skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a Mac you just scale the whole display, not fonts.

I've never understood why someone would want to scale just fonts rather than all UX elements. What good is it to be able to read text but not see checkboxes or click the window's close button?

There's also a magnify feature if you need to scale so much that things don't fit on the screen anymore.

Yes, Apple is not only pro-accessibility but basically sets the standard for it. Nobody else even comes close.
> Google Fi

What Google Fi UI do you use on a regularly basis?
My understanding from historians answering similar questions about ancient Romans is that we really don't know much about the average Roman because almost nothing was written down about them and even less survives to this day.
That seems like a lot of extra unnecessary effort for copy/paste-able plaintext.
> Much

[Citation Needed]
Survivor bias is a specific case of selection bias, and the issue here is also selection bias: there's a selection effect on which dashcam videos you end up seeing.
Which SOME employees benefit from. The poverty rate is too high, too many people in jail for such a rich country. What's the point of being rich when only a tiny percentage of the people benefit?
> you can be equally productive remote

Oh, but then you'll miss out on all of those "random hallway conversations where the real 'innovation' occurs".
No offense but this comment just shows a lack of understanding of the development that's happened with transformers.

"Fancy RNN" is a pretty ridiculous assertion.

And no, researchers didn't expect what GPT-3/4 has been shown to do to be around the corner at all.

GPT's aren't chatbots. That's just a neat natural consequence that's happened. They're machines that reason, understand and follow instructions in plain language. And their abilities go far beyond what any expected language modelling to provide.
> Now, we have ways of doing online learning which are an order of magnitude more engaging, and lead to much better learning outcomes.

I'm not sure that's true.

> I would never use the Berkeley stuff with kids. I might use it to help inspire what I do with kids. I would use many of the more animated, interactive things with kids, if available.

You want to teach Data Structures and Algorithms theory to kids? With the exception of the most capable kids, I don't think that's realistic in any format.
I find that the main reason I come here is for information/background chatter about various open source projects and the trends behind them. In other words, fairly granular technical news interspersed with general interest science and math stories. Slashdot used to fill this need for me, but it seems like it fell off in editorial quality and comprehensiveness after changing hands so many times. Plus the commentariat over there seems to have thinned out, as well as skewed older and more bitter, the last few times I’ve visited.

I do appreciate a site where I can learn just as much from the commenters as I can from the stories, and this place definitely still provides that. But I also agree that the YCombinator/VC connection means that too much of the content here uncritically rides industry hype waves (crypto, AI… what’s next? Some kind of applied biotech? Asteroid mining?).

What are some good alternatives? Phys.org is great for general science but there isn’t always a lot of CS crossover.
This is a great idea, but one thing that I immediately wished for is that it's not tied to a specific browser instance or even a browser. I'd much prefer some kind of central indexing server that maintains the embeddings along with metadata from all the various sources and allows querying, setting retention periods etc, and with extensions like this one transparently feeding data into it.
I'll read more here: https://github.com/subscriber-only/jekyll-subscriber_only
> Something I learned relatively late in my career was that really impressive work is the result of iterations in tiny steps.

I agree 100%

> I am definitely of the opinion that given then right circumstances most people could produce something that other people believe is at that sort of level of complexity.

This is the "if my grandma had four wheels, she would be a truck" argument and in my experience it is not accurate. A quote from Ratatouille puts it very eloquently: "A great chef could be anyone, but anyone could not be a great chef"

> They're not that different to the rest of us

I beg to differ. Again, with the caveat of "in my experience", they are very different. Maybe not in ways that would make a great Forbes article, like having superhuman IQ, but for example "having grit" or simply "ability to obsess over the right things" is a key ingredient that most people don't have enough of.
Actually, now that you mention it, maybe that's my problem with SO searches I called out in another post. Maybe they've got some kind of same-source limit that becomes a major hindrance when you expect most results to be from a single source. I almost never get more than two SO links for a search on DDG, and very often neither is what I need—Google gives me a bunch more, and usually at least one is helpful. And it hadn't occurred to me, but I often end up tossing in a "!g" to reddit searches for a similar reason: not enough results are from Reddit, on DDG. (yes, I could probably do some kind of "site:reddit.com" or something, but "!g" is faster to type and gets the job done)
You're just wrong. You're looking at the wrong numbers. The perplexity score of a model with twice the parameters in half the bits (4bit) is FAR LOWER (ie better).

If you are limited to X RAM and have two 16bit models of size 4X and 2X then the 4X model in 4bit will always be far superior to the 2X model in 8bit, with far lower perplexity.

Compare 13B's 4bit perplexity of 5.3607 to 7B's 8bit perplexity of 5.9069. That is over 0.54 lower perplexity for the same RAM amount by using 4bit! That is MASSIVE!
We must go nearly all the same places :P
Urchin, the company Google acquired to make Google Analytics could process Apache Log files. It was really great.
I think this is an example of how it's all different now though. Switching costs have all of a sudden decreased dramatically. There is less cost to picking the right tool for the job. Programmers that have the perfect set of templates and shortcuts and that can code in their chosen language like water and so therefore have no interest in switching to any other language... they're more at risk than the ones with broader experience.
> Unless someone tells them then I expect the application by OpenAI would be allowed.

How does one tell "them" and why don't you?
Science is about coming up with a hypnosis or theory and testing it.

The evidence comes at the end not before the theory
Have you been using the new button we put there to do that? (I realize you still have to press the button, but curious if you are liking it.)
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>You can easily get a car, or watch or a TV with the same controls that worked for you your whole life.

Is this still true, say, if you are 40 years old and "get" is interpreted as "buy new from a store/dealer"? I don't think it is, and that's a shame.
So, because we haven't been able to resolve a highly political and divisive issue (gun deaths), that means we shouldn't try to resolve other dangerous issues?

> I struggle to find a single thing AI can do

How about job loss? If AI can do what proponents say, then it's easy to see that a large amount of job loss will result. If even 20% of people can no longer earn a living, people will die.
I feel like Apple´s Foundation is three shows pretzeled into one:

- Days of our Cleons: mature and political, similar to Asimov's writing.

- Star Trek Salvor: superficial action show with a controversial superprotagonist.

- Gaal Dornick and the Chamber of Gaia: nonsensical chosen-one kid's show.

Not a single one respects the sources enough to be called simply "Foundation", although the first IMO is the most interesting of the three, and coincidentally, the one who took most of the screen time in season 1. I don't plan on watching season 2 until mit's over, and only if the reviews are better. It would consume too much time for the quality of the entertainment.
The 8 series has made a lot of little changes that are currently deprecations but if converted to errors as promised in 9 will be the end for lots of legacy code without changes: most of the standard library not taking null arguments where it used to, changed/added typehinting for the standard classes affecting anything that extends/implements them, and disallowing dynamic properties on objects are some big ones that come to mind.

Once 9 makes some of this mandatory it'll also be much more difficult for a single codebase to work across a wide range of PHP versions. That's possibly even an explicit goal: forcing narrower support from applications and libraries will prod more hosts and end-users to update.

Not that these are bad changes, but that the philosophy of extreme compatibility really isn't in force anymore. It's not a Python 2/3 scenario but a gradual constant shift.
That's how development always happened in much of the US. Cities expanding into forestland or grassland. The problem isn't that the homes are all of sudden luxurious, or that we somehow do less planning than in the 1880s or 1960s. It's that a mix of well-intentioned environmental policies and activism mean there's no fuel reduction happening at all. Controlled burns are one way, but logging is another.
If you take a model and quantize it it's obviously going to get worse, but what if you train it again after that?
The switches themselves are very reliable, but suffer from the normal bathtub curve problems. Also, Logitech is responsible for designing the plastic parts of the mouse that interface with the commodity switches, and they don't always do that well.
Well done! Its just so hard to keep costs low.
> You sell your existing house, which has benefited from inflation

Your new interest rate is going to absolutely demolish any inflation benefit your current house has. I don't think people really understand how bad higher interest rates are when there's a housing shortage.

- A $500k house at 3% is $2,100/month.

- A $500k house at 7.5% is $3,500/month

- That's a difference of nearly $17,000/year

The house that was $500k at 3% in 2021 is still $500k at 7.5% in 2023. Housing prices haven't budged. We'd need to see a 20-40% reduction in prices across the board to stabilize affordability, but that won't happen because there's too much demand.
excellent observation. does this imply chomsky was aware of the sins of epstein?
> wouldn't stop it from turning up if you go looking.

Yeah, same goes for your naïve sister-in-law. So why don’t they add the “propaganda” tag, so that your relatives could clearly see it and I could search for it (for whatever reason)? They could even add some links to some better sources, as an option. And use some disclaimer when you click on these results, like “Hey, this is a propaganda resource, be careful. Here’s the links where you can read up on the topic if you need unbiased information”. That would probably have at least some educational value, unlike removing and/or downranking the results.
Thanks!

Cost Explorer is nice. If you want more granular data (resource level, hourly) then you need to look at your Cost and Usage Report which you can do with Cloudthread or AWS CUDOS dashboards.

Biggest way to save quick with zero engineering effort is through committed use discounts (Savings Plans / Reserved Instances) if an org hasn't done this yet.

Top 3 source of savings for customers from Cloudthread computed opportunities has been RDS/ElastiCache/DynamoDB rightsizing, EBS volumes in standard storage that can be archived, and s3 intelligent tiering implementation.

Typically it's worth doing a round of usage optimization (e.g. rightsizing) so you're not buying committed use discounts on unnecessary/wasted instances :)
Big words for a guy who just wasted 40 billion dollars. Anyone want to exchange a Tesla Model 3 for an Ioniq?
I left because I fell in love with building software and I hated debt collections.

The financial literacy angle is interesting but there's an even arguably more predatory industry around credit repair. People tend to stop caring about their credit until there's a life event like wanting to buy a house. Then they only care until the score hits 640.

Arguably Credit Karma uses credit scores and credit literacy as the hook which is probably a loss-leader because they need to pay for the scores.
Death, hunger, illness, rotting teeth, etc.

The problem (according to half the country) must be the LGBTQ and the teachers indoctrinating them.
> In German there is the saying: Wer macht, hat recht which translates to who makes is right. Complaining is simple, just shut up and do it better.

There's unfortunately also the saying "Nicht geschimpft ist genug gelobt", i.e. something like "Not being scolded is enough compliments".

If things work, they are taken for granted and some people only speak up if they are irritated.

Which of course leads to a biased perception of how satisfied the people on average really are with your work.

Last week I wrote an email to an author to a blog I have been following for a year or so.
Just wanted to let him know his work was appreciated and I hope he continues writing.

He replied and told me this little gesture made his day. So I guess I should do more of that.
> and gradually find equilibrium at a more sustainable population.

You talk about "sustainable population", there's nothing not to understand about this. Sustainable implies it's now unsustainable, but that notion isn't true.
Well, a lot of the people you're addressing here are the ones benefiting, so I don't know what sort of answer you're expecting.
I think you are mixing that up with the ePrivacy Regulation
> llama.cpp which runs a 13 billion parameter model on a 6GB GPU

I think that's a typo there too, the 13B model needs like 10G of memory for 4 bits, it's the 7B one that fits into 6G. Well unless you do the split thing with some layers on the CPU I guess.
I love this site so much. I've been spending the last few weeks downloading public-domain scores and carefully curating them onto my tablet (awesome tools for PDF reading, if not much else). I've been learning command-line pdf tools so that I can curate/annotate music cores in interesting ways, or append ToC's, or create research versions from multiple editions of the same piece.

My current project (literally this minute) is reducing thousands of pages of Scarlatti into the curated subset that's Vladimir Horowitz' repertoire. As soon as I finish, I'll listen to his album again, with all the scores in one place :)
In my first job someone high up told me "thinking is also work" and it was the most valuable thing I learned at that company.
If the manufacturer is willing to buy customer goodwill by offering a generous warranty on their crap product, you are welcome to use it. That's how Kia managed to improve their image.
His point of view, that he's stated on the Lex Friedman podcast, is that AGI is potentially dangerous and inevitable, but safer to develop as soon as possible and try to make it safe by studying real-world models empirically, rather than waiting until computing power is much greater and risking a "fast takeoff".

I don't know that I agree with this strategy, but I can respect that it's a consistent viewpoint.

So what I hear from him is "Yes, this is dangerous stuff, and we're trying our hardest to make it safe, but we can't control everyone, so we need regulation ASAP because market forces are going to push everyone to race and release unsafe AIs".
We do get a primary city effect at the state level in many cases. At that point it can be a bit like jumping from Paris to Berlin. Perfectly easy to do for EU citizens assuming you can handle the life upheaval and expense. At least the US doesn't have the language barriers to deal with.
Lots of sending out letters and making phone calls. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to automate the process but the industry refuses to modernize.
Thing is, even when the impact from 4-bit is substantial, the larger parameter count it allows on the same hardware more than makes up for it. E.g. llama-30b is better at 4-bit than any derivative of llama-13b, no matter how fine-tuned or quantized.
Also: Everyone (including myself) has been talking about unsecured debt, but it may be worth mentioning secured debt as well. I once had an interest in buying real estate notes (mortgages, essentially). It turns out these are bought and sold for some percentage of face value all the time. The amount of the discount depends on the status of the mortgage payments, the balance of the loan, and the reason for the seller looking to unload it. When buying notes, there are multiple exit strategies but the most profitable one is often to work with the home owner to restructure payments in order to "rehabilitate" the loan. Meaning, the owner gets to stay in their house, possibly with a more favorable payment, and the investor gets to keep a performing note, or sell it to a more conservative investor.
I bet most of those deaths are gangs fighting gangs, that's why nobody cares. If tonorrow US includes Somalia as an overseas territory (like Guam), our stats would show a spike of AK-47 related deaths, even though nothing would have changed on the mainland.
Is my authority defiance resource just cranked up to 11? I don't even like those groups I tend to agree with, and when I do find myself agreeing with them I silently sit there wondering if that somehow means I am wrong.

I only said it sarcastically about the original commenter because it's difficult to believe that anyone could truly be like that. Sure, we're all aware of the dregs who seem to form their political beliefs from Uncle Creepy's Facebook meme pictures, but I've always believed those people to be nothing more than a (sizable) minority.
Substack has the serious problem that it gets almost all its revenue from two handfuls of superstars and any of them could afford to hire some web developers to hook up an e-mail newsletter script to a payment gateway and keep more money. These authors are promoting Substack and not the way around.

In the end it leads to Twitter-style enshitification as opposed to Facebook or Google-style enshitification because it is not a matter of a greedy company feeling pressured to take more but rather a matter of a “situation that can’t go on won’t.”
Bouncing electrons off a time mirror
I love DDG and use it daily on all my devices, but I would take such marketing statement with some scepticism:

Previously, DDG used to have a page [0] with usage stats, but it was deactivated somewhere around this time last year. Instead of a very clear data that was clearly showing the state of things (which had a rather concerning slowing of growth), we now have vague statents about #2 position in mobile market in the US.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
All programmers are language designers and there is actually no distinction between programming and language design. This peculiar belief that there is a distinction is the root of most of the most serious problems in this industry.
Did I say that? I don't recall writing that. It's just credit markets really. Not all that interesting. Most people just don't think about them.
If we must all become vegeterian/vegan then to me that proves that the planet is currently overpopulated. In my view a sustainable population level is one that does not require drastic measures because ultimately we want the best quality of life we can have and not live like in a dystopian movie.
Windows NT 3.51 still the best
This is how the Franchise Wars started ...
> But the big difference is that you're building equity if you're buying, and you're not if you're renting.

You build equity when you are renting, just not in the housing market.
Isn't a challenge trial really just another way of doing a phase 2 trial?

Whether you let it run through the population anyway really doesn't matter though. If you push the untested vaccine out to the population, you might turn a manageable problem into an unmanageable problem.
Substack is going to go the way of clubhouse.
I won't name three but the one everyone's really afraid of is the theoretical fast/hard "take-off" runaway problem. It is plausible that a smart enough AI given any instruction, without guardrails, will ultimately destroy the world in its attempt to do that thing. See the wiki on Instrumental Convergence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence and in particular, read about the "paperclip maximizer". Paperclips are just an example.

It remains to be seen if this is ultimately a real problem. If it turns out that it is, then not regulating the development of these systems in advance may be a huge mistake.
Limitations of LLMs
Exactly. It's not just about what you collect and store, but also about what you do with the information.

You can freely collect data as a legal requirement, or for "legitimate interest" purposes such as fraud prevention. But you can't use the data you just collected for analytics without proper consent.
I wrote it like 8 years ago dude
There absolutely is when solutions might have unintended consequences.

And the practice isn't usually evil, just horrible planning. Companies aren't usually hiring people knowing they'll fire them. Rather it's company-wide layoffs or something, and the manager is as surprised as the employee.

So it's important to look at tradeoffs rather than just declare that one side is evil.
I personally just use "X site:reddit.com". It's more verbose, but it does what you want.

EDIT: There's also a !bang that does the same thing: !ddgr
It's not that simple. Depression doesn't magically evaporate the moment the abuse stops.
Nah, it's better in the US. 30 year fixed being the norm means that you don't need to worry about rate hikes. The advantage of shorter fixed rate periods are usually lower rates, but 30 years are already low. The peace of mind is valuable.
A letter from our founder: challenge the status quo, bring clarity back to work
I have a different feeling about the morality of in-person work:

Forcing regular, superfluous, commuting is immoral from a climate-change perspective.
Well, I create java/javafx applications and I post them on my telegram channel
so I'll appreciate that if you support me and my works on my telegram channel
Yes, the OpenRAIL licences are deliberately not open source. Being open source or not is binary, and proprietary is the antithesis of open source.

There are of course additional ways to describe specific proprietary things, like distributable in this case. Distributable but non-free, because the software license is morally judgemental, and limits 'fields of endeavour'.
I use ddg solely to have bang search like in chrome without using chrome
You can't buy individual debts. They come in large portfolios of thousands of accounts.
This is a question I've always had about the debt industry...

How hard would it be for consumers (or through a proxy) to seek out and buy their own debt? You mention in another comment that medical debt (for example) could go for pennies on the dollar.

If I'm hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt (as many people are), it seems like this would be well worth the effort. Is it possible to locate a particular debt for purchase in this way?

A second question I've always wondered about: is it feasible to start a company dedicated to buying debt and forgiving it, and taking donations to cover the costs (possibly even turning a profit)? Given the ratios involved this feels way more effective then (e.g) the GoFundMe model of financing emergency costs.
Indeed. The IAB has, imo, purposely made the “consent” modal as confusing and annoying as possible to train users to just accept. All those different purposes… it is all very confusing even for an engineer like me who’s job it is to work with (due to legal department’s conviction that unless we have such a modal we are breaking the law)