skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think pointing to powerlifters as an example to what could happen is unreasonable; you wouldn't recommend against people doing cardio on a bike regularly because of how competitive cyclists end up.

Very few people who do weight training regularly want to be powerlifters, or look like Arnold (which, by the way, are mutually exclusive). Discouraging people from doing weights and perpetuating stereotypes about people who go to the gym feels like a public disservice.
Yeah … that’s why I put the “86” in the parenthetical but I think it’s worse then 1986 too. I worry about it getting more orders of magnitude worse!
blog post: https://x.ai/blog/grok-os

* 314B parameters (86B active at a time)
* mixture of experts 8 (2 active at a time)
* weights and architecture licensed under Apache 2.0

(edit:) announcement blog post from last year
with benchmarks compared to Claude 2, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4: https://x.ai/blog/grok

(edit2:)TL;DR: somewhat comparable to GPT-3.5, Mixtral and Qwen-1.5-72B in capability but way larger than the open weight models
At 8x86B, looks like the largest open model yet by far. Would be interesting to hear how many tokens it's been trained on. Especially important for higher param models in order to efficiently utilize all those parameters.
Does he recommend starting to cite pain and suffering in the CVs?
It would be great to see non Amazon purchase options. I understand that would increase the complexity and it might make it more difficult to monetize if you want to add affiliate links, but having more options that might better fit a user could give the tool more use.

I would not purchase any of the options suggested to me by your site. With that said, It's also possible I am not your target demographic.
This. As soon as I saw this I thought “oh neat that’ll come in use for my electronics displays”
>Ignorant

Never attribute to ignorance what can be explained by malice and corruption (post-GFC/Madoff, finance and its cottage industries no longer get the benefit of the doubt).
It is interesting to think about how much could be done to mitigate human impact on various ecosystems if we humans had an improved grasp on animal senses. Recommendable: “An Immense World” by Ed Yong

https://www.amazon.com/Immense-World-Animal-Senses-Reveal/dp...
Patching Software Using Nix
> SWMBO

This stands for “She Who Must Be Obeyed” for anyone as confused as I was.
I wrote my own toy gravity simulation. 2 stars that come very close together at a clock tick will experience a massive force that throws them both right out of the system. This is an artefact of artificially dividing time into clock ticks to make the calculation tractable. As I understand it, 'softening length' is a fudge to stop that happening.
Whe I was in high school I had plenty of dull classes to sit through. I’m old enough that there were no phones and laptops to keep entertained.

My parents had a laser printer for their business. I realized that it had a very high DPI and also very little ink bleed. I started printing whole books I downloaded at the smallest font size that I could managed to still read, just a few point. I removed line breaks and printed out whole books on a page or two. I found it incredible how much tiny text I could fit on a page.

In class I would read with a little half folded sheet of paper hidden in a notebook. 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.
No, groundwater is renewable in a lot of places, like in much if the Sacramento Valley, where it rain 20-30” a year.

But in the Fresno/Bakersfield area of California, with only 5-10” if rain per year, over pumping is making farming uneconomic. See SGMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Groundwater_Manage...
I don't see the point of delaying it
> SPAs require implementing safety checks on both sides in 2 different languages.

This isn't exclusive to SPAs. For example, I am a .Net dev, and I have both front-end and back-end validation in most of my applications without ever using any SPA frameworks.

If I am in a pinch for time, I sometimes just drop front-end validation completely, and let the server handle the validation and then have the front-end handle the server validation responses accordingly.
How heavy are you going? It definitely isn't boring to do heavy squats.
How about we have employers pay all the money to employees directly, everything, no payroll taxes, no “employer” taxes, and then collect everything directly from the citizens. The current tax regime would result in a revolution in 1 year. Perhaps have them also pay for health insurance. Pay all that money directly to the payroll employees. Everyone would go ballistic if the numbers weren’t hidden from them and they weren’t tricked with the tax refund gimmick of giving people $5/100 they paid back.
Payment infrastructure? All of it? Some of it?

Recently we had this:
https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/ So a day for a grocery chain in Sweden and a gas station chain in New Zealand.

For me "There is a 3 out of 4 chance of a damaging earthquake in the Bay Area in the next 30 years." From: https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/blog/2020/san-francisco-... Is this a week of no power (so no cc's, no atm, no cell service).

A cornal mass ejection has 1 in 194 odds, is it bad enough that it's a grid killer? I don't know what the odds are for that (as in having EMP), and its gonna be fun if we see it coming to!

A major payment processor failing, or payment network failing for a few days is possible. What happens when a grocery chain is open and suddenly "cash only". It has happened before.

You dont need a big, or national event where social order is maintained but cash is essential to keeping things moving.
If you're experienced using nix, this article may be too simple - but hopefully this is helpful for people struggling to figure out some nix features.
Myndlift Review: 3 Months In
I honestly find it bizarre that this isn't one of the problems we instantly solved with LLMs.

Can't we "just" train a model with a big corpus of English, a big corpus of German, and a big corpus of human-translated Rosetta-Stone-like "annotated with translation" texts — and out will pop a "bilingual" language model that can do translation as fluently as a human could?

Do we just not have the right training data available to make this happen?
I made this https://textarea.cc for myself a while ago. I use the LanguageTool browser extension for spellchecking. Mainly just a textarea field with a touch of JS sprinkled on top of it.
Thanks for the link, that's a worthwhile click - their previous article is great too: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/08/occasional-paper-the-ir...
But they don’t find aliens or fold proteins at the same time.
Electronics do not move the needle at all when it comes to climate impact (in terms of heat dissipation). It's where the electricity is sourced that's the problem.
Grippers are only good if you want to get better at grippers. Grip strength is so specific and if you are talking real world transferability grippers are probably the worst. IMO if you want something that actually transfers and that you can still use at a desk and that offers some variety get one of these https://www.sportgrips.com/product/grip-twister/

Then for extensors get some rubber bands.

Source: I've been doing grip strength training for over a decade, my basement is completely filled with grip training tools. So, trust me bro. Honestly though, bouldering is probably the best, can't do that at a desk though.
The article states that approximately 80% of deaths among 20-year-olds in the US are caused by external factors. These include accidents, violence, and overdoses. It is disturbing
(1951)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230217152507/https://metallicm...
When will we reach an upper limit/dimishing returns in terms of number of parameters and mixture of experts?
I wonder if anyone could explain the reef-are-fine idea (https://www.australianenvironment.org/gbr-report-2024) that seems to contradict the climate-change -> bleaching -> no more reefs idea. It looks like crackpottery and is promoted by one former academic. But he was fired for talking about it so that suggests the climate-change idea is politically enforced and thus also untrustworthy. So is Peter Ridd wrong on something or are they orthogonal issues or what?
Elementary school history was really long time ago. Though having been born in the Balkans - there's a lot of emphasis on history (in hopes to learn and not repeat same mistakes).

IIRC WWI was continuation of things that were left unresolved from Balkan wars (big powers only jumped in at the end of Balkan wars to get their say/way into peace agreements).

And Balkan wars were continuation of the fall of Ottoman empire where many Balkan countries tried to continue with how things were ~500 years earlier (before Ottomans captured Balkans).
2600.network Dialup Service
Poor people have bank accounts. That sounds like how some people think 15% of the population is not smart enough to know how to get drivers licenses. Now, some people choose not to have bank accounts because they worry about overdraft fees. But show me any significant amount of poor people that go to the bank for a free checking account and the banks say “No go away you poor, get out of here.” It’s not a thing.

We don’t have anything like a Chinese social credit system yet.
They only count as hn dupes if posted within last year or so.
For a layperson, is this just for older style ECUs controlling various car functions, instead of e.g. electronic dashboards?

Basically, will this be also usable for more modern vehicles (say 2015+) that have been highly digitized, or is the project scope much smaller?

My understanding is that beyond the rise of EVs, the longevity of vehicles of the last decades is in question as they use more and more computerised controls, and their parts becoming rarer on top of the proprietary software controls. So beyond replacing just the ECU, keeping modern cars alive as they age and even become classics is a valuable task.

I believe the concerns of the digital era losing historicity due to the ease of bitrot translate to vehicles as well.
At a startup I worked at, one of my cofounders was an incredibly skilled designer, and he took a lot of pride in the design of our homepage. He spent a lot of time in particular finding the right fonts, and would often complain when he saw other company homepages with inappropriate font choices.

One April fools' day, we thought it'd be funny to make him think that we'd changed the company homepage to have a comic sans font. Of course it'd be going too far to actually change the website publicly, so we decided to set up a DNS proxy inside the company office.

We took our company homepage, recompiled a static site with comic sans, and hosted it on an internal server. Then we set up a DNS proxy that resolved our company homepage for requests coming from inside the office to our comic sans static site, but otherwise the internet worked normally.

We made sure that everyone else in the company would feign outrage when he came in and checked the website, so the joke lasted for a couple hours before he thought to check the website from his mobile phone. Later, he appreciated the joke and figured he should have connected the dots sooner and realized that it was April Fools' day.
Duh! Brain not working together with fingers... how about the summer of 20
I see how created_at and updated_at are generated here but I don't see how organization_id is being generated. How is that being done?

Also, if each page contains data from all organizations then sounds very much like it's not clustered by organization_id. Can you clarify?
You didn't understand my point - I am not discouraging anything, I am saying weight lifting alone is not the answer to everything, not without good deep understanding of our bodies and what you actually want to achieve in exercises.

An advice I see seldom, yet often see folks struggling to start in the gym and giving up since gym bros think often binary and weights are some holy grail while everything else is subpar, or folks keep getting injuries in older age (you know, the age when exercise adds significantly to lifespan).
How many H100 does one need to run this?
A normal 6' tall 200lb man should be able to farmers walk 400lbs?

I don't think so.
This is in direct conflict with a lot of the books & courses for sales people that teach the tricks, like mirroring body language to trigger empathy.
> I think this is hyperbole.

(Looks at the dependency graph) No, it’s a fact.

> Generally, you won't be mixing Class::Accessor and Mo* based dependencies unless you are dealing with a shitty, barely maintained legacy codebase.

I don’t. But the modules my project depends on (transitively) do, because those modules were developed and last touched during different fad eras. So when the app starts, I have, like, four OO systems, three ways to do JSON, two to do YAML, and four ways to do HTTP in the memory.

Also, the authors of said modules tend to have Egos and Opinions (capitalization intended) that prevent them from converging on common things.
For me, the most counterintuitive thing is that the more energy you put in the colder the black hole becomes.

Is there any other object that behaves that way?
First, do you have a link to documentation for this ability?

Second, "any competent sysadmin" would have to know that this exists. Super Micro's security team didn't know this existed, or if they did, they failed to mention it in their response.
Why would an llm be the tool for that job?
It's probably not correct to attribute all differences in life expectancy between India and USA to diet alone - factors like air quality are so much worse in India and play a significant role in reducing life expectancy as well. What makes more sense is to compare the life expectancy of Americans who tend to follow an Indian diet vs. those who don't. Asian Indian Americans have a life expectancy of 86-89 years [1], higher than of the US as a whole and even other asian sub groups. So the relative lack of importance attributed to protein is perhaps not as big a deal as people make it out to be.

1: https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/58/5/1631/178...
We may have already - data is more important than anything else which is why nobody has beat GPT4 yet. Throwing more parameters or more compute at the problem only gets you so far. But Grok was never a contender so there is room to improve on it. It is one of the biggest models open sourced as mentioned, so will be interesting to take a look at for sure.
Pretty cool that they’re releasing relatively “raw” models. I get why censored models exist though they are incredibly infuriating to use, specially as you start getting more specific with things. I hope they continue doing this as they improve Grok.
True when they discover aliens and sign exclusive mutual trade agreements you’ll be kicking yourself for not getting a cut of that. But at least they’ll be teleporting faster than light with alien tech laughing to the bank!
Hey you found my post! All of a sudden half my traffic is via HN peeps taking a gander. Thanks!
That was so sad. The whole point of the exercise was have been to validate whether Networked Warfare doctrine "worked". But, aside from refloating the navy, some of the restrictions like the Red OPFOR wasn't allowed to shoot down V-22s or C-130s while they were invading, also,

"The white cell also directed the chief of staff that the red team had to position its air defense assets out in the open so the blue forces could easily destroy them. Even after some were not destroyed, the red team was forbidden to fire upon blue forces as they conducted a live airborne drop. Van Riper asked the white cell if his forces could at least deploy the chemical weapons that he possessed, but he was again denied."[0]

[0] https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-r...
If consciousness can't even be precisely defined, imagine devising a "test" for it.

Laudable effort, but I don't see any progress resulting from it.
Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak signals
I was similarly surprised that gpt4 can’t do this. I have nearly started over on full-stack applications because my css got out of hand, haha.

This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for!
What's this shit-posting driven by, fear of hearing your own thoughts?
I find it amusing that they launch into a discussion of the "urgent need" for consciousness tests without ever stopping to define what they mean by consciousness!

The word seems to be heavily overloaded and refer to a bunch of unrelated phenomena, with most people disagreeing over exactly what it means, or more often just breezing past any definition of what it means and proceeding to argue about it regardless.
Power consumption varies a lot with the number of ports and the FPGA platform. The "ac701_proto_v1" example design for the Xilinx Artix7-200T has 4 SPI/UART ports and 4 gigabit ports (a mix of RGMII and SGMII). That design hits around 150-700 mW [1], depending on how many gigabit ports are active.

One way we've saved a lot of power is by skipping the Ethernet PHY. Last time I looked, a 100BASE-T PHY was about 130 mW each and a 1000BASE-T PHY was about 480 mW each. Double that because both ends of the link need a PHY, and that roughly lines up with your numbers.

The upside of using a PHY is that "real Ethernet" can drive hundreds of meters of cable. The PHY chip is effectively a converter from the local interface (*MII) to the long-distance interface (10/100/1000BASE-T). But on a cubesat or a small UAV, cables are short, so you can skip that conversion to save power on both ends. The downside is that the many *MII flavors are not mutually compatible.

Regarding the Gecko connectors, the very simple reason to avoid screws is floorspace. The "Handle" payload interface unit [2] has 12 Gecko connectors in a 4x3 grid. The screw mounts add enough width that it wouldn't fit in the allotted space. The retention clips are quite robust, though you do need a small tool to remove them. There's no reason you couldn't have screws on one end of the cable and clips on the other.

Regarding the Tyco connectors, it's definitely a compromise that we might revisit. Size and signal integrity were the main concerns. The space industry is quite risk-averse, so something with provable signal integrity for 1250 Mbaud SGMII signals was a necessity.

The GadgetSmyth product line is quite interesting. I had not heard of that company before. I'm surprised that their 1000BASE-T pigtails are not using twinax or STP cable, but the switch cards are definitely aligned with what we're trying to accomplish.

[1] https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2020/all2020/174/
[2] https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5/blob/ma...
It seems the next logical step would be LLMAssistedHacking to turn things up side down…
How do I speed death up? How about an article on that?
Claude 3 has *decisively* beat GPT-4, I wonder how all their attributes compare.
Interesting. This is the first traditional UEFI machine I’ve had. Anything prior to this has been Seabios/Coreboot in recent times.
> I recommend using NeoVim or Emacs, spending a little time setting up your own configuration, and getting to work. Leave behind the creature comforts. Get used to nobody holding your hand.

Straight from the article. Vim is superior because it's harder to learn/use. Nothing original
It sounds like they made the right decision. Who are they supposed to prove that to? If they thought they could remain in business there profitably, they would.
For what reason would you want to use this instead of open source alternatives like Mistral
3 Mbps/household is enough for evening streaming, statistical multiplexing kicks in as the number of subscribers grow. It's a bit naff, but not overly so.

Averaging 3 Mbps of usage does not mean the gigabit connection drops down to 0.5% nightly. The key here is for the ISP to have enough excess backhaul to account for the occasional burst above the 3 Mbps average. As long as there is sufficient headroom, nobody will notice the oversubscription.
Boinc in Retrospect (2022)
> My position that private companies can make editorial decisions

Since you just ignored my content without a quote anything, does that mean that yes you agree that private companies can be forced to host certain speech in some circumstances? (Circumstances, like for example what was in pruneyard, or similar?)

You ignored this point again, so it seems like you agree with it but don't want to admit it.

> mis-citing irrelevant cases

It's not a miscite.

The purpose of referencing that case is to prove that yes private companies, in some circumstances can be forced to host certain speech.

Which you have not disagreed with yet. Therefore it's not a mis cite.
Redefining Postgres High Availability
One subtle thing: Musk said "open-source", we got "open-weights" instead (still better than nothing though, so it's greatly appreciated).
This is a propaganda story. They just use generic 4G modems and SIM cards. Western processors, FPGAs etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

Chips from 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS320

"The Russian-manufactured Geran-2 is believed to have a "state-of-art antenna interference suppression" system that suppresses jamming of the GNSS position signal, designed by Iran using seven transceivers for input and an FPGA and three microcontrollers to analyse and suppress any electronic warfare emissions.[39]"
Thank you for the feedback! If you have time and are willing to elaborate, I’d appreciate why you aren’t interested in any of the suggestions (or if it’s just the fact they’re all from Amazon). Thanks!
> We should all be paying attention to hardware suppliers and making sure that objects are "as-ordered", but today even a standard chip packaging can hide a ton of malicious logic.

For smartphones, laptops and PCs that is relatively easy to defend against if you think you might be a target for three-letter agencies - just walk into a computer store and buy what they have on the shelf with cash. Even the NSA doesn't have the resources to intercept and modify all the shipments to Apple, Best Buy, Costco and whatnot - and I'd guess at least Apple has pretty strict security in their supply chain given that Apple stuff has insane value even just for parts if someone were to intercept a delivery.

Network architecture however, that is more complex. Cables, Ubiquiti, HP and Dell stuff, you can buy that off the shelf, so same advantage. But servers? Good luck finding ones on the shelf anywhere.
That is one way to spin it. At the same time Tesla model Y is also the best selling car model of 2023 worldwide, so outselling all models that come with CarPlay available…
Yeah, agree a $4k sofa is likely of poor quality nowadays
> Having a ChexSystems record could make it difficult to get approved for new bank accounts.

https://www.investopedia.com/what-to-know-and-do-if-you-re-l...
This is why US is in danger of having a Chinese style social credit systems, because many Americans would welcome the punishment of wrongthink.
I don't think you meant it seriously, but I was surprised how few vegetarians/vegans there are in the US. Even among self-described liberals, it's only 9%.[0] Although it does seem that more people are reducing their meat consumption.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/510038/identify-vegetarian-vega...
Unlike other automated cooking machines, this one mostly works! ( A more chaotic version of Stuff made here)
I think Groq is something else?
It's not just the capex, but the opex also. Forklift upgrades aren't free. Furthermore new wireless kit like Tarana is expensive.
Mistral opened their weights only for very small LLaMA-like model.
Mass divided by volume encased by the event horizon?