skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you said.

The early broadband internet before YouTube was pretty weird. Internet video was very obviously possible (and there were sites like iFilm that showed that, as well as Shoutcast), and everyone kind of knew it was the "future", but it was also kind of unclear where the hell it was actually going to go and what the "future" actually meant.

I remember before YouTube, I was playing around with Screenblast Movie Studio as a twelve year old, hacking together music videos from pirated episodes of The Simpsons and Spongebob, or recording and editing together little skits I would me, and all I would ever be able to do was burn a DVD and show it to friends. One of my first internet purchases was a PCI capture card, actually, so I could plug in my 8mm video camera into my computer. Even in 2003 I knew it was possible to share videos online, but I didn't really have money to host it myself because they would eat an enormous amount of bandwidth.

It sucks that everything became centralized, but at the same time it is pretty cool that pretty much anyone can upload and share videos now. I upload unlisted videos to YouTube all the time whenever I edit something I want to share with friends.
Yeah have run into this too with games.

Always remember those keyboard shortcuts! They will save you when weird stuff happens.

With regards to OneDrive - just remove it and things work better. On older Win10 releases you have to manually remove it (shell extension and everything) but Win11 and latest Win10 you can just uninstall it from what I have seen.
Dnsmasq is one of those humble low-resources low-dependencies low-churn low-level tools that ends up in a bunch of places - so many home/SMB routers, "internet sharing" features of linux-based OSes (like android but also linux desktops using NetworkManager) and personal projects or test-setups for working on networking equipment ... and it's easy to kinda forget about it. Kudos, and I'm sure it deserves far more donations.
Groceries. Most people still like visiting those in-person. Especially for things like picking out fruits/veggies/meats/etc.
Try Llama-3 in a Colab Notebook
Made a Colab notebook to finetune Llama-3 2x faster and use 70% less VRAM on free T4 GPUs, but you can also directly inference with it etc!

15 trillion tokens is yikes!
SEO and Ads already made Google Search bad way prior to AI.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun

>A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Didn't installer.app come configured for repositories of software you could install? I seem to remember one of the first things people installed was an app that gave you extra repos to choose from
Random doesn’t mean all outcomes are equally likely, a coin rarely ends up on its edge.

Thus evolution is often random between local optima. People’s organs don’t represent perfect left/right symmetry but there’s no particular benefit for which of the two options were chosen overall. Ie swap just which lung is smaller and you get lots of problems, but swap everything and it all works.
> people not listening to basic instructions.

Unless the basic instructions are "put down the fork, you piece of shit fat fuck", you aren't doing your job.

Presumably, you know that ~80% of medical costs are due to chronic illness, and you also know that ~80% of chronic illness is attributed to obesity, correct?

Unless you are fat-shaming 64% of your patients, you are committing malpractice.

Unless you are agitating for the hospital cafeteria to remove the Hostess cakes and sodas, you are committing malpractice.

But that's not what you people do, is it? You prescribe metformin, statins, beta-blockers, and write angry posts on hackernews that they're not compliant with their medication schedule. You dance around the root cause of 64% of your patient visits because if you addressed the root cause, your billables would decline.

Your entire profession is predicated on keeping your own patients sick, and prescribing workarounds to the root cause of 64% of them. And the remaining 36% of them, who are sick through no fault of their own, are waiting weeks just to see you, because you refuse to do the right thing and tell your patients that their wives are going to fuck the poolboy because they're too fat to see their own dick.

"Patch Adams" has destroyed the medical industry. Your ridiculous concern for "bedside manner", and being nice and polite, is killing Americans in droves, and you guys are more than happy to scoop up the profits in drawing out the process as long as possible, but not fixing it.
Inertia. I don't have a lot of mental energy to think about operating systems. Which distribution should I use? Will my hardware be supported? I ponder these things for 2 or 3 minutes. Then I defer the question for another year.
You see this even more in the ocean. There are sharks who, being cold-blooded, have the ability to slow their metabolism to very near zero and simply ride a current for thousands of kilometers to entirely different parts of the globe where feeding is better without expending any energy to do it. It's probably why sharks have been around so long. They can be extremely resistant to famine conditions.
The Guidelines also say: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." (For the record, I wasn't the one who downvoted you.)
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https://komonews.com/resources/media/b8ce76d2-e339-40e2-b077...
This explanation is better, because it puts things into perspective, but you don't seem to realize that your 1 and 2 are almost trivial compared to 3 and 4.
At the heart of it are "methods of creating distributed representation of words", that's where the magic happens. So I'd focus on helping people understand those methods. Should probably also mention subword embedding methods like BPE, since that's what everyone uses today.

I noticed that many educators make this mistake: spend a lot of time on explaining very basic trivial things, then rush over difficult to grasp concepts or details.
I met that guy at a glider meetup a few months after that record. That Transonic plane is huge. He managed to fit the 3m wingspan into a regular car, lengthwise.

I never got out to Parker Mountain but those guys had great stories. 100G will find the weak point on your model, often explosively.

Also fun is pelicans surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFrSycTvRk
Very good points.

If anything, this overstates the connection. Yes, there were ethnic Chinese settlers heading over to get paid by the Dutch, or to leave mainland China for a variety of reasons. With vague, intermittent interest/claims/activity from the court in response to fears about foreigners and internal enemies at a remote place near/in/at the frontier.

But as late as the Rover incident of 1867, where aboriginal people in Taiwan killed some US sailors, the Qing dynasty said to the US "Nope, that part of Taiwan, at least, has nothing to do was us, it's not our territory, take it up with them. Any de jure claim that Taiwan as a whole was effectively administered by mainland China would have to fall somewhere between 1867 and Taiwan being ceded to Japan in 1895.
Ugly visually and ergonomically.

Default choice of fonts, mishmash of visual styles from across decades of development in the various widgets, non-native/non-pixel-aligned font rendering, context menus that relegate the most common actions to submenus while elevating actions that you're not going to use as much, alignment issues abound, use of modal dialogs for things that are taking place in the background and should be progress bar widgets instead, dialogs that need focus being placed under dialogs that can't be used until the backgrounded dialog is interacted with, etc.
It's dense, and requires a pixel perfect pointing device to use.

In other words, it's a desktop app, through and through.

If you're used to stuff that's mobile-first, it's a rather jarring change - I can see how one would consider it ugly. I happen to find it "dense, usable, and does the job fine." I wouldn't call it pretty, but neither do I mind a utilitarian interface to do things like "read my mail."
With all the shenanigans Microsoft is pulling I no longer feel any guilt or trepidation about getting an LTSC key through a gray area.
I think AGI is less a "generation" problem and more a "context retrieval" problem. I am an outsider looking in to the field, though, so I might be completely wrong.
'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today (2017)
Since microkernels are not popular (at least not open source ones, and the closed source often don't give enough data to know) that isn't even meaningful. We would need a full-features microkernel based OS that tried to do it correctly. Otherwise it could be easier to do, but nobody tried.
That suggests that it's likely memorizing more special cases rather than distilling general principles. They generalize to some degree but clearly there's room for improvement.
Grimdoomer wrote the article but doom is a different person -- and he's not exactly anonymous. I'm not sure what the other commentator was implying.
If you combine engineer mindset, business acumen, relentless drive and do so over decades, you can get outsized results.

It's a thing to admire, *even if you dislike the products*. Much the same as you can be awed by Ray Kroc's execution regardless of whether you like McDonald's or what you think of him personally.

It simply isn't that common to have that combination of talents at work on one thing at such scale for so long. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had the same combo of really being down in the details despite reaching such heights.

You can contrast to Google, a company whose founders had similar traits but who got tired of it. Totally understandable, but it makes a difference in terms of the focus of google today.

Again this is true regardless of what you think of Meta on, say, privacy vs. Google's original "Don't be Evil" idea.

Saying "wow they still have engineering leadership" is hardly worship. It's a statement of fact.
There were two way pagers (receive and send). The receive only ones rarely interfered with medical equipment. But occasionally the local oscillators on receive only pagers would interfere with medical or sensitive research equipment.
Mark probably figured Meta would gain knowledge and experience more rapidly if they threw Llama out in the wild while they caught up to the performance of the bigger & better closed source models. It helps that unlike their competition, these models aren't a threat to Meta's revenue streams and they don't have an existing enterprise software business that would seek to immediately monetize this work.
They're commoditizing their complement [0][1], inasmuch as LLMs are a complement of social media and advertising (which I think they are).

They've made it harder for competitors like Google or TikTok to compete with Meta on the basis of "we have a super secret proprietary AI that no one else has that's leagues better than anything else". If everyone has access to a high quality AI (perhaps not the world's best, but competitive), then no one -- including their competitors -- has a competitive advantage from having exclusive access to high quality AI.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

[1]: https://gwern.net/complement
R3dfox: A fork of Firefox made specifically for Windows 7 and 8 compatibility
> ... Are they the same engines though?

The answer is we don't know. SpaceX have not published much detailed information about exactly what they do during booster refurbishment, how much is simply inspected, how much is replaced and how much is "swapped out".

The fastest turnaround for a booster is 21 days (and plenty have been less than 30). [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...
First of all, who cares?

But that aside, this take reeks of sampling bias. Every amateur with a laptop uploads their music to SoundCloud/Youtube/whatever even while they are still learning. You probably don’t have much exposure to the crappy piano fugues and poorly orchestrated droning sonatas that are written by early university students. Trust me there’s a lot of that as well. Everyone starts somewhere after all.
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M
I looked at the list of complaints in the article. They're almost the same problems I've been noticing with Alexa. Alexa has become very slow lately. I wonder why they're both having that problem now.
Another thing that climate change is making expensive. Add it to the pile next to "everything" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/17/climate-...
I’d vote for Sirious.
California Sees Two More Property Insurers Withdraw from Market
I have moved to Arch Linux 100% for work and personal use. I too have a Windows 10 machine for gaming -- but it runs LTSC, which is _much_ more super user friendly, less user hostile.
There are two reasons why anybody would buy a Windows computer: 1. Price 2. Some Windows-only software they need to use.

So until Apple lowers prices on their computers to compete with the cheapest (never), Microsoft can treat their customers however they please.
We can agree to disagree. Israel definitely did not perpetrate 9/11 every other week.

Did Israel parade corpses around town like how Palestinians did it? Nope.

Did Israel kill 3000 Palestinians every 2 weeks? Nope.

Did Israel kidnap babies? Nope.

The difference is obvious. Yet you pretend not to see it.
You'd have to rebuild the towers to be higher.
Instead of saving money, don't stop using paid tools! Today I'm getting the top package on the automation tool IFTTT, and my mind is at ease. I'm kicking myself that I wish I hadn't saved money earlier. Using tools that save time and energy increases lifespan. :)
They're saying with this architecture there's a tradeoff between training and inference cost where a 10x smaller model (much cheaper to run inference) can match a bigger model if the smaller is trained on 100x data (much more expensive to train) and that the improvement continues log-linearly.
I'm a linux developer and I run Windows 11 Pro on my devices ( a mini PC desktop & a laptop).

My development is done with VS Code + Windows terminal into WSL2, linux VMs and remote instances.

I use Windows for the great hardware support : power management, printers, scanners, webcams, usb microphone, usb wifi adapters, yubikeys. HyperV is great for VM management. MS Edge has great performance and cross-device sync. One-Drive has excellent OCR & search indexing. I use it to search & manage legal documents for various partnerships. MS Co-pilot is excellent for engineering & legal research. MS Designer (image gen) has been great for generating logos & designs. I've learned more about Powershell https://github.com/tonymet/powershell-scripts

I've spent time to remove all of the recommendations, news, online content, ads and bloatware features from Windows 11. I turn on "max performance" and everything is very snappy.

It's been the best OS experience I've had since Windows 2k.

Every tool requires time investment. I also don't like Windows 11's online /entertainment content. Many industries are going in that direction e.g. automotive.

Give it a try.
I wish I had read this a year ago. I kept a mental note of pain points in the workflow, played it cool for four months, researched solutions to the problems, then when I got a shot as a task lead on a fresh project, I jettisoned the rituals and was way ahead of schedule while nobody was looking. Two months later the neurotic hall monitors found out. Oh no, sir. You don't just thumb your nose at practices that were pioneered in the 1990s just because they quintuple the cost of work. You will be made to do it our way to atone for your arrogance. You will use my ancient excel spreadsheet and tell me how much you like it.

Now the project is financially a total shit show, I'm besieged by dweebs, and I've been quietly looking for a new job for 6 months. Apparently, this was an avoidable situation.
Eventually someone will implement one of these really good recent ones as open source and then it will be on replicate etc. right now the open source ones like SadTalker and Video Retalking are not live and are unconvincing.
If you have funds for contractors, have you considered applying some towards an assistant?

People in our field readily think of hiring help for design, development, etc but there's a lot of value in having somebody who can just take administrative (or personal!) distractions off your plate and they're often much cheaper than technical professionals. And they're far more versatile than many productized "tools"
C# needs to introduce super() for the same reason.
I migrated to Linux due to the recurring nagging coming from Windows 11; looks like Windows 10 users will start to have a compelling reason to migrate as well.
Fully agree.

Early in my career, I ran these sessions.
This is called self-consistency: sample multiple times and then select the answer that appears the most. You can read Alphacode's paper, which uses a similar method. I think we can do even better, though. Over 1000 runs, it's likely that the correct answer appears at least once. Instead of selecting based on the majority, we could use the LLM to judge the answer individually. Since it's easier to verify than to generate, I think this method would work very well. I don't know if any lab has tried this, though.
If anything, I just need better map instructions.

It’s too repetitive and verbose, always seeming to interrupt an important part of my conversation or audio book.
Not a founder, but a good piece of advice I read is to hire a remote PA. They can be cheap, and can help stay on top of things.

For me staying organised is the worst. It takes time and effort, can be very boring, the upsides are kind of invisible, downsides can be cataclysmic. Mostly you want to do the interesting bits of being a solopreneur...
I've always been frustrated with the limited usefulness of Siri. It's good for sending text messages in the car, adding to the calendar, the weather, may be reading a text message, I haven't found a use for it otherwise. It didn't seem revolutionary at the time, and it still doesn't seem that way.
Only if you know you're on it and why though, right?
Not that quickly fixed. EAC has been out for months. But it is a cool industry.
I worry that corporations have gotten better at the art of siphoning money from such programs without delivering on the intent, making more money from repeated failures. I worry that there is no longer the political ability to punish big companies for their failures. At such of a point it becomes impossible to will such projects into existence. I wonder if China, in essence, has more of an ability to punish corporations due to the power concentration at the top and if this paradoxically allows for better competition between corporations that are less powerful than the politicians. Perhaps at a certain point of corruption the leadership in effect already owns everything so the agency costs from such corruption is greatly reduced.
I've given up on it.

Hey Siri, add Macarons to the shopping list.

Later: what the fuck are Salty Albanians?

That and the AI image recognition stuff repetitively can't tell the difference between cows, yak, horses and cats. I just want to go back to where I did the work because it's less hassle.
>a few weeks

July to December is not "a few weeks"
China is far from a depression. Their economy grew by more than 5% this past quarter. That is far from a depression. Where do you come up with this?

There is something seriously wrong with most people. You write things, and hope they are true. It is incredible. It's like Christians and other religious people. If I believe it, it will become reality.
I have never used Siri despite owning iPhone, Mac

I have an Echo but it's use is generally "Alexa play LBC" as I do housework.

If though Siri can beat this, please do tell me

"Alexa, what noise does a hamster make"
I don't think I would hire them either, for the same reasons you listed. But I like to play devil's advocate, so here's a different take.

These employees succeeded in identifying the best way to raise awareness, achieving large media coverage and reaching a wider audience than if they had protested outside the workplace. They stuck to their values, even though it meant sacrificing their (I'm assuming) generous compensation.

I think there's some merit to that which would translate to success in other parts of your business, if you were to hire them.

</End devil's advocate>
Pass-the-buck is the oldest game in the book.
> and zero cost to setup (ie doesn't require staff to do)

Ah, the fallacy of the cloud not requiring staff to magically work. Funnily enough, every time I heard this IRL, it was coming from dudes who was in fact paid to manage AWS instances and services for their company as their day job but somehow never included his salary and the one of his colleagues.

> But they often can't cope with the scale

Most people vastly overestimate the scale they need or underestimate the scale of even second tier cloud providers but there's not many workload that could cause storage trouble anywhere. For the record a single rack can host 5/10 PB, how many people needs multiple exabytes of storage again?

> or don't provide the right support.

I've never been a whole-data-centers-scale customer but my experience with AWS support didn't leave me in awe.
Not the GP, but the areas I use windows still for gaming is VR since I apparently have to do a lot of hacks to get it to work on my system that I'm not willing to try and fail. And then I play Lethal Company and similar, but that starts to struggle and have problem when you want to do anything modded since the modding tool available have trouble with it not being windows and break often when run though proton/wine. I've eventually got it to work, but only with hacky work arounds like changing the launch options in steam since the "Start Modded" button refused to work. I think most things running in electron fail to run through proton/wine right now (on my machine at least.)

In the end if I was playing a game alone I'd hack on it for days just to get it working so I can enjoy it on linux (hacking away at the game specifically not the linux install like needed for VR). But when I want to play a game with friends spending days (or even hours) isn't an option since they'll be onto something else by then.
Does Apple not realize that they could destroy MS right now by cutting their Mac prices.
>We’re rolling out Meta AI in English in more than a dozen countries outside of the US. Now, people will have access to Meta AI in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and we’re just getting started.

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-wi...
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>There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."

Managed that...would not recommend. When you're in a large organization and word spreads that you're the guy that can sort out issues...that goes viral and not in a good way.

Recently had a guy reach out to me from Serbia for a solution. I didn't even know we had a fuckin office in Serbia let alone some guy there wanting a slice of my time.
Better search in the start menu, for one. It didn't really matter at the time, but a lack of 64 bit support would suck for current use.
When it makes sense to build a non-dev-tool open-source SaaS
Yes, there are people working on that.

Unfortunately they aren't the people who drive energy policy in practice or who fund new generation (most of the time, at least).

From capitalist point of view, it's always easier to turn profit by market speculation[1], with providing gas turbine backup second.

[1] I work for considerably big wind power company building off shore wind turbines. Our main revenue source is market speculation :<