skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always assumed that the number of SKUs is so that retailers can have a (relatively) unique model and avoid price comparisons. Like mattresses.
"Getting data" would mean automated exports into a format that you can actually do some processing on. Not just viewing graphs on a screen.
> because Google is extremely lax with what kinds of things they allow on the Play Store

And Apple is known for being just so diligent with their App Store reviews, huh? https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-fake-lastpass-app...
Only the truly fulfilled have time to Post Online about it
Not really for this article, no.
> thread making absurd claims about 'apple is way better than everyone' based on nothing but anecdotal experiences...

I'm not sure why you think "anecdotal experiences" are invalid when people are talking about a personal choice. I.e. I don't need some sort of double blinded study to "prove" Mac laptops are better. I've used other laptops, and I have a strong preference for Macs for a myriad of reasons that have nothing to do with marketing (to be honest I can't even remember the last time I saw an actual ad for a Mac). You may disagree, that's fine, but it's silly to pretend the personal preferences of others are somehow invalid or less than.
Seems like they optimised this model with coding datasets for use in Copilot-like assistants with the low latency advantage.

Additionally, I wonder if an alternate dataset is provided based on model size as to not run into issues with model forgetting.
Is the implication that nuclear power plants are inherently supervillainous?

If amazon buys a power plant, my only thoughts about an increase in villainy from the status quo fall into the "monopoly" category.
I didn’t realize the part about the atmosphere. That’s interesting!
Sure- the happy case with VC is that companies raise and spend the money to make more. The reality case is that many companies struggle to do that, and will burn a ton of money in the process, making the liquidation preference much more painful.
My 3 year old doesn't have any screen time, and adults don't use their phones in front of him.

He plays happily by himself, and is always asking questions. People always compliment him on being well behaved, kind and very articulate.

It seems almost taboo to suggest it might be be something to do with the lack of screen time, but I can't help but think it plays a large role. I see how hard I struggle to deal with boredom and refrain from using my phone and I never want to inflict that onto a child.
In that case, according to capitalism there should be massive private equity investment in transformers right about now.
That was probably thought about at some point but the thing is that Apple makes way too much money as it is to try anything, because they don't have to, at least for now.
I'm pretty sure Apple's leadership knows about this possibility and there are even some prototypes most likely but they conveniently rejected the idea because it would mean selling less devices.
Even if they price the combo higher than their laptops current it would still make less money overall (especially since they already got the prices so high there is very little room to push for more, as falling mac sales attest).
This is basically the same reason the iPad never got a multi-user mode even though it should be relatively easy to implement since they have all the basics in macOS already.

I think Apple is blinded with money and is being way too complacent, ignoring that they are in fact losing customers to more modern 2/3-in-1 devices, especially in the young/students demographics, just like they lost customers because of their lack of interest in PC gaming. And since they make it extremely hard to integrate their stuff with other products, people won't renew their Apple hardware overtime, since it's an easy decision considering for how much they sell their stuff.

And I think they are way too proud to admit that Microsoft was actually right with their Surface, for most people it is actually a much better device since a tablet isn't that useful in the end. If all you want is entertainment, a cheap Android tablet with a decent screen is all you need. The iPad Pros as they exist, are way too overpriced for their real capabilities and at this point are terrible value.

If Intel or AMD successfully make a competent power efficient chip in the near future, they will be only Apps left as an "advantage". Considering many of the powerful iPad apps are stripped down versions of the fully featured versions available on "legacy" computing platforms, that's not saying much.
80% of HN links are not interesting to me, I'm just on here for the remaining 20%. I assume others are similar.
The thing is, parallel processing (i.e same instruction on multiple data pieces) is easy to implement for the most part in hardware.

The issue is nobody wants to write low level software for a particular chip. Cuda is why NVIDIA is ahead despite AMD having comparable hardware.

If you look at what its like to develop for MacOS or iPhone, its pretty clear that apple doesnt do this well. Even for their neural engine, I think you have to do some sort of entitlement thing to get code to run.
"Road to Sora" Paper Reading List
Hey all,

Have been diving into the Sora technical report for our paper club on Friday, and decided it would be nice to have a reading list of the background papers need to fully grok everything that is going on in that technical report - each with a little description of the part of the pipeline it would be used for (or a previous state of the art technique that was referenced in the review).

We are going to pick a few of the top papers and go over them as a group in the coming Fridays, so join us if you'd like! It's at 10am PST on Fridays over Zoom.

Paper Reading List:

https://www.oxen.ai/blog/road-to-sora-reading-list

Technical Report:

https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world...

Join the paper club:

https://lu.ma/oxenbookclub
Yeah I have a small business and I sway strongly towards being contempt with letting the business grow at its own rate.

No, it won’t have a 1 bil payout, but you make your own rules and you’ll get a healthy cash out from the dividends after only 1 year or so.

It also forces you to keep pivoting and finding a cash cow rather than assuming your initial plan was any good. We’re on like plan #10 now and in hindsight if we went with any of our original plans we’d still be burning money whereas current plan was profitable after just 1 month once we figured it out.
> It's some weird in-between resolution that creates aliasing on text and such

yeah, the fact that such basics are still broken is the biggest scandal to me in these premium machines with so much tech progress otherwise
Tried Tails? https://tails.net/
The bad part of Apple DRAM is that it's not upgradable or replaceable unless you can figure out how to open up the M3 multi-chip-module and nanosolder a new RAM module.

The good part is that the DRAM is connected to the GPU as well as the CPU.
What is the consensus answer to why Europe conquered the Americas and not vice versa?

If technological development is "heavily adapted to the context of its culture", and that context is mostly geography ("mountainous environments") then isn't Diamond right?

Seems like the alternative is, "That's just the way it turned out," which is not very satisfying.
Btop just diplays one cpu line. Htop is actually broken on systems with more than 64 or so cores... you have to reconfigure it on a host with fewer cores then copy the configuration over because the cores drive the setup options off the screen.

once you do... https://files.catbox.moe/dbualh.png
Bess blocked sites about evolution I tried to visit when I was preparing for a biology class debate. Luckily, the local ISP’s proxy was dead simple to configure in Netscape 4 and got around Bess.
> I mean having a cursor I could glance at, then put my eyes back on the road while I click right twice, up once, click again and then scroll to change whatever.

They added a menu kind of like this in a recent update. Long press the left scroll wheel and then you can control a bunch of things using a menu that's controlled entirely by the wheel, no touchscreen.
My daily driver before this was Linux and anyone who says "Linux is light years ahead" is kidding themselves

You have to set up a bash script to do something as basic as change the scrollwheel speed. Bluetooth is extremely spotty. Installing most software is still a pain unless you know all sorts of terminal-fu
Absolutely false, at the core of every LLM is a highly compressed text corpus from an Internet search engine.

(The wonder here isn't that an LLM succeeds at text retrieval tasks, the wonder is how highly compressed the index turns out to be. But maybe we just severely overestimate our own information complexity.)
Nuke: A memory arena implementation for Go
This is soo freaking amazing !! What a legend
I bet it struggles if you open 800 browser tabs and 900 VCV rack modules.
First thing I thought of after reading this - I wonder did the existing founders/employees get something like this? I suspect at least some of them did.
I just plugged them in with usb-c cables.
Aereon 26
I'm not sure if you're contradicting yourself or if I just haven't understood what you've written, so I'd like to ask two clarifying questions. The first is: Are you claiming that any system built on this architecture (i.e. an LLM is a crucial part of what makes it behave intelligently) is definitionally not thinking, and this would be the case regardless of any evidence to the contrary?

If that isn't what you are claiming, what evidence would convince you that an AI system which critically depended on LLMs to function is thinking?
Get up and running with large language models, locally
People ascribe sentience and emotion to a smiley face picture, and that is just two dots and a curved line.

That's just what people do, we are hard-wired to see social cues even if there are none.
What revenues are these guys making to be able to afford an investment like this? They have a single product, how many you can possibly sell? What sort of margins you need to be able to sustain this level of capex/opex?
Indeed, it's so hard to cover the other 75% of the world by just changing a few words on a page, and serve it everywhere else. Only one group can win!
My garbage parents won't let me watch TV when I was small. Not even educational TV for primary schools children teach stuff like difference between germs and virus. But their low educational background by all mean definitely not offering more to me. They said books are waste of money and they tear apart comic books that I bought using my little saving in front of my eyes. Only thing I can do is doing nothing just siting at home all day. After I made money from partime job and bought myself books, I never talked to them.

Remember that received an invitation to participate IQ test when I was in 3rd grade, gave the letter to my garbage parent and then never heard anything back. Class teacher may have noticed that there is a weird kid in the class and wanted to do something. But sorry miss you can't help me. Babies should be public property and let gov handle them when parents do not meet the intelligence criteria.

Just to say that maybe elsagate videos worth more than some human adults.
> note how conspicuously people making that claim are unable to identify specific equivalent hardware

At this rate, if you show someone a laptop that's genuinely better than a Macbook they'll complain that it's missing a notch. Setting a nebulous standard of "equivalent hardware" is a lazy goalpost intended to waste the time of good-faith commentators. It's an ivory throne in the swamp, if it suits you.
My god, reading some of these comments is like pulling teeth. "But what about...", how about some of these people stop and think about their arguments first before just randomly throwing them into the open? I don't understand this form of discussion or what they hope to achieve with these ridiculously weak "aha" arguments that simply don't hold water. Is it bad faith? Bad education? Lack of self-reflection?
Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an 'RNA World'
> and none of this lets-make-the-whole-damn-runtime-slow to support X feature, looking at you TypeScript

TypeScript runtime? I don't think the deprecated code that sets up enum objects affects anything else...
FanDuel is going to do like $6B in revenue this year.
This entire story above happened for three reasons:

1. The CEO made terrible decisions in regards to how much and who they raised from. They got in over their hands as the company grew and the entire founding team got fired.

2. The CEO immediately after, who took over an unprofitable business that wasn't growing and was in bad shape after the merger with DraftKings got called off, took a deal that was the best he could do at the time. That CEO was a non-founding CFO before taking over, and was basically put in the C-Suite by KKR as a term of their investment in the business.

3. That deal to PaddyPowerBetfair, now Flutter, was completed about a year before PASPA was repealed and sports betting was legalized in the US. Had #2 happened a year later, or if #2 had happened with that information in mind, the deal terms would have been insanely different and way more valuable.

It's very easy in retrospect to say that the original CEO should have taken different terms, or that the following CEO should have taken a better deal. That's all hindsight.

All that said, I have zero sympathy for the original CEO and founders. I feel loads of sympathy for the employees, but again, if they stayed on after the deal, they're now sitting on an absolute gusher of cash.
So the author tried very hard to provide a safe interface for things that are inherently unsafe and found it to be too much work. That’s similar but different to just calling C from Rust and living with unsafe code like you normally do in C.
The main issue is that "$(targetEl).append(h)" is not idempotent.

This might seem like a small issue on the surface but as your application grows, this either becomes a big problem or you have reinvented React, Vue, or something similar, but without the extensive testing and developer/community availability. Which is essentially what VSCode does for example, using some sort of MVP* pattern.
Not a secret, but I haven't thought about it in 20 years. I didn't realize it was still going (maybe that's sort of a secret!)
Reality is: searching for freelancing jobs related to FreeBSD gives 3 results, for Linux gives 1600 results.

Search done on Upwork, on 5th of March 2024.
Here you can find urls shared by our users.
>Almost three weeks before Covid-19 was reported to be spreading in the US, Patricia Cabello Dowd dropped dead in the kitchen of her San Jose, California, home.

You are right, definitely not.
> static binaries

Brian Kernighan just called to say that any well-designed libc should support static linking.

And, for some reason, glibc does not.
It's not harmless to the cells, otherwise there would be no killer T-cell response elicited by the vaccine. I'm not sure what percent of cells get killed, but it's absolutely not zero. It codes for the whole (but genetically modified) spike as well. The CDC saying something does not make it true.
What?? I already wanted to know more from your first comment.
Yes, that's basically it. Microsoft had the right idea they were just too early on it and cannot put as much money into it as Apple does. And they don't have a competitive enough chip to choose from their partners.
If either Intel or AMD gets there, Apple will get some much-needed competition.
I know, the base model costs €1299 in Belgium, that’s $1400 with the current exchange rate, quite a bit more than $1099 + sales tax.
There must be a physical connection though? How do you stop if you're out of power? If not, I can only think of truck-like system where brakes are "on by default" and user input disactivates them.
Consciousness doesn't matter. My phone is conscious when its battery is low.

What you really want is "free will", by which you really mean information complexity, especially of the recursive kind. ("Consciousness" here is only interesting because of self-reflection, which is a kind of recursion, I guess.)

So to answer your question, no, LLMs don't increase information complexity in any way, so they aren't interesting as intelligence.
> Pretty much every car since the late 80s has electronic throttle control and there are no mechanical linkages from pedal to throttle body.

All 90s cars I've had or worked on had a real cable from gas pedal to throttle body.
Got it, appreciate you clearing that up.
Essentially two sides of the same coin.

I use a Java port (nbvcxz) that I wrote for securing our SaaS product, and we build personalized "exclusion dictionaries" for each user with things like their company name, first name, last name, email, etc. If the user tries to have those as part of their password, it will not add to the entropy of their password. We are limited in how much we know about each user though. Helps with the most egregious poor passwords, and should protect our customers/users from tools like this at least a bit.
If your local supermarket doesn't sell mustard in one kilo plastic buckets[1], you may not use enough of it. :P

[1] https://haendlmaier.de/fileadmin/Files/Produkte/Diva-Senf/Mi...
Meta: for some reason, dates on almost all comments in this submission have been reset minutes ago and the submission resurfaced back to the front page. Possibly an HN bug? (cc: dang)
You're the only person in this thread so far who seems to have a clear understanding of who is the one to blame in this story.
If you're so eager to argue, then in your opinion, what was their business model? They were running a company and that company has been sued (and not the people behind it or the people working on the emulator, but only the company). How did that company make money?
Technically it's not developer mode , it's just a regular feature of the OS. "Developer Mode" on ChromeOS is when you remove boot verification for ChromeOS itself.
Normally, I roll my eyes at claims of something being "the greatest ever." However, I think this one is a defensible claim.

I like Miles' quote about it: "If I'd known it was going to be such a hit, I'd have asked for more money."

I always wonder what they thought at the time. "Well, I guess that was pretty good." maybe?
It's a delivery nightmare over SMS and email. Carriers hate URL shorteners
I'm in this category, except became an invisible solopreneur after deciding startups are a raw deal instead of going back to FAANG. Between the unfavorable tax treatment, long time to IPO, the inherently high risk of options, it's just not worth it. Perhaps a good deal for the VCs, maybe for the founders, but not for even the earliest employees. See you in the next life.
The problem is that it seems like the scientific community has largely failed at communicating their findings to the wider public. Where are the books like Diamond's that tell people what modern science has found about the same topics? Pop Sci is extremely popular, but scientists refuse to write them, so you get books by people like Diamond that hit the mainstream and then you get subreddits like r/askhistory getting mad about it. You can't get mad when your entire field has failed at educating the public.
I don't know about high-cache (I suppose you're refering to Milan-X with it's almost-1GB of L3) but I was thinking of a more mundane 128c chip https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9754
BTW it's interesting that COVID never seems to play role in such comments.

Almost as if viruses had not already been the cause of deaths in the past.

Is that a some kind of "natural can't be bad" stance?

Although that is not certain with the corona virus.
No but because so many people still buy tesla because they're cheap and despite the lack of controls, suits at other manufacturers think they now have to get rid of physical controls as well.
Not sure I read it right, I do see it's marked as abandoned and started in 2015, is it WIP ?
You overestimate how much people want headphone jacks. Most people today use Bluetooth headphones and don’t miss their headphone jacks at all. I honestly forgot that my phone lacked a headphone jack until you pointed it out. That is how little I use wired headphones.

Moreover, why would every manufacturer copy a design that consumers don’t want? If the feature is so widely desired, it would only take one manufacturer not removing the headphone jack to win market share. Your model of the world requires every manufacturer to be incompetent in the same way. A much simpler explanation is that phones are a very competitive market and the manufacturers have calculated that, like physical keyboards, headphone jacks are not a feature most people care about. They prefer the headphone jack be sacrificed for better water resistance, better battery life, and lower cost.
I don't know about i-mode, but the main difficulty with custom ringtones in early 00s was that it wasn't easy to load them into your phone. Most of those phones (in my own experience) came with a ringtone editor where you entered them note by note. They could also be sent and received via SMS, but that in general only worked between phones of the same brand (try sending a ringtone from a Nokia to a Siemens and you get three screens of garbage characters, ask me how I found out). Later ones could be connected to a computer with a "data cable" that was a somewhat rare accessory, but you could then just load MIDI files. Oh, and IR ports. People used them all the time to share ringtones and images and games.

Same with Java games when they became popular. The hardest part was getting them onto your phone. You either used a data cable, or had GPRS set up in "internet" mode (as opposed to "wap"), or someone else shared them with you via IR port or Bluetooth.

Yes, there were paid ringtones/images/games, or course. But carriers themselves never sold them. It was third-party companies. A ringtone usually was $1.

Carrier-locked phones never really caught on in my country. It always worked such that you bought a phone for the full price and provided your own sim card. Some carriers tried the US model early on as an option, but people just weren't having it.
When worlds collide...

Money is just an intangible facility to acquire real goods of tangible value and, being only of intermediary validity, has no intrinsic value in itself.

Free Software (or Open Source) is real tangible value provided by and to its users without any intermediary detours such as money.
Free Software is priceless intrinsic value by and in itself.

No need for steenkin' mohnay.
Of all the narratives surrounding Apple's practices, "it leads to higher prices for consumers" is an outright lie, and I don't know why the EU is telling it. It applies to nothing. Reader apps (Kindle/Netflix/Spotify) don't use IAP so they currently pay nothing. In-game IAPs (where the vast majority of Apple's fees come from) would just pocket the difference, because customers are used to current prices and there's no price competition that could drive prices down (you can only buy Fortnite v-bucks from Epic Games, obviously). The App Store has exerted downward pressure on app prices compared to desktop apps, not upward pressure, since its inception.

The real benefit of these rulings is ease of competition (subscribing to Spotify as easily as to Apple Music, buying Kindle books as easily as iBooks, all great things). And more game companies dumping Apple IAP for their in-app gambling mechanics, overpriced cosmetic skins, and pay-to-win tokens, so they can make them non-refundable, screwing over parents. Some customers win and some lose, but prices won't change.
Why do they hate URL shorteners?