skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your fingers are skewed, so ergonomic numpad wouldn't be linear

And yet the numpad people really seem to like is a straight grid.

> That's not all you're saying

My original comment was literally my personal experiences and the reasons why I had those experiences.

> how is your experience relevant this?

I used pretty dang similar keyboard layouts on several devices for over 20 years and didn't enjoy it. That's what makes it relevant. It's like you're saying, "chocolate is objectively the best flavor of ice cream" and I'm saying I've had it a bunch over 20 years and still prefer vanilla. And apparently it's not exactly a feature most other people are clamoring for, because while there are some laptops out there with that feature it is pretty much never a notable one. In fact, its such a non-notable feature you're telling me they don't exist. Instead, people who want a number pad choose to buy bigger laptops with a number pad laid out in a straight grid instead of dealing with the number pad mixed in the alpha keys.

> FWIW this is false, there were/are no such laptops

You're trying to gas light me saying laptops sitting in my closet don't exist and couldn't possibly work. Turns out Dell even has decently modern-ish Latitude laptops with this layout. And looking at my stack of laptops I even have an HP that had that feature as well. You're right they didn't know the input field, but you'd just hold fn with your left finger and suddenly they'd be number pad keys (or toggle fn lock or numlock or whatever for the specific model).

https://www.computer-keyboards.com/laptop_keyboard_for_dell_...

https://www.cpumedics.com/dell-pk130vn1a00-black-keyboard-us...

I'm done here dude. You're being so toxic to someone just sharing a personal experience of using a keyboard like this and finding it not that great, to the point you're trying to gaslight me into believing these laptops don't exist. You're clearly not interested in any bit of a productive conversation. You don't need to get so angry and rude over someone sharing their experience over a keyboard layout feature.
Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead
I am both a classical guitar player and long time synth head.

"Everything is possible" is a bug and not a feature in many ways.

It certainly is possible to synthesize an expressive instrument to the level you describe but what usually happens is you move on to something else.

"What does this knob do??" Wahahahaha

That kind of thing is just so much fun compared the guitar that you have to actually learn to play.
Feds appoint "AI doomer" to run US AI safety institute
Bill Gates also planned to cheat Paul Allen out of his Microsoft shares.

There's also the fact that he lied about his dealings with Epstein (Coffeezilla made a video on this).
I was going to say this. A real leader that truly believed in this would volunteer to be first in line to have it implemented on them, and be transparent about their experience (how many times did an alert fire? How did the police handle the response? etc).

This is a dog and pony show by people who think they're better than the people they represent, and they must think very lowly of the people they represent indeed if they think no one will notice their shenanigans.

Besides that, there have been a number of stories of politicians abusing children or possessing CSAM. If I were going to order the list of whose PC's get checked for CSAM first, politicians would be pretty high up there. Probably right after Hollywood, and right before the uber-rich.
Flâner in french literally means to loiter in english and is illegal or discouraged in the anglosphere.
I am really confused by their intentions with this video. Are they trying to freak us out? If so, succeeded!

But I would have thought they’d rather not have us experience atlas as some kind of freakish terminator mixed with the girl from the ring.
Google doesn't understand search.
Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402925 see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354000
Show HN: Gorgeous Names for Your Baby
If I buy a stock and sell it three years later, my profit is reduced by the spread. If the spread is 5% that might be a significant portion of my profit.
The assertion I was responding to stated that republicans opposed legal equality. Obviously it’s true in the years immediately after segregation ended the democrats who supported it continued to support it.
H2 for transit seems like it works very well for Trucks and Trains actually.

> to maybe make nitrogen

Ammonia Fertilizer is NH3. So that's 1x N2 + 3x H2 == 2x NH3, if I'm getting my chemistry correct.

But not "maybe", we are doing it, and we *MUST* do it. One of the biggest uses of fossil fuels in our life is our nitrogen fertilizer system. Decarbonizing our fertilizer is as big and important a goal as decarbonizing our transit.

And if H2 is useful for transit, then doubly so. We can use H2 for transit and then use H2 + N2 == Fertilizer and solve both at the same time.

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You can't use batteries to make Ammonia / Fertilizer. So we're going there anyway with regards to our "tech tree". Might as well experiment and see how feasible transit is.
There used to be a class of software called freeware - you could download and use it without restriction, you just couldn't resell it, or have the source to modify it. Llama and similar models are like freeware - an inscrutable binary blob crafted to work with other software, except instead of a VM or native OS environment, you have llama.cpp or similar software that runs the AI model.

Mistral is open source, in that you can do anything the Apache license allows you to do, even package it into your own product and resell or modify it. We're missing the dataset details, the source to the software that produces the model, similar to not having access to an operating system and special compiler software. That's not a huge deal, because people don't have the resources to make use of those large datasets or the Mistral training software, which is likely highly tailored to their own training and development pipeline, and wouldn't do much good for anyone without at least a pod of A100's of their own.

Weights available and other terms are being thrown around, and Meta and the like are calling their stuff "open" but that use of the term bears little resemblance to the use of the word by the open source community.

The public Mistral models have open source licenses. The model can be used like open source software. The terms are permissive and free, requiring only attribution. Meta's license scheme is novel and not open, with arbitrary lawyerese and absolutely, 100% will bite someone in the ass when the threshold between "annoying to sue" and "profitable to sue" gets exceeded by someone using Llama in a way that's technically incorrect. Right now, Meta wants the goodwill more than they want a couple million dollars chasing a couple dozen startups.

If the model doesn't have an open source license, it's not open. It might be freeware. Llama is freeware. You can, technically, do whatever you want to it, but try to not attract too much notice or be too successful with it.

Mistral, by using Apache licensing, couldn't go after you even if they wanted to, unless you do something deliberately stupid.
Well if a parrot called me a twat like that one, it may be logically consistent.

How do you know? Well that requires verification, which is probably more costly than doing the legwork yourself in the first place.

That applies to all LLM generated output. It is worthless until the reasoning is validated. Which is costly.
Folks are doing query expansion, chain of thought, all kinds of stuff that isn't even about adding extra info and doesn't involve R. They are just complex LLM applications.
Full-text search of the OpenBSD manual pages
It gives a bunch of people jobs that wouldn't otherwise have one
Does this thing have an ISBN? I can't find it on the site.
Hello, Electric Atlas
Yep. At best, the "electronic device" was a distraction, and at worst, it meant you were a drug dealer.

I can't imagine having a smartphone in grade school or high school. It's so alien.
Perhaps, but keep in mind that you could make a crappy RISC-V chip (if you were an academic department) in a day just by bolting a new decoder onto some other RISC-y chip whereas the mill is "truly alien" (although alien in a way that is probably easier to make in some sense, in that a naive implementation wouldn't actually need all that much magic behind the scenes semantically at least, I suppose).

They did however seem to imply that they didn't even have FPGA models going maybe 5 years ago at this point which did seem pretty bizarre.

Perhaps it doesn't actually matter for what they're doing, but you'd think that they (in their supposed pursuit of seed money) would have a blinking LED or something just to have something to show off...
Literally standing in front of a proprietary Fanuc industrial 6-axis arm waiting for Roboguide at the moment... this is already a wide scale industry and shows low probability to trend towards open and repairable technology.

There have been some efforts for vendor-agnostic robot software like RoboDK and other warehouse execution systems, but the default is proprietary vendor software.

It would be nice for society if this were true, but we'd need someone to exist whose complementary technology was robotics who found it worth commoditizing the entire ecosystem against their will. Or regulators who weren't entirely beholden to industry lobbyists.
You are mistaken. Reagan's tax cuts, which included cuts for the lower class, decreased tax revenue and put more money in the average person's pockets.

Presidents after Reagan started to pillage the lower and middle class for more tax revenue. Notably George H.W. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_...
For a while I owned a Tempest arcade game. It had a CRT, but driven as a color vector display. Beautiful lines, rapid updates. Very cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(video_game)
This is a pretty good article.

I was one of the first hires on the Cyc project when it started at MCC and was at first responsible for the decision to abandon the Interlisp-D implementation and replace it with one I wrote on Symbolics machines.

Yes, back then one person could write the code base, which has long since grown and been ported off those machines. The KB is what matters anyway. I built it so different people could work on the kb simultaneously, which was unusual in those days, even though cloud computing was ubiquitous at PARC (where Doug had been working, and I had too).

Neurosymbolic approaches are pretty important and there’s good work going on in that area. I was back in that field myself until I got dragged away to work on the climate. But I’m not sure that manually curated KBs will make much of a difference beyond bootstrapping.
Very cool. I will have to join "mod wiggler" lol.

I have been out of it so long muff wiggler is now mod wiggler. Come on, that is absurd. Muff Wiggler was the best name ever.
Without getting into any big debates about whether or not RAG is medium-term interesting or whatever, you can ‘pip install sentence-transformers faiss’ and just immediately start having fun. I recommend using straightforward cosine similarity to just crush the NYT’s recommender as a fun project for two reasons: there’s an API and plenty of corpus, and it’s like, whoa, that’s better than the New York Times.

He’s trying to sell a SaaS product (Pinecone), but he’s doing it the right way: it’s ok to be an influencer if you know what you’re taking about.

James Briggs has great stuff on this: https://youtube.com/@jamesbriggs
This was previously posted by same user in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29507681

And by another user 54 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39486552
that was like, 17 years ago? and imho not an unreasonable thing to get a social site off the ground that had no users. Seems pretty irrelevant to the problems of today.
Okay, but what's the implication of that? You can't get the whole quantum mechanics by just doing the generalization of probability thing?
My Gigabyte OLED monitor is 2 years old now and gets used for many hours on most days and shows no changes. I bugged out the time counter for a few months by putting the panel in to service mode, but still it is up to 4040 hours, or 5.5 hours per day for 2 years.

Your other post mentions the screen brightness dropping with white menus open, but that is not because of a burn in protection feature, but instead it's because of limits on the total power consumption of the panel (either because of power efficiency laws, or too much heat).
When will third party app stores be available in the United States?
Not for Python where it screws you. This article is about Python - the title might have benefitted from that being mentioned.
This is imo the worst part of embedding search.

Somehow Amazon continues to be the leader in muddy results which is a sign that it’s a huge problem domain and not easily fixable even if you have massive resources.
You can actually do "inference" or "deduction" over large amounts of data using any old-fashioned RDBMS, and get broadly equal or better performance than the newfangled "graph" based systems. Graph databases may be a clear win for very specialized network analysis, but that is rare in practice.
There are two levels to "everything is possible." First, recorded music is a string of numbers, and any way of generating those numbers will sound like it's intended to. But synthesizing a desired sound is still an evolving process of developing useful interfaces and waveform generators.

Generating that sound in a live performance that is partially or fully improvised is a harder problem.

The evolution of solutions to either problem depends on which instrument you're interested in, and is based partially on Means, Motive, and Opportunity. There's a reason to synthesize a piano or Hammond organ, which is that they're hard to transport and maintain. Less motive for synthesizing a violin.
There was a period of time there where a friend of mine, real estate agent, was complaining about bigass rear projection big screens which had been overtaken by modern flat panel tvs, often living in dens, rec rooms or basement man caves. And per seller's wish, bequeathed to stay there because they did not at all want to go to the effort of removing the unwieldy beasts. Included with the house along with other bulky stuff like a washer and dryer or a pool table.

Naturally, the buyers often didn't want them either and it could become a point of contention between the parties! He even lost a couple sales because neither side would budge.
> It's not egotistical at all to expect for passions to at least earn back their investment because most creatives aren't born rich.

Egotistical is the wrong word perhaps, but it's an absolutely degenerate trap to accept, and a path to personal destruction if continually embraced. You'll have little to no authentic substance as a human if everything you do is predicated on how you'll make money from it, but only in situations where realistically it's a choice. People who get into this trap end up as amorphous blobs or empty husks. People need things in their life that they do for the sake of it first, with money coming as an ancillary benefit if at all.

I've only spent money in the last year (no earned income), laid off a year ago, and I'm grateful to have saved enough to last some of the drought of work. I have to be careful to modulate how much I'm spending, but if I didn't, I'd be wildly worse off now that had I not at all. Spend as frugally as necessary, but have some hobbies or passtimes that you do just for you, selling the result if you like, but don't predicate your participation upon whether it's valuable to anyone else.
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Rents are still $3.5k though. I guess everyone has roommates and that doesn't show up in the data.

https://www.renthop.com/average-rent-in/new-york-ny
Oh I loved Infinite Loop by Malone. Bill and Dave sounds like an insta-checkout for me.
:) - yes, the "shut up and calculate" was a reference to quantum theory applied to GR, since people neglect to mention that GR doesn't explain what gravity actually is. And really, if you "shut up and calculate" using Einstein's Field Equations, you'll get results that largely align with observations, more so than Newton's equations, anyway. But there are observations that can't be explained by GR and there are simple thought experiments that can't be explained by GR. As I keep saying, we know GR is not the final word on gravity. That doesn't mean GR hasn't been incredibly useful - especially if you just "shut up and calculate!"
> heavily taxing multiple property ownership

Which would harm the development of multi-family housing and increase the cost of living. Remember that "real workers" do not build and own 100+-unit dwellings
I graduated high school in 2000. I knew 2 kids in that school with pagers, and the only reason I paged them was to buy weed...
In this case it's a white kid though, and a lot of the kids from "kids for cash" were white. If we look at the prison population and include just the white population (~60%), the US still incarcerates vastly more people than other comparable countries. It's not even close. While in general racism is certainly a contributing factor, I don't see it being the main factor.

I don't have the impression the other factors you mention are unique to the US; people from all types of backgrounds seem to have problems with black/white thinking. This sort of thing seems innate to the human condition.

So the question remains, what is so special about the US? I don't really have a good answer to this. "Puritanism", as another commenter offered, seems too simplistic, and the US isn't the only country with a history of that sort of thing, either. Same with "war on drugs", another popular answer. Drugs are illegal (and sometimes heavily persecuted) in many countries. Maybe it's a bit worse in the US, but it's not unique to the US.

Maybe there just isn't a good/clear reason, and it's just "how the chips fell". The Aztecs went to war for no other reason than to capture people so they could rip out their hearts for sacrifice. There have been cultures where cannibalism of slaves, even child slaves, was socially acceptable for no other reason than "it tastes good". Why were these cultures like this? Who can tell... Probably a complex interaction between various factors.
I gave up NPR a few years ago, after four decades of frequent listening. It has become more difficult to recognize the attributes which made it so useful and insightful, for so long. Once in a while, they run something which reinforces my opinion that they've strayed into the weeds. A recent example: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197955833

LUSE: I talked to other professors in preparation for this conversation, and something that came up was, like, it's seen by many as a very extreme form of nonviolent direct action.

WOODLY: Yes. I mean, it is the most extreme form of nonviolent direct action because self-immolation is not meant to hurt others. It's not meant to destroy property. It's really meant to use one's own life to make a statement. It's also on a spectrum - right? - like, you know, sort of on a spectrum from, for example, hunger strike. Some people do things like nail parts of their bodies to buildings. And then sort of self-immolation is, like, on that spectrum of the most extreme kinds of nonviolent direct action.
The problem with Karger's algorithm isn't that it's randomized, but that even the expected runtime is orders of magnitude worse than this new deterministic algorithm.

For that reason I wouldn't call it amazing though it is an interesting algorithm.
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn't a meeting though, they were the only one in it.

After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is "moving in a new direction" or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other.

For the last few months, they've been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves.

They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately.
Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves.

Of course they were told not to go posting about it on social media, and I couldn't find anything yet, so I took it upon myself. What a trash company that doesn't care about its people one bit.
FWIW, these days display lag/input lag on good gaming monitors/TVs is well under 15ms, which is the point at which some people can notice it. ("Good" is anything <25ms.) https://displaylag.com/display-database/
While you're 100% correct, they are working on ways to make the middle useful, such a "Needle in a Haystack" testing. When we say we wish for context length that large, I think it's implied we mean functionally. But you do make a really great point.
I wonder how they get them off the wall intact? I took up a bathroom floor of (glazed ceramic) tiles and I barely had a piece larger than a handspan to show for it, they were nearly all absolutely welded to the adhesive. Would be great if there could be a 3M Command Strip style pull-to-release tab!
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How can I not have heard of this before?! Sounds like the plot for a thriller movie.
Detroit has a giant stain on its name that takes a generation or two to get out of, assuming you do everything else right.

I'm not sure they can spend their way out of that problem.
Neither of the 'airship' aircraft carriers described in the article failed due to fire.
The text in the bubbles may be too small to read on mobile devices, which is why I've added the same text at the bottom of the image. I'm aware of the issue, so I can remove the text for desktop browsers.
Truth that you dislike remains true.
> He was clearly claiming to be God

I don't know if that's true. Certainly there are biblical scholars who would disagree. It's not mentioned in the first three gospels, for example.

> obviously leads to the trilemma of choices

Again, not obvious. The three choices are logically incomplete. There are other possibilities, such as that Jesus was not a ful-on lunatic: he had a single delusional belief about his own divinity but was otherwise rational.
> Having said that, I’m curious as well if using effort you can get better results on Q8 cropped to 75% than on Q6.

This is what I wanted to ask. This seems like the same kind of optimization as quantization, sacrificing a bit of quality for performance by discarding some data. So then the question is, which is better, and how do they combine?

You could even potentially get different results at different points in the scale. Maybe Q8 cropped to 75% isn't better than Q6 but Q4 cropped to 75% is better than Q3, or vice versa.
I always found that part odd. I’d assume you would want the problem you build your crypto system built around to be NP-complete, since that would seem to put you on the firmest possible ground. And yet those are most likely not NP-complete, and I think the post-quantum systems proposed aren’t NP complete either.

Maybe being NP-complete isn’t as important as I realize? Or maybe there’s something about NP-complete problems that make them less amenable to be a valid crypto system?
Seems like it is mostly junk-food. Not hard to avoid.
"Over 6000+ DOS/Windows and Console games preserved for future generations".
https://classicreload.com/
The query optimization chooses what algorithms provide the results requested by the SQL.
An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice