skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guard rails on the models make the llm-market a complete train wreck. Wish we could just collectively grow up and accept that if a computer says something bad that doesn't have any negative real world impact - unless we let it - just like literally any other tool.
Satya Nadella during the OpenAI leadership fiasco: “We have all of the rights to continue the innovation, not just to serve the product, but we can, you know, go and just do what we were doing in partnership ourselves. And so we have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything.”

Doesn’t sound like a startup-investor relationship to me!
But you can also pay $400 for a number of acceptable alternatives, and about $600-$700 for a machine with a discrete GPU. It is probably the best laptop in the $1K price range for laptops that don't have a GPU, but that's basically it.

The main problem with the non-Apple laptop market is that there is a mind-boggling number of confusing models, SKUs, processor/gpu variants, etc., and wildly variable physical quality control that confuse consumers and leave them unhappy. This is the flip side of choice in prioritizing, say, gaming performance over battery life while optimizing price or vice-versa.

Also my personal opinion is that 90% of consumer frustration comes from the extremely subpar implementation of Hybrid Sleep between Windows, Intel/AMD, and OEMs. Consumers expect to be able to close their laptop and for it to preserve battery instead of becoming hot or dying the bag. That really needs a solution.
No, they’re saying that they would use the built-in ZIP support if it was performant enough. Since it isn’t performant due to design limitations, they have to use 7zip.
This really sounds like you've never worked in such an environment.

> if people barge in whenever they feel like it

But they don't. Even when your door is open, they stand outside and knock.

> This is literally what conference rooms are for.

Again, naivete here. "Going to a conference room" is inherently a bigger deal than just hanging out with someone in their office.
Please dont, if you think you'll enjoy watching your children being worked to death by the bourgeoisie.
Most probably, but there is reality and speculation. The point here is the rule of the law and unanimous votes.
> What some people may not understand is that a large percentage of Apple customers are buying iPhones because of those restrictions and not in spite of them.

Huh?? This is an extraordinary claim, given the plain fact that if someone really doesn't want apps from 3rd-party stores on their device, they could just, you know... not install any...?
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Do you know of research that disagrees with this post? The Economist article doesn't mention any, in fact there is only a single sentence supporting its headline: "Although American pay growth has subsided from more than 5.5% year on year to around 4.5%, that is probably still too high for the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target." It seems like an editor may have chosen a headline that doesn't match what the article says.
I met my ex, a former friend, and two of his exes on Napster. Once it hit college campuses it onboarded a ton of female users.

Girls were later extremely prolific in pirating Sims add-ons.
> Only wimps use version control: real men just merge patches from their email inbox, upload release tarballs on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

-- Linus Torvalds

(not really, but almost)
I HATE these arguments. Peter Thiel talked about this in one of his lectures. He said: when you're a small company you define your market as small as possible in order to compete; when youre a large company, you define your market as large as possible in order to avoid antitrust. To illustrate the example, if you're the only grocery chain in California, you'd argue that "the united states has many grocery chains and we're just one of them!" thats true, but it doesnt mean that you arent acting monopolistically from within California. To bring this analogy back to Apple, we have to look at areas of competition: the area of competition that Apple meaningfully engages in is the apple app store. This would be the equivalent of california. Is any app in the apple app store prevented from meaningfully competing with Apple? Yes! 1. higher prices via app store fees 2. not allowed access to the same apis (e.g. files syncing in the background or no native messaging capabilities) 3. browser + messaging restrictions (e.g. cant link to a website which has any way of spending money). The reason I look at the "app store" as a place of competition is because apple is allowing competition in the space. If Apple removed the app store, or ONLY had Apple apps in the app store, then they would be acting perfectly fine IMO. But they allow this competition because it allows their platform to succeed, but they behave monopolistically wrt that competition to gain the upper hand over time.
Yes, it conflicts with some of my other shortcuts, but more generally, I think it'd be better to have consistent shortcuts, like CMD-CTRL-i for inline completion, CMD-CTRL-c for chat, etc.
If only price was the only signal people used when buying or renting services.

But that's not the case. And Apple themselves know this as they charge premium prices for the brand alone.

If Apple drops their prices by 30% there's no guarantee that it would "destroy spotify" at all. For one, no one on android would think of switching to apple music anyway, the concept just seems so foreign. Second, Spotify is winning the marketing/cultural battle with their wrapped. It might sound silly but the advertisement feature of Spotify wrapped is worth a lot of money.

So what's more likely to happen if Apple drops the price? Well, I'd say they'd be locked into a PR nightmare everytime they need to raise prices because there's a precedent that the service is cheaper. They wouldn't really gain significant market share against Spotify and they would just end up leaving money on the table.

In these things, price is a component of the decision that is made, it's not really the deciding factor. Not to mention that a significantly lower price also signals "worse quality" to costumers. People might easily go "Spotify costs 3 dollars more because it is worth 3 dollars more". Because people will try to justify higher prices with higher quality even when that's not the case.
For photo/video editors, the Pro screen alone is worth more than the entire laptop. To be clear, the Pro screen is equal to a professional HDR reference monitor, and the entire laptop costs less than a professional HDR reference monitor.
> it was optically brilliant

Of course, if it's a F/1.8
I like this as great hobby project.

As a former network engineer ... at home I've just gone with wi-fi. A nice mesh system isn't very costly and depending on your situation IMO is the most bag for the buck and a whole lot less hassle. Good mesh systems are crazy fast / capable now, I'm not sure I'd see any real performance increase if I bothered with rewiring the house.
LLMs are building blocks and I’m excited about folks building with a concert of models working together with subagents.
I'm going to guess that 3% of your salary is significantly more than a 70% raise for a restaurant worker. You only got a smaller raise because you chose a metric that makes it look smaller.
> 2. there are tools to convert c to rust (I dont know if I'd trust this..)

The core C specification by itself isn't all that complicated of a language; a C-to-Rust transpiler is a pretty doable project.

The main issues here are that

a) a lot of the code you'd likely want to convert is likely to be reliant on non-standard extensions

b) there's a lot of undefined behavior which you probably want to have somewhat more defined behavior on, especially in embedded contexts

c) the real goal for a lot of this automated conversion is to do the conversion once and work well enough that you don't have to audit the result of the conversion, and because of especially the previous point, it's really hard to get that level of trust for C code.

The existing c2rust converter works by creating the clang AST and then lowering that to Rust source code, which I'm not sure is a path that would lead me to high confidence in the converted code due to the potential impedance mismatch in understanding the clang AST. A custom C frontend is probably a better match here for a long term project (C, unlike C++, is feasible to build your own compiler from scratch), or maybe another project idea is to convert LLVM IR to Rust and ditch the C frontend entirely.
I guess if you consider k8s to be it's own ecosystem and then frame the first two points as just a consequence of the ecosystem being inherently portable then I guess so?

IMO though compatibility and skill transferability (which speaks mostly to adoption rate) are separate things.
I strongly recommend against this unless you have bonded earth connections between the buildings. During a storm the ground potential between the locations is likely to exceed the 1500V rating of the magnetics in your switches, and your equipment will be destroyed. Fiber is the only safe option at this distance.
If there's one thing I learned studying economics, it's that the layperson's gut intuition about how something works from a macroeconomic perspective is usually not only wrong, but pretty close to the opposite of how things actually work.
Kubernetes Clusters Have Overprovisioning of Compute and Memory
They'll always have the idea of finding cheap labour and we'll continue to be jobless. :D
This is not an issue at all because the current rules permit peaceful passage through territorial waters. That broadly means no lingering, no spying, and going straight to the intended destination. Access can be denied for security reasons of course.

This is totally fine for commercial traffic. Since China has a huge export market, it is also not interested in raising shipping costs.
glad you enjoyed the howl, but, sorry, it didn't have afterburner (reheat). i still probably prefer merlins - the BoB flight Lancaster flies over me here in Lincoln occasionally. and also the Red Arrows!
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The weight of the 13" Air vs 15" Air vs 14" Pro is 2.7 > 3.3 > 3.4 lbs. For developers who do development on remote machines, weight and form factor are more important. I would pay top dollar for a 12" Macbook with M processor because I do my focused editing on a big screen. Other people use their laptop for everything so a 15" screen is preferred. Also, different strokes for different folks.
Read Bartleby the Scrivener. Or A Christmas Carol.
In firefox adding a couple raises causes the site to crash for me when trying to add my salary.

edit: the site layout seems completely messed up in chrome
Your comment is greyed out, but this is a genuinely good question.

I live in a country where homes for the elderly (and the health system at large) have managed to remain profitable while overpaying doctors and severely underpaying just about anyone else. Now we're two months into a failing doctors' strike (because the doctors feel like they can extort an even higher wage from the state) and we're on the way to sign a memorandum for easier worker immigration from Phillipines because we need nursing and medical assistance staff and the (heavily subsidized and mostly state-ran) healthcare institutions can't by law pay native staff a fair wage.

What I can gather from that so far is that it sucks when you're being fucked over by a free market economy because some venture capitalist is being a miser, but it's 10 times worse when the miser is a legitimately legislated government. Immigration is not just a xenophobia issue, it's a genuine concern when an entity realizes it doesn't need to spend as much and starts mass importing cheap manpower from the other side of the globe.
Only a kid may consider it worthy to mention driving a manual. Manual transmission is the natural state of things. If you can't drive manual, you can not drive.
I thought a "Laserwriter Printer" was going to be some gigantic CDRW burner from the 80s and wasn't too surprised about the cost for a dev to mass make CDs that they can send to customers vs 3rd partying it.

But thats a (paper) laser printer.. oof. I do remember my parents spending $300-500 on a laser printer in the 90s. I guess dot matrix was that bad.
I would go single mode — it’s cheaper, the optics are about the same price, and it’s more future proof.

Get a nice OFN/OFNR/OFNP cable and you don’t need to worry about grounding. And you can legally the same cable indoors too.
Reminds me in spirit of the Wolfram Physics project [1], which my small mind also finds somewhat unintelligible...

[1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/
The last I heard companies using the naming convention version XXXXXX.extension where each X is a feature flag was in 2023. Bringing source control into practice was an controversial ideas. No, I didn't work there
I just recorded a youtube video sharing my Top 5 Tools for B2B sales.

Hope you will find it useful.
I just want to pour one out for CalSky, that was a great page for setting up custom trackers for lots of astronomical things. It was very old school web too (for better or worse).
On the other hand, animated webp is surprisingly bad considering that the format comes from a video codec.
and if they were big enough we'd have a hard time communicating with them
because their eardrums wouldn't resonate with our vocal frequencies
What are your problems? One of those things is much more creative thus fulfilling than the other.

My issue is that I have a million creative things to do, so I become so overwhelmed I can only muster the energy for YouTube.
Although he doesn’t seem to quantify the “computer science” part of his statement (as far as I can tell) he does imply that kids should no longer be learning CS from what I hear at this timestamp:

https://youtu.be/Y1pHXV7E4xY?t=17m40s
It's not bad faith.

I recognize the choice isn't palatable to the likes of many, but ultimately there is a choice being made. The choice of convenience and entertainment over principles of privacy and ownership.

All I'm saying is that there are still choices, they aren't perfect.
It's not just US - there is a very interesting article in the British Guardian on this very topic at the moment, how people on £60k-100k are still struggling, even though this was always traditionally a very decent pay, nothing super fancy but definitely a nice middle class income that would let you pay off your house, have a modest car and go on holidays once a year. Now everything has exploded in price so much that people earning £70k get nearly nothing left at the end of the month after paying their mortgage/rent, bills, childcare, plus some money for fuel to just get to work. I understand that they are all "privileged" in the sense that they can still afford all of those things while many people in this country can't, but the margins are getting thinner and thinner. People can't save up, they can't buy new stuff(which hurts the economy even further), they spend less money on their kids.....it's not great.

Like, me and my wife have a very decent combined income of over 100k, but even then - 10 years ago I would have thought that with that kind of money we'd be living like kings, but in reality it just lets us save some money at the end of the month and not a whole lot else. If we actually wanted to move up from our 900sqf house or get a slightly newer car, it would eat up into all of that quickly. I think we've reached a point now where I literally don't understand who in this country is buying all these new cars and goes on holidays twice a year(forget expensive ones - I mean a few days in Spain with a budget agency). And I definitely don't understand how a teacher on £27k a year(or a nurse) is expected to make ends meet. It feels like an erosion of society from the very core, where unless you are in the top 1% you just aren't even playing the same game.
No, the french judiciary system is clearly advantageous for big actors, the article 700 (right to be reimbursed of expenses) is a flat fee estimated by the court event if you give every receipts, we got 60k euros, which a less than we spent, which is I think around 100k for 14 years of litigation (we never tried to make the sum as we did know it would no be useful in the end), plus others costs like expertise fees which were shared 50/50 between us and Orange/FranceTelecom.
If I was a lawyer for this company, I'd be telling my boss we won. Decades of reselling something we didn't own for a pittance of a fine is a win in my book.
We are tracking LMSys, too. There are strange safety incentives on this benchmark: you can “win” points by never blocking adult content for example.
started reading Atomic Habits this weekend, and this is very similar to the "2 minute rule" - https://jamesclear.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating (relevant excerpt from the book)
Who is going to migrate off Windows over ZIP performance? Microsoft doesn't care if you use 7Zip over built in, they got your money already.
If you've got power already, why not consider a high bandwidth, wireless point-to-point bridge?

Just need two dishes pointed at each other. That hard line is nice until it fails, which it will eventually.
Maybe consolidate as well as compound. There's a tendency for any mature industry (which may initially have been bustling with competitors) to eventually consolidate into three players, and while we're currently at the point where it seems a well-funded new entrant can catch up with the leaders, that will likely become much harder in the future as tech advances.

Never say never though - look at Tesla coming out of nowhere to push the big three automakers around! Eventually the established players become too complacent and set in their ways, creating an opening for a smaller more nimble competitor with a better idea.

I don't think LLMs are the ultimate form of AI/AGI though. Eventually we'll figure out a better brain-inspired approach that learns continually from it's own experimentation and experience. Perhaps this change of approach will be when some much smaller competitor (someone like John Carmack, perhaps) rapidly come from nowhere and catch the big three flat footed as they tend to their ginormous LLM training sets, infrastructure and entrenched products.
Still locking 16GB behind the top tier option. Seems like the only way they keep MBP sales from cratering.
Who would be left to receive it?
Localized floor switches with SFP are actually quite common in commercial installs. At home it's possible to have one basement rack and connect all the wall jacks to it, but those runs are too long and clumsy in a large office building.
I do the same thing at home actually, I just put the floor switches in closets/etc. so the fan noise isn't audible in the living areas. The rack and core switch sits in the basement. However I just run copper instead of fiber as I can't justify the expense and 10G lines should be future proof for a while.

You can also have your modem or ONT connected to any of your floor switches routed to a seperate VLAN and keep your router in the rack. This avoids you having to run another line for the WAN side.
How do I change GPT4 to Claude 3 in double.bot?
I spent a weekend with Rust, a Raspi4, and our buddy GPT about six months ago. In that weekend I was able to get the Raspi controlling a OLED display via SPI with an SSD1306 controller. I thought it was a fairly clean port from C++, and GPT was well educated on how to use the RASPI SPI and I2C busses from Rust.

I don't think I would be able to approach it on an ESP32 or AVR xMega or some other real microcontroller.
Yeah. Right now, its been helping me be more productive in my science by writing code quicker...mainly on the data management side of things.

I do however wonder, at what point do I just describe the hypothesis, point to the data files, and have it design an analysis pipeline, produce the results, interpret the results, then suggest potential follow-up hypotheses, do a literature search on that, then have it write up the grant for it.
A paper describing how you might do it published in December last year. The paper was "Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces". To be clear I don't know if Claude and Gemini actually use this technique but I would not be surprised if they did something similar:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752

https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba
Why would it be about max? There are always going to be outliers in people's travel plans that make some aspect take longer than usual.

If I decided that from now on, I'm only walking to and from airports rather than driving or taking transit, does my multi hour walk to the airport make it so that airplanes are now as slow as driving places and therefore not worth it for any domestic flying? No, that would of course be a ridiculous conclusion.
this comment reads like you called Jared Diamond a "grifter" e.g. diligent con and knowing thief.. maybe you did not mean that exactly?
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>They can make up whatever anti-competitive rule they want to, and enforce it totally.

On iOS, maybe. MacOS isn't controlled in that way.

And, again, if you don't like iOS or Apple's rules, there's another completely viable OS you can use on mobile that actually has a larger global market share, so there's no monopoly play here.
This is the first step people who are clinically depressed are asked to do too. So, you might have rediscovered an ointment for depression and anxiety.
Seems more like intro to FP or rather intro to FP in Haskell.
Tech stocks seem to be doing quite well. Of course, it's a convenient narrative to say that our sector is struggling.

For corporations who don't have a money machine, yes, it's not a good time. You will not get new funding. For established corporations, I'd say that it's pretty sunny days, especially considering layoffs.
At the local level newspapers weren’t beholden to business interests to the extent they are now since there were much fewer ways to advertise to potential customers. At the national level there was sufficient competition in media ownership to allow for real investigative reporting. Now that media has consolidated they don’t have to try as hard to attract viewers/readers. Also consolidation in the corporate world means exposing wrongdoing in one brand means pissing off that brand’s owner who also owns many other brands. In the past exposing shenanigans in a cereal brand didn’t mean that you lost out on advertising from a whole slew non related food brands.

There was also more a desire to serve public interests prior to Reagan getting rid of the rules on media consolidation. It wasn’t perfect but it was much better than what we have now. News media is much more beholden to corporate interests now than in the past.
I think the encrypted DVD is the best analogy I've heard so far.

In fact, I once asked an actual lawyer about the information-theoretic questions raised by illegal/infringing content known to be on an encrypted storage device.

Her answer was "Yeahhhh, no, the Judge is probably not going to see it that way." :-)
The APPS benchmark result of Claude 3 Opus at 70.2% indicates it might be quite useful for coding. The dataset measures the ability to convert problem descriptions to Python code. The average length of a problem is nearly 300 words.

Interestingly, no other top models have published results on this benchmark.

Claude 3 Model Card:
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/de8ba9b01c9ab7cbabf5c33b80b7bb...

Table 1: Evaluation results (more datasets than in the blog post)
https://twitter.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764666528220557320

APPS dataset:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/codeparrot/apps

APPS dataset paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09938v3
It's also riskier to do fuel stops en route. Most accidents happen on takeoff or landing.