skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren’t tacking Reddit to queries because they particularly like Reddit or because they want to see user generated content, it’s because it is literally the only way to get a result from Google that is not spam listicles or affiliates grifts. They’re applying a bandaid to their rapidly deteriorating search, but championing it as giving the people what they want.

Google knows what they're doing. A long time ago they needed your internet searches to learn about you and what you were thinking. Today, they have an endless stream of data from your android phone, from chrome, from every website using google analytics, from their DNS servers, etc. They don't need their search engine to spy on you anymore so they aren't going to waste money making it not suck. Search is basically dead to them. They just have to keep up appearances so that they can keep selling ads and preferential placement to the very same companies/spammers that are pushing relevant content out of sight.

Enjoy it while it lasts because Reddit will quickly fill with AI and ads and Google search will become entirely useless again.
Another data point for the Enshittocene theory.
It originally started as a fork to Recmo’s cria pure numpy llama impl :)

https://github.com/recmo/cria

Took a whole night to compute a few
tokens, but I used it to do the first tests.

Also, my friend pasted the paper to claude and it produced a working basic impl instantly :D

But in all seriousness - I think MLX implementation would be doable, or a wrapper to the Metal gou functionality
The SV buddy economy in a nutshell. More traffic from Google to Reddit and Quora.
The relationship between Google and Reddit goes beyond just improving normal web search for Google - it's actually symbiotic. Because Reddit has horrible search, the best way to search Reddit content is actually using Google's indexing instead. Every time the Google algorithm feeds Reddit, it's feeding itself with more '...reddit' queries.

Further, I feel the role subreddits are playing is not too different to the role curated directories used to play in sorting and filtering the web ecosystem for Google when it’s algorithm was considered good. So while there is a lot of user generated content, i feel the real benefit of Reddit to the Google algorithms quality of output, is the human sorting of content.

So my theory follows: the Google algorithm has never been independently good, it has always been dependant on a large source of human curation. The Google algorithm only works well when Reddit is applied to it, because Google supplanted, or ignores the other places it happens on the web. Or worse, they've promoted and paid attention to unauthentic content curation through their SEO and 'trusted' sources initiatives.
I'm a beeper sometimes.
You can make plastic from air and light.
This is what I see https://v.redd.it/pzma14ni23vc1 for post titles, while comment link https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1c6h...

First one is also dynamic, so next ~day its different breaking one of the fundamental features of HTML - :visited link color.
A banjo is plinky-plonky: it has a sharp attack, but not a lot of sustain. It's not great for playing a melody with long, slow notes. It's better suited for rhythmical patterns, and faster tempos. It's possible that a banjo could have a part in an ensemble piece about death, grief, sorrow and murder, but as a solo work, the idea does seem dodgy.

It's not so much the timbre as the envelope. We have ways to talk about the not envelope. That is complex though, because different components of the sound can have different envelopes: e.g. high harmonics dying off before fundamentals. Envelope is not separable from timbre.
Hahahah that would be fun to work on next!
Notably easy when you tune the B string to a B flat. Instant minor!
AFAIK, you're still limited by the bandwidth of your analog signal. If you tried to treat it as if it had unlimited horizontal resolution, you'd use so much bandwidth that you'd end up stomping over the color subcarrier (and probably the audio subcarrier too).
Your observations are relevant. It's clear that the valuation of software engineering varies between companies, which can be frustrating for enthusiasts of the field. As for the education system, it does not seem to provide adequate preparation for the practical and commercial aspects of the profession.
Most RL agents are 'jumpy' or jitter a lot, because it makes no difference to the reward, and where it does make a difference, that tends to only matter close to convergence where slight speedups are all that's left. If you want to reduce that, you have to reward-shape it to penalize excess movement. (Which is relevant in robotics, where 'jitter' can be very bad for the machinery in a way not reflected in the simple tasks' reward functions.)
Re storing vectors in BLOB columns: ya, if it's not a lot of data and it's fast enough for you, then there's no problem doing it like that. I'd even just store then in JSON/npy files first and see how long you can get away with it. Once that gets too slow, then try SQLite/redis/valkey, and when that gets too slow, look into pgvector or other vector database solutions.

For SQLite specifically, very large BLOB columns might effect query performance, especially for large embeddings. For example, a 1536-dimension vector from OpenAI would take 1536 * 4 = 6144 bytes of space, if stored in a compact BLOB format. That's larger than SQLite default page size of 4096, so that extra data will overflow into overflow pages. Which again, isn't too big of a deal, but if the original table had small values before, then table scans can be slower.

One solution is to move it to a separate table, ex on an original `users` table, you can make a new `CREATE TABLE users_embeddings(user_id, embedding)` table and just LEFT JOIN that when you need it. Or you can use new techniques like Matryoshka embeddings[0] or scalar/binary quantization[1] to reduce the size of individual vectors, at the cost of lower accuracy. Or you can bump the page size of your SQLite database with `PRAGMA page_size=8192`.

I also have a SQLite extension for vector search[2], but there's a number of usability/ergonomic issues with it. I'm making a new one that I hope to release soon, which will hopefully be a great middle ground between "store vectors in a .npy files" and "use pgvector".

Re "do embeddings ever expire": nope! As long as you have access to the same model, the same text input should give the same embedding output. It's not like LLMs that have temperatures/meta prompts/a million other dials that make outputs non-deterministic, most embedding models should be deterministic and should work forever.

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/matryoshka

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/embedding-quantization

[2] https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss
The contract was conditional on price. At the time, no one thought it possible to achieve such valuation. So they deemed the payout likely to be zero i.e. 99.9% that the payout was zero.

You understand?

This is a bonus, conditional on performance. This is not a simple payout. The legal case MUST come up at the time of initiation of the contract else it induces moral hazard.

All of Delaware is now off limits for everyone for ever now.

This is like an insurance contract being voided because it was "too good of a payout" but they only void it when you get injured, your houes burns down etc becaues "oh we didn't realize it until we had to pay". But they collected premium all those years and nobody challenged it.

This is incredibly immoral. It is literally moral hazard.
The article is wrong, it has branding disabled (so it identifies as Nightly), but it's stable Firefox. And the linked article indicates that one compositor can be used.
To be fair the situation isn't that much better in most Western countries.

Murdoch family for example has huge influence in US, UK and Australia.
Thank you so much Roy! Can't wait to hear your thoughts about it :)
https://archive.is/v8Rk7
If you think about it like a point on a graph, and the vectors as just 2D points (x,y), then the synonyms would be close and the unrelated meanings would be further away.
But nobody made the claim that everything is possible with a trombone.
By same design choices do you mean that it is mandated that an essentially reusable cargo truck be mounted to the side(s) of booster(s)/tank? Because that was the shuttle's damning sin. Besides the collapse of the USSR there's a reason the Buran wasn't further pursued, and commercial space hasn't pursued a similar form factor.
I switched to LXQt because it's power management, e.g. suspend the laptop if the battery goes below whatever percent, actually worked whereas KDE's wasn't and such a basic feature breaking (and causing me to lose work) made me too mad to debug it. I'm sure it's fixed now, but that was only the final straw for me. KDE tries to be too fancy and ends up buggy, whereas LXQt is simple and just werks.
Yes, that is why I would much rather Google promote Reddit than forums in general. If they did the latter, it would just encourage SEO spam to move from generating fake blogs to generating fake forums full of AI discussions, and cause product spam to focus even more on posting in forums (which is already a problem).

The current arrangement requires a two-step search to find good forums on a subject, then search those forums for my question rather than have Google directly surface content from the forums when I search for my question. But the extra effort is worth it to keep forums from becoming SEO targets.
Ages of the People We Marry
Feedback Loop, Singularity and Ethics
shaving 20 minutes off a task is useless unless it's something that happens constantly. The real differentiator will be, do you know you can do something, that others in your org think is impossible? Can you turn a 6 month project into a half day script and move on?

Also there isn't "A knowledge base" that turns a junior dev into a "skilled pragmatist". It comes from being a part of delivering value all the way up and down the stack. There unfortunately isn't a book that can really teach you that. You gotta build that in yourself on your own through experience.
Remorse for what? Something he didn't do? There is nothing to be remorseful about. This is the sort of non-logic where you're presumed guilty and/or punished for asserting your innocence. Aside from the obvious absurdness of it, it's also literally unconstitutional as it violates your 5th amendment rights, which is why another judge reversed the decision later on. And considering all of this is about an 11-year old makes it that much worse.
For that dig he sported a very trendy pair of naturally torn jeans.
Perhaps the biggest reason intelligence agencies want to do is, is to use AI surveillance on vast swathes of data without requiring a warrant.
Big tech itself is the biggest spy in the world.... workers are just doing what they are told.

It just needs to be made illegal instead of secretly legal.
> look at the different cars or personal computer.

this feels like a flawed example to me. ~100 years on and all cars are starting to look the same.[1] Personal computers, after like 30 years, have mostly converged around something that's essentially a 3x5 touchscreen with cameras on both sides. Sure, there are laptops and PC's, work and semi trucks, but that's 3 form factors? meh. Manufacturing at scale is much more efficient, and form follows function, can't really escape either.

[1]https://windingroad.com/articles/features/why-do-all-new-car...
It makes little sense to buffer a full frame before up scaling. Why would you do that? It’s a total waste of DRAM bandwidth too.

The latency incurred for upscaling depends on number of the vertical filter taps and the horizontal scan time. We’re talking order of 10 microseconds.

The only exception is if you’re using a super fancy machine learning whole-frame upscaling algorithm, but that’s not something you’ll find in an old CRT.
Ah! That's a clearer fundamental disagreement.

To me, much of the US's power comes from its centralization and radically ceding that back to the states would leave it diminished on the world stage.

The CIA/FBI rabbit hole, to me, collapses down to the "Who watches the watchers?" question.

I'm of the opinion that there will always need to be clandestine activities (domestic and international), that proficiency in that domain generates outsized benefits to a nation, and that oversight should continually be improved and strengthened (but is fundamentally impossible to accomplish completely, due to the nature of the enterprise).
At 40 hours per week that's only ≈770 words per hour on average, which seems achievable.
I felt that way until the other day. There was a post that got upvoted, seemed wholesome and innocuous, and then eventually someone pointed out it was borrowing material from an earlier post. So I go to check, and sure enough, the pattern of posts by the parent poster is very inhuman, to put it one way. Strings of reposts of the same thing to many many subs in a short period of time, over and over and over again.

I wouldn't go so far as to say reddit has been taken over by bots but I've started to wonder more and more about it.

I generally feel like things have subtly but noticably changed for the worse since the exodus but I can't name a replacement in general except for some topic specific forums here and there.

On the bright side I do think the new UI has improved noticably. I still revert to the old site often but the new site is better than it used to be.
Is FHI even needed anymore? His ideas clearly won and took hold of a large group of people. AI doomerism is the default stance most people have on AI. e/acc makes up a tiny fraction of popular discourse today.
There is insufficient information to answer the question. Based on the description, it seems the accused might have had good intentions.

Consider the possibility that the accused has social skills challenges and was making an honest effort to communicate effectively.

I have a Raycast extension that takes highlighted text as input and runs it through ChatGPT 4 Turbo to simplify, correct, and improve my writing.

In fact, I just ran it on this comment.
Obama opposed Proposition 8: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Obama-opposes-proposed-b...
> The "undisclosed" also mean they can just straight up give you different prices than they give to your competition which can affect fair competition in your field.

They could do that anyways. This changes nothing.

Negotiating custom contracts is standard practice at the high end anyways. If your company is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each month on something at list price, chances are you either got too much money or the company is run by suckers.
Can you post a picture?
I agree with this totally but it's a losing game.

The second someone releases a general purpose humanoid robot that is capable of self replication but is locked out from doing so with DRM the race will be on to break that DRM.

The self replicating humanoid robot will be a supreme game changer. It's a genie in the bottle that lets you wish for more wishes.
Can't scary movies as well?
I don’t see any evidence that we’re in danger of running out of people. The world passed 8B and climbing. The US is around 342M and grew almost 25M in the last decade.

If the cost of college or students loans is reducing the population, it’s hard to be too afraid of it.
https://archive.ph/umAb7
>Or, to be more direct - I do not believe at _all_ that the political slant of reddit's main subs is organic.

The day after election day 2016 in the US, it was actually possible to post non-leftist comments/articles in /r/politics. Basically, the mods and bot owners hadn't been given their new marching orders, and didn't know what to do.
Are you trying to imply that Wikipedia articles by definition have no agenda and no one quoting a Wikipedia article can have an agenda either?
Marques Brownlee recently published a video about the Humane AI Pin (device) [1] and I noticed this book in some of the device shots, found it curious and had (incorrectly it seems) assumed it was some kind of internal Google swag.

Well played Mr. da Maia :)

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA&t=867s
I will never understand why anybody still uses Google as their search engine.
The thinking you’re speaking of, namely that marketers are the ones calling the shots and causing disaster in order to generate controversy and therefore attention, is indistinguishable from paranoid delusions and conspiracy thinking. It’s important to back up claims of conspiracy with hard evidence otherwise it’s just unnecessary slander. Everything could be a conspiracy, potentially.

I can’t think of any situation where a marketer would be given enough agency to manufacture disaster in order to sell something, except in politics. However, they certainly do have the ability to manipulate the media and narratives.

I seriously doubt the sonic thing was a conspiracy as they put a ton of effort into making sonic and animating it, which they would have avoided if they intended to withdraw it.
Only the the best grand pianos have any bass. Your cheap 43" tall console piano for apartment use will not have much bass to speak off. The strings are too short, the box is too small. We have to restrict ourselves to True Scotsman's pianos.

Bass is easy to obtain out of a synthesizer: just make sure you have a subwoofer in the speaker system. It doesn't have to be a True Scotsman's synth or subwoofer.
It's usually the exploded looking one, but not always. I have replaced a great number of blowed up RIFA film caps in ancient Apple hardware. https://www.crackedthecode.co/replacing-failed-capacitors-in...
It's not uncommon to encounter individuals which would rather prefer you not look too closely at a thing.
No need to guess:

> But as many videos as I've made about products, there are way more products out there in the world that exist. So the process of selecting which products to even review in the first place is like an art form to itself. Most products are just, meh, they're fine. Like they exist, they get made, they're fine, whatever. So they have to reach a certain level of interest or being really good to even be considered for review. Or sometimes really, really bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA
How else are they going to feed you information when they expect you to take rolling blackouts lying down. It's [looks down at notes on current tech thing] the AI from Big Tech causing it all.
Why SQLite Performance Tuning Made Bencher 1200x Faster
Hacking a Streaming Processor for 1BRC
Hi all, co-founder of Timeplus here. One of our community users tried the 1brc.

At the core, Timeplus is a streaming processor, powered by ClickHouse. So it can leverage thousands of powerful SQL functions from ClickHouse, including `file(file, 'CSV', columns)`.

We are late to the 1brc party, but might be the first as a streaming processor. Powered by ClickHouse, Timeplus can efficiently process both streaming data and historical data, just with SQL.

Feel free to try it yourself and share your number. The author got 39 second. I got 21 seconds. Maybe on M3 Pro, it can be less than 20 seconds. No tuning applied yet.
What did you refer to when saying ”js turning into binary”?
A little hard to get too excited about something proprietary that I'll likely never see in the field. But it is cool. Voltron Data definitely seems to have a lock on where things are going, show up everywhere that's of any interest. Nimble/Alpha? Consulting there too. They're just everywhere, clearly highly respected, and even if their own stuff is proprietary they see that the ecosystem needs good interchanges & protocols for themselves to succeed, which is a not-bad trickledown from this amazing shop.

They had a VelxoConf talk that definitely is impressive as heck in terms of numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXxDNWrdEyk

It's a bit drier & more abstract, but there was a talk on Velox Wave, which is Meta's attempt at doing parallelization & segment offload, strategies for targeting GPUs. Somewhere - I think maybe Q&A or close to the end - they admit the current implementation is built around Cuda, although most of the query planning & strategies could hypothetically be applied generally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACyhL9rdv-s#t=28m48s
Thank you, this is what I meant. I am well aware they exist but anytime I mention maybe I use reddit to do research before a purchase - everyone acts like not a single human even exists on there.
I'm wondering if you could sort the two inputs, add the indicies for the multiplications together, then take the largest of that.

In your 0.1 example, 1000 gets index 2, and 0.1 index 0, combines to 2. This will tie with the 1*8, but I think it would even out with larger vector lengths.

Edit: I could be wrong but I think you can precompute the indices for the weights in advance without a prompt, then you won't need to perform those sorts at runtime.
I interpreted the original idea as the government / public health system paying the person for the kidney. Your idea is incredibly more repulsive.

I tried to elaborate, but I can't even entertain the idea for long enough to type out something I would be comfortable with submitting.
Why today's software quality is bad
Changes in complex systems require thorough simulations and testing to ensure that potential harmful effects will not emerge. This combined with a lack of competency, fake gurus and agile methodologies, create the perfect storm for destroying the software industry.

Why do you think software is bad than it used to be a decade ago?
Hybrid Quantum Interface for Telecom Light Storage and Retrieval
Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode now available in beta
If you like LXQt but would prefer lower RAM usage, then consider LXDE. Even with NetworkManager and PulseAudio, mine only uses 300MB.
Russia is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year
US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women's track kit
So you want them to lie? My dad was like that. I admitted to several things I didn't do in order to reduce the amount of caning.

This led to a funny incident at school. Somebody did something, and another grassed. The bully came to question me - I had no memory of telling on him, but the way he described the comments, I though oh that does sound like something I'd say. I took the beating. Then the actual grass came up and asked me why did I admit something I hadn't done?
Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
I once had ~40k tabs.
Yes, you can shove the embeddings in a BLOB, but then you can't do the kinds of query operations you expect to be able to do with embeddings.
also, let me paste my email in signup forms and don't ask me for it twice
Advanced Memory Management in Vale
When I was a teenager in the 90s, playing in bands before I got into tech, I knew a slightly older girl who worked as a model. She had a beeper for go-sees that always made plans difficult. In hindsight I may have been very naive, but sometimes I'm still grateful she allowed me my innocence.
Do not worry, Reddit just had a IPO (or is having?), so soon enough it will be just as useless as Google.

Once old.reddit is gone, I am gone too.

Not to mention google has a head start with dejanews. Reddit is just an over-glorified USENET. When google purchased dejanews all the did wzs ruin it instead of using it for decent information.

FWIW I am seeing more posts on USENET these days and many providers are blocking all posts from google groups. Google threw away a good opportunity by breaking dejanews.
It's okay if you don't like what they're doing and think it's stupid, but that doesn't make it fraud.

Is having sex parties now considered fraud? I need to speak to my lawyer.
Fun timing!

I literally just published my first crate: candle_embed[1]

It uses Candle under the hood (the crate is more of a user friendly wrapper) and lets you use any model on HF like the new SoTA model from Snowflake[2].

[1] https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/candle_embed
[2] https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l