skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the standard 'just start your own microservice/server/isp' and now it includes llm. Where does it end really?

With people who aren't good enough to build it own pissing and moaning about it?
>The generic point is that it shouldn't take more work. A knife shouldn't come with a safety mechanism that automatically detects you are not actually cutting porkchop. It is just bad design and a bad idea. It undermines what it means to be a conscious human being.

First, you are comparing rockets to rocks here. A knife is a primitive tool, literally one of the most basic we can make (like seriously, take a knapping class, it's really fun!). To make a knife you can range from finding two rocks and smacking them together, to the most advanced metallurgy and ceramics. To date, the only folks able to make LLMs work are those operating at the peak of (more or less) 80 centuries of scientific and industrial development. Little bit of a gap there.

Second, there are many knife manufacturers that refuse to sell or ship products to specific businesses or regions, for a range of reasons related to brand relationships, political beliefs, and export restrictions.

Third, knifes aren't smart; there is already an industry for smart guns, and if there is a credible safety reason to make a smart knife that includes a target control or activation control system, you can bet that it will be implemented somewhere.

Finally, you make the assumption that I believe humans must be kept under close scrutiny because I agree with LLM safety controls. That is absolutely not the case - I just don't believe that a bunch of hot garbage people (in this case the racists and bigots who want to use LLMs to proliferate hate, people who create deep fakes of kids and celebrities) or a bunch of horny folks (ranging from people who want sexy time chat bots to, or just 'normal' generated erotic content) should be able to compel individuals or businesses to release the tools to do that.

You are concerned about freedom of expression, and I am concerned about freedom from compulsion (since I have already stated that I don't believe that losing access to LLMs breaks freedom of expression).
First, be cock-sure in your own ability to do something as simple and straightforward as identifying mushroom species because of your innate ability to recall every minutia of the field guides and your astonishing powers of perception and attention to detail. Then analyze closely the cap shape, scales, the gill/teeth/ridges/pore patterns in the cap underside including shape, width, spacing, depth, and color, the ridges, and the stalk, including a partial veil and/or annulus. Proclaim confidently when you have determined with 100% assurance that you know precisely what species of mushroom you have in your hand, because you are a mushroom genius.

At that point you can take a few bites. If you end up needing a liver transplant, then you know it was toxic.
The existence of the internet doesn't magically overrule the law.
Especially if any public money was used in the research or production of those books.
It doesn't quite apply but I think it kind of does: I consider TempleOS to be a form of "outsider art".

Terry obviously was a trained engineer, but he still effectively taught himself a lot of the stuff to build a kernel and operating system and compiler and a few dozen games. He was also obviously extremely mentally ill, but that's also kind of what makes TempleOS fascinating. It's an extremely bizarre thing to play with, and it can be a surprisingly big time sink if you really decide to get into it, and I don't think all the ideas in there are bad.

For the most part, it doesn't feel like there are a ton of original operating systems anymore; most people seem happy enough to use a dialect Linux of FreeBSD if you need something specialized, or Windows and macOS for general purpose. I don't blame these people, that's certainly what I would do too, but I have to give credit to Terry for deciding to do his own thing from scratch in assembly code. He was sort of a relic of a bygone era in that regard.

I certainly don't want to engage in any apologetics for Terry's outright racism and conspiracy theories, that stuff is horrible and I have no nice things to say about it, but he will always be a figure that I'm a little fascinated by.
It is a fact that twitter is less censored that it were before Musk. It's not 100% censorship free, but less censored. The fact that you think some of the things that aren't censored anymore should be, because you disagree with them, is irrelevant - it's just your private opinion, while reducing censorship is an objective fact.
Do you think the Agriculture minister drove tractors and tried out various fertilizers?

In a way, having a fresh mindset not bogged down by trends and status quo is actually a nice thing.
Yeah, but they're doing it a lot, and in a way that's just -- weird. And seems designed to evoke empathy.

Specifically when they keep saying "Russia needs [to do various awful things]" when referring to the desires of the current regime.
Sounds on the surface of like deliberate commercial libel; given the multiple change/revert cycles, talking to a lawyer sounds like a good idea. A lot of companies will respond more compliantly to a C&D from an attorney than to a polite request from another firm.
Even without the need for situational awareness, it feels weird to me to feel the need to constantly hear music.

When I do a bike ride, for me, the silence is a feature.
> this is not typical

going to sleep between 11PM and 1AM and getting up between 5AM and 6AM is completely typical for a parent with kids in school.

OK 1AM might be pushing it but by the time you eat dinner, help with homework, do chores, get the kids to bed, and take a bit of time for yourself and spouse to decompress, yeah it's easily getting close to 11PM.

Then getting up in time to get dressed, get the kids up, make breakfast, get them to school and get yourself to work, you're probably getting out of bed at aroud 6AM or maybe 7AM at the latest.
It’s been ~three years since the last try, but I’ve made multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
Fair point. Thanks for sharing your perspective!

Would you consider it a risk even if the app was open source?
Because it is informative about his true intentions when he talks about going to Mars. He is not stupid enough to think that we currently have the capability of building a Mars colony that would be even remotely close to sustainable in the face of a global disaster on Earth.

Rather, it's quite obvious he's a modern day Ross Perot who has perfected billowing up his companies on the taxpayer dime. And a manned trip to Mars represents the fattest international contract the world has ever seen.

If he bamboozles the world into financing this interplanetary field trip, he's going to personally end up with a net worth in the trillions...
I have always wondered if it would be possible to write a language agnostic package manager. Lord knows we probably don't need more programming languages, but it would be much easier to get on of the ground if it could just plug itself into an existing package manager.
I can’t. I deleted my account when it went sideways.
If you have cats you can trigger this response with many of them, using a leather belt.

If you hold the belt at the buckle end and then lay it on the floor while rotating your wrist back and forth, the belt will writhe and curl in the manner of a snake.

Many/most cats will instantly respond to this and they will try to strike the belt while simultaneously keeping as much distance as they can -- but still compelled to keep trying to strike the threat.
Great mix of napkin math and proper analysis, but what strikes me most is how cheap LLM access is. For it being relatively bleeding edge, us splitting hairs on < $20/M tokens is remarkable itself, and something tech people should be thrilled about.
It doesn't support icons and the colour scheme is identical to ls. I'm not a fan of hugely colourful output in general.

I don't have a full comparison table, often it's in small things. Personally I don't care for some decisions the eza/lsd people made, and that's fine. I don't really want to spend time explaining what I think is "wrong" with some tool someone made in their spare time.
Given the simplistic nature of the game, I'm not convinced.
The online book I am writing is just a set of jupyter notebooks (with lots of code) that get converted to html and uploaded.
You mean this trajectory? https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/tsla/revenue/

They had 18% revenue growth last year, 50% the year before that, 70% the year before that, and 28% the year before that. By comparison Toyota’s revenue is barely growing: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/tm/revenue/
This is called prototyping and there's not a thing wrong with it. Good luck and keep us updated.
If the Facebook app became an app store tomorrow that would already be a huge step of the way. Add Amazon changing their app to be an app store and a few other big apps and boom, big hit for Apple. Which is a good thing IMO.
NetLogo / Northwestern University | Senior Developer | ONSITE

Northwestern University’s Center for Connected Learning & Computer-Based Modeling (CCL) is looking for a full-time Software Developer to work on NetLogo. We are looking for a system builder who can design and implement a whole application independently. You will work in a small collaborative development team in a research group that also includes professors, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates, supporting the needs of multiple research projects. A major focus will be on development of NetLogo (in both Desktop and Web form), an open-source modeling environment for both education and scientific research. CCL grants also involve development work on HubNet, NetTango and other associated tools for NetLogo, including research and educational NSF grants involving building, delivering, and assessing NetLogo-based science curricula for secondary schools. NetLogo is the most widely used agent-based modeling software, and has hundreds of thousands of users worldwide using it for both research and education.

Languages used for new development are mainly Scala and JavaScript.

https://careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hr857prd_er/EMPLOYEE/HR...
There is no forcing, Apple can choose to not comply and leave the market entirely. Japan's market regulations supersede Apple's arbitrary App Store limitations.
This seems to be more of a branding problem than anything.

OP (rightfully) complains that there is a mismatch between what they (can) advertise ("We support OTEL") and what they are actually providing to the user. I have the same pain point from the consumer side, where I have to trial multiple tools and service to figure out which of them actually supports the OTEL feature set I care about.

I feel like this could be solved by introducing better branding that has a clearly defined scope of features inside the project (like e.g. "OTEL Tracing") which can serve as a direct signifier to customers about what feature set can be expected.
I do personally think the core technology fee is abhorrent. However, playing devil's advocate, is it actually wrong? Aren't there plenty of examples of platform holders monetising things released on the platform by other publishers? I'm thinking of games consoles as one obvious example. I'm pretty sure you would have to pay per copy produced, even back before the monolithic digital stores we have today.
I tried svelte but it is not it too. I'm happy with Lit tho, have no plans to change with all the Web Components interop. With React 19 I can ship most components in Lit and create a React shell and everybody is happy, me and my customers.
Yes, I am. I'm not certain, of course, which is why I acknowledge a nonzero chance of it.

There is not actually consensus about this amongst the experts in the field.
Slides have two distinct purposes: as a part of a presentation, and separately as a way to learn or review material outside of the presentation. Unfortunately they are at cross-purposes. For accompanying an oral presentation you don't want lots of data, you want a simple clear image that sync with what you are saying, and to change them rapidly. For learning outside the actual presentation, you want rich, detailed slides with lots of data on them, and leave them up for a while so people can absorb the information.

Ideally, we would build two different decks, each optimized for their purpose. But no one has time for that, so people try and do both in one deck, generally going with lots of information except for one or two images keyed to specific jokes. And it makes the whole thing less effective.
What's so good about Cargo?
The energy costs in the bay area are double the reported 24c cost, so energy alone would be around $100-ish a month instead of $50-ish.
3 models are included: base, instruct, and reward. All under license permitting synthetic data generation and commercial use.
People living with such extreme disabilities are so much stronger than me.

I put a lot of pride in my independence. If I needed someone else to feed, clothe, and bathe me, I think I'd rather die. I'd feel like I was no longer living, but merely surviving.
Came here to say this. No way you need to spend more than $1500 to run L3 8B at FP16. And you can get near-identical performance at Q8 for even less.

I'm guessing actual break-even time is less than half that, so maybe 2 years.
Microplastic concentration is highest in the lungs, but can also be found in the blood. As far as I know, we do not know how long they persist in the lung, blood, or body more generally.

Given their ubiquity, and their endocrine disrupting properties, I highly suspect that the rise in autism prevalence may in part be attributed to the prenatal exposures to microplastics, during which timing and dose effects of androgens exposures have set-up long lasting programs of development.

Re bakers, I did not know about that. Very interesting.
Python also has some positives that Go doesn't have, like iterators without the community freaking out about them. It's obviously way more ergonomic to use Python, and if you want types, Pyright works very well.

My issue with Go is that it's not low level enough to be good for systems programming but it's not high level enough to avoid boilerplate.
Any idea how many years away Zig is from v1.0?

As someone sold on Rust, I really want Zig to succeed.
That’s a large library with tons of C++ which implement much more than just a video player. See readme on the main page of that repository.

The video player in the VrmacVideo subfolder consumes Linux kernel APIs like libc, V4L2 and ALSA. It also uses C libraries which implement audio decoders. Most of the unsafe code you see in that subfolder is required to interop with these things.

The player itself, including parsers for Mpeg4 and MKV containers, is memory-safe C# apart from very small pieces, most of them in that static class: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/Con... And these functions are only used by Mpeg4 container parser. The parser for MKV containers didn’t need any unsafe at all.

That project is an interesting showcase for .NET because many people incorrectly believe that handling high bitrate realtime audio/video requires C or C++, and high level JIT compiled languages with garbage collected runtimes is a no go for use cases like that. However, as you see from the readme, the performance is slightly better than VLC player running on the same device.
> How can size not be an issue behind emissions?

There are three ways to look at this.

1. Which was bigger, and which was the greater source of emissions: a Ford Prefect, or one of Columbus' galleons?

2. I own a 38 m^2 apartment in the UK, and am buying a 107 m^2 house in Germany. The big one has approximately half the annual energy requirements of the small one.

(That's raw power requirements, not CO2 etc., so it doesn't account for e.g. PV being used to supply that power).

3. Given the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 99.9% in order to stabilise the temperature (because of how long CO2 stays in the air), if it was as simple as "mass ∝ greenhouse gas emissions", then simply downsizing cars would not be sufficient — we'd have difficulty wearing clothes at that ratio, as even just your shoes wearing out becomes significant given the kinds of changes we want.

It's such an enormous change that we can only solve it by a near total replacement for every part of almost all our industrial processes, and once we do that replacement, then we have to look again at what is possible, and decide from that what rules we need for houses and transport and everything else.

If all the steel and aluminium, all the batteries and plastics, are zero carbon at that point, then it doesn't matter how much of them you use — zero CO2 per kg is still zero total, no matter if the vehicle mass is 100 kg or 10,000 kg.
It's also effectively carbon sequestration. Which often gets claimed for plastics, which are generally digging up fossil carbon so even best case scenario is break even, whereas this is carbon extracted from atmosphere by the tree.
"For all we know they bought it on wish.com."

Source?
I'm not sure Rust is in the same space as C++, so I'm not sure I'd call it a better C++.

I use C++ because I want performance without all the accounting operations that have to happen in C. I try to write my code in a safe way, but language safety just isn't a priority for me. I guess that's why I'm not using Rust. Fighting the borrow checker doesn't seem worth it to me to gain something that's just not that much of a priority. But I'm not writing an OS or a server.

I'd think of Rust more like a better Ada or some language where safety is first priority
It feels accurate to me. Whenever I experience a manic episode, my sleep patterns are severely disrupted. Often, I don't sleep at all, or I manage only brief 1-2 hour naps. During these periods, my memories become fragmented and disjointed, making it difficult to recall events clearly. The weeks or even months during these episodes blend together, creating a haze of scattered memories.
The sun's magnetic field is about to flip
I was mildly curious at best to check out this article, and wow the design of it really blew me away! The entire web page appears to be a functioning spreadsheet itself.
Ancient Ocean Slowdown Warns of Future Climate Chaos on Earth
So why are PWAs and alternative browser engines okay on macOS but not iOS?

These security excuses are bullshit and that does include PWAs.
This simply isn't going to happen.
Is this an irony? Paying a subscription fee to a magazine, for people to actually write such sharp and to the point articles (no shameless "the industry is broken! Enter my my startup. It will solve it, buy it now" articles) is really different for paying a subscription for maintenance mode 2010 software.

The margin in the former case is much lower since people need to perpetually invest time to create good content. Which is the whole point of this article - this isn't correct for the latter.
Lol this isn't about helping users, this is about creating training data for MS to use to train their models.
No way you need $3,800 to run an 8B model. 3090 and a basic rig is enough.

That being said, the difference between OpenAI and AWS cost ($1 vs $17) is huge. Is OpenAI just operating at a massive loss?

Edit: Turns out AWS is actually cheaper if you don't use the terrible setup in this article, see comments below.
When that happens to me it's often because I'm ruminating about something, can't get it out of my mind and relax. If that's what's keeping you up, CBT (cognitive behavorial therapy) techniques can help to stop that thought pattern, or just taking some daily action (any concrete action besides just turning it over in your mind) towards resolving the thing you're thinking about can help.

White noise sometimes helps me sleep too, especially after waking up in the middle of the night.
I look forward to more analysis. Watching this guy on youtube play with his mangled toy is always going to be a part of my outlook as an engineer. We really could sit down and build it all again from scratch, and yeah we might go crazy, but we learn so much in the process.
I did something very similar to this but I have since change the way my website works. I pulled everything from a rss after page load then I came up with a way to show a n amount of results the user might have wanted to navigate. I think my approach was cool but ultimately I think it’s better to give a 404 error then to redirect someone. Here’s the post if anyone cares https://decode.sh/redirecting-users-to-the-correct-page-afte...
In recent times, has Japan passed similar laws or executive orders that challenge the economic hegemony of the US?
That is closer than I expected, and is specifically 47% of the re-entry mass (which is what we care about here) is from controlled. I would expect if you were just looking at # of satellites the numbers would be much more skewed as lots of little satellites would probably burn up and its the big ones that we need to worry about surviving to the ground.
I wonder if this could be solved with a local maxima. Let the established landowners keep a (much smaller) benefit to align incentives.

Spitballing...

I wonder if it could be balanced to give an LVT discount for holding on to land for 5+ years or some such thing. In this system, we still have reduced land prices because of LVT but there's still a benefit that old money has over the default and can clutch tightly to. Suddenly, long term owners have an incentive to keep such a system else they be set at the same level as new owners.
llama.cpp + llama-3-8b in Q8 run great on a single T4 machine. Cannot remember the TPS I got there, but it was much above 6 mentioned in the article.
I don't think you can do dependent builds with cargo.

Like build a sub-target using say wasm-pack to then embed the output into a binary. IIRC it gets upset because the cargo lock is already acquired or something.