skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I totally agree with you.

I tried to do a bait-and-switch with my comment above for comedic effect but I don't think it worked. I started it with a preface you'd expect from someone genuinely arguing against VPSs, then each of my points was actually about how the common arguments against VPSs are deluded/stupid.
Big brain (intelligence) comes at a huge cost, and is only useful if you are a generalist.

I'd assume that being a generalist drove intelligence. It may have started with warm bloodedness and feathers/fur and further boosted in mammals with milk production (& similar caring for young by birds) - all features that reduce dependence on specific environmental conditions and therefore expose the species to more diverse environments where intelligence becomes valuable.
Do you mean like this?

https://youtu.be/4EJLmIC9cJE?si=gincFsBUzYwQmtIs
> due to the lack of natural predators, the wildlife in the Galápagos is known for being extremely tame without instinctual fear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_wildlife

We have actual evidence that it is a developed instinct. If you’ve ever been to the Galapagos islands, it’s extremely obvious. The sea lions and pelicans casually walk up to the counter at the fish market as if they’re just regulars shopping.
> In an 8-bit colorspace, h.264/5 suffer from virtually no block artifacts. AV1 can't get rid of them without upping to 10-bit. Not that it's necessarily a problem.

H.264 gets enough of a compression boost from 10-bit math that you should be using it anyway.

I don't know if this affects H.265

> The real problem with AV1 is how darn computationally intensive it is to compress.

How are you measuring that?

It's true that SVT-AV1 is slower than x264 at preset 6 or below. And it's slower than x265 at preset 3 or below. But those aren't the presets you use if you want to be fast.

SVT-AV1 can match the quality of x264 veryslow while running at the speed of x264 veryfast.

It can match the quality of x265 veryslow while running at the speed of x265 medium.

It can match the quality of x265 medium while running at the speed of x265 ultrafast.

https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AV1-Co...
The Flex Report Q2 2024
No, correlation alone is not interesting at all. If you were right we should be studying how the reduction in piracy over the last few centuries is strongly correlated with the increase in global warming. Pure nonsense.
> which i think is fine, as most decompression is on user side, but compression is on server side (and mostly only ever done once!).

This is 100% use case dependent.

For Netflix, compression is only done once and decompression happens a ridiculous amount of times.

For YouTube, popular channels are similar to Netflix; but they suffer from a very very long tail of videos which only get watched a handful of times.

For chat applications, videos may get watched only once by the recipient.

For video conferencing, videos get compressed once (on the client's machine even, so ideally using hardware encoding), then decompressed once per recipient. This use-case also has the issue that every client needs to decode every other client's video stream, so you better send video in a format which every client can quickly decode (ideally using hardware decoding).

Notice how "slow compression is fine because decompressing happens much more frequently" is only true for the Netflix use-case and the popular YouTube channels use-case. For everything else, slow compression is a problem.

(Luckily, at least according to others here, AV1 isn't necessarily slow to encode, it's just the reference implementation that's slow and there are software implementations which match the speed of x264. I haven't verified this though)
Absolutely. Software encoders are constantly pushing the envelope in terms of quality, and they have tuneable knobs to allow you to pick the speed vs quality trade off.

Hardware encoders are much more restrictive. They will target a maximum resolution and frame rate, realtime encoding a possibly low latency as requirement.

The standards define the bitstream, but is lots of scope for cheating to allow for simpler hardware implementation. You could skip motion prediction and use simple quantisation, it would just contribute to the residual entropy that needs to be encoded. Then, you can use inefficient implementations of the entropy encoders. The end result is something that can be interpreted as a valid bitstream but threw out all the algorithmic tricks to give you high quality compressed video.

I think specifically in terms of YouTube, it’s not a hardware encoding issue but it’s a purposeful optimisation for storage and bandwidth.
Says who? Sentry has many other types of telemetry and we’ve existed long before OTel. Who are these all knowing humans who say this is what telemetry is? Are they also going to build every collector for every kind of past current telemetry?

The whole idea that some marketing bs has translated to technology fact is why we’re in this mess.
Good analysis but did many people miss what happened during the Tham Luang cave rescue?

One of his most terrible (failed) marketing stunts:

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-accuse-the-cave-dive...

> I’ve had a Model Y for more than 3 years now, well before Elon revealed himself as the kind of person he really is, and I’ve been happy with it.
Hey HN! I'm the author of the blog post. I didn't mention this in the post, but I'll try to merge some of these settings into Django by making them the new default or the default for new projects created with the start project command.

Any feedback on all of this is greatly appreciated!
Placeholder 2: as alluded to in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40678281 , time and chance happeneth, so by and by either every extraordinary person past a certain generation is your (Rebecca's) descendant or none of them are.
Cheap Linux workstations.

It wasn't just the obvious price advantage, but despite Solaris' best efforts, Linux was still superior, because people could learn it at home.
Maybe in the movies, sure. The majority of the population is already carelessly pumping CO2 into the atmosphere even when most agree emissions should be reduced.
Sorry. Not super scientific. My vision started to degrade after I had diagnosed retinal detachment. My vision didn't degrade yet when I was diagnosed. I was just told to go to the doctor if my symptoms of flashing lights returned. I just lazily noticed that I couldn't read labels far away. After changing my lifestyle I don't have any issues with my vision. Feels like when I was a kid.
And Tesla is selling FSD for thousands of dollars per activation.
Waymo technology is awesome, but I'm pretty sure, right now it's a money-losing business for its owner, Google.
he/she was explicitly saying v12 was making an error, and someone corrected to say that it wasn't using v12 yet in that specific case

nobody is trying to shift goalposts
Inevitable; irrelevant to the fact of your existence.
"Walk" as in short voyages during the time of the Sahul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul#/media/File:Map_of_Sunda...

The timing aligns with the genetics and with artefacts: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/evidence-o...
One interesting bit is that recently Nvidia's CEO said Tesla is ahead of the other companies in the space. My opinion is also that Tesla isn't but then we have a connundrum. Is Nvidia's CEO just saying this because Waymo doesn't buy GPUs from them?

> “Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars,” Huang said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-says-tesla-far-ahe...
Ask HN: How is Kotlin and Compose multiplatform over flutter?
I've used flutter to develop several self-user apps in both Desktop (Macos/Windows) and iOS platforms, and I just know about the Compose multiplatform using Kotlin. I knew flutter has been around for quite a few years and thus is quite mature & wildly used, but I really like the Kotlin programming language. I wonder how is Compose vs flutter, will it be a "future star" and beat or play with flutter in the same arena? Has any one experienced with Compose and could you share some opinions?
And some time after Windows 98, Intel + Windows became a viable platform for running AutoCAD, CATIA and similar engineering software. Perhaps not perfect, but for many companies it was good enough.
These responses are mimicking voice and tone of the GLaDOS robot from the game Portal.
AV1 doesn't have the fast encode/decode speed that H.264 has.
Kmemsnoop – install a HW breakpoint in Linux kernel for tracing/debugging
> At one point, the FSD/AP engine itself crashed on me while fully engaged. Unfortunately, this happened on a freeway connector ramp with a pretty steep curve, and when it crashed, it disengaged the steering wheel and sent us careening towards the barrier

It seems the lessons of Therac-25 were not only ignored, but thoroughly trampled underfoot. WTF.
As of now, I think almost the entirety of WinRT should be accessible from .NET via https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT

There is also a pre-release which enables NativeAOT support (note that AOT compatibility there is driven by individual engineers that want to make it happen, there are no "instituted from above" projects regarding it but I may be wrong)
What scientific return are we getting from a gram sized probe moving at 30,000 km per second?
ARIS – A portable Lua-inspired language that transpiles into C#
You can also just have a dumb EV and thus do a favor to both your own safety and the survivability of the planet. EV does not automatically entail AI-assist.
No. Architecture is like art. With sufficient practice it is commonly expressed with ease, but for most people it will forever be a dark mystery not well understood. The tragedy there is descriptions are insufficient, like a foreign language, if you are not already well practiced in architecture. The result then is just a plan and otherwise explicitly assigning tasks.
I have FSD v12 and for my drives, in my part of the country, I have to do a mild safety intervention maybe once a week (like, getting closer to another car than I'm comfortable with)

sorry other people are having different experiences, but FSD is a significant quality of life improvement for me. Nothing is nicer than getting in the car after a long day and letting it chauffeur me home. (yes I still pay attention)
Do you have numbers for that?

I don't have a comparison for decode speed, but software encoding of AV1 is able to match the performance of x264 veryfast while looking vastly better.
Microsoft already builds countless APIs and services into Windows that are there mostly to enable spying by corporate owners. If you don’t think governments of all sorts are asking for This sort of functionality to be baked into all operating systems, you are being naive, especially on the face of recent reports of Microsoft’s internal willingness to retain a major security hole in ADFS rather than risk a lucrative US government contract.

It’s true they also have folks internally pushing for this as a source of training data for MS AI models as well. There are countless “benefits” for Microsoft that have nothing to do with the personal utility.

The personal utility angle is just the marketing hook, which they thankfully misjudged. How else, though, could they justify recording the screen all the time?
Microsoft keep bringing in game-breaking features to Microsoft Excel to break the meta. It is aimed at the casual audience to bring in the party gamers and makes the program an absolute mess competitively.
> Is Nvidia's CEO just saying this because Waymo doesn't buy GPUs from them?

Yes.
It's a bit confusing but here's my best attempt to explain it:

- Trace events (span events) are intended to be structured events and possibly can have semantic attributes behind them - similar to how spans have semantic attributes. They're great if your team is all bought in on tracing as an organization. They will colocate your span events with your parent span. In practice they have poor searchability/indexing in many tools, so they should only be used if you only intend to use them when you will discover the span first. (Ex. debug info that is only useful to figure out why a span was very slow and you're okay not being easily searchable)

- Log records are plain old logs, they should be structured, but don't have to be, and there isn't a high expectation of structured data, much less semantic attributes. Logs can be easily adopted without buying into tracing.

- Events API, this is an experimental part of Otel, but is intended to be an API that emits logs with the expectation of semantic conventions (and therefore is also structured). Afaik end users are not the intended audience of this API.

Many teams fall along the spectrum of logs vs tracing which is why there's options to do things multiple ways. My personal take is that log records are going to continue to be more flexible than span events as an end-user given the state of current tools.

Disclaimer: I help build hyperdx, we're oss, otel-based observability and we've made product decisions based on the above opinions.
Tdlib-rs: Rust wrapper around the Telegram Database Library
You're talking about training the foundation models. But what about all the fine tuning on non-public business data that will be necessary to make gen AI useful for actual business processes?

I'm finding it difficult to estimate the size of this workload compared to continued training of foundation models. Perhaps it depends on whether there are new architectural breakthroughs that require retraining of foundation models.

And what about non-language tasks such as interpreting video and 3D sensory data? This is potentially huge, but between huge peaks there is often a valley of unknowable depth and breadth.
There have been lawsuits. I'm unable to find the actual documents, but this article [0] reports on it and has some unbelievable quotes in it.

> Lin rejected Tesla's argument that LoSavio should have known earlier. "Although Tesla contends that it should have been obvious to LoSavio that his car needed lidar to self-drive and that his car did not have it, LoSavio plausibly alleges that he reasonably believed Tesla's claims that it could achieve self-driving with the car's existing hardware and that, if he diligently brought his car in for the required updates, the car would soon achieve the promised results," Lin wrote.

EDIT: found the court document; the quote is in the last paragraph on page 5: https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/05/16/teslaamendedcomplaint.pdf

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/tesla-must-face-...
It already fails in Manhattan. I know that by US standards, the traffic in Manhattan is already considered chaos, but it's usually pretty tame compared to other countries.

There are these videos by this HUGE Tesla fanboy, just look here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo_hC84OSwg

where at 8:20 it fails to properly deal with a cop car and the fanboy complains that the cop did not obey traffic laws (good luck arguing that when you make him do an emergency stop...).

It's even worse in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL9pKytV94I

FSD consistently has problems with pedestrians in NY, who of course will just walk also on a red light if you hesitate during turning. US people might consider this "chaos", but it's perfectly normal behavior in many countries, where a red light for pedestrians is more a suggestion than a rule...
I see a good number of bikes in the video but no moving car for the most part, and in the few instances of an oncoming car, IIRC the other car was yielding, the auto-driving car just stayed its path, maybe slowed a bit. No cutting, no weaving, no squeezing, no nothing. Not the kind of “dense traffic” I have in mind. I would call it light-to-no traffic on poor roads.
Congrats on the launch! If I understood it correctly, you also build vector indexes on the fly on live data? Curious - what usecases are you seeing for RAG on streaming data?
Wow sounds a bit like me. Didn't realize that that's a trope somehow, because I know no one else like that.

But that may be because of the low relationship effort count. Probalby hard for two people of that type to ever meet
What’s bizarre to me is that the entire field of “AI” research, including the LLM space, seem to be repeating the exact same mistakes of the ecosystem models of the 1920’s and later. Gross oversimplifications of reality not because that’s what is actually observed but because that’s the only way to make reality fit with the desired outcome models.

It’s science done backwards which isn’t really science at all. Not that I think these models have no use cases, they’re simply being used too broadly because the people obsessed with them don’t want to admit their limitations.
> Meaning that it's really not reliable enough to take your hands off the wheel.

Soooo just like ChatGPT then? As the parent comment said.
I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC?

Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.
Which ones? Waymo is geolocked. Mercedes' Drive Pilot is a glorified lane assist. Cruise is suspended. Who else?
Nothing beats standing up after my day’s ended and walking to the living room ;)
It does't work to get fair odds (estimated value 1) when the gains are a nice dinner downtown and a loss might be financial servitude.
The consumer doesn’t care, but an evaluation of the state of the art and potential of self-driving should.
> There is no reason why it should get confused even with a vision only system.

So people keep asserting. And yet here we are.
Lots of successful leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison ...etc) are/were introverts with few to no friends during their childhood.

On the other hand, that depends on the environment: if Joe is born in a poor crowded corner of the town where drugs and stuff are the coin, Joe may have more chance to succeed in life if his parents isolate him from the neighborhood as a child/teenager.
People who drive often find basic driving "automatic"; if you still need to be vigilant, maybe even hypervigilant because you're not personally driving the car, what's the advantage?
This is a really pernicious lie. If you believe this sort of thing, explain why you think sexual harassment laws are unfair, and why corporations were so trusting of their employees before that.

Hint: They weren’t trusting. Corporate surveillance follows technology. The bosses are obsessed with watching their workers every second. This is nothing new. What’s new is that we now do most of our work on networked computers, cameras are vanishingly cheap, and data storage is abundant.
Yes I did. The result is perfect as far as I can tell. Not everyone is eligible to that method: you need to have enough space in your eye so that it is doable. So checking for that is a first step to be sure it is doable. The only serious risk is an infection, so each eye was done in a different operation room. I was also told that the result is better than lasik, it is more costly though.
I'll keep my functioning spine and legs thank you ; )
There's much this articles doesn't mention, such as the hugely popular modern representation of the song in the movie Moulin Rouge, and the songs origin in a Yiddish song and even as far back as Dvorak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy
> Likewise there is heavy regulation in the United States of robocalling, telemarketing, and mass texting

And how is that going? After 100 years there is still very little you can do against phone abuse

Robocalls Finally Have the U.S. Government's Attention
https://time.com/6513036/robocalls-government-action/

> Around 33 million robocalls are made each day to Americans

Robocall Statistics
https://worldmetrics.org/robocall-statistics/
I read every books in the house as soon as I could read adult books (by age 5). Some books even multiple times. I was offered a lots of fiction books growing up.

Age 7, I would read the dictionary at night, one word definition at a time, out of sheer curiosity.

By age 14 I stopped reading books. I could never relate to any of the human emotions. I did learn that money, fame, and sex was a big deal perhaps. But you don't need books to learn that if you have a social life instead of reading books all day.

All this made me appear smart for my age, but that doesn't mean I was. I merely appeared smart.

Hitting the plateau was rough.
> The Waymo cars drive themselves without (in person) supervision. As best as I can tell from three rides, they do it perfectly.

I drove in a Tesla with FSD 12.4 3 times and it was perfect.

it doesn’t mean anything.
Don't shopping malls in USA have increasing tendency to have anti-loitering rules against spending time on anything other than shopping, pretty much?
I agree with you. It's up to the parents to figure out an environment where the kid will be okay in 10 years. Hard to argue for intentionally pulling someone back just to conform if there is nothing wrong with what they're doing.

(most) kids will learn how to interact with the rest of society at one point.
It's actually the _only_ page worth clicking on in most of the searches it appears in!
"Everybody lies"

- House
Not that I’m aware of. Heck I think he’s downplaying this one.
Seems like just FUD without anything to back up your claims.

From what I understood they plan to open source the full Mojo programming language.
Since I can export ruby scripts into wasm, will this allow me to create standalone-executable?
But wouldn't the value of data be reflect in the cost of exploitation? (By cost of exploitation, I don't mean to say the resources needed to exploit, but what a company would stand to lose if exploited). The values of the variables, sure, can be different. I don't see why the equation has to be.
Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To"
yeah - I think that that's waht they mean and I think that there isn't such a metric. I think people will try to do adversarial evaluation but my guess is that it will just tend to the mean prediction.

The other thing is that LLM inference isn't cheap. The trade off between inference costs and training costs seems to be very application specific. I suppose that there are domains where accepting 100x or 1000x inference costs vs 10x training costs makes sense, maybe?
I retired a long time ago, but agree working from home rocks
> To geologists, an ice age is defined by the presence of large amounts of land-based ice.

That's pedantic.

> Physics, thermodynamics, informs us that the glaciers aren't coming back while the insulation in the atmosphere is high and still increasing.

Meh. The running hypothesis on the "other side" is that we're going to have a pole shift and grand solar minimum at the same time. Now, as you can see, I haven't really done the prerequisite reading. I have, however, read about all the stupidity surrounding "global warming" and how it was totally going to end the planet in 2000 and 1980 and 2024 and whenever, every year's the last one so that people that don't have anyone's best interests at heart can get more leverage off this supposedly inevitable-and-totally-close scenario. Meanwhile, the "fringe" has decidedly stuck to one thing, and has repeatedly criticized the very real corruption of (climate) science by monetary interests (and now national / global policy decisions) and popular opinion. This only makes me NOT want to spend my free time untangling "conclusive" climate decisions backed by ""science"" and who-knows-what leverage by a slimy bureaucrat.

I, as an individual, don't have a horse in this race. I don't believe in either one because my carbon emissions can be eclipsed by a volcano or a plane in a few hours. It's completely useless to expect me to not buy a car or to watch my energy consumption when it's not going to make a dent anyway.