skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The credentialism that permeates discussion in Bolshevik adjacent circles annoys me deeply.

Famous political authors that sold a lot of books don't bring any more credentials to an idea than if I said something in a 4chan post. Argue with the ideas you got from the author, don't keep using them like a religious figure!

So many comments here are just quoting things without pondering if it's bullshit. Sometimes it is!

For irony and fun here's a quote from PhD dropout Natalie Wynn:

There’s also a certain amount of genuine leftist bullshit passing itself off as scholarship. I was once in a comparative literature seminar that I foolishly took in the hopes of getting to read something written with a decent prose style, or at least something by an emotionally competent human being. Boy was I disappointed when on the first day the professor made two allusions to “my good friend Derrida.” Those are quotation marks around “my good friend” because he mentioned that Derrida was his friend every time it came up. Pass the cyanide, honey.

Anyway, the low point of this guy’s endless, beginningless, argument-free impromptu lectures came when he baldly asserted that the poetry of Milton had a direct influence on the workings of ISIS. Yes, this would be John Milton, the 17th century English poet, and ISIS, the contemporary Syrian terrorist organization. And what evidence did the professor adduce in support of this outrageous claim? None whatso-fucking-ever. And the other grad students in the room just sat there nodding knowingly, taking notes like a bunch of sycophants. No one raised their hand, no one said, “Excuse me professor, but what in Jesus’ name are you fucking talking about?” I didn’t even say anything. I had no spine!

The only explanation I can think of for this was that the professor had this reflexive hatred of himself, of English literature, of basically all of Western culture, and so he had to hallucinate that Islamic terrorism is in some way the outcome of over-zealously reading Paradise Lost.

I guess this is what being good friends with Derrida does to you.
I have a Harvest Right, 5 tray “large” model. Instructions say you need a dedicated 20 amp circuit so figure that out first.

As for actual freeze drying, I recommend not overloading the trays. Do not mix frozen food with room temperature non-frozen food as some of it will be inconsistent.

Another tip, you can freeze dry anything. Frozen chicken livers made excellent treats for my dogs. You can freeze dry raw meat and stick it in a mylar bag and it will be shelf stable. Pretty crazy.

Happy to answer any specific questions.
I was surprised during a ride in a friends' Tesla. We needed a few more miles. They let their phone guide them to a convenient pile of superchargers. Plugged in. We checked messages and chatted for a few minutes. Then continued. Remarkably painless.

This future is probably not yet evenly distributed around the world. Sure. But fast charging might eventually come to something. Eventually.
The rest, sure, but PCIe does still have to worry about heat (and energy consumption).
Well that’s good to hear! How much of it is replicated outside of SF? How often?
> what such a person would think about this?

I'm sure opinions of people in any category vary widely. I'm simply pointing out that the curse of knowledge/competence exists. If you're an unusually capable anything, the average person will be incapable by comparison.

None of the deep understanding of finance you're postulating is required to make decisions adequate to avoid being taken advantage of by a credit card. Pay your bill every month in full and you'll be a net beneficiary.

Trying to optimize your investment strategy is a full time profession. Simple, functional, strategies are readily available for unsophisticated (but not dumb) consumers (eg. buy and hold index funds). Stepping off the beaten path is always done at one's own risk, and over the proverbial corpses of your predecessors who thought they knew better. So much is true in all areas of life.

You've not addressed my main question: Why defend obviously unconsidered, unsound, and plainly bad, decisions made by others?
Thank you, but no thank you. I don’t need to promote a proprietary ecosystem charging yearly fees with my addition.

PWAs or nothing.
The temperature in TFA are outside the range of most commercial absorption chillers, so this is more about making cheap electricity. I would imagine absorption would be more applicable if the same tech was used to generate lower-quality heat that's not suitable for a combined-cycle generator.
/r/churning is a good place to start. Lots of people doing cash back churning too, so even if you don’t want plane tickets, there is plenty for you.
I’m curious how Musk changed the definition of “view” as this person claims. Maybe he goes on to explain it but I can only see the first post…
We use 110 to charge our PHEV (which admittedly has a very small battery). I would like to get a PHEV for our next vehicle, but the price premium makes it very unattractive for us. Some vehicles are $12k more for PHEV, and given how little we drive it would never be worth it. It's nice not tanking up often, but the extra cost (and extra car insurance) isn't worth it for us.
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Heat can be used directly not only for heating, but also for cooling.

There are air conditioning systems that are powered by heat, not by electricity.

There are places where the power plants use the residual heat from the generation of electricity not only for heating during the winter, but also for cooling during the summer, by producing chilled water.
The children of immigrants for all races do much better than the norm in the United States on just about every measure.
> If sleeping with someone was a taxable event, would that mean that it's OK to spy on people's bedrooms?

It would be immoral to make sleeping with someone a taxable event. And therefore immoral to treat it as a taxable event.
Question: why is clicking on the (test) phishing email's link "fail"? Isn't the whole contract between browsers and society that one can safely open any website they want (ie loading a webpage is safe), and what you do on the actual site is the actually unsafe op?

Asking because in the vast majority of cases, the phishing landing page has way more signals to recognize than the email headers.
Sure.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/warning/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialcam

https://www.wsj.com/tech/sec-investigating-whether-openai-in...

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-hype-openai-silic...

https://archive.is/2023.12.02-101904/https://www.washingtonp...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ste...

https://qz.com/sam-altman-openai-fund-1851380019

https://fortune.com/2023/09/20/instacart-ipo-stock-shares-ce...
I got an alert on this one too, but it was an odd one. Usually, the Google DeepMind patents are pretty obviously based on specific papers, and often quite old ones, but... seq2seq with tree search, filed 2022? Didn't ring any bells on DM papers for me, especially not in 2022. Does anyone recall what this one might've been about?
Yes, 100 Days of Swift (and, really, anything by Paul Hudson (@twostraws)) is really good and recommended all over the place.

One more resource I'd add for a beginner, the book The Swift Programming Language: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...
Antitrust Action Against Google May Transform the Internet
the linked reddit specifies soy milk
If you started the southern portion of the AT at the beginning of March (which is a fairly common start time for the AT anyway) you wouldn't have to deal with much snow for most of the journey.
The first thing that is required is to define what they are trying to do. In other words, list some question and answer examples. It's amazing how many people are unwilling or unable to do this and just jump to "we need to train a custom model". To do what exactly, or answer what kinds of questions? I have actually had multiple clients refuse to do that.
https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908579
interesting does/can it work behind structures? is it safe to point this at yourself?
A possible alternative to fine-tuning is in-context learning, especially if you are using a model with long context where you can provide a lot of examples. Models can do one/few-shot learning, but in-context learning improves the more examples you give. You could experiment cheaply with Claude Haiku to see if this works for you.
Securities Fraud?

(With apologies to Matt Levine)
A stirling engine can generate heat from electricity, such as those used in MicroCHP, you can burn wood, produce heat, and generate electricity from that heat. You could do the same with a pile of sand.

You just need to pipe liquid through the sand, and a supply of cooler water.
I think they only give you the card, so walkup unlock won't happen, at least before setting up a phone key.
Honestly I think it's cool that Amszaon took that approach. Do things that don't scale to better understand the value/market fit. Then you can work on the hard problem of building the complicated tech to enable it at scale. So often companies jump straight to the hard tech issues without even trying to learn from the real world.
Currently the memory controller is inside the CPU, so the GPU would have to go through the CPU to get to the memory.

You would still be limited by the CPU memory bandwidth, and you will share it with it.
I love this package and have been using it for a few years in R. It's great [for making] tables in html but the pdf and docx output is a little less polished. I do worry that the recent shift to bringing the python version up to speed with the R version has slowed down the R development. Though it's well worth checking out whatever your language.
Thanks for building this! Just recommended it to my team since there’s finally a fairly lightweight Lottie player.

I think you should really highlight that actual size of the player is ~16 Kb now (using NextJs) since that was a huge reason as to why I avoided Lottie for so long. The Airbnb Lottie was ~250kb.

Haven’t started using it yet so no issues :)
How would one know perfidy occurred?

The search term that might help here is “previous judgment, pronounced by a regularly constituted court.”

Also: if one is outside of the protection of IHL/LOAC, might other laws protect him?
Buy Your GPUs
How about not placing two divs alongside each other in the first place? Every time I see that, I immediately start looking for the unsubscribe link or mark it as spam.
Death Is a Feature
> We’re building some “smart search” functionality for some teams and I start to wonder if a traditional search results list (i.e. sans the LLM, or used only ti rewrite the user query) with the document chunks wouldn’t be better than blindly taking the top N and feeding them to the LLM to produce some response.

Yep, it's a pretty common pattern: query -> embeddings -> vector db -> records -> context -> LLM -> result.
AI isn't influenced. It doesn't have restrictions. It doesn't have to work within confines. AI can always remember the word it wants to use. It always can hit the note it intends. And it can hit every note. Etc. It uses the corpus of training data and mashes it into a new form.

Stephen King won't be able to remember every word of every story he's ever read. And if he wants to make something "Lovecraftian", it'll be what Stephen King thinks is Lovecraftian. And there will be something to that. Some bit he believes is more or less important than other people And those bits are what makes Stephen King, Stephen King.

Everyone has had access to the same material King read. Access to the same tools he used to create. Everyone had the chance to effectively be Stephen King. But there is just one. Because there is some unique bit of observation or recall or combination of such things that is unique to King.

And from what I've seen so far, these LLMs can't do that. There is a missing element of pure imagination.
You can enable the "Show Path Bar" option (under the "View" menu), which helps, but still not quite what you want. I also find it weird that the path bar is at the bottom of the window.
Research findings on the topic of Font Sizing
Spend some time researching font sizing on work apps - would love to hear any thoughts on it.
Also an unstoppable onslaught of kinetic weapons
What is "Open" still isn't fully agreed-upon in software. I still frequently see open source and source-available arguments.
Can I use my own AWS account?
Single-GPU, optimal efficiency: unsloth + qlora + mistral-7b on runpod/vast/lambda

Blazing fast compared to out-of-the-box transformers, also make sure to use flash attention if you have A100s or better and context length >= 2k

Add FAISS (https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss) if you need fast local RAG
I can't believe they're throwing in the towel right now. Sure, whatever pipeline they were using before was maybe a dead end but with technology like GPT/Gemini vision they couldn't make it work? Did they even try?
PCIe 5.0 x8 has the same throughput as PCIe 4.0 x16, FWIW. So the x8/x8 configuration is very reasonable.
The title here suggests they're watching you shop and entering items into a list as you go (which would be ridiculous). It seems to actually just be low-paid workers spot checking to ensure the "algorithm" got it right?
Newton might be more interesting for the R&D and pantheon of technologies around it (Dylan, etc) than for the actual implementation, which, yeah, was cool for its time but we can do much better now.
How can you differentiate between them?

One is a concept that means that something is defined in terms of itself, which why I linked you the definition. The other is a data structure where the first item in is the last item out. One is an abstract concept that isn't limited to computer, the other is an ordering.

Why do you think these two completely different things have anything to do with each other? You just keep saying they are the same for some reason. Repeating a claim is not evidence.

How do you account for these two things being isomorphic?

They aren't.

Any algorithm that can be defined by calling itself can also be expressed by way of an explicit stack, just as any algorithm defined iteratively can be implemented via recursion (usually tail recursion).

Being able to do something in a different way with a different tool doesn't make all ways and tools the same. I can hit a nail with a block of wood, that doesn't make the wood a hammer. You can use it as a hammer, but if you ask someone what it is they won't say it's a hammer.

Using an explicit stack and the call stack is formally equivalent.

My point above is that pragmatically they have a big difference, which is that it is easier to debug a static array stack because you can see the whole thing instead of having to walk through a call stack to figure out where the iteration went. It's also probably faster and simpler, but the point is the clarity and the ability to debug.

The structure is inductively defined

The structure is defined by the data. There is nothing "inductive" about it.

which is why recursion is also the natural way to approach it.

Again, what you are really seeing here is that the iteration of a tree matches the first in last out structure of a stack. Recursion just gives you a stack using the call stack, nothing more.

This of course being in contrast to dealing with codata and corecursion which deals with infinite structures.

This has nothing to do with what we are talking about.
With the hype this got at release, the story should be pinned to #1 until further notice
> While we're in this topic: why is unsecured credit card debt NOT tax deductible but secured debt like HELOC is?

HELOC interest is rarely deductible either. First, you now must be able to itemize deductions, which the recent tax changes have made very unlikely. Less than 12% of tax returns are able to itemize:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/soi-a-inpre-id2303.pdf

In addition, even if you are in that ~11% who can itemize, HELOC interest is only deductible if you use it to work on the same house being used to get the LOC. Any other use is not deductible.
Also we’ve seen recently in the US you are liable to get killed for randomly going up to someone’s house.
I recommend reviewing Stanford's dspy library - great examples of few-shot learning that works by generating and tuning prompts for LLMs and even distilling instruction following tasks to smaller models like T5. Second, as others mentioned, using QLoRA for supervised fine-tuning followed by DPO/KTO for preference optimization. This strategy placed Huggingface's Zephyr and IBM's Neural Chat on leaderboards for 7B parameter models. I also recommend reviewing the Unsloth library which has excellent accelerated examples of using these methods, along with the axolotl library. Lastly, skypilot and Modal both have excellent examples that showcase using axolotl to efficiently finetune models on cloud GPUs.
[1] https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy
[2] https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
[3] https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl
[4] https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot
[5] https://github.com/modal-labs/llm-finetuning
Between these sorts of email tricks and ability to easily voice clone using ai, it would seem that invoicing systems should put some sort of 2 factor approval/confirmation into the workflow for payouts.
This is a bad submission because Boing Boing heavily editorializes, and is at least 2 levels removed from the actual reporting at this point - the editorialized Boing Boing excerpts, the editorialized Gizmodo article, The Information article, whatever the sources leaked to TI as a friendly outlet, and then the truth. And there are people on Twitter disputing the insinuations that the human workers were watching you as you shop, which would bespeak a true level of failure, or just reviewing stuff afterwards, which would surprise no one.
From audio video editing experience years back, it is much easier to slip some cheap audio cuts past people than visual ones.
"I mostly charge at home"

That's kind of a key point. It may not be possible with a rental.
That movie was ridiculously horny.
Maybe that's the new Turing test; true AGI is reached when computers are smart enough to dismiss the possibility of IBM returning to competence. For a warm-up task, ask the AI about a hypothetical scenario involving an honest and ethical Oracle sales rep.
This is how a ton of AI is operating right now. Both to filter training data and also to filter the results before they go back to the users, there is very often human oversight. And by human oversight I mean the same sort of extremely cheap and exploitable overseas labor that Amazon was using for this.

Ultimately it might be as simple as the fact that even cheap ass labor plus the infrastructure plus the AI itself still costs something and ultimately that something is more than just paying some friggin cashiers at the bloody store to do the job.
You're combining two different things. If you print a dollar and use it to improve productivity by more than a dollar, this might not cause inflation, but the same is true of raising general taxes by a dollar and using it for the same purpose. And those purposes are scarce, because by definition they have to have above-average productivity.

If you have one then it makes sense to fund it regardless of whether the money comes from printing or taxes, and the inflationary/deflationary consequences of that spending being priced in. And then we're back to the amount of printing being set by the desired amount of inflation, and any incremental spending on top of that coming from taxpayers.
Same experience. BBC links an article about exactly that phenomenon:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-dig...

I think that often it actually is about the 0.1%, it's the simplest explanation (but the ghost jobs article gives a few other explanations that are also good). Software development does not have a minimum headcount, everything you can build with four you might also be able to build with three, it's not like you need a well defined number of chairs to be occupied.

And it's actually worse than a naive look at the numbers suggests. Some of those forever openings aren't just listed by the would-be hiring company, but also by a happy flock of companies from that cottage industry of recruiting middle men, some disguised a little through different wording, others not disguised at all. Five companies looking for skill xy, and they are all the for same position that is only ever filled if the 0.1% happens to pass by.
We are talking about booting from USB. On a Mac M2. That’s literally the most power user feature of a MacBook.

The 3 users of this feature on this planet are already happy that it’s even possible at all. The only thing Apple could do is to document this clearly like adding a text in the boot drive selector.
you might be interested in something like tune.js https://github.com/instrumentbible/tune.js
You forgot the /s. And if you are serious, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying
On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngCHTImH1g he says the goal is $100/tonne carbon capture and $1/kg H2, which puts those inputs well under the $10/kcf leaving some margin for the cost of the sabatier.

Both processes are directly proportional to the cost of electricity and heat so assuming the thesis of decreasing solar costs holds true, it's a question of when not if.
you are saying because a government granted LLC it belongs to public domain
They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.
You can tune AI output.
Easy solution for Hertz: don’t require it to be changed upon return. Where I live a full 100% charge from zero at residential prices is $8. It’d also improve the customer experience I bet, especially over gas cars where you either need to refuel or get nickel and dimed on yet another thing
Probably still need to stream or chunk the data instead of dealing with giant arrays to get decent performance. That's not a language/platform issue.

I recently had to process and aggregate metrics for 5 million rows of user data (a few GBs) on my MacBook with Node.js. By streaming / iterating over the items without loading them all at once it chewed through them all in a few seconds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And it's single-threaded (except for I/O offloaded to threads -- I'm talking about the calculations).
I suspect it would work nearly as well on many Americans.
We deliberately designed it this way, to prevent one party from having too much control.

Instead, we have no control. The legislature is effectively useless. The executive branch continues on, under not-always-clear authority. The judicial branch can easily throw a wrench into that authority, often more for political reasons than legalistic ones.

It's really, really bad.
Example of lack of sharpness? You could also work on being more concise.
an amusing fantasy. I'd love to see your western biases shatter when you do just that. do you think it's at all hard to find a 70yr old Chinese person?
Critical AI vulnerability affecting Hugging Face allows access to private models
Assisted living managers say an algorithm prevented hiring enough staff
Secondary authoritative DNS service providers compared (2020)
i love this library; i used it to write a pedal steel guitar visualizer:

https://beaugunderson.com/pedal-steel/

try highlight → scale degree colors
or highlight → chord formula and put "1 3 5 7" in the chord formula box... then play with the pedal checkboxes to see how you can play that chord vertically, or more stylistically by using the pedal slides