skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure here. The LLaMA models - yes, all weights fit in the small range between -2.0 .. 2.0

And some other models have more crazy numbers with even more crazier outliers within them, like you might have a weight of 12.00 between long array of typical small numbers around 0.00

I've read story about attempt to quantize RWKV model into the 4/5 bits which failed short due to the presence of outlier weights.

The author told somewhere that bigger models had worse perplexity because of this.
Android makes it a hard pass for me. Give a me a decent Linux and I will give it a look.
>I'm Italian and living in UK (for my sins), so I think I can see more than one facet of the argument.

Great then, let's talk about the south of Italy and it's development. Everyone from the south of Italy I met in Europe said they'd rather be expats in EU than in the North of Italy thanks to they way the north treat them. That's how Eastern Europeans feel in the EU sometimes. People don't like to be treated as second class citizens.

>It just so happens that Eastern countries receive disproportionate amounts because of the state they found themselves in after the end of the Soviet Bloc.

Kind of like the solidarity of the post-WW2 Marshall plan Italy received after siding with the Nazis? Is it equally disproportionate, more, or less?

>Sadly, the largest recipients seem to avoid expressing any solidarity back in other areas.

What kind of solidarity are you thinking of receiving? Are the the minimum wage slaves from Eastern Europe working in Italian and German nursing homes and agriculture fields working in conditions below legal norms for wages below the minimum in order to keep the nursing system and cheap supermarket prices afloat, enough to balance the books?
An estimated 90% of workers who have been laid off by large tech companies have already found new jobs, said Ruth Ebeling,
The State of California automatically issued digital vaccine certificates. Basically QR codes that could be read by a business with the appropriate hardware.

https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/
Some of the people on my team had to switch back to Comcast after trying it for a few months. Video calls were laggy and would drop packets constantly. This was in Colorado fwiw.
$50,000 is more like £40,000.
I understood from the articles that he got problems with his previous global titles in some countries. So he needed new/additional ones. I guess this might be related to firewalls getting stricter?

Whether it's legal or not is probably a difficult question. No law will talk about SS7.

I think there are 2 approaches:

* Circumventing technical measures ("cracking") is illegal in many places. But AFAICS the only security that SS7 relies on is physical security. When it was invented it was assumed networks are under control of trustworthy authorities. So my understanding is no cracking is involved here.

* Under GDPR operators should be obliged to take care of appropriate technical measures for data protection. Whether running a SS7 firewall as e.g. German operators do is enough for that I don't know. Even if it's not violating the GDPR is not a criminal offense. And as we know the US for example has much worse laws covering data protection.

* If certain African operators lease global titles that's probably just not enforceable anywhere.
That's literally describing vendor lock in meaning you need manage multiple vendor locked passkeys for the same service which is ridiculous.

Passkeys are massively less flexible than passwords as it stands.
The Great x86 CPU Stagnation? ARM seems to have made some great leaps forward in recent years.
I agree that these are all terrible things about the US which need to change, but at least we have the institutional tools to effect that change, if we can muster the political will. Any power the CCP establishes will be far more immutable and hostile to critique or adjustment.
An artistic decision that you don't prefer is not necessarily "poor"
Don’t worry, everyone is suffering - we’re all in this together… For example we’re set to have the highest private jet sales on record this year https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/private-jet-sa...

Almost as if COVID caused a huge redistribution of money from the poor to the wealthy.
A local phone company just rolled out some fiber near me, and it's honestly amusing to watch their poor marketing people try to describe the differences between 500/500, 1000/1000, and 5000/5000.

Did you know you should get 5000/5000 if you have a lot of smart home devices? hahaha
I disliked BOTW but TOTK is radically different. Combat flows differently, the world feels different, the story is dramatically changed in actually interesting ways. It's not BOTW with minor crafting add-ins.
Same. I feel it breaks the immersion, if only briefly. And I agree with the above commenter “how did this not get dinged a little bit for this”.
> If ads are the problem, google provides a solution in Youtube Premium, a solution I should add that I frequently hear people on HN begging for e.g. "Don't make me deal with ads, let me just pay for it".

Does it really work like that? I honestly don't know, I haven't tried - because I don't trust it, not after having its advert endlessly shoved in my face.

Would you trust a gangster to leave you alone if you agree to their protection racket? Why should I believe a company that engages in deeply immoral, antisocial activities, when they say that I can be spared from it if only I give them a bit of my money every month?

For as long as uBlock Origin and yt-dlp work, or any of their current and future alternatives work, I will not subscribe to YouTube Premium. I'll happily pay 2x that to uBO, though (if Gorhill was accepting donations), because with respect to YouTube, on top of not having ads, it gives me following extra features:

- Really no ads. Except the ones included by "content creators" themselves (one of these days I'll install SponsorBlock).

- Less tracking. Does YouTube Premium make Google track you less? Didn't think so.

- Less of the obnoxious UI "improvements". uBO also makes it easy to have some minimal control of my YouTube experience, by means like letting me delete or forever block UI clutter that I personally find annoying.

- Same and more benefits for embedded YouTube videos, as well as the whole web.

Wake me up when Google actually promises to not do user-hostile things in Premium, and when their word is actually worth anything.
> why would they make a product that devours smartphones?

Likely because they expect AR to eventually devour smartphones, and they would rather devour it themselves than let others do so.

Plus, it will be a painful growth with rough edges anyway, so the iPhone faucet isn't turning off anytime soon. In fact, it would be quite a helpful source of revenue, until AR adoption reaches the masses and gets to the stage of actually being polished and commonplace enough to devour smartphones.

See: Apple slowly winding down iPod over the course of many years, as iPhone cannibalized it almost entirely.
Or (the devil's advocate) question is:

Is human behavior in this case more animal-like?

Our tendency of burying our dead might have a more primal origin rather than a spiritual one?
Using Large Language Models to Solve Your Problems
the criticism of the Alan Turing Insitute's past failure to become a world-leading AI research institution may be fair, I don't know if they really missed an opportunity or not.

however after this, it's a somewhat confusing post if you click the links, because after criticizing the government for not being willing to focus on LLMs, he links to a press release about 100 million pounds being devoted to training LLMs.

it's unclear to me what the objection is to this project, or what is meant by "open source" that is different from a normal publicly funded government research project.
I was certainly there in the '90s, and I too think UX was generally better then than it is now.
In the US, ISPs sell all sorts of network snooping data to advertisers and the police. Letting one of their devices on to your LAN is asking for trouble.
I recently picked up a Linksys e8450 (twin sibling of the Belkin RT3200) and flashed it with openWRT and it's been great; WIFI-6 speeds on a router that is actually configurable
The people canceling their subs probably live in areas with good mobile coverage.

This article is about people living UK, which a much smaller country that has much better mobile coverage.
I think it is odd too. Why do people care?

It seems like the reasonable response to a product you dont like is to not buy it and then ignore it. Why do people get fixated, angry, and shit on products they dont like.
What is the intent behind the "upcoming" and "not on view" sections? Outside of the link to the explanation of fading, they don't impart much information. I don't see how to tell what 3 locations are coming up, or what's special about 54 other unknown locations that their lack of displaying is worth quantifying. Are there only a total of 59 locations that have impressions?
Patching Cargo Dependencies
It's a cyberdeck!
Metaphors can be wrong. This one, for example, is.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/make-your-own-wearable-...

Uhh... this is about as innovative as a much cheaper DIY project from many years ago? I think everyone with a vufine and a pi zero has done this before. As a bonus you get to use linux instead of android.
"The debt is something we should care about!"

Didn't you slap 3 trillion dollars onto the debt in your last admin just to give tax breaks to the rich?
There are likely dozens of others out there that can lay claim to the same. What specifically do you define as the innovation behind this “invention”?
> I don't want an 'experience', I want a tool.

> Every way a company interfaces with customers is an experience

Why can't it be both? As you pointed out, we also use "user experience" to denote "the overall experience of a person using a product". Standard search is one experience, this is another, other search engines provide another "experience". I don't just the use of the word being a "red flag". This is an utterly negative take.
It’s true. But the actual hardware doesn’t offer anything particularly unique (which is a win for me: Nintendo is settling down with the gimmicks.)

This game would be an objectively better experience if it ran on a PS4/5 or Xbox if you don’t care for the handheld mode.

The game is an absolute masterpiece despite hardware, not because of it.

I think Nintendo should be lauded for experimenting with hardware, but ultimately they’re a games company and I almost wish they’d get out of the hardware business. I gave my kid my 3DS last week and showed him how the 3D worked. It took him no more than 30 seconds to ask me to turn the 3D off.
Selective/targeted redirection is possible based on geography,client.etc....
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans
Probably not great if you compare to previous inventions. Kids that use iPads early instead of going outside already have problems with developing proper eyesight.

TVs made us watch things close, PCs made us watch things closer, then we had smartphones. Wearing glasses is the last step before we go full Borg.
Sure, you might get away with consuming a single video stream. But you shouldn't be surprised that there is very little demand for this.

A single HD video stream (1080p) can require 8 mbps. Trying to consume multiple of these, especially with a realtime protocol like WebRTC, is impossible on an ADSL connection.
It helps that those services are a great recurring revenue stream, too.
Let me know how that works from the 43rd floor.
The judges discuss the case, and then, if they agree, one of the majority is chosen to write to the majority’s opinion.
> What the verse means is people carrying knives with intent; that you're entering a subculture where people might stab you in a drunken argument that turns into a fight.

Right, yeah, I got the intent, it just comes off real goofy in a place where sometimes you see people open-carrying guns, and a hell of a lot more are concealed-carrying, and I was certainly imagining long-side-of-normal folding pocket knives, not something closer to combat knives.

Thanks for explaining, the context does help.
You're right, those aren't necessary. That was a setting on our blog CMS that was enabled with a recent upgrade. This is now disabled (it may take a bit for cache to clear and you see these disappears). Thank you for calling this out!
> But San Francisco’s problems go far beyond drugs. The Bay Area is home to four of the 10 most valuable companies in the world — Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia and Meta — titanic producers of wealth, but a staggering one per cent of the city’s population is homeless, compared to less than 0.2 per cent across the US.

Nice try, but this isn't as big as a problem outside of SF and Oakland. Other cities have a semblance of order and while there are still people outside they are not out of control and they seem to be in a relatively normal state of mind. The main question for me is will anybody be held accountable for this at all.
> Software is so much more complex today

It's not, for the most part. But it probably depends on what specific software we're talking about.
If anything it’s a lot harder to cool things in space because you are limited to radiating it.

The ISS has massive radiators almost as large as the station itself at 1800 square ft of radiator panels.
And how much do you pay for your landline wifi?
Nukes are a reason why China won't go to war with the US, same as Russia. Unfortunately for Ukraine, they gave up their nukes.
> nor of a history of tech development

Oh, it has a very long history of tech development, including that one guy whose name was stolen for that other overvalued EV company.
> Yes, I have [1]. Communal water, toilets and showers.

No, because that's non-prohibitive under current building code. Contrary to popular misconception, it's permissible to have communal facilities; it's just not economically viable, in part because it's extremely undesirable to live in.
Kona bicycles had to be rebranded in Portugal due to the translation being offensive/derogatory.
The NYTimes had a good article on this, along with some examples of buildings that have actually undergone the conversion:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...
https://archive.is/gQiQW

Floor plans are awkward if you had to segment them in to apartments, having each apartment meet code for residential spaces turns in to a puzzle in ensuring things like light entry. Math that made sense for office buildings doesn't translate as easily to residential, so you're paying for more elevators (made for an office building) than you need, you have less floor space you can rent out because you need it for amenities, you have to do extensive renovations to make it suitable for living, and then have to hope the commercial real estate market doesn't surge in demand after you've done it.

It's apparently doable, but not easy, and has a significant downside if there isn't enough demand to meet your new luxury apartment building, and the risk that commercial real estate bounces back after you've done it.
There are multiple definitions of the word "experience". "User experience" is another term we often use, without it ever being compared to "a vacation".
I live in the UK. Cellular coverage is hit-and-miss up North where there's not much work outside of areas of high population density.
> While I always felt that I want to achieve more than these regular old CRUD apps, no “10xer” would implement them faster/better

A "regular old CRUD app" doesn't exist. Poor development teams end up translating all requirements into "regular old CRUD apps" because that's easier. Humans are excellent at replacing hard problems with easy ones, regardless of whether solving the easy one is anywhere near as useful.

And yes, they absolutely would implement them faster. Most "regular old CRUD apps" are rife with SELECT N+1 and other simple and crippling performance issues.

> “these systems are building the rails in front of the train”, and it is not even an engineering problem most of the time.

You're assuming we're stuck with trains and rails. In the physical world, we are: if I invent a different kind of train that doesn't need rails, or a completely different way to transport freight, then I've solved about 1% of the problem -- we still need to build out all the infrastructure around it, change all our systems to use it, etc.

If I invent a different kind of process for handling data flow in an application, I've solved somewhere between 40% and 100% of the problem, depending on how 'private' it is, etc. "Building" the thing takes the compiler a few seconds. We might still need to adjust downstream dependencies, but if they're also written well, that should be extremely easy.

> it is a super-human, not-really-compressible complexity

While this definitely exists, my claim is that the intrinsic, Kolmogorov complexity of the problems most existing software solves is somewhere between 10% and 1% of the actual complexity of that software.

Sometimes upstream processes will need to change (usually becoming much simpler). This is usually the sticking point. if the upstream process is the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, then this isn't likely (without lots of lobbying money to simplify it, which the FAANGs of the world should actually consider a tool in their toolbox, but most of us can't), and we can call the "intrinsic complexity" high.

But more often than not, that complexity is actually coming from the whims of some previous moron vice president who now works somewhere else, and they're conflicting with the whims of the current moron vice president. My whole point here is that the staff-level developers need the authority to tell those people to shove off and implement it in a way that actually makes sense. Yes, I'm aware that will never happen because of the deep toxic dysfunction endemic in modern corporations -- this is my point.
Interesting, I have a similar issue when I work with CAD models. If I rotate a particular model in a certain way, I can almost hear a 'scratching' noise coming from my GPU as the frames draw. If the GPU is already loaded, it seems like the noise escapes to my powered sound monitors? I think it is some sort of 01010101 color rowhammering the memory at 144Hz...
Sure, there's plenty of complexity there too. For simplicity, I was just assuming timestamps are fine, and we're not concerned about apparent concurrent events or incorrect timestamps from a host.
It’s still always interesting to see how vested interests and rent seeking seems to be a big part of US business culture. I wonder if the US would be more or less successful without these uncompetitive business practices.
Does the POSIX implementation vary for sh though? AFAIK some interpreters choose to add some extras (like `local`), but all of them at the very minimum must adhere to the POSIX spec from what I've understood.
Definitely. We actually own three, the intent of the newer one is to replace the other two eventually.

Old cars are a Prius for interstate trips, and an early 2000s Outback for camping/interstate trips where we need to bring more things with. Prius got severely damaged in our parking lot and I used the insurance payout to help with a down payment on a Crosstrek, which will eventually replace the Outback as well.

I feel bad for taking up the (free) parking space, but the cost of ownership of the Outback when infrequently used is something like a $40 insurance premium every six months. That's another benefit of not driving much -- low mileage and safe driver insurance discounts.
My car was $1,500 and my insurance is ~$35. I'm lucky enough to be able to bother mechanics to teach me repairs though.
On it's face it is harder for baristas to be blindfolded. It would literally be a worse coffee shop at blindfolded baristas than normal coffee.
Show HN: Playtext – Turn articles into audiobooks and read 2x faster
> Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages down

PC Magazine, and other similar mags in the 90's/00's, was literally like this. I used to spend several minutes ripping the thick cardboard ads from every issue before trying to read it. At least web sites don't give me paper cuts.
Or you could just have used Numbeo: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
Very cool! I can't try it now, I'm at work. One thing that I know slows me down and drives me a little nuts is having to press shift to get the " < > etc keys. Does anyone have a workaround for that? Maybe key mapping? I'm using visual studio.
Three's own MVNO (Smarty) gives you unlimited for £18 without long term contracts. It's £16 if you get it via uSwitch.

The problem with Three's network is that their 4G can be really bad in some areas (eg: parts London). I can't use them inside my flat because it's almost unusable during peak hours. On the other hand, if their 5G is available, speeds can be really good. It's common for me to get 100-900Mbps when near one of their cell towers.
Browse without login from another device+ip. Back in the day it was subtle and you'd have to browse some category of shit for a while before the prices were inflated for your account.
I identify as a strong proponent of function over form, but I have to say, that is one pretty website. The web used to be littered with design-heavy sites, although few worked as well as this does. Either way, I wish there were more of them these days.
Heavy gameplay spoilers, fwiw. Normally that doesn't bother me as much but the gameplay in this one is basically one subversion after another.
Vicuna looks pretty good. But as said, commercial use not possible.

Why do you think that Llama can be replaced? I mean it is extremely costly to train that thing. And it is there even a clean open source data set for the task?

PS: wouldn't be surprised if Meta, OpenAi, or google will train something for a Billion $ in costs of compute or more.
We should not encourage compromise with an entire party that is openly threatening the country's economy for dubious merit, on a subject that they never seem to care about when the head honcho has an R next to their name.
Also, the history of the the underlying advances is a lot more international than current popular telling of the history lets on. See eg https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/scientific-integrity-turing...
Waze just calls them cops on the road, I think?

But Google maps uses the euphemism speed trap so it doesn't look like just tracking cops.
Is there a comparable replacement company yet? The APU2 is nearly end of life, and while my existing PC Engines setup is trouble free, I intend to live longer than it does.

As far as I could tell, they were the only source of medium-performance boards with excellent open source support that didn't change the design every 12 months for no f---ing reason.
I have good feels about Tcl. How come it fell out of favor?
I suspect there may be a fair few people in my position who would be happy to scale down. Whether or not that is actually the case is, indeed, a question for market research.
I don't have a feeling ARM offerings are significantly cheaper than x86. There really isn't much magic, a transistor costs the same to manufacture under a given process, regardless of the ISA.

In that, RISC-V might get some edge, because ARM licensing is expensive, but I don't think licensing is a significant cost for the x86 crowd.

OTOH, the server ARM people are really pushing it: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/sound-the-siyrn-ampereone-192...

But Altra's ain't cheap.