skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the Phaedrus, writing is the pharmakon that the trickster god Theuth offers, the toxin and remedy in one. With writing, man will no longer forget; but he will also no longer think.”

When I have to navigate to somewhere I haven’t been before, I generally do not read a map, but follow instructions from some navigation software. As a consequence, I often don’t really know where places are, just the route I take to get to a destination. With GPS navigation, I do not get lost, but neither do I have much awareness of how locations are spatially arranged.

Such technologies seem to always be like this.

A potion which removes a difficult task, but also dulls the ability to do such tasks oneself.

It is like that one SMBC comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/identity
“ Humans offloaded memory to books, then thought to computers. Now, we're offloading our desires to the network.
All that remains are basic bodily functions, which well offload in another generation or two. At that point, well just merge into one united entity so, it all works out.”
The headline implies something other than what the interviewee is saying:

> Q. You don’t like to call AI a crutch.

> A. The crutch is a dangerous approach because if we use a crutch, we stop thinking. Students who use AI as a crutch don’t learn anything. It prevents them from thinking. Instead, using AI as co-intelligence is important because it increases your capabilities and also keeps you in the loop.

> Q. Isn’t it inevitable that AI will make us lazier?

> A. Calculators also made us lazier. Why aren’t we doing math by hand anymore? You should be taking notes by hand now instead of recording me. We use technology to take shortcuts, but we have to be strategic in how we take those shortcuts.
Mozilla's Anonym basically uses DRM-like blobs to track you and show ads
Nintendo Kills Ryujinx After Yuzu
There are Bayesian nonparametric methods that do this by putting a dirichlet process prior on the parameters of the mixture components. Both the prior specification and the computation (MCMC) are tricky, though.
...Because someone scraping from a Bytedance IP range is not necessarily Bytedance, just like requests from an AWS IP do not imply Amazon authored the spider
We literally just got a ruling against the EPA on fluoridation as being dangerously risky levels. As even The Guardian admits, it’s possible there actually is something to the claims of danger.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/fluoridation...

Of course, the EPA would never live it down if the anti-fluoridation people actually had something to their claims. However, I’m not the EPA. If they were wrong, screw them.
The actual idea page: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc...

I think this is rather cool, I'd love to build that
The only interesting question, to my mind, is if Facebook reserves the right to.

If they do, then of course they will.

Do they? You be the judge. https://www.meta.com/legal/smart-glasses/
Given that Facebook has been creating shadow profiles of non-users for a long time, it is not far fetched to assume that they will track the physical contacts of the Ray-Ban spy device wearer and record every interaction.

The current status regarding electronic devices is:

- If you have a pager or walkie-talkie, assume that it might blow up.

- If you have a smart phone, assume that it records your conversations.

- If another person has these RayBans, run don't walk.

More and more people know this. Even non-technical people are beginning to wake up.
There are too many…

But I’ll pick The Psychology of Money. There are few books that have so drastically changed my view of reality and affected my behavior.

(Bonus because I couldn’t help myself: Getting things done, Man’s search for meaning, Surrounded by idiots)
I need something like this but allows users to upload and send files. I don't want to make everyone admin.
I thought this was a HaLow competitor too... Thanks for checking on that.
I spent way too much time playing it and I also consider it as wasted time. I guess it's because we had an option. He didn't really have ...
New Features include the LLM Parameters
Unique datasets are the moat for AI businesses. The data from these glasses is quite novel in it's perspective, context and contiguous-ness among other attributes.

Versus mobile phones, Meta are making a better go at, and seem to be the leader on, the bet that fundamentally ML/AI-driven glasses are going to be the next default modality for UX on the Internet.
Are any places or projects using ORMs where performance is a key need? Is instagram using it with their Django app?

Don’t get me wrong totally get the benefit of not having to serialize and deserialize to and from SQL to objects in your favorite language but hot damn for something that is so clearly designed to make cognitive dissonance a thing of the past they sure do so at the cost of a lot of performance.
Ziggy: Data serialization language for expressing API messages, config files
It could be silently adopted to allow longer distance for things like map apps that only need a few kilobytes for wifi triangulation.
Of course it depends on whether the target demographic has adequate access to fluoride by other means, such as toothpaste.

A similar case might be iodine in table salt. A lot of salt available in America is iodized on purpose. We don't do that where I live, where the usual diet is already rich in iodine. There is no single right answer, only a cost-benefit analysis for each location.
The danger in the eventual ubiquitous availability of large language models (LLMs) isn't necessarily that they can seemingly answer any question.

The real issue arises when it becomes far too tempting to immediately turn to an LLM for an answer, rather than taking a few moments to quietly ponder the problem on your own, engaging and manipulating, exploring different angles, etc. This kind of abstract thinking is a craft that only improves with consistent practice and deliberate effort.
> And how does it help to say "hey can you pick up 3.8L of milk?" If packaging sizes don't change then we'll still call it a gallon and we won't have "converted" at all.

I'm with you on everything but this. The imperial system allows retailers (and/or consumer good manufacturers) to take consumers for a giant ride. I have lived in both USA & EU, and in the USA I just give up entirely on comparing goods in a supermarket. With the metric system there's nowhere to hide, and I can compare all products, whether you use ml or l, mg or g or kg. In the USA different manufacturers will use any odd denominator they can come up with and after about two weeks of normalizing fractions every time I went shopping, I gave up.

Even the little tags supermarkets add to try and help you, aren't enough. Many shops use a different denominator, and even a single shop will vary internally. Something as simple as comparing the price of bacon becomes a middle school math problem.

I hate corporate greed, I am partial to pointless mental exercise like math, and I am very stubborn. I don't want to speak for other people but something tells me I'm not the only one who has given up on this battle. Retail customers have more power in the metric system.

For everything else though yes I agree who cares. Except °F which is actually better. :)
I don't understand the point you're trying to make and how it relates to what I said.

the book of kell is available both as a facsimile from specialist publishers (/my/ local library has it in extended rotation) and as a 2006 dvd from trinity college library.

but I'm not even talking about that
Greening of Antartica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent
Some unfortunately only refer to DE. Every country adapted their data packages but in Germany, the prices are still vintage :/
People will complain when the data is inevitably misused (I'm shocked! Shocked to find irresponsible data collection going on at Facebook!) but they won't do anything to prevent or avoid it in advance, if doing so gets in the way of them buying something that is sufficiently hyped.
John Locke's Method for Common-Place Books (1685)
Also legendary is the traditional GIGO which in some programming examples the FU is the garbage in and the BAR is the garbage out.
It really is difficult to take this seriously when they suggest disabling IPv6. There are already quite a good number of ISPs that use CGNAT for IPv4, which often means that connections die or are intentionally killed in short amounts of time, which can be a huge PITA for certain uses (interactive shells, large downloads, et cetera).

Take Starlink for instance. When on IPv4, you really feel like you're on a janky network that's being rebooted every hour or two. After Starlink enabled IPv6, all sorts of things no longer required babysitting and restarting. The quality difference between IPv4 via CGNAT and native IPv6 is huge and noticeable, even for people who have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.

Perhaps regular people can naively suggest turning off IPv6 because they don't know any better and they believe the FUD they've heard and read about, but if you're putting up a web site claiming to have good advice and you put more weight on FUD over real world experience and solid reasoning, then I'd be suspicious about everything they've written.
Of course not but you can run way more stuff on this server in parallel to nextcloud
Or people could just not eat carbs and there would be no need for this debate at all.
The band for 6GHz WiFi channels does dip a bit into 7GHz (up to 7125MHz) frequencies, but it's still normally called operating in 6GHz mode. You wouldn't normally say you're operating a 7G WiFi network, despite there being two 40MHz channels which exist entirely above 7000MHz

Also, those channels aren't allowed in all countries. You can't use those freqencies in EU countries, Japan, Russia, and more.
Who had on their bingo card: America’s decline expedited by a mediocre real estate tycoon and alt right populist and accelerated by a megalomaniac worth 200B?

Such a storied, and amazing government agency like NASA who did and continues to do amazing things with a relatively paltry budget (imagine what they could do with the budget even 10% of the yearly military budget) to attack them is just unamerican and mean.
The concepts here apply to any client-server networking setup. Monoliths could still have web clients, native apps, IOT sensors, third party APIs, databases, etc.
The US court system is not a good arbiter of scientific accuracy. I'd trust the EPA a lot more here.
NASA Retrofitted U2 Spy Plane Reveals Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive
I always think about that Zuck quote where he called users who willingly uploaded their personal data “dumb f$cks” as we move into Meta’s increasing dominance of VR and now AR.

Of COURSE they will use whatever data they can get.
True. I have friends that have refused to learn algorithms and instead insisted that they only needed to master $FRAMEWORK. Then they got stumped by any problems that can not be solved by $LIBRARY, spending days on it with no result.

Yes, it takes time, but learning is exponential, and overtime, the pace will increase greatly.
It'd cost $7.6 if you pay in cash and $7.62173451123 if you pay via a card?

(and, if I were to pass the "small change" bill, I'd, by fiat, make it so that it'd still be "$7.6" even if it was $7.68 -- and the vendors would still come out ahead because the $0.08 lost from rounding down is much less than the $0.23 in card processing fees that comes with a 3% surcharge from your payment processors.)
No. It regurgitates the average of all humans represented in the text record available. These humans are 80% using therapists. The average human is not.
Show HN: Slashing LLM Costs for Overnight Batch Inference
Hey HN,

If you've tried running open-source models like Llama 3.1 70B or 405B, you might have noticed that it gets very expensive. The reasons look obvious enough that you might have stopped even before trying it!
- GPUs are very expensive to buy or rent
- Running the most performing LLMs need 4, 8 or even 16 top of the line Nvidia GPUs
- And that won’t get you anywhere near the level of VRAM needed to batch enough to get a decent throughput and efficiency

Some have even questioned if open-source LLM providers are not doing some shenanigans to provide the prices they offer. VC funded bait-and-switch? Unclear quantization? Even the most well funded LLM inference startups, with the best inference optimization teams in the world have got into controversy about this.

At EXXA, we wanted to make affordable the best open-source LLMs in all their FP16 glory. And I don’t know for others, but we’re a bootstrapped team of 3, so the subsidizing part isn’t an option :D

I won’t tell you we found the magical solution for all use cases… But we found one for batch overnight jobs! Think things like:
- Synthetic data generation
- Data pre-processing (e.g. contextual retrieval for RAG improvements, knowledge graph creation)
- or LLM-as-a-judge evaluation

Why overnight? Because it gives us time to:
- Get GPU for a high discount (30-90%) as they would otherwise sit idle in cloud providers data centers
- Heavily optimize inference for maximum throughput instead of minimum latency

Today, our batch inference API is live for Llama 3.1 8B & 70B FP16 with output under 24h.

We offer the lowest price per token in the market!

60% cheaper than fireworks, 40% cheaper than deepinfra. Without any hard rate limits and with prompt caching available.

Try it now at https://withexxa.com

------

If you have any specific questions: you can email us at founders@withexxa.com
If you want to generate a large amount of tokens with custom LLM models, let us know we can host them and offer the same price ranges as Llama 3.1 8B & 70B.
If you want to reduce inference costs for image or video generation, we are actively looking into this with potential users.

What do you think of our approach? Are you willing to wait overnight for super cheap tokens?
Yet users will use whatever is available. E.g. people routinely send SMS with sensitive data, even though SMS is probably the least trustworthy channel.

They can only help that by securing the equipment and networks. Telling public "don't trust these because foreign hackers" is not going to do much.
This is one reason why many educators are phasing out homework. It's great practice but can easily lead students to regurgitating information instead of understanding and retaining knowledge. This is also why quizzes and tests are vital in a well-designed curriculum: they test understanding (or at least are supposed to).
Yes. Details in the pull request linked above
The memeplex stands alone.

You can't disprove radical skepticism, but you can take the Moorian shift and look at your hands, believe that they exist, and thus disprove radical skepticism well enough to get on with life.
Is this Apple PR trying to stop people from buying Meta VR/MR hardware?

I mean it’s Facebook, we get it. But they make WhatsApp and they make affordable and actually working Quest and now glasses… I’m not going to get triggered by opinion posts just because the Vision Pro was a flop.

This would sound exactly the same if we say Apple is training their AI on everyone’s Photos and content from notifications (because Apple Intelligence).
Explain to me why someone that's been arrested 15 times should be let go to terrorize others.

That person that has been arrest 15 times before cannot continue to commit crime if he's behind bars. You don't need to "read" the data to come to this conclusion.

People commit crime in large part because they can get away with it.

It's not complicated.
Does the UK include VAT in all listed prices? I don't recall it working that way in continental Europe, and it certainly doesn't work that way in Canada with our equivalent (nor in the US, as you discovered).

That said, advertised prices are commonly not "round" in the first place. In Canada, we simply round the figure on the bill when paying cash.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1991, Amiga version). Awesome, future sports sim.
The error message "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator." is from an F5 Networks Application Security Manager
firewall and can usually be addessed by clearing certain cookies in your browser.

I was able to get it to load using Chrome with all cookies cleared, but it does appear to be getting the "hug of death" as well as mywacaday says in another comment.
Nobody fluoridates the water to 1.5 mg/L. If you're fluoridating the water, your target is 0.7 mg/L.

The people with 1.5 mg/L fluoride (or higher--the EPA limit is 2.0mg/L) are because the groundwater is percolating through rock that is high in fluorides, and people don't want to spend the money on defluoridating the water down to acceptable standards. Defluoridation is of course much harder than fluoridation because fluorides are highly soluble.
It’s a shame that VMware allowed this to happen. Yes, it’s just business, but talk about not giving a fuck about who acquired them and what was going to happen to their product.
Palimpsest in Literature and Literary Theory
Anything from Sagan: Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God could convert the Pope to agnosticism.

Stephen Ray Gould: Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin: will both challenge every preconceived notion you've had, link seemingly impossibly unrelated phenomenon together using similar models and patterns, and leave with a much more intuitive understanding about complexity, randomness, and chaotic systems.

A Briefer History of Time: For those who truly would like to exalt their personal God of the Gaps to the small unit.
Agree but despite the roaming at times it can be way cheaper. For instance paying for BElgium operator (not necessarily the cheapest) you can buy an unlimited 5G (limited to 90G in BE without throttle) which in roaming is 31G costing 25 Eur.

I’ve also seen some cheaper providers than this in DE but they limit 5G to 50mbps :(
Not to put a downer but have you also perhaps created a liability for your club? If you don’t fully grasp what is going on with the code have you potentially left the door open to exploits?
FOOcked-up Beyond All Recognition.
Nobody will give you an unsecured loan for 100 percent of your salary, but tech companies will happily grant you rsus for that much.
Whether or not there is any truth to pithy sounding sayings (that have been parroted since the dawn of time aside), the brain is NOT a muscle.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Love eduroam
No, but neither AT&T migrated yet, or ever.
You are only feeding the growth of conspiracy theories if, when confronted with one that is true, you continually deny it. If they see actual evidence being denied, they think there’s something there.
Illinois did away with notarization requirements for almost everything a few years ago. Now you can just sign things under penalty of perjury and it's done, which is the right way to go about it.
Highly useful tools are always described like this. Amusingly, search engines and then, to a lesser extent, Stack Overflow were both described like this. I can’t say that it’s very interesting a statement in its nth incarnation.
Shitposting is an art, if history is any indication (2018)
Why not put the additive in the feed at the factory that produces it?
Both tea leaves and California rice have fluoride also; absorbed by the plants as they grow.

Foreign sources of rice have to pass tests for fluoride while California rice is exempt, from my understanding.
It wouldn't be shocking to me that in 30 years, your daughter would be tasked with writing a whole book and not just an essay. Part of the learning process is learning to leverage technology. Something I think we do a really bad job at teaching kids.

Of course, leveraging technology to do the exact same thing you would do without the technology is a terrible lesson on many levels.
Why the source is open- you can get all the ideas and copy it one way just like open source. Its differs from other "One-way-street-source" only by ownership of the public rights.
Cheaper definitely depends on the region. In Germany a decent 5G without throttle is extremely expensive.
Carbs are the base of civilizations. With the exception of herders or raiders every large population of humans was/is sustained by plant starches.
I sold my first company at 25 (25 years ago almost to the day now) and that was retirement money and then some (I cannot spend the yearly interest let's say), but i've never been interested in retiring. I like doing what I do and can't see myself ever quitting; if I do, I probably will be writing 8 bit shmups for 80s systems. Aka; building things.
What about IQ declining after many generations of growth?

Or what about the attention span crisis?

Or the lack of technical skills in genz?

I seriously doubt this is a generational thing as you seem to be arguing.

Smartphones and social media didn't exist until 15-20 years ago and we're now seeing the consequences.
I feel in some regards this worry is akin to not knowing assembly. When/if it becomes good enough that the entirety of coding is abstracted away we won't care that new entrants don't understand it.

Let's just not lose the documentation on how to modify/improve the AI when needed...

Maybe that can be the job of a very select few. Fixing AI the way we fix robots for manufacturing.
Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
> The moral of the story is somewhat that it's so ridiculous how incompetent politicians are when it comes to tech.

"Incompetent"...

Everything within Europe and especially within EU runs on corruption. You're either a parasite or a host if you live in Europe. Reap that juicy corruption money by befriending people with influence or pay the salaries and luxurious lifestyles of the people who do with your taxes.
I see. So a few anecdotes, handwaving dismissals of a century or more or crime and sociological research, and a suggestion to move to Twitter.
> There are a lot of white-collar jobs where LLMs do more harm than good because a 1/4 hallucination rate means you waste too much time on wild goose chases. I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results - I “kicked the tires” with some AI research and was very impressed. But when I tried to find papers on animal cognition...

This is less a question of which jobs benefit from AI in general and which don't than it is a question of tasks and specific tools.

ChatGPT is not a search engine, so if you're looking for existing documents it's a very bad choice. But I've found myself using Perplexity—an LLM-powered search engine—more and more often because it reliably turns up results that Google fails to turn up.

I suspect Perplexity is still also the wrong tool for scholarly articles, but that's not a fundamental limitation of the tech, it's just a question of the focus of the tools so far.
I saw the real life Book of Kells earlier this year and it was so pristine and high quality it didn't look real, like seriously looked like a modern fancy reprint, it was a bit confusing!
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. When you are young, it is a remarkable book to read.
Because they give you flexibility. One does not need to master everything, if you have a wide and stable foundation, your options become more numerous later in life. And expertise is a pyramid, so the more diverse your basic skills are, the farther you can reach.