skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst dark pattern I see in big cities I frequent in (Boston and NYC) is that these POS systems have absolutely ridiculous default settings. I've seen coffee shops that show "25%, 30%, 35%" on the tipping screen. Look, before COVID I would never even tip a barista for coffee, due to COVID we said "sure" but I've never tipped anyone 25% in my entire life. How dare a coffee shop defaults to 25% as the "lowest" option?! When I see these I immediately click "Skip". It's absolutely a psychological scam, they just hope you'll impulsively click the lowest setting.
It's the hiding of the actual price that pisses people off, but not enough to prevent them from using the service obviously; there's a reason that hidden fees are a dark pattern that I'm sure date back to antiquity.
LLMs learn from unlabeled data. Children definitely do not. There's a huge difference. I would not be surprised if LLMs could learn a lot more efficiently if they had carefully constructed training data, with video and sound.

But also humans have been speaking for so long it's silly to imagine we don't have some evolved language structures in the brain. I don't know why anyone would single that out for skepticism while not questioning e.g. the brain structures for sight, sound, emotions, navigation, etc.
Non Nova, Sed Nove: The Common Good in Constitutional Law
I mostly struggle with Irish Standard Time (used for DST in Ireland) and Indian Standard Time which have the same acronym. :(

Thankfully, I learnt a long time ago to use ISO 8601 and UTC for dates and times. I still revert to PST/PDT if my audience is primarily left coast based.
Related:

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7691019 - May 2014 (60 comments)
No, it's entirely self-evident. You prove I don't.
Morgan Stanley Capital Partners: The middle-market private equity platform that cares.
Yes, it’s combined between Reddit web, app, and Apollo.
@nat would you be interested in presenting about this at The AI Conference in SF?

Your take on hardware-enabled investment would be interesting.

We also have folks like Hugging Face’s GPT Research Lead, Langchain and LlamaIndex founders, Cerebras’s CEO and many more speaking. It’s
A builder-heavy audience.

https://aiconference.com

* this is my event
They[1] do learn some of it, but a fraction so small it doesn't change the argument.

[1]: at least the mamal pets, not goldfishes
> Everyone is incentivized to say they showed an ad but not actually show the ad.

People don't want to see ads because ads are intrusive. The solution to this problem that the ad industry sees is to make ads more intrusive. So it's kind of a positive feedback loop of user-hostile garbage forced upon them, and no wonder that people want to make ad-free experiences.
Chomsky is not trying to build a flying machine. He is trying to study birds.

Biologists don't look at a 737 and say "that's obviously the way flight works, I wonder where the engine on that seagull is".
Happy to see create-react-app dropped and vite integrated.
> Have you ever tried to intensely petition something? Or get an issue in front of your representative to take seriously? Do you know how much work and effort that takes? It's not simply doing an online poll.

So, why do you expect mister beast to be able to change things? He's doing more than me for sure.

> if I had Mr Beast's money I would do the next step and fix issues permanently,

Ehh. You probably wouldn't?
HIP itself is a C++ language that can be utilized directly. It's extremely similar to CUDA. I think the use case AMD desires is the reverse. That software is written in HIP then converted to CUDA to also run on Nvidia GPUs.
Arial and Verdana are probably your best bets. The cockroaches that survived the millennia and living today have the best chances of surviving more future millennia too!
Of course, any tool still requires a skilled artist to make good use of it.
> No one has to take power from renewable sources.

The EU disagrees with you. A certain percentage of power generation is mandated to come from renewables and nuclear is specifically excluded. IIRC there are no means for power companies to refuse feed-in of renewables.

> They want to because it's the cheapest source of power at the time.

The cheapness is mainly due to the artificial construction of the pricing mechanism.

Variable renewable generation should be priced differently from non-variable fossile free generation.

> Obviously nuclear power is economically viable if you use price-fixing to make it economically viable, but that is a huge divergence from the way our economy normally operates.

It's not a matter of price fixing, but rather of a more rational cost allocation.

Variable renewables are free riders on other generation methods.

Obviously nuclear power is economically viable if you use price-fixing to make it economically viable, but that is a huge divergence from the way our economy normally operates.
https://harvestsignal.com/ is also still alive, but the site certificate expired.
Augmenting Language Models with Long-Term Memory
Intel, AMD, Google, Amazon, etc should team up to create some sort of standards/consortium around an open source CUDA alternative, something that anyone who can fabricate chips could use, and the consortium could have their own team of devs/researchers to make improvements / next gen versions of their CUDA alternative.

Something like the way chrome vs chromium is, or even a foundation like the linux foundation, where you have multiple distros contributing packages/etc back into the ecosystem.
Wouldn't being innocently jailed for 9 days because of a wrong face recognition count as another example?

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-software-led-to...
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/27/california-p...
The article says the average Apollo user makes 345 API calls a month. Using your number of 2 billion calls per month, that’s more like 5.8 million MAU. Still around 1 percent of Reddit’s MAU.

EDIT: Oops, that’s per day! Your math is right, please ignore.
Toast POS is down 100%, don't go out to lunch.
45 minutes is already long meeting… From my experience longer than 30 minutes group meetings were never productive.
The Citadel used to as well. No idea if they still do but you had to tread water for a few minutes then swim the length of the pool without touching the bottom to graduate.
> We start by parsing documents into chunks. A sensible default is to chunk documents by token length, typically 1,500 to 3,000 tokens per chunk. However, I found that this didn’t work very well. A better approach might be to chunk by paragraphs (e.g., split on \n\n).

Hmm good insight there. I've done some experimenting formerly by chunk length and it's been pretty troublesome due to missing context.
I am unsurprised that earlier-in-week have more accept's than later-in-week. Weekends are a reset.
Outage rates are also wildly different. When you're using dozens of managed services and have a few prod-impacting outages with any reasonable (cross-AZ) design, customers are less sensitive then when they are dependent on dozens of products that hav independent failure modes with potentially cascading impact.
They are mostly reads. They are done every few seconds for each user to get the mailbox status for push notifications for monthly subscribers.

https://youtu.be/Ypwgu1BpaO0?t=1772

> I guess there's an analogy um the way Reddit notifications work just for your inbox like you got a message or something um they work in so far as if I the developer of the app want to um say make sure that you get that notification within 10 seconds I have to be checking Reddit every 10 seconds to go like is there anything new is there anything new? is there anything new? is there anything new? okay. There is okay I'll tell is there anything new and then just repeating that at nauseam so you can imagine if you get a message once a week I'm checking every 10 seconds and then once during that whole week I get that message and then I can send it to you um so 99.99 of those API calls were wasted so we've talked to Reddit like that my friend who works on my server um and myself and I've said like what would be so much better is if we could just kind of keep like a port open with Reddit and say like you just tell us when there's a notification ready and we'll beam it off we don't have to bug you all the time and it's logical right and that's how a lot of services do it it's like an event-based API and um that's just not something reddit's ever uh given us

Note that it does a request every 10 seconds for each user. At the API rate that would be about $0.25 every 3 hours (for each user) to support it.
Still no info on the new cores. We know the L3 is smaller per core. But the cores themselves are also smaller. Maybe this is a pure process tweak & the core is just as capable, just lower clock, but it seems more likely the core is somewhat cut down a bit. So burningly curious to know how!
Emojis with skin color, mostly
So a lot of these groups put together funds with usually multiple investors behind it. They all put up some capital together in a fund, and through that fund and a new mortgage go and buy some property. This isn't stock in the real estate group, this is ownership in a fund that's some sub-entity.

This article is alleging they're putting together the funds currently. Not the taking out loans part, that'll come when they actually go buy the specific properties.

You don't get loans unless you've got the building under contract. You put together funds to start shopping for properties well before you actually put an offer on a building.

You ever buy a house? Do you take out a few hundred thousand dollar mortgage, then think about getting some cash for a down payment, and only then find a building? No, you align some cash for a down payment+fees and maybe some for repairs, then you maybe get a pre-qual for a mortgage, you sign a contract for a building and then finally get your loan.

The numbers and players involved change when buying commercial property, but that basic idea is still the same. This article states a number of real estate groups are gathering cash for the down payment and other immediate cash costs for the properties they and their friends already own. The author implies real estate companies are expecting property values to massively reset after they walk away from their properties and able to buy them back cheap at auction. Its only at the auction time that they'd actually have to get the mortgage together for the leveraged part of the building.

Raising huge amounts of money could be taking out new loans, true. It could also mean they're holding off on repairs andupgrades to their buildings or other expenses to hold on to cash. It could also mean they're talking to investors to put together new funds. And finally it could mean they're preparing to sell some stock at inflated prices for the expectation on some big windfalls in the future from having much better margins on rent versus their loans.

Nowhere in the article does it use the term "new loans", because chances are its not saying they're taking out new loans at this moment. Yeah, they probably would eventually get a new mortgage when they actually go to rebuy properties, but they're not at that stage yet.
Ex-Delphi code here, and I have to loudly disagree about Pascal being expressive (at least in the context of more modern languages). But I was, and remain, very fond of it.

(to the downvoter: my fave lang is Scala. That's expressive)
It’s really looking like the future will be 1984 but with Star Trek technology.
Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
I didn't say you were wrong, just adding more information, and I was doing it from memory. Looks like I did OK, but also missed a bunch of stuff. I have a really good memory but I trust it way too much some times.

But thanks for the further information! I actually didn't know Switzerland kept it going until 90s. I thought all research ended in the 80s

There's actually a mistake in that wiki article though. If you look at the source, it does in fact say Shulgin's friend Zeff was the first to start using it therapeutically since 1976. It says nothing about therapeutic use in the 60s, though it does mention LSD, which was used in the 60s before it was banned.
Thanks for the reply. Being tall has its advantages, but not best for knees and back. Best of luck to you!
> What if Americans got together, with a similar degree of concern about the public health risk that the current barriers to learning to swim present? What if we invited more of the community to use underused private pools? What if the U.S. government incentivized the construction of more public pools to serve especially underserved populations?

US used to have a lot of public swimming pools. The problem is racism and desegregation.

There is a great Marketplace podcast on this [0]:

> Draining public swimming pools to avoid integration received the official blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. The city council in Jackson, Mississippi, had responded to desegregation de­mands by closing four public pools and leasing the fifth to the YMCA, which operated it for whites only.

> “Be­ginning in the mid-1950s northern cities generally stopped building large resort pools and let the ones already constructed fall into disre­pair.” Over the next decade, millions of white Americans who once swam in public for free began to pay rather than swim for free with Black people; desegregation in the mid-fifties coincided with a surge in backyard pools and members-only swim clubs.

And more reading on the brutal history of integrated public/community pools in the US [1] with an infamous photo of a motel manager pouring muriatic acid into a pool where black and white demonstrators used a pool togther:

> ...those big public pools eventually became mixed-gender pools, unleashing even deeper-seated fears about what might happen if black men and white women went swimming together. "Whites in many cases literally beat blacks out of the water at gender-integrated pools because they would not permit black men to interact with white women at such intimate public spaces,"

A survey conducted by Northwestern University [2] found that there's a ~25% gap between Black and Latino children versus white children when it comes to swimming lessons.

So there you go; the reason we can't have nice things is because we have an abundance of racists in the US that would rather sabotage a resource for the community rather than share a space with another human being who happens to have genes for higher melanin content in their skin. If you ever wonder why we can't have nice things in the US as a society, it is often the case that there's probably a reason that's rooted in either racism or classism.

[0]: https://www.marketplace.org/2021/02/15/public-pools-used-to-...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/09/412913702...

[2]: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/12/racial-ethnic-...
If the banks have sold the debt, they don't care if it's paid or not, they're already paid.
A major difference is that VCs (good ones at least) specialize in startups in a given sector and have some understanding of the sector, the product, the market landscape, the culture, etc. They also operate in that sector long term which means they really want to maintain a decent reputation among founders, employees, and even customers. VCs really don't want to get their name associated with "OMG run away!" since it could adversely affect their deal flow in the future.

PE usually doesn't have any special connection to your sector or community. They just buy stuff and try to run it according to bog standard MBA rules.
Really, a $5.8 million dollar FTC settlement for a company with the market cap of Amazon, for spying on women in their homes. That’s not “take privacy seriously” level, that’s not even a mosquito bite on their net worth. Amazon was shamefully careless and the U.S. government isn’t even giving them a slap on the wrist. And for EFF to declare this as a victory is laughable. WTF
That's not exactly my takeaway, e.g. he says this in that interview which is pretty consistent:

> So if I was just going to say if I want to build a computer really fast today, and I want it to go fast, RISC-V is the easiest one to choose. It’s the simplest one, it has got all the right features, it has got the right top eight instructions that you actually need to optimize for, and it doesn't have too much junk.
It is important to familiarize yourself with local laws regarding knife possession. Certain jurisdictions, such as Japan, may consider knives over a specific length as weapons, even if they are ordinary kitchen knives, when carried in public. Additionally, some types of knives, including dagger knives, are prohibited regardless of their size. If you are found carrying such knives, you could potentially get into legal trouble. However, in certain circumstances, such as when transporting a knife from one location to another, you may be released without prosecution, though it can still be a hassle to go through the process.
High-tech pizza company that raised nearly $500M is reportedly broke
I used it because early on in the project I wanted to use features for IoT that were only available on us-east-1 initially, as well as lambda@edge which was on us-east-1 only at the time.
Every time I see one of these new shells, I'd like to know - how does it compare against the existing higher-end shells like Fish? What extra features does it have, which are missing, where are the differences?

If it offers substantial benefits over Fish, then I'd gladly take a look.

As it stands, the description is quite brief and doesn't talk as much about other shells and feature comparison.
Logseq for notetaking: what's good, what's not, what I have not yet figured out
There are some services (cloudfront for example) which require this region. Its not that much harder to have multiple regions in your deployment but putting everything in one is simpler for smaller startupy orgs.
A kind of corollary that I'm sure others have thought of: if llms are so smart and human thought is nothing more than a big language model, why can't they (llms) make up their own training data. Any discussion about how they are "thinking" the way we do is BS, I don't know how so many people who know better have been conned.
And I can't say it's ever actually caused a problem, but something about Indian Standard Time being a half-hour offset from UTC has always bothered me so much... But now we're fully off-topic.
For a moment I was going to waste my afternoon arguing with people desperately predisposed to being the underdog in the fight against the Father of Linguistics, but you’ve said everything I ever could beautifully, so if this doesn’t help nothing will. Especially love the last paragraph, clarified that pattern for me.

On a lighter note, I do expect “Modern Language Models Refute…” to be the new “All you need is…”! It’s just too provocative not to click on
That's pretty scary.
> I think the implied premise is that vendors are likely to score with a low bias, downplaying security vulnerabilities.

Indeed. It occurs to me that there's a possible feedback loop here. To the exent that NVD increases the severity of all (or even some) CVEs, they are effectively increasing the incentive for vendors to report lower severities, since the vendors may rightly assume that NVD will inflate the severity anyway.
Please don't do gender flamewar on HN. "Women are asking for too much" is not going to end well, and the kind of thing we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It grew organically to the best of my knowledge. But the extent and addiction of various mods' dependency on these third party apps was something that came as a surprise to me. Didn't knew they actually depended so much more for moderation tools on these 3rd parties than the official reddit platform itself.
More or less.
My favorite lie ever.
Thanks, I'm barely aware of this domain.
It's interesting that future security, free time to spend with your partner and do housework, and hobbies don't count as something to offer (at least relative to a flashy lifestyle). But, yes, a guy needs to find an effective angle that's in demand on the relationship market.
Which hotel?
"eventually" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Our sun will last another 5 billion years, and the heat death is something like 100 trillion years away.
From observing my wife's teams over the years, they deploy new _products_ early to that region, but deploying code changes starts in smaller regions.
Airmash lives very well on this community hosted site: https://airmash.online/

The original author was never to be heard from again.
As a side note, I wonder if businesses won't even accept cash if they can't go through their POS system. If not, it's a shame that these modern internet connected POSs lock out stuff like that.
Stable Diffusion worked fine for me with Rocm & my RX580 (once I had compiled a custom torch library IIRC).

But I don’t know whether it works with the more recent RDNA2 cards.
That’s a hot take - they learn the meaning of some sounds, but I’d say that’s on a whole different order than human language. Many, many animals communicate concepts using sounds
The article says that HBM3 memory comes in 24GB stacks. (Not 32GB.)
NVIDIA are not stupid, they understand their marginal revenue and marginal cost analysis, and they obviously decided they're making the most money doing what they're doing. It's asinine to believe we, with access to almost none of the requisite data, could tell NVIDIA how to turn a better profit.
> Oh come on, you can't be serious. These are different groups of people. The same users who upvote things are not also complaining about what is being upvoted.

Yes, that was the entire point of my comment.
>I highly doubt that it is easy to do in US.

There are many such cases. The book in the article "Barbarians at the Gate" was probably the most famous instance until AOL took over Time Warner.
No, that's a ZWJ sequence. Those can be arbitrarily long. Doesn't explain where "5 bytes" comes from.
AMD Unleashes MI300X AI GPU to Rival Nvidia's Market Supremacy
they are already doing that with XLA, google has TPUs, amazon has tranium/inferentia. common interface in future that you basically just cast model to `.toDevice` of an enum of accelerated computing types seems to be the goal.
I moved Apollo to my last page of apps instead of my first. It taught me a lot, very quickly, about how compulsively I was using it, and how little I missed it after the unconscious act of opening it up left my muscle memory.
Bishops have a great deal more mobility than knights. A knight in the wrong corner takes several moves to catch up to a distant passed pawn. A bishop needs far fewer.

Generally the trade off is a bishop pair, where you do have all the squares covered, vs the slower knights, who are also the only pieces that can threaten a piece without being threatened back.

The advantages are highly position dependent, with closed games largely going to the knights and open games going to the bishops pair.

But most games turn into open games at some point, so statistically the bishops end up better.
I saw there was an answer already in your issue, although you plan on doing a lot of inferencing on your GPU, I'd highly recommend you consider dual-booting into Linux. It turns out exllama merged ROCm support last week and more than 2X faster than the CLBlast code. A 13b gptq model at full context clocks in at 15t/s on my old Radeon VII. (Rumor has it that ROCm 5.6 may add Windows support, although it remains to be seen what that exactly entails.)
This my take as well.

I'll be doing the strike, and possibly an extended strike. Then I'll briefly return to see where the communities I follow are migrating to. After that I'll have no more need for reddit since most of the communities I follow are tech related and will almost certainly be looking for a new home should the behavior at the top continue.