skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silo.ai is mostly a consulting house for various proof-of-concept type of projects with the LLM product being only the recent addition
I don't see how this is "embarrassing" in the slightest. These models are not human brains, and the fact that people equate them with human brains is an embarrassing failure of the humans more than anything about the models.

It's entirely unsurprising that there are numerous cases that these models can't handle that are "obvious to humans." Machine learning has had this property since its invention and it's a classic mistake humans make dealing with these systems.

Humans assume that because a machine learning model has above human accuracy on task X that it implies that it must also have that ability at all the other tasks. While a human with amazing ability at X would indeed have amazing abilities at other tasks, this is not true of machine learning models
The opposite thinking is also wrong, that because the model can't do well on task Y it must be unreliable and it's ability on task X is somehow an illusion and not to be trusted.
I think while the findings are interesting, the title "Vision language models are blind" is hyperbolic and misleading of the findings. It is true that VLMs have a very different way of sensing and working with image inputs and for low resolutions each image is split up into blocks and then mapped into discrete tokens. They actually really dont have access to finegrained details because this mapping is quite lossy. So, in that sense, these results completely make sense and were not surprising to me but "blind" is a strong implication and the work isnt really able to back that.

Take the first example of the four 2D line plots for instance. I asked Sonnet 3.5 for an answer and retried it 5 times and 2 out of 5 times, it said something like this:

Me:

here's an image with four 2-D line plots. Can you tell me A) how many lines are in each plot? and B) how many times do they intersect each other in each plot?

Write your answers as:
Plot 1 (leftmost): ...

Sonnet:

I'll analyze each plot from left to right and provide the requested information:

Plot 1 (leftmost):
A) 2 lines (one red, one blue)
B) 0 intersections (the lines do not cross)

Plot 2:
A) 2 lines (one red, one blue)
B) 1 intersection (the lines cross once near the right edge)

Plot 3:
A) 2 lines (one red, one blue)
B) 1 intersection (the lines cross once near the center)

Plot 4 (rightmost):
A) 2 lines (one red, one blue)
B) 2 intersections (the lines cross twice, once near the left side and once near the right side)

Each plot consistently shows two lines, one red and one blue, with varying intersection patterns across the four plots.

---

Which isn't completely correct (the 3rd plot has 2 intersections) but still pretty good and the other 3 times, it said plot 3 has 1 intersection.
Just going to note that all of that was one person's salary. I question why a smaller non-profit based in Tennessee would need to pay their CEO almost 300k. Senior researchers where I work make half that while managing grant projects with twice the funding.
They should have bought tiny for 600 million ;)
> Never against 8x H100 NVL (188GB, <800W)

Probably because they aren't widely available yet. It is also a dual card to get that much memory, which is still less than 192GB and far less than 288GB.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18780/nvidia-announces-h100-n...

> What the customer does not see is how AMD must spend 8-10 times more money to produce a chip that is competitive against architecture that is soon 2 years old.

Source?
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People like to think programming is a purely luxury job, and in some ways it is, but not compared to something where you often have more agency in the direction of a product. Programmers at lower levels probably take more bullshit and have less influence than anything with a title that conveys a higher level of abstract problem solving.

Being a freelance website designer likely pays less but is more rewarding as a practice than being a random cog
Well every time I see a locked door I def _think_ about what it would take to bypass it. Especially those business office glass double-doors with motion detection and a hand-lock on the bottom.
"A more secure alternative" means practically nothing. The current title ("Google questions Microsoft ability to secure cloud in promotional whitepaper") is an accurate description of the content. I read it with interest; I wouldn't have if I saw just the title of the paper.
FF: event is undefined

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The seal did not "perform exactly as it was designed to."

The seal leaked during initial static pressure testing, it leaked during test-firings, etc. Engineers and management at both Thiokol and NASA knew about this. NASA engineers repeatedly objected to the Thiokol design (both original and modified) for different reasons, talked to the o-ring supplier who stated that the design was using o-rings in a way never used before, etc.

The author of the blog post is wildly wrong, but so are a lot of comments.

Everyone, PLEASE read the Rogers Commission report. It spells out the extensive problems with the design/manufacture, and at both Thiokol and NASA.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v1ch6.htm

Edit: I can't post a response because my account has a posting limit, but "the o-rings were not defective" is...misleading.

The o-rings were constructed as an assembly that used multiple lengths of o-ring material glued together, instead of the entire o-ring being molded at once, which is what had been done on prior rockets. Up to five joints were allowed. No inspection of the glued joints was performed other than a surface inspection.

Second edit: no, the problem is not that the "selection team did not account for atmospheric pressure." The joints between sections mechanically did not hold together correctly. NASA engineers predicted this when examining the revised design during the earliest phases, although the assembly was found to act in a way different than how they had predicted, but still caused the seals to leak. Everyone knew the seals leaked, before the first shuttle headed to the launch pad.

Third edit: the blog is "wildly wrong" because it claims NASA supplied or modified the revised seal design and outright declares them incompetent government bureaucrats who didn't know how solid rocket motors worked. In fact, both designs came from Thiokol in entirety - and NASA engineers basically said in reports something to the effect of "the government (ie NASA and the military) has never seen a solid rocket motor sealed like this".

When NASA engineers approached the o-ring manufacturing company, the company said they'd never seen a design like it and felt that it was 'not being used like an o-ring' or something to that effect.

From the very beginning NASA engineers were screaming their heads off that the design was shit. Testing validated their concerns. Upper management at both Thiokol and NASA didn't care.
They are uncapped as far as I could find, but I didn’t read the fine print or anything.

On the 4 or so companies I checked, most were metered as you said but also clearly designed for personal vessels. They were also expensive as you said; I think the cheapest I saw was ~$1500/month for 5GB, and $0.39/MB for overages.

I am in no way an expert, this is just based off like 4 links. Someone said Inmarsat had more commercial-vessel sized plans so I checked them out, and they do seem way cheaper if you’re planning to use the link a lot.
Maybe that's that Hans Reiser thought, but an amicable divorce also has its advantages.
employee loyalty is a good thing if it's bought and not expected
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> What makes people so bad at swimming? Our big heads?

I never learned and never found the time to. But I'm pretty good at video games :)
It would be interesting to hear Microsoft's response to these accusations.
This for me too. We've developed the best community over 10 years with the most random and interesting and diverse group of people. We don't have "that one thing" that is the reason we're all together, other than we're believers that live near enough to overlap our lives. Because of that, it creates all the other stuff like, hikes, soccer, movie nights, game nights, picnics, coffee/lunch/dinner, camping, babysitting and housesitting, etc.
Where to get a prepaid virtual server or Kubernetes for minimum 10 years?
So I have few very small internet services which I want to host on a small vps or in containers. I believe they will work as expected for ten years as they are very simple and I would not need to update them or the operating system. If run in Kubernetes, even better - no need to worry about the operating system at all.

But I want to pay for the hosting once, start the services and forget about maintaining them for ten years minimum.

Are there hosters who allow to prepay for ten years and seem stable enough to believe they will be still existing in ten years?
There's no certification for heat per se; it's more that there's just a point where the aircraft can't take off safely from a given runway. Increased air temperature means increased takeoff distances for a given weight.

These are set by the manufacturer, and can be revisited as appropriate.
Smells fishy anti trust
Walmart opens automated warehouses where robotics fetch items and stack pallets
> we should make sure that they are not sociopaths and have empathy and compassion for other beings (the cops, not the surgeons)

Exactly. And to be clear. I wasn't suggesting that cops go through the equivalent of 10 years of college + medical school. But now they get, what, 2-4 months training, in some cases just straight out of high school? But even more important is the screening -- and that's a lot of what those years of the medical school process does.
Yeah I think their findings are def interesting but the title and the strong claims are a tad hyperbolic.
A somewhat intuitive reason for -1/12
Check out Justine Tunney and her emulator. https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/

The docs are an amazing tour of how the cpu works.
You're right, I corrected the date while I was drafting it and I only changed the date, not the range (note I said "4 years", challenger was in 1986).

I will update.
That's a perfectly valid position to have IMO. Same reason I post only parts of my config publicly, the rest is hidden in a flake hosted on a private forge.
They were based in Tennessee when she made $280k. When they were based in the bay area, she made just shy of $370k.
To write this whole article and not even mention circular production practices (eg full lifestyle resource management) and our resource constrained planetary context seems arrogant and stupid and undermines any heady excitement for this “progression”. What a junk article.
Positives are diminished when the paths you wanted to pursue are closed off. Things that look like privilege when you don't have it can be a prison when you're stuck in its boundaries.
Yes.

Last week I wanted to interface with a bluetooth device in Python on a Mac.

I asked ChatGPT for a solution - it told me about a Python-ObjectiveC bridge to the MacOS Bluetooth API. It coded a stub to search for the device, connect to it, query for services, and write data to a specific service.

I've never used bluetooth before. I have minimal experience with Python. With ChatGPT this entire prototype took about 10 minutes to implement.
> The Greeks were ideologically opposed to the number zero.

I don't think this claim is supportable, certainly not as such a broad generalization. Do you have a specific statement clearly attributable to an ancient Greek author to that effect?

> Greeks saw geometry and math as interchangeable

You're going to have to define these terms more explicitly. I don't think this statement is right. Ancient Greeks spent quite a lot of effort studying areas of what we now call mathematics but which were not geometrical per se.

> Greeks weren’t gonna give up their belief in Geometry because it provided them with social and political power

Any claim that geometers in general had social or political power owing to their mathematical work seems exaggerated. While a couple of geometers happened to incidentally also be local political leaders (e.g. Eudoxus), geometers explicitly lamented how little their contemporaries cared about their work and how few colleagues they could find to share it with.

> Aristotle outright refuses to acknowledge the existence of zero and of infinity.

This seems like a reductive summary. Aristotle had a pretty sophisticated idea about this which finds echoes in modern mathematics: here is Aristotle:

> Now there is no ratio in which the void is exceeded by body, as there is no ratio of 0 (οὐδέν) to a number. For if 4 exceeds 3 by 1, and 2 by more than 1, and 1 by still more than it exceeds 2, still there is no ratio by which it exceeds 0; for that which exceeds must be divisible into the excess + that which is exceeded, so that 4 will be what it exceeds 0 by + 0. For this reason, too, a line does not exceed a point-unless it is composed of points!

Alternate translation:

> But the nonexistent substantiality of vacuity cannot bear any ratio whatever to the substantiality of any material substance, any more than zero can bear a ratio to a number. For if we divide a constant quantity c (that which exceeds) into two variable parts, a (the excess) and b (the exceeded), then, as a increases, b will decrease and the ratio a :b will increase; but when the whole of c is in section a there will be none of c for section b; and it is absurd to speak of 'none of c' as 'a part of c.' So the ratio a: b will cease to exist, because b has ceased to exist and only a is left, and there is no proportion between something and nothing. (And in the same way there is no such thing as the proportion between a line and a point, because, since a point is no part of a line, taking a point is not taking any of the line.)"

Later, about motion in a vacuum:

> But if a thing moves through the thickest medium such and such a distance in such and such a time, it moves through the void with a speed beyond any ratio.

(The physical premise here is wrong, but the concept of division by zero is clear.)

See https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2304187.pdf

Aside: anyone telling you what Pythagoras thought about numbers is pulling your leg. We have no idea about this whatsoever, only what various people claimed like 5+ centuries later, most of which is nonsense.
Don't forget having to spend $X000 for the privilege of being allowed to read the standards you're required to follow, and needing a consultant to tell you which standards you have to follow in the first place.
That would require a for-profit corporate entity to be motivated by public safety. I can suspend my disbelief to some degree, but that's too far.
>>Note that this was a very opinionated post.

Bonus points for calling it out as opinion, instead of treating it as the 'one true way' :-)

P.S. I still like OOP well enough, and I love formal interface support like Go/Rust use. (Just IMHO)
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The number of tokens per image are actually fairly small, ranging from 85 to ~500.
It was researched, but deemed uneconomical.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/mpam1a/why_no...

It still may very well be. As far as we know SpaceX is burning money not earning it.

Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 are very nice rockets. If you go by data provided by SpaceX cheaper than competition.
It is embarrassingly, shockingly bad, because these models are advertised and sold as being capable of understanding images.

Evidently, all these models still fall short.
That's what happens when your group of nations freeloads on a superpower for their defense.
> Not FOSS

> Only Apple ecosystem

> Paid tier for local service

:| Seriously?
Idempotent, deterministic builds are an argument in favor of synthetic virtual machines. Synthetic VMs like the JVM or CLR should, at least insofar as they don't contain native code, execute in a manner largely isolated from the vagaries of minor hardware/OS differences. Not an expert, but native VMs do not and cannot isolate processes from hardware details (e.g. Xen, Virtual Box), or from OS details (e.g. Docker, containerd).
The historical association with racism and redlining was one of the justifications for killing planned pool updates and construction in Seattle. As such Seattle has very limited public pool capacity and access.
I can swim (to the nearest shore), but “getting over that fear” sounds absurd to me. You’re one breath, one cramp, one fishing net away from slow spasmatic death and you should ignore that for some reason. Yeah, sure. The explanation is easy, you stop moving correctly, you die. That is stressful. Swimming is free soloing in water, a somehow normalized dangerous activity. My words would sound funny if most of us didn’t know someone who drowned or almost drowned.
And then to think that's just the Northeast corner of Houston that didn't quite take the full blast of the storm. The South and Southwest are likely worse, we just don't have accurate public maps of the outage.

So that 480 miles or so is probably less than a fifth of the total repairs needed.
But isn’t that the same as memorising it and rewriting the implementation from memory? I’m sure “it wasn’t an exact reproduction” is not much of a defence.
What a cool person. I really enjoy writing assembly, it feels so simple and I really enjoy the vertical aesthetic quality.

The closest I've ever come to something like OP (which is to say, not close at all) was when I was trying to help my JS friend understand the stack, and we ended up writing a mini vm with its own little ISA: https://gist.github.com/darighost/2d880fe27510e0c90f75680bfe...

This could have gone much deeper - i'd have enjoyed that, but doing so would have detracted from the original educational goal lol. I should contact that friend and see if he still wants to study with me. it's hard since he's making so much money doing fancy web dev, he has no time to go deep into stuff. whereas my unemployed ass is basically an infinite ocean of time and energy.
No killer features, just nice ergonomics and speed out of the box. I use it as my Vim replacement.
Ok now ask ChatGPT to produce a git patch file for your production repo and see how far that gets you. Not far.
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> I have never heard anyone contest the 'Lisp Curse' claim

You could have asked in the community for opinions.

> This is because Lisp makes it very easy to write your own libraries from scratch;

That's not generally true. Some libraries are maintained for decades, since it would be difficult to reproduce them.

The reasons for writing new libraries, instead of an existing one are more like:

* disagreement with coding styles

* very different underlying platform

* need for a different license

* lack of maintainers for code written decades ago

> people who use Lisp tend to do that instead of reusing third-party dependencies.

I don't think that's the case. There are widely used libraries for a bunch of things and having a stable and standardized language makes it actually easier to write platform independent code and enables code sharing.

There are reasons why people write their own libraries, often because existing libraries were written for different platforms (especially the operating system).

In the free software area of Common Lisp, a system like SBCL is popular because of the network effect in a small niche of Lisp programs. Libraries tend to be better supported in SBCL -> more use for SBCL.
> There aren't as many shootings as the media would have you believe

Regardless of the media (and I agree TV news amplify all this stuff which is why we don't even have TV in our house), the statistics (not generated by the media) show much, much higher rates of homocide, both by individuals and police officers, in the US than any other industrialized country.

Regardless of you how you personally feel, the US is inherently statistically unsafe compared to other industrialized nations, especially wealthier ones like Japan, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, etc.
Have been working the last 2 days (and nights) on this.
It was a headache and it still doesn't feel like I implemented transitive dependencies correctly, but give 1JPM 1.0.3 a try.
Thanks for the insightful comment/context.

I honestly think at this point, Climate Change as a whole is being used as a club to try and force the poor / proletariat class to behave a certain way, while giving the billionaires / 1% (or 0.1%) class carte blanche to do whatever they want, perhaps with a carbon tax on top.

I want to see the natural environment thrive, and health for humanity as a whole. Rather than fighting the nebulous 'climate change', we should be going directly to the source and ensuring environmental pollution / hazards are properly managed directly. Instead we are playing these weird abstraction games, where we are allegedly fighting an invisible enemy.

Whatever politician pulls away from the 'climate change' / 'carbon tax' narrative, and actually provides tangible solutions to the environmental / poulltion crisis has my vote at this point...

I don't need billionaires flying from city to city discussing how best to manage cow farts and reduce meat consumption. I need tangible changes to how meat itself is produced (reducing the cruelty, and improving the environment in turn) and factories prevented from dumping forever chemicals in our water, food, etc.

I'm not going down the 'climate change' is or isn't real rabbit hole - I am just so effing sick of it being the only target that matters. If industry is the problem, lets fix the industry. If agriculture is the problem (big ag anyway), lets fix the problem.

Instead we are expected to throw the baby out with the bathwater and just pledge allegience to the climate change cult.

Clear air, clean water, healthy food etc. can be strived for without all the theatrics and doomsday scenarios -- and you don't have to try so hard to 'convert' people to your cause. Just ask people: Do you want 'forever chemicals' in your drinking water? Me neither. Let's fix that. Do you want pollution spewing directly into your breathing space? Me neither. Let's fix that.

I know that gets a bit hard when you are looking at global trade - but I still think this outlook can be used to address the issue globally.

Instead of common sense individual measures, we are left where its this game of 'all or nothing' and if you aren't on the side of 'nothing' you are the carbon that needs to be reduced.

Super frustrating.
Its killer feature seems to be speed. Otherwise I dont see much of a reason to use it over VS Code.
I'm mad at people that don't hawk TUAW.
> "- Speedruns, Let's Play videos, and streams (very often taken down)"

Very often taken down, only by nintendo.
> "Since from the time of Newton to now, we have come close to doubling knowledge every 17 years, more or less. [...] In the next 340 years at that rate, there will be 20 doublings, i.e. a million, and there will be a million fields of specialty for every one field now. It isn't going to happen. The present growth of knowledge will choke itself off until we get different tools."

Well ... here they are.-
Makes sense as opposed to "abstract." With the constant encoding and decoding that has to be done when things are going in an out of processors and storage (or sensors), digital processes are always in some sense simulations.
HEH. Your point is that ChatGPT is useless because it doesn't (yet) do everything?

FYI - it can't turn lead to gold either.
Forgot to mention, its the "resolveDependencies" task.