skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, thanks for the suggestion. I got it set up just before leaving town for a few days, so have been doing a little tinkering with it. I was hoping to have a setup with LM Studio, where my laptop could use the API Server from the mini over the TS network. Unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case, so I'll set up a configuration like you mentioned to just have a global client from any device on the netowrk.

It's very cool to be able to have access to such a high horsepower machine from anywhere though. Next step is figuring out the networking interface to be able access the host GPU/ollama API from pods running in a Colima VM/k3s cluster setup.
I'm not sure how you visually identify LGBTQIA people, but a quick search of crowd photos shows the almost entirely white crowd I'd expect at a political conference.
What’s most disturbing and highly irresponsible about comments like that and all of the reporting on this development is that there’s almost zero acknowledgement that the lab in question was being funded by the US government and much of the Gain of Function research was being directed by a US nonprofit with ties to the US government.
And yet there's still no straightforward way to write directly to Iceberg tables from Javascript as far as I know.
Where can I get the actual tokenizer data?

Nevermind, it's here

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/token_usage
Some of the images generated were so on the nose I assumed the machine was mocking people.
I skimmed read the article, but one critical part that made OF explode to 'household' name is catalyst COVID provided.
People are more important than brands.
A lawnmower doesn't hate the grass.
Except for the part they left out which is that the lab was being funded by the US government and its GoF research directed by a US nonprofit entity with strong ties to the NIH.
Semi-related, but is there any repository(ies?) that comprise of these technical white papers? I'm fascinated by these papers whenever they show up in my feed and I gorge on them, and I'd love more. I can't be the only one thinking this way.
Using SQL is perfectly fine.

Datalog on the other hand is absurdly hard to work with.
Occam's razor in this situation is the people people claiming the lab leak theory is most likely are interested in the truth and feel that a lab leak is the most probable cause. It never made sense either way to see how the virus came into existence to be a political question.

Whether or not someone gets punished is largely irrelevant. It isn't like 1 billion people in China would have sat down and decided to violate lab safety protocols; there'd be some supervisor somewhere who made mistakes. What happens to such a hypothetical person is irrelevant in the scheme of the damage the virus caused.
Let's be the change we want to see.
It will pass.
Yes, likewise.
> OpenAI has 100s of millions of daily active users, with huge revenues.

My rational is we are dealing with a commodity product. People will go where the best answer is. I only use DeepSeek because it is good. If it was free, but sucked, I would not use it.

Honestly, I do hope they (OpenAI) offer a better product but as it currently stands, I will not use their models because they don't offer enough value for the price.
Haha, true

Finally, an interface that matches our enterprise COBOL codebase, perfect for Y2K-compliant enterprises of 1999 :-)
It does, but it will generally give a grace period for outstanding requests to resolve prior to killing the service.

It's a good idea for short-lived HTTP requests, but will cause problems for a persistent connection.
I do agree with that. What I'm seeing (and building for myself) really boils down to 'for anything I am remotely uncomfortable trusting the AIs with, I trust them enough to conveniently present me the action or actions they want to take, and I trust myself enough to build a UI that doesn't make it too easy for me to lazily or accidentally click yes on a hallucinated 5000 dollar expense.

The fact that such an AI, with sufficient development, even given what we have now, could present everything on a silver platter up to the execution of the /exact/ commands, and this alone is incredibly useful and can save a lot of time/expense/effort.

The crucial bit is that with, say, a human personal assistant, even if they say they will do exactly what you tell them to do, it's still ultimately inexact. But with an AI, it's trivial to 'decorate' a structured 'command object' (as json, xml, whatever) and from that moment let the deterministic system take over.

If anything, we sometimes want an actual human to /not/ deterministically execute /exactly/ what we tell them to, because perhaps they might know we were angry, drunk, or they just heard something on the news that should invalidate our request.

Either way, my point is that this distinction between 'doing research' and 'doing a thing' is not so dichotomous. In practice, I suspect all but the most autonomously-minded people, and especially non-IT folk, given enough sense of control over the confirmation of potentially 'fuzzy' actions, are happy with an AI doing a ton of stuff for them.
This is already a thing: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/sql-queri... although it uses an older API - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.formatta...

Interpolated string handlers are a newer API made primarily with customization and efficiency of interpolation in mind. They are more complicated to implement and use but enable zero-cost and/or zero-allocation use cases and performing custom behavior on appending literals or data. They are also used to implement the default string interpolation handler and a few auxiliary ones like Append handler for a string builder which writes directly into it, bypassing intermediate string construction.

It's quite a mouthful to say though but very useful for advanced scenarios. Haven't seen any other language provide anything comparable.

See also: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/string-interpolation-i...
Related:

How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9462885 - April 2015 (15 comments)
Lol tell me about it. My problem isn't only that it's LLM, but the same 3-5 topics over and over and over and over again:

> This is how I use ChatGPT to write my program.
> Here is a cool SaaS that will generate a CV for you with state of the art AI
> AGI is happening in 5 minutes! (If it wouldn't happen, read the previous statement again)
> LLMs are going to kill/save humanity
> Show HN: we worked on this revolutionary next step in AI in the past 12 years. It's 100% open source, come! (Narrator: it's a 200 lines python wrapper over OpenAI api)
They have ChromeOS Flex which runs on normal PCs and works fine.
LTO-6 drives are $300-400 on eBay.
Volvo FM Electric semi trucks helping to fight wildfires in NSW, Australia
I’d rather have this for the rest of my life than have any more of the cryptocoin/NFT flood we had prior to this. Even better if we get a C/Zig/Odin bone thrown our way every once in a while.
Was it ever in? Or did the people who weaponized “brand safety” simply make it look like it was in?

The idea never made sense to me. I don’t see why seeing an ad next to some content would cause me to think differently about the contents of the ad. It’s a nonsensical connection to draw. Whenever advertisers got attacked for showing up on a YouTube video or conservative news site or whatever, it seemed to me like manufactured outrage.

What really happened, I think, is that a few big advertising agencies that control a big portion of ad purchasing got ideologically captured, as many companies did in the last 10 years, and the activist employees in those ad agencies used their position to implement their political ideas, which they felt was the right thing to do. An ecosystem of DEI oriented advertising industry people popularized phrases like “brand safety” that didn’t exist before the 2016 election, and used that as reason to attack, deplatform, demonetize, and effectively censor political speech in our society as a result. GARM was one such point of ideological capture (https://apnews.com/article/x-twitter-advertiser-lawsuit-garm...) that enabled all this.

I hope we are done with that culture of censorship and deplatforming and can get back to holding reasonable debates and discussions even on controversial topics people disagree on.
Hello :) The output includes personal pieces of creations in each medium (fermented experiment in the case of the chef, sounds in the case of the musician and a short dance in the case if the dancer. Additionaly, the output of the processing sessions with the theraspist includes a personal diary with writing excercises that looks for the connections between the lab work and the insights from the artists.

The program started last year and included non academic WIS employees like WIS architect and WIS graphic desiner so non-scientists can also benefit from it.
The blockchain-people needed to go somewhere once people realized that thekr solution in search of a problem isn't gonna stick.

Not saying that there is interesting bits in LLM research, it is just completely drowned out by the hype chasers whl smell the next gold rush.
I empathize with the obsession (we all have some obsessive behaviors we’re not thrilled with) but I question the utility.

It feels like some kind of negative appeal to authority: if the words were touched by an AI, they are less credible, and therefore it pays to detect AI as part of a heuristic to determine quality.

But… what if the writer just isn’t a native speaker of your language? Or is a math genius but weak with language? Or…

IMO human content is so variable in quality that it is incumbent on readers to evaluate based on content, not provenance. Using an author’s tools, or ethnicity, or sociowhatever as a proxy for quality doesn’t seem healthy or productive at all.
It's the current hotness in tech. HN has always included trending tech topics. Ever since HN started, I've seen -

* Explosion of social media

* JavaScript libraries and the frontend revolution to modernizing the web and browsers

* Mobile apps

* Crypto

* Machine Learning

and now, AI & LLMs.

The only difference LLMs have with the others is the learning curve. The others, one could easily hop on the trend. With LLMs, before being able to understand what everyone's talking about, there's a lot to know. There can be a sense of being left out. I think that can be demotivating.

edit: formatting
I think Lambda Prolog, is the only language that physically hurt my brain... in a good way.

But damn, it felt like an extreme muscle stretching exercise. Painful when doing it, but you feel SO good after :)
That's fine. I'm an air force brat, and still believe that the USA has not lost that attitude. It's shadowed by bullshit politics and oligarchy, but on the ground with the vets I'm sitting with now literally, that spirit is not lost.

My family fought those wars. I believe in freedom. Don't tell me what Americans think
Very meta post. ;) I need a filter on all web browsing so that I never hear about LLMs ever again. They're a scourge on critical thinking, on workers, on the environment, on the internet. If they are the future, leave me behind.
> On the other hand they should have some idea what a clitoris is.

Alternatively, learning everything involved in a birth -

ex: nesting, kegels, stimulating oxytocin production, birthing positions, what is an episiotomy, what are signs of preeclampsia, how to examine the placenta, cord cutting practice

- this would give youth a much broader perspective from which to consider the clitoris.
Nit: em dashes also appear when you type two dashes in a row in word or mostly any other MS product. That’s a terrible heuristic.
This is like navigating Steve's dream world while he is sleeping. Just some conjured up wonderland in his subconscious.
How many countries would push $10 million worth of aircraft (1970s money) to save civilians?

I know anti-American sentiment is very trendy on HN, but I found this interesting:

Sirius Satellite Radio runs 1970's episodes of American Top 40 with Casey Casem on Sundays. A few weeks ago I was surprised to hear a spoken-word piece called "Americans" by a Canadian named Byron MacGregor was a top-40 hit. Here's a sample of the lyrics:

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age
It was the Americans who rebuilt them
When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke
Nobody loaned them an old caboose
Both are still broke
I can name you five thousand times
When the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble
Can you name me even one time
When someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?
I don't think there was outside help
Even during the San Francisco earthquake

You can read the full lyrics here:

https://genius.com/Byron-macgregor-americans-lyrics
This is not paranoid, this is the logical conclusion to the control grid they are actively building. We are most of the way there with near zero resistance.
It's mostly "ai" and politics, which mirrors my real life experience that no one is actually interested in doing actual software dev anymore
Yes. The hype, lies and more lies.
Honestly this. Every product on the market today also shoehorns in AI somewhere, it feels worse than the heyday of CloudToButt in the Cloud frenzy.
Counterpoint: shadowy powers of lobbying publish the polls to manufacture consent and put pressure on politicians.

Alternate tools include:

* elections, e.g. flipping control of house to party opposite the president.

Numerous examples of badly and broadly worded polls exist to tell you 87% of the country agrees on XYZ. There isn’t a damn thing up for debate in the United States that 87% of the population agrees on, so that’s your first tip-off. A nuanced question garnering 56% may be more believable, but even then, stay highly skeptical of polls: poll MoE, poll audience selection, poll respondents, and poll questions. Together these all make for a house of cards.
Tokens are in fact sequences of bytes not characters. For example, llama3 tokenizer (128k tokens) includes 1361 tokens that are invalid UTF8 (or rather they are partial UTF8).

Models will generally only produce valid UTF8 (that is when bytes of tokens are concatenated they are valid UTF8), unless really confused.
If you're on KDE check out Karousel. It's a KDE Kwin script that does this type of scrollable tiling right inside KDE. Works great on my ultrawide monitor.

https://store.kde.org/p/2045724
And, for those interested in this sort of thing, the earliest "we've banned this account" formulation appears nine years ago, on 6 August 2015:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019003>
Colorado data privacy laws are a joke. The plebs are unable to take action against companies who violate their data privacy, only the Colorado Attorney General can do anything.
Only person with functioning pig organ passes record 2 months
The consent will be manufactured.
No, on the contrary, I like it. It’s a huge emerging technology that is changing the world. I suppose if it wasn’t wanted it wouldn’t be upvoted to the front page.
I’m an Arsenal fan living in Australia, so I often watch the games the next day because they’re on very late at night our time. Until I’ve watched the game I keep off social media to avoid spoilers, and HN is one of the few things I’m very confident in reading knowing that nothing related to Arsenal FC would ever ever get posted here. Go figure.
OpenAI is valued at ~150 billion.
Anthropic is valued at ~60 billion.
nvidia was valued at $15/share in 2023 and is now valued at $150/share.

It might seem that LLMs have sucked all the air out of the room, this is why. If you find LLMs boring, you are in for a very boring couple of decades - because it's not going away.
Do you mean why a UPS beeps when it's disconnected from power? I imagine so the user knows it's disconnected.

Annoying during a power outage though.
I feel like it’s just AI slop back and forth between me and the client, but I really don’t mind as long as its clear and accurate.
Larry is an 80 year old man worth 200 billion US dollars I don’t think he gives a shit what he sounds like.
> The big Volvo required less than 2 total hours’ charging to complete the 6 hour and 15 minute trip with stops at Goulburn and Tarcutta.

A diesel prime mover wouldn't have had to stop at all. For those not familiar with the route, Goulburn and Tarcutta are only about 200km apart.

A modern Euro truck on that route with a gross combination mass of around 40 tonnes would carry 600-1000 litres of fuel, and see fuel economy of around 2.2-2.5km/L.

Volvo's product is undoubtedly fine for local distribution, but a poor fit for interstate work, and a diabolical choice for a bulk water tanker that would be expected to operate in locations with widespread infrastructure damage, such as the state's far south coast during the 2019/20 fire season.
Yeah, seems many people can just moan online. At least I hope they aren't like this in daily life... It is pretty annoying how, while the HN audience grew steadily, from the 'wow great how you made this' went to 'this is crap and a joke' basically. Or maybe it's my memory and it was always quite bad, but then I don't really want to know; I find shooting down projects, unless they actually are super low effort (while asking money) or claiming blatant untruths (FOSS while it's not), is some kind of insecurity thing broken people do.

Of course reporting bugs is a good thing, but that's not just burning down someone's efforts willy nilly.
Not really, I think it’s interesting coverage and reading people opinions and comments about emerging technology ai or not ai is fantastic.
I do actually use the laptop as a second screen in this way most of the time. However, it's amazing how many hotels lack any table deep enough to place a 15" laptop on a stand with a keyboard in front of it.
My aim in this article is to examine the field of consciousness research with an analysis of 78 of the most important papers in the field. In doing so, I compare the empirical foundations these disciplines rely upon and detail how each approaches the measurement of conscious experience.
That is sad that you come for the posts and not the comments.
Actually, he quickly confirmed to the reporter that he would release the files on all these assassinations, but when asked about the Epstein files, he equivocated and said that it was complicated and it might make "some people" look bad. Because, obviously, his name is going to be in those files. his name is already all over things that have been released.
It's becoming a major issue when getting hired.

I have no good answers to AI bullshit, none they want to hear at least.

Can't remember the last time I saw a company that wasn't hyping AI to hell and back.
> it's much easier to write Go, Swift or Kotlin than Rust (IMHO).

While I respect your opinion, I must say I find it much more difficult to get work done in golang than rust. Mainly due to stringly typed errors and nonexistent documentation culture. Trying to figure out what error states my program might get itself into is essentially a futile exercise in golang whereas in rust it's generally annotated right there in the source code by lsp.
I grew up in a homebuilder family and I saw enough as a teenager on job sites to know that the trades are way more screwed up than people think. Very tough getting your foot in the door with an honest builder as a plumber etc.

There are so many barriers and tons of nepotism in the trades.

I'm sure its much worse today with all the wall st builders dominating the game. You can't even buy lots in the master planned communities sprouting up everywhere unless you can build out an entire subdivision.
Exactly my thoughts. Ellison and Oracle are surveillance-friendly (after all, it's kind of in the name). Oracle has a history of of privacy violations. This deal, coupled with the new AI data center in Abilene and their past, is ominous.
I get where you’re coming from, but I can’t think of a definition of “city” that would exclude Tucson. It’s a large, connected settlement of humans who don’t primarily live from the land.

For what it’s worth, Tucson does have suburbs, which are even less dense than Tucson (e.g. Oro Valley).
the 'luxury' apt building I live in has lots of Ukrainians and Russians… the men have really harrowing stories of escaping their respective countries since they weren't allowed to leave, being draftable

My next-door neighbor is one of them.

We were on nodding terms in the hallway for about six months after he moved in, then one day I saw him at the trash chute wearing a "Fuck Putin" shirt, and I asked him about it. He started to tell me his story, and then suddenly stopped, saying he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Based on the start of the story, I can understand him not wanting to finish it.
I actually do like the LLM posts occasionally, and very much like the “good old content” you talk about and that content I can’t find anywhere else, so what can you do?
llama2, llama3, gpt3, and gpt4 tokenizers are all trained on UTF8 bytes and all include invalid (partial) UTF8 tokens. For llama3 it's only 256 tokens, one for each byte, but for the others it's more interesting (eg., 1361 tokens with UTF8 fragments in llama3).

There is over 1M possible Unicode code points, and 150k actually defined. Thus, you can't really encode all of them with splitting.
Copilot is pretty awful compared to the other options.

Cursor, Aide, and Amazon Q are on completely different levels than it is.
Yes! I actually forgot to add the politics point in my post which really doubles the exhaustion.

I really loved seeing what things people were up to, not the latest headline from trillion dollar company or the US government.
Apache Iceberg is one of the emerging Open Table Formats in addition to Delta Lake and Apache Hudi [1].

[1] Open Table Formats:

https://www.starburst.io/data-glossary/open-table-formats/
There was a period where a large enough number of people had serious objections to the entire idea that having Raytheon or LLNL on your resume wasn't much different than having a porn or crypto company on it today. Executives would go to hippie spiritual retreats like Esalen and pay lip service to the idea of positive social transformation, invite random spiritual leaders to conferences, and monologue about their deep commitments to hippie ideals.

Much of that was BS of course, but I'm just commenting on the shift.
Nice investigation.
We did reach $2,200 revenue within two months.
We also reached $1,000 MRR within two months.
There's a difference between revenue and monthly recurring revenue.
You think posting about my journey two times in 60 days and doing a show HN post is a lot? He's done the same plus one post.