skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and your link make reasonable arguments for capitalizing black, but I don't see any justification (other than to be contrary to supremacist groups) for not doing the same for white, which leaves it inconsistent with the naming of all other racial/ethnic groups.
What if OpenAI couldn't bring ChatGPT out with the fund they was able to raise prior to converting to for-profit?

If investors didn't get any benefits ("richer" in your parlance) why should they invest?

If they didn't invest where would the money come from? tax dollar? Can you envision tax dollar be spent on AI research? or would they bring ChatGPT as quickly or as capable?
i reach for an esp8266 for the same reasons i try to design a 2 layer pcb instead of 4 layer: the challenge

and maybe just maybe if i have to make a thousand, i'll be ahead of the game
Carbonized Herculaneum papyrus reveals Plato's burial place
> it's up to the application or C library to tokenize it

Technically yes, but practically the only correct way to tokenize these command line strings is CommandLineToArgvW WinAPI implemented by Shell32.dll.
That's awesome, I'll be sure to check it out!

I deliberately chose not to use marquee because of CPU usage, but if there's a more efficient way, I can definitely integrate that.
We need to qualify what we mean by “travel.” Airline pilots, stewardesses, and other people that travel a lot for work or other purposes do not necessarily have the “broadest horizon.” I think we should use another term to mean “experience other cultures and ways of life.”

The same can be said about reading. Reading the entire One Piece manga series is not necessarily gonna broaden your horizons.
>The Ruby implementation has a subtle mistake which causes signficantly more work than it needs to.

To be fair, I do not think that is a "mistake" as such. I have written Ruby professionally for 6 years or so and have committed to several Ruby open source projects and haven't seen an innocus `nil` sitting at the end of a loop, to prevent array allocation.

The argument would be fair, if it wasn't idiomatic Ruby.

More like - knowing internals of a language will allow one to gain more performance out of it. That has been true for almost every programming language, but general speaking the goal of a VM based language is to not require that _specialized_ knowledge.
Their website says .95 Mach and 9Gs… in simulation. It’s definitely going to be high powered.
It seems plausible. I'm not on the spectrum (so far as I know), but my receptiveness to new music generally has some association with previous genres I enjoyed. I definitely don't experience the "reinventiveness" trait so much as gradual evolution. I don't like early 2000s electronica anymore, some trance I used to enjoy I don't, but now I just love some other genres that are tangentially related (chillstep, etc). On the other hand, I still enjoy some of the same metal groups that I used to (Disturbed, Epica, etc) even though I don't listen as often.

Perhaps there is, if you pardon the expression, a spectrum of receptiveness.

I'm thinking there's something to your speculation, though.
I’ve found that most algorithms tend to reinforce a taste by trying to provide more of the same. They rarely try to bring in something that diverges from the pattern. Of course, the libraries have limits and the algorithms will often match against characteristics that you do not consider relevant.
Overriding your points, I'd be happy with:

1. 8-port nbase-t (2.5/5/10G supported in all ports)

5. Doesn't cost $500
They're illiterate, which is a tragedy.
Why General Atomics? They are also yet another defense incumbent that needs to be disrupted. They make the Predator and other current UAVs, which are all expensive and uninteresting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Aeronautical_S...

In general I think the government needs to move contracts away from older companies and fund young innovative ones. Partnerships between young and old simply sustain the incumbents and everything that comes with them (price structure, leadership, lobbying, etc). I would rather see many smaller companies in healthy competition for contracts.
Eric Schmidt. It’s in the title.
Taken down, now archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240423183114/https://github.co...
Exchange over yarmulke brings antisemitism into focus in murder trial
> has the US won a war since 1945?

has humanity ever won in wars?
IBM is to software as Boeing is to planes.

I will not be taking questions ;-)
Because try to come up with a cooler name than "General Atomics," and I'll bet you can't.
I used the service heavily for a while but cancelled my sub and switched to mistral due to the AI customer noncompete issue. I use mistral large occasionally when either stumped or bulk stylistically rewriting. AI is most helpful in tandem with other static analysis tools / type systems because those others can help verify the AI code.
Most of the big consultancies are also big accounting firms, where there is a fair amount of incentive for sign-offs to mean something, or at least have some serious risk if that sign-off isn't impartial or well researched.

I believe they try to project some of that earned trust to customers for the consulting side of the house. Though there is little, er, "accountability" for sign offs there.
Similarities
Their colors are different, black sipcon carbide (abbreviation for C) is black and green sipcon carbide (abbreviation for GC) is green.

Black sipcon carbide is quartz sand, the main raw material of petroleum coke, which is smelted in high-temperature resistance electric arc furnaces. Green SiC is made from quartz sand and petroleum coke, added with salt, and then smelted in a high-temperature resistance arc furnace.

Black sipcon carbide has a SiC content of at least approximately 98%, while green sipcon carbide has a SiC content of at least approximately 99%.

Although the Mohs hardness of green SiC is 9.2, it is harder than black SiC.

Difference
Both are man-made materials and are not natural mineral materials.

It can be used both in abrasive products (sandblasting, popshing, grinding wheels, cutting wheels, grinding discs, etc.) and in advanced refractory materials, used as semiconductor materials and metallurgical deoxidizers.

The main material content of the finished products is sipcon carbide (SiC).

The maximum available temperature in air is 1900 degrees Celsius, and the decomposition point is 2600 degrees Celsius.

Their bulk density (1.2~1.6g/cm3) and real density (3.20~3.25g/cm3) are similar.
At least there was a technical reason, even if it no longer makes sense. The ATM[1] protocol has a packet size of 48 bytes. Why? Because the US wanted 64 and france wanted 32. So a compromise was made that pleased no one and the standard used the average of the two, which of course isn't a power of 2.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
Macross Plus
You know... this makes a LOT of sense to me.

On the other hand, I really appreciate the minimalism of some modern ambient scores, but I'm not sure me from 15-20 years ago would have had any tolerance of it.
Under 45?

Heart failure is exceedingly rare.

Heart failure is not the same as coronary artery disease (I.e. what people typically think of when they think of people who get heart attacks). While it can be related.

Hypertension, diabetes, etc can all contribute to heart failure.
Quark is basically a 486, with some Pentium instructions added.
You’re saying you don’t believe in freedom of speech.
Yeah, the opaqueness of your actions in Pandora and in other streaming services is always annoying.

Likewise, Pandora allows you to create a station with multiple seeds, or (is it the same?) like songs within a station.

I used to use that, and then I felt like it was narrowing the breadth of the station. I realized that in my mental model I wanted it to be a station of Artist A plus Artist B, so a more expansive station, but Pandora seemed to be treating it as "Artist A ∩ Artist B," i.e. just the small intersection.
They should hold the next conference in Kyiv.
This is a lot like the Amazon strategy. At one point you probably had a few alternatives in mind for online shopping. Much less so now.
I’ve definitely trained tidal that I prefer some pretty whacky sub genres (this Northern European country, but only metal with strong brass sections, or contemporary accordion, hurdy gurdy, and a dozen other clusters like that).

I’d guess if you created a profile and loaded it up with just black swing bands from the 30-50’s, it’d do OK.

If not, and I understand their algorithm correctly, it would not only be because no current listeners make that distinction (as discussed up thread).

It would also be because the metadata doesn’t give any signal for it. They seem to use information such as record labels, song writers, producers, guest musicians, etc.

If that metadata has no signal, then my guess is that you’re trying to get it to racially segregate music that was produced before the big interracial marriage scare.

People were worried that if their kids listened to the same musicians, then whites and blacks (or worse!) might marry, so they created white radio stations and black radio stations.

Before that, I imagine there was a lot more interracial collaboration, and the metadata wouldn’t find clean clusters along race boundaries.

It could also be that the old metadata was never digitized.
You shouldn't use LLMs to generate huge walls of text like this. It's super bad taste.
This is for the next phase of the project that involves building flying prototypes. Later stages include mass production which could go to a Boeing or Lockheed. I wonder how much of the decision to give this to a smaller player is based on a desire to maintain diversity among defense contractors and the competitive advantages that come with.

In other words the US Military continues to be a successful centrally planned socio-capitlaist organization.
>I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

I heard those quote for the first time about 4 years ago. I had often been a bit disappointed with myself for not taking more notes while reading, or reviewing what I read in a way where I could be one of those people to bring up quotes and concepts, citing back to the original source, with freakish accuracy. This quote made me feel better about simply reading, getting whatever I get out of it, and trusting that I’ve gained some perspective, even if I can’t cite all the sources that built my perspective on a topic.
I assume andruil is doing the controller and consults on design, while GA largely does the aircraft. Building big aircrafts takes huge facilities, so it's not unreasonable to have a big incumbent doing this.
IBM is a finance company with a tech brand. Business units are black (profitable) or red. They buy them, juice their profits, eventually they extract too much, they turn red. They bundle a few husks together, sell them off eg. Lenovo, or IPO them eg. Kyndryl.
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them." - Mark Twain
If you told me Facebook directed some AI chatbots here to discuss how great this is, I'd believe you. It seems the initial comments are positive, followed by a lot of arguing. It's usually pointless debates, like whether it's a ban. Yes, it is effectively a ban, similar to imposing a million-dollar tax per gun, or required to be age 85, which essentially bans something protected by an amendment. Then there are those calling for regulations and bans, which is strange. I can manage my app usage and my kids', but I can't control safety regulations for trains carrying toxic chemicals. And then there are the trade war advocates; at what point does this back-and-forth justify losing rights and access? I don't care if China becomes like North Korea. The bill also mentions website and service providers, meaning it could block access through websites too. We should have rights to privacy, encryption, and anonymous whistleblowing without government interference in every social media platform.
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interesting! That is more than I thought. Honored to have caused a nerdsnipe.

In the grand scheme of things, though, most of these are quite small -- 7b range. A 7b model is nothing to sneeze at but it's not megacorp resources either. It's in the range of "VC check" size.

The "big boys" who are training 70b plus are FAANG or government-scale entities. Microsoft, Google, and Meta have multiple entries on that "big" LLM foundation list -- it's because the GPUs are already bought, have to train something to keep utilization up. Also bear in mind that training of these things is still something closer to an art than a science; you put terabytes of data into the cauldron, let it brew, and only after it's done can you taste what you've made. Makes sense that some of these models will be junk.
This article was a great read. Much better than the featured article.
Laughs in Houtni. Word is the US is currently trying to negotiate a ceasefire with them, and they aren’t taking the bait.
It should be openly banned on the tit-for-tat principles. The paranoid speculation towards TikTok by some media is embarrassing. Instagram is in the same class of brain-melters. Let's stop the nonsense and call this what it is: protectionism.
ultimately, was YC worth it in retrospect?
I actually realized recently that this is probably the underlying phenomenon behind "how is my phone listening to my conversations to show me ads/articles?"

The other day I was thinking about LLM aggregation and in my internal dialogue used the example of "aliens built the pyramids" as a fringe theory that would be picked up on if tuning for other associated fringe positions by LLMs at places like Gab.

Later in the day I saw in my news feed an article on "how were the pyramids built?" (One of my interests is Egyptian and LBA Mediterranean archeology, so on topic.)

At first I thought "how the heck did it read my mind?"

But then as I thought about it more I remembered that usually my go to example of a fringe position is flat earth. So why was I suddenly using pyramids as the example in my internal dialogue.

What must have happened was that I initially saw the article headline in my feed in passing and didn't consciously register it, but when I was reaching for a fringe position example had been primed for that, and then only after having consciously been reflecting on the topic actually noticed the article in my feed.

Which IMO is a much more alarming explanation for the phenomenon - that my thinking was being written to a degree by my feed - than that my phone was somehow listening in on things or reading my mind.

It reminds me of a graffiti artist in NYC who used to write graffiti about how in reading it he had effectively graffitied your mind.
This is almost always implemented using direct placement of the cursor, not via a literal CR char/command. CR is literally useless, except for being artificially required in some windows text editors.
human can't experience it whole of internet like ai.so it is a very bad comparison.
There was a paper around 15 years ago comparing kids in Singapore and expat kids of same ethnic group in Australia. Much lower myopia in the expat community's kids, whom spend more time outside. When I mentioned it to a physician I knew from my kid's school he said the trick is shifting focus from farther away back to close. I live in NYC I got my kid looking at the features on buildings near us, we are lucky to have good views from a small walk up.
So the trick is to excersize focus, looking further down the road or street and then back to something real close. Me and my wife have myopia, kid is 20/20 and has exited the risk age now.
My takes:

1. This is going to shutter a few more regional airlines, as they will deem it unprofitable to issue refunds over flying emptier planes.

2. This will encourage rolling delays even more.
from your link, first paragraph:

"For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists."

I don't find that thoughtful.

The argument further erodes when they also capitalize "Asian", which is described as "groups that include myriad ethnic identities united by shared race and geography and, to some degree, culture" - How does that not apply equally to "white" also?
Red Hat's business model is "Hellware"--the open source versions are designed to be incredibly difficult to install/manage/upgrade or without any kind of stability that you're forced to pay for their versions.
Spain: Court reopens investigation in Pegasus spying scandal
Robots and drones must be a sign that the modern air force needs reinvention.
Only if their warhawk counterparts hold their next shindig somewhere in Gaza (So they can see first-hand what the consequences of their work and advocacy look like).
In a recent project the drag and drop features caused the most frustration. There are surprisingly very few solutions to this issue.
Yeah, they sure innovated with all that public money they got over...three years? What did the release in the last three years exactly?

Also, what "democratic access" did people get? The ability to buy at $80 a share and then eventually sell it at $30?

Does anyone really believe this kind of stuff anymore?
I went looking for more Padget Powell; in particular I wanted to hear his voice. This one is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cvhp6h2cc

In the interview he also uses "made-up people doing made-up things", so this was not an nonce invention. Perhaps he uses the phrase when teaching literature. Also I would not judge him for this, every person who is frequently interviewed learns to deploy a few stories and phrases that have a reliable effect.
I like music with good lyrics, which similarly no algorithm can figure out.
Just to be clear, your position is that it could be used by China, not that it is being used? I agree with this position.
Apple's approach to generative AI seeks to avoid copyright issues
What is the recommended method for correcting myopia? Is laser corrective surgery still popular?
This seems too good to be true?
Ok, that's more clear on what your point is. The US is not banning TikTok technically like the GFW, they are just de-platforming it so it is no longer commercially active.

This is very different from the GFW, and many orders of magnitude less restrictive.

This issue isn't about speech and censorship, but media ownership. These rules has always been in place in many Western countries precisely because of the impact it has on society (even beyond geopolitics).
Unpopular idea but cycling as the main vehicle to commute is backwards. Interesting how everyone here seems to think the same thing. Not everyone wants to or can bike. Making cars and bicycles rivalries can be an anti-progress idea actually.
+1. I love golang, because for the most part, there is only 1 way to do something. With ruby, there are a billion ways to do the same thing, with some being slower than others.
No social media company would stay in business without the under 18 demographic
You are free to post whatever you want on a different platform. Banning TikTok and its algorithm has nothing to do with free speech. It's funny this always gets brought up, like what is TikTok allowing you to say that you can't say on FB, YT, etc?
" The pact had no mechanism for enforcement, and many historians and political scientists see it as mostly irrelevant and ineffective."

Regardless of international law (which is for the most part, not particularly effective at changing the behavior of nations) war has been waged throughout the 20th century and into the 21st
1 H100 is only 80GB of HBM. I guess you mean a server with 4xH100 is 1 node?
This is relevant not only in the context of books and blogs, but also for the shorter forms of reading that we do more often like HN or Reddit comments, tweets etc.

One way to think about it is that reading on the internet, no matter how casual, is like scattering seeds on the soil of your mind. Some of these seeds will grow into trees and influence your actions and decisions, whether you're aware of it or not.
Wild that marquee, which was a browser feature in the late 90s, could cause CPU concerns 25 years later.
Do you think the Houthis can do more damage to the U.S. than the U.S. can do to them? I don’t understand your point. Is it a bad thing if the U.S. doesn’t want to wage war on someone?
I really enjoy music but realized after trying to follow several hundred artists—and failing that it is merely a question of bandwidth. For example the Doobie Brothers have released new albums post-2020, while at the same time I'm trying to be up on the latest from B. Eillish for a nearby young person. Just can't keep up.

Haven't even mentioned my weirder tastes. At some point something has got to give if you have a job, family, or another interest or two.
Same applies to C#. The standard library has pretty good APIs for dealing with file names and paths.

In my experience, a program written in modern .NET 5+ and tested on Windows has a high probability to run flawlessly on Linux, without even a recompilation.
> Caveat: the HCP hosted vault is reasonably priced and works well.

HCP hosted Vault starts at ~$1200/month, you'd have to use a metric shit ton of secrets in AWS or GCP to come close to that amount. Yes Vault does more than just secrets, but claiming anything HC sells as reasonably priced is a reach.
This is a thorough "how to" but it is missing a "why for" about any of the chosen starting elements.

I don't understand why you would use an old dataset that worked for llama2 and just fine-tune llama3 on it. Isn't it most likely that the new model has covered off everything it missed last time around and now the last dataset is only valuable for the last gen.
YJIT and Ruby 3.3 have really impressed me as well. Their VM engineers are clearly doing something right.

Related to Ruby perf, I still hear folks worried about rails “not being able to scale”. Let me say something controversial (and clearly wrong): Rails is the only framework that has proven it _can_ scale. GitHub, Shopify, AirBnb, Stripe all use rails and have scaled successfully. Very few other frameworks have that track record.

There’s plenty of reasons to not use rails, but scaling issues doesn’t feel like a strong one to me.
I wonder if ground penetrating radar, or an exploratory trench at the site in Athens can now find evidence to go with this? Even after prior digs, You would think modern techniques can be revealing.

It would be lovely if something previously unknown in a physical, structural sense was located and contextualised because of the reading of these scrolls.
Honestly it’s been my experience with Ruby that it’s Rails that can potentially be slow. Ruby is quite fast and even has a JIT option. Rails is by design opinionated, and for some cases I’ve found that I’ve had to work extra hard to ensure performance. That means refactoring code in slightly non traditional ways and having a deeper understanding of how Rails works under the hood (esp in the ORM). So if you think you can just use Ruby+Rails out of the box in its simplest form without experience and depth of understanding: yes it might be slow. But like with all things, you can go quite far with care and experience.
One potential difference might be that china could be banning western media to stifle opposition, while the US could be banning TikTok primarily to protect its commercial interests. Though I guess you have a point if they are, fundamentally, indistinct justifications
> if it wasn't idiomatic Ruby

It's idiomatic Ruby in a very particular case that likely was explicitly chosen to demonstrate such a dramatic effect.

You're _usually_ not returning implicit arrays from loops in production code. Parallel assignments, when they're used, are almost always in the first line of an initialize method, not the returned line of an enumerable block.