skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the auditory learners, here is a summarized audiobook of this PDF :

https://player.oration.app/c3feabfb-d437-4545-ae17-235d50d61...
Worrying about how to compress the data in real time doesn't seem like a good way to pay attention.

Maybe jotting down reactions helps maintain attention.

Actually paying attention, and writing down things you want to follow up on later so you don't have to hold them in memory seems better than both superficially stenographozing on a computer or trying to compress for handwritten notes.
I suspect that writing helps by letting you forget, not helping you remember.
Words are just words, though. I have a monopoly on what ice cream I get to put in my freezer, so what?

The legislation really isn't clear enough about this -- if it were, we wouldn't be having this discussion -- and to the extent it was clear in 1930, it's been muddied ever since Reagan.

And sometimes things have nuance! Not everything is black and white.
Slow down to do it well, then as the muscle memory improves, the speed can increase.

There are a lot of penmanship videos on YouTube. I fell down that hole one day. They talked about picking a font a training to write in that font. But the kid would have to find the idea of picking the font they will write in compelling enough to train it.
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Maybe the article covers this, but there an ancient memory technique (still used today) of “places and things”, also known as a memory palace. You put objects into spaces in your mind, then walk through that imaginary space to remember things. Turns out that humans are much better at remembering things when the context is spatial. Makes sense that this would apply to reading physical books.
You know that somebody can hold two thoughts in their head at once, yeah?

Green power is great! But there'll be limits to how much of that there is, too, and asking if pictures of hypothetical cats is a good use of that is also reasonable.
What percentage of all that JS is just crap injected into sites by pointless invasive trackers?
My guess would be that they are confusing "enjoyable" with "easy". I find software development enjoyable, but it can be both hard and easy at times. And sometimes hard (problem solving) is what I want to do, other times easy (knocking out code for a solved problem) is what I want instead.

Alternatively, they are just in a role/job that doesn't happen to deal with difficult problems. Which is fine. Sometimes, that's what you want.
Oh, yes. I think we are still lucky, just that we are subject to the same corporate dysfunction as everyone else. I still feel like I'm being paid for the dysfunction though (since they want us to code, but coding is what I already like to do, they could pay me a lot less if they could convince me I wouldn't have to deal with office politics).
AMD vs NVIDIA

RoCm = CUDA+cuBLAS+cuRAND

MiOpen = cuDNN

HIP is an AMD portability abstraction layer over the NVIDIA APIs that is pass-thru to cuDNN/cuBLAS/cuRAND on NVIDIA hardware, and pass-thru to AMD's equivalent APIs (that are basically drop-in replacements for NVIDIA's) on AMD hardware.
Right now, Apple's P/E is on par with SP500 average. It's not an overpriced stock (or, contrarily, the entire SP500 is overpriced).
IME just enabling experimental proton support in Steam is enough to run 75-85% of games I'm interested in.
FWIW the government in 1984 actually had automated content generation, since thats how they produced pornography for the proles.
If you prefer an (outdated but entertaining) podcast:

https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-3-faketoshi-the-...
> That’s not why this is important. This event is not significant for culture war reasons.

He makes an interesting point but I still think that this raises some big questions around how they attempt to correct bias by injecting their own biases.

In this case they tried to correct racial representation in pictures but what if they try to correct and influence political opinions next? Make certain groups look like glorious freedom fighters, and others like bloodthirsty monsters? Maybe attempt to push certain parties to make them win the next election. Given they offer no transparency on their prompts how will I know they are not pushing other ideological angles?
ask op, or the dozen or so companies making a similar product
No measurable effects were observed on the items not in stock.
Well, some people pay <4% investment income tax at the state/local level too.
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about new type of "AI factory" data center
I’d say more that Google are caught between wanting to be a service provider and a hardware company.

Pixel phones extend their services.

Selling TPU units reduces the differentiator for their services.
Ask HN: Could Nvidia "pull up the drawbridge" and become thee AI company?
It has the most consequential moat in AI - the hardware and associated IP - to say nothing of its hordes of money.

Antitrust?
A good writer can probably change his/her demeanor and style in writing when changing personas. I'm sure it's hard work, but I'm also sure that practice makes it possible -- at least for some gifted people. It's also possible that Satoshi isn't a single human being, but an organization that can dedicate a lot of effort to this sort of thing.
It is not.

I learned to do it because old-school unix vi would identify your sentences better for sentence-based moves if you had 2 spaces after the period. I'm actually trying to unlearn it now because you don't need it for any kind of vim/neovim and I read on some ultrapedantic typesetting website that it's wrong for some reason I don't quite remember now.

In any case it's definitely not specifically American (neither am I) and all the other "forensics" that people are trying based on vocab etc are somewhat of a stretch also. eg non-Americans use "gotten" non British people use "British" English (eg people from Ireland or from former British colonies for the most part) non-Americans use "ize" sometimes for spellings (I could never be bothered to learn the few exceptions needed to spell "ize/ise" words correctly in the British style and worked enough for American companies who wanted US spelling as a house style for my personal spelling to be even remotely consistent and certainly not indicative of where I am from.
Agreed. I elaborated a bit more in a sibling comment about how many keybinds result in opening a pane and focusing it, and it’s just not built for being operated by keyboard. Although you could make the argument that using the mouse just hides all the latency. Scrolling through text buffers is super smooth… but at what cost?
The thing that bothers me is that I can't flip back and forth the same way I can with a book.

I'll frequently read something and want to go check something 100 or so pages back. It's so easy with a physical book you hold the place and scan backwards. Much more difficult with an ebook.
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This is the potential of 512 E-Core per chip ( No SMT Support ), and 1024 E-Core per U in 2025 / 2026.

All the so called web scale issues, even if E-Core only manages 10 RPS that is 10K RPS per U.

On the AMD side It will probably be Zen6C before we get 256 Core and 512 Thread. Zen6C on roadmap is ~2026 product launch. Exciting times ahead.
Until the nuisance aspects of Windows improves I can't see myself ever moving back from a Mac. I say that knowing that there are problems with Macs as well, but Microsoft has absolutely zero respect for their customers.
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Also, see https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/77358901774917632 where Len doesn't seem to be a fan of Bitcoin. Not sure what he means by that though.
What exactly is 'something important' if those things don't meet your metric?
BS. Many countries have successfully implemented SMS sender registration/verification schemes. See for example here for a list: https://support.sms.to/support/solutions/articles/4300056265...

The details differ per country, but either all non-registered senderids will be blocked, or registered senderids will be allowed only from authorized sources. The degree of mandatoriness varies also, in some places its mandatory for telcos to comply, in other places it is some voluntary cooperative scheme.

But despite such details, the problem is clearly not completely intractable.
> Len Sassaman

It's not him, no double spaces in his writings.
I put it in quotes because it's the term a certain set of people use (not me). It had a historical meaning to the Black community but that's been usurped by reactionaries.
If you want a detailed look at all of the Satoshi evidence (circumstantial and others), check out this paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10257v14.pdf

If you want the TLDR; the meat is the "Candidates" section about Len Sassaman and the original Bitcoin paper's references (in particular, how Len was the only person with the right skill set, in the right place, at the right time to even get a copy of the referenced work).... among a mountain of other circumstantial evidence.
Thats weird, because pretty much any game I have wanted to play on Steam (with the exception of a couple VR titles) have run flawlessly on my Linux machine. Proton works for the majority of games, I have found.

I know games with anti cheat often don’t run, but those are the exception not the rule.
yes, the article referenced above referenced several tweet's from Len using Britishisms like "bloody". He was an American, living in Europe. Satoshi also referenced Euros (rather than pounds).
For voice calls, and maybe SMS, there could be mechanism to do bidirectional authentication with words. The problem is that would have to switch to app to generate the words and validate the response. For user, password or passkey would work. For company, the SSL cert on domain might work. Otherwise, would need to download certificates.

For SMS and voice calls, it would help if they could implement call authentication so can trust the number. Phones should show the user if the number is validated. It would also be good to add trusted CallerID names; Google does with some numbers.
Awful people doing awful things. But never before in history have they had the tools to scale and amplify their behavior as they do today.

As we continue to see more and more evidence of the deleterious effects social media has, I keep wondering how the people employed in this industry rationalize their contributions to things like this, and lack of meaningful action in response to it.

Many Meta employees are here on HN. What are your thoughts when you read about how Meta seems ill-equipped and unmotivated to do anything about this? Do you care?

Seems like Meta could just disable mom-run accounts for minors with the flip of a switch and make a positive difference. The fact that they don't speaks volumes.

The rationalizations I've heard boil down to (a) money (b) nowhere else can you work on interesting technology innovations at the scale of Meta (c) if Meta didn't enable this someone else would and (d) idealistically hoping you can effect more positive change from within the beast than outside of it

Is there something else?
Small blockers in shambles
Federation was just opened up with this announcement. I don't think there was a lot of energy for working on independent PDSes until after this has happened. In the past day, a bunch of copies of this reference PDS have been deployed. We'll see how things change in the future.

Basically, you're right, but just because you're asking early on. This is about to change real quick.
Gemma support has been added to llama.cpp, in fact it was added almost immediately after the release:
https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1760293079313973408

However, be aware that there were some quality issues with quantization initially (hopefully they're resolved but i haven't followed too closely):
https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1760418864418934922
The space has moved past this risk for a lot of reasons, to start. And it’s hard to understand I think in light of modern (relative to pre-2018/19) widespread mainstream adoption.

But, a long term protection for BTC when it was smaller and tbh anyone’s guess how it would turn out (still is IMO), was: who are you going to haul into senate hearings, court, cryptography export control violations, whatever over BTC?

This happened ample times in the recent past before BTC with digital money attempts and cryptography projects. It’s happening now with mixers on btc and ethereum. It was a real risk to BTC in its own way.

With BTC then and now, there was no real leader though. There were important core devs and industry leads, but no one held true sway like, say, Vitalik did with eth early days.

So it wasn’t so much a firm “did something wrong” risk for BTC’s founder, but more of a concern that the US govt had taken very heavyhanded measures against many similar projects to BTC. As there was no one to target in BTC’s case, this protection played a large role in its early push into staying power.

Also going to color this with CIA had the lead dev at the time visit them to discuss it in 2011. So there was certainly some real sustained attention to it from the start.
It's not, but individual investors can still be rational.
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It is happening. There are papers on deep learning to improve the variable choice in branch-and-bound, etc
> Certainly it should not be illegal when alcohol is legal.

I don't think this argument makes sense. Alcohol could well be a net harm on society, while a ban is not realistic due to its established role in society. This doesn't imply cannabis should have been legalized.
"Wokeness" as defined by the people who use it is not a religion (and it's not extreme). It's just pejorative word for diversity used by people who believe in white supremacy.
Some people are saying people knew internally but didn't dare point it out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39466135
> "I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums"

Eich bad
“ The interaction of two programmers looking over a program that either one of them could have worked out is entirely different from the interaction of two programmers working on separate parts of a whole which is too great for either one to produce.

The difference lies in the way conflicting demands are resolved. In the first case, resolution of conflict is the thinking process of one person—aided perhaps by other people, but always under that one person's control. In the second case, conflicting technical demands are translated into potential interpersonal conflicts, and a social mechanism must be formed to resolve them."

- 'The Psychology of Computer Programming', Gerald Weinberg
Looking up your cell phone number in a several-months-out-of-date database is not the KYC process for bank accounts in the US.
That's extremely disappointing. They have time to build a Visual Studio Extension that competes with Cursor, but don't have time to release an API that would enable hundreds of new extensions/workflows.

Only reason I pay for ChatGPT Plus is because they have an API and I'm building products off of their API. I use Phind more for work, but I'm not going to pay anything unless they have an API.
Anecdote but I'm in Asia, my office is in the city I live in and I am free to work from anywhere.
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A lot of car dashboards have this too, where 100km/h, 1500rpm, nominal temperature and battery voltage are all the straight-up position.
The state of Google's product launches
Karpathy offers a more concise (and whimsical) explanation https://x.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018
> feature phones could send texts just fine, but no one really used that.

By "no one" you must mean everyone not in high school. Texting was a huge cultural thing in the US even before smartphones.
My company uses an outside vendor for security training that requires us to login using company credentials.

The outside security vendors also run phishing security campaigns that they send out from their own domain, and that have "phishing" URLs that point to the same domain we do the training on.

I got reported as being phished for following a link that goes to the SAME domain as our required security training. Our security compliance team got my point when I reported every required training reminder as coming from a known phishing domain.
What process node are you hoping to work at here?

There's no nearly-conceivable future where the minimum costs to design a 28nm or below chip are tractable for most small companies, but even most capable individuals can design something on 130nm and afford to have that taped out today.
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Well does the R df$colname behave like panda df.colname or is it like df[“colname”] which opens up a whole new layer where it can be df[var]?

And there’s a ton of helpful things like dict unpacking of named aggs for groups bys. The dictionary can be the result of code or it can be spelled out.

Also, a side note, both pandas and R make it easy to chain or pipe a long series of ops. I try to keep the number down though. In other languages this can be frowned on as a hard to debug train wreck pattern, esp if it grows to long. Usually I define filters and functions outside the train and pass them in rather inline the filters or lambdas as they’re so much easier to debug that way.
Sure, I'm certainly not going to pretend this is perfect, but it seems to be working basically fine and I don't see "reasonableness" - which actually avoids a lot of wrangling - as a problem.

Compare Legal Tender against an ordinary Reasonableness test. Legal Tender says that I only have to accept payment of your debt in specific forms (the "Legal Tender") and I can refuse to accept other payment.

So maybe our currency is Doodads, the Legal Tender law specifies that the 10 and 50 Doodad Coins shall be Legal Tender, and you owe me 15000 Doodads. You try to pay by card, I refuse. You try to write a cheque, I refuse. You try to pay with 150 of the 100 Doodad Coins, but again I refuse. Eventually I take you to court and... I win?! You did not pay your debt in the required Legal Tender.

With Reasonableness the court might buy that it was OK to refuse to accept the card (maybe I don't have a merchant account) and maybe even the cheque too (but already by then I expect a judge to have a lot of questions about how I thought you would pay and I'd better have a really good answer) but the 100 Doodad Coins are clearly money, with Reasonableness as our standard it's obvious that I lose my case, there's no need to write a law saying "Yeah duh, the 100 Doodad Coin is money" because a reasonable person can see that.
Terms of service from my bank say you're not allowed to give your PIN or secrets like one-time passwords (called "TAN" here) to third parties, not even the bank employees themselves.

But when I contacted them about a phishing practice, it was A-OK because it was a "legitimate" website that phished your credentials to view the last 180 days of transaction histories, compute a credit score, and then withdraw the money. They would "look into the situation and see if a better solution could be found" with this german company...

I don't understand how anyone is okay with this but klara or klarna or something is a pretty popular payment provider in germany as far as I know, but so my experience is now that banks like to change their security-relevant terms one-sided. But it's your fault if you give out secrets to the wrong person of course, not like the bank was going to care if your social security number had gone to a scammer for example
SDXL normally takes 40-60+ minutes per image on CPU so considering this is 1-4 steps instead of 20-25 steps you can make a guess.
> i'he become against mocks in tests. A usefull tool, but rarely needed. You can make tests reliable and fast without them

Good luck with that when you’re dealing with external APIs. And numerous systems such as Postgres, redis, Kafka.

Stil possible to boot a complete environment up with docker test containers, but then your doing an integration test.

In my experience they are useful but there is no replacements for fakes inside unit tests.

I do not mock stuff (with things like mock into). I use fake implementations and interfaces.
Yeah I used to listen to them quite a bit back in the day but in the lead up to the 2016 election they became insufferable. There was one Clinton story in particular they kept bringing up so I went through their show notes to the source and sure enough they were mischaracterizing everything about it. I emailed John pointing this out and he emailed back with one of the most dismissive replies I've ever gotten.

"this is an excellent deep analysis that I credit the show for."

Wow, thanks John, I'm glad I have the show to credit for doing some basic analysis.
That usually came from some additive for the desired viscosity of the vaping liquid, leading to popcorn lungs. Only black market things, didn't happen to legally aqquired stuff where it was legal at the times.
An ounce is 28 grams. But your point stands.
It's complicated, but basically because most are llama architecture. Meta all but set the standard for open source llms when they released llama1, and anyone trying to deviate from it has run into trouble because the models don't work with the hyper optimized llama runtumes.

Also, there's a lot of magic going on behind the scenes with configs stored in gguf/huggingface format models, and the libraries that use them. There are different tokenizers, but they mostly follow the same standards.
I learned a good deal from his earlier work, but you're not wrong about what he's up to these days. He's always been a drunk uncle, but there's a good side and a bad side to those, and since early in the pandemic he hasn't been spending all that much time on the good side.
There could be liars or foreign agitators among the anti-vaxxers. That's why scientists need to be extremely aboveboard, because if they can't be trusted then people will turn to charlatans. I am against mRNA vaccines and skeptical of some others, but I'm not against well-established vaccines in general.

>It’s bad for their personal reputations that they were caught lying, but their lies don’t change the underlying facts.

If your job is to advise the country about how to conduct research and how to deal with a pandemic, it's not just reputational damage. The lockdowns virtually destroyed the economy and cost more than WW2. Fauci lied about not doing gain of function research and the media has his back.
Seems obvious that AMD gets their shit together and releases a viable competitor, but that's a bet I'd never take.
A red-team of yes-men, apparently.