skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this is an old tool and it fails to deal with large files, I made a completely new version from scratch a while ago, using a completely different rendering approach that's more like how you'd render a volumetric data set like an MRI scan. It loads the file and processes it into a 256x256x256 volumetric data set, which is then rendered using shaders. As a result, the file size doesn't matter for rendering, only the loading time depends on the file size. Unlike the original Veles, it also doesn't need any subsampling for huge files, but you need a powerful enough graphics card.

The source code is on github and unlike the original Veles, it doesn't have countless dependencies and build problems on modern systems: https://github.com/hackyourlife/veles
Launching a web app that doesn't work on the web? I guess that's what we should expect from a company that makes a messaging app that magically only works on one piece of hardware. Apple has a knack for finding restrictions where they would otherwise never exist.
It would be cool if it could collect and aggregate information.

"What is the mean and standard deviation of the AQI along the current fastest driving route from Palo Alto to Lassen National Park, averaged over the driving time"

"What is the easternmost supermarket before Yosemite that is at least 2000sqft in size"

etc
According to the article: this separate product is ephemeral, it’s a prototype and eventually the idea is what it does will become part of ChatGPT.
> one can dynamically modify macro expansion using the macroexpand hook

That's an incredibly bad idea, and it's not dynamic except in purely interpreted Lisps that expand the same piece of code each time it is executed.

The hooks is absolutely global; whatever you put in there must not break anything.

From the spec itself: "For this reason, it is frequently best to confine its uses to debugging situations."
> I wrote a series of articles on reverse-engineering on my blog, about studying and modifying a program that outputs an ASCII table,

Would you mind sharing the links? I would be interested!
I had to use eclipse the other day. How the hell is it just as slow and clunky as I remember from 20 years ago? Does it exist in a pocket dimension where Moore's Law doesn't apply?
Of course i agree they will be better--I'm happy to be like chess players and just admire the machines and entertains humans
Is take the American system every day. What is the moral justification for a state stealing private property?

Billionaires get to invest however they want because it's their property. What you see as a vanity project actually employs workers, feds families, and generates tax revenue. They are massively contributing to the economy.
Rulers being on coinage was a later invention. The earliest coins used symbols for the issuing authority, for example the famous Athens owl tetradrachm.
A lot of the remainder of your comment about soldiers and being invented for war is rather speculative and needs sources.
Since no one else did, I’ll say it: you may not be exceptional for your technical skills (or maybe you are), but your work ethic and fortitude. It takes a broad set of skills to make up a high performing team, and you possess some important ones. How do your coworkers feel about working with you?
Unions aren't there for "Ownership" of companies or cooperatives, they're for improvement of member's work lives, it can be training, worker contract negotiations, as go-between when dealing with management or owners, etc.
Study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, personality traits, DNA, etc.
Earlier than or in 1993:

- C++: 1979-

- Objective C: 1984

- Split-C: 1993

Later than 1993:

- C--: 1997

- C#: 2000

- D: 2001

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_l... (but this list goes a bit too far IMHO)
My beef with perplexity is that there is no way to increase the number of uses of large models.

People keep telling me that I can use the smaller models, but I really can't. I'm using this for work and those things are toys which just game bench marks.

I'd love to give them an api key from openai or anthropic and get uses to my hearts content like phind does.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

In this case you triggered another commenter into a complete misunderstanding (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066935), taking your comment to be not only serious but also representative of the community. Given the high level of inflammation around this topic (everywhere, including on HN), that is seriously not cool.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it. It looks like you've been breaking them for quite a long time, not just with drive-by flamebait like the above and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066717, but also with ideological battle comments generally. If you want to keep posting here, we need you (as with any other user) to drop that.
This is a surprisingly uncommon technique, but:

Think deeply about what you're making the computer do, and ask it to do less things by being smarter about what you ask it to do.

I'd say 95% of the time most of your OOM gains will come from the above.
Can't believe unfettered greed and self-interest would ruin something like this.
> yet people overwhelmingly prefer to work for these non-employees owned companies instead of working in cooperatives - how do you explain that?

Really? Or are there simply far more non-coop job openings available? Is there data on the applications per listing that directly compares ownership structures to normalize for workforce size?
Google makes shittons of the subtle variety now as well.
The perks of a good OpenAPI spec
What makes solving IMO problems hard is usually the limits of human memory, pattern-matching, and search, not creativity. After all, these are problems that are already solved, and it is expected that many people can solve the problems in about 1 hour's time.

That makes it, in principle, similar or even easier than a champsionship-level chess move, which often take more than 1 hour for a professional human (with more training than an IMO high school student) to solve.

Another interesting concern is that when posing a problem to humans, it's fine to pose an "easy" brute-forceable problem, but humans, being slow brute-searchers, need to find more clever solutions. But if you give such a problem to a computer, it can trivialize it. So to test a computer, you need to pose non- easily-brute-forceable problems, which are harder for the computer than the others, but equally difficult for the humans as the other problems are.
Going straight for reverse-engineering is doable, but it's significantly harder without some engineering background, either formal or self-taught.

I have an ongoing reverse-engineering project for a video game and I ended up getting in contact with a self-taught modder of the game, who doesn't know how to program. He learned more in a couple of evening Discord calls with me showing him around the reverse-engineered Ghidra project, explaining the basics of computer program engineering as we went, than he did flipping bits with Cheat Engine.

He then proceeded to recreate a fairly ambitious mod that was showcased in a Youtube video 15 years ago but never released, something that was bugging him for years but was unable to recreate. I steered him throughout, but by seeing how the pieces fit together he then managed to do the same mod on the sequel (which was never done before) all by himself.

Experience with engineering gives you perspective when reverse-engineering.
And Microsoft doesn't even offer the option of userspace anti-malware hooks, which they could easily do in conjunction with the kernel stuff. I think all they have is AMSI, which is only for scanning PowerShell scripts and such.

If you want to hook process execution or file access, you're writing a kernel driver.
Does it add much? I currently include "don't search web unless I ask" in my profile instructions. Then, when I want it to search the web, I just include "please search web" in my prompt. It works every time.
It appears from the demo example, OpenAI is not winning in the accuracy department either: https://x.com/kifleswing/status/1816542216678179083

> In ChatGPT's recent search engine announcement, they ask for "music festivals in Boone North Carolina in august"

> There are five results in the example image in the ChatGPT blog post :

> 1: Festival in Boone ... that ends July 27 ... ChatGPT's dates are when the box office is closed [X]
2: A festival in Swannanoa, two hours away from Boone, closer to Asheville [X]
3. Free Friday night summer concerts at a community center (not a festival but close enough) [O]
4. The website to a local venue [X]
5. A festival that takes place in June, although ChatGPT's summary notes this. [Shrug]
My family did two tours in Germany (tour as in being stationed there by the military). If you're a military family, the military will move you all around the world.
I was just about to post that it freaked me out a little, but wasn't sure if I was going to be the only one.
You're building a ??? system. Either CP or AP depending on what random values got put into some config.
At least with "SEO-gameified garbage" the little guy has a chance to compete by learning the SEO game.
ChatGPT is like a drunk expert. It says the correct words but might completely wrong. I've had some funny instances of it hallucinating.
Only voice calls and Youtube.
Excited to try it once it is actually open for use. Anyone else find the the product gifs hard to follow with all of the motion and zoom?
Good, now use DiffusER on algebra somehow please
Well written.

It kinda had to be this way, I think. There's a something from nothing problem. Douglas Adams brilliantly starts at this point.

We don't understand something from nothing. We don't even have the language to describe it. Concepts like "complexity" are frustratingly resistant to formalization.

"There is no free will." Has recently resurged as a philosophical position... like it did in response to Newton's mechanics.

Matter from void. Life from minerals. Consciousness from electrons. Free will from deterministic components. Smart reasoning & intelligent rationalisation from dumb search, computation, DNNs and such.

I don't think this debate was supposed to be ended by anything short of empirical demonstration.

Endnote: deep blue's victory over Gary was a bunch of preprogrammed bulls--t. Rematch!
Specifically, you saw the section titled "Limits of JSDoc Type Annotations"?
> I think if node.js had made require() work with ESM, I could probably drop CJS

Why is making downstream have to switch to `await import()` that big of a deal?

You can use async/await in CJS just fine. Sure, sometimes you may need to resort to some ugly async IIFE wrappers because CJS doesn't support top-level await like ESM does, but is that really such a big deal?

Sure, it's a breaking change, but that's what semver major bumps are for.

I just think that if projects want to stay in CJS they should learn how to use async/await. I clearly don't understand why CJS libraries feel a need synchronous require() for everything. (Though to be fair, I've also never intentionally written anything directly in CJS. I learned enough in the AMD days to avoid CJS like a plague.)
Announcement of an announcement (waitlist), gee this is 2017 crypto all over again
Why are you reading a lifestyle interview with <entertainment celebrity> if you don't care about their life and how they live? What content in this interview do you care about?
Pretty good, it found some useful references I missed in Google Scholar and Arxiv. Looks promising, will use it more.
S1000-2 is quite cheap and lossy (Df 0.016), slightly better than Isola 370HR (0.021) but nowhere near the stuff I usually use. At my usual Chinese board house it's one of the lowest cost substrates available for prototypes since it's always in stock and there's no need to special order.

For higher end digital work I typically reach for Taiwan Union TU872SLK (Df 0.009) which also has a better range of prepregs and glass styles available to help minimize fiber weave effect. Still quite a bit lossier than e.g. RO4350B but far less expensive and if you have decent equalizers on your SERDES the difference is typically not significant unless you're making some kind of humongous backplane. I get wide open eyes with just a tiny bit of post-cursor emphasis on the TX FFE at 10.3125 Gbps on TU872SLK for my typical shortish high speed tracks (FPGA to SFP+ cage).
Yes, any real digital device is relying on a hopefully well-separated bimodal distribution of something analog.
Guides -> Latest -> "The Sexiest Hotels in Rome"

Hokay, then
The insta-load is fine. You're supposed to save the snippet, decode and uncompress it, look at it to see what it does and that it's completely self-contained uncontroversial Python code and copy-paste your version that you bookmarked. It's super short.
Hi, I'm one of the creators of LobeChat Arvin. The secret that we can make LobeChat with two part-time people is that both of us are Design Engineers.

We are both good at design and coding. And thanks to modern framework nextjs and deploy platform vercel, We can ship the product very quickly.
The main page of codisec [0] lists that Veles has been retired. They since have a new project, CodiLime [1], which seems like is a general technology consulting/outsourcing company.

[0] https://codisec.com/

[1] https://codilime.com/
> Well, "boring" is subjective.

And when you aggregate enough individuals you have something approaching objectivity. In other words, statistically speaking, what is the best poise and posture to have as a public figure?

Saying that something is subjective and using an anecdote of yourself is as lazy as a cook saying they can't cook good food since everyone is different... so of course this dish should be spicy because they personally prefer it. Or you measure your audience.

We can trust people like MrBeast to be measuring the audience.
> SEO will be replaced by cold hard cash, favors, and backroom deals

Maybe this reflects my biases, but isn't that was SEO has been from the get go? Like, from the moment someone had the idea that they could influence search engine results in their favor and charge money for those services, SEO has been purely negative for internet users simply trying to find the most fitting results for their query.
If you want ChatGPT to say nice things about you (or bad things about your competitors), then you'll need to give it your version of information - at least that will be the line peddled to us.

I've already received emails from SEO snake oil sellers now advertising themselves as being able to influence ChatGPT output.
I was interested and looked at the actual patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/4348422 (there seem to be multiple patent documents, but this one adds some explanation), and he writes "I have now surprisingly discovered".

https://tastydecafs.com/blogs/learn-about-decaf/co2-decaf further explains
"The story of C02 decaffeination goes back to 1967. It was then when a chemist at Max Planck Institute named Kurt Zosel stumbled upon an interesting discovery. Zosel, like many other chemists, was using high-pressure C02 to remove individual substances from other mixtures."

It must have something to do with caffeine being an alkaloid, while coffee overall is acidic. So I suspect that this pressurized CO2 is able to dominantly remove such alkaloids... I leave the details to a chemist :)
Will look into pre-approval, thank you!!
Use an extension to change your useragent string; it mostly works on firefox, just expect bugs.
The fact that OpenAI is releasing a fancy UI instead of an improved model says something. I'm afraid GPT-5 won't be there any time soon.
Using VMs as the unit allows them to move to another provider if they need to. They could even move to something like an on-prem Oxide rack if they wanted. [Yes I know, TFA lists this as a "false benefit" i.e. something they think doesn't benefit them.]
It's very common to feel mediocre when comparing ourselves to our peers. It's similar to the Instagram effect; we see our own struggles and trials and see other people's successes and ask ourselves why it came so easy for them and so hard for us. The reality is that you're not seeing the whole picture.

I was an engineer at Google for a while and have a few very applicable examples.

When I first started I was being shown around and there was some art on the wall that was taken with a gigapixel camera that an engineer had built from scratch (~2005). 20 years later I still have no idea how I'd begin to approach a project like that.

A few years later I was on a team with another engineer who was in a model rocketry club. One day I asked how his weekend went and he talked about his model rocket launch. Turns out it was 15 feet tall, they had launched eastward from Nevada, and had almost made a full orbit before it broke up over the Pacific. I was embarrassed by how I had spent my weekend (I think I was brewing beer).

Then I was in the other position. Plus hadn't launched yet, but it was being tested and used internally. There was a hackathon and we built a kegerator. You would badge into it and it would post to Plus who was getting beer, how much you got, and what temperature it was. When the weight got too low it would post a poll for what beer to get next. When it got even lower the poll would close and the admin would be sent an email. That summer we showed it to an intern and we saw the same deer-in-the-headlights look of "oh god, if these people can do this like it's no big deal how am I going to succeed?"

I'm not saying that nobody is good or fast at their job. I'm just saying that you haven't seen the work, the failures, and the history that got them to that point. I'm sure there are things in your own history that I wouldn't have any idea how to approach, just like there are probably things in my history that you wouldn't know how to approach.

Instead of feeling like a failure try learning from them, get some familiarity, and eventually you'll see that some look when you tell people about your projects.
Working with someone who's not pulling their weight and induces negative progress on a team is just demoralizing, no matter how much money you have or make. Working with a 1x or 10x engineer? How about working with a -10x engineer?

It's better than being unhoused, sure, but managers, faced with the challenges of firing someone, along with a demoralized team, aren't going to go "y'know what? it sucks being unhoused, lemme hire more bad employees" and loosen up hiring recs. We can discuss at length how terrible it is to be unhoused, but it's not going to change that basic fact.
I find myself contrasting "peer-to-peer" to other fads/phases that had varying success (microtransactions, social networks, cryptocurrency, gig-economy, LLMs) and I think I still have a soft spot for it, probably because it represented a kind of individual empowerment.

This was also back in the day when the average computing device felt like capital accessible to the common man, machines which could be wrangled into solving your own problems on your own terms.

That's in contrast to a curated service graciously permitted by The Powers That Be, which doesn't do anything that's good for you that isn't also good for them.
OK but this is the same pattern as image uploading services - https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...

1. google was a good search engine when it was less profitable

2. now that it is more profitable, it is bad

Importantly, it was possible for Google to be good AND profitable at the same time! Roughly from 2003-2013 perhaps.

1. OpenAI is nowhere near profitable ... it seems to be heavily dependent on Microsoft, and in some sense on Microsoft's desire to compete with Google in certain areas

2. If it ever becomes profitable, does anyone want to argue it won't get significantly worse? It will probably have a bunch of bad side effects, like Google's decline did on the web itself

I guess this is "normal", but it also seems pretty inefficient to me ... Part of the problem is that "free" is a special price that users like

IMO it would have be nice if Google search was sustainable at a high quality -- I think it easily could have been
Why is it so hard to make an AI that can translate an informally specified math problem (and Geometry isn't even so informal) into a formal representation?
what kind of nonsense are people in the comments mentioning. it shouldn't even be remotely considered.

wtf kind of BS to allow any remote semblance of programmers deserving consequences? if programmers received EXECUTIVE level pay then yes, they deserve the rammifications, but they do not, executive pay is ridiculous with their already inflated salary, ridiculous bonuses, and stock buybacks. whoever gets paid more is the one that deserves the consequences.

Thats the WHOLE GODDAM REASON THEY ARE IN THAT POSITION.
When children grow up in a neighborhood where more adults have jobs
Efficiency is measured exactly by people maximizing their utility subject to their preferences and constraints.

What you see as vanity, such as hair extensions, may be a high utility item for others. Consider the hair extensions make them a more attractive mate and provide them the opportunity to breed with a better stock, for example.

Similarly, consider that 20k ft sq mansion in context: all the prior owner(s) of that property were traded revenue for the land. And the construction workers were paid. And now the gov gets taxes.

At every step, each contributor to the end product voluntarily participated and maximized their outcomes. That is maximally efficient, economically speaking.
We don't collect any data from you. And lots of people have tested and use LobeChat in their daily work.

If you have any questions about safety, please let nw know~
Company valuations never have an explanation. At all. It's all whatever people at the moment guessed, usually with so little information that you'd be infuriated.

For non-traded companies, it's even worse, because it's less people, at fewer moments, and they don't even need to be honest. As a first approximation, non-traded companies do not have a valuation, any number you get is bullshit and you can get something with the same accuracy by just asking ChatGPT.
The reason they aren't dropping new models, is they are using their LLMs to embed in products, not as the end product. The APIs are a race to the bottom. They are going after Google.
> In a few words, let us know why you'd love to work at $COMPANY

I would love to work there if you have great benefits. I would love to work there if you have great pay. I would love to work there if you have an excellent culture that suits my personality.

Oh, is that not quite what you're asking? I want the job because it's a paycheck. (let's be honest, ask your board and shareholders why you're in business - the answer is "money" - so that's my answer: money.) I can do the job well because even if my current exact experience doesn't match your current exact criteria, I have the skillset to adapt to whatever software-related task you can throw at me. Again, honesty: the current job description isn't what the job will be in three months, so you don't need someone with "no less than seventeen years" of experience calling a Redis API- you need someone who can use any software stack to get shtuff done.

But you're not hiring for that, though you know you should be.
> I'm glad that most of them seem to respect robots.txt.

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/tab...

Some of them identify themselves by user agent but don't respect robots.txt, so you have to set up your server to 403 their requests to keep them out. If they start obfuscating their user agents then there won't be an easy solution besides deferring to a platform like CloudFlare which offers to play that cat and mouse game on your behalf though.