skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also the cost of utilities (which are entirely out of control in the investor-owned utilities regions in CA, and the CPUC seems to be asleep at the wheel). This obviously drives up the cost of everything else.

And, for small businesses, there are the frankly rather silly taxes on small businesses. Want to be a small business doing business in the Great State of California? You will pay $800/year (minimum) for the privilege. Does the state get any value whatsoever from this?

Want to employ anyone? Prepare for a whole pile of taxes, each of which is small, but you need to do an utterly absurd amount of paperwork.

Would it kill the state of California to let a business employ someone and fill out one form and pay one tax?
Inquiries won't help if they stop at Boeing, or contractors Boeing used. The problem here is much more fundamental to the regulatory bodies overseeing the airline industry and the dependence on a few companies that have become too big for the government to let fail.

As long as our government is beholden to large corporations, either through lobbying or the "too big to fail" card, we functionally have a fascist state where industry took over our government. I'm not saying we're all the way there by any means, but that's inevitable if we keep bandaiding problems without getting to the root cause.
really? LOL
I gave you the name of the project, as did tfa.

https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial...

Took two clicks to get there from tfa... Seems like you could do a little more research before insisting it's "spurious" that Google tech is helping Israel do atrocities.

Probably worth mentioning Habsora, in case you think Israel would never use AI to kill Palestinian children. Try searching it yourself though, I'm fresh out of free basic research tokens. I'd suggest you use DuckDuckGo.
Reasoning is also an iterative process. Besides scaling in response length, the model can also get multiple feedbacks from outside to correct itself.
I'm near this spot. All the building here that continued mostly nonstop even after the mortgage bust in 2008-09. There are so many vacant retail spaces all around midtown. Everything retail and consumption is shrinking. Even bars are closing. Another thing that hurt this small shop is Whole Foods opened up a store with a huge eating space two streets and an avenue away. Another thing that hit this guy was when Credit Suisse had some kind of crime or scandal and they totally shrunk their presence right around his shop.
That's not perjury. Trial attorneys are not under oath because that would conflict with their duty to advocate for their clients. Their duty not to lie to the court is a matter of professional ethics.
> It’s central to open source that licenses can’t be revoked

That…doesn’t change the underlying law.

> if they could, then accepting contributions from external developers would be a hazard

Accepting code from external developers under a gratuitous license is a hazard (given promissory estoppel, probably a fairly limited one, but still something of a hazard); that is one of the reasons that some projects, even if they offer code in a way which is likely a gratuitous license, require individual license contracts before incorporating third-party code.

(Of course, there is still a hazard – the third party offering code might misrepresent their ownership of it, or despite copyright ownership might have violated a software patent, or… mitigating all hazards isn’t possible and individual projects decide their own risk tolerance.)
I accept that the angles might be similar to a lying down position, but, especially the back, I don’t think your head is flexible enough for you to see that yourself.

It probably wasn’t the women examining their own bodies, but a sculptor examining the bodies of women lying down.
Correction, over 90% of job growth is going to foreign born workers
kipling's "the explorer" also glorifies (in a positive sense) this mindset https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_explorer.htm - it's literally about geographic exploration, but also about exploration of all kinds.
We use this stuff to mop the floors where I work. Hmm
The title of the article, is, of course, just click-bait. And the author of the story could only make Chen (the subject of the story) an offer because they had others on staff who could be tasked to train him and/or cover the gaps in his technical skills.

I guess the main point was that enthusiasm, self-awareness, openness, curiosity, leadership, etc. are of important. Of course they are, does anyone disagree with that? But I think an important point lost in how the message is presented is that these things are not in opposition to technical skills. You can have both.
> He demonstrated a knowledge of Amazon’s business and history and explained how he would put in any energy necessary to be a successful part of the company.

I really can't do that if I was him, because it means I have to lie.

Latest news I read about amazon is that they were banned from lobbying in the EU parlement for refusing to answer to allegations regarding their labor practices.
They can probably coast on prior successes for a long time. Not to mention many airline fleets will be older stock, the replacement schedules on those things can be long. A systemic deterioration might take decades until people notice.
> 01.AI claims that, the architecture aside, they didn't simply further train LLaMA models but trained from scratch. You can decide for yourself how much you are willing to believe this.

You can't hide this. The latent space remains mostly fixed after pre-training. It all depends on the seed for the initial random init. Further pre-training won't move it enough. Because of this property, you can even average two fine-tunings from the same parent model, but never on models trained from different seeds.
I like this theory because it allows for convergent evolution in their shapes, which makes a much more compelling explanation for their longevity than even finding and replicating them at habitation sites, much less cultural transmission over tens of thousands of years.
Thanks for the input! Did you implement it in this kind of "multi-hop" way, or is there some trick I'm missing?
I grew up across a cornfield from the Naperville office, and so our then new subdivision included dads and moms who worked there on engineering topics.

One thing unmentioned we benefited from as kids in the 80s was super kick ass technical book stores in Naperville and Wheaton.

I was sad seeing the big red zero logo of Lucent on the new building across the street, and the withering of the place.
ok thanks, now i get it. file has to be same length as original.
This worked for me (my dd doesn't have oseek)

dd if=/dev/urandom of=x bs=1M count=2

./bef -c -i x -o x.bef

dd if=/dev/zero of=x.bef bs=1 seek=20000 count=100 conv=notrunc

./bef -d -i x.bef -o x2

sha256sum x x2

i also tried count of 1000 and even 10000 and it still worked!!!! pretty awesome
Everyone including Boeing officially and internally since admitted it was a dumb idea, however it's a lot to recap in a HN comment. Maybe someone else will feel like it.

The short version is that it's hard making things fit together and meet your standards when you're dealing with dozens of different suppliers and suppliers of suppliers who aren't necessarily aligned with your goals. The full story is a cautionary tale about letting business school types displace people who know how to build planes. I recommend seeking out one of the many retellings of Boeings struggles since the McDonnell Douglas merger.

Instead of a retelling, I'll point you to the latest chapter: Boeing trying to re-acquire ownership of Spirit AeroSystems. It's a substantial indictment of past policy to do a full reversal in the name of "strengthening safety".

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/business/boeing-spirit-ae...
Correction: No lawyer is dumb enough to go on the record, or to leave a signature on something that could reasonably create the impression upon discovery that they knowingly want or facilitated the creation of, less safe commercial planes.

However, buying Boeing stock, with the current management in place, is synonymous with wanting less safe commercial planes.
This is actually how I write pretty much all my email.
Wormhole does support scale out though via it's built in networking? And there seem to be links for something on top of the board, NVLINK style.

And yes, I know, I've been working on LLM pretraining for about 4 years now, since 2020. The number formats themselves so far are mostly scale invariant or improve with larger scale - you can quantize a larger model and see less performance drop than a smaller model.
I think it was pretty obvious I was referring to Postman.

I don't have time to look at a 15 minute marketing ("BILLION dollar") video. Is it available in text form?

Does Bruno decode e.g. AVRO or protobuf? Connect to a schema server?

What is considered "human readable"? A JSON file like postman?

Could you elaborate what is the benefit of using this tool compared to a REPL/notebook?

Are you affiliated with Bruno?
When self-driving cars were first becoming a thing, I was one of the skeptics who would say things like, "Call me when the AI can avoid situations like https://i.imgur.com/cmR2PDm.jpeg ." At the time, my thinking was that the software would have to recognize both fixed and moving objects nearby, capture their position and velocity, infer or look up their inertia tensors, and run at least a basic dynamics simulation to anticipate and prevent accidents like the one that's about to happen in the photo.

However, I didn't consider the possibility that such a simulation might emerge from a model driven by nothing but visual input, given a large-enough data set and the right training. At this point my old argument seems like a losing one, even if present-day systems can't answer the "What happens next?" question reliably enough to trust in all driving situations. It won't exactly have to be perfect in order to outperform most humans.

As a matter of fact, I just checked, and the situation in the meme is already partially recognized by ChatGPT 4: https://i.imgur.com/wLSBSkJ.png , even if it misses the comedic implications of the truck heading for the overpass. Whether it was somehow trained to give a useful, actionable answer for this particular question, I don't know, but the writing's on the proverbial wall.

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Edit due to rate-limiting: note that I intentionally cropped out the WAIT FOR IT frame when I submitted the pic, so that it wouldn't see it as a meme loaded with comedy value. When I explicitly asked it what was funny about the image, ChatGPT4 eventually answered:

"When the truck hits the overpass, given that the convertible is following closely behind, the occupants could be in for quite a shock. The impact might cause the portable toilets to become dislodged or damaged, potentially resulting in the contents being spilled. For the people in the convertible, this could mean an unexpected and unpleasant shower, especially because the convertible's top is down. The humor perceived here is in the anticipation of the unexpected and the sudden reversal of fortune for the individuals in what appears to be a fancy car – it's a form of slapstick humor."

But I did have to provide a couple of strong hints, including telling it that the truck was not towing the car ( https://i.imgur.com/AlPRgEQ.png ). I was going to feed Claude the same hints, but it repeatedly failed to recognize the SMS code for registration.
It takes a long time to destroy a corporate culture which was built over the better part of a century.
This also isn’t the first issue. Ignoring the stock maximization issues & issues like the Dreamliner mess.

This reason this is real real bad was because the 737 Max. The C suite said it was real come to Jesus moment. Now we’re finding out not only is the culture not fixed, but it has such mismanagement that there’s no effective QA.
I agree with this article in spirit, but in practice we have made some very bad Jr-ish hires on attitude alone, which we tend to look closely at where I work. There needs to be a verified bar of technical excellence in order to succeed at engineering. There's too much stuff to learn.

Going into an interview with a can do attitude doesn't say much about problem-solving abilities; it also says nothing about getting over humps, or determination in the face of real difficulties. One can be enthusiastic about anything.
Like Once. I can add a one time payment model, but installing it on a computer won't work. Because if the data is just stored on a computer: 1) it's not safe. 2) it's not reliable, the computer could stop working.

For one time payment, I agree I will need to implement that.

What feature do you think would be better for bringing trust to you and all users?
Because I agree there could be a huge trust issue.
I will encrypt the data, but would people trust it?
That's 5s of a 15m duration. I don't think it matters in the least.
Huge jump to go from that line in the model card to it being intentional from the model's creators.

China censors those events. They pre-trained with a specific focus on Chinese text, and integrated more native Chinese text than most models do.

Doesn't require any additional filtering on their behalf to have the model reflect that, and if anything the fact that they're mentioned in english implies the opposite of your hypothesis.

If they were going to filter Tiananmen Square, the lift to filter it in English would not be any higher.
A real hierarchy makes global constraints easier to scale, e.g. globally unique names or hierarchical access controls. These policies only need to scale to a single node rather than to the whole namespace (via some sort of global index).
Relationships are a very complex thing. And when love, family, and children are involved, it becomes even more complicated
9's are overblown. When cloud providers report that, they're really saying "Assuming random hard drive failure at the rates we've historically measured and how we quickly we detect and fix those failures, what's the mean time to data loss".

But that's burying the lede. By far the greatest risks to a file's durability are:
1. Bugs (which aren't captured by a durability model). This is mitigated by deploying slowly and having good isolation between regions.
2. An act of God that wipes out a facility.

The point of my comment was that it's not just about checksums. That's table stakes. The main driver of data loss for storage organizations with competent software is safety culture and physical infrastructure.

My experience was that S3's safety culture is outstanding. In terms of physical separation and how "solid" the AZs are, AWS is overbuilt compared to the other players.
Zones are about correlated power and networking failures. Regions are about disasters. If you want multiple regions, Google can of course do that too:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations#consideratio...
Isn't this essentially what systems like Minio and SeaweedFS do with their S3 integrations/mirroring/caching? What you describe sounds a lot like SeaweedFS Filer when backed by S3
The tests are very weird...

Normally, from someone working in the storage, you'd expect tests to be in IOPS, and the goto tool for reproducible tests is FIO. I mean, of course "reproducibility" is a very broad subject, but people are so used to this tool that they develop certain intuition and interpretation for it / its results.

On the other hand, seeing throughput figures is kinda... it tells you very little about how the system performs. Just to give you some reasons: a system can be configured to do compression or deduplication on client / server, and this will significantly impact your throughput, depending on what do you actually measure: the amount of useful information presented to the user or the amount of information transferred. Also throughput at the expense of higher latency may or may not be a good thing... Really, if you ask anyone who ever worked on a storage product about how they could crank up throughput numbers, they'd tell you: "write bigger blocks asynchronously". This is the basic recipe, if that's what you want. Whether this makes a good all around system or not... I'd say, probably not.

Of course, there are many other concerns. Data consistency is a big one, and this is a typical tradeoff when it comes to choosing between object store and a filesystem, since filesystem offers more data consistency guarantees, whereas object store can do certain things faster, while breaking them.

BTW, I don't think most readers would understand Lustre and similar to be the "local filesystem", since it operates over network and network performance will have a significant impact, of course, it will also put it in the same ballpark as other networked systems.

I'd also say that Ceph is kinda missing from this benchmark... Again, if we are talking about filesystem on top of object store, it's the prime example...
Today I learned that I can be named Dan 1, or Dan 3, but Dan 2 is entirely off limits.
I’m curious about the “Eventually Approved Names”. Some of them were rejected 4 times or more before being accepted!

I would love to know more; what’s the bar for “overturning” a previous denial? Do you have to present new evidence or present a novel argument? Or is it just a matter of public tastes evolving over time?

There are summaries posts of the recent decisions that has some hints but it doesn’t really go into much detail.
Yep.

I had for years a fantastic job in one of the inner engineering groups at Apple, loved it, loved the coworkers, the culture, and earned and saved very well, which is the point in mentioning this. but I quit to move far away eventually because I obstinately refused to pay exorbitant real estate prices to get a non shitty home.

Sadly I could understand how folks from outside the US have less perspective on what a shitty ripoff it is, but if you're from a well off suburbia in different parts of the US, it was clearly nonsense to buy there.
Ignoring candidate attitude is not the way either, IMO.

Think back to how many ex-colleagues with insufferable attitudes you had to work with. Unless that’s near zero, I think attitude has to have some weight.
How can a neural network evaluate "confidence"?

The parameters don't store any information about what inputs were seen in the training data (vs being interpolated) or how accurate the predictions were for those specific inputs.

And even if they did, the training data was usually gathered voraciously, without much preference for quality reasoning.
I see that Michael is allowed, but Mike is not accepted or rejected. Can you be called whatever you want as long as you never formally use a variation?
It's interesting to trace the impact that Prop 13 has had on further policy choices and subsequent culture.

Prop 13 caps property taxes at 1% and also limits the increase in assessed value to 2%/year. In a region where housing prices appreciate by ~7%/year and that filters down into the basic cost of living for most municipal workers, this makes it impossible for local municipalities to balance their budgets without a steady influx of new buyers. The only way they can bring their tax basis up is to ensure that new homeowners buy in at ever-increasing prices, so that the tax basis can be reassessed upwards on purchase and the new homeowners can subsidize old homeowners who are paying well below market rates on taxes. Local municipalities in turn control planning and zoning, and so they pass zoning codes and approve projects on the basis of what will increase assessed values and hence tax revenue the most. This further exacerbates the housing shortage, raising inflation and increasing the need for ever-increasing home values even more.

Basically CA voters enshrined a pyramid scheme into the state constitution in 1978, and it's filtered down into every aspect of the state's economy by now.
Right, it’s still all there. It just leaves a bad impression behind for absolutely no reason. It seems like there would have been a better way to achieve the same results. This is way outside my wheelhouse but something like:

Thanks for the PR, it’s clear you spent a time on it. We already support this on example.com- so I’m going to close this PR as a dupe. Next time, please feel free to start a conversation with us prior to starting any large PRs and we can make sure to align on goals.

Same end result- gives people a link to your SASS offering and doesn’t leave a hostile impression behind. It costs nothing to be nice.
Yep just need to load the model. It can and probably should be headless.
This may be a useful workaround, but it also forms the strongset argument I've yet seen so far against claims that LLMs do something like "understanding" or "an underlying world model". Maybe models knowing the same facts in different languages, especially across political controversy, might form a good benchmark to evaluate
The community notes? It works surprisingly well over all, although it does get gamed sometimes. Notably, one criticism is that Elon himself gets a lot of community note suggestions but they don't post.
Well I’m used to an application-level view of the file system.

A document editor or text editor opens files and saves files, but these are whole-document operations. I can’t open a document in Sublime Text without reading it, and I can’t save part of a file without saving all of it. So it’s not obvious that these would be different at an OS level.

As the post points out, there are uses for Unix’s sub-file-level read-and-write commands, but I’ve never needed them.
His comments point to borderline racist statements from boeing early in the saga where they tried to blame this all on incompetence of the Ethiopian/other pilots, maintenance crew and so on.

To some folks human lives don't have the same value but it depends highly on passport, as long as stuff happens outside of their border all is fine (although in this case nothing is since this affects everybody everywhere). I wouldn't expect such a comment here in 2024 but here we are.
My question still lingers: since housing prices as they are now disincentivize building because of poor profit opportunities, how can removing rent control spell more profit opportunities for private interests without increasing price?

If prices stay somewhat the same without rent control, where is the incentive to build more housing?
Anytime you see that, we should assume the newer models might have been trained on either the benchmarks themselves or something similar to them. If I was an evaluator, I’d keep a secret pile of tests that I know aren’t in any LLM’s, do the evaluations privately, and not publish scores either. Just rank plus how far apart they are.

The best tests of these models are people who want to use AI to solve real problems attempting to do that with various models. If they work, report that they worked. Also, publish the work and result pairs permissively when possible to evaluate that and use it for fine-tuning, too.
I don't agree - it's about equal

A certain level of soft skills and attitude is required to function as a member of a team.

A certain level of technical skills is required to do the job.

Both have a minimum bar to clear and you shouldn't hire an asshole genius just like you shouldn't inept social butterfly or whatever the genius equivalent is for soft skills.

Once the bar is cleared you look at being better than required minimum in both aspects.
Amazon prizes attitude? This article reads like counter programming to the articles that said Amazon treats its workers as disposable.
Similarly[^1], Pete Gogolok transformed NFL placekicking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Gogolak

https://time.com/6590292/super-bowl-field-goal-kick-history-...

Other examples of a single athlete transforming a sport?

[^1]: Gogolak didn't invent a new kicking technique—he kicked like he knew from soccer. But he was the first to kick this way in the NFL. So I realize it's not quite the same as Fosbury.
I would be completely happy with Nix as a universal build and deploy language.