skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My home is connected to the rest of the world by roads, at maximum I can travel by air (but having no chopper, STOL or human-capable drone I can't take that route) so well... If someone can made ANY actual road link available by rails...

Oh, BTW my BEV can also run on not much hard ground, a thing trains can't do.

We have roads because so far they are the best balance between flexibility and available tech, we can't make rails everywhere and we can't makes them flexible enough to be used by many different transports. The future will be air, when we will been able technologically to lift enough weight and move at an affordable enough costs. That's is.

Rails today are the best on-ground means of transport for goods, for mass transports but can't reach "the last mile". Boats are another very nice means of transport BUT we do not have water everywhere so similar to rails have a scalability issue.
I have a friend who's at Varda. They manufacture space drugs. SPACE DRUGS!!

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20240222/hiv-...
Your issue sounds more social anxiety rather than being a slow thinker. In any case, one way to combat it is to ask clarifying questions.
> %1 difference in tight loops

I'd love to see how you can reach this number.

I hear a lot of people complaining about supposedly degraded performances due to bound checking; but IME, even on number crunching HPC code, I have never been able to get a signal greater than noise regarding bound checks, which can be explained by: (i) the prediction pipeline doing its job, (ii) iterators eliding bound-checks at compile time, (iii) bound checking being dwarfed by the actual computations within the tight loop.

Remember to measure what you optimize for first before going on an intuition.
NAppGUI – Cross-platform desktop apps for Linux, Windows, and macOS, in C
Focus on listening. Pay attention. Don’t zone out.

That is not about being slow. By showing interest and actively participating, your brain should already get pre-warmed with your thoughts.

In a group meeting, imagine that at any time, you should be ready to reply to the question: “what do you think?” This requires actively listening and focus.

If you are zoning out, ask yourself why you are really attending that meeting in the first place.
This kind of sting operation should be illegal… go catch a real criminal
Oh, they were just random hieroglyphs? I thought you made a tiny cartoon of a man flipping a table.
> the shuttle

Sort of proving the point here, no? There is a reason SpaceX has gone to orbit more times than the Shuttle has. Soon they will have launched more Starship prototypes than the shuttle ever did. And they will be safer, because SpaceX understands why their rockets fail.

Obviously this strategy does not work with humans in the loop. It might have been impossible to do what SpaceX is doing now in the 80s given the advancements in computer control and simulation that have happened since then.
done. mea maxima culpa.
I started in ROM BASIC at 9 years old. Had my first philosophical epiphany that a string is a null terminated character array at 11 (and what's a null anyway?) I was inching into the six figures in my early 20s, and was running a multinational technology team soon after that.

I actually started professionally in sys admin and production engineering, with websites on the side. Now I snootily say I'm a back end business applications developer (though we're all mostly full stack web these days.)

I've cashed out (modest) stock options, quit jobs to travel the world for a year here and there, burned out, re-acclimated, and now work 100% freelance for years (remote only for ten years before COVID was the office killer.)

I can see from other comments that a lot of burnout kills the joy of technology. While I can't say I haven't "been there", you can find a ways to work through it.

It's actually disappointing how the state of the art continually devolves. At your peak your cognitive problem solving will conjure magnificent abstractions which the world will be unworthy of.

LLM assist is a fine example of reverse evolution. Coding is more like being a short order chef than a gorme cook.

A mind adept in problem solving, truly understanding technology, and income fluidity are still nice, yet turning something intimate into your grind is ... well ... prostitution.

Keep your cash locked up and don't live like a middle American consumer, and when the time comes you'll have "screw you" money you can go off and do your own thing with.
They haven't released any details aside from a model diagram, brief description, and a bunch of sample videos

Here: https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/
First, they phase out the service part of "customer service." Then, the customer part falls away naturally. Or, at least, that's what we would hope for.
As the parent says, the goal is to have NET 0 emissions. Certainly some emissions will still occur but they need to be small enough to be offset by CO2 removal. Because it is almost always much easier to prevent emissions rather than remove CO2, preventing 100% emission from cars and their production is likely to be best path to NET 0.
It's not quiet spikes but getting closer to the idea. I'm amazed it has taken this long for this type of thing to reach HN which gives next to no attention to spiking neural networks.

Simon Thorpe, a CNRS researcher has got some fascinating papers and lectures on YouTube on using binary weights on neuromorphic hardware which has had practical applications for over 20 years already.

I made an account just to drop his name somewhere on this forum.
Our daughter was diagnosed with dyscalculia, and the diagnosis was very helpful, both for us and for her. She was really struggling with maths and felt like she must just be stupid. The diagnosis helped her to understand that it's just a very concrete thing that she has that affects one aspect of her functioning, and doesn't mean that she's dumb, or lazy, or whatever other story she had ended up telling herself. We are homeschooling her, and it also helped us to understand what was going on for her, and to adapt how we teach her appropriately.

> That said, aside from getting funding for treatment or acceptance of accommodations...

Both of those can also be life-changing, but you make them sound like trivial details. They are not.
You can send me an email.

To me the golden rule is "show your work". Every operation that can start and end should log the start and the end. If your process is using CPU but not logging anything, something has gone wrong. Aim to log something about ongoing requests/operations every second or so. (This is spammy if you're doing 100,000 things concurrently. I use zap and zap's log sampling keys on the message; so if your message is "incoming request" and 100,000 of them are arriving per second, you can have it only write the logs for one of them each second. I hate to sample, but it's a necessity for large instances and hasn't caused me any problems yet.)

I also like to keep log levels simple; DEBUG for things interesting to the dev team, INFO for things interesting to the operations team, ERROR for things that require human intervention. People often ask me "why don't we have a WARN" level, and it's because I think warnings are either to be ignored, or are fatal. Warnings ("your object storage configuration will be deprecated in 2.10 and removed in 2.11, please migrate according to these docs") should appear in the user-facing UI, not in the logs. They do require human action eventually.

Overall, I'm more of a "print" debugger than a "step through the code with breakpoints" debugger. To me, this is an essential skill when you're running code on someone else's infrastructure; you will be 1000 times slower at operating the debugger when you are telling someone via a support ticket which commands to run. (Even if the servers are yours, I don't love sshing into production and mutating it.) So ultimately, the logs need to collect whatever you'd be looking for if you had a reproduction locally and were trying to figure out the problem. It's an art and not a science; you will get it wrong sometimes, and your resolution for the underlying bug will include better observability as part of the fix. This is usually enough to never have a problem with that subsystem again ;)
One thing I learned -- I think it was from The Pragmatic Programmer -- that helps me when I feel forced into making a quick decision is this three-part answer:

1. I don't know,
2. It depends,
3. I'll get back to you.

If people don't accept that, I'll follow with some variation of "Do you want me to guess or do you want me to lie? Either way, I'd be feeding you bullshit, and you deserve better than that. Give me a little bit of time to collect my thoughts."
yes because the legal definition is intentionally narrow and nearly toothless. not the fault of anyone but legislators and lawyers.
I think you loathe talking to people who do it badly.

Doing it well is like playing live jazz. You can practice the song, but if you don't listen to what your bandmates are doing, your awesome rehearsed solo is going to be bad.
A very low IQ has a very clear and predictable effect on life. A very high IQ does not.
There is this online idea that all women are constantly afraid of normal things all the time everywhere.

I find it overstated amd to be honest frequently insulting. No I am not afraid to use public transportation in my city, generally around Europe or USA or whatever. Yes, I am aware that some other cities are super dangerous. But still, most women I know are not afraid to use public transport.

People who just assume I am not capable to handle myself or I am scared of safe situations are frequently the ones putting unnecessary obstacles between me and what I need or want.
Shhh, why would you comment without any actual data-supported opinion or personal experience regarding bound checking performance impact? This is HN!
Ask HN: How to execute an 180B+ LLM on a Turing machine?
Or, equivalently, how would you approach running an 180B+ LLM on a Von Neumann computer with say 1 MB of main memory and virtually limitless secondary storage?
Or, do you know about an approach (that you might read somewhere) that might help running a heavy LLM on virtually any Turing equivalent device?

Picture this: you're stuck with your “potato computer” (small RAM, no external GPU, very large SSD), and your LLM is saved on an external SSD.

Your task: run that LLM on your “potato PC” and try to achieve reasonable response times (e.g., 1 h to 24 h).
Response times of 1 year, or higher, might be impractical for most use cases.

And on a side note, how would you figure out the response times of a language model on low-end devices (e.g., Raspberry Pi, business laptops, MSP430)?
Would you just assume some basic operations such as linear algebra operations as a given and estimate the number of steps from there?

I expect the usual suspects brought up in this discussion:

— Memory Mapped I/O aka treating an I/O device such as an SSD as if it were actual RAM (mmap).
BTW: `mmap` makes our secondary storage somewhat akin to an infinite tape in a Turing machine

— “LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory”, https://arxiv.org/html/2312.11514v2 (04 Jan 2024)

— SSD "wear and tear"
That's great and if you email hn@ycombinator.com in, say, a couple months*, we can send you a repost invite for it.

* i.e. enough time to flush the hivemind caches so the thread won't feel repetitive
He was also not leaked as much.
I believe its a byproduct of stem cell transplant treatment for blood cancer combined with the luck that the matching donor having a mutation that protects against HIV.
I'm not sure what you mean.

> You will no longer use a password for access (with the exception of app passwords)

I'm not seeing anywhere that I'd need to pay money to use OAuth via an app like Thunderbird or another email client. That app would either need to support using OAuth to let the user auth and get credentials, or use an app password.
If true then I'm guessing this would make ASICs for this far more simple too, right?
Believe it was named in at least one complaint against them by the government.
It's my understanding that RAR has some kind of built in data recovery like PAR and I believe had better encryption support early on. IIRC traditional zip encryption was kind of a joke, maybe it was neutered to comply with the export restrictions from the 90s.

Spanning is old as dirt, I remember doing it with pkzip and floppies so I don't think it is something unique to RAR.
> PhDs are a classic example: if you get a PhD and stay in Academia, your salary is tiny relative to industry. But there is a promise of status ... Which means there is an incentive ... to convince people that status is worth the lower salaries.

This is likely a country-dependent thing...
I'm in academia and I have never encountered anyone who was clearly doing it for status. Worse: there is a strong concept of egalitarianism in my experience. So not only do I not know of folks who "do" academia for the status, but you don't really have that much compared to others anyway.

Again: this is likely country-dependent (as well as field-dependent and, perhaps, institute-dependent). And I'm likely at least a bit blind to some of what's happening since I personally don't attach much value to academic status. So your mileage may vary.
Isn't the real goal negative emissions? We're well past safe levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
You disagree that the code belonged to MS-DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM?
Back in the day (~1998) when I was doing Q1 map development I used a tool called QuArk.

For laughs/nostalgia from this post I decided to Google the editor, figuring that it would have been mostly lost to history.

NOPE! I was very wrong. There was a new release today.

The community around these games is really amazing.
On other hand WinRAR handles running software inside archive much better. So if you only need to run some portable tool one or two time it is pretty handy as there is no need to extract it.
My motivation in defining BLC was to have the simplest measure of the complexity of things. That includes binary strings, natural numbers, tuples, lists, sets, and functions of those, as well as languages (according to their interpreter) and formal systems (according to their theorem enumerator) [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/tromp/86b3184f852f65bfb814e3ab0987d8...
If they trained AI to be completely useless and unhelpful like all Tier 1 support agents, then I wouldn't be surprised if you can extrapolate that number to 7,000 or 100,000.

Basically, from my interactions with Giant Corp Cos, if the problem was in any way complicated and solving it would make someone deviate from the script, the value of customer support asymptotically approached 0.

Is it any surprise then that you can replace a person reading from a script with an AI following the same script?
GA seems great! But ...

> and modern formats like Khronos' glTF use quaternions for all their rotation needs. Fantastic for animations, and generally considered worth the cost of the unavoidable conversions to and from matrices.

Quaternions are bad for animation. Animate a clock going from 9am on Monday to 6pm on Friday. Euler angles this might be expressed as from 0 degrees to 1620 degrees. With Quaternions, nope. This can't be expressed in gLTF. It can be in Unreal an Unity, both of which default to use Eular for animation. In gLTF you're required to bake it into smaller turns, all less than 180 degrees.
hahaha, that's awesome! i hadn't even noticed that it sort of looks like that
I've just gone from season one to season two in an X-Files rewatch and the sudden appearance of cell phones is shocking.
You will sell more if instead of telling us it's for "chatting with local AI" you tell us what we can accomplish by chatting with local AI. I don't need to chat, I need to get certain tasks done. What tasks can it do? (Don't answer me, put it on your landing page and app store listing)
Stem cells seem to have this potential to cure so many things but we are somehow not there yet.
Does quantization need to be an all or nothing? with the kind of low bit models we have seen, my assumption would be that only certain weights would benefit from the extra precision. A mixture of precision with 2-bit, 3-bit, to 8-bit weights might perform well, but I am unsure if any training process could identify the weights that need the extra precision.
> I mean maybe it's time we said bye bye to copyright?

This is exactly the kind of oversimplified, baby-with-the-bathwater proposal I was talking about.

No, we should not "say bye bye to copyright". We should actually take the harder, more complex steps, requiring actual critical thinking and analysis, to fix the problem, rather than just pretending that a one-step grand gesture will be a magic bullet.
I agree.

Many would not. Anything cryptocurrency news can be flagged, depending on time of day.
Tattoos are unhealthy, similar to smoking, but they are not necessarily fatal. However, they can cause various complications, ranging from allergies to skin infections from contaminated water sometimes. They can also affect the immune system and increase the risk of cancer, as they contain heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic (1). Moreover, if you have an extensive tattoo, the ink will end up in your lymph nodes, and have some impact on hormones too(2). Some people claim that tattoos boost the immune system, but there is not enough studies to support this claim, and the benefit is insignificant compared to the potential risks (3).

(1) https://blog.uvahealth.com/2020/01/13/are-tattoos-bad/amp/

(2) https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Tattoo-health-risks-re...

(3) https://theweek.com/health-and-science/1022099/how-do-tattoo...
> However, thinking what I developed, I have offset or formula determined indexes I hit constantly, and not strictly in a loop. They might prove harder.

I think at that point it'll come down to the compiler's value range analysis as well as how other parts of the program affect inlining/etc. Hard to say exactly what will happen.
That should be an email ahead of time.
Yep, deer are a scourge all through the Midwest and east cost.

They were reintroduced here in the early 1900s. Turns out, reindeer are ALSO an invasive reintroduced scourge too.

Deer meat tastes good... At least that's their saving grace.

I say we eat them out of the area. They have no current predators, and humans likely won't want bears and wildcats (mountain lions out)to be reintroduced.
I would argue that most of the hunters I know are just like you say.

However, some percentage are not. And they will be responsible for the majority of the problem.

There is a reason why you can find cows in PA with "COW" painted in orange crylon (wish I were joking, but, sadly, I am not).
Anybody who shoots a deer without having a pretty good idea of the rack size before pulling the trigger is hunting badly. If you can't see the antlers, how do you even know it's a buck?

I also don't see that much difference between your hypothetical hunter who sees a dying deer via a drone and decides to leave it, vs. seeing a dead deer in person and deciding to leave it. The woods are big (well, not so big in PA, but still pretty big) and realistically he'd be a colossal shithead but it'd be hard to catch him. "That deer? Nah, officer, I did shoot at a big 6-pointer, but I haven't been able to find it. That deer must be somebody else's, it is opening day after all"

edit: I've only hunted in the western states, so practices may differ in the land of treestand-sitting.
You need to spend the time to do it. With a drone which is fast and does,t get slowed down you can engagr the next one waay faster.

It's the classic ruining the fun for the law abiding people.
> Another section prohibits hunters from using artificial lights of any kind while carrying a firearm or other weapon

Well, that's idiotic. I understand that it's probably easier to ban lights all of the time since it would be difficult to prove either way that they weren't used to actively hunt. But, at least for deer hunting, a hunter needs to be at their spot well before it gets light out. So you're going to make them walk through the forest at night with no source of light? Likewise, you're walking back at night.
There's a facebook group for people to announce they paid for WinRAR because of the no one pays for it meme. Can't remember what it was called.

I paid for winrar I think 15 years ago when I started working full time and it was the first shareware app I paid for. I don't use it as much as I used to nowadays.

Surprised it's still being updated. I thought the creator of WinRAR passed away.
This ignores their own holdings.
> Finally, do your best to avoid situations where a "quick decision" is needed

I find this easier said than done. I dislike most meetings because I don't think quickly enough to keep up and contribute to the discussion. That often means that others will make decisions that I could have contributed usefully to before I've had the chance to think deliberately about the question.
In 2006, yes. J2ME apps were already fairly broadly supported by feature phones and somewhat popular.
Maybe market hunting needs to return. Commercial hunting was stopped in most of the country due to over hunting and ultimately federally outlawed in 1918. Seems like a good tool to use to combat deer overpopulation.
Base e is the optimal base for number representation, so that’s probably why. Followed by base 3, then base 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
We could probably reintroduce wolves and cut down on the population a bit.
Anything that is user controllable would make sense to me. Could even embrace the old "feeling lucky" button for some fun.
It's expensive because I can't move doctors, and I and my employer have to buy a stupid financial product to even see a doc. How much of that $400 goes towards the doc anyway? Towards payments on the MRI machine? Towards the office space? No more than $100 all in.

For one billable minute of every doc's time, we are paying 5 billable minutes for various "healthcare administrators" all over the country to move numbers and billing codes around in a labyrinthine spreadsheet. For what?
They should definitely also add an "intact" qualifier. ;-)
> 3. Solving problems when you're stuck: When I feel stuck with a problem or an error message, ChatGPT has proven to be an invaluable resource. Even when the answer it gave was wrong, a little hint in there was enough for me to find the solution I needed.

> 4. Generating functions you're too lazy to write: Often, you know how to write a function but you're too damn lazy to write it. Eg, use axios, go to this URL, get the contents and write it to CSV. Writing a function to do this feels like a chore. ChatGPT is a helpful assistant in this case.

A friend swears by it and has whole single-page sites written by chatGPT in his internal lab.

Just to test your point, I've asked ChatGPT to write a VBScript function that returns false if the input is true and false if the input is false.

It wrote a seven-line function testing true, false and otherwise (clever, testing for null).

I would have just written a function to return false - one line that covers all conditions, including null. There is no testing, so it uses fewer CPU cycles.

So that's my rational: yes it can be used but don't just take the results at face value.
Honest exchanges make most of their money when people trade (whether directly, via transaction frees, or indirectly, via selling order flow information or whatnot).

But many cryptocurrency exchanges seem to be dipping into their customers' accounts to make speculative gambles and are consequently often illiquid (if not just plain insolvent) during market routs.
Thanks! Interesting. Yeah, when I clicked to look into what was going on it seemed the website was down for me too. Whatever the methodology, it must not have to be efficiency, because "2021 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus RWD" tops everything according to Fueleconomy.gov. Makes me wonder how something like the BZ4X scored higher.