skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't yet use RAG and collect memories time-based. Hoping to implement RAG soon
For data privacy, we are adding 2 options to store your data: locally and on the server
I have simply had to say, I can't pay this* (*despite the fact it's simply violating my budget). What's the process for after a bill's due date expires? Sometimes the response is: it gets a penalty added. I reply, I can't pay that either. Can we work something out? Usually, I get connected to someone who will either offer a discount or payment plan. Sometimes this isn't going to be any better (payments for the total amount over time), but it's often interest free...since the whole point is that you can't manage it. Sometimes they are firm and say it will go to collections. At the heart of it, it's a matter of game theory. You don't get 100% of the discounts you don't pursue.

For my health provider, I currently have an otherwise unmentioned number I can call for my medical bills that I can pay immediately, that gets me 25% off whatever the bill is. I would never have known about it, had I not said I couldn't pay a particularly large one.
The interest rate isn’t about loans you’ve taken. The interest rate on Treasuries is essentially the price of money.

The value of an enterprise is the sum total of its discounted future cash flows. If interest rates are at 0% then a dollar in 10 years from some pie in the sky AI is worth about the same as a dollar today. If interest rates are 10% for a risk free Treasury bond, then a risk free dollar in 10 years is worth about $0.38. You invest accordingly.
What he said is _most definitely true_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2prHCbrVUw
Because time-to-market matters? Because even minimally productive folks were ROI-positive in ZIRP world, but a bad idea in 8% interest world? Because Wall Street rewards growth?
It’s the way HN continues to rationalize the hundreds of thousands of layoffs. Every company is bloated and few software engineers are worth keeping it seems.
People who make too much money for their role, or entire divisions that are wildly unprofitable
based on their 3-5 post a day post history... theres probably some amount of curation in theree
When a company's existing debt is at 3 percent and they have to roll it over at 6 percent (they are rarely going to pay it off) their costs go up without anything else changing. They will have to cut expenses somewhere else. For forty years, the US (and much of the world) had the opposite phenomenon: 12 percent debt rolled into 11, rolled into 10, and more and more money was seemingly made through no extra effort.
This doesn’t really make sense - if it were true a single company could pay many times what faang does to secure talent 10x+ better than a normal tech worker and have unfettered success. It also means a 10x dev years ago would be.. 100x now?

It also implies some weird logic that if you were into tech before, you’re better than someone who was born 10 years later and is into tech now. And implications that if you’re not devoted to your employers industry your work output is meaningfully worse, which maybe is true but maybe not.
Was customer complaints cited as one of the reasons?
> Either @ingve never sleeps or he/she runs a bot that posts new content to HN 24/7.

Yes. Holy cow: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ingve
It's almost as if plausible deniability is all it's about.
Now that I think about it, doesn't this "technique" triple the amount of compute and memory per generated token since each model needs to also compute and store the KV values for the two previous tokens it didn't generate and thus has never seen?

Edit: On second thought, depending on how it's actually implemented the other two tokens are probably ran through the model in parallel so it shouldn't be all that much slower.
> The symbol, originally a combination of the common gender symbols for male and female, previously had appeared in slightly different form in the artwork of several Prince albums, first on “1999” and later on the sleeves of “Purple Rain,” “Graffiti Bridge,” on tour laminates and the like.

Also, his motorcycle from Purple Rain: https://www.flickr.com/photos/minneapolisorg/30142462774

And of course, there's an ASCII version: O(+>

"Prince and the Warner dispute": https://goldiesparade.co.uk/new-power-generation/
New version of Yahoo Finance uses Svelte
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/ZGySngv
Noticed because I was filtering our an element using uBlock Origin, and saw some elements having the classic Svelte tags.
>After too many years of Windows, I finally bit the bullet and installed Linux on my desktop.

Use Linux at home since 2020, and have recently switched to a Mac for work. Windows is gone from my life, relegated to doing maintenance-work from a VM for the poor saps still stuck on it.

There's no separation of concerns at Microsoft: the allure of recurring revenue from ad-tech and online-services is polluting Windows and Office in a really bad way. I need my operating system and productivity software to (a) work, (b) function reliably offline (Office doesn't), and (c) work in perpetuity for as long as the hardware lives. (Windows hasn't since 10, arguably 8.)

Apple seems to understand that the core stuff needs to be free, and the free stuff can't compromise on their privacy & security core-values to be free. They also come with apps that are reasonably worth using, and they use iCloud to sync and integrate that stuff seamlessly across their device-family.

What Apple charges money for is actual value-added service. You want Music? They've got that, streaming or purchased. You want TV? Same deal. You like books? Yep, got that too. Want some curated news? They'll sell you that. - Signed up for all this stuff and have run out of storage? Predictably they'll sell you more of that, too.

What's more is Apple understands _the meaning of no._ - I can turn that stuff off easily, and permanently, right when & where the nag occurred. No resorting to things like registry edits, group policy hacks, hacking the installer, etc. No gamification of the fucking Settings screen. No ads in my fucking Start menu. I can hide or remove their apps just like any other app. (As a concrete example: for ages I have had to hack Explorer to get rid of personal-OneDrive, which I don't/can't use since I am not even logged into a MSFT account. The equivalent to disable iCloud is a very clearly visible setting in Finder's settings.)

I won't lie, it hasn't been perfect, but the amount of UI polish, the ease of cross-device integrations, and the feeling of Apple actually valuing the customer-relationship, are miles ahead of whatever the fuck Microsoft is doing. Modern Microsoft feels like a Facebook or a Google, and that's really not meant as a compliment.

If Microsoft wants recurring revenue, they need to start providing real services. Windows isn't a service. Office isn't a service. I highly suggest they start emulating Apple, or they're going to get left behind.

Redmond, start your photocopiers.
I'm not saying it's guaranteed to protect you, I'm saying that on average you are going to come out ahead. I've been in the industry 30 years. I've seen all kinds of good and bad management, firings, layoffs, promotions, and attrition. When you excel at your work, the odds are very good that someone will notice. Even if your boss does not, your colleagues likely will. That turns into strong referrals, which helps you find better opportunities whether or not you get laid off.
Nested virtualization isn't currently supported by Apple but WSL1 is functional.
Huawei Ends US Lobbying Operations After Years of Fighting Ban on Chinese Firm
Are these external audits just SOC checklists where they're basically just looking at policies and processes for employees or are teams of auditors routinely coming into each office and data center to physically examine servers and trace network cables while taking an independent inventory of all the hardware that sensitive data touches and the software running on that hardware?

SOC compliance and external audits can help keep things reasonably secure and prevent the totally careless/incompetent handling of data, but I'm skeptical that they would typically be robust enough to detect Microsoft's own equivalent of Room 641A let alone the actual hardware installed by the feds which MS itself isn't allowed to touch.
Not all but a good chunk of my career has been digital plumbing whether I'm in a developer or an ops role.

And then theres engineers devoted to maintenance of the systems full-time.

Do ops/infra people fall under this?
Reuters included Polestars.
VR is still very very difficult on Linux though. I still run Windows on my gaming pc for that reason.
Engineer: “I can write that code.”

Senior Engineer: “Should we write that code?”

Staff Engineer: “We should delete that code."
Except you're tone deaf trivializing systemic evil as a banal "business misunderstanding".

I was roadtripping through Redding, CA several years back. While in line at a coffee, I ran across a young lady with a nasal infusion pump tube taped to her face arranging some paperwork. After chatting, she informed me she had Stage IV cancer and the hospitals and doctors were coming after her for every cent she had while she was dying, and it forced her into bankruptcy. The paperwork was for her bankruptcy hearing across the way.

This is what happens when for-profit health insurance and hospitals are allowed to exist because every other sensible advanced economy in the world has universal healthcare. The disconnect is American patients don't know how bad they have it: their financial liability is essentially unlimited, they pay far more, and have worse outcomes.
what's the ethical alternative? everybody must produce everything they want/need without any sort of trading, and without owning any land? or does the government just force people to work and distribute everything anybody needs?
> It is a form of ideological cope to pretend that RT or CGTN has significantly more misinformation/propaganda than NYT or BBC

Really? There's a lot of reasons to expect it to be true. The NYT and BBC, while imperfect, have guard rails like independent trustees and a commitment to impartiality. RT is a dictator's tool, populated by his flunkies. Most people would think RT's news quality is significantly worse.
...So can we please stop talking about measures that improve the stock market like they're meaningfully helping average Americans, rather than the very wealthy?
Goosing the stock price and/or value of the company.
This is what I've had in my bashrc for a few years:

= () { printf "%'.f\n" $(echo $1 | bc); }; alias calc==
The fact that you're playing around with a game engine and using phrases like "distributed business logic" tells me you have a long road ahead of you.
I'm another person who read your comment who doesn't like Electron/web dev and, while reading your comment, I thought "does this guy even know what he's talking about?".

So as someone aligned closer to your team (preferring other toolkits to Electron) I don't think the other user who replied to your comment previously was being malicious in interpretation.
Chamath's 8090 SaaS Incubator: 80% feature-complete software for 90% less money
It makes the logistics easier if there's a revolution.
FAA Investigating Whether Boeing 737 MAX 9 Conformed to Approved Design
Rent-a-Kent
Yep, that's basically it.
I don't think this is a significant factor in the size of the layoffs. Many high-level and high-tenure employees are being laid off, and this is apparent in many of the various companies that have had significant layoffs in the last couple years. The lay-offs have also heavily affected departments outside of engineering: product, marketing, finance, etc. have all been affected.

I don't disagree that companies greatly over-hired, but I don't think the largest portion there has been bootcamp/cert/junior SWEs.
I think the larger size of appliances and furniture in the US isn't because of any particular love of larger sizes for those things, just that suburbia tends to give people more room. I'm not sure of the direction of causation: do Americans value space and personal property ownership and independence on first principles, and then spread out in large house on large plots of land because of that? Or did those values grow out of the incidental ability to have lots of house space?

Our fridge/freezer is on the larger size, but is also usually pretty full, so we definitely get good use out of it. Our washing machine is reasonably large, but, frankly, not large enough, as I can't fit our king-size bed's comforter in it, and have to use a laundry service to get it washed. Our couch is a pretty good size, but my partner and I want to be able to stretch out on it (at opposite ends) simultaneously, which doesn't seem like a wild or unreasonable thing to want to do.

And I prefer a smaller car! I refuse to purchase an SUV, despite my need to drive in snowy mountains several months out of the year (I of course found a sedan with a 4WD option). I hate driving SUVs; they feel bulky, unwieldy, and unstable to me. Before I bought my current car, I would rent a 4WD SUV when I needed to drive in the snow, and I hated the experience every time.
Must there be an alternative? What if the world is not ethical by design? What does the evidence say about it?
If you are from a country built around cars, then your life has been shaped to want and do the things built around a car, and discount or ignore the things you can't do.

When you drive, you can't step into the dining car and grab some lunch and a beer while you catch up on podcasts as the scenery goes passing by, like you can in a long distance train.

When you're stuck with a car you can't make day walking trips from village to village, unless you plan to make a circle to get back to your car. Doing something like the Pilgrims’ Way, a 10 day pilgrimage walk from Winchester to Canterbury, is right out.

Gud is from Switzerland, where there is no need to pick someone up from the airport because all of the airports have excellent transit connections.

I guess you won't visit a random restaurant or historical site in Zermatt, as that's one of the car-free places in Switzerland, and the train you'll take likely won't have the temperature set at the warmth you require.

When you're in a place built for cars, you expect stores to be far away, so need to buy in bulk since you only want to shop for a week. When you are on a place built for walking, stores are also in walking distance, and you can easily go every day or two. But even if you don't want that, grocery stores can deliver - friends of mine in the UK got a bulk Tesco delivery every week.

For that matter, the last few times we got furniture we paid someone to move it for us - I've never had a car big enough to move more than a couple of chairs or some flat pack box from IKEA.

The US has "soccer moms" because their younger teens essentially require a chauffeur to do any after-school activity. For some that idea of being chained to the kids' free time activities is great, to others it's a nightmare. In places with good mass transit, kids have more freedom to travel on their own and be independent.

I dunno. It seems like the Europeans I know have done a lot of things. It helps they have 4-6 weeks of vacation time. And Portugal to Norway is quite a long way.

And, cars take time. They need to be maintained, you need figure out insurance, if there's something wrong you need to get it fixed, and have backup transportation. You've got to deal with traffic jams, you've got to figure who is the DD for the night if you go out drinking with friends, if you get kids you might have to buy a new car - it's an endless list things.
Me am sheltered life, found a new word ('findom', sigh).

Also, too many names, already or soon to be obscure, not that this is everlasting prose.
https://archive.ph/Jj9vY
You seem to define innovation as having no replacement. What’s innovative then?
The study looks at "lifetime returns to every U.S. common stock traded on the New York and American stock exchanges and the Nasdaq since 1926." To reconcile the thread title with the fact that the stock market has been a good investment historically, remember that the lognormal distribution has high positive skew for large values of the standard deviation parameter, so that the mean is much higher than the median. Also note that you don't need to reinvest the dividends of a stock in the same stock -- you can invest in the broad market through an index fund.
I'm thinking this is the most likely case, all of this stuff is great for generating confusion.
Seems like a great argument for companies to remain private, no?

Absolute control is the only way.
This feels novel. Very interesting to turn a lifetime's worth of work into an LLM.
Yep it’s a superb book, definitely read/listen to it. (there’s a new book out by John Tye too, another Concorde pilot.)

And if you’re in the UK, visit Brooklands Museum where you can go on one where they’ve replicated some the noise, movement, displays etc. in the passenger cabin.

Also, only place in the world with a working Concorde flight simulator.

Bannister supports the museum and occasionally gives lessons in the flight simulator.
Do you know the difference between CAD and polygonal 3d modellers ?

btw, blender always existed. Like since 1998?
Great! Now I just need to memorise the sha2-256 digest of my favourite memes
Hi (Seer author here).

> seer: I think it missed #3 and #4.

Seer has the concept of 'projects'. A project can hold many settings, including breakpoints, watchpoints, etc... It is a manual thing so save a project and load a project. Not sure what you mean by 'automatically load'.

Seer has a visualizer to view a struct and expand it, updating after each step/next.

A recent change (in the project's github "main") now has struct visualization in the Variable Logger, Tracker, and Local Variables views. All expandable.
I was slack and didn't read your links last night, sorry.

From what I can gather, infection with adenovirus-36 basically improves glycemic control... ostensibly a good thing? I couldn't find whether adenovirus-36 was a persistent infection, or whether it only affected patients for a short time, but then they failed to lose weight after the infection had cleared.

This author states that the reason for obesity is eating too much sugar and refined carbohydrates. Why is there a distinction between refined and unrefined carbohydrates? There's no explanation for this, it's treated as given. It's the same chemical makeup, all that changes is the glycemic index. In other words, it's the same poison, it just takes longer to absorb.

The linked study backs this up, but makes no sense from a glycemic load point of view. I notice that vegetables are lumped in one category. Potatoes are not the same as celery. As are fruits, yet blueberries and mangoes have a vastly different sugar content. To add insult to injury, this is a meta-analysis of observational studies, which are notoriously unreliable.

Let me back all this up with a different meta-analysis of interventional trials which treats all carbohydrates the same.

Ketogenic Diet Benefits to Weight Loss, Glycemic Control, and Lipid Profiles in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trails

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408028/

Thanks for the discussion :)
Is it predatory?

Apple must turn a profit somewhere and charging a bit more to their high-end customers to give a bit more of a break to their low-end customers isn't a terrible method.

If you hate Apple's pricing, you have WAY more companies to hate on first.

Apple has a gross margin of 44%.

Amazon has gross margin of 46%

AMD has a gross margin of 47%

IBM has a gross margin of 54%.

Microsoft has a gross margin of 71%.

Oracle has a gross margin of 72%

Nvidia has a gross margin of 74%.

Meta has a gross margin of 78%
Those are good points. I was thinking only of one use case, but obviously there are many more. It makes me think someone might try to create a high-performance spreadsheet-like UI for web applications. I've seen some spreadsheet-like UIs, but none I looked forward to using - though Google Sheets isn't horrible. (Probably, if it could be done easily, everyone would be using it.)
Yes, one of the X (formerly Twitter) screenshots confirms he died in 2009 while the operation took place in 2007.
That's an excellent point. My statement was unnecessarily confusing. I've changed it to simply reference another benefit of the WAL - optimizing I/O operations. That would make a good blog post in and of itself :D
I’m pretty sure the main thread here about limited twists is a joke.

In saying that, there were devices with similar restrictions before any IoT existed. Smoke alarms, CO alarms, breathalysers are all devices I’ve seen with enforced lifetime and/or usage counts.
ROCm is also incredibly fragile and buggy at the best of times, so anything not actively tested by them stands a good chance of not working. Hell, I remember that a while back people were having problems with machine learning code giving garbage results on one of the few consumer GPUs that was officially listed as supported and AMD eventually replying to the bug report and declaring that actually, no they weren't going to support it and they'd remove it from the list ratther than try and fix the issue. I think this was back when newer consumer GPUs were genuinely unsupported as in the code simply wasn't there too. Integrated GPUs have also alwayu had a lot of problems.

There's also questionable OS compatiblity. ROCm is Linux-based and has extremely limited and rather experimental Windows support. Their fancy new neural processing unit is Windows-only, tied in with a Microsoft framework, and they don't seem to have any kind of definite plan for supporting it elsewhere. So there's quite possibly no single OS where all the hardware that theoretically could be used for machine learning and AI in these chips actually has even vaguely functioning code that works on that OS to make it work that way.
I was interested to see a paper from a philosophical perspective but it seems this one fails to grapple with some of the more foundational critiques, primarily around reference where it claims that externalism militates for a view where reference is purely situated. I read the cited paper (Mandelkern & Linzen) and the arguments seem very weak to me that an intelligent agent "refers" in the absence of any grounding whatsoever beyond relative semantics between text. What it seems to argue is that because we sometimes are able to refer without absolute grounding (due to lack of direct experience of the referent), then reference overall does not require the referrer to have any world-grounding whatsoever. To me that's a leap. I would like to see more working against phenomenology here, especially Brian Cantwell Smith's so-far-unanswered critique of machine learning as intelligence.

One of their other arguments, which is under the umbrella of the "re-description fallacy" hinges on the observation that describing (e.g.) a piano as "hammers hitting strings" doesn't preclude it from more complex behavior like harmony, and so a simple description of LLMs as autocomplete etc doesn't preclude more advanced understanding. While it's true that any complex process can be inappropriately dismissed by simplifying its description, I think this too-neatly sidesteps more complex critiques which advance from simple descriptions of LLM behavior as contrasted with complex behavior from sentient intelligence that cannot be implemented by those simple mechanisms.
The US has been continuously paying back its debts. It isn't hypothetical that we have been for decades, so it isn't "only" a promise.
"Buy, Borrow, Die" is the talking point. Cost basis of the assets gets stepped up at death so the inheritor can pay off the loans at that point in time without paying taxes on capital gains.