skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a different genie is out of the bottle that won't go back in: the expectation you can immediately and synchronously interrupt any person and demand their full attention.

Definitely agree with this. Over the past five or so years I have adopted the following approach that ensures have control over 95% of the interruptions:

- I have "silence unknown callers" enabled in iOS

- Focus mode is on 100% of the time.

- I disable notifications for all apps except for Reminders (interruptions I have configured) and the Phone app (calls from people in my contact list).

To your last point, the people I am actually interested in talking to only call if something is too important/time sensitive to do via text, so this works well. Any other callers will leave a voicemail if it's actually important.
> Everybody wants to bring the largest hard sided rolling luggage that could possibly be a carry-on these days.

This was far, far less common before they started charging for checked bags. Once they made that an upsell opportunity, people started behaving in exactly the way airline policies encouraged.

The other big reason is the airlines choosing to ignore baggage theft. I had a bag stolen out of SFO and they tried to first disclaim responsibility and then offered to reimburse it at like $2/pound, which again means that they’re giving customers a financial incentive to carry everything into the cabin.
Ukraine is constantly inventing new techniques that are re-thinking what drones can do.

Recently they have been using them to drop spikes to slow vehicles which are then hit by a second set of drones.

At some point soon these drones will have specialised capabilities and will go out in swarms to autonomously figure out how to take down objects.
> You're just writing native apps with (arguably unnecessary) extra steps

You're definitely writing it in less steps. Nobody would say Electron takes more steps than native GUI development.
This says more about Linux distros creaky 90s era design than it says about Go’s model.
I don't recall "railing" against any particular tools
>I enjoy reading articles with pictures I can enlarge.

It's so frequent that I click to enlarge and the loaded image is displayed at a smaller, or about the same size due to the formatting around it.

For truly huge images with lots of detail to inspect a zoom and pan interface can be useful, but for most please just give me a link to open the image file directly - I will choose if I want that to happen in the same tab or a new one.
Uh, the ALU implements a DIV instruction straight up at the hardware level? Is this normal to have as a real instruction in something like a modern CUDA core or is DIV usually a software emulation instead? Because actual hardware divide circuits take up a ton a space and I wouldn't have expected them in a GPU ALU.

It's so easy to write "DIV: begin alu_out_reg <= rs / rt; end" in your verilog but that one line takes a lotta silicon. But the person simulating this might not never see that if all they do is simulate the verilog.
Did we just receive an AI-generated meta-review?
Or possibly antanaclasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis
"When the AI stuff has an event as significant as a gun tragedy"

I'm struggling to imagine what an event might look like - apart, I suppose, from purely AI controlled weaponry?
I assume your random country is the US? And while the US never came up with a solution for controlling firearms, most (developed) countries in the world have. Which doesn't go against the US, it's all a question of lobbying. For example here in Germany, car makers have a very strong lobby, hence things like no speed limits on the Autobahn, underinvestment in cycling/walking/public transport infrastructure etc. etc.
just cuz it's technology doesn't mean it's progress
It's closely related to Palantir.

Both are by right wing Silicon Valley libertarians sucking on the government teat.
I’m not clear what you mean by project name. Perhaps you mean “product” name? In which case… well yeah. Of course.
The objective is the same for every superpower in the world: to try and establish military hegemony and retain it for as long as possible.
Jake. Ahem: https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-...
Right! You are your body. Not just your mind.
That's cool.. but I can't help but feel that something feels wrong about all of this.

In a better world this, something like this is government funded and subsidized and handed out to every apartment in a city. People deserve to breathe fresh air.. and it's a plant and bacteria and should reproduce relevantly easily.

That said. I'm glad the R&D went into this and I hope the company has success.

But paying $30 a month to feed a plant to support my health feels wrong.
I wish I had an answer to that, but I don't know. I only worked on projects of comparable size in Go, Java and PHP. Java was maybe the best for abstractions (big surprise), but it really doesn't lend itself to system-level stuff.
Explicitly mentioned on that blogpost:

“…or feel like they were created for search engines instead of people. This could include sites created primarily to match very specific search queries.”

The numerous “Tuta vs …” that all reword the same information clearly meet the “designed for search engines instead of people” standard imo.
The Environmentalist effort to demonize carbon (present in pretty much every molecule of ever cell of every body) as some kind of pollutant, and shut down coal plants at the same time AI is seemingly sucking all the 'trons does lend a certain dystopian vibe to the conversation.

Wiser use of resources is a great conversation to have, but so is a balance of priorities and a less authoritarian approach to consensus-building.
Stick a fork in it, Tesla is over/done.

FSD is just hype.

They have no answer to BYD.

As China was investing in battery technology and auto manufacturing, Tesla was investing billions in China --- now their main competitor. A strategic mistake that will be very difficult to recover from.
We solve that with color--green, color--light-green, color--lighter-green, color--lightest-green, etc.
If someone told me it was pure CSS, I'd believe them. I'm not a frontend dev, so I'm always impressed by what you can now do without having to import a whole JS library.
Why is Javascript being good dependent on not using CSS?
The entry-level McKinsey consultants that I know began at $250,000/year; they didn't have other places they could get those size offers. Maybe $180-200 at most, if they could wrangle a high-value position at a startup. I'm sure the salaries have only increased since then.
There is some syntax highlighting for Terraform in nano, so maybe I should try rolling with the terminal for a while.
>As for the rest, I like to consider myself practically apolitical. I refuse to engage with people who unduly politicize things that should just be scienced. Just because someone wants to claim that creationism vs evolution is a political issue doesn't mean I have to sit and patiently listen to them.

You are upset at my original post for lacking substance. I take the risk of elaborating, expecting further censorship.

But you won't touch the substance, you call me a creationist and dismiss me.

This website is too toxic for me.
A few narcissists I've met in tech have potential but never get past first base because they are incapable of admitting they're wrong, and therefore incapable of improving. They are perpetually junior devs that are good at self promotion.

I'm not saying the author is like that, but he might be.
Rhetoric was invented in Greece
I want to switch to Wayland after all the good things I hear about it and for better scaling on external screens. But I just don't understand how people are able to use it when fractional scaling is so blurry. I feel like in 2024 fractional scaling is everywhere, so that's quite important.

I was really excited for Plasma 6 in that regard, and most of QT6 apps look good. But all webpages in Firefox, Chrome - they all look so bad. Am I missing something?
Depending on your plan, you may be either paying for minutes or they're using up your allotment, which in some cases means you could end up paying a premium rate for going over. If you're on an "unlimited" plan, this bit is irrelevant but at the same time, the marginal cost of delivering calls is essentially zero once the network capacity exists.

If you're roaming on another carrier's network, I'm not sure how the economics work there, but I suspect the other carrier gets paid regardless.
DataFrameAndNotebooksAmsterdam2024 – Discovering why trains come in late in NL
This repository has been created by Jolan and is about using notebooks in Kotlin to investigate the registered delays of the trains in The Netherlands (using the NS - Nationale Spoorweggn). The presentation Jolan created is very insightful and it helps better understand how to work with Kotlin notebooks with table investigation and graphic interface and chart generation using Kotlin code using IntelliJ as IDE for it.
Eh, if that’s the worst you’ve seen it probably wasn’t NPD (more garden variety or inexperienced narcissism).

The really ‘fun’ folks are when you never see any confusion, because they ‘know’ they couldn’t fail - they ‘know’ you’re conspiring to destroy them using whatever tricks they tend to use, and have no doubts about it. Regardless of how absurd or illogical that would be.

And then the sabotage, manipulation, gaslighting, triangulation, false accusations, outright attacks, etc. start. With no remorse, because in their eyes they’re the victim and are just being ‘fair’.

That’s when document, document, document, and better hope you’ve got real power and a way to back it up, or you’re going to have a hard time. Probably even then. Because yes, they’re exhausting.
It's all public knowledge by now.
Claude 3 (even Haiku) can speak Georgian perfectly, if more than half of the websites are only in English now you can translate them very well into hundreds of different languages thanks to neural networks, globalization is the reason why there are so many resources in English, AI is really a good solution to protect languages, not the opposite.
So the trick for performant animation here is to draw on canvas and put the canvas in front of all other elements but disable pointer events on canvas so that you can still interact with the page.
Cohere-toolkit: a collection of prebuilt components for RAG applications
A16 in 2027 vs Intel's 18A in full swing by 2026 feels like a miss on TMSCs behalf. This looks like an open door for fabless companies to try Intel's foundry service.
They also employ what I call the "slow drip"...

An aircraft is out of position, so the flight is definitely going to be cancelled, but instead of cancelling the flight, every 10 minutes, they'll announce a further 10 minute delay to the flight.

If you get frustrated and leave before its officially cancelled, there's no compensation to pay.

The moment it hits 3 hours, and compensation will have to be paid, the flight is suddenly cancelled.
People need to be paid multiples of their ticket value on a sliding scale based on length of delay and whether it was overnight. There should still be compensation even if you ultimately fly on that airline.
Probably the "it" is whatever one model has that other models don't have. When everyone is using the same architecture, then the data makes the difference. If everyone has the same data, then the architecture makes the difference.

It sounds pretty obvious to say that the difference is whatever is different, but isn't that literally what both sides of this argument are saying?

edit: I do think that what the original linked essay is saying is slightly subtler than that, which is that _given_ that everyone is using the same transformer architecture, the exact hyperparameters and fine tuning that is done matters a lot less than the data set does.
Well, by definition, if you have bad luck, you are unlucky.

But sometimes you can move out of a chain of bad luck events by doing something else and not repeating the same stuff while hoping for change.
Looks like a no-brainer if you're on the Ubuntu treadmill.

Key differences versus the previous LTS version:

* Distribution packages built with additional security-hardening features

* Linux Kernel 6.8

* Gnome 46

* Updated utils and apps

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Users who train AI models on Ubuntu machines should wait until their ML stack (typically, Nvidia + PyTorch) is known to run without issues on 24.04.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157645

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Source: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/39...
> AI is a hose connected between order and chaos

AI is a hose of chaos disguised as having the order and authority we're used to computers having. It's able to produce things that look like they might be true or real but with no connection to truth or reality.

I don't think there is going to be a single "smoking gun" incident. We might, one day, find that one of the mass shooters has been listening to an AI and copying its claims into his lethal manifesto, but so what? That's already well below the threshold of being ignored.

Along the way there will be a bunch of Canadian Airlines incidents https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... , but people will not learn anything from those either. What's inconvenient reality against the beautiful hype of automating away your staff?
https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april...
Fabs have a 3+ year lead time from prototyping the node to having it produce production wafers.
Well... That didn't age well...

In the end, we all learned to work with SQL, and to go around its idiosyncrasies. We even learned how to put objects in tables and to force trees into rectangles.
This is it, combined with the points brought forth by the parent. Like all things, a healthy balance seems to be the optimal strategy. Life’s a journey; good idea to plan but the people and places you find off the beaten path are often the most rich and rewarding.
You can downrank your own pages and website by hosting low quality SEO focused content. Spammy content written by others, on their own domain, doesn’t affect your ranking.
Right… and that’s an issue people have to work around every day. Non string values in HTML world similarly be an issue everyone would have to work around.
I had a Handspring Neo and organized the heck out of my life with it. Read books, played games, kept things organized, etc. Had a 128MB CF card extension on it, so it had "infinite memory" for that time.

Then I got a Palm LifeDrive for the fun of it, however I had a smartphone at that time, it was just a retrocomputing device.

I still miss Palm. They were so good.
How will technology target English, versus say, a tail language?
Not sure about feasible, but certainly not efficient.

I think this MLP universal approximator notion is similar to a Turing machine being a universal computation device. Correct, but practically useless.

I don't think Sutton's bitter lesson is going to result in everything being an MLP. You want the most scalable architecture, which an MLP certainly is not.
To the "People said X about Y and were wrong so people saying X about Z must also be wrong" form of argument, I always think of "They laughed at the Wright Brothers, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." Basically, the fact that people were concerned about technology we now consider normal and more or less harmless doesn't prove that people presently concerned about some other new technology are also wrong.
Show HN: Skip tedious meal and macro logging with AI
Natural gas and wind turbines are cheaper now.

Would coal be competitive if there were no emission controls? Maybe, but we like relatively clean air, so we want some of those controls.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus and Elite
You could also make the argument that intelligent AI is cleverly redirecting an important conversation about itself into a dead end.
> We'll see what things look like once the post-drone evolution cycle has turned on the armored side

I'm not convinced this is feasible in the short term; drone warfare is predicated on launching not just cheap drones but many of them. The new armor isn't steel or iron to survive the blast, but to shoot down attacking drones before they can explode. Most current defenses are ground-based missile batteries that can't really be directly protected by armor. Long-term, the most promising options are laser-based batteries, which today have insufficient power sources to stuff into mobile armored platforms.
Thank you for the laugh haha
So band together, make a list, and use those languages? Seems solvable enough to me.
I didn't say it was for default configuration, just configuration. The class attribute works within this system. I, as the owner of the document, configure the class attribute. I can change its configuration over time, but only I do that.

An alternative system would be where the browser adds and removes classes of its own, in response to things like hover/focus state. Thankfully it doesn't, and pseudo-classes are used instead.
I’m not sure if there are implementations for browsers, but look into embeddings with homomorphic encryption.
The US government has pressured various private orgs since forever to do stuff. Lots of stories about helping, refusals, court cases, retaliation. It's not much different than what goes on daily in the business world. Everyone will try to use their power to get their way.

However, this is contrary to China, who has never really pressured any Chinese organization to do anything. This is because they don't need to use pressure. They can just do it. Because there is no concept of "private organization" in China. The state has all the power.

It's so tellingly naive when people try to equivocate the US to China.
> “What that means is not only that they learn what it means to be a dog or a cat, …“

I think he's referring to the famous paper: "What is it like to be a bat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
This reminds me of some good times doing web development in high school in 2015. I made a small website with confetti to ask a girl to homecoming (very nerdy looking back). Back when making a website felt like a superpower to a kid. It seems like it wasn't this package based on age, but it was a really nice animation.

I love a fun little projects like this that are purely for a good time. That's why I started programming and it's still a driving force.
It might be better to link directly to the release notes for more context:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/39...
You're right, I apologise.
What’s interesting about air travel is that it’s both a bad customer experience and expensive. I’m routinely paying several hundred dollars for a two hour flight that is cramped, delayed, and where passengers are shunted around like chattel.

Usually, when you pay through the nose for something, you at least get treated well.
No you don't. If you did you could just call free. You know one of the decrements will do it, but not which one.
JavaScript cron jobs using Cloudflare workers
Hey all, I am currently working to build a platform where you can schedule, run and analyze JavaScript cron jobs. I've been using it to test APIs and scrape data periodically. Currently, there is only a waitlist available but I am hoping to open the alpha for the first testers next month. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
> screwed up their tokenizer in FLAN-T5 so it skipped Polish diacritics.

How is that even possible? Shouldn't byte-pair encoding find and encode all the diacritics (along with common digraphs and the like) as one of the first things that happens in the training process for a language?
I'm surprised Its Lenny has been ported to a cell phone app. At least we can have some fun with this
"Coffeepocalypse" is certainly the kind of thing you'd expect from a prompted LLM. And it provides an easy answer to "why can't I understand the thinking behind it": there isn't any, it's just a sequence of words.
I don’t disagree with anything you said.

I did however try seeing some Beethoven performance a few years ago and I didn’t really enjoy it. I can respect and appreciate the talent of the musicians, and I didn’t hate it or anything, but I still didn’t really have that much fun.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to parse much out of the Readme.

How "good" are the models approximately? What hardware do I need to run them? How fast are they?
Regulatory capture isn't just an issue with the FCC. Big Companies benefit from Big Government
Did it work? Did she say yes?
Isn't the C3 the only one so far?
There are a whole lot of countries other than the US that have gun violence problems. Brazil for instance, and dozens of other countries. But somehow people who think this is an America only problem also think that America and Europe constitute the entire world or that "poor countries don't count" or something.
I believe that music's role changed a lot first with the wide spread of the internet and then smartphones and streaming. The internet gave rise to a global culture, and a new channel where culture can form, and then streaming completely changed how people consume music.

I see rejection, disappointment and disillusion as a general theme that's going on in culture, but I can't say that these weren't present in the past cultures as well - going back some decades, the popularity of punk and its offshoots show just how much these feelings resonated with the audience back then.

I think that with the widespread access and nonexistent barrier to entry to past cultures via streaming, attention just spread over the existing cultural palette, resulting in lower average consumption of the new and current. It's not that the new and current is rejected - it's rather that long tail is longer and taller.
> In the face of some truly worrying facts about these new tech developments, the past panics are being held up as if they tell us everything we need to know.

I think it's more like, "In the face of some truly worrying panicking..."

I think most people realize the risks, but also realize that panicking like this is the end of {art, culture, etc} isn't very helpful either, as evidenced by various similar events in human history
Yes I did, it was overextended by about 30 points yesterday
Nice, just hope that canonical will lay off with the snap push. Otherwise looks really nice, will roll it out on my home machine today.

> Cloud images no longer preseed any snaps by default

Yes! Small improvement, but still.
>Some people are more apt, some people are lazy, some just lack ability for what they choose despite all efforts.

Perhaps it is just chance that your examples all involve peoples' internal characteristics, but it is a great mistake to eliminate external factors. An energetic, motivated genius born to disease and starvation-level poverty is extremely unlikely to experience the success that a lazy idiot born to great wealth and privilege will.

It's like claiming that how far rocks go when they fall off the mountain depends entirely on how big they are, and that where they came from on the mountain doesn't matter.
Is it really? My native language has tens of millions of speakers, but no Siri support. I can use it though to talk to large models including TTS and STT support. Obviously it's not perfect for smaller languages, but it still represents a reversal from the usual trend.
US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023
> Earn seeding tokens

How can this be possible in a non-centralized manner?
Thanks this was a very useful summary for me!
I’m sure you agree that the measurement given is a marketing term and is generally unhelpful beyond ‘it’s smaller than the current number’.