skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be misremembering here (or perhaps projecting), but I vaguely remember the issue being that economics tried to portray itself as too much of a "hard science" for Khaneman's liking.
I sold my crypto bags one by one this year. I felt fantastic for hodling long enough to swing +20% minimums on my btc, doge, shib, eth. Doge, I got +39%.

Then crypto kept going up. Whoops. Made money, but not all of the money. As a consolation prize, profiting any% on crypto probably puts me in the 1% of investors.

I will say I missed my best timing on Doge by literally sleeping on it another night. I was out at a bar with 2 of my brothers, and was joking that my Doge had hit +69%. Would have been up a few hundo if I'd sold then instead of day after.
OpenRouter is really good for testing out different models. It's pay as you go for models that are usually behind $20/month subscriptions
There's also Nyuzi which is more GPGPU focused https://github.com/jbush001/NyuziProcessor, but the author also experimented with having it do 3D graphics.
People are always attracted to the essence and personal in the first place. What is beauty from the inside is beauty from the is beauty from the outside. But primitive people have approaches to each other as in stores when buying goods.
> A modern harbor tugboat can go perhaps 15 knots. In 4 minutes this means it would travel 4 nautical miles, at the very best (running start in correct direction).

It's probably pedantic, but I don't understand your math. Knots are nautical miles per hour. To travel 4nm in 4 minutes would imply a speed of 60 knots. At 15 knots, you would travel 1 nautical mile in 4 minutes. (15kn/60min * 4min = 1)

Or it's possible I haven't had enough coffee.
It won’t answer questions that are not somehow related to code or computing, I usually don’t need anything else so I didn’t really test the limits of that so far.
> a 7B parameter model using float32s will almost certainly outperform a 7B model using float4s

Q5 quantization performs almost on par with base models. Obviously there's some loss there, but this indicates that there's still a lot of compression that we're missing.
I would argue that's the only nice airport in Scandinavia even!
Would say the worst layout on an airport i've ever seen is Stockholm Arlanda.
can you please add more info on the page to show why it is important and how its helpful
You should add a very short description of what this is and how it works. I kind of get that it is a way to tune/generate prompts for specific input output test cases, But its not clear exactly what it does.
Is "autonomous ground operation" a valid ambition in and of itself? Surely it needs qualification

- which means that ...
Just to add some context, there is no Noble Prize in psychology.
It's almost as if Patterson has no clue about the history of tunings, in the West or elsewhere.

Perfect harmonic tunings sound incredibly exotic and out of tune to Western ears - not least because we're so used to slightly-imperfect equal temperament. We have decades of exposure to it, so it sounds normal. A perfect perfect fifth sounds very strange, even a little disturbing, and thirds are almost dissonant.

I don't think anyone who has even the first idea about this has ever suggested that harmonic tunings are a goal, an ideal, or even a practical possibility. (See also, Pythagorean Comma.)
RAM is the limiting factor, but Mixtral 8x7 is probably the state of the art for self-hosted LLMs right now. If you are low on RAM you can run a quantized version, at the expense of reduced quality.
That's certainly an interesting challenge. But a web app which is not accessible is a show-stopper in general so it will be hard to use this for anything serious.

Is it an ongoing effort? I couldn't find a lot of pointers in the repo on how one could try to contribute to move this along.
This specific model of BWB, when overlayed with a 737/A320 seems to put the outer-most passengers at the approximate location of the nacelles on the narrow-body aircraft.

The nacelles on a 737 are BARELY wider than an A380. Is differential force an issue on the A380? It is one of the only models of commercial aircraft I have never flown on.
How many LPs have access to a financial statement for all of the portfolio companies of their VC fund?
Profitable, yes but pennies per day. 5950X should make ~$5/month after all is said and done iirc.

If you live in cold climates where space heaters are used, it makes sense, as you would've been heating the house anyways.
>Taleb really has a high opinion only of himself

That's not true though. I can name at least two other people on whom he has a high opinion (a.k.a he's praised them in his books): Karl Popper and George Soros. There are others as well, but most people here will recognize these people (I assume) so that's why I mentioned them, and admittedly they were the first to pop into my head lol

It's true that he's an asshole on X and in his books, while in real life he seems very nice and non-confrontational. He's talked about this in an interview he did with the Guardian I think a few years ago (maybe a decade ago), and if my memory serves me right, he said something to the tune of it being easier to get lost when you're not speaking directly to someone's face and become more rude than usual
Thanks for the indside knowledge. Are you in that field?

> SCMP

Do you still believe in them? They must comply with CPC at this point, I expect.

> The person who's name is on the byline basically stitched the research the freelancers did for them.

When I read about the NYT coverage of sexual violence on Oct 7, the story said a NYT reporter had two locals doing the legwork. Maybe that's efficient, but I'd think an experienced, high-skill reporter would find things that the freelancers might not.

In the past I looked hard for quality English non-Anglo journalism. It's tough anywhere; most news is of course in local languages and I also want high-quality journalism that fits my priorities (e.g., not the local mayor's scandal) - not a criticism of local journalism, it's just my narrow requirements. There were some good independent ones in the mainland in the 2000s but it seems nobody can be independent there anymore. Sinocism is pretty good, but it's written by a westerner and they left Beijing years ago.
I think one usage of "profit" is "making money" and the other is "benefitting from".

"I feel I'm benefitting from the AI hype train although I'm not making money from my projects."
Sidenote, i'm in your camp and agree with you - BUT, hypothetically there's a side to this i've not seen discussed here. That you can lose sleep and it causes a weight gain, with no other change to your CI or CO. Notably, you were previously not processing a portion of your potential CI and it was just passing through you.

In that case you didn't change how much you ate or how many calories passed your lips, but you did change your CI by way of changing your sleep.

Is this a real example or a contrived edge case from a software dev? No clue. I'll let better minds decide that hah.
I think you can also hold the key pressed while it's powering on
Perhaps they have a distribution problem instead
https://twitter.com/DanLinnaeus/status/1769048206225076573
I think the question might be a little too general to get good answers back. But it's an excellent question IMHO, and one that I really wish were more in the forefront of people's thinking.

If I were to make a website on some topic where all the content was AI-generated, I would feel scummy whether or not I was profiting financially. It would be adding noise to search results without adding value. It's like setting up wind farms right along the sides of interstates to produce "free power!" from the wind produced by trucks driving by. Except it's not free because it produces a small amount of drag paid for by the gasoline used by the trucks.

If I were to make a website with my own lame thoughts on the same topic, which didn't especially add any new ideas or break any new ground, but it felt significant to me, I wouldn't feel scummy at all. Even if it was just because of some funky CSS layout tricks and not really the content. Contributing a perspective feels fundamentally worthwhile. I think that would be my primary metric, in answer to your question.

Same thing if I were publishing a new package on npm or github or cargo or whatever. If I got the code from an AI or some other existing source and didn't add anything of my own, I would feel pretty scummy. I'd be squatting on some namespace and polluting the results of people looking to solve a problem. If I instead wrote some crappy code that worked the way I wanted it to, or used a novel-to-me technique, then I'd be totally fine with it.

There's a vast gray area in between those, though. It's a judgement call as to whether you've injected "enough" of yourself (your time, effort, care, interest...) to move from scummy to good. It'll vary between people and over time (my beginner project might feel awesome to me and dangerously incompetent to more experienced people.)

(And for the record, making a fully AI-generated website is a great learning experience and a worthwhile endeavor. The question of scumminess only comes up when you publish and promote it. Publishing with a robots.txt to make it be ignored is no problem at all.)

That's my 2¢ anyway.
This is such an often repeated trope, but it's not at all as clear cut as that. Sleep apnea *causes* weight gain, the arrow of causality can go both ways.
Agentic Workflows - Design Pattern 1: Reflection
Last week, Andrew Ng discussed the importance of AI Agentic Workflows and proposed four design patterns: Reflection, Tool use, Planning, Multi-agent collaboration. He mentioned that he would explain each one in detail in the coming weeks. Here's the first one: Reflection

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-242/
Apparently, the first official inquiry into London's sewerage recommended a separated system, but Bazalgette prevailed and his design was a combined system. Other British cities, and other cities round the world, copied this design.

https://news.sky.com/story/down-the-drain-what-went-wrong-wi...
Of course not, but the more important and difficult questions address how we should reason about, evaluate, and present ideas that lack proof.
Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
I like the idea, especially the TS-like syntax around enums and union types. I've always preferred the SDL for GraphQL vs writing OpenAPI for similar reasons. Most APIs I've run into in my career would benefit from modeling their API responses as ADTs versus the usual approach of overloading 4 different union members into a giant spare object.

I echo the sentiment others have brought up, which is the trade-offs of a code-driven schema vs schema-driven code.

At work we use Pydantic and FastAPI to generate the OpenAPI contract, but there's some cruft and care needed around exposing those underlying Pydantic models through the API documentation. It's been easy to create schemas that have compatibility problems when run through other code generators. I know there are projects such as connexction[1] which attempt to inverse this, but I don't have much experience with it. In the GraphQL space it seems that code-first approaches are becoming more favored, though there's a different level of complexity needed to create a "typesafe" GraphQL server (eg. model mismatches between root query resolvers and field resolvers).

[1] https://github.com/spec-first/connexion
In order to make that argument you have to assume that someone eats pancakes every day. I assure you we did not.
Why feel guilty? Set a reasonable hourly rate, estimate how long something ought to take, and if it takes 20% longer and you know that's because of "internal factors", i.e. you've spent some time daydreaming, just bill for a smaller number of hours.
If the project is successful then it makes money and doesn't have to be sold. If it doesn't make money then there is no reason to buy it. The business model is locked in regardless of who owns it on paper.
> lose the key and no one can get you back in to your account.

Incorrect: only Apple cannot.

You can voluntarily declare:

- recovery accounts: these trusted accounts can help you authenticate anytime.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212513

- legacy contacts: these trusted contacts can access your account in the event of your death.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102631

As for the "lose recovery key" situation is no different than hardware token 2FA + recovery codes. Print multiple copies and spread them to trusted third parties.
If they think this plan of "connecting" word to actions is promising then they should ask it to tie a shoelace based on "natural language" description. I'm shocked. I really did not expect that MIT would foster such naivety. They completely disregard the fact that natural language is a very crude description of physical actions. Perhaps next they will include in the instructions numerical values, and rediscover CNC.
Yep.

In 2013, Canada's population was roughly 35 Million.

Canada basically added an entire Denver a year for a decade
> rather than genuine interest in a product

The overwhelming majority of people going to work every day are doing it to earn a paycheck, not because of any genuine interest in what they are doing. You're in good company.
Interesting that they haven't release DBRX MoE-A and B. For many use-cases, smaller models are sufficient. Wonder why that is?
With these constraints, what is the benefit of Epyc over Threadripper? I've been running a 3970x in my workstation for several years now. Sure it's about twice the TDP, but with water cooling it stays quite silent even on full load.
It's a frustratingly easy mindset to have, and it's kind of objectively wrong. If I put down money, and got more money back without any real effort (outside of clicking a button or two on ETRADE) then that's a win. I got free money!

But that's just not how my brain works. Instead of being extremely happy that I got extra cash for nearly-zero effort, I'm sad that I didn't get more cash for nearly-zero effort.

I try and fight that mentality and focus on the good, but sometimes that's easier said than done.
Except for the incredibly low ceilings in some places.
> So, what makes it not a general purpose computing platform?

Public perception. An overwhelming majority of people who buy an Xbox (or a PlayStation, or a Switch) buy one just to play games. They don't expect it to do anything else. The manufacturers don't market their consoles as general-purpose devices either, they market them specifically as appliances for playing video games. Their SDKs also aren't publicly available.

If building iOS apps in 2008 was the same process as console games, would the iPhone be as successful as it is today? Imagine having to be a company, proving that your app idea is worthwhile, signing a million NDAs, and finally getting a devkit just so you could make a farting app (those were popular in the early days of the app store). The app review process back then was also much more forgiving and sensible than it is today. Things Apple does when it has to compete on its own merits!
My point is that the quantities that are consumed per serving are small and so it's the absolute costs that are more important than the relative difference.
I hope this result calls into question all the other work done by Pythagoras.
So Im guessing non western music still still satisfies other mathematical relationships? I dont think it's correct to say the mathematical explanation is incorrect or even limited.

Even considering deviations/slight variations from ratios:

1. You have to consider that these are deviations from the mathematical ratios.
2. The variations themselves can follow ratios. After all, not all deviations or variations are equally interesting.

For example if you were to play
1xxx2xxx3xxx4

you can vary the next verse
1xx2xxxx3xxx4
and the next
1xxxx2xx3xxx4

Here the second note is oscillating one before the "ideal" ratio and one after.
so, yes, pythagoras did not create a dead simple mathematical model that captures the entire complexity of human musical experience several thousand years ago. BUT i think the ongoing study of consonance/dissonance is a very interesting area of the intersection of math and music

some key words/links to get you started:

- "local consonance"

- "consonance/dissonance curves"

- a seminal paper: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/consonance.pdf

- a more recent re-implementation with a cool video at the end: https://www.sebastianjiroschlecht.com/post/ondissonance/

the basic idea being, different timbres lend themselves differently to different tuning systems. so we can parameterize our models of tuning systems based on timbre

an important thing to keep in mind: consonant/dissonant doesn't mean "good/bad" or "pleasant/unpleasant". they're the output values of a mathematical model which we have a complex intuitive relationship with. other ways of thinking about it might be "simple/complex", "resolved/unresolved", "release/tension", but all are inaccurate in their own way

some areas i'd love to see progress in:
- the work i've seen focuses on computational models, i.e. take a simple mathematical model of timbre, and directly compute the consonance/dissonance curve from it. but real instruments' timbre varies across many dimensions, some prominent ones being pitch, time, and dynamics. can we instead burn some CPU cycles and generate curves from a waveform?
- what does this look like for triads? tetrads? ...?
- put this in the browser! would make it so much easier to play with and present the ideas to less technical audiences
- how can we use this to generate new instruments? can a synth automatically adjust its tuning system based on its parameters? can we start from a set of desired consonant/dissonant intervals and generate an instrument with a matching curve?
The feeling you're experiencing is due to working in an industry you don't believe in just for the returns (whatever those returns may be). Making money off of something you don't believe in, rarely feels good.

I've felt the same way working in finance until I learned there are ways to benefit retail investors and not just hedge funds through my work.

I've felt the same way when I was doing freelance server management for minecraft servers, until I started looking at it through the lense of an entertainment-enabler rather than someone leeching off of the very lucrative environment.

Find purpose in the work you're doing, other than money or fame.
Yesterday X went crazy with ppl realizing typing Spiderman in foreign language actually generates a copyrighted image of Spiderman.

This feels like the Napster phase. We are free to do whatever until regulation creeps in to push control away from all and up the hierarchy.

All we need is Getty Images or some struggling heroin addicted artist on Vice finding their work used in OpenAIs to really trigger political spectrums.
The lack of 3D paravirtual devices is a real sore spot in kvm. To my knowledge, virgl still isn't quite there but is all there is so far in this space. VMware has the best implementation IMO and everything else is a step down.
I am technically a war profiteer due to stock trading. I bought and then kept trickling some money into an oil index fund when news was everywhere about negative $/barrel, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine made me $500 when I sold out.

(I don't actually feel like I did anything wrong, though. Just bought low and sold high, around oil macro events that anyone else could have seen)
I've been playing around with it for 15 minutes or so. It's like having a conversation with five or six different people. It's pretty awesome!
It seems more like they used a classifier to evaluate the situation and decide what state the system should be in. Not sure that the LLM contributed that much. LLMs are mediocre planners at this point.
Yes, Wikipedia says $2.2 billion for 5 launches, but the reference says $1.18 billion for 5 launches, where NROL-70 was part of a three launch buy for $467.5 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_IV_Heavy_launc...
Recent big discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39713634
For paravirtualized hardware rendering you can use virtio-gpu. In addition to Linux, a Windows guest driver is available but it's highly experimental still and not very easy to get working.
I agree. If they are getting hacked in two-three years, hackers will know who they really want to target.

I was interested in this, but not being able to clone it from GitHub and run it on a local machine, immediately turned me off and made me think "this is nothing but an ad".
Agreed. If the schema can also generate the service routes, models, serialization, etc, and you just have to maintain the business logic in the service, you get the spec matches the service benefits that way as well. Best of both worlds? People using gRpc seem to be 100% fine with schema first and generating the service stubs.

One of the key things with having the spec is that you can actually describe a lot more than you can with the various attributes and comments in the code. Especially things that are not as much service concerns but potentially client concerns or documentation concerns. You can also encapsulate reusable API patterns so you know different operations are following the same pattern.

The author didn't go into all the details but there are lots of ways in TypeSpec to separate the concerns of different consumers of the spec. There is a lot of opportunity and creative thinking that can be done here.
Yeah I'll do that now!
I appreciate your candor. I have been tasked with this type of timekeeping for almost 30 years now and I still dread it.
Pretraining on internal knowledge will be incredibly inefficient for most companies.

Finetuning makes sense for things like embeddings (improve RAG by defining domain specific embeddings) but doesn't do anything useful for facts
Related, a friend likes to say instruments that produce too pure sounds (too much like a sine wave) sound somewhat boring, because of their lack of timbre characteristics. I think this is a somewhat general property; although in general art is more of a language. I think a pure sine can sound right in the right context (e.g. perhaps how we remember fondly, and still enjoy, chiptunes and retro music), and it can have a particular meaning within that context that makes sense.
From my experience with someone who has CRPS the actual tooling in place to consistently do these kinds of things is severely wanting. Dragon naturally speaking isn't great for code and is all but abandon ware, and while there's a lot of cool new ai tools out the integration isn't there just yet.

That said maybe `mCtx` wasn't the best example, but in general anything other than fully pronounceable words in a normalized format (PascalCase, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, etc) is a huge pita for language models in our experience. Things like `i` or other single letters are generally okay.

But imagine things like "wait did you mean the letter 'm' or the unit 'em'"
And what I really fail to understand (honestly) is why this is even a question.

It's not confined to HN by any means, but for my entire professional life I've gotten the feeling that programmers, more than any other group, feel guilty about making money.
It'd be great to get a little write up of the technique
'Partnership' is another word for collusion, but that is indeed the slippery slope I see here. There's a fine line somewhere and I'm not sure multi-billion dollars of dependency-creating deals are on the right side it.

Besides, partnership implies equality, which, again, I'm not seeing here.
There is local lore get of a guy who lost all the legs of his kitchen table to his RC copter.
I lived in northern VA for a while and have met these people too. The non profit sector there is a similar insider circle.