skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get as much RAM as possible.

16GB is not enough.

32GB is enough to run quantized Mixtral, which is the current best openly licensed model.

... but who knows what will emerge in the next 12 months?

I have 64GB and I'm regretting not shelling out for more.

Frustratingly you still have WAY more options for running interesting models on a Linux or Windows NVIDIA device, but I like Mac for a bunch of other reasons.
Thank you for this detailed response. I'm not sure if it was clear, but I was going to use just the Apple Silicon CPU/GPU, not an external one from Nvidia.

Is there anything useful you can do with 24 or 32GB of RAM with llms? Regular M2 Mac minis can only be ordered with up to 24GB of RAM. The Pro Mac mini M2 is upgradable to 32GB RAM.
The issue here wasn't that the reviewers couldn't handle a new idea. They were all very familiar with word embeddings and ways to make them. There weren't a lot a of new concepts in word2vec, what distinguished it was that it was simple, fast, and good quality. The software and pretrained vectors were easy to access and use compared to existing methods.
Are you sure about that?

I was pretty sure that llvm has supported RV32E for years now. https://reviews.llvm.org/D70401?id=395048
With Firefox being in single digit marketshare, the fight is already over. It's hard to justify developing for or testing against Firefox unless you want to appeal to the similarly small Linux desktop crowd.
I would expect something like a new VW car interface, that is put into millions of cars, to pass some kind of internal design review. How do these things (like touch controlled AC sliders without backlight) get introduced, which would take two minutes of usability testing to be thrown out? Can this just be explained by cost savings, or is there something else going on?
This patent is about a wearable ox sensor.
I didn't realize they had a breakup fee. That's is kinda nice.
That graph does not mean what you think it means.
Could be wrong, but only if libc is expected to be dynamically linked (and anyways you'd still need zlibc)
I want to live in the 90s. CD audio is a little bit nicer tech. They say vinyls release VOCs. There's Internet, but not enough to drown in.
I Ran a Chess Programming Tournament
Did you ironically misread their comment, and didn't realize the grammar the reviewers were complaining about was the known bad examples his algo could fix?
slow down there fellow:
>Under the incoming cybersecurity disclosure requirements, first approved by the SEC in July, organizations must report cybersecurity incidents, such as data breaches, to the SEC in a specific line item on a Form 8-K report within four business days

first line. It's going to a speicif org, not russian hackers in siberia.

I agree, that better be one damn secure batphone they're using.
> From testing the current version of Servo, it still has a long long way to go though, until it becomes a usable browser.

In reality, I think you're waiting for a different project. Servo is like Gecko/Webkit, it's the browser engine. As far as I know, they're not aiming to build a browser, just the engine part.

What you're waiting for is someone to start using Servo as an engine and provide the browser chrome :)
In my career, I've found that a lot of poor decisions like this get made in a committee that's already been at each other's throats for 7 hours and just wants to go home for the day.
Countries with very lenient enforcement of IP laws have very minimal innovation. Brazil, Argentina, India. Countries who haven't signed TRIPS almost no innovation, North Korea, Somalia. Countries with the strictest patent laws and enforcement are the leaders in innovation. Germany, US, South Korea.

Strict enforcement of patent laws ensures that capital will be invested in innovation.
>Econ 101: price is set at the margin.

I think that is a pretty terrible model for modern energy production. You have lots of vertical integration and heterogeneous production methods. You also have long term supply contracts at different price points with independent producers.

If I have one plant that costs $X/kwh and another that costs $2X/kwh, my average production costs is not set by my least efficient plant.
>Just saying it might have been a lab leak didn't get it labeled that way, at least in all the media I read.

Then you weren't paying attention. See the Washington Post's 2021 recap of its own and other media outlets' actions. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-cal...>

>Other articles and headlines characterized the theory as “false” or “debunked.”

>But many of those news organizations have begun to amend their approach in light of a shifting consensus.

>The Post originally described Cotton’s remarks as “debunked” and a “conspiracy theory” in a February 2020 article. But last week, The Post rewrote the article’s headline, softening “conspiracy theory” to “fringe theory” and noting that scientists have “disputed” it rather than “debunked” it. A correction said the article had “inaccurately characterized” Cotton’s comments “because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.” Post managing editor Cameron Barr said “questions from readers and others” prompted a reexamination of the story.
Venmo and Cash App basically commoditize bank accounts. Banks don't like that. And since Zelle is run by the banks, they get to put their own branding all over it, make it available as the official supported way to send money from their mobile apps, and create a third network thereby reducing the network effects of the first two. Also, Zelle is more popular than Cash App and about on par with Venmo so it clearly wasn't too late to catch up.
modern

adjective

1. Of or relating to recent times or the present.

"modern history."

2. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date.

"a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking."
32GB will run a good quantized Mixtral, though I can't confidently explain how much of a quality difference there is from unquantized.
Google has so thoroughly gotten used to deploying everything as a web service it has forgotten how to actually ship a binary outside the chrome team.
TheBloke's GGUF model card tells you how much RAM you'll want to run the various versions of the model:
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF#provi...

In the article, Simon mentions the Q6_K.gguf model, which is about 40GB. A Mac Studio can handle this, but any of these models are going to be a tight fit or impossible on a Mac laptop without swapping to disk. Maybe NVME is fast enough that swapping isn't too terrible.

In my experience, the Mixtral models work pretty well on llama.cpp on my Linux workstation with a 10GB GPU, and offloading the rest to CPU.

It is impressive how fast the smaller models are improving. Still, a safe rule of thumb is the more RAM the better.

Also, really question how much you need to run these models locally. If you just want to play around with these models, it's probably far more cost effective to rent something in the cloud.
> the original intention was to get access to public market funds to grow a business. Now it's usually just a method of "exit" to let retail investors take the lion's share of the risk

Founders and employees would be totally OK with staying private, if the board would ever permit issuing a dividend. That's the "normal" way to have an "exit" (i.e. return profits to shareholders) without a public offering. The purpose of delaying issuing a dividend is to reinvest profits / additional fundraising for growth, but that growth should still result in a dividend in the future, just a larger one if the investment in growth succeeds.

Instead, founders and employees are encouraged to look forward to an IPO precisely because somehow we've come to believe that it's sinful for a company to issue a dividend, as if doing so means giving up on the idea that further growth is possible, when really it's only an acknowledgement of the fact that (a) there's a healthy rate of growth, (b) that healthy rate of growth costs $X, (c) if the company has $Y cash >> $X growth cost, then the healthy thing to do is to issue a dividend (so that shareholders can invest the excess into companies that are currently better recipients), rather than attempting to force growth faster than the company can support.
In the case of the Panthers "Carolina" refers to both states, which is why the logo is the combined outline of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Seems like a smart way to lay a claim to a bigger market rather than being tied to a specific city or state.
Any content creator can treat their subjects with respect. These ones do not.

While I agree that this is bad, I feel like we as a society have allowed the divergence of journalism and integrity. Anyone can proclaim themselves a journalist and that enables this.

There's a complex issue at play here - the evolution of media and laws that have lagged behind. Laws should be doing something to address the reach of this type of media and the integrity of their creators.
> These people exist, but are few compared to those who only care about one or the other.

They're few, but they're very important, because 5 years from now, they will be the ones working for the companies that AMD will want to sell their compute cards to.

The reasons you cite may still be more important. I'm not saying AMD made a bad decision. I'm just saying that neglecting the path from hobbyist to professional (or student to professional) is not insignificant.
If they make a version with only three photodiodes this patent will not apply.
Close than we expect probably
Ummm, ChatGPT is a vulnerability or a data breech if new stock tips can be had this way?
I came here to ask this
Apple loses one of the last remaining designers from Jony Ive era
[dupe]

More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678853
This lists 10,912,502 and 10,945,648 as the patents, but if you get into the details the original complaint lists several more:

https://www.usitc.gov/system/files?file=secretary/fed_reg_no...
I don't consider clearly stating your model and meaningfully comparing it to prior work and other models (seemingly the main issues here) to be analogous to a proper haircut or a shibboleth. Actually I think it's a strange comparison to make.
No offense, but is a JD Power survey what you're citing here? :)

Seems like my 2016 CX-5 ignores touch inputs if the car is moving, and CarPlay can't override this.
Arguably neither is Chrome. Electron, CEF and WebView2 are all forks of it. Google has no interest in a supported official embedding API.
I stand corrected. Yes, Saturns were in TN, not Fremont plant. The whole GM, NUMMI, Saturn story was playing out in a collective moment circa 2010. Here is an audio interview in This American Life series a week before NUMMI was to close.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/transcript
Oh, there is always SoftBank to the rescue.
There's nothing "system" about a compiler. What language hasn't been used to create a compiler or two? If languages used to create compilers are system languages, then all languages are system languages.

Writing a OS is more "system", and certainly those using the Mirage operating system use OCaml as a system language.
I would expect this will happen a short time after the machines are physically humanized (to some extent) and common enough to find in most places.
The VoIP gateways we were installing a few years ago still supported pulse dialing on the FXS lines. Those gateways supported all sorts of archaic and arcane POTS features. All the classic feature codes (like *69) had support. I think it could be set up to emulate a DMS-100 or a 5Ess as well.

If you have a copper landline from your local telephone company, I'm willing to bet it still supports pulse dialing? Maybe it's 50/50 now?
It would not go through: you can only buy as many shares at once as other people are currently offering at that specified price, which would be negligible compared to the total amount of shares.
> freshwater tanks are cheaper than electrical batteries, it seems appropriate to fully exploit the ability of tanks to displace energy production/consumption, and then, if needed, to use electrical batteries for the same purpose

What about the cost of additional desalination equipment needed to take advantage of energy peaks? In a situation like this, is extra desalination equipment needed when renewable energy peaks? Or, do current desalination systems have periods where the equipment is idle?
Care to list your perceived failures?
Only for very reliable recognition you'd need that, rough local speech recognition has existed for decades.

Here's a very basic offline app for Android: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.stypox.dicio .
It works pretty bad for me, with its tiny not specialized models, but still enough for some purposes.

You can use an online model for the confirmation of the recognitions, by the way
>Saying Covid came from lab leak is still misinformation

You are two years behind the curve. See the Washington Post's 2021 recap of its own and other media outlets' actions, after at first taking your side <https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-cal...>

>Other articles and headlines characterized the theory as “false” or “debunked.”

>But many of those news organizations have begun to amend their approach in light of a shifting consensus.

>The Post originally described Cotton’s remarks as “debunked” and a “conspiracy theory” in a February 2020 article. But last week, The Post rewrote the article’s headline, softening “conspiracy theory” to “fringe theory” and noting that scientists have “disputed” it rather than “debunked” it. A correction said the article had “inaccurately characterized” Cotton’s comments “because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.” Post managing editor Cameron Barr said “questions from readers and others” prompted a reexamination of the story.
I have a functioning rotary phone connected to POTS. I do live in the sticks though. Only issue is automated systems that ask me to dial 1 for foo, 2 for bar, etc. But a lot of those now actually also take voice.
I have one with a SIP VOIP converter. I had to add a resistor or the sound was too lound. But it works.
We are not very familiar with NATS, does it support the whole functionality the MQTT broker should support? In addition, as it is not Java, but we are working with it, it could not be our solution.
Well, yeah, we may master fusion, we may send man to mars, we may cure cancer, we may all die due to billionaires making billions more.

The universe is full of potential, not just for bad things but also good things.

Maybe we ought to work on and prepare for that instead.

Anyway, 15 mins after we get a proper AI it will make a spaceship and fuck off somewhere that we are not...if it is super intelligent.
The Tesla interface reminds me of the iOS settings page. A huge list of options and you have to drill down multiple levels to find the setting you want to change. Definitely not easy to use while driving, IMO.

There have been lots of complaints because there are no physical controls for things such as windshield wiper speed on some Tesla models. They just put out a software update in response to complaints about that, but people don't seem to like the "fix".

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1305970/finall...

I test drove a Model S but ended up buying a RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid instead. The controls are much better on the RAV4. There are physical buttons for almost everything.
I find your comment offensive: “don’t SUPPOSE x” is very different of “dont DO x” as it’s just a paraphrase of “x is a misconception”.

Furthermore he may be a minority (or not, all we know is you both have a different social circle) but that just make him someone with originals idea so let’s listen instead of blaming (please).
All these intellectual property lawsuits look like an economic loss overall. The laws don’t work as intended if they aimed to encourage innovation
Yes, it’s a nuanced blog post. But that also means it doesn’t coming out swinging hard for needing a standard, either. It seems like there is as strong an argument to be made that “Rust is a great language. There is no reason why it needs a standard.”

See the Ferrocene compiler which has been qualified for ISO standards. It’s essentially a standard Rust 1.68 compiler with a lot of added documentation. If you need a Rust compiler for safety critical environments, it’s reasonably priced and requires essentially zero changes to the Rust compiler that they didn’t just upstream. Without a standard.

Yes, it would be nice to have a standard for reducing ambiguity. But does the language need a standard? And if so, then for what purpose?
That seems like an odd way to frame it, imo. "Holding the bag" usually implies something negative, as in someone will be "caught" with something bad. As in the employees are looking to dupe someone into buying what they are selling. But employees, outside of company officers, do not control what information investors get about what they are buying. They can't trick anyone into buying something, although they could theoretically benefit if someone else did trick buyers.

But it's a weird take, because employees are already the ones "holding the bag". Office space, cloud compute, etc. are all sold as COGS. VCs usually have some ability to sell their shares on the private market since they can negotiate to get their capital. Employees are often the only ones which are taking an IOU for their time and effort compared to what they could get elsewhere in the market. Employees are often the lowest class of shares which get paid out last and often reliant on the board to be able to sell on the private market. Yes, the employees decided to take this offer, on good faith, that their management would look after them. They are adults who made a, theoretically, informed decision. But structurally, they are set up to be the ones "holding the bag" if things were to go wrong with an exit.

So of course they want an exit. They literally have no other choice to get a return on their time/effort than for that to happen. (or some odd third thing like private dividends, but again, they have practically no control over that happening)
Trumpet winsock
Do you really think so? Ukraine received all the ammo in the world already, but they not really making progress anymore. How and what exactly will change in the upcoming future? I’m curious about concrete things, instead of just talking about that “they can not loose” etc. So far, the details are unclear to me.

If Russia attacks the EU or NATO, then we’ll need our weapons to fight them. I think there is ZERO chance that they do that. As NATO is just simply more powerful and Russia is not stupid. It would be called the 3rd WW.
It's so people get into accidents and they can say 'oh told you so'
Basically, I can access it without looking while keeping my arm on the arm rest
I have a clothes dryer with capacitive touch buttons. When the ambient conditions are just right, static will build up when it is drying clothes, and it will change its own settings randomly.
Ruth Handler
Right, we are not stating anything without proving it in the first place.

You can find another test here:
https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/reference/3m-through...
I'd say, not in an app's growth cycle, but when an organization wants to manage and scale platforms for itself, on which it runs apps, is when k8s becomes appropriate. In other words, k8s is a platform builder.
Lot of Fediverse news this week. Elon buying Twitter might be the single best thing that's ever happened to social media. 5 years ago I was excited about ActivityPub but I'm not sure I really believed decentralized social media could ever get a foothold.

Now I believe it's possible. There's a hundred ways it can go wrong, but dang it I'm excited about the possibilities if we help it go right.
> Most municipal water supplies are safer than the piping systems or the private wells.

I used to work in municipal water software and I don't think this statement can be said broadly. It helps to segregate discussion of water into segments:

- Water extraction and storage health

- Water mainline delivery health

- Water lateral/service line health

Extraction and storage are usually pretty good across the board. Mainline can vary and lateral/service line varies highly in quality.

Mainline health usually comes down to maintaining pressure and flow, especially at the end of a service area. In some cities you'll see them dump water from the hydrant, other cities don't have such good hygiene (and stagnant water is dangerous). Service lines have historically been considered on the owner to deal with; there's now federal funding to fight things line lead service lines (of which there are still huge amounts). Service lines do impact overall water health though, as not every water meter or mainline connection has backflow prevention.
So the answer is crime?
The studies I have seen show evidence that drink spiking with other drugs is rare with around 1% or less of reported cases. This is confirmed in the studies with toxin screening occurring only hours after the supposed ingestion.

When “spiking” does occur it always involves alcohol and mostly does not involve literal spiking but rather manipulating people who are already drinking to over drink either by pushing strong drinks and/or drinks with caffeine. Businesses take great advantage of this. If you’ve been to a casino or a strip club they are prime examples of it.

In my opinion, for the individual predator, all this seems much harder than just scanning the crowd looking for someone who has drank too much, no spiking involved at least not done by the predator, and then manipulating them into leaving with you.

You could make the case there are complicit bartenders making the drinks subtlety stronger than they should be, but who’s to say how strong the drink should be? Unless the bartender lies to you about how much alcohol they put in the drink then it’s up to them and their menu and it’s up to you to not have too many mixed drinks.

Alcohol serving businesses are economically incentivized to serve strong drinks with a mix to cover the taste of how strong it is. It’s why mixed drinks are on the menu and not just beer and straight liquor.

We’ve designed and marketed a legal product and social life that makes becoming inebriated and vulnerable as easy as it can possibly by way of mixed drinks and then we’ve sat back and watched people get taken advantage of and then pointed our fingers at “spiking” and “drugging”… sheesh give me a break

“Of the 97 alleged drink spiking cases included, there were only 9 plausible cases. We did not identify a single case where a sedative drug was likely to have been illegally placed in a drink in a pub or nightclub.”

“Our study did not reflect the current public perception of drink spiking. Drink spiking with sedative or illicit drugs appears to be rare. If drink spiking does occur, ethanol appears to be the most common agent used”
https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-7840hs this has existed since 2023 with "Neural Processing Unit".

Seems like if you want to catch the wave, it's really already here. Not sure what this thing can do, and hope to find out next year, but local AI is going to be a killer app.
It was a really jarring moment when I forgot my phone a couple weeks ago. I listened to FM radio for the first time in years. The oldies station. The one my mom listened to all the time that played a mix of Big Band, Doo-wop, and some 60s rock.

But what I heard was Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Try Crystal if that's a concern https://crystal-lang.org/