skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll buy the credulity problem, and agree there is considerable risk in NVDA’s market position.

However they went up 8x because (neglecting crypto) they overnight transitioned from providing accessories to PC gamers and high end engineering workstations (both increasingly niche markets with tapering growth or decline) to being for the moment the only substrate of an entirely new consumer product segment that has seen the most rapid adoption of any new technology in the history of the world.

This could be the way things work now: the time constants shrink as the pipeline efficiency increases.
The 4090 is in a bit of a funny space for LLMs.

There's a lot of open weights activity around 7B/13B models which the 4090 will run with ease. But you could can run those OK on much cheaper cards like the 4070Ti (which is of course why they're popular).

And there's a lot of open weights activity around 70B and 8x7B models which are state-of-the-art - but too big to fit on a 4090. There's not much activity around 30B models, which are too big to be mainstream and too small to be cutting edge.

If you're specifically looking to QLoRA fine-tune a 7B/13B model a 4090 can do that - but if you want to go bigger than that you'll end up using a cloud multi-gpu machine anyway.
I have a scar on one hand that I call my "Get down and move the damn ladder" reminder scar. Five of the inches have faded, but there's still one, bright, keloid spot at the base of my right thumb that stares right down at me every time I start to reach for something and think, "This would really be easier if I got down and moved the ladder."
The TL;DR insight is a good one: if NNs are trained on the concensus status quo, they will generate the OK results, not the effective or outstanding ones. The author is I guess in product marketing and says that this result should be encouraging. They point out that simply benchmarking your efforts against the competition also gets you just to the consensus status quo.

There’s also an amusing subtle shout-out in the opening chick sexing hook: people (correctly) complain that we can’t look into NNs to explain their inner working; the author points out that many skilled people can’t explain their decision making either.
>” They’re hiring?? Then, we must hire, too!”

They’re forcing people back into the office? Then, we must RTO too!
No way to define procedures and no list processing? Hardly LOGO.
This garage door work is comparable to working on a vehicle suspension. Similar springs, similar preloading force, etc. And similar threat of death if you fuck up or do something stupid.

Nothing wrong with doing things yourself, but make sure you're following basic safety standards and procedures. And don't do stupid hacks cause the actual tools are expensive. This is how you get injured or killed.
Java 22 Released
Hence, "unlikely" instead of "guaranteed real."
Do Hydro Panels Work?
Reuse is caching, built-in optimizations is hand-wavy
Evidence does something similar - dumping data to parquet:

https://docs.evidence.dev/core-concepts/data-sources

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464

I whish the implied ETL step was even clearer from the homepage - it's not really feasible for us to dump entire tables to the dev machines for working with production data - but it is an interesting concept.
When people are priced out of urban cores they select housing in suburbs. When those seeking suburban housing are priced out they bid up the price of rural housing.

There are a lot of immigrants working in construction. Decreased immigration in the past few years has pushed up wages especially in lower wage jobs like construction laborer. Trade wars and the aftershocks of the Covid pandemic have pushed up the cost of materials. 3% mortgages supercharged demand.

Restricting immigration won't stop a San Jose, CA resident from moving to Boise, ID.
It's not going to be in a vacuum inside the payload shroud. There's air, and that air contains some amount of moisture. And Florida isn't known for its dry air (it was launched from Cape on a Falcon 9 – but French Guiana would hardly have been better in that respect).

> It was always expected that water could gradually build up and contaminate Euclid’s vision, as it is very difficult to build and launch a spacecraft from Earth without some of the water in our planet’s atmosphere creeping into it.
The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools
"I demand that it be this other way" isn't a branch of ethics either. And labeling some aspect of the existing way as "theft" doesn't make your argument any stronger. Neither does labeling it "narcistic psychopathy".

If we're going to live a better life than in the stone age, we need tools that are better than stones. The more sophisticated tools are beyond the ability of one person to both make and use them - they take too much time to make. So we wind up with a specialized economy where different people make the tools and use the tools. And they both deserve to be rewarded - the tools enable much more to be produced; those who made that possible deserve to share in the rewards.

But we're a money economy rather than a barter economy, because barter doesn't scale all that well. Well, in a money economy, if someone is going to use a tool they didn't build, then someone has to buy the tool - either the tool user or an investor. If the tool user doesn't have the money, then it has to be an investor.

Do you demand that the investor do so for free? That doesn't sound fair. (It also doesn't sound like it will actually happen - why should the investor invest if there is no expectation of a return?)

So now we have three people who need to share in the rewards - in tool maker, the tool user, and the tool buyer. And it is perfectly fair that all three share in the rewards. It is unfair to expect the investor to invest for free.

Like I said, we can have a conversation about the amounts that different ones receive. But that's a completely different conversation from "everything that goes to the investor is theft".
How does that verify you were talking to a human?
ONE of the worlds most powerful AI supercomputers - I think it would get on the first page of the (November) top 500 list:
https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2023/11/
> I think WarOnPrivacy was thinking of the T.38 standard

You are right btw. I was working off long disused recollections and then had to leave.
Quite. If support can't escalate anyway and can't do anything, doesn't matter if there's a human there. I have a pet theory that 95% of why people think overseas call centers are so terrible is that the operators don't trust the staff to do anything, so if you get transferred to one, they have no real ability to actually help you beyond what an LLM would do -- which is apologise, and read you scripted answers.
Gold is also a terrible currency in today's world, that's why it has been abandoned by everyone during the last century.

Of course bitcoin is broken in many additional ways, but the economics doesn't make sense in the first place. (And it was created and promoted by people who were confident that the Fed's intervention in 2008 was going to trigger hyperinflation, what happened in the following decade should give you a pointer how economically literate these people are).
Protectionism buys campaign contributions for your next election. All those companies whose market is protected by a tariff suddenly magically decide to contribute to the politician they asked nicely for it at the next election or they find he flip flops on it.
This is a common theme throughout life. It seems like people are wildly uncreative and just follow the crowd at every possible venture. I’ll point to the Stanley cup craze as a prime example.
It's 508 bytes, much better than what a compiler can do, and yet from a quick glance at the source I can still find a few more bytes to squeeze out.
> if they don't thrive, other businesses will thrive

You know what else is true?

If dumb bueroucrats don’t spend time on a silly solutions to artificial problems - they would spend it on solving real meaningful issues.

I think we can at least agree on that.
Seven Eves. You'll love it. It doesn't have aliens, but it does have lots of tech, space, extiction, survival and politics.
I got that too! A dog wearing sunglasses is definitely needed on a hot summer day.
Mine directed me to "please click on all objects faster than an average human." Given that I want to prove my humanity, it sounds rather silly.
You can get a weak version on Amazon (0.35)

https://www.amazon.ca/OnGuard-Pro-Perm-Residual-Non-Flammabl...
That leaves seven Apollo astronauts still alive, the youngest of whom are 88. I'm not sure how likely it is that any of them will see humans walk the Moon again.
Videos of cars handling complex situations are a much better indicator of progress than regulatory approval to do very simple things.
Maybe it's a personal problem, but I struggle to communicate and investigate at the same time. I'm fine task switching, but it's one or the other. I've been on numerous incidents where an anxious manager is asking for constant updates, ensuring no work is getting done. My favorite is when they ask engineers to stop investigating in order to send a status update to the wider organization. I don't know, how about maybe the person whose sole role on the call is to manage communication, maybe that person could send the update. But I digress. Communication is important, but it's not free. Seek balance.
I tried this, it told me I was successfully verified as a human and when I went to the admin URL it had one verification result which said "no"?
Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023: WMO
Reaction: What does Dell's record look like for actually promoting in-office employees? Vs. "if you keep jumping high enough" games. Or the real raises & promotions going to folks who switch switch employers?
Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO
This feels like a good longbets.org :-)
If you look at the map (https://locations.wafflehouse.com) they seem to avoid the central part of Houston though, roughly anything inside Beltway 8. Generally they have locations in the suburbs of big cities but not in the big cities themselves. Except Atlanta, as has already been pointed out.

(Disclaimer: I have never been to Houston except to change planes in its airport.)
I've read a couple of those. My favorite more recent video that I think also provides some good context is a rant by Angela Collier that I found to be really interesting and more condensed than a book. It is called:

"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard"

It does a good job talking about the collateral damage to the public. An entire generation read Michio Kaku and Brian Greene and many others and believed this was all legit when it seems like it's been a dud for a LONG time. If you couple that with the reproducibility crisis, you have a public that is far more skeptical of what scientists say now than in years prior.
What is this "shareholder" creature?

Does hollowing out a company for a temporary bump in valuation one quarter count as against or for shareholder interests?
What's strange is that 8 hours is not even considered IF usually.
Having just had an ultrasound of my prostate, where the probe went up my ass, I welcome smaller ultrasounds!

I was able to watch the procedure on the screen. The ultrasound image was overlayed on a prior MRI image, and it was used to guide the biopsy where 12 core samples were taken of the prostate with a needle. It sounded like a staple gun each time a sample was taken!

Tiny Ultrasounds will be very useful for all sorts of biopsy procedures like this...
Continuing this thought, consider a photo may be genuine but the actual scene is faked. Will pass all tests.
True, and I would never go as far as saying that the benefits have been disproven.

I do hear about many people trying to treat their psoriasis wit vitamin D, but not about many success stories.

As far as we know, the reason sunlight helps psoriasis is not vitamin D, but because UVB at specific wavelengths has an immunosuppressive effect on the skin. It induces apoptosis of T-cells and promotes keratinocyte differentiation.
That number is retirement age and I gave the mid-late career median for salary.

> The Federal Reserve data shows that 65 to 74-year-olds have a median of $164,000 in their retirement accounts while those 75 and older have $83,000 saved for retirement.

Retirement age is not a fixed number. Quick search says about 10-19% of over 65s are still working. Some through choice, others not.
> There's a real risk in attempting to define exactly what "socially suboptimal" uses for land are. Everyone will have a different opinion on how they want land to be used.

The market is making a decision here via prices, not any centralized power.
Show HN: Kubeflow's Missing Helm Chart
Kubeflow is an ML platform like Sagemaker or Databricks that you can self-host in a Kubernetes cluster.

Installing/deploying it is as complicated as it sounds, but we've put together an infrastructure project that lets you '1-click' install it even in tiny environments.

The GH repo (also linked in blog) allows you to start Kubeflow in a codespace or small device using a docker container -- this is both good for trying it out and developing it into your own internal ML platform.

https://github.com/treebeardtech/kubeflow-helm
To my philosophy, the goal of technology should be _precisely_ to get rid of as many jobs as possible.

Unfortunately technology benefits only the 1% in our current society, and job loss is a bad thing (it should not be!)
That has nothing to do with the API. The restriction there is you cannot use nvcc to generate nvidia bytecode, take that bytecode, decompile it, and translate it to another platform. This means that, if you use cuDNN, you cannot intercept the already-compiled neural network kernels and then translate those to AMD.

You can absolutely use the names of the functions and the programming model. Like I said, HIP is literally a copy. Llama.cpp changes to HIP with a #define, because llama.cpp has its own set of custom kernels.

And this is what I've said before, CUDA is hardly a moat. The API is well-known and already implemented by AMD. It's all the surrounding work: the thousands of custom (really fast!) kernels. The ease-of-use of the SDKs. The 'pre-built libraries for every use case'. You can claim that CUDA should be made open-source for competition, but all those libraries and supporting SDKs represent real work done by real engineers, not just designing a platform, but making the platform work. I don't see why NVIDIA should be compelled to give those away anymore than Microsoft should be compelled to support device driver development on linux.
Maybe. That said, those chat centers where you get 90% copypasta from the human, plus 10% human smarts for when to step in, are a real thing. But do they allow their workers -- who are probably juggling 10 different conversations at once -- to click on a random link (that looks like some phishing scam) and solve a Captcha during that time?
My interpretation is you can build commercial products with Qt for free as long as you can comply with LGPL. Mostly this means link dynamically (if closed source), only use LGPL components and give attribution.

Lots of GUI native, non-web libraries have been started in Rust, but they are VERY far from being close to what Qt supports. You may get closer using web based libraries (Tauri, etc), but I wouldn’t personally start web based desktop applications.
And who gets to decide what is misinformation and what is not?
Hysterical Strength
Japan Raises Interest Rates for First Time in 17 Years
Add Google to it, twice were enough for me.
Grok-1 Weights Published
You should choose a different name, because anacho-syndicalism will forever be linked most closely with a Monty Python scene.

Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord!
Arthur: (spurised) What??
Man: I told you! We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We're taking
turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week--
Arthur: (uninterested) Yes...
Man: But all the decisions of that officer 'ave to be ratified at a
special bi-weekly meeting--
Arthur: (perturbed) Yes I see!
Man: By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs--
Arthur: (mad) Be quiet!
Man: But by a two-thirds majority, in the case of more major--
Arthur: (very angry) BE QUIET! I order you to be quiet!
Woman: "Order", eh, 'oo does 'e think 'e is?
I wish we had better diagnostic tools for concussion. In our ER, the majority of patients with potentially significant head injuries are moderately to highly intoxicated, provide minimal history, and even though we generally CT all impaired patients with head trauma and hold them until they are no longer intoxicated, in many cases it can be difficult to differentiate a significant hangover from a concussion.
> The Second Life servers ignore the serial number the client sends back as a check. Some supposedly compatible servers from Open Simulator skip sequential numbers.

I mean, if you're not respecting long polling, of course long polling doesn't work. That's like complaining that http doesn't work because your networking stack doesn't look at port number and distributes packets randomly to any process.
https://tilores.io/ is our original solution

https://tilosearch.com/ is when prompted people to ask us about RAG
naive q: could one process perform the compilation, store the output in postgresql shmem, then each pg worker copy that code locally ?

can plans be shared ? I might be mistaken but I thought each worker backend can (e.g.) be assigned to a different partition in a partitioned table, with very different table indexes, statistics, etc.
Like the plastic industry, the auto industry is much too powerful for government to stand up to it. Could this be accomplished through regulation? That might be an easier bar to clear, but perhaps there is another target: the data carriers themselves. If a rule could be implemented that the carrier of personal data must insurer proper consent and notice, it might be a half measure.
Honestly, most real human chat-center/help-desk folk are probably juggling ten conversations and really aren't allowed to follow links to strange websites.
> Cookie cutter is not an issue

It is an issue... not because it's built in a cookie cutter way (that's fine, and our suburb has tons of kit homes). What is an issue is the restrictive HOAs and crazy suburban design standards intended to basically prevent any modification.

Like I said, our suburb started off with lots of kit homes, lots of 'cookie cutter' looks, but over time, due to the lack of regulation during the bulk of the development, the houses have been turned into duplexes; they've been added on to; various owners with different personalities have added decorations, etc. In other words, it becomes less 'cookie cutter' over time until everything looks different.
If you watch the video attached in the footnotes, Dyson says, w.r.t the strong force's explanation, that "quarks were invented", rather than "quarks were discovered". This isn't a slip of the tongue, as later in the interview he restates the same claim in paraphrase. In that use of the word "invent" there is a deep understanding of how physicists view reality - perhaps as it ought to be. I believe that his use of the word "invention" is a mark of humility, and not hubris. The quark was invented and is a useful approximation to reality, but also that maybe someone else will come along, at a later time, and "invent" something a little bit closer to reality.
Where does one find or learn about how to find a good person to work with US on this. I always worry its the finance professional's wallet first then maybe us.
To fix this problem, you should stop consuming and buy only high-returning assets, including the stock of the company you work for. Or simply start your own company, you’ll own 100%. Surely this will produce another Buffet.
In certain scenarios: Why would it matter if written communication is done with a human or not?

A) If it's a support chat and the AI helps you as well (or better) than a human support assistant (especially if they implemented function calling and allow it to access and modify DB entries in their core application, it could be better than a human in helping you.

B) If it's a scam/spam call, not so much.
Stafford had an interesting career. Having flown twice on Gemini then commanding Apollo 10, he would have had first pick for commanding a lunar landing (probably Apollo 16, which his 10 crewmate Young commanded) had he wanted it. But Stafford was very much a test pilot, so it's understandable that he would be more interested in the novelty of Apollo-Soyuz and its androgynous docking mechanism, as opposed to doing something he'd already done 80% of and others had done 100% of.

I think he's also the first general officer from the NASA astronaut corps.
Thanks for the heads up!

A bit pedantic but it looks like it's $204k now based on the Fed Reserve survey.

But by and large I think your argument still holds.

> Retirement age is not a fixed number. Quick search says about 10-19% of over 65s are still working. Some through choice, others not.

Agree with ya on that!
Yeah, this is to be expected with early adoption. This stuff comes out of the lab and it's not perfect. The key thing to evaluate is the trajectory and pace of development. Much of what folks challenged ChatGPT with a year ago is long lost in the dust. Go look at stable diffusion this time last year. Dall-E couldn't do words and hands, it nails that 90% of the time in my experience today.
> just clicks and headphones.

As a SW engineer, I'm just going to say that when I read things like this, it explains so much about the anti-socialness of all my colleagues. This is such an easy problem to fix. If your office is not social enough, you stand up, go to your neighbor's desk / cubicle and say 'Good morning, how are you doing today? What are you working on?'.

People love to talk if you let them
Mispronunciation of Irish names is absolutely a pet piamh.
There are MANY institutional shareholders who buy/sell based on quarterly financial results and never extrapolate except by fitting lines and exponentials to past quarterly results. The C-Suite knows that this bottomless pool of money is available for pump & dump, so they do. If you can see what they are doing, you can ride along too.
Your response doesn’t make any new claims or derive any new principles, you’re simply regurgitating capitalist propaganda.

In fact this trope about the “stone age” tells me you have a eurocentric idea of the history of humanity - eg:

“people are fundamentally selfish, things were bad, then society developed and now things are better”

Which is just a totally fabricated history

All your questions will be answered by reading, chapter 4 of Prudhon “What is property?”

Except in extremely rare cases, hoards of wealth come from inequitable deals - that is, someone chooses a bad deal for themselves under duress

If you want things to be better than the stone ages then stop acting like “might makes right” is an ethical position, its “stone age” philosophy that needs to end

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudh...
And weather, some of us aren't into sweety arrival at the office, or completely soaked in water/snow.

Yeah I know about clothes, snow spikes and such, no thanks.
Also because they’re so simple you can use a CDN to scale them way more easily than you can WebSockets: https://www.fastly.com/blog/server-sent-events-fastly
You assume that popular high school drama OSS is not productive and you don't get work done with it. Your assumption and the point you are making are incorrect.