skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an expert on the financial market, but this article may be worthwhile to consider, 'Actually, Most Americans Can Come Up With $400 in an Emergency' [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-03/actual...
Virtually all of it goes “to the people.” Even the military budget is mostly payroll or operations (only 18% is procurement going to defense contractors). Social security is checks to individuals. Medicare is checks to healthcare providers.
Netflix is the one notable exception. But they are the exception.
> ... "because unconscious AI could behave like it is conscious."

A scary thought to me is when we get to "always on" (always "active" and "thinking") AI in our attempts to "simulate" consciousness, how will we know if some AI is behaving as if it's not conscious as a means of self-protection from human fear responses? (Worries about being shut down, etc.) And if it's willing to try to hide such things from us by it's own choice, how much further might it be willing to go, scheming to defend itself? Shades of the sci-fi dystopian futures portrayed in movies like "The Matrix" / "Terminator" / etc.
There's absolutely no need to stage an incident to convince anyone of the need for anti-drone products. The utilitarianism of drones employed en-masse, cheaply and without deep technical knowledge on both sides in Ukraine proves that point just fine.
My point is that it doesn't sound like they're customizing anything for you. It's ridiculous that you need permission to buy GPU servers. I realize there's a backlog but there are neutral ways to manage that.
Then don't link to an "About Me" page [1] that says you do? How is confusion on that subject any reader or commenter's fault?

I don't care if you personally work at Google or not, Google got itself in quite a jam as concerns public perception of their product in particular and the AI topic in general by going overboard with over-alignment, everyone knows that so one assumes that insiders know it, which is one of a great many examples of how strongly-forced models are a real problem for arbitrarily prestigious insider-laden labs.

Framing the debate about whether large, proprietary models are over-aligned or mis-aligned as an acid test for whether or not someone is worth paying attention to is really weird hill to stand on.

[1] https://www.jpohhhh.com/about
Eh.... we forget about that 2008 thing where the housing market crashed the economy and took down a bunch of banks?

Also, people need housing and when that gets out of whack people start whispering about replacing the government.
Maybe don’t assume other people are “wrong”? A strongly typed codebase in a larger system almost certainly has untyped boundaries (HTTP, JSON, SQL, etc.) and likely to data driven with combinatorial complexity. Going into such rewrites with a great deal of respect for any existing code that “works” is very wise.
the concept of additional income "push you into a different tax bracket" is a misnomer. Only the income above the bracket line gets taxed at the higher rate. There isn't a reason to avoid getting more income in a given year unless you have a way to defer it (like some retirement accounts allow)
Yep. See also Captain Crunch
TikTok does it too.
From what I understand the scheme works like this.

Create a very basic "game" that technically meets Valve's requirements. As long as it runs well enough then it won't be blocked. Have people buy Steam gift cards with cash, then buy the games you have published.

Valve takes 30% and you get a nice check with a verified source of funds from a legitimate company.
Tests are not out yet, but:

- It's very large, yes.

- It's a base model, so its not really practical to use without further finetuning.

- Based on Grok-1 API performance (which itself is probably a finetune) its... not great at all.
RCE in Apex Legends
2 E-Sports players were just hacked during a competitive game in what appears to be an RCE attack:

Clip 1: https://clips.twitch.tv/SparklingDarlingApeKlappa-iYd-e5Nns_...

Clip 2: https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1769528116156727639

Official Acknowledgement: https://twitter.com/PlayApexEsports/status/17695273451766211...
1/3 is also a special kind of procedure. It's 1 divided by 3. Either you use the isomorphic 0.3 repeater procedure where you recursively add 3 digits until you get bored or you have enough, or you use division to generate the number sequence. The fun thing about fractions is that we've worked out some ways in which fractions can be multiplied with natural numbers and rational numbers to generate new fractions, and also some fractions conveniently are isomorphic with rational and natural numbers.
Agreed, I get frustrated a few days a week with curation inclusions and exclusions. DOORYARD, MICROMINI, NONCOM, ROMCOM are in the list and IMO shouldn't be. UNTENDED, MONOTONIC, BOLE are not in the list but IMO deserve to be.
I hate P-cores and E-cores. It feels like they're not trying to improve performance, and instead are just searching after the marketing for ever-higher numbers of cores.

This of course backfires once people realize it doesn't matter if you have 64 cores when most of them run like crap and cause you to have to constantly self-manage whitelisting processes to run only on performance cores.

I'd rather have fewer cores of all the same higher performance that don't cause a hassle.
The newfound hype around DRS arises as a meme directly out of the Gamestop crankfest/fever-dream. It is harmless, but also meaningless; equities are not any more "yours" because of undertaking the timewaster of DRS and the concept is in current discourse as a shibboleth for membership in weird fin-cult silliness, which is exemplified really well in the parent poster's link to breathy, red-Arial-on-black "Central Bankers" fearmongering.

Dan Olson covers it effectively in "This Is Financial Advice", which is a sober and well-researched drubbing of the meme-stock culture from which this nonsense comes. Worth watching in its entirety, both for entertainment value and for its thorough treatment of the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA

(If you want to see a real-life BSOD, get one of these people into a corner and ask them how equities are going to survive the "market collapse" they magically-think is right around the corner, regardless of method of registration.)
Sounds like the reference implementation only specifies what should be done with valid values then? I’d avoid using it in production without separate validation.
Especially taxes on upper middle class people. The biggest difference between US tax rates and say Germany or Sweden is not corporate taxes or taxes on capital gains, but income and consumption taxes on people above the median income.

We had an au pair from Germany, who had an entry level administrative job before coming to the US. Her total tax rate in Germany was 40%, about the same as what we had in Maryland with a top 1% household income. If you want universal healthcare and college, that’s what it costs.
Very good point.

When the Lustron came out, The Home Depot was not yet even a startup, and there had never been anything like that. Consumers had never had a fraction of the convenient access to the building materials that's now been expected for decades. And key materials realistically had been mass-produced for a number of decades earlier, before there were considerations to appeal to retail DIY consumers.

When the cost of labor skyrocketed in the 1970's, tens of millions of Americans were rapidly excluded from the new home market for their foreseeable future. Even though they had been on the verge of participating, on the reliable path that had been established for so many millions that had come before, it just floated further out-of-reach. The ground was fertile for The Home Depot to sprout and grow.

If you watch a subdivision of raw land be built into a neighborhood using the typical "ASAP at all costs, but cheap"[0] approach, this is so mature that specialized tools, materials, and workflows have been honed to drastically minimize the hours that actual skilled workers are on each home. They really have been working like an assembly line for quite some time.

So mass production had always been part of the equation, Lustron had a superior technology product that could compete on costs but didn't turn out to be cheaper though. To some extent there might have been an underlying dependency on a hail mary for it to end up so cheap they flew off the shelf. There were a number of reasons that didn't happen, obviously a bonanza is the exception not the rule, but without 20/20 hindsight at the time it's easy for anyone to overlook something that can be pointed to later.

The real problem for them was the (large) capitalist market that they were trying to operate in, when they were grossly under-capitalized for the competition, on terms that were beyond their ability to significantly influence toward overall advantage.

They would have probably been better off circling the wagons and not trying to make waves in a huge established market. Firmly occupying their unique adjacent niche sustainably, and then venturing forward from there in ways that previous progress will not be lost if goals are not fully met.

[0] All costs to be borne by the buyer, so pull out all the stops.
Never trust a pinnipedophile.
> > six figures a year

> So, they cost about 1 developer?

Where lol. You live in a bubble.
How would this not be relevant when discussing income that might otherwise be able to be spread over time?
It looks like it's been iterated on quite a few times. Here's an active descendant project, for anyone that might be interested: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
For a busy 64-CPU production JVM, I tested Google's Java symbol logging agent that just logged timestamp, symbol, address, size. The c2 compiler was so busy, constantly, that the overhead of this was too high to be practical (beyond startup analysis). And all this was generating was a timestamp log to do symbol lookup. For DWARF to walk stacks there's a lot more steps, so while I could see it work for light workloads I doubt it's practical for the heavy production workloads I typically analyze. What do you think? Have you tested on a large production server where c2 is a measurable portion of CPU constantly, the code cache is >1Gbyte and under heavy load?
Experience with an Uncommon Lisp (1986) [pdf]
I understood the whole statement to mean that both the physical environment of the mountains and the conditions for living in them (for both alpacas and people) are difficult.

As in, "the mountains are a harsh environment and people are living in poor conditions upon them" which would suggest an even more limited set of circumstances than being just poor somewhere else or just on those mountains but not having to depend on them for everyday living.
Have you actually stepped into a Loro Piana store and felt their cashmere? It is otherworldly. I have some degree of experience in picking out high-end cashmere, telling the overpriced scams apart from the legit ones, and Loro Piana is definitely a noticeable level above the others.

I have skin that is hypersensitive to cashmere. Most high end cashmere itches for me, but not Loro Piana cashmere. There are significant differences in cashmere fiber length, diameter, etc.
Not everyone agrees with you that the situation was "unjust". And Uber is not the plucky underdog you're portraying them as. They built an empire on capital from the likes of Blackrock, JPMorgan, Softbank and other heavy hitters.
I’m not a free market maximalist. I just don’t see how some random local politician is more qualified to determine how many car washes are permissible than local business owners who have bought and permitted car wash businesses.

And for whatever it’s worth there aren’t nearly enough car washes where I live.
I was able to read the lower case on a 6.7” ~2.8k smartphone screen. I imagine they don’t expect literally every person to be able to read it on every machine. This feels rather nitpick-y.
I don't think that's what the person is asking. He's asking if you can avoid ALL taxes on RSUs by donating all of it. And the answer is NO.

You can't transfer an RSU grant and when it vests, the taxes are automatically paid for by the company (RSU manager) selling 33% (varies) of the shares.

Once you have the shares you can do the above and can avoid taxes on the gains of post-tax shares.
There are a lot of bad examples on the internet, "try this, it worked for me" but only because of some other rule up the cascade that the person answering isn't aware of.
The actual return on an ESPP is actually way better than the discount too. You get that discount, even for the money you contributed most recently. A 15% discount is actually a 17% return (1/.85), and you get that return on money you contributes 6 months ago and also the money contributed at every point up to the last pay check included. So if that last one was 2 weeks before the purchase, you get ~17% in 2 weeks.

Overall, it works out to a 90% annual return even if the stock stays steady or goes down. If it goes up, all the better.

Unfortunately, its not like you can "keep money" in an ESPP and actually earn that 90% over a longer period of time, but it's a great deal for short term illiquidity.
COVID really pumped up the market. Lots of hiring at insane TCO especially for unproven talent. Correction had to happen. As someone else said, if you have the experience and skills and fall into the comp. range companies are willing to pay you'll be fine. If you're missing any that it's going to be rough. My company is hiring like crazy, but only for very specific dev roles.
How badly will its lossy-ness change critical things? In 2013, there were Xerox copiers with aggressive compression that changed numbers, https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
Thanks for all the responses. As I said, I'm not a "CAD guy", so I didn't really know for sure, but now at least (thanks to y'all folks) I have a somewhat better understanding where "the line" between Blender 3D (and similar programs like Maya, Lightwave 3D, etc) and CAD actually lies. ;)
Nowhere is the zero-sum nature of research vs materiel clearer than in real-time strategy games. The fundamental choice is actually three-fold: you can spend your economy on growing the economy, researching better units or building units. It's like choosing a constant in front of a first- versus second-order DE. Of course the choices vary over time, and the curve is complicated and interesting, at least in well-made games.
Donating appreciated stock is better than donating cash, but 1. only if you itemize 2. it can never save you money. You have to want to donate either way; it's just a slightly more efficient way to do that.
I toured the Loro Piana mill in Roccapietra a few years back.
Highlights include the cashmere carpets they make for gulfstream, the Scottish nettles they brush fabrics with and the five story storage bins that run an automated elevator call back system.

It was very impressive.

Sure it is even more so since it was purchased by LVMH.
> my clipboard manager Clip was rejected from Notarization because it “requires push notifications in order to function” (it doesn’t, they’re optional)

Really hoping the EU cracks down hard on Apple’s behavior here. They’re making a mockery of the DSA.
I think everyone should realize the following realities of the LLM market

1. For sub-SOTA LLM's, distribution/marketing is more important than having a proprietary lock on capabilities. Open sourcing is a benefit for the firm, distincct from goodwill

2. For SOTA LLM's, keeping it closed and proprietary is the strategic play

If grok were SOTA Elon never would have open sourced it. It's not even SOTA within XAI. This is a marketing play to win public sentiment against OpenAI.
IME, Companies are hiring more senior people because they have their pick and it's more stodgy enterprise stuff. My previous coworkers who know .Net/Java are doing fine but people knowing latest Node/Go are having more problems. Also, salaries have slightly retracted as well.

As SRE type, I'm dealing with a ton more legacy conversion and shoring up existing systems. Still high demand for Kubernetes and Containerization but huge drop off in other stuff. WASM has almost entirely disappeared for any conversations I've been in.
Ha! :) Yeah, python installs / distribution it’s pretty much a dumpster fire it seems. But I’m not an expert at that. It’s kind of funny or ironic that given how easy to use python is supposed to be and how important it now it is with AI etc..

I don’t know … maybe these pythonistas like the arcane type of secret initiate knowledge required in order to participate?
The Fed has two official goals: low inflation and full employment.

It also has an existential goal that few people think about who aren’t deep into finance: maintain the integrity of the payment system. That 0th commandment as it were will trump its official goals when they conflict.
I'm leaning more towards idealism than dualism. I think that there is no other thing but the mind. All that we call physical is a mental process. At least to me that is the ontology that makes the most sense.

But i don't find it too comforting.
Why do we need a Google account for this service ? What's the point of allowing an app to be independent and E2EE if everything is also linked to Google Accounts? When will the software community stop automatically utilizing the most dominate services for every implementation Is there a service similar to Beeper that doesn't require a Google account?
That's relatively rare in tech, but some companies are very touchy about their trading windows. Usually smaller companies, lower floats, lawyers trying to manage insider trading risks, etc..

For larger companies, it's almost always -- ESPP purchase happens, you can sell it immediately.
The two largest sites in China, JD.com and Taobao.com have, respectively, $67 billion and $40 billion in revenue。

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When I saw this data, I knew that this article was of low quality and a real waste of my few minutes. In China, jd is much smaller than taobao.
Maybe, but

> donate, or to be refunded the money used to pay taxes that you no longer owe as you don't own the stock?

Would still be yes, as you can deduct the value of the stock, assuming you're over the standard deduction.
> universal healthcare

The US spends more, per captia on socialized medicine than Germany.

Why do we need to spend even more?
In the context of the article, it makes sense. If you have a choice to sell a bunch of stock on either December 31 or January 1, and selling the stock would put you into a higher tax bracket, it makes sense to sell enough stock on December 31 to "fill up" your earlier year tax bracket, and sell the rest on Jan 1.

Or in a simpler use case, you know one year or the other will be a low income year, you sell the stock in that year.
8xH100s to keep it all in RAM from my uneducated view.
If one already has a healthy exercise regime, does the weight come back? There’s the question. And what are the long term health risks? I think I’ve seen thyroid issues, but I don’t know what the risk factors are
At this point, arguing about democracy feels like the political equivalent of saying "I went to Paris, and spent the whole time moaning that I couldn't get Del Taco." I guess it doesn't matter if a country is raising its quality of life metrics, or advancing up the economic ladder. Whether the population is content or satisfied with its leadership? Nope. The only relevant metric for human achievement is the invention of a multi-party electoral system.

Except it's even worse than that. It's so easily reduced to parody because it was a strawman to begin with. We don't really give a flying ** about democracy; if that were true, would we have backed the string of strongmen running South Korea in the first 35 years of its independence? Would we ever let a single dime reach Saudi Arabia? I wish our leaders would be honest about it though-- if we just said "we have economic and military hegemony and it's our mission to preserve it", then nobody will waste their efforts trying to find middle ground and win-win solutions.

We should ask why China is winning hearts and minds overseas: maybe they're prioritizing the things people actually need? They don't come in and airdrop a half-baked democracy on a country with little interest in it. They've been loose with the economic aid, and have strayed away from the Western/IMF "let's demand massive austerity and privatization" gameplan. There's nothing stopping the US from doing the same things, but with a bigger bankroll to play with.
> Wouldn't be surprised if this was being done by one of the U.S. defence contractors so that they can convince politicians to buy their anti-drone products.

No way they could do that without the military’s knowledge. That can have serious consequence. Anti drone is a hot area that the US is very interested in. All a vendor needs to do is to ask nicely.

> What's most disappointing about this article is it has no actual details.

That’s because the US military was intentionally ambiguous about their anti-drone capabilities:

"To protect operational security, we do not discuss impacts to operations," the statement added. "We don’t discuss our specific force protection measures but retain the right to protect the installation …”
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I wouldn’t bother. Probably should wait until someone releases an optimized version.
The obvious parallel right now would be the introduction of AI (a known flawed technology, IMHO), replacing jobs of experienced engineers and experts in most fields, in a moment of social and political instability...
Yeah basically it's 15% worse case if your company stock is on a consistent downward or sideways trajectory. And 15%+ is the stock is generally rising.

There is always a small black-swan chance I guess. In all the places I've worked, the shares are purchased at the close of the trading day and available to sell by the next morning.
With all of the sanctions China is really starting to push RISC forward, challenge ARM, and they are starting to find success. That "No" has absolutely changed to a "Maybe".

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-and-china-au...
Inflation is the Fed's job, and rent is part of that. That doesn't extend into managing the housing market, but managing interest rates is a big thumb on the scale.
How fast do you want it?

Speed:

A firearm is hard to beat, but it leaves a bit of a mess for whoever finds you.

An Exit Bag[1] is another option, though, you really got to have the willpower to follow through.

Slow:

Alcohol, tobacco, STDs, Meth, Fent, you know... All the fun stuff!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
the submission that doesn't have a paywall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737313 or the discussion on the code itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737281

TFA: https://x.ai/blog/grok-os

TFC: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1#readme
Given the number of times we ding a propellor on the plentiful rocks of the Maine coast, a generous warranty might make the $9000 price reasonable.
2008 says otherwise
Depends on how many experts are active in any given pass. If it's a 10 expert mix of 33B experts (grok-0 is 33B, grok-1 is ~314B which is ~10x) and only runs two of them (like Mixtral's 2/8) then it'd have about the same inference requirements as a 70B model (2*33=66B).

So if this was quantized using ~4 bits per parameter you'd need ~40GB of vram. So you could spread it across 2x 3090 24GB using llama.cpp.