skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look up Georges Simenon (Maigret novels). Some people just write fast. Simenon used to write his novels in a week, and that isn't particularly unusual.

It certainly varies with genre, and the short writing periods tend to be more common in genres where people write series and the genre has very specific expectations (e.g. romance, crime mysteries) and where huge levels of originality isn't needed. NOT suggesting that is the case for Tchaikovsky.

I've written two novels, and when I first get myself to sit down and write (that's the hard part), I fairly consistently write 2k words an hour. A 200 page novel is in the 60k-65k word range, so 30-33 hours of writing.

If I could get myself to sit down and just write more consistently, I could churn out a lot too (of course whether it'd be good enough and/or commercial enough is another matter - most authors sell peanuts).

That ability to make themselves sit down and write with some degree of consistency is the most impressive part to me with authors who produce a lot, but that probably reflects what I personally find hardest (my second novel took three weeks from synopsis to first draft, and another four of editing; I'm now two years and 40k words into my third novel despite having planned the plot out in detail)
Not sure why this got voted down. It was an honest question.

Gentoo said no AI contributions. Artwork is a contribution, and someone will use AI to do it.

I’m just pointing out that this will actually be hard to enforce, and I think someone will test it sooner rather than later. Artwork would be the obvious vector to do that, and I wonder how long before someone tries it.
Yeah, and when following this logic to its conclusion you end up aligning with actual literal anti-semites in the alt-right like Richard Spencer, who loves Israel[1] as an exemplary model of what a white ethno-nationalist state should aspire to be.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-f...
Let's celebrate the new Anthropocene era by extracting some anthracene from anthracite and lighting it on fire.
> They include ideas such as changing the process for requesting rate hikes

"Requesting" means that prices are fixed to whatever the government feels is "fair".
And as a bus rider I pay the fare every time I pay taxes by that logic.

As a side question: when I buy gasoline for my backup generator am I paying the 'toll' for that generator to drive on the road?
The best meal I've ever had was clear chicken broth and it's not even close. Let me explain: in my 20s I was in a motorcycle accident. I was in a forced coma for over a week, and in the ICU for four weeks. No food, only an NG (nasogastric) tube. When they took the tube out, the first thing they gave me was a toothbrush. I brushed for something like five minutes, it was indescribably pleasant. Then they gave me a cup of clear chicken broth: basically salty water with something to color it yellow.

It. Was. Heavenly. I have literally never in my life enjoyed eating anything as much as I enjoyed sipping that broth.
I've been thinking about Meta's support for open-source AI all day
When you mention linking to physics are you talking about Parametric equations?

i.e something like, Distance, Velocity and Acceleration with respect to Time.

Velocity is rate of change of Distance in respect to time (ds/dt)
Acceleration is rate of change of velocity in respect to time (dv/dt)

You can derive the equations of motion v^2 = u^2 + 2as etc.

Things like the Bernoulli equation from Fluid Dynamics and a lot of other engineering principles can be derived this way.
> And ask a homeless person if they'd prefer to be on the streets or live in a windowless bedroom.

Many homeless can and do choose the streets over shelters even at severe risk of dying to exposure, for reasons often involving schizophrenia and the many hazardous inmates around.

So I’m not really keen on the argument that letting developers create anti-human structures would magically result in loads more useful structures for the homeless. That argument continues to completely ignore what the homeless need.

If I wanted elevated student suicides and mental health issues, and increased homeless deaths to cold, windowless prison cells sounds like a great candidate to try.
Found a copy here...

https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases
ollama pull llama3

It's working :)
> Why do you care so much for defending practices that literally poison the earth, people, animals, and ruin the economy for many working class Floridians?

So do you want to try and (unsuccessfully) explain where exactly I did that in my comment? Or are you just one for throwing bombs and straw men out here and hoping something lands? If you are going to make an argument against big sugar, make it. Instead your comment was a weak DeSantis political crack. Fine, you don’t like him…neither do I, but he wasn’t responsible for algae blooms that have been happening for decades.

If you had actually understood my comment you would have realized that I was saying this was a multiple decade issue that is not just confined to the current political leadership. Both parties own the mess because in Florida both parties are deep in bed with big ag. Go read a Hiaasen book, they are fiction but can give you a helluva lot more insight into Florida, ag industry, the environment, and its relationship with our government. Of course only do that if it is truly your interest. If your interest in it only extends as far as you can use it to push your political sensibilities, kindly go pound sand, because you are actually useless to those of us who actually care about these things.
What a hilariously American worldview: justice is only obtainable through a lawsuit, for everything by everyone.

I personally prefer the British legal tradition. Np system is perfect, and many are actively decaying, but to posit that rapid and cheap lawsuits are the only medicine for what ails our society sounds...incomplete...at best.
Funny, my son lives in one of those. I warned him, but he said it wouldn't bother him. It is now bothering him.
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases
> now it's in Zuck's interest to get his competitor's moat bridged as fast as possible.

It's this, and by making it open and available on every cloud out there would make this accessible to other start ups who might play in Meta's competitor's spaces.
OMFG! This is fantastic! And apparently I have some things to learn about web design.
How do they plan to make money with this? They can even make money with their 24K GPU cluster as IaaS if they want to. Even Google is gatekeeping its best Gemini model behind.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://filebin....
https://web.archive.org/web/20240419035112/https://s3.filebi...
A contrarian take on Casablanca from Cowen:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/02/my...
I also miss using both Seamonkey and themes :( I wasn't a fan of LCARs, but Earlyblue was great.

> The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention.

I found it useful. Firefox's inbuilt HTML editor features are worse, they don't have floating table editing. Nowadays I use Thunderbird to write HTML whenever I don't want to do it by hand, almost the same thing.
> In fact, if you're a believer in string theory, one could imagine that there's one fundamental string particle that's moving back and forth through time, creating all the other particles as it does so.

Or take that further, and you get The Egg, by Andy Weir: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Do you have a source? Here's the license when you request access from Meta for Llama, unless there's something I'm missing?

https://ai.meta.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

EDIT: Looks like they did open up commercial use with version 2 with the explicit restriction to prevent any major competitor to Meta from using Llama, and that any improvements related to Llama can only apply to Llama. So an attempt to expand the scope of usage and adoption of their proprietary model without their main competitors being able to use it, which still fits my original point.
That falls under the saying "No spice like hunger." It's just kind of an extreme situation for it.

I can relate, actually.

I had a terrible first pregnancy and threw up constantly for most of it. Once the baby was born, my husband rushed off to Burger King to get me a burger and fries and I wolfed it down. It was half gone before I realized what was "weird": I had been picking at my food for months.

I don't even usually eat burgers, but was also all "Wow, soooo good!"
The made in China base model Tesla 3 is $120USD cheaper in China vs the US MSRP.
They said something naive, not just "nice". It's good to correct the naivete.

For example, as we speak, Zuck is lobbying congress to ban Tiktok. Putting aside whether you think it should be banned, this is clearly a cynical strategy with pure self interest in mind. He's trying to monopolize.

Whatever Zuck's strategy with open source is, it's just a strategy. Much like AMD is pursuing that strategy. They're corporations and they don't care about you or me.
Those problems can be really tedious:

- Writing a screen saver on Window NT 4. Starting the screen-saver blue-screens the computer. Rebooting + loading Visual Studio takes several minutes. After several days of this, it turned out I forgot to zero out the structure you pass into every Win32 Create function.

- Was assigned to modify some old Fortran code (never claimed to know Fortran, just got the assignment) a long time ago. Got weird compile errors, couldn't figure it out, finally just started taking things out of the line until it worked. Found out it failed if I had a line of over 70 characters. What?! Turns out some of those old things of Fortran were still around...

- Spent a week tracking down why my C++ code was my crashing, due to a variable magically changing values. I was using Curl, and one of the calls requires a pointer to long and I passed a pointer to int, and the compiler didn't complain. Got so frustrated I ended up stepping through the assembly code to see what was happening (which is how I discovered it). Not fun. (Also, the constant recompiling and dockerizing desoldered the nvidia chip on my 2012 MBP, so this bug cost me a lot of money for a new laptop, too.)

- 3D meshing algorithm isn't working. Narrow it down to a small enough mesh to print out vertices before and after in a tractable quantity. Stare at changing outputs long enough to identify the problem.

- Emscripten WASM wants to load async, but exported global function uses the WASM to do work and should not have to know the details of how the WASM gets loaded. Coerce that into working for the browser. Also needs to work on Node 20 (limitation of 3rd party package) which doesn't have fetch(). But webpack for the browser happens to convert modules that use a module with dynamic import to dynamic modules themselves, even if the import is never called due to a platform check, which leads to 'import { func } from "..." resulting in func = undefined. Aargh.

That's not even counting the reverse-engineering of OS function requirements due to incomplete documentation, API functions due to almost no documentation, and problems due to causes you didn't even know existed.
Money talks. Whatever label you put on it.

Anyway, small to medium sized businesses that are privately owned and operated by families have a much easier time operating with moral fiber. No commitment to investors. In the US many such businesses import products from the far east.

Best of luck.
If people here are looking to catchup or refresh their old calculus knowledge, I'd recommend Terry Tao's Analysis 1. It's pedagogically friendly, conversational, but also rigorous.
Nobody would be complaining if google was just linking…
What happens if your startup is in negotiations to be acquired by a company that had more than 700m users before that date?
The Real Story Behind NPR’s Current Problems
But how to prove its not true?
I also lowered the TDP, but I just used the "eco mode" that my motherboard provides, which either lowers the TDP to 105W or 65W.

I also read somewhere that one needs to POST multiple times for the context restore to kick in, which could make sense in my case, as I left it on with EXPO disabled and now it does not memory train any more even with EXPO disabled (at least the POST screen is only visible for like a second and then my OS boots up).

But when I set up my system I spent much time fiddling around with the BIOS, so I'm not 100% sure if it is memory context restore that solved this in my case.
I haven't been looking for those because I don't work with .NET. Regardless, what you're linking still needs callers and callees to agree on calling convention and special binding annotations across FFI boundaries which isn't particularly interesting from the perspective of language implementation like the promises of Graal or WASM + GC + component model.
The Julia programming language: a missed opportunity for AI
They have been integral part of the NATO military alliance that bombed Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, lending military bases and participating in missions. Hardly solving through "peaceful means". It is just that they are on the "right side".
Eh, no worse than any other free (and many paid!) products on the web.
Any news on when Unsloth's parallel full tuning will be available?
That would be called a feedback mechanism?
> so I've taken to not wearing anything

Well that's one solution.
very cool. I was able to guess the number.

it really feels like talking to a real person.

the future games with AI NPCs will be very interesting. imagine you have to talk to them to crack games.
Reminds me of Fortran compilers recognising the naive three-nested-loops matrix multiplication and optimising it to something sensible.
Hard to read on mobile, but if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the catch? Is there a penalty to training faster and less VRAM?
Isn’t a simple interpretation of this type of license that some people get the open source license and others get the commercial license? Almost like a switch statement for licenses. If you belong in the category that gets the commercial one, you cannot call it open source for sure, but if you belong to the other category then it seems like an open source license to me. There is no guarantee about future licenses, and some (reasonable) restrictions but all open source licenses have some terms attached.
Hopefully they aren't able to cram it down our legislators' throats... Seems that's what really matters
Go one step further, wire yourself a hefty retirement package without leaving your country and forget the startup!
Taylor Swift just broke Spotify
Mozilla SeaMonkey still has the HTML editor (and has been updated within a year!). SeaMonkey is strange because it looks like it was pulled straight out of 1999, but still has a Modern version of FireFox in there, even with the F12 web developer tools, despite also having the historical version of those same web developer tools there too.

If you want to test it out, make sure you install https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/release... from there, because it won't show up in the extensions search.
The short answer is pride and inertia.

The immediate cause is lower management can't be assed to learn anything, and nobody makes them. This is in part because at big firms after 5-10 years you can politic or job-hop into management and be an email engineer who does little outside of scheduling meetings and marking up PDFs. Young engineer training is usually informal and in master-apprentice fashion. Your mentor will show you how he or she learned it 10 years ago, which is how his or her mentor learned it 10 years before that.

There is little technological progress in civil engineering design that is not externally imposed, and the last big step forward was Excel and replacing hand drawings with CAD in the 90s. Digital delivery will be the next leap, but it's going to take lobbying, fanatical champions, and pure luck that Autodesk and Bentley don't use their billions to suppress it.

Procurement laws, client ignorance, and network effects shield engineering consultants from the discipline of the market. Wasteful practice is not punished. That and licensing regulations have created a sort of guild socialism that has allowed backwardness to survive.
You shouldn't be using JCh_to_Jab with CAM16. The CAM16-UCS J'a'b' is a very bizarre construct compared to CIELAB, as a' and b', when converted to cartesian, output hue and ln(1 + 0.0228M)/0.0228, where M is colorfulness. It does not output hue and chroma. Likewise, J' is equal to 1.7*J/(1 + 0.007J). Thus it is almost J, but not.

You should probably just convert straight from XYZ to JCh, without using the UCS.
I gave my 6th grade nephew a 90 second "Calculus Made Easy":

First, credibility: Ah, I never took the first year of college calculus -- to make faster progress in college math, got a good book and taught myself. After an oral exam at a black board, was admitted to the second year. Majored in math. Took (so called) advanced calculus from Rudin's Principles .... Took applied advanced calculus from a famous MIT book from an MIT Ph.D. Taught calculus at Indiana University. Studied Fleming's Functions of Several Variables, right, through the inverse and implicit function theorems, Stokes formula, exterior algebra, etc. Published some advanced math, essentially advanced calculus. Once, with some calculus, at FedEx pleased the most serious investors on the Board, had them return their airline tickets back to Texas, stay after all, and saved the company.

Okay, the 90 seconds:

Consider a car, its speedometer and odometer.

Calculus has two parts.

For the first part, you read the data from the odometer and reconstruct the speedometer readings. Doing this, you take changes in (increments of, differences in) the odometer readings, say, every second. This is called differentiation.

For the second part, you read the data from the speedometer and reconstruct the odometer readings. Doing this, you add the speedometer readings, say, every second. This is called integration.

Starting with the odometer readings and differentiating to get the speedometer readings and then integrating the speedometer readings will give back the odometer readings -- this is the "fundamental theorem of calculus".

~90 seconds.

For more, instead of the 1 second steps could use 0.1 seconds, .... 0.0001 seconds, etc. With really small steps, making them smaller will make no or nearly no difference. So, the reconstructions will have converged, reached a limit.

Reaching this limit is mostly what was novel when Newton, Leibnitz, etc. invented calculus.

It is fair to say that the first
big application was to Newton's law F = ma where have some object -- baseball, airplane, rocket -- with mass m and are applying to the object force F. Then a is the acceleration of the object. Integrate the acceleration and get the velocity v. Integrate v and get distance d. So, can find where the rocket is after, say, 10 seconds. Other early applications were to planetary motion.

There are applications to areas, volumes, classical mechanics. fluid flow, mechanical engineering, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, relativity, electrical and electronic engineering, e.g., Fourier theory.

Physics and engineering are big users. And there are applications in economics, e.g., work of Arrow, Hurwicz, and Uzawa on the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.

By the early 20th century,
calculus was refined,
e.g., presented with careful assumptions, definitions, theorems, and proofs, e.g., B. Riemann and, soon, H. Lebesgue. By then there was the idea of the highly irregular Brownian motion and the observation that differentiation wouldn't work there -- Brownian motion was differentiable nowhere!

Calculus? A pillar of science, technology, and, thus, civilization.
Whatever its name, it's what drove me away from MS Office. I found the traditional pull-down menus to be intuitive and to organize functions in a discoverable way.

Every time I have to deal with ribbon-like interfaces, I'm lost. It's like walking into a supermarket and trying to find the roasted in-shell peanuts. They aren't with the snacks. They aren't with the nuts. They're on an end cap in the produce area, and the only way you find them is to just wander the whole store.
No catch at all!! There's 0 approximations, so everything is exact! We just have a custom backprop engine, rewrite everything into OpenAI's Triton language, and do all the differentiations and maths ourselves :)

Unsloth can fit 4x longer context windows than HF + Flash Attention 2 as well with our latest long context update, so 30% less VRAM use, at the expense of slightly +1.9% overhead.
I'm pretty much the opposite side of the political spectrum to Reagan - as a European left winger he was pretty much the bogeyman for us in the 80s - and I still found it funny.

It's pretty much what people would expect Reagan to write if it had been a serious request warranting a reply. What isn't expected, and makes it funny, is the humour of actually replying and pretending to take the letter seriously.

I think it'd lose its humour if it was markedly out of character and didn't sound like a serious reply.
> The term "modeling" probably means different things in different research domains.

Came here hoping to discuss this although, like many commenters, I skimmed and can’t be bothered to read tfa.

Aren’t we at a point with things like stochastic model checkers and process simulation so that stuff like this can be discussed pretty quantitatively?

It feels gross that so much erudite economic / sociological analysis that underpins policy decisions isn't more data driven. And I don’t mean data driven as in referencing and then interpreting history, but more like specifying assumptions about agent kinds and their distributions inside simulated worlds of possible policies.

Doing economics / decision theory any other way is starting to seem weird, because yeah historically we chased after relatively tidy and closed-form analysis, but now we can just sample the world and then simulate it.
Full training hmm - for now finetuning in 16bit and 4bit are supported - if people are interested can work on it!
But it’s also a bit absurd in a sense - let’s say you have all of Meta’s code and training data. Ok, now what? Even if you also had a couple spare data centers, unlimited money, and an army of engineers, you can’t even find enough NVIDIA cards to do the training run. This isn’t some homebrew shit, it’s millions upon millions of dollars of computational power devoted to building this thing.

I think at a fundamental level people have to start thinking a little differently about what this is, what open really means, and the like.
Super cool! I was looking at the self hosted quickstart, and it looks like Docker compare installs both hatchet and RabitMQ. Does hatchet use rabbit alongside Postgres?
if the seed oils in Cheetos are not the problem, what is it? the flour?
This. executives are very smart and know exactly how to their incentives work. The shareholders are the ones not paying attention.
Exactly. Living a happy life is what mattees
> Guess which company gave more than $1m to the ADA in 2022? Splenda.

It never ceases to amaze me how little money lobbyists need to spend to have such an impact on policy.
I mean you could sign it yourself. Or donate to a maintainer so they can sign it. Open source or other community windows drivers usually aren’t signed unless they have donors paying for it, certs aren’t free :)

If anything it’s on windows for not having a way to allow just one unsigned driver.
Android is switching to VideoLAN's libdav1d decoder for AV1 video playback