skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Those GPUs also cost a bomb to run. LLMops isn't super easy, I am working with a large OEM manufacturer rn as a consultant and they are also experimenting internally with LLMs, but they have enough resources to run those models. I don't see smaller companies having enough resources to experiment with various models at scale like they are.

True, I sorta conflated running llama on your pc with what large comapnies.

Not to mention how I was somewhat conflating chat-gpt the product with OpenAI the company, What i argues was that soon enough ChatGPT itself won't be that special when comparing it to open source models.

OpenAI the company is in the weird position of both having a moat, and yet drowning in it: They have a huge advantage in skilled experts, engineers, and know-how to get a first mover advantage, especially now that they are practically another subsidiary of microsoft.

But they also have the notable disadvantage of spending billions upon billions of dollars developing a model that in the end is little to no better than what one could get for free from the internet.

A small company with a few dozen specialist could present a comparable product at a fraction of the cost, simply by not having to pay back the cost of developing their own model.

I feel like OpenAI would end up in a weird place in soon, maybe something like a cloud provider for companies, usefull for smaller ones where brand recognition and reliability matter, but having to compete with more specialised companies offering a similar service using llama, And at some point large companies could just build their own servers with open-source LLM's with their own servers and their own teams, bypassing OpenAI entirely.

The biggest winner here is those new small AI consulting teams that didn't have to spend nearly as much on finetuning the models that are already made.

You probably know way more about these things than me, what do you think of this prediction?

It doesnt sound as terrible for developers as I first thought, though it pains me to see how many people quit/never went into software development due to the AI hype, we lost a third of our class from 2023, and I assune things are even worse in america/developed countries.
^^ This!

My 4th grader has some sound sensitivity issues, so he uses that as an excuse to go out in the hall and read a book or listen to an auto book on his school-supplied chromebook when the classroom gets too loud for him

Well, guess what he's been doing? Watching unfiltered youtube! He's clever and sneaky, so it's been an arms race at home to block youtube enough for him but still allow it to work on my Roku for me. Why does the school allow 4th graders to have unfettered access to youtube?
But a software password manager on a compromised computer can be compromised, right? It feels like the secrets can't be extracted by a compromised computer: the attacker needs physical access to the Yubikey.

This sounds better than a software password manager, right? Or am I missing something?
The effect is absolutely that strong, even on adults. My anecdata in IT overwhelmingly supports that claim. Be it educational institutions, large enterprises, SMBs, or just Mom and Dad with their cell phones, the proliferation of distraction boxes has reduced critical and rational thinking abilities that are foundational elements of learning. After all, why try to reason out what you could just look up online? And if you can get the answer somewhere quicker, well, now you can also skim Twitter or Instagram with the time you saved.

During my brief stint working IT for private schools, with their SMARTBoards in every classroom, Meraki APs blanketing their 300 year old campus structures, and Chromebooks in the hands of every student, the feedback I got was that students hated having technology always with them (to the point of breaking their Chromebooks on purpose), while teachers would deliberately not report broken technology (like their SMARTBoards) so they could force kids off of electronics and into a textbook or journal. Despite the often adversarial relationship of students and teachers, both cohorts acted unconsciously towards the same outcome of less technology.

This early experience has also informed my perspective on the role of technology in the workplace as a force amplifier rather than mandatory toolset. It’s why I’m often fiercely resistant to any “new” technology coming in that doesn’t solve a problem we’ve already identified, as blindly expanding the IT estate just adds to the noise of the enterprise and detracts from the signals important to business.

Even the younger folks (20-30) I find community with outside of tech spaces bemoan the over reliance on technology in general. They aren’t luddites by any stretch of the truth, and they love BlueSky and Instagram and TikTok and all the usual social spaces where their friends are, but they’ve engaged in more active resistance to technology as a necessary component in everything they buy. This same cohort is often an ally at work, because they seek to push products or solutions that remove technology interactions from the daily grind through automation, rather than dragging in the latest toys like we (millennials) did.
Ashtanga means lot of things apart from Asana and Pranayama. How strict was your lifestyle?
I just wish they hadn't killed Invidious :(

There seems to be no way anymore to keep a public instance working.
To elaborate, around 21 million eligible voters in the US do not have an ID that would be acceptable under current and proposed voter ID laws.

In some states the necessary ID is free, but "free" just means that there is no fee for the ID or to apply for it. It does not mean that getting copies of the necessary documents that must be submitted with the application are free. Those can sometimes run to over $100.

Here's a collection of links I've saved over the years on this:

https://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AMERI...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holde...

https://www.aclu.org/documents/oppose-voter-id-legislation-f...

https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/4/7157037/us-voter-id-req...

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/644648955/for-older-voters-ge...

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/10/16/well-actually-pretty-...

https://www.theregreview.org/2019/01/08/shapiro-moran-burden...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/heres-h...

https://scholars.org/contribution/high-cost-free-photo-voter...

https://now.tufts.edu/2018/01/23/proving-voter-id-laws-discr...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debu...
Same. I just searched through my texts to find the last song a friend sent me:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qFL2uwfnGU8FccwLMgPNQ?si=b-a...

https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5LmNvb...

is missing the link to YouTube Music:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHBCxs7QPE&si=QYvCtGCjKav...

I would get lots of use out of this if it was reliable though! Very useful tiny tool idea.
don't forget that 2021 is when we let all the students get infected with a virus that causes neurocognitive issues, and then infected them again. it's not the whole story, but damned if it isn't a big part of it.
My wife had one kid scream for 10 minutes yesterday and another throw a chair. Another just sat there and didn't do a thing for 7 hours. The Little House/Christmas Story model hasn't been able to work for a long time.
Highly recommend just shaving it all off.

If that doesn’t work for whatever reason, then cutting it very short (a few mm) is the second best alternative.

Trying to hide it is the worst.

Stressing about it is a waste.

I started shaving my head when I was about 25. I wish I had done it sooner. No haircuts, no hairstyling, no “bed hair”. I just shave my head when I shave my face, usually in the shower.
Does that matter? I was saying that rust doesn't want anyone else to use the word rust, even beyond what I would consider their right to.

This comment was showing that there are other projects using the word rust in their name & description.

The progress of those projects doesn't change the fact that they exist and call themselves rust compilers.
Swirling polar vortices likely exist on the sun, new research finds
the acts are philosophically different. Stealing from a thief who has stolen from you is also pretty different from stealing from a stranger at the level of personal ethics.
I'd be particularly keen on evidence affecting primary outcomes - eg, are people genuinly more productive or healthier. Attention span is an interesting metric, but if it doesn't directly affect how much work you can do or the quality of it in a meaningful way, I am less fussed.
It appears they’re mostly buying other companies and their tech, with no apparent whales on either side of the ledger, so they don’t appear to be growing or failing at any great pace.
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Perhaps the onus of the evidence base should be upon EdTech. I used to ask the OLPC fans where the studies were. Or what curricula had been tested to work, or what great education software was being ported, what measurable outcomes were expected, what programs were established to educate the ITeachers...

EdTech is a baseless orthodoxy tied together with hardware sales, unproven software and anecdotes.
Tech is considered scalable, human resources and interactions are not.
I think Google Earth has that option
I lost all of my hair at 19 years old inside of about 3 high-stress months. From long hair to Stage 7 MPB. Too poor to medicate so I just had to deal with the new me. I don't even remember the experience of getting a haircut and what that's like.

I encourage you to embrace it. Go skin bald. There's a lot of hidden benefits and really it's no big deal. All of the treatment options have huge downsides or look like shit.
This has been the case for a long time. I was one of those kids who usually "got it" the first time I saw it, and then remembered it. So lectures usually moved much too slowly for me. In an effort to not be bored, I would usually sit quietly and read ahead in my textbook.

Some teachers were cool with this, but most of them would yell at me for not paying attention, and a couple specifically called me out for reading ahead on the basis that I thought I was too good for the class.
You'd think that, but not in my experience. It's not like they are getting ID3 tags populated by Gracenote or some such service. You're also assuming that the streaming platforms do not attempt to manipulate the metadata they received for their own internal policies. See my other comment in a sibling thread for specific examples.

Too much inside baseball experience with the data the studios/labels believe is perfect that when received is far from perfect leaving the individual platforms to deal with it.
I disagree. Insurance isn’t a bet. Bets are zero sum (or worse). Insurance isn’t zero sum. It’s a structured redistribution of risk bringing both an improved expected utility (if we assume risk aversion) And expected profits to the risk takers. (The funny economist would argue that a casino is the same if we assume the opposite of risk aversion (tolerance / seeking)).

I agree with the point that for high chance, low impact events insurance is less efficient. Follows from the same basic utility theory. Insurance is not costless and costs will start to dominate benefits.

The intergenerational aspects of health insurance are a good point. Inflation and medical-technological progress still make insurance a good solution in my book. You can save for a pension (still looking at most of the Western world for saving too little); it’s harder to save for unknown future costs whose height is dependent on where the medical risk falls.
That's "equity" for you. We can't be unfair and give someone something that makes them better. It's easier to keep the top kids down than it is to lift the bottom kids up.
You don’t need to have a Facebook profile to be impersonated on Facebook.
Since I am a developer I have always created fun games for my kids to play and learn. Almost every single time they just go with the game mechanics instead of the actual learning concept. The only game which worked was a roblox game[1] I created for fun. And that too, its just a basic obby. Nothing fancy. But I told my kid, he can play Roblox for 30 minutes if he can finish this obby for 5 numbers. So, in a way, had to force him. But within a week, he was able to memorize the multiplication tables :)

[1]https://www.roblox.com/games/10489578087/Multiplication-Game
Google/magika: Detect file content types with deep learning
I too enjoy drinking alcohol and a few years back went dry for 90 days. I was disappointed. If anything, I felt worse. A clean diet and exercise has much more of an impact on how I feel/sleep than abstaining from alcohol.

Eat less, move more, drink in moderation.
The elephant in the room.

That said, i think it more true of governments than of parents. It increases the size of the workforce, therefore higher business profits and household income, therefore higher GDP.

Its pretty evidence in various attempts to increase time in school. talk about the "summer slump" in the US, or the government encouraging extended school days (drop off for "breakfast club", pick up after "after school" activities) in the UK.
Humans are accountable. You can sue a human.
Google, like other hyperscalers, has some nice surprises on GCP bills, when things go beyond the free to play.

They can also kill someone's business, that depends on those products, or forbid them to use Play Store with similar outcome, even though Android development is mostly free.
The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I)
I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device.

https://revanced.app/

This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.
> piping colored output through 'less' can result in some messy control-character rendering rather than having the desired effect.

It can, but -G or -R can fix that.
People have too much faith in LLM's at the moment. This might be able to give some insights, but if you're trying to LEARN something in detail, such as the pros and cons on a particular custom query on your unuiqe-ish schema.. The LLM will be prone to making stuff up by design, it wasn't trained on YOUR data..

It will give some good basic results and probably some functional queries, but it misses the mark with the finer points of optimization etc. If you don't know how to properly build the queries, go learn it properly with confidence that what you're learning is actually reliable.
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That sounds great for moving fast, but not so great for sharing and keeping info about these projects. If/when someone quit, how would their projects get split up for other devs to maintain?
Best part of Trump’s win is that we can be openly suspicious of the government again without being slandered as a conspiracy theorist. All the old critiques are back in fashion: election tampering, pharma corruption, authoritarianism. Welcome back !
i think part of the reason computers swept into classrooms so quickly is that we had a generation of old folks seeing their jobs get computerized and they (correctly) felt that computer-literacy would be essential for a huge swath of the workforce.

however, this group also had a very hard time learning how to use computers later in their career and felt "wow, this is really hard. we need to be very proactive about teaching this to kids".

it was well intentioned, but i think they really REALLY
overestimated the need for 'teaching computer literacy' because:
a) we've gotten a lot better with UX so computers are easy to use
b) the older generations difficulty was more related to unlearning old ways and transitioning rather than difficulty inherent to computers
I sympathize with this goal, but I'm not seeing what to do instead of screens for kids. I've been looking, hard. Suburbia makes this really hard. try getting three kids to sports with two working parents, and thats only half the time you're trying to fill. Try to get any kind of regular playtime with other families who are busier than you. We kid ourselves we're keeping them off of algorithms, but craft materials only take them so far, and the rest will be filled with TV and video games when we are stuck working.
Just one missing comma before `and`
Apple devices, both iOS and macOS, have great and fairly easy to use remotely-managed parental controls (Microsoft may too, IDK) that can do things like apply all sorts of limits to allowed websites or apps during certain periods of the day, but god-damned school-provided-and-managed devices blow holes through any plan to use that for those purpose. Even if the school sends home devices in your ecosystem, you won't be able to configure the parental controls on them, and their settings are always way too loose.

Which leaves you with your network as the place you have to manage all of that, which is a much bigger pain in the ass.
Well I hope it works well and fast enough. I cannot wait for my 10k cycles, 300 Wh/kg batteries. 35% efficiency solar modules in market at cheap prices and plenty of nanotech breakthroughs that were promised yet we are still waiting on
"it is a daycare centre for kids while parents go on about their careers?"

This is the kind of thing that could only be said by somebody who is not a parent. There might be a minority of parents for whom this is true, but I know zero other parents who don't care whether their kids are learning.
Migrating Off of Prisma
I've noticed minor UI bugs on iOS as well. When you skip an ad playing in landscape mode it will restore the video stream into the upper left corner. You need to leave and re-enter fullscreen to fix it. Not the worst bug but it's been around for a few weeks and is a surprising issue for such a common event on a major platform from one of the world's richest companies.
The teachers, the tools, the curriculum are not the problem. The No Child Left Behind Act is the problem. When everyone passes regardless if they learned anything or not, literacy skills are going to go down. You used to stay in a grade until you passed that grades curriculum, now everyone gets a pass. There are no consequences, resulting in no incentive to learn. Repeating 8th grade while all your friends move to high school is a pretty good incentive to get your act together.
I think it would be individual sucker covers.
https://archive.ph/WtaQc
Even compared to the 1970s we are much better off. The ozone hole is in track. Lead has been removed from nearly everything. Nearly everyone has a cell phone. Much less world hunger.
People with an Internet- connected screen appear to have a short attention span because they have instant access to a multitude of things that they're interested in, competing for their attention with whatever you want them to be focusing on.

That what you want them to be focusing on is no longer the path of least boredom like it was in the previous era; the path of least boredom goes through their mobile device.

People's ability and willingness to concentrate on something that interested in has not changed one iota. That sort of biological change takes hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.

Observations of the behavior of people interacting with tech can easily support the wrong argument that people's attention spans have increased. Just look at how somebody can play the same game for 11 hours straight, right?
The new Eternal September.
As someone who's worked in EdTech for around two decades, I know why people think this. It's what a lot people here have already said. Education is what is failing, EdTech didn't magically solve this. Just like money, you can't just throw tech at education and expect it to solve anything.

There are too many profitable incentives to poor education that are conspiring to perpetuate it. An ill-educated populace is easier to manipulate, gravitate towards consumerism, and won't hold their leaders as accountable. Power generally resides with those who benefit from an ill-educated populace, so anything that would actually help educate children and people at large is discouraged.

I'll repeat what others have said here. Giving teachers the means with which to properly work with their students, and investing in students at a more individual level, is what's needed. Sadly, my refrain with regards to public education is that is has become little more than glorified babysitting. Those that succeed do so in spite of the system, and not because of it. Meanwhile, students that suffer from one or more disadvantagements (poverty, disability, social issues, mental or physical health issues, and so much more) tend to just...suffer more. And then they fall into cycles where preventable issues repeat or enhance into the next generation. They'll still spend all of their little income excessively, so profit is still to be had, or they'll end-up in prison, which, again, thanks to privatization, is also immensely profitable, so no problem there, right?

The system is setup to fail because that's what's profitable in the long run for those seeking such profits. And because they can lobby, and use their wealth to influence politics, it won't change. Something else needs to happen first.
What looks like turning things over to AI is really turning things over to the people who own the AI, which is another thing entirely.
And ad blocking!
They actually think using encryption, designed by the NSA, will protect them. Laughs in lavabit....
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Contextual Threat Detection and Intelligence
Axolotls Have an Unusual Way of Aging
Ack, pardon me. That should be fixed now!
Bold of you to risk your Google account by accessing it through a patched client... No amount of complaining on HN will bring it back when Google decides to banhammer all people who break their TOS in such a stupid way.
Here's a true relation that you can factor into your model, if you'd like, for, though I am a long-time programmer, I don't go in for the study of game theory. I am, however, familiar with some of the precepts. Here goes:

When a person causes negativity/unhappiness, the person(s) on the receiving end gets an equal positive amount of karma. Karma is what determines our long-term happiness or lack thereof.

When a person does something intended to cause positivity/happiness, there is no negative effect on the receiver, even if they refuse the gesture.

In other words, acts of selfish negativity incur a zero-sum negative karmic effect, every time, without fail, though often without being observed at the time (or even, ever). OTOH, acts of selfless positivity only incur positive internal karmic effect for the doer; nothing is lost by the receiver.

In yet more other words, we can only receive negative karma from our own actions; others' actions can only result in positive karma for ourselves (if we are on the receiving end of selfishly negativity). For example, a poor person loses no karma from accepting charity, though the giver definitely gains.

As such, karma is skewed asymmetrically towards easier positive creation; i.e. it's only a zero-sum game when the first choice is negative/selfish.

Why, then, have the world's populations not yet created a "Heaven on Earth"? Because we human beings are also free to ignore all notions of karma and the associated question of why we are happy/unhappy. If a person chooses to believe that they are just amoral animals competing for scarce resources, then they are fully authorized to live their lives that way. We are also free to believe that the Earth is flat. The universe is the sole arbiter of the truth, however, and we all reap what we sow. Every time, without fail, with perfect justice, however difficult it is for us to comprehend at any given time, given our state of moral undevelopment.