skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happenstance, if you ask me.

And if we're talking philosophy, I think the feather doesn't exist at all, so it's even harder for me to imagine that it's a product of conscious effort. I imagine that what we humans consider feathers have near-infinite, similar-looking predecessors, proto-feathers, which differ so slightly from actual feathers that it's hard to say where the non-feather featherlike skin protrusions end, and feathers begin. What we can do of course is agree on such a line, but that further proves to me that feather is just a human concept, and that non-humans don't actually consciously interact with whatever we happen to call feathers.

So, feathers just kinda happened over time.
I am using 8b-instruct and I am honestly blown away, this almost feels like early GPT4 levels of logic

I am absolutely pumped for whats in store for small models!
Testcontainers are anything but fast in my experience. With the image pre-pulled, the most basic mysql testcontainer takes about 5 seconds from calling RunContainer to it being ready to go.
how does mojeek compare to kagi in general?
Gave it the prompt "novel idea" and of course I meant this[0] just to see what would happen. My expectation was that it would seek clarification.

Instead, it proceeded to give me plot twists, genre-bending narratives and premises all based in my country and city.

0 - https://pastebin.com/SX11BZTa
https://archive.is/3sRmO
But what is cooler, using an ancestral Japanese forging reagent to make gold flakes in cysteine milk ("aureos" ?), or using scotch tape on a pencil ?
I honestly don’t. Is there anything you want to tell us?
I wonder if the fact that the amendment earned "unanimous approval in the senate” is what should really be concerning here. The idea seems clearly a joke but it was voted for by everyone in a senate split 27 Demoratcs/15 Republicans and headed for a house vote with a similar division (46D/24R). Does no one read what they are voting for?
They are allowed. And we are allowed to speak about what different people and organizations choose to do with their legal freedom.
I have always thought law makers should have their head in a guillotine when they pass legislation. That would hopefully give them an awareness of the seriousness of their work, and the gravity of potential consequences.
I’ve mostly been staying at Hyatt hotels but what I like there is that TVs have chrome cast built in so I can cast from my phone, that could be a potential solution here?
The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
That line you said has been echoing in my head the past couple days.. "dont't expect reasonable actions from unreasonable people".

It's not even that they're probably inherently unreasonable, it's that they CHOOSE to be unreasonable because they must be to increase revenue. If there's anything in the world that can return man to his primitive roots, it's money.
Isn't overfitting the usual result of training a model for a long time?
Google Pro Tip: Use "before:2023" at the beginning of search string
Spoon.

The larger surface area of the spoon compared to the tines of a fork means that when a spoon is used for stirring, it moves a greater volume of liquid with each motion. The broader stirring action helps not just in moving the particles around but also in ensuring that sugar is not concentrated in one part of the liquid.

You can also test it yourself with a transparent liquid (green tea), a fork will cause the sugar to be stirred in place at the bottom.
If there are no lobbyists paying them to pay attention, why would they bother?
Knowing why and when to use math is equally as important as knowing it. One of the reasons I lost my love for learning it was this missing information.
Dear Radisson. We need to talk. Your account security is terrible
That's completely false, but I wouldn't put any stock in anything that comes out of Texas Monthly, it's usually just race-bait...

The word "cowboy" originates from the Spanish term "vaquero" which refers to an individual who manages cattle while mounted on horseback.

The Spanish word "vaquero" is derived from "vaca" meaning "cow" which comes from the Latin word "vacca".

The term "cowboy" was first used in print by Jonathan Swift in 1725 and was used in the British Isles from 1820 to 1850 to describe young boys who tended the family or community cows.

Before "cowboy" the English word "cowherd" was used to describe a cattle herder, often referring to a pre-adolescent or early adolescent boy who usually worked on foot. This term is very old in the English language, originating prior to the year 1000.

The term "cowboy" was in use by 1849, although it was not used in all locations. The men who drove cattle for a living in the southwest were usually called cowhands, drovers, or stockmen.

Variations on the word appeared later, such as "cowhand" in about 1852 and "cowpoke" in 1881, originally restricted to individuals who prodded cattle with long poles to load them onto railroad cars for shipping.

To this day, cowhand and ranchhand are mainly used in America. The term cowboy is now generally used in the rodeo and a catch-all term.
This is indeed true -- I try to get my wife to use front brake more, and I sure will teach my children to.

But it remains the fact that many cyclists don't use the front brake -- or are even aware of its advantages.

(If you want to find out yourself, step off your bicycle and move it gently either forward or back. Try applying first the brake in the direction of travel, and then the trailing brake. You may be shocked at the difference!)

Heck, most people I know have the kind of rear brake that applies when you pedal backward. They find it more important to have hands firmly gripping the bars than pulling levers in situations where they want to stop. (Not saying it's sensible, but it is what they report. It's hard to convince them to use the front brake when their lives have stacked them against it.)
The pictures in the post reminds me of South Park’s IT episode which satirized airlines and Segway’s launch.
I was going to say on any HN thread about Google search the top comments are usually that it's all broken but it seems to work mostly fine for my purposes. OK it's not perfect but nothing is. Also if it's broken why does it have 90%+ share? I occasionally try other ones and they are worse in some ways. Even the sainted Kagi - I wanted to know something trivial and it wouldn't tell me without creating an account with name and email so I thought sod that and googled it.

It actually has some remarkably good features that it didn't in the early days. If you are looking for a physical place you can get reviews of it, a street view of the outside, travel directions and so on pretty easily.

I can recall being thwarted once in the last year or so when I was trying to figure what brand of tooth fillings I'd had and the search was filled with general dental info rather than filling brands which is more of a dental trade thing. ChatGPT was way better on that (was sonicfill). Apart from that mostly good.
Did you ever ride on one? They brake using the motor so it doesn't wipe you out. At worst you stand on the ground, but mostly you just start riding backwards.
Prod is down
Eh, I'd deal.
Pretty sure meta still uses NVIDIA for training.
But BlueGriffon is discontinued. Today, nothing that is actively maintained fulfills this purpose, except from SeaMonkey Composer.

I wish there was a WYSIWYG editor that has CSS support and modern HTML.
>There is a shitload of evidence that it works.

As "verified" not by hard measurements (like in Physics), proofs (as in math), or specific clinical results (e.g. blood panels in medicine) but with questionaires and "assessments" by the very people whose continued existance and esteem of the field their careers are based on?

"All kinds of evidence that it works" was there for Freudian psychanalysis too.
Some of this is a reflection of society not wanting to confront the challenges with mental health. We went from just dumping people in asylums and ignoring issues like PTSD, to acknowledging these things exist, but trying to push everything into therapy and psych evals.

I think at some point we'll have to acknowledge that pscyhology is a fuzzy field and it doesn't always have the correct answers and somehow balance that with but sometimes the experts are right.
Like I said, I've had many of those moments. It is strange you haven't. You telling me I just wasn't aware of my own grinding is a bit strange. I've literally had examples where person A explains X and I don't get it, then 2 hours later person B explains X again and I get it. There's no grinding in the middle. There's good and bad ways to explain complex things, and the success rate will vary and the amount of "grinding" you need to do I think also varies depending on the quality of the explanations you get. Maybe I'm missing the core of your point.
Why not all the time... Spout bullshit in an interview? Off with his head!

That seems to be a movie plot? "Congratulations on your swearing-in, congressman. Now we'll put on the guillotine collar around your neck."
What has the world come to?
>All kinds of evidence that it works was there for Freudian psychanalysis too.

Not really, which is why it is all but gone from university psychology research.
Thank you .. will do this experiment.
For sure that's incredibly complex, that's why they have committees, expert panels and standards bodies. Even about dumb shit such as gaming.
At that time, 486 was probably the minimum target they would expect it to run on. Pentiums had also started to become more affordable by 1997.
As I understand it the Chinchilla “optimal point” is severely under-fitted. It’s optimal in the sense that if you only care about training cost it would have been better to make the model bigger and even more under-fitted. But clearly we care about inference cost too (or even primarily), so it makes sense to train for longer.

Also, these models are trained on trillions of tokens, so I’m not sure an 8B model even can overfit.
I have no idea why I would want a window in a bedroom (aside from as a fire exit). It seems more likely to be a nuisance.

This article and the underlying politics seems to be confused because it's confusing a bedroom and a living space. For college dorms obviously that's likely to be the same thing. But the problem here is arising from not having windows in a living space (e.g. where someone studies), not a bedroom.

If this proposed regulation (no comment on if it's a good idea) were to make any sense it should be saying "areas of an apartment where people are likely to spend a lot of time not sleeping should have a window", not areas intended for sleeping. If the apartment is one room those might be the same thing, of course. If I had an apartment with one bedroom and one other room, I'd rather have the window in the other room.
One thing I hadn't really thought through is that the reason these models are trained to point X is that they just decide to release it then.

But most of these companies _keep training_ the same model. A lot of the time there is no "ok we are done, we will do a new thing now" - it just keeps going.

Obviously thinking this though it explains a lot of the vast spend on GPUs. They need new compute because the existing compute is occupied _and always will be_. Model training will never finish!
Show HN: Qryptr – airgapped ecc text messenger
Dear HN,

I am excited to share my work which I published on Github recently as an open source project and is now ready for you to review/try out.

It is a small, physical device with a keyboard, screen, camera and microcontroller (RP2040).

With this device you can read and write text messages of up to 299 characters which are ECC encrypted and then displayed as QR codes. The QR codes can be photographed/shared with your smartphone.

Importantly, this device has no network connections at all and runs on a microcontroller, to minimize the platform complexity.

The point of the device is to do encryption/decryption on a device physicially seperated from your smartphone. In this way, even if your smartphone is compromised, you can still send messages securely.

I have reviewed quite some security measures such as yubi keys, hsms and cryptographic coprocessors, but I figured out I wanted to still proceed with this project. For fun, and perhaps it can be useful for someone. I certainly had a lot of fun building it.

I decided against a kickstarter because having people pay me comes with a lot of responsibilities. So you have to build it yourself. Of course I can help you and I am available in the comments for questions.

Please let me know what you think about it.

Regards,

Thomas.
RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) Sleuthing with the TinySA (2021)
Until now, emulators have been rejected under this rule

> 2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps

I.e. "all the code this app ever runs has to be there when the app goes to app review"

This rule change on January 29 allowed for mini games and streaming games

> 4.7 Mini apps, mini games, streaming games, chatbots, and plug-ins: Apps may offer certain software that is not embedded in the binary, specifically mini apps and games, streaming games, chatbots, and plug-ins.

And then specifically this addition on April 10

> 4.7 [...] Additionally, retro game console emulator apps can offer to download games

is what allowed retro game emulators.

Source: https://www.appstorereviewguidelineshistory.com
https://csappbook.blogspot.com/2015/08/dianes-silk-dress-cos...
It's gone because it went out of fashion.

The psychanalysis institutes at the time had all kinds of papers and results of their huge success...
You'd probably be persecuted and hung.
I would imagine they'd be more surprised about the smartphone in front of their faces.

I just hope after extensive explanation and looking at the showcase they'd eventually ask what a Minecraft world was and why it was both flat and bigger than Earth.
Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch flo
I will never understand why Elon decided to go all in on the Cybertruck. Did anyone, at any point, think this was a good idea besides himself?
Join or found a queer/extremist/worker owned/open source commune, and fight for anti-capitalist revolution. There are lots of codes that we need to destroy corporations and states. And they won't write themselves!

Don't expect states and companies to pay you to build the codes that will disempower them - build those in groups working to create new forms of worker owned power.

Don't expect to earn a lot. And accept the risk of ending up in political prison if a powerful regime criminalizes your contributions.

Have fun!
Coding bootcamp Lambda School – now BloomTech – is finally getting punished
As the other comment said, it is not a defense

But be aware that the London salaries upper tail is wider, possibly brought up by the quant firms (which are a different kind of company than most are accustomed)

levels.fyi gives 112kE as the median and 200kE/90% for London vs around 60kE for the median and 90kE/90% (pretax for both)
Come on. Anything bad.

The phone rings, your family just got crushed by a runaway truck.

The phone rings, the company you founded and spend every waking hour of the last four years has a hostile take-over. They are firing you and you find out that the structure of the shares is in such a way that you walk away with peanuts.

The phone rings, your mother is in de hospital, she will probably die before next dawn. You are six thousand miles away.

You know, the gnarly stuff of life.
In Ruby on Rails there is a way to do multi-request integration tests with single PostgreSQL/MariaDB database where transactions are used. The trick is to keep and share just one connection to database.

With PostgreSQL at the beginning of the test the outer transaction is opened, then connection is shared with application, test steps are performed (including Selenium etc), requests open/close nested transactions etc. Once steps are done the test closes the outer transaction and the database is back to initial state for the next test. It is very simple and handled by the framework.

In fact it can be even more sophisticated. E.g. an integration test class can preload some data (fixtures) for all the test cases of the class. For that the another nested transaction is used to not repeat the data load process for every test case.

MariaDB doesn't have nested transactions, however in that case RoR uses SAVEPOINTs mechanism. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/savepoint/
And remember that the Cybertruck is steer by wire. The software controls the entire car, and it also happens that the software just randomly crashes.
Seems like it when for 7b models: (but also wow things are moving fast!);

Llama - 1.4 Trillion tokens - feb. 2023,

Llama 2 - 2 Trillion tokens - july. 2023,

Mistral - 8 Trillion tokens - sep. 2023 (this was the first big impressive leap where local models really became useful for chat)

Llama 3 - 15 Trillion tokens

So we went 1.4x, to 4x, to 2x. I wonder if there's even unused data out there?

Haven't tried the new model enough to see how much better it is than Mistral, that will be the real SOTA test for now.
Title is misleading and it should have (2021) in it too.

Relevant,

Compsci student walks off with $50,000 after bug bounty report blows gaping hole in Shopify software repos (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/27/shopify_bug_bounty_pa...)
I was going to make this point. It is of course a breach of security on their part. If a company believes that the data they collect is sensitive, then they need to take great care about the partners they share information with, including their capacity to protect it - it's a matter of common sense that the easiest places to breach will be the places suffering the data leak.
I would say if it still runs other unmodified xbox games natively then it's an xbox (and possibly more).
> Making e-commerce sites takes time, energy, and money.

Started off pretty strong, then...

> We’re passionate about...

> We believe that...

Then you lost most of your audience's attention. People aren't interested in your company (yet.)

Simply swapping the order of the sentences will be a good improvement, but overall the copy could be improved a lot.

Try to completely avoid using the words "we," "our," etc. You should be saying "you," "developers," etc much more.

Another simple thing is "benefits" are much more attractive and easier to understand than "features."

Also the call-to-action should be above the fold and highly visible (like a bright, giant button). You can place the call-to-action in multiple places on the same page.
It was easier to make than a new roadster and gets just as much press
The counterpoint to that thought is why we should think non-existence is even possible. There doesn't seem to be any indication that nothing could exist other than our capacity to imagine it being so.

It's what's so annoying with people arguing about "something from nothing."

Even a vacuum has zero point energy. The idea that there could even be 'nothing' at any point in time is arguably a bigger leap of faith than the notion of some deity for whose sake it is being argued as a presupposition.
Hah thanks!

Suppose I should have know that one, but never did meaningful assembly programming beyond 6502 and ARM32.
Buttered Cat Paradox
it is a huge jump, testing for last hours
If the button is not in all caps, i.e. the first letter is substantially taller, then aligning by baseline & cap would make the text as a whole look too low (depending on x-height).

Icons can be less ambiguous, but still it depends on the shape and white space within one and the interplay with text label.

I think it all depends on your vision and its consistency.
fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

The good ole sociopath media.

Such a wonderful place, full of kind hearted sociopaths talking advantage of the Smuks (musk) and pressing the like button shinanigans.

Didn't we all suss this out back in 2010 ish when facebook added the like button.

Admit it! which one of you idiots pressed that button?????

Dont worry I have made my "Stop the farming!" banner.

I am going to sit outside Lone's (elon) car park in Staines.
Trucks are very high margin and he has a chance to take over a top selling segment in the US. If the gen2 version hits it's stride it could be a multi-billion dollar win that pays out over decades.

I won't buy it for multiple reasons though: 1/ it's a truck, 2/ Elon Musk, 3/ build quality, 4/ UX.
> It's amazing the kind of shit strangers will say to you out of the blue because they assume something about your politics

A US-based colleague reports that what he doesn't like about traveling north of the Mason-Dixon line is when certain people hear his accent and assume his politics match theirs.

(as to New Orleans: it has the reputation it does because the catholic french history makes it much less WASPy than neighbouring regions, in many ways)
Remoter – A fancy GUI over PAExec and robocopy to remote a bunch of PCs at once
Did they actually go all in? Or did they just execute something shoddily thrown together? Not that it wasn't waste of time and resources...
The guy from the linked TikToks does mention that he also hosed the inside of the trunk after returning from the beach, that might have been it.

That's always a risky thing to do, even on "conventional" cars (or maybe it's just Volkswagen Group cars that have a habit of electrical malfunctions every time there's water in unusual places involved).

With all that said, last time a car-wash fricked up some of my car's wirings it only meant that a back-light stopped functioning for a day or two (again, maybe this is just a Volkswagen Group thing), while in this case the whole car/truck got bricked. That's not ideal.
Hello,
what do you mean by dark patterns on our website? I am not aware of such things.

Regards

Michal Burger
eM Client
CEO
> paid = track content views only

Perhaps less relevant to the likes of Netlfix, but youtube are certainly tracking much more than just what you watch on youtube even if you pay for no ads. They will be recording details of all the sites you visit that embed their videos, and so forth.

And while they aren't going to be sharing exact data in any way, that doesn't make business sense, I'm sure there is some sharing of indirect tracking data (cohort flags & such), as I've seen activity on youtube apparently affect what I get hawked in recommended links elsewhere.
My solution to this is to use Emacs whenever I can. (Almost) any text in Emacs is in some buffer, so you can usually mark (select) it, kill (cut) it etc.
What lovely AI-generated horseshit spam.
I still can’t believe cybertruck isn’t some massive joke. Like Elon one day said to his team, “make me the ugliest truck you can think of and let’s see how many people buy it.”

It looks like a prototype you would see in Popular Science 30 years ago.
Wish we can do same with MSSQL that we stucked with =|
Restoring base from snapshot take no less then 4-5 seconds.
No way to run on in memory filesystem without big pile of crutches...
Tried to do so with TestContainers only to find out that we are limited by disk IO
I wonder to what degree these results come from more training and emergent capability from that vs these kinds of riddles now being known and well represented in training material?

Adjacent: one thing that makes llama3 special is that they spent extra effort on deduplicating training data (quality) + increased training data (quantity) and used 4x more code in training material (=> good for reasoning).

So perhaps we can still see huge capability gains in these small models by spending more effort on training data curation and generation?