skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the locality. The city, county, and state may all impose taxes. In particular, cities sometimes opt to generate revenue by taxing specific services, such as cable TV. So a resident in City X pays $5 per month extra for cable TV, while someone in City Y pays $7.44 extra. Both of these cities allow just a single cable operator, and require that operator to collect the tax and remit it to them. But if you have satellite TV then you don’t pay the tax. And maybe City Y never updated the law to apply the tax to cable internet service, but City X did. So someone living in City X pays $5 per month if they have both cable TV and internet service (or either one alone), while someone in City Y only pays the tax if they have TV service. If all they have is internet service, then they pay nothing extra.

And if the service includes telephone service, then there will be a Federal Universal Service Fee, which pays for reduced–cost land–line telephone service for the poor. It’s like $0.11 per month per telephone line, IIRC.

The average customer might see two or three of these things on their bill. But it’s not uncommon to see a dozen either.

So it definitely depends on where the subscriber wants the service, and what service or services they subscribe to. None of this is really all that difficult to figure out, and these companies have already automated it. They are just complaining because they will have to raise their advertised prices, which naturally will lead to reduced sales. Currently they just lie through their teeth about their prices, and count on people being too lazy to cancel their service once they see the first month’s bill.
I couldn't tell either; my best guesses were:

-by struggling to do too much for too long DW believed he was setting xfs up for failure

-by stepping out of most of what he has been doing he believes xfs will fail due to lack of interest in other people picking up the slack

I really couldn't say which is more probable though. Perhaps both?
Bought the book last week, it's beautiful! Would anyone have any recommendations for other books that can offer deep insight into technology but also just can be leafed and skimmed through, perhaps part of a small library collection? I bought (a Dutch version of) "The Way Things Work", as well as "A Cat's Guide To Internet Freedom" and "Grokking Algorithms".
What’s your revenue?
.... one huge thing that I'm assuming theres a fix for. How do i enable light mode? This is insane on the eyes

Edit: I found it under 'set theme'

I REALLY recommend doing light mode as the default, not dark mode. I imagine like 1% of people would actually want to look at big data as white text on black.
Just wanted to say I haven't used your product yet, but there are a couple things I really like about your site that led me to download it:

1. The first question I had was "How is this better than Excel?" The Google result for your site directly pulls up this very informative blog post, https://www.moderncsv.com/why-excel-sucks-and-modern-csv-is-... . Note my 2 cents is that I would more prominently link this, or at least have a more prominent section, from your home page.

2. Simple AF pricing. So rare these days. Kudos!
WASM-4 is great. I wonder, are there any resource-limited web assembly-based platforms aimed at productivity applications? I really like how quickly everything loads.
It is listed in bills. The objection NCTA has is the FCC's requirement that the fees be catalogued to consumers at the point of sale, before a bill has been incurred. I don't blame them for objecting to this. These aren't Comcast's fees; they're municipal taxes.
In my best estimation, Finbarr makes pretty great content, he and I have had a number of positive interactions on Twitter. I tend to have a pretty grumpy disposition towards a lot of modern ML and such as I feel it's shovelware, but whenever Finbarr puts out work, I tend to set aside some time to give it a good gander, as I feel like it's generally pretty "meaty" (which I honestly find pretty hard to do past a certain pace). Well worth the subscribe if you have not done so already (I'm not affiliated with him, I just really like his work!).
Years ago I asked Lou of Subzero on Instagram why Suffering of Man album is not on streaming yet. I have an mp3 of this, and he mentioned about record labels holding it or something.
The old AT&T behaviors still haunt us to this day.
I would even go further and say I did not find the intro book a good book at all.

The text was full of non-trivial errors that genuinely hindered students' understanding. Moreover, the presentation was not particularly enlightening -- lengthy mathematical discussions therein were not neither rigorous enough for a proper mathematical introduction; nor distilled enough for an application practitioners. I understand that Murphy explicitly tried to strike a balance -- I wonder if this balance ended up being in the awkward no man's land.

I do agree that I found the book better as a secondary reference due to its breadth of topics. The second book seems to continue this trend of covering even more topics.
We (oxide) aren't doing a GPU focused product yet, that's right.
It has been masked by layoffs. It's really hard to actually tell. Companies are still in lean hiring mode. Is that because of lack of work to do or productivity rising to the point that no extra people are needed?
They're not "... apparently special costs". They're taxes that local governments are charging their residents, using Comcast as a bill collector.
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What city is that, dude?
American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
https://archive.ph/STnXb
Whoa, imagine you get a good base LLM model and save all conversations with it. Run a batch process every night to fine tune a LORA on convo dataset. If I ever came across such a chat bot I'd probably freak out as to why it remembers things outside of the context window, without summarisation
When I eat at a restaurant, that business is not paying a per-seating fee to the city it's sited in. But that's what the ISPs are doing.
"Types and Programming Languages" by Benjamin C. Pierce is a good textbook that covers this kind of stuff.
Why do you say they do nothing to advance AGI? Do you know what it takes to advance AGI? It's hard to state that without knowing how AGI would work yourself.

LLMs would be considered magic just a couple years ago. Sure, not AGI but behaves just like one for certain workloads. I find hard to believe we're not a bit closer now - or maybe even a lot closer.
Happens from time to time. Ready on the brake and looking both ways
Tim Dettmers recently (https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/ai-on-your-phone-tim-dett...):

"But what we found with these neural networks is, if you use 32 bits, they're just fine. And then you use 16 bits, and they're just fine. And then with eight bits, you need to use a couple of tricks and then it's just fine.

And now we find if you can go to four bits, and for some networks, that's much easier. For some networks, it's much more difficult, but then you need a couple more tricks. And so it seems they're much more robust."
I was hoping that link would answer the question that's been bugging me for months: what are the penalties that you pay for using a quantized model?

Sadly it didn't. It talked about "perplexities" and showed some floating point numbers.

I want to see examples like "here's a prompt against a model and the same prompt against a quantized version of that model, see how they differ."
yep :) love critical mass and the various bike parties (offshoot of CM). Related: https://www.harvard.com/book/two_wheels_good/ This book is such an amazing read for anyone into cycling.
In my city I often ride on the roads because:

* the bike lanes, while nice in though, are poorly planned out:

* they’re only on one side of the road

* they start and stop in weird locations and either foist you back into the main road, or onto a busy footpath. Getting from “where you are” to “where the bike lane is” is a multi-minute exercise in walking and crossing lights for 100m of lane.

* People - including cops, park in them frequently

* the city makes no attempt at cleaning them, so they’re filled with the detritus from the road and the footpath: gravel, wet leaves, broken glass, sand, tire-shreddings, these are a hazard to ride through.

* because they pack both directions onto one area, each lane is super narrow, and you end up stuck behind casual commuters (I love to see people riding, don’t get me wrong) and there are few chances to cleanly overtake

* in the city speed limits are pretty low, and between traffic lights at intersections and slow moving traffic (due to volume) it’s shockingly easy to outpace cars. Combine that with lane slipping, and you can often clear whole blocks at pace.
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By most measures you could think of for intelligence languages models are improving, so I don’t see why you think this wouldn’t lead to something at least almost human-level if you scaled it up enough

Of course there could be some wall somewhere but I don’t see why there would be
Ah, but I believe you forget the implicit biases of genetic programming. Instincts in my experience are the skeleton, and in a sense the default basis functions for the structure of how we live, see, do, and learn.
Because property taxes are a predictable, fixed fee, and ISP fees are usage taxes applied per-customer.

Let's make this imaginary restaurant more fun: not only is it required to charge a per-seating fee, but it's not the same fee for each customer. Instead, they have to inquire about the residential address of each guest, and compute a locality-specific seating fee.
(Yeah, should be "Darrick," not "Darrik.")
You did not stop for the stop sign or stop light.
Does the Mali GPU have shared RAM with the CPU on this device? Is this common for ARM devices?
Cyclists vs. carists is one of the most unexpectedly vitriolic (and repetitive - those things go together) flamewar topics that we see on HN. It's up there with cats vs. dogs. I don't think there's much to be gained by hashing this out yet again. Keep in mind that we're optimizing for one thing here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... Certain topics are clearly suboptimal by that standard.
Your comment is addressed in another thread by other commenters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137653
Animations require consistency to work and generations are still very bad at consistency. You can see this in action through any AI generated video, that "flickering" are tiny inconsistencies between frames that throw the entire thing off.

Once that issue is fixed, then it's a green light as everything else is vaguely ready.
The US desperately needs to institute the EU rule that all advertised prices are inclusive of all taxes and fees.

It’s not just sales tax (which admittedly varies by city) but you also see absurd things like ‘SF health mandate’ on a receipt at a restaurant. What are they going to break out next, rent?
I enjoyed this article, but it seems to me that the latency numbers should have units of nanoseconds or maybe CPU cycles. I feel like the article was a bit sloppy with units.

Another question that occurs to me is: why do chipmakers even bother putting so many functional units on the chip if almost all workloads are memory bound? Based of the calculations in this article, you could decrease the number of teraflops a modern GPU can perform by a factor of 2 and not notice any appreciable difference in ML performance.
you know about injection vulnerabilities, right? if you really want to spaghetti code your app with string representations of html, you can also use `dangerouslySetInnerHTML` in React.
They are not just taxes. Reimbursing the telco for their compliance costs makes about as much sense and reimbursing a restaurant for complying with local health code.

If they were actually taxes Comcast wouldn’t be fighting this rule, which does not apply to government mandated taxes.
I don't see anything specific to open-source here. You could switch the title to "Selling software that has a free tier" and it would still fit.
I burned out years ago trying to juggle the roles senior developer,
reviewer, tester, triager (crappily), release manager, and (at times)
manager liaison. There's enough work here in this one subsystem for a
team of 20 FT, but instead we're squeezed to half that. I thought if I
could hold on just a bit longer I could help to maintain the focus on
long term development to improve the experience for users. I was wrong.
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Waiting for someone to inevitably proclaim "I walk through the Tenderloin every day and have never felt unsafe," eh?
Do these bike roads go to my office? To the store? To restaurants?
Thank you very much for writing this out!
Those rankings often factor in climate.

Snow is hard to bike in (I think, I dunno though, being in coastal California).
There is a zero percent chance your city spent "hundreds of millions" to rebuild anything to be cyclists friendly.

> it’s also almost like being a cyclist instantly turns you in to an egomaniac with a death wish,

Cyclists are paying far far far far more attention than your average driver. Motorist kills 50k Americans a year.
I understand it says that working on a filesystem, you get the power to really fuck up people's lives (by introducing a bug). Other way of saying "this is really fun, you get a lot of impact and therefore a lot of responsibility".
Captcha loop here as well. Both from FF and an ungoogled Chromium with no add ons that I keep just for these situations.

DNS is the unsecured quad9 9.9.9.10

Secure DNS is likewise https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query

Console shows error 429
I thought Jitsi was the FOSS alternative. Surprised there's a new FOSS contender.
I always read the colon as separating a term (introduced for the first time) and its definition. Just compare the characters list in literature:

Hercule Poirot: an investigator
Linnet Doyle: a rich heiress

... with the list of variables at the beginning of a function:

x: TypeX
y: TypeY

It makes perfect sense to me.
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I do software contract work for many blind and low vision people, and they also have had great things to say about Zoom's accessibility.
So what you’re saying is.... we’re going to have human-level AI, and it’s going to be incredibly stupid
Doesn't matter. Complaining about it is still the right thing to do. All your outlook achieves is forbidding criticism of evil.

> We cant claimed to have learned anything if we can't even bother to replace a few elderly politicians who voted for a couple decades of war crimes.

That's unrelated to the matter at hands and what is being discussed: Guantanamo is not comparable to the scale of Chinese concentration camps.
so 50 million worms colliding with 50 million anti-worms

inside my body
I've never heard of this, are cyclists in your area just sitting in the road?
I tracked down the FCC filing this article is about and read it. They are just taxes. There may be other things in the FCC rule that aren't about taxes, but the NCTA's objection is exclusively to the taxes.
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$300 to not have to unplug your dryer to plugin your EV charger.
Kinda of crazy, my first computer had a million times less ram than this.
Not if you're a backend engineer. Then again from their point of view, they consider frontend state management to be a hopeless mess. Takes all kinds.
Internally there actually is a new programming language, implemented using Clojure macros (so it's also Clojure). The Java dataflow API is exposing a subset of that language. We did it this way rather than expose this new language directly because most people don't know Clojure and we don't feel it necessary or desirable to require people to have to learn a new language to benefit from this technology.
We may "just" be neural networks that run on meat instead of silicon, but that does not mean that we're LLMs.
Can you try and comment on

meet.jit.si ?
“The world”—this all depends on where you live. There are plenty of places that are very bike-friendly. How do you think they got that way?
I watch the traffic like a hawk whenever I’m considering doing it.

If there’s no stopped cars in the lanes already (I live in a city, so this is super common for me), I’m way more guaranteed to do it, because trucks/buses/taxis/inattentive drivers barreling through “late yellows” is something I’ve seen waaay to many times.
I'm not arguing with you, your clarifying comment was fine. I'm arguing with the person who replied to you.
Same with Slack, stuttering video in their 'huddles', broken audio.

Zoom works.
There's a nice calculator app bundled with Windows 10, and I even have Mathematica installed, and of course Desmos is useable everywhere, but... when I need to compute anything that's more than simple elementary arithmetic, I just open a Python REPL. It's simple to type, it's readable, and way easier to use than a calculator for persistence (ever tried to use variables on a scientific calculator? It works, but it sucks)
Building new power generation to replace fossil fuels is not disruptioning the global economy.
I found gpu-mart.com but haven't tested yet.

An A4000 for 139$ x 12 is not terrible
Seem to use haskell , just in case you are wondering which language it uses
I think the biggest advantage here is that you can run it on the GPU using shared memory, which I'm not sure how widespread it is on mini PCs (at least not intel NUCs).

You could run it using OpenVINO on IntelCPUs, but the performance would probably take a hit. It would be a lot easier though since you can just use ggml.
Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields
Related question: would a tinfoil hat actually work, or just be another layer of filtering to compute?
In practice with Vue you tend to write that stuff in JavaScript (eg in a computed property) and keep the HTML as simple as possible.

I've done a lot of Vue and your bit of React and overall I prefer the Vue way here.
The probability takes into account the error on the measurements so I'm not sure what you're getting at
I don't know what it means but it is his usual mail signature so not related to his statements here.
>Washington DC has some of the worst bicycle culture I’ve ever seen. Blowing red lights, asserting right of way over pedestrians and cars whenever it suites them, doing 50kmh on mount Vernon trail with pedestrians and small children everywhere. And a piss poor attitude to top it off when someone dares slow them down.

I can't tell if this is satire or not.
Makes sense!

Now, our jobs (IT engineers) is often cited to have higher rate of depression and mental disorders [0], and we sure have our fair share of toxic working culture at large scale [1] and smaller scale (startups).

A lot of advice is exchanged openly about desk setup, posture and avoiding carpal tunnel. Which is fine. But my best advice to newcomers would be to look hard for non shitty companies that won't let them burn out in 3 years.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9664232/

[1] https://www.dice.com/career-advice/depression-tech-pros-comm...
Wow, there's also a virtual Honeywell 2000 computer. I have not-so-fond memories of finding a Honeywell 200 system in my university's administration building. It was the only machine on campus with a Cobol compiler. Compilations took 30 minutes or more; the admin folks kindly allowed me an hour at a time on the machine. I don't remember much of the system now, though I do remember that Pass 2 of the compiler was the system sort utility (don't ask me why). I believe that the 2000 was the Big Sibling of the 200.

Also, on the subject of punched cards, Datamation ran an article in the 1960s that dealt with the nasty subject of storing blank cards (every computer center had a room with huge boxes of punched cards and of printer paper). You could get rid of your card storage problem by running a cool program. Whenever you need a box of cards, you run the program, put a box of blank cards in the punch input hopper, and presto! blank cards in the output. Believe it or not, Datamation claimed that they'd had a number of requests for this magic program.
> I don't know.. Imagine you have a react component that needs to interact with something written in svelte...

this doesn't happen in practice... like at all...

is your implicit assumption that anything written in react will automatically work just fine with svelte but not the other way around? why would react -> svelte be any easier than svelte -> react, and why is the burden on React to solve interoperability problems between competing frontend frameworks?
> But what Rama does is integrate and generalize these concepts to such an extent that you can build entire backends end-to-end without any of the impedance mismatches or complexity

Every time I hear this the reality turns out to be that building anything with this tech is like building something on top of SAP.

But I’m also just allergic to any post that says ‘look how amazing’ in general, so I’m a bit prejudiced.
That tweet which had an image showing bands of latitude that it may hit and times (london/newyork ish tomorrow and day after) has been deleted by the author and now says "I would like to make an apology to the small body community. Some information was shared with me on an internal company message board that I did not have full perspective on and I posted a tweet, which I now understand was not appropriate. It was preliminary data and I did not have full perspective on it."

I don't feel very reassured.
>I meant something like bike roads where there are no cars on the road or around it. e.g roads sorrounded by meadows

Well, have you considered that people on bikes are actually trying to, you know, access things that aren't meadows?
Except this is championed by fossil fuel companies as a way to not have to reduce emissions on the first place.

Goes something like this: look at us investing for the future so that you don’t have to worry or stop burning in the present.
Great article. Don't see content like this anywhere else outside of HN.
True, best to use a bookmarklet, works in most browsers, e.g.

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Thanks for sharing this, really cool how they can piggy back on the Apple "Find My" network.
That's exactly what I imagine would need to happen, I'm just surprised that the specs are claiming all of that with a single 1600W PSU. It's the kind of thing that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that someone has thought through the details of what they are claiming to sell as part of this pre-order.
Omg - I literally just came back from my daily ride.

This is not a McSweeney’s to read when you’re trying to cool down.
That's a good way to put it. It's very accurate to the extent I understand most humans.
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> Ie you could technically run something like that today.

Yep, on higher end machines it should already be feasible. I can do 2.5-3 tok/sec on a 70B model quantized at 4 bit today with my MacBook Pro M2 MAX w/96GB. It's a little slower than a 30B, but the difference is less than I had guessed it would be. That's not super fast, but it's usable.

And that's on a machine that isn't designed for this workload. Over the next few years things should improve quite a bit. 200B does not seem like a reach.
The sad part is that Epstein's financial advice was apparently nothing special. People got entangled with a pedo con man for no benefit (that we know of).