skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting story someone wrote about their time with some anarchists who traveled to New Orleans to help in the wake of the hurricane to help. The had a house and kitchen and in addition to traveling around and helping on an individual basis they planned to provide free meals to the locals.

They ran into the problem where one group of volunteers that aligned to cook together were vegan and insisted on making only vegan food (it also sounded like the dishes were very strange to the locals). This made sense for the cooks, but the locals didn't want the food. But nobody could convince this group to do anything differently.

Their system resulted in a sort of rotating hierarchy that meant every few days they couldn't provide for the locals.

Functional anarchy seems like it takes a lot of work.
Western Brands only succeed in China until the Chinese government "acquires" enough IP and experience to copy them effectively, at which point the government hobbles or outright removes the foreign "competition". Sadly this is a lesson that company after company, industry after industry, fails to learn.
Would love to help, wanna give it a try to browser? I can help fix any issues you run with or just jump on a call!

This seems like the perfect use case for Browserai!
That demo looked cool, would probably be more impressive if I grew up with that kind of tech.

I wonder wrt an HDMI to VGA connector how simple it is, direct connections or some chip in the middle.

Yeah for end of days being able to go back to VGA/those analog plugs would be good eg. Red/White/Yellow
I dunno, I've met enough people first hand who believe in heavily regulating AI researchers to the extent that private companies shouldn't or couldn't do it without being owned by the government. It would surprise me that a handful of staffers in either the intelligence agencies or Biden executive branch also thought this way.
Please credit https://gladdendesign.com/products/paper-apps-golf for the original game concept.
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Reading Middlemarch?
How does it compare to WebLLM (https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm)?
I didn't say "the wealthy", I said the wealthier third of our society. Only ~39% of people age 18-24 are in college, those are generally the wealthier people in our society, and free college (I'm assuming from your reply it's free public college) would mostly be a giveaway to those people.
yup, it seems like it is more mature than last time I looked. Going to be spinning up my own when I get a chance
I would like to disagree with its being irrelevant. If anything, the 100B models are irrelevant in the context and should be seen as a "fun inclusion" rather than a serious addition worth comparing against. It out-performing a 100B model at the time becomes a fun bragging point, but it's not the core value of the method or paper.

Running a prompt against every single cell of a 10k row document was never gonna happen with a large model. Even using a transformer model architecture in the first place can be seen as ludicrous overkill but feasible on modern machines.

So I'd say the paper is very relevant, and the top commenter in this very thread demonstrated their own homegrown version with a very nice use-case (paper abstract and title sorting for making a summary paper)
Thank you for bringing some sanity into this discussion.
This is a common misconception.

You mean the author. The creator of a commissioned work is the author under copyright law, the owner or copyright “holder” is the commissioner of the work or employer of the employee that created the work as a part of their job.

The author may contractually retain copyright ownership per written agreement prior to creation, but this is not the default condition for commissioned, “specially ordered”, works, or works created by an employee in the process of their employment.

The only way an employer/commissioner would be responsible (vicarious liability) for copyright infringement of a commissioned work or work produced by an employee would be if you instructed them to do so or published the work without performing the duty of due diligence to ensure originality.
The Guide to Trump's Day 1 Executive Orders
I like Sindre Sorhus' Scratchpad (syncs across Mac, iPad and iPhone using iCloud).
I think people get too hung up on the natural frequency response of mics. A ribbon mic can achieve such a low noise floor with high sensitivity that high gain EQ stays clean.
> Being some much a drug lord that you start a war on other drug lords is so much on a different level of severity

Is this a hypothetical or did I miss a big chunk of this story?

If the war involves people being hurt, then conspiracy and instruction to injure and murder sound like great things to charge the drug lord with. If it doesn't, then I don't see the severity.
History is complicated. The reason the Chinese stopped building (and in fact scuttled) their fleets is collective trauma after the mass genocide carried out by the Mongols. Including the decapitation of the Chinese imperial elite and the erasure and sacking of several notable cities. The reason the Mongols were able to do what no steppe people had done before was because of the centralisation of the hordes under the leadership of Temujin, otherwise known as Genghis Khan.
Only for Chrome?
I'm the author of the blog.

I agree. I don't perse hate linters, too.
I used a combination of them and love getting nits done.

At some places, we even had a pre-commit hook configured to have linters completed, so that was fun.

Lint rules should evolve over a period of time for teams to get better or as the project gets better, in my opinion. And I think there is no such process at many teams today.
The Rt5x can handle various sync pulses (Sync On Green, Sync On Luma, SCART sync) and the RT4K can handle "Just about anything"
CUPS was acquired by Apple, they did not originate it

https://www.macrumors.com/2007/07/12/apple-acquired-cups/
If he cheated in Path of Exile that could mean that GGG could permban his account for breach of ToS (especially because he is publicly admitting he did).

Not sure about Blizzard, but since they added ranked to D4...
That is optimising for profit. One of the problems with any comparative advantage argument is that capital is destroyed during any pivot.

That cost has to be factored into the return from pivoting.
oh my god is there a firefox version?
Oh yes, because the library was so large, we decided to start by removing some things and porting, to be honest, one of the bad decisions of my life trying to Port JS to TS but luckily it only took 3 days and a few headaches!

Will add the encoders as needed, should be easy now, but a great point.
So anecdotal, but I think you have to consider the depressed turnout. From my circles, it's clear that plenty of Gen Z people (not just Muslims) either stayed home because of Gaza or (as in Dearborn, MI) voted Trump to protest Gaza. Gaza was a IMO a huge enthusiasm dampener for Harris.
At least part of it is licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial licence.
Show HN: New Monte Carlo integer factoring algorithm
AMD Radeon on Linux 6.13, Mesa 25.0-Devel vs. Nvidia R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming
The median wage for full time workers in the USA is ~60k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

The median house price is 357k.

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/102001/united-states/

So, on aggregate, for a couple who both work, a house is affordable.

And things aint gonna get any better..... The USA has the best economy in the world, and wealth redistribution is not on the agenda.
People have lots of anger about healthcare for many many reasons. I can't tell you how many people I've met who are angry about "Obamacare" but don't realize how it helped them compared to the prior situation. There's also lots of anger at the prices for healthcare that we sometimes see, and that anger gets directed at insurance too, even if it's a hospital or other provider setting the prices. And then there's the anxiety of "will this be covered."

Even without out of pocket costs there's lots of reasons to be angry at insurers.
I don't think I make this argument regularly and I wouldn't absolutely say that's the goal of the platforms themselves, but it's an effective outcome - in most cases participating in the program means accepting terms that say you won't disclose without permission, and if the vendor never grants permission you have the choice of disclosing (and potentially being kicked off the platform and also losing any safe harbor protections you had) or just saying nothing.
Because zero is not singular. In the context of English grammar, "plural" simply means "not singular."
Interesting. How would that work?

The US certainly doesn't have a monopoly on the best scientists and engineers.

How long can the US control sufficient capacity of hardware? (Without unspeakable atrocities.)

Is the US planning to overwhelmingly outspend other countries?

Or make AI-control treaties. And we'll have AI states and non-AI states?
I think there's almost no chance. SBF is a perfect example of someone to throw the book at. He's effectively Madoff 2.0, the people everyone from the lowly to the elite hate.

Ross Ulbricht is a very unique, interesting case. I don't for a second believe that Trump has any moral imperative with pardoning him, but his sentence for the crimes he was prosecuted for was very clearly unjustly large in an extensively murky case. There's also a whole slew of benefits to Trump for pardoning him - it's largely perceived as very pro-crypto, pro-libertarian (ironic), etc.
I have not seen much myself, but it's one of the earliest use cases I thought about when they started showing up.
> CUPS
> Apple

CUPS is currently owned by apple, but they only bought it in 2007. It actually originated as an independent project by a company calles Easy Software Products.
It didn't overturn the BRCA, but the minority in McConnell laid the groundwork for the Citizens United decision. O'Connor wasn't willing to hand the country over to oligarchs like Alito was.
Twitter is the new VE301. [^0]

[^0]: https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/german-radio-the-pe...
Correct, you have identified the problem. Prices are high because there is no agent in the US system looking to allocate spending on the basis of cost and health returns. The closest we come is the much hated insurance denials.
A fun idea, but I am so hesitant to install extensions that have access to any URL. I don't know who this developer is, so how can I know they won't accept $10k to sell their extension to some malware group that will try to exfil all of my banking credentials after updating this extension?
the overutilization story is what explains this, you cannot simply walk into Switzerland and say "I want an MRI here is my $138", but that is essentially what you can do (delta a bit of doctor shopping) in the US. there also is a lot of bad price transparency in the US so the listed price is not the price ended up paying, again this is due to the problem I identified above about shielding costs.
The number of exceptional people: Fewer than 85 per 1M across key traits
The current global realpolitiks shows that unless you have a very heavy industry that you can invest in, to replace the cratering housing prices, no country is willing to blow it up on purpose. China is trying to strategically do it, but they still have so many more people that they can lift up, move around and put to work into different industries. It's just not really the case for developed countries. I'm assuming India will take the same course in the near future, but their challenges are a bit different.

Also, when supermajority+ have the same problem, it's in the interest of the government to do anything possible to delay the problem for the future generations. That's why I have reservations about US, Canada, UK, Australia and others doing the same thing. It also doesn't help when your entire population growth is depended on immigration, as you can, theoretically, keep the demand higher without many complaints, while limiting the supply.

There's also the Japan problem, but it's weird. In Tokyo we're seeing rental prices actually going up, as it's the only region where the population is growing for all the wrong reasons.

Oh well, good luck to us.
> “We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems,”

I'll be honest, that doesn't appear to be the case to me. Almost certainly if that researcher was allowed to go ahead and register an HTTPS cert for the domain there'd be plenty of juicy traffic merely protected by SSL and nothing more.
Five Nights at Freddie's - browser extension mode
yes, precisely my point
Hey Jeff! If you are reading this comments, I just want to say thank you! Thanks just for being a nice person. In this over individualistic world, you just shared what you know and helped other people.

I'm your fan since the beginning of Coding Horror. Shared dozens of your blog posts. Stack Overflow changed how everybody programmed. I started coding in a pre-Internet time, when you got stuck, you just got stuck. I'm from Brazil and never went to USA, but I hope someday I can buy you a beer or a coffee.
I don't think any browser vendor would expose an API to allow this.

I think the best you could manage is a system administrative profile that forces the browser to install the extension
That made laugh! And you know what's sad? At this point I wouldn't even be shocked if that really happened.
We use Webllm under the hood and for text-to-text generation, the model compression is awesome and RAM usage is also less. But we are conducting more experiments, One thing we noticed is some quantized models using MLC sometimes start throwing gibberish, so will get back to you after more experiments on which is better.
You are too naive. Owners who do not incur extra expenses are more competetive in capitalistic market. At some, point, you become disadvantaged if you do take extra precautions.

Regulations level the playing field.
I am not doing any such thing.

$110K is not a “high income” for two college educated people. It’s actually the combined new grad income.

And because of assertive mating, most college graduates marry other college graduates.

This is the home ownership rate by age

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/07/younger-house...
If you prosecute property crimes, you don't get a lot of property crimes, because prosecutions for that crime act as an effective deterrent and then the courts aren't overwhelmed with property crime cases even if the few cases they do get are full jury trials. You only get widespread property crime cases when you don't prosecute them.

By contrast, drug use has no theft victim to report the crime and then even harsh penalties don't act as a deterrent because detection rates are low and addiction is a stronger motivator than the spoils of petty theft. So you would stop prosecuting recreational drug use (compensating by increasing addiction treatment programs etc.), and thereby also eliminate all of the associated crimes as drug cartels murder over territory and drug users commit serious robberies to afford street drug prices that otherwise wouldn't cost more than a bottle of aspirin, avoiding the need to prosecute those either.

At which point crime goes down and you can spend more resources prosecuting the remaining cases.
Key Lessons from Managing a Cloud-Scale Data Platform
The costs won't always be that high, due to Moore's law and other advances. Anybody can train a GPT-2 right now for a couple hundred bucks. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Also model performance follows a power law. There are strongly diminishing results, where after some point throwing twice as much money at the problem only gains you 1% accuracy. OpenAI knows this, so they're all in on regulatory capture.
I'd expect big companies to use Markmonitor to handle this problem -- basically, they _also_ register all of the one-edit-distance away typos that they can.

According to Wikipedia, Akamai is one of Markmonitor's customers, so it is surprising that this wasn't already registered by them.
> Running a prompt against every single cell of a 10k row document was never gonna happen with a large model

That isn’t the main point of FLAME, as I understood it. The main point was to help you when you’re editing a particular cell. codex-davinci was used for real time Copilot tab completions for a long time, I believe, and editing within a single formula in a spreadsheet is far less demanding than editing code in a large document.

After I posted my original comment, I realized I should have pointed out that I’m fairly sure we have 8B models that handily outperform codex-davinci these days… further driving home how irrelevant the claim of “>100B” was here (not talking about the paper). Plus, an off the shelf model like Qwen2.5-0.5B (a 494M model) could probably be fine tuned to compete with (or dominate) FLAME if you had access to the FLAME training data — there is probably no need to train a model from scratch, and a 0.5B model can easily run on any computer that can run the current version of Excel.

You may disagree, but my point was that claiming a 60M model outperforms a 100B model just means something entirely different today. Putting that in the original comment higher in the thread creates confusion, not clarity, since the models in question are very bad compared to what exists now. No one had clarified that the paper was over a year old until I commented… and FLAME was being tested against models that seemed to be over a year old even when the paper was published. I don’t understand why the researchers were testing against such old models even back then.
Being cared for by conscientious humans, providing enrichment and variety, can be better than living in the wild. For any animal, living in the wild, life span tends to be short, and life tends to be brutal. Prey animals are hunted, and they scrounge for food; finding a steady, reliable, nutritious, and tasty source of food in the wild is vanishingly rare. Dealing with parasites, illness, injury, predation, and all the other stress and constant threats to life is why wild animals are dangerous. Peaceful, fulfilling, life is incredibly rare.

It's even incredibly rare for humans - we're currently in an age of plenty and abundance, with more people living better lives than at any other point in the history of our species.

Overfishing and the geopolitical nature of enforcement and exploitation aren't something we can affect at an individual level, but these aquarium staff are doing a good thing, making a pretty good life for a sunfish. An actual companion would be better, but as long as the cutouts are triggering relief for whatever social needs being affected, that's a good deal for the sunfish.
I didn't say it would have to be free.

I run some meetup groups, and still pay for it for now, but the price hikes and other charges they're adding are onerous. I know many groups who have shutdown, and I know of some other players wanting to get in to this space to take over from meetup.com. $10/month to run a smallish group is affordable for a lot of folks. $50/month is not. $300/year is just not worth it to many folks, but... $99/year would be. Meetup seems to be moving in to some weird 'hyper optimize for short term revenue' move, which makes me think they'll be gone or acquired/dismantled in the next 5 years.
The part about "throwing bolts" reminds me of the plot in Roadside Picnic.
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this is standard, but there are people out there that believe this is malicious/blackmailing behavior. I think it’s the most responsible thing you can do here. This guy could’ve made a bucket off this find, instead reports it responsibly and mitigates the risk (with his own money invested) and gets told to pound sand.
When I read the title, I thought the project would be an LLM browser plugin (or something of the sort) that would automatically use the current page as context. However, after viewing the GitHub project, it seems like a browser interface for local LLMs. Is my understanding correct? This is not my domain of expertise.
75% of Americans with employer-provided health coverage are satisfied with their current plans

For Americans overall, 71% rate the quality of healthcare they personally receive as excellent or good. Similarly, 72% give excellent or good marks to the quality of care they receive personally.

Regarding health insurance coverage, 65% of Americans rate their own coverage as excellent or good. Another poll found 63% rated their own health care coverage as excellent or good.

You have to get offline

https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-poll-strong-majority-...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/654044/view-healthcare-quality-...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/468176/americans-sour-healthcar...
The biggest continual mistake in the USA is conflating groups of people with amoral profit seeking entities that have the benefit of legal fictions that protect individuals involved from the consequences of their behavior.

If you chain together enough analogies you eventually reach a conclusion that is complete nonsense. That's about where our court system has brought us.
This admin bends to money. They all do, of course, but this one especially.

Maybe this whole late stage capitalism isn't the most efficient way to allocate resources after all...
Not exactly what you're talking about, but `uv` lets you specify dependencies in the header of scripts: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d...

I think what you describe really only makes sense for a single file script. I _do not_ want to manage dependency hell within my own source files.
Also Mastercard:

You don’t usually buy much but today you bought a very expensive TV and then got a car wash in a part of town you haven’t been to for two years.

We aren’t calling you about the TV. We’re calling about the $8 car wash.

(Actual incident)
It's not possible to accidentally steal $1B when your intention was to steal $10K. Scale does matter - this isn't "luck".
The rule is: do whatever, but don't make the federal government look bad.

AKA file your taxes, essentially.
Imagine being homeless from a hurricane yet still so privileged you can turn your nose up at a free vegan meal! Guess they didn't really need the meal after all...

I feel like this is more a commentary on the "needy" folks.

No one goes into a soup kitchen and expects to get their favorite meal, but I guess these folks were expecting the vegans to give up their beliefs and cook them hamburgers.
I started this journey a while back using Tanenbaum's MIC-1 during my Uni days with a another colleague. Still have it online if anyone is interested: https://github.com/elvircrn/mic-1.
This is the problem, we don't agree on the solution. You said

> e hostile policy positions towards social safety nets and foundational services (e.g. education, healthcare, childcare??).

Except the USA spends more on education than most other countries.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

That would argue the issue is not about spending, at least for education, it's something else (not sure what)

I agree though on the general idea that something has to change. Housing in unaffordable.
There are less than 30 cobblers left in Ireland