skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree if we were talking about, say, a team in 1970, but it's worth pointing out that we're talking about a team working during the very infancy of computer engineering (the late 40s/early 50s). Just off the top of my head, you had solid-state hardware, stored-program machines, and the Von Neumann architecture all just popping on to the scene. This is stuff that would definitely have been on their radar, but I think they'd be fascinated to realize how directly and fundamentally those inventions would affect computing.

Perhaps more importantly, I think they would be blown away by how directly and fundamentally computing would change the world. Doug Englebart and his team are the ones who really developed the idea of using computers for something other than performing calculations for scientists. They started that research in the early 60s, and didn't drop the Mother Of All Demos until 1968. So if I were one of the "ENIAC guys", and someone asked me how my work would affect the world, I'd probably just shrug and suggest that the computers I was building would help perform computations that would let other scientists make discoveries more quickly.
Other sites, yeah... extensions, not so much... extensions are things the user wants (or at least seems to want) to include. Poorly written extensions aren't great but it's a user issue. Could you imagine, for example, the NYT being able to disable your ad blocker extension?
This article is making me angry!
This. YouTube video sponsorships, too.
I am a bit disappointed that it isn't about a new, small rocket from SpaceX with two first-stage engines.
I don't know how you can say that, demands of Hcol societies out pace their productive capabilities as it is.

We would need radical changes to our expectations or to the efficiency of our governments
It's hard to know if there's any special sauce here, but the internet so far has decided "meh" on these models. I think it's an interesting choice to put it out as tech competitive. Stats say this one was trained on 5T tokens. For reference, Llama 3 so far was reported at 15T.

There is no way you get back what you lost in training by expanding parameters 3B.

If I were in charge of UAE PR and this project, I'd

a) buy a lot more H100s and get the training budget up

b) compete on a regional / messaging / national freedom angle

c) fully open license it

I guess I'm saying I'd copy Zuck's plan, with oil money instead of social money and play to my base.

Overstating capabilities doesn't give you a lot of benefit out of a local market, unfortunately.
If only Ben Franklin had access to https://ciechanow.ski/gps/, he could’ve invented GPS to solve it!
I can reliably crash my system using kobold.cpp with Vulkan running an AMD GPU. All it takes is a slightly too high batch size.
That's usually where I'm pairing it with roquefort, although I'm not opposed to one bite of cheese, one bite of apple when I'm hungry and lazy.
Why wouldn't they be? The starting presumption for a new work is that you have no permission to use it at all.
Plus it's probably better to have many smaller and cheaper planes than one big expensive one.
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
Is there a law of the universe that there's a fixed amount of bad at any time? What accounts for the prevention of things actually worsening, such that we write off attempts to analyze it?
It took me a total of two weeks to complete the transfer.

I didn’t need to contact support, but the process requires patience … and some downtime as I had no way of knowing exactly when the transfer happens to recreate the DNS records.
This reminds me of how the sad state of fiber broadband in Germany is ultimately the result of 1990s chancellor Helmut Kohl (the one who saw over the reunification, consequently selling off the East German public property to private investors for scraps) thinking that public TV was too hostile to him and wanting to empower private broadcasters by publicly funding cable television, which delayed the investment in fiber broadband by repurposing cable for broadband as a stop-gap solution.

Basically a long-running chancellor in the 1990s wanted to push media that presented him more favorably and that's why thirty years later our Internet is slow.
That's going to be the ticket for the AI Wingmen. One of the F22's biggest teething problems when it entered service was pilots passing out because the thrust vectoring made it way too easy to pull high Gs in maneuvers. They had to put in software limits and train pilots to be careful not to push it the jets too far.
Care to share your math? My understanding of the birthday paradox is that it is astoundingly unlikely.
I believe that author is just pessimistic. There are plenty of examples where alternative implementation won. Sometimes to the point that the original isn't even remembered anymore.

It's hard to be so much better that old users will want to switch. But once you are that much better, you steal all the users of the competition. So, it could be worth a try, if you believe you can be that much better. (The original UNIX and a bunch of stuff related to it, s.a. compilers, editors etc. many of which found their reimplementations in Linux).

But, not only that. Some projects live well in the shadow of the "canonical" twin. Take Cassandra and Scylla. The later is alive and well, even though may not be as popular as the former.

Speaking of Python. Anaconda Python is an alternative distribution of python.org Python. They aren't going to steal the spotlight from the "canonical" Python any time soon, but they won't go away either because of some compelling features their competition doesn't offer.

Honestly. I don't believe there's a pattern. The deeper problem here that I see is the lack of competition. The fact that every company is trying to build something that isn't an alternative, but a different thing altogether leads to all the different variants of what would've been essentially the same thing being garbage: because nobody has the capacity for substantial development and testing.

We have hundreds of thousands custom-made e-commerce shops, all of which suck. Having e-commerce shop makers compete in the same category rather than each in the category of their own would've created a high standard for user experience of shopping online.
i completely agree with your sentiment, but i will also say this.

As an expat, this feature has enabled me to transact with locals from the convenience of my phone, even though i don't have any local line and i will not bother to get a local SIM card, nor do i want to have a US SIM and a local one interchangeably.

It also enables me to be very effective when requesting services on demand, and cutting thru the on-hold time, disconnected calls, or the needless chitchat.

I have many bad things to say about WA, but making living more difficult in a foreign country is not one of them.
Seeing term "loyal wingman" - meaning an unmanned combat air vehicle - makes me ask: Are the human pilots not considered loyal enough? Maybe so. The humans might hesitate on an order to shoot whereas the AI will not. I prefer the human that at least hesitates to shoot at a target that will cause substantial "collateral damage".
I remember when fleece and microfiber fabrics (made out of recycled plastic bottles) were introduced and loved because it "kept plastic out of the waste stream." Nobody thought ahead to "those cheap blankets and jackets are going to be thrown away too" (I've never seen fleece fabric accepted for recycling) and "they shed microfibers every time you wash them."
I’ve thought about making my own homepage to replace my instagram/fb and share my life with my friends, but how would anyone find it? I guess I could email everyone and tell them. I’ve wondered if there is a way I could easily get that to the top of Google for my name, but there are a few famous people with my name.
> The cherry picked issue you cited has hundreds of the best minds tackling it as we speak.

Did you mean to respond to my other, nearby comment? The issue I cite above isn't cherry-picked in any sense; it's a big, glaring problem with what was cited as an example of "good work". If someone's head is a balloon, the balloon should occupy the same position in 3D space as the head would.

> Compare that to the early days of silent film.

This is an interesting comparison. I don't think it really works. Early silent films were aware of what could and couldn't be done in the medium; there aren't any that rely on a nonexistent soundtrack. Generative AI stuff doesn't seem to be very concerned with "what kinds of things can we do well?". Instead, they're attempting everything, almost none of it is being done particularly well, and there are theoretical arguments over whether it makes sense to try to improve on individual tasks.
Other companies are quite willing to expend the effort to make apple-compatible parts, which are in any case often just off-the-shelf parts, sometimes with a few mods.

That's exactly why apply are tagging their parts crypto-graphically - to ensure that those other parts cannot in fact be compatible, however hard they try.

And indeed, if you've spent 20 years being a good user and obeying apple's proscribed usage patterns, hardware lifetimes, etc, you've probably never experienced user hostility.
Would be interesting to know if the AI came up with new maneuvers.
Do you mean OODA loop? Observe Orient Decide Act?
"Global warming" is what you get when you let the scientists pick the name. "Climate change" is better but you can still get the sense that it's lacking in a solid PR person to figure this out. I'd have thought that, by now, any of the hundreds of corporations attaching themselves to Sustainability, Inc. would've solved this particular naming problem for us.
Sweden also is strong in similar areas due to that same effect, so the cause should apply to both.

I'd say a big effect is lack of respect for authority figures, people speak up when they see something wrong with no regards to status or authority, and managers tend to accept that. This makes experienced people learn from juniors much better than in many other cultures, which is great to explore new fields. So the game cracking scene that was a big part of the demo scene is just an expression of that strong anti authoritarian culture.

In Japan you have to respect your leader, and in USA you have to be an optimist and not criticize your manager, so their cultures doesn't really get the same effect. It is so much easier when you can just straight out say that someone's demo was bad at something and could probably be made better, and they just listen and improve without you having to be an authority figure.
Matrix literally aims to be the missing communication layer of the Web.

Just as the Web won without a single app with a single brand for people to remember, Matrix will eventually succeed too.
I am having a hard time understanding how you could even ask for all this personal information with a straight face for an app like this. In fact why would any kind of account at all be required?

Given the apparent simplicity of the app I don't see any other conclusion than this is a pure and shameless gimmick to collect this information from people.

As far as I can tell this can be replaced by a plain text file of suggestions and a random number generator. Of course I'm not sure about this since I am never going to never going to submit to the requirements to find out.
I often wonder if drones even need to look like they do or if there is a more efficient design that we don't use simply because "things that fly look like this" where "this" includes a place for a cockpit.
This is a reasonable middle eastern restaurant in Palo Alto: https://orenshummus.com/lunch-dinner-menu/

If you get 2 drinks, an appetizer and 2 sandwiches yes, it's about $40 pp. But if you just get two sandwiches it's much closer to 20-25PP.

Similar story here: https://coconutspaloalto.com/menu.html

These are two restaurants in some of the most expensive real estate and highest income area in California if not the whole US. Meanwhile the Indian place was as I said, 40km outside Basel (the town was amusingly called Frick).

(by the way I checked Ramen Nagi, also in Palo Alto and has lines out the door every day. Regular bowl is 15.25, an egg is 2.75. So I think your baseline is a bit high.)
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Who'd guess why, Onlyfans (and related) spammers are the scourge of the Internet these days.
We do and we dont frequently agree on whats "decent".

Most routers implement a set of security standards/protocols for VPN's that are "decent" and make the play nicely with each other.

The "Redis protocol" gets re-implemented frequently because its "decent" and useful to many vendors.

I cant speak for "encryption" but there has to be numerous implementations of various algorithms.

And this is true for many other protocols.

UUID seems mathematically "provable" or "verifiable", why are we wasting time on needless "wrong" / "non decent" implementations?
A related thought-exercise I sometimes engage in, inspired by Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is this:

Ok, so I have a university education and know lots about computers. If I traveled back to the Middle Ages -- actually, make it the (inaccurately named) Dark Ages or even more ancient times, say the Roman Republic -- how much of my modern day knowledge would I be able to use to impress the natives?

The telephone? Nope. I cannot even explain how the telegraph works.

Electricity? Sort of. But how would I use it?

Hm... computers are completely out of the question, I wouldn't be able to explain how they differ from an abacus or why they are so novel.

TV? Not without an example.

The... um, steam machine? Look, I cannot really make anything with my hands, so I understand the principle but wouldn't be able to replicate it.

The... um... the printing press maybe?

Or tell them to wash their hands thoroughly before/after touching an open wound?

In conclusion: I suck.
That plus the cockpit and all that human support equipment. We're essentially looking at high-speed UAVs. I wonder if the speed even still makes sense at that point? Just look at the Ukraine-Russia conflict, once decent enough ant-aircraft systems were setup, it makes little sense for either side to fly them any more.

Instead of a few fighter jets, the future might be a tonne of slow high-altitude UAVs that are always present.
Exactly.

I definitely recall in the early 2000's it absolutely did lead to spam, and e-mail obfuscation techniques were a real thing that genuinely helped.

But by 2015 or so it didn't matter at all anymore, in my personal experience. It didn't even lead to spam that needed to filtered. Spammers just stopped looking for e-mails that way.

Which makes perfect sense -- most people don't have their e-mail address listed anywhere online in the first place, but you can purchase gigantic lists of e-mail addresses. That either originate from companies that sell their own user lists, or people who hacked the companies' servers.

These days if you want to send spam, trawling the web for e-mails makes zero sense. It's practically the least efficient thing you could do.
I wanted to make a joke how Sopwith [0] enemy fighters were already good in the 80s but this is kinda terrifying.

Why are they trying to retrofit an F16, a whole new platform without human-required accommodations would make more sense..

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_game)
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Will you accept bankruptcy declared by the company, or do all DRS-registered shares need to turn in paper ballots?
Things are really pretty good, if you look at history. It's been worse. A lot worse.
Funny, I don't remember any plug. If there was one, I didn't read it. I read the comments, I noticed a couple of book covers to some books I didn't read the title of, and I run an adblocker.

I mean, there was all sorts of little chrome bits on the page. I noticed the photo, I can't tell you want any of the text around the photo said. Mabye I caught the name (starts with a P? Maybe?).

I'm not saying there is no plug. I'm not saying it's not a "marketing piece masquerading". But I am saying, that, anecdotally, for me, that way I consume content, if that was the goal -- it didn't work.
The time field ensures that collisions cannot occur until at minimum the time field rolls over.
Average results for cold calling are a 4.8% success rate, meaning with 2000 cold calls you'd expect less than 100 hits for a good campaign. This in turn is highly variable with field, a 1% success rate might be high, especially for a product with no pre-existing market presence. And it's not enough to see whether you're above a certain number, you need to know the variance to predict future performance. Maybe the magic number is 1500 or something, the number will no doubt vary based on the peculiarities of the experiment, including the product and the company, but to see a signal with 2 standard deviations of significance, you need a sample size that you would expect to produce about 20 times the expected noise level.
We are talking about emoticons composed of and displayed as text characters, like :-) or =D or ^_^.
Technically we definitely can, but are there sufficiently many people willing to pay a sufficiently high premium for that feature? How much more would you be willing to pay for an otherwise identical card that has the option to expand RAM, and do you expect that a significant portion of buyers would want to pay a non-trivial up-front cost for that possibility?
Maybe just more nuanced a comment than you're used to. "Corporate" models are interspersed in a way that doesn't reflect their real world performance.

There aren't nearly as many 3.5 level models as the leaderboard implies for example.
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The tendency to compare Meta and Apple offerings is always at least a little unfair. Given that this type of product and ecosystem is going to exist now, Apple did everything they reasonably could to avoid the problem of people being isolated behind their glasses, even to the point of introducing more weaknesses in a product because they felt it was worth pointing this trend in a certain direction.

The simulated face on the outside is a perfect example. By all accounts, it doesn't work well. They knew it didn't work well, and surely somebody had to say that the product was worse off including it. But clearly the decision was that they'd rather make a product that isolated people less than making a product that was more polished.

There were other VR & AR headsets for many years before Vision Pro; how come there weren't viral videos of people wearing them going about their day in city streets? Of the two, which is more like WALL-E with people reclined in total immersion and which is at least trying to head in the direction of AR being a seamless part of every day life?

Of course it also has an immersive mode, because you can't seriously make a product like this without accounting for that use case. It just shouldn't be the only way the product can ever be used.

Being usable without any controllers is also a significant way that it keeps you in touch with your surroundings. You're not giving up normal interactions in exchange for VR ones; you're gaining AR interactions in addition to all of your normal physical interactions. I think most people don't appreciate just what a radical difference this can be.

I think part of why the Vision Pro launched when it did with the strategy and philosophy it did is specifically so that the market doesn't default to how Meta does things. Even if the Vision Pro doesn't sweep the world like the iPhone did, the future will be better if we have examples of how to balance the potential of VR with the potential of AR.

Disclaimer: I don't actually have a Vision Pro and a lot would have to change before I'd consider buying it. I'm just explaining why I think they deserve credit for good intentions, and why, given the market is going to contain products like this now, I'm glad the Vision Pro is one of them.
> For something to be misinformative, it has to be false.

Can you prove this to be true?

If you cannot, then how do you know it is?

If you cannot prove this to be true, does it mean that it is necessarily false?

Are all true statements non-misinformative?
Agreed, I don't like that about Make at all.

But also it's never something I have to worry about. Pretty much every syntax-aware text editor knows how to handle Makefiles, and knows that recipe steps start with a tab (unless you change Make's default). So for me, that falls in the "ugly, but not really a usability issue" bucket. And Make's power/expressiveness is worth accepting a few "I'd have done it differently" syntax things.
I now say "climate crisis".
I honestly don't remember. I just used it for one site and enjoyed their page builder.
I was seriously considering one last year and the quality control issues threw me off. The fact that you need to go through a long checklist to take delivery of a new car is mentally exhausting (example here: https://teslaprep.glideapp.io/dl/d0a5f4). Not to mention the suspension issues that were making the news (whompy wheels).
I find it far more tiring because I don't have "micro-breaks" where I'm slowly typing code. I just have to be in a serious "check the logic" mode for a longer period of time.

It also makes it a lot easier for juniors to chuck random code at seniors for review.
Yes, where did you think Meta get their idea from? It's the same as lying down mode and hand gestures...
Show HN: Polars Data Validation with Pandera
Pandera now supports validating polars DataFrames and LazyFrames
These drones won't be that much cheaper. The life support isn't the most expensive part in high performance fighter jets, it's the airframe, sensors, and engine. The airframe will still have to have some sort of stealth and the engine will be similar to those in other fighters, especially if they're expected to be supersonic too.
If you want to put a positive spin on it, the brain is really good at error correction.

If not, the brain is really bad at paying attention to details it considers unimportant.
Read SF of the era. You probably have some very far futures where the computers running everything are essentially invisible. But SF authors for the most part are not imaging miniaturized supercomputers woven into the fabric of everyday life.
OpenAI releases GPT For All (GPT-4o)
OpenAI releases GPT-4o model with free access for all.
Implement a time based free trial (e.g. 14 day trial) / usage based free tier (up to x users/ y API requests), etc.

These are ways to gate your product while still being able to provide users with a way to experience and validate it for free. I hope this helps
Seeing the proliferation of Linktree makes me feel bad for the folks like about.me who had this idea years and years ago and never caught fire.
Same as before you send them? They're in detention and go back to it. Presumably now with fewer privileges as they've lied to you.

This form of detention may seem costly, but the deterrent effect makes it less expensive overall when people realise the UK isn't a soft touch.

I think though that the debate isn't really about "does this work". It's more about the question of whether the UK (or any country) is responsible for looking after anyone that turns up on our shores.

I don't think we are, the default position should be the equivalent of an iptables deny rule.
I learned decades ago that I need to do the opposite of this. To-do lists, not calendars. Calendars are for coordinating activities with others, not for organizing my internal work.

This is purely because of the way my brain works. I cannot know in advance what task I will be able to perform effectively at a given time, and I cannot "force" myself to do a task inappropriate for my current state without losing a lot of efficiency and motivation.

So, they go on to-do lists and I select the items from that list as I progress through the days.