skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is definitely possible: If it turns out to not make sense then I can at least always go back go the current system where all properties of an object as stored in a single array.

It's not as ECS'ssy as one would hope but it's at least proven technology :D
That would be awesome, we have a discord you can join and we can talk there (link is in the github repo, message Antonio)
or you can message antonio [at] circlemind.com
> soup of nearly independent machines

that does a serious disservice to hyperscaler clusters.
I think the point is to stop adding more features. The web is feature complete, everything Google is adding is just stuff to make them more money through ads and lock in.
Yet another article prematurely optimizing. It’s like these people have nothing better to do. I’ll wait for my code to get into stupid edge cases first and then fix it. Even if you spend your time avoiding booleans you will still find yourself with some new contradictory state and have to fix it differently anyways.
>Yes, but stay aware that IPA is for pronunciations. A word doesn't have unique pronunciation.

No. IPA encodes sounds based on various aspects of articulation. A word has unique phonemes (enclosed in forward slashes, //), but not necessarily unique sounds (allophones, enclosed in brackets, []).
agreed, extracting tables in pdfs using any of the available openAI models has been a waste of prompting time here too.
As much as I dislike thinking it, out of the realistic possibilities for who could buy it, Microsoft is probably among the more preferable. Their primary income isn't from advertising, at least. Most other big players would be even more likely to continue with Google's direction of killing ad blockers. MS, to their credit, has never shown interest in doing that.
I mean, Unreal is still Epic and while they’re sometimes underdogs, they’re pretty much always the bad guys.
Eh, hospitals are the practice location of last resort after they wipe out independent practices in their local areas. Doctors are totally fungible to a dominant health system. A dime a dozen.

As a hospital, they also have no incentive to treat people earlier in disease progression with less expensive care or anything. Just let the ailments fester until they have to be rescued with the most expensive interventions on the planet.

No one said anything about "not turning a profit." If you think a profit-seeking organization exists only to turn a profit, you misunderstand the enterprise.
The "problem" of Western countries is that the political sphere operates under different moral compasses: like taking down a shadow fleet tanker would be a natural disaster... taking down many would mean many disasters.

The real question is, should security and defense concerns be placed on hold? If our basic freedoms and rights are being attacked, how big of a deal would be a shadow fleet tanker catastrophe?
Slightly off-topic:

I am always baffled with the widespread use of Chrome.

On all my machines (including work) I use Firefox. Even on Android I disabled Chrome, so that the feed will have to use Firefox.

Chrome is neither faster nor more convenient than Firefox, so it is a bit of a mystery to me - I guess on Android it comes as the default.
It is not. Plenty of newcomers and old boomers won't even notice if you switch edge for chrome.
This is terrible news for the web
That's just Google boiling the frog slowly.
They would just have to go back to their original business model before they became an ad company when they ran third-party ads on Google search.

Granted, that may not get them enough income at their current scale. They would definitely have to scale back hard for that.
Not sure how this works but if some party purchased chrome, isn't the best business for it to sell advertising back to google? And then sell the default search engine back to google?
Looking at this case and the recent case against SpaceX (which is required to only hire US permanent residents and citizens) for not hiring asylees, makes me think DOJ which has the bandwidth to only work on few very important cases isn't doing a good job overall.
I wasn't clear: what does that change?

Do you tell emergency responders not to turn their lights on en route? To put it at the bottom of the queue after helping the old lady cross the street? To politely knock on the alleged hostage-taker's door instead of kicking it in?
I would think they learned from L4D3 that they should stick to their normal pattern of stopping at 2.
Come on, they were so corny they got good again!

Who doesn't want a Photon Torpedo of Productivity?
1. make your search engine the default

2. make your website the default

3. make it easier to access your suite of web services

Eg. imagine instead of defaulting to google everything you typed in the search bar defaulted to chatgpt. Imagine open AI could buy that at a discount
Be careful. Asking these kind of obvious questions might make you ineligible to be hired as a government bureaucrat.
Isn't it even worse than that? Didn't they make changes via Manifest v3, which will not allow me to follow the FBI's advisory about using ad blockers, to make sure their ad revenue does not decline?

I do realize you can still use uBlock, but my understanding is that updates will be slow rolled, correct? Doesn't this open the window to malicious people to serve me mal-ads?
Ask HN: Where can I buy used AI compute?
Hey all,

For my new stealth startup we're looking to buy some used compute to train our new AI models. We don't need the lates gen GPUs but are looking for older generations like Nvidia H100's. Is anyone of you familiar with any platforms that sell used compute? I am particularly interested in purchasing in bulk, so 50-100 Nvidia H100's. I haven't been able to find something unfortunately, so I thought I ask here.

Best,
LLMs are only used to construct the graph, to navigate it we use an algorithmic approach. As of now, what we do is very similar to HippoRAG (https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/HippoRAG), their paper can give a good overview on how things are working under the hood!
At this scale cuda is quite useless.

You need to develop your own in house solution to distributing workloads.

The difference to regular clusters is that all the memory is globally visible, so machine 0023 can access and modify address 0x0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef which happens to be on machine 0999.
It is a hurdle to switch, yes.

But everything you listed (apart from integrating with Google's servers) can be done with Firefox.
> When using libcamera, the task of memory management is on you, with the usual consequences.

huh ? libcamera's API uses C++ shared / unique pointers pretty thoroughly, at no point you should be managing memory manually
The revenue and profitability of "the Chrome Company" is going to be far less than Google, since Google's rising tide is what lifted that particular boat.

How would the Chrome Company deal with this?

Would they do closed source development going forward, no more free lunch for other browsers or shells using Chrome as an engine?

How much of a hit does this mean for employees salaries? They are currently making Google money, and now they're about to make Microsoft money.

How many would just be flat out laid off due to a lack of revenue, at least in the short term? Would it be a 50% lay off? Into a job market that's already bad?
I clicked the link, and realized that what I don't know jack about is... clickbait.

TL;DR: Bandwidth != Latency, if you apply QoS/a wiser stack catering to some apps' need for lower latency, you can provide reasonable service to many users with limited bandwidth.
I'll do it, if they agree to sell it to me, I'll run it.

I have a few hundred bucks that I'm willing to put into the pie, but based on the financials, it's probably going to go bankrupt pretty quick.
I was at a random event yesterday where the speaker got distracted by his excitement at how useful the Copilot integration in DynamicsCRM is. He couldn't stop raving about how it was saving him 20% of his time on a daily basis.

It was a mind-numbingly boring seminar though, so perhaps it's these boring business functions that where the most benefit is seen, and they are so boring that journalists ignore the stories.
Any optical system will have a finite resolution.
... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
That's not true, plenty of great stuff is shipping every year. Take your pick: https://web.dev/series/baseline-newly-available https://web.dev/blog/baseline2023
I'm shocked that Apple hasn't cracked down on this process through App store reviews. It's such an awful experience.
If this actually happens, I think it would turn perception of Nadella from good CEO that got lucky with OpenAI to a certified shadow master that's playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
I'd be so excited if the did this and named it "Ultron".
Companies and the recruiters who work for them post ghost jobs for various reasons. You can find plenty of writing and discussion about it on HN, Reddit, YouTube, even mainstream media. Look at the Wikipedia entry for "ghost job."

Not really a new practice, but having job postings and job searching online makes it more obvious. Running ads for jobs the employer may not fill has few downsides and doesn't cost much.

Digging through job postings and applying to them has turned into a numbers game, and an arms race of automation and now AI tools. I suggest a more effective job hunting strategy, because worrying about ghost job postings just wastes your time if you intend to find a job.
To the users who use chrome, it will matter. Not clear to me how strong Chromium will be if the Google efforts for Chrome go away.
What ads does Chrome make money from?
Quite the opposite, Google is the key sponsor of Privacy Sandbox: https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/

Working out why they're doing this is left as an exercise to the reader.
> Firearms per 100 people, places Bhutan about 196th in the world. They arent even a free country. Flee asap.

LOL. This is either Onion level sarcasm, or a seriously warped view of what constitutes freedom.

But at least it made it easy for me to discount your other points.
Of course it was complex. The point is if Kyiv refused to co-operate it would take Russian military strength it didn’t have at the time to seize them. That isn’t analogous to American nukes on overseas bases.
This is what Microsoft thought when they released IE6, and is why we ended up still supporting IE6 into the 2010s
Most powerful public one sbdy cared to publish its specs.
> It really is that hard

YES!! Thank you!

> Nvidia's real victory (besides leading on performance-per-watt) is that their software stack doesn't suck

YES! And it's not just CUDA and CUDA-adjacent tools, but also their cuDNN/cuBLAS/etc. libraries. They invest a massive amount of staffing into squeezingt the last drop of performance out of their hardware, identifying areas for improvement and feeding that back to the architects.

> Apple wrote the OpenCL spec for exactly that purpose and gave it to Khronos

Nitpick: Affie Munshi from Apple wrote down a draft and convinced his management to offer it to Khronos, where it was significantly modified over... was it a year or so?... by a number of representatives from a dozen companies or so. A ton of smart people contributed a ton of work into what became the 1.0 version.

And let me tell you that the discussions were often tense, both during the official meetings as well as what happened behind the scenes. The end result was as good as you can expect from a large committee composed of representatives from competing companies.

But, in summary, you get it, unlike so many commenters in HN.
> uBlock just plain working better on Firefox.

In what way does uBlock work better on Firefox? I don't see any ads in Chrome. Ad block is more important to me than any browse. I use Kiwi on Android instead of Chrome, and would switch immediately on desktop if I saw ads.
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Ok but you're listing people/businesses, not technologies, which is what I'm talking about. Or is this nonsensical LLM slop to prove a point?
Seriously the chromium project needs an endowment to sustain operations. Especially when you consider chromium OS too.
> no need to be an asshole about it because every adult understands that, quite juvenile of you to think they don't.

I am sorry. I agree most people 'get it'. The point I am trying to make is that those who don't 'get it' are a big problem if you have nifty slogans like that. Also in a non-total war setting.

> Guess your kind of rhetoric earn points with the teens, no?

I honestly believe that my rhetoric would score very low amongst teens.
This makes sense, but it is made even more nonsensical by the fact that the DOJ is also separately saying traffic aquisition deals are anticompetitive as well.
I think it's because they've been trained by copying answers from ChatGPT. They're not really very copyrighted after all.

Though the other day I saw someone demonstrate this with Google's Gemini through the API, so maybe it is just picking up conversation traces off the internet.
I actually enjoyed the third movie a lot. I don’t know why it is hated so much. Fourth movie was an unapologetic cash grab.
> They send almost everything they can outside of nuclear weapons

Equipment from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s isn't "almost everything they can outside of nuclear weapons."

But you're 100% right, Ukraine should have received more, especially because we asked them to surrender their nuclear deterrence.

There is still a lot of equipment Ukraine could use, like long-range cruise missiles would help them a lot to stop from being attacked by Russia long-range cruise missiles.
How else is Google supposed to "integrate" within iOS?

Safari and Messages etcetera link to within the closed Apple ecosystem - just like Windows. It can be between difficult to impossible to send an email or create a calendar item unless you use the iOS apps.

I'm definitely no Google fanboi but every answer being "Google are arseholes" feels dishonest.

The Chromium developer team absolutely kick arse and being open source is a true gift. Mozilla is badly failing to compete. Microsoft failed to compete with their first Edge rewrite, and now ironicalky MS "competes" using Chromium open source.

And why did Chromium have to split from WebKit? As an outsider it just looked like "because Apple don't want to play nice".

The story is always simplified to Google greedy arseholes. A typical response: you can never ever ever satisfy open source proponents... The stereotype that every open source user greedily wants more.
> it was faster, lighter and better

And more stable
> Even the pentagons own assessments say this won’t make much difference

I mean yes, it’s also what the press secretary has been saying. They’ve been wrong at every step to date because Biden has been wrong about this.
Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense, especially if that foundation was then immediately funded by a variety of companies rather than just one big advertising company.

The obvious test for whether the browser is actually independent: what is the response to "let's add an ad-blocker by default".
While not an EV, but a hybrid - I'm the lucky owner of an affordable Ford Maverick little truck. From what I can tell, Ford makes a lot of sweet $$$ selling the F series trucks and does not really care about low margins.
Sure, but unless you're going to stay forever you have more reason to care about costs wherever you came from. Might want to buy a house back there, or pay off student loans.
This is a super interesting line of info. Thank you! I didn't think of it as a negation-specific challenge but that's really cool insight.

"Don't think of an elephant."

It's actually interesting how often we have to guess that someone dropped a "not" in conversation based on the context.

It wouldn't be hard to have an iMessage bot (eg on a Mac) running to test some of this out on the fly.
With Mozilla becoming so hostile to their power users in recent years (or any user who just wants to customize the interface or core functionality), I'm not sure it would make much difference.
Desktop Safari’s ~15% market share, which exceeds Firefox’s ~7%, suggests otherwise. Mac users can freely switch and yet many don’t.

There are likely several reasons for this but I think the two biggest ones are its differences in philosophy: first, that browsers should be just one utility among many on a desktop OS and not try to set itself apart and second, to actively combat the internet’s hostilities on behalf of the user.

Chrome will never do either. It tries to be a distinct brand and platform instead of meshing with your desktop nicely and it’s not going to do anything that will negatively impact Google’s many ad businesses.
Have not used in on your docs but I can say that it definitely works well with forms and forms with tables like a Bill of Lading. It costs extra but you need to turn on table extract (at least in AWS). You then can get a markdown representation of that page include table, you can of course pull out the table itself but unless its standardized you will need the middleman LLM figuring out the exact data/structure you are looking for.
Samsung's fabrication is about as good as TSMC. Or at least it was when I retired a few years ago.
Companies regularly buy and sell parts of themselves. I think the standard approach would be for Chrome employees to be given golden handcuffs of some sort.
> courts are effectively captured at every level, because Trump can scribble a writ of cert on a McDonald's napkin and SCOTUS will grant cert and provide the desired outcome

Sure. This takes time. You also can’t remove state cases to any federal court, it has to be in the circuit.
Yeah our whole studio shifted from Unity to Unreal. If console is in the equation then it's even more reason to go Unreal.
The anthropic principle in its weak form isn't really a hypothesis - it's more of a methodological principle that warns us against unnecessary theories. This is best illustrated by the historical debate between Dirac and Dicke (who came up with this idea) about cosmic coincidences.

In 1937, Dirac noticed striking numerical relationships between fundamental physical constants and the age of the universe [1]. He proposed these couldn't be coincidental and suggested fundamental constants must vary with cosmic time. But Dicke (1961) showed that some of these "coincidences" weren't so mysterious: they were necessary conditions for our existence as observers [2]. The universe had to be old enough for heavy elements to form in stars, but not so old that all stars burned out. These constraints naturally explain some of the numerical relationships Dirac found, without requiring varying constants.

However, Dicke's argument has limits: it only works for coincidences necessary for intelligent life. It can't explain away "gratuitous coincidences" - numerical relationships that aren't required for our existence. This is particularly relevant because Dirac's work was actually part of a longer tradition - going back to Weyl in 1919 [1] - of physicists finding peculiar numerical relationships between physical constants.

While the article discusses coincidences that make our existence possible, we need to consider how to explain the other ones. Is it even feasible ? Let me give it a try.

If physical constants were "set" randomly, with their observability conditioned only by whether they allow intelligent life, we should expect to find both types of coincidences in our universe: the necessary ones that enable our existence, and gratuitous ones that just happened to come along for the ride in our universe's "roll of the dice".

This leads to a disturbing conclusion: for laws of physics to be discoverable by observers in a universe without a creator, they must contain misleading elements as a by-product of what allowed these observers to emerge. The universe seems to impose a double-bind on its observers - the very conditions that make it observable must also make it deceptive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle#Anthropic_...
> TLDR just be like Mozilla

Mozilla is rapidly deciding they want to be an advertising and AI company at the expense of their primary product.

So, tl;dr: be like Mozilla used to be, not like they are now.
Though one could argue that the (original) definition of a meter and the definition of a nautical mile are equally arbitrary and yet similarly based.

Originally 1 meter was one ten-millionth of the distance over the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole.

One nautical mile is the length one arc-minute of latitude along a meridian. (About 1.85km).
Then MS is such a giant that it will have to sell it after some time
If you want something purely dynamic... https://haizelabs.com/
is that based on feelings or facts?
To the average person, all the browsers are exactly the same. I use Chrome, Edge, and Firefox at work at its all the same to me as well.
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Today's featured Relic is a recovered crash component // exhaust (1 of 1) // Classification: Rare
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As the final auction ends, the full Drop 1 collection will be available for purchase ft. Reyn Spooner Hawaiian shirts, flight jackets, acrylic-framed posters and more one-of-a-kind Relics.

Supplies extremely limited.
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[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andurilindustries_to-kick-off...
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
That may be a good thing. I think it's more natural to have it that way. I always wondered why a keyword in a programming language must have this rigid meaning. In English, that's not the case, there's a context.

Gliimly seems much simpler than PHP or other "classic" programming languages out there (C++, Java, Go, whatever). I think there's something to the idea of expressing programming closer to English, in a declarative way.

I'll give it a try, I'd love to type (much) less and just sort of "talk" programming, because that's what this looks like.
Even assuming that uneven distribution is a problem, and that it was possible to make global wealth evenly distributed, it would be such a collosal undertaking that it would necessarily entail massive social upheaval and take a very long time after which the captcha problem would hardly be comparable to what we have now.
It's not even AI based, but my bank text alerts send me credit card charge notifications for refunds.
Nah, you were talking about tech people operating outside of their domain. You just don't like how easy it is to show counter examples so you pretend you had some other point.

But if you don't know the technology involved for each of the above, maybe stay out of a conversation involving technology.
> I understand you're not deprecating or recommending anything, and have learned in the meantime just how ugly python infighting is in and around package tooling. I can see the motivation to keep external messaging limited to saying a feature was added and everything else remains constant.

You're insinuating an ulterior motive. Please don't do that; assume good faith[1].

(You can find trivial counterexamples that falsify this: PyPI was loud and explicit about deprecating and disabling PGP; there's no reason to believe it would be any less loud and explicit about a change here.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Logged-in Chrome users are tied to Google logins

Third-party sign in with Google [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/account/about/sign-in-with-google/
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