skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key misconception about many quantization methods is that lower precision = better speed.

I believe GPT-Q is not much faster than bf16 from skimming the AWQ paper - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00978.pdf

It's 3x faster for a batch size of 1, but that's still over 10x more expensive than gpt-3.5

For larger batch sizes, bf16 costs dip below 3-bit quantized.
> “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.”

This is undisputably true. H&R Block n Intuit are taxpayers, n free-file will cost them billions of dollars.

Being real, online taxes through the SII work great in Chile.
How can something be premium when it has 60% market share? The iPhone is almost the norm in the US with Android being the knock off.

It’s like bringing Sams Club soda to a picnic when people are use to Coke and Pepsi
Geddit v1.3 Released: An Open-source, Android Reddit client without using API
Like a continuously updating wall-mounted newspaper[1]?

[1] https://imgur.io/a/NoTr8XX (no, I don’t know why anyone would use Imgur to write up a hack either)
This is not an open source license:

https://opensource.org/osd/

6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
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Nix also has a single definition of the curl package. The curl package itself can take tons of flags as inputs, indicating how it should be built, and you can then have curlMinimal, curlWithGnuTLS, and curlHTTP3 all as different 'names' for curl with those arguments applied. A package just says it has a 'curl' input and any user can "call" that package, providing any flavor of 'curl' they want as input. You can override those inputs at a global level and local level in various ways.

I suspect you mean some other semantic difference, but if that's all you mean, it's not different from Nix in practice, from what it sounds like?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/netw...
> the majority of developers I ever encounter at work are usually slow because they're bad engineers

hm, something about this that I just can't put my thumb on
I'd be happy to share more of my thoughts; if that'd be helpful, I'd be happy to discuss my rates. Outside of that, though, I'll suggest that intuition is less helpful than experience in understanding what problems are more or less likely to have good quantum solutions.
> In the end will any real information be trusted?

The unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio will certainly make this difficult.

But in the end, it’s important to remember that “real information” has always involved people distilling our banal reality into something more compelling and digestible while choosing what to say as well as what not to say.
No .. will they send an explicit reject for early decision? Wish we got stats on how many groups applied, and acceptance rate. I read the last batch had a 1% accept, which surprised me. Given the high interest in AI, I expect at least 6 groups working on all the ideas .. has a lot to do with execution, funding and luck.

I don't see too many votes on this .. would be fun to connect with folks that applied (regardless of outcome). I suspect a lot of scientists will be in this thing (I am a scientist and have colleagues quit their jobs of late to avail the opportunity).
I recommend Rhodes’ “Making of” and Dark Sun with American Prometheus and the Los Alamos Primer for people seeking a thorough initial introduction to the Manhattan Project and little bit of postscript.

Indulging myself a bit here. Essentially all elements of modern society have at least a tangential relationship with Los Alamos.

The symmetry between a nuclear detonation and what happened intellectually and culturally before and after the Manhattan Project is striking. An immense compression followed by a massive release of energy. In the bomb’s case that was an explosives and physics package that led to a good yield. In the Manhattan Project more broadly it was a remarkable concentration of human capability that impacted almost every element of hard science and culture.

Something worth learning about.
You're right in this scenario, and people need to understand the First Amendment doesn't protect "criminal" speech.

OTOH, plenty of sites have been canceled simply due to their fucked-up viewpoints that are protected speech.
> That would miss a lot of factors that are important if you're trying to predict epidemics at the society-wide level, but OK, so be it. You need a firm footing of the basics before you can progress to more complex scenarios.

That's how EE/CS stuff usually works (at least outside ML), building complex systems hierarchically out of well-understood primitives. The life sciences are different. There's almost nothing there we understand well enough to build like that, so almost all results of practical importance (a novel antibiotic, a vaccine, a cultivar of wheat, etc.) are produced by experiment and iteration on the complete system of interest, guided to some extent by our limited theoretical understanding.

This discrepancy has been noted many times; it's just a completely different way of working and thinking. If you haven't, then you might read "Can a biologist fix a radio?".

> Microbiologists seem to manage it?

A grad student in microbiology can grow millions of test organisms in a few days, at the cost of a few dollars, and get all the usual benefits of the central limit theorem. A grad student in epidemiology absolutely can't, since their test organisms are necessarily people. So you're quite correct that it's basically a social science, since it depends on aggregate human behavior in the same way e.g. that economics does, and is therefore just as dismal. Unfortunately it's also the best and only science capable of answering questions of significant practical importance, like whether the hospitals are about to be overrun. I'd tend to agree that stuff like Imperial College's CovidSim has so many parameters and so little ground truth as to have almost no predictive value. R0 seems fine to me though, and usefully well-defined, in the same way that the CAGR of a country's GDP seems fine.

In the life sciences, it's often possible to design an experiment under artificial conditions that will get a repeatable answer, like the growth rate of a plant in a certain controlled environment. It's much more difficult to use the result of such a repeatable experiment for any practical purpose; consider, for example, the steep falloff in drug candidates as they move from in vitro screens (cheap and repeatable, but only weakly predictive) to human trials (predictive by definition, but expensive and noisy). I'm absolutely not a life scientist myself, in part because I think I'd find that maddening; but essentially all results of practical benefit there came from researchers working in that way.
"You'll get to work on a codebase for whom the entire development mindset has been 3x-speed-at-all-costs."

Yeah..... pass.
The headline is a simile.
On the topic of load bearing studs. Is there some way to test for that? How to tell non-destructively how much compression one is under?
> makes it much harder to query things

This seems overstated. It’s different but not really harder.

document.querySelector('my-lit-element').elementIWant;

class MyLitElement extends Lit {
get elementIWant() {
return this.renderRoot.querySelector(...);
}
}

Though, maybe one doesn’t like querying twice. I’m not sure of performance implications there, to be honest, but I’d expect it to be negligible in most cases.
> Not OP but Teslas I've seen around the Bay Area while

How do you say you’re in a bubble without saying you’re in a bubble…
In some ways a disaster recovery plan can follow a better path than the original bootstrap.
Imagine industrial society. On page two of the disaster recovery plan you have a description of germ theory. Something that has saved hundreds of millions of lives and would have saved hundreds of millions more had it been discovered / formalized thousands of years previously.
People knew about sanitation in prehistory but the theory wasn’t formalized so doctors didn’t always wash their hands.

Likewise knowledge around nitrogen fixation and fertilizers.

There are probably a half a dozen huge improvements that could be made for bootstrap_society_v2.sh

Perhaps we should all write down our version and tuck it away somewhere safe just in case. Maybe on something more durable than paper. And certainly more durable than electronic storage.
> Literally every single one of your claims about what trans people believe are false; I count at least 7 distinct ones. (I can enumerate them if you'd like.) It's honestly impressive how little your world view overlaps with reality.

Which trans people did I mention? I called out Susie Green and "Dr's" Kinsey and Money. If I didn't talk about trans people, just "doctors" and advocates, how could I be claiming anything about trans people's beliefs?

But sure, please do list out those mistaken beliefs you think I touched on.

> Given that genital surgery for children is not something that transgender activists are advocating for

If it isn't happening, why not just agree with me? If it doesn't need to happen, why not support laws banning it?

> I must ask you why you seem so fixated on the topic?

That's straight out of the narcissists prayer. "That doesn't happen, but if it does it's no big deal, and why do you care so much anyways?"

I'm a parent and this is infesting our schools. I care because I have had kids, I have been a kid, I have empathy for other people and their kids, I want useful schools, and I don't want my tax money spent hurting people.
Related is not Dupe.

Just don't post stories that already have threads. That's it.
A BMC with vulnerabilities, what a surprise!

But more seriously:

> 2) Put in place automation processes for pushing patches/upgrades through the server operating system itself.

> Organizations that rely on AMI-powered BMCs to manage their servers should install the updates as soon as possible.

Sure, this is much better than doing nothing, but if you're serious about security you should really take the other advice, which is to put them in another network, hopefully one that is not connected to the Internet (but still, update the firmware).

If your BMC contains anything remotely close to the complexity of a Linux kernel and you're not updating it weekly as bugs are fixed, expect to be vulnerable (like any other system).
I wear them for tinnitus. But with having ADHD hearing all the background noise so sharp is actually not helping.
You don't need to use Shadow DOM though?
Fair enough, I guess it is open to interpretation. The language on the page has changed now, the quote I posted is no longer there.
Ignoring the fact that FedNow doesn't change much in this regard...

I'm torn on this. Visa, MasterCard, Venmo (aka PayPal), etc. all know about large subsets of my transactions, and they go and sell my personal data to other companies in sleazy ways to cover their costs.

Is that better or worse than the government knowing all this stuff? Sure, the government can also legally use force against me and deprive me of my freedom and possessions, and might pervert my transaction history into justifying doing bad things to me. But that's a risk, not a certainty. Private companies selling my data and using it in nefarious ways is a certainty.
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The computer in this metaphor is what, a marital aid?
LLM Performance Drifts – and What to Do About Them
I was in Granada last month and was wondering why we don't use the same solutions that keep the Alhambra and other Moorish buildings cool in California. It was a pleasant surprise to see this article.
One of the claims is that the book corpora weren't even sourced legally. It is harder to make a fair use claim if the copy the model was trained on was pirated to begin with. Contemporary in-copyright ebooks are a bit different in this regard than images found on the public web.
Yeah I have, personally I like it but the issue I have found was that I am not the only one who works on projects.

> You have to be carful to structure everything well.

This essentially sums it up. I can be careful, but it's impractical to review code to ensure it's also structured correctly when working on a team with lots of contributors with varying experience levels.

In my experience, It's also more difficult to teach MVU than it is to teach templating with automatic reactivity.
This goes for most "clones" that I see. What's baffling how many people set out to recreate something and then completely drop the ball on this part.

Worried that you'll lack a way to differentiate yourself from all the other clones? Well, don't be, because it's the same situation as with Android—every handset vendor seemed to think they couldn't possibly just take this free gift and ship it stock as-it-comes, since their competitors would come around eat their lunch! In reality, nobody else was doing that, so being unadulterated was a differentiator. This didn't seem to stop anyone, though, who all went on and poured enormous resources into the pursuit of an elusive value-add that in reality was more like value-addn't.

So, I agree: JUST CLONE THE THING.

(Still not convinced? Fine, try this instead: start working on a stealth clone right now, and then in 6 to 18 months when you've reached your goal and the real thing changes which makes everyone hate it, well then hey, look at you! You've got exactly what everyone wants. Alternatively, if you chance upon something that gets shuttered, go ahead and help yourself to the abandoned trademark, too. Trademark law is not like copyright law, after all; it doesn't last forever—only so long as there's someone willing to enforce it.)
dear future developer, nothing matters and code will still be hard to read even if I try my very hardest to make it as good as i can. the world is dying and we are doing our best to kill it. you having a hard time understanding my code is not really anything that can be fixed. it pales in comparison with the actual problems the world faces. tough it out or rewrite it. sorry
Combining augmented reality and generative AI is going to have some profound effects on the human psyche.
Let’s look at Apple before Steve Jobs and Parc research. There was a lot of useless research being done without focus on a shipping product.
I splurged.

http://lilith.zia.io/
Crazy or not, it looks great!
Any speech could be attributed to the N-number of suicides we unfortunately see happening. This is not a good argument for censorship or punitive actions against individuals or entities whose speech was followed by a suicide with dubious / unproven connections to that speech.

If any speech is to be considered targeted harassment, then let the courts decide that in a defamation (or otherwise) case to determine damages and reconciliation of those damages.

Private entities should not be allowed to limit their business services to customers they suspect are behaving in a way they disapprove of, especially since these customers are not asking for tailored services such as cakes and custom websites. Payment providers are the backbone of a functioning economy, and problematic speech should never be the reason why they deny service.
I think the issue you may have with metaphors is that people tend to argue the metaphor rather than engage with the concept.

Arguing the metaphor is pointless, because the metaphor isn’t the thing, it’s just a way to explain an aspect of the thing.
> or at least what some Christians take from it
> Doesn't matter what I do, Jesus will take care of me

Well yes let's be clear that only a very selective reading of the New Testament allows you to conclude Jesus doesn't think it matters what you do. It's the same kind of logic that leads one to preach the "prosperity gospel". It's very clear that loving Jesus goes hand in hand with loving others and living his commandments as best you can.
Eh. I think that critique misses more than it hits.

> The dictionary section is missing explanation of dict comprehensions. Dict comprehensions are an important and useful feature for constructing dictionaries in a concise way.

Those are in the inline section, with the other comprehensions:
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/#inline

> In the sections on concurrency and parallelism, async/await could be explained and demonstrated. Asyncio is commonly used for asynchronous programming in Python.

Those are in the coroutines section:
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/#coroutines

> The cheatsheet focuses mainly on built-in modules and functionality. It could be useful to also cover some widely used 3rd party libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, etc.

NumPy:
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/#numpy

Matplotlib:
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/#plot

(It doesn't cover SciPy, Tensorflow. That said, I've been writing python for 23+ years, and can count on two fingers how many times I've needed either of those.)

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Some parts of the critique are correct, if not especially useful IMO. I'd say most of the parts of the critique that are correct seem to misunderstand the purpose of the cheatsheet. The best points the model generated, IMO, were the ones related to pandas and virtual environments.
That's correct. Sometimes you have post multiple times to get front page visibility. This is in line with the guidelines.
In our solution, providing the up-front signature does not construe immediate consent to terms of whatever hypothetical documents. We have a subsequent review phase where the customer is expected to confirm each document meets their expectations (i.e. with their actual signature on it). Only after confirming all of the documents is the transaction considered to be completed and the signed copies taken as official.

The more complicated answer is that we are serving e-signatures for business accounts wherein there might be 10+ authorized signers involved. In these cases, we want to permit parallel sign completion. To allow this, each signer gets to view an isolated scope of documents with just their signature affixed. This also helps to conceal the signature specimens of other parties until the entire transaction is considered finalized. If a required party to an account does not want to participate, then no one gets to see anyone else's ink.

At the very end, all participants of the signing ceremony receive emailed copy of documents that combine signatures from all participants.
I maintain mainframe systems and very often I would like to restructure code to improve it, but the requirement is to make the most minimal change that achieves the fix or change required. Mostly because the code is 30 years of patches and minimal changes which is not well documented and is extremely fragile and not well understood.
Looking forward to that for completeness sake!

Btw, regarding a bit older pre-Flakes commits, at least some packages will error out while nix-installing on M1 (or newer) macbooks because at that point nix packages didn't anticipate macbooks ever ditching x86 for aarch... Hope this info helps you out, at least took me some time to realize that the random obscure error was caused by this. Can be almost always fixed by appending "--system darwin-x86_64" to the nix command to use Apple's Rosetta binary translation, cheers.
if people link to Tom's hardware for new laptops (i dont, but maybe it's popular), is that bad? and a sign of googles demise? what would you like to see instead of those results that made you so unhappy? what else should have been unearthed? switching topics from your own initial example is not helpful.
Actually it's more like to "Try to play the wise guy in Hacker News in any category you can possibly imagine and someone will definitely know more than you and write an essay proving their point while making you feel really worthless for just breathing" sub-Reddit lol!
Getting these models to reliably return a consistent structure without frequent human intervention and/or having to account for the personal moral opinions of big tech CEOs is not trivial, no.
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> Feels like the end of an era, communities seeking to protect themselves from external threats, and search engines providing as little value as search pre-Google.

IMO this is inevitable. It's why countries have borders: resources are limited, and access to those resources needs to be moderated. That's true whether you're a country or a server admin.

We already apply this principle to bandwidth in the form of DDOS mitigation. Some forums/social media spaces apply it to moderation capacity in the form of requiring invites.

We're slowly learning that the same thing applies to information. Which sounds ridiculous in an age where you can drown in information overload, but personal information is obviously a precious resource (judging from what advertisers are willing to pay to leverage it) and even content we write like comments on articles take some time and thought to produce even if we've grown accustomed to sharing it freely and voluntarily. Now we're growing more cautious about sharing even that when we see others exploiting it for purposes other than its intended use case.

This is also why I'm arguing that social media content should in general have a legal license attached to it, so that use in violation of the license can be prosecuted. CC is probably a good general starting point. I think most people have the assumption that their social media content/comments can be shared only non-commercially (opinions may differ on attribution), with an exception for the site that hosts the content (which may in fact actually give itself broader permissions in the EULA).
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Sadly, I have to agree with everything that you've written there.

For simple use cases templating is much better as well. It's only in complex state management that I find MVU is worth it.
Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them.

I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.
Step 1: Buy put options on gold

Step 2: Announce a credible space mission to mine a gold asteroid

Step 3: After the price of gold tanks, sell the put options

Step 4: Cancel the space mission

Step 5: Profit!

How long until this business plan works and millions of people’s life savings are wiped out?
Nothing prevents the person running the software from submitting a "bad document" stating anything they want, with plausible IPs and timestamps etc. That is the problem.

A third party like DocuSign is somewhat comparable to using an escrow company to buy a house. You trust the escrow company to not steal the money, but you don't have to trust the seller. You trust DocuSign to not forge document metadata.
Don't worry, you don't even need to use any energy for that, the heatwaves will sort it for you.