skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google makes >90% of profits from Search and Ads.

Even if you group in half of gsuite for Gmail and all of Android (for the default search app) - that's still not even half of the company.

The profit per employee there is probably close to $1.5M - and that's after average compensation above $500k.
"conjoined triangles of success"
Slide decks like that make me feel like there is another species out there for which brands matter. It's literally disorienting.
If I had not know that Gleam was built on top of Beam I would have had no idea which OTP was referred to.
You nailed it. When I was younger (my 20's on into my early 40's), I felt that I had to be in a relationship because it seemed the thing to do, and my libido had not yet started to wane because of lower T. Now that I'm almost 50, I don't feel the overwhelming urge to be with somebody, and so a woman would have to blow me out of the water for me to give up my freedom and independence at this point.
>he just showed us the graph again.

The conjoined triangles of success?
You've missed my point. Why would anyone pay for it anyway, and is that greater than the opportunity cost of waiting? They already have many billions of unadulterated comments that would work great as training data. How is a couple more, that everyine here seens to think will be corrupted anyway, going to improve the value calculation? Reddit's in the business of running a business, not a public benefit time capsule. You can't criticize just one side of the balance without mentioning the other, so to speak. (And actually, that's worth asking, tangentially: Do you think reddit's already being contaminated by spambots, or that the only way this happens is if reddit itself joins it?)
I wish someone there would be a court case so we could see an email saying " FYIFV this is a horrible idea" just to know someone tried to fight this
i’ll check those links out —thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts!
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus and Elite processors
download llama.cpp

convert the fine tuned model into gguf format. choose a number of quantization bits such that the final gguf will fit in your free ram + vram

run the llama.cpp server binary. choose the -ngl number of graphics layers which is the max number that will not overflow your vram (i just determine it experimentally, i start with the full number of layers, divide by two if it runs out of vram, multiply by 1.5 if there is enough vram, etc)

make sure to set the temperature to 0 if you are doing facts based language conversion and not creative tasks

if it's too slow, get more vram

ollama, kobold.cpp, and just running the model yourself with a python script as described by the original commenter are also options, but the above is what i have been enjoying lately.

everyone else in this thread is saying you need gpus but this really isn't true. what you need is ram. if you are trying to get a model that can reason you really want the biggest model possible. the more ram you have the less quantized you have to make your production model. if you can batch your requests and get the result a day later, you just need as much ram as you can get and it doesn't matter how many tokens per second you get. if you are doing creative generation then this doesn't matter nearly as much. if you need realtime then it gets extremely expensive fast to get enough vram to host your whole model (assuming you want as large a model as possible for better reasoning capability)
Pure speculation, but maybe there's more to this. If Teams refuses to work in Chrome, it might drive run of the mill employees to Edge?
> is too small to matter substantively

Seems like a strong enough statement to me no? It is saying there's no substantive effect of diversity on results. That's the same statement as the headline in my reading.
Yeah! It's an officially supported thing with nushell, here are the docs: https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/external_completers.html#fis...

The completions don't work sometimes (for instance you don't get completion for some commands when running them with sudo) and it doesn't fall back on providing file completions if it doesn't know what other completions to provide, which is a bit annoying, but it generally works and I'm sure there are ways to fix that too.
> It seems your Javascript is turned off. Maybe you'd prefer the RSS feed?

It seems somewhat ironic that a website called the luddite would require me to enable javascript on their site in order to read it.
The problem is that the word "AI" is in the headline, which nowadays makes people auto-assume chatbots, even though literally the first three words below the headline are "Using machine learning, ..."

I feel sorry for the author, he didn't use the word "AI" once in these 3000+ words.
Looks like Prabhakar Raghavan has become interwebs enemy nr1.
Interesting.
Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University
Though not contemporary, Windows 3.1 and Windows 2.0 beg to differ, as do Motif and Athena Widgets.
2D Rubik's Cube
How exactly does this dovetail with https://github.com/rust-or/good_lp ? Will it be a replacement, an enhancement, or something else?
While this is true, that doesn't make them a complement to Facebook's broader business. Here's Joel's definition:

> A complement is a product that you usually buy together with another product. Gas and cars are complements. Computer hardware is a classic complement of computer operating systems. And babysitters are a complement of dinner at fine restaurants.

LLMs aren't really a complement like gas to cars because the end user doesn't need to consume the LLM in order to use the social media site. It's more like LLMs are becoming an essential component of a social media site—not like gas to cars but like an engine control unit, a part that ideally the user will never see or interact with. Joel's reasoning doesn't apply to that kind of product because users don't see the price of LLMs as a barrier to consumption of social media.
It is annoying, but Firefox asks if you want to allow to use the 3rd party cookies for specific domain.

Example of how it looks:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/files/2021/02/Screenshot-2021-02-0...
Because its the national government that is bothered by China, and its local government authorities and agencies that are adding the ads (presumably because of diminished budgets)
Should You Use Ruby on Rails or Hanami?
Dear CMA,
Can you please let Google do the right thing and disable third party cookies like every other browser vendor.
We got the same pep talk at the beginning of the year. They wanted to give us developers more autonomy, the ability to move faster, etc. Sounds great on paper as there were a lot of useless meetings and chat channels we wasted a lot of time in.

But the solution was to eliminate the release manager role and move QA away from testing individual tickets and instead toward developing/managing automated testing. And then the devs had to pick up the QA and release responsibilities without any change in our original responsibilities.

Which means that I now waste a massive chunk of my work week doing things other than write code. All the while they're making a big stink about "coding days". Which has pretty much never ended well for developers. I'm sure next they'll be counting total lines of code, too.
Totally. They do that with PAIR nowadays.
But isn't that a direct by-product of Chrome being owned by Google.

If Chrome was made by an independent company regulators couldn't care less if they disabled third party cookies.
That doesn't reflect the reality of the situation. Google has been trying to make this transition happen for years. The CMA is the one strong-arming them into maintaining the status quo. The article even mentions 39 new concerns raised which has resulted in yet another extension.

Without this interference, third-party party cookies would have been dead years ago.
> Does diversity make teams work better?

> Apparently not!

> A new, comprehensive preregistered meta-analysis found that...its relationship with performance was near-zero.

Further down you get the number: between two random teams, the more diverse one will be more productive 51% of the time, and less productive 49%.
There is some worthwhile discussion of this in a small subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/comments/1cbivz3/cant_fi...

My highlight from that discussion is from someone writing a dissertation on a similar topic "that there's a kind of hill-shaped relationship. Expertise diversity tends to have the greatest benefit at moderate values rather than very high or very low values", which throws off this paper which tries to measure a linear correlation.
The title is wrong; the ban is on non-competes, not NDAs... Very specifically, as mentioned in the article, which is an excellent write up.

From the guidelines "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare. AsciiDoc is so much nicer.
Nothing but respect and gratitude for ESPhome.

I do have a question though, is there a way to use modbus-TCP with ESPhome?
They announced a plan to bring Model 2 out a year earlier than originally planned and showed pictures of the build-out of the Semi factory.
Google has strong armed the web in other situations with Chrome, there are multiple cases of them implementing things that google has proposed to w3c but has not been accepted yet.

Regarding this, it's been 4 years. I am not letting google off the hook with this, especially when many other browsers already block third party cookies.

I stand by my opinion that an ad company operating a browser is a clear conflict of interest. If they didn't, this "privacy" feature would never have been a thing and this would have been done years ago.
This is a terrible prediction. This project is extremely easy in comparison to California HSR because it’s all running in the I-15 right-of-way. There’s also no reason whatsoever to think you can’t run high speed trains on this route.
Requires login for me and says not available in my country.
I'd definitely rather build a product on an assumption that a company/individual will continue to act in its own best interest than on its largess.
You'd also get a misdemeanor (or felony if you hurt someone).

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/21651b/
Who regulates 3rd party cookies (aside from Warren G)?
I think you meant to link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010 (which was already linked on this page yesterday).
>What are your real concerns - I'm looking for the best possible takes on the potential good or bad.

The entire history of tech breakthroughs has always had people worried about losing jobs. In some cases it has been true, there are very few horse stable boys anymore. But there are many more car mechanics.

But im not too worried about anything yet. Yesterday I asked Meta AI about a rifle I purchased. SKS 'french tickler'I wanted to know what makes it a french tickler.

"The French Tickler is a brand of condoms, and the "SKS" likely refers to the "Super Thin, Super Sensitive, and Super Lubricated" features of this particular product. What makes the French Tickler SKS unique is:"

So erm wrong. I specified the rifle. HEre's its answer.

"I apologize for my previous mistake! The French Tickler SKS is actually a rifle, not a condom!

The SKS (Samozaryadnyi Karabin sistemy Simonova) is a Soviet-era semi-automatic carbine, and the "French Tickler" is a nickname for a specific variant. What makes the French Tickler SKS rifle unique is:

1. Origin: It's a rare, French-modified version of the SKS, converted to fire the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge.
2. Configuration: It features a shorter barrel, folding stock, and other modifications, making it more compact and versatile.
3. Rarity: The French Tickler SKS is relatively rare, as only a limited number were produced for the French military.
4. Historical significance: It represents a unique chapter in the development of the SKS platform and French military history.
5. Collectibility: Due to its rarity and unique features, the French Tickler SKS is highly sought after by collectors and firearms enthusiasts."

It's 7.62x39, not x51 NATO.

It's not a shorter barrel nor folding stock.

Its also not particularly rare.

Meta AI is just bad?

Last friday I asked Meta AI who was going to win the Chinese F1 race. It said Zhou Guanyu. Which is particularly quite impossible.
My M2 Max significantly outperforms my 3090 Ti for training a Mistral-7B LoRA. Its sort of a case-by-case situation though, as it depends on how optimized the CUDA kernels happen to be for whatever workload you're doing (i.e. for inference, theres a big delta between standard transformers vs exllamav2, apple silicon may outperform the former, but certainly not the latter).
There has been talk of it in the UK of limiting them to 3 months when time allows:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/645e27612c06a...
I use search engines less and less. I find that there are some great websites that I go to for technical information and I just use those.

You can also download docs like the Python reference and use that instead of searching for quick answers. Does it take more time? Yes. But, in my opinion, the extra "inconvenience" is worth it to support Google less. I would rather spend more time on a problem than support Google.

Library Genesis is another place to find stuff that doesn't use Google search or other types of search engines.

Finally, the use less mentality: if you're just searching for random trivia, maybe don't do it at all. The less information bombardment we have in our life, the better. Do an experiment: pretend that search engines don't exist for a week (or block them with /etc/hosts). You'd be surprised at how ingenious you can become when necessity is pushing you.
Modern type system over BEAM sounds great but unfortunately OTP is still not 100% supported https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp?tab=readme-ov-file#limitat...
Police is using ChatGPT-4 powered body cams that turn audio into reports
I have Windows 11 on this laptop. I spent about five minutes turning off ads including reading the article and writing this comment.
"Open Source" may help find bugs but it can just as easily help exploit them --- or as in this case, intentionally create and plant them.

The fact that this possibility has been routinely dismissed for decades doesn't make it any less of a real security threat. This is kinda like assuming that blockchain can prevent crypto fraud.

And the full irony of this potentially catastrophic backdoor being discovered by a *Microsoft* employee still seems to be largely lost on the Open Source community.

Security requires a lot more than just source code --- like maybe vetting those involved in the process. People are almost always the weakest link in any security system.
Seems like a different focus, no? Aren't linear programming solvers a much narrower domain than general linear algebra libraries?
Have you looked at this per province or per 1mm+ population city, rather than a Canada wide average? I don't think it's true if you use the proper data scope because the places that went absolutely bonkers (toronto area, vancouver area) have had a pull back from insane while the places that were only bad (i.e. Calgary, Halifax, probably montreal and Winnipeg) have pushed significantly higher. The places that were totally unaffordable haven't become affordable, they just became less unaffordable and the places that were previously somewhat affordable have become much less so. On top of that, most of the brown field development is catastrophically affecting rent because it's chopping the bottom end out of the rental market as it is redeveloped at the same time demand is surging from immigration.
I think a lot of people don't know what diversity is.

and you end up with teams of different shades / colors / sexes etc but very similar in thinking.

diversity should be based on diversity of experiences / thinking not outward appearances that we select for these days.

if you have a team of 1 white guy, 1 woman, 1 black guy and they all grew up in upper middle class and went to harvard that's not diverse.
And I'm not talking about financial sector exclusively either. All sorts of companies, even centuries old ones, are taking security seriously and even if there often is lots of legacy stuff, there's no material differences with Indonesian or American or Brazilian companies
Kong Insomnia 9.0 has just been released
Those subsidies were not part of Starlink revenue. They received zero
It looks to me that the only reason Google is pursuing "Privacy Sandbox" is because Chrome dominates the browser marketplace. (I put it in quotes because it neither preserves privacy, nor is it a sandbox). If I don't want 3rd-party cookies (I don't!) then I just toggle them off in Firefox. Sandbox is opaque in the sense that ordinary users can't hope to understand it; and a privacy guarantee is useless, if the user can't understand it. WTF is k-anonymity? I looked it up on Wikipedia, and I still don't understand it.

I guess that's why the Competition and Markets Authority is involved.
A lot of the time you don't care about it. E.g. it's unusual to care about the images on the packaging of your laundry detergent. Plenty of goods you buy are commodities.

That said, businesses absolutely hate this, which is why you see all kinds of methods being applied to uncommodify goods, or ensure they never become commodities in the first place. Exclusive licensing deals for media content is just one of the more egregious examples, but then there are all forms of soft bundling and integrations happening in physical space too.
Its really just the effect of empire building. Too much money allowing non operative people to flourish and new administrative layers to be added that then have to justify themselves by making operative employees report thing they can quantify to show their bosses in the hope to climb the ladder.

Its just a symptom of all big organizations in the west these days be it private or public.
What happened to Linux these last 4 years?

It had stagnated at 1.5%-ish for a good decade.

But as of four years ago, it started to go up, higher than ever before, reaching 2% in 2021 and 4% this year.

Is the YoLD finally nigh?
The author's description of dissociation resonated with me, as I experienced a solid month or so of intense dissociation when I was 17, and the only way to describe it is by saying I _knew_ I was in a dream. It was terrifying, and came and went for seemingly no reason at all. I steered clear from any mind altering substances for about 10 years, as my relationship with my own mind felt permanently unsettled.

Years later, though, after lots of therapy and educating myself, I came to learn that the dissociation is often a protective measure that the mind takes to handle incredible stress. It's so counter-intuitive; my subconscious mind is trying to protect me from something my conscious mind knows nothing about by sticking me into a terrifying dream state for a month? Thanks, I guess?

I still haven't tried psychedelics yet, but I plan to now that I understand far more about my mind, and I've realized that what I was fearful of was my anxiety, and my mind has been trying to help me through that since day one. I say all this because the negative experiences discussed in this article sound like things I experienced without any drugs, as they were the result of unaddressed mental health issues that needed therapy and tender care.
I think it is now configurable by the moderators of each subreddit.
The thing is that with India - for example - it is a relatively cheap market and those can afford expensive stuff, but western stuff anyway.

Also regarding visa - well there are more indians in the visa queue than probably multiple countries combined. If they make it as fast as other countries - indians will just move in millions and millions simply due to sheer amount of people they have.
Spain has similar population, area and climate to California, and even though it has less GDP it has built some good high speed trains infrastructure. I can see your point if the alternative is travelling by car, but if you're going to take planes the train can be a viable option. There are plenty of big urban centres in California that can support public transit.
Who would have thunk?
Some more details on how the flow works:

- Sonarr/Radarr periodically scans the RSS feeds for all indexers you have configured and looks for episodes or movies you’re missing (or that can be upgraded).

- If it finds something you need, it grabs the item (magnet/torrent/nzb) and sends it to the appropriate download client. Note that you can configure multiple torrent or Usenet clients.

- Sonarr/Radarr monitors the download progress using the download client’s API.

- As soon as it completes, Sonarr/Radarr copies, moves, or hardlinks (best option for torrents) the file over to your library.

The key thing to note is that your *arr app is the central controller for the entire flow. The app will only stop looking at a particular media item once: a) the item cannot be upgraded any further, b) you have marked it as “unmonitored”, or c) you have removed the show or movie.
> The stock market/US economy is now a confirmed meme/ponzi scheme.

I mean, I'm not sure how you can go from "the stocks of this one weird company behave irrationally" to "the US economy is a Ponzi scheme". Bubbles are basically as old as markets; meme stocks (which arguably Tesla is now an example of) are a somewhat newer concept, but are not a _big_ part of the market.

The existence of things like TSLA demonstrates that the markets aren't the sort of spherical-cow perfect efficient markets that, say, the weirder varieties of libertarians believe to exist, but everyone pretty much already knew that anyway.
What would have to happen is an injection of capital to fund continuing operations. Investors would have to believe that there’s a big payoff given the substantial risks. VC money might be completely off the table at this point as there’s no 20x exit dream to sell, just a turnaround and steady recovery. Selling the company outright would be priced relative the company’s post-bankruptcy value: Buyers could just wait for the company to die. The most generous investors would have something to loose, perhaps a key customer has come critical operation that would be disrupted. You might be better off going in post bankruptcy as well.
> ...has been that "we need to be nimble and move faster" has led to increased scrutiny on ongoing projects but few actual changes in ongoing projects. So there's more docs and slides presented to VPs justifying work (taking up time) but VPs aren't willing to say "this isn't a priority - go help with this key project over here." There's minimal vision from above, so the net effect of all of this is that people move slower...

Wow, its like you were reading my mind for almost exactly how i was going to describe my current employer. The difference is that i do NOT work for a startup nor a big tech company, etc...I'm just a cog on a digital team at a consumer packaged goods mfg company; sort of a typical corporate America type job...and all that you noted is happening at my job too...so odd that many seem to be experiencing similar tactics from "Above"! Did all the top management companies whisper the same set of tactics to all corporations recently!?!
> after having just finishing a novel and coming out of the novel's world.

Glad I'm not the only one! It can genuinely be a pretty unnerving feeling for a little bit.
Please, anytime you try to imitate parts of org-mode, consider org-mode, markup and abilities.
> try to claim someone who is jewish is anti-semitic

the "self deprecating jew" trope gets thrown around more and more often these days
Humans still generate more bullshit than LLMs.
Where's that data from?
Broadcom's Response to Market Outrage Solves Nothing