skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing by hand implicitly involves a delay which is another factor to consider.

With the modern typewriter and rectangular light bulb, you may have to explicitly slow down to soak the information, in this hypothetical scenario.
Interestingly in his novels the use of advanced AI was outlawed, which is why there is no advanced robot in the foundation series except Daneel. Would be interesting to see if humanity creates a similar agreement that no one will create an AGI.
Why is it restricted to location data and not all PII? What possible benefit do his constituents get from limiting protections to just location data?
AI 'coworker' startup quintuples funding with $117M in fresh cash
Cisco had a 550bn market cap at the height of the bubble. That's a lot but NVDA is about to overtake Saudi Aramco in market cap.

How much revenue can nvidia realistically have 5 years from now, and at what margins? 100bn in revenue (NVIDIA grossed 25bn last year, so 4x top line growth) at 35% gross margins = 35bn. Slap a 25x multiple on that and you have a 900bn market cap. Discounted at 8% to today that's .65 * 900bn is 600bn. Not 2000bn. Are my numbers too pessimistic? Probably.

But still, it's hard to come up with 2029 numbers that justify a 2000bn market cap today. Even with a 5% discount rate NVDA has to be worth 3000bn 5 years from now, for current investors to get a 0% return.
SIRI? SIRI is your go to example? Have you even been awake at all since 2020?

IF you really can't see any utility for current gen GenAI beyond deepfakes there's really no hope for you.
If you want good results with intellisense/omnicomplete you need sigs. Steep does some type synthesis but giben Runy's very dynamic nature it's going to be hit and miss, so that's mostly for progressive typing. It really aims at leveraging static information.

The process is basically `rbs prototype` or `typeprof` to generate a sig file and steep then uses that. TBH it's not that much of a chore as it sounds and already gives you good-ish results. That gives you a bunch of material to work from and progressively refine types.

Speed is very good, I didn't notice anything slow.
Yeah, go with APC, just not their consumer grade stuff.
It's also algorithmically based. My number was likely shadow banned and I got basically no good matches ever. My friend used my number since he ran out and determined it gave him less matches, less quality, and even overseas it was terrible with HIS photos and my number.

The funny characteristic was that the number also matched me with my long term girlfriend and got him a single girl that he was interested in. I generally agree with your assessment, but I'd say out of 20% you still couldn't determine the AI user's intentions.

I've texted for my friends and I could get them a date or hookup but honestly when there's no motivation for them to do it themselves, it's a waste of time, they were not interested except to determine their conversation skills were the issue and not their looks.
As an owner of company, valuation includes both profit withheld and dividend. Think you have 100% of a company with $100 in bank, it makes a profit of $20 and gives $5 as dividend and keeps $15 so now has $115 in account. So, owner got $5 in cash and the book value of company is now 115, and future valuations will reflect on that.
Relevant as article was about Australia: https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2024-02/five-telcos-breache...
I'll set up a specific RSS feed this evening. If you revisit then a link for it should be prominent at the top of the page... B^>
I can relate. I thought it was due distractions, but I usually get more distracted at the phone than I do at the computer and, yet, I get worse results out of my readings at the latter. An e-paper based ebook reader didn't improve the situation either.
This is just an extremely incompetent and rude loan officer. Generally the loan officers are motivated to close the deal and write you a check because they get commission from that. They are nice to their customers because pissing off customers won't get them that sweet commission. The loan officer I last talked to managed to close more than $1B of mortgages in a year and he's the nicest guy on the phone. In your case, they could for example let you email them using their official bank email address, or use the bank's own web app or messaging system.
The entire tech sector is addicted to these hype bubbles. Previously they were for actually new things, things like the Internet, portable computers, the first smart phones, the first touch-screen smart phones, etc. Now we just get smaller and smaller iterations on previous products, and the marketing for these companies has no language for incremental, basic improvements so instead we're sold a phone that's 15% faster like it's the second coming of Christ, and for some reason, people keep falling for it.

I've predicted already the AI hype train will crash into the wall of reality in more or less the same way the crypto one did, and then the grifters will move on to the next thing they can over-hype.
It's all mostly just inference, though some train LoRAs directly on quantized models too.

GGML and GGUF are the same thing, GGUF is the new version that adds more data about the model so it's easy to support multiple architectures, and also includes prompt templates. These can run CPU only, be partially or fully offloaded to a GPU. With K quants, you can get anywhere from a 2 bit to an 8 bit GGUF.

GPTQ was the GPU-only optimized quantization method that was superseded by AWQ, which is roughly 2x faster and now by EXL2 which is even better. These are usually only 4 bit.

Safetensors and pytorch bin files are raw float16 model files, these are only really used for continued fine tuning.
Ok, but it seems very stupid to say you want the powerful AI to specifically come from a specific API when the very same tech is open sourced for any one to do whatever they want with
I doubt there'd be confusion as the names are totally different
But shouldn’t you use rebase? E.g. if you’re developing a new feature on a central repository, and a bunch of commits happen to the repository in the meantime, wouldn’t it be best practice to do a rebase before you push your own commits to the repository?
Its just a matter of time
A memoirist who told everything and repented nothing
Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL
What is osquery?

osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.
AI is already useful. You must be living under a rock if you can't see it. I'm a luddite in general, but just the text embeddings and retrieval stuff is worth a goldmine. Moreover, the natural language generation capability is yet another "obvious" example of utility. Since when has a computer even been able to produce even moderately natural language from structured data.

Even ignoring 'general AI' (whatever that is... no one even knows what that means), that's already enough utility. Just the searching ability makes it easily more valuable than Google and Bing in their original incarnations.
[dupe]

More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475186
I've implemented the bank account checking flow for a German client in a purely B2B setting, and this is essentially based on the PSD2 directive, which requires all/some/most (not entirely sure) banks to provide exactly this functionality (google keywords "PSD2" and "XS2A"). The bank's T&C should reflect this ... somewhere.

The main protection to you not getting scammed out of money this way is in the kind of TAN used for this process. It should/must only allow read access to your account, and at least one of my banks very clearly shows this in the 2fa approval app. Technically, checking your account history and then deducting money will (hopefully) have been two different processes.

The moral/ethical implications of requesting (up to) 365 days of full bank transaction details and being allowed to store this information is a whole different animal, tough, and I'm glad I haven't had to do this myself yet.
Regarding gaming, the only real issues these days are exactly anti-cheat and VR. Most other games work perfectly fine.
Check https://visualprogramming.net instead. There are two versions of vvvv the old one called "beta" and the newer one (complete rewrite) called "gamma". vvvv.org is more focused on the old version.
No numbers in the summary. How many watt-hours of electricity per hundred gallons of water?

> Using nonstick cookware to fry your bacon and eggs can make your life easier at that moment, but scientists believe there may be long-term consequences because the chemicals used to make it nonstick are so difficult to destroy.

I have finally committed to buying cast iron for my new cookware. It was difficult because of a stereotype in my brain that cast iron == gas stoves == meat. I'm telling myself that cast iron and induction stove just means I have lots of money and don't want to eat PFAS.
Give an LLM the text of a PDF document. Ask the model to extract values in the document or in tables. Input the values into a spreadsheet. This is at minimum a task which costs companies around the world Hundreds of Millions of dollars a year.
Coincidently, I have written a browser extension to navigate Hacker News comments using Vi-style key bindings [1]. It has no compilation steps, no npm. It is mostly a 1kLoC file of vanilla JavaScript.

Modern frameworks are definitely needed for large applications, but there is no need all that complexity when the scope is reduced.

[1] https://github.com/qsantos/ViHN/
Just chitchat during the development of bitcoin. You can understand a lot about how bitcoin design choices came to be from Satoshi own reasonings. The white paper doesn’t spell these out in detail
Running Google's Gemma 2B on Android
What? You as the shareholder own the earnings and their use.

Earnings thus either become dividends or become re-invested or are used to buy back shares.

P/E is the central metric by which to judge stocks on a fundamental level.
You mean the case where a 4 foot 9, 330 lb woman had a heart attack on the sidewalk, and not a single molecule of the driver's car ever touched Heather Heyer? While every single one of the people actually hit by the car, survived?

I admit I don't know what Dvorak said about it, however.
For my current and previous jobs we have a "standup" that involves posting a status update to Slack in the morning.

I switched to writing my status update in the afternoon at the end of the day when: (1) what I was doing today was at my front of mind and easy to write down and (2) I usually have a pretty clear understanding of my plan for the next day.

Instead of struggling the next morning to write down what I did, now I can look at last night's message in the morning to get a concise plan for the day and a hint to the immediate next step. (e.g. one thing I've gotten better at as I've gained experience is being able to "pack up" notes on what I am doing, go off and do something else, and then read the notes and resume the old project quickly.)

I've never had any complaints about this in fact my boss thinks everyone in IT should write status updates as good as my own.
This is exactly the theory I proposed in a previous post about handwriting aiding memory - that it's the paper and spacial memory assisting, not the handwriting itself.

I did this often during school, looking up information in textbooks - I'd remember roughly the chapter/page, recognize the exact page, and know where on the page something was, even if I couldn't directly remember the thing itself.
Only if the package is insured. That's around 1% of the declared value of the package, so many/most vendors don't opt for it.
Yes and I felt Apple also wrongly got *flak about down-tuning some CPU performance settings when batteries start getting older. The same year that story went crazy, I had a Samsung Galaxy with a fairly used battery. Once it reached 25% capacity or so, it could still chug along fine for another several hours if you didn't do anything CPU-intensive. But drawing too much current from the battery (video/games/etc) would steeply drop the output voltage of the battery, and result in the phone instantly shutting off entirely. It was unlikely to successfully boot after that, because the boot sequence had a short stage that hit nearly 100% CPU utilization before power management kicked in.

Note that "25% capacity" is usually calculated from steady-state output voltage. The voltage of a battery generally drops slowly as it gets used. But when the battery gets older and its internal resistance increases, it can no longer output the same current at lower voltages. The energy is still there, but can only be accessed either by sipping it slowly for a long time at a useful voltage, or pulling the energy out quickly at a uselessly low voltage.

So two solutions could be: Let peoples phones randomly die sometimes at 20% charge. Or set 25% to "0%" and never let anyone use those extra few hours for idle texting/etc. Or throttle the CPU after the battery falls below 50% so the phone can't cause fatal battery voltage drops with short bursts of high CPU utilization.

I thought Apple made the right choice for consumers, it's the solution I would have wanted on my Samsung, and I was jealous iPhone users didn't have to deal with a phone that said "25% full" but could randomly shut off at any moment in your pocket or hand without warning.

*I believe it is flak, not flack.
> It would be like regulating the camera because it put portrait artists out of work, or steam drills because it puts tunnel diggers.

Modern farm equipment put a whole lot of unfree* agricultural laborers "out of work", but most of us consider that to have been a good thing.

*serfs, slaves, indentured servants, etc.
I don't think you can fake being blind to unix style when writing c++. The c++ style that grew out of the windows world is kind of unique.

(Although I personally am both a longtime enthusiast of unix-like OSes and a former MS employee, so I am familiar with both ... But I find that to be kind of rare.)
Yes - thanks for pointing that out. The README is being updated, you can see an updated WIP in the dev branch: https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp/tree/dev?tab=readme-ov-f...
and improving error messages is a high priority.

The weights should be the same across formats, but it's easy for differences to arise due to quantization and/or subtle implementation differences. Minor implementation differences has been a pain point in the ML ecosystem for a while (w/ IRs, onnx, python vs. runtime, etc.), but hopefully the differences aren't too significant (if they are, it's a bug in one of the implementations).

There were quantization fixes like https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1760418864418934922 and other patches happening, but it may take a few days for patches to work their way through the ecosystem.
Intel is already running their CPUs at the red line. We're seeing the margin breaking down as Intel tries to remain competitive. The latest 14900KS can even pull > 400W. It's utter insanity.
You're right. And to continue with this kind of reasoning: there's definitely a non-zero chance that humanity is wiped out by a large asteroid collision, or a fast spreading lethal disease, or nuclear war. Therefore since there's a non-zero chance that everything in the future will be worth exactly zero, everyone should stop investing in the market immediately.
I've had AMD reach out to me to recruit me to join their AI compilers / software team (my area of expertise), and frankly, I'm not sure they can pull it off. The hiring space is extremely competitive and they're not in a rush at all. Just my experience. They demanded candidates fly out within weeks, whereas NVIDIA and other competitors are making hiring decisions within days.
Well, if I had read the interview it quickly would have been apparent that he's talking about video production.

Mea culpa; I honestly thought Tyler Perry was a music guy.
Yes Quantization compresses float32 values to int8 by mapping the large range of floats to a smaller integer range using a scale factor. This scale factor is key for converting back to floats (dequantization), aiming to preserve as much information as possible within the int8 limits. While quantization reduces model size and speeds up computation, it trades off some accuracy due to the compression. It's a balance between efficiency and model quality, not a magic solution to shrink models without losing some performance.

Quantization is essential for me since a 7B model won't fit on my RTX 2060 with only 6GB of VRAM. It allows me to compress the model so it can run on my hardware.
Yes! Totally one of the use cases.

We plan to do that at some point for the Ruby Datadog tracer public API, so that users can have intellisense and don't need to jump to the docs.
Since when did not being cost-competitive become a concern for the US military?
forever chemicals had one job
Too new is definitely one thing. Someone is going to have to make a gamble to actually paying for a serious pretraining run with this architecture before we know how it really stacks up against transformers.

There are some papers suggesting that transformers are better than SSMs in fundamental ways (e.g. They cannot do arbitrary key-based recall from their context: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01032). This means it's not just a no-brainer to switch over.
I am not a legal expert but I read that the case of the Netherlands proves this to be at least partially wrong. Retail sale is legal. Some municipalities have legalized supply chains.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/the-nethe...
The Balen Report
We only got to "Democracy" by constantly the constant bloody deposition of kings and queens and their soldiers, allies and other forces, yes.
Hopefully the fact that pull and rebase are not quite directly comparable is part of your expected answer?
Let me guess, you’re one of these people that think the Irish had it harder than African Americans in early US history.
I've had far better results with modern ceramic pans than I ever did with either Teflon (thin pans = no heat capacity) or cast iron whose maintenance is a cast-iron bastard.
It's always appeared to be a matter of perspective, to me.

That being said, by "Cloudflare has issues with archive.is" I very literally meant that they have issues with the DNS records served to them by Archive.is. (i.e. They do not support EDNS.)
there was a period in computer arts around 2008 or so (edit, björn's comment prompted a reflection, it might've been earlier than that, let's call it "early 2000s"), that went away like many things with pervasive computerization. vvvv including it's naming and otherwise opaqueness is a product of that period. it was represented by groups like TOPLAP and dorkbot, and it was kind of marriage of technologists and artists, back when such a marriage would've still been self-conscious. stylistically it was a lot of algorithmic generation, live coding, and noise, people liked to use puredata, and vvvv, and other such projects to produce sharp jittery zigzaging lines on a projector screen at get togethers in brooklyn. a kind of deliberate, practiced obscurantism was part of aesthetic, you weren't supposed to keep your PD patches organized. there was a particular typographic convention associated with projects of that time, involving a lot of deliberate but arbitrary additions of punctuation marks, -/////lower case letters, repeating letters00xxx. terms like psychogeorgaphy were involved, there was of course an {esoteric}} component to it. downstream the movement took chiptunes mainstream, and produce early minimal house. some of the conventions remain in the digital arts, and video production circles.

so if you think vvvv is not propertly marketed, maybe will benefit from a mission statement, then it's not for you.
Dividends don't matter. The companies just choose to buy stock from you with the profits instead of giving you cash. It's a smarter way because shareholders who want the cash can get it and those who don't can keep reinvesting profits while avoiding triggering tax events.
PE is only one number, you also look into growth as a factor to calculate PEG. So question now is for how long NVidia can grow at this crazy rate.
The 2024 Typography Report: A Circus of Type
I agree, with both your dislike of being rude, and with your cop friend.

But responding rudely to rudeness is not about it feeling good. Most people don't enjoy being rude, which is why we avoid it. But sometimes it's necessary in order for the other person to understand that this is not acceptable behavior. Otherwise, they will continue to be rude both to you and others.
> at least somewhere in the management chain someone has to actually know enough engineering to recognize good work from just running around in circles

Unfortunately, this can cut the other way as well where you can have someone incompetent override competence or not even involved people further down which is common during large layoffs
I've somewhat convinced myself that someone in the postal service is leaking information about pending parcels to scammers (or the scammers have access to some servers). Whenever I'm expecting a package the number of phishing attempts in my email skyrockets. Period of no packages - a lot less attempts. Waiting for a new package? Phishing emails ramp up again.
FYI: the German discrimination was/is so strong that you will lose your driver license when they catch you with weed nearly independent of the amount and location (Saturday park big city)/no car in sight
Love point-free. It's definitely a muscle you need to keep in shape, and although it's definitely not for everybody, if you design your API with this in mind it can be a lot of fun to program in this style. I think TidalCycles is a nice example of such an API (for the most part)
There are actually a lot of ways to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, colloquially called "forever chemicals") before they are released into the environment. Incineration, supercritical water oxidation, Fenton chemistry variants, even aggressive reducing agents can break these chemicals down into low-hazard "mineralized" residue.

The reason they're called "forever" chemicals is because natural processes that break these chemicals down are very slow acting once the chemicals have escaped into the wider environment. Even then, "forever" is a bit of misnomer. Various PFAS have environmental half lives on the order of decades, comparable to the medium lived fission products in spent nuclear fuel. That's not good, but it's not forever; the real "forever" pollutants are stable elements like mercury and arsenic.
That's part of it but I wouldn't overstate that. Even if Google hadn't been enshittified with ads, blogspam and SEO cruft, I'd still prefer ChatGPT for all the same cases I love it for now.

For example, I love how ChatGPT lets me "search" for things when I don't even know the name/keywords of things to search for, but instead I can ask it in natural language for example "I'm trying to generate this kind of view in SQL, how would I do that?" - at the very least ChatGPT will inform me of some json operator or window function I didn't know about, so now at least I'm "grounded" in what to search for. And I think more importantly, even if search did bring back the exact correct webpage in answer to my question, the interactive nature of ChatGPT and the ability to ask it questions specific to my detailed, individual use case are invaluable and just much faster.
Ah great addition thank you for your comment. I love your name by the way. I wonder what EU/international laws prevent that