skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You learn by doing. When you don't know how to do something, you research. \

I use targeted search terms to find exactly what I need. Very much a just-in-time approach. I don't try to learn everything about a particular language, tool, library, etc. I focus on exactly what I need to get the next step working.

Of course, I often stumble across interesting materials that I read into deeply.

As a hobbyist you can potentially end up knowing far more than a SWE professional. For many jobs you already need to be an expert in a particular niche in order to get hired. That's why getting that first job can often be so difficult.
The only thing they are afraid of is being exposed. Simply exposing the vast weaknesses of the ruling elite in the country is has a stronger effect than what most people consider to be overtly propaganda.
Maybe they have evidence that much of the pro-Palestian content on TikTok is stoked by Chinese bot accounts
Seems like there are third party options if you google it
You can just use it though. There is no need to extract it.
Others are very sceptical it reaches llama3 8B level and claiming some mistakes in their benchmark numbers[1] of phi-2 at very least.

they are updating fixes to the Phi-3 models on a few things very quickly so you will be able test soon but so far in my testing of 4k mini it has some properties that are better than even llama3 70b, namely admitting faults and correcting it once pointed out instead of hiding them again more creatively. Whatever inner intent balancing act it does seems more desirable to me for code things.

[1] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct/di...
Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part
but why medias said it's a "package" and "tied with"/"bundled with" foreign aid bill?
> An ENEMY STATE has controlling influence of a widely used social network in the USA. People's minds are influenced by it .. "You are what you eat" holds for what you read/watch and consequently think

How are you defining an enemy, and why does it matter whether they're a state or not? There are several domestic entities (governmental and non) that I would consider much bigger threats to me and the people I care about than the PRC government.

And if you're not willing to let people read/watch widely and make up their own minds, what good is being a "democracy" or even an independent state at all? If I wanted to only watch state-approved media then I'd move to China.
I care about animals but eat meat. We are fun beings with many idiosyncrasies.
If merely accepting donations invalidates a politicians ability to have their own views then I suppose no politician legitimately cares about anything (perhaps that’s true, but I wouldn’t bet on it).
Ask HN: How do you manage accounts receivable efficiently at your company?
I started a company again after I sold my previous one in 2022 and I've been in month 4 of company building now. I noticed common thread in our conversations with business owners, founders and finance executives that finance areas are often the last to get updated or innovated. Most businesses pay more attention to customer-facing parts like sales, marketing or product development.
They only look at finance when problems like missed payments or other money issues start to happen. Really scary, and most of those issues become almost unmanageable, leading to ballooned outstanding invoices, like seriously in millions of dollars that can severely disrupt business operations and put businesses in a bad situation.

Majority of theses businesses that we talked to find themselves in, reacting to financial chaos rather than proactively managing their finances.

I am thinking reactive approach can be dangerous. It diverts crucial energy and resources away from growth and innovation, and into fixing urgent but avoidable financial crisis.
Mostly time and mental capacity with already demanding job to be honest. I enjoy programming so much that I'd love to do it full-time, just not in a corporate.
As I understand it the problems are with Kindle Unlimited files, and it's more complicated if you don't actually own a Kindle (like, you have to use the Kindle app, but only some app versions work?). I don't have KU, and I import the files directly into Calibre from my Kindle and it all Just Works. Or it did last time I ripped a batch a month or two ago. Maybe something's changed in the meantime and I'm due for some frustration the next time I try. I dunno.
The destination of the forced sale will be a large company with strong ties to the CIA
I could do a better job with messaging, but Ragdoll isn't RP chatbots, although you can chat with them to test if they know how to speak correctly. You could form friendships with them I suppose if you want. But the main purpose is for creative deliverables: Concept art, music, videos, copy, voiceovers, SFX, etc. It's like you're building an AI cast and crew for your: Story, game, video, or to commission as an artist or musician.

There is a chat mode where the UI looks like a chat (communication is key with these guys), but there are also views like Picture mode where you paste images to create concept art or upload a still to generate a movie from - so it's more like a creative studio with different views (one of which is chat).

The best part of it all is you're like the boss or conductor, directing a staff of 1 or 2 or hundreds of AI personas all with specific knowledge and abilities to create whatever you need.
"Goldman Sachs: When we say that morality in finance is optional, we know what we're talking about."
How the hell do you default on a $45 million loan at the same time while buying another property in the same area for $27 million?

This is the kind of stuff that pisses everybody off. The hoi polloi get raked over the coals for college loans while the haut monde blithely skip right past $40 million in debt.
> Seriously, I wonder if Trump supporters are just making bad buying decision and then blaming Bidenomics for it?

People don't seem to realize that, although Biden hasn't helped reduce inflection, Trump and those before him all the way back to Clinton (exclusive) all poured gasoline that fueled this inflation fire.
No amount of document will make rude people act appropriately.

Imagine I'm rude and ready to insult this open-source maintainer. Am I looking for a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md to be like, "Oh, crap, I _can't_ be rude and offensive? Darn, my plan is foiled!"
UTF-8 is downward compatible to ASCII, so anything that is just a standard character (like every character in this comment) is just a byte.
I think you underestimate the skill/knowledge gap present in people who can download and tinker with an existing program vs. deploy it in a sensible way so that people can interact with it. I have friends in different areas of tech who might be able to complete basic projects but would struggle to get them out there without a little guidance.
There exists a world outside the USA bud.
I have a few projects where I use Django just for the ORM. The rest of the project is is CLI commands that are being run as Django's management commands to be able to access the ORM models. SQLAlchemy and alembic are quite far behind compared to Django.
That list is the CIA/State Department evaluating the average time to fluency for English natives going through one of the foreign language training programs they run.

Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic sit on top of the list because they are the most isolated away from English.

Koreans find Japanese extremely easy to learn. Vice versa.
Salesforce-Informatica acquisition talks fall through: Report
> No, the most realistically sustainable design is one where the software is built into the durable item and not connected to the internet, so it never changes and doesn't need to worry about security issues.

How would that work in a car, where people expect map updates and streaming music or radio over the internet?
CarPlay is alright on rentals, but I don’t care for it as a daily driver. Gimme a USB port I can plug a 32GB flash drive full of MP3s into. I don’t mind using a phone holder in the vent when I need to map, but I only map on <10% of trips. This is probably the most luddite thing about me: I loathe using a phone while driving. I just find it too distracting.
Reminds me of the intern project I worked on at Google back in 2008.

My mentor at the time had a traceroute dataset of the Internet and wanted to render it on top of Google Maps. I implemented a MapReduce algorithm that geolocated the data points and then produced Google Maps tiles at various zoom levels to show how the Internet was connected. It was pretty cool to visualize how the data flowed throughout the world and to be able to "dig deeper" by zooming into the mess of connections. Very similar to what this project does!

The project didn't go anywhere but it was a cool fun experiment and a great learning opportunity for me (S2 geometry is... well, weird, but touching MapReduce and Bigtable were invaluable exercises for my later tenure at the company). Those were very different times. I don't think you would be able to pursue such a "useless" project as an intern at Google these days.
Biden seems to be pretty much doomed in the election anyway. Of course he might pull out an upset but it’s hard to pin it on this being the cause of his loss
The Debate over "Understanding" in AI's Large Language Models [video]
Insightful talk by Melanie Mitchell
And yet, two search engines failed under his tenure. Maybe those who can't do should stick to teaching.
I wonder how much of this is actually about open source, and how much is about having been willing to engage (too much) with the kind of people still willing to use Github, Reddit, Discord ?
The actual purpose of this sale is for the intelligence services to stop the illumination of hypocrisy and crimes of the ruling elite.
> an authoritarian regime, one with a long track record of censorship, transnational repression, and promotion of disinformation

So…the US government then?
Music legend Jean-Michel Jarre becomes first passenger in KleinVision flying car
If anything it’s going to help Biden win the election.
From Wikipedia[1]:

> The name American flag sort comes by analogy with the Dutch national flag problem[2] in the last step: efficiently partition the array into many "stripes".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_flag_sort

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_national_flag_problem
It certainly isnt a proof of equiconsistency between NF and the Lean kernel. The theory implemented in the Lean kernel is considerably stronger than NF.
Turn that on its head: what kind of huge office building is only wroth $6 million? A really crappy one. Based on personal experience with that building I'd rather have 3x SFH.
Unable to edit, but this is how I handled lazy loading the completions

{
# load compinit and rebind ^I (tab) to expand-or-complete, then compile
# completions as bytecode if needed.
lazyload-compinit() {
autoload -Uz compinit
# compinit will automatically cache completions to ~/.zcompdump
compinit
bindkey "^I" expand-or-complete
{
zcompdump="${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zcompdump"
# if zcompdump file exists, and we don't have a compiled version or the
# dump file is newer than the compiled file, update the bytecode.
if [[ -s "$zcompdump" && (! -s "${zcompdump}.zwc" || "$zcompdump" -nt "${zcompdump}.zwc") ]]; then
zcompile "$zcompdump"
fi
} &!
# pretend we called this directly, instead of the lazy loader
zle expand-or-complete
}
# mark the function as a zle widget
zle -N lazyload-compinit
bindkey "^I" lazyload-compinit
}
Show HN: A blogging platform based on Markdown and HTML (written in Rust)
A blogging platform where content are markdown files and html files, written in Rust
> If I wanted to only watch state-approved media then I'd move to China.

Good news, looks like for now you can watch China-approved media without leaving your own country;)
This is so cool, I have a compatible Mazda and never thought to check if such an upgrade existed. Have ordered the kit and very excited. Thanks!
Eggs were $8 for like 2 months. They’re back to $2-3 now.
You may be interested in this lazy completion loader https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140873
Beckhoff Gets Smaller RAM Footprint by Switching from Windows to FreeBSD
How hard would it be to convert that building to residential, and sell each floor as an unfinished apartment or two?

(With ground floor for retail businesses that are generally appealing to residents of the building, such as a cafe.)
Real estate is the messy underbelly of capitalism. Since only debt (= mortgages) creates money (and growth) you have to cut them some slack. The economy won't work if you're asking too many questions.
I find it interesting how in software we excuse behavior that would be completely unacceptable in most other settings, because "that's how companies operate".

I have yet to hear of a McDonald's sending a truck to the nearest soup kitchen and loading all food into it, to sell at the restaurant, because companies "take maximum advantage of any free resource". Well they don't do it, because it's seen as unacceptable. Why do we see it as acceptable in OSS?
Biden seems to be leading by 10% in most of the latest polls.
Welcome to Web standards, and Google's ChromeOS transformation of the Web, with help of many Web developers out there.

Doesn't change the fact that is a Web standard, for Web browsers.
Emacs natively supports copying an online link to the current node. It is bound to `C`.

I also think I'm obliged to share this tip: you can write a function that copies a Markdown-style link [(info "Node")](https://gnu.org/...). ;-)
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on why this never ended up going anywhere? (Or did it go somewhere ?)

As a Django user that shares your frustrations with settings.py, I wish this had panned out.
Jensen's consistency proof for NFU can be read as relying on the consistency of TTTU, which is actually very easy to show.
Of course I know CSS shorthand by memory (and most of Tailwind too), and yeah definitely googled "tailwind box shadow" more often (which one is which).

Back in my day we used Bootstrap classes but those guys put -15px margins everywhere so nobody uses their library anymore LOL
The hoi polloi want their debt paid by the public. Private capital eats the loss here. kind of different.
Show HN: Hand gesture controlled car racing
Three years ago, during class 12, I wrote a simple code that allowed users to control car racing games with hand gestures. I was fascinated by the idea of blending technology with gaming, and that's how this project came to life.

The concept was simple but innovative: using a webcam to capture hand gestures, players could steer virtual cars through challenging race tracks.
It's the location — 6th & Market (well more like 6th & Jessie) is the roughest block in the city. Rougher than anywhere in the TL.
ZFC is dead, long live NF..?

As an amateur mathematician whose use of sets is mostly as a lingua franca for describing other things, it's not clear to me what implications this has for the wider mathematical field, especially if the usefulness of NF is comparable to the established ZFC and its variants. Is it expected to become as popular as ZFC in machine proofs?

I do find the existence of a universal set more intuitive, so if nothing else this proof has rekindled my own interest in formalisation.
If your ratio was based on 1 fact per parameter, then the ratio doesn't quite work correctly (not that this would be a reasonable premise anyways, but I thought of what you said as a speaking tool). The thing is that the interaction of parameters scales super-linearly. Each neuron doesn't encode a single bit or piece of data but rather is part of an overall signal in the network. So we can see this expressed in what's often called "super position"[0] (personally, I don't like this language and think it is misleading), which is probably quite obvious when you think about it and what the (more physics) definition of weak emergence is (phenomena can be described in different ways at different scales. BUT macro can be derived from micro). We can see this with any discrete signal process (and more clearly in analogue). But architecture is going to play a big role here so there isn't really a good way to express the bound for DNNs but I'm sure someone has written down what it is for a n-headed transformer with dim d and a MLP ratio of r. If not, well, fuck it, I will.

[0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html
I’m appalled by this, if I’m being honest.

> Working on an open source project is still work, and if you're doing a good job, you should be rewarded for it. I also always believed that if you ever started a project that is valuable for companies, they would support you in return

My friend, then you started in the wrong place. At the risk of getting into a mire over free vs open source software, I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the principles of FOSS, or are picking and choosing parts of it, and ultimately spent a significant amount of time and effort on an inevitable collision course. FOSS tries to be a rising tide that lifts all boats, where by participating in it we all communally benefit from stability, security, lower costs, accessibility, transparency, and so on. Your reward for participating in it is in its continuation and proliferation, where others are doing the same in FOSS software that benefits you by providing non-proprietary solutions. This is real reward[0], apparent to anyone who’s lived through the hell of proprietary software especially before and leading up to FOSS’s golden age. Neither side of a license is entitled to anything beyond what it grants, and expecting more is frankly naive.

Yes, it’s beyond enraging that there are rude, entitled, and lazy end users out there. Welcome to the Internet, just ignore the Issues section like every other repo /s. Yes, it fucking sucks that companies are making trillions off the largely unpaid work by a relatively small group of routinely abused people.

To be absolutely clear, I fully believe you should stop investing time and resources on a project when it’s no longer worth it. I do not believe you owe anyone anything just because you published a project, and you have the contract to prove it. However, I take issue with the “leaving and taking my toys with me”, self immolating previously published software, gating previously open code (I hope you don’t have any contributors you are taking labor from), and throwing your voice behind a dangerous backslide into proprietary hell. If you find yourself fragile enough you’re unable to simply block noisy assholes and move on, then just archive the repo and work on something else.

It’s your project and you can ultimately do what you want, but I’m not gonna applaud you for devolution.

0 - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-tri...
> How the hell do you default on a $45 million loan at the same time while buying another property in the same area for $27 million?

Similar to how you can restructure your medical debt, which doesn’t show up on credit reports anymore, while buying a new car on financing. Separate sets of books.
Totally agree. His post loses credibility when he turns it into a class war instead of just focusing on why search quality was destroyed.

Still, I haven’t read this account from anywhere else. Everyone else missed the story.
Guess you also didn’t see a site for a long time where you have to press buttons to do things instead of just scroll down? Not meant to be snarky: I got the same comment on our saas products. Guess people want ’sales sites’ to be one pagers; I don’t exactly know why. Personally I don’t see the difference between scrolling down or pressing buttons but he.
I'm not a lawyer, so I wouldn't make any money. I know it's a common refrain, but look at what happened with the Google & Apple class action. Those folks got less than $6,000 each for what must have been hundreds of thousands in damages each.

It's also career limiting to be the person that sued their employer. I didn't have any monetary damages, as I was able to find alternatives.
Once you're dealing with a large group of people, you can't assume you're dealing with a basically nice person.

If you interact with a thousand people, you are going to interact with multiple genuine criminals.
Lots of companies had a lot to to with J2EE and XML, they are both standards, designed by a consortium of companies.

Sun, Oracle, Weblogic, IBM, Red-Hat, Rational, Microsoft, Pivotal, Apache Foundation,....

And if I have to chose between XML, endless annotations, anemic JSON, YAML spaghetti, I will take XML, thank you very much.
I have a website I maintain, many people tell me it has helped them

https://cuetorials.com

I've built a monorepo software catalog that solves a number of the complexities in CI, manage most k8s/helm resources with CUE, and built a code gen framework on top of CUE

https://docs.hofstadter.io

To me, I think want sold me was being able to build up large config values from pieces and pattern constraints, know that the system will ensure correctness, and being able to easily inspect that config. Being able to combine CUE with yaml or json in a single CLI call is super handy and helped me when advocating for adoption. You can use CUE to validate existing config or layer a bit on top before having to convince people to change their toolset

That CUE is a logical language makes the learning curve a bit stepper than most other config languages. I've kept it simple for the devs I serve and being a JSON superset makes their modifications to my code an easy ask/lift
> If you have a `const int i` then the compiler can assume that i never changes.

Plus, you can’t even compile your code if you try to modify a const variable.
different entities.

make new entity, sell new bonds with a new proposal on how new people will potentially make money.
Try Something New to Stop the Days Whizzing Past, Researchers Suggest
In a similar fashion, an office tower in Saint Louis which was valued at $205M in 2006 recently sold for just $3.6M [1]

[1] https://www.costar.com/article/642008108/one-of-st-louis-tal...
The use of weird non-native scrolling really hurts navigation and full justification looks clumsy when screen is narrow. But otherwisr it's not terrible.
>All Chinese RISC-V core designs have been proprietary designs thus far.

Maybe you mean Chinese-made, rather than proprietary?

As many open hardware RISC-V core designs come from China.
The number of Dislikes on that GitHub issue that the OP mentioned in the post has gone from 36 to the moon! https://github.com/nut-tree/nut.js/issues/577
What are the taxes per year?
How the hell did you get that from what they wrote?
Until the next bank bailout when all that private debt is written off using government money anyway.
GitHub Deployments
> Same reason people think a project is abandoned if it doesn’t get a „bug fixed and improvement“ update shipped every month.

Good point.

Any new product should have $X bugs/month added by the current developers so that future developers can indicate 'signs of life' by fixing $Y bugs/month![1]

TBH, once a product reaches whatever goal the founders set out to achieve, adding features can only make it worse, not better. Bugfixes, refinements? Sure. Extra features? Can only heighten the learning curve for newcomers in the future, even if the incremental learning curve added is small.

[1] With suitable values for $X and $Y so that a project can show slow and steady improvement in reliability, until the inevitable rewrite 12 months later.
My understanding is that office buildings don’t usually have the windows, ventilation, or plumbing required to support apartments. A retrofit would be expensive and would leave you with a ton of cave-like rooms in the interior.
If you modify a const variable, compiler will error out and refuse to compile.