skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use arch on my framework 13” with sway and no real special software for battery or special bios setting. I’d be very lucky to get 4 hours with light web browsing. Typically I get 2 hours since I do some compiling and/or video conferencing. Pretty appalling.
I mean we have Medicaid, if you’re poor don’t you get healthcare for free?
You make it sound like the EU is the only one interested in stuff like this... but you do know that all your communications are already monitored and recorded by the NSA and that the person who revealed it is in hiding from the US government, right?
It's not all roses. I'm sure that even the wealthy who get healthcare in the US do have to deal with things like over-treatment, a lack of regulations, excessive costs, etc. It doesn't seem to hurt their outcomes enough to offset the fact that they'll have far more options, greater access to the best avilable technology/treatments, and that they'll be treated like absolute royalty.
Don’t waste your time, it’s been around since GPT3, and had no results so far. Also notice how no frontier lab is working on it.
I'm surprised there isn't a single mention of Gemini 1.5 Pro. I've been using it for about a month because it came for free with my Google setup and I've been pretty happy. Not for coding but mostly for business tasks like writing minutes from transcripts, summarizing long legal documents,... and the long context length has been awesome. It also conveniently integrates with the rest of my google setup like Drive.

IIRC it also ranked only behind gpt4o on benchmarks.
As a Canadian, I've always been proud at how readily Donald Sutherland has played cultural ambassador over the years.

If you haven't seen Klute, today is a great day to do so.
Occam's razor. Google has always been an ads company. YouTube had big ad potential. Saying it was for the training data for AI that wouldn't exist until over a decade later ignores the obvious.
> Meanwhile, the AI model developers, who have taken in massive amounts of capital, need to find a business model that will repay all that investment.

...

> The extreme case is these companies are no longer allowed to use copyrighted material in building these chatbots. And that means they have to start from scratch. They have to rebuild everything they’ve built. So this is something that not only imperils what they have today, it imperils what they want to build in the future.

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> "the only practical way for these tools to exist is if they can be trained on massive amounts of data without having to license that data."

The simple and correct answer then is that they shouldn't exist. I don't care how much money they spent building a plagiarism machine, the expense and desire to build it doesn't excuse it being a plagiarism machine. Rich VCs don't get to ignore the rules just because they think they found a neat hack to make them billionaires. And after the shenanigans with the OpenAI board, the altruistic "for the betterment of humanity" argument has been revealed to be a thin sham.
I'm sorry. I can't respond to such flippantly rude insincerity without violating the Terms of Service
And there it is again that cultural inability to build institutions beyond "family". How is that culture compatibel with complex states and compamies in east and west? With longterm development in general? Then again it has thriving families, compared to the west and east, whos societies dissolve once the rewards of modernity appear. The ideal would be a cycling hybrid i guess.

Inb4 those weirdos who go all in on nurture, but then refuse to discuss nurture, leaving the terrain to conspiracies and racists.

Also the hospitality is pretty legendary.
South Korea will consider supplying arms to Ukraine
Here's how the table is made

For starters you need to know what the states the values represent (you should remember this from k&r)

0 we are out of a word, but not via newline (lets call this character type "a one").

1 we are out of a word, via a newline ("a two" or "a newline").

2 we entered a word ("a zero").

3 we are in a word ("a zero").

So we know we need 4 rows in the table

{} {} {} {}

lets fill the 0th row first, we aren't in a word so the only states we can enter are 0,1 and 2. That's helpful cause we can fill out the 1st element

{,0,} {} {} {} (a one sends us to the first row)

{[12],0,[12]} {} {} {}(we know 3 isn't a possible destination as we are out of a word)

{1,0,2} {} {} {} (actually we have a choice of {1,0,2} or {2,0,1} I'll show 1,0,2 but this swaps the first 2 args of print at the end)

{1,0,2} {} {1,0,2} {} (since newline is also out of a word we have the same options)

{1,0,2} {3,0,2} {1,0,2} {} (now 3 is a possible destination if we get zero. A one will take us to state 0 and a newline to state 2 as before)

{1,0,2} {3,0,2} {1,0,2} {3,0,2} (now 0,2, and 3 are our only possible states)

As you can see, there is nothing magic about it.
I think you're right, and integer-factorization is often used in these examples as a process that is hard to do but easy to verify. There are plenty of other processes that could be substituted in, e.g. reversing SHA256 hashes, that would likely be even less tractable to the target audience.

However, if P = NP, there is no process that works here - there's nothing that is hard to do but easy to demonstrate, and therefore no zero knowledge proofs exist.

Actually, that's not true either. It requires the definition that all polynomial-time algorithms run quickly and all superpolynomial ones run slowly. This is not an accurate definition for all practical problem sizes and this is where the analogies all break down. Polynomial vs nonpolynomial is more interesting to complexity theorists than "how many years would this actually take with a fast computer".
Everyone going to work for a startup needs to have someone explain this stuff, to the point where you understand it all in detail.

What it doesn't say is that founders usually elect 83(b) - they buy their shares up front - spending something in the realm of $1K per 1% is a great deal and not that big a risk.

Also take particular note of the warning about taxes - during the dotcom boom (and bust) caught a lot of people - some people who were encouraged to buy company stock as stuff boomed borrowing money to do so, then it all busted - they had no jobs, owed on the loans and owed the IRS the taxes - as I said above understand this stuff in detail before you sign anything
Anyone have a link to the work he cites?
Democratic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood?

Care to explain that one more?
How is it able to test code coverage in the browser?

Can JavaScript step through JavaScript?
I tried Linux Desktop recently. Two different distros, both did not want to start up the graphical part due to some nouveau problem out of the box. Yes, I can set nomodeset, but the fiddling already starts before using it?

And this was not some obscure Laptop or something. A self built Intel desktop with an nvidia GPU.

Ended up switching to a MacBook Pro instead. I like macOS. With VMware Fusion having become free for personal use, I recreated WSL2 basically on my Mac.
Looking at the constellation of satellites, is anyone else concerned about Starlink being allowed by a single nation’s agency to fill the sky, which belongs to no one or to everyone, with their satellites?
I had a Framework 13 (Intel, 11th gen) running Windows, the battery lasted 3.5h – streaming a movie (reproducible). The other major issue was the fan constantly running on max, I didn't have a laptop fan that loud for 15 years.

Before having several loops with customer support, I tried ever forum post, all options, settings, tricks etc. Then I end it in for repair, the final summary: Everything works as expected.

So I returned it. I tried another time with Framework 13 (Intel, 12th gen) and that showed exactly the same behaviour, so I again returned it :(

I want to love Framework, for me I clearly see a huge value in repairability: I'm having a Lenovo Ideapad for 5 years now, there was some dirt under the keys, so I tried (by documentation) to remove the key cap and destroyed it by doing so. Then I wanted to replace the keyboard, and by doing so I destroyed the connector to the keypad. I'm clearly not a hardware guy, but I've been repairing my devices (PC, phone) for decades now, and I never struggled as much as I did with the Ideapad.

I plan to give Framework 13 (Intel, Ultra) another shot, because they finally have the 61Wh battery in the first CPU tier. But I fear it won't make a difference as Framework remains ignorant about their broken power management (horrible battery, fan noise, heating up).
Correction: that is used to prevent spam.
Exactly. As you're pointing out there's also a big difference between 'staged' as understood by the public, which basically means 'fake', and 'posed'. While posed photographs may not be spontaneous, they are still real and legitimate records of a thing happening at a time and a place.
In practice this means function calling - the LLM chooses the function to call (and its parameters). Usually in a loop with a 'finish' function that returns the control to the outside code.

You can do that without function calling - as did the original ReAct paper - but then you have to write your own grammar for the communication with the LLM, a parser for it, and also you need to teach the LLM to use that grammar. This is very time consuming.
> you can compose UI on the backend without string substituting.

Sure, but you're still going to be using "20 MB of inscrutable JavaScript". (Unless you use Wicket, but I'm not sure that's an option for emails, and would likely trigger the same complaints anyway). I mean, I hope you're not using the component style rendering layer for Python that I published ~10 years ago, because I haven't maintained it, and as far as I know there aren't any others.
Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion
I'm a big fan of Notion, having used it for 7 years. When I first met Notion, it was just a block document editor, and it didn't excite me until it released the Database. Later, I learned about Airtable, and a bunch of similar products, all of them are SaaS, with such powerful tables but poor performance. Why isn't there a personal offline version table? Most of the time, I don't need to collaborate with others. What I really want is a personalized, offline version of Notion with better performance and more flexibility. So that I can have full control over my data.

Notion, like most SaaS products, is not open-source, so I can't customize it to my heart's content. I can only wait and vote for new features, but I can code, and I don't want to wait. I really like the concepts of FOSS, solid, and local-first. SaaS could die. Long may the SQLite. So, I built Eidos based on sqlite for managing my personal data throughout my lifetime in one place. Eidos is a long-term project for me. It looks like Notion, but the core is more like "obsidian.sqlite" with a powerful extension system.

Here are a few key ideas:

- Eidos is built based on sqlite-wasm and runs entirely in the browser. It can be used immediately, with no installation or configuration required. It's a pure PWA, with full offline support.

- A block-styled document editor and an Airtable-like table, built on top of SQLite, where each table is a real SQLite table.

- A powerful extension system inspired by Figma plugin and Cloudflare worker. You can write scripts in TypeScript directly in the browser. It is easy to manipulate data in docs, tables, and the file system. It also supports API.

- If you're not a developer, you're still in luck. We're living in an AI era. LLM empowers people to craft their own software without writing any code. Eidos deeply integrated with LLM. You can translate, summarize, talk to your data, process table data in batches, and more. It makes your life easier with AI. You can fully customize your prompts and freely choose your LLM provider, without being locked to any vendor.

To be honest, so far, there are still some bugs and shortcomings, and it hasn't yet reached my envisioned perfection. There is still some work to be done, but the basic framework has taken shape. I've been working on it for a year and have eaten my own dog food for the past half year. To help Eidos become better (and celebrate the release of the Elden Ring's DLC), I've decided to make it open-source and gather more feedback. Now, I'm going to take a break and play Shadow of the Erdtree.

- https://eidos.space
Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET) FTP Server
Framework 13” 12th generation Intel can get pretty hot when I do parallel compile jobs. Not scorching hot, but hot tea hot. Can’t let it sit on my exposed thighs. Oh and yeah the framework is noisy.

My m1 and m2 air when pegged may get lukewarm.
After using a macbook at work for a little more than a year, and after running linux at home for 7 years, i am unfortunate enough to land on a MS-only-and-exclusively company.

We don't even have WSL. The development experience is as windows-y as you could imagine: deployment is a copy paste on a shared drive. Some internal package installation is a copy paste from a shared drive. External program installation is hunting on the Web. The terminal is light years behind what Unix has to offer.

Ah yes, and the laptop weights 5kg and holds the battery for 3h.

The only reason to use this platform is when you re a hostage and have a gun on your head
the confetti is out of the cannon now.
The typical response from companies is indeed to hide behind their TOS. You can read the public complaint data:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-compl...

But if they show a pattern of misleading consumers, stealing money and blocking complaints by hiding behind an abusive TOS, eventually if enough people complain that can lead to rulings that they can't get away with that anymore. So it is important to file every complaint.

In an ocean of government dysfunction, the CFPB is quite a beacon of hope. An agency that takes citizen input, listens to it and gathers statistics on abusive trends and eventually, if there is enough evidence, acts on it.
it’s not the pull, it’s a metadata check
This is such a rotten take. America, saviours of the world. It entirely discounts the contributions that other countries globally make. Countries in the European Union, Australasia, etc.

The US cost of healthcare is about 17% of GDP. In other first world nations it's about 11%. This isn't service delivery or value, it's underlying cost. Per capita healthcare costs over twice of what it does in the UK. Similar for Australia. Both those are socialised and have very active R&D communities.

The average life expectancy in the US is about 78. In other first world nations it's almost unilaterally closer to 84.

The US is ranked 69th globally in terms.of health system performance. The US is also ranked worse than the OECD38 average for death by preventable causes.

The biggest difference between those places I mention and the above is that the US views healthcare as a capitalist endeavour and tries to claim that competition will lower prices. Quite the opposite has occurred, and the system has become perverted. Intellectual property laws applied in this fashion ensure that you cannot have competition for health care since drugs are limited to a single supplier. You also don't get a choice in hospital care or doctors in most cases when you really look at how medical competition works.

In other places, the costs are socialised through taxation. Drugs are purchased through nationalised efforts where suppliers must either come to the table and negotiate prices properly or lose access to entire markets. It's funny how they can still be quite profitable even under this scenario, and yet the prices still be so significantly less by orders of magnitude than US pricing per patient/dose.

American exceptionalism ceases to be felt when you go spend time in other first world nations for any meaningful length of time. You realise it's reassurance of self rather than truth on basically all but defence technology spending.
LLVM does offer a C based stable ABI, even though it isn't as feature rich as the C++ one, is good enough for most use cases.

https://llvm.org/doxygen/group__LLVMC.html
Yes, typo. I meant non-finance.

QQQ is a good indicator for how tech performed since the so-called "dot com bubble". And it performed pretty well. That's why I tend to not call it a bubble.
> Is there another reading of "If they had to use" that I'm not aware of?

Well, yes.

You started your argument with "If BSD wasn't available they'd be using QNX".

So I followed on from that with "If they had to use QNX... If they had to use GPL..."

I was just following the logical outcome of your "If BSD wasn't available" argument, not advocating that BSD must not be available.

> I'm a user and a developer and neither of those descriptions seem to apply to the licenses being discussed.

I don't know how you can think that "pro-user" doesn't apply to the GPL - it's the singular goal of the GPL to protect user freedoms. This has never been ambiguous.

GPL == freedom for the user. It's always been this way. This is nothing new. You cannot, with a straight face and at this point in the conversation, claim that you didn't know the goal of the GPL.

As far as the pro-corporate aspect of BSD, that's pretty clear to me, because of how extensively corporations were able to mine BSD code for shareholder benefit.

So, yeah, with BSD, you might argue differently (for example, argue that corporate mining of BSD code is a side-effect), but there is no way to argue that GPL isn't pro-user.
Excellent work, I've been thinking of putting together one of these for Finnish, my own grindstone to mill and this has given me some good ideas!
And you can taste/smell lots of things far below 4ppm - example: farts - so appealing to "this looks like a very small number so you must be lying to yourself" is nonsense here.
This was, sheesh, 20 years ago, but my nit with Windows is how it always locks files.

And using your example of Desktop Search, more than once I’ve had a build fail because it could not delete the files in the artifact directory because the desktop search was indexing one of the files.

Not often, not always, just enough to be very annoying. I was always bumping heads with file locks one way or another.
Wow, you must have worked really hard on your physical appearance today.
Letting the LLM to decide what to do is a powerful technique. For example one pass RAG is very limited: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/why-iterative-thinking-is-cruc... To make it iterative you need the cede the control to the LLM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Fs_(evolution)#Four_Fs_an...

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96258071/f32.item

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immater...

Say we wish to encourage, at best type 2 thinking, and at least confidence in the ability of others to use type 2 thinking: could we come up with simple models, well within the compass of a habitual type 1 thinker (and applicable to what they consider problems), but critically involving a single inference? If so, these might be the equivalent of gimme caps in that practicality leads to ubiquity leads to —at least with regard to simple argument— improved ability?
Yep, hard to reason with industry people pushing slop on commercial production teams.

Low-poly re-mesh tools have been around for ages (some better than others), but there are good reasons pro's still do this step manually all the time. Primarily "good" is based on _where_ the quads, loops, and unavoidable n-gons end up in the model (or stuff ends up looking retro 90's.)

There is also the complex legal side of algorithms not being able to create copyrightable works in some jurisdictions. Talk with your IP lawyer, this area gets messy fast when something famous or trademarked is involved.

Cheers, =3
I too wondered about "by "turn these one-shot APIs into Markov chains.".
Would love to tear down an outdoor-rated device with a radio cased in die-cast zinc—please let me know when you find one.
> in German schools they teach material critical of "The American Dream", could be because they're afraid of brain drain

As someone who went to school and has kids in school in Germany, I'll say "citation needed".

Lessons in history and politics are very navel gazing here (as they should be, we do have a few things to work through). America and the 21st century don't feature enough to reach a subjective level of detail.

For Germans who want to earn more, Switzerland is the easy choice either for emigration or simply commuting.

With the rise in remote work, I would assume that in the next decade(s), other drivers of our emigration won't favor the US either:

- refugees wanting to return to their home once things calm down there

- climate

- rise of right wing politics, especially in East Germany

- interest in substantially different cultures
I built my first commercial LLM agent back in October/November last year. As a newcomer to the LLM space, every tutorial and youtube video was about using LangChain. But something about the project had that "bad code" smell about it.

I was fortunate in that the person I was building the project for was able to introduce me to a few other people more experienced with the entire nascent LLM agent field and both of them strongly steered me away from LangChain.

Avoiding going down that minefield ridden path really helped me out early on, and instead I focused more on learning how to build agents "from scratch" more or less. That gave me a much better handle on how to interact with agents and has led me more into learning how to run the various models independently of the API providers and get more productive results.
Link is to an HTTPS server, not an FTP one.
You think OpenAI, Meta or Microsoft care about those things? They've already trained on all the world's copyrighted data without asking for permission. Any hand-wringing you see from them is performative.
It's easy to assume that he became so despondent that he committed suicide after seeing the horrors of what was happening in the sudan, but another possibility is that he was already suicidal which led him to even take such assignments.
I find it's sometimes quite difficult to tell where the word boundaries are when a person with a strong French accent is speaking English. I think the difficulty is because French encourages the emphasis to be in completely different places to English.
Ladybird browser spreads its wings
In Germany, you might be required by law to publish your address for everyone to see.

Original German text of the law: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ddg/__5.html

Google translation to English: https://www-gesetze--im--internet-de.translate.goog/ddg/__5....
What do you mean by Islamic school and branches?
Improving reliability for DNS Resources
Sub q is complete nonsense. Once every 10 days or so is fine. You simply feel like you need another shot and take it. No advantage and not necessary.
Wayland is older than Mir, and Mir was a failure that never really shipped. Bazaar is only one week older than Git.
Some of the anti-vax movement during covid (I presume that's what you have in mind) is anti-intellectualism but some of it is not.

You can hold both opinions that an mRNA vaccine is an incredible new technology that has enormous potential, while a new technology that had never been tested on humans shouldn't be forced on people for whom the benefit was marginal at best (kids, healthy population under 50, people who already had covid).

And you can hold both opinions that health authorities clearly misbehaved or acted in a moronic way (lying about masks, origin of the virus, forcing vaccines on people who had already been infected, telling you you can't go outside, except if it's to protest for BLM, etc) while acknowledging that coming up with a vaccine against a new virus in only weeks is a technological wonder.

It's absurd to be systematically anti-intellectual, but also some healthy skepticism is well warranted.