skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here:

Thank you for the feedback :-)
A lot of the work regarding the comparison with „simple“ approximate matrix multiplication has been done in the preceding paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10860

While I share your enthusiasm regarding the potential, we have to be careful about the limiting factors. Our main contributions on the algorithmic side are the reformulation of Maddness such that it is differentiable (autogradable), and we can use it in e2e DNN training, as decision trees are not differentiable.

We are still in the process of understanding how to optimise the training. In the next step, we want to look into transformers as, for now, we only looked into ResNets for easy comparability.

If you are a student at ETH Zurich and want to work on this -> reach out to me
I think you might have some nontraditional views here. Eg you say that Go isn't a low level and that Rust isn't a backend language - these are poorly defined terms and subjective judgment calls, so I'm not going to tell you you're wrong, but I will say that I and many others would regard Go as being low level, Rust as being a backend language (not to the exclusion of using it other places), and both languages as being peers you might weigh the benefits of on the same project.

Which is all to say, comparing Go to Rust makes a lot of sense to me.
I know that Norway and Sweden apply their anti-prostitution laws to citizens regardless of if they bought sex in a country where it is legal (like Denmark and Germany). Maybe less controversially, they also demand their citizens obey their own stronger anti-bribery laws abroad - I think lots of countries do that.
T9 text with a rotary phone. That would have been fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
A user that seems to have a one-to-one relationship to a human who wants to use Twitter in the ordinary way. There are many other kinds: Test users created by Twitter staff or other companies, dormant users, spambots, and so on and so forth.

If you want to make good decisions about what to serve, it helps to analyse the traffic logs, separate the authentic users from the rest, do lots of analysis on authentic users only, and then make implementation decisions based on the analysed behaviour of the authentic users.
GRule – Rule Engine
It’s simply greed:

OAI employees have $5-20m+ equity packages and want that number to grow, and they trust the guy who’s made himself the face of the company through its growth

The large financial stakes of OAI employees is more powerful than ideas about morality or idealism that are offered as the reasons here

They have an opportunity to sell equity next month as well in a second offering and obviously don’t want to wipe out that value suddenly. The workers stand to make hugely generational wealth overnight. Of course that’s on their mind as otherwise wage earners.
"Two explanations" isn't accurate, its more like Ilya gave two examples of Sam not being candid with the board. "Two explanations" makes it sound like two competing explanations. What Ilya gave was two examples of the same problem.

I can't help thinking that Sam Altmans universal popularitity with OpenAI staff might be because they all get $10million each if he comes back and resets everything back to how it was last week.
So most Tesla owners you speak to have a Tesla Model S Plaid?
Key line:

>Yes, but: Breaching the 2-degree threshold for two days does not mean that the Paris Agreement's target of holding global warming to "well below" such a mark has been exceeded.

Definitely cause for concern, but not panic.
Electrocaloric effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect
Python might say that, but as often it’s not really true: it really mostly works off of 2045

- the “default” encoder (“b64encode”) will pad the output

- although it will not linebreak (“encodebytes”) does that)

- the default decoder will error if the input is not padded

- the default decoder will ignore all non-encoding characters by default

Also both b64encode and encodebytes actually use binascii.b2a_base64, which claims conformance to RFC 3548, which attempts to unify 1421 and 2045. Except RFC 3548 requires rejecting non-encoding data, whereas (again) Python accepts an ignores it by default, in 2045 fashion.
Well now we have half of the political spectrum claiming morality with one extreme position and the other half claiming morality with the opposite extreme.

Fear is a bad way to govern.
> Why are we not taking them at their word?

Ignoring the lack of credibility in the given explanations, people are, perhaps, also wary that taking boards/execs at their word hasn't always worked out so well in the past.

Until an explanation that at least passes the sniff test for truthiness comes out, people will keep speculating.

And so they should.
>Combine that with a totally inexperienced board, and D'Angelo's maneuvering, and you have the single greatest shitshow in tech history

do we have a ranking of shitshows in tech history though - how does this really compare to Jobs' ouster at Apple.

Cambridge Analytics and The Facebook we must do better greatest hits?
I took it it was sarcasm...
>used [...] by people who are unable to experience empathy for others

The irony of this statement seems to be lost on you.
People don't realize this. Blazor is about the developer. I am a `DevOps/Backend` guy and in my previous job some internal tools were made with Blazor.

It was such a joy to work with. Productivity was so high. You add Blazor Radzen components[1] or Syncfusion[2] and suddenly feels like magic. Super complex grid tables can filter, re-order columns, aggregate them and much more functionality for free in 10 lines or fewer.

I cannot recommend enough to people to give it a try. This technology enabled me to do a repair shop software in 1-2 month on my spare time. From customers to emitting bills in PDF. Zero JS and just using the basics grids from bootstrap CSS to make it responsive. As a non frontend developer, this was heaven.

[1] https://blazor.radzen.com/
[2] https://www.syncfusion.com/blazor-components
I'm going to assume that he's referring to Tasha and Helen.

I don't know if that is accurate, or even fair - the only thing I can see, is that there's very little open information regarding them.

From the little I can find, Tasha seems to have worked at NASA Research Park, as well as having been CEO for startup called Geo Sim Cities. Stanford and CMU alumni? While other websites say Bard college and University of Southern California.

As for Helen, she seems to have worked as a researcher in both academia and Open Philanthropy.
This is a dumb question but I guess this means that you can't make something like a LoRA in software, right? Because the network is physically hardcoded?
Nobody knows where to find these glyphs on the keyboard.
Just for the record, FORTRAN is #12 on tiobe [1], leaving go and swift behind.

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Ollama doesn't use Docker by default. While it is one of the install/download options, the default mode of operation is installing it as a native application (where they provide prebuilt binaries for the main platforms/architectures) into which you can easily load models from HuggingFace repos or local GGUF files.
Hm. Now I wonder whether they consider accounts like bigbenclock or darthputinkgb to be authentic.
Most likely related to this:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/openai-pauses-new-chatgp...

The back-end cost does not scale. Hence, they have a big problem. AGI nonsense reasons are ridiculous. Transformers are a road to nowhere and they knew it.
Note that this is in the Independent Submission stream, Informational category:

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Apparently, the engines might be 20% of the cost of the plane. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/16018
> hell, we can't even agree on the need to do so

I think that is THE main problem. Once we all agree, there will be money put to this and problem will eventually be solved.
>I also want to point out that (at least on Linux) getenv() returns a pointer to the stack! How could anybody with basic programming literacy reasonably expect that to be thread safe?

getenv_r is the standard way to provide thread safety in such situations: https://man.netbsd.org/getenv.3
GitHub and GitLab are sufficiently useful, AI is not (for me)
He is dialing the ASCII codes, 114 for r, 108 for l, 100 for d, and 33 for !. Or maybe Unicode code points, impossible to tell from this demo.
A bit of a hit and miss really. I haven't fiddled with languages all that much, but I was kinda curious to try a bunch of models with Spanish(the only large language other than English in my toolbox) about a month or two ago. Aguila 7B was the one that really stood out but then again it shouldn't come as a surprise - it is practically Falcon 7B trained on Spanish data.
Any link to this? I actually haven't seen any reported results on less than 2 bits.
Because the of political agenda of Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats who want to protect Wall Street establishment. Prior to this political agenda, the SEC did not care. Now is good time, because the SEC has the required political backing.
The head of one of the world's biggest oil companies has been named to lead the COP28 global climate talks in Dubai, later this year. [0]

Hydrocarbon fuels will continue to lead the agenda and pace, read stiffle action, for climate emergency mitigation through lobbying and media narrative.

The end game is obvious but there is still a long runway of profit that can be extracted until it is no longer palitable for public opinion.

I see three possible tipping points:

- Climate change erodes US hegemony to a point that is no longer palitable to US national interests [1]

- People mass suing companies for climate damage in a magnitude that impacts the bottom line or charges C-levels criminally.

- Environmental groups start taking out Oil & Gas Board members and lobbyists, subsequent 'terror' precipitates an actual sunsetting.

At least the geometric shape building in America seems to be ahead of this in contingency plans for some tipping points.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64240206

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/intelligenc...
Just checked the Scrum.org glossary definition for Product Owner and found no mention of Backlog.
Typst texts are quite readable, the language has explicit support to make it as good as feasible (e.g. longer text parameters can be passed unquoted within a [] block, so it is still left readable). Plus you can abstract away more complex configs inside a function, and end up with `#myFunc [My normal unquoted text]`

But it is apples to oranges, you can properly format text to book editor capabilities with typst, while you can only do basic stuff with markdown.
I have my personal gmail pinned (on FF) and was never logged out of it.
It's not an effect at all. It calculates and outputs one token at time. The algorithm requires all previous tokens in order to output the next one. DALL-E is a totally different algorithm. It does not have a scanout or brushstrokes.
Good point! Better sit at home and not even try in that case. Thanks for your unique perspective that life is hard and it doesn’t feel fair.
Anyone tried Blazor in production? I checked it out (BRIEFLY) back when it was released, and it looked pretty cool - but there was really not a whole lot of info back then. It's been 4-5 years now, so I'm curious if anyone has actually integrated it into prod
Cryptocurrency: Integrity Destroyer or Policy Scapegoat?
My samsung tablet (wifi) has an average idle drain of 0.3% per hour, meaning what you see in 2 days would take a week. On windows laptops hibernation can also fix idle drain, but that is a bit of a hack.

The 3ds is atrocious though, even with wifi off. With wifi it can't even last a day.
> The problem lies with the user, not with the platform.

The platform promises "brand safety" but isn't delivering it. That's why advertisers have withdrawn their ads.

The owner of the platform very publicly cozying up to antisemitic comments isn't a good look either. Brands don't want to be associated with that. Brands don't like brand damage.

Tesla investors don't like the brand damage:

https://electrek.co/2023/11/20/tesla-investors-turn-tsla-boa...

Musk has chosen these outcomes. He has no one but himself to blame.
It really is incredible the extent to which the American right has abandoned any pretence of caring about the rule of law. Like, this is mafia state stuff. It wouldn’t fly in many developing world democracies, nevermind developed.
Its weird cuz he's gay so its duly disturbing if they shared in that discovery and also talked to Mom and Dad about it. This whole situstion sounds like it may have sufficient legs to moonlight as an Aristocrats joke
I had quite a lot of faith in Blazor back in 2017, at the time I was still working mainly with C#, but then instead of getting better and more robust it went down the tangent of trying to do everything, all at once... But not in the "batteries-included" sense, instead more like in the bloated, unwieldy, and poorly documented.

In the end I moved on, started working with Rails and not long ago we got Hotwire, which fares pretty well with Blazor, or Liveview...
> Many effective altruists — a pseudo-philosophical movement that seeks to donate money to head off existential risks — have imagined scenarios in which a powerful AI system could be used by a terrorist group to, say, create a bioweapon.

Oh, come on. In the very last sentence, no less.
Worldcoin has no conflict of interest with OpenAI. Unless he gave tech for free causing great loss to the OpenAI it is simply finding an early beta customer.

Also, to fire over something so trivial would be equally if not more stupid. It is like firing Elon because he without open bidding sent Tesla on SpaceX.
That's my experience too, it's near perfect for internal tools like admin panels, where you don't necessarily need to hire dedicated front-end engineers. UI might be a bit ugly, but that's okay for internal use. Usually, admin panels end up having a weird assortment of buttons the real frontend doesn't even need, so creating REST API dedicated for that, and then React frontend to go with it is not time well spent.

This also depends on your backend engineers or whoever ends up maintaining the internal tools, are they comfortable using Blazor or not?

If you need frontend engineers and designers then going with React and the mainstream is wiser.
This is what I call the Agreeability Paradox. Military cultures get this completely correct and corporate cultures fail hard.

First you have to understand what agreeability is according to the psychological 5 factor model. It’s not charisma, as most people might believe, which is linked to extroversion. Agreeability is liked to compassion and empathy. People high in agreeability want to please other people and struggle to identify selfish desires. People low in agreeability know exactly what they want and have no problem telling it to you others be damned.

Military culture stresses high agreeability but the internal stresses of the work impose low agreeability environments. The result is brutal honesty. When I say brutal I mean absolutely savage where there is absolutely no regard for your emotions or face-saving nonsense in interpersonal communications sometimes even in large groups. Military cultures tend to be extremely confrontational, which is something that must be learned for people with high agreeability personalities. Despite that military cultures stress a nurturing high growth environment at multiple levels all the time. It’s completely alien until you experience it, and it’s mostly cross cultural around the world.

Corporate cultures, on the other hand, stress niceness, because they have to. People get offended. That limits how you address people and thus what you can tell them. As a result people keep a lot to themselves, which unintentionally and significantly limits honesty. This leaves people to figure out conduct on their own, which can really be sink or drown and most people will often never see it. In software it’s extremely exaggerated because most people in software fear confrontation.
Of course, but politicians have no incentive or pressure to improve public transportation when everyone already owns cars and is contempt with this status quo.

I've seen this play out lots of times.

Public transportation only improves when the vast majority of citizen depend on it because then have skin in the game, otherwise it gets shelved and forgotten and stays run down as a charity to the poor.
Probably suicide. This is very unfortunate.
Looks like we read different reports.
Thats not 221-car sample, thats 221 vehicle models. Models, not cars.

> TUV SUD is a Germany-headquartered company offering testing and certification services. It did 10.2 million times of regular testing on 221 vehicle models between July 2022 and June 2023.
... Sort of. Yes, you're right to bring up minimax/alpha-beta pruning, but things like the correct values for piece square tables and the opening book are chosen based on data that is analogous to ML model training (sometimes these are directly chosen using ML models).

Removing a piece may mess up the values chosen for the piece square tables and certainly messes up with the opening book - but on the other hand, it makes it sooner for the engine to end up using it's tablebases in the end game!
It's funny you're being downvoted, I've used Blazor on less important side projects and I love it for the same reasons, but a subset of HN hates it because their uBlock Origin no-Js anti-tracker cookieless oddball browsers choke on it.

Interestingly enough Google's crawlers don't even choke on it: my fully SignalR based site was indexed soon after getting a spike in traffic without an issue.

Does it annoy me that leaving the tab and coming back can kill the app? Sure. But often times I reach for it when I otherwise wouldn't have built a thing at all.

Most normal people will take an app with hair edges they can use over nothing so I'm going to keep reaching for it from time to time
If the leadership of a hyper scaling company falls apart like what we've seen with OpenAI, is that not failure to execute and operationalize?

We'll see what comes of this over the coming weeks. Will the service see more downtime? Will the company implode completely?
In the US, and in most countries, it’s not slander if it’s true. For a public figure, the standard is quite high; you’re talking a malicious objective lie. And even _then_ it can be hard to prove, as Naughty Old Mr Car knows very well; remember the Thailand thing?

So, “figure X is a stupid arsehole”: not slander. “Figure X has been sneaking into my kitchen and stealing the milk”: might be slander, depending.
> The big difference is that the US prioritizes family members, so it's easy to bring your 2nd cousin after you've gotten in.

That’s not true about the US. You can’t just “bring” whatever family member you feel like over “after you’ve gotten in”. Where did you hear that?
In my previous job, I was on a team using Vue.js for the frontend and ASP.NET Core for the backend. I quickly got tired of the internal plumbing, package management, build configuration, and all the other things not related to the actual functionality of the app that Vue (v2) required at the time. So, when I started my own company last year, I quickly jumped on Blazor Server, which has been an absolute joy from a developer productivity perspective.

You can build really rich interactive experiences in Blazor at a fraction of the time required to build the same thing with the standard JavaScript SPA architecture. However, now that we have many customers using the application in production, we're starting to see some of the not-so-pleasant side of Blazor Server. When experiencing a lot of requests, the experience is degraded for all users of the app. In addition, it's not very good at re-establishing the WebSocket connection if it fails, giving a poor impression to the user. Though, I'm impressed with the latency—we're hosted in Europe and have customers in New Zealand who use the app without any latency issues whatsoever.

I'm excited about the auto-rendering mode, which looks pretty straightforward. I don't really buy the author's argument that it introduces an extra layer of complexity—we're still light years away from the complexity that a modern JavaScript SPA involves. For small teams with just a couple of full-stack developers, Blazor is still one of the best and most productive stacks, in my opinion.
> Really? If that is true, I wonder how much is due to the fact that the phones are more expensive so people take care of them more or delay their next purchase.

Even if it were the case, it does not matter. What does matter is the amount of matter that ends up in landfills. As a matter of fact, we should be pushing for better built, longer lasting devices even if it means spending a bit more in the short term.

> It's not because the actual quality would be better.

Second-hand iPhones are all over the place here in a way that Samsung Galaxies are not, even though they are more popular. You can argue that it is not a proof of high quality, but it is at least a proof that build quality is high enough that 4 years old devices are on average in a good enough state to retain a high resale value.

> If you pull statistics you also have to filter out the sub 150 dollar Andoid phones which may well have shorter average usage life.

Which precisely is the problem. “But they were cheap” is a terrible excuse as we keep burning more non-renewable resources and shovel up heaps of electronic waste in landfills. Besides, we need to look at cost per year, not cost per device as a cheap device you have to change often is more costly over the long term. I am not saying only Apple devices can have high build quality, but it seems nobody is pushing OEMs towards that direction in Android-land.
It uses alpha-beta pruning[0], which requires an evaluation function. Stockfish traditionally used a man-made evaluation function, but added a small type of NN called an NNUE[1] for better results. The actual search method is still the same, though.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta_pruning

[1]https://www.chessprogramming.org/NNUE
Ask HN: What web stack would you use for startup, and why?
If you were to build a startup or a solo side project, what web stack would you use and why? Web stack meaning backend and frontend. To make a more specific use case if that's easier, say you need:

1) Auth (local accounts + OAuth)
2) Simple user dashboard with some live updates (Websockets, SignalR, etc)
3) Blog (simple db read/write)

The goal is to bring the user a good experience, but use the least time developing since it's a side project. What do you reach for? Django + React? Laravel + Livewire? ASP.NET + Blazor? Next.js + Prisma?
There are multiple pieces emerging here and there which paint Mr Altman as deceptive including https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427761849141... https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... and the OpenAI board statement as well.

Yet Mr Nadella stands with Mr. Altman.

What if he thinks his position and company is so strong it can withstand any web of deceit Altman can weave? There is, after all, so much money to be made here it matters even on a Microsoft scale.