skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not when I'm using some library function that's "helpful"
I don't think you'll have much luck differentiating the median operator
I've rented an e-bike where you have to pedal, and it adds "oomph" to your efforts. It feels like having a superpower, pedaling easily up a steep hill.
Science-based climate targets miss the mark
Why AWQ instead of exl2?
JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications
Shameless self-promotion is usually not a problem in most commercial settings. Sad, but true... lol =)

Letting Marketing/Finance people set technological product trajectories sooner
or later becomes detrimental to large firms.

i.e. the product line becomes disconnected from the consumers actual experience of utility, novelty, and perceived scarcity. =)
I think the only place that happens is in programming languages where you actually can choose to do something using a thread-blocking operation? Specifically, I've only seen it in Python. And yeah, it's not very ideal there. In other languages, it's typically only possible to do the operation in async mode, so you never write a foo_sync function in the first place.
Ask HN: What did Posthog do right to get to where they are at?
So I was looking at their go to market, website etc to understand what they did right and what experiments they did to get to where they are at.

Would be crazy to hear if you know something about their market entry and getting to the foothold they have
I’m not going to name them because for some reason these comments have chosen not to mention them by name, but they’re not a secret company - they’ve had a lot of posts on here on HN… they do cool shit and are super smart, but I guess the biggest reason people don’t like to talk about them is they’re a secret weapon and you don’t want others to have your advantage (even though everyone knows about them lol)
Oh. All this time I thought Wix pivoted to become a security company and suddenly Google wants to buy it. Just realized Wix is not Wiz. Still weird.
Not any more. Majority of talent got fired. Whoever is hired now will be gone in a couple years (says the internal tracking software that tells you how "new" you are across all of Amazon). That kind of churn ensures no real progress can be made.

Just throw Alexa away already. It's a wrap.
When performing integer "division" of x by y, you're finding a solution {q,r} to the equation y * q = x - r. When y=0 any choice of q works, and using 0,x is a perfectly reasonable and intuitive way of defining things.

Computer integers aren't the real numbers you learned about in gradeschool. INT_MAX+1 is not greater than INT_MAX. :)

x/0 = program explodes is also a justifiable choice. It is not however more or less fundamentally correct than making the result 0.

Floating point division by zero doesn't (typically) crash programs the way integer division by zero does (it typically returns a NaN-- and the programmer is free to turn nans to zeros if they like :)).
My Grandma has a Samsung. She -still- doesn't get RCS! I'm not about to walk her through setting up and migrating to Google Messages, really this should not be a problem for Samsung.
Good to know, but just to clarify, the results I pulled don't include the 3.1 models yet (they aren't on the leaderboard yet).
Is this app safe to download?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agence3pp....
Are you using this technique successfully? I'd assumed they were using phashes or similar.
> a matter of conditioning

I remember, it must have been in the late '90s, when Windows added the ability to get "important security updates" via the internet and a lot of people were turning it off. I remember a comment on slashdot about how we would all become conditioned to accept it.
>design our application with a mobile layout, despite 99% of our users being on desktop computers

And without a mobile layout before, I wonder why?

It's bonkers that not everyone is on board with responsive design being table stakes in 2024.
Says it is ~94TB, with >130k downloads, implying more than 12 exabytes of copying, seems a bit off, wonder how they are calculating downloads
Unfortunately vLLM (the open source inference engine we're built on) doesn't support exl2. That being said I want to add additional backends so we can support exl2 as well!
Not wanting to be entirely silly, should ECC simply be folded into one of these specs as a "must have" so we can stop being reminded to run NAS systems with ECC memory?
Show HN: Beautiful landing page builder for developers with tailwind and shadcn
Hi, I just build an open source project, convertfast-ui providing landing page blocks you can copy paste to your project. All code blocks are based on shadcn and tailwind.

Convertfast-ui also provides a CLI tool, with some quick command to generate landing pages directly into your project, a command example would be:

npx convertfast-ui@latest page create <my-page>

It will generate landing page code in my-page and then you can edit them for customization.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

github repo: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/convertfast-ui

Website and docs: https://ui.convertfa.st/
Pearcleaner: A free, source-available and fair-code licensed Mac app cleaner
For the major browsers, this probably makes little difference, but for anything else, this will most likely result in not verifying the revocation status of certificates anymore or making things slower.

As far as I know, most browser vendors already download the CRLs, and then update the browsers based on what they downloaded. For instance firefox seems to be using CRLite. There is a lack of support for something like that in the non-major browsers and non-browsers. The alternative they have is to download the CRL instead of the OCSP reply, which is larger, probably making things slower. Or they could just not check the status, which is most likely what will happen.

CRLite changes the failure mode of the status check, it no longer just ignores error in downloading the status information.

We need better support for something like CRLite.
I’ve never looked at a datetime and thought to myself “if only I knew how long ago that was.” Are there really people like that?

And actually, if I saw the date of “2023-12-07,” knowing it was last December actually gives me more information than “eight months ago” — because I know that means around Christmas time last year, and I know what other things happened last December, such as what features we were launching, who the product manager was at the time, etc. If you just shouted a random number of months ago, I would then have to stop and think about the answers to those questions. Lots of my memories could be placed in an approximate month or at least a season, and those never change after the fact. Relative dates are constantly changing and my memory does not increment all its records every month (e.g. “I’ve now worked here 9 months. I’ve now worked here 10 months.” But I can tell you the month and the year I started working here.)

Relative dates are definitely a case of “just because we can do this doesn’t mean we should force everyone to use it”
AFAICT the query is about "the next unbooked interval of at least a given duration". I assume the problem with the B-tree is that when the schedule is contentious, it essentially degenerates into a scan for the next large gap. (And when it's not contentious, the B-tree will be approximately optimal so there'd be no point looking for a better data structure for that regime).

To improve queries that are contentious I'd try build something like a R-tree or range/interval-tree of the unbooked intervals (the complement of the booked intervals). One invariant will be that availability intervals are placed at the highest possible layer in the tree (the smallest region that they entirely fit inside). Then query the R-tree (or interval tree) but only to the depth corresponding to the interval size requested. (Any lower levels would contain only availability windows that are too small, so we can skip searching them).

That would avoid scanning all the small intervals. Not sure how much overhead this would add and if it would work out significantly faster than your B-tree though...
There are plenty of open source LLMs, they just aren’t at the top of the leaderboards yet. Here’s a recent example, I think from Apple:
https://huggingface.co/apple/DCLM-7B

Using open data and dclm:
https://github.com/mlfoundations/dclm
Apparently people are a telepathically interconnected species, who won't fall for corporate scams in waves.

Sadly, both those things are untrue.
Got a link for making the 3d version?
Just curious: what do you see AI capable of doing for a car company? Thanks.
I did mean Wiz. I guess my brain just substituted that. I guess I'm at least familiar with the Wix name in that I saw ads all over the net ~a decade ago?
You can absolutely modify compiled binaries to get something different. That's how lots of video game modding and ROM hacks work.
The Northeast Corridor density is 894/sq mi

Paris metro is 1,800/sq mi

London metro is 7,430/sq mi

Philly is 11,749/sq mi

Paris is 52,000/sq mi
If your ranges end up sparsely distributed, using roaring bitmaps can speed things up a lot.

https://roaringbitmap.org/
I would wonder at side effects. The person whose WiFi enabled mechanical lung fucks up. The cost of the complete reset of some people's systems doing home management. The guy upstairs who isn't being raided, who loses service and has his contract terminated during a critical interview or meeting online..

Not that these don't exist in the real world outside of robot dog enforced WiFi blackout: I lived in Amsterdam and there was a murder downstairs (drug dealers, shisha lounge, machine gun. It was noisy) and we were within 5 paces of being forbidden to leave the house until the crime scene tape was removed, when the cops relaxed and said we could pass. It would have been a difficult day ringing people to decline to continue business for unvoidable reasons. Now, post-covid we've normalised crashing out of things. So maybe there's less risk and we can all turn over and go back to sleep for the morning while the cops blanket out signal and turn off the fibre to the home.

Note to criminals in apartments: Using the flat upstairs WiFi for drug deals is uncool. Unrelated party damage man, uncool.

Is there an FCC exclusion on the "no blockers" which applies to the SWAT team? Do they basically radiate a sphere of "I can do this" all the time? Is it warrant based or does it come with blanket approval to disable peoples communications signal at any time of their choosing?
[EDIT: might be relevant to AI safety

https://eschwitz.substack.com/p/strange-intelligence-strange...

> It might even, sometimes, strike us as remarkably, foolishly wrong.
]

DOUBLE THIS! From time to time, some person I've just met would either assume I have no friends, OR wildly popular. Although both untrue, I never try to correct them, though it does kinda tickle me in a weird way.

The truth is what you just said above (though it's more like a quasicommunity than a friend group -- the difference, I surmise, being that a quasicommunity still has potential for coevolution).

I'm also guessing that if you integrate the opinions of strangers, it converges towards a correct label of strangeness.
I utterly hate this on iOS. Suddenly after an hour or something, you irretrievably lose the time on a notification. There’s not even some fiddly power user way to force it to show you.
“Farthest” point doesn’t work if you drop compactness.
The "it's typically only possible to do the operation in async mode" is part of the problem. If I'm writing a a batch script that parses a file as part of its operation, I don't want or need the read_file() function to be async! My code should just block until the file opens.

Alternately, I want to be able to designate a computationally-intense function call (just that call, leaving the other calls alone) as async so that control yields to the event loop.

The main problem is that someone got it in their head that the function definition was the right place to designate whether a function was async or not, and it's not. The right place is the call site.
FWIW, 405B not working with Ollama on a Mac M3-pro Max with 128GB RAM.

Times out.
I don't expect them to release the data used to train the models. But I agree that the code is an important ingredient of 'open'.
> especially given how unapproachable we’ve all become in the past few years

Is that... something that happened? Could you elaborate? Anecdotally that was limited to like 2021 if I could even say that, but I would imagine you do feel that in some genuine way and it must vary by region and demographic.
Looks flat to me!
About this:

To: CBF at MIT-AI, EAK at MIT-AI, ED at MIT-AI, MOON ay MIT-AI

Does anyone know if this is literally how they wrote email addresses in 1976? Instead of using the @ symbol they typed the word "at"?

I realize this was before DNS was invented, so I am not surprised by the lack of TLD.
I'm not the OP, but I think the goal is to make it cross architecture. Cross platform C compiler would give you cross OS compatibility, but chip architecture would still be fixed, I think.

I.e., you can take your compiled.sh and run in an obscure processor with an obscure OS, as long as it's POSIX, it should work...
If you opt out, you can't use automated immigration and boarding systems at many airports. At Singapore's Changi, for example, their process for entering and exiting the country is incredible, fully automated (unless the system determines you need further verification by a human, but this still saves more time than only human verification for everyone). This is the same for boarding, you scan your boarding pass and it verifies your picture with a camera, then you just get on the plane.
People in the Google Security Command Center area were confused about what their strategy was with respect to Chronicle. It seemed as if two different groups at the company were essentially trying to do the same thing. Now there's this "Wiz Security Command Center" they were thinking of acquiring. Sure, why not resolve the SCC vs. Chronicle confusion by acquiring a third-party SCC?

I swear Google is transforming itself into the next IBM.
I assume anyone could effectively make the same thing with a $20 RC car and parts from an old microwave, or something equally mundane? This feels less like news and more like posturing. The news here isn't necessarily that they've taped a cell phone jammer onto a boston dynamics dog, the news is that they are testing the waters with militarized robots for domestic use. Proverbial "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
Some people want to do cool technical stuff while getting paid well, and not interested in managing a business. Most researchers are like that.
Well we don't have a right to privacy anymore so it's hard to argue even a basic principle, thanks SC.
Those de-orbit in just a few years because of how exceptionally low they fly. SpaceX’s business plan is to just be so efficient at launching things to orbit that it doesn’t matter if they lose a huge number of satellites each year to planned atmospheric drag. It’s a pretty bold way of combating space junk, but it seems to be working out for them, and the FAA has looked over the math and given their blessing.

Worry about the other satellites.
> To be fair, the vertical recording here fits the context.

Briefly, near the beginning. But not for the rest of the video.

If you're watching a video on a phone, it's trivial to rotate the phone 90 degrees. On a TV or computer, not so much, so you end up with a ridiculous amount of wasted screen real estate and objectively inferior image resolution.
Last May, I built a custom tool to improve my own workflow in preparing and sharing course materials for hundreds of students each year. After 14 months of publicly testing the tool, I am pleased to let you know that the tool has been a sleeper hit with more than 10,000 projects created since launch.

With the help of my friends and colleagues, I am pleased to announce the launch of Letterform --- a new brand for the tool as well as our future endeavour to make text content publishing easier for everyone. Check it out at https://letterform.app/.
It's a stereoscopic camera, so you get depth and such.
Show HN: GenZD, a port of GZDoom for iOS, available on the App Store
Hi everyone! I wanted to share the release of the app I've been working on in the past ~3 years, a port of GZDoom for iOS called GenZD:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/genzd/id6503916449

GZDoom is a source port of the Doom engine, and the app lets you play games using this engine (Doom, Heretic, Hexen, etc) as well as custom games that use GZDoom's enhanced scripting capabilities. This means you can run mods like Brutal Doom, Project Brutality and total conversions like Ashes 2063, Aliens Eradication and many more. The engine will render the games in full 3D and in widescreen, and it uses Metal as the graphics backend through the MoltenVK library.

I've been working on and off on porting GZDoom to iOS for the past couple years, and then figuring out how to write a frontend that would be suitable for an app on the App Store. With the recent changes to Apple's App Store Review guidelines regarding emulators, I thought the app would have a better chance of getting approved. GenZD is technically not an emulator but is closer to something like ScummVM where you supply the game files and the engine can interpret them. ScummVM is also on the App Store and was approved recently.

After a few initial rejections, the app went into an extended period of review (about a month) before it was approved last week.

It's a paid app ($1.99 USD) but it's a one-time purchase and I do believe it's worth its value, but that's just me :)

Here's a YouTube video of it if you just want to see what it does and how it use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HUJumkRAY

Thanks!
It's endpoint security software, not a RAT. It detects malware like RATs. Because of the nature of threats it must have a lot of privileges.

Shame they squandered that position, and sold into high risk markets.
Thanks for sharing! Throughly enjoyed reading through these posts. Learned about some interesting Firefox settings to try out.
The ability to go do something anonymously, perhaps some act of protest or resistance or sabotage, and then resume normal life afterwards without having to live forever after as a fugitive, it contributes to the legitimacy of a system that requires us to occasionally make compromises like being groped by TSA.

So long as I can assume an anonymous role on occasion, and other people can too, I must think twice before doing anything destructively rash. Nobody else has bombed this thing yet, and they surely could, so perhaps it exists with the consent of the people around it.

But if surveillance and control exceeds some ill defined threshold such that its not clear that so many of us actually could get away with fighting back against the machinery of control that surrounds us. Well then one must question whether it actually exists with our consent. And in that case, if we're lucky enough to be able to get away with dismantling it, it very well may be our responsibility to do so.

That's the principle. There must still be some line not yet crossed. Because otherwise there's nothing to do besides fight. So we don't let them cross whatever the arbitrary line is because most of us are not prepared for the fight.
Looks amazing - congrats on the launch!

Would you consider Briefer to be a competitor to https://count.co/ ?

(Certainly, if you do, your pricing is a helluva lot more appealing...)
And then the programmer had to debug a hundred line shell script and they realized it should have all been written in Python or Rust instead.

Master Foo is shorthand for Fool.
In my opinion, it's largely because American cities are new.

If you are building a new city, you do not start with high density. Individual developers start with the cheapest build out because no one will pay a premium for a multi-level structure until cheap single-level builds are exhausted. Then as centuries pass, because there is no more undeveloped land, the city is forced to redevelop existing plots and increase density.

Many Asian and Western cities are hundreds or thousands of years old.

America's transit woes is because we live in a new country with new cities in previously mostly uninhabited land.
Counting Complexity (2017)
Why do people want to opt out? This perplexes me as “the government” already has scans of your face. So these devices aren’t used to collect data.

I’m also perplexed when my parent won’t give the State department their SSN, but received SSN benefits, and Medicare, and pays taxes to the IRS. They say they don’t want “the government” to have their data, but oddly think the government doesn’t already have a dossier on them.

I love the scans as they speed up security. I traveled recently, internationally to and from the US and it was nice to just scan my face and show my passport and not need to scan my qrcode boarding pass.
What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA
Sounds like the plot of a Fukumoto Nobuyuki manga.
Thank you for reminding me to renew my ESTA for this year.
Looks promising!
However, no privacy policy is a total show stopper.
> This perplexes me as “the government” already has scans of your face. So these devices aren’t used to collect data.

Citation extremely needed. Why would the government have a preexisting scan of my face?
Shouldn't the happy case be "we know the orientation of the stage so we can vent in the direction we are travelling to accelerate deorbiting"?
Because delaying maternity is a trend. The median age is 27-30 in the US and you can expect people delaying further than that if they had other priorities.
A classic that seem to be lesser known...
--> darthsim/imgproxy. (docker) , this is an image proxy. easily run under docker then you can fetch any web image through it and be able to resize on the fly and cache!
Fantastic for auto creating user thumbnails etc and not needing to generate different size images. Thanks to the author (Sergey "DarthSim " Alexandrovich)
John Doe

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Off hand:

- security product, startup, and platform companies

- political campaign offices

- certain law firms

- private military contractors

Most orgs depend on compliance to defray their net risk instead of going this hard to mitigate it. there are cases I'll leave for others, but what the above have in common is they are mission driven and operate outside the compliance narrative.
Russia has very good influence operations and seeds this type of propaganda. It’s all over on social media.

See Maria Butina and the total ownership of the NRA. Starting with Putin bare-chested riding horses in the GWB “I’m looking into his soul” era to today, the American right wingers are pretty much pro-Russia… amazing feat considering that killing Russians has been historically a priority for them since 1917.
> Furthermore, they say they do not retain the image. That may or may not be strictly true. But they do not say they are deleting the eigenvector, facial measurements, a hash of the image, or any other useful derivatives of the image

So what? Do you think that the thousands of cameras you encounter every day aren’t doing this already?

I think the aim for culture is to limit what we can do with these data, rather than to try to prevent collection of these data. Cameras are too plentiful and powerful to not expect your image linked to your identity. Especially for governmental, lawful uses like immigration screening.
How QAnon Rips Families Apart
Yes - that's ehat I meant, but mangled it it while editing.
Hey there! I'm Billy, the other dev working on glhf.chat :)

We do have API support! We expose an OpenAI compatible API. You can see details when logged in at https://glhf.chat/users/settings/api

Just like our web UI it supports feeding in any huggingface user/repo.

(Also available via the user menu)

Let us know if you have any questions/feedback!