skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. Although I encountered an interesting who-are-the-users? issue when I was involved in using simulations to support training. The people buying the systems did at least understand they they should consult the users when writing their (so-called) user requirements. But who were the users? Three categories were identified: The students themselves, the instructors and the 'customers' of the training system - the people who had to 'employ' the students when trained. After a lot of discussion, they picked the instructors as the main users, and wrote the requirements for the training system with them in mind.

It worked, sort of. But what was overlooked was that the individuals who spent most actual screen time with the systems were the courseware developers. They had to build the training scenarios, which involved a lot of faffing around in the virtual world to create content that would support specific training objectives. The courseware devs, using the completed system, reckoned on an hour of dev time to build five minutes of useful training in the sim. One of the reasons it was so slow was that the courseware devs (think of them as level designers in a gaming context) had very few tools to help them build the scenario, e.g. to check map inter-visibility. The system devs had created some great tools for the instructors (e.g. after action review) but they had pretty much failed to consider how many different training scenarios were needed to keep the training relevant over time, and thus the relative importance of scenario dev tools.
Would you like to recommend any resource?
This 100%. And I fear it's a full-blown problem in design ethos generally. We're looking to remodel the kitchen and three designers have presented different, very beautiful concepts... Without any practical long-term consideration to real-world usability
I don’t think content creation is where LLMs are useful.

Summarization seems to be the killer feature, it takes some finagling with RAG and potentially multiple passes to ensure a low enough hallucinations rate, but for summarizing tasks it’s quite good.

What’s even cooler are embeddings. Idk why people are so focused on the text generation features of LLMs when embeddings are far more useful
Make is painful to use unless you're producing C object files. And even then it's painful to use.

But we get it, you don't want to try anything new.
Your description of democracy doesn't match with existing capitalism. In capitalism, what matters is the individual capitalist desire to achieve profits. The economic decisions are made by a few oligarchs on top, not by the population.
I hope there will be an editor like Gutenberg for webcomponents. With the possibility to define all kinds of constraints (what components are allowed as subelements and so on)
I just got back from a visit with family in Cumberland. It's the epitome of rust belt. What used to be a thriving manufacturing area has become an abandoned service-sector economy with low-wage jobs. Property values are dirt cheap, even for nice houses. There isn't much nearby, you have to travel hours from Pittsburgh to even get there by plane. Tales of theft of items like power tools from relatively remote farms are common. It doesn't look quite as bad as videos I've seen of poorer parts of Appalachia, but it's pretty close. I don't know how they will be able to afford this as the tax base has all but left and Cumberland is trying to pinch every penny they can to afford their over-compensated government staff. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, this seems more like a last-ditch marketing effort.
> It was awesome.

TBH this doesn't sound awesome, it sounds exactly the hotbed that spawns community drama, passive aggressive behavior and other human stuff you still see to this day :-P.
--help does list the info btw, but that wouldn’t have helped if you didn’t know the file format extensions
Was going to post the same thing. People forget that prior to cell phone number portability between carriers in late 2003, you basically got a new phone number when you moved or changed carriers. Hence much more of the “new phone, who dis?”

Now the comic is more like “where you lived in 2005 or when you first got a cell phone”.

Now that I have kids it’s an interesting signaling mechanism seeing which parents have local area codes and which ones have them from other parts of the country.
There will be a period where people believe everything said by an AI.

Just like when everyone believed everything on the internet.

Or on tv

Or in the news

Or in books

People will adjust.
Hey, I'm Tim and I created Hot Page. This is a long-time side project that I'm now bootstrapping with the help of a couple of friends. The idea is to take the convenience of a drag-and-drop editor (Squarespace, Wix, etc), but never lose the connection to the basic building blocks of web pages: HTML elements, CSS rules, etc. The advent of Web Components makes this a really powerful model.

Although I'm of course pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page of HN, I was planning on waiting a few months to post it myself because we are working on some ways to make the editor much more powerful. We have a long roadmap of new features like:

* more ways to edit CSS properties visually (without losing the 1:1 connection to the CSS generated)

* inline CSS (style attribute) editor for elements that let's you use :hover and media queries

* a library of code "snippets" that lives in the left panel along side the basic elements

* tighter integration with web components

* integrating VS code language servers for accurate auto completion everywhere

* and a whole lot more.

I'm a long time lurker on HN and have long loved the community here. All of your thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated, especially on our marketing because that is proving to be a real challenge. AMA

edit: roadmap
On the other hand, the ML community is especially big on papers with cherry picked results and things that can't be replicated.
It’s very state dependent in the USA. Some states, like Texas, require the owner be public and the actual owner of the LLC.
Solar sails and large open spaces face big challenges, but experiments like JAXA’s IKAROS, the LightSail missions, and NASA’s NanoSail-D2 have shown that solar sails can work in space.
clearly i just don't understand it dude. you're the center of the universe too.
Hotglue was the first thing I thought of as well. Truly freeform web design that allowed for custom code and styles via editing the <head> section. Installation for the most part required nothing besides dropping a folder into a PHP-enabled web server.

I wrote a blog post reviewing it a couple of months back: https://rafichaudhury.com/site/blog/Freehand-Web
Maximize your LLM serving throughput for GPUs on GKE – a practical guide
Am I talking about those people?

You're conflating things that are empirically verifiable with things that are not.
Can you provide any leads on custom solutions?
Can I ask - is the lack of glue an active pain? Is the pain so great that you would go and hire for a glue person or purchase software or services to increase the glue? You clearly recognize the problem and inefficiencies that arise from not having it. If glue really is a work multiplier, what would be the velocity/dollar value for your team to have it?
A 386 PC cost $3000+ after the 486 was released. Sometimes I think our expectations for dirt cheap supercomputers are out of whack.
Deploy a custom Llama 3 API in 15 lines of code
This is pretty important. I suspect the people who are motivated by $2k a year to move there are not the people who are going to be bringing a large influx of capital to a place that very much needs it.

Although actually, it looks like there are two separate programs, which you can be eligible for both of: The relocation credit, and the restoration or down payment credit, which is more of a match, so the actual amount is more like $20k total.
Make recipes are literally shell scripts.

Make is designed to take a bunch of little shell scripts, give each one an arbitrary name (which can be the output files if you want, but doesn't have to be), and run them. Dependencies are run first, if your script has any of them. Files can satisfy dependencies unless you tell Make that they don't.

It's really not different from a shell script with a bunch of functions that you can call by name, except that Make has already provided the scaffolding for you (including dependency-awareness, tree walking, parallel execution, etc)
When the railroad was the internet, it was really the Silicon Valley of its day. Really makes you think.
The leading anti-nuclear force in the 1980s and 1990s was the Green Party, which wasn't pro natural gas at all.

Furthermore, it is now one of the most anti-Russian parties, so any conjectured FSB operation could be considered to have failed spectacularly.

The former East Germany supported left wing terrorism and some hard left student revolts, but the anti-nuclear sentiment goes through many parties and simply does not need any external stimulus.
That’s not “scale”. That’s the opposite of scale.
I built it. [1] They didn't come.

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works
I’m glad the weird-flashy trend is back. We’ve been on the clean/flat design land for too long.

Even if we’re more self ware now and a bit a cynicism and self-deprecation is inevitable, but that’s postmodernism for you.
I was indeed around then. I built a fair few non trivial things on MSDOS and Windows with MASM 6, PDS7, VB3/4 and MSVC++. All offline. Mostly on airgapped networks. That and enbedded stuff with various tool chains.

We were definitely more productive. An order of magnitude more. As long as you picked appropriate tools. For example, I wrote a whole statistical analysis package in month (VB4). An ERP package in 6 months (access).

Code quality, which is difficult to objectively measure, was not really a problem.

Today I can barely even find a consistent UI toolkit which doesn’t fall to pieces, doesn’t require a server to run and doesn’t pull in 200 meg of untrusted JavaScript.
Also has an Amtrak station!
Two replies to parent immediately suggest tuning. Ironically, this release claims to feature auto-config for best performance:

“Some of us are well versed in the nitty gritty of LLM load and inference parameters. But many of us, understandably, can't be bothered. LM Studio 0.3.0 auto-configures everything based on the hardware you are running it on.”

So parent should expect it to work.

I find the same issue: using a MBP with 96GB (M2 Max with 38‑core GPU), it seems to tune by default for a base machine.
That wouldn’t be querying though, right?

Grabbing all the docs in the db into my controller and filtering down that array is what Firebase makes me do instead of writing queries.
That would be a great solution, but full formal verification is a very high bar.

The more realistic answer is to use safer languages than C for this sort of critical work. Rust and Ada spring to mind. They could even expose a C ABI/API. From a quick search, it looks like this has already been achieved for TLS, but it sees little real usage. [0] There are also Rust implementations of SSH (Russh and Thrussh), but I don't think they expose a C ABI/API.

I'm surprised this rather obvious solution doesn't seem to even receive serious consideration. I'd be surprised if performance was seriously impaired. This blog post [1] found Rustls to be faster than OpenSSL. I couldn't find a similar performance evaluation for Russh or Thrussh.

[0] https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi

[1] https://bencher.dev/learn/case-study/rustls/
My understanding is that's how it already works, at least that's how it's been for the journals I've published in. When you submit the paper you simply promise to pay if the paper is accepted. Then peer review happens and if you pass, they'll ask you to pay.
If students are getting degrees to get hired, maybe it's the companies that are the consumer? Unless you're going for your own enlightenment, but I think that's a privilege reserved for rich kids.
I would use a book or internet tutorials and just start building simple programs. Even better is to write a simple program and then just keep it extending it as you try out new things. Eventually you will get confident enough to be able to use this as the starting point for real projects.
The key is to learn by doing.
Good luck
Did you seriously just explain to someone who said they lived in Texas that the cities in Texas are progressive? ... I lived there, man. I even lived in those cities. I even said I recently escaped, not a quarter century ago.

I was 8 in the "late 90s" dude. How old do you think people on HN are?

Texas fucking sucks, even if you're in Austin, Houston or Dallas. Especially post-2020.
Cut wires in Europe, blown up air bases and aircraft in Russia. I see such attempted sabotage as more of a cry of desperation.

EDIT also, NATO is doing more than nothing. The intelligence, the know how, some of the weaponry decimating Russia deep strategic assets and reserves are coming straight from Europe. I guess it's just better to keep a cool head about cut wires and keep on sending these supplies.
please make a general simple example of how knowing memory and cpu applies to overwhelming majority of people out there glueing APIs together.
but when I read a paper, it's difficult to know what the Prerequisites are.
That actually explains a lot. They are trying to expand their tax base. The improvements stipend will allow them to assess the property at a higher value!
From the linked page:

> The package, offering up to $20,000 is comprised of $10,000 in relocation cash, PLUS up to $10,000, dollar for dollar match, for approved renovations on an existing home, OR for a down payment on a newly constructed home within City limits.

Not “A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD” as the submission title says currently , which sounded like a basic income.
This looks good as a minimal IRC interface but probably wouldn’t use it as a normal IRC client. It seems it would be good if you wanted to implement a bot.
I welcome your "not a red line" interpretation of quotes like these:

> Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, was more explicit in January. “The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war,” he said. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/01/...

> Anticipating international condemnation and countermeasures, Putin issued a stark warning to other countries not to meddle, saying, “whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-launches-attacks-u...
A similar program exists for 4 towns in West Virginia: https://ascendwv.com
Discount grocer Lidl has a €1.9B revenue cloud infrastructure business
Almost feels like there must be a ton of Glue People at places like Apple!
I've never found any way on the Windows 10 network page to configure, troubleshoot, or display diagnostic network information. I have to go the 'old' one that is more like what was present in Vista & 7.
I use Ethereum / Arbitrum every week at least. I use it for managing a lot of my finances. I provide liquidity on exchanges, provide liquidity for lending protocols, and use GMX for opening long/short positions and trading perpetuals. I also use USDC a lot, and also do self-custody
The entire history of Linux suggests a simple axiom --- choice is not always a "good thing".
I feel this is exactly what happened to JetBrains IDEA abysmal "redesign"...
So the brain has a will?
It's a nice place, especially if you are outdoorsy, due to proximity to so much woodland and trail. I was very surprised with the architecture there. I've only stayed a couple nights (Trailhead for the Ragnar relay series)
How good is internet access there?
It is a gorgeous area. Not a bad deal if you live in the region and are looking to buy a $120k home
FreeBSD 13.4 Nears Release
Ukrainians know that no matter how horrific the war, Russian occupation is worse still. Recall reports that Ukrainians POWs are now just shot on the spot, not mention the horrors of Bucha and other nameless locations, the looting, everything.

It's incredible, Russia had so much goodwill in (at least parts of) Ukraine prior to Feb 2022 and messed that up so spectacularly.

All the mumblings about Russia at war with the US only started once Russia was humiliated in the first weeks of the war.
Audio: Harrowing Phone Calls Expose Global Campaign of Repression
Alyx is really a bad game. People don’t recognize this because they play it for a very short time and then that’s it.

The gun and grabbing UX is fantastic. It’s really good. But the enemies and movement are awful. The enemies are simply not designed to handle your movement. The game is secretly an on rails arcade shooter except you can control the rails.

This is a fundamental problem with VR. You cannot expect humans to move to the degree required for game movement irl, so most of your movement HAS to come from control stick movement. But if most of your movement is coming from control stick movement then your irl movement is largely pointless.

But people WANT the irl movement to be the thing that matters. Because it is fun to duck in and out of cover. So that’s what Alyx largely is. You see enemies. You play the duck and peeking game, and if the enemies come too close or are melee you yeet yourself back to a safer spot.

The basic enemies with guns and melee and drones are pretty good with this gameplay. When they start trying to do something a little bit more interesting in the game later, it really falls apart. Why? Because the enemies are incredibly dumb. Much dumber than a typical game. And the basic concept you get to is that any enemy that does not respect peeking is just asking you to do this clumsy movement scheme rather the fun arcade on rail gun shooter gameplay and it feels dumb.

Imo the Valve team did a very good job trying to accommodate what they found were enormous limitations. But the end result is really underwhelming. You can’t play many games like that for the novelty of on rails shooter gameplay to still work.
Not true in practice, not enough energy on the universe to algorithmically derive everything. Also, someone with understanding and will would have to set up the program :)
California ballpark from A League of Their Own destroyed in fire
Windows search is so bad that you can type "NOTE" and it'll be seconds, on a freaking supercomputer, before "Notepad" appears. This is insane. The list of applications on my computer is in the very low hundreds total, and the number of users with literally hundreds of thousands or millions of apps is very, very low. It can and should be in the search bar's RAM at all times and a linear search should be orders of magnitude below my human perception speed to say nothing of better algorithms.

So, OK, sure, the alpha version couldn't do that, and the beta version couldn't do that, and by golly, launching apps quickly didn't make the release list... sure. But why hasn't this obvious optimization ever risen to the top of the feature list in the last several years?

The obvious answer is that nobody in Microsoft is empowered to care about the experience as a whole anymore, and it shows.

The slightly less obvious answer is that I bet Microsoft management has simply written off Windows now. It's not Cloud enough and too hard to make services- and subscription-based even if they put their best efforts in. I think they're going to discover that it was more foundational to their business than they realized.
"I think if your product doesn’t work with an off-the-shelf model, it’s unlikely to magically start working with a custom, in-house model."

In my experience a lott of LLM usage in B2B is fairly basic (translation, summerization, data extraction, categorization) and fairly well handled by current SOTA foundation models. Could this be improved by custom/finetuned models? Sure, but in nearly all cases I have seen the ROI of improving other parts of the application is way higher than the investment in developing and maintaining custom models.
"The docking mechanism is simple—since the asteroid is likely to be iron-rich, Vestri will use magnets to attach itself."

While that sounds simple, it does make it sound like the mining part just became much more difficult.

Thinking about some of the sci-fi regarding asteroid mining, I've always liked the idea of bringing the asteroid to park into an orbit around earth to make it easier/cheaper for multiple deliveries, but I've always wonder what kind of ownership claims that would imply. If I took the time and effort to park an asteroid in orbit, would I have sole ownership of it or would you be able to mine from it as well?
90% reduction in power.
> Recall Western weapons are on Russian soil at this moment, likely with some number of Western boots as well, in the Kursk region.

This complaint is like a rapist complaining "you're touching me!" during the act.
For people who have used both vega and Apache echarts, how do they compare?
> for some reason education posts

Well, the reason, if I understand the critics' arguments correctly, is that compulsory public education was instituted a century ago (a) quickly, without serious policy discussion or any experimental evidence and (b) with the goal of solving a very specific social problem that existed a hundred years ago (poor families migrating en masse from the countryside to cities to work in the factory, and their bored young children wandering around city streets engaging in mischief while both parents were busy instead of learning useful skills like milking cows or reading the Bible, which would have been the case back in the countryside) - and it's not quite clear whether in today's social conditions it's still worth it.
That wasn’t their point and I’m hesitating to believe you actually think it was.

This is like blaming people for not locking their door after they’ve been robbed. Yeah, they should have locked their door. But the person who actually did wrong is the person who robbed them.

Blaming somebody for not taking extra steps to reduce the chances of something happening to them that is ultimately the fault of another party is not right.
As if there wasn't already an issue with corporate sponsorship of moderation in some cases.

This would destroy the eusocial for-free moderation by people who simply want to create an environment they value and others benefit from in the process.
Note killfiles were per-user (they could be shared, but this was optional and required specific clients), so those blocked people were still visible for non-regulars.

The result was that newsgroups were very different for insiders vs outsiders: insiders saw nice clean message feed, outsiders saw tons of low-content messages with no replies and rare nugget of interesting info.

This was one of the big reasons why Usenet died for me: too much spam and useless messages, as there is no group-wide authority (and no, cancel bots never seemed to work)

Today, if you want heavily moderated group, there is plenty - they are simply scattered on the web. Many of them are phpbb-style forums, some discords and slacks (ugh...).
We optimized tax structures in a way that was very technical and awesome — until one of our founders lost the plot, accused everyone of fraud, went to our investors, and blew up the company.

After the fallout cleared it turned out we, the other founders, had done nothing wrong. Not even non-standard, just advanced. But now the lawyers had all the money and the company failed.

Perhaps it would have been more efficient to not optimize taxes and instead optimize founder alignment.

Keep the parts of the business that are not directly on the critical path to success completely normal and standard.
Sounds exciting :) I do want to point out that the way Mastodon does it doesn't require authentication from your home server - it just creates a URL redirect that points to it.