skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you make it so that I can use my actual keyboard on mobile instead of being forced to use QWERTY?
>Hot dark matter would be a black body emitter - we would see it.

Hot dark matter would be stuff like neutrinos and axions which don't interact electromagnetically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Warm_dark_matter
Yeah, if I were to describe it more generally, I would say they self-select for techno-optimists. As investors, YC often espouses judging startup’s potential by considering how successful the startup could be if everything goes right, and then working backwards from there to see if it could be possible. I’m not sure if pg has a historic reference that he has a commitment to, since he was a startup founder himself he just may be projecting his personality to the startup founders he’s assessing, but I do think he’s more concerned with “whether the startup has accomplished something impressive despite the odds” and less about how they accomplished it.

They filter for red flags that would indicate a potential for failure for the startup. So if a “lack of morals” has no bearing on a startup’s success, then they don’t bother creating a filter that eliminates that. Nerds often prefer building things instead of dealing with people and often take things at face value instead of suspecting intrigue, and that sometimes makes them susceptible to manipulation. PG has admitted that he himself is bad at noticing certain personality or character flaws and that’s why Jessica was the adult in the room. But Jessica was probably observing the founders to see if there was good co-founder dynamic and other aspects that would affect startup success rather than trying to decipher their moral character. After all, there is no hippocratic oath in the tech sector.
There are not really any startups in the position to feed AI the great data they have.
The magic bullet is armies of goats comping away at some of the fuel. Especially after so much rain. It’ll take time but if they’re working on it 24/7, they could probably make a meaningful dent in the fuels.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230922-these-la-goats-h...
> Unfortunately, I'll have to say goodbye to Docker, which isn't available on FreeBSD,

They've got podman now:)
David Abram's 1996 book The Spell of the Sensuous a good starting point.

This was also a central theme in a lot of the late John Moriarty's work (although approached more obliquely and holistically than Abram imo). That mantle has been picked up by Martin Shaw. Both discuss how we, as a species, have domesticated ourselves out of our natural and profound connection to the very ground of our being. See also philosopher and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist's The Master and his Emmisary.
I'm not going to pretend to know everything about Ollama, llama.cpp or llamafile, but my experiences using llama.cpp and llamafile (llama.cpp based) were both negative. Web UI frontends aren't relevant here, this is just purely about whether I can load a model and get it to produce coherent results that are in the realm of what the people who created the model intended.

With llama.cpp or llamafile, I was constantly having to look up a model's paper, documentation or other pages to see what the recommended parameters were, recommended templates were, and so on. My understanding is that GGUFs were supposed to solve that, yet still I was getting poor results.

You know, I don't know all the details or if there's any difference between what Modelfiles are for versus what GGUF metadata is for, but my experiences with Ollama have been that it just worked. It took me a while to even try Ollama, because the expectation is that it would simply be another interface on top of the same issues.

There are things I don't like about Ollama, but mostly they were easy to work around by writing a few scripts. Not using any web UI with it at all.
It is a tradeoff though, crop yield is one thing, but most of the produce from the NL is bland, tasteless, full of chemicals, something that would have been considered unsuitable for human consumption earlier, and achieved at a cost of great environmental degradation.
That’s standard authoritarian gaslighting.

“Why did you do this thing?”

“Sir, you told us to.”

“Don’t argue with me. You’re fired”
Side note - working at Google once used to be a sign of competence, but I would never hire anyone but has worked there in the last 6 years as all of the products have degraded significantly.
The main point here seems to be around boxing in the AI with a rigid set of rules, and then not being able to adapt to model improvements over time. I think if those "rules" are just in the prompt, you can still adapt, but if you're starting to code a lot of rule based logic in the product, you can get into trouble.
Is it sarcasm? Did you check about the history of those three?
Its for novices and youtube AI hucksters. Its the coding equivalent of vibrating belts for weight loss.
I’m very “bullish” on AI in general but find cursor incredibly underwhelming because there is little value add compared to basically any other AI coding tool that goes beyond autocomplete. Cursor emphatically does not understand large codebases and smaller (few file codebases) can just be pasted into a chat context in the worst case.
For those seeking something multiplayer https://play.typeracer.com/
And there are documented cases of concentrated efforts to manipulate the content of Wikipedia.
If you don’t, eventually your VP will hear that you are lacking such tool that they will tell you to deal with vendors X and Y, even if they don’t fix your problem. At least by proactively going after it, you can pick vendor Z, which despite having the same terrible process, at least it addresses your problems (until the imaginary limits apply).
They’re XFree86’ing him.
Nvidia Tensor Core Programming
This is wilfull copyright infringement. Statutory damages are up to a maximum of $150,000 per work infringed. Meta's market capitalization would cover 10,333,333 works, if maximum damages were levied against it.

Not that the billionaire class will ever be held to the same legal standard as the rest of us.
Do we know his reasoning for reneging on this offer to donate everything to the Gates Foundation? Anything to do with Bill’s conduct?
I used a made up but analogous example to see how the anti-trans rhetoric is intrinsically closed up to discussion.

It is a group of people deciding unilaterally what other people are without room for any alternatives. Say what you want against trans people, but at least they only identify themselves and ask to be allowed to exist.

Do you want to make an argument about bathrooms or sports whatever? Fine. But don't start it by de facto invalidating their existence, because that eliminates any room for a productive conversation.
I worked on a system implemented in Smalltalk for a few years, and the truly integrated development process possible in a ST is a high I've been chasing ever since. And this was in a setting that had so many things going against it: I started working on it in 2016, and the last update of the runtime environment was from '99. We had a custom HTTP client, and home-brew bindings to OpenSSL that I cooked up with some mad science Python that parsed C headers to generate Smalltalk code. I even had to fix a bug where Winsock fds rolled over if you opened more than 8k sockets, because the runtime FFI bindings assumed a 16 bit wide return value (I assume the code dates back to the Win 3.11 days).

By all rights, it should have been _awful_. But in reality we were able to iterate quickly and actually make stuff, because the technical foundations of the system were rock solid, the team was good, and because the truly integrated Smalltalk development enviroment enables a super-tight development cycle. A joke I have with a former colleague from those days is how all modern languages are still fundamentally no different from the punch card days: You take your sources off to the batch processing center, and the results come out at the other end, while Smalltalk is future techonology from the 80s.
Interesting. We're trying to cut costs on APM so we've been moving toward opensource alternatives. Setting up OTEL is definitely tedious, especially for traces and DT wasn't making it easier. I've been checking out a few alts, Signoz, Odigos, Chronosphere... there a few others too but these guys stood out. As much as we want to build out OTEl ourselves, looking for a solution to make the transition easy seems like the way to go.
because a vendor just using AI tools will not achieve the same capabilities as a vendor that either is OpenAI or is backed by OpenAI will achieve soon
I like FreePress or LibrePress
I haven't learned much in my career, (cue "burn after reading" clip [0]), but I do know that CEOs hate it when changes in governance are discussed by underlings, it's way more of a threat to power than any fork.

[0] https://youtu.be/J6VjPM5CeWs
Again, models are not archives of data.

Llama 3.1 70B is around 45GB is size, despite being trained on likely hundreds of petabytes of data. And before you say it, they are not fancy compression algo's either, the loss is so high they would be useless.
Something like a Samsung A55 will also get 5 years of security updates. This line usually converges to around 300 Euros halfway the yearly product release cycle. There are cheaper Samsung models with long support periods, but last time I looked, they would only get quarterly security updates. The Pixel _a_ line usually also has pretty good pricing, but they tend to have weird issues/bugs.

(I'm an iPhone user, but just to point out that there are also more affordable options with longer support periods.)
A RAG needs to be implemented by the LLM provider. The simple end user has no idea what that means, even though he will be (incorrectly) using the LLM for a vital purpose.
> If you rent a vps with a ipv6 “address” you will see that you are given a /64 network.

Unfortunately, I've seen multiple VPS providers that will assign you a single address within a /120 or something ridiculous like that.

I presume whoever runs the network side of things with those VPS providers has never used IPv6 themselves or they must be _extremely_ stingy.
Which diesel additive?
they can just buy openai credits with crypto and no kyc and they are immediately unban able
It certainly doesn't matter yet.

I'll see myself out.
You could do this same thing with Alexa routines and an API. I feel like it’s just a scam for views, is there an ad in the video?

If he’s serious, getting banned from ChatGPT isn’t much of an issue because a locally running LLM is perfectly capable of the same.
Well known by people who pay attention, yet ignored by people who make policy at the local level.

Look at the before pictures in LA. Homes with flammable exteriors and dense plantings.

Look at Laguna beach to the south. About half the town burned in the 90s. Strict building codes and regular inspections. It’s expensive and annoying to homeowners, but it works.
Well in most engineering there is a market and going out into the market and selling is not the job of the engineers

Academia is rare for having the engineer also be the salesman

My wife is the lead mechanical engineer at a small company and she definitely doesn’t have to go around convincing customers they need her products
I know it's an old man comment, but there really was a time the internet was friendly. It just wasn't 20 years ago. It was before the general public got online, and the internet was a refuge for specialists and early adopters.

In the early 90s, the internet felt like a magical undiscovered wilderness. 90% of the people you met were excited to be there and eager to share. That was long gone 20 years ago.
Having to make an entire separate file to mark something as public rather than just having a keyword in the language sounds to me "terrible and pointlessly extra". It's not like you can't just put all your public stuff in it's own file in Rust rather than putting private stuff in it as well; empirically though, people don't do this because it's just not worth the effort.
The frustration of attempting to buy anything in a large organisation is so great for both sides that it prohibits the purchase of cheap tools to help with small jobs. They might have saved time if you can buy them in a few hours but since it will take months nobody will bother.
I was hit by a driver while having the right of way on a bicycle. New York has mandatory personal injury protection of $50K. Because the insurance companies don't want to fulfill their mandated obligations, there was an attempt to secure my own car insurance as the primary coverage despite not being applicable under the law.

In the end I burned through the whole $50K in medical expenses without having to pay for for somebody else's screwup out of pocket. Despite being clearly at fault, the driver was not held accountable due to systemic bias against bicyclists even when we obey the law.
I think this misses a crucial dynamic. It’s not “custom scaffolding vs. wait for better models”. There is also fine-tuning.

In specialized domains you can’t just rely on OpenAI finding all the training data required to render your experts obsolete.

If you can build a data flywheel you can fine-tune models and build that lead into a moat; whoever has the best training set will have the best product. In the short term you might start fine-tuning on OpenAI but once you’ve established your dataset you can potentially gain independence by moving onto OSS models.

If you are building a software assistant, sure, this is clearly something that OpenAI will get better at very quickly, and Altman has commented as much that many companies are building things which are certain to get steamrolled by core product development. But I think there is a very interesting strategic question around areas like law, medicine, and probably more so niche technical areas, where OpenAI will/can not absorb knowledge as quickly.
I am blown away: a year ago I bought a M2 32G Mac to run local models. It seems like what I can run locally now just one year later is 10x more useful for NLP, data wrangling, RAG, experimenting with agents, etc.

BTW, a few days ago I published a book on using Ollama. Here is a link to read it online https://leanpub.com/ollama/read
Does the public have that kind of access with, say, a military base? The White House? I doubt it.
But probably even worse update-wise and most likely backdoored? Security should not be exclusive to the rich.
Dharma Talk for the Sixth Day of Sesshin (2018)
How can it possibly be the case that it's ok for meta to download and ingest the entire contents of libgen but it is not ok for an individual human to selectively download a single work and read it?

Whatever legal contortions used to justify this are, quite frankly, bullshit. This isn't how anything should work even if these companies can buy themselves a regulatory regime where it does.
Interesting challenge, and very impressive.

But he isn't honestly accounting for the cost of the salmon, even by his own rules ("Food that I don't use needs to be factored into my costs.", "if it goes to waste, I have to charge myself for it.").

The salmon, at $1.99/lb, costs $4.48 for 2.25lbs (36oz) of whole fish. From that, he's only able to extract 3x 6.25oz portions (19oz total) of meat.

Despite consuming everything he could/would from $4.48 worth of fish, he only charges himself $0.77 * 3 = $2.31, ignoring the cost of the waste that he was required to purchase in order to obtain the meat.

IMO a fairer accounting for 3 equal servings would be $4.48/3 = $1.49 per serving. Nearly double.
>No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example.

Don't astronomers call elements like neon metals? Maybe cosmologists don't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
The statement is a motte and bailey. "Trans women are women" meaning "this person wants to wear a dress so you should accept their social identity" is the motte. "Trans women are women" meaning "this person with the advantage of male puberty must be allowed to punch women in the face in boxing or else you're transphobic" is the bailey.

Your analogy fails because there aren't biological differences between people of different faiths. There are real biological differences between males and females, now detectable to the earliest life stages. Surgery and hormones won't change that, so we should drop the "Trans women are women" rhetoric, because the statement is false. It also enables bad behavior like trying to force lesbians to like dick, lest they be called transphobic.

It would be much more productive to come up with a new pithy statement meaning "be nice to people even if you think they're weird".
The most fundamental difference 20 years ago was that online activity was diffused across many different sites, and there was no algorithmic content feed recommending an endless stream of new things. Finding a rabbithole or dark corner required some degree of chance or intentionality, whereas now they are formed around you automatically as one toe in the waters of a given topic prompts the machine to deliver it more frequently and more intensely to keep your attention and draw you deeper in. This is, I think, absolutely foundational to so many sociocultural issues of the present.
This is really great idea, but as a Supernote user instead of ReMarkable, I just wish the output could be something different instead of tight ReMarkable integration.
Yeah that’s the thing. Not only do you have to beg for money but actually you make fake papers to do so. My supervisor taught me this early on, every single tiny discovery or synthesis can be made into a paper even if it really doesn’t warrant it

I left because the only path forward here in Germany is to become a professor, aka a life full of admin and sales
Bodily damage laws originate from shared intuition about the value of body parts
Great, so nothing changes.
Even if you don't really live in a wildfire area, there are things you can/should do. I get my fields cut back with a tractor once or twice a year and keep a lawn around the house. I also won't use firepits that have the potential to ignite the surroundings.
Hydrogen/syngas right now is the only way forward for long distance sea or plane travel, since batteries are too heavy.
Thanks, that sounds like a lot of money. I assume they'd start negotiating once you respond and they look into it, I can't see them paying $6-10 per user. At that point, it has to be cheaper to just build extensions and let them gather a few users, right?

Wild market though, and I applaud developers who reject the offers. I'm sure that small voice becomes a lot louder if you built an extension that now has 100k users.
During my last Android excursion, I investigated Fairphone, but people seem to have a lot of issues with them? Like shutting frequently down during the summer due to heat, phone calls often not coming through, etc.
What if they shitlist all accounts using the same phone number?
Just about anything with a screen these days. The biggest holdout is Android and a bunch of IoT stuff.

SLAAC works on any device that supports DHCPv6, though, so you might as well use it if you don't have any requirements to favour DHCPv6
Nah it’s easy to quit vim:

ctrl-z, bg, killall vim

;-)
This is what everyone needs to be doing, and the fire dept. needs to enforce it.
> preventing competition against their own projects and products for large "defense" institutions

Large defense contractors build their own systems: Some of the best tools for CAD, SCADA, CAM and project-management come from companies like Thales and Dassault. I also have it on good authotity that major US defense contractors' people are very explicitly banned from interacting with any non-local-hosted LLM.

Whereas, uncensored LLMs (and the like) with knowledge of firearms and explosives manufacturing are a public-health risk for sure, but not a national-security risk.
Those people don't get sick pay by default from their employer anyway. At least in Austria but I assume in Germany as well since you're not hired as a full time employee with full rights if you're doing uber eats/door-dash. They have to pay separately for that themselves for that.

And even if they do get paid sick leave, they tend not to take it for fear of getting fired for missing work.

It's legalized modern slave labor basically.
Shared Genetic Etiology Between Gastrointestinal Diseases and Psych Disorders
I also have a really small extension. I also get a lot of emails offering "help" to expand the user base through SEO and marketing.
The idea that the internet used to be less "hateful" 20 years ago has to be from people who weren't online 20 years ago, or people lying about their own behavior 20 years ago. There were no women or black people on the internet back then, because if you didn't pretend to be white and male, there was a constant stream of abuse.

Every subject you talked about resulted in a discussion about who and what you were, and why it disqualified you from being in the conversation. If it wasn't just a direct insult. Twitter is nicer than the internet back then, and when you see a racial slur or rape threat, that's the old internet leaking in.

I was a phone phreak and BBSer in the late 80s and early 90s, and it was just as bad, if not worse. The nostalgia about a place without hate is the same as nostalgia for the segregated neighborhood you grew up in. "Everybody got along." Everybody got along because you belonged to a HOA with racial covenants, and your grandparents burned out half the old residents. The propaganda about a better time in the past, now coming from the nonprofit sector, is a device to make their new speech and behavior codes sound conservative rather than revolutionary.

What they've taken from us is unmediated, unsurveilled speech. And they've united with the traditional forces of suppression in order to make sure that people can't speak directly to each other without being corrected, whether it's about their opinions about black people, or their opinions about the CIA, or their opinions about Pfizer, or their opinions about UnitedHealth. They're buttbuttinating the world.

Any other nostalgia for the old internet should be because it was smarter. But the fact that it's dumber is part of a process: the world has become more literate since the internet started. People who wouldn't normally write now write. They're also reading. The political fulmination of the current age is due to this, and is going to result in a better educated electorate in general. The reason they hate government is because they've become more informed about it, not less.

Nostalgia about your own corner of the internet? Sorry, Eternal September, Evaporative Cooling (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665). If you want to create a community that appeals to you, pay for it and gatekeep. If you want to keep a good community together, use classic democratic means (start with Robert's Rules and figure out where you want to go from there), have a dues paying membership, and gatekeep. The open internet is the enemy of corporations, moral police, and governments. They just want you to say good things about products, cultural or otherwise, all day and all night. They want you to produce for free and pay to consume. That's it.
>argument that training on copyrighted data is a breach of IP laws.

You pay for access to materials, not using or remembering the material in its original format.
Why did you start using it again?
They're perfectly bannable if OpenAI is able to flag certain prompts and certain client IPs. Payment modes and accounts aren't the only indicators here. The real problem is building such a brittle system that it can be cut off by your SaaS supplier or is rendered useless by an internet outage.
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