skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most resourceful hackers live somewhere cheaper. College towns, small cities, that sorta thing. The Bay Area is filled with a lot of ambition and money, which is good news if you're looking to pitch a business to investors.
By your definition then nothing would be "plays anywhere". H.264 is about the closest you can get. And depending on Profiles it is about to become patent free where license will no longer be required.
> allied males will coordinate their behavior to consort individual females

Yeah there are different ways to phrase this which might be more appropriate considering the behavior and likely intelligence of dolphins.

Apparently a lot of marine biologists really hate dolphins.
It seems this is a study about randomized controlled trials, not about parachutes :)
On irc
In every big town and most small towns. But online. Hackers don't hang out IRL.
I'm not sure, but I'm also not sure there's a guarantee that my self-hosted password vault won't die in the middle of a busy day.
> [E]ven a genuinely (with perfect play) losing position can win if it sharp enough and causes your opponent to make a mistake!

Chess engines typically assume that the opponent plays to the best of their abilities, don't they?
I've had pretty good success with BM25 + stemming, or even easier, BM25 with trigram tokenization. If the index isn't too big, the whole search can be done client-side and is lightning fast.
I jumped (not from a plane, from the ground) and landed wrong, and my knee has been hurting for like 4 years. This story gives me inspiration to get back to training, if you can recover from a failed parachute in 2 years, it should not take 5 years to recover from slipping.
“Excellent query good sir! <said slowly enough to let the LLM catch up>…”

And more seriously, it seems like the LLM could be used to precreate lots of filler prefixes that correspond to the rag’d document that are being sent to the model.

While it wouldn’t work if you’re GPU’d bound, multiple prompts could be run in parallel with different pieces of context and then have the model chose the most appropriate response (which could be done in parallel too).
They’re already filled with foreign spies, so we may as well have our own in there too…
You are right. Goldmont Plus isn't really interesting as a product. Even its power efficiency wasn't that good at the time, you were better off with a two core ULV Skylake part.

And so you only really found it in really cheap use cases, and almost everyone ignored it.

But in the context of Gracemont and Crestmont (which are very interesting products, and a massive departure from intel's traditional uArch), Goldmont plus' uArch becomes very interesting, because it's forgotten a stepping stone along the way.

For example, Goldmont Plus has a massive pre decode cache, which kind of makes sense given Intel's plans to add twin decoder clusters to Tremont (and later triple decode clusters to Skymont). Except, Tremont deleted it, I guess that means the idea didn't work out... Again, because this is far from the first time that someone experimented with pre decoding x86.
Are you joking? Conclusion from the article: "Conclusions Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice."

For emphasis: "... the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps."

Okay, parachutes don't help when jumping from stationary aircraft that are on the ground. I will not leap to the conclusion that parachutes do not help with high altitude jumps.
Very weird to say something like that. Mine, and all the others who I know who have them, are being used for serious compute.
Symbolic (monochrome) icons are a crime against human-readability. A dozen slightly-different-shaped rectangles/circles in a row are indistinguishable from each other. The color channel is useful information!
GPU video encoding is pretty much always optimised for real-time encoding, meaning that it can't run certain optimisations as it would increase the time to encode.

Compare x264 veryfast and veryslow presets. There is a quality difference at the same bitrate.

Additionally, GPU encoders don't have as many psychovisual options as CPU encoders as they would need to be included in the hardware and adding extra options to CPU encoders is much faster, easier and cheaper.

You could build a non-realtime GPU encoder, but there is not much point.
Earthquakes short-term prediction within days or weeks (not forecasting years prior to the event) is a taboo subject for many geologists mainly US based experts (I am looking at you USGS) [1].

We have performed data analytics based on publicly available seismic data that confirmed there are indeed reliable short-term precursor (minor earthquakes around 3 Mw) in all the latest major earthquakes (more than 7 Mw) within one month prior to the event. The seismic data that we analyzed latest major earthquakes from five countries including Turkey (the same latest major earthquakes this paper is reporting), New Zealand, Japan (2024), Indonesia and Philippines. However all prominent relevant journals for seismology/earth/geology/etc, and general journals for examples Nature (main journal and its sub journal Nature Communications) and Science (main journal and its sub journal Scientific Reports) were rejecting the reporting paper before it's even reviewed by the proper reviewers, and rejected by the editors. Heck, even arXiv.org rejected the paper and it's suppose to be pre-print archive not a proper journal.

Enough ranting, my point is that based on our analysis they are really precursors for major earthquakes, and we should be monitoring these properly. In fact in the first 100 days of this year 2024, earth have experienced devastating 3 major quakes of more than 7 Mw in Japan, China and Taiwan, the most frequent in world's recorded history within the short period. The so called seismic/geology/earthquake experts, however, seems to have their mind closed that they are treating earthquakes prediction like the investment or lottery prediction (snake oils).

[1] Can you predict earthquakes?

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-you-predict-earthquakes
Where at online?
Solid "you had me in the first half" energy. I was seriously raising my eyebrow until I got to the bit about parachute-less participants jumping from a half meter altitude. Well done.
That's why byte strings exist. You don't know the encoding? Well, it's a binary chunk and nothing else.
The current hype phase is straight out of “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

Science is out the window. Groupthink and salesmanship are running the show right now. There would be a real irony to it if we find out the whole AI industry drilled itself into a local minimum.
Any specific places you could point me to? :)
That is to be expected. GPT4o outperforms GPT4 on all vision tasks that I have thrown at it so far.
It lacks GPT4s reasoning capabilities though.
Slightly related

What's this community's take on Triton? https://openai.com/index/triton/

Are there better alternatives?
Yeah, yeah, did you read the article or are just grasping at straws from the quotes I made?
I'd like to think I resemble this remark, hanging out in MS for family and low cost of living.
The bulk pack of medical care you’ll need soon might kill the savings.
They were based on mountains of data, collected methodically over a number of years to make an ironclad case for reform. That’s good law making! I support this!

However, data from 1910 is accurate for 1910, not for 2024. If children are dying en masse in workplaces today, it ought not be difficult to collate the data required to tighten the laws further. And yet, all I’ve seen is assertions, vibes, and vague conspiracy theories.

Policy making is a balancing act; we calibrate laws for the circumstances as they develop. The only way to do this intelligently, or even competently, is on the basis of evidence.
For me, it was the cuts between each call haha
I wouldn’t read too much into stockfish beating Leela Chess Zero. My calculator beats GPT-4 in matrix multiplication, doesn’t mean we need to do what my calculator does in GPT-4 to make it smarter. Stockfish evaluates 70 million moves per second (or something in that ballpark). Chess is not such a complicated game that you aren’t guaranteed to find the best move when you evaluate 70 million moves. It’s why when there was an argument whether alpha zero really beat stockfish convincingly in Google’s PR Stunt, a notable chess master quipped “Even god would not be able to beat stockfish this frequently.” , similarly god with all this magical powers would not beat my calculator at multiplication. It says more about the task than about the nature of intelligence.
Cringe conversation. Why can't AIs just do stuff that you ask them to do without pretending to be human?
Ask HN: Have we proven the infinite monkey theorem?
I have just realised, LLMs have proven the infinite monkey theorem.
Instead of monkeys, we have weights. Billions of them. Banging randomly and voila, we magically have Shakespeare :)
I wonder if they plan to also build all the infrastructure required to support all these new people living in these new housing. Like expanded electric service, water & sewer, trash pickup, transportation, schools, another fire station. Or are taxpayers going to have to pick up that bill? Build build build is great, we need more housing, but you can't do it without also planning for all the supporting infrastructure.
Just a note that this link is not by a Freenet developer.
I wonder what was the medical bill.
>why does GPU encoding affect the output quality

Every single encoder, regardless or hardware or software will output different output quality. Video Encoding is a lossy encoding, not lossless like ZIP or RAR. That is the same with Audio that is why people test different audio encoder. It seems more people knows this about Audio than Video. At least on HN.

GPU encoding quality has always been lower quality than Software. Primary because they trade off quality for speed. It is good enough once you hit certain bitrate, but at low bitrate where absolutely encoding efficiency is required Hardware Encoding just dont compare to software. Even with Software you could have multiple encoder with different results. It is not like H.266 / HEVC only has x266 as encoder, example Netflix uses BEAMR. And Broadcasting TV station uses other encoder that better suits their needs.

And it is one reason why I dislike all these AV1 discussion, whenever people said it is slow they said use SVT-AV1, well yes SVT-AV1 is faster but dont produce the best AV1 quality encode. So what is the point. It is like every time these discussions about AV1 AOM supporters will just move the goal post.
With an amazing offering of mandatory services, like Fetch.
In Singapore, post/ZIP codes refer to a specific address, building, or block. While letters will still have a full name + address, it seems to mostly be there for error correction and to specify unit numbers.
The walls I said they don't need to bring down? Yes, I am familiar. I don't know what point you are trying to make.
Excellent article. I'd love to watch a documentary on him
I don’t think that you are wrong but what do you mean by language that can’t covered by p(y|x)?
Nothing bulk gummy multivitamins and semaglutide can't solve.

Costco even sells an MCT supplement that doubles as the best massage oil and lube I’ve ever used.
Product filtering: Low number of SKUs of high confidence. I can basically blindly pick up anything at a Costco and be assured of a certain basic quality. It's the opposite of a place like Amazon.

Customer filtering: The subscription model creates a high trust customer base with way lower chances of shoplifting, fraudulent returns and the like.
I wasn't referring to the Adderall shortages specifically, but rather the general state of the medical system these days. Offices filled with people sitting around with lists of reasons of why they can't actually do anything except put in a request for someone else to call you back eventually and/or give you a mimeographed list of referrals for you to call (who are all booking out months in advance, if they're not out of business or even deceased [0]). Or you can try going to this special urgent care in another city, and make sure you get there in line an hour before they open otherwise they won't see you before they close at the end of the day. I'd imagine this is essentially how living in the Soviet Union must have been.

So I'll cheer on anything that attempts to break this symbiotic deadlock created by "providers", "insurers", and regulatory capture. And it's much nicer when that can happen within some of our existing regulations for things like product safety, rather than having to go completely out on a limb to grey-market foreign pharmacies.

[0] wish this were hyperbole! alright the "mimeographed" part was, but with the quality of the photocopy it might as well have been in purple.
This gotcha question already has an answer, funnily enough:

https://x.com/CohenSite/status/1800905974490005978

> Because it got over 400,000 people to read a tweet about somewhat esoteric housing regulations
Maybe I should include a warning that it is pretty slow.

I'm using my own SHA256 implementation in C++, and it is at least 100 times faster than the JS one. I've measured it to be about as fast as the one on the Go standard library.
No. No new locations added in POSIX.1-2024.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

POSIX omits from standardisation what is not necessary for an application to work, so that a wide range of systems can be supported. As for Shebang, it can be rewritten in the installation script and is therefore considered an area of system administration.
Most hardware has safety measures built in to make sure you can't, but Apple hardware doesn't: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109917995005981968
>HEVC Advance and Velos Media even want content distribution licensing fees.

That is not correct. Unless you meant they once "suggested" to ask for content distribution licensing.
I believe it is a real, satirical study that was performed to address a real, serious issue with the way some studies are performed.

My understanding of the target of the satire is studies that compare a treatment to a placebo only in "low risk" populations, and then find that they're is no significant difference between the treatment and the placebo.
The lie group/lie algebra correspondence is one of the coolest things i wish i’d been taught in school. It’s the exponential and log map in the article, but in a super reusable setting.

You take some totally abstract thing you want to work with[0], say 3D rotations, but totally avoiding any details of specific coordinates that might get you into trouble. That’s the lie group.

Then you can derive representations of it in coordinates that behave nicely. This is called the corresponding lie algebra. Then for free you get a way to go back and forth between the coordinates and the abstract thing[1], and ways to compose them and stuff. Turns out that this is the exponential map and the log map talked about in the article. What’s even cooler is that you can then compose them on either side, the abstract side or the coordinate side in a way that plays nicely. You get interpolation and averaging and all that in a fairly sensible way too in most cases you’ll deal with as an engineer. And best of all, when you can phrase your problem as a combination of lie groups, you can just google for what their algebras are and get lots of work for free that would be tons of time to do yourself.

[0] the thing has to be something with a notion of smooth change, plus a bit more structure it probably has.

[1] going back and forth has some ‘connected components’ issues sometimes, but that’s just another reason it’s great to piggyback on known results.
I'm curious, cause I have two young kids (< 3yo) , and the first is exceptionally smart (in our completely unbiased and nuanced opinion).

When did you get the remote/ allow them to watch YouTube, in this example? Could it be related to how long they're been able to use it relative to their age? (IE: remote is relatively new to the older, but 90% of life of the younger).

I have a hard time thinking that kids are just naturally "not clever" - I think any kid can be extremely clever if given the chance to explore and play and grow.

(Parents to parents talk is always laden with judgement, so in not doing that. I'm just curious and seeking info for what I think about for my kids. I hope you don't feel like I'm judging you or anything. )
I wasn't thinking of HAL (which was operating according to its directives). I was extrapolating on how occasional hallucinations during self-training may impact future model behavior, and I think it would be psychotic (in the clinical sense) while being consistent with layers of broken training).
Outsider speculation, but I’d guess ROI and compute/infra limitations play a big factor here. LLMs have well understood limitations simply because of their internal machinery - they’re probabilistic, can’t dynamically learn (arguable), stateless. Every major AI lab is working on new techniques to address some of these limitations.

If we just decided to charge ahead and keep upping the parameter counts of these models by orders of magnitude, we’d probably see big improvements in the quality of the models, but is it worth it? Inferencing even at current model sizes is already notoriously expensive, and training is also both expensive, resource constrained (see OpenAI recently signing the deal with Oracle for more DCs) and technically difficult because you’re now doing training across entire data centres.

It seems reasonable for these labs to be focusing on fundamental improvements and research, while making incremental improvements to existing models at least until the compute catches up and it becomes economically feasible to just jam up parameter counts again.
In my limited experience, it makes the hard cases harder. I had a project where I needed to do some weird linker things and ended up moving to C++ because Cargo couldn't handle it.
And example of bloat from the memo:

> The news reader "xrn",
starts out small, but leaks memory so badly that within a week or so it grows to 9 or 10 megabytes, along with plenty of other large programs.

Amazing that 10MB is tiny by today's standards and that was reached only through a memory leak!
Hi. How do you know this site?
Hi. I found this site today.
This is the most private baddest secret information forum.
How do you find or know this secret website?
And delightful satire at that.
Sure but things could be done to ameliorate the situation.

This is just spitballing but you could have opt-in and opt-out lists whereby if a certain threshold opt something out then it becomes opt-out by default thereby requiring some type of agency to be exercised for more controversial material.

You could also store things using some distributed encryption whereby multiple parties have to be online for the content to reassemble in the clear and only on the viewers machine.

You could add append style annotations so lies and misinformation at least has the opportunity of being challenged

You could have a more general region specific illegal content opt in for each node that has to be explicitly reaffirmed by the user, say every 30 days.

I'm not saying ban illegal content in the same way that the existence of stabbings doesn't mean you should ban knives, just make sure innocent people don't get flagged for it.
probably pretty good, but I wouldn't attempt it on saturday afternoon.
Also, it's not really compression because "10 tosses, all heads" is more characters.
No, this is about what Snowden thinks the consequences of this appointment will be. At least, that’s the charitable reading of the tweet. Really this is just fear-mongering hyperbole.
All good. I'm allergic to virtually everything haha.
It's correct. It's category 4: https://accessadvance.com/topic-what-do-we-license/
These lawsuits may win over a jury but I have trouble believing the claims, as they often make arguments based on ideas like having similar experience or similar education, or similar work as some other person they’re comparing to. But anyone who has been a manager knows that performance can vary significantly between individual employees in skilled jobs, and someone that seems to do similar kinds of work may have very different impact.

The claim that they were hired at a lower pay that never got changed to match the same track as higher pay employees is also just an issue that affects everyone. It even has a name - salary inversion.
My boil the ocean dream revolves around the idea that addresses are inherently hierarchical but we present them in this screwball mixed format.

the address should be(I will admit your address mixes a few level so my example may be incorrect)

/USA/98158/WA/SeaTac/Departures Road/bay 20/SEA Seattle International Airport

I always store a description with each one.

/country/zip code/city/street/bay/address

Or you could go full ldap

/country=USA/zip=98158/state=WA/city=SeaTac/street=Departures Road/bay=20/address=SEA Seattle International Airport

but I hate the way that looks.

And actually on topic, in many Utah cities the street address are sort of like that 500 south, 3000 west, etc. their reference point is the center of the known universe... the morman tabernacle naturally.
You make a good point. There is a finite number of LLMs, which is the same thing as an infinite number of LLMs so therefore yes
Then how is it different from Excel/Word and shell/python scripts?
Stories of people surviving falls from planes 'without a parachute' are inevitably somewhat exaggerated- they survived a fall with a partially functional parachute. Her injuries were horrific and it's incredible that she and the baby survived, but with no parachute at all at terminal velocity (at least 120mph) there would have been few pieces of her left large enough to scrape up.
but it's vulnerable to patents filed by criminals as late as 02018

Ah, if we get through year 2038 we get latent free AV1!
Actual article link that isn't within msn.com:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-plan-colonize-spa...
Engineering for failure management, for consistent performance of complex collaborative operations, through team organization, culture, and practices, is... nifty. Aviation, industrial engineering, medicine. An excellent obstetrics team can be breathtaking performance art. An antithesis of Dilbert organizational dysfunction. But wow is the transformation hard - a multi-decade, multi-generational slog. And many industries and professions are still in denial - "we don't have a problem, and anyway, we can't fix it". Decades of work ahead for them. For us.
One of his songs was featured in the first season of Fargo, which has throughout its run distinguished itself with its off-kilter needle drops.

I had no idea he wrote Nature Boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sMqgetHxww
I too am in a Costco household, one of my friends is a long time employee there and loves it, and I would like to visit a Costco apartment open house, and the satire that this proposal (a big box store getting into residential housing) reminds me of is Sorry to Bother You's WorryFree:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/worryfree-seymour