skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't get hired at my current gig because I don't have a degree (but they'll let me be a contractor...).

Is the reason imposed by a party external to the employer, maybe a regulator?

Or is it arrogance/ignorance of a strongly university-connected organization?

Or is it intended as an pretext to get the work of some people with preferable terms?
"to achieve [this result] - simulate a circuit thusly:"

Or is this basically teaching you the "instruction set" as it were?

Sorry, my nomenclature in this area is really lacking.
What other stories are in the Bleeding Obvious section today then?
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> Shouldn't innovation at the GPU level be quite challenging, especially to achieve such groundbreaking speeds?

GPUs are general purpose, a for purpose built chip that is better isn't that hard to make at all. Google didn't have to work hard at all to invent TPUs which is that idea as well, they said their first tests proved the idea worked so it didn't require anything near Nvidias scale or expertise.
Soon to be a 100 Billion USD military spending bill being fought over by the US congress. Trump accuses Biden: You're soft on gravity! Biden spokesperson retorts: No-one has suffered from the harsh attacks of gravity like our beloved president.
Start from the top:

https://un.curl.dev/

Some more discussion in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34981518
Thank you! Part 2 is going to largely be a rehash of some of the usual algorithmic tricks, although they do have to be adapted somewhat to using a pipeline.

There are several issues that I can see with trying this level optimization on a GPU - firstly, given the limited depth available, renders with doubles are going to be pretty fast already (as long as the GPU supports doubles, which some of the older ones or the ones in phones don't) so there is pretty limited bang for the buck there.

Secondly it is really easy to get good information about CPU microarchitecture and timings (on x86 anyway, thank you Agner Fog), whereas I'm not aware of that level of detail for graphics cards, so they are a bit of a black box. Compounding this, GLSL does compile down to an intermediate code (SPIR-V), but then each graphics card will have that converted to its internal structure in it's own opaque way. It's much harder to optimize when all you can do is try things and look at timings. If I get enough bandwidth, I may look into this.
Isn't the whole point to not have a constant function running and waiting?
How much in profit?
Only certain types of neural networks use convolutions. It's not universal.
Couldn’t you ask a friend to call it?
And it is a proof than grotesquely complex c++ oo is more than useless for a 3D engine. Namespaces using the preprocessor should be enough, if you need more, you are the problem.
True but I hear less and less love for Ubuntu from other Linux users. Mint seems on the rise though, a lot of people hate snap and mint removing it from Ubuntu fixes that problem.
I've [argued](https://benconrad.net/posts/230717_fundingOpenSource/) that oss developers need to have real world use information in order to ship good software. Contra some here, I think oss developers that don't understand how users use their software can't maintain or improve it.
I restart my computer once every day or so mainly because I broke the power cable so when it runs out of battery I have to recharge it.

For the record I just have a regular MBA if this is relevant to turning computers off and on again.
>It doesn't, because there is no explanation for how it determines the difference.

You don't need to know the mechanism to prove that it "supports the theory that there is a difference in brain organization". If there wasn't a difference, it wouldn't be able to find it.

>It's just as likely some confounding thing that's not causally based on the brain

Given that it does it's identification by looking at the brain, whatever the cause is, it is ALSO manifested as a "difference in brain organization".

>That said I'm surprised that we can't tell men and women apart from the brain.

Who said we can't? The article points to that we can.

And there are other brain attributes besides organization we can use to tell them apart, the biggest being size, including size of certain structures.
All computers do is add.
In this case the video description contains a useful Abstract. AI summaries can offer additional value though, going into more/less detail (as desired), and allowing you ask follow up questions to drill into anything potentially of interest.
I always assume these ARR bragging posts are just fake it till you make it lies.
"I'd like to thank my mother, Ayn Rand, and God."
SoftBank founder seeks $100B to build an AI chip company challenging Nvidia
The user can decide, by not using the software.
Xbone has no hacks. It has dev mode, no exclusives both which killed hacking and piracy.
This was sort of the dream of KNL but today I noticed

Xeon Phi CPUs support (a.k.a. Knight Landing and Knight Mill) are marked as deprecated. GCC will emit a warning when using the -mavx5124fmaps, -mavx5124vnniw, -mavx512er, -mavx512pf, -mprefetchwt1, -march=knl, -march=knm, -mtune=knl or -mtune=knm compiler switches. Support will be removed in GCC 15.

the issue was that coordinating across this kind of hierarchy wasted a bunch of time. If you already knew how to coordinate, mostly, you could instead get better performance

you might be surprised but we're getting to the point that communicating over a super computer is on the same order of magnitude as talking across a numa node.
'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters': The Regency's rakish rock star
The problem isn't the Oxford comma. The problem is lazy--or possibly rapid, if one is generous--writing and editing (if any). If the use or absence of a comma causes ambiguity, it's probably best to rewrite the sentence.

I believe it was Orwell who wrote a friend: "I am sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."
How come the answers for Mixtral 8x7B-32k and Llama 2 70B-4k are identical?

After asking via Mixtral a couple of questions I switched to Llama, and while it shows Llama as the Model used for the response, the answer is identical.

See first and last question:

https://pastebin.com/ZQV10C8Q
Just visited in January of this year and the Badwater Basin with water in it is stunning. Seeing the sunset there in these conditions is breathtaking and a must do experience if you live within a day's drive of the park!
Yep, I learned that lesson the hard way too. Always have a job when working on your side projects, and if one takes off such that it can replace your job consistently, then quit.
Meh. Porsche is the worst "interesting design" offender imo, with just marginal iterative improvements over time with nothing truly ambitious. Porsche has never had to really rethink their designs because they do evolution, not revolution. One can argue that that's how you design something great (the GT3 RS is quite a car...) but I still find it kind of boring. And in the world of toy cars, boring is the worst adjective. The porschephiles may downvote all they like :)

The hydropneumatic suspension was a bold move, and is still an engineering marvel. The CX has a better ride than a lot of current cars. Meanwhile the 2024 mustang Mach E was so inept at controlling its weight that my wife got nauseous riding in it. Maybe we don't pay attention to ideas that came before us at the wrong time.

I think really wild engineering decisions are underrated. As an enthusiast, it's a shame that the car industry seems to have gotten more averse to crazy design decisions over time.
I think there's a part of Simpsons paradox here. If there's someone without degree reaches the place where you are, they must have some extreme talent somewhere else.
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I almost fell in the bathroom. Bought myself a fall bathroom rug the next day. The last thing I want is the embarrassment of EMTs wheeling my naked body into an ambulance.

It was a painful reminder that I'm starting to get old.
The problem with that test is people tend to see things differently, and historically this test has been used to justify inhumane treatment to certain races of humans.
I cannot see a way that those sentences do not both mean the same (nonsensical) thing involving strippers, JFK and Stalin.

I think that your analysis in [] is wrong. Your second example says two named items but it still has three - strippers, JFK and Stalin.
If you allow opting out throw away the telemetry. At your scale your results will be garbage with opt out. Don't even bother.
The stochastic parrot is much more grounded in the physical reality of how the models are structured, trained, and produce outputs than the "it's like people" argument. Statistical models are much better understood than biological systems. That said, your penultimate statement is true:

> It's entirely possible that every trait you consider human can naturally emerge from a dumb statistical model, and indeed certain processes are remarkably similar as the models get bigger, smarter, and have better training data.

I just don't think it's likely given the biological complexity we are washing over with the statistical model.
I got shadowbanned a TON till I realized you could be shadow banned for leaving to many (on topic) links to other websites or subreddits in the comments.

Sorry I am good at leaving sources to backup what I say I guess?
Javier Milei's Address at the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
It's not an either-or. People will try it for all sorts of things and keep the ones that are useful.
Yeah, it's confusing. See here for an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431921
Males are known to have larger brains by volume (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210326/Size-is-the-only-...). If this is the only explanatory variable doing the work, the AI model is completely uninteresting.
That sort of speed will be amazing for code completion. Need to find a way to hook this into vscode somehome...
All power to you! No need to decide if it is a joke or not! ;)

In fact I clicked on it just because the name was so hilarious and already indicated pretty well what might be to expect (I didn't expect your particular solution though, kudos)
> When reading a written work aloud: is it typical that the decision to pause before the last item is determined by the Oxford comma (or lack thereof)?

People are sometimes careless when they write and when they read but a comma does indicate a short pause. So yes, strictly speaking, the “decision to pause” (which is not really a decision) is determined by the presence of a comma.

Often the presence of a pause changes the meaning of the list; there are several examples in this thread. In these cases, adding or removing a comma does alter the meaning of the sentence and should be avoided.
What's the value prop for founders and for investors? Is it strategy, funding, sales, something else?

Check out other similar networks. I was part of Founders Network for a while. See what their business model looks like to get a sense of what the market will bear (I think it's hundreds a year, plus more for events). And consider taking a very different approach, since the world is a very different place than when they launched over a decade ago.
There is (or was) a pretty smart reverse graffiti in a tunnel of Brussels, Belgium.

The tunnel's walls are covered in white tiles, but are all black because of the cars' pollution. The graffiti goes in two parts (written in French), facing each other:

* "LE MAL PROPRE" - meaning "the shoddy" has been written by cleaning the tiles composing the letters, hence white letters over a black background.
* "LE BIEN SALE" - meaning "the pretty dirty" uses the opposite technique: the tiles outside the shape of the letters have been cleaned - black letters over white background.

The graffiti really plays around the concept of mirroring:

* by the way how the words are revealed: cleaning the letters or their surrounding
* by the play on words in the two commonly used expressions: "mal" - badly - being the opposite of "bien" - well -, and "propre" - clean - being the opposite of "sale" - dirty:
* "mal" has a negative connotation and is used with "propre" which has a positive one.
* "bien" has a positive connotation and is used with "sale" which has a negative one.

I only found one photo of half of it online: https://www.brusselseyes.com/le-mal-propre-2014/
I remember a colleague writing his first computer program:

x = 1 // set x to "1"

x = 1 // set x to "1", again, just to make sure.
I think his complaint is that a lot of the Symfony docs don't simply say what things are/do, they instead inform via examples. Which means you have to parse the examples first to understand what's going on.
again, no they aren't. In ML, nobody instructs machines to do anything other than train and find those steps themselves. We have no clue what steps GPT takes when it solves problems.

For a straightforward example, when GPT-4 adds, what algorithm does it perform ? I have no clue, you have no clue and neither does anyone at open ai.

What we do is instruct machines to train. What they get out of training, we have very little idea.
> I should be able to state that two species have a different lifespan based on a difference in mean age of death - without needing to provide any specific biological mechanism in my study.

You need to control for confounders. For example, if I told you:

- Mean lifespan of species 1 is: 3 years
- Mean lifespan of species 2 is: 10 years

Does that mean that species 2 has a longer lifespan than species 1?

What happens when you find out that species 1 is domesticated cattle, which has (almost) all of its males slaughtered at age 2?

You could then say "I meant for two species that are in controlled conditions", but now you need to define what conditions you're controlling, which implies what casual mechanisms you're controlling for.
What's the market for a (non-hacked) device like this, when the Switch and the Deck already exist? Surely the appeal of a handheld is that you can bring it with you on the train, airplane, etc. What am I missing?
In this order:

Whenever Windows wants to update; if I have some driver issue, especially for gaming; if I want to not have it heat my room staying on all night, especially in the summer.
Thank you, just published an update, should be available in Turkey right now!
Remind them when they inevitably forget. Unless they remember, then they get tipped more. I hadn't thought of following them to the kitchen....maybe next time. ;)
Way less edgy...

On the other hand, welcome to the machine...
> This entire thread was a complete waste of my time.

The feeling is mutual. Have a nice day.
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
Rustifying libipuz: Character Sets
I contribute my grain of sand by reporting every single spam SMS that I get . I know those are much harder to spoof so its valuable when they get reported.

This is a nice little resource for quick reporting that an HNer put together recently. I have the abuse report email templated now, so all it takes is 2 minutes to report every new one.

https://reportphonespam.org/#Reporting-abuse-to-your-wireles...

Shout out to Telnyx staff for actually processing my requests with a reasonable SLA. Your CS team should be the industry norm.
I think you accidentally put a question mark where you meant to put an exclamation point.
> If you allowed me 1000s of trials and I could wager on each of them, I'd wager that the SAT scores of those who started were higher than the SAT scores of those who never started. In that regard, being accepted to and starting college is a positive signal.

If theory behind your wagers was correct, and if you're optimizing for SAT scores.
Noted on the community aspect. I mentioned R7RS specifically because it provides features that make it easy to dispatch on the available features / libraries, making it easy to take advantage of non-standard libraries in a portable way.
Nonetheless, I can empathize with GP, I wish the talk focused on the future more, and on history and marketing of Google a lot less. Yes, we get it, Google used to lead in this space, still does in some narrow niches, but recounting the glory days is not how you win mindshare. Show me the demos, make me excited about your vision.
Blaise Pascal, several centuries earlier.
Thanks! And congrats, the speed is impressive and quality really good.
You can buy a refurbished 256 GB Steam Deck for $319, and there’s an app to easily use Remote Play with your PS5! For not too much more money than the PS Portal, you can also download your entire Steam collection + non-Steam games (Minecraft w/ mods + shaders), and have a fully-functioning Linux machine!

Personally, I’m very confused on who exactly the PS Portal is for, but the only important thing is that people are having fun with their games! :)
> The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date.

Which is quite ironic, because when the GDPR was introduced just about everyone on HN adamantly insisted that one-person startups would be getting a €20M fine every time they made the slightest mistake.
I miss the action. Just like: NASA scientists start to kill each other because of the gold. The last one survives, spends it at the local casino and die a slow death of sorrows.
>> If you had Steve Jobs take a math test in third grade, I don’t think he would have done very well.

He apparently never passed a single test or even completed an assignment in fifth grade.
Oh yeah you definitely need to change that ASAP or at least add an explanation. I also thought there was something fishy going on. Thanks for the explanation.
> This is orthogonal to questions of morality and justice.

What?

If Kagi doesn't grow, I fully expect the owner to eventually shut it down and move on to more fruitful ventures. Nobody owes anybody to keep a business running. So yes, it would die.
I find it best to do play a game, only STOP PLAYING before you get tired of playing the game. Just when you realize how much fun you're having, stop playing and get back to work!

Or you'll just play the game until the game burns you out.
> (except just adding a comment here and there).

Your comment has been auto removed for not linking your reddit account with a email.
> I cannot see a way that those sentences do not both mean the same (nonsensical) thing involving strippers, JFK and Stalin.

This specific example is nonsensical to demonstrate the possible confusion, but this sort of confusion is really common.

> I think that your analysis in [] is wrong. Your second example says two named items but it still has three - strippers, JFK and Stalin.

No, in the second example, JFK and Stalin are two instances of strippers. So there are three nouns, but only two people.
I don't even understand your question. They're the same, by your own definition. You said unsophisticated people will just click the top link, and I'm assuming that means some of them will click the #2 link as well just because it's there -- since people often open the top n links. But if they're making a choice based on the link description, rather than just because it's there, then by your definition they're "sophisticated". They're clicking it for personal reasons, because they personally evaluated the quality of the link description.
@tome
Cannot sign up with sneakemail.com, snkml.com, snkmail, liamekaens.com etc... I pay for these services so my email is a bit more protected. Why do you insist on getting well-known email providers instead, datamining or something else?
Did they actually re-release 0125 as a retrained model with newer data, or was that an oversight? The date of Dec 2023 seems to suggest that was always the training time of the snapshot, rather than OpenAI silently re-revving the 0125 model with this doc update being their announcement. But it's a preview model, so maybe anything goes.
There's a conflict of interest at play. The law as you point out is rarely enforced, so tool providers are willing to look the other way and accrue revenues from the spammers.

What needs to happen is that the liability should be clear and present danger when a reasonable tool provider knows X is a spammer, and they don't investigate (or take action) the cost of maintaining that customer should be many times greater than the revenue from it. This should be particularly true if a spammer is reported by a consumer (Which is a strong signal).

Right now, the situation is reversed.
Funny, my opinion of Apollo on the front end is that it's the bees knees (specifically vue-apollo using the composition API), but it's the PHP graphql backend that I'm stuck with (Symfony API Platform) that I really wish I could ditch in favor of something like Lighthouse.

And I _hate_ Eloquent, but I'm that jealous of all the goodies in Lighthouse's graphql dialect. You pretty much can't use directives at all in API Platform :(
I might get decapitated for suggesting this here, but it would be interesting to see the results on people with gender dysphoria. Do the hormones change the brain or does it remain the same? Test it both on patients starting as teens and as adults and study over time.
Company policy, pretty standard with large "scientific" companies.

Supposedly the requirement has been lifted but most team leaders and VP's are still reluctant. If the employee eventually fails they can still use "well, he graduated from Purdue he should have succeeded"
Rotary Un-Smartphone – the backstory [video]
It’s a pretty textbook “Post hoc ergo proprer hoc”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
E2EE can be done anywhere, but of course some entities like Google or Apple might try to spy locally.
Finding Inliers
Well, if we are going to be authoritative then we might like to ... well:

"I believe it was Orwell who wrote [to] a friend: "

... soz, you are probably left pondian and have a habit of writing your friends. I like to get all transitive and write to mine.
Underlying this proposition is that I'm optimizing for* something closer to what IQ (and SAT) measures.

* "optimizing for" meaning "I'd prefer a higher score over a lower one, all else equal".
> This is a subjective post about things that annoy me, some of the points are invalid and for sure people with far more context and brain power than I have have considered them. It is also to be expected that I take for granted things that would annoy other people.

Great disclaimer, since most of the points raised in this article seem very nitpicky to me. This is understandable considering that OP's PHP work is about creating a language server and some benchmarking tool, both of which are definitely not the main use-case for this language. I bet your average PHP dev has no idea about the things mentioned in this article, nor are they interested in improving them.
Equal temperament was, originally, what allowed us to build physical instruments which can be played in all keys; but as a _result_ of that, it's what allows us to write music which fluently changes key (beyond the relative minor or, at a push, the closest steps on the circle of fifths).
Also one of the people who built the modern AI world. From the data centers to the bulk processing software to the team structures to tensorflow, to some of the most cost effective chips in the field, to many of the early blockbuster results in the field.

They certainly fumbled by not investing in massive LLM scaling early enough, but Jeff Dean has been planning this day since his graduate work on neural networks in the 90s.