skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True...but his quoted bit of the article amounts to "why didn't somebody else, on their own time and dime, Do Stuff"? There's no hint that he (or anyone associated with him) had previously cared to even look for such materials. Let alone do a superficial study of them.

The article also notes that the company had previously tried to sell the entire Gollancz collection - vastly more material than just the George Orwell part - to institutional buyers for £1m. None of them were interested. And I don't see any criticism of them for that neglect.

But now, when it's easy for the ass-sitters to score points by screaming about Evil Corporations destroying England's sacred history, there is a huge fuss.
So it may still be worth it to support smaller images.
The fact that you label this as "go mask off" is just showing your own bias, really.
Ironic that they can only ban you on account basis, but you can still continue using it via Geddit because it does not rely on authentication.
I am not able to submit URLs
I am not spamming. I have a 7-year-old account and have posted only one post that is 7 years old. I was trying to post a github repo link.
The pricing, bandwidth 5GB for $9 a month? This sounds unreasonably high
> No choice about DNS server info or DNS suffixes, no way to edit adapter settings (jumbo frames etc) and so on.

Hasn't been true for a while. You can get to all of that from the Settings app these days.
Fair point!

That said, 10% reduction in power is decent along with the reduction in mirrors, but it would still take some effort for an attempt like this to be cost competitive compared to licensing from ASML.
Looks like it worked, you must be doing something right.
I doubt Google search hardware was as expensive as ChatGPTs is.

OpenAI needs MS for support.
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The problem with Edu-Tech is that here are so many good free resources already.
> originally Apple tried to sell their bland aluminum box as a fashion accessory--and it was only after multiple iterations that they found out health and fitness was the main appeal and focused on it

As a sibling notes, we already had had fitbit for 6 years by the time Apple came out with the Watch. They tried to make it about more than fitness and eventually conceded that that wasn't happening and focused on the market that existed before their release.

So if this plays out this same way then in a few years Apple will finally concede that VR is for video games and finally start focusing on the gamer market.
Am I misunderstanding something? Isn't that the way it is already with most open access journals? Apart from hiding the author's identity from the publisher of course.
I miss that too. Where can I find such jobs in Canada? I don't care too much about pay as programming usually gets paid well enough.
> and a Marvel film

But a Marvel film has nothing to do with quality.

It's fine if you're focusing on the movie business. Just don't confuse the two.
The creator’s Twitter looks sketchy - a couple months old, handful of ChatGPT posts, then this.
in my experience it doesn't suck too much in the uk. i've never had a shortage of interviews and i've never had an interview like the ones frequently described by americans, where they have to write code on a whiteboard and solve extrenely difficult leetcode questions etc.

i update my cv, upload it to the big recruitment websites, recruiters do all of the work, my phone rings 3-5 minutes later and the calls barely stop for a second until i've been in my new role for 2-3 months. interviews are always laid back conversations over the phone or a teams call with no curveballs, just the standard questions like what kind of stuff do you work on in your current job, what tech stack do you use, what do you think about [current popular thing], etc. i'd say i get an offer from about half of the interviews i do.

my only real complaint other than the amount of recruiters who deliberately waste mine and their own time for reasons known only to them (which has always been a thing), is the very obvious coordinated push to get people "back in the office" spilling over and affecting developers, which means there are way less fully remote roles than there were even before covid.
There's one aspect I don't understand of how the gel "learns" . What are the factors for positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement? How does the gel "know" what is a good result and what is a bad result?
Indeed, Leetcode tests algorithmic knowledge but no domain knowledge. I work professionally as a front-end developer and I dread losing my job because I could never pass a Leetcode interview. I can thoroughly reason about web development, I know the stack front and back, it's my passion... but a Leetcode interview doesn't test for that at all.

I think every tech-related company looked at the high bar at big tech, assumed the algorithm questions was the only signal (it's not), and have been poorly aping that ever since.

I also think a simple 20 minute discussion between a hiring candidate and an engineer simply discussing how to build something will give you better hiring signals than any Leetcode challenge.
Well, they were kind of snippy with me on the FreeBSD forum some years ago when they felt like I hadn't done enough on my end, so there's that
HTML is, imho, a victim of its own success (and the even bigger success of the web browser / server paradigm in rolling out not just documents - as was the original idea, but full blown "apps").

Already the first part (HTML as the basis for universal web publishing of all kinds of documents) is quite unprecedented in scope. Did the print world of physical books and newpapers ever produce a global "semantics and shit" paradigm? No. Within the walled gardens of a major publisher or the walls of a monastery reproducing manuscripts there may have been consistently followed rules.

In other words: we never had anything better. The current focus on "apps" is just turning a difficult situtation into a hopeless one.

There might some limited scope for something more rational / pleasant in the world of CMS's, together, e.g., with the adoption of HTMX type technologies. If your pages/documents are derived more or less from a standard schema in the backend then its is quite efficient to develop a corresponding structure of components on the frontend.
> And who might have an advantage if it were sabotaged?

Basically everyone on both sides? Gazprom gets out of a now money-losing sanctioned black hole that had already gone bankrupt months earlier. Russia gets to sow dissension between allies over the whodunit. Germany gets a "well, nothing we can do" excuse if the winter had been nasty and public pressure built to push Ukraine to surrender.
This is great! Would love to have this in our PLDB database.

Here's my user test: https://www.loom.com/share/f73d9df221de4cbd9ee244b7e22a1efd?...
Hey, but I got a great pricing deal to run our apps at this cloud provider no one uses and we have no experience with so you’ll have to migrate everything there!
Maybe as a venture funded startup they don’t. I run a modestly successful edtech business that I have line of sight to making my full time gig in a few years if growth continues.

www.reportcardcomments.com

I think consumer edtech that makes products focused on making individual teachers’ lives easier has a niche. Maybe not as a 100x unicorn, but as a one person business, there’s plenty of opportunity yet out there.
I can't read the tone, but perhaps you haven't seen much technical debt. It's possible to have a fairly good codebase, full of good decisions, yet you still can't "get there from here".

Second paragraph was useful, thanks!
This…isn’t S3. Bandwidth is just part of how they’re segmenting.
Isn't this just a subset of "all educational innovations don't scale". Education is chock-full of things that looked great at small scale and then fail to replicate at large scale. Given that long established reality, which is well known within the education field, the alleged scaling nature of software no longer seems like some great win, since you're likely just quickly scaling out something that doesn't actually work.
I think it's important to figure out what you're comparing though.

A language that makes it easy to pull in dependencies also encourages breaking code into separate modules.

Languages that make dependency management hard tend to have larger, heavier dependencies. Two dependencies in such a language are more likely to have duplicate functionality between them, instead of sharing the functionality through another dependency.

Is it better to vet many smaller dependencies, or fewer large ones that likely duplicate a lot of stuff? It depends on what those dependencies are.

I don't think just looking at dependency counts is that useful. Many libraries that would be a single dependency in other languages are split into several because they are useful on their own.
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What newsletters would you want to listen to? Any concerns about email/privacy?

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I guess it was closer to a dozen if you add up all the smaller ones. City tower, the Death Star looking one, the Alexa looking one, the 3 or 4 medium sized ones on Gold St, the Brooklyner, the 5 or 6 medium sized ones on Hoyt, the One with the Apple Store, the three or four around Barclays Center.

We’re talking about residential space for 10s of thousands of people that completely changed the vibe of the neighborhood for better and worse.

You don’t need the counter factual to look at the prices they’re leasing for. Or to understand that the wealthy folk in these buildings look down at the cutesy brownstones and think to themselves “oh it’d be nice to live in one of those next!”. To realize that the influx of monied people and the accompanying influx of goods and services to pander to them induces top-end demand for the neighborhood and inflates rent.

The kind of high-density housing we build in this country does not deflate housing prices.

To clarify, it might be different if the neighborhoods surrounding this area were not majority owned by nonresident landlords, often the children of the original purchasers.

Increased supply solves pricing when you have a competitive and free market, but the point people in this thread are trying to make is that housing (especially in urban areas) is not at all a free and competitive market. Landlords can afford to let an apartment lay fallow. However, people not only need places to live, but they believe that they can’t afford (socially, career-wise, whatever) to leave a set of zip codes. It leads to rent being a one-way ratchet that dramatically outpaces wage growth and inflation.
I'm guessing it's formally deprecated in the exact same way CMD.exe was deprecated in favor of PowerShell. I expect another 30 years before someone actually guts it from the OS.
I never could get anything local working a few years ago and someone on reddit told me about LM Studio and I finally managed to "run an AI" on my machine. Really cool and now I'm tinkering with it using the built in HTTP server
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Sure, I agree with everything you've said; I was sloppy in saying "Euclid's proof" (whose baroque language I haven't actually bothered to wade through) when I meant "the proof in the OP", though I was precise in saying "it can't use LEM" where you've interpreted it as "a mathematician can't use LEM".

(I asked for an explanation because I resented being called "dumb" by someone I'm pretty sure doesn't actually understand the distinction I'm talking about.)
Interestingly, when visiting the JPEG-XL test page referenced in the article, everything renders but the animation at the bottom for JPEG-XL doesn’t move. The others do. iPhone 15 pro on safari
Don't forget about the time Borland really thought they could outsmart Microsoft on .NET and gave us the wonderfully horrible Delphi 8. To put it into a metaphor, Delphi 7 was like XP, Delphi 8 was like Vista. People still use D7 while Borland and Embarcadero wants to forget they ever tried D8 (and Delphi Prism which is just rebranded Oxygene).

And at about the same time they also tried doing a native Delphi for Linux, which was so bad they pulled out after 3 versions and never tried Linux again until recently (and even then, you can only cross-compile, you can't run Delphi 12 on Linux or macOS).

And they also tried getting into the VCS sphere with StarTeam (which somehow still received updates well into 2017... Despite it being made in 1995). I don't know why OpenText decided to buy it in 2023.

Let's not forget about Turbo Prolog and the time they almost did a Turbo Modula-2, but it was actually published by TopSpeed and now lives in Clarion. Ugh.

Borland... Err, Inprise... Err, Embarcadero... Or CodeGear? Or Idera? Who keeps count? Anyway, that switched so many hands it's sad to see. They were doing way too much. A lot of bad decisions made them less and less popular (not like their current greed is helping their case). Oh well. Long live Free Pascal.
> Is XAES-256-GCM available in the Java standard library?

No (is it in any language's standard library?) but everything you need to implement it in Java is available.

> But that doesn’t mean applications which can’t front or backload native processing don’t exist, it just means they will have slower throughput in Java.

They won't, because working with native memory is just as efficient as working with heap memory. You store your bytes in a MemorySegment and you don't care if it's backed by an on- or off-heap buffer. I guess you could say, oh, but when working with FFI in Java you may need to keep some buffers off-heap if you don't want to copy bytes, but that's common practice in Java since JDK 1.4 (2002).

> It’s fine for a language to make that tradeoff, but it is a tradeoff

There is a tradeoff, but it's not on performance. Rather than expose Java heap objects directly to native code (which is possible with the old JNI, but not the recommended approach), Java says keep the bytes that you want to efficiently pass to native code off-heap and makes it easy to do (through the same interface for on- and off-heap data).

Rather than constrain the implementation, which could have performance implications always, Java gives you the choice to have no FFI overhead at the cost of a tiny bit of convenience when doing FFI. Given how rare FFI is in Java compared to many other languages, that is obviously the right design decision and it helps performance rather than harms it. So there is a tradeoff, but you're clearly trading away less than you would have if FFI were more common and the core implementation were impacted by it.

Ultimately, the question of "is it better to sacrifice language performance and flexibility in exchange for doing X (without significant performance overhead) in 3 lines instead of 30" depends entirely on the answer to the question how often users of the language need to do X. If the language is Java and X is FFI, the answer is "rarely" and so you're paying a small cost for a large gain. The tradeoff between the convenience of low/no-overhead FFI and language performance and flexibility becomes much more difficult and impactful in languages where FFI is more common.
Probably would need to be careful not to damage the microphones.
Haven’t used LS before? But can you try using their API to export customers and reimport into stripe? What you will not be able to do is import their card data. I don’t think any payment provider can do that easily. That is likely a compliance no no.

Also, if you also need your customers transaction data, that won’t happen, because you can’t just migrate that between providers.
Linux is doing the same thing with systemd infecting every part of the stack and changing the interfaces and config files “for the better”.
I still don't understand why anyone would waste their time on this academic nonsense instead of building stuff for their actual users-- all you're doing is making yourself vulnerable to bots and scrapers if your content is worth anything
"This was made possible by carefully rethinking the aberration correction theory of optics."

Can someone explain how they carefully rethought the theory to reduce the number of mirrors from more than 6 to just 2 (or 4)?
Who is the other one?
A 17 year old focusing on succeeding socially and sexually is still really incentivized to go to college! People have tons of friends and sex at even the nerdiest college.
> You add two dependencies in Rust, and suddenly you have a dozen dependencies of dependencies of dependencies, including at least three different logging crates. In the world of C, which is what Rust is trying to displace, that's just not going to pass muster.

In the world of C, how many libraries just vendor their dependencies, so they're just not easily visible in a dependency tree?
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It looks like you posted a Medium link. I believe Medium and Dev.To articles are instantly suppressed on HN because they often tend to be low quality.
So... RadPHP?
I have the exact same experience with the Linux desktop. At some random point, it simply caves into itself and something very trivial such as sound or Bluetooth simply breaks beyond repair. It's happened so many times that I've stopped trying it. "A Linux evening" is no longer fun or interesting to me.

https://fabiensanglard.net/a_linux_evening/
Do you have an archive link?
Exactly my point, it's not a purely financial decision. It's barely a financial decision.
Safari (Webkit) is the hold-out on having this: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_customelementregistry_builtin_el...

The reasoning for choosing not to support it is here: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/97#issu...
Looks like it's his no-URL-included submission that worked.

In theory, there might be a minimum karma to post URLS. The official HN FAQ only notes a minimum karma to be able to downvote. There are unofficial FAQ's, but I pay too little attention to be able to recommend one.
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One of the schools near us gives an ipad to every children from 1st grqde. Needless to say this instantly disqualified the school in my mind.

I’m not anti-screen, I think it’s good if my son uses a computer at home with things like kidpix, scratch, castle of dr brain, etc… But I think devices at school at that age are a potent distraction and I do not trust a school to be thoughtful about the usage of tech (the school I mentioned thinks it’s also a good idea to have some instant messaging app in grade 1 betweeen all the kids).
fp-ide from FreePascal, XWPE, gdb -tui...
What happens when you install a Vanilla WoW disc now? [video]
Hello Hacker News, Yagil here- founder and original creator of LM Studio (now built by a team of 6!). I had the initial idea to build LM Studio after seeing the OG LLaMa weights ‘leak’ (https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/pull/73/files) and then later trying to run some TheBloke quants during the heady early days of ggerganov/llama.cpp. In my notes LM Studio was first “Napster for LLMs” which evolved later to “GarageBand for LLMs”.

What LM Studio is today is a an IDE / explorer for local LLMs, with a focus on format universality (e.g. GGUF) and data portability (you can go to file explorer and edit everything). The main aim is to give you an accessible way to work with LLMs and make them useful for your purposes.

Folks point out that the product is not open source. However I think we facilitate distribution and usage of openly available AI and empower many people to partake in it, while protecting (in my mind) the business viability of the company. LM Studio is free for personal experimentation and we ask businesses to get in touch to buy a business license.

At the end of the day LM Studio is intended to be an easy yet powerful tool for doing things with AI without giving up personal sovereignty over your data. Our computers are super capable machines, and everything that can happen locally w/o the internet, should. The app has no telemetry whatsoever (you’re welcome to monitor network connections yourself) and it can operate offline after you download or sideload some models.

0.3.0 is a huge release for us. We added (naïve) RAG, internationalization, UI themes, and set up foundations for major releases to come.
Everything underneath the UI layer is now built using our SDK which is open source (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio.js. Check out specifics under packages/.

Cheers!

-Yagil
Because, even though I hate it, web tech is the main way to build GUI apps nowadays. The demand for native apps in corporate settings has all but disappeared.
Does anyone know what advantages LM Studio has over Ollama, and vise versa?
I wish I could use it but I am unclear how anyone accepts, “ What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”

Yadda yadda, they probably won’t enforce it, enjoy that, I’m in malicious compliance mode, it’s not OK for a business to learn from me and then turn around and say I can’t learn from them, same goes for Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, and Perplexity, if I can’t use the output for work then I don’t use the service.

Have resigned myself to not participate in this aspect of our boring dystopia and feel numb at this point about all the bajillion times someone breaks these rules and gets rewarded for it. I’d insult or mock them but it just gets downvoted and they’re benefitting and I’m probably the one missing out by not just ignoring the rules like them and these companies. Nobody seems to care about these rules.

Anyway, I did get burned using Mistral to help draft an RFC where it totally misinterpreted my intent and I didn’t carefully read it and wound up looking/feeling like a fool because the RFC didn’t communicate my true intention.

Now I try to think for myself and occasionally use groq. Muted all these company names and their chatbot names on X. Glad you’re having fun. So did I, for a while, but now I just don’t feel like paying for brain rape, I’m tired of writing about it, but folks keep writing about how great LLMs are, so I keep feeling compelled to point out, “the set of use cases is empty because of the fine print legalese.”
What would happen if you lost only one?
No more productive as in banging keys per second maybe.

But there's something valuable in figuring stuff out by yourself, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
https://archive.is/PVgyf
Russia has drawn several "red lines" that have been crossed without them sending the promised nukes.

At this point one must wonder if they even have functioning nukes left or if everything is just posturing.