skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think the point is that it isn't really about creating something people want; it's about creating something that inevitably becomes a necessity for life and work whether you like it or not.

Sounds like something that would apply to tractors or looms as well. Do you think farmers or textile makers had a choice on whether to use those technologies or not?

>Sure — recent AI developments are hugely impressive, but what value are companies like OpenAI creating and who, other than AI geeks and researchers, is really hankering for this stuff? It feels more like an arms race towards something completely unknown. It's a collective panic that AGI (read: God) is just around the corner and whoever gets there first wins everything.

>There was no such insanity in previous 'tech' eras. There's always been competition and hype, but the prospect of unlocking the technology to end all technologies has never before been credible enough.

So which one is it? In the first half you're implying AI doesn't create value and that nobody actually wants it, but then in the second half you're saying it could be the "technology to end all technologies", which has obvious value.
Other than GH Copilot (which is amazing) and the like, I am yet to see a social/cultural impact of LLMs. I am ignoring the hype cycle fueled social media posts where influencers show cool stuff or model releases. I am talking about this stuff permeating through the society.. am I immune to it? Or is it hidden in saas/enterprise products layers deep?

I would imagine some productive cultural impact that’s wide spread, sticky, high retention not like ‘oh cool 3d tv or vr’ kinda thing?

Given how much ‘money’ has been burnt through the GPU heatsinks.
I'm with you. I use Copilot every day in the way you're describing and I love it. The person I was responding to is claiming to code "hands off" and let the AI write the majority of the software.
The most likely explanation is that the code you are writing has low information density and is stringing things together the same way many existing apps have already done.

That isn’t a judgement but trying to use the ai code completion tools for complex systems tasks is almost always a disaster.
> I can infer enough about you from our conversation to reaffirm my point that human society is predicated on humans being special.

“Based on this one comment thread, I know enough about you to be able to tell that all of human society is based on humans being special“

Is a crazy statement that has next to nothing to do with the conversation I’ve been having…
Yeah, but the plugins can be written in Rust!

OK, OK, it’s a bad example. WASM is language agnostic though, so as more languages can target WASM, then the possible advantage is programming language agnosticism. If I have some code, I don’t have to re-write it in Lua.
I more just mean solely for the money doesn’t quite work so well. I see your viewpoint regarding anti-employee politics and policy and agree the world is becoming quite anti-worker so can see where you’re coming from.

I’ve found the best approach is to reduce work hours per week/fortnight by 1 day, and spend that day on side projects and learning.

If you approach side projects with the intent to learn and share your creations, I think the money can follow.

That way you can still juice up your career, but potentially open up a diversified second income stream. If the finances look good, you can even reduce work hours and increase side project time
Alpha-beta pruning I believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta_pruning
This is so dumb. Normal people use this too
I know about Google's code reviews (I had one CL accepted a long time ago), but I am not sure they are universally as good as they used to be. Every day, I see multiple bugs in Google's services accessed using stock Chrome for Android on a Pixel phone. Maybe many folks over there don't care anymore?
could you share the link to the portable AC battery?
oh my! I found this exact page in ~2017. I m something of a tab hoarder and I had around 2k open tabs back then. I loved the page and content and wanted to get back to it, but you know how it goes. Somewhere in early 2018 my browser crashed and I lost the tab. I distinctively remembered losing that page and I tried to find it, over and over again. I actually had one of the pictures saved (blue-red-white wheel), so I opened it in new tab as placeholder until I find the page. 6 years later here we are!!! tnx hughgrunt xd
Community Commitment to Open Source Definition
No problem. I thought that seemed on the high side but didn’t have any stats to counter with. Which paper does 430k come from? I’d like to squirrel that away for later.
Don't mean to be rude, but was this comment written with an LLM?
There is vector type data available in duckdb now?
From experience majority of side projects that set out to make money, don’t make any money.

And the projects have to make a large amount of money to be better than a typical software developer salary.

Consider then that you’re probably already working 40 hours, where are you finding the time for a sustainable side project that generates income?

That takes months, years to get to any reasonable amount of income.

That being said, I have made money from side projects, I made 1/5 of my yearly salary in about 1 month of conception (from a software sale).

But that was a pure fluke, right place right time right tool right amount of luck. I’ve been making side projects for years, 9/10 of my projects lose me money lol
that looks like a nice project, reminds me of the ghost gunner 3 machine.
I like the safety note too. might hop into discord sometime next week. thanks for sharing!
People from different countries come to Singapore for different identities and reasons. Some are transiting here, some are traveling, some are studying abroad, some are working, and some have grown up in Singapore.

See the big picture from the small details. Can you share what you like and dislike about Singapore?
What track record does he have?
The important bit

> But the recent Mastodon upgrade has caused a significant amount of performance degradation, and I think the only way to really solve it is going to be to throw a lot of money into hardware.

I found the latest upgrade also making some odd UX decisions. Content warnings got a weird new styling and it's not clear anymore how to hide images separately from hiding the text.

Are the mastodons okay?

There are good things too, don't get me wrong, like grouping notifications instead of getting a notification flood on a popular toot. That's nice. But what's up with perf regressions and (in my opinion) UX regressions?
> And regardless of how you feel about the default the way they went about it broke things for users

For users using Debian unstable and even there it was apparently fixed/improved after a week.
Debian stable users had no "wild ride" and for the future became the choice to select between the full featured keepassxc version and a minimal variant without non-essential network and IPC features.
that makes sense but this very article states: "The powder is a cheese sauce that has been partially defatted and dehydrated" in the section that they discuss happening in 1937.

Such an obvious contradicting makes me question the validity of this article
“PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants.”

This quote reminded of the SpaceX’s approach to engineering and why they have leapfrogged past Boeing. Instead of spending 10-20 years and billions into a single design, SpaceX iterates.
A tangent, but the US spends only 200 billion a year on power generation? For all industry, every household, every street lamp, everything? That's crazy, I had no idea, you hear the government throw much bigger numbers out there about wars and Ukraine and Israel assistance and all that, to think we send Ukraine multiple times what we spend on power for the whole country. That's absolutely wild to me.
We still wouldn’t be alive 5000 years ago. That part doesn’t change. I think you’re confusing yourself.

Half of Europeans that died during the great plague would’ve benefited, for example. Most people who were born in the past 150 years would still be alive.

let your imagination have a go at it.
The bonfires are a Catholic thing dating to when they were outlawed in England. They couldn’t light candles in churches so they lit bonfires in fields instead.
Ah yeah, the share dialog is really basic, I ended up using Firefox and installing the full extension when I wanted to save pages (also allows you to save pages from places you're logged into)
Jeff Bezos's DC Mansion Has Made Its Social Debut
The answer lies with a validation dataset that you create for testing.
There is no such thing as “celtic” culture. Celtoi is a word of precision roughly on par with “barbarian.”
adding here due to some resonance with the point of view.. this exchange lacks crucial axes.. what kind of programming ?

I assume the parent-post is saying "I ported thousands of lines of <some C family executing on a server> to <python on standard cloud environments>. I could be very wrong but that is my guess. Like any data-driven software machinery, there is massive inherent bias and extra resources for <current in-demand thing> in this guess-case it is python that runs on a standard cloud environment with the loaders and credentials parts too perhaps.

Those who learned programming in the theoretic ways know that many, many software systems are possible in various compute contexts. And those working on hardware teams know that there are a lot of kinds of computing hardware. And to add another off-the-cuff idea, so much web interface ala 2004 code to bring to newer, cleaner setups.

I am not <emotional state descriptor> about this sea change in code generation, but actually code generation is not at all new. It is the blatent stealing and LICENSE washing of a generation of OSS that gets me, actually. Those code generation machines are repeating their inputs. No authors agreed and no one asked them, either.
and fake it before you make it ...im still waiting for GPT's version of H.E.R.... many months later nowhere to be found yet no doubt that juiced their revenue.

The startup playbook lie ur ass off and make sh!t up. Musk still does it to this day with the recent demo of his Optimus robots implying they were all AI driven.
How many of those other optimizations reduce stack usage from O(n) to O(1)?
Not really the same thing.

As I understand it, the "constructive sales" rules were developed in response to hedge funds structuring transactions with forward contracts (and other clever instruments) to avoid short term gains taxes.

Taxing someone for borrowing against something when they have not expressed a clear intention to sell doesn't really make sense.

What would be next, taxing proceeds from refinancing a multifamily property? Taxing the refinancing of your personal residence? Taxing when using equity from a property as collateral on a loan? All of those are the same thing as what you are trying to tax.
The loophole is the cost basis of the equity resetting — untaxed — at death.
1. I answered you - nobody said they see a benefit to having biased editors, and no reasonable person would, by definition. People see benefit in something else, as I explained - that's the answer to your question.

2. I know some people say "straw man" as a swipe, but it's also a term of art for a rhetorical fallacy and that's how I meant it. The position you asked me to defend (that there's benefit in having a biased editorial board) isn't a position anyone here took, or agrees with. Hence the term.

3. "this isn't reddit" is a swipe - and one that's a bit mysterious to people who are unfamiliar with reddit, like me ;)
Considering the cogent financial analysis detailed in "The Subprime AI Crisis"[0], all I can add is a quote from the movie "Dodgeball"[1]:

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

0 - https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364725/quotes/
A List of Top Open-Source Embedding Models
awesome dump, thanks for sharing. solvespace is cool but until they iron out the chamfer/fillet situation and parametric input I ll have to continue using freecad..
Speeding up insertion of (mostly) sorted keys into an ordered container
How Do You Provision a Linux VM?
But can you not? Assume sum, 1..(N+1)/2..N

Have you not actually built the same proof via induction in both cases with one of them starting from the middle and subsequently including left and right terms at a unit away (you actually do it in reverse but the crux still holds)? Such that S[0] gives you (N+1)/2 and S[(N-1)/2] gives you the total sum.

The argument would be like S[i] = (2i-1)(N+1)/2 only you'd be proving it using induction i.e. given S[i-1], finding S[i].

All it ever matters for this problem is that to prove it as such, you somehow have to add up all of the numbers. The "different" proofs you presented are actually the same since for addition, the order of operation does not matter due to associative and commutative properties. A good question would be to see if any of the proofs still remain valid when either of these properties are removed from an operation.
I've gotten a lot of mileage from simonw's blog, who as far as I know isn't working on any (paid) AI tools.

https://simonwillison.net/
I dunno why you would blog about, and even create a blog tag for, Positron without linking to it :-/

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron (Elastic V2)
There are very few tutorials on how to do testing and I don't think I have ever seen one that was great. Compared to general coding stuff where there's great tutorials available for all the most common things.

So I think quality testing is just not in the training data at anywhere close to the quantity needed.
Understanding Raydium AMM: From Bank Exchanges to DeFi
A technical deep-dive into Solana's Raydium AMM architecture, explaining how it improves upon traditional banking exchanges through OpenBook integration and constant product formulas. Includes code examples in Rust showing actual account structures, transaction flows, and price impact calculations. Built from examining Raydium's open source CPI (Cross-Program Invocation) implementation.
How about making a prediction and we will follow up in 5 years.

To me it sounds like you’re just being sort of vague. Yes, absolutely everyone knew there were social issues too.

Where will self driving be in 5 or 10 years?
True, we (the ones reading and writing these comments) would likely never exist if the past was that radically different.
Thank you for sharing this! I have one question: Is there any plan to add support for local LLM / embeddings models?
The comment above has very wrong numbers, by the way, typical consumption for the whole device should around or less than what that poster claims is drawn just by the CPU!
The guidelines from 1980 have indeed mentioned reducing satiating saturated fat and since then people have been getting more and more obese.

The problem is that we have, unfortunately, been listening.
All but one (arguably two) of those predate the web, incidentally.
Tab complete is just one of their proprietary models. I find chat-mode more helpful for refactoring and multi-file updates, even more when I specify the exact files to include.
Reviewing these conversations is like listening to horse and buggy manufacturers pooh-poohing automobiles:

1. they will scare the horses. a good team of horses is no match for funky 'automobile'

2. how will they be able to deal with our muddy, messy roads

3. their engines are unreliable and prone to breaking down
stranding you in the middle and having to do it yourself..

4. their drivers cant handle the speed, too many miles driven means unsafe driving.. we should stick to horses they are manageable.

Meanwhile I'm watching a community of mostly young people building and using tools like copilot, cursor, replit, jacob etc and wiring up LLMs into increasingly more complex workflows.

this is snapshot of the current state, not a reflection of the future- Give it 10 years
Considering that what is currently passed as AI is really just statical probability of string words together that is completely unable to apply logic or reason… we ain't even close.
The Pipeline Metrics That Matter
I have a 32 inch 4k. Its good but even that feels a little big some time. I have a 55 at work and its just silly.
It is definitely more expensive than 3d printing in terms of consumables but china/aliexpress has really good hobby-quality equipment now - if you don't mind the country of origin. Many of their coated end-mills are decent and < $5 depending on diameter.

Maybe not stuff you would want to run professionally but it works quite well in a hobbyist setting and a mistake won't cost you $50.

I also looked into the Millenium Milo, only downside for me and kinda why I decided to design my own Voron V0-ish sized mini CNC machine was the really large footprint for about 3x the work volume (work _area_ is ~2x afair). An enclosed Milo would take up about the same volume as two 350mm Voron's side-by-side. So footprint of a small desk.

Imo besides the price, the other big factor is just how much less forgiving CNC machining is than 3d printing - so many mistakes you can make, zeroing the WCS, wrong WCS, mounting the work different than you had it in CAM, ... bam, at least the work is ruined. That's kind of another longer-term goal with my CNC machine, reducing some of these errors if possible with a web-based UI and maybe some computer vision. But that's far off, I'm currently playing with using a camera for work-probing/WCS-zeroing and it's sloooow progress :')
What am I missing?

Stock is a highly liquid asset, the exact opposite of a home. For starters, you don't give up the home (title, possession, or use) when you take out a home equity loan.

But when wealthy stockholders borrow against stock, they are realizing the economic value of the stock by using that stock as collateral (i.e., exchanging it in exchange for the loan) but are not being taxed on that realization of income. Also, it's quite uncommon for someone capable of utilizing this scheme to pay any significant amount of interest on the loan (and this was true even before the decade of ZIRP), as quite paradoxically the wealthy pay less interest on larger loans.
Why have I still not seen any major benchmarks of Entropix yet?

If you're interested in comprehensive benchmarks on how effectively different LLM confidence-scoring methods can automatically flag incorrect/hallucinated responses, I've published some here:

https://cleanlab.ai/blog/trustworthy-language-model/

https://towardsdatascience.com/benchmarking-hallucination-de...
Wow, I had no idea the Nvidia model was number 1 on MTEB right now.
I've only seen it used as a side tool for some specific stuff and never as anything business critical (that I could see anyway).
bless!
"Right now the system only supports OpenAI as an embedding provider, but we plan to extend with local and OSS model support soon."

In the post you responded to
I have a 28" 4K 144hz monitor since two years now, its been great.
That's interesting given Microsoft also has it's own accelerator, Maia...
I think you mean recursed
You couldn't buy something from eBay or TaoBao/Alibaba?
See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benderama
That is arguable because while it is a calculated field, it is not a pure one (IO is required), and not necessarily idempotent, not atomic and not guaranteed to succeed.

It is certainly convenient for the end user, but it hides things. What if the API calls to open AI fail or get rate limited. How is that surfaced. Will I see that in my observability. Will queries just silently miss results.

If the DB does the embedding itself synchronously within the write it would make sense. That would be more like elastic search or a typical full text index.
I hate to be a downer but there's a lot of things Matrix could prioritize over decentralization. That said, the decentralization works pretty badly. Large federated joins are somewhere between comically slow and horrifically slow. Status does not seem to work well across federation either.

I'm also a bit miffed that Dendrite was positioned as a "next generation" Matrix server but now it feels nearly orphaned with missing support for newer features, issues with various appservice bridges, few updates at a very slow pace, and no migration path out in sight. I know it came with a fair number of disclaimers, but that still bums me out as it seemed like it would be okay for a small non-critical homeserver, and now it seems likely I'll have to engineer my own path out when clients finally stop working with Dendrite. (It already happened once...)

You have no idea how bad I want to love Matrix, but frankly if it was due to a focus on usability that decentralization "purity" has suffered, it simply does not show in the resulting usability improvements over years of time. Sorry to be harsh.
The saying "You can delegate tasks but not responsibility" comes to mind.

You are still responsible for the code AI is writing. It is just that writing code with AI is more like reviewing a PR now.
Using your home as collateral for a home equity loan is not the same thing. For starters, you remain in possession of your home and continue to use it. When you put up stock as collateral for these HNW loans, you can't do anything with the stock.
How about the (in)famous Amazon Door Desk? They used to build desks for their offices from a door.
We feel your pain with maintenance. We have plans to handle this by using LLMs to detect response anomalies.

From our experience, reverse engineering is still less prone to breakage compared to traditional browser automation. But we definitely want to make integrations even more reliable with maintenance features.
As I mentioned in another reply, the scenario here is translating "artistic" or "real-world" (for lack of a better term) literature accurately—whether it's a novel, a YouTuber's video, casual conversation, or blog posts/tweets with internet slang and abbreviations. In these cases, getting things 95% right isn’t enough to capture the nuances, especially when the author didn’t create the content with translation in mind (which I believe matches your experience).

Machine translation for instructional or work-related texts has been "usable" for years, way before LLM emerged.

LLM-based translation has certainly made significant progress in these scenarios—GPT-4, for example, is fully capable IMHO. However, it's still not quite fast enough for real-time use, and the smaller models that can run offline still don't deliver the needed quality.
Except for gaming, is there any practical use for refresh above 60Hz?
I love this photo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_bobbing#/media/File%3A...
I think there's a number of factors that make it work as well as it does for me:

- Mostly writing React

- Not using any obscure or new libraries

- Naming things well

- Keeping logic simple

- Leaving a comment at the point where I'm about to make a shift from what the common logic would be

- Getting a feel for when it's going to be able to correctly guess or not (and not even reading it if I think it's going to be wrong)

- Trusting short blocks more than long ones
You can request it for RDS
From your reference to "the apostolic churches" I assume that you understand this, but to clarify for any less familiar with Christian denominations: both the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches (between them representing about 60% of global self-identifying Christians) deny the supremacy of the Bible for the same reason.

As someone on the OrthodoxChristianity subreddit put it [0], "show me where the table of contents comes from." Both Orthodox and Catholic Christians believe that because the list of books that make up the Bible is an output of some combination of history, tradition, and church councils, it can't be treated as superior to them.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/OrthodoxChristianity/comments/14y7f...