skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I actually find the quality of programming books to have starkly increased in the last decade.

I suspect this might be a side-effect of programmers buying less books. The ratio of authors who write them because they really care instead of because they hope to make some bucks would then increase.
Yes I was making the point that the CPUs in PS4/Xbone were terrible (seriously look up benchmarks - they're basically underclocked pre ryzen AMD) and that didn't matter for performance because video game workloads are so heavily skewed towards GPU. I know they were successful.
> But if it's a mesh, how do you know whether the transmitter generated the message or it is just relying it?

I didn't check the protocol in detail so I don't know for sure, but I assume it's possibly impossible to know if you observe a single message. But if relayed messages are retransmitted immediately you can probably figure it out if there's not too much traffic.
In my opinion that is the insidiousness of it. It pits the patrons against the workers where owners and managers can just throw their hands up and blame it on tax law. We really just should pay people better and prices should be upfront.
> In physics, different frequencies don’t interfere with each other—they're always independent.

Are you overlooking harmonics? Are you overlooking the same frequency case of noise cancellation, via phase shift?
try google's gemini models, safety filtering can be completely disabled via cloud studio or api
Ringboard: Clipboard Manager for Linux Written in Rust
A Judge doesn’t get to call in an irrelevant party to a case simply to apply their judgements to them as well. Google lost their lawsuit on the strength of the evidence against them specifically.
My understanding is that it's something like:

stripe = read_from_ram(*ptr) # usually between 128k and 256k
blobs[]=do_raid_calc(stripe) # blobs usually 25% to 33% larger than stripe
for i in drives
write(drive=i,blobs[i])

The above should be relatively cache friendly, my Zen 4 desktop (1 gen old) has 128MB of L3 cache, enough for 1000 ish stripes.

> upwards of 90% reduction in system DRAM utilization

That seems unbelievable, most ram isn't spend for anything I/O related let alone RAID releated. Now if it's 90% reduction in system DRAM utilization by RAID, sure. But that seems like a very small fraction of all ram.

Even if 10,000 stripes are in flight simultaneously to 100s of drives that's only 2.5GB or 1% of a servers ram (256GB or more seems common). Especially since 2/3rd of that would be in ram even with hardware RAID. Not like the buffer/page cache which might reach 50% of ram has the extra RAID in data in it.
Flux by Black Forest Labs, by far.
I'm thrilled that you (and the other commenters) are really getting it. I feel the same way, and it informs everything I try to do.
No specific ones, but there are some abliteration LoRas for Llama (8B and 70B, I think). Those should be good for what you want.
"Food deserts" are a demand problem, not a supply problem. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/decemb...
> NVMe drives fail at a fairly low rate

But they still fail. Backups are great and all, but for hardware-failure nothing beats redundancy (while RAID1, RAID5, etc allow for faster reads - I don't know how-often NVMe SSDs saturate their PCIe links though...).

Granted, you don't need hardware RAID for that (and HostRAID is a joke, lol): we still want redundancy, but today you'd do it with ZFS or similar so you aren't locked-in to some HW RAID vendor, or suffer the ironic consequences of having non-redundant HW RAID controllers.
Problems with Cloudflare Bot Blocking
FBI Resumes Communication with Facebook, X and Others on Foreign Disinformation
Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code
Was about to mention this.

Its remarkable how kids (4 yo) relate to some facts in these books (like discoveries, slogans, values) and then recall the page/book when they hear a word two in totally unrelated conversations.
The context is generating images based explicitly on intellectual property. The problem is that most AI image generators allow IP as terms and/or they consumed IP to build their model, so they will return IP-based artworks.

If you're a business using the image and used IP terms in your prompt, then you'd need permissions from both parties (Disney, McDonald's) before you post it. If you're writing about AI rights, or making a comment on social media, then less likely you'll need it.

If your prompt was a cartoon mouse gets food poison at a fast food joint, you're off the hook. But if it returns Mickey Mouse at McDonalds, then the AI generator is still on the hook for using IP as a source.

At least, that's where this is all going.
The really good books are REALLY good, though. But the only places I've seen them were at university bookstores (and even then mainly MIT/Stanford) or Amazon when they had physical stores. Otherwise you have to get them online
The Gof book should be on the list, but I agree that it suffers from similar problems that a lot of first-of-their-kinds do. There are iterations on it that are a much better read.
I think I remember IEEE making everything available a few years ago…there’s probably an HN discussion if it happened (but it might have been ACM (or both)). If so, this would be an ordinary dark pattern of extracting payment where it is not absolutely necessary.

Anyway, I googled the title based on my possibly accurate memory.

In fairness my impression is that very few HN members ’give back’ by joining such organizations. It’s not part of today’s startup mindset.
Completely agree.

For the GP: part of (any) gov's power is what you refer to as "autistically" pursuing a case. A large org will never be nimble or fast enough to catch criminals in the act or immediately afterwards. It balances that slowness by inexorably pursuing criminals, sometimes at greater expense than the cost of the original crime.

Would be criminals should believe that they might execute a heist successfully, but that they will need to always keep running because the gov is doggedly pursuing.

None of what I am saying is specific to Kim Dotcom, just trying to highlight to GP how governments execute business.
Article from Meta: https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/hdmi-link-launch/

App: https://www.meta.com/experiences/7452106424824357/

Unfortunately the app only has one review at 3/5 starts. There appears to be some technical issue with the USB connection. Hopefully it works for most other use cases.
Why we need Ladybird [audio]
If you redrew The Lion King frame by frame from memory, it would still be copyright infringement if you redistributed it to your friends. The difference is how similar your recreation is to the original, not whether it was done by a human or by a machine.
Yes, it's a number of things.

Small country, fairly neutral stance, little involvement in international conflict, and huge distance.

Follow that up with alliances and there's not much reason to come to NZ, other than for a holiday!
> Can we solve all quintics this way (for example)?

Nope. Wanna hazard a guess what theory was instrumental in proving that there's no closed form for general quintics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_theory#A_non-solvable_q...
That's a bit of a strawman though. There are plenty of cities and towns that have infrastructure and have stores at some level that have much lower costs. (They may or may not have good local jobs.) It's not a choice between NYC/SF/etc. and the wilds of Wyoming.
failspy’s or mlabonne’s models. Or just look for any model with ‘abliterated’ in the title. Eg try failspy/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-abliterated-v3 though of course bigger models will probably be better
Zen5's AVX512 Uplift
Frankly, I’m not convinced that a world in which generative AIs based on unlicensed data have to shut down is a bad thing. You want to create art, you learn to draw or hire someone who can. You want to create a story, you learn to write or hire someone who can.
HN is a complex system consisting of community, software, and moderation. We need all three of those in order for it to function. Without software support (a lot of it), HN would be impossible.

Of course the software is imperfect, but that's also true of the moderators and (dare I say it) the community. Each needs to compensate for the imperfections of the others.
Maybe not cool, but you can, in fact, be both too big and too geographically distributed for Postgres.
PAYMENT TANGENT for my fellow entrepreneurs here that take Visa/Mastercard payments:

I tried to sign up to Lambda Labs just now to check out Hermes 3.

Created an account, verified my email address, entered my billing info...

... but then it says they only accept CREDIT cards, NOT DEBIT cards.

I had never heard of this, so I tried it anyway. I entered my business Mastercard (from mercury.com FWIW), that's never been rejected anywhere, and immediately got the response that they couldn't accept it because it's a debit card.

Anyone know why a business would choose to only accept credit not debit cards?

I don't have any credit cards, neither personal nor business, and never found a need for one.

So I deleted my account at Lambda Labs, which was kind of disappointing since I was looking forward to trying this.
Solar energy development could reduce need for solar farms
Related, I worked at a company that had a standards body forced information sharing agreement with a competitor. One of the requirements was that documentation had to be shared.

Unfortunately, our documentation was a very well formatted with links and was searchable, making it easy to navigate. So in an act of malicious compliance, the few thousand page document was printed then scanned to low res, jpg artifact filled, crooked, but still legible, set of images that were shared as a fairly useless pdf.
I've partnered with a woodworker. That was the first step after starting the business
For a second I thought someone resurrected project looking glass
That's an interesting argument but the hash for an "infringing file" would be universal across all copies of said file, since presumably the DMCA striker would be claiming the file as infringing. I doubt a jury would buy it.
I guess if C3P0 wants to help me do science I'll let him. But I'm not really satisfied by someone telling me something. I like finding the answer myself. That's one of the reasons I'm a scientist. I enjoy being a scientist. Even assuming that this system, or any science bot, has none of the problems associated with llms, why would I want it to do my job for me?
SSDs read fast, write much slower for anything which is bigger than a few hundred megabytes.
He is not wholly wrong, while not solvable in the general case by normal radicals, there is a family of functions, a special "radical" as he said, the Bring radical that solves the quintic generally. Of course as said its not a 5th root, but the solution to a certain family of quintics.
Phase shift isn’t different frequencies?
> LLMs are... not people

Of course, but LLMs are tools used by people - they don't just spit out Taylor Swift songs or whatever automatically and wipe out human jobs. The laws we have already apply to people (whom use any tool they want) and what they do with creations, and whether copyright applies or whatever.
Just picked up a few of these for my summer vacation. Appreciate the recommendations!
LMStudio + https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-lorab...
Galois Theory For Beginners by John Stillwell is the shortest introduction that I've ever seen.

https://www.scribd.com/document/81010821/GaloisTheoryForBegi...
Very cool project - I'd be all over this if I was lucky enough to own an Apple II!

(I think there's a typo in the credits section of the github Readme: you have alanswx listed as Alex Steremberg instead of Alan?)
The neighborhoods I have in mind here aren't "true suburbs" but rather "pre-war suburbs" that are already fairly dense. Think west SF, Fremont/Ballard in Seattle, etc.
I use Superwhisper (no affiliation, just a happy user), which runs a local Whisper model, to create most of my email drafts and post-meeting notes. I find Whisper more accurate than Mac’s built-in speech-to-text, plus I’m faster at speaking than typing.

Sometimes, I even ‘talk’ into Cursor’s chat window instead of typing. The only downside? It can get a bit annoying for others when you're talking to yourself all day.
It's so obvious to me that machine learning models are derivative works of their training set. If they weren't, then why would these companies fight so hard to say otherwise? They need that training data to make their product, so they should pay the licensing fees for it! 10 years ago, when I worked on a machine learning model for my employer, it was unthinkable to train on data we did not have the rights to use. But now it's all fair game because OpenAI executives would make a little less money otherwise? They certainly aren't giving up any of their own copyright in return. It's a very transparent transfer of power and money from regular people to the bosses.
I was on the same boat. If you are on firefox on android. Holding back button for long let's you escape. Jfi.
I tried WriteFreely (and some of their other stuff) a year or so ago, but found it to be a little too limited for what I was trying to achieve with my personal sites (as a layman/non-web-dev). Ended up using https://Blot.im/ very happily, with my photosite being the personal example I've put the most time into: https://ristrettoshots.com/

Edit pages mostly in regular markdown (+ a few simple Blot-specific tags), drop some images into a Dropbox folder, done. Site built. :)
There isn't that much genuine innovation going on in our industry. This is one of the few cases. No wonder people are interested.
I think this submission title should be modified to:

> Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students

This addresses several issues with the headline as presented:

- It’s capitalized appropriately for HN.

- It clearly states that this is about students only, reducing the scope of the effort from the unstated framing: “all workers”.

- It reflects the single-company focus of Palantir in the article, improving HN submission search results for that company.

- It reuses the exact wording of the most key heading in the article with only two words added: “for students”.
This. I'm a Dave Ramsey fan, and I practice the "buy monthly and keep forever". If it drops, it's even better/cheaper (only 'trustworthy' assets - lately I've added India to the mix).

Daily trading makes the broker rich; (my) preferred way is the Dollar-Cost-Averaging of buying some 'trustworthy' assets and keep them for 10-20-30 years (when I will need them in my later-later years and/or pass them down to the next gen).
Use to be very common for people to pay for news (newspapers), but since online, people seem to expect free.

Plus I think over the decades, broadcast news morphed into a form of entertainment. And seems well over half the news I have access to is about Sports, Hollywood and who is having sex, which I do not care about.
I think forcing google to break the buy side from the sell side of advertising is the most obvious and probably beneficial way to break it apart. This should have never happened in the first place , and similar things should be happening to other bigTech. Advertising money is the lifeblood of this industry
Most people don’t need or care to learn calculus. They just want to learn how to use calculus
With search, there are actually 2 different products. The index itself is a textbook natural monopoly. There's no upside in having more than 1 web crawler as long as it can be trusted to just crawl the web but there's plenty of downside in the form of increased bandwidth costs for web sites. The actual search rankings are where competition makes sense. So spin the Google search index off as a non-profit that makes its product available at a reasonable cost to anybody who wants to run a search engine.

Then you spin off the rest of Google as separate companies. Android/Pixel, Google Ads/Analytics, Youtube, Chrome, Gmail/Docs/Drive and Maps/Cloud would all be separate businesses. Chrome would likely be best spunoff as a non-profit as well, operating an open source web browser project.

Of course, if you're going to break up Google you also have to break up the rest of FAANG too or they're just going to step right into the space vacated by Google and probably buy up the Baby Googles[0]. Apple would probably need to be broken up into a hardware company, a software company and a services company. Amazon would need to be broken up into AWS, Amazon Shopping and Prime Video. You could arguably even break Amazon Shopping up into the online store and the logistics company. Microsoft would need to be broken up into Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing and Azure. Xbox would then itself need to be broken up to unwind all of its purchases of independent video game companies. If you're breaking up Xbox, you also have to do the same with Playstation (spinning them loose from Sony and unwinding their own acquisitions). It might also be a great idea to then do the same with major 3rd party video game companies like EA, basically unwinding all of their acquisitions. Meta would need to be broken up into Facebook, Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta Ads.

Once you start breaking up Google, you open up Pandora's box and basically have to keep going until you break up the entire tech sector. That's why it is so tricky to do it. Once you're done with tech, it'd be a good idea to look at other sectors such as health care, Hollywood and the news media where consolidation has been rampant over the past few decades.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Compan...
The style matches, but I think that's because it's just a median style of writing. It's too… je ne sais quoi, to be produced by that algorithm.
There are some amateur radio operators who operate in QRP (max. 5 W power) and have a DXCC award (so they have contacted at least 100 different countries). So the range is much more than 80 km, especially if you use digital modes able to recover signals you can't even hear (like FT8 or WSPR)... but bandwidth will be very low.
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/review-of-galois-knot-the... is probably the best review.
Except.. that is not what happened when we actually did that. If anything, the neighborhoods are denser, and more walkable.
> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it.

If this were true, Google could make the immediate and easy decision to increase their annual profits by $26 billion, by simply stopping to pay browser vendors to make Google the default search engine.
https://untested.sonnet.io/Defaults+Matter%2C+Don't+Assume+C...
> When the Media and governments were confidently pointing fingers at Russia

I followed the reports. There was a myriad of low-confidence speculation around US, Ukraine, or Russia. Nothing confident from almost any media or government. There have been many European and American media reports and government statements since just a few weeks after the incident that indicated they didn't have evidence it was Russia. The Ukrainian Andromeda ship was flagged as suspicious within some months and the counterbalance was, let's not be too hasty, it might be false flag. The western infosphere is a lot better than RT and I've gotten no inclination from it that it was definitely Russia. Russia is the one pointing at UK and US.

The reporting was generally correct, as opposed to Seymour Hersh's wild fairytale which bears no semblance to reality (single source, elite Norwegian team, BALTOPS 2022...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabo...
A beautiful plane.It is to bad they are not flown anymore. Glad to see someone caring for a piece of history.
And some move to established mountain towns and the like. But, yeah, in general there are a lot of good reasons to move to the periphery of decent-sized cities if you don't care much about city amenities day to day. That doesn't help you much with housing prices in the Bay Area necessarily but it does in a lot of places.
> required having a tutor (me) on hand to help make the context make sense.

I wonder how good ChatGPT would be as that tutor. You can ask it to “explain like I’m 12”
isn't costco losing money on hotdogs?
Just to say up front, I think you are the only one that gets it here and am not criticizing you, but the answer in question could also be read that way (of course with the excuse that "the other guy did it first!").

Am I the only one that didn't read either that way? I think a lot of biases are hanging out in this conversation.
Don't forget the EU and SG! :)
If Russia were given assured perpetual access to Sevastopol base.

They already had that, but they invaded anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Pact

The threat that no former Soviet republic would be welcomed into NATO,

That ship had long since sailed. Former Soviet republics Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have been NATO members since 2004. Ukraine's NATO membership application had been effectively the table since 2008 (precisely as a de-escalatory gesture in his favor) in any case.

Putin would need to ...

Putin didn't "need to" do anything, at least nothing physically aggressive against its neighbors. He knew very well that NATO posed no substantial threat to Russia. A symbolic nuisance, at most. But no actual, physical threat to Russia's security.

He invaded because he chose to. He gambled that it would be a cakewalk, and win him a huge boast in prestige at minimal cost.

This was all a gigantic delusion of course, and that's how we got here.

It's really quite simple.
There is no firmware or software mentioned in any signed contracts actually. :popcorn:
I take amazing pictures!! But for some reason only I like them.. oh well..
>At least, that's where this is all going.

Not really, because that would still be a loss for artists. Where they are trying to steer the ship is to "training on IP is copyright violation".

Artists are looking to stop AI from taking their jobs. An AI generator with an IP filter on it's output will still very much be a threat to their work.
Question: what is the purpose of softmax for words/tokens before the final word? Isn't it only the softmax distribution respective to the final word that gets used for the next token prediction? That was my understanding at least.
That is very interesting. As CRDB user, I priced Spanner (had to do some estimates during load testing), and Spanner came 3 times more expensive includign our eng salary to run CRDB
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention Fourier transforms and neither do any of the comments. All the talk about aliasing and different filters makes a whole lot more sense if you take a look at the frequency domain. (Unfortunately I don't have time to elaborate here. But Fourier transforms are so useful in many ways that I encourage people to learn more.)
The point was whether it's possible at such a large scale.
All base, “text-completion” models are uncensored, including Llama 3. You can make text-completion models behave like an uncensored “instruct” (chat) model simply by providing it with 10 to 20 examples of a chat dialogue in the initial prompt context, making sure to use the model’s exact prompt format. Once the model notices the pattern, it will continue like that.

Surprisingly few people seem to know this. But, this is how chat models were created in the GPT3/2 era before instruct models became the norm.