skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a terrible idea, I can't think of a less efficient method with worse correctness guarantees. What invariants does the LLM enforce? How do you make sure it always does the right thing? How do you debug it when it fails? What kind of error messages will you get? How will it react to bad inputs, will it detect them (unlikely), will it hallicinate an interpretation (most likely)

This is not a serious suggestion
Thanks for the link, you scroll down and see the rebuttal by Gergely

> Confirmed speakers at DevTernity 2021, 2022 and 2023 and JDKon 2024 do not exist. There were & are no such engineers at Coinbase or Meta.

> I shared this fact and said no conference should list fake speakers.

There is no "crime" there per se, having a fake speaker in your lineup is a doozy, but it's different from, let's say, saying Bill Gates (with his picture) will be at your conference with no attempt of doing so.

Now I do think the reasons listed by the conference organizer are feeble at best, but (moderately) plausible. I'd never put a placeholder saying so and so are "Engineer at Coinbase" and giving them fake names/pictures
> Is it the secrecy that makes it different? i.e. if the train company were honest about it then it would be ok?

IMHO mainly that and clearly those trains are required to be designed in such a way that they could be repaired by a third party (either by law or by contract based on how the situation is described).

Apple provides (nor is required) no such guarantees. Also it has more or less legitimate reasons for its design decision (making it harder to reuse stolen parts).

> equally egregious

I certainly disagree almost completely. With Ape you know what you’re getting and can make an inform choice. Also it’s a completely different type of product. Trains have various regulatory, safety and maintenance requirements which are irrelevant for consumers devices. Screwing with the software controlling trains can literally kill people..
Feds Enlist Hunters to Kill Half a Million Invasive Owls in the PNW
Grok AI is able to read Twitter users' drafts
no, they didn’t have any savings to begin with and everything they bought depreciates in value

it was actually very cumbersome for me to find people that knew anything else, when I was younger everyone I was around only prided themselves in buying depreciating material things. I’m aware of how pervasive that mentality can be, could be considered a distinct culture.
Working out and not feeling good after, might be a sign that the body is already at it's limit and the workout is consuming even the last bit of energy. For me it was stress, bad diet, bad sleep and undiagnosed gut problem.
I don't disagree it's a human problem...

But at the same time...

There's the idea of a giftschrank around 'dangerous / false' information...

That is a tool to combat the spread of information deemed dangerous, without censorship... So is the lesson then: just add meta-data to everything?
Yes, but that is only needed to connect with old software that has not updated. Two pieces of new software will not negotiate on using old crypto even if they both support it.

In the trouble situations, one of the two pieces of software being upgraded is thrust upon the user.
Okay, I'll take a shot. I think the legal structure is very important, but the important part is not the vague wording of the charter. "Violating the charter" is always fuzzy and debatable. "Getting the votes of most board members" is not. So the important part is who controls the board.

Instead of a structure where the board members get to choose other board members, I would suggest a structure where different outside groups get fixed numbers of board members. So, for example, it could have been (remembering that the initial board was just Sam Altman and Elon Musk):

* One board member chosen by Sam Altman

* One board member chosen by Elon Musk

* One board member chosen by OpenPhil

* One board member chosen by Microsoft

* One board member chosen by some VC investor

The precise composition is something they would argue about during funding, maybe some of these groups would get more or less seats.

The root "governance" problem is that the board churned a lot because so many people had conflicts, or other reasons that I don't know as an outsider. The remaining board was unrepresentative of stakeholders (ie, no Elon Musk, nobody independently trusted by Microsoft) and probably not as experienced as you'd like. The problem with this sort of structure is that it gives everyone a lot of incentives to play politics with the composition of the board itself. Which happened a lot here - Reid Hoffman exiting and not really getting replaced by a similar person, the debate between Sam and Helen about her presence on the board, probably other cases.

I bet they end up with something similar, with different stakeholders represented. Give Bret Taylor some time to cook.
Unfortunately for Newag, other than in the court of public opinion, firmware deliveries count as written evidence.
Promote a culture of responsibility, and attach responsibility to every person, every decision and every action.
That was my solution when we did a remodel of our house.

Cat6 and PoE to each room. Unifi Dream Machine Pro in a rack in the garage and Unifi In Wall APs (with ethernet out) in each room.

They were easy enough to swap out and upgrade to Wifi 6 when that launched.
I'm off the opinion that anything that can be wired should be. If a device is stationary and used often, wire it. It's not just about a better quality link that device, it also means less contention for your other devices that must be on wifi.
I see why you might think that but is there really data to back it up?

Making good products and respecting your customers is a great way to stay in business. I don't see why china selling tractors would change that. If anything, it would matter more than ever.
at 4 bits you could run it on a 3090 right?
One viable strategy might be to offload as many experts as possible to the GPU, and evaluate the other ones on the CPU. If you collect some statistics which experts are used most in your use cases and select those for GPU acceleration you might get some cheap but notable speedups over other approaches.
O, you're right. I've never tested any of those systems for how they react to either email spoofing or to see what happens if you change the subject line.

If r3ply ends up being well received I'd like to add sort of a "CLI" interface to manage comments. E.g. you reply `EDIT <new comment>` to update your command, or the moderator can reply `APPROVE` or `REJECT` instead of going through a UI.
Exactly what do you think "the world" should do, and for how long, to reduce your exposure to a highly contagious airborne virus which has animal reservoirs and easily mutates to escape all forms of immunity?
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Heh. Didn't even know they had an FAQ. :(
It would be very tight. 8x7B 24GB (currently) has more overhead than 70B.

Its theoretically doable, with quantization from the recent 2 bit quant paper and a custom implementation (in exllamav2?)

EDIT: Actually the download is much smaller than 8x7B. Not sure how, but its sized more like a 30B, perfect for a 3090. Very interesting.
DynamoDB on amazon web services. I particularly like the fact, that one does not have to change or add columns... our data is stored in json. The json layout can change over time... without needing to update the table definitions.

The initial primary key setup is important. As this sets up the search parameters.

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His woes would likely much less if he could figure out how to fab a plastic plate to replace the metal one.

(Or better: buy one which fits)
We need simpler/smaller homes. No one really needs a home larger than 3k sf. For new construction, air tightness/Energy efficiency should be at the top of the list. The rest are easy to retrofit if the homeowner wants them.
Cool. Any chance you could let me know if it's implemented? I'll likely subscribe at that point. :)
granted, does anyone remember MkLinux w/ the Mach microkernel?
His thesis is “you should not discount twitter polls with large sample sizes out of hand as totally meaningless, or if you’re going to, you need a better reason than this long list of issues that twitter polls share with RCTs.”

The contrapositive of his thesis is “there is some interesting signal worth paying attention to in large twitter polls, selection bias is in many unexpected places so be skeptical about sweeping conclusions even in RCTs”.

Your characterization of this as “so twitter polls are just as good as RCTs” seems wildly uncharitable to me.
that's a huge task to take upon, looking forward to go through it! compared to you, we have gone the "easy" way and use the actual parser from the Postgres server. so no grammar definition and the like. our work was mainly around adapting libpg_query (which is build to parse executable SQL) for our use case.
MistralLite is already 32K, and Yi 200K actually works pretty well out to at least 75K (the most I tested)
Congrats on the launch! I've spent some time recently with great success speeding up CI for my teams via alternate actions runners, and the increase in efficiency that comes with dramatic reductions in build times is worth it. When the cost is the same (or less), it's an absolute no-brainer.

How do you differentiate from BuildJet, which takes a similar approach?
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I assumed the robots were the supervisors
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I'll stick with my gas utilities, walls thicker than paper and wonderful lack of anything "smart" thank you very much.
Part of the issue is that there isn’t really a professional class that is dedicated to home Internet like other home services. For Joe Homeowner, they call the plumber to put in a new sink, an electrician to hang a light fixture, the HVAC guy to put in A/C… and Comcast when the Internet is acting up? This would be equivalent to calling the city’s water department when your toilet is clogged with a Barbie doll.

Electricians are the closest match, but usually telephone wiring is the closest experience they have to running Ethernet. They know nothing about properly setting up APs and the RF considerations.

So when building houses, builders don’t bother, because getting that labor is specialized and homeowners are satisfied with the equivalent of a port-a-potty from Comcast in the living room because they don’t know any better.
Ban life! Problem solved.
A contractor in the UK put a time-lock in the software he was contracted to write because he was concerned about non-payment. He didn't get paid and the software duly stopped working. He was successfully prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act. He had some justification (unlike the Polish train manufacturer) but it didn't help him avoid prosecution. I've no idea what the law in Poland says.
Well, it depends; if your downlink is 10Gb then yeah the local side might be a bottleneck, but some of us are out here on 10Mb internet connections and only benefit from upgrading the local network if it means better reliability.
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I had an iPhone 11 and the Fairphone 5 feels like an upgrade. (Case on the former as it shatters and is expensive to repair and no case on the latter)
Use of BMI in the analysis is very sus
Tips: get an "installer bit" -- this is a really long, flexible drill bit that lets you cut a hole for the mounting plate, and drill directly from there down into the floor below. In the ideal case, no drywall patching is needed at all. You mount a low-voltage retrofit box/ring in the hole you made and the keystone wall plate attaches to that.
This requires collaboration. People submitting parsing info for the tool they need, and people that use it to easily keep it up to date. That is the only way.
Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations
Yes they characterized them even down to manufacturer/production run using a complex waveform that allowed them to measure and tune the coefficients of their algorithm to match. Although there was also a little sound bite dropped in there that chips made on the same day on the same line did not match up. So it seems they have gotten everything close enough that they are within the manufacturing tolerances. And they did it all as if these differences are even audible to a human being.
If you can modify the original program, then that is by far the best way to go. More often than not, you cannot change the program, and in relation to the broader applicability, most unstructured content is not produced by programs.
That's reasonable, and good timing as it could start breaking into the mainstream.

A discount pairing with Firefox might be good for sales/marketing.
Gitlab is a great product but using it has a negative effect on getting contributions for an open source project outside of the core developers due to Github's larger user base. I have seen this play out many times.
In the U.S., the initial promise was that it would be done to provide time to shore up capacity in the healthcare system ("15 Days to Slow the Spread" as the mailers that were sent out described). And then no capacity was added and the bait-and-switch of "lockdown until vaccine" was rolled in states where it was politically viable. And then even after the vaccines were available to everyone, the completely ridiculous idea took root that "the pandemic was still ongoing because of the unvaccinated," which required everyone to keep masking and absurd rules like children eating physically separated lunches outside, as long as there was some nonzero number of new infections.

Basically through much of 2021 a great deal of public health policy was still predicated on the idea that it was possible and essential to prevent as many people as possible from ever having an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. Only Omicron's complete immune escape put an end to it.
Just because every other company in Sweden accepts extortion as part and parcel of doing business does not make extortion okay.
How can it be 30% faster when the vast vast majority of the execution time is spent doing things like building, bundling, etc. ie things independent of the action runner performance.

Edit: Never mind. Misunderstood what this is.
> Without fail, for free events, there’s a predictable dropoff of around 30% of all RSVPs. If I have 50 people RSVP for an event, I’ll assume 30 or 35 will show up.

Be careful, though. An event I used to go to that was free decided to charge a donation of I think £5 to a charity because they were connected with the venue and having a fundraiser at the time. Instead of the usual approx 50% attendance, it went up to over 90% and there was a huge shortage of food, shortage of places to sit etc.

(It was a 2 day hackathon + conference event, including lunch, dinner, breakfast and lunch again. A comparable paid conference would have cost probably hundreds per attendee - £5 was nothing, but enough for people to see the tickets differently)
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Young engineers can be childlike sometimes in that they hear a rule and feel like the rule MUST BE ENFORCED at all times, regardless of nuance. Coding best practices are tools. The wisdom is in deploying those tools properly.
Microsoft exec hints at new LLMs beyond OpenAI's
They are like $10 on amazon. When I remodeled my place, I ran some power from another plug and I put my cablebox/wifi router into the wall (high up), behind a plastic door that lives behind the tv. Super easy and works fantastic.
The hidden lockouts containing GPS coordinates of competitors' repair facilities should be more than enough to establish criminal intent (in my armchair non-lawyer opinion).
If you not familiar check out powerline network adapters and access points. Not as good as cat6+ but better than WiFi as backhaul, I've been pleasantly surprised with the performance and throughput of the newer standards. You can get up to 2400 Mbps with the recent models.
So what happened with these folks? I just wanted to give Mistral 7B a local try a few days ago (literally earlier this week), and when I started to read about it, I saw that these folks dropped the news on Mistral LLM back in September, and then they went where they came from: the void. Never heard anything else about them, their Twitter, Blog and github are also dead... like they came and went right away.

Edit: lol, ok, see that they just tweeted a magnet link an hour ago. Would be still curious about the silence
> solar shingles

Aren't those less efficient than panels?
Anything that goes from a company to a government or particular that discloses sensitive data is illegal and should go through a judge permission. Otherwise it is a crime. These things must be supervised by a judge.

Otherwise innocent people, disidents or political rivals could just be in danger.

Not a good thing.
IMO ‘jc dig example.com’ should be the primary syntax, because ‘dig example.com | jc —dig’ has to retroactively guess the flags and parameters of previous command to parse the output.
The modern version (W65C02S) is not 100% pin compatible. It would be very obvious very quickly if that had been done. There isn't another modern equivalent with the same pinout that I'm aware of.
Yes, there are many original 6502s around, and they are probably worth half of an R65C02, or even less.
Well on the other end of the extreme we had Java, which had an awful lot of this:

HashMap<String, List<int>> hashmap = new HashMap<String, List<int>>();

Latest Java lets you omit the left type annotation (I hear, haven't tried it):

var hashmap = new HashMap<String, List<int>>();

And in many languages the type parameters on the right can also be inferred --- so long as later code determines them --- so you get something like:

var hashmap = new HashMap();

Hopefully we can all agree that the first option is needlessly verbose. There's more contention between the last two, I think.

My preference would be to do some type inference, but maintain the property that you can tell the type of every expression without looking outside of it (except perhaps for an immediate enclosing function call). This requires, for example:

- The third option isn't allowed, you need to write the second option instead.

- You must annotate function argument types.

- In Rust, you couldn't write `.collect()`, you'd instead write `.collect::<Vec<_>>()`.

- The `x := 10` example is actually somewhat ambiguous. If the language fixes the type of `10` then `x := 10` is legal. If it's an unspecified type (as is typically the case), you'd have to write the type down.
Maybe not on an individual basis, but that doesn't eliminate the huge impact both past and current societies experience based on this type of disruption. The American South is still trying to reach some sort of parity with the rest of the country on almost every metric, and the huge population centers built around these jobs will experience a similar collapse.
The most expensive Unifi in-wall AP is $170. Even if you had ten of them, that’s only $1700. If you’re building a house, that’s not that expensive for making basic infrastructure work well.
i remember world of goo being one of the bits of the tip of the iceberg of indie games taking off too. maybe even one of the first humble bundles
if you know all you can do with a default AD install, you won't even bother with dns poisoning.
lol, i'm super happy with my 450sf condo! i'd get lost in anything bigger.
I actually don't like this one, because it means you effectively can't make a game with an expected playtime of less than two hours.

Yes, most video games are designed to be significantly longer, but as long as the expected runtime is communicated to the consumer, there's nothing inherently wrong with designing shorter experiences.

Applications and games are very different, however. An application should be useful to you across a long-ish time window.
Napkin math: 7x(4/8)x8 is 28GB, and q4 uses a little more than just 4 bits per param, and there’s extra overhead for context, and the FFN to select experts is probably more on top of that.

It would probably fit in 32GB at 4-bit but probably won’t run with sensible quantization/perf on a 3090/4090 without other tricks like offloading. Depending on how likely the same experts are to be chosen for multiple sequential tokens, offloading experts may be viable.
https://youtu.be/ltjBT_TuUVA

As for how long? Forever. Y'all got used to seat belts , you can get used to masks. Or, at least until we have ensured clean air ... everywhere. Which won't be any time soon but it is doable.
Also: <https://www.netmeister.org/blog/https-rrs.html>