skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also live in Europe (Germany & Austria) and what you're saying is 100% true. I like Europe, but I really miss the positive everything is worth a shot attitude in America.

Everything here is no, no, no, why would you do that? It's so demotivating, and G-d forbid you make a tiny mistake! Long term I also don't see how this place won't just keep getting poorer... unless there is a major attitude adjustment in the near future.

Also, everyone just tries to dunk on everyone with petty status games like owning a fancy car... as if that's the ultimate achievement in life... really lame & depressing.

It's the main reason I would like go back home tbh. There are a lot of problems in America and a lot of things are okay here, so it's hard to say where it's really worse, but I just don't understand why they always need to have these negative attitudes all the time... it costs nothing to have a positive attitude...? Maybe I'm just too stupid to understand.
Don't sell, don't put untrustworthy people in key positions and remember machine learning 1st rule - NO FREE LUNCH anyone who says otherwise is a disaster waiting to happen.
Like a snake eating its own tail, here in the Netherlands we also have areas where companies are asked to reduce energy usage. There's even cases of companies or entire new neighbourhoods not being able to be attached to the grid.

Thats one way to achieve "net zero"...
I had some big awkward ones, one right under my big toe. I kept using pumice stones on that one like a demon until my immune system got the message and did the business.
Road damage is a function of the power of 4[1] generally.

A BYD bus weighs 18 tons and carries 32 people including the driver. [2]

A BYD Atto 3[3] carries upto 5 people and weighs 1.8 tons unloaded.

The proportional road wear function of the BYD Atto would be about 10 (1.8^4). For the bus it would be (18^4) 104,976.

So the bus is 10,000 times more wear then the car. Per passenger it's 3000 wear units for the bus versus ~10 for the car.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_K_series

[3] https://ev-database.org/car/1782/BYD-ATTO-3
Same experience in England. There is little celebration of business success and more likely accusations of exploitation.

The class system is also alive and well in business - the ambition of many well off uni students is to manage others. Grinding on a startup doesn't fulfil that class ambition
I’m not trying to rain on your parade, but:
There’s a market for an application that encodes/decodes files base64?
And one of the selling propositions is that it’s running locally?
This sounds interesting. I don't see duck db as a supported extension or mentioned anywhere in your code yet ;)

Is this foreshadowing?
The "AI is magic and we should simply believe" is even being actively promoted because all these VC hucksters need it.

Any criticism of AI is being met with "but if we all just hype AI harder, it will get so good that your criticisms won't matter" or flat out denied. You've got tech that's deeply flawed with no obvious way to get unflawed, and the current AI 'leaders' run companies with no clear way to turn a profit other than being relentlessly hyped on proposed future growth.

It's becoming an extremely apparent bubble.
Yet there are plenty of one hit wonders that are remembered.

Tolkien being an example.
OpenAI deep faking Scarlett Johansson
I wish you were right and that ship would be sunk, by the grace of Sam Altman the bloody arrogant idiot. There are burning issues that AI could tackle, unsolved problems that cost billions of lives and whose solution require non-human information processing. But instead of those life-or-death matters, we are using all of that compute to wreck our species cultural back-bone and identity. If Sam Altman the bloody arrogant idiot by his greed manages to convince us that we have taken a wrong turn with our application of AI, then I will hang a portrait of him in my living room.
I'd love to hear a little bit more on what you think the downsides are? (Or a recommendation for a resource to read up on this?)
This doesn’t answer my question about watching the terminal contents. If I ‘cat’ a file, is the file’s contents sent to openai?
This has been the case for the past decade - Israel has been financing Gaza and providing it with resources (e.g. electricity) as well as jobs.

Gaza was quite beautiful! And given its prime location on the mediterranean sea, I don't see why it couldn't be built up again.

https://twitter.com/InsiderWorld_1/status/178854608101537840...

But of course the massive mistake was not eradicating the evil terrorist genocidal mentality of its nominal leadership, Hamas. Israel (and the world) shouldn't make that mistake again.
I think you are a class act.
* Were I wrote "drivers" should be read as controllers and firmware.
From my point of view, the artists are evil!
from where I am in europe, I have different memories... unions were pretty aggressive when it came to companies like Volvo
Outsourcing doesn't mean off the shelf. Apple still works with third parties to manufacture parts as they can leverage the scale of their overall operations to do it cheaper than it would cost apple to do.
It's mostly just bandwidth prioritization, slotting large transfers in when there is excess bandwidth.

You can tell this is the case for at least the flexible retrieval tier, because small objects can be returned in a few minutes, whereas larger requests take hours - if the files were actually on a tape drive somewhere, small requests couldn't be fulfilled dramatically faster than large ones, given that tape has shitty random-access performance.

(I used to work on a downstream team at AWS)
Are they able to run at a good speed? I'm just wondering what the economics would look like if I want to create agents in my games. I don't think many are going to be willing to get with usage based / token based pricing. That's the biggest roadblock with building LLM-based games right now.

Is there a way to reliably package these models with existing games and make them run locally? This would virtually make inference free right?

What I think is, from my limited understanding about this field, if smaller models can run on consumer hardware reliably and speedily that would be a game changer.
It is possible, but it needs to connect to the phone network somehow and GSM chips/modules these days probably run Android inside anyway, so to have a really dumb phone means to have a separate CPU+memory+flash which doubles power usage and doesn't give any assurances that the GSM chip won't do MitM and fsck privacy of the phone anyway.

See:
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/03/open-source-cell-phone-based...
Microsoft Full Keynote: Introducing Copilot+ PCs
I can't speak for VCs, but at least in a social sense, if a friend of mine went bankrupt after a failed startup, I honestly don't think I'd even remember? Like I just wouldn't care.
Making a tic-tac-toe game using pure HTML and CSS, Without JavaScript
I have my screen placed on a table that sits right next to a window and use motorized blinds that have slats which can be tilted for adjustable light control. These let me have both a great view and some protection from the direct sunlight.
When you open Codecierge in the toolbar sidebar, it warns you with this:

> Everything that happens in your terminal while Codecierge is running will be sent to OpenAI. Don't send them confidential information!

And when you check the box "Run commands automatically" it shows you this popup:

> This lets an AI completely control your computer. It could delete your files, do something stupid or dangerous, or lead to the downfall of humanity. Proceed with caution.

Though that's the Codecierge feature "Toolbelt -> Show Toolbelt" + Toggle "Codecierge" toolbelt window. "Run commands automatically" is hilarious.

The simpler Edit -> Engage AI (Cmd+Y) feature seems much more useful for day to day stuff and it doesn't send terminal contents to OpenAI. e.g. Cmd+Y -> "Extract foo.tar in verbose mode".

That renders the LLM's response command in a small pane and you have to Shift+Enter to go ahead and paste it into the terminal. That's really nice.
> Khan’s office risks attracting criticism that it places a terror organization and an elected government on an equivalent footing

thats the point isnt it?

edit: although ICC has had plenty of opportunities to punish war crimes from various states in the past, wonder why they decided to make a move now. because of the scale?
Could be house prices again. You really cannot survive on ramen and hope to live anywhere close to London. I know that SF is not good either, but the US does have other cities with less of a housing crisis.
Maybe more reasonable for desktop ;)
Ironically, it probably applies the least to the UK out of basically anywhere worldwide beyond the US and maybe China.
The story of Grothendieck is really fascinating. He was a superstar in algebraic geometry, only to suddenly reject the endeavor of mathematics and going off to grow vegetables in the Pyrenees. He also demanded that all notes from his lectures be destroyed. But those notes existed in so many hands, I don’t think many people (if any) complied.
No, the Data Protection Act (2018) is just the legal instrument which sets out the (UK) GDPR. It is 'technically subject to GDPR anymore', it's just a different one (with essentially if not entirely the same contents).
OpenAI is going to do a very good job of pretending that it stealing literally everything on the internet and re-selling it is some unique new activity that's not happened before. That's their core business. What they're not going to be able to do is pretend that hiring a soundalike and then making repeated references to the original voice is ok. This isn't new legal ground no matter how much money you throw at it. Otherwise every advert on TV would have some no-name actor doing impressions of well known actors. They will have to pay ScarJo a lot of money, and probably they'll have to stop using the voice too - because they've pissed her off so much at this point.
Context from the article I feel is necessary, here. She was pretty haunted by how it might be affecting her kids too. That's one of those "do I really want to go down this dark path" things, something which would've taken such a toll on her that she decided not to go there, now she had to focus on raising a family...

> But first, she decided to have one last blood sample tested for PFOS: her own. The results showed one of the lowest readings she’d seen in human blood. Immediately, she thought of the rats that had passed the chemical on to their pups.

> Hansen told me that, for the next 19 years, she avoided the subject of fluorochemicals with the same intensity with which she had once pursued it. She focused on raising her kids

She WAS meticulous in her research for YEARS, but ultimately held too much unquestioning trust in the company line that PFOS was safe. She got worn down and burned out... Which is pretty understandable.

At one point TFA quotes her asking her husband to walk her through the car park after work lest she be threatened by other 3M employees who now saw her as some kind of traitor, so at one time she was pretty worried about being victim of a Boeing-Type Incident.

If you want people to remain scientific, you gotta foster a culture in which it is safe to do so, and the impact of the findings matches its significance.
In the PC space, as a disjointed semi-chronological overlapping timeline:

In the beginning, we had ISA. We had ISA because it was cheap enough for IBM's PC, not because it was good.

MicroChannel was a thing, largely limited to IBM, starting in 1987. It worked well.

EISA was a thing. It was not ever particularly common or cheap. It had 32-bit width and 8.33MHz bus speed, in 1989. EISA's main features were that it was solid, and that it was not MicroChannel. It was backwards-compatible with ISA cards.

Then VLB happened. It was fast, 32-bit, was often flaky, and it was cheap. It was very popular for all kinds of PC accessories -- not just video cards.

Then, of course: Everything performance-oriented shifted to 32-bit PCI almost overnight (including some things outside of the PC space).

But there as also a time when we had PCI-X (which is absolutely not an abbreviation for PCI Express). PCI-X was 64-bits wide at up to 133MHz (though 66MHz was more typical). Like EISA, it never became common or cheap.

And eventually, we had AGP -- but only for graphics.

And there was also PCI-X 2.0, which was like the previous version was 64-bits wide, but it could operate at up to 533MHz. It was theoretically excellent, but essentially never really existed: Widespread PCI Express adoption was right around the corner by then.

And now, of course: We have PCI Express, which we've been successfully flogging along in various incarnations for a couple of decades -- a damned eternity in computer years.
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I have had experiences where a so called experienced developer "tests" me by asking a "trick question" related to something I created to verify whether I indeed created the thing. If the "thing" you built in the past has any level of complexity, you simply cannot remember all the details of what you built, and only the most recent aspect will be fresh in your memory to recall. So chances are very high you will fail the trick question. This is why trick questions don't work.

long interview cycles with lots of coding interviews make sense only when you have someone who has built nothing, and you need to find out if he would be able to build something. as soon as you have built something of any substantial size, coding interviews are no longer necessary especially if you have a CS degree and have reasonably good grades. the interview behaviour we see makes sense for countries where the cost of hiring and firing is very high, and this is not the case for the US.
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I always wondered if it has something to do with employee protections, maybe the risk of starting a business in the US feels the same as joining a company as an employee with no protection and employee rights? Although I know that has changed a lot last few years and you now need to put 2 years in a UK company to get some employee right and protections

I've always been scared and worried to go off and do my own thing without something to fall back on. I have ideas and things I'd like to build but the risk seems really high. I end up asking myself questions like "how do I pay my mortgage?", "what do I do for food?", and so on...

What can be done to make it easier to start a company in the UK?
It's not particularly advanced, it's the same thing that means the supermajority of websites have opted for "click here to consent to our 1200 partners processing everything you do on our website" rather than "why do we need 1200 partners anyway?"

It's still bad, don't get be wrong, it's just something I can distinguish.
When you think Microsoft can’t be any more hostile to its users they always surprise you with another trick up their sleeve.

There are not many companies which I’ve grown to immensely dislike over the years like Microsoft. I started my career as a .NET developer and huge fan of their products, buying into all their crap from all the way from Silverlight to Windows Phone, WPF and even owned a Surface Pro 3 tablet/laptop but today there is really rarely a company that makes me reck as much as Microsoft with their product announcements. My opinion of this company couldn’t be any lower and I hugely judge any developer working in Windows. I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself that unless they are a game developer there is objectively speaking absolutely no reason for a developer to work on a Surface device or Windows.
It will be laid by first understanding reality, which includes the enormous road network we have today and the social motivations to expand it. Just bleating about how great it would be if everyone used transit isn’t going to change a damn thing.

EVs are a solid and realistic step towards reducing our worst pollution problems. Widely available car sharing and autonomous vehicles would be a great solution to the last mile and even reducing the problem of so much space being used for parking, while improving the walkability of our cities. Look towards possibilities that can work, instead of clinging to models that can’t address the problems of today.
I think your points are fair, it is a bit fiddly, I just enjoy how little friction there is to getting started and making something simple.

I just needed to make a couple adjustments to an STL this week, I haven't done any CAD in months, in principle I have used Fusion before and had a nice experience with it, but since it's been a while I don't remember any of it and would have to look at some reference to get back into it, with tinkercad I could just drop the model in and make the adjustments I need by playing around with the shapes they provide.
It didn't feel very "precision engineering" like but sometimes it just needs to be close enough.
How to fine tune Llama 2
I want to fine tune llama 2. But it is exceeding limit of t4cpu in google colab. Is there any other way to train it.
That’s two hits: the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Also several academic pieces in his professional field. Not including the material subsequently published by his son and estate.
That's a lot of handwaving but the reality works out to jet fuel being orders of magnitude more efficient than batteries on the basis of how much of either you can get into an airplane and how far they will take you. One key factor is a load of jet fuel gets much lighter as you burn it, but batteries don't get lighter as you drain them.
Both. With western automation, rules and PPE it would be no worse than building the things in the first place
IDEA needs to create a theme or mode built for e ink displays. That would be something.
I can't imagine doing any meaningful work on Mac either. Worst offender is Finder, but nowadays OSX is death by a thousand cuts for professional work.
It's a common problem when reporting on changes of some percentage value. I guess it's more dramatic to say "increased by 50%" rather than "increased by 0.5 points"

Common example headline: "Inflation up by 100%" when it went from 1% to 2%. The headline implies goods & services are now 2x more expensive than before, which is not the case.
How does this help me on Windows?

And a good format wouldn't require any ToUnicode maps for simple text in the first place

And poorly supporting a lot without common implementations isn't a defence against the charge of high complexity and bad design, but a reinforcement thereof

(also, no, the first document doesn't work on iOS, I select title and two paragraphs, copy, paste, and I get a single line instead of 3, so a different manifestation of the same common fail of PDFs)
Swift for C++ Practitioners: Global Variables
There's advanced setting for "URL for AI API" which I guess you could use for local (OpenAI compatible) model services. Since I only have Azure based OAI I can't use the commercial service anyway...

I would like to use LLM as a helper directly. I wouldn't enable it on main profile and user account, but in a separate profile with restricted account it can be useful. I already do copy paste from LLM, which is far slower than this new feature (though of course more controlled).
The oldest university in the world isn't from the UK, so that clearly can't be such a huge factor.
iTerm is such an amazing piece of software. It's one of the first things I install. Glad the settings dialog had a "donate" button tucked into the corner; did that straight away. The value for money is absurd.
The UK still gets more tech funding than anywhere except the US and China, and more unicorns than anywhere except those two (and potentially India, but sources disagree).
how well will these stand the test of time?
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devi...

It is only possible for photos to resurface because they were stored in iCloud for months or maybe years essentially in spite of user intention for those photos to be deleted.
> But reputations are what they are, and you can't dispute that those four unis are top drawer by that "measure" if we can even call it that.

But reputation is not a just measure of quality. It's mostly a measure of whether someone has heard of the institution at all, or knows anything about them. Similarly, US News has reputation survey based measures for its terrible rankings, and is roundly criticized for them, as they largely shut out better but newer but less well known institutions.
I remember the first moments switching from C64 to a 386AT PC with VGA card/screen and be blown away by Deluxe Paint II's included artwork named pueblo (http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims_ibm/electronic_a...), kingtut (https://www.datagubbe.se/dpaint/img/kingtut.png) and of course celtic (https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/AvrilHarrison/AH_Celtic.pn...)
On the plus side, lots of cheap nVida cards heading for eBay once it bursts.
Is not one of the principles of the ICJ that if a nation process their own war criminal citizen, the ICJ has no jurisdiction. But if they do not properly, the ICJ does.
This wasn't an "exit" though -- the company was already public, and had been for 7 years!

It was "just" an offer with a large premium over the current stock price.
Biden has had a vague position on that. The US assisted and supported the ICJ for the charges against Putin for the alleged Ukrainian kids abductions.
What is so special about her voice? They could’ve found a college student with a sweet voice and offered to pay her tuition in exchange for using her voice, no? Or a voice actor?

Why be cartoonishly stupid and cartoonishly arsehole and steal a celebrity’s voice? Did he think Scarlett won’t find out? Or object?

I don’t understand these rich people. Is it their hobby to be a dick to as many people as they can, for no reason other than their amusement? Just plain weirdos
Yes, but that doesn't mean that using basic protective gear, like every heavy industry worker in developed countries, wouldn't reduce other kinds of injuries.
I hope it will be possible to opt-out of this privacy nightmare.
I'm using Windows only occasionally but still feel very uncomfortable reading this.
I'm not in a position to look right now, but I'm pretty sure there's video of this happening out on YouTube. It's pretty fearsome seeing these big vessels coming in under power and crashing into the shore. Tons of inertia.
I’m in continental Europe, not the UK, but I think the same basic cultural attitudes toward startups and entrepreneurship are the same. It is not a common or accepted thing to be building a business here, especially if you’re in your twenties. Your family will most likely wish you got a stable job at BigCo/university/government/etc. and there is a very real sense of “falling behind” if you spend years on something that doesn’t pan out.