skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, humans can "arrive at a reasonable approximation of the truth" even without the direct knowledge of the capital of Connecticut. A human has some other interesting data points that allow them to probabilistically guess that the capital of Connecticut is not Moscow and those might be things like:

- Moscow is a Russian city, and they probably aren't a lot of cities in the US that have strong Russian influences especially in the time when these cities might have been founded

- there's a concept of novelty in trivia, whereby the more unusual the factoid, the better the recall of that fact. If Moscow were indeed the capital of Connecticut, it seems like the kind of thing I might've heard about since it would stand out as being kind of bizarre.

Noticeably this type of inference seems to be relatively distinct from what LLMs are capable of modeling.
Forget ACA compliant health plans. When I was laid off, since my income / week was $0 (Oregon), we just got medicaid for my kids, and pregnant wife, and I paid an extremely modest amount for a solid plan. There is no reason to use COBRA. It's a relic and probably should be done away with.
Comparing assisted suicide where the goal is to end your life with taking a drug that's generally recognized as safe to lose weight is ridiculous.
Tech specs confirm only 1080p recording.
You can select a radius of 1/8 to 1 mile.
I've seen a lot of people complaining about 8GB but honestly my min spec M1 Air has continued to be great. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a refurb M1 8GB Air for anyone price conscious.
Because the current deployment is already the result of subsidies and that it wouldn't have happened without?
I'm not sure I want that kind of "conglomeration" in the FOSS space. Sure, there can be benefits to having a behemoth with a lot of resources behind it to support FOSS projects. But it also brings with it various problems of incentives and resource allocation. Managing multiple different software projects within one organisation is something a lot of well-run, for-profit companies struggle to do effectively, I don't think Mozilla would be much better at it.

Also, I personally don't have any issue with Mozilla but a lot of people seem to hate them. I can only imagine all the internet drama that would ensue if they started acquiring projects like LibreOffice and Nextcloud.
It would incorporate a present value calculation for medical costs, present value of future earnings, work life expectancy, and account for disability-adjusted life years. The marginal price increase would correspond to the hazard ratio adjusted risk of causing harm.
Not really interested in getting into a Reddit-style back and forth about a game I played and didn't finish like 6 years ago.
Tldr.fail
The hidden address feature picks a random centroid near your hidden address, not exactly on it. Averaging out the circle finds that random centroid, not your hidden address.
Please check though, because my kids qualified for medicaid despite my six-figure income. The state of Oregon qualifies by week, so even if you made $10 million / year, if your expected income in the week is $0, you qualify for that week (yes, I literally asked them this question, and he said yes, that is how it works). According to our DHS, there is no upper limit on yearly income that would mandate a clawback of benefits received[1] . And in Oregon at least, OHP is accepted everywhere, and is usually better than the platinum plans (no payments taken from users, ever)

[1] As another example, I asked if I didn't work Jan - Nov, and then made $10 million in December, would my kids qualify for mediacid Jan - Nov, and he said yes.
Sure there is- opportunity cost, the real dangers and skills required to operate a vessel at sea, etc. You can pay a professional crew to do everything for you, but then you'll probably feel pretty useless, and be looked down upon by the people you meet along your journey that do it themselves.

The sea doesn't care how rich you are, and being a helpless dependent is boring and infantilizing no matter how big your boat - and you don't develop skills without taking risks.

Ultimately, I don't think people are often that conscious of their real goals and motivations. It's easy to say you have no choices in life because of financial and time constraints, but I don't think those are the real reasons most people choose to do or not do things.
A thousand years ago, every village had their own timekeeping and it worked. Our village is now earth. What if we just abandoned daylight-savings time and timezones and just went with GMT (or anything else) for everywhere on earth?

There would be cultural effects as people in California now start work at 16:00, for example...
>scale

This is so funny to see, and great to see said, because for decades I ran into nuclear proponents (not engineers or workers, just people into the politics) that said that nuclear was the "only" way to combat climate change (Edit: forgot a crucial clause: because "only" nuclear could scale). I would counter that nuclear does not scale in that it can't get small, and it takes forever to build or expand.

Whereas solar can go small, go big, go medium, and the same with storage these days.

Many in the nuclear world are currently hoping to scale to "modular" size, because it's become clear that with 1GW scale, in advanced economies, construction is too expensive (IMHO due to the high cost of labor compared to less advanced economies). So shifting to a more "factory" model like airplanes is the investment pitch: scale smaller and make each reactor like factory parts so that it gets cheap to build. We will see! It's got enough hype that even non-small non-modular designs are calling themselves SMRs in order to try to garner interest. And there is some interest in new nuclear these days, despite the extremely high cost, and its going towards the more expensive SMRs rather than 1GW scale reactors, because the risk of failure is on a smaller overall quantity of money.
Base 16gb is absolutely wild. My base m2 air with 8gb is almost enough to handle anything I’d ever want it to without zero slowdown.

A 16gb model for about a thousand bucks?? I can’t believe how far macbooks have come in the last few years
You need to embrace Apple's vision, or use something else. Clearly your goals and Apple's are misaligned, so you will only feel pain when using a Mac.

Get a PC.
Also important, they represent 30% of future blackwell orders and are 11% of NVDA revenue. Im surprised NVDA is barely down today, but a) AMD lag is proving NVDA competitive advantage, b) allocations to SCMI would certainly find backup customers.
How? What cloud providers offer it? MacStadium and AWS don't.

I guess you could have a physical MBP in your house and connect it to some bring-your-own-infrastructure CI setup, but most people wouldn't want to do that.
Why are there two high-profile cuts coming in on the same Wednesday? Is this to bury it in election news next week or something?
I still hate the fact that people can borrow money against a stock. Stock should be sold, period. That is how the market sets a price for stock, through the volume of it being sold and bought. By allowing people to borrow against a stock, let's them get the money for the stock while still holding it. That artificially increases the stock price and value.
Money, media, political footballs, lots and lots sure... but to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern.
Fastmail thinks JMAP is the future of mobile(?) email API access

Also, I am just curious if you're unhappy with their android app? I find it very full featured
> once a piece of software became stable and profitable you would need a much smaller engineering staff than when it was being built

This is not generally the case, except in monopoly situations.

Your software product generally has a competitor, and they're busy trying to make theirs better than yours -- whether with more features, better integrations, whatever it is.

So your staff size generally stays about the same in order to build more features desired by customers to prevent customers from switching to your competitor and you go out of business. And certain features, by themselves, can be more complex than the entire v1 of a product. And/or involve massive refactoring, etc.

The companies that get to reduce their team size are often because they're in a monopoly position, and then customers suffer because the software gets stagnant and the features they need don't get built. That's capitalism failing.

Also, something like an internal chat app isn't always a bad decision. If your company is above a certain size headcount, it can literally be cheaper to build small tools than to license them. Especially when you can more deeply customize and integrate them, which you often simply can't with off-the-shelf software.
The iPad has nano texture and I find it does a much better job with oily fingerprints.
I guess I'm alone. I HATED it.
You actually think those things were "easily agreed upon"? They most certainly are not!

I'll give you a tiny example:

> Gasoline is taxed enough to remove its carbon afterwards?

Gasoline is the entire reason we have an economy, do anything to make it more expensive and you'll unleash an earthquake of inflation and lower productivity. That's like the last thing you want to tax!

Note: it's irrelevant if you agree with the argument, (or even if I agree with it) - the issue is that the argument exists.
What net benefits does a full blown "SIEM" add over a simple log database w/ alerting support?
It's still in partial read only mode: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/28/internet-archive-service...

Discussions

The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode (89 points, 14 days ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41856008

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (509 points, 10 days ago, 338 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895764

Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline" (104 points, 15 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41854518
> If we define hallucinations as falsehoods introduced between the training data and LLM output,

Yes, if.

Or we could realize that the LLMs output is a random draw from a distribution learned from the training data, i.e. ALL of its outputs are a hallucination. It has no concept of truth or falsehoods.
I’m not sure I agree. accept() pops from a queue. You can wait—and-pop or you can pop-or-fail. I guess the former fits in a proactor model and the latter fits in a reactor model, but I think that distinction misses the point a bit. Accepting sockets works fine in either model.

It breaks down in a context where you do an accept that can be canceled and you don’t handle it intelligently. In a system where cancellation is synchronous enough that values won’t just disappear into oblivion, one could arrange for a canceled accept that succeeded to put the accepted socket on a queue associated with the listening socket, fine. But, in general, the operation “wait for a new connection and irreversibly claim it as mine IMO just shouldn’t be done in a cancellable context, regardless of whether it’s a “reactor” or a “proactor”. The whole “select and, as one option, irrevocably claim a new connection” code path in the OP seems suspect to me, and the fact that it seems to work under epoll doesn’t really redeem it in my book.
This has been a powerful tool for the team at Increase. As someone who didn't work at Stripe before Increase, I had never seen a version of the tool before. I completely agree with the author's point -- "it felt so clearly the right approach and so necessary that it was surprising every company didn’t have a similar tool."

Happy to answer any questions about how we use Checker!
> Im actually very curious why AI use is such a bi-modal experience. I've used AI to move multi thousand line codebases between languages. I've created new apps from scratch with it.

I think this depends on the nature of your work. I've been successful with using LLMS for creating things from scratch, for myself, especially in a domain I was not familiar with and am quite happy with that. Things like proof of concepts or exploring a library or a framework. But in my current work setting, relying on LLMS to do production work is only somewhat helpful here and there but nowhere near as helpful as in the first case. In some cases it hallucinated so close to what it was supposed to do that it introduced a bug I would have never created had I not used LLMs and that took a lot of effort to spot.
I upgraded my iPhone 13 pro to the 16 pro and it was overall really nice - but it was the better use of hardware, the zoom camera, etc.

The CPU? Ah, never really felt a difference.
I don't want you to do anything. I think this is food for thought for you, because from where I'm standing this isn't a perspective you consider. In my eyes, you've adopted a condition of self-destruction. It's incredibly common, but most don't know there are other options.

> I want to be someone who does great work

You can be that, but you'll have to live with the reality that nobody cares.

I want to be a great husband, a reliable friend, somebody funny, somebody people want to be around. I think people care about that. I know nobody I care about cares about my PRs.

> I'm genuinely sorry no one in your life cares about what you spend most of your week doing. That's really tragic.

Nobody in your life cares either, you've just convinced yourself they do so that you can cope with your circumstances and mindset.

If you leave your job tomorrow, the world will keep spinning. Your coworkers will move on remarkably quickly. In fact, if you dropped dead right now, they wouldn't even stop working.

> I care! and in the calculus of existence, my opinion of myself is what matters

Right, I'm addressing your mindset. The fact you care is the problem, not the solution. It's a recipe for misery.

Because your influence on your work is inherently extremely limited. You are a small fraction of the big picture, virtually negligible and worthless. If you attach an emotional string to your work, you WILL face the failures of others.

Is this what you want? Do you want your pride to be in the hands of hundreds, maybe thousands of people you don't care about and who also don't care about you? Because, when people say they care most about work, this is what they're saying.

For me, I'm in such a position where if the company goes under tomorrow, I won't waste my breath. And... for you? Will you cry yourself to sleep? What will come of your ego and image? If that's all you are, then you are not much.

> a rather tired brand of cynicism

Yes, advocating community and a love for life is "cynical"

What is actually cynical is believing your work is your self-worth.

> We believe that any work whatsoever is a sacrament which we offer to God, and so that imbues even the most trivial janitorial work (which I have done in the past) with deep significance

And I actually agree with this!

Your mistake is equating a JOB to WORK in general.

WORK includes emotional work, social work, chores, the mundane, and hobbies.

Your job is the least important work you do. It has the least impact on the world. Many people's jobs actually have a negative impact, because their company performs evil. Certainly, I wouldn't want to be working at Bayer Pharmaceutical when they gave thousands of people HIV.

You want to do work that's meaningful? Go make a cup of coffee for your wife or husband. Observe how that makes them feel and how it makes you feel.
It sounds like every sentence is an ad read.
Using PostgreSQL Page-Based (CTID) Pagination for Data Cleanups
Question without judgement: why would I want to run LLM locally? Say I'm building a SaaS app and connecting to Anthropic using the `ai` package. Would I want to cut over to ollama+something for local dev?
disagree - good products meet their users where they are and bury complexity under the hood. i can't imagine trying to use a calendar app (or any app really) that refuses to operate in any mode other than UTC.
>If you had read and understood the paper you would be able to specifically detail why that isn't so rather than say vaguely that "it is not the only thing that supports that particular claim".

Not every internet conversation need end in a big debate. You've been pretty rude and i'd just rather not bother.

You also seem to have a lot to say on how much people actually read papers but your first response also took like 5 minutes. I'm sorry but you can't say you've read even one of those in that time. Why would i engage with someone being intellectually dishonest?
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Search the poster's history for those links where their view is explicitly expressed.
How rapidly the economics of renewable energy are shifting
I think you are confusing channels and dimms.

The vast majority of any x86 laptop or desktops are 128 bits wide. Often 2x64 bit channels up till last year or so, now 4x32 bit DDR5 in the last year or so. There are some benefits to 4 channels over 2, but generally you are still limited by 128 bits unless you buy a Xeon, Epyc, or Threadripper (or Intel equiv) that are expensive, hot, and don't fit in SFFs or laptops.

So basically the PC world is crazy behind the 256, 512, and 1024 bit wide memory busses apple has offered since the M1 arrived.
I don't think they are the kind of people that will take unnecessary risks.
Fortunately, modern TVs can disable the sharpening and contrast/saturation enhancements. Since I do a lot of photography and image processing, I am also extremely sensitive to oversharpened halos, so I was a bit worried about that at first --- but fortunately, that is 100% nonexistent once I applied the appropriate settings on my Samsung QN800A. See pics: [1] [2]

I also detest the miniled HDR that they have going on, which can cause bright things to glow, so I disabled that. Unfortunately my QN800A still have a bit of "full screen HDR", namely, that the whole screen may uniformly dim if it detects that the scene is dark. This means that sometimes when you have a black screen with a single cursor on it, it gets dark, and it becomes hard to see the cursor. This doesn't affect normal usage though, when the screen is at a constant brightness.

[1] https://i.dllu.net/2024-10-30-09-36-11_DSCF2616_11f836ca2100...

[2] https://i.dllu.net/2024-10-30-09-37-18_DSCF2617_eeab771f780f...
Does the ford f150 lightning not count for some reason?
> The ban of US pesticides is to stifle American infiltration of EU agriculture, and basically every other law can be viewed under this lens.

You really really need to cite some sources for this
> I guess i understand seeing as you couldn't have read the paper in the 5 minutes it took for your response.

You've posted the papers multiple times over the last few months, so no I did not read them in the last five minutes though you could in fact find both of the very basic problems I cited in that amount of time.
Is correlating yourself with lots of points on that iceberg a sign of ADHD or am I overfitting myself to these condition. The current state of everyone being "i think I might have adhd" is just our brains cooked by phones and doomscrolling, and everyone is on the spectrum some way or other if they start scoring themselves on impulse control, attention span, time sensitivity, organic recall of pertinent time-sensitive information
Looked at it but ruled out the Air due to lack of ports and limited RAM upgrades.
Something weird I noticed about Dropbox:
I cancelled my paid account two years ago. I had 5 terabytes of storage being used (mostly shitty concert vids and food pics).

Everyday they email me telling me I’m over my limit. They always “threaten” to delete the data but it’s been two years since I cancelled.

My Qs are: why are they hoarding my data for so long? Why would they want to do this? How cheap is storage for them to want to do this? How likely is it that they have sold my data to train various LLMs with?
Yep, this is what I do. Individual responsibility is an unpopular idea these days but the way I look at it, I am the one who is ultimately in charge of my family's wellbeing. That is far too important to entrust to a corporation's generosity or the whims of lawmakers.
I didn't say which track they were on in the problem, just that they're on one of them.
I suppose it doesn't matter if it is a human, or a bot delivering the message, if the message is boring
Not hardly!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-glottalization

I am fortunate to have smart friends who introduced me to this not even a month ago.
Do those metrics count "number of people laid off" explicitly?

We know they do implicitly because laying off people makes the company more profitable, but is there any penalty for killing jobs?

If not, shouldn't there be?
Don't Bet Against the Dollar
The voices are impressive (I can't tell the difference as a non native speaker) but their "personality" sounds extremely annoying lmao
The fact that lying is a core element of the ads is what makes them so gross to me.

The guys says he's surprised she remembers him. She could just look straight at the camera, say what can I say, I'm very intelligent, wink, and it wouldn't be gross.
It would look very good for some elected folks - say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Economic_issues - but not so good for the "everybody else" of politics.
Isn't that how china works? One timezone for everyone
The company could put them to some use, or they could get capital and launch their own ventures. It's equivalent from a market perspective, except the one you suggest requires unnecessary coercion (forcing the employees to work on something they may not have signed up for).

At the end of the day, the american market place is distinguished in that venture capital, especially in tech, is very accessible. Being laid off seems to be a bonus in the hunt for VC money.

It's the same reason companies return dividends. Sure, they could use the money for R&D and launching a new product, or they could send the money to investors so that they can scour the marketplace for a new technology of their own choosing for investment. The first one unnecessarily takes investor money for a project they may not have signed up for, whereas the former maximizes their freedom to invest in what they find interesting
Data privacy-- some stuff, like all my personal notes I use with a RAG system, just don't need to be sent to some cloud provider to be data mined and/or have AI trained on them
> the mere suggestion that hallucinations can be fixed by tweaking some variable or fixing some bug

That "suggestion" is fictional: they haven't suggested this. What they offer is a way to measure the confidence a particular model might have in the product of the model. Further, they point out that there is no universal function to obtain this metric: different models encode it in differently.

Not exactly a "cures cancer" level claim.