skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This getting too abstract. The core issue of LLMs that others have pointed out is the lack of accuracy; Which is how they are supposed to work because they should be paired with a knowledge representation system in a proper chatbot system.

We've been trying to build a knowledge representation system powerful enough to capture the world for decades, but this is something that goes more into the foundations of mathematics and philosophy that it has to do with the majority of engineering research. You need a literal genius to figure that out. The majority of those "talented" people and funding aren't doing that.
Isn’t it like: the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
> LPDDR5x of 8 or 8.5 GHz

Not 8000 or 8500 MT/s and thus the frequency is halved?
This.

I've been running LVM and Linux software RAID for like 20 years now.

The only limits (for me at least) are:

smallest device in a raid determines size of that array. But that's fine since I then LVM them together anyhow. It does let you mix+match and upgrade though really I always just buy two drives but it helped when starting and I experimented with just LVM without RAID too.

I have to know RAID and LVM instead of trusting some vendor UI. That's a good thing. I can fix stuff in case it were to break.

I found as drives went to Terabytes it was better to have multiple smaller partitions as the raid devices even when on the same physical drive. Faster rebuild in case of a random read error. I use raid1. YMMV

I still have the same LVM partitions / data that I had 20 years ago but also not. All the hardware underneath has changed multiple times, especially drives. I still use HDDs and used to have root on RAID+LVM too but have switched for a single SSD. I reinstalled the OS for that part but the LVM+RAID setup and its data stayed intact. If anything ever happens to the SSD with the OS, I don't care. I'll buy a new one, install an OS and I'm good to go.
The alternative phrasing would not, IMHO, have been true. If someone genuinely claimed that, then entirely in the spirit of the original quote, lots of people would chime in.
> “Just rewrite the hot function in rust, bro” and “just import multiprocessing, bro” are functionally identical to rewriting most of the application for these.

Isn't "just use threads, bro" likely to be equally difficult?
But then how do you classify a task that the LMM performed, such as a summary?
I think you are onto something here but it really depends on what task you want the LMM to perform, search, how to, summary, extraction etc...
That is the official story. None of it has materialized so far.
A few years ago saying that there will be soon AI that perfectly understands human natural language was viewed as unrealistic science fiction. Today the possibility of an AI god is regarded as unrealistic science fiction.
> It's a beautiful coffee table book, I love opening a page randomly and (re)discovering a game.

It is also a beautiful coffee table book in the sense that you can use it as a coffee table :-P - the thing is heavy and huge.

I bought the Bitmap Brothers release way back when and it also came with a bunch of goodies. Though the book's size does make it a bit unwieldy.
Show HN: I made a map to show NFT holders around the world
Hey HN, I just launched a tiny web app called Frens.my.

This one’s geared towards the web3 and NFT crowd; it hosts a world map that displays the geolocation of participating and consenting users.
You can check out where your fellow NFT holders are on the map. And if you’re part of this community, you can join in and plonk yourself onto the map, while repping your favourite NFT that you hold as your avatar.

I actually made this for and during a web3 convention in Singapore earlier this month, but never shipped in time. So I spent a little more time scaling up the map up to cover the entire world instead.

But Frens.my really shines when it's used for IRL events. For example: A web3 convention with thousands of attendees; the map on the app is auto-zoomed in on the venue; get enough people to hop on the app with you on their mobile device, and suddenly the map is swarming with avatars; find fellow holders of NFT communities you're a part of at the venue, call them over with the live chat, and have a ball!

Might not be everybody’s cup of tea; but if it is, I know you’ll appreciate this one. Thanks for your time.
In the press release, the CEO of Quantum Leap Research, Jim Miller, said: “Quantum Leap Research believes FreeBSD is an excellent choice to serve as the foundation for a new secure computing initiative given its long history of security and stability,” said Jim Miller, President of Quantum Leap Research. "Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows."

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9234109/quan...
Though I never understood why 19 years ago wouldn’t be the second best…
"Science" didn't send anyone to the moon. The science of getting to the moon was centuries old when it was applied. Engineers, working from alloys to computers, sent people to the moon.
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Ok, but, like, imagine you are a fantastic artist, there's 100 paintings, most bland as fuck, and yours is the only one that looks good. Great, people who view 100 paintings will see yours and marvel at your skill.

Now, we have AI. Yours is still the only good one, but there are now 100,000 paintings.

How likely is it that your painting is still recognised as good, by someone who looks at 100 out of 100,000 of those paintings at random?

It doesn't matter that your painting is good, the discovery mechanism is shot to bits.
Smaller clusters are common because it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. It's the same problem as any distributed system- going wider with a map only works if you can perform a timely reduce. With checkpointing you run into things like network storage being too slow and so on. There's also the fact you might want to work on/with many models and what you want to do for production (inference) is different than what you try to accomplish in development (training).
Unrelated to GP, but right now I don't own any t-shirt that I've bought myself. All tshirts I have are from conferences, competitions, gifts, work swag...

Similarly, I didn't pay for any hodie that I wear (except one I use for hiking), and I'm building a gifted/given socks collection. Now I just need to convince some conferences to start giving out pants and shoes...
How does it handle tables? If it uses markdown and expects us to edit the tables in the markdown format, I'll stay away from it.
> They've never taken a math class let alone learned enough probability to know that gambling is a losing bet.

Smart well-educated people get caught in the gambling trap too. Addiction and emotions are the issue, not knowledge of how the house always wins.

Not much different from other addictions - people know alcohol and smoking are bad yet they don't stop.
> Wonder if they are a student

Seems like they might be.

One of their repos has this title and description:

> ENGR96A-coursework

> Relevant coursework for ENGR 96A Introduction to Engineering Design F23

And F23, judging by the dates of the commits in that repo means Fall 2023.

Of course, it could be that this and other UCLA courses referenced in the repos are open for everyone. So maybe you don’t have to be enrolled as a traditional student at UCLA to take them.
They got the addresses from OpenStreetMap, so the data is party open already.

They didn't necessarily omit those chains either, their criteria was "most common owner by area", and depending on how you decide the minimum size for an area, they could just naturally fall out.
The effect is still 20-50% slowdown for single thread, even with the purported unrelated speedups to make the feature more palatable.

That is absolutely in the range of previous attempts, which were rejected! The difference here is that its goes in now to gratify Facebook.
(i assume with "harder" you meant "slower")

Right now i tessellate the world quads dynamically based on the distance from the camera, which not only has an overhead of its own but it also adds additional geometric overhead (more transformations, more sorting), so perspective correct texture mapping would let me get rid of that tessellation.

Also 3D meshes (which are static, no dynamic tessellation) need to have enough tessellation to avoid getting too distorted when the camera is close even if the extra geometry isn't really necessary (e.g. IIRC the top sides of the desks are 9 quads/18 triangles when with perspective correct mapping they'd be just 1 quad/2 triangles).
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677823
To the great of my then teachers, I used to scribble and write equations on my table while studying. I had paper, but for some reason I just loved doing math directly on the table.

I was told off for it often, but I don't think I would have liked math as much as I did if I didn't have that option.
H.265 is a great example of software patents going wrong. As it was the first MPEG video standard created after the rise of widespread commercial video streaming, all the patent owners involved wanted to be able to get as much money as possible from the streaming companies. Because of this, we went from the relatively reasonable H.264 licensing terms (pay one patent pool a per-device licensing fee, capped at a total royalty payment of $14 million) to H.265 being covered by three separate patent pools. Between all of them you have to pay royalties on decoding hardware, software, and per-item encoded, and some of the pools don't have caps on royalties. Additionally, some major patent holders aren't in any pools and you have to work out deals with them individually. Here's a summary of the H.265 licensing situation: https://www.slashcam.de/images/news/HEVC-Patent-Pools-14134_...

The result is that H.265 hasn't gotten much commercial adoption (the one major use is 4K Blu-Ray). Instead, most major streaming and tech companies have been pushing AV1, which doesn't have licensing fees and takes a "mutually assured destruction" approach to patent enforcement (the AV1 patent license states that if any patent holder tries to sue an AV1 user for patent infringement, they automatically lose the rights to all AV1 patents, opening them up to a countersuit).
They should have said: "gee, I wish I spent more time influencing people into buying things they do not need".
Fourier was measuring tidal waves when he came up with wave frequency transforms - so in a way this is almost a full circle.

Very impressed!
jq is the first thing I thought of. I'd certainly add a bash solution to this comparison. Maybe as a daemon to exclude the startup cost.
Illusions of Competence in Monitoring One's Knowledge During Study [pdf] (2005)
But it costs $500 to $1,000 per GB?
Also about parenting and bus rides...

The Years Are Short (Gretchen Rubin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KktuoQwb3vQ
Competitor monitoring platform – Feature requests?
Hi everyone,

I'm the founder of Glimpse (a B2B SaaS for competitor monitoring). Currently building in stealth mode & looking for suggestions for our product roadmap.

I'd like to hear which features you think could be valuable to add to the platform (either MVP or later).

Currently on the roadmap already:
* Viewing all Meta/Google/Linkedin ads from your competitors
See the tech stack & tools that they're using
Get notified when they publish a new blog post
Get notified about changes on their key website pages (pricing, etc..)
Get notifications when key employees leave/join
Get notifications when they post something on their social channels
(basic) SEO insights: backlinks, etc..
...
What other suggestions would you have?
I had a neighbor with Alzheimers who was often confused about whether it was morning or evening (she only had analog, 12-hour clocks). She seemed to have two days per day, and I'd often hear her 6am alarm go off at 6pm.

I made a simple web app for her that showed the time along with the bold text MORNING, AFTERNOON, EVENING etc. I set this up on her tablet by the wall, but every time I visited it had been switched off (all the way), and she had no memory of it being set up. (Presumably her bedtime routine involved "turning off the computer"...)

So I just bought her an analog Alzheimer's clock (a 24 hour clock with some colors and pictures to indicate the time of day -- quite similar to OP's design actually). She took readily to that one.
CAS latency is only the latency of doing an access from an open row. This is in no way representative of a normal random access latency. (Because caches are so large that if you were frequently hitting open rows, you'd just load from cache instead.)

The way CAS has been widely understood as "memory latency" is just wrong.
I’ve been looking at codemod tools recently, just as a way to extend my editing toolbox. I came across https://ast-grep.github.io/, which looks like it might address part of this problem. My initial test case was to locate all calls to a method where a specific argument was ‘true’, and it handled that well - that’s the kind of thing an IDE seems to struggle with. I’m not yet sure whether it could handle renaming a variable though.

I guess what I’m looking for is something that

* can carry out the kind of refactorings usually reserved for an IDE

* has a concise language for representing the refactorings so new ones can be built quite easily

* can apply the same refactoring in multiple places, with some kind of search language (addressing the task of renaming a test parameter in multiple methods)

* ideally does this across multiple programming languages
You'd have to be pretty well off to afford it as a student.

I'd consider just using the campus printer to print whatever material you need. Or borrow the books from the library.
It matters in the way all academmic exploration matters.

Which is to say it doesn't matter if it matters.

Or rather, you can say it matters or not depending on your own personality and capacity for intellectual curiosity.

If all you care about is can I eat it or fuck it, then it doesn't matter. The limits of c match the limits of the hardware, and so you can never run into them. You can express anything the hardware could do. Except, the only way I can say "it doesn't matter within this scope, because of this scope" is because someone at least thought about it long enough to figure that out. The question mattered even though the answer came back "don't worry about it", because that answer matters.

It matters, or rather it may matter (you or someone has think about it for a while to find out), if you would be one of the people who helps understand the current world and helps design the next world rather than just use the world however it happens to exist today.

It may also be that it would matter, but the premis is wrong in some way, which again you can't know without formulating the problem and then thinking about it.

I would say that c with variable pointer sizes or compoundable pointers would still be c, and so if the spec happens to specify the size of pointers, that's just a silly implementation detail that shouldn't be hard coded in the spec and could be ignored or officially revised without changing anything that matters. Like saying the language isn't turing complete because the original proposal has a typo.

Another tack: Someone else pointed out that VA_ARGS gets around it. But that's not magic. VA_ARGS has to be implemented somehow using the tools of the rest of the spec. If one part of the spec says something that the rest of the spec can't do, then the spec is inconsistent. That doesn't mean the language isn't turing complete. It means it might or might not be depending on how you choose to reslove the incosistency.
Yeah, I have to re-read Brave New World because over the time since I have read it I have come to believe it was actually Utopian. The artists and others that could not conform were in fact given an island where like-minded artists could flourish.

Sometimes I think that's all we all want: to find a community of like-minded people we can live among.
That would make today the worst day to plant a tree?
Wake up and... do what exactly? Tell others to "wake up" ad nauseum? The whole "wake up, sheeple, you're being manipulated" is both correct and amusingly self-terminating.

Metacognition, for all its benefits, comes with the newfound sisyphean task of being unable to intentionally avoid thinking about a white elephant for an entire minute. "Don't be influenced by the ads/media/propaganda" works about as well.

So perhaps the best way to reduce manipulation is to find a way back to sleep sometimes. A sort of meta-meta-cognition, if you will. It's self-awareness all the way down.
Thank you. I was mislead by the date on the post and did not know the book was older. TIL.
This guy is popular with the CS crowd because of his views on infinity & constructivism I believe. I've studied math quite a bit and I don't really have any stake in the field (I'm not an academic). But modern set theory is a deductive theory. You have assumptions (axioms) and there is a formal reasoning involved to arrive at facts. If you specified set theory to a computer, I have confidence that it would validate the work of the academics.

I tried to skip through the video to find his reasoning.
Yeah, if you spend your life solving crossword puzzles, you end up intellectually poor by most standards.

Note that this might also hold to some degree for computer programming.
Anyone use this? How refined/practical (whatever that means) is compared to Squeak and Pharo?

I'm on a mac, how's HiDPI support? (Squeak is great here).
But it does mean we're empowered to proceed and consider his claims on the merits and not just go into a shutdown and disregard which I would suggest is an intellectually lazy cop out, and not at all in nuanced way of bringing consideration of potential biases to bear on the merit of the arguments. If the effect of encountering that information is that you refuse to consider any arguments on their merits then I think there's a kind of information literacy issue at play, because the correct assessment would be to assess the extent to which they do or don't mitigate the severity of the claims, rather than to brush them aside wholesale.
Hours Aren't Equal
Thanks for pointing it out! We've added Apache 2.0 license. Kalavai is free to use, for commercial and non commercial use!
I'd prefer that the people elected to lead are smarter than I am.
I mentioned it’s because I have held Matt Mullenweg in higher regard as someone who’s been insightful about the evolution of the web.
Thank you, my bad, you are right, as the other sibling comment.
Is this meant to be an analog to Postman’s argument? Because it isn’t. His argument doesn’t really have a moral bent to it. It’s a very practical argument that different mediums are capable of carrying different messages.
Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Automated Tank Gauge Systems
Show HN: RelayBeam – A new way of messaging using Ports
Hi HN! I am developing RelayBeam, to overcome the challenges faced by existing messaging platforms. I've introduced Ports based feature for contextual communication.

It organizes conversations based on context through the user-defined ports.

I've explained in detail about it with some examples at https://relaybeam.com/about

Do try and suggest any more features you'd like to use!
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> How do you know that? Can you prove it scientifically?

We know it as a point of meta-analysis. If you go read a 30-year-old biology textbook, a lot of what it says will have been proven false by now. 30 years before that, the textbook says a lot of other wrong things that were disproven 30 years later.

There is no fundamental reason other than hubris to think that the current understanding of the thing is perfect. There is a huge body of evidence that we are inclined to promulgate imperfect understandings of scientific subjects, though. So in the absence of clear, definitive evidence that something is fundamentally different now, the best assumption is to assume that a lot of current "scientific knowledge" is wrong.
No that was not the idea. The feature went in under the assumption that the single thread slowdown would be offset by other minor speed improvements.

That was literally the official reason why it was accepted. Now we have slowdowns ranging from 20-50% compared to Python 3.9.

What outside contractors would fix the issue? The Python ruling class has chased away most people who actually have a clue about the Python C-API, which are now replaced by people pretending to understand the C-API and generating billable hours.
Bad publicity against your enemy; it's literally the stated policy of Hamas to make more Palestinian "martyrs". It gets others to scream "genocide", causrs more global division, etc. And, in fact, they are averse to killing the human shields, just not absolutely averse (and definitely less averse after you go on murder, raoe, & kidnapping sprees at music festivals, etc).
> I don't understand why people think doing good work that inspires pride and then getting paid for it is going to be some kind of horrible deathbed regret.

Because there is nothing in the definition you give that remotely looks like the median job. Societies are not structured to maximize the number of jobs that fits this definition. If social structure happens to fit your Ikigai, congratulation you won the cosmic loto, enjoy.

But maybe it’s not a relevant point to show surprise on this point. Consider how much people in the rest of humanity will have to go through major existential stressful abhorrent challenges, geopolitical struggles, being effectively reduced to dull task slaves by whoever happen to be their lord of the day. How then to be surprised that at the end of their life they can think "work moments were so shitty, I wish I had spend more enjoyable ones like those I experienced while taking time with people I deeply sincerely love".

By the way, if you haven’t yet do that today, tell at least to at least three people around you how much you love them and care that they enjoy moment passed together. I promise you won’t regret it on your death bed. ;)
There have been reports on the BBC about some schools going completely screen-free, occasionally from parents' pressure. Good luck!
The scientific method itself is a respond to fraud and deception (intentional, delusional, accidental).
Because the statement is meant to motivate the reader.
Cuis shares the OpenSmalltalk Virtual Machine with Squeak, Pharo and Newspeak.

Cuis Smalltalk was originally forked from Squeak Smalltalk.

What sets Cuis apart from other Smalltalk systems is the focus on the original values of the Smalltalk project at Xerox PARC, and an active attitude towards system complexity:

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/ma...
The answer is obviously customers call and complain or even cancel contacts!
‘Heavy handed Covid response’ - lulz. What other emerging pandemic has been so lightly handled?

We used to forcibly quarantine people in their homes at gunpoint for measles. Smallpox? Even crazier.

Hell, we didn’t even shut down international travel until well after it was plainly obvious it had spread well past the point it would matter.
Huh, I wish American municipalities did this. Maybe some of them do, but certainly nowhere I've ever lived.