skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brutalism IMO relies on imposing designs

I disagree. Brutalism is based on dropping any pretense of the material used to construct the building. No shiny glass veneer or facade, just concrete buildings reveling their concreteness with no artifice. If large middle age cathedrals are supposed to inspire a sense of the devine, then IMO brutalist churches inspire a sense of guilelessness.
> Are income levels not deserving of privacy?

... No? I don't think so, anyway. Maybe if people understood how obscenely unequal our society is, it would go part of the way toward fixing that.
We all forget Ping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
Why is it ethical if you build upon other people's data, but unethical if others do it?

Nobody cares how valuable you think your service is. Who's the judge of what's entitled to scrape or not? If you think you're the judge, I find it somewhat arrogant.

It is even more hilarious that you defend a position that, to me, looks authoritarian and individualistic. Might not be your intention, but it's what I read.
There's a London pub nicknamed the Sloaney Pony; maybe try there?
>Tesla's is really good ...

>Tesla's isn't terribly expensive and is extremely frictionless...

I'm sure Tesla is great, but my ICE is excellent in both those categories and cost me 6000 Euros used in mint condition with only 4 years and 40k KM of usage. Which used Tesla can I get in that budget?
As with most political soundbites, what it "really means" depends on who you ask.
I made one of the prototypes of a shooting target for a wacky wheels-inspired buggy racing project with esp and a pressure sensor (bmp something) enclosed in a plastic tank. Had some fun shooting at it from a paintball gun and looking at the graphs, but real conditions were too noisy for the most mechanical prototypes. The project was abandoned. I believe I fried one esp due to the lack of electrical experience and burned few fingers. I also remember having some arduino in the loop, but can’t tell why (or if, tried few setups in process).
We should probably draw a distinction between a human-equivalent G, which certainly can require better prompting (why else did you go to school?!) and god-equivalent G, which never requires better prompting.

Just using the term 'General' doesn't seem to communicate anything useful about the nature of intelligence.
It is surprisingly rare. I remember working at Google even on documents targeted towards engineers many people were confused by a mailto.
each urban region is its own bubble. Spokane looks different from Houston which looks different from Detroit and Baltimore, etc.

any company doing targeting based on just vaguely urban vs. rural would be in for a terrible return on investment
restaurants see orders plummet*

*according to two delivery app companies
I really so understand logically why they got to the solution of a single person to make the decision, but play that out. When mutually assured destruction ultimately fails, and it inevitably will, what happens.

The US detects a launch that appears to be aimed at their soil, the president picks from a menu of response options and launches. Do they launch to warn the enemy and create an opening for escalation? Do they launch for complete annihilation? And remember, that can all be triggered by a false positive that was never a launch targeting the US.

Mutually assured destruction kind of made sense with two nuclear powers, maybe can hold with a few more, but it simply doesn't scale. Even with a short list, eventually someone will launch. We won't see those weapons and anything worse to come go completely unused forever.

> When the Commander in Chief gives a command, you're expected to carry it out, but there's an opportunity to object or disobey. And then there's the people who actually push the buttons.
Google feels like it can re-externalize costs. Therefore it does.

As Brian Cantrill said, Don't Anthropomorphize Google!
Just because I bought an iphone, doesn't mean my interests align with Apple when they price gouge me for extra storage, or when they use child labor, or when they continue to create products which fill up landfills due to their anti-repair stance. Apple will suck up as much money as they can get away with - which is capitalism. I would argue there is no "alignment" of anything here. Its up to each individual to examine the facts, and decide for themselves what their own personal threshold is.
Your thesis may be true, but there are some factors worth teasing apart. Suppose the current product were $300 instead of $3500. I bet they’d sell a lot more of them. I bet they’d sell 30x more of them. That doesn’t mean we can’t improve on it. For us, the cost was the barrier. If enough of us buy it, it would be hard to say that it’s a flop. Your version, of course, is preferred. But it may take longer to get there.
See 'can I post a job ad' in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Vague sentences that you might have an opening isn't enough.
Ending with "The church of Rust" alone is farther than is necessary and not a helpful characterization. Programming/tech religious wars are a two way street, we don't need to push them along. ;P
If showers bother you, take lukewarm, not hot showers, eat more animal fat, and check if you have a vitamin D deficiency.
this actually sounds like the sort of thing they might do if some master key that they were storing for some subset of accounts was internally breached, and they had to force a password reset on them.
A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. I’d wager even more people on average would lose their domains with this approach either by forgetting to or being unable to put the necessary funds in their account, and having the payment declined.

Losing your entire online identity because you didn’t pay on time is an absolute show stopper for an enormous number of people.

Most people are not tech people. They do not know or car, or even care to know, about the details and importance of maintaining and protecting an online identity. They won’t remember to update payment details until things start failing. They won’t check their email frequently enough to notice before this happens. They will ignore text messages, either assuming they’re scams, spam, or unimportant.
I think you’re underestimating the number of people who fly into an airport and their destination is 1-4 hours away by car afterwards.

Edit: and their hotel is a solid 45 minutes away from their work site.
Yes, we have the Oculus at home. The experience was better.
Traits do implement interface inheritance, but that doesn't have the same general drawbacks as implementation inheritance (such as the well-known "fragile base class" problem).
Yes:

An LLM isnt a model of human thinking.

An LLM is an attempt to build a simulation of human communication. An LLM is to language what a forecast is to weather. No amount of weather data is actually going to turn that simulation into snow, no amount of LLM data is going to create AGI.

That having been said, better models (smaller, more flexible ones) are going to result in a LOT of practical uses that have the potential to make our day to day lives easier (think digital personal assistant that has current knowledge).
The website is very painful to read, with elements appearing or disappearing whether you scroll up or down. It was so distracting that I had to stop reading, in spite of my really wanting to understand what was written.
I agree. I didn't buy my first EV until I bought my house. (And now we are all in, a two-EV household)
> But it does seem like it's still very widely used, so I assume there must be something about it people really like.

this is very dangerous and flawed reasoning. There are many examples of where this goes horribly wrong. One of the nice ones is something called normalcy bias. but hey, let's just vote to murder Socrates again because he acknowledged that he was intentionally triggering us as an act of love.
Show HN: Is_ready – Wait for many services to become available – 0 Dependencies
thanks, glad someone understands! (i'm indian and stuck in just that situation)
In the current state, the majority will need some help, similar to how they need some help when something goes wrong with their laptop. But as I said, if this would become a more widespread practice, more services would become available that make it easy and that help in case of trouble.

The biggest impediment is probably that most people aren’t willing to pay (say) $10 per month for a domain and email hosting like they do for streaming services, because they’re used to email being free. So they remain at the mercy of the big providers.

But I can at least encourage the HN crowd here to move to independent services and to use their own domain.
Jobs always hated that the original Apple 2 had expansion slots. Woz wanted them because it would allow folks other than Apple to make things. You know, Woz being Woz.

Those expansion slots allowed Apple 2 to become what it was and practically made the foundation of Apple.

Jobs ended up tolerating expansion slots but tried to minimize their availability where ever possible.
Last year I wrote a blog post [1] about different CO2 sensors and how they work.
The best are NDIR (light) followed by photo acoustic sensors. Indoors they have very similar performance but outdoors, the NDIR (light) are much more accurate. In my personal opinion, the best ones are from SenseAir.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/co2-sensors-photo-acoustic-...
To me, the issue with renting an electric car is the news stories where they either don’t give you the car fully charged or they expect you to return it fully charged or at the same level of charge as when you receive it.

They should build recharging the car once into the price and only give the customer a fully charged vehicle.

In theory, I would love to try out an electric car and rent a Tesla. When I read the news stories about the hassles, I don’t want to add dealing with charging hassles to my busy trip.
> Windows Mobile phones had apps distributed by wherever, you could go get them on a CD from Bestbuy if you wanted.

This was also the case for Palm smartphones. Since they were an amalgam of a Palm PDA and a cell phone, they kept the app model of Palm PDAs. IIRC, you could even transfer apps from one Palm PDA to another through their infrared port, or through Bluetooth if both were fancy ones.
I could see renting a Tesla once for the experience but, yeah, it would be unfamiliar both in the handling and the electric gee-gas. Hell, a lot of non-core ICE are already sufficiently non-standard I avoid them when I can in a rental.
Check out xen
No enemy textures loaded for me on Brave Android though their shadows were visible. Some wall texture glitches on the 1st level but otherwise nice.
Thanks for highlighting XArray in your other comments. Yup, XArray is great. As are Dex and the various libraries for named axis DL programming within PyTorch and Jax. I never said these things don't exist -- I even mention them in the linked blog series!

But I do think it's fair to say they are in their infancy, and there is a missing theoretical framework to explain what is going on.

I anticipate name-free array programming will eventually be considered a historical curiosity for most purposes, and everyone will wonder how we put up without it for so long.
It also disproves several other myths surrounding creatine, like kidney damage.
You're right! If you count essential pacstrap packages it's additional ~200MB.
I'd guess because the Transformer architecture is (I assume) fairly close to the way that our brain learns and produces language - similar hierarchical approach and perhaps similar type of inter-embedding attention-based copying?

Similar to how CNNs are so successful at image recognition, because they also roughly follow the way we do it too.

Other seq-2-seq language approaches work too, but not as good as Transformers, which I'd guess is due to transformers better matching our own inductive biases, maybe due to the specific form of attention.
Wages by Geo is a Urs Hözle move, whom should get paid in NZ dollars.
Alternative societies are available worldwide, so... maybe try them?
Accounts aren't always faceless. They can have real names, long histories and connections to other profiles.
I have a power meter that sits in front of my kettle (that I also use as a teapot) that notifies me when the tea has finished brewing (i.e. when it finished boiling + a fixed delay).
> It sounds a bit like Erlang/OTP's "let it crash" philosophy.

Which was based partly on ideas from Tandem Computers' NonStop / Guardian. Hardware and software were fail-fast i.e. they would work correctly or stop, so they couldn't corrupt data. If there was a problem, the whole processor / process would be stopped, and a backup took over, which seems somewhat similar to the "supervisor" tasks in hubris.

Quite a bit of a different use cases - an embedded os for microcontrollers vs large OLTP applications. They both could be considered "mission critical", at least for the people who own/make money with them.
It's not simple but it is doable:

1. Format a flash drive with two partitions
2. Burn the Windows installer ISO to the first partition
3. Download all the drivers to the second partition
4. Flash the BIOS with the latest version
5. Ensure you are NOT connected to the Internet and boot flash drive
6. Install Windows, disallow the metrics they let you opt-out
7. Creating a local account works because offline
8. Install drivers avoid add-on software from manufacturer
9. Edit local group policy - enable "Turn off Microsoft Consumer Experience"
9a. Alternatively, edit the Registry, DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent
10. Connect Internet, check for updates reboot a few times
11. Open Microsoft Store and uninstall any junk apps (stubs)
12. Install whatever other software you desire
13. Configure your update settings so it is less annoying
I like what Facebook had done on tensor comprehension.
Basically generalizing from pure mul+add to other operations and allowing specifying what to reduce, as needed for e.g. expressing convolutional kernels.
Sadly abandoned; I still love the conciseness.
It is only a matter of time until Apple ends up selling this data to 3rd parties. The quarterly market performance demands endless growth.
This has gotta be the ultimate EV gaslighting I've ever seen. You're clearly not doing EV right, GP!
Only if you're defining "filed taxes in the US" as "filed income taxes in the US," which would make your statement redundant. The first income tax in the US wasn't until the Civil War, and only existed for the length of it. The "first peacetime income tax" didn't come until 1894, only applied to income over $4000 (2023: $126,000), and thus only to the top 10% of the population.

Even the constitutionality of an income tax was in question until 1913 and the 16th Amendment.

People today assume the past was a lot more surveilled than it was. The government (at any level) often didn't even have a record of people's births until they needed to interact with the government for some reason, even in the early 20th century. That was largely changed by Social Security, and people at the time and since complained that its foothold would begin a slippery slope of government intrusion into every aspect of their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
> that can tolerate no real-world chaos, and I'm not aware of any commercially viable realms which would either.

Watchdog timers will happily kill/restart your processes that don't poke them often enough. Even in my hobby exercises I've seen I2C busses hang up often enough(and bring the whole system down!) when some protocol bit goes wrong that I think the design is actually quite inspired. As I understand it this isn't talking about known error cases(that are handled) but protocol mismatches and other things that shouldn't ever happen.

Many other comments touched on it but it's a purpose built OS, much in the same way I'm not going to build a UI in Erlang, Hubris seems well positioned for the space that it occupies.
At least for pizza delivery, restaurants used to have their own drivers.

When it was slow, drivers would fold boxes, grate cheese, wash dishes, etc. There was always something to do, and the pizza place did fine paying a wage + delivery fee (for gas).

I don't see the advantage of external delivery companies, at least for a pizza place.
Until such time as a big player like Epic or Facebook decides that the only way you’re getting their apps is by using a store they control and can bypass all permission controls on. When that happens it’s going to become 2000’s browser toolbars all over again
It's not about the lab experiments that became tech, it's about all the ones that never did.
I mostly do because I tend to make them all shitty.
Is that kind of thing legal in UK?
And the Chinese places aren’t paying indirectly for a software engineer and may some kid who is a relative doing the deliveries.
That would like saying that because humans’ output can be better or worse based on better or worse past experience (~prompting, in that it is the source of the equivalent of “in-context learning”), humans lack general intelligence.
Might be off topic, but has Cisco ASA improved much in the past four or five years? The one I had years ago was not much use for anything other than basic access rules.
I don't have a problem with 'lab experiment' I have a problem with infeasibility to take out of the lab, which is troubling.
Looks interesting, but your link is broken, can you try again or give us a direct PDF or Arxiv link?
I always sucks when you have to quote Steve Ballmers but "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!". At least in principal Microsoft used to get it.

I think they knew that without developers, Windows would be nowhere. Apple sort of gets it with the App store but not as deeply.
You mean like

res2 = dumbsum(query, key, 'batch seq_q d_model, batch seq_k d_model -> batch seq_q seq_k')
In the US we have Damminix:

https://ticktubes.com/

Same thing, it is indeed permethrin on cotton balls in cardboard tubes. I've used them for several years. They help but they aren't a complete solution. Another thing I've tried is to attempt to control mice (remove wood piles and other places they nest) which also helps a little. There are a -lot- of mice in the woods if you live in a rural area. The owls in the area help too by eating the mice. A neighbors guinea hens used to roam my yard once in a while. Nothing has worked as well as Met52 so far. As far as I can tell there are no federal or state attempts to stop the spread, the problem has just been growing year after year.
Up until WWII most working class people didn't pay federal income taxes.
There's no sense in that.
Doesn't the same thing apply to corporate software? Pass a LeetCode hard and bring a backpack full of bricks, and go for it?
I only mined around 1 BT when they were "worth" about £5 and then lost the wallet because I ran out of floppies for my transfer of data from old to new PC or I forgot about it (which is more likely).

I thought the www looked a bit mad and disorganized when I first telnetted to it via the US from UK.

Time for lunch.
A vegan cheese beat dairy in a big competition. Then the plot curdled
Can you infer in which sense I was using it?
Yes, the purpose of the IRS is revenue collection via federal income tax for funding the government with. Said funding can then be given to the agencies and organizations I mentioned in my previous comment.

Simplified tax code means less tax money is spent on administration overhead of the IRS itself and more money that can go to programs like WIC, SNAP, TANF, and other targeted programs that are more effective aid to the economically disadvantaged.
https://archive.is/kUOy3
Memegen is a way for employees to vent with no action taken by leadership. It serves its intended purpose.
No, it's a good book.

They launch 50 land-based ICBMs because:

1. They expect the attack to continue.

2. The ICBM silos are in static locations.

3. Not using the ICBMs in time removes the possibility to use them at all, because the enemy, knowing where they are, will obviously destroy them. Therefore: "use it or lose it".

4. Because of #1, #2 and #3 there is a a limited time to launch a counter-attack at all using the land-based ICBMs.

5. Because the chairman of the JSC is pushing hard for strike option Charlie, which the president ultimately caves in to.

As for the EMP and satellites, that part comes from an interviews with Yago and Pry as well as Pry's book. Satellites certainly won't drop from the skies like burning seagulls, but if they cannot course correct because their electronics are fried, they will fall back into the atmosphere and burn much sooner than otherwise.

Edit: I can't count to 5.
Ooh nice, I must have missed the release where it was implemented (or maybe I just never noticed it).
EVs are pricey versus comparably equipped cars, and this is reflected in the rates. (I rented two cars on Turo, a 4-cylinder ICE and an EV, and the ICE had a better ROI)

Owning an EV requires some compromises, but you figure it out: you get a charger for home, you learn where the chargers are and what the waits are like, etc. For a traveler renting a car, this is bigger challenge. (I say this being a two-EV household)
This is a simple temperature sensor that runs on four AAA batteries and POSTS measurements via wifi: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/tempsensor

This is a LED wall clock that synchronizes time over NTP: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/wallclock
LLMs are good at tasks that don't require actual understanding of the topic.

They can come up with excellent (or excellent-looking-but-wrong) answers to any question that their training corpus covers. In a gross oversimplification, the "reasoning" they do is really just parroting a weighted average (with randomness injected) of the matching training data.

What they're doing doesn't really match any definition of "understanding." An LLM (and any current AI) doesn't "understand" anything; it's effectively no more than a really big, really complicated spreadsheet. And no matter how complicated a spreadsheet gets, it's never going to understand anything.

Not until we find the secret to actual learning. And increasingly it looks like actual learning probably relies on some of the quantum phenomena that are known to be present in the brain.

We may not even have the science yet to understand how the brain learns. But I have become convinced that we're not going to find a way for digital-logic-based computers to bridge that gap.
Intel still has 80% share in PCs and 70% share in server CPUs. The stock is struggling because their costs are high and competition with AMD has squeezed margins.
When it comes to taxes, the problem is that politicians tend to be already rich enough that they need some kind of professional help doing taxes, so passing legislation that effectively forces the same onto others doesn't directly affect them in that sense, while it does аffect the campaign contributions they receive from the companies that sell this kind of software.
One is certainly underestimating. I only mean some insignificant number of vehicles. Far from the “proven” statement about people vying for EV rentals in the OP comment. I realize now that I shouldn’t have put an explicit number on an internet comment, as now that number is the target to come after me for.
Great comment. Just one thought: Language, unlike weather, is meta-circular. All we know about specific words or sentences is again encoded in words and sentences. So the embedding encodes a subset of human knowledge.

Hence, a LLM is predicting not only language but language with some sort of meaning.