skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, it will just create separate markets for participants that think the HFT arbitrage malarky is/isn't to their advantage.

So yeah, trading on other markets will still be a thing that happens, but that doesn't mean it will necessarily siphon off all the activity.
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years?
Will AI-generated content destroy the web? Will Search Generative Experiences (SGE) replace the need for organic content? Will closed communities and curated directories become a thing? Will mixed reality somehow save the day?

I'm curious what folks consider the definite (i.e., well defined, concrete) future state to be... Or what would you forecast?
I'll drop a bit of deviantArt history that you're unlikely to find in an article like this, but which probably contributed to dA's initial failure to sustain its place as the preeminent platform for sharing art online as social media rose to prominence: its banning of sexualized nudity in 2006, which lead to the exodus of adult/adult-adjacent artists - and, particularly, furries.

That was the stumble that gave room for other platforms to grab pieces of its then-current and future user-base. Anyone can tell you that a very large portion of the money changing hands online for art (adult and not) is actually changing paws, so dA missed out of having a slice of that, whether through advertising or facilitating transactions. Worse, its reputation was tarnished among adjacent subcultures.

There have also been regular ToS panics every 2 or 3 years, where someone's (mis)interpretation of the licensing rights dA claimed for being able to modify and distribute artwork (i.e., make thumbnails and send images in daily update emails) caused users to swear off the site for fear of having their work "stolen". Add to that, quite a backlash against the recent site redesign (and the ones before it).

That is all to say, this really has been a long time coming. My account is nearing the 2-decade mark, but I haven't logged on more than a couple dozen times in the last half of that. There's just almost nothing there you can't find more easily or comfortably elsewhere.
I really appreciate them doing this. I wish more companies would release their source - even as is - if they are dissolving the corporation anyway.
Cool, one day CP will install those along their tracks and my high-rise will shake silently every time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F59PH#F59PHI departs from the station.
Right, and this is what makes it such a frivolous talking point. I mean, if it really were the case that the expenditures of oil were indeed at scales that overwhelmed any advantages of wind, that would be a legit argument.

But to make that case you'd actually have to do the next step of assessing the relative scales of how much oil gets used in the creation of windmill components compared to an alternative case where the energy is generated with traditional fossil fuel infrastructure.

I feel like if we're going to bring up the fossil fuel inputs into the creation of critical components for windmills, the mandatory next sentence has to be an acknowledgment of the relative scales of consumption in both cases. Otherwise it's a throwaway line with no context and no clear upshot.
Personally, I really like this summary: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112444973228241564
Hertz: We're selling them because maintenance is too expensive.

Buyer in the article: It dawned on me that maintenance was too expensive.

No surprise there.
How? Last I heard, it seemed either "rolling logs" or "powerful aliens" were equally plausible...
do people still use winamp over foobar?
Given the level of partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, wouldn't this just be the same feature offered in different ways been ChatGPT and Office 365?
I still use it for all of my locally stored MP3s. I haven't seen a music player in a long time that focused on playing music rather than being a media library.
It’s even more ridiculous when you learn that there is a prescription form of medical THC, fully legal and authorized under the FDA and DEA rules. And it’s a schedule III.
Intumescent paint would do the trick.

Intumescent paints are considered the lightest form of passive fire protection. An intumescent is a coating that, when exposed to heat, is rapidly transformed through sublimation, and expands many times its original thickness (up to 100 times), to form a stable, carbonaceous char.

The resultant char reduces the conduction of heat from the fire to the substrate, delaying the time it takes to reach structural failure.

I'm considering getting some for my kitchen remodel.

https://www.nullifire.com/en-gb/expert-insights/expert-advic...
> Do you really need to burn through steel plate?

not if you're accurate enough to hit its sensors
Earplugs really do work! Pay the money to get good ones.
It's not wild, it's the requirement of the statute: if an agreement says an issue goes to arbitration, the courts are required to send it to arbitration; there's no discretion allowed.

There's a bill before Congress that would make arbitration agreements unenforceable in class-action, employment, civil rights, and antitrust disputes, but it hasn't gone anywhere despite being introduced in the last 4 Congresses.
At that size, effectiveness, and implied number of shots? Very far away.
>there's very little stopping others from catching up

And yet they don't!

Talk is cheap.
I can't wait for the day when instead of engineering disciplines solving problems with knowledge and logic they're instead focused on AI/LLM psychology and the correct rituals and incantations that are needed to make the immensely powerful machines at our disposal actually do what we've asked for. /s
> Status quo extremism

I'm stealing that. It's great!
I don't think decentralisation is the solution because the problem is as much the lack of central authority as the presence of it. Enshittification happens fastest on platforms that are run by committees, who know they need revenue so take the path of least resistance, without a single clear owner who can resist it. Look at Google's decline since its founders left, compare to Facebook which - say what you like about it - is much the same user experience that it always was. (Hell, look at MySpace for an even more dramatic turndown than Google)

Social media sites that are still founder-owned or have strong individual leaders can continue fine (consider e.g. Dreamwidth). Though I guess whether you can sustain that past one person's lifetime is another question.
Thought I heard the name before: https://www.photobox.co.uk/

Probably a good idea to change the name now... However, I'm always surprised people don't search for the name of their project before using it. Also, if common TLDs are already registered, I'd usually avoid using the name as well in case of future success and spoofing the domains.
I want to see a wasm version of winamp.
I had to make a point of getting a company phone. If I didn't, it would've meant allowing my employer's IT department access to my phone, including the ability to read arbitrary data and to be able to wipe it. That's a big no, but thankfully they saw sense.
You are right, but this tool gives executives a nominal reason to downsize.
more like "kind of ironic the site is running an article on ...", authors really don't get to control that.
Me too, I would like to visit the Egypt one day :)
That's survivor bias.
Microsoft and Google have thousands of security engineers focused on protecting your data.
That's one of the biggest reasons I still use it. Other music players have strictly fixed UIs that often focus on organizing a music library rather than actually playing your music. I'm quite happy organizing my music using the file system.
> Before you retort with "Musk lies", this is a very specific claim and not a prediction

Musk has spent years making very specific claims about full self-driving that turned out to be lies: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

In 2016 Tesla claimed that "as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver":

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

That was a lie.
> Slave labor and ramps.

Except not slaves.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-...

> The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate extremely well. We know this because archaeologists have found their tombs and other signs of the lives they lived.
I know what functional safety is. It's just not described by "you must always make all possible efforts to make things safer under all possible circumstances".

In the case of a normal light switch, for example, two cable screws rather than one per wire would be safer than one as the cables are less likely to come adrift. This would easily be affordable for the manufacturer and the buyer, and well within the abilities of the manufacturer. And yet no light switch has those.

And every aircraft manufacturer could think of something the costs $20 billion to develop and adds safety but they don't, unless the product is unsafe already The one crash a year is, to be fair, solidly in the unsafe end of the spectrum, but would they spend the same to avoid a once in 10,000 year crash and if not, what's the cut-off? There must be a cut-off or it would be impossible for any manufacturer of anything to make any profit, ever, as all spare cash must go into safety system research. And this is demonstratively not what they do.

Boeing has a slightly different problem in that they actively made something less safe and lied about it. They'd have gotten away with it but they flubbed the execution with a single point of failure, which made it easier to line up the Swiss cheese holes and the rest is history.
It's really not. You can't force your employer to change what they were doing just because you exercise your rights. They aren't forcing you to work (also none of these guys quit), not doing what you want is not slavery. It's a disservice to actual slaves to say it is. These are actual mariners. They know they have a duty above employment and what being a mariner entails, being stuck on ships, being delayed, not being able to contact family sometimes. It's literally part of the job.
I hope the flood of AI generated content makes people finally learn to distrust everything online and we all return to the real world.
Nice! Looks like most modern list-comprehension syntaxes.

> iteration and value accumulation are orthogonal problems which should be solved by orthogonal constructs

This is also covered to an extent by "Why Functional Programming Matters" in the discussion of laziness: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...

For a direct comparison of combining this syntax with "accumulation" into a lazy sequence, see Clojure's `for` macro:

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/for
Llava Model for Video
From an alternative angle, it's not tragic but rather a triumph of the people who "actually" live there, to be able to repurpose old structures to modern use.

In Napoli, there's a set of pretty old (>300 years, I'd guess?) apartment buildings in the historic center, where if you view the buildings and curvature of the street from the sky or google maps, make a clear C shape.

The foundation of the buildings is a repurposing of a roman amphitheater. By the time that they began to convert the bottom 10 ft of the amphitheater into the basement of the homes, the amphitheater had been unused for centuries and the remaining high-quality building material had already been scavenged and repurposed for construction elsewhere in the city.

Naples, and many other "ancient" european cities that are still places inhabited majority by working people, are full of examples like this. It's kind of cool to see people living in a place where history is so overwhelming that it becomes banal.
Not sure it is super charged at all considering many of these heretical figures were killed. I feel like it's easier than ever to have a fringe opinion. We're in a day and age where people unironically believe in Qanon
I have never seen motorist expressing these feelings. On the other hand, cyclists complain about lack of bike lanes all the time (e.g. on this very site), they become livid when the existing bike lane is removed. They are actually quite upset when the existing lane is merely obstructed by, say, a parked car. Projection, as I suspected.
Right to a fair trial conflicts with wider public interest in current affairs?
sonique was interesting because most skins ditched 'square-rectangle' all together. Sometimes it was really wacky, like raindrops on your screen. The visulization engine was very milkdrop-y, too.
This is the ruling, thanks.
Keep reading

> The process converts organic products back into raw hydrocarbon products called syngas and pyrolysis oil, which can be used for energy production.

Which in a video I can't find they talk about piping this to a concrete plant that was burning it for their heating needs
GPT-4o feels noticeably dumber than GPT-4 for a lot of questions. I tried GPT-4o, but switched back to GPT-4 recently. There's probably a reason they added a button to quickly re-send your message to another model, hopefully they notice people not using GPT-4o as much and work on making it smarter. The speed improvement is really nice though, and I'm sure the improvements in other (non-text) modalities are real.

This is how I feel each time they release a new version that promises to be both faster and at least as smart as the old version. To be fair, Turbo did get a lot smarter over time.
> Tokens are property.

What law says this? Technically, tokens are smart contracts, basically OOP classes with both data and behavior. They also by design have public methods which are meant to be triggered by anyone on the chain. It's not at all obvious that triggering these methods in an unexpected order or with unexpected data is breaking any laws whatsoever. It's bytecode anyway, so there's no human readable EULA's or explanations on what you're allowed to do with the token.
It's not Spotify's fault that bots exist, but is their fault that they don't care.

DeviantArt built a system that pretends bots are not a problem on the Internet...and gave them a profit motive.
How is this different from KV caching?

(For reference, basic KV caching is explained here: https://www.omrimallis.com/posts/techniques-for-kv-cache-opt....)
You mean using code generation in a way that replaces the developer (in this case the data scientist who would be asked to conduct/code the analytics).
Why does a company has to go bankrupt to open source? It’s like something that owners want to do in order to be able to fork, not something that is being done for the community or open side of it.
Chinese failed with electromagnetic hypersonic railgun test
That's a reasonable argument. I think that the response that comes next is "the Russian geopolitical agenda is bad", but that's a separate topic - I think you've convinced me on this point.
Why do you think that site exists in the first place?
My understanding is that some of the mitigation for delayed or cancelled trains will involve new construction, and that might be facilitated by reducing the noise impact.
Topical hormonal cream sounds new; I don't think I've seen that on HN before. Would be curious to see studies.

RISUG/Vasalgel has come up on HN before (as far back as 13 years): ( https://hn.algolia.com/?query=RISUG&type=comment , https://hn.algolia.com/?query=vasalgel&type=comment ). My recollection is that studies have mostly been in India so far, but so far have failed to demonstrate reversibility (which is important to many men; otherwise they could get a vasectomy).
I’m pretty sure kids these days do know exactly what that’s like (although they wouldn’t be downloading the music video and it wouldn’t have taken over an hour for a shitty 2.3mb file)
It’s still happening. Bad companies are swapping between using ‘open source’ inaccurately (to get grants and funding) and saying ‘source available’ (when people call them on their bullshit) now.
Cool concept! Probably not that useful for most payloads though like cameras or anything similar. Unless the base where the payload is attached to, is separate from the airframe.
If you removed a cube of brain from one person and inserted it into a suitable void in another, or swapped them out.. what do you think would happen before necrosis and rejection set in?

I doubt any concrete or even diffuse states analogous to "somebody else's memory" would swap because.. that's not how it works.

Whole brain.. different story.

Function- specific structure (amygdala) .. dunno
Sure, knowing the basics of LLM math is necessary. But it's also _enough_ to know this math to fully grasp the code. There are only 4 concepts - attention, feed-forward net, RMS-normalization and rotary embeddings - organized into a clear structure.

Now compare it to the Hugginface implementation [1]. In addition to the aforementioned concepts, you need to understand the hierarchy of `PreTrainedModel`s, 3 types of attention, 3 types of rotary embeddings, HF's definition of attention mask (which is not the same as mask you read about in transformer tutorials), several types of cache class, dozens of flags to control things like output format or serialization, etc.

It's not that Meta's implementation is good and HF's implementation is bad - they pursue different goals in their own optimal way. But if you just want to learn how the model works, Meta's code base is great.

[1]: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/tr...
Mirrors are not a defense against high power lasers. The mirror is not 100% efficient, and as soon as it warps or discolors, it absorbs more energy and promptly burns through.

And yes, this is a problem for laser optics too: which is why these designs tend to use focused arrays of beams, cooling systems and/or parabolic mirrors (which also helps with divergence).
This may support one of my favorite theories of how the pyramids were built. With water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8
Eugh. Has anyone compiled a list of companies that do this, so I can avoid them? If anyone knows of other companies training on customer data without an easy highly visible toggle opt out, please comment them below.
I like the concept, but I'm not sure I like the implementation.

The demo they show has an excel sheet source being transformed into another sheet by grouping by a specific column. I don't like how it does a transformation step, sends a new transformed file and then switches the display to this new file. I worry that this loses the history of what exactly has happened to the file, so you're letting a black box run an unknown transformation and trusting the result to be correct.

A better implementation would require a custom UI for this, similar to existing data wrangling tools where every action is logged so that it's clear what has happened to the file and the steps can be checked transparently and rolled back if needed. As it exists now I would find it hard to trust it
I think this runs counter to the purpose of having a stock market. The stock market is not supposed to let everyone can gamble on a level playing field, it is supposed to make it as easy as possible for companies to raise money.
> I do roll my eyes every time I have to clear out an array by doing myarray.length = 0 instead of myarray = []. JS is such a silly language sometimes.

In your example, if myarray was the only reference to your array, it would likely not matter which way you do it. Clear the original array, or reassign the variable to point to a new empty array.

It becomes important when you have another reference to the same array.

That's not just a JavaScript thing. Any language where [] creates a new array/list, and the = operator copies a reference will have the same behavior.

Take Python for example:

>>> a = [3,2,1]
>>> b = a
>>> a
[3, 2, 1]
>>> b
[3, 2, 1]
>>> a = []
>>> a
[]
>>> b
[3, 2, 1]
>>>

>>> a = [3,2,1]
>>> b = a
>>> a
[3, 2, 1]
>>> b
[3, 2, 1]
>>> a.clear()
>>> a
[]
>>> b
[]
>>>

Or Ruby:

irb(main):001:0> a = [3,2,1]
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):002:0> b = a
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):003:0> a
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):004:0> b
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):005:0> a = []
=> []
irb(main):006:0> a
=> []
irb(main):007:0> b
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):008:0>

irb(main):009:0> a = [3,2,1]
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):010:0> b = a
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):011:0> a
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):012:0> b
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):013:0> a.clear()
=> []
irb(main):014:0> a
=> []
irb(main):015:0> b
=> []
irb(main):016:0>

And JavaScript to compare with the other two:

> a = [3,2,1]
(3) [3, 2, 1]
> b = a
(3) [3, 2, 1]
> a = []
[]
> a
[]
> b
(3) [3, 2, 1]

> a = [3,2,1]
(3) [3, 2, 1]
> b = a
(3) [3, 2, 1]
> a.length = 0
0
> a
[]
> b
[]

Python and Ruby do have that nice clear() method instead of having to set .length to 0, but the underlying semantics are the same in all three languages.
Office copilot sucks, except for Teams, which is great.

The rest is vaporware, basically. Obviously it will get a lot better, but this is refreshing.

Hopefully Microsoft has something better to show at Build that isn’t a bunch of half baked tools that will… maybe be better in two years.
Even from you https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...
Yes it would ablate at some rate, based on the drag, convective buoyancy, etc. If the smoke is optically thick at all, even if it pushed away almost immediately, the wall ablation rate would probably be a couple orders of magnitude lower than if the laser hit the wall directly...

If you want a fun read, the Galileo probe wall ablation paper is fun, the re-entry power density (at the wall!) was ~10kW/cm^2.
> If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping train Slack global models, you can opt out.

Well gee whiz, you want to help your old pal Slack, don’t you?

It’s such a slap in the face. And the opt-out is only available by email where more friction could be introduced.
There is no such thing as multiple inheritance in JS. You can do mixins, but is not the same thing as it is on object level. There are no classes in JS, but prototypes. So it’s really prototype oriented and very much Lisp-ish in all aspects.
That Jesus story comes from Rabbi Onkelos, a Roman convert who performed necromancy (!) to summon Jesus and ask questions about the afterlife. Apparently Gehinnom as described by the conjured spirit was indeed reserved for Jews who sinned; I think the unrighteous gentiles (not the Noahide) simply stop existing. They also got Shabbat and Yom Kippur off (I wonder if the summoning ate into Yeshua's break time.)

The Talmud is fascinating but pretty wacky.
Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
My guess is that most people making the decision to use ChatGPT on confidential data are low level employees looking to reduce their workload, and their bosses are happier with the improved performance (with the same salary).

Going on a tangent, the other day a friend of mine was explaining how he uses Google Drive to copy files from an iPad to a Windows laptop. He is trying hard to make sure three letter agencies have an extra copy of his data, just in case.
Why do I see moats constantly framed as a good thing? Tech should be about empowering people to do great things, not maximizing the extraction of value from users. Anyone should be able to catch up with anyone else. Anything that prevents that is literally "anti-competitive", which is generally considered to be predatory behavior.
Generic Linear Multistep Method Evaluator Using Chapel
Cost plays no role.

Cost of bits at L2 and L3 are more or less the same. They are typically implemented using the same kind of transistors.

The reason is latency, plain and simple. Making a pool of memory larger always makes it slower to access, so to have a very fast pool you need it to be very small. The optimal solution is a hierarchical stack of pools of increasing size and latency. And if you had infinite free transistors, it would still be the same.