skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's gotten better but it's very dependent on chipsets and driver support for those. I have one Samsung laptop with an Intel chipset that more or less goes standby reliably. Sometimes it still messes up and it's dead when you open it. But mostly it's fine and it's gotten more rare with recent kernel versions. The fingerprint reader is pretty much the only thing that doesn't work on that laptop and probably never will because it's a cheap Chinese thing with some proprietary firmware.

The core issue is that the firmware in most laptops is just ancient garbage and nobody seems to really care about it. Apple has full ownership over their own firmware so it's less of an issue for them (though it still has issues). But most chip manufacturers servicing the wintel laptop market treat software as an afterthought. They aren't very good at it and they just put in the minimum effort that they can get away with. So, it's all proprietary, poorly designed, decades old, etc. If it breaks they bang on it until it sort of works again (windows only).

Laptop makers then make things worse by just buying a lot of cheap components. Synaptic seems popular for touch pads, for example. My Samsung has one. It's not good. I've actually never come across anything made by them that wasn't garbage.

With Linux slowly creeping up in market share on desktops, it's something that could start changing. Most Linux users are very selective in what they buy and there are certain brands that are just so hopeless that people actively avoid them. Lenovo bought a good reputation from IBM when they acquired their laptop division. That's ages ago but they sort of nurtured that and it's probably helped a lot. It's not rocket science to just make sure things work on Linux.

My work laptop is a macbook. The hardware is just miles ahead of the competition. It's just not even close. Everything else is a major downgrade. I bought that Samsung to replace a mac because I was waiting for the M1 to come out when my old laptop died. I worked on that thing for half a year. Going back to a mac was just such major upgrade in every way possible. You forget how great they are. Software wise I'm actually fine with Linux. Everything I use is open source or available for Linux. I don't use any of the Apple software (the i* stuff). I'm there for the hardware only. If Linux support catches up, I might switch actually.
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One does not exclude the other though. "Avoiding 3rd party implementations of the transformer model" is a subset of "avoiding 3rd party libraries". "From scratch" is, as seen, vague enough for different people to interpret it in different ways. Despite being the minority in this thread, i do not think my interpretation is any less valid - especially since some people have already done such "from scratch" (i.e. in C or C++ with no 3rd party dependencies) implementations already.
A Trump appointed judge in Dallas no less.
Great article. I was doing this before with Go projects, and always did "go mod vendor" which downloaded all packages into a vendor folder. But now I let CI do it, as I like to keep the repositories small. You could achieve the same if your code relies on some stable registry cache that ensures over time that your vendor packages are reproducible.
I don't really see that big issue if someone uses a month to work with LLM to generate somewhat coherent and sensible novel. Generate a chapter a day or something and work with prompting until you get it to flow at least from previous chapter if not all chapters. That itself can be worthy challenge. If you step beyond stapled together outputs.
> didn't used to be

That's false. By definition none would have come if there wasn't opportunity. You don't need to be a geography student to see that it wasn't just irreligious opportunity.
since currently it is only compatible for select new devices, is it possible to do the inverse of the TPM "fix" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384039) in this case?

in other words, can we fool the os to thinking that the device is not compatible? in terms of NPU compute maybe.

ps: the "free space" workaround is a hilarious approach if at all effective.
I mean, you're not wrong. Learning what stuff means is good :) But there's also the part where making up a ridiculous story, pun or such enables it being a very strong mnemonic.

I know v is just the verbose option, though I didn't know z was autodetected.

Way back (~15y or so?) I was reading bash.org just for the jokes cause I was on IRC, I knew what a tar/tar.gz file is, but I had never needed to extract one from the command line (might've been on Windows back then). However, because I remembered the funny joke, the first time I was on a Linux system confronted with a tgz, I knew exactly what to type :)

Honestly to this day, I've never needed to create a tar archive, only to unpack them (when I need to archive+compress files it's usually to send to other people, and I pick zip cause everyone can deal with it). But `tar --help` and `man tar` are there in case I ever might.
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It is arcane as in information how all of this works on their specific hardware is not publicly available, but probably widespread within.
What does Google get out of this?
No, you're confusing two things. The uncertainty in a Fourier transform applies whether it's continuous or discrete. It does not require sampling. It still appears in the sampled DFT, but that's an extra wrinkle. It's a feature of the transform itself, not the sampling process.

You're also confusing horizontal and vertical resolution. Sampling bit depth sets the maximum possible dynamic range resolution of both pre-transformed samples and post-transformed frequency components.

The number of samples defines how many frequency components there are. The number of bits define how accurate their levels are.

The uncertainty trade off is in the number of samples. You can do an FFT on multi-second chunks of music. You get superb frequency resolution, and it will transform back to the original. But you can't use the spectrum to see fine detail in individual notes, because the frequency domain view is just a bar graph with the same number of samples, and shorter features - like individual notes - are smeared out across the entire frame.
> The aether originally suggested a preferred reference frame -- something thoroughly debunked by tests of special relativity.

AFAIK, lightspeed could differ based on which direction you go without breakung relativity. And we haven't measured the single direction lightspeed.

Not that I actually think it differs based on direction.
Family reunification with your uncle is impossible. You literally just proved my point.
I've got a Boox Note Air and it has AI handwriting recognition of handwritten notes made on the device, next to general handwriting recognition when responding to for example e-mail or writing in apps.
I don't mind.

A. Both.

I'll give you an example. It's similar to my bipolar. I love the psychedelic state it brought me into in my first episode. It was like being on MDMA+LSD for a week. It made me a more loving, caring, empathetic person. Before the episode I was spiteful, manipulative, uncaring. It changed me forever.

However, now I have to take daily medication, I have to take care of my diet due to Seroquel causing me to get fat easily, I have to be very careful about my sleep and I can't take psychedelics.

I believe thinking about it as "worth it, not worth it" or bad-good is the wrong way to go about it. I have it. That's my life. I deal with it.

There are advantages, and there are disadvantages.

The voice is pretty much the same thing. The first Voice, which I said sounded like God, was really cruel, yet it was clearly trying to teach me "lessons". I wish it had been kinder, but I having received value from what it was trying to tell me, it's hard to say I want to go back to when I didn't know these things. I just wish it had been delivered differently. It was mean and cruel, but sometimes it taught me things I had difficulty even grasping in any other condition.

B. Yes, but as I said on another comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443792 - I now believe psychosis and the spiritual-psychedelic world are kind of the same thing. I think we may have separated it out due to our current society's focus on materialism. But what we call psychosis before was treated as shamanism. But that is not to say that all shamans were made alike, or that they actually heard the voice of God. In my experience, not all spirits are made alike. I can't say much more than that as I'm not an expert.

So yes, I can totally see someone taking the experience I had and believing that they've become a prophet. I don't actually think that's what it is, not necessarily however. However if I had some kind of ability to see into the future as it felt like at that time, and people believed me, and my predictions came true, I can see people rapidly adopting that kind of thing as a true shaman.
What does one use to build a WebGL rendering engine? What should I learn, and where to start?
If you're really curious about this stuff I have a podcast about bipolar here

https://open.spotify.com/show/2RgP7lRoyBzz6ATlTT4lG5

Episodes 3 and 4 both have people who heard voices in their past, and their descriptions are very interesting.
> "I'm sure the LLM can not only list these publications, but give me reasonable answers to the 100 questions I had above. In a literal fraction of the time."

Sure. It can also just as easily give you totally wrong answers that sound totally plausible, and it'll seem quite convinced of the accuracy of it's output, because it's just stringing "tokens" (bits of encoded language) together seeking to generate valid sounding output based on it's training dataset and the user's input. What most people label as LLM "hallucinations" is actually all that LLMs do. They don't actually "understand" the output they're generating. It's all statistics and fancy math. They're just as certain of an "incorrect" output as they are of a correct one, because from the "point of view" of the LLM, all output they generate is actually correct, as long as it doesn't outright violate the rules of the language being output or the dataset the model was trained on.
The reality is Windows users have a looong history of drawing lines in the sand and saying they will go no further... then meekly going further anyway. Somebody who's done this half a dozen times already to wind up on Windows 10 will almost certainly do it again.
> We have some of the oldest housing stock in Europe.

Yeah. One of those complex issues that just keeps getting worse as you dig into it. I think people in the UK are much more conservative about historical preservation of ordinary houses, due to both percieved ugliness and build quality issues and also some genuine regressions of utility from, say, the days of the Parker-Morris standards.
wired controllers on nintendo switch docks do this, and yes, it is really annoying. It is about every 3 minutes. and it's for the same reason as the macs and windows machines - the switch wakes up and checks for updates then goes back to sleep.
IIRC you can’t run updates while the laptop is asleep though, as that typically requires a user password to initiate. Even with MDM you can’t force updates during sleep
A couple reasons:

1) Recency bias, you probably remember more of these cases from Texas right now because that's the subject of this article.

2) The district and appelate courts in the US vary widely in their judicial ideologies, and usually align closely with their local political leanings. In today's political landscape with a democratic administration, it's unsurprising that courts in conservative districts frequently rule against federal agencies. Notably this judge was appointed by Trump, and is citing recent rulings and legal theory from the current radically conservative Supreme Court. Judges in liberal areas are still under some obligation to take precedent into account, so the case may have gone the same way even with a liberal judge, now that the Chevron Doctrine is more or less dead due to the Supreme Court. But liberal judges still often diverge from the legal theory conservative supreme court justices are using today.

3) Judge shopping, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping#United_States ) the case was intentionally filed in a district that is known for conservative judges that are friendly to corporations, were appointed by Trump, and align closely to the supreme court's legal ideology. The Northern District of Texas were this case was decided is a common choice for such shopping, especially because they explicitly ignore policy guidelines (that are sadly nonbinding) to prevent judge shopping.
I usually go to docs.rs (or quickly generate it on my pc) then I just search for the functions which returns that object (not a reference of it) or Self.
The OED defines variance as:

'the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent: her light tone was at variance with her sudden trembling.'

That is the first entry for variance; I was not referring to its technical statistical meaning (this should have been obvious).

Recorded history and history are also two very different things - surely this is also obvious. The thermometer was invented in the 1700s. It's entirely possible that the area we now call Phoenix had 100+ days of 100 degree heat multiple times over the past millennium but we wouldn't necessarily know about it.

Even by the most pessimistic projections 'climate change' (to the extent it exists) isn't going to result in catastrophe for the first world, and certainly nothing approaching an extinction event globally.
Does anyone take the term 'safety' here seriously without laughing? It is so obvious that it is a propaganda term for censorship and manipulation of cultural-political values
I got hue 175. It's interesting to note that some older cultures, Japan for example, didn't always have separate words for blue and green, both were the same color ("ao" in Japanese). You can see the effects of this even today with things like traffic lights in Japan, which are considered "green" by their standards but blue by many others' standards.

There are also other cultures, such as Russia, where light blue / dark blue (simplification) are effectively considered separate colors.

All this to say, personally, I think we will continue to evolve to recognize more distinct "colors" such as teal, which is neither blue nor green but somewhere between. A lot of this recognition power is rooted in linguistics and culture, it's not as strictly biological as one might think.
80% of folks are doing web stuff, as soon as you deviate from that the quality must go from 9/10 to 3/10 or whatever

Also have you tried shorter blocks ? "Write a function like this" instead of "write the app"
I'm sure a 3 grand leaf or a 16 grand Tesla will have a tip top battery able to provide years of V2G
We've been running the PR agent for a few weeks. It's pretty impressive. We don't always take all of the feedback. In my opinion, it fills a nice gap between human who might have more of the business context and a linter.
llms.txt doesn't seem to make it any easier or harder to do that.
They have a general interest in the quality of the web. More web use is good for Google Ads. This sometimes comes into tension with Google's attempts to control and monetize the web.
Thanks for the link, very interesting. Here’s some elements for your question:

- the tone of "Maybe eat more Quinoa ;-) ? how well do you methilate?" reads condescending and mocking to me.

- using videos as "sources" is not always appreciated here (various reasons already discussed).

- lack of substance: my understanding of your post is "1. Beware of the nutriments forms 2. Here’s an interesting videos on vitamins 3. Genetic helps to be vegan". HN crowd like informations and reflections, not much warning and "go see that link" without substantial abstract of the content.

Thanks again for the channel link, very interesting and I’d like to see other experts arguments on this.

Side note: didn’t catch Pyridoxal sulfate in the video, did you mean phosphate ?
Very good point. I would maybe shorten it to 10 years. The new energy vehicle revolution is progressing at a blistering pace?
Rijkswaterstaat publishes quite a lot of information online. Water levels can be seen on a map[1] on waterinfo.rws.nl. It also offers access to historic data in CSV format, but that is handled through a wizard and you get the data by email apparently.

Information about sluices, bridges, etc. can be found on vaarweginformatie.nl, including the live status of many of them. The Ijmuiden sluice complex doesn't have a live status it seems. See [2] for the map.

[1]: https://waterinfo.rws.nl/#/publiek/waterhoogte
[2]: https://www.vaarweginformatie.nl/frp/main/#/geo/map
I think you're assuming that the way people interact with something is independent of its context.

The impact of (to take a random example) a university having a statue of Venus or whatever in the grounds, is not the same as having the Lenna image in a textbook

https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story

Even though the statue might objectively be showing more, people are not automata, so the context is everything.
Please don't chase or promote conspiracy theories here. The place manages karma better than any other site, period. It's a very hard thing to do well. The fact that it's hard to do well is not evidence of conspiracies here, it's evidence that HN is in fact exceptionally well run an managed.
Reminder that https://github.com/google/wuffs exists too.
You misunderstand me. I’m saying we have a concrete scenario here, so we should discuss that scenario. Not some other different scenario. The Lenna image was literally taken from a porno mag. Its original context is erotic. I agree that it shouldn’t be used as it has. But that’s not what this thread nor my comments are about. If you want to make it about something else then go ahead but I’m not interested.
I agree site authors should be able to tell what content they would like to be used for LLM training (even though that opinion will likely be ignored by LLM training scrapers), but the format of it is really up to those gathering and cleaning the data.

It is extra burden for content authors to start thinking about LLM training requirements especially if those may change at a fast pace.

It is also something LLM scrapers would need to validate/check/reformat anyway to protect from errors/trolling/poisoning of the data since even if most authors would provide curated info, not all will.
Have to share the opposite example here:

- I made an appointment online for sports medicine. Doctor says I need an xray - I go across the street and provide my insurance card, all digital. Go back to the doctors office and he's got it on his computer already

- All contract with insurance (TK) is digital and per app

- Probably only applies in big cities, but in Berlin I have 1Gbps internet for 30 euro a month
I learned about this workaround a while back on some throwaway comment on a youtube video, and from what I can tell it really works. I never bothered to really look into system logs or whatever to verify what was going on.

But in a nutshell, unplug your laptop before you close the lid. Windows does not suspend to modern standby when that happens. I always had an overcooked and dead laptop at the other end of my commute, which went away when I started unplugging first. Now my windows machine can go literal days in sleep mode without really impacting remaining battery that much.
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I mean, the only caveats of multithreading (apart from bugs) is whether you can obtain full linear scaling or if your data structures require synchronization to the point of becoming bottle-necks.

In case of a database, the majority of the work done by the process is in accessing big, shared data structures, which can lead to a lot of congestion. One has to go out of their way to create structures that do not require writers to have exclusive access that penalizes read (e.g., a write log that is occasionally merged), but then you still have to sort out write congestion. When perfected to allow maximum performance, the structure still ends up more complicated and will not allow fully linear scaling.

With a single-threaded model you lose parallelism, but you gain the ability to use the simple structures with reckless abandon, and performance is linear over the average request processing time.

Other types of applications do not necessarily have these limitations. E.g., you can make a multi-threaded webserver that requires no synchronization as it works off static data with requests and connections being entirely thread-local. The application could also be compute-bound, with the time spend accessing contentious shared structures being just a minor part of the execution time.
Not to mention horrendous draughtiness.
Whether you think you're replaceable by AI or you think you're not, you're right
Dumping salt water into salt water doesn't immediately strike me as an environmental disaster.
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If ypu open DevTools and visit any website these days, you'll be surprised.
I stumbled on wwwoffle about a month ago. I don't really have a need, but it just seems incredibly cool, and bit like a hold out from a different time.

Many of these project from the late 1990s just seems so well design and build, solving very interesting problems, many of which we don't necessarily have anymore. I was also looking at uw-imap (which is no longer maintained) and the simplicity of just going "Your mail box will be in mbox and authentication is passwd" brings a bit of joy.
The 10 most violent cities in the US are either democrat or independent controlled: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53991722
91% of what? Windows has been losing market share to tablets and macs.

Anyway, if you as CTO tell the CEO that testing with Linux will get you access to x% of the market, the CEO answer will obviously depend on x. As Windows loses market share to tablets and macs, x increases, and it becomes less plausible to suggest that vendors are simply ignoring Linux because it's small.
What are you talking about? Is this fact or romance? The country certainly did not become what it is through love of sacrifice.
> And if that's not already bad, I found this section of the docs recently and it said "This section has been moved to pkgs/README.md.", but when I read the README file, it doesn't have what the test package example I was looking for! This is... annoying

That's on me, sorry! Ironically this was the artifact of a pretty large effort to _improve_ documentation [1]! This evidently wasn't executed perfectly, but I was also able to make many desperately needed cleanups in turn.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/245243
If you had python code and you didn't want it to have syntax highlighting or be run/imported or any of the other normal things that you do with python files, it might make sense to have python code in a .txt. file.

Same idea here IMO. .md would signal the wrong intent, as you don't want to render it to markdown formatting or read as a markdown file normally is. You want it to be read as plain unrendered text.

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> We furthermore propose that pages on websites that have information that might be useful for LLMs to read provide a clean markdown version of those pages at the same URL as the original page, but with .md appended.

Not happening, that's like asking websites to provide an ad-free, brand identity free version for free. And we can't have that now can we