skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds intriguing as I like not deciding. On the other hand, I'm sure SaaS has some premium over buying outright. Since I already have the capital outlay of a washer and drier and weekly time blocked for laundry of which socks is a very small percentage, I'm not certain if it would make sense.

On the other hand, if there is a "complete casual work from home uniform" service, that might be worth it as long as some VCs are subsidizing it like its 2019.
Agreed. The above is essentially a tech demo while we work on the more exciting/fulfilling uses we're planning for these models.
Take a look at Proxmox SDN features: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesdn.html (some of it is still in beta, I think).

I think it comes pretty close - close enough for probably most but the very largest of users, who, I think, should probably have tried to become hyperscalers themselves, instead of betting the farm and all the land around it on VMware (by Broadcom).
So, it turns out they did call in an emergency and the police did shutdown the bridge. The police had no direct way of reaching the workers and weren't going to wander out there with an imminent impact. So, evidently, no there was not enough time.
What’s a nice large European airport? I feel like I’ve heard terrible things of all of them, like LHR and CDG.
Well, yes, but the system filters definitions based on part of speech. For example, you don't want to show "to guide or conduct" (lead, verb) for a sentence talking about the metal lead (lead, noun).

In this case, unserem was assigned the part of speech determiner by the NLP pipeline (shoutout to https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/, it's brilliant), but the dictionary only has an entry for unserem as a pronoun.

Perhaps a better design is to always show all entries, and just put the entries whose POS match the word in the sentence (if any) above the others.
Is EndeavourOS relatively lightweight? I currently use Archcraft with Openbox, since it's a light Arch distro without bloatware that's easy to install, and I've been really pleased so far, but I'm always curious about alternatives.
Honestly, this is pretty mind-blowing. I am going to start incorporating using this as a mix of sounding board/on-demand therapist more often. This gives me very "Her" vibes (referencing the movie). I'm excited about this type of future!
Frankfurt is atrocious, but Munich is great.
> The trouble is that the outputs of these models, by their very nature, look convincing.

Yes, this is pretty much what LLMs are designed to produce, and no more. This is why I say they are not HAL, just a better MegaHAL.

There was an Asimov short story called "Liar!" about a robot whose ability to read minds, combined with its First Law directive, always told people what they wanted to hear so as to avoid causing emotional harm to humans. (When confronted with the idea that by telling people falsehoods it was bringing harm to them, it simply stopped functioning.) LLMs can't read your mind, but they do choose their words based on a statistical model they have of what you might expect given what's been said before. Facts and logic be damned if they don't fit that model.
The real profit is the friends you make along the way.
Copenhagen is quite nice.
Back in the day (mid 1990's IIRC), I read one of the NetApp whitepapers on their WAFL (write anywhere file layout), and that's what sold me on merging the storage layers. The Motorola group I was at was transitioning from Auxpex to NetApp around that time.
Whenever I start feeling scummy I recall the Morlocks and the Eloi from The Time Machine — only in our world people deliberately choose to be Eloi and not Morlocks.

<bondvillain>...and it's not like we literally eat Eloi, anyway. I'm chuffed with a 5% cut, so it's more like being a vampire, a parasite, than a werewolf, a predator. What was that management story about the chicken and the pig at breakfast? The sons of Mary* are only involved with me; the Eloi were committed to the Morlocks, after all.</bondvillain>

* https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm
> Starting in 1972, international timekeepers decided to add a “leap second” in June or December for astronomical time to catch up to the atomic time, called Coordinated Universal Time or UTC.

I still fail to grasp why anyone should give two hoots about this. Seconds shmeconds. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Is it because astronomers don't want to fix their own substandard software, so instead they have pushed the cost out onto society at large ?

-Dept. of Pet Peeves
Agreed. It was an oversight and we're adding that in. We do have a demo on the HN Launch if you're interested in seeing more.
Just because you don’t have the problem it’s solving doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist.
It can be somewhat substituted by “regular” (aka caramel) syrup although the taste of that is darker and has less depth due to the missing maple flavor.

Honey and especially jam are ridiculous examples for substitutes.
I have a job now, but from November 2023 until Feb 2024 I was unemployed.

I think ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are pretty cool but, like blockchain before it, there's a lot of low-effort projects that are riding on investor-hype-money. I became intimately familiar with it, because I got a lot of recruiters reaching out to me with AI positions.

When I would take an interview, the company was almost invariably "add an LLM to something where an LLM doesn't really fit", and the person in charge was someone with basically no industry experience who had made a rough prototype and had managed to convince some VC folks that what they're doing is legendary.
Obviously most people doing stuff with AI are perfectly fine humans, and I'm not suggesting otherwise, but I do think that the "AI entrepreneur" is attracting the "get rich quick" type of people.

STORY TIME:

I had one case where I took an interview, and they were asking me to whiteboard a notification system. That was totally fine, so I started drawing up diagrams, but they would stop me occasionally to ask for proper nouns [1], so that they could write them down. Initially I didn't think much of it, but after the interview was over I got the vibe that they used me for unpaid consulting because the questions were more specific . They did make me an offer, but it was way too low so I turned it down.

A month later I get an email from their CTO, asking for some advice on distributed task scheduling, e.g. which libraries would I use, how do I make sure things are done in the right order. I give a very simplified response with like three links to open source documentation. He responds back asking for more clarification, and I responded with "any further discussion on the matter will require me to charge my hourly consulting rate. Please let me know if you would like to continue this discussion so I can prepare an invoice."

He stopped responding after that.

[1] Which message queue was that again? Which binary serialization library? Where do you download those?
>Free bonus I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere yet*

This is a good idea. Is it a little like a version of HNSW?
I’ve always wondered how this product was doing & if there was any traction. I’ve yet to meet a (non-meta) org using it.
I'm not sure where to find the white paper, but this blog post [2011] probably has most details as well. Its key take-aways:

- their (and probably others') distributed systems expect time to move forwards (synchronization, "happens after", etc)

- repetition of one second is difficult to accommodate for, e.g. with disk writes or storage of e-mail messages

- the initial leap smear was a hack/patch in their NTP servers by not setting LI (leap indicator), but modulating time within a window w before midnight:

lie(t) = (1.0 - cos(pi * t / w)) / 2.0

- they tested both positive and negative leap smear on a set of 10k servers

- leap smears eliminate the need for programmers to handle leap seconds

[2011]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-...

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I don't understand what "because" is referring to...

"explanations.app has visual forums where university grads will properly resolve all your questions for $10/week, because the video explanations also benefit other students."
Hey, just a suggestion,

I thought of doing this a while ago but for children books, never went on to actually do it but I definitely see a need in there,

* Children books are quite expensive

* Most of those you get over them in a couple minutes to an hour

* Your kids want new books every single day

Buying 5-10 and regularly trading them with other parents seems like a neat solution.
I tend to see music as an idiosyncratic language. I know from experience I can't hear harmonies that well, and that I had to find out about chords in Wikipedia and was completely deaf to them until I trained myself. Meaning and emotions that I can hear in music are most definitely culturally learned, even if I won't fight anybody swearing a major C is so much uplifting than a minor one and that that is an essential part of Creation--to each their own.

With that said, just as languages tend to have culturally accepted "proper form" --grammar and spelling--so does music. Music theory is about what spelling and grammar the locals accept and like in their music, and is worth studying for that reason alone.

Now, I wonder what would Pythagoras think of our current musical genres...
An increased valuation at IPO later this year.
I don't understand. When you work for a company, don't you also spend some time of your workday daydreaming, or getting a coffee, or doing some other thing that does not earn the company money?
If you want lightweight Arch distro, I think many would recommend vanilla arch. Many automated installation script nowadays.
Glad to know Humberman is the next focus for the two minute hate. I felt left out not knowing.
An extra $0.50 per meal (less than what you are saying and not just for a topping) equates to an extra $500/year per person. Either you did not grow up as low income as you think you did or your family made sacrifices to keep maple syrup on the table. I knew many families that could not afford a new Xbox for their kids. You are literally saying that an Xbox per person per year is not a large amount of money for a low income family. I don't think we'll agree on that.
Samsung, MemVerge, and H3 Build 2TB CXL Memory Pool (2023)
It's been Uber for me
I don't think it's a failure of the prompting, but of the tool itself. It just isn't good for any higher-level tasks, and those I know how to do anyway. It's good for menial API work, as a sibling comment says, and using it I can avoid reading API docs, but that's about it.

I tried to have it rewrite in Go a small Python script (a hundred or so lines) that I wrote, and it basically refused, saying "here's the start, you write the rest now". As others said, if it went away it'd be a minor inconvenience of me having to read a bit more documentation.
> he received a call on his iPhone that said it was from Apple Support (the number displayed was 1-800-275-2273, Apple’s real customer support line)

This happened to me exactly once, and it was two days after I ordered a new MacBook from the online Apple Store. Since I was expecting a shipment, I almost picked it up. But instead I called Apple Support myself, and asked if they had called me, and they said they had not.
> People choose these system with loose conversions over and over again because it's an advantage up to a point.

The world is full of antipatterns that people implement with little, no, or flawed analysis. They do not fare better in the market, they propagate the same way entropy does.
> It's the flip side that is quite possible to be false. You can certainly eat more calories than your body requires and yet not gain weight. Your gut could absorb less, so you excrete otherwise-digestible carbs. You could have a parasite.

Is the flip-side really debated that much tho? I feel like when people talk about CICO they're primarily talking about reducing CI to lower than your CO. No?

The complexity in CICO of course is measuring your CO. Ie you could estimate your CO, reduce your CI to what you believe your CO is - and still not lose weight. But does that undermine CICO? Because as the other commenters mentioned, it's "impossible" for you to burn more than you take in without losing mass, so our issue in this example is incorrectly asserting the output (assuming of course we're not also underestimating the input).

Note my questions here are generally questions. I am not an expert here, so please correct me if i'm wrong.

> The reason I shared my story is that so many people just quote "calories in vs calories out" as if both sides of the equation were perfectly under control, and those people are also often like me: they find it easy to keep the pounds off (because of a high metabolic rate) and so they look down on people who have trouble shedding weight and figure that those people could live just like them. But those heavier people could well be eating less and doing more exercise than them.

Fwiw, i don't dispute that some people have the wrong ideas with CICO. Perhaps frequently even. But i thought it still stood as a foundational truth nonetheless; that you have to "simply" burn more than you take in. If you gain weight (ignoring water weight for simplicity), then you have ate more then you burned, always.

My takeaway with CICO is that the hardest question seems to be correctly figuring out how much you're burning. Which i feel like usually, especially for overweight people, it's much less than they think. You can't outrun a bad diet, as they say. Rarely do people actually want to exercise enough to truly compensate for the thing they want to eat. Hence why i like CICO, as to me it signals the only effective action is in restricting your CI, since increasing CO is so difficult.
I am not a physicist. In my (mis)understanding of things, the work you can make heat do comes from the difference in temperature, with a bigger difference allowing more work to be done efficiently. Unfortunately, the chips are kept pretty cool in order to stay in their operating range, so you end up with a large volume of warm but not hot stuff. This is hard to turn into electricity. It can be good for things where you want stuff to be warm (like heating homes, etc) but not great for electricity generation.
If you think it's a useful thing you made, you shouldn't feel guilty at all. If you don't think it's useful, why bother doing it?
This is the code-first vs schema-first debate. Both have their pros and cons. Personally a die hard advocate of schema-first.
Triumph of the City
I mean, something a bit more quantifiable is being able to put stuff like this on your resume. Every company wants "AI experts" right now, and if you have a successful project using AI that can land you interviews.
Yeah, time is one of those factors that can change, and tip the scales one way or the other.
Porn sites are banning Texas
I've never understood this argument. Abrahamic god is pretty clearly okay with suffering and torture and murder. He was pretty clear to certain tribes of jews that they should murder certain other tribes of jews, and if you are islamic, he is very clear you should kill nonbelievers, to the point of full scale war. God also gave mankind "dominion" over animals, up to and including murdering them for food, so killing something for food has significant "Okay" precedent.

God does not limit suffering people or animals experience. He has the utmost ability to do exactly that if he wanted, but seemingly he has taken a hands off approach, at least since about the 1600s. I guess he's not that bothered by immense suffering.

And why should he be? He made us in his image, whatever that's supposed to mean, but we also are not meant to understand his ways. Why would such a supernatural being care about the suffering of some toy creatures he made? Do you feel bad when you play action figures and one of them drowns?
Largely immigration. The points-based system and the reasonable wait times for permanent residency makes it an attractive option
easyoptouts.com, which I work on, doesn't use manual labor - everything is automated! It's definitely important to avoid giving more people access to the data.

edit: and as a result of automation, our prices are also way lower than most similar services
Aren't quantized models different models outright requiring a new evaluation to know the deviation in performance? Or are they "good enough" in that the benefits outweigh the deviation?

I'm on the fence about whether to spend 5 digits or 4 digits. Do I go the Mac Studio route or GPUs? What are the pros and cons?
Schiphol AMS is my favorite European airport.

It’s not as great as SIN, ICN or the once dominant HKG though.
> * Low ratio of window seats may not be acceptable to passengers

Is that really a problem though? A lot of window passengers seem to close the window almost as soon as they get in their seat.
Is all human behaviour mercantile?

The counterargument to the proposition in my earlier post would be to show that there is economic activity which relies on nonhuman behaviours. Automated financial trading or AI-based management systems (financial, corporate, industrial, governmental, etc.) might be possible exceptions, which raises further interesting questions.
Employees benefit incidentally, buybacks are a manifestation of corporate and capital interests alone. What's "fucking broken" is innovation in the monopolized market.
I'm still trying to unlock profanity mode on my AI girlfriend.
What are people's thoughts on this vs AWS's Smithy?

We've been looking to buy into Smithy heavily as we no longer have the appetite to deal with OpenAPI and it's horrendous ecosystem.
I answered in more detail in another comment, but we actually tried this first, and couldn't make it work for the kinds of complex APIs we deal with in Azure. But, it worked great for simple APIs, and I hope someone releases such a tool at some point.
The ontogenetic growth of empathic concern across the first two years of life
It's never happened before. All leap seconds before now have been positive.
You're basically saying that partnership and exclusivity contracts should be illegal. The business world as we know it would cease to function.
For me, day one used to be handing out the syllabus and getting right into whatever the first topic of the course was. I taught a lot of calculus 1, so usually I'd open with a motivating example for the concept of a limit.

After a couple of years, I decided to instead spend day one on the most common egregious gaps in knowledge, so day one was how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions, and then a little practice solving simple rational equations of a single variable.
"Confirmed True" based on 2 tweets (one of them from the iranians) and a few articles that all cite the same sources... lol, textbook fake... Israel could have leveled Gaza in an afternoon... most countries would have done that... I kind of wish they did and this would be over.
In some sense, these issues are like being short OTM puts that blow up in your face in a surprising way. Debt is effectively a short OTM put :)
This repo I created and the linked blog will help in understanding this: https://github.com/AviSoori1x/makeMoE
How an In-Game Economy Is Designed and Maintained
Sure, but even if they really want to own that and disregarding how good their lawyers are copyright law has a hard deadline. Einstein died 76 years ago, it should be public by now ... right?
No, i make the boring stupid AI stuff that actually works, and has a product market fit, and generally serves to reduce toil without reducing headcount on use cases that concretely benefit the world.

consequently, i'm horribly underpaid relative to the 7- or 8- figure salaries the generative boys are getting right now!
You say that you are sure. Basing this off feelings? Why are your feelings valid? Show me your studies that show this effect, or you can accept this society as a case study since they've, you know, actually done this. I'd rather the US justice system be more similar to this than it is currently.
TIL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics#The_Railsback_...
It's definitely something we're thinking about. From what we've seen lawyers have some of the most nitty and granular time entries (= highest pain) but it's a problem in any industry that bills hourly.
This is nothing new. Just yesterday this AG was blaming a fight between students that hospitalized one on the district's DEI programs. He also continued 7 lawsuits started by his predecessor against school districts that dared to implement mask requirements during Covid.

Missouri gets what the majority votes for, and the majority seem happy with these frivolous lawsuits.
The investment value to Anthoropic, which is what matters, is $2.7b.
systemd-nspawn is really useful for the day to day to be able to have isolated systems in a more lightweight fashion that lxc and docker.

It comes already with systemd (I know, cool, right?)

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-nspawn
I recommend the episodes about his life on the History on Fire podcast. This guy was WILD
The author has an example repo demonstrating some of the early support for codegen. https://github.com/bterlson/typespec-todo

Server side codegen is also one the horizon and is a key way to keep the spec and service in sync. So many possibilities here!
Much of my stuff is freely available online under a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" license; the "freely available online" part doesn't give you either the legal or moral right to to ignore the "attribution", "noncommercial" or "share alike" parts.
Some larger companies are doing this with their chats (though for longer than 30 days) and it has forced people to put more things in docs. Unfortunately, the docs aren't easy to find later either.
In addition to 7839284023's suggestions, if you're making regular backups and not performing partial updates, I think it's unlikely you'll tank your OS and if you do, you got the backups. You mentioned debian and things to avoid post-install - if you're looking for something as invaluable and concentrated as dontbreakdebian, you won't find it with Arch (outside of simply pointing to the wiki).

EndeavourOS has their own wiki . I get the impression they were/are attempting to translate the Arch wiki to a more succinct and ingestible format, but many of the articles are several years old so I'd recommend vetting those that are applicable to your use case.
this is some new flex to debate online: copying and pasting the other sides argument and waiting for your local LLM to explain why they are wrong.

how much is your hardware at today's value? what are the specs? that is impressive even though its 3 words per second. if you want to bump it up to 30, do you then 10x your current hardware cost?
Not sure where you are getting quadratic from... Increasing context size had quadratic cost using original attention, but it seems everyone has switched to newer more efficient attention schemes. Claude-3 is being experimented with 10x context size of GPT-4 (1M vs 128K), but surely didn't cost 10^2 x $100M to train!

Note that scaling up model size doesn't necessarily refer to context size anyway - may also be things like embedding dimensions size, number of transformer layers, number of experts (MoE), etc.

In general scaling up 10x in size and/or cost between generations is about as much as makes sense, and about as much as can be achieved in a year. Anthropic have explicitly talked about $1B models coming soon, so this isn't just speculation.
I co-founded easyoptouts.com a few years ago because all of the existing options were way too expensive. We focus on publicly-accessible people-search sites. Our customers are happy, and you can check out our privacy policy to see how we handle data.
This is how I felt when working on cryptocurrency projects (the last hype train).

The money were good though!
Missing the most important piece of info about any NRO launch, the mission patch! Meow! https://www.nro.gov/portals/135/assets/img/L-70_Snow-Leopard...