skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to be overly pedantic, but that's a problem with vector similarity, not RAG as a concept.

Vector similarity has a surprising failure mode. It only indexes explicit information, missing out the implicit one.
For example "The second word of this phrase, decremented by one" is "first", do you think these strings will embed the same? Calculated results don't retrieve well. Also, deductions in general.

How about "I agree with what John said, but I'd rather apply Victor's solution"? It won't embed like the answer you seek. Multi-hop information seeking questions don't retrieve well.

The obvious fix is to pre-ingest all the RAG text into a LLM and calculate these deductions before embedding.
IMO for many people a laptop means highly portable, wire free 'desktop' computing experience that you can't get on a tablet. Therefore the comparison for mobility is with a tablet and not a powerful Windows laptop.

Plus many people working in tech have specific systems for specific tasks; I use a spec'ed up Windows laptop for heavy lifting and games, and an M1 Air as my main computer.
There's actual sentencing guidelines that can be used to calculate what punishment he's more likely to see.

It won't be 20 years.
The study seems to say there's a transmission of diagnosis, which would allow the transmission being caused by a greater awareness.
Does performance degrade over time like with all other Windows installations?

What I like about Linux and macOS is that performance remains stable and battery life is excellent.
I believe there's some work done by Qualcomm developers on Linux, and they even have some marketing site about mainlining Linux support here[1].

Linux 6.10 has some drivers for hardware on the Snapdragon X Elite platform[2].

That said, Linux support does not come down to just SoC support. Each device using the Snapdragon platform will need support from manufacturers or volunteers to get Linux running on them, as they'll need DeviceTrees written for them, drivers for peripherals and whatnot.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-eDP-DP-X-Elite
If they are at 25% for meets, why will your comp go down? 25% times 4 == 100%
Do you think FHIR is acceptable?

It feels like a cross between JSON and HL7 to me.
Again, not saying we have good coffee. Our coffee is horrific. With that being said, the smell of coffee being torched in a Moka pot makes me nostalgic. While I recognise the taste is absolutely sub-standard compared to a single-origin brew carefully prepared, I still enjoy it. This falls in the category of: "people are allowed to like bad things."
Heck they have some zero bit llm's

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
I'd take OOTB windows than anything the IT departments set me up any day. If you ever worked at a big corp using Windows you know what I mean.
Yes, I love Windows and hate using MacOS for development. For grandmas macs are fine as a Netflixmachine. Just like iphones really.
Eh. It is more complicated than that. I started out in DIA and a lot of government employees in the "hacker space" are indeed underpaid compared to their civilian counterparts. The way the sausage is really made though is through contracting, and these folks are paid. Bottom line is that if you want to do cyberspace stuff for uncle sam and want to be paid the you shouldn't be going to any careers/*.gov website. Look instead for generic "Network Operations Engineer" type postings that are in Herndon, Bethesda, Baltimore, Annapolis Junction, Fort Meade, and so on.

There are some perks to being a government employee, but you end up in the government framework for pay and what not, which sucks. if I recall correctly the folks at CIA (AFD I believe???) had some sort of system set up where they hired government employees as a POCO billet or something so they could bring talent in at a reasonable pay scale, and then they'd do some political maneuvering to rotate people around so everyone was getting paid. DIA was a charlie foxtrot in that arena and probably still is, so I'd avoid them. The FBI has a pretty good team in quantico, though I'm guessing again that most of the are really just Booz employees.
IP is cultural maximalism paperclipping. It ties ambiguous substrings not economically explained to as much of human output as mechanically possible and arbitrarily inflate importance of living humans.

Which is a great thing.
The internet is the largest psychological attack surface ever invented. It's exactly the right response to have.
> People completely missed the point of GraphQL, which is you TRADE flexibility for the client for added cost on the server.

I mean, isn't this THE selling point of GraphQL? How was it missed so badly? I think every elementary resource about the technology covers this in the pros and cons section...
The difficulty here is Microsoft is staking a fair bit on this. To some extent, their ability to make ARM their future is dependent on this push succeeding in getting people to swap to it.

AMD/Intel can always just lose gracefully and go again next year. For Microsoft trying to decide how much they're investing in ARM, going all in on "we're better than the Macbook Air" when there's a good chance Apple is going to blow them out of the water in a few weeks is a much bigger gamble. It's possible Apple's announcements aren't that impressive in some dimension, but even if it's in the same range, it could really dampen Microsoft's push here.
The jury can hardly adjudicate another crime if that crime isn't specified. And they can't do so fairly if the defendant isn't allowed to present a defense for the charges of the second crime.

And they haven't adjudicated a second crime if they don't agree unanimously about what specific crime was committed.

It's a mystery to me why the prosecution, which has mentioned a state crime they claim applies, didn't charge him with that crime. That would have provided due process and made the conviction far more convincing. Were they afraid they couldn't actually prove that crime?
Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
My response to the blog above

https://blog.tailcall.run/writing-a-graphql-backend-by-hand-...
Linux doesn’t run on any M3 Mac at all.
This is remarkable and so full of misdirection, it’s hard to know where to start?

Is it the “lack of contemplation” invoked by a company enough data (see the recent google search leaks) to make the NSA blush?

Is it the fact that it glances over the vast amount of data about this one article back from 2021 that all screams satire?

Is it that google bought reddit data which is full of context about the topic and content in /r/theonion and /r/notheonion?

Is it that when I tried 8 other LLMs, all the way down to phi3-llava, a 3.8B vision model on a text only screenshot of the first two paragraph it responded with

> “ Berkeley did not actually recommend eating small rocks as part of a healthy diet. The idea of incorporating sediment into one's diet, let alone suggesting that people should aim for a daily intake of at least one small rock, is absurd and completely contradicts scientific consensus”

as did every competing model in one form or another (gpt4, claude, llama3-7B, wizardlm), indicating that even an edge model as enough information in its weights to identify the article as satire even without google’s data warehouse.

Is it the language talking about Gemini “faithfully complying” and “nobody asked the question”, which seems to paint the technology as a faithful hound let down by its human masters?

Is it that Google says “it’s hard” as if they were not the best resourced tech company in the world fully in charge of their own roadmap and technology stack and the luxury to pay off tens of thousands of workers because AI is so awesome?

Is it that Google chose to shove this down the throats of SERP customers rather launching a new product to use their monopoly to quash a better executing competiton?

Is it that there a pattern of similar issues (“Opps, Asian and African American SS troops”)?

Is it that it’s impossible to tell the excuses from a VP of Product
from an LLM hallucination? (That may actually reinforce the economic potential of the technology)?

Is it that we are apparently so gullible, we deserve being fed something like this?

I almost feel bad for Perplexity because a lot of people will take away “the technology is a total failure” rather than “Google is so desperate they’d rather burn down the ecosystem and tell everyone to eat glue [1] than let them get 1% of search” from this

[1] https://snekoil.omg.lol
I last used News+ around 4 months ago but at the time, one thing I found infuriating about a paid product is that I could not opt out of the Apple editorial-chosen content like I could all other sources or topics. If they chose to surface things I didn't want to see again, I was SOL, and they frequently did. The UI controls for that exact functionality (show me less like this, or block this source entirely) was present and effective against other aggregated content within the same app, but disabled on the stories they wanted to bless. That was what ultimately led me to unsubscribe, rather than missing features or content sources or other maturity concerns.
What?

The history of Central America is essentially the history of these companies. Looking into it will give you more "understanding of the world" than you probably think.
There are aftermarket Tesla buttons that you can buy and program to change things like wipers. Maybe look into those.
Just FYI… This is not a politically “liberal” point of view, “free market” economic liberalism is usually associated with more politically conservative policies (as the “free market” heavily favours the status quo social stratification based on who currently have money being the ones most likely to continue making more money when there aren’t laws that force them to do things that don’t just make the most money for them)

The segments of American politics that identify as “liberal” and align with the Democratic Party, who hold this view are the kind of politicians a lot of people complain loudly about having been corrupted by donors and lobbyists. It’s also important to remember how decades of social stigma have been welded onto anything that doesn’t sound enough like “good old American free market capitalism” as the first creeping tendrils of “evil communism” … to the point where the average American has little idea there’s any difference between “socialism” and “communism”… and would prefer their political representatives to not say anything that sounds like either of them… this perpetuates the need to make sure the economy is always good because there’s little alternative and voters don’t seem to turn out for candidates that make them feel bad and the whole system devolves into what you can see today.
My recent experience with a lenovo legion laptop was bad. Ubuntu boots then GPU driver crashes as soon you open a browser window. The end.
Why would that country care?

They did not generate the problem, get no profit from resolving the problem, and actually end up footing the bill for the problem from some random irresponsible owner.

The only reason they don’t just sink them is because of the PR backlash - and that would end up costing them even more in weapons and cleanup.

It’s more like someone abandoning random RVs in your town - full of orphans. Just, ugh. What a nightmare for everyone.
It would be nice to be able to purchase a Linux laptop with proper power management. I haven’t used a Linux laptop in a long time, but when I did, I found it didn’t manage different power modes well at all. I feel that’s the main drawback to a Linux laptop, so if arm chips fixed that it would be awesome.
“Good things come to those who wait.”
I'm not sure what your point is. Big, heavy laptops are heavy, so they should be desktops?

I've got great news: guess who makes the lightest laptops in the world? Know why they're so light? Vertical integration.

As an aside, if carrying 1.2kg is "exhausting to handle," I'm not sure what will convince you of any point on this topic.
Yeah this is an error people make about transgender people all the time. Parents say "my child started hanging out with a bunch of trans people and then they told me they are trans, but they never told me anything about this before so I think they became trans because of those people" and it's like, no the child was attracted to the group of trans people because something about that group resonated with the child, and having spent some time seeing their perspective they felt that transition would better resolve some internal tension they may never have understood or had words to express. Being friends with trans people didn't make the child trans, it just showed them a new perspective they had been seeking when they decided to become friends with those people.

Similarly, people with various mental health conditions may have some attraction to others in the same boat, as they can find mutual understanding, learn coping skills, and vent about the other people who don't understand.

You could just as easily say mountain biking is socially transmitted because all these mountain bikers are hanging out together.
Driving without proprioception is probably almost impossible. That's how you know where your hands are, how the steering wheel is turned, where your feet are, how to move your hand to the indicator lever, etc.
1 - I don't think he's trying to use bureaucrat precisely here - he's saying that the role of engineering manager is more valuable if they understand their domain vs. if they do not. This seems uncontroversial; staffing decisions for projects are more likely to be made correctly when those projects are understood.

2 - "should not" and "will not" are not the same thing. A huge part of bridging the divide between general management and engineering management is finessing the issue of performance/productivity measurement.

3 - Yeah I agree, I like a lot of Larson's stuff but not this. I kind of wonder how much of it is even real vs. just posturing; as you say it doesn't scale well at all, and he's worked at very large companies.
These are over $300 but these are aftermarket Tesla buttons that can control the wipers and other functions:

https://enhauto.com/product/four-s3xy-buttons-gen2

(not an owner, just have a good memory)
Why look around and anticipate the movements of others when you can finish your tweet and jab the brakes on everyone's day behind you?

Duh.
The philosopher Charles Taylor has an idea that because modern societies aim to be open to all religious/ethical ideas, it results in the atrophying of debating skills and the ability to intelligently critique things. This openness doesn’t result in a free exchange of complex formed opinions, resulting instead in a kind of formless relativism where people have a feeling that they disagree with something but lack the ability to do so.

In a very related way, I feel like the same thing has happened with regards to the focus on individualism and the individual identity, at the expense of group identity. People have become so obsessed with individualism that they forget how humans are still, additionally, a social species.

This results in the ignoring of how group social dynamics work, which means that it’s much easier for bad group behaviors to take root - no one thinks they’re important or even exist at all.

In other words, when we pretend that something doesn’t exist - but it continues to exist - we lose the ability to engage with it intelligently.
There has been research into the fact that student Doctors often report symptoms to their own doctors of the diseases they're currently studying - a kind of psychological awareness temporarily manifesting as physical symptoms. Or the belief of physical symptoms. Sort of like the phantom phone buzz in our legs that many of us get occasionally.

These symptoms aren't actually the disease - just like our legs are not actually our phones.

> there’s a pretty direct line between the increase of mental health awareness campaigns and self-reported mental health

"Self-reported mental health" is very different from clinically diagnosed and treated mental health.

> I mean, look at this study, eating disorders spiked, are we suggesting people secretly unknowingly had an eating disorder they only became aware of through social media? It’s nonsense!

This is a nonsense line of thinking because "only became aware of" is not the mechanism. There is plenty of research out there about how social media actively changes mental and behavioural patterns - especially in young people - because that is what it is DESIGNED TO DO in order to increase engagement and revenue.

Changing your physical behaviour severely enough to become sick is a thing.

Changing your mental behaviour severely enough to become sick is a thing.

Mental health might be getting worse, but simply "awareness of mental health issues" is not the mechanism.
you could, or you could add a diesel generator to one, and charge the batteries that way. gets 1000 miles to the tank or so.

https://youtu.be/seHWJMKwOQQ
> But what basically ended up happening was we had 2 codebases: 1 for that non-DRY version, and then 1 for everything else. The non-DRY version limped along and no one ever wanted to work on it. The ways it did things were never updated. It was rarely improved. It was kinda left to rot.

It sounds to me that you're trying to pin the blame of failing to maintain software on not following DRY, which makes no sense to me.

Advocating against mindlessly following DRY is not the same as advocating for not maintaining your software. Also, DRY does not magically earn you extra maintenance credits. In fact, it sounds to me that the bit of the code you called DRY ended up being easier to maintain because it wasn't forced to pile on abstractions needed to support the non-DRY code. If it was easy, you'd already have done it and you wouldn't be complaining about the special-purpose code you kept separated.
Exactly, so why is the computer referring to them as “My Documents”? Shouldn’t it be “Your Documents”? But I think his preference was just “Documents” so nobody would need to even consider this!
Steam has fundamental problems beyond engine startup time that are just not solvable. Gas engines can quickly switch from low-power to high-power, meaning that you can kick it up quickly to pass another car or maintain speed up a hill.

It's all tradeoffs, but responsiveness matters. And in terms of responsiveness steam < diesel < gas < electric. There's a reason both diesel and gas have long coexisted: sometimes you need more responsiveness, and sometimes more constant power. Steam was just too far from acceptable for high speed responsive output.
Last year, my employer, the University of Tokyo, became the first Japanese university to sign the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) [1]. Like open access, that initiative is a positive move toward a better research environment, and it would be great if more institutions committed to it.

[1] https://sfdora.org/
Transmission implies it is causing more mental disorders than would otherwise be present, regardless if they were identified or not.
enh. The hutter prize is working on textual data which is already extremely information dense. The 200:1 goal is likely unreasonable to losslessly compress their data, but you can't say that for sure by reasoning from the hutter prize.

Their page also has a scoreboard. I'm sure they're quite interested in solutions which achieve state of the art compression even if its far from their goal.

Presumably their ultimate solution will be lossy, in which case 200:1 is possibly reasonable*. But it is much harder to judge lossy compression, which makes lossless compression a more interesting target. Insights that allow state of the art lossless compression may also be helpful for lossy compression.

* 4k 60fps rgb data is about 12gbit/sec. but we send 4k lossy compressed video at 50mbit/sec -- which is more than a 200 to 1 compression ratio.
Quantization is never free, and you can rest assured that even the "good" quants of the best models are highly crippled compared to their unquantized versions.

The "nearly as accurate" is only on their contrived benchmarks. I've never met a quantized model that actually behaved "98%" as good as the unquantized model, and I do LLM work daily and have since well before the ChatGPT era.
To detect the faked screenshot results, the post asks us to run the queries for ourselves and see what happens. But where does that leave people outside the US who don't have access to AI Overviews?
The Surface Laptop scored 1,745 on the Procyon AI Score, while the MacBook Air managed 889. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has 45 TOPS of AI acceleration performance, much more than the 18 TOPS found on the M3.

TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) is a meaningless score without including the precision. Are they INT4, INT8, INT16 or FP16? Microsoft's qualifications for a Copilot+ laptop require 40 TOPS at INT8: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/qualcomm_windows_micr.... The new Snapdragon X Elite can do 45 TOPS at INT8.

Apple's M3 has 18 TOPS, and their M4 has 38 TOPS, but the M3 was measured at INT16 and the M4 at INT8: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21387/apple-announces-m4-soc-.... Cutting the precision in half lets you do ~twice the amount of work.

The Snapdragon is very impressive, but it's silly to see TOPS claims from companies repeated by journalists without adding some context.
It's 2024. So what :P

The article itself is a confusing jumble of fiction, religion and tech though. I don't grok it.
I feel we must be using smell all the time to be able to detect when a burning odour begins to arise. It’s just that we’re not aware of it when nothing unusual happens.
The power imbalance here is significant.

To use the ‘expanse’ example - how long (and what did it take) before the Martians were interested in doing anything but trying to capture or destroy the Rocinante on sight?

Good luck doing any of that as a random Ukrainian or Thai sailor stuck at sea.
> he uses violence, massacres and even torture to achieve his political aspirations.

> The first thing he did when elected was cancel elections, give himself unlimited power.

Exactly like the current dictator of Egypt, El-Sisi the secularist, if you want to put things on that plane...

You act like Egypt dodged a bullet by having their own elected leader killed brutally in a violent coup. But the bullet was fired, and is still being fired on them as they're now led by a leader who is not beholden to them at all.

If Morsi was as terrible as you said and people hated him as much as you claim, he would have lost the next election. But there won't be a next election because the governments you didn't mention, who support the dictator, thought it would be better if Egypt never had another democracy so long as their political objectives are met.

I happen to believe in democracy, and I believe it is the best tool against terrible leaders. You may disagree, but don't try to paint your enemies as violent and irrational when you are the one who thinks force should be used to overturn the will of the people.
it's still easier to manage docker containers if they're 50 MB instead of 300MB and if the rest of the fleet is being managed via docker-(whichever) then there's something to be said about consistency. managing everything through one interface is easier than remembering all the special cases. but to each their own.
Doesn’t compression ratio depend heavily on the file type / entropy of the file? You can probably zip 10 GB of zeroes to under 1 KB. Without taking the content of the data into account, you can’t just say “more than 10x is impossible because it’s uncommon”. The benchmarks you’re looking at are compressing text, I think. Maybe text is higher entropy than the Neuralink data?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/merge_reque...