skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for responding to my comment.

I'm not an expert in the field, but, there are lots of previous algorithms for predicting the next token in a series (Markov chains, autocomplete). None of them felt so much pressure to make an accurate prediction that they had no alternative but to teach themselves arithmetic! It seems what is different about LLMs (as far as the post goes) is that we can anthropomorphize them.

More seriously, I guess I just feel like a meaningful sketch of an explanation for why algorithm X (where X is LLMs in this case) for continuing a piece of text is good at problem A should involve something about X and A. Because it is clearly highly dependent on the exact values of X and A, not just whether A can be posed as a text completion problem and humans would prefer the computer learn to solve the underlying problem to produce better text. For example, it could help to imagine a mechanism by which algorithm X could solve problem A. The closest thing to a mechanism (something algorithm X, i.e. LLMs, might be doing that's special) in the post is the talk of necessity being the mother of invention and "a deeper understanding of reality simplifies next-token prediction tasks," and the suggestion that if you were an LLM you might want to use "the rules of addition."

It's true that modeling arithmetic in some way could help a LLM account for known arithmetic problems in the training data, which could help it on unseen arithmetic problems, but what problems an LLM can solve is a function of what it can model. Anything an LLM can't model or can't do, it just doesn't. LLMs are really bad at chess, for example. The patterns of digits in addition may be similar enough to the hierarchical patterns in language the LLM is modeling. But it's not clear if the LLM is using the "rules of addition" or not. As far as I know, we don't actually understand why LLMs are able to store so much factual information, produce such coherent stories, and do the specific things they can do.
There's a bunch of Minnesota breweries doing some amazing sours, and many of them are only around for a season or two before they switch up the fruits. I'm so happy about it because I was totally burnt out on IPAs.

And now that everyone isn't so IPA-happy there are some great examples of varieties like Gose and Kolsch that I hadn't even heard of before.
I don’t know what we’d do without the InstantPot. We literally have this thing going every night making veggies, beans and lentils, soups, and stews for the family. It really takes a ton of stress out of mealtimes, particularly with a toddler in the house. Even before we had a kid we were using the thing constantly, and telling all of our friends and family to buy one.

Our first Instant Pot unit had a faulty pressure release seal in the lid and so Insta replaced and shipped a brand new lid to us free of charge.
Interesting setup, do you have a link to it?
What stack is this blog using? It looks like plain HTML/CSS/JS. It's very nice.

I'm asking because the choice of stack to use is keeping me away from starting my own blog.
> My friends aren't going to leave Discord. And talking to myself isn't very fun.

While I agree with your vision, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this. I've tried for decades to get people onto open platforms with me. Tooling pain doesn't help, but by and large, the issue is critical mass. If I were to drop out of <major communications platform here (currently Discord)>, no one would follow me except for my wife. I'm not really speculating, I know this to be true because I have tried it. Several times.

You can see it outside of close social circles as well. At one point my condo association leadership decided they wanted to shut down (well, at least abandon moderation of and cut all ties with) the community Facebook group, and bring our web presence up to modern standards. We built out a website, with many features we felt would be useful --- membership directory, community knowledgebase (some questions just repeatedly come up over and over again), a forum for community discussion... and nobody used it.

The reason? Turns out it was nothing to do with our implementation. It just came down to the fact that Facebook was already installed on people's phones, and they already spent their time there. That's it. Inertia and critical mass.
Out of curiosity: can you list some of the other reasons?
I don't really believe in this whole stupid 'boycott them because they don't align with my values' bullshit, people should be free to express their political opinions however they see fit
This would be the most inefficient way to launder money ever. You'd get at most 50% of the money you took in (realistically, more like 30-40% with taxes if you were transferring significant volume), and you'd have to have an active account that posted a lot of legitimate-sounding comments, and at least 10K sockpuppet accounts which you'd then need to script a way to upvote all the posts by the account you're intending to launder it through.

That's assuming the site lets 10K+ users sign up and pay with crypto, or you have the time to track down and signup for 10K prepaid burner cards. Then, after allo that, you'd have to hope that the site never detects the vote manipulation, since you'd have an account that's getting tons of upvotes from a specific set of users.

Really.. I think this is the worst idea for laundering money I've ever heard of. You'd be better off walking into a casino and putting it all on blackjack until you win a big hand, then reporting the winnings.
It is a publicity stunt
It sounds like this author believes in going really big. They didn't move cities, they moved continents. They didn't date and break up, they married and divorced.

I think there is something to be said for getting some big experiences. Moving from Pittsburgh to Cleveland might be a waste of energy. Moving from Pittsburgh to Paris is a guaranteed adventure.

I don't know if I agree or not, but it is interesting to think about.
US military says 22 service members injured in Syria helicopter mishap
>In March, 23 U.S. troops in Syria suffered traumatic brain injuries during two attacks by Iran-backed militants, it said in April.

Is that another ballistic missile attack on Iraq from Iran again or did i miss something else?
You can also use TPUs or other training cards. Nvidia is just the best one that's accessible.

But I think you're getting downvoted since it's very off-topic.
The corporate mega landlords will own a large chunk of all housing in the future, and never release it back to the market.

According to the source data for the article:

42% OF SINGLE-FAMILY PROPERTIES PURCHASED BY INVESTORS WERE CONVERTED TO RENTALS

45% WERE SOLD BACK (flipped)

So they are in mostly back on the market.

This is where the data from the article is from:

https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/2022-i...
"Did try" sounds like you didn't stick around?

To be a village member is either to grow up there, or to move in a stay
U.S. TSA expands controversial facial recognition program
> However, the SEC fails to to provide any guidance and doesn’t have any official position. The reason is that if they make a small mistake or missed sleeping, they might’ve given a free pass.

It also helps when one of your former execs came from Goldman Sachs, and were backed by VC including YC and the Stanford mafia--Balaji's buy out of 21 and being placed as CTO confirmed all my suspicions I had during thier mining days.

Honestly, and I say this with all the malice in the World if you
are reading this, Armstrong: I hope we can finally get rid of you and that cancer that is Coinbase and all the BS it has wrought us once and for all, even if it crashes the market for a while.

The fact that they hold that much BTC is a huge issue, but what is at the core of this is more to do with the real problem with this is centralized systems with directly conflicting ideals to the overall community operates with so much weight in an otherwise decentralized network: they were unfit to be in this ecosystem and they exploited a very clear window with their immense access to resources and VC money and while they made the most of it, it seems the tide has finally turned on them.

I can forgive Mark and MTGOX, that was a case of what happens when gross incompetence and unforeseen immense growth intersect; he paid a price for that, spent time in a Japanese prison and had his entire life ruined in the process.

Brian Armstrong has spent a decade being the bane of the Bitcoin ecosystem and sold scams to unwitting customers with no remorse, sided with the FUDsters during USAF etc... this is the typical corpo with no scruples trying to act innocent when he is finally subjected to the same regulatory body who leave the rest of us in the dark: those who I will remind you he sided with all along because it benefited him.

I honestly wish he gets the Charlie Schrem treatment and gets humbled in the same way.
And despite all that, home prices did, in fact, go down during the 2008 recession. And while the government does -- as you point out -- establish policy that biases the market in favor of home prices increasing, the government does not protect home prices the way it protects Wall Street from bad investments.
It's doing all the legwork - SFRs are negative cash flow, and the only reason to hold negative cash flow properties at the absolutely horrendous cap rates they have is because of appreciation.

But appreciation cannot go on forever or each property will be infinitely expensive and nobody will be able to afford them. It is a dance that will end at some point.
Iono, this is definitely a grey area… but he definitely impacted the lives of peoples who sight restoring cataract surgery he paid for.

I agree there is something icky (discussed in the article) but it’s weird to say zero impact.
You mean experimental evidence? I don't think our mass measurements are that precise.

You don't need to weigh individual atoms or molecules to take measurement!

Just to be clear, that statement is very well accepted physics, and we have plenty of evidence of bounding energy changing the mass of things on the more energetic reactions (the nuclear ones). It would be incredibly surprising (in "redo all of physics" surprising) if it didn't hold for chemical reactions too, but I don't think anybody has evidence.

Not sure I follow your direction here. Seems to be a conflation of three separate things, not necessarily compatible with each other. In classical physics mass and charge (of a particle) are different properties. One defines how particle behaves in response to forces, the other how it interacts with em fields. That's one. The other, if we go into relativistic physics, there's mass-energy equivalence (as stated by einstein)... however, charge itself isn't a form of energy, BUT charged particles can have energy associated with their electric fields that would contribute, in a sense, to the overall mass-energy of a system (which is usually ignored unless we're talking sub-atomic particles or high-energy physics). That's two. And then there's binding (not bounding) energy which represents the amount of energy required to split a system of particles into its non-interacting components (such as, in context of nuclear physics, splitting a nucleus into protons and neutrons).. or you've meant electron binding energy which represents amount of energy needed to remove an electron from an atom.. that'd be a third.
It's fortunate if every sensitive data are encrypted
but that doesn't mean that if something exists for more than five years it can't be a fraud. It means they would have to find an action by Coinbase that was illegal and was done within the last five years. If it was illegal for coinbase to be a broker continually up until the present day then that would be within the statute of limitations
Apple's take on GPUs is quite different and very interesting IMO. Shared memory architecture with absolutely massive RAM (and hence VRAM) support, e.g. the new Mac Studio having 192GB RAM/VRAM which can run pretty massive models, much more so than is easily consumer-accessible even at the high end with Nvidia 4090s. It's not as fast as Nvidia, but it's not horribly far off in the latest chips.

As LLM adoption grows, I wonder whether Apple's approach will start to make more sense for consumer adoption, so that you can run models on your machine without needing to pay large subscription costs for AI-powered apps (since OpenAI et al have fairly high fees). The high cost of using the APIs in my opinion is a drag on certain types of adoption in consumer apps.

Llama.cpp actually first started as a way to run LLMs on Macs! At first CPU-only, but then later the first GPU driver backend added was Metal, not anything from Nvidia.
> I don’t recall how this worked

Unlinking files reduces their reference count. Once the reference count reaches zero the file is considered deleted and the space can be reclaimed. Every open file descriptor and hard link increases a file's reference count. So if you've got a file descriptor open on a file in a background task (daemon, nohup, screen, etc) and unlink it with rm or something the file's reference count will decrement but not go to zero. Only when that program closes the file descriptor will the reference count go to zero and the file actually be deleted.
You're right, although I would not assume anything when it comes to privacy, there are so many examples where companies did not follow best practice.

We need to move away from this model where others are in control of our private data to one where it's owned and controlled by us, giving access to service providers as needed.
If you're worried about them resenting you, do you just let them do anything they want?
Despite what you've been taught, every act of charity comes from a selfish need (ego). Whether that is predatory or not from the standpoint of the donor, I'll leave that up to you to decide.

And to be clear, his acts of charity have made an impact in the people who have benefited from it. Whether the public response is positive or negative is besides the point.
Isn't pulumi aws just terraform under the hood still? Why wouldn't I just use terraform's CDKTF instead?
Does mms work yet?
That's absolutely not true. IPAs cannot be shelf stable past a few months if unrefrigerated. They start to lose the hoppy aroma and taste and taste more muted. The longer you go the more skunky it tastes.
In one iteration, 42% are converted to rentals and 45% were "sold back" -- but to whom were they sold back? If they were sold to other investors, they go through another 42% reduction. And so on, for however many iterations there are until it ends up in the hands of someone who actually wants to live there.
My fathers's dear friend Stese was close with the old brewmaster at Anchor Steam. He was in his 90's at the time and one day he told Stese to start following him around the brewery and watch how he did things so he could take over for him when he was gone. Stese dutifully observed the brewmaster and took over his duties when he died. Soon there was a kid following him around taking notes on a clipboard. Fritz Maytag took over the operation, expanded it, bought a fleet of trucks and gave steam beer in SF a second life.
Totalitarianism is much different because ultimately some human is making all the decisions on the allocation of capital. The uncomfortableness that the parent is describing isn’t with the power disparity, it’s with the fact that our world is increasingly controlled by paperclip maximizers.
Australia is a fantastic image of what happens in that process, and they don't show much sign of slowing, being even worse than the States' issues.
JFK Assassination: The Umbrella Man (6 min video)
Not really. Elixir tries to use an approach to its "syntax design" that is similar to Ruby. But ruby goes all out in its approach to look like English. Elixir doesn't go that far.

Other than that if you look at how the language works under the surface it is completely different from Ruby which uses Runtime Reflection to add methods to objects in memory.
This is exactly my use-case for a fossil repo with the built-in forum, with the default provided sorting. Fleeting notes get migrated as needed to Wiki pages (capability for which is also built-in).

Demonstration of default settings: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forum ("most recent threads" is equivalent to "most recently updated thread")

Docs: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/forum.wiki
You can see which side the propaganda sides with by the choice of words. Remote is defined as "situated far from the main centres of population". Google also displays a new definition "working away from a usual workplace or location"

They are really hammering the narrative. You belong in the office! It is where you belong! Imagine we replace working with say fishing. What would fishing in a remote place be? At home? Or say eating remote? Is this eating at home?

Who is running what? Is the human running the company or the company running the human?
But if we never celebrate altruism or philanthropy, are we not, perhaps, discouraging it? Don't we want to instill these cultural values of giving?

It seems to me that keeping quiet is a kind of purity ritual that perhaps does more harm than good as well.

Personally I don't care about MrBeast one way or the other, he doesn't affect my life in any appreciable way, if he makes money giving other people money, cool, I can think of a thousand worse ways to make money.
This is much more akin to old timey aristocracy than anything else.
If you want your life to be a long road of craters, sure, blow up your life constantly.

You'll see the craters of your own life blown up. And around those, the craters of your partners' life, and the craters of your kids' lives too (anxiety, commitment, daddy issues).

Hell to it! yolo! (/sarcasm)
The Meta whistleblower: ‘Fix social media or tens of millions will die’
That's great. I am countering the notion that evidence is not required because it is 'common sense'.
With any luck projects like MLC will help close the gap

https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm
Do not take life advice from someone with the blind confidence of a mediocre white man.
(2014) or (2015)
Is he kind of a bullshit artist? Sure.

Can I think of a thousand worse ways that people make money every day?

I sure can.
Again, so this isn't confusing for anyone, this comment is totally wrong. Beer breweries do this because there's a clear change in flavor for beers left unrefrigerated and/or exposed to light.
>Notably absent are any ratios that involve a power of 7

Except the tritone that's 1% off 7/5.

>ratios that involve a power of 5 are noticeably out of tune

Depending on your definition of "tune". Regardless, pitch bends cover that if needed.

>Temperament differences are pretty significant.

And one's free to implement whatever temperament in midi, in fact even consumer pianos allow that. If there was any semblance of demand for that midi would spare an event for that.

>carnatic music

Show so much variability between players that it's safe to approximate their microtones in 12 notes, with bends if desired.

>barbershop harmony, lap steel, slide guitar, Appalachian dulcimer

All serviceable in the 12 note system.

Even early pianos were tempered for a particular key until common sense prevailed.

>it's just a historical accident that the protocol we use is one that wasn't designed with any other use case in mind

If entire countries cede their musical theory systems for a foreign one it's not a matter of an accident, it's an indication of superiority.

>There's no technical reason for synthesizers to be biased towards 12-EDO

Yes there is, it's exactly because near 100% of their users want just that. Most midi devices don't use anything past velocity and pitch bends, complicating them to include non-12 note systems would be a total flop.
Please add (2913) to the title:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Xerox%20scanners%20randomly%20...

Edit: oops, 2013 - typed on my smartphone without reading back :)
> principles are important not because they help you defeat your enemies. They matter in and of themselves.

No idea matters exclusively 'for its own sake'. To think like that is to abandon utility and reason for dogma.

> If you want to say that you don't care about principles at all, and are willing to do anything and everything that is the most effective to defeat your enemies no matter what it is, just say that instead of talking about principles or morals or values.

When were you at all confused? I asked a specific leading question and gave a specific reason why the answer was what I lead it to be. Please let me know how I could have been more clear without being patronizing.
Is this what you are referring too?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...
This is also the reason I like when I see a project in C or C++. It's often a ./configure && make or something. Sometimes running a Python project even if dependencies install, there might be some mystery crash because package dependencies were not set correctly or something similar (I had a lot of trouble with AUTOMATIC1111 StableDiffusion UI when using some extensions that installed their own requirements that might be in conflict with the main project).

With a boring C project, if it compiles it probably works without hassle.

Feels validating that other people have these thoughts too and I'm not just some old fart.
with all due respect what are you doing? I've literally never encountered such a screen.
This is a lot of unsourced, completely gut feeling statements about someone’s philanthropic impact to essentially just have an excuse to shit on them. I wonder how much your own life has impacted the world out there.

Look I don’t know mrbeast, beyond the team trees stuff from a while back. But YAWN at claiming someone’s actions do more harm than good just because your gut says it’s inspired pranksters.

Put your comment in context.
Mom and pop are definitionally not "Wall Street" investors which is what the article is labeling the purchasers.
I've been wanting to make this kind of thing for a while now. Basically canvas and 3D view for code. This looks super cool, but I was more thinking for a general platform like VSCode, rather than something limited to the MacOS eco-system. What's the best way to get in touch with you?
Because Reddit app does not suck. Why would a tech company buy out a bunch of free loaders?
I'm really confused at the general lack of knowledge about this topic on HN. Heineken is one of the worst beers made, and local beers, while mostly not great, are certainly better. Look at untappd for statistically significant ratings.
Completely meaningless virtue signalling. This will contribute zilch to combatting the climate crisis. Lame. This is a tax write-off, right?
You choose to make the most charitable interpretation in favor of the government.
It also makes the philanthropy sustainable.
I live in an area of New England where property values have basically doubled in the last few years (since spring of 2020). Yeah I get that people moved up here in a kind of reactionary moment during covid, but it doesn't completely explain how housing costs increased at such a rate and keep growing even as we are in a quote-unquote lull in the housing market during higher interest rates. You cannot buy a home here without offering cash at over asking price.

I hate to be conspiratorial but there are times when I think this market is so irrational that there is some kind of larger force at play. It's not like the pandemic created more demand for homes -- if anything (and I hate to be morbid about this) there should be fewer buyers in the market and yet everything continues too tick up. And on top of that the rental market is completely irrational as well.

It's really hard not to give in to the idea that the market for housing isn't being manipulated by larger forces.
> his actions do more good than harm

I feel like you meant the opposite. . .