skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the problem of where things are being shipped from, they could in a warehouse down the road, or coming from the other side of the world. For something regular/you shop often at, entering your shipping address to have shipping costs appear as you shop might help, but if it's a one-off, or you're trying to price compare and you don't want to enter your details yet, then that's much harder.
Tinyllama isn't going to be doing what ChatGPT does, but it still beats the pants off what we had for completion or sentiment analysis 5 years ago. And now a Pi can run it decently fast.
I meant in $
The cost is far out of range of what could compete in ERCOT. This is a complete nothingburger.
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More or less so than murdering foreign nationals on foreign soil? Eg Salisbury poisonings.

Given Russia already does that, is this, this doesn’t seem a massive escalation.
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Most credit cards can do foreign transactions, and a number of travelers have cards that can do those transactions with no fees at fairly competitive exchange rates. In the past, most of those were limited to cards with annual fees, but it's easier now to get such cards with no fees (e.g. Apple Card). Personally, I purchased the pass online from JR in JPY with a US Visa card, which converted it to a USD price that came out ahead of all the authorized resellers that sold the pass in USD.
There's... actually very little that stops you from sending mail from a non-local postal code.

I've occasionally sent packages postmarked as being from one zipcode from another; as long as it's in the same region, much of the postal processing doesn't care so much.

There's also remailers and forwarders.
Yeah crime has definitely worsened in London especially in my local area palpably in the time I've been in Singapore meanwhile over here things have gotten more expensive but we don't have violence on the streets. I didn't realise how much I value feeling safe until I left
A local ant+ like standard would be magic.

My cynical take is that there is no growth multiple or data economies that can be harvested without a strictly controlled walled garden.
Correlation is about combining metadata to incrementally narrow datasets.

When a VPN provider isn't cooperative, metadata can be sought upstream.

Mullvad deserves much credit for accepting non-digital payments, which increases the cost of deanonymization.
Is there any way for them to enforce that
The thing that’s maybe most grim about this article is how much of a non-story this is. “New-media outlet can’t raise more VC funding, goes bust with no warning, leaves nothing but ashes” — yeah, it’s a Wednesday alright.

It’s obviously cliche at this point, but I do really worry about the future of publicly available, long-form writing. Investigative journalism in particular.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CureAphantasia/

founder of this sub (also a dev) claims to have self-cured his aphantasia. documented his process / exercise suggestions. Not sure if anyone successfully cured themselves after his steps but I think they are worth checking out.
There are those of us for which this actually makes sense. More sense than react anyway.
But doesn't that defeat the purpose of upscaling? I see a lot of people promoting Magnific AI (which costs $40 a month) but it's not really an upscaler. It's more of an AI repainter. It replaces most details by re-imagining them instead of guessing the original details. I think we should be clear about what an AI Upscaler is and what an AI re-painter is.
IDK, dude’s provably pretty capable as long as you don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp. Betcha he’d fix it pretty good.
TrueType fonts of that era typically came in separate Windows and Macintosh versions due to implementation differences. One difference was how Windows relied on an additional `OS/2` (lol) table in the TrueType font data, unused by Mac OS: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/501/can-someone-explain-t...

The arguably bigger reason is that Mac OS didn't support "data fork TrueType fonts" (what most people probably think of when they think "TTF file") until Mac OS 8.5 (1998). Before then, TrueType and other fonts on the Macintosh were resource-fork-only, because "installing" a font prior to 1992 meant using a special Font Mover utility which actually grafted the font's resource data into the Macintosh System suitcase itself at an unused Resource ID#. Attempting to even copy such a font to a Windows system would yield a 0-byte file on the receiving end unless one knew what they were doing. System 7.1 (1992) added a dynamic "Fonts" folder in the System Folder but still expected to see them as Macintosh resources.

An Apple-commissioned font like Chicago probably never had an official data-fork-plus-OS/2-table "Windows Version" made of them at all. Since the actual Bézier curve data (`glyf` table) was the same on either platform, it was possible to homebrew a Windows version of a Macintosh font or Macintosh version of a Windows font.
> The most common understanding is that a paradigm is a set of features in a programming language that determine its control flow or type system

A better viewpoint is to question what sort of problems or way to model a system, is a particular paradigm best suited to?
Hacker news is a place for intellectual curiosity, not ideological cliche.
My client at least used the mp3 file. But other than the url to the site was nothing else.
Yeah it takes like 5 minutes. I have no idea what people are crying about. On a tech site no less. This is entry level have the intern do it stuff.
Well, the comment ends by saying "People have ... memory issues", so it checks out.
Whatever trust and sense of ethics there was have been swept away by companies playing continual pricing games, eschewing quality assurance, and nickel and diming workers into doing the bare minimum. Personally I'd love a store that had consistently low prices where I could save money by batching orders for different things, packed items well, had intelligent empowered customer service, and charged money for elective returns. But evidently there is more money to be made by confusing the market with wildly variable prices day to day, price fixing across stores, and turning the screws where they can. The industry has made it clear that the only thing that matters is the formal terms, so that's the game I'll play.

For example, I've got zero qualms about buying something I merely might want because it's a on a good sale, and then making the actual decision over the next 30/90 days. And if I've already got a pending return somewhere, then doubling down with more speculative buying is essentially free. Holiday shopping season is basically an extended project season.

Or when items arrive damaged, I'll optimize the presentation of my complaints such that I'm less likely to have to actually return them to get replacements. This saves me the time of doing so and makes up for having to deal with the situation in the first place.
I don't believe that is the target for a local LLM... Pretty sure we're talking about client-side computing, of which the newest supports only AVX-512 (and even that sketchily on Intel's side).
What no code/custom AI chatbot are you using for your website?
I am exploring some no-code AI platforms for handling chats on my website.
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Super stoked to see this. The loss curves look like there is still some gains to be made from further training. Maybe I’m too stupid to read but I could not find anything on the amount of tokens this has been trained on except for some of the ablation runs.
Chipping in dnGrep.

Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files.

http://dngrep.github.io/
I absolutely loved Wild at Heart!

He will be missed.
This analysis strongly suggests an Eastern European locale masquerading (with occasional oversights) as Chinese: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time...
I understand you're trying to simplify every other job out there in a crass way.
But,

- How many companies out there are tripling revenue? If a majority of the companies are tripling their revenue YoY is it healthy or cancerous to the economy?

- How many times does an industry "reinvent" itself.

- What use are all other software, without CRUD apps pulling money from the "other" economy into software?

famously, computing got its foothold, __because__ lotus 123 was utilitarian.
What I mean by that is, ultimate utility for all software products come from software interacting with the real world somewhere down the line.

it might not be hip or world breaking. But, it is the most important part.
Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches?
A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack
I.e. wipe all servers worldwide at the morning of an attack, but before that you install the kill switches on your servers and those of your allies.
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Unless you use Chuo and Yamanote to get around in Tokyo or need to take Narita Express or Monorail to the airport. Or you want to get from central Osaka to Namba by Kansai or out to Nara, or all the way to Kyoto, or take a ferry to an island.

There's lots of things that the JR Pass works for that aren't Shinkansen and they used to add up even if it was just $10/day, and you didn't have to worry about it. Just the Narita Express was $30-40 one way.

With the new pricing... not so much. Just get SUICA unless you're going all the way from Sapporo to Fukuoka and back.
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I'd say, maybe it can work for one country. Japan has and is making huge investments into hydrogen and it's easy to see why. Trading a dependency on foreign oil for a dependency on foreign lithium, doesn't look like a good trade for energy independence. Meanwhile, hydrogen is accessible via electrolysis of water, of which Japan has plenty of access to.
For cutting-edge LLM work, probably? I mean, I run mine on older hardware than that, but I'm a total hobbyist...
That's outright false and just wishful thinking from you.
OK, thanks! May I ask which client that is?

(There are also FLAC and Opus files there for clients that can see them, spanning 1.5 orders of magnitude in size!)
I feel like you have to be pretty far from reality to think that if this would impact the wealthy in any meaningful way, that they would also let it happen.
This person's view of "voluntary spending" vs. "involuntary taxation" is so whacky also. 1st off, if the gov't makes you sell it after 100 years, it's not "voluntary". 2nd, in what world would you not just... transfer it to another person you know, and have them transfer it back. 3rd, How many wealthy families actually own the same piece of property for >100 years?

Wealth = Power, if you want money from the wealthy to leave the hands of the wealthy, the gov't is just going to have to take it from them. Now, you can decide what you want to tax, OR you can do what we've done in America, and just pretend this isn't a problem.

Some possible 'what's (in rough order of how much I think they actually solve the problem):
1. Treat Capital Gains, and Stock compensation like the income it is and tax it accordingly (I know this won't be popular on hacker news, but this is how CEOs get overpaid).
2. Increase Marginal income tax back to what it was when the US had less wealth inequality (1965 had 70%)
3. Change the inheritance tax over $5M to be like 95% (you get $0.05 on the dollar for every dollar you inherit past $5M)
4. Wealth Tax (probably strictly worse than every other option, cause "stonks", but it's not nothing)

How to make this change is the real '?', because while we could enact this change it won't happen as long as the people with the money can convince us that it's actually in our best interest for them to have the money.

In an election year, I would start by voting out anyone who has removed the word "tax" from their legislative vocabulary. After that, I would vote out anyone who doesn't vote to increase taxes on the rich. (I'm not specifying parties here, but anyone who takes money from Grover Norquist is a problem).

"like being at a firefighter conference and no one's allowed to talk about water." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0
IMO taking Calculus later in life is probably easier for most (study of 1) people (assuming you have seen some of it before). I took Calculus at 19 years old and passed but I did not have any idea what it was really used for. Taking it again during Grad School (mid 30s) Calculus made way more sense. Ideas would click (mostly not CS related) but more in the general world view (think washers for nuts and bolts – area under a curve). I will be the first to admit that making front ends and tuning a DB will almost never need any calculus (but it does happen) and admit I did horrible in high school but turned it around in college (I was behind when I got there the first time for sure). How much do I remember right this second (not much), but I do feel its worth doing as if only a right of passage to say we deserve that 6-figure salary and maybe not feel too bad about calling our self’s engineers.
Good luck with the singing lessons and new job, but if your married (or have children) do NOT quit that day job just yet If not, well hell go for it my friend!!!
I think that should be phrased more like "what fraction of GPU speed can this reach?", because it'll always be less than 1x.
Well it did have efficient in the title
> resist the temptation.

As in, find an investor willing to put up a lot of cash up front with a long payback period with a product in a competitive consumer electronic segment where margins decline over time.
Uh yeah I would, and still am, take the Wikipedia backup for doomsday scenarios. I'm not even sure how that would be a competition
From the example: "--temp 0 turns off the random number generator (we don't want improvisation for a spam filter)"

I've been thinking for a while about how many applications of LLMs need this adjustment and aren't getting it
Anywhere that I can play with this model?
The rules or tutorial should also say which dictionary is being used. There are plenty of standard dictionaries to use for word games,like SOWPODs.
the community and can't take any criticism too, as you have so clearly demonstrated, so the language will never get better. stuff will just keep being bolted on. More syntax baby!

remind me again how to interpolate a string....
It would be really interesting to see what it upscales poor security footage to be when we know the people in the picture; how accurate was it?
I'm learning LLM at the moment, RAG particularly. [1]

I ended up built InkChatGPT as my learning project and it was huge fun. It is an AI Agent that could help learning from multiple documents and you can chat with it, thank Chat PDF GPT.

I use LangChain as LLM framework to simplify the backend, and using Streamlit as front end UI and deployment. Using OpenAI `gpt-3.5-turbo` model, Use HuggingFace embeddings to generate embeddings for the document chunks with `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` model.

To be honest, coming from Mobile development background, learning about ML and reading about LLM models, prompt tuning and various techniques really opens my mind, but the vast information and knowing how to start is difficult.

[1] InkChatGPT: https://github.com/vinhnx/InkChatGPT
This is fun. Feels like scrabble meets risk. I dig it.
Good points. We don’t want the wrong thing. But we want the right one!

Reactive UI won. The main thing stopping me from using vanilla JS is the absolute explosion in complexity managing state for even small sized applications. To me, any reactive framework is better than vanilla, so perhaps there is a construct missing? Now that it’s been a decade or so, we should start thinking about possible cut-points for standardization. Like with promises, this could bring down complexity for extremely common use-cases, if done right.

I think a better way to evaluate it would be: “would this proposal be used by existing reactive frameworks?”. If not, why? What’s missing? What’s superfluous? What about lessons from UI annd reactivity from other languages? There’s a lot of fragmented experience to distill, but it’s a worthwhile endeavor imo.
“They have warned about nato expansion and the overt, publicized plans of US think tanks and policymakers about destroying Russia for two decade.”

Ah, you didn’t watch the tucker Putin interview!

First question was whether NATO’s threat caused the Ukrainian invasion, and Putin quite clearly said, I’ll paraphrase, “Nope, Ukraine has always belonged to Russia.” Puty’s actual response was 30 minute history lesson on why Russia owns Ukraine. No mention of NATO. Anyway, you don’t know what you’re talking about it seems, or Putin is lying about his intentions, which I suppose is totally on brand for genocidal despots.
Stasi fits even better.

As in stasi phones, stasi devices, [strike]social[/strike] stasi networks... Everyone snitching on everyone, from self and family to passers-by. Everyone becoming an informal collaborator.
You can't evaluate who will win a battle unless you know which words are in their dictionary, which you can't know without tediously (at least right now) looking up every word you might play, plus every word the opponent plays in their dictionary. This tedium bogs down play. Better to have the board indicate which words are valid or not, and warn before I play an invalid word.
Sure! Where I work we build very specialized, very low user count live remote non destructive testing software that can be run on a browser. Well, it used to be native, but clients complained a lot in part due to IT restrictions on updates. That means that we basically have to have a remote processing unit, sync the state with the front end at all time, and with the scanning equipment too. That means multiple different canvases and charts, different tabs etc that all contain state, need state to be updated sometimes in the background, and need to have consistent state changes. I don't do a lot of front end dev, but I did help in setting up our new inference module there as I'm in the AI/ML side and it would've been a nightmare to deal with even if I mostly did stuff in a webgl canvas. It was angular, which I don't really like, but is still much better than going vanilla.

I know it's pretty niche, but I'd say most non-trivial (blogs, CMS, forms) front ends handle a lot of state. If they don't, then they are relatively simple anyways. That's a generalization but still, you quickly hit the point where react/other framework becomes worth the complexity overhead versus the complexity of doing it in vanillajs
I suspect you don't touch Go code.
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Can someone link a paper to this study? Isn't this a dupe of a flagged story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864387
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Performance per dollar and per watt of IBM machines are wholly out of step with the market. As such, there's no motivation to re-use those machines after migration off z/OS or other IBM solutions anyway...
Upvoted for implausibly specific domain knowledge.
Ok, but are you arguing that the media shouldn't report the news objectively, rather they should decide the "good side" and "bad side" and then report their opinion?

I don't want that. I'm an adult. I don't want to know another adult's opinions, I'd like an objective report on the facts. I can make my own decision as to whether it's a problem and if it's is, who I believe is on the "good side" and who is on the "bad side".

But regardless, let's look at one of the issues you raise - Iowa allowing minors to work in roofing and industrial laundry. Annoying, the article doesn't link to the actual law, it rather links to another news article. Yuck.

So let's see what the actual law looks like[1] that the Governor signed:

- 92.8 Under eighteen — prohibited occupations:

- No person under eighteen years of age shall be employed
or permitted to work with or without compensation at any
of the following work activities or business
establishments:

- 14. Roofing operations

- 92.5 Fourteen permitted work activities:

- 12. Laundering.

- 92.6 Fourteen and fifteen — occupations work activities not
permitted [big list of prohibited activities involving hazards like machines or chemicals]

Now I'm super confused. The law (as I read it), seems to explicitly ban roofing by minors.

For laundry services, it adds laundry services, which I imagine would involved loading and unloading washers and dryers, which doesn't seems like an overly hazardous activity to me, especially with the section outlawing hazardous activities.

Note the law says "no one under 16 may perform work during school hours". So a fourteen year could be employed in laundry services after school or weekends, so to me that seems like a reasonably limitation. It also prohibits work before 7am and after 9pm and limits it to 28 hours per week for 14 year old (so 8 hours in addition to working Saturday and Sunday).

None of this seems outrageous. Delivering newspapers was a common job for minors. That involved riding or walking a bike early in the morning, which seems more hazardous to me than doing laundry.

[1]https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=SF5...
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You can do 2 guesses if you get lucky. If you want to assume worst possible luck you can't even do it in 3, you need 4.
Sure there is. Software is easy to change.
This board is not radically progressive. Are you new here or radically conservative/authoritarian yourself? Trying to figure out how you see that since I see pretty decent spread of biases here myself. What gets to me is when I see thoughtlessly regurgitated talking points that don’t withstand scrutiny, but a proper debunking actually takes time whereas puking up whatever clever lie was told on tv takes no time at all. I expect better of the people here, and most of the time they deliver.

Plenty of libertarians remain. They’re mostly self contained to crypto and gold stuff after some major exoduses and hits the ideologies image. A lot of the older ones have matured and evolved since their younger and louder days.

With the return of literal fucking Nazis and your lack of concern for this, I feel emboldened to say that polarization is not going anywhere. Certainly not back to center. I’m not compromising on my humanity or right to practice satanism and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster with the exact same freedom as Abrahamic believers. I don’t see anyone here branding half the country (as of 2020 more like 45%, at best since conservatives skew old) as evil personified. Unless you’re conflating pejoratives like that directed at people like trump, or the actual Nazis I referenced as applicable to every conservative voter in the country? Or maybe you’re referring to liberals being targeted as the personification of evil on this board?
Funny enough just today I asked ChatGPT a tax question, which it very confidently gave me the wrong answer for.

For those curious, the question was: is interest earned in Canadian RRSP accounts considered taxable income in California for state tax.
I would self-report as having hyperphantasia, but I also have face blindness. I looked up the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) test, and the first few questions involved picturing a person - starting with the head and shoulders! Well fuck me. That part in my mind's eye is somewhere between blurry and Picasso. (The features don't hold still.)
I've only used -i -o -n mode, but for me that just works. And when something just works, I tend to see "a codebase that hasn't been updated in a long time" as a good thing generally :)

(Don't take it personally, it's my burnout from modern software cycles.)
What makes you so blithe? Expertise in the airline industry? You’re saying nothing factual and coming across as a contrarian.
You can do a lot better than binary search because you get a weighted score for each guess.