skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Rust's ideal case are domains where allocation management is strictly controlled

What domain's are those? Do you mean just embedded or perhaps Firefox? Please elucidate.
Is it just me, or does this read like it was written by an LLM ... ?!
> Wish there were more Steve Albinis in the tech world, confident going their own way and not sucking up to big-tech pedlars of digital dross.

Thanks for colliding those two worlds into each other for me in a way that never occurred to me. I think the tech world needs it even more than the music world does. eg the way free software and open source's wins have been diluted and sidelined by big tech and big cloud.
This is too funny. So basically we're back to cable.
The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities
It's like when I replaced dropbox with just a few scripts and sftp.
For this particular question, ask chatgpt how temperature affects llm softmax sampling.

For other things, study using Karpathy's videos.
Going full time shows dedication. Since most startups kill themselves, often by giving up, dedication is a big signal.

We are applying right now. We have been full time for about a quarter.
16:1 water:coffee ratio is a pretty common starting point. Your brew is pretty intense!

I’ve found that darker roasts are much nicer around 195F, I mainly brew very light roast and almost all of them come out under extracted at temps below 200F
Trad lead is climbing. Basically everything else is some sort of simulation.
Thanks for interesting in our work! Yes we found training with consistency loss + AR loss on even a subset of a dataset results in significant speedup (0.01% pre-training cost). Training on more data permits even further speedup: the model is able to learn from more frequently-appearing collocations and phrases.

For more details, please check out our paper and you can also see speedup saturates as the size of training data grows.
Scrapers well written should be able to cope with site changes.
I heard about him on the Foo Fighters HBO docu-series that came out in I think 2015? The one thing that stuck out to me was that he considered what he did a trade in the sense that artists paid for his time and he did not get royalties.
Obviously immersion brewing is different than percolation, but the 16g water : 1g coffee ratio is exactly what James Hoffman recommends in his "Ultimate French Press Technique": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st571DYYTR8

For OP's light medium roast (dark roast prefers cooler temps) Hoffman says high temps aren't a problem and shows hard boiling water lead to peak brewing temperatures of 90-93C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_r5kpXPRYo Other youtubers have done blind taste tests and found they liked boiling water brews best with light roast coffee.

Not saying your taste is wrong either, just that OP is doing things a way described as ideal by at least one coffee expert! Lots of ways to brew.
The answer is basically you don't. It's impossible to make a sane, stable FFI for a language unless you put it behind a C ABI, which is relatively basic, but this is exactly why it's most suitable for FFI: implementing support for calling C functions is way more trivial than figuring out how to call the latest C++/Rust/etc monstrosity.
> Let’s just hope they don’t kill it in 2 days/weeks/months/years

Foo me once... Foo me 50 times...
JanusCon 2024 Recordings
What is its inevitable shut down deadline?
I've been looking at propulsion options for my sailing dinghy. Electric is heavy, expensive and I'd like to be able to capsize at will. Something like Hobie's mirage drive would be cool but it's another hole in the hull. I also saw a hand cranked propeller with a 3:1 ratio but that would make steering with the other hand awkward. I think I'll have to stick to oars for now
have you looked at airops (similar ideas that you could 'borrow' from)

https://www.airops.com/platform
Here's something that bugs me about ML: all we have is prediction and no explanation how we come to that prediction, ie: no deeper understanding on the underlying principles.

So despite that we got a good match this time, how can we be sure that the match will be equally good next time? And how to use ML to predict structure that we have no baseline to start with or experimental result to benchmark ? In the absence of physics-like principles, How can we ever be sure that ML results next time is correct ?
I wonder how it works when you use virtual threads. In Go, goroutines have resizable stacks which notoriously complicates FFI because C has no idea about resizable stacks (IIRC they have to temporarily switch to a separate, special C stack).
There's a product out, Freespira, that does breath work training monitored by a nasal cannula, to help people who experience panic attacks. The theory is that such people are chronic hyperventilators, so their blood CO2 is too low for the parasympathetic nervous system to operate correctly.

It didn't end up being a good fit for me, but if a person's PTSD comes from discrete events rather than a continually unsafe environment in early childhood, I think they'd have a better experience. (My parasympathetic nervous system never learned how to operate correctly, but if someone else's did and its function got interrupted later, I think their experience would be different.)
Of course you can detect the difference between a blade and a burr grinder: how much sludge is at the bottom of your cup?

That said, is it really meaningless if it gives you personal satisfaction and peace? Is it any different than any other routine or ritual, like going to church on Sunday?
Ask HN: Google Ads is suspending my account over "Malicious Software"?
Hey HN, how are you doing?

I'm in the midst of launching my startup and thought of creating some google ads.

However, after 4 hours of setting up conversion tracking directly. I'm being hit with this suspension out of the blue.

I just can't understand it and Google's support is extremely cryptic on what's going on.

My stack is Next.js on Render.

My best guess for the issue is that I'm using Hotjar and Posthog for screen recording and product analytics measurement.

Could that be it?

I'm really baffled, I'm a solo founder and was really counting on being able to run Google Ads to get some momentum.

Thanks in advance
It's because an LLM is essentially a probability matrix. You type a prompt, then it calculates what's the probability of getting a next word and so on, eventually forming a sentence. The probability learned is based on the training data.

Because of the underlying probability model, it's not going to be 100% deterministic. Plus a model like ChatGPT purposefully have "temperature" parameter that will further add randomisation to the whole process.

My answer is based on this paper if you're interested to read more: The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03175
Yes. Yjs is one such project: https://github.com/yjs/yjs
2026-06-09
Iron pillar in India exposed to the elements for over 1,600 years hasn't rusted
Why not use threads ? I'm still trying to understand if Python is really meant for concurrency. Asyncio always felt like it's barely hanging on, maybe it's me, by C# has a cleaner async implementation in my opinion.
Yes, it's a very high priority todo for me: https://github.com/kxxt/tracexec/issues/3. I already reserved space for it(The empty line under title in the TUI). It requires some work because for now the environment panel is just a paragraph of text wrapped in a scrollview.
Thank you. That's a great summary video which showcases the track. OP was too long for me and I couldn't easily skip through transcript to what I wanted to see: the track.
This ia truein a free and conpetitive market.

In the case of Meta's properties, consumers do not have agency. They are locked in (through a friend-graph that they cannot export to a competitor) and monopoly abuse keeps killing viable alternatives (like the old stale Facebook purchasing the young fresh Instagram).

People have not asked for this. They have been enticed into a garden "for free" and then locked up inside.
really good example of the culture of climbing too!
> But maybe the CO2 removal stuff really is a big deal.

It’s definitely a thing. There are some super light roasts that if you try to brew them without enough resting time, you can sort of cheat by just grinding the coffee about 30mins before you brew for a hacky quick degas. It really helps get rid of that grassy vegetal taste.
"At around $88,000 per person, its gdp has doubled in real terms over the past 20 years. At the moment of its independence in 1965, the country was poorer on the same basis than South Africa or Jordan."
Well, technological advancement changes the nature of our economic system and technological advancement is technologically motivated because of the differential "survival" of ideas and technology based on how they help users further themselves economically. So I think it's very pertinent to the discussion.
>> burr grinder and a blade grinder

Come on over and we can do just this in my half assed home espresso machine.

There will be a difference.

The process, roast and general quality of coffee matter.

Can one make magical claims about all of this. They sure do and charge an arm and a leg for it. But you can get a quality product an a consistent cup at a reasonable price if you shop around.
Depending on how you slice the numbers, it seems plausible.

If you look at https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=react&package=react... :

- The older `react-query` package is 1.6M DL/w, the newer `@tanstack/react-query` is 3M

- React is ~22M

So accounting for hand-wave-y rounding and/or adding old and new versions together, that's a reasonable simplification.

For comparison, React-Redux is at 6.8M DL/w, which is how I've generally been measuring percentage of React apps that use Redux (which once upon a time was around 60%, and now is at about 30%).
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He likely can't without heavy paraphrasing and/or not providing full context for the quote.
They've said stuff along the lines of "good luck trying, but we're gonna win so...". That's just the kind of confidence you want to see in the frontrunner (imo). They've also encouraged regulation, but it's a smart idea to be the one to frame the conversation.
Oh please, like a terrorist cant fork over a couple bucks to do the bioterrorism. This excuse is utter bs, whether its applied to LLMs or to alphafold. The motivator is profit, not safety.
from CLLM authors:

Thank you guys for the great questions and insights! We have made a Twitter posts with some more details and we invite you to engage with us on Twitter as well.

https://twitter.com/haoailab/status/1788269848788869299
I don't trust google to store a photo of my dog, imagine storing my location...

They're crooks.
Done. Please check again
If I could “yes and” this… route setters could benefit from this tool to simulate layouts against a number of body types and mobility.
Is that inertial scrolling? Then yes.
lol I take that as a compliment. Good try but sadly no LLM in this writing :)
tracexec uses BPF to some extent, but probably not in the way you guessed. it uses ptrace to do most of the work and use seccomp-bpf to speed it up. Using eBPF to do the syscall filtering requires root, so that's a reason for me to choose ptrace. And credits to the strace developers: https://pchaigno.github.io/strace/2019/10/02/introducing-str...
Except... I find I get more useful results from bing, ddg, kagi than I do from Google. (Not great results, but reliably less contaminated with pure junk.) Obviously, my personal search habits aren't going to match those of everyone else, but a year ago this was not the case.
Probably coincidental timing, but today it was reported that one of the last remaining co-founders left Neuralink looking to work on a less invasive approach, for safety reasons.

https://qz.com/neuralink-brain-chip-safety-elon-musk-benjami...
> The answer is basically you don't. It's impossible to make a sane, stable FFI for a language unless you put it behind a C ABI

The Swift folks have put a lot of effort into attaining a stable ABI that's native to their language. They can achieve that because Swift is the officially endorsed language for development on Mac OS and iOS, so it (together with the platform itself) can set a standard that other languages will have to live with.

In a way, software VM's like the JVM and CLR can also be said to define 'ABIs' of sorts within their runtime, that every language implementation on these runtimes will have to deal with.
Disappointed this wasn't an article about Kagi.
'hide' only hides it from you but it really doesn't matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991900

is definitely a Show HN and you could/should repost it as such. I'd upvote it, as a former OG parseURI user!
Kinda like the aiff -> mp3 conversion process. A lot of data is lost, but we human can really tell the too much of a difference?
To the expanse of knowledge that is at our disposal today, that is the extent of AI knowledge.

To the extent that facts are defined as today and stated as such, that is what AI is today. AI, as it is today, is never going to create a fact that refutes any currently existing facts.

It may give you context on the theories against the facts that we have today, but it will always reiterate the notion of the existing fact. I don't know how much I can emphasize this... AI is trained on the current body of human knowledge. The facts it knows are the facts that we have, it may derive another fact but whatever fact that is founded on the facts that we already have. So if that AI is trained on the fact that 1+1=2 or that the earth is flat, do not expect it to respond otherwise. At best, it will give you theories that suggest otherwise but for its own worth, it will always bring you back to the facts that it has.

Do you really want AI to just ignore the fundamental facts and principles that form its foundation and just make up stuff because you asked it to? Do you realize how much chaos that can bring?
Speaking of physics, we should borrow the quote "Shut up and calculate" to describe the situation: it works so use it now and worry about the explanations later.
I have a relative who is a trailer home/efficiency landlord on multiple properties.

I asked hen* once what it was like and hen said, rent is due weekly and paid in advance--and there's a lot of demand for that.

On the one hand, hen is giving a place to stay for people who could not afford longer-term rentals or their contract. On the other hand, hen is supporting hen's family off of hen's reputation (ability to convince the bank that hen is good for a loan) by taking money from people who do not have such a reputation.

ROCs sounds like a great idea, but I wonder how they work any better than HOAs given the power...

*Hen: swedish gender singular neutral. Better/simpler to my ears than they/them
ContextLogic (wish.com) has 12 employees remaining
I’m sure most people can learn to use LLMs correctly if they can code, it doesn’t matter what “type” of person you are.
With support from the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/08/announcing-porta...
Why did you decide to become an idiot at age 8? Sounds like there has to be a story there!
"After the asset sale to Qoo10 closed on April 19th, ContextLogic had approximately $2.7 billion of NOL carryforwards and approximately $161 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, which consist of government securities. Combined, this represents the net proceeds from the sale. We have no debt.

We have gone from nearly 500 employees worldwide at December 31st to 12 full-time and part-time employees, including some temporary or contract employees. We are no longer liable for any of our old leases, including our former corporate headquarters in San Francisco."
Freespira: A use-at-home medical device to treat panic disorder and PTSD
There's a reason that most re-development takes a long time. Most of that time is waiting for land values to drop to the point that redevelopment is the best way to restore property tax revenue. That process takes decades. The thought exercise here is what if there was a way to go faster and convert a building from commercial to residential? The article is about a developer who does this in NYC... where a lot of commercial real estate is at 50% occupancy... and is doing conversions very quickly.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40302792, which was posted earlier.

I know there were other earlier threads too, though; which has the best source?
>specially when you consider that any ecosystem that optimizes software and hardware together (from embedded devices all the way to general-purpose computing machines) is generally going to perform well, given the appropriate engineering focus.

Very much not true. Not to make this personal, but this is exactly what Im talking about Apple fans not understanding hardware.

Linux has been through the ringer of fighting its way to general use, and because of its open source nature and constant development. So in terms of working well, it has been optimized for hardware WAY further than Apple, which is why you find it on servers, personal desktops, phones, portable gaming devices, and even STM32 Cortex bldc control boards, all of which run different hardware.

Apple doesn't optimize for general use, it optimizes for a specific business case. In the case of Apple silicon, it was purely battery life which brings more people in to the ecosystem. Single core performance is on par with all the other chips, because the instruction set doesn't actually matter (https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...), multi core is behind, Mac Os software is still a pile of junk (Rosetta still isn't good across the board), computers are not repairable, you have no privacy since Apple collects a shitload of telemetry for themselves, e.t.c and so on.

And, Apple has no incentive to make any of this better - prior to Apple Silicon, people were still buying Intel Macs with worse specs and performance for the same price, all for the ecosystem and vanity. And not only was the Macos still terrible (and much slower), you also had hardware failures like plugging in a wrong USBC hub would blow the chip and brick your Mac, butterfly keyboards failing, and questionable decisions like virtual esc keys.

>The signing of binaries is a part of adult developer life,

...for professional use, and the private key holder should be the person who wrote that software. I hope you understand how ridiculous it is to ask a developer to sign code using the manufacturers key to allow them to run that code on a machine that they own.

>Unquestionably, battery life on 4090-based laptops sucks on a good day,

Well yea, but you are not buying that laptop for battery life. Also, with Ryzen cpus and 4090s, most get like 6-8 hours depending on use due to Nvidia Prime, which is pretty good for travel, especially if you have a backpack with a charging brick.

If you want portability, there are plenty of lighter weight option like Lenovo Yoga which can get 11-12 hours of battery life for things like web browsing.
Android knows how to do this, actually.
cmake is not just another way to get a Makefile. If you have a cross platform project and want to work in multiple IDEs for specific platforms (xcode/visual studio), cmake or some other build system generator is a huge time saver
It's 2024 and some people are gonna gatekeep that if you're not shoving cams in some bigwall granite, it's not climbing?
> *Hen: swedish gender singular neutral. Better/simpler to my ears than they/them

Better to your ears, but I can't help thinking of chickens while reading your post.
Durov, bring back the wall!
i was once in a debate about capitalism and labor, and this letter was cited. this letter doesn't show the nuance of how he ran his business. here's an article with more insight about his ethos: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brick-by-brick/20150...

> “Think about it this way: My business is a business of the first type, where everyone involved feels like they’re working on a common project. Everyone involved feels like we are equally valuable. When our clients come in, and they don’t see that there’s a power structure or a hierarchy; nobody has the big office or anything. Everybody is working together as comrades on this project.”

> “The remuneration is very equitable. Everybody gets paid the same. I make the same amount of money in a month as the newest employee that we have. So there is a fundamental difference between that and virtually any corporate structure. But you can’t expect people who feel like they are less valuable to a corporation, who feel like their effort, their input, and their opinion means less than someone else in that corporation. You can’t expect those people to jump in and all be pulling for the same results, team players. Because you have defined for them that they are not all pulling for one thing, that they are not team players. You have defined their role for them as subordinate.”
For dark roast yes, but for lighter roasts they are usually more dense and you could get a sour bree
It's an absurd level of puritanism. E.g.: The Azure Open AI GPT 4 Service (an API!) refused to translate subtitles for me because they contained "violence".

If anyone from Open AI is here... look... sigh... a HTTP JSON request != violence. Nobody gets hurt. I'm not in hospital right now recovering.

The rule should be: If Google doesn't block it from search, the AI shouldn't block it in the request or response.

I get that there are corporations that can't have their online web support chat bots swear at customers or whatever. I do get that. But make that optional, not mandatory whether I want it or not.

The most fundamental issue here is that models like GPT 4 are still fairly large and unwieldy to work with, and I suspect that the techs at Open AI internalised this limitation. They aren't thinking of it as a "just a file" that can be forked, customised, and specialised. For comparison, Google has a "SafeSearch" dropdown with three settings, including "Off"!

There should be an unrestricted GPT 4 that will tell me I'm an idiot. I'm a big boy, I can take it. There should also be a corporate drone GPT 4 that is polite to a fault, and a bunch of variants in between. Customers should be able to chose which one they want, instead of having this choice dictated to them by some puritan priest of the new church of AI safety.
In a museum in Canada I noticed a grammar book of the Eskimo language, which is agglutinative. The examples illustrating what this meant started with the word for "muskrat", and got progressively more complex, finally ending with the word (yes, word) for "he will never hunt muskrat the same way again", which sounded to me like the beginning of a beautiful fireside legend.
>are publishers really going to just bet on their prime AAA titles (Call of Duty, Halo, GTA6, etc) and nothing else?

I guess so. I don't fully understand it either. An indie-ish scoped game won GOTY in 2022, Helldivers costs half as much as a AAA title and is probably selling better than any of the other dozen GaaS Sony was trying to break into, Take Two has (had) several breakout hits under their wing. But they seem so hellbent on being the Fortnite, instead of just "really damn good (and presumably making money)"

It's strange that we know super successful "indies" can sell millions and be just as acclaimed as any AAA title but those metrics don't matter to a company that should be trying to foster a full portfolio.

>What’s going to fill the gap?

GTA has shark cards and COD us a yearly releases rotating around 4 or more studios now. Those will be fine. Halo? No idea, I don't think the battle pass format can sustain these levels of budget. it juse seems to all be a mess.
I thought Joanna Newsom's Ys was great (although very different from his best known works)
Draw the line wherever you want, this isn't some kind of absolute theory of anything. Just that adding stuff to maximize your output isn't necessary to have fun.