skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They couldn’t give less of a crap if something is valuable to the world

"The world" is an abstraction: concretely, every bit of value that is generated within that abstraction accrues to someone in particular -- investors in AI projects, for example.
The LLM is always bullshitting the user. It's just sometimes the things it talks about happen to be real and sometimes they don't.
Congrats to the everyone who had the conviction to hold Bitcoin all these years.
Nothing has intrinsic value. Subjective theory of value. Some find BTC valuable as a store of value hence it has value.
I am all for preventing teen pregnancy, but the data sounds more like young people can't afford having children so they are waiting longer.
Makes me wonder about the ratio to empty hotel rooms and the homelessness cost to society (opportunity loss, reinstatement, relocation, maintenance, health)
This is misleading. First, as other comments have noted, it is comparing multi-threaded/parallelized vs single-threaded, and its total CPU time is much longer than wc's. Second, it suggests there is something special going on, when there is not. Just breaking the file into parts and running wc -l on it-- or even, running a CSV parser that is much more versatile than DuckDB's-- I'm pretty confident will perform significantly faster than this showing. Bets anyone?
It has the most harmonics.
But how much of the price of gold is its intrinsic worth? A fake gold ring made of some alloy can look and feel almost exactly the same as a real one, but as soon as you find out that it isn't real gold it suddenly loses 99% of its value - maybe it's not magnetic or it is slightly the wrong shade, but the value of gold isn't assigned for not reacting to magnets.

Only 11% of gold is for industrial purposes, so I think that if the thousands of years of cultural association of gold with wealth suddenly disappeared and people decided it was a bad investment, then it would be basically worthless.
It's not that, it's breathlessly proclaiming that techniques that have been standards for decades are "groundbreaking AI". The hyperbole makes it impossible to get at anything, and if you accurately propose a time tested solution at work these days, it gets dismissed because it's "not AI". So now standard computer vision methods that aren't AI in any way are getting proclaimed as "AI". It's quite annoying, as least from the perspective of someone who does more or less this exact thing (geospatial analysis and data processing of various types) for a living.

Folks won't let you use the right tool for the job anymore unless you make wildly hyperbolic claims about how groundbreaking it is and claim it's cutting edge AI.

The situation is bad for everyone. There's nothing wrong with using the right tool for the job and accurately describing it. I'm tired of having to inaccurately describe methods to be allowed to use them. E.g. claiming a Hough transform is "deep learning" so folks won't immediately dismiss it and demand I use some completely incorrect approach to a simple problem.
Monero is fine. But how can you even use bitcoin anonymously now? Even wasabi and samourai wallet are shut down as far as i know. Seems highly risky to use any tool like that since i dont know what the consequences will be in the future. Joinmarket? I'm sure it is possible but it is error-prone, takes so much effort, time and fees that i see it as a failure
Most children were born from parents in their 20s though… I don’t know you spin this when one age group stays the same and all others drop.
I'm going to be deliberately vague because I really really discourage shorting Tether but you can investigate perpetual swaps and defi lending.
Look at a chart of purchasing power adjusted USD over the past 100 years and tell me its at record highs.

All fiat currencies go to zero. BTC does the opposite using number go up technology.
For certain knowledge work, the job market is much stronger and orders of magnitude better paying in the US.

And nah, most if not all of my coworkers have taken two consecutive weeks off, and have taken roughly a total 25 days off the year excluding holidays.
My sampling bias is of college grads living dirt poor, had been, have been, will be. Recent friend was praying her car would not break down because she could hardly afford gas, let alone to do any kind of repairs. Sampling bias is a bitch. Do you have numbers otherwise that it is really just lifestyle outpacing income for college grads? Perhaps the outcomes of college grads are skewed, devil is in the details. The experience of college grads is pretty certainly washed away when looking at medians of much larger populations.
>I get the sense there’s a really thriving community around this excellent and highly influential synth.

Not specific to DX7, but its OPL cousins are also highly regarded and extensively researched in game emulation community.
Ok I understand it's possible to use these terms as if they have meaning to some demographic somewhere, but what is the point of using them without actually referring to the necessary figures to figure out what they actually mean to the rest of us?

Also: fuck me, if americans have a 700/month car payment on average most americans you're likely to interact with on a daily basis will be deep under the poverty line. Like, the actual poverty line of "struggling to survive", not the bullshit metric used to cut people off from welfare.
> I disagree with this take, Stallman has expressed it recently by linking some "scientific article".

I don't know how to parse this. What article did Stallman "link", and what are you saying Stallman "expressed" by linking/using it?

> whether the truthness or correlation with reality of an LLM sentence can be judged on its own or whether it requires a human to interpret it is not very relevant

It's incredibly relevant. We wouldn't even be having these debates if complex LLM judgements could always be verified without a human checking the logic.

> sentences produced by the LLM are still correct most of the time

At least half the problem here is that humans are accustomed to using certain cues as an indirect sign of time-investment, attentiveness, intelligence, truth, etc... and now those cues can be cheaply and quickly counterfeited. It breaks all those old correlations faster than we are adapting.
What's Next for PocketBase with the Founder of PocketHost [video]
What are the chances that the software is just a version of Android, maybe Linux? Google could barely put out a few devices using Fuschia doing the same thing basically.
Yes, they essentially did. Project Loon used balloons rather than satellites, but is otherwise surprisingly similar to Starlink, technically.

And as far as I've heard, a lot of Project Loon personnel ended up at SpaceX.

Also, the synergy may be a good part of the reason why Google was a large early investor in SpaceX.

https://x.company/projects/loon/
"trustless decentralized" is the last thing I want from my name authority.

When I enter some-entity.com, I want to know I'll end up at some-entity's website, even if said entity made some mistakes in the past, like forgetting to renew it [0]. I also want paypa1.com and friends to be down permanently, not to serve fishing pages.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2003/11/06/microsoft-forgets-to-ren...
I'm building a home AI rig and need some helps
Not sure what to do next. I'm building a home setup to test various LLMs and gain hands-on experience with custom built gear. I want to run Llama 3.1, Hermes 3, Qwen 2.5 Coder

My specs:

- Intel Core i7 13700

- RTX 4090

- SSD NVMe 1TB

Any other options I should be aware of? And how much did you invest in your current setup?
If audit your life I'm sure I'll find stuff I consider wasteful. The same if you audit mine.
I wonder if it is something about it feeling like the digital future. As long as the future never arrives, there's always some potential? Other bubbles were pegged to more well-defined trends?
I do unpleasant work all the time, I do it because I believe it's necessary. The fact that my boss also believes it is necessary is convenient. This has lead to an average job length of about 3yr (max: 7), so I don't think it's leading me to be overly flighty.

Every resignation has been a bit of a manifesto though, so it's not like everything is perfectly normal, but it works out well enough.
It's usually the exact opposite for this sort of thing. You can't do this with natural language. Traditional computer vision is well suited to it and works with some tweaks. "Modern" techniques for it require collecting insane amounts of training data for simple things. You can't just throw transfer learning at this because it's a lot different than standard photographs that models are trained on. The old school methods are faster and more reliable for a significant number of problems in the geospatial world. And you still need a lot of deep expertise no matter what.
the hitman refered to was very sloppy and very obvious, this is not the way pros do it. a pro job doesnt look like murder; a proxy may be arrested, but later sprung by an agent.
Anecdotally, a relative of mine worked at a firm in Hong Kong as an Architect, and the firm literally refused to do anything about nearby construction that there was dust blowing into the office ever day. That's the kind of labour standards you may see in Asia :)

She's working in London right now and alot more happier, tbh having grown up there in HK most of my cohort have moved to US or Europe.

Tech as an expat is a bit of bubble, most of the "hard work" in building a career is achieved in the less competitive environment. Growing up there in those cities is another matter, the academic pressure and job market can be soul-crushing. If you don't get into a top university many large firms won't hire you. That's not to say similar things happen in USA, but it's relatively easier to get into Ivy League, and outside of Banking or Law most other careers are willing to give you a chance to prove yourself.
Are you sure contexts causing rerenders is not solvable by moving useContext() calls into hooks that each return only the part of the context that is required and ensure reference equality of returned value (meaning any component will not have a reason to rerender unless there is an actual change in that part of the context)?
They couldn't "back then" either, I would argue.
Anki 24.11: one of the biggest updates
- The algorithm is updated to FSRS-5.

- Forgetting curve is added into card info.

- Load balancing: within your fuzz range, Anki will now try to pick days that have fewer reviews waiting.

- Easy days: you can now tell Anki to try avoid certain days of the week.

- Simulator: you can get an estimate of your workload, either in reviews per day or in minutes of studying per day.
I like Vinod Khosla's take (on Twitter):

Stop measuring GDP and instead measure the total income of the bottom 50% of the population and optimize policy for that. Additions and exits from this group can also be tracked. We get what we measure. Will this raise income inequality?
> Calling everything an AI does a hallucination isn't incorrect, but it reduces the term to meaninglessness.

I don't think it does. In this case, "hallucination" refers to claims generated entirely within a closed system, but which pertain to a reality external to it.

That's not meaningless, and makes "hallucinations" distinguishable from claims verified against direct observation of the reality they are meant to represent.
Counterpoint: all they do is consume, pay sales tax, and quite possibly fly home for healthcare.
Hey not to distract from OPs post, but I wanted to get into SR for a while, and your "what is your algo" question aligns with my line of thinking when approaching new methodology.

Could you please share your SR tech stack? Are there good apps etc., that can make the process a bit easier? The pen-and-paper approach I used in uni for learning kanji / new languages has scarred me somewhat, so I am eager to try something tech-heavy.
Tesla AI Delivered. FSD 13 Is Mind Blowing
I worked down the hall from Ken Arnold (he was one of the later additions to the project, mentioned about half way down the page) at HP/Apollo around 1990; aside from being an inspirational Senior Troublemaker, he kept an eye on Rogomatic - an advanced rogue-playing "bot" - and would make minor tweaks to Rogue itself that didn't change things for human players, but were adversarial for the bot...
Why does the video look like it was shot on an iPhone 3GS?
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear-battery-betavolt-...
Could be worse, I called mine the KWAK-8.
Since Palestine is considered occupied territory and is a member of UN, then in this situation Protocol I of Geneva Convention applies, that justifies military means to resist occupation and self-defense

Palestinians are resisting occupation and apartheid state - is my position and is a position of an overwhelming majority of UN members (who dont have strong Jewish lobby)

Why do I obsess about terminology? Because “palestinian terrorism” and “islamic terrorism” ingeneral is being used as dog whistle to spread Islamophobia and justify foreign invasion into Muslim countries by the imperial forces to steal resources like gold and oil (Iraq war, oil in exchange for food and etc)

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I
just for the audience, the DX7 used a newly invented type of synthesis (FM but that doesn't tell you or anybody else anything) and it was alone among synths at the time to produce metallic, brass, bell, etc. sounds. Performers flocked to it to get away from the same old analog synth sound everybody else had. FM synths are programmable, but not easily, and the menu diving was not practical while playing.

Analog (subtractive) synths are very much back in popularity right now and they offer lots of knobs to give bwahgrrrssshhhhwow type transformations
From what I see on the road it’s pickup trucks they can’t afford.
>Let's hope the "CEO class"... will allow reason and ethics to win out.

They won't. They're making billions out of others suffering.

>general public will allow reason and ethics to win out

"Ethics". It's a trolley problem... if a person through their actions enables many people to die, is it wrong to kill them?

To paraphrase Chris Rock... I ain't saying he should have killed him... But I understand.
Nice.

That said... I mean...

> The journey to integrate K/V context cache quantisation into Ollama took around 5 months.

??

They incorrectly tagged #7926 which is a 2 line change, instead of #6279 where it was implemented, which made me dig a bit deeper and reading the actual change it seems:

The commit (1) is:

> params := C.llama_context_default_params()
> ...
> params.type_k = kvCacheTypeFromStr(strings.ToLower(kvCacheType)) <--- adds this
> params.type_v = kvCacheTypeFromStr(strings.ToLower(kvCacheType)) <--- adds this

Which has been part of llama.cpp since Dev 7, 2023 (2).

So... mmmm... while this is great, somehow I'm left feeling kind of vaguely put-off by the comms around what is really 'we finally support some config flag from llama.cpp that's been there for really quite a long time'.

> It took 5 months, but we got there in the end.

... I guess... yay? The challenges don't seem like they were technical, but I guess, good job getting it across the line in the end?

[1] - https://github.com/ollama/ollama/commit/1bdab9fdb19f8a8c73ed...

[2] - since https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/bcc0eb4591bec5...
An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering (2005)
Let's revisit this in 10 years.
>And of course even vintage DX7s go for a quite high price in second+ hand market...

Everytime I read about some cool old synth, I check how much they cost and they are always hundreds or thousands of dollars, I think DX7s are like $500+.
>See that incredible, record setting spike at precisely the month in question

>If you’re going to attempt to discredit a correct argument, at least evaluate it correctly.

Sure, it is part of the downward slope of a multi-quarter spike, but that is not what you said. What you are doing now is attempting to re-frame prior inaccurate wording to claim that you were accurate all along. That first quote is what you said in your first comment. Q4 was the second quarter of decline following the spike. You said the spike was at "precisely the month in question", which it certainly was not. Q4 2020 was half a year after the peak of the spike. That hardly qualifies for even a very generous interpretation of the word "precise".

>Perhaps if you aggregated inflation, which is a lagging variable, it will turn out he chose precisely the quarter that made his point better than any other quarter, in which case he really went the extra mile to provide misleading claims.

Not only is this reaching, but you've just demonstrated that you don't understand what the graph you said was misleading refers to. Real wages does account for aggregate inflation.
I've been working on a prompt to application product[1] and one of the approaches we tried was test driven development. We would have the LLM write tests based on a detailed description of the application. Then give the LLM the tests and the requirements and ask it to write the application.

The thinking is we could run the tests to verify that the requirements are functional (assuming it wrote the tests correctly in the first place - in many cases it did, fyi).

The problem was that it was too fickle. Sometimes the failing tests caught application bugs. But too often the LLM just couldn't get the tests to pass even though sometimes the application was working fine.

It resulted in a terrible user experience (they only see latency of getting the application correctly written or a failure if it gives up).

That being said, I think a lot of the issues folks like us find with LLMs are because we haven't figured out how and what to ask.

Ultimately, we found an alternative approach which gets at least 95% of the application working 100% of the time. And this is actually a MUCH better user experience than waiting forever to sometimes just get "Sorry, we couldn't create your application.".

[1] https://withlattice.com
The problem with the CA system is arguably not that it’s a single point of failure: it’s that it’s N points of failure, all of which were originally unaccountable to user agents. The CAs are themselves decentralized entities, and each was largely unaccountable to the larger web PKI until CT came along.

I think a DNS layer would probably make that problem worse, not better, which is one of the enduring criticisms of DNSSEC and DANE.
Right, the point of being able to save a game was to pick up later where you had left off. However, the game attempted to prevent you from restarting from a saved game if you made a mistake or got killed or something.

I think the scheme was fairly clever but it wasn't terribly sophisticated; nothing like public-key crypto for instance. It did have a number of countermeasures that attempted to prevent cheating, such as restarting from a modified save file. For example, I believe it hashed all the bytes of the file, plus a bunch of metadata -- possibly including the uid and the file's i-number, as you suggest -- and also things like the file modification time and maybe even the i-node change time. Then it would write this hash back into the file. I seem to recall a bit of cleverness to avoid problems because writing the hash could potentially modify things like the file modification time. Maybe it just retried until the modtime didn't change. Not too difficult since the granularity was one second.

In principle this is easy to defeat if you know the hash algorithm, and if you knew how to use the Unix system calls to change a file's modification time. Since the original rogue program was closed source, the hash algorithm was secret. But eventually somebody reverse-engineered it, and programs emerged that were able to successfully copy save files.
How do we know they’re the real system instructions? If they’re determined by interrogating the LLM hallucination is a very real possibility.
Well, Waymo.
> what's wrong with errors, mistakes or inaccuracies?

They're not specific enough terms for what we're talking about. Saying a lion has stripes is an error, mistake, or inaccuracy. Describing a species of striped lions in detail is probably all those things, but it's a distinctive kind of error/mistake/inaccuracy that's worth having a term for.
> The future, we are told, will belong to those familiar with the computer. What a joke this would be if only it didn't victimize so many innocent bystanders.

prescient. this is one if the best articles i have read in years. the 1970s were a liminal place, between great eras. montreal thrived. there are few people this smart today who talk about the future with such accuracy because its hard to describe it using essential first principles- like how languages are just made of strings, which are lists, which are vectors, which are tables, which are matrices. its the simplest thing in the world if you think about it...
"Assume a spherical cow..."
> with odd choices in the most recent version (that IIRC are not backwards compatible)

This exact sentence could have been said about react router 8 years ago when I last looked at react, lol. And IIRC it was react router that turned me off the most, as every react tutorial that stressed working permalinks/URLs (which I believe to be essential) was teaching me react-router, but with sample code that was incompatible with the latest version. Because documentation and tutorials would last like a month tops before they were all horribly broken and out of date. Sounds like this hasn’t changed much.
But there is something wrong with that. The excessive part. Thanks for clarifying
I also think about this a lot. I think that after racism, sexism, ageism,… Speciesism will be another frontier that will transition us from considering entire classes of beings as being inferior, dangerous, disgusting, etc.. to mostly equal and equally worthy of life and protection, to the point of rendering the old ways of thinking into seeming barely believable.

There are many parallels between how we think about other species today and how we used to think about other races of humans in the past. Many myths about other races, sexes, etc. that are now both sad and laughable to think about parallel, the myths we still carry about other species.

For example, the rats’ role in spreading disease is now under question. I, personally, have been questioning it for a while, simply from knowing that almost any commercial kitchen has rats and/or mice present, yet not seeing any major disease outbreaks happening that can be attributed to it
No, I'm not doing that either. I watch lot prices pretty closely in the same areas I own property. Lot pricing (acreage) in this market didn't move much during or since the pandemic. Meanwhile 1000sq ft single family homes built in the 60s and in desperate need of restoration are currently selling in the 180k-250k range, whereas pre-pandemic I could buy as many as I could handle for less than a hundred grand a pop. Meanwhile the cost of a quarter acre building lot has nudged upwards maybe 10%. I'm guessing something about this strikes you as weird, thus the assumption that I don't know what I'm about? I don't have a cogent explanation to offer you for the vagaries of local real estate prices, I'm just reporting the facts on the ground.
Makes sense: React itself is independent from a particular rendering method. There's react-dom that does the DOM rendering.

I was trying to point at the fact that rendering occurs on top of state management, as opposed to saying that "React is a rendering library".
The dollar is backed by the fact that you can pay any debt with it and (if you’re a US citizen) have to pay your taxes with it.
That's true of so many things, including science and programming. We can deal with the fact that some people are geniuses and just orders of magnitude better than us, but often it's people who are just slightly better than us in most things that end up doing the thing we want to do before us.