skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With enough parameters, it probably starts looking continuous again. Like how in physics everything is quantised at the smallest scale but if you put enough atoms together it all smooths out and behaves "classically".
You do realize that arithmetic is a very simple symbolic manipulation task? All you have to do is keep track of the carry. I haven't seen an LLM that couldn't get digit by digit addition done, but they always mess up the carry.
Depends on what the target is. I assume you'd be OK with the Ukrainians hypothetically using such a capability to beat back the Russians? Wars are horrible, but they are not necessarily always unjust or something to avoid. The Nazi death camps wouldn't have ended without a war.
Authors reported perplexity only for small up to 3B weights models. On the other hand, they reported throughput for 70B model, but not its performance (perplexity, end-to-end tasks). Very unfortunate omission. Overall, the paper is rather poorly written.
I'm ignorant, doesn't this come "for free" with Qt6 support? Krita is a bit of an exception, because it's still on Qt5, but "core KDE" apps, as released in kde-applications 24.02, are compiled against Qt6 on my arch install.
That should be x0.7 or /1.4 since it's sqrt(2).
The audience is vastly different, the median computer person used to be far more passionate and got into computing earlier in their life, knowing better who created interesting things and therefore who to look up to. Today people are used to consuming highly image and audio doctored videos and tend to follow whoever spends their time doing that, favored by recommendation algorithms.
AI generated spam for social networks
AI is actively being used to build dead internet right now. So many human potential and hours will be squandered by replying to basically spam. Sure, cynics will say that those networks are already spam - but at least you are engaging with a human.
This is the second problem with the EU.

They can't defend their own backyard, refuses to pay for their 2%, and free-rides off of US protection.

They tried to court China as their partner, only to now face a flood of Chinese car imports that outcompete their once prided industries.

They seem to only care about national security when it comes to fleecing US companies, rather than say defending against Russia, or strategizing against China.
Imagining an opt-in policy highlights how unethical these AI data-harvesting schemes really are. It's blindingly obvious that almost nobody would actively choose to donate their work to enrich AI companies without getting anything in return.
How a 13-year-old discovered a possible Japanese wolf specimen
Rituals work!
Picture-in-picture in Firefox is super useful when having a video call and sharing the screen at the same time, especially on a laptop screen.

Firefox lets you pop out the video feeds of call participants, so you can have them in a corner when sharing a full-screen window.
LOL, better then them finding the industry 10 years ago.
Is the implication that we're seeing the actions of a species that can alter the orbits of planets?
Position sticky, has, subgrid, and filters to name a few. And now it’s pushing forward color standards, better text layout, new image formats, and more css math functions.
That isn't nearly enough time to conclude that the changes are irreversible and it's frankly irresponsible to make that inferential jump.
The VP9 codec I imagine would heavily benefit from SIMD? Just SIMD should massively outperform any advantage gained by putting this into the kernel. Why does the kernel need an unoptimized codec?
Chips are too. Opamps can add, multiply, subtract, divide, integrate and differentiate depending on how they're plugged in.
In many countries this is meaningless.

I just ignore any horseshit that goes to collections outright
It sounds like it indeed was a GoPro, neat! Were you not surprised to get video back, then? What steps were taken? I don't know much about Space Stuff but seems like even with shielding, you would expect off-the-shelf consumer hardware to fail somehow..
I have been mainlining firebox for the 2 to 3 years, mainly because i was concerned about privacy in chrome, and also because i do believe that we need a non chromium based browser for a healthy internet ecosystem.
However, the number of website/webpage that do not work, or are worse on firefox is alarming. Especially when talking about internal/entriprise website. Or smaller website
You can charge for the distribution of the software. You just don't have the ability to restrict the distribution downstream.
Every major tech company has used the outcome of the MS Monopoly Trial as a playbook of dos and don'ts to avoid getting sued.
Mandatory mention of Spaceballs incoming... I just don't want the reverse function on my home vacuum.
What do digital freedoms mean in the information age? [video]
> any modestly-visible public account

I think the most visible account I follow would be Joueur du Grenier/@Frederic_Molas (a French Youtuber) with 1.3 M followers. But then I rarely check responses to his tweets. The rest have at most 150K followers and I mostly look at the answers to those with much smaller following (5k-10k).

I've seen all three types of reply you mention, but nearly never below tweets from the small account. I'd guess the bots focus on accounts with bigger follower numbers than the accounts where I spent my time.

I don't see any ads (only using on my browser), so I can't comment on that.
I agree that the article's suggestions are inadequate, but I think the concern that was raised is significant and real. One of the reasons I posted it here is because I'd love to gather more suggestions from this community about how to address this danger. Just being aware of it is a start, but your suggestion of periodic automation-fasts is a good one too.

I borrowed a car recently that didn't have the automated security features that I am accustomed to (blind-spot monitor, etc), and it was a great reminder to refresh my skills.
Teenagers are a big range from 13 to 19.

The difference in mental maturity and faculties at those ages are immense.
Pretty sure the US explicitly restricts investment in Chinese AI companies now. The US has learnt its lesson investing in China too.
I'm fine with this place being orange Reddit but orange 4chan just sounds exhausting. You should probably delete this comment and revise how you approach discourse on this website
Especially important if you want to compete in training base models - if they were using 1500 H100s like the quote somewhere above implies, the market rate for that right now is something like $7500-$10k per hour (retail, on demand, so probably lower in reality, but still, it adds up incredibly quickly if you’re training 24 hours per day).
If the content is actually intended to be informative, then it's a poisoned well unless it's been manually vetted for hallucination. If it's entertainment though, then if it works it works.
We're properly into the age of all-out "lawfare" now. I wonder what
happened to the likes of Lawrence Lessig and Pamela Jones, and all
those legal minds who used to weigh in on the side of ordinary decent
people. We could use some easily deployed retaliatory weapons and
countermeasures about now.
Same, I don't know what it is but firefox locks up whenever I try to watch youtube on my laptop. It's only my windows laptop too. My linux laptop, and windows desktop at work are fine.
If I understand the authors correctly, they trained the compared models on only 100B tokens, all drawn from RedPajama, to make the comparisons apples-to-apples. That's sensible. It allows for easier replication of the results. Otherwise, I agree with you that more extensive testing, after more extensive pretraining, at larger model sizes, is still necessary.
Scare mongering to gain hundreds of millions of euros to use in a way that violates democracy. The undermining of Dutch society was done by the Dutch government themselves.

For example, did you know that a Dutch prosecutor can lie in court under oath with no consequences? I have a letter from the attorney general of the Den Bosch office that states this in black and white. They cannot be found guilty of perjury.

Why do I have such a letter from the attorny general? Because I tried to prosecute the prosecutor for obstruction of justice all the way to the attorny general's office. That letter was their only response.
> This surfaces in cloudwatch logs as metrics extraction and Logs Insights as structured log queries. The meta scuba is like a janky imitation of that tool chain

I don't have any experience with scuba besides this article, but I think you've missed the point. Wide events, based on my understanding, are a combination of traditional logs and something akin to service logs.

This provides two crucial improvements. The first is flexible, arbitrary associations as a first-class feature. As I interpret it, wide events give you the ability to associate a free-form traditional log message with additional dimensions, which is similar to what service logs offer but more flexible. E.g. if you log "caught unhandled FooException, returning ServerException" but only emit a metric for ServerException=1, service logs can't help you.

The other major benefit that you seem to have overlooked is a good UI to explore those events. I think most people would agree that the cloud watch UI is somewhere between bad to mediocre, but the monitor portal UI is nothing short of an unmitigated disaster. And neither give you the ability described in this article, to point and click graph events that match certain criteria. As I read it, it's the equivalent functionality to simple insights queries, except it doesn't require any typing, searching for the right dimension names, or writing stats queries to get graphs.
well lets see what happens when they train a llm on all this ”knowledge”.. oh wait
Same and before Firebird it was Phoenix.
Is this still a valid complaint since they have a new interim CEO? I think we should wait and see what Laura Chambers does and then the new pick after this year.
Honestly, I don't AI chat is anywhere near competing with search at this moment in time. It will come, but there's no significant near-term risk that AI chat is going to be the place to go for common Google searches like: "what's the weather like tomorrow in London", "Facebook", "Sofas", "funny cat videos".

AI chat is really only useful for a niche area of the search market orientated around non-real-time question and answer type questions. Eg, "who was the greatest US president?"

The valuable search ad space is mostly around transactional searches like "sofas" where a company could place an ad and convert a user looking for a new sofa. No one is using chatbots for this. That's not to say it's not a risk, but I think people are wrong to think that web search and AI chat are directly competing products. AI chat competes with search in a similar way that Alexa and Siri already does – they're useful within a certain niche.
The original version of my comment included the decade-long sales tax dodge, but I removed it for clarity. I'm glad to see that people remember that era.
Does that also happen for other video sites?
This comment is the second time you've said this, so clearly, you think it's important.

You also said it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533554

I honestly don't see the connection.

The idea of Gobo was to replace the cryptic Unix filesystem hierarchy with something clearer and more human-readable, and in so doing, replace a whole bunch of things that package managers do, making them almost unnecessary.

Your point doesn't address this at all. You're talking about building from source instead of using a package manager, as far as I can see?

But compiling from source still puts the resultant binaries somewhere in the existing Unix filesystem layout. It doesn't matter where the binaries come from. This isn't about where they come from -- it's about where they go.
yeah accents on website is not great
I'm curious about the "obsoletion" of Chinese characters over the last 30 years. How did it happen since the 1990s? Did it all happen organically from everyone or did the government start enforcing certain laws?

I knew the Simplified Chinese (commonly used in Mainland China) was pushed by the RPC government to replace Traditional Chinese. Did something similar happen in Korea?
Authentication and authorization is pretty easy to implement with custom Dependencies. Multitenancy can be a layer on top of that depending on how you want to shard your DB tables / separate rows. If you're interested in poking around a little more with auth then this plugin can be a starting place:
https://github.com/piercefreeman/mountaineer/tree/1d44cdf1c6...

(In an old commit and stripped out from the current codebase until it has better test coverage and the main codebase is stable)
That sounds like aliasing issue in signals; we should be able to distinguish between them as long as we sample more often than half the actual orbital period (i.e. with a sampling frequency larger than the Nyquist frequency).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency
That's just a slippery slope argument. I am not arguing for people to depend on leftPad, I'm arguing that depending on a library like this which is probably tens of thousands of lines of tested code that does roughly what you want already is a damn good idea. Again, I don't want to handroll a solution and have to test it out across Windows, Mac, Linux and then check again to make sure it works with both Docker and Podman, and then again to check AArch64 Windows, AArch64 Mac and AArch64 Linux, and so on. I'd prefer to use a library. And hell, even if any of those things don't work, I can report it to the maintainers and possibly contribute a fix, and then everyone else gets to benefit too.
Have you considered using jax? you can efficiently compute the jacobian (even using the gpu if you want) without leaving python at all. The api is also numpy compatible!
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> So I'm not sure how this can really improve the state of things compared to C with the equivalent bounds checks.

The simplest answer here is that a compiler-introduced bounds check is almost always better than a human one. Humans make bounds errors, compilers generally don't.

The longer answer is that the current state of the code does not guarantee its future state. The fact that bounds checks constitute the current majority of safety guardrails does not mean that future refactors won't benefit from Rust's temporal memory safety guarantees. Or more abstractly: it's easier to perform safe refactors when your safety properties compose natively, rather than having to bolt another layer of checks onto pre-existing language that doesn't support them natively.

Edit: Forgot to mention: another benefit of bounds checking in the language itself is optimization: when humans bounds-check, the compiler needs to recognize human patterns to safety remove or merge redundant bounds checks. When the language specifies its own bounds checks, the compiler knows exactly what they'll look like and can optimize accordingly. Modern optimizing compilers are very good at detecting human-written bounds, but a fully compiler-controlled optimization is going to beat a human-augmented optimization >95% of the time.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star

If they are brave they might build something like that in order to attract attention, it is starting to look feasible to not just inspect solar systems in detail but to send and receive messages using methods like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
What are we going to need to switch from base 10 to base 12?
Why I use Vivaldi: workspaces and vertical tabs let me pretend I don't have a tab hoarding problem.

I know I could probably have this on Firefox with some extension, but I don't like the concept of extensions.
It's supposed to reflect transistor density. If you take a chip made on a say 90nm process and shrink it by 90x it should have approximately the same transistor density as a "marketing 1nm" chip. The scaling stopped around 45 nanometers.

You can see this if you compare 2 processes: Intel 45nm had 2,779,468 transistors/mm², and the Apple A14 (7nm) had a transistor density of 134,100,000 t/mm²

2,779,468*(45/7)²=114,865,769, so the two are quite close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocesso...
I've had Starlink since early beta days and am watching connection metrics very closely. Latency measurement is so much more useful than throughput. So is packet loss. FWIW I've averaged 0.6% packet loss, 38ms latency, and 130/20 MBit/s in Grass Valley, CA over the last month

But averages obscure what's really important. The biggest indicator of Starlink congestion problems has been how packet loss increases in evenings. Average latency is interesting but much more interesting is the variance of latency or jitter. A steady 50ms is better than a connection varying 20-80ms all the time. As for bandwidth what I've found most useful is a measure of "hours under 20 Mbps download" (1 or 2 a day on my Starlink).

IRTT is a fantastic tool for measuring latency and packet loss. Way better than simple pings. The hassle is you have to run a server too; I have one in the same datacenter as the Starlink terrestrial POP.
I really hope tech starts a trend of booting that MBA mentality.

Did so much harm to the industry and the quality of software.
Git add --patch and --interactive
Pglite is not fully compatible and doesn't even support parameterized queries yet.
Dunno that I’d find much use in that. Either you’re watching the video (in which case you don’t want other crap distracting you) or you’re not (in which case you don’t want the video in a corner distracting you).

Maybe I’m just from an older “I can only do one thing at a time lol” generation.
Safari suffered from years of under investment. I understand that the situation has recently changed.
Vision Pro demand higher than expected; returns down to 1% – Kuo
“The state of Ohio permits the use of drones in the recovery of downed game. Unfortunately, the Pennsylvania Game Commission appears to be taking a hostile view of the use of drones in game recovery,” Coleman wrote in a Jan. 2 memorandum seeking co-sponsors for his bill. “Pennsylvanians deserve better. With the advent of drones, hunters have an additional tool to use and reduce the amount of dead game that goes uncollected.”

Coleman also told the Philadelphia Inquirer last month that he thinks using drones to recover deer is “common sense” and that the state shouldn’t overthink regulations around the technology.
Browser-based robot dog simulator: walking controller (2023)
4090 or 3090 are reasonable choices. You want the GPUs with a lot of VRAM. Seen a lot of people running 2-3x used 3090s for reasonable-ish prices (ie <2k usd). If you want higher speed go for 4090s if you can afford it and your computer can handle the wattage (though you can always limit wattage on your gpus to reduce power draw for a fairly minimal speed hit).
Before 2006 my phone was already my portable media player, my internet modem on the go, a quick web browser, my portable email machine, my internet instant messenger client, a mapping tool, and more. By 2007 I was even using it for video calls.
This, at least sometimes, happens: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68...
At the very least, an action which is effectively instantaneous should never be opt out. That is, if they can flip a switch and scan millions of blogs in a few hours, or days, or even weeks, you need to be able to opt out before that happens. It shouldn't be a race between you and the website to see if you can find the opt out toggle before you lose control of your property.

A lesser example of this is when you sign up for a website, and are immediately opted in to their newsletter and various other spam email lists. The opt-in happened in ~1ms, but even if you opt out immediately after your first login, you'll still get added to their list by default.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs/id...

1200 thumbs up since 2022 and 22 pages of comments. I wonder when we'll get native vertical tabs.
We may be in the minority, but there are plenty of people who share our opinion on this.

Whole swaths of the internet became uninteresting to me a long time ago. AI promises to make the rest of it worthless to me as well.

The fact that AI models are being trained on public-facing web content without the consent of the authors has already driven me and others to remove all our content from the public-facing web, as there is no other way to protect ourselves. That eliminates a large part of the value of the web right there.
Same here, I've been slogging through with raw sympy this tool looks great.

How do I speed up the start time for it - any ideas? Recompile it with PyPy or similar?
They built a ring world in order to harness enough solar power to continue and sustain their proof of work economy. Alas, when even that was not enough their world collapsed and the successors to their race returned to the trees.
Maybe not you, but it definitely does for some people. ;)
5233 Sidebery tabs here, in a single window/profile. Multiple Sidebery "panels". I am simultaneously running a few other Firefox instances with their own Sidebery extensions and at least hundreds of tabs each.

I will not defend this use model to any skeptics, but FWIW I have no performance issues!

Sidebery lets you set colors on tabs explicitly, or by pattern. I use this sparingly but it's very useful when I do.
Plus it lives on today as KaiOS, you can buy plenty of phones that run it.

It didn’t end up challenging the Apple/Google duopoly like Mozilla wanted but I think they should have stuck with it anyways.
As detailed in the companion article [1], for every 54 orbits of planet 1, planets 2..6 orbit 36, 24, 16, 12, and 8 times respectively, giving successive ratios of 2/3, 2/3, 2/3, 3/4 and 3/4. After those 54 planet 1 orbits, all planets are in the same relative position.

[1] https://www.space.com/six-sub-neptunes-found-100-light-years...