skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use bsc and nanozip for archiving DB backups (usually 1-100GB files) and have not found anything remotely close to these as CPU usage vs compression ratio.

c:> bsc.exe e "%~1" "%~1.bsc" -b1000 -m4e1t -M4H20

This uses 3GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 300MB/s but is slow on decompression while

c:> nz.exe a -cd -p2 -m1024m "%~1.nz" "%~1"

uses about 1GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 250MB/s to worse compression ratios but is much faster than bsc on decompression.

Both of these smash zstd and 7-zip on compression and speed -- something like 2x better and 10x faster.
They did when they were led by people passionate about the technology. As soon as MBAs got ahold of them, it was all about enriching shareholders in the short-term.
> 911 Turbos are faster than Teslas.

Nope. Tesla Model S Plaid beats the 911 Turbo S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...
There is fairly significant difference in radio observations and visible spectrum imaging though. You aren't going to get 5m resolution visible light image of the Moon any time soon.
Facts about Britain
I think it can be a tradeoff to get to smaller models. Use larger models trained on the whole internet to produce output that would train the smaller model.
> how would this be any different in a non-digital era? You’ll still have a market (albeit significantly smaller

you answered it yourself.

What's harder, to become the best tennis player of your neighborhood or the best tennis player on the planet? What if you base your self on something that's fringe at a global scale, but acceptable in your local culture? What if all your human interactions are on the internet (with millions of strangers that tend to treat you badly, because people are way more rude online than in real life) vs on your local community (where people treat you better simply to avoid getting punched in the nose, but you might think they like you)?

_Everything_ is different online (and that obviously impacts people's psychologies)
I use Jekyll[1]. It's quite popular which implies that it's easy to search for answers online or find steps to some specific customization you might need.

[1] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/jensens_inequality
Considering that people still love vinyl, automatic watches, fountain pens and hand made notebooks, I think this will still has its niche, and more interesting designs will follow to push the internal combustion engines forward.

On the other hand of the spectrum, Hyundai Ioniq 5 N can emulate a sports car with an internal combustion engine and 8 speed sequential gearbox.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article
Subtlety. Now the dependencies are `baz` -> `foo` -> `bar`, that is `foo` is a temporary target and won't be (re)build if `bar` already exists. Which may or may not be a problem. This temporary target (whatever the actual term is) can be "elevated" to a "normal" target with the use of some special target (which I'm too lazy to look up right now).
It is definitely related to self-worth, because the contract you make is not with another person, it's with yourself. And when you respect it, it increases your self respect and worth.
Flagged dead green anonymous coward unog: If you mistakenly perceive that as a personal attack against you, it's only because you yourself are guilty of personally attacking innocent people with hate and bigotry by punching down and lying and bullying, and you totally deserve the same shit you dish out, but you just can't take it. You're guilty of and trying to justify and defend your own and other asshole's right wing sociopathic behavior, cultivated ignorance, racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic bigotry, mental illness, and conspiracy theories, and that's a fair objective accurate diagnoses based on the evidence, not a personal attack. I'm just personally DEFENDING the people you love to personally ATTACK. You don't belong here, and you fucking well know it, because you're terrified to post that bullshit under your own name. Go away, bigot.

Mark Robinson's historic posts on internet forums clearly demonstrate the hypocrisy and self loathing and psychological projection that's really going on with people like you.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robin...

At least Mark Robinson has the gumption to post that shit under his own name. If you truly believe and stand by and think you can justify what you say, then you should give it a try, anonymous coward keyboard warrior.
What's the current cost of building a DIY bare-bones machine setup to run the top LLaMA 3.1 models? I understand that two nodes are typically required for this. Has anyone built something similar recently, and what hardware specs would you recommend for optimal performance? Also, do you suggest waiting for any upcoming hardware releases before making a purchase?
Seems interesting! But I’m referencing the complete lack of mention (Afaict) of unions, syndicates, and socialism more broadly. Capitalism is diametrically opposed to workers rights, by definition — the most rights you can hope for are the ones that you can win in the free market. Which, ya know, if that was enough why would we need an NGO think tank?

It just seems like empty talk, in other words. Giving workers more of a voice is 100% meaningless unless that voice is literal direct power over the decisions taken by their firm. Not, like, pizza party listening sessions once a quarter.

Hopefully I’m just missing it! I mostly only looked at their 10 principles.
how are schools any close to prisons, other than both involving humans?
In what world does disallowing blatantly anticompetitive behavior constitute a significant economic change?
Nobody is telling you to bury them in your backyard, modern landfills take all this and much more into account.

Now of course an average 3rd world country doesn't have any of that, but if you would actually travel there you would see plastics everywhere, in the sea, on random land, in the mountains, in the rivers etc. While still leaking what you wrote but way more directly.
Not exactly the same, but some friends and I have a tradition of going to a local equivalent to Hooters on Mother's Day since it's the only place that you don't need a reservation. The last time we went the server gave us all an official card with her name on it where we could go to leave feedback for her.
Generally (not just for LLMs) this is called student-teacher training and/or knowledge distillation.
Related:

China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562321
This one? https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mass-of-river-plastic-fl...

I don't know enough to distinguish that this isn't just a graphic of population x flow rate.
> Fear of conflict: seeking artificial harmony over constructive passionate debate

What do you do when you don't fear the "conflict" (passionate argumentation in search of better approaches) but having it leads nowhere, because people have different opinions?

For example, I responded to a comment where a person had a difficult situation with a coworker, though I didn't really have any solutions myself either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601023

There's a lot of abstract stuff out there, without always having a clear cut "best" answer, but which will have different drawbacks long term, which will impact people differently (e.g. in regards to webdev, that could be using an ORM vs not using it from a type of workload where either could suffice, composition vs inheritance, DB views vs dynamically built queries in the app, using the DTO pattern vs not, using projections for returning DTO data directly from the DB to avoid needing arguably unnecessary mapping in the app code between an Entity and DTO object).

Probably there's dozens of things like that, that apply to game development as well, with people whose opinions have been shaped by differing experiences.

I think that you will probably need to compromise a lot and with outcomes that might feel sub-optimal, hopefully without souring the team dynamics in the process.
Some companies (OpenAI, Anthropic…) base their whole business on hosted closed source models. What’s going to happen when all of this inevitably gets commoditized?

This is why I’m putting my money on Google in the long run. They have the reach to make it useful and the monetization behemoth to make it profitable.
VR system mixes physical and virtual worlds to drive home climate urgency
What local models is everyone using?

The last one I used was Llama 3.1 8B which was pretty good (I have an old laptop).

Has there been any major development since then?
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. - well they tried
The pre and post conditions are checked at runtime. Also, typically static type sytems are not expressive enough to statically check more than relatively basic pre and post conditions, even in languages with advanced type systems like Haskell or Scala.
A while back they required login before download. That's when I noped out.
Ask HN: Would mathematicians be better off unemployed if we had UBI?
Wouldn't they have more time for research given that they would not have any teaching or administrative duties?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/alexandr-wang-scale-ai-d7c6efd7?...
I do not know of course, but black oil painting cracks more than other colours. I think it is common to mix black colour with a bit of dark blue to avoid excessive cracking. That could be a potential explanation.
You might want to take a look at the "actually portable executable"* project, made by the person you're responding to. There may be tips that will make make more approchable to you, if you're still dealing with MAKEFILEs.

* https://justine.lol/ape.html
At this point just use Java instead.
I would guess correctly aligned and/or finely filtered synthetic data coming from LLMs may be good.

Mode colapse theories (and simplified models used as proof of existence of said problem)
assume affected LLMs are going to be trained with poor quality LLM-generated batches of text from the internet (i.e. reddit or other social networks).
You can run Open Genera: https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html

And if you’re interested in other historical lisp systems, you can try out Medley Interlisp right in your browser: https://interlisp.org/
Yeah, Apple's autocorrect implementation is shockingly bad. Android is much better in this regard.
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Ive spent the better part of 3 weeks building my own shell for Linux mobile pretty much from the ground up, compositor and all, in Rust.

Going to scrap everything and switch over to using this instead. AWESOME job. This is a huge amount of work!
Look into Microsoft's Phi papers. The whole idea here is that if you train models on higher quality data (i.e. textbooks instead of blogspam) you get higher quality results.

The exact training is proprietary but they seem to use a lot of GPT-4 generated training data.

On that note... I've often wondered if broad memorization of trivia is really a sensible use of precious neurons. It seems like a system trained on a narrower range of high quality inputs would be much more useful (to me) than one that memorized billions of things I have no interest in.

At least at the small model scale, the general knowledge aspect seems to be very unreliable anyways -- so why not throw it out entirely?
Do you have a link with more tangible details?

I was under the impression that ocean plastic was comprised largely from discarded/lost material from ocean going industries followed by tyre dust.

A quick google didn't reveal much more than organizations think science is done by SEO.

Found a lot of incomparable data being compared. Measurements by mass, measurements by particle. Varying definitions of what constitutes a microplastic. from >2cm to >0.1mm

I found claims for top 10 rivers ranging from 95% to 18% of the river plastic. In general a lot of percentages, and few absolute numbers. In general it makes me despair for finding actual data. I'd like to be able to at least check that they calculated the percentage correctly mathematically. Preferably I could also know what as a proportion of what was being calculated so I could have some confidence that they were at least the same class of thing.
The number of the Porsche patent application:

20240301817

(which can be used on various sites, e.g. https://pat2pdf.org/ to retrieve the document)
I don't see how that's the case at all. A sense of obligation (how much you value someone else) has nothing to do with self worth (how much you value yourself). If this was the case at all, a great treatment for low self esteem would be to commit to stuff for others, since that'd automatically make you valuate your own self more
> Other kinds of apps (like social media or messaging) have very different usage patterns and can't use this kind of structure.

Reddit can’t turn a profit, Signal is in financial peril. Meta runs their own data centers. WhatsApp could handle ~3M open TCP connections per server, running the operation with under 300 servers [1] and serving ~200M users. StackOverflow was running their Q&A platform off of 9 on prem servers as of 2022 [2]. Can you make a profitable business out of the expensive complex machine? That is rare, based on the evidence. If you’re not a business, you’re better off on Hetzner (or some other dedicated server provider) boxes with backups. If you’re down you’re down, you’ll be back up shortly. Downtime is cheaper than five 9s or whatever.

I’m not saying “cloud bad,” I’m saying cloud where it makes sense. And those use cases are the exception, not the rule. If you're not scaling to an event where you can dump these cloud costs on someone else (acquisition event), or pay for them yourself (either donations, profitability, or wealthy benefactor), then it's pointless. It's techno performance art or fancy make work, depending on your perspective.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33710911

[2] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-st...
> How other people experience it, I just have to do my best to imagine it.

Imagine somebody planted a virus on your desktop, or just sneakily RDP-ed into your session and took control over your mouse and keyboard, like kids were joking on each other in computer classes back in the days. Now your mouse runs amok and keyboard types whatever, and you're sitting powerless and screaming at the screen because nothing is done and your day is ruined.

It's a shallow analogy, but in principle if you don't control your attention strongly enough, it gets hijacked by whatever your brain is trained to prioritize "subconsciously". And then once your attention is hijacked and you can't control it, you can only take the backseat and react, because the "virus" is already in your system. That's why and how clickbait titles or "outrage porn" or "reaction youtube videos" work, ditto for tiktok, instagram et cetera.

Unless you proactively and consciously keep running the firewall/antivirus of "why am I doing this right now and what do I get out of this?", your mind will be infected, that's an axiom.

From my observations I find it very ironic that for people who have stronger firewalls there will always be more sophisticated viruses and attack vectors. Don't get outraged at your phone every day? No problem, your next visit to a high profile restaurant will get to you once they stop making your favorite dish the way you liked, or city council orders demolition of an old building you find beautiful, or your favorite producer of high-end bike gears goes bankrupt just when you were to buy some hardware from them, or you maybe waited for a model update of a car you wanted to buy and this year they totally ruined it. Political or economical systems? State of climate, culture, some industry? Oh, there's so much of it. It can be of any complexity, the axiom remains.

Keeping your cool and your tolerance to insignificant things high enough also eats at your runtime resources, if you live among other humans and not like somewhere alone in the mountains after renouncing all earthly pleasures. So it's inevitable to drop it once in a while. Triviality of what will trigger it next time is, thus, entirely arbitrary.
Yes. The idea of socializing or bonding at work is bizarre to me. Work is for... working. The sooner I get that done the sooner I can leave and spend time with people I want to actually socialize with.

Like sure, let's have a celebration or two a year, celebrate our achievements together and kick back on a dedicated day, but please for the love of god don't on a daily basis try to waste my time with things I'm not getting paid for - unless you want me to be on the clock while not actually doing work, because in that case sure, I'll oblige and still be out the door once the timer hits 8 hours.

I'm more upset at the idea than any lived reality - at my current employer people are able to get work done, while still being pleasant to be around. Work is efficient, in scheduling allowances are made for people's actual lifes, nobody exceeds the 40 hour mark (I hardly ever break 30), and we like it that way.
Are you suggesting this: https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
I think there are two ways you can look at it.

One is what I think of as the neurotypical way. They spend a lot of energy on social modeling, on fitting people into hierarchies of privilege. (E.g., "respecting your elders", older sibling vs younger, teachers vs students, the popular kids, and so many other things.) Then in the same way they're judging the worth of others, they fit themselves into the same primate status model.

I think that's what the psychologist is talking about. Personally, I find that way not super useful.

But another way is sort of reverse engineering. From how person X treats themself, what can we learn about how much they value their own self? Like you, I didn't have much of a concept of self-worth in the sense of "where do I place myself in the many hierarchies most people around me are constantly aware of." But a therapist eventually got me to see that I did not treat myself as worth the same as the people around me. Paying attention to that has improved my life a lot.

The big question for me is to what extent the latter thing is influenced by the former. For neurotypical people I gather the link is pretty strong. For me it's definitely a weaker link, but it's hard to tell the difference between "there is no link" and "I don't notice the link".
Sure I see your point, I'm not sure I accept it, but it just seems to me like the idea that there's "stigma" is flat wrong. At best the argument is that there's some sort of sleeper-cells like you're saying. But this angle completely ignores the fact that there are bad women too, who like any large social group will weaponize and profit off the egregiously favorable policies for women (and every other supposedly "marginalized" identity) in place.
I would recommend never competing solely on price.
Is any of the original concept art public? I've seen some images purporting to be that but if you track them down they're actually redesigns made after the game flopped to show how it could have been done better.

The first redesign you link to isn't really "my type" but even so I think that's a viable character with sex appeal. They ditched the ugly lipstick, redistributed her mass to give her wide hips, and swapped out her depressed "I just want to die" facial pose with a big smirk that's full of life. They changed the gross loser into somebody who looks fun and lively.
Synthetic data (data from some kind of generative AI) has been used in some form or another for quite some time[0]. The license for LLaMA 3.1 has been updated to specifically allow its use for generation of synthetic training data. Famously, there is a ToS clause from OpenAI in terms of using them for data generation for other models but it's not enforced ATM. It's pretty common/typical to look through a model card, paper, etc and see the use of an LLM or other generative AI for some form of synthetic data generation in the development process - various stages of data prep, training, evaluation, etc.

Phi is another really good example but that's already covered from the article.

[0] - https://www.latent.space/i/146879553/synthetic-data-is-all-y...
Those are correct statements that don’t answer the question I asked. You’ve explained the difference between not caring about efficiency and caring about efficiency. The article said the 6-stroke design is for “efficiency” and did not say Porsche doesn’t care about fuel and only wants to maximize power, contrary to the comment I replied to above. If an engine gives you more power with a fixed quantify of fuel, then it must also give you less fuel for a given quantity of power, right? There’s no such thing as more efficient only for power.

BTW Porsche makes consumer vehicles, not just race cars. And they make engines for other types of vehicles, not just cars. It’s ridiculous to claim that Porsche doesn’t care about fuel just because they happen to make some race cars. Nothing in the article suggests this design is for a race car, nor would it; a patent is designed to be broadly applicable and if a 6-stroke design is shown to be more efficient than a 4-stroke design for fuel-efficient consumer cars, you can bet Porsche will be happy to sell you the engines or license the design.
I wasn't aware of furigana. I should be able to add that as an option if I can find a suitably-licensed dataset.

There seem to be some browser extensions that specialise in adding furigana to existing text, so you might be able to layer that on top as a temporary solution. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/furiganator/ijfcmmk... works for me, but you have to click the extension icon first.
At Hackaday Supercon in 2002, the badge for attendees (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/12/the-2022-supercon-badge-is-a...) implemented a fictional 4-bit CPU along with control panel for directly entering instructions and running and stepping through code. I had a huge amount of fun implementing a space shooter video game on it, as the panel included a bit-by-bit view of one of its pages of memory. Comparing its Voya4 architecture with the 4004 was fascinating. Some similar tradeoffs, but the Voya4 has the benefit of 50 years of CPU instruction set exposure.

Alas, dimitygr's method wouldn't work on the badge, as the memory and RAM are all internal to the PIC24 that implements the CPU emulator.

BTW, 4-bit CPUs are still made and used. Many of the mass-produced IR remotes are programmed using a 4-bit MCU. See https://www.emmicroelectronic.com/sites/default/files/produc... for a datasheet.
An AI chip on laptop devices would be amazing!
Is there any downside to using a plasma gasifier? I still see a lot of plastics around, so I guess(?) additional solutions are needed.
It normally works in conjunction with GCC’s “-MMD -MP” arguments which provide .d files which then get included back into the Makefile with something like “-include $(OBJS:%.o=%.d)”.

It doesn’t directly interpret any source file though, if that’s what you mean.
Intel sells two versions of their WiFi cards: ones ending in 1 use CNVI protocol and work only with Intel chips. These are sold really cheap to OEMs; ones ending in 0 use standard PCIe and are sold to OEMs for ~$10 more.

AMD decided to brand Mediatek's MT7921 and MT7922 as RZ608 and RZ616 to have something to sell to OEMs at the same price point as Intel's xx1 chips.