skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day you have 2 problems (1) how to make execution deterministic within some boundary be it a process, hypervisor, or distributed system and (2) how you handle non-determinism when data crosses this boundary. You can move the boundaries and effort around but the problems always exist. So, if you are claiming that you have a sweet spot on this tradeoff then I could certainly believe that, if you claim that you eliminated this boundary issue then I am highly credulous.

I'll agree with you on indeterminate behaviors though, I suspect they will eventually be seen like the "billion dollar" mistake of null pointers.
It depends on what synth you're using, and how you're controlling it. Most synthesizers and controllers are profoundly lacking in expressive control, and of course a synthesizer that just plays back a recorded sample of a real piano isn't going to sound as good as being in a room with the real thing. Just because the mainstream synthesizer world has been sort of stuck in a rut for 40 years doesn't mean this is the best we can do.

There is, however, some real progress being made. For controllers, check out the Linnstrument, the Osmose, the Continuum. MPE was added to the MIDI spec a few years back, which makes it a lot more feasible to sell expressive instruments and have them "just work" with existing synths. As for synthesizers, just about anything is possible. Physical modelling is becoming more popular.
Plus, VHF signals can get where no LTE or satellite can arrive, even if you are two floors underground. Downside is that anybody can read POCSAG, especially nowadays with inexpensive SDR receivers...
Given

not because they’re sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, but the opposite.

Unlike LLMs, working with embeddings feels like regular deterministic code.

<h3>Creating embeddings</h3>

I was hoping for a bit more than:

They’re a bit of a black box

Next, we chose an embedding model. OpenAI’s embedding models will probably work just fine.
Yet another reason I wish FireWire had won. It always supported 2-way instead of a host-client model.
Think about it this way: lines are discrete, because they are separated by an HSYNC pulse that is used to fly back the electron beam from right to left. But the 'pixels' within a horizontal line are continuous: there is nothing in the video signal that delineates them.

To the number of horizontal pixels is essentially limitless (if you ignore the bandwidth limit and the CRT scan raster) while the number of vertical pixels/lines is always discrete.
Excited to announce the launch of my very own blog site!

Can't wait to share my journey with you all!

Link: https://blog.devarshi.dev

Demo below:

Tech Stack & Tools used:
- Next.js (React.js)
- TailwindCSS
- React-Markdown
- Cloudflare CDN
- Cloudflare Pages & Workers
- Umami Analytics
- BetterStack

Is there a backend/CMS for this project?
No, everything is handled as a static site. I am not using Next.js API as well. I have built multiple scripts which convert the markdown files into static pages, generate sitemaps, etc after which the site is built and deployed. This includes optimising the site for SEO and all the necessary items for a blog site!

PS: Some links won't work since they are to be redirected to my main portfolio site once ready!

Many more features are on the way ready to be shipped!
You might also find Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Music of Space https://youtu.be/RX_56MiOnAk interesting.

> Watch our audio director Ben McCullough describes how he created a unique audio environment and soundtrack for a Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Hahah thanks, although I was hoping for a flame to get adrenaline flowing to push through the night :D

I also hope there will be an extra knob - or more like knobs, because effort can be regulated smoothly layer by layer, token by token, matrix by matrix. Think more like an equalizer, not a volume control :)

The biggest question right now is how (if) it will perform with Q8 and with smaller models. The risk is that the quality dropoff will show up closer to 40-60% at Q8, negating the performance gains.
Effort Engine
I don’t think it’s the freshness factor, but rather the difference between wild/bush picked and cultivated.

On the grocery-destined side, there’s probably an aspect of strain selection and farming practices that focuses on bulk without regard to flavour+texture.
Thank you. Comments like this are why I love HN.
Or is Google providing less useful data coupled with the fact I have to scroll down considerably to avoid advertisements with an ad blocker? Only to be met with reddit results...
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I'm scandalized. /s
I think it's accurate to say that the median American is insured, with only 8% of the population uninsured [1]. Although, to put that percentage in perspective, that's 26 million people and likely thousands in excess mortality relative to the insured poplulation.

I believe you're referring to the ACA's "individual mandate", which imposed a federal tax penalty for being uninsured. I won't argue whether that makes it illegal or not, but I can say that the individual madate was eliminated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2019 [1]. There's no longer a federal tax penality for being uninsured.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/pe...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5944881/
> rather than making similar-count words closer in the embedding space.

Ah I think I see the confusion here. They are describing creating an embedding of a document or piece of text. At the base, the embedding of a single word would just be a single 1. There is absolutely no help with word similarity.

The problem of multiple meanings isn't solved by this approach at all, at least not directly.

Talking about the "gravity of a situation" in a political piece makes the text a bit more similar to physics discussions about gravity. But most of the words won't match as well, so your document vector is still more similar to other political pieces than physics.

Going up the scale, here's a few basic starting points that were (are?) the backbone of many production text AI/ML systems.

1. Bag of words. Here your vector has a 1 for words that are present, and 0 for ones that aren't.

2. Bag of words with a count. A little better, now we've got the information that you said "gravity" fifty times not once. Normalise it so text length doesn't matter and everything fits into 0-1.

3. TF-IDF. It's not very useful to know that you said a common word a lot. Most texts do, what we care about is ones that say it more than you'd expect so we take into account how often the words appear in the entire corpus.

These don't help with words, but given how simple they are they are shockingly useful. They have their stupid moments, although one benefit is that it's very easy to debug why they cause a problem.
I am not saying that I or anyone am perfectly logical or uninfluenced by feeling. Hume was exactly correct when he said the reason is the slave of the passions.

But - with his trilemma, Lewis claims "here is a logical argument for believing in the Christian god", and then presents a weak and illogical argument. It's difficult to know what to make of this except that Lewis was somehow blinded to the logical flaws.
There are some pretty huge ontology DBs in molecular biology, like GO or Reactome.

But they have never truly exploited logic-based inference, except for some small academic efforts.
What "well enough" is, and how much time you have to spend finding that out about each site and each time they update, is a pretty wide swath. E.g. browsing HN works fine... if you've already decided you don't care about things like collapsing comment chains. And HN is a pretty barebones site at that.

If you're willing to dedicate the troubleshooting time to your web experience you can get yourself into a pretty useable state over time though.
Oh, knock it off.

The reality is that licenses must be restricted because people cheat, steal and pirate. Hate them instead. Besides $49 is dirt-cheap for what it is, especially considering it covers all future versions.
> Yeah, there’s a real failure to understand that sugar and junk ... remains the most cost effective source of calories.

This is usually the point where someone interjects some examples of cheap foods that poor people ought to just buy - because everyone, everywhere has trivial access to their middle class shopping experience.

But even past that: Being poor also means subject to ceaseless Denial of Resources Attacks. Resources here meaning funds, attention, energy, ability, hope, will and anything one needs to raise one's station.

Hacking a meal plan struggles to rise to the top of a priority stack when one has dozens of problems in a critical state. And because of poverty, it requires 10x the steps to solve those issues than non-poor people face.

source: decade of hunger-level poverty with kids
I always thought of Joseph Priestley as a strictly English figure and was surprised to learn that he spent his final years in Pennsylvania. Though Priestley discovered oxygen in England in 1774, a centennial gathering at his house in Pennsylvania in 1874 led to the founding of the American Chemical Society [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chemical_Society#Hist...
Sub-saharan Africans have greater genetic diversity than other continental populations. Race is just not an accurate categorization.
Every time I read a story like this, I console myself with the fact that there are decent rich people out there like Warren Buffett, Mackenzie Scott, and George Lucas. (Bill Gates is on the fence; it's hard to forgive him for the Linux Wars.)
> Something about it being a simpler, more innocent time?

Unfortunately, we will probably think the same about 2024 in thirty years...
You can find the preprint, which the Twitter thread summarizes, here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10102)
People looked down on gambling in the old days not because the casinos were run by organized crime but because there was an understanding that gambling was motivated by greed and often caused people to waste a lot of time and lose all their money and there was no upside to it for society.
Maybe or maybe not. Death Valley had similar abnormal rains recently.
Having drawn with crayons, pencils, and pens, I think there is an intrinsic property about crayon drawings that does severely limit their maximum complexity/detail.
One-way communication is still communication. Broadcast TV is still used today.
Lowest average pay US workers willing to accept for new job now $81,822
My question is serious. The US Government spends $2 trillion per year for health care for the poor and the elderly, and also spends a significant amount for for tax credits for health insurance for those that are neither poor or elderly. Furthermore, hospitals always treat regardless of the ability to pay.

How many more $ trillions and how many fascist medical bureaucracies would achieve your ends comrade?
I think he is saying: embeddings are deterministic, so they are more predictable in production.

They’re still magic, with little explain ability or adaptability when they don’t work.
I wouldn't argue with you. I'd just observe that you cut yourself off from a lot of modern conveniences. (I certainly grew up without cell phone until well into my adult life and largely without Internet as well.) You don't need electricity or indoor plumbing either--although those are arguably at a different level.
Modelling Time Travel in Fiction
This site[1] actually collects and lists the statements and highlights how long it's been since he said them.

1: https://elonmusk.today
In the Netherlands there was a brief period where “Maxers” [1] were all the rage. They were like pagers, except you could send text messages to them by calling to a specific service number and leaving spoken messages. It was outrageously expensive and GSM came shortly after so they rapidly faded into obscurity.

[1] https://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/5064/philips-prg+2140...
> compared with what most people have CRTs are still likely to have better color accuracy, better contrast, zero motion blur, no dead/stuck pixels, far better viewing angles, no fixed resolutions, higher refresh rates, and zero backlight bleed

You're comparing the best CRTs ever made with the "average" modern LCD.

The run of the mill CRT that "most people had" was dim, blurry, flickery, and bloom-y.
It was exceptionally well-engineered. The people who worked on it should be proud of the machine they designed.

The problem with it as a product was that it was worthless. Yes, it did what was claimed, but the machine and all that great engineering was completely unnecessary to get the insanely overpriced juice out of the bags.
we're still working out some issues with our own managed hosting.
will have draft docs in the next couple of weeks.
It will require a VPS at a host that allows port 25 to be opened.
I went to a interesting hackathon the other day focused on building tools for exploring timbre in sound https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/.

Was brilliant, a lot of groups focusing on the use of ML to characterise the "unexplainable" in sound synthesis.

We ended up submitting a tool for interacting directly with Ableton using LLM agents after becoming disenchanted with text2audio models, wrote about it here - https://montyanderson.net/writing/synthesis
I wonder if this is a case where disabling JavaScript JIT is enough or if even slow JS is still able to trigger the problem through the WebGPU side of the stack.
I've seen speculation that this is evolutionarily driven.

Kids do not have the wisdom to know which bitter foods are ok and which could harm you, so they avoid them all or die. By adulthood the selection pressure is much smaller because you will have learned what is safe to eat.
Well it's nice knowing that moral panics have always been pretty stupid. But it's not so nice knowing that we keep making this same easily avoidable mistake.
Do you think you can't choose a different place of employment after saying "yes" to one? Do you think you're stuck there forever? Do you not realize you can choose a different employer, even after you already started working there?
Shouldn’t performance testing be a part of any standard change process for a distribution? You can hide in the code, but you can’t hide from the laws of physics.
I find it amusing that people are basically advocating for the government to become every citizen's Medical Daddy (the GP of this comment) backed by the threat of state violence in a thread that is ostensibly about freedom from the security state.
I went straight to your Arm instruction disassembly because I’ve been writing one too; did you consider using a data structure like a trie rather than deeply nested conditionals? Any particular reason for one vs the other?
Philip Rosedale on "The Price of Distrust"
DeepNest[1] looks really interesting, I think I will definitely be trying this next time I have a project involving cutting out anything.

[1]: https://deepnest.io/
"effort", "attention", "conclusion".
Can you, or someone expand it into full list of all aspects of cognition?
May you suggest books/paperworks about cognition?
Thanks.
You're like 20 years behind on forum manipulation if you think so...

So, if the admins of the site to a really good job of banning accounts that exist for the purpose of vote manipulation, then voting works ok. If not the votes that generally dictate how well a post/topic does occur within the first few minutes of posting.

Post topic -> Upvote -> Post conformation messages of approval of the topic -> bots upvote these posts -> bots downvote anyone that disagree.

Moreso, downvotes themselves don't directly address things like raids and sustained attacks by bad actors. These kinds of attacks make the end user feel like they don't want to be in that subforum driving them off elsewhere and lowering participation. It can also embolden others to post more similar content to what the bots are posting.
Because Hydrogen, green Hydrogen in particular, is an important problem to solve.

Hydrogen -> Ammonia -> Nitrogen component of Fertilizer is a huge portion of the modern food system.

If we need to mass produce green Hydrogen for Ammonia anyway, it'd be cheaper if we found other uses of Hydrogen while we were at it.
What do you think are the logical flaws in the trilemma argument?
Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk's $47B Pay Deal with New Shareholder Vote
I would love to see a Cyc 2.0 modeled in the age of LLMs. I think it could be very powerful, especially to help deal with hallucinations. I would love to see a causality engine built with LLMs and Cyc. I wrote some notes on it before ChatGPT came out: https://blog.jtoy.net/understanding-cyc-the-ai-database/
Would you also say Sean Carroll is a hack for his strong support of the MWI?
Okay now add a small model that decides how much effort is needed in each inference step and we are good to go
I love this line in the gpu implementation section.

"Readers fresh to GPU programming may ask now - how does it work?

Readers experienced with GPU programming may ask - how the hell does it work?"
You cannot, in fact, rely on the community users more. It does not scale.

You'll see situations where most people are nominally opposed to low-effort memes while everyone upvotes the low-effort memes, and then people complain that there are too many low-effort memes cluttering the front page and now the sub is trash and they're leaving.

edit: though honestly I don't think volunteer mods scale well either. A tiny niche sub can get by with just a couple mods just fine, but when they get 100x as popular, can they then have 200 mods? Or have 2000 mods for the most popular subs? No, there's just no way to coordinate that many volunteers sensibly, not in an environment like Reddit.
That's great, but how much has the price of housing, food, cars, energy, and a college education increased during that time frame?
Oh, nice to finally bump into someone who has experience with CSR!

bucketMul has few uncoalesced reads, and it uses a different data structure than the regular CSR - it's decribed here: https://kolinko.github.io/effort/bucketmul.html It splits each Matrix row into 16 parts, and chooses which ones are necessary to read. The writes are fully linear.

Not sure if I speak sense though, it's getting a bit late today, and it's been a long day ;)
> Games designed for CRT often looked their best on the CRT because of the subtle blending and screen pattern which the graphics were designed around. The games weren't meant to look like pixelated blocks with clearly defined edges like they do on a modern screen, and they didn't look that way on a CRT.

This seems to suppose a world where, had LCDs been common, people wouldn't have used low-resolution bitmaps. But... there were not a lot of alternative technologies available! There are a few vector-art CRT arcade games out there, but generally very black-and-white/virtual-boy-style, and I believe bitmap graphics even without super-high-resolution would've won out anyway.

This also suggests that you couldn't tell the difference as much between NES/SNES/Playstation resolutions of bitmap-art games, when you DEFINITELY could. The old games never looked "great", it was just the best we had.
If Ford is in a war for talent, they shouldn't use the same incompetent recruiters and HR flunkies as everyone else in the war. But like most companies, they've created an employment pipeline full of holes, explosive sections, and loops without exits. For most companies, the war for talent is one the company is fighting against itself.
> Sure, if you like motion blur that makes your content look like a slideshow. I personally don’t. It’s embarrassing that I’m still faced with worse motion qualities than I had 30 years ago.

What crappy panels are you buying?

I know 10 years ago, IPS panels were known for having terrible response times, but there are other types of LCD that have pixel response times in the 1 ms range.
My one unpopular movie opinion is that cloud atlas is waaay underrated

I think the complicated story/narrative threw a lot of people off from appreciating it

Really good movie to re-watch multiple times, the scope of that movie is crazy
The Polynesians used double-hulled canoes not rafts. King Kamehameha conquered the Hawaiian island using giant canoes with accounts from Westerners.

The system of navigation was recorded orally. People in living memory retained the knowledge. Anthropologists got it from them, built replica canoes, and then sailed around discovering that it worked. Captain Cook used Polynesian navigator who was well traveled.

Maybe the rafts are coming from Easter Island losing the technology and using rafts instead.
Okay, that poster making the claim was completely wrong then. Almost like they pulled their claim entirely out of their ass.
Ah, I missed that part. Thanks!
discussed the other day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054326
It's truly amazing how much money gets doled out in Silicon Valley over "Trust me, bro" said by people wearing black turtlenecks.
Just saw the edit. I have 2 answers:

1) Fuzzing is under-utilized even for simple code. AFL is dead easy to use and, even so, most projects don't have it in CI runs. So, despite how much I like it, in general it seems people do not see value in this type of testing.

2) The effort to handle external state (say a restful call to get stock ticker info) needs to be mocked -- which is deeply unpopular -- or handled by record/replay which works ok-ish but eventually breaks down with divergences. Outside of well-chosen domains it these eventually pop-up and add an additional pain point that builds on item 1.
Same. I would look at that every time I was in the bathroom and wonder how they died. Did they suffocate from toxic gasses while exploring a cave? Maybe it was more gruesome like falling into a hot spring and getting boiled to death...

It would bother me forever.
I've switched to the Ollipop brand from regular soda. The taste is great and it doesn't make me feel like garbage. I'm never looking back.
Except not really.. It couldn't have had much affect seeding the areas affected, they were not just a little flooded and another human intervention that places contaminants in the air actually causes unpredictable weather..
Tell me what they are. I won't do any of those things.
If there's a better source for general purpose product recommendations than Reddit, I haven't found it.

I'd say the only real weakness is that sometimes the recommendations lean too hard on being for enthusiasts, and don't always fit what a casual user of a thing cares about. But other than that they're pretty great.
Doesn’t explain how it finds bugs it’s just had the AI play Mario bros
I remember implementing Karger’s algorithm in Cilk back in 1997. Wanted to parallelize it on an SMP. It’s great to see the deterministic version discovered and published.
> Users of tab-specific Container add-ons can now search in the Address Bar for tabs that are open in different containers.

many thanks to @atararx, the search is finally useable for me!
I've said this before and I'll say it again. As companies realize how much people like reddit as a trusted source of information, they will learn how to optimize reddit. Then it will slowly degrade just like google has.
Niche subreddits are still good, but above a certain size they all seem to become awful. Moderation is a major problem - not just the unpaid nature of it, but because so many of the moderators are terrible at their jobs or just sold out to some other cause. I've found myself drifting away from Reddit in the past year and now actually spend more time on dedicated forums (I was surprised by how many are still out there!)
Yes! That would be awesome. Especially since there are ~32*6 independent effort settings for every single token.

I tested the most basic implementation, with a flat effort setting for all the muls, but I bet the results could be pushed even further with such an approach. Or even with just doing some ML to figure out which layer/matrix needs more and which less effort.