skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone in the US: I would be very happy to refer someone from Eastern Europe if I've worked with them. But no amount of money would make me risk my reputation or career vouching for someone I have no experience working with. This is way too close to interview scamming, and it's the kind of thing that could all too easily backfire and cost me my own job & career.

Also, about:

> I think it all comes back to trust: no one does business with someone on a whole different continent.

It's not really that foreigners are less trustworthy or anything like that, but that it can be a huge hassle for US companies (especially small ones) to hire foreign workers. It dramatically complicates HR, labor laws, etc., unless they are all hired as contractors, and even then many smaller companies aren't really set up to handle the paperwork and taxes for that if all their other employees are local.

> I am trying to develop a new marketing channel based on trust and referral.

If you truly are doing that, I would be comfortable participating in something like LinkedIn where you can vouch for people after you've worked with them. Not before, and certainly not blindly.
Ya that’s a solid point. Though many startups give their employees equity options… so you have to factor that in too. Also buying a start up for talent seems risky since many people that join startups are looking for a totally different energy than a large corporation, so it seems reasonable that there’d be a big drop off of that talent as soon as it gets acquired… especially if the vision is not aligned
There should be some law that says strictly serialized process should never be broken into discreet services. Distributed locks and transactions are hell.
I think they're still keeping it somewhat together, agree it got ever more confusing with the introduction of more performance tiers but after 3 generations it's been easy to keep track of: Mx (base) -> Pro -> Max -> Ultra.

Think it's still quite far away from naming conventions of PC territory.

Now I got curious on what naming scheme could be clearer for Apple's performance tiers.
X-rays are the universal scam. Even the government recommends against them for the last decade at least.
> React allows you to mix declarative and imperative programming concepts together in an effective way. To give a sense of why this is important: Imagine a CLI built with XML.

Talk about a late-night-infomercial-level “let’s compare the thing we are talking up with the absolute worst alternative imaginable as if that was the next best choice” argument.
Generally as lies wrapped in lies. You can use the same techniques to push a falsehood as well. Which is not to say Rand did not actually believe her message — she did, which is why the books are so effective. But they have given the upper class an exaggerated sense of their own importance, and a conviction that government only stands in their way. Meanwhile over in reality, the more a state is run by oligarchs, the worse a place it is to live.
And that's not all because token encodings of different models can be very different.
How is verifying against a worse performing, open source GPU driver any sort of verification that proprietary drivers do not do special things you wouldn’t expect?
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When rendering text, what would you expect CPU to be? For however long it takes to render, you’d expect it to max out.
This doesn't count for dermatologists though. The fancy office is paid for by botox and ridiculously overpriced moisturizers, but they are still capable of treating skin conditions.
Dish soap is not going to contain lye because it's not made by cooking animal or vegetable fat in lye.

Soap artist and still do that process though. Handmade soap will probably have some sodium hydroxide in it.

(Does anyone use that for dishes?)
I don’t think this will be good for users, but I do think this is the right call at the right time for the company. They get (presumably) top dollar for their outfit prior to the next big market crash, and just as investor funding is drying up outside the AI realms. Hopefully everyone involved gets enough dosh to live comfortably, and can focus on their next big passion or project once the NDAs and Non-Competes run their course.

For us users…oof, the market just got that much smaller. I already avoid Adobe, and I’m considering bailing on Capture One (if I could just get those Fuji LUTs elsewhere) for my photography hobby; Photomator seemed a natural alternative to explore, but now that’s no longer the case.

Man, what I would give for Aperture to make a comeback. Just something simple, fast, and lacking in feature creep. No pesky AI masking or image replacement, just good old hardware-accelerated gallery management and image editing sans subscription.
> Related, I haven't paid for Gemini since about a month after release, but the morally corrupt query of "Show me articles from left and right leaning news sites about <headline topic>" would result in Gemini censoring right leaning urls with a "url removed" placeholder and belittling statements about the concerns of showing me right leaning content.

Ugh. It'd be nice if tech companies didn't treat us all like infants.
I recently ported an old Pascal game to Free Pascal. I had never really used Pascal before this particular project.

Learning the language was interesting, but there's a lot about it that seemed pretty irritating, the main one being the separation of variable declarations and code (similar to the original C spec). It also took me way too long to figure out how to properly construct an 'if-then-else' block without the compiler complaining about the syntax.

Can't say I would probably use it in a new project.
" People who are saying React only belongs on DOM are missing out"

yup - two of my favorite React packages are Remotion and React Email.
It’s so refreshing after the normal “here’s today’s enshitification of this thing you used to love” threads to read threads like this.
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>The point of PE isn't to run sustainable businesses that provide quality products and services for customers while treating their employees well. The point is to rapidly suck all the value out of businesses by loading them up with debt, breaking laws, mistreating customers, and exploiting employees. What happens to the carcass of the business or to the customers and employees whose lives have been destroyed doesn't matter to them.

This is an overly-broad statement. Private equity just means... equity that's private (ie. not on public markets). SpaceX is technically private equity. SoftBank's Vision Fund is private equity. There might be problems with those companies/funds, but "rapidly suck all the value out of businesses by loading them up with debt" is not one of them.
It's amazing how many HNers link this charlatan's op-ed thinking it's evidence. Presumably you don't like linking to our best human outcome research on the subject because it never pans out well for saturated fat–not for atherosclerosis, not for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, not for glucose sensitivity, and so on.

So you link to the equivalent of a reddit post 'summarizing' the space. I see this link every week on here and every time, the person who linked it thinks they just had a mic drop moment like you.
It is wasted, because in this situation you’re forced to do it. If you end up not switching, all the time you spent trying something else comes to nothing. If you do switch, you were still forced to spend a bunch of time looking for something.
I had problems with a molar that had received a root canal about 20 years ago. The dentist told me that it had to come out, but I had several options:

-Leave the hole, and the surrounding teeth would gradually fill in the space (I still have all my wisdom teeth, so that wouldn't be an issue)

-Have a partial plate inserted

-Have an implant inserted

The insert was quoted at about USD $5000. I found that I could have it done in Costa Rica, by US-trained dentists, for less than $1,000.

I seriously considered the Costa Rica route, but ended up just going with the gap.
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Ah, I see the problem now!

In Turkish:

• Lowercase dotted I ("i") maps to uppercase dotted I ("İ")

• Lowercase dotless I ("ı") maps to uppercase dotless I ("I")

In English, uppercase dotless I ("I") maps to lowercase dotted I ("i"), because those are the only kinds we have.

Ew! So it's a conflict of language behavior. There's no "correct" way to handle this unless you know which language is currently in use!

Even if you were to start over, I'm not convinced that using different unicode point points would have been the right solution since the rest of the alphabet is the same.
> Their about page claims non profit, Wikipedia and others say registered in Singapore but I don’t see anything under “ghost” as a society [0] or as a charity [1].

Ghost Foundation is a Company Limited by Guarantee [1] in Singapore. The UEN is 201605007D.

As I wrote above, it's not a charity, and therefore doesn't need to have charitable goals.

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The world is not literally on fire.
This is also a problem for accountants, trying to do “account reconciliation” to determine which transactions contribute to a given balance.

I made a simple tool that does this client-side for an accountant friend a while ago: https://reconciliation.spcdx.com/

(Warning: runtimes do quickly scale, due to the time complexity described above)
I find this project hugely helpful when working with Google Takeout archives. I normally pick a size that's not too large so that downloading them is easier, then it's simply a matter of:

ratarmount ./takeout-20231130T224325Z-0*.tgz ./mnt
I live in Germany, and I've developed a similar rule with doctors in general. But here I can use an even better rule of thumb - be extremely suspicious of anything that isn't covered by public health insurance. I'm sure other people have had different experiences, but I'm 40 and so far almost every time I had to pay out of pocket it turned out to be some controversial or even pseudoscientific BS. The last one was some weird back pain therapy - I wasted my time and money on that until I read some paper on it. Its conclusion was actually that the therapy "probably works", but when I actually read it, the data ranged from "inconclusive" to "not effective". And that was the paper the company selling machines for that therapy was linking to.

What worked in the end was - surprise - lifestyle changes.
I’m sitting here waiting for you to close the sale on me. Who said anything about XML as the alternative!?
The AFCS on these jets is amazing. They will not allow you to crash them unless you turn it off, at which point you are flying a wild animal that will happily fly backwards. They have terrain avoidance and will pull you out of a dive automatically. I'm not surprised it flew so far. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if these things flew home and landed automatically after an ejection.
I think there was a prop 65 warning on a box of kreg pocket screws (or was it the jig?).
So this comes up a lot. I often think about the case of protein structures.

Let's consider a protein of 100 amino acids; although most proteins are in the 200-500 range (IIRC) it makes the maths simpler. Even for such a short sequence, the probability of coming up with one specific sequence at random is incredibly small - 20 to the power of 100 or 1.267651e+130.

The simple answer to this apparent puzzle ('how did proteins evolve from random mutations') is of course that it did not happen like this. Not at all like monkeys typing out scripts and a human checking if they have produced a Shakespeare play yet.

In fact, there are multiple solutions to the same problem - in the analogy, this would be like multiple different versions of the same play being just as good as the other. Even better for evolution, you can - in a sense - put on a version of a play that is pretty bad, but just good enough to put in front of an audience. In other words, some enzymatic functionality can be better than none.

In this way, an evolutionary system can build up complexity by making parts that are _good enough_ and are roughly equivalent to other parts that can be replaced gradually. Combine this with the massive parallelism and the scale of the molecular world, and a billion years can accomplish a lot.
It was part of the strange CoCo experience. The CoCo had a superior CPU in that the 6809 was a great target for conventional compilers (as opposed to the 6502 which would drive you to virtual machine techniques like UCSD or Wozniak’s SWEET16)

Yet the 32 column text size was worse than the already bad 40 cols common on micros. It did not have the great audio of the C64 but the shack sold numerous upgrades like the Orchestra 90, you could even pack in four upgrade cards with the multi-pack. It was insane how many upgrade you could buy (like a digitized tablet, many kinds of dot matrix and letter quality printers, speech synthesis oak). Disc drives cost more than the Coco but they were way faster than the affordable 1541 that C64 users had)

I had a DEC printing terminal (with an acoustic coupler modem on the side!) and a TRA-80 Model 100 attached and could log in with three user sessions. I had a UART for one serial connection, the bit banger was fast enough for a printing terminal!

My Coco 1 starting burning up power supplies so I got a Coco3 which had 80 col text and a real windows + mouse experience for OS-9 but the third party software situation was terrible so I got a 286 machine in 1987, a time where I see Byte magazine is overrun with ads for PC clime builders. I got the money from a consulting project I did, I was told years later how much value my project made and should have asked for enough money to buy a 386.
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I'm not sure that's true. There's lots of ways to use and manipulate the DOM. But React is particularly special because it turns out to be a simpler way to think about UI components. A TUI has nothing to do with the DOM, but it's got a lot to do with rendering UI components. So taking the ideas from React and applying them to drawing elements in a terminal makes a lot of sense.

Arguably it makes even more sense than with React. One of the problems with React is that the underlying DOM is a stateful, imperative system, whereas React wants to behaves much more like an immediate-mode system, where the whole UI can be dropped and re-rendered at any time. But the terminal is not stateful like the DOM, and a more immediate-mode paradigm arguably works better in this context than in the browser.
If you need them visualized, you're already on the wrong track.
Those numbers don’t add up to 640mb. If you have 10 Claude tabs open, you’re not using 6gigs of resident memory.
You are moving the goalpost. The discussion has always been about transformers vs non transformers.

You claimed that self attention was needed to achieve the level of intelligence that we've seen with GPT 3.5:

> without those attention heads even the scaling up to current parameter sizes we have to day would not have ended up with the level of emergent intelligence that shocked the world with GPT 3.5. (Verbatim quote from you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41986010)

This is the claim I've been disputing, by responding that the key feature of the intelligence of tranformer models come from their scalability. And now that we have alternative that scale equally well (SSM and RWKV) unsurprisingly we see them achieve the same level of reasoning abilities.

> Every statement above that I made, that you called wrong, was correct. lol.

Well, except the one quoted above at least…
macOS Sequoia 15.1 makes the camera grainy for M1 MacBooks
Agreed. I recall being taught in college physics labs: there is no such thing as “human error”. Instead, think about the causes and mechanisms of each source of error, which helps both quantifying and mitigating them.

Same energy here. “Be more careful” is extraordinarily hand-wavy for a profession that calls itself engineering.
Sure, so your primary residence becoming uninsurable is another way to go from have to have not
Well, the official list of URI schemes is here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xht... (and another "unofficial" one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_URI_schemes#Unofficial... )

I think if you don't insist on them making sense as an acronym, there are still some interesting 3-letter combinations free (if you avoid the obvious minefields, that is).

E.g., I've never heard of qqq:// . There is a QQQ Trust apparently, but no network protocol AFAIK.
>Im not interested in steel-manning the position that cultural acceptance of trash translates to bad code

Okay, but quite obviously OP is.

>I am defending the fact that humans do in fact have cultures, and those cultures have real world impacts. You would not see scenes like that in Japan or Singapore, or at least much more rarely.

Indians are such a major presence in Singapore that Tamil is one of its official languages. Littering is also a part of both countries' criminal codes, with hefty fines and, in SG's case, jail time being prescribed. It seems pretty clear, then, that cultural essentiality is at least insufficient as an explanation in these contexts.
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In other words: there's enough state now that the lack of state stands out. It works well enough for its failures to be notable.
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How much of this is a result of overselling, and how much a result of people wanting a quick, high-tech fix? If you read the article, the woman who is suing went to the implant place and with her mind already set on the implants and requested them. If that sort of market exists, people will serve it. The problem is when it is sold to people who wouldn't otherwise consider it (and when they are not qualified to do the work, as the article claims).
My SO used to sleep on her belly.

Then we got an overpriced mattress with the same material that NASA uses...

I'm an endless chaser of value. I hate to overpay for things. That mattress was $5k (king sized).

She sleeps on her back, and her sleep quality has measurably improved.
A translation between models doesn't seem possible because there are actually no "common dimensions" at all between models. That is, each dimension has a completely different semantic meaning, in different models, but also it's the combination of dimension values that begin to impart real "meaning".

For example, the number of different unit vector combinations in a 1500 dimensional space is like the number of different ways of "ordering" the components, which is 5^4114
.

EDIT: And the point of that factorial is that even if the dimensions were "identical" across two different LLMs but merely "scrambled" (in ordering) there would be that large number to contend with to "unscramble".
I don't see how you design and ship a game like this. You can't design a game by setting model weights directly. I do see how you might clone a game, eventually without all the missing things like object permanence and other long-term state. But the inference engine is probably more expensive to run than the game engine it (somewhat) emulates.

What is this tech useful for? Genuine question from a long-time AI person.
Bummer. I switched to Affinity (Photo, Designer) this year and am very happy. You can buy a lifetime license across all platforms (iPad, Mac, Windows) for a fixed price. It is great to have high quality software that is not a subscription.
We are seeing that in Sinaloa right now - El Mayo is out of commission, but there's money to be made in fentanyl, cocaine and avocado.
Awesome! I really should have checked the paper and skipped the article entirely.

The figure in question: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...
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Try to advance to 100M. 10M might not be enough in 50 years.
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It's funny that so many people are confused about why this was written. The monkeys argument was originally used against the theory of evolution; "what's the probability that a monkey banging on a typewriter will type out Hamlet? It'll never happen, and that's why evolution is impossible." Then, someone made the counter-argument that given enough time, the monkey will type out Shakespeare. This paper argues that as long as the time is finite on the order of the age of our universe, the monkey will not type out Shakespeare.