skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I was on an internal project recently that wanted to use LLMs in a way that was appropriate to evaluate if changes between two versions of a text were semantically meaningful, and limited to that scope, it would've been a really valuable tool.

We had a directive from management to, for political reasons, use AI in the tool as much as possible to show how innovative and forward-thinking the company is. This led to a bunch of poorly-thought-out choices and while the project is in production and has internal users... I don't think it was particularly successful.

Not all of that is due to the "use AI" directive; there were also poor technology and deployment stack choices that made things overly complicated and cost us a bunch of time.
Are you talking about me or the article?
> For one thing, just admitting more people almost certainly decreases the access to quality education overall

Why would that be the case? There are many much larger universities all around the globe and also in the US that manage to provide quality education to their students.

To me, the statements that colleges make about their admission procedures always seem hypocritical to me. The colleges claim that the goal is to advance gender equality and provide education to underrepresented groups (which would not require a small student body) when their main goal seems to be in fact to create a small in-group of people who have made the right connections during their studies (which absolutely does require a small student body).
Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year
Are you disagreeing with the “chilling effect” section of the article, or are you implying the effect could not have been real due to the current length of the article?
"wafer scale" inference using 44GB of straight up SRAM per chip does not exactly sound "smaller and cheaper" to me. Just optimized.
My boomer mother started her career in accounting/bookkeeping, working in payroll for a large company back in the 70s. The company decided to migrate their payroll system onto a fancy new mainframe computer, so they sent my mother to college to learn COBOL. The stories she tells about being the only female in the college courses, and then most of her career as the only female programmer - those stories are almost incomprehensible compared to today's standards. So, when I read about things like this (Caltech enrolls more females), I think of my mother and the countless other women who paved the road. Not all heroes get Hollywood movies made in their honor.

Now, if I could just get Mom to stay off the stupid Nextdoor app, complaining about people's trashcans being in the street or someone's dog pooped in her yard. LOL
There is definitely a difference between “someone who can write a working computer program in a language” and “someone who can design, maintain, communicate, document and own a part of a large software project.”

Whatever you decide to call these two things anyone who has onboarded a new grad/intern has observed this distinction because its a different skill set.
Because I googled it. 58:42 ratio of applicants.

While I could accept that the bottom 16 of males and bottom 0 of females are joke applications, these each included a substantial application fee ($75).
There’s nothing inconsistent about the Soviets favoring nuclear energy for their own country while promoting anti-nuclear propaganda in the West.
My family buys bags of flour every time we're in Canada because the old recipes apparently don't taste quite right with anything else. We'll probably keep doing it because it's kind of fun.
Not really. Most modern x86 compilers already align jump targets to cache line boundaries since this helps x86 a lot. So it is doable. If you compile each function into a section (common), then the linker can be told to align them to 64 or 128 bytes easily. Code size would grow (but tetris can be played to reduce this by packing functions)
> They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man.

I find myself regularly thinking about this sentence
There seems to be a simpler fix though, that avoids the major negative effects of the larger changes.

They take out loans and aren't taxed on it. But they have to pay taxes when they pay off the loans, and at that time they'll owe even more money meaning more stocks will have to be sold.

But wait, how are they avoiding that tax even then? Well they take out another loan. But eventually that stops. They can't take out infinite loans, so what is happening? When they die, there is some tax trickery that involves resetting the cost basis of assets, then selling them with 0 capital gains to pay off the loans. The simple fix is to only reset the values after the estate pays out, meaning that any assets sold to pay off any loans will have to pay the real tax on their value, and only afterwards is the cost basis reset when inheritors receive those assets.

That seems a much more minimally invasive change, and also seems much more in line with the intent of the existing tax code to begin with, as the cost basis should only reset for those inheriting and not for paying off existing debts.
The software engineer is a truly mythical creature. I've never seen one despite working in software!
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine is the opposite of small and cheap.

https://cerebras.ai/product-chip/
Its not that the assertion is incorrect, but that if it is made without knowledge that IQ is primarily influenced by social-economic factors, then it can be construed as racist because it is saying that a positive quality (high IQ) is given by nature to certain groups of people who already happen to hold certain economic and social privileges, instead of the other way around. Unless you're claiming that having a low IQ can be seen as something positive.
I'm sure that the donor made his opinion known given that he went to the trouble of leaving a letter.
You can do all that without modifying the script or using a separate tool:

PS4='+ $(date --iso-8601)\011 ' bash -x example.sh
Yep, I'm sure Ohio has the best corn in the world if you ask the ODA and New York has the best pizza if you ask their tourism division.
Apple strikes telecom deals to reach more users in India
"Far right" as measured by a hardcore leftie, maybe. If you stand against illegal immigration, criticize superficial DEI "me-too" gestures that do nothing to solve the real issues underneath, or are moderately conservative in any other way, you will have you comments routinely downvoted into oblivion and will be called a Nazi and the second coming of Hitler. Not only in this place, it has become the the norm these days.
When Monoculture Leads to Monofailure
This isn't about AI startups, it's about projects that are started under the umbrella of an existing organization.

See the actual report:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html
Absolutely, this is a subject that it would make sense to study. It's much harder to study than "race", though, because you need to do genetic studies on your participants or to design cross-cultural IQ tests (relying on geography as a much better proxy for genetics than skin color is). And in fact, no one is doing it in the area of intelligence, while there is a quite a bit of paper written on "race" and intelligence.
Cheaper on a per token basis.
I think it's completely reasonable for FB to take the position of "it is not our job to block links to newspapers".

Similarly I don't blame FB for failing to block links to the Steele dossier, even though I think it was bogus.
Chernobyl nearly contaminated all the wells in Eastern Europe for tens of thousands of years.

To go a mile down you have to go past the aquifers and then anything that happens to the shaft after an accident causes the same problems.
There are only a few hundred genuine flat earthers. They aren't a problem. It's more of a problem to tag anyone raising questions that threaten the status quo as 'like those flat earthers'.
Just as well, I've never seen anyone conduct computer "science."
There's no such thing as free speech on a private platform. If you disagree, go walk on set to make your views known tonight on the 6 o'clock news and see how that works out for you.
Docker Performance Evaluation Across Operating Systems
Abstract: Docker has gained significant popularity in recent years. With the introduction of Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS, there is a need to determine the impact of the operating system on the performance of the Docker platform. This paper aims to investigate the performance of Docker containers based on the operating system. One of the fundamental goals of this study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Docker architecture. This technology utilizes Linux kernel virtualization mechanisms such as namespaces and cgroups. Upon analyzing the distribution of Docker Desktop for Windows and Docker Desktop for macOS, it was discovered that running the Docker environment on these requires a lightweight virtual machine that emulates the Linux system. This information suggests that the additional virtualization layer may hinder the performance of non-Linux operating systems hosting Docker containers. The paper presents a performance test of the Docker runtime on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. The test evaluated specific aspects of operating system performance on a MacBook computer with an ×86/64 processor architecture. The experiment carried out examined the performance in terms of CPU speed, I/O speed, and network throughput. This test measured the efficiency of software that utilizes various system resources.
Their CEO talks about this in the gradient dissent podcast [1]

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXebAQ6igs
And it is not really about "cost" anyway. It all hinges on the willingness of people with access to capital to take a risk. That could be a bank, large company, government etc. Renewables has managed to do that convincingly. Nuclear less so. And there are many good reasons for that.
I updated my comment to be clearer. I meant smaller and/or cheaper per token. In this case it's cheaper per token.
Are you sure the Harris proposal is only about publicly traded stock portfolios? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see publicly traded stocks being singled out by the President, which is supposedly the policy Harris is adopting.

"The proposal would impose a minimum tax of 25 percent on total income, generally inclusive of unrealized capital gains, for all taxpayers with wealth (that is, the difference obtained by subtracting liabilities from assets) greater than $100 million."

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanati...

And there are many private farms in America worth more than $100m. I have no idea what amount of that would be "unrealized capital gains", which is kinda the problem.
Even renewables are less safe than nuclear if you count the roofing accidents associated with rooftop solar installations.
That paragraph you cited simply says that the intrusions bear the hallmarks of Volt Typhoon. It has no bearing on the separate question who Volt Typhoon is.

Analogy: "was this murder committed by Jack the Ripper?" and "who was Jack the Ripper?" are separate questions.

> Who the heck is Natto Thoughts and why should I care?

You can check out their about page:

https://nattothoughts.substack.com/about
1) Pump water uphill and let it run downhill. There is a massive amount of viable geography for this all over the world.

2) Batteries

3) Charge more money for electricity so people shift their demand.

4) Make hydrogen, store it and burn it to make the electricity.

Surprisingly, if you only did 4 (which is the most expensive) all of the time for every watt of power generated from solar and wind it would be very expensive, but would still be a bit cheaper than nuclear power. Nuclear power is just that expensive.

And the price only gets more horrendous if you try to use it as a peaker.
Show HN: MockAPI – APIs Mocking for Developers
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I’ve been working on this project for the past couple of weeks. I developed it to scratch my own itch and make it easier to get a mock API, allowing backend developers to focus on implementing the real API while the frontend team works on the frontend.

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Doubtful. SRAM is not cheap, and this is entirely about SRAM vs HBM.
Imagine if all the governments of the world came up with a mass produced, cookie cutter, plant, rather than starting all fabrication and design from scratch for each plant?
I want to know what the current power requirements are, as well as the cost for the machine. The last time I looked at one of these it was an absolute beast (although very impressive).
which of those are the 'two large columns in the foyer'?
Not necessarily famous, but faces existing in training data or false positives making generalizations about faces based on similar characteristics to faces in training data. This becomes problematic for a number of reasons, e.g., this face looks dangerous or stupid or beautiful, etc.
The article. Working a mile down is at the limits of our capabilities. In an emergency situation it’s nearly unobtanium. Like Kernighan’s Law for engineering.
When it listens to your prompt and responds accordingly, that's an instance of undertanding. The magic of LLMs is on the input side, not the output.

Searle's point wasn't relevant when he made it, and it hasn't exactly gotten more insightful with time.
I've seen plenty of co.puter magic though.
Actions speak louder than words. Just log onto Facebook and see what he wants you to see.

I don't know what he thinks he is selling folks on, but it's mostly spam and garbage...
Well yeah, but you're comparing steak from the blue ribbon cow to Tyson, I sure hope they win. You might still be right about regional quality but you should at least compare the best both have to offer.

I would be amazed if rice grown by Japanese immigrants like Koda or Tamkai couldn't reach the level and it really was the land that made the difference.
CircleCI was incredibly expensive. We're at 1/30th of the cost with self-hosted GitHub actions.
Because the only party to benefit from that would be the company charging for the LLM.

If arbitrarily adding more reports is valuable, why stop at just one LLM report? You could include the cop report and a dozen LLM reports with various temperatures and system prompts such as “write this report in the style of Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch” or “as portrayed by Johnny Lee Miller”

Edit typo
> That means the most talented and impressive young man who applied and didn’t get in is objectively more talented and impressive than the least talented and impressive (though still extremely talented and impressive) woman who applied and got in.

This is almost a statistical certainty no matter how many women are admitted. Not because of any preferential treatment of women or men, but because the admissions process is not perfect. If you reverse this statement, that the least qualified man accepted to the college is less qualified than the most qualified woman who was denied, you are also probably right.

Another way to look at it is that only the most qualified women even bother applying. The number of filters on women in technical fields is absurd. When I was studying Physics there were only five women in the entire program of 200 students. My graduating class for Physics was 5% women. We were all there because we loved physics. Otherwise we would have dropped out 10 times over after being stuck in a male dominated program for 4+ years.
Yeah, aside from privately owned properties (comes with its own set of issues), every company managed property I've rented was priced by RealPage.

I know it's a very anecdotal and non-scientific.
Harris can still win.
It's possible it reduces the rate but doesn't fix it.

This did make me wonder how much of their training data is support emails and chat, where they have those phrases as part of standard responses.
I checked this out and I gotta say it is still in a very early stage. The features they are presenting seem nice, but not very usable, with a lot of rough edges.

Then I found this issue, where essentially they left a huge backdoor open with Remote Debugger: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927. The guy claims that it was due to ignorance, but seeing this really shakes up my paranoia. Luckily I haven't typed any credential into the app. From a security-minded user's perspective, this is not a good sign. I hope that they would really put privacy & security forward, get some 3rd party security audits.
Just wait a couple years when truth becomes too difficult to discern. Fairly easy to plug up forums, science journals, YouTube etc with whatever narrative you want once AI gets a little better.
That's totally nuts. How do they deal with the silicon warping around disabled cores or dark silicon? How long of hard running does it take before the chip gets fatally damaged and needs to be replaced in their system? Word on the street is that h100s fail surprisingly often, this can't be better
How many signups is Google getting for that? Will it sustain their capital expenditure and cover the depreciation? All sever equipments come with an expiration date. Based on my experience, all the LLMs have an initial cool factor that wears off pretty quickly. The productivity boost is questionable at best and downright negative in many cases. This is true in many AI projects. Just look at the Computer Vision geniuses that gave us Amazon Go Indian Mechanical Turks.
The important thing I'm pointing to is that there is no correlation between those haplogroups, which definitely do exist, and what anyone calls race. So when you say that you want to study race VS intelligence, that just doesn't make any sense. If you want to study the heritability of IQ, or variation in IQ between diverse human populations, that's a different matter.

Race is not genetics; genetics are objective reality, race is not. Race is a series of socio-economic labels applied to people based on purely external factors, and highly un correlated with any genetic variation.
>This observation is always highlighted by the absurdity of american politics when they describe candidates like Joe Biden as "far left"

Joe Biden is by all accounts, center-left. However, the parent comment also describes the "HN crowd" as far-right. What probably is actually happening is that America is extremely polarized, where any side you don't agree with has the "far-[left/right]" label slapped on.
If the main argument for the box is compute/$, "and then you need to spend another 20% on top to even make it work" is not the most winningest position. (20% because you also need to pay an electrician for the two-circuit wiring. Well, three, you want to run the heat pump too)

At that point it isn't super price-efficient, it's an absolute space hog, and you need to maintain a whole bunch of infra. Still might work for you, but it's losing a lot of general appeal
I’m rooting for Mike McCulloch’s Quantized Inertia formulation to upend the whole GR-plus-extensions regime.

https://www.amazon.com/Quantised-Accelerations-Anomalies-New...
To see people doing computer science you need to go to a university and watch professors doing research.

Also you can go to computer science conferences such as ACM conferences.
If it truly understood what things mean, then it would be able to tell me how many r's are in the word strawberry.

How about if it recognized its limitations with regard to introspecting its tokenization process, and wrote and ran a Python program to count the r's? Would that change your opinion? Why or why not?
With all the negative replies to your post, it's rather unbelievable to me that you can't figure out why.

Number 1: this is not a cloud-based product, it works entirely off-line, so saying that the product ceases to exist is also wrong, I and many others archive the installers to re-install them on new computers.

Number 2: Microsoft prides itself on backwards compatibility, and it is very common to run software that is decades-old on new versions of windows.

Number 3: It will not be possible to authorize Finale on any new devices, or reauthorize Finale. This is the point that is angering people. I paid for a very specific version of Finale, and it's obvious that I should continue to expect to be able to use it barring OS related incompatibility. The only reason the software won't work anymore is because they're deliberately locking my authorization key.

The correct move from the company is to either leave the server that authorizes keys on, or if that's somehow magically too much trouble, then they need to patch older versions of finale to not check for the key.

Source: Have been using Finale for decades
You too can run Witcher 3 equally on a minimal PC if you're willing to set the render resolution to 720p (540p undocked), settings to below minimum, and call ~30 FPS well.
Poké Transporter GB [video]
Not a right or wrong answer here either. Have had 215k+ tech jobs since I was 24 and now 30 making 300k.

I’ve learned it’s now so much the amount you get, but the company culture.

To answer question to OP more directly. Save and invest intelligently and don’t spend what you can’t afford. Been fairly frugal and sitting over 1 mil. My dad had a boring desk job and just retired with same philosophy and currently sitting at 10 mil networth.

He drove a truck for 20 years that he sold for 500 bucks and a crappy car he drove for another 15 years that he sold for 1k.

Not saying you need to enter the extreme to have happiness, but financial growth is like a snowball. Slow and steady
>Even Microsoft did this - "Windows Explorer" (The file manager) and "Internet Explorer" (The browser) shared a huge amount of code.

And famously got sued for closely tying the browser with the OS, despite the design making technological sense.
Danish Government backs Danish version of ChatGPT
I'm guessing that str allow it to work when the inputs are symbols? So that they are compared as strings rather than by identity. There could be more than one symbol named "foo"; if you want those to compare the same, you can't use regular symbol equality.

Or possibly the code even uses non-symbols for some of the arguments. Suppose that letter is sometimes the integer 1.
PC builds seem to short circuit everyone's pricing logic and drive any labor cost down to $0, just because they're willing to do it for free. Anything above that $0 is considered overpriced.
We actually invented video games before 1975.

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

That Atari 2600 in 1977 was when the fun began though.
My experience on all platforms is things have rapidly become slop. Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Threads. They all have a weird issue of random softcore sex stuff.

I have nothing against sex content, but I do wish we could just click a button to say turn this off, like safe search. It can't be that hard to filter out all the weird shit, so I assume it makes them money.
IQ is neither positive or negative. It is merely a factual representation[1] of what is. What has lead you to establish this emotional connection to it?

[1] To the extent of our best known ability to represent it. Any flaws in that representation accepted.
Why, does PRISM need a more direct funnel to the data spigot?
It would be understandable that they are focused currently on inference speed, but features like structured output and prompt caching make it possible to build more capable LLM applications.

Does Cerebras support reliable structured output like the recent OpenAI 4o?
i wrote an article showing how to the api to build a chatbot: https://api.wandb.ai/links/byyoung3/kv7vn1wt
Sergei Tretyakov made such claims.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Tretyakov_(intelligen...

Stasi and green activist contacts are also documented. (Most funding came from fossile fuel orgs/persons, not eastern block.)
https://www.dw.com/en/study-confirms-that-stasi-infiltrated-...