skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what you mean specifically by 'overlapping'. But high-dimensional vector space is really "big" in the sense that everything is way closer together compared to low dimensions (this is the curse of dimensionality for euclidean norm), and this is already something one has to think about regardless of the similarity of the source documents. From reading wikipedia it seems like it's been argued that the curse is the worst with independent and uniformly distributed features.
The world also existed before antibiotics...

Also, a lot of people with mental health issues can survive without their medication, it can significantly decrease their quality of life or ability to function.

I can survive without my ADHD being treated but I can't work. Fortunately for me, I am on a different type of medication so this shortage doesn't affect me, but I can see what's happening to my coworkers. My team is going to lose people due to this bullshit.
I replied a longer reply to the other reply to your comment, but in terms of battery life 13th gen and lower intels are poorer to zen4 (7x4x) u series cpus, however apparently the intel hs/hx versions are slightly more efficient than their amd counterparts.

I highly recommend going through some youtube battery life videos and looking up notebook check reviews for whatever you're planning to buy/compare.
Russian nukes in space: Intelligence leak more serious than the threat itself
It couldn't be stable there for very long. It's a three body problem. If it ever existed it would have been ejected billions of years ago.
YVW. I'll have a think about some other sources, especially plain
speaking non-academic takes on the ethics that help developers see the
issues. For now this one is a good general overview [0].

The big one with telemetry, is unintended side effects due to
correlation and deanonymisation - which is actually dead hard to
anticipate - very easy to get wrong like rolling your own cryptography
:)

The other, around consent and defaults, is that even if your telemetry
is perfectly anonymous, benign and beneficial to the end user, you may
trigger a security alert and over-zealous investigation and
reporting. This can have a massive impact on your reputation, as
happened to Audacity. It's really not worth taking the risk.

Hope that helps.

[0] https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S2398-60...
The hard part of SQL is thinking relationally. This obviously doesn’t do anything to affect that — if they actually thought this, they’d be making the same mistake as SQL itself “the reason business users don’t program is because it’s not english enough”

The problem this is resolving, if it successfully resolves anything at all, is that the SQL language is a mess of random keywords, inconsistent syntax requirements and generates some of the worst error messages known to man. It’s an attempt at making SQL a consistent, simple language — ideally exposing the data model more directly and with less noise
Thomas, I think for full disclosure you should also state that you left Groq to start a competitor (a competitor which doesn't have the world's lowest latency LLM engine nor a guarantee to match the cheapest per token prices, like Groq does.).

Anyone with a serious interest in the total cost of ownership of Groq's system is welcome to email contact@groq.com.
Sorta, this is actually a CPU cache thing, ARM can do it efficiently not needing a lot of CPU cache to handle parrellel decoding. x86 requires more cache to do so. However more cache has its benefits not just in this task. Cache is also getting cheaper.
> If there were such a thing out there we could send a probe to it.

You might be interested in Ed Witten's paper about this topic:
"Searching for a Black Hole in the Outer Solar System", https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14192

(See also this related comment from the HN discussion back then which puts Witten's paper into context very nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23135031 )
It's impressive, but I have one problem with all of those models. I wanted them to answer what Mixtral or Llama2 are, but with no luck. It would be great if models could at least describe themselves.
Something can be neither luxury nor necessity. Coffee is one example.
I'm totally fine with failure, it's more a feeling of as another commentator said "worthlessness" and that I do not have any knowledge and as such anything I've made has been only possible through external means (googling, following tutorial, whatever excuse my mind makes up about me making up my experience).

Like say seeing some influencer brag about how they manage to create a game engine in 24 hours while for me making a "deployable webapp" takes months, will make me feel worthless and then start to question anything I've done is actually learnt or if it's just "luck" or "cheating" that made me able to write this simple webapp.
> That's not the point, the point is complexity of both instruction sets are not too far off.

So you agree that CISC vs RISC is not a thing nowadays.

> Initial power draw on ARM is lower but jumps in complicated tasks.

> Initial power draw on x86 is higher but maintains in complicated tasks.

What's a "complicated" task? What's the power draw baseline? What are the examples?

Otherwise, these sentences mean nothing.
Alberta's Brutal Water Reckoning
That still implies both more logic and more "hot" silicon, so decoding is higher overhead.

I recall reading about creating a subset of x86_64 that would be faster to decode, but this would effectively be a different architecture so at that point you might as well go to ARM64 or RISC-V.

I do know that if the instruction set decodes efficiently and is compact (to reduce memory bandwidth) it really doesn't matter much beyond that.
Sure, but it's only the USA paying the most truly ridiculous prices. They're usually quite affordable in the rest of the world.
Even if it isn't true.

Disclosing inside information is illegal, _even if it is false and fabricated_, if it leads to personal gains.
A PBH that size would be extremely useful for getting out of (and back into)
our solar system, at least for probes that could survive being slingshot
to a fraction of light speed.
It could be like slingshoting around the sun,
but but at a few miles from the core instead of a million miles.
A lot of countries shoved tons of money into chips. In fact, a ton of countries have more money than Taiwan.

And yet, it's Taiwan who won. We gotta give them props for that, and we can also thank the gods that it was a close ally of the USA who got so good at it.
You can't free-market your way in an industry that's heavily subsidized by other governments. Whatever local company you have will obviously lose to some other company that's getting the levies somewhere else to design a cheaper product which will win in the "market". So, you end up having two options:

a) Offer subsidies yourself
b) Let other governments dictate the industry that you're crucially depended on
Sharing the love for awk as well :)

Aho's second edition of The AWK Programming Language dropped a few months ago is recommended if you want to know more about the language.
Honestly it's been the one thing keeping me up from quitting and trying a new field.
In VecCore (a small C++ SIMD abstraction library on top of Vc and std::simd), I created some simple examples to show how to use the library to optimize code using SIMD in a somewhat generic way. You can find it on GitHub at https://github.com/root-project/veccore

I have examples for Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, including an implementation with AVX2 intrinsics.

These days with std::simd more widely available there's less of a reason to use VecCore, but the examples may still be educational enough. I chose Julia sets and the Mandelbrot since they are perfect examples of simple problems that compilers fail to vectorize on their own.
I think that because the results of these generative "AI" models is so surprising and "novel" (in the sense of a novelty toy) we are seeing a large disconnect between the hype around the technology and its actual usefulness. I have seen few cases where "AI" can make a substantial dent in productivity (coding, drafting documents and a few others). Just like crypto "currency" before it we have an interesting technology that hasn't translated into a real game changing product, despite the breathless excitement.
violence typically does not solve issues of rounding
A city doesn't have space restrictions. It has transportation restrictions.

If you manage to make people travel around faster, you increase the housing supply by a much higher amount than you can by converting local land into housing.

So, everybody would be better by increasing the reach and area for train tracks, even if you convert a reasonable amount of nearby area into parks, if also, while you are at it, you provide some way for local transit to integrate with the long-distance one.

The dichotomy on the article is just plainly wrong. Transportation enables you to improve on both, and without transportation you will have neither.
Theoretically yes, but

1. there are lots of problems preventing this working in practice currently (see my sister comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433274).

2. the result of doing this is not the beautiful ruby code you are used to, compared to languages that have been designed for concurrency from the beginning.
IBM partially has a hold on banking because they have supported decimal floating point. By switching binary floating-point from radix 2 to radix 10 (decimal exponents) they get rid of some of the problems.

IEEE has had these Decimal types for a while, but IBM is the only company shipping CPUs with them.

Fixed decimal is still used where appropriate, but Decimal floating point is a critical feature for some processes.

While personal taxes typically drop the cents, tariffs and other taxes are often small percentages as an example.

There are software implementations if you don't need performance.

But Decimal64 has a lot more represented values and it is easier to trap on some edge cases.

As Decimal floating point types were added into C23 we will see if hardware support follows.

Note this is also why HP calculators were more accurate for a given bit size, because the engineering ones used radix 10 floats.
It would have to be orbiting at the same distance as the Earth to have the same speed, which seems unlikely, and only gives it a fairly small amount of space to live in, so I’m sure we’ve checked there.

The hypothetical planet 9 is speculated to be far from the sun, past Pluto.
Quoting the article: "OTP stands for _Open Telecom Platform_, which is literally a meaningless name that was used to get the stuff open-sourced back in the old days of Erlang at Ericsson."
No, we were small potatoes. Just local deals.
It's hard to imagine a scenario in which the solar system captures a wandering black hole. If it comes in it's going to keep going, or take the hyperbola back out the way it came.

It's not impossible and such scenarios can be constructed. But they're really narrow and it's hard to justify putting a lot of effort into looking for wild coincidences.
There are no meaningful bio-terrorism risks to production and supply chain.

The bacteria that make botulinum toxin are found naturally in many places, but it’s rare for them to make people sick. A hypothetical bio-terrorist does not need to break in to a medical factory to procure it
I quit cold turkey and had bad headaches. What helped for me was having a decaf coffee. Just one would make the headaches go away. So the jump from say 300 mg to 10mg of caffeine was somehow much better than 300 to 0.
>An electron beam seems to be the stealthiest of the three extermination options

Or they could just false flag a nuke strike and watch us sterilize ourselves.
Basically I have at my fingertips a lot of tech brainpower who can knock out products pretty quickly. Being techies our sales chops are subpar so I thought about owning the data myself and learning the ins and outs of sales through getting closer to the industry.

At the same time this project forces me to handle data at scale (few terrabytes currently but I estimate we will need about 2 petabytes of storage realistically at minimum) and that comes handy for AI related projects. That's pretty much my personal motivation for this.
> Yes, hover makes 70 requests, 5 mb on first load, it is an old school website

Literally nothing about this is old school. Not single thing. It's a simple page with text information on it. It needs exactly three requests: HTML, CSS, and a few kilobytes of Javascript for the minor interactive functionality it has.

Because yes "inherently nothing is bloated". An yet this website requires 2.5 megabytes of Javascript to display a few kilobytes of text, and you offer this as an example of "minimalist website that is not bloated" or something.

> What I can tell you, that good web programming is totally possible

Yes, it's possible. And yet everywhere you turn you see bloated websites.

> Sorry but I do not really know actually what your point is

I think I've stated it loud and clear, and didn't hide behind several pages of demagoguery about the state of the world and possibilities and what not.

> Tell me your angle. Are you a native app developer for mobile and you fear learning new things?

1. What does this have to do with my questions?

2. What exactly in my questions prompted you to stoop down to ad hominem?

> good web programming is totally possible

> modern js, modern web api, V8 optimization

> you can use webassembly for c++ code

> What you see on current websites is a horror

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This has only been posted fourteen times before. Eight of those were by the current OP, "tomte". Whats up with that, Tomte?
What do you see being the potential negative outcomes?
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Hm I don't understand what you mean. What's wrong with `myList.sort()`?
Hold my beer. The first PDP-11 computer our company bought, with 64kb RAM, cost 10 times my yearly salary.
This does not seem most likely at all.
I think suburbs and urban sprawl could be described this way. But urban core at least here in Toronto is very people friendly and it's definitely possible to live well here without a car. I'm fact most people in the downtown core don't own a car.

I hear downtown Vancouver is also this way. Montreal's urban core and Quebec city also fit this bill.

I do admit everywhere else in Canada is terrible for being people friendly. Not sure about other places
Just get out and push
I like lapce. Its simple and easy to use. Ive switched to using the terminal for now but I do like using it from time to time.

its also kind of hilarious to watch people be like "why would we need another editor" and then turn around and POG at Zed lmao
Mixtral is a pre-existing model that was released by Mistral AI in December: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

It was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598559

You won't learn anything about the chips this submission is about by asking it questions - maybe except to look for degradation from quantization or computational shortcuts, but you'd have to compare the answers to Mixtral running with 16 bit floats. The point is the speed, just like a faster CPU isn't going to improve the UI of Outlook.
You!!! I NFT'd that, scanned it, and the original was meant to be destroyed, meant to be in the trash.

Now I'm being sued, after you put it on ebay! You have no right sir! None! You don't own the NFT!
> JS sets are plenty useful. Sometimes you want reference equality for objects

An example of where I've found this useful is object cycle detection.
> a heat pump water heater and it made a noticeable dent in our electric bill.

I think, in most of the USA, a natural gas water heater would have made a similar dent in your overall utility bill. But I still am very glad we're working harder towards good heat pumps.
>prices of LED light bulbs went through the roof and never came back down

Maybe I'm buying cheap bulbs but the latest ones I've bought have been very reasonably priced and most definitely are lasting longer than incandescent / halogen. I recently replaced some that had been operating for at least 8 years and likely longer.
> So you agree that CISC vs RISC is not a thing nowadays.

Correct.

> What's a "complicated" task? What's the power draw baseline? What are the examples?

Complicated tasks typically involve the use of numerous instruction sets working together to complete a task like with video games that have physics and AI. Exclude AI co-processors for this example. Or even burdening the system with tons of multi-tasking. ARM succombs.

AMD's x86 Ryzen chips rival M series processors, but under stress can do more. M series is the pinnacle of ARM, you won't find anything ARM near it in any way.
> EVs have a used car problem. They absolutely get decimated by depreciation.

I see this narrative pushed a lot, but never with any numbers. When I look at the depreciation of Teslas they seem to be 50% after 3 years, which is absolutely standard in the UK for any vehicle. What are “decimated” numbers?
The URL kind of gives away the theme of the site. And the first sentence starts with “Erlang/OTP”.
I would have guessed you could get a coffee maker for $10 anywhere but it seems they cost $20 nowadays. Still even a $10 mocha pot would be a luxury by that definition when you can make folgers cowboy coffee and drink it out of the single pan that you use for everything.
What is a species, anyway?
That seems like the most interesting sci-fi plot explanation. Two alternative explanations for why we can find Planet 9 could be: it is a tiny, hard to see rock very far away, or it doesn’t exist.
Does Adderall even work?
The reason is that labs can decipher the drug contents and produce the drugs at a fraction of the cost. Of course, these companies never paid for the research and cost to bring to market.
So yes US citizens end up carrying the cost, but in practicality, a very big number of life-saving drugs originate in US companies. I am definitely not defending these companies just pointing out the basics.
Get this [1] and never look back. They are HYNIX A Die, with a good timings (CL30) and with good speed (6000 MT/s), as well as with a spacious room for overclocking.

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/product/6QcgXL/gskill-flare-x5-64-g...
> Is it reasonable to assume that the cons of production of botox outweigh the pros...?

Pro-tip, hypotheticals don't really work with LLMs. The rest of your interaction was contaminated by the sentiment proposed.
That is exactly how you create any other type of object on the heap.
There’s a queueing system if too many requests are being processed at once. You may have hit that.
That's the kind of thing western neoliberal economists used to say about China in the 1990s - it was only hurting itself with all this central planning, etc. and if it wanted to really grow it should go fully unplanned, release capital controls, instead of this hybrid central planning/capitalist system that theyve got.

They sort of seamlessly morphed from that to arguing about how its economic rise can be arrested by slapping tariffs, etc. on them.
No glowing reviews
not that worried about satellites... the only ones I use are for GPS... I could do away with the spying satellites /s
There are uncoutably many binary star systems,
one (or both) being the size of a sports ball changes nothing.
yeah i have never really seen someone breakdown the axioms of floating point mathematics, like how do you define addition in a system that is not closed under "normal" addition.
It takes some effort, but you can buy responsibly raised/caught seafood. https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consum...
Well, honestly since I have found Tridactyl, I have fixed the UI with

guiset_quiet gui none

it remove all the problems. Literally.
exactly! and if it did the wrong thing after all, just undo.
Your comment doesn't address the parent comment's point though. You'd have to make an argument that the chip factories won't get built at all.
There are still plenty of four- or five-storey walkups in Manhattan. These can be razed and replaced with residential high-rises. Manhattan's ability to build up (as opposed to out) is essentially unlimited.
Subtweeting the Eliezer Yudkowsky threads on weight loss? More seriously, yes, "We're all unique so nothing could possibly apply to me" is usually pretty thinly veiled cope.
You can indeed make laws to hold the companies responsible, but that's not going to change the situation where it's dumb to store private information on systems that aren't under your control.

You might be able to cause consequences after the fact, but your data will still get leaked first. You can't undo a privacy violation with tort law, and there won't ever be criminal penalties.

If you want your information to stay private, don't store it on other people's computers. IDGAF what "the default today" is. (Also, that's wrong - everyone that is serious and actually wants their data to remain private doesn't store it in the cloud. This is why the CIA got Amazon to build a custom airgapped on-prem AWS region at Langley, for instance.)
Some all-you-can-eat sushi spots in Toronto have these too!
String's localeCompare:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
What would you imagine an appropriate reward for such efforts would be, other than intrinsic ones?
media critical thinking -- all news is a representation in language and pictures, therefore inevitably contains contrary, noisy or misleading content (same with the perception of the users). Since news is a social phenomenon, there is a chain of gather, produce, disseminate, consume involving many people over time.

From an Economist Magazine view, somehow bills have to be paid, whether through government and taxation, private expenditure, for-profit basis or others.. Generative AI decisions will arrive from command-and-control basis in most cases.

Generative AI in News is very likely, for something that is simple like saving money on background screens for newscasts, less wholesome like replacing newscasters and journalists with machine inputs, or at a meta-level like propaganda in content and editing. In the leading economies of the world, this will happen.

Solutions are partly market, partly political.. not very personal -- one person boycotting will not change outcomes -- IMHO.
ARM64 and AMD64 do not have any significant differences in complexity. In 2024 they are both massively CISC, and most significant idiosyncrasies of both were ironed out in the 64 bit transition. They both use translation layers that a miniscule fraction of the transistor budget. ARM uses a more relaxed memory model which can give it a slight advantage, but there are enough trade-offs there it's not a pure win either.

IOW, in 2024 there's no significant advantage in ISA choice.

There are dozens of factors that matter more than ISA choice -- process node, design team competence, transistor budget, design goals, memory bandwidth, et cetera.

Your comment would be much more accurate if you said "Zen4" and "M1" instead of x86 and ARM. (I chose those two because they're on the same process). Zen4 is better than M1 in some metrics and M1 is better in others. But that's mostly because they had different design goals.
Ah true.

This is solved (well, not solved, but handled) by not having a direct link between usage data and the user. So you store your data as <usage, proxy_id> which references <proxy_id, user_id> which references <user_id, user PII>. This way you can always easily break the connection to PII (if the user requests deletion) while keeping per user data.

But true, it's not anonymized in this case.
Isn't low density by definition not a city?
I predict that ~30 years from now, someone will take all these drugs that have shown some success in treating some cancer, mix them all together at a low dose, and find the combination works better than any of the components.
I agree, sql is well documented and an industry standard, no need to make it more complex by adding preprocessors that do nothing but change the syntax.

Just bite in and learn proper sql.