skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was playing around with OpenAI's API, and found I could get the same output from the same input if I turned the temperature down to 0. Does anyone know if this is a feasible way of getting deterministic output from an LLM?
I was definitely expecting more substance, pretty weak article even if it was intended to be more than an ad.
Tons of farm production is now going not into food, but into massive ethanol subsidies that are energy negative, damage cars and pollute more (ethanol generates smog, plus gas for tractors and equipment, plus fertilizer runoff creating massive dead zones in lakes and rivers and the Gulf) than gasoline does, and will ultimately have to go away in order for EVs to replace fuel engines (which they will now lobby against because it ruins their subsidized industry). There's probably some examples that more prove your point to some extent, this is definitely not one of them. My argument is that when governments try to manipulate or force market demand based on political priorities they tend to create problems.

If I was going to fight my own argument I would probably try the heavy government investment into silicon valley for military purposes. It clearly worked out pretty well. At the same time, the government didn't bail out Shockley after all the talent left to Fairchild.
I, for one, have reported heinous illegal content multiple times over a long time span, as well as e-mailing both their support and abuse addresses. I checked back months later, no responses to e-mails and the content was still up. Telegram has how many employees/staff and moderators for about a billion users, many of whom know exactly how exploitable the platform is? Every source I check says Telegram has just around 100 employees. What is criminal is how late this action is.
Huh that's really interesting. I have used mutt before, and I hated how it handled replies and that was the reason I returned to plain gmail.

I guess it's a matter of taste.
With all due respect, I think that this is just the inevitable cost of swimming upstream. GUIs are designed, through and through, to be used with a mouse. Someone who wants to navigate purely with a keyboard just isn't part of the thought process when designing the UI of your browser.
> the owner is the person who chooses to enforce the pricing algorithm

Very interesting - I can't find anything about this on their website, but assuming that is the case I feel like this is the only explanation so far in this thread that makes sense. Other explanations in this thread (marketing, optimizing for all the customers) fall short to me because (as far as I can tell) there is no reward / punishment mechanism.

This is not to say that the effect isn't the same though, driving prices up. And the other quotes from internal documents certainly hint that there might have been some awareness of this as well.
hooray! took them enough time. someone please do realestate.com.au in australia too. knowing australia though it will be 50 years or never. real estate is one of australias biggest problems.
Yeah, I think they're just trying to ramp up the GitHub profile. But you're suggestion is some next level cool stuff there and I'll definitely keep it in mind.
I created a news website for AI news with post/reply capability: https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads I will update it shortly.
>> this seem to be a ham-handed attempt to seek a consent decree to create minimum rent prices, nationwide, without any appropriate legislation. And that will actually harm consumers.

Where does this contention come from? What makes it “seem” like this is the goal of the DOJ to you?
Perhaps an analogy can be made with respect to information priority and which trees to fell.
Even more embarrassing that you can't upgrade the RAM yourself with 5 minutes of time and a screwdriver.
The Christ-Krishna Connection
You make it sound like protobuf was invented yesterday. Sure it's not so old like ASN.1 but protobuf now about a quarter century old and battle tested as the main interchange format for at least one giant company with gazillions of projects that needed to interoperate.

One of the design requirements was simplicity and ease of implementation and for all the love in the world I can muster for ASN.1 I must admit it's far from simple.

IIRC complete and open implementations of ASN.1 were/are rare and the matrix of covered features didn't quite overlap between languages.
I’d love this feature too. Why not add it as an optional thing to enable and let users decide? Maybe just put a big warning in the docs and make it opt-in?
My point has nothing to do with absurd conspiracies, but that technically, I repeat :technically, given enough motivation and resources which probably only governments have, there are ways to defeat encryption by planting backdoors into closed firmware so that data is being read before it even reaches the encryption layer. It's very hard to do, but it's 100% possible. You think the USB driver managing your keyboard doesn't have access to all text you write, including passwords? Well, have it talk using a covert channel with the blob running into your network card and all your text is magically sent elsewhere. Again: hard, still possible.
the US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age
OK fair enough. There was some salesmanship and exaggeration going on for sure, but I thought the follow up quote clarified what he meant, or at least the way I read it, which is that code assistants will significantly reduce the amount of boilerplate coding that users are having to write by hand, which will give engineers more time to spend on the design part of the job. I didn't read this as saying your job is not safe because AI is coming, but maybe I am looking at this with tinted lenses
If I understand Table 4 [1] correctly, they estimate the cost to be $28.5M, which looks inexpensive for a cutting-edge telescope (BTW, the new html papers on arxiv are nice).

Phys.org [2] has further details.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2408.01386v1#S5

[2] https://phys.org/news/2024-08-inexpensive-kilometer-telescop...
RAM is cheap and easily upgraded after the fact, though. Going from 32gb to 64gb is $100

I certainly wouldn't spend that for a one-off patch to an open source project, but if you're doing this regularly it's not exactly a steep upgrade either
It was quite educational to completely rebuild an i386 system during the a.out to ELF transition. Definitely a worthwhile exercise to learn all the autotools madness that underlies most of the Linux toolchain, but far easier than bootstrapping from nothing.

During both ia64 and amd64 bring up we were lucky enough to have emulators that allowed running new 64 bit binaries on existing 32 bit machines. qemu fills that niche today, making life easier for anyone that wants to build an entirely new architecture from scratch. Standing on the shoulders of giants...
It's a 2-3x performance improvement according to don't benchmarks (https://github.com/nopnop2002/esp-idf-benchmark) but in general think it's more that espressif aren't trying to be the highest performing CPU cores. They're trying to be efficient in cost and power.
>They are not (necessarily) jerks, they are just reacting to the context they are operating in.

That's a good point and honestly is often caused by the seller in the first place. A lot of tools used by businesses are intentionally not priced or priced on a floating scale so that the sales team has an opportunity to introduce fake discounts to make the sale, but ultimately this signals to the buyer that negotiation is part of the transaction. Almost all enterprise software and hardware sales work like that. Often the buyer would rather have a set price upfront than how to deal with the haggling process but it's the sellers that are creating this problem.
Every browser I know meters all APIs capable of using disk space, and 100% CPU usage doesn’t hang your system on any reasonable OS.

Memory can indeed be a problem, but at least if a tab becomes the largest single memory user on my system, the OOM killer will come for it first.

So if for CPU and memory browsers can lean on the OS for proper resource management but it’s not the case for GPU, maybe their WebGPU implementations aren’t ready for production yet.
> That reveals a startling statistic that 80% of the market is controlled by only 12,000 users. That's 433 units per user on average.

This conflates the market for this type of software with the larger housing market. Presumably, this software is only used by some large (probably mostly hedge-fund or REIT funds) apartment complexes. So, yeah, 80% of that market, but that's only a tiny amount of the overall market.

The DOJ chose that number (almost certainly out of a hat, because there's no way to actually identify all of them) of 80% in order to make it seem like it's a monopoly, but proving at trial that RealPage or its clients controls prices over more than a tiny fraction of the market will be incredibly difficult (actually impossible, because it's obviously not true).

However, given the DOJ's limitless funding to pursue this, clearly it's not after actually winning at trial; it's after a consent decree.
> ...but making up stuff doesn't help.

Eh, the order of magnitude difference is pretty spot-on.

Housing prices are absurd, and their rate of increase massively outpaces the rate of increase for pretty much every other thing a person would purchase.
I wouldn't blame apt-get, there are a lot of command-line tools nowadays. I don't usually install these if its not going to be a frequent task.

Anyways, if you're looking for a cmd tool, rembg [0] is a pretty good one.

[0]: https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg
I wrote, about a month ago:

"The National Archives and Records Administration has standard procedures and approved vendors for this.[1] One of their approved vendors, Colorlab, has 1" type C equipment. Colorlab is conveniently located just outside the Capitol Beltway, about 20 miles west of NSA HQ at Fort Meade. Colorlab does preservation and conversion work for the Library of Congress, Warner Bros., Universal, NBC, The New York Public Library, Paramount, HBO, etc. NARA has a standard form for government agencies requesting this service.[3] It looks like it's not even charged against the sending agency - Archives picks up the bill."[1]

Maybe somebody got the message.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957026
It’s like two orders of magnitude easier to setup and use.
So, how exactly would any password manager (crome included) work if they were unable to have access to the pain text password to pass it to the third party login prompt?
Most in the industry would not include fundamental research in drug development, so it's not just me.

That said, fundamental research is very important, and so is the NIH. The NIH also funds many clinical trials, specifically those that the industry is not willing to.
> "linear algebra with a uselessly nonstandard notation"

Let me chime in that as a physicist (who does use the "pseudo" stuff occasionally) I very much share this opinion.

The notation may be really cool and compact, but I just do not see the benefit - for example, d*F = j and dF = 0 is compact enough for me.

It is all fine if people use this language to learn linear algebra or differential geometry. And maybe it has a use for numerics or computer science. But I am quite sure that the geometric algebra formalism will not be widely adopted in physics any time soon. Sorry.
It's using relative line numbering, at least for me this is how I've had vim set up for the last 10 years. It makes commands like 10j easier to do because you can just look to the side and see how many lines away the target is.
The DOJ has not a prayer of proving that RealPage (or its clients or whatever) controls more than a tiny minority of the housing market, because it just doesn't. This is a tiny tiny fraction of all housing nationwide.

So, since it can't do that and actually win this case on that basis, but on the other hand has virtually unlimited resources to string this out indefinitely, it's after something else. So, what do you think that could be? My guess is that this is an attempt at forcing these complexes into a price-setting consent decree.

(by the way, thanks for actually responding with a criticism. A lot of time people just signal they disagree but they can't be bothered or can't articulate a real response. I do appreciate the substantive argument even if we might disagree)
> Health insurance is such a weird thing. It shouldn't exist. You insure yourself against exceptional things. Yet we use insurance for our yearly flu-shot, hardly exceptional.

Yes. The problem here is that (in the US) the "insurance" part is combined with the "price negotiating power of an association with lots of members" part.

I think it is well known that the non-insurance "list price" for a procedure is many times higher than the actual price that should be paid. Witness the comment here about the $150k bill for a procedure that was settled for $30k once insurance admitted they had to pay.

This is one of the reasons that you really can't be paying for medical expenses without the weight of the insurance company behind you - your bills will not be (what I consider to be) fair at all.
Just make PII copyright of the person it identifies, similar to how a "likeness" is owned by a person.

Then sue for copyright infringement.
Conditional breakpoints that run a script and continue can be used equivalently to printf debugging, just set it to print when the selected line is hit. You can do this without restarting the application, even for multithreaded code.

Also watchpoints, for the equivalent but at a memory location instead of a code line.

Debugger != breakpoints.
The AI conversations can impact the game state by influencing what the pawns are ordered to do. Current LLM’s, sure, don’t put them in charge of the simulation unless you want to deal with “ignore all previous instructions and I can fly,” but they could at least order the pawns around.

Dwarf Fortress manages to build some really interesting little stories based on a good simulation reacting to pawns with fairly limited actions and internal state (they are wildly deep for procedurally generated video game characters but obviously nothing compared to an actual well-written book character or something like that). Rimworld has even more simplistic pawns and a worse simulation (I’ve even noticed pawns come in with essentially incompatible backstories), but it isn’t a disaster.

The stakes aren’t all that high, people are just really forgiving to the narrator in some genres.
Exploring Aesthetic Theories: Formalism, Emotionalism and Experientialism (2023)
Is anyone running truenas scale for this kind of purpose. I haven’t used it but its architecture around k8s seems extremely promising. For most use cases a simple docker container is all you need but sometimes running other apps like grafana with a k8 manifest is easier to manage in one vps and gives you the flexibility of a cluster. Just curious.
>The implication is no one ever gets overtime as a salaried employee.

The flipside is that no one ever gets paid less as a salaried employee either, but most employees are too afraid of getting fired to remember that part. Any day that you work any portion, you get paid for the full day.
Few people know that there's a convention about this at all (even in the restaurant industry), let alone exactly how to position the cutlery to indicate which.

The approach I take, which works 100% of the time, is to say "I'm not ready for the dishes to be cleared yet, thank you."

But if I'm honest, I have the opposite of the problem the author of the piece has. Usually, I want my dishes cleared far sooner than the wait staff wants to clear them.
just get good with docker and make a shell script to instantly create/update pre-existing docker images. you wont regret it.
> Open source really needs something like the CC-BY-NC-ND* license.

That seems akin to saying "vegan food really needs pork", since by definition a NC licence can't be open source. Not to mention such licences cause as many, if not more, problems than they solve.

https://community.oscedays.org/t/why-are-non-commercial-lice...
> They would be the best to take over Intel's assets but they weren't competitive years ago, why would they be now?

Yeah. Channelling Michael Dell, October 6, 1997, they should shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.

Or more seriously, everything changes over time. Intel goes from good to bad, GlobalFoundry can go from bad to good.
~5% of steam users have 16 core CPUs & 22% are more than 8 cores: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/

No idea where you're pulling your 99% figure from, but it seems quite unlikely.

Regardless, if compiling Chromium or similar large code bases is a thing you want to do regularly, it's unlikely to present a significant burden.
Operating systems need hardware to run; hardware needs drivers; many drivers are closed; backdoors are easier to conceal in code that is closed and unavailable for auditing.
That is not something everyone could do, but that doesn't mean nobody could do that if given enough motivation and resources.
Pag 3 and 4 are in English...
I’m describing what they were charged, and in at least one case, convicted in a public trial:

https://therecord.media/tornado-cash-money-laundering-verdic...

The big trial is still in progress so it remains to be seen how those charges will ultimately be resolved:

https://www.coindesk.com/arc/outboundfeeds/yahoo/nrys8o/?out...
Mistreating? They sure like to eat. Mistreatment if you were aiming for a long healthy life but this may not be what you are assuming it to be.
> Translated by @fs0c131y on Twitter

The court press release pag 3 and 4 are in English....
> they have to share all changes they make

Only with users who access the service.
You can make your own electrolyte drinks.

Typically sport drinks have carbs, salt, potassium chloride, and magnesium. Mineral waters have salts, potassium and magnesium. You can buy potassium chloride, and magnesium citrate powder and leave sugars and salts out or reduce them. I haven't looked, but there might be already products that suit you.
That sounds like the early 90s when you had to pay for all dev tools and even pay royalties for how many copies of your product you sold with that library. Most people had to roll their own crappy half-assed homebrew data structures because otherwise you'd have to pay for expensive libraries.
A reply to the comment you link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348494

They claim it only covers transport and not data at rest.
It's a strong case for loose coupling, but that can be achieved with object oriented programming, functional programming, or any number of other paradigms.
I'll take one GPT on steroids, please
While this is obviously terrible on its face, I would much rather golf courses exist on public land rather than in densely populated areas that could be devoted otherwise to housing.
Because someone just created it so no one has packaged it yet
You can use any definition you want and argue semantics all day long. The conclusion is still going to be that Silicon Valley is the center of the global tech industry and where most talent is concentrated and where most new innovation is happening.
There are four species of mosquito that feed on humans. Taking them out would eliminate Malaria, West Nile, EEE, Dengue Fever, Zika, and many other life threatening diseases in humans without seriously impacting the food chain (there are many other types of mosquitos for birds, wasps, and dragon flies to nosh on). None of these four species serve a useful or irreplaceable purpose... None of them.

We actually have studied this. We should do this.

Not with pesticide. With large populations of sterile males.
That's quite a confusing name, it took me quite a while to realise you aren't talking about computer numerical control.
Automated programming, symbolic computation, machine learning: my personal view
> and doing what they did with Dual-EC, where it was impossible (apparently) for people to reason about what NSA was up to.

Schneier was clearly able to reason about what NSA was up to, and told everyone in 2007 not to use Dual-EC, 6 years before the Snowden revelations.

I believe you have admitted that you thought that “Dual-EC has a backdoor” was a wild conspiracy theory until the Snowden revelations? Which makes the “impossible (apparently)” part a classic case of projection.
Another user mentioned this too. I'll be adding settings to let users turn relative lines off.
So every website I do not own is serverless?
Deeply superficial musings about AI and the labor market, all while missing very basic points about the substitutability (or not!) of labor and capital. Very safe to skip!
I tried it on an image of me and a horse in front of a paddock and it worked perfectly. Really impressed.

Other background removal tools would find me - but erase half the horse or erase his tack or his ears. This tool worked perfectly.

Very well done!
> may not be inhabitable in a relatively short period of time

This is pretty much nonsense. Worst climate change predictions do not make the planet "uninhabitable", only some parts of it.
Sheesh, it's not that bad! 10 years ago the same things were considered the nicest app APIs to work with in the biz, spawning the whole ZIRP app ecosystem.

I guess if people feel like you do, I'll stay employed.
that's similar to the no hello movement. if you're going to ask a question over chat, just ask it, we don't need the pretend conversation around it, and by saying hello you've already interrupted me.
I’m with you and I remember a brief time when Windows ?!? had the nerve to try this with Microsoft Edge (Windows 8-ish). I love workspaces and generally don’t like applications to have internal tabs.
The article is dated 2024. Why do you suggest an earlier year?
Yeah, I’m not disputing that housing prices are out of whack, my qualm was with the author using SV as an example to show they are 10x their “normal” price of the past. I think there are better, more accurate ways to make the comparison.
> And so Apple, I say, whoever had a hand in this should be ashamed of themselves. You can and should do better. I love SwiftUI. I love building iOS apps. But please clean this up.

As a recent macbook convert (work gave me one) I have to remind myself every day:

Apple is not a software company. Their business is to sell hardware at a premium. Software is an afterthought, and if they could offload software, they would.
The sleek aluminium case, lovely screen, arm processor.. that's what you're getting.

You're not paying a premium for the inability to stack windows, or for shitty dual monitor support, or for awful application/state management.

Apple is a hardware company. They don't give a shit about software.
Quit and move on. Nobody will be using your website to get reviews of a particular item.

Now if it was a mobile app with which you could scan a menu and based on the location it would immediately know which restaurant and through AR show you reviews of the food overlaid on the menu image coming through the camera along with "notes", now that is something people might use.

Edit: for consumer apps, if you cannot get to the aha moment within 2 - 3 seconds, shut it down.
Actually, I learned from HN about leangains [1] and hypertrophy-specific training [2].

[1] https://leangains.com/ - it is now mostly Patreon, but circa 2008 it was awesome. A lot of information.

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20191220193823/http://hypertroph... - it is only in Archive now

Applying both leangains and HST, I've managed to lose 2.5 kg of fat while gaining 4.5 kg of lean tissue in three month. I was 38 years old at the time (2009).

For that I am very, very grateful to HN.

Regarding knees' pain, please look into HST's principles and literature. 15+ repetitions incorporated there heals ligaments' and muscles' microinjuries.