skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except you explicitly uploaded an encryption key, not a signing key! This action broadcasts to the world the message "you can encrypt communications to this identifier using this key"!

This is seriously like telling somebody that you can be contacted on a particular phone number and then getting upset that you're getting phone calls. "Who uses the phone these days," you complain, despite having set into motion the sequence of events that led to you getting a phone call! Worse, in this analogy, it's not like you even said "only text this number"; you explicitly applied metadata saying that you would be open to a phone call.
This gives me hope! Thank you for sharing!
Swapping heavily will murder performance even on a fast SSD.
Nvidia has brand recognition and momentum on their side. It's not that Apple or AMD are incapable.
GCC -WTF: Optimizing my Ray Tracer
Looks like no one answered this question from the last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24492646
Curious to see what are the common failure modes that the GoEX have, so that I can understand how the post-facto LLM validation has compared to those of pre-facto LLM validation
TheBloke's grant ran out.
That's like complaining about artificial, non-organic flight being a fantasy before the wright brothers. Which would not have been entirely wrong, but hardly a knockout argument as we now know with certainty.

There is a vast difference between "engineering challenges have not yet been proven moot by a working prototype" and "precluded by physics or mathematics".

The (in)animate distinction is more akin to net-positive fusion in a man-made vessel vs. in a gravity well rather than obeys the 2nd law of thermodynamics vs. perpetuum mobile.
Seems like a short stop gap before AI gets good enough.
Can someone earnestly state that this would make a difference? I keep hearing about those poor immigrant Chinese folks from NYC that get into Yale with just their 1600's and a dream but that straight up does not happen if you don't have the rest of the qualifiers. Nobody is getting into these top schools with just good SAT scores, the "high-agency" signaling on their application carries far more weight.

I'd even wager that the people that didn't include their SAT/ACT scores in the past few years and got in likely would have gotten in even if they had submitted them. The only impact this has is on reducing the cost of reading applications and decreasing the applicant pool (which is fine, but it's not some kind of win for meritocracy).
Spending time trying out Google's new AI products you can see the astonishing amounts of enormous bloat around every single service it offers

Sergey shouldn't be pair programming right now he should be doing the hard work with Sundar of bringing some semblance of coherence to their offerings but it seems like the organizational dynamics are too challenging for them at this scale.
TSA found more than 1,500 firearms on airline passengers in first 3mo of 2024
People did move back and forth across the bering strait well into historic times. It's not what this article is about though, which tries to look at shared morphology across geographic partitions to tease out the likely origins and timings involved. In this case they (very tentatively) identified coastal and inland origins that match up with other numbers and do not match up with beringian standstill hypotheses.

It's also worth emphasizing that Indigenous nations (first nations not being a sufficiently general term) don't have consistent views on this matter and don't usually identify specific dates or timelines.

You can identify specific positions advocated by indigenous individuals. For example, there are indigenous people who argue indigenous heritage in the Americas predates anatomically modern humans leaving Africa. You can also find indigenous people who agree with academically-accepted ideas about ethnogenesis. You can even find people who agree with both of these ideas simultaneously, similar to how you can find Christians who agree with consensus theories on human evolution and also identify the garden of Eden in the middle east somewhere. Rather than speaking about "first nations" as some sort of homogeneous mass, it's better to identify specific positions and talk about those instead.
Play as the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, and Try to Stop Hitler
Not relevant. This is a bad faith line you're taking. Slavery was legal in the US 200 years ago. We don't factor slavery into minimum wage calculations.

PS: Even though they were barred from combat duty, 543 American women employed by the US Armed Forces were killed during WW2 alone. Mostly nurses.
Are you serious? That culture is why America still has high innovation while other Western and "culturally Western" countries that do not are largely stagnant. I'm amazed at how often I see people (largely Americans I'm guessing) criticize the very things that make their country a world superpower.
Not really.

An LLM should have no problem replying "I don't know" if that's the most statistically likely answer to a given question, and if it's not trained against such a response.

What it fundamentally can't do is introspect and determine it doesn't have enough information to answer the question. It always has an answer. (disclaimer: I don't know jack about the actual mechanics. It's possible something could be constructed which does have that ability and still be considered an "LLM". But the ones we have now can't do that.)
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>only offering larger and more expensive models

Where? The phone makers have been also shipping smaller phones until they had to scale back production and cut them out completely because nobody was buying them. You and two other people buying them is not a market share worth catering for and keeping production lines busy for.

You have to accept you're a minority here and not a profitable one.

Cheap phones are also large now BTW, so nothing to do with pushing expletive models. Even 100 Euro phones are still over 6 inches. Because that's what the majority wants, large phones, and voted with their wallets.
What is your use case? If you're deleting rows that already feels like maybe it's not the intended use case. I think about clickhouse as taking in a firehose of immutable data that you want to aggregate/analyze/report on. Let's say a million records per second. I'll make up an example, the orientation, speed and acceleration of every Tesla vehicle in the world in real time every second.
I don't follow, what does this mean to the conversation?
Lol. I will grant you that the LLMs aren't coming up with profound revelations, but let's be honest, who among us is?

If I want to talk about various theories around free will or events in the middle ages or the evolution of political parties in the United States over the last century, I can guarantee you I'm going to get a far richer commentary from GPT4 than I will from most people (myself included).

Is it going to solve P=NP? Probably not (yet), but then again me and my friends were not going to be doing that either.
> So if they would implement the other parts of the program, then the existence of the "racist and nationalist" part would be all fine?

I did not say that. Forgot "anticommunist" though in the list.

The racist part of their program was actually not their main point, and it was as racist as all non-communist parties, in most western countries (the Front Populaire was probably the less racist of all, and it was still pretty racist). Germans did not vote for Nazis because they were particularly racists.

The nationalistic part might have been a reason they caught some vote, but the true reason they got 33% of the vote was because they would "save the economy" by unspecified means, and remove the communist party, which pushed small business owners, landlords/slumlords and well as big land owners in their arms.

The Soviet-directed communists (not all communists, but all German elected communists) did not help their case, being droned around by Moscow to do stupid shit (They also shat the bed in Spain. Better to have as enemies than as allies to be frank).

Still, Nazi only got 33%, it wasn't a majority. They they did a coup, and the rest is well known, but they absolutely did not have a majority: 33% of the voting population, with most of those convinced by populist lies about economics and moral panics.
> assume everything you say and do online is fully compromised

This is the way.
Why estimate PDF through histogram then convert to CDF, when one can estimate CDF directly? Doing so also avoids having to choose bin width that can have substantial impact.
GP was asking about the texts, not history.
You can take this problem and multiply it 10x when talking about psychology and child/teen mental health.
the best model is not GPT-4 it's April of 2024
That's because it's mostly virtue signalling rather than actually wanting to help the environment
AMD has more than proven its incapability to provide proper OpenCL tooling during the last 10 years.

Apple gave up on OpenCL, after disagreements how Khronos managed it.

Metal Compute provides a CUDA like development experience.
I don't have a child, and don't know how much a child's uniform or excursion costs. Why not price it in dollars?
[MLIR] The HEIR Compiler w/ Jeremy Kun [video]
I think the author either downplays or is unaware of the magnitude of the T9000 debacle. I worked for people who were very much sold (almost in a cultlike fashion) on INMOS promises for this part, which were never delivered.
You can take a day off when you're not feeling it and don't want to go to the doctor, but it will be subtracted from your paid vacations. You can do that for up to four days a year. It's not that much different than the sick days in the US, which are often bundled together with vacation days into PTO (Paid Time Off).
Apple opens access to used iPhone components for repair
Strcpy: A niche function you don't need. (2021)
Really interested to see GPA data before and after this change, from Caltech and other universities.
Huawei says it will start selling PCs powered by Intel's AI chip
HTTPS is transport-level encryption. If that's your benchmark, email is encrypted by default today – in that most SMTP connections are TLS-encrypted.
> Bug: If you deport Hitler before the presidential election he still stands in the election.

Didn't yet, but maybe I should download and try this (with political content like this, I feel uncomfortable to play this in-browser)
You can’t build a dynamic list of objects implementing the same interface in different ways with parametric polymorphism.

As another example, the Unix file interface (open(), read(), write(), flush(), close()) etc. is an example of runtime polymorphism, where the file descriptors identify objects with different implementations (depending on whether it’s a regular file, a directory, a pipe, a symbolic link, a device, and so on).

All operating systems and many libraries tend to follow this pattern: You can create objects to which you receive a handle, and then you perform various operations on the objects by passing the respective handle to the respective operation, and under the hood different objects will map to different implementations of the operation.
This is sort of interesting as historical trivia, but at what point would it become convenient or useful? You'd need to sort your coins before weighing them, and it seems like if you were partly sorting your coins you may as well totally sort them.
Was that XP for x86-64 or XP for Itanium? I'd imagine both were pretty rare.
A self-driving car is not an AGI and I doubt we'd want it to be one
This is probably why Google or Meta will "win" over OpenAI in the end.

They have all the data, and no one else even comes close.
> Why are we dishing out far more PhDs - and I'm guessing also all other types of academic qualification - per capita than we were before?

On one hand, the sphere of human knowledge is expanding, so the outermost edges (the surface area, so to speak) are longer, and therefore we need more PhDs who are the people at those outermost edges. It also explains the extreme specialization of those PhDs, whose theses are incomprehensible to normal people.

On the other, there's been a systematic push to put everyone through college, and of course some of those people go on to more advanced degrees. So given the incentives involved it's expected that more people per capita come out with a PhD.
I can't speak for what has happened since I left university, but when I was a student there you got to here about cars, who are also vehicles, dogs, who are also animals and similar stuff. Which has "limited" applicability of how inheritance works in real software systems.
> not that the model won't have to be good, but all of them will be good enough to solve most peoples business problems

In a year or two? Mate I think you need to step back from the AI hype for a moment. We're not even close.
Well after all it's mostly writing that we do. Go check how well-adjusted the other writers are. Especially the ones who spend much of their time writing stuff they know is worthless, because rent.
> We firmly believe the moat for AI application is in the data and the data engineering today. At some point, the process of building custom LLMs might get so fast and easy that we’ll all return to building our own models. That simply isn’t the case today.

Customized small models will outperform larger general models for your specific use case.
That's already (one of) the main property that the algorithm is exploiting: That f64 is an horribly overkill representation for the data since it was generated using a microsecond clock, leading to a lot of trailing zeros.

So yeah, dropping more significant digits should lead to even better compression.

But if we are going to be massaging the data based on what we know/need, there are better ways to go about compressing it. e.g. I'd expect that simple fixed-point quantization with a delta encoding would compress better than this. What I find cool about this is that it dynamically figures things out without having to deal with any priors.
Why is there no realloc that takes the number of bytes to copy?
Hypothesis #3: Because of the Internet more democratization of information on what a PhD entails, how to apply, and how to be successful has increased the number of smart people who previously would have been interested but didn’t have enough readily available information to fully pique their interest.

Could explain the shift up since the internet.

Hypothesis #4: The work at Los Alamos to win the war on the back of PhDs popularized the notion that smart people could change the world.

Could explain the strong shift since 1940.
Great ideas! Even though I haven't implemented it fully it is possible to sense multiple bends because each bend will always have the same relative attenuation (across the strands) so it would just be a matter of matching on the relative deltas from one reading to another. The catch, though, is at that at some point no light will reach the end if every joint bends a lot. There are ways to mitigate that, but my comment is too long already!
> Revanchism is an inherently incoherent philosophy

So you are saying Ukraine shouldn’t try to get Crimea back?

If Russia invades Baltics and deports all natives, would it be revanchist for the EU to take it back?
What happened to secondary education being first about making well-rounded citizens ? And writing a thesis being about the intellectual challenge of pushing into new territory ? Should only a very very few chosen people be allowed that one ?! What is this elitist bullshit !?!

Forgive my anger, but I was expecting at least some argument against that position, but it has just been... ignored.

Finally, yeah, a ~decade ago things seemed grim on the publishing bullshit side, but now it seems like we are seeing the end of the tunnel, they even give an example towards the end. (Ditto for search engines, I would have agreed merely a year ago, but same thing with the likes of Kagi and the EU finally starting to flex its power against GAFAMs...)
Well, both but I could only pay for it in the former case. For personal use I’d love the latter.
They are connected but you aren't seeing it. The average person can't create baroque music based on a bunch of words they like. That's a lot of musical expressivity for someone who doesn't even know guitar chords.
I can die happy if I never have to work with libgnipgnop again
yes, that's a succinct way to put it.
I still find it funny that somehow the idea of runtime function dispatch via function pointer is called the "strategy" pattern.
I think I agree; my take:

The point that the leading group in a field could and indeed did know each other to some extent is somewhat conflated in the piece with that particular group, who represent a very particular set of one-off extreme high achievers.

Self evidently "most physicists" are not going to measure up against a group including 17 Nobel Prize winners.

PhDs serve a different purpose now in society, but are still of value.
The Golden Age of Deep Tech
There is an update already:

"Update: Since this article was published, HashiCorp sent OpenTofu a cease-and-desist letter on April 3, 2024, expressing in greater detail the concerns raised in this post. On April 11, 2024, the OpenTofu maintainers responded with a detailed analysis of the claims made about the removed block. Based on these documents, it appears that the OpenTofu community did not misappropriate HashiCorp’s intellectual property."
i changed my mind after somebody reminded me Android is more secure and harder to hack due to diversity in hardware
This can be repurposed as a legal form of ransomware

pay me to shut my absolutely legal site down to make your life easier
If I put an nd array in, do I get the same nd array out, or do I have to serialize/deserialize myself, with some custom schema/code containing hacks like stuffing data (coordinates) into the column name?
Some IPv6 addresses are easy to type but all IPv4 are.
I guess keeping the worst of the two example, and merely saying the better example was Chernobyl was giving flank to uncharitable cherry picking.

I might soon join the "Back in the days, HN was a better place" crowd, am i that old?
This question surprises me. Bend location == locate where something is bent. Then some video's of the researcher bending a tube. Is there any confusion possible?
Sounds like an interesting business model—I guess we’ll see if they survive.
China deployed more renewables in the first nine months of 2023 (adjusted for capacity factor!) than will be generated by all 26 of their nuclear plants under construction. If you're talking about "the next big thing", this is it -- the ability to deploy energy generation capacity at rate never seen before in human history.

You are "oohing and aahing" over vacuum tubes while humanity invents the microprocessor.
The bounties look like they have fairly comparable distribution, and just knowing the dollar figures doesn't really tell much about either supply or demand. Your inference requires that knowledge.
Are you talking about Germany? Because if you want to take a vacation day, it is subject to approval by the employer. They can deny if they have a good reason. And in many cases, like in my case, a short term absence would ruin a customer project and would thus certainly not be approved.
The issue is that these people cannot judge or explain the difference between talking to 3.5 or 4.

It's a mix of:

1. Prejudices against AI as an artificial machine/math formula

2. Mistrust of corporate hype

3. Mistrust/Ignorance of benchmarks

4. Ignorance of knowledge domains where AI is useful

5. Lack of AI specific communication abilities - like asking for detailed considerations/critiques/questions, crafting substantial and accurate contexts, using tools, and correcting errors

5. Poor general communication abilities - including active listening, constructively advancing conversations, evaluating the inherent value of statements, calmly pushing back against BS, and having empathy/theory of mind for diverse communicators

I think an answer could include

1. courses in debate, critical thinking, and communications

2. readings on AI specific communication strategies/theory

3. guidance for a few hundred hours of conversations with AI

Imo the quality of life boost of conversing with AI is so substantial that it's worth fighting for this
If we are spending more of a percentage of our income for more space that is more about changing desires than price inflation. It is just a way to compare apples to apples.
Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware went undetected for 5 years
This is one of the several things that has made me very disappointed about where we are at as an industry.

And even when we do manage to make something people would actually want, we tend to design it in such a way as to minimize the aspects that make it desirable.
Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript
Microsoft has plenty of data too. In Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn posts and messages, and Outlook emails.
What's the best model now?
> Try bringing up this nuanced argument with an exhausted mother who is "failing" to breastfeed a starving baby.

That would be an emotional problem. 'Do you want your kid to starve or do you want to make sure you follow some scientific paper that may or may not be right?'

Framing is everything. They used emotional manipulation to get people to pay attention to them. It works both ways.
Dependency Visualization: An Interactive Way to See Dependencies At
> You have to start from the assumption that it’s Out To Get You, because nine times out of ten, it is. Maybe it’s activist bullshit based around tendentiously redefining words, or maybe it’s built on fabricated medical data, or maybe it’s some kind of statistical jiggery-pokery to pull statistical significance out of unreplicable noise

Or maybe its a rant with made up claims that the past was just better™.

Were academic papers in past really better on average, or are you only reading the best ones that survived the past half century.

Is the average PhD really worse today, or are you comparing them to the top minds of the past century.

> A hundred years ago, all the important physicists knew each other and were in constant dialogue

This seems like a particularly egregious claim. It is easier than ever to communicate with almost anyone in the world in close to real time.

Is there really a solid argument to be made that the top physicists collaborated more easily 100 years ago?

Were there any other major world events happening around 1924 that may have influenced a rapid advance in physics and technology? something kind of the opposite of collaboration?
Disclosure: also have PhD and leading a lab for of PhD students

I think not the PhDs are the problem, but the amount of papers. We just need all the PhD students to produce those papers to keep the industry going (much like a snow ball system). There is no incentive to scale down, so we keep scaling up.

The problem IMHO ist that we have scaled our methods to cope with enormous amount of mostly empirical results. P-value hacking is implicit in this system. IMHO we can throw away two thirds of all published research in many fields because it is not reliably reproducible/generalizable. If we could/would use all those PhD students to put science on better grounds that would be great. However, we expect all those PhDs to produce new results, so we get what we wished for.
Pretty sure it was in Effective Java and Design Patterns in Java 20+ years ago as well since Java is the language that gets picked on so frequently for this stuff.
Yes, small is the best. Currently I use a Palm Phone which is the perfect size. But of course discontinued. The market needs a lot more choices in that size.