skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it was that simple then this problem would be solved.

Only if you see the world in black and white.

My thesis is that money is a corrupting influence in politics, but is not the main driver of it.

Meanwhile, money is the only influence in corporate ownership. Which is, incidentally, why most people with money do everything in their power to try to convince us that the solution to all the problems they cause is to move more power out of democratic institutions, and into corporate ones.

> Clearly most voters (in your opinion) want a higher minimum wage, UBI, and greater corporate taxation.

What on earth made you think this?

I said that the politicians that get elected vaguely, in aggregate, share the views of their constituents, and you're not going to tell me the deep south in aggregate wants any of these things. It does, however, want a lot of people who talk a lot about Jesus in government, and, well, their ballot results definitely deliver them.

If you believe my thesis is wrong, roughly how much money do you think will get someone like AOC elected in a district in rural Oklahoma? Or MTG in NY's 14th district?
> He can spend 1000x what I do on clothes, but I won’t be appreciably colder or less comfortable than he is.

This misses the point of expensive clothing entirely.

Many people would disagree that his house is not 100 times nicer than yours.

He doesn’t use computers and phones like you do. He uses people who use technology that is 100kx your computer and phone.

You’re talking about the essential function of an object. When things become expensive they take on additional functions that your items lack entirely.
Looking at an object in my debugger back in my call stack and assume I'm looking at the value as it was but in reality it was mutated in a subsequent stack gives me trust issues

It's probably fine most of the time it's just when I have to get into the weeds I want to have stability
I thought that Dutch parents put small kids on the front of their bicycle to absorb the blunt of impacts. Then you dispose of the small child and make another one.
They also had a nuclear reactor in a basement. I have no idea when that was commissioned or what research they were doing with it

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/local/2016/08/18/...
BS. People with the most money have the most power, make laws, and continually grow more powerful. Labor is extremely valuable, but suppressed by those with more money.
There’s an aversion to calculating wages based on local rent, food, and gas prices that I haven’t found an explanation for.

If you’re hiring machinists or nurses for $2 more than fast food wages you will be continually understaffed and the local pool of skilled workers will dry up.
> If you have zero knowledge and don't care Mastodon functions exactly like Twitter.

That’s simply not true. Even as a technical user I sometimes stumble over things like not being able to follow an account after being linked to their servers web site. “Wait, why am I logged ou– oh, this isn’t my server.”
Any benchmarks on performance for on-demand embeddings?
This reads like a story from the daily wtf
It's refreshing to see that we are not alone in our thoughts on how the community is not being stewarded towards its own interests.
I applaud the author on how clear he made the argument.

For those that aim to continue working on top of WASIp1, WASIX (https://wasix.org) might be a great way to get your programs with sockets and threads fully running on Wasm.

Note: I work at Wasmer (https://wasmer.io), a WebAssembly runtime.
The subscription-based model is more convenient in terms of revenue forecasting.
It very depends on the subject matter. You won't find 100,000 dentists, for example. It's possible to find around 30,000
Most of those don't preclude a warrant requirement.
Not quite sure the hate on this thread. He's right, theres not much you can contribute to LLMs. LLMs are unlike traditional software, they require large expensive machines and access to these is difficult to come by. Compare that with studying databases for example you can get quite far just with a laptop, the bottleneck is the knowledge.

Take for example even simple systems like wav2vec 2.0. The original model was trained on 128Gpus and if one were to try and reproduce the paper on normal hardware it will take months to get to a result. Not just individuals, these applications are put of the reach of all but the most well funded of companies.
Clojure 1.12 (which is nearly done) is going to add a bunch of interop support - method values, array class syntax, Clojure fn -> Java functional interface conversion, stream support, etc.
Argentina's economic activity down 8.4% in March, biggest drop since 2020
> learn from the apps in […] China.

Please don’t. Most mobile apps made by Chinese developers, esp. big techs, do employ grid, paged layouts everywhere as though multiple iOS home screens were squeezed into the app. However, most grids in such layouts are useless, distracting, and even malicious from a UX perspective, their mere reason to exist being to steer users into endless rabbit holes of the devs’ multiple lines of businesses for KPI purposes, and thus subject to constant and arbitrary changes. As such, you can find an icon for personal financing in a cloud storage app, or find an icon for groceries in a ride hailing app, only to be replaced with icons for online dating and hotel booking and something something a week later. This density of user-adversarial features is to be avoid by all means.
I'm gonna go ahead and invoke the Juicero Rebuttal -- the standard rebuttal to the idea that large VC investments into an idea mean it's a good idea.
Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data
Yes, not all customers buy into the original [external] design.

Personally I think it's a low-rent imitation of Mazda, so a refresh would have been nice.

For all the "but the insides have been upgraded/revamped!!" messaging, it's just confirming that they're too cheap to improve, or just change, the outside.
What’s baffling about all this is both AMD and Intel have competing offerings and those offerings see next to no traction in spite of being much more attractive from the cost standpoint. I understand why they aren’t taking off on the training side: fragmentation is very counterproductive there. But why not deploy them in large quantities for inference at least? The effort of porting transformer based models is trivial for both vendors, and the performance is very competitive
> No, I still assert government subsidies to people employed below a living wage are corporate subsidies.

This is the first result with I look up the definition of a subsidy:

> A sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.

You never disagreed with the parent comment that if welfare got pulled, Amazon wages would stay just as low. In fact, states or countries with less welfare tend to have lower wages, so if it's the opposite of a subsidy for Amazon. Therefore, welfare isn't a corporate subsidy. QED.

The vast majority of the world can and does live with off of less than $17/hour and healthcare benefits, which is what Amazon pays for entry level roles these days. Even in the US, that's enough for a single person without children. If Amazon only hired only these people, would that relieve their burden of having to pay a "living wage" to people?
Ukrainian first person view antitank drones can conduct top-down attacks
So...going out of business sale?
This is basically what I say every time someone brings up "AI will destroy the world". It seems this cycle will be longer thanks to cloud and people having access to the tools directly in their pockets, so it will take a while to become obvious that there are limitations that cannot be easily solved.

It also seems we are seeing the specific applications in the wild, and as the author points out they are still staunchly called AI. I am talking about Adobe's use in Photoshop or phones using AI to enhance pictures; concise and commercially viable uses that are very far from the doom and gloom (or castle in the sky) predictions.
That is a very cynical take. Optimism and adaptation also have a basis in neuroscience.

Neuroscience does not mean that everyone does the most degenerate thing possible at every opportunity. There are people that don't eat themselves to death when presented the option.

There is also neuroscience behind discipline, self sacrifice, and every other positive virtue you can imagine.
Nvidia is fabless.

What Intel really needs to do is get competitive with TSMC. Gelsinger started the process instantly when he became the CEO, but it takes time.
Obviously Microsoft isn't going to sell their profile of you to petty thieves. But they probably will sell it to at-scale-grifters looking for marks or fascists looking for dissidents.
It's a non-zero factor. Designs for cars, furniture, shoes, hairstyles, all evolve.
You certainly dont need to study LLMs for it.
It's not going to be on low powered ARM devices.
> Again, you’re acting like OpenAI tried to profit off of Scarlett. They tried to profit off of the portrayal she did in the movie Her.

From her statement:

> I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.

So, they wanted to profit off of her voice, as her voice is comforting. She said no, and they did it anyway. Nothing about, "come in and do that song and dance from your old movie."

> where’s this case from 1992

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435928
minimum wage is a state issue , so i’m not sure why the south matters.
Topaz AI hovers up your photos for research and model training purposes. They ask you though, so I guess that's some consolation.
Thank you! I'll try it with a gift card.
I dunno. I've been using Full Self Driving v12.3 and it's gotten sooooo much better than v11. I used to rarely use FSD v11 but now I use v12.3 every day driving around town and on the highway. Looking forward to getting v12.4 in my car next week hopefully too.
EScope: A Fine-Grained Power Prediction Mechanism for Mobile Applications
As they say, during a gold rush sell shovels. NVIDIA has an excellent shovel.

However I do notice that big players (GOOG, Meta, etc), seem more concerned with power cost right now than they do per-unit video cards.
Love this direction for Paint. Simplistic but capable and fun for kids (the original's main strength)
Universal Basic Income Grant: What should a payment system look like?
It sounds like you possessed and traded on material non-public information?
I don’t get the whole P/E thing.

Do people basically say we shouldn’t bother buying anything with a crazy P/E more than 20?

Despite the fact that these high P/E companies are now making people lots of money? Wtf?
Meme stocks are always priced in as well, since the investor speculation far outweighs any effects from irrelevant things such as how the company is actually doing in real life.
Sounds like insider trading to me. The backorders your company has are material non-public information.
The way that could play out is that Nvidia wouldn't buy directly from them, but somebody else purchases cheaper from TSMC and then Nvidia buys from them.

So TSMC would have to increase prices for everyone, but then for some it would be too expensive and so they would lose those customers.
All proprietary systems have been protecting the system from the user for a good while now. It's what they mean when they say "the system is more secure". It's not for your security, it's for securing their interests and their partners interests.
I take it as a fair enough assumption for my judgements that all people have the same average personality potential at birth.

I’ve been around a lot of very Catholic people. I’d say half are well intentioned, whereas half are belligerent antivax etc.

The ones with good intentions prop up and obey the bad actors.

The ones with good intentions end up feeling trapped by the community and the religious trauma. Sometimes the good ones end up taking it out on their spouses/kids, perceived as units of the oppressive structure (though they are victims alike).

The difficulty of reform is all the more reason I’m happy for the slow decline in religiosity.
Oil paint manufacturers do not have to do that, why should a developer of a paint program have to do it?
> This AI bubble could be burst by a better cheaper product more dedicated to the task

True, but currently, no one can match the offering of NVidia, they are the sole pioneer in this market. AMD is yet to show any viable option (both on the HW and SW layers).
Clojure is becoming popular in Mexico, and I'm guessing Brazil may see a similar situation, because of nubank. It is a popular destination to go work there for computer scientists, and they seem to work mostly in Clojure. I seem to remember they even employed some of the core members of the language? I think at some point they also bought the company of Jose Valim (Elixir's creator), but I think they are still mostly a Clojure shop.
Premature to say what? It's an observation based on past earning reports that preceded earning calls.
Even the peak 7% post earnings call (now 5.7% and probably a different number by the time I hit "reply") is a relatively small move compared to past 4 quarters and that's without even taking the stock split + dividend increase into account.

Sure, tomorrow it can get to 15% but all I can compare it with right now is the past price action post earnings.
I’d argue the rise of popularity attributable to Mastodon is what’s different. It has momentum.
> By embracing DynamoDB as your metadata layer, systems stand to gain a lot.

I just implemented a "posix-like" filesystem on top of it. Which means large object offload to s3 is not a problem or even an "ugly abstraction." In fact it looks quite natural once you get down to the layer that does this.

You also get something like regular file locks which extend to s3 objects, and if you're using cognito, you can simplify your permissions management and run it all through the file system as well.
Ask HN: Documentation or getting starting with building a rules engine
Hello all,
I'm starting a new project at my company that will be building a rules based engine for compliance and I wanted to ask if anyone had any recommendations for resources on getting start, or if anyone has had any experience with such a project?
It is but there are other technical and non-technical merits too. "Security" doesn't trump all. If you need secure, turn off your computer.

I tried Rust and downloaded some projects that should be comparatively simple (e.g. text editor). "cargo build" downloaded and built about 500 dependencies. The Rust ecosystem had a chance to convince me, and it sure has some convincing results. But it wasn't my cup of tea.

If you included hundreds of dependencies to do what you can't easily do yourself within the "safe" framework, that may or may not be the language's or the ecosystem's failure. But the attribute "secure" for such a project is questionable. As NPM history or a certain guy or the recent events around the xz project illustrate well.
That's interesting. In Hungary the end of communism is called "rendszerváltás" (lit. change of system) or "rendszerváltozás" (lit. change in system). There is a small debate about which term is more appropriate, although they are mostly used interchangeably but nobody calls it a revolution. The process was completely peaceful and legal, unlike other places where the change was more chaotic and violent.
This is true for traditional full-text document search as well.

When most people mention RAG, they’re using a vector store to surface results that are semantically similar to the user’s query (the retrieval part). They then pass these results to an LLM for summary (the generation part).

In practice, the problems with RAG are similar to the traditional problems of search: indices, latency, and correctness.
Usually people don't type in passwords in a way that's visible Zoom calls. Most password fields obscure their content.
Isn't this what a MoE LLM does already?
It does, and very cleverly too. The '?' button explains what's going on - he just takes the fourier analysis of the shape of the string when it's released, and plays tones from that.
Discussion 7 days ago on a very similar article by the same author [0] (47 points, 72 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366474
You mean you got denied from yc or buildspace?
Not sure where you got that from. I think you’re confusing it with structs.

> Consecutive bit fields are packed together, but each bit field must fit within a single object of its specified type

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/c-intro-and-ref/manual/html_nod...
Fixed at HN side (thanks dang).
Ah, fair. It is certainly true that not everything just-works on a custom rom; that is a tradeoff of them. Everyone has a different level of tolerance for this kind of thing.
The OS became the basis of Symbian.
The earnings call is wild. The pitch is essentially that AI is here right now and if you don't buy loads of Nvidia GPU immediately you'll be destroyed by other companies/countries that did buy it.
Why do you care? You're not his friend or related to him. He is the CEO of a scaled text messaging app.

Do you get upset if the CEO of your electric utility made stupid political statements?

Or if the owner of a car dealership cheats on his wife?

Tiger Woods slept with like fifty waitresses and masses of people were furious. Why? What did they expect his life as a star athlete was?

People dislike Musk out of pure jealousy and try to rationalize it via other means. The logical option would be to simply not care.
You haven't been able to take screenshots of DRM controlled content for as long as DRM controlled content has existed. That's what makes it DRM. This technology isn't doing anything special at all. If you wanted to develop it for Windows, you could, and it would work the same way.
There is also third option - which I'm not saying I think happens, but if AGI was to happen then there is possibility of just few winners taking it all. Whoever gets there first would simply snowball away. It would be end game of capitalism.
OK. Now tell me how that helps the people who don't live in New Hampshire.
Personally I think it's more the scale than the borders, but here's a question I rarely see asked:

It's common for Europeans to talk about going to other countries in Europe, but how common is it for Europeans to visit another continent?

Because the US is bigger than that.
Total crap. Doesn't pass the smell test when 99% of people say this.

Would you buy a lemon for 2.336T? No? Probably not. What do you specifically value Nvidia at? Not the share price. Your own calculation. You, AnotherGoodName, are going to buy Nvidia outright. You're basically Elon Musk, and you think you can create better AI chips.

You don't know what that number is? Then you don't intimately know the value of the company.

Knowing tech intimately means nothing.

You know how much a banana costs, right? You probably wouldn't buy one for $10.
Manage Apache Groovy's Dependencies with Grape
40 trillion ops per second to run microsoft paint lmao
Ask HN: How much do you care about other people?
I'd say most people on this site are of decently high socioeconomic status. Or, at least, they have the time and knowledge to enjoy the kind of news posted on this site.

I do wonder, how much does the average user here care about the rest of the world?

I don't mean in a "I inform myself about events going on" or "I don't like people suffering" but on a more personal level.

Do you feel it's your mission, even slightly, to make the world a better place? Do you care about the suffering and poverty going on elsewhere? Beyond just "war is bad we must help ukraine" etc.

Are you just prioritizing your own happiness through money and whatnot, and improving the world comes as a byproduct? Or do you genuinely care about other people? Or maybe it's in between?

I'm not very charismatic. This could have been phrased better, but I hope the gist of it is understood.
Clojure has some very expressive destructuring syntax as well:
https://clojure.org/guides/destructuring
That was my implication, yes.
Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden
If Amazon has a monopoly because they are the only ones interested in taking advantage of the surplus labor, then that’s a huge problem, but unless they are somehow locking other companies out, they aren’t the cause of that problem. Are you trying to tell me that Amazon shouldn’t bring those jobs to those areas, and that would somehow be better for the residents? I don’t see any good logic in that, yes, they are taking advantage of an opportunity, but no, those people are worse off if they don’t take advantage.

I’d love to see you go to a place like Yazoo Mississippi and tell the residents how lucky they are to not have Amazon there employing them.
I left Twitter because I got tired of having inflammatory content be shoved in my face without ever actively following any of the people posting it.

Censorship is bad, but amplification of horrible takes is not equivalent the absence of censorship.

The quality of ads (I was using the official client) was also quickly approaching the quality of predatory late-night TV shopping channels (“call NOW to get our ULTRA LINT REMOVER with free shipping!!!”).
Yeah that too. Sure plenty of tools could be used to retouch illegal pics and so on, but a court would probably see it differently if the model distributed by Microsoft is able to produce that on its own.

At the same time... F that, I don't want Microsoft nannying me.
Amazing that it made such a basic mistake, so many times. I thought they wrapped the AI in enough layers of meta-cognition that it wouldn't make mistakes like this. Maybe AI in education really is like FSD, as another commenter said (so close, yet so far).
When an activity produces an economic surplus there's a pretty obvious conflict that occurs in terms of how that surplus will be distributed between workers and capital owners.

You can search for "productivity vs compensation" to see the classic graph that shows compensation and productivity decoupling around 1980 in the US. One such is e.g: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ or for Australia (because that's where I live) over a different timeframe: https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/has-worker-compensation-refl... - I'm not sure anybody has conclusively identified the root cause although a lot of people have ideas.
It's fine to argue you think they have stale design (an opinion), but that's very different from saying their average model is 9 years old, and comparing that to other carmaker's average model age.

And it's obviously not just internals. Compare a 2011 Tesla (e.g. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2011-tesla-model-s-revealed-...) to a 2024 Tesla (https://www.topspeed.com/2024-tesla-model-s-overview/). Again, I think it's fine to say you think the 2024 version looks stale, but the difference between the 2011 and 2024 versions in appearance alone is at least as different as some "new models" I've seen from other car manufacturers.
The only reason for using a voice that sounds like ScarJo is to create an association between the product and the character in "Her". There is no other reason.

And whether you think it's fair or not, intentionally trying to tie your product to a celebrity without their permission is not permitted by the courts. See the Midler case. See the Watts case.

Making fun of Darth Vader on Saturday Night Live is fair use. Using Darth Vader to sell your cars is not.