skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we expect vastly different things from humans and LLMs, even putting raw computing speed aside. If an employee is noticed to be making a mistake, they get reprimanded and educated, and if they keep making mistakes, they get fired. Having many humans interact helps reduce blind spots because of the diversity of mindsets, although this isn't always the case. People can be hired from elsewhere with some level of skill.

I'm sure we could make similar communities of LLMs, but instead we treat a task as the role of a single LLM that either succeeds or fails. As you say, perhaps because of the high error rate, the very notion of LLM failure and success is judged differently too. Beyond that, a passable human pilot and a passable LLM pilot might have similar average performance but differ hugely in other measurements.
Positioning of the new year at the Equinox shouldn't be any harder than doing it at the solstice (since equinoxes are halfway between the solstices), and it makes much more sense IMO. First half of the year: more day than night. Second half of the year: more night than day.
I left Dropbox when they added (and preemptively enabled) a checkbox that shared your data with them for AI training. I refuse to do business with a company that will just unilaterally invade my privacy like that. They can make it as cheap as they want, I'll never go back.
I agree, I have cut myself a few times as well. The awkward way you have to hold the scythe while you sharpen it does not help.

One thing you might try is an oval-shaped diamond coated sharpening rod. The handle keeps your fingers safer.
Honest question, from a European, why does it seem everyone in America become so militant about politics?

Seen crazy on both sides of the spectrum, insults, unfriending etc people just for having different political views, people making their political opinions their character.
Tor has something called a consensus that lists all relays and their flags. Clients need this to know which relays to make a circuit with. For most clients, they select a relay labelled as a guard from this file which is where their traffic first enters Tor. Some countries realized they could just block all of these IP addresses and stop people using Tor, so there are unlisted guard nodes called bridges designed for censorship circumvention that you have to get by filling out a captcha or say sending an email.
On such a distance solar panels won't make any difference. Sun looks like just a very bright star from that far.
> Both my parents stayed in the same job for their careers

My father was the same, BUT.. this is an INCREDIBLY risky thing to do career-wise in the modern era. Given how much tech advances and that we actually face international competition that a lot of our boomer parents didn't during their career, I don't see really any going back either.

Some of the worst layoff situations I've seen were guys who worked in the same company for 25 years.. long enough that their knowledge & skills was too company-specific, but not long enough to retire. Just because someone seems indispensable doesn't mean they are safe.

Having to drain savings for 1-2 years jobless after a layoff in the last 10 years of your career and reset at a probably lower salary can set back your retirement 10 years.
> It is correct that Greenland is part of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of EU. But Greenland voted several years ago to stay out of the EU.

Greenland is still part of the EU’s overseas countries and territories. It’s not like it’s in a different universe.
> i’m talking layout, paint, composite

> you’re talking network

I'm talking overall page performance. A gambling site using React vs not is going to have an absolutely tiny impact compared to network latency. They're sponsoring this framework as an SEO play.
What makes you think I don't know who I'm talking to? All I was trying to do was encourage another blog post. I literally went out of my way to try to sound nice and preemptively dismiss the chance that I was interpreted sarcastically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
The most blatant whoppers that Google's AI preview makes seem to stem from mistaking satirical sites for sites that are attempting to state facts. Possibly an LLM could be trained to distinguish sites that intend to be satirical or propagandistic from news sites that intend to report accurately based on the structure of the language. After all, satirical sites are usually written in a way that most people grasp that it is satire, and good detectives can often spot "tells" that someone is lying. But the structure of the language is all that the LLM has. It has no oracle to tell it what is true and what is false. But at least this kind of approach might make LLM-enhanced search engines less embarrassing.
But will it run Cyberpunk 2077 (yes, seriously)?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/30/24283651/cyberpunk-2077-...
i go with the acasis thunderbolt enclosure and then pop in an nvme of your choice, but generic USB drives are pretty viable too ... thunderbolt can be booted from, while USB can't

i tried another brand or 2 of enclosures and they were HUGE while the acasis was credit card sized (except thickness)
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probably the next update wave is coming from the need of AI features for more local memory and compute. The software is just not there yet in usual tasks but it's just a question of time I guess. Of course there will be the pressure to do that in the cloud as usual, but local compute will always remain a market.

and probably it's good that at least one of the big players has a business model that supports driving that forward
Well, the issue for me with memory on these new models is that for the Max, it ships with 36GB and NO expandable memory option. To get more memory that's gated behind a $300 CPU upgrade (plus the memory cost).
My sincere apologies if I read this uncharitably, I interpreted your comment about sarcasm to itself be sarcastic. I will not be publishing any such post.

To clarify what you seem not to understand: the code in the blog post depends on a library called monoio, and based on the post's description of the behavior of that code (I haven't actually read the source for monoio), monoio contains a bug. I don't dispute that this code behaves incorrectly, just that it has anything to do with Rust's facility for async IO rather than with the specific IO library employed in the post.
>It's wild that people post papers that they haven't read or don't understand because the headline supports some view they have.

It's related research either way. And I did read them. I think there's probably issues with the methodology of 4 but it's there anyway because it's interesting research that is related and is not without merit.

>The second link main claim seems to be contradicted by their Figure 12 left panel which shows ~0 correlation between model-predicted and actual truth.

The panel is pretty weak on correlation but it's quite clearly also not the only thing that supports that particular claim neither does it contradict it.

>I'm not going to bother going through the rest.

Ok? That's fine

>I don't yet understand exactly what they are doing in the OP's article but I suspect it also suffers from serious problems.

You are free to assume anything you want.
Isn't unified memory* a crucial part in avoiding signal integrity problems?

Servers do have many channels but they run relatively slower memory

* Specifically, it being on-die
congratulations, you found a typo. That does not validate everything you said and invalidate anything I did.
ive still never thrown anything at my m1 max that it couldn't handle
The USB-C ports should be quite enough for that. If you are using a desktop Mac, such as an iMac, Mini, or the Studio and Pro that will be released later this week, this is a no-brainer - everything works perfectly.
It's been a product for 17 years.
> Laptops in general are just better than they used to be, with modern CPUs and NVMe disks. I feel exactly the same seeing new mobile AMD chips too, I'm pretty sure I'll be happy with my Ryzen 7040-based laptop for at least a few years.

You say that, but I get extremely frustrated at how slow my Surface Pro 10 is (with an Ultra 7 165U).

It could be Windows of course, but this is a much more modern machine than my Macbook Air (M1) and feels like it's almost 10 years old at times in comparison. - despite being 3-4 years newer.
I think the difference is that AI is a very narrow niche/hobby at the moment. Of course if you're in that niche having more horsepower is critical. But your boomer/greybeard comparisons fall flat because they're generally about age or being set in your ways. I don't think "not being into AI image generation" is (currently) about being stuck in your ways.

To me it's more like 3d printing as a niche/hobby.
MacBook Air now starts with 16GB of RAM at the same prices, same M2 and M3 chips
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
> Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just the architecture of these new Mac chips are just so damn good.

I feel the same of my laptop of 2011 so I guess it is partly age (not feeling the urge to always have the greatest) and partly it is non LLM and gaming related computing is not demanding enough to force us to upgrade.
This is the first wave of the LLM layoffs.
People looking for low prices buy PC, they don't even consider Mac. Then they can have a computer with all the "higher numbers", which is more important than getting stuff done.
its for temporary stuff, like those rare video calls etc. when you dont wanna share the call with people around you, etc.

i'd guess.

if you use headphones all the time, you'd plug them into the back, or the monitor etc.
Yes, all tools freeze for much longer when it comes to webp output.
It even handles ollama no prob.
M3 Air with 16gb (base config as of today) is potentially a decade’s worth of computer. Amazing value.
Comparing against the intel era is a bit apples (excuse me) to oranges. Technical generation gaps aside, Apple products hold value well.
Teams is close enough, especially given its cost.

Slack displayed alot of hubris and didn’t pivot. Their goal should have been Microsoft or Google acquisition.
> 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.

They don't need to figure it out, they just have to wait.

People holding their camera phones up everywhere and (maybe! You can't know for sure!) recording stuff used to be off-putting in about the same way, but we got over it within a few years. Ditto various other socially-shitty things, like talking on a phone in public or using nearly-invisible earbuds that make it hard for people to tell where your attention is or even notice that it might be somewhere else.

I kinda wish we hadn't gotten over those things, but we did, and having watched it happen a few times I'm sure we will again for this.
Moon-dwelling Muslims would go by the phases of Earth, if they wanted to match Earth timing but not rely on communication with Earth. The Earth as seen from the Moon exhibits the opposite phase as the reverse. Ramadan would begin when the Moon-dweller sees the Earth as being just past full. If you wanted, you could synch it with a particular timezone on Earth, by watching for when that location on Earth (Mecca or whatever) just rotated past the terminator so it experienced sundown. (Of course none of this can be directly observed if you're on the far side.) (And I get your joke about seeing the moon when you're on it; this is the practical alternative.)
they always fire the weak employees

This is definitely not the case. Companies use a lot of different mechanisms to choose who to lay off, and it's rarely entirely performance based.
With all due respect, that sounds like a personal shortcoming to me. One can (and should) not take interviews personally. One also can (and should) be able to acquit oneself well at an interview even without prep time.
Probably! It runs on a steam deck
I'm not talking about hardware. I mean perhaps the next Xbox will literally be a windows PC with a console-focused interface and the Xbox binaries and PC binaries of games will literally be the same. In the same way that a Steam Deck is actually just a PC.
Thats almost as confusing as the Nautical Day. Where a day on ship started at noon the "previous" day - with PM proceeding AM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_time#Nautical_day
Why not? Some companies do try this. It rarely succeeds though. The reason is that re-education en-masse, restructuring of the chain of command, re-allocation of resources are hard. Most businesses at some point enter the phase where the inertia is the strongest driving force: they only need to apply a tiny fraction of initial force to keep the lights on. At this point, trying to restructure is bound to be very hard.

Maybe, if the company can foresee and realistically assess the problems it's about to face, it may gradually prepare for the transition. I've seen this happen at my friend's job at Dell storage division: some storage product failed, they tried to reshuffle the teams to start working on something else, with some code reuse from the previous one. It still didn't go well, and a lot of people were still let go (because the initial effort of developing a new product cannot really accommodate an army of various kinds of extra personal that's necessary for mature product). They sort-of survived, but with a huge loss.
This is a joke, right?
If a company is underperforming, then the underperformers are the first to go.
Market economies require efficiency. Capital flows in the direction of success.
Impeding this flow with regulation is a great way to create a malfunctioning economy.
It'll be interesting to see the reaction of tech commentators about this. So many people have been screaming at Apple to increase the base RAM and stop price gouging their customers on memory upgrades. If Apple Intelligence is the excuse the hardware team needed to get the bean counters on board, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!
Just a lot of anecdotal stories that people suffering from various forms of food intolerance (gluten intolerance in particular seems to be strongly correlated with GMO grains) can't eat most GMO/non-organic American food, but can eat food from Europe, where GMO foods are banned and regulatory bodies do not allow new things until clinically proven to not be harmful.

More generally, I'm a proponent of the philosophical view that the FDA and EPA should allowlist things, not denylist. A pesticide, GMO technique, additive, dye, preservative, etc. should be proven via clinical trials before being allowed, not allowed by default until proven harmful.

As it is, this allow-by-default makes the US population the test case for everything at once, making causes of harm difficult to trace (as certain vendors are financially incentivized to want them to be). Furthermore, regulators can be bought via lobbyists, preventing things from being banned until long after their harmfulness is well-known.

Wanting to do things better is nice, but it's no excuse for failing to sufficiently test new things in isolation.
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"Unified memory" doesn't really imply anything about the memory being located on-package, just that it's a shared pool that the CPU, GPU, etc. all have fast access to.

Also, DRAM is never on-die. On-package, yes, for Apple's SoCs and various other products throughout the industry, but DRAM manufacturing happens in entirely different fabs than those used for logic chips.
For comparison, a Threadripper Pro 5000 workstation with 8x DDR4 3200 has 204.8GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The Threadripper Pro 7000 with DDR5-5200 can achieve 325GB/s.

And no, manaskarekar, the M4 Max does 546 GB/s not GBps (which would be 8x less!).
Yes, this gives a misleading view of the relationship between citrus fruits.

This diagram (on the Wikipedia article for Citrus) gives more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_origins_of_Citrus....
Isn't firing the weak employees the correct long term strategy? Especially with regards to ensuring that the remaining employees stay employed
To be fair, space is quite the decent preservation chamber.
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'There are no guardrails.' Mom believes AI chatbot responsible for son's suicide
Pretty sure Air displays don't support HDR, are they really brighter?
you could not say this better than this.
What is the good alternative to this? McAffee? AVAST? Kaspersky?
The "base level" Max is limited at 36GB. You have to get the bigger Max to get more.
Why aren't they benching it against the M3?
Similar for me. MacBook Air M1 (8 cpu / 8 gpu; 16 GB RAM)...running in or out of clamshell with a 5k monitor, I rarely notice issues. Typically, if I'm working very inefficiently (obnoxious amount of tabs with Safari and Chrome; mostly web apps, Slack, Zoom, Postman, and vscode), I'll notice a minor lag during a video call while screen sharing...even then, it still keeps up.

(Old Pentium Pro, PII, multi chip desktop days) -- When I did a different type of work, I would be in love with these new chips. I just don't throw as much at my computer anymore outside of things being RAM heavy.

The M1 (with 16 GB ram) is really an amazing chip. I'm with you, outside of a repair/replacement? I'm happy to wait for 120hz refresh, faster wifi, and longer battery life.
I guess that implies the MacBook Air won't be updated this week.

Makes me wonder what else will be updated this week (Studio or Mac Pro)?
Also, the Bitcoin received as mining rewards might sometimes be more valuable to the recipient than the notionally greater amount of other currency (or even nominally greater amount of Bitcoin!) spent on equipment and power, eg if it is outside of sanctions, no longer tied to proceeds of a crime, no longer connected to a state's budget, etc.
People come in two flavors: conflict theorists and mistake theorists.

Conflict theorists think that every event is a result of power struggler. So if someone gets hurt, someone must be punished for that.

Mistake theorists think that the world is complex and sometimes bad stuff happens because most people operate with good intentions most of the time. Often, that means no punishment needs to be metted out.

To mistake theorists, conflict theorists look like ideological blood thirsty savages. To conflict theorists, mistake theorists look like enemy troops.

This is a gross oversimplification but it always shocks me to see how much more conflict theorists there are on hn now than before. So many comments here blaming the CEO or capitalism, most of which are going off extremely scant information.
> You'd think all kiwis would be related, sharing brown fuzz and being associated with New Zealand, but actually the kiwi fruit and kiwi bird diverged 1.4 billion years ago.

This got a real chuckle from me! I've hear the key to comedy is surprise, and I didn't expect that in the middle of a bunch of interesting but serious facts.
Then you'll have a very good, open-source, MIT licensed tool financed by silly VCs.

If it gets abandoned the community will be able to take over its maintenance or fork you.

Tails, you win, heads, you win.

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/blob/main/LICENSE
A great article but I can't believe they missed Third: The Dark Project from their list.
we need to receive about 50k sms messages per day. We have a deal with a couple MVNO's where they give us wholesale prices on physical sim cards, but putting them into sms gateways takes a ton of time and the devices are expensive
Nice work! Any reason why Go was used and not C or Rust? I was under the impression Go would be slower and you are aiming for high performance.
Tbf, the only thing I miss with my M2 MacBook is the ability to run x86_64 VM’s with decent performance locally.

I’ve tried a bunch of ways to do this - and frankly the translation overhead is absolute pants currently.

Not a showstopper though, for the 20-30% of complete pain in the ass cases where I can’t easily offload the job onto a VPS or a NUC or something, I just have a ThinkPad.
Sounds like your car is in better condition than mine.
> (only common for servers).

On PC desktops I always recommend getting a mid-range tower server precisely for that reason. My oldest one is about 8 years old and only now it's showing signs of age (as in not being faster than the average laptop).
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Would CEOs of companies selling AI lie about how useful AI is?

In unrelated news, Amazon's CEO boasted that AI saved the company 4,500 years of engineering effort during a JDK upgrade.
Some browser or older versions don't support webp too. I think of the web browser in the Kobo e-readers for example.
Fair enough, I might be asking too much indeed, and may not be able to come up with an idea how LLMs can help me. For me, writing code is easy as soon as I understand the problem, and I sometimes spend a lot of time trying to figure out a solution that fits well within the context, so I thought I could ask an LLM what different things do and mean to help me understanding the problem surface better. Again, I may not understand something, but, at this point, I don’t understand what’s the value of code generation after I know how to solve a problem.

Do you happen to have a blog post or something showing a concrete problem that LLM helped you to solve?
Around announcements like these I always look for good deals on the previous models. Anyone know any particularly good deals for M2 or M3 based macs now?
I'm happy that Apple continues to push forward, but I suspect my M1 Max from 2021 will last me a decade or more. It's just a beast of a machine.

I hope they're also working on redesigning the MacBook Pro to feature a display without a notch. I'd buy that instantly.
The 12MP will be used for better framing, there is still almost no use case for 4k quality video conferencing
Yep, even though the 2.2x is a bug upgrade, I’m not actually sure that’s compelling enough? When the M1 Max won’t do usually I turn to a server with 4-10x the corecount…
> Worth noting that linux (presumably as an optimisation) accepts connections before you call accept anyway so maybe this entire point is moot and we just have to live with this weird behaviour.

listen(2) takes a backlog parameter that is the number of queued (which I think it means ack'd) but not yet popped (i.e. listen'd) connections.
I played 40ish hours of Cyberpunk 2077 on m3 M3 Max MBP under crossover. Runs fine on medium/high settings.
Ahh, figures. As soon as I said it I thought it likely that Marvel had roped it in at some point.

Nothing is safe! Just wait til we get Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy) accidentally facing off against some Jedi just so a writer can make some "Hans shot first" "inside" joke in some "way overshot the time travel to long ago in a galaxy far far away" plot...basically a movie to set up the joke in a trailer.
Usability matters for use cases like this. A lot.

Yes, Google Translate has been able to do this for a while now, but I still find the experience very yanky and high friction so that I don't do it on a whim, usually.

Everything-translating AR glasses would have been something I'd have really appreciated on a trip to Japan, for example.
Holding a phone in front of you to record is obviously deliberate, unlike wearing glasses.