skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data buffer size shown by Georgi here is 96GB, plus there is the other overhead; it states the recommended max working set size for this context is 147GB, so no Flacon 180B in Q4 as shown wouldn't fit on 4x 24GB 3090's (96GB VRAM).

But I'm also in the quad-3090 build idea stage as well and bought 2 with the intention to go up to 4 eventually for this purpose. However, since I bought my first 2 a few months back (at about 800 euro each!) the ebay prices have actually gone up... a lot; I purchased a specific model that I thought would be plentiful as I had found a seller with a lot of them from OEM pulls, and they were taking good offers- and suddenly they all got sold. I feel like we are entering another GPU gap like 2020-2021.

Based on the performance of Llama2 70B, I think 96GB of vram and the cuda core count x bandwidth of 4 3090's will hit a golden zone as far as price-performance of a deep learning rig that can do a bit of finetuning on top of just inference.

Unless A6000 prices (or A100 prices) start plummeting.

My only hold out is the thought that maybe nvidia releases a 48gb Titan-type card at a less-than-A6000 price sometime soon, which will shake things up.
How much do you suppose you need to be paid for picking up the spoon and putting it in your mouth? Taking out the trash should be basic self maintenance
Presumably by operating in a country that doesn't.
That’s how California works too.
what does any of this have to do with my question?

society as a whole is usually better off by such things, are mass-unemployed farriers in 1920?

edit: I do also feel the zeitgeist on HN will be extremely different from this "people will adapt, it's good overall" vibe once it's very-well-paid SWEs that are being affected en masse by this stuff
Oops—sorry for the delayed response here!

Yeah I think "Evidence That Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell is a great one. He was agnostic and set out to disprove Christianity and found its evidence was impossible to refute.

Others I'd highly recommend would be:
- More than a Carpenter, by Josh McDowell
- The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel
- Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

I find all of these books fascinating because they're all written by men who were atheists and set out to disprove the "foolishness" of Jesus. In the end, they all came to the same conclusion which is that the evidence that points to Jesus being the Son of God is very heavy. I'm not sure there's any reasonable evidence to the contrary. In fact, most atheists I've known and talked to were atheists not due to reason, but due to emotion. Christianity has a lot of emotional baggage that comes with it. We're all flawed people and unfortunately most people associate Christianity with abuse, rules, and condemnation. That's why I prefer talking about the person of Jesus. I've never met someone who could level a reasonable accusation at the person of Jesus, and after all—He's the entire reason any of us talk about any of this.

If you read all 4 of those books and come away unconvinced I'd love to have a conversation! I was not able to retain my disbelief :)
People still can lose access to their password manager. Getting everybody on password managers won't prevent all reset requests.
Related: https://github.com/ansiwave/nimwave
There isn’t much official data about consumer bag usage.
We are now two layers deep into the secret sauce.
I want to know what the secret sauce of the measurement and calibration equipment is!
They have a huge cost incentive to optimize it for runtime.

The magic of openai is their training data and architecture.

There is a real risk that a model gets leaked.
Let me help out by asking two questions

What are the problems with sites with lots of ads?
Does Craiglist have any of those problems?
“All software development is R&D. As soon as it’s no longer research, it can be automated and the human work goes away.”

To me, this is the First Rule of software engineering. We take it for granted, but seeing things through this lens explains so much, including (e.g.) the potential benefits of LLMs.
I had this happen at a smaller city in NY state, except they had the car towed instead of booting it. In retrospect I’m not sure it’s totally unreasonable, since running a night time public parking lot could bring different risks and costs than a daytime lot. There is definitely a cash grab component though.
Thanks.

Related to the index funds, although a lot of people lost quite a bit of money during the dot-com bubble popping, that period also democratized and made buying and selling stocks/index funds/other mutual funds much less expensive and accessible.

401(k)s had been around for a while but it was probably around then that online trading was really normalized as opposed to something that investment professionals largely handled for you out of sight out of mind.
But do they have an employer / employee relationship with those critics or are they doing a section-230-compliant resharing / publicizing of those critics' personal opinions?
Presumably they raised money, and will need to raise money again. That means that they have money (it's worthwhile to sue, assuming you can get damages). It also means it's a huge lever: they'll never be able to raise under active litigation, they'll have to tell their board, etc.

Now is the time to do this. If they just pivoted, and are literally copying you, they can just pivot to something else. You could even get them to agree to transfer/refer their customers as a settlement.

All this assumes they did something illegal. Copyright is the best thing to check: have they literally copied anything (APIs may be legal to copy, see Oracle vs Google).
There are devices with longer range, I'm sure if the bandwidth is reduced, the range could go up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_backscatter
A lot of environmental activists and policies aren't clear what they're optimizing for.
Mh interesting, I've wrote a while ago a script to start on connection in order to have mullvad coexist with tailscale, if anyone is interested, I also have one for NVPN

DOMAINS=(login controlplane log derp1-all derp2-all derp3-all derp4-all derp5-all derp6-all derp7-all derp8-all derp9-all derp10-all derp11-all derp12-all derp13-all derp14-all derp15-all derp16-all derp17-all derp18-all derp19-all derp20-all derp21-all derp22-all derp23-all derp24-all)

FWMARK=$(wg show $1 fwmark)

for d in ${DOMAINS[@]}; do
IPS=$(dig +answer -4 $d.tailscale.com +short)

for IP in ${IPS[@]}; do
iptables -I INPUT --in-interface tailscale0 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I OUTPUT --out-interface tailscale0 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK

iptables -I INPUT -d $IP/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I INPUT -s $IP/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I OUTPUT -d $IP/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
done;

done;

iptables -I OUTPUT -d 100.100.100.100/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I OUTPUT -s 100.100.100.100/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I INPUT -d 100.100.100.100/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
iptables -I INPUT -s 100.100.100.100/32 -j MARK --set-mark $FWMARK
Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance, which sounds attractive to the average MBA brain with zero ability to think through long-term consequences.
what the point of a robot? just have a kid, it's more flexible and smart than any robot in the forseeable future
Except with Wikipedia's (slight) redesign it was actually a regression, especially on mobile. But with an extension for clicking links from the keyboard, it's (still) a joy to navigate.
Only shocking thing about this is that it only posted now... Not years ago.
Having the average home price triple in a single decade is such a massive and rapid level of appreciation that I don't think you can reasonably attribute it to "the same cause wherever it happens in any developed country." There's going to be some unusual policy or economic situation driving it. The things you mention are only exacerbating factors that cause the effects to show up in home prices, rather than in some other metric.

So, what specifically is happening in Toronto that's driving this (e.g. causing demand to go up, up, up)?

Edit: I think I found the article I was referring to earlier: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/maximum-canada-is-happening. It says Canada's population has increased by 15% over the last decade (35 million -> 40 million). Apparently Canada has one of the fastest population growth rates in the world, all from immigration since it's birth-rate is sub-replacement. US population only increased 7.5% over the same period.
what's the lie?

deploying this mass surveillance system is definitely possible.
That's groovy baby, but can anyone give me the technicals on why we can't have Hibernate(not sleep) out of the box on Ubuntu like we can on Windows? That was one of the deal-breakers for me making the switch. If I understood it correctly, it's because of Z-RAM and if I'm also correct, full disk encryption is another roadblock in the path of the hibernate feature.
I love tailscale's technology and their contributions to the security ecosystem, but I can't help but take a contrarian angle to many of the comments here...

This feels like a bad idea, and perhaps it signals defeat in the enterprise space (where the tech would provide the most value, imo). Tailscale raised $100M last year, surely based on a theory of growth upmarket. While this partnership surely provides value to personal consumers, it feels, at best, a distraction from the larger opportunity and, at worst, counterproductive to achieving it.

I'm skeptical of the obvious counterpoint that this assists a flywheel of greater b2c satisfaction leading to b2b success...
> Aah, that's always a controversial question, on one hand, some universal rules of usability do exist, but on the other hand, everyone's habits, taste and use cases are very different.

That's right! To me, personally, a well-designed website is:
- Quick and responsive
- Easy on the eyes
- Easy on the mind
- Doesn't yell at me with unpleasant effects, oversized videos, or nervous ads
- Doesn't surprise me

That is universal for any kind of website.
Parking in most of the city is incredibly tight, and there is a land and maintenance cost to having it. You shouldn't be looking for using that space for free.

Even in the suburbs there are situations where parking is for that business and that business only.
I'll agree with you that some organic pesticides can be just as bad. however there are much stricter guidelines on when and how they are applied to qualify for organic certification. In the case of conventional, the application methodology is more about the bottom line. which in many cases means spraying way more to maximize yield.
> one of the ways you can evaluate companies is to recognize when they're making sketchy, not-relevant claims to create an air of legitimacy.

This is an excellent heuristic. Personally I like to evaluate trustworthiness in terms of integrity and competence - can I trust their values and can I trust that they know what they are doing? Words are cheap of course. Consistent action across several years is much harder to fake. It also overlaps with another heuristic I use to model and predict the behaviour of a company; a company's behaviour will converge on the shareholders' goals over time.

> This "our servers have no disks" thing is kind of thing is marketing.

You are correct that we considered that aspect while writing the blog post, but please read the content before passing judgement. See the section titled "To recap about “no disks in use”" in particular.

On the topic of "air of legitimacy" I'll just leave these here:

* Our apps have been open-source since we launched in 2009

* Our response to Shellshock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8385332

* Our thoughts on WireGuard in 2017: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2017/9/27/wireguard-future/

* Experimental post-quantum KEM support in 2017: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2017/12/8/introducing-post-quant...

The blog post you commented on also talks extensively about how it was one of our first steps in making our infrastructure transparent. Here are just two things we've done as part of that project:

* "This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers." - https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/8/7/open-source-firmware-fu...

And finally, we've spent 2-3 years designing a transparency log with distributed trust assumptions. One of many critical parts necessary to achieve our vision of transparent server infrastructure. I'll wager that there's no transparency log with a stronger threat model than ours. https://www.sigsum.org

We're certainly not without fault, but hopefully this helps inform your opinion of Mullvad.

Best regards,
Fredrik Stromberg (co-founder of Mullvad VPN, Tillitis, Glasklar Teknik)
In the past, the audience is game studio heads and their producers to get the ideas flowing on what the novel capabilities of the new system are and how they can design games for it. Maybe some top engineering folks. Also for nintendo to get feedback from studios - "ah, yes, we've been thinking of doing augmented reality and it would be really cool if the camera had X feature so we can do Y in our game". AAA for sure, likely most indie shops. In the past direct competitors would not be invited.
No point to do that. Arduino the platform should remain widely popular among hobbyists; this makes it an easy choice when they have to produce something more professional.

But professionals have different requirements, and are willing to pay for tools that work well. Opening up a professional channel only makes sense if it's buttressed by a large ecosystem outside, with the pressure to keep using Arduino, because it's well-known, hardware is tried and true, hiring is easy, etc.

So, if anything, Arduino the company now has more incentives to make Arduino widely accessible among kids, students, hobbyists, etc.
Unless you automate this process to flush all memory periodically, this seems like a good way to get charged for interfering with an investigation or have your assets seized and thrown into legal limbo. Police aren't complete morons, in the real world goofing around like this has consequences.
Cynical take on the article: Amateurs and independents punished to appease large labels.
For a first-world rich person, yes. The Indian pharma companies are 50-100X larger, and serve a hundred billion more people. No contest.

Again, from a western armchair it's easy to denigrate Indian efforts.
I basically became a programmer so I could do products. If there was no challenge, I'd just do product and sell products.

Sadly programming is always the bottleneck, so here I am.
Explain the differences about how normal program and LLM works
Is that really true?

It's an actuarial calculation. They win some they lose some.
Here are the math games and word problems that you can try out with your kids:
https://www.forourschool.org/math-games
Hey Viktor!

#1 There are a couple of factors.

- More recent content tends to be more relevant given the same search query, or at least its freshnes will contribute to it not being completely irrelevant (which is the worse thing you want in a search engine). The quality of it is already guaranteed to some extent by this being a curated list to begin with.

- It was relatively easy to assemble and maintain the list because it relies on RSS feed tech, and there were a lot of sources to seed it.

- Focus on recent writing can encourage some people to write (more) as we had an example highlighted in the blog post. In general, the web needs more high quality, non-commercial content, and this is ultimately what we want to contribute towards with this. By providing a platform (even if very small) to encourage this behavior we get a step closer to the web we like.

#2 In general I agree. Although I should say we did spend effort to create a diverse pool of websites for this initiative (for example I am seeing a lot of economy or photography). Again, we can only encourage the creation of more content in various areas through platforms like Kagi (and Marginalia) and hope that it will work out at the end.
You would think we'd want the contrapositive: to enrich them with global influx of capitalist market consumer demand, enough that they gain an independently self-stable economy, and stop feeling the need to rely on the support of Russia and China so much.

(Or, at least, offer subsidies to their government if they stop supporting Russian and Chinese spies with their numbers stations et al.)
Straight out of the Ticketmaster playbook.
Almost all recycling end up in the landfill.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-r...

Municipal recycling is mostly political window dressing to outright falsehoods.
Yes, I am well aware. But with kids and multiple adults sharing cars life happens. So I am still often stuck in stores without any sort of bags. I don't mind paying for them or using paper, but increasingly stores in our area have nothing except for totes.
The very first online game I ever played was an amazing multiplayer space shooter called Silent Death Online on AOL Games. It was incredible and I blew through over $100 a month paying $1.99 hour to rank up my character, upgrade my ship, communicate with and eventually lead my clan.

With 56k modems, it took so long for the "shoot weapon" request to make it to the server that if you wanted to kill someone, you had to shoot well ahead of their actual ship. If you wanted to get good, you had to open up the debug console and use your ping to determine how far ahead to "lag shoot".

Suddenly, certain players began becoming well known for stacking up hundreds of kills in a game and ranking all the way up to Commander (max rank) within a few days. Over time, people began learning the secret: those were the first players to get ISDN and DSL and with their super-fast internet connections, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Those players were my introduction to the world outside of the AOL internet and I became eager to join it.

Around that same time, EA bought Silent Death Online and folded it into their online gaming services. That brought a new era for SDO which came to an end probably not much more than a year or two later when EA for some reason shut it all down (if I recall correctly, people started running credit card scams through the game).

What a time to be on the internet. I am still longing for someone to buy the rights to SDO and relaunch it.
Haskell: Game Programming with GIF Streams
I agree: No one has any technological advantage when it comes to LLMs anymore. Some companies, like OpenAI, may have other advantages, like an ecosystem of developers. But most of the gobs of money that so many companies have burned to train giant proprietary models is unlikely to see any payback.

What I think will happen is that more companies will come to the realization it's in their best interest to open their giant models. The cost of training all those giant models is already a sunk cost. If there's no profit to be made by keeping a model proprietary, why not open it to gain or avoid losing mind-share, and to mess with competitors' plans?

First, it was LLaMA, with up to 65B params, opened against Meta's wishes. Then, it was LLaMA 2, with up to 70B params, opened by Meta on purpose, to mess with Google's and Microsoft/OpenAI's plans. Now, it's Falcon 180B. Like you, I'm wondering, what comes next?
What is OpenAI's moat? Loads of people outside the company are working on alternative models. They may have a lead right now but will it last a few years? Will it even last 6 months?
You cannot hide from governments. If they want you badly enough they can track you anywhere. So, don't do anything illegal and expect any VPN to protect you because paid in cash! Remember, all governments have secret national security laws to surveil all data all the time and almost all governments' (even supposed enemies) secret national security agencies cooperate if they badly want to catch someone.

You cannot hide from advertisers if you use a smartphone with apps. App developers who put ads within their app control the apps behavior completely and hence they can fingerprint your device and track you very well without using IP addresses. And within browsers, they can fingerprint you through many javascript features of the browser. Hiding your source IP does very little for your privacy.

Almost all traffic (apps and websites) are encrypted via TLS (https, for example). So, even if you are on an insecure network, unless your OS's TLS certificate store is compromised, your communications are encrypted and protected against snooping from that insecure network.

Also, even on open wifi networks, today, it is very unlikely that the wifi is running without at least WPA2 encryption. Most modern airports run secure wifi. (But they also monitor all traffic metadata for illegal activities).

So, using a VPN as an exit node is just privacy theatre. VPN exit nodes in faraway countries are useful for bypassing content censorship in your own country, but it works only if the content streaming service cooperates with you.

Remember, all ISPs are heavily regulated by governments and can be asked to mirror specific customer's traffic for analysis. I would be very surprised if they don't proactively do it for all VPN operator nodes by default.
Google’s cookie-replacing Privacy Sandbox reaches major milestone
These kinds of metrics are brought up often and, while I think they are somewhat useful, the article makes it clear that they're not in line with the goal of these bans. The problem is not that it was too harmful to the climate to produce these bags. The problem is some percentage of bags become litter and pollute the environment.

I think other environmental indicators are good to consider, but simply presenting these metrics as capturing "environmental impact" is both deceptive and out of line with the goals of the bag bans as I understand them.
Well goodluck finding a job in Saskatchewan or Manitoba or uninhabitable upper North. Unless you work for oil and gas but oh wait those industries are now also struggling and along with them the jobs they would bring are also dying.
Attaching a reputation to each critic and weighting their opinion on it could work.

Critics would be loathe to be discovered taking money if it dropped their ability to influence aggregate ranking (and those who send the money would be loathe to send it if sending it made it worthless).
Yeah, we parked in the wrong place and they towed our car.

Had to take a taxi down to the impound and pay $100+.

That was over 20 years ago.
And this is where the brand comes in: "let's try to do it in-house this time, instead of hiring those embedded-mercenaries again. Arduino was originally designed for people even more clueless than us"

Arduino had more impact at making people aware that tinkering with controllers might be fun (or profitable) than the actual amount of tinkering with Arduinos (or clones) suggests. Aiming for that "not the core job description" subset of professionals seems like a very good match.
> I’ve been wondering for a while if a Nate Silver like system of rating critics might be a better approach

Critics aren't a proxy or predictor of some objectively verifiable outcome. If you want something useful for you, you could vuild a model with your ratings of movies you've seen, then then takes critics ratings of those movies to build a model of the relationship between individual critics ratings (in isolation or combination) and predicted ratings for you, but other than that you'd just be rating how well one proxy for “will I like it” matches a different proxy.