skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is not just LLMs.

As I keep mentioning on HN.

AI is real results + hype as opposed to crypto of only hype.

A computer of this size will be immensely useful for training Vision models very quickly, as well as other kinds of models.

Why only AI? Any branch of Science (all of them) that benefit from fast, parallel compute, will benefit from this.

It is extremely narrow view to view AI only as LLMs.

When I say "real use" I mean solving real world problems that existed before AI. And I don't even count generative AI of any shape or form.
> In other words, it appears to me that the true source of these rumors has retracted them and no longer believes that Proton has the claimed ties to Tesonet.

I was nodding along, until this.

Seeing someone retract a pretty specific claim like that by calling on the admins to delete, instead of leaving it up for posterity and/or and discussing how they made the error, feels more like a legal threat was received, and some pants were shat.
I'm just saying: The original comment made it sound like (in the context of "heart attacks are rising"), as if any increase within the pandemic is already (or mostly...) covered by sources predating the pandemic and thus drawing any link to the vaccine would be invalid. These (wrong!) hand-holding statements annoy me, that's all.

To the data: Not sure what period the study is about. Though it's well known, that MRNA vaccines cause heart related problems. Whether the rise in excess death of young people is caused by "long covid"-effects, and/or by the vaccine, is still an open question I guess. But it's a fact, that the pandemic has a long-term impact on peoples health and excess death: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Commute to the office downtown. Have calls with teams in other locations over zoom while they’re with aggressive noise canceling. What’s not to love ?
Mandrake/Mandriva distribution was easy to use/install, but since it was from a French company, it never had any traction, if I remember were, it was created in late 90s.
>self-driving cars, 3D printers, drones

The chance of working on one of these projects is small. The chance of working on the advanced algorithms themselves is even smaller. The chance of getting paid well to do so is 50/50 at best. On average it's a bad bet to go math heavy in computer science. But if it's what you love then go for it.

>quantitative models used in trading

Probably better off with a degree other than computer science here.

Calculus doesn't teach about p-hacking so it's probably not as useful as you think.
Does that debt include buy now pay laters like affirm / klarna?
Unless it doesn't actually sacrifice any privacy.
And it's only going to get worse as businesses shift away from taking anything other than the promises of third party rent seeking corps to pay for items. In the USA this is supposed to be illegal, ie, places have to accept cash for debts. But the solution many businesses have already found is to simply not take orders unless you swipe your card first. Pretty soon you won't be able to buy food or other neccessities without using a credit card.
Same for me. Also, did Elon fuck something up? When I look at his profile on twitter.com the posts are in random order, and on the top there are 2022 posts. When I look through nitter, it displays the latest posts.
generation of related text vs analysis of human understandable facts is very different in the mind of most people.

I think that using an LLM to get insights on the text should be ok, it's the generation part that scares them. probably rightly so.
Instrumenting Axum Projects
Bingo - so Infracost will tell you before you launch anything how much it'll cost. Now scale that to a few thousand developers across a large company, and it's very impactful.

Backfilling tags works, but the issue is if Terraform isn't updated, it causes drift - it's much better to fix it at the root, so that's what Infracost helps with
That's not a real dichotomy. The third option is a reward that is neat or interesting, but not essential. It doesn't even need to be an item.

Spoiler: The fashion/mayor side quest is a good example of such a reward. Korok seeds are not.
The chance of total destruction has always been the case for most of human history. Prior to our current abilities to predict the weather and mobilize aid internationally, floods, hurricanes, etc, hell, even just particularly heavy rains were all relatively unpredictable existential threats. Sure those weren't the end of the literal world, but they were the end of the world to people affected.
I got a whiff from the gaming industry off of it, so I second that sentiment.
Meh, decisions decisions. I bought a Pixel 6a which uses Samsung technology for the Google SoC. I bought it anyway because I wanted to install GrapheneOS but since I assumed it was evolved-but-still-Exynos I did hesitate.
The 60 year history of credit cards: for consumers and retailers
Releasing Claude Instant 1.2
All of those things center around the same set of technologies. Browsers today even come bundled with developer tools which still include HTML editors. But it's better for there to be two separate applications that both use separate copies of the same rendering engines and UI chrome? We might as well just make everything in Electron

Also, it's not like browsers are any less complicated now. They support things like 3D rendering and even MIDI device interfacing which are arguably more complicated for less benefit than supporting alternate protocols and technologies
Why ask permission to do something that doesn’t require permission? I see no more reason why an author should be upset about someone counting the words in their book & assigning sentiment than a builder should get upset about someone counting the # of bricks in a building and assigning subtle color shade differences to them. Neither the author nor the builder has lost anything by it.
Given enough time in your own head, this is doable.
"Believe it or not, I'm not home!"
The length and detail of the jingle makes me nostalgic... The prominence of the answering machine and payphones throughout the show are an underappreciated element of the show's cultural millieau! As well as Jerry's desktop computer getting updated every couple of seasons
They also buy email lists from ZoomInfo to spam people then don’t take GDPR requests seriously after you chase them for answers. So yeah, good riddance.
This was my first thought reading this article. I am not an expert and my knowledge is limited.

When he mentions the prices of the wafers, does it come with the bad yields or without?
With regard to custom ringtones, what happened? It seems to me like Android, in particular, started making it harder and harder to customize. I don't even know if I could set a custom text/ring tone for my wife on my current phone.
Sandstorm would have been nice, but I think a reasonable way to go nowadays might be to write software so that it’s easily deployed on Netlify or Deno Deploy and encourage people to fork your repo and run their own website.

You’re still writing software for others to use, but you don’t take responsibility for their uptime or content.

It’s a little bit of a barrier because you need to create two free accounts (including GitHub) and learn your way around. Part of open source in practice is education and I think teaching people enough so they can edit a file on GitHub would be empowering, even if that’s as far as they go.

Those are services I’ve used that have a free tier and seem pretty low-maintenance. What would be other good choices for this sort of thing?
I wonder if something like a 0% APR Macbook purchase would appear against this statistic. I pay off my credit card every month but periodically lean on 0% situations out of convenience.

With the rise of "Finance your small purchase!" on most eCommerce platforms it must really muddy the data.
Completely agree with "give people a better office" and completely disagree on what a good office is. But instead of arguing on details, I want to say that as always, people are different. Sometimes polarly different.

I love an open space which is a bit loud rather than quiet. It actually makes me feel more privacy than a quiet room full of people.

But here's a recipe. Create an amazing office and don't force anyone to go there! No "once a week" rules or similar. Make it completely voluntary. And see what happens.

A great office located closely, ideally walking distance, where you can discuss ideas and offtopics with your coworkers, have great coffee, not worry about snacks and stuff is like visiting an all-inclusive hotel, but for work. This statement isn't true for everyone. For some people working from home will always be better. Don't force them to change. But see what happens when you have an inviting place that's available for people to visit for as long and for as short as they want.
A few I know: rqlite, dqlite, SQLite wasm, litestream.
Is this a ChatCPT written article to sell stuff or for SEO purposes? Definitely seems like it, and actually makes me wonder about the entire parent post.
Debit cards exist, and I see no push against people using them in the US. If anything, everyone is being encouraged to have one.
i wonder how neat little widgets like fork/zip/m_alloc "packages " will be avoided.
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The article makes a mere side note of the fact they also count revolving debt, i.e. what happens if you pay for groceries on a credit card and then pay off the amount in full every month.
I graciously accept your surrender.
I guess this goes to show how challenging it can be to implement transformer neural networks correctly. There are so many ways in which you can make mistakes at various steps, and there is no surefire way of knowing, you'll just have a slightly worse performance than you would've gotten otherwise. And in many cases, if you make a change to the network, either intentionally or not, the network adapts to it and there are many examples of different variants of the architecture performing similarly once trained. (though, in these cases, one might ask if it really matters if you match the original or not?)

One method I've seen people do to identify these types of mistakes is by precisely matching model outputs with a reference implementation. HuggingFace does this with tiny-random models: these models have randomized weights, but the output is expected to match exactly, if not, then it's an indicator of a bug. But this approach only works for bugs that arise during inference, detecting issues in data processing, optimizers, or anything that only happens during training is more challenging.
i remember a contract job at Deloitte, where they gathered some 20 of us around a table so that the partner could see all of us at a glance. there wasn't even room for laptops, never mind elbows...
sayonara suckers!
Ego similis cervisiam
Don't defer to me. As I said, I've not looked at the code, so I don't actually know. I'm speculating based on my experience with other drivers.
If it's addressed to you, then yes. But if the mail carrier mistakenly delivers you a package addressed to someone else, you don't automatically get to keep it.
They measured the resistivity of a pure Cu2S sample, a sample S1 containing 95% LK-99 and 5% Cu, and a sample S2 containing 30% LK-99 and 70% Cu2S.

The resistivity of the Cu2S sample has a drop of 3 to 4 orders of magnitude at about 390K (when temperature decreases). In the S2 sample the drop is much smaller, only factor 5. In S1 there is no such drop. Here the resistivity always falls with increasing temperature.

Then they write in the conclusion: "The superconducting-like behavior in LK-99 most likely originates from a magnitude reduction in resistivity caused by the first-order structural phase transition of Cu2S."

Since resistivity drop in LK-99 with temperature is about factor 10 according to https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12037.pdf Fig 5, that would mean that Sukbae Lee et al's specimen was composed of more than 70% Cu2S, which is unlikely.

The resistivity drop with decreasing temperature is not the only "superconducting-like behavior in LK-99". There is also a resistivity drop with decreasing current density and magnetic field at constant temperature. That cannot be explained with a phase change.
I can’t get through any cloudflare challenges on a standard iPhone when I use iCloud Relay. Your product is as anti-user as it gets. It’s obvious you avoid user testing and instead look the other way because claiming to have solved the bot problem is just too profitable.
I would love if this was able to text me cheers throughout the day.
Temporal Databases (1986) [pdf]
Like auto type conversions. Instead of barfing when assigning a Float to an Int, just auto round? Or but then if assigning a string to a float, then barf.
Does this get 80%?
I think anything beyond the simple cases, static enforcement is better, or you could be just getting garbage.
I did this exact thing, working with Dor to produce the exact diffs when MongoDB went with their SSPL 1.0.

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/10/22/the-dark-side-of-mongodb...
I confirm that timoni does work at Unity, I'd trust their word.
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Hey! I am always looking for new friends :)

Currently I am living in Nashville, TN, USA. I like tennis (ntrp 4.0, if you know), bouldering (v3-v4), and history books with big glossy pictures. In fact, I host several tennis meetups in the city. I love reading sci-fi/fantasy and playing single player games with a good story (on easy difficulty).

I get competitive at potlucks.

You may ping me on twitter or send me an email (on my profile).
Not sure what you're getting at? Even in Haskell you can easily pass data around as untyped maps of maps if you want. But usually you don't. But maybe you're talking more about when generics and obsession with not duplicating any code ever makes that part of the type system needlessly complex
Mental Frameworks for Evaluating Technology Companies
I use it as my calculator app on my phone
I grew up with a handful of "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" books, thick books with a selection of short essays on varied topics. I learned a lot of trivia from them, largely true.
this credit card debt/spending = bad dogma that has become so common online, popularized by personal finance gurus, is so annoying and wrong.

credit cards can be used safely and responsibly, like any other financial tool

credit card interest is a lot but still less than payday loans

Best of all, credit cards offer superior buyer protection compared to other forms of payment. this alone is reason to use them. Also, lots of perks and other features. Debit cards are the big scam.
My parents had the exact same issue. They kept getting packages meant for a random person they didn't know, but addressed to their home. Lots of cheap, random products like $20 massage guns.

They contacted Amazon and they said "nothing we can do, enjoy the stuff." Pretty odd that they can't even message the person and tell them what's happening. It all ended up in the trash or given away.
> Pretty soon you won't be able to buy food or other neccessities without using a credit card.

In the US, this is FUD. There may be isolated instances of this happening which makes everyone spread doomsday news, but I really don't see this happening at every single place in the US within the next 20+ years, which falls out of your 'pretty soon' estimation.
Not quite. It’s pretty rare to be jumping off and standing on top of moving physics objects in 2D platformers. Like in Mario almost everything you can stand on is static or following a fixed movement pattern.
I agree you'd never catch everything, but if it's crashing on the latest Samsung flagship phone you could probably catch that.
How we made 3D avatars to thousands of our users with AI and WebGL
Avatars are an integral part of any social portal. It is important for people to see the person they are interacting with, photography creates a personal connection and enhances the user experience. But what if we go further and use AI and WebGL to turn every user photo into an interactive 3D avatar?
This looks cool. The pricing page says the enterprise edition is open source, but I can't find it anywhere. Am I not looking in the right spot?
I don't really know what you want me to do with this comment. Okay? What part of any of this suddenly exponentially blows up the cost of building many little offices (not average sized offices, unnecessary for this)?

You asked me to justify it, I did, and you replied with a generic moan. Alright?
https://hackmd.io/@roguegpu/r1RKQMdt3
Real wages adjusted for inflation are up since 2008, but sharply down since 2020.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A
The Darknet Diaries Team Xecutor episode[1] shows how gross Nintendo can be. It makes me consider boycotting them.

tl;dr: They ruined some guy's life and well-being to make an example out of him, even though he was not the primary actor.

1. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/136/
I've noticed in most of the country, fast food is what it is and eating just one meal makes me feel shitty and lethargic, but on the west coast (Washington, Idaho, California for my sampling) I'm convinced they ban or just don't use certain ingredients (lard?). I can eat way more than I even meant to and not even notice.
I love how we just build complexity upon complexity. A tool for all the problems that this new tool gave that was solving all these other tools. A never ending mountain of complexity. In that sense coding (and hosting) is like the law. The entire ecosystem will just keep expanding in complexity decade by decade
Yes, their docs, everywhere, leave something to be desired. For example, don't put worker code snippets with little context. Always post an entire file that the user can expand and collapse. Snippets assume the user knows things that they might not.
Google, OpenAI team up with the White House for cybersecurity challenge
...and that amounts to a lot of drivespace.

(Based on the available data, not spending their budget on FT talent; they apparently get that with their logo.)
I don't disagree but I've been dealing with it for years now (since COVID) and nobody has seemed to be able to fix it.
Then there's the OTHER side, Flipflops, MUXes, ALUs, register files, combinational logic, yadda yadda, then you have your CPU.
"six-figure earners", like UPS drivers.
i've never even heard of it before so i doubt it's very mainstream
It doesn't need wrappers to the same extent React, Angular, et al do. Svelte works quite well with vanilla JS libraries without having to implement a wrapper most of the time.

https://hackmd.io/@roguegpu/r1RKQMdt3
Not quite. "Selling you something" and "satisfying a debt owed" are not the same thing. A sales transaction is not the same thing as a debt.

It is perfectly legal for a counterparty to decline to enter into a sales transaction with you because they don't like your proposed payment terms. They are not required to accept cash (or anything else that they don't like.) That is not satisfaction of a debt owed; no debt has been created, because they refuse to give you anything in the first place.

The "legal tender for all debts" part means that _if you already owe someone money_ for some reason, and you offer them cash, they cannot refuse the cash and then pursue legal action against you for not paying the debt. The court must rule that your offer of cash is sufficient to satisfy the debt.
Urbit (also a real system running on Linux) is an obfuscated implementation of a lot of ideas going back to Lisp machines - but it seems proximately to be a Nix crib.

The key point is really that Urbit is not a fount of hitherto unknown novelty, however Yarvin paints it (2010):

> So we have the Urbit problem: a frozen, universal, static functional namespace. In other words: a standard static functional namespace. Perhaps we are getting further into the rocket-science department. It is not hard to write a functional namespace. But how can we standardize a functional namespace? You will search the RFC Editor's shelves in vain for anything even remotely like Urbit.

http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

As you note, this claim of novelty is nonsense.

New basic computing primitives are like punk rock bands: the first few are fresh and exciting, the ten thousandth is … not. Turing machines and Lisp were new and interesting, Urbit is Yarvin’s favourite toy language.

Urbit does well-understood things, badly.
It’s even worse, general and experimental aviation is hated by the FAA itself. They would rather only commercial aircraft exist so they don’t have to deal with the silly people with their toy planes. The fact that all classes of medical certificates have mostly the same requirements for both general aviation and airline transport pilots (no prescriptions outside of the dozen they are okay with, among other things) shows that the FAA sees genav as just a pathway to get to ATP. I guess the 1500 hour rule indirectly keeps hobbyist pilots flying.
An LLM can't generate new training data for itself. Mathematically speaking, the output of the LLM is governed by the same statistics embedded in its parameters, and a large enough training set of LLM output should have zero impact on those parameters. The difference is that training on human output contains the implicit assumption that the human output is "correct" in some way. So if the LLM gets more human-generated training data, it can come closer to "correctness". An LLM training on its own output is merely reinforcing its weights.

Maybe to put it more simply, there is no LLM in the world that can determine for itself whether a proposition or piece of training data is sound without a person saying so at some point, either implicitly or explicitly. Even efforts to give LLMs some non-human-mediated reward function are merely people attempting to encode our own principles. While people are no doubt physical, we have a biological imperative to survival and well-being that governs our sense-making faculties, and to which nobody has yet proposed an analogue for LLMs. Our "transformations" are not only governed by other people's "training data" but by our urge to be able to skillfully cope with a world in which we are biologically invested.
> Why VHS rewinders (plural)? One is not enough?

My father uses these to rewind some old VHS tapes he likes to study. They just don't last, is all.

He went through a bunch of VCRs before we were buying the rewinders, though.
Would like to know more about how Infracost does dynamic cost estimation, for example if I allocate an S3 bucket I have no idea how much it'll grow to so what does it show? Or What ab out EC2 w/ batch, or Lamba? Does it force the developer to estimate the usage pattern, or...?
Bullshit, CPU bugs have been found before wide usage of telemetry and will continue to be found in various context, number of them not doing it even if they could.

Telemetry is probably just one more excuse to ship crap in the first place.
Or homeownership is being consolidated away from the average person, thus not being included in debt.
So they should compare their accomplishments to something that has had hundreds of full-time employees working on since 2004?
Oh man, I never saw that one—must have been during one of the many times in the 90s I didn’t have a tv.
Yeah. I was going to make the same point. It seems like this person has some kind of issue with peoples skin colour or something.

Hmmm, thinking back over it maybe she's internalised the US diversity thing and is judging everything through that lens?
When you say lifestyle business, what do you mean? Is it a self employed kind of job/business where he will be broke if he doesn’t show up everyday? Or more like he will do very well and have a good lifestyle but not have big fuck you money?
Debunking the Myth of the Male Hunter