skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there have been many, MANY historical attempts to organize the worlds knowledge hierarchically. They have all failed to achieve their goals spectacularly.

some of the most common reasons

- things exist in multiple categories that aren't in the same branch of the tree

- different state of mind during data retrieval means you expect the same item to be in different categories.

- different humans think the same thing belongs in different hierarchical locations

there's also been a LOT of scientific research around informational organization. It all came to the same conclusion. Hierarchies have interesting promises but fail when it meets the practical reality of the human brain.

in the end hierarchical organization of knowledge is a terrible solution expect in VERY restricted cases.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status seems to be working fine for me (been refreshing it every couple of minutes).
> Also, a 48GB 4090 (or 3090) would be trivial. So would a 48GB 7900. Its not done for purely anticompetitive reasons, one that AMD and Nvidia are unfortunately happy to go along with.

Is this why Intel started taking dGPU production more seriously in recent years?
>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects.

>I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word.

Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'
Once a computer gets to an advantage of +/-1.0 or so, the win is virtually assured in all positions, barring a few weird theoretical draws and misevaluations of the score of the position (e.g. closed positions with no way to make progress), although the latter problem has gotten a lot better with NN engines.

(I used to play computer correspondence chess.)

Edit: I should add that +/-1.0 is roughly a pawn's worth of material. So a computer up a knight or bishop -- nominally 3 points of material -- should virtually always win.
Is it overly dramatic to have HR dictate formally non-offensive speach? (I'm talking about non-derogatory and non-slur based language)

Right now there is a wave of people that are upset over "violent language" (https://hopeandsafety.org/learn-more/violent-language/) If push comes to shove.. they'd lose their marbles over that.
AWS doesn't test there last I checked, they roll out to smaller regions first.
I am curious if there is a database of all the companies that are being run by a PE firm to bring transparency around the track record of PE firms.
By your definition, is a blind person capable of reasoning about visual data? Is a deaf person capable of reasoning about auditory data? Can a physicist understand the molecules, atoms, & subatomic particles which he or she can only interact with via a fundamentally textual theory? I would submit that there's no fundamental reason why an LLM needs access to more than text to derive human-level world models.

I'm not saying that the current LLMs have derived human-level world models (they haven't). It's just that, to me, the theory that textual data is categorically not enough to do so is necessarily empirical. To back up the assertion, you'd need to construct metrics which present text-only LLMs fail to succeed with, and then you need to show how multi-modal LLMs did succeed with those same metrics. So far, I don't think adding multi-modality to LLMs actually has improved their general-purpose reasoning ability, which I consider evidence against this theory. But then I read people online just asserting it as though it's an obvious truth derivable from philosophical first-principles. It's odd to me.
It has the best latency from Chile and I think from other countries of South America
Related: The 10 Year Hunt for the Lost McDonald's DS Game[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA
> other than the mods being free labor for Reddit

Is this not the answer to your question? Reddit can't afford to pay people to do this job. They rely on impassioned people to volunteer.
Is it too late to meme-stock this?

GME / BBBY is able to raise money from a mountain of APEs by basically giving the crowd what they want.

Reddit needs more funding to turn into a profitable company. They also need these 3rd party apps and other such features (that they're cutting because they don't make enough profits yet).

Just be honest with the world. Reddit needs money, please support the IPO, lets see how much money is raised and where it can go. Promise to use the money to buy out Apollo or something.
Nobody knows about it because it's false...
That all makes sense. Trump isn't a flight risk. The man's hubris wouldn't let him back down from a fight like this. We are guaranteed to be putting a lot of money in a lot of news agencies pockets over this.
So, taken over by private equity in 2017...

It'll continue to operate... I'm curious what fraction of the creditors are backed by Cornell Capital (PE owner), and if they just are using this to wipe out retirement plans/other creditors/dump a bunch of debt, or if they actually messed up.
My question is about the phrase up to 5. What in Unicode is up to 5? Codepoints are up to 4 in all the encodings I know. ZWJ sequences may as well be arbitrarily long. What is "up to 5"?
Minorly profitable, though, not "giant IPO" profitable.

Reddit has investors who clearly want their money back with a nice return on top.
the last big us-east-1 outage was ... DNS - and it's usually DNS or software-defined core networking causing these cascading failures

Loss of DNS causes inter-service api calls to fail, then IAM and all other services fail. Anything not built to handle those situations with backoff causes a 'stampeding herd' of failure/retry and exacerbate the outage

Review the AWS statements about outages here - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
> I no longer discuss anything related to gender, relationships, or personal life dynamics with anyone outside of my bubble.

It's also pointless to discuss them. People say all sorts of things, but then act completely differently!
I'm not sure it's the case here, but the issue with these cloud providers is they use their own services to maintain their infrastructure - that's why when something like lambda gets degraded, which would not shock me if they're using everywhere, you start to see random crap like console and IAM go down as well.
No I haven't, but it looks like the community edition can't do notebooks: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/jupyter-notebook-supp...
I can't even update my billing information right now :/
There is also an alternative approach for running code with ChatGPT, the way Nekton(https://nekton.ai) does it. It will use ChatGPT to generate typescript code code, and then just run it in the cloud.

In the end you get similar result - AI generated automation, but you have an option to review what the code will actually do before running it.
They sell ads, but now they also charge for API requests. Unlike most forums, a significant amount of Reddit interactions happen via the API. They have all the best communities on the internet, but their software is HORRIBLE, so the community has created all kinds of popular 3rd party clients, tools, and bots for engaging the community without having to use the god-awful Reddit software.
I cannot imagine how this is going to work.
If that were the case, they could offer exclusive deals to existing mobile apps that are NOT using it for AI/data-scraping. Reddit is also financed by the same VC's that finance OpenAI, do you honestly think they didn't know what was going on? They knew, this is not just about AI Companies, this is about control, and honestly maybe some Elon Musk fan-boyism by Steve Huffman.
It's probably very easy to run a business if you've never had to worry about making a profit. I'm not sure that's a wonderful business though.
His famous “Legion of Horribles” quote below. I often think of “death hilarious”:

“A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horse’s ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse’s whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen’s faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

Oh my god, said the sergeant.”
I don't remember seeing him post anything about calling for a blackout, but his posts definitely kicked off my awareness and I think many others as well. I'd be very interested to see if he mentioned it before the 10th, which IIRC (probably not - it may have been 8th or something) is when there was a tipping point and a bunch of mods announced they'd be going black. It seems against his personality, he doesn't seem like the type to call for action like that. Tried googling it but didn't find anything during a quick search
I'm building 6 products in 12 weeks
I'm doing a speedrun of sorts trying to build a product every 2 weeks. This is mostly to satisfy the builder in me and to exercise the product shipping muscles.

For a long time, with full time jobs and consulting gigs I was never able to do what I loved the most, just programming. It was always superseded with other "business" stuff that it is has been ages when I could just put my heads down and work on something. So, this is an excuse to not focus on the nitty-gritty of business related things and just build and ship products.

Also, I had a growing list of ideas and a fomo along with it. So, i wanted to give a shot in attempting a fair number of them in short time.
Use `date -u -Iseconds`, please ;-)
This is what will force Reddits hand to either backtrack or remove those mods and place their own. Which the ladder would no doubt be worse.
It is probably extend era
It can also varies within Arizona... one of the most confusing times in my life was driving from California through the Navajo Reservation in AZ on my way to an appointment. Was my cell phone giving me the local time on the reservation? Was it connecting to a cell tower just outside the reservation, giving me DST-less Arizona time? Or a tower slightly further away in Utah (DST?) Or was it giving me the time on the Hopi reservation, which is an enclave totally surrounded by the Navajo Reservation which uses AZ time?
> But we know that programming languages have structure, we made them that way, from scratch, using Chomsky's theory no less.

Very much so, it's astounding really. I still remember deriving "words" and using Chomsky's Normal Form when making the CFG to build a compiler.
Don't get in bed with venture capital, focus on sustainability and technical continuity rather than continuous growth, and be community driven instead of profit driven.

An organization needs to make enough money to live, but it doesn't need quarterly RoI and growth. That is a demand of a public market. Reddit got greedy and sold out.

It's time to start building new communities outside reddit. It won't happen overnight, but it needs to happen.
Good. This works out for everybody except the brain dead C-level executives that tried to bully indie app developers.

- regular people get a break from their echo chambers

- VOLUNTEER mods get a break

- journalists get their news article

The only loser here is the corporation side. Significant loss of value from decreased user activity. Subsequent loss of revenue. Inability to extract as much value from the users data via comments and posts. I said this in another post but the existing CEO needs to get replaced. Maybe throw in a few other C—level executives to serve as additional blood sacrifices.

Although I do foresee Reddit “super mods” forcibly removing the blackout through their backend, removing mod status from the “rebels” and inserting their own friendly mods until they can find replacements.
No. Chomsky's theory was more than a vague and fairly obvious, "humans are pre disposed to language learning". The latter doesn't say anything about what causes these pre dispositions. Chomsky tries to do so.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...
None of this makes sense to me. The US is deflecting from evidence that they blew up the pipelines by claiming Ukraine is behind the attack. Ukraine who also received hundreds of billions of dollars in aid from the US. Is the attack repayment for the military aid?
Feel free to ignore that then.

The push notification server is described doing 8640 requests per day (1 call every 10 seconds) for each user.

An account can sign up multiple users ( https://apolloapp.io/notifications-faq/ )

> How many accounts/devices does this work with?

> There's no limit (but please be reasonable). If you have a main account and five alternate accounts, and an iPhone and two iPads, you can get notifications for all of those accounts on all of those devices for the same fee.

With 50k subscriptions that he needs to refund the floor on this is that he's doing 432M requests per day for the push notification server.

If that is one request every 6 seconds instead of 10 (as described in the 1.3 release) that is 720M requests per day for a floor.

The backend server for Apollo handling push notifications is doing something with some consistent load that is likely showing up on the same API key as the mobile client app is.

When the backend server and the mobile app are taken in aggregate, the description that Reddit sees about how many requests per day the API key for Apollo makes is in rough agreement with those floor numbers plus what one would expect a mobile human user the doing.

I suspect that with the outage that the push notification server was scaled back from 1 request every 6 seconds to 1 request every 10 seconds because the backoff for the push notification server was not working leading to an excess of calls and an increase in the server load and egress causing an increase in the amount the node was going to get billed at. I admit that is pure speculation.

From Reddit's point of view, they only see "this request was made with this API key in the header" and can't distinguish mobile app calls from push notification server calls. When they say "this is how many requests that Apollo is making" they are looking at that number. When Christian is saying "Apollo is making X calls per day on average" he is referring to the mobile app requests (which are more efficient than Reddit's mobile app) and not including other uses of the API key.
More or less matches my experience, including having been raised eating on Corelle dishes. They'll take drop after drop and then suddenly the last one leaves a giant mess to sweep up. Every time.
You can turn a low-profit “boutique” business that pays the salary of 100 people, into a high-margin marque for an acquiring larger-sized corp where every one of those employees get thrown out on their asses because they’re redundant post-consolidation.

If you built the boutique business to get a payday, maybe you’d consider that a win. The market certainly would.

If you built the boutique business because the megaco had a monopoly and was stagnating and awful and you believed in a vision where you can do better — then the PE firm just forced you to take an L by selling to that same megaco and hollowing out your business to just become another head of its behemoth.

If you built the boutique business to work with your favorite people in a non-hellish work environment and ensure they all get to live comfortably — you’ve probably developed cirrhosis from all the regret you’re drinking away.
There's early McCarthy and then there's late McCarthy. The difference is stark. You should try one of his later books.

I read "Suttree", and it was a mixed bag for me. I loved "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Road".
> Good creative prompts are long and detailed

They don't need to be tho. You can try shotgunning in (generate 100 titles about a novel around aliens, after the gen 'pick the one most likely to resonate to a X audience, explain why')

Or you can let AI drive itself interactively (ask yourself 20 question about how to write creative alien stories, and answer yourself)

Or you can process in spirals (generate a setting for an alien story, wait answer, generate 3 protagonista and one antagonist, wait, generate motives and relationships for each of them, wait, generate a backstory, wait, then you ask for the novel)

The point is letting the ai do the work. You can always "rewrite it with more drama and some comedic relief" afterward to fix tonal issues.
In Wolfi's packaging system (melange) we setup a hermetic build environment. See here:

http://github.com/wolfi-dev/os

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange

We use this to build APK packages from source for a large set of software.
> Most of the mods are debatably not power hungry

Everything made sense except this part.

Power goes to everyone's head.
https://readingmccarthy.buzzsprout.com/

> READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing.(Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
To make this work, the protest needs one additional ingredient: create a Reddit clone and move the subreddits there while the blackout lasts. This will increase the pressure 10x. By a Reddit clone I mean something pixel-perfect (except the branding) because users hate changes.
People are afraid to be direct and call the article/researchers sexist in their framing of the situation.
Curious hot take:

There's really dumb money, i.e. public markets

Then there's dumb money, i.e. VC

Then there's smart-ish money, where I'd place PE, that basically wants to strip mine any value away from companies

And it must be some kind of food chain - people get rich from dumb public investors, dupe some companies investing in venture funds, pillage some veterinary clinics or dentists or whatever. But then what?

Is there really smart money somewhere making good, sustainable investments in stuff, to secure generational wealth? Some pension funds maybe? And some family offices?
There kind of are 48 GB 4090s and 7900s; they're just under different names.
Having people do the (absolutely necessary) moderation for free.
Title is a bit misleading - it’s a ROM for an emulator, it isn’t a game that you could play on an actual Gameboy, were you still to own one.
I very intentionally kept the README like this because I didn't want to be seen as starting shell flamewars. Plus writing promotional material isn't my strength.

Improving this side of things is something that's constantly on my mind though. Plus if anyone else also wanted to contribute then I'd welcome that with open arms.
i feel like mod oppression isn't much an issue outside of the free speech absolutism rhetoric that plagues places like twitter. and tbh most of the people screeching about this aren't spending much time on reddit to begin with.
If it’s only officially playable through an emulator I wonder why didn’t just use a modern game engine to make something in a pixel art style? This is definitely more interesting though
I dont understand why they want me to login to read the article. I dont want an account, nor do i want to give you my email. I would rather leave the site than sign up. "Logins" are so antiquated.
Yes, but would be massive overkill. Falcon 40B takes ~35GB of VRAM to load now, and probably less in the future with better quant from llama.cpp and such.

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/falcon-40b-instruct-GPTQ

Large context size is becoming less of an issue now too.

But maybe it would be good for batched inference?
I assure you this bankruptcy won't affect your existing Pyrex.
>I got the impression that cormac was a thoroughly disturbed individual with a macabre fascination with the most fucked up 0.00001% of humanity.

you should separate yourself from that notion.

it's true that authors can be damaged individuals with little personal hope, but some of the most macabre things ever written have been conjured by perfectly normal/well-functioning/happy individuals who enjoy fairly well-balanced lives -- it's simply not a good indicator of the person behind the pen.

as for the grammatic non-sense (to which I agree can be exactly that, non-sense) I always read it as if it were sort of styled similarly to the concept of 'beat poetry'. Grammar and syntax goes out the door for prose/beauty/imagery and style.
> Doesn’t you just described an nth-order Hidden Markov Chain ?

Yes, and its not exactly strictly accurate (at least on a more useful level than a description which simplifies to a Turing machine would be, which would be technically accurate, too) as to exactly how models work, which is why I said “(simplified)”, but it is, I think, accurate enough for the question asked.

The AI “magic”, such as it is, is in the shape of the function that “decides” what output to produce for a given input, not in deciding to produce output at all.
AMD relations with TSMC are definitely much more tight than Nvidia's.
AMD has been helping with developing HPC-optimized nodes and modern packaging techniques (3d-stacking and chiplets), while Nvidia tried to force TSMC to drop prices by going to Samsung fabs for 1.5 generations (did not go too well for them).

The problem with AMD is definitely not modern node access, but software, and with some investment it can probably change really fast.

Apple, on the other hand, is definitely not going to release standalone apple silicon products (GPUs or CPUs), so I don't really believe for Apple Silicon as an AI platform (apart from on-device inferrence).
More like zombies overrunning the last defenses of civilization and consuming the few remaining survivors.
https://debtexplorer.whitecase.com/leveraged-finance-comment...!

I don't think that's going to walk you through all the steps, but it shows you there's a market for buyout bonds, aka, the bonds that pay the PE firms back so they saddle the buyout debt onto the companies themselves.

There's no shortage of 'funds' that buy this garbage. When a bond has a certain credit rating, it's going to get sucked up into the funds, and those funds aren't capitalized by Warren Buffett, they get cash from Joe and Jane Doe's 401k.

That's how it works.
> that there's nothing outside it that we don't understand.

That we don't understand and that we never observed. This is why I mentioned we wandering into speculation territory - I really can't prove there is no invisible pink unicorn sitting in my living room right now. All I can say is that I am not observing it.
The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"