skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US college grads cant get jobs at Google. Google uses a staffing agency called "Cognizant" that is based 100% in India. $15/hr Cognizant workers recently asked for minimum wage & benefits in CA & Google announced they will not pay workers minimum wage or benefits IN THE US.

Google replaced long-term workers with these contractors to evade labor laws. There are over 275k workers on H1 visas in Santa Clara county alone. Those contracts end & Google replaces them with lower paid positions doing the same work. This is why Google's products don't work as well & also why it can no longer compete or innovate. Google's terrible AI is not the reason for these layoffs. Google's mass layoff have a chilling effect on workers. The message is that if they make any waves or stand up for their rights, they will be replaced. The goal is not to innovate. The goal is to cut costs while minimally maintaining products the entire world is forced to use. Since users have no options, they dont need good products.

I am sure workers try as hard as they can due to the massive power imbalance of having your citizenship status tied to your job. Tech has literally replaced the population of an entire region with H1 visas for one reason only, to cut costs. After starting a severe homeless crisis & destroying a state, Google is now moving to the cheap labor in India & Mexico. This is called transnationalism & US corporations have been doing since the 70s. It might seem like this could be good for India, but Google has no interest in bringing India up. Google only wants to make sure it always has a cheap, desperate pool of labor to exploit. This is the real reason for Googles constant layoffs. Google has been breaking US antitrust & tax laws for years. Its now blatantly breaking US labor laws & neither CA or the US govt cares. The US seems to be more interested in protecting the worst monopoly in history. The only reason Google makes money is by selling user data to anyone & with predatory ads. I am certain US enemies are very aware of the huge data breach thats likely to happen through the sketchy staffing agencies Google uses & the sheer number of unvetted temporary employees that revolve in and out of Googles doors.
Especially when renaming variables that are “immune” to normal refactoring. Copilot handles that pretty well and I don’t have to spend all that focus on such a menial task.
The increase over M3 is almost entirely due to increase in clock speed, and the effect of Geekbench 6.3 supporting SME for a small subset of tests, which leads to those tests running ~2x faster on M4. The actual IPC increase on general purpose code is small, around 3%. Apparently Apple has added SME to the M4 cores, which is cool, but makes comparison to previous cores a bit suspect unless your specific application can actually benefit from SME. Source: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/apple-silicon-soc-threa...
Math doesn't apply, not the same math. If all the constants we have are arbitrary numbers set by the simulation. Like the speed of light. Is x, here but maybe its y one sim up - such that y is 10x ... and maybe computing power is 10000x on similar hardware we use... each level up would use similar hardware with the laws of physics possibly working differently giving more compute.... until its impossible to go further, but then maybe the universe you create just becomes smaller and smaller until its the size of a galaxy...etc.

That's my take anyways, I'm a programmer not mathematician.
16 GB of system memory vs 16 GB of VRAM / unified memory (? I think this is the case for recent Apple machines) makes a huge difference. The former is more of a neat party trick (depending on who you hang out with) and the latter is actually something you can use as a tool to be more efficient.

I recently bought a 7900 XTX with 24 GB of VRAM, but the model I currently run can easily run in 16 GB (6 bit llama 3 8b). It's fast enough and high enough quality that I can use it for processing information that I don't feel comfortable sharing with hosted services. It's definitely not the best of the best as far as what models are able to do right now, but it's surprisingly useful.
Talking to an AI Chatbot: how to phrase questions to get the best responses
https://archive.is/DgEjT
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that a social media company owned by a billionaire would amplify such convenient talking points. He amplifies his own account there as well.

If you read through his retweets and “original” content it is a litany of things which don’t matter and are meant to invoke an emotional response to distract you from the things that do.
It would be best if we gave parents the choice to determine what split is best for children themselves.

Right now, there isn’t really choice, because few countries have had equal leave rights, and those that do have had them for such a relatively short amount of time that we have no idea. So we haven’t been able to test any sort of hypothesis at all. All we have is culturally bound gut feelings, but if we just listened to those then we would still think that there are only four elements, that the earth is flat, etc.

And in the US we don’t even have legally mandated paid maternity leave, so even that would be a start.
Here the video demo https://youtu.be/9-XQtjv6n5A?si=DHxvAFOoi5AduWxl thank you all.
Stirling-pdf. You can self-host it. Even though it all runs locally anyway
Maybe don't shout out to the world that you're vulnerable to sql injection?
Also keep in mind: 32GB of RAM is more than enough for normal usage, but it's useless for (this kind of state-of-the-art-) ML unless you also have a graphics card of the kind that won't fit in a laptop.

Unless of course you were talking about VRAM, in which case 16GB is still not great for ML (to be fair, the 24GB of an RTX 4090 aren't either, but there's not much more you can do in the space of consumer hardware). I don't think the other commenter was talking about VRAM, because 16GB VRAM are very overkill for everyday computing... and pretty decent for most gaming.
The mbin file can be opened with StuffIt Expander, it contains the installer application.
Can Copilot analyze my whole codebase these days or just the file I've opened? Honest question as I've stopped to use it a long time ago.
U/DKlurifax uses a bar fight to describe the complicated start to WWI
If you wanna split hairs - "Hiring" happens only when a contract is signed between a candidate and a company. A candidate can choose not to sign, thus preventing hiring process to complete.

In the spirit of the overall thread, specifically re: your comment "IMO there is a much bigger responsibility on the company,because they are the stronger side and the one that has the last word on hiring someone." - a company is not always on the stronger side. In 2021, a lot of workers had the upper hand.
/r/ipad is very shoulder-shrug about the announcement. We've been asking for better software at least since 2020.
It’s a bit reductive. It doesn’t explain the discrepancies between countries. Every country is going to be negatively impacted, that doesn’t mean the problems we are already seeing are the result of climate change.

On the other hand it does speak to the fact that governments can’t seem to get their shit together even when a problem is so clearly carved up and served on a silver platter as climate change.
As the first article linked to explains:

> the language family is generally called Eskimo or Eskimoan, because it includes the Yup'ik languages of Siberia and Alaska as well as the Inuit languages from the northeastern half of Alaska across Canada to Greenland
Are there other glaring mistakes in this book frequently ?

Do you have suggestions for alternative books dealing with similar topic?

Context: Noob in JS security, but know a decent amount of JS + building apps.
Could be just like that classic Gary Larson canine decoder cartoon.[0]

Could be more musical. I hope / fear it's something more sophisticated.

[0] https://twitter.com/Andr6wMale/status/1501487704399298560/ph...
In my studying (no, acquiring) Japanese I notice a huge difference when I can do 1.5 hours (or more) a day instead of 20-30 minutes. It's almost like the latter is useless.
(Edit: The latter is more than enough to learn grammar etc. But that doesn't teach you the language, unlike what they believed in school way back then)
>coverup

Yeah, I'm in the burbs and My neighbor's wife died like this. They gave her something obviously wrong, (some thick orange drink iirc?) and when they questioned it the tech insisted it was necessary for a diagnostic of some sort. According to my neighbor, she went very south about 2-3 minutes after consuming it and was dead in a couple hours. He is unable to get any documentation from the hospital about what the substance was, who ordered it, etc.

This was 2ish years ago.
What do you mean by quantum effects? Tunneling?

If so, that's too restrictive. The interaction between two He atoms needs QM (dispersion forces). Heck, even two water molecules interacting is a QM even if you decide to classify the polar attraction as purely classical. You'd still be omitting a lot of the interaction energy.

I see no way I can simulate catalyzed (enzyme) breaking of a chemical bond without:

1. Direct or indirect use of at least DFT

2. An empirical solution (curve fitting to data)
Workers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike
I didn't do anything with link tracking when I was at FB, so I dunno what they do... But when I was at Yahoo, we instrumented all (or mostly all) the links on a page, so that we could see what links people were clicking on (in aggregate) and maybe figure out some session stuff, and we could tag things for analytics like cpcs and what not (went into the logs, not into the link tag), and then we could see for pages like X, revene was this, and all that kind of thing.

But we didn't get any value if a tag escaped into someone else's session, so we'd try our best to have the links be clean it you copied them, and try to make them clean in the address bar and all that. And if you were a robot u-a, then no tracking at all, clean links only.
> I do feel like my rate of learning has increased

It's the same for me. Lots of experience knowing what to ask for. It does a better job in summarizing knowledge and getting me a relatively coherent explanation. Much faster than using Google Search to find and connect the dots from dozens of pages.

I just don't see much benefit in its reasoning and code assistance features besides basic stuff.
Yes, now we don't have time to look into optimization. Unless it has started to make a profit.
I can't seem to figure out the connection between this comment and the article at hand, except that they're both about AI.
yt-dlp_linux -f bestaudio --audio-quality 2 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --no-mtime -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" http://
Really impressed by the writing style of this post and very much looking forward to this on AMD MI300x. Let me know if you want some time on mine.
I think the "or other url" is important here. I didn't realise for a long time that I could put a reddit, Twitter or other URLs in there to download videos. You can find a complete list of supported sites here:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....
To me it seems like the perceived problems with memory management happen because of how programs are organized which is influenced in large part by the programming language used. In OOP you have a bunch of interconnected little 'objects' with different lifetimes that needs to be perfectly coordinated with one another. This is very very hard to do which is why you have RAII in c++ as a bandaid and Rust for those that have deemed the patient to be terminally ill and best put out of its misery.

Objects as an abstraction do seem useful and make sense but that is at the program level or at the very least the system level in a multi-system program. Definitely not at the data-struct + some related operations level which is what OOP languages consider them to be.

Alan Kay was right in that the big idea behind OOP is object communication but I think he got the object size wrong, message-passing doesn't seem that important when your object is a string with just a few functions attached. If instead your object is another program you are coordinating with or a different system such as your physics engine then message-passing does seem like a bigger deal.
Gave it a try. Worked great!
I agree. Expanding your comment:

I see two possible problems.

The first is if this method can express all the functions that a NN can express. High order polinomials usualy have huge spikes outside the region where they are fitted. The functions in NN usualy give more smooth interpolations. Those high exponents make me very worried.

The second is if it's possible to train them. I use the solver of Excel to fit a lot of experimental data with theoretical formulaswith few parameters. In my experience, it's important to guess initial values of the parameters than are close enough to the best values. Otherwise the gradient descent method just get a horrible local minimum that is completely unrelated to the solution you are looking for.

In conclusion, it's important to show that this new proposed method works well in practice in a few non trivial problems that then NN can solve, or at least that it can solve some problems that NN can't solve.
Yeah except do yourself a favor and don't use mp3
Yeah, the humans I'm referring to don't need the hypothetical prefix, nor do they go out of their way to categorically dismiss everything they've said. That's the difference.

But it's not a hill I want to die on, especially when there are other LLMs I can just switch to that act more how I'd hope/expect.
The current top results for single core performance are ~3,100 so it is, on paper, a substantial gain. The M3 in the iMac achieves around 3,053.

However, Geekbench is not that great (imo) so it does not necessarily indicate what you can expect overall performance to be or improve by between CPUs.
Its a bit weird that zfs isn't in the kernel, from what I understand the license is non GPL with a license chosen that directly prohibits its use in the kernel. Would be nice to see a license change, i'm heard its promising. I still wouldnt' use ZFS over ext4.
AFAIK, pretty much all birdsong is telling other birds where you are and that either...

1. you want to mate!

2. you want others to stay away from your territory!
Why Ollie is moving away from SwiftUI to UIKit
Thank you for trying it out! Much appreciated :D
Personally I just use a bookmarklet. Nothing to install, no website to visit. Just a local bookmark that shows the list of the video/audio file direct links.

https://github.com/minanagehsalalma/Youtube-Downloader-Bookm... (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minanagehsalalma/Youtube-D...)
If I’ve learned anything from here it’s that “AI” getting to this point is hardly a given within any relevant time frame. Of course, luckily we are surrounded by experts who I am sure will gladly point out why I’m wrong.

It is a fun kool aid to drink though. Super AI enabling us to do things like “computer compose the best symphony for me that has ever been made in the style of the Beatles and successfully trade on the stock market to make me rich .”
Anthropic recently updated their console so that uou can now generate optimal prompts in the console[1]. I've tried it out and it works great. Pretty cool that they are trying to eliminate Prompt Engineering altogether.

[1] - https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1788958483565732213
I'm sure these managers exist, but there's plenty of places where they don't. My recent experience has been that the managers I work with, when asked, almost always say yes to extending technical work to do a better job and that it's inexperienced developers who either assume they can't have more time or don't know how to ask in an effective way; these are professional skills after all.

This doesn't mean that there's never a need to hurry, external deadlines exist, but these are the minority in a healthy organization.
Exactly: Firefox doesn't add anything I want (eg. better performance, useful features, more customizability), but it doesn't do some of the bad things Chrome does, so that's why I use it.
It seems to be hit and miss, at least with the current PyCharm integration. In some cases it can infer information using other files, in some cases it can't (even if they are open in other tabs).
https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
basically bringing the power of llms to web browsers via WebGPU. i think it’s useful because it’s better for privacy as nothing leaves your browser.

having that said i dont see how this is feasible yet on a widespread public scale given how computational intensive this is.
If something is turing complete, don't trust/execute it until you have verified where it comes from, who is behind it and what it does.

Here you have what Adobe has to say about PDF's: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/resources/can-pdfs-contain-vir...
And I've heard Eskimo is a preferred collective term for North American indigenous arctic dwellers, because Inuit is just one tribe/ethnicity among a few!

So it goes.
I can't give a definitive answer since I'm not the parent poster, however, it makes sense to me: There are various areas in which "disruptors" have promised that their outsider approach would somehow revolutionize the status quo into something better, and either they flopped or it became arguably worse in the long run.

A simple example might be how Theranos was going to innovate past stodgy medical companies and provide wonderful new diagnostics to drive down healthcare costs, etc.

Or how certain rideshare companies, once they achieved various local -opoly statuses--in ways not entirely aboveboard--are somehow back to a worse value-proposition than the system they displaced.
But for most developers using GC (Garbage Collected) languages, not understanding these concepts does not affect their ability to earn a salary and continue working.
What if AI took over bitcoin's power usage?
Forgive me for only skimming over the intellectually demanding part of your post.

>TL;DR: it was (technically) anywhere from 25-59% as powerful as the Carrington Event.

This feels strange to me. If nobody had told me about the CME yesterday, I probably wouldn't have even noticed it. But a CME 10 times as powerful would have caused a global blackout? That makes me feel like the line between "nobody notices it" and "everything is destroyed" is remarkably thin.

I'm currently trying to educate myself more on this subject. I'm reading these:

https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the...

https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf

Anything else you would recommend that I read?
It's willy wonka meets LOTR.

Thanks, I hate it.
Japan has always been a value. I don't understand why folks think it is expensive. Food is cheap, accommodations aren't expensive, transportation is affordable. The most expensive thing is airfare from the USA.

I believe that they never fully recovered after Covid and tourism never bounced back. The YEN has also taken a beating so you can get more for your USD.
I mainly use it as a smart rust auto-complete and I would say it saves me probably 30% of coding time, everything boilerplate/tests it gets super well. I am a slowish typer though. It also makes it more enjoyable, just my experience.
Donald Trump's only virtue is that what you see really is what you get.

He bluntly asked for $1 billion in campaign funding from oil companies in exchange for government policy that will benefit the oil business. Everything is transactional with Trump:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...
Of course, otherwise it wouldn't be allowed in China.

Where can I find LLMs that are uncensored and accessible (without logging in)?
Might be worth

a) highlighting that this extracts the audio track only (not everyone is 100% firm with their audio and video formats)

b) investigating whether one could, instead of downloading the highest video quality and then discarding it, download only the highest quality audio? (yt-dlp and cousins allow that.)
“how much will you pay for a needed autocomplete to do X?”

i think this is a super important for anyone playing in the LLM space to calculate.

currently “AI” providers are selling electricity at a loss to demonstrate product “value”, so even while asking questions is “free” today, there’s actually a finite resource under the hood that needs to have the bill paid in the end.

an estimate, but from historic trends, free bills come due in around 7 years
My most recent experiences were not recent, to be fair.

But the locations were primarily Boston and San Francisco.
Nice. I’ve been building something similar in php. But then you have to have a web server to run it. And it uses yt-dlp, so you also often have to make sure that is up to date before you run it.
Came here to say the same thing. How can it be the case that we change our surroundings so that a computer can make sense of it.

Ironically a computer has no problems with apostrophes - it just another digital value - instead the way humans build software causes the problems.
1 USD = 156 JPY

For years it has been 1 USD = 110 JPY.

Japan is also overrun by tourists right now.
And Google has their TPUs.
> pooling resources

This is a great way to achieve (1). Immigrant families have been doing it forever.

It’s a good tactic no matter how much money you make.
> If you put your cursor at the position indicated by ????, you can pretty reliably expect Copilot to write the rest of the code for you.

Does the author mean that Copilot filled in the other `switch` cases? (Because that looks like "Here, let me plagiarize that for you. We'll call it 'AI' and 'boilerplate'.")
Another one

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeDownloader
> What makes you think that?

Because if it's physically grounded then you can build a physical analogue of it.

> overwhelming majority of functions aren’t computable

By Turing machines, not by any other type of machine. As I said, if hypercomputers exist then they can solve the Halting problem, which Turing machines cannot.
That makes a lot of sense, I figured this would be impossible with a higher level language.
Google screwed up my address by deciding that "E" should be spelled out "East". The county uses "E", the street sign says "E", Bing says "E" (not that they're any authority on the matter), but Google says "East" and now Walmart won't deliver things to my actual address.

I don't know a lot about systems/processes/protocol and the correct jargon, but my sense is that the problem isn't just technical. They could support ' just as well as E. But the scale of these automated systems chokes on these little quirks and they get amplified a huge amount and quickly become big problems.
Eastern Europe is where it is at. Ukraine is super cheap and a really beautiful place, requires a little work to get there but not to bad. Hotels are cheap and really good food and just awesome. Planning to go again this summer.
Why, objectively?
Every interview I've watched with members from one of the major AI labs (Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Deepmind, etc) seem to believe that we are only getting started. We have yet to hit the limits of scaling.

This [1] is a clip from one of the most insightful interviews on the subject. Researchers from Anthropic and Google talking about their work. Full interview here [2] - it's a long listen but if you want to dive into the technical details of some of this stuff, it's great.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeI29-AdhQI

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuuTTnjxMQ
YouTube-Downloader-Bookmarklet: JavaScript Bookmarklet for Downloading YT Vids
That definition strikes me as intellectually satisfying but less useful for engineering software systems around (for the same reasons as the other commenter). But maybe it's more appropriate in the domains K is used for, I wouldn't know.