skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is REALLY important software nowadays imho.

I'm old enough to have spoken to people on analogue land lines: the sound was crisp, you could hear small background noises, you could hear someone breathe.

Nowadays we usually speak to people on digital lines that are highly compressed (to the extend that is messes with the sound quality), low freq range (no bass, very high sounds) and cut up (without enough sound or when then other party makes more sound the stream is completely interrupted).

And it does not have to be like this! All of this is in favour of the network operator (or centralized chat servers e.g. whatsapp) trying to save some data/money. While many of us have paid for unlimited data!

On top of that much of the conversations are not properly e2e encrypted!

I've used Mumble to speak to people I love over long distance and the quality is just so much better: it's like the analog experience of my childhood. Hearing ever breath, background noise and all in high quality makes all the difference some times.
> Not one textbook I looked in mentioned “why” the dot product is important; that is it’s useful for determining the similarity of two vectors.

Most textbooks motivate it by the angle between the vectors or as projections (e.g., for hyperplanes). Numerics-focused ones will further emphasize how great it it is that you can compute this information so efficiently, parallelizable etc..
Later on it will be about Hilbert space theory or Riemannian geometry and how having a scalar product available gives you lots of structure.

> This feels like the biggest issue with most math books I’ve read and it makes me wonder where books that offer more semantic meaning of concepts instead of recipes exist.

All of the good ones do both. They first give the motivation and intuition and then make matters precise (because intuition can be wrong).
Thanks faloon for the link. It's the best 'fuid'virtual visit I have seen in recent months. Gaussian Splatting algorythm seems to be the 'game changer' thing in VR we were waiting for.... This is fantastic times in this area. what a time to be alive !
The Joys of the Craft
> If you have time and a car, driving around Spain is very enjoyable. I've seen most of it's larger and smaller cities over the years

+1. But the train, specially being in Madrid, is a very good alternative to the car to travel around Spain.
China also has no qualms about deleting people if they dare to defy, unlike Europe.

As it turns out, potential death is a great motivator.
API Gateways help to improve your security with Nicolas Fränkel [video]
Disclaimer: host of the podcast

Nicolas Fränkel explains how API gateways help to implement customer-specific behavior into the API management and how this can help improve security. Obvious focus is Apache APISIX but also the broader topic of API gateway in general and why you want to use them.
The use of the word "myth" implies that people who don't accept it are conspiracy nut jobs. But in reality it is only a semantic debate. It doesn't change reality, nor does it allow better understanding. We clearly have an impact on the planet, but it is up to whoever in the very far future to decide if it really was the start of an epoch, assuming they would still express themselves in such primitive concepts.
That’s 80% of the country you’re describing there. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t do a siesta in summer, and elderly people continue throughout the year
How does it compare to Grafana?
TIL that the Burj Khalifa is taller than Vatican City is wide.
> I can utilize any CDN provider that supports S3. Like bunny.net

Bunny is a great product. I'm glad this release makes that possible for you and I imagine this was one of the reasons the rest of the community wanted it too

> But more attention to basic features and little details

This is what we spend most of our time doing, but you won't hear about it because they aren't HN-worthy.

> no direct support for metadata

Fabrizio tells me this is next on the list. I understand it's frustrating, but there is a workaround - store metadata in the postgres database (I know, not ideal but still usable). We're getting through requests as fast as we can.
This does depend on the curriculum to some degree, and whether you’re just trying to grasp a concept firmly enough to move onto a more advanced concept or whether you’re trying to build a practical skill in solving problems. For instance, it’s entirely possible to understand higher level mathematics without having much skill at all in pencil-and-paper arithmetic. I know this because one of my best friends in college got straight A’s in upper level mathematics and EE classes but, due to his unusual background, only bothered learning arithmetic when he needed to prepare for the GRE.

I didn’t enjoy math as a child, and I used to be a lot more bitter about this when I first started to grasp what mathematics actually was. As a child, mathematics seemed like a small amount of “learn and understand a new abstract concept” (which I was pretty good at) bogged down with a huge amount of “okay now you have to solve a a bunch of problems based on that concept over and over again before we’ll trust you with another concept”. Eventually I figured out that mathematics itself really is the concepts, and that the concepts eventually build up to a level of complexity where it was increasingly challenging and fun to grasp them.

Maybe the reason it’s taught this way is because the vast majority of people aren’t mathematicians and aren’t really attracted to mathematics out of an abstract intellectual appreciation for the beauty of mathematical concepts; they just want to solve problems. And this is perfectly reasonable. But if I had it to do over again, I probably would have put more effort into mathematics and study more of it, at much higher levels, if I knew it would eventually get a lot more interesting.

And eventually things do start to branch out a bit. The standard K-12 curriculum up through calculus mostly builds up like a single tower where everything is built on everything else, but there are parts of mathematics where you can just sort of go in a different direction for awhile.
Yes, this also sounds crazy to me: "Manage more and faster!".

If my company would be in crisis, I would take the upper management into a quiet retreat, and then have a few meetings where we think creatively how we're going to deal with the situation.

This is really about making the right decisions, not "Manage more and faster or we're all going to die!".
Lived experience, from the Romantics to identity politics Essays
(The above was simplified. In a game of poker, you also want to make sure that when hands get folded, that no one learns what the cards were.)
For a second I thought we'd seen a lot of the universe, the HDF being 1/5th the radius away and on googling Earandel is 2/3rds the radius... of the known universe.

"According to the theory of cosmic inflation initially introduced by Alan Guth and D. Kazanas, if it is assumed that inflation began about 10−37 seconds after the Big Bang and that the pre-inflation size of the universe was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's size is at least 1.5×1034 light-years—at least 3×10^23 times the radius of the observable universe."

So, if true, all those metrics of atoms, stars, planets in the known universe are multiplied by 10^23.

Even if intelligent life were rare enough to only appear once per knowable universe, there could be 10^23 different intelligent species - single planet to galaxy spanning empires - that would probably never meet another intelligent species (except those with the same ancestors).
> I may have read theories that it contributes more to visceral fat, which is really bad for your health? But that won’t be the majority of weight gained I think.

Yeah, about that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171936/
This is why 1b3b is so popular. Instead of teaching the mechanics he teaches the intuition.

With that being said, I do remember my math and physics teachers in high school spend lots of time talking about the why and intuitions and let the books state the how.
I love the end of it, just a big circle of random static noise. Looking at stuff like this always brings up the question of why does anything exist at all?
At my company we use https://aframe.io/ to display 360 images (e.g. https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/sky/), though the images themselves are produced from rendered models
Your gut bacteria is amazing - it will signal even what kids of food it wants. By passing those hungry bacteria will eventually kill of those specific cravings I guess, but meanwhile, I'd wager a lack of satiation if bypassing the gut.
Most growth is exponential until they hit a limit.

Startups are a kind of lifehack. It's probably easier to serve a million people with 7 engineers than it is to serve 3000 people with one engineer-PM-sales guy. Eventually the guy with the giant company grabs the customers of that little guy or acquires them.

So I think it's very tempting to go large. The trick is finding something with low limits. I call it deep sea ideas. Just go deep enough, outside of shark territory. A shark in the deep sea would implode. Things like specialist CRMs and funnels are classic. But I did diet apps and essential oil apps; VCs won't go near those but the market throws money at it.
> Here is the relevant Llama 3 license section, below, in it's entirety.

I agree too that this is the relevant section.

> It says that if you have 700M+ users then you'll need a new license

It does not say that. It says that if you or your affiliate had 700M+ users on the day of llama3's release date then you need an other licence.

This does not trigger if you just gain 700M+ users. Simply it does not. It does trigger if you become affiliated by someone who in that past date already had 700M+ (for example if google buys you up, or if you become a strategic partner of google).

The key here is "on the Meta Llama 3 version release date" which sets the exact date for when the monthly active users of the products or services should be counted.

> It does not say what the terms of that new license will be

Correct. And I assume the terms would be highly onerous. That I do not dispute.

> or just believe me when I tell you that Zuck said it'll be a commercial license

I believe you on that. That is not what we disagree on. The bit we seem to disagree on is when exactly do you need this extra licence. You state that you need it if your company gains in a future date 700M+ users. That is simply not supported by the very section you quoted above.
Yet, people still line up to become veterinaries (and technicians). Which proves my point.

> Calling these jobs “cute” or saying the veterinary situation is “fortunate” borders on cruel, [...]

Perhaps not the best choice of words, I admit.
> This is an oversimplification that gets repeated too often. It is not illegal to build dense housing.

It is illegal to build dense housing in most of the land area where it would be useful. Naturally the few exceptions will cause it to be built there, but that doesn't make for a solution. Since there are so few such areas, the price of land zoned for density skyrockets and that gets added to the cost of the new units, making construction uneconomical well before the units become affordable to ordinary people.

An a plot of land where it's legal to build a 10-story building doesn't really allow you to increase the housing supply when it has had a 10-story building already on it since 1965.

> But why would you build a high-rise apartment building out in the suburbs anyway?

Because that's where the land that doesn't already have a high-rise on it is.
Which is a concern from a national security point of view.

From a personal point of view the Chinese government is less of a threat to my privacy than my own country's government because they have far less access to other information about me, so cannot correlate other things with whatever I do on tik-tok.
If there's a gap between theory and reality, then there's a more accurate theory. If you know this more accurate theory, you're going to have specific arguments for it.
Go is an Object Oriented Programming Language
AMD is already competitive on inference
Swift is not a "managed" (i.e. GC) language.
> ubiquity

I thought you were referring to the Ubiquiti web app.

It almost works in that sentence.
You can't really take out the censorship. You can strengthen pathways which work around the damage, but the damage is still there.
> yelling at cloud

Yes, yes I am.

Maybe it’ll work if I turn it off and on again.
I agree, and I do have an addition. As a software engineer it some times kills me that product development is all done through Figma.

* Professional opinions drawn in higher ranked stakeholders whims
* It drown visibility and attention to other processes of software development such as infrastructure, integrations, etc.

However, that also gives some nice things: Stakeholders and designers can fight in their own corner.
That's me and coffee. Smells great, tastes like literal ash (no, not from over-cooked beans; coffee fanatics have offered me their best and it all tastes like someone filtered it through an ashtray).
Zen of Python as Gregorian Chants [video]
> Is Apple just more scared of China?

They probably are. They have roughly the same sized economies in nominal GDP, China is a lot bigger in PP terms, and China's government has a far greater powers and a far more compliant legal system to enforce its will.
Price of fruit/veg where I live makes me wonder why even grow illicit drugs.
What's true about all particles is also true about electron. There's also the myth that not all particles are equal.
GitHub Access Token Exposure
The last couple of months, I have been studying the fundamentals of algebra using Professor Leonard's YT Channel[0]. My goal is to fill in the gaps in my knowledge before I refresh my Calculus. It takes a while to go through all this stuff, if you do it right. But man, I have so much more confidence in my skills now than I had before, which to me is in itself rewarding and motivating. I had no idea how big my knowledge gaps in algebra were before I started going through his playlists.

My end goal is to be able to follow Andrej Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"[1] without any big problems
So starting basically from "zero" in order to learn the prerequisites before learning what you actually want to learn on your own can feel daunting at times. But I think taking shortcuts will result in frustration. So, here I am taking algebra courses on YT with 38 years.

[0] https://youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard?si=0kiGvmbZv4b9Sgf9

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9Gv...
The sheer amount of material a student needs to digest in order to become conversant as even a pseudo-professional is enormous, which I think excuses, to some degree, the strange style of text books. I personally find that education is a process of emanations: first one digests the jargon and the mechanical activity of some subject (taking a dot product, in this case) and then one revisits the concepts with the distracting unfamiliarity of the technical accoutrements diminished by previous exposure. Thus able to digest the concepts better, the student can revisit the technical material again with a deeper appreciation of what is happening. The process repeats ad-infinitum until you ask yourself "what even IS quantum field theory?"
if there were pylons already going to where the solar and wind farms are built then yes, this 'rarely used technique' of adding larger capacity wires to existing pylons would be the obvious answer, but the problem is these uninhabitably hot sunny deserts and windy plains ideal for new solar and wind energy do not have grid connections because people don't live there.
It changed a lot and is way more paranoid right now. To the point where it will refuse to answer instructions unrelated to the password.
Yeah I used to think highly of Satya but he really seems not to care about fair competition at all, training GitHub Copilot on everyone’s AI code then turning around and saying folks can’t use GitHub Copilot to write AI code, is monopolistic as heck.

Sadly it seems like Meta is also anticompetitive. I didn’t know about this, seems embarrassing:

“v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the
Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or
derivative works thereof).”

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/b8348da38fde8644ef0...

Also even if you did use Llama for something, they could unilaterally pull the rug on you when you got 700 million years, AND anyone who thinks Meta broke their copyright loses their license. (Checking if you are still getting screwed is against the rules)

Therefore, Zuckerberg is accountable for explicitly anticompetitive conduct, I assumed an MMA fighter would appreciate the value of competition, go figure.
I think GP used "simple" not as a synonom for "easy", but as opposite to "complex". i.e. the off-ramp is easy to understand, but possibly hard to implement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing says

> For a period of time, the prices are set unrealistically low to ensure competitors are unable to effectively compete with the dominant firm without making substantial loss. The aim is to force existing or potential competitors within the industry to abandon the market so that the dominant firm may establish a stronger market position and create further barriers to entry.[2] Once competition has been driven from the market, consumers are forced into a monopolistic market where the dominant firm can safely increase prices to recoup its losses.[3]

What you are describing is not predatory pricing, that's a big part of why I was confused.

> Funnily enough the second author got a good example but still failed to see it under his nose: public schools do have 90% of the market, and in many countries almost 100%. Obviously it works.

Please consider reading the article more carefully. Your interpretation requires the author to be an idiot.

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What you are describing about browsers is interesting. But it's more like bundling and cross subsidies. Neither Microsoft nor Google were ever considering making money from raising the price of their browser after competition had been driven out. That's required for predatory pricing.
> Have you been to San Francisco? Addicts and homeless take over all parks.

The high amount of homelessness may have something to do with the housing shortage.
Looking at most relevant data it is hard to make an argument the Nokia is doing worse today that it was just before Microsoft bought it. Nokia's market cap is currently close to double what it was compared to the year before Microsoft 'destroyed' it.
You're 100% correct. So many stories of very successful musicians (metal guitarists, etc.) that have a knack for making music people like.

I view this thing as a "skill-reward" ratio. If you're a mediocre guitarist and your band has sold platinum records, you're a complete champion. You translated X mechanical skill to Y real-world impact and success.

If you're a superb technical guitarist and nobody listens to your music, you have nothing to contribute.

People over focus on the minutiae and lose sight of the thing itself. Musicianship over music.
Why are American roads so dangerous?
Right? There's some misunderstanding that engineering is about precise measurements and reproducible results. That's a scientist, not an engineer. An engineer is the person who gets the job done and the thing built, and if it doesn't kill someone or explode and start a fire, then that's all good.

But I think treating cooking as any of the STEM subjects is wrong. Cooking is an art. It has to please your senses and senses are not scientific instruments, they're subjective and inaccurate. Recipes are only templates and you need to use the brain to fill in the blanks: if I tell you to add two onions in a stew, can't you use your noggin to decide whether your onions are too small, and so you need to add more than two, or too large and so you need to add fewer? Will it ruin the stew if you add three onions, or one and a half? How many traditional dishes are the result of cooking another dish with what ingredients were at hand, or the result of mixing two things that were previously not eaten together?
Just a pretty nice exploit, he got paid 50,000 as a bounty for a simple piece of code with critical impacts.
Interesting! Could you give a few anecdotes and a list of flags that seem to provide a bit of stability? Would be useful and insightful I think :)
I think it is interesting that llama 3 still does not use Mixture of Experts. Command R+ is also not using MoE. On paper you get 4x less training and inference compute cost. But maybe there is a good reason not to use it, this kind of supports this. Might be wasteful to create these huge MoE models if they can't outperform smaller dense models.
Llama 3 8B basically answers the question of: "What happens if you train a small(-ish) model for a very long time".

I think we've seen this trend start with some of the Mistral models going beyond the Chinchilla optimal point, and now with Llama 3 even further. 15T tokens for a 8B param model is a lot more than we've seen so far (for context, Llama 2 was 2T tokens), and it seems to be paying off.

If anything, this release makes me excited for the quality of smaller models going forward.
> New Jersey prohibited beepers for under-18s entirely, possession could result in a 6-month jail-term - a law proposed by ex-policeman and Senator Ronald L. Rice.

How the hell could a beeper be worse for a kid than 6 months jail time?
Was this recently? Right now it either thinks you're asking for the password if you even mention a cypher, and responds it can only speak English if you directly write in cypher.
Are you sure about the volume thing? Isn’t the entire signal chain of a normal TV digital and there’s only a conversion to Analog at the End? I don’t understand why the background hum would change volume with this setup.
I find it to be inflexible and also wrong in my personal experience. It’s like saying you can’t love two people at the same time, or have balance and nuance in your life
It would have been if the bet that AR glasses in a spectacle form factor could have been solved. But the lens display just isn’t possible today.

Apple made the same bet too and had to capitulate to a VR headset + cameras in the end.

The Zuck difference is he pivoted to AI at the right time, Apple didn’t.
EEG for one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
My plan for my next electron app is to use one of 98.css [1], XP.css [2] or 7.css [3], so I can have proper native-looking app.

[1] https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

[2] https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/

[3] https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/