skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest technological assumption, and the one I simply couldn't get past, was that the technology from pre-zero time would last long enough for very small groups of people with very limited resources could keep functioning for long enough for the society to develop its own capacity for fabricating new parts. The stuff they have would wear out long before that could happen.

- the spacers would run out of enough water as there would always be a small loses that accumulate, but a growing population would mean less available for propulsion needed to get at new comets. The cleft had lots of metal, but little else. The also had a set energy budget, there was no new nuclear power devices to be had, and they couldn't manufacture new solar cells - these would degrade over time.

- the diggers would be toast from heat. If the earth heated up as much and for as long as stated, they'd fry. If they dug deeper the earth gets hotter, if they are too close to the surface its gets hotter. Over time the surface heat would penetrate further and further in. There would be no place from them vent waste heat.

- the pingers would go first. The deep ocean environment allows no mistakes. Even minor failures would cascade into major ones.
I wonder if the models were as bad as the one used by that London scientist to promote the Covid lockdown?

https://www.aier.org/article/the-failure-of-imperial-college...

It was so bad, even the author didn't believe his own work:

https://thehill.com/policy/international/496366-top-uk-healt...
They already exist. Nvidia GPUs on laptops, M series CPUs from Apple, NPUs...
There's plenty of competition in this space already, and it'll only get accelerated with time. There's not enough "moat" in building proprietary LLMs - you can tell by how the leading companies in this space are basically down to fighting over patents and regulatory capture (ie. mounting legal and technical barriers to scraping, procuring hardware, locking down datasets, releasing less information to the public about how the models actually work behind the scenes, lobbying for scary-yet-vague AI regulation, etc).

It's fizzling out.

The current incumbents are sitting on multi-billion dollar valuations and juicy funding rounds. This buys runtime for a good couple of years, but it won't last forever. There's a limit to what can be achieved with scraped datasets and deep Markov chains.

Over time, it will become difficult to judge what makes one general-purpose LLM be any better than another general-purpose LLM. A new release isn't necessarily performing better or producing better quality results, and it may even regress for many use-cases (we're already seeing this with OpenAI's latest releases).

Competitors will have caught up to eachother, and there shouldn't be any major differences between Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc - after-all, they should all produce near-identical answers, given identical scenarios. Pace of innovation flattens out.

Eventually, the technology will become wide-spread, cheap and ubiquitous. Building a (basic, but functional) LLM will be condensed down to a course you take at university (the same way people build basic operating systems and basic compilers in school).

The search for AGI will continue, until the next big hype cycle comes up in 5-10 years, rinse and repeat.

You'll have products geared at lawyers, office workers, creatives, virtual assistants, support departments, etc. We're already there, and it's working great for many use-cases - but it just becomes one more tool in the toolbox, the way Visual Studio, Blender and Photoshop are.

The big money is in the datasets used to build, train and evaluate the LLMs. LLMs today are only as good as the data they were trained on. The competition on good, high-quality, up-to-date and clean data will accelerate. With time, it will become more difficult, expensive (and perhaps illegal) to obtain world-scale data, clean it up, and use it to train and evaluate new models. This is the real goldmine, and the only moat such companies can really have.
Incompatible with what?
Which obscure features?
I can’t actually name them either
Several US states have this program for glass and cans and yet both glass and cans are still found on the side of the road.
Local LLMs are terrible compared to Claude/ChatGPT. They are useful to use as APIs for applications: much cheaper than paying for OpenAI services, and can be fine tuned to do many useful (and less useful, even illegal) things. But for the casual user, they suck compared to the very large LLMs OpenAI/Anthropic deliver.
Can you explain? I'm struggling to see how group theory is relevant here
As others point out, it's essentially distillation of a larger model to a smaller one. But you're right, it doesn't work very well. Phi's performance is high on benchmarks but not nearly as good in actual real world usage. It is extremely overfit on a narrow range of topics in a narrow format.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550907
Ah right, I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

I skipped ahead in the book to chapter 8 entitled "Rewiring the Machine", which delves into what to do, and the first point is "Worker Power", with unions specifically mentioned.

They also mention it here (amongst other things) in this paper which may address some of your points:
https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/ai-for-fair-work-from-p...
You’re suggesting adding competing agencies in the name of efficiency? When this has been tried it always results in duplication of efforts, territorial protection of resources, harmful politics etc.

Bad idea.
Art’s impact often depends on context
Because they have different purposes. make is a build system, just is a command runner.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597250
Or they (some at least) might have a better frame of reference and “the young” people simple don’t know and can’t comprehend what they are losing. My interpretation is on no way less generous than yours.
> Now at least I can keep my distro and kernel etc all up to date without worrying about anything else breaking.

I get what you are saying, but note a word of caution - kernel upgrades can break container runtimes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10623.
I’d like my carrots to cost less than $100/lb thanks
No ridiculous prohibitions on training on logs…

Man, imagine being OpenAI and flushing your brand down the toilet with an explicit customer noncompete rule which totally backfires and inspires 100x more competition than it prevents
Make is very much centered around C. For example, make has built-in default rules for building C code

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/m...
That is really interesting. It indeed reminds me a bit on this research project https://github.com/DataManagementLab/ScaleStore (the one Andy posted the analysis)
That's immersion and an author in love with their ideas tends to ruin that for me. It starts to feel like smarts porn.
Not a psychologist but I am friends with more than a few. I don't know why you assume the psychologist meant the first because they did not. Self-worth has nothing to do with social hierarchy. It is how you treat yourself and a core thing therapist work on is helping you treat yourself the way you would treat others, with compassion and respect.
We should have a better education campaign on what it is.
Is soy milk ultra processed? Probably right? Lots of people drink soy milk thinking it’s a healthy alternative.
I mean bread qualifies.
So let’s begin by educating the public.
More science wouldn’t hurt, every study replicating the findings builds evidence. Every news article about same raises public awareness.
Did you mean evolve?
Why not dual license with AGPL?
I saw this demo a few months back - and lost it, of LLM autocompletion that was a few milliseconds - it opened a how new way on how to explore it... any ideas?
LA's streaming gold rush is over. Film and TV workers have been left in the dust
Modern art is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea yet it's designed to provoke, challenge, and sometimes irritate.
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I expect that if they want to delete that data then they should own up and publicly declare so. Back off from the promise publicly.

Or say that “yeah, we say that from time to time, but we don’t really mean that lol”.

Because converting a customer into a paying customer with the promise of “won’t delete even if you stop paying” is a service promise.
if you make a shortcut to the homescreen, I think there's no address bar then.
I don't think local LLM's are being marketed "for the casual user", nor do I think the casual user will care at all about running LLM's locally so I am not sure why this comparison matters.
Qwen 2.5 has just released, with a surprising amount of sizes. The 14B and 32B look pretty promising for their size class but it's hard to tell yet.
I am pro-nuclear, but I don't think that's exactly the correct argument for nuclear power. I think we can cover the current level of energy consumption with solar and wind. The problem is that we want to live in a future where the world consumes at least 10 times more energy than now. This might seem like an outrageous number, but it's not. The average energy use per capita in the world is 3.5 times lower than in the US. At the least we want the rest of the world to reach the living standards of the current average American person. But we also know that AI will consume exponentially increasing amounts of electricity. The exponential function is funny, you don't notice it until it explodes in your face. Right now AI uses a non-negligible but still small amount of energy, but the growth is clearly exponential. In a world where the energy is not a constraint, in a few decades AI will consume more energy than the rest of the economy combined, although it will be difficult to say what "the rest of the economy" will mean with a world where everything will be powered by AI.

Nuclear has the potential to fulfill all this future growth in energy requirements. The fundamental problem of nuclear is not safety, or waste, or proliferation. It is cost. And this is a solvable problem. The total cost of the 4 Barakah reactors you mentioned was $32 billion, or $5.7 billion/GW. The cost of utility solar is about $1 billion/GW, but the capacity factor is only about 30%, while the capacity factor of nuclear is about 90%. So $5.7 at 90% is still a bit more expensive than $1 at 30%, but if the cost of nuclear goes down by a factor of 2, it's at the same level as solar. And there is no reason to think such a reduction is not possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management : come in, make a lot of noise, shit everywhere, leave
I'll not be snarky and say with some certainty that mathematicians teaching mathematics is important to the field of mathematics.
So why nobody bothers about free and open source software as a must?
It's pretty much happening already. Apple devices have MPS. Both new Intels and Snapdragon X have some form of NPU.
Learning 101: The untaught basics [pdf]
This is an odd thing to say on a site that depends so heavily on the upvote.
I like [mistral-nemo](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-nemo) "A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, built by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA."
If I remember correctly the engine in the Mazda Millenia was a Miller cycle engine and did something unconventional like this. Props to Mazda for trying new stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Millenia
Enjoy the moment and soak in all the details
I like it

However, the way I view it, having fewer friends from work doesn't imply making more friends outside of work.

I spend 40ish hours the the workplace either way. If I categorically avoid seeking or making friends there, that doesn't mean I'm spending more time looking elsewhere. It just means I'm spending 40hrs/week friendless.
The flip side of detaching self-esteem from technical competency is that you can make very strong assertions without being arrogant.

People of integrity with utilitarian leaning are often labeled amoral or unemotional.

People with a strong drive not attached to financial gain are often termed unambitious.

Your perceived worth really depends on values of society, so if you remove yourself from the equation, you only have no worth to others, not to yourself. Sequestered from others the sense of self has no meaning, so naturally you have no self-worth. Not because you are worthless, but because you have no self and place no importance on your perceived worth.

Or more strongly phrased, what's the point of self-worth if you can do everything you put your mind to?

I'd you can't but think you can, then that's a harmful psychological schism. Since no one person can achieve everything, self-worth is only meaningful in areas for which you lack competency

For example - and this deals not with self-worth but with stress - I'm pretty inflexible in my goals. When I can't meet my goals I tend to shut down. I'm often asked if I'm stressed, to which I can only respond, "Stress - what's that?". And yet clearly I've suffered a harmful schism between my perception of self and reality, as indicated by my lack of stress response.
I can testify that Chinese EVs are starting to pop up in Europe. Not a lot, but if you do a lot of driving, you can spot one or two a day.

Given their price and performance, I think we'll be seeing more of them in the future. The two downsides (that I was told of) are build quality (at the same level as tesla) and obsession with large screens (same as tesla).
Sure, at the expense of the next generation of mathematicians who may not have anyone to teach them.
My advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017177 (and there’s lots of other recs in that thread)
You’re drastically overstating the differences between ICE and EV there. But that might be a side effect of American cars vs European cars.
Interesting! If I said you were bad at your job and an ugly, inattentive partner, would your primary reaction be one of hurt or just one of calculating self-preservation? I would personally feel very emotional if I heard those things from someone in real life, so it’s an honest question.

What emotionally drives you, if not the assessments of your peers? Why excel at work, why find a partner, why do your best to be better everyday? I wish I could say I was driven by rational assessments of my needs as a Homo Sapiens and my moral responsibilities therein, but I think I’d be lying to myself. Or, at least, it’s an eternal struggle to minimize the importance of self-worth.
Je ne suis pas un commentaire.
> relieved to find it's just a bug in the vendor's 'sdk' shovelware

Vendors plural to worry about:

“…driver bundles used in products from various manufacturers, including [but not limited to] Ubiquiti, Xiaomi and Netgear.”

That said, vendors (plural) say no products use this, e.g. Ubiquiti:

https://community.ui.com/questions/CVE-2024-20017/b3f1a425-d...
Nokia went from producing boots to electronics like tvs and cell phones to building mobile networks. With varying levels of success, obviously.
which model are you using? what size/quant/etc?

thanks!
It would be great if any NPU that currently exists was any good at LLM acceleration, but they all have really bad memory bottlenecks.
> Because the iGPUs aren't keeping pace, and many of the biggest/most popular titles continue to push the envelope of fidelity.

I feel like these days that is not really true. The high end gpu market is so small so most devs don’t even bother. Many games these days are optimized to run on a Steam Deck.

Things are not at all like the late 90s where you had to have a high end PC to even launch a game. Almost everything works fine on a humble igpu. 1080p low to mid graphics settings are possible.

Ray Tracing in most titles does not result in a better game. The hype for it has mostly died out because gamers prefer the higher frame rates.
> considered classics

Great games, but all you listed are barely 3 years old – can something that young already be considered a "classic"?
the reason most men (85%) don't have kids with multiple women is not because they can't afford to financially
I am betting on local AI and building offload.fyi to make it easy to implement in any app
Intel and AWS Expand Strategic Collaboration, Helping U.S.-Based Manufacturing
The Rijksmuseum is on my top 5 list of museums I've ever visited, along with the Vatican Museum, the Louvre, the Met and the Uffizzi.

There are a lot more interesting works in there including Vermeer, other Rembrandt works, Pieter DeHooch, Rubens, the whole golden era of Dutch Renaissance...

Since you're in Amsterdam already save some time to visit the VanGogh Museum, very close to Rijksmuseum.

And since you're in Netherlands already save some time to go to Den Hag (the Hague) to visit the Maritius Huis museum and the cool M.C. Escher museum.
you don't have to "prioritize logging" to have logs, calling this a "luxury" is quite bizarre. You can simply use tools that do bash history search, or one of the many copy-paste memorizer tools, and you'll save many hours out of those "many things to do" simply by typing ctrl+s. Some people are busy simply because they want to.
Just curious — ever tried reaching out to the customer care? :-)

I mean I can’t imagine them not being happy about not having to pay for the hosting, unless they have a clear way of monetising that data (AI/etc and all that).
Some of the magic happens at a distance
Nada to be honest. I keep trying every new model, and invariably go back to llama 8b.

Llama8b is the new mistral.
How does make solve those proBlems?
First NPU arrived 7 years ago in an iPhone SoC. GPUs are also “AI” chips.

Local LLM community has been using Apple Silicon Mac GPUs to do inference.

I’m sure Apple Intelligence uses the NPU and maybe the GPU sometimes.
> coworkers and would choose not to engage with them even in the office

Which is fine and understandable. Some people actually enjoy their work and like spending time with their colleagues (due to shared interests, worldviews etc.).

> actual relationships and not at work relationships.

I don’t see a difference or rather why can’t there be a significant overlap between the two (after this has always been the case for most people). Why wouldn’t you choose to work with the people you enjoy spending time with if you have the option?
Am I the only one seeing obvious ads in llama3 results?
Treds – Sorted Datastructure Server
I've realized something funny. It should be the company's interest to encourage employees to have productive debates and spend effort figuring out the best course on action, while in reality, from the perspective of an employee, it's an uphill battle to have your voice heard, with no reward at the end. Therefore, what a smart employee does, is shutting the fuck up.

Case in point: in my current team there's one very vocal senior who needs to have things done his way, but other than that, the willingness to participate in discussions is inversely correlated with experience, and the most experienced devs simply ran out of fucks to give because they're not getting paid extra for the time they spent in fruitless discussions. The end result is that the knowledge ends up being unused and we implement stupid ideas.
> It’s much more efficient than other materials in many ways.

That does not matter if it's poisoning us. And if we end up in a situation where energy is cheap (thanks to PV or whatever), it might be much better to use less efficient less poisonous materials, like glass or ceramics (and so on).
That's only an initial condition -- that requirement states only that the total energy is negative.

We are gravitationally bound to Earth, but the Voyagers have left the solar system.
I actually miss DOS. I could focus on one task for hours without being distracted by other apps trying to get my attention. There was something raw and engaging about being a few layers closer to the hardware without all the bloat. And, while I'd never go back to mechanical hard drives, you could hear the computer 'thinking'. It was more visceral.

I think it's a great analogy. It's all the little quirks and flaws that make ICE cars feel like they have a 'soul'. The more you have to engage with it, the more it feels human and machine are having a conversation. Many car enthusiasts seek out manual gearboxes (despite being slower to 60mph than a modern auto), because it's _fun_ and gives you some mechanical sympathy.

I own an EV, which is a fantastic daily, and a 911 for weekends. I've never felt like taking the EV out for no reason other than to enjoy a mountain pass. It's too heavy in the corners and too sterile.
He could delete the files, and will no longer receive these emails.

Dropbox terms of service:

https://www.dropbox.com/terms

indicates:

> If you don’t pay for your Paid Account on time, we reserve the right to suspend it or remove Paid Account features.

I find it odd if you ask me to store 2.5 TB in my computer, don’t bother deleting my reminders, and even post against me.
it's amazing/funny (not surprising) because it demonstrates that they are more interested in culture wars than science or technology, which i think is embarrassing for them
It will have around 250GB/s of bandwidth which makes it nearly unusable for 70b models. So the high amount of RAM doesn’t help with large models.
> Microsoft used LLMs to write millions of short stories and textbooks

Millions? Where are they? Where are they used?
What you can’t do with your Librem 5 is submerge it in water, so you keep using your phone and I’ll take the option with glue.
I used https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/# for my personal website
Wish my neighbours and relatives would listen - tell them that and they are quick to pick one of those plastic containers, flip it, and point to the text at the bottom that says "Microwave Safe". (And I am talking about no-name, cheap brands that are probably from China).
Yep, paintings are living artifacts that evolve over time
What Puts the "Tribo" in Triboelectricity?
threads will come as fast as possible. you can participate in them today in EX but not initiate them.
That sentence does say "couldn't all shoot off to infinity".
This is pure speculation, but is it possible that Android never would have been successful (or as successful) if they did not bow to the carriers?
By taking carrier-friendly positions they built a symbiotic relationship that resulted in the carriers being happy to promote their phones.
I’d be surprised if the amount of explosives was influenced by physical constraints. The aim wasn’t (and never is) to kill. It was to disrupt command and control. If even half the leadership lost hands, eyes, ears or mouths, there literally is no other option of similar effectiveness available.

But on the other hand. They needed the pagers to work for half a year or more (and still only about 3k/5k seem to have been active). Think about tech-support-but-evil trying to fix one that a boss dropped and discovering the explosives inside
> I've definitely been using .PHONY on various Linux and MacOS computers long before 2017.

Me too, and I've also used Makes which didn't (on e.g. Irix). What I wanted to express had been that you can't even rely on `.PHONY` existing, much less many other features.
The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society
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