skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have another article in the "You Don't Know jack" series from the ACM, now in the November Communications of the ACM (the print magazine), and a 5-minute video about it at https://vimeo.com/1017926413

This is a follow-on from Dave Taht's "bufferbloat" work, now a project called LibreQoS, where QoS stands for Quality of Service.

If you are having trouble with unintelligible con-calls or gaming lag, have a peek.
It also seemingly completely ignores that the theoretical person is not an island that is born and dies.

If I pass $0 on to my children I'd consider that to be one of the biggest failings of my life.
I loved it, but I think I know what you mean. I feel like there's a lot of unrealized potential.
For real. Ever since they sold out Petco Park ummm... last week... they've been super irrelevant.
OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only
Article H1: How Much Does a Headshot Cost in 2024? A Detailed Guide
Was looking for a solution like this for a few weeks, and started coding my own yesterday. Thank you for launching! Excited to give it a shot.

Question: when do you expect to release your Python SDK?
Produce kids on American soil. These kids can sponsor parents once a kid reaches 18 years of age.
Competition should solve this. The government’s role is to cultivate competitive markets, not to get bogged down in implementation details.
A skeptic's take on LLMs: Spoiler: now a fan
The drug development process takes around 10+ years typically, a lot of long planning of multiple phases of studies needs to be done. This will help in the initial steps and in finding good starting points, and in theory should help the subsequent stages be more successful. I wouldn’t expect new drugs this decade.

Other aspects of biotech and research could well be affected far faster than the consumer drug market, but again you’ll need a few years for those early stage developments to aid real world applications.
I personally believe using AGPL in that way is dishonest, because it foregoes the spirit of open source and instead adopts AGPL as a thinly-veiled non-compete propped up on ambiguity and FUD, which is exactly what this essay delves into i.r.t. dishonesty in commercial open source.
> and the business is still a cash generating juggernaught.

Current Tesla P/E: 67.78 (even for a large SaaS company, this would be very high; for a consumer goods manufacturer it’s virtually unheard of).

Current VW AG P/E: 3.14.

Like, people buying Tesla presumably aren’t buying primarily based on its earnings. There is an expectation of something more.
Cheers, appreciate that.

I've worked quite a lot on the tool itself to make it functional without spending too much on the UI, since it's just an alpha for now.

By the end of the week, I should have a proper landing page with compelling copy and documentation on how it works.
I miss old contextual advertising. Like you read a sports website, you see ads for matches, sports gear, etc, all based on the content not the user preferences.
Someone needs to set up a Clockwork Orange-style viewing session with the Python developers and Linus' WE DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE email: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE

I help maintain a small Python codebase at work (bulk of my work is in Verilog) and the number of times somebody's PEP science fair project has broken production code following a Python version upgrade is too damn high.
Not even single batch. If you want reasonable latency per token (TPOT) even larger batches do not give you high compute utilization during extend. It’s only when you don’t care about TPOT at all, and your model is small enough to leave space for a large batch on an 8 GPU host, that’s when you could get decent utilization. That’s extend only - it’s easy to get high utilization in prefill.
Still more of a Nobel Prize than the one for Economics.
I for one use uint32 where it makes sense, because it's a good trade-off with packed struct size and besides - by the year 2106 arrives I will (hopefully) be dead and it won't be my problem anymore.

I wonder if the decision behind using signed int32 was similar? "By 2038 I'll be dead and it won't be my problem lol".
Lots of people try to police English as well. It wasn't that long ago whenever any use of "begs the question" to mean "raises the question" would get plenty of reaction from the prescriptivists. Fortunately, that war seems to have ended.
Boulevard has to be compiled at some point. Wouldn’t it extremely simple to setup a GitHub Action to build Caddy in the way you desire?
> a lot of negativity about Indians

There isn't, though. There's a lot of negativity about _H1B_s in the comments here, but you conflate that with Indian.
I can see how "unnecessary" periods could be considered excessively formal in some contexts like texting, but ... arrogant?
I’m not arguing they should be doing things from “scratch” (although kids have been making music from scratch for all of mankind). If you think a child needs weeks or months to have fun making music some weekend, you’re taking it too seriously. A kid can bang around in GarageBand for an hour or two and have fun making something. It doesn’t need to be good enough to monetize on Spotify, and if that’s their goal.. then years learning may actually be the reasonable approach.

Kids making something, with any tool, is better than consuming something. Because making something is creative. They don’t need to know music theory to have fun making things, it doesn’t even need to be good. The AI tool should allow a kids creativity to go further, not replace it.

The original post was about a parent using an LLM to write a podcast to entertain their kids, which is just another way for kids to passively consume low-quality crap. The proposed alternative was to make a “podcast” with your kid, using any tool you have available at home.

The point was don’t automate the creativity and leave your kids to consume passively.
It's not clear to me how you can be a full-time employee and be doing full-time child care. I understand the need for schedule flexibility, but if going back to the office means you need to find child care it seems to suggest some of these people weren't really working full time on those days.
Can you elaborate? I’ve always been fascinated by their existence.
As far as I understand Public Benefit is as meaningless as non profit. The names are extremely misleading. A public benefit corporation doesn’t necessarily have to provide benefits for the public and non profits can be extremely profitable for the right people.
Always at least one every thread.

> Sorry but this site is trash because it took 10s to load on my One Laptop Per Child running LFS connected to my 3g hotspot. I literally cannot imagine why anyone could ever like this.
I often try to practice something like this, but context affects how actively helpful/meta I am.

Someone who's new, or seems overwhelmed, or has shown some effort... might get more hand-holding help... than someone who seems to be, say, ignoring the single-source-of-truth-for-most-all-things wiki that was impressed upon them, and just trying to knock off a task as easily as possible, with no consideration for others' time.

A suspected former is more likely to get my best customer service, team player help. "Have you met Jane? I think she's started a new product feature for that, but there's also a related tailoring that Sales has been doing. Let me introduce you to Jane, and we can see which thing you should be you should be working with today. I'm curious myself." (Goals are to unblock this person, have everyone on the right tracks, and set the culture for team-orientedness.)

A suspected latter, I'll play it by ear, for exactly how to see whether they checked the wiki (or did whatever is the thing everyone should know from onboarding they're supposed to do first), and try to nudge them into the right meta thinking if they need it, while also not sending the cultural message to not be very helpful.
Very happy to hear, please do reach out to us with any feedback or questions via founders@finetunedb.com
Great Circle Map
> If you read a physics textbook from the early 1900s, they didn't really have multivariate calculus and linear algebra expressed as concisely as we do now.

This is completely incorrect.
$150B is just a (somewhat arbitrary) estimate of the current value of OpenAI.
"Or in other words: when someone you don’t like is screwed over, be prepared for that next someone to be you."

This is incredibly relevant to my own life. I wish people would contemplate this more - at work, with proposed laws, etc.
There are a lot of downvotes going around because a large contingent is thinking the Nobel Prize for "Physics" should not go to something involving Computer Science. That it was awarded as it was, was an error.

Seemingly because even if the math or algorithms came from a physicist solving physics problems . Since it didn't involve some theoretical particles, it isn't physics'y enough to get a Nobel in Physics.
I remember buying cable tv because it had 'no ads'.
Leave this in linters.
According to:

https://www.iso-accelerator.co.uk/news/post/how-many-iso-sta...

"The ISO Standards Catalogue comprises more than 25 thousand standards"

Maybe the author could start out by specifying which ISO standard they're refering to?
Klimt is one of those artists that I feel primed to dislike, because it's so reproduced that's it's turned cheesy. I've probably seen more Kiss posters and fridge magnets and whatevers than any other painting in the world.

But good god are they beautiful. They just make me so happy to see them. Or sad.

My favorites are probably the birch forests, though, perhaps Birch Forest (1903) [1]

1. https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustav-klimt/farmhouse-with-birch...
>Truman Doctrine

Wait, why would the Soviet Union see a pledge to protect nations from authoritarian threats as aggression?
Is the internet, 'hugely centralized', or is it just the web that is?
I guess depends how far you are from the office, and how much time you'll end up burning on commutes. Childcare may be a 5 minute walk from home but a 1+hr unreliable commute from the office.
This is just downsizing while suppressing negative PR/investor fear. I'd caution anyone who invests or any of these companies that RTO, you should treat this like any other layoff from the perspective of company performance -- because it is.
> You've seen games running at 120Hz and at 60Hz. The difference is obvious, isn't it?

Honestly, I have not. I'm not much of a gamer, even though I used to be a game developer.

Certainly the difference between 30Hz and 60Hz is noticeable.

Maybe this is just because I'm old school but if it were me, I would absolutely prioritize low latency over high frame rate. When you played an early console game, the controls felt like they were concretely wired to the character on screen in a way that most games I play today lack. There's a really annoying spongey-ness to how games feel that I attribute largely to latency.

I don't really give a shit about fancy graphics and animation (I prefer 2D games). But I want the controls to feel solid and snappy.

I also make electronic music and it's the same thing there. Making music on a computer is wonderful and powerful in many ways, but it doesn't have the same immediacy as pushing a button on a hardware synth (well, on most hardware synths).
I had hoped that they would reference this in their paper as some kind of "supporting previous exploration" but no, alas.
Compare:

- Rosi's Bar

- Rosis Bar

With the first it's immidiately clear that Rosi is a woman's name and that the bar belongs to her. With the second it's not clear at all what Rosis is. Maybe some kind drink?
Absolutely incredible product. I don't have the $99 to splurge on this but it was very enticing :)
Completely disagree.

Use something off the shelf that’s mature and tested until you encounter such complexity that it’s no longer feasible or practical.
Google doesn't really sell products though, not to businesses. It sells individual data to businesses, it sells advertising to businesses.

The only thing the government will be interested in is the spying which they aren't allowed to do, but unaccountable corporations are allowed to do. As people become more aware of this it means google becomes less and less useful.
It depends on the level of needs for the child. There's a certain age range where a child can basically take care of themself for a few hours bur can't be trusted to be home alone (or haven't met the legal age).
There is a lot of variation in how PhD studies work. In some places, you are just a faceless candidate applying to a department, which discourages you from contacting the faculty before you are admitted. In other places, you must convince a professor to supervise and fund you before you are even allowed to apply. Some universities require you (or your supervisor) pay tuition fees for a number of years before you can graduate, while others don't care what you do, as long as you can produce a thesis that meets their standards.

You can jump from social sciences to STEM. Your formal admission can wait for a year or two after you actually started. Or you can move to another university and get a PhD in a few months, because the administrative requirements in the original one were too unreasonable. These things happen, because universities are independent organizations that like doing things their own way.
Well this PEP won't be going forward see https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67...
> Users don't read dialogs.

Not all do, some do. And it only takes a few to spot something fishy and start reporting problems.

> This also doesn't address the threat model

It actually does, because few extensions need broad permissions. The threat is significantly reduced if a change in required permissions goes up a new dialog pops up which encourages the few users that read the thing to ask "Hey, why is this asking for so many more permissions?"

This model works. It works so well that the security model of pretty much every app store is exactly the same. The risks are also identical.
...it drives me crazy when I hear people refer to Pizzeria Uno as "Uno's"

Pedant Alert! The chain's name is "Uno Pizzeria & Grill".

You're not wrong, but the actual ordering of the name makes it less clear to a casual observer that there is no person named "Uno".

And the domain the company uses is "unos.com", so at the corporate entity has accepted the name.
It's the absolute best tool for "I need to programmatically do <thing> and will never touch this script again" or "I want to build a tiny utility app for myself and myself alone, and I don't want to have to pull in ANY dependencies or do ANY build steps"

I have literally used it instead of writing a curl one liner because I didn't feel like looking up the arguments.

Python is incredible for building tools, exactly like a small time machinist might build certain cutters for a part they are manufacturing, or a blacksmith build tools, or a welder building a jig, etc etc

I cannot fathom when people choose to build heavyweight or long lived applications and business products with it. Django is alright I guess, except that complicated database stuff will cause you problems eventually, and migrations are a lot of fuss for not as many guarantees as you would hope for the effort.
It’s even worse in battery constrained devices - they tend to also be memory constrained and run with batch size 1 during extend. IOW the entire model (or parts thereof, if the model is MoE), gets read for every generated token. Utilization of compute is truly abysmal in that case and almost all energy is spent pushing bytes through the memory bus, which on battery powered devices doesn’t have high throughput
> "To harness this energy and grow skills, we believe our sales teams need to be together in the office," the memo added. "Additionally, our data shows that sales teams are more productive when onsite."

I wonder if they shared the "data" in the memo. Otherwise, this should be considered a magical myth that the company's leadership simply believes.
> I think there is also the issue of cultural dominance. "English-friendly" means the foreign language is morphed to better suit English speakers. It could go the other way if Mandarin is the dominant trade language.

It's not an issue of cultural dominance, as no one would be forcing the Chinese to change their names or their pronunciations. It's basically just keeping English from being even more unmanageable, in a way many other languages do, including Chinese.

If an English name or other word is used in Chinese (or in Japanese, or many other languages) it gets localized. For instance, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2xYvMcW2A. The Chinese speakers are mostly talking about Trump, but the only name I could actually pick out was Obama's (probably because "Trump" is hard to pronounce in Chinese).

Apparently the Xinhua decided to render "Trump" as 特朗普/Te Lang Pu (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/25/china-d...), instead of doing the American/English thing of "You don't know their language? Well f-you then. No help from us."

Also, the English use of Pinyin can have some unfortunate effects. I used to work with a man who's last name was Cao whose name was mispronounced "Cow" almost 100% of the time (there was a strong preference for first-name use in the office, so it rarely happened to his face).
Programming languages are too obsessed with unicode in my opinion:

String operations should have bytes and utf-{8,16} versions. The string value would have is_valid_utf_{8,16} flags and operations should unset them if they end up breaking the format (eg str[i] = 0xff would always mark the string as not unicode, str[i] = 0x00 would check if the flag was set and it so check whether the assignment broke a codepoint and unset the flag if so)
Latest post on this says that this PEP won't be implemented at all.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67...
That is a large part of it. Another part is that terrorism sucked a lot of air from the room. Until 2001, people - certainly in my country - just did not think much about terrorism. After 9/11, it was all anyone thought about. That mindset made WWII issues seem more remote and somewhat stale.
With a 2 year old, sure. But a lot of my PTO used to be "elementary aged child is sick and has to stay home from school, so I have to stay home too because he can't be home by himself for 9 hours". Now I don't have to take PTO for that. Kids are sick and just stay in bed or on the couch, I check on them every so often. Doesn't interfere with work any more than going to get a coffee.
Yeah, I can understand that.
They just hijacked the prestige of the field.

Like medical doctors did with the term doctor and psychiatrists by claiming they were doing medicine.

The list is almost endeless.
> hundreds of years ago most interesting science, etc. was done by the royal class

Not really true. Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Mendel, Faraday, Tesla... Not from royals, nor from high nobility. Many great scientists were born to merchant families, of a level that wasn't even all too rare.
Sorry to repeat the "if you're not paying, you're the product, not the consumer" adage, but I think that's critically important when evaluating Google. These things aren't free, they're paid for by billions in advertising, and it's not like Google was the first to figure out this business model - radio and TV was "free" in the same manner for decades prior.

I honestly would love it we would ditch surveillance capitalism and went back to a simpler option of paying for products and services. I think that essentially all of the complaints you here about Google (their lack of any responsiveness/customer support, their constant spying on users, the constant "Google graveyard" of discontinued products, their current corporate ossification, etc.) can be directly linked to the fact that users don't pay for their products.
The PEP has been withdrawn based on the poll results, which mostly echo the comments here: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67...

>Hi everyone!

>Thanks a lot for voicing your opinions and concerns! After reading carefully all the arguments, the poll and the different positions we have decided that the best course of action is to withdraw the PEP as there is clear agreement that the breakage doesn’t justify the benefits here.

>Thanks a lot!
For reference, here is an article on the Turkey ban:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-mes...

> The block comes after public outrage in Turkey caused by the murder of two women by a 19-year-old man in Istanbul this month. Content on social media showed Discord users subsequently praising the killing.
> Transport and infrastructure minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the nature of the Discord platform made it difficult for authorities to monitor and intervene when illegal or criminal content is shared.
> "Security personnel cannot go through the content. We can only intervene when users complain to us about content shared there," he told reporters in parliament.
> "Since Discord refuses to share its own information, including IP addresses and content, with our security units, we were forced to block access."

To me, this reads less like a justifiable reason to ban Discord, and more like exploitation of some vague situations to justify a broad ban. But the real reason is in the last two sentences. The issue is that the state cannot monitor and control content, which is a power they use to suppress political opposition. It’s not surprising for Turkey to do this though - they do have legalized censorship.

As for Twitter/X: they comply with local laws wherever they operate, and have stated this publicly. So in Turkey, where censorship is legal, they’ve abided by the law. In Brazil, where it’s illegal and unconstitutional under article 5 part 10, Twitter/X has fought back against censorship. In Brazil’s case, there’s a judge issuing secret bans that keep political opposition from accessing social media, in relation to a past criminal incident, but instead of issuing charges relating to the incident this judge has taken it much further to blanket censorship of people. The comment you’re replying to is referring to the hypocrisy of people in social media (on Hacker News, Reddit, etc) cheering on Brazil’s new censorship regime, while attacking Turkey’s. But that might be happening because a lot of the same people dislike Musk more than they like free speech.
If that's the case then I'll try the platform out :) I want to finetune Codestral or Qwen2.5-coder on a custom codebase. Thank you for the response! Are there some docs or infos about the compatibility of the downloaded models, meaning will they work right away with llama.cpp?
Open Source Everything, Rust optional.
Already doing this kind of stuff with Caddy. Unclear why this would be any better.
Fellow Chicagoan here. It's funny you say that. My wife calls Jewel-Osco "Jewels" lol. I am just starting to realize that not everyone talks this way haha.
Bonus points are that the ones affected most are families, so the companies save even more on the benefits they don't have to cover. Basically, this is roundabout maritial/family status employment discrimination.