skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently med students skipped the lecture now and just use Anki cards and YouTube videos at 1.5 or faster speed to get through most of their learning related classes.

I know two students who did quite well on step one and step two, but I do not believe they are using Anki now in their residency
“It didn't turn computer scientists into smoking holes in the desert when it went wrong. “

Shame, really, HPC could use a little bit of high stakes adventure to make it sexier. (Funny how risking death makes things more attractive ?)

There’s something about working with equipment where the line between top performance and a smoking hole is a matter of degree.

Also opens up a lot more Netflix production opportunities and I bet code safety would get a bump as well.
This is why it would be such a mistake to kneecap this process over copyright. The models needs ALL the data.
> HTTPS gives only limited privacy protection, an eavesdropper can still see your IP address and the server you are trying to reach. It is not TOR.

This is what I've dubbed the "perfect is the enemy of good" fallacy, and it's frustratingly common around here. Technology Connections calls it "but sometimes".

A surprising number of otherwise educated and rational people are entirely prepared to argue that because a solution is partial that means it is useless and we'd be better off without anything at all. It feels weird that I even have to say this, but: sometimes a partial solution covers most of the solution space that actually matters in the real world and it's okay that it's incomplete. I'd rather an attacker see my IP address and the server I'm trying to reach than that they be able to see all of my communications with a server.
All the same, I’d rather not take that chance and prefer MacOS. No need to downvote me just because you don’t think it’s an issue to be concerned about (security).
That's not snark.

Government permitting is now a huge percentage of the cost of building a house in many US metros. CA is maybe the worst offender.

It's not just NIMBY. State and local governments have gotten exceedingly greedy over the past several years.
The intracies of modern camera lens repair
The intricacies of repairing a modern lens, getting auto focus to work and identifying tiny parts to bring expensive hardware back to life.
Show HN: Anki like features for any blog post
Hi HN,

I was inspired by what Michael Nielsen did with his "Quantum Country" project.

Blog Memorizer does the same but for all blog posts. That is to say, add flashcards at specific parts so you memorize what you're reading (this is great for reading long blog posts like pg's essays or wait but why)

Let me know what you think. I built it in a week to gauge whether people would find something like this useful.
Compressing SQLite databases with ZFS – 3 times+ in storage savings
All of them, no? China is state sponsored capitalism. USSR industries same thing essentially state sponsored capitalism which was taken over by the oligarchs in the Russian federation era. Vietnam also has oligarchs commanding billions today. Hard to even find an example where this isn’t the case. Maybe in Cuba things are more equitable but the US has exiled that country from quite a bit of global trade, and its hard enough raising standard of living in the carribean even with US support or even being a US territory for that matter.
Russia is a fantastic example. I don't expect you to be intimately familiar with Russian politik 1990-2007, but the US is currently speedrunning the same trajectory, for instance.

China is a perfect example as well.

Serbia also comes to mind fairly quickly, and another poster mentioned Vietnam....

North Korea is defacto this as well if you squint past their propaganda even a tiny bit, with the addendum that Kim is the ultimate oligarch.
>imagine what GPT-5 level reasoning could do!

Imagine if this "GPT-4o" is already using a GPT-5-like back-end...
Yeah, an office suite that almost every business uses. If you think MS is dying it's because you live in a dev bubble.
I dont think HN will ever change its styling...

However, try some extensions which gives you dark mode

1. Modern for Hacker News

2. Dark reader
Llama 3 vs. GPT-4: The Giants' Showdown
Bob Hawke's childhood house in Bordertown opens for accommodation and functions
Okay so we're all agreed that IP laws don't matter and we can have all of OpenAI's data for free? That's a good deal!
easier to color graph if you have like 4 registers :-)
What do you mean "have"?
does this make retell.ai obsolete?
If you are arguing for the banning of sharing of videos of murder created by the murderer, then your initial comparison to CP is off.

In any case, the general idea of banning access to and possession or distribution of evidence of crime creates an insane power imbalance that I don't think can ever be justified, unfortunately, by the obviously extremely unfortunate things you mention above.
I was unable to determine whether the website was:

A) Real, straight-up, what-it-says-on-the-tin

or

B) Satire. I mean, who wouldn't want a robot that opens walnuts by smashing them with its fist? What a great party trick! It for sure won't accidentally classify your pet gerbil's head as a walnut, don't be silly.
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I was going to comment that I am tired of undated articles. Where did you see when it was written?
Then lawmakers should change the law, instead of a private actor asserting that their need overrides others' rights.
> This is probably the first time it feels natural

Really? I found this demo painful to watch and literally felt that "cringe" feeling. I showed it to my partner and she couldn't even stand to hear more than a sentence of the conversation before walking away.

It felt both staged and still frustrating to listen to.

And, like far too much in AI right now, a demo that will likely not pan out in practice.
Here's my fork [1] of the excellent DarkHacker Chrome extension [2].

[1] https://github.com/guiambros/DarkHacker

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-hacker-news/ib...
AI models are mostly matrix multiplications and have been that way for a few years now, which is longer than a hardware cycle. Moreover, if the structure changes then the hardware changes regardless of whether it's general purpose or not, because then it has to be optimized for the new structure.

Everybody cares about VRAM right now yet you can get a P40 with 24GB for 10% of the price of a 24GB RTX 4090. Why? No tensor cores, the things used for matrix multiplication.
I've just had a good experience with them. I don't remember where I heard about them before, it's been years.

Namecheap is fine, but I've moved all but one domain off of them.
"The most likely culprit is cognitive bias..."

His family is surrounded with microphones, cameras and sensors. The company has a long track record of unwarranted surveillance.

In the most recent case against Google for wiretapping, all claims survived the dismissal and summary judgment stages. Google settled instead of showing a jury that what the company does is not wiretapping. Why would anyone trust this company, except out of necessity.

Anecdotes are not proof, but are anecdotes needed to form a reasonable suspicion of Google conducting unwarranted surveillance.

For some reason, HN commenters will oppose the notion of Google/Meta using microphones for data collection but how much does that matter when we already know Google uses any available means it can get away with.
Baseline Fame
We managed to speed up our CI to save 168 days of execution time per month
Static as in no XmlHttpRequest.
I don't know if my iOS app is using GPT-4o, but asking it to translate to Cantonese gives you gibberish. It gave me the correct characters, but the Jyutping was completely unrelated. Funny thing is that the model pronounced the incorrect Jyutping plus said the numbers (for the tones) out loud.
This is... wow.

>"Overall, serf comes across as knowledgeable, practical, and technically adept, with a focus on providing useful and actionable insights in their discussions. Their character seems to be that of a meticulous and informed individual who enjoys engaging with technical challenges and helping others navigate them."

I wonder what it would probably say about my infamy.
For me that list looks not that good compared to Asahi Linux for M1.
No GPU, no camera, no suspend/resume....
I won't be spending my money on that platform until that sorted out.
And judging from the other ARM platforms that means most likely never.
Over-hyped and under-delivered.
It's strictly A. Unitree is a pretty bullshit-free company; but since it's coming from China, certain cultural differences can be perceived by the American public.
Should the hawthorn be saved?
Ask HN: Case Study on Training LLMs on Apple M2 Ultra Neural Engine?
Has someone here come across a case study on training LLMs on Apple M2 Ultra Neural Engine? I wanted to know how it would compare to training LLMs on GPUs like H100.

Considering the cost and shortage of H100, can Mac Pro Ultras be used for training LLMs? I mean people are trying to do it on SuperComputers using CPUs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348371) surely someone must have tried using Apple Silicon Neural Engine.

I tried searching for it, but didn't find anything proper.
They leave it at home probably.
And if the oil companies shut down in 1960, what would our economy have run on?

In WW2, the main target of the USAF bombing campaign was the Reich's fuel supply. They were successful, the German war machine ground to a halt from fuel shortages. They did use a lot of horses, but there weren't remotely enough.

The German U-Boot campaign was aimed at cutting Britain off from fuel.

What were the alternatives?
What did they lie about under oath? From what I recall the whole saga was pretty much reddit gamblers blowing through a bunch of liquidity of the major brokers, and triggering a bunch of big margin calls. There were no naked shorts or whatever other conspiracy theory reddit was spinning up, this is the kind of thing the SEC actually gets very angry about regardless of who's on the other side of the trade.
Love seeing so much detail!
I’m happily impressed that non experts find this area intriguing. I hope more people start to work at the interface of biology, chemistry, and AI.
> State of California says max of 8 hours. I assume this is over a 24 hour period.

From the page you point to about use for protection against wildfire smoke, it sounds like it is 8 hours use for a single mask, after which the mask should be discarded and replaced.

> N95 usage results in significantly elevated CO2 levels, reduced O2, and increased heart rate, with far more pronounced effects in overweight individuals.

In healthcare workers, only in heart rate, not CO2 or O2 [0]; the other factors may occur in the normal environment for non-medical N95 use (outside of the COVID pandemic) – i.e., dealing with particularly particulate-polluted environments, where the particulates will accumulated on the outside of the respirator (outside of the unique circumstances of the pandemic, healthcare N95 use has historically been either for a single encounter or perhaps a period – rarely more than a couple hours – in a diagnosis-segregated environment, since otherwise it would create an exposure risk more than protecting against it.)

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8705067/
It's the US Department of Agriculture delineating hardiness zones for the US. It would be more surprising to me if they included Canada and Mexico.
If the FBI wants to obliterate me, they can get a warrant and send goons to my house. The costs of preparing for that threat model are excessive, so I don't.

If some scumbag ad company wants to track me, they can eat shit on my adblocker and not track me. The cost of preparing for that threat model is trivial, so I do.
After 28 years, someone opened an "unopenable" door in Super Mario 64
Clock in, skip work, get paid: BART employees padded salaries with 'time theft'
How hard is it to make an offline model like this learn?

The readme mentions a memory that lasts as long as each conversation which seems like such a hard limitation to live with.
This is a very cool demo - if you dig deeper there’s a clip of them having a “blind” AI talk to another AI with live camera input to ask it to explain what it’s seeing. Then they, together, sing a song about what they’re looking at, alternating each line, and rhyming with one another. Given all of the isolated capabilities of AI, this isn’t particularly surprising, but seeing it all work together in real time is pretty incredible.

But it’s not scary. It’s… marvelous, cringey, uncomfortable, awe-inspiring. What’s scary is not what AI can currently do, but what we expect from it. Can it do math yet? Can it play chess? Can it write entire apps from scratch? Can it just do my entire job for me?

We’re moving toward a world where every job will be modeled, and you’ll either be an AI owner, a model architect, an agent/hardware engineer, a technician, or just.. training data.
I’m hoping that they finally execute an M4 Extreme, oriented towards Mac Pro. There was rumor they’d do this in M2 era but it didn’t come to pass unfortunately.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/03/m2-extreme/
Good to know my North Korea photos on Wikipedia are legal!
Ask HN: ATS Friendly Resume Templates?
Looking for resume templates that are also easily parseable by ATS, thanks
No. Training is offset relative to starting point. If you distribute it from same point you'll have bunch of unrelated offsets. It has to be serial - output state of one training is input state of the next.

If you could do it, we'd already have SETI like networks for AI.
You subsidize the production of the better thing. Once you have (within reason) a better or equivalent product at the same or lower price at the consumer point-of-sale than the alternative you want to replace go ahead and ban the old thing.

It doesn't work for everything but it's the exact playbook we followed for LED lightbulbs.
Looks like by next LTS (for kernel 6.10 and 6.11) we'll have some good support for these chips. I wonder if any OEMs will make any Linux laptops for us to buy.
Woah, neat to see this here. Thanks for the share!
Great, another excuse to arrest people who film or share videos of police violence. Also, a good excuse to erase evidence of war crimes.
> the browser tied to the OS ala Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer was usually only loosely tied to the OS. Yes, many versions of Windows came with some version of IE, but you could usually install a newer version if you wanted. Every once in a while, a newer version of IE required a newer version of Windows, but that wasn't typical.

As I understand it, on Apple systems, Safari comes with the OS and is updated together --- Safari updates come in OS updates. Mobile IE was very similar though, at least on Windows Phone 7 and newer.
There's a false dilemma if ever there was one.

A better question would be if they had remained at the scale they were at in the 60's (or 70's) while their parent energy companies transitioned into better alternative energy technology earlier one.

The option was there, the dangers were known and the choice was made by executives to FUD their way out of any action other than funding thinks to counter the early climate change findings, to actively work against better public transport in the US, to promote larger and larger vehicles, etc.

Like building roads where traffic expands to fill capacity, society expands to consume available energy .. and those profiting from fossil fuel extraction expanded production rather than pivot towards better sources.

That's pure unfettered capitalism for you - dumb as an ox and making poor decisions at scale for the masses much of the time.
Well, I wrote a series of functions doing a bunch of mathematical calculations, making lists and that. But when I went to 1) read a file, 2) output results to a file, I ran into some trouble. This was for a real use case I had. Writing the code to do all the calculation was really enjoyable and pretty easy to pick up. Actually turning it into a useful program not so much.

I used no libraries and wrote all the math myself, because when I went to investigate libraries none of them seemed to explain what they do in language someone who didn't already know would understand. When I went in stackexchange and other community spaces I got similar results.
I actually only used an XState state machine with JSON configuration and used that data as part of the prompt. It worked surprisingly well.

Since it has an okay grasp on how finite state machines and XState work, it seems to do a good job of navigating the tree properly and reliably. It essentially does so by outputting information it thinks the state machine should use as a transition in a JSON object which gets parsed and passed to a transition function. This would fail occasionally so there was a recursive “what’s wrong with this JSON?” prompt to get it to fix its own malformed JSON, haha. That was meant to be a temporary hack but it worked well, so it stayed. There were a few similar tools for trying to correct errors. That might be one of the strangest developments in programming for me… Deploying non-deterministic logic to fix itself in production. It feels wrong, but it works remarkably well. You just need sane fallbacks and recovery tactics.

It was a proprietary project so I can’t share the source, but I think reading up on XState JSON configuration might explain most of it. You can describe most of your machine in a serializable format.

You can actually store a lot of useful data in state names, context, meta, and effect/action names to aid with the prompting and weaving state flows together in a language-friendly way. I also liked that the prompt would be updated by information that went along with the source code, so a deployment would reliably carry the correct information.

The LLM essentially hid a decision tree from the user and smoothed over the experience of navigating it through adaptive and hopefully intuitive language. I’d personally prefer to provide more deterministic flows that users can engage with on their own, but one really handy feature of this was the ability to jump out of child states into parent states without needing to say, list links to these options in the UI. The LLM was good at knowing when to jump from leaves of the tree back up to relevant branches. That’s not always an easy UI problem to solve without an AI to handle it for you.

edit: Something I forgot to add is that the client wanted to be able to modify these trees themselves, so the whole machine configuration was generated by a graph in a database that could be edited. That part was powered by Strapi. There was structured data in there and you could define a state, list which transitions it can make, which actions should be triggered and when, etc. The client did the editing directly in Strapi with no special UI on top.

Their objective is surveying people in a more engaging and personable way. They really wanted surveys which adapt to users rather than piping people through static flows or exposing them to redundant or irrelevant questions. Initially this was done with XState and no LLM (it required some non-ideal UI and configuration under the hood to make those jumps to parent states I mentioned, but it worked), and I can't say how effective it is but they really like it. The AI hype was very very strong on that team.
Perhaps it simply never occurred to them that anyone would react this way! Clearly there exists some cultural context within which this ad comes off as offensive, but it is so far removed from the culture I live in that I find myself unable to empathize with the people who are upset.
yes, also known as a programmer loves coding a lot:)
Sure, you need to balance urgency and quality, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't ever communicate about that tradeoff to stakeholders.

Let me give a somewhat concrete example. Someone from business came to me to ask how hard it would be to fix a bug. It wasn't super urgent. The user experience of the bug wasn't too bad, a minor annoyance. But it seemed like such a small thing that they thought the fix couldn't take more than a few days. When I informed them it would take weeks at a minimum and more likely months, they were very confused, until I explained that a design made in the early days of the company (before I worked there) made this particular bug extremely difficult to fix. We would either have to redesign an entire system in a more robust way, or work around the limitations of the current system which would be faster, but still much more difficult than ot should be. And doing so wouldn't help at all with fixing the myriad other problems caused by this design choice.

And although I wasn't involved in the original design, I think at the time it wasn't a terrible decision. It allowed the company to get something out that worked pretty well, and helped the company grow quickly. But now that technical debt was slowing down other development.
This is a solid list. Thanks.
OpenAI keeps talking about "personalised AI", but what they've actually been doing is forcing everyone to use a single model with a single set of "safety" rules, censorship, and response style.

Either they can't afford to train multiple variants of GPT 4, or they don't want to.
Some other features I really miss from Haskell when programming in other languages are the dedicated function composition and application operators, curried functions by default, and support for partial application of operators.
"Hysteria" is 4.
I can start a game on Lichess, resign it right away, enter analysis mode, then disconnect from the internet and continue to use the board (in the same way that one can use the board on site we are discussing here), so Lichess's analysis board does not use XmlHttpRequest either.
Keeping It Simple: The Power of "Boring" Code [video]
I found an older article on the subject https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/03/05/musee-rodin-could...

and the man himself has a site: https://cosmowenman.com/
What happens if one has no Google or social media accounts (although I have an Android phone, I have neither—I've never set up an account on the phone)?

It seems to me these days if one doesn't have any such accounts one's likely to be singled out as being suspect or suspicious.
hmmm... that might be what I read.
Shout out to my horrible Flutter HN project https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader

I created it for 3 reasons:

1) practice with Flutter

2) I wanted dark mode

3) I was getting really tired of chatGPT posts at the time so I added a topic filter.

I will openly admit it is not nearly as the HN website which IMO is a masterpiece.

If you enjoy hacking your own apps together feel free to fork it and creating your own experience.

P.s.

Really not a plug just thought it was relevant and a bit personally humorous.
> One day they found a trap door hidden in the woods near the fort, which opened to reveal a rusty ladder leading to a series of underground bunkers filled with broken doors and graffiti.

That's funny: I think it is quite likely that I once found that same trap door and descended that same ladder. It's quite a magical place.
As sibling mentioned, you can build the kernel with clang today. `make CC=clang`, and for whatever reason I've found that it produces code that's significantly more pleasant to step through under a debugger than gcc.

If anybody has an explanation for this I'd love to hear it.
Yet.... https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05905