skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If china has simply said no to war and put a stop to the ukraine war, china wouldbe doing so much better today.

This has it backwards. Assuming China envisions a strong sphere of influence over Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, which is a vision in conflict with the US sphere of influence over that region, their ability to manifest that vision directly benefit from conflicts that draw down US readiness.

How far they get to exploit that conflict depends on other factors, including who presides over the next US administration, but in respect to this long-term vision they're in a better position for there being a war in Ukraine than not and so are invested in making it longer and more treacherous for Europe. And you see exactly that in their interactions with Russia.
I am expecting a Brexit-like situation where it starts out with nationalistic euphoria and then dreams come crashing when people realize the reality of doing everything at home (tm). Globalism is so succesful for a reason.
I wonder if part of the calculation is that it may hurt the closed-source competition.
Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video]
You want the correct amount by weight. Since volume (for the same weight) varies depending on several factors, it follows that those factors affect how much volume you need.

The technique used for measuring "1 cup" affects how much weight you get in 1 cup. This is in addition to the type of flour, clumping, how densely it was packed in the bag, etc.
You also don't get consistent results if you assume the type of flour, atmospheric humidity, baking conditions, etc etc. etc. will be the exact same as the recipe author's and simply blindly follow the exact measurements because "precision!".

The best approach is to watch a video that clearly demonstrates how the product should look and feel at every point along the process, and do what you can to imitate that - even if it means leaving your scales and cups in the cupboard.
"Co-Founder", He joined Tesla almost 1 year after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla.
The New Strawberry GraphQL Playground
I work for IPinfo, where we provide a VPN detection service. Some people think that our VPN detection service restricts access to various services through a VPN. However, if someone is paying for their internet and then chooses to pay an additional $15-$20 a month for a VPN service, it is likely to be a source of good traffic.

From the point of Facebook, I think they use SMS verification and their app also requires location permission. Facebook is pretty good at preventing bad signups. What they need to do is invest that effort in keeping their user base safe.
I call mine a ticketing system. ;)
> Thats just MIL complex accounting called "Cost plus" which means price = cost + whatever they feel like.

Directionally correct, but technically incorrect.

The fudge factor is in the “cost”. The “plus” (essentially the profit) is set.
I dont think this article stresses one point enough.

You only get to be "new" once, You only get to have a fresh perspective once. There is a reason that you're a bad judge of the "usablity" of your product. You already know how to use it. your numb to it's mistakes and flaws. New team members dont suffer from this!

The bigger lesson here is for the team, and its sadly between the lines! You can get a lot of insight based on what new people ask about, where they stumble and what they need real help with.
The Formalization of Social Precarities
Hm, how much VRAM would this take to run?
Oh wow, I had totally forgotten about server hunting.

I kept a list of "good" servers (based on ping, map rotation, who played there, mods, etc), but when they were empty finding somewhere else was a complete pain.

I miss the camaraderie on some of those dedicated servers, but I know I wouldn't be able to get into something like that these days.
Reading mode (iOS) also gets rid of the paywall.
So then don't use the product? It's free, and your data is the price currently.
As someone who watched their friend play through Destiny 1 for hundreds of hours, I don't know what anyone was expecting? That game clearly did not respect it's players and their time or money, yet still made insanely good profits, so why would they do anything different?

Remember how much they paid Peter Dinklage for his voice acting, and his character sounded absolutely phoned in, and lazy, to the point that they eventually had to replace it with much better voice acting by someone else who was cheaper
People in power having ulterior motives does not invalidate the claim that the Israeli government's policies can be classified a genocide. Or do you believe only pure angels can make judgement calls?
I can't get it to write a pbr shader (not that I've gotten any of these models to do it correctly) but cool nonetheless.
it's in the official post the comparison with Mixtral 8x22B
Many organisms have been observed to acquire various new functions which they did not have previously (Endler 1986). Bacteria have acquired resistance to viruses (Luria and Delbruck 1943) and to antibiotics (Lederberg and Lederberg 1952). Bacteria have also evolved the ability to synthesize new amino acids and DNA bases (Futuyma 1998, p. 274). Unicellular organisms have evolved the ability to use nylon and pentachlorophenol (which are both unnatural manmade chemicals) as their sole carbon sources (Okada et al. 1983; Orser and Lange 1994). The acquisition of this latter ability entailed the evolution of an entirely novel multienzyme metabolic pathway (Lee et al. 1998). Bacteria have evolved to grow at previously unviable temperatures (Bennett et al. 1992). In E. coli, we have seen the evolution (by artificial selection) of an entirely novel metabolic system including the ability to metabolize a new carbon source, the regulation of this ability by new regulatory genes, and the evolution of the ability to transport this new carbon source across the cell membrane (Hall 1982).

Such evolutionary acquisition of new function is also common in metazoans. We have observed insects become resistant to insecticides (Ffrench-Constant et al. 2000), animals and plants acquire disease resistance (Carpenter and O'Brien 1995; Richter and Ronald 2000), crustaceans evolve new defenses to predators (Hairston 1990), amphibians evolve tolerance to habitat acidification (Andren et al. 1989), and mammals acquire immunity to poisons (Bishop 1981). Recent beneficial mutations are also known in humans, such as the famous apolipoprotein AI Milano mutation that confers lowered risk to cardiovascular disease in its carriers.
Considering that textbooks are probably the single highest quality source of training data for LLMs, I would be very surprised if OpenAI wasn't buying and scanning textbooks for their own training data (including books that aren't even in Books2).
They are brittle in the face of change, and useless if they cannot represent the underlying changes of reality.

FWIW, KG's don't have to be brittle. Or, at least they don't have to be as brittle as they've historically been. There are approaches (like PROWL[1]) to making graphs probabilistic so that they're asserting subjective beliefs about statements, instead of absolute statements. And then the strength of those beliefs can increase or decrease in response to new evidence (per Bayes Theorem). Probably the biggest problem with this stuff is that it tends to be crazy computationally expensive.

Still, there's always the chance of an algorithmic breakthrough or just hardware improvements bringing some of this stuff into the real of practical.

[1]: https://www.pr-owl.org/
Is it just me, but when I see a reference to a map of time, I get a vivid flashback to a scruffy band of little people pushing a bedroom wall back into a portal.
“they want everything sold in China to be 100% made in China. ”???
HK "elections" are a farce these days - only pro-China folk are allowed on the ballot.

TSMC fabs in Taiwan would NOT belong to TSMC after an invasion, except maybe in name only.
Those additional restrictions mean it's not an open source license by the OSI definition, which matters if you care about words sometimes having unambiguous meanings.

I call models like this "openly licensed" but not "open source licensed".
Battlefield 1942 comes to mind as some predecessor close to what you describe
Maybe a side-note or off-topic. But am I the only one that's shocked/confused why these giant tech companies have huge models, so much compute to run them on, and they still can't get certain basic things right. Something as simple, for Facebook, as detecting a fake profile that's super-obvious to any human that's been on the net for any appreciable amount of time.
It's a mixture of experts model. Only a small part of those parameters are active at any given time. I believe it's 16x110B
Syscall latency was a much bigger deal back when we had spinning disks, but it still matters today (you can get dramatically different plans depending on slightly different costs of pulling a page from disk) and I find it silly that we've never even measured our those costs. A bigger impact might be for SQL functions...all of the Postgres SQL functions have configured cost values, but they could easily be measured. Also a simple cost model for functions can be a dramatic oversimplification. For example, some PostGIS functions have O(n) or O(n^x) behavior depending on the size and complexity of the input geometry. If we could measure exact costs, or model costs with statistical distributions, or possibly predict with ML, that would be a huge improvement.

My opinion on ML is that there is nothing in the execution planning side that couldn't be modeled and solved as a linear program, with extremely fast and mathematically-optimal results. By trying to use ML for the planning part, you're really just using ML to reverse engineer LP solvers, and it is a poor use of the compute resources.

The reason why some ML planners might have better results than typical SQL query planners is because typical SQL engines are optimized towards OLTP workloads that require small transactions executed very quickly. In order to do that, they purposefully don't explore the true planning space...they might explore 3-10 alternative ways of executing, whereas there might be hundreds or thousands of ways to do the same thing. While Postgres has explicitly chosen to not implement planning pragmas to override planner behavior, it would be really cool if you could have multiple planners optimized for different types of workloads, and be able to explicitly choose a query planner that takes 3 seconds to plan for a query that takes 1hr to execute and for which a better plan could save several minutes. I would even love a fairly naive query planner which does index scans for a deterministic and exact cardinality before planning joins.

BTW, I really like your blog and your research focuses. You're working on exceptionally hard problems that have a huge impact on computing.
I’d bet our relatively weak social safety net and poor family support, plus low amounts of time off (especially for low-wage workers who will tend to have lots of other sources of stress and demands on their time, too) are also major contributors.

Probably a few of these things wouldn’t have such a bad outcome, but we’ve likely got a lot of problems all contributing to something much worse than the simple sum of their individual harms.
they are picking a different type of grape by night.
I always hated CDE. It was so muted. HP VUE was super fruity loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment#/media...

Also, HP used mostly sans-serif font and CDE the (in my view) more boring serif ones. It was really like the IBM business suits had screwed it all up. Unfortunately HP refused to support VUE any longer. I still have it here though on a HP-UX 10.20 machine.

Sun was good at design of their machines (much better than HP) but not the UI in my opinion, their java desktop was also super ugly.

Of course tastes differ :) So your mileage may vary.
Wouldn't it be a more useful customization to have paywalled sites automatically redirected for being opened via https://archive.{is,ph}, instead?
All cars are ~$10K cheaper in China due to a bunch of factors. The Australian price is a better metric.

The Dolphin is AUD39k, CAD35k.
Cloudflare AI team, any chance it’ll be on Workers AI soon? I’m sure some of you are lurking :)
> advertising is non-consensual, almost everyone would rather not see ads and not internalize its ideas

Advertising, by product producers, on media platforms serves a purpose of informing the customers of what is available for purchase.

At times I will watch over the air TV, or other FAST streaming services, just to keep aware of what is new in the marketplaces
The problem is not simply that there are literally not enough houses available, but rather that in a lot of cases, people cannot afford the houses that are available (I found one source that said 1.2 million vacant units in California, but I don't have the time to really evaluate that source), or that the available homes are in the wrong place. For the Bay Area set, that means that there are loads of houses in Tracy, or Modesto or Stockton, but if you need to work in San Jose, you're SOL. But if you've the median household income for the Bay Area (~$136k), then there are less than 3 dozen in the greater Bay Area (including as far out as Pittsburg), and you'd never get a loan on a lot of those because of the amount of work they need just to be habitable.

This mainly devolves to a widespread belief that housing should be an asset that appreciates faster than inflation, so people fight tooth and nail against anything that endangers their property values. Speculation has driven housing prices far past the limit of sustainability. There are even algorithms to drive rent (and therefore sale) prices up to "what the market will bear" [0] without any regard to the long-term consequences of this short-term profit seeking. Or rather, the long-term consequences (the concentration of property holdings into the hands of an ever smaller and ever wealthier group of people) look pretty fucking good to the people doing it.

0. https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-introduce-legisl...
3 is my desire, but sadly you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds, forged friendships in 2022
Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account
Where? I only see comparisons to Mistral 7B and Mistral Medium, which are totally different models.
> the stereotype of USSR and it's successor is large amounts of vodka and mindlessly wrestling bears

also lines for bread and austerity, that's what I mean

> I think citing internet memes is not a good plan.

while that example is memified, this is still a commonly held belief that I see reiterated almost daily (of course they're poor, they're buying iPhones! for example)
"China is suddenly wanting Trump to win, lets be realistic."

China is telling people Trump will abandon Taiwan, and you believed their propaganda? Amazing how that works.

The last person China wants is Trump. Trump already said he would increase tariffs on China. He also said he would ban the sell of Chinese cars in the United States. Not to mention, he said he sanction China for selling weapons to Russia, which Biden hasn't done.
Exactly. There's no point in expanding your team, scope and budget unless you gain something from it, personally. You can't really use that power in the open (it would be conspicuous, and it can't be applied in many practical cases), so it has to be monetary.
Llama 3 GitHub Repository
Haidt's claims are not supported by a preponderance scientific studies: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

> Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story about children’s development that many parents are primed to believe. Second, the book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science. Worse, the bold proposal that social media is to blame might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people.

...

> Hundreds of researchers, myself included, have searched for the kind of large effects suggested by Haidt. Our efforts have produced a mix of no, small and mixed associations. Most data are correlative. When associations over time are found, they suggest not that social-media use predicts or causes depression, but that young people who already have mental-health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers.
My friend told me this like 15+ years ago. I was skeptical but it really works. I then just use a file to take a bit of the edge off until its a curve
I detect sarcasm — are you saying the existence of solar eclipses are evidence for the existence of God?

Aside from being a beautiful curiosity, solar eclipses aren’t very impactful for humanity (correct me if I’m wrong here), so I don’t see why they would indicate a creator.
François Chollet – Creating Keras 3 [video]
Simple, but perhaps silly, question. If a fiber optic cable breaks underwater, the crew brings it up to the boat. But what if there is water contamination? Like if a fiber strand is broken or exposed, what's to prevent water particles entering the fiber?
This is just an anecdote, but it’s over a decade old, so I don’t think I’m giving away any secret sauce.

When I worked on Prime we were trying to build a program to get the top 100 items that someone would want within an hour fulfillable in large metro areas (e.g. milk, batteries, toilet paper, whatever you frequently run to the store for because you need it now and it can’t wait).

To determine what those items were, contractors were hired to go inventory Walmarts. One day it was reported that on the end caps of a particular Walmart were clipboards with all of the inventory in that particular isle. The contractor photo’s each page and was never questioned and it cut down on research time significantly.
Yeah it's really hard in both this article and the comments to tell what was actually problematic and what wasn't. A lot of people seem to think ISAs are fundamentally problematic but none of their arguments seem compelling to me. It's not even really clear to me that they did/didn't deliver value. I'm assuming some of this is true, but hard to tell how much -- the CFPB isn't really giving sufficient details to know how much of what they're saying is true in spirit vs legally true political posturing. Regardless, I'll be cautioning anyone who asks me for bootcamp recommendations and is considering BloomTech.
If the author is anything like me, I get it.

I have 20 years of software engineering and infosec experience can fill a few hours talking about all the crazy risks I find in a day of looking around most any company I interact with.

The status quo for security in our industry is abysmally bad. Not washing hands while working in a hospital WTF bad, everywhere.

Bringing it all up as I go can burn everyone out on interacting with me or trusting me at all if I am not careful, because survivors bias is a hell of a drug.

Two weeks to collect information and context is about right. I just usually do it as a contract security auditor now and provide a detailed report at the end.
> It would be in the mainland's interest to keep TSMC running...

It would also be in the mainland's interests to not be engaging in a massive military build-up. Similar for quite a few major policies and behaviors which they've been indulging in for years now.

Perhaps the CCP is not a rational actor, at least as we might prefer to account such things?
NYPD unveils 'barnacle' windshield boot for vehicles violating parking rules
Fair enough, although it means we don't know whether a 1.8T MoE GPT-4 will have a "size advantage" over Llama 3 400B.
So did they have multiple redundant data centers worldwide?
> Thanks to Austen Allred, Trevor Blackwell, Patrick Collison, Christine Ford, Daniel Gackle, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Elon Musk, Harj Taggar, and Peter Thiel for reading drafts of this.

Such great company he keeps.
> Taiwan is Chinese territory.

Historically, it would be more accurate to say that China is Taiwanese territory ;)

> It would be in the mainland's interest to keep TSMC running as smoothly as possible, like they did in HK.

Well, maybe, but they surely would redirect the output to China instead of selling it worldwide. Which is why the US would rather nuke the TSMC factories themselves than let them fall into Chinese hands. So, no matter who wins a military conflict for Taiwan TSMC most likely gets nuked by the losing side.
Sorry are you saying ‘display:table’ was not viable for grid-like layouts because someone might confuse it with the html <table> tag?

That is like saying Go is not a viable programming language because someone might confuse it with GOTO and consider it harmful.
or the UK
Do you know what prompt template that was using?
It's not that people want everything made in the US, it's that they don't want everything made in China.
The PR impact is priceless.

Before Llama, Meta was defined in the short-term by dubious investment in "metaverse" and cryptocurrency nonsense.

Now they are an open AI champion.
The pet names example is my pelican test prompt!
The rumor is that it's a mixture of experts model, which can't be compared directly on parameter count like this because most weights are unused by most inference passes. (So, it's possible that 400B non-MoE is the same approximate "strength" as 1.8T MoE in general.)
Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
I run a one-person company and struggle with the workload across planning, development, finance and managing contractors.

How do others in similar situations manage tasks and maintain sanity? Which strategies and tools do you find effective?
Well, if you go down the route of "where the money is coming from" you arrive at the central bank that creates that money out of thin air. That's why it's fundamental to understand that wealth can only be created by labour. It can then be distributed according to any system imaginable, but it is always created by labour. Wealth as in real physical goods and services, not as in the number in your account.

I'm not saying that all labour creates wealth. That's something else and I don't believe it. Trench warfare is the most laborious thing imaginable and it certainly creates no wealth.

> I didn't argue "workers receive their wages as a gift or some kind of welfare."

You absolutely did not, but I sensed that angle. The difference is that a worker will never receive any wages in exchange of not doing anything, while a landlord will always receive his wages for not doing anything. "How their own lives are funded" are through their labour when it comes to the worker and through the worker's labour when it comes to the landlord.
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