skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do it while claiming it’s easier for the users, too.

I call bullshit. I want to see the studies. I very much doubt they exist.

One of the only sites my elderly father who can barely use a computer at all can navigate unassisted with any amount of confidence is craigslist. The “friendlier” and more “modern” the site (or app), the greater chance he’ll get lost and confused in it.
It's an outdated perspective. MAANG doesn't appear to pay the most anymore [0]. Across levels, only Netflix scores top 50.

Of the top 10, 4 are VC backed startups, 3 are mature/listed (including Netflix), and 3 are finance.

Of the top 20, 10 are startups, 5 are listed, 5 are finance.

It seems that startups are your best bet for good money overall. If you rank it by seniority, startups tend to pay much higher for less experienced people and MAANG only has the highest end game pay.

Which also reflects why many startup founders are young. If you're very experienced, then you're probably best off joining MAANG. Even then, it's likely that MAANG doesn't even pay the best rates anymore; some of these top paid people likely have tenure as well. There's a flood of applicants, so why should they pay top tier?

If you're really young, you'd be better off joining or starting a mid stage startup, rather than climb up the career ladder of MAANG.

Or the strategy is often to get a job at MAANG as a resume item, so you could raise money from investors later or jump into a top tier company like Roblox.

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/All-Lev... (Software)
DB as MQ: Reliable Task Distributions with a POC
In a digital rom.
When*

Before beta is over it’ll be easily self-hosted.

But since it free now there is no need for self-hosting.

Will make it easy to export/import your events between instances
Keylogger > copypasta logger

This is explicitly mentioned in the article too
I'm mostly wondering why shareholders go along with it or even pay on premium on shares making a lot of money now that may be comparatively worthless in 20 years. Do they really believe this is sustainable? Do they expect Google to just start issuing massive dividends? Are they just hoping for a greater fool?
I hear the criticism, but it doesn't seem out of the normal price range for the cost of an installed mini-split heat pump.
Not at the moment.

I was thinking about making math more like a mode i.e. make it available in every block type, as opposed to it's own block type.

Then it would be active in plain text, markdown and even code blocks.

As to data fetching - falls a bit outside of scope.
that seems about right, but I don't understand your point. it doesn't really "cost" a publicly traded company less to pay employees in stock vs cash. instead of paying $x + y shares, they could just sell their own shares periodically and pay all cash. they might lower TCs a little to offset the risk of additional dollar-denominated expenses in down years, but they would still be paying way above market.
Not too hungry though.

For the love of god just pay yourself a decent living wage. We don't need founders who spend half their time in a food line or burns out due to personal cashflow issues.
Pov: in the movie Idiocracy, the show "Ow My Balls" was made possible by the protective micro plastics that just naturally built up in human testicles over 500 years.

In 2024, human balls are 0.1% micro plastic. By year 2500, human balls are 33% plastic. This makes them relatively indestructible.
No the announcement was clear that the storage is local. But that doesn't protect against malware.
It looks like they also have an electron program.

It might be sensible to run CAD in a web page hosted by a server on your local network? I have no idea if they added functionality to have the crunchy bits run on the server instead, that’d be a neat trick.
Show HN: Wikipedia-Override.css
A custom CSS override that makes German Wikipedia readable and which will work with browser extensions like Stylebot.
To me, it comes across as a "I can still affect you even from in here", but I am extremely cynical when it comes to murderers.

The amount of press coverage that letter and granting his wishes got is completely unhealthy and still paints him as somewhat of a microcelebrity rather than a convicted murderer serving his sentence.

If family members want to interact with him, that's their own prerogative. Complete strangers? Utterly bizarre and completely inappropriate, IMO, especially to then carry out his instructions.

What in the fuck are people thinking?
Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test delayed again, path forward unclear
Wat? I am not aware of this. Does this also happen when you use Windows without an Microsoft account?
There is an equilibrium function that is basically unyielding.

On one side, target IRR and thus valuations are fixed for the investor by their LPs

On the other side, runway and thus survival rate are fixed by local market prices for founders who are risk tolerant and maximize for the same IRR as the investor.

The only solution is to physically move to a place that isn’t as stupidly priced as the Bay Area.

I think there is a reckoning coming, where investors will realize that backing startups in locations where costs continuously increase will become a suckers game. Survival rate naturally will go down due to shortened runway, while fundraising milestones will stay fixed - decreasing the expected IRR of the asset class.
Not a joke, a spectrogram is where you split a sound signal into its frequencies and amplitude for each frequency using a Fourier transform. 2D images can be encoded that way, though they usually don't sound like anything significant.

My favorite example of hiding an image in a song was in Doom 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFit0nldf4
I get that feeling of feeling like everyone is faking being happy, and I'm glad that you've found a way to overcome it.

For me, I've always struggled with being overly cynical. I can't let nice moments be, and I can't let accomplishments lie.

I feel like I'm somewhere on the journey you are on, and I hope to get to the same destination.
It would be interesting to allow users of models to customize inference by tweaking these features, sort of like a semantic equalizer for LLMs. My guess is that this wouldn't work as well as fine-tuning, since that would tweak all the features at once toward your use case, but the equalizer would require zero training data.

The prompt itself can trigger the features, so if you say "Try to weave in mentions of San Francisco" the San Francisco feature will be more activated in the response. But having a global equalizer could reduce drift as the conversation continued, perhaps?
If the 'nothing else' is blank paper. Any background, it's Not Much Ink / Entire Page Of Ink
Move on with your day? How could you move on with your day when someone was wrong? Wrong on the internet!
US doesn't recognize any bodies that aren't 100% under the control of US interests.

The people I've mentioned are guilty of acting on made up fake intel (Iraq has WMD's). They ought to face the same fate as Saddam Hussein.

Also in Abu Ghraib low ranking soldiers got convicted when the entire chain of command's been guilty of these crimes. It wasn't a one off.

The US always has and always will continue to commit war crimes because they never had to reckon with their imperial past. And chickens are gonna come home to roost because no other country has been subject to propaganda by its own government while also to that of other countries (Russia/China) as the US. And having such a large number of people simply being illiterate isn't helping.

The reason Trump came to power isn't just because Russia made that happen (also Russia winning the infowar and enabling Trump is the biggest successful Information Operation and achievement of soft-power in the last 4000 years).

I might change my mind if the US is able to do a peaceful handover of power (without an insurrection) next time this is due. And also provided that they do manage to treat the homeless as human beings. Until then this country remains a failed experiment whose population lacks manners, history, culture, cuisine or basic decency. And every soldier (no matter from what poor background they stem) are an embodiment of that failure.

I guess this sounds like Anti-Americanism. But actually I think the US model is the most promising system we have in something that claims it's the free world. I'm just allergic to all forms of nationalistic boot-licking. And I also believe that the only way to make a system stronger is when it's being critcized. Being addicted to applause and praise for imperial achievements of your own country is for the simps who have never lived abroad, and/or for nationalist bootlickers (the US is full of both).
Have you looked at Build123D?
TBH, as a founder with 15+ years experience and a family, I think you're on track. I'm starting a new thing right now with some built-up runway before I go raise a round. But in my position, I also know that I can go find an FTE or contracting position within 1 week if I needed funds to pay the bills.

The level of confidence you gain after years of doing this lets you take the risk without worrying about the money. I've never let my family be in a position to be at risk, why would that change now?
Hah! That's actually a pretty good way of describing it.
It’s probable that they did do that, but also that the network issue didn’t appear related, even though it’s suspect on its own.
> Machine learning is based upon human neural system

Very, very loosely if at all. There was a moment in computer vision history where researchers began to focus more on practical algorithmic improvements and mathematical optimization techniques rather than direct biological realism. This was around LeCun’s time in the 1990s.
I would consider something like Recall to be a great feature if I were confident that I was the only one who had access to the collected data.

But I'm not confident enough with any system or OS for that -- and I have zero confidence in the likes of Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Facebook, etc.
> The advice to wear your seat belt throughout the flight are hardly clear and emphatic. They often make it sound like something they have to say to cover their asses. There's certainly no clear comms around the risk of death and serious injury.

I can't remember the last time I was on a plane where they didn't recommend keeping a seatbelt on at all times.

Here is the BA brief saying to do just that time 1:55: https://youtu.be/gBGbDQbwzWU?si=5KS4LTEcDmtQKJH_

Here is the United one where they mention it at 0:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LSKVAH4WA

I can't imagine anything more clear than starting the seatbelt briefing: "It is important to have your safety belt on at all times"

They end it with: "In case of unexpected turbulence keep your seatbelt fastened, even when the seatbelt sign is off."

Its literally the first and last things that United tells you about your seatbelt.
Do you think the next century will see a sea level rise of 18-30 cm?
Update:

>Craig Wright Vows to Appeal Damning “Not Satoshi” Verdict.
Undeterred by a written verdict exposing his forged evidence, Craig Wright doubles down on debunked Satoshi claims, vows to appeal.

https://dailycoin.com/craig-wright-vows-to-appeal-damning-no...
Solar output scales with sunlight hours
That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.
Kudos. We have a similar unknown bug at work so we’ll see how it goes as we scale. Folks aren’t currently giving the fix too high of a priority but I suspect it will become a real problem soon enough.
It would be great, if I trusted my computer.

If it were entirely local and everything else on my computer was entirely local unless I was actively trying to connect to something external, fine.

But instead everything is being sent to the void and monetized as much as possible while telling me the absolute minimum about it.
Realistically, you use models that make it easier to prompt away from greasiness:

Positive prompt: 1girl, hacker, laptop, terminal, coffee, green hair, green eyes, ponytail, hoodie

Negative prompt: worst quality, low quality, medium quality, deleted, lowres, comic, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing fingers, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry, looking at viewer

Steps: 25, Sampler: DPM++ 3M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1313606321, Size: 768x384, Model hash: 51a0c178b7, Model: kohaku-xl, VAE hash: 235745af8d, VAE: kohaku-xl.safetensors, Denoising strength: 0.7, Hires resize: 2048x1024, Hires upscaler: Latent (bicubic), Version: v1.6.0-2-g4afaaf8a
Because in theory this is supposed to be about justice not vengeance.
You don't need a car to go to your neighbor.

But it's actually worse than that: while both the car and the horse will correctly move you from A to B, you can't cite an LLM output as a source and can't use it to check something. You can use it as a source of inspiration at best.

Here your LLM output is wrong. Someone from Germany wrote they most commonly use dots, in France we use slashes and I think countries around all do one of the other.

So yes, there's no way around doing it like we always did: find a reputable source to back a statement. And ChatGPT does not do this.

Better use a horse than a roulette.
That's exactly what almost all knowledge is.

When was it that you last verified something by yourself, with an experiment?

You didn't test the things you know. You know things because you could see they were the consensus, and so you had no reason to challenge them.

If an idea is disputed, then you trust it less. If it comes from a small number of reputable sources, then you trust it more than a large numbers of unreliable people. So with the Wiki.

Human knowledge isn't from the platonic realm. Human knowledge isn't checked by a theorem prover. You get almost all of your knowledge from other people, and you have no choice but to trust them for almost all of it.
You can write python, typescript, or many other languages. I prefer TS because it has curly braces and object deconstruction. I do a lot of devops things in python though, so there is appeal for adopting the python SDK in certain contexts. I agree that Go is not a great choice for builds or scripting more generally, but it does mean you can build Dagger into any Go CLIs you might have, which is intriguing for me in one project I have.

The experimental Dagger Modules allows interlanguage invocation. I'm not a huge fan of the current DX, a bit heavy for my monorepo setups, but once I can cleanly call them from the main entry based workflow, I can see consuming them.
It is better that they bend and pop out, as that will absorb some of the impact.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more local PC apps?
Almost everyone plays games locally on their PC. Companies keep trying to provide cloud-gaming services, but people don't really like it. You rely on your internet connection, you don't own the games, you don't own your data, etc.

Why isn't software the same? Why are most services/apps "cloud-based"?

I think that the next iOS/Android app revolution will be AI applications that run locally.

Not only that, but also other apps, like games, will be enhanced with dynamic, locally-generated content.
Without on-device, edge-processing, game devs can not afford to provide dynamically generated content for each player. But, if players can run the models on their device, game developers can simply provide the models, prompts and run them locally.

So, given that local devices are getting more and more powerful, why aren't there more tools/apps released that run locally?
> Furthermore that screenshots of activity are stored in the Azure cloud.

Where does it say that screenshots will go to the cloud?
Hey now, don't go insinuating us Americans are nearly that logical. We'd write 3/28/00 every time and consider it a job well done.
What’s stopping big tech from running their own plsfix pages like this and pocketing the money?

In practice this would be premium plans that include some form of special treatment.
If you listen to her voice in Her and listen to Sky back to back, they are clearly very different. Scarlett has some raspy tones to her voice that are very distinctive and come through even when she is talking like an AI.

I wonder if people just associate the "talking like an AI" thing to Scarlett and it's not actually her voice that seems familiar.
Access LLMs from the command line: https://github.com/simonw/llm
rarely do I hold the sins of an incompetent marketing department against the company itself. otherwise, there'd be no company left deemed as competent because all marketing departments are incompetent.
The aphorism typically says cache invalidation is hard. Not because you don't know what index to invalidate but because it's hard to invalidate the thing at the right time.

Caching itself is quite easy, just ask the designers of speculative execution at Intel :)
I was under the impression that Recall was designed to be local-only - all processing done locally, storage local too (the article quotes 25GB of local storage for three months of screenshots).
FAANGs are outlier stocks, hence why the acronym was made. Plus it's an ancient acronym that ignores plenty of well paying employers in the area (Crowdstrike, Zscaler, PANW, Broadcom, etc).

And FAANGs did well depending on when you joined. In most cases in the past several years it's kind of did the same as peers depending on how long your stint was.

There are a lot of publicly listed employers in the Bay Area who's stock is doing very well, but limiting prestige to FAANG is career limiting and clearly stems from hubris.
>satellite

Rain happens. AM radio works everywhere. And a receiver is dirt cheap.
I would take an iPad Pro with Windows anytime. Surface Pro isn't the most reliable hardware.
It’s certainly a strange incident but I’m not sure about desperate.
Yeah, I loved the simplicity and speed of Heynote and math mode.

I wanted multiple notes and I didn't get why it was made as a desktop app first given that all functionality to implement it is available in a browser (well, Chrome).

So I forked it and added those features.

Been using it daily so it was worth it.
The way we treat corporations doing bad things in America:

It's probably not illegal...

And if it is, they're probably not going to get caught...

And if they do, the government probably won't go after them...

And if it does, they're probably not going to be found guilty...

And if they are, they probably won't face any consequences...

And if they do, nobody's going to go to jail.
No. Performance is a feature[0]. It's neither good or bad, it's often a desirable feature but it doesn't mean it's bad. A green screen UI will kick the shit out of any modern day web UI (compare old school Infor with a modern SFDC interface). However, it's just another feature, like the ability to create tabs on the UI or use a cursor to move across the screen (vs a keyboard) that contributes to the overall UX.

[0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/
Not to mention that, even taking them at their word on that for the sake of argument, storing the data locally is far from sufficient. Can we be sure that the data is only ever processed locally and that the results of that processing stay local?
I don't think Hamas wants to be citizens of Israel, the western-style democracy.

Acknowledged.

[The 2017 charter] unambiguously rejects recognition of Israel: "There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity."

By itself this statement certainly sounds unambiguous. But it comes into clear conflict with the language that immediately follows:

However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

Taken together -- I would not call this an "unambiguous" formulation of their position. There's obviously a very clear surface-level conflict between the two passages.

Holistically -- the most reasonable paraphrase seems to be: "Hamas rejects the moral legitimacy of the Zionist state. However as a practical matter, it will support the 2SS (along June 4 1967 borders) if this is determined the be the national consensus (among Palestinians), and provided the Right of Return is also granted."

The fact that it mentions "borders" is extremely significant, in that this means at least de facto, if not de jure recognition of the State of Israel.
Also it's just not really a big danger. There's no epidemic of brain injury due to this.

Part of the reason is that because bike usage is so common and the infrastructure is very separate (bike lanes everywhere, no mixed traffic on eg roundabouts), and bikes almost always have right of way and are not to blame in an accident, that drivers are very aware of them. I noticed in countries like Ireland with much less bikes that bike lanes sometimes just end in the middle of a high speed roundabout. And most drivers there have no clue which is in part because until 10 years ago you could just buy a driver's license at the post office. It was a "learner's permit" but it was normal practice to just go and drive.

So yeah in Ireland I wouldn't even ride a bike with a helmet. In Holland I'm much safer even without one.
I would not touch this..

But it got thinking, if git ever gets replaced would it be by something akin to this that is constantly monitoring all keystrokes in your repo folder and you never make a commit as such, the ai repo upstream just sorts it out..
Yes, the 'KV cache' (imo an invented novelty, everyone was doing this before they came up with a term to make it sound cool) is an optimization so that you don't have to recompute what the model was thinking when it was generating all the prior words every time you decode a new word.

But that's exactly what I'm saying - the model has access to what it was thinking when it generated the previous words, it does not start from scratch. If you don't have the KV cache, you still have to regenerate what it was thinking from the previous words so on the next word generation you can look back at what you were thinking from the previous words. Does that make sense? I'm not great at talking about this stuff in words
The article and the source video note these screenshots are stored locally: "Satya point out the processing and data storage is done locally on the device"
The parallels even extend further: A lot of the people (largely correctly!) crying "scam" back then for crypto are now crying scam for AI.

If I had to draw a historical analogy, it'd be to the dot com bubble: Yes, it was a bubble – yet the Internet turns out to have been real. It just was almost impossible to guess correctly as to which company would still be around after the bubble burst (to say nothing of the now-giants that didn't even exist back then).

But that kind of bubble is very different from crypto, which so far has yet to prove that there was any substance to it, despite having gone through at least one global hype cycle and bubble burst two years ago. I don't recall there being two years of frantic search of an application for the web/Internet back in the early 2000s.
100% - I see lots of comments saying things like "Don't you know companies would fire you for this??" which to me sounds a little bit like "Don't you know you shouldn't eat babies??" after reading A Modest Proposal.

On the other hand, I guess life does imitate art sometimes...
Also on bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/Bell-ComputerEnginee...