skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always curious why they didn't just make pairs of CPUs that shared a few logic units in common. Like I don't know what the instruction mix is these days and just how long the pipeline is, but say most code can do 2-3 ALU instructions per clock, why not 2 cores with 1-2 ALUs each and 2 shared?

As things are, there is very little guarantee that the hyperthread will make any substantial progress.
It's also there to force the user to watch the full video to see if the build up to some final product was actually worth seeing. Both reasons are there to take seconds off your life to juice their engagement stats.
I think it’ll be like AI: perpetually 50 years away until some big discovery is made and everyone stops laughing.

For AI it was the “attention is all you need” paper. I’ve been told that for QC it might be error correction that scales but I’m not knowledgeable enough to know if that’s true.

I expect that nuclear fusion will follow the same trajectory of being 50 years away until it’s suddenly 0 years away.

The reality for all these is that steady progress is constantly being made but isn’t visible outside experts in the field. Then it reaches a critical mass and you have the “chatgpt moment.”
> basic things are missing from it like a string startswith.

It was added in C++20: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/starts...
I doubt there are many reports of vkd3d usage, since gamers look for functional and well performing option.

But you can try searching Wine AppDB.
Wait, where is the web version?

A big part of twitter is the web client... and embedded tweets all over the internet.

Did they start this product by cloning instagram and removing the image centric approach? Why is this not a website first? My gut feel is that this competes as much with instagram as it does with Twitter.
The size of `byte` is fixed at 8, `short` 16, `int` 32, `long` 64. There is no ambiguity or uncertainty about it.
A lot of young people are back on Facebook for Marketplace. It's the "app" a lot of people use nowadays to find cool second hand furniture.
What I'm really waiting for is zig support for custom range ints https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3806

Also minor nitpick I have is that the interval/range syntax in zig is pretty confusing as it can be both inclusive and exclusive depending on context. Swift does it imo better by ... being inclusive and ..< exclusive
That's super annoying, because while I procrastinate on reading papers or even articles on the things I want to learn (as in, I feel - at least occasionally - motivated and positive about learning), works of fiction, like novels or short stories, can instantly suck me in for days. Somehow, when it comes to fiction, the beancounter in my head just packs up and goes on a leave.
Journalists are trying to find places to move over their audience since twitter put their audience behind a login screen
How was messenger an acquisition? wasn't it simply taking FaceBook Chats and making it a standalone app? It seems that meta just has a very curated list of products, and most seem to be hits, and most seem to be regularly iterated upon.

> Facebook has DNA to optimize feeds.

Isn't that the exact thing that Threads would need to succeed? It's a new feeds-based app, piggybacking their existing social graph. That means you have followers/following immediately.

They even have the market opportunity as twitter stumbles.
Yup, despite Facebook's best attempts to ruin it.

(No one wants to have products shipped from scammy sellers, Facebook, please stop making that the default search option.)
I feel like Twitter could have launched “Nests” (flocks?) to replace subreddits in the face of a Reddit exodus and pretty much just reskinned twitter for the specific use case. Hashtags as top level organizing taxonomy (to replace subreddit). Then tweets as your “posts” with nested replies. Twitter had the infrastructure to just hit the ground running too.
So. multiple attempts at cloning Snap, HouseParty, IRL etc. into standalone products were unique. And this one is just a minor tweak on Instagram?
Let's discuss this in another 6 months.
I can't predict what the future of Twitter is, but Threads would have been shuttered by then.
If you're downvoting this because you haven't tuned out yet don't consider yourself addicted, I'm really curious why you still engage with politics on platforms like Twitter? The friends of mine that still do it talk about it like it's something they really wish they could quit, hence I think "addiction" is a fair label, though some genuinely believe it's important to have voices on the platform countering some of the more heinous things being posted.
You use e verify and you will be fine. The problem is all the employers choosing not to.
Yep. Assuming this [1] site's count of 10m fediverse's total users is accurate, Instagram would only need 2% of their ~500 DAU to sign up to surpass it; only 0.5% of their MAU.

[1] https://the-federation.info/
I understand exactly what you mean, and I am looking for the same! Just try to be social and maybe you'll meet some fellow nerds.
Facebook Messnger was a service named Beluga - https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-beluga/
Federal Complaint Says Harvard Legacy Preferences Violate Civil Rights Act
These are things you can just look up. The LLM contributes nothing that the internet didn't already provide. Or even textbooks before that. What I mean is actually new capabilities, which weren't available to non-state actors with a broadband connection before.

Also, sarin gas doesn't pose an existential risk to humanity. Or, in the sense that it could, the cat's out of the bag and I'm not sure why we're talking about LLMs as that seems like a dangerous distraction from the real problem, right?

> I see nothing here that can't be replicated in principle by a not too large non-state actor. It's not like some people haven't already tried this when AI didn't exist in its modern form

To my point, they didn't "try"!!!

They DID.

Without LLMs.

Resulting in 13 deaths and thousands of injuries.

I'm not sure that LLMs significantly increase the attack surface here. Possibly they do, and there are some mitigations we could introduce such that the barrier to using LLMs for this sort of thing are higher than the barrier to doing the bad thing in the first place without LLMs. But even in that case, it's not existential. And nowhere I have stated LLMs don't pose risks; they do. My issue is with AGI and x-risk prognostications.
The tilt of the Earth has nothing to do with “the weather” (that you can do something with).
What's the patient to staff ratio at typical elder-care facilities?
How does that make the web special? Humans can por time and love into anything they want.
In the UK, police don't generally carry guns.

Of those that do, firearms officers - why would they carry a handgun?

And you are right - there is of course an element of security theatre!
That was a natural extension to Facebook conversations and was not a standalone product.
How long has it been the case that a CPU would basically catch on fire if it could run without pipeline stalls slowing down the thermal dissipation?
Instagram has a web version, and the ability to HTML embed instagram posts, so it seems likely that this will have a web version.
Tried to install it but it was asking for too much irrelevant data so I decided not to.

Maybe I am not the avenge user I don’t need an IOS app for text, web is fine.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-beluga/
A variable rate between 30-60 is absolutely worse than consistent 30fps.
My knee-jerk reaction to this is that it's immature posturing. The internet is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. Email is a decentralized protocol with centralized entities. But for this decentralized protocol (Mastodon/ActivityPub), centralized entities are a bridge too far?
If it comes down to it, given the choice between accepting federal funds and continuing to give preference to legacy admissions, I think we all know which one Harvard will pick.
Every Twitter alternative seems to be worse somehow. I wouldn’t mind if Twitter died, I think it gives people brainworms, but I see comments like this and I just see it as wishful thinking.
The current Norwegian energy import/export policy is completely stupid.
I just gave nix a go and so far it seems great.

But do you know, if they’re a nicer options finder? The one I found where you just search all several thousand options kinda sucks. I want to just see my package (say, ssh) and just the ssh options, but the results get littered with irrelevancy.
Location: New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, PyTorch, PyData (Pandas, sklearn, etc.), Tensorflow, Docker, GitHub, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ub1OP5yMZV_UnJUniSSubk5H...

Email: theodorelong98@gmail.com

ML researcher/engineer looking to work on interesting and novel applications of ML. I have previous experience working as a Data Scientist at a NYC hedge fund and am familiar with the full data stack - acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, modeling and putting into production. I've just finished my Masters at the University of Cambridge, focused on ML and computational statistics. During my time there I published a paper: https://openreview.net/forum?id=cFtt9fU7YB6, and worked on a 9 month research project on probabilistic models for Riemannian manifolds for my thesis. I'm a quick learner, but am used to operating in fast-paced, pragmatic environments and getting results. I enjoy working on interesting open-ended problems in pretty much any setting!
For the uninitiated, the Commodore 1541 (and later 1570) are external floppy drives that contain their own 6502 CPU and work RAM. In fact, you could daisy-chain two of them with a C64, tell one to copy a whole disk from the other, and disconnect the C64; the drives would continue to work as they do not rely on the C64 at all.
> Hence now I have a 28" 4k external screen which is exactly like four 14" FHD screens of my laptop, so the DPI stays strictly the same.

I did the same and just bought monitors that all have the same DPI, so I can easily use scaling that matches on all of them.
If you have a billion dollars and want to do something creative, invest it in 100 startups. But if you want to spend a billion dollars through a big corporation, you should use that corporation's comparative advantage -- which is generally scale, not creativity.
Doing something interesting comes with risk. That billion dollars is likely cash from investors who want a return. They won't be happy if the interesting thing you want to do isn't going to return a profit, hence they stick with what they know best and is least risky.
Repair adventure: A single white LED causing stuck keys on a RN988 keyboard
It won't. People use Twitter because of its free speech rules and this is very unlikely to give the same degree of freedom to the "conservatives".
I own 360hz e-sports monitors, multiple 120hz 4k monitors, and still work on a 60hz XDR with absolutely 0 qualms?

I think you're missing a Group 4 that realizes no one's actually made a top quality 120hz display yet and isn't about to sacrifice clarity for refresh rate when it comes to productivity. (fwiw, the MBP XDR comes closest but it's not a display)

If you value overall picture quality, then the vast majority of 120hz+ screens are either blotchy messes or have unacceptably low pixel density (or both)
Crack in Rollercoaster Support
Effective Git as a solo developer (2021)
I believe my solar panels are guaranteed to be at 90 percent of their initial performance after 25 years, for comparison.
This seems like a largely lost cause.

I appreciate that Apple has their privacy practices highlighted in a easy to read card so that developers don’t get to hide it in legalease and a click away in a privacy policy.

The next step would be to actually prompt users about this, in the same way that you would get a prompt confirming that if you would like to download a large app when on mobile data. “It looks like you are trying to install the app Threads which reads the following information about you. Are you sure you would like to proceed?”

This would be a natural progressing of the “Ask not to track” dialog that they implemented awhile ago
Isn't everything forced to https now
From the very limited screenshots, it looks like the IG team have done a great job with the UX. If they stay true to this and keep it focused, I think this will be the winner.

Focused UX is something I feel has been really lost by many apps coming out today.
Have you tried to use the instagram web version though? It used to be better, getting incrementally worse on purpose every "redesign". It's borderline web hostile.
Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws
Metaverse is exactly my point -- they've incinerated vast amounts of investor money with nothing to show for it. They could've and should've just plowed that money into hundreds of startups.

LLAMA is also exactly my point -- LLMs are pretty well-proven at this point. If you spend $X on machine learning researchers, you can get an LLM with Y parameters that is useful for various tasks like sentiment analysis, machine translation, etc. Facebook should be spending money on that because they have lots of cash, data centers, and ML researchers so they can do this at scale that only a few others can (Google, Microsoft/OpenAI and maybe Amazon).
I think it must be a visual processing difference in people's brains. I find 30/60/120 equally playable in gaming, but other people here are calling 30fps intolerable.

Similarly I've used a 1080p monitor for years and I'm fine with it. I don't need tiny pixels for coding and messing around with pixel scaling on Linux seems more trouble than it's worth.
The 2nd link you posted has a large red disclaimer stating the documentation is outdated. Does this mean it shouldn't be used ...? If so, why did you link it here?
What apps are you referencing that Meta/Facebook launched and failed to clone Snap/Houseparty/IRL? Their snap competitor is Instagram, and it's still doing very well. Instagram is _also_ their TikTok competitor, and Reels has done a solid job in that space as well.
This doesn’t make any sense. Why would you want to use 3:2 pulldown unless your display is interlaced, which AFAIK will never be the case for any modern display?

And even if you did use it, it doesn’t do anything to help with the extra 1000/1001 factor, so what is the point?
It was mostly utilitarian, modifying the outputs of some code generation tools where maintaining a fork was going to be difficult. The most recent was munging some file upload details where the OpenAPI definition is incomplete (or only recently defined). Also adding some aspect oriented changes across the code (audit/log/debug).
And a good carpenter understands that tools can be better or worse, and that a good carpenter who uses bad tools will be worse off than a good carpenter who uses good tools. It's not wrong of anyone (regardless of skill level) to demand better tools; power is not a blanket excuse for poor design. You can have powerful tools with non-dangerous defaults.
It's certainly specific to your use cases. 60hz is totally fine for all use cases, which I think is why this is a contentious topic at all. But higher refresh rate and content that actually puts out enough frames to utilize it does definitely make it a smoother experience. It is night and day to me, but I play fast moving games at 144fps on a 144hz monitor, so if I am missing half over half the frames I do notice.

I guess that's another group, people correctly in high refresh rate mode but not consuming content that reaches that refresh rate.
Most AI runners just ignore licensing and (illegally?) run LLaMA finetunes. There are tons of good 33B/65B instruct models you can run on any decent PC.

But if you want to avoid the non commercial LLaMA license, you have 3 good options for a base model.

- OpenLlama 13B

- MPT 30B

- Falcon 40B

Of these, Falcon 40B is very difficult to run (slow in 4 bit, basically requires a professional GPU, no good cpu offloading yet).

OpenLLaMA 13B only supports a context size of 2048 as of today... But that could change soon.

So you probably want MPT instruct 30B, specifically this one:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/mpt-30B-instruct-GGML

As the page says, you can try it out on a decent PC of your own with the OpenCL build of KoboldCPP. Change it to "instruct" mode, use the template on the page, offload as many layers as you can to your PC's dGPU, and run it in instruct mode. It may already work for your summarization needs.

If not, you can finetune it with MPT's code and summarization data.

https://github.com/mosaicml/llm-foundry

Or train OpenLLaMA 13B with SuperHOT + summarization data using QLORA.
Pretty high if you went to a flagship or top tier public university (eg. UCLA, Cal, Big 10, UDub, etc).

This dataset from the economic mobility lab at UCR is great to find which schools have an elite student body - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

Also, I went to an Ivy-or-Ivy Adjacent program and my roommate also vomited on my bed after getting plastered during rush week (I accidently returned the favor a weeks after during my rush).
Everyone "already knows" these things, so no awards or even surprise awaits one.
32" is an extremely common size for 4k at 100% scaling so I can see the desire for 8k using 200% scaling at the resolution. 225-250% would probably be more "proper" densities for such a display but many like to go a bit under standard scale.
What is that? Skeptic/Agnostic?

I liked what the Muslim Philosophers said: "Religion is for the masses, philosophers can logically deduce what God wants."

I'm primarily a Skeptic/Agonistic, but Deism solves the cause and effect problem. I generally don't find skepticism useful for real-world uses, despite it being so easy to argue from.
Hollywood fatigue forebodes total collapse of the box office
Does that mean I could set a bot to login to my account and post as me, all from the comfort of an IRC client? Any more deets?
His explanation of how one can feel like they have knowledge on a subject after engaging in some edutainment but you realize how shallow your knowledge is once you try to discuss it with others is something I find for myself a lot.

It is one thing I hope AIs can really help with. It is a common belief that you don't understand something until you can explain it to someone else in simple terms. I've tried this method with AI chat bots with some success. They have two immense advantages over other humans: infinite patience and bias towards understanding over agreement.

For complex and abstract concepts, most people just don't want to sit and listen to a 40+ year old dude mansplain them. AIs - no problem. They'll listen forever and never get tired, bored, frustrated, etc.

The second advantage is even more important. Most people listen only to wait for their turn to speak. Or they will get caught up on a minor point because they don't agree. That proclivity to disagree can often turn into blindness, erasing any further information past wherever they got hung up. Even if they do ask you questions, often it is some attempt to highlight their disagreements, in a pseudo-socratic method kind of lawyering. AIs have no ego, they don't have stake in the game. They aren't trying to convince you to agree with them. They can just listen and understand, rephrasing and repeating back.
I could not disagree more. I really don't think people are going to trust Meta that much more over Twitter. I'm a pretty avid Twitter lurker and I don't even plan on trying out the app.

I'm also a very happy Lemmy and Mastodon user, but going from Twitter to Threads is just trading Elon for Zuckerberg - a useless lateral move.
That idiom is so dumb.

There are 1000s of jobs that are incredibly easy with the tool for exactly that job but painful without, the auto industry alone has tonnes.

Software with footguns can be improved by removing the footguns.
In this case, I think there was more than a little traction for a specific kind of social site, which turned into a crater, so it's not surprising somebody would build exactly what existed before.
This instance has a good write-up of their position:

https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on...
And better than the actual WarGames sequel.
Yeah you are correct. There are a few different twitters besides the journalists. And others may be more poachable and also maybe even more valuable.
Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Technology?
I'm interested primarily in serious work -- books and papers -- probably by technology history professors and the like, but pop books are fine, too.

Thanks.
That’s a rendering artifact.

You can show multiple mouse images at 60 fps which shouldn’t trick people if they can actually see 90 vs 60 vs 120 fps.
Bud, if you arent an alcoholic, you are at high risk for becoming one.
Can anyone suggest any more detailed treatments? Perhaps investor material for a company seeking to do this?

In the past, I was enamored with the idea of buying a dead mall, transforming much of it into apartments, and adding some amenities in the common spaces - including a restaurant, pool etc. sort of like a Vegas hotel but in a more community oriented style.

During covid, I became somewhat wealthy due to some investments and tried to actually make the moves and discovered the hell of zoning laws, poor construction quality etc. and discovered construction workers charge 10x the price in the US as in Europe, even though they use cheaper materials (e.g. 2x2 frames with drywall instead of bricks and plywood.) Then a bubble popped and I ended up as I was before.
What a shame. The biggest benefit of being an early adopter is reserving a username you've used for years or decades on other platforms.
"Soon" -- wonder how long that'll take.

While I'm really looking forward to is being able to follow Threads users with any Mastodon client.
> by one of the most toxic and damaging tech companies

I mean, this bits not great.

Facebook didn’t write a fediverse compatible app because of warm fuzzy good feelings and wanting to contribute back to the community, they wrote one so they could capitalise and absorb the existing user base.
They’ll do exactly the same thing they did with fb messenger at the beginning: massive interoperability with existing protocols and communities, followed by later deliberately breaking compat.
who in the world wants to use a 2:3 pulldown pattern on a progressive monitor? the majority of my career has been in properly removing 2:3 pulldown, the other portion was back in the bad-ol-days of putting it in.
From the surprisingly good Aviation Instructor's Handbook [0]:

Learning Is an Active Process
Learners do not soak up knowledge like a sponge absorbs water. The instructor cannot assume that learners remember something just
because they were in the classroom, shop, or aircraft when the instructor presented the material. Neither can the instructor assume the
learners can apply what they know because they can quote the correct answer verbatim. For effective knowledge transfer, learners
need to react and respond, perhaps outwardly, perhaps only inwardly, emotionally, or intellectually.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
It’s funny because below most trending tweets there’s like 85 only fans “models” writing clickbait comments
I don't agree. I do a bit of QC in my PhD, but my advisor works specifically on error mitigation, and from what I see, we'll soon (maybe a couple of years) be there: we'll have state-of-the-art simulations on quantum computer. There will be classical simulations that will improve on a specific claim, but eventually they'll die out.

But even if it is not true, think how good can be QC without being good enough for quantum error correction. You're saying orders of magnitude improvements are needed to be able to do EC, but I'm sure useful and interesting things can be done with log(QV) of 100, only 5 times more than current record.