skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> path of least resistance

Great take. It feels like the path of least resistance peppered with obscene amounts of resume driven development.

Complexity in all the wrong places.
Yes when they run out of oil money at some point I doubt there will be much airport traffic or money to keep the airport of this size running.
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If you want to get a clear handle on the issues & professional biases in Scott vs Hanson, it’s most efficient to read the comments under each blogger’s post. If you can get past the meandering styles, the hundreds of commenters seem to have converged on some kind of understanding on how better to gauge the effectiveness of medicine
I just use small VMs. I use Vim as my code editor and just ssh into it. No difference, latency wise. if I was on Linux, I'd use LXC containers.
That's not an unreasonable question. I don't really have a good answer to it outside of I found building and installing the couple that I needed myself to be fine and don't mind invoking as `python3.11` or what have you, since it's only different when I'm initialising my venvs.
lightning was brilliant when it was introduced, but now its just USB-C but nonstandard
Interesting article, but unfortunately doesn't really help one make any investment decisions.
Ash HN: Do you use written daily updates?
There are various tools, bots and opinions on using daily updates, especially in remote companies.

How do you see the value of daily updates and what value they provide in your opinion?

Some people would argue that they might be unnecessary when you use a good ticketing system as the updates could be contained within individual tickets, while others would say they find them useful besides using the ticket.

What's your opinion on them?
Most of Dubai air traffic is transit for South Asian passengers. So mostly Air India and IndiGo.
I setup my AC so that it takes in ~20% of fresh air (from outside). This keeps my CO2 levels below 1000 most of the time.

How bad are your CO2 levels?
Despite tariffs and regulations that restrict how "free" the market is compared to other vehicle markets overseas?
Plus:
1. Avoid circular dependencies at any cost.
2. Ensure functions and classes do one thing and one thing only (SRP).
3. Cap functions at 50 lines and a class at 500.
4. Group managers, services, views, models, and UI by features rather than class types.
My frenetic reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40193356
As far as I understand, one of things that it includes actually literally is the permutations of code adapted for every different model of supported nVidia hardware; that is a major (and desirable!) part of the driver+CUDA deployment.
The substance of my comment to Sen Wiener hinges on a similar point to what you raise here.

It's incredibly difficult to imagine doing a good job of regulating model training, especially in a few years when the available flops are high enough that this limit is being hit often.

It's much more straightforward to regulate actions: constructing WMD is illegal, synthesizing drugs is illegal, etc.

If the state wants to tighten up its laws about various activities, go for it. That's the right place to act. Injecting itself into the model training process seems very unlikely to yield any substantive benefits and very likely to hinder progress.
Strong agree with the first two paragraphs. I have spent >10 working hours per week for past 4 years with an app I paid $7 for. I wish so much I could pay $7,000 for an improved version.

Disagree on permanence. My notes are useful for much longer when they can be electronically sorted, searched, backed up, and when they take up no additional space in my backpack.
I run models using HF just fine. I mean I’m using HF transformers repo, which gets models from HF hub.

Or do you mean commercial deployment of models for inference?
Do you plan to open source this and/or do you plan to make this a SaaS app?
yeah, my problem with a lot of these people pushing for “regulating“ AI is that they seem to always assume the organizations they are dealing with are big, well-funded corporations. But this will affect individual or open source developers in California just as well. It’s a really dumb proposal, hopefully it doesn’t go through.
> (And an intervention based on ozempic is far more likely to cause lasting change than one based on a prescribed behavioral program.)

I was under the impression that for lasting change the behavioral program was pretty much required anyway, unless the patient wants to take Ozempic for the rest of their life. It helps someone go from obese to the point where they can exercise to maintain their health but they still have to eat healthy and exercise afterwards.
I can show you some of the big, unnecessary files: all the .a files in /usr/local/cuda* (unless you're building software inside your container). That's, IIRC, at least a gig.
Yes. This is also how gods gave humans fire, don't you know?

There are many trade-offs between purity of original work, processed state of original inputs, effort, availability, and cost.

Perhaps folks in small towns with just an Ace Hardware or Homeless Despot lack access to suppliers in say Richmond, Virginia.
Or, build your own lathe using the harbor freight lathe to make the parts.

I share your sentiment though. It's kept me from starting his series (so far)
Tried it, along with like 5 other tablets before I settled on the iPad+Pencil combo
Or setting LCDs to native resolution, adjusting DPI if necessary.
Even John Carmack has come around now to saying that the primary focus of a software developer should be delivering value to customer. If that can be done using up a gigabyte of memory, and using a gigabyte costs less to deliver than using 50 MiB, so be it. Software is a business. Development=cost, happy customers=profit. Anything that maximizes the latter and minimizes the former is a win. Deal with it.
> Customers refusing to upgrade on-premises software

After a certain period of time, that software worked just fine for those customers. Photoshop is a great example. Sure, you won’t get the flashiest features, but CS4 will still work for you on a Win7 machine without any additional fees paid.
same with turing off motion interpolation on any tv i can
There exists good explanation. Moon kinetic energy is ~10^28 J. As stated in wikipedia, Sun Luminosity ~10^26 W.

So to stop Moon, humanity should convert all Luminosity of Sun to force with 100% conversion rate for just 100 seconds, or just 1% for 3 hours (~10000 seconds).

For comparison, whole humanity annual power consumption is about 580 000 000 * 10^10 J or 5.8*10^18 J, or about 10^13 W, so to achieve 1% of Sun luminosity per second, need about 10^6 seconds, or about 10 years.

So in other words, if humanity will spend all consumed energy to stop Moon, will need about 10^10 seconds, or 10 000 years.

Sure, alter orbit about 1% seem significant enough, this will be just 100 years at full power.
CNN has an article about this from 2014[0], including the $32B price tag, runway count, passenger count. The only addition information seems to be the new terminal designs (per the tweet) - and it looks amazing, but there are better sources/ways to see the renders: [1][2]

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/dubai-al-maktoum-airp...
[1]: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/2024/04/28...
[2]: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/aviation/sheikh-mohamm...
I tend to be a bigger fan of brown noise. Even just sound ~60Hz tends to do the trick[0]. Really, I like when it is dominated by sounds <125kHz and you get that under water feeling. Though I think it is likely unsurprising that this is a rather pleasant sound.

[0] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
"Computers are very fast"

Better to know how much time things take.
Just curious, have you ever lived or spent a significant amount of time in Nordics (or anywhere in Europe)? Generally speaking, I find that people who haven't lived outside the their birth-country often romanticize life in other countries.

I immigrated from the US to another country a while back, and it's not unusual for me to meet newcomers with unrealistic expectations about life in their new home. Often, they go back to their birth-country after a few years, disappointed with the mundane reality of living in a foreign country.

I'm not trying to say that your wrong, necessarily. For some people, life can be better in other countries, but I caution against unrealistic expectations.
They did, the translator communicates to the prisoners in English, and they pass along in Japanese to the guards. The article says they asked the translator.
Dubai never had much oil
Home Run Modeling
I also wish I could make certain variables/flags part of the dependencies of a file, like if I have something with a lot of #defines that I really want to rebuild any time CPPFLAGS changes
Why no ISO26300 support?
True, but it also opens me up to using the same password on all machines I use. You can argue that’s a negative, but personally I like being able to add a new machine to my collection without worrying about who the vendor is.
Haha, I am unattached but have no space to speak of sadly (a large home shop is a future goal, just need the home first along with the very understanding wife). It lived first in a friends garage, then a machine shop of another friend, and now in yet another friends garage (in another state). If you are trying to imagine all of that moving about I encourage you to do it with the Benny Hill theme tune playing, that should properly set the tone.
I am yes. But I really want to run it locally and until llama 3 their performance wasn't really there yet. But I'm impressed so far.

I'm planning to make it more proactive, like event driven. When a message comes in, or something happens in my house it sounds determine if I should be told depending on my status.

Just haven't had a ton of time to work on this and I'm not doing it professionally.
I don't consider the country name essential context. The point is that if any country does something the company doesn't like, they've shown they'll just drop the country. Whether you agree with what the country did or not.
Are you talking about the Hugging Face Python libraries, the Hugging Face hosted inference APIs, the Hugging Face web interfaces, the Hugging Face iPhone app, Hugging Face Spaces (hosted Docker environments with GPU access) or something else?
You'd think they would quietly move him to a different web site.
I've walked a couple hundred customers (American small business owners) through installing an unsigned MacOS application.There was plenty of friction for enough of them to cause us onboarding problems and for us to invest in doing it the Apple way.

A lot of it introduced from 2017 onwards and I think now it says something akin to "this application will hack your computer and is a virus" and you need to click the smaller hidden "ignore"s a few times to do what you want.
I like the way null is handled in Java, I think it’s pretty well thought out, other than the small awkwardness with basic types.

Contrast that with SQL, which had my external scorn for null != null

So you can do WHERE table.col = Null…. Ugh
I am not an AGI stan, but it is clear to me that this gap will close substantially, and quickly ... like 6 months or so. The break-neck speed of development and (to me) the counterintuitive zeal with which open source developers are just donating tools and code that are going to hamstring them somewhat pretty soon is breathtaking. Think about how "most" companies use tech. Most companies are not big, they have a minimum set of tools to get what they need done. They currently, and routinely, have human mistakes. These are the types of tasks that agents trained by human demonstration can do soon. The only one that I suspect will be slow for adoption is bookkeeping, because you could theoretically end up on the wrong side of the IRS with mistakes.
In the early 90s, you could expect to pay anywhere from $200–1000 for a good C/C++ compiler. Now it’s free. The 30% tax, as many people have already pointed out, is only if you want to sell through the store. Back in the 90s, if you were selling software, downloading off the net wasn’t really a thing yet and you could easily expect to end up giving up 40–60% of the retail sales price and out of what was left you were paying for manufacturing of product so you’d maybe get 20–40% of the retail sales price.

Which leaves the certificate thing and while it’s an annoyance, it’s also nice as a software user to know that a program I’m running is the program it claims to be without much friction on my part, and the cost can’t be that prohibitive since I don’t remember the last time I ended up with an unsigned binary on my Mac, even for free software like TeX and friends or Aquamacs.
Why not VMs? With the kind of computers dev have, I'd think it be trivial to have a VM dedicated to one project (unless you're doing gpu). This means I don't have tooling associated to projects (databases, webserver) populating the main env, only personal stuff.
Yes. And Electron is the pinnacle of this.
YouTube is now blocked to those of us who use adblockers.

Please provide alternative links.
Opinion unencumbered by data.
If you’re very careful with forward-vs-back slashes and your username isn’t “Firstname Lastname”, sure. But in practice there are tons of issues especially for non expert users
Assuming the change really is just limited to being less suseptible to cravings for unhealthy foods, I don't see an issue. That's a big "if" thought. And yeah, fixing the environment in this case would just be a matter of the FDA or regional equivalent resticting the sale and advertising of unhealthy foods, which personally I view the same as anti-smoking laws and would be all for, but the current regulatory climate makes that seem extremely unlikely.
Damn, that makes me want to see if I can dig up the asm code I wrote for the TI-83 and run in on an emulator on modern hardware. Really happy for you that you were able to find that jar!
I updated my comment above: I’m using HF transformers repo, which gets models from HF hub.
Headline unclear - I thought he was dying.
Right, Prometheus got caught shipping dangerous goods and was blacklisted by eagle de-livery.
You knew it is rtl when you see a paragraph is aligned to right
Firstly, people working on crypto are either the most wide eyed idealistic (to the point it approached willful stupidity), or dubious scummy people I’ve ever met. That doesn’t bode well for the software.

Secondly, because of the first, crypto will eventually make it’s way into the product.
Thanks for the nice comments. The Gameboy CPU sounds like an interesting chip. I'll put the it on my list of processors to look at when I'm done with my current projects. In other words, don't hold your breath :-)
I eat as much as I want and don’t exercise enough, why am I far from obese? I’m currently scarfing down tortilla chips and guacamole.

To me, that suggests that maybe that simplistic (and frequently repeated) mental model is inaccurate or insufficient in some way.

My working theory is that most Americans’ gut microbiome is massively screwed up due to some combination of genetic, dietary, and environmental factors, and it changes what they crave, and how their body reacts to the food they eat. But I’m very much a layman on this topic.
Impact Analysis of CA SB1047 - Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier AI Models
One thing that annoys me to no end in our industry is lazy, unexamined phrase based development.
There are like a couple dozen different ways to do this...

I have this on my .bashrc:

alias loadenv='export $(xargs <.env)'

source: [1]

--

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60406814/855105
They made the decision themselves, when there were no sanctions and no legal compulsion to do so
It helps a little. ChatGPT4 still fails the following prompt fairly often (maybe 40% of the time):

which of these 5-letter sequences a has P in position 4?

P U P I L

S T A P H

C R E E P

P O O P Y

L I P I D

It usually gets it if it reiterates each sequence before deciding (but not always) and it almost always fails when it just answers right away.

And this doesn't actually help at all with the actual related Wordle problem - "think of a 5-letter word with P in the fourth position".

You could try filling up its context with a list of a thousand of the most common 5 letter words all spelled out (and I've done so, even with additional hints like the positions of the letters in parens). But it really didn't help (as might be expected since it can't even reliably do it with the above list of 5 words.)
My parents claim that they can’t tell when it’s on. But then again, they also enabled the setting that would stretch any letterboxed content to fill the whole screen…
> I wonder if there’s any resource that shows how to build all these tools from scratch.

https://gingerybookstore.com/
Do you have an NVIDIA GPU? I have not had much luck with the transformers library on a Mac.
> That's a big reason Apple causes so much resentment -- not everyone can value time over money.

Is it? I have been buying apple products for over 20 years now, and like most people here make a lot more money than the people who behold an iPhone as a status symbol lol.

I still see Apple's desire to get a kickback for every transaction on an iPhone nefarious nickel and diming, and I see their "ecosystem" as deliberate vendor lock-in - and I think that "ecosystem" actually holds Apple's OSes back in terms of innovation.

I regularly disagree with Apple's choices. Not all of em? I was ok with the vision pro - not buying one, but sometimes you need to experiment with things like that. Just because I disagree doesn't mean I have to all-or-nothing it.

Per all the smug "just get an android phone" comments, I DID. I have a galaxy fold 4 and an iPhone 13 sitting on my desk. Yea, I can afford to do silly stuff like that, and I'm a goofy nerd that likes trying different things. I don't have a steadfast attachment to one platform - another reason I find the "ecosystem" stuff obnoxious.
> The AI priest also told one user that it was okay to baptize a baby in Gatorade.
He seems like a decent enough bloke!
That seems like an interesting, but obscure processor, maybe a little too obscure, even though it spawned the 8096 (MSC-96) line.
Why would I need to read a book over and over again and memorize it in my sleep, when I can already achieve a “one sql click” with access patterns for a nosql db?
Related to PRY, see "rule of three" - which I think is a reasonable position between DRY and PRY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...

Rule of three ("Three strikes and you refactor") is a code refactoring rule of thumb to decide when similar pieces of code should be refactored to avoid duplication. It states that two instances of similar code do not require refactoring, but when similar code is used three times, it should be extracted into a new procedure.
This is the only post authored by @tamernoah substack account. Is this the same campaign as the one mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164077 ?
This was necessary with the Sun optical mouse pads when they shifted at an angle. You'd have to lift and nudge the pad back to get it orthogonal again.
I've been trying to get a platform to create dashboards where some data comes from spreadsheets and some data comes from databases. Something like a notebook interface crossed with a grafana interface while also enabling forms for input is sorely missing. While it can be stitched together, speed/performance and flexibility (in terms of JS or Python) seems to be lacking atm.

I want to use such a thing to create internal dashboards similar to retool.
If we’re making them smart enough to decide whether to shoot on their own, why wouldn’t we make them smart enough to refuse an unethical order (e.g. there’s like 80% civilians there, I’m not shooting a rocket at the target)?

Obviously they won’t, but because the problem here is that the humans do not want the machine to question them, it’s only a matter of time before the bad guys have them anyway. I’m inclined to say that it’s better the good guys (at least from my perspective) have them first.
oh, that thing that makes every movie look like a soap opera?

yes, and generally calibrating them from in-store settings of everything turned up to 11
That’s a solid 12k+/year for eligible patient. Have no issue so long as it’s capped to an order of months to avoid it being a forever med. otherwise we’ll see all our insurance premiums and Medicare taxes rise dramatically.
Frankly I wish more companies had the balls to do that.
Exactly. That 2 functions are doing something similar _does not_ mean they should be abstracted into one thing.

I rather copy paste my sql query and maintain 2 almost identical copies unless I am convinced they are actually a single query with some parameter.
I dunno. This one seems trickier to me. Since it’s not really the code that’s the key part of the AI—it’s the trained numerical weights. Can you read and write in this language of floating point numbers? I doubt that. So perhaps yes you can write the code that could train a LLM and you could freely distribute that, but does freedom of speech allow you to train the model weights and distribute those?
It goes back to customers: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/recent-ftc-cases-resulting-r...
Yeah fast food already crazy expensive out here. Its already about the same as a sit-down restaurant. No real reason to buy it. Maybe this is the beginning of the end?
Dealing with Apple is a tax as well though.

How do you calculate a price for not being able to release your main product? Usually without clear indications of what exact interpretation of a rule you are breaking...

We've had delays of a week because of things like we mentioned "Android" in an integration setting that had been there for years.
Use icecream or sccache. sccache optionally supports distributed builds.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/Distribute...
> stops existing (for the most part) once `switch-root`ed

I guess that's the difference, yeah. Although "for the most part" might hide another answer?
But it has electrolytes. It’s got what sinners crave.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-china-keeps-maki...
The atmosphere's a pretty good radiation shield. You need air filtration so you don't come in direct contact with radioactive particles, but that's pretty much it. Flying gets you away from ground burst radiation by default anyway.
> The “lights in the sky” stuff has always had better explanations. I watched a C-5 fly over low at night in the Adirondacks and it was very odd; very UFO-y until just before it passed over us.

I've witnessed quite a few odd lights in the night sky, myself! And an equal or greater number of military aircraft flying overhead, between bases, by day. None of which I've ever managed to get a good photo of, even when it's a bomber passing over low and slow, much to my disappointment.

> It’s the “the spaceship landed next to me in my farm field and aliens came out” claims that have faded away.

I recall quite of lot those stories also included electronics behaving weirdly, which would make for quite a convenient excuse. Though I suppose a phone might preserve some evidence of that. But surely enough of those prone to making more outlandish claims aren't thinking of that?
As much as I hate long compilation times, I also value code discoverability, readability, and consistency. Your (i.e., Rob Pike’s) strategy seems like a nightmare to me. I love Rob, but I can’t follow this rule.
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Yep sounds like full credit to Steve and Connie Ballmer for raising their children as decent citizens.
I will start saying this, too. :)

Instead of e.g., "blah blah blah a monorepo — not necessarily a literal monorepo in terms of having only one repo with every single project in it, but a repo in which several related projects are colocated, and that uses some kind of monorepo tooling like Nx to avoid redundant work — blah blah blah".