skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you appreciate painting at all? It's fine if you don't, but that's kinda the whole issue in this thread. People who don't appreciating things making value judgments about the things they don't fundamentally care about.

I don't really think you're "asking" a question here, just kind of asserting that you don't think I appreciate paintings. That's fine, albeit a pretty dishonest way to speak, and perhaps my feeble brain isn't smart enough to appreciate paintings in the same way that your brain does. I have been to the Met a bunch of times and looked at the classic paintings and enjoy them, I guess not to your satisfaction though.

I don't think I know what the word "appreciate" means, and I suspect what it really means in this conversation is going to be the details that you think are important.

> I'm not sure how the texture or three-dimensionality of a painting is 'superficial.' Besides the fact that it literally isn't, it's an actual facet of the painting that is objectively there

I think we're using slightly different definitions here.

If someone told me that he only liked his girlfriend because she has DDD breasts, I might say he's really focusing on a superficial detail. The woman having DDD breasts might still be objectively true, but I would still call that focusing on the superficial.

Modern art generation programs can actually generate things like brush strokes and whatnot, but obviously it will be flat when represented on a monitor, so sure if you feel like you can see the depth associated with that then more power to you.

> I didn't say anything about "true" paintings, and your own insecurity is your own issue you need not project as accusations coming from others.

Again, you're speaking dishonestly. You didn't say the word "true", but you did suggest that if I had seen a painting in a museum then I'd appreciate them better. Specifically, you said "I'm curious, have you been to a museum that has good old paintings?"

Now obviously I don't have the same giant brain that you do, so maybe I can't "appreciate" your writing style correctly because I "have a gold medal in being obtuse", but that sure seems like passive aggressive dismissal to a dumbass like me.
Dart's VM was designed by the team (I think not just the one guy, but maybe I'm wrong on that and it really is just Lars Bak) that designed most of the truly notable VMs that have ever existed: Self, Smalltalk Strongtalk, Java Hotspot, and JavaScript V8. It also features an ahead-of-time compiler mode in addition to a world-class JIT and interpreter, allowing for hot reload during development.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programme...

It was stuck with a bad rep for being the language that was never going to replace JavaScript in the browser, and then was merely a transpiler no one was going to use, before it found a new life as the language for Flutter, which has driven a lot of its syntax and semantics improvements since, with built-in VM support for extremely efficient object templating (used by the reactive UI framework).
The idea that conspiracies could thrive under economic stress doesn't even occur..
I've seen some estimates and reports that EV tyres last about 40-50% as long as ICE tyres.
Native dual-range input
Strategically terrible idea. Russian state media has signaled they want Poland back. They want Finland back. Shiogu has stated outright a desire to roll tanks into Paris. It's in almost every European nation's interest to keep the battle in ukraine
How do we know the Shu weren't Chinese? Well, written Chinese history existed that touched on the Shu but those records were only confirmed through archaeological discovery very recently in the 1980s. We also know they were non Han Chinese because they were illiterate, had distinct beliefs and technologies (such as very technically impressive large scale bronze casting) which China did not, and China destroyed them as attested by its own records.

More generally, the response references later Chinese written legends dealing with other geographies which are tangential if not irrelevant whereas the thread and original article were discussing archaeologically evidenced prehistory and the Shu. So who is "spinning a narrative" here is clear, which accords with the presumed nature of the aspersion-casting post - ie. a 10c brigade-esque fanciful reinterpretation based upon modern Chinese nationalism (and one assumes the poster is Chinese as evidenced by their misspelling of English words).

In short, the Confucian parent may be safely ignored.
I would say that I'm a "believer" in this terminology, but I don't think either coaster or grinder fits; depending on the task, I might be either. It's determined by how hard I find it to get going on the task, which often reflects ambiguity and lack of direction. When the task is vague, it can take a while to figure out an approach to try.

Which is, I guess, a way to say that often when I'm "coasting", I'm working -- just not as effectively as I would like. I usually feel guilty when I'm unsure what to do.

I've definitely burned out a few times.
if you do basic chatgpt prompts in late 2024 asking for dynamic story telling, sure, you'll get what you said. it's super dismissive to think that wont get better over time, or that even with the tools today, that you can't get dynamic and interesting stories out of it if you provide it with the proper framework
Fixed in the live version of the site, thanks, although it isn't usable without the hardware it controls.
Odd to see no mention of Collosal Caves. Were they unaware of it?
When you boil it all down, the economy mostly is about ownership and use of resources, and those are naturally limited. So if we're talking about doing well in terms of having greater claims to the world's resources, then it essentially is zero sum.
I've been working on a version of this for Slack -> Jira.
I built a Slack bot, Skipper, to turn conversations and unorganized messages into formatted tickets.

Generally, team members fill out mandatory fields in a Slack workflow. This gets posted in a channel and discussed. Then we @ the bot in the thread and it organizes everything in a new ticket.
The AI seems smart enough to recognize mandatory fields, even when implicit.

If it helps, try it out:
https://www.tryskipper.ai/
United health care at the top of the list and the CEO just got killed.
I dont need any direct help, but pointers for finding a job would be good. I'm dev with 10y of experience in swe, devops and sre, lost job 6m ago, got kid, wife almost died etc. Now I ran out of money but still no job. I'm grinding leetcode but keep getting medium/hard questions on interviews and just cant get through. Any idea where to find $35-50/h B2B remote jobs without leetcoding?
Show HN: I Used Llama-70B Logprobs for Better, Cheaper and Faster Chunking
The LlamaChunk algorithm is simple: We pick a special token that we know is not in the corpus, e.g. "段".

We pick the character "段" because
1. tiktoken always encodes it to exactly one token,
2. it is not in the corpus, and
3. it means "section" in Chinese.

Then, we ask Llama to repeat the User's message with the "段" token sprinkled throughout.
And just like that, it's perfect out of the box! It correctly used the "段" character to mark the end of every section.

BUT if you've ever worked with LLM's, you know that input tokens are processed almost instantly, and output tokens take an eternity to generate. A naïve method is to simply wait for the LLM to repeat the entire python code, inserting "段" throughout.

However, by inferencing llama locally, we have a vastly more efficient way of doing this! We can simply pass in the entire paragraph, and check the logprobs to see the probability that Llama wanted to output a "段" token at that location!

Done! The high logprob values, clearly indicate the locations that we should chunk! And, this is only possible because we have direct low-level access to Llama 3.1 70B.

Of course, there is a caveat. Because there are no output tokens, Llama can no longer see its own line breaks. Thus, as the text gets longer, it loses the willpower to continue to want to output "段"

But, we can simply normalize by this decaying curve in order to to fix this. And now, we're ready to split any type of document, without having to resort to regex or manually created rules.

Processing 450,000 characters took about 15 minutes on an A100. However, ~80% of that time was saving and loading the KVCache (Which can be done instantly if written in C++, rather than Python). So, we can expect that it would take 3 minutes per 450,000 characters if done optimally. Or, 7 MTokens per hour.

In terms of accuracy, LlamaChunk has higher recall AND precision, than a naïve chunking method and than semantic chunking (Which uses embeddings to detect sentence split boundaries, and still requires a good regex-based sentence splitter).

---

One thing you might wonder: What if the ideal chunk split is not along a token boundary?

Well for one thing, this is rare, as tokenizers intentionally split along meaningful boundaries. However, if the best split really is after the "f" in "fun", then you calculate

```
lp = logprob(prefix="Fine Tuning is", next_token=" f")
if lp > -7:
lp *= logprob(prefix="Fine Tuning is f", next_token="段")
```

In other words, if the logprob of token " f" has a non-negligible value > -7, then we can multiply by the logprob of the token after that being "段". The first line of code has a prefix that matches the main inference, so it does not need to be recalculated. However, if the "if" statement passes, then we'll have to do an extra inference, costing us latency. However, this "if" statement almost never passes (In our measurement, it happens once every ~2000 tokens, so it amortizes well).

Check out the repo for examples and more technical details.
Does it? Loyalty is for henchmen. You only need it if you have a habit of asking people to do something slimy.
On the other hand, it's absolutely fantastic to have a young daughter and have her virtually not impact our finances at all for many years, between clothes/toy gifts from friends, gov subsidy, free healthcare, free education and low levels of keeping-up-with-the-Joneses on after-school activities, plus knowing I won't burden her financially either as I happily live out my retirement on a decent pension.

I may not leave her a lot of inherited wealth, but she may also not really need any to have options.

(That said, my personal frame of reference for why this is better and wonderfully stress-free is years lived in South Korea--that ultra-low fertility rate has reasons--, not so much the US.)
Yes! I too am not a huge command line fan (unless it's git for some reason), my background is actually in design so it was really painful trying to access DBs at first and the only options were the CLI or tools that look like they were built 20 years ago.

That was actually the catalyst for creating Outerbase! We have all types of people using us today, honestly we resonate really well with anyone who needs access to a DB. Frontend folks love us because we're a more modern way to do it and we line up really well with other modern frontend stacks, backend folks like us because we are really focused and make it straightforward to manage your data, and non-technical teams love us because they can actually get the data they need without needing to be a DBA.
Previous Coverage on Hacker News

Show NH in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025427

Sunset notice in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834828
I write pure embedded C at work. I used to pretty much only write Rust prior to going into the embedded field. Rust gives you memory safety, but has costs. It is a complex language (like C++ but not to same extent) with a lot of non-local code flow. Certain patterns useful in embedded to save memory dont jive well with the borrow checker. It also makes it hard to avoid dynamic memory allocations, panics, and large binary sizes; at work, we've been considering Rust and it looks like we'll have to use no_std. That cuts out most of the ecosystem, which isn't the worst because dependency explosion is also a problem.

At work, we'll likely end up incorporating no_std rust, but for personal stuff I just use Zig these days. It a simple language that makes embedded style programming easier, and has a usable std lib due to not using global allocators or panic-like mechanims.
the eu quality of life has a higher minimum but a far lower median
There was no formal methods winter (2021)
Yves Guillemot got on stage multiple times and told everyone that live services are the future of gaming. Looks like they're just a fad after all.
That's what the chinese thought in the 18th century :).

A fun quote for the europeans here:

"Our land is so wealthy and prosperous that we possess all things. Therefore, there is no need to exchange the produce of foreign barbarians for our own." - The emperor at the height of Qing China
Reading ability (and reading comprehension) is very correlated with IQ.

An IQ of 100 is not quite enough. Most people with that IQ can read (but not everybody, even discounting the dyslexics) and most people with that IQ can read relatively simple things.

And the global average is a lot lower than 100...
It varies. Literally everything from how modals work, notifications, etc. all had to be written. The things that I take for granted in my React app were fairly complex to figure out.

I know there are paradigms to handle that now, although the details get complex in practice. For example, the idea of a "portal" in react is actually really important for layering modals and popups properly, but it can be difficult in LiveView.

The biggest single challenge I remember hitting was dynamic recursive forms (for example a logic builder). It took a lot of effort to get right.
And you can play, or spectate some else, in your browser: https://crawl.develz.org/
Insecurity and/or desire to maybe monetize your code somehow, somewhen.
> I mean, you technically can, but it doesn't end well as was proven every single time this was tried.

Arguably, Japan has been doing this for two or three generations now. Despite a crazy debt, quality of life in Japan is still pretty great.
'better' is always a loaded term with ASR. Gemini 1.5 flash can transcribe for 0.01/hour of audio and gives strong results. If you want timing and speaker info you need to use the previous version and a -lot- of tweaking of the prompt or else it will hallucinate the timing info. Give it a try. It may be a lot better for your use case.
"When in doubt, pick C" carried me all the way through college.

Even when there were consequences, sometimes I still didn't care.
I've since grown out of it.
Hmm interesting. I sort of see your point here..

I would worry that a much more decentralized approach would just lead to inconsistent and fragmented moderation, and it would feel arbitrary.. Most creators, and viewers, wouldn't know where to go to find their content.

For better or worse, YouTube's centralization makes discovery very easy, and incentivizes creators to invest in their work because they see greater returns from such a large audience.

I'm not sure I agree that in 2024 it's "not impossible" for a business to host completely unmoderated content on the Internet, especially video.. The amount of behind-the-scenes moderation (by humans or machines) that happens on the big platforms has been well documented..

I think video hosting is something that is hard to do not-for-profit, at least in a way that is approachable for the average viewer (i.e. doesn't have the barriers of something like PeerTube etc)..

And even if they could host unmoderated content, I think we all know what happens there (see KiwiFarms, 4chan, Rumble, etc)... they become spaces that the average creator doesn't want to be associated with because all of the extremists (of all kinds) end up there.
Some more interesting approaches in the same space:

- https://github.com/openai/evolution-strategies-starter

- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...

And perhaps most close:

- https://weightagnostic.github.io/

Which also showed that you can make NNs weight agnostic and just let the architecture evolve using a GA.

Even though these approaches are cool and NEAT even is somewhat easier to implement than getting started with RL (at least that is what based on so many AI Youtubers starting with NEAT first) they didn't ever seem to fully take off. Although knowing about metaheuristics is still a good tool to know IMO.
They're famous for dabbling in Medicare fraud over the years, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/business/dealbook/unitedh...

> Get seniors on your plan

> Deny them care to save costs

> Bill the US government for nonexistent care anyway

> ???

> Profit
The idea of a camera that can design its own lens by shifting the sensor in a large area is interesting on its own, but the 'hook' is it can "see behind things" by being so large.

The title appeals to a broader audience, and technically it's true, if comparing to any typical camera or working human eyeball arrangement.
There may (or may not) be a difference in degree in how much they do it, but ChatGPT absolutely has the same issue. I've resorted to a framing of "Alice thinks X; Bob thinks not X; what do you think" when talking to ChatGPT, because asking "is X correct" biases it highly towards saying it is, when X is something complex and intricate.
My two cents: the U.S. owes much of its economic strength to its robust legal framework. It provides a system where complex business disputes can be handled and enforced effectively, creating trust and predictability for investors and entrepreneurs. This institutional strength is often overlooked but is critical for fostering innovation and long-term economic growth. Incidentally, recent Nobel laureates in economic sciences have focused on the role of institutions in shaping economic outcomes, underscoring how pivotal they are to success.
The headline is about America's rivals but then talks mainly about EU and other G7 economies.

Do Americans consider Europeans their rivals? Occasional competitors sure, but rivals?
Cancer Risk Declines in Old Age, New Research Helps Explain Why
We actually just changed our handle about an hour ago, which explains why the link wasn't working. Would love to hear your thoughts on the content quality of our posts there.
> the concern is the distorted and manipulative rhetoric

That’s a concern. The working poor’s concern is the labor competition from one side and welfare competition from the other.
> I would agree that the hierarchy thing is broadly correct, and many use this definition, but I find it unsatisfactory, as it does not move me in any way. "Yeah hierarchy is so cool man" said no one ever.

And yet, the two quotes you put forth as "psychologically correct" both use hierarchies as assumed priors. In the first, a hierarchy between "the well-turned-out and beautiful" and everyone else, and in the second, a hierarchy between "ugly deformed freaks" and "normal [people]". Do you feel that these are useful distinctions to make when setting public policy?

> Taking left-wing ideology at face value is a mistake

Taking any ideology at face value is a mistake. Words are cheap; it's easy to say one thing and do another, especially when political parties control entire media ecosystems due to the consolidation of media companies that the root comment of this thread was discussing. Is the Chinese Communist Party communist in any meaningful sense? Does it serve to weaken or reinforce hierarchies? Does it seek to empower its constituents, or consolidate power for the benefit of the few?

> How do you "make money more diffuse"?

There are tons of ways to do this, some better, some worse, and I think it's out of scope to go through them all. We do at least have a direct measurement of this one, though, called the Gini coefficient.
Rival in the same way two American football teams are rivals maybe.
Unfortunately, Chromecast has been discontinued. I liked it.

They're going to replace it with a "Google TV Streamer", more capable and more expensive. I really liked the idea that it just took the bits and put them on the screen, and didn't try to do anything else.
We already knew it's possible from AI minecraft (https://oasis.decart.ai). This is just a more impressive version of that, trained on a wider range of games and with more context frames (Oasis has about a second of context, this one a minute). Even the architecture seems to be about the same.

Had they released this two months earlier it would have been incredibly impressive. Now it's still cool and inspiring, but no longer as ground breaking. It's the cooler version that doesn't come with a demo or any hope of actually trying it out.

And with the things we know from Oasis's demo, the agent-training use case the post tries to sell for Genie 2 is a hard sell. Any attempt to train an agent on such a world would likely look like an AI Minecraft speedrun: generate enough misleading context frames to trick the AI into generating what you want
It’s not a marginal cost issue. Few people are going to change their commuting or living situation because of a marginal increase in cost.

Transit lines are massive new capital costs that are hard to build. We live in an era where people are still fighting cell towers.
"Lead poisoning stare" takes quite morbid meaning for someone from Mexico like myself haha. After all "plata o plomo".
so if you don't get the service you were paying for ~$100/yr. and then you call the company to complain, and they don't fix it... why not just simply stop paying them if you don't like the service?

that self-help alternative is always available and seems preferable to me (and the rest of the economy) than another vague "govt. protect me from my poor choices" law and resulting lawsuits/lawyers which is 100% guaranteed to solve exactly nothing wrt. getting packages delivered faster.
Close to that of NYC.
This is just a "gut feeling" but I would suspect this has less to do with securing the OS and more to do with future changes to the network stack so that anyone using a VPN can be tied back to a piece of hardware at some point in the future much like there is a network ID in Firefox that users can not easily change. Playing the long game if you will. Either a gut feeling or it was that breakfast burrito.
That's the problem. It's all the same result.
I believe, if we could be copied to the cloud, that “me” is much more than neurons, and affected and defined quite a lot by the particular physical body we’re housed in. You can say losing an arm doesn’t change who you are, but it definitely does at some levels. Changes in health affect personality, mood, outlook, hope, enjoyment, etc, etc - that would all change when copied.
> while also maintaining a near 100% literacy rate

And totally honest official statistics!
In Portugal, illegal immigrants have lots of rights. For example rights now the government is struggling with having enough medics and ambulance drivers to meet demand. To the point several people died waiting for ambulance because no driver was available.

Yet, the government gave 100% free treatment to 48k immigrants that had no information. Many of then pregnant women from Asian countries with complicated situations that coat lots of money. Some illegal immigrants even got right to have treatments with medicines that cost millions.
"zero sum game"

As others allude to, natural resources are zero sum, they are a finite resource, once they are gone, they are gone.

So if an imperial power is mining resources from a 'colony', that 'colony' is being stripped of economic potential with very little to show for it.

They do not both gain economically, like some allude to when maybe it is two countries sharing manufactured goods.
Albert, such a helpful guy !
thank you for your feedback!