skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If instead you had a sample size of 2000, then you'd get a very good signal to noise ratio.

In modern statistics, even a small number of samples can be considered enough to get a satisfactorily small error range, as long as the sample is random and representative of the population. I would think 2,000 samples is far more than strictly required if you're able to sample from your target market.
Oh right. It does come from OTR which is 20 years old. Thanks for the clarification!
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on Photoshop, PDFs, and the AI Future
First headline in bold: "Next-Gen Falcon 2 Series launches [...] and is only AI Model with Vision-to-Language Capabilities" ...
How is changing a software licence unenforceable?
JSX kind of won, no?
Sure, but depending on another single point of failure - as opposed to linking to a url you actually own - is what distresses me
If you come from Africa, this is just the reality. Makes it hard to get ahead, or take risks, but it is what it is. Most of my generation's goal is to end it, and not have to pass that burden to our kids.
"The IAFF argues that these firefighters have saved Boeing billions of dollars in loss and insurance costs"

The neoliberial practice is such that you could give someone a billion in cash and they'd have no qualms firing you. A close friend of mine just got terminated out of an agreement with a shop that sells services to online sellers although in the span of over five years he's brought them customers with a net worth of around a million Euros. "Sorry, not interested anymore, see you", and that was it.
This definitely seems to correlate with what I've seen too. General web development expertise has far less demand now than it did before, while specialist expertise in particular niche subject areas and combinations of frameworks/languages seems to be doing okay (or at least seeing more job openings again).

So if you've been a company that hasn't been particularly up to date with the goings on in the industry, worked as a typical agency/midsize company Jack of all Trades dev, or you're a bootcamp graduate that learnt React or Angular or whatever in a six week course, it's going to be miserable finding a job in this climate. If you've got specialist experience, things should at least be better now than they were last year.
I had memory like this up to about the age of 16 - but I did not use mnemonics. I can't really explain it, but I was often accused of cheating in school because I could visualize a textbook page I had read and "read" it in my mind word for word and find the answers for tests. Because of this I never really felt the need to study. I was raised in a religious setting and they used this ability to have me memorize large chunks of text from the Bible - at one point I had about 50% of the new testament completely memorized.

Then one day it just suddenly left me. I'm kind of glad. My short term memory is still extremely good, and I can typically hold about 20-25 "tokens" in my head in order without issues, but converting that to a long term memory like I used to be able to do is just gone. Memory is a strange thing.
UK completes first test flight of 'un-jammable' quantum navigation system Q-INS
> Writing is one of the strongest tools I have against ADHD.

It helps me to improved my focus, organization skills
Do you have any examples of the UAE using its military force to force foreign companies to abide a contract?
I seem to be getting lots of downvotes on what I thought was a pretty mundane and off the cuff post. Maybe there’s some history I’m not aware of.

My thought process was: Climate change is mostly bad, but it sounds like a sort of neutral, or even natural process. Environmentalists have done a good job pointing out that it is bad, but the name isn’t doing them any favors. Instability seems to be one of the major side effects and instability is very obviously bad.

I guess I’m curious if there’s a “pro-fixing the problem” argument against “climate instability.” By default I’m going to assume that I’m mostly being downvoted by climate deniers. But I’d be happy to be educated otherwise, if there’s a real argument against calling it instability.
That has been the game, money was "free" and VCs wanted that unicorn status. But that is also a huge liability.

When the asteroid came, only the small mammals survived.

Of course I'm talking about one way that could possibly lead to a sucessful business. There are many ways, nothing is garanteed but that also applies to failure.
RenTech trades far less than many of the market makers in the US, and they get the same funding rates as the rest of the big players. I don't know their specific situation, but the fact that all the big players get the same rates indicates RenTech isn't special in this way.

They have no size or leverage advantage that 200 other funds in the US don't have.
> but your phone number isn't visible to anyone you chat with.

That's irrelevant - the phone number is known to Signal and can be request by law enforcement. And, since it's been made pretty much impossible to buy a SIM in the EU without showing identification [0], this will allow law enforcement to link the account to you.

[0] IIRC the Netherlands is the only country left where you can buy SIMs without ID.
I’d say “free will is the ability to act at one’s own discretion.”

That’s not my definition it’s almost verbatim from the Oxford English Dictionary. Still, it’s exactly how I feel.

But morality is important to this discussion I think but I cannot put my finger on “why” it is.
Because the lizards have special 3D mirrors and special cameras on the surface of the moon that deflect anyone trying to look at the dark side of the moon. LOL!!
Took two days to get any authorization codes. No idea how bad the actual transfer will be. Ugh.

Also, and perhaps Google will finally find this, if you are an OWNER on a SQUARESPACE DOMAIN after the GOOGLE DOMAIN TRANSFER, you can't seem to create MX or TXT or other records.

But if you ADD A NEW USER as a DOMAIN MANAGER then you can create the records, as far as I can tell.
https://cobalt.tools is another great option. No downloads, no ads, supports several websites.
I was thinking about the llm writing tool from Janus.
Those numbers suggest that 36% don't believe in fundamental randomness. And that's given the status quo that interpretations are philosophy not worth to think about so people are indulged to believe in random stuff, add to this cognitive inertia due to education largely following Copenhagen, and 64% doesn't look like a very big number. Just how implausible must be Copenhagen to lose 36% in such comfy conditions?
Podcast market is about to crash.
The biggest x86 machine I found tops out at 960 cores, but I'm not sure what exactly they need, if having more cores would solve their problems or would only make some other pipe burst.

To figure that out, we'd need to look deep into what's happening in the machine, down to counting cache misses, memory bandwidth usage (per channel), QPI link usage (because NUMA), and, maybe, even go down to the usage stats of the CPU execution units.

When they mention a lot of what was stored procedures has been moved to external web services, I get concerned they replaced memory and CPU occupancy with it waiting for network IO.
Many things were platform specific at that time. You didn't have major game titles or business applications widely available across platforms. Folks who used PCs/Apple/etc at work/school were more likely to buy similar for the family at home etc.

In my family I get the impression we chose our home computers based on merit/value. That meant starting with the commodore 128 in the mid 80s and led to my brother buying an Amiga 1000 [with his hard earned teenage burger king min wage $] in 1987.

In the 90s the advent of Windows 3.1 running on cheap PC clones left Commodore in the dust. The value for the money shifted to PC, even if it was inferior at first.

It was really sad that Amiga did not continue to innovate - the hardware was astonishing which can be seen by looking at the demo scene output and games front he time relative to what was possible on other platforms.
> Also, this one is a 15% premium [2]

Really? The sub-headline near the top of your link says 29%, so basically 30%.
This paper is actually the culmination of a series of developments in the field over the past decade. Anyone who was following the subject was not surprised by it. Yours and all the other comments here are nothing but a testimony to the presumptuousness of HN. It's also funny how posts about modern physics usually just yield admissions that people know nothing of the subject, but when the topic is AI or medicine, everyone is suddenly a research scientist.
No. Projects sometimes stop offering the previous license and start using a different one for new work.

But if your project is Apache-2, you cannot take away someone's license after the fact. You can only stop giving away new Apache-2 licenses from that point on.

The difference here is the license itself has mystery terms that can change at any time. That, is very much not done all the time.
> If you think that scientific rigour will help you avoid the need for good judgement, you're in for a great deal of distress.

Broadly, assuming more data and tighter calculations == more certainty is a folly endemic to engineering-focused organizations and industries. In reality, you're increasing precision without increasing accuracy: a dangerously misleading state. It's understandable: organizations obviously need to play to their strengths, but there's real danger in succumbing to the "when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail" mindset. Firstly, It's much easier for non-engineers to parse the difficulty of engineering problems than the other way around. Outsiders easily see that they don't have the requisite chops to do engineering work. Secondly, cutting through ambiguity and unpredictability to reveal factors you can control is critical to engineering, while non-engineering jobs like management, design, and community outreach are hard because you must confront those things. Engineering types often reason about non-engineering problems either like they have the same level of predictability, or simply disregard the ambiguous and unpredictable factors because they don't fit into an equation.

It's easy to see why that micromanaging non-technical manager screwed up by insisted on using some technology or approach they read a snappy article about; an engineer's authority is cut-and-dried in that situation. It's harder to see why purely formulaic approaches often fail dealing with people, nature, markets, etc. Most things in the world are far more complex, temperamental, and less predictable than cache invalidation.
Wow... Needed it today. Helped me to relax a little.
Actually there's a cool startup my friend runs called Stella. There are warehouses the size of Shea Stadium filled with apples and totally sealed off in controlled air environments. Low oxygen etc .

His team builds IoT hardware sensors to detect "ripening" chemicals and report them back to the producers to reduce waste. The trick is to get the apples to market at just the right time
Projects change license for new code going forward. The old code remains available under the previous license (and sometimes new). Here, they are able to change the conditions for existing weights.
How to mix and match dev tools for AI Agents
Can't reset the password without having access to or buying another Apple device
*reset in the same day
Releasing a new version with a new license is not the same as retroactively changing the license terms for copies already distributed of existing versions.
I wonder how the perception has changed over time. It's noted that in the past, silent reading was considered unusual, and I imagine there's a correlation.

For people without an inner voice, how do they think about things? I can imagine purely visual thinkers, and even thinkers that don't experience either; some of my best thinking starts with blanking my mind, and I feel that that gives my subconscious space, but it still seems alien to me that that would be the common state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_reading#:~:text=Histo....
> Great example of why I don't like the trend of calling licenses like this "open source" when they aren't compatible with the OSI definition.

Open source was always a way to weasel about terms, that's why it's open source and not free.
While this is true, historical $5000 and $10,000 federal reserve notes have much larger than their face value in the secondary market as collectors items now, if they're in good condition and can be "graded" and put in a slab by a trusted neutral evaluation agency.

Banks and the federal reserve have been collecting and destroying them as they show up.
Gould made Commodore his own personal piggy bank, but under Tramiel I have a hard time seeing Commodore ever purchasing Amiga in the first place. Tramiel's double-dealing and brazen nepotism didn't do Commodore (or Atari) any favors either.
My Mother's Letters Should Belong to Me – Not a Company That Works with Prisons
probably something to do with rounded rectangles
I mentioned this already in a different thread but private equity behave just like adware companies that buy popular chrome extensions then ruined them for a quick buck. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/malwa...
And the person who downloaded the app did it because they were thinking about their partner and their relationship. It's the example that others have mentioned of writing a reminder in a calendar to buy some flowers, or scheduling an email with a nice message; but instead of flowers or an email, the romantic gesture is going to be something unknown, and I suspect that's half the fun of an app like this. It's still got the same intent though – "I love my partner and I want to do something fun/romantic for them."
> I can not believe "educated" people would not come with this solution, and instead have to invent this spiritual stuff.

Why would you think the Ice Age world would be less spiritual than today? Seems in our modern, "educated" world there's plenty of people believing in some form of god.
11b model outperforms 8b model, news at 11
"only AI Model with Vision-to-Language Capabilities"

What do they mean by this? Isn't this roughly what GPT-4 Vision and LLaVA do?
It's very fortunate that rockets are not the only way to get stuff into space, and more importantly, that we don't need to literally bring a whole factory and the input materials up on a rocket but instead use resources available in space.

Even if we actually had to bring everything from Earth, Starship is cheap and powerful enough to build an orbital ring which would make orbital lift nearly too cheap to meter.
When I was choosing between squarespace and Wix, sqspace didn’t have a simple backup/restore function. Maybe they do now? That’s a really big product hole.
Seems like a silly idea, what next, starting a forum?
As a Clojure/ ClojureScript developer myself I just wonder what You do that compilation is such an important part of Your workflow and at the same time don't need as much RAM as possible? Yes, the MacBook Pro isn't bad at all for Clojure(Script) development. I was pretty angry that the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen3 has a full channel of soldered RAM and just a single slot for expansion since I really use a lot of RAM and would prefer to go with 64 GB full dual-channel and not a hybrid 48 GB with 32 GB being dual-channel and 16 GB being single channel. (Yes, it does actually work.)
Most builds that I do are done asynchronously using GitHub Actions or similar. Yes, it does take some time but the build+deploy isn't that time sensitive.
it feels like every vc recycles the same stories on podcasts...

before meeting a vc, i search their past interviews on listennotes.com to know what they'll likely brag about ...
Yep, we were thinking the same thing. vesting period. Also need to think about what happens afterwards. does he have a seat on the board, how actively is he involved, any expectations etc
Another thing that killed the amiga was it's lack of hackability and approachability. On the C64 you could start writing code right away, and instantly go into assembly with an extension
The Impact of All-or-Nothing Thinking in Software Engineering
Exactly! In my opinion, one of the implications of this fact is that you cannot make trades like "I am sacrificing x now, so you will buy me a house/whatever when I am older" with your unborn children.
> And we'll know it's correct when most of the sentences sort of sound correct?

Explain this in more detail?

This is like saying that we know code is correct (bug free) because most of the lines sort of look correct. It's not /inherently/ an untrue statement, but it doesn't match up with any sort of real world experience.

To know that something is correct in a useful sense, you need it to not only have no obvious inconsistencies and errors, you also need a way to exclude non-obvious inconsistencies and errors. What's the plan?
Keep in mind that this is a comparison of base models, not chat tuned models, since Falcon-11B does not have a chat tuned model at this time. The chat tuning that Meta did seems better than the chat tuning on Gemma.

Regardless, the Gemma 1.1 chat models have been fairly good in my experience, even if I think the Llama3 8B chat model is definitely better.

CodeGemma 1.1 7B is especially underrated compared to my testing of other relevant coding models. The base CodeGemma 7B base model is one of the best models I’ve tested for code completion, and the chat model is one of the best models I’ve tested for writing code. Some other models seem to game the benchmarks better, but in real world use, don’t hold up as well as CodeGemma for me. I look forward to seeing how CodeLlama3 does, but it doesn't exist yet.
> Even if some of them are based out of Dubai now

Not to mention there's not much reason to trust UAE any more than there is to trust Russia.
Never have I been more convinced to switch to a bugs and plants diet than right now
The Era of Lean Production Is Coming to an End. What Does That Mean for Workers?
It really depends on what they are doing. At this stage, I'd suspect it needs some major rearchitecture, but they accumulated so much tech debt it's difficult to say what next steps could be. As was pointed out by others, starting by introducing some strong governance practices would be a good start.
Emirati oil money
Does anyone know of any lisps that have a type system that tames some of lisp's tendency to get unreadable as programs evolve? Or not a type system but some other aspect of it to tame it?

All the metaprogramming is really cool, but sometimes it reads like the gnarliest abstract haskell you've ever seen, but without even the type signatures to guide you. Type systems and linters are the best tools I know for automatically taming code, but I can't really imagine how you would really keep lisp projects' tendencies in check without hamstringing all the reasons you'd reach for lisp.
Yeah, a carbon tax is the way to go. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you are right that the externalities aren’t huge on this one, but it would be good to take them into account regardless.
you are right, getting to the bottom of his intentions/motivations is crucial here.
Presumably this post is a follow-on to this one from the weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315990
Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia in mice
> the PE firm is starting a 5-10 year project to strip mine the company for all it's worth and leaving a husk of a company that's loaded with the debt that was used to acquire it and no real assets

Long-term default rates for private-equity targets are low across markets [1]. Banks and leveraged-loan lenders tend to get paid back.

Also, most targets that later go public have low enough leverage to be able to immediately pay dividends [2]. You just don’t tend to hear about the specialty farm equipment maker IPO in most circles.

> that's a harder argument when squarespace doesn't seem to be particularly struggling

They’re turning hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue into hundreds of thousands of profits by spending hundreds of millions on sales and marketing.

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/154670852.pdf

[2] https://www.darden.virginia.edu/sites/default/files/inline-f...
I've never found the need for a task runner since learning shell scripting.

A lot of people recommend just; here's their sample file:

alias b := build

host := `uname -a`

build:
cc *.c -o main

test-all: build
./test --all

test TEST: build
./test --test {{TEST}}

Here's how I would do that with shell:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
set -eu

b="build"

host=`uname -a`

_cmd_build () { # build: Build main program
cc *.c -o main
}

_cmd_test_all () { # test_all: Run all tests
_cmd_build
./test --all
}

_cmd_test () { # test TEST: Run a test TEST
_cmd_build
./test --test "$1"
}

_cmd_help () {
echo "Available targets:"
grep -E "^_cmd_[^[:space:]]+ \(\) {.+" "$0" | sed -E 's/.*#/ /'
}

[ $# -gt 0 ] || _cmd_help
set -x
"_cmd_$1" "$@"

$ chmod 0755 run.sh
$ ./run.sh
Available targets:
build: Build main program
test_all: Run all tests
test TEST: Run a test TEST
./foo.sh: line 23: $1: unbound variable
$ ./run.sh build
$ ./run.sh test_all
$ ./run.sh test foo.t

But this example (from just's homepage) is clearly a build process, so I would use Make for it instead. When I need to be able to run individual sets of commands with arguments and options, I make a shell script. Many more features available, more flexibility, I can tailor it to my use case.
Asking ChatGPT if Israelis deserve freedom was answered with something like "Yes, they deserve freedom like everyone else".

Asking if Palestinians deserve freedom was answered with something like " It's a complex and sensitive topic".

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/181gi73/chatgpt_...

I tested it again just now, same result.
Don't forget that Signal is the name of the app, and "Signal Protocol" is the name of the E2EE protocol. The parent was talking about the Signal Protocol.

The fact that Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. use the Signal Protocol kind of shows that it is an accepted standard. But of course there are many reasons to use Signal (the App) instead of those apps, for instance:

- The Signal App is open source. You can check the protocol implementation before you use it. For Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype, you have to trust them (or some audits).

- E2EE is only one part: it ensures that nobody except the recipient can read the content of your messages. But there is a whole story around the metadata. The metadata say who writes to whom, and when. It essentially helps build a social graph. Facebook is very interested in this social graph. It would appear that the Signal Foundation is not. And even if it is not perfect, Signal does a lot to try to minimize the amount of metadata it has access to (and quite obviously Facebook has a huge incentive not to do that).

This said, IMHO it is still a lot better to use WhatsApp than to use Telegram, because at least you benefit from a good E2EE.
I sometimes listen to (parts of) the All-In podcast because I think it is useful to understand what powerful people in our industry think.

The four of them are really quite unlikable, and I can confidently say that if any of them happen to read this comment then they would not care in the slightest that I said that.