skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

== End of toot.

The price you pay for this bullshit in energy when the sea temperature is literally off the charts and we do not know why makes it not worth it in my opinion.
There is a discontent that is fundamental to creation. After all, if what exists was enough, then why create anything? The wide variety of human personalities (on a long timescale) and moods (short timescale) is nothing less than Nature performing a great Search. What She is searching for is unknown, past mere survival. It makes sense to me to place that discontent in the context of a broader survival, the survival of the species, long-term. Something that other life cannot contemplate or work towards, but we can. And insofar as we are embedded in an ecosystem, it means protecting Life on Earth, and also spreading it beyond Earth. Lives well lived, quietly, like this man's, are both a triumph and a dead-end, simultaneously. It seems reasonable that a wide diversity of lives are needed and wanted by nature, or we wouldn't have them, and all of them are useful in their way.
> it crashes because of Rust ownership rules

Ownership rules exist only at compile time and are not the reason it crashes at runtime.
That would be the university's decision, then, not a state-mandated cap.
What browser and operating system are you on? Unfortunately font rendering seems to differ vastly between browsers. Note taken about the color palette though (I did try a brighter font color but found it too painful on my eyes).

PS: Firefox's and Chrome's reading mode is probably the best quick workaround. When opening a post in Firefox, I get a Reading Mode button in the navbar, and for Chrome it's in the new sidepanel.
My current company just has a few HR type people that take care of purchases like that. I literally email them a link to hardware or software I need and they get it delivered to me. This is the best way I've seen it done. I don't have to know anything about the order/deliver process the company uses.
> Isn’t this a sign that you are following too closely?

But they said it's FSD who's following too closely.

I'd expect automated system should react even better, because it pays attention constantly. That's the whole point, especially when it's called "Full".
That's right. Before, and after too. R for example has indices starting in 1. But I was thinking about the specific 0-based convention. I guess I was wrong about it though.
The python pytorch ecosystem is such a dependency hell that that you literally need a dependency manager manager to set up the container for making the entirely new and dedicated python install with a dependency manager just to run pytorch stuff. System python will never work. It is a huge hassle and simply infeasible on most not-cutting edge systems.

Unfortunately if you want to use the tokenizer python script included with llm.c you have to pull in and satisfy the dependencies for nearly the entire pytorch chain anyway. So the ease of use of just "make" for llm.c is lost.
It's nice, but there's probably nothing new there for your typical HN reader (unless if they're young I guess ?)

It's also dangerously focused on Microsoft and complacent with "cloud" software. Google has already been winning their wrestling match over desktop computing for some time now, they shouldn't be helped. And with shittier software as a result.

Also while using "Microsoft sounds" in the music is cute, I can't help but think that it's a bit like using Nazi music (Wagner ??) in a documentary critical of Nazis...
I have had this conversation several times after billing / accounting messups (not with Cloudflare, but in general). I suggest you just them very explicitly:

Thankyou for crediting my account to correct the billing double charge.

I require my account balance to be flattened down to 0 now, as I have no desire to hold a credit balance with your institution or pay in advance. I keep my money with in a regulated/FDIC insured/interest paying account. You can pay me by wire/check/etc.
Success: You're wrong about almost everything
I can't find anything to support this online, but I do distinctly remember reading once that the cap on medical student places goes back to the founding of the NHS and negotiations between the government and the BMA. (One of the issues at the time was persuading doctors to join the plan, and they were afraid of a drop in income).

It's fairly trivial to analyse population vs. medical student places and see where the problem lies - there was an expansion in training places a few years ago, but it's a pipeline problem, and doesn't get fixed overnight. If somebody really wanted to fix things, there would probably need to be some kind of accelerated training of doctors and nurses for a few years.
> When asked to name his favorite episode

> It's definitely autistic to name drop the title to an audience of adults who likely don't remember

If someone asks me to name an episode I'll assume they know the show, and that the name is sufficient. Because they asked for only that.
Why can questions have an implicit "and tell me about it", but the answers cannot have an implicit "I assume you know which one it is"?
Look into Kia Boys and you will know that this idea would never work in modern USA culture
> ... with the latest RTX 4000 series, Nvidia is switching from NVLink as a bridge to the PCIe Gen 5 standard.

The theory sounds nice, but isn't the RTX 4090 only PCIe gen 4, not 5?
I've been using Safari almost exclusively for years now! It runs so much leaner than any other browser and doesn't try to lock you into an ecosystem. It also syncs history with iOS devices and, surprisingly, has some great extensions, like Vinegar and Baking Soda (substitutes custom HTML5 video players with the native video player).

I occasionally try to use Orion, which is based off of Safari Tech Preview. I really like it but it's buggier than I'd like it to be right now. It also low-key pushes Kagi on you, and while I use Kagi heavily, I don't want my browser to have a search engine bias.
> who trusted him to find a good home for them on.

Guess he messed them around on that one so.
It's the expectation that that's a sufficient answer to the question I suppose. Yes it literally is, but... that is many people's autism in a nutshell really isn't it.

Even if talking to another fan, a 'less autistic' dialogue might be like:

B: Oh, me too, do you have a favourite episode?

A: Abby Makes the Seasons Change, hands down, do you remember that one?

B: Hmm, I'm not sure..

A: Oh, it's the one where [...]
Egyptian artifacts have made it to Manhattan think of that puzzle left for the future. My guess is that it will look like Egyptian dynasty may look like it lasted much longer to the future.
Only a few categories of people get to claim professional development expenses as a tax deduction [0], mostly self-employed.

> If you qualify for itemized deductions, which you do if you have a mortgage

If you have a sufficiently large and expensive mortgage and/or are filing as an individual. Our interest almost got us over the standard deduction in the first year, but every year since then the standard deduction threshold just gets further and further away.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc513
lol people took "Uber" too seriously. There is a privilege problem that is exacerbating a climate problem. I blame the tech industry and its lust to disrupt.
Are we in a 6th mass extinction?
Thank you. I know enough to appreciate that list was built on some hard lessons.
Its quite the shakeup... How will you design your software now that computers can understand you?
Yes, I was just illustrating that we don't eat the riches, it's indeed not good examples of becoming rich in France (though the truth is our traditional "social elevator" is being broken more and more as free public schools are left in a worse and worse state by politicians who send all their kids to fancy private schools, which makes it harder and harder to move to the upper class)
More recent result from SIGBOVIK https://www.sigbovik.org/2024/proceedings.pdf p. 48ff shows a more gentle peak at 0.05 BAC.
Cody was mentioned already. Continue [0] is another tool that you could give a shot, load local llm etc.

[0] https://github.com/continuedev/continue
There is something odd about this persons numbers. It’s the 80s and on occasion the number zero is written with a slash through it, but most of the time not. I’m not sure there was a prevalence to distinguish 0s from Os in type back then.

Maybe it was some one else later who wrote that.
So much this. At one of the big tech companies, we needed a hard drive for something. It was going to be easier to buy a $5K drive array and shuck the drives than expense $200 on a single HDD. Trying to buy stuff 'outside your lane' was crazy.

Just got done with an experience where the company I'm at said - you have a corp card - use it - with the EVPs signing off on whatever for that event. Very much not the norm, but it was eye opening that they knew sometimes the red tape needed to be cut. I'm totally expecting to fight with accounting on a simple taxi receipt because it did not say where the pickup/destination was for a $20 fare the next time I do a 'normal' expense.
I don’t think many doctors have much choice in the matter. The MBAization of hospital companies and practices bought up by private equity is strip mining the productive capacity of providers to juice profits. This is the MO of financial capitalism: find an established business that someone else built and extract maximum profits until the business collapses, then leave the rubble for others to clean up.
Trump has thankfully not been able to do much, however the Bush family has. They were worse than Xi or even Putin (if you take a non-European point of view).

(Arguably, Trump, Xi and even Putin still have "potential" left.)
Blackwell is a platform game. Interoperability would defeat the purpose.
Anecdata yada yada, but both colleagues of mine with a Dell XPS had trouble with them. This is Dell's top of the line productivity laptop segment. Yeah we got top of the line service. But the damn things still broke down in the first place. Critically, I recall one of them blue screened in the middle of some important infra changes and triggered an outage...
All it takes to push an 8GB Mac over the edge these days is a video call on Zoom or Teams and a bunch of tabs open in Chrome.
It's a very nice obituary. I have similar feelings about my own grandfathers. They were figures that seemed larger than life.

Though, I confess, I think I must have a different definition of "quiet life".

My definition of "quite life" doesn't include perennially hosting family Christmas, backpacking across Europe, being the president of a textile union, and getting shipped off to Korea in the military.

To me, those sound like activities of someone not living a quiet life, hah. But maybe these days the bar for quiet life is set at not participating in social media or moving to a major metropolitan area.

Either way Grandpa sounds like he was a righteous dude.
Probably because most of the stuff you'd find in the top search results would include the GP's name.

Just a few sentences later "Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database also creates necessary indexes and drops unused indexes" - that's not in on-prem SQL Server.
If it were "done" there would be nothing left to improve. But why aren't iOS users switching in droves then?

More like Android has hit its ceiling. Time to be replaced by a fundamentally new approach.

Personally, I'm hoping for a "real Linux" based desktop for multiple form factors or even with seamless sync. The Steamdeck has shown that it is possible to do even for smaller companies.
Do you have Aphantasia?
Seems so. I typed in a lowered version now, gives good translation "частный машинный перевод, работая локально на вашем устройстве". (The one you got is a little clumsy ~ "translation of machines")
>On the other hand, achieving all my dreams took me to a place where my mind says "I've done it all, let's just enjoy what I've got. Let's enjoy life". And that works for a while but then one day I resent being too complacent. I want to do more. Launch projects, earn more money, live more experiences. The voice of ambition says: "you're 45 years old, stop thinking like a 80 year old, move your ass and live more life"

Is that "voice of ambition" your voice, or just what society or peers or media influencers (like grind vloggers) conditioned you to want?
Less than what we throw at Intel
or TSMC.

And this is for a good environmental cause.
Same story with Precision and XPS. $3k laptops last 9 months if you're lucky. I literally have a pile of dead ones now. They don't even bother with servicing them.
Some of the data is covered by the data protection and SLA agreement the company signed. Some of it is not.
Ask HN: Security Awareness Training Material?
Most places I've worked at have terribly security practices. Mostly just the human stuff (clicking random links, not locking screens, etc), but sometimes downright neglicence (storing sensitive data on unencrypted laptops).

In the past, I've been subject to awful security awareness training, with hour long mandatory videos of utterly useless drivel.

So I'd like to you ask you: is anyone aware of any good training material for security awareness? Preferably free/open source, but I'm open to anything as long as it doesn't suck.

Thanks!
How a microprocessor works implemented with FPGA
Thank you! One of my side-quests at the moment!

https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
The physical media doesn't matter if shutting down the service makes it unplayable.
Alcohol has been suggested to improve a foreign language practitioners foreign language speaking abilities (https://time.com/4989850/alcohol-foreign-language-speak/)

Specifically, it seems that it lubricates one's ability to utilize the vocabulary one has already learned more fluently (possibly by removing some anxiety/inhibitions?). I believe it was not suggested to have an effect on comprehension.

Perhaps this can translate to programming languages as well to some extent?
... and when the pyramids were being built, Mammoths were still roaming around.
The phone may be using GPS for headings instead of an actual compass causing it to act that way.
> I purchase my own software licences and claim it on tax

In theory you could do this via the UK tax system too – there’s a field on the Self Assessment forms that allows you to claim work related expenses that weren't reimbursed by your employer

One of my past employers paid a reduced mileage rate so I used to claim the difference on my tax return.

Quite how it would work for software I’m not sure though i.e. what’s the test for a permissible expense
Ehh. I think it's actually 100% avoidable with a robust self driving solution. One with a smart enough margin of safety would never be in a situation where it has so little information that it initiates a crash on the highway
Another thing an Apple Watch cannot measure.
Exactly. If you hand me a presentation and hopefully some notes associated with it and tell me that I need to fill in, I can do it but I'm going to need to spend some time (and will probably rearrange things a bit).

But if you tell me give some variation on your talk about $X, I can probably be ready in about 30 minutes. (And, in fact, I've dropped in a conference presentation in response to a 3am email because another speaker forgot they were supposed to be there.)
Unless it's using e.g. RefCells to enforce them at runtime
Yes, I could assign every device a ULA with NAT. That would defeat a major selling point of IPv6. An alternative would be to assign both a GUA and ULA to every device, via DHCPv6 and SLAAC. However, not all devices support this. For example Android doesn't support DHCPv6 and NetworkManager doesn't seem to support multiple auto configuration methods
I think its unknown, but my feeling is that the answer is almost certainly no.

These sort of variational algorithms are appealing (to some people) because they're potentially usable on the sort of noisy small quantum computers we have today and in the near term future, but they aren't very fancy. I think in general what you'd expect to get out of them is a sort of Grover's algorithm-like square root speedup.
The number of words young minds hear during the early stages of development has a great impact on future language skills. The studies I'm aware of mostly focusing on developing reading skills. I find it plausible that spending one's first month in a hospital could have a long term communication development gap.
I once was hospitalized for depression and drug use when I was a teenager and my warcraft 3 stats never recovered after that. I always wondered if there were studies on that sorta thing.
How can we know if not all other blobs in Linux are not spyware?

I think there is a small de-blobbed kernel but it is unpopular
I hope AI spam will make adtech implode into itself.
It can also be worth checking out ontheissues.org. I tend to like their bullet format with the link to the voting records.
What do you mean, "can build"? It comes with a step by step manual....
At a glance, it kind of comes across as 3 different things? A business plan generator, a cash flow manager, and a goals tracker. But it's not immediately clear to me why these 3 things go together, or why I would use this over individual tools that specialize in those things.

Just some unsolicited feedback, good luck!
Does AI really make this much worse? Search engine quality was already low because of SEO spam, or other copycat scrapped sites. I mostly google using site:blabla.com to filter out that crap.
Awesome cinematic masterpiece, it also fills me with nostalgia.

At first I thought no way I'm going to spend almost an hour watching this, but I'm happy I did it haha.

There are many funny gems, like that whiteboard analysis at https://youtu.be/CTUMNtKQLl8?t=2343
The Mach E just shouldn't have been following the way it was. Autonomous systems need to maximize their road information, not follow social trends (i.e. not follow closely on the highway at the sacrifice of visibility)
That is themed using… CSS.
I feel there’s a Monty Python parody there somewhere.
The best side project code I've written, is on a Friday night with 2 beers.

After a whole week of meetings and writing documents (manager duties), all I want is to get cracking on the thing I've been thinking for an entire week.
In Microsoft culture, the "Ballmer peak" at least used to refer not to BAC, as this article implies, but to the point where MSFT stock prices stopped climbing (under Gates' leadership) and collapsed before flatlining (under Ballmer).
Milton Friedman discusses this in depth in his book Free to Choose (from the 1980s), for anyone who’s interested. Here we are 40 years later, problem still unsolved.
It looks like the author went to Wales for the Eisteddfod in 1982, which suggests some degree of interest in Celtic traditions.

Also, the 1st of January is described as "civil new year", which implies there's some other new year on a different day, which could be samhain.
Oscar winning movie was made about this

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/
Achim from AirGradient here. Thank you for your support. Very appreciated.

We are currently working on bringing a lot more features into our open-source firmware [1], for example mDNS, local API etc. to make it even easier for non-cloud connectivity. We are also working on an offical home assistant integration.

[1] https://github.com/airgradienthq/arduino
[2] https://www.airgradient.com/documentation/local-server/
Or C#, that has official support and Slay the Spire 2 is apparently coded with it.
Could be interesting for sure. Have you got macOS builds planned?
And kickbacks for the purchaser…
Why broadcast it ahead of time? They said for weeks they are going to do this.

They can do 300 drones because they are cheap. They don’t use the American procurement system to pay 1 mil per drone.
So the answer to being overworked in a hospital is to quit, be overwhelming running your own business for half the pay?

That doesn't make any sense. And not everyone has the capital or capacity to make their own business
I think you’re giving way too much credit to medical associations to rig the game in their favor. They exert enough influence over all fifty states and the various private institutions to systemically deny training to qualified candidates?

The fact is it’s extremely expensive and time consuming to train physicians. There isn’t enough space. Third and fourth year med students are going to far-flung hospitals to have hands-on experience because staying in the larger cities means they’re competing for access to training with residents.

All of this factors in to the cost and limited space of med school classes. It’s sad, but we would have to reinvent how we train physicians to address the limitations.
Read this as LE = Law Enforcement

What a poor title change.
I know it's mainly a joke but...

If I stop working at my desk to go out for some drinks and return to my desk afterwards, this hopefully also means that I stopped thinking about desk-problems for a while.

I found solutions to problems which we're blocking me when I left my desk countless times on my way back.

So there might be some kind of Ballmer Peak which isn't directly caused by alcohol consumption, but by a break from thinking about a problem.

And it's kind of obvious that I stop caring if I'm past "some drinks" and just go straight to bed. So there's definitely some upper BAC threshold to the peak ;).
We now have crypto/rand back ends that ~never fail
How much did Tesla get?
As a European, I don't think it's just the law that matters here, though that's certainly a problem. There are two other issues, namely immigration and market size.

The underappreciated thing about the US immigration system is the fact that you usually don't even need it. If you're a Silicon Valley startup, you have a pool of 330 million people to hire from, and they all live in your country, speak your language and are part of the same culture. Yes, the EU has free movement, but moving from Warsaw to Berlin, two European cities that are pretty close to each other, is going to be far bigger of an ordeal than moving from New York, Massachusetts, or even Texas or Alabama to San Francisco. Maybe not from a legal perspective, but definitely from a language / cultural / "how do I go to a doctor here" perspective. If you need very specific talent, like people with expertise in building distributed databases or self-driving cars, you're far more likely to find them amongst 330 million Americans than amongst, let's say, 2 million Latvians. This causes network effects to kick in, making America even more of a "magnet" for talented people.

The other issue is basically the same problem, except going the other way. In the US, releasing a product means releasing it to 330 million prospective customers at once. In most industries, if you release your product in English and can accept credit cards, most people that you'd want as your early customers can already buy it. This is not true in Europe, every country has its own language and its own take on online payments. If your startup touches the physical world or legal system in any way (think easier invoicing for small businesses, 21st-century software for hotel management, an easy website builder for private medical practices etc), this is even more of an issue. The problem you're solving might not even exist in some countries (maybe their government already provides a good app for invoicing), and where it does exist, it's hard to figure out its nuances without speaking the right language. This basically means those kinds of startups usually work on a local level, not a European level.