skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a Sony Clié UX50 in 2004. I watched a whole movie on it once, and remember thinking it was incredible to be able to do that on a mobile device that small. I used it during meetings to note appointments and such, and most people were amazed. The main problem was battery life, which IIRC lasted about 60-70 minutes max (for the movie it was actually plugged in).

I still have it! Although I haven't turned it on for a very long time. Not sure what I should do with it now.
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3

"To download the model weights and tokenizer, please visit the Meta Llama website and accept our License.

Once your request is approved, you will receive a signed URL over email. Then, run the download.sh script, passing the URL provided when prompted to start the download.

Pre-requisites: Ensure you have wget and md5sum installed. Then run the script: ./download.sh.

Remember that the links expire after 24 hours and a certain amount of downloads. You can always re-request a link if you start seeing errors such as 403: Forbidden."
Huh, that Wiki link taught me something I didn't know - I hadn't realised a different FP representation could have Denormals (a word I knew) which weren't Subnormal (a new word to me, more precisely defining what's different about these values).

The Subnormals (presumably any Denormals regardless?) tend to be annoyingly slow, because the FP hardware usually special cases them to some slow but correct silicon not a fast path for the usual case. So, in some code it can make sense to "zap" subnormals, converting them to zero since they're almost zero anyway. Obviously in other code this is a terrible idea, so your domain knowledge comes into play when authoring such code. For example if we're using -1 .. +1 as the 0dB for our Karaoke software, a subnormal is clearly inaudible noise, but it might make our sophisticated reverb simulator (so you can pretend you're singing in a big auditorium) a thousand times slower than normal, so, zap those subnormals before the simulator and we hear the same results but don't get punished with miserable performance.
Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet
how do you make an LLM work on the AST level? do you just feed a normal LLM a text representation of the AST, or do you make an LLM where the basic data structure is an AST node rather than a character string (human-language word)?
And they would have been just as shitty as the Blackberry. Hell, even Google had to go back to the drawing board with their Android prototype because they still thought a physical keyboard on a phone was king....right until they caught a glimpse of the first iPhone.
Polars is a great choice but, like pandas, locks you into its execution engine(s). Polars is a supported backend for Ibis, though depending on your use case DuckDB or DataFusion may scale better. we did some benchmarking recently: https://ibis-project.org/posts/1tbc/
News and media sites are not very high value data sources for AI models. There's not that much additional value from having 100 news sites in your data or 100k because so much content is generic with a high degree of overlap.

It'd be much more concerning if academic publishers, code repositories and wikipedia refused scraping.
Buying anything from Starbucks, or buying a $8 worth of cup of coffee is just insane to me. Buy an espresso machine for 150 USD, jeez. I live in Eastern Europe and the majority of people who drink coffee have a coffee maker.
Meta has spent massive sums of money to train these models and they've released the models to the public. You can fine-tune the models. You can see the source code and the architecture of the model. The EULA is commercially-friendly.

You are free to quibble over how truly "open source" these models are, but I am very thankful that Meta has released them.
I still don’t understand why people make such a big deal out of „missing the iPhone“.

There was no money in mobile SoCs, and there still isn’t. Apple makes their own chips anyway!

Intel was right to focus on the x86.
Great article, The sign up form for the course link needs updating though, links through to typeforms homepage rather than a form.
The argument was "I don't want to learn Rust, I'm not going to learn Rust, and if you put a non-C language in the codebase, I'm going to break it without giving a shit". Not sensible in the least.
the idea is that everything is in some quantum state, because quantum mechanics attempts to describe everything. The thought experiment is basically going from the well-observed (and explained in theory) superposition of a nuclear undergoing decay to the never-observed (but still valid in theory) superposition of a cat being both alive and dead.
I had a laptop running Windows for 12 years as my home server, hidden in a closet. It ran a couple of c# apps as a service and was an ftp server as well. Last month I decided to buy a raspberry pi (4B 2GB) to scratch multiple itches (arm processor, linux, low power consumption) and it replaced the server without a hitch, and better than I thought!

No weird splash screens from windows after updates, 2GB is vast for me when running headless, dotnet apps ported with minimal effort, and the list goes on.
Only downside is the USB can only power one external 2.5" hdd, and I didn't want to add a powered usb hub.
You have to answer that question for any model of the universe - what came before the Big Bang? Another universe? What before it?
And intelligent design is essentially analogous to simulation theory, and answers more questions than it creates (the anthropic principle, for starters).

My personal mental model is that the ‘intelligence’ guides quantum collapse and so the progression of the universe is somewhat deterministic but also not really because ‘important’ collapse decisions are guided towards some higher purpose. This model also doesn’t necessarily require an actual intelligence, I imagine that with the quasi omnitemporal aspect of qm, in this model something like love or consciousness could be an optima that the system moves towards, the ‘love’ optimum would be maximum interpersonal quantum entanglement and ‘consciousness’ being maximizing coherent networks. Not that I have any delusions about my theory being the case, it’s just a model I’ve built up over a while and find interesting to think about, but I doubt it bears any weight on reality.
What a terrible idea.

For one thing, this is way worse for light pollution, and interfererring with astronomy, and ecology than the constellations of satellites that aren't designed specifically to be reflective.

This would basically be dumping more heat onto the earth's surface. Not a great idea when we're already worried about the planet heating up.
Finland is building the world’s largest heat pump to warm 30k homes in Helsinki
That's creepy as hell. I stopped using Amazon a long while back, but if I hadn't, this kind of thing would absolutely have got me to stop.
Dynasaur: Userspace syscalls that are super fast
Dynasaur intercepts syscalls in Linux entirely in userspace, superfast and across static, semi-static and dynamic binaries. It even works inside containers and doesn't need admin or any special privileges like PTRACE, or need a VM like GVisor. We built it for our cunoFS virtual filesystem and we want to know if others are interested in buliding on top of it for other use cases?
This does not help at all, quantum systems - even messy complex ones, boxes containing cats and air - evolve unitarily and do not destroy a superposition. The box and the air and the cat can interact all they want, you will still have a superposition of cat dead - and box and air in some state - and cat alive - and box and air in some other state. And no point are we addressing how we get rid of one half of the entangled state. And even if I see the box wiggle a bit, we only declare that me watching the box somehow was an measurement and that collapsed the wave function without answering the question why I did not simply get entangled with the box, too.
Go try it.

https://ollama.com

You may come away surprised.
This would be entirely self-documenting by replacing that with a function named after what it does, then the comment isn't necessary.

To boot, a unit test could be written that would reveal the bug in the regular expression that makes it only work with filenames that have an asterisk before the extension. Unless you intended that (unlikely), in which case the comment is wrong/not comprehensive and misdirects the reader.
This has gotta be the dumbest “debate” (at least in the USA). If you put something on the internet without protection (i.e. DRM), it is public. Enforcing a data cartel like apple is doing has gotta be the absolute worse outcome, only the ultra rich can afford to get the good and correct information while the poor get whatever scraps they can get.

Apple drank the kool-aid and now has to deal with the fact that those bad faith arguments make no sense in reality.
There are many, many videos showing them begging for the military to enact a coup.

The army could and should have removed their encampment in the capital, and even forbid the police to dismantle that same encampment.

This, among many other things, show those parties were colluding for a coup.

You may argue that the coup attempt was foolish and had little chance of succeeding. Oh well, if I try to murder someone and fail because I am too much of a retard to murder someone I should still be charged with attempted murder.

Sorry if I have little empathy for those that wanted to undermine democracy. They should be rigorously punished.
You are doing it right. Pattern matching and lightening fast regurgitation are what is needed. There isn't enough time to "solve and implement".
https://sam.gov/opp/1e45d648886b4e9ca91890285af77eb7/view
Both are at the cost of a generally more tranquil and quiet environment. I would take the most boring, crack-filled and grayest concrete wall over someone else’s messaging whether it is paid for or the agency’s own propaganda.
The actual quote was even worse.
you’re thinking of radiant heat. There’s also heating by conduction
I think “this behavior is by design” is often an excuse.

Building quality software is hard because it’s the mistakes and oversights that get noticed.

It’s much easier for someone to claim it’s “by design” than to try and fix it.
Just reply STOP? This is not a major problem for me. Is it for other people?

Edit: I guess this is my fault for not RTFA.

> Your mileage may vary, but for me, the “STOP” response works.

Maybe the headline should be "Reply STOP to political spam SMS"
Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good?
> 1. Cloud Sync

Cloud Sync of what? WhatsApp doesn't seem any less "cloud synced" than Telegram to me.

> 2. Instant Multi-device login

What does that mean?

> 3. The ability to create large group chats, like thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in a single place.

MLS scales very well to such large groups: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/

> 4. Sending files up to 4GB.

How so? WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage and others all support sending files. File size isn't a factor (assuming you're fine with leaking the metadata of who has received the same file).
I thought the point of ASCII art was that it could be exported into Notepad. is the website mainly for aesthetics/art as opposed to inserting diagrams into READMEs now?
> If you put something on the internet without protection (i.e. DRM), it is public

This is a meaningless semantic punt to the word public. At the end of the day, there is a real debate around how ownership works in relation to AI.
The article doesn't make it clear, but what heat really destroys is, specifically, a type of long-range entanglement between electrons. Heat makes entanglement with containers greater, and entanglement with nearby particles is unavoidable.

A very hot cube of metal isolated in a vacuum wouldn't have any less overall entanglement than a cold cube.
I map mine to C^] which I find to be a good balance between easy to type and not conflicting with other tools
This is very cool~
React? Surely I'm not the only one who remembers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15050841

I don't think Facebook/Meta is the beacon of open-source goodness you think it is. The main reason they created yarn instead of iterating on npm is to use their own patent-friendly license they wanted to use with React (before the community flipped out and demanded they re-license it as MIT). Early Vue adoption seemed mostly driven by that React licensing fiasco.
And that's what POST requests are for.
It is interesting since at least with what Google was previously doing, you likely at least got some click throughs.

Personally the way I see it, you can't argue about being worried about plagiarism while allowing one company to just mine all of your work.

You either block all or you allow all. Anything else is not helping either situation.
Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
“Close” is not good enough for using a term with a very specific meaning. OSI = open source, everything else is source-available (which its arguable that either even applies, because the source of the weights, the dataset, is not available).

I agree that for Llama, things are weird and they want to cover their bases, and that its better than nothing, but the specific use of “open source” is a long-running corporate dilution of what open source really means and I am tired of it.
I recognized this a few months back when I wanted to see the algorithm that a website used to do a calculation. I just put the minified JS in ChatGPT and figured it out pretty easily. Let's take this a few steps out. What happens when a LLM can clone a whole SAAS app? Let's say I wanted to clone HubSpot. If an LLM can interact with a browser and figure out how a UI works and take code hints from un-mimified code I think we could see all SAAS apps be commoditized. The backend would be proprietary, but it could figure out API formats and suggest a backend architecture.

All this makes me think AI's are going to be a strong deflationary force in the future.
What do you use Zellij for that isn't covered by Wezterm? I used Zellij in Alacritty and now in Foot, but recently tried Wezterm and the features it offered really seemed to match what Zellij offers. I didn't need two ways to do splits, tabs, sessions so I'm back to Foot/Zellij, but was just curious to your use-case.
All you say is true... But I still run emacs in screen :P

I know I should run a single emacs instances and use projectile or whatever to switch context, but for me it's just easier to run many screen sessions (with descriptive names via `screen -S my-session-name`, attaching via `screen -r my-session-name`) and an emacs instance for each screen session.

One day I'll improve my emacs-fu and I'll use a single emacs instance for everything.
Yea, lol, Musk's twitter was never, ever a clear threat to any competitor and Zuck smelled blood in the water. Elon fanboism has spun it the other way for obvious reasons.
Some of European countries has CP laws written to scratch moral itch, they can SWAT raid anyone screenshotting some games on App Store and their courts aren't going to care.

And then there's likely a real CP sharing groups on some of those platforms: algorithms work as invisible cloak for those groups, and we in the public without that preference won't have idea until police discovers one through a confiscated phone.
Countries that dump solar panels on the international market to kill off foreign competition are really demonstrating that...
During the Obama years the US invested heavily in Solar, and developed many of the technical innovations that make cheap solar possible today. Unfortunately the people who did this work were not able to keep up with the CCP subsidizing solar panels well below cost. They folded and the US has very little domestic solar panel manufacturing by comparison. This is unfortunate if you believe in a sustainable economy, especially since a domestic industry might have funded further R&D efforts. The tariffs are maybe too little too late for saving the nascent US solar manufacturing industry, but the issues of trade policy and climate policy are not always straightforward.
We just don’t have the technology for that, else there’d be libraries floating around that let you do that.
That’s the concept behind the entire discussion. I don’t know how you’ve missed it.
For a long while, google drive on the web would simply refuse to do anything unless you had 3rd party cookies enabled. I'm sure on purpose.
Your use of p surprises me if you don't use b for emacs reasons! How do you go up a line!?
Maybe start to head into the direction of filters. Stuff that after effects can already do for video. Stay interested in this and keep improving. Great work.
Have you ever seen Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia? I haven't seen the movie, and the original poem it's based on is in French, so I only have seen it in the Disney form. That being said, it's the perfect analogy for what is a deliberate decision by the sorcerer's apprentice to enchant a broom and get it to start bringing water in from the well outside into the cistern in the room. The process starts, and everything is going well, but it's taking too long. So he finds a way to make two brooms. Then ten...etc. Things quickly get out of hand and he can't find how to stop the brooms, and the whole room gets filled with water (chaos). At the last minute, the actual sorcerer appears and sets everything aright, and chastises the apprentice for his foolhardy curiosity in meddling with things he doesn't understand.

We could use some of that humility with regard to interfering with complex systems. Most of the effects of perturbations of a complex or chaotic system are unpredictable, and great care should be exercised before making a change, and even with great care, most of the effects will be surprising and unpredictable.

So yes, on a superficial level, all decisions in software are deliberate, but the way those decisions interact, and the outcomes of those decisions are unpredictable and largely unknown when the decisions are made. Also, and you mentioned this in the article, many of the decisions are not made deliberately, after much reflection, but rather, on the fly and in the moment.

To hand-wave that all away by saying "but a human made it" seems pretty disingenuous, or at least extremely naive.
Iranian Hackers Use New Tickler Malware for Intel Gathering on Infrastructure
To start, aircon is an incredible racket in general a lot of the time. Good companies exist, but lots of others, especially in the USA, have been bought up by big holding companies and converted in to profit maximization new-system sales machines. Techs get paid pretty poorly, and helpers get paid worse than mcdonalds/target in a lot of areas. There's not much financial incentive for someone to get really good at understanding residential a/c systems for repair/diagnosis anymore in most places.

Then to your tablet question: even on simple non-zoned systems, lots of manufacturers have totally moved away from oldschool thermostats that have simple fan/compressor/power/etc.. wires, in favor of "communicating" systems. "Communicating" means there's a proprietary protocol that their thermostats, control boards, and other misc electronics in compressor/condenser assemblies speak; for which there is no standard. A handful of modern advancements kind of necessitate this, such as variable speed compressors (yea, you could totally control that with normal electrical hardware, but....no one cares).

Couple all that with people willing to pay damn near anything to cool off when its 97f outside, and you end up where we are today.
> It takes more energy to produce more stuff

Energy consumption is also about using that stuff. And in rich countries like the USA, a lot of energy goes to using things or just moving people. So it's possible to build more and use less energy, even if you don't reduce the energy cost of building things. They can simply become more efficient to use and move.

In USA, 30% is just homes and commercial sector. 40% is transportation. 30% is "industry". By a sort-of inverse-amdahl's law, it's possible to get lower energy use with more throughput even if we don't make "industry" more efficient.
Java will never have a completely pauseless GC. Because Java generates a lot of garbage and because Java's GC moves objects. It's funny that you think the best solutions have already been invented.
> Because the transmission of heat means some photon has to interact with one of the entangled particles.

Interaction doesn't necessarily destroy entanglement, it can also entangle the new particle with the others. Meaning the photon would just get entangled with the rest instead of breaking the entanglement.
> Runaway AI models

The greatest danger is that humans will forget how to verify that we aren't an AI. If the AI is sentinent, and somehow attempts to prevent us from talking to each other, unless we are talking through it, then we get into trouble.

Since AI is nothing without social media, one could say that these models would be meme powered, leading humans (hopefully) to recognize the cliché and pastiche of the entity, and turn it off - probably by simply ceasing to talk to it, in as many ways as humanly possible.

The danger is that we won't recognize the need to do this, and the whole world turns into a massive computer. Not just every single human, but every single thing involved in human life...
I think that's a common scenario in historical fiction depicting conflicts between upright barbarians and decadent empires. The empire could easily crush the barbarians, but it's too preoccupied with internal politics and power struggles to do so.
The trouble with this logic is that public utility commissions across the country have measured the impact that solar has on the grid, and found that not only does it not impose a cost, but it confers a benefit, in some studies up to 33 cents per kilowatt hour.

I completely agree with your core point, which is that there need to be costs associated with impact on the grid, to make sure that there's no incentivization of freeloading in either direction. Whether utilities owe solar owners a one time payment, an ongoing payment, or should be contributing to the financing of new construction of solar panels is an open question imo.
Facts are indeed hard, but I don't think AI really makes it harder for anything important as important facts are either science or on the record.

I do agree with the point in a different way however, as spamming a fake reality is quite capable of undermining the world models of us humans.

Two modes of censorship, banning true things vs. overwhelming the signal with noise.

Gossip is a noise we're very interested in.
Okay so we won’t clean your street? Are so so naive to think there aren’t any streets in the entire country that could use cleaning?
They do but such annotations are optional.
I wonder if 200 KB is small enough that TCP slow start will be the constraint on a download over a new connection, rather than the bandwidth.
More @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381827
You should give it a try and report back! One easy way would be to take an open-source Android app, compile the APK, then decompile it and feed the bytecode to an LLM and ask it to write the java/kotlin equivalent and compare the source and LLM decoded one.
More @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391260
Denser storages have worse longevity.
CDs (and similar) have been found to have the best longevity of the commonly used storage media.