skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Somebody else is building your binaries.

FYI there are two parties you are talking about: Astral, and GitHub too (if you don't trust Microsoft).
The distinction is that IME most Europeans (I am British for what it’s worth) - not all - but most - simply cannot fathom the concept of having any financial independence at all.

They need paid time off and paid maternity leave and all of that stuff because they can’t conceptualise putting away the money to do this themselves. Significant savings or investment are rare outside of a property.

It’s just money on the other side of the equation, government and socialised vs independent and free to use or not.

At the very bottom it’s not like it matters in either case, you might have time off but no money to do anything with it.
It's great to be uber ambitious and futuristic, but not everyone needs to be. Some companies should excel at solving smaller problems. Like search, smaller AI etc.
When the government doesn't represent people any more, it's natural for people to represent themselves.

And who feels represented by their government these days?
not a good time to be a whale or a fish
> Edit: why disagree?

Because it is hilariously wrong. You have been operating under the false understanding, for who knows how long, that the media are talking about job postings when they are talking about jobs numbers.
Anything held in Bitcoin is one misplaced key, or hacked wallet, or broken algorithm away from being worth precisely zero.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/purchasing-power-parity-silli...

GDP PPP is meaningless for both geopolitical power and what it means for the average citizen.

The average citizen in EU is much better than the one in China/India despite what the PPP numbers suggest as GDP per captaincy matters more.

China and Russia resort to bartering due to US sanctions because GDP matters, and not GDP PPP [1].

PPP should be used to compare only similar countries like USA/Canada/UK or those in EU. Or countries in SEA.

[1] https://www.intellinews.com/china-russia-to-reintroduce-bart...
I don't think that definition works: it's attempting to categorize statements according to criteria completely external to them rather than according to any inherent property of the statement.

A better definition is that a hallucination is an expression that is generated within a closed system without direct input from the reality it is meant to represent. The point is that an expression about reality that doesn't come from observing reality can only be true coincidentally.

By way of analogy, if I have a dream about a future event, and then that event actually happens, it was still just a dream and not a clairvoyant vision of the future. Sure, my dreams are influenced by past experiences I've had (in the same way that verified facts are included in the training data for LLMs), which makes them likely to include things that frequently do happen in real life and might be likely to happen again -- but the dream an the LLM alike are effectively just "remixing" prior input, and not generating any new observations of reality.
Retirees absolutely pay income tax. Withdrawing from a traditional IRA/401k generates ordinary income at the current federal tax rate. And any capital gains is taxed (albeit at a lower rate) when sold. It's a fraction of what they likely paid during their career, but it is not nothing.

Depending on the country of retiring, this could have majority tax implications. It's a big reason why people choose to retire in certain states: additional income tax on retirement income is possible, depending on the state.
DX7 will always have a special place in my heart being the spiritual predecessor to my favorite soft synth, FM8. If you want a modern FM synthesis experience, FM8 has been that for over a decade. Low CPU usage, incredibly versatile, really easy to work with in the mix (FM synthesis tends to be easy to shape and layer spectrally).
"Prior to publication of Cheng et al., our last correspondence with any of its authors was in August of 2022 when we reached out to share our new contact information."

You don't stop being the corresponding authors of a paper when you change companies,
and whatever "unclear circumstances" you imagine took place when they left, they were also re-hired later, which a company would only do if they were in good standing.

In any case, those "Google contacts" also expressed concerns with how Cheng et al. were doing their study, which they ignored:

3.4 Cheng et al.’s Incorrect Claim of Validation by Google Engineers

Cheng et al. claimed that Google engineers confirmed its technical correctness, but this is untrue. Google engineers (who were not corresponding authors of the Nature paper) merely confirmed that they were able to train from scratch (i.e. no pre-training) on a single test case from the quick start guide in our open-source repository. The quick start guide is of course not a description of how to fully replicate the methodology described in our Nature paper, and is only intended as a first step to confirm that the needed software is installed, that the code has compiled, and that it can successfully run on a single simple test case (Ariane).

In fact, these Google engineers share our concerns and provided constructive feedback, which was not addressed. For example, prior to publication of Cheng et al., through written communication and in several meetings, they raised concerns about the study, including the use of drastically less compute, and failing to tune proxy cost weights to account for a drastically different technology node size.

The Acknowledgements section of Cheng et al. also lists the Nature corresponding authors and implies that they were consulted or even involved, but this is not the case. In fact, the corresponding authors only became aware of this paper after its publication.
It isn't the interest in Pokémon that dates them, it's wanting to make a webpage for it. :)
No, if there is also a decline between the ages of 20-29 then the implication is not that we've eradicated teen pregnancy. It's that people are not having as many kids. When you have kids in your 20s you can have more than if you start in your 30s
Children just aren’t that expensive.

Most of the significant expenses people describe are optional. It is more rational to match your spending to what you can afford with howevermany kids than it is to match the number of kids you have to an arbitrary lifestyle.
I wrote a Zork-style text game in high school as an end-of-year project on a TRS80 model III, using its built-in BASIC. There were three stages of the game, and all was going well until I ran out of RAM. :( Stage 1 was complete, though. For being an elective, I put a lot of work into that game. The teacher even let me lug the giant beast home once or twice.
But those are things that only exist in the crypto ecosystem. The counterparty risk is all wrong-way. Like yes, I can sign a contract with Coinbase that says they will owe me a lot of money when Tether collapses. But when Tether collapses it's probably going to take Coinbase down with it.
Ah, the ultimate whataboutism. No, not like USD. That's actually somewhat the problem, and why KYC is pushed so hard despite being so unpopular.
We've been getting a slow drip of press releases about this concept since at least 2016. Has anything substantial changed, or is this just a reminder?

Reality check, because everyone always gets excited about this: the power density of these devices is on the order of 10 µW/cm^3 - about eight orders of magnitude lower than a lithium-ion battery. Technical advances may improve that somewhat, but it will never be competitive with conventional power sources.
>over what seems to be an interpersonal workplace conflict

Well, it started with an interpersonal workplace conflict, but ended up with him being forced to retire from his professorship and the entrepreneurial mentoring program he saw as his mission.
The vast majority of households don’t have significant uncovered medical expenses.

There’s major issues that become rounding errors on these kinds of statistics. ~0.5% of the US population is incarcerated or homeless. It’s a lot of people and a major issue, but the US population is huge.
My favorite response on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
This is something that many chat apps get wrong and I'm not sure this article is moving in the right direction. The UX is fairly clear in my mind:

1. All up-to-date clients should be displaying the same message order.
2. A single client should not send messages in the wrong order.

Yes a client may be out of date and therefore show something different, but once it becomes up to date it should be showing the same state even if that means amending history. Why? Because the humans reading it will be confused otherwise! An app getting more data is something we intuitively understand, but if my client shows something and yours shows something else, we will conclude different meanings from it.

Additionally there are some clients that treat each message input by the user as a retriable thing in isolation, which is also clearly incorrect. If I send two messages and the first fails to go through, I almost certainly don't want to retry the second until the first has gone through, otherwise my client has literally sent out of order messages! I use Beeper for chat and this is one of the most frustrating things it does.
If the sample is the master output from the synth then the filter won't be the same.
Wikipedia is more informative for this battery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_battery

> Due to its very low power density, conversion efficiency and high cost, a 14C betavoltaic device is very similar to other existing betavoltaic devices which are suited to niche applications needing very little power (microwatts) for several years
>Most people, even when given freedom from consequences and ample opportunities, are not murderers.

I don't necessarily disagree with this completely, but it's also worth noting how easily people seem to go with the status quo, eg criminal gangs, nazism, support of genocides, etc.

I think most people have a bit of killer in them, given the right circumstances.
That's what I'm saying. You can't collect the profits.
This the guy that illegally keeps fencing off public beach?
Arguably, that's exactly what it was designed for.

There was a very contentious split many years ago now (Bitcoin Cash vs Core fork) regarding this point. Until then, it was taken for granted that block size would continue increasing in proportion to transaction volume in order to facilitate such use. This was Satoshi's expectation, and there was little-to-no discussion otherwise. Quite suddenly, a few powerful, well-positioned people (with conflicting interests in the form of their Lightning side-chain solution) conspired to form a consensus of limiting on-chain transaction bandwidth via astroturfing and comprehensive censorship.

Whether they were responsible visionaries with the foresight to avert disaster using a novel solution, or spiteful saboteurs driven by greed and power, is up to the reader. Un/fortunately, they were very successful.
I propose:

public class CertificateAuthorityFactory{
At MPOW we have a bunch of state-managing components for complex cases, like multi-page forms or API-backed grids with tons of filters, etc. They take some effort to get the hang of them, but after that they save large amounts of boilerplate.
IP lawyer here - yes, this is just a bureaucratic step.
In practice, even if they chose to later do nothing, they would still file a notice of appearance.

It would be silly not to, since in this case (before the TTAB) it would lead to a default judgement that would be very hard to get out of.

Even if you later choose to release the trademark, you'd still want to see all the court documents, etc.
> Its utility is similar to that of cash.

In the USA, spending cash doesn't require ~30 minutes of validation or a capital gains report.
Michael Saylor has been doing it for years now (and is also part of the reason why this is going up).

https://saylortracker.com/
I’m not sure he did, since NYPD said Citi bike was not used. The author on X said the same in the thread too
that's not the Peter Principle
Unless you see gold as bullshit as well. I think it should now be consensus that Bitcoin isn't acting as a transaction tool, but as a store of value, just like gold. There are pros and cons when comparing it to gold as a store of value. But the main thing that keeps up the "value" of Bitcoin is just the belief that "it is a store of value" itself. As long as people continue to believe this, it doesn't need to have traditional value. This is the same as gold. Bitcoin in this sense is even more pure, because gold still has some industrial and consumer uses, while Bitcoin has zero. This belief may or may not persist in the foreseeable future, but it is what it is now. Thinking this is "bullshit" just doesn't really matter.
The Math Behind Alien Signals [video]
One day Tesla will indeed deliver and nobody will notice or care since they (Elon) have been lying about this for a long time.
Having dealt with this problem at work for several years now, I feel the pain of keeping different clients in sync - it's extremely difficult. Not sure if it's possible in Matrix, but consider having a message ID that increments by one on every message in a room. That lets the client know pretty quickly if there's a gap or a misordering.

Not really getting this point though:

The /sync API returns events in an order "according to the arrival time of the event on the homeserver".

The spec for /messages says it returns events "in chronological order. (The exact definition of chronological is dependent on the server implementation.)".

Why would those two return different results? When does the chronological order of two messages differ from the arrival time of the event on the homeserver?
> Another way to get an intuition for it is the prevalence of various conveniencies of life.

But all these things were invented after colonialism of most colonial countries.

And they are prevalent in uncolonized countries in roughly the same ratios as colonized countries. Arguably the uncolonized (China being the main one) have more than the colonized (India being the main one)
No one claimed that it's for the benefit of the rest of the world. But the reality is that if US drug prices were fixed by the government at lower levels then there would be less new drug development. The US develops around 75% of world's new drugs. Would you prefer to have fewer new drugs going forward?
Small discussion (9 points, 9 hours ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320506
Cool visualization, but it is ultimately 20 slides that are saying the exact same thing (white collar workers are more privileged than blue collar workers). And not adding anything new to something everyone already knows.
I have so much disdain for these organizations.. there's a really important debate to be had about the role of firearms and firearm laws and overzealous Federal agents, but the NRA/SAF aren't interested in honest debate, they're just fear-mongering ghouls pumping out bullshit to fundraise off of.

I looked into the Fincher case, and it's another case that SAF is basically just lying about. They can run these insane headlines and then don't follow up...

Fincher had a FFL but no store, so he'd sell primarily at gun shows. He'd buy guns from other dealers or from manufacturers with his FFL, and then sell them in "private" sales at gun shows with no background check. It looks like the Feds caught onto that and then had a CI do a controlled buy where Fincher was told the purchaser was a felon, and Fincher didn't give a shit and illegally sold him ammo anyways.

Call me crazy, but a FFL doing straw purchases for AR lowers so he can sell them under the table at gun shows is exactly the kind of thing that the ATF should be shutting down.

Fincher indictment: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.oked.35...

Fincher guilty plea (he got probation with no jail time - and the FFL who was holding all of the guns Fincher had purchased but not yet sold was ordered to sell them and give the proceeds to Fincher):
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.oked.35...
I don't have perfect pitch. But I can open a tuner app and whistle an A, based on hearing (in my head) a chamber orchestra playing the opening bar of Bach's A minor concerto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1...

While streetcars may have made it easier to transport people, you still need to deliver goods to stores. There’s also the problem of having to wait for tracks to be built.
There's also noise from alternators, which are effectively an ac generator, but have a rectifier and diode that cut it at 12v and DC.
how is that "AI speak"? that's a very normal turn of phrase before "AI".
Has that changed?
Meanwhile the real cost of housing is still increasing. It is a bipolar world: the haves and the have nots. If you own land: the economy is great. If you don't own land: you're screwed. Whatever metrics that say wealth inequality is down are lying. It's a polarized world of haves and have nots and people are pissed off.
BRICS will never introduce their own currency anyway, so any threats by Trump are moot. Can you imagine India and China actually agreeing on a new currency structure? Lol, it's a total fantasy.
Project Loon was futuristic. It did not achieve the scale of Starlink because it failed, not because it wasn’t futuristic.

Google also invested early into self-driving cars and remains well ahead of Musk in that area.
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Have a look at the daily volume of trading for Bitcoin, these financial tools are a very small part of this... we are talking $50-100 billions daily. It does contribute, but in terms of scale way less than what you seem to suggest... arguably I would guess that these days the announcements of big purchases move the market more than the actual purchase itself.
Author describes why it took as long as it did in the post, so I don't think they're trying to be disingenous. Getting minor changes merged upstream in large projects is difficult for newer concepts since you need adoption and support.

Full release seems to contain more code[1], and author references the llama.cpp pre-work and that author as well

This person is also not a core contributor, so this reads as a hobbyist and fan of AI dev that is writing about their work. Nothing to be ashamed of IMO.

[1] - https://github.com/ollama/ollama/compare/v0.4.7...v0.4.8-rc0
So you might be wording the question wrong. The key is in "how to market" - the state of the product us irrelevant.

In other words, if you can't figure out how to reach the customers before you have z product, you're not going to be able to figure it out after you have a product.

Since marketing is harder to figure out than code it makes sense to do that part first, not last.

Then if you fail to find the market, you haven't wasted time building the product.

To answer your question;
A) identify the market.
B) figure out where they hang out
C) go there
D) talk to them
> I suspect this has to do with metabolic differences

No it has to do with differences in dietary habits.
For similar projects, check out:

- Supabase Studio (open source, Postgres only) https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/apps/studio

- Prisma Studio (closed source, supporting most popular databases) https://www.prisma.io/studio

- Drizzle Studio (closed source, supporting most popular databases) https://orm.drizzle.team/drizzle-studio/overview
How do you get healthcare though? Medicare is tied to staying here.
I got so excited, already started to fill out a form to send the letter to my friend who recently got diagnosed with breast cancer and after they removed it they find that it had already spread, and since she's business oriented person, I'm sure she would appreciate this.

But guess what, it's US only, again...
Non-monotonic clocks?
Agent Orange didn’t contain glyphosate but two other herbicides. Glyphosate didn’t exist until 1970. The damage from Agent Orange came from dioxin.
This appears to be somebody's template that has this misspelling and lots of people have used.

I can easily find a bunch of nearly identically worried ones.

See, e.g, https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-91291646-OPP-4.pdf
Kaufman translations are going to be the best you're going to get. He offers some helpful context in the footnotes through the books.
I didn't know how to play the keyboard but the DX7 was seen in so many music videos in the 80s that it became an object of desire for me. If I were going to learn how to play the keyboard, it was going to be on the DX7! To me it was the Lamborghini of keyboards. I had zero understanding of synths or even basic music theory. I just knew all the cool bands had a DX7 and I wanted to be like the cool guys on saw on MTV. We eventually got some cheap consumer keyboard from K-Mart which was completely forgotten by New Years Day.

As an aside, I find it's a bit weird how overlooked the Greg Kihn Band is in current 80s culture. It might not have been as big as Michael Jackson or Chicago but they were quite well known. Weird Al even did a parody of one of their songs but their cultural impact seems to have not survived as well as other acts of that era, which is a pity.
You would file an appearance anyway, because who wants a default judgement?
It's a bug. Any other system where you put in one input and expect a certain output and get something else it'd be called a bug. Making up new terms for AI doesn't help.
Yes, and it should be treated as a front-and-center limitation. Generative text models can kinda ape creativity, because the amount of creativity in the training data is so huge. They still are interpolating across text and cannot generalize well, but the interpolation works to most of us because the data is so varied. It's quite easy to write text so if you have a thought you think is original, odds are someone on the internet wrote about it at some point, which makes the model seem quite capable of originality!

But these video game models I think are a lot less capable, because there just aren't that many video games out there, they aren't all that different from one another, and they're all just finite state machines. WASD, desert, jungle, ruins, city. Hell half of them share the very same game engine!

How many massive, cohesive, open world games are there? Red Dead and GTA5... Gee, I wonder why so many of their examples look like that?
When I had a blue collar job, my coworker used to divide jobs into "shower before work" and "shower after work".

It's perhaps less relevant now that a lot of people can roll out of bed and start their remote job in sweatpants, but it's stuck with me.
Advent of Code 2024, Day 2: Slice Internals Reminder
Wrote a short blog about solving Advent of Code day 2 in Golang. Although the problem itself was trivial, it came with a sweet reminder about slice internals. I have made this mistake way too many times, hopefully now that I've written this blog, it won't happen again
/messages might be a legacy endpoint compared to a newer /sync. I know Matrix has been working hard on their sliding sync api.
Your personal information is valuable. See also why smart TVs are/were cheaper than "dumb" TVs when the latter was even still an option.
If lower interest rates are not coming then how can the low rates of the oughts be framed as anything other than generational theft?