skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If corporations and HR wouldn't use these kinds of credentials mindlessly

Keep going down the root-cause trail. Corporations would not be using "college education" to filter for people who are literate, numerate, and can accomplish basic tasks if high schools were graduating people with that baseline. But K-12 education is not doing its job, and a high school diploma is no longer a reliable sign that someone can even function as an adult.
If you're going to be a fortune teller at a carnival, buy beaded curtains.

Looking the part is half of actually being the part.
On a broader note, with a HUGE explosion in choice especially amongst fresh fruits and vegetables which are now perpetually available "in-season" it feels like someone is ALWAYS advocating for one thing over another. I couldn't eat all the fruit my grocery store sells even if I ate one of each and three servings a day. There is so much variety... no wonder someone is "shilling" constantly, the choices are astounding.
TRAMP is unusable for my needs and doesn't really implement the remote IDE paradigm at all. I would argue that no IDE really implements the remote IDE paradigm aside from VSCode with the remote SSH plugin; it sets a new benchmark. I've tried several other IDEs and I haven't seen anything that works nearly as well.

Take a look at the diagram here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh - you will see that VSCode does not simply connect to the remote computer to read and write some files. It installs an entire VSCode server - seamlessly to the user every time they connect to a remote - that keeps track of all project facilities, shells, extension accessory runtimes, takes care of embedded or computationally heavy tasks like compiling, building, running project-wide code analysis tools, etc. while keeping all settings, editor windows, and accessory panes local (which is critical for UX and latency). VSCode appropriately partitions responsibilities between the local and the remote, automatically restores IDE infrastructure on the remote as needed, and enforces the partitioning architecturally for all extensions.

These latency optimizations and offloads are not ad hoc; they are rooted in VSCode's origin as a browser-based IDE, and make use of the LSP and other architectural features that simply don't exist in Emacs because nobody really thought deliberately about running the extensions at an arm's length from the editor UI in Emacs, using an async protocol that doesn't allow extensions to impact core UI latency.

A routine issue with TRAMP is that some unrelated plugin makes editing very slow and subject to random freezes because it expects low-latency I/O to the file being edited and to other accessory files next to it. This is a major issue that absolutely kills editing UX and confidence. It doesn't really happen with VSCode (worst case, the red squiggles show up a few seconds late), and just as importantly, the entire project behaves predictably because it's not just TRAMP running on the remote but the entire IDE infrastructure.

Ironically, I think Emacs' origin on X-based systems foreclosed on the architectural possibility of a clean separation of concerns that can be seen in browser-based IDEs; it would be wildly disruptive to the package ecosystem.
Yes there are many fine tunes on huggingface. Search "8x1B huggingface"
Quiet Our Loud World Is Making Us Sick
The `mixtral:8x22b` tag still points to the text completion model – instruct is on the way, sorry!

Update: mixtral:8x22b now points to the instruct model:

ollama pull mixtral:8x22b
ollama run mixtral:8x22b
Where do you sell your goods then?
>FSD is based on neural net so is Optimus vision

Do you think Tesla invented neural nets or something?
I read a few other war stories from this site and they are all top notch. Especially this one about selling your business: https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-11-how-not-sel...
We called them fermi estimation problems in grad school
There are people out there so utterly brain-broken (myself included) who seek to monetize every little personal hobby.

“Maybe I should start journaling” turns into “How can I be a thought leader on bleeping journaling?” And it ruins everything.

I’ve done this multiple times and regret it. I’ve only recently adopted the mindset that this author is attempting to convey, which is simple: identify what you enjoy and why, and just do it - don’t try to exploit it and monetize it (which the author has strangely conflated to “being famous” I think)

So I like the article. It’s a nice reminder. As to the other commenters railing against its “LinkedIn-ness” or it being a platitude, sure - but it’s upvoted and it is what it is now.
AI "deathbots" are helping people in China grieve
The Boring Phone
I'm surprised people think this, there is also the widely-used Armadillo linear algebra library. In my opinion it has a much nicer syntax.

https://arma.sourceforge.net/
Why, like this of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg
I switched back recently (from Kotlin to Java). I'm not 100% happy with the switch. Despite new Java features, it comes nowhere near providing Kotlin's terseness. But a few of the reasons that made me try this switch include being uncomfortable with the closed and proprietary nature of the Kotlin's evolution and that the only IDE support available is via a product owned by the same company. I know Oracle "owns" Java but it feels different - they have no incentive to limit the marketplace for developer tools and IDEs.

I also prefer a smaller languages - and I feel earlier versions of Kotlin were beautifully balanced in this regard with a small(ish) number of powerful and orthogonal improvements over Java. The language has grown significantly since then at a far faster rate than Java - maybe approaching C# velocity.

Finally, and I realise that a lot of effort has gone into addressing the issue in recent releases but compile times were much worse for me than equivalent Java.
That link is CGI.
Goldene: New 2D form of gold makes graphene look boring
Obviously the solution is to CT scan the whole planet. Then it'll be easy to spot the fossils.
Well, of course I now can't reproduce the problem for whatever reason, but I'll keep that trick in my pocket, thanks.
Higher education in subjects with poor employment prospects is a luxury good. If wealthy people want to pay out of their own pockets to study those subjects then go ahead, but as a taxpayer I resent being forced to subsidize students who just want to goof around and pontificate for 4 years. Where is the return on my investment?

To be clear, I am not taking an extremist position here. There is value in having an educated populace and students should have some coursework in a broad range of liberal arts subjects. But for college majors we have to be more pragmatic at both an individual and social policy level.
Openrouter lists several options: https://openrouter.ai/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b
Are we looking at the same page?

https://imgur.com/a/y6XfpBl

And even the direct tag page: https://ollama.com/library/mixtral:8x22b shows 40-something minutes ago: https://imgur.com/a/WNhv70B
(2023)
Not surprising that tauri is slightly behind since it uses a webview.
I'm curious why Slint was not included in the benchmark.
Show HN: Brewer X, a native macOS client for Homebrew
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Brewer X is graphical interface that lives on top of Homebrew. Leveraging the power of native APIs improves the classic experience and unlocks new features. For example:

• bulk actions are performed in parallel

• syncing the entire library locally provides incredible search performances and the ability to query descriptions and other previously unaccessible fields

• maintenance scripts run automatically for you

• last but not least... app icons (or favicons when not available) let you quickly identify what you're looking for

The app is written in Swift and uses only AppKit with Nib files for top performance, pixel perfect design, and maximum flexibility.

We also designed the app icon and all the others in the UI ourselves. Following the great insights from Sketch[^1] we managed to make them super crispy. We're also very proud to have been featured in the macOS App Icon Book[^2].

The app has only been out for a couple of weeks, but we've already seen an amazing response from the community. We can't tell you all of our future plans yet, but here's a list of things we'd like to see in the app in the near future:

• Import/Export

• Automatic replacement of apps installed without Homebrew

• Notifications about available updates

• Finder actions

• Spotlight integration

I hope you find Brewer X interesting. We're happy to answer any question!

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Scala may have started out as a "nicer Java" back when Java was in its fossilized stage, but the niche it has grown into is more like a Haskell for the JVM. A pretty cool niche, but niche. "Nicer" just isn't part of its claim anymore, hasn't been for quite some time.

Kotlin can certainly be seen as a what Scala could have been if had stayed on the "nicer Java" course, and no, Java isn't anywhere close to overtaking Kotlin in the field of unambitous but spectacularly effective niceties. Because that's what Kotlin is, from a Scala perspective: low hanging fruit language features, not powerful enough to even bother. But the Kotlin standpoint is that more powerful isn't necessarily a good thing, they judge a feature on how it improves mundane code, without changing the entire programming paradigm. Scala has long stopped trying to be a "nicer Java", they have chosen a different path. And that's not a bad thing, it just isn't for everybody.
How are you approaching hosting? vLLM?
Not that you're a woke dumbass, just probably not a true believer in democracy. The thing described above I also dislike, but I recognize I'm not a resident or voter there and I shouldn't get a say in their lives
Seems the incompetent and curiously hostile Philosophy Faculty at Oxford killed FHI.

> While FHI had achieved significant academic and policy impact, the final years were affected by a gradual suffocation by Faculty bureaucracy. The flexible, fast-moving approach of the institute did not function well with the rigid rules and slow decision-making of the surrounding organization. (One of
our administrators developed a joke measurement unit, “the Oxford”. 1 Oxford is the amount of work it
takes to read and write 308 emails. This is the actual administrative effort it took for FHI to have a small grant disbursed into its account within the Philosophy Faculty so that we could start using it - after both
the funder and the University had already approved the grant.)
Starting in 2020, the Faculty imposed a freeze on fundraising and hiring. Unfortunately, this led to the eventual loss of lead researchers and especially the promising and diverse cohort of junior researchers, who have gone on to great things in the years since. While building an impressive alumni network and ecosystem of new nonprofits, these departures severely reduced the Institute. In late 2023, the Faculty of
Philosophy announced that the contracts of the remaining FHI staff would not be renewed. On 16 April 2024, the Institute was closed down.
Yeah, I nagged my dad into buying a PC, after playing this (and Wolfenstein 3D) at a friend's house.

I still fire it up, every once in a while, at night, trying to recapture the mood of those early days.
Limestone is generally made of dead corals and marine animals, this batch just included a slightly wider variety of species than average.
Mapping parcel lockers with OpenStreetMap and DuckDB
Anytime I see a ground stop due to a software update it always reminds me of when Delta's data center caught on fire

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/data-....
No, a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
I’m reminded of something that I heard someone say once in an interview—intuition is just memory in disguise. Certainly, in some areas of my life, my strategy is to learn things and forget them to be able to use them. It doesn’t work in all arenas (mathematics really demands explicit remembering much of the time, but I find programming and writing both work well with forgotten remembering).
>My stance is pretty firmly that neither side understands the other at all

but you are ignoring the point I made, writing a comment a priori as if this thread doesn't already exist. I am reasonably conservative, and I understand leftists completely.

I was raised from the crib very left wing, full on commie, with socialist/social justice sensibilities. I was woke before you were born (yes, the word is that old). Then I studied classical econ, and watched the fearmongering about conservatives in the media ("Ronald Raygun is going to start a nuclear war!") never come true.

So, without changing any of my heartfelt sensibilites, I instead realized that the free market ("capitalism") actually delivers the things that working class people need: jobs and cheap goods; and that greedy rapacious capitalist employers have no interest in discriminating against anybody: if women truly earn 60 cents on the dollar for equal work, what capitalist wouldn't hire women to more cheaply make more money? but we don't see that happen, so what the left believes has to be wrong: either the capitalists are not driven by greed, or it's not equal work for less money.

so, no, many on the left who are just like I was do not understand the right, and plenty of us who have moved right from the left do understand perfectly well what noble goals that left sensibilities are trying to accomplish.
Strongly agree.

No UI is really intuitive enough that there isn't a formal or informal learning and even training cost to it. Then the redesign invariably finds a new way to hide the controls (hamburger menus, ... menus, gosh knows what else).
Perplexity says ~66% of the internet is hosted on U.S. infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
It’s not “experts” in the typical sense of the word. There is no discrete training to learn a particular skill in one expert. It’s more closely modeled as a bunch of smaller models grafted together.

These models are actually a collection of weights for different parts of the system. It’s not “one” neural network. Transformers are composed of layers of transformations to the input, and each step can have its own set of weights. There was a recent video on the front page that had a good introduction to this. There is the MLP, there are the attention heads, etc.

With that in mind, a MoE model is basically where one of those layers has X different versions of the weights, and then an added layer (another neural network with its own weights) that picks the version of “expert” weights to use.
Is there a site that regularly analyzes the state of the AI market like this? Is there a standardized approach to assessment of energy costs of AI?
> It would be great if easy lending went away.

It definitely needs to. The whole thing hinges on some tenuous idea of "social good" that I'm not sure has ever been proven. Heck, the title of most educated nation goes back and forth between Russia and Canada. Russia especially does not stand out as some utopia of "social good" – if anything, it is surely towards the bottom of the list. And Canada spends most of its day wishing it were the USA. Not exactly strong markers of "social good" success.

If there were an "economic good", then these loans would be also unnecessary. Lenders would be lining up down the street to give you a loan on the basis of a percentage of your future income without any political incentive. But leaders aren't stupid. They know you will never turn the degree into anything. The data about that is abundantly clear.
Because when you remove the financial incentive that leads to outright exploitation, there still remains the case where self-harm can be a moral action.

Donating a kidney, for example, or bone marrow, is harmful to the donor, but the trade-off is that it may save the life of another person. People make trade-offs that result in self-harm as part of a moral decision all the time. Firefighters are a great example of this.

We (humans and societies in general, because this comment applies to all societies) generally block or allow moral and immoral activity based on the ability of those with power to regulate things. Some things are simple, like murder - generally, killing people is considered immoral, but even then, there is flexibility (for example, measures taken to stop an attacker from causing harm). Some things like organ donation are considered moral complex, and demand extra focus to prevent exploitation.
Elon is quite unique in the sense that:

- he can identify incredibly good companies and products, and (usually) is able to lift them up, fund them, and leave them mostly be. It's not him running Tesla day-to-day (nor was tesla started by him), nor is it him running SpaceX, nor...

- at the same time, everything that he's involved in directly is just abysmally stupid
Obsidian is the first that comes to mind, offline-first but with vault sync is a wonderful experience.
Other than that, Tableplus is far above other other database management gui Ive used, Zellij+Helix is a great combo, and I havent used it much I found Godot really intuitive and user friendly.
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Those people 200 years ago agreed with you - they implemented an amendment system specifically for that purpose.

Too bad we seem to have decided to just ignore the whole thing (except when it suits us, of course)
Now hold on, you could carry around a miniature white projection screen with you. Maybe about the size of a plating card but thicker, maybe a little bigger, but sized so you could comfortably hold it in one hand but still fit it in a pocket or purse. And then stiffen it a little so that it doesn't rattle around in the wind. Maybe add a grippy back? And it could double as an extra battery for the pin...
It is deeply ironic that not that long ago, a president fell because of the use of "plumbers" to gather information..

How times have changed. Not for the best in that respect..
Your FAQs has this question repeated:

- Is there a limit to how many requests I can have?
It’s not ok, but surely it is much less bad to be negligent than to do something on purpose, right?
Yes I am sure this is not CGI.

I would bet.

Their marketing style is built around viral Youtube video showing their prototypes being impressive or simply entertaining. Including when the fails.

They got a lot of recognition and attention thanks to this, I would not blame them, I prefer this to sterilized marketing we're seeing most of the time.
I think you are confusing EA and e/acc. EA was about billionaires defrauding the population who entrusted them with their money to give away to whatever cause was deemed best by the current "scientific" consensus in EA. Causes can include things like the suffering of fish or AI ending the known universe.

e/acc is about doing capitalism so hard so that AI will solve every problem.
> In fact, now, thanks to the higher interest rates there is a great possibility to save and earn interest (and compound interest) to buy a house.

That sounds like you've got some extra money laying around that should belong to your landlord...
Funny, I think HN is the ideal place for this conversation, though it's a bit weird to get there on this thread. But it's a subject of fascination for me personally, and it's a shame that it's taken on weird political dimensions.

I was under the impression that Caster Semenya tends to confound simple categorization like you suggest.
Hmm you obviously had a bad experience with your Tesla, I want to contrast it with my experience - I bought a new Model S in 2016 and still own it now. I owned ~10 cars prior (both non-premium e.g. Ford/VW and premium cars e.g. AM/BMW) and it is the best car I've had both in terms of running costs, failure rates and practicality (luggage space, good for family etc). I've now 8 years old, covered ~60k miles (I don't commute in it) - still has ~85% range it had when new and has been back to Tesla perhaps 4 times total in that time. That said, I've heard a lot of horror stories from others re. Tesla ownership - thankfully, I've not seen it myself.

Musk's antics have turned me off the brand a little but based on my experience, I'd buy another.
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Androids are human-compatible. An android could go any place a human could go and operate any machinery a human could operate - that widens the space of possible applications. A wheeled robot is capable of many tasks, but it can't dance with you, play piano, wear your wardrobe or sit in a plane seat.
It's not a uniparty.

I won't go out of my way to antagonize someone I need to get work done, and vice versa.

Partisan bullshit is maybe 5% of the total work that needs to get done on the Hill.

Bernie Bros and MAGAts are both the same, and gunk up the works.

The point of Government is GOVERNANCE (aka keeping the lights on).

Not idealism, not philosophy - it's job is to keep shit working.

If you politicize EVERYTHING, then everything falls apart.
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Whats old is new again. Ritot Watch successfully managed to scam $1.4m ten years ago with zero consequences. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ritot-the-first-projectio...

10 years is just the right amount of time for a new generation of victims who never heard about it. $200 million is impressive, those arent rookie numbers anymore.
Because it's unambiguous, already a core liberal value, and because the enforcement mechanisms for violating the law are invariably physical (arrest, imprisonment). "Free" means "Free from the threat of illegitimate violence", not "Free from the possibility of having your feelings hurt". It would be unjust to impose physical consequences for non-physically-infringing actions.
I totally agree, but, and apologies for the political interjection, it hasn't seemed to me like "rationally workable solutions" has been top-of-mind for the Republican party for the past 8 years or so.
No, it's a non-vehicle software issue.
And yet, yellow is the most easily visible color at night...

However, apparently I'm the idiot because red, not blue is hardest to see due to various reasons. At night we are all but blind to it.
Yes, these kinds of error rates almost certainly indicate either hardware faults of some kind, unshielded electrical noise, or possibly poor cooling pushing temps past the stable operating range.
Laying SBF at the feet of effective altruism is more than a little silly. It'd be similar to associating the Democratic National Party with Bernie Madoff, or Epstein with any of the universities and foundations he donated to.

One of the things criminals do to hide their activity, assuage their guilt, or put on a good show is associate with legitimate organizations. Social organizations typically don't and probably shouldn't do intrusive investigations into the lives and activities of their members sufficient to uncover their crimes.

When such organizations learn of any benefits accrued through the illegal activities of members, there are obviously moral and sometimes legal requirements to disassociate, disavow, and return ill-gotten funds.

Tegmark and Bostrom should be no means be tainted by association with EA. Their ideas and work on AI alignment and safety are excellent, and they ask the questions that should be answered as AI starts to reach human levels of competence and beyond.
But what about fixing the obvious, common, and annoying bugs in the web version? That doesn't count as an accomplishment?
That is a fair point. This should be investigated. I have heard of incidents like that at the nearby college. The police got called and eventually it turned out a member of the target group wrote the message.
They are all APFS.