skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linear thinking is how we take action. Leaning back observation is how we analyze.

It’s cool to analyze but it can paralyze us into observation and this situation benefits from the former because the consequences of being wrong is so profoundly dire.

Generally agree with you, but why not be conservative when it comes to issues like global warming and species extinction and avoid catastrophe if it turns out to be as bad as it could be?

That takes linear thinking and action now. We should also analyze, but it’s logical to take action too.
I'm not in this field as others. so I'd really appreciate a comment from some experienced HN folks.

I wonder what's the end goal.

The ML/AI world seems to be changing fast. So one model approach might become "old tech" if something better comes.

Is our current state of the models is stable so the LLM glory would be the same in 1-2 years? Or suddenly there'll be new approach making this "tech" obsolete?
This topic was discussed on freakanomics for those wanting an easy form.
And when there are real co-ops owned by customers around the world. Which require investments to get membership. And often you get that investment back if you leave.
Presumably it's based on

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatus

although the combination makes a Latin-Greek hybrid, traditionally potentially controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word
Historically, at least, it had a lot of examples that technically did what they were supposed to do, but in ways that you really, really, really shouldn't be doing them.
you mean 14.4k - 1400 baud was outdated far before that
Is latency better with 25Gbit fiber than with slower speeds?
Depends on the size of the particle, no? Some sizes can have the opposite effect afaik.
I prefer Meta key next to A, so I can quick access a second layer
Sole reason of not being able to use keyboard and mouse (and actually run software on it) is worth my PC'a money, and it's not much more expensive than console.
So you can generate true random numbers using just the GPU parallelism? Consider me impressed!
Having your Hotmail password be liamtoh1! is great... Until you need to update your password. Now you need to remember your base algorithm plus a counter.

Oh, and some places don't allow "special" characters - so you have to remember multiple algorithms and counters.

It gets tiresome and unwieldy quickly.
> red hat circumvents that by using a support contract that terminates when users share their copy.

Ah, thanks for that piece of info!
I've definitely noticed that SF lacks the NorCal accent which I grew up with in Walnut Creek, and this map shows that.
Historically speaking there is a good chance the transformers approach will be replaced by a new approach or a substantially altered transformers approach in the next five years. Efficiency will increase both on the software and the hardware front simultaneously, there is a lot to be optimized with the same parameter count.

What looks state of the art will probably look to people in 20 years how the 1885 Mercedes Benz car looks like to us in terms of efficiency, right now it's a bit of a bruteforce approach in general
Navigating SEO can be a maze of expensive tools and complex workflows. ScaleSleek changes that. It's a straightforward, all-in-one platform that makes SEO manageable and affordable. Just enter your URL and let ScaleSleek do the work. It's about more traffic, more sales, and less hassle.
One thing that I don't quite get about your family plans: why is the smaller plan ($14 for 1.5k queries) cheaper per query than the larger one ($20 for 2k queries)? Not that it's a big difference, but it feels off somehow.
Where is the technical description of this?
Not surprised that downscaling still works. Brands work very hard to make their messages visually distinctive, such that you’d recognize the brand even if you squint…
My brother color laser does 3000 pages for 100€.
I suspect that RH is not complying with the GPLv2. I can use yum to install a package from RH’s repo and it does not result in me having the source, so 3a is out. They don’t offer to distribute source code at cost to any third party, so no 3b. And 3c is non commercial distribution, so that’s out. There is no 3d.
I'd say it is expensive in countries where dollar conversion rates are very high due to inflation. I did ask about introducing different prices based on purchasing power parity in different geographies but got a very polite rebuff :)
> this is why people buy consoles.

Gaming consoles also seem to have fewer cheaters.

A console also compartmentalizes video gaming away from your compute/Internet stuff. (Both technically/security/privacy-wise, and in terms of distraction.)

(Source: Uses only a PS4 Pro for gaming, even though I have a PC with an RTX 3090 and gobs of RAM, sitting usually idle.)
I always awaken Alexa before I fart, in the hope that she will someday recognize me.
If the hardware is deterministic, so are the results. You can't generate random numbers purely in software with deterministic hardware.
There were lots of doomsayers in history that weren’t wrong I’d the point, yes those of us talking have ancestors that got through terrible times (some of them predicted some not), that wiped out large swaths of people and survived but there are lots of other terrible outcomes that are terrible and unwelcome.

My grandfather lived through ww2 m, which was a HEAVILY predicted event filled with doomsaying right after WW1, and it was a point of debate.

It wasn’t a pleasant experience, lots of people didn’t make it and entire communities were destroyed, for them it was the end.
Irrespective of your view on the Nature article and the current online activity, it is useful to remember that much like Epistemic standards, HN also has standards.

At the bottom of this page you will find a Guidelines page with an "In comments" section:

" Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

You were both not entertaining and added nothing to the discussion.

As much as I agree with you, people are excited for the potential of an extraordinary result, and in my view this article's tone is completely out of place for a publication with the historic weight and impact of Nature.
There is also this video from Hank Green discussing this topic a little more:

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg
there are already dozens of use cases that would become (more) profitable/interesting if we had chips optimized for LLMs

they were asic for BTC at a way earlier stage

+they can always pivot in a year if the market changes too much
Yes, and historically those code demos were often wrong in many important ways (like not working in all browsers, or insecure). They are much better now but reputation is hard to recover.
Consumer GPUs are not as large a market as you give credit for. Most GPUs are going to datacenters and consoles and devices like tablets and phones. The fact that Intel is willing to spend trillions to get a foot in the door is astonishing, and AMD is willing to let nVidia focus on ML and shoot themselves in the foot with the gamer market to hold on consoles and maybe get a leg up on desktops.
Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet
Why can't nvidia legally produce x86 chips?
If half the population were chemically poisoned throughout their lives in a way that negatively affected their physical health, we'd call that a toxic environment. Why is it a disorder, and not a symptom of a toxic environment, when it comes to mental rather than physical health?
Perhaps some sort of memristor crossbar array that could process large array calculations efficiently? Something like that could be pretty universal, until the tech moves to spiking neural networks. And even then the knowledge you gain from advancing on that path would likely transfer over.
Not dead yet, my consulting business is almost entirely built around provisioning terminal servers as small private cloud managed systems for companies with niche business requirements. Not sure how much longer the model is going to work because eventually I suspect Microsoft will simply kill off on-prem terminal services all together or make it completely uncompetitive with their own azure / Office 365 combination.

But the surfeit of stupendously powerful white box server platforms and the remarkably efficient way that a terminal server conserves memory usage across sessions compared to containers or vdi or anything else, absolutely outperforms almost every other solution in the SMB space, in terms of how each support engineer can scale to 100 or more end users across a half dozen completely unrelated organizations. I'm surprised how underrepresented this business model is these days.
I played the webassembly version in the browser
It's still deterministic even if the results appear not to be. If you have memory, CPU cache, CPU registers in the same state, you will get the very same results. You need a source of entropy for the results to be non deterministic.
As a designer (UX focused, but technical as well), I have put a lot of effort to study prototyping in sw context.

I think prototype itself is fairly well understood as a noun, but how to approach the activity is not that well understood. I think it starts with what to prototype (scope/intent) and what to do with the outcome. This is where different viewpoints start to have their impact.

It is very common mindset not discard anything that has been done. Some cognitive biases are likely in effect here.

It is also common to attach additional intentions retroactively. E.g. it is totally ok to build UI prototype and to deviate drastically from the current state of things. Depends on the intention. Now, it is not hard to imagine a follow-up discussion that takes unfortunate turn at some point because the expectations for the activity does not match. The focus shifts from the main idea to defining what was not the idea. The value of the activity diminishes steadily. At worst, inexperienced prototypers might end up with a loundry list of changes to be done to meet the current state, confused about what just happened.

I think the main point of the article is valuable: be ready to stop and throwaway your prototype. Use it smartly. Find things you want to validate or just see, then be immediately ready to throw it away. Do not project additional things on to it. Use that energy towards the ”real thing”.

In the world of Figma/other prototypes there seems to float this idea that prototype has some fixed and standardized meaning. As an activity it has been bolted into different methodologies and tools, which is fine of course, but they are also taught, discussed and treates together with specs, requirements and other artifacts that serves different purpose. They communicate different things.

That’s it. In the end it is about communication. I think the great power of prototyping makes it also hard to use to it effectively. Personally, I think the best part of building a prototype is to throw it away. It is a milestone, the end. Almost always a success.
Yikes, that thread reflects so badly on Kagi to me. Over a year of people explaining why Monero is needed if you actually cared about user privacy, with no results. Weird claims that it is difficult to implement. Can only conclude that the company doesn't actually care about user privacy
Would investors really be interested in an acquihire play? Aren't they looking for a big multiplier on their investment?
In 2023, 8GB of RAM is simply insufficient for anything above entry-level.

Already Ratchet & Clank in FHD has a >50% performance advantage when you compare the 16GiB 4060TI version against the 8GB version, when comparing avg. fps P1 it rises to +70%.

This is the biggest outlier, but many other games suffer badly with just 8GB [0]. It will only get worse going forward, so don’t buy a 8GB card if don’t have to, it will age badly.

[0] https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-RTX-4060-Ti-16GB-Graf...
So, in context, the recipient is the purchaser of a RH support contract, and they would argue that it should be ONLY the recipients who receive the source?

The primary problem I see here is, a purchaser is receiving source in return for the ability to distribute it, if they want to keep support. Quite a one-sided agreement that seems to dilute the spirit of libre software. You have the freedom still, sure, but choosing to use it ends the contract.
I mean most European countries have some form of districs as well, it is just not a winner takes all approach.

Nobody cares how districts are shaped when there is no advantage in having them shaped a certain way.

I think the US system is undemocratic as it fails on some very fundamental levels to assure representation that honors the voter's will.
Assuming "there and back" is 40 miles per day, then five days a week for 52 weeks a year (maybe the train gets used on holidays) comes to 10,400 miles per year travel.

The fuel cost for that in the UK seems to be ~ £400 more than the season ticket which indicates it's a saving for some.

Sure, it could be cheaper.
Is that a different thing from "early adopter professional"? Because that one still shows "$10/mo - 1,500 searches included" for me on the billing page.
Apart from the software stack, Nvidia has invested a lot in the networking infrastructure for high bandwidth between gpu in a cluster. I think their acquisition of Mellanox might have helped here.

So competing on server grade gpu might be more difficult for intel.
Well, hopefully we have some time to practice first. Because we're the only person in the room and the patient is bleeding out.
I couldn't even sign up since Threads told me to use a work email address. I was already thinking it's hardly worth my time but that solidified that sebtiment.
I still take it to be a little different. They aren't unpredictable in the sense of fantasy cows. They are unpredictable in that you have no prior to cause you to expect them. Stated differently, fantasy cows are a thing that is impossible in our current understandings. Black swans are things that just don't happen. We don't necessarily have a reason to think they can't happen.

As such, you can use counter factual planning to prepare for some of these events. Interest rate risks would fit here.

This is complicated by his insistence that covid was not a black swan. As that seems to still fit the definition. That a pandemic could happen doesn't make it less impactful when it does. Would be like the expected earthquake on a fault line. Not knowing when it will come is a salient fact.
Because you need a license to do so and Intel and AMD are loathe to give a license to would-be competitors.

I believe that the person you're replying to is referring to an attempt to produce x86 compatible processors that Nvidia undertook when they bought the license that Via owned.

IIRC that didn't go so well for Nvidia because the license didn't include new parts of the instruction set like the 64 bit instructions that AMD made in the mid 2000s and AMD wouldn't license them.
I would also venture to say cost. Printers use pretty specific parts and making enough generic versions with all tooling would likely mean unit price is closes to the more expensive side. And then you might as well get one from that price range.

They are complex machines with complex parts. And to have those priced sensibly needs volume. Like how many injection moulds would you need? And then you would have one factory equipped.
They claim that the prices are largely defined by the actual cost of the search, with fairly slim margins. In which case they literally can't do what you asked without becoming unprofitable.
The map is atrocious.. Too much detail at that scale!! And I think I might've heard of the existence of an Appalachian category in Places like WV and parts of Tennessee. I'm a foreigner and even when I could barely tell the difference between dialects, I could very clearly see the huge difference between how people in WV and Eastern PA accents vs NJ and NY on the coast. Also, it seems odd that the "Canadian" dialect-s are so neatly aligned with the border!! I feel like people in much of Alberta speak some generic North American English and not a lot of "aboat".
North of Ottawa in Quebec, Hull specifically, almost nobody speaks English!!! I lived there and everything was in French. Some people couldn't and did care to speak English even as a second language. The English that people speak in Quebec and particularly Montreal seems to also differ from the generic Canadian accent you know!
Well, a colleague of mine managed to build a non deterministic GET REST API endpoint. :D
Because you need a license and very few companies have one.
New ideas using Wayland Input Methods
Thanks, that's some good suggestions!
We don't have the time to sit back and let epistemic knowledge wash over us. We know more or less what needs to happen (less sunlight in, more heat out). All attempts to resolve the situation require taking some risk, and it'll be impossible to quantify all those risks until we try them.

At the risk of stating the obvious: we need to measure every weird idea we try, and do our best to isolate the variables. Easier said than done. But we broke it, it's our problem now.

Talking about humility: an excess of humility leads to fatalism. Some is good, but not too much if you want anything to happen. We're talking about fixing the ecosystem of a planet, of course it's ambitious.
Another way: compare midsize luxury cars with midsize regular cars. People who buy midsize luxury cars die less often, and so do the people they're in crashes with.
No problem with this, apart from convincing like 5-6 billion people to cut their standards of living to half. Also less people is needed, few children. Sounds like impossible now without concentrated media effort and all ruling parties probably would lose for decades.
Yeah, Stream is okay if you don't require bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL and just want a familiar, relatively stable, rpm-based distro. I would say its role corresponds loosely to Debian testing, whereas Fedora is more like sid.

In reality, though, I've been advising clients to treat Stream as nothing more than a stopgap solution until they can migrate to something Debian-based. We've been burned once by the untimely EOL of CentOS 8, and the continuing drama just doesn't instill confidence in the future of any free-as-in-beer distro related to Red Hat.
Apple Finishes Dumping Intel Touts Results
> posted on arxiv.org website which is ... copyright-free

Content on arvix is copyrighted by the authors, who then choose one of the available licenses to allow redistribution under (mostly CC ones).

https://info.arxiv.org/help/license/index.html
Minor nit but commutative is the wrong term. Floats always obey a+b == b+a, but not associativity: (a+b)+c != a+(b+c).
It's most likely not so consumer-friendly.

This kind of bullshit has gone on for years, notably in the mattress industry. Mattress companies are famous for simply slapping different model numbers on the same mattresses sold to each retailer, to undermine price guarantees.

No doubt HP, Sony, and who knows who else pulls the same shit with merchandise sold to Costco.
> In fact I had a professor who taught programming that told me I would NEVER be able to earn a living as a “professional programmer”. If you wrote code in those days you were a physicist, or a chemist , or an electrical engineer, or a university professor and you needed the code to do your work or for research.

[ ... ]

> I remember negotiating a contract for an efficient COBOL compiler in 1975 where the license fee was 100,000 USD for one copy of the compiler*

LOL, probably five times that blinkered professor's salary.
> A PS5 or Xbox Series X is $499 and is a fully functioning device.

They can play games and nothing else. So completely worthless comparison.
I’ve unfortunately come to the conclusion that we are buggered.

Watching politics in the U.K. and the rest of the world I’m seeing politicians realise that they can tap into the populist idea that anything green is “the elites trying to control and tax you”.

All they care about us short term election prospects.
It wasn't bricked. Communication was temporarily lost.
This is just moving goalposts based on your weird biases. Even on an almost 1:1 comparison, you're handwaving away because "Americans just like shitty food".

OP claimed that the market would balance things out when given subpar foods. When Hershey first made these subpar chocolates the market didn't correct it, despite OP's claims. Just like how the market didn't correct meat glue use in Europe, until it was regulated out.
well if I could get sufficient bitrate to display my cute hummingbird video I would be very happy
If all human carbon emissions magically ceased today anthropomorphic global warming and its concomitant environmental changes will still continue to unfold for the next few centuries or millennia, at a minimum, before settling into a new (albeit shifted) "natural" evolution. It will take millions of years for the human carbon emissions to be cycled back into the lithosphere.

In this sense, continued emissions only accelerate and compound the current process unfolding. Global warming as it exists today cannot be stopped passively.

That was the previous poster's point. We can infer that their unstated objective is the end of global warming in the near future (i.e. in the next few centuries), the achievement of which necessarily requires active intervention.

I might infer that your unstated objective is not the end of global warming, but the end of ongoing human interference per se. That's an entirely different objective, albeit no less legitimate.

If I'm correct (and I'm confident in my assessment wrt to the previous poster), then you two are talking past each other.
We can do it over oceans where the impact should be limited.
The vomit taste comes from butyric acid, I believe - which seems to be a breakdown product of milk:

The process is a company and trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed. This produces butyric acid, a compound found in substances such as Parmesan cheese which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This flavor gives the product a "tangy" taste that the US public has come to associate with the taste of chocolate …
"the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can't price match them to/from other retailers"

Absolutely, although it's not clear who the perpetrator is. I suspect it's the manufacturer, not Costco.
The bill is itemized, the voice line is $10 and the taxes on the voice line is $15.

If Sonic likes their extra $10 of margin, that's fine, but I hate paying taxes on a service I don't even want! Keep the money but give me an option to decline the voice service.
You know that most consoles are sold below cost, with the expectation that the difference will be made up in the premiums on games, right?
And the oxygen in the room you're in is free to concentrate in a single corner of it, making air in the rest of the room unbreathable.

Both are technically possible, but so extremely unlikely, that you can rely on them not happening.
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As a Red Hatter, I appreciate maddog’s view. I wish others had his wide perspective of what companies do for open source. Seeing how the sausage is made changes your perspective. And I wish we could give folks a lesson on what we actually sell because it’s not software or software licenses. We’re not skirting around open source licenses or even changing our licenses. We’re trying to keep our folks doing valued work for our customers. And so much of what we do makes it to the upstream projects that are shared with competitors, communities, and users.
Console and PC are very different gaming experiences though. One is no substitute for the other.