skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then decided that was probably just as bad, and now drink sparkling water.

Heh that's usually what gets everybody who visits Germany for the first time: what's with Germans and that sparkling water? I never realized it isn't really a thing in most parts of the world.

And it seems pretty divisive to folks visiting from outside Europe. Some think it's disgusting, some get used to it after a while and like it.

I drink both, plain water and sparkling water. Sometimes I feel the urge to have something more than just water, especially in the summer returning home and being really thirsty, and usually sparkling water is enough to fool my senses. So depending on where you are, maybe you wanna try it for some time if you're trying to get off coke or other soda.
Apologies, I was poorly paraphrasing this article:
https://lwn.net/Articles/966631/

Which mentioned a few instances of distros having dependencies:

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/CAEg-Je_GoiJN6kOj1_K5WqTvA6n...

https://lwn.net/ml/opensuse-factory/AB7886BD-E33E-4ACA-8F94-...
Do some businesses exist which deal in old slabs? Sure. Though the large majority of results I see in your link are pretty small.

But more importantly there are a lot of kitchen and bathroom renovations (and I _think_ renovations outnumber new construction by a lot ...) so one might think that almost as many countertops being removed as installed, and that a large portion of these could be serviced by recycled ones. The comment from danans asserted that these materials are "usually" reused -- which I am doubtful of.
I'd love to see textual preprocessors kinda banned. Or at least done upstream and outside of the language. You can't both be <the language> and also have a textual preprocessor defined internally. It doesn't work.

I really like what Zig and C++ are doing with `const`.

https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/zig/zig-metaprogramming/

Have you looked at Spinal?

https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL

https://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc-RTD/master/index.html

edit, I see in your post history that your first submission was on Prosser's macro expansion. https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20060626/cpp.algo.pdf :)
I’m a huge fan in general, but some of his arguments are sloppier than others.
In the age of SaaS I’ll take it. It’s not like I have a few million dollars to pay for training even if I had all the code and data.
I hate reddit because the way close threads for topics that need an update or a follow up. The auto closing seems pointless

Further, People keep telling me the communities are great but I've yet to find one of these mythical great communities. Or maybe my definition of great community is different than others. For me a great community was a forum I was on in 2004-5 where people stuck around and actually responded. on reddit I rare find useful responses
Uh, sure, but that doesn't look like "an identifiable part of a human head" that's going to be catching your eye when you're using the bathroom.
He's not saying the race is stupid. He is saying that it is more stupid, an operant he expounds on, revealing his underlying meaning as both accurate and mild. A factual statement is not and is never denigration.

If you and you specifically were the sole member of a race, for instance, his operant would rank your race below that of Black. This would be an observation, not a denigration.

But, if you are not Black, you are the recipient of favorable averaging. Your race would be less stupid than Black, despite you.

I hope that helps.
Crab bucket mentality, right there.
> all the negativity around their bad product is our lack of "optimism"

Ah just like telekinesis, it only works when the skeptics aren't around
Yeah the balance bike was a present at 1 year old to gauge interest as he grew. Definitely not necessary. We went all out with a Strider 12 pro though. He was able to walk with it very early on but the 2 front wheel scooter captured his attention more. He loved riding on the Shotgun Pro seat though on our bikes.

The gliding is definitely the skill needed. It helps to have somewhere with a slight incline like a driveway apron too. At least it made it less boring for my son. The problem I see with the gliding is that it wasn't all that interesting to my son. So it really took him to get old enough to realize it would be a step towards riding a real bike.

What I can't believe is that the high end companies like Specialized, Trek, etc hadn't figure this out years ago. I can't believe they even still allow themselves to sell bikes with training wheels. I get that it's a short term sale for parents who don't know any better but you'd think they'd be better off if the kids actually learned to ride quickly and graduated to bigger bikes instead of maybe never learning to ride until much older.

They should sell the bikes with the crank arms that can pop on and off with a quick release and without actually taking off the front sprocket. Even taking the pedals off the crank arms are still in the way.
I had a beeper in high school around the same time, because it came with a voicemail box and was a lot cheaper than a separate phone line. (Around $5/month in 1992 dollars, IIRC.)

It was a way to get messages from friends without my parents and siblings eavesdropping, and despite said siblings monopolizing the home landline.
With a pair of Starships it would be tempting to put them on either end of a tether and spin them for artificial gravity. The benefits for construction and comfort may outweigh the benefits of proximity. And it may be practical to convert from one configuration to the other.
Confidential Federated Computations
What do you mean the hide it now? I still see it in the URL?
I happily used PagerDirect[.net] 2020-2023 — their service includes a receive-only pager, either numeric or alphanumeric. They also have Tx pagers, but I have no experience with that service.

An issue with Rx-only paging is that your device must be on 24/7, and within RF range — if offline/out-of-range, you will never receive that page.

I only stopped because I moved outside of their reliable service area (but they provide service to practically any metro center with greater than 100k people). When I lived 3 miles from "downtown" the pager was a great asset (for call screening, e.g.: spammers never "figured out" how a pager worked).
CRT has zero input lag. It is pure analog electronics with no buffering. "Racing the beam". Digital buffered displays are down to a few milliseconds but cannot ever be as low as CRT.
Quora's top answer is always an AI chatbot IIRC. It is very annoying compared to what it used to be...I still miss Yahoo Answers
The combination of overtones, but also the change in volume of those overtones over time.
It misses the crucial detail that every transformer layer chooses the experts independently from the others. Of course they still indirectly influence each other since each layer processes the output of the previous one.
Government expenditure in 1960 was $77 Billion/year.

Adjusted for inflation that would be $820 Billion/year today.

Actual spending today is $6,180 Billion/year, a ~7.5x multiplier above inflation.

Your income is being stolen through taxes and spent at an alarming rate.
CRT versus modern screens is a lot like vinyl versus FLAC. Hipsters gonna hipster.
> Does that mean JSON output is only available in the [self]-hosted version?

I would assume so. They probably constrain JSON output so that the JSON response doesn't bork the front-end/back-end of la Plateforme itself as it moves through their code back to you.
Thank you so much! Yes, it's fascinating to me how a massive and generational company like Google starts as a "side project".
High dimensionality, more granular interpretation/models of the world. More conscious/deliberate behaviour, less benefit from neurological canalisation.

I don't think you're seeing ineptitude, I think you're seeing lucidity, sapience.
LMSYS leaderboard is just one benchmark (that I think is fundamentally flawed). GPT-4 is clearly better.
You can already do it! Subscribe to CD, log off HN, and live your life.

I will too, in fact.... just one more comment...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...

Unless you actually have a reason to have good idea of who you're interacting with you should probably assume they are trolls, shills, or children. Those are BY FAR the most common Internet activity.

For example - I'm a normal human. I'll post a few comments on HN once in a while. Maybe a few up votes from time-to-time. Sometimes I don't think about HN for days. I don't post on other social media/forums. My father-in-law is a troll, he spends 10+ hours a day every day commenting and voting on various articles with his hundreds of sock puppet accounts. Which one are you more likely to see? Myself or my FIL?
Ice Age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2
Venice mayor says he is brave like Marco Polo in charging day-trippers €5
Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers into Informants
But why is that? I’m sure it’s the ‘best’ way to do things, but it also means more infrastructure which for simple apps isn’t worth the hassle.

I should use redis for queues but often I’ll just use a table in a SQLite database. For small scale projects I find it works fine, I’m wondering what an equivalent simple option for embeddings would be.
Spot seems to be a genuine product for routine inspection now. By the looks of that promo video they have at least an extensive trial deployment at Chevron.
Probably, but you might need something more sophisticated than cosine distance. For example, you might take a dataset of business letters, diary entries, and fiction stories and train some classifier on top of the embeddings of each of the three types of text, then run (embeddings --> your classifier) on new text. But at that point you might just want to ask an LLM directly with a prompt like - "Classify the style of the following text as business, personal, or fiction: $YOUR TEXT$"
This is a little bit apple's fault - if any app is distributed outside the app store, the developer now has to pay a fee per-install even for installs from the app store (50¢ per install!). He could have chosen not to put Delta in AltStore and only put it in the app store, then it could be free on the app store. Either way, you don't get a choice. You install from the app store, or you install from AltStore, but it can't be on both because of apple policy. This is what apple wants, and is why the fee exists. Hopefully it violates the DMA and they'll be forced to change that.
I'd be willing to entertain a conspiracy theory if searches like "alternatives to GMail" didn't still work (and show Tuta front-and-center).

This is misconfig, either on Tuta's part or Google's (Google's search result infrastructure is distributed and sometimes a cluster just plain goes down without enough replicas to maintain the search hierarchy integrity; that isn't considered a P0 failure because users still get results back, just not the results they usually get).
One of the tricks OpenAI uses when fine-tuning models is to use the unadjusted foundation model as a coherency model alongside the data or reward model to be fine-tuned on. Loss is calculated as the sum[0] of both the fine-tuning and coherency loss so that the training process is anchored to something.

The reason why unanchored training fails is fairly simple. "Training" is a misnomer, we're really copying and compressing[1]. When you train a model on itself, you're making a lossy copy of the original, which isn't a very good truth anchor.

There's probably other ways to anchor a self-training process, though. ChatGPT and other text-to-text transformer models are operated as autoregressive processes, where the model spits out a probability distribution, which you then sample to get a token to add to the input, and then repeat until the model says stop. You'll notice that if you squint a little, this looks like the policy function of AlphaGo, but being run stochastically instead of being min-maxed. Which begs the question: why can't we train GPT like we train chess AI, with self-play followed by fine-tuning on the result, as scored by some kind of reward model?

Granted, you'd have to specify a reward model, as well as what behavior you're trying to 'reward'. One other idea that's been bouncing around my head for self-training is training a model to remember details of prior conversations that have since fell off the end of the context window. The biological analogy being "long-term memory", in contrast to the "short-term memory" of the context window. So perhaps your reward model is the model plus the current context window, and your loss is calculated on the same model but without the parts of the context window you want to free up.

No clue if this has already been done, but if it has please reply with the name of the thing I'm not aware of.

[0] Or difference, I forget. If you get the signs wrong you get a hilariously horny version of ChatGPT.

[1] And, thanks to induction heads, compressing the knowledge of how and what to copy.
Show HN: Open-source Google Docs for audio transcriptions (Whisper)
Hi HN,

My name is Gustav and I’m excited to share a project that my friend Mads and I have been working on. It's an open-source Google Docs "clone", but focused on streamlining the workflows for transcribing interviews. Built it for a friend who works as a journalist and his colleagues. Was also used by some friends who work as consultants to transcribe interviews.

Hosted the Whisper model on AWS Sagemaker with batch jobs

The code for the app can be found here: https://github.com/gustavhartz/voxtir

all the infrastructure code can be found here:
https://github.com/gustavhartz/voxtir-devops
This sentiment is pretty common I guess. Outside of a niche, the massive scale for which a vast majority of the data tech was designed doesn't exist and KISS wins outright. Though I guess that's evolution, we want to test the limits in pursuit of grandeur before mastering the utility (ex. pyramids).
True. But it's guaranteed to get worse.

With genAI on the rise it'll get harder and harder to spot real from fake.

It's unclear to me if the resulting product will be better or worse. But it will definitely be composed of more synthetic data than it is now.
> It just seems like unsustainable absurdity for the primary purpose of rubbing everyone else's face in it. I suppose that's what makes some people good at being CEOs

The arrow points the other way: Power corrupts, corruption then loses power.

Spending resources on rubbing people's faces in 'it' doesn't produce anything of value; it wastes valuable resources on personal desires, which is corrupt.

A traditional model of Chinese history is the pattern of the dynastic cycle: The dynasty rises to power, then they are corrupted (I'm not sure of the model says 'corrupted by power' specifically) and decay, and then finally lose their mandate and fall.

Much better to have democracy, where you can vote them out much sooner and generally they can't stay for generations. And also, better to have well-governed corporations where the board is independent from the CEO.
Like I said, Spot can do one thing that the drones can't: Get more upvotes on his Twitter post showing how futuristic he is.

An oldie but a goodie, heres one of my favorite displays of how "ahead of the curve" Tesla is:

https://youtu.be/ib1KKHGYmLQ?t=1689
Arresting kids for bringing something that's legal for them to have is one side of a spectrum of silliness, thinking that arresting a kid for violently assaulting someone is a "maybe" is pretty far on the other end of the same spectrum. There are plenty of things it's completely reasonable to arrest a child for.
Likely not, embeddings are very crude. Embeddings of a text is just an average of "meanings" of words.

As is embeddings lack a lot of tricks that made transformers so efficient.
Ooh! In that case, I kinda gotta give it back to Matthew Prince.

And also to his PR team: that's one of the slickest Wikipedia pages I've seen!

But can't fault someone for reinvesting in their roots, even if your roots town is pretty bougie nowadays.
Great fan of John Koenig's work. Honestly, to me, this video of his, I watched 10 years ago, it's one of those things you take with you for life. Beautiful and so true.

https://vimeo.com/83258629
This website is neat, but please keep in mind that you cannot establish causation from an observational study.
What a time to be alive, js turning into binary. So many runtimes, so many compiling strategies, like who would have thought this? It's been a crazy rollercoaster. First block this unsafe scripting language, then lets make this scripting language available everywhere.
It ranks between Mistral Small and Mistral Medium on my NYT Connections benchmark and is indeed better than Command R Plus and Qwen 1.5 Chat 72B, which were the top two open weights models. Grok 1.0 is not an instruct model, so it cannot be compared fairly.
Mr Element 118 (2017)
Grube Messel is still on my agenda. (It is literally like this: I have bookmarked the location in my navigator app.) However, from what I heared, both must be quite different. In contrast to Messel, there are no spectacular finds on display in Bilzingsleben. What is associated with Homo Erectus is on display in the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle.[1]

The scientific worth of Bilzingsleben is that it is sort of a Homo Erectus version of Pompeji (of a much, much smaller size, though): the place was covered with mud at a certain time during a flood disaster, which hindered decomposition and later errosion. It is now more or less completely excavated. So the site itself is just a big ditch.

As I said, the best thing about my visit was the opportunity to talk with a real expert curator. I have hardly ever met a museum guide who knew so much about his subject matter. I hope he is still there.

[1] Photos and descriptions of this and a few other nice finds are available online https://nat.museum-digital.de/search?q=Bilzingsleben (texts in German, navigation available in English)
Look at the XSLT stylesheet this XML uses - it is doing parsing and indenting of Python in XSLT! I know XSLT is Turing-complete, but that is still highly unusual these days. Who knew that would even work in contemporary browsers...
Reaganomics. We should try to slowly go back to a pre-Reagan economic world.
> Doesn't sound like someone doing introspection, it sounds more like he is lamenting that the world isn't as "logical" as he is.

There's an autistic elephant in the room. "Why are people so irrational" could be one of the slogans if there was a high functioning autistic persons society
I was reading this article and thinking about things like, in the case of doing transcription, if you heard the spoken word “sign” in isolation you couldn’t be sure whether it meant road sign, spiritual sign, +/- sign, or even the sine function. This seems like a similar problem where you pretty much require context to make a good guess, otherwise the best it could do is go off of how many times the word appears in the dataset right? Is there something smarter it could do?
Hey I was waiting for someone to mention DAPnet. Which pager did you buy? Do you run your own gateway? I have a Pilot AL-A26 which is a neat little device, but my example is filtered for 450 to 458 MHz, and on 12.5 kHz steps. I can get it to just barely work with 449.800 MHz but that's awfully close to a local repeater.
Look for reposts of the same topics and comments.

Quite often the bots just look like contributors until you realize they've never had an original comment in their posting history. More often it seems they are involved in creating consensus and nudging votes up and down and in general making it more painful karma wise for those that don't toe the line.

Not a daddit visitor, but it appears that formula is an uncommon discussion on that sub. Either it's not a popular topic, or it's being banned when it's too obvious.
PSLF isn't really loan forgiveness in the traditional sense. It is an employer providing compensation to workers for a quality that is deemed beneficial to the work being done. All employers are free to do this, and do so where such a benefit is recognized.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the program works... isn't it a federal program that forgives the loans of public sector and (some) non-profit workers after 10 years of employment and payments? To my knowledge, it's not funded by the various government agencies or non-profits, but by the federal government.
I've seen too many forums degrade into political shitfighting to think that reddit's political bent in the popular forums has to be manipulated.

Like, it might be, but it honestly takes effort to not have something like that form into a big political pile.
I went to high school in the early 90’s. Every kid I knew with a pager (about 5) used it primarily to buy or sell pot.
I can't figure out why Quora does that.
sticking in obvious AI summaries, to me, seems to devalue their brand.
This is just not true.

You can update an LCD in the middle of the screen just the way you can for CRT.

The only hard limit to the latency of an LCD panel is the finite amount of time that’s needed to flip the fluid in the LCD cells. There is nothing that requires a full frame delay.

Most LCD monitors have a frame buffer to look back in time for things line overdrive compensation, but you can easily do without. In fact, some of the monitor scaler prototypes that I have worked on were initially direct drive because we hadn’t gotten the DRAM interface up and running yet.

Desktop LCD panels themselves typically don’t have memory, laptop panels do but that’s for power saving reasons (to avoid the power of transferring the data over a high speed link and to allow the source to power down.)
I think your response is terrifying. I think you are actually the problem.. and people like you of course. You want a news organization (who should be reporting the facts in a method completely devoid of emotion) to decide to sway their content either to the left or to the right? That is terrifying quite frankly because it's exactly what has happened. NPR is almost perfect like it is, if they would just stop overemphasizing "woke terminology" into every story they publish. Otherwise the stories are fine it's just annoying as hell.
May I suggest you sign up for moderator duties on a medium sized subreddit.

Then report back in 8 weeks.
It's quite a leap to assume that SBF only turned to a life of crime because the EA movement lured him into it.

There are legitimate criticisms of EA and I'm not personally a follower of the movement but your post comes off as way too generally dismissive. Many of the people involved seem to have good intentions and a lot of money has been donated to objectively good causes. The longtermism stuff is more squishy, but our society is pretty bad at dealing with certain types of existential risks and we could use more people thinking about solutions rather than less.
As a private person wanting to decorate your own house in a fancy way you are something of an edge case. If your contractor came to you and said "this material has a questionable provenance but it's 20% cheaper and will look 99% as good" you might be likely to decline. Many businesses, faced with the same opportunity, would be delighted.
Auto closing is a sub-by-sub decision.
Do I still need to worry about vacuum and bloat or does Neon intelligently handle these?
Until we reverse Reagan's disastrous Trickle-Down Theory(Voodoo Economics), we won't see this changing.

Even in the '80s they knew this current world would be the outcome. This isn't a surprise to the Fed or the Reaganites.
Completely ahead of its time. Navigation without GPS is unthinkable today...