skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the test is; when will a Siri-LLM be able to run locally on my iPhone at at least GPT-4 levels? 2030? Farther out? Never because of governments forbidding it? To what extent will improvements be driven by the last gasps of Moore’s Law vs by improving model architectures to be more efficient?
This is quite interesting. I feel you should include content from blogs that publish less often than once a week - some of the best blogs post once in a blue moon and are still quite interesting.
I get so nostalgic about AOL. It's why I learned Visual Basic (a natural progression from QBasic in my DOS days). All my friends and I wrote "Punters", "Macros" and "Progz". It really jump started my journey into Software/Programming. A year or so later I installed NetBSD and never looked back, but I often think about those late night hacking sessions writing horrible VB...
I hope they don’t use the same algorithm that Netflix uses because apparently there are tons of awful movies on Netflix that I am 87% likely to enjoy.
I guess this is why VCs don't sign NDAs.
You mean like the flu or something? So basically you are saying in a completely normal course of events and that is my point. Absolutely no reason for mass panic etc. etc..
Wonder what the fancy bags that Whole Foods sells would need. We use them all the time, but they're insulated, with a plastic inside and a zippered top.
Your morning routine is a waste of time
Everything except the name is properly opensource for the OG arduino (Arduino Uno).

For some more recent boards, there are proprietary components and binary tools and blobs - notably the Expressif board packages for the ESP8266 and ESP32's. At least some of the blame for that is with the chip manufacturers and not the Arduino project.
I'm a paying customer and this is yet another nice addition. It's something only you can do. Please keep doing this kind of stuff!
> gets price wrong

> is corrected

> pivots to some weird rant about 1TB of extremely high performance flash being "useless"

wouldn't it have saved time to just not post either of these comments?
> AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc.

How would we tell the difference?
I think the idea here is that as a leader your primary directive is “serving” those you lead.

As Jocko puts it, when the team wins, the people win too, so your job as a leader is to help them understand the why.
The Data Driven Falacy
FWIW - My family has generally used the same cotton canvas bags for decades and they are useful for more than just groceries.
yeah, I've consigned myself to needing a GUI, but for the time being, iteration with a TUI is much faster. Our focus is also CUE, where working from the Go API unlocks way more possibilities. We get to keep the extra complexity of representing CUE constructs as JSON for sending on the wire. Though that GUI might be native and avoid all the web stuff anyway.
Chicago resident here. The city making more from parking tickets is not exactly a selling point if you're the one paying them.

Before the deal we had 20-year-old meters which were generally 25 cents or 50 cents per hour (quarters only). Lakefront parking was generally free outside downtown.

After the deal, rates quadrupled or more and many more meters went up, including at the lakefront. Now there is always a worry about whether you're paid up enough to finish a picnic. At least we can pay with credit/debit cards through an app (progress!).

The deal was a con from the beginning to help fill a budget shortfall and every resident who drives felt the effects, and will for the rest of their lives.
Am I the only one around here who is so bored of the Florida Man meme?
You just need 4 3090($4000) to run it. And 4 3090 are definitely lot more powerful and versatile than an M2 mac.
I also feel like this about them, but I don't really have much knowledge on the subject. Do you have any experience or references that this might be the case?
That first article has an interesting assertion about sub-7nm, but is not a great source and doesn’t appear to offer any other details or references.

I would be very surprised if they are able to do anything without EUV.
Righteous conclusion: make computers harder to scare the normies off.
Well, the things an infiltrator would need to do are extremely subtle.

Would you be suspicious of a co-worker who recommended the adoption of the widely used log4j logging library? Of course you wouldn't!
The little snippets are magically impressive and I’m curious about the technical underpinnings.

How does the local JS code get retrieved to be sent across the wire? I’m not a JS expert but I’m not aware of a way to get the source backing a Function object. (On mobile so can’t easily access the source)

Also, does this work with transitively invoked functions? If I pass function a to pg-compute, but that a function itself calls other functions or goes on to instantiate complex classes potentially in other modules and use large npm dependencies - is pg-compute able to transfer that entire dependency tree correctly? If so, how?

Edit: Answering my own question: it calls toString on the function and some minor string manipulation to adjust the format. So no, you can’t call any other functions or local modules (the plv8 module is presumably implicitly global server side). Very neat trick.

One suggestion I might have is to memorize whether or not you’ve registered the function so you only ever send it once. Ie register it with the hash of the source code and after the first invocation never send the function again. There’s some care that has to be done to make sure that you don’t have an ever accumulating amount of garbage of functions you’ve ever run against your database, so it’s probably not a good default but something that should be possible with guidance of how to properly set things up (eg update the timestamp for that function access once a day and then have a cleanup job that deletes functions older than some date could be one approach)
California caste bill could have global ripples
So what about the environmental impact once you’ve used the bag?
Do you reuse them 8+ times?
Stores in our area have stopped stocking plastic bags. Lately I have been just loading armfuls of groceries into my car directly.

"Yes I am an idiot. I thought I could swing by the store on the way home from work. No I will not by a reusable bag - I already have 900 at home stuffed into a closet."

I don't know why we waste so much effort on environmental initiatives that help the least but make people annoyed the most.
Tesla put the windshield wiper controls on the touchscreen and a driver ended up in court over it

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53666222
> her maiden name was so sophisticated and easy

You could have solved the problem at the root by taking her name
The problem is, there is a big song and dance about string template prompts.

…but, carefully crafted string templates would be a) simpler and b) arguably better with existing solutions for this task, because it’s a trivial task and you can hand massage your string template prompts for that.

So, the narrative really doesn’t make sense, unless you’re doing something hard, but the example just shows doing something easy in a very complicated way.

I get it, maybe you can scale this up better… but you’re really not showing it off well.
I found completely the opposite. I spoke with all my Indian colleagues. Covid? What's that they said. No problem here Sir..
Another argument is the risk of early death means that the earned benefit resulting from a lifetime of work defaults to the pension plan (as part of the agreement) rather than to the heirs of the person who worked a lifetime and suffered the early death.

Many people are OK with that tradeoff, but nowhere near everyone is.
Type-ahead works fine with single-threaded GUIs. It was rock solid in Windows 3.1. It worked in nearly all win32 apps because hardly anyone used threads other than for background tasks. But it's broken in most modern UI toolkits and on the web.
Just keep building. Ideas are cheap. Focus on execution.
Given that phones are a few years behind PCs on RAM, likely whenever the average PC can do it, plus a few years. There are phones out there with 24GB of RAM already, it looks like.

Of course battery life would be a concern there, so I think LLM usage on phones will remain in the cloud.

Haven't studied phone RAM capacity growth rates in detail though
Check this out - https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui - it's imgui for tui, and I guess one can compile it as wasm and run there!
It depends. A well designed site for Apple isn't a well designed site for Lichess.

I would recommend browsing through some of the critques on the DesignCourse channel. On some videos people submit their site for critique, and he often live edits them to make them better. https://m.youtube.com/@DesignCourse
>That DB pension still has interest rate risk over a period of decades.

That's the employer's problem, not the pensioner's. Again, the large corporation that can afford to manage the risk is forced to, rather than the individual retiree.

>But maybe you just prefer effectively being forced to save at a low-risk rate which is what a DB pension is.

No, it's an effective guarantee of the benefits I'll receive upon retirement. I don't invest in anything as part of the pension.

Now, I'll agree that some individuals would long-term beat the 6% that the pension fund will get (presumably with higher risk).

But for the entire employee base to each individually beat it seems very unlikely to me. Even to collectively beat it and accept that some unlucky duckies will eat dog food when they retire, I think is not very likely.
Mass-Producing the Mistake Minimizer
Anecdotally, with composting, just a 5 gallon bucket every other week (and yes, eating at home), my trash waste is more than cut in half (and my bucket is on my deck, where it doesn't smell, so i empty the trash less)

I currently use Compost Now service, but started with Bokashi - which prevents the smells, bugs; but from a price perspective the counter top compost systems seem they would pay for themselves in less than a year compared to curbside service (our trash).
I believe loan words only happen when the word makes some level of sense to speakers of the new language. Like, wander lust is almost understandable as English.

Fingerspitzengefühl is complex enough that I'd assume people who never studied German can't even split it into the words it comes from, to guess how to pronounce it.

Finger spit zenge fühl

Finger spit zen gefühl

Finger spitz enge fühl

Finger spitz en gefühl

Finger spitz engefühl

Finger spitzen gefühl
I also find VisiData is useful for adhoc exploring of JSON data. You can also use it to explore multiple other formats. I find it really helpful, plus it gives that little burst of adrenaline from its responsive TUI, similar to fx and jless mentioned.

For my toolbox I include jq, gron, miller, VisiData, in addition to classics like sed, awk, and perl.

- https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
- http://visidata.org/

Also there is a great introduction:
- https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/ "Intro to VisiData Tutorial" by Jeremy Singer-Vine
https://poolsuite.net/
Touch screens are okay when under a thumb. But imagine raising your hand whole day to poke a screen, how disproportional your shoulders would grow and how early you’d become orthopedists regular. But on the bright side, we’d use CLIs and cursor based UIs much more.
Wouldn't it be more "efficient" networking if I could sometimes just use the mullvad app instead of tailscale > mullvad?

Either way it would be good to at least have the option to use an existing account. Maybe tailscale is taking a cut since mullvad dropped recurring sub support natively.
The point of carbon sinks is to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

The process you're suggesting is:

- Pull a bunch of oil out of the ground

- Crack it into smaller hydrocarbons (using energy from burning other oil derived hydrocarbons)

- Polymerize those smaller components into plastics (using more energy from burning hydrocarbons)

- Bury the plastic

That doesn't take CO2 out of the atmosphere, every single part of the process is adding more.

For a carbon sink to be useful you need to be taking carbon that is already part of the carbon cycle and sequestering it, not pulling up carbon that has been buried for millions of years and then sending half of that into the air and the other half into a landfill.
It's hard to imagine now but there used to be SO MUCH plastic bag trash blowing everywhere when I grew up (in California). People don't appreciate how much cleaner our cities and green spaces are now that there's a cost attached to this common form of disposable plastic.
https://rogerebert.com is still up and running and their staff is still writing reviews for new films. It's one of my go-to sources for film reviews.
The concept of requiring a special string to gain access to an account is massively dated, whether that string is something a human has memorised or random output from a password manager. Either the database of special strings lives in your brain, a notebook, a bit of paper, or encrypted on disk somewhere, but it's still a database of special strings.

Public key crypto never took off for account management and neither did Persona, but the current iteration with passkeys/Webauthn should hopefully be a fresh step in the right direction there.
> Do you agree that the UK has banned some silent prayer?

This is true in the same sense that the UK has also banned breathing, because murdering people is illegal and some people happen to be breathing whilst doing their murdering.
What does the -2.3 uses for biopolymer mean? Biopolymer actively generates clean water??
I used to reuse the plastic shopping bags as trash liners for small cans around the house. Since they have been banned I have actually had to start buying bags for home.
A masterclass in Information architecture design.
This is really good. With more and more of the large web filled with SEO crap and gargantuan articles written because that's what google wants, it is great to read from the people who actually write the interesting things the AIs train on.
I use the paper for other things once they rip from use.
It’s a cute saying, but that really doesn’t make sense in this situation. How is society taking a loss?
“Maybe it's just me, but when people higher up in the hierarchy than me insist on describing themselves with "low status" labels, it really rubs me the wrong way.”

Totally agree. Reminds me of a lot of articles some years ago where some millionaires called themselves “minimalist” because they had given up their kitchens and other things and eating at restaurants all the time.
Why is it "AI threatens to..." rather than "AI opens opportunities to..."?

To me, there seems to be way more upside than downside, like pretty much every new tech
Dave2D pointed out something interesting, that having detachable controllers is a must if you want to control it with mouse w/o keyboard, which is also an option. That's not possible with the Steam Deck, or at least too uncomfortable.
Isn't that a completely different project?
What I want is a chart which can evaluate the consumption/spend/waste of products pre-plastic, vs, post plastic as weighted by things such as milk delivery services.. with glass pickup (soda (coke) and milk) etc) vs, single use plastic.

Even in Cebu Philippines, they still had massive glass cola re-bottling plants, as recent as today...

Why is the US so afraid of actual reuse, as opposed to trash. (oh, we invented the plastics industry...)
> This argument is the same as "this is why we need a fully uncensored/unmoderated forum on the internet"

Nonsense. These are totally unrelated things, and people use them for different purposes.
Ah, I see, that's not what I meant (hence the 'TUIs are often tailored for advanced users' and 'the majority of GUIs prioritize user-friendly experiences for the general consumer' phrasing).

I agree there are also many GUIs tailored for professionals. Not sure if there are TUIs tailored for general consumers though.
You do not create experiments. You create models that try to explain the world and check your model predictions and what happens in the world. When the two disagree, you update the model and try to explain what went wrong. As you cannot make experiments to check, it is inevitable that you will end with more than one model for different school of thoughts. As is in all academic disciplines that are part of humanities. This is not like in the natural sciences where you can agree with a single model. Nonetheless, this is better than having no empirism or scientific method at all and having models built based on some logical axioms treated as the ultimate truth, as some unscientific parts of the economy do.

Moreover, in the natural sciences, you also cannot perform experiments for some parts of cosmology, for example. Nonetheless, you keep creating models in the hope that they would allow you to discover and predict more things and to interpret better the universe. If they do, your model clearly shows some benefits, even if in the future with more powerful technology, it could be disproved. Economy do not need to be so different than this.
"Where there are rocks... watchout!" - Alan Watts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbThJg6ehU

> Otherwise, a rock will not be intelligent by itself. Or a mountain. Or a star.

Yes that is panpsychism. Otherwise you totally miss my point.

edit: a little less sarcastic perhaps, point being is that if consciousness is fundamental (which it increasingly seems to be the case according to most recent physics) - then the universe indeed KNOWS what it is doing.
I'm no chemical engineer, but I think the problem with that plan is cost and feasibility.

Extracting carbon from the air and converting it to hydrocarbons and plastics is neither practical nor cheap with current technology. It will also require a lot of energy even if a practical process is found.

Maybe someday, but not anything that is immediately useful.

Reducing plastic use is also not without side-effects. Other containers such as glass bottles or metal cans are heavier, which increases fuel burned in transporting goods.

For stuff like shopping bags, single-use food containers and utensils, where there are easy alternatives such as reusable bags, bans probably are most effective, but even bans are not without side effects. Remember that plastic shopping bags were the "solution" to environmentalist protests over paper bags back in the 1970s/80s.
And New Jersey banned paper bags!
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Agree, this site looks like it is tailored closely to its users' needs.

However, I don't envy the developers that need to keep this ASP.NET web parts site up to date.
I’m not sure I buy the analogy. In a forum, which presumably is moderated not censored in your example, it’s an exchange between people with the intent in keeping it civil and on topic. You have many humans attempting to collaborate and the moderators job is to ensure the humans don’t wander off into human inanity and to protect both the discourse and the participants.

An AI model is talking with myself, about subjects I want to discuss in private with a second brain. If I want to talk to myself about erotica, why can’t I? If I want to yell obscenities at myself, why can’t I?

I can understand why Microsoft or Google don’t want to give a chat bot that does these things, or offer dangerous medical advice, or whatever, but if it’s my own device and a model I’m running myself, why on earth would I want a censored model? I.e., I see why the service provider wants to give me a censored model, but do I want a censored model? Why would I?
Most of those alternative straws are covered in coatings that contain PFAS. Including types that have been phased out in the US.
Note that GCC will vectorize the first version if you add `-ftree-vectorize` to your optimization arguments. In order to vectorize the same loop with floats, (particularly relevant for gamedev) you need to add `-ftree-vectorize -fassociative-math -fno-signed-zeros -fno-trapping-math`.

For gamedev, where numerical correctness is often secondary to speed, I would expect to use `-O3 -ffast-math`. In games where deterministic simulation is important, (eg, multiplayer) you may need to use only `-O3` in the physics simulation and only use `-ffast-math` in the graphics portion.

https://godbolt.org/z/W3GTq5oo5

https://godbolt.org/z/3qTnWrPsr
There's a lot more moderation on 4chan beyond that. Most boards trim excessively off-topic discussion, trolling, or flamebaiting. Half the boards also don't allow NSFW images. These rules are regularly, even if not strictly, enforced.

The low-rules boards are often seen as cesspools by other users.
I've been writing software for around 40 years now. I absolutely refuse to have any Echo-like device, Ring cameras, smart thermostats, etc. in my home. It's bad enough that my phone constantly snoops on me. I've warned my family that if any such smart device comes into my home, I'm taking it outside and putting a round through it.
The problem was a few companies went bankrupt and then the workers discovered not only did they lose their job, but it turns out the pension they had been in for decades was invested in company stock and thus worthless.

We have a lot of laws around pensions these days to prevent that. However they were written when the investing environment was different (higher interest rates made AAA bonds a great investment, so investing in risky stocks didn't make sense). The result is pensions are generally have a terrible return on investment. You are much better off with a well managed 401k in modern funds (at least as I write this and the 30 years before, while I can only guess what the future will hold I think that trend will hold for the next 10 years at least).

401k has one other advantage: it is clear where the money is and who controls it. Pensions often are setup as a great deal if you work for the same company for 40+ years (25-65), but if you switch jobs you don't get nearly as much, even if all the other companies have a pension plan your total is much worse.
How much would that system cost, if you could easily buy those GPUs
Stop talking about it and call a law firm. Your local Bar Association will be able to give you a list of firms/attorneys that practice in this area, or your existing lawyer may have a recommendation. Many law firms will give you a short consultation for free. Bring a succinct written summary of the facts with you that briefly describes the product, how you discovered the issue, and what you found when you investigated, with dates. Include a list of evidence items you have already collected. Litigation is difficult and expensive, but if you have a strong case (and it sounds like you do) then the law firm may take it on contingency in return for a larger portion of the settlement/judgment.

EDIT: I wouldn't trust the opinions of the 'just execute better' posters here, considering your competitors' employees already infiltrated your slack channel.
The Secret to Nvidia's AI Success
Config.tips – open-source library of tips and tricks for development configs
they take privacy extremely seriously, by trying to reduce the amount of data they even have that can get subpoenaed (no logs, no accounts, accept payment by cash) and appear to have not yet fucked up.
I miss working with Erlang and BEAM. It's a well built system and in some ways quite different from other things out there.
yeah. my bad. Turning off relay, did show the right message. Thanks for that.
I do that too. My son and his friends love building big train circuits. I love that too, but I've got a bit more eye than them for where things are under tension, and I try to correct for it.