skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>many hands make light work, but

I'd like to emphasize further the but. The speed of tasks scales with the inverse log of the organization size.

In other words, as you get bigger, every project gets slower, regardless of how many people you have working on it. A project that would take a week in a tiny organization might take a month in a medium organzation and 2 quarters in a large organization. Sometimes there are good reasons for this, sometimes not.
If it was deleted, something went very wrong. I have no idea what. Maybe it was considered spam. Maybe they're a recurring troll who got banned. Maybe it accidentally revealed some personal information and they thought the better of it.

Whatever it was, it's more than just "I asked for help and then forgot about it". Which is rude, of course, but I'm afraid you have to expect that on teh intarwebz. Everything is asynchronous. It feels like a conversation, but it's not. People are doing a million things at once and they often just don't return to things.

There's a very good chance that somebody involved is a jerk, and indeed, the world would be a much better place if we all tried to think out the effects of our actions on others. But I'm afraid you're going to have to assume that not everybody will.
> Rust does not assume that state changes only when polled.

I will replace to more exact description about this, thanks.
I also have a 43" 4K monitor, and I find myself being in the same position as you. The left/right edges are difficult to see. I don't have the issue with the mouse, but I also doubt whether a larger screen would be useful to me. As it is there's a corner that gets unused because it's just out of "eye shot" if that's a phrase. It is now, I guess :D
Java does not monomorphize, it has no true generics - it's objects all the way down. It does, however, perform guarded devirtualization since all methods are virtual by default, so performance lives and dies by OpenJDK hotspot emitting guarded for fast, often multiple, dispatch as well as optimizing "megamorphic" callsites with vtable-ish dispatch (which is about the default cost of interface dispatch in .NET, somewhat slower than virtual dispatch).
I agree. I had interpreted "what people want" as actual investigative journalism to the earlier commenters point.
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I process large amounts of images for sd and also do simple graphics work sometimes. Webp saves some space but is slow af at saving, like 10-50x slow. So not even remotely a good tradeoff. Reading is fine, afaict.
btw, there is a recent interview with an Asani dev focusing on GPUs, worth a listen for those interested in linux on apple silicon. The reverse engineering effort required to pin down the GPU hardware was one of the main topics.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/10/15/linux-apple-...
[2302.10196] On the Liveliness of Artificial Life
You've drunk the hegemony koolaid, my friend.
I'm pleased that the Pro's base memory starts at 16 GB, but surprised they top out at 32 GB:

> ...the new MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of faster unified memory with support for up to 32GB, along with 120GB/s of memory bandwidth...

I haven't been an Apple user since 2012 when I graduated from college and retired my first computer, a mid-2007 Core2 Duo Macbook Pro, which I'd upgraded with a 2.5" SSD and 6GB of RAM with DDR2 SODIMMs. I switched to Dell Precision and Lenovo P-series workstations with user-upgradeable storage and memory... but I've got 64GB of RAM in the old 2019 Thinkpad P53 I'm using right now. A unified memory space is neat, but is it worth sacrificing that much space? I typically have a VM or two running, and in the host OS and VMs, today's software is hungry for RAM and it's typically cheap and upgradeable outside of the Apple ecosystem.
The thing is, high executives have become a self-perpetuating class entrenched in corporate boards, this is the reason CEOs comoensation keeps skyrocketing, not supply and demand. And this entrenchment obviously also stifles accountability.
> Honestly, I would not hire a single manager from these big companies because they operate in an environment where they're playing with monopoly money and don't know what reality is.

In part, to unpack why part of this glib take is missing the complexity, "don't know what reality is", is that finding reality is slow and costly.
Perhaps your team provides a platform which is used internally by several other teams building various products. It supports a bunch of use cases, but it's hard to evaluate the actual ROI of the platform you provide, both because no one knows how much better/worse those products would have been without your platform. Would they have taken months longer to implement? Would they have not been possible without spinning up a team like yours?

Further, some of those products actually are used by paying customers, and others are still in development. Of the products used by paying customers, it's unclear which they would actually pay to use vs which they use because it's available in their subscription basket (e.g. is Dropbox Paper making money or is it just that some Dropbox customers use it but would pay the same sync subscription if Paper was killed?). Of the products that are not yet in customers hands, how should you value them? If your small team supports multiple in-development products, that must be worth something even if they're not revenue-producing yet.

Similarly, suppose you're a manager who runs a team building a product which has dependencies on multiple platform/infra teams -- do you really have visibility into the real costs that your team's requests create? Can you really know the ROI of your team, to guide choices about various investments?

This kind of ambiguity means that even when leadership wants to see which teams are really contributing value and how much, it's quite difficult to see. Teams may optimistically estimate their own value because they cannot see all of the costs to which they contribute, or because they cannot see which revenue-affiliated use is actually valuable.
What stuff is Apple doing that is keeping me from doing what I want?

I think it's a good thing for 99% of computer users to not be able to just run any random software they download off of the internet. Gatekeeper, XProtect, and notarization are unfortunately necessary in the hostile computing environment we live in today. Aunt Tilly will happily download "PhotoShop" from that sketchy Russian Warez site and infect her machine if these protections didn't exist.

For power users that know what they're doing it is trivial to just use something like Homebrew or to bypass these protections on a case by case basis as needed. I can also run software in a Linux VM quite easily as well for open source software that isn't well maintained on macOS.
I agree with those.

The use case our startup is working is one more that I think really works well: why are you showing me these results?

Our product basically takes any search output and uses our internal knowledge graph for our clients to "explain" to the customer "why these results for this query/question?"

We use the same knowledge graph to then extend our client's native search results with much more relevant results using the LLM to better match results to the semantic intent of the question.

It's all quite nifty and transparent; the user wouldn't know that there's an AI involved without labeling it as AI generated.
Looks cool, need to dig deeper! On my directory I started to setup a seperate list for micro apps generated by AI: https://ai-tools.directory/aipps/ (also created one by myself: https://calculator.liquibee.com/. Was also thinking how to create a runtime environment to have something like bolt.new....
Let's not forget that jaywalking was essentially created by the automotive industry and its lobbyists, to make life more convenient for drivers. It started in car-heavy places like California, and eventually became a law virtually everywhere in the US, but was never really enforced in New York City, where most people walk or take public transit, rather than drive. If, like most New Yorkers, you walk several kilometers a day, through dozens of intersections, it's ludicrous to suggest that you should only walk at crosswalks, and only when the walk sign is lit. New Yorkers don't have a concept of "jaywalking"; it's just "walking."
Every M-series device now comes with at least 16GB, except for the base iPad Pro, right?
How is it that despite the vast population, we no longer have geniuses like Newton, Leibnitz, Gauss, Maxwell, Einstein, etc.? If they existed today, they would just be selling ads and stocks.
What kind of argument is that? Everyone does their research, that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad (and even stupid) choices made.
Huh? It's obvious to almost everyone that Dropbox is in a tough position in that it's largely failed to expand its offering beyond the very original product and value prop, which is also being eroded by the other major players.

So they attempted to use DB's position to leap-frog into new product categories, which require big spend on R&D and related teams, as well as new heads for supportive teams (sales, marketing, support, etc).

It's not working, so they are pulling back and re-trenching.

That all seems pretty transparently NOT a "having too much money" problem.
I can't tell who you're saying is self promoting? Apple/the team that made the Apple ads or Ubuntu/the team that made the Ubuntu ad?
I didn't realize that surrogateescape (UTF-8B) had become the default! If so, that's a great improvement. Thank you for the correction. (I can confirm that Python does indeed try to open "\377.txt" on my machine with this command line.)
Related:

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824

The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734

LLMs Know More Than What They Say - https://arjunbansal.substack.com/p/llms-know-more-than-what-...

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334
Everything you list is basically part of any display that is not bottom of the barrel.
Yes, it's a very good monitor but it would be crazy otherwise considering the price. And it has one fatal flaw: you can only connect to it with USBC/Thunderbolt making it an almost Apple only monitor which is extremely annoying in the long run...
>As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.

But I will be glad to see that my salary and bonus increased a bit this year :)
You have another one with a network gateway to provide hot failover?

Right?
This is definitely tempting me to upgrade my M1 macbook pro. I think I have 400GB/s of memory bandwidth. I am wondering what the specific number "over half a terabyte" means.
Profanity and wingdings is whatever, but nixing allergen info is fd up.
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All of my friends wanted my mom's recipes when they came round for my birthday. Now I realised she doesn't store anything - it's all in her head!

Then the same thing happened with my friend although she writes hers down in a diary (how old school).

And then I noticed so many food influencers posting their recipes in the descriptions of their tiktok/insta posts.

And then as I started searching for recipes online, I found the websites full of ads and popups and terrible UI. I only cared about the ingredients and the method. So I created this, and have been having a lot of fun with it.

I hope to see up and coming food influencers using this as a platform directly to link with their social media posts, engaging and competing with an already interested audience.

Technical talk: Building a fullstack application so quickly and being able to publish all single handedly was a fantastic experience. The SEO is fantastic! My site ranks 1st on Google for related searches.

Edit: There are some links in the footer that may not lead anywhere. These are under construction.
> IIRC it's the first time since the 2012 15" MBP that a matte option has been offered?

The so-called "antiglare" option wasn't true matte. You'd really have to go back to 2008.
Can you elaborate, are those workflows in queue or can they serve multiple users in parallel ?

I think it’s super interesting to know real life workflows and performance of different LLMs and hardware, in case you can direct me to other resources.
Thanks !
> COBRA is the single largest expense for departing employees. Industry standard is to offer 18 months, not 6.

Are we in the same industry, where are you based? I got 2 months when I was laid off last year.

I also know many tech people who got just 1 month.
If you're willing to play, here are plenty of lenders who will finance this purchase.

If it affects your earning power to that extent, you should probably pony up and save in the long run, probably just a few years until you see returns.

Caste system usually can't be bypassed by paying a monthly subscription fee.

I will note that making it a subscription will tend to increase the overall costs, not decrease. In an environment with ready access to credit, I think offering on a subscription basis is worse for consumers?
So far I’m only reading comments here about people wow’d by a lot of things it seemed that M3 pretty much also had. Not seeing anything new besides “little bit better specs”
I think there is only one thing we should focus on: Measurable capability on tasks. Understanding, memorization, reasoning etc. are all just shorthands we use to quickly convey an idea of a capability on a kind of task. Measurable capability on tasks can also attempt do describe mechanistically how the model works, but that is very difficult. This is where you would try to describe your sense of "understanding" rigorously. To keep it simple for example, I think when you say that the LLM does not understand what you must really mean is that you reckon its performance will quickly decay off as the task gets more difficult in various dimensions: Depth/complexity, Verifiability of the result, length/duration/context size, to a degree where it is still far from being able to act as a labor-delivering agent.
It's clear they are preparing for an acquisition. They are profitable with great gross margins and cash in the bank. With 20% workforce reduction they are going to be very attractive to the salesforce of the world.
Note that ASP.NET Core is significantly faster than Spring. The closer alternative in both UX and performance is going to be Vert.X instead.
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

One of my dad's anecdotes, back when he was alive, was when he was interviewing someone for a job.

"Why did you leave your last position?"

"After six months, management noticed my entire floor was doing the same thing as the next floor."
So what have you experienced specifically? It should come as no surprise that telling people that "the powers that be are reading your thoughts and erasing your memories" is met with incredulity. That's a pretty big claim that doesn't mesh with the experiences and worldview of almost everyone.

I'm going to be frank, it sounds like paranoid schizophrenia. I hope you're doing okay stranger.
Even in small steps, it fails. I have two cases I test with, nothing special, just some TS generics in one instance and a schema-to-schema mapping tool in another. Both things that Junior devs could do given a couple days, even though they'd need to study and figure out various pieces.

o1 can't get either, no matter how much I break it down, no matter how much prodding. In fact the more you try the worse it gets. And yes I do try starting new conversations and splitting it out. Simply does not help, at all.

It's not to say it isn't really helpful for really simple things. Or even complex things but that are directly in the training set. But the second you go outside that, it's terrible.
A lot of sitcom tropes involve behaviors that are repulsive in real life.
I got a refurbed M1 iPad Pro 12.9” for $900 a couple years ago and have been quite pleased. I still have a couple of years life in it I estimate.
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> I'm pleased that the Pro's base memory starts at 16 GB, but surprised they top out at 32 GB:

That's an architectural limitation of the base M4 chip, if you go up to the M4 Pro version you can get up to 48GB, and the M4 Max goes up to 128GB.
Depends. If those employees truly are excess and they haven't been doing much for the past couple years, they might be just producing tech debt. Cancelled projects and migrations have negative value. I doubt this entire 20% was made redundant overnight, which means they haven't been valuable for some time.
Right, the nvidia card maxes out at 24GB.
The max memory is dependent on which tier M4 chip you get. The M4 max chip will let you configure up to 128gb of ram
It's usually either another CRM, like Nutshell, Sugar, Zoho, or a dozen other CRMs, or pointing out that what they built out Salesforce is another type of app all together, and direct them to a proper app for that market. The latter type tends to be ticket systems, document management ssytems, and in the case of one company they used it as an EMR. The EMR they used was open source but did very little. They liked the "free" aspect of it, but they were paying $400k/yr on Salesforce to do all the things their EMR didn't, as well as another app platform they were building out on. I pointed out they were spending $600k/yr on an EMR, not zero dollars. The COO pitched a HUGE fit but they did move to a $200k/yr EMR that did everything and they saved tremendous amounts of time in clinic, and money in administrator salaries.
I have 32gb and I've never felt like I needed more.
If the CEO taking a paycut materially reduces the size of what would otherwise be a large layoff on the basis if reduced cost savings, the CEO was way overpaid to start with. (And it probably doesn't change the number of people the firm can usefully employ under changed conditions, even if it provides cost savings, because the latter is based on whether employing them makes more money than it costs, to which external cost savings are probably mostly irrelevant.)
The other reason for binary was automating synthesis vs hand-drawn circuits. That’s really important at scale. It both reduces NRE costs and increases velocity.

Ditching it might mean ditching the tooling that makes it so effective.
It’s cool to see new storage engines, thanks for sharing.

For transaction, how are conflicts on concurrent transaction handled? What’s the ordering? Are you considering any conditional check operation like compare-and-swap? For example I think Deno KV’s API where each value has a versionstamp and for transactions there’s an operation CHECK(key, versionstamp) that cancels the transaction if key doesn’t have the given versionstamp at the time of transaction.
One of my larger concerns about using TVs as monitors is security - its important to remember that these devices are not just displays.
ACR / Automated Content recognition means that they are also capable network connected framegrabbers and analysers.

If you connect the network to also use it as a TV, if you don't also tick all the right "I do not give you permission" boxes ( and the firmware actually respects these choices ), then your TV will be uploading signatures of everything you watch ( including HDMI inputs ) to the TV manufacturer for them to sell on to advertisers, political parties etc.

While I believe the normal mode of operation is just to upload some kind of image signature / hash, I doubt there is anything that technically or legally stops screenshots being uploaded for "additional analysis".

Note that this is incredibly lucrative for the manufacturers, so their incentives are minimally aligned with protecting our privacy or security here.

https://boingboing.net/2021/11/18/tv-manufacturer-makes-more...
Russia has fined Google $2,500T,000T,000
I'm surprised that a company like Dropbox needs so many employees. ~500 being 20% implies the total workforce is 2500 people. HOW?!

I feel like the product could do just fine with 100 employees.
Grapefruit is a hybrid of pomelo and and orange so the say is is shown as a sibling of pomelo does not seem right.
I haven't done measurements on this, but my Macbook Pro feels much faster at swapping than any Linux or Windows device I've used. I've never used an M.2 SSD so maybe that would be comparable, but swapping is pretty much seamless. There's also some kind of memory compression going on according to Activity Monitor, not sure if that's normal on other OSes.
Something tells me we're not spraying en masse fields with veggies with engine coolants, are we.
Love the nano-texture on the Studio Display, but my MacBooks have always suffered from finger oil rubbing the screen from the keys. Fingerprint oil on nano-texture sounds like a recipe for disaster.

For my current laptop, I finally broke down and bought a tempered glass screen protector. It adds a bit of glare, but wipes clean — and for the first time I have a one-year-old MacBook that still looks as good as new.
I really like these new devices, but I’ve found that the latest MacBook Air (M3) is sufficient for my needs as a manager and casual developer. My MacBook Pro M1 Max has essentially become a desktop due to its support for multiple monitors, but since the Mac Mini M4 Pro can also support up to three external displays, I’m considering selling the MacBook Pro and switching to the Mini. I’ve also noticed that the MacBook Pro’s battery, as a portable device, is less efficient in terms of performance/battery (for my usage) compared to the MacBook Air.

Regarding LLMs, the hottest topic here nowadays, I plan to either use the cloud or return to a bare-metal PC.
Does anyone know of any good deals on the older models of apple laptops? Now is usually a great time to purchase (a still very capable) older model.
Some years ago, I had the (mostly subconscious) thought that fat people simply didn't have much self-control, or didn't really want to lose weight.

And then I listed to a few. The stories are horrific.

Most have tried 10+ different diets throughout their life, none of them successful in the long term. They get fat-shamed, discriminated against, insulted.

They go to a doctor for any reason whatsoever, even for things totally unrelated to obesity, and their doctors tell them to lose weight. Either in a very careful and sympathetic manner, or very condescendingly.

Many develop shame, anxiety and anger around the topic.

I've also learned how hard it is to change deep-seated behaviors, especially if your environment isn't really helping, or provides incentives in the other direction.

In the end, most medical intervention are a form of "cheating". Your eyes aren't good? Wear glasses or contact lenses. Your immune system can't cope with these bacteria? take antibiotics. Cholesterol too high? Take a statin (or whatever it's called). Can't control your eating habits and hunger? Take GLP-1s.

We should strive to reduce our moralizing and help those we can help.
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