skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the issue kind of becomes software support. For example, something like Handbrake will gladly use AV1, but Kdenlive will refuse to acknowledge that it exists (at least for hardware encode, last I checked; that said, they still mark NVENC as experimental).

Also, OBS handles AV1 nicely, but you can’t stream to a site like Twitch because they only support H264 outside of specific experiments.

That said, Arc GPUs are nice, I have an A580 and while the drivers aren’t as mature as Nvidia or AMD, I got it for a pretty good price and they’re gradually patching things out.
Ask HN: Help me understand RAG vs. fine tuning for building a coding partner
I’ve built many projects with Ruby on Rails, and still follow the framework as a hobby. I have projects I want to build with it, but as a dad with a full time demanding job, I just don’t have the time anymore to dedicate hours to coding (spare me the call outs of just figuring out how to find time).

I also have been closely following gen AI and LLM developments the last few years.

So I had a thought: what if there was a Rails coding assistant, trained on all of the popular books / courses / tutorials / gem documentation / well written open source projects?

I’m imagining something where it’s not even an IDE interface, it starts with some questions about what feature I want to build, then it starts generating the code for me to review, and I can chat it further to refine the code it’s creating for the feature. Then I can test the feature, and if it all works, I can accept the pull request basically, and move on to the next feature.

(Again, ignore the fact that building something like this also requires time commitment. Also for discussion purposes, put aside copyright concerns for a second).

My question: what would be the right architecture for this? Is RAG the best way to load up the tool with the knowledge? Or do I fine tune a model with all of the content? I can’t nail down when to use each method exactly.

I found this project: https://github.com/e-p-armstrong/augmentoolkit which sounds like what I would want to use, but then I see RAGs called out constantly, so I just don’t know.

Bonus question: let’s say I have a $10k budget. Is buying a maxed out Mac Studio a good investment for training and self hosting?
I'm not sure I get what's the problem with OpenTelemetry as it is then? I'm not familiar with the JavaScript implementation, but it seems to be modular. You can just import @opentelemetry/api and @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-web, and as far as I understand you'll get the API (annotations) and the tracing implementation, but without the exporter (OTLP). You can plugin your own exporter or even just use the API - am I missing something?

I think the only issue is that the OpenTelemetry API also includes Metrics and Logs. I just tend to ignore these parts when using OpenTelemetry.
Microsoft fixes hack-me-via-Wi-Fi Windows security hole
Just anecdotes or vibes, having been on both sides of that one. I'd call it more of an "indoor" vs "outdoor" work dichotomy, honestly.
This is giving boomer
Usually Latin past participles are passive, but loquor is a deponent verb which has only passive forms with an active meaning, so locutus means "spoken" as in "I have spoken" rather than "the words have been spoken".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deponent_verb
I was a huge Anacreon fan back in the day, thank you for hours and hours of entertainment!
No fewer than four cores across three architectures. It might be even harder to code for than the PS2.
What was the smallest consumer FM radio back then? I think it would have been quite the engineering challenge, given that the author notes it has very fine pitch SMD components and a QFN package too. According to https://www.utacgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UTAC_QF..., QFN came about in 1998, 9 years after the gameboy! Though a gameboy was pretty heavily integrated for the time too, so maybe they could have done it.
Huge ecosystem starting with numpy, pandas, mathplot et al for data science, pytorch, tensorflow, jax for ML, gradio, rerun for visualization, opencv, open3d for image/pointcloud processing, pyside for gui and others.
I would say much of it is data. I believe at this point, you can feed it the whole world wide web and it would still be a little smaller than what GPT-4 is trained on.

I'd speculate OpenAI hires a lot of people to make new data for them. There's stories of people who were interviewed where the job is just solving questions to be fed to GPT-4. They're likely looking at things that were thumbed down and adding several other data points to handle those.

There's also the quality of this data. You could feed it data from private convos (which Meta probably does) but most of that data would be low quality.

We're finding that Claude, GPT, Llama, even DeepL consistently mistranslate "you" in Indonesian as "Anda". It's never capitalized in the real world and it's a safe word, the equivalent of "they/them" pronouns in English. Imagine how weird it would be if someone wrote "Alice walks Their dog every afternoon." It's likely they were trained on government docs or perhaps some kind of ads.

But the point is there's lots of holes in the data and the perception of quality is how often it doesn't fail these.

None of the benchmarks catch this bug either. It's not just Indonesian - most of the code benchmarks use Python. So we'll also likely need better benchmarks in the future.
But when will you have to leave home?
I don’t want to rotate my phone just to view your video.
That’s really cool, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this! I'd been following several other attempts and making HLS/transcoding servers but they had all pretty much given up before making something real. Kyoo looks great, and awesome post. Can't wait to hear more about your adventures.
FWIW I worked as a SWE at Apple for a few years and it did not seem like women were discriminated against in any way. In my experience these pay differences overwhelmingly come down to not being aggressive enough when negotiating offers and bonuses.
UBC and SFU have great ECE programs, especially for FPGA research
I tried using that book with a kid with adhd and it wasn't working, but I have tried to use its lessons while reading other books. If anybody reads this that has success despite adhd, please let me know if you have any advice.

4 is still pretty young so I'm not stressing about it.
I think it's just the wrong implied use of calm. There's no way her body was in a calm state. It's just that adrenaline adjusts the bodies resources, which could create a feeling of mental calm. But describing this as a sense of calm is a world away from the calm some Buddhist up on a mountain experiences and other such uses of calm.

I guess my issue is just describing this as if it was just another day commuting to the office. The stakes were very high and her description and this article almost imply otherwise.
How? Distributed traces show you what’s going on with a request in detail.
Metrics tell you zero detail, by definition. Logs show you whenever people have decided to log manually which is usually very incomplete
The fundamental problem is mis aligned incentives and consequences.

It’s really unlikely YOUR luggage will impact YOur escape much at all, at worst you can abandon it at almost any point.

The consequence of injury will be for those around you, and possible delay for people behind you. But not really YOU.

For “important papers” I suspect there is some evaluation of how much they are willing to risk the lives of those other people at the back of the plane.

Rule should be if you bring your luggage you are handcuffed to the plane until the last person leaves. I think in older times you would have more severe consequences.
Super bad naming for a military force. "Pepsi" of all things. ;)
My kid taught himself to read, but he's also on the spectrum. He was recognizing symbols and then words at the age of two - the first thing he really recognized was "Thank You". At some point he just learned to sound things out. It's been a mild issue with ABA for his age because a lot of the material includes words and he just reads things.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was probably either reading ever night, maybe Ms Rachel on Youtube, or something else on youtube, or some combination, but I didn't teach him how to sound out long words, he worked that out on his own. I'm not sure I could replicate it though. He's 4 now, recognizes 100+ flags, knows most objects in the universe, can read just about any word I've thrown at him. I'm not entirely sure he internalizes most of what he reads, but he can easily read anything my 9 year old can.
There are lots of covid infections where the person develops no symptoms but gets organ damage or long covid anyway, if that is what you mean about no COVID. Test positive = you have COVID, even if no symptoms. No symptoms and no test = you might or might not have COVID. It might be possible to detect virus reservoirs in people after the infection itself resolves, though.
Also check out the detailed chapter level summary here: https://www.booksummary.pro/Why_We_Sleep_summary.html
In my opinion, clever and motivated are two completely different things. Trying to get around the restrictions on video watching? Sure, he’ll spend an hour typing possible 4 number combinations and realize he’ll eventually get there.

Having to make the effort to actually look at the letters, read them, and figure out the word? Nope, that’s too much effort. Besides, if he can read himself, how is he going to get papa to read to him.

I dunno how kids work.
> On the other hand, I certainly read some books too young, but I don't really regret that, so maybe I'm just making up problems to worry about.

Don't have kids but I agree, this sounds part of growing up. I believe adult books as a precursor help understand real experiences better.

Being a fan of BFG and Matilda, I accidentally ended up picked up Roald Dahl's "Skin" (his adult short stories collection) when I spotted it as a preteen in my school library.

I didn't understand half of it but I still devoured it in a day.

I only started understanding when I was much older and actually experienced similar things in life.
I suspect recruits susceptible to motion sickness don’t make it through basic training
Surprised to see this name at the top of this website. Obscure in the moment perhaps but ultimately legendary. Eden's Island is fantastic exotica, perhaps the most iconic. There's even a documentary in the works.
I mean... does anyone think that an LLM-assisted program to trial and error cheesecake recipes to a panel of judges wouldn't result in the best cheesecake of all time..?

The baking part is robotics, which is less fair but kinda doable already.
The generative aspect might be slightly oversold, but I’m interested in the practical applications being targeted by DeepMind and similar labs. AlphaFold’s ability to predict protein structures for disease treatment is very exciting.
Considering the sheer stupidity of most AI chat capacity right now, and the saturation of media by visual AI sludge, to the point that it's starting to turn so many people off, I wouldn't worry just yet. I'm a photographer, (art photography) and as far as I can see, the medium is still very much alive and well despite generative AI and all its numerous extra fingers, or not. I worried about the same at first, but much less so right now. Humans will continue to love and support interesting endeavors by other humans, AI notwithstanding.

I also work as a technical writer, and haven't yet seen much replacement of human writers for any higher-level content simply because programs like GPT either write with an absurd amount of contortion, or just hallucinate enough to be completely unreliable.
> humans with clubs they hadn’t had time to evolve to be scared of

This is not a thing. Species don't require generations to learn to be afraid of other species that hunt them. Species have encountered new species since the beginning of time. If it took 1000 generations to learn such a thing, nothing would have ever made it.

It's not as if there's a shortage of dangerous predators in Australia, even to this day.

Just because an article hand waves an explanation doesn't make it so.
Hah, neat. Had a similar idea long long ago. Wanted to run it against the show, Friends, to model the object interactions against text to speech results against a transcript. The idea was to create a speech to text slash plot generator using silly bayes stuff that latches onto accurate text to speech pairings over inaccurate pairings when compared against the transcript. Friends because it's such a popular show that has so much association and accessible transcripts.
I think we will get there in the end but it will be slow.

When I was doing performances stuff: Intel was our main platform and memory consistency was stronger there. We would try to write platform-agnostic multi threading code (in our case, typically spin-locks) but without testing properly on the other platforms, we would make mistakes and end up with race conditions, accessing unsynchronized data, etc.

I think Python will be the same deal. With Python being GIL'd through most of its life cycle bits and pieces won't work properly, multi-threaded until we fix them.
it's a little bit like wearing a mohawk or a short skirt. a certain kind of people reveal what kind of people they are by harassing the mohawk-wearer and blaming the target for it. nobody is going to read this thread and be dumb enough to say, 'oh, yes, clearly, the person who was derailing discussion about the patent status of h.264 and the future of video codecs, in order to advocate the far more important topic of proper capitalization, was someone other than animalmuppet'

(i recommend you knock it off)

but yeah, the main benefit is that it gets people to read about the long now foundation
Disagree with this assessment. There was not large numbers of humans until the end of the glacial period and the advent of pastoralism and agriculture.
Wow, this is incredible. I don't think the fine details of the discussion are very interesting -- all three of them are preaching to the choir where I'm concerned -- but the exchange is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

This paper cites what I am officially nominating as the greatest paper of all time, Herbert & Simon's 1970 summary of their Odyssean Problem Solving framework: https://iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Newell_box00018_fld01306_d... So, you know, would recommend that if you find this intriguing! You can't help but smile at the pure unabashed nerdiness "Well, I always end up talking about computers. I’m in love with computers."

Perhaps my only commentary on the text itself is that I was shocked to see him in such an openly philosophical mode... a good reminder that computer science is an upstart offshoot of Philosophy of Mind and Formal Logic.
Dreamliner? Impeccable safety record so far.
For accuracy, it was written in FOCAL, not BASIC.
Employers can collect task/business process staps by recording the screens.

This will help train RPA bots and reduce the need for human workforce for repetitive tasks.

Microsoft can collect this data across industries with or without informed consent and sell RPA/AI bots back to the same enterprise customers as a managed service.

Lot of commercial potential there for the taking. Just needs a innocuous enough cover story ro make it a default offering to server you the individual customer alone and help you gain an edge over your peers.
For one species, sure, for 35 you have to wonder how ideologically driven you have to be to keep blaming the environment. We're at tobacco companies in the 90s level of denialism here.
> Titanium is an elemental metal. You don't "manufacture" it so much as extract it, and like any other metal it has clear, known, rather easily testable qualities. So do its alloys.

You manufacture pieces, and you do so in very specific ways. This wasn't just a pile of titanium in a box. Scraps don't need the same kind of certificates.

> The analogy didn't just not "really work well", it made zero sense. Like, in the first place a counterfeit of anything has to actually pass for the thing, and haggis most certainly does not pass as a croissant.

You misread me. I said a food analogy. The general idea of any food analogy, including yours, doesn't work well.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/05/07/mystery-meat-of-1...

Tells of two such people, and a myth of more. It tastes like you'd expect random meat sitting in a freezer for millennia to taste like.
I'd imagine the sooner something went extinct the tastier it was.
> came within 400 feet of slamming into the ocean ...

> dropped at an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute ...

So at that rate of decent it was ~1/10t of a minute or 6 seconds before hitting the water. That's way too close.
There's been an increase in motorcycling in the US over the past 20 years, and I think a decent amount of the newcomers have a disproportionate amount of respect compared to the capabilities of the machine they're buying.
That testimony was so empty, and the fawning over Smith's "acceptance of responsibility" felt silly given they've demonstrated no real plan for correcting their course and rectifying their past mistakes.

In addition to the things pointed out in the article, some highlights from watching it myself:

* Smith mentioned that individual contributors (ICs) will have security as a part of their individual assessments affecting their take home pay, but further digging revealed that this could be as little as 3% of their salary, and much less when factoring in stock. And, project managers are not subject to this. His response to that was people love to get straight A's in Silicon Valley. This feels like a way for them to place future blame on ICs.

* At one point concern was raised about ransomware's impact on rural hospitals. Smith said they were working with hospitals to give them discounts of 75% or even free, for the first year. I would've liked to see them talk about why security is a paid for add-on instead of necessary part of the base product.

* On that ransomware point, Smith said the best solution was to pressure Moscow to stop their people from deploying ransomware, while rambling on about our alliance with the Soviet Union in World War 2. What a silly, ineffective approach and silly tangent to go on.

* He talked about how finding these security issue was everyone's job and how happy he was that the State Department had brought one such issue to their attention. I was happy to see when one of the representatives pointed out that the government pays them to do that job, specifically.

* He seem woefully under-prepared to talk specifics about some questions, but to me it just felt like there weren't good answers and feigning lack of knowledge was a way to sidestep the line of questioning.

* When it came to Recall, he liked to talk about how it wasn't a "released" product and praised themselves on the changes they'd made to their approaches, conveniently leaving out that many of the flaws in their approach were pointed out after their "non-releases" to the public.

All in all, Brad Smith's answers were mostly empty, often pandering, and deceptively self-aggrandizing (self being Microsoft). Admittedly, I didn't have a high opinion of Microsoft before this hearing, but this definitely made me think even less of them. The government needs to take a long hard look at their vendors' and their own approaches to software security.
You didn't mention "flagged", which seems curious because it's not a highly controversial topic or article.
From the article:

Oracle’s bet on the advertising industry was undermined when Meta, doing business as
Facebook at the time, shut down its data to third parties including Oracle in 2018,
following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That was a major loss to the kind of
insights Oracle Advertising could share.

No idea who picked up the $ instead though.
For Apple News people: https://apple.news/AMJaXyLhURGmx13smZjOqpQ
I see no evidence of a supply shortage in my large representative market.

If you want an older house or a new one, its available.

They seem to be implying that building 2 million new houses is the means to reduce housing prices.

That isn't logical. Nor would such a supply be built without presold demand. New construction is already on offer, and the demand is what it is.

Overall, this article seems to be PR support for a Federal House Building program as a means of economic stimulation. They'd do better with it if they were more honest.
> after how many thousands of years after the wheel was invented that women got the right to vote

The Haudanashonee clan mothers, Cleopatra, Kush queen mothers and Anasazi at Chaco might like to have a word on that.
why is this post flagged ?
I elaborated on the incident in this comment [0]. I read the comments that got deleted and they were constructive and informative. Not only did the Forgejo team edit them, they appear to have gone back and deleted them entirely and there's also no record on the Internet Archive. The only public record that there was any opposition to that appointment at all is a random Hacker News thread.

I'm very uncomfortable with speech being censored unless there's a very clear reason (which there wasn't in this case) and I'm even more uncomfortable with it when the topic at hand is the appointment of a new moderator.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677150
EU missing out on yet another Industrial Revolution, just like they did with the consumer tech, dot-com, and smartphone eras. But you can only miss out on so many Industrial Revolutions before you fade into irrelevancy.

It's strange and frustrating that the EU has decided regulation should suffocate innovation. This is not how progress happens. It seems shortsighted and blind to the mechanisms that have made our QoL come so far in the past few centuries.
I have dabbled in Cython, C and Rust via PyO3.

C is much cleaner and portable. Easy to use in Python directly.
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Enterprise Time Series Data Stack
For what it's worth, the oldest got all the way through on his own power, asking to do it each day. The next kid petered out around day 45 and we didn't try to force it, but she's even more advanced than the first one was at her age now. Not stressing about it seems to be a good approach : )
How to stream response for GPT-4o image input with Bun
Huygens Optics might be interesting to you. https://youtu.be/rdlZ8KYVtPU
I doubt it at this point: it's a somewhat niche tool, and there are plenty of competitors. The app is named Rego, and it's a points of interest database.

What I liked about it originally is that it offered a web-based interface for adding new locations, but that fell over a couple of years ago.

I still like the interface and export capabilities, and I prefer to keep my extensive PoI data separate from my route data, so I use Gaia for the latter.

But I can't imagine there would be enough people like me willing to pay a subscription fee to bring the web interface back online and support new development, at least not without a marketing budget that might never receive a decent RoI.