skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make any sense. Julia Child was a spy herself well before she was married, that's how she met her husband. Later in life the government decided he was a communist and interrogated him, and then Julia didn't become famous until after he retired from the government. Her first show aired a year after his retirement.
No we’re still getting scalped.

Unless another government chooses to nationalise fibre installations on a permanent and on-going basis (outside metro areas) we’ll continue being scalped in perpetuity.

The private sector in Australia has repeatedly failed to deliver even somewhat competitive prices in a number of key sectors. With a population <10% that of the USA, we do not have enough people for the private sector to not end up in a monopoly or duopoly.

Markets work really well when they incentivise competition but Australia has unique geographical and demographic factors which do not facilitate that incentivisation to sustain itself.
It would probably be more sustainable if the companies that depend on 100s of FOSS OS'/libraries/applications/etc to generate billions of dollars in profit would contribute more significantly.
>Let’s also not forget the railroad problems you face. You’re probably the only country that makes Britain look good for its rail infrastructure.

You give the US a pass on roads due to great distances, but not on rail? Rail is even more expensive than roads.

On the subject of roads, it is important to remember that US roads vary greatly in quality based on geography, weather, and economic conditions. Every state gets some federal money and fuel taxes to pay for roads.

>Internet access in rural communities is much better in the UK.

The US had plans to subsidize Starlink for rural communities but the current administration interfered with it for petty political reasons. Again with this, the distances involved matter a lot.

>And let’s not even get started on the sorry state of US healthcare. The NHS might have its problems but at least it’s not leaving people choosing between medical treatments and bankruptcy.

NHS has problems like, you might not get treatment in a timely manner despite the high taxes you pay for that service. The US has issues with cost. We pay more than practically any other country including on medication. I think that is due to corruption. The issue is not that the state does not pay for it. It often does end up paying exorbitant prices for people without insurance, or on government benefits, to be treated. A majority of elderly people in the US are collecting government benefits and healthcare. It's not much but it does cover a significant amount of stuff.

>The problem is, whenever the US government tries to step in to improve things, the ultra conservatives and libertarians then compare those policies to communism. Which is absurd.

It is true that government can invest in worthwhile things sometimes, but when the government messes things up on a regular basis then you instinctively reject whatever it proposes. Neither the UK nor the US can afford our existing social programs. Yet here you are proposing that we here in the US spend even more so we can be like the UK. No thanks, we have enough problems as it is without higher taxes and more government scams.
Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices
Seeing "privacy focused" in any sort of mission statement is almost becoming an indicator of the opposite (I'm sure there's a word for this)

I'd rather a company have simple goals that can be explained in a sentence or two. No hand wavey BS like "we care about your privacy"
Sorry for the nitpick, but the laptop in the video looks like Windows 2000
I don't think it's entirely off-topic, though I only have a vague sense of the connection. I knew 1980s Japan, a society of supreme confidence, and contrast it with modern Japan, a society that has really lost its mojo. What I think happened is that the depression of the 1990s so thoroughly shook their confidence that they still haven't recovered.

I've only observed English culture from abroad, but my sense since the late 1990s is that the English have become somehow ashamed to be openly proud of their culture. I don't have a feeling for what brought this about.
Is this similar to the effect that I have seen when you have two different LLMs talking to each other, they tend to descend into nonsense ? A single error in one of the LLM's output and that then pushes the other LLM out of distribution.

I kind of oscillatory effect when the train of tokens move further and further out of the distribution of correct tokens.
I don’t agree with the OPs statement:

> I think we have to accept that there are parts of programming that most programmers will never need to know because the LLM will do it for them

I don’t think people lacking fundamentals use LLMs very effectively.
In my defense, we did call multiple agencies that work with low-income folks on finding housing and household goods. Due to the possibility of bedbugs, none of them are taking bedding or mattresses anymore.
Is it fair to compare this to what Typescript provides for JavaScript?
So you’re saying the solution is to prefix each training batch with a description of a sensory experience (You read the following in a paris cafe in 1997. While you read, you have an excellent baguette and some boiled eggs, and over-roasted coffee. The woman one table over is wearing a beautiful blue hat) and then post-train the final model into recalling the setting where it read any piece of text, or failing to recall any experience when presented with text it didn’t read?

(If someone tries this and it works, I’m quitting my phd and going back to camp counseling)
another EF project is https://semaphore.pse.dev/, which basically allows users to prove membership of a group without revealing additional details about themselves.
it's useful but also simple enough to understand the whole code-base in a reasonable time.
People say this, and yet we see vacancy everywhere all the time.
Thanks for the martyrdom but last time I checked clipboard syncing it was a package with everything that gets synced, including sms forwarding etc on Apple. If there is a way to disable syncing granularly it’s not documented anywhere.
Microsoft's AI Power Needs Prompt Revival of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant
Why stop at devices, what about tooth fillings or prosthetics.
>GIANT Enormous Huge Red Flag #2: captcha asks you to types command in shell. I have no comment on how naive one must be to do this.

Funnily enough there's at least one legit captcha that has you do this: if you have JavaScript/WASM disabled it gives you the option of running the anti-DDOS proof-of-work in a shell and pasting the result in a textbox.
> Add Mozzilla to the mix, for not wanting to adopt PNaCl.

Mozilla wasn't in any position to command the market, even at the time PNaCl was created. PNaCl failed on its own demerits.

> Firefox is almost irrelevant now

Firefox has been irrelevant because it doesn't have the trillion dollar budget of Apple and Google, nor the vendor lock-in, and with that no reach which would enable it to steer web the way it deems fit. It has nothing to do with asm.js
I have levels of trust in between "fully trust" and "do not trust in any way". Do I think my phone is a bomb? No. Do I think this technique will be used again, by someone other than Israel? Yeah, I think so.
> There is no plausible mechanism by which these people could have effected a radical change in the general British culture or the culture of the British civil service.

These people were somehow capable of running India and yet at the same time could not cause a change in the UK if they returned en masse?

> They weren’t different enough from the British population to have any noticeable effect

You have a very odd view of life in the UK if you believe this.
Interesting to see Hipmunk [1] among the suggestions. I believe Steve Huffman (reddit founder) started that and was yc funded.

[1] https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/26833/100794
ah interesting, ok yeah that makes sense actually. thanks for letting me know!
Well, British TV in the 1990s was great.
"Ignorant" implies that they are actively avoiding this information. A less inflammatory choice of words would be "unaware".

For instance, it is extremely silly to consider non-Americans "ignorant" if they don't know US-only programs.
Meta is weird because Zuckerberg has a controlling stake. As he has shown with the VR/Metaverse push, he has the ability to get Meta to invest heavily in new businesses that have high risk / high potential.

I suspect that if he thinks that Gen AI will substitute for social media, then that will lead him to invest more in Gen AI, not less, and try to be a winner in the AI platform business.
I see the word "degrowth" a couple times a week now - I don't think it's a strawman argument.
I like using them to create reports for equipment testing. Sometimes some partner needs to be manually tweaked to get the analysis to work because there's something about the data that's difficult to generalize. Notebooks are nice because they bundle up the plots.
I honestly think that if half of the FTC's lawsuits under Lina Khan succeed, she'll have more meaningful positive change in the life of the average American to point to than the last six or so presidents
... So that the content of the chats isn't trivially read by unauthorised third parties?
Conspiracy theory: one or more companies are background manufacturing Google hate.

Chrome is amazingly well engineered and the Chromium team seems to have avoided the worst shittification. Having watched other products dive into the cesspit of advertising I'm not quite sure how the team does it. Somehow Chrome seems to add useful features (while being hated for that). Maybe I'm the fool in the room.

And the code is open source. A gift to humanity yet so strongly hated. So open source that most of the competition uses it! There's some magic going on somehow.

I just don't understand how anyone that calls themselves an engineer could hate Chrome that much. Firefox doesn't feel well engineered, and Mozilla has a strong taint of scuzzy executive vampires. Safari has its good points but when I was developing for it, it consistently had major flaws. Safari certainly has some amazing engineering. But Chromium mostly has better engineering from what I could tell as a JavaScript developer.

Engineers are just as vulnerable to branding and anti-branding as everyone else.

Microsoft, Google, Apple. Try to order them by evilness.
Wait --- the emperor isn't wearing any clothes?!?!?
I think I’ll start by removing the non-English demo links from the landing page, and later, when we have multilingual versions, we’ll link the corresponding demos.

As for the second issue, We’ll remove unnecessary userInfo. Also, although these demos allow users to duplicate the internal blocks and prompts of the agents, we’ll implement some optimizations on the API next week to prevent unnecessary exposure.

It’s great to have you take a look and provide this feedback!
I think you hit the nail on the head. They won't steer you far wrong, but they also may neglect excellent options. For example, they recently published a "best water bottle of 2024" list. They chose to rate Hydroflask #1 and mentioned Yeti in a brief comment about "other bottles to consider" near the bottle. No mention of Kleen Kanteen at all. Yet they do cover the current trendy options of Owala & Stanley Quencher. I don't think it's really objective -- not in the same way that rtings.com is for the electronics categories they review.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-water-bottle...
You know, it's amazing how different people view iOS 18. I, and many other blind people, love iOS 18 because the system for typing in Braille, and now controlling the phone in Braille, just using the touch screen, has been majorly improved. Although, we don't have an LLM based image description feature, like Android now has in TalkBack 15. I'd love Android, but it's screen reader is so sluggish, especially when scrolling the screen where it feels like it takes half a second, that a one year old Pixel 8 is much less responsive than a 4 year old iPhone SE 2. It's a shame, but Google hasn't changed much in the last five years, and I don't see them changing much before the Pixel 8 is deprecated.
Tesla throws cold water on Supercharger extension cords
From the quoted snippet, every page load is leaking both the domain and authed user’s ID to Firebase.
> The surest sign of a market for lemons is when everything for sale is garbage, and nobody has an incentive to put something up for sale that's not garbage, because they have no way to credibly signal their offerings aren't garbage, too.

That's why I left twitter...
It doesn't feature any irritating popups which is refreshing. Does seem like a tiny-wrapper around an LLM... its not clear why I would use it instead of ChatGPT...?
Counter argument is that, you do not know whether your system will go big next week. If it indeed does, now you do not have the Google/Meta/Amazon engineer legion to immediately scale it up without losing users[1]. Also, a gambit of scalable system initially helps to solve the later death-march, when management wants to ship the MVP in global production and then come howling when users are bouncing because the system was not designed for scale.

[1] Unlike early days, users are very quick to dismiss or leave immediately if the thing is breaking down and of course they will go rant at all social media outlets about the bad experience further making life hell for "build things that don't scale".
I didn't mean runtime efficiency, I meant speed of iteration. People time costs more than computer time
I trashed Arc immediately after install when I found out having an account was mandatory. That seemed so silly, like toothbrushes-requiring-wifi absurd. How much moreso now.
> Honestly Google's probably almost as guilty - Native Client was a great idea and sidestepped basically all the issues

NaCl failed on its own.

A) Wasn't backwards compatible

B) Spec was - look at the Chrome source

C) No one other than Google wanted it

D) It was essentially ActiveX Google (yeah, ActiveX had some nifty ideas and they still persist to this day)
Exactly once delivery is when a message is delivered to any computer at any layer of abstraction exactly once.

It doesn't matter if TCP abstracts or any other layer abstracts this away, if a message can be delivered more than once it does not have the property of exactly once delivery.

You might disagree with this definition but you would be wrong. There is negative value in redefining exactly once delivery to mean what you think it means.
> Having a foldable flying drone you could use to scout for you could help a lot when exploring caves.

I agree with that. But is this the right form for it? Airships are bulky. Caves are obstructed. A smaller flying drone, like some form of a multicopter would be my choice if I want to maximise the chances that it fits the cave.
Radar Detector Legend Michael Valentine Has Died
Upvote them, definitely something that makes HN special.
I went all flash for my NAs last round. Here's why:

I found the sustained write concern to be a bit of a storm in a teacup. I went for budget drives, MP34, and the sustained performance of a single drive is still greater than what the maximum performance of a SATA 3 interface a spinning disk would be on. Add on that the random performance at such times is still orders of magnitude better than that plus 2 drives worth sustained writes is enough to saturate a 10G link. Between all that it feels a bit silly to shy away from SSDs just because they are only significantly faster in sustained workloads instead of monumentally faster.

I also found actual tests people have been performing on SSDs have shown no loss on a shelf in 4x-10x that timeframe, not that I plan on buying a NAS and only powering it on once a quarter anyways. Particularly with the power savings and lack of spin time or spin up/spin down cycles or related noise I've just been leaving this one to run 24/7.

The other big benefit I found is spinning disks commonly used in NAS building have write limits that are often worse than the write limits of SSDs. On SSDs there is also no operational concern with the impact of a read workflow https://serverfault.com/questions/582170/limits-on-read-tran... so you can set your pool scrub to occur much more often without lifespan concern.

The cost downside of course remains though. $/GB has only went back up since I built the all flash NAS.
I encourage you to read a couple dozen cookbooks and then read Mastering the Art of French Cooking and then come back here and issue a mea culpa.
Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil's Censorship in Open Letter
It's both B2C and B2B. And it's a one time payment.
>I've been to my GP half a dozen times in the last year, always same day.

Good for you, but I think that is absolutely not the typical UK experience.
Will they retain my data for billions of years reliably? How about reliably for 10 years? Answer is "No."
My biggest criticism of Google Flights is that sometimes the price it shows you is only available through some sketchy third party OTA based out of a foreign country that only offers support through email. Good luck if anything goes wrong or needs to be changed with your ticket.
Netflix serves over 40,000 hours of video in more than 100 encodings. Source files are high quality and can reach terabytes per hour of bitrate. Source data must be retained for re-encoding. Encoding is adaptive to scene. The ETL can generate a quarter million tasks to process one source file.

I’m not saying YouTube’s problem isn’t much larger, but your assumptions are off by orders of magnitude. If you are curious about the workload there are many blog articles and stories here.
Can the algorithm benefit from SIMD/AVX512? Not helpful for ARM Macs, I have one too, but might be a contributing factor to lower adoption since those instructions aren't as widespread. First consumer chips in ~2017 and first AMD chips in ~2022.
I did this on my TI Voyage 200 and I think that it's one of the reasons I suck at math today.
Why would you talk to a random human or read some random article on a regular basis? The key is curation. You select things you will pay attention to. And for me, nothing AI is interesting (apart from translation and I’m wary of it), because I already have nice content to consume.
I think this submission paper is talking about reinforcement learning as part of/after the main training, then the model does inference as normal.

They might have done that for O1, but the bigger change is the "runtime train of thought" that once the model received the prompt and before giving a definitive answer, it "thinks" with words and readjusts at runtime.

At least that's my understanding from these two approaches, and if that's true, then it's not similar.

AFAIK, OpenAI been doing reinforcement learning since the first version of ChatGPT for all future models, that's why you can leave feedback in the UI in the first place.
https://github.com/element-hq/ess-starter-edition-core

They ship a k8s operator that deploys Synapse, will try that later. Supposedly it's free up to 200 users. But it seems like there's 0 documentation past the README.
The data was always a commodity to produce other goods (ads)
I tried looking on youtube for any videos of the RISD Universal Design kitchens, but came up with a bunch of home renovation videos. Would love a link here if anyone can find them.
That's really interesting, I personally don't read those tone differences based on the casing. Neither approach carries different warmth or formality to me at all.

I wonder if this is a regional or generational thing?
I loved this paper, it's full of new ideas.

My main question/challenge would be: if the problems have been constant since the 1950s-1980s - e.g. planning and failure to build - then how come we were doing so well until 2008? Why did problems only start biting then?
ChatGPT helped me to setup a hugo page from scratch with templating and stuff.

It did so by just reading the hugo documentation without any RAG.

And it was 10x better than the huge documentation in itself.
It's difficult to teach ingenuity for a variety of reasons.

To give you an idea of what I mean: I used to maintain the content filter for a school. Students being students, they found all sorts of ways to get around it. I never took much issue with the students who found ways around it. They were exploring and learning. The issue was with the other students. The ones who just followed someone's instructions, never exploring and never learning.

I would imagine that calculators are much the same. Programming them to answer questions is a great way to reinforce concepts. Copying the program off of someone else and finding ways to hide thee program is just plain cheating (of the system and themselves).
Show HN: GamesInProgress – Discover and follow indie game developers
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Being a bit of a data enthusiast, I added stats like subscriber growth and Patreon earnings. It's fascinating to see how these creators evolve over time, adding another layer to their stories.

Recently, I noticed someone launched a similar project on Product Hunt. At first, I felt a mix of emotions—surprised, a bit anxious—but ultimately, it motivated me to share my own journey.

So here I am, sharing GamesInProgress with all of you. I've put a lot of passion into this project, and I hope some of you might find it useful. I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you have any feedback or ideas for improvement, I'm all ears.

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Wow this was not a cheap project! Thanks Ebay collectors.

Also probably the only time I'd have gone for an LCD over a VFD. If you're running a multi-year long compile, it'll probably be burned in to hell by the end.
The AI Boom Could Use an Amount of Electricity
OP is more likely to be referring to e.g. Green Belt planning restrictions.
The weapon against DDoS – BGP Flowspec
> Is this similar to the effect that I have seen when you have two different LLMs talking to each other, they tend to descend into nonsense ?

Is that really true? I'd expect that with high temperature values, but otherwise I don't see why this would happen, and I've experimented with pitting same models against each other and also different models against different models, but haven't come across that particular problem.
yup. we're trying to regain that trust now, having fixed the bugs.