skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hamel Husain hasn't done testing vs llama.cpp, but this still might be of interest (includes mlc which is roughly in line w/ llama.cpp batch=1 perf): https://hamel.dev/notes/llm/inference/03_inference.html

He has benchmarks on an A6000 which should be roughly in line w/ a 3090 if you want to compare to my numbers (I test mlc as well, although my 3090 results are slower since I'm testing a llama2-7b @ 4K context and mlc currently slows down significantly w/ longer context): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kT4or6b0Fedd-W_jMwYp...
Awesome. Whelp, purchased the e-ink display, that looks nice.
HN is run by a VC firm, and the explicit goal of the companies they fund is to grow very big very quickly. While HN's audience extends beyond that the VCs do leave behind a huge imprint.
they are just prompted differently - you can choose the model and a prompt, and ollama presents it as its own "model", so instead of `llama2:7b`, it gets presented as `bartender:latest`.

makes it very convenient.
Are these separate instances/containers with regards to cache and cookies and such? I would love to have this because I have multiple Atlassian accounts I need to juggle and it is a pain today.
I was one the interns featured in the article, and I would agree with that sentiment.

Many of my colleagues and fellow interns were skilled programmers, but very few—if any—inherently possessed something that you or I don't have. The intern class was primarily composed of individuals with a curiosity for technology and circumstances that enabled their exploration.

I recognize the ease of feeling dissatisfied with one's own achievements; I doubt that receiving an offer from Jane Street for you or gaining admission into a elite school for myself would quell our insecurities. You've accomplished a lot, though I don't know how to help you recognize that.
Is this because application developers are simply going where the people are? Or is there better data harvesting to be had on your average iOS/Android app with blindly accepted permissions than there is in the average desktop browser.
List of FPGA-Based Computing Machines
This is super cool, it's great to see a pure WASM offering in this space. It does chug quite a bit on my M1 Mac Pro though!
Retail theft isn’t increasing much, major industry study finds
> r/DIY mods never asked before going from the original 48 hrs to permanently deleting.

Okay that's bad then, you didn't mention that one before.

> So what?

So... you should be blaming them a lot too.

> remove the content you own

That's still a tantrum, isn't it? And even less likely to get results.
The point of `unsafe` in Rust is that you can generally limit `unsafe` code to a few short functions and encapsulate them in a safe interface. This means less code to review and maintaining strong guarantees in the rest of the safe Rust code.
VAT is not a tax on spending, but on the added value your business is producing. Which is not related on income, etc.

for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax
X/Twitter running as a new "Web App" is pretty solid, and a huge upgrade from the older, unmaintained Twitter macOS app. Everything pretty much works as expected & feels native, though not sure if Dock icon badge counts are supported.
> But it's basically similar to running a "update" of you distros package manager automatically on the fly.

Which is a thing now. My openSUSE MicroOS/Aeon machines default to running transactional-update every day, and updates take effect on the next reboot. Given that MicroOS is allegedly to SUSE as CoreOS is to Red Hat, I suspect the latter has similar defaults.
Koboldcpp does this: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/v1.44.2

They basically just ship executables for different llama.cpp backends and select the correct one with a python script, which is fine, as the executables are really small.
NearLink launches, 6X faster than Bluetooth, with 1/30th the latency
This resonates with me because personally I don't see a lot of use for my (dev) workflows. Was talking with my SO recently on this topic, they are close to finishing a PhD and do scientific research. For their workflows, consuming a lot of written information and producing a lot of written information, a case could be made it is more useful.
You should see the dismal state of innovation in 'innovation is dead' comments!
Consider the source. If you poke around the about us section, there's not much there, so it's not clear what their legal or reporting, etc. bona fides are. You gotta take it as amateur journalism and be glad there is at least a link to the decision.
> Lobbying works. Tech will eventually figure this out.

Tech is well aware of this, and is spending accordingly[1]. However I think politics are a bigger motivating factor, and taking "tech" to task is viewed as a good way to score points (probably helps that legacy media views tech as direct competitors, and covers them accordingly).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/apple-ramped-up-lobbying-spe...
This is definitely a step in the right direction, but I'm very curious to see how idioms, vernacular, and other colloquialisms come across. It will be hilarious, but also a great way to learn more about other cultures.

> OpenAI says it’s intentionally limiting how widely this tool will be available due to concerns around safety and privacy.

Yeah I could see people using this for fake product endorsements.
Give them jobs fixing roads then.
> Have you ever been laid off from a job for reasons that were not related to your performance?

I haven't been laid off, but we did have some small layoffs this year. After the second one, while no specifics were stated about who was laid off, managers were told the selection criteria included looking for knowledge overlap and seeing who could be lost without losing knowledge. That basically explains my team: the one person we lost had fairly deep knowledge in only a single system, while two others had shallower knowledge in the same system and knowledge in other systems. I'm sure knowledge depth wouldn't have stood out in the performance review documents HR has, so the person we lost probably would have looked redundant to them, even though I suspect that person was trying to position themselves as indispensable.
I doubt many people who up and left to desperately save money will go rent a new apartment within commuting distance of an unreliable employer.

Perhaps there will be a total split in the job market as most look for remote jobs and relocation bonuses have to be perpetual to attract people in.
And that's good, that's why we have so much investment in browsers. Without that, every OS would have a browser just good enough not to make people switch to another OS, but not good enough to replace native apps.

Particularly relevant for this case:

> The only exception is Google – we don’t make money when you search with Google. However, we know that some of you use this search engine daily, so we include it in Vivaldi.
> I hate the TSA. But one thing to consider is it’s effectively a jobs program

How was transferring the security function from private industry to the federal government a jobs program? Its an airline-industry subsidy (and it was lobbied for by the industry for exactly that reason in the wake of 9/11), both by making the government responsible for the direct cost of the function and by the government absorbing (or, via sovereign immunity, eliminating) legal liability for both abuses in carrying the function out and failures resulting in harms to travelers and third parties.
well then we should fund other jobs programs too like gas station attendants & lift button pushers.
"How Important Is Networking?"

Apparently it is really important, because I suck at it and I'm professionally stunted.
I guess - it's just that nothing is mature yet. I can easily see this problem taking a century to "solve". Society has a lot of inertia and tech is always unintuitive - what even is a keyboard? Can I eat it? Can I burn it to cook the meat?
This one is basically SOTA for AMD, if you can install rocm properly:

https://github.com/YellowRoseCx/koboldcpp-rocm

Some other projects support rocm less explicitly, and not as easily.
Thanks. For others like me not in the SEO world, extracted below the links for what "core updates" [0] and "helpful content updates" [1] are, according to Google.

[0] https://developers.google.com/search/updates/core-updates

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/updates/helpful-content...
I recently switched to Claude after using ChatGPT for several months. CG tells you why something is great, while Claude tells you how it's useful. CG is more of a psychoanalysis chatbot, which would be good as a virtual partner.
In São Paulo’s cityscape, community gardens prompt a new food paradigm
EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
Follow the discussion chain back up: jacobsimon's posed the question: "How would that work with video editing?"

The answer is that it doesn't. Some might try to make it work by using proprietary video editing software that signs a ledger of what edit operations were performed, or something like that, but that doesn't work. The signing keys will eventually be extracted from the video editor or the camera, or the video editor or camera will be hacked to sign something it shouldn't. You might say that this at least stops low-skilled attackers, but the misinformation that is most dangerous to humanity, that created by governments to start wars, won't be impeded by any of these schemes. The whole cryptographic signature proposal is worse than useless.
Yup, it makes me wonder what % of consumer goods for sale via FBA are from retail theft rings. 52% fees on stuff that cost you $0 ain't bad. Otherwise, it's very very bad.
Meanwhile Microsoft dropped their major Windows update today too, enabling me to ungroup taskbar items. Put THAT in your Apple and smoke it!
Good article. Ballard's tenor and tone are purposeful; it is as if he is trying to present the world of his books through the same sort of lens the world was presented through the media of the day — flat, always something outside what is seen, muted colors, the like [edit: clinical is a word that fits his writing well]. If you have not read Running Wild, I strongly suggest it — this is a prescient book, way ahead of most when it comes to considering what the culture has been busy doing to the kids.
Super interesting problem that's affecting more people than they probably realize.
As long as you're comfortable self-hosting and admining, that shouldn't be a problem.
Anti socialists claim socialism gives the state too much power. Not too little. Inarguably mixed economies are dominant and stable. Inarguably almost all countries with any history of self described socialist government persist. And American governments have an established history of acting on less than existential interests.
That would make it harder for new search engines to rise.
Do you tip your landlord?
What's wrong with btrfs? I've been using it for a decade, both as a daily driver and on a NAS. I think it's great.

I hate building external modules, ZFS has never seemed worth the trouble to me. Why do you care so much?
I'm an American and moved from the US to Portugal a year ago, though I still spend a lot of time in the US. Here's what my biggest challenges have been:

- Family and friends are now an 8 hour flight and 6 time zones away. Staying connected is difficult, particularly given American rat race schedules. I don't have children, so this is a challenge but manageable.

- The visa -- among the easiest to get for Americans with no family ties to Europe -- took 5 months and TONS of paperwork. I had to lease an apartment for an entire year in order to APPLY for the visa. In total, it cost about $40k to get set up there. Most middle-class Americans don't have that laying around.

- The language/culture barrier is real, even in a place with lots of English speakers. I'm diligent about attending lessons and studying, but it takes time. Learning the culture is even harder and I quite regularly make a fool of myself in public.

- Above all, I've gained an appreciation for how optimized for convenience life in the US is. I dry my clothes outdoors on a line just like everyone else. This alone is a nonstarter for most Americans I know.
I mean, it is present. Just because it's not as advanced as you'd like it to be, doesn't mean it's not there. You can move windows, you can cycle between different active windows, you can minimize windows and so on. That's window management.

Yes, super basic, but so is most features of Apple software. Simple, basic and without customization, just like how many Apple users like their software.
As a free user on Android, I'm able to use YT in PiP mode with any non-music video. Also FWIW, I doubt YT Music will ever have enough monopolistic control over the podcast industry to take away such fundamental functionality.
I know in a lot of cities they have public latrines so popping a number 1 is easier.

Number 2 is harder. And yeah, if I had to drop a 2 and didn't have any change, I would probably do it right in front of the pay toilet to prove a point.
What? The old canvas based widgets in OSX were not performance hogs.
"Its premise is that learning to read, like learning to speak, comes naturally via exposure to good material."

//facepalm

Speech is biological and has been with us for hundreds of thousands of years. We don't need to be taught to speak.

Reading and Writing (which are NOT the same skill) were accounting tools invented by temple clerics 10,000 years ago, that we only started trying to teach universally barely 100 years ago. They are not part of our biology or natural development.

No one would try teaching mathematics by handing a four year old a Good, Quality, Well-Written physics textbook and expect them to understand what they are looking at, much less that they would somehow learn addition in the process.
Is that supposed to be a dig? So you’re advocating for zealotry? Weird take.
Chrome has supported those PWA shortcuts in macOS at least several years...
> they collected 51.8% in fee. That's insane.

Back in the 80's, my company sold compilers through third party mail order houses. They all demanded providing the product to them at 50% of their selling price.

It's what having somebody else advertise, collect orders, process payments, ship, and deal with returns is always going to cost you.

If it's unacceptable to your business, sell directly. My company did both.
That's what Temporal is for
A meta religion, Church Of Carnal Knowledge
Oh, and some companies offer APIs that match the OpenAI API and there are some open-source projects that do this for llama running locally. Since those would be compatible with the openai python package they will work with magentic too - though some of these do not support function calling.

See for example Anyscale Endpoints https://app.endpoints.anyscale.com/landing
and https://github.com/AmineDiro/cria
I mean you could if you rationed access to fossil fuels. Obviously the framework to do that isn't in place today in the US but it probably will be at some point as reserves thin out over time and just letting the market handle it is going to result in chaos when it's no longer profitable for private ambulance companies to fill their tank or local police department can't afford it.
I am always surprised when somebody finds this a novel take. This sort of corruption is older than Boss Tweed. But I guess every generation has to relearn the same lessons.
You could, but I think you had to enable a hidden setting to do so.

I used to keep a few on my desktop with this.
Colour me surprised. How are carbon offset credits different from Catholic Church's indulgences?
Okay, 100k means we are getting to the point where one can safely edit a large piece of text, say a blogpost or a small scientific paper if you are lucky. It still means most of the long running interactions will get clipped/compressed relatively soon.

But good to see the industry evolving
I think they just mixed up their heuristic; fast food vendors always do the cheapest thing at scale, this is often sacrifices quality, but clearly the more economical thing to do is to kill and butcher the cattle ASAP. I mean why would they feed an adult cow for an extra year if they could avoid it?
In my experience, Americans are often conditioned to believe that they are living in the best country in the world, and that all other countries are inferior and not safe. They were also kept busy by their system and most don't even have their passports.
It's definitely a fun dataset to explore.

Dale from ClickHouse wrote a pretty extensive blog series on the Hacker News dataset, ingest approach, some queries of interest...

Could be a good bit of reading alongside the project?

https://clickhouse.com/blog/getting-data-into-clickhouse-par...
I get the sentiment behind this reaction that most people have. I just have a hard time understanding how it is any different than brick and mortar companies using their sales data to determine which products they should have a store brand version of. Costco, Walmart, Target, etc. all do this, and have been doing it for decades.

At a Costco, they'll often stop selling the brand name product if they introduce a "Kirkland Signature" version. Amazon doesn't take down competing products when they launch Amazon Basics versions.

Not really intending to defend Amazon, because they are indefensible, but by big corporate standards, I don't see how they are anywhere near as bad as Walmart. And nobody is trying to break Walmart up.
They aren’t using water based ogments. Dilution isn’t a thing.
You should read up on the IPCC. They sugar coat reports to make us feel better.
SF to Clear Homeless Camps After Court Clarifies ‘Involuntarily Homeless’
Would be strange if they couldn't train ai on their work. Imo anyone should be able to
I’d encourage anyone to seek out a couple of his interviews which are available on the usual video web site. An interesting fellow.
I ate a lot of popcorn during the Microsoft trials - plural - and the received wisdom from previous generations that was already being forgotten at the time is this bit of torch-passing, which I now impart to you.

Anti-trust cases usually only succeed once the court of public opinion has turned against the monopolist. If the public is still in favor or ambivalent, then you will not find the political will to successfully prosecute your case.

But once the company has abused their power enough to turn the public against them (arrogance in addition to greed), then the charges tend to stick.

My read is that there is no amount of lobbying that can be successful once the pitchforks have come out. But it could also be how many whistleblowers you can hunt up. Once your brother is giving you shit for working for the Evil Empire, it's a lot easier to get up the courage to be a witness.
it was well defined enough for the FTC to bring this suit with a pretty detailed complaint, I think we're good there

"other companies" don't have the same market power here, or indeed engage in the same anticompetitive
behavior, but again, that's all explained when you read the FTC complaint detailing the actual behaviors in question
Weren’t those outlets even less targeted?
That's still the case in chrome: chrome://settings/searchEngines
So far, we haven't really focused on code ingestion. We've had a few users try it out for that use case, but we code ingestion and generation is a bit different. We've found a lot of users have success in the natural language areas (ingesting enterprise content, ecommerce content, etc) and then building chatbots on top of the all-in-one API
Calling Spotlight a "search engine" is like calling a Hotwheelz car "a race car". Like, yeah, it can search for stuff, but the scale of what 99.99% of people expect a "search engine" to do is many, many orders of magnitude larger than what Spotlight does. Hell, Spotlight struggles to find a file by name on my laptop in under a few seconds.
Succinct. Thank you.
>we do not have an industrial level of excess energy

If only there was some turnkey design we could build that produces utterly massive amounts of energy with a few grams of fuel that can also be continually recycled based on physical principles understood for over a century.

Fortunately for environmentalists, no such solution exists. Could you imagine how much of a socioeconomic disaster it would be if we printed a trillion dollars to build hundreds of gigawatts of excess generating capacity to just run carbon capture directly (and desalinization once we're done with that)?

Besides, we would never print a trillion dollars to save 0.01 quality-adjusted-life-years across the world population. The bill for that is just too high.
The irony here is that Amazon is literally a health care provider, after acquiring One Medical.

Break all these companies up, before we find ourselves even deeper in a cyperpunk dystopia.
Children don't actually NEED electronic entertainment of any kind. Kids lived that way for a very long time.
I think some might be slightly troubled by hearing that logic is not causal. But I agree.

One can _test_ a set of statements to see if they are valid logical deductions from another set of statements. Even if true, this does not mean that the deducible statements are _caused_.

In some cases, that statement from above (the deduced one) might be 'realized' (noticed by people) before its premises are!

We might even be able to logically prove it is true without the other set of statements! Why? There are multiple logical paths (not always mapping to reality) that _could_ prove a particular statement.
They were highly patent encumbered for a while. I think much of that is expired but the manufacturing base hasn’t caught up yet.

The pricing is pretty expensive even in bulk. $50 for the larger displays isn’t off by an order of magnitude (e.g. 7 inch with red) especially as a retailer is buying that as a larger solution which includes all the syncing hardware, maintenance programs, and integrations.

For retailers, the savings story is in increased pricing accuracy and reduced labor for price changes. There is the promise of dynamic pricing but that’s a minefield for various reasons.

That’s why you tend to see it in high-value retailers (pricing accuracy, precision, smaller tag count) and grocers (lots of price changes, high labor costs).
Yeah - sounds a lot like the various dishes across a range from the Mediterranean to the "-stans" that I've made with lamb. No reason I couldn't use mutton - if it were available. I've had some lamb that was absolutely overpowering, so having a hard time imaging something more than that.
This is NEVER a bad idea.
Since he has left his day job I was hoping he would start writing them again but that hasn't happened.
Why would anybody need to make that choice?
Agree with the "not been on vacation recently". Things have been gradually backsliding in the US, and when the change is gradual it's easier to miss. There will be a bunch of downvotes on this post, along with "then get outta here" replies, but really: just travel outside of the US and see for yourself.

Also, there is a predominant culture in the US where everyone must always think it is the best country in the world at everything, and if you question this narrative in any area you are somehow a traitor. Shaking this off requires quite a shift in perspective.

Lastly, the taxes thing is mostly false. Sit down and actually do the math. You will be likely be surprised. For one, California taxes are higher than in most of Canada (not Europe, but I have lived in both places). Do your own comparison and don't assume.