skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In EU we have 6 months probation mostly everywhere and you can be fired easily within that time.
Also you can’t be legally employed twice, so the employee should be doing a freelance job on the side, which is also an inconvenience for most considering it would force you to make an additional tax report with some added taxation that isn’t worth it unless you earn a lot.
This double remote job thing seems like it’s really just a US “problem”.
Which is weird, considering how this hustling to get more for yourself should actually be incentivized in a society that promotes self reliance and getting rich as a core value.
I share this view. Not to any hate on Palmer, but enthusiasts often have a very different product perspective and the products he's led are demonstrations of this. Again, not in a negative way, they just failed to capture public attention due to the tradeoffs.

The fact that it's Apple is what makes me less cynical about the hype. If Apple, a company predominantly focused on mass public adoption, is able to get an enthusiast hyped about one of their products... maybe they hit a good balance.
I'd argue 1k per month for mid-sized company is nothing, but I can understand where you are coming from.
ESA going for the old reliable percussive maintenance procedure.
> If you made a CPU that directly ran off of some convergent microcode

I think that’s the original idea behind RISC
As an end-user though, it doesn't usually matter.
This website says it better:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
So does this mean you can deny medical care to those who support this bill?

[That feels like that would be in the spirit of this bill]
LLM doesn't have any other runtime state but for what it wrote down (assuming the user even provides it). For comparing with humans, I think LLMs are not like our minds, but like the inner voice. Chat history is the working memory.
> Most websites are about delivering and exploring content. HTML is amazing for this, and you don't need JavaScript.

Most commercial websites want analytics on how users browse and click on the website. So this point goes out the window.
I've successfully gotten at-home models (https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/GPT4-x-Vicuna-13b-fp16) to go through my messages and pull out key todo items. For example, reminding me to message my father about travel plans.

Is it comparable to GPT-4? No, it's not remotely close. But it's getting closer every week, and it very recently crossed the threshold of 'it can do stuff I would never send to a cloud service' (namely, reading all of my messages and pulling out action items).
The irrationals are measurable for any measure that can measure points, which is most of them.
+1

I like to remind folks of a Keynes attributed popular phrase and applicable in this case

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
this looks relevant today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exiting_the_Vampire_Castle
People would still buy Teslas?
The break is usually at the plug end or where the wires enter the housings. I've repaired many cheap earbuds by just cutting off and reterminating them.
"Characterizing problems" reads to me like "discovering bugs," particularly given that he specifically mentions having lots of beta users.
I watched someone pretend to fall asleep after getting their bottle of water. Then pretended to be asleep until they landed. They got off the plan with a free bottle of water.
> One potential solution would be to allow attaching a pragma to the `IsLine` and `IsDoc` classes to request that GHC aggressively specialize all definitions that use them.

I'd love to see this as an actual feature request. As the article says C++ and Rust both already do this as part of the language definition, and I can see this is just a straightforward change to make abstractions more "zero-cost" so to speak (not including compile time costs).
If these problems are all very similar in structure, then you may not need an LLM. Simple GloVe or W2V may suffice with a dot product. The. You can plow through a few terabytes by the time the LLM goes through a fraction of that.
It's an ESR post... what more could we expect?
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators (2019)
The hippocratic oath, well-known to have always come with an asterisk pointing to a 20-page EULA
A more useful comparison would be against bing, no?
>TWS buds with the shape of an AirTag

You missed the point. The target wasn't to shape the earbuds like the AirTags but to allow the user to unscrew the lithium cell like it's possible on the AirTags.
Decoder complexity matters. ARM with its single instruction width allows arbitrarily parallel decoders with only linear growth in transistor count. X86 with its many widths and formats requires decoders that grow exponentially in complexity with parallelism, consuming more silicon and power to achieve higher levels of instruction level parallelism. It requires a degree of brute force with many possible size branches being explored at once among other expensive tricks.

This is one of the major areas where the instruction sets are not equal. ARM has a distinct efficiency advantage.
I try to complete them faster :)
Ok you just proved to be not friendly to newcomers. I asked and you are not friendly. I did not insult anybody. This here is eben worse than twitter and you do exactly what you said would make a difference.
Some libraries have x86 SIMD code but no ARM SIMD code, so benchmarking real world use cases you compare SIMD vs scalar code and x86 is much faster. Server side libraries for ARM are a less mature situation than x86.
Don't know what to tell you other than "Sorry, but this isn't how contracts work".

But hey -- you're quite welcome to believe otherwise, of course -- and to throw yourself against the wheels of the legal system on the basis of your "opinion" of how they ought to work, if you like. It's a free country, after all.
We don't know, is the only good answer. We haven't done much trying in the past 10 years.

Intel's Lakefield was doing quite well in the tablet/MID space. It also had the disadvantages of both comparatively ancient Atom-esque cores- far worse than Intel's new E cores-and a massive massive huge Skylake core. Oh and a replayed decade old desktop iGPU too.

ARM is no longer behind by all that much on single threaded. On geekbench a m2 can do 1916 points, a 7950 2300points. Slightly bigger gap on Cinebench, 1580 Vs 2050. A big part of the gap here is almost certainly the Hz being so different.

We just don't know. There's old beliefs we have held but we had so little evidence for these biases then. X86 rarely tried to be really tiny, had so much more to learn if it was to succeed. ARM rarely tried to be big, and has been learning. There's scant evidence there are real limiting factors for either.
This is why the web (and computing in general) is the way it is today: everything prioritizes what businesses and developers want, and the desires/needs of the people who actually use it are considered afterthoughts and annoying inconveniences. :-(
How we've adapted our interview assessment for the ChatGPT era
Self-publishing.
Agreed. Everyone nowadays wants to make their media in non-text forms like videos, when I would honestly prefer that your tutorial on how to bake cookies could just be in text form. We shouldn't have to load megabytes of JavaScript to "watch" a recipe online that could easily be done in writing.
That’s fair. The logic still holds: Ohio’s interests are over-represented in Federal politics even though it’s not major because it’s important on the margins.
How much resources are required is directly related to the memory size devoted to each weight. If the weights are stored as 32-bit floating points then each weight is 32 bits which adds up when we are talking about billions of weights. But if the weights are first converted to 16-bit floating point numbers (precise to fewer decimal places) then fewer resources are needed to store and compute the numbers. Research has shown that simply chopping off some of the precision of the weights still yields good AI performance in many cases.

Note too that the numbers are standardized, e.g. floats are defined by IEEE 754 standard. Numbers in this format have specialized hardware to do math with them, so when considering which number format to use it's difficult to get outside of the established ones (foat32, float16, int8).
I agree that if one assumes the most optimal theoretical possibilities, it would be great.
Magnus Carlsen has talked about playing against AlphaZero, so at least at high levels yes.
being in touch doesn't mean catering to the younger quarter of the population (with far less than that % of the purchasing power btw).

Aged people are plenty in touch with reality as in the true consequences of choices integrated across time. For example startup founders' success trends with age.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/a-study-of-27-million-startup....
I don’t know anything about taxes and stuff but in
> simply transfer possession - in this case, there is no realised gains,

aren’t the inheritors gaining wealth they did not have before?
I’m working on an app to index your life, and having it local is a huge plus for the people I have using it.
Ask HN: Improving Android Perfromance
Hi HN,

I have a pretty low-mid end Android device and over time performance started getting pretty bad. I clear cache daily which helps a bit but overall things are still far from idea.

I know HN tends to have a lot more affluent users but for those of us who can only afford a cheaper Android device, do any of you have any tips / tricks to improve performance?
One of the comments, by someone named Stewart Tansley:

> Personally, I miss the objectivism debates - Come back Magnus, all is forgiven!

Is this a reference to Magnus Pym, the main character in A Perfect Spy by John le Carré?
Still working and waiting for that profound enlightenment experience. Still hopeful.
In Land’s case I think it was meth plus the need to edgelord. If you simply must stay suitably edgy then you’ll eventually end up somewhere insane.
The x86 decoders consume a reasonable amount of power, but the trouble is making them wider without affecting that.

I have an AMD CPU. Zen CPUs come with a fairly wide backend. But the frontend is what it is (especially early Zen), and without SMT it's essentially impossible to keep all those execution units fed.
It's not that 8 x86 decoders wouldn't be a benefit, it's just that more decoders isn't cheap in x86 cores, each extra decoder is a serious cost.

If you compare with the big ARM cores, having a wide frontend is not a complex research problem or an impractical cost. 8 wide ARM decode is completely practical. You even have open source superscalar RISC-V cores just publicly available on Github running on FPGAs with 8 wide decode.
Large frontends are (relatively) cheap and easy, if you're not x86.

So when we notice that the narrower x86 CPU's decode doesn't consume that much (a "drop in the ocean"), that's because it was designed narrower to keep the PPA reasonable! The reason I can't feed my Zen backend isn't because having a wide frontend is useless and I should just enable SMT anyways, it's because x86 makes wide decodes much less practical than competing architectures.
Ask HN: Is Twitter blue check worthless to you now?
> Starting April 1, we’ll be winding down our legacy Verification program and accounts that were verified under the previous criteria (active, notable, and authentic) will not retain a blue checkmark unless they are subscribed to Twitter Blue.

So now it's mostly just a sign for who has subscribed to Twitter? What about an "authentic" account that won't pay?
I do hope this is sarcasm…
I've ublock installed with the advanced user setting ticked, JavaScript disabled by default. The amount of blogs that load nothing until JavaScript is enabled is ridiculous. And some sites simply don't run unless you enable 60 odd 3rd party JS scripts to run.

Either way my experience of the web is fast and generally fine and any site that wants me to jump through hoops in ublock to run I don't bother with and I'm happier for it.
Does anyone actually care about this? The x86 decoders are not large on modern implementations, and putting more transistors on dice is a well-solved problem.
Next-level CRISPR gene editing: No viruses required
In short, animal bodies can be constructed either as a chain of repeated basic structures called segments or otherwise. We could think for example in an earthworm and a jellyfish.

All segmented animals can be represented as a list of ordered segments. Different lists can have different lengths, but the number of elements inside each type of animal is very stable. We are segmented animals also.

An hypothetical animal with five segments in its body plan, would be represented as:

'(1 2 3 4 5)

Each element in (cdr '(1 2 3 4 5)) has the ability to grow a couple of structures called appendix. The first segment will bear another special type of sensors designed to detect light, the eyes. Animals use chemical gradients to modulate the appendix separately and turn them into everything that will need, in the right place.

The concept of chemical gradients is not difficult to understand. Drop some chemical in the first segment and let it to diffuse towards the end of the chain. The first part will receive much more chemicals than the tail, activating different genes. Our embryo now looks like this:

'(head torax abdomen)

Rinse and repeat for each element, nesting lists. This very smart process is all that we need to make an animal while guaranteeing that our embryo will never develop a couple of ears in the legs [1].

[1](... Unless is an arthropod, because each type of animals have their own ways to solve the problems)
It uses more power. The decoder is like another ALU that is always screaming at 100%. It means you can easily keep up with ARM in speed but not power efficiency.
Poker is quite different. In roulette, the house advantage is probabilistic. As the linked page shows, that advantage is overwhelmingly likely to materialize, and rather quickly at that. But the probability that you play a million rounds of roulette and end up ahead isn’t exactly zero, just such a ridiculously small number you might as well call it zero for real life purposes.

Casinos make money on poker play differently, and in a few ways. The simplest is “rake”. They take a fixed percentage of every pot. This is different because it’s not probabilistic. The casino isn’t gambling its own money. It’s just a tax.

Money only comes in from players. So the EV of all players is negative, because a little is flowing out to the casino every hand. The chance players as a whole end up ahead isn’t near zero, it is zero.

If everyone was playing theoretically perfect poker every hand, all individual players EV are also negative. But, no one is playing perfect all the time. So you can get ahead because you’re not beating the odds. You’re beating other players.
I use an MS keyboard + mouse with its own USB transceiver for wireless (Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop). So to be fair I haven't tried BT keyboards. AFAIK it's also 2.4GHz but not Bluetooth.

For me its mainly WiFi+BT Audio that I care about.

A surprisingly high number of my previous Lenovo devices had the problem that using both simultaneously would lead one of the two connections to drop. On Windows and Linux. The extent of the problem varied, the worst offender was a cheap Windows convertible, but my 2019 Ryzen 7 ThinkPad also exhibits this problem sometimes.
For context, New York Presbyterian employs over 20,000 people including 6,500 doctors.
Regulation is important, but it comes with a cost.

Sometimes I wonder if we are erring too much on the side of slowing things down.
Frameworks are a form of lock-in, or a moat. Once you build something complex, the cost of your customer changing supplier is higher. You build that local pub website using big fancy stuff and they can't hire a WordPress person to do some simple updates. Never mind a plain HTML and CSS person.

Sure, it's easier for whomever built it, but it's also harder for anyone else. You are using these tools and frameworks to serve yourself, not your customers.

It's like using VB to customize MS office, or the total lock-in you face with SAP customizations. But in those cases it maybe brings some value. With web sites you're really building complexity without improving presentation or adding value.
The main result of the CCRU’s frantic, promiscuous research was a conveyor belt of cryptic articles, crammed with invented terms, sometimes speculative to the point of being fiction. A typical piece from 1996, “Swarmachines”, included a section on jungle, then the most intense strain of electronic dance music: “Jungle functions as a particle accelerator, seismic bass frequencies engineering a cellular drone which immerses the body ... rewinds and reloads conventional time into silicon blips of speed ... It’s not just music. Jungle is the abstract diagram of planetary inhuman becoming.”

The Warwick accelerationists saw themselves as participants, not traditional academic observers. They bought jungle records, went to clubs and organised DJs to play at eclectic public conferences, which they held at the university to publicise accelerationist ideas and attract like minds. Grant remembers these gatherings, staged in 1994, 1995 and 1996 under the name Virtual Futures, as attracting “every kind of nerd under the sun: science fiction fans, natural scientists, political scientists, philosophers from other universities”, but also cultural trend-spotters: “Someone from [the fashion magazine] the Face came to the first one.”

Like CCRU prose, the conferences could be challenging for non-initiates. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as “an anti-disciplinary event” and “a conference in the post-humanities”. One session involved Nick Land “lying on the ground, croaking into a mic”, recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background. “Some people were really appalled by it. They wanted a standard talk. One person in the audience stood up, and said, ‘Some of us are still Marxists, you know.’ And walked out.” [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationis...
Vore: A new RSS feed reader
Llama cpp and others use perplexity:

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perplexity
Yes, you absolutely want to run the entire game to test a function because if it does not work in the context of the game then it's wrong, regardless of what the spec or the tests say.

Do you really want to have to update a test every time you want the jump button to have more or less force, when tuning your platforming mechanics?
Also, I’m not sure that most websites are about delivering and exploring content. I think most websites are fundamentally about either delivering ads or selling you stuff. “Delivering ads” usually requires JavaScript, and “Selling stuff” can be done without a bunch of JavaScript, but the experience wouldn’t be great.

I don’t dispute the thesis of “web pages today are often way too bloated”, but I think it’s important to be realistic about the problem space. The author calls out JavaScript driven carousels as an example of unnecessary bloat… yet the Amazon.com home page features one such carousel prominently. I doubt they would put it there without A/B testing the heck out of it. To be fair, Amazon is way smarter about it than most in how the page paints and is interactive very quickly, but my point is that it seems to me that most web users want something more than what JavaScript-less HTML and CSS can provide.
Server Side Rendering is making a big comeback these days. I think we will see a big drop in transported bytes over the wire.
I think this is all accurate, but understates the challenge of determining if someone is betraying your trust or not performing adequately.

It is hard to detect liars, cheats, and saboteurs in workplaces with a baseline expectation of trust and low micromanagement.

The problem IMHO is not people who do a great job on time, but people who inflate timelines, and derail projects.

If you give someone a novel problem, and they say it is difficult and will take 80 hours instead of 20, the only way to catch them in the act is to duplicate the work yourself or with another employee. Similarly, if they raise lots of questions and involve other people, it is difficult to determine if these are valid complications, or manufactured complexity, without replicating the work.

Humans are pretty good at deceit.
The title and article aren't quite telling you the truth.

The bill allows providers to decline to provide specific services where those services are in opposition to their beliefs.

It does not allow them to deny all health care, just those specific services they are opposed to.

It's a subtle difference, but an important one.
I’m just saying it was better before, not perfect before.
I still don't believe that in the long term it will be tenable to bootstrap LLMs using prompts (or at least via the same vector as your users).
Let's have an example of website that could be improved by reducing use of Javascript. According to the so-called "tech" company employees on HN, it's all theoretical. The web is actually just fine.

There's no problem. It's all blog post author imagination. Turn off the ad blocker.

The web advertising industry is on the side of web users. Web users are getting everything they want, and more!
Is it possible that all but the most exotic prompt injection attacks end up being mitigated automatically over time, by virtue of research and discussion on prompt injection being included in training sets for future models?
I need to be more observant of what writing I like. I'd love to have a pocket anyzer that could tell me how much of this advice here creates things I like.

I try to be much more mindful when I have real intent & want things done. But so much writing is an attempt to communicate unclear things, to explore, not convince. I have a hard time believing writing like this produces the things I like to read.
I often see this on news items, but at some point I realized that these names could have been semi-jokingly made up by the video editors who simply didn't have a name to put in the clip (or perhaps they used a placeholder name that never got fixed).
The executives should write them!
I’m biased, I work with Palmer and have always 1) found him to be genuine, 2) reasonably impartial in how he judges these sorts of things, and 3) been blown away by his passion for head-mounted display tech.

Some of the early Apple leaks scared me off from early adoption — external battery/compute, talk of only producing 300k units to satisfy enthusiasts only, etc. I’m excited that Apple is taking the leap but it seems like the headset is unlike the iPad/watch/iPhone in that it’s not intended for mass adoption. I was content to be part of the second wave.

If some credible folks attest to this being excellent, why not? Strong initial reviews would swing me towards buying a first unit.
Sorry about this. I assumed that checkmark/cross would compensate for this color combination, but I agree that better colors would make this more accessible for everyone. From what I'm reading online, Blue / Red is a better combination here?
I generally like Apple gear but don’t forget the time they staged a whole press event in order to announce…an iPod dock, and not even a great one.
But is it more the sitting at the desk or more the slouching? How is slouching contributing to the muscle imbalance and tightness? And if you otherwise do counteracting stretching and strengthening does the slouching matter?
Bun do not plan to implement a formatter or a linter. This makes Rome and others still relevant.
So, if I was a Dr., and a supporter of this law came under my care for a serious condition, could I throw him out of my office because of my religious beliefs
Shameless plug, if you do not want to spend the time aggregating all datacenter IP addresses you can use the IPDetective.io API to easily detect of an IP address comes from a datacenter, VPN, proxy or botnet.