skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does take guts to admit you were wrong. He didn’t though.

This is a non-apology, “apology”.

He says he was wrong about being so “strong.” Wtf? That’s not an apology at all.

His “analysis” was complete bullshit. Hilariously, in his “apology” he says “a few minutes of LGTM isn’t enough.” Then he adds a kind of “trust me bro” tidbit to counter the people that called him out for his few minutes of garbage analysis.

If he had anything ACTUALLY damning, he would have put it in the article. Instead he put the most vaguely related stuff and said “see! Smoking gun!”

This guy has credentials that make it obvious he should know better. Yet he’s still basically saying he was only wrong in tone.

I don’t get his motive. Is he personally involved with Hashicorp or something? Is he friends with an executive? It doesn’t make sense to me at all, unless there’s some other motive he’s not talking about.

He tried to make it sound like “I have an honest concern.” To me it just sounds like it could very well be a stealth PR campaign from some Hashicorp lawyer that backfired immediately. Reminds me of the crap they pull in the entertainment industry.

That’s my rant.
These opinions are my own, yada yada.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40003251
It is psychologically tricky to go from an engineer to a manager or lead. I also used to just feel guilty like I was offloading my work on other people who already had plenty to do. I did then later improve by managing their workloads and the long term roadmap to make sure everyone is working reasonable hours
What's the feeling of playing with a powerful base model? Will it just complete the prompt text like a continuation of it?
Apparently, they ask the users to provide the feedback for the model going forward once they release that? (I'm as confused as you are)

The API looks really good however, especially if it's NativeAOT-compatible and works in a way that is reminiscent of Rust's egui, something which .NET deserves to have. But that's an IF we will need to see realized.
No, radiosondes and satellite perform different weather monitoring functions and have different capabilities. They work together to provide a more complete picture.

The first paragraph of the Radiosonde Wikipedia article[1] sums up the differences well.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
Slaves did anything in Roman society. Skilled workers from conquered places were enslaved. Slaves apprenticed under them. Slaves even ran all the government offices, and some got rich from bribes, buying their freedom, and eventually, some, their childrens'.
README.TXT or README.1ST have been used for a long time distributing software, I'm assuming it's just to follow that trend. FILE_ID.DIZ files were all caps as well.
I remember this for other informational text files going back to the 90s. The caps made it stand out in the list of files so it was easier to find first.

Another example is FILE_ID.DIZ. Just learned the extension is for description in zipfile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ
I did not make it up; I read it at https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/03/22/trash-city-new-york-i... (see "Hooked on plastic" section in the article).

If you believe that this account is wrong, I am interested in hearing the true story, and seeing some sources if you have them.
Probably finding someone who will pay them to be a Crystal developer.
In the future, there will be only two companies. One will hold the patent on walking up a hill, while the other will hold the patent on walking down a hill. The major debate will be whose patent you are violating if you are only halfway up.
1ST_README also
>so complex and are so difficult to repair they are causing catastrophic loss to insurance companies.

in US maybe. Tons of companies in EU specializing in imports of "totaled" US cars. Totaled by cost calculated with magic insurance algorithms, but in real life easily fixable cosmetic/suspension/mechanical damage. Repairs are in $5-10K range for a $20K "totaled" car worth $50K when fixed. Money laying on the street waiting to be picked up.

Are US car insurance companies similarly limited by law to a certain percentage of profit like Healthcare? Because this does feel like car insurance companies are artificially inflating costs to bump premiums.
It's probably not an edge case, considering that East Asians are the most likely to attend SAT prep classes, and also the group that does the best on the SAT[0].

Yes, I guess we should completely reinvent American society to make it better, but in the meanwhile, tweaking college admissions standards seems like an okay stop gap measure. We should also work to systemically eliminate homelessness and hunger, but that doesn't mean we should be shutting down shelters and soup kitchens in the meanwhile.

[0] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/19/study-finds-e...
MOE models don’t, in practice, selectively load experts on activation (and if a runtime for them could be designed that would do that, it would make them perform worse, since the experts activated may differ from token to token, so you’d be churning a whole lot swapping portions of the model into and out of VRAM.) But they do less computation per token for their size than monolithic so you can often get tolerable performance on CPU or split between GPU/CPU at a ratio that would work poorly with a similarly-sized monolithic model.

But, still, its going to need 262GB for weights + a variable amount based on context without quantization, and 66GB+ at 4-bit quantization.
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Get them to react to sound and we'll have raves in an enchanted forest. :}
You can sort the answers by "Trending (recent votes count more)".
There are separate flags for communications (like email) and storage (like files).

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3....
Mixtral 8x22B latest-model benchmarks
*Benchmarks done by the community.
ah, it wasn't clear to me, so I just wanted to point out exactly what the floppy was supposed to pass to the system.

NT4 was magical, I remember reading on the jewel case "for 386, Pentium Pro, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha" or something like that, and the instructions on how to boot the installer - with only PC referencing a boot disk (and having done so before ElTorito that was truly magical for me)
iMessage histories are backed up in the nightly automatic non-e2ee iCloud Backup, effectively backdooring iMessage’s “end to end encryption” by escrowing the plaintext to a not-endpoint.

Apple can read approximately everyone’s iMessages out of their backups. It’s not private or secure, and claiming it is end to end encrypted is misleading almost to the point of being actually false.
At my company they have ML engineer positions. However, I've found that most of them are just devs building APIs to interact with the model, or being a data jockey for the model. Basically, titles are almost meaningless.
I’d place in the same category the responses that I give to those chat popups so many sites have. They show a person saying to me “Can I help you with anything today?” so I always send back “No”.
I use GitHub Copilot for code completion with VS Code, and ChatGPT for small feature development or refactoring.

I also built a simple desktop app to streamline the workflow for using ChatGPT (reduce amount of copy-pasting): https://prompt.16x.engineer/
I wonder if by using a large nozzle, you could print out the entire sensor by laying out lengths of TPU with flexible joints at each air gap. It would depend on how well light traveled through the printed part though.
A fast and sustained heart rate along with a significant drop in blood pressure when standing is how POTS is diagnosed and is therefore the defining characteristic but the effects of POTS goes well beyond this.
Ha, you better believe it - even /8 would be tight for them. Ultimately, it comes down to segmentation creating a ton of waste and you need segmentation to manage ACLs and things like that

With ipv6 you can just assign every actor a /96 and they get 4 billion IPs to play with
Ever have rats suddenly show up in your building? I have. That's when you speed dial the city to fix their problem.
> chatgpt can give an answer in less time and (human) effort than it takes to formulate and devise a question.

Can it? I mean, you still have to spend the time and effort required in order to ensure that ChatGPT's answer is correct and complete.
DOS era software sometimes had it in the form of "READ.ME".

Note the assumption that any real user is able to read text files after classifying them as such no matter what their “extension” is. Also seen in countless "ORDER.FRM", "EXAMPLE.001", "EXAMPLE.002", and so on, not to mention all the ".DOC" files which had nothing to do with Microsoft Word.
My favorite configuration is just LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and unsetting all other LC_* variables and unsetting LANG as well. That way you have full UTF-8 support, except ls(1) will sort the files as I want with uppercase coming before lowercase.
Nike should just do it. Sell them from a central website so that left or right shoes can be distributed without waste.
So apple/companies complying to US/EU laws is state-sponored attacks and not following local law?
Say I claim to have tight-rope walked between buildings. In my official report I have a continuous video clearly showing that. Simultaneously, I release a promo video that the report does not reference.

You watch the promo video and then read the report, but then choose to not watch the actual video of the tests that are literally in the report you just read. You then smear whistleblowers and do not retract your statements when you are proven to be wrong.

And you know what, if I did smear whistleblowers, I would likely avoid visibly smearing in the same way in future footage that would be able to call out my lies. For someone to debunk my smears, I don’t think it would be invalid to point to later footage and show how my claimed manipulations are demonstrably absent and unnecessary for it to run down children now that the videos are clearer and more transparent.

It is frankly kind of ridiculous that you are applying a significantly higher standard toward whistleblowing about a dangerous and defective product rather than the product itself and the people who are known cheerleaders and shills. That both they and the manufacturer have actively rejected every invitation to reproduce the results with their own cars should make it clear who is scared of the burden of proof here.
There must have been professional mural and mosaic designers. I wonder if there is any duplication of designs in the town - like the artist had a 'liber artis' (clip art book) the customer could choose from?
>even if you want to implement interfaces that fit in with native ones, web browsers simply don't expose many native features via the DOM/CSS

In an application like VS Code, or anything built on Electron or other similar frameworks, the web browser actually can have access to anything and everything a desktop application has. Electron is a fusion of a Chromium web browser with Nodejs, so you can call Nodejs functions from the browser, and if you really need OS API access, you can also have C++ addons for Nodejs that can do the work and the browser interface can be used to call those functions.

The web browser is simply the user interface, it communicates with a nodejs back-end which can definitely also access OS level APIs if you really want it to.

So yes, the capabilities are there, you just didn't know about them because you think it's simply a web browser, when it's much more than that.

And I know for a fact that you're wrong, because I worked on a desktop application in 2006 that used Internet Explorer as the user interface (Windows was our target, for reasons), and it had a C++ "back end", which was used for burning DVDs (the first legal DVD burning application). The browser could call C++ functions that we chose to expose to the browser to do all sorts of OS-level things. There was nothing that the browser front-end couldn't access at the OS level if we chose to expose it to the front-end. So I know for a fact that you're wrong about your assumptions about desktop applications that use a web browser as the front end.
Flexible "skeletons" for soft, muscle-powered robots
Scan Your Digital Footprint
They also make it often come first when the filenames are sorted since caps letters come first in the ascii table.
Indeed! How do you know her?
I think Ancient art - visual and otherwise - was steeped in formulaic motifs. It's hard to judge the "passion" of the artist's hand with such low quality images, not to mention the damage wrought over thousands of years.
I think it's worthwhile to be careful not to judge ancient art with a modern eye. They had different values. It's quite possible if not likely that frescoes were viewed as temporary, to be plaster-painted over every so often. We can see multiple layers of painted plaster in other parts of Pompeii, so it's not unlikely private homes would do the same. If then they viewed this art as fleeting, why should they pay for the best details when the overall effect is more important?
Anyone who walked into this hall would have been familiar with the Trojan cycle. So as long as the characters were recognizable - hence the name labels - that was sufficient.
I personally find these bright, full-bodied figures against a stark black background reminiscent of the chiaroscuro effect mastered by Caravaggio some 1500 years later using oil
Memorizing System-Assigned Passwords: Comparison of 3 Approaches to Assist Users
That's not remotely "by law."

If I could start a league tomorrow where shin-guards were optional, would the police come knocking or not?

If not, there's no law. There's private rules.

The whole question under debate is whether actual laws are necessary for this situation. I fail to see how appealing to voluntary association rules have any bearing on the question.
A liberal education involves physical health
Brain Decoding of Spontaneous Thought
On *nix systems README was always the first file in the directory because everyone tended to use lower case for all their other filenames.

I believe "Makefile" tended to be capitalized too, since you generally wanted to look in there to see how to build the thing.

I don't think anyone wrote that down, it's just how things worked out. If anything it probably was inspired by Alice in Wonderland (Eat Me/Drink Me).
> but there’s also a growing number of bins chained to bike racks and sewer grates to prevent people from stealing them.

This is fucking wild. Who in their right mind steals trash bins? What would one even want to do with trash bins?
The "System Losses" breakdown shows the various additional factors they are derating the system by. The figures seem reasonable enough, and give an additional loss of 14%.

I put in my own address, which is in the 4.0-4.5 kWh/day region, and set the DC system size to 1 kW, which corresponds to 6m2 of panels (courtesy of their rooftop calculator). The NERL website estimated that such a system would yield between 2.45 and 6.48 kWh/day, with an annual mean of 4.71 kWh/day.

That works out pretty close to what the map indicates for my region: 4.5 kWh/m2day * 0.2 conversion factor * 0.86 losses factor * 6 m2 of panels = 4.64 kWh/day
I stopped playing it long ago because it is just too random. They added too much stuff which is often a problem in rouguelites.

There is a ton of better balanced deck builders out there. Personal opinion but monster train is much better balanced.
Show HN: Gantt Chart for Pivotal Tracker
Hey, I'm using this tool internally to have a better view of our projects on pivotal tracker, so we decided to open it to anyone use it. Feel free to try it out and let us know what you think. Thanks!
Couple shocked after tow truck tries to nab their moving car in SF
To quote Jerry, show me the money?

For example, https://www.ebay.com/itm/225315397038

The label of this drive gives us CHS figures for three different models:

cyl * h * s * B
127MB = 919 * 16 * 17 * 512 = 127,983,616B (124MiB)
170MB = 1011 * 15 * 22 * 512 = 170,818,560B (162MiB)
340MB = 1011 * 15 * 44 * 512 = 341,637,120B (325MiB)

So we're at 127MB and they're already base10.

For some reason everyone remembers it, but no-one's been able to show me.
If your conclusion from my comments is that I would have been indifferent towards slavery then I have either mistakenly passed my comments through an opinion-inverter or you're reading my comments in bad faith. I am very progressive, I hold fringe views that I don't think will be mainstream for a couple more decades.

I hope I wouldn't need to say it, but for the record: I oppose slavery. I oppose gender based discrimination. I oppose sexuality based discrimination. I oppose racism. I oppose the death penalty. I oppose drug criminalisation. I oppose the American prison system. I oppose the smug western superiority complex about our behaviour being "modern" or the "best" or "ahead" of the rest of the world. I oppose referring to Saudi Arabia as "not modern" (or backwards or whatever term is in right now) which I believe is patronising and a view reserved for those without the willingness to be introspective.

For the oppressed gay man in Saudi Arabia, there's a gay man homeless on the streets of the United States, dying from neglect, after being kicked out of their home as a teenager by their Christian fundamentalist parents, thrown to the mercy of a society that couldn't care less about them. Let's put them on a spectrum, how many points is "dying homeless on the streets of America because of being gay" compared to "can't be openly gay in Saudi Arabia"? How many points for "robbed on the streets of San Francisco for the 8th time" when compared to "can leave valuables out in public without concern because there's so little crime in Singapore"?

If your vision for a better world starts with disparaging Saudi Arabia, I fear you are deeply uninspired and will not have the impact on the world that you could have if you instead focused on yourself and your culture. I also hope someday you appreciate the irony of you having worked for Palantir of all companies while talking about moral superiority of the west. I wonder where Peter Thiel would land on our Spectrum Of Moral Superiority. Actually, I don't want to know, let me live another day without reading a defence of that ghoul.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1ZK1CO/

Yes. We’re well past “following local law” and into “active cooperation” territory. Apple by nature can’t have adversarial relationships with the US or Chinese governments or they’d get squashed like a bug.

One might even argue they have a fiduciary duty to not pick fights with city hall.
heh, clever pun. but hardly. have you tried it? stinky tofu doesn't smell as bad as its reputation. and it tastes great. stinky tofu doesn't hold a candle to durian or some of the more pungent cheeses. of course this comment is coming from a guy who likes those cheeses, and durian, so YMMV. my biggest gripe about stinky tofu is that it isn't stinky enough.
Content you’re allowed and capable of scraping on the Internet is such a small amount of data, not sure why people are acting otherwise.

Common crawl alone is only a few hundred TB, I have more content than that on a NAS sitting in my office that I built for a few grand (Granted I’m a bit of a data hoarder). The fears that we have “used all the data” are incredibly unfounded.
Technically, yes?

But there has never ever been non-trivial software that has been completely free of such defects.

In other words (in my opinion), iOS is probably better than most other platforms against this type of attack.
Not joking. You seem to be confused in thinking LLMs are built with other LLMs, but that's not the case. Otherwise why would you say "it says 'build fast LLMs from scratch' but the code is not an LLM" ?? Why would the code of a library to build LLMs need to also be an LLM?

Getting off-topic but Python is incredibly slow at lookups (and most things) compared to JavaScript and it isn't even close, not all dynamic languages are the same. This is pretty widely known and a quick Google search yields plenty of benchmarks and articles! Give it a try.

Python is used in AI/ML for its libraries (convenience) not because it's a fast language. There are 3 main reasons: 1) Time complexity of data structures is lower in JS, that's the primary exploit at play here 2) V8 compiles to machine code in less steps than Python and 3) Process forking - the concept that functions can run in parallel in the same thread.

Thanks for your comment!
Really? I found it to be much worse than CUDA when I tried to use it years ago.
Yeah, even some of the young middle managers really grinded my gears. Not even that young.

Late 20s early 30s anxiety ridden workaholics that make life miserable for everyone. They work their ass off to move up, then figure they'll get a team full of "thems".

Yeah no. You were promoted because the "thems" were wise enough, or otherwise unwilling to damage their health.

You're better and get more money power, congrats. Now lie in your bed that everyone else pulled the sheets off of and spilled crumbs.
incredible work. good job!
So ruby fans want Crystal to get more publicity and python fans want Nim to get more.

Has anyone used both in any serious project, and if so can you compare? I've spent a tiny amount of time with Nim but found documentation, training videos, books etc extremely thin on the ground. Lots of Nim projects on github are ancient and haven't been updated in years. Chat GPT never gave me working code. How is Crystal in this regard? How would you compare their std libraries and available modules?
It also makes everyone’s life harder. Engineering leaders who agree to insane and constant deadlines doom the company to be in constant fire fighting mode (at best).
One of the most important things they do is expectations management and explaining tradeoffs to senior management
Suno has a pretty expansive genre scope compared to others music AI generators. One of the best so far in that expanse and able to combines genres, that appears to be their class leading feature. Many others cant combine or even replicate genres. "Trap Country" as a good example aka rap country/hick hop genres are missing on other AI music generators.

Lyric generation is getting better, vocals are hit or miss with auto tune to be more heavily influenced without a way disable it, and editor to cut parts before is missing. Once they add a seed to reference voice, add tracks, etc, i can see generated music to be way more common, maybe 3-4 years?

Still a ways to go, but very happy. Demo is cool, and you can find text to pick genres.
> pick the people that were going to succeed no matter what, and claim credit for preparing them.

I do think this is what lots of schools do. I mean, "the best people available" will be roughly identical with "the pool of people that contains the highest fraction of those who would succeed no matter what". And if your alumni are successful, then you claim credit. Why not? (I've occasionally seen people attempt to calculate "value added", but completely accounting for selection effects is difficult.)

And, by the way, just because someone would have succeeded no matter what doesn't mean you can't increase their success. It's plausible that some highly-driven highly-competent genius would have ended up becoming a top engineer going to school X, but would have co-founded a billion-dollar company going to school Y, due to some combination of getting a somewhat better education and meeting the right people. So the value proposition may be real.
Yeah, that's what I tried, but was never able to get that to work. I don't know, it's been years and I had kind of given up on it.
>every new generation just ignores the previous one

One of the easiest first steps when creating your own identity as the new generation is to refuse your predecessors wholesale. This goes triple for something that is about fashion, which GUIs to some extent are a fashion statement.
Well there are various smart watches in the "tens of dollars" range on AliExpress. Maybe The Verge could do a review of one of them?