skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have this problem in Computer Science as well, where randomly picking objects performs just as well, if not better, than a some logical huristic or algorithm. Most notably in cache eviction. When the cache is full, how do you pick what to evict, given incomplete knowledge of the future? There are various algorithms, evicting the least recently used - LRU - object being one popular one. It's often beat in benchmarks by an algorithm that randomly selects an object to evict though.

Still, BloombergGPT has knowledge far in excess of a monkey, and if it's anything like ChatGPT, is able to provide reasoning as to how it arrived that that conclusion. Time will tell if, granted a brokerage account, how it will perform relative the market. It may or may not outperform a monkey throwing darts.
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They key issue with lack of training data is that we do have intelligent dolphins for communication experiments - for example, we can replay certain sounds that we have recorded, and we can "ground" that language with "nonverbal" communication - e.g. showing various things or pictures.
> I was listening to Peter Attia on some podcast and he says to essentially throw out any BP reading that didn't occur after sitting down for five minutes.

Or just assume that your systolic will be about 3 points higher if you weren't sitting for five minutes, or whatever the normal correction is for you. You shouldn't accept a diagnosis of high blood pressure from your doctor if (as is most likely) they aren't measuring it correctly, but the deviation from the "correct" measurement also isn't random.
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Haha, you're not wrong.

Though I would argue that the explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is not that Ma was being calculating and strategic, but that he just got cocky and said something dumb in the moment. He let all the global feting of his rise from schoolteacher to China's richest man go to his head, made an all-too-human mistake, and said something inadvisable.

He may even have been trying to defend the CCP in that moment, trying to communicate to US audiences that the CCP doesn't need to be feared because it's not scary, and thus he himself didn't fear it. But Xi and the powers that be interpreted it differently, and disappeared him. Which is always a risk in that system, but not in liberal democracies.
Sure, but there are windless nights over fairly large areas sometimes, and the US is pretty bad at building long-distance transmission. Some projects have languished for decades.
people are pretty much not built for the modern world. Maybe some techno nerd people are, but most normal people aren't.
Fingers and hands. They are difficult.
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lol, here's my visual flow which consists of "start" -> "script node" -> "end"

Still, people buy Dell Boomi and Mulesoft, so it's not like there's no market for this rubbish
Everyone* wants to improve their financial situation... A smaller group are able to see that the get rich scheme itself is someone executing someone else's get rich scheme. That's why people listen to these people.

*= Some people are happy where they are but that's a VERY small percentage
I just learned that System76 will sell me a 2U server with x8 A100 units.
Sure, but they said they had been prescribed Adderall and Ritalin, neither of which are Methamphetamine.
Agree that the M2 Mini base model for 499$ is utter dynamite for most tasks. You can tell folk that but if they don't want to listen shrug
Can you `grep` it?

Text-based files like CSV can be `grep`-ed en masse, which I do often.

eg, to find some value across a ton of files.

Is that possible with parquet?
When I had a normal chair I had a 3 pedal set under my desk. It was awesome.

Especially handy in gaming to have keys mapped to thinks like Heal
> AFAIK lossless compression of textures is not an automatic thing for GPUs, however framebuffers - the things you render to - are losslessly compressed to reduce bandwidth usage for rendering and scan-out.

Textures can be auto losslessly compressed too, but note it's only useful for textures the CPU/GPU is writing to; you should use ASTC or whatever usual format most of the time.

eg it's briefly discussed here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/textures/opt...
You can get close to this without licensing/fees by standing up a K8s cluster and running devspace
They're also doing the same with the green belt, housing and businesses in general.

Farmers are being told they need to diversity but they can't have wind turbines, they can't have businesses that need any kind of premises, they can't build housing on their less productive land. Something has to give at some point.

Everyone agrees they need to do something but many governments are intent on doing nothing
Good call - missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
the classic reply:

consider a stock picker who starts with 256 people, tells 128 of them that next week Tesla will go up and Twitter will go down. Whichever happens, take that 128 strong cohort, tell half of them that the next week, Ford goes up and Chrysler goes down.

Etc.

repeat for 8 weeks.

At the end, the stock picker has a true believer: someone who thinks they saw the stock picker successfully "know" for 8 weeks in a row which stocks would go up.

Change the numbers around a bit, don't run until the true believer pool size is one, and you've got ... the real world.
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Why the fixation on coffee? If you bought a $5 latte every day you went to work, you’re look at, what, a bit more than $1200/year? If you make $150K/year, that is a perfectly reasonable outlay that won’t compromise your retirement plans. The key is having a balanced life. If you can’t help but buy every shiny thing you see, then that’ll be a problem. But the advice of these Internet personalities is just as poorly balanced in the direction of asceticism. Obviously this is a non-starter for nearly every normal person.

I think the problem is that people are fascinated by schemes that are extreme and highly unbalanced. Even the idea of FIREing… why are so many people obsessed with the idea of retiring early? Why not find a job that isn’t soul sucking and do that? Hey, maybe you get paid less, but maybe you’d have some coworkers you actually like and don’t mind spending time with. You have to be patient with your life to do that, and patience and balance aren’t sexy or exciting, I guess.
What NDA if any have you signed?

Note though whatever the answer, no matter what company you end up working with you could potentially put yourself or them in hot water.

I would have told the company in the interview that your current employer was contemplating a similar product and directed your participation in the interview away from it and any particulars to it.
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I just had the misfortune of having to wade through pages and pages of byzantine building code where the relevant parts were scattered though the document. This would be very helpful for that kind of thing.
The law doesn’t justify and give you life. It’s the promise given to Abraham and his seed that will.
Let's look at cost per kWh. I know it's a trivial division by 1000, but people pay their utility bill by the kWh, not by the MWh.

So, in the first 2 months of 2023 the average American paid $0.17 per kWh [1], up from $0.15 one year before. Overall, a lot of people would be happy to pay $0.06/kWh. You are saying solar and wind could come at $0.045 and $0.03. That's great, but 2 cents per kWh is not really something people pay attention too all that much.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
Thank you, I'm ready for whatever happens how! can I contact you, if you are open to it?
Well, an image codec is a video codec and vice versa. Specifically, it's a good codec for editing because you can instantly seek to every frame.
Wouldnt it be time for a somewhat older gpu with a lot of memory. Or is that hard to achieve?
Not sure if I'm weird but I have literally never wished that I had a big screen for watching Netflix in my car.
Is there some way of holding the LLM response to a given prompt constant? It sounds like a lot of this relies on the LLM getting the right answer in sequence, so I'm guessing they do something like keep the temperature at 0? Otherwise you are going to wind up with possibly different behavior run-to-run. And even if they do have something like the above, don't we end up with potentially breaking changes once models are updated? Basically the issue is that even if you can guarantee response format X for prompt A, a slightly modified prompt A' has no guarantee that its response will be in the same format as X, even in the same model. You can also imagine that the more "Tools" are available, the lower the chance that the model will pick the right one based on its English text description. Would be interesting to know how this is being addressed.
AutoEq: Neutral equalization settings for 4000 headphone models
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He points out financial conflicts of interest yet he also sells books, often with click-baity titles. Seems rather hypocritical, no?
Who are the "people"??

I'm very confused what this actually is

ELI5, anyone?
+1 for compression! Unless you have very specific performance needs there's no reason to not to use compression. In fact TrueNAS (previously known as FreeNAS) has it enabled by default.

I've yet to compare lz4 to zstd myself, but I've read great things about it.
Apparently you don't watch Black Mirror.

There's an entire episode on this.
> Even in my spot in northern California this winter, it's been so cloudy this year, I can't imaging an all solar+storage grid would have worked out well this year.

The electricity demand in the winter is much lower than the summer demand, especially in California due to residential AC.

> Actually this gave me an idea, it would be really neat to have an comprehensive simulator of power grids that incorporated weather, demand spikes etc. to play around with different energy source mix to get an idea of what actually works and when it fails as well as total cost, environmental impact etc.

There's a gentleman in Australia who does ~this for their market -- 5 hours of storage is enough to get to a 99% renewable grid there;

https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8/status/1640959088887730176
Thought-provoking article.

>> The confrontation between the two groups—between those disenchanted by modern civilization and those despairingly seek­ing a foothold in it—was not something I had seen described in any of the books I read. The many ironies of the situation, and the historical inequities behind them, should have alerted me to my material. But I kept waiting for a great subject, something com­mensurate with the great literature I read, to reveal itself to me.

The contrast between these two groups (the disenchanted and the desperate let's call them) is something I recall seeing when I visited India in the 2000's (which is odd how long ago that seems now...) On one hand you have people who are born and raised in what are apparently these very holy and sacred cities (at least as the religious population considers them to be) and there are some who are doing everything they can do get out and live the American dream. On the other hand, there are those who do the opposite, wealthy heirs to tens and hundred million dollar estates who forsake everything to meditate in an Ashram on the banks of the Ganga.

What a world to live in. And then you have others who live desperately straddling the two, never quite at home in one or the other.
Or yes, an intro to your founder coach would be great.
Or nuclear or geothermal. Or a lot of batteries.

Main problem with the grid in California is when it sets fire to things or windstorms cause an outage. The generation side is holding up pretty well.
A small note on pronunciation: trope is pronounced trup or tr-uh-p not like the English word it looks like.
My view is that science isn't a homogeneous thing, just a bunch of different tools and concepts that are useful for investigating the natural world and making predictions about it.

If you require science to be a reproducible experiment then you exclude much of the hard sciences of astronomy and geology while still permitting the softer science of behavioral economics.
Why would a 4bit quantized model be less accurate than a 16?
Does this help you coordinate your core muscles around your diaphragm with the rest of your body?
> by noticing that there a couple people standing around in the background looking bored, one of them holding what may as well be a clipboard.

Beside the fact that a classified photo isn't going to be in a student handbook, this has all the hallmarks of a training session. Like you said, a bored instructor that's done this 100 times, student sitting cross-legged (next to a damaged nuke? ok), students simulating the checklist actions by just touching stuff, and some guy watching for some reason. (edit: not to mention, no personal protective equipment whatsoever)

This is from a powerpoint filled with stock images and this article is absurd.

I'd be more concerned about the truck explosion image (https://i.imgur.com/zUWLf4B.png) next to this one in the handbook. Is that how Transformers are created? Is FAS.org covering something up?
All we're missing is the sentinel from the aliens.
Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund is more akin to AI. The fund only actively manages 10 billion dollars, but with huge annual returns.
Probably enough just wait till they find ways to optimize it. If 64 isn’t enough 96 is not gonna get you much more
Some of the adversarial research I've seen raises some big questions on the benefits insects are suppose to bring to the table, especially compared to existing protein sources like chicken.
Can you ask some guy about 65b?
Sorry, I was asking you to connect the dots because I didn't understand your comment.
There's a chance that the "quants" are using the same technology that "language models" were using, before they were revolutionized just a couple of years back. I have no idea if this is true, but if so, then what they've gleaned so far might be nothing compared to what an LLM-style neural architecture could do.
The interviews are magnificent
https://huggingface.co/jeffwan/vicuna-13b
That's assuming, that we do get back into the Zone.

If I could be assured that getting into the Zone would be a certain 10-15 minutes every time I'd be everlastingly grateful.
> You’re correct that the influencers aren’t average, but how would you expect someone to have a top 1% outcome without some input variable being top 1%?

You’re missing the point: The parent comment was saying they those 1% influencers are in the 1% often due to things like 1% lucky timing (buying stocks at the right time, buying real estate when it was cheap), but that doesn’t make for interesting content.

So instead, they do mental gymnastics to downplay their lucky position and try to peddle it to the average viewer as generic advice.

> most content I’ve seen is realistic that you’ll have to drastically outperform in one area (an 8 figure exit is hard to mess up)

“Just do an 8 figure exit” is purely aspirational advice for someone browsing FIRE forums. Starting a business, building it, and then selling it for 8 figures isn’t the kind of thing you learn from FIRE influencers on Reddit or whatever, but it’s exactly the kind of dreams they pretend to peddle.
> If you consistently err in one direction it’s because you want to

Eh, seems like it could also be a lack of skill or experience, despite best intentions. Esp. wrt scientists & public communications.
The best way to optimize for CO2 is to ask the user to do it at the right time of day for their grid. Otherwise it's the same thing as using less energy which is ~ the same thing as being faster (assuming fixed resources).

But watch out for induced demand (the user turning the graphics settings up because you made the FPS better.)
How does it go? The trend is your friend — until it bends in the end. I’m sure trading firms are already fervently working to have the new AI to identify these trends faster and sooner, and when exactly the trend will bend in the end. Probably not too crazy of an idea to imagine the distribution of profitable stock following the power law and the entire market getting dominated by superhuman stock-picking AI. As long as the chat prompt optimizes for some human quality like “lessen human suffering” or “improve the human condition” then let’s give this experiment a go.
my zephyrus has the issues i described
https://archive.is/ldkmR
I just had ChatGPT4 recommend this movie as a way to understand alternate forms of intelligence.
Just a niggle here - songs have people singing.
You need speakers to drown out the noisy fan?
Nuclear fission power apologists frequently make a claim like this when trying to establish why costs are so high (it doesn't necessarily explain why cost overruns are so high, as presumably the regulation set is known at the time of project initiation).

If this were the / a major factor in cost competitiveness, we'd expect to see much higher uptake of nuclear fission power plants in places where, as you might say, those things are disregarded (to varying degrees).

I don't believe that's the case, but can't find convincing data one way or the other.

I wonder if there are examples of massive cost overrun / delayed commissioning nuclear fission plants - say Hinkley in the UK - that could be pointed at to substantiate the 'process and regulatory approval' costs, where those process and regulations changed after the initial cost calculations.
> Do we really?

Yes. We do. Significantly more. It’s our only power. We aren’t stronger or faster or more vicious, we cannot fly or breed dozens of humans at a time or puke honey. We can’t swim the ocean depths or swing through the trees.

But we sure can think, understand and create. For better or worse.

I’m all for not underestimating animals. They are sentient like us.

But not at the cost of dismissing the human animal.
>Finding issue with the later [cholesterol checks] falls a lot more into pop science than actual hard evidence based physical intervention.

This statement is in opposition to the consensus of medical professionals. What reason is there for believing it?
There is a library called guardrails . I've not played with it extensively but that seems to address issues like this one.
Thanks - that's super helpful.

1. Good to know about GitPod - I haven't looked at it for a while so looks like I was outdated. The rest of what you said is good too.

2. This is mostly for ML development, where GPUs are sadly often required even for dev work.
>main problem with nuke

Is waste. The main problem is waste, we need to store it somewhere and it’s never in my backyard
So when the US FDA is shilling for obesity drugs, says that being obese isn’t a lifestyle problem but is purely genetic. Medical schools are lowering/removing certain standards for admission under the guise of ‘equity’ - thats all just some billionaires faults? Sorry, I don’t buy it. The medical and pharmaceutical industries have been rotting for decades in the US and protecting them, “because it would be better for our healthcare system” is exactly the mentality that gets you into this mess to begin with. State the problem, state it clearly. Don’t shift blame around to invisible boogeymen.
It’s also bizarre how many FIRE influencers fit the description of the linked article: Their primary income is related to being some sort of FIRE influencer. They downplay it as much as they can, but it’s impossible to escape the reality that their financial situation is due to peddling financial advice to others. The advice, of course, is always about what other people should do, but it can’t be about how they make their money because that would shatter the illusion.
Mullvad doing a fantastic marketing job on HN. 2-3 articles every month, without fail.
That’s a very good point.

And that’s actually a third thing I learned from selling this course: selling people the outcome works better than selling the product.

One of the reasons why my startup isn’t there yet is because I focus too much on trying to sell the product, and almost never mention the outcome (in reality, I’m not even sure what that is). With my course I did the reverse and it worked better.

I don’t plan to take any drastic decisions about my startup, just experiment and see how it performs. But I appreciate the heads up.
How is SIP not a stellar example of how to achieve security in software without destroying user rights?