skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It meanders as an article, it does repeatedly return to the core message:

This fundamental misunderstanding has likewise led to a misunderstanding of prevention.

No longer is it a matter of preventing wildfires but instead preventing points of ignition within communities by employing “home-hardening” strategies — proper landscaping, fire-resistant siding — and enjoining neighbors in collective efforts such as brush clearing.

This aligns with the post urban fire recommendations in Canberra, Australia some years back - hardened homes, clean gutters, fewer easily ignited shrubs close to flammable buildings, etc.

Wildfires will happen, embers will rain from the sky .. how prepared is your home to be ignition resistant when that happens?
> It always seemed to be that only the most weirdo Americans are blind to relative status, whereas for many Australians it's the norm?

As an Irish person, I have the impression that Australia is very similar to Ireland in this regard. I came across a survey years ago that asked a question along the lines of "in the workplace, is the manager/boss higher status or equal to the staff they manage?" (paraphrasing because it was years ago). Ireland scored amongst the highest that said the boss and other staff are equals. I imagine Australia would too, while the US would score lower on that scale (as did some other EU countries).

I now live in Vietnam, and somehow I've ended up being the boss, with a team of around 20 Vietnamese people. While they are diligent and skilled workers, the level of deference they show to me makes me deeply uncomfortable and I have to keep reminding them to talk to me like a human being - call me by my name instead of "sir", for example. But it's a losing battle.
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I can assure you, your US colleagues are as cynical as you are, but in America you fake a positive attitude because what the hell else are you supposed to do but make the best of it?

Generally, the West Coast of the US is the most fake positive and the East Coast is the most blunt and outwardly cynical. Middle America tends to be friendly yet direct.
Matches my experience working with SF based companies.
>And COBRA tends to be massively expensive

It's pretty similar to a comparable marketplace plan and even to Medicare for the first couple of years (which is tied to what your recent W-2 income is/was). The issue is that your employer is presumably chipping in a lot of your current insurance costs as part of your benefits. But, yes, if you're paying for insurance on your own, it's expensive because you're covering the whole thing.
Thanks for your insights. I am old enough that all I need to do partly is revert to habits I had when younger. I make an exception for Hacker News since that quality of discussion is usually so high.
You sound like a dream to work for. Do you go around asking people who aren't beaming with an idiotic smile if they have a case of the Mondays too?
It’s almost like integrating a poorly understood black box with your software is a bad idea.
Yeah we evaluated several models for grading ~1 year ago and concluded Mixtral was the best choice for us, as it was the best model yielding the best results that we could self-host and distribute the load of grading 1.2M+ answers over several GPU Servers.

We would have liked to pick a neutral model like Gemini which was fast, reliable and low cost, unfortunately it gave too many poor answers good grades [1]. If we had to pick a new grading model now, hopefully the much improved Gemini Flash 2.0 might yield better results.

[1] https://pvq.app/posts/individual-voting-comparison#gemini-pr...
The ollama application has zero value; it’s just an easy to use front end to their model hosting which is both what this is and why they’re important.

Only having one model host (hugging face) is bad for obvious reasons (and good in others, yes, but still)

Ollama offering an alternative as a model host seems quite reasonable and quite well implemented.

The frontend really is nothing; it’s just llama.cpp in a go wrapper. It has no value and it’s not really interesting, it’s simple stable technology that is perfectly fine to rely on and be totally unexcited or interested in, technically.

…but, they do a lot more than that; and I think it’s a little unfair to imply that trivial piece of their stack is all they do.
I’m not seeing what the issue is with ollama. Can you elaborate? There are tons of open source projects that other stuff gets built upon: that’s part of the point of open source.
> It’s odd that MS is releasing models they are competitors to OA.

> I think the strategy is now offer cheap and performant infra to run the models.

Is this not what microsoft is doing? What can microsoft possibly lose by releasing a model?
Amazon employees are universally complaining about it, while Amazon is the only FAANG that is actively hiring right now (they must have higher turnover).
Pity RSS is one-way. There's no standard way of comment or doing iteractions.
That might be how it started, but there are differences. For example support for LLama 3.2 Vision was added to Ollama[1], but not upstreamed[2] to llama.cpp due to image processing requirements AFIAK.

[1]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.4.0

[2]: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/9643
> Unless it is group of South African expats why should we brainstorming?

Why not? British people discussed the US election and Trump, lots of Americans express opinions on Britain, everyone expresses opinions about Russia and Ukraine, etc.

I would say that people's opinions about countries they do not know first hand are often (if not usually) worthless, but I cannot imagine that in any of the above cases (or similar) many people would say they have no reason not to have opinions.
Looks like you’re being downvoted. It’d be nice if somebody could explain the difference, cause I’m also kinda out of the loop on this
I watched that last year. It's very interesting research and seems effective not just for Alzheimers but for treatment of addiction as well. I'm seriously counting on this treatment for any family members who may end up being diagnosed with it later in life.
There are a lot of interesting options. Gemini 2 Flash isn't ready yet (the current limits are 10 RPM and 1500 RPD) but it could definitely work. An alternative might be using a fine tuned model - I've heard good things about OpenAI fine tuning with even a few examples.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
By: Carl Sagan,
FROM: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
So a fraud? Can they be sued in court for fraud?
Right, it’s a break. Actual thinking is like a physical activity, and we need breaks. In the past we had more frequent and longer breaks even if we were diligent, because we could leverage our knowledge. Increasingly we have to leverage our knowledge and actively think for almost the entire workday. I’m not sure that we can adapt to that the same way we’d adapt to jogging all day.
Without the raw image, we won't really know whether there was clipping. However, it is clear that the poster here wanted to remove the highlights and was okay with introducing some information that wasn't in the photo to do it, hence the use of an AI filter. That means that there is no issue with using the clone stamp or the paintbrush tool.
What do you consider liberal-centric policies? Or leftist?

As far as I'm aware, Democrats are still rather strong proponents of liberalism. Even most Republicans are proponents, though generally more for classical liberalism than modern liberalism.

Liberalism, arguably, isn't really on the left-right axis at all.
Employment security has a lot to do with it. Obviously you can’t completely ignore leaders, and if you refuse reasonable instructions you can be fired. But you have a lot more freedom to rock the boat and share your opinion.

You can not be fired just because you hurt a managers feelings by disagreeing with them.
I worked as an applied ML researcher for a while, so I'll give this a shot.

"- AI can solve any problem across modalities—just feed it data." - a large chunk of my time in ML is spent on data. I can't emphasize this enough - obtaining large amounts of quality data is a primary challenge with any sort of ML task. This might get easier with time, but will remain a challenge.

The corollary is that niche applications (and thus good fundamentals) are still important.

"- Are the challenges you encounter just a matter of “more compute/money,” or are they fundamental barriers?" - Well, there's a spectrum. Hallucinations are inherent to ML models - I don't think anybody has cracked ML model confidence estimation, and plenty have tried.

A slew of current limitations around LLMs stem from limited context windows. That is "only" inherent to the Transformer architecture (and there is some ongoing work on alternatives such as Mamba).

I think that "agents" and deep integration with computer interfaces will have some interesting automations come out of it.
Man this is precisely my dilemma right now. I’m an 1st year analyst with a ms in data science doing ai engineer requests for in an insurance company where heads of analytics division think transformers are from movies. Knock on wood I pull off a pay package that’s being discussed, which would keep me for sure, but I can’t find(/failing to recognize) anyone in the company who I’d aspire to. Instead, out of boredom essentially, I’ve been doing Ai full stack development projects for companies, but again no inspiring people just repeating customized (though admittedly some rather interesting) problems with bit extra income. Am I just not looking for the right perspective?
A lot of companies have definitely gotten better at asynchronous communications over the past few years. Not perfect for everything but if you can keep the weird hour calls to a dull roar it's probably more manageable than even 10 years ago.
Yet people with lower education were (again) more likely to vote for the most radical president in the US history.

Social media and its propagandists are the source of modern radicalization, together with failure of neoliberalism to produce growth that benefits the little guy. The university far leftist radical and rural Trump voter have lots in common in hating the status quo. They just blame different things, often the wrong ones like migrants or white privilege.

Everyone not in the billionaire club should hate neoliberalism.
As a child, I also ate them for breakfast every time I spent the night at my grandparents' house. I'm in Houston now, and this afternoon I was talking to a neighbor from the town of West (which is a few hours northwest of here). My Czech grandparents lived an hour south of Houston but the neighbor and I both agreed on how much we like prune kolaches. I also love apricot. Some places use canned fruit which might taste fine to someone who doesn't know better, but it's a terrible clash with memories of what my grandmother made (and what some of my cousins still make), and I refuse to pay for them at any shop which does that. We also talked about the poppyseed ones, and how for us it's so heartwarmingly nostalgic but often other people who didn't grow up with poppyseed struggle to understand the appeal.
Seven Segment Mechanical Display [video]
My thought as well.

ps When is your SC podcast coming back?
Your arguments to refute that gen-z drives less circles around this statement you made:

> In 2012 41% of people under 19 had a license. In 2022 49% of people under 19 had a license

I have already addressed why this is entirely predictable & the worst dumbest possible indicator one could use, because it looks specifically at and compares COVID and non-COVID years.

It looks like you are getting tripped up & confused with your reply here. It seems to be arguing something else entirely, and seems non-sequitorial.
We'd always rather go with the more specific site anyhow so I've changed the URL to that from https://twitter.com/WalterBright/status/1878209651306803406. Thanks!
Looks correct to me - from output look in you are doing it on TAR which is wrong. You do it on TAR.GZ file.

sha256sum openjdk-23.0.1_macos-aarch64_bin.tar.gz
I'd say thats due to:

(a) Australian culture being quite egalitarian, ie people there see other people just as people rather how much money or power they have, etc and

(b) American management being more of the power tripping variety, so they're more likely to wield their power in a threatening and retaliatory fashion, and so underlings tend to be more deferential, including the at-will employment, as you say.
https://archive.is/hf9rT
Well yeah, it’s an extremely complex system. If we’re just going to leave it at that, then you have no basis for insisting that working populations are proportional to the general population. But you seem to want to have it both ways.
And you don't lose all (long term) healthcare coverage if you're fired in Aus.
I agree with most of this, except the last part.

It is true that CodeSquish probably works better than the paid product, but it only solves 20% of the problems that the paid product does. You are in the lucky group of 5-10% of all people that the paid product targets whose requirements are fully covered with that 20%.

For the remaining 90%, it's either the paid product, or another free/open source product which may or may not exist.

Obviously there are exceptions to this, but in general, commercial products are bloated for a reason. People really need 20% of the functionality as the saying goes, but everybody needs a different 20%.
I'm guessing the 'math needed' is for using stationary beacons to triangulate your location. Even Apple just sends the location of the receiving phone which is why there are stories of the cops showing up at some innocent person's house because the neighbor kid found some headphones on the bus.

Anyhoo, back in the day I was messing around with beacons and can tell you it's fairly easy to get them working. I wrote a small program to get my laptop to act like a beacon and used some random "bluetooth tracker" on my phone which would give the approximate distance to said beacon. Then it's just a matter of walking around watching the distance measurement.
This feels like a very local setup, in that it optimises for what you run locally on your machine, as opposed to the most modern you can get when connecting to machines you can't install things on/have limited control (and so you must worry about compatibility). That is, your terminal emulator almost certainly supports 24-bit colour (yes, even xterm), it's ensuring that the path between the terminal emulator and the piece of software you're trying to interact with doesn't have any snags (which may or may not include terminal multiplexors, shells, ssh conections, serial connections or any other middleware/libraries/config files which are misconfigured/misbehave).

This also assumes that the software you're running is going to take advantage of these features, e.g. busybox installs lack colour support.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Formal methods: Just good engineering practice? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753989 - June 2024 (149 comments)

15 Years of Formal Methods at AWS: Just Good Engineering Practice? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40283052 - May 2024 (1 comment)
It’s less a real problem than you think. For example lots of politicians including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were on the record as not supporting gay marriage and later said that their position on the matter had evolved.
I treat Copilot as glorified Bing search and nothing more. I try very hard not to pattern-match and let an output trigger my built-in human empathy and just have a question I want to answer, following the citations. I don't want to end up anthropomorphizing a lawnmower sometime down the line, even if the lawnmower can interject "please", "thank you" and "let me know if you need anything else" enough times to sound convincing.

I'm not as familiar with ollama so I don't know if the same approach would work.
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What does gone mean though? You aren’t just drawing a black or transparent spot underneath what you want removed. You’re filling it in with the most likely background. Which is not a trivial operation. It’s an AI generative fill which is obviously unpredictable. You’d expect it to generate ocean but it drew a bitcoin.

That’s just how AI generative fill works. You keep running it until it looks how you want.
Frankly I do t disagree with that statement. Modern corporations are looking more and more like a disease trying to infect all of humanity.
It's not "destroyed". If a dire need for dark skies arises, you can always... turn the lights off.
> The examples are quite simple in the article but I believe more complex cases would significantly degrade the compiler speed (and probably the memory footprint as well) and would require a VM to leverage this.

> Which is probably assumed "too complex" to go into the standard. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I kind of understand why this would not go into any kind of standard.

I mean, it's basically 1:1 with the constexpr feature in C++. Almost every C compiler is already a C++ compiler, supporting constexpr functions and evaluation in C can't be that bad, can it?
The irony of your attitude is that it's very likely to result is a really quite mediocre team, though you might not perceive it that way.
One could ensure their spouse or child knows about 911 in America or similar service in other countries, which is, of course, what should be called in such a circumstance firstly anyway. Also, people generally have such numbers as contacts in their phone ... I don't know why I'm explaining it; this just seems like common sense ...
You get that you're arguing that companies shouldn't get a price break for not wanting SSO, right?
> Australians typically play down their achievements, while Americans like to talk themselves up

Although this is obviously a generalization, it is broadly accurate in my experience. And it can be a real problem, for example at performance review time when employees are expected to write self reviews, which obviously involve putting their work in the best possible light. Also just general regular status reports that are widely distributed and so highly visible.

As background, I am a US based manager, originally from the UK, with US, Europe and Australia based reports. I regularly get told by the Australians, and most but not all Europeans, that they really struggle with the expectation that they need to present their achievements for performance review or general status updates in ways that feel uncomfortably boastful to them. Most US reports on the other hand (but definitely not all) have less problem with this.

This means it is often down to the manager to make sure their employees are rated fairly by upper management. Since I struggle with the self-promotion myself (being from the UK!) I can empathise and try to work with reports to apply the appropriate correction factors, but it is definitely a real issue.
> invest your time in learning to use free software (FreeCAD, Godot, Postgres) rather than proprietary software (SolidWorks, Unity, Oracle), because sooner or later you will lose access to the proprietary stuff.

The think you have a solid point with Postgres v Oracle and I haven’t followed game dev in a while, but your FreeCAD recommendation is so far from industry standard that I don’t think it’s good advice.

If you need to touch CAD design in a professional setting, learn SolidWorks or OnShape. They’re what every MechE I’ve ever worked with knows and uses, and they integrate product lifecycle aspects that FreeCAD does not.
Two Waves of Aging: How Midlife Biomolecular Shifts Accelerate Decline
My kids have learned the precise term for the savory ones from me, but you're right that most Texans, even many Czech Texans, do not know it! To be fair, the origin is that Czech Texans used the same kolache bread and stuck meat in it. People might not think it matters, but many kolaches I've had from shops do not use the bread I'm familiar with from my grandmother (and cousins). I won't name names, but their bread doesn't taste very good, and only a few shops make the same bread I grew fond of at my grandmother's house, and that same kind of bread was used for both the sausage ones and the sweet ones at my grandmother's house.
Trump is not conservative.
Jim Lill has a video on Youtube testing exactly that. It demonstrates conclusively that cabinet design for guitar speakers makes a difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eeC1XyZxYs

This is hardly surprising; cabinet design matters for every kind of loudspeaker. Note also that electric guitars can produce a wide range of frequencies, especially once you add distortion. Distortion generates additional tones both higher and lower in frequency than those already present.
Apple Siri Eavesdropping Payout – Here's Who's Eligible and How to Claim
And adopted unsloth's bug fixes a few days ago. https://ollama.com/vanilj/phi-4-unsloth
You're confused. There are no forward references in python. It's simply that identifiers in the body of a function aren't resolved until the function itself is executed (if ever) and at the point everything in the module scope has been defined. You can test this yourself by just putting any name into a body and loading the module.
Ammonia and hydrogen are essentially energy export mechanisms. They'll be exported to energy poor places, aka Asia, not America. they can and are made in America without fanfare. You wouldn't have states fighting to exlude green hydrogen or ammonia plants, you'd have states competing on how many subsidies they could give them.
Hear hear! Fortunately HEB sells it so I don't have to make it all the way to a Prasek's store. Their sausage recipe is the closest flavor to the sausage my Czech Texan grandparents would make, although my grandparents often had venison mixed in as one of the meats.
C's already got static_assert; just missing constexpr.
The software that controls the front-end has enormous value, it becomes the central point and brand to manage and self-host LLMs that's used to manage 100 GB catalog of models which acts like a moat inhibiting switching to alternatives. Awareness and user-base are the hardest things to obtain with new Software products and it has both - right now it doesn't look it's monetizing its user base, but it could easily attract millions in VC funding to spin off a company to sell support contracts and "higher value" SaaS hosting or enterprise management features.

Whilst it's now a UX friendly front-end for llama.cpp, it's also working on adding support for other backends like MLX [1].

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1730
>“Hey, I saw you were checking out our service. Let me know if you have any questions!”

I had this happen for a service we already had implemented at my company. I created a new account just to make sure it was working because we had a few say the site or login was being blocked by our security software. Even after I deleted the new account I was getting emails from them.