skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience there's really no reason to run any model above Q6_K, the performance is identical and you shave off almost 2 GB of VRAM of a 7B model compared to Q8. To those of us with single digit amounts, that's highly significant. But most people seem to go for 4 bits anyway and it's the AWQ standard too. If you think it'll make the model look bad, then don't worry, it's only the relative performance that matters.

I would think that having an OpenAI standard compatible API would be a higher priority over a python wrapper, since then it can act as a drop in replacement for most any backend.
US judge says FTX can sell its Anthropic shares; FTX invested $500M in 2021
you say it as if noone has tried...
Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres
> First, to recap: Google injected special instructions into Gemini so that when it was asked to draw pictures, it would draw people with “diverse” (non-white) racial backgrounds.

I just love how this "solution" to their problem of their training set being deeply flawed is such a hilariously bad kludge hack of the sort a jr programmer would make and it's amazing that they went with it.
The market is rational about AI. it's truly going to be transformational. They are irrational about NVIDIA but hey, when money flows out from NVDA it will go to the next AI company, it's not like the sector will deflate
I use the former and have been experimenting with the latter. Fortunately, the contexts are separate enough that they never come up in the same sentence.
Was reacting to the "I often remember that a phrase was at the top or middle or left side of a page" part. In particular for technical documentation, having a vague memory of how the page looked like and where in that page the information is IMHO tremendously useful to get back quickly to the relevant parts.

I personaly see less use of feeling the weight of the book or the physical artifacts (even for the position in the book, the ratio on the scroll bar is to me a good enough replacement).
Probably just a coincidence that Kutcher was hospitalized twice for pancreatitis after adopting Jobs' diet in preparation for the role.

https://www.self.com/story/mila-kunis-ashton-kutcher-hospita...
Story time. I find myself to be pushing a stroller around a lot these days, and the number of times where I have to wait behind some obstacles to make place for another stroller, kids, someone in a wheelchair, a blind person, old people with walkers, is much higher than I thought it would be when I was just my agile, young self. I'm sure they'd all love to dive bomb away from cars that are running into them.
An expert is someone who claims to know though, and thus if they say something that contradicts established facts they are lying under oath.
> it's kinda scary they love a company.

Why?
I just bought batteries for a 20 year old UPS, still chugs along, network interface is base 10!
$100k is a decent approximation of "just about enough for BofA to consider caring about your retaining your custom", yeah.
basically no-name manufactures can get a free version of Windows
congrats on the launch! Looks great!!
The landing page is as opaque as the name. I _think_ this might be something cool, but I have absolutely no idea what it is based on the landing page and the included video.
Nvidia & cloud providers are the shovel sellers, seems to be working out quite well
The more you know the harder it becomes. An inexperienced programmer will dash off thousands of lines of toxic waste "code" in a day. An experienced programmer knows that every line is a burden. The goal should not be to return to the false illusion of productivity, but to embrace the true nature of the task.
An ounce is 28 grams, 5g isn’t that much flower at all in the grand scheme of things.

I presume it’s an attempt at stopping dealing, maybe to minors? But it feels asinine to have such a limit. Like another poster says, should this extend to a single crate of beer? One bottle of spirits? One pouch of tobacco?

Having a 5g limit just means I’m going to make more frequent trips to the shop to purchase more cannabis, just let me buy a pound and leave me to it.
2002 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neck,_My_Back_(Lick_It)
With cannabis you usually have dry herb vaporizers, not liquid based devices.
Nvidia's revenue is ~$60 billion dollars.

But in all honesty, the box office numbers aren't as impressive as the longtail licensing and merchandising.

That's where the real money is made for the movie franchises.
I was in high school in mid to late 90s. I had a tiny Samsung that to this day I miss with its tiny form factor - smaller than a Razor. It definitely had texting abilities, but I was a total hermit and had no friends back then, so I don't know.
I've been using Brave for a few years now. It's speedy enough, and does a great job of blocking ads and trackers. I've never had issues with Spotify and I like the auto-dismissing of cookie banners too.
My first GPS Garmin watch used for running back in 2011 didn’t have an app and didn’t have any cellular signal. I put it on my wrist and started running. I don’t remember it taking more than a minute to get a signal.
Hey, good luck with dropping it, 30 days is already a milestone!

First 3 to 6 months is always terrible. I also had issues with sleep because of dreams, and also used cannabis for that purpose. Getting back to sleeping without THC in the bloodstream is, well... an experience on it's own.

It's funny how all of the adults I've heard/read basically share the same experience of dropping it (REM rebound, heart rate and anxiety/strange thoughts). And, yeah, today's weed is far more potent than weed I initially started to smoke almost 2 decades ago.
I think you do it just like you handle compatibility between services – you never remove parameters; you only ever add new optional ones if you have to. This way a message from the past will be compatible with a future handler, same as if you have a caller that depends on you which is using an outdated client/API definition.

But you are right; it's very hard to reason about testing such systems, since you may have accumulated state which causes your handler logic to behave differently. The problem exists in service architectures in general though, it's just very hard to miss with intentionally delayed processing.
I have become completely convinced that there just isn’t any space inside a black hole. I can’t say I have a good reason for the conviction. But if you see how the maximum amount of information in a black hole grows with the surface area of the hole, not the volume, it seems to me that whatever process is responsible for creating spacetime simply breaks down at the event horizon. So space suddenly becomes very sparse or even non-existent inside.

An aspect of this belief is that matter/energy doesn’t just warp spacetime, it’s creating it. I feel like this could explain why at large distances, galaxies are moving away from each other (“dark energy”).. if space is sort of piling up in those empty areas it would effectively push galaxies away from each other.

I’m a total amateur so I’m probably wrong.

I suspect Wolfram is on the right track but he seems to be approaching from a similar angle as string theory: trying to craft a perfect beautiful theory from the ground up.. that ends up being able to describe an infinite number of possible universes.

I think if some of the ideas he was exploring was developed in a more pragmatic way, by trying to graft some aspects of it onto existing theories, in what will probably be a much uglier and messier theory, we might make some progress.
I think you’d have to factor in Satoshi’s opsec measures though vs taking them at their word at being bad at Linux, consider SN displayed very capable opsec in other forums.

Len had significant time and topic correlations to many/basically all iirc of the feeder research and projects that clearly fed into BTC. SN also went offline around the time Len passed. Those two factors plus the related details sealed it for me.

Edit - like if I was known to research under Szabo and Finney (iirc) right around the same time BTC launched, was known to advocate to peers to launch controversial open source under pseudonyms, and so on, I’d probably wrap my public persona under “BTC sucks” and my SN persona under “idk linux well,” and so on. Seems an obvious step to take.
The semi-strong from of the Efficient Market Hypothesis says that the market has already incorporated all publicly available information. But "publicly available" is doing a lot of work there. What constitutes an impressive ability for an AI[1], how hard is it for a big company to port it's tech stack from CUDA to ROCm, and things like that are public in some sense but not really in the sense of necessarily being priced in enough that you shouldn't trade on your sense of those. But on the flip side, there are a lot of things that might be obvious to an MBA with decades of experience that might be opaque to me so please don't go all in on any bet.

[1]https://xkcd.com/1425/
bartered rights with governments are ONLY a shaky peace deal. The only thing that holds that deal together is the willingness of an aggrieved party damage the other party. It's anarchy behind a thin veil. The only thing that prevents the government organ from taking away all our hard negotiated rights over hundreds of years is the fact they're afraid they'll get strung up on fence posts with their intestines hanging out while children pelt them with vegetables and vultures consume their rotting flesh.
One time I worked on a team where we got rewarded for being "bug heros", because we resolved a lot of bugs. It was kind of funny because we also generated the bugs.
I mean democratization in that people can buy a 4080 or 4090 and run and thinker with AI/LLMs themselves.
> Before Apple's M1, ARM was slow and near unusable for x86-class machines

You ignore one huge class of x86 systems: servers. AWS Graviton launched 2 years before M1 and had competitive perf.
I also tend to remember where a tidbit of information was physically. For some reason, details like "~50 pages back around the end of the paragraph in the top-right corner of the right page" will stick in my brain. Then I can quickly scan and parse out keywords to find what I'm looking for. This doesn't work reliably with e-books for me.
I have always had horrible "Penmanship". When I was in 9th grade - the last year of my parochial school, my home room teacher made me retake second grad penmanship. It did not help much. I do think my poor writing style is connected to my ADHD symptoms. Anyhow, a few years back- here on HN people were discussing fountain pens as a way to improve writing. Hee, I now have a bunch of Lamy fountain pens. I think because I spent 70 dollars on a pen, I sometimes slow down a bit and write better. Even if it does not help your kid's writing ability, I think he will enjoy having a cool pen.
Clearly, though unfortunately, we need more engineers to take pay cuts and become lawyers.
I quoted the exact part I was commenting on, maybe you missed that?
This is not the case, moderation is decoupled from each server. Users choose how they want moderation to work, and can share those tools with others.

See here for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471973
You don't have to have a full cover.. Only the cameras would need to have a window of (sapphire)glass. The rest of the ski-mask could easily be plastic, as it's only used to display eyes.

My guess is that it gives them a few cycles to improve the weight. The iPhone X was a monster in terms of weight
I’ve been using https://apy.fyi/ since it’s Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058601). I haven’t checked it in a while but there are significantly less entries on it now compared to this one
More than just the elites. The extreme division between all Americans from any group - political, racial, religious etc. - is all part of a large, ongoing cyberwarfare attack from Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

I'm sure other nations are involved, Russia has just done the most recorded damage so far. The entire point of red vs blue, black vs white, rich vs poor rhetoric is to divide and conquer the American people.
Oh OK. So it's not fully legalised then...
I don't know, it's something I've wanted many times.

Recently I discovered https://directus.io/ which comes pretty close and it's open source.
AT&T says cell outage caused by technical error, not cyberattack
Even with this I would argue that fixed cost would have been the way to go. They were losing $X every day for that six months that it wasn't working. They hired you to fix it, and even if you charge them way more than your day rate you're not solely charging them for the change - you're charging them for "knowing which screw to turn".

The hardest part of getting into contracting was the guilt of feeling "I'm charging too much for a simple fix!". If the fix was so simple and the client didn't find it in those six months then maybe your assumption that the fix was simple and obvious was incorrect. Regardless, your fix provided value, and you should be compensated for the value that you provided, not just the number of hours worked.
My wife double spaces after periods, and although she is a US citizen, she is not a product of the American education system.

My wife is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Yeah, we spent ~$150 billion in 2023 on national feeding-people programs. SNAP, WIC, and others. Any single person earning less than $1,133 per month gets SNAP (modern day food stamps), higher for larger household sizes.

42 million Americans get SNAP benefits (additional people in other programs)

Once again, "let's increase this existing program by 0.1%!" is not a very convincing argument.
Yes. It was a hilariously bad solution to a real problem.

The problem was that their training data yielded outcomes that weren't a representative sample of reality.

They didn't try to solve that problem.

Instead they just tried to put their thumb on the scale to compensate.
So stupid of Russia to invade countries then?
Realistically the threshold will be something like $100.
No, just as bad a lie.
There is the fallen Ramses statue that is 1000 ton. Supposedly moved 500 miles across desert couple of thousand years ago.

There is this story about moving 80 ton statue, even this wasn’t a small task for modern people.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/ramses-ii-grand-egyptian-m...

Unfinished Obelisk is 1500 tons but it’s still in the quarry, I wonder how they planned to even lift it up
A fun game is to templatize that statement and try swapping it out with other beliefs:

Why would anyone disagree with <something I agree with>. I think that says a lot. Are the <people who my ideology targets> who complain about the <derogatory term for my political belief> hurt in any way by <the best part of my political belief>? No, they are not.

Why would anyone disagree with environmental activism. I think that says a lot. Are the corporate polluters who complain about the tree huggers hurt in any way by clean water? No, they are not.

Why would anyone disagree with conservatism. I think that says a lot. Are the left-wingers who complain about the rightards hurt in any way by individual liberty? No, they are not.
Yeah, I clarified in another comment... it is more that I find it easy to do the hard work of programming.
Most have gone that way, but a few were still letting you put your entire property tax on credit card with no fee whatsoever as recently as last year.

Woohoo free miles! Sometimes the fee is so low that even when they do charge it, it's worth using the credit card.
Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere
Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont.

We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so things don't quite work perfectly all the time, so we are hoping to build it together with the community! Our code is open: https://github.com/ok-robot/ok-robot and we have a Discord server for discussion and support: https://discord.gg/wzzZJxqKYC If you are curious what works and what doesn't work, take a quick look at https://ok-robot.github.io/#analysis or read our paper for a detailed analysis: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12202

P.S.: while the code is open the project unfortunately isn't fully open source since one of our dependencies, AnyGrasp, has a closed-source, educational license. Apologize in advance, but we used it since that was the best grasping model we could have access to!

Would love to hear more thoughts and feedback on this project!
Progress in what direction? Is progress ever finished?

It's an important question. If the answer is "no," then progress (whatever that means) must continue forever. This has quite a few disturbing implications.

If the answer is "yes," then arises the question of "toward what? How will we know when we are done?"
Yes, that's what I was communicating. The QC is bad. In addition, firmware updates are few and far between and there's no sign of Coreboot support.
Also probably

* everyone is in such a rush to get to market that they didn't test it well.
not convinced Jobs would have produced $3500 AR ski goggles with a pocket battery pack
> He didn't say this. Wired, however, did. If you go to the source, Apple/Jobs took accountability. But Wired got clicks.

I think you got most of this wrong. The "you're holding it wrong" meme started on MacRumors, not Wired. MacRumors forum user samcraig emailed Steve Jobs about the low signal issue he (and many others) experienced while holding the new iPhone 4 in a specific way. He asked "Question - What's going to be done about the signal dropping issue. Is it software or hardware?"

Steve Jobs himself emailed back to samcraig:

> Non issue. Just avoid holding it in that way.

He also later responded back with the following statement. This was the first "official statement" from Apple at the time, sent to tech news outlets.

> “Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.”

So literally neither Jobs, nor Apple, took any accountability.

Screenshots of that email exchange with Steve Jobs are still available online[0]. Furthermore we don't have to doubt the veracity of the screenshots because just one week later, Apple PR disputed[1] a different fake email chain with Steve Jobs, but Apple PR never disputed this email chain, publicized only one week earlier. If it was fake, they would have told outlets it was fake at the time.

0: https://www.macstories.net/iphone/steve-jobs-on-iphone-4-rec...

1: https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/steve-jobs-emails-fake/?gu...
If so, only a tad. OTOH, I read so much more on an ebook that I think it's still a win.
There is another important angle to all of this that I have discovered:
I began writing/journaling several years ago by hand and have off and on kept up the habit. For me personally, the experience is enjoyable and therapeutic, given my day job is 100% on a computer. (I'm also an illustrator (focus on traditional, rather than digital) so I naturally nerd out on pens, paints, ink, paper, etc. Illustrating with analog tools also has a similar effect as writing.) I have found that I very easily enter flow state writing, for whatever reason.

More importantly, I recently felt inspired (HT to the late Humphrey Carpenter's excellent biography of Tolkien, who wrote to his kids a ton) not just to write for myself, but to write to my sons. This has given my writing even a greater purpose, as I want to give my thoughts (I'm not some profound thinker or such rubbish) and encouragement to my boys when I may not be around (not just in death, but even not near them).
I want them to hear and remember the goofiness, and some of the things that went unsaid, or may have been missed, to apologize for my own failings, to really know how much I love and am proud of them. And I want them to not feel alone and discouraged in this world. That sort of stuff.
I don't believer there would be anything wrong with typing things to them, however It feels like actually holding a thing that my dad held, and seeing his lines, scribbles, ramblings, bad spelling and stuff...but meant for me...would be really meaningful.
The Art of Showing Pure Incompetence at an Unwanted Task (2007)
Highlights from Git 2.44
AMD doesn't have any equivalent of CUDA, i.e. something you can run on commodity GPUs. ROCm is only for specific "pro" devices.
I’m not sure if you’re being facetious, but this is literary available for early access, but not ga yet. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/21/gemini-pro-video/
I think what could make the difference is the process of selection "what is important to me to compress".

If you know something already you can skip writing it.

If you heard an interesting idea you should write it in a way you would understand it the easiest later. For me, not all notes taken by people on exactly the same course were as understandable, because everybody did some "reinterpretation/selection" - which for me could be a proof of some intricate processing.

If you want to follow up later, well, I think that's a different use-case - not related to focusing on the topic (also important but in other circumstances)
Not just brands, but software too. The primary software I support at my day job was acquired by a company that, based on their other assets, can be described as where software goes to die.

We’re migrating away but they’ll squeeze out what they can from those that don’t/can’t/won’t.

But they still have to provide continuous support, some amount of updates to keep customers functioning, and maybe even get some new customers as a “value” option (that’s barely functional).

Happens to forums all the time (fuck you Internet Brands and Vertical Scope).

100000x easier to do all this with static web content.
This has popped up a couple times, and each time I wonder what obligations, if any, there are to recover the plane lost at sea.

Keep in mind that this reporting is on allegations, not findings that of fact.
> Women have far too many choices and men have none.

So many of my girlfriends are single... this is not how I would phrase the issue. By and large, men are looking to get laid, women are looking to get serious. If a woman only wants to get laid, sure, the world is her oyster as long as she's young and conventionally attractive. If a man wants to get serious... he's gotta differentiate himself against the hordes of guys out there who just wanna get laid (many of whom present themselves as serious).

I've been doing this online dating thing since... well, I met my first romantic partner on a BBS. It seems to me that what men and women want has significantly diverged over time. So when you conclude,

> Women need AI to show them who they would best get along with. Men need AI to get women to talk to them.

I gotta say, nah. We don't "need" those things. Technology is not bringing us closer; I think that it is significantly responsible for this divergence. What we need to do, I believe, is return to meatspace.
That's fair, he's an excellent businessman, but I'm not shocked that his particular oeuvre is vulnerable to AI... it is after all painfully formulaic and lacking any creativity.
If Ukraine had been losing, there wouldn't be an independent country called Ukraine right now.