skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> but in the longer term I think it would hurt possibilities

Doesn't matter in this weeks market, but he can't even convince people he's capable of remaining a passive investor, so ten years from now no top spots, no top people because the way norms are enforced is by black balling people like him whenever it is tolerably inconvenient.
IBM suing Rocky for what they're doing means industry wide crisis about what the FOSS provisions really mean. Their competition would welcome such self sabotage with arms wide open.

Of course they could release the code just for the *GPL packages, but it's an option only slightly less bad socially.

Now, I wonder why there's no one rebuilding Ubuntu Pro like folks are rebuilding RHEL.
Can we use custom derp/headscale setups? Would be interesting even for use internally then, hell rolling custom versions with preloaded software could also be pretty cool all connected to a corporate headscale/derp.
Had similar issues with CFLs, when those were A Thing. “Oh they last sooooo long! Don’t worry, they’re expensive but they’re actually cheaper than incandescent because they last so long and use so little power!”

Shitty light, and they consistently averaged a shorter lifespan than cheap incandescents across two houses. Nope. Done with that tech forever.
Laughed out loud at the unexpected "90/100" rating at the end. Very interesting read. Thought this was interesting in particular:

> When serving in Iraq or Iran, my biggest fear in those places was always the threat of physical harm, be it ambushes on our person or vehicles, being kidnapped, rocket or mortar attacks on our embassy or accommodation. There were close shaves and the threat and the fear never left you in all of these places.
> But as far as life in North Korea was concerned, there were none of these fears. Serving in North Korea gave you this strange feeling of being cut off, isolated and very insular and perversely at the same time “safe.”

I wonder how this compares to living in e.g. Libya under Gaddafi vs. after?
Ariadne's Thread
afaik, your want of relatively fresh software with few patches excludes pretty much everything there is, except for really niche stuff. All other major options with good commercial support have been mentioned by siblings; I'll add Debian + Freexian to the list.

https://www.freexian.com
> For a rare lifestyle choice—one that is selfless, and also fundamentally personal—vegetarianism tends to drive people pretty bonkers.

This is why vegetarians get mocked. Because they say stuff like "selfless lifestyle choice." On the other hand, I've never seen practicing Hindu's made fun of for their vegetarian diets, whether that's on the West coast or in the Midwest, because they're not wearing it on their sleeve as part of their identity.

I'm loving the rise of vegetarian/vegan food which has improved the quality and availability of non-meat dishes all over the place, but all sides of this mini culture war are insufferable.
That's the whole point of the article, really.
I mean they're building an API to abstract away some of the SKU-to-SKU differences, but the broader point cuts the other way, I think:

> In fact, more broadly we believe we should really reorient our ideas of AI around what maps well onto the hardware. How big should a recurrent state be? As big can fit onto an SM. How dense should the compute be? No less so than what the hardware demands. An important future direction of this work for us is to use our learnings about the hardware to help us design the AI to match.

The value is in adapting the implementation (either manually at write-time or programmatically at run-time) to the specifics of the hardware.

Also, great line:

> And we ask: if your matrix multiply is smaller than 16x16, are you sure what you’re doing is AI?
Looks like a really interesting project to be part of - just submitted my application!
A cop told you to drive above the speed limit? I seriously doubt that. If that’s true, it’s a trap.
Ask HN: Am I the only one annoyed by the Auto-Translated Reddit?
Lately, every time I go to Reddit the page has clearly been auto-translated to the local language. Is anyone else seeing this. This is VERY annoying as the translation is really BAD and even sips into code excerpts ... And of course, no disclaimer telling it's a translation and no way of disabling it. If its meant to be transparent ... it's doing a terrible job.

Just wondering if I'm in a test group or something, or if other non-english natives speaker are seeing this AI-stupidity.
The federal treasury also spent 140 billion paying just interest on the national debt in June alone (nearly 900 billion year to date).

So, this isn't even a drop in the bucket.
Sonnet 3.5: Please write an asteroids game
Remember back in the golden days when we all thought chatgpt-4o was the SCHNITZEL!? That feels so lame today </sarcasm>

The actual prompts were:

1. Write a asteroids game in artifacts. Dont use unsupported libraries.

2. Error: Minified React error #185; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=185 for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.

3. The screen is black but i get the pretty game over prompt after a while.

4. Now i see the game on when the game over popup shows. I think something is layered on top of the canvas, maybe?

5. ReferenceError: Ship is not defined

AND its SUPER fast too. WOW!
Liberté, égalité, duodecimilité!
Right, I can go to insert mode, but to leave is, tricky. I found going to replace mode and escape worked in FF. I'm sure its a browser issue, I also have vimium so probably a nightmare of hooks!
If you can afford to blackball billionaires without going insolvent, then more power to you.
The three most beautiful names in English: Katherine, Elizabeth, Alexandra. Pure magic.
There's a kajillion ways to extract info via analog hole from a well-known room. Unless this room has counter-measures (that are unlikely to be accepted by an authoritarian government) this ain't surprising really.
I just hesitate to romanticize the applicability of modern concepts to classical situations.

Check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne%27s_thread_(logic)
Tech Icons: Claude Shannon
exactly[0]

[0] - https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/skeletons-...
I posted my story a few times about picking up a North Korean shortwave broadcast on my car radio while driving to work at Adobe in San Jose around 2022. Rather than re-tell it again, here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634348
> How is exercise a medical intervention to begin with?

If someone is ill and that illness can be alleviated or eliminated by introducing physical activity to their routine, I feel, would constitute a medical intervention.
Nvidia cuLitho:Accelerate computational lithography
Oersted Medal Lecture 2002: Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics [pdf]
in fact it was despite the tech.

Most my musician and composer friends were forced to use it because it was the cheapest way to share a few hundred gigabytes of instrument samplers with remote contract workers.

They would reserve a week to deal with botched dropbox client upload/downloads. A freaking week. I convinced a few to just pay postage on a external HDD and bite the bullet if they got damaged. They never looked back.
What I find strange is that so few people mock Jews, Muslims for not eating pig or their kosher rules. Or, if someone is vegetarian because they are Hindu.
Music to plan economies by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAf_eo5CnFY
Retrieval Augmented Generation uses text that is stored in a database to augment user prompts that are sent to a generative AI, like a large language model. The retrieval results are based on their similarities to the user input. The goal is to improve the output of the generative AI by providing more information in the input (user prompt + retrieval results.) For example, we can provide the LLM details from an internal knowledge base so it can generate responses that are specific to an organization rather than based on general information. It may also reduce errors and improve the relevancy of the model output, depending on the context.
Yep. iOS 14 though >_<
Did you ever do an Igg food sensitivity test-food panel to check if there were any inflammatory Igg markers from specific foods you were eating? E.g. they can test for 200+ most common foods, which you would of had to have eaten within the last 2-3 months for the Igg markers to still be present - otherwise they breakdown and obviously won't be detected.

To note, you need to eat high fat meat in order to properly digest the meat.

It's possible to also be allergic to certain types of meat, e.g. there's a protein in duck that bothers me.

Another factor to seriously consider is if consuming high quality organic meat vs. whatever else.

Also, meat requires a lot of energy to break down due to its [nutrient-calorie] density - of course you get back much more energy than it consumes, but it is an intensive process, so if there are other foods you're eating that are causing irritation then digesting meat could be problematic - and so then while of course reducing or stopping eating meat will then stop symptoms, it's possible that if removing the other foods that may be causing problems would then allow the meat consumption without causing any problems.

There's really been no properly done research on diet.
Agreed you need to engineer the logging system and not just pray. "The log service slowed down and our writes to it are synchronous" is one I've seen a few times.

On "do not consider what to log and when" .. I'm not saying don't think about it at all, but if I could anticipate bugs well enough to know exactly what I'll need to debug them, I'd just not write the bug.
Computing with friends, then. Anything social is too dangerous, seemingly.
> You can be passionate about this advancement without placing profits first.

Given the riots inspired by this machinery, I don't believe this is possible.

(Arguably also communism, but there was a lot going on back then).

> I disagree strongly here. Art has value in large part because most people cannot produce it. I like stories, but not everyone has a good story to tell. When the story is AI-generated, there isn't a consciousness behind it to give it the passion required for good stories.

I'm not sure either way on this. Possibly a simultaneous agree-and-disagree?

I agree that art may be a "peacock's tail" where the difficulty is the point, and making it cheap makes it cease to be art. In this case, some hypothetical AI which everyone agrees is totally conscious and also that it creates works of exquisite and sublime wonder, still won't be "art".

But the other view of art is that it may also be simply "nice stuff"; if so, then the ability to discern good art from bad art is sufficient, even if you regard an LLM as little more than "fancy autocomplete" — it doesn't need consciousness* of its own, the consciousness of the user is sufficient.

I suspect there's a lot of people in both groups.

* by whichever of the many meanings you intend for that
Which do you think is more likely, the scif was compromised, or one of the people in the scif was?
Do any vegetarians/vegans on HN want to chime in with their opinions about meat substitutes like Impossible and Beyond?

Personally, I eat meat, but I don't take issue with people who don't, and I'm glad they have more and more options, many of which I enjoy myself. But I'm not a big fan of those substitutes. I'd rather have meat, or a more traditional vegetarian/vegan dish(even something like a black bean burger).
Evolution used "it's not a bug, it's a feature" and it's super effective.
A quick look and the author of this article doesn't appear to be a vegetarian. So I don't believe this is case of vegetarians self aggrandizing, but one writers appraisal of the lifestyle choice.
A guide to reading and writing Node.js streams
yeah for sure, because otherwise NK has fantastic relations with USA!
I wonder how that perception problem can be tackled?

The top 1% of people pay 45% of federal income taxes. The top 10% of people pay 75%.

Rates are already highly progressive.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in....
I expect performance would suffer quite a lot. In a system with high I/O, there would be a lot of contention on updating the size of such directories as /home or /tmp, let alone /.

Also, are you going to update a file’s size for every write (could easily be a thousand times if you’re copying over a 10MB file) or are you going to coalesce updates to file sizes? If the latter, how do you recover after a crash?

Virtual directories such as /dev and /proc would require special-casing.

Mounting and unmounting disks probably would require special-casing.
Hetzner 2vCPU 4GB RAM 40gb: €4.50 per month.

Three Docker Containers: Postgres, NGINX, PostgREST

Or Pocketbase if that's your sort of thing.

Automate snapshots for backups: €0.0131/GB per month.
At least in my experience, going off traditional SSRIs wasn't fun, but after it's out of your blood and you wait your ~2 weeks for what is essentially serotonin withdrawal to subside, there weren't any lasting effects.

I've experienced worse withdrawals from other drugs, but I've read that some people do get PAWS-like symptoms from SSRI, and especially SNRI, withdrawal.
Happened with my "gluten-free" wife, too. No issue with legit sourdough.
I'm a huge fan. I became veggie because I don't like the process that creates a burger. But brother do I fucking love burgers. So anything that comes close to letting me eat the food I grew up with and love without the practices I don't is rad
I think parent is saying the choice is between OpenType+large_C_library and font_WASM+small_library+generic_WASM_engine.

Interpreting OpenType is very complex.
Xata employee here. The clarification would be "platform" vs. "host". You get a lot with Xata beyond the core Postgres offering. We automatically replicate to OpenSearch for a great, fast search experience, provide file attachments through the DB itself (with image transformations), provide a pretty cool editor, and are now starting to think heavily towards how migrations could be better (more on this next week). No knock against Neon, who build cool stuff too.

I agree "only" is likely a little aggressive, but marketing is tricky and sometimes the A/B gods appear. We've switched this one-liner a few times in the past year. I'll provide that feedback to the team in any case.
> Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture

Honestly, probably all people engage in propaganda. IMHO, that impulse is the raw fuel for crowdsourced knowledge sites like Wikipedia: people are motivated to edit it to make it conform to their personal bias. Their "solution" to that is to force people to appeal to "reliable sources" (authorities) that reflect their bias instead of injecting it directly, but just shifts the problem a little bit.

> You'd think we'd eventually realize this after a century or so and rise above the nonsense, but propaganda is too powerful I guess?

Bias and self-serving hypocrisy are tendencies that are too powerful.
Similar for textures - it would be really neat if textures were auto-generated to add detail when you get close to something. As it is, the sprites just look bad.
> All of the criteria on your list are already fulfilled by Postgres, MySQL, etc.

They are not, they introduce management of another node / VM / pod which I'll boldly say that likely at least 80% of all projects everywhere do not need.

I'd kick a puppy if that means we can get in-process / embedded PostgreSQL.

> why dilute the optimality of SQLite

What does that even mean? Such a strange wording, as if it's a competition or a fight.

> This is like arguing how great bicycles would be if they had four wheels, enclosed cabins, and gasoline engines.

No, that's akin to arguing that a bicycle would benefit from crash protection if it came with just 2-3kg extra weight.
Add Afghanistan to that list. Some Austrian far-right dumbass went there to make a YouTube video to claim Afghanistan were safe (obviously to justify deporting refugees there) - and lo behold, he got arrested by the Taliban on espionage charges and ultimately released after 9 extensive months of negotiations [1].

[1] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/oesterreich-r...
I still have CFLs in my bathroom. The plastic in the plug has faded from white to yellow. Yet they still work fine, although it takes them 3-5 seconds to get to full brightness.
Honestly I find LLMs to be a great tool, when using them right, and with the sufficient skills to know when they’re wrong. And for some problems, you don’t need a 100% right answer.

Earlier today I asked ChatGPT to give me a Go script to parse a Go codebase (making heavy use of Go AST libraries which I never use normally) and it gave me a 90% good solution which saved me a lot of time. To be clear the solution was non functional on its own, but it still saved me from doing exploration work and gave me a quick overview of the APIs I would need.

A few days ago it helped me generate code for some obscure AWS API using aws-sdk-go-v2. It was again almost fully working, and better than the examples I could find online.

I have examples like this every week. It’s not as amazing as some people say, but still pretty useful. I rejected AI stuff at first but don’t regret adding LLMs to my toolbelt.
> on modern machines you almost never want to be editing the xorg.conf.

No one ever wanted to be editing xorg.conf! (xkcd 963 anyone?)

I did try the "modern" way when I hit this problem (which would have been in early 2022) - but even if it had worked (which it didn't) I don't think it would have persisted beyond a reboot?
Each of the newest headsets are disappointing for different reasons.

PSVR 2 is suffering from lack of original content on the PS5 and not making PSVR 1 content automatically backwards compatible - that would make the PSVR 2 a no brainer winner for gaming. Also the fresnel lenses on the PSVR 2 are distracting after you've used pancake lenses.

Quest 3 is suffering from image compression for video streaming and poor battery life. The game catalog / app catalog is large, but has the typical android feel for the apps - never smooth, unified, or polished. But I feel in that the Quest 3 is probably the best positioned right now for the average user d/t most content, no wires, and cost.

AVP is just too expensive for anyone atm, plus they don't have a catalog of VR games, so they are falling behind. If they had maybe 2-3 AAA games at launch, there would be a different sales arc. Not enough apps or content is available.
It's astounding to me people with takes like the one you are responding to can exist out there. I'm horrified and fascinated and want to know more. It seems almost reflexive.
Thank you for talking with me!

I do realize the benefits of the 'compression' model of ML. Sometimes you can even use compression directly, like here: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0312044 .

I suppose you're right that you only need a few substantively similar outputs to potentially get sued already. (depending on who's scrutinizing you).

While talking with you, it occurred to me that so far we've ignored the output set o, which is the set of all images output by -say- stable diffusion. n can then be defined as n = m ∩ o .

And we know m is much larger than n, and o is theoretically practically infinite [1] (you can generate as many unique images as you like) , so o >> m >> n . [2]

Really already at this point I think calling SD a compression algorithm might be just a little odd. It doesn't look like the goal is compression at all. Especially when the authors seem to treat n like a bug ('overfit'), and keep trying to shrink it.

That's before looking back at the "compression ratio" and "loss ratio" of this algorithm, so maybe in future I can save myself some maths. It's an interesting approach to the argument I might try more in future. (Thank you for helping me to think in this direction)

* I think in the case of the Getty lawsuit they might have a bit of a point, if the model might have been overfitted on some of their images. Though I wonder if in some cases the model merely added Getty watermarks to novel images. I'm pretty sure that will have had something to do with setting Getty off.

* I am deeply suspicious of the NYT case. There's a large chunk of examples where they used ChatGPT to browse their own website. This makes me wonder if the rest of the examples are only slightly more subtle. IIRC I couldn't replicate them trivially. (YMMV, we can revisit if you're really interested)

[1] However, in practice there appear to be limits to floating point precision.

[2] I'm using >> as "much greater than"
There were ads on google.com since at least 2000[1]. Chrome wasn't announced until 2008. Disclosure: I work at Google but not on ads or Chrome.

[1] https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...
Testing getting a simple webapp all the way into prod at fly
there are plenty of site owners that would voluntarily choose a more ethical ad hosting network if it was a good and easy option.

adding a pain-in-the-ass hurdle like "has to be hosted on the same domain" that 99.99% of people won't see the value of or understand is only going to hurt adoption of the better solutions.
I remember using a 486 Linux box and eXceed to allow people to use Netscape over the LAN with X because it was a better experience that way than using any other method of using Netscape on our OS/2 Warp desktop machines at the shop.

(That little Linux box was the star of many shows. It also delivered our mail, routed our WAN, was our primary place to run IRC clients and news readers, and it served files.)
Clocks aren't the only way to race. Powering up the massive core with it's over a dozen pipelines, massive reorder buffer, etc. is another way. This is they way Apple has chose to focus on.
That's kind of funny but I imagine it counts!
Maybe this is because I'm in a fairly liberal big city, but the only time I see people mocking vegans is when they try to make converts, similar to how they would treat any of the other groups trying.
I want:

1. Strictness by default and with no escape hatches;

2. Proper data types like all dates / times / datetimes / JSON etc.

3. In-process / embedded database. Almost all projects I worked on over the course of a 22 years of career did not need a separate node / VM / pod for a database.

PostgreSQL / MySQL and SQLite are not some ideal polar opposites. There is potential for a lot of cross-pollination of features and the ability to achieve the perfect DB.

There. Now you understand the comparison.
I've related the anecdote here before of meeting someone who had made their pile in automating bowling alleys, postwar, then almost losing it again when they attempted to follow up by automating restaurants.

Maybe they were just six or seven decades too early?
> in Russian, should not be an obstacle these days

It blows my mind a tiny bit every time I translate something with GPT-4. It’s flawless!

Fascinating article, it explained a few things I didn’t get before. E.g.: the locals collect grass in bags to feed to rabbits.
The point is that when you use a distro, you trust that distro and its maintainers. If you use the package they build for you, then you rely on this trust.

Now if you use a random script from the internet, then you don't give your distro maintainers a chance to actually review the package and instead you blindly trust this script. Arguably you increase your attack surface.

Also a system package manager checks the packages (there is signatures and stuff), whereas piping a script to curl doesn't do that at all. So if the server is compromised, you just execute random code. It's harder to compromise the system package manager.
Brr almost got the shivers until I read your comment