skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly 90s style (maybe closer to mid 2000s?), but there are some, er, modern "retro" options? The HTMX community enjoys building minimally dynamic sites using mostly HTML. The Drupal community is still active (and thriving, surprisingly) with only minimal forays into modern JS, with most of it still being PHP templates. A lot of their styling and UI decisions are still from that era.

Now I wonder if any project has tried to bring back frames and Flash/Ruffle UIs... and fishcams!
> I don't think nvidia is going to be the only shop in town for much longer. The GPUs are too expensive and too power hungry.

I'm dying to hear what you think is more efficient for floating-point computation. ASICs fabbed on TSMC 5nm?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%E2%80%93vector%E2%80%...

The extra components would have energy and function as Dark Matter.
You generally get sent through a predatory sales pipeline and extorted.

Think very hard before using something not upfront about pricing.
As GP said, you can keep a bag of current states.
I also don't want to be responsible for processing other people's data.

For example, let's say you upload a song that hasn't been released yet. If it goes to my-server.com and then something strange happens and it leaks it's my fault.

If instead it goes to localhost, that risk isn't there.
Having sat thru the dot com bubble and bust, this is very similar. I think the easier analogy is search rather than all the ecommerce that had no revenue.

Search and generative AI are eerily similar in my eyes. Most of the best (aka higher quality) responses from ChatGPT are when it is assembling "answers" to things it is just looking up. I remember when a ton of companies were touting their "search" or being adjacent to search, selling search engines, etc.

At some point the tide will go out for companies doing BS "AI" and the capital will have a $0 ROI. Some of this will have downstream effects on underlying APIs and hardware companies much like the dot com era had impacts on companies like Cisco. There will be major players that come out of this with transformative tech that will be useful.

Tech stocks has always had a larger risk than traditional companies so there could be corrections but in general its not like MSFT is going to go bankrupt. Investing in ETFs should insulate against any single company fails. I would be wary of startups promising equity and some IPO, take over the world type of thing, etc.
Ahri ban rate soars after ultra expensive new League of Legends skin drops
Garry Tan asks for "Perplexity meets Kindle" product
This is because data is basically a service business. Like the value is the specific data and it's hard to build a product that works for customers without a lot of custom work.
Anyone want to make a case for Anthropic being undervalued?

$7.5 billion raised at an $18.4 billion valuation for Anthropic.

$11.3 billion raised at an $80.0 billion valuation for OpenAI.
It’s not completely that white space is bad, but in particular that white space is very difficult to template relative to something character-delimited like JSON or s expressions.

In JSON or s expressions, the various levels of objects can be built independently because they don’t rely on each other. In YAML, each block depends on its parent to know how far it should be indented, which is a huge pain in the ass when templating.
How common is this scenario really? I rarely find myself using obscure packages. Most of the ones I use are hugely popular and vetted by the developer community.
LoRa gets talked about plenty for ag monitoring, and sure it can be great for certain use cases. Optional support for LoRa is certainly something we want to support (via device variants or plug-on comms modules).

For the use case invoked in this subthread (an individual monitoring device on each plant), I don’t think it’s the best.

We’re currently working with Nordic nRF52xx/53xx/54xx modules, which have dual ARM cores and built-in 2.4GHz radio, so, support for protocols like Bluetooth Mesh, Zibgee, Thread.

That means you can have a single module that can handle mesh comms with neighboring devices, as well as sensor reading, machine learning and output control. You wouldn’t need a separate comms module to communicate back to a base station or a high post and antenna for long-range comms. So it offers big savings on the device production side and the installation time/cost side.
onnx is not a good option for LLM type of autoregressive generation
On a first glance, CS3.5 appears to be slightly faster than gpt-4o (62 vs 49 tok/sec) and slightlhy less capable (78% vs 89% accuracy on our internal reasoning benchmark). When initially launched, gpt-4o had speed of over 100 tok/sec, surprised that speed went down as fast.
I would like that veey much, but they likely will not go to prison, just pay off the damages, as usual. Capitalism works that way.
An AI chat interface ironically. All of the chat apps are slow as heck electron so I figured there's a market for an actually usable desktop app, especially one that can inline code files and create a RAG index of local documents.

Plume looks great! I'm curious how you implemented the markdown formatted text editing component - I need to implement something similar for the chat input.
Not the way farms are run today, sure. But if it’s worth it, farms will adapt.
> I'm tired of people trotting out "epicycles" to attack theories they don't like

That's disingenuous. LCDM has a long history of failing to successfully predict later observations and adding parameters to fit the data, where MOND has made many successful a priori predictions without any added parameters since the 1980s. This is not just a matter of not liking something, successful predictions vs. post-hoc curve fitting strikes at the very core of what it means to be a good scientific theory. See:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331

As I said, neither approach is fully satisfactory, and we need new thinking about this problem.
I'm a dev, so don't know the exact details. We make a niche B2B application that is essential for the daily operation of businesses in our niche, with several hundreds of businesses as our customers.

Our pricing is in general based on a "fixed" monthly per-module price plus max-simultaneous-users price, and then a usage based per-transaction price element in addition.

The "fixed" cost can be somewhat different, typically it's a bit lower for smaller customers which also takes into account smaller customers typically have fewer custom integration needs (ie less custom maintenance/support).

The transaction pricing has a volume discount "ladder" with many steps. So smaller customers pays a lot more per transaction than larger customers. The transaction-based "price ladder" is otherwise quite fixed between customers.

This transaction-based element allows us to have reasonable overall prices for small as well as large, as it scales with our customers' activity. If they have a good month they pay more but also have more income.

This model is used for all our customers, from single-employee shops to the largest ones we have (many hundreds of simultaneous users). Our CEO has been clear he doesn't want to be cheapest, but deliver a superior product that justifies the price.

In the 10 years I've been here we've gone from #5 of a group of vendors to a dominating position. I think our pricing model has been one of the factors that has facilitated this.
Yes, it’s interesting but mostly a shift of concentration of earnings. Market weighted PE multiples are slightly elevated historically but not insane; forward PE even less so (taken with a grain of salt of course).
For one thing MOND doesn't actually appear to eliminate the need for dark matter[1]. It gets rid of ~80% of the missing mass requirement, but not all of it. Whereas pure DM can just eliminate MOND.

Then you've got the "Bullet Cluster"[2] - where two colliding galaxies have had their observable and dark matter masses apparently separated. MOND can't explain this one without a lot of tweaking, but it's pretty trivial for DM: electromagnetically interacting matter is "sticky" where as gravity only matter isn't. The Bullet Cluster shows a galaxy shaped blob of gravitational lensing exactly where you'd expect it to be if a bunch of non-interacting matter had flown through each other, whereas the electromagnetic matter has interacted and re-shaped.

NGC 1052-DF2[3] and NGC 1052-DF4 are both ultra-diffuse galaxies which have no, or very little dark matter. That is, they appear to have normal galactic rotation curves fully explained by their observed visible mass. This works totally fine for DM existing (it's a problem for lambda-CDM though because it's not clear how they could've formed without dark matter, but I mean - we also don't yet know how black holes actually manage to ever merge either yet we do observe them too). This one always seems like a problem to me: MOND proposes a new universal principle of matter, then suddenly we have some matter where it's not doing that.

The theoretical problems[4] are somewhat beyond me, but they get well into issues with violating relativity and that's a big one: relativity is stupidly, reliably accurate under every single test we put it through, to absurd levels of precision. Build a better instrument, you can just dial in your precision and get the answer out ahead of time before you launch the satellite which is testing it. Also without careful adjustment you get violations of conservation of momentum (conversely, if MOND is real this would be handy because maybe it means we can reactionless spacedrives).

It's worth noting that none of this is implicitly fatal. lambda-CDM could be wrong, a MOND variant could be right. But a list of convenient things MOND explains easily doesn't escape the need to also include the things it can't - and appeals to the idea that DM is being "tweaked" to match observations unnaturally ignores the fact that MOND has to have the same thing done to it to fix within cosmology.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7525

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1052-DF2

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0104435
Lokiceratops Rangiformis from the Campanian Judith River Formation
No, I would not cooperate with anyone who wants to make an AI version of me, for any purpose.
I accept that I will die; life is all the richer for it.
> The algorithm is known as an "asynchronous state-machine parser". It's a technique for parsing that you don't learn in college.

The mapping from regular and context free languages to state machines and their table-based implementations was covered in depth in the Compilers course I took. A table based state machine is literally the textbook algorithm for parsing these classes of languages, and implementing them has been almost entirely automated by tools like Flex and Bison since the 80s.
Who needs proper gyros, just give nasa three rumble packs.
Does it have to be the same app for both platforms? If not, I'd recommend checking out Microsoft's RDP protocol and their own software that uses it (sorry, can't remember what it's called, maybe Remote Desktop something?).

Unlike most screen share protocols, it's not just sending pixels but abstracted window layout information (think XML but Microsoft-made). This makes the remote experience muuuuch smoother than pixel streaming, even on high speed connections but especially on lower bandwidth devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol?wprov=...
Maybe in the US context. In the global context I think social media is almost certainly net anti-sexist compared to the attitudes parents are passing down.
Resume building?
If there’s one language worse than JavaScript, it’s Lua.

But that’s ok, the “engineers” at Roblox must know better. How long was their outage a couple years ago? 3 days? Lol
Also, his wife is Brazilian and he is hospitalized in Brazil.
Dithering can still be a striking aesthetic choice. Low Tech Magazine is my go-to example: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

From their About page:

"Thus, instead of using full-colour high-resolution images, we chose to convert all images to black and white, with four levels of grey in-between. These black-and-white images are then coloured according to the pertaining content category via the browser’s native image manipulation capacities. Compressed through this dithering plugin, images featured in the articles add much less load to the content: compared to the old website, the images are roughly ten times less resource-intensive."
The landlord will use it to pay down loans, improve the property, and maybe invest in new property.
Idea synergy is Ill defined, creating a consistent, high quality dataset of the scale required is not easy at all. What is the data, pairs of syngeristic papers? Or are you embedding each paper and finding the closest in "idea space"?

LLMs are apt for RAG/fuzzy search. Learning a relevant embedding space that has the fidelity where distances have an interpretation of "idea symergy" is not like "semantic meaning" (I.e. RAG embedding space), otherwise you'd simply get similar papers on the same topics as "synergistic"

Maybe I'm confused as to what you mean by idea synergy.
Organizations like Exxon-Mobil promote these fairy-tale schemes as a talking point to counter legislation that would restrict their unlimited production of fossil-fuel based plastics. Its the same scheme with carbon capture for coal-burning power plants. The technology doesn't and will never work as described, but talking up its potential gives an excuse not to regulate the polluting industry now.
Definitely! The better ones have really high resolution, which compliments this dither technique perfectly.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one of them. They still had to change the optics for astronomical purposes.
Elsevier doing their best at being the cops of academia.
What Certik did will be a case study in how to not disclose bugs, this was so poorly done it's been handed over to the authorities for possible illegal activity.
https://x.com/c7five/status/1803403565865771370
Cam here to talk about mobilizon. The project is quite easy to work on and it is made in Elixir. :)
Who thought hat colors were immutable?
I wonder if in a large farm it will be worth running hoses and deploying a frob next to each device vs having an electric robot with a refillable tank walking the rows.

Such a robot is still SF today, so deploying a frob with each seedling would be the only choice at the moment (or continue current irrigation practices). The frobs have to be cheap enough to be consumables.
Our internal blinded human evals for summarization/creative work have always preferred Claude 3.0 Opus by a huge margin, so we've been using it for months - GPT-4o didn't unseat it either.

GPT-4o IMO was better for coding (still using GPT-4 original w/ Cursor, but long-form stuff GPT-4o seemed better) but with this new launch, will definitely have to retest.

Pretty big news.
Regarding an HR SaaS I'm familiar with. A request gets put on a queue for an account executive to call you. The product is complex enough (because HR is inherently complex) that it's easier to have a conversation about your business to understand if the product will be a good fit. They call, and it becomes a regular B2B sales meeting.
Perhaps it's easier to build the game's plugins with. I can't think of other good reasons without digging into this properly.

Edit: seems like it's "Luau" and not plain "Lua", so they ported it to their own variant of Lua, which promises performance and other gains.
Oracle trumps use cases. That is why GraalVM never was a valid option.
And you have a scam tweet immediately below this one.
"In ironic twist, ship of security researchers pull Kraken to bottom of sea."
I know what you mean when you say Adoptium but the java build is called Temurin

https://adoptium.net/en-GB/temurin/releases/
I don't understand how these archive sites aren't shut down yet. Is it because only a small sliver of internet users know about them?
The OP likely isn't telling the full story or maybe doesn't understand what actually happened, like most people who talk about taxes online.
Look also at revenue - $850m vs $3.5b (from what I could find with a quick search). The numbers change fast, and probably does the valuation.
Dunno. It could also just mean the so-called "Quantization-aware training" where your weight, activation and gradient is still bf16 and just before use it gets quantized to int8 in the same way you'd do it during inference.

This gives you the same "no mismatch between training and predict", and was a standard technique back in vision days (~2018).
Same here. We focus on reducing our consumption of plastic, reusing some (rectangular tofu bins are useful holders for screws, for one), and trashing the rest.
Mobilizon use ActivityPub. Some stuff are missing (like recurring event) but it works well
It is very often in one of these categories:

1. Someone who wants only one feature that's not in self-service but doesn't have the budget to pay more.
2. Someone willing to pay more but not enough more.
3. Someone who's just trying to compare prices between vendors but isn't a serious buyer (especially when not an existing customer).
4. Various non-obvious spam (affiliate resellers, etc.).
5. Someone who's interested but can't get a sale to happen given their role: has no budget and their manager doesn't have budget, has no authority on technical decisions.
6. Someone who's only curious.
7. Etc. etc. etc.

The level of effort required to press that button is very low, so it isn't that great of a filter. Again, they take those calls because the lack of filtering doesn't mean it's never a quality lead.
Offtopic, but `zack_overflow` is an excellent username.
Why not both? Send up new telescopes and keep the old ones running.
direct liquid democracy still has vote delegation, it's just possible to reassign your vote in real time. Representatives vote on issues based on how many people assign them their vote, but people can reassign their vote any time.

I actually favor something with a more Bayesian twist that I haven't heard a catchy name for, where I could delegate my vote to different people depending on the subject up for debate. Essentially fantasy sports but for cabinet ministers. That would also be good because someone I trust on most issues might delegate both our votes to someone they defer to in a particular field without me needing to study whose expertise I trust in that field. If someone's heard of a name for that system I'd be interested to hear it. Hard to research innovation in a field when you don't know the buzzwords.
I think this is the fundamental problem people have with ubiquitous and long license agreements:

Users are in the habit, perhaps pressured, to accept the terms with without due consideration by a qualified lawyer. C.f. the South Park "human centipede" episode.

I suspect that the best solution, society-wise, is to enact stronger consumer protection laws that override these EULAs.
How do you imagine those things "become" cheaper without things like taxing? Just suggesting that the only way forward is to "make them cheaper" seems to amount to "do nothing to fix the problem, just wait until someone invents some magic solution". What if a magic solution is not possible, or at least noone finds it?
Page 3 says FreeBSD is 2X faster (200% bogo ops) than Linux on the semaphore benchmark, 3X on function calls, 7X on poll, and 15X (!) on context switching. Of course it shines with lots of cores.

It's strange that Linux comes up 3-5X faster on socket activity, given that networking is supposed to be BSD's strength.

Maybe FreeBSD just does things a different way that sidesteps the benchmark tests for those OS-related ops, so those results aren't really valid? Or does anyone see these differences in the real world, and if so why is BSD faster?
...in 1903.
Or better still just dump the whole ecosystem altogether. There are good alternatives.
I’m pretty convinced this will result in a loss. People savvy enough to use a VPN and pull this trick are also savvy enough to use ad blockers and most likely do use them already. So now instead of Google getting $2/month (or whatever the price these people were paying), they get $0. Congrats I guess!
I would guess that they want to create more high quality tooling for Lua because that's what every game published on Roblox has to use. By unifying their stack it could be argued that they're reinvesting it what makes Roblox great.
Personally discoverability and ease of use are the biggest issue(s), sometimes related. On Linux you use command lines way more than GUIs. I don't disagree with CLI being efficient if you know it - I'd ideally love both being an option.

I wanted to see and just googled how to create a new account:

On windows, from my knowledge - open control panel and search for account.

Linux - I don't know, so I googled it for Fedora (which I have installed). What I got was [0] - which... talks about UIDs, GIDs, ACLs, UPGs, Shadow Passwords... It's great to have options but I'd love a "Just add an account" option rather than needing the user to understand what's going on. Oh, and most of the explanations are only for the command line even though a GUI exists.

For comparison, Windows has [1] which is much more simple.

It's been death by a thousand command lines for me on Linux so far unfortunately. Would someone more determined have succeeded? Likely. But if my update fails because of space issues in a drive which needs me to do 'a', and 'a' has an error needing me to do 'b', and 'b' needs me to understand 2000 words to only use 5 words finally in my command... it's exhausting unfortunately. And not to brag or boast but I'm not a tech noob. I'm the go-to tech guy in most rooms. I've mucked around with custom android ROMs and root access on my iPad (trollstore/fileza) and edited registry files and other root-level files without bricking anything. And yes I can use chatgpt to repartition my drive, but c'mon, I'm not that dumb to blindly plug in what it says. I'm going to research the individual commands first and take an hour to realize it was right all along.

Sorry if this became too ranty, I'm just pissed because I want to like Linux. But it's really, really hard.

0 - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-ad...
1 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-user-acco...
> The reason is becoming very rich is the carrot for taking the big risks to develop the medicine, because you will likely fail for years and years, and maybe never succeed.

Not how it works. It's rare for a drug to reach the most expensive phase of clinical trials without demonstrating efficacy.
I ask perplexity. It gives answers with sources. I check the sources, too often the answer is not backed by sources. It's better than just bullshitting without sources, but not that much. I like the direction though.

The real issue with perplexity is their dishonest crawler who does not obey the rules.
I'm confused, that link says they used the legal system to issue a subpoena that was granted by a court. How is that extortion, which I understand to be extrajudicial? Or are you saying it's a kind of legal extortion?
YOLO is amazing. When I first looked at the loss function in YOLO v1, I was stunned: You can do regression loss(Mean square error) instead of classification loss(categorical cross entropy) on class prediction probabilities, and it can still just "work".
Most FOSS solutions are free
i guess that must be why they only show 1 tweet by default!
People need to stop treating other countries as if they're just the next town over. When you visit a place or do business with them you are in part endorsing how they behave and how they govern themselves. If you have a problem locking people up for blasphemy, don't spend money in a country that does it. If you have a problem with arresting people for illegal gestures, don't fly there to take instagram photos. Stop ignoring behavior you find abhorrent for the sake of personal convenience.