skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Rented Model Y. Show up and no Model Y.

I don't understand how this isn't considered fraud. If you try to cancel your trip, they want to charge a crazy fee, but if they don't have the car that you reserved, sorry maybe we can offer you another one. Rental car companies need a good lashing from a government regulator.
Yes, these people are so mentally ill (and potentially drug addicted) that the state needs to supersede their agency so that they can rejoin society. I have no issue with this morally because I know beyond the shadow of doubt that if they can rejoin society they will experience a far better quality of life than they could ever hope for homeless. I explicitly acknowledge they exist, that is why I want them to be helped.

The man that lives under a bridge on the walking path near my house, who alternates between screaming for hours on end and being in a fentanyl trance, is not making logical decisions and would be better served by a psych ward and addiction treatment.
one of the primary complaints I've seen is the Tesla apps being inaccurate about charger availability - like 4 out of 5 chargers available here! And you show up and they're actually all taken with a huge line of people waiting.
2% I can understand. 3% is a big loss to take.
Your local bus company isn't trying to correlate your activity across multiple retailers to try to squeeze an extra few cents of value from you, though.
Except for the ones who don't:

https://youtu.be/n6PYj93SGxc?t=384

The point isn't that some kids enjoy it. The point is kids shouldn't be involved in the capitalist machine because its inherently exploitive.
Similar with PC BIOSes from before x86 CPUs got internal cache. The DRAM wasn't usable until it was properly set up (refresh, and possibly timing parameters on later chipsets).

One trick I've seen in BIOS code is basically return-oriented programming[1]: before a "call", the stack pointer is set to some location in ROM containing one or more return addresses. The advantage over putting the return address itself in some register is that this way, it can use subroutines ending in a normal RET instruction, that might also be called later when there is an actual stack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
I thought the abstraction I wrote sort of implied an interpreted mode for the runtime, no JIT compilation. Apologies for not being clear.
Facts, absolutely love em
The blue ones weird me out though
Its not even close now. And these things have been out maybe a few months? Of course even the potential of the current tools aren't fully explored.
When and how to move from an assumption to a hypothesis
Child labor has negative ideas because we think of coal mines with cancer, 0 education, and 18 hour working days. Or something like that.

I looked at the education my kid was getting in K-5, and I genuinely think he would learn more at a company doing manual labor than he would in Music.

But maybe we don't need to do such menial tasks. My kid could play with the HTML on a page for hours until it looks good. I used to pay people on upwork to do this...

I wonder what is a more valuable skill, learning to enjoy music/literature or learning how the world works + html?
Yes, but those statistics are only for USPA members. They don't include the more sketchy places like the skydiving center the article is talking about.

So it seems the lesson here is to make sure you only jump at places that are part of the USPA.
Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
In Apr 2024 what is the most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM?

In particular we are trying to understand performance vs. cost trade-offs. We don't have a budget to train from scratch.

We are working with a proprietary data set on the order of 100M tokens and are looking to fine-tune a general purpose language model and also create task-specific models based on the same corpus.

Any help would be appreciated!
Actually they downed 2. First above Azov sea Jan 14th 2024, which Russians furiously claimed that it was work of their own SAM. Second 23rd of February, where was also a video of A50 dropping flares and then getting hit.

Furthermore there is one A50 getting attacked by FPV while on Airport in Belarus on Feb 26th 2023 and attack on Taganrog service airbase in March 2024 where hangar was targeted, according to satellite one A50 destroyed.

That makes 4 of 6 lost?
> JetMoE-8B is trained with less than $ 0.1 million1 cost but outperforms LLaMA2-7B from Meta AI, who has multi-billion-dollar training resources. LLM training can be much cheaper than people generally thought.

They want you to read this as "we spent $100k compared to Meta's spending billions", but that's not actually what this says. It says that they spent $100k and Meta has the resources to spend billions if they wanted to.

We don't know what Facebook spent on training LLaMA 2, but they say that it took them 184320 A100-80GB GPU-hours to train the 7B model [0]. AWS charges $14.46/hour for an instance that has 8 of those [1], which amounts to $1.81/GPU/hr.

At that rate and assuming they paid something resembling AWS's list price, LLaMA 2 7B cost ~$333k. That's more than $100k, but not by orders of magnitude, and it's likely that Facebook wasn't paying the full price AWS is charging today.

[0] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md#...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/
Pastamarkers: Astrophysical data visualization with pasta-like markers
> Opus is mopping the floor with GPT 4 1106 and 0125

True. I only hop on GPT-4 when I finish my quota for Claude. I much prefer Claude's long form writing.
Fantastic travel writing with a couple of real LOLs. The author plays the role of self-aware snob for all it's worth though, I assume hoping that his fellow passengers and Atlantic readers are disjoint sets.
Microsoft has also supported open source for a long time. It still counts even if it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" right?
Why are there no coups d'etat then?
Could be useful for security isolation - browse any site you want, and if it manages to escape the browser sandbox it still doesn't get your real machine. Also could reduce the resources used locally; browsers with a lot of tabs are a RAM hog.
This is something different entirely. We're outside of the "human sphere" so to speak.

>Humans like what they like and seldom judge an artwork for its process (outside of a very small niche community).

That's true, but how do you zoom out of process? This is beyond process. I would just say most people don't like inhuman things.
"Desire’s a contract you make to be unhappy until you get what you want." https://nav.al/desire
FunKey is a Mac app that offers the ability to add artificial mechanical keyboard sounds to your MacBook. The ultimate Mac app for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts.
Men and women, blacks and whites, gays and straights, etc., are entitled to equal treatment, not equal results.
There really isn't a comparison here. Allowing a 12 year old to work in their parent's shop part time with relatively strict hour limits (at least in Canada) is going to inherently be less exploitative then a child working for a "game development company" in which they have actual personal connection to.
> the last generation is the largest generation and it gets to hold the bags

You're describing a housing-price decline as if it didn't happen less than two decades ago. It's painful, because of the leverage. But a lot of Americans are uniquely equity rich in their homes right now. The missing pieces in your equation are (a) default, which wipes out the debt and (b) real economic growth. It's a tragedy that so much of (b) gets funnelled into real estate prices, but that's a policy choice and far from unsustainable in general. (Versus at specific price points.)
> wouldn’t the V8 example code be just as safe as the equivalent JS if it used the JS array’s own semantics?

Yes, but imagine that the code we are talking about here is JIT code that the compiler emitted. If the compiler JITed code that was safe Rust then it could be safe. But JITs emit machine code and a big part of their performance is exactly in the "dangerous" areas like removing unneeded bounds checks.

Say you have a bounds check in a loop. In some cases a JIT can remove it, if it can prove it's the same check in each iteration. Never removing the check would be safer, of course, but also slower.

The point of the article here is that a lower-level sandboxing technique can help such JIT code: even if a pass has a logic bug (a bug Rust would not help with) and removes a necessary check then the sandboxing limits what can be exploited.
In Parliamentary system this is somewhat equivalent to "hung parliament" and usually results in re-elections. Governments must prove minimum support to pass legislations before they can claim to be "in charge"
"There are a variety of techniques that developers can use to (...) reduce costs."

they forgot to mention using open models.
Unix CLI philosophy, COM, ActiveX, Desktop Widgets, AppleScript, IFRAME's, The microservices movement, iOS Shortcuts, IFTTT, WebComponents, audio plugins, etc -- consumer clients and backend services have continuously explored composability as an engineering approach. Enterprise products often drown in bespoke/internal approaches to it.

It's an obvious idea, sometimes productive, but tends to accumulate incoherence, impedance, and security issues over time so (with exceptions) any given implementation tends to burn itself out eventually.

There are living examples now, there were many examples in the OP's 2005 world, and there will be more in the future.

The OP was frustrated by nobody buying into their own idea, but they write about it like it was innovative and unappreciated rather than common and naturally limited.
Computers can never be responsible or accountable for their actions. AI is like the genie from the lamp, it will grant your 3 wishes and they will turn out weird. And you can't do anything to it. What can you do, it has no body. Only a human has skin in the game.
There's value in just being a child. Not everything is about min/maxing your life.
Right, but I didn't make that argument.
Lol the only way Microsoft can achieve quantum computing is by stealing someone's quantum computer
>most of the cost comes from building the plant in the first place, not from the fuel.

I don't think that's correct. The costs of handling spent fuel is ongoing for an unknown amount of time. Eventually the running costs add up.

The main storage site in the UK (which admittedly does more than just store waste) costs around USD 3 billion per year, basically as much as building a new nuclear plant every 5 years.

Then you have unforeseen events that can drastically change the calculations. Like the Asse II mine in Germany where a storage site started leaking and has to be relocated at an estimated cost of at least 3.7 billion euro over the coming decades. After that is completed, the relocated waste will continue to cost money to handle as well.

Such cost are generally NOT included, or has a fraction of the true liability included, in the cost estimates of nuclear power.

When you take such things into account it quickly becomes clear that nuclear is not nearly as cheap as many have been lead to believe, but instead very expensive and very heavily subsidized.

Consider also that even if it were cheap, it is strategically (both in a military sense and for reliability) a bad idea to have few large power plants instead of many smaller ones. The most recent nuclear reactor in the EU has had several emergency stops already and causes severe stress on the grid since it provides such a large percentage of the total power.

Having a geographically diverse set of solar and wind plants combined with local batteries, gas generators and small peak-handling gas plants has to be a better solution than nuclear power. More resilient, cheaper and faster to build, easier to maintain, not to mention a much more predictable total cost.
In America, you work, you get a paycheck for hours worked.

At Roblox, you work, they take the majority of the proceeds and then your project has to make a decent amount of money or you NEVER get paid.
I don’t find the premise logical - that suicidal taboo prevents people from action

> Indentured servitude, extortion, social injustice, slavery. All these hinge on a human being having no way out of mistreatment. In such a society, it would be largely impossible to compel anyone to do something against their will.
> At first glance, this seems like it would benefit the bullies

Sure, people can remove themselves from harm, but most of the time they will remove the harm themselves - this definitely would not favor the bully

This is where revolutions and revolts come from

Suicide taboo is not holding anyone back
A lot of the biggest perceived differences come from temperature, since red wines are usually served at room-temperature. If you ever decide to do a blind test, make sure to control for temperature. I did it, and I had a very hard time picking out which varietals were red and which were white.
Even if/when it's voted on, I don't see it actually implemented anytime soon due to the inevitable Big Telecom lawsuits [1] and not to mention that it may be significanly weaker than the 2015 rules. [2]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-democrats-sc...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/04/fcc-prepares-to-restore-...

My point still stands that the US Supreme Court is going to have to step in and decide net neutrality's future one way or another because I can't see Congress pass a law to codify it.
Because unregulated capitalism is just property and trading.
Hard to imagine sentient beings without the concept of property and trading.

You have to kill all humans to end capitalism.

What everybody hates is crony capitalism where business leverage their government connections to screw everyone - but that's just socialism with extra steps.
> it's an artificial loan that only exists because the fed is the counter party

The Fed doesn't originate mortgages. (And it's increasingly getting out of even holding them.)
Synology NAS just works, it has nice UI and lots of plugins. However, it's far more expensive and hardware can be underwhelming. It's less flexible as well.
> 100,000 Robux / $1,000 USD

Not much better but still a bit at 30,000 robux for $105 now
Ah, so it was there until some time in the fall of 2004, then.
> Word on the street is that times have now changed

I'm not that old, but back when I got into the IT world, it was not seen as a particularly desirable profession; I rather liked the idea of being the troll in the basement who didn't need to talk to people and just kept the machines running. I suppose I grew up a bit along with the industry, and that is a good thing, but once it became a bit more lucrative it started attracting a fair amount of attention that I'd rather it didn't have.
https://cslincoln.ytmnd.com/
Exactly. If containerization solves one thing, it’s installing two pieces of software that e.g. want a different version of system Python installed. I love Debian but it won’t help you much here.
The US has a set of National Scenic Trails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trails_System#Nationa..., and the Appalachian Trail is essentially the granddaddy of all such trails so far as I'm aware.
Tables are underutilized for how concise and descriptive they can be when making comparisons. It's a shame most text editors start with a blank table instead of inserting one pre-configured with some good design choices.
UI does show and let you select the underlying model
Well you know what happens when we assume. You make a front page headline out of you and me.
Ask HN: Tech folks in US gov / IC, do you feel like your work is high-impact?
Well happy to share the edges I ran into if you want. Feel free to reach out (email in bio).
Well, both allowing kids to monetize and taking almost all the revenue are a problem.

The wild thing is Second Life's 600K MAU players monetize better than Roblox's 350M MAU players -- both for the company (it's still not profitable despite huge revenue) and for the creator community:

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/01/roblox-metaverse-revenue-s...
The user can choose the relevant context as follows: go to the relevant code part/snippet/files, select, then Ctrl+shift+E, one by one.

In the near future, the agent will suggest these for you, after first indexing your code base
I've seen some very recent research proposing just that: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.05033.pdf . Of course still far from production, but interesting that in some cases it actually also improves latency.
Single body-coupled fiber enables chipless textile electronics
Rejuvenating the blood cell population
Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902596 (72 comments)
Of course is overly simplistic. It’s a rant. I’m not trying to propose an alternative here because I’m not an idiot and I know there aren’t any.

It’s human nature. If one stops doing it someone else will take their place.

I just hate the state of the world in this specific context.

And again, I don’t have anything against growth itself. Growth is a byproduct. I have an issue when growth becomes a motivating force. Because it pushes well intentioned people in wrong directions.

The entire enshittification of the web is a testament of that.

There was a time when companies, local ones, were happy to have reached a steady state. You make a product people want, you’re earning more than you’re spending, you’re employing a bunch of people and that’s fine.

That entire concept seems to be forgotten because of this silly growth at all cost mindset.

That’s what bothers me.
Yeah, it's definitely a Chesterton's Fence problem; GP is dismissing Autotools because he has never had to deal with the problem which Autotools solves.
> It also doesn't come with an official web interface though there are some options for that too.

Before the fork LXD had added a web ui. Did Incus remove it?
Java generates a lot of garbage because its designers thought that the stack is unnecessary and GC is enough for everything. They were wrong.

Both ZGC and Azul C4 pause threads. SGCL never pause threads, so it can collect garbage more often and more efficiently.
Reminds me of Richard Dreyfuss reading an Apple license.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu0lqUlHEko
Wow thank you for taking me back.. reminded me of CyberDog [1] which I haven’t thought about in quite some time…

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
There are multiple issues.
[1] If you drag/drop or upload the file to Teams, it creates a copy and shares it via Teams SharePoint?

[2] If you look in Teams, some people have automatic permissions because they are in the Team or already have access to the Teams folder. If they are not in the Team, then you have to give "direct access".

[3] For the paranoid, you first go into OneDrive and "manage access". Then you are faced with two choices whose UX is confusing to say the least. One option is to "Copy Link" which has almost the same identical choices as "Share with Specific People". Note that "Share with Specific People" gives you options like "Anyone/doesn't require sign in" and the dialog has a button called "Copy Link". Huh? I thought I was sharing with specific people. I am still unsure who exactly can see the document. Or if the document was shared externally outside of my company.

SHAREPOINT
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-sharepoint-...

ONEDRIVE
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-onedrive-fi...
American left is the global middle. The non U.S. right is the american left.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-com...

Go read the above.
"The traces are length-matched with squiggly lines[...]. The trace matching requirement is ±10 ps according to the Zynq PCB design guide, which is approximately ±2mm in trace length. [...] There is also some delay difference inside the FPGA package which should be considered in the length matching."

This is a shortened excerpt from the article. It can be found below the image with six colorful images of PCB layers. I'm curious how the delays inside the FPGA package are known. Is there a table which pin adds how much delay to a signal or something like that?
Tesla superchargers do but that is about it.
I find Le Guin to write interesting explorations but this article is pure political propaganda.

We should all be reading more Ayn Rand
Yea, I completely forgot to mention gnulib.
"Containers are silly" might be the literal worst take I've seen in this space, especially if one is at all interested in "onboarding more moderately techy folk" to the idea of homelabs, and self-hosting, which I think is incredibly important.

Once you know Docker, you can abstract away SO MUCH and get things up and running incredibly quickly.

Let's say you have someone who now hates Spotify. Perfect. Before Docker it was a huge pain to try to set up one and hope you get it right.

After Docker? Just TRY ALL OF THEM. Don't like Navidrome/mstream/whatever? Okay, docker-compose down and try the next one.
I wonder how many admins/devops/whatever will get alarmed by an inexplicable bump in 404s served thanks to this post :)
This work is based on a fine-tuned Google Palm Model from 2022. I'm not sure if this is a fair comparison to the latest groundbreaking series of LLMs
That’s pretty kind of you to say. I feel like I could have come up with a better example though.
And the Rossini (Barber of Seville) score is just perfection.
Thanks for your comment!

What you said makes a lot of sense, I started taking more care of my health in the last 45 days, I took several tests, etc. and then I discovered this condition.

The nutritionist, not yet knowing about Gilbert's syndrome, asked me to drink 2 to 3 liters of water a day and what I noticed was a huge reduction in the sleep I felt during the day. I also realized that caffeine consumption also bothers me and I'm trying to reduce it.

Don't even get me started on the hangover, every time I go out I already know I'm going to have a hellish next day! It's great to know that I'm not the only one and that someone else continues to drink even though they have a "problem" with their liver, so I feel less guilty!
I have my own core design that I would probably use, and you definitely don't need to use CMOS logic with your discretes. You can also get away with a lot more things than verilog lets you do, like you can use shared buses with internal 3-state drivers. That stuff cuts down your transistor count a lot.
About a year ago I read the OpenDoc specifications [1] (which for some reason are not linked to from the Wikipedia entry on OpenDoc). What struck me was how much of the complexity was to allow different vendors to provide differing amounts of services for comparable components - all sorts of fallback mechanisms for rendering the product of one spreadsheet component if you have a less complete spreadsheet component, for example.

[1] https://www.omg.org/technology/documents/vault.htm - under Retired Specifications at the bottom of the page, under Compound Presentation & Interchange
Two songs it seems. Gang of Four - Ether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_HrbO9xfI&pp=ygUSZ2FuZyBvZ...
I actually didn't use any expensive test equipment, only oscilloscope and multimeter. Even design and simulation software was all open source.

Expensive signal analyzer or spectrum analyzer would have been useful, but they aren't absolutely necessary. It's possible to use the radar itself for many tests and debugging.

I have tried to limit the projects I do on my own to only the equipment that I have home and open source software.
JPEGinen or JPEGli in Finnish
There are zero wall outlets in the middle of the desert.
Feds probe massive alleged classified US govt data theft and leak
I get the revenue split issue, but why is providing a platform for kid creators to make money a problem?