skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could have LLM to route it to a text search function and have the function report back to the LLM for secondary processing.
Related, there’s a Unicode block for Ogham.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_(Unicode_block)
Is it possible to browse a forum and post/reply to comments on gopher/gemini? I saw a debate where one party insisted it was possible and supported, but no one was willing to provide evidence like documentation or code samples.
"It was so incredibly tragic that he couldn’t hear this majestic music that he created."

He couldn't physically hear the performance of it, but it's possible he could "hear" what it would sound like - and he very possibly heard it in his head before writing a single note down on paper (or however he recorded his music).

I'm not sure everyone has this ability, but whenever I've written/recorded music, I almost literally hear it before I even try to create it or play it. My memory of sound is REALLY strong. I've never had someone go "oh yeah, me too!" when I discuss this though, so I have no idea if it's a common thing or what. It's like borderline hallucination, the clarity with which I can recall music and sound. I would wager that a lot of composers over the years have had this ability, especially since you couldn't exaclty spin up an orchestra in your livingroom while composing an operatic piece in 1800 :)
Again, you're confusing market success with quality. Many beautiful products fail and many awful products succeed.

I'm talking about aesthetics. In this case, elegance, utility, responsiveness, durability, efficiency .
The attention mechanism is vastly more efficient to train when it can attend to larger, more meaningful tokens. For inference servers, a significant amount of memory goes into the KV cache, and as you note, to build up the embedding through attention would then require correlating far more tokens, each of which is "less meaningful".

I think we may get to this point eventually, in the limit we will want multimodal LLMs that understand images and sounds down to the pixel and frequency, and it seems like for text, too, we will eventually want that as well.
Instead the pitfalls are what gets implemented as 'features'
Not only that but even for topics not abused to death by SEO, Google still manages to include absolutely irrelevant pages.

It seems like they have had some system for years already which includes an absolutely unhealthy amount of pages that in their algorithms view are similar to the thing I ask for without being the thing I ask for.

My go-to example is when I search for a construct from a JS framework that a previous dev used and Google gives me lots of results that seem superficially relevant but when I open them I think half or more of the results at the first page are about other, similar frameworks.

This is extremely annoying because they manage to hit a spot were the results are close enough that I often have to read a bit before I realize it.
You don't have to physically be there even today to shut down an intersection. Just drop the intersection you'd like to shut down into some form of social media followed by these car sideshow people, tell them everyone will be there, they show up and what do you know everyone you've told is there, besides you of course, tearing up their tires and creating congestion for probably dozens of blocks nearby this intersection where nothing is moving at all except these fast n furious wannabes. Not to mention the cost to the public of rousing cops and potentially helicopters to deal with this. Much more effective and costly to the public than this strategy that only results in a bit more traffic than usual, and can be done today. Maybe its already being done.
SynthID: Identifying AI-Generated Content
Because all the devs are probably using Macbooks?
This is a little trickier because if you just park your car in the middle of an intersection, it's obvious who is the problem (it's you, or at least the car even if it can't be traced back to you). If the problem can be anybody with a few dollars' worth of electronics within 100ft of an intersection, then it isn't so obvious. Now we need FCC party vans, or at least the cops need another doohickey now.
I would hope that Byung-Chul Han would not be in the training set (at least not without his permission), given he's still alive and not only is the legal question still open but it's also definitely rude.

This doesn't mean you're wrong, though.
Side note: DataGenetics has been my favorite blog in mid-2010s. Lots of great posts:

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html
I would hope that the Pine Note people look at it. Progress for them has been quite slow (I follow the discord), and they are struggling with a lot of basic stuff.
It seems like these systems should not be based on cooperative vehicles, but on what can be publicly observed on the roadway.

That would avoid the trust issue, as well as the invasion of privacy issues.
One interesting thing is that in the quantum description of position and frequency (i.e. position and momentum if you account for hbar), it is not possible to cram two different functions into one in this way because functions that differ by a position-dependent phase are different quantum states.
This is awesome!

I last played with it over a year ago and I see that blog post is from Dec 2023. Looking forward to trying out the sqlite extension.
The slides are also viewable at https://speakerdeck.com/openwall/password-cracking-past-pres... for an experience closer to how they were presented in the talk (right arrow key moves to next slide). Maybe a better fit for you.
Ugh yeah, I hadn't even realized what a serious vulnerability it will be when large corporations and foreign governments start to flood the web with their preferred "facts". Google and Microsoft will gladly slurp up all of that training data. Modern Google doesn't even bother to exclude blatant spam domains from SERPs, there's no way they are going to combat this problem effectively.

This really is looking more and more like the death of the open web. Curated and closed communities will be the only places left to get authentic information online.
You're pretty heavily downvoted, but I agree to some extent. Really, I'm just pointing out how marked the trend has been. The line in the sand with Saudi has just blown away in the wind ... of perceived easy money.

I don't agree with the point on blacklisting countries. We boycotted South African goods back in the day when were were pushing for the fall of Apartheid. And I'll be boycotting Israeli goods right now. And I'd stop my boss working with Saudi if I could.

Bring the grey'ness ...
Until a kid put his face in it for fun
Black, white and shades of grey – what's behind sprint's race divide?
Yes, there are people who can hear music in their head but it is necessary not related to having the inner monologue.
I have a meta question here, am always curious when seemingly competent engineer such as yourself put up with this kind of management.

It is unbearable to work for someone who doesn't appreciate your work let alone belittles truly hard-earned achievements, for example that statement when he demanded you get 4000% rather than 2000% that you achieved would have made me quit on the spot.

Further from the sounds of it this sounds like a random finance company and with your skills you could have easily walked into any tech/finance company so I am curious why you remained at this company and didn't quit sooner?
It's not about refresh rate it's about responsiveness. As close to 0ms as possible. On kindle there's a frustrating amount of input lag
Ofc this was flagged by the butthurt insentient techbro bootlickers lol.
DuckDB would be great or accessible through DataFusion!

Looking forward to see what you will build next!
This is my multidisciplinary improvisation after cursory scan. Please forgive me. I'll revisit to make sure I'm not repeating the OP or the author.

Liminal is key here. I believe this arises from the fact that we frequently have the luxury of simplicity in software enabled by the fact that the imaginary part is that things like generic pointers allow us to pretend as if a physics of software is non-existent, at least until computational complexity catches up and re-asserts physics dominance over our control theory from the stoics.

What's missing is extensibility. In particular, infinite extensibility. All hail Alan Kay.

The relationship between those two has puzzled me for a while, at least since I started writing on this topic post-Covid.

The last things I wrote were along the lines of "bringing Lacan to software" - getting at the idea that there was a Lacanian frame there which needed further exploration. Reminds me of reading the history of cybernetics which IIRC shares the greek root with Kubernetes.

Lev Manovich should get some credit for applying McLuhan's idea of hybridization to software more specifically than McLuhan's target: technology beyond media.

https://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2014/09/10/the-softwa...
All the stuff is super physically unsecured too. You see people routinely popping the plate off telephone poles and illegally tapping into the powerlines. If someone knew what they were doing they could probably hook into the lines that control signal timing and do whatever. Throw on a high vis vest and people will think you are supposed to be doing whatever you are doing.
I wonder if we could implement the equivalent of a JIT compilation, whereby context sequences which get repeatedly reused would be used for an online fine-tuning.
> It reduces prompt costs by half for those shared prefix tokens, but you have to pay $4.50/million tokens/hour to keep that cache warm - so probably not a useful optimization for most lower traffic applications

That's on a model with $3.5/1M input token cost, so half price on cached prefix tokens for $4.5/1M/hour breaks even at a little over 2.5 requests/hour using the cached prefix.
I used few ebooks and Kindle is the only one that actually works as expected. Some ebooks I used drained battery in few days, not delivering promise of long life. Some ebooks were just crap and broke after few months. Kindle works few weeks from one charge for my use (1-2 hours of reading per day), it's water-proof so I can read my books while taking a bath (priceless). I never had any particular issues with it.

Its UI seems oriented to promote Amazon Store and I never used it, sending books over e-mail and deleting after read, that's OK with me. I'd prefer for its library to have folders and I'd prefer for it to work as USB stick like other ebooks do, so I can connect it to PC and organize things inside as I want, but those are not necessary.

So may be Kindle is bad, but rest are worse, I don't know a single ebook brand of Amazon scale. They all seem to be Chinese no-names which come and go without investments to quality and reputation.
The link addresses your point.
>>What'd be amazing would be something that really works >>against the headaches and/or prevent vomiting.

If you start vomiting then you overdid it. Your body is trying to save you from poisoning. To prevent the headaches just drink lots of water.
I'm using correct-horce-battery-staple to fool those pesky kids with dictionaries.
1001 Representations of Syntax with Binding (comparison table) (2021)
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The ole methlyamine train heist play
I spent like 15 minutes trying to find an official download link, even registered a broadcom account but that was a waste of time as well. Ended up finding a working download link from some reddit comment. It seems to contain all versions of fusion, player, workstation and remote console.

https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/
How are images not bandlimited? They don't get brighter than 255, 255, 255 or darker than 0,0,0
> you can expose your services without opening a public port

But doesn't the Pico cluster have to expose a public port?
I think both your examples speak to why we shouldn't be flippant about claims of climate collapse.

The Doomsday Clock is not a valid representation of scientific consensus, and is completely incomparable to the current conversation. It largely reflects the political interpretation of one non-profit. In contrast the concerns over climate change are not posted in PR briefs, but in a plethora of scientific papers, in various fields, that repeatedly show we are in or past a worse case prediction.

The ozone layer is more analogous, but the problem had the advantage of being a specific problem, with a soon found and cost efficient solution. In comparison, climate change is also 100% true, but rather than a particular aerosol that can be swapped out, it is literally the foundation of the entirety of human industrialization.
> But they are rehashing the content of somebody else. Asking to create a video of Michael Jackson dancing at the style of Fred Astaire with music similar to a Metallica song, is rehashing, not creativity.

That's most real-world bands.
Clarifying, the specter of a hidden animal will usually take the form of a diffuse sparkle or blur, typically hovering off to the person's side and somewhat above them, and as a result when carried through to the "other side" cannot possess what remains of the person in that domain (because they are returned to the origin in turn).
Sounds like a great excuse / communications strategy!
My son is a composer, and he told me that he doesn't even need a keyboard any more, when he composes (he composes on paper, then transfers it to music notation software when it's ready to distribute).

He also, sometimes, has a photographic memory for music. In university he had a listening test on a piece of classical music. He was able to visualize the score that he had studied when in high school, and identify the types and numbers of instruments.
Maybe it's going to be a new messaging app - but with AI!

Kidding... I signed up for the waitlist. I have ideas for videos I'd like to use to explain things that I have no hope of creating myself.
Datasets – How Neural Machine Translation Works
Depends on your perspective. If you sell kindles you probably are pretty pleased with almost 100 million units sold. Not a lot of products get those numbers. It sold quite successfully I'd say.
I humbly suggest that ethics are not universal but heavily culturally dependent.
Is Common Lisp the only language with this built-in?

CL-USER> (defun foo (a b)
(declare (optimize (speed 3))
(type fixnum a b))
(+ a b))
FOO

CL-USER> (disassemble #'foo)

; disassembly for FOO
; Size: 23 bytes. Origin: #x1002230744 ; FOO
; 44: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI
; 47: 48D1E2 SHL RDX, 1
; 4A: 710A JNO L0
; 4C: 48D1DA RCR RDX, 1
; 4F: FF1425F00C1050 CALL [#x50100CF0] ; SB-VM::ALLOC-SIGNED-BIGNUM-IN-RDX
; 56: L0: C9 LEAVE
; 57: F8 CLC
; 58: C3 RET
; 59: CC10 INT3 16 ; Invalid argument count trap
NIL

CL-USER>

The Emacs Lisp mode has support for it, too - I have Alt-F8 open the disassembly of the current function in a new window next to the current window.
The more error-prone the human (or the organization), the greater that is amplified by their software.
There is more to it. Often the idea isn't just that you throw away frequencies, but also that data with less variance is possible to encode more efficiently. And it's not just that high frequency info is noise, it also tends to be smaller magnitude.
Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro dies at 92
I would say 2 big problems are:

1. latency, which would get worse if you have to sequentially generate more output

2. These models very roughly turn tokens -> "average meaning" on the embedding layer, followed by attention layers that combine the meanings, and feed forward layers that match the current meaning combination to some kind of learned archetype/prototype almost. When you move from word parts to characters all of that becomes more confusing (what's the average meaning of a?) and so I don't think there are good enough techniques to learn character-based models yet
> I work at a startup that leaned into AI and a use case is simply detecting mis-classified products (happens all the time at large retailers).

This tracks with my own experience for the last decade or so. I stopped being surprised at how many business problems can be, in part or in whole, reduced to classification issues.
Well, to start with, there is no regular 3B Gemma. There are 2B and 7B Gemma models. I would guess this model is adding an extra 1B parameters to the 2B model to handle visual understanding.

The 2B model is not very smart to begin with, so… I would expect this one to not be very smart either if you only use it for text, but I wouldn’t expect it to be much worse. It could potentially be useful/interesting for simple visual understanding prompts.
Does it really have to be a vehicle or just a Flipper Zero like box positioned at an intersection?
Very interesting. My longstanding habit is to only use ephemeral CC #s for any online purchases. These #s expire in a year (or earlier, if I cancel the card).

This would make using Apple services too problematic.
In AI music generation we have much better results with large vocabulary sizes of 10^6 order, my uneducated guess is that's because transformers are not universal pattern recognizers, they can catch patterns on a certain granularity level only.
Instead of Docker, static linking is a much more elegant solution if library/dep management is painful.

Switching to static linking using a sane libc (not glibc) can be a pain initially but you end up with way less overhead IMO.
It's pretty easy to confirm that copywritten material is in the training data. See the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI for example.
A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision. -- IBM, 1979
Thank you for posting this. These are the types of details that you just don’t get unless the author has really worked through these issues in depth.

Best of luck with the project!
To test this hypothesis, I just took the complete book "Advances in Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials" [0] and pasted it into the prompt, asking Gemini: "What absorbs thermal radiations and converts it into electrical signals?".

It replied: "The text indicates that graphene sheets present high optical transparency and are able to absorb thermal radiations with high efficacy. They can then convert these radiations into electrical signals efficiently.".

Screenshot of the PDF with the relevant sentence highlighted: https://i.imgur.com/G3FnYEn.png

[0] https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Green-and-Sustainable-...
Private equity shouldn't own any amount. Does it matter if the current amount is 10% or 25% or whatever? According to you, we must first agree on the precise size of the problem, before we even consider mitigation.

Good grief.
This is so good - thanks for sharing this!
Gemini Nano coming built in to Chrome 126, powered by WebGPU
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from what I've read, responsive screen refresh is inversely related to battery life. A more responsive screen results in less battery life. Amazon, and pretty much all other eink readers have prioritized battery life over absolute responsiveness.

They have made significant improvements in responsiveness over the years. Do you remember how slow screen refreshes were on the original Kindle? It's just that that is not a high priority for their main use case of linear reading.

If you want to use it for reading PDF reference books, you probably should look to one of the eink Android tablets that are more general purpose devices and may have a faster refresh rate.
There'll always be a market for cheap low-quality videos, and vice versa always a market for shockingly high quality videos. K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azham had enormous ticket sales and a huge budget spending on all sorts of stuff, like actual gold jewelry to make the actors feel that they were important despite the film being black and white.

No matter how good AI gets, it will never be the highest budget. Hell, even technically more accurate quartz watches cannot compete price wise with mechanical masterpiece watches of lower accuracy
Ask HN: How to compare mini PC's for homelab usage?
Is there a site or database of mini pc's that I could use to attempt to pick one for homelab usage? I'm starting to outgrow my Raspberry Pi and want to move to something more powerful that is low power. It looks like there are a bunch of small companies making low power small form factor x86 PC's. As far as I can tell though there's no easy way to compare specs and price other then spending hours reading reviews for each of them?
I guess it depends on what you want to do.

E.g. I want to send an entire code base in a context. It might not fit into 128k.

Filtering down is a complex task by itself. It's much easier to call a single API.

Regarding quality of responses, I've seen both disappointing and brilliant responses from Gemini. Do maybe worth trying. But it will probably take several iterations until it can be relied upon.
I think a more pernicious problem would be if cars could give themselves an advantage - influencing routing algorithms, blocking cross traffic, favorable light changing, warning cars away.

There used to be a device that could mimic an emergency vehicle entering an intersection which would create a green light, and that is the kind of thing people would use, to the detriment of others.
Maybe if you zoom out really far. But they're not getting paid if you subscribe to Substack or the New York Times, at least not in a way that is more meaningful than investors getting paid when you buy an apple at the grocery store, or rent a hotel room, or pay your phone bill. What' the difference, and why draw the line at paying for news articles and not something else?
I was already disillusioned before ;)
Paper, Blogpost, Podcast – Three pieces of media which shifted my worldview
> The fact that it still doesn’t happen very often demonstrates that not every threat is worth worrying about.

This. Chopping down a stop sign with an angle grinder is an easy terrorist feat but not one you hear about because nobody stands to gain anything.
I agree with all of this, and I've noticed as much with the other readers. Some users promote Kobo reader as a quality alternative, but I haven't tried it.
I have no doubt about Google's capabilities in AI, my doubt lies on the productization part. I don't think they can produce something that will not be a complete mess
They are talking about carbon sequestration at meaningful scales.
I'm the author of Stitch. Rik is somewhat overpromising: Stitch is only faster than Wasm3 on Windows (by about 15%). On Mac and Linux, it is about as fast. It does get within 4x of Wasmtime (which is the JIT I've compared it against), but only on Mac. On Linux and Windows, it gets within 8x.
you are confusing your needs with the use case of the Kindle which is heavily focused on linear reading of text, mostly fiction. Graphics and PDFs are much lower on the priority scale.
If needed, linked list can be backed by a vector, that is resized, when needed.
Can anyone identify and enumerate the "tests for genius" that Ramsey passed?

Edit: Found them. They are Samuelson's own criteria:

1. Test of Time: Samuelson suggested that the work of a genius economist should stand the test of time, remaining relevant and influential long after its initial publication.

2. Transcendence of Paradigms: Genius economists should be able to transcend prevailing paradigms and make significant contributions that reshape the field of economics.

3. Originality and Creativity: Samuelson emphasized the importance of originality and creativity in the work of genius economists, highlighting their ability to generate novel ideas and insights.

4. Broad Influence: Genius economists should have a broad influence beyond their own specialized areas of research, impacting the broader discipline of economics.

5. Impact on Policy: Samuelson suggested that the work of genius economists should have practical implications and influence policy-making decisions.

6. Pedagogical Impact: Genius economists should also have a significant impact on economic education, shaping the way economics is taught and understood by future generations of students.