skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I think formal CS education often does a good job of teaching students to optimize in a myopic way - calculating big-O notation, understanding basic algorithms and data structures etc.

It's also rigid by design and (probably) necessity: students don't typically encounter unknown, unchanging, and evolving constraints and requirements throughout the project. Lastly they are not typically maintaining a medium/large codebase in conjunction with other engineers.

So you tend to get these smart kids don't know when to optimize. They can make a 15-line function "faster" but they don't have a sense of the impact this has on a larger project and they don't know how to weigh the impact of an optimization vs. the effort involved and future complexity it might incur.

The lack of knowledge would be fine on its own, but back to the Dunning-Kruger effect: they typically don't know that they don't know this stuff.

Not sure how you change that at the CS education level, honestly. At the very least you could stress to the kids that in the real world you have conditions and goals much different than in CS classrooms...
This was an interesting read. I dread the long development sprints that end with crashes on release mode :P
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It's a matter of cost, not NIH syndrome. In Basecamp's case, saving $2.4M a year isn't something to ignore.

https://basecamp.com/cloud-exit

Of course, it's fair to say that rebuilding the components that the industry uses for hosting on bare metal is NIH syndrome.
> nearly unusable for 70b models

Can Apple Silicon manage this? Would it be feasible to do with some quantization perhaps?
I am always wondering why the animal market hypothesis is always criticized by saying the proofs are not convincing enough, whereas the lab hypothesis is favored by the same ones while there is zero proof. I am quite an atheist there, both are possible for me, but if i were to bet my money, the animal market is the option with some scientific research and not speculations.
I like to print the k8s context and current namespace in the shell prompt.

It's still possible I could mess something up with kubectl, but it provides constant reminders of what I'm working with.
I see this story is on Forbes now, but apparently without any additional details:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/09/21/new-report...
Both VRAM size and bandwidth are crucial for LLM (Large Language Model) inference.

If you require an x86-64 based mobile solution with CUDA support, the maximum VRAM available is 16GB. The Strix HALO is positioned as a competitor to the RTX 4070M.

"NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile":

Memory Size : 8 GB
Memory Type : GDDR6
Memory Bus : 128 bit
Bandwidth : 256.0 GB/s

"NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile"

Memory Size : 16 GB
Memory Type : GDDR6
Memory Bus : 256 bit
Bandwidth : 576.0 GB/s
Sorry, bad reading comprehension on my part! I see honorary PhDs often used to express political support, instead of honest admiration of achievements.
May as well ask here: what is the best way to use something like an LLM as a personal knowledge base?

I have a few thousand book, papers and articles collected over the last decade. And while I have meticulously categorised them for fast lookup, it's getting harder and harder to search for the desired info, especially in categories which I might not have explored recently.

I do have a 4070 (12 GB VRAM), so I thought that LLMs might be a solutions. But trying to figure out the whats and hows hase proven to be extremely complicated, what with deluge of techniques (fine-tuning, RAG, quantisation) that might not might not be obsolete, too many grifters hawking their own startups with thin wrappers, and a general sense that the "new shiny object" is prioritised more than actual stable solutions to real problems.
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Related:

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online (125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151934

Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022) (40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778166
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I often see the sentiment, essentially, a method is much better because it uses only matvecs (rather than factorize and solve). This always confuses me, because the game for numerical linear algebra folks is inventing funky preconditioners to fit their problem, right? Unless people are subtly saying “our new method converges incredibly quickly…”

ILU0 is practically free, right?
This argument has so many holes you could drive a Cybertruck through it.

There are ample used phone markets selling iPhones and top-of-the-line Android devices (e.g. Back Market). No one needs to be on the latest and greatest. I still use an iPhone 13 and I have friends on phones as old as iPhone 11. None of us are part of the "American lower class". Smartphones are a highly mature technology and the improvements being made year on year are now vanishingly incremental, at best.

Further, there is no shortage of financing models available to American consumers. If anything, Buy Now Pay Later might be *too* available as an option.
>need to talk about the vanity attraction of a future all electric Porsche

Future? You can buy an all-electric Porsche Taycan since 2019 - and it’s faster than the 911.

Sports cars are fully adopting electrification, due to the huge torque numbers and high scalability. M-B and BMW of course, but also Porsche and soon to be Ferrari. It’s not just hybrids used for a boost (as in the decade past): those are full electrics.
would the Geneva convention prefer smart bombs? could the Geneva convention please tell the terrorists to stop hiding in their family and community?
Research: Flat Hierarchies Can Discourage Women Applicants
It only depends heavily on the up vote if you depend on the up vote. Sometimes it's nice just to formulate thoughts in writing. If others see it, great. If not, no big deal.
Llama's license does forbid it:

"Llama 3.1 materials or outputs cannot be used to improve or train any other large language models outside of the Llama family."

https://llamaimodel.com/commercial-use/
Miller cycle (IIRC) was a bit different. It simply kept the intake valves open longer and used boost from it's supercharger to emulate a valve "closing".
It used a boost level that was significantly higher than a supercharged Otto cycle would use.
Volkswagen is doing something similar with the EA888.3B (B cycle) motor that is in the most recent Tiguans. https://www.motortrend.com/features/inside-volkswagen-ea888-...

This six stroke is doing something a bit more complex...more impressive, IMHO.
Similar in complexity to what Nissan is doing with their variable compression engine they are currently using https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHI...

There was also a 6 stroke diesel a while back that injected water into the empty cylinder after the exhaust stroke to gain an extra compression stroke from waste heat...Bruce Crower (Crower Cams fame) built one years ago but I never heard anything more about it. https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2063201/inside-bruce-crowers-...
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I implemented my own https://github.com/shi-yan/QuipQuick
Yes, isn’t it fun to learn that the thing you thought you didn’t want/need to do at work you’ve been doing this whole time?

If you disagree, I’d love to know what you think bonding is.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/07/31/the-evolving-art-and-...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/09/21/dual-purpose-solar-ma...

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/agrivoltaics-solar-and-agr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics
it also puts the fear of god in them. if they can't trust any modern tech not to blow up, their ability to wage a modern war is compromised.
> 1) Do you need to separate types of plastics or clean them before using this process?

The whole second section of the article discusses this process on mixed plastics, including:

> Another test involved introducing different plastics, such as PET and PVC, to polypropylene and polyethylene to see if that would make a difference. These did lower the yield significantly. If this approach is going to be successful, then all but the slightest traces of contaminants will have to be removed from polypropylene and polyethylene products before they are recycled.
Poll: Light mode? Dark mode? Auto?
OK, you were not fast enough. I asked chatGPT. I think it helped but there is still a lot I do not understand.

M(n) = 0^inf <A 1^n 0^inf.

Is, in pseudo math/English, some Turing machine in state n is equal to

An infinite list of zeros up to the position of the machine pointer followed by some number of ones (maybe zero ones?) followed by another infinite list of zeros.

I think at this point chatGPT gets something wrong but at this point I hit the Free plan limit for GPT-4o and will have to wait till 2:13PM.
I don't have a horse in the race but wouldn't Meta be more likely to commoditize things given that they sort of already are?
This is a great point.

In one of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books, he talks about the emotional impact of looking at one's portfolio performance. If you do it rarely, like quarterly or annually, it'll generally be a positive experience. If you do it day by day, you'll have quite a lot of negative experiences. Because we're wired for loss aversion, we'll weight those negative experiences more highly. The same facts, presented differently, have very different impacts.

If I'm doing my own thing, like the author was with roller skating, my basis for comparison is me. There will be ups and downs, but more of the former, because we can't help but learn. But as you say, the bigger group I rank myself against, the more those experiences will be negative. I also think the bigger groups discourage camaraderie, because the declining chance of future interaction means smaller rewards for collaboration and support.
It's strange that the article makes no mention of the absolute abundance of pornography/porn addiction? I thought it was a fairly well established link.
I'm the same way. I could dispassionately talk about either my strengths or my weaknesses. But I don't see the world as measuring myself in an overall way, nor other people. We all have so many dimensions that are always in so much flux, how could you ever reduce that to something meaningfully quantifiable?
Thank you! I needed a robust algo to enumerate loops in directed multigraphs, and found an implementation of Hawick's algorithm in D. Instead of writing my own implementation in the language I use, I decided to just compile the code I found and call the binary. Went super-smoothly, even though I had never used D. Great work!
Performance based firings are when you fire individuals for their performance. Every example I gave is a layoff where large numbers of positions are eliminated and the employees let go regardless of their performance.
What spec people recommend here to run small models like Llama3.1 or mistral-nemo etc.

Also is it sensible to wait for newer mac, amd, nvidia hardware releasing soon?
Whether you get to vote in local and state elections depends on whether you declare yourself to have moved abroad indefinitely or temporarily (e.g. study abroad, temporary work posting) - https://www.votefromabroad.org/faqs/FP7

But all US citizens (even those born overseas who have never resided in the US) are eligible to vote in federal elections, not just the Presidency but House and Senate races.
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> Same is true for many kinds of malware.

Would you prefer to not have Doom at all? (Over only some malware not existing)
I took a few DiDi rides in China when I was there December last year, and most of the black car drivers used BYD electric cars that were really nice. I met some new friends at a wedding there and they showed me their car which had voice controlled windows that worked really well, it was a party trick for sure but cool. I came home wanting a BYD car and then I was sad to find them unavailable in the US.
> They developed a digital camera in 1975, so it wasn’t like they were surprised and didn’t have a shot. It is more likely that they wanted to protect their film business. They saw themselves in the film business, so as the need for film faded, so did their market share. Other companies filled the void.

Kodak was never really a camera company, they've been a chemical company their whole time. Indeed industrial chemical sales make up a significant chunk of revenue to this day. Kodak was actually pretty aware that the film business was on its way out they aggressively hit the digital market in the 90s. They had the first DSLRs in the 90s and the first commercially available full frame DSLRs. They also had the first commercially successful line of digital point and shoots, starting from a partnership with apple in the early 90s. They had moderately successful digital point and shoots through the digital points and shoot heyday. However, it wouldn't have really mattered even if they won the digital camera market, at its peak the total market was still a fraction of just Kodak's film business.

They were technically beat to market just barely, but Kodak was the first to deliver more than pre-orders.
> people in poverty wont be able to get iPhones for $100 upfront anymore

And that's good - those who are financially constrained shouldn't be getting (enticed) into debt-traps by buying a brand-new high-priced device when really cheaper alternatives are available. Note that the article points out that Verizon already unlocks all their phones after 60 days due to a previous agreement with the FCC. So this has already been "tested" in the marketplace and Verizon hasn't wound up this business model of payment plans. The article also points out the consumer benefit of this FCC policy - once Verizon unlocks its phone, their customers have more freedom to try other services through trial eSims, while customers of AT&T and T-Mobile can't because of their (longer duration) locked phones.
6 stroke diesel prototype.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2063201/inside-bruce-crowers-...

edit: Description before link
> starting to open their eyes.

starting? they've been cheering for hamas from day 1, and now I'm sure they'll have some motions to pass about a Hezbollah minion having the rights to keep his balls...
True, but it’s harder to run around with a begging bowl in Western cultures. Even though self worth is an illusion, right livelihood is part of the Noble Eightfold Path.
Because upvotes control visibility, you are still describing a reward function that depends on the upvote.
According to NBC[1], attempts were made to explain the ramifications to him. At that point, he knew he was declassifying the photo and knew he was revealing what his experts told him shouldn't be revealed. He simply didn't care.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/oval-offi...
Thoughts on a template app for Power BI embedded?
Hi everyone,
I'm a software developer and I've been working with the app-owns-data embedding model for a while. I think it's a versatile and cost-effective tool for sharing reports to non-licensed users but the setup process can be quite challenging - especially if you're new to PowerBI embedded.

It took me a while to wrap my head around concepts like authenticating with a service principal, generating embed tokens, and configuring service principal profiles. On top of that, having to manage report access and applying Row-Level Security for different users added much more complexity to the project.

To simplify this process, I'm thinking about creating a web app template that could alleviate these technical overheads. The template would:

- Provide a user-friendly interface to quickly embed reports from your organization without coding

- Include an admin dashboard for easy management of user access and groups.

- Streamline the setup process for RLS.

I'd love to ask you a few questions on this topic:

- Do you use the app-owns-data model to share reports with external users? How do you manage access and ensure security?

- Would a solution like this be valuable to you? Why or why not?

- What other features would you want to see from an application like this?

The goal for me is to create something that truly helps the Power BI community by making report embedding more accessible for everyone, so I would really appreciate your feedback!
And that is nearly half of what M4 will produce (450GB/s estimated).
I thought it was correct to run the DB migrations for the new code first, then deploy the new code. While making sure that the DB schema is backwards compatible with both versions of the code that will be running during the deployment.

So maybe there's something I'm missing about running DB migrations after the new code has been deployed - could you explain?
While that's true for their ChatGPT SaaS, the API they provide doesn't impose as many restrictions.
It's the opposite - regularly getting infected weakens your immune system. It's not something that constantly needs to be "trained".
End-to-End Encryption in Rails with Stimulus and Openpgp.js
They are laptop CPUs for bigger laptops, like those that now use both a CPU and a discrete GPU, i.e. gaming laptops or mobile workstations.

It seems that the thermal design power for Strix Halo can be configured between 55 W and 120 W, which is similar to the power used now by a combo laptop CPU + discrete GPU.
For expats 100%.
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Even in Safari, you can remove tabs from toolbar (but it is not possible to hide toolbar itself) and have them in sidebar - there are also tab groups.

But experience is probably different.
Anker warns people to stop using some of its iPhone power banks, issues recall
VitePress[0] with a custom theme.

0 - https://vitepress.dev
Are you suggesting that self-worth can only be defined as the sum of your perceived worth to others? That makes the 'self' in worth an oxymoron, no?

To you, it seems the best way to achieve self-improvement is to maximize your value to others, i.e. by moving up the social hierarchy. But that doesn't imply that those who don't play the game have no worth, does it?

I think you are conflating a sense of happiness with a sense of worth. They are not necessarily the same.

For example I occasionally find myself in conflict with an acquaintance over a miscommunication. If after explaining the underlying conditions the other individual refuses to adjust their perception of me, I couldn't care less. That's their problem, not mine, even if they continue to spread their (possibly vile) misperceptions.

Now if I had sucked up to them perhaps, yes, I would have improved my life. But what I did not do was reduce my self-worth.
Yes at around 8 tokens/s. Also quite slow.
yeah, at least PwC + Deloitte are more legitimate than say KPMG or E&Y IMO

this is judging by all the time I spend reading their "handbooks" professionally
New blood test could help spot children at risk of serious illnesses
Technology amplifies this, greatly. In a non-digital era our field of view was narrow, expanding either to our immediate physical surroundings or, when we went beyond them, limited by what we could read in a newspaper or see on TV. When I was little, I didn't know who was the most skilled person at my hobby or how popular it was or whether beautiful people online also happened to excel at it, while my teenage hormones wreaked havoc on both my personality and looks. Every single child in the civilized world nowadays is subjected to exactly that. You may be an aspiring dancer and there will be a million like you right there on your phone. It's hard for them to formulate self-worth when that is the case.

Does that mean the internet and digital advances are bad? No, it just means we were unprepared for them in a very meaningful way.
Welcome to the Era of 'Deep Doubt'
The committee report only looked at the regulator. To be sure, the regulator and the pensions industry should have done more. But the idea that Truss and Kwarteng are blameless innocents in the whole fiasco is ridiculous.
Google Now Syncing Passkeys Across Desktop, Android Devices
High Throughput Fizz Buzz (Code Golf)
Results of XRISM X-ray space telescope reveal black hole and supernova secrets
Imho opinion, and I'm no expert, but this has been working well for me:

Segment the texts into chunks that make sense (i.e. into the lengths of text you'll want to find, whether this means chapters, sub-chapters, paragraphs, etc), create embeddings of each chunk, and store the resultant vectors in a vector database. Your search workflow will then be to create an embedding of your query, and perform a distance comparison (e.g. cosine similarity) which returns ranked results. This way you can now semantically search your texts.

Everything I've mentioned above is fairly easily doable with existing LLM libraries like langchain or llamaindex. For reference, this is an RAG workflow.
Ubi is a non realistic utopia to begin with (offsetting the temperature scale doesn’t make anyone any warmer).

But even if not - no.

The best scientific breakthroughs were always made because of some scarcity and urgent necessity. Check Turing, history of Xerox lab etc etc.

Laziness and easy life is a bad motivator. Whether you like it or not.
Interesting. Splitting one question into multiple clues is actually how the human mind thinks about a question. This makes me think of OpenAI's GPT-4, though GPT-4 focuses on rethinking mistakes. It seems that imitating the human mind is the trend to improve LLM technology.
You can’t do what?
I've got some flashlights that can go to 100m+ in water without any glue, and they run on removable C batteries.
Any of the newer M2+ Max chips runs 400GB/s and can run 70b pretty well. It's not fast though, 3-4 token/s.

You can get better performance using a good CPU + 4090 + offloading layers to GPU. However one is a laptop and the other is a desktop...
I spent 56 years with that thought. Looking back for me it was family identity and trying to achieve standards of someone that died a decade before I was born.

I now understand self-worth in a new way. I had to realize that there was plenty of time to slow down and be deliberate. I had to get to point where I could take the time I needed to do a task.

I have no idea how others can find self worth but for me I describe it as being comfortable.
I think the key is that if something is flagged/dead, it and all its children are now entirely invisible to me. Whereas before I’d show-dead my way through that particular barrier, to no good effect.
> Compared to men, women expected relatively fewer opportunities for career advancement. As one woman participant noted, “I think of [a flatter structure of having] prejudice in the workplace preventing upward mobility of marginalized employees.”

Marginalized: on the margins, maybe low in some structure which can be visualized in a vertical manner.
Yeah, I liked Cygwin too when I was on Windows myself!
When? The Intel X710 series of network cards was released in 2014, and it wasn't until ~2018 that it became actually usable (end of 2018? I don't recall really, but when I stumbled upon it it had already been a public problem for more than a year, and it took a few more months for patches to come).

I'm talking things like full OS crashes while doing absolutely nothing, no traffic whatsoever or even better, silently starting to drop all network traffic (relatively silently, just an error message in the logs, but otherwise no indication, the interface still shows up as fine and up in the OS). It was all a driver issue (although both Intel drivers didn't work, so not only) that was later fixed.

After that, it was rock solid. But the fact that there was a high class network card sold for lots of money, on hardware compatibility lists at various vendors, which didn't work at all for pretty much everyone for more than a few years is disgusting.