skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well said. agree 100%. papers like these - and i did skim through it, are thinking "within the box" as follows: we have a system, and it has a problem, how do we fix the problem "within" the context of the system.

As you have put it well, there is no notion of truthfulness encoded in the system as it is built. hence there is no way to fix the problem.

An analogy here is around the development of human languages as a means of communication and as a means of encoding concepts. The only languages that humans have developed that encode truthfulness in a verifiable manner are mathematical in nature. what is needed may be along the lines of encoding concepts with a theorem prover built-in - so what comes out is always valid - but then that will sound like a robot lol, and only a limited subset of human experience can be encoded in this manner.
In this thread, I was so eager to make sure you didn't have some wrong belief somehow that I didn't even notice you were agreeing with me (or concisely summarizing). I have a bad habit of focusing too much on any errors the other person might have made.

(Maybe we should think of a word that means "carb that the human body can efficiently convert into glucose or fructose" and try to spread that new word. "Insulinogen"?)
But still just 256GB SSD Storage. £200 for the upgrade to 512GB (plus a couple more GPU cores that I don't need. Urgh.
And all the debt you pile up while struggling to get hired.
Exactly how I read it. I have an intel model, and the press release felt like a targeted ad.
Steve Jobs was right - Dropbox is a feature, not a product.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/new-recurri...

We've not seen much of an impact until the last couple of months when nearly all the charges for our customers in India have begun to fail. They're all below the $180 limit so I don't know what's going on.
> Seconds minutes and hours can change but the day cannot?

The calendar day being aligned to the sleep/wake cycle and changing when most of the population is either asleep or at least might not terribly care about the actual date does help quite a bit.

> Usually meetings are setup using an app and shared calendars should actually help here, a person can have meeting slots and out of office time, that should provide the same info. logistically I don't see that much of a difference from the current situation

It'd also wreck any time references in any kinds of stories that aren't consumed locally. So every time I read/watch/listen to a story that isn't set where I live, I'd first have to look up the local time to make sense of any time references.
"Carcinogenic risk estimate for exposure to DCPA, HCB, and
dioxin/furans through food were 3.5e-7, and 7e-8, respectively. All of these risk estimates are within the range (zero to 1e-6) generally considered to be negligible by the Agency. Thus, the Agency concludes that DCPA use
does not pose a significant excess lifetime cancer risk." [0]

[0] https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/rere...
Sadly the way the subscription system is abused, this doesn't sound crazy at all.
How is my comment uncharitable?

The OP made strong statements with weak backing. Their statements were also placing blame. Your profile says you're an SRE--can you imagine a post mortem with that kind of attitude?
The privacy issue in time Im sure Meta and or Apple will figure out (i have some ideas to fix that) .. they need to cause that's half of peoples reaction to them while the other half dont care.

I could care less about other people I do not know I am using the glasses to capture my life (not theirs) and for

- Sunglasses

- To listen to music and take phone calls

- To take pics and videos of what Im experiencing in my life not others

- To enhance my conversations as pulling out my phone is rude to get the answer in a social conversation .. using my glasses no one has said anything rather thinking it's cool
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I hate to say it but that's like a boomer saying they never felt the need to buy a computer, because they've never wished their pen and paper goes faster. Or a UNIX greybeard saying they don't need a Mac since they don't think its GUI would make their terminal go any faster. If you've hit a point in your life where you're no longer keeping up with the latest technological developments like AI, then of course you don't need to upgrade. A Macbook M1 can't run half the stuff posted on Hugging Face these days. Even my 128gb Mac Studio isn't nearly enough.
I put a thin screen cleaner/glasses cleaner cloth on the keyboard whenever I close the lid. That keeps the oils off the screen as well as prevents any pressure or rubbing from damaging the glass.
Trailing P/E is not an accounting fact, just the EPS bit is an accounting fact. The numerator and the denominator relate to totally different points in time and should not ever be used in unison.
Yeh, they don't want to give credit to anyone else, only giving attention to "Ubuntu". Even at the end when it says some literal credits, it only cites Ubuntu "and other open source software" (which is almost undoubtedly Blender). Another example of Canonical's extractive approach to the Linux ecosystem (IMO).
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

"M4 and M4 Pro

Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:

Up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt, or one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one external display with up to 4K resolution at 144Hz over HDMI

One external display supported at 8K resolution at 60Hz or one external display at 4K resolution at 240Hz over HDMI"
Very generous severance packages and companies/laders should be commended for this. If it's a one-and-done big cut with generous packages to save the company, then good on them.

Somehow overhiring and maintaining said headcount long enough to need to do a 20% cut is probably less commendable, but not exactly an outlier there in the current climate.

I've always wondered about all these standalone "point solution" companies and how durable the model is. In the current climate of reduce M&A, and cost consciousness there is no one to sell to. And as the big platforms - AWS, Azure, GCP continue to grow.. it strikes me that more big companies would rather have a one-stop shop full of 80% solutions than pay for 100 different SaaS.
Preach! The job is straightforward - lot of these decisions they make are very clearly articulated by LLMs. We need more businesses, more competition, not bigger businesses.
> take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error codes and messages

and your customers are happy with you using 100s of this data?
Even for Mathematics though, which I think is where your point is strongest, this is not actually true.

If you're a Mathematician in the nineteenth century (for example Peano) you know what a set is in some sense, and if pressed you'll admit that you don't really have a formal way to explain your intuition. Nevertheless you feel content to write about sets as if they're formally defined, even for the infinite sets.

Turns out you've been relying on an unstated Assumption, the Axiom of Choice. When Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel write down axioms for a coherent set theory they discover that oops, the system works fine either way with this regard to this Axiom, and many years later it was proved to be entirely independent, and yet mathematicians had been gaily assuming it's true, without saying so.

So in a sense Peano and say Turing are working with different, slightly incompatible versions of Mathematics. Euclidean geometry works fine... but today you'll be told that our universe's geometry isn't actually Euclidean, so, if something big enough just doesn't work that's to be expected, Euclid's model is neat but it's not actually a scale model of our universe, our universe is much stranger.
What you're saying at the start is equivalent to saying that a truth table is impossible.
This is why I think we should entirely ditch the concept of timezones. Clock time, as we use it, is largely decoupled from solar time anyway, and all attempts to reconcile the two just lead to confusion.

We already have terms a few terms to tie events to solar time, for example, a park being open from dawn to dusk. And without time zones, we might come up with a few more.
Again you are wrong. A forum full of people who just like to hear themselves talk. I guess it makes you feel good in some way?

With io-uring the kernel writes CQEs into a ring buffer in shared memory and the user program reads them: its literally just a bounded channel, the same atomic synchronizations, the same algorithm. There is no difference whatsoever.

The io-uring library is responsible for reading CQEs from that ring buffer and then dispatching them to the task that submitted the SQE they correspond to. If that task has cancelled its interest in this syscall, they should instead clean up the resources owned by that CQE. According to this blog post, monoio fails to do so. That's all that's happening here.
> by simply stopping the behavior causing the issue.

Must be nice to have a metabolic system that works correctly. A lot of us don't.

For too long obesity as a mental fitness issue without considering underlying causes. Too often overeating is considered the cause not the symptom.

For many, our bodies lie, telling us we need to eat because our blood sugar is low, when in fact it's already normal-high but other process is getting in the way of energy production.
Cheap solar panels are changing the world
I don't think your tone aligns with the community guidelines[1]. Please consider not being snarky and sarcastic but actually responding to the merit of what people say here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess it’s only worth it for people who would really benefit from the speed bump — those who push their machines to the limit and work under tight schedules.

I myself don’t need so much performance, so I tend to keep my devices for many, many years.
That is just one of the downsides of the "stores" and basic package managers which do not have dependencies management where you can't do a transitional package.
And M1 from 4 years ago instead of M3 from last year; while a 2x speed improvement in the benchmarks they listed is good, it also shows that the M series CPUs see incremental improvements, not exponential or revolutionary. I get the feeling - but a CPU expert can correct me / say more - that their base design is mostly unchanged since M1, but the manufacturing process has improved (leading to less power consumption/heat), the amount of cores has increased, and they added specialized hardware for AI-related workloads.

That said, they are in a very comfortable position right now, with neither Intel, AMD, or another competitor able to produce anything close to the bang-for-watt that Apple is managing. Little pressure from behind them to push for more performance.
There's pretty much no way they'd qualify for Medicaid if they were a dev at Dropbox. The income limit for Medi-Cal is $20,783 for a single adult, $28,208 for a household of two adults. Chances are they were past that income limit the first few months of the year. You don't just immediately qualify after making $140k annualized for the first 10 months and then hit $0 one day.

Plus, they're getting 16 weeks of salary. At $140k/yr, that's $2,692/wk. Lets say their severance starts next week. There's 8 weeks left in the year. So they'll get 8 weeks of pay in 2025. $2,692 * 8 = $21,538. So no, they won't qualify for Medicaid at all in 2025 if they make that much as a single person.
Uh, drop box cost per employee is likely closer to $750k, not $100k.
> "Up to 7x faster image processing in Affinity Photo"

Great to see Affinity becoming so popular that it gets acknowledged by Apple.
I have the same feeling performance-wise with the laptop I bought in 2020 with a Ryzen 7 4800H.

But it's a heavy brick with a short battery life compared to the M1/2/3 Mac.
My favorite shadow fact is that outdoor shadows are blue.

It's not an optical illusion or artistic vibe or anything. The sky is blue, shadows on a clear day are illuminated by bounced light from the sky, therefore shadows are blue.

If you look underneath cars you can see it - A sharp blue shadow where the sky is visible, that fades to true black where the car's body occludes light from the sky.

If you combine this sharp blue sun shadow with a soft and black "AO" sky shadow you can get very pretty shadows for cheap.
Same feeling. The jump from all the previous laptops I owned to an M1 was an incredible jump. The thing is fast, has amazing battery life and stays cold.
Never felt the need to upgrade.
It's not quite that simple: https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/1997/mayjun/dep...

However, one misnomer remains true — a Strawberry isn't actually a 'berry'.
Bringing ARM into AI Data Infrastructure Fold at MinIO Using SVE
Stop Using LocalStorage for Sensitive Data: Here's Why and What to Use Instead
Alternative explanation: They're a fan!
Why can't harm to the unborn simply be priced in so it's no longer an externality?
> I haven’t had even a tinge of feeling that I need to upgrade after getting my M1 Pro MBP.

I upgraded my M1 MBP to a MacBook Air M3 15" and it was a major upgrade. It is the same weight but 40% faster and so much nicer to work on while on the sofa or traveling. The screen is also brighter.

I think very few people actually do need the heavy MBPs, especially not the web/full-stack devs who populate Hacker News.

EDIT: The screens are not different in terms of brightness.
So would that be diff ^ 10?
People enjoy having a purpose and a mission in life. Leading a team of people that you put together, in order to improve a project you started, and knowing that doing so will improve both your lives and theirs, is incredibly fulfilling. Even if the day-to-day is full of hardships. In fact, working to overcome hardship is one of the primary source of meaning in life.

Kids are another example. They're expensive, they're annoying, they ruin your health, they take up your free time, they consume all your resources, and they're inherently needy, selfish, and largely incapable of being grateful. Yet raising kids can be profoundly rewarding and fulfilling, in part because of the hardships, and in part because you're contributing to something bigger than just yourself, which is another crucial ingredient of meaning.

Sitting around on a yacht doing nothing is not so different than moving into your parents' basement and doing nothing, save with better scenery. It's the kind of thing you crave when you're burned out, overworked, and jaded, the same way we crave sleep when we're tired and food when we're hungry. It's a reaction to a state of being. But we only desire sleep until rested and we tire of eating once we're sated.

If you ever get to your tropical yacht vacation you may find that, in much the same way, what you thought was a permanent desire was only a temporary one.
Not true. Look at how little supercharged intel apples are going for in Facebook marketplace.

The quality stuff retains value, not brand.
And my 2020 Intel Macbook Air was a bad purchase. Cruelly, the Intel and M1 Macbook Air released within 6 months of each other.
Ah that sucks, I wanted to work for them a while back
True. Although to be fair, I think you're a bit naive to assume that this is a trend, if anything. IMO there's no escaping Ownership issues: if your culture is to "move fast break things", it would be inevitable. The ownership philosophy is such that some gaps in ownership are inevitable.
Mars days are longer than Earth days, so a time zone alone won't do.

I think I actually heard on a podcast that some Mars rover mission team had to operate in shifts that were synchronized with Mars days.
GMOs can reduce need for pesticide and insecticide use, reduce water and fertilizer use, increase yields and make produce last longer. Are there any credible studies showing any GMOs in the states to be harmful?
In reality, it's the "correct" responses that are the hallucinations, not the incorrect ones. Since the vast majority of the possible outputs of an LLM are "not true", when we see one that aligns with reality we hallucinate the LLM "getting it right".
I think anti-machine-learning suffers a similar problem to anti-GMO in that animosity directed primarily towards the technology itself easily loses aim on opposing exploitative power structures, sometimes instead even achieving the opposite.

I see big petitions against "irresponsible open source models", calls for expansion of IP laws such as to make "styles" into private property, and praise of Getty/Universal/RIAA. Repeatedly the target of ire seems to be just someone experimenting with Stable Diffusion, or a free book analysis tool[0], with disproportionately little focus on issues like employee surveillance.

[0]: https://mashable.com/article/prosecraft-novel-ai-analysis-sh...
I switched to OneDrive when it started getting bundled in free with Office 365. I also tried iCloud when it came in the Apple One subscription. Both are total shit compared to Dropbox. The sharing in iCloud is nothing short of laughable and OneDrive is just buggy Microsoft garbage (on my Mac - might be better on Windows). I am planning to move back to Dropbox which says something - I’d rather pay than use competitors’ products that come to me for “free”.

That said, I’d rather the company stick to its fundamentals with no further feature creep and focus on lower subscription cost rather than features to justify higher costs.
With it becoming Thunderbird branded my biggest wish is proper subfolder support. Seeing folders as Archives.2024.invoices.paid rather than a nice collapsable list makes mail management a right pain.

It's also one of the oldest request on the github https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/63...
After non-endorsement, 250k subscribers cancel The Washington Post
Yeah, nothing to write home about until they pay inflation adjust salary till retirement age of 67 for all laid off employees.
The signaling value of knowing how to writey words good is dead. More dead even than a coffin-nail, and assuredly that of a door (thanks, Dickens).

Signaling through speaking will become even more important. Get thy children to debate club, seminar-based classes (hope you're rich!), theater, and hell, I dunno, ToastMasters Junior or whatever.
I mean, sure. OP implied that "capital of Connecticut is Moscow" is the sort of thing that a human "model of truthfulness" would encode. I'm pointing out that the human model of that particular fact isn't inherently any more truthy than the LLM model.

I am saying that humans can have a "truther" way of knowing some facts through direct experience. However there are a lot of facts where we don't have that kind of truth, and aren't really on any better ground than an LLM.
There are still a couple days left this week.
"What about the China?"

What about the English language?
The M-series macbooks depreciate in value far slower than any of the Intel models. M1 base models can still sell for nearly $1k. It's difficult to find a really good deal.
Nice. Here's the one from last year and you can see all the elements:

https://www.youtube.com/live/D8x3s6h5f5M

1. The orange candles around the coffin and the altar

2. The black draped coffin and black garments worn by the priests

3. On the left and right side of the altar you can see what I presume are relics (bones and personal accoutrements of saints)
How would you price it?
It does and it gets even worse when you realize those stats are only true under very specific circumstances, not typical computer usage. If you benchmarked based on typical computer usage, I think you'd only see gains of 5% or less.
What makes it more logical? The wheel turns all the same no matter where you mark the beginning. In the Northern hemisphere, there's actually something nice about starting the year in the dead of winter: it feels like the year is born in the spring and then dies away the following winter, not unlike a lifetime.
I don’t think it will “feel” much faster like the Intel -> M1 where overall system latency especially around swap & memory pressure got much much better.

If you do any amount of 100% CPU work that blocks your workflow, like waiting for a compiler or typechecker, I think M1 -> M4 is going to be worth it. A few of my peers at the office went M1->M3 and like the faster compile times.

Like, a 20 minute build on M1 becoming a 10 minute build on M4, or a 2 minute build on M1 becoming a 1 minute build on M4, is nothing to scoff at.
Probably just Apple designing the pricing ladder.
"I earn the big money because I make decisions and I take risks (with others lives, but let's not talk about that). My decisions haven't worked; my risks haven't paid off. I'm however letting you take the hit, because I'm too important for that kind of shit. I've more decisions to make, and risks to take. My family is fine; my pay is fine. It's just you who are affected.". -- Your CEO, who still makes more money that you do (or don't), no matter what.
Anecdotally, having been in client services, I saw Dropbox use plummet on both the client and agency side once the pandemic hit. People switched from syncing files to working directly on the same document in the cloud (e.g. Microsoft Word -> Google Docs, Keynote -> Google Slides, Sketch -> Figma)

In 2024, I wouldn't invest in any company that's based on "Files"
Which would slow down user uptake, I imagine.
Keep it coming. I love the work people put on storage engines.

Do you believe a graph storage can be layered on top of K4?
> To me the research around solving “hallucination” is a dead end. The models will always hallucinate, and merely reducing the probability that they do so only makes the mistakes more dangerous.

A more interesting pursuit might be to determine if humans are "hallucinating" in this same way, if only occasionally. Have you ever known one of those pathological liars who lie constantly and about trivial or inconsequential details? Maybe the words they speak are coming straight out of some organic LLM-like faculty. We're all surrounded by p-zombies. All eight of us.
It's so nice being able to advise a family member who is looking to upgrade their intel Mac to something new, and just tell them to buy whatever is out, not worry about release dates, not worry about things being out of date, and so on.

The latest of whatever you have will be so much better than the intel one, and the next advances will be so marginal, that it's not even worth looking at a buyer's guide.
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended to All Recent AMD GPUs
If truthfulness doesn't exist at all, then it's meaningless to say that LLMs don't have any data regarding it.
Mr beast 23M in crypto scams
thats a lot of scams
Lost Cities of the Silk Road
Meanwhile my M1 is still a racehorse for 90% of my use cases