skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ipsnoticias.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Merida-2....

You are comparing a 2015 picture versus a 2024 picture. It was not a tiny glacier. The glacier you see on that picture I sent was not on Peak Humboldt, it was one of the many other glaciers that covered the Venezuelan Andes.

None of them exist anymore.
In Massachusetts we have to follow international building codes with some commonwealth wide modifications.
Maybe through chat, but supposedly through API the models should be frozen, they are versioned by a date. Otherwise they would be much more difficult to use in automated manners, if they might be changing slightly throughout the time.
Building VisionPro's spatial localization and mapping algorithm from scratch [video]
Junior level role product owner ?
Fun, great concept.

Getting an error for pressing the addition button "2+" is a bit confusing.
what about potential repairs? Or are you not using a MacBook?
> I have a theory that one of the core problems is that American businesses just expect to make too much money.

If you pay attention to certain board meetings, earnings calls, and so on, or if you had the opportunity to work for certain companies, you'll find people talking about the growth of growth, i.e. second order. It seems that the notion of sustainable growth is just gone. Corporations chasing lofty goals in absurdly short timeframes.
I mean, this is true. And these days these people don't even need to be real. Kick off a few hundred thousand bots along with a visible ad campaign corresponding with how bad things are and you can get the people in the "not great, not terrible" camp thinking the end of the world is here.
And supported them until long after the Vietnamese put an end to their genocidal regime. The US, alongside China, voted for the Khmer Rouge to keep the UN seet until 1993, 14 years after they were removed.

Hilariously the Wikipedia article is titled "Allegations of US support for the Khmer Rouge" even if it describes factual US support (in the UN), and a bunch of "allegations" based on internal reports confirming them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
I was thinking more along the lines of "does schooling have to be awful" than "should you go to school." I apologize for being unclear.
What's wrong with browser bookmarks?
I think SPF+DKIM+DMARC has taken over most verification of email online already.

I've had it setup with protonmail for a year now and it works very well, easily automated with providers such as AWS route53 for example. So technically I could have hosted my own email that whole time, just replace the protonmail senders with my own.

As long as I get a VPS IP without a tainted reputation.
I was not making an argument about the public/private healthcare debate. I am objecting to the assertions 'a consumer that “doesn't self regulate consumption” is not a thing in medicine' and 'People don’t take drugs for fun.'

I was similarly convinced that moral hazard in healthcare was not a problem because consumers don't get more healthcare than they need. I know now that this is not the case.
The quantization approach is basically identical to the 1.58bit LLM paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764

The main addition of the new paper seems to be the implementation of optimized and fused kernels using triton, as seen here:

https://github.com/ridgerchu/matmulfreellm/blob/master/mmfre...

This is quite useful, as this should make training this type of LLMs much more efficient.

So this is a ternary weight LLM using quantization aware training (QAT). The activations are quantized to 8 bits. The matmal is still there, but it is multiplying the 8 bit activations by one bit values.

Quantization aware training with low bit weights seems to lead to reduced overfitting by an intrensic tendency to regularize. However, also the model capacity should be reduced compared to a model with the same number of weights and a higher number of bits per weights. It's quite possible that this only becomes apparent after the models have been trained with a significant number of tokens, as LLMs seem to be quite sparse.

Edit: In addition to the QAT they also changed the model architecture to use a linear transformer to reduce reliance on multiplications in the attention mechanism. Thanks to logicchains for pointing this out.
Generalizations are always only somewhat true.

But what you're probably seeing is a reaction to the end of a period when, assuming at least a pulse and some vague familiarity with computers (and maybe some ability to navigate tech interviews), you could walk out of a job on Friday and have multiple offers within a week.

This was basically never the norm with most professional jobs that could take months of job-hunting with no guarantee of a higher salary or not needing to move. I was very lucky over time and it always depended on professional connections.

A lot of people got accustomed to a period that was nothing like the historical norm. I expect very few of them have taken fast food jobs which absolutely happened in 2001.
Fundamental Questions
As a Norwegian I have bonded with Swedes on several occasions over having the same jokes about each other. Not that the jokes are always geniously funny or anything, but that would be both an unrealistic expectation and completely unnecessary. Some unserious rivalry is fantastic to have among friends.
There's a Hidden Water Cycle in the Amazon We Barely Know Anything About
I have a hard time convincing myself that evading jury trial "because of their technical and often abstract nature" of tech is justice.
There's definitely been a move to demand individuals be good at everything... old stereotypes of the nerd brought a lot of negatives, but they were also apologetic, acknowledging the trade off, that paying attention deeply to one thing does lead to being worse at other things.

The exact stereotype differed by domain... the performer who is a diva, the self destructive author, the manic artist... each with a hint of nobility but also quite off-putting.

The author wanting to combine Weird Nerd with autistic is very incorrect IMHO... I've known a lot of weird nerds, am one myself, and there's lots of different flavors, most of them not autistic.

So much of talent is just really caring about something specific. Caring about it above other things. Specifically above external motivation and incentives. Do that and the weirdness grows naturally, neurodivergence isn't even necessary (though it might help)
The author is missing a crucial pressure that pushes against weird nerds, the people that have to work underneath them. I’ve had to answer to a Weird Nerd when I was starting out in my field, it was the worst fucking experience of my life, and I’ve spent the years since warning people away from that person, their career and their contributions to their field have stagnated due to all the people like me that they burned.
Everyone get your bucket ready, I'm going to throw an anecdote into it.

I play D&D. This exposes me to a wide variety of people, but unsurprisingly, a lot of them are probably what the author would consider Weird Nerds.

Most of them are perfectly pleasant people, and I look forward to spending time in their company, both in the context of playing D&D, and just as a way to socialize. Heck, at my last session, a player proposed doing a regular board game night, and I am very excited to do this with those people.

But. Occasionally, you meet someone who is just fucking unpleasant to be around. Maybe they're on the spectrum (as the author really wants to lump all Weird Nerds on the far end of), maybe they're just poorly socialized, maybe they're just assholes. And unless they're just awful people [more on this later], you learn to put up with their idiosyncracies - because in the end, they're pretty good at playing D&D, and it's fun to slay a dragon or solve the mystery of the mermaid pond, or finally get revenge on your vampire stepfather from hell or whatever. But those people? They're not coming to board game night, and they're not fucking coming to any of my BBQs. They're ok in the context of playing D&D for three hours, but I'm not willing to spend more time with them.

I think that's another reason why some Weird Nerds who are unpleasant to be around have found a safe haven on the internet, as the author puts it: because while they're still unpleasant, you can read their unpleasant words and then walk away for awhile. They're not standing in front of you, demanding your time face to face. If someone is the world's expert on a thing you're collaborating on online, it doesn't matter if you groan every time you have to talk to them, because your time with them is largely limited, and you can walk away at literally any point during the interaction and regain the will to live and spend more time with them.

I'm not sure what my point is. Maybe that it's kind of ok to not want to be around people who are unpleasant to be around, and that despite that, it's also ok for them to still meaningfully participate in the things that matter to them.

[About the awful people in D&D: it's a game, and it's made to be fun. Not every table is made for every player, and vice versa. If you're in a game, and someone is truly ruining the game for the other players by being a generally unpleasant person, I am begging you to just fucking stop playing with them. Life is short, don't surround yourself with assholes. I promise you can find more players. And if you're the one being asked to leave a D&D table because other people find your unpleasant, reflect on your actions. Maybe you're just at a table that's a bad fit for you. Or maybe you're an asshole.]

(If I currently play D&D with you, rest assured that I am not talking about you; all the examples are from past games.)
Multiple models cooperating doesn't sound much better though.

In the end it could be a same model or even a same single instance where it just gets triggered with different prompts in sequence.

Response to first prompt decides 10 new tasks to be done in sequence with different prompts, running them then doing a final prompt with the results of those.
I'd be more amused by this if it didn't have the side effect of some dingdong inserting themselves into a serious discussion of birds with "hurr durr birds aren't real".
The logarithmic part comes from the view point of wealth as a geometric progression. I am not an expert, can you point me to a case where it is not logarithmic?
Like people who say that LLMs can't write code, they just are copying and pasting verbatim code they've seen before (or some people who even seem to believe that it's all Mechanical Turk!).

Meanwhile millions are using it to write code every day; it's literally impossible to believe the above if you've every actually used it rather than just armchair-philosophized about it.
It's probably related to how much or little we read about crime more than any true crime level. If we see 10 news articles everyday about crime, then we think there are a lot of crime around. If we read zero articles about crime, then it barely exists in our perception. What happens in reality does not affect our perception as much, as we probably seldomly see it for ourselves and when we see it, it would be difficult to objectively and statistically judge the crime level's direction with such few data points and biased experiences.

It's similar to Hans Rosling's comments about poverty in the 3rd world. It often sounds like poverty is increasing as time goes by, but if looking at statistics, overall poverty is decreasing and have been doing so for decades.
Yep. Just because you're a Weird Nerd who's good at something, the world doesn't owe you respect and friendship unless you're willing to do the same.
You can visit the Internet Archive in SF. It’s worth it. They use an old church
That's a grossly misleading argument. Chemicals exist in groups. If sufficiently safety information isn't available about a chemical, the safety of its group can be relied upon, and this is sufficient for initial regulation. In contrast, grandfathering is erroneous, dangerous, and heinous. Additionally, safety often is a function of chain length as well. Besides, we have AI and quantum chemistry too to formulate great estimates until perfect information becomes available.

I have heard enough Ayn Rand style nonsense to know that it's nonsense. Her cult members will sell their wife and mother for money for a price, and they cannot be entrusted with environmental safety.
> I still stand by my association of Weird Nerds with autism, but for some reason people really do not like to call Weird Nerds autistic.

I'm sorry, what, even if they're preponderant you can't just call all of them that any more than you can collectively call all basketball players "Marfan Syndrome havers"
What exactly was the issue, and did they burn people on purpose or through some kind of extreme carelessness and indifference?
WebHID allows sending/receiving feature reports via HIDDevice, which is what almost all of these devices use for configuration
Everyone knows that a good reimplementation of CUDA will make them trillions but despite 15 years, no one has made anything even close to it.

There’s profit to be made and no entrants. How can we explain this? If your answer is “AMD et al tried” you aren’t paying attention to just how pathetic and shallow their efforts have been and still are.
Yes. While movies often talk about people "with two PhDs" (and yes, there are a few people who do that for some strange reason), a PhD prepares you to change fields dramatically without any additional formal training. Much of molecular biology in the 1950s was created by physicists who decided to become biologists and who learned genetics and biochemistry and then created a new branch of biology. While not as dramatically, I myself have changed research topics several times since getting my PhD 25 years ago.
I don't believe these changes can drive such an absurd increase in housing costs.
> Does this perform any better than the million bots that are out there exploiting vulnerabilities without AI?

Right now? Probably not. But I wouldn't dismiss it because of it, as the "million bots that are out there" are hand-coded to exploit specific vulnerabilities; GPT-4 has just been fed with half the internet and asked to take a crack at the problem. That's the difference between a special-purpose and general-purpose system. It's not unreasonable to believe LLMs will get better at this, and eventually might be able to identify and exploit novel vulnerabilities on the fly.
> by demographics and macro trends.

fully agree, and also taxation, access to credit and leverage for profitable assets, many legal loopholes..

Pickitty says in-part that rewards are disproportionately moving to capital assets, at the same time devaluing the fundamental components of life and liberty .. food stocks, common labor, political freedoms from taxation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty

Intuition says that increased surveillance by law enforcement to produce convictions that cost money and time are economically crippling to building a middle class from a labor pool and small-holder individuals. A people without hope and progress become mired in common failure and produce a downward spiral of personal life, as described.
Probably not the one you are thinking of, but will mention for amusement...

How about ClearCase / clearmake "winkins":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DevOps_Code_ClearCase
It's getting worse.
Yea ok, this is what u figured. Real small, pretty expensive.

Looks great! I was getting concerned it was like 6 layer and I’m just awful at routing.
Was it primarily the trackpad or was there other considerations as well?

By the way, I gave up completely on Ubuntu. Fedora is the "new Ubuntu" for me. Easy to setup and use.
If you modify the AppConstants file (inside omni.ja) you can install unsigned extensions anyway:

https://gist.github.com/TheBrokenRail/c43bf0f07f4860adac2631...
A small percent of tech workers struggling to get a job doesn’t change the overall picture that most people working in tech are living relatively prosperous and comfortable lives. We are paid at a level that means we don’t feel stressed at the grocery store figuring out how to feed our kids or wonder how will we get to work when our cars break down. And as a bonus, we get to sit comfortably in air-conditioned rooms and spend a good chunk of our day thinking about things we actually take some enjoyment from.

None of this is true for the “underclass” mentioned above who have little to look forward to each day; the labor they provide is in various amounts boring/tedious/demeaning/physical, and doesn’t pay enough to give them the middle class lifestyle they feel entitled to (e.g. home ownership, healthcare, etc).

I and many people I know have gone through job searches over the last 18 months. Yes, it was more work than we’ve come to expect over the last 10 years. But ultimately everyone I know has landed on their feet. As an industry we are still incredibly privileged compared to most.
Have you tried putting a past, now patched, bug through [LLM] on purpose, as a test?
> It's basically a polite mob shakedown. All that the likes of VW have to do is call up Scholz on speed dial and say "Look at all these thousands of workers and voters that depend on us selling more cars. You wouldn't want anything to happen to their jobs and families, would you? Think on how they'd vote if their livelihoods were to be impacted."

This would be a lot more convincing if the companies you refer to were in favor of tariffs on Chinese EVs.
I've witnessed more than a little of this. I worked in a university, in a library (though not as a librarian), and realized that everyone at a certain level or above in administration Came From Money. While "has a house in another country" is not subtle, "father was on an Everest expedition" is. Once I began noticing this soft ceiling I could not help but see it everywhere in the university. Meritoriousness was not on the menu and it took me entirely too long to "get" that I was locked out of promotion and that it was just a way to keep me dancing like a little dog standing up for a treat.

The "bundle of tradeoffs," which is a more humane and human way of thinking, is at odds with the "cog in the machine" approach which began with interchangeable machined parts and progressed on to the human element. Being replaceable then becomes a prized characteristic. Indeed, one of the administrative staff suggested that anyone who seemed like they were too valuable to replace ought to be let go on those grounds alone. It's a recipe for a kind of predictable mediocrity.

Business loves predictable mediocrity, and we see it in various forms of intellectual property. Why sell a copy of Office for unlimited use when you can charge monthly and predict out your next few quarters? Own a movie? No, rent. And as academic institutions continue their transformation into administratively bloated credential assembly lines, we will see more business-y strategies worm their way in.
Reading this as a European (Czechia) feels surreal. Every time a merger or an acquisition takes place, it has to get approved by the anti-monopoly bureau and it’s not uncommon they deny it or request some changes to the ownership structure.
I don't think that's how LLMs train is it? One instance of a bug in an issue tracker shouldn't be enough for the LLM to "remember". For example, if I were to post my password is ($;3+$($7262 there's basically a 0% likelyhood that it will ever infer "bongodongobobs password on hackernews is ($;3+$($7262". It's not a database of bits of knowledge.
> a list of 'compromised Azure tenant IDs' [...] is way more useful than anything source-IP-related...

Where do I get such a thing?

A large portion of my incoming spam seems to be coming from "xxxxx.onmicrososoft.com", which sounds like it might be what you're talking about.
I don't know if it's being done as a joke or what, but this is the exact sort of myopic focus on a single economic variable that is being criticized as failing to capture economic reality.
Thankful for Taleb, never would have know about this king and now I have been so fascinated by his mind lately
This here. We see this cycle quite often. Some economic crisis in a product hits and the price shoots up. Other entrants raise capital for the rather expensive factories required to make the product in its modern form. By the time the factories come on line, the entrenched interests fat with profits plunge prices very low and for some time driving out the new players and then you see prices rise back to higher levels and maintain that price.

It seems to many people don't realize it's not about making and selling the product. It's about the economic/money game. It's not about selling a car, it's about being a bank giving financing. It's not about selling a retail product, it's about credit cards. It's not about refining mined products, it's about controlling the willingness to invest in the sector.
Wages are tough in this segment because many households are dependent on external non-income benefits. Particularly Medicaid and particularly for children.

So if your $16/hr job pops by 30%, the net impact on the household is much lower in many cases. For teen workers, it’s beer money. For single moms, it’s a net loss as costs for daycare and healthcare have increased 50%.

All of this stuff is relative. I’m a tech exec in a large organization, and essentially live the same lifestyle as my parents, who were in “lower end” jobs relatively speaking in the 80s when I was little.
Yeah it was confusing. Idea is to press first and the last number of the equation as far as I have understood. UX is wonky but I love such math challenges so it’s all cool.
I didn't fully understand what the author meant by "Weird Nerd", and this bit was the key for me:

> Weird Nerds (I called them autistics, but people really hated that)

And I totally get why they're trying to come up with a word that markets better, and yes many people react negatively to "autist" or calling someone "on the spectrum".

At the same time, man prominent people are making public their diagnostics and assert being on the autism spectrum, and I wonder if it becomes a disservice to them to not use the term when appropriate, precisely because of how it's perceived now.
You haven't demonstrated most of these assertions. For example, if everyone gambled against everyone else every second, then that system has a pretty good chance of staying close to equilibrium for a long time, whereas your model indicates that the total utility would be depleted almost immediately. Whereas if everyone was fully insured for absolutely every risk in their life and immediately received a replacement of the exact same value on any loss, then the overall system would just steadily trend to all the money ending at the insurer, which doesn't seem like increased total utility
Good read (or in my case listen on Audible) on behavioral economics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misbehaving:_The_Making_of_B...
I did round, but you probably need more than 226. Because 52! does not divide into any power of 2.

Imagine if you had 5 possible hands, and 3 bits of entropy. Some hands are going to be twice as likely than others (pigeon hole principle).

So if you have 4 bits more, the least common hands will be 31/32 as common as the most common hands.
You know that companies will eventually wise up and start taking you to small claims court for trying to do this small time subversiveness. AI will make stuff like this possible, and individualized resistance like this can and will be snuffed out once and for all.