skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing has always seemed to me to be the ultimate example of why we don't rely entirely on competition and the free market to provide us with "the best deal".

How can you know if your yellow sweets are coloured with lead chromate? How could you know all the millions of things you need to know about possible dangers so you can evaluate if some product that's 10% cheaper is actually not going to kill you?

It's only regulation and government interference that can make it manageable for the consumer.
Horses for courses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do development and DevOps on it. Sure there are some intense workloads that I probably couldn’t run, but it works just fine as my daily driver.

I also have a corporate/work laptop from Dell with 32GB RAM, 16 cores @ 4.x GHz etc. - a beast - but it runs Windows (+ antivirus, group policy crap etc.) and is slower in many aspects.

Sure I can compile a single file faster and spin up more pods/containers etc. on the Dell laptop, but I am usually not constrained on my T420.

I generally don’t spend much time waiting for my machine to finish things, compared to the time I spend e.g. writing text/code/whatever.
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I have been out of the PC world for a long time, but in terms of performance efficiency, is Apple running away from the competition? Or are AMD and Intel producing similar performing chips at the same wattage?
I am a firm believer in sleep hygiene especially the rule “reserve the bedroom for sleep”.

I have had conversations with friends when they complain about not enough sleep and one common theme is they use electronics in the bedroom before sleep.

When I share similar recommendations as this article about not using tv or phone in the bed and to leave the bedroom and meditate if you can’t sleep after 20min I get a lot of pushback.

The most common is that they can’t fall asleep without watching a show or movie on. This is right after they complained about not being able to sleep. The second one is around not wanting to change anything about their weed or alcohol use to improve their sleep.

I think a lot of it has to do with trying to avoid other anxieties which makes their sleep worse which increases anxiety in a cycle.

This is just anecdotal without much else to say other than in people in general seem pretty skeptical about sleep hygiene. And almost seem reluctant to experiment. But I’m a firm believer.
Long-term, its not about barring progress, but to have progress and more energy efficient models. The sum-games we play in regard to energy usage, don't necessarily stack up in dynamic systems; the increased energy usage of generative models may very well lead to less compute hours spent behind the desk drafting, revising, redrafting and doing it all over again once the next project comes around.

What remains though, is that increased productivity has rarely lead to a decrease in energy usage. Whether energy scarcity will drive model optimisation is anyone's guess, but it would be a differentiating feature on a market saturated with similarly capable offerings.
RWKV.

There aren't many multi-billion-parameters non-transformer models because of path dependence, but that doesn't mean that only transformers can achieve this kind of results.
Countries pay close attention to India's whole-of-society AI approach
Good enough to be used for gaming? Really want Apple to get into that because dealing with Windows sucks.
> the problem is most people doesn't give their best to succeed and blame the idea.

In fairness, it's also common for people to give it their best and still fail. But even so, you're right -- people often blame the idea itself. Sometimes, the idea is actually the problem, but more often it's just bad luck.

> I believe that if you can distribute it you can sell anything.

My old business partner had a riff on this same point: anybody can nail two sticks together and find a market willing to buy it. It's just that sometimes you have to look very hard to find that market, and sometimes the market that exists isn't big enough to be of interest.
Appears to be a reference to https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Kwisatz_Haderach
I doubt a man wearing a counterfeit version of a garment reserved only for kings would be given a nice tomb
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Bees gather pollen. In the fall, as temperatures get lower, they still want to keep gathering pollen, but sometimes they run out of warmth and energy to fly all the way back to the nest. Thus you will find bees sleeping on flowers through the night. When morning comes and the sun warms them, they'll pick up and fly off to the nest to drop off the last night's load of pollen.
Isn’t there already a different incentive system in place? LLM providers are selling the search engine not selling ads on the search engine
Same. This is why I don’t really use AI in my everyday workflow other than for brainstorming.
I don't think so. I didn't do anything else.
You’re not the only one — but just curious where this skepticism comes from.

This is M4 — Apple has now made four generations of chips and each one were class leading upon release. What more do you need to see?
The main reason for google search’s success is it drove traffic to websites and both had their share of the ad pie. With ChatGPT they would take a much much bigger share of the pie and so if it becomes successful in replacing google search’s UI, it will fully replace the extreme distributed nature of the internet and make the traditional/big content providers even more powerful. I am sure content creators will find a way to adapt but in the short term it will cause pain
What's crazy is that the M4 Pro is in the Mac mini, something so tiny can handle that chip. The Mac Studio with the M4 Max will be awesome but the Mini is remarkable.
Lol, minimum moves needed 2^64-1
> weakly NP-hard

What does this mean?
Go to https://notebooklm.google and log in with a Google account. Then just paste whatever text or files you want to chat about. That’s basically it.
Is it not possible? I'm not that familiar with the topic. Doing some sort of averaging over a large corpus of separate texts could be interesting and probably would also have a lot of applications. Let's say that you are gathering feedback from a large group of people and want to summarize it in an anonymized way. I imagine you'd need embeddings with a somewhat large dimensionality though?
Turbo Pascal was in the running with assembly language for my favorite language to program the IBM PC in the 1980s. ISO Pascal didn't have the facilities to do systems programming, like trapping an interrupt, but Turbo Pascal did. Even BASIC had PEEK and POKE which are unsafe but let you target hardware registers.

I fell out of the Pascal habit when I got to college because Turbo wasn't available for the Sun 68k and SPARC not to mention HP PA RISC workstations we had and soon I got my first 32-bit "home" computer and was using Linux so of course I switched to C, though I think mostly it was a step back.
The first one was great; I still get more traction from the 10 minute video I posted at HYTRADBOI-1 than any talk/paper I've presented at SPLASH. I had more salient questions about Mech than I've ever gotten from SPLASH, VC head hunters setting up meetings, and even Graydon Hoare stopped by for a chat.

What's the point of an online conference? Well you gotta go where your audience is, and for us that's online.
It is not just for AI. The same can be said of Wikipedia, if correctness matters, for example if you are writing an article/paper/essay, go for primary sources, not Wikipedia, and certainly not ChatGPT.

You can use them as a starting point though.
I'd be reflexively skeptical if I didn't have a M1 Mac. It really is something.
They’ve always been good enough for gaming. The problem has just been whether or not publishers would bother releasing the games. It’s unfortunate that Apple can’t seem to really build enough momentum here to become a gaming destination.
> What is more likely - that this is Alexander's sarapis itself or that a very rich guy had one made just like it?

I read through the original article though not very closely, and the authors wrote that the construction of the sarapis was unique in that nobody would have been allowed to construct one, and that the physical construction of the sarapis would have been profoundly expensive.

It could be the case that another rich guy went and had one made, sure, but given the above two priors you'd have to answer:

Who else at the time could afford to have such a sarapis constructed?
Is there a record of anyone with a similarly designed and constructed sarapis? Historians seem to have a good idea of who was rich and/or noble in the area at the time.
If someone at the time constructed a similarly designed sarapis in the region, who would have built it and why wouldn't have someone basically told on them for trying to copy the God King?

I don't think your point is invalid, but it would raise more questions that as far as I'm aware there seems to be little evidence for and introduce impractical logistics for the time period.
Indeed, the parent already gives one: flip_case(flip_case("ﬀ")) = "ff". (Since it's hard to tell with what I guess is default ligature formation, at least in my browser, the first is an 'ﬀ' ligature and the second is two 'f's.)
Thanks, Eric. So what you're really telling me is that you might make an exception to the "no tools talks" general policy for Write The Docs conference talks and let me nerd out on embeddings for 30 mins?? ;P
I have a lot of shoulder issues that are worsened by sleeping on my side or stomach. I also have a flat spot on the side of my face from always sleeping on it, and it gets worse the older I get. I'd like to be able to use overnight skin treatments without it getting all over my pillow.
Lisp was released in 1958, same as Algol, and doing some form of garbage collection from that humble beginning.
The “format” is the UI, that is what allows them to show ads. If they are forced to change the “format” to one single explanation or answer they cannot show ads like they do now and instead change their “UI” to be like chaptgpt’s. Which also means they have to change their advertising model fundamentally
I think that the period we're in right now is also a very similar watershed. What used to be quite 'powerful' swear words such as 'fuck' and shit' are now just a normal part of informal speech, that don't carry any actual taboo. We have now developed a new set of very real actually culturally taboo "curse words".

These new curse words are in fact so taboo that the most powerful of them cannot even be uttered in a context of explaining that someone else said them, and can only be referenced in an oblique manner such as 'he said the N-word' or 'they uttered a homophobic slur'
Exactly, these stories only appeal to children and childish adults.
I am still astounded the huge change moving from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac (M1) has had in terms of battery performance and heat. I don't think i've heard the fans a single time I've had this machine and it's been several years.

Nor have I had any desire to upgrade.
I am a big fan of Sabine. Recent video on her by prof dave explains made me think though. https://travisporter.bearblog.dev/new-post/
But we as Americans love that myth, because we think it can (and eventually will) happen to us as well. When you see working class people support politicians and policies that create benefits only for the wealthy, this is why.
The exact location is not known but there is strong consensus amongst historians that he's burried in Alexandria.
Linux KVM has plenty of competition: for one thing, there's Xen, but also the integrated hypervisors from other operating systems, including Hyper-V, bhyve, macOS Hypervisor, etc.

But rather than have multiple companies working on incompatible implementations of the virtual machine monitor component, it's better if possible for them to standardize on a single one. KVM is not a full virtualization solution, after all. Look at this patch: it may very well be all that is needed for VMWare Workstation to use KVM internally. That ought to demonstrate how these kernel modules are effectively interchangeable.

Virtualbox and VMWare will still act and feel the same when they use KVM internally, just like they do on Windows when they use Hyper-V internally, or macOS when they use the Hypervisor framework internally, or like Virtualbox-KVM already does, some networking omissions aside.

The benefits of sticking to KVM are clear. If anyone has a problem in production, fixing it benefits every KVM user. If anyone wants to migrate between virtualization solutions, it's much easier when you can use multiple of them at the same time, whereas today you can't boot any of upstream Virtualbox, VMware, or KVM virtual machines at the same time on Linux.

(edit: And the benefits of not using out-of-tree kernel modules is even clearer; out-of-tree modules taint your kernel, preventing you from reporting bugs upstream, often prevent you from being able to upgrade to the latest kernels, are a pain to deal with when using secure boot, etc.)

KVM and hardware virtualization solutions can be useful for more than just virtualization, too; unlike Vbox and VMware, KVM offers a general interface for using these processor features. For example, there are some cases where it might be useful for Wine.

So personally I think it's fine. KVM is just a foundational part of a virtualization solution, and there's plenty of competition in the overall space.
True for Turbo. Not true for the truly atrocious UCSD Pascal.

Computer scientists circa 1980 were driven absolutely crazy by BASIC becoming the dominant teaching language in primary schools; with alternatives like UCSD Pascal, however, you are better off writing assembly.
> Is our goal to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, or to improve the lives of the poor? Because the gap itself is actually irrelevant to poor people's lives.

The resources to improve the lives of the poor (and not just the very poor but the struggling middle classes), have to come from somewhere. They are not infinite. So unless you're creating a bunch of wealth from nothing, then it naturally requires a more equal distribution of existing wealth.

> China which has been consistently overbuilding housing for decades now. They still have housing issues.

This is in fact a problem of unequal distribution of resources: one of the main reasons there are housing issues is because houses have been seen as an investment and gobbled up by those who can afford to do so (all my friends in Beijing own multiple apartments), so prices rise and the poor can't get them anyway.
Long before Python and Java, there was $49.95 Turbo Pascal for DOS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
LoL, I really appreciate this comment. My team is very frank with me about code quality and they said Claude’s work looked pretty good — this time. But I’ll take your recommendation to heart for next time.
Go compiles fast: https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/go-build-times/
Because Substack is not part of the indie web anymore in 2024… organizations that grow in size eventually cross that threshold.

Otherwise Facebook would still be part of the ‘indie web’…
A year on, Intel's touted AI-chip deals have fallen short
That's wild! Thanks so much for sharing.
I would say rather that the "standard example" is simplified, but it does capture an essential truth about the vectors. The surprise is not that the real world is complicated and nothing is simply expressible as a vector and that treating it as such doesn't 100% work in every way in every circumstance all of the time. That's obvious. Everyone who might work with embeddings gets it, and if they don't, they soon will. The surprise is that it does work as well as it does and does seem to be capturing more than a naive skepticism would expect.
> Rust has sum types, implemented as Enums

Do you mean implemented with enums? Enums themselves are not a type. They are a mechanism for value generation, providing automatic numbering (hence enumeration) for constants. Indeed, they, like all values, are ultimately represented by a type, but that type can range from something like a simple integer or something more complex like a tagged union (typically with the generated value being the tag) with different ecosystems favouring different type approaches.
Sadly, another case of YouTube sucking the brains out of the web. I'm much more inclined to read a blog post about Pascal than sit for an hour to listen to somebody yak.
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It feels like unifying it with the ASCII i is the mistake here. There should have just been 4 turkish characters in 2 pairs, rather than trying to reuse I/i

It's not like we insist Α (Greek) is the same as A (Latin) or А (Cyrillic) just because they're visually identical.
> Having such a large difference in single-core performance, will negate the sizable difference in total core count (96 vs 16).

But why? Wouldn’t total score be approximately corecount*corescore? Of course it’s not exactly that because not all cores run full speed at the same time, but how are the cores weighted that 16 cores are better than 96 cores with half the speed each?
I'm confused. They're claiming "Apple’s M4 Max is the first production CPU to pass 4000 Single-Core score in Geekbench 6." yet I can see hundreds of other test results for single core performance above 4000 in the last 2 years?
"8 too long", says HN.
I don't get the "small" part in "open small language model". The model.safetensors file is 3.42 GB large. What happened to the microLMs of 5 MB (https://neuml.hashnode.dev/train-a-language-model-from-scrat...) ?
So long as the robots didn't eliminate their job (and make it very difficult to get another job), in which case they'll have a smaller kitchen (or no kitchen).
That's why I called it a dystopia. After a year of working fully remote I now have the option of walking to an office and I haven't skipped on that a single day. The WFH had its benefits, but all in all it felt like COVID lockdown going into overtime. As in enjoying those few seconds of interaction at the supermarket checkout.
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Your credibility is also suffering, as you failed to explain where Sabine is wrong...
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It's not a videogame, it's a fast minecraft screenshot simulator where the prompt between each frame is the state of the input and the previous frames, with something of a resemblance of coherence.
I think they will get there in time. They like to focus on things and not spread themselves thin. They always wanted to get the gaming market share but AI is taking all their time now.
Could those be overclockers? I often see strange results on there that looks like either overclockers or prototypes. Maybe they mean this is the fastest general purpose single core you can buy that is that fast off the shelf with no tinkering.
Are those production results?

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1962935 says it was running at 13.54 GHz. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4913899 looks... questionable.
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You'd be more in control over having your passwords silently uploaded to a third party without your knowledge or consent, for starters.

Again, full respect for your decisions, but there are consequences to them and as your blog and experience shows, they are numerous and have serious impacts.
That depends on what you want to play and what other things that suck that you’re willing to tolerate.

The GPUs in previous M chips aren’t beating AMD or NVidia’s top offerings on anything except VRAM but you can definitely play games with them. Apple has released their Game Porting Toolkit a couple years ago which is basically like Wine/Proton in Linux and if you’re comfortable with Wine and approximately what a Steam Deck can run then that’s about what you can expect to run on a newer Mac.

Installing Steam or GOG Galaxy with something like Whiskey.app (which leverages the game porting toolkit) opens up a large number of games on macOS. Games that need Windows root kits are probably a pain point, and you’re probably not going to push all those video setting sliders to the far right for Ultra graphics on a 4K screen, but there’s a lot of games that are very playable on macOS and M chips.
It has always baffled me why Apple doesn't take gaming seriously. It's another revenue stream, it would sell more Macs. It's profit.

Is it just some weird cultural thing? Or is there some kind of genuine technical reason for it, like it would involve some kind of tradeoffs around security or limiting architecture changes or something?

Especially with the M-series chips, it feels like they had the opportunity to make a major gaming push and bring publishers on board... but just nothing, at least with AAA games. They're content with cartoony content in Apple Arcade solely on mobile.
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Some day it may make for great training data.
I'm not sure how many chances they'll get to persuade developers that this time they really mean it. It sounds like Apple Arcade is a flop.
According to the Pew Trust (and my own personal observations) the middle class has been shrinking more or less steadily for the last 50 years. Through what mechanism is eliminating existing jobs expected to reverse this trend?
sorry for my snark but for real you might find "notes from underground" by dostoevsky a good read
There have always been higher performing x64 chips than the M series but they use several times more power to get that.

Apple seems to be reliably annihilating everyone on performance per watt at the high end of the performance curve. It makes sense since the M series are mobile CPUs on ‘roids.
Submitter broke the rules a bit here, the HN headline should match the article/site title which is, "The Universe of the Lectron System."

Moreover, I feel like Arduino is the wrong comparison. I guess submitter meant "breadboard" circuits. (Where Arduino is often used, but these were popular decades before the Arduino came to town.)
> So your answer to "Who gets to decide what's true?" is basically "there is no truth, and any truth that there might be is relative to the person asking the question". Is that right?

No it's not, at all. This isn't a debate about what's true, it's a debate over the intended meaning of the question. The point was that people assume context behind the question and answer based on the context. Because even the person asking often doesn't literally mean what the words say. The question is more than the words that are explicitly written.