skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The flesh and character are just emergent properties of enormously complicated mathematical structures.

They are not just emergent properties, they are one of many possible combinations of possible emergent properties, just lie you yourself are.

The math is always abstracted and doesn't contain the full detail, the meat and flesh.

I think you are dismissive of that, but you shouldn't be. It's very significant. Crucial, even.
I don't think it's that people have changed their beliefs so much, it's more that they are no longer afraid to tell you they don't have have such crazy believes like when they drink wine in church it is transformed into blood just before they swallow it.

So why aren't people so afraid any more to tell what they truly believe? Because there are more people like that around them and, crucially they KNOW there are more people like that around them.

It's not about what you believe, it's about what you believe other people believe. Depends on whose asking. A good development I would say.
“Legal obligation to shareholders” is absolutely a thing, in the USA anyway. “Fiduciary duty” is the term to Google.
I did try make a submission of what I thought was a "underreported" LLM two months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505986

Zero interest for some reason.

Edit:
Deepseek coder has 4 submissions to HN with almost zero interest.
It’s a problem of how book publishing works.

Most of these self-help books are made because publishers can sell them, mostly on the name of the author.

At the same time, most authors could condense their “insights” into a 3-4 page article. The issue is publishing a 4 page article is not profitable, there’s too much fixed cost, and too little market price to absorb it.

The logical result is publishers that insist that a book must be extended to ~300 pages to be really profitable, and authors that pad their books with cherry-picked examples, anecdotes, “case studies”, and whatever else they can to get the book published.
A semantic search engine for jrnl, the minimalist command-line note-taking application.
Well that's the rub. There's no way, even for a senior engineer, to know everything. In fact, one of the required skills is "how to ask the question as to elicit the answer in a reasonable amount of time".

The closed-book crap can stay closed in the universities and schools demanding a regurgitation of mostly-right knowledge.

Now... The skill of asking the right Qs also directly intersects with LLMs, and how to discern good/bad responses.

But hiding it? Yeah, probably not a good fit.
VC logic is that a company does not need to be profitable for a VC’s investment to be profitable. Simply getting the company to an expensive IPO is all that is required for VCs to make money. And that is possible even if the company has never made a dime.
>The small team at Mistral is putting their competitors to shame.

Them plus 500 million in funding
you can blame tesla for that. the whole premise was EV + autopilot, lumping software in the electrical hardware bucket
Interesting I've recently noticed these popping up all over at those independent gas stations that are somehow substantially cheaper than national chains. This type of display must have just become easily available or made 10x cheaper or something.
> If someone is paid $1 million per fish, can you expect more paying extra for time OR fish. Why give them anything at all?

It comes down to what the payor wants and what they think would provide the best return on their money. If the fisherman's performanace is good enough, perhaps the existing compensation plan is good enough. If you want more, then it becomes a more interesting question, and I don't think there would be a single right answer.

> Does the fisherman have leverage? Are their only options to keep the old deal, or stop catching fish out of spite?

Of course the fisherman has leverage. It isn't an all-or-nothing situation, either - they can offer a greater return for a greater price, offer to keep the existing arrangement, threaten to reduce time/attention, threaten to walk away altogether, or some other offer. And the other party would be free to make their own counteroffers to try to get the result they want.
I see where the author is coming from but I find something else strange: Considering that the blog is in practice a collection of static files, I don't see the benefit of paying for a server at all. Host it on github, if github gets killed off for whatever reason, switch to something else and move on. Seems like an unnecessary overhead to me.
Apple was never about the games or content or even hard numbers. What is Apple like is: 1. incredible engineering :All very high quality fabrics, machining and optics.

2: The detail oriented software. Look how polished everything looks in Vision OS. It’s just nice to be ‘in’ there.

3: The integration of the software and hardware. Extremely nice handtracking, amazing see-through functionalities, working with a good ecosystem (keyboard, MacBook, trackpads,…)

Those experiences are what makes Apple unique. Not ‘better’ per se. That depends on what you need.
it seems to me that macaroons could get quite big in order to adequately describe allowed resources and permissions? Especially if the API is broad? Much bigger than JWTs.
The normal cars also have too much code in them.

> The typical new-model vehicle comes with 100 million lines of code, says Newcomb [2012]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/12/03/181350/many-cars...
article turns into an ad at the end, just a FYI
> to be as simple as Dropbox to store files. But visit https://filecoin.io/ and the dropbox-like app that you could be willing to try is nowhere to be found

I agree with this fully. But as said elsewhere, it's kind of far away from that, and also slightly misdirected.

Imagine asking someone to get started with web development by sending them to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt (the TCP specification). Filecoin is just the protocol, and won't ever solve that particular problem, as it's not focused on solving that particular problem, it's up to client implementations to solve.

But the ecosystem is for sure missing an easy to use / end-user application like Dropbox for storing files in a decentralized and secure way.
What kind of advice are you looking for? What age(s)? On what topic(s) would peer-reviewed papers with a decent p-value really matter as a parent?

As a father of three, the only "advice" I would share with new parents is to consider cotton diapers.

https://priceonomics.com/the-evolution-of-potty-training
This was interesting to see. The hack would have been much worse if he did not have a second channel or viewers that were google employees.
want != bet your life on them
FTX won't be restarting, but former customers will get money back in full
Meanwhile, US military contracts Starlink for some of its communications. Private contractors are very much the standard for military logistics these days.
Weightlifting routine with full-body exercises is my poison of choice.
...with caching
You can't expect a psychopathic personality (Zuck, Gates, Musk, Bezos etc.) to apologize. Their DNA's are not evolved for empathy let alone guilt. It's what makes them fiercely competitive and to win at all costs.

I truly feel for the families in pain. No parent should have to lose their child.

If I had to pull a silver lining it's that bipartisanship from the two parties on a societal issue that deserves urgency and a permanent fix. Hope they continue until that goal is reached.
> It's very very different from patching a binary, because these models don't work like a simple compilation of understandable source code into incomprehensible weights. The source training data is even less comprehensible and useful than its encapsulation into weights.

Tons of binary patching works that way. For instance from the gameshark days it was relatively common for a patch that worked for unknown reasons, but who's discovery was tooling assisted and simply displayed a desired effect (and commonly a lot of undesired effects that weren't clear).

> A set of weights is a pre-trained local minima in the model space is a both executable and modifiable.

None of that changes whether it's open source or not. I guarantee you that mistral has some code (and a lot o data) laying around that created this model.

> It's usually far more useful than the source training data, because the work has been done.

For certain operations maybe. I guarantee that Mistral wouldn't constrain themselves to fine-tuning if they had a major change to make to the model.
Near GPT-4 is definitely a stretch.

The hype around Mixtral is huge, and my disappointment follows, it doesn't have very good knowledge on books, for example.
WhatsApp has clearly entered the enshittification stage of the product cycle. Most obviously, it regularly creates spam/advertising chats, and now it has some AI chatbot nonsense.

It's a pity, because it used to be very close to an ideal messenger, from a usability perspective.

More generally, these days I find that there just really isn't any good single messenger or social media that most sane people are happy to use these days.

WhatsApp is getting spammy and is owned by Meta.

Facebook is full of spam too, and it's difficult to just use the messenger without also having a screen full of other spam next to it. Also the cool kids don't use / aren't on facebook now.

Telegram is still pretty good to use, but doesn't have the adoption that WhatsApp / FB once did.

Skype, MSN, Yahoo chat, MSN, ICQ, etc. all dead now.

It seems like it's just not possible to have a stable messenger that doesn't get slurped up into some bigger thing, then destroyed. Oh well.
As far as criticism goes, it takes some creative effort to get much harsher than that. It is far beyond constructive criticism; the target is asserted to be far past salvaging so the only good thing that could happen to them is a bad death.

I guess maybe you think it isn't criticism at all because it's not constructive criticism. But it's certainly criticism, no reasonable person could construe it as anything less than critical. And because it falls short of a specific and imminent threat, it's legal political speech.
It is though.

It's true that affordability isn't poured into concrete, but it is baked into each and every real estate transaction.

A new luxury high rise needs to have x number of affordable units by law. As you point out, it's true that they don't build the affordable units much or any different than their other units.

But, the way the whole financial side of the thing is structured is completely different than it would be if the laws were different.

A home is just as much a mortgage as it is a physical object.
There is a hole in this argument:

> "Anything you could possibly want to learn you could figure out the basics of in an afternoon with a WiFi connection. You don’t have to worry about front loading everything because you’ll hardly ever be in a situation where you can’t look up the answers."

Once you get past the educational phase, in which teachers present you with problems to which they have answers written down somewhere, you enter the real-world phase, in which you have to come up with and test the solutions yourself, as nobody has them written down anywhere. That's when already having a working knowledge of similar problems and situations will be of great benefit, particularly time-wise.
Yeah its by far the least trouble. Pretty much any other backend, even a "pytorch free" backend like MLC, is a utter nightmare to install, and that's if it uses a standardized quantization.

However, the llama.cpp server is... very buggy. The OpenAI endpoint doesn't work. It hangs and crashes constantly. I don't see how anyone could use it for batched production as of last november/december.

The reason I don't use llama.cpp personally is no flash attention (yet) and no 8 bit kv cache, so its not too great at long (32K+) contexts. But this is a niche, and being addressed.
This would destroy the joke, the ambiguity, wouldn't it?
That's true; now thinking about it I also remember it from very-desktop-based Anno 1800. The quick-shortcut menu for the mouse (to build a shortlist of buildings, etc.) is a pie menu.
Unicorn + Steamboat = Steam Unicorn
Same. IPFS seems far more useful for hosting static content that might be embedded in multiple websites.
It doesn't matter. You can't get your compensation package set by your friends in a public company and then say it was okay just because the company did well. Agents are supposed to represent the shareholders' interests.
I wouldn't mind doing an interview face to face for a fully remote job :)

The reverse, yes I would mind.
You do not have to use their "cloud MitM" feature, it's just the NS that you can't change.
Looking at the page source, it's in /aaweb.bas
Interestingly enough, macOS is multi-seat. You can start a desktop environment as different users over VNC without interrupting the physical user of the machine.
>But at the same time, no shock that everything proposed involves more government programs and spending. For the left, there is no problem that can't be solved that way.

Yeah obviously..? A big part of this problem is lack of resources investigating and prosecuting cases. Increasing funding and becoming more efficient is how you address the problem of lack of resources yet you seem to make it sound like a bad thing lol.
In hormesis the physical harm is the benefit itself.
Once you take in to account traffic, transit can definitely be faster than cars. A subway that bypasses traffic entirely, or even a bus using HOV lanes, can easily outpace a car, especially if it's an express bus (fewer stops) and services are centrally located.

I've worked at places where it could take 20 minutes to get out of the parking garage when a bus stop was less than a 5 minute walk, on-boarding/off-boarding was super fast (a pre-pay kiosk meant people didn't stop to pay when they got on), and I could be all the way home in less than 20 minutes.
It sounds like they have a donation-specific experience around it.

But in general, non-emergency surgery is a very common cause of ptsd. It has a lot of the "checkboxes" of pain plus knowledge of powerlessness and lack of agency in the face of impending suffering. The psychoactive effects anaesthesia may play a part too; I've never read anything too concrete about it but some of the sufferers I've known believe that strongly.

In my years in and out of ptsd support groups I have almost always known someone who ended up there from a scheduled, "routine" surgery. A lot of fairly common scenarios can cause it. About half the people I see in there are from car accidents, the rest a pretty even split between sexual assault and childhood abuse. Only ever come across a handful of the "typical" combat veteran type folks, though I understand they mostly have their own networks.
> an interview that clearly is meant to be "closed book,"

I am not sure that is clear. It seems the expectation was not "closed book", but "never opened a book before, not even in the past":

"It's tough to determine if the candidate breezed through the question because they're actually good or if they've heard this question before."

Clearly the interviewers were looking not for knowledge, but for uncanny ability. How well was that communicated to the interviewees?

It is not cheating if the rules of the game are not defined.
This ongoing "IPv4 with more bits" meme needs to die.

There was no way to change IPv4 to have more address space while maintaining compatibility with existing routers. Routers are hardware-accelerated so can't just support new protocols with a software update.

If you need a new protocol, why just lengthen the address without fixing other weaknesses, since you'll never be able to change it again? This is IPv6, and while you can argue some changes weren't necessary, it is simply not true say that IPv4 with extra bits would have been easy.
For 1 - Yes, it is dumping the work on the web author -- And the web author must be the person who decides the styles. It is impossible for the browser to do it because of the diverse styling on the internet, even the existing extensions that try to apply colorschemes break for me all the time.

This situation is created by the web developers, doing whatever they can and however they can because even the existing standards are not really enforced, they don't even care about schematics and just use a framework that generates nested `<div>`. The texts are not readable due to the contrast difference, random styles being injected dynamically via JavaScript, etc.

For 2 - I would say that something is better than nothing. Why not provide a slightly better experience for the minority than providing nothing at all? I don't see the argument here, internet stranger.

If the theme preference needs to align with the entire system theme, feel free to make a proposal in W3C, with enough traction we can make it happen.
I don't think that's a great example.

For instance, I can step through and even modify that code using tooling like AGC emulators like this one http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/#gsc.tab=0

What makes it open source is access to the same level of source access that the original developers worked in.

That's what's missing here. Mistral's engineers do not simply open this binary in their editor to do their job.
Curse + unicorn = narwhal, hahahaha. This game is so fun
To me all your points fall between normal business practices to biased misunderstandings. You claim he does "awful things" which explains why he gets more hate than other super rich. I'll give my views on each of them:

1. I did a search and looked into this, and it seems like a bad faith misrepresentation of what he said in his biography. I don't have a copy and am not going to invest too much time into a HN comment, but that's my take.

2: I need more knowledge on this to get a real opinion. Solar was all the rage and I'm not against companies investing laterally, even if there's nepotism. I would be more likely to invest in my friends than random people. CEOs make bad investments all the time, but I don't know enough to have an opinion if it was.

3. I didn't find anything about billions lost, only "Trading in Tesla shares was halted for more than 90 minutes, before resuming around 3:45 pm ET. They finished the day up 11 percent.", do you have more info? Who lost billions? Love the 420 reference, and he makes sound points. Being public is not always in the companies best interest. If he would have bought the shares above market price wouldn't that have been a fair deal?

4, 7. Show me more examples of optimistic estimates who get the same hate as Musk. Facebook/Meta for example, is Zuckerberg hated for the Metaverse not working out? No only ridiculed. In my book people are allowed to be wrong. He had better self-driving and more capacity than any competitor, you're just nit-picking for the sake of it.

5. Well, childish yes, but so was asking him to shove his sub up his ass. Don't start a fight you don't want to be involved in. Musk is eccentric and the response is in character, the fuck did he expect?

6. Elaborate, what about his son and dad?

Musk is an eccentric troll and people used to love him for it. The hate only started as soon as he endorsed Trump and bought Twitter. To me he's exactly the same Musk as always, in many ways I can relate. I don't have his fuck you capital but I also don't care what people think and can enjoy seeing people get pissed over bullshit reasons.

I don't think he's a bad person or does "awful things". Many times he makes total sense and has the balls to say what others should've years ago. That makes him dangerous to many people and they will find any means to take him down. That's how I see things, but I don't see people who disagree with me as evil.
Is it named after the Avatar character?
That battery pack is nothing in terms of weight compared to the type of a rig needed to support XTAL 3 MR headset. I can put the Vision Pro battery pack in my pocket, but I would struggle to fit the rig for XTAL in a backpack.

Just the lightest GPU listed in the minimum requirements (RTX2060) is around 950g[0], while Vision Pro battery pack is ~350g. Add to that a motherboard (being able to support that GPU and a i7/i9 CPU and 32GB of RAM), a CPU fan, and a 500W (probably could get away with less, but i decided to be safe) power supply being around 3.9lb(~1.7kg)[1].

Even without accounting for the motherboard, desktop case, and CPU fan weight at all (which can vary significantly and are pretty heavy compared to the rest of the components) and counting them as a zero, you have already crossed into the 3.6kg territory. With those accounted for, you are crossing into the 5kg territory easily. And if you decide to go beyond minimum specs for GPU, I would expect it to be even worse. And the size of that monstrosity would be rather significant too.

I think comparing that to the weight and size of the Vision Pro battery pack is not that good of a comparison at all.

P.S. I am aware that there is a noticeable variation in weight of GPUs depending on the manufacturer and the specific variant for any given model, as well as for motherboard/cpu fan/power supply. However, that would not change the overall conclusion at all, as there is exactly zero way you would be able to get the build below 3kg. And I am being extremely generous here, as my estimate is very likely below even the lowest real-life lower-bound estimate.

0. https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-2060-GAMING-Z-...

1. https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=100-W1-0500-KR
If they're on foreign-flagged vessels, then US laws don't apply. That's kinda the whole point of foreign-flagged vessels. (As I understand it, crew can't go ashore without going through US immigration, but the ship itself is not - for legal purposes - under US jurisdiction.) I'd be on board (heh) for changing that - particularly for ships going up and down the Mississippi - but I don't know how you'd do it without changing hundreds of years of legal precedents, which I assume would be a hard lift.

There may be elements of the Mississippi River Boat job which make using foreign crews completely impractical - like, maybe it can't be done without at least some of them going ashore? I'm pretty sure there aren't immigration agents at every river port!) - so maybe it's not a concern. I don't know anywhere near enough about the subject to make confident assertions about that.

> 75% of crews to be American citizens

I didn't know that, either! Thanks.
You don't need to know anything about the political alignment of anybody to know that a person wishing a politician would die is legal political speech in America, and not even an uncommon sort of it. This sort of thing is regularly said by Americans of all political persuasions about politicians in any and every political party. The article is making a mountain out of a molehill.

For my part, I hope Trump dies painfully, as well as every other living American president (with the sole exception of Jimmy Carter who was a terrible president but a good man nevertheless.) If you live in America, I know you frequently hear people saying they wish X Y or Z politician would die. Such harsh sentiments are commonly expressed in American society. It's a free country and lots of people exercise that freedom with inflammatory but legal hot takes like that.
So basically we're shopping for fingernail sized motherboards?
90% of software engineers being redundant.
Yes, it totally does!!!!

/s No, not if you do it afterwards. That you have to write these jokes like this is common knowledge, this kind of humor doesn't work otherwise on anonymous forums, you need to write below it that it was a joke and what you did, and since sarcasm is so common you have the "/s" end sarcasm tag.