skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it sort of is.

Older, more experienced people tend to have more integrity. We're not as easily bullied into fulfilling whatever business goals at whatever cost.
>it should be taught in reverse chronology. Basically here's what's happening now, and that's due to what happened last year, which is due to what happened last decade, etc

Boy, oh boy, you will hate Karl Popper if you ever decide to read him lol
Bad People Do the Thing You Love
You will. Cursor is much further along on the journey of building an actually powerful AI coding system. Since they are smaller, they can afford to iterate more quickly and experiment with a much tighter feedback loop.
Agreed. Its my opinion that you should be able to replace the launcher on Android devices, but the Play Store should refuse to distribute apps that do this.
This is 2021 figures. Wondering how this would change for cost of living and especially rent/housing inflation.
I love the Principle of Least Astonishment, but I first encountered it in the Ruby book and I gave up reading it halfway through because I kept thinking, "He and I have very different definitions of astonishing..."
Man this sucks, just as I spent months integrating it into the payment pipeline of my side business app. Maybe I just shouldn't accept cards, or only through PayPal or something.
Boston where? This article is about Latin America.

If you're interested in e-bike delivery in Boston, Massachusetts though, there was a pilot program starting in August of 2024: https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/boston-del...
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana [pdf]
Regarding Java:

It is possible that you confuse while- and for statements?
And then you've got VAT, which yes it's the consumer's money that's going to paying it, but the headline price for consumers is the VAT inclusive price and the retailer (or importer, who may sometimes be a consumer) is responsible for paying.

Which means that in high-profile cases where the VAT rate is disputed, it's the retailer who is on the hook for the disputed amount. Recent examples being Greggs (a baker, who won their case, so no tax payable) and Uber (where I'm not actually sure whether it's finalised yet? But if they end up needing to pay VAT then it's going to be expensive).
None of their examples seem close to game-like, but I assume the implication here is that since they can generate SWFs with some interactivity, being able to generate a functioning game is not that far off. Assuming the training set is full of robust SWF games (harvested from original Newgrounds and Kongregate, I assume?) that does make some amount of sense. I'm curious to see what kind of novelty is possible though at that level of complexity.
No idea. It’s their out of box microservices set up. I think the only thing we pumped up was the chunks cache to 30Gb.
First Rung Leaders: How to Unleash the Hidden Force Multipliers
I followed this guide for fine-tuning: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/model-tuning

Arabic OCR is a mess with historical texts. Take the word الف (alf/thousand) in dates like 1950 - in old documents, the ف (fa) had a dot below it, but modern OCR doesn't get this and outputs الد (alad), which is just gibberish in Arabic

Same problem with ق (qaf) written as ف (fa) in old Arabic

And don't get me started on merged letters! In محمد (Muhammad), sometimes the م (meem) sits right on top of the ح (haa), or appears as a little circle below the line. Modern OCR has no clue what to do with these

My solution? Run OCR first, then use LLMs to fix the mess based on context. The surprising part? In my tinkering, smaller fine-tuned models actually do BETTER at this specific task than the big general-purpose ones. They seem to learn the patterns of historical Arabic quirks more effectively. Pretty neat tradeoff of specialized knowledge vs. general intelligence
Innovative anti-drone systems from UofToronto
Loved the books, 1st series was great, not so much for the second.
No, it was absolutely about the effort needed to rewrite the project. They couldn't afford a rewrite, only a port. They're not going to keep maintaining the Typescript version once they have transitioned to the Go version.
"If you build it they will come."
Sure, but so far as I know none of it has access to the contents of SMS or iMessages.
If you eat them with a fork and you're trying to maximize the bacon and bacon grease ratio, yes.

Optimal pierogi is browned in bacon fat and drizzled with bacon bits and onions browned in said bacon fat. According to both my mouth and my first Polish friend.
Let's cross that bridge if we come to it. Trump is as good at backing down as he is at making asinine claims.
I've not done fine tuning on code bases but I have done other fine tuning.

You will generally get better results when you fine-tune the base model on your data.

Since you still want to use it with the chat template in the end, you fine-tune the base model with the chat template with your specific data.

From there you'll have a lora that knows your data alright, but still doesn't really work for chatting.

You take that lora, merge it with the base model. Let's call this the stage model.

Then you use mergekit to merge the base model with both the stage model and the chat model. I used the TIES merge method in the past. Now you have your final model.

I use vLLM for inference, and needed access to multiple fine tunes on only a single set of hardware. So from that point I go and take the base model and my final model and extract a new lora. I also take the base model and chat model and extract another lora for that. Then I load up vLLM with the base model and as many of the fine tune loras I need + the chat lora.

The only time this hasn't worked is if the chat model adds a bunch of new tokens on top of the base model. If I remember right there was an issue with that

This has worked well for me in the past.
So you have to plan your daily routine around the rules of Ramadan, and their interpretation differ by your location and from year to year?
Indeed I am!

I am trying to make the case that something like social security is economically efficient even setting aside any moral case for taking care of vulnerable people. I believe social security pencils out as a huge positive to the overall economy, and that it is emotional "I don't want to help them with my taxes" nonsense that leads people to oppose it. As an example, look at all of the hard work, documented by Katznelson in _When Affirmative Action Was White_ and _Fear Itself_, by lots of racists to keep African-Americans from benefiting from Social Security when that program was created.
Ok... so if I understand you correctly, traveling to the US under the current regime is about the same as traveling to North Korea.

Thank you for the heads up.
cool! what modifications did you make to the default FSRS algorithm?
Anecdotal, but I’ve met like 3 or 4 new plex people in the last year. They’re all just starting out.
Nvidia acquires synthetic data startup Gretel for More Than $320M
My routine changes depending on location and the year anyway.
I've been using sqlite-vec, a module for sqlite3: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec
Nice suggestions, I’ll be definitely trying numbat and hyperfine (I already use fd daily).

I could see bat being useful only as the last program on a long pipe chain, but I really like xxd so I will pass on hexyl.
why does this sound like what the credit agencies were doing during the subprime crisis?
As I said in another comment, you can handle the legacy systems by giving a mount option that transcodes filenames using Latin-1. (Choosing Latin-1 because it's a trivial mapping that doesn't require lookup tables). UCS-2 is easily handled by WTF-8 (i.e., don't treat an encoded unpaired surrogate as an error).

The reality is that non-UTF-8 filenames already break most modern software, and it's probably more useful for the few people who need to care about it to figure out how to make their workflows work in a UTF-8-only filename world rather than demanding that everybody else has to fix their software to handle a case where there kind of isn't a fix in the first place.
Yeah I agree, 2 months is absurd.
Interesting. I wonder if this goes further than just allowing trains to catch up. Like, does going slower lower the chances of failures and failure cascades in the first place?

Maybe trains in many/most systems are running faster than they should for optimal performance?
It's being talked about in the linkdd video.
I've had a _really_ good experience with passkeys + 1Password. I vastly prefer it over a password + TOTP 2FA.

It was a little rough at first, but support is pretty good now. The only real concern is I don't know how to export passkeys out of 1Password if that were needed.
To be frank I think Apple should be able to provide a superior experience on the stack they directly control, but given that Google has been raked through the coals for much less, it's only fair to be consistent.
it's worth noting that the opposite, not making any higher-end homes, doesn't actually work to increase affordability either.

we actually saw this when new cars became unavailable during the COVID supply chain crunch and then used car prices skyrocketed. the real estate equivalent would be literal tenements in New York renting at $4-5k a bedroom.
I was responding to:

> I want social media to disappear

I often read people trashing on social media who are doing so on this site which is very much social media. I don't use other social media sites and appreciate that this one is different than the normal ones. It's still social media as I understand it.

Assuming I'm not wrong about this being social media... If they want social media to disappear, why are they creating more of it by participating here?

I mostly keep my mouth shut, but the embedded contradictions sometimes make me comment to scratch my itch.

Well it is true that newest gives chronological listing. Most of us visit the front page which does not. Instead, it uses the algorithm of user vote aggregation.
France preparing 'survival manual' for every household, report says
I travelled to Stockholm from North America a few decades ago, right around midummer. Worst jetlag of my life.

The problem was that 20 hours of daylight, especially having 2:30 AM feel like 6:30AM. It was impossible to get an adequate amount of sleep. The paper thin curtains in the cheap hotel where I stayed did nothing to block out the light.

If I am ever in that part of the world at that time of year again, I will be bringing a sleep mask and seeking out a hotel with proper blackout blinds or curtains.
I've always thought the solution to this was to fix a tax rate, but let the people apportion the spending themselves, to discover what they find important without letting them claw back the taxes, which I agree would be the default.

Seems like it would shut down entire swaths of "I don't wanna pay for your <x>" bitterness and resentment.
Neither Quran nor Hadith, non-muslims living under Caliphate were allowed to consume pork

"Dhimmi communities were also allowed to engage in certain practices that were usually forbidden for the Muslim community, such as the consumption of alcohol and pork."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi

Parent comment is hate speech
This headline needs to be rewritten.

AI called. They want their Tokamak back.
ohh maybe it was macOS I am confused with here. Sorry. I use every OS under the sun together.

Or it could have been the DirectWrite thing. I just don't remember where I read it.

I always thought cleartype was ugly by the way.
hightlights:

(From Abstract)

> The presence of a lipid peroxidation sensor at the core of homeostatic sleep control suggests that sleep protects neuronal membranes against oxidative damage. Indeed, brain phospholipids are depleted of vulnerable polyunsaturated fatty acyl chains after enforced waking, and slowing the removal of their carbonylic breakdown products increases the demand for sleep.

(From Discussion)

> Our experiments also suggest, but do not prove beyond doubt, that sleep loss causes widespread lipid peroxidation in the brain. Definitive proof would require a demonstration that peroxidation products accumulate, rather than that polyunsaturated phospholipids are depleted, as we have shown.
Morals are only really morals when it's difficult to suppport them, and people still do.

I think the Republican party nowadays is proof that most of them are chickenshit and care more about their job than doing the right thing.

Props those who made the hard choices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_...
You can play Doom in an Excel spreadsheet.
Well, why not both? If you've already got a tuned model why not use RAG on that to get even better results? It already knows the big picture, it just needs the details so it doesn't have to hallucinate them.
I said that I do not see them happening at the rate that people say they happen. I never said they don't happen.
We haven't seen what DMs he was getting. It's true that he was escalating the drama but some threats are never acceptable.
I want something that keeps bugging me until the task is marked as done. And I want that something to verify that I provide some sort of proofs every time, like a screenshot or something.

Oh BTW maybe give my wife's voice to it.
The things 286 days in space does to a human body
Yes.

I worked at AWS Professional Services. I was also on a skunkworks unofficial team that supported an added features to a popular in its niche open source AWS project.

We would add features to it based on customer paid projects we were doing, or just to scratch an itch.

When I was Amazoned, there were a couple of other consulting companies who had as a “nice to have” experience implementing and modifying the project. I had basically insta offers once I told them that I was the third highest contributor on the project and could point to features that they used that I implemented.

I also had a few other personal open source projects in the niche that I had released to the official AWS open source GitHub organization that gained a little traction. But solved real world problems.

I would not spend anytime doing open source work off hours. I got paid for my open source contributions.

In today’s environment, no one is going to take the time to look at your GitHub profile. The only reason mine gained any traction was because I targeted a niche where I know companies were using the project and I was a major contributor
But, media consumption habits to a certain degree, do dictate our thinking and how much and how long we can actually concentrate, no? I also agree that we need not do everything the same way we have done before and there are different ways to achieve the end.

>> I feel like this person has some kind of dark academia aesthetic fetish that they need to hold onto to feel superior to everyone else.

We all have our bias. We settle with and swear by a way we end up finding to work for us for right reasons.

I notice this a lot while doing math. I would normally start with books because they already have predefined structure and have all the topics a person would normally need. I buy 3 or 4 books for which solutions are available. I start with book and then I would listen to lectures. If I do not understand, I would read some other book on same topic. I would have one book which I can understand better than other. Then try to solve many problems from all the books and look up solutions.

Though this is so time consuming and demanding with a full time job, when I engage with learning, I try to engage in this manner. If somebody asks me, I would recommend this because for fairly technical topics because other ways have left me with vague understanding but not good enough mental model to make me relate to problems in terms of the abstractions from those topics. That does not mean this is the only way and each might have to find thier own path.

LLM has been godsend for me too here, particularly when I am trying to fill my gaps in understanding while reading technical books. And it is much more easier to listen or see, than to read. So, given our current landscape and how much time is spent with work, it is true that it is getting harder and harder to read and almost not feasible for many of us.
Why are people not using plugins like Cline?!
Mortgage appraisals are far higher than the local tax appraisals which seem to run 20-25% lower than say Zillow says. Local tax appraisals are also typically only updated once every 10 years or so (depending on the jurisdiction).

Besides, I think these days the appraisers don't actually do appraisals, they just look at Zillow.
Interesting, my take is that criticizing ideas rather than people leads to better discourse, primarily because it automatically makes things less personal, which tends to keep the tone of conversation neutral. That is not to say that ideas should not be attributed to people, but I always try to frame my writing as "argument X is wrong" rather than "you are wrong" because it is more specific and feels less like a personal attack.
Hey, I wrote something like that a few weeks ago: https://github.com/Yoric/keep-it-focused . Big difference is that mine is a daemon that serves rules to the browser, which makes it harder to use, but usable CLI parental control.

I find it rather useful :)
Same

https://archive.is/9oqmi
It's wild how it pops up and disappears. Well not completely disappears because I went back the next day after a show and there was balloon debris and trash littered everywhere.

I have a friend who has seen 100+ shows and he knows people whose identity and lifestyle is following the tour. They scrap to make ends meet and live on the road. A contingent of shakedown merchants fit that profile. Of course, some are there just to make money and don't see the shows. And some probably take turns running the booth while their clan is is at the show that night
There is a huge difference between contributing to open source and delivering business value where you have to deal with stakeholders, work with a known set of requirements and deal with organizational and time constraints
Was constrained decoding not enough to force the output to be in a specific format?
If you think Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are normal grocery stores, then you live a much more privileged life than you realize.
The best part: it may well not have been illegal. The economy is a constant cycle of upswings caused by new forms of crime, followed by a crash and then new laws. They then set out to research new forms of crime.
In my experience, the model is king, and codemcp will operate fairly similarly to Cursor with the same failure modes as Cursor due to Sonnet 3.7. One thing that I like about codemcp is I can customize aspects of the interaction as I discover new things I want to do :)
Appraisers don’t set prices, though. In my purchases and sales, they’ve only been involved after an offer is accepted and the lender wants to be sure that their collateral is worth what it needs to be. Even if some people are using appraisers to set their asking price, that doesn’t mean buyers will offer it.
LLMs aren't AI. They are more like librarians with eidetic memory: they can discuss in depth any book in the library, but sooner or later you notice that they don't really understand what they are talking about.

One easy test for AI-ness is the optimization problem. Give it a relatively small, but complex program, e.g. a GPU shader on shadertoy.com, and tell it to optimize it. The output is clearly defined: it's an image or an animation. It's also easy to test how much it's improved the framerate. What's good is this task won't allow the typical LLM bullshitting: if it doesn't compile or doesn't draw a correct image, you'll see it.

The thing is, the current generation of LLMs will blunder at this task.
> The whole "6am sunrise and 6pm sunset every day of the year" thing at the equator is kind of mind blowing.

You can take this further. Look at weather and seasons. Here's Nairobi's yearly averages[0]. You can see that both temperature and precipitation are fairly consistent. On the other side of the continent Libreville[1] has a bit more precipitation variance but still low temperature variance. Let's got to South America with Macapa[2] and Quito[3] and let's keep going and land in Kuching[4].

Essentially in these regions, there are no real seasons. At least in the sense that many think of them. Things do change, but winter isn't that different than summer.

I know there are variances, but the scale masks a bit of what's going on. So let's look at London[5], Osaka[6], Auckland[7], Los Angeles[8] (often joked at for having no weather), Seattle[9], and Oslo[10]. As you can see, these are extremely different situations. It even has large effects on how people think about weather, time, and other things.

It's funny how what is so obvious and normal to some are completely different to others. Sometimes seeming as if we live in different worlds. In some sense, we do, and I think we often forget that.

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/kenya/nairobi/climate
[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/gabon/libreville/climate
[2] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/brazil/macapa/climate
[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ecuador/quito/climate
[4] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/malaysia/kuching/climate
[5] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/climate
[6] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/japan/osaka/climate
[7] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/new-zealand/auckland/climate
[8] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/los-angeles/climate
[9] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/seattle/climate
[10] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/norway/oslo/climate
Last 5 years or so I buy meat maybe once in 3 months, and that is strictly from the local farm. They have their own cows, goats, pigs and sheep. You just get an email for the next slaughtered animal and reserve the cuts you want. This happens once in 6 weeks, so I do every other event. You can see the animals in the farm, it's all open. It's maybe 50% more expensive than horrible spongy chewy supermarket meat. Sometimes they have game meat which is mummy.

Chicken per kg costs as much as beef, if not more. But it is so tasty! They are from another farm, which is also open to visit.

Reducing my meat consumption and going for higher quality helped me to appreciate meat more! It's a speciality. I think about the dish days ahead, what side dish I should make, which wine should I pair it with..
Well yes, I was suggesting exactly that.

I'm pretty sure I'm correct, and that you are too: the president could theoretically do that. Or, in the very least, strongly influence decisions made by NASA.

I'm also saying that the NASA _is_ part of President Biden's administration, as the "NASA Administrator" at the time, Bill Nelson, was actually nominated by President Biden.

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But maybe I'm wrong and the downvoters could elaborate as to how and why?
Sure but the objective characteristics of the housing you're competing for, at whatever level of resources you can bring to bear, can be dramatically better or worse depending on supply.
> I don't think it's necessarily evidence of being anti-democracy in his leanings.

This is either willful ignorance or something else.
Up north in QLD, sunset seems to take about 15 minutes. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but it’s very quick compared to London where I am these days.
Thanks for linking this, that was a fantastic read.
Data Warehouse Is a Hammer – But Not Everything Is a Nail
However, they can cause some unpleasant side effects, especially in a confined space with limited ventilation.
They are simultaneously cutting staff and closing offices while artificially increasing demand for both. I don't think this is being done in good faith.
btw, SWF stands for "Shockwave Flash". Macromedia was trying to capitalize on the brand recognition of Shockwave when marketing Flash.
Plus Estonia in particular is 200km away from St Petersberg, and 800km from Moscow. They are all but guaranteed to succumb to Russian expansion if allowed to continue unchecked.