skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Quanta! They explain things accurately and in detail, with helpful figures and diagrams. They did go wrong a few months ago with the "quantum computer black hole" article, but the heat they recieved was precisely because it fell well below their usual standards, which are otherwise well above other "pop science" sites in my experience.
They're generic over ‘color’ at compile time; the compiler generates code for normal and/or async contexts as necessary.
This medium, text, pictures, video. It's seductive. It's tempting to pretend that it is reality, but it isn't.

I know that's a naive truth and we all know it. But still, we really do pretend otherwise.

I think that might be a bigger deal than we acknowledge. I think maybe our sanity is bent from living this way.
My M1 Pro is about 33% as fast as a box with a 3060 in it on PyTorch and obviously it is way more efficient and doesn't require a special power supply, which is just taken for granted as something you have to do with a PC.

The best case this article can make is that if you need to play the latest game or do intense ML stuff you probably want NVIDIA, but that's the same as it ever was.
The Intel Mac pro was too slow, unless you mean refreshing it, which I doubt is possible, because apple doesn't want to do anything related to X86 anymore.
The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group, who inhabit Colombia's Amazon región.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witoto
It's clear to me now what the purpose of LLMs truly is: we groom them to be translators between species.
I haven’t experienced cocaine. I haven’t ever seen cocaine (IRL). Nevertheless I think I have a decent grasp of what it is, how it works, how it affects people, and what I could (mis)use it for. Would you imply that my knowledge of cocaine isn’t true/real/useful? Is snorting a line the only way to reify the knowledge? (The answer is: the indirect way of obtaining information is sufficient for building a correct/useful/accurate world model, and there is no such thing as direct experience anyway - it’s signals coming down the wire all the way down.)
Except those plumbers are not going to get anywhere faster now because there's pedestrians and bikes everywhere but I digress since it's not relevant.

Regardless what you're saying completely ignores my actual objection here. Which is paying for infrastructure through something that you just eliminated.
A continuation of that trend (that, for instance, a 65B model would quantize better than a 33B one) was popular belief, but the k-quants dev recently found that LLaMA 7B-65B all quantize very similarly: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684
Ok, only in iShares Exponential Technologies ETF as the 3rd entry.

There has been press hype linking Palantir with AI however:

FT: AI has given Palantir its mystique back

The Register: Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

It’s fairer to say it probably aspires to be seen as an AI stock.

They’re financially incentivised to lobby for unregulated AI to realise “upside”.
Tildes has stated they are not looking to be a Reddit alternative. They want to be narrow and deep in conversation so no images posts and porn. Also Reddit and HN has privacy issues.
About the books, I found Privacy is Power. Is that what you meant? The Power of Privacy is a documentary.
> Intel's TDP is 2-4 times bigger under full load

Never been a problem, even when Intel TDP was 20x worse than today.

EDIT: the author forgot that the tested system is an M2 Ultra a desktop class system with a TDP of 90 watts

The i9-13900T and i7-13700T come in at a max turbo power of just 106W

which is just 1.2x
I mean, superficially odd perhaps, yes. I can think of a dozen reasons why it makes sense.

Regardless, it is not evidence that the culture is homogeneous in the middle.

There is, of course, a national culture. Again I think we might be drawing the line differently. I look for and enjoy the variations. They are there.

But if you want to paint with a broad brush, you can make lots of generalizations too. It's just less interesting.
Depending on the usage, it why AMDs efficiency is impressive on laptops, but not so important on the desktop.
ROI seems fine, I don't see the issue.
I'd donate to the EFF instead. I love FF and use it exclusively, but organizations like the EFF are why software like FF can exist
Well, temperature 0 means the completion is always the most "likely" (or "best", after fine-tuning) token, while temperature 1 means to choose the next tokens stochastically according to their probability (or "goodness" after fine-tuning). Usually some temperature in between is chosen, like 0.7. It's not a priori clear to me which is the best way to do it.
I find these arguments to pause AI development laughable. It feels similar to western countries calling for pause to using fossil fuel after they destroyed the ffing world.
The people scared of the AI doom are so funny to me because the idea is highly speculative, when there's climate change happening under our noses and nobody says we should stop anything...
> They feel cornered

They put themselves in that corner.

> And a smarter politics by the west,

Like allowing Russia to take half of eastern Europe. If anything Europe was way to soft with Russia, they should started moving away from their over reliance on Russian gas in the early 2000s.
Hatfest:

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/64321

Registration is required, but free. I live in Oxford; I might rock up. I'd like to meet (or at least hear) Roger Penrose.
What do you think is going to happen with AI in war that is so deplorable? When I think of AI in warfare, I think about how to strategize against an enemy. Like how to deploy troops and resources in the most efficient way possible. Or how to relay communications between different parts of the military that don’t normally talk to each other.
I can see a board game coming of this.
From Hasbro to Harry Potter, Not Everything Needs to Be a Cinematic Universe
I can literally see it in the linked graph.

Generation from coal has been decreasing continuously since 2013. Until 2020, since then it _increased_ while nuclear generation decreased.

Generation from coal might have just kept on decreasing past 2020, hadn't nuclear plants been shut down.
Skyline High School had a teletype terminal by 1978. I think it connected to the University of Utah, though I am not absolutely certain. But that was a long way below a T1 line...
haven’t read the article, but there are no single threaded use cases on Apple platforms that Apple cares about, so I’d take any claim that Apple is optimizing for single threaded performance with an enormous bag of salt
Well, I think his position is more, "u simply pull the lever if you're sure you won't get caught", which logically might require telling other people you wouldn't pull the lever. So in that sense, one can speculate all kinds of things that he would do without telling others. I suspect his idea of proper obfuscation is more in a sense of double meanings - philosophers love those, and I think it was the basis of the 'noble lie' cited upthread.
Where and when electric energy is $0.51/kWh, one might care quite a bit.
> We’ve probably all had the unpleasant experience of copying and pasting an example code snippet from someone’s documentation, and finding not only that it doesn’t behave the way we expected, but that it doesn’t even compile. Not a good look for the project.

middle ground here is linting the examples if you can't make them interactive, but yes this is powerful

forever shocked by huge oss packages with seemingly lots of contributors and stars where the docs are simply wrong

corollary: if your framework cannot compile a working program from a single small file (looking at you xcode), this kind of 'here's a working example' documentation becomes much harder
Most consumers don't care about wattage on a desktop, and when you compare the prices they are similar and it loses.
this comment really hits hard for me -- its like there is a place to buy food where every menu item is clearly shown, with a large color picture and a printed price.. and the person talking has only every purchased food in that way.. as if there are no alternatives that "really exist"

there really are a lot of other scenarios that involve writing software, to make software. Its not possible to list them all.. the list changes while I type
Julia (Documenter.jl), Python (doctest) and R have (doctest) them too.
They could definitely do a better job of communicating what they're doing, why they need to do it, risks, and their successes or failures. With that said they do communicate with Congress who are all directly elected by us.

I think that we should also agree that secrecy is sometimes necessary.
Like what? I mean what do you think the variations are really going to be? People orient their entire value systems around their political affiliation.
Ask HN: CLI ePub Metadata Editor?
Do you know of a CLI epub metadata editor other than calibre?

I'm using Termux and can't install calibre, but I can't find any lightweight CLI tool. And ExifTool didn't work for this purpose.
LLaMA FAQ
It’s paying for infrastructure through cost reduction.
Ubuntu and its derivatives are included.
Yeah, it's amazing that Google paid a bunch of designers to do this for over 30.000(!!) combinations. The feature isn't even advertised in the Google software keyboard, it's easy to miss.
They gotta get more money from all the scammers they host somehow.
Which foreign lands?
> even when Intel TDP was 20x worse than today.

When has Intel's real, advertised, or specified CPU power consumption or TDP ever been 20x that of the i9-13900KS?
It does when you multiply it across millions of CPUs. Saving 100 watts across 3 million CPUs (300 megawatts) is enough to shut down the equivalent of power plants.
That doesn't answer the question. It's still 'unofficial' per https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures

If you want the maintain the status quo you support the hardware that has the most users, if you want to change it you also support the hardware you want them to use.
We should stop climate change. We should also be careful about developing the capabilities of new technology that will put us in similarly precarious situations going forward.
i think we are actually talking about the same thing.

in simpl terms:

mov bax eax ; an obvious function; no IP

mov eax eax ; seems useless unless you know what de-referencing is. probably IP

this is of course example not considering granularities at level of patents on a language, or macro directives
Just a few generations ago. If you were 14 in parts of europe during wwii theres a good chance you were in some army or a rag tag band of partisans. Probably a lot of 14 year olds took up arms against the US in wars since if I had to guess.
The US food is terrible, GMO everywhere with artificial, sugary taste that ‘deactivates’ the natural senses of your mouth, so everything needs sugar to taste “okay-ish”. It is more cognitively and economically expensive to be healthy in the US than in Europe.
Plenty of people are happy to say we should do this or do that.

When it comes time to vote though people tend to go with the person telling them they'll have more.
Do general consumers care about wattage being used on a desktop? I don't think many consider it at all, they just want the performance. It matters on a mobile device like a laptop, tablet or phone, but that's about where consumers stop caring.
Person ignorant here of copyright when it comes to mathematics. What do you need to do to copyright something? It doesn’t work the way art like music and writing does? Which is that copyright is automatic just by recording or writing something down in some way.

The idea that a shape, even a very complex one, could be copyrightable is pretty wild to me.
The results speak for themselves (Apple is slower than some) but the context does matter: Apple has been talking about performance per watt since Steve Jobs showed a keynote slide announcing the transition from PowerPC.

The cynical view is that Apple is intentionally misleading customers with their ambiguous graph axes. Another perspective is they’re simply demonstrating the metric they’ve optimized for in the first place.
Astroturfing, psyops, and disruption of general trust (commercially and maliciously, both domestic and foreign)

It is disturbing to me how unconcerned everybody is with this over what is still only a hypothetical problem. States and businesses have been long employing subversive techniques to corral people towards their goals, and they all just got an alarmingly useful tool for automated propaganda. This is a problem right now, not hypothetically. All these people aching to be a Cassandra should rant and rave about that.
> The reputation of the tax office is that the tiniest of inconveniences is more than enough to prevent them from doing something.

The reputation of the French tax office is that it is the sole branch of the administration which is actually run correctly. This is not far from the truth imho.

> Oh and there's the surprisingly little known fact that French citizens torched most of the cars and half of the government departments, including Police stations, in Paris (and Marseille, and Lille, and Toulouse, and ...) on a regular basis for 5 years now.

That’s a funny one. My advise is to stop watching Fox News and actually spend some time in France.
"Unstable" is actually unstable. What you want is "Testing," or if you're a little more conservative, you want Stable + backports: https://backports.debian.org/

> You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. This is where backports come in.

> Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. Because the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes out. (In a few cases, usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debian unstable distribution.)
I knew Helseplattformen in Trondheim was an IT scandal, but holy cow, I didn't know they used MUMPS.
> in a couple months

Or, a few days... time flies.
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> "Never been a problem, even when Intel TDP was 20x worse than today."

Economically and environmentally it's absolutely a problem.
Stacker News dev is working on on a Reddit like with Nostr called outer.space.
Show HN: Games you can play in ChatGPT
Doesn’t Metal support multiple GPU architectures just like OpenGL?
I care very much, and I'll explain why. Whether or not a particular invention is under copyright or patent, vs in the public domain, has huge implications on whether others are free to use and play with that invention in creations of their own.

This is, after all, "Hacker" News. I would expect a lot of us would be interested in how freely we could hack on something without our creations subsequently being legally encumbered.
Palantir makes tools that are used to police people in extremely invasive ways, and coordinate intelligence in ways that can violate human rights.

And Germany has bought and used those same tools, it's not a US specific thing.

At some point it comes down to your own personal ethics on this, but to me you can't say "that Palantir"... it's all Palantir.
Because AI is an alchemical art involving heuristically selecting arcane “activation functions” without critically thinking about precision distribution or symmetry, so they rely on band-aiding over it via altering number formats rather than properly matching the function to the appropriate numeric domain.
At 16:55 thru 17:15? Where he manually accelerates the car and blocks the intersection?
Devuan does exactly what it says on the tin. If that suits you, use it, otherwise you are free to not use it. It follows that since nobody forces anyone to use Devuan, nothing is being shoved down throats.
If it replaces comment with a predefined string - doesn’t it trigger a notification to the person you’re replying to?
Good question, apparently it seems to matter to Apple as well: https://youtu.be/CUwg_JoNHpo?t=1834
The most deterministic market is Eurex, which is mostly for trading the eurostoxx and the bund.

The CME is also quite deterministic (largest derivative exchange in the world, big names there are the S&P, treasury notes, eurodollar, wti..)

Off-the-shelf best-in-class solutions run at 30ns (see STAC T0). The fastest people are faster than this.
Alex Karp and Peter Theil... the famously trustworthy individuals guiding our society.
The Mac Pro does have a rack-mounted configuration for the non-desktop data centers case. (I have no idea whether people will actually use it that way, but it exists.)

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack
Probably close to 100% at this point.
I considered it an important factor even 15 years ago, long before the reality of the environmental and energy crises really dawned on us. Surely I can't be alone.
Another manifestation of "everything I dislike is fascism"
If I recall correctly, the existence of aperiodic tilings had ramifications e.g. for the kinds of crystal structures that can arise in nature. The fact that a single tile can do it seems like an even more fundamental statement, even if concrete implications are not yet in sight.
If you are willing to use somewhat older version of SBCL (2.1.11) then you can use daewok's static executable branch and link against musl. That version only supports gzipped images, but even so you can get it down under 15mb for small programs.
Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16222530 (5 years ago, 32 comments)
That doesn't explain why they're allowed to sell something that doesn't actually do anything while claiming it does. It just explains why they want to.
The two problems aren’t unrelated either, as we arrived at climate change (in part) because of decades of lies, propaganda, and dissimulation. Before, fossil fuel companies and their ill had to pay quite a bit of money to accomplish this. The prices has now fallen dramatically.
It's "Hacker News", not "Consumer News". Lots of people come here looking for interesting projects to contribute to, modify, incorporate into hobby projects, or even use for commercial purposes. Some of those uses may be disallowed by copyright and licensing issues. It seems like an obvious question that needs to be asked before getting excited and wasting hours writing code that can't be used.

Just from my own experience, I have gotten burned a couple of times, where a five minute check on copyright/licensing would have saved hours of wasted effort.
also https://twitter.com/aeondesktop
I don’t know, a whole lot of generative AI imagery contains obvious artifacts. Just go down to the noise floor of size and intensity, AI doesn’t look like thermal noise in a sensor or real lens artifacts and fuzziness. Not to mention obvious things like mangled hands or other complex structures.
Real capitalism has never been tried either, there is no such thing as an ideologically pure society. Though it is important to note that all of the worlds governments are influenced by capital while "less" are influenced by the effort to achieve a classless society.
Ukraine did not enter any military alliances with anyone they just wanted to stop being a puppet/client state of Russia.

Also the only two things Russia has going for it are their energy resources and their nukes. It's a poor second tier/regional power without that (even with the oil/gas/etc. it still has a 2.5x lower GDP than Germany despite an almost 2x higher population).
Actually they are both legally autonomously driving according to SAE. You should read up on it!

“SAE International is the world’s leading authority in mobility standards development.” Forgive me if I’ll take their internationally recognized standards over your characterization.

Certainly only one of the systems accepts liability for accidents while it’s enabled, but liability for accidents is just one component of autonomous driving, and not the most important one.

The most important one is clearly the percentage availability of the system across varying roads and conditions.

An L3 or L4 system that is geofenced to work on a few miles of select private roads might be a “world first” while simultaneously being of little practical value.

In essence, a pissing contest or vanity metric.
Plagiarism can also be tricky to identify and prove. But the reputational harm of lying if you’re caught can be massive and an effective deterrent if you actually care about your career.

I’ll say that even in my personal life if I catch you flat-out lying to me about something I have a very difficult time reestablishing trust. It’s like you’ve revealed that deep down you think it’s an acceptable behavior and now everything that comes out of your mouth has to weighed as possible bullshit.
Compensation for employees in HFT tend to be extremely high. Employee comp number one cost for any trading firm.
Not necessarily, it can also be the person telling them that others will have less.
That is indeed the right word - the way that we "concretize" processes into objects.

See in particular Anna Sfard's papers on this, e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226161879_The_Gains...
Definitely have to adjust for TDP. The new gen Intel processors match the M2 performance for $100-150. TDP is triple but still relatively low. There isn't really anything available from non-niche retailers that approaches the TDP of Apple chips. And what does tends to be a binned just to be sold as mobile. Better to buy the standard chip and limit clock speed. What also shocks me is more expensive chips that offer inconsequential gains in processing for double TDP. I'm more likely to invest in a slight performance hit for much lower TDP.
I doubt the target customers of the M2 ultra aren't going to be able to cover extra energy costs for a cheaper and more performant device.
Jack responded back to Elon and agreed.

And on the surface it seems ok. Basically if you block me then fine I can’t reply to you r posts but if you’re posting publicly why should I not be able to see what you post?
> Fwiw I'd (very loosely) classify the points you're bringing under "prestige".

If I'd like my clothes made and sourced ethically, or if I want to support a local business that makes leather goods rather than buying mass-produced ones from somewhere else -- I wouldn't say those scenarios are motivated by prestige, but by valuing people and the work they do. It's a bit unfortunate that some things like that are considered a luxury these days.
The FISA process is seeing a lot of much needed scrutiny because of perceived political persecution towards Republicans and Trump. I think it'll be a good thing whether or not Republicans intentions are selfish or noble.
As usual, hard to evaluate claims of A better/worse than B, and fanboyas and fanchicas massively boosting the noise:signal ratio.

https://youtu.be/u7ocWDNrfRs

Or, of course, there's the classic Twain / Disraeli quote ... take your pick.
People have reasonable concerns about AI blowback. That doesn't mean they are doomsayers, or "scared".
Because Librewolf is not a mainstream browser. It is a bit more strict in privacy so broken websites is a common occurrence on Librewolf.

Maximizing privacy while minimizing user experience is generally not a good idea. That's why Brave maintains a good balance and that's probably why it has been doubling active users every year.
Do people really care about efficiency for plugged-in devices? There is the environmental factor, but there are people on 100% renewable a too...
Is that like 5 acre feet per fathom? TDP makes no sense here.
Mercedes has drawn a lot more of the owl than anyone else. Accepting liability is huge.

It's putting their money where their mouth is.

Musk is putting his mouth on a lot of things, I guess that makes him a baby?