skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How doesn't it? I've ordered from some; they were fine. Expensive, but food delivery always is. This probably depends on your city, its regulations, the ratio of dark to normal kitchens, and whether enshittification-as-a-service providers have entered your city yet.

Disaggregation of food-making services and seated-dining services makes a whole lot of sense, actually. Just look at any food court - why should each food-maker have its own seating area, when seating areas are interchangeable and cheaper to deliver at scale?

However, disaggregation of food-making services and branding absolutely doesn't make sense for anyone except for people trying to confuse you to make a buck.
Firefighters now days are closer to problem-solvers than they are firefighters. We just happen to respond to emergency calls too.

I often joke that if a UFO landed in the middle of I-40 outside of Raleigh, the first agency dispatched would be the Fire Department. We're[1] sort of the fallback "do it all" agency that goes to the crazy shit nobody else knows how to handle.

Grass fire? Send the fire department. Car crashed into a building? Send the fire department? Person locked in the police station / courthouse after hours? Send the fire department (taken from an actual incident I overheard last night while monitoring Fire/EMS dispatch in my area). Cow trapped in a ravine? Send the fire department. Apartment flooding? Send the fire department. Mysterious smell in the area? Send the fire department. UFOs? Send the fire department. And so on and on and on...

"All hazards" really is the name of the game these days.

[1]: I say "we" out of habit, even though I'm not on an active roster anywhere at the moment. I mostly gave up firefighting due to the demands of my day job, but I still consider myself a firefighter at heart and may well join up with a volunteer department again some day.
I like this use case. - Even if not entirely practical, it highlights a real issue and challenge we face as a society. Let's try to auto-tune down the tone of angry customers.

Our brains are wired to connect with others, and this includes picking up on and replicating emotions and behaviors. It's part of our mirror neuron system, which helps us understand and empathize with others. While this is beneficial in many social interactions, it can lead to escalation in conflict situations if not managed properly.
Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity
IIRC Terry literally injected entropy, in that he used a PRNG to suggest what to work on next. At the time, it occurred to me that that might have been an effective way to make sure all of the system got a little implemented, instead of only ever working on his favourite subsystems?
Artificial intelligence and radiologists in prostate cancer detection on MRI
Ask HN: Most hackable recent Android phone
I want to make a customized build of Android with extra features that probably require source modification. Which phone should I get if I plan to use it for many years forward (hopefully), and still get updates?
AI Dataset Libstc2 a.k.a. Books4
More than 400,000 fiction and non-fiction book full-texts. Multiple languages, curated, deduplicated.

More than 6,000,000 scholarly publications, magazines, and manuals full-texts. Multiple languages, curated, deduplicated.

150,000,000 metadata records

Download:

Torrent file below or magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a904e660355c49006b2e7d43893d31bf3c2be9cc&dn=libstc2.jsonl.zst&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=https://tracker1.ctix.cn:443/announce&tr=udp://open.demonii....

~240GB
Reliably Processing Trillions of Kafka Messages per Day
The government tells FB what to do. It's called jawboning and they've been doing it pretty blatantly
It's really exciting what's going on with things like Tiny Tapeout/Efabless/ChipIgnite and whatever Google is sponsoring - I have a hard time keeping the players straight - as far as education and ambitious hobbyist use. You never know what will come from small designs, either.

That said, despite what some ASIC houses will tell you, I haven't seen the costs narrowing on commercial ASIC design to the point that realizing an SoC would be a substantial cost savings on an aggressively cost-optimized microcontroller-based design or IoT design. Being able to do a commercially viable small-to-medium-sized ASIC for a design that ships, say, less than 2M/year, would change a lot of things. It would be very interesting if that were the case in 5-10 years - what do you see from the IC design perspective?
"feels like C" and "looks like C" are not quite the same thing.

That Zig feels like a modern C is a very common opinion.
"An AI system was superior to radiologists using PI-RADS (2.1), on average, at detecting clinically significant prostate cancer and comparable to the standard of care. Such a system shows the potential to be a supportive tool within a primary diagnostic setting, with several associated benefits for patients and radiologists. Prospective validation is needed to test clinical applicability of this system."
Has anyone runs evaluations to compare the instruct version with gpt-4o or llama3-70b etc.? It's so much larger than the leading open source models. So one would hope it would perform significantly better?

Or is this in one of the chat arenas or whatever? Very curious to see some numbers related to the performance.

But if it's at least somewhat better than the existing open source models then that is a big boost for open source training and other use cases.
Maybe just put your customer support agents into massage chairs?
Two things that I don't see mentioned is that:

(a) [Name 2005] is much easier to mentally track if it appears repeatedly in longer text than [5] (at least for me). [5] is just [5]. [Name 2005] is "that paper by Name from twenty years ago".

(b) By using [Name 2005], I might not know which exact paper this is, but I get how recent it is w.r.t. what I am reading. In many cases, this is useful context. Saying "[5] proves X" could mean that this is a new result, or a well known fact. Saying "[Name 1967] proves X" clearly indicates that this is something that has been known for some time.
The irony is that Vercel is already doing that. You're making a human centipede out of human centipedes. And each layer adds 1000% markup! Vercel adds a 1000% markup on AWS, which adds a 1000% markup on servers. You could add a 1000% markup too!
As someone that's worked in call centers for a fair time in my life, I'm not sure about this.

I've worked for a cable company for a while that really turned to shit, and went into buying off representatives rather than fixing their technical problems (heavily investing in making city owned fiber illegal in many states). Customers being enraged with us was a very strong motivation for me to leave and find better work with a less abusive company. And yes, call centers commonly shut down/move/ or actually start giving better service when they can't keep staff because they are such a crap company that their users are in constant rage mode.
This story has been done to death on HN over the last few days.
An argument that OpenTelemetry is somehow 'too big' is an example of motivated reasoning. I can understand that A Guy Who Makes Money If You Use Sentry dislikes that people are using OTel libraries to solve similar problems.

Context propagation and distributed tracing are cool OTel features! But they are not the only thing OTel should be doing. OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries can do a lot on their own, a friend of mine made massive savings in compute efficiency with the NodeJS OTel library: https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/coralogix-and-opentelemetry-o...
Could Tesla have benefited from the cross pollination Elon brings to his companies?

Has is involvement with spacex ever helped tesla in anything (materials engineering etc)? My guess is yes.

Has his involvement in Tesla helped SpaceX with anything (thing electric motors for thruster gimbling) My guess is yes.

In terms of AI, has his involvement with things like OpenAI and xAI helped Tesla in any way? My guess is at least with respect to AI - yes, Tesla is not behind in AI because of Elon - but if anything is overdoing it in AI because of him.

Is he able to attract reasonable engineers to his companies despite sounding like an absolute pain to work for / with because of all of this? My guess is yes.
It allowed them to avoid breakup but it still immensely affected Microsoft creating the dead decade or whatever it was called. Nobody expects that regulators will force Apple to breakup (Google is in bigger danger there).
Python will have to pry the Typescript types from my cold dead hands before I choose it on purpose. If anything is going to replace Typescripts web dominance, it will need to offer an advantage.. not a regression. Python would be such a harsh downgrade in so many ways.
Don’t learn frameworks, learn languages.

If you are a good C, python, or JavaScript[1] developer you will have work for the rest of time.

[1]: it is hazardously easy to end up as a framework programmer in JavaScript. If you are working in JavaScript I would strongly encourage you to learn one of the other two if you want to stay relevant for more than a few years.
> Good news for call center operators who are worn down by hostile customers with unreasonable demands

What about angry customers with reasonable demands? Can the AI identify that?
Creativity and problem solving isn't a skillset/stack that would help keep OP employable.

Every single hacker is a creative problem solver.

OP: I don't know what specific skillset/stack will pay $$$ in 10 years.

But it wouldn't hurt to be good at:

1) Gluing together admin dashboards / SaaS

2) Getting very good sales/marketing

3) developing an audience

4) UX- the kind where customers don't take one look and run away

If you can do all those things, then whatever stack people are using at the time, or whatever entrepreneurs are selling at the time, you'll have the skills to add value and make money.
Personally, I think hierarchies are tyrannical and oppressive and should be abolished entirely.

As I have just demonstrated my selfless pursuit of equality for all, naturally I should be placed at the very top of the new non-hierarchy.
Game consoles do have game exclusives, meaning that there's some real competition and deals to attract game developers. When was the last app exclusive?
I find it to be a good default when writing a script, but yes, it can get noisy and potentially leak stuff, if that is what your script deals with. That hasn't been a concern in the settings I usually use it, though.

I am not sure how it could break anything though, unless you are parsing stderr of your script in a subsequent step, which would seem unusual anyway.
'The study of misinformation has become increasingly controversial, and Stamos, DiResta and Starbird have been besieged by lawsuits, document requests and threats of physical harm. Leading the charge has been Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whose House subcommittee alleges the Observatory improperly worked with federal officials and social media companies to violate the free-speech rights of conservatives.

Jordan has demanded reams of documents from Stanford, including records of students discussing social media posts as they volunteered to help the Observatory, and Stamos testified before the House Judiciary Committee for eight hours. Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s law firm filed a First Amendment lawsuit in May 2023 against the Observatory, Stamos, DiResta and others, which is still pending.'
This is a good way to get the wrath of God rained down upon thee.
Imagine what would happen if Oracle were to shut down its legal business.
Only candles after dark (I could read comfortably by two beeswax candles, very dim light compared even to most night lights) and no electronics entirely cured my “insomnia” of decades within a couple days. Go figure, hundreds or thousands of candle-power lighting up whole rooms, and entertainment more compelling than a Roman emperor could command on tap, is extremely bad for sleep. What a surprise.

It’s goddamn hard to keep up, though.
I do the same thing with cloudflare tunnels and managing the cloudflare tunnel process and the llama.cpp server with systemd on my home internet.

Have a 13B running on a 3070 with 16 gpu layers and the rest running off CPU.

Performs okay, but way cheaper than renting a GPU on the cloud.
"I certainly don't want to engage in any apologetics for Terry's outright racism and conspiracy theories"

Indeed, but one may consider this is often part of mental-health symptomatology in many cases.

I watched people I knew for decades slowly develop schizophrenic disorders, and they tended to fixate on visible appearances about 10 months before cycling into a full psychotic episode. It is not a permanent state, but rather they would later cycle back into lucid states where they were the same people they used to be for awhile. The modern medications are far more effective at tamping down the frequency and severity of the paranoia symptoms with fewer side-effects.

As you age, even without a psychopathology background one will learn people are delicate, madness is a gradient, and some people break in ways you won't understand.

The modern internet is hardly accommodating to anything unique or controversial, as the vitriol often flows far more easily than compassion.

Take care of yourselves, and remember to be kind to each other =3
Wait, people try to do functional programming in Go? The language feels hostile to it.
"Yes, I know it’s good to be a generalist, and I am, but employers seem to prefer to hire “experts” in particular domains."

I don't think generalist is good from an employability standpoint. I've heard that I might get a PIP and there's really no options for me to move into. If I do get PIP'd then I'm thinking I'll try to find something like garbage collection to move into.
If we care about cost efficiency when running LLMs, the most important things are:

1. Don't use AWS, because it's one of the most expensive cloud providers

2. Use quantized models, because they offer the best output quality per money spent, regardless of the budget

This article, on the other hand, focuses exclusively on running an unquantized model on AWS...
The UK stopped including calculus as part of physics even!

I got told off for doing an integral.
I made the wild statement oh so many years ago that if America wanted its people to own houses, it could fix the current system by implementing a land value tax that only kicks in on your second property and multiply by the number of properties you (or your business) owns in one city/county/state.

For instance, In King County, WA, property taxes are 1.1%. If you own one 1 million dollar property then that's $11,000/year you have to pay.

Set land value tax to 1.1% * (number of properties you own - 1). Say you own 2 1 million dollar properties in King County. That would be 1.1% of $2,000,000 property taxes, or $22,000/year. Plus an additional $11,000 for the first one, for $33,000/year.

Fine.

But then if you buy a third one, then it goes $33,000/year property taxes PLUS (1.1% * (number of properties you own - 1) = $22,000 * 2 = $44,000, or $77,000/year to own three 1 million dollar properties.

It would quickly and effectively destroy any rent profit available, and make holding the properties for investment purposes an exponentially untenable position.

If they rolled out this tax over a 7 year period there would be plenty of time for the market to gently deflate as conglomerates and corporations divested their investment properties.
The Leopold Model: Analysis and Reactions
Well, tui[0] kinda split between two things. -- a) draw full text page & display (aka just echo & with appropriate padding to fill out line b) text/text graphic character placement using control character sequences such as ansi escape sequences. The whole idea for tui is not to have to worry about graphics driver setups/invalid shell string characters. Not sure if plotex's text dithering method to display 'rick rolling in terminal' counts as tui (vs. ascii-animator method).[6][7]

linux framebuffer would be simplest -- one example library[1]. Pygame has many different backends that do non-tui (opengl, directx, windib, X11, linux frame buffer )[1]

Since shell is "string oriented", one would need to use a program such as cliffi[3] to make full use of lvgl and/or an associated shell plugin which provides lvgl shell extensions.

Python/gtk/pyqt[5]etc with usable gui at command line would be bit 'easier' than trying to graft bash with graphics at command line.

[7] : https://pypi.org/project/ascii-animator/

[6] : https://medium.com/@SrvZ/how-to-create-stunning-graphs-in-th...

[5] : https://python.plainenglish.io/modern-python-guis-with-pyqt-...

[4] : https://medium.com/@SrvZ/how-to-create-stunning-graphs-in-th...

[3] cliffi : https://github.com/ysaxon/cliffi

[2] pygame : https://www.pygame.org/wiki/about

[1] lvgl : https://blog.lvgl.io/2018-01-03/linux_fb

[0] tui : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
Arena allocators can be used with lifetimes in the way you describe, but that's just not people's usual definition of linked list, as it misses out on some key properties people use linked lists for.
Hi,

Thanks for the post. Very insightful!

I'm looking forward to trying out your pywasm module, or should it be ESP (Excel Subsystem for Python)?
There are some planes with a few backward facing seats. Takeoff is more comfortable in a forward facing seat
this is june-chatbot model currently running on chatbot arena from lmsys
The problem is not that I want peoples real information, I really couldn't care less. It's the fact that some of these are clearly the same people creating hundreds of emails to just keep resubscribing to a free trial.

I could tell because there were emails with the sequence of:

1@xyz.com
2@xyz.com
...
etc
Don't post ChatGPT-generated summaries here - I got told off by the mods for doing it before.
In my experience SageMaker was relatively straightforward for fine-tuning models that could fit on a single instance, but distributed training still requires a good bit of detailed understanding of how things work under the covers. SageMaker Jumpstart includes some pretty easy out-of-the-box configurations for fine-tuning models that are a good starting point. They will incorporate some basic quantization and other cost-savings techniques to help reduce the total compute time.

To help control costs, you can choose pretty conservative settings in terms of how long you want to let the model train for. Once that iteration is done and you have a model artifact saved, you can always pick back up and perform more rounds of training using the previous checkpoint as a starting point.
I only dabbled in Taichi, but I find its magic has limitation. I took a provided example, just increased the length of the loop and bam! it crashed the Windows driver. Obviously it ran out of memory but I have no idea how how to adjust except experiment with different values. If it has information about the GPU and its memory, I thought it could automatically adjust the block size but apparently not. There is a config command to fine tune the for loop parallelizing but the docs says we normally do not need to use them.
At some point, the piper will come for companies that rely so heavily on open-source software they do not themselves financially support or contribute to.
Your comment is just very angrily agreeing with me.

Please note the main point of my comment, the US is _stuck_, they dug themselves into a pit where the only option is to dig deeper. That's the whole point!

> The buses aren't driving faster than private vehicles. Worse yet, they have no privileges and actually obey traffic laws compared to normal traffic.

That's because you build public transit that way, it doesn't have to.

> Boy, isn't everyone just dying to not only finally own a house, but then own one where you can't drive anywhere and you're subject to the only grocery story in your area.

You don't need a car, that doesn't mean it's illegal to own a car and drive to the next neighborhood. But since everyone around you doesn't need to get in the road for every little thing there's much less traffic.

> What a wet dream for lack of competition.

Lack of competition... because not having 50 parking spots per grocery store is _obviously_ anti-capitalist...

> Hey, and while we're all at it, why don't all of us just own nothing, rely on public transportation, and rent forever.

I don't know how you turned my comment into an argument against private property.

> Worse yet, these people don't even give examples of where their supposed utopia already exists where there isn't an order of magnitude fewer housing units that you can actually own, businesses, or anything else meaningful you want to go to or have in your area.

Again, I don't know how this is related to home ownership at all. You can still buy properties... And there are examples all around Europe.

> The supposed answer is always denser housing, renting, and you not owning your own vehicle. Wow what a great standard of living! Sign me up!

Again with the property ownership thing... Just buy your car, you can still drive to the corner store if you really want to, they'll just make fun of you.
Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
Zeta Labs AI – Don't Just Chat. Act
Nemotron-4 340B open weights model
That's a trait of Apple restrictions, not an intrinsic trait of running a third party appstores.
For the Max Cohen-brained folks.

On a more serious note, is there any reason to run Tailscale on so many machines? I run it on an single machine and have access to all other devices on my network.