skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot stress enough how foundational of an idea it is to store mathematical expressions as graphs!..

Understanding a function's computational graph is certainly useful but storing a function as a computation graph is, in fact, quite expensive. Deep learning systems don't store their computational graphs, the graphs are implicit in their computation process. Deep learning systems instead store their functions as tensors; generalized arrays/matrices. This allows both efficient storage and efficient computation. It's quite possible do automatic differentiation on these structures as well - that is the basis of "backpropagation".

It's important to distinguish useful conceptual structures like computation graphs (or symbolic representations) and the structures that are necessary for efficient computation. Automatic differentiation itself is important because the traditional symbolic differentiation one learns in calculus "blows up", can have O(m^expression-length) cost, when attempted on a large expression where automatic differentiation has a cost that is not that much higher than the base cost of computing a given function (but if that base cost is high, you lose your advantage also).

Just sayin'
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Seems incomplete as well. Or is that the whole article?
But if that's exactly what the WEF did...
For OpenAI, AI is the revenue source. For Meta, it's a tool used to build products.

If OpenAI gives their stuff away, they lose customers. If Meta does it, they can have community around it, and have joint effort about improving tools that then they'll use for their internal products.

OpenAI is modern (and most likely - very short lived) Microsoft in the AI space, while Meta tries to replicate Linux in the AI space.
American Sign Language, ISO-693-3 code 'ase', does not have a formal written or spoken grammar. Obviously, the list of MMS supported languages[0] does not include support for 'ase' because MMS is a tool for spoken language and, as an intermediate state, written language.

[0] https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/mms/misc/language_coverage_mm...
> The concern is the learning & improvement velocity. Humans get old, tired, etc. GPUs do not.

They do, though.

Of course, replacing the worn out hardware while keeping the software is easier with GPUs.
> But Dragonfly can scale vertically with low latency and high throughput unlike other attempts of making multi-threaded Redis that used spinlocks or mutexes. So how do we demonstrate the added value?

Provide more advanced benchmarks which demonstrates those types of differences better.

The situation is that the differences are complex, both in terms of performance and operationally (e.g. running multiple instances is not a huge obstacle, but it is harder). That's always going to be hard to capture in a single graph or a single tagline; I appreciate this isn't easy.

It's your website; you can do what you want with it. And maybe I'm just a grumpy old curmudgeon who has seen too many hype cycles, but to me it just comes off as "too good to be true" – which it kind of is – and leaves a more negative than positive impression. The same applies to "The most performant in-memory data store on Earth" tagline, which seems a bit hyperbolic (what is "fastest" depends, as you mentioned that Redis will always be faster on a single core – some people only need a single core!)

I have the business acumen of a goat, so what do I know? But it seems to me that a lot of people appreciate when products are straight-forward about their weaker points as well, and even straight-up say they're not the best fit for all scenarios, and in that in the long run this is more beneficial.
Could you describe what you mean? What phenomenon? For the default transaction isolation level, or a different one?
Not so simple. Even with consent you arent really allowed to store in america because america is assumed to be an unsafe country (because govt can at any moment force a US company to show the data)
How does it compare with Portacle?
Never mind, this still seems to cut off near the same place as the paywalled version.
Ah, the price of Disney Plus... Can't wait for another $13 subscription, which the article seems to be complaining about.
There's literally a definition of PII at the link given above, which could tell you that. So stop asking stupid questions.
As an Android user, I sometimes feel like I should be a protected class.

But I get cheaper DoorDash orders, so that's good enough for me.
> Its presumed lack of falsifiability has been one of its drawbacks[..]

Given that the definition of a theory is an hypothesis that can be tested for falsehood, it isn't a theory by definition. It is a hypothesis.. but presumably "string hypothesis" doesn't sound as nice.
something to keep in mind is this datacenter will be doing so many other projects as well. it's not a dedicated LLM maker. Maybe the LLM training won't have access to all those GPUs, or maybe it will have only time sharing access split with the other projects.
When an organization is large and siloed, there is value in decoupling different parts of the application, assuming the ownership and expertise are properly distributed.

As the comment below mentions, microservices is a fashion–one that took off among overly-staffed eng teams. Having separate parts of the app to deploy can be a liability for a small team frequently deploying breaking changes.
What would be a good comparison? Meta spending $36+bn on the Metaverse[0]? What are examples of websites that provide clearly better value for money than Wikipedia?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-lost-30-billion-on-meta...
There's snaps, and there's the ads to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro.

Arch seems too full of surprise breakages, so when the next Debian release lands, I'll be moving there.
> Start looking for another job if you aren't happy there.

I'd expand on this and say that in the future you should be interviewing for new jobs when you're at your happiest! Don't wait until you're unhappy to find out what else is out there. Like the saying goes, any port in a storm.
The chiles only get grown there. Alfalfa is alfafa, nobody cares about the terroir.
I'd argue that having a "download and run" approach is so much better than videos or demos. Why do you think this is a problem?
How not to add AI to your product
Would you pay $1 to read it? Not an ongoing subscription, but a license to read the article.
I joined a company last year that has a handful of legacy products, and we successfully moved one of them to a CD model a few months ago.

It's hilarious to sit back and watch every other team have the same monthly loop of big change -> lengthy test cycle -> "go-live" meeting -> fixes/big change -> more testing... etc. Loads of stress and finger-pointing.

Hardly ever hear a peep from the CD team. Sure, it's not all rainbows and lollipops. They do have urgent production issues time-to-time, but most are resolved by a rollback (or feature toggle flipped).
I use the hosted version and tried it out after seeing it on HN a couple years ago. I have slowly increased my percentage use over the years, and now that Zoom is limiting 1-to-1 calls to 40 mins (used to be unlimited), I am moving over to Jitsi.

Everyone I've talked with says it's easy to use, and connectivity has been just about as good as Zoom.
San Diego is already has a desalination plant and Santa Barbara is about to turn on their own. However, it’s still not enough. Building desalination plants takes a lot of capital and time. Unfortunately, leverage is no longer cheap and the economy is about to suffer a deeper downturn

Also, people especially farmers have been complaining about San Diego’s pricing to pay for their plant. Still, like you I don’t see any other long term solution since CA provides 1/3 of the US food supply. Maybe stop exporting live stock feed grown from the desert (ie water) to Asia?
Mlc-Chat – RedPajama-Incite-Chat-3B on macOS
I constantly ponder this as I look around my home town. We're in Cornwall and so house prices have gone fairly batshit to the extent that local teachers (in fact, local GPs too) can't afford rents or house purchases.

Meanwhile, a patch of land sold a few years back for £1m. On it, the developer built a block of retirement flats. There are maybe 30 of them. They each sold for north of £500k. The property owner also charges £20k per property per year for "maintenance".

It's simplistic but he's basically printing money. Out of his £15m turnover he had to spend £1m on the land, maybe £1m on building the flats - so £13m clear profit, and an annual of £600k.

So then he goes on and buys the next piece of land for £2m, this time makes a clear £30m, annual of £1.5 etc etc.

So, yeh, success to the successful. Who needs teachers or GPs anyway, right?
I wish I could upvote this comment 10 times.

This is a political problem. In fact, maybe it's the purest form of political problem: "there's a limited resource. Who gets how much of it?"
The key question that doesn't seem to be answered in your post is: Do you have any sort of leverage? How replaceable/critical are you? That's going to determine whether there's anything you can do to get a raise. If the company is looking to save money and you're not critical, they're going to tell you to take that new job if you come with an offer letter in hand!
I just flagged it and moved on, after spending more minutes trying to read TFA than the blogspam was worth. Disney's purging content, "profits", blah, blah, blah, we've already read this; bring something new to the table above the fold before asking me to sign up for something.
I will try to find some decent citations. There are several legal cases and settlement for the former.

>isn't this how literally all laws prohibiting something work? The government generally doesn't prohibit something if no one is doing it. Why should the government buy their land?

No, this isn't how things generally work. It is one thing if a highway changes the character of your neighborhood, but another if the state makes you move out and demolishes your house to build the road. This is the second scenario.

In the case of groundwater, the state recognizes farmers as the owners of the water rights (so they are not being taken away), but limits farmers from exercising those rights. Simultaneously, they allow other groups without the water rights to use it.
FBI documents show Jogn McAfee was accused of hijacking an email account
I was kind of hoping for Interlingue, but was surprised to not even see Esperanto on the list.
Hi folks - sharing my mistakes and learnings from how we added AI to our SaaS (and what we're trying differently now).

I'm around if you have any questions/comments.

Dom
I agree. If every physicist quit string theory because we haven’t thought of a way to test it, like what @ravenstein might want, then that would be a sad day.

I don’t see the problem with physicists working on or even promoting string theory.
It's magical thinking, and it's proven to be so over and over and over again. It's "Why don't we [ambiguous collective] just..." as public policy.
But how do they stop folks with other wells from just pumping it all back out immediately?
For this article, from this source? Nah. Never heard of them before and the content isn't that interesting.
You’d need cooperation between your malloc implementation and the application code. It’s possible, but tricky. If your malloc returned a pointer to a pointer, and promised to keep the first level pointer up to date, and was able to lock your application whenever it moved things around, it could work.

Someone else already mentioned, but garbage collected languages do actually do this. Because they’re fully in control of memory (the language exposes no raw pointers), they’re able to create the layer of indirection you’ve suggested and move things around as they please. I know at minimum the JVM does this. The term to search for is “heap compaction.”

There’s also the weird and wonderful work of Emery Berger et al with their “Mesh” malloc implementation, which blows my mind: https://youtu.be/XRAP3lBivYM.
It's asymmetrical for the most part on a lot of stuff
Was listening to Bloomberg the other day and they were talking about how Walmart is the biggest grocer in US. They have pricing power because for example they constitute something over 5% of all Heinz sales. Similar for paper products from one of the big companies like Procter & Gamble.

The inverse is not true, as you are unlikely to find any vendor who Walmart makes 5%+ of all their sales dollars off of.

So Walmart can generally turn to any of these vendors and say - we will evaporate 5% of your sales overnight if you don't give into demand, and send all our orders to some competitor.
I loaded the language coverage into Datasette Lite and added some facets here:

https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://gist.github.com/simo...

Here's how I did that: https://gist.github.com/simonw/63aa33ec827b093f9c6a2797df950...

Here are the top 20 represented language families:

Niger-Congo 1,019
Austronesian 609
Sino-Tibetan 288
Indo-European 278
Afro-Asiatic 222
Trans-New Guinea 219
Otomanguean 149
Nilo-Saharan 131
Austro-Asiatic 100
Dravidian 60
Australian 51
Creole 45
Kra-Dai 43
Uto-Aztecan 41
Quechuan 36
Language isolate 35
Torricelli 32
Maipurean 31
Mayan 30
Sepik 30
The core was nickel plated to prevent oxidation.
Just like there's no `spawn` or such in the async code.

It's trying to show the overhead of the async machinery, compared to "uncolored" unfunctions.
Definitely! Same with layoffs, and same with "kitchen sink" quarters.

Any corporate action that results in negative PR is more likely in an environment where others are doing the same thing, since the negative PR cost is lower when it's a normal industry trend. So we should expect this kind of stairstep behavior.
Yeah, that site seems to be for a particular type of person. Perhaps someone that wishes to be an "influencer"
A lot of words and yet somehow none of them are "feedback", the well-accepted term for this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback
I’ve seen a few people doing it, seems to work well.
The assumption is that the price trajectories represent profitable investments at a given time.
> Seizing farms is not happening here, only a few farms have been sold by the owning farmers to the government.

That’s some rather disingenuous spin. Look, I’m not at all interested in the merits of the buyouts (maybe they’re entirely justified, I don’t care) but don’t misrepresent what’s going on there - buyouts are being taken under duress, “voluntary” today with statements that they will become mandatory if enough volun-told people don’t step up. Again, I literally don’t care about the propriety of the motivations - not my circus, not my monkeys. In the US we have something called eminent domain that amounts to the same thing: “move and take this bag of cash that we deem to be the market value, or we’ll come with brickbats and make you move.” Sometimes it’s abused, sometimes it’s justified, but it is what it is - the government taking (seizing) property. The fact that there’s some compensation makes it mostly equitable at least. As far as I understand the offers from the Dutch (funded by EU?) are above market. What can never be quantified and captured adequately in a buy-out price, of course, is the legacy of multi-generational ownership, sentiment, and the cost of occupational rehabilitation. Given the variable factors that would go into such things, it’s probably a fool’s errand to even try to calculate such things anyway.
I addressed this point. What you are proposing - replacing roads with rail and trams in a huge train grid of suburbs, costs an insane amount more than a road. You are talking about charging people 10x the property taxes they are paying now. Remember, suburbs do not have the density and hence tax revenue of cities. A highrise has 500 people in it paying for a little chunk of road in front of it. The same length of road in the suburbs is covered by 5 single family homes.

But you say (buses!). Again, I addressed that. A bus, at a bus stop, is not something you are going to be able to do half of the time in suboptimal climates in half the country. Even in the 1/4 of the time with bad climate in the other half of the country, you still need to get around 25% of the time when you can't be waiting at the bus stop in 120 degree heat to get to work. And for that, you'll still need a car. So if you already have a car for that 25% of time, why then can't you just use it all the time?

The walkable plans you reference completely ignores this issue, and pretends the climate is perfect every time you need to go somewhere. You don't need to design things to be walkable, if everyone already has a car for the times it's not "walkable" outside.

Those olden days you dream of weren't as rosy as you think. People would show up to work freezing, wet, uncomfortable, and get sick from being in the freezing wind for a half hour "walking." They were also a lot less mobile, and going between places was a thing, not a multiple times a day part of life.
The metaverse, if we define it as an information layer that exists in parallel with the physical 'stuff' universe and is a seamless, effortless, and essential part of what we experience as reality will be an enormous part of our future. Meta might just be a few centuries ahead of the curve, which is just as bad as being a few centuries late.
I think you might be confused about different meanings of ‘neutral’.

Wikipedia’s policy of a neutral point of view (NPOV) is not “neutral” in the broad spectrum of political philosophy. The underlying principles of Wikipedia draw very much from something akin to anthropology; namely, describe what exists and what is happening according to some culture or point of view.

There are plenty of regimes in the world that do not tolerate Wikipedia’s values.
Random thought ; could Esperanto (as a crypto-language) be turned into any sort of programming language. Could one, conceivably program in Esperanto in any meaningful way?
One of my biggest gripes is around the Chinese room argument and these are different forms of the same. It is assumed that a mechanistic process could not have "intelligence" and it has been morphed into many forms without anyone defining what is intelligence (or conscious for that matter).

The arguments fall into one of these two buckets:

1. Human exceptionalism (religious argument) - Humans (and maybe some of the lower creatures) have intelligence, but others and things created by humans do not have it. It does not matter what or how you define intelligence, but by definition only some living beings can have it.

2. Frankenstein (Shit..it is scary argument) - We have seen these emergent properties and it is not something that we can explain easily to people. Everyone is already wary and let us placate the masses by saying it is not scary and in fact, it is just a small tame cute furball.

Personally, I think all these arguments are useless and misplaced. If we create something that can do critical reasoning, all the more power to us.
I see. My reading was that black holes don't exist. That there is an alternative, topological explanation for the phenomena we've observed and so far classified as black holes.
AFAIK STT is still very bad without speaker-specific fine-tuning, so it's not going to be a literal babelfish (translating in the ear of the receiver), but it could make you speak many languages.
My thoughts, exactly. Unfortunately, I think it's not simply that constant alerts steal attention, but also that dependence on computers is also training us to not pay attention. The computer will tell us the problem and how to solve it, no thought required, a lot of the time. Therefore, we need to be even more alert than we used to (have to be), in order to spot the rare occasion that the computer is wrong, and apply thought and common sense. Additionally (for me at least), controlling the quality of the computer tends to be less fulfilling and less exciting work than actually solving problems myself, meaning I don't care as much about it and am not as attentive to it.
Think of picking a point on a circle.

If you pick a wrong point, all you can infer is that "not that point" is correct, not "opposite point" is correct.

There are many, many ways to be wrong.
PR means Public Relations and I meant nothing more than the fact that it is an Apple official response. Certainly says something about our times when you directly expect PR to be lies.

They might just as well change their sources now, or after 2025. The trillions are already in their banks; the children that mined until now are dead or close to; we, the consuming public, have been compromised because we like shiny toys (I own quite a few Apple products, at least a dozen children, they are so frail, must have been murdered to manufacture them); all is great. All that's left is to think of a truly unimaginable science fiction story: a $2.7+ trillion company is found guilty for the death of one single child and the company is dissolved.
> That's part of why thermonuclear weapons have such a disturbingly high "bang for the buck." The enriched uranium or plutonium primary is really expensive. So is the rocket that gets it where it's going. But the lithium deuteride that makes up the fusion fuel is comparatively dirt cheap.

No idea what the cost of enriched U, Pu, or lithium deuteride is, but I'll note that A) current day thermonuclear warheads deliver an estimated 50% of the total output through fission of enriched U (casing) and Pu (primary) B) the lithium in lithium deuteride, as well as the deuterium, need to be enriched, so probably not quite dirt cheap (depends on your definition of dirt cheap I guess)?
> I feel infuriated and ask why the robot has only allocated 13 minutes to spend time with my wife

oh hi sydney
> Privacy is important to EU citizens

The people on the ground didn't do anything with this
That’s a great idea! I’ll keep it in mind for my next printer (in 20 years or so hopefully, given that will happy with mine :D) or other stuff
There's no functional difference between "not looking at it ever again" and "deleting it".

You should understand when they say "delete" that they mean "remove from their queue", whether it still exists in an "archive" folder, backups, trash, ... is irrelevant.
> Meta Quest Pro is slightly better than 1080p?

The Pro is sort of an aberration. Pixels per degree are actually higher than the Quest 2, but the panel resolution itself is slightly less (and the MiniLED tech is far superior to the regular LCD panel). The big upgrade was with the pancake optics, which are actually quite a leap forward.

Meta should have put the product on ice until Qualcomm had XR2 Gen 2 SoCs available. They couldn’t bump the panel resolution because of the SoC. Hell, even the extremely overengineered Touch Pro controllers only exist as an artifact of the XR2 not supporting enough cameras to do face/eye tracking while still having cameras available for SLAM tracking.
Good question! I’m not aware of one, but I also haven’t looked.

Most of the research for this post was done by reading papers for various malloc implementations (phkmalloc, dlmalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc) and reading their source code.
Australian banks join the Fraud Reporting Exchange
The problem isn't that Wikimedia is paying employees too much, so much as it is that they have too many of them. Their COO compensation is not out of line for the scale of Wikimedia - But Wikimedia is way too big of an org without relation to serving their core goal.

Explorative projects like their New Editor Experience[1] were interesting, but ultimately unsuccessful moonshots. That one wrapped up (without anything to show for it, as far as I can tell). They didn't take the hint and downsize, they doubled down.

This is an incredibly common problem for organizations - "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" as was put by Oscar Wilde.

[1]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences