skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will OO-shutup stop this nagging?

Other two cents; when installing Windows, to skip Microsoft account creation / setting up ann internet connection, use shift-f10 to open a terminal and in the command window use the command oobe\BypassNRO.
I'm not seeing a problem with them going public either. The article even states that there are innocent people on the list. It would be nice to know so they can contest and clear their data off the list.
I am fine with large pool of greedy people trying their hand at programming. Some of them will stick and find meaning in work. Rest will wade out in downturn. Net positive.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, as a user of google's services and as an owner of google's hardware (pixel 5, nest hub 2). I'm probably cautiously optimistic, seeing how high quality yet unique/quirky their hardware has been. However Tensor/Samsung fabs have had their issues, but maybe factors may have been out of the hands of those in charge?
And like OpenSSH, due to the BSD licensing, it will be quickly be ported to other operating systems. Which is an advantage to us all, a great thing for humanity.
Why is Meta doing it though? This is an astronomical investment. What do they gain from it?
Thanks! If you wouldn't mind, could you email me at the address in my profile? I'd like to follow up on one of your previous comments, but I think it would be better by email.
The writer gives a very honest-sounding description of their strategizing, and the rationale for that. And there's also some good advice about being judicious about what issues you raise.

At the same time, this sounds very political, and not traceable to goals of the business:

> 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." That's the reputation that's going to get me the results I want in next year's performance review. That's the reputation that's going to get me a referral a few years from now.

I like to be on teams for which, if new to the team, mostly you notice things being done sensibly (in context), and the 3 things you see that you don't understand, you can just ask about them, because everyone on the team just wants to work well together to achieve the genuine goals.

Not to have to bank observations as an asset, to be introduced diplomatically and strategically, according to a script, to maximize performance reviews and peer approval ratings.
That's a really good comment! Thanks. By the way, pronunciation of articles also varies. With some variants "a" would get much more universal (but also making it harder to notice when it's used wrong), while with others it would be almost impossible to use "a" where "an" should be used without exposing yourself to a major tongue-twister.

And yeah, I'm aware that the subset of people mentioned is quite small. On this subject, it's that memorization requires close to no effort for me, and is close to instantaneous and long-lasting (as long as I run through it several times and the things learned aren't ending up being completely unused), while developing the intuitive feel of the right article, as you rightly put it, takes time (however, can also be close to effortless to some)... and lots of writing.
Because you can't implement that with efficient data structures like posting lists.
Interesting, mine has a different icon and used Bing
Only reason to remain on Windows these days is certain video games that have a Windows-specific kernel-level anti-cheat. The gaming situation on Linux has come so far these days (thank you Valve, Proton, and WINE team) that this gap is getting tighter and tighter. A lot of games run even better on Linux!

I am quite surprised at how easy it is to run modern titles like Helldivers on Linux. Hate to sound like a cliche but I think the era of desktop Linux is truly here. If you are a Windows user, the shift to KDE is a very small pill to swallow.
Same here. I'm not sure why this particular project is attracting mostly negative comments. I'd hope we can welcome more ideas in developer tools, even when they aren't in line with our individual preferences.

An interactive terminal environment that requires no mousing around seems nice for certain tasks.
Windows 7 was peak windows, past the mess of driver signing in vista, before they started screwing up the start menu search and turning the whole os into an ad platform.
I sort of did this with the management at a large company I used to work for. Whenever they'd do something that I thought was incompetent and/or sociopathic, I'd just write a bullet point in a file called `bullshit.md`. The file got to about three hundred bullets.

I eventually stopped this because it kind of made me feel like a sociopath and/or narcissist myself. I don't really think it's healthy to keep tabs on everything that pisses you off, like some kind of scoring system. It's not like me writing this stuff down helped anything, and it just felt like I was trying to keep score so that if I get in trouble I have a retort. I think it's actually good to occasionally forget stuff and let it slide, because there will always be bullshit management policies at pretty much any company with more than like four people, and writing this stuff down just makes it easier to let stuff continuously bother me.

ETA:

To be clear, it wasn't my idea to write it down, I was getting in trouble for complaining too much at this job, and my direct manager suggested I write things down. I think he thought it was a way to cool off, even though I don't think that was the effect.
And generally if you're using the whiskey compass, something is wrong, because most aircraft besides the most basic of VFR bugsmashers have other devices as a primary heading reference, be it a simple gyrocompass on a Cessna 172 or a full GPS-enabled strapdown inertial navigation system on a jet aircraft.
In the last stage of your data pipelines, when you are sure the data is correct and only need to be pushed to a table, maybe branch out a script that send the "hot" data to the frontend.
And that's why I only use Windows for specific windows-only applications, and it runs in a VM with no network access and never gets updated.
How is a reorg at Google any kind of news ?

Last I spoke to folks working there, these seem to happen every y-ending day.
GAC! Yeah, it was Mindpixel.

I guess that's what happens when you learn too many facts.
Probably a shared root with English "prattle" and the very British "prat."
We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop
I switched back a few times but it keeps doing it automatically more and more frequently, and the new app is absolutely crippled and hideously slow (all operations are over the network and the latency is insane).

I just switched back to Thunderbird (which I haven't used since the 00s) instead. It's still ugly, but it isn't getting in my way.
Pretty sure Yann is not involved in this - Meta has a separate GenAI group headed up by Ahmad Al-Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle).
Right, the missing niche is the fast piecemeal service AFAICT. Not "look through all my stuff and try to sell it" but "take maybe as little as one item I want to sell, today, seamlessly, and appraise and sell it"
What Is Noise?
Clans, ranked based play, integrated voice chat.

That last one was in other xbox live games before it, but Halo 2's Xbox Live brought online gaming to everyone's television room whereas before it was only on the computer.
This seems to neglect the fundamental difference between static and dynamic analysis. Formal methods approaches don’t usually need me to run my code.
> Ok well explain why the mass market is not adopting them enmass already then.

Why do I need to do that? That’s what the whole “subjective” thing is. It meets my needs. It might not meet someone else’s.

> We are either there and there are compelling products that people want or we are not and they are struggling to sell/values are going down...oh wait we are currently experiencing the latter.

Be very careful about consuming headlines here. In a lot of places sales are still going up but this has still been headlined as “sales slowing” when they just aren’t growing as quickly, but still growing. Sure, we’re on an s-curve and certain manufacturers are changing strategies but reading the headlines would have you believe that sales are plummeting.
If you're struggling to the extent that you're questioning your sanity, you're trying to do too much. There's a limit to what a single person can do.

If you want to stay a one-person company and keep your sanity, do less. Otherwise, figure out how to hire employees. But in this case, it's going to be a long journey still.
Math in 60 Seconds: Interviews with Tibees, Howie Hua, and Ayliean
With 400 billion parameters and 8 bits per parameter, wouldn't it be ~400 GB? Plus context size which could be quite large.
I don't know Dwarkesh but I despise Lex Fridman. I don't know how a man that lacks the barest modicum of charisma has propelled himself to helming a high-profile, successful podcast. It's not like he tends to express interesting or original thoughts to make up for his paucity of presence. It's bizarre.

Maybe I'll check out Dwarkesh, but even seeing him mentioned him in the same breath as Fridman gives me pause ...
“Looks good to me”
How is hardware acceleration and Widevine support right now? I use Windows 10 (IOT fwiw) largely because I use MS Office and want smooth videos on the browser.
Meta also spearheaded the open compute project. I originally joined Google because of their commitment to open source and was extremely disappointed when I didn't see that culture continue as we worked on exascale solutions. Glad to see Meta carrying the torch here. Hope it continues.
What are you playing?

I was shocked just how many things work well with Steam on Linux (Ubuntu LTS is what I run). I'm not a big fan of the "aggressively online, kernel anti-cheat" stuff, which I consider malware in a shiny package, but I've been surprised by just how well stuff works, either natively (more than I'd have expected), or with Proton.
It ia true that everybody can fall into that trap. Becoming blind to weird quirks of your own product is the equivalent of a senior professor becoming blind to the fact that the stuff they need to explain is hard to fresh students.

The thing is, that not all people suck equally bad at this. A big part of it is to actually care and be empathic enough to put yourself into the shoes of the un-initiated. Two people who both have used the Bash shell a million times might have a completely different understanding of what makes it weird and unintuitive to someone starting out, even if both had trouble when they themselves did.

Looking at things with a fresh mind is a skill one can get better at, just like you can learn how to look at actual light and objects to draw what you see instead of drawing what your brain tells you you see. It is a hard thing to learn and it is something that can fail you even once you became somewhat decent at it, but every good educator needs that skill.
I don't see how you do a fair comparison. How do you even drive a CRT with a modern graphics card? Presumably you have some sort of digital to analog converter box, but wouldn't that add a touch of latency and defeat the purpose of the CRT?
> It would be nice to know so they can contest and clear their data off the list.

That can be done here:

https://www.lseg.com/en/risk-intelligence/screening-solution...
It's not always 7-8.

From Databricks:
"DBRX has 16 experts and chooses 4, while Mixtral and Grok-1 have 8 experts and choose 2. This provides 65x more possible combinations of experts and we found that this improves model quality. DBRX uses rotary position encodings (RoPE), gated linear units (GLU), and grouped query attention (GQA). It uses the GPT-4 tokenizer as provided in the tiktoken repository. We made these choices based on exhaustive evaluation and scaling experiments."

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-a...
It certainly doesn't, I'm running the 7B locally with ollama

It provided a lot more detail about the case, but does not have current information. It hallucinated the question about juror count, or maybe confused it with a different case seems more likely, one of the E Jean Carroll cases or the SDNY Trump Org financial fraud case?
You might enjoy Dennett’s “The Intentional Stance” for some enlightening exploration of this metaphor, e.g. “The thermostat tries to keep the temperature between 67 and 69” not only makes sense but is a useful way to think of it even when we don’t believe the thermostat has agency.
Yeah this. My average day when I go near EKS upgrades: Waltz in, fuck up the ALB ingress controller in some new and interesting way, spend all day bouncing AWS support tickets around, find out it was AWS's fault, find half the manifest YAML schema in the universe is now deprecated, sob into my now soaking wet trousers and wonder why the fuck I ended up doing this for living.

Yesterday I spent 3 hours trying to fix something and find it's an indent error somewhere.
The telemetry bungie used to popular stats on their website is better than pretty much any modern game today outside of like CS2. I will caveat that by saying modern practices require you put things behind an api with a paywall of some sort, but they had freaking action heatmaps in 2004.
AI Virtual Try-On Platform for the Fashion Industry Veesual Raises $7.5M
Did you guys use the old alt+enter trick too? It took me an embarrassing amount of time to learn that one and now I'm out to spread the word.

(Yes, in the past I'd restart games to switch modes. No, I did not know better.)
Not quite there yet, but very close and not done training! It's quite plausible that this model could be state of the art over GPT-4 in some domains when it finishes training, unless GPT-5 comes out first.

Although 400B will be pretty much out of reach for any PC to run locally, it will still be exciting to have a GPT-4 level model in the open for research so people can try quantizing, pruning, distilling, and other ways of making it more practical to run. And I'm sure startups will build on it as well.
> Satellite recovery never made any sense

The idea was conceived in the 1970s. Satellite downlinks weren't that capable and several keyhole satellites still used film.

> For the cost of the shuttle program, a large number of copies of HST could have been built

That's presuming we got _nothing_ else out of the shuttle.

> post hoc rationalizations.

Yes. It's amazing that a vehicle built for one purpose was capable of being put to so many others.

> US could have had cost optimized expendable launchers many decades ago

The US is not some monolithic agency. You're ignoring all the parts of reality that are inconvenient to your argument and the fact that the shuttle was a running program for 30 years.

> compare it to what the alternative could have been, not to nothing at all.

And you're comparing it to a level of perfection that was just not achievable by a public agency with funding controlled by congress. To take this perspective and call it a "boondoggle" is clearly misguided.

Anyways.. wake me up when a private company has managed to put a space station into orbit.
From the article

>We made several new observations on scaling behavior during the development of Llama 3. For example, while the Chinchilla-optimal amount of training compute for an 8B parameter model corresponds to ~200B tokens, we found that model performance continues to improve even after the model is trained on two orders of magnitude more data. Both our 8B and 70B parameter models continued to improve log-linearly after we trained them on up to 15T tokens. Larger models can match the performance of these smaller models with less training compute, but smaller models are generally preferred because they are much more efficient during inference.

Can someone experienced please explain this. Does this mean, a lean model with more training time and/or more (or better) training data will perform better than a fat model?
One of the nice things about this vs being employed by someone else, is often the thing that feels the most important probably is!
> I don't think I care enough to execute them

You can own this, its totally reasonable to have a good idea and say "meh".

> at my age

This is a cop out. It's weak at best and you contributing to your own discrimination at worst.

You might not like that but I'm not just talking, I'll bring the receipts;

https://medium.com/illumination/late-success-is-possible-8ba...

I highly recommend you look at the 77th infantry division in WWII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Su5-_KuDf8 Is an entertaining summary.
The biggest reason i've seen is because management hasn't prioritized it. It takes a few scars before understanding the importance of these tasks, pushing for them prematurely can be really risky. Letting stuff fail might be a better path for consensus.
EKS release cycle is related to Kubernetes release cycle. I'm not sure it's fair to expect AWS to freely support outdated K8s versions, that don't have upstream support.

If K8s would be backwards compatible, upgrading would be a lot easier, and if they would support LTS releases, like other projects, manual upgrades would be needed only every X years.

For example, the reason that you can use PostgreSQL with the same major version for 5 years on RDS is due to PostgreSQL actively supporting it, and minor versions are non-breaking and can be seamlessly applied (restart or failover to standby replica is still needed during upgrade).
Ship of Theseus

The engines are the most expensive part of any rocket by far. Clearly SpaceX has produced some incredible economies from reuse, but it's definitely not as clear cut as simply "reusing a single rocket twenty times".
They will be able to integrate intelligence into all their product offerings without having to share the data with any outside organization. Tools that can help you create posts for social media (like an AI social media manager), or something that can help you create your listing to sell an item on Facebook Marketplace, tools that can help edit or translate your messages on Messenger/Whatsapp, etc. Also, it can allow them to create whole new product categories. There's a lot you can do with multimodal intelligent agents! Even if they share the models themselves, they will have insights into how to best use and serve those models efficiently and at scale. And it makes AI researchers more excited to work at Meta because then they can get credit for their discoveries instead of hoarding them in secret for the company.
The US govt will force into existence a competitor OR keep one of the old ones around on life support. They have made their position clear and have been backing it up with money.

All governments probably want their own space program, but only some can afford it. Those that can all force into existence a local space program because they need to be able to launch their own stuff for national security and defence purposes.

Countries with their own space program: EU, India, China, Russia, etc. None of them are cheaper than Falcon 9 and none of them will be able to compete with Starship anytime soon, but they will all continue to exist even if Starship becomes a runaway success.
Can you try switching to LTSC/IOT? There are various grey(or darker)-market solutions available.
Which indicates that they get enough value out of logged ~in~ out users. Potentially they can identify you without logging in, no need to. But also ofc they get a lot of value by giving them data via interacting with the model.
Ton-Based Economy Starting to Take Root in Telegram, Ton Foundation Says
I haven't listened to Dwarkesh, but I take the complaint to mean that he doesn't probe his guests in interesting ways, not so much that he doesn't criticize his guests. If you aren't guiding the conversation into interesting corners then that seems like a problem.
To me it's crazy to think how far ahead of its time in terms of emergent behavior was Battlefield compared to other games, besides battle arenas. Probably it wasn't the first one either, but it's the one that comes to mind.

Picking up a tank or a jeep is one thing, but going for controlling an aircraft carrier or a submarine? Even if the controls were really primitive, it felt amazing!
That's not only not what i said, that's also not true. 4chan has orders of magnitude less "moderation" than reddit. And outside of literally one single part of it, doesn't even have a much different overton window.
+1

dnsmasq is awesome, for me the best thing is the integration with nftables so I can reliably police and filter traffic by dns domain names.
indeed my thoughts, especially with first Dario Amodei's interview. He was able to ask all the right questions and discussion was super fruitful.
WoC = Wizards of the Coast
I had interpreted the parent comment to be about gameplay, but those are all fantastic points about matchmaking and the related QoL improvements. It absolutely is taken for granted because I forgot Halo 2 was the first to do _all_ of that well, and in one complete package.
Good, in that they were forced to say the quiet part out loud!

But 772? For an email client? No, sorry, my email behavior is not that many people's business.
they are rolling them into the platform, they will obviously boost their ad sales
Confusing pricing for Kimai. Start for free for hosted but I can't find the pricing anywhere on the website but I found a blog post about how it's no longer free. Do you pay for it and try to host it?
Funnily enough, Unity's latest UI approach is to just use web tech, with their 'UML' XML dialect plus CSS-like styling via the yoga embeddable C++ flexbox renderer.

Also, Fusion 360 is now known as just Fusion (it's cleaner that way?)
And 99% of users will now give their explicit consent (due to cookie banner fatigue and/or not caring because they don't want to pay), and probably to more than before, rather than it being a grey area

Thanks, GDPR, and the law of unintended consequences!
What I meant (which I should've clarified) is Meta can pull out of EU/any markets and shut down its servers legally. Not provide some part of its service in a new form.
Proton is good enough, that I haven’t booted windows to play a game in 3 years. Lutris has been good for those not on steam. I tend to play a lot of indie games with a couple multiplayer competitive. YMMV
Intel Unveils New Branding for 6th Generation Xeon Processors: Intel Xeon 6
I agree with you so much, but he has a solid programmatic approach, where some of the guests uncover. Maybe that's the whole role of an interviewer.
Well, the Wii GPU has 12 GFLOPS, while the Mali-G52 MP2 used in the Galaxy A14, the top selling Android phone of 2023, has 418.78 GFLOPS.
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"What to say if the moon lander crashes and the astronaut dies", "what to say if Trump starts spouting nonsense about your project faster than you can refute it", etc.
In fact week before last, John Oliver had a segment about his favorite recurring model in stock photos on Last Week Tonight. Also interesting to note that some well-known actors (or at least two) got their start modeling for stock photos.
Don't do accounting or taxes for your company. There are two ways you can do that.
Golang PGO builds using GitHub Actions
I've been running LTSC for a while. Just about everything works, until I downloaded the latest Forza Motorsport. It won't start because all the xbox "apps" are missing. It's the only game so far that doesn't work that I have tried.
Thanks, 2-3 * 5-8 berries isn't too high, I'll try having all my berries together the next time I do.