skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of a much larger culture war currently going on. There has already been violence used by these people against anyone who disagrees with them. The 'summer of love' of 2020 is one example.

Never mind the constant attacks and attempts to silence opposition, both online and off.

If you don't want to call them terrorists for weaponizing politically motivated terror, then radical extremists is another option.
I never even heard of nix-Darwin. Interesting.
How effective are those agencies?

In the tech sector, for example, what came after the 20+ year old United States v. Microsoft Corp. anti trust case that concluded w/out breaking up Microsoft and soft balled the penalty?

Has that acted as a real deterrent in the tech sector, or is it just a footnote about how hard anti monopoly cases can be in practice?
Of course it's hard to argue that. Nazis are the great bogeymen right now, wanting to punch them might have little to do with feelings about Jews, and everything to do with just looking for an outlet to attack "the bad people" however defined.

When we read historical cases of witch trials or executing "demons" or "possessed people", it's the same thing.
No, not really - why would it be?
Agree, I never felt comfortable with sqlalchemy, but I don’t need most other django features and find mTLS elf wrestling against them
Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again
Nothing like a library debate to bring out the virtue signaling rhetoric about low-income families.

But, hold your horses; the proposal is actually about having some people who pay, in exchange for a few meager perks. Not to make it an entirely paid system.

Here in Canada, we sort of have a working healthcare system. (Not like in civilized countries in the EU, or in Japan, though; another topic). Anyway, I can visit an emergency room and not pay a cent. Yet, people staying in the hospital can pay to upgrade to private rooms. It's just one of those rational compromises in a strained system.

Why have a cow at the idea of people donating money to a library in exchange for some privileges, while it continues to be mainly free.
How would TikTok collect ad revenue if it‘s illegal in the US?

Furthermore, a US judge could presumably just order to take down their DNS globally. Furthermore they can presumably compel Apple and Google to remove the app from the store.
I agree. The changelog should be curated.
Does China allow Facebook to work in China?
Ask HN: Benchmarks for models other than LLMs
I have seen some amazing benchmarks used to rank LLMs abilities, it got me thinking are there similar benchmarks for propensity modelling, churn prediction or other types of models?

Are there best practices for comparing model performance beyond benchmark data when they may have different underlying datasets?
Big fan of Xubuntu! Recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so I could have rolling release, but I still use XFCE as my desktop manager!
I hear you, but with things we stand a chance of ingesting I really like to flip the onus. I think we can do better than we did with asbestos.
> Every item in my house is produced by this so-called enemy state.

Because Americans have been foolish and short sighted.

So then they're presented with a choice: continue making the mistake or take the difficult steps to attempt to correct it.
Fantastic idea to start Django with a single file!

Some years back when I had to do some quick and dirty projects, I chose to go with Flask because of how dirt simple it was to start.

All the Django books and tutorials had this hidden magic abstraction feel to them after:

$ django-admin startproject <project-name> .
$ python manage.py startapp <app-name>

Once you've reinvented half the Django functionality in Flask (using SQLAlchemy etc) you realize the need for the most of these abstractions.
I’m sympathetic to the author and having to deal with unpleasant folks. But I wonder how much of the economic experience is simply underestimating how difficult “business” actually is?

This has come up a few time recently on HN, where someone thinks there is an easy button for income. But there isn’t.
yeah, g-d forbid that any routine busywork gets automated by software, otherwise all those lines of code might actually have a point!
>How many OSS projects has this person used without supporting them?

A more fitting question would be "how many incredibly-entitled support requests has this person directed to projects without supporting them?", and I'd be willing to bet it's zero.
Neither of those countries are mentioned. Why bring the conflict up?
Yeah it doesn't seem to be a profit centre, at the moment anyway.
I'm just saying it's a bit late to start raving about "enemy state" influence after they outsourced the manufacturing capacity of the entire country to it.
The thing is "10x writers" (in terms of volume, at least) aren't uncommon at all. My best day while writing my second novel I wrote ~11k words. That was <6 hours of writing. My biggest challenge was 1) maintaining focus, 2) I have other things to do.

Most writers can write quite fast if they really have to, but given the income distribution it rarely seems worth it: If you make little, it becomes a labour of love and you're more interested in producing something you can be proud of; if you make a lot, the pressure to churn it out at high speed lessens. And while there are some in-between who need to churn things out fast because they depend on the income, they are few (incidentally there seems to be only poor correlation between rate of writing and income per book). And so the speed people write at seems to often depend more on whether people choose to because they see it as a job to get done vs art/a personal project.
I think the idea is “Better the devil you know than the devil you don't” as reason to want to be owned by an American company or banned outright
Large discussion yesterday [0] (749 points, 308 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
Because the phone platforms want 30% of everything sold and won’t let your app change its behaviour.

It’s the same reason YouTube and Netflix actively opted out of having their iPads apps work on Vision Pro - platform wars.

So the only real play is to be Apple/Android or try to bypass them by pretending there’s a new product category other than a phone and hope to get some small critical mass there.
> Stop murdering children first.

Of course, Israelis and their supporters will say the same thing.

There is no one party to this state of affairs still alive that threw the first stone. There was October 7, before that there were settlements and annexations, before that there were intifadas, before that there were mandates, civil wars etc, all the while punctuated by stray killings, bombings and rocket attacks, on and on reaching back millennia.

I think plenty of people are tired of the simplistic, reductive, one-side treatment protesters give the issue, as you’re showing here. They think they can dictate to everyone how it should be solved. Condescension like that just never plays well.

Comparing the Israel-Palestine conflict to Nazi Germany is both a qualitative and quantitative error. The degree to which Israel has killed Palestinians is dwarfed by the numbers the Nazis put up. The Nazis invaded many countries, occupying a total area over ten times the size of modern Germany. All that in the span of a decade or two, depending on when you count the start; compared to a conflict that in modern times alone is measured in a hundred years, with a small fraction of the impact. With multiple countries committed to their destruction.

It’s a disappointing comparison and I can’t help but think it’s made deliberately to provoke an emotional reaction.
It’s preferable to have safety standards on general housing stock, instead of asking individuals to figure out safety levels.

I imagine there are plenty of people out there that aren’t aware that windows are for safety and might find out in the worst way possible.
It is a WIP web standard. And the spec is still evolving most things are stable at that points, but new features are still being added, like this one!).

And that's how the web works, it was the same for WebRTC which spent 2-3 years in such a state, same for MSE, etc.
Same, I'm far from a prude, but time and place. And reading about reverse engineering is neither.

It reminds me of a really smart kid who doesn't want to be seen as a nerd, so writes nonchalantly and injects vulgarities into an otherwise brilliant project. Good Will Hunting vibes.

It's not really offensive, it's just distracting.
Very disappointed. It’s typescript, not quite framework independent.

https://github.com/sveltecult/franken-ui/tree/master/src/lib...

I am using golang and htmx and am looking around for a simple html based system .

Daisyui or something might work
I have always liked the book "日本語擬態語辞典" by Gomi Taro:
<https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000193814>

It has great illustrations that quickly get the idea across for Japanese onomatopoeia.

To give an idea of what it is like, here are a couple of example pages:
<https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/akky_san/imgs/b/2/b21ad72f.jpg>
<https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/akky_san/imgs/3/4/34cf6c82.jpg>

Quite fun to read!
That doesn‘t really make sense financially. It would be more reasonable to sell.
SEO Spam didn't kill search so much as Google failed to retain Matt Cutts or replicate his community involvement https://www.searchenginejournal.com/matt-cutts-resigns-googl...
Each of the test cases measured needs to be run at least 3 times in a row, to warm caches (not just CPU but OS too) and to detect and remove noise.

In fact, I would run the same test repeatedly, keeping track of the k fastest times (k being ~3-7), and only stopping when the first and the kth fastest times are within a certain tolerance (as low as 1%). This ensures repeatability.

One sample of performance data for each test is not enough. This study provides no new insights.

Performance analyst
If it's a change, it's a welcome one
I'm using Orator as a replacement and enjoying the experience.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21
Sorry if this comes across like cynicism. Although I don’t like this system I truly believe this is what it is.

Take for example Chinese EVs, if everything stays the same they will outcompete us and instead of approaching this with better engineering and innovation we’re starting to hear about how those cars may be spying on us. Soon to be banned for our own “safety”.
What parts are supposed to run at 220mph? I know for a fact that the Bay area segment won't[1], same for other areas like the LA metro

[1]: https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/project-sec...
Two things scare me about Android / Apple car integration - I’d be interested in experiences others have had:

Obsolescence - ‘your phone is too old to use with this car’ or your car being too old for your phone. Double points for software updates to either which disable functions or features.

Vendor lock-in - are the players mutually exclusive? Does having a phone from one manufacturer limit my car choices?
It will eventually become as chess is now: AI will check and evaluate human translation to and from English.
Correlation vs. Regression: A Key Difference That Many Analysts Miss
I don't care either way. I think it'll be really interesting to see how people react to this though. Do Americans learn how vpns work suddenly, do tiktok users just switch to reels like nothing happened. Do we snap out of our social media trance. It's like playing sim city and causing a little social chaos lol
Piggybacking on this to also express my appreciation. If/when you write a memoir someday, it would be a valuable historical record. If not, your hn comments are a wonderful corpus too :)

Thank you for sharing your experiences, Chuck!
How's that? I played it once.
Sounds nice to say "Americans" did this, to socialize accountability, like this was some democratic decision and not the product of corporations having no loyalty to anyone or anything.
What are some special things you recall?
Isn't it easier just to adjust the wording or typos in the comments so that it looks like activity without troubling yourself with actual changes to give the same look?
Yeah, if you already have a car-based life then cars will win out. The point of projects like this is to expand the number of people who don't need a car, and that's probably going to be single people or no-kids couples to start with. The good news is that getting those people out of cars will free up road space, so even if the train doesn't work for you personally you still benefit.
Like the Fairphone.

https://www.fairphone.com/
> Why wouldn't the device just be your ear buds connected to your phone?

Because nobody will realistically wear ear buds for long periods of time. This tech needs to be entirely unobtrusive if the goal is to blend in with our lives 24/7, and we're heading in that direction, for better or worse.

> I'm still deeply skeptical on voice driven tech as we have had that available and easy to use from various devices for over a decade now and it hasn't taken off for tons of reasons.

Voice recognition has only gotten _really_ good in the past couple of years, with the advent of LLMs. E.g. Whisper, etc. This is enough of a generational leap to transform how much we rely on the tech.

> I just am not going to have a conversation with my computer with others around.

Honestly, I can't imagine myself doing that either. But if you think of a scenario where the tech is so good that it understands your intent from short commands, with 100% accuracy, in every type of environment, then it's not so farfetched. Especially once everyone else starts doing it, it will seem as normal as people interacting with screens is today.

I don't think we'll hold long conversations with AI in public, or around others. Just as some people avoid doing that with humans today. But for short interactions like "record this moment", or "remind me to ...", it certainly seems plausible. The device doesn't even need to respond back. It should be reliable enough that you're always sure it understood you.

But we'll certainly hold long conversations with AI in private. For collaboration, companionship, etc. In either scenario, a smartphone or smartwatch are just not the devices that will deliver that experience.
How does owning a company and making money, just not in one country, not make sense vs. not owning a company and letting other people make money?
Sorry I think you've made a lot of this up. Where did I say I was ignorant of something, and where did I say anything about a faux pas?
I guess you are not a tiktok user...
Yeah about that. There is no sign of genocide within Israel, Arab citizens are growing as fraction of population and have serious political power. Population of Gaza is likewise growing tremendously due to very high birth rate and there have been no attempts at coerced sterilization like China does to Ughurs.

Now lets turn to ethnic cleansing. It's true that ethnic cleansing of Arabs took place during formation of Israel. It's also true that ethnic cleansing of Jews took place in many/most Middle East countries like Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and so on. Now lots of people are displaced, how come no other country is given responsibility to help with aftereffects? Egypt lost Gaza as a result of attacking Israel and losing the war. Maybe they should take it back and spend resources to restore peace?

Or lets consider apartheid. Any monarchy - such as Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Morocco etc is by definition an apartheid. The king privileges Islam over other religions and minorities don't get a say in what the laws are, even in case of relatively tolerant kings like in Morocco. By contrast, Arabs/Muslims within Israel have full voting rights and Gazans were left alone to run their own affairs until Oct 7 attack. West bank is in a weird state for various reasons - religious zeal of settlers, PLA not forming a viable government, interference from foreign powers like Iran.

I am not trying to paint Israel as a perfect country. But which country is perfect when attacked? US literally nuked Japan and caused mass civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. Russia? China? India?
Tracking the age of invoices is straightforward and easy to make efficient. What your enforcement policy is going to be when payments are overdue decides whether you let cash flow become a problem or not. Cash is the blood of a company, keeping it alive, and is due all the respect you can give it. Come down hard on whatever is causing money problems BEFORE it becomes an issue.
Sending envoys to the spagetthi del mare?
So how do you program these things? I tried looking into the AMD equivalent and the development story was very primitive. Is the future going to be programming against a different opaque binary blob for each NPU one wants to support?
Sorry, I don’t think price has been announced. I bought more shares today (basically gamble) that the deal goes through and it’s higher than $30 share. Not financial advice :-).
Exactly, the lack of persistent storage was accounted for by societal structures, e.g. tribe elders.
People who depend on technology for quality of life should have the right to safe and accessible technology. That's my cult.

If you think people who need technology should instead be given dangerous and inaccessible technology, we have a problem. Because then you're in an opposite cult.
The article is incredibly interesting, but the choice of colors is so low-contrast that I can only read in it "reader mode", where the animations don't work. I have resorted to "select all" where the letters stand out a bit, but it's ugly and not very ergonomic...
What would an operating system look like built using conway’s game of life ?
Alternatively, give frida a go. It handles all the hard parts for you magically and then you get to instrument the binary with Javascript :) mixing dynamic and static techniques is really powerful
Caveat - it can't provide current information.
I don't know, but Youtube seems to have a more solid algorithm. I'm typically not subscribed to any channel, yet the content I want to watch does find me reasonably well. Of course, heavily promoted material also, but I just click "not interested in channel" and it disappears for a while. And I still get some meaningful recommendations if I watch a video in a certain topic. Youtube has its problems, of course, but in the end I can't complain.
Cross-linked polyethylene (the stuff in?water pipes) seems pretty safe. A lot more so than, say, lead pipes. That doesn't seem like the kind of plastic we should worry about, water pipes tend not to end up in oceans.
Drove a rental GLA last September, and the system was quite nice to use. No noticeable lag.

Also, the integration with the iphone was top-notch. It understood that the iphone provided navigation, so if I pressed the nav button while on the radio screen, it would activate google maps from the iphone. The only thing which wasn't great was typing in some long address, which is why I connected the iphone.

Rented some kind of Audi a few weeks later, and it had the usual crappy integration. "nav" is the car's laggy navigation, etc.
If you’re going to base the actions of the US on grounds of what a country run by the communist party does. Then, are we really capitalists?
I'm instantly reporting every piece of that shit.
>They've become too big to moderate so they don't care.

The big issue is there are no moderation standards. The mods of a sub can do whatever they want and there is no real appeal process. I was banned from /r/atheism for replying to a joke with another joke. The mods apparently thought I was a super religious person trying to overtake the sub or something. I tried to appeal and they told me to write a long paper, where I talked at length about how and why I was wrong and how and why it won’t happened again. It would have taken me hours, and I would have been lying, because I don’t think I did anything wrong. They simply didn’t understand the jokes in the comments and have egos so big they want people to write pages and pages of text to make sure people know who to bow to. Kind of ironic that the mods of an atheism subreddit were trying to act like gods.

>But they are punishing engagement, which I have to believe will not turn out well for them in the end. It'll become even more of a brainless echo-chamber.

The echo chamber has been in effect for a while, but it’s gotten so much worse. It used to be some downvotes here and there. Now they simply ban anyone who doesn’t bend a knee to the “correct” opinion. That type of environment isn’t enjoyable.

Give it time and I’m sure society will shift away from this madness. It’s only a matter of time before all these people turn on each other, I’ve already seen it happen a few times. That’s when people will hopefully wake up and figure out that we need to be tolerant of other people’s views in order to have the freedom to express our own views.
Just because you're an atheist doesn't mean you won't engage with religious content though. YT rewards all kinds of engagement not just positive ones. I.e. if you leave a snide remark or just a dislike on a religious short that still counts as engagement.
Great idea, but for the love of Dog please correct the spelling errors on that homepage - I counted 4 without even trying.
Which is to say they're being smart about it. LA is huge and sprawling, there's no guarantee that where you wanted to go was downtown. Build your HSR station somewhere on the metro network (and if it works out then just having the HSR station there will ultimately make it grow into a place worth going), let that take care of the rest.
I know you called me a freak for no reason, and don't have my best interest in heart.

I don't need to know any more to criticize you. And I don't care if that makes you upset.

You came here to attack me. That's all I know about you. And that's all I need to know.
A given rail system can do freight or passenger well, but not both.

The US system is optimized for freight.

It's not obvious that passenger is a better choice.
You cannot make an iPhone app that has access to phone calls, sms, other apps notifications, other apps screens
>MaxText was just very difficult to work with. We felt like we were fighting against it every time we needed to change something because we would be digging through numerous needless layers of abstraction. My favorite was after one long day of debugging, I found a function who's only purpose was to pass its arguments to another function untouched; this function's only purpose was to pass its arguments untouched to a new, third function, that then slightly changed them and passed them to a fourth function that did the work

Some of this complexity may be necessary for achieving optimal performance in Jax. E.g. extra indirection to avoid the compiler making some bad fusion decision, or multiple calls so something can be marked as static for the jit in the outer call. As far as I'm aware MaxText is the only public Jax codebase that's demonstrated scaling to models with 100s of billions of weights. I've just started evaluating it and it seems to scale better than the Torch implementation I was using previously (even on GPU). Most of the abstraction seems to have a reason behind it (at least for me since I'm making some modifications to the vanilla model, which is easier when the components are less tightly coupled).
Thinking about this a little more:

As per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084498 , Kolmogorov operated in an environment where he had to temper courage and only prudently seek justice.

— Children, you are the owners of the camp. You! What is required of you, my friends?

— (ALL IN CHORUS) DISCIPLINE!

How about Galkin option? (as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40012335 )

It doesn't solve the global problem, but it certainly widens one's local domain.
Exactly, they are not handcuffing the EV revolution but rather the "revolution" must not need so many rare earths maybe?

Stupid planet hindering profit...