skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His argument seems to be more about the limited utility of GenAI, specifically LLMs (vs image generation), than about more efficient AI techniques. We do seem to be at peak LLM hype right now, with C-suite execs thinking of "GenAI" as some sort of proto-AGI that can do magic, and OpenAI/etc still claiming that AGI is just around the corner if only investors will foot the bill for $100B data centers to train ever bigger models.

It's not clear what level of datacenter/GPU investment is needed for inference vs training - all the talk of massive GPU clusters seems to be about training needs, not inference.

As far as efficiency, presumably we'll eventually switch to smarter (brain-like) dataflow type designs with incremental learning, but for time being we're stuck synchronously pumping 100K contexts through hundreds of transformer layers, and trillion token pre-training runs. Brute force indeed!
This doesn't make any sense.

How is increased head pressure 30-60min a day going to change the fact that your soft tissue at the back of your throat closes the airway when you're sleeping?
As it turns out, I wrote a whole extension for txgui that implemented some of what I wanted...

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/llm_steer-oobabooga
Considering they decided it was worth upgrading, yeah. A marginal amount of time to backup, normalize, and import the data isn't a lot.

Not worth keeping the posts? No readership? Why upgrade?

Sus, as the kids say, but plausible.
I want "proper" English, SI units and Euro as default currency. For me, the only thing that sort of works is pretending to be Irish.
> The richest people are the most productive members of society.

Sadly disproven many times. As the old airline magazine ad copy read: you get what you negotiate. Enhanced by noting that inheritance or divorce is not productivity.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/us-birth-rate-low-policy-so...

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

Tangential to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214096, for mental model sampling.
The classic time space tradeoff question:
If I run Antithesis for X time, say 4 hours, do you take periodic snapshot / deltas of state so that I don't have to re-run the capture for O(4 hours) again, from scratch just to go back 5 seconds?
Integrating OneTrust Consent with Analytics React Native
steves keynotes were better than DEI lineup + campus drone porn
Google Ride Finder (2005)
I think they mostly targeted font/image/url parsing which are used across the OS. iMessage was somewhat privileged at some point in the back but was compartmentalized later and media processing was the only escape, but that’s out of process now too I believe.
>The car salesman who we worked with leasing our Lexus had a bad flu and didn’t wear his mask ONE night and died in his sleep.

My dad's friend died like that, not a flu, but was traveling overnight and didn't take his machine and died in his sleep. Although I almost wonder if this heavy reliance on cpap machines causes people to lose some innate ability to recognize when they stop breathing or at least delays the normal instinct to wake up and breathe.
Wow, lame. I'm even seeing in the docs that it requires a device with iOS or iPadOS. :-P Sorry for the wild goose chase.
CPU demand didn't drop to zero during it's heyday of doubling performance every two years.

There is a decent chance we ramp to 10+ trillion $$ of demand annually for inference here in the next decade or so. That will drive a lot of GPU sales.
What's a better alternative? This problem is annoying but to me not more annoying than having to read or write JSON, and TOML is terrible with nested configs. If there were an option with the structure of YAML minus the ridiculous string handling I'd switch to it for sure.
This is more a list of complaints than anything else.
The problem isn't just headphones, though. It's car stereos, home stereos, portable amps...
> if there are tracking pixels, they fire since you must open the email for further screening

What makes you think that? Email message content is plain HTML, tracking pixels are usually implemented as `<img>`s with unique link.

I'd expect Apple engineers are aware of that and they can render HTML without external resources, and only then pass it to their LLM. Also Mail.app is already capable of doing that -- you can disable loading external resources by default in settings on iOS and macOS both.
What an interesting—and I believe valid—take.

Whether this is intentional by the document's authors or not doesn't matter.
The outcome is likely more undemocratic centralization of power, forcing policies people do not want under the guise of competitive efficiency.

You could say it's better than rallying people against an inexistent threat. Besides, you could also argue that Europeans do not necessarily want to be more competitive.

While the relative benefits of a large market and (relative) peace are a consensus, the rest of the European project is opaque at best and only reflects the aspirations of a few people living in a bubble.
Thanks for the hint, will fix that!
> That's a developer choice, not the registry in and of itself. You could just as easily have /etc filled files with GUIDs for file names.

For sure, that's why I said I have no issue with the concept but rather how it's used in practice.

> Microsoft does for Windows components to map the internal object ID of whatever they're dealing with; my assumption is for ease of recognition/documentation on their side (and generally the assumption that the end user shouldn't be playing around in there).

That's maybe fair, but most of that stuff isn't stuff the user even needs to access most of the time. Maybe separating it out from all the HKLM and HKCU software trees would have made sense.
> The richest people are the most productive members of society.

WTF?!

It's been shown again, and again, and again, and again that they are not. We really need to get over our worshipping and adoring rich people.
A car without radar cannot be trusted to drive itself.

I can move my eyes, put on sunglasses, lower the sun visor. That rinkydink camera is stuck looking straight at the sun. It’s a no go.
The author himself pointed out in the end of the article that blurays are cheap- in my view they provide a close enough physical experience. I would probably stick with Blu-ray approach?
Checked all regions, no services on the AWS side. It seems maybe our old Datadog was still spamming the GetMetricData API by default after cancellation. No logs are collected but they still seem to query the API for every service enabled by default.
Wouldn't the large amount of existing services written in Hack be reason enough to keep it around?

The cost of rewrites at that scale certainly has to be far more expensive than the cost of paying a team to maintain HHVM
AI should be renamed "Brute Force Statistical Computing". BFSC. It is what it is.
>I've never met someone that bought a synthetic diamond that didn't immediately try to justify it

What you likely to consider "trying to justify it" is more likely "trying to let someone know they are delusional."

"My synthetic diamond is functionally identical, if not even better than your mined one" is factually true and not a justification...
I don't need the financing, I just take all the 0% financing I can get.

Apple caters to the premium market, diluting their brand with a cheap phone would be a dumb business decision on their part.
.NET Aspire – Opinionated stack for observable, distributed applications
It's always fun to see young industries where there are dozens of different competitors all vying to be the one that wins in the end. So many wacky designs that ultimately don't survive.

That said, times like this are also a nightmare for third party people like software developers, accessory developers, administrators, etc... who all have to design their stuff to work on only a portion of the market or put loads of development effort into porting to more of the platforms. It is no wonder that the natural state is for most of the competitors to die off and for users to rally behind either one platform or one standard.
Ask HN: Why are Closed Captions so neglected by Netflix et al.?
Errors abound - Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, weird punctuation artifacts (e.g. double quotes and single quotes redundantly used together), ascii symbol accidentally inserted, etc.

I know why closed captions on Amazon Prime, are technically poor (auto generated. under-funded, etc.).

But why are they so neglected by the media streaming giants in a business sense?

It is an offense to the hearing impaired.

It is transparent that they care little about accessibility.

It looks unprofessional.

Many people have subtitles on even if not hard of hearing. We see this terrible quality.
It undermines the aesthetic beauty of the media.

So much time is spent on the shoot, the cinematography, staging, lighting, colors, angles, acting, editing. Hundreds of millions of dollars on a film, then failure to spend $1k on final proofreading/testing. Why undermine it with a stupid mistake ('ins' instead of 'in').

The answer can't simply be 'cross platform compatibility issues' because it doesn't explain the spelling mistakes, or the fact that these issues occur across multiple browsers/platforms that each have billions of users.
Write, fsync, rename then fsync directory if you need an ordering guarantee that the rename is a transaction barrier.

Of course, the fun part is that the filesystem can’t really guarantee fsync behavior if drives lie about it which many consumer drives do for benchmark reasons. Fun, no?
Except they're stupid expensive for no reason
Satisfactory Hits 1.0
Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime
An H100 is already close to ASIC. "GPU" is just a path dependent historical naming.
Yes! See Alex's talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6GBg13P60

In fact, we just made a radical upgrade to this functionality. Expect a blog post about that soon.
>Seems obvious enough. But maybe, just maybe, the brake lines were cut by somebody who wanted the driver dead. Or what if he was drugged? Can we distinguish that scenario from him being sleepy?

If this is prod, your job is going to be finding what combination of these things caused it this time.
I save a lot of energy in the winter because I can turn down our home heater and the hot laptop keeps my fingers warmed up and typing fast!
Playstation 5 Pro
There's a binary analysis time travel debugger similar to this, Qira [0][1].

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2016/conference-prog...

[1]: https://qira.me/
check out

https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub/

https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub-Radar
Yeah, and the bill will come back adjusted to

- X-Ray: $15
- Radiologist Consultation: $125
- Harrison.AI interpretation: $20

The cat and mouse between payer and system will never die given how it's set up. There's a disincentive to bill less than maximally, and therefore to not deny and adjust as much as possible. Somewhere in the middle patients get squished with the burden of copays and uncovered expenses that the hospital is now legally obligated to try and collect on or forfeit that portion for all future claims (and still have a copay on that new adjustment)
In the Labyrinth of Unknown Unknowns
> But to take part in the wider algorithmic Display Ad sales market, my understanding of the DoJ's complaint is that you're (de facto) mandated to use Google's exchange.

even on DoJ pic they say AdX is 50% of market share, meaning other publishers even when using Doubleclick for publishers go somewhere else, so it seams like google allows it.

Also, my understanding is that even on google platform, there is Doubleclick for publishers, but there are other tools: AdSense and AdMob, which are very simple and without much lock in, publisher can move out whenever he wants. Per some internet discussion AdSense don't use AdX, and per some "reddit experts" it is violation of policy to use both simultaniously: https://www.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/18e3mqs/can_i_use_ad...
Indeed, and "hyperparameter tuning", i.e. "try every combination but give that an impressive name so people don't raise their eyebrow at us"
Is this not a decline in performance? I have the Watch 8 and I'm pretty sure it lasts slightly over 24 hours. 18 hours means that if you put it on the charger daily for 1 hour then you have to shift the time at which you charge it 5 hours earlier every day.

Even if it was just 24 hours that's not good enough. Let's say you religiuosly charge it immediately after arriving home from work, at 6PM. Then one day you go out to dinner and grab some drinks and stay out until 11. It'll have been 28 hours since you grabbed it off the charger the previous day so you won't have use of your watch that evening.
Well generally OP is correct that SQLite will more likely have written fsync code correctly and be fairly robust against power failures due to the WAL. Additionally, it’s not doing any renaming which you would need with plain files.

So while it doesn’t do any other magic, it’s more likely to handle power failures correctly.
Oh my god, yes! I would love to not only understand my great grandfather as a real life person but also to have context of the world in which he lived.

Hell, I wish I had home movies of myself with my parents as a toddler/child that included audio. All our home movies were on soundless 8mm film.
You die, you leave something behind. In this case, he waived away his voice, at least he did it only for one character.
Doesn't appear to be any weights uploaded anywhere that I can find.

There are the starts of two (non-original-author) public implementations available on Github, but again -- doesn't appear to be any pretrained weights in either.

* https://github.com/lucidrains/transfusion-pytorch

* https://github.com/VachanVY/Transfusion.torch
Solution: quote values. Like in JSON.
Why is it cool? What is it about TFA that interests you? What does it do that other resources have not done? Does it help you think about the problem in a different way?

I've always been fascinated with the perfect squares, and various patterns that arise from observing them. I love how the article examines the patterns and then extrapolates the study of the patterns to a tool for memorization.
Nobody actually does that, turns out. Several manufacturers have the feature and it goes unused.
Thanks, that one seems likely.

Hmm, though this seems to affect the case-hack thingy only, which seems like a macos-specific feature...
The values of G1 and G2 are computed by a complex algorithm, however, that algorithm is agnostic of the position of the ad in the auction. Unlike the constant factors (1+a) and (1+b) applied on top of that.

Other companies in that auction could apply this kind of optimization, too. Perhaps the improvement is not as large for smaller participants, and so, not worth looking into.
You'd think the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms would be a hoot, but alas there's more to a thing than its name.
Great tool, highly recommend! Thanks so much for all the work you do, Catalin.
I really like the vinyl stickers for the NFC cards. I recently got some blank white NFC cards and have been trying to figure out how to decorate them.
Hi Steve. Please include https://github.com/beercss/beercss in your exploration.
>Seems ridiculous to me that Ireland doesn't have authority over its own taxes to give Apple a tax break

Ireland can have full authority over its own taxes ... if it leaves the EU. But then Apple, Google, et-all would also leave Ireland for another EU tax heaven sicne there wouldn't be much advantage for them staying there anymore. The EU giveth and the EU taketh away. Ireland can't have its cake and eat it too.
This is dumb. It's kind of like saying: "once more processing power is no longer useful, we will no longer need our large human brains."

SOTA will remain at the edge of what compute can produce for a long time to come. SOTA is a moving frontier, and there will be demand for incrementally smarter models, because they save you time by making fewer mistakes.

No matter how much more efficient algorithmic innovations make ML model training, compute will make those algorithms smarter. It's a coefficient.
Rounded is much better. Now even macs are getting squareish :(
I don't think those numbers are right. I am at exactly 3 years on my 13 pro, and I have 92% battery life yet.
Yeah, cartels gonna cartel. When I bought an engagement ring you'd find a natural stone for $x and the lab-grown version was, at best, $0.9x - I came across several instances where you'd choose between lab-grown and natural and the price was the same regardless.

They've been cheaper for a while but it doesn't matter that it's cheaper to make lab-grown diamonds than it is to mine natural diamonds if the consumer is going to pay the same regardless.
I got the 2020 version of the watch and this is how fast it charges.
Tone policing outside of Mastodon to concern troll is bad manners.

I don't appreciate tankies sharing their nonsense after getting kicked out of a community.
For a start, tell the company your hourly rate for custom changes; and see how bad they need them.
Twitter feeds would definitely be great to have, will check Nitter to see how I can get them. Thanks for the suggestion!
Parallels releases Parallels Desktop 20 with AI development tools
Such people should be much more visible in the world:

Frazer Lockhart

Manager, Rocky Flats Project
Department of Energy
Evergreen, Colorado

https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/frazer-lockhart-...

I think the reduction in national pride in some nations has more to do with it being obvious that many of the people running the country at a high level have no loyalty to the people; that kind of thing trickles down and poisons us all.
Exceptions are slow in some languages based upon how they are implemented. I'm not convinced that is fundamental to exceptions and rather a choice of how they were implemented. In Java exceptions arn't actually that slow, most of the cost is just allocating the exception object (and allocations in Java are fast).

> Exceptions lead a developer to miss errors, or to not handle them in a finegrained manner - e.g. generic "catch all, log error, maybe" style error handling.

I don't see how Go error handling makes people handle things any more explicitly than exceptions. Most people just `if err != nil { return err }`, which to be honest is the _correct_ logic in many cases, and it's pretty easy to forget to check if err and keep on trucking. At least with exceptions if you don't catch it your thread terminates making unhandled exceptions

Exception bubbling means its easier to catch the error at the level that makes sense, and because they are real objects type checking is easier as opposed to the performance of `errors.Is()` which is surprisingly slow.
Not exactly the authors point but quite a lot of end consumers care about security. This has helped the likes of Apple who have a good reputation do well. (2004 market caps Apple 8bn, MSFT 298bn, Apple now bigger than MSFT). And there are other examples that are similar - I switched my mum from yahoo mail to gmail when yahoo kept getting hacked - Google doing well, Yahoo basically went bust and so on.
> Google harnessed users for it's own purposes without their consent by means of deception

Every profitable company on earth, ever.
I don't drink coffee or alcohol. Could probably use more sleep, though, ha.
It’s not really buried at all. It’s right there on the basic plan descriptions for the big 3 carriers.

The big 3 US carriers basically tell you that data used by the phone is unlimited with no significant throttling, and that tethering is a separate data quota with more significant throttling after your allowance.

The reason this matters is that the aggregate sum of their customers aren’t realistically able to burn so much bandwidth on their smartphones that it causes issues, but someone using a tether could literally run all their home internet including hundreds of gigabytes of streaming TV that is never shut off off of a phone plugged into the wall and used as a router.

But the phone company also doesn’t really want to make customers on actual smartphones have to think about data allowance on their unlimited plans. They would rather base plan tiers off of things like video download quality which are drivers of bandwidth usage and are easier to understand to the layperson.

It’s could be an analogy to the same reason your car insurance company doesn’t want to insure your car if you’re using it for business purposes, because they know the costs and risks for someone using a vehicle for business are different than someone using a car for personal use, just the same way that someone using a phone to tether to a laptop is inevitably going to have a different usage pattern than someone with a smartphone in their pocket.
If you allow me some jest I would like to point out that at the checkout of my local stores I never saw officers collecting VAT, I usually just give all the due money to the cashier
I just skimmed the whole book. Could you point out any of these "datasets" you think exist in the book and how you think they support the claim that all these ailments stem from not closing our mouths while we sleep.
Arbitrary unions of literals as types have been done before dynamically (Lisps, Prologs, Erlang) and done elsewhere statically(Python).

The more distinctive features in TypeScript would be what you can to with keyof/typeof, indexed access types, conditional types and especially mapped types.
Thank you! Did you bail from the small speaker because of sound quality?

Do you use your watch to control the Bluetooth playback? If so, When controlling it in the shower, do you find that the touch screen has a hard time sometimes registering your touch, or having it accurately sense?
This is a cool and nerdy project, and I support that.

From a functional perspective would it not be simpler to simply
burn dvd / blu-rays and if they are old enough use that system?
(Given that kids are not exactly careful with physical media
burning copies takes away the worry)

I dont get a feel for how many movies you have printed cards for,
but it doesn't look that many.

Something like a Streamdeck with buttons for each movie could work
but then you do lose part of the physical media feeling.
Strtod Is Wild
Nice one! I have hit something similar in the past around text input parsing. I bet that `e` notation for entering numbers has caused more bugs than it has actually been used as intended, at least in non-scientific code.
We've had a good day, haven't we?
You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200k on Alibaba
I think the point about the age of the earth and evolution might be backwards.

Lord Kelvin had worked out that the earth might be only 20 million years old maybe 60 years earlier based on continually losing heat.

But even at that earlier time biologists and geologists were suggesting that number wasn't high enough to explain what they were seeing in their fields. I think Darwin had suggested a lower bound of at least 300 million based on the erosion he saw locally.
Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?

Why wouldn't I be? Human creations can be every bit as awe-inspiring as anything found in nature.

No waterfall is as impressive as a smartphone, if you know what you're looking at and what it took to make it happen.
Not your comment specifically, you're one of many saying FUD.

Honestly if you accept that the comment was talking about real tradeoffs then I'm a bit baffled that you though it was FUD. It seems like an important thing to be talking about when there's a post advocating moving away from PaaS and doing it all yourself. It's great if you already knew all about all that and didn't need to discuss it, but just stare into the abyss of the other comments and you'll see that others very much don't understand those tradeoffs at all.