skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hysterically enough, the IT and sysadmin team got put in what became known as "the cave" and never got moved out. At least they had a door they could close. The real short end of the stick in the 'open' floor was being beside sales and customer support.
I explicitly block everything in Russia (and China and Hong Kong) from accessing my servers, because otherwise the rate of SSH attacks is so high it actually prevents SSH from working reliably -- the connection pool fills up.

Just an FYI; I don't think it's that unusual. Blocking those geoips dramatically reduced my logging volume.
5 trits fit into 1 byte pretty well, since 3^5 = 243 is just under 2^8 = 256.

That should be called an 8/5 = 1.6 bit model though, while the paper names it 1.58 bit, closer to log_2(3) ~ 1.5849625
i learned how to write well and don't let it bother me that people think i'm dumb
Amazon denies AI was used to recreate original actors' voices as lawsuit filed
idk I feel like [3] aside, doing all of those things doesn't take me very much time? Also, I think that turning to ChatGPT to compose a shell pipeline is a smell
Why not add it directly into the interface where you configure the site to begin with? It's a pretty reasonable ask.
Ternary or three-value logic is a thing in CS[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic
Oh man, absolutely. Recently a lot of large businesses have resorted to walling themselves in behind chatbots, often completely replacing all forms of customer contact except phone support with endless queues. Dutch PostNL: here's looking at you.

Getting people to give up seems to be the main goal, not a side effect.

It has gotten to the point where any contact with a company where someone responds to you in person, clearly answering your question, and where contacting them was as easy as clicking on an email link feels so rare and special.
I don't know how "avoiding the sun" qualifies as "healthy." To me, the idea that one should avoid being outside is indicative that whatever you're doing, it's not culturally healthy.
> Yeah sure I'm getting a ~10% productivity boost personally from those tools but it's not like you can give those to non-devs and expect them to replace a developer with it.

> Let's not forget that we have code generators usable by non developers since the 90s. It's not like it's a particularly new addition.

I never said anything about non-developers. If you hire 10 developers and on average the AI assistants give a 10% productivity boost, that potentially means you don't have to hire the 11th developer. I am not suggesting that engineers are gone, only that headcount reduction via AI tooling is already happening.
Yeah bouldering is a great strength/flexibilty/problem solving/impact sport.

I try to go bouldering a few times a month.
Nice! It seems HTTP/3 isn’t mentioned or supported, which is weird as they offer HTTP/3 support in their cloud service and have their own QUIC implementation. Haven’t looked in detail so maybe it’s just missing from the readme or they didn’t open-source it (yet).
SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python
I don't think that's a great analogy. Maybe if Latin was used in all spheres of life into the early 20th century

I'd buy the analogy if they forced people to learn classical chinese
If consumer cards can run the big models, then datacenter cards will be able to efficiently run the really big models.
Perhaps the founders want to remain there and grow, perhaps they want to focus on something else or retire. Perhaps the plan always was to sell after X years - I don't see anything wrong about that, still better to innovate&sell than just buy stock&sell IMHO.

You can't attract investors if they can't sell in case the investment is successful. This is severely limiting and a terrible situation to be in - especially if you already have investors, who might demand their money back from you - way before your profits could cover it.

And the worst thing that might happen - you design a startup to be acquired by Microsoft/Apple/Google and then EU comes and says no. WTF?
EURO STOXX 50 would probably be a better benchmark, which has a total market cap of around €4.0T, which is more than any single company. (your general point stands though, it's nowhere near the US market)
I remember trying AWS Glacier as a broke university student, thinking it was a cheap way to back up my data. I was wrong.

A decade later I played around with AWS, set up a free 1-core VPS. It was fine for a year or so (I ended up not using it at all), and suddenly I got a bill. It wasn't much, but it reminded me how these services make it very hard to be aware of your bills until you get them.

I was trying out Azure recently, and I found it too confusing to make any sort of quick risk assessment.

It's clearly just for people for whom "What's the worst that could happen?" is always a rethorical question.
I had an idea like this for helping introverts with icebreaking small talk. Flash style cards for each person, with info on what you spoke about last time, and a pre-prepared opener for the next time you bump into them. With the card info being updated each time you meet them.
I had an out of network emergency room visit with a kidney stone once while covered by a $1,000/month UHC platinum plan. When the bills arrived I stupidly paid them thinking it’d be easier to just file the claim for reimbursement from UHC on my own. After two years of
submitting forms, exchanging letters, and hours of phone calls, I just gave up. It’s hard for me to consider their business as anything but an outright scam.
I'm very unconvinced that ASICs are better suited for this than for FP16/FP8 models that are being used today.
SAP and Spotify come to mind, more recent promising startups are this one and Stable Diffusion.
we really have indulged rich idiots too much.
I understand these two formulations to be equivalent. Would you spell out the difference? For me? Thx!
"Handmade" or "manmade" is about to have a whole new relevance on the internet.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but the mere suggestion that some purportedly creative "content" (ugh, that word sounds like saying "sausage meat") is AI generated makes me completely lose interest. Soon enough that might make me lose interest in whole swathes of the internet, but I can't deny that's been an ongoing process regardless for a while anyways.
He’s mostly taking a shit load of vitamin D and E to offset this and wearing sunscreen religiously. He doesn’t literally not go outside but he is ghostly pale.
I'd like to point out that Europe IS restoring local habitats and species, see e.g. brown bears and wolves, which used to be essentially extinct in mid/western Europe.

But I also think your argument is much weaker than it feels; why, actually, should the sins of your ancestors undermine your actions in the present?

Is it misguided if the Italians of today act againt slavery and human trafficking because slavery was tolerated in ancient Rome?
> Not cool. It feels like extra work when navigating paths, you know? Pressing shift along with a letter or number every time?

You know why it never bothers me when I navigate in PowerShell (or cmd.exe for that matter)?

Because the shell is helpful for me and don't try to force me to conserve precious ticks and memory of PDP-11 lacking any usability.

It's always amusing to hear 'case sensitivity rUl3z!' fans who totally miss what it's just the result of the constraints of the original systems. It's not a feature.

More so, it's explicitly addressed:

>> To that, I can only respond that, in a properly configured shell like the one that comes by default with GoboLinux, typing /Programs takes the exact same number of keystrokes as typing /usr: slash, lowercase p, Tab.

>> https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html

Just 'set completion-ignore-case On' and have your life immensively better. Why? Because you now would need one less Shift keystroke per every filename starting with capitalised letter even if you don't use GoboLinux.

Or continue like it's still 1977, why not, your VT100, your rules.

EDIT: oh, noticed this later:

> Why bother installing another shell instead of just sticking with bash for normal navigation?

Yes, you don't even bother to know your own shell.
Klarna is not payday loans by any means. There are no loans involved. It is a BNPL company (which also offers a credit card and a bank account). Even with BNPL, there is a lot of leeway given to how you want to make a purchase (split in 4 etc.)
It will also be no problem making a video look like it was shot on a camcorder in 1996.

That is what still blows my mind about Midjourney images. Not just that it can do photo realism but photo realism as if it was shot on a specific type of film.

In ten years no one will care about the difference because years will have passed by then with people not knowing what was real vs AI.
> I tend to think internally, and while I usually have a clear vision in my head of how a system works, if I try to translate that mental model on-the-fly into an explanation for others, it typically comes out as an incoherent jumble of loosely related phrases.

Just a thank you for describing what is my own self perception. I thought I was a broken weirdo. Well, maybe I still am, but at least I'm not alone!
Silicon Valley – Click Farm ASMR – 1 Hour [video]
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this was definitely a key factor that made Concorde into a niche product.

It's not that customers preferred slower and cheaper flights over Concorde—they didn't, Concorde had very healthy average occupancy rates and operating the flights was very profitable for BA and Air France (they got the planes for free, of course).

It's that you can't fly a 1960s plane forever and you also can't amortize the design and development cost of new models with the only addressable market being first class customers travelling between the East Coast and a couple of European capitals (and this was directly caused by the overland flight restrictions).

Flying Concorde is one of my fondest memories :/
I'm not a fan of XML either with the exception of one purpose which is document processing using XSLT. XSLT is THE correct way to generate documents. Markdown is extremely limited by comparison.

And I'm not suggesting that there would be no documentation in the code. Javadoc is written for consumers of the code being document. That is incorrect. The comments should be optimized for the developers of the code itself. And it should not explain what the code does if you can just read the code itself.

So again, IMO, javadoc is a mistake. It mixes up two largely different things.

Also, when you downvote someone, it's not supposed to be because you don't agree with their view. You downvote someone when they say something that does not contribute to the discussion. But do what you will ...
It can't possibly be worse than their actual customer support.
As a quantum physicist myself, this is a very good question. I remember going to a quantum control conference (a topic very relevant to quantum computing) a few years ago and there were a couple of quantum computing startups. I asked their engineers, what exactly are quantum computers useful for? They had no concrete ideas. I don't think the situation is much better today.

Now, I understand building quantum computers in research settings, even if just for the secondary theoretical and technological outcomes of learning how to build them (similar to how creating gravitational wave detectors led to a greater development of seismometers, quantum noise theory and techologies, control systems, etc.) However, I honestly can't wrap my head around the value proposition for companies to make these things. The only cases I can see is making them in order to sell to research groups who want to use them to implement quantum communication strategies and basic quantum simulations. On second thought, that might be enough, but it is a very small market.
Initially, Klarna let anyone claiming to be anyone make an order on credit. No checks what so ever. They made their money on reminder fees by not sending invoices until the reminder, not on interest.

It is a shady company.
i think there will be white box context sensitive solutions. which also takes into consideration privacy and intellecual property concerns.

but that probably will take much longer.
Do you think this reflects the reality of Linux distros, or does that reflect your understanding of them? Would you say that `/usr/bin` or `/usr/lib` are completely random and no two distros use those paths?
I haven't open sourced it. I will do that soon. I'm very interested in your story, thanks for sharing! If you email me at chris@extrastatic.com I'll happily share the firefox extension when it is ready.
Unless you want Bluetooth audio without systemd, then you’re
SOL
A single human weighs on the order of tens of millions of ants. The Earth is so much bigger for them.
It's not nearly a comparable situation.
That stuff drives me crazy. I don't know if lyft is better.
the reason why digital/numeric processing won is the power loss in the analog world.
when design an analog circuit the next processing stage you add at the end has impact on the ones before it.

this then require a higher skill from the engineers/consumers.

if you want to avoid that you need to add op-amps with a gain of 1 at the boundary of each one, this also that care of the power loss at each stage.

the other part is that there's a limit of to the amount of useful information/computation you can do with analog processing too once you take into account voltage noise. when you do a comparison there are stages where analog win but also place where where digital wins.

I'll edit later this with a link to some papers that discuss these topics if I manage to find them in my mess.
I think I'd vomit if the company whom I am loansharking from to pay a new washing machine (hypothetically), forces me to talk to a robot.
Interview Assistant AI: Your Personal Interview Assistant
I don’t think that something being physically healthy necessarily means it is mentally healthy.
The Emmy Computer Algebra System
As the article mentions, this is called truncation. It truncates (cuts off) the value at the decimal point.
Modern economies differ significantly in fertility rates. France’s fertility rate among native-born French is more than double south Korea’s.

Moreover, government policy can have a significant impact. Hungary increased its fertility rate by 1/3 in the last decade through straightforward benefits to people having families. Hungary’s female labor force participation rate is the same as Korea’s.
Coming from a background whose native tongue is completely phonetic, English feels like absolute madness w.r.t written words and their spellings.

What's interesting is, in some places those inconsistencies are acknowledged and even celebrated annually in the form of spelling bee competitions. They make zero sense for any of the phonetic languages including Korean.

For a native english speaker, I suspect Hangul/Korean is impressive because of its simplicity (and the popularity of K-pop and k-drama also help to an extent) in writing with a smaller alphabet compared to the relative madness of the English language.
I wonder if this guy laughs, or truly enjoys anything in life. My computer is always on and never cracks a smile!
Not cool. I get Windows vibes from it.
I'm willing to believe this man has a teen's body, but I also suspect it's buried under his patio.
The modern developer tooling already had a much larger impact on productivity than AI probably will and the only thing it did is increase even more the number of developers.

If I was the CEO of a company making headcount reduction with AI, I would be more worried about my company itself than the job of the ones I'm firing.
Microsoft’s .NET framework released .NET 8 in November 2023, continuing its tradition of annual updates and bringing significant enhancements and new features to its robust framework.
Interestingly, I'm actually a huge fan of Gibson's prose (reading Idoru rn, finished the Sprawl Trilogy and Burning Chrome last year), and even though I've been reading his stuff with the same neurological disorder I have now, I've never felt like I struggled to understand what he was saying.
Have you continued taking an occasional nicotine? If so, have do you have any concerns with developing a dependency?
Even with a screenshot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535755
KDE is pretty stable these days, in a good way. 6 doesn't look very different from 5, it mostly upgrades the tech stack and sets some nice defaults
>I wonder what the talented people at OpenAI or Mistral tell themselves.

At Mistral it's probably no small part "It shouldn't just be a few big american companies who control all of this" (and Mensch has spoken along these lines)

I think in the worst case at least you'll have an EU big company in the cartel, but given what the EU has done for regular people against big tech I think that's a good thing
I guess they were right when they said it will open up new opportunities. Finding exploits has never been ez.
I came across your project right around the time that I was considering building something similar.

Instead, I decided to let you do the work for me. I love these updates. Keep up the great work!
It's interesting that France's intelligence service in particular is known for skill in industrial espionage.
> For example, they don't duplicate exact versions of dependencies on disk.

Doesn't feel like GoboLinux would either, does it?
I just say, "You make an interesting point. Let me think about it and get back to you / This requires thought." And then I do.
Assuming this is confirmed, what's the impact on training?

Inference is definitely an issue for LLMs right now. But if training were suddenly possible for lone hackers (or maybe smaller companies), it would open up a lot of new possibilities as well.
Specifically, he looks like a very old person with plastic surgery.

He does not look like he’s still in his 40’s to me.
And fixed price all day is even more predictable. But also more inefficient.

There's an optimum somewhere. It will be found.
And when I finally get a phone number, I'm first required to listen to minutes of a recorded voice telling me that I can also find X or do Y on the website. Or that it's exceptionally busy now and I'd be better helped sending an email or whatnot.
Since this has not been mentioned in the comments yet, this article is asserting that it is a failing of the men in societies where women are highly educated that keeps the birthrate down. The women want to contribute to the workforce after having children, but without their spouses stepping up to contribute to childcare and housework, it is not an option. Women without children see this among the women with children and realize they must make a choice between the two options, and they cannot have both.
what? UV radiation is clearly bad in anything more than enough-to-get-enough-vitamin-D doses.

depending on where you are in the world, sunblock might be enough to keep you on the good side, elsewhere (e.g. Australia) there are elaborate cultural rituals to reduce radiation exposure to safe levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap).
If you use a symbol as the brand key, you can even stack multiple different brands!
Either way I'd argue it's in an emulator team's interest to not highlight specific games, especially when asking for money.

Thinking further on it I wouldn't write "Nintendo" either: "yuzu is a Switch emulator that runs your games on PC/Mac/Android - often with better resolution, framerates, ..." is fine - people already know about the games they want to play.
I don't really know although I can make up an answer but it contradicts

> None of them have an equivalent of a stop-loss.

Cynically, it's because they want to take your money. Practically, it's because a company that breaks your thing because you didn't pay, even if you asked it to, just isn't going to be a popular move.
In addition to other great (and not so great) advice here, consider testing for ADHD, if you haven’t already. I finally got tested and diagnosed pretty late in life, and started taking Adderall. It helps somewhat. In my brain, the noise made it difficult to focus on conversations, even 1x1, and part of that noise was constantly gaming out potential responses in real time. Now I am still slow, but have an easier time holding on to the conversation thread, and so pulling out an appropriate response from my memory. I still overprepare for every conversation, and try to have organized notes when I can. My patient wife got used to me saying that I need time to think through something. I then make a spreadsheet of potential conversation branches and decision options, and we end up having a much more productive conversation.
I follow a handful of people and read some of the answers to their tweets and I don't think I've seen any that were obviously bots or AI generated spam. And spam (usually for NFT or similar crap) has gone down since last year, at least in the areas of Twitter I frequent. I'm not saying that it's the case everywhere on the platform, but at least for me the 'quality' of tweets hasn't gone down
We could have had dozens of James Webb Space Telescopes for the cost of, like, five.
That surprised me at first, but there are plenty of customer service representatives who are literally just following scripts for these things anyways.

E.g. any customer is allowed their first 2 returns with no questions asked as long as the value is under $200, 1 full refund if the value is under $50, and all returns under $200 are accepted as long as the overall return rate in their account is less than 15%. If none of these conditions are fulfilled, then escalate.

So as long as the LLM's actions are limited to only the types of basic things newly trained customer service reps could do anyways, and there are strict business logic guardrails in place regarding amounts, frequencies, etc., this seems totally fine. (To be clear -- hard business logic guardrails in actual code, not in the LLM.)
"The War over Burying Nuclear Waste in America's Busiest Oil Field" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422590 :

> $100 ball of Thorium = 100 years of energy. [For one person]
Untangling Religion from Our AI Debates
"46yr-old man has mid-life crisis"
Folks overlook the obvious explanation for the especially low fertility rates in East Asia: government policy. These are more collectivist societies where people are relatively receptive to government messaging and social norms. For two generations, Korea had anti-natal government policy: https://www.prb.org/resources/did-south-koreas-population-po.... It was a “soft” one-child policy that sought the same results as China’s, though with less draconian means.

Two generations of Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese were raised with the idea that having more than one or two kids is a bad thing, why the surprise that they act accordingly?
Was that the situation where the tweet was from over a decade before when she was a teenager, and she said she learned to be more thoughtful as an adult?
I think there was already an incident where an airline chatbot promised a discount that didn't exist. And then they got sued for it.
I want a bot to talk to customer service, wait on hold for me, pester for refunds and print the return label.
If this dethrones Nvidia, it would be a wonderful side effect
The OCF shutdown will not affect the OC, OSC, OCE, OCNZ, or Social Change Nest UK operations, so this is only about the 600 collectives at the US public charity OCF.

If those acronyms sound confusing, read my explainer:
https://communityovercode.com/2024/02/open-collective-founda...

And keep hitting refresh on the Dissolution FAQ noted elsethread the OCF is updating:
https://docs.opencollective.foundation/
That's not how RAG works. What you're describing is something closer to prompt optimization.

Sibling comment from discordance has a more accurate description of RAG. There's a longer description from Nvidia here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-ge...