skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They made an announcement that they are merging the projects a little while back: https://remix.run/blog/merging-remix-and-react-router. Obviously things could change, but I think RR v7 will effectively be the next iteration of Remix.
Why is the preferred goal to “rebase-squash” (redundant) merge? The implied onus here seems to be for the other party to move towards that strategy. But why this practice should be the goal does not seem to be mentioned.

Step one isn’t to find some way to accept squash-merge. Step one is to find some reason for squash-merge.
they might suggest various other revenue models aside from royalties.

For instance, taking on production of art as a commission or pre-sale, releasing a book once a fundraising goal has been met, but not attempting to sue people for unauthorized copies after the fact
Tcl Improvement Proposal (TIP) 602[0].

[0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/602.md
Open source Text-to-SQL app template to build AI apps that interact with DBs
Let me just stress that the effect of Zstandard on individual end-user latency is a rounding error. No user will ever go: “That was a quick loading web site. Must be Zstandard!”. The effect is solely Cloudflare having to spend x% less bandwidth to deliver the content, saving on their network and server resources.
Roll Up Terminals into a Knowledge Base
Feels like the pope trying to ban crossbows tbh.
I haven't used `git --fixup' or `git rebase --autosquash' before, but they sound pretty handy.

https://jordanelver.co.uk/blog/2020/06/04/fixing-commits-wit...

git-absorb appears to take it one level further. However from the README I'm not clear on exactly what it will do in specific situations:

Does git-absorb automatically associate the most recent commit unique to a branch for a given file and apply the diff to said commit? Or what is the precise workflow and outcome in terms of which edits go into which commits?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

"LLM Leaderboard - Comparison of GPT-4o, Llama 3, Mistral, Gemini and over 30 models

Comparison and ranking the performance of over 30 AI models (LLMs) across key metrics including quality, price, performance and speed (output speed - tokens per second & latency - TTFT), context window & others. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs."
Follow up regarding the platform question:

Power BI is a desktop application for Windows and also a SaaS solution for hosting the solutions you build in the desktop tool.

The SaaS product offering is confusing for the time being due to the introduction of Fabric, which includes Power BI and a whole data stack besides.

Your Power BI power users will need a Windows platform available, though I have seen plenty of use of Parallels or a remote desktop infrastructure for users not using a Windows device.

There are authoring experiences in-browser that are improving and in some cases surpassing what is in Power BI Desktop, but if you're doing a lot of work authoring in Power BI, then the desktop application is where you want to be for now.

For pure querying or just data model development, there are third party tools that are superior to Power BI Desktop (disclosure: I do work part time with one of these third party vendors).
Nearly every venture of any sort fails. The only times we remember the naysayers are on the rare occasions where they were wrong and the venture succeeded.
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> The License Plate to VIN form uses a third-party API to convert license plate number to VIN

I guess that exists to make life easier for police. And because all patrol car laptops nation-wide need this, it really can't be authenticated meaningfully?
From my perspective that's the action you take in order to avoid the problem but it's kind of the same thing.

I guess what it comes down to is what comes first for you. For me I've always figured, well, if I'm close to my limit (e.g. I only have a few months savings) then nothing matters other than to build that buffer.

Some people seem to focus more on things like the short term (e.g. do I like where I live, does it have things I enjoy doing, etc etc). There's nothing wrong with that, we all will wake up one day and realise we're getting older and it's a bit late to do certain things now, but there's a balance somewhere.
False humility is a form of egotism; every stated upside of Go can be equally construed as a paternalistic concession to our general failure to produce capable programmers, let alone at a sufficient volume to fulfill Google’s commercial ambitions that require the production of Lots Of Code.
isn't this just Sam consolidating power
Liking and buying expensive cars is not wrong.

But buying a $4M car while saying you do not car about money is a mis-alignment between words and actions, which comes off untrustworthy.
Reasonable does a lot of heavy lifting there. For most things, I dont think it is reasonable to be able to predict, track, and detect 2nd and 3rd order transfers.

Have you ever sold a used car? That could be in Russia right now for all you know.
> The people who are using libgen, are probably also not the people who would pay an author for a book anyway

Quite the opposite: as with all piracy, the ones who pirate stuff are also the ones who spend the most money buying the stuff they pirate. (For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience, but it was also true of DVD, video games, music CDs etc. but these people wouldn't have spent more money if piracy was impossible).
Sure. Here's how he has made it a practical possibility that Argentina might rise economically: https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-rate-mom

And in case you were wondering: yes, he was inaugurated at the top of the inflation rate, when they had a hyperinflation brewing up. 5 months later, inflation is well under control.

Austerity is certainly painful for the people who are affected (which is not even close to being all the people), but the culprit is not the one who is doing the austerity, but the ones who screwed up the economy in such a drastic way that it has to be done.

Unfortunately, he has only 3 years to go. That might not be long enough for people to realize all the good he will have done by then.
Yeah, when a meme economy (i.e. Advanced/Developing/Japan/Argentina) going through huge change, sometimes number stop being useful. Sometimes you just need to see what it's like on the ground, i.e. selling morsels of prepackaged food. People can argue correction neccessary, but this level?

https://www.tiktok.com/@metatktk/video/7411728372771900677
> Thee are a bunch of comments here asking why one would run Windows on a spacecraft.

Because TFA is highly misleading

> I don’t see anything in the linked article indicating that they are actually running Windows

TFA literally begins with a picture of a Windows BSOD with a Windows error message.
CoT can be _easily_ achieved using langgraph in a similar manner. There’s no “scaling of inference” it’s just prompting, all the way down.
People say what they mean.

“Atomic” sometimes means conceptually: does one thing. Sometimes it means “builds”. Or “works”. And yes: they do mean every single commit builds. Not just on main.

You don’t have to put words in people’s mouth.
The title of something should reflect the content. This is an article about a new compression format, and thus the title should say that.
They should find a patron or grant making institution that values the production of knowledge, not publishers who seek property to license out.
I'd love to, and I could. I literally interviewed for a job that would have me helping solve actual problems and advancing science.

But modern society pays me 3-4x more in a job that has me help you waste your money.

And I'm not rich enough to give up that money.
libby? hoopla?

also kindle unlimited
Many have done so, and will continue to do. No one has to be persuaded if they have thoughts on their mind. Compensation is the side-effect.

[0]: https://monoskop.org

[1]: https://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/

[2]: https://computerhistory.org/collections/

[3]: https://oapen.org/
https://hnrss.org/user?id=cliff
Not sure why this is being downvoted - anyone who has worked at a venture backed startup will find at least aspects of your argument to match their experience.

The game at companies that have achieved high valuations prior to IPO is to get to IPO or be acquired. To grow toward market dominance in their sector or to threaten an existing player while being cheaper to purchase than to duplicate rapidly.

Having worked at one such rapidly growing 'unicorn' myself, every decision made by senior management was made in order to please investors. Competition, our tech stack, even the product itself were basically irrelevant. What mattered was how the investors perceived the company - i.e.: how much we resembled the kind of company that they saw as likely to recoup 1000X.

This resulted in very strange cargo cult behaviour. Fo example my whole department existed to replicate a similar department in our major competitor. Incidentally that department has since been liquidated and replaced with a variety of off the shelf AI solutions. Our customers had little interest in the 'value' we created in any case.

We also purchased just about every SAAS solution imaginable. Because that's what shiny highly capitalised startups do. Our onboarding included two full weeks of 'interactive' videos, with tests.

It wasn't just SAAS either - everything we did was performative. Including custom outfitting a carbunkle office in a landmark building on the most expensive street of our country's capital.

The founders weren't eccentric nineteen year olds and our product wasn't some crypto scam or half baked AI offering, although it was itself a service. The founders' behaviour made complete rational sense. They were optimising to appear successful to the investors whose valuations made them appear successful to other investors. They used these investments to 'build a runway' for the tech industry contraction that was obviously coming, but also to gobble up every other similar company in their sector. I believe the industry we operated in is now essentially a duopoly, with EU level data protection regulations being the moat that prevents it from becoming a monopoly.
it’s incredible how unfriendly generative ai from microsoft is. Want copilot? Pay an annual upfront fee? if they wanted more people to join, they would offer it as a monthly service.
>it's galling to see the work my co-authors, editors, designers, illustrators and translators poured months of our lives into available for free on this site.

I would be more empathetic if publishers gave the same lending rights to ebooks as they give to physical ones. As it is, the publishers basically extort libraries to the point where offering ebooks drains coffers way more than physical ones.

Given that, I don't feel too much guilt 'borrowing' from alternate sources.
Oh god, that’s terrible!

I wonder how many years that will take. Five years?
Because it offers the content to everyone anywhere for free without authentication or a limit on the number of concurrent copies available.

Is this a good tradeoff between protecting IP to incentivize creation through monetization and the various societal goods of making it widely available? I don't know, but it is certainly a different point on the continuum than traditional libraries.
The idea is to make ECH too large of a target to make blocking it practical. If you block ECH you end up blocking access to a large portion of the internet in that region. It's why some major browsers have chosen to not gracefully fallback to non-ECH handshakes upon connection failure.
That's the entire concept of a public library.
Of course it is. After his ousting as a CEO and return, every move and departure has been a step in that direction.
In the long run, special cases like that often turn out to be more trouble than they are worth. If an ordinary file happened to start with '~' it would not be handled correctly. So you either accept or ignore that potential problem, or you have to write extra code to work around it. It's safer to not have such special cases at all.
Oh, I wasn't meaning to suggest that all problems are solvable by throwing more resources at it, that clearly isn't the case.

But it's super common for a team to be asked to do something fundamentally outside their scope, and the asking client/boss not realizing that they are doin g it.

"Figure it out" as a useful strategy sort of assumes that both sides of the equation are clued in about this and roughly on the same page.

"I underwrote a great team, you should be able to figure this out (stop whining about it being hard)" is a fundamentally different statement than "Why can't you just do X, how hard can it be?"

It's also worth remembering that the plural of "resource" is not "team".
> maintain something like LibGen as a national common good.

Soviet Russia used to have amazing collection of printed literature on STEM topics, the books have published not for the sake of earning money, also they used to have free libraries among all the villages. This is the closest example I can give and BTW those Russian books are freely published on Russian torrent trackers.

> A proper sovereign country, not dominated by totalitarian corporations

Even without any further clarification the search among existing countries is going to return 0 results.
Do I need to spell it out? The foundation is headed by the same person who they granted an exclusive license to. Not just a commercial license to use the trademarks. It's permission to sub-license the trademarks for profit without restriction. It's blatant self-dealing.

It's an obvious conflict of interest for a foundation that is supposed to be serving the community.
I appreciate all perspectives, just remember to not #hate on ones without reason (especially when they correspond closely to what happens on the physical CPU and are both timeless, simple and powerful, like if-else)
Looks to me like all cars sold by KIA are still owned by KIA. I'm not worried about that exploit at all, it has been fixed. I'm terrified about how much data about a car and therefore about the "owner" is available to KIA. That's totally insane.
What will ECH mean for places like China or South Korea? Do governments have access to Cloudflare logs? Only with court orders?

ECH seems directly opposed to Chinese governments control of the web.
Yes, but are they on Instagram though?
Joint Statement of Scientists on the Proposal for Child Sexual Abuse Regulation [pdf]
> I definitely want to have a "fixes" commit on my feature branch. You should do whatever you want on a feature branch so long as your trunk has a clean history.

This tool creates `fixup!` commits. These commits aren’t rewrite commits. They are commits which later can be used to rewrite the history.

You can use this tool, not rewrite your branch, and then rewrite the branch right before merge.

> This sounds like someone wanted to lift a feature of changesets in mercurial into git. I don't think this is safe and probably breaks a lot of people's mental model of git changelogs being an immutable data structure.

Rewriting is a huge part of the Git culture (and well-supported). Meanwhile Mercurial seems to have rewriting as a sort of add-on.
I think Musk may be more worried about Russian nukes than export controls.

Personally, I think Russian nukes and their missiles are likely to be a Potempkin force, but I have no special intelligence to back that up, it's just based on what I see of Russian corruption and them accidentally sinking one of their own subs and separately setting their only aircraft carrier on fire about one year after their largest drydock sank and dropped a crane onto the deck. And that was before one of their missile silos exploded.
See the waves of investor hype that immediately preceded the AI hypewave: Metaverse and Blockchain. The naysayers were absolutely right.

Not to worry though, the geniuses at Meta and a16z are sure that AI will stick the landing, after they bet the farm on Metaverse and Blockchain respectively.
Right, but typically LLMs are really poor at this. I can come up with some arbitrary systems of equations for it to solve and odds are it will be wrong. Maybe even very wrong.
Haven't seen that yet, it's a great idea to have a surface provide the tactile "bottom" of a keypress

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/23/vision-pro-will-t...
I'll let parent elaborate more on the intent, but the way I interpreted it was : Saying that a startup will fail (i.e. being a naysayer) and being right about that is the most likely outcome due to the current "success" distribution (most businesses/startups fail).

Also the most memorable ones are when people were dismissive but ultimately wrong about the viability of the business (like the "dropbox" comment).
Is there any open-source equivalent to QNX?
Any case where someone's work was used without respecting the terms is included in my answer. That's why I used `et cetera` here:

> The work of artists, authors, etc.
Will there even be a GTP-5?

Maybe next up is o2 then o3 and so on.
And for non free customers, you can opt-in to ECH via the dashboard
>with much less drama in the community

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Much of Rust's (and almost every other large programming language) drama are problems of scale, not implementation. The more funding you wish for will indubitably create more drama.
Related. Others?

Incident: Wordpress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from registry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655578 - Sept 2024 (84 comments)

WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652760 - Sept 2024 (53 comments)

Automattic has sent a cease and desist to WP Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642974 - Sept 2024 (10 comments)

Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642597 - Sept 2024 (48 comments)

WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631912 - Sept 2024 (254 comments)
Serious vulnerability on Linux, currently unknown, discovered by EvilSocket
I don't think it's tree of thoughts at all.

I think it's as they say: reinforcement learning applied to cause it to generate a relatively long 'reasoning trace' of some kind from which the answer is obtained through summarisation.

I think it's likely a cleverly simplified version of QuietSTaR, with no thought tokens, just one big generation to which the RL is applied.

The way I believe it's trained in practice is as follows: they have a bunch of examples, some at the edge of GPT-4s ability to answer, some beyond it, some that GPT-4 can answer if you're lucky with the randomness. Then they give it one of these prompts, generate a fairly long text, maybe 3x the length of the answer, and summarize that to produce the final answer. Then they use REINFORCE to reward the generated texts that increase the probability of the summary being correct.
Weird. It works for me now. Previously I would get the login modal every time I tapped the unmute icon.
I don't understand. Are you the author of the site? Is suifeng666 the author of the site? Are you friends? Coworkers?

As a general recommendation for future post, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

The idea is to avoid "fun", "amazing" and similar stuff. A good alternative title is to use the name and the catchphrase. From https://www.sprunki.com/ I like

> Experience the newest version of Incredibox with a fresh, funky twist. Create your own tunes by blending beats, effects, and vocals with our unique Sprunki characters!

Let's trim the overhype:

> Create your own tunes by blending beats, effects, and vocals

So a good title is "Sprunki Incredibox: Create your own tunes by blending beats, effects, and vocals" or something like that. Try to keep it dry and informative (but not boring). (dang may disagree and revert it to the title page, but most of the time something like this will be fine.)
He has genuinely ushered in a new age of productivity and the fastest growing product of all time and you people think he's a grifter lol. Get a life
They say it's impossible to block the dishes on drones, I have a hard time believing that. I wonder how long would it take to figure out a way to block them if those drones started to fly over/into Boca Chica
I would simply not take advice from the "next word prediction" machine that has no capability to experience reality.
> Assuming you are using fixups, is this actually a problem?

No. They made a whole tool around a not-actually problem.

Sure you can have a 30-commit branch. Find some OSS project where someone has been doing a large project on a branch for two months because the maintainer hasn’t accepted it yet.
My desktop did. It wasn't publicly exposed though. Past tense - I just purged it.

I doubt many exposed servers have CUPS.

Edit: The article says he did an internet scan showing hundreds of thousands of vulnerable machines.
The only time I’ve dealt with Tcl in recent memory was for some MacPorts portfile stuff.

Anybody using it for something else and can speak to why you’d use it today? Genuinely curious; I don’t hate the language but can never bring myself to enjoy it either.
> Three years after U.S. withdrew, former Afghan forces are hunted by the Taliban

What did they expect ? That Talibans will treat them as heroes ?
Ah that makes sense. I must admit I did not even read the analysis of the comic.
Not really. Standard Pascal's dynamic features were barely present, but even they allowed dangling references to exist.

And all practical Pascal clones (e.g. Object Pascal) had to grow constructor/destructor systems to cleanup the memory on de-allocation (or they went the garbage collection route). So they were on-par with C++ for safety.

Ada is similar. It provided safety only for static allocations with bounds known at the compile-time. Their version of safe dynamic allocations basically borrowed Rust's borrow checker: https://blog.adacore.com/using-pointers-in-spark
Ebook pricing is broken. Sell it for $0.99 and you'll get buyers. You can't sell ebooks when it costs only 5-10% less than a dead-tree hardcover variant. People don't like being ripped off.
This is the trillion dollar question. The pace of improvement has increased now that they are using an end-to-end neural net architecture. My personal guess is that they will be able to reach Waymo's current level within 5 years, possibly significantly sooner. But I still expect that a car computer upgrade will be required, and probably a camera upgrade too.

I know Elon says "next year" every year, but put aside his delusional timelines and think about the monumental change that will occur in the world once a car can drive itself better than a human with ~$1000 worth of hardware. Does it really matter if it takes a few extra years? I can wait five more years for that!
A small city library in western Canada.

There is nothing that I as a visitor can do (without being arrested).

There is nothing the employees can do, because the vagrant can beat them, and the young thug can report them - and the judge will rule in favor of the assailants.
You're free to do it but nobody has to help you certainly.

Ultimately it's a matter of common sense. Sure, if I leave out my "take one" bowl on Halloween and someone takes it all, there's no rules against that. But next year I might be more cautious and hand out the candy myself - now what?

If you've built a business off taking all my candy and reselling it, you're fucked! If you had just been less greedy and taken, say, 10 instead of the whole bowl I might not have cared.