skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in agreement with a great deal of what you say, except that one thing is missing. Five years ago it was not possible to look at what systems were around and suppose that AI could be the tutor. I see posts arguing that this is not a good tutor, fair enough, but at least some reasonable and capable people think it is.

Following that trend line, it seems quite possible to me that in five years AI will be the teacher. (Of course it may replace CEOs also.)
> Maybe it gets the details wrong, but like even if it's wrong sometimes, it's far better than googling or wikipedia or even a text book sometimes, because you can interrogate it interactively and ask for clarifications

this to me is an insane way to think. I do not consider something better because I can ask it a question, something is better because it is more correct.
The oasis has a touchscreen, but touch turning can also be disabled to prevent accidental page turns. The oasis page turn buttons also rotate depending on the orientation, whether that be right side up, upside down or horizontal, which allows the page turn buttons to be operated one-handed with either the right or left hand.
I mostly agree... a traditional RDBMS can vertically scale a lot on modern hardware. It's usually easier for devs to reason with. And odds are already part of your stack. You can go a long way with just PostgreSQL. It works well for traditional RDBMS cases, works well enough as a Document store and other uses as well. The plugin ecosystem is pretty diverse as well, more than most competing options.

Where I defer is if you already have Redis in the mix, I might be inclined to reach for it first in a lot of scenarios. If you have complex distribution needs then something more like RabbitMQ would be better.
Oh, thanks!

Yeah, I was involved here on the toolchain side. We did a lot of work on the Binaryen optimizer for WasmGC.
I owned ereaders for a while (had the first Kindle) but I ended up going back to my phone for reading books in the end. One device, less charging, less things to remember. The Kobo app works great now it’s matured, and everything is super snappy and responsive.
The problems of epistemology and informational quality control are complicated, but humanity has developed a decent amount of social and procedural technology to do these, some of which has defined the organization of various institutions. The mere presence of LLMs doesn't fundamentally change how we should calibrate our beliefs or verify information. However, the mythology/marketing that LLMs are "outperforming humans" combined with the fact that the most popular ones are black boxes to the overwhelming majority of their users means that a lot of people aren't applying those tools to their outputs. As a technology, they're much more useful if you treat them with what is roughly the appropriate level of skepticism for a human stranger you're talking to on the street
Short of unionization, the labor class (software engineers) are powerless indeed.

And I say this as someone who usually leans right :-)
In general, I agree. But my understanding is that the problem isn't streaming in the abstract, it's supporting certain details of the streaming protocol outlined in the gRPC spec.
there’s always exceptions, but most people are capable of getting more, good sleep.

Not giving out generally useful advice just because an extremely small minority can’t use it is just silly. And giving it out is certainly useful to most people who hear it.

Just because you can’t use it, doesn’t mean someone shouldn’t give advice. There are other humans in existence.
In the code review, can't you simply say, "This is too complicated for what you're trying to do -- please simplify"?
This means we should use national solutions and services instead of someone's else.
It is largely true. Evidence in medicine widely exists but most doctors arent keeping up with it. There has been a bit of a movement toward evidence based medicine in the last decade but most docotrs are still relying on what they learned in med school instead of keeping up with literature.
I used unsloth, I was only using a single GPU for testing - looking forward to follow up posts.
A more constrained test might be justifiable on an interview, but it's got to be clear that it still doesn't directly translate to on-the-job skills.

This might be more of a question about what you expect from a "junior developer" role; are they building skills at a cost to the business, like a student or intern, or doing the best they can do to justify a paycheck?
Doesn’t CATL already build 5C batteries? Then fast charging is really enough
> Is there evidence of this other than "Israel Bad"?

...yes?

From the content of your comment, it seems you're not not up to date on the development of Israel's internal government structure and balance of separation of powers, which has changed a lot over the last five years. But from the tone of your comment, it also sounds like you're going for a snarky dismissal rather than a good faith discussion, so I'm not sure talking about this further is going to do much good.
If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811639, users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I imagine the link seemed too political and sensational to count as on-topic for HN.
Install termux on it, get a pocket keyboard and you have an all-day (week?) terminal.
At that altitude? I don't know. This debris should clear out in a few years, right?
I think it makes sense to compare models trained with the same recipe on token count - usually more tokens will give you a better model.

However, I wouldn't draw conclusions about different model families, like Llama and Gemma, based on their token count alone. There are many other variables at play - the quality of those tokens, number of epochs, model architecture, hyperparameters, distillation, etc. that will have an influence on training efficiency.
>First issue - outside of "my IQ is..." bragging rights, intelligence is multi-dimensional.

This is the reason I shy away from using the term IQ. I do not believe it's a valid test on the individual level.

>If it's "homeopathy would be better than vaccines for our baby"-class stuff

A lot of it is this level. In fact, homeopathy is a major point of contention.
But also very likely that the case will go to court and the damages will be substantially higher.
I'm sure they could. But would they?
I actually learn a lot from arguing with not just AIs but people and it doesn't really matter if they're wrong or right. If they're right, it's an obvious learning experience for me, if they're wrong, it forced me to explain and understand _why_ they're wrong.
Why waste your precious time looking at MacOS in your limited life when you could be prostrating in front of your Steve Jobs shrine?
> wouldn't remove him because of how it would have reflected on the them!

I hate having to witness this at work where there's a team who's been working on a shitty project FOR YEARS and then it gets standardized across the company seemingly out of sunk cost fallacy and ass-covering of the people running it. Meanwhile there was an competing implementation done ahead of schedule and technically excellent, got canned.
What are the chances that anyone goes to prison for this? If the answer is “none” this will just keep happening.
It’s very scary.

I hope your Nebraska highways have some exits/side roads you can pull into. I’ll do that sometimes, or find a town and park a gas station somewhere.

Glucose spike is referring to the thanksgiving dinner effect where you get tired and need a nap after eating. Feeling tired after lunch. Etc.

It can happen after almost any meal, even while well rested, etc.

There’s ways to reduce the spikes but afaik once you get the spike, nap is the best solution.

Coffee can help for some type of tiredness, but sometimes it’s not enough.

I’ll do 15-20 min nap increments. Sometimes one nap isn’t enough, I need to rest longer. Thankfully, I can always tell when the one nap is insufficient before getting on the highway again.
> identity verification by logging into your bank

Do you mean you expect me to give my banking site/app credentials to X?

PayPal used two small (less than $1) transactions and the verification that I own the bank account was verified by correctly identifying the two transaction values.

Plaid, I believe, uses 3rd party auth with some banking institutions that support it, to pull read-only data from my bank account on my behalf.

South Korea and Estonia use government-issued digital certificates that private institutions can use.

There are lots of ways to deal with high assurance authentication, but very few are popular in the US.
> Do you have anything to add to the discussion?

Do you? Can you point out where it (edit: the simple example) breaks down, instead of just repeating that you're dumb?
Discussion (137 points, 4 hours ago, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810767
I've had some friends in the logistics industry ask about a mobile app for this. How hard would it be to convert that to mobile? Are you depending on some complex libraries for the solver, or did you implement the algorithm yourself? I have 0 to no knowledge of C#.
I had a car headunit with wireless Android Auto before and I drive a Rivian now. I thought it would be a degraded experience before buying the car. But I think it's probably a generally better experience now.

Context: I used Android Auto almost entirely for maps and streaming audio, and I always have my phone mounted on the dash to play some media when I drive.

1- Versus either wired or wireless Android Auto, there's just one less step after getting in the car. The car boots ready to go and navigate. There isn't a 2 step loading of the car OS, and then streaming your phone content

2- No battery usage in wireless mode. Phone runs less hot generally vs charging wirelessly or plugged in, which matters on sunny days.

3- If you're not just one-tap navigating to a routine place and you're actively searching for a destination, given how big infotainment screens are continuously getting, I just don't think it's generally a good medium for prolonged interactions. I rather hold the phone in my hands and interact with a familiar phone interface and then send the destination to the car, than doing search and explorations on a car. And I rather hold an untethered phone that isn't slowing down because of the heat from streaming when I do interact with the phone.

4- CarPlay might be better, but Android Auto still has plenty of edge cases, correctly controlling volume, play/pausing media, depending on which app was in the foreground when Android Auto got initially connected. For the first few years, Google Maps disallowed having Maps open simultaneously on the car display and on the phone. And the car app has much less features. I have to turn the engine off or turn off wifi to disconnect Android Auto and use Maps directly. Having 2 full functioning devices with a thin, mature (Bluetooth) interface between them on the Rivian is a cleaner separation.
> In fourth grade, only 36% of students are proficient in math. By eighth grade, that number drops to 26%.

Followed by:

> As we come to the end of our first full pilot school year,

Did they not monitor students' performance? Do they not have concrete numbers like the ones quoted in the first paragraph? What better way to demonstrate effectiveness than to evaluate students and see how much improvement they made?
Im all for it but the dude is worth like $15 million reportedly.
Is it models all the way down?
We know how to do that for paper, but many websites barely get by with directed ads, which are 10x more valuable than random ads. I doubt the web would be useful with 10x more ads to maintain revenue neutrality.
> How is that different from junior devs writing bad code previously?

Because if it's bad, at least it's simple. Meaning simple to review, quickly correct and move on.
The point is that anyone can use it. Grandparents, kids, even engineering and business people, not that it solves every need.

(IANAL)

Like anyone can drive a (you name it), but said vehicle may not be able to carry a living room set, nor drive OK in the snow.

My take, anyway.
Obviously China wants to cripple non local services. And they can do it fast and effectively. Microsoft just wants to make money and have a foothold.
> Justices Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts disagreed

Fascinating split
This is the only reasonable outcome... you can't deny some people justice just because other people think it's fine.

The sacklers have done immeasurable damage to the country. All of their wealth should be removed. Their foundation should be dismantled and used to fund damage and mental health services for addicts of the opioid crisis that they went on to create.

And perhaps some of the individual pushers/purveyors of the drugs, too.
The websites with content authored by people is full of bullshit, intentional and unintentional.
I hope the patient's suffering is worthwhile.
This post might help:

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting

See in particular the "getting started" section near the end:

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting#getting-started

At a lower level the overview in the WasmGC github repo is very good:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...
Sure, but if it s dangerous to you, then maybe you shouldn't be using it - at all. We trust older people to vote, they should do it in good judgement and this includes consideration of where they get their information
Show HN: Gymmr – Find nearby fitness events
Gymmr is an app that will help people find fitness events and facilities near them using a short video feed.

When more people start using it, they will be able to tailor their feed with results driven by a vector database search.

I will also be adding social features like chat and following, so people can meet others who are interested in attending the same local events.

Its still a work in progress at the moment that shows test videos in the feed.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810767
>my C++ has gotten a bit rusty

i see what you did there
I'm surprised people value physical page turn buttons so much.

I've had a kobo Clara HD for years now, running KOReader (one of my most loved pieces of software).

I can turn the page one handed by just curling a finger around from behind and tapping the screen, or by touching the reader to my nose :)

I tend to read a lot in a situation where I can only use one hand!
According to both US Space Command and LEO Labs, the satellite in question was a 6-ton non-functional Russian satellite known as "RESURS-P1": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurs-P_No.1

https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1806140666222948679

https://www.spacecom.mil/Newsroom/News/Article-Display/Artic...
Integrations and whatnot would be my best guess. But smaller projects and groups still use IRC.

I would wager it is a generational thing also.
Interesting - my time actually slowed down after the "rewiring" - probably because I was trying to be more accurate? Would be interesting to understand that actually means in a practical sense. Seeing my results compared to others would be interesting as well.
Looking at the numbers in the report [0], average tech salaries in 2023 were still slightly ahead of inflation relative to 2019 [1]. We were making $146k on average in 2019 (worth $178k in Dec 2023) and were making $182k in 2023.

In other words, the salary slash was more of a correction from the 2020-2022 bubble that we all knew was temporary.

[0] https://app.hubspot.com/documents/21821778/view/776264836?ac...

[1] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=146000&year1=2...
I don't think there is a native desktop version of sheets? On ChromeOS, it's running the web version.

But yes I'd be curious to see how the web version of Excel does it.
I daily the InkPalm for reading. It replaced my Kindle given its pocketable size. I still run the Kindle app on it and it works well without page turn animation. I am curious to see new eink development when the eink pattern expires.
The component of your velocity that isn't coplanar with the orbit you want to end up in is velocity you have to get rid of.
My partner is Korean, yes, they actually trust their government more while being aware of these things.
I'm not sure that it matters... all the cloud providers has simple queues and more complex orchestrators available already.

I do think their cloud offering is interesting, and being PostgreSQL backed is a big plus for in-house development.
It's for their RLHF pipeline to improve labeling. Honestly, this seems super reasonable to me. I don't get why you think this is such a bad idea for this purpose...
You can't just tell Julie in HR to get a persistent shell session and set up her bouncer.

For Matrix, you can say "go to chat.company.com" and click log in with Google.
It's in the CSS Color 5 spec - here: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#cal-cmyk
No, they used pulses (ta-ta-ta-ta-ta 40 times a second) not continuous waves.
I don’t think it is emotional manipulation, I think it is emotional reasoning. They use a vague claim of violent diarrhea and the change of a CEO to make the case that meal substitutes have failed at the only thing they claim to do (false) and that Silicon Valley is out of touch for applying reasoning to something they don’t actually understand.

I would be interested in an article making a case against these drinks that used some kind of substantial argument, but this is not it. The article may as well be an anti vaccine article claiming vaccines give you diarrhea, our bodies regulate themselves, and big pharma is trying to get you hooked on a recurring revenue model to create a class divide. A pseudo-intellectual argument worked backward from trying to explain the “feeling” that putting chemicals in your body is bad.

Reading between the lines, I suspect the real root of the argument is that the author has an emotion - they don’t like the idea of Soylent or the brand that was created behind it - and is jumping through hoops to rationalize that feeling.
Yes, although in theory the justices are ruling on what the law means, rather than ruling on what they think it should mean for justice to be served.
If anyone is interested in evaling Gemma locally, this can be done pretty easily using ollama[0] and promptfoo[1] with the following config:

prompts:
- 'Answer this coding problem in Python: {{ask}}'

providers:
- ollama:chat:gemma2:9b
- ollama:chat:llama3:8b

tests:
- vars:
ask: function to find the nth fibonacci number
- vars:
ask: calculate pi to the nth digit
- # ...

One small thing I've always appreciated about Gemma is that it doesn't include a "Sure, I can help you" preamble. It just gets right into the code, and follows it with an explanation. The training seems to emphasize response structure and ease of comprehension.

Also, best to run evals that don't rely on rote memorization of public code... so please substitute with your personal tests :)

[0] https://ollama.com/library/gemma2

[1] https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo
Seems like an excellent history.

Can't stop thinking of the Simpson's World Without Zinc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpPrWHBHcQ
Is there other examples other than Steve Jobs? It feels like he is the example brought up in any discussion about assholes, making him the exception, not the rule.
I'm with you on that part. It's not clear to me exactly how this is happening that doesn't cause other issues.
Thanks, tried it out - it's pretty cheap and pretty good. Being able to commit directly into multiple files simultaneously is great.
This problem applies almost universally as far as I can tell.

If you are knowledgeable on a subject matter you're asking for help with, the LLM can be guided to value. This means you do have to throw out bad or flat out wrong output regularly.

This becomes a problem when you have no prior experience in a domain. For example reviewing legal contracts about a real estate transaction. If you aren't familiar enough with the workflow and details of steps you can't provide critique and follow-on guidance.

However, the response still stands before you, and it can be tempting to glom onto it.

This is not all that different from the current experience with search engines, though. Where if you're trying to get an answer to a question, you may wade through and even initially accept answers from websites that are completely wrong.

For example, products to apply to the foundation of an old basement. Some sites will recommend products that are not good at all, but do so because the content owners get associate compensation for it.

The difference is that LLM responses appear less biased (no associate links, no SEO keyword targeting), but are still wrong.

All that said, sometimes LLMs just crush it when details don't matter. For example, building a simple cross-platform pyqt-based application. Search engine results can not do this. Wheras, at least for rapid prototyping, GPT is very, very good.
> Linera left with Morales. The President of the House apparently left to Argentina. but Salvatierra didn't flee? Resigned of her own accord.

Salvatierra explicitly tells in interviews that one of the reasons for her resignation was the threat of the coup violence. That in the moment of her resignation there were already outside her house a violent mob ready to attack if she did not resign. In a context where other MAS members already had their houses attacked, their relatives kidnapped and tortured.

> And, again: Anez called prompt elections and peacefully handed power back to MAS less than a year later. She had every opportunity to avoid that: the election took place during the start of the COVID pandemic.

She tried to avoid the elections during pandemic, but was forced to retreat the proposal.And as I said, all recent soft coups in Latin America involve making elections some time later, just after ensuring that the overthrown group would not win (which failed in Bolivia because of MAS popular support).

Yes, Morales should have annointed a successor. But even his extra terms were more democratic than what the opposition did in response. And it is a little naive thinking that this would have prevented a coup or some other reaction if the parties that Morales defeated in the elections still were defeated by his successor.
I've heard of the "broken window fallacy", and this seems an incorrect representation.

The fallacy is that breaking windows must have an inherent value (and the fallacy is that its a good thing to have vandalism). Part of the justification that it might be otherwise is the benefit of having window repairmen, and how they couldn't exist if they didn't have a steady income - and it's here that lies the fault, however the fault is one of quantification, in fact a broken window can be socially useful, just with decreasing usefulness as quantity increases, plus there are better ways to do it (e.g. insurance payment); It's still true that (in an unmanaged market) if (somehow) there aren't enough broken windows, when one breaks there might not be anyone who can repair it (economically) - I think it's the same category of problem as, donating clothes to Africa destroys its own textile biz.
I like it! I tried it with my brand and it worked pretty well - if I didn't have a logo already I might lift once from you :) Love that you have a hand-drawn option.
I’m really curious where that line is and how it is identified. How much business is lost to the onboarding friction? Is it more or less than the cost of the attacks?

On one extreme usage of the service is totally open to everyone. On the other it is completely locked down and nobody can use it ever. Clearly neither of those are workable. So it’s a question of how far to go with validation.
Initial Js version approx 1/3 of jvm; wasm gc is 2/3 of jvm speed then?
You're welcome. I read over it before I posted and it's basically everything I would have written.