, you're not gonna get it by antagonizing others and waffling off your own responsibility.

Best of luck.
Looks cool. Was just about to start a new project with react native, but I might just have to check out flutter again to give this a shot.
You will need to create and propagate a religion that emphasizes the virtue of smashing up silicate rocks and wetting the dust. It's a lot more tedious than cloud seeding, but it's low-tech and works at scale.

Ed. this produces carbonic acid, but if you feed it slowly into the biosphere, small friends will turn it into bone and shell
This has been Qualcomm's claim with each of the Snapdragon powered Surfaces Microsoft has released. Even then the claim is hedged about running specific benchmarks. Real world performance of these systems hasn't seemed to beat the compared to Apple systems.
I just wrote my own dotfiles manager in Ruby [1]. Not too hard, imo.

[1] https://github.com/danieljaouen/dotfiles/blob/main/Rakefile

Edit: I agree that the path/old_path/new_path naming is confusing, I just never got around to refactoring it. :/
Still only 33% though. Which is impressive for a 7B model, but the student has not yet surpassed the teacher
https://new.reddit.com/
The suggested solution for loosing a Yubikey is to already have n>=2 set up for your account. Apple won't even let you enable it without having two.
While the math seems intimidating, it does not look all too different from SPIN and previous researches. Pretty surprising how effective this is though. The costs here seems to be way higher too (with all the GPT4 calls).

> We also do a brief cost analysis associated with the scaled-up experiment on 600k training inputs. The major line items are the cost of sampling outputs, annotating them with GPT-4 to construct training pairs, and then training the next iteration against those pairs. For _each_ of the six iterations:

> 1. Sampling: it took about 18-24 hours to inference 5 outputs for all 100k examples on 10 8xA100 80GB pods, depending on the average length, costing about $6,000 based on spot pricing.

> 2. Annotation: the average number of prompt tokens sent to GPT-4 for annotation across iterations was about 450M, with an average of about 60M completion tokens, amounting to about $34,000 based on the version of the endpoint we were using.

> 3. Training: ironically, training was the cheapest step, taking only 12-24 hours on two 8xA100 80GB nodes
Don't Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Development Project
This is so true . There is a word for it in German… behördenwillkür. Mean they can do with you as they please. Advocate insurance is a must here. I hate the bureaucracy here. Lawyers are the only help
What is the killer app product of a LLM Play ATM that's not a lossleader?
I have long observed that the Abrahamic God seems to be quite an asshole, at least based on the writings his followers believe in. Heck, sometimes I have idle thoughts that maybe that which people call 'God' these days is in fact 'Satan' and he did in fact tempt everyone away from the real deal.
When I say "rare", I didn't mean that the models don't exist. I meant that the screens in devices that most people actually buy are crap. I am very aware that there are laptops with OLED screens, and OLED monitors. But they are still in the minority, especially those expensive OLED monitors. If you want to know what the market is really like for Windows devices or monitors, go to Amazon or Best Buy, find the best selling items, and check the display specs. I can guarantee very few support P3.
> Because, if you find it relevant what the sex of the board members that made that mistake was, how is that any better than the alleged sexism that McGovern had endured?

You've done some subtle editorializing here to try and make your point stronger, allow me to correct it:

> ultimately destroyed by men

is not what I wrote, what I wrote is

> ultimately destroyed by the men who overrode her decisions and opted to take the 'safer' route.

They convey two very different ideas. The strawman that you wrote implies that I believe men, by virtue of their sex, are responsible for the companies failure. This is not the case.

What I wrote implies that the board rejected her proposal because they thought they know better. Is it conceivable to you that this belief might have had something to do with the fact that she was a female CEO, formerly a housewife, in an exclusively male industry?

Surely you can concede that identifying sexist behavior and committing sexist behavior are not equivalent.
If paying full attention to driving is so tiresome to you please don't drive. My impression of this description is that FSD is getting good enough to lull drivers into not paying enough attention. There shouldn't be a product like that either Tesla takes responsibility like Waymo or makes a clearly L2 system that is good at limited things. Blurring the line like this is going to get even more dangerous as FSD gets better
well I'm not making a value judgement, but we're talking about odds, not "good" or "bad"...if 20% of women go after a software job and the field is made up of an even higher %, that suggests the odds are amazing for women. Odds don't tell the whole story, but the odds seem in women's favor at the moment.
Is an iPhone the only phone people bother repairing?
Shorebird 1.0 – Update your Flutter apps instantly
"Out of battery" isn't really what we think it means. The phone shuts down (and refuses to start back up) when it still has quite a bit of battery left. If it truly allowed the battery to go flat, that would damage the battery, and you'd have a really hard time charging it again.

The amount of juice your entire phone needs to run for, say, a half hour can probably power just the bluetooth LE chipset for occasional wakeups for beacon-sending for... weeks? Months? (Completely made up time spans, but the BTLE chipset really does need a tiny amount of power for infrequent wakesups compared to the entire phone.) Certainly this can't last forever: if your phone is missing for long enough, the battery will eventually run down to a point where the battery controller won't let even the BTLE chipset draw any more power.

This definitely requires hardware, firmware, and software support in order to set up, which is why only Pixel 8 is supported so far. Clearly when they were designing the Pixel 8 hardware, they already knew this feature was in the pipeline, and wanted to be able to launch with a supported phone.
The Vala Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528496 - Feb 2024 (no comments :)
I guess this shows you how valuable references, connections, and networks are.

If you don’t have these, you have to go through the black void of dropping hundreds of resumes to get any response.
It's in the release notes, and those also include a migration guide.

I'm not sure what more you would want. It's a major version upgrade.
Sorry, I got carried away and did not finish my argument. I mentioned that the initial Chinese nukes originated with a design stolen by the Soviets from the US. There is no slam-dunk evidence for that (at least of the declassified type), but it appears highly likely that the US bomb that was the "inspiration" was the W-33 one [1]. That was a U-235 bomb that was so miniaturized that it fit into an 8-inch artillery shell. 2000 of those were produced and stockpiled. They remained in service until the end of the Cold War.

They were not very high yield, only about 10 kT. But it's very likely the design was exceptionally safe, considering that so many were built, and the idea for these nukes were to be used in a field of battle and fired using regular (although quite large) howitzers.

Two earlier designs were the Mk-8 and Mk-11 [2]. Both were of the Hiroshima type, using only U-235, and had a yield of up to 30 kT. A few dozen were built of both types.

Bottom line: uranium-only bombs could be made safe. They could also be made to have very high yield, up to 300 kT, as shown by the Chinese test Chic-6.

I don't have direct proof that a Hiroshima-type bomb could be made to be both high-yield and safe, because all major nuclear powers preferred to use Plutonium. But I think it's very plausible that if Plutonium had not been successful during WW2, the US, and the rest of the other nuclear powers, would have found ways to build large and safe such uranium bombs, where the uranium would have been either U-235 or U-233.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W33_(nuclear_warhead)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_11_nuclear_bomb
Yeah, why does he not ever get the blame? Many people are quick to give him all the credit for good things, but mysteriously that no longer applies when something bad happens. Huh.
What a coincidence. I was looking at awesome dotfiles on GitHub. I started thinking of jumping onto the "manage dotfile" bandwagon after reading today's LWN note on the GNU Stow release. I shortlisted Chezmoi and Comtrya to play with. Then I saw this.
Found the linked virtual museum exhibit about the internment camps fascinating: https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment/road-camps
> Microsoft claims, in internal documents seen by The Verge, that these new Windows AI PCs will have “faster app emulation than Rosetta 2”

I'm deeply fascinated by this. Rosetta 2 is crazy impressive. If the Qualcomm/Windows works as well then a Windows ARM laptop could be genuinely interesting.
No industry is inclusive, nor will ever be, that is almost by definition.
GPT Chats with Xfinity Support to get discounts
I live in Dallas TX and this is the first total eclipse i remember. When totality got closer my shadow on the ground become strange, i can't put my finger on it but something about my shadow seemed different. The last minute or so increased the darkness very fast, it got wayyy darker than i was expecting. The streetlights came on, all my neighbor's porch lights came on, and I could see a star/planet next to the sun.
Does anyone know if the baseband chip communication with the tower is disabled in airplane mode?
If it's anything like return to the office, there will be legions of landlords in Congress/parliament making laws to force everybody back into the coffee shops.
And a couple years later there is another one making a nice path all the way across Australia. Might be time to visit down under...
Apple and Google have agreed on a standard for the anti-stalking functionality. Everything else is still separate.
Also repository owner seems to be from Austria.
Compared to a Hello World program on C64 written in assembler probably not. ;)

I need roughly 24 bytes. 16kb means 16.384 bytes. I can think of better usage of $4000 space in memory, FLI for example.
> All modern big and important programs that make a computer work are written this way [AoT-compiled to native code].

This is the conventional wisdom, but it's increasingly not true.
I don't care who is the best, I care about having enough performance, and performance per dollar. And this is enough performance for many things. It's a useful thing to say (though how useful depends on battery life).
shameless plug, I wrote my own too called dotbot. I modeled it after the python version.

https://github.com/sigmonsays/dotbot
Doesn't it? It's the same codebase as Chrome, and not in the sense that they used to be. They still are. Changes to one go into the other. And that code is open source, so anybody who doesn't like what Google is doing with it can create a fork, just like with any other open source project.

Arguing that it isn't because the most popular distribution has some proprietary bits in it is like arguing that it isn't because the most popular operating system it runs on is Windows. It doesn't change the fact that if the browser defects against you, you can fork it.
If anyone wants down this golden path, I'd recommend forking open search server. It's quite a feat and does the crawling part well.

https://www.opensearchserver.com/
It does look like a better deal, but only quantitatively. Instead of being a sledgehammer of the empire you get to be a xylophone mallet.

And not without its own drawbacks, as discussed elsewhere.
I've been thinking about it a bit like medicine. My grandmother over her life had a kidney removed, an artificial heartvalve implanted, both hips replaced, a pacemaker implanted and upgraded, and had a rather involved drug regime eventually to service a lot of that. I doubt she would have lived past her 60's without all that. Of course she eventually died, but she did get a couple more decades with all the interventions. I suppose it's the best you can hope for sometimes.