skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird to say that reddit "works" with google. Every page they serve to google is stuffed full of hidden unrelated content, so any reddit result in google is unlikely to actually contain what you were searching for.

Google really should blacklist reddit entirely for this practice, but sadly as bad as reddit is it's still a much higher quality result than average for google.
Not using the website also helps
The webpage that calculator is on is maintained by a nuclear industry market research company, UxC. UxC does not itself run enrichment facilities, but Urenco does, and here's a calculator provided by them [1]. The output of the calculator is separation work units (SWU), the standard unit used in the industry. The two calculators produce exactly the same result.

Urenco is a company that specializes in uranium enrichment. It is owned by the UK government (1/3), the Dutch government (1/3) and 2 German energy companies. They will not sell you weapons grade uranium, and if you don't have a legitimate reason, they will not sell you anything.

But if the UK or the US government asks them for weapons grade uranium for the purpose of making nuclear bombs, I imagine that they would be willing to provide.

As for Iran, they needed to build from scratch the many thousands of centrifuges, and they don't have any paying customer that could help recoup some of the cost. Plus, for a long time they needed to do the enrichment in a covert way, to hide it from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. Once they were caught enriching, they first got hit by Stuxnet then they got sanctioned. Then they did a deal with the US and some European countries, where they promised to stop the enrichment, which they did. They restarted when Trump withdrew from the deal, and now they have enough enriched uranium to make several bombs if they want.

[1] https://www.urenco.com/swu-calculator
You lost me when you said their processes for books was "fine" -It may be good in some ways, but my experience of how they wrap it for consumer use is a giant mass of anti-patterns.

Charles Dickens should be the top match on the actual author, or at the very least biographies. But no. Amazon want us to go to "in the style of" or "related to a series which tangentially discussed Oliver twist" linkages "for your convenience"

Amazon will no doubt have A/B testing which shows net beneficial to revenue overall.
AI isn't a single thing: of course meta didn't buy thousands of GPUs for fun.

But it has nothing to do with LLMs (and interestingly enough they aren't opening their recommendation tech).
> If it wasn't hard, it would have been done.

This comment shows a true departure from reality. Computing is filled to the brim with ideas that are easy but are not implemented for reasons other than difficulty.

> I suppose we should all await your backwards compatible proposal?

Your sarcasm merely helps to further demonstrate that you're not interested in a serious discussion.

> Yes, actually, it is.

Then it should be trivial for you to show me an instance of a sync function calling an async one, synchronously waiting for it, then getting back the return value, without clever hacks.
Often give or display a menu with prices.
> I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad.

> So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it.

This is political. You are extremely clearly dog-whistling to the "government needs to reform healthcare" and "America bad" groups. Precisely zero people use this kind of hyper-charged, content-less language without a political agenda.
As someone with kids, while I certainly worry about the world they will live in and their prospects in it, I absolutely don't think I can predict what it will look like in 20 years when it matters. The idea that they might be less prosperous than me when they're grown never entered my mind when deciding to have children. Whether or not I could afford to raise them absolutely did.
Are there even transitionally stable conditions in other places in the universe where these elements exist for more than fleeting time?

I would imagine in conditions of high heat, plasma, RF energy and pressure many things "exist" but I don't see that as quite the same. I guess if their spectral line emissions from stars says they are a continuum of existence then thats something, but I wondered if there were wierd islands of stability e.g. inside crystal lattices under pressure, or in solution in some wierd, non-plasma state. Absent an observer round that star we can't know but can we hypotheise physical states which would let it be?
and they _always_ have few percent of protons and electrons — every single one of them .
This is the original source of the video:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14631

They also have some older visualizations that are similar. It's hard to tell, but it looks like they may have been based on lower resolution data.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5273/
Honestly the FSTs themselves were actually really cool, it's very much GOFAI. It automatically creates lots of permutations, i.e. `play taylor swift`, `please play taylor swift`, play taylor swift now`. etc. And once the FST is built it always works deterministically. It's compiled to a graph and an incoming command is pushed through the state machine, if you get to an end state it "matched the fst" and some specific behaviour would be triggered.

the rule were really just strings and we had efficient matching against it. I didn't work on that, I would assume some sort of LHS.
Is that what it is?! I just assumed slow server.
and they _always_ have few percent of protons and electrons — every single neutron star .
> But yes, Xerox knew exactly what they were doing when they invited Steve and his team in.

Right. Xerox got Apple stock out of the deal. Not really stealing. Bought and paid for.
To me "inconsistent" just means different. I agree it's intentional.
Not exactly the same thing, but I actually didn't expect this to work.

https://chatgpt.com/share/4298efbf-1c29-474a-b333-c6cc1a3ce3...
There is no conclusive proof that occasional blood glucose spikes by themselves significantly increase the risk of T2D. In particular we know that the stress hormones produced during high intensity exercise cause temporary spikes by stimulating glucose release from the liver. But we have fairly good evidence that such exercise actually decreases the risk of T2D. Insulin resistance seems to be triggered more by chronic elevation of blood glucose and not clearing the spikes quickly enough.
Also in like sense the giant Buddha carvings in Afghanistan, and of course the iconoclasts who destroyed the stained glass windows of British Churches and Cathedrals...

Do we include Oliver Cromwell for melting down everything of the prior coronation regalia except a silver spoon? The Soviets for destroying the remains of where they shot the tsar's family? The communards for pulling down stuff in Paris? The loss of the Bastille?

Where does it end...
I'd argue that the current business model is clear (pay subscription for chat or api) but the valuations are unclear.

If open models continue to keep up and industry as a whole just keeps improving on benchmarks fairly slowly and evenly (a big assumption but what has been happening over past year), then you would assume valuations would eventually drop. Saying that there is still a lot of easy value left on the table (great voice integration etc) and a lot of room for innovations to be incorporated in other industries.

Additionally each foundation LLM provider has a non-zero chance of a large step change in performance. If they can keep the value of this step change it would have huge upsides but this is also hard to reason about (what is the valuation of private companies and the share market if AGI exists - does this even matter anymore).
Claude’s license is too insane, you can’t use it for anything that competes with the everything thing.

Not sure what folks who accept Anthropic license are thinking after they read the terms.

Seems they didn’t read the terms, and they aren’t thinking? (Wouldn’t you want outputs you could use to compete with intelligence??? What are you thinking after you read their terms?)
We uncritically accept extraordinary claims on this. They might even be valid claims, but they are so rarely supported by evidence that is likewise extraordinary.

In my experience real, durable progress generally starts happening once we come back down to Earth and start iterating.

Are modern large models crucial to transportation? Maybe? Waymo is cool but it’s not yet an economic reality at scale, and I doubt there are 1.75T weight models running in cars. Are they crucial to finance? I’m quite sure that machine learning plays an important role in finance because I know people in finance who do it all day for serious firms, but I’m very skeptical that finance has been revolutionized in the last 18 months (unless you count the NVDA HODL).

Can we push back a little on the breathless hyperventilation? It was annoying a year ago, the AGI people were wrong, it’s offensive now, we got played for suckers.

“As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they work under the hood is critical. Interpreting the mechanisms underlying AI models enables us to audit them for safety and biases, with the potential to deepen our understanding of the science behind intelligence itself.”
The long list of statements carefully chosen to maximize emotion with minimal information transfer, followed by

> I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad.

> So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it.

...which is a clearly political call for "someone to do something", using extremely emotionally charged language with zero (negative?) utility such as "pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just".
I'll just leave this here for those interested: https://phish.in
wouldn't that just be some kind of NLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing?

May just be a long list of if/else and/or switch statements or isomorphism.
Discussion (185 points, 2 days ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526
Not enough*
Do shops usually show both prices, so you can see before you have it rung up "how much the government is fleecing you"?
Too often we assess our own worth by comparing our talents with our 'peers'; but that group can vary by quite a bit. If we are surrounded by people with less talent than ourselves we feel an inflated sense of worth. If we are in the midst of people who are more talented, we feel inferior.

This applies to sports, academics, professions, and other areas as well. For example, I am a decent golfer (can regularly break 80) and if I play a round with golfers who struggle to beak 100, then I feel really good. If I play with scratch golfers, I wonder why I am so horrible.
If I'm a CTO how do I protect my company from this foot gun? Do I need to regularly train everyone with a GitHub account about the details, is there a setting I can toggle, or...?
Is how you find out that your company's IT department is just a bunch of bozos in a trenchcoat.

Sucks, but it's the norm for any company who's payroll isn't >50% programmers.
Love the legal treatment of "irrevocable"
Hello! Creator of MINT here.

We do a lot of pre-processing of commoncrawl (which in its raw form isn’t all that useful for training models). This includes heuristics to remove low quality text and images and deduplicating documents, paragraphs, and images. All of these are crucial to achieve good training performance.

On your point regarding PDFs, we actually don’t constraint ourselves to the 1MB files and do our own downloading of PDFs!
The Turing Jest: Or, Why Computers Struggle with Comedy So Much
i'm working on build the 'missing tool' ridd mentioned, a tool that blurs the line between design and front-end. if you're interested in learning more hit me up at ahmed@designwithfalcon.com :)
Software engineering industry in 2024 what, why changed in 2 years, what is next
> Fact is, our social welfare state is unmatched compared to any other country. Nowhere else will you get welfare benefits this high. Our welfare benefits are so high, the sudden drop in benefits reduces benefits from earning more money by insane margins.

It's very funny, because people with the same political opinions as you in my country are absolutely positive that this is the case for my country instead (France).

And in practice they are pretty similar (as are many European systems unsurprisingly, we all draw inspiration on each other) and as someone who knows the French social system fairly well I can assure you that the trope you hear from right wing politicians on TV is nothing but lies.
It wasn't baked into the model. It was in the prompt. The model and the product built around it are not the same thing.
AVX512 BPC Permute v0.1
yeah but you can’t use your code from either model to compete with either company, and they do everything. wtf is wrong with AI hype enjoyers they accept being intellectually dominated?
> If true, then it seems that there is no way to delete any commits at all from any repo that has any forks?

I do not believe the presence of forks matters. Or rather, your version is the initial fork.

My impression is that garbage collection is an expensive and disruptive option (to all forks) and so there's no button or API for it. Hence the recommendations to contact support if you accidentally commit an API KEY or the like (but really, you have already rotated that key, right?)
> The core issue is that Amazon envisioned Alexa as a product that would help it increase sales.

Exactly why Amazon Fire phone failed. So, they didn't learn their lesson. What happened to their leadership principles, specifically - Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards?
I had a watercooled 5950x up and die on me recently after 3 years. AMD RMA’d it without argument.
We need laws that make it so that giant platforms like Reddit have no exclusive rights to content submitted by users. It would be ridiculous for only Google to be able to train AI on YouTube or Reddit content for example.
Android development is Kotlin. Sometimes C++, but I've never seen or worked on a project that needed it. Using any other language will be an uphill battle that will make your life harder.

OpenCV also has a warning and a guide for people trying to use it for Android dev
https://opencv.org/android/. Did you look through this?

Also why do you want to use a USB camera when every phone has a couple cameras built in? I think you're going down a road of frustration if you think mobile OSes aren't built with completely different use cases in mind than desktop environments.

Theres a lot of information the Android dev site about getting up and running with the camera. You can pass a lot of the photo stuff off to other camera apps on your phone, but if you really need to do stuff in the app theres an official Android library for making your life easier. Theres also a lot of official Android libraries and well known libraries for images and videos that might be easier to work with than OpenCV. You don't actually say what you are trying to ultimately do.

Gradle is the part of Android dev everyone hates.
Hello! Totally agree that tokens will be model dependent. We chose to calculate tokens using the GPT-2 tokenizer as that is a common metric used by other datasets like fineweb. So this should roughly give you a sense of how large the data is in comparison to others. We report other metrics too like number of documents and number of images.
I don't think there's any bound to 2D visualizations. The challenge seems to be constructing symmetric or useful visualizations, which has kept people busy up to n=11 apparently: https://www.combinatorics.org/files/Surveys/ds5/ds5v3-2005/V...
Often or always? Is reading a generic description of a product (menu) seeing the thing?

What about alcoholic drinks in pubs or bars “2 pints of your best and a glass of house red”.

Alexa may not be great for purchasing from Amazon but this isn’t because humans have never shopped using only their voices. Nor is seeing things required.
Prime95 also completely ignores the high-clock domain btw so it can also be completely prime95 stable yet fail completely on a routine task that boosts up! So it’s technically not even a full test of core stability either.
My seven year old son learned how to make his own YouTube Channel
Found it very good, and plain simple.

Keynote at Craft Conference 2024 video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpPPHDxR9aM

01:22 Small teams moving faster than before

03:21 What else is familiar from earlier?

05:13 What is going on in the tech industry?

11:13 Root cause #1: interest rates

18:37 Root cause #2: smartphone & cloud revolution

20:57 The new reality for software engineers

23:41 Shopify's preparation to this "new reality"

25:56 The new reality for software engineering practices

34:21 Haven't we seen this before?

Very simple explanation on interest rate impact on VC funding and IPO, and what might come next with related tech bubble, trigger events
Norad jets intercept 2 Russian and 2 Chinese bombers off Alaskan coast
One is an AI feature that you have to opt-in to, and includes the option to run locally.

The other is an optional self-custody wallet. They’re not an exchange and your wallet/Funds aren’t locked in with them.

They’re offering alternatives to big tech solutions which is kind of what they do.
Scrapings laundering. Do we have a term for this?
john deere cab windows have been curved since at least 1975 with the sound-gard cab
Why should we care about the Olympic Games? It is a huge expense and has no convincing positive return. Meanwhile local residents have their lives disrupted for weeks and months and gain nothing much from it. No thanks. Keep the probe going, call their bluff, and let them collapse into obscurity like beauty pageants.
I don't know what the point of this article was, but at my work, we push updates to millions of devices in people's homes, but we only "open the flood gates" briefly. A blip of time, so 0.01% get the update, we check that they all came back online and reported in healthy, 0.1%, next day 1%, next day 20%, next day 100%. There have been a couple times where we had to refund 0.01% of the customers who got bricked as guinea pigs and called us angrily, luckily it's never been 1%. I get that security updates can't wait a whole day, but can't they at least wait until Windows reboots? I wonder why Crowdstrike pushed to all 8.5 million before checking if any came back online.
Even greatly simplified, it’s pretty important to understand the difference between a salt and a covalently bonded compound – sodium and chloride don’t really stay together, nice and inert; they disassociate readily in a solution. Salt water has individual sodium and chlorine ions freely floating around. But being ions now, both have gotten what they wanted, and are quite content and nonreactive now.
text to video models need training data in form of videos and captions (prompts)
a fee
Those in leadership positions are usually offered bonuses for successfully executing key initiatives such as cost cutting:

>The manufacturer is also moving skid steer and compact track loader manufacturing units from Dubuque, Iowa, to Mexico to curb its manufacturing costs.
What task are they trying to accomplish with a picture of a torn up painting?
What do you think that LLMs can do exactly? Sometimes naive technologists think of AI as some sort of magic solution. But if you look at overall healthcare system costs, very little is being spent in areas that could be easily automated with an LLM.

And for T1D specifically it would be very dangerous to put an LLM in control of something like an insulin pump considering that we don't have any way to do quality assurance to the level required. Simple, deterministic algorithms are preferred for safety critical systems because they're less likely to fail in bizarre or unpredictable ways.
United States Fed Funds Interest Rate

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate

Next Jackson Hole Symposium to speculate on
2024-08-22 12:00 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hole_Economic_Symposiu...

"The Symposium often serves as a platform for major policy announcements by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. "
The Allied "Passierschein" Safe Conduct Passes of WWII
I've gotten both novels and textbooks from Amazon that I'm not certain aren't counterfeits. (The textbook one is especially fuzzy, as sometimes you'll actually get an "international edition" which isn't necessarily fake...but may not be what you actually ordered either.)

These days, I'm not sure books are much different from any other good.
Eventually both the hype and its criticism will be automated with AI as well so that we can all go to the beach and relax.
Were your commit messages succinct?
Life imitates art... Has anyone seen HBO's "Succession"? An amazing series if you haven't.
Is that case, maybe I mean "listen to", not just "hear".

What I mean by my throw away commentary above, is that you need to hear it with your soul, not just listen to it with thine ears.

Each phrase in interchangeable, which both muddies the meaning and, for me anyway, makes it an amusing thing to say.

Also: White Men Can't Jump
(wink to tedunangst)
Banks have closed 539 branches in just six months
> especially when it comes to dynamic vs. static type systems

One nice thing about Typescript is that it gives us a mostly statically typed language and it has a control to compare against (JavaScript). That allows programmers to learn the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches. Previously most comparisons were apples versus oranges.

I'm guessing Python's Type hints (or Cython) also give a taste of the positives and negatives of static typing.

I would also presume both Typescript and Cython miss out on some of the more extreme optimisation benefits of static typing?
I've personally given benefits to these people, and I can assure you that you live in a fiction built for you by propaganda on TV.

Are these people better than those in Gaza? Sure but their life is still insanely hard.

You said you lived this way for the first 18 years of your life, then ask your parents how much sacrifices they made so you can feel this comfortable. If you never skipped meal because you could not afford food, be sure that your parents were and just hid it from you out of dignity.
They clearly already had the features mostly done when they made the survey. I recall the questions being extremely leading to get people to say they would like to use a privacy first AI or whatever. After I took it I immediately told people it was clear they were about to announce some AI bloat.
Apple's Privacy Team Does Deep Dive into iOS 18 Privacy Features
I use react native and react native web a lot and use dripsy for building design systems — it allows you to do exactly this. Define your breakpoints, and then pass an array of styles to a single style property. It’s really great

https://www.dripsy.xyz/
Princes of the Yen – The Hidden Power of Central Banks [video]