skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure. But I also don't consider Canada Post to be offering comparable service to FedEx and UPS these days, too.

For example, based on my experience and the experiences of other people in Canada I've talked to, Canada Post seems to just deliver a pick-up notice slip, rather than the parcel itself.

It's particularly annoying when the recipient has been available to receive the parcel, but Canada Post doesn't even appear to make an attempt to deliver, although the slip is left behind.

The recipient then has to go down to a Canada Post outlet with the slip to actually receive the parcel.

On the other hand, FedEx, UPS, and other private sector (I, too, would exclude Purolator) couriers consistently manage to deliver parcels directly to me, right into my hands, even if it might occasionally take a second attempt. I haven't had to go to a UPS or FedEx depot in well over a decade.

In my opinion, delivering a parcel directly to the recipient is a different service than delivering the parcel to the same city and then requiring the recipient to complete the job.
> There are plenty of people like that

No, no there aren't because fast refresh rate is painfully obvious. I'm talking within a second, maybe fractions of a second, you will notice. Because every single animation is affected.

It's one thing to say it's a small change, or not a big deal, or not worth it (I'd even agree). It's another to say you can't notice it. No... you can definitely notice it.
"During my Ethnographic labours amongst those wild people I have visited 150 Tribes, containing more than two millions of souls ;"

> That's what you call a "very strong dataset"‽

Yes!!!
Soon we wont be needing ad-blockers because we'll have so many legal nag pop ups that you wont be able to see the ads!

Seriously, can we come up with a better solution to these things? Like can browsers notify you about cookies instead in a non-intrusive way? Same with social media nagware.

Just thinking aloud, because websites will become increasingly annoying over time.
ITT an awful lot of smart people who still don't have a good mental model of what LLM are actually doing.

The "stochastic continuation" ie parrot model is pernicious. It's doing active harm now to advancing understanding.

It's pernicious, and I mean that precisely, because it is both technically accurate yet deeply unhelpful indeed actively, intentionally AFAICT, misleading.

Humans could be described in the same way, just as accurately, and just as unhelpfully.

What's missing? What's missing is one of the gross features of LLM: their interior layers.

If you don't understand what is necessarily transpiring in those layers, you don't understand what they're doing; and treating them as black box that does something you imagine to be glorified Markov chain computation, leads you deep into the wilderness of cognitive error. You're reasoning from a misleading model.

If you want a better mental model for what they are doing, you need to take seriously that the "tokens" LLM consume and emit are being converted into something else, processed, and then the output of that process, re-serialized and rendered into tokens. In lay language it's less misleadly and more helpful to put this directly: they extract semantic meaning as propositions or descriptions about a world they have an internalized world model of; compute a solution (answer) to questions or requests posed with respect to that world model; and then convert their solution into a serialized token stream.

The complaint that they do not "understand" is correct, but not in the way people usually think. It's not that they do not have understanding in some real sense; it's that the world model they construct, inhabit, and reason about, is a flatland: it's static and one dimensional.

My rant here leads to a very testable proposition: that deep multi-modal models, particularly those for whom time-base media are native, will necessarily have a much richer (more multidimensional) derived world-model, one that understands (my word) that a shoe is not just an opaque token, but a thing of such and such scale and composition and utility and application, representing a function as much as a design.

When we teach models about space, time, the things that inhabit that, and what it means to have agency among them—well, what we will have, using technology we already have, is something which I will contentedly assert is undeniably a mind.

What's more provocative yet is that systems of this complexity, which necessarily construct a world model, are only able to do what they do because they have a self-model within it.

And having a self-model, within a world model, and agency?

That is self-hood. That is personhood. That is the substrate as best we understand for self-awareness.

Scoff if you like, bookmark if you will—this will be commonly accepted within five years.
From my experience USB-C is more durable. It has all the wearable springy parts in the cable, so replacing the cable every couple of years keeps it working like new. With Lightning the phone connector has spring-loaded contacts and retention clips that are guaranteed to wear out, and when they do you have to take apart the device and in some cases do micro-soldering to replace the connector.
chasil is talking about a star that was able to form an iron core naturally through fusion, not a thought experiment of a ball of iron with the same mass as the current Sun.
You don't encounter many cave lions, and probably never alone.

Your sight, hearing and sense of smell aren't really that bad compared to animals and probably better in many cases.

WRT your mathematics that isn't exactly genius level counting.
"Liberating" and "exchanging" might be more neutral and no less accurate, but they are largely disjoint categories regardless.

Coming up with strategies to turn your "liberation" into some kind of "exchange" is naturally going to be a challenge, if possible at all.
Have we forgotten already that diamond replacing silicon was a big idea for dealing with heat dissipation in high density chips?
I'm in the same boat. I think that the fight for reasonable cars is long lost, and that's why I expect that I'll just be driving older used cars for the remainder of my life.

But perhaps the day will come where some upstart company will begin producing cars that don't spy on you. You never know.
Thanks, looks great. Found this comparison: https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/sapling-comparison/

Will try it for sure.
When we launched Cronitor our “boilerplate” was:

- django

- a bootstrap template for $20

- twilio and mailchimp integration

- stripe checkout (we charged cards manually for 3 months)

Launching a saas is like packing for a through hike. You do not want to be carrying around a bunch of code you don’t really need.
Forward – Next generation information browser
Thats the thing, I don’t care about the optical features they rolled out. I have an interchangeable lens camera that is the tool for that job, 10 years old and still works great.
100!? I have a tool to find feeds from sites - checks like 4 things.
Instead of "hallucinating" I would have preferred the term "bullshitting" -- in the Harry G. Frankfurt sense of not caring about the truth of one's utterances. But it's too late for that.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
Show HN: BANDIT a standalone rp2040 ColorForth Computer
I've been working on an rp2040 implementation of my PC32 variant of ColorForth, its completely standalone and it doesnt use any SDKs, so everything is built from scratch to compile and run on the chip itself.
The project's homepage is dscf.co.uk
Source Code: https://github.com/RSSNext/follow
Looks like time to DIY a small speaker to attach directly to the microphone that plays white noise.
Isn't the sticky wicket collisions with external to CF defined headers?
Of what? I wouldn’t presume doing a Spotify here but linking to existing services or just your movie library. The movie poster art?
This feature isn’t ready yet, but it’s something we’re actively working on. To have shipping right away, it could be outsourced to a third party, and some of our partners are developing such functionality this way.

In the long term, we aim to make it tightly integrated with Stripe, making Stripe the core infrastructure for your e-commerce needs.
Lip Reading as a Service (Read Their Lips by Symphonic Labs)
If you're doing very basic things, the same exact syntax will probably work on multiple. But even then, implementation details like isolation level come into play.
That is not entirely true though, our team at doshare.me hired a lot of young graduates and we are building and iterating through product lifecycle quickly.

In my experience, seasoned seniors are expensive to get and bring unnecessary conflicts and issues to startups lifecycle.

Until startup has started to actually scale they definitely shouldn't hire seniors with a lot of experience.
SEO is mostly about being linked by other pages, the more popular, the better... second most important thing is to have a good amount of high quality content (like a bunch of blog articles, a glossary with great explanations, etc.). To prevent getting downvoted, it is also good to have technological basics in place (fast loading times, good image formats, no rendering issues, etc.).

Pretty hard to take influence on the "linked by other pages" thing, but this will come automatically as soon as you take the time to write good content and fix the technological basics. To do so, you could take a look at google page speed insights (https://pagespeed.web.dev). It also gives you hints what's wrong with your page, e.g.:

Reduce unused javascript (316kb)
Minimize third party javascript
Reduce javascript execution time (7.9 seconds)
Reduce load for the main thread (14.6 seconds)
...
I’d be happy if they sold little furniture feet already the correct height
The book doesn't contain two million points of data. Count the actual number of statistics in the book: I doubt you'll get more than a dozen.
> however eventually XBox hardware will be a revamped version of Windows Media Center, and that will be as welcomed as XBox ONE original design as multimedia box was.

I don't see any indication that they are going down that path. The decisions that made the Xbox One a media center instead of a focus on gaming was made by leaders that are not there. Phil Spensor came in to fix that problem. Nothing they have done recent seems to be pointing in this direction except for doom and gloom speculation about Xbox.

> By the way, Dave Cuttler at the end of his interview on Dave's Garage mentions Microsoft is running XBoxes on Azure with Linux for Microsoft's AI purposes, that is how much they care about XBox hardware and cloud gaming.

I will have to look this up but that doesn't sound like a bad thing? Hardware having multiple purposes just incentivizes the creation of the hardware in the first place. We see this with how Apple is operating right now.
> So then you need some kind of state management on the server

Yes. You might call this an application, lol. You will require this no matter what, unless you have a fully client-side application. Like photoshop or something.
We are using different meanings for terms.

Building a world model for a perfect information game is different than building an mental model of the external world.

In context learning is a well known property of LLMs, while real world generalization, often described through the common sense problem is not.

To me, 'mental models' are personal, internal representations of external reality, which LLMs currently lack, being limited to the corpus.
You're probably right, that's indeed the perspective I was (maybe subconsciously) looking for as well. I should also empathize a bit, I had to debug a prod outage early Monday morning.

I think it's the fact that I was in the middle of some job-change-related communications that also gave me nerves. Generally my email reliability requirements are not very intense!

Overall I've been happy even with some of the things I've seen complaints about (Fastmail iOS app has been great for me despite mixed reviews). I'll give Fastmail more time before making a judgment.

(And indeed it looks like it's back online for me.)
No, you want to prevent contamination of the water supply. Being able to ignore that rule is not an improvement.
Might be a distinction here because Google doesn't actually sell the products whereas Amazon is the actual retailer. Google is promoting their link to the product -- potentially even over the exact same retailer's direct link -- to take a cut.
As I said further up, they filled in the wrong form.

They have a permit that is more restrictive than the permit they need.
Don't forget DDG and Kagi - might of some tools too
> Less directly was Tonies, an audio player for kids that uses NFC on Skyrim style figures to trigger stories.

My youngest, at 16, still loves the Tonie Box. She uploads random stuff to their web portal and plays it quietly at night. Her sister, in the top bunk, had a string / pulley connected to the figurine so that she could restart the music from her bed by lifting it just a little bit and putting it back down.
Right, I know at least 3P apps get the "memory warning" and have specific rules about background execution, but wasn't sure about Safari since it's special.
The new iPhones don't even have a notch anymore. The 14 Pro switched to the dynamic island 2 years ago, and last year the whole 15 lineup got it.

And the thing with the dynamic island is it's mostly drawn on in software. It's actually 2 small cutouts, a pill and a circle for FaceID and the selfie camera. They fill it in with the island at the top to make it look like it's all software, so I don't see them shrinking it since it's being used as a feature, where apps can minimize into it with live data (music playing, sports scores, etc)
Took me a while to catch up with all this (need to get out more, it seems...)

This is about "available source, but licensed such that some included use cases must pay while others don't".

I'm not sure it works. Originally tried by Sleepycat 25 years ago. Problem is that your project/product becomes incompatible with all other OSS. So everyone else will go out of their way to avoid using your thing.
I did the same for a virtual lab for experimenting. OpenWRT ran as the router VM with two network interfaces and the rest of the instances connected to a VirtualBox internal network that was configured as its LAN side.
EU already hit Amazon in 2018 and Amazon settled in 2022 to stop pushing their own products above competitors using unfair tactics.

(those rules only only apply to online shoppers inside EU)

In the settlement Amazon is put into a probation for 5 years.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...

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With respect to the marketplace seller data, Amazon commits to refrain from using non-public data relating to, or derived from, the activities of independent sellers on its marketplace, for its retail business that competes with those sellers. This would apply to both Amazon's automated tools and employees that could cross-use the data from Amazon Marketplace, for the purposes of retail decisions. The relevant data would cover both individual and aggregate data, such as sales terms, revenues, shipments, inventory related information, consumer visit data or seller performance on the platform. Amazon commits not to use such data for the purposes of selling branded goods as well as its private label products.

In relation to the Buy Box Amazon commits:

- to apply equal treatment to all sellers when ranking their offers for the purposes of the selection of the winner of the Buy Box;

- and in addition, to display a second competing offer to the Buy Box winner if there is a second offer that is sufficiently differentiated from the first one on price and/or delivery. Both offers will display the same descriptive information and provide for the same purchasing experience. This will enhance consumer choice.

Lastly, regarding Prime Amazon commits:

- to set non-discriminatory conditions and criteria for the qualification of marketplace sellers and offers to Prime;

- to allow Prime sellers to freely choose any carrier for their logistics and delivery services and negotiate terms directly with the carrier of their choice;

- not to use any information obtained through Prime about the terms and performance of third-party carriers, for its own logistics services. This is to ensure that carriers' data is not flowing directly to Amazon's competing logistics services.

The commitments would remain in force for five years. Their implementation would be monitored by a monitoring trustee who would report regularly to the Commission.
The pure vitriol and ad hominems ensure that facts against their narrative will not be presented.
> delusional

Hard disagree.

> pixel perfect

I prefer that era of wob design to now.
I taught my research group Git version control in college. It was part of a "new student/researcher onboarding" series that we put all the new grad students and undergrads through. But we were in Radio Astronomy, so there was a lot of data processing and modeling stuff that required being comfortable within a remote ssh session and the basics of Linux/bash/python. I know it was already being used in Radio Astronomy (at least in the sub-field of Pulsar Astronomy) at the time and was part of the reason I didn't get pushback when I proposed making sure our group was trained up on using it.

We switched to Git as a whole in early 2009 since it was already a better experience than SVN at the time. Could be off by a year or two, given how long ago this was and the fact that I was working with the group through the end of high school in 2007-2008.

We only added GitHub to our training later in 2011-2013 era, but we ran our own bare git repos on our department servers until then. And students/groups were responsible for setting up their own repos for their research projects (with assistance/guidance to ensure security on the server).

Last job also made use of our own internal bare repos, admittedly mirrors of our private GH projects, and our stack pulled from that mirror to ensure we always had an instance that was not dependent on an external vendor.

Current role also makes use of bare git repos for similar reasons.

I think the knowledge is there and plenty people do it, it's just not news/blog worthy anymore. It's not new or groundbreaking so it gets little attention.
Thank you. Not getting the NPDES permit does seem like something they had time to do. Still confused why this is an FAA issue. (Is there any indication these are what is causing the delay?)
True, there's a lot of misinformation about porn. I do some amateur/OnlyFans stuff and i have several friends that work for a big studio. Never heard of any abuse going on in the industry itself.

Though it is true that people with prior abuse are more likely to be in this industry, it does seem to be pretty common. But I think it's a coping mechanism too. Everyone I know is happy to do the work anyway. The environment seems also really chill, they shoot at these luxury villas and afterwards hang out in the pool etc.

Of course N=1 but the whole stigma of it being a cesspool of abuse seems more politically/religiously motivated.
That site is cancer. Can't finish reading the article before you're blasted with clickbait stories about aliens and time travel and politics.
I think there is a comment somewhere here where I comment on NVIDIA, but I think NVIDIA is the best hardware company for making good software. We had a very niche software issue for which NVIDIA maintained open-source repos. I don't think NVIDIA's main advantage is its hardware, though; I think it's the software and the flexibility it brings to its hardware.

Suppose that Transformers die tomorrow, and Mamba becomes all the rage. The released Mamba code already has CUDA kernels for inference and training. Any of the CSPs or other NVIDIA GPU users can switch their entire software stack to train and inference Mamba models. Meanwhile, we'll be completely dead in the water with similar companies that made the same bet, like Etched.
> Social media is of low value

...to you. Everyone is a Libertarian except when it comes to other people's preferences.
It's real, I got so much disappointed by this market that I started up on my own product. Also, somehow got few people to join me and we're shipping this month.
6 Powerful Databricks Alternatives for Data Lakes and Lakehouses
I can no longer edit the post, but here's the working demo of YNS
https://demo.yournextstore.com

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A very plausible argument I read a while back was: it is a manual of exercise and herbology and related things. The symbols in the book aren't in any language. They are like rough music notation; XXX, YY, XX etc. They are custom for the client of whoever wrote it, meaning "stretch, stretch..., bend, bend..." or something similar.

The theory isn't popular because it doesn't reveal anything but once you look at the book it seems likely. The notably thing is the symbols don't have the variation of a language - they are less complex and more locally repetitive.
I bring this up all the time with coworkers. When a new generation of processors come out with amazing speed/#of core/power improvements, developers get lazier. I’m all for meaningful improvements, and grudgingly on the side of stuff like electron that allow easy cross platform dev, but please, for the love of God, please quit stacking on garbage features and useless GUI mods, pointless graphics, endless pulling in of huge libraries to do one little thing, etc. I try my best to keep my C++ and Rust dev as small as possible with as few dependencies as possible. If something might take me more than a week to write myself, I’ll give it strong consideration, otherwise I write it myself.
The fact that a helpful comment had to inform me of this apps existence really says it all. Just ship the damn documentation on the device.
We can quibble where Waymo falls on the "completely autonomous" scale of things, but self driving cars are here, 9 years after 2015.
> As they said though, the hash function on a string type requires looking at every element in the string.

Maybe for the default hash function. As another commenter pointed out, your data may make the following hash very effective: s[0] + s[len(s)//2] + s[-1] which would be very fast. The point being is spending a day seeing if such a hash exists is worth it.
You can create/export .reg files to your GIT repo/file system...but that may be one extra step and doesn't stay in sync automatically.
Industrial waste water permits are not less restrictive than domestic waste water. They could not have "filled in the wrong form" because they need a domestic waste water permit as well.
They'll throw a wrench in your "free as in freedom" at some point or another.

VCs are in business to do exactly one thing: make all of the possible money, forever. If that means making it "source available" and charging out the ass once you reach a certain point, they'll do it.
Great idea.
I wonder how long until we'd see a lot of "autogenerated" podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space.

Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499714