skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t figure it out either.

Does “the sad tale of hype fanning” fear that “modern cryptography was slain?”

Or is there a “sad tale of hype” that is currently “fanning fears” that “modern cryptography” has been slain?

Or is it “the sad tale of hype” itself that was slain?

It’s such a textbook example of a poorly-constructed sentence, it’s hard to believe it was written unintentionally.
Given that models are only going to get larger, and the sheer amount of compute required, I think the endgame here is dedicated "inference boxes" that actual user-facing devices call into. There are already a couple of home appliances like these - NAS, home automation servers - which have some intersecting requirements (e.g. storage for NAS) - so maybe we just need to resurrect the "home server" category.
This is why nintendo endures.

2013: The Death Of Nintendo Has Been Greatly Under-Exaggerated

https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/04/nintendont/
I'm so tired of every single app requiring a hundred minuscule file system ops and another hundred full round trip web requests to do anything. How do you even write code that badly? Meanwhile I'm over here trying to make sure we won't get screwed when my linear loop has to iterate over 100 million items somehow. Oh, that only takes 50ms?

How do you write code this badly.
It is not exactly what you're looking for, but long ago I read this book about the invention of the naval chronometer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)

It's generally pretty well-regarded and closely related.
Define "reasonably local" though, because Texas running on its own grid has been bad for almost all Texans (I'm sure a select few are benefiting greatly from it). Most places have reasonably locally resourced schools, but then again, the schools that cover people in the lower socio-economic classes just happen to be worse off. This tends to be the case for many locally distributed resources. Now, going even more local, at an individual house level, I wouldn't want to rely on a local handyman to fix my solar issues or have to do it myself. Home ownership is complex & expensive enough, and when there's an issue, a handyman is sometimes tough to get.

It's perfectly reasonable to think local in terms of redundancy, but the primary way of delivering power should be concern of as many people as possible. It's like having an insurance plan with a lot of members. Distributing the costs and risks across as many people as possible helps keep things cheaper and mitigates risk. No one is going to care if only your power is out, but when there are a lot more stakeholders, when the grid extends across city, county, state, even country lines, if there are issues, there's more pressure to get them fixed.
The issue isn't with the systems not being able to survive those steps, it's how long they take - it's killing inovation and it's one of the reasons Europe stays behind. You can't expect us to have an AI startup boom if every minute thing must be passed through regulators and assessements and representatives (these things take months to years).

I've also had a startup related to compliance in the EU and it's mindboggling how poorly these regulations are actually implemented and checked. It also takes months to set up a meeting with the responsible authorities to clear up any doubts, only for them to tell you that they don't really know either.

Excusing entrepreneurship, we also take way longer to get features like the improved voice capabilities of ChatGPT. This is a smaller thing, but AI has had a major impact on my productivity and I'd rather not be 3 months behind American developers on everything.
You are right. fregus leaves it at "ambient light" and calls it a day, but ambient light is just an empirical construct, not grounded in physics. In reality, light bounces around, and areas will appear darker the more the light paths otherwise converging on them are blocked by occluders.

I think "overlapping shadows get darker" is just not a very intuitive way to think about it because it disregards the stuff that actually matters, which is the light sources and how the scene may block their light paths.

For early games that could not afford advanced methods of global illumination, making overlapping shadows get darker seems like a reasonable, though not necessarily correct, way of faking it.

And the other thing ignored in these comments is perception. For the case of the two businessmen looking at their shadows under a bridge, it is easy to show with a diagram that some areas of overlapping shadows are, in fact, darker. But in such a poorly lit scene, people are likely to conclude that there is no difference, which isn't to say that there isn't one but, rather, that they don't perceive one.
For context, the 4090 has 1,008 GB/s of bandwidth.
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Agreed, it would be great if everything could always be technically accurate, but like fetch, it is never going to happen. It is wrong basically everywhere. Which is understandable as common vernacular readily interchanges energy and power.
You (and everyone else opining here) are missing the practical context: DST makes Ramadan easier, because the sun sets an hour earlier. Yes, you are fasting the same number of hours, but your day “starts” at a point fixed to the TZ-adjusted clock and the sooner sunset arrives, the shorter your effective day.
Revenue growth slid to low single digits, meaning instead of adding 20% more accounts, they only had less than 5% new accounts or revenue
In what sense do you think it would be better? Would it advance CEO performance or the company? Would it bring the world more into alignment with some sense of moral justice?
B = Bytes, b = bits.

GB/s is the same thing as GBps

The "ps" means "per second"
I think it was this book where I first saw the puzzle:

Does New Year's Day fall more often on a Saturday or a Sunday?

Such a simple puzzle with to (then) me such depth of knowledge to uncover the answer.
Upgraded to a M1 Pro 14 in December 2021, and I still rock it everyday for dev purpose. Apple does great laptop.

The only downsides is that I see a kind of "burnt?" transparent spot on my screen. When connecting to an HDMI cable, the sound does not ouput properly to the TV screen, and makes the video I plat laggy. Wondering if I go to the Apple Store, would fix it?
Cast iron? My eggs slide around great every time, and I scrub it with Dawn and a sponge after every cook (it is a myth that you cannot do this)
I use the tethering quite often. I have for years. It is flaky and burns two batteries instead of one. I agree that many people do not care. Some of us who are traveling a lot are willing to pay for more options.
I'm not so sure that's the reason. I'm in the field, and trust me, I'm VERY frustrated[0]. But isn't the saying to not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity? I think the problem is that they're blinded by the hype but don't use the passion to drive understanding more deeply. It's a belief that the black box can't be opened, no why bother?

I think it comes from the ad hoc nature of evaluation in young fields. It's like you need an elephant but obviously you can't afford one, so you put a dog in an elephant costume and can it an elephant, just to get in the right direction. It takes a long time to get that working and progress can still be made by upgrading the dog costume. But at some point people forgot that we need an elephant so everyone is focused on the intricacies of the costume and some will try dressing up the "elephant" as another animal. Eventually the dog costume isn't "good enough" and leads us in the wrong direction. I think that's where we are now.

I mean do we really think we can measure language with entropy? Fidelity and coherence with FID? We have no mathematical description of language, artistic value, aesthetics, and so on. The biggest improvement has been RLHF where we just use Justice Potter's metric: "I know it when I see it"

I don't think it's malice. I think it's just easy to lose sight of the original goal. ML certainly isn't the only one to have done this but it's also hard to bring rigor in and I think the hype makes it harder. Frankly I think we still aren't ready for a real elephant yet but I'd just be happy if we openly acknowledge the difference between a dog in a costume proxying as an elephant and an actually fucking elephant.

[0] seriously, how do we live in a world where I have to explain what covariance means to people publishing works on diffusion models and working for top companies or at top universities‽
Weapons proliferation is definitely a strike against nuclear. A few other strikes:

- It still requires mining, so is it any cleaner than solar + storage?
- Waste is significantly less recyclable than other green energy waste.
- High cost and long timelines to build.
- Major risks when damaged by weather, accidents, or damaged intentionally.
- The biggest proponents of nuclear seem to be the oil/gas industry, and politicians aligned with oil/gas. Hmm...
It definitely depends on the type of customer and type of product. There is a % of recoveries that will churn in the following 1-2 billing cycles and there's a larger % that will stay longer. Ultimately increasing recovery rate across the board means more revenue, which is good for a business.

Error type is also not indicative of customer quality. For example, businesses and consumers set limits on their cards all the time so an insufficient funds error doesn't mean they have no money.

If the customer doesn't want the service they have the option to cancel. This is why the LTV of customers recovered after a payment failure (involuntary churn prevention) is significantly higher than those saved from cancellation prevention flows (active churn prevention).
>I'm not sure if you're aware, but most of those papers are well known. All the arxiv papers are from 2022 or 2023. So I think your 5 minutes is pretty far off. I for one have spent hours, but the majority of that was prior to this comment.
You're claiming intellectual dishonestly too soon.

Fair Enough. With the "I'm not going to bother with the rest", it seemed like a now thing.

>focus on the topic and claims (even if not obvious) rather than the time

I should have just done that yes. 0 correlation is obviously false with how much denser the plot is at the extremes and depending on how many questions are in the test set, it could even be pretty strong.
To be fair, it's a bit more subtle than that. There's a level of survivor bias involved - all the unreliable appliances from the 50s-70s have long since been hauled off to scrap metal recycling, so what's left are the long-lived ones.

Modern electronics certainly can be made with much higher reliability than their mid-century ancestors, but the driving factor that prevents this is aggressive cost cutting that happily shaves pennies off COGS to shift the statistical distribution to the left. Unless consumers are willing to pay more for long-lived devices, this is doomed to continue.
I dream of a world where AI researchers use language in a scientific way.

Is "LLMs know" a true sentence in the sense of the article? Is it not? Can LLMs know something? We will never know.
Except that is the opposite of reality in the USA. The fraction of energy generated from small scale PV generation in the USA has decreased as total PV generation has increased [1].

10 years ago, in 2014, utility scale PV generation was 57%. Over those 10 years, utility scale PV generation increased by ~10x, where as small scale PV generation only increased by ~6.5x. In spite of absolutely massive incentives, small scale PV generation has grown slower in absolute and percentage terms in nearly every single year of the last decade.

Scale is the really important thing here. It is really easy and really cheap to use economies of scale to purchase square kilometers of panels and plop them down in bulk over vast swathes of regular land in a assembly line fashion.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_03_01_b.html
I love the technology, but I really don't want AI to sound like this.

Imagine being stuck on a call with this.

> "Hey, so like, is there anything I can help you with today?"

> "Talk to a person."

> "Oh wow, right. (chuckle) You got it. Well, before I connect you, can you maybe tell me a little bit more about what problem you're having? For example, maybe it's something to do with..."
I think the biggest obstacle is the Qualcomm patents. There is no good reason why a MacBook Pro cannot have a feature that Dells have.
Court Allows Reuters to Republish Story on Shady Indian Firm
The full article title is:

> A Win For Press Freedom: Court Allows Reuters To Republish Story On Shady Indian Firm
Definitely feels like there's no sanity left in politics. Capitalism is easy to criticize but is the sole reason we live in a much much better world today. Love Norberg
> Not a single person in the US is denied healthcare based on inability to pay.

Yes, because that's the law. Then they hand you an exorbitant bill on the way out, which you can't pay. Then you get hounded by collections. Then your credit score tanks. etc. etc. etc.

Not everything is a direct line, the end result is the same.
Far out, man

:P
Using ! or & or ) in the Explore errors...(there might be more)

Browser width below 1270 and the recipe display looks bad (is the site meant to be responsive?)

Thai has Wiener schnitzel as its dish...

+1 for having ngolo kanté :)

Maybe have some recipes that are 3 and 4 star and tried and tested and most popular so you can better see those functions working?
1) You can see replies/sent messages in Conversation/Threaded view (I do this). Unfortunately I don't recall exactly how I set this up, but this might get you there: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/tvb02t/show_re...

2) Expression Search NG might solve your search issues: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/expre...
It's like their training set was made up entirely of awkward podcaster banter.
Where's the AI Running?
Where are you sending the code?
Are you keeping some of it?

I hate to be the compliance guy, but even from a startup perspective you'd at least want to mention what you promise to do here.
Use butter.
Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable
> oft repeated lie that Europe has protected its citizens against anything is bizarre

I, for one, enjoy having strict safety requirements for consumer products. I'm also glad to share this endeavour with many similar countries, since it would be wasteful and unfeasible for small nations otherwise.
It means pedestrians are always right even when they are wrong. Especially when they are wrong.

It means they can do whatever they want whenever they want wherever they want and everybody else on the road is obligated to accomodate them.
Taxes, in some circumstances, can be used to inhibit certain economic activity. Ideally, the revenue from carbon taxes is used to fund climate change mitigation efforts (subsidies for clean energy, mobility, HVAC, etc). https://climeworks.com/ and other direct carbon air capture companies are an option. You are then paying what it costs to sequester a ton of CO2 underground in stable form.
I see you too have wrestled with GreatData's time zone data being hot garbage. Been that way for decades.
True but even making $140k/year does qualify you for tax credits on ACA marketplace health insurance plans. COBRA is kind of obsolete, honestly. You should be switching over to a insurance plan purchased through your state's health insurance marketplace.
Did you consider rebranding? Your name still says "dev tool".
You can use OSX without an Apple account and paired with a 3rd party host based firewall (Little Snitch), the OS usually stays out of your way (imo). Bundled apps can be removed after disabling SIP (file integrity) but there are downsides/maintenance to that route.
Small models retain much less of the knowledge they were trained on, especially when quantized.

One good use case for 32gb Mac is being able to run 8b models at full precision, something that is not possible with 8-16gb macs
Evidence, please. From what I've seen in person, it doesn't work this way at all. Companies don't have a great fix on whom to cut, and it usually just makes the other employees feel stressed (and start looking at other jobs), while the unemployed suffer very significant life stress.
With a thunderbolt SSD you'll think your external drive is an internal drive. I bought one of these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGYMHS8Y) for my partner so she has snappy photo editing workflows with Adobe CC apps. Copying her 1TB photo library over took under 5 min.
> People have been predicting this possibility ever since H-bombs existed. It's been a common trope in fiction

First, this misses the point entirely. The H-bomb was just an example. The point is that technology allows an individual with access to the right tools the ability to scale their will, for good or evil, orders of magnitude beyond what they could do in a pre-industrial society.

Second, the H-bomb was only invented in 1952, so it's only been around a little over 70 years. Saying that nothing bad has happened yet as a result of the H-bomb, isn't saying much. Put another way, the H-Bomb is younger than the last two U.S. presidents.
Kicked the tires on it, but the agent requirement was a no-go for me. Coming from Enterprise Infrastructure, mandating Yet Another Agent is already knocking your product down several grades versus those leveraging OpenTelemetry or standardized collectors and forwarders.

An agentless Nessus scan (man, I miss Nessus) gets you 90% of the way there for all but the most security-conscious organizations, and its agent is honestly kind of light and simple if I have to install it.
The only real comparison would be a rewrite in modern c++ and then compare that to the rewrite in rust.
Also the author mentioned that the original code had no tests at all.
Well, good luck.
CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule
Ok. I've addressed it now.
Maybe the prohibition on selling will prevent these companies from selling DCPA?
The bemoaning of woke politics has some merit in California where they are shutting down power plants and just hoping that renewables take hold. It seems like they are trying to manufacture a crisis. Whether that's true or not, I'm not taking a side, just explaining that there are valid criticisms beyond's just
hating on it because the energy is "clean".
Ask HN: What are the current open source MLFlow alternatives?
I'm working on backend/data infra stuff at my current company and started to peek over the fence at how the ML team works and what tools they use. I'm quite a noob when it comes to ML and it seems MLFlow is quite liked by the community. However, it seems really rough around the edges, particularly when it comes to stuff like auth.

I've seen people suggest online that this has to do with Databricks' influence on MLFlow, keeping some of these enterprise features out of it to force people to a paid offering.

But it's got me wondering, are there any good open source alternatives to MLFlow?

Also, are people just using MLFlow tracking servers inside of e.g. SageMaker or the Databricks stack?

And then what is it that MLFLow is so good at?
doesn't Stripe have an interest in maximizing this revenue recovery? they earn a percentage of successful charges
And once 30-year mortgage rates got to 5% or higher, the refinancing market basically dried up. Without much of a purchase mortgage business they basically had no business, regardless of how much better their technology was.
This is a company, so no.
Gloop – a Go utility library for convenient looping using range-over-func types
Good because that means that AMD will continue to provide desktop graphics rather that investing everything into numbercrunchers.
FreshMarker
This is about using the computer in a professional settings. You don't go and download Photoshop randomly (and if you do, that's irresponsible). But you install Windows Pro and there's a slew of random tiles and widgets everywhere. And you can't remove Apple apps (Like TV or Music) from the M series computers.
Factory robots that move in general are kind of gimmicks, except for those roomba things for Amazon warehouses.

An assembly line with robotic arms has been standard for a long time now. And having many such arms working at the same time is normal. And each robotic arm will be doing one extremely narrowly defined task.

Anything involving autonomous judgment and mobility introduces uncertainty.
We focus on MIT (merchant initiated transactions) vs. CIT (customer initiated transactions). Paze seems like a dupe of Shop pay and Stripe's Link. We support both since they support recurring. If paze allows for recurring (unclear) then we will support them too.
I don't think there's any sort of processor for the last 10 years. It really makes me feel like I need to upgrade.

What I do know is that Linux constantly breaks stuff. I don't even think it's treading water. These are interfaces are actively getting worse.
I’ve never seen eggs not stick to cast iron.
It was de-facto legal to begin with. The only people who were ever hurt by this law were the people who insisted on abiding by the law beyond the point of absurdity.

I appreciate that this is one less crime the average person commits every day that a capricious enforcer can make a big deal of but the flip side is that this reduces the competitive advantage of not being law abiding to the point of absurdity and your own detriment.
> 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.

That's me, I don't give a shit about AI, video editing, modern gaming or Kubernetes. That newest and heaviest piece of software I care about is VSCode. So I think you're absolutely correct. Most things new since Docker and VSCode has not contributed massively to how I work and most of the things I do could be done just fine 8-10 years ago.
in english in america, can't speak for other lanuguage/locales and too lazy to look, the word spatula is used for two different tools:

one tool is for scraping food (generally solid) inside a hot frying pan

the other tool is for scraping foods (generally liquidy generally cold) from the sides of a bowl or other container.

in the first case you want to flip your pancake and it's sticking to the pan

in the second case you want to get all of the pancake batter to pour into the frying pan.

The picture is the article is of a hot frying pan black plastic scraper.

GP's picture is a silicone cold bowl scraper.

is the disconnect

it is potentially true that you should eliminate all such spatulas made of "plastic" hot or cold, and it is potentially true that in all cases substitutions with silicone is the right move, but I'm not sure if that's what is being suggested