skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's 3 in past couple months. Let's hope there aren't more.

I saw a chart in the last few days, maybe on Zero Hedge, I can't remember exactly. That chart showed the hundreds of failed banks in the 2008 GFC as sized circles. The chart also showed the recent banking collapse with just three sized circles (and that's just so far, more to come).

The point of the chart was that the three bank collapses so far total more dollars than all of the failed banks' losses in the GFC of 2008.
That’s particularly frustrating since the point of microfilm is that it takes nearly no space to store it, and thus nearly no cost to keep it forever.
I have turned on the 'visualize everything that is perceived' feature, which is disabled by default. I don’t have FSD. I am not encouraged to buy it, based on what the car perceives.
Yeah I did some bioinformatics work years ago and there were still a few Perl things, but not many.
The upcoming W3C Web Authentication Level 3 defines a "backup capable" authenticator, which means that it goes beyond a single piece of hardware. Indicating "backups enabled" means that the user has a recovery process, such as if they store the passkeys in their iPhone and then lose/upgrade the model - they can just sign into iCloud on the new device.

Not all authenticators are going to have backups enabled (even ones which are backup capable), so these are really meant as hints so that a website (a la Relying Party in the spec) can guide the user to a proper experience. For instance, if you use a hardware security key fob, they may recommend you keep your password and SMS enabled as options, so you can get in even if you lose it.
Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing
A lot of places have permit parking, where permits are only available to the residents. Following this route seems to be more productive than making fake signs to me.
Your steed awaits… /s

Mercedes Drive Pilot was to be liability for accidents, under a list of conditions, by the end of 2022

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...
They do link to sources, but the sources are shit. Notably the ABC7 source cited every assertion except for the most dramatic: zero-click malware
> Usually) rents are already as high as they can be, in aggregate. In other words, the market cannot bear a higher cost for the good, so an increase in cost has to be eaten by the landlord.

How do you explain rising rents?
Paying customers can't use this feature.

> If you have a Google Workspace account through your school or employer, you will not be able to use passkeys to sign in at this time.

Source: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/13548313?sjid=507...
Just curious; Why all these really similar comments (the ones starting with "this is concerning") got down-voted to oblivion? Were they GPT generated? They look as if they may have been (due to the extreme similarity of them and the fact that they were all posted at pretty much exactly the same time).
Have you tried FSD beta 11.3.x?
You crossed into breaking the site guidelines far worse with this comment than anything else I've seen in this thread. That's not cool. Please don't do it again, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I do think it is a fair question, though? Why are some things only effective if we believe them to be so? And what does that imply about messaging?

I'm not in favor of lies. But mayhap shutting up is more called for? :)
It is a guess informed by some familiarity with the literature and by going over the papers authored by researchers credited in the OpenAI's "GPT-4 contributors" web page.

I have an expanded list of foundational research that is likely to serve as basis for gpt4 here in my blog: https://kir-gadjello.github.io/posts/gpt4-some-technical-hyp...

Hope it helps!
To clarify, there is no limit on Kagi. Searches are 1.5 cents per search (after those included with subscription) and you can do as many as you’d like. Or get an unlimited plan. A lot of things don’t cost a search (bangs, reloads etc..)
That's right, It's all just stuff that happens when you hit F5 in your IDE. It's like not needing to know how an internal combustion engine works since all you have to do is tell the driver where you want to go.
Curious how foot compares.
Frankly I haven’t really seen evidence supporting the phrase “needed to downsize”.

The only need I’ve seen demonstrated was the “need” to bump stock price at any cost to the company.

Doesn’t really matter, though. The board has cast its die.
> As it is, I don't need to ride a bike 45 times a year as I live and work close to transit.

I think that might be our different mindsets at work here. I ride transit when I must, but when I need or want to go somewhere my first thought is, "I want to do this on a bike. Can I do this on a bike?"

I do use Citi Bike mainly as a transit replacement when I visit. I'd say I make about four major displacements a day when I visit and use Citi Bike for part or all of them where possible. Sometimes it saves me part of the fare, like, I will take Citi Bike to Grand Central to ride Metro North, or take Citi Bike to a PATH station to cross into NJ.

There are major use cases if you frequent/live in a neighborhood that is just outside the comfort zone for regularly using transit. A major portion of East Village is like that. From a purely "does this save me a lot of time and/or money" standpoint, Citi Bike does not always come out on top, but it does come out on top for quite a lot of people as you mentioned.

One major benefit to me though is that having the membership reduces the friction of deciding to use a bike, by a lot. It makes riding a bike into a very obvious, low-cost recreation/exercise option and inspires me to go out and be active when the weather is nice. And it makes me motivated to find excuses to get out and ride more, like crossing the major bridges, checking out the waterfront greenways, or getting involved in group rides or other meetups related to my hobbies. The fact that biking is just more fun and satisfying than taking public transit makes all the outings that it enables more fun and satisfying by extension too.
s/do/did/

People pay little attention to local news, and even less now that they can get continuous updates of momentous events from all over the world. The local news is much more relevant, but far less entertaining.
I blame it on the Gen Xers
Map shows major retail closures that hollowed out downtown S.F
Ray Ozzie shows up here occasionally. I disparaged Notes a while back and he set me straight - the backend is pretty elegant. However the front end was designed to be cross-platform and as a result is a lowest common denominator UI. It's not attractive, but it worked nearly everywhere. Since that is what people see, that's the impression they get.

Found it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18320592
In my area there isn't, but there are a handful of "independent journalists" who have been harassing the school district and teachers to expose them for being "woke".

They've got a lot of clout and use their platforms to direct their audiences to attack anyone that criticizes them and the locals that do things they don't like. It's surreal.

That's not the kind of journalism that's constructive or informative, but it isn't boring like reading board meeting minutes in a local news article.
Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die
Q: 1 = 0.999999...
A: Meaningless

are they trolling
That’s not entirely true. Long term growth also impacts stock price and could be preferential for investors.
Wow, the 150,000+ employees posted dozens of memes and liked them several hundred times?
The way biology evolves to adapt is also very shortsighted! Even without long-term planning, it can still make spiders!
I think it’s the other way around, journalists are reporting on the real sentiment that the employees feel. The business reasoning can help us understand what things happen, but the employees can experience their feelings regardless.
Our own understanding of spatial reasoning is tied in many respects to our hand-eye coordination, muscle memory and other senses: we learn to conceptualize "balance" by observing and feeling falling and when things are "about to" fall.

What GPT does is not "text" - although it centers that as the interface - but "symbols". The billions of parameters express different syntaxes and how they relate to each other. That's why GPT can translate languages and explain things using different words or as different personas.

So when we ask it to solve a spatial problem, we aren't getting a result based on muscle memory and visual estimation like "oh, it's about 1/3rd of the way down the number line". Instead, GPT has devised some internal syntax that frames a spatial problem in symbolic terms. It doesn't use words as we know them to achieve the solution, but has grasped some deeper underlying symbolic pattern in how we talk about a subject like a physics problem.

And this often works! But it also accounts for why its mathematical reasoning is limited in seemingly elementary ways and it quickly deviates into an illogical solution, because it is drawing on an alien means of "intuiting" answers.

We can definitely call it intelligent in some ways, but not in the same ways we are.
> He is getting a raise because you are getting cost cuts and layoffs. That's literally his reward for saving the company money and pumping up the stock price.

The mechanics of that maneuver make it seem that staff are being laid off for the sake of creating resources that make compensation possible.

Would there be less layoffs if the compensation package was not as much?
Yep. How much of prime time news now is, "Have you seen what is going on on Twitter??".
I think you're missing the point, both of you. It's not people's opinions I'd be interested in 50 years from now; it's just what they were talking about. Everyone might have an opinion about some event, but it's the event itself I'd want to know.
Really? My experience with GPT is more the description I add the better the results. I presume this is because it has a longer prompt to attend upon, I think the whole idea of focusing on keywords/ concise sentences is a very “search engine” paradigm and language models do better the more you describe your question
By the time the calculus includes the savings of the steering wheel, column and other components, and the gear selector, mirror adjustment control, brake and accelerator pedals, and all the other systems that used to be needed by a human driver, autonomous driving (hopefully) would be really really good.
i hit my 1000 search limit yesterday, and my cycle is up in a little over a week. I was a little miffed, but there is a helpful button that just redos your search in google

it was my first time using google search in a few months since i started kagi, but.... have google's results become better?

maybe voting with our wallets worked, and google is rolling back some of their less popular recent ranking changes
> What is the damage?

Where to begin. I'll be as straight forward as I can.

Porn use cultivates lust. A false form of love that seeks easy sexual satisfaction instead of a stable long term committed relationship that's best for kids. Porn is a pretty major contributor to divorce and otherwise blowing up relationships. Some women will tolerate it for a time, or try to and even claim to succeed. But it eats at them and contributes greatly to their unhappiness.

It's another form of infidelity, which is quite infamous in human society since forever. Numerous literature pieces.

It's basically a love receptor inhibitor. The deeper you are in it the harder it will be to really love a woman. A real woman requires TLC, a great deal of it, a porn woman does not. How much energy do you thing goes into a relationship if all male sexual satisfaction is tied solely to it's health?

If you've been in it since youth you probably have never experienced the kind of real love I'm talking about. I know because I was there, myself, for years. I walked a life of porn for many years and it's taken many years to overcome that addiction. Night and day.
The LUTs are still the core of these general-purpose blocks, however (as opposed to the more fixed-function blocks like DSP blocks). There's only a little extra logic, mostly focused on muxing and flip-flops (I would argue the flip-flops are the main thing to realise is dedicated hardware). The only thing that's really a different kind of logic is dedicated carry-chain circuitry.
From TFA:

“Nordstrom also announced that it would expand its presence in California, opening five new Nordstrom Rack stores in cities across the state, including one in San Mateo.”

No, sounds like it’s just San Francisco.
UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040
We use a flu A / flu B / RSV / COVID test (PCR) for virtually every respiratory patient in our rural ED (US).

EDIT: We've only had it for the last 18 months or so. I was really shocked to discover how many older folks actually have RSV that I would previously have admitted as "probably a community acquired pneumonia" for mild hypoxia and maybe a highly questionable infiltrate on X-ray (read: probably no infiltrate but I need a diagnosis). Nice to now have a better excuse to consider holding back on antibiotics.
I wonder what the driver was?
Anyway, first release of Fortran Package Manager was in November 2020: https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/releases/tag/v0.1.0 - more recently than I expected.
I can’t believe it could be possible that less data is better than more data when it comes to self driving car sensors. Why not also include audio data and ir/uv data too?

I realized today that the Tesla system is noticeably slow to react to stimuli. It reminded me of how some gas station pumps emit a beep a second or so after you press a button when entering the zip code. Laggy, underpowered embedded systems.
What are the drawbacks of quantizing though?
Here is a theoretical:

"if you don't sack 10% of the workforce we will cut your pay by 50% but if you do sack 10% of the workforce we will only cut your pay by 25%"

Its win-win because if he refused, they could sack for the penalty payout, and re-hire on a CEO pay of 1/4 or less, and still have good competent people to run the company.

The failure here, is believing the stake a CEO needs has to be this astronomical to validate their role. After the first 10 million PA of renumeration, what do they do with it? What does he do with $225+ million PA?

A 1% annuity on that pays for a lot of pixel phones, and flights.

Remember that Warren Buffet is on $100,000 effective pay, and does not really spend very much.
Or, more broadly, crabs. Carcinisation for all!
> a new performant language that can call Python

don't forget the control layer/data layer separation principle. Performance mostly only matters at the data layer, and I don't believe that python ML really has a substantial problem with this, aside from not having a real distribution story. So "having a more performant python" doesn't really solve that much.

I'll tell you what could make the control layer better.

- no gil

- better async primitives

- immutability of passed parameters

- better testing story

- better documentation story (python is quite good at documentation, well, when python devs actually do it, which they usually don't).

- project-local dependencies with no shenanigans
Actually the stock buyback (70B) is basically 30x the savings (2.5B).
I know all of that, but they are still important caveats. We are not in a worse place than 08 (yet)
Show HN: Multi-Line Calculator
I'm not confident in this, but: if microfilm/fiche is anything like ordinary film, it's somewhat annoying and costly to archive: the film itself physically degrades ("vinegar syndrome"[1]) and might be hazardous to store in bulk (depending on the age and type of film stock).

(This isn't to say that it should be thrown out, but that the first step to archiving is to enumerate and cover the costs.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate_film#Decay_a...
It takes a lot more space than bits on a hard drive. I am curious though why libraries didn't have their microfilm digitized before getting rid of it. Maybe a case of thinking "well it must be online somewhere" and that's what everyone thought...
It's from this paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556

Like the sibling comment said - the proportion of training tokens to parameter size is very important, and there's a certain threshold needed to be met for it to be "fully trained".

Usually you have a fixed amount of compute (budget/time essentially) - and in that case you want to pick the largest parameter count that you can fully train, and not the largest parameter count your hardware can support and then train that for less time.

tl;dr - Small models with training over the chinchilla threshold can out perform large models that are undertrained

EDIT: Figure 2 page 5, and Table 3 page 8 - might be worth checking out.
Looks like it’s self-hosted software

https://release-argus.io/docs/getting-started/
My local news didn't cover those things either. But I did find that my high school athletics department made a youtube channel, and they have short interviews with coaches, specific games, and season highlights for certain sports. Another channel has been making highlight cuts for various high school sports. My county has a decent youtube channel that covers holidays, events, mail-in ballot instructions/voting information, and a short video about the "state of the county" executive summary. It links back to the county website. I found out the local historical society has been uploading documentaries online, about things like the constuction of the middle school. I found hour+ interviews/videos about people, who towns, roads and schools, were named after.

Right now a lot of journalism adjacent local reporting is buzzfeed style "list" videos where my town or county is mentioned. I am not sure where that falls, because it can highlight unique things about a place, but arguably not newsworthy. I don't think the incentives will ever there to cover local news in the way you are describing. On the other hand government twitter accounts have been genuinely useful for finding local events, my local news never did that for me.
sigh

life is magical but it's duration is unknown. And it gets a little greyer as one ages. Plan for tomorrow, but pay attention to today because one never knows. It's not what you get, it's who you help.
Still no sign of any initiative to declare that you do not give consent to use your page's contents as a training set for ML models. Yet the overcomplication of web standards is ongoing with light speed. Whats next, another color space coordination system after rgb, hls, lab, oklab, oklch??

Ridiculous.
There are no books on Large LMs but almost any resource about neural networks covers fine tuning. I like the FastAI courses, and these do cover language models.
The product itself was for both MVS and VM/CMS - https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ss...

But possibly MVS customers outnumbered VM/CMS ones to the point that you rarely or never worked with any of the later
> Does that not rather imply that, if I log in with faceid on an iphone, my login will be tied to my ability to faceid on an iphone, and hence only available on iphones and macs?

The authenticator is given a lot of leeway in how it does authentication. In the Apple platform case, it is "the user authentication on the device which is on the iCloud account and has set up iCloud Keychain".

So on my Mac I can use TouchID. On my phone I use FaceID. Both allow me to fall back to the device password (such as when I have the lid on my Mac closed).
https://archive.is/OI4mv
Sublime Text is still the superior editor here.
That sounds very odd indeed. I just checked and my results look as expected:

https://ibb.co/hmWNbyK

Do you mind sharing more information about this on kagifeedback.org so that we can have a look?
Someone is probably working on an ai bot for this
Capitalism is a process whereby wealth percolates upwards over time, such that the end result is nearly all wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands while the bulk of the population becomes poorer and poorer.

Taken to its logical end, all the wealth would finally be concentrated in the arms of one person, and all the rest of the population would have nothing. Of course, it never reaches that point as some form of social upheaval (war, revolution, etc) will reset all the pieces. The process then starts all over again.
No. In the grand scheme of Google, the CEO's pay is irrelevant.
If every one of the 13,000 employees made $300k in compensation then that’s $3.9B/year in expenses saved.

Instead of the $70B stock buyback they could have employed those 13,000 people for 17.9 years.

Google is basically comcast or Nike in terms of caring about their employees and customers.
> That is literally the top metric CEOs are judged on

Says you. On his watch they completely squandered their ai lead (despite rebranding as AI company or whatever), didn’t gain much share in the cloud and, botched gaming and messaging, am I missing something? Oh right, also continued to burn user trust and alienating employees it seems

Look at apple and microsoft for comparison, not rando s&p companies.
Not sure - I'm sure I've seen a COBOL to Java translator (paid).

I guess there's not enough commercial demand, and any hobbyist who's good enough at Fortran probably isn't interested in doing it.

edit: apparently f2py (Fortran to Python) is a thing.
It’s one thing to keep a single copy for all of society locked up in a box. But having it retrievable means staff, and maybe in a bunch of places if you want local access.
Its not very hard through prompting. You can just ask the LLM to generate on these parameters. I did this exact same thing and never wrote any code for it.
Synagis was described as a passive vaccine to parents in the mid-2000s.
"Some of you may die but thats a sacrifice I am willing to make."
The Google stock price has matched the NASDAQ100 since then, it's underperformed when you take dividends into account. He's made a lot of money for shareholders, but you'd have to say his performance is average or slightly below.
BREAKING: Employees laid off are upset
It’s because the journalist isn’t a journalist, they’re just a writer filling a need. There’s already public sentiment that google sucks, so they just find the simplest story to support it. People rage read like they scroll forever on social media.

I think the confusion is bad journalism. It’s not that at all.
You drastically overestimate technical competence on HN. Especially as of late.
I miss the other direction, being able to put shortcuts (aliases) in your Apple menu. When OS X was still young there used to be a "haxes" called Fruit Menu that let you do that, but I think that has been gone for a while.

There are probably some menu bar items that I do not know about, but I really miss that functionality.
Stacked PRs – Pros and Cons?
I've been doing a bit of reading about "stacked pull requests". The two major benefits that people seem to like are: it reduces the size of PRs which is a very good thing, it allows devs to keep working while things are in review (rather than waiting for it to be reviewed before continuing.

Have seen a bit of conversation on HN about stacked PRs, curious about people's experience with it? Pros and cons?