skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading a lot of that thread, my understanding is that yarn scaling is disabled intentionally by default in the GGUFs, because it would degrade outputs for contexts that do fit in 32k. So the only change is enabling yarn scaling at 4x, which is just a configuration setting. GGUF has these configuration settings embedded in the file format for ease of use. But you should be able to override them without downloading an entire duplicate set of weights (12 to 35 GB!). (It looks like in llama.cpp the override-kv option can be used for this, but I haven't tried it yet.)
Which is nice and useful of course but there is ton of things that can't reliably be done with that (like running any database you that comes to mind) which makes it important to be precise here.
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> time to run it after not touching it for 4 years

> Two hours of my life gone...

Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

And it would have run perfectly right away if the node version was specified, so a good learning, too

This feels like making a mountain out of a mole hill
If you drive an ICE that much you could be saving money vs renting a car when you need one. I've done the math, rental cars are expensive. Between the per day and per mile charges it doesn't take long to make up the cost of a cheap car. (if you insist on a new car of course that is much more expensive than a 10 year old car) I keep wanting to get rid of my truck that I only fill about 4x/year, but it turns out it is hard to rent a truck, as opposed to a truck shaped car. (I have found ways to do this, but those trucks are even more expensive than a car and they are out of the way)
Dig into the OpenZFS 2.2.0 data loss bug story. There was at least one ticket (in FreeBSD) where it cropped up almost a year prior and got labeled "look into layer," but it got closed.

I'm aware closing tickets of "future investigation" tasks when it seems to not be an issue any longer is common. But, it shouldnt be.
I am Googling "conoid" right now and I still can't even imagine what it's supposed to be.

The Google dictionary says it's a zoological term "approximately conical in shape".

The Wikipedia panel says "In geometry a conoid is a ruled surface, whose rulings fulfill the additional conditions: All rulings are parallel to a plane, the directrix plane. All rulings intersect a fixed line, the axis." The graphics are... nothing intuitive.

The M-W link in the search results says "a cone-shaped structure; especially : a hollow organelle shaped like a truncated cone that occurs at the anterior end of the organism".

None of this seeming relevant, I clicked on the Image tab and it's all these complicated Mathematica-style graphs of things that are very much not cones.

I see other people in the HN comments similarly have no idea.

Can you please explain what you saw on screen? What did the captcha think was a conoid...? Like, traffic cones or something?
It is to mark the package as private (in the sense that for normal usage you shouldn't need it). We are still writing the documentation on how to customize every little bit of the graph construction and querying pipeline, once that is ready we will expose the right tools (and files) for all of that :) For now just go with `from fast_graphrag import GraphRAG` and you should be good to go :)
Yes, yes, the EU cookie compliance law requires documenting and storing consent received from users.

And how do you do that, for any user not logged in? You understand how this works, right? THROUGH COOKIES. WHICH YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY THE VISITOR OF.

It's literally the dumbest law imaginable.
Your excess solar power is not worth the retail power cost because it is not as reliable or plentiful as utility power. If you think your neighbor would pay you the same rate for your unreliable excess power as they pay the utility, you should start a power company!

The infrastructure has not “already been built” - it is constantly under expansion and maintenance, and the bonds used to fund construction also need to be repaid.

I think your mind frame is that the reason the grid is not smart enough to pay you what you think your excess unreliable power is worth (which you stated to be the entire retail cost of power, including transmission and distribution) is because of incompetence and corruption of the utility monopolies. I think that is a pretty uncharitable take. It’s a hard problem and people generally want reliable and cheap. You can’t make microgrids reliable and plentiful without a ton of diverse generation (which already exists on the macro-grid) OR a ton of storage, both of which are very expensive. It is a problem worth solving but it needs to be considered with a realistic view on what people are actually paying for when they pay their power bill.
I'm not blind, but do have visibility issues. I can get by on my phone with maxed text size, etc. The pictures for hcaptcha are horrible... I keep having to zoom in and out. It's almost as bad as modals that flow off screen.

It sucks more when you work in the space and take a lot of care to usability. It's not that hard most of the time.
They don't have to be bad guys to be at the forefront of a growing monoculture, precisely because Unity shit the bed and the remaining competition for indie devs tapers off.

I love Godot for game dev, but it's not the full stack package, and last time I checked it wasn't great for 3D, but it's basically the best you have short of modding Doom.

RPG Maker and Adventure Game Studio corner the market on a niche genre of pixel-art RPGs and point-and-clicks if you want to stay 2D.

It's expensive to build a new engine from scratch, especially when Unreal says it can cross-build to PC, Xbox, PS4/PS5, Switch, Mobile, etc.

The problem is that making a generic does-anything engine means it can't be optimal, and more and more these days studios are using the engine but don't understand how to optimise within it. So now you're downloading shader caches from Steam because you can pull a pre-compiled shader across the network faster than it will build at runtime, and you still expect the game to run smooth as butter.

I build shit for the web, and this is the exact trade-off you make when you, say, choose Rails for your server over a more hands-on setup. I can spin up web apps in Rails with my eyes closed, it's that easy, but the performance has a high floor.
Yeah unfortunately that's the exact model I'm using (Q5 version. What I've been doing is first loading the transcript into the vector database, and then giving it a prompt thats like "summarize the transcript below: <full text of transcript>". This works surprisingly well except for one transcript I had which was of a 3 hour meeting that was per an online calculator about 38,000 tokens. Cutting the text up into 3 parts and pretending each was a seperate meeting* lead to a bunch of hallucinations for some reason.

*In theory this shouldn't matter much for my purpose of summarizing city council meetings that follow a predictable format.
> Please provide an indication of any truly novel ideas being synthesized by LLMs that are a cross-section of fields.

The problem here is that you expect something akin to relativity, the Poincare conjecture, et al. The vast majority of humans are not able to do this.

If you restrict yourself to the sorts of creativity that average people are good at, the models do extremely well.

I'm not sure how to convince you of this. Ideally, I'd get a few people of above average intelligence together, and give them an hour (?) to work on some problem / creative endeavor (we'd have to restrict their tool use to the equivalent of whatever we allow GPT to have), and then we can compare the results.

EDIT: Here's what ChatGPT thinks we should do: https://chatgpt.com/share/673b90ca-8dd4-8010-a1a0-61af699a44...
Yes, it looks like they should have written "NM" instead of "nm".
> In particular, this minimal frequency is twice the bandwitdh of the
function.

Careful, this is misleading.

If the peaks of the frequency align with your samples, you'll get the full bandwidth.

If the 0-crossings align with your samples, you'll miss the frequency.

These are why people swear by things like HD audio, SACD/DSD, even though "you can't hear over 20khz"
I'm pretty sanguine about languages and frameworks, but I draw the line at node. I have seen so many horrors visited by dependencies, often to do just one thing where 2 or 3 lines of code would do the job anyway.

When I was managing teams, whatever the language, I would ban any new dependencies which I didn't personally agree with. A lack of control just creates a nightmare.
This is literally every "hot new thing" since 2000.

It is systemic. Part of it is due to too many people creating systems on the fly with too little forethought, but also because there aren't enough "really smart people" working on long term solutions. Just hacks, done by hacks. What did you expect when the people writing the systems don't have long term experience?
The _mostly_ same behavior is what caused the problem though :P I'm curious, did these solutions come to pass because you had to make adjustments based on actual user feedback or was it just a developer trying to think ahead? I'm questioning whether forcing the user to tab to get to the menu item is a hindrance at all or whether the animation was a problem.

Maybe the former could have been solved using ARIA tags or maybe it would require bigger changes to the component itself. Accessibility is a roller-coaster for all these reasons alone.
iOS and iPadOS are really the same OS under a different marketing label. If you look only at APIs, the overlap even with macOS is very large and getting larger every year.

Chrome OS and Android are much farther apart, both in terms of API (web apps and Android are very different; iOS apps can run unmodified on newer Macs, for example) and OS implementation.
21. No API
Is there meaningful difference between iOS and iPadOS?
Did you read Platt? Its a mistake to grant any assertion as valid, especially given what we now know about academic fraud. The Platt article is freely available and does not reference slavery in any way that I can see from searching (the bad OCR) and quickly reading through the paragraphs.

Potter: The genesis of the modern police organization in the South
is the “Slave Patrol” (Platt 1982).

Potter: Platt, Tony, “Crime and Punishment in the United States: Immediate and Long-Term Reforms from a Marxist Perspective, Crime and Social Justice 18 (1982).

"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM REFORMS FROM A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE"
Tony Platt
Crime and Social Justice, No. 18, REMAKING JUSTICE (Winter 1982), pp. 38-45 (8 pages)

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29766165
Skipping Tests to Deliver Faster
I am no expert but I imagine "I hired a licensed contractor to handle this" would provide decent coverage for the home owner? Maybe I'm too naive.
I would assume most HN users are in the United States, where the notice period is two weeks by custom, or thirty seconds if you are mad enough that you don't care about things like references and eligibility for rehire. The latter is considered unprofessional but generally won't keep you from getting another job. Most people aren't aware that European-style job contracts exist.

I've had lots of arguments with Europeans on the internet about whether the benefit of their job security exceeds the costs of what Americans who are aware of the European system tend to perceive as indentured servitude.
Nice! It's a totally different world with AI tools. Seems like a good strategy to get previously non-technical folks in on it, especially for front end apps.
Ok, that's good to know. But I still don't see how having congestion control be driven by receivers instead of senders makes it harder to fix than it is currently.

I mean, I don't actually see why you would need more ports at all. You still just have a certain number of machines that want to exchange a certain amount of traffic. That number is either above or below what your core can handle (guessing, again, at what the author means by "systemically overloaded").
Anecdotes have equal weight. All of these models frustrate me to no end but I only do things that have never been done before. And it isn't an insult because you have no evidence of quality.
If something uses DOM and JavaScript, to me it's web enough to be called web, even if it is rendering outside of regular browser expectations (some React Native stuff or similar). The whole premise of this tech is to approximate app development to web development.

Anyway, it's not about _blaming_. Web technologies are being laid in a landscape by multiple parties, it's about understanding that landscape.
> Who else can redesign a proper 5th gen except US and PRC.

We don't even know if China's jets are 5th gen. The J-20 is a joke compared to the F-22 despite having 20 of lead time since America's 5th gen debut. If the US is using F-35s to simulate dogfighting a Chinese dual-engine air superiority platform, it's a sign they don't take them entirely seriously. After all, the F-16 is technically a better dogfight aggressor in USAF simulations.

China is starting to see the fruits of their own aerospace investments, but they clearly haven't got parity even with the US's oldest 5th gen inventory. China is too cagey with J-35 information for a serious comparison to the F-35. The J-20 was laughed out of the room when it was announced it couldn't supercruise without engine overhauls, and it still struggles to hit Mach 2 with a combat load. The H20 hasn't even been formally unveiled yet, and it's doubtful it will reach feature parity with the B-2. The entire lineup is inherently questionable.

> And why would PLAAF they clone the strategic boondoggles that is F35Bs?

Uhh... Naval operations?

Look, you're entirely right about the gimped range and the G limits of the F-35B. But the US selected it because there are damning tactical implications from a stealth fighter that can VTOL and carry AMRAAMs. The dogfighting specs really aren't even that relevant if you can get the standard A2A compliment into the air fast enough to fight. The value an F-35 can provide on the deck of an amphib or destroyer is immense and unmatched by any adversary. Screw the smaller range, you're on a goddamn boat! China would absolutely make the F-35B... if they could.

> NGAD isn't going back to drawing board after 10 years of development to have entire CONOPS reevaluated because of SU57.

NGAD can take as long as it needs. There isn't credible competition to America's air superiority platforms and any PRC victory in the Pacific, now or in the forseeable future (next 5-10 years), would have to be won through attrition. China knows this, it's why their shipyards are at-capacity in anticipation of needing the materiel. Taiwan manufactures their own antishipping missiles and America has 50 years of stockpiled AGM-84s. A balls-to-the-wall engagement between both powers could result in a hundred sinked ships in one day. The Taiwan strait is small, and once the PRC goes mask-off they'll have to hide every part of their Navy they don't want destroyed.

I don't doubt that NGAD is taking the PLAAF into account, but I'm pretty sure they know that China's 5th gen jets struggle to maintain 4th generation operational capacity. America's foothold on 5th gen air combat is tenured and proven - China is clinging to a marketing bark over bite strategy that most people have rightfully ignored. If China was certain in their tactical capabilities then they would also copy the United State's strategy of limiting their aircraft inventory. The mass production is a tacit admission that China intends to destroy a lot of J-20s and J-35s.
That's the way it seems to me as well. I've heard it remarked that one thing which never changes in Russia is the gulags. The Czars had them, the Bolsheviks and Soviets had them, now Putin has them. I think its worth considering that there might be some fundamental attribute of Russia, perhaps the geography, that gives rise to this repeating pattern in their leadership and social organization.
Feels like another option would be to bootstrap off of authenticated users, some sort of reputation system. It would still allow for anonymous users, but the expectation would be that they would be treated as suspected spam unless they receive sufficient endorsement from actual verified users. The verified users could be held accountable for the endorsements they provide up to a certain point, and the anonymous users would be able to remain anonymous assuming verified users consider them good citizens.
A School Burned After Aid Arrived. Witnesses Say Soldiers Started the Fire
node-gyp is a huge source of these issues for Node projects, especially older ones.

For those reading this who don't know much about node - node-gyp is how you pull in native code libraries to Node projects, typically for performance reasons. You get the same sorts of build issues with it that you can get whenever you start having binary, or source, dependencies, and you need the entire toolchain to be "Just Right(tm)".

I run into this issue with older Node projects on ARM Mac machines (Still!), but I run into similar issues with Python projects as well. Heck some days I still find older versions of native libraries that don't have working ARM builds for MacOS!

Node used to have a lot more native modules, in newer code you typically don't see as much of that, and accordingly this is much less of an issue now days.

> I always try to remember to put the node version in my package.json

This 100x over!
Ask historians: you may get surprised.

What they will tell you is -- up until the genocide against the Tatars (and other groups), the majority of its population was always solidly non-Russian.

And that its prior ownership by whichever colonial powers is entirely irrelevant to its current legal jurisdiction.

Which is unambiguously Ukrainian.
If it has an issue tracker, you can look in there for things that look like real issues and are unaddressed.

If there's no issue tracker, you can YOLO and try it and see if it works, or you can look around at the code and see if it looks reasonable.

Even if there are unaddressed issues, you can always use it and fix it when it breaks. If it's reasonable enough, it's a good start anyway. And at least my assumption with open source is I'm going to be fixing it when it breaks, so lack of a pulse is better than churn.
An ICE is typically most fuel efficient at about 2000 RPM and 90% throttle (this is different for every engine of course, but those numbers are close enough for discussion). A typical car can be at 45% fuel efficiency if you can pull that off, but 90% throttle when cruising will bring your RPMs and thus ground speed up. A hybrid can use a smaller engine that can just barely keep your car moving at 90% throttle and use the electric to get acceleration up to those speeds.
Denying the existence of something that you and everyone else has experienced is certainly an approach.

Look, I’m not going to defend the author here. The linked report reads to me like the output of a group of people who have become so insulated in their thinking on this subject that they’ve totally lost perspective. They give an 11% prior probability of earthworm sentience based on proxies like “avoiding noxious stimuli”, which is… really something.

But I’m not so confused by a bad set of arguments that I think suffering doesn’t exist.
"Only universes capable producing/hosting conscious observers can be consciously observed from within them" seems like more than just a hypothesis to me.
anti-spam is only an issue if people dump their email anywhere.
I usually register my mail on webpages as first.last+webpage@mail.com and once they would spam this mail, it gets blacklisted.

I literally get only 1-3 real spam mails per month without any filter.
Yeah I'd expect 20yo Perl5 stuff to work without issues.

A few weeks ago I was experimenting with a sound generation dsl/runtime called Csound and even most 30yo sources were working as long as they didn't use some obsolete UI.
It's not quite that bad.

That US 6 month number excludes field training (typically 1 year) whereas the 2-3 year German number includes it (6 months I believe).

This largely stems from a difference in how academies work. In many countries, field training is required to graduate. In the US, field training is required after you graduate in order to get a permanent job. This skews the total training time numbers.

That said, American police are still undertrained by comparison.
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Go’s minimum version selection is the way and I don’t understand why other ecosystems haven’t adopted it. You’re be able to compile an old project with all the library dependencies it had at the time it was released. It might have security issues, but at least you start with a version that works and then can go about upgrading it.

It also helps that if some library dependency generated Go code using a tool, the Go source code is checked in and you don’t have to run their tool.
You see this type of argument used against animal welfare all the time. At the end of the day, I dismiss them all as "we can't be perfect so we might as well do nothing".

As the article suggests, imagine you must live the lifetime of 1 million factory farmed shrimps. Would you then rather people quibble over whether we should hunt whales to extinction and ultimately do nothing (including never actually hunting whales to extinction to save you because they don't actually care about you), or would you rather they attempt to reduce your suffering in those millions of deaths as much as possible?
Think you missed the massive explosion during the 1990's (the birth of the internet) and the precursor during the Reagan years (basically gargantuan deficit spending on defense).

Factories and farming took a huge hit in 1970's and 1980's due to the rise of globalization (and shift from decades of hot wars to a cooled off one) and a trade war with Japan.
Same phenomenon in modern classical music, and what is known as "free jazz". Much of it is unlistenable for average people, or even those who enjoy "classic" classical or jazz music.

Taking the example of free jazz, the artists are trying to free themselves from what they see as restraints on expression. However, the human mind and heart are themselves governed by pattern and organization, which is why most music took the forms that it did. Departing from those typical structures is an artistic choice, but the artists can't be surprised when most listeners don't respond well to those choices. Perhaps they don't care much about the listeners anyway.
I think you are missing the key point: it takes a fraction of the energy vs. the solar desalinization you are referring to.
It’s the standard practice of noting internal/implementation details. Users should stick with the public api exported in __init__.
Agreed with the caveat, I'm from a lower income area where solar has been on the up. Panels would get stolen often enough to warrant thoughful consideration.
I actually did that in observable userspace https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/exporter
If I were a state actor trying to introduce vulnerabilities in an adversary's system, handing the guy who runs sqlalchemy (or whatever, pytorch, logger take your pick) $250,000 to modify their package with my vulnerability would probably be step 0 or step 1
I use Mailcatcher for almost ten years now and never had a problem with it. Maybe is doesn't need maintenance?
To me it looks like pieces are chosen that show a contrast of good and bad - they have amateurish or weird proportions and colors, but generally they have good or at least interesting composition. I couldn't really say how much is intentional vs accidental, for a lot of them.