skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could do a resort for 6 days in my early twenties, unfortunately I was there for 14 days. It wasn’t fun
If the product was truly revolutionary, users wouldn't mind opening an app to talk to it.
> A few centuries ago, it was normal for kids to have only a few toys, adults to have a few dozen books, at most, and this was typical.

That stuff was "keeping up with the Joneses", though. Check out the price for even a simple bedframe in the pre-industrial era. Such things may seem like 'simple' necessities to us now, but for people of the era, budgeting money and/or home-crafting time for even basics like clothes, furniture, and work tools was a major ongoing commitment.
it did hit a nerve here though, ~1000 comments. I couldn't finish it due to rambling style but i do find some insightful comment threads here.
Carding Tutorials, Tools, Carding Methods, and Basics – Procarding
Good thing nobody's talking about breaking or locking jobs then.
Trump made the decision to land humans on the moon.
Classifying Pull Requests: Enhancing Code Review Effectiveness
The Million-Dollar Taxi (2011)
Maybe because running over yourself with your own car is a little less convenient than blowing your fscking brain out with a gun.
That's very normal in America. But it's also very normal for people to simply ignore this rule, and leave poop all over the sidewalk.

Similarly, many public parks require that dogs be kept on a leash. However, here again dog owners don't think they need to follow rules, and let their dogs run loose. Reminding them of the rule is usually met with hostility, profanity, and physical threats.
Ask HN: Dec Alpha Wireframe Simulator
Around '96 I was working in a team porting a business application to DEC Alpha and one of the DEC team showed us a wireframe simulator that could be used to simulate any mode of transport from a racing car to different types of aircraft right up to the USS Enterprise, with keyboard control for movement and direction and some basic world features. Try as I might, I've been unable to find any references to that software on the internet and I'm hoping it's not some false memory in my head. Does anyone recall such an application running on mid 90's DEC hardware?
i'm glad they were helpful!
That's how PAIP does it, their interpreter uses continuation passing style:

22.5 An Interpreter Supporting Call/cc

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter22...

23.2 Introducing Call/cc [see the next chapter, 23.3 The Abstract Machine, for the implementation in bytecode]

https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter23...
Most of the “fraudulent citations” stories you’ve seen were by non-US researchers. But nobody leads with that detail, because the goal is to cherry-pick bad behavior from across the goal in order to convince people that US higher education is entirely corrupt. It’s the same phenomenon that has half the country convinced that violent crime in US cities is out of control, when in fact a detailed analysis shows that it’s at historically low levels.
What is the outcome you're hoping for, though? It's not useful for people to live with vague anxiety. Are there specific solutions we want them to pursue, and that aren't being handled by the government?
I mean the world is kind of in flames, if planes were as unreliable as most software is we'd have a hundred falling out of the skies every day. But the only reason it isn't worse, and I can't remember who the quote is from, is that the real Moore's law is the fact that talented hardware engineers keep improving hardware more quickly than software is getting slower.

There's an alternative world where everyone is performance oriented and those Rabbit devices don't run for five hours but for five days on modern batteries. Let's be real the thing is basically a Tamagochi, it should cost 50 bucks and run on chips from 2010.
That seems to be the finding here though there is very little to go on in the article. Were the high income people not wealthy or a mix? Were the wealthy people high income, higher income or lower income?

Living paycheck to paycheck is likely stressful at any income. Having wealth likely less stressful at any income.
This is really bad. They are running a single K8s cluster and expecting hard multi-tenancy guarantees?

All the major clouds use vm boundaries and separate K8s clusters between customers. Microsoft was similarly bitten a few years ago with one of their function products that expected K8s to be the primary security boundary.
My point is more that if a person today used that past amount of stuff, they would still be "capable" of being happy. It's not the extra stuff that makes people happy today. The difference is that society has innumerable ways of pumping FOMO into your head, especially via advertising and social expectations.

In other words, if a group of people today made a town where everyone had anti-FOMO/consumerist values, kids only had a few wooden toys and not 5,000 Pokemon cards, etc., I don't think the lack of money and stuff would make them less happy.

This makes me think that a group like the Amish would be worth studying WRT money and happiness.
The Most Outrageous Schemes to Raise the Titanic
I sell through KDP and this is a good heads up. Sorry it happened to you; when it eventually happens to me I'll bail to Lulu and never look back.
As far as i remember reading before it is even a layer on top of screen or tmux and you could even choose which.

Never tried it though. Tmux does me fine (I used screen for decades but these days it shows its age)
“ The lowest rate of long Covid in the study, 3.5 percent, was among vaccinated people who were infected during the latest period in the study, between mid-December 2021 and January 2022.
That compares with a rate of 7.8 percent for unvaccinated patients in the study who were infected during the same period.”

I recall the incredible relief I felt after getting my first vaccine shot.

And I actually feel sorry for the vaccine refuseniks who never got that sense of relief.

The mass hysteria churned up by the anti-vax movement, and the amount of suffering it caused, is going to keep historians busy for a long time.
Thanks for sharing.
Notably to me the “explicit” category appears near zero in North America which is what I’m most familiar with and concerned about, and where I mostly hear people complain about subsidies.

But for sure would welcome those other regions to remove their subsidies!
Honestly, I think universities took their good reputations for granted, and so chose to pursue other goals than maintain them.

I don't think any institution can maintain the confidence of the general public without being scrupulously neutral on controversial things (or at least scrupulously respectful of all common perspectives) and staying focused on widely-shared values.
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics
The guy who bungled smartphones while having the unimaginable advantage of the business ecosystem? And the guy who was years late on cloud computing and SaaS more widely?

IMO if Ballmer had stayed on until present day, Microsoft would have become something like Oracle. Technically growing revenue, but very little substance or relevance, no new customers or new business from them, only jacking up prices.

Also, he left in 2014, a decade ago, so it was ambiguous if I'm covering him or not.
I've indeed used Jenkins. For all my professional uses, it served perfectly well. Newer releases come with pipeline and k8s support etc., so I'm not of the opinion that just being ancient is a disqualifier.
Well I’m more than interested in hearing what these legitimate partners are because every single one I’ve used was either not a valid key but secretly an upgrade key, or being sold multiple times.
I have to admit the last time I seriously worked with QuickCheck was quite a while ago.

> My understanding is that Haskell’s QuickCheck can shrink functions [...]

Are you talking about shrinking a value of type (a -> b) (for some concrete a and b)? In Hypothesis, if you write a generator that spits out functions, you get a shrinker for free. So that shrinker will shrink functions.

As far as I can tell, QuickCheck's shrinking is based on values. I just checked, the type is still `shrink :: a -> [a]`, so that can't have changed.

In Hypothesis shrinking is based on the generation process. In Hypothesis generators act a bit like 'Functors' in Haskell, ie you can map over them. (You can also filter and `<>` and do monadic binds etc.)

So in Hypothesis you can take a generator that produces integers, and create one that produces only even numbers by (in Haskell terms) mapping (2) over it. Now, the shrinker you get for free will also only produce even numbers.

That's not possible (or at least not easily possible) in Haskell. You would have to define at least a newtype wrapper.

Have a look at https://hypothesis.works/articles/compositional-shrinking/ and https://hypothesis.works/articles/integrated-shrinking/ for some more write-up, especially about how Hypothesis can preserve information even when shrinking past a monadic bind.

If you follow some links in the two articles above, you land at https://github.com/icicle-lang/disorder.hs-ambiata/tree/mast... which is a Haskell library that shares a few design decisions with Hypothesis.

Apart from shrinking, Haskell's QuickCheck can also learn a lot from Hypothesis in terms of floating point number generation. The last time I used QuickCheck seriously, they basically generated floats by converting from a sort-of uniformly sampled fractional number. I see that this commit https://github.com/nick8325/quickcheck/commit/07942642d7987b... seems to have made float generation a lot smarter!

Hypothesis is especially 'nasty' when it generates floats. It has a good chunk of probability allocated to things like various NaNs, infinities, sub-normal numbers, zero, one float past zero, etc, plus of course some probability mass on uniformly chosen floats. See https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data.html#hypoth... for the docs, but you should check out the code, too.
Spartan article. I was curious about the efficiency. Seems like it's theorized as high as 30, but practically is more in line with 20 year old heat pumps? Lots of articles about simulations.

> COP of 3.7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43611-6 (2023)

> Using elastocaloric systems, these efficiencies can be increased by a multiple. Elastocaloric materials show COPs of up to over 30, and current technology demonstrators achieve simulative efficiencies of over 9.

https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/article-do/elast... (2023)

Looking for articles by the interviewee, Google Scholar only lists six. This one has a COP study:

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/SMASIS/proceedings-ab...

The 20 COP is at temp. diff of around 3 K. At 20 K diff, the COP seems to land around 3-4.

> "The efficiency of elastocaloric materials is more than ten times higher than today’s air conditioning or heating systems – they will require significantly less electricity,” said Motzki.

Please also explain what's wrong with existing technologies that makes NiTi relevant in residential buildings. Current numbers don't seem to say what you're saying.

I could see this being really useful in e.g. space exploration where you don't want liquids slushing around, or risk leaking gas.
Reminds me of a river cruise I went on in India back in '96. The toilet was a seat over a length of poly pipe going directly into the river. At one point we stopped around lunchtime and some British tourists on the cruise had a lovely lunch with locally caught fish... after which they were mysteriously rather unwell.
On the OP's resume, they claim to have written the "highest performing in-memory database in the world". It's here: https://github.com/carrierdb. There are no users.

Perhaps it is the highest-performing in-memory DB in the world, but it's a competitive space and the claim is extremely grandiose. If I were hiring my assumption would be it's BS. I would recommend the OP collapse the resume to a single-page PDF and ensure it contains only supportable claims.
> Proximity matching via vector embeddings that offer no guarantees of completeness or correctness have already surrendered the essential advantage of technological advances.

On the contrary, it's arguably the breakthrough that allowed us to model concepts and meaning in computers. A sufficiently high-dimensional embedding space can model arbitrary relationships between embedded entities, which allows each of them to be defined in terms of its associations to all the others. This is more-less how we define concepts too, if you dig down into it.

> Imagine a dictionary where the words are only mostly in alphabetical order. If you look up a word and don't find it, you can't be certain it's not in there.

It's already the case with dictionaries. Dictionaries have mistakes, words out of order; they get outdated, and most importantly, they're descriptive. If a word isn't in it, or isn't defined in particular way, you cannot be certain it doesn't exist or doesn't mean anything other than the dictionary says it does.

> It's as useful as asking someone else, or several other people

Which is very useful, because it saves you the hassle of dealing with other people. Especially when it's as useful as asking an expert, which saves you the effort of finding one. Now scale that up to being able to ask about whole topics of interest, instead of single words.

> it's value as a reference is zero

Obviously. So is the value of asking even an expert for an immediate, snap answer, and going with that.

> and there's no shortage of other people on the planet

Again, dealing with people is stupidly expensive in time, energy and effort, starting with having to find the right people. LLM is just a function call away.
Especially for computer science. If you need 4 years and 60k a year to learn how to do a Left join in SQL or what OOP is then you are better off using that loan for an actual investment. You can just get 4 years of experience instead and be more marketable.
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
Never use Mypy, but I think it probably check only the static-like (with generic) types like any other static languages.
fun fact, I once interviewed at a place in which the tech lead interviewing me had confused the terms pass by reference and pass by value - that is to say he understood that in JavaScript objects were passed by reference and what that meant on the practical effects of assigning object a to b, but he thought the technical term for this was pass by value and the technical term for things that were passed by value was pass by reference (so according to him strings were passed by reference and objects were passed by value) and no explanation on what a reference was and how pass by reference works and why it made sense to call it pass by reference could penetrate.
I don't really immediately link "Hallucinations" with "Unsound mind" - most people I know have experienced auditory hallucinations - often things like not sure if the doorbell went off, or if someone said their name.

And I couldn't find a single one of my friends who hadn't experienced "phantom vibration syndrome".

Both I'd say are "Hallucinations", without any real negative connotation.
I had a similar experience in college. Centralized home directories and X11 went a _long_ way. I loved it (still do, and prefer Remote Desktop to local compute most times).
Because silver shit will sell more units than shit spoon. Imo Apple is roght to go form first, function second. The fact they invest so mich to put actual good function in while keeping the form is testament to their understanding of normal humans
He's probably hoping for emergency preparedness, like any sensible person. That would include stronger building codes, evacuation plans and facilities, emergency supplies, etc. Here in Japan, we have all that stuff, and we don't live with "vague anxiety" (certainly nothing like the high anxiety that most Americans live with these days). Big earthquakes are rare, but smaller ones are very common, but everything in society is engineered to handle it well so it rarely causes problems.
Yeah, 340 was an all-round better option.
People discover powerful drug
-> Powerful drug causes negative reactions in some people
-> Drug is banned and knowledge is lost
-> People discover powerful drug.

Pharma is responsible for suppressing knowledge and proper medical treatments. They're letting people die so the fear sets their patented drugs in stone. It has worked very well for them.

There is a plethora of information on the net on how to start safely, if at all, and why most people should not use psychedelics at all. Set and setting are just as important as the dosage.
Billionaire Sam Altman Claims $27M San Francisco Mansion Is a 'Lemon'
So much this. My dad was a school caretaker, recently retired. He said how relieved he is because the work was grinding him down so much. My partner is a nurse and actually dreads going to work on a regular basis. I never dread going to work. Far from grinding me down I feel like I'm growing. I would honestly still do it even if I didn't need the money. My job gives me an outlet for something I really enjoy. A way I can apply my skills to make myself useful and other people really happy. And on top of that I get paid like 3x as much as dad and partner.

So many of these HNers are in a bubble. I've said it so many times here. They have no idea what the world is like outside. How could they? They've essentially been treated like royalty. And no matter where people are in life one thing is constant: you can't take anything away and they don't want to go backwards. Doesn't matter if they've started beyond where some people will finish.

All these people complaining. Really? You don't think programming is useful? You don't think there are businesses out there who could use your skills? Yeah you won't be working in a tech company making addictive shit to sell ads. The owners of those are just chewing the fat now. But you'll work in an actually useful business that actually contributes to society.
what is in the lite version? Just a hollow case?
>They pick form, even if the function is harmed.

I understood perfectly well what he's saying. My point is: the Apple ][ is not like this. And it was less than 50 years ago.
I'm one of those low experience people currently accepting a job that wants you to do so 6 different jobs at a time. I'd love to be at a company that gives me one job and lets me get good at it, but somehow I can't find it. Instead I ended up in this position where I'm now a "Senior Specialist" who is neither senior (3 years of meaningful experience) nor a specialist (my tasks range from ops work all the way to strategic planning for the next 4 years across 3 different "specialist" topics).

I dream of a job where I can be a specialist, actually learn what I'm working with and focus on one thing for an entire day. But no, I'm a one-person show (in a team with another "specialist" who singelhandedly manages our entire IAM-structure from user management to integration to strategic planning) and all I can do is try to patch things up with my ideas of how things probably should work and applying more duct tape and prayers.

I recently mentioned that I really don't feel like specialist is the role I'm working here and I was asked why I feel the need to have a bigger role. I don't "need" it. I AM not a specialist. Never have been and with his job never will be. Also I wonder why the role of director for my team is still vacant after half a year. It's a mystery. It must look like such a good opportunity.
Ask HN: Will AIs like Perplexity API replace scrapers
Has anyone used the Perplexity API for any projects?

One issue I've encountered is inconsistency - for example, when using the same prompt to request a ranking for 'x', the results can vary
The idea that subjective consciousness has to casual power in decision-making seems eminently silly to me. Sure, it's fairly obvious it's not the only or even always primary thing involved in how people decide what to do, but it seems absurd to me to say that, for example, someone's inner train of thought comparing and contrasting two choices at length has nothing to do with which choice they actually make.
They rely on contractors because (people claim) government work is inefficient. But in all seriousness, what business doesn't depend on contractors?
An interesting AI auto coder
It leads to unnecessary inefficiencies. e.g. different insurance companies might end up paying different prices which affects premiums.

Insurance companies are inherently incentivized to maximize their costs which is one of the (if not the) biggest flaws of the US healthcare system.

Other countries which have entirely privatized systems (even to a larger degree than the US) like the Netherlands solve the by directly regulating prices.
Hallucination is one single word. Even if it's not perfect it's great as a term. It's easy to remember and people new to the term already have an idea of what it entails. And the term will bend to cover what we take it to mean anyway. Language is flexible. Hallucination in an LLM context doesn't have to be the exact same as in a human context. All it matters is that we're aligned on what we're talking about. It's already achieved this purpose.
> now the same trick is used for h100 vs whatever the throttled-for-embargo-wink-wink Chinese version

No. H20 is a different chip designed to be less compute-dense (by having different combinations of SM/L2$/HBM controller). It is not a throttled chip.

A800 and H800 are A100/H100 with some area of the chip physically blown up and reconfigured. They are also not simply throttled.
It’s not even an HTTP invention, it’s RFC2046 MIME from 1996. RFC2388 standardised its use in HTTP in 1998.

The elegant thing about MIME is it allows multiple encodings and cross-references, so you can have your HTML and the images displayed in the HTML both optimally encoded in the same document, which was handy back in the time when HTML emails were taking off and marketing insisted that the fancy image signature they designed had to show every time, even when the person was reading the email offline…

Of course back then we had to encode the image in base64 anyway because of non-8-bit-clean email servers. But I digress and will go back to my rocking chair.
I have never seen any technology that claims to be simple actually simple. Things that I consider simple actually aim to just be good and logical, then simplicity is the inevitable.
This comment tries to imply that you just need to be DEI and everything will be fine. I wonder if you know whether these people actually do a good job or you're just talking out of some "envy" or whatever?

PS: FAANGs have thousands of employees, and so it means they have also more bad apples/managers.
There are other options in the Android space. Very very few, sadly, but they exist: check out the Qin phones like the F21 Pro: it's Android on a 2007's Nokia form factor!
As I understand it: the Phi models, are trained with a much more selective training data, the Tiny Stories research was one of the starts of that, they used GPT-4 to make stories and encyclopedia like training data for Phi to learn from and code, which probably helps with logical structuring too. I think they did add in real web data too though but I think it was fairly selective.

Maybe something between Cyc and Google's math and geometry LLM's could help.
Because you look like a god damn idiot if you do that. Maybe people here don't care about that, but real humans in the real world do care about that kind of thing.
This must be an evolving survival mechanism for meetings.
> That explains why all those motorhomes illegally parked in Seattle neighborhoods are dumping raw sewage into the streets.

What else did you imagine might happen? Motorhomes are designed to be parked in RV/trailer parks where there are sewage hookups. Without that, the number of possible outcomes is pretty limited.