skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is very different from these models that are just rewarded for mimicking regardless if it is right or wrong

That's not a totally accurate characterization. The base models are just trained to predict plausible text, but then the models are fine-tuned on instruct or chat training data that encourages a certain "attitude" and correctness. It's far from perfect, but an attempt is certainly made to train them to be right.
Yeah, I miss it dearly since I got migrated off windows :(
I stumbled upon the idea for Nude AI during a late-night brainstorm session fueled by curiosity and a bit of artistic frustration. As an artist, I often felt confined by the limitations and restrictions of traditional tools, which led me to dream of a platform that celebrated freedom without boundaries.

After many sleepless nights and endless coding sessions, Nude AI was born. It's a labor of love, crafted to provide creators with an unfiltered playground where imagination reigns supreme. Whether you’re exploring human anatomy, pushing the boundaries of digital art, or just experimenting, Nude AI is your canvas with no strings attached. It's entirely free, offering unlimited access to create and explore without restrictions. Dive in, and let your creativity flow without limits
Go just turned a bunch of library constructs (green threads, queues) into language keywords, many languages have the same stuff with a bit more involved syntax.

Rust in my opinion, is the biggest admission of failure of modern multithreaded thinking, with having classes like 'X but single threaded' and 'X but slower but works with multiple threads', requiring a complex rewrite for the code to even compile. It's moving all the mental burden of threading to the programmer.

CPUs have the ability to automatically execute non-dependent instructions in parallel, at the finest granularity. Yet if we take a look at a higher level, on the level of functions, and operational blocks of a program, there's almost nothing production grade that can say: Hey, you sort array A and B and then compare them, so lets run these 2 sorts in parallel.
Looking at it's parity list its missing quite a lot, that's not the issue as this seems to be a for fun project (or masochism) but at what point is it considered react? It's unclear to me.
I think there's some demand in the space [1].
I've used the Pixiv colorizer in the past (Petalica Paint [0]) with some good results and some really not as good.
Some of the 'errors' it makes are actually interesting and can be used to make the final result richer than without it.
But the errors can be 'unfixable' and actually worsen the final result. So in the end it's hard to say if it's a time-saver.

Regarding the interface Petalica gets it right, although mask + palette makes sense.

A fully local model with support with different styles and a configurable respect for the line art (with default 100% respect) would definitely be a game changer. At their current level, the AI models are slightly lacking, so it feels like too much time investment compared to the quality of the results.

[0] https://petalica.com/index_en.html
[1] https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints/issues/235
EU Invites Feedback from 'Pirate Sites' for Upcoming Watchlist
To be frank this is the opposite of how you should use an LLM. It's not going to be useful for diving deep on stuff that needs factual accuracy. It will on the other hand be useful for giving you shallow overviews you can drill deeper into, maybe even by helping come up with good search terms, or sometimes interrogating your thought process
The actual target market is probably the one that burns all the money they have during their lifetimes.
Google Search Processed a Billion DMCA Takedowns in Four Months
And you would end up with an MSCI World Index - I recently invested in Intel rather than AMD or NVIDIA. In hindsight, NVIDIA would have been the better choice.
I also have some money in Index Funds - half a year ago it composed mostly of Apple, Microsoft and Meta, now NVIDIA is on top of the composition.

The lesson for me: I don't know enough of the industries to base any financial decision on it.
20 Years of blogging and why Substack is king
> I've run into cases far more often where I need to maintain insertion order than sort order, but I'm not confident about whether this is due more to the type of stuff I work on or if it's just a more common requirement in general.

I've had the exact opposite experience, so I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the type of stuff you've (and I've) worked on.
It's amusing that his translations might need their own translations to modern english in a century or two, like he uses forms that already aren't really used anymore (like ye).

XVIII century French for instance, while probably being the peak of the language in term of sophistication and elegance, is hard to read without a lot of footnotes. So many words disappeared, changed meaning, or the grammar itself changed.
Sshfsui: A UI to manage SSHFS mounts for Linux / MacOs
This is great. Thanks for making me feel a little better about the world today.

I've been doing some research today for a project that forced me to spend a lot of time in search, and it's been a (unsurprising) shit show.

This popped up in search results, and I think it has to be my new post-LLM low point: https://laughlore.com/hilarious-programming-memes-every-deve...

I pay for an unlimited Kagi subscription (which, yea, they're FAR from blameless in all of this). Kagi lets me wholesale block domains (like laughlore.com) from future search results. So I have that going for me, which is nice.
Some background for anyone interested: The project is a fork of `roblox/react-lua` to basically open it up for community engagement and it uses Luau

Roblox's Luau: https://luau-lang.org/

> Luau is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

> Around 2006, Roblox started using Lua 5.1 as a scripting language for games. Over the years the runtime had to be tweaked to provide a safe, secure sandboxed environment; we gradually started accumulating small library changes and tweaks.
Honestly for me it's either linear search, dictionary, or external store like database and that's actually it.

I think I've had to implement my own traversable data structure literally only in interviews
Prosus, largest investor in Byju's, writes off $22B edtech startup to zero
All Ukrainian men fight because they are force to? Do you talk to any Ukrainean person?

Stop repeating Russian propaganda.

Also if we are here: Do you Russian think, Russian soldiers like to die in meat waves?
I haven't written low-level code for Windows for a while, but I recall that all Windows I/O since the NT days has been asynchronous at the kernel level. An I/O thread is purely an user-space construct.

In Linux, I/O threads are real, with true asynchronous I/O only being recently introduced with io_uring.
>per continuous monitoring for a broad range of chemicals would cost about $1 million per monitoring station

This seems a bit high, closer to $100k installation cost for fairly basic real time regulatory monitors seems about right. CEMS (automated stack testing) monitors should be somewhat cheaper if the engineers didn't screw up the housing location on the stack/vent.

Otherwise, your prose very much matches my experience with air quality monitoring in Australia. It's an absolute mess and very much amateur hour compared to water monitoring or meteorology.
The only way to fix a tech zoo is by focusing on stability first
Such credulous people in this thread.

I'll keep an open mind, but it seems strange that this lady was an Apple employee and happened to also be the victim.

Have other people been identified that suffered similarly to her? Where are their lawsuits? Or is there something special about her health condition, or her specific apartment unit, or something which means only she was susceptible to this?
Next time I'm in Kraków I'd like to buy you a beer, sir.
Ancient Rome and Intersex People (2015)
Yea I was really surprised reading this that I know a few people who lived in that apartment complex. The complex holds 1800 households, and the whole city has ~50k, so that single complex accounts for 3-4% of Santa Clara’s total households. And only one woman has reported any issues, as far as we know.

That said, Santa Clara is basically a giant industrial superfund site already from the semiconductor industry, so I’m sure there are plenty of people being poisoned by the pollution in the area.
Ask HN: New Grad Career Advice [YC Founding Engineer]
I’m 19 and just graduated college (in two years) and got an offer to work as a founding engineer at a YC start-up. My compensation is 3% equity and an $80k salary.

I have 2 internship experiences: one at a start-up, and one at a FAANG-caliber company. I also made it to the final round of the interview at D.E. Shaw last year (SWE), and I’m fairly confident that I’ll be able to secure a new-grad offer if I go that route.

However, I feel like my compensation is too low. 1-3% equity is pretty standard for a founding engineer, but $80k is not standard at all for any founding engineer. The CEO of the start-up is one of my close friends from high school, I click well with the other co-founder, and I genuinely believe in the product. I would really like to work for the start-up, even with a pay cut. But $80k might be too low. Would it be a good choice career-wise taking this role? I also barely have the experience for this role (full-stack dev).

I have always wanted to work for a start-up, and I feel like this is too good of an opportunity to get my foot in the door. Down the road, I want to start a start-up of my own and I hope this experience would be valuable enough to learn from.

As a reference, before I got this offer, I was on a PhD track (already got accepted into a Master’s program and had a set research interest). I was going to work on my own ideas during my PhD. However I know that experience is key in this field and I would like to finally make some money of my own, lol.
Assuming N++ does not have any more DRM enabled than Steam imposes on it naturally:

1. Take a look at https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

2. If you'd like to be able to start the game without Steam using that, go through https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator/-/issues/12... which may or may not work.

Otherwise, your sentiment is shared, Steam is a horrible Rube Goldberg machine. I've given up on it myself.
This is crazy. I'm ashamed of using Apple devices at home ...
In addition to all the sleep related advice, look into your nutrition. I found Max Lugavere's book Genius Foods extremely helpful.

Also look into your stress level, zen meditation can do wonders for it. In my experience mediation also helps with sleep deprivation.

> I'm finding I need to take much more detailed notes

There is nothing wrong with that. Create a habit to always take notes. This helps remembering what was said and if that is not enough, you can even read your notes.

Although, I use org-mode and denote in Emacs with a Zettelkasten style setup to keep my work related notes nowadays. I would argue that everybody should start taking notes on paper. Get a well bound leather notebook, a nice pen. Open it at the start of every meeting, write the date, time and title of the meeting and keep doodling. That does so much for my attention, concentration in the meetings and recall of the meetings.
Incredible paper! Can you help me make something similar for the ACPUL programming language?
I am interpreting that as her testing the air at a particular moment in time, and in 2021, the results from that specific test were inconclusive, but in 2024, they were very much not inconclusive. Either the article in 2021 was misleading, or the current one is.
Does Apple really owns this Fab?
I thought they do almost anything manufacturing wise outsourced like their CNC contractors.
I'm still looking into this and forming my opinion. It's very curious how at the end of her YouTube video she mentions other residents in her building came forward and said they too were sick (numerous ER visits over 2 years), and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY, until they saw her expose in the newspaper. That seems to counter your hypochondria theory, no?

see: https://youtu.be/pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&t=2680
Ask HN: How to work on more physical products
I have about 5 YOE doing full stack development for B2B companies and am really tired of it. I would really like to work on things that are more physical in nature like robotics, satellites, etc…

I wouldn’t mind doing UI work for these companies but would eventually like to move away from that kind of work entirely. Do I need to go back to school to do this? It doesn’t seem like me doing some personal projects to talk about is going to make the difference here.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Is there a performance comparison with Ollama. Do both use llama.cpp for serving?
For those who missed the earlier article this is refering to, I think it's this one:

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
Ping me at phoe@disroot.org and let's get to it!
"Arguing about semantics" implies that there is no real difference between calling something A vs. calling it B.

I don't think that's the case here: there is a very real difference between describing something with a model that implies one (false) thing vs. a model that doesn't have that flaw.

If you don't find that convincing, then consider this: by taking the time to properly define things at the beginning, you'll save yourself a ton of time later on down the line – as you don't need to untangle the mess that resulted from being sloppy with definitions at the start.

This is all a long way of saying that aiming to clarify your thoughts is not the same as arguing pointlessly over definitions.
Interesting! This makes it so simple. Thanks for building & open sourcing this!
Nvidia, founded in 1993 in California, designs and manufactures powerful graphics processing units (GPUs). Initially focusing on gaming, Nvidia's GPUs are now essential in AI, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive industries. Their rise to prominence is due to the increasing demand for AI technology, making them one of the world's most valuable companies with a market value exceeding $2 trillion.

Their technology is pivotal in various sectors, including gaming, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles. Despite competition and high chip costs, Nvidia dominates the AI chip market. CEO Jensen Huang, a key figure in the company, has significantly contributed to Nvidia's success. Nvidia's products are used in gaming consoles, cloud computing, and self-driving cars, and they continue to innovate and collaborate on new technologies.
Nvidia's stock value has soared to a market capitalization of $3.34 trillion, driven by the booming demand for AI technologies. The company's revenue and profits have significantly increased, particularly due to their high-value AI chips used in various sectors such as gaming, data centers, and automotive. The strategic leadership of CEO Jensen Huang and Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market have positioned the company as one of the most valuable tech giants, consistently exceeding sales and profit expectations.
Sure! (A non-alcoholic one, please.)
Can someone find me the Founder? I need to talk to them. :)
The algorithms exists, but it requires way too much processing power and you also need to have a model already downloaded.
> and I would very strongly doubt any new claims made

And I would very strongly doubt the word of a People Team member as the conclusive evidence of any lying.

People Team are there to reduce the liability for the company, the company in this case are the very company in question for alleged environmental issues.

What actually happens vs what a trained People Team member knows to document are seldom the same thing, and people on the receiving end of the consequences of this seldom have their full wits about them at the time and are almost never lawyered up at that time.

If you had other receipts I'm sure people might consider them, but if your main gripe is based on what a People Team / HR person says... yeah, that's not conclusive either.

The one party I would trust most here are the EPA, and the author didn't fabricate (pun intended) the reports made by them.
From a UX perspective, decentralization makes everything worse, and those issues get worse with scale, unfortunately.

For example, you might reply to a post on one instance, but everyone ends up missing your reply. Was your reply just not worth reading? Or was it a problem with federation? Both can happen. If there's only one giant instance the behavior is clear and ordering makes sense, but with lots of smaller instances you can have ordering issues, propagation delays, and the like.
How hard would it be to keep the thing drained at all times?
That problem has been solved long time ago. When a box plot is not enough, just use violin plots

On gnu-R:

install.packages('ggplot2')

?ggplot2::geom_violin
And also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773136
I thought it was all metaphorical or for dramatic effect.
We've used Sigfox with success but then they went almost bankrupt and I honestly didn't check where they are now or if it's safe to use them going forward. I still want devices to function 10 years from now.
Sometimes when I am narrating a story I don't care that much about trivial details but focus on the connection between those details. Is there LLM counterpart to such a behaviour? In this case, one can say I was bullshitting on the trivial details.
Does this mean fonts are Turing complete nowadays? Sounds like a pretty bad idea for security.
>When and why would you want to summarise the data so coarsely and visualize it so un-intuitively?

Sometimes less is more; Box plots are specifically good for showing and comparing quartiles.

If you want to compare several groups and care about gross differences, they are an excellent tool. They are an excellent to when you believe the data is normal and think the histogram is misleading. they are also great if you think the data isnt normal but care about quartiles.

Any time you would be happy with a table of the 5 datapoints (min, max, median, 25th, and 75th percentiles), box plots a great tool for graphic comparison.
The ones in Athens are thin white cards and as such easy to see the aerial through it. Additionally there's no slot to put it through, and a big tap surface at each gate with the RFID logo with someone tapping a card on it.[1] I think it would be hard to miss for anyone familiar with the concept of tapping cards.

[1] https://www.athenstransport.com/english/tickets/
I see – everyone's browsing habits are different, and that's OK, but FWIW I would just close them. Need to reference a blog post or a video again – open it again from a bookmark or from a web search.
I may be out of the loop, but I don't understand the negativity towards Dropbox links, what makes it different than other submission of PDF files?
Everything was fine when it was only blue-collar workers being thrown out of work. Suddenly it's a problem.
For me best described in, and also as a topic mentioned in the paper about the visitor pattern connection, "A Little Java, A Few Patterns". This book writes really impractical Java, but in such a Scheme way, that you really can understand the deep connections between functional and object-oriented programming.
> QR codes seem like a better ticket medium.

If it was a short-lived QR code generated on your phone, then maybe. But the whole point of MIFARE Ultralight EV1 cards is that they can't be cloned. It's for repeated use, not for printing and using once.
Inside industrial settings I would presume stuff like this happens all the time. In fact, people even die sometimes. Even when a refinery blew up in Texas a few years back it barely made the news.

On a side note, Fluorine is bad stuff but I believe it doesn't have a long lifespan so any impact would be immediate or not at all
It has nothing to do with ratio and to do with intent. Bullshitting is what we say you do when you just spin a story with no care for the truth, just make up stuff that sound plausible. That is what LLMs do today, and what they will always do as long as we don't train them to care about the truth.

You can have a generative model that cares about the truth when it tries to generate responses, its just the current LLMs don't.
It's a single binary, cross-OS, cross-arch.

Go to https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/ and download an executable, like https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/basename .

% curl -O https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/basename
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 663k 100 663k 0 0 440k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 441k
% chmod +x basename

On macOS with an M1:

% arch
arm64
% sha256sum basename
2e4cf8378b679dd0c2cdcc043bb1f21eaf464d3c3b636ed101fbc5e3230eb5fb basename
% file ./basename
./basename: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors
% ./basename /dev/null.txt
null.txt

On FreeBSD with an amd64:

% uname -sm
FreeBSD amd64
% sha256sum basename
2e4cf8378b679dd0c2cdcc043bb1f21eaf464d3c3b636ed101fbc5e3230eb5fb basename
% file basename
basename: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors
% ./basename /dev/null.pdf
null.pdf
You can’t really use a questionable source to verify the same source.
The Windows API is no longer the focus for .Net. They are very clearly pushing large scale web apps.

I’d be curious to know what percentage of people are still writing windows clients. I suspect there’s a lot of legacy code still out there, but it’s clearly not the future
Fun fact: Brussels has the exact same structure, with a “Brussels City” smaller than “Brussels Capital Region”, different mayors for different boroughs etc.
Be it "AI" or not, these mostly fall under "AI" legistlation, at least in the new EU AI Act. Which is IMHO a better way to legislate than tying laws to specific algorithms d'jour.
No, son, it is not, just keep using vim and all will be okay.
It's funny, mostly your zoning laws seem to create crazy problems, and yet the one actual problem they are supposed to solve and they completely fail
Indeed. But those are a few too many "coulds" for me to jump to any conclusions.
Mitochondria are ancient bacteria that merged into the eukaryotic cell, accordinga to a theroy. They have a distinct DNA from the rest of the human body and are inherited via the mother. The amount of mitochondria can change, if you exercise more and eat less sugar, the number of mitochondria in your body grows!
Roblox client does as much as possible in Lua(u). It's somewhat well known that Luau is the language Roblox games are scripted in, but even before you enter a game, for the sake of portability everything is written as much as possible in Luau.

Avatar selection screens, groups, settings etc. all make for a huge number of different screens, so I'm assuming they want React to better coordinate making all that GUI between the huge number of internal devs they must have.

Just my guess, I've personally never used React and am not 100% on whether the Roblox app uses React-lua internally or not.
My opinion is that too many people think software engineering is not a serious engineering discipline and romanticize other engineering too much.

For software that really matters you have standards like MISRA C you also have professional bodies like IEEE, ANSI, you have ISO standards for software development and infrastructure, there is a lot of standards and regulations that you can follow just like in all other fields. There is NIST for security and I could probably go on and on. So it is not "overcomplicated hand-waving".

But no one is going to deal with "implementing formal approach" for "yet another crud app", they will hire whizz kid who knows latest JS framework and be done with it paying him 1/10th of cost of someone who knows more than that.
Interesting. Now do the US? :)