skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diet alone tends to be only part of the solution. Exercise, cardio in particular, is the key to effective and lasting weight loss.
No, e.g. Yi-34B.
Thanks for posting this. I saw a video[0] with Milton Friedman in it that quoted this essay but didn't understand it's origin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
https://archive.is/u3Zlf
> Can someone please translate into more common vernacular?

If I were to read that, it’d be common lisp. :D
AMD's main advantage is that their P cores are much more reasonably-sized than Intel's P cores, so they don't need a heterogeneous solution as badly as Intel. But even so, AMD has an entry-level consumer chip that is heterogeneous, though not as severely as Intel's consumer chips.
That says unit cost is $52,914. Not cheap by most standards. Yes, cheap compared to military aircraft, but the interesting changes around doctrine are happening at cheap enough to be disposable.
Fairly sure the bloke hasn't created any new quants in a month.
I suspect quite the opposite: modafanil is going to interrupt your sleep such that your body doesn't dispose of waste from the brain as well.
I thought they wanted to do their own thing and focused on efficient inference on device. Disappointed to hear this...
Gemini doesn't run on GPUs, it runs on Google's custom TPU silicon.

The TPU v4 was already competitive with Nvidia, and the new v5p is 2.4 times faster and more power efficient than v4.
You should check out "Connections" by James Burke.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697163
It’s just confusing AF.

Oh you need a collector? But maybe you don’t - because some libs will push it? Ok so we got that setup, but now half the traces don’t turn up? Or they do, but they’re missing the ids to link them together? I’ve got 30m traces from an AWS lib we use, but none of ours? Oh also our logs don’t come across? Because logs require some different handling or something and some intermediary didn’t support them yet? Grafana seemed to support some things, and not others. To say nothing of the absolute plethora of config options available on the collectors and exporters: there’s like 3 or 4 different ways to define sampling and filtering, in a different layer each and they all appear to cross interact, so you can accidentally choose configs that prevent you from getting data with no indication of where it’s gone missing.

I’m keen for it to all shake down a little bit, because I’d love to be able to just bang #[instrument] on all our functions, and derive logs and metric from trace data, but seems things are a while off that yet.
As far as I can tell Yi-34B is natively 16 bit float, the 8 bit version is quantized. https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B#quantization
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737281
A url is composed by <protocol>://<protocol-specific-params>

Boom, you have now parsed a URL.

Wanna parse an http query params into host,port, resource? Speak appropriately, ask how to parse an http request, wanna parse a resource? Get into those semantics, be precise
SWAR and Hamming Weight
That solves the no phone line problem, not the no modem problem
> has a table of transistor count over time

My comment explicitly notes this, and that I am not debating that transistor counts have continued to follow Moore's Law. They have. That's not the point.

> Core frequencies aren't going up, but amount of work per clock cycle is

[Citation needed]; this absolutely doesn't match my experience at all.

> You can get a 12TB HDD from NewEgg for $99.99

I looked at NewEgg specifically before I made that comment. (But for the pricing for 1 TiB, as that was comparable.) 12 TiB runs $250–400, with the absolute lowest priced¹ 12 TiB (internal desktop form factor) HDD being $201. So no, you cannot.

¹and the "features" of this "12 TB" HDD include "14TB per drive for 40% more petabytes per rack" (wat) "Highest 14TB hard drive performance" (wat)
1. No one, at least not OP, ever said it's a inherent flaw of JBIG2. The fact it's an implementation error on XeroX's end is a good technical detail to know, but it is irrelevant to the topic.

2. "Lower DPI" is extremely common if your definition for that is 300dpi. At my company, all the text document are scanned at 200dpi by default. And 150dpi or even lower is perfectly readable if you don't use ridiculous compression ratios.

> Other artifacts at lower resolution can exhibit similar mangling as well (specifics would of course vary)

Majority of traditional compressions would make text unreadable when compression is too high or the source material is too low-resolution. They don't substitute one number for another in an "unambiguous" way (i.e. it clearly shows a wrong number instead of just a blurry blob that could be both).

The "specifics" here is exactly what the whole topic is focus on, so you can't really gloss over it.
> H.264 video encoding/decoding driver isn’t in the kernel yet.

Better do H.265 because H.264 already is obsolete. It seems most of the videos made/streamed today already are either H.265 or AV1. Nevertheless supporting H.264 is also useful because the majority of old videos stored on people's drives probably is in this format.
What?

Can you provide links to a page that is 250 MB download?
The "what" part
CATL, the little-known Chinese battery maker that has the US worried
You think 16 efficient cores will not make it?
I've looked into it, but most "dumbphone" hardware is consolidated in proprietary Chinese manufacturing, with a high barrier to entry. As a side project I've been trying to root my Nokia 225 4g because I want to try and build a Signal client for it, but it's been difficult.
There is a range of useless, misleading, and time wasting.

In this case, the title is fun and deliberately misleading (in a fun way, sure) and a waste of time. And is really but really not likely to lead the right audience to the right article.

Often other times the title is not misleading but totally useless. A recent example: "Grok" (and URL) - which is sufficient if you already know what this is about but totally unhelpful otherwise. Another recent example "A Parabel" - who's going to click through? Will they have clicked through in any deliberate manner or just grazing?

If anyone wanted to encourage deliberate use of our time, this is not the way to do it.

None of this is the end of the world. But it IS wasting our time.

This all at the same time as HN gets too many submissions for the members to usefully screen. Seems to me many useful submissions fall through with hardly any notice. Allowing more useful titles (without even demanding them) would go in the right direction: more of the useful submissions making it through and more of our time spent on the right things.
How Is the Verge Design?
What do you think of The Verge's design? I'm thinking of designing my own personal blog close to that style. What do you think?
I'd be very curious to see how it performs especially on inputs that's blocked by other models. Seems like Grok will differentiate itself from other OS models from a cencorship and alignment perspective.
Recently I was repairing a BambuLab A1 mini 3D printer.

Man, there is a lot of thought and tech in those things!

So yeah, sometimes I Marvel.
How to Network at an Unstructured Happy Hour
Yeah, that’s why when I update my Arch MacBook Air once a year or two it works well, but Debian dies and needs to reinstall for some unknown reason. Before that, I believed Debian is so very stable. My experience shows the opposite.
Cartels laundering money.
Noctua coolers and fans m8
>Somehow the idea of perpetually paying property taxes and land value taxes doesn't sound appealing to me

Eternal wealth to those lucky enough to have been born and bought in the past or born to families who bought in the past sounds plenty dystopian to me; pay up regularly or let someone else who will contribute to society step in.
I am in a western country with good power. Again why would I care?
A single 192GB M2 Mac using a 4-bit quant would work.
Imagine a world where every phone gets turned into a useful digital assistant that can order things for us online via APIs. I wonder if Amazon is ready for this.
Normal people dont know what perf per watt means dont be like that
For an ordinary consumer UPS that's not trying to keep the system up for hours but just a few minutes, the peak power consumption probably matters more than the average: a 750VA UPS might simply trip its overcurrent protection if you're unlucky enough to have a power outage coincide with a spike in system load. With a big enough GPU, even a 1000VA unit might not be safe.

And it might be hard to get your system configured to throttle itself quickly enough when the power goes out: having the UPS connected over USB to a userspace application that monitors it and changes Windows power plans in response to going on battery could be too slow to react. It's a similar problem to what gaming laptops face, where they commonly lose more than half of their GPU performance and sometimes a sizeable chunk of CPU performance when not plugged in, because their batteries cannot deliver enough current to handle peak load.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro. It is about 4.5 years old and still runs great. My guess is I can get another 1.5 to 2.5 years out of it.

My point here is not every phone which is more than a few years old stops working or cannot browse web sites.
Subscription model car washing, saved you a click.
If Apple uses a third party to provide this what the heck has the Siri team been doing the last five years?
I perceive the checkout kiosks as "the fast lane". Which gets invalidated if people with a full cart block them. Plus, the probability of something going wrong and them needing assistance is about 25% per item, with many items it's a sure thing they will need assistance and block the queue for a long time.
See also Louis CK's "Everything is amazing and no one is happy" clip.

I have similar thoughts occasionally. Like how amazing common materials are like plastic or fabric or aluminum foil. YouTube channels like Primitive Technology make you appreciate how difficult it is to refine materials from nature as a "solo dev".
A New Trace – The MH370 Story So Far [video]
Not quite the same thing, but I use the magnifier tool on iOS for closeup views of PCBs (it's under the accessibility settings).

With flash on, it can give quite a detailed look at your board. You could then
strap a macro lens onto your phone if you need even more magnification.

I used to use this and also take still images, but I'm on an older iphone and apple introduced a bug which makes the still image blurry after you capture it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb659_4yIZ0

(I realize the youtube player really sucks for this, the effect is seen in the last second of the video but youtube just _has_ to shove its related videos screen in your face once you get near the end of the video)
We humans could try it but we wouldn’t succeed. We’d just find a way to fudge the numbers and stack the ranks. :-)
Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]
this letter is from 2003.
> I've been trying to root my Nokia 225 4g because I want to try and build a Signal client for it

This would change everything. Keep us posted!
That may be true: the economics of TPUs are more complicated but they certainly aren't as much in demand.
The article is pretty clear that it's going to be a service offered as a secondary option instead of core functionality.

>Apple is preparing new capabilities as part of iOS 18 — the next version of the iPhone operating system — based on its own AI models. But those enhancements will be focused on features that operate on its devices, rather than ones delivered via the cloud. So Apple is seeking a partner to do the heavy lifting of generative AI, including functions for creating images and writing essays based on simple prompts.
It's not just car washes. So many small towns are just gutted by bank branches. Beautiful historic downtowns that used to host shops and restaurants, half of which are banks now.
Was certainly around before the millenium, approximately '94 on #efnet.
It's clickbait in a way that doesn't even make sense, really :-) - From a point of view of attracting... which clicks?
Apple put themselves in the corner with their privacy-first approach and local computations. To evolve AI you need to get all the data you can. It’s unsurprising that Apple progress was slow. And now they will pay to the Google who doesn’t hesitate to extract data from the users.
Largely yes, but the 7800X3D ($370->$300 on sale, 120W TDP) still beats the 14900KS since the extra L3 cache is more important than clock for most games: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-14900ks/18....

(As mentioned another post here, for even more CPU-intensive games like Factorio, the difference is even starker.)

For general mixed workloads (assuming you need more threads), I think the 7950X3D is the way to go - 8 3D VCache cores for similar gaming, 20% cheaper than the 14900KS, generally neck and neck on development workloads but also has AVX512 support, and of course all while using significantly less power (also 120W TDP, 160W PPT - you can do even better w/ PBO+UV or Eco mode). Here's the OOTB power consumption comparison, it's a bit bonkers: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-14900ks/23....
It takes a lot of effort to make the current version of a product much worse than the initial version. They did the same with the podcast app which used to be amazing, the new one I’m constantly fighting against because it keeps thinking I want to relisten to a podcast I just listened too, also the new version is slower and buggy.
Close relative just curled one finger of that monkey's paw in a trust dispute: can confirm, they were not especially happy with either the outcome nor the months of optimism from the lawyer before the final calamity. Even after having heard about it regularly and in-depth and having read the written communications, I have no idea where that lawyer would land on a scale of 1-10. I suppose in this case, nearer the bottom but given it's the most I've ever observed a lawyer, I have zero context or basis for expectations.
And the follow-up study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

The conclusion to the follow-up study might have a clue to (1.):

> The addition of supervised exercise to obesity pharmacotherapy seems to improve healthy weight maintenance after treatment termination compared with treatment termination of obesity pharmacotherapy alone.

Ozempic in the title could be a stand-in for "obesity pharmacotherapy" and maybe they chose the more recognizable brand name.

It's also not very surprising that those in the supervised exercise group were better off a year later, they'd developed a healthy habit.
I don't think this excludes doing their own thing. It would be in the Apple playbook to have more than one team working on different approaches internally and still negotiate with Google about a possible partnership.

I can't see how they can delivery 'thoughtful integration' with the Apple services when work is being done on Googles servers, but perhaps the "efficient inference on device" (which could be the biggest product leap for Apple since the iPhone) is taking too long and they need a stop gap to stop the downward pressure on their shareprice.
Yagrad – 100 SLOC autograd engine with complex numbers and fixed DAG
Are there workloads bottlenecked only by single-threaded perf per watt, where having multiple cores awake in the same box would be antithetical to the point? Some kind of scale-out HFT liquidity strategy, perhaps?
> Gemini has captured the imagination of consumers and businesses

Citation needed. I’m fairly certain this is all about scale. OpenAI and Anthropic have obvious capacity issues and Apple obviously doesn’t want to get in bed with Microsoft. It’s a smart bet short term if they get data on what people are actually doing with Gemini.
Hewlett Packard deal in focus at San Francisco trial of fallen British tech star
A commercial version of Boinc - nothing wrong with that. However, the website give no indication of price, except a claim that it is less expensive then the cloud.

More important for this discussion: there is zero indication of what people earn, in return for offering their computing power. Which probably means that it isn't much - better to mine some random coin?
Everyone could make a lot of money by participating in VPPs: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...
Google's strengths fit well with Apple's weaknesses and vice versa. Seems like a recipe for a strong partnership. It will make both companies better.
Instead of releasing a bunch of half-baked hardware, Pine64 should focus on getting a decent level software support for those devices. OG PinePhone is 2 or 3 years old now, and still has crappy software support. At this point, it is reasonable to assume that Pine64 devices are a scam.
I've done a bunch of experiments on my own on the Stable Diffusion VAE.

Even when going down to 4-6 bits per latent space pixel the results are surprisingly good.

It's also interesting what happens if you ablate individual channels; ablating channel 0 results in faithful color but shitty edges, ablating channel 2 results in shitty color but good edges, etc.

The one thing it fails catastrophically on though is small text in images. The Stable Diffusion VAE is not designed to represent text faithfully. (It's possible to train a VAE that does slightly better at this, though.)
> Google had far more to lose from a "copyright? lol" approach than OpenAI did.

The company that scrapes trillions of web pages has an issue with copyright?
That's not the issue. LLMs are not trained on whatever crap you can scrape from users text messages or emails. That is relatively useless for training.
Their reputation has a lot of coming back to do from being "the #1 car brand for criminals."
Last I heard, dedicated security wasn’t even military anymore at Langley. It could have changed depending on fpcon levels or how many MP’s we have at home now instead of deployed.

Surveillance is one thing, then cameras pointing up, and then having someone to monitor all of it is another entirely. tracking down the alleged drone before it leaves is yet another. Think cop response times.

There’s zero reason they should release photos identifying the quality of their surveillance. Basic opsec. All they probably did is get proof, track them, get rid rid of them. No public knowledge necessary until it’s over.

I’m enjoying the armchair radar enthusiasts. The more misinformation the better for adversaries.
If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, you can follow along with John Plant on YouTube, he started with a well chosen rock, and got to an Axe, fire, kilns, huts, and recently has been smelting iron source from the iron eating(?) bacteria in a local stream.[1] He generally doesn't talk, but explains things in the subtitles if you turn them on.

Machining for me, is the particular course I took... I find the whole subject fascinating, especially making gears, and gear shaped objects, which I did for 5 years. I hadn't realized until that point that properly made involute gears have a rolling contact, they never slide against each other. That's how they last so long.

Look into Precision, especially Gage Blocks, for some fascinating things.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
How to invent everything was a bit too hand wavy for me. It would barely scratch the surface of a topic (like making steel) and declare "and now you've invented steel" so that it could move on to help you invent other things now that you have steel ignoring the time and labor and trial and error required to reliably produce steel (which could be years).

If you like that thought experiment though (reinventing society from scratch) I recommend the anime Dr. Stone and the YouTube channel Primitive Technology.
This seems intentionally obtuse. What you say is true, but it is very obvious that this is much more of a pain than if you had the source code. On the other hand, fine tuning is just as easy, regardless of whether you have the original training data.
My current best way would be to put it online in a web site you control... then make sure to have the Internet Archive take a snapshot of it. Tweet it, talk about it in various places, and maybe others will copy it elsewhere.
Could it be that media viewing is down globally due to outside factors?
The scale of 30% of world's mobile phone versus Google's 70% Android market share, or the 10% of desktop/laptop market versus 72% from Windows?
I'm pretty sure we know this isn't true at all. Diet is the greatest contributing factor to weight gain or loss. Exercise will make you healthier. In your example, cardio (e.g. high-intensity interval training), will give you a stronger cardiovascular system, which will likely make you "feel better" (less strained, more comfortable) when moving around in the world. And strength training (e.g. resistance training) will make you stronger and more comfortable when trying to lift things or even yourself.
Mocking the thinking of others while literally engaging in soothsaying is rather ironic don't you think?

And yes, of course, I'm well aware you are able to cherry pick some silly quotes from Deepak to "prove" your point, and that I "should" "know what you meant" (let's ignore whether even you did, at the time you wrote the comment), but the never ending Motte and Bailey from you people is exhausting. Please try to broaden the scope of your knowledge, it may naturally reduce levels of hubris.
I feel like it will certainly need to be a hybrid approach for the moment. They’ll get a long way running small highly specific and tuned models locally on the neural engine for a lot of stuff. But, at some point, people are going to expect to ask questions and have something in the league of a Mistral/Claude/ChatGPT talk back and that’s just not possible with today’s hardware. Over time I expect more and more of that will get moved locally, and less will hit the “escape hatch” of throwing things to a giant LLM.

If they end up renting rather than building that capability, it says to me that they’re betting on being able to move most of that locally to the phone on a relatively short time horizon, which is interesting.
I agree, so, lift weights? (Among other things...)
Do the X3D chips with mixed 3D and normal cache still have scheduling issues where games can use the slow cache? Back when they were new I heard you want the 8 core version so you have no chance of that happening.
This is a repository that accompanies a research paper. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3310337
The temporal misalignment might not be so bad. Residential dwelling construction and public infrastructure should both lag the actual tax revenue.
Part of the appeal of an iGizmo is not sending so much data to Google. I really doubt this is happening, and if it is, Apple will be hosting the models.
I always find cars (especially ICE cars) more impressive than more "advanced" technologies like airplanes or spaceships.

To make cars, it not only requires technical sophistication, but also needs to be reliable enough to be operated by ordinary person everyday and be extremely affordable. The more i think about it, the more it sounds like a miracle.
> Imagine a world where every phone gets turned into a useful digital assistant that can order things for us online via APIs. I wonder if Amazon is ready for this.

Due to its size and infrastructure Amazon has advantages of choice, price, delivery and service. No digital (or human) assistant is going to be able to find a better deals on most items and then negotiate for it to be delivered tomorrow, free or cheaply, with a fairly good, no quibble, return policy.