skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to rant: why can’t I have a URL, in whatever format (special type of IPv6 address would work, although the available bits are a bit crunched), where the URL includes a public key? Then people could use HTTPS to communicate with local devices for which there is no practical way to provision certificates?
The easiest way for the rich to decrease taxes has been to extend them to the middle class and then push for tax cuts.
> It is searching and writing in the background while the user or a program is doing something else.

I'm not 100% sure what this is meant to mean, but if they mean to suggest that DOS did some sort of async disk I/O, then... yeah, no, I'm pretty sure the way I recall that working is that your program did a syscall by calling an interrupt, which caused the CPU to stop running your code and start running DOS, which ran its own code (what you might today call a filesystem driver) that in turn passed execution to the BIOS (usually, at least), which ran its code to actually do the disk access, then returned execution to DOS, which returned execution to your code.
Let people use it immediately without any type of sign up. I left when the form was presented.
One reason is because these minimal HTML-based apps would be extremely lightweight (just a few kb each), easy to author, and easy to change.
Most of them, now.

Enphase IQ8s have grid-forming capabilities since they came out in 2021 [1], and they're one of the major vendors. Same with the SolarEdge EnergyHub since 2020 [2], the other major U.S. vendor. Globally, Sungrow [3] and Huawei [4] both support grid-forming in their inverters, and their sales dwarf the U.S. manufacturers.

If you relax condition a), it's an even larger percentage. I've got IQ7a's and a PowerWall (installed 2020) and they transparently switch over to battery whenever there's an outage and switch back. I just looked at my Tesla backup history and there've been 5 power outages in the last year, and I haven't noticed any of them.

[1] https://newsroom.enphase.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...

[2] https://www.solaredge.com/fr/SolarEdge-enhances-solar-plus-s...

[3] https://en.sungrowpower.com/upload/file/20211201/Grid%20Form...

[4] https://solar.huawei.com/en/news-room/en/2023/news-20230523
Unless you’re forming your own street gang (or conspiracy in the city planning dept.), my point is that you aren’t meaningfully influencing how risky the investment is either.
> Keep in mind that here we trained for 10B tokens, while GPT-3 models were all trained for 300B tokens. [...] GPT-3 actually didn't change too much at all about the model (context size 1024 -> 2048, I think that's it?).

Andrej, based on that do you have a rough cost estimate for what it would take to train a GPT-3 Ada (350M)? Do you plan to get there with llm.c ?
I have had the same experience. Articles flagged to death when it talks about technology impact on human life
I don't know the numbers, but it's much less!

Because if an isotope emits high radiation, it will "burn out" relatively fast. If it lasts thousands of years, it does it by emitting low radiation.

And, yes, I know this is a serious comment to sarcasm, but I feel educational today...
I'm not sure that's a very tenable position. To play devil's advocate - the taxes I pay go towards many, many, things which I never (directly) use; you can only abstractly argue that such things benefit society as a whole, which eventually probably benefits me, even if I myself don't make use of them. For example, maybe you believe this, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but should people who have kids in school pay more taxes allocated to schools than people that don't have any kids? Right now everyone pays equally. Should roads be the same or different? Having a transportation network benefits society as a whole, whether or not you even drive.
> It's not clear who has an availability of money. I'm aware of zero people within recent years buying a home without a mortgage. Availability of money has never been worse.

"Availability of money" includes the ability to apply for, and service the debt on, a mortgage.

> I don't think we're seeing 4x the living standard of 1970. It also doesn't explain that we see house prices increase by more than 4x relative to wages [1].

I don't remember 1970, but there's no particular reason we should expect to have 4x living standard.. competition for housing can eat up a much bigger slice of the overall pie, as long as people are willing to compete.

> But this would defend what I said, that demand outstrips supply. There is a saying at auctions: "it's only worth what somebody else is willing to pay for it."

100% - but if nobody CAN pay (the asking price), nobody will be willing to pay it. And that's where positional goods matter, because effectively people are jostling for a place in a ranked queue. The prices are a function of "how much money are the people in the queue able and willing to raise and deploy". And so it's natural to have situations where incomes might only go up by 50%, but house prices can rise MUCH more if interest rates are low and the bulk of that extra income is discretionary.

> It's not working, the NHS is failing. Where I live I cannot get an appointment any more. If I am lucky the doctor calls me and essentially prescribes anything I ask for. I recently saw a similar situation with midwifery.

Bad here too, but most of the staff are immigrants or of immigrant background so I find it hard to blame that on migration, it'd be a lot worse if they turned the taps off. It's more to do with our population (native Brits and 1960s/70s immigrants) being elderly, unhealthy and generally decrepit, and a health service that tries to do too much. It excels at keeping people alive, but it sucks at keeping them healthy.

> We are now at the state where children are deferred from starting school because there just are no place

Not the case here, in a high-immigration area: they're actually closing primary schools because there aren't enough kids to fill them.

> I don't think that is fair, the answer isn't to build on every square metre of the UK until it's gone. Besides, if they get rid of the train station car park, where will all the commuters park? (I've seen this one play out, they park everywhere else.)

They should walk or take the bus. I'm talking about stations that are at most a mile or so spread out and usually served by half a dozen bus routes, suburban zone 3 & 4 London. Wouldn't work further out where distances are longer.
What's the point of the 8000 LOC limit? Has anyone worked in a project with a LOC limit? Why was the limit in place?
In Canada, the medical system is overrun. If you're 50+, homeless and no relatives to look after you MAID is a handy way to get rid of you.
Normies use smartphones these days.
What does personal autonomy mean if you are not able to make such a decision for yourself?
It's almost as if people believe in fairness and compensating people for their work.

Also, it's worth noting that this is only true as long as we're stuck in the "must train on the entire sum total of human output ever created" local minimum for machine learning. Given that most biological entities learn with much less data, this might well be the thing that prods ML research to using an approach that isn't "IDK, buy a few containers of GPUs, and half a DC of storage, see if that makes things better".
Predicting the future.

I recently saw a paper getting LLM evaluation completely right in many respects: https://arxiv.org/abs//2402.00861

"Evaluating Large Language Models for Generalization and Robustness via Data Compression"

They evaluate LLMs by seeing how well they compress text/news/science from the future, over time. In a sense, this measures how "surprised" the LLM is by future developments.

This is, I believe, an important and strong task. A top researcher or economist will have a preternatural ability to "see where the puck is going" in a way that would be more surprising (perplexing) to a junior person or a layperson. Thus, things after the knowledge cutoff being more "expected" is a great sign of predictive generality.
Baffling, but on the other hand somebody has got to extract every generation's superfluous disposable income, I suppose.

I mean, it's not much, but it adds up, doesn't it [1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceNsojnMf0
Facebook Marketplace is pretty bad for scamming, too. Scammers figured out that if they just block the person after the transaction concludes they can prevent the victim from leaving a bad review. Facebook sees no problem with this state of affairs.
I use dbus on Alpine Linux which doesn't have systemd, so empirically yes it's possible to do that.
Oddly enough, I was just thinking about that sort of thing...
Don't know why u were downvoted (not by me) but this is a fact. I know someone who personally experienced this.
I can still get ChatGPT to tell me how to make a bomb so yeah, can't wait to see the safety progress I guess.
Tell HN: A lot of DB companies are making cold calls
I don't know why, but I have been receiving a lot (3+) calls from different DB companies (think DuckDB and such although they never called me) to advertise their products.

I believe either LinkedIn or something else is selling my data. God damn it, I don't mind you selling my data because everyone does that anyway, but I want a cut of it!
US Tariffs on Graphics Cards Imported from China Take Effect June 15
All of them and more… We did CL, and Perl before Java and then immediately went to the 0.1 of Java when it was available. JSP didn’t exist yet, or servlets even, but we were hooked.

I went into 2000s doing enterprise java beans (and Corba code generators in xml) and stupid over architected Java stuff with everything XML (and XSLT). We wrote our own db which stored XML (but was mostly in memory), our own frontend language in XML. All with Java under it.

Our own fairly comprehensive application server with all kinds of ready made components; we sold a lot of licenses and in the end the company for a lot to a big vendor who immediately threw it all away.

But yes, we drank all the koolaid and it was good timing of course, just all very stodgy, especially as the system and the clients grew; we did the same large sized applications as we (other ‘we’ but still me) do now, but with far more people and far worse processes. The first years we had zip file version control (until moving to csv and then svn), tests, what are those? And more like that.

In hindsight, I would’ve skipped Java until Clojure, or skipped it altogether. I was very good at Common Lisp and c/c++ and liked all those things better. But I was convinced somehow that all that was going to die because of Java.
I'm from Russia and I watch pro Ukraine videos on YouTube without any problems. Yes, it may have blocked some videos, but if it didn't, it could get blocked in Russia completely, and then what? Me and all the other people who wants to see content from other countries won't be able to do that, which will only make things worse.
A good few years ago when I worked at a security consultancy that catered to a bunch of startups (only some of whom survived long enough to pay the invoices…) we referred to certain development patterns as “HackerNews Driven Development” lol.

I guess Medium driven development is the newer edition of this?
Yes, I entirely agree with that.
Because unless the chatbot is both better than a human in every way, and everyone knows that, the first thing people will do is push the button to reach the human. Why wouldn't they? They're calling in the first place because they don't want to make an effort to use the available tools to answer their question. They want a human.
This probably edges into the industrial-control level of automation, but have you thought about hooking up your dehumidifiers to humidity sensors to maintain humidity at a specific level rather than an all-or-nothing approach?

It's my understanding that wood rot occurs mainly due to frequent changes in moisture, the expansion and contraction causing breakdown of the wood fibers, while warping occurs when wood transitions between 'wet' and 'dry' too slowly/quickly/unevenly.

Allowing the moisture to increase back to previous levels *may* reverse some or most of the warping that has occurred, followed with a gradual decrease in humidity with an adjustment period between changes using the aforementioned control system may allow you to find a happy medium and ease the wood into a more stable moisture content without having to deal with squeaky subfloors and uneven joists.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TIL. 2013, 20 billion dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_bankruptcy
Good time to plant trees.
OMEGALUL.

A security committee that "recommends" security related things. They cannot be enforced and the committee is from the same company that it should monitor.

That's like Microsoft starting an antitrust law committee or having a privacy committee run by Google.
Completely agree, and it’s been great to see to some extent that the gap between open source and 3rd party models is really starting to close
> Servers can now send HSTS along with the initial HTTP-to-HTTPS redirection response

> Node.js's built-in fetch happily and quietly followed those redirects to the HTTPS endpoint.

Okay.. does nodejs fetch respect HSTS?
These are for land rich countries like USA and Canada as you have pointed out and that too for expressways, interstates etc. These are not meant to be build in cities.
This is already done. The feds and hackers have huge troves of wallets and files that they are trying to crack, either by finding holes in the encryption method used or brute force.
Depends, no one took .so seriously before notion.so

Also, I own newyork.today for example... I think there is domains that the tld works with.
Don’t forget shilling for Theranos: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/early-the...
At this point I’m kind of bored of programming and I’d probably leave if it didn’t pay so well.

If I had enough money I’d probably take up sewing full time and make furry cosplay stuff. Seems much more rewarding than building corporate tech junk.
EDIT: I replied to the wrong message, sorry
CGP Grey: The simple solution to traffic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE

aka: traffic snakes
How? Apple is the only one making orders in the hundreds of millions USD at once to justify developing new products and opening up new production lines. Ask TSMC. Without Apple throwing money at them, they wouldn't have advanced their processes so far ahead of Samsung and Intel.

It's easy to comment off the armchair "just get more customer d'uh!", when people don't understand what they're talking about.

People who mainly make money working in the SW industry seem to have a tough time understanding how the semi industry works and assume it must work just like in SW, but it doesn't, not by a long shot.
The 350M model I trained last night was 30B tokens, 14 hours, ~$200.
Conveniently, 300B is exactly 10X the tokens so ~$2K would be the estimate. You'd have to wait 140 hours on one box though. Getting an H100 box instead of A100 will already cut the time latency down probably by a factor of 2-3X, for free, even without going to fp8 (which we do plan to support).

So TLDR at this model scale, llm.c is already there functionally, I think, it's a matter of the compute resources and patience. I currently have this one box from Lambda and I have to look around for a few more boxes and merge the pending PR for multi-node training support. Getting all of this into a nice, stable state is probably a good chunk of the pending work right now.
I've studied this problem for 30 years. The short answer is not enough following distance to the car in front of you. That distance represents a time-space buffer. The time-space buffer allows for local variations in speed without collisions AND without reducing speed to zero.
The "change your name if you can't get the .com" advice seems increasingly outdated. I don't claim to be a domain guru but I see the current climate as one where you can either choose a great alternative TLD (.io,.dev,.tech,.design) that works with your name, or you become one of those weirdly named forgettable companies with a .com. It's 2024. People aren't just typing your name directly into the address bar. They are finding you on Google search or scanning your QR code.

That said, the hyphen still looks bad and the name is an abortion pill in the US.
I think given certain premises which are widely accepted in the west, this is reasonable.

1. You are free to do with your body what you wish as long as you are not harming anyone else. You should not be compelled to do things with your body that you do not wish to do. Dieing in this controlled manner is not harming anyone else. It seems like a very personal choice.

2. Mental pain can be as great if not greater than physical pain. If we would accept the possibility of physician assisted suicide for incurable, severe physical pain, why would we not accept it for incurable, severe mental pain?

I think the objections to this would mostly be of a religious nature, appealing to a higher purpose for your life, etc
It is possible but I wanted to maintain the full feature set of ChatGPT, plus it feels less shady to do it this way. What I did consider is just leaving the tab in the background so you can use it as a dumping ground for “side quests” while browsing the web.
It just doesn't get hot. If I remember correctly, there's a massive heatsink there that distributes it all, and having an aluminum body probably helps as well. Either way it's the most comfortable laptop I've ever used for this exact reason (well, and the humongous haptic trackpad).

Yet it's still fast enough to do development on it, never mind more mundane stuff like web browsing or watching movies. I'm not at all an Apple fan, but when people say that M* silicon is almost magic, they're not wrong.
I fully support this and have always pushed for this. One because it becomes a huge mess to maintain over time but also because it long term will lower traffic through the LB.

Unfortunately what i see happen all the time is quick fixes are pushed to the infra. For example they deploy and typo the URL. Now we have a prod outage and infra is pulled in to fix this asap. No time to wait for that 10 minute deploy pipeline that requires all the tests to run and a deploy to dev.

This happens once and then infra is asked why we don’t already redirect all URLs. Management doesn’t care about security and they just lost money. Guess what you are doing now. This is the world we live in.
I just tested and a song that works fine normally failed as soon as I turned Airplane Mode on.
Thank you so much ; you've given me a lot to think about.

I'll admit I don't listen to a lot of fiction content, I prefer to watch it.

I do plan on adding additional voices and one brand of fiction I do like listening to is stories for adults. I used it on the Calm app to fall asleep before, and it is great for calming the mind.

For the time being the product is best for non-fiction, but I'll keep an eye on opportunities to make it work better for fiction.

Thank you also for opening my mind on how copy is perceived by blind users. It will be an honour to help them more. Empowering others through tech is why a lot of us work so hard. This is a great reminder.

Any golden classics I should try for fiction?
> I guess you don't read the Wall Street Journal, or otherwise follow automotive news. I don't feel a need to provide links for you.

I don't read the WSJ, but I do understand numbers. This site seems to indicate that 4% of global new car sales were electric in 2020, and 18% are electric at the end of 2023. https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

What are you reading that would indicate that an industry segment that is up 450% in four years has "failed"?

You have made an extraordinary claim, and refuse to back it up in the face of compelling evidence.

The rate of growth is falling, but the overall sales trend is still up. Perhaps you are confused with the math, and the difference between rate of growth and growth?
Somehow I have literally never heard of this game. Does anybody here happen to have a video saved that offers one of those excellent “here’s why newcomers might fall in love with this game” videos that YouTubers sometimes put together?
>reduce bottlenecks by widening roads consistently.

I too like trillion dollar infrastructure debts.
Fortnight vs. Final Fantasy
> (lack of atomic instructions,

Well, 8086 had XCHG. Do you mean something more capable?..
Chalk maintainer here. These are incredible. Some of the best I've ever seen. Kudos.
It's just a way to keep the code size in check, make sure it can be read and understood relatively easily. Don't overthink it. I doubt much, if any, research went into picking the limit. The line width is over 120 in many places, and the code inevitably ends up looking like

cache_key = (device, st, dtype, op, arg, tuple(ref(x) for x in srcs)) if base is None else (st, ref(base))
To stay Tiny
Care to elaborate on this? It does seem quite pertinent to the conversation.
A more generous reading of that comment would be that it’s other things not the camera’s that are causing the problem.

A CCD image sensor that’s lost 20% of its pixels could still be providing useful information, especially if you’re just trying to get the robot out. Other systems may inherently have issues long before that point.
Epiphenomenons are so delightful. Once they occured they are often easy to explain, e.g. by Invisible Hand explanations [1] like in TFA, but it is still hard to predict when they happen.

[1] short summary https://academic.oup.com/book/26496/chapter-abstract/1949678...
Yes, it’s in the linked article.
How is "it took 3 years to be allowed to have a doctor end my life, when I could have ended it at any time on my own volition without going through the legal process" it being "pushed"?

How is "I went through most treatment options available and the law explicitly requires me to do so" it being "pushed"?
No, not exactly. "the era of sending excess rooftop solar generation to the grid is over" is the OP's statement I disagree with. "They can't take any more solar input", yes they can, by adding more grid battery, which is currently happening.
1. Science
2. Philosophy
3. Art

I am currently factually volunteering to a project in CERN that needs full-time attention, but unfortunately I need to feed myself and my family so I work at daytime as a full-time Software(Data) Engineer. I spent whatever time I find (mostly nights) doing science. I do hope I will manage to deliver new NN method I experiment now. This has a lifelong meaning for me.
Good article, doesn't belong on hackernews.
“That’s the beauty, because our law requires that doctors test that you’ve made a rational decision,” Zoraya replied. “Doctors have to test: Is my choice rational, or is it my illness talking?”

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

The experience of going on a waitlist and not even knowing if you'll be approved, making backups for that eventuality... it paints a very vivid picture of someone at the end of their rope, trying to end the suffering.

Other people in the thread are implying it's a mechanism for the state to cull undesirables and that feels like conspiracy theory stuff / media spin to me. The state already has plenty of tools to kill those it disagrees with, why would the slow and messy and disorganised medical system have to be part of it?
Don't know about Sindh, but Babur used underground housing in Delhi around 1500 (and IIRC hated the hot weather).

Have experienced 47 degrees in Delhi, hate to think of 52.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babur
Well they also expanded multicast into "limited group multicast" with the way Duplicate Address Detection works. There's a lot of cleverness baked into IPv6.
Indeed.

The same is true of healthcare insurance in the US. The Affordable Care Act instituted an 80/20% rule for insurers. Naturally, the best way to increase profit is to drive up the cost of healthcare.
This seems like a reasonable explanation, thanks