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LLM inference is getting cheaper year over year. It often loses money now, it may eventually stop losing money when it gets cheap enough to run.

- But surely the race to the bottom will continue?

Maybe, but they do offer a consumer subscription that can diverge from actual serving costs.

/speculation
I mean, of course it's not perfect. But isn't 2 water bottles in a land fill orders of magnitude better than 300? Isn't the reduction of bulk trash the point? Why would the fact that a glass container can break make it not still a better alternative to 50 plastic ones?
For most projects outside of hobby projects, I feel this should be the default case, unless there are just some huge costs savings like “improved performance by 50% and now you can save money and scale down your AWS allocations!”
Thank you. Just in time for the weekend!
Thank you, I too am a big believer and enjoyer of open research. The actual code has clarity that complex research papers were never able to convey to me as well as the actual code could.

Regarding the cost I would probably sum it up to round about ~2.5k USD for just the actual execution cost. Development cost would've probably doubled that sum if I wouldn't already have a GPU workstation for experiments at home that I take for granted. That cost is made up of:

* ~400 USD for ~2 months of storage and traffic of 7.4 TB (3.2 TB of raw, 3.2 TB of preprocessed training data) on a GCP standard bucket

* ~100 USD for Anthropic claude requests for experimenting with the right system prompt and test runs and the actual final execution

* The other ~2k USD were used to rent 8x Nvidia RTX4090's together with a 5TB SSD from runpod.io for various stages of the experiments. For the actual SAE training I rented the node for 8 days straight and I would probably allocate an additional ~3-4 days of runtime just to experiments to determine the best Hyperparameters for training.
Tiny cameras will always be limited in aperture, so low light and depth of field will be a challenge.
It will be a moderate amount compared to the amounts that produce dead zones.
I started working on games around the time of the debacle.

I tried Unity before the footgun, and wasn't happy with how slow and bloated it felt. I did some web-based games first and then I landed in Godot and it felt much snappier and stuck to it.

Its clearly missing the massive community and the asset store that comes with it. It's also buggy in so many ways. But it is getting better and there is a feeling that the ecosystem is growing and improving quickly.

We're a tiny team though and unsure how this would look like for a big studio.
I have a friend who played FTL and I kept thinking that was just a fancy terminal game.
The members of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists continue to believe that the nuclear threat is as great as it has ever been: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072256/doomsday-clock-d...
It’s a neat project, something I might use if it was something I could host myself.. I think some ppl would help clean it up.
This sentiment comes up all the time here. Mathematics uses formalism because it's easier.

It's easier to read "a(b+c+d) = ab+ac+ad" than

> If there be two straight lines, and one of them be cut into any number of segments whatever, the rectangle contained by the two straight lines is equal to the rectangles contained by the uncut straight line and each of the segments.

It's well known that good notation is exactly the one that elevates good intuition. For example, the Legendre symbol has the property that (a/p)*(b/p)=(a*b/p), an important visual cue that you wouldn't get from writing down (in way too many words) what the Legendre symbol actually means.

Also, most actually good mathematical textbooks aren't just dumps of formulae and proofs and they do contain motivation, examples, pictures, etc. You're attacking a strawman. But you can't just relegate the formalism and proofs to the appendices, that's crazy.
"the matrix" is essentially Tate's version of "globalist elites","international jews", or "the patriarchy", it is just his way of describing a conspiratorial system that is supposedly functioning against him (and other men but mostly him).
Try giving a random human 30 chess moves and ask them to make a non-terrible legal move. Average humans even quite often try to make illegal moves when clearly seeing the board before them. There are even plenty of cases where people reported a bug because the chess application didn't let them do an illegal move they thought was legal.

And the sudden comparison to something that's safety critical is extremely dumb. Nobody said we should tie the LLM to a nuclear bomb that explodes if it makes a single mistake in chess.

The point is that it plays at a level far far above making random legal moves or even average humans. To say that that doesn't mean anything because it's not perfect is simply insane.
No mention of quaternions and SLERP?
Another awesome mathematics article that loses me about 10-15% of the way in do to my own technical limitations. Any tips from HN on how to improve my ability to get thru, say, 45-50% of these types of articles?? Generally speaking, not specific to the math in OP article
Right, it gets even worse: Air pressure in not only altitude-dependent but fluctuates even at constant altitude. The pressure (altitude) dependence is comparatively weak, though.
Ah, memories. I was a member (and even secretary for a bit) of a 16-bit Atari user group for a bit back in the late 80s/early-90s. We used to put out a disk "magazine" for members and distribute others. The latest shareware and the like.

So much was about magazines back then, even after BBSs and the early Internet came on the scene.
All kinds of exciting implications for small cameras and lens assemblies in VR/AR
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Love FTL, would be sick to port it to terminal graphics
I perceive this thread in the same way as the praise of Hanns Johst.

With the perceived potential of separating work from its author being inversely proportional to the amount of attention devoted to both (Raskolnikov attitude towards Poles as something on the surface, though it's infiltrated with Russian chauvinism at a much deeper level).

With overlooking the fact that it is being used as a weapon (together with the unified Russian language created by Pushkin) for erasure of entire cultures. I'd stress this out: this is not a weapon in a museum. We are talking active phase. And the more obscure the relations above are, the higher the penetration rate.

Disappointing.
Thank you, fair enough
The degree matters. If we find auto encoders learning surprisingly deep models then i have no problems saying they have a world model. It's not the gotcha you think it is.

>the big red flag of not directly analyzing the performance of the predicted board state I also said training a neural network to return a specific result is fishy

The idea that probes are some red flag is ridiculous. There are some things to take into account but statistics is not magic. There's nothing fishy about training probes to inspect a models internals. If the internals don't represent the state of the board then the probe won't be able to learn to reconstruct the state of the board. The probe only has access to internals. You can't squeeze blood out of a rock.
There seems to be a high correlation with people who are enthusiastic about breaking things to enable "simple" solutions, being legislative blockaders (instead of negotiators) of forming good policy from/with others, and not caring about external costs to the point of making that a vocal policy point.

A lot of damage is done in the name of real problems, associated with high frustration, leveraged politically.
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Ya. Hindsight's 20/20.

I've half expected the Java/JVM team to change Object to extend a new "NakedObject", and implementing new interfaces Equalable, Hashable, Finalizable, and Waitable. (Current interface Clonable is a goof, so maybe deprecate it and replace with Copyable.)

Then "NakedObject" would only need getClass method, right?

Then values and records could also extend NakedObject, right?

Then equals and clone/copy could be generic, right?

--

Alternately, maybe prevent the gotchas with missing equals, hashCode, and toString by having the runtime autogenerate something reasonable.
Well if you can propel something forward you can propel it backwards as well.

I'm assuming some sort of fixed laser type propulsion mechanism would leverage a type of solar sail technology. Maybe you could send a phased laser signal that "vibrates" a solar sail towards the source of energy instead of away.
I'd say the kid knows more about the world than ChatGPT, yes. For starters, the kid has representations of concepts such as 'blue color' because eyes... ChatGPT can answer difficult questions for sure, but overall I'd say it's much more specialized and limited than a kid. However, I also think that's mostly comparing apples and oranges, and that one's judgement about that is very personal. So, in the end I don't know.
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I don't think "ethics" implies group recognition, though-- I'd call those principles mores.
Services like soldiers and coast guarding, VA services? That's where most of the headcount is.
A pet conspiracy theory I've had for a while now is that my Fire TV analyzes my earbud's bluetooth signal strength readings to build a rough approximation of my environment and movement, and preferentially runs ad breaks whenever I move away from the TV into the bathroom, when it knows my hands are occupied and I'm no longer near the remote to skip the ads. It seems to happen entirely too often to be coincidence.
Yes, but it seems like benefit of monitoring compost closely - beyond just looking at it and turning it occasionally - seems like it would be low?

Like: is the compost steaming, then it's probably hot and wet enough. Has it been X days since it was turned, better turn it. My naive intuition is that adding value to the compost is quite hard if you're looking at things like aerating a few days earlier, damping a little more, or whatever.

Like I said, I'm ignorant of the details, which often makes for a good learning experience!
Whats going on with all the drawn-in stuff on the photo of WEB Dubois?
Note the paper they are referring to was published August 27, 2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13687
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holy sh*t what a comment!!! why stop here though, lets make ecommerce an essential utility and turn over amazon to the government too! and of course we all need to go somewhere so we should turn over tesla and all the other car companies to the government too! heck now that I re-read your comment I think we should forbid profit altogether and make sure all businesses in America are non-profit, utility-for-all!
Good but both parties need to commit to this. The federal government will spend around 4 trillion beyond its budget this year. It has to stop or it will absolutely sink this country in the coming decades.
How many years of war occurred between the coup-government of Ukraine and the territory of Donbass before Russia invaded?

There was no coup d'état.

Simply put - it's a false narrative.
There's also another angle. During the call with Lex last week, Dario seemed to imply that future models would run on amazon chips from Annapurna Labs (Amazon's 2015 fabless purchase). Amazon is all about the flywheel + picks and shovels and I, personally, see this as the endgame. Create demand for your hardware to reduce the per unit cost and speed up the dev cycle. Add the AWS interplay and it's a money printing machine.
Maybe I should revisit this stuff. I’ve been fighting anything other than my own custom CSS classes for a while. It’s beginning to look at bit dated and I have no interest in rewriting them for the few sites that I support (family members and a couple of charities). I am no web guru and much prefer my hobby/day job of embedded stuff that you’ll never see on a GUI. I keep hearing great stuff about tailwind though.
They don’t disclose it, but I’d imagine so. They also admit to being a couple of years late, so they’re accelerating (as per their last earnings call)
Could be that more than one person in the company uses GA4. One team might just need the basic stuff in a simple dashboard. Other teams might need the more detailed data you get from standard GA4.
I actually have a home office with built in desks, file cabinets, and bookshelves mostly for computer-related books.

But my dining room/kitchen is lighter and airier. If I’m not shuffling a lot of paper, using dual monitors, or doing the rare video call, I mostly use a laptop downstairs.

I do prefer to use a laptop over a phone for most things though.
Not a bad article, all things considered, but I do think it gives a shallow treatment to reasons of the objectors to dam removal.

How many people are impacted and how? Will they lose their businesses, jobs, and life savings?

The closest it comes is talking about the spotted owl, where 30,000 people lost their loverhoods without compensation due to an environmental regulation that not only failed to deliver, but was doomed from the start. What are the parallels here?
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DOGE is so efficient that it needs two leaders to run it. Their first great idea is to make things so awful that many Gov workers will quit.

I'm sure just simple digitization, moving processes online, and then offering packages to promote early retirement would be enough to save billions. But that wouldn't satisfy their contempt for the working class.
> Machines are good at applying rules, so when they fail to apply rules correctly, it means they have incorrect, incomplete, or totally absent models.

That's assuming that, somehow, a LLM is a machine. Why would you think that?
I'm someone not really aware of the consequences of each quantum of progress in quantum computing. But, I know that I'm exposed to QC risks in that at some point I'll need to change every security key I've ever generated and every crypto algorithm every piece of software uses.

How much closer does this work bring us to the Quantum Crypto Apocalypse? How much time do I have left before I need to start budgeting it into my quarterly engineering plan?
> One thing I was very intentional about is to not load [the Steam Deck] up right away with every game imaginable but rather, go one game at a time

I attribute my continued, regular enjoyment of my Playdate console to Panic's intentional choice to throttle the Season One games to once per week. Now I purchase a new game or two every month from their catalogue. I think if I got it already fully loaded I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much, which is really counter-intuitive to me and was an opportunity for introspection.
Not only English translations :) And the man was a real nazi. Hated Poles, Jews, French, Germans - anyone not Russian. This is where Dugin, Putin and other modern vampires draw inspiration from.
This is very true, it’s super stressful for kids especially when they have a messy room depending on their personality type they can be completely paralyzed by the amount of toys. Having higher quality or even just toys curated to the core desires of the child can help reduce wasteful purchases. I can’t count how many “awesome” toys I’ve donated to goodwill because my kids realized they didn’t want them after a few days, or weeks.
It sounds like you have good reasons. Kind of like many truck owners.

What level of sacrifice you make to get what you really need apparently isn't necessarily comparable with anyone else, right? Commuting is a choice. No one is making you work where you do, or live where you do, at least not since 1863.

No judgement here, I'm just pointing it out. Is it possible we're all on the same team? Even the pickup owners?
For starters, don't shout at the market that AI is your differentiator. Lead by value, not by adoption of technology.
What I'm saying is regulation slows down all of society to solve yesterday's problems, when we should put as much resources as possible into developing tomorrow's solutions.

How much does it bug you that Xerox has (had?) a monopoly on copiers? Or that Windows + Intel dominated the 90's? Or that the train barons had their monopolies in the 1800's?

The best solution is to make a monopoly irrelevant by supplanting it.

Apple is either going to invent the next big thing, or they will go the way of IBM. Even now their peak quarterly revenue was back in 2022.
That's not a penalty for steering users, that's Apple's commission for running the store. Their position has always been that the 30% is not a payment processing fee, it's an App Store fee, and the court agreed with them that that is acceptable.

So steer away, but pay your dues manually if you do so.

I'm honestly shocked how many people thought that the outcome would have been anything else. Apple has been very consistent in emphasizing that the 30% is not the payment processing fee, so the idea that getting paid with your own payment processor would bypass the fee was always absurd.

The best developers can hope for is for US regulators to follow the EU and force Apple to allow alternative stores with lower fees. There was never a chance that the government would ban Apple from charging its fee.
Big websites use js and if they leak most of the time it's not a js issue.

I think the distrust of js is a personal issue.
Trivia: not sure if you’re aware, but there’s billion dollar companies in all these spaces you claim “nobody cares about”. Every single stock broker in the US trades crypto now. Omniverse earns Nvidia a ton of money, Apple earned a billion dollars with a clunky v1 and Meta is selling more and more Quests every half.
Is this really equivalent to blindfold chess? The LLM has access to the full move history, unlike blindfold chess where memorization is necessary
Does anyone on HN have a understanding how close this achievement brings us to useful quantum computers?
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Steamdeck is awesome. Just don’t sign up for the wishlist sale emails . I had to turn off notifications because I was buying way more games than I could play.
Obviously a Hemingway fan.
I believe modern macbook pro’s already have multiple microphones that probably do some phase-array magic.
Probably the best use of 45 minutes on youtube, I've watched it 4 times now and still love it every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbIAy9sMHk (doc on beavers)
Weirdly enough, mathematicians have been manipulating expressions and writing proofs for centuries without (routinely) stumbling into contradictions all without the need of formal proof calculi or s-expressions.

I have nothing but admiration for projects like Lean and Coq and working in them can be a lot of fun (coupled with a lot of frustration when "obvious" things sometimes take an inordinate amount of time to prove), but Wiles' proof of FLT (the corrected version) was published in 1995. We're almost 30 years later and people are just now working on a formalisation which could take many years (https://leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/FLT-announ...). Mathematicians can't afford to be waiting for proof systems to catch up, at least not right now.
The quote is truly the quintessence of Dostoevsky's works. A classic orthodox christian hodgepodge base, served with heaviest spicing of obligatory suffering of all kinds - both physical and mental, all perversely portrayed as a virtue.

It's kinda like alcohol, and if we go with this comparison - Dostoevsky promotes drowning in it as a salvation. Put bluntly, that shit ruins lives, not mends them. But Dostoevsky does not just write about it, he carefully designs the whole narrative to make it look like the only logical choice and wholeheartedly promotes it. And that's why I just can't stand his works, despite all their psychological, artistic and linguistic/literary merits. This insane cultural gap is simply too big to cross for me.

It all makes sense in historical and cultural context, of course, but that's exactly what puts an expiration date on Dostoevsky's works. They're a product or a very specific culture, and thus will no longer be relevant when their parent culture will finally wither away (and, personally, I sincerely hope it naturally does, for I see it as way more harmful than positive).

There are literature works that would remain relevant for a long while, but Dostoevsky is not one of those.

Just my own personal opinion.
The entire point of MAD is ensuring that no one ever kicks off a nuclear war. But I guess in internet logic, stopping a war from happening is "warmongering."
Ooh thanks, looks really nice!
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Author of the video here, ask me anything :)
So i have to say i saw the headline on the frontpage and clicked the game before reading the post.

I have no idea who netifly is... and thought lets have a fun time playing.

While the game is visually well made, i gave it 3 attemps and all 3 times my ball dissapeared at some point into the floor and got permastuck. :/
In work environments it often takes the form of red tagging (https://www.learnleansigma.com/guides/5s-red-tagging/)
There's an easy shortcut in the second level past the climb on the pink pipe and before you climb the ramp where you can jump to the semi-circle on the lower platform on the other side. Love it!
>> > Most professional developers are unable to produce code up to the standard of "the top answer in stack overflow"

> How could you possibly know that?

I worked at four multinationals and saw a bunch of their code. Most of it wasn't "the top answer in stack overflow". Was some of the code written by some of the people better than that? Sure. And a lot of it wasn't, in my opinion.

> All these types of arguments come from a belief that your fellow human is effectively useless.

Not at all. I think the top answers in stack overflow were written by humans, after all.

> It’s sad and weird.

You are entitled to your own opinion, no doubt about it.
Hey, I'm the author of this post.

Quaternions and SLERP are absolutely a fundamental part of 3D vision (and game development too). However, I wanted to focus this post mainly on the question "why is optimizing on the unit sphere difficult?" As the post stands, it's already quite verbose.

Maybe I'll find some time to do a deep dive on common Lie Groups used in computer vision e.g. SO(3), SE(3) and Sim(3) and also the common representations used for those groups.
it is warmongering if country in question is the one who caused war in the first place.
Sounds like Nim. Nim doesn't have objects but it has something it calls universal function call syntax/uniform call syntax which lets you prefix a function call with the first argument instead of putting it in the argument list. This makes it look like object oriented coding without having to put the structure definition in the same file as the methods that act on it. This means that new methods can be added without having to edit the source of the structure or inherit from it.
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