skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemma 2B generation quality is excellent in my own very-biased opinion. I asked it to write a response to your comment:

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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress in recent years, with models like GPT-3 and LaMDA demonstrating remarkable abilities in various tasks such as language generation, translation, and question answering.

However, 2b parameter models are a much smaller and simpler type of LLM compared to GPT-3. While they are still capable of impressive performance, they have a limited capacity for knowledge representation and reasoning.

Despite their size, 2b parameter models can be useful in certain scenarios where the specific knowledge encoded in the model is relevant to the task at hand. For example:

- Question answering: 2b parameter models can be used to answer questions by leveraging their ability to generate text that is similar to the question.

- Text summarization: 2b parameter models can be used to generate concise summaries of documents by extracting the most important information.

- Code generation: While not as common, 2b parameter models can be used to generate code snippets based on the knowledge they have learned.

Overall, 2b parameter models are a valuable tool for tasks that require specific knowledge or reasoning capabilities. However, for tasks that involve general language understanding and information retrieval, larger LLMs like GPT-3 may be more suitable.

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Generated in under 1s from query to full response on together.ai

https://api.together.xyz/playground/chat/google/gemma-2b-it
The real use case here is for women to use it to triage tens to hundreds of matches, which will lead to normal men becoming frustrated and leaving resulting in the only people left being fuckboys and serial killers. Which is kinda what it looks like now already.
This is the way. Using a partition is just begging for an update (Windows or Linux) to kill your boot. Convert the amount of time you would spend periodically fixing a broken boot into a dollar amount and suddenly having a separate SSD looks dirt cheap.

See also: fixing software bluetooth issues, especially those caused by dual boot, by using an external 3.5mm or toslink -> bluetooth transmitter. I use a B03Pro and haven't had to fight bluetooth pairing / quality / microphone issues in years, despite dual booting.

Software sucks. Replace it with dedicated hardware and your life will suck less.
I've always had a terrible memory for things I've just read, even pre-smart phone. I always liked the idea of E-books but I couldn't find a solution for easily exportable notes so I gave up and started using small post-its where i'd give a 2-3 word summary and align it with the line on the page.

I still wish I had a unified way to take and export notes. If I could read a book on my ipad, make annotations and highlight, then export those highlighted excerpts + annotations to say, markdown, I'd be so happy.
Interesting, I didn’t see this but I heard about bitcoin in 2009, and bought my bitcoins in 2010 and 2011 just for the fun of it, worth every bit as I still hold them.
Parity RAID disk setups have lost me more data then encrypted drives over the years. They seem to lead to eventual corruption and data loss, way earlier than straight doing nothing.
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It's a node-based visual framework, I guess. Around 2006 I worked on a project using VVVV to create sound reactive, generative visuals that tracked a pop singer as he moved on an LED stage. The visuals were displayed on the stage.

We had it hooked up to MIDI, time code, video, motion tracking and DMX lighting. Pretty impressive for the time, now I think about it.
I have no issues with Back-UPS RS 1500MS2 on Linux.

I had to configure an udev rule though for it to set up a static USB device name since that wasn't happening out of the box, but other than that - no problems.

See http://apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html#usb-configuration
The ability to remember specific sensory impressions just is not the same thing as sensory acuity. People can remember a bunch of things, but our noses aren't nearly as sensitive as dogs'.
Sounds like a you problem. 〜 ( ꒪ ꒳ ꒪ ) 〜
It's the furthest thing from "offshore" if "onshore" for you is the US. The US team had a mandate to put features that are more tuned to US sensibilities into a wildly successful app that caters to a completely different style of market and is wildly successful there.

It was natural for OPs team to have pushback since they have no knowledge of what works in India even if the entire app was developed in the US by a different team. The fact that Google culture that makes it so easy to do said pushback was just icing on the cake.
"Oh sorry, you didn't include tests - goodbye!"

[Edit]

I'm a big fan of documentation, but that is the absolutely last thing these processes are interested in.
Not your original parent, but my take.

> if you have a hand on the control of the relatively centralized recommendation algorithm?

There's nothing centralized about it. Anyone can run an algorithm. If you don't like that algorithm, drop that feed, and find a new one.

Basically, a big difference between BlueSky and Mastodon is that in BlueSky, almost everything is independent parts you can layer together however you like. Mastodon is based around instances, and so ties a lot of these sorts of choices together for everyone on that instance. On BlueSky, "my instance", that is, where my data is hosted, is separate from the posts that I see, because I can choose to follow whatever feeds I like. My instance is also separate from my personal moderation preferences, which I choose independent of my instance.
The first point really resonated. I help run the Boulder (CO, USA) Ruby meetup and am always always always looking for speakers.
TThis just sounds like logical tetris
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/niklaus-wirth-...
(I'm Oodle maintainer and did most of this investigation.)

For the majority of systems "in the wild", I don't know. We had two people with affected machines contact us and consent to do some testing for us, and in both cases the issue still reproduced after resetting the BIOS settings to defaults.
Growing up, I always wondered why war happened in real life versus in video games. You can duke it out without actually costing lives. I guess this kind of thing tends to do both.
https://cables.gl
Since the earliest reporting on this topic, "bias" in AI has never referred to accuracy. It's not the case that certain professions have a demographically representative proportion of all ethnicities and both sexes. Accurately portraying this reality is "bias". Portraying a fantasy with proportionate representation is "removing bias."
and banksy!
Well no because it’s talking about either a fixed sample size or stopping when a % total is reached. Neither imply a favourable p-value necessarily.

I think the author means to say that it’s two methods incidentally equivalent in the data they collect that may draw different conclusions based on their initial assumptions. Question is how do you make coherent sense of it.

At level 1 depth it’s insightful.

At level 2 depth it’s a straw man.

At level 3 depth, just keep drinking until you’re back at level 1 depth.
My own personal and completely based on anecdote opinion on note taking is that I can write notes while paying attention to something else, but typing has a much higher cognitive load, so more of my attention is focused on operating a keyboard vs. listening.

I'm also someone that needs good visual organization to really study and learn things, so a habit I built in college was to write all of my notes, and then later transcribe them to computer. That helped it flow through my brain twice, organize the notes, and also do so when my sole task was working with the notes rather than capturing notes AND listening at the same time.
The issue is not reporting these issues I find, its actually getting action. I used to reach out to my city representatives about these sorts of things. At this point, I've given up on that, realizing that I will never have my position actually heard unless I represent either a very large sum of money or an overwhelming majority of the people who actually vote in these local elections. They have no incentive to work for individual or minorities of their constituency. They alienate me they lose a measly one vote. They alienate an important donor and they can't afford to pitch themselves to voters and even run.

Politicians don't fight for you, they fight for the betterment of their political careers and their own position. If they were in the job to actually quickly address and fix these sorts of local grievances, there wouldn't be so many of them left to address in the first place.
It’s not explicitly documented yet. I should do that.

The dom sent over the wire is very similar to html but it’s json.

Then the diff is a json that indicates whether to add children and at which index, whether to remove children and at which index and how many, and attributes to update. This is the part I’m unsure of there being an analogue in protocols like htmx.

Easiest way to see it in action currently is to run a Hyperdiv app, open chrome dev tools and watch the websocket traffic on /ws
Also the cost of write barriers. Looking at the benchmark code, it may actually benefit the languages with non-moving, simpler GC implementations because they would have cheaper write barriers or complete lack of thereof. With that said, it's a good demonstration of the quality of OpenJDK HotSpot JIT and GC. This is an area where .NET has still some ways to go - it has precise write barriers but they are not inlined so performance in scenarios bottlenecked by the cost of assigning object reference to a new heap location will vary a lot depending on WKS vs SRV GC and its configuration + exact CPU model and arch being used (more so than regular code). It does, however, use .NET 7 which is a shame.
I have nioticed this but I never do it. I feel dumber and dumber. I never read anymmore.
I looked into swapping to Apple Music before but couldn't find a way to play lossless music on Linux making swapping pointless. Apparently[0] decryption for lossless isn't supported for 3rd party clients.

Anyone know of a way around this?

[0]: https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider/discussions/889
The books go into it, and LaTeX has \. for periods that are not sentence-stops (there's even more, as word-breaking and line-breaking come into play, as you don't want to end a line with Dr. when it's part of a name, etc.
I'm kinda sick of buying these cheap lead-acid based UPS units (only tried APC and Cyberpower so far) to have the batteries die in just a couple of years.

Are the lithium-based batteries more durable (probably more dangerous)? Anyone have experience with these? https://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Power-Conversion-J60-600-Lithi...
I've always tied "orders" to a specific gesture, performed simultaneously, and I use a specific intonation, a "command voice." It comes from a different place in the chest, is lower, and is easier to precisely reproduce than my usual wittering on.
> A debtor's promise of future payments is worth less than an immediate payment of the same total amount because the creditor cannot use the money right away, inflation may cause the value of the dollar to decline before the debtor pays, and there is always some risk of nonpayment. The challenge for bankruptcy courts reviewing such repayment schemes, therefore, is to choose an interest rate sufficient to compensate the creditor for these concerns.

Till v. SCS Credit Corp, 541 US 465, 474 (2004).
Literally the exact question I had reading that comment haha
> Tauri, React, zustand, Tailwind, shadcn/ui

For a simple overlay...? A couple of icons, text and some images
He benefited from having a well connected family.
In headache case, the link between illness and cure is instantaneous.

But when it comes to vaccination, due to the time needed for everything to take effect (many people need to be vaccinated, it takes time) anti-vaccines are unable to link the vaccine to a cure for the disease.

For humans, time changes everything, even the ability to make a connection between illness and cure.
> Private schools usually have more disclipline, higher expectations of students, a better learning environment, and selectivity. Public schools have to take everyone, no matter how disadvantaged, disruptive, or dumb.

These things make for a more pleasant learning experience, and more well-connected kids, but I don’t think they confer any particular advantage on the SAT, as compared to any other academic or intellectual metric you might choose to use to select some applicants while rejecting others. And while the average, unmotivated and undirected kid might do better in a private school environment statistically, I don’t think there’s anything a motivated kid needs to do well on the SAT that isn’t available in the vast majority of public schools in the US. My wife went to high school in rural Iowa. Two neighboring towns had to share a high school, and the nearest “big city” was Sioux Falls, SD, 70 miles away. She wasn’t missing any resources needed to do well on the ACT.

In fact, the SAT is probably fairer than most of those other metrics, because it tests a pretty lowest-common denominator set of math, vocabulary, and logical reasoning skills. It doesn’t rely on books some kids might not have read or advanced math that might not be available at particular high schools.

> And whatever the cause, the stats do show that private school students score significantly higher on average on the SAT.

Because parents who can afford private school are smarter and more sophisticated than parents who can’t.
FDA stands against using smartwatches to monitor blood glucose
This may well require to much time to do depending upon the material.

I remember a math class that drove me nuts because the instructor used overhead sheets. Usually they were at least limited to output speed of their own hand writing so I could keep up but with the overhead protector I was always scrambling to even get it down.
Heh, that's the same company that sends physical mail to me every time I make a trade because they believe that email sent to my personal domain is "undeliverable" and automatically opt me out of e-statements no matter how many times I opt-back in. They have to be losing money on me by paying for so much postage at this point.

(And no, nothing is wrong with my email, it's hosted by a professional email host with the proper MX records and literally only Schwab claims to have this problem with me).
reminds me of the igotstandardsbro site about finding dudes of a certain income level, body mass, and height. the point of the site is that when you put your preferences in it's like 0.9% of the population.

in that vein, what you're looking for is like 0.1%, and they may already be married. you're better off learning how to relate to the normies than holding out hope for any of that.
There was a podcast yesterday that explained well why Google is in a tough position.

https://youtu.be/-i9AGk3DJ90?t=616

In essence, Google already rules information retrieval. Their margins are insane. Switching to LLM based search cuts into their margins and increases their costs dramatically. Also, the advantage they've built over decades has been cut down.

All of this means there is potential for less profit and a shrinking valuation. A shrinking valuation means issues with employee retention and it could lead to long term stagnation.
This is the tip of the iceberg of the massive increase in the Trudeau government's spending, and without oversight.

There was a 2-person company that was found to have been paid $20 million of that $60 million and did no work.

NOTE: the $60 million price tag is only an ESTIMATE as the accounting was so poorly done, the person put in charge to investigate couldn't actually determine how much was spent due to how badly records were kept; which should be default assumed as purposefully done to hide money trails.

This Trudeau government has also refused to share with Canadians where exactly the additional $600 million went, which state-funded media companies receive the funds and how much each - on top of the $1.4 billion that CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) Received last year - up $200 million from the standard $1.2 billion, for the next 3 years.
Are there any reasons other than purely historic ones for the right to roam on access lands? Because it seems like something that's pretty indefensible as is, either the public should be allowed to responsibly trespass on private land or they shouldn't.
So.. "fight fire with fire".
I mean, I just said I was in this business back then. I was probably 22 and making a whole $40k in my first "real" engineering job at Hostway, then Hostgator, then Rackspace, etc. And I owned multiple servers. A $40 VPS was not a big ask in 2009. I absolutely didn't make FAANG salary nor did 99.9% of our VPS customers. We used to stick 1-3k customers on one $350/month dell poweredge.

We had millions of customers with VPS of various pricing and traffic and businesses.

> Also recognize that this was still in the "OMG how did computers get so fast" era.

I'm so confused by this statement. I've been in datacenters since 2005, if we ever had a "omg fast cpus" moment anywhere in that time line it was when AMD Epyc came out around 2016 and we could push massive PCIE bandwidth for vfio/etc. Beyond that we've been sitting on various 2-4ghz xeons for 25 years. I'm confused on the 486 comparison. I had a 486 when I was 8, 31 years ago.

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"Before the SV balloon in salaries".. dude, we're talking under a $100/month... In 2009. Your comment makes it sound like this was the yesteryear of computers, like 1988 or something, this comment has me so confused.

The entire thread is them talking about putting a tiddlywiki+phpbb on a VPS. This, aside from LAMP/etc stacks were the most common hosting product sold and were usually $5-10/mo plans. I have a feeling they're actually using one of those scammy "free" webhosts you used to be able to get off of somethingawful, etc. that would disappear after 2 months and were probably CSAM vectors.

It's just a very strange level of frugality, which is mentioned in this HN thread elsewhere. It sounds like they were only using donations to move forward, nothing wrong with that, just interesting how low skill/researched their infrastructure stuff is for someone who seemingly can create a thing like bitcoin.
It's not really an issue, it's just that the assumption that removing a commit from the history actually deletes it is not correct. That holds for both Git and GitHub, and probably most other Git hosts.

Also in general, don't assume that you can remove anything from the internet once it has been published.
I think it's a fair bet that Satoshi is either dead, insane, or the government.
Finney checks the most likely one.
Full Details on the article.

More about the author and proof that this article was also posted on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anesshusseinali/
Supermicro gave us same type of assistance. Then new feature of bifurcation did not work correctly. Without it, enterprise telecommunications peripheral that costs 10x more than 4 socket Xeon motherboard can't run at nominal speed, and it was ran on real lines, not test data.

They sent us custom BIOSes until it got stabilized and said they'll put the patch in the following BIOS releases.

The thing is neither Intel nor AMD nor Supermicro can test edge cases at max usage in niche environments without paying money, but they would really love to claim with backup they can be integrated for such solutions. If Intel wants to test stuff in space for free they have to cooperate with NASA; the alternative is in-house launch.
And here’s a translated version: https://bitbucket.org/workspacespain/i-s00n-translated/src/m...
How would one go about proving that a learned heuristic (something from an AI model) is in fact admissible?
Requiring a Google account would indeed not fly. The project was called next billion users and it's objective was to seek internet penetration into areas of India where internet literacy is nonexistent.

As a part of that initiative you had manufacturers building super low-cost Android smartphones that came preloaded with Google apps and people could put a SIM card in. The backing system of GPay in India called UPI works similarly so this app could never have that second layer of auth as a mandatory wrapper and spread where Google wanted it to spread.

Those decisions gave them 200M users on the app in the country.
Any chance you can share more details on your measurement setup and eval protocols? You're likely seeing some config snafus, which we're trying to track down.
Great article, but the approach they outline is really tuned to request serving and nothing else.

System startup, batch jobs, stream processing, large computations (imagine running weather models!), ML training etc all have impedance mismatch.
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It sounds like you've done 2 interviews in 6 or more years... Maybe you're not up to speed with the average experience?
Do you view it as a security hazard to talk about this publicly (or tied to your username)?

I presume that bitcoin is now worth millions of dollars (at the very least)?
You might want to look at carbon steel instead. It has many of the desirable properties of cast iron, but it's less brittle which allows manufacturers to make pans as thin as ~2mm, which makes them much lighter. (They also heat much faster.)
There are so many things that I think are wrong here.

"Soviets essentially tried to manufacture ethnostates by forcibly displacing ethnic groups from one region to another"

Not really. During the policy of so called "korenizatsiia"[0] (indigenization) Russians were deprived of leadership roles and forced to learn local languages. In the next period Stalin was punishing certain ethnicities for relatively high level of collaboration with Nazis by relocating them to inhospitable regions.

"Russia is ethnically heterogeneous "

I didn't mean Russian citizens, I meant ethnic Russians which themselves are a mixture of god knows what (I'm Russian myself).

"there is still a good deal of Slavic supremacism present in Russian politics (e.g. conscription disproportionately affects ethnic minorities... )"

Many ethnic minorities have better demographics -- they have many more children than ethnic Russians and correspondingly more men of the conscription age.

"This is also true for China, which engages in Han supremacism"

For example, the CCP's draconian 'one family -- one child' policy applied only to Han. [1] Doesn't look like Han supremacism to me.

"Germany unlike e.g. the US has a single official language"

Again, not really:
"there is no official language at the federal level <...> Three states and four U.S. territories have recognized local or indigenous languages in addition to English."[2] Three states isn't much for a whole continent inhabited by Native Americans. Or try finding any Native American language or even Spanish on the web site of the US Congress, for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia#Against_Great-Ru...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Language
Back in the early 2000s there was such poor support from non-Windows for high powered graphics cards, it's no wonder vvvv never moved to other platforms. I worked at a Mac/Linux art studio in that time and we had to keep buying Windows boxes just to run the video artworks we produced.

The hours we wasted trying to lock them down.
I've had FedEx hand packages to other couriers who promptly lost them never to be seen again. When I contact them they said this counts as delivering the package.

I no longer use FedEx for any shipment that I need to have arrive.
Natural selection didn't wire our brains to work like a Bayesian network. If it had, wouldn't it be easier to make converts to the Church of Reverend Bayes? /s

Alternatively, brains ARE Bayesian networks with hard coded priors that cannot be changed without CRISPR.