skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked once for a smallsh (~50 people) company, with a huge, unmaintainable, legacy code-base.

Said company was bought by a large US company where one of their key metrics for a developer was number of new lines of code.

It went down-hill from there. 10% of people were fired because mothership instituted job cuts globally, and then people were leaving, then another round of cuts, then most people left, then the company was sold, I think losing a fairly hefty part of its valuation.

Eventually large US company was bought by Oracle, which to my eye indicated Oracle is like MS; they have a single product, which is a massive cash cow, and for the rest, they serially make terrible decisions (a la Nokia et al).
Just as I thought, just snark and no real meaningful engagement.

P.S my script uses local models - no capacity constraints (apart from VRAM!)
You can amend the constitution to allow infringing on nuclear arms. Not super difficult if everyone agrees. Elon Musk has far worse than these explosives just by deorbiting at the appropriately scary trajectory.
It's clear that macOS's naïve resolution scaling is inferior to Windows native resolution and app scaling. On anything other than Apple display hardware (non-industry standard native resolutions), macOS looks comically big (1080p on 4k 32") or too small (4k native 32").

It's interesting that for the longest time Apple held a firm position of publishing the most elegant operating system, but their technical strategies that took them into the HDPI era are not aging well at all.
> Originally all third-party software was going to be installed this way.

It's off topic, but I don't think this was true once the HTML Weather and Stocks 'widgets' failed on iOS. Anything Apple said publicly was just saving face until their SDK was ready for public consumption.
The bad economy is the biggest (arguably only) reason Trump won against Harris, and by a landslide at that.

You may think that expensive gasoline and cartons of eggs are a meme, but the reality is that the economy has become pretty damn Shite(tm) for the commons. Costs of living are objectively higher than they were just a couple years ago and incomes haven't kept pace either.

The stock market is having the time of its life (and as a small time investor I find that nice) but it's completely detached from the economy.
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I guess you're just unaccustomed to America's loooooooooooooooooooongstanding free speech regs.

Many people in more restrictive countries (like Germany and the UK) are pretty shocked by what USians are permitted to say. Similarly, many USians are shocked by what folks in more restrictive countries are NOT permitted to say.

Krebs is an American journalist, living in America, writing for an American publication. The standard to use here is an American one, not any others.
I put recipes in google sheets. I hope that Google gets the ratios right on some killer ragù.
An amazing example of a DSL was Butler for Trello before it was acquired and dumbed down to a “no code” tool. It was magical to use. I had started consulting using it but they said I wasn’t allowed to use it anymore so I replicated the functionality as a library to run inside a Google sheet using Google apps script.
> the DBA pissed they were using an ORM instead of their perfect SQL queries and procedures.

Tbh, I don't understand why this is seen as a bad thing. Correction: I know why it is (any changes are obviously going to be dramatically slowed down), but in the long run, I don't understand why people are against it. You wanted something done correctly, so you went to the SME for that specific field, and had them do it for you. Then you decided to throw it away?! Why are you bothering to ask them in the first place?

> 1 to many relationships, etc

I know this was just an example, but 1:M is a perfectly natural part of any RDBMS, and in no way requires an ORM to be done.
I don't think the desire to see the conspiracy and not the boring, mundane explanation is a failure of communication, scientific thinking, or critical reasoning skills.

I think it's simply the consequences of politically motivated reasoning. (At least, for people who have spent much time thinking about it.)

> I've yet to see anyone effectively communicate why the intuitively more probable answer is the less probable one.

I just communicated why the market leak theory is both more intuitive, and more probable.

There were two possible sources for the virus in the city, and hundreds of thousands of non-sources for it. The first detected source of it was the market.

If the first outbreak of it were in the lab, (but was hidden), probability and intuition indicates that the next place it would have shown up at would have been some randomly selected place of the city, which has nothing to do with viruses. A mall. A theatre. A ball game.

The fact that of all the possibilities, it showed up in the one particular place that is also a prime suspect for it's own viral outbreak means that the most obvious explanation (market leak) is likely the correct one.

When a swine flu outbreak is traced to a particular stall in a factory farm, we don't conclude (without further evidence) that actually it was caused by a university miles away.
First in Chess Championship history, two players agreed to share the title
You should read the follow-up work from Entropix folks, or reflect on the extremely high review scores min_p is getting, or look at the fact the even trivial shit like top_k=2 + temperature = max_int works as evidence that models do in fact "have access to the semantics of what they're sampling" via the ordering of their logprobs.

DRY does in fact solve repetition issues. You're not using the right settings with it. Set the penalty sky high like 5+. Yes that means you're going to have to modify the ui_paramas in oobabooga cus they have stupid defaults on what limits you can set the knobs to.

There's several other excellent samplers which deserve high ranking papers and will get them in due time. Constrained beam search, tfs (oldie but goodie), mirostat, typicality, top_a, top-n0, and more coming soon. Don't count out sampler work. It's the next frontier and the least well appreciated.

Also, contrastive search is pretty great. Activation/attention engineering is pretty great, and models can in fact be made to choose their own sampling/decoding settings, even on the fly. We haven't even touched on the value of constrained/structured decoding. You'll probably link a similarly bad paper to the previous one claiming that this too harms creativity. Good thing that folks who actually know what they're doing, i.e. the developers of outlines, pre-bunked that paper already for me: https://blog.dottxt.co/say-what-you-mean.html

I'm so incredibly bullish on AI creativity and I will die on the hill that soon AI systems will be undeniably more creative, and better at extrapolation, than most humans.
Write your own application launcher
Wow, that's really not intuitive, but it works. Thanks!
> it's due to them simply not recognizing that they could actually take their time and enjoy life

Ah sure he went on to work extremely hard and build a whole foundry business just because he didn’t recognize that he could actually take his time and enjoy life? I think you’re sort of right but also wrong. Telling an extremely ambitious person to “just enjoy life” is, I think, like telling an autistic person to “just be social”. It’s not as simple as that.
chmod775 point is about ethics, not legality. (Though perhaps by "publication standard", you're saying that what's considered ethical is also judged by American standards?)
That's a pity! CGTalk was the site where I first learned about Cg from Nvidia that later morphed into CUDA so unbeknownst to them, CGTalk was at the forefront of the AI by popularizing it.
Strange that you don’t mention your product. Making too much money already?
My point is most won't bother
haha lol given your name, I should agree. It was for fun anyway.
Great way to harvest people’s handwriting.
I used this to pick IBM Plex Mono for Gwern.net, which narrowly beat out the Adobe Source Code Pro which ranked highly & we had been using before.
> Browsers can't access all the APIs in iOS.

Always laugh at the argument. Surely this matters for yet-another-mobile-crud #3553333.

> You pay 99$ per year and 15% for each sale. Apple handles VAT, refunds, distribution and so on.

15% until 1 mil, isn’t it? And even without that, 15% is ridiculous price.

> Enabling iCloud sync for your app is just a single click on Xcode.

How many Xcode clicks to port iOS app to Windows, Mac, Android and Web?
Sometimes it can. Other times, you have the SQL already written in your head, but then you have to figure out how to coerce the ORM to doing what you want.
Not doubting you but care to share some links to back this up? I’d be interested to read more.
An RSS reader should not be paying any attention to a stylesheet. That is not part of the RSS or ATOM schema and is irrelevant to the "feed" portion of the document. If you come across a feed reader applying a stylesheet you should report it as a bug.
Ask HN: 2025 Resolutions?
- Survive the AIpocalipse? :)
- "Infoxication" detox
- Master another language
Yes this helps specifically when passing functions as pointers or something like std::function (edit: or overriding methods), it will at least inform the developer that they need to add noexcept to the function declaration if they want to use it there, and hopefully due to that they recursively audit the function body and anything it calls for exceptions. And hopefully all future developers also notice the noexcept and keep up the practice. But it changes nothing about checking plain function calls. So I think adding this to the function type helps some cases but still does not move noexcept toward the behavior most people want/expect.

This just feels important to point out because this feature is 15 years old and still commonly misunderstood, and each time people are wanting the same thing (actual compile-time prevention of `throw`) which it is not.

Edit: OK I finally just went and tried it on godbolt.org. C++17 GCC, Clang, and MSVC all give 1 warning on this code for `bar` and that's all.

void canthrow() {
throw 42;
}

void foo() noexcept {
canthrow();
}

void bar() noexcept {
throw 42;
}
The lower cost successor mentioned in the article is rumored to be aiming for ~$2000, and I honestly can't see there being that many people who wouldn't pay $3500 for Apple Vision but would pay $2000 for it. That's still just too much money for a platform with no killer apps yet, and the way the hype around the first generation fell off a cliff once it was actually in the wild is only going to make the second generation even harder to sell. When's the last time you heard anyone mention using a Vision Pro?
Only if they’re designed that way. Many aren’t.
Sure it does since luxury tax can be 10%-25% of property value.
Let's see who wants to hold on to property then. And if they do they are paying their dues to society.

When they are "removed" and owned by more people, presumably this is a more efficient allocation of the same amount of houses to more people, which is a solution for the housing problem.
The web tries to do a lot of things, even some of the stuff you named. There's a Bluetooth API in Chrome, server-sent notifications via service workers, and some attempts at VR support.
suffix-array-searching/static-search-tree/src/s_tree.rs: https://github.com/RagnarGrootKoerkamp/suffix-array-searchin... partitioned_s_tree.rs: https://github.com/RagnarGrootKoerkamp/suffix-array-searchin...
I'm sure one of them will comment here and tell you. Just as soon as they fix their wifi driver, and oh shit the bluetooth is broken too, okay time to open up the local copy of the arch wiki..
China has lowered the air polution in their cities by a lot. They are investing heavily in renewables and fixing desertification.

I don't mean by that that China is a communist country, because it isn't. It is a dictatorship with a capitalist vision. But they are more socialist and people based than others.

Why can I say that? Because they are effectively trying to fix the problems that their capitalist vision has brought, like environment contamination, pollution and desertification.

You've given the wrong example and proven right the other comment: A strong government can fix the problems a liberalized economy can bring.
I had decided before the keynote that I would insta-buy at $2k. But obviously it ended up being way more than that.

There’s no way I’m paying $3500 for it but I think I’d still give it a whirl at $2k.
Thanks. Google AI Studio isn’t local, I think, is it? I’ll have to test this, but our project sizes and specification documents are likely to run into size limitations for local models (or for the clipboard at the very least ;)). And what I’d be most interested in are big-picture questions and global analyses.
> But what I wanted to combat is the misinformation that thorium __can't __ be used for proliferation

Nobody serious is actually saying that.

What people are actually saying that any nation would be completely fucking insane to attempt to start their nuclear program with this method. When there are proven method that already work, are far easier and with existing equipment.

Plus, using U233 also leads to the creation of elements that you really don't want and are unpractical for a long term nuclear defense policy. And they are equally as unpractical for hiding nuclear material.

No country so far has used this method for a reason, and no country will either. And that argument doesn't matter for most western nations anyway.

> We can dramatically reduce waste but we don't.

Lots of things aren't done until they are done. We should and with a cyclical thorium fuel cycle we could.

While nuclear waste isn't a real problem, we still have millions of people who think it is, and to have clear solution that anybody can just point out, is much better of an argument winner then 'just ignore the waste its fine'. Even if it is actually fine.

> There just isn't much of it and doing more fission is less economical.

Not sure what you mean. I don't think its actually true that fission isn't economical specially if you are thinking about it from a country perspective.

I did some calculation with pretty conservative assumptions for cost, using Germany at the start of the 'Grünewende' and the cost of all that. And I think nuclear would have been a far better deal for them, and its not even really close.

> That's the case with France, so they "recycle" their waste and in the process this dramatically reduces it.

They are using a very complex process. Part of the reason why in the 60s some of the smartest minds looked into molten salt is because that's in many ways easier to work with then complex solid fuels.

> So that points us back to the opening: yes, thorium is abundant, but why go through all that effort when we got plenty of uranium which is cheap and efficient?

In general you are right but a few points, uranium isn't actually that cheap. We restrict what our reactors can do because only low enriched is commercially available, limiting some of the cool things we could be doing. Enriched uranium was artificially cheap because of Russian policy. And now to supply enough, the West will need to increase its own enrichment again.

Second, its only not a big factor of the cost because PWR plants have pretty high operating cost. If you can get the labor cost down, the capital cost down, and the maintenance cost down, and the fuel cost down, you have something potentially interesting.

This of course matters far more when you are doing this as a country strategically. For an individual plant or company its not worth doing.

The things that actually makes thorium special, and an actual improvement over uranium is that you can do a thermal breeder.
But isn't chatgpt explicitly prohibiting such use?
Thanks..Among many other issues, it is also a serious crippling factor for communities and countries that are low on budget/resources & a disaster for recycling, climate change etc etc.
Kata Containers
Someone provided the solution in another comment.

After pinning the extension, click on it and deselect the "enabled" option (the line with the purple X). This will kill the floating orb UI but you can still click on the extension in the toolbar to use it.
No, it's not. I've not seen any local models that can handle 1m+ tokens.

I haven't actually done many experiments with long context local models - I tend to hit the hosted API models for that kind of thing.
It had a death loop which got triggered by market pressure on a stablecoin leading to a run on the native token which actually made it converge to zero: can't get much more unsuccessful than that.
That’s all the more reason good regulation is essential. If there were a dozen viable competitors then you could just step back and let the market decide.
You're missing the debt equation. We live in debt based economy. True across the board deflation (not just some things get cheaper cause of tech etc) means debt is harder and harder to service as wages and earnings fall. As the asset backing the debt goes underwater the debt holders have no choice but to walk away. All banks stop lending and ultimately the entire economy grinds to a halt. That's the main cause of the spiral.

One man's debt is another mans income.

The reason we narrowly avoided full blown deflation in 2008 is because they bailed out the banks. If they didn't we would have had 1929 style depression these last 15 years.
I honestly feel that if they can get the sports content, it'll sell.

They have three short videos, one football/soccer, one nfl, and one nba and they are really compelling of an experience. If they can do them for the games, I think everyone I know would be buying one.
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By "publication standard" I mean "standard" (with a side of "my brain is swiss cheese and repeats or erases words frighteningly frequently").

I'll update the post.

And yeah, when it comes to talking about things being discussed in the Public Square in America, the ethical standard should also be American.
Excited to look into this in the new year - I'd been wondering if something like this existed
Years ago, the announcement came out over IRC that one of our providers demanded to audit our machines for "PCI compliance," and would be in the office the next day in our server rooms. I immediately replied that we needed to have someone keep an eye on them at all times. I was dismissed as paranoid, and the "outside auditors" were allowed unsupervised free rein with our machines for the day. These machines contained all of our users' credit card, personal, and travel information.

I was convinced after that incident that protecting users' data just wasn't a priority for startups, and that Mark Zuckerberg's money quote about users being "dumb fscks" for trusting him with their information was the norm in the C-suite and not an aberation.
Well, it’s a cat and mouse game. They will start to bother when not doing so starts having consequences for them.
How does 'the additional Tirreno API enrichment' work, can I run that locally to do I need to send data to you for processing?
> A single almond requires an average of 12 liters (3.2 gallons) of water to grow.

> Almond milk: It takes about 1,600 gallons of water to produce one liter of almond milk. The ratio of almonds to water in almond milk is usually 1:3 or 1:4.

> According to a report, Chat GPT consumes approximately 500 ml of fresh, clean water every twenty to fifty questions. Although it may not appear to be a large volume of water each time, the fact that Chat GPT has over 100 million users monthly and is consistently responding to queries and producing answers accumulates quickly. It is estimated that during its training, Chat GPT consumed about 700,000 liters of water, which is equivalent to the amount of water used by an average American household in about 20 years.

The blog post compares fresh water usage of Chat GPT to almond milk production (know to be wasteful of water) and Chat GPT comes off far worse.

This is followed by a quote from Apocalypse Never arguing for nuclear power.
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Public Domain Day is today.

I built this website to help you search through video in the public domain. It's always exciting when the new videos come into the public domain each year, but it can be hard to find them, watch them, and ultimately remix them.

The backend uses twelvelabs for search and indexing. Frontend is nextjs. There is also a Premiere plugin, so if you happen to work in Adobe Premiere, you can easily download, clip, and remix the videos.

This is a small tool where you can search public domain video by queries "train" or "happiness" or "hat" - looking for things you want to see, or things you want to feel.

If you are editing video, it's a great way to get short clips that you can use in your projects.

It's also a fun way to see how things were portrayed roughly 100 years ago.

Would love to hear community feedback.
Fine-tuning a particular pattern of speech or bias seems self evident. The personality verbiage and focus is incredibly contrived as well. I prefer how this type of idea was approached by Theia (https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/) and Anthropic (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...), in both cases the "personality" piece is just a fun little aside to the fact that you can actively bias the LLM in a way that doesn't require retraining, allows for active adjustment, and is more immutable than just using prompts. Also one other thing, the use case in video games while not untrue seems like overkill, character prompts work really well on their own.
Happy new year from a rainy Manchester, UK!
> More powerful

What does it even mean?

> More efficient

Debatable. Depends on implementation.

> Have better tooling

Absolutely no. I’m yet to see any native toolkit that has even feature parity and nice DX compared to web development.

> Have stable APIs

Ask Android developers about stable APIs. Also, which web APIs do you find unstable?

> Are easier to debug

Debatable.
These days it’s better to use an emulator. You can easily replace textures for higher res and get much better performance. Not sure why this effort was even performed? As an exercise/challenge it’s awesome but there are so many (better) ways to play gta 3 it seems like an odd endeavor.

The cooler thing here is that it’s a fully decompiled game.
This would have been easier for a larger number of people to read if it had been in C or Python.
Jailbreak visionOS to unlock new use cases, warehouse parts until written off, or donate Vision Pros to university labs for research?
Here’s an example of how large companies abuse their power to push back against these privacy guards.

iOS has the ability to share your photos with an app in a special “picker” where you select the pics you want to share and then they’re sent to the app. The app can’t see the picker so it only has access to the photos you explicitly share.

WhatsApp deliberately ignores this integration path and gives you a choice of either manually choosing more photos to share each time, then selecting them a second time. Or sharing all photos forever, which most users will eventually choose because the friction of the first one is so massive. It’s done cynically and deliberately so they can have access to all your photographs. I shudder to think for what purpose.