skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been playing with the 1.3b model for continue.dev's autocomplete and it's quite impressive. One unclear part is whether the license really permits commercial usage, but regardless it's exciting to see the construction of more complex datasets. They mention that training on multiple tasks (FIM + normal completion) improves performance...wonder whether training to output diffs would be equally helpful (this is the holy grail needed to generate changes in O(diff length) time)
I am very proud to be the first discoverer of both Jerry Garcia and Trey Anastasio. It suits me. I also am the discoverer of a pretty good LLM pun - "Grateful Red," which I got by combining one of my various Grateful Dead related findings with "Mao Zedong."

I had some other interesting discoveries as well, including the "Abominable Crocodile", "Abominable Orc", and whatever the hell a "Pterodump" is.
The actual quote seems to be “So long as you have Congress keep extending the debt limit and doing deals because they’re afraid of the consequences of doing the right thing, that’s the political structure of the political system, eventually you’re going to have a debt spiral,” he explained, per Bloomberg. “And a debt spiral is like a death spiral.”
> You're probably thinking of studies around social media use

Yes? Social media use is done through the internet? The vast majority of internet use for young teens is social media use.

I'm not sure what you mean by drawing the distinction between internet use and social media use.

> It isn't clear to me that internet filtering will combat any of what makes social media use such a mental health risk for teens.

I'm not suggesting that the government should be taking action through legal means.

I'm just saying some type of action should be taken.

I'm a really big fan of what Apple did with Screen Time & wish the implementation was better (it's super buggy on my device at least).

Apps that give people better power to control their own internet use is the way IMO.
I think it's logical because the power to get bills proposed is asymmetric. Take my original comment and replace "proponents" -> "politicians" and "opponents" -> "regular people." Regular people do not have the ability to get bills proposed. So, while the proponents (politicians) can propose the bill over and over until it passes, the opponents (regular people) cannot do the same. They can only constantly threaten to vote out particular politicians.
> The fact that "we" don't want to right now has more to do with Republican attitudes towards taxation than anything else.

No, it has just as much to do with Democrat attitudes towards spending. You're right that the Republicans are partly to blame. But to balance a budget requires cutting spending as much as, if not more than, increasing revenues. The problem is that ~everyone thinks using their preferred approach ("just raise taxes"/"just cut spending") is more important than getting the budget balanced, so they are unwilling to compromise. And the American people get the shaft, as ever.
Always has
> In an alternate timeline, this might have been USB-C, part of a world where external batteries for the headset are plentiful and don’t need Apple’s special approval (or is that spatial approval? Ha ha, just a little Vision Pro humor there)

Yeesh, maybe don’t try incorporating comedy into your writing anymore.
Albuquerque City Council passes permanent Zero Fare program
In the US people on the Internet will have ATC recordings almost immediately. The government's accountable to the people, not the other way around.
Slightly tangential: if you are hacking on PDFs, manually or otherwise, this is an incredibly useful tool: https://pdfcpu.io/ (not the author, just a user)
China loathes AirDrop so much it's publicized an old flaw
For those of you that use DDNS for essentially homelab (say to allow friends and family to watch media on your self hosted Plex Media Server) - just use TailScale.

I would think about actual publicly know IP address (like it is for dynamic DNS) only for things like hosting your own mail server.
Probably because the actual product is garbage.

Remember the Google assistant demo, where it booked a table at a restaurant?

That never materialized. Google assistant is just eating crayons today.
Fixing keyboard navigation in Inspector Rules view (Firefox)
It'd be fun to watch what would happen if data shared with services giving health advice fell under HIPAA.

It's not even really that unreasonable, if they want to advertise that they can provide health information, they don't get to pretend that they don't.
Every POV is USA centric. This is a USA web zone. Nowhere else matters.
Did you tout your first year college programs as world changing and potentially a risk to the species because it's so intelligent/has awesome powers?
I bought my own router and modem before I signed up for their service as they were the only internet provider in my apartment building at the time. I viewed it as a preemptive measure against bullshit equipment rental fees. Everytime I have had to interact with them since they have tried offer me extra services (none of which I want) for free or reduced price if i would use their shitty box.
You can do all of those things with a simple sentence upfront. You'd have to do quite a bit of work to find a GPT that preloads that sentence for you.
Once I got "poop" i went ham and made a bunch of discoveries

Poop truck, space poop truck, poop train, poop martini, fartdiana jones, fartman, poopacat

And my favorite:

poopacabra (from chupacabra)

Also got some interesting failure modes:

Got "Fartacus Jones + Fire Poop Train", "" (galaxy emoji) and "???" (galaxy emoji) all of which refuse to combine with anything else.

EDIT: Got chicken titty, nuclear porn, and pooporn
I have a map of the Universe. Dunno, it keeps expanding ...........................................,............................................................................................................................
> screwing over long bongholders

I think the _bongholders_ will probably come out pretty painless dude
Despite having been fairly critical of the Foundation elsewhere in this thread, I have to point out that this comment is wrong.

Josh is full-time employed by the Foundation, without another job.

It does seem pretty odd that they presented their expenses being just two million short of the PSF's expenses as useful for "putting things in perspective," given how much larger in scope the PSF is, especially after the cuts the Foundation made last year, however.
did a comparison on LM Studio - the answers are eerily similar, but Mixtral is way way faster. Codellama-70B is slow to the point of being unusable.

(M1 Max, 64 GB RAM)
Properly trained, well rested, and sober humans are very, very good. If you can create an AV with a single open-source software version, entirely fixed with zero changes during the whole duration, and get it to drive 200 million miles, I'll reconsider.
The cool thing about Vitalik’s blog is that it is decentralized.

The blog uses decentralized storage (IPFS) and uses a decentralized ENS domain (vitalik.eth).

If you use a web3 browser like brave browser vitalik.eth resolves natively in the browser without the need to use the ENS+IPFS (eth.limo) gateway.
Futurism has a hate boner for 'AI' for some reason, it seems.
As I understand it, the xref entries don’t require a carriage return, but they require a fixed line length. If you don’t want to use a CR, you can pad with a space.

So CR/LF, space/LF, and space/CR are all valid endings.
How does

Mixtral >= Codellama >= DeepSeek

Work for you?
I'm a bit of a Luddite, but I'd definitely practice self-defense shooting and some motorcycle things I'm too scared to do on the road. Sims for both exist, but are expensive. Of course, it would instantly turn into a brothel, but I can dream.
Kliban was superior but also R to X-rated and transgressive af outside of his cat cartoons
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16567
Easier said than done when you are skiing with gloves
Dynadot is best. Avoid Godaddy like the plague.
I guess that makes sense because plutonium goes missing too.
I guess it all depends on what you call a "server".

Embedded still makes massive use of this communications port...
I remember the days when Greybeards would look down on me for using Google in my first IT job, they would harp on about how real Sysadmins use man pages and O’Reilly books to solve problems, and if you tried to Google something you were incompetent. I had college professors that told me you can’t use the Internet for research because the Internet is a not a legitimate source of information, only libraries can have real information.

What happened to all those folks? They retired, and turned into Boomers who are now unable to function in society at a basic level and do things like online banking or operate a smartphone.
Yes and you can consider the passport office a list of everyone who wants to travel overseas.

Ditto, if you apply for internet porn license, you will be on a list of internet porn enthusiasts. Its non trivial information that its largely in your best interest not to provide the government.

Again this all happens before your zero knowledge check.
Super intriguing. Thanks for sharing!

It reminds me a bit of an early Go project called Upspin [1]. And also a bit of Solid [2]. Did you take any inspiration from them?

What excites me about your project is that you're addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to data sovereignty (~nobody wants to self-host a personal database but their personal devices aren't publicly accessible) in an elegant way.

By storing the data on my personal device and (presumably?) paying for a managed relay (and maybe an encrypted backup), I can keep my data in my physical possession, but I won't have to host anything on my own. Is that the idea?

[1] https://upspin.io/
[2] https://solidproject.org/
> Comparing a government's debt to its GDP is like comparing a couple's debt to their employers' total revenues.

No. It's more like comparing a merchant's debts to the value of the turnover of their inventory. Sure, their revenue isn't the same as their income, but their income tends to be proportional to their revenue. Similarly, while GDP isn't representative of federal income, because most federal income is derived from taxation of activities that contribute to GDP, they tend to be closely correlated. Per Hauser's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law), federal tax revenues have been roughly consistent with 20% of the GDP. Since increasing the share the government extracts from the economy produces net drag on the economy, you don't want to get in to a situation where you have to increase that ratio significantly without a dramatic change in what the federal government puts back in to the economy (which also generally doesn't happen).

So yeah, the experts who look at debt to GDP ratios aren't crazy.
I’ve been using their 7B with tabbyML.

Works well but closer to a very smart code complete rather than generating much novel blocks of code
I’m not against crypto as a technology, but as a financial tool, how is it not a greater fools game?

Broadly speaking, you can’t live on crypto alone. Most people aren’t able to buy food and shelter with it.

So the goal, in those majority of cases, is to buy in low for the exact purpose of waiting for a “greater fool” to purchase it from you for more.
I stand by the "sneer quotes". Having actually taken journalism classes in my life, I would be ashamed to put my name to that article.
Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls
Can you name some?

I've been looking for software in that space, a thing that runs cronjobs, with ability to kick off adhoc runs from some UI, see what is running, and if possible parameterise the custom runs (i.e., run an ad-hoc report for a different client than usual cron does)
When I moved to a comcast area around 2014, I brought my own modem and they wouldn't let me connect over the phone without an "internet installation kit". I didn't need an install tech to come out since the place was already wired. I think it was about $29, and when the box arrived, it was literally a piece of paper with a url to go to for instructions. Absolute slimeballs.
Comparing debt to GDP is mainstream economics, but it's very much different from the analogy of homeowners debts and their salaries. The proper analogy there would be government revenues, not GDP.
Ooh, this is awesome! I can start using DNS as a database for even more things with what amounts to an automatic JSON endpoint handled for me.
Nuclear power station + Tsunami = Fukushima
Single terms might be too short - but I'd be happy with anything <= a 20 year limit...2 terms (same as president), 3 terms, or even 4 terms..

I also think term limits are the first step towards getting anything else fixed. Without term limits, pols are always going to vote to get re-elected/more lobbying money instead of improving things.
I don't really agree with this article. I think that those particular points are actually just commonly used in typed dialog....because they are common in spoken casual explanation.

those particular examples are all 'descriptive' or educational to me, and alternatives were not suggested with any concrete examples.
Money + Salt Lick makes sense, if it’s a Cash Cow.
What a terrible take. Google, Wikipedia and books can also at least slightly increase odds of someone being able to do perform better at anything scientific, including bioweapons.

Also, everything in this life can be summed up as "probable".
This piece mentions an important situation, and has weighty quotes from noteworthy people, and -- despite the business 'news' formula of simple noise generation around market direction predictions -- you think just maybe they're trying to say something meaningful, just this once...

But then their final-word wrap-up at the end is to shoehorn in pumping of specific stocks. (Including one of the most famously over-valued ones, right after the article just called out mis-valuations. Maybe not intentiona, but just an accident of the standard operating procedure of tacking pumping of any arbitrary thing, onto the end of any bearish message -- create a sense of problem, and present a "solution", for retail investors foolishly trying to stock-pick or sector-pick.)

Business 'news' at this point doesn't need an LLM to generate it -- you could do it with a small Perl script.
> To make this transition between pods seamless, we implemented logic to prevent the node from going down at the top of a minute when possible since — given the nature of cron — that is when it is likely that scripts will need to be scheduled to run.

Crons with precisely specified time where everyone just uses whole minutes/hours are not great practice. Very unlikely you actually need such precision in a cron job and you get spiky load.

Usual approach is to set the minute to a hash of the cron config name or something, modulo 60. Hourly jobs still run hourly, but each one on random minute.

(Setting aside how fragile that setup of avoiding pod downtime sounds)
This sounds like a bad idea. You are very smart to have asked before proceeding.

I work as an MLE at a growth-stage startup with ~20 MLE/MLS folks. I was unemployed for 6 months before getting this job with 4YOE as an MLE and DS. There are too many qualified candidates.

ML research is out of the question. Most of the people who get to do ML research have PhDs, if not the only people. This seems like a racket but it exists for a good reason. It's hard for employers to evaluate the quality of MLS candidates through an interview, they don't know what to ask him. And if they've hired one, it's hard to know whether to fire him, things rarely pan out in research. The whole time, they have to trust this dweeb to run experiments burning tons of $$$ in compute! Employers are wise to be risk-averse, and to defer to costly social signals.

If you're going to take yourself off the job market for a long time, you had better at least get some kind of legible social signal out of it, like a master's degree. Almost all of the MLEs I work with have at least an MS in a relevant subject, the rest have PhDs.
It's a solved problem - the gold standard.

The only thing that makes the current situation tenable is being able to print money.

Put simply, the government doesn't actually view it as a problem. If you have an unlimited credit card you never have to repay, that's not a problem for you but for everyone else.

Bit of an unfortunate omission from the US constitution really. That's the only way they'd have kept it - otherwise the moment you get any "economic crisis" they'd just "suspend" it again.
That is a fair view. Of course there is also a tendency of great engineers doing project in their free time, since they love what they do. There is also the fact that there is a higher chance of someone having learned a lot more, if they continuously worked on projects in their free time. There is also a higher chance to find people, who are not just into software development jobs, because they pay well, but because this is what they want to do.

So for hiring engineers, I can understand when they hire with a certain bias. Sure, no one should be expecting us to do extra rounds, and sure, one can be a great engineer even without extra rounds, but the tendency is for that to take more years without that drive to explore in ones free time. And that's OK! I think it is fair though, if a company wants to hire a more driven/curious/exploring person.
Fells like all Gen AI is ‘very good code complete’ because if you give it a broad problem it’ll make mistakes.
"Whoa! Stuart blew his air sac!"
One’s really big, and the other is really cool?
I feel like if I said "die slow, motherfuckers" here, that'd be justified grounds for a ban.

It's really, really fucking stupid to do this, and even worse as a leader of an influential and impactful organization.

Also - is Hacker News independent from Garry Tan's influence? If so, what assurances of that are there? If not, what can be done to ensure he never touches HN?
Sadly that implies that all 3 could be equal or very close to equal.
Fair enough, this was a drive-by comment that I didn't give much thought to.

What I meant was that if you're going to give a live-coding interview, I personally wouldn't accept LLM usage. The reason is that with that style of interview, you're essentially validating one of two things - how much knowledge they have on hand, or how they're able to think in the abstract about problems and reliably solve them. I'm more interested in the latter, so I don't care if they use an external reference for trivia. But LLMs simulate the abstract thinking for you, which means I can't evaluate a candidate's ability to reason their way through a problem.

It actually is very important that you're able to think through problems on your own, sans-llm.
I’d bet this was funded by the Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) initiative.
So that people don’t connect the cable to a regular power bank and then break their neck when it disconnects unexpectedly while they are moving around with the AVP on.

There’s also a 30-second countdown before the AVP shuts down due to low battery, which might require data from the battery that a normal power bank doesn’t provide.
The expensive bit is not the electricity, it's the cost of the GPUs, so they will train flat out.

There is also a massive amount of competition between the various players, and nobody taking part cares about the energy use (otherwise they wouldn't be doing it), so i don't see this happening.

(rough numbers: a H100 is 700W, which is $613/year at $0.1/kWh, and the estimated cost is $25000-40000)
The joys and woes of ever-evolving language / culture

To the persistent victor…
some points that stood out to me:

1. they made a lot of careful tweaks to the unet network architecture - it seems like they ran many different ablations here ("In total, our endeavor consumes approximately 512 TPUs spanning 30 days").

2. the model distillation is based on previous UFOGen work from the same team https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09257 (hence the UFO graphic in the diffusion-gan diagram)

3. they train their own 8-channel latent encoder / decoder ("VAE") from scratch (similar to Meta's Emu paper) instead of using the SD VAEs like many other papers do

4. they use an internal dataset of 150m image/text pairs (roughly the size of laion-highres)

5. they also reran SD training from scratch on this dataset to get their baseline performance
Couldn't agree more and I just recently had few comments on the topic.

Everytime I use ORMs I feel frustrated by the capabilities compared to raw sql.

I feel handicapped in being able to have the data in a way I want.
There's already a thing like this from Google. It's called lookout I think
On the other hand, they knew how their hardware worked. And if LLMs keep improving, we're going to reach the last generation that knew how software worked.
> Not sure how you managed to jump all the way to Ruby on Rails.

I said that ActiveRecord was popularized by Ruby on Rails in 2004. I feel I was quite clear on this subject.

> Regardless, the ask was "Perhaps you could clarify what you were trying to say with respect to OOP?"

Sorry. I wrote my comment before you had revised yours. If you'd like to let me know when you're done with your revisions, I'm happy to wait.
This is just for the umbilical cord between the battery and the headset, the battery charges through a standard USB-C port.
This is quite the opposite of all my personal experience.
Benchmarking Crimes
Demographics present an intractable problem that no amount of fiscal rectitude can fix. The old age dependency ratios we're going to see in the future guarantee deficits.

The bickering over the discretionary budget is a sideshow compared to what's happening with Medicare/Medicaid and to a lesser extent Social Security.
> I think the heart of OOP is the opacity, the fact that we (for some definition of we) aren't allowed to poke around in the state directly

At the heart of OOP is being able to throw a message out into the world and maybe find another actor willing to respond to it. It is not so much that you are not allowed to poke around in the state of other actors, but that you fundamentally cannot know what other state exists without breaking the paradigm.

> So I think I'd start there, not by adding procedures.

Agreed. A thin veneer over internal state does not fix a break in the paradigm.

> if you give me a Doodad, I can't do anything with that unless you provide procedures.

You aren't even given Doodad, per se. Under OOP, you just send the message out there. If Doodad chooses to respond, then so be it. If Doohickey responds instead, such is life. Who responds is not your concern.
i have discovered the mecha swamp witch
Semi-dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210195.
Ask HN: Is it possible to write a JavaScript runtime with "await by default"?
So that this code:
```
let a = await aFuncThatReturnPromise();
console.log(a)
```

becomes the following and does the same thing:
```
let a = aFuncThatReturnPromise();
console.log(a)
```

For sometimes I do not want wait, use:
```
let a = nowait aFuncThatReturnPromise();
```
there's plenty of offramps and onramps from crypto to trad finance.

You can earn your money on crypto, get a debit card, and pay for your food and rent with it.

I've done it.
Yes, but ATT advertises 1G fiber connections, and it's only available at a small fraction of their service addresses. Or for that matter spectrum with Internet Gig (or whatever they call the 850/30 Mbit service).

I would be in favor of a bit more truth in advertising such that they have to provide a service (not "up to") at, say, 80%+ of their service addresses before being allowed to advertise it. Or, for that matter, they can only advertise the slower of up/down or maybe the average of both if they wish to site a single number rather than both up/down.
ty for the tidbit never really found an excuse to install brave before