skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up until the last paragraph, where he freely admits all the options are basically shit in comparison.

The idea that having to relearn all software and deal with idiosyncrasies for a professional is laughable.
> The 26-year-old was fascinated by AI and decision theory; pro-technology but anti-smartphones; secular and scientific in his outlook, but in favour of religion on Darwinian grounds.

Sounds like a random young HN-er that that got perhaps a tiny bit too much of the cuckoo part of the internet rubbed onto him.

> Luigi Mangione's worldview might not be familiar to most Americans [...]

That's really sad.
Caffeine and sugar are also addictive drugs. Caffeine significantly increases the risk of a heart attack. Refined sugar has numerous slow-motion-car-crash health effects, from tooth damage to obesity to diabetes.

Both would be heavily regulated if they were new prescription medications.
I’d really rather not jail people who didn’t do anything illegal
They were coerced by the state: they issued mandates which required vaccination to engage in normal rights. That’s the literal definition of coercion.

I think it’s interesting how many people deny that — almost as if you know what was done is morally repugnant.
No, this is what I'm saying, 15.1 removed the system settings to "open anyway". It's gone.
Can confirm the value of checking for repeated words such as ‘the the’. This is the final example I give my Econ PhD students in a session on RegExps: https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~gm268/iphd/regexps/regexps.pdf
Have you tried ruff for linting? If you have joy of using it, you should try uv. It’s the same feeling
What kind of performance are you seeing? The tests that I have seen are not usable for anything because they are so slow.
15.1 completely removed the ability to "open anyway" within the Privacy & Security panel, which was already a shocking way of handling it.
But you get paid to do it, teachers are expected to do this on their off time. :-)

"You know so much about computers, it's easy for you to figure it out!"
Disagree. That seems like it would just slow down progress.

Astral are winning mindshare because the tooling is so much better than the previous generations. That’s the action that’s required here - to be the compelling choice, rather than another choice that’s pretty much like the others and differs only a little.
My point is that it may just be retained because it’s a positive and hence selected for, not merely because it’s a local optimum.
Health insurance and some elements of healthcare are literally farming human illness and death for cash.

Opioids are just the most obvious and egregious example of how the system is abusively hostile.
Pixi is just better.
You might want to try the German program Softmaker. It's not free--though I think there's a free version--and it's designed to be a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office. There is a Linux version as well.
He is criticised in part for this:

'In the podcast, Dr Seyfried also suggested radiotherapy and chemotherapy only improved patients' lifespan by one-to-two months, comparing modern cancer treatments to "medieval cures".'

Which is quite obviously horseshit.
Because of more money
Try Softmaker Office for Linux.
moving to Asahi Linux seems like an option eventually
I'm not much of a tea drinker myself, but I make it for my wife, the Quooker tap dispenses water at 100°C which I believe is sufficient for tea, I can brew it quite dark and it keeps a good temperature after adding milk.

As for pre-heating, I tend to use it to pre-heat my wife's tea mug and my coffee cup before I brew with the espresso machine in the kitchen, by filling it part way for a few seconds and then pouring away; mostly to take the chill off, as our kitchen can be cold in the mornings.

I know there are lots of other cheaper brands but my understanding from researching several of them a few years back was that many/most of the cheaper ones won't keep up with the Quooker, won't be as reliable, and likely won't have the after sales support as a product from a company that specialised in that single product. There are the office ones you speak of but they're been weaker performing in my anecdotal experience of our office, and often come with service contracts.
> If you're an American owner of Apple hardware, you've involuntarily signed yourself up for the Apple Isolationist program.

I use iPhone because I try not to use any Google products. I didn't sign up for no nothing, I have no other choice.
Cool. I forgot to mention, that I am truncating the hash down to 32 bits to hopefully generate tighter CPU instructions. At these few bits, collisions are still rare enough, but they are a concern.

Now my understanding of the choice of prime is that, you are "weighing" the input bits and the computed bits, that will form the hash. So in case of identifiers its very likely that bit 7 of the input is always 0 and say maybe bit 4 is statistically more likely to be 1 by some margin. The other input bits would have some entropy as well. I would expect that certain (imperfect) primes would then aid me to get a better use of the 32 bit space and therefore less risk of a collision for my Objective-C runtime.

You can check out the project here: https://github.com/mulle-objc.
I am gonna read this paper and the other latent sentence later today. I always advocated for this kind of solutions together with latent sentence search should get to the next level of AI. Amazing work from Meta
90% of my use of OpenAI is to avoid the crap of internet search (Google or ddg, even when I find the right page finding the specific part of a pain)

At some point chatgpt will become crap and the cycle will repeat
VtubeStudio plus an iPhone for mocap is the standard for the big-time vtubers that use 2D avatars, however 2D avatars actually have quite a high barrier to entry because pretty much your only option is to have something commissioned. 3D avatars tend to be what nearly everyone starts out with because there are several free programs out there that can help you make a decent starter avatar.

VtubeStudio only supports the nicer 2D avatars and as far as I know has no intention of getting into the 3D side of things. There are a few decent programs people use with 3D avatars(links below), but it seems they aren't really as high quality as VtubeStudio so they don't have the market cornered like VtubeStudio does for 2D.

As far as tracking goes, on the camera side of things there isn't really any difference between 2D and 3D that might limit you to one or the other.

There is a pretty large demand for tracking apps on Android because there are no widely used apps currently available. Big-time vtubers usually get iPhones so they can use the ARkit tracking that is Apple only, but a lot of people just starting out have Android and are currently forced to use a regular PC webcam that tends not to be as accurate and also doesn't allow people to offload the computing resources needed for face tracking to their phones.

Vroid Studio(the main app people use with 3D avatars): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486350/VRoid_Studio_v201...

Warudo(this one is a lot newer than Vroid Studio so it has a lot less users, but is probably the second most popular 3D app): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2079120/Warudo/
To create a patch, a small model is used to predict the likelihood for the next character in the input string. Input string: 'Lazy dog jumped over a fence.' Use the model to predict the likelihood of each character.

For example:

100% sure the next character is 'a'.
Or maybe it's 10% sure it's 'a', 10% sure it's 'b', and so on.

Then we chunk character estimates together.
How many characters?
Enough characters so that the total uncertainty (entropy) in each chunk is about the same.
And there you have your 'patch' (or 'token').
Let's hope that AMD Strix Halo will allow for 128 GB of VRAM when it releases next year. That's what Apple has to offer at the moment.

> On any other computers with integrated GPU you can have more memory than on Apple computers, where memory is abnormally expensive.

Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro?
This is a great summary how to use regexps, complete with some very nice examples. Thank you!
Using Projects in ChatGPT
Veryfront is amazing. I've known Koji for several years and he and his team have built a lot of great tech that now covers everything from rapid design iteration, to developing with their web IDE, with a live preview (it actually continually builds your website). and deploying using their cloud hosting solution.

The technology stack is very flexible. You can add your own components, libraries, styling solutions, backends, etc. And there is also an export option if you want to leave their platform that gives you everything in code form.

The big benefit of veryfront is that you can get started and have a webapp live in no time at all. You don't need anyone working on devops because they do it for you. You don't need to setup a lot of tools because it all runs in the browser. You don't need to figure out how to set up these tools either because they do it for you. You just code your webapp.
Thanks for the umash tip.
Pixi uses uv solver too but more focused on integrating with the conda packaging world
Platypus milk: How it could combat superbugs (2018)
Entropy, a measure of freedom in a contained environment.
I would make the argument that these AI safety initiatives yield messaging that muddles and confuses the public on the simple fact that they should not, under any circumstances, use a video or image as proof or assume its veracity. When I tell someone this it is common for them to come back with something like "aren't they working on things to detect if a video is fake?" I think this idea, that video content can still be trusted and that {COMPANY} is being responsible is the real goal of the money pumped into these watermarking techniques. These techniques will not actually help people, images and video will continue to be used for disinformation. The only thing that can stymie that is a broad cultural shift to default to distrust of photographs and video footage, to treat it all like you might a painting or animated cartoon depicting an event; maybe an accurate portrayal, but just as easily totally fabricated. The responsible thing for companies to do would be to spread messaging indicative of this fact, but they would rather engage in safety theater and score some points while keeping users dumb and easily fooled.
In a city I don’t take public transport over uber due to the cost but due to the convenience and speed.

The only exception is the US, and even then that doesn’t apply in Manhattan.
The main advantage these tools (poetry, pipenv, uv, ...) offer is, that they let you create lock files, which make your venv reproducible. Without that, you are kind of living in the wild west, where tomorrow you project can break. These tools help with projects, that are supposed to do more than "runs on my machine".
what is most interesting:

Low of reports popped up over the last 2 days, saying that these drones do not have a thermal signature?

how is this possible?

esp. batteries for electric drones get very hot very fast.

Any ideas?

Happy to discuss.

Or - its just Guerilla marketing for "Amazon Drone Prime"?
No, nobody has ever complained about it (and yes, we did ask). When we first started, we were really concerned about it, so we tried to move as little as possible, avoid hand gestures, and so on. However, it turned out to be a non-issue.

Fun fact: I’d estimate that 50% of users don’t even look at their Productivity Partner while they work. WorkMode runs in another tab, and users rarely switch back to it. They don’t need to see us - they just need to know we’re watching. I’m in that group.
> anyone who recommends GIMP hasn't really used GIMP.

Or they only ever used GIMP but never Acorn/Pixelmator/PS and thus don't understand how they run circles around GIMP.

Same about OmniGraffle vs the supposed horde of Linux diagramming tools.

Or Logic (or even GarageBand) vs Ardour or - deity forbid - Audacity (which is at best a glorified wav editor, but a far cry from a DAW)

They're just not in the same league.
TikTok loses emergency bid to pause law that could lead to US ban
But uv is written in Rust so it means there are considerably more efforts to fork it as compared to Python tools
Very good point, it's good for when you want water at that specific temperature but could end up being an inconvenience depending on how you intend to use it. I have a few different thermermometers in the kitchen, plus a laser one and my Pixel now has one (for some unknown reason) so I use those to check the temps of things in the kitchen when I need to know.

Hot drinks can be a bit of a ritual, as I'm sure you understand as an aeropress user, so I don't mind a bit of work to get the right brew if I need to do it, in fact one of the things I enjoy about taking my aeropress when I'm travelling whether camping or any other break, is having my coffee ritual with me.
Things i love about uv/astral

- Putting .venv automatically into the project directory

- Installing dependencies with pyproject.toml

- Installing any Python version

- Fast pip installs

- uvx (like npx)

- Ruff formatter and linter, made by the same people

Python used to give me a headache, now I tend to reach for it more often, exclusively thanks to uv
Go ahead and tell me how cacheable your SSR page is. If it was a static file? Oh yeah it never changes! How convenient! Maybe that's the point!

People who promote SSR are simply trying to rope frontend devs into their P2 or P1 incident responses and use them as whipping boys. This shit has to stop.

If you don't suspect your web devs are doing all kinds of cache-busting dog shit on your backend ruining your performance dude idk what to tell you other than: what year do you think it is and who do you think you hired?

It's SSR nonsense constantly spammed on sites like this that make you think it's a good idea and ultimately give inexperienced devs the green light to do all kinds of dumb shit that carries heavy technical debt once you need to meet an SLA that is more realistic than anyone who seriously uses HTMX on anything at that scale. There's no excuse for using tools like this other than ignorance.
xLSTM 7B
these are very un-HN times
The role of Transactive Memory Systems in great teams
So random to stumble upon this on HN a day after I happened upon this on Github while looking for maker/robotics inspiration.
The answer to the question about VC funding is weirdly obvious at any sort of distance away from the emotive things.

Communities should probably cautiously welcome VC funding for well-integrated community members solving hard, core problems with correctly-licensed contributions back to the community, as long as that effort doesn't divert community engineering focus away from long-term community goals and towards the startup's goals in non-beneficial way.

They should be more cynical about things that don't happen this way, but then they can keep doing their own thing anyway.

Ondsel found the money for two major core technical problems to be addressed in FreeCAD, and seems to have had a pretty positive impact on release-oriented thinking in general. They then folded. It is a loss, but essentially none of the work was lost.

Frankly I am not sure if the "written in Rust" element here is culturally beneficial in the long term or not; I don't know enough about Python or really anything about Rust.
I switched to uv recently from poetry because uv manages the python version too.
Art Explorer, search through half a million works of art using natural language
In physics the requirement for a valid changing the frame of reference is, that the laws of physics transform according to the transformation.

Every observer should discover the same fundamental laws when performing experiments and using the scientific method.

To stay in your analogy, saying 5 and 6 are the same would only work if the rules of the game you play could transform in such a way that an observer making a distinction between the two would arrive at the correctly transformed rules in his frame of reference.

Given that we have things like neutron stars, black holes and other objects that are at the same time objects of quantum physics and general relativity, the statement feels pretty fundamental to me, to a degree even that I wonder if it might be phrased to strongly.
And almost every instance the US is promoting "self-determination" or "liberation" of certain countries.
Not quite sure what kind of projects people are talking about here, where Poetry takes too long. Must be pretty massive sets of dependencies. Maybe huuuge monoliths? What I usually do is build a venv in a docker container of a service and then that gets deployed. I don't see a problem, if this took a minute or two, but so far it never did take that long.
It’s unforgivable that we treat slow motion murder by certain people as acceptable—deserving of nothing more than a fine.
My notes:

It's a 3 component model.

- Encoder: Takes byte groupings and outputs a hidden state/encoding called patches

- Transformer: Takes these encodings of patches in autoregressive fashion

- Decoder: Takes processed encodings by transformers and outputs bytes

Loss is on byte to byte crossentropy (Next byte prediction)

How they group bytes.

- Use entropy thresholds: If a sequence of bytes have entropy lower than a threshold, group them

- This is a learned model (from data)

Why this helps over current byte-pair tokenization in LLMs.

- Encoder/decoder essentially act as “learnable” tokenization scheme

- Better efficiency tradeoffs (as for highly predictable sequence of bytes, encoder can “offload” computation effort from the main transformer)

- History teaches us that end to end learned system beats human designed mechanisms
Dline: A tool that presents important data in the form of a calendar in terminal
> LLMs are very bad at interpreting Markdown tables

Which table format is better for LLMs? Do you have some insights there?
Tangential:

I updated my iPhone 15 from 17 to 18.1 and got Safari crashes. Lost handoff capability from iPhone to MacBook, works perfectly the other way. Both of these problems are incredibly frustrating.
The prosecution of Elling has the same vibe as that of Calley [1] after the vietnam war, and that of the small group of soldiers involved in the Mahmudiyah rape [2] during the second gulf war.

Viewed in isolation, the atrocities committed by these men deserve punishment. But in the bigger picture, the function these trials serve is for the institution in charge to be able to say "see? We do hold ourselves accountable" even though the vast majority of war crimes went uninvestigated and unpunished.

More heads, and more important heads, should roll. Not just that of one fall guy. Tens of thousands of deaths every year, and even more lives ruined. But we all know what side the US government is on, so I'm not holding my breath.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
Few coffee addicts become zombies like opioid addicts, with or without coffee.
I'm on a niche website full of people who are either too inexperienced to know what I mean or too managerial to give a fuck.
Headlines written in poetic style have existed for about 400 years before clickbait was a problem. Complaining about clickbait is one thing; ridding the world of poetic, intriguing headline and subhead writing is just going to make us miserable.
The private police patrolling London
In a lot of cases on a residential line you can't even pay for a public and/or static v4. The option simply doesn't exist. Many ISPs just force you to buy a "business" package for 3x the cost with a bunch of other features you may not need.
I guess we all have different requirements in a screen. I don't care so much about response time. For me it's more important that the screen can do 1000 nits continuously, support 120 hz and is close enough to 4K that I can't see the pixels.

Although I can't find a windows laptop that can beat the M4 Max in single threaded or multi threaded. Got any tips for any laptops that can compete with the M4 Max?
I honed my skills at recognizing ChatGPT, not you ?
But the security is also incomparable.
Previously, I worked at a startup where we were making a vision system for golf simulators to analyze the player's swing. It's this company: https://www.elvagolf.com/

I learned a lot of computer vision skills from that job, and it turns out this kind of computer vision is directly applicable to robotics as well.

So, I applied for a role as a vision engineer at my current job, and got the role :) This is where I work now: https://www.monumental.co/

Apart from my vision skills though, I was also just generally a good fit - I had a lot of startup/small company experience, I'm a pretty good software engineer apart from the computer vision, and the culture fit was there as well. I feel very lucky that the stars all aligned for me to be here.
SPAs are not necessarily SSR. Can you clarify your question?
I would have preferred a typescript equivalent for Lua. This is a bit too radical for a casual Lua user.
Sankara was pretty big on breaking with western influences and going back to local culture. The Upper Voltaic Ambassador title was an unfortunate victim of that
Money alone won't buy your entry inside the elite circles of the people with real influence.

Joe Biden just pardoned his son from crimes that would have gotten you and me in jail already.

Similarly, your Clintons, Bushs, Blairs, Bidens, Trumps, none of them or their friends and family will ever see a day in jail no matter their crimes. That's influence money alone can't buy. Those are the 1% of the 1%. They can kill or pardon people, start and end wars without answering to anyone.

Kim Dotcom is a nobody compared or those guys.
Happy to hear :D
Please give me commands to create a virtual environment built with libraries listed in the requirements.txt of a GitHub repo.

Ubuntu here.
Double underscores are reserved by the C standard (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230109-00/?p=10...), so it's a measure to avoid collisions with user-defined types.
Great to hear that it's useful!
Ahh, I didn't see that you were the original commenter.
OpenAI, GoogleDeepMind, and Meta Get Bad Grades on AI Safety
How I became a software engineer?
You don't need dual screens, the latest Mac or mechanical keyboards in order to learn how to code

Start where you are with what you have. I started with iPhone 7+ back then in 2017-2018

I was learning python by Phone Coding + I read a book

So, my advice to you, if you truly want to try it, just start ;)

P.s never learn coding by reading books, It doesn´t work
>why would I not recommend it ?

You're free to recommend it, but if you tell somebody coming from a Mac that GIMP is an alterantive to tools like like Affinity Photo, Pixelmator, Acorn, or even Photoshop, you're doing them a disservice, because it's not.

I'm glad that GIMP works for you. That's good. And technically, it probably does a lot (or even everthing) that most people do in other applications. And maybe you can even argue that it doesn't do those things worse, it just does them differently.

But the reality is that if you're used to a tool like Acorn on the Mac, which puts a huge priority on providing a good, efficient user experience, you're just never going to switch to GIMP.

Same applies to a tool like OmniGraffle. I've looked everywhere, there's nothing like OmniGraffle on Linux. By that, I don't mean that there aren't any tools that allow you to create diagrams and mockups, I mean there aren't any tools that are as nice, simple, and quick to use as OmniGraffle.
I think they must mean that the number of rust developers would be small compared to the number of python developers. Perhaps? Not sure myself.
Unfortunately the implementation in HA also broke a lot of addons from HACS for many people running HA in a container.
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