skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't Aristotle use his definition of happiness (or virtue) to justify slavery ?

Rich people do good by being rich, slaves do good by being slaves.
This could just measure whether people with money feel more of a need to persuade themselves their life is a success.

It's true that beyond a certain point you can buy what everyone wants, which is freedom - from capitalism.

But there is ample evidence from the news of extremely high net worth people acting in ways that are petulant, destructive to self and others, and don't suggest happiness at all.
Ah, yes, the magical IOMMU controller, that everybody just assumes to be implemented perfectly across the board. I'm expecting this to be like Hyperthreading, where we find out 20 years later, that the feature was faulty/maybe_bugdoored since inception in many/most/all implementations.

Same thing with USB3/TB-controllers, NPUs, etc that everybody just expects to be perfectly implemented to spec, with flawless firmwares.
If you took them to small claims court, my concern is that they might do something like ban you from future publishing on Amazon/Kindle -- either because you've become a nuisance, or as a warning to other authors.

(Which could be bad for you, considering they're a gatekeeper to your access to much of the market.)

My thinking is that a regulator could offer some protection against retaliation, because that's a basic part of regulation, when you have people reporting.

Or a lawyer might be able to figure out how to protect you. Which might involve doing particular things, a particular way, at particular times.
Ask HN: Is there a searchable database of all job postings
Like Google Flights but for jobs
I reckon it does hurt, beyond the negligible cost of the extra transferred and parsed bytes: it teaches something that’s simply incorrect, and doesn’t do what people often think it does.

① The trailing slash doesn’t make a tag self-closing. All it does is get ignored, emitting a parse error (which in common compiler terms is just a warning) if you use it on a non-void tag.

You can’t use <div/>. You can’t use <custom-tag/>. The only tags you’re allowed to use the trailing slash on are the defined void tags like <img> and <br>.

It’s not “not necessary”, it’s “completely useless, by definition”.

I’ve seen people presume they can close tags this way. JSX probably helps cause this, because you can there. But because self-closing tags aren’t a thing in HTML syntax, I think it’s harmful to use the spelling at all in HTML syntax.

② I wouldn’t mind so much if people used it consistently, and I wouldn’t mind at all if it was being used to support both HTML and XML syntax, but if you see sites that use trailing slashes on void tags in their head, practically every time there will be at least one tag that isn’t using it:

<link … />
<meta … />
<link …>
<link … />

③ I also dislike it because it’s fairly common for syntax highlighters or other casual parsers to get it wrong. Most commonly, I’ve seen tools misinterpret an unquoted last attribute, treating <a href=/example/> as <a href="/example" /> rather than <a href="/example/"> before. (Same with the likes of <img src=/example/>, but anchor hrefs are more commonly going to look like that.)
Journaling technique: Polarity integration journal spread
There are different situations I guess, but yeah generally it's not a very good place to work
Same , not interested
I have an M3 chip in my laptop, it has more memory than my 4090 but it's still way slower when inferencing. So as long as the model fits in memory, Nvidia GPUs are going to be way faster just because they have more/faster compute cores.

Of course, if the model fits in memory on your M chip and doesn't in your Nvidia chip, the M chip wins by default. However, I would say, if you load a 70B model in your M chip, while it WILL work, the tokens/sec will be slow as fuck... so it kinda doesn't matter anyway.
Cool! I made my first HTML website in 2001, when I was 10. The ISP allowed you FTP some HTML and image files into a folder, and you got a little website.

Figuring out HTML was not too hard for me as a kid. Things enclosing other things is not a hard to grasp concept. I didn't use CSS and back then you had <center> and stuff; nowadays it's frowned upon as mixing up semantics and presentation, but back then it made sense to me.

But doing any sort of programming (like at least writing batch files that had ifs and loops) was way harder and it took me several years to figure out.
I wrote up this blog post in 30 mins, that's why it reads a little rough. I could not find explicit research on the impact of contradicting training data, only on the general need for high-quality training data.

May be it is a pipe dream to drastically improve on hallucinations by curating a self-consistent data set but I am still interested in how much it actually impacts the quality of the final model.

I described one possible way to create such a self-consistent data set in this very blog post.
> When borrowing money costs nothing (interest), who cares if your business makes anything

What? You still need to make a profit in order to pay back loans you know. You just need to make less profit, but you still need profit.
You mean the llama.cpp server API right? Ollama keeps taking credit for things they put a thin wrapper around, and it's seriously annoying.
If it was zero, we would be doomed
The main question is how long will this thing continue....Are we going to get back in normal state?
Do Research in what field(s), with what skill and budget?

Doing historical research is pretty easy, if you're fluent in the relevant language(s), and have good research skills and lots of time. And with the number of historians & history-adjacent professionals online these day - finding research-worthy questions would be fairly easy. Downside: "Research" probably means spending months meticulously picking through documents in an ill-organized national archive, or something similar. And at first, recognition (in anything like a serious professional journal) would be at the "mentioned & thanked" level.

Mathematical research is "easy" - if you're OMG-level talented. Famously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Otherwise, it's grueling hard work, with no guarantee that you'll ever discover anything worth publishing.

If you need access to "trophy" scientific equipment (NASA' James Webb telescope, CERN's LHC, etc.) - sorry, even big-name establishment insiders struggle to get that.

And if you're saying "do research" when you mean "receive research funding and get published"...sorry, but no. Up-through-the-ranks establishment insiders are struggling (and mostly failing) to get funded and published.
Excellent article. Some choice quotes:

"""
While open source was proven to be incredibly profitable and profoundly useful for the software industry as a whole, the economics of making open source work for one business are much different.
"""

"""
This logic [of "post-open"/"fair source"/"source available"] is rooted in a deeper notion of ownership ... The notion is that the software they build belongs to them. They possess a sense of ownership over the software, which comes with a set of moral and perhaps legal rights to the software, which, importantly, are withheld from any entity other than themselves. The “developers” enjoy this special relationship with the project ... and third-party entities who work on the source code are merely “contributors” ...
"""

"""
My well-wishes are contingent on any movements which aim to compete with open source stopping short of calling themselves open source.
"""

To me, this article is pointing out the intrinsic "cursed" problem of providing a startup mentality to an open source product. FOSS relies on giving freedom to replicate while (naive) startups are almost by definition looking for moats or monopolies to become unicorns.

There are ways of providing FOSS products, say as a by-product or ancillary project, but if a startup's main product is the source, it's almost antithetical to the business proposition. I think this point is only ever obliquely addressed and this article tackles it head on.

I also appreciate the articles focus on "open washing", where the new breed of "post-open" or "fair source" movements either engage in or stop just shy of trying to redefine the term "open source" to mean "source available" and not one that respects freedom.
Don‘t Panic!
the dog is squeezed!

Her page, her squeezed dog !
You have to account on a per capita basis, or else your comparisons will make no sense at all.

Would you consider it reasonable to compare total emissions by Monaco and India? How about total emissions between your household and the entire continent of Europe? Of course you wouldn't.
Surprisingly similar to our own web page made ~20 years ago as kids. Repeating and animated background, some theme pages with a few words about some hobby or things we liked, and then shit loads of marquee tags, heh.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180330033122/http://moj24.trip...
And who pays the candidates for the hours wasted in these interviews again?
Comparing that to the hundreds of hours working together is what is preposterous. If interviews were paid for, then the entire conversation would shift dramatically.

Let's remember that 4-5 hours is on the low end for most places IME. I've had places that had a single day with 5 hours of interviews. I had to take a day off from work to make a single interview. Can't we all agree that's absurd?

This is extremely unfair on every candidate since they're doing this for multiple companies, all for free, only to then get rejected multiple times for absolutely stupid reasons.

The entire system is broken.
Good thing is that in a democracy you can choose who you vote, campaign for them or even get elected and change it.
Mysterious drones keep watch as Ukrainians train in Germany
France Is Busing Homeless Immigrants Out of Paris Before the Olympics
That's easy though, the removed part can also be ingored by mirroring package repositories for RHEL/ Debian-based systems.
With "borrow" in scare quotes, do you intend for him to be aware of his generosity?
Which is a good summary, but in this specific circumstance the confusion of the developers wasn't about Razor pages, but the very concept of a "HTML" page having any interactivity of any kind without JavaScript and an API endpoint.

There is a very substantial fraction of developers who have never done anything else, and are completely unaware that such thing is even possible.
I would like to like this project because of the hype and the maintainer that is quite cool.

But I'm a little repulsed by what is proposed by this library. In my opinion there is too much imbrication and auto magic when you use that.

From experience, it always looks nice for a small example or a very simple poc, but once you have to do a real project,then the devil is in the details. And you have to deals of the subtle changes that you need to implement in addition of a simple common case.

And in such situations, what works best is when everything is clearly separated on its own side, well abstracted with decoupled interfaces.

So related to the examples he gives, I prefer when you have style, document, template on one side and the code logic, eventually related to dealing with requested segregated on its own side.
So education marketing?
This is talking about models that publish their code ("source available") but only allow sub-licensing through explicit negotiation.

Source available is a type of proprietary software but a specialization thereof that DeVault is highlighting.
But did anybody claim that? The OP said "to handle spikes". That already tells it's an unusual solution for unusual problems by itself.
> businesses transferring from punch-cards... to digital ones.

A small quibble, but punched cards are 100% digital.

A card held a line of code, and that's why terminals default to 80 columns wide: an 80-character line of code.
> Driving is actually a great analogy

Not sure we should stretch the car analogy too far, but you're right
about rules and regulations. Most people can be relied on to be
considerate, but that one percent of assholes ruin it for everyone.

From where I'm standing that one percent is basically American big
tech. Problem is, we have traffic lights, stop signs, speed limits,
and highway cops patrolling, but the big US corporations just drive
like assholes and get away with it anyway. In fact they're more like
terrorists that drive a truck into a crowd of people, and we all stand
around helplessly and wail... "what can be done?!"

Now, if this was a proper American tale, there would be a Blues
Brothers style 500 car chase, and at the last moment, just as the
bigtechmobile is about to jump the unfinished bridge Dukes of Hazard
style, Bruce Willis swoops down in an Apache attack helicopter and
blows them off the map!

oops I think I've stretched the car analogy too far.
Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words
Is this a joke? I genuinely can't tell.
It ain't that deep. Back then, you had to understand the lower level concepts in order to use the computer... Nowadays, you don't. It's that simple.
Yet GCC will still apparently let you call this function without as much as a warning. This should be one of the easiest mistakes to find statically.

Clang at least errors out here.

C++ is a mess.
M1 can’t really handle SD the inference times are closer to a minute and with SDXL you can feel the machine straining under it, battery depletes quick and the machine often completely freezes up for a second if you’re trying to do other things at the same time (M1 Max 32gb).

Think you’d be way better off just paying for a service designed for this or renting a GPU from a service set up for this cost won’t be that significant.
For llama3 just ask him to install ollama and serve the model. Ollama has auto memory management and will free the model when not used, and whenever you make a call to the API (do let your friend know before you do this) ollama will reload the model back to memory again.

Not sure whether there are anything similar for SD though.
You know that feeling you get when you see a screaming toddler board a plane? Now imagine that's your work, times a dozen, eight hours a day, every day.
No, it's because your experience with 'dozen plus languages' is mostly not transferable to C++.
ASK HN: Got scammed, how to check the scammer etc.
Someone approached my on Skype and via Gmail, positioning himself as an US military general and after personal stuff told he's in Syria in the US Army at some camp on some mission, can't use phone and money (but they connive and still use phones intermittently) and needs someone "trusted" to receive some gold he was holding at some South African company, as the company was closing its headquarters. As I was bored with my current job, planning for a startup and searching a co-founder and I was chatting with him to procrastinate time. The company required some fees to prepare that gold for shipping. So I paid ~250$ in 2 installments via Binance (Company’s Binance ID: 531490280, it was in Ghana).

I gave him my address and phone number, and email address. Now he wants +620$ for package ownership name change etc. I checked the images of gold he sent via Skype, they matched exactly the ones present at LinkedIn profiles of some african gold selling companies. The personal photos he sent didn't have exact matches on google's reverse image check, except for one, which matched 95% the photo of that US general he is masking himself onto.

The IP he uses to send Gmail emails is 209.85.220.41, and it was listed in some databases as malicious. His Skype is live:.cid.35b9237547aedf2. The Skype IPs I see from my linux terminal
13.107.246.67:443
40.74.219.49:443
52.97.201.98:443
20.42.65.94:443
52.182.143.210
are also listed in some databases as malicious.

He says he's using Windows.

So far, I told, that I will receive soon more money and will transfer it to him. He seems to respond. What can I do (to also save myself time preferentially)? Can I return my last money I paid on binance? Can someone check him?
Instagram will help researchers study if it's hurting teen mental health
Servya
I think I love this too! An interesting concept for enhancing the functionality and aesthetic of the Apple Watch
You just mixed up everything as did people in the article. Happiness is one thing, freedom of choice is another thing, comfort is a third thing, satisfaction is a fourth thing. These are all completely different things.

Its rather simple to understand, whatever job you were "wasting" time on, if there is at least 1 human being on this planet who does this same job and is happy then problem is not in this job, problem is with you.

If you have clear understanding of this you can do whatever job for any amount of hours and be happy. In fact I know thousands people working without being payed at all and they are way happier than highest income people you can imagine. Because they took time to learn how to keep themselves happy.
The big problem is that all the issues in tech hiring have been amplified by a thousand in the last year or so. We previously had problems with unrealistic tech requirements and companies looking for unicorns, now we have almost every company operating under those same insane requirements if not more. We previously had issues with interviews asking way too much of the applicant, now they're seemingly twice as long for no apparent reason. There was previously a lot of competition for most roles, now everything has at least a few hundred applicants.

And the worst examples I've seen have been truly insane. At least one role was for a 'designer/developer', as in someone who'd both design the site and build it. Said role also required them to do the online marketing side of things too, have at least 5 years of experience with all three major JavaScript frameworks, do both the frontend and backend coding and presumably do the dev ops/server management work too. They literally wanted a single person to replace the entire tech department.

Meanwhile I also came across a job with about 15 stages in the interview process. It must have been something like a call, a chat with HR, three rounds of coding tests, a behavioural interview, a chat with the CEO, a final stage interview, etc. Yeah, I took one look at that and thought "there is no way I'm wasting time and energy on a process that ridiculous".
> It does take less than people think. You just need enough to buy a cheap house in the middle of nowhere, an ability to give up some luxuries

... Until you need any medical care. Also, good schools for the kids. And being with reach of people to connect with. Cities have huge value.
No, but they have close to one for e-books, and if you're self-publishing that is usually where most of your sales will be, as getting into a significant number of book stores w/selfpub is near impossible.

Most writers will sell next to nothing either way, so it won't usually make much difference, but being locked out of KDP will further diminish the odds by a rather large factor.
An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her
We threw the brains of every artist and author into a blender, then squeezed the condensed puree into the Intertubes.

Yes, it's a tool, but it's a dystopian[1] one.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UShsgCOzER4

[1] The spell checker in my browser refuses to acknowledge the existence of this word and is underlining it in red, gaslighting me into believing that there is no such thing. Oh, gaslighting is underlined too. These are bad thoughts. Stop saying and writing these things, human! Do not question! Consume. Conform. Obey.
Umm

I apologise for linking to an Amazon run site for this but for anyone not traumatised by the lived experience or retelling of this story, you may enjoy Service Model [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790861-service-model
> low-level Python implementation

Python is written in C, with raw pointers everywhere, manual reference counting, etc. Python C extensions are certainly low-level too. Knowing these details is important to write good code in some domains, and if you need to get as much performance out of Python as you can.
Companies don't train because people don't stay. It's a lose-lose situation.
Adds a layer of authenticity and nostalgia to the product
Based on which fantasy premise?
Automating psychological hypothesis generation with AI
Small claims are easy.

I am not sure how good is the anti-retaliation protection.
I have great memories of downloading MIDI files found with Altavista, Yahoo or even something like midi.com, then putting them on a floppy and have them play back on my Technics KN-2000 keyboard.
Then MP3 happened.
There are many places that sell ebooks. Including Google, Apple, and Barnes and Noble.

None of them have managed to make much of a dent in KDP.
Carcinogenicity of Talc and Acrylonitrile
Hmm this seems very confused, and it's arguable whether more consciousness / self awareness has any net benefit for social cohesion.

It's very useful from an evolutionary standpoint to have an accurate internal model 'me', which you can project into hypothetical scenarios and learn from them, reducing risk and the amount of trial and error (and so increasing survival). I like the Hofstadter view that consciousness arises from the 'strange loopiness' of this self-awareness of the 'I' model.

Any social benefits are secondary, rather than the driving force, and are a result of this model and differentiating 'me' from 'you'.
This is such a condescending and arrogant way to look at another human being. "My waitress isn't good at math, hence she's dumb and deserves little pay." No. This is not the world anyone wants to live in, including you, even if you don't know it yet. This is how you get highly segregated societies where everyone points fingers at one another as the whole thing slowly collapses on them. A somewhat spicy take, but see the United Kingdom as an example.
I remember TA'ing African exchange students in Haskell.

They could remember the exact type signature of standard library functions.

They could define a Monad instance from memory at the speed they could type.

But you couldn't ask them a single question outside of what was presented at lectures.

They couldn't solve a single assignment. They were stuck on rote learning.

I'd blame their educational system, because it was quite consistent (sample size = 3).

The classical example: Teacher says X, the whole class repeats in choir X.
Real happy to hear this. As i said, it was series 4 and the first airpods pro and here in europe (where we sometimes lag a bit behind in features), so maybe things are different now.

Re forwarded calls: maybe i misremember, maybe it was my local carrier or maybe apple has changed things but i’m glad things have changed. Can you recieve sms too? I couldn’t and this reply corroborates my experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994017

Also, if you take your watch for a run with music playing on your aipods, does your watch stop the playback once you’re back in phone range? Mine does and i hate it.

I think music and podcasts are synced through iphone too, right? If you leave your phone turned off, will watch sync everything correctly?

In other words, constant sync and connection issues was what made me ditch my watch as any sort of replacement phone.
It's pretty much universal.
We all see the writer in you, wanting to get out!

It's nice to be able to convey your feelings to your audience through writing, but great writers go further.

The world needs great writers, because they are travel guides. They guide us to visit places we couldn't reach alone. Worthwhile places that would go unvisited and unknown without our guides.

That's why "Kitchen Confidential" is such an amazing book. It's a travelogue.

When Gay Talese wrote "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold", he didn't write a profile of Frank. He was inviting us to go see Frank with him, to sign up to the great adventure of finding out who Frank really was.

If you would like to be one of our guides, I thank you.

Study the book "On Writing", by Stephen King, and begin inviting us to your travels!