skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those aren't our only options. There are hundreds of large cities in developed countries and very few of them have anything like the open air drug encampments you see in the core downtown areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

It's a bizarre regional affliction that somehow comes with willful blindness to how odd and atypical it actually is.
Well that is exactly right. These web frameworks, while they have their uses and have has some improvement on software engineering of web apps and have enabled sone benefits for users … largely the churn of these web frameworks with all these cute names are just reformulating the same technology over and over just with different opinions and aesthetics. People act like “technology changes all the time” but that’s not really what’s happening. We are “rediscovering” things so much in Web dev because we are still fundamentally doing, for the most part, what CGI programs did 30 years ago, pushing text back and forth with http verbs and return codes. Then, we make a huge deal when we get a web app to do something a desktop app could do 10-30+ years before.
Meta has plenty of money to spend. It's also been reported that Meta is using AI to get around Apple's ATT [1], with some reports saying that user ad targeting is better than before ATT came out [2]. Meta is already executing and succeeding on a concrete plan using their AI.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2023/05/24/metas-ai-...

[2] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-outlines-evolving...
Active parameters is 86B, so wouldn't that be the size of the largest two experts (where they may all be the same) + the weights of the selector?
Economics Is in Disarray
Dude above said "electric bill", compute on older hardware is expensive. Modern hardware will be considered expensive in a few years too.
Lessons on Low-Cost Deterrence and Drones from Ukraine [video]
Just guessing here. What happens then is probably that people barely even notice it or not at all.

People are getting trained by shitty UIs to not always find what they want but instead to choose from something that was thrown in their faces. There's little difference between "this content is not available in service XPTO anymore" and "I can't find this content, maybe it's on X, Y or Z service but I can't be arsed to hunt it down - let's watch this other generic Netflix thing that seems to be on the top 10".
And it's relatively easy to make large pure silicon single crystal.
I stayed away from Reddit for probably nine months after that scandal, and pop back in occasionally now. It has gotten significantly worse.
What are the reasons someone would want to buy any Android device beside a new or used Google Pixel?
I guess it depends whether you want to watch a specific thing or just find something to watch. There will always be some new pirate site that has something available.
At a guess author uses one of those nested list note taking apps
Is the GitHub account linked real XAI's account ?
We have a product for sale: https://comma.ai

We raised $18.1M and have made $28M in revenue to date.

Where are you getting your narrative? Are you confusing comma with someone else?
I'm surprised this works, I thought Reddit effectively killed apps that rely on its API?
This is quite an interesting phenomenon, and kind of explains why perl is disliked so much.

Computer programming theory has large swathes of inspiration from theoretical linguistics - think lisp. That's nice for theoreticians because it makes things like parsing easier to think about rigorously. Perl on the other hand, to my knowledge is the only significant programming language to be inspired by practical linguistics, and therefore appeals to concepts like context and ambiguity way more than other languages. This means that a lot of computer scientists academics absolutely hate it, and so it was very much neglected in the education space.

The other side effect of this is you still get a good number of talented programmers with backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences who do very well on perl.
Weekly World News [1981-2007]
Now this entire process could be (is?) automated.
Send an email to your favorite author, some computer references
earlier answers and ships it off within seconds.

If this does not yet exist it would be a nice SAAS startup?
(You owe me 1% of profits)

For an add-on cost the bot will wait a random period of time to
make it appear that someone had read it, and responded personally.
'Gig' workers in Europe: the new platform of rights
A big catch here is that you can't slap an open source license on a bunch of copyrighted training data, and to date no-one has created a truly convincing LLM exclusively trained on public domain data. It might happen soon though - there are some convincing effort in progress.
Didn't that professor lose 27 pounds on a diet of twinkies just to show it's all about calories? Marc Haub, after googling it
New iOS features you're not getting because you're outside the EU
Huh. What's the backstory here?
> Oh, money there is.

Spot on. Nvidia can't even meet all existing demand right now.

https://fortune.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-earnings-ceo-jensen-hu...
It would be cool if these models had conversations with us where they ask questions. I think the future of AI is models that ask questions. There is so much data to be gained by doing this.
I think it is an interesting discussion, learning experience (no pun intended). I think this is more of a stop on a research project than a proposal; I could be wrong.
>But it is not possible to convey to another person how the color red appears to you. Red is completely internal experience.

Let's say in the future we're able to engineer brains. Let's say we take a person and figure out how their brain fires/operates when it perceives a color and we manipulate another person's brain to mimic the firing. Finally, let's say we're able to show, in the end, that the two people have equivalent internal (neural) responses to the color. We've then "conveyed" one person's experience of perceiving the color to another. Why not?

We don't fully understand our biology and our brain, but at the same time we speculate that our experience somehow can't be manipulated scientifically? Why?
If you just strap your phone to an actual microscope (see my other post), you're basically just limited to the magnification that the microscopes achieve. And very good performing microscopes are very affordable by hacker news standards these days.

Stereo microscope magnifications are typical at about 20x to 40x, but I'll commonly go to 640x on the biological one, though in practice you bug out at the physical limits of optical microscopy just above 1000x.

His specific setup is presumably limited by the magnification provided by whatever his objective lens achieves.
> There is a philosophical idea that a person can only ever be sure of their own consciousness; everyone else could be mindless machines and you have no way of knowing

A while back I realised there must be at least two: me, and the first person who talked or wrote about it such that I could encounter the meme.

In principle all the philosophers might be stochastic parrots/P-zombies from that first source, but the first had to be there.

(And to pick my own nit: technically they didn't have to exist, infinite monkeys on a typewriter and/or Boltzmann brain).
I'm sure it will come back now that streaming is super fragmented and rapidly being enshittified (eg ads unless you pay even more).

Value for money on streaming will only keep dropping and ease of use is kinda gone too with so many services to subscribe to and ads everywhere.
The advantage of bad perl is that it pretty much is immediately obvious on first sight that it's bad perl. Compare with python, it takes thought and time to identify bad python because it's so syntacticly bland.
The more disregard a company has for intellectual property rights, the more data they can use.

Google had far more to lose from a "copyright? lol" approach than OpenAI did.
Fully open-source means also providing open access to their data sets? Which is the only valuable thing Twitter (X) has left.
> Sci-fi, Russian lit, biographies, classics. I was never caught, but it’s bizarre to think back that I was reading Crime and Punishment while the rest of the class was learning fake American history propaganda.

Sounds possible your teachers figured as much and let it slide.
Interestingly, I have a similar project with C# for the higher-level pieces, and Direct3D 11 GPU API instead of Vulkan: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml

> don't see many other people using Vulkan for GPGPU, and there may be many good reasons for that

I think the main of these reasons is nVidia’s contributions to the ecosystem. It’s much easier to call library functions implemented by cuDNN or cuBLAS first-party library, than it is to write and dispatch compute shaders to multiply these matrices.

However, for use cases when hardware costs are substantial compared to software development costs, using Vulkan or D3D can be a reasonable thing to do. nVidia is too greedy, in the EULA of their drivers they forbid to use GeForce GPUs in data centres. For people who need GPGPU on their servers, that paragraph of text sometimes makes nVidia hardware an order of magnitude more expensive than AMD hardware.
Yes!

For all the discussion here, I feel like the README answers it. It was a fun project with a few use cases.

> Once the novelty wears off a "practical" example would be rendering "in-game book pages" that don't look like complete gibberish, or an "accurate print preview" with real text instead of blurry placeholder pixels that don't even look close to being the glyphs scaled down.

This seems very reasonable. They put it out there in case someone found it usefuo.
To this day I still believe that there should be a dedicated protected separate stack region for the call stack that only the CPU can write to/read from. Walking the stack then becomes trivially fast because you just need to do a very small memcpy. And stack memory overflows can never overwrite the return address.
That's just a matter of fine tuning
> This marks the end of a period of declining dominance that started two decades ago when BitTorrent reportedly accounted for a third of all web traffic.

Weird thing to claim because bittorrent traffic is not web traffic at all.

> Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.

I don't really agree. Rarbg was a huge loss though. But I don't know anyone that uses pirate streaming sites. And they're so prone to takedowns.
Well, you took time out of your day to respond to it, so let me ask the same question: what drove that decision?

I wanted to provide a counterpoint. A lot of people will do anything to hang on to life by their fingernails or teeth. But is it worth it?
Why does Layer 2/3 Checksum use 1's Complement, Not 2's
Ok im curious, but I don’t quite understand.

What would you want an AI to be asking you, and what would you want it to do with your response(s)?
Do you have an example model I could try that does this?
For those wondering about the word "quooke", which is listed at the bottom as one of the 6 official solutions, it is the "(obsolete, nonce word) simple past and past participle of quake": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quooke

Spenser coined it to use in the Faerie Queene in 1590:

His horses backe, yet to and fro long shooke,

And tottred like two towres, which through a tempest quooke

I confess that it's hard for me to get excited about solving puzzles to find obsolete nonce words.
How long before the Groq team sues for trademark violation? It's literally the purpose of trademark laws to make sure resembling names do not cause confusion in the mind of customers so it would be very surprising to see this situation persist.
I love this thanks for sharing this
what if your table just has two columns?
Since it is MoE, quantized it could be able to run on cheaper hardware with just consumer networking inbetween instead of needing epyc/xeon levels of PCI-e lanes, nvlink, or infiniband type networking. Or it could even run with people pooling smaller systems over slow internet links.
Is this a Splunk alternative?
Try Pi by inflection. It asks a lot of questions.
I've been using a visual approach to Git branch management for years, using Ungit [1] through a VSCode extension.

VSCode's built-in commit-crafting UI (diffing, staging, stashing, committing) is good enough but branch management (viewing, switching, rebasing, squashing) is lacking a built-in solution. I'll give this one a try, thanks for sharing.

[1] https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit
Asimov and Silverberg confused me for a moment - Nightfall was an Asimov-only short story from 1941. Still think it's one of his best. TIL there was a collaborative novel as well, which carried on after the events of the short story.

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If you like novels that explore civilisations that have long astronomical cycles, the other classic is the Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss. It's set in a double star system where the main planetary orbit takes 2500 Earth years, and the seasons last for Earth centuries. Civilisation tends to collapse when winter comes, but gradually approaches semi-industrial levels of technology by autumn.
Yes. I went on a deep dive recently looking for the sweet spot in affordable speakers and subwoofers for near field and home theatre use, and noted that almost every top performer under 1000USD per unit used entirely MDF cabinets. The exception was the Monolith THX series by Monoprice that pay up for HDF and still do well at their price point.
Those exist too: https://youtu.be/wVhnfGC-4MA?t=1215
I’ve worked with a handful of developers who were just… careless and cavalier about exit-time destructors, global statics, and more generally, what happens when the user exits the app. Race conditions-on-exit, crashes-on-exit and general sloppiness in cleaning up what was allocated. There’s an attitude out there of “who cares what happens after the user hits the X to exit? The process is dying anyway!” I’ve always considered it a pride/craftsmanship issue but it can be hard to get other developers to care about the details of __cxa_atexit, the order that things happen in, and so on. Long way of saying I appreciate this article!
I use grok all the time to find tweets or ask about trends on Twitter. For that it's better than what used to exist. But its not a great model outside that narrow use case.
TLDR: UEFI just checks in NVRAM for pre-existing boot-configs (stored paths to EFI-executables for installed operating systems) and if doing "dynamic" booting from some random media, it checks if the the volume has a EFI-executable for the given architecture (for instance in \BOOT\bootx64.efi for Intel x64), and if it does, it loads that file.

UEFI usually boots straight into native long mode without any weird 8086 compatibility modes being employed (which the OS then has to unroll), so for the OS its simpler to deal with.

It can also serve as a multi-boot menu on machines which has several OSes installed.

It often comes with a MS-DOS like "UEFI Shell" you can boot into... To manage UEFI itself. So if something doesn't boot, you can just boot into the shell instead and try to fix things from there.

It may sound complex, but once you get into it, its really much easier to work with that legacy MBR boot, and all the "magic" things you have to do their to get things booting.

I definitely recommend reading up on it.
If you think an IDE will somehow corrode your skills, then you might not survive the incoming army of AI agents that will make IDEs look like punch cards.

Your skill as a programmer/engineer should not depend on the intricacies of syntax and the setup of a prettier or linter library. Additionally, there is no reason not to use a GUI. Sublime Text was a good example of an IDE that is in between a full blown solution like VSCode and a bare bones terminal text editor. Why would you not want a UI to customize and have shortcuts such that you can just click once instead of typing on your keyboard like you are playing a professional game of StarCraft.
This is very selfish. As the population gets older we'll have fewer and fewer workers supporting all the healthy and long-lived old farts. The young will be taxed to within an inch of their life, causing their lives to be more miserable than they already are.

Before you get that dopamine hit from hitting that downvote button, ask yourself this: can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now? Why? Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?
Doesn't have to be a smelter. Battery factory is enough. Like former VARTA, now Hawker, now closed (2021) in Hagen i.W., Germany.

Lead, so sweet, its dust a sheet, over kindergardens, parks and shools, the fools!

https://osm.org/go/0GMgy_p2J--?m=
The other way to prevent all destructors running is _exit(0);

I tend to add that to software I write inside an #ifdef NDEBUG.

The OS does the work faster.
It does not matter whether it "follows the same gravitational constant as ordinary matter" or not.

For any kind of matter, normal or "dark", which is observed only through gravitational effects, you cannot determine separately its mass and the gravitational constant that applies to it. You can determine only the product between mass and gravitational constant (which is the cause of measurable forces).

Therefore for many astronomical objects the product between their mass and the gravitational constant is known with a much greater precision than their mass (because the gravitational constant is known with very poor precision even for ordinary matter).

The same applies for "dark matter". You cannot compute the distribution in space of the mass of the dark matter, but only the distribution in space of the product between its mass and whatever gravitational constant is applicable to it.

So even if a different gravitational constant were applicable to "dark matter" that fact would be irrelevant for any mathematical model that is fitted to the observations.
The lifespan of a heat pump and a furnace is similar
Benchmarks here https://x.ai/blog/grok
Wow so many downvotes! I wasn’t being sarcastic, I just always was wistful I didn’t stay in tech and make more money, since in our current location/jobs, my wife is stuck in a grinding job because I didn’t level up my salary.
World Community Grid
I get advertisements all the time for conditions that I do not have, and that none of my family members have. If you had a model that asked questions, it could learn my medical history and could direct better ads to me.

In order for AI to understand the world, it would have to ask questions. Understanding humans is key to understanding the world.
Learn from them.
You might want to check out https://hypermedia.gallery

Disclosure: I built it (without HTMX).
Isn't it thought that a black hole's mass is concentrated in the center in a miniscule volume, such that the mass is not distributed throughout the "volume" contained by the event horizon? I'm not understanding what density means for a black hole when it isn't known what's between the singularity and event horizon.
How is it that OpenAI was touted like it was some massive years-long effort that blew all AI research out of the water and now we have so many competitors popping up one after another?
For business strategy I haven't found any LLM that doesn't get myopic in an instant.

You really have to channel the gods of your inquiry by prompt engineering and hope the mental model touched upon is a great fit for the LLM world. You might get some mileage asking them to compare Hamilton Helmer vs Micheal Porter or generate a positioning statement given a backstory or follow a certain scaffold when suggesting a business name. They can forget that background thinker's perspective in the very next prompt though. Those datasets must be very contradictory I suppose, words on economics are probably bringing the whole LLM world down.

Only a handful of conversations have been truly rewarding in business strategy rubber ducking I've done but I haven't been able to replicate those again. I like to keep a conundrum in my head and get the LLM to dance around it until it's solved, say for a particular instance of free trail vs freemium debate. It excels at that kind of long-term learning assistance.
Wish there was a way to alter the copilot’s system prompt - if so, I could just cancel ChatGPT and use Copilot only.
What should they begin with?
>Which is ironic given Musk's own behaviour

You mean, like immediately responding to Ukraine's plea for Starlink and funding it on his own for months? So much so, that in February 2023 its government called Musk "one of the biggest private donors of our future victory"? <https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/9/7388696/>
Depends on how loosely you define superior. It doesn't have my podcast app. It cannot send iMessages. I won't buy another Tesla if they don't add CarPlay support, because there are plenty of good EV alternatives that do now.
I love the citation for image in the article

> The cover image was generated using Midjourney based on the following prompt proposed by Grok: A 3D illustration of a neural network, with transparent nodes and glowing connections, showcasing the varying weights as different thicknesses and colors of the connecting lines.
That "just" is doing some heavy lifting! GPT-4 is just a few matrix multiplications, how bad can their moat really be?
Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG's future
I'm not sure what to make of this comment. Can you elaborate on why you felt this was important to point out?
I ask AI to produce clarifying questions then answer them.

Can help in not wasting a bunch of time waiting for an answer that missed the mark.

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I think the sibling comment is probably the least attractive reason to have AI ask questions.
That’s what he claimed but I don’t think he updated his research. Which is why I said “more recently”
>taking a peek at the kind of AI researcher working for Twitter

He made a separate company for this.
Literally big tech explained with just one proverb.
Who is the author? I'm looking for more context on them and their writing and cannot divine anything from the website that would identify them. It's almost as if they're withholding their identity.
The economic system sits on top of a foundation. That foundation is fiscal policy (and associated actions) and monetary policy (and associated actions).

Instead of questioning the ground floor, it's best to scrutinize the foundation (and the associated insanity).
> I think generally it should not be allowed. A big component of soap is phosphates, which promote algae growth so you really don't want it in your rivers

That's fair, but it doesn't explain why the bylaw won't even let you rinse the mud off your car with nothing but water
What is your code prompting style for Claude? I’ve tried to repurpose some of my GPT-4 ones for Claude and have noticed some degradation. I use the “Act as a software developer/write a spec/implement step-by-step” CoT style.