skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree almost totally. But I would frame this differently:

> Types, tests, frameworks, dry, language features, ci pipelines, scrum whatnot. All just fun party tricks that fall short when your building the wrong thing.

Some or all of these might be excellent tools in service of solving your problem in its domain. They may be even essential for solving it. And they might be the wrong tools. It’s situational, and evaluating the appropriateness of each, how and why they fit, is part of modeling the problem domain just as much as designing the appropriate data structures, or state machine flow, or any other mechanism for expressing the domain.
I think it serves as a generic metric for bloat, because nobody really optimizes for size, thereby making it a good untainted metric. As the web gets bloaty and slow, the size of the websites grow as well, which also invites using size as a metric for bloat.

Smooth, fast, nice, these would be good to measure, but it's much harder. I like an interface response time metric, for example [0]. I always lament that interfaces are getting slow - I get that they are nicer, too, but god damn why am I waiting 1 second for anything, when my Pentium III with Win XP was near instant?

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
Can any kind soul explain the difference between GGUF, GGML and all the other model packaging I am seeing these days? Was used to pth and the thing tf uses. Is this all to support inference or quantization? Who manages these formats or are they brewing organically?
If only there was a service that could watch a 2 hour video and give you a detailed answer to this question in a few seconds just by asking it… soon enough I guess.
> Those two aren’t really comparable

Because why? Because "that's different"?

Anyway, I was just pointing out that you aren't the only one capable of blanket dismissing the other side.
Usually, taxation differences. Also, MMF yields are generally quoted net of expense ratios already, you don't subtract them out a second time.
I once worked with helicopters, very large helicopters. The "UI" in the cockpit involved at least 18 gauges measuring all the basic stuff about the engines and associated sub systems. With the helicopter powered down each gauge seemed installed in a random orientation, a couple were even upside down. But when flying the "normal" needle position would point straight up, allowing the pilots to glance quickly to see that all was good without focusing on each individual gauge.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill

I know a lot of people will take this negatively, I actually think this is a very good compliment to the American culture.
Not related to said billions but: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/23/24080856/instagram-facebo...
This is a pointless argument, if only for one shell grammar rule:

<filename.txt grep mypattern

That syntax works the same as "grep mypattern <filename.txt".
Or maybe it's just propaganda that is spread by the censors?
But only exactly twice. Not once. Not thrice.
>I assume the way you wrote it is that you already had the real version ready so you knew the API was sufficient even when you only sent the null version for review.

Yes. But not only that, just wiring in the null implementation required several choices. I wanted to know that reviewers would focus on that important detail and it not get drowned out by a review of business logic.

Larger PRs often have large parts of the code rubber stamped through sheer wariness of the reviewers. Like it or not, that happens. And that way design choices are approved that should not have. I see it all the time.

You can argue that is the fault of the review system, but if it just constantly happens, how do you fix it? Keep banging at people to review properly? They're people, they're goin to take a path of least resistance, that just happens. If it were up to me I'd put in a CI failure step for PRs over 500 lines. You could override that step if people deemed it reasonable (eg. large search and replace PRs), but it would have to be used judiciously.

I just generally find people who raise large PRs don't respect the reviewer enough to make the effort. So I often leave those PRs sitting, but I know someone is just going to come along and rubber stamp them.
That ChatGPT quote is the best ever... worthy of Mike Judge
Risk management still gives you the correct answers, even for civil concerns.

Lets break down what it really means to apply risk management to strategy and actions:

You think through potential outcomes of security breaches, and plot them on a likelihood/consequence grid. Then you put a lot of energy into high likelihood, high consequence items to move those concerns down on one or both of those axes, or to have detailed mitigation plans in place if there are items that truly cannot be moved.

When that is done, you move on to the 2 quadrants that require more strategic thought - high likelihood/low impact and low likelihood/high impact. Personally, I try to come up with mitigation plans for low likelihood/high impact, while trying to move the needle down on the high likelihood/low impact concerns.

If you get all that done, you either have corrected or mitigated everything other than low likelihood/low impact, and you are likely in a "good enough" state, where you can breathe a bit easier and just work on incremental improvements.

All that being said, corporate vs. civil doesn't change your process - what it changes is the "impact" axis. Different data, same approach.
When I hear the name "John C. Dvorak" I think of his short column from the late 90s in PC Magazine about texting.

Years before smartphones, feature phones could send texts just fine, but no one really used that.

Dvorak was frustrated that he sent his father a text from the tarmac but the party on the other end never checked or responded to it. We just thought that sending texts on the TALK PHONE was corny and awkward. It was for the weirdos.

Would be great if this message in a bottle was online, but I could never find it.
> It takes zero effort to keep the book available

It isn’t about the effort. This is the same thing people say about out of print video games, too.

It isn’t about difficulty, it is about incentives. They want you to buy new books and video games, and if you are reading/playing old free ones, that is reduced demand for what they are selling. Why would they want to help you satisfy your need for free?
Generally agree. Although I also find different types of hobby programming hard too, like trying to use a FLIR Lepton with a Pi Zero 2. I also think things are getting harder at work because the disorganization is increasing and the number of integrations are increasing the number of blackboxes in the system that when I started over a decade ago.
In which case you need to get yourself promoted to be an architect in addition to a programmer.
Anecdotal of course but this isn't my experience at all, I don't know of any current or ex-colleagues that are working in offices at all. I think in southern Europe it's common to have more onsite.
Really great info. Thank you!
Sounds awfully low for something that was supposed to shake the financial sector.
That’s not entirely it though. Modern AMD and Intel chips are built to run at their thermal/frequency limits and will jump to those limits at a moments notice in order to maximize performance.

So unless you have powerful cooling you will hit the thermal limit.
Maybe they placed the visor near or on top of the battery while it was charging?
It is hard to imagine Gemini Pro being useful given the truly bizarre biases and neutering introduced by the Google team in the free version of Gemini.
Programming is hard. There are a gifted few for whom it comes naturally, but it's simply exhausting mental work.
They could always try using tech to reduce their false positive rate rather than increase it.
Pandas is a great library but I was not able to make myself love its data query API.

I discovered that duckdb can make queries to pandas dataframes in SQL (postgresql parser) and do it faster than pandas itself.

Now I have zero motivation pandas queries.

Maybe for coloring or smth like that
I wonder what happened to Eric Raymond’s UPSide project¹.

1. <https://gitlab.com/esr/upside>
are you a bot or do you do this in your spare time?
Interesting. Would love to chat if you got 15 and see if app based pricing works better or pure usage. Email is in profile.
I am confused how all these things are able to interoperate. Are the creators of these models following the same IO for their models? Won't the tokenizer or token embedder be different? I am genuinely confused by how the same code works for so many different models.
No, it's extremely easy to grow high quality weed too. It cannot be overstated how easy of a crop it is. The (mildly) difficult and labor-intensive part is the post-processing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482755
Satoshi double spaces after periods.
Broaden "Satoshi" to the creation story of Bitcoin, and there already are; Banking on Bitcoin is a good one.
I will live to see the day Tinder becomes a place devoided of any human and filled with chatGPT instances courting each others.
All the scooter companies are trying that load by $5 and $10 thing now. Squeezing the last few drops from the stone I guess
> But even if their search phrases are good, they do not click on the links. They just read the excerpt Google provided them. If the answer is not in the excerpts, they give up.

I have seen this behavior A LOT with my middle school aged child and friends here in the USA. It baffles me and I try to encourage clicking through as well as evaluating sources whenever it comes up.

A lot of stuff that isn't a big deal if you don't have kids becomes a big deal when you do, because you can no longer say "any intelligent person will just critically think and not (for example) blindly trust the AI generated Q&As on the top of google search results, even when they occasionally give subtly wrong or even blatantly absurd info" -- because kids are still developing and don't yet have good critical thinking skills. Yes, they need to learn those skills, but that takes time, years even, and in the meantime, Google becomes a pipeline for misinformation for them.

Between this and the way they abuse their Google Classroom and Google Chromebook products to push addictive feeds (Youtube shorts) in the schools, Google is the new Joe Camel and I regret ever having worked for them.
No one is saying they can't be, but they tend not to be.

When you ask for a photo of a viking and 75% of the results are Asian/African/native-american, and the only picture of a "viking" is Netflix adaptation version with dreadlocks, leather bracelets and dirt over his face then whatever anti-bias thing they were doing clearly is doing the opposite of what it's supposed to and it's objectively making their product worse.

Stable Diffusion will happily make me Germans, Scandinavians and black people, no matter whether their job description includes raiding coastal cities or not. And it will do so whenever asked for. And without annoying moralizing lectures. Also it runs on my computer and they can't take it away from me tomorrow because they've deemed cats eating fish to be "harmful" overnight. (context: Gemini sometimes refuses to make pictures of animals eating animals, but it's not consistently refusing to)

This mishap is Silicon tech bros engaging in cultural colonialism imposing their own narrow view on the world because they think the hallucinogens they took on holiday somehow made them more enlightened and better than those plebs slaving away outside of their citadel.

Funnily enough they took it offline because it was generating black soldiers when you asked it to generate a picture of a Nazi. Which ironically is more realistic than the black Scandinavians that Google doesn't have a problem with. The Nazi's did indeed have African, Asian and Middle-Eastern soldiers, and even Jewish ones.

Google doesn't care about truth or history. They are doing exactly what Orwell described in Winston's job: alter [the perception of] the past to control the future. I happen to think the ends don't justify the means, and Google has become Evil.
I understand the "appeal" of writing by hand but here is the thing.

I am told when I was a kid, I started to have a dispensation for writing with my left hand but mums being mums "corrected" me to use my right hand.

This is one theory but I have never enjoyed writing by hand. I just suck at it. I remember all my school life was like "improve your handwriting".

Covid gave me an interesting experience. I had a short exam, like 2 hours during the time and I opted for " remote proctoring".

Suddenly, for the first time in my life I was like "now its my time to shine"

I learned to type from when i was a kid because my handwriting was a physical disability and with typing, I could simply wish that problem away.

This has progressed in my professional career where I can just type for hours at end comfortably but I cannot write my name in block letters on a form. I ask one of my coworkers to do it for me. (Its that bad)
Ahhh ok, had no idea, I'm pretty new to this stuff. Thank you for the explanation!
When a company puts secret prompts into their AI it should be called "Robocopping."
Mountains != molehills
What am I supposed to gain from those 2 tweets? Not the actual story behind either of those people's proclamation. Hence, the flag. If there was a blog post or story accessible to the public, I would not have flagged.
Well, nutrients. But MasterBlend tomato goes a long way.
It's hard to imagine that the pro version removes the line "oh, and make sure any humans are ethnically diverse" from its system prompt?
Group owners had to import; it was not all preserved.

There was some effort done with public groups by the ArchiveTeam, but I know they didn't get everything as there was no good way to find all groups.
Zhaoxin KX-7000 a modern Chinese x86 CPU
Anyone had success with improving a kid's handwriting? My son's writing is 2/10. I myself am only 3/10. With reading and math I am able to help him. I have not found anything effective for penmanship.
No one has a good ending!
I'm very interested in something like archive box but:

* Can also download Internet Archive snapshots

* Suitable for (read only) exposure to the open Internet, or saves sites as static content that you could host easily by slapping it into an Nginx or Apache directory.

Is it the tool for the job?
> If programming ever gets easy it means you're not seeking out new challenges.

I mean, that's kind of tautologically true, but doesn't really say anything?

You're not obliged to seek out challenges, and may not even benefit for it if you just chase them randomly. You can just get good at something that consistently needs doing, then make that your job, and let it become easy. (And then you can look for challenges elsewhere in life if you want)

And notably, there are people who pursue the trade and just never get it to "click". Especially now that the trade teases doctor/lawyer/finance lifestyles instead of just engineer lifestyles. It draws in a lot of people who commit themselves to decades of stress and Sysephisian uphill grind on the easy stuff.

People who have never seen it get easy should check in with themselves and make sure they like what they're doing anyway. While you can make it hard when you want by "seeking out new challenges", it should get to a point where that's something you can choose to do when you want to do it, with the work being quite easy when you're not.
Europe and US are allies so there is less (but certainly not zero) risk from US controlling European cranes than China controlling them. Also, US has more controls that would prevent them from abusing the position as easily (i.e. sure the CIA could disrupt the cranes but the bar would be much higher than the bar for China's three letter agencies to do it).
Yeah. A few people on X have had access for a couple days now. The conclusion is that it's a genuine context window advance, not just length, but utilization. It genuinely utilizes long context much better than other models. Shame they didn't share what led to that.
> This isn't the first time they've made claims like these, though, and I very much doubt they'll live up to their promise.

The difference now is that they actually have a set of customers that would buy a desktop-class chip if they produce one.
Do you remember Tay? You don't have to have "far left DEI policies" to want to defend against worst case scenario as strongly as possible. Even if, in the case of this image weirdness, it works against you.

Google has so much to lose in terms of public perception if they allow their models to do anything offensive. Now, if your point was that "the same decisions that caused the image fiasco will find its way into Gemini 1.5 upon public release, softening its potential impact," then I would agree.
most of your arguments are about business cases.

No large scale model maker is going to put out public models for B2B with dubious use cases.

what the problem is: OpenAI, facebook, Google are not curating the data sets. you're arguing they shouldn't put controls after the fact. but what you actually want is them to use quality datasets.
Putin Is Just Following the Manual (2022)
Verify? There are plenty of examples where things have been "verified" to prove a point. WMDs ring a bell?
My impression is that people looking at gaming benchmarks are looking at comparisons of FPS and frame times taken from just running recent high end games, which sometimes have settings to run through a repeatable demo for exactly this purpose.
...which makes businesses overall look bad.

The US doesn't have regulations that protect workers and consumers. The few regulations we have are all ultimately to protect capital.
https://archive.is/TmCMd
no, but we're making transformers, right? it's easy to transform a molehill into a mountain
https://archive.is/CSBaa
Maybe HE is Satoshi!
Last I read the domain registration for Bitcoin.org (I think) is the main exposure point.

But, what you raised is why I don’t buy they haven’t been ID’d. Digital fingerprints across multiple forums, and platforms, the logs to find a way in are there somewhere.

I figure it is Len Sassaman.
I never said most companies are buying GPU's from Nvidia.

What I said is that they're spending money, for a variety of AI and AI-related services provided by third parties.

Those third parties, in turn, are buying GPU's.
I think P/S ratios are fairly comparable, though. Data going back that far is behind a paywall, so can't check.
>>> A face is a unique identifier.

>> Guess you’ve never heard of twins?

> Guess you’ve never heard of names? Or date of birth? Personal doesn’t mean unique.

Your parent commenter is contesting the "A face is a unique identifier" part. They are not contesting "A face is personal". Of course face should be PII but at the same time it is not a unique identifier, so your parent commenter is correct and you are correct too. But you are replying to an objection that was never made.
Fifty Years of the Psychology of Programming
I think there's maybe a little too much credit being given to JCD here, this quote:

> Don't be left out. There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this technology.

Is about as generic of a "wooo new tech keep reading to maybe learn more one day" as I have ever seen. That type of quote wouldn't be out of place on a hyperloop article.
well said. Reminds me of a comment I received from a manager years ago: "This component is great, I haven't heard of any bugs." My retort was: "It's because no one is using it." Fast forward 10 years. Many bugs, CVE's, complaints of back-compatibility, challenges in porting/maintenance. Show me a technology w/o complains or bugs or technical debut & I suspect you'll find a similarly rarely or not used one. Swampiness is an emergent property of 'success at scale' in usage in a sense.
The real analysis is here.
Blast from the past.
You're still taxed on nominal gains on I bonds, so in principle you're still exposed to potential downside up to your tax rate. The way rates are set on I bonds is also unusually subject to tracking error.
Chinese Loongson CPU Takes on AMD's Zen 3 in Benchmarks
In grade school, my undiagnosed ADHD wreaked havoc on my education. I had a hard time following instructions (and I was always losing important paperwork...) Now I see it as an advantage because I learn independently without the authoritarian structure of school. I'm able to hyperfocus and gather information quickly, and I know when to switch from one topic to the next in order to keep myself engaged.

When I finally got treatment for ADHD I was told I developed Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder from always trying to "keep up" with non-ADHD expectations in life. I hold myself to high standards, but sometimes I'm a nightmare to be around because not everyone feels the same way. Anyone else with ADHD have similar experiences or thoughts?
FYI someone did do this for Neuromancer. Not sure if they used AI or not.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ovTscY-bEuMNAEgNXTCX...
> The clubs have to be registered and need a license. They need to keep a register of members. It is not in the law that they need to give this register to the authorities, but it is still a risk.

I very much recall how long the promise of "Covid Guest Lists are not used by the police" lasted.
That article is badly flawed.

It only looks at one open source company, that could not have closed source its product (because it was not the original developer) so it could only exist at all as an (at least mostly) open source business and compares it to companies in entirely different lines of business.

It was also badly outdated a few years after the article was written when the said business was acquired for several times the market cap at the time the article was written.

If you want to compare it to businesses offering a similar product into a similar market you should compare it to other OS vendors founded in the 90s targetting desktops and servers. Any more successful proprietary examples around?

Most of all the article only looks at one, open source business. Not exactly a meaningful sample.

It is probably very difficult to rely on that model if a single company is the original developer and the main developer - so you have all the costs but share the benefits. It is not true if you fork code that already exists, or if you have a bazaar development mode.
Ambiguity Fuels Creativity
Do you know how to define an ideal customer profile before product development?
I'm in the same boat as you. Everything around JIRA is a huge pain, but programming is easy.
For the Dominicans in the audience: I made a tool like this one one for our market.

http://crecepesos.com
CPU manufacturers certainly hold the line you stated but motherboard venders have jumped over the line and now sell motherboards that overlock for the end user entirely transparently.

It’s fair for the end user who bought a motherboard that promises a higher clock speed to expect that clock speed.
Heat pipes sort of do that naturally without any active "spraying". They contain a fluid that phase changes and carries heat away. Closed loop water coolers have the active flow of water you want for maximum effect. I don't think your idea would be an improvement on that.
I did not invest in the stock market properly in the last decade (mid-40s; tech income but just put it to paying off house - estimating this cost be at least 5 million bucks conservatively). Opening a stock account and will slow down paying off the house.
Is Duplication Complex?