skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when video card memory was sort of an anti-segmentation thing. It used to be so unimportant that manufacturers would design cards with more RAM on them than the GPU could use effectively.

For example, there was no technical justification for the 4GB GT710-- any software that could use 4GB of video memory would crap out for the anemic core performance. But it was a great market differentiator-- we'll give you a larger number for the same basic price.
That's inaccurate, because traditional sentiment analysis, or rather the entire NLP ecosystem, is a very niche and underoptimized space.

Its not comparing C against Javascript, its comparing Ada against Javascript. Ada is not going to be any faster than javascript because its too niche and therefore underoptimised.

The theoretical minimum computation required by LLMs is far higher than traditional simple NLP algorithms. But the practical computation cost of LLMs will soon be cheaper, because LLMs get so much investment and use, there's massive full-stack optimizations all the way from the GPU to the end libraries.
Nothing besides GLP-1s and roux-en-Y has been shown to help people lose a clinically significant (>5%) amount of their body weight and keep it off long term (>5y). Exercise does roughly speaking nothing to help you lose fat (it's great for all sorts of other things), and diet has not been shown to work long-term either due to changes in metabolic rate and hunger leading to ~zero compliance. Most people reverse trajectory around the 6 month mark, and average weight regain after 5 years is 80%.
Even for search I find it often as a feature.

Kagi has an AI result option for questions, as well as some AI options for page summaries and questions. Sometimes the AI answer is all I’m looking for, but each line has a citation to the page it’s from, and I often use the AI result to jump to the full context of the article it pulled from. In other cases I don’t want to read a whole article to see if it has one piece of information, so I use the question or summary feature.

With hallucinations being a thing, I find AI as a feature to enrich results, while still being able to verify actual source material, much more useful and trustworthy than AI on its own (like ChatGPT).
I think almost certainly their primary motivation was self-preservation.
The media simply lies, fabricates, deflects, obsfucates, cherry picks too much to assume they are acting in good faith.
i switched back to samsung after experiencing terrible performance of the tensor chip in Pixel 8 Pro.

To be honest, it's probably not their fault though if games/apps are not optimized for that. But I can't wait around, using a flagship phone with sub-optimal performance.
Let me explain it to you.

> 2. There is mercury in the water dumped by the facility, detected by the agency that is supposed to be detecting this.

The issue is that you're taking a hitpiece written by someone that appears to hate Musk for political reasons(based on her other blog articles) as truth. Published by CNBC who has hated Tesla and Musk since forever because they mean fewer profits for legacy car companies and big oil.

The source of confusion is a typo in the document which overstated mercury concentration by a factor of thousand, the rest is exaggeration and fiction pushed all over the news cycle and Reddit.

Does falling for misinformation in this day and age enrage you or outrage you? Does it make you wonder what else you're falling for? Or will you just get defensive and keep arguing fiction? This correction won't reach the vast majority of people who saw the headline who will continue to believe falsehoods about SpaceX. So mission accomplished for the "reporter" and CNBC. This is just sad.

Would it blow your mind to learn that similar fake news was employed by reputable news outlets like AP News on the Tesla Swedish union strike story where multiple news outlets claimed(and still do) that all 120 Tesla mechanics "walked off the job" when only about 35 did and the rest refused to participate in the strike?
> If an annoying phone tree is going to take 3 minutes to navigate by listening to the prompts, then it will also take 3 minutes to navigate by letting the AI listen and write little buttons for me.

If it's a common number for a support line it actually shows you the options before they're stated by the robot. Say for example if I call bank of america's support line, it will show the not-yet-said options as greyed out, but selectable. If the call robot accepts early inputs you can actually navigate a phone menu quite rapidly. Pair that with the estimated wait times or "hold for me" you can save yourself the headache of "actively" waiting.
Go grew too big (in popularity) to be small. Popular languages tend to grow as the userbase grows. This is natural — the language gets used across a wider range of industries, and the programs being written in the language become larger, more mature and more diverse.

The language maintainers need to balance a small specification or a small implementation versus the users' demand, but in most cases at least some user demands win routinely. This is especially true when the language has just one major implementation. There is a significant cost for making that implementation more complex, but there is a more significant cost for making millions of programs that rely on a single implementation more complex just to make that implementation simpler.
They are not giving Congress any power they did not already have. Nothing is stopping Congress from abolishing the EPA or explicitly delimiting what they may or may not regulate.
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> It is unprincipled to be okay with one and not the other.

The principle is very clear: officers of the law are given monopoly on the use of force by the state. That state-enforced monopoly on force comes with an enormous amount of responsibility and that responsibility means that breaches of trust should be prosecuted with prejudice.

The other situation is a private entity making a decision about what kind of content it wants to host on equipment that it pays for.

We can talk about whether certain companies are too big to have full freedom to make that call, but creating a parallel between that and state-ordained police officers wielding guns barging into people's homes to intimidate them into shutting up is either naive, ignorant, or disingenuous.
> dealing with SSO is probably easier than handling passwords, reset flows, etc.

It's really not that difficult. Yes you need to be aware of risks, and be more careful with the data. But it's not exactly rocket science, and you're never going to end up in a scenario where your users can't login because the login flow is out of your hands, as per the topic of this thread.
Anyone see this and think “holy crap we better scale up desalination?”
This is basically the ‘no free lunch’ principle, and the thing to keep in mind is that there’s no universal free lunch, but that doesn’t mean no individual lunch is ever free. (The classic example is insulin for diabetics, which most certainly is a win.)
The only argument that speaks for allowing an state controlled media company from a hostile foreign power to operate in your country, in my opinion, is to trust in the ultimate wisdom of the consumer.
Interesting, a sort of quantum eruv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

Does anyone have any additional context on the throughput numbers? It says 20k photons per second at 99% fidelity and 500k at 90%, but what is the actual bandwidth needed for reasonable usage / computation?
CNBC has updated their story in response to this tweet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-w...
I'm curious how they count a server/data-centre CPU.

The Xeon range covers servers, to HEDT, to basically "desktop workstation that requires ECC" levels of functionality and pricing.

For AMD those are three separate ranges, so I'm curious if they can effectively differentiate between a Ryzen bought for a desktop and one going in a server rack.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI extensively used (and continue to use) remote workers for fullstack and frontend development. But their core AI researchers and engineers are in the office.
I don't know about this analysis and its conclusions. I'll just use this as a jumping point to selfishly spout my own human observations.

For context, I'm someone who uses HN to search for topics I'm interested in, rather than something like Google or Reddit.

- For anything SF community-related, most hits are from 10+ years ago. Lots of "hey we have a space in soma, any local startups want to hang and drink beers?" or "we have an empty desk in a space in the mission, any hackers want to grab it for free?" - all from around 2012 or prior. Nothing like that seems to happen anymore.

- Starting from around 2016, a heavy anti-technology sentiment appears. Cloud, crypto, AI - all are nonsense propagated by VC types and overzealous engineers.

- Similarly, any thread involving money/labor invariably has an anti-capitalist and/or "unions would solve everything" tangent.

Would be interested to hear if others have observed similar.
I still wonder this myself, but the most obvious area that comes to mind is real estate virtual tours. Once a splat can render in the browser at high fps, then I see this replacing most all other technologies currently being used.
Regarding capitalism vs financialism, that’s my own observation of the present vs reading about the past, and having studied economics. Today, there is no saving, and most of the wealthiest people are also the most indebted. This transition occurred as a byproduct of constant inflation. Even “low” inflation rates will push people from saving into investment (even if passive). If you sit on money you lose year over year. You’ll be forced to invest. Price inflation is therefore seen first in stocks, bonds, some derivatives markets, then in property and every other asset. As interest rates go down, they eventually fall below the inflation rate. This essentially makes money free if a person knows that he/she will make a return that exceeds the inflation rate. Eventually, with the collection and accumulation of debt obligations, those debt obligations themselves become a goods to be traded. Liabilities become assets. Future funds are used not only to fund the present, but they are then leveraged to create more credit and expand the pool of debt obligations and increase the inflation rate. This is financialism as a distinct economic system; the entire economy is built upon financial products and not upon physical wealth. Further, it is built upon future claims on production instead of on sacrifices made in the present. Financialism is then the temporal opposite of capitalism.
The best UI is for a cheat sheet to pop up after a delay, so you can proceed without a delay if you know, but also not have to press anything else if you don't know, just wait a bit.

Does https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key not work with spacemacs?
Yep, they are a foreign idea in pretty much all languages, but they are super easy once you figure them out.

If anyone actually wants to get their hands dirty to learn about Lisp macros, I recommend picking a Lisp implementation like SBCL, GNU Guile, Emacs, Clojure, or Hylang depending on what kind of environment you're comfortable with. The key about each of the Lisp implementations I mentioned here is that they all support "Common Lisp style macros", which are the bare bones most obvious way to do macros in Lisp.

Then I recommend using your choice of Lisp to implement a language feature you use in another language. It doesn't matter if that language feature already exists in your choice of Lisp, you can still implement it yourself. For example, you can choose to implement C-style for loops or while loops, asynchronous coroutines like Go, pattern matching, lambdas, whatever. I actually implemented asnyc/await in IronScheme and pushed it upstream[0].

If you want to read more about Lisp macros, I have really enjoyed the book Let over Lambda. I have also heard a lot about On Lisp by pg, but I haven't read that myself yet. Also if you really want to dive off the deep end into the beauty of programming, I recommend SICP.

[0] https://github.com/IronScheme/IronScheme/pull/141
> Reply only the tags

LLM's are really sensitive to bad or even slightly ambiguous grammar. I wonder if the numbers would differ significantly with "Reply only with the tags, in the following format".
Twitter uses AWS, Azure, and GCP. They also use Cloudflare. Any of those providers especially Cloudflare would know. My bet is the claim is part of the hype train. and is false. All of those cloud providers can deal with much greater traffic than that "event".
Because they're saying if they could sustain themselves, they'd have their job be to... eat at restaurants, play video games, travel, try on clothes, wear makeup, etc. Basically be an exact conservative caricature of socialists.
Personal computing is not quite a natural monopoly because it's easy to buy a different device but the rent seeking app store and not letting users install their own software is absolutely an anti competitive monopoly.
Recommendations from people I follow on Twitter. Interviews from people on traditional TV promoting their book. Also, I can't count how many times from just strolling through the local library I've picked up a book which has caught my eye, borrowed it and thorougly enjoyed the book. Bill Gates book list -https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books
For companies like Anthropic and OpenAI the "software engineer" role is of secondary importance and they extensively use remote engineers for full stack and frontend development. However their strategically important AI researchers and engineers are in the office.
here's how the model ranks the discussion on this page after 40 comments:

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Show HN: Skibidi-Lang a Branflakes version adapted to the modern generation
Hi HackerNews!

I was on my way home during a long trip, and found that there was no real language made for the younger generation. I decided to spend (waste) my time making skibidi-lang, a language developed for people like me. You can try it out today. My roadmap includes making the binaries publicly usable/making a way to use it online. Enjoy your skibidi ohio gyatt grimaceshake rizz!
In my opinion.

I do not get the value of BaaS platforms. By the time you have spun up your 3rd postgres instance in a VM you get a hang of it and create a boilerplate docker container with an API layer.

Firebase has auth for free. Firebase has custom domains for free. Supabase is BaaS and Firebase is an app platform. You can make firebase just work, but for supabase you need other services to compliment.

I maybe missing the point of supabase, but I have tried it for a year and it is not for me. VPS from medium and small vendors are quite cheap and it is worth the investment to set it up in your way.

Fly.io shutdown, planetscale canceled free tier, heroku canceled free tier and frontend layer platforms like Vercel and Netlify has pricing related reputational issues.

I just do not trust these platforms any more. VPS and dedicated servers are cheap, sutainable, and experimentable. They are tried and true. But that's my opinion, I could be wrong.
It's exciting to me just even being able to ask experts if anyone has tried before! progress = legwork + new direction!
The Science of Miso
SpaceX says that there may be a typo in the application that they filed. The TLDR also includes this in the section preceding the mention of mercury:

>Teague, who has more than three decades of water quality and coastal planning experience, told CNBC the application was full of holes, missing basic details about water discharge volumes, the temperature of the effluent and outfall locations.
10 million isn’t web scale though. Quite a few cities, many states and a bunch of smaller EU countries would have most of their b2c businesses, local government services and heck, even local newspapers serve 10 million people. That’s not web scale, that could be SQLite on one machine.
Thank you, just emailed you.
Whoa! What? Not a mathematician in any way (in case that isn't obvious), but I'd have totally thought 0.999... asymptomatically _approaches_ 1, but never reaches it, and so is <1. Is there a short-form explanation (that I might have a chance of understanding, lol) of why that's incorrect? I'd love to have my mind blown.
Iran Air flight 655 (1988)
And yet many computer programmers and hardware developers, with or without any kind of license or certification, write or design systems that are critical to life and limb; everything including medical systems, airplane systems, automotive systems including drive-by-wire and 'self-driving, engineering systems for design of life critical structures, etc., etc., etc. It's not all low-consequence or recoverable like front end web dev or accounting software. And conversely, many actions of physicians and cops are inconsequential (while many are also life-or-death).
> That said, SponsorBlock has been around for years. I've been using it for as long as I can remember. Basically any decent-sized channel's videos already have the sponsored segment skipped. I'm not sure why someone just posted it but we're well beyond SponsorBlock "taking off".

I was gonna post a similar comment but with the opposite conclusion: SponsorBlock has been around for years, and the people who are really annoyed by sponsors are mostly already using it. Most of the rest of the population either doesn't mind sponsor segments (me) or isn't willing to go to the trouble of installing addons. Of course, there's always going to be people who become aware of it due to threads like this and start using it, but I'd venture that that's too small a number for worries about this suddenly "taking off".
Yeah this is kinda like... this is definitely an advanced topic within the topic of macro writing and not very intelligible if you haven't written simpler macros for a while already.

I wrote a book whose third chapter is a much "gentler" introduction to macros. I don't know if it's actually intelligible (see: the monad tutorial fallacy) but it presents them the way that I was first able to understand them -- explicitly starting without quasiquote and working up to it. Easier for me than getting lost in the notation. https://janet.guide/macros-and-metaprogramming/
Sort of tangentially related the San Mateo County sheriff flew 4 deputies across the country to raid a car manufacturer as a favor to one of his donor buddies because his custom batmobile was delayed:

https://abc7news.com/batmobile-raid-independent-investigatio...

> The head of the task force spent 6 months investigating, and then took a crew of four department personnel to raid the Batmobile garage in Indiana.
It's pretty inevitable when you have stuff like this that "ads" devolves into "the boring parts". It's all volunteer driven and there's way too many videos to moderate, so it is what it is.
Rethinking the Minimum Viable Product
We build a lot of applications for internal use only and most of the conversations start with "what's the MVP". I think planning to deliver the MVP in version 1 is wrong and instead you should be aiming for version 3 to be the MVP. I have been pushing for 2 prior versions to be released but I only think it's relevant for corporate/LOB apps. This is largely a reflection of my working primarily for large organisations with heavy governance overheads and as a result low trust from end users.

Version 1 should be the version that is functional in so far as it has all or most of the application components in it. It is the version that goes through the slog of your internal change process and governance ie it should be done as early as possible. It is the version that proves to your customer that an app can exist.

Version 2 should be a more functional version of the app and follow pretty closely behind version 1. If you're lucky the governance processes for application "changes" will have less friction. This is the version that proves to your customer that application upgrades are simple and can happen more frequently than once a year (which is often the expectation). It also proves to your team that application enhancements can be made in small chunks and not big bang.

Version 3 is where you shine with the first usable version of the product without all the stress and delay of what you have conquered in the first 2 versions. Version 3 makes versions 4 and beyond really meaningful to the end users as you have built their trust in your delivery process and ability.

Interested in thoughts on this or other approaches to gaining trust and traction when building LOB apps?

Cheers
I think I understand. Distance scales with Planet Size? That actually makes a lot of sense.
Addressed in the linked article:

> Can the Totem Compass allow someone to follow me home?

> The Totem Compass is designed to make it nearly impossible for anyone to follow you home after the event. Because the Unity Mesh Network™ relies on other compasses to communicate, when the festival disbands, the mesh network disappears. At that point, the max range reverts to the peer-to-peer range of 500-1000 meters.

> Once you get in your car or rideshare vehicle at the end of the night, you will quickly get out of range of anyone else who bonded with your compass. This means that the only way someone could track you after the festival is if you keep your compass on, and if they stay within 500-1000 meters of you during your entire trip.
You and me both. I saw my Visor Deluxe in a storage bin last week while rummaging through it and was hit with a deep pang of sadness as I remembered 11-year-old me checking Pieter's site every week or so in anticipation :-(
I will believe this when I can actually measure scenes from Gaussians accurately (I have tried multiple papers worth of experiments with dismal results). No one in the reality capture industry uses splats for anything else other than visualization of water and sky heavy scenes because this is where a Gaussian splat actually renders in a nice way. I look forward to the advancements that Nerf and GS but for now there is no foundational reason why they can extrapolate any more data than COLMAP or GLOMAP when the input data is the major factor in defining scene details.
> Does this specific detail matter if the customer can just scale up

Yes, as it drifts further and further the scaling can be meaningless. This is exactly what's lost with the newer generation and cloud.

Also with the databases mentioned it can't be horizontally scaled. Writes are single server. So there's a limit.

> so it's not exactly easy for the CEO to come on here and tie the infra engineers hands by publishing the exact details of whatever they currently have deployed at the moment

Nothing to do with infra. This is about the product itself. What are you selling? That's the question. The product could be very expensive or not based on that. It also might not meet any organization needs e.g. since they have to meet a performance criteria and that's not just about more CPUs.

> If you really care that much ($$$) I wouldn't be surprised if they'll let you use whatever fancy pants core you have in mind.

And likely the competition can too. Point being? Does that matter? Imagine going to a store and buying a "shirt". You might be allergic to cotton. Now do you just buy any shirt hoping it works?
Computer programmers have ruined plenty of lives from the post office scandal to the gambling industry.
I'm considering doing some ML stuff for a mobile DJ app.. like beat/bpm detection, instrument / vocal separation etc. Have you seen anything recent that might be efficient enough to run on a mobile device and process a track in a reasonable amount of time ( less than song length ) ?
Stock OS is always going to have these pesky problems. After switching to GrapheneOS, I had close to no problems
I had the same concern. However, the structure of the output was surprisingly stable. We rejected badly formatted responses: https://github.com/outerbounds/hacker-news-sentiment/blob/ma...

The semantics of the topics/tags could be improved for sure with a more detailed prompt