skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caffeine tastes bitter. This is why decaf has to taste different. If you start with a naturally bitter coffee then you can make decaf taste more like what people expect coffee to be. This is my theory on why Starbucks decaf tastes as good as it does.
Ahh, you're right. Thanks.
Author says Rust wouldn't solve the crowd strike outage but then literally admits that it would have prevented it?

This article makes no sense
The consumption now and in near future will be mostly driven by large AI models, to generate some crazy images, scam some people, and maybe also help individuals and companies a bit. I am not holding my breath on some overall positive effect.

In past few years, it has been crypto mining ( maybe not in IR but globally definitely yes), I think we can all agree a pointless emotional fomo endeavor.

That online shopping is also debatable, people often order low quality shit they don't really need because its ridiculously cheap. Manufacturing, transport, packaging, not so great for the planet.

The days before the internet, I recall them too. Sure, you had to get to the shop, but I had way less clothing and overall everything and I kept it for longer (I am still very much an un-fashionate outlier of modern era but even for me its headed in bad direction).
I think the hypothetical here is if you tried to fund UBI via a billionaire-wealth-tax, it would involve liquidating basically all stock they hold. If you sell that much stock, the price will go down. (It's the opposite side of the coin compared to why you can't do a hostile takeover at market cap by just buying stock - the price goes way up as you buy up all available shares).
I disagree. The file I linked to, model.py, contains the Llama 3 model itself.

You can use that model with open data to train it from scratch yourself. Or you can load Meta’s open weights and have a working LLM.
Even with GC!
Have any heads rolled over this yet?
Bioaccumulation means sharks collect pollutants like this from the local biosphere. The theories in the article seem dubious.

I suspect those sharks test positive for a LOT of things.
While true, I'd suggest if someone's career choices are primarily motivated by a desire to become a billionaire, they are not making rational career choices anyway and are likely to be unswayed by, you know, evidence.
Does annotating `main` with no_panic do the trick? How much does that tend to affect compile times, do you know?
Sometimes I’ve wondered if versioned types might be a help in bringing coexistence to a typed setup, and if this is part of where the benefits of a service oriented architecture come from. But given how versioning snarls can play out in dependency management I expect this idea has some tradeoffs in the best case.
Amazing! I had actually heard about solomonoff induction before but my brain didn't make the connection. Thanks for the shortcut =)
I don't think this works out well for most people anymore. I mean that was true a few years ago when things were booming even, but now you're almost guaranteed to have a very hard time. I know someone that is over-employed and has over half a dozen jobs (yes you read that right, and it's been verified); most of them are at entrepreneur owned companies and they are all struggling right now, hanging by a thread with a skeleton crew.
Um, the article, within the first few paragraphs, admits that Rust would have actually prevented this particular outage.

But we shouldn't point that out because there could be other bugs that Rust would not have prevented?

What a completely garbage argument with a premise that starts out with a bald-faced lie. Flagging and moving on.
oh also any feedback is welcome!
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I still get a visit from the mailman in his little truck six days a week. So email has saved nothing there.

I get a lot more other deliveries too, but maybe I'm driving less to offset that? Haven't tracked this closely enough to say.

Google Maps probably has saved some fuel in that I take fewer wrong turns and don't have to double back quite so often when I'm in an unfamiliar area. Again I just have my own impressions, but GPS tech in general probably is a net win in terms of energy saved.
> Third, a key difference between Meta and closed model providers is that selling access to AI models isn’t our business model. That means openly releasing Llama doesn’t undercut our revenue, sustainability, or ability to invest in research like it does for closed providers. (This is one reason several closed providers consistently lobby governments against open source.)

The whole thing is interesting, but this part strikes me as potentially anticompetitive reasoning. I wonder what the lines are that they have to avoid crossing here?
How do they consume the water exactly? If it’s just heat transfer, couldn’t it be reused once it passes through the data center? I would assume a small and cold country like Ireland could make good use of warm water, especially given its #2 ranking on tea consumption per capita!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consu...
Who knew FB would hold OpenAI's original ideals, and OpenAI now holds early FB ideals/integrity.
No, the whole point of OIDC is that permission to read your profile is not semantically the same thing as authenticated sign-on.
I always assumed they created water from condensation, where is the water consumed?
At the end of the day, I have fun I don't think you are 60k number is right, or your 12K number is sufficient to cover all of the cost of living a comfortable life. This is fundamental to the difference. I think the desired level of Ubi is on par if not higher than the average American Income. This leads to the 100% redistribution claim. It is very simple.

If we assume the average income is 60k, urinalysis is still wrong. A 20% flat tax for Ubi would then provide a 12K benefit. This would not be a net positive for incomes between 60 and 120k. The break-even point would be an income of 60k, progressing to a 10% net loss at 120k. 20% of 120 is negative 24,000, and 12 would be returned via Ubi.
For reducing hair loss, you theoretically only need to lower DHT levels in the scalp. But finasteride lowers it systemically (as well as inhibiting a bunch of other metabolic pathways systemically).

> Some of these are just the effects of having low DHT, which is in reality not a negative,

Sexual disfunction, depression, and gynecomastia are not desired effects for most people.
The point is everyone would have contributed evenly to this inflation if you look at it from that angle.
Yeah, full agreement here. I almost said something along the lines of "it's almost like extending #[derive(Default)] with serde-like attributes to control which fields get what defaults, but with nicer syntax," but got a little lazy with it since we're in agreement anyway. It is annoying that deriving Default is all or nothing.

I didn't even think about the builder thing, but you're right there too.
Thanks for the ideas! I did try lzcnt/tzcnt with bitshifts to find contiguous intervals across elements, but I found that it tended to be more expensive than searching the map depending on the density. I think it's a really promising approach though, and I've like to figure out a way to make it work better for my test case.
I also securely generate them, using a dedicated offline laptop (when necessary).
You're forgetting about the bit in which you've literally given the person thousands of dollars.

They use that free money to get you to do things for them.

It's hidden behind bureaucracy but it's the same thing. Worse, even, because you don't have a choice.

It's like the nonsense solutions the left propose for tackling crime. "If we give people X, they won't have to steal X". I mean, sure, because they have already gotten it from me for free...
Because you don't want to have to enumerate every possible combination up front. Mixins are probably the closest OO concept.
As an entrepreneur, you can leave anytime you want, but of course, you can't leave the responsibility aside.

With an employer not offering remote, you can set your own rules around it. You can work from Bali, if you want and your customers are OK with it. But i agree , the small business route is certainly not for everyone.
A lot of vehicles put the push buttons for cruise control in the same spot so I think they just followed that convention without thinking. Also a lot of vehicles have a rocker or switch to activate cruise control or turn it off entirely and I bet they replaced that with a pcap button as well.

The original design functions as an interlock where you have to turn cruise on on standby and then set speed separately, but pcap buttons make it so much easier to accidentally activate that it no longer serves its intended purpose.
Ireland’s energy sources
https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/key-st...
Where is the $1.2b number from?
How to create an inline Base64 image tag using Notepad++
> people often order low quality shit they don't really need because its ridiculously cheap

Very much so. Cheap and easy. Just one click. Pure impulse. No thought.
Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now
Hey there,

I'm here today to share with you a software I've been working on for 4 years now. I'm not full time dedicated to it, as I need to make a living.
My inspiration to develop it came when I started using Sass for real in production. I really appreciated the hierarchy of nesting rules instead of the way CSS vanilla used to do.
The obvious nesting rules was easy to read and understand just by looking at. That was something I personally admirated very much.
I wondered why there was no HTML preprocessors as revolutionary as there is for CSS and JavaScript.
All popular preprocessors for HTML have one thing in common. All replace the angle brackets by something else (usually identation) and then add some functionalities on top of it.
If the symbols for markups are a problem to the experience of developing a visual structure, just replacing it for something else doesn't fix the problem. You are just changing the character of marcation for another.

With that in mind, I started Pretty Markup. Not just replacing the clutter of angle brackets by something else, but removing it completely. Very much inspired by Sass. No special characters needed, except by the quotes. The project still in its early stage, but its already useable.
I reached a point where it has a stable base to work. Now, I'm plannig the layer of features that will make it usefull and revolutionary as Sass and TypeScript. Its important to note that I didn't started directly in Pretty Markup. I had a previous package called htmlpp-com-github-mopires. Yes, terrible name, but it was a start. Later a decided to make it more professional and with a friendly name.

You can give it a shot by having NodeJS and installing it with:

npm install pretty-markup

I created a syntax hightlighter for VS Code to attract more devs to it. You can use it by searching "pretty markup" on the extensions tab. Now, it's the first one. The next step will be a package to create a basic starter project. Something like the good old create-react-app.

Any feedback, suggestion or even a contribution about anything is very welcome.

Thank you very much for your attention,

Matheus

PS: The package available in runkit is very old(and I don't know how to update it there), I do not recommend you to test there.
I don't see anything about OCSP policy changing in the Mozilla CA Program Policy release notes [1] or Chrome's [2], so I wonder if Microsoft was more proactive (for better or worse) in requiring it vs. other popular root programs.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Root_Store_Policy_Archive
[2]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...
Does it really matter? Attributing goodwill to a company is like attributing goodwill to a spider that happens to clean up the bugs in your basement. Sure if they had the ability to, I'm confident Meta would try something like that, but they obviously don't, and will not for the foreseeable future.

I have faith they will continue to do what's in their best interests and if their best interests happen to align with mine, then I will support that. Just like how I don't bother killing the spider in my basement because it helps clean up the other bugs.
I suspect LorenPechtel's terse question implies that a 10 TB drive would weigh appreciably more with real hardware than a microSD card.
I never thought I would say this but thanks Meta.

*I reserve the right to remove this praise if they abuse this open source model position in the future.
So we'll have the government bypass markets and force the working class to buy toys for the owning class?

If anything, allocate compute to citizens.
I went through a phase when I was working on my own thing that didn't pan out for a few years which left me burned out from side projects. So I had a few years that I just did my job.

Around the height of the pandemic I started an art project was the start of me doing side projects again.
I look forward to watching the chips fall. I accepted an offer elsewhere for less money on paper and more in my bank account and I think I made a great decision. Not to mention the Stubhub culture, which upon interviewing them, I felt was toxic.
Linux backup workflow for hackers with restic, rclone, Backblaze B2
Sample size of one but I know someone who went from FAIR to OpenAI.
There was no explicit trade of stock for tour. The investment by Xerox in Apple happened before such a tour, for entirely separate reasons. There was another Apple exec who was managing pre-IPO external investor interest. There isn't a recorded reason for why Apple chose Xerox (among other investors), if I remember correctly.

However, Steve did leverage the fact that Xerox was an investor to bully the on-site engineers into providing him with the "executive" demo, after receiving the run-of-the-mill public demo and learning that a higher-tier demo existed. It involved a phone call to east coast Xerox Corporate, who instructed the on-site engineers to provide the full demo. The PARC lab director was OOO that day, and later said in an interview that he would have stonewalled Job's request.

Another fun fact, Xerox sold (the majority of?) their stake in Apple almost immediately for a quick turnaround profit post-IPO. Obviously there's no recorded reason for that trade, but my impression is that they didn't think Apple had what it takes to build a proper OS (they envied their ability to cheaply assemble hardware, but viewed their software suite/R&D as a big moat).

Edit: also, Apple engineers were already mid-working on replicating PARC tech at the time of the (not-so-) "fateful" demo. It was behind schedule and not-demoable, and Steve was getting frustrated with these facts. They encouraged Steve to visit PARC to get a preview/demo of what they were building, to ground him to their works' value. There were already a handful of ex-PARC people at Apple for a while, at this point, and PARC's work stems from "The Mother of All Demos" given decades ago. The Alto was unique in its early implementation, but not in its ideas.
I'm with you here, actor model is the way to go.

I thought Go style could be better, but the Go type system is completely inadequate to support that style: it is impossible to guaranteed that a goroutine is panic free, it is not possible to put a recover in the goroutine unless that code is under author's control (could be a lib) and a goroutine panic takes down the whole app.

Suddenly I want a wrapper around each goroutine that bubbles up the panic to the main thread without crashing the app, that sounds a lot like an erlang supervision tree
Believe it or not you get over this.

You can get over it if you dig the day-to-day of running a business. But not everyone digs it.

Everyone should attempt to start a small business or a side consulting gig.

No they shouldn't because as an endeavor it just doesn't appeal to lots of people.

The "everyone should try and become good at the stuff I think is fun" tone of this response is just weird, and grossly out of touch with observations of human nature.
I somehow did not think of that. Very true!
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon
I highly doubt that those gigs will exist in the future, or will become even rare than they are. The big banks and financial companies are making a decent effort to get rid of those legacy systems (but are on decade + time scales). They also are weary to even hire new people in those stacks, and are increasingly relying on contractors through places like TCS that will put people through bootcamps. I know several places that have the policy of no new cobol code, only maintenance. These people with the ludicrous salaries, I assume are consultants, or have even more niche specific and rare skills beyond just COBOL and JCL and RPG or whatever, probably with specific, ancient implementations on ancient machines.
https://llama.meta.com/llama3_1/use-policy/

The acceptable use policy is seems fine. Don't use it to break the law, solicit sex, kill people, or lie.
And only to a very small subset of the mercenaries. Most institutions that hire COBOL or MUMPS people can't fathom paying a lowly "IT" guy that much money. They prefer to hire some cheap offshore guys.
I've found sorting-network-based filters to be faster than these methods up to size 25x25 or so. It has worse computational complexity, but filters up to that size covers a lot of ground in practice. See Figure 10 in https://andrew.adams.pub/fast_median_filters.pdf
I can't be the only one who read the title and thought this was about detecting a counterfeit Flash player.
The gap between fine-tuning API and weights-available is much more significant than you give it credit for.

You can take the weights and train LoRAs (which is close to fine-tuning), but you can also build custom adapters on top (classification heads). You can mix models from different fine-tunes or perform model surgery (adding additional layers, attention heads, MoE).

You can perform model decomposition and amplify some of its characteristics. You can also train multi-modal adapters for the model. Prompt tuning requires weights as well.

I would even say that having the model is more potent in the hands of individual users than having the dataset.
No, they have declined. Already, and continue to do so.

People like to have more stuff, bigger houses, better cars, air conditioning, whatever.
My non-IT wife is using wix for her homepage. She loves it, I never heard of it before. 9B sounds okish.

But wiz? There are reading like Mossad/Unit 8200. And who wants to have them in their backend? Worse than Cloudstrike, which sounds like CIA to me.
Before Google Maps another site dominated: MapQuest
> Alot of getting hired into these roles depends on your upbringing/perceived social class by the people at the fund, the school you went to, how you present yourself, whether they want to work with you, how trustworthy you are, etc. The technical pieces are pretty far behind.

I'd disagree about your perceived upbringing mattering at all.

I don't know of any fund that hires technical staff like that. I mean we're here to make money, if someone can do that, no one cares what their social upbringing is, I mean like at all.

Now the school you went to matters, though it matters about as much as it would at a FAANG company.

And as to "how you present yourself, whether they want to work with you, how trustworthy you are, "

I would hope that all companies hire based on how someone presents themselves and would we want to work with them. Everyone should base hiring on how the candidate acts and presents themselves, that seems like an incredibly positive step, no?

> The technical pieces are pretty far behind.

Which specific fund are you referring to here. This seems very uninformed from my experience, but i'm willing to look at your evidence that hedge funds don't really value technical ability.
> Maybe the real victims are the people who have to work full time and are suffering from the increased cost of living?

If this was a genuine concern there wouldn't be so many people skimming off the top of every nation on the planet. We're surrounded by parasites and you're picking on people running calorie deficits for some reason.
Also breaking into a single persons house... maybe they don't want to lock their doors. It affects nobody but them.

These systems affect lots of people, it's a public safety issue, and there is a company being paid money by the public to ensure that their systems are safe and secure. They should be tested by everybody and anybody who wants to test them. Especially if they are running on a publicly accessible IP address.

Also if you want to test the locks on someone's house, you don't go to their house. You buy the locks that they are using, and test them quietly in your own location.
A datacenter could consume a lot of water with evaporative cooling. I don't know how prevalent it is, but given how cheap and efficient evaporative cooling is, I'd guess datacenters use it a lot where possible (probably in combination with other cooling methods).
> But I'm going to do so very slightly because I'm not shifting the expected value by very much

I think you're shifting it by a lot. If the government can post-hoc decide to invalidate patents because the holder is getting too successful, you are introducing a substantial impact on expectations and uncertainty. Your action is not taken in a vacuum.

> Meanwhile I'm going to greatly increase the investment into the existing technology we already have, and allow many more people to try to improve upon it, and I'm going to argue the benefits greatly outweigh the costs.

I think this is a much more speculative impact. Why will people even fund the improvements if the government might just decide they've gotten too large a slice of the pie later on down the road?

> the trade-off I get for this is that society gets the benefit of the same actually happening in the future and us not being hamstrung by unbreachable monopolies.

No the trade-off is that materially less is produced. These incentive effects are not small. Take for instance, drug price controls - a similar post-facto taking because we feel that the profits from R&D are too high. Introducing proposed price controls leads to hundreds of fewer drugs over the next decade [0] - and likely millions of premature deaths downstream of these incentive effects. And that's with a policy with a clear path towards short-term upside (cheaper drug prices). Discounted GPUs by invalidating nvidia's patents has a much more tenuous upside and clear downside.

[0]: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/d/312...
> either these data centers are simply not built, which isn't going to happen

And this is why we will never solve the climate issue, because we still refuse to even entertain the idea of doing what we must do, what we must have been doing for decades but have refused to so it's going to be harder and harder to quit.
Similar. Tier 2, maybe, you've heard of them but definitely not in the FAANG range. They are public and about $8B revenue.

Staff PM, around $250k base, 20% bonus, and $150k RSUs per year so pretty much on the money with yours, $450k TC.
why do they keep training on publicly available online data, god dammit? what the fuck. don't they want to make a good LLM? train on the classics, on the essentials reference manuals for different technologies, on history books, medical encyclopedias, journal notes from the top surgeons and engineers, scientific papers of the experiments that back up our fundamental theories. we want quality information, not recent information. we already have plenty of recent information.
Quebec does have a few. Amongst the issues is that scaling hydro power is hugely expensive, is riddled with red tape, and over all takes too long. Meanwhile you could build a datacenter and a solar farm in Texas and be up in 2 years.