skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take the L, without context and just reading the blog there wasn't any hint at coordination with the receiving party (besides the donation being accepted I suppose)

Speaking from experience tho people clearing out storage containers sometimes do strange things
I work on homomorphic encryption, and there are some rumors circulating that, if this checks out, it will break some of the leading FHE schemes like BFV, where the moduli used are quite large (in the hundreds of bits or even over a thousand bits).
I'm assuming those are homepage requests for the subdomains.
You have to keep in mind that humans have a lot of hardwired advantages, and we take in a massive amount of multimodal data. Even when the best high level planning AIs are smarter than humans across the board, they'll still be vastly more expensive to run, so humans will continue to have value barring a complete revolution in computing efficiency.
Every organization that publishes (or at least has a style guide) has to make a decision about whether to put names in their "native" order or to standardize to their audience's expected order. I can see an argument for either way:

Standardize on audience expected order: we're a UK publication, we're going to write the way names are in the UK

Standardize on native order: we want to respect the cultures of the people in our publications
There is an all-time great quote from Bjarne Stroustroup when asked about how many people hated C++

> There are two types of programming languages: The ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
> Hypothesis #2: The value of the qualification is dropping...

This is Goodhart's Law.

When a degree is something you have to love the subject in order to get, having the degree is a strong signal. Once the government starts handing out student loans to the average person so they can get the degree, having the degree can no longer prove you're exceptional.

The average person can't be above average. You can open up a paper mill and give everyone a piece of paper, but all that does is dilute the value of the paper.
Fair, 'most influential' isn't necessarily 'greatest', but if he'd wanted to elaborate that Yud was an example of someone who qualified mainly by being visible and prolific and very accessible online when there were far more deserving candidates I'm sure he'd have done so
https://pastebin.com/EpW5zZdJ
(sorry, this is long. i took a few minutes to write this down.)

I never owned a Google/Apple device and never used one for more than a few minutes in my life.

I currently use my pinephone exclusively since my +15y old 2G dumb phone broke last year (i
broke it while fiddling with it, duh. it would likely have lasted another 15y. it still had its
first battery which lasted 5d with moderate phone usage).
Before pinephone i used a +15y old 2G flip phone (it had its first battery and lasted +7d) and i loved it,
which replaced my htc hd mini and htc hd2 around 2015 (fun times, sigh).

I hate the modern concept of phone and observing the long-lasting effect
of addiction on people's social and mental capabilities reminds me how important
a mind free from distraction and addiction is.
I know it takes a lot of self-discipline to own such a thing and not get sucked
into all the dark patterns that lurk you into addiction and drain your brain (and pocket, ultimately, as this is what it's made for).

Every now and then HN features some "i quit my smart{phone,watch} and it was hard" post
and commenters romanticize about it, yet i doubt most of them grasp the real implications.
Every now and then I whitness the effect of detox/cold turkey with "smart"{watch,phone}
on people (usually children, which cant't know better. they are exposed to digital media way too much with way too
little guidance/regulation by adults who are exposed too much and who don't seem to know better as well)
and it's the classic symptoms.

Unlike other additctive things, while addictive, modern phones seem useful/beneficial at the same time, which
is used to justiy excessive use. It's a fallacy, i don't see it.
Software run on these devices is not meant to be useful (in the generic sense)
but to keep/make you a customer (and they use lot of psy trick).

Do I miss out on things because i don't take part in the "modern" way of interacting with people/companies/state?
due to my self-impossed "accessibility issue" (not using "apps", that is)?
Sure, but I think
* people forgetting my birthday because their facebook app didn't remind them (because I don't provide data to facebook)
are dumb,
* banks who don't provide any other second factor for auth than their Google/Apple apps are dumb,
* (nothing to complain about state here yet, but will probably come later)

To me this just reveals the brokenness of some aspects of social interaction and economy
as the exclusion very well applies to elderly people as well (who even struggte with using
a computer, so they miss out on even more that can't be done in a purely offline way).

And i'm not even taking into account the macroscopic political aspects of driving
social life, state affairs and economy more and more into the walled garden duopoly
that is Google/Apple.

Nowadays, Nokia branded HMD dumb phones are available (i have a 4G 2660 flip here, works ok'ish).
It works better if the people are preserved too, just like Pompeii; otherwise it's just a dollhouse. You should shelf your proposal until we have the technology for cloning and resurrection.
I’m in Australia and get 10 days. However, at my company, I could use all 10 at once without having to see a doctor. Can you do that in your company in Germany?
Lambda Calculus Visualizations
The most profitable use case for local LLMs will be one where the end user doesn't even know a local LLM is running, in the same way that a user doesn't know what libraries Photoshop is running, to them it's just Photoshop.

For example, lets say some image editing software decided to use Stable Diffusion to fill in image data in one of their Content Aware tools or something, they would not tell the user to install and run Ollama or sdapi from their CLI. They would install the LLMs when you install the app, and talk to it when you use the app. The end user would never know an LLM is being ran locally, any more than they know DirectX is running. (some might)

I like this use case because image/music/video editing software already requires good CPU/GPU, and in the case of Photoshop, I'm used to my fans blaring when I run Filter Gallery (lol) I as the end user would not need to know that LLMs are being invoked as I use software.

I think this use case is a lot stronger than any cloud-based one as long as it's this expensive to run GPU in the cloud - and the fact that present cloud behavior is to use one of the Big 3, anyone looking for cloud AI will use an OpenAI or another major provider - in the end something from Microsoft, Google, etc.
> where you can end up with things like b00b

Honestly, if seeing the character string "b00b" is a problem, you have bigger problems.
I have a storage room under the stairs which would be a vintage computer museum of its own. I am keeping it there until I downsize the house in the next 5 years. I have been delusionally waiting for that 10,000 year preservation origanization to come into existence but I am not holding my breath.

If a billionaire funded museum could run into trouble (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34831880) what hope is there for anything else.

PS. I have a cache of ~10,000 1980s and 90s DIP ICs (8032 Micro controllers and support chips) that I want to find a use for.
You could contact me at my account name without the punctuation at gmail.
>they are abandoning windows

Huh. I wonder what web browsers run on HarmonyOS. The word "browser" does not appear in the OP, on https://www.harmonyos.com/en/ or on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS.
I'm on other hand surprised just how decent they are considering they are form nearly 2000 years ago. Ofc, they are no Dutch Masters, but still not too bad. There are worse artists now...
P=NP is more than likely a physical problem with our current computational architectures more than anything else. I would imagine cracking that would require new physics, and for that, the infrastructure these things run on is likely far more important than the LLMs themselves. Leveraging parallelism on a massive scale will be incredible for scientific computing, but I doubt LLMs, with their unverifiable bullshit, will play a big role beyond any computational patterns their architecture contributes to the field.

If I want to learn more about history, I'll stick to peer reviewed sources like Wikipedia or academic literature. Gpt-4 will remain a curiosity until there are mechanisms to verify its output.
In 1960, only 41% of the population had graduated from high school. (I presume not 41% of the student-age population, but 41% of the total population.) By 2022, 38% of the population had graduated from college.

Conclusion: A college degree today means roughly what a high school diploma meant in 1960 - except that it takes a lot more time and money to get.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attai...
Just feed them bogus info and corrupt their models. That will make them stop.
The third logician never finishes his beer, his friends get more free beers. The bar overflows.
NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K
I imagine there's some amount of conditioning (for lack of a better word), and some amount of how well the meme author annotated it. Mostly just postulating, with a small amount of experience having been an assistant to a blind person for a short stint. But I imagine you're onto something, that as people who experience memes visually, we'd find the meme's description less funny than someone who relied on that description to experience the comedic effect of the meme; they might just use their imagination to fill in the gaps more naturally than we do. But there are of course limits to what details we can divine from our imagination, so I imagine there's a lot of memes where blind people are left contextless unfortunately.

I don't know that everyone has one of these. But the professor I assisted for that aforementioned short stint also had a special braille printer, of course. I believe these printers have since advanced to the point of being able to render photos in a sort of limited fashion where the paper is indented to contour to lines. I believe there are also tactile tablets now for the visually disabled.
Or a wireguard VPN. Or even just socat with mTLS inside systemd.

There are easier ways to achieve that than kubernetes with sidecar mesh.
> In addition as a leader your best use is often to be interrupted with questions from junior engineers.

I kinda disagree w/ this. I get better results from helping people understand this:

https://www.techtello.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/decisio...

And then making sure that they're taking action when they should take action and getting help when they should be getting help. This means they are wrong sometimes but it's better for them to be wrong sometimes and learn than to be interrupting with too many questions when they should just be doing their best.

Admittedly at this point my only direct reports are bosses themselves, but they vast majority of questions they have for me go into a shared 1:1 doc that we address monthly. Everything else they take action on and report as needed.
I don't really want widgets cluttering my desktop, I want them in their own space (ie: their own desktop).

The use case for me for widgets is to display information I want to look at very briefly and then have go away again.

It ought to be pretty simple for Apple to add a "special" desktop for widgets to the left of the first desktop. This would match both the old Dashboard behaviour that I miss, and the way that widgets work on iOS.

(And the gesture you describe isn't "show desktop", it's "show all windows", though I'm sure it can be configured in macOS settings!)
- Affordable

The right combination of allergy medication might be the most affordable option.

Talk to your doctor. Good luck.
yes! the very last example in the post shows what happens if you truncate the mantissa to just the 4 most significant bits
> I think standardized tests correlate very highly (perhaps highest of any measure) to performance

This depends on what kind of performance you're trying to measure. There will be some people who test very highly but are much less inclined to persevere and follow-through. Grades can be a better measure of this (though with rampant grade inflation, their utility is undercut).
That's...troubling.

Legally speaking, don't they have to disclose stuff like that in public filings each quarter?
This is the equivalent to "trust me bro".

Do you have any specific reasons why this is a bad idea? Especially if it's been secured, as the article implies it was.
All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat.

All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones.

I have added nothing to the discussion.
Yeah this is a big point in High Output Management by Andy Grove. That to be a manager (or to do any job really) you need to understand what you're producing and how to measure the quantity and quality of that output – ideally identifying issues with output before they become costly to fix.

Much easier said than done but it was a real Aha moment for me as a boss.
Uh no? Most not-corporate networks are gigabit to 2.5gbit at best. Higher end home users may be doing 5gbit and 10gbit+.

Even top end wifi tends to only be around 1.2gbit.
> fossilized

Another choice of vocab: ossified
Past performance is not a predictor of future performance.

While it's possible the gap between GPT5 and 4 is as big as between 4 and 3, it's unlikely. The gap between 2 and 3 was much larger as the one between 3 and 4 (and similarly between 1 and 2).

Also, it's not clear that GPT5 will do this in an *economical way* once the spigot of investor money stops.
If you send yourself messages via a Discord bot, you lose the privacy advantage of running a LLM locally.

Discord does not have end-to-end encryption for messages.
I'm really cross that the word "hallucination" has taken off to describe this as it's clearly in incorrect word. The correct word to describe it is "confabulation", which is clinically more accurate and a much clearer descriptor of what's actually going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Because syntactic sugar and abstractions matter. You can do everything in assembly too, yet we prefer something higher level.
> but most PhDs stop working in science and end up working for corporations.

The bills don't pay themselves, I suppose! Especially if a PhD comes with a hefty loan to pay off.

> Q: Why is that?

I don't know if any single person could fully answer this question (and it certainly won't be me), but my guess is that those well-intentioned folks in power saw that college-educated people earn more money, and applied faulty causation. Put more people through college and they will earn more and make the country wealthier! Put everyone through college and everyone will be better off.
I normally assume that any software which is not specifically designed to be exposed to internet, should not be exposed.

Security is hard, and proxies/VPNs are cheap.
On one level, I fully agree with the stated premise.
> What is the purpose of piles

We like to keep out-of-towners rattled.
Evolution didn't need it.

Yes, it only took a few billion years of trial and error. And it didn't manage to do it with inanimate objects either.

We know that the human brain is organic, mostly analog and much more complex than a digital computer.
> A question that was asked and answered for Android 7 is no longer relevant for Android 14.

SO power (top 0.07%) user here. Here's how I handle that:

- If adding a new answer to an old question, add a headline at the top of your new answer explaining that it's new for Android 8, post 2017, ES6, whatever else.

Here's a JS vs jQuery answer. 'Trending' shows the 2014 (new) plain-JS answer before the older (2011) jQuery answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2276463/how-can-i-get-fo...

- Generally this should be enough to handle fixing things, but if you still use SO and are aware you have an old answer, and don't want to update it, add a headline saying 'This is for Android 7, pre 2017, ES5 and older' etc.
So it was just a regular ordinary political party, with a few extremist agendas in their campaign platform.

Rose to dominance doing whatever it takes, not entirely by popular demand.

Used a political machine to leverage growing new mass-media availability, to craft a cult-of-personality whose rhetoric over the media creates a feedback loop, empowering the cult to grow, simply in blind support of the figurehead. The followers gain a sense of belonging, and are constantly reinforced and assured they need to follow their idol's wishes, wherever that may lead. Ending up following way beyond the extent which could be in the citizens' best interest.

Another day, another misguided political party, and their attention-seeking media-exaggerated influencer acting as if they possess leadership ability.
Right. That's a "turn it off and turn it on again" tech support answer.
I find Racket's OO stuff to be awkward and cumbersome to use, and rarely a good option. One of these days I'm going to port a CLOS-inspired Scheme OO system like Guile's GOOPS to Racket...
LLM are trained on stack overflow.
You don’t need a cluster nor should you be having any issues you mentioned. I run 10x that volume daily on a single gcp box (8 core / 64GB). We migrated off BigQuery and went from $10k/mo to about $250/mo. And it’s faster for both low-latency and big slow queries.
What foot guns have you run into with FINAL?
Possibly they meant "healthy"? Ducking autocorrect.
there have been quite a few threads about "reasonably priced" FPGA platforms and https://github.com/vortexgpgpu/vortex/blob/master/docs/fpga_... will interest you, but regrettably I haven't ever tried to use an FPGA to speak to whether their verilog only targets one of them, or "bring your own," and for sure I'm not the right person to speak to how much such a stunt would cost

It would make for a helluva blog post, though, or set up a shopify selling pre-made ones for people like you :-)
>Feeding AIs their own output as training material is a bad thing for mathematical reasons

Most model collapse studies explore degenerate cases to determine the potential limits of the training process of the same model. No wonder you will get terrible results if you recursively recompress a JPEG 100 times! In real world it's nowhere near that bad, because models are never trained on their output alone and always guaranteed to receive the certain amount of external data, starting from the manual dataset curation (yes, that's also fresh data in itself).

Meanwhile, synthetic datasets are entirely common. I suspect this is a non-issue that is way overblown by people misinterpreting these studies.
I don't see any discussion of their deprecation strategy. What's killing GCP is not that they don't have the latest toys, it's that *NO ONE TRUSTS THEM ANYMORE* [1].

Why would you build anything on GCP when there's no guarantee the GCP thing you're using won't be the next Stadia in 18 months? Otherwise, you'll just use them like you'd use DigitalOcean, in which case they'd be commodified.

For the CEO not to be laser focused on this issue shows they're entirely missing the point.

1. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
It's weird, I've harped on a few of these points in conversations with others (usually when talking about "sexy careers", and why people don't hold coders in the same regard as doctors) but your words made me realize why I'm trying to become a developer. The dealing with the machine rather than people is something I'm willing to run with more than anything, right now. Not wholly a function of unmet needs, but addressing a specific change I'd like to make.
I'm reacting to what I view as poor science journalism.
I find any sort of animated pictures next to the text supremely annoying. I had to scroll the text to keep them out of the screen just so I could read in peace.

And yet you liked it... I wonder if this is a generational thing (I was born in 1980's)? Or "I don't run adblocker" thing?
That’s not an example of uncertainty in business, it’s an example of incompetence in leadership. The problem is not one of software engineering, it’s one of rampant bad management and business practices.
I already do this more and more each day.

ollama run mistral

change this React code to Angular. Here is the code:

or chocolate chip cookies recipe

And get the actual recipe instead of countless blogs and ads

(just watch for the hallucinations - "Hm it calls for 2 gallons of milk")
They literally just updated the model number yesterday as they wait for new stock to arrive in July.

It even says so right under where it says discontinued. Specs are exactly the same.
> keeping access as low as possible

That's a feature, not a bug. If everyone has a Harvard degree, nobody has a Harvard degree. A lot of the worth of one derives from its exclusivity, and the cream of the crop you meet there because of that exclusivity. I'd posit that the difference in the quality of the education itself received between Harvard and a good state school isn't worth talking about.
You are expending far too much energy on a ideological saboteur.

"anyone who uses xyz" is such a unsubtle poisoning the well strategy, it surprises me that the [Enter] key was still struck.
The example used is a URL. I don't believe there is an equivalent for the address bar. Plenty of other examples exist, but that one is pretty easily reachable by users.
it's 1.2, macOS only, and marked as deprecated
>However, I was told, they had decided to keep the plastic boxes, and were making use of them.

This is more of an insult than a consolation. I'm still in disbelief that they were tossed out rather than offered back or donated elsewhere.
Draw a line of length 1 which makes an angle of p with the positive x axis. The x and y coordinates of a, the point at the end of the line give cos(p) and sin(p).

Now think about what happens if you increase p by a tiny bit. a moves tangentially. (This works very similar to how the tangent to a curve gives the change in y for a change in x.) So the vector of cos'(p), sin'(p) is given by a vector starting from a, at a right angle to 0a, and pointing in the positive direction.

Since the point a moves through 2pi distance while p goes from 0 to 2pi (the definition of measuring angles in radians) the speed of the point is 1, and so the vector of derivatives has length 1.

You can check easily that this makes cos'(p) = -sin(p) and sin'(p) = cos(p).
available here https://share.transistor.fm/s/e2538f7d
Makerspaces seem fun! Unfortunately, there isn't something like that where I live (Iran). Wish you the best in building your factory!
(In case you didn't get it, it was a Baron Munchausen reference - involving a bog... and even his horse !)
RO doesn't really solve for filtering the water naturally inside of crops or meat. If you have a huge increase in groundwater pollution in a country, if your food supply isn't also in a closed system where only filtered water comes in, then you've only reduced your contaminant consumption not eliminated it.