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Is the Google Play Store not the overwhelmingly dominant app market on Android? Yes, they are less restrictive and allow the potential for other app stores to exist, but based on market capture of their respective platforms I believe they are pretty comparable. I am struggling to find numbers to corroborate this, but Google has recently lost a case asserting that their Play Store dominance constituted a monopoly - which seems like it should certainly apply to Apple as well.
Maybe don't make things up in a blog post about LLMs making things up.

Because you don't know how to fix it. Only how to mitigate it.
And what's preventing China from building their own EUV lithography? They can do whatever they want internally regardless of US sanctions. It seems like they're not trying very hard, or are wasting resources on unproductive initiatives.
Cheers for the clarification - I was pressed for time when I commented and didn't pursue the forums. Thankyou.
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> I know plenty of people making $250K/yr or more who are living paycheck to paycheck.

How?..
There is absolutely no detail or evidence provided in that article that. Literally just “some people are saying”
> Also better check if the UEFI firmware does understand the nice NVMe SSD brand, version that was bought.

That's funny! I haven't heard of this being an issue since 2009. And back then, it was an issue with a select few manufacturers that took it upon themselves to modify the stock ACPI tables to behave differently from how the OEM intended it to behave.

Not naming any names, but it really was a pain in the ass for the people that bought commercial dual-boot software and couldn't run ostensibly recent OSes. Something you didn't encounter if you braved the impossible gauntlet of building a PC from scratch, as there was no "we know better than you" interruption from companies with a sizable investment in watching UEFI burn. Of course, you still have to put up with other fierce trials such as "which way does the DIMM line up" and "how do screws work" which will triumph over so-called hackers that thought they were smart enough to build a PC.

Just a thought. Custom PCs will never consume the world, but we are going to point and laugh if you buy a preconfigured rackmount or tower at the sticker price. That's like watching a car enthusiast proudly exit the used Honda dealership after paying three times the Blue Book price for their ride. Puts you up there with Elon and Zuckerberg in the pantheon of people that let FOMO drive irrational hardware purchases.

> Custom PCs aren't IKEA,

Correct, IKEA furniture actually demands literacy from the person installing it.

> I have better things to do.

You're a Hacker News user with 14 years of seniority and enough karma to make the Buddha blush. We both know that if you had anything better to do, you wouldn't be writing paragraph-length replies to arguments you supposedly don't take seriously in the first place. Whatever "better things" exist on your agenda, they must have quite the lengthy refractory period for you to find the time in your horribly busy life for this and the other 63,548 comments you've submit to this site.

If you can't prove that PC building is inconvenient, you can't prove that your time is worth something and you can't prove that your alternative is better value, what are you trying to tell me? That you're lazier than a middle schooler and too dumb to shop at Radioshack? Touché and well met, your rhetoric moves me.
>if there is anything in this article besides atrocity propaganda?

Some of use dislike atrocities and feel reporting them is a good idea so they stop. By propaganda are you suggesting the FT is lying and the Russians aren't killing civilians with drones on purpose?

There is also a bbc article on the same stuff https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c207gz7key6o
I agree. People want to act like purists and want everything under MIT. However we know a lot of free riders exist and MIT won't be sustainable.
I would suggest the book Jesus and the Powers[1] by NT Wright and Michael F Bird if you have interest in the topic.

Basically they prefer nonviolence, but leave the door open to other options when confronting abusive governments in extreme situations where nonviolence has failed to produce change. They say the choice to use violence should not be easy. It should be done only for the public good not for one group of people and its use should be scaled to the nature of the evil being resisted.

[1] https://zondervanacademic.com/jesus-and-the-powers
> While the hallucination problem in LLMs is inevitable [0], they can be significantly reduced...

Every article on hallucinations needs to start with this fact until we've hammered that into every "AI Engineer"'s head. Hallucinations are not a bug—they're not a different mode of operation, they're not a logic error. They're not even really a distinct kind of output.

What they are is a value judgement we assign to the output of an LLM program. A "hallucination" is just output from an LLM-based workflow that is not fit for purpose.

This means that all techniques for managing hallucinations (such as the ones described in TFA, which are good) are better understood as techniques for constraining and validating the probabilistic output of an LLM to ensure fitness for purpose—it's a process of quality control, and it should be approached as such. The trouble is that we software engineers have spent so long working in an artificially deterministic world that we're not used to designing and evaluating probabilistic quality control systems for computer output.

[0] They link to this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817
> We know that proofs and reading are required. They do not.

In the context of you saying this after sharing a link to an article around difficulties at HBCUs, I'm trying to find some charitable way to interpret your statements as something other than horrendously racist. Can you please expound on this, or am I taking this correctly?
They probably have a letter counting tool added to it now. that it just knows to call when asked to do this.

you ask it the number of letters and it sends those words off to another tool to count instances of L, but they didn't add a placement one so it's still guessing those.

edit: corrected some typos and phrasing.

Maybe we'll reach a point where the LLM's are just tool calling models and not really giver their own reply.
The native slider is hideous as f and further offends me by being called a range. Why are stupid simple things missing like display the value? We could even have a same name number input that displays the set value or an <input for=""

html forms in general got very little love. They should be taken to the drawing board along with sql and get some relation therapist to blame the earlier for the endless fighting. over the years of growing up together json made an effort to make the marriage work but html forms are very stubborn and unreasonable.

Things actually got worse when pressing the back button erased the fields. What we wanted was a way to put the same form with the same values back on the page after failed validation. I have backends where that stuff takes up 60% of the code. imagine <form src="foobar.json"/> with a nice widget displaying the key value pairs, with outlines for nested fieldsets?

anyway, thanks for the nice dual slider. my own experiments didn't result in something nice enough that i would dare use.

I would like to see a contest with cash prizes for designing better html forms with backwards compatibility. Winning entries should be put in the spec. Im sure we would pay plenty if it would ease the suffering. :)
TJs is famously cheap, not expensive.
Per Reddit: "One is a high powered assassin whose livelihood depends on his ability to rationalize beyond emotion to calculate the cost of a life. The other guy is still alive."

Edit: I would love to make $20/minute every day finding ways to drive people into medical bankruptcy, despair, and death, just like him, because being rich is awesome. :)
I played Roblox for 3 years
back in aug 6, 2021 I started playing roblox at the time I had 0 friends on roblox then after that I started growing roblox friends then after that I became the most famous player on roblox so I joined roblox server to roblox server to see everyone on roblox
In general I completely agree that code name overload is dreadful. But I think in this case, where this pair is so fundamental and used so frequently in the codebase, I think I would probably permit it. Beware codename creep.
I regularly cannot remember if its "grep" or "greb". Never had this issue with Windows' "findstr".
Love the animation and having to answer math questions to trigger an attack. Very well thought out and love the old school 8-bit graphics. Nice work!
… a company I once worked at named everything after characters from a certain TV show. Effectively the same as a made up name. Let's just say one of the character's name was … a tough one to pronounce. And it caused endless "what's a … Kep?" type questions.

The CTO at some point later on decreed "enough; descriptive names, not made up things" … and the experience was such that I agreed with the decree, and I've sort of felt that way ever since. I've given a few names sparingly to a few things, but mostly a.) they have some connection to the named thing and b.) I reach for it when the purpose isn't clear yet and thus "descriptive" can be hard to come by.

You could have named it a "PoMo" (portmanteau of position-move), if you're tired of typing.

I'm also a bit surprised since the examples are Rust? Some of the naming is sort of "Hungarian notation"-esque. Why not let the type carry that information, and strike it from the name?
House values do decrease over time. It’s the land value that increases. For example my house has decreased $100k in value since I bought it (many years ago) but the land has increased around $700k in the same time.
Ultimately, we should be able to match the performance of FSx for Lustre. With a scale-out protocol (mirroring the Lustre protocol), it's relatively simple to achieve scaleable throughput and IOPS out to the level of 100s of GiB/s and millions of IOPS (we aren't doing this today, but I anticipate being here within a month or two).

Functionally, we're not running DRTs like Lustre does in order to synchronize from S3. We will support the ability to pre-load the cache (like a DRT), for customers who can't handle the lazy-loading latency, but unlike Lustre, we can't run out of capacity in the hot tier, and we will automatically delete data from the hot tier when it's not in use. I know that DRT management can be complex for customers.
1. If their nuclear sabre rattling means they belive we're scared of them, even if that belief is false, they will believe nothing NATO is prepared to do would actually stop them.

2. Looking at Russia right now, do you think anything they're doing makes sense?
Yeah, but websockets are limited. I wrote this to tunnel VPNs over this and have full IP connectivity... which does work. A lot of users of the application I have talked with are from China and Iran. Seems to work well.
Hey, this looks interesting. As was mentioned, the navlinks are broken, like the pricing page, etc. In addition, the audio cuts out around the 30 second mark and doesn't come back for the rest of the video. And the captions don't appear to show any text. All the best to you!
Plus valuations change over time. In 1997, a valuation of $5m for the first Harry Potter book would've seemed excessive and the author would've probably had trouble paying taxes on it. But even with that valuation, someone could've made billions by snatching it away once Pottermania started (I suppose you could let authors update value on a daily basis but that seems like an insane amount of overhead)
I am trying this with https://uxwizz.com but it's not easy.

I do like this model, but there are some challenges:

* With one-time the initial payment is higher ($299 one-time vs $29/mo), many people don't think too much before paying $29, but think a lot more before paying $299.

* Only paying once still doesn't cover the support expenses or future development. In my case, I went with pay-once use forever, but with paid updates after the first year. Also, the way I do the updates payment is different (you can pay any time to get 3, 12 or 24 more months of support/updates). With this model, the customer only pays what they want, and me as a developer, I'm incentivized to keep releasing updates.

* Self-hosting is also more niche than a service, especially if your product is not aimed directly at technical people. With my product, a lot of marketers could use it, but many of them don't even know what self-hosting is. That being said, for a small business, the available market of people who know how to self-host is large enough.

I do hope more companies/products switch to this self-hosted model, it's better for privacy, ownership, avoiding data centralization, etc.
Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide
I'd agree Tokyo or East Asian Cities certainly has a much better quality of life than the dump that is the Bay Area, but if take everything bad about the US labour market that's pretty much amped to 100 in Asian societies and for lower pay and longer hours. You won't have the time to enjoy much of that comfort in the same way as you might in a vacation.

Anybody ambitious would agree it's still far more optimal to work in a USA and build a career there first before moving to Asia as an expat to better negotiate terms. And even then, the supply of interesting jobs there is going be much less.
I wonder if that is simply a reflection of there being more training data out there about this "problem" and the model hoovering all that up and regurgitating it?
It’s funny because right after Trump was elected there was an ft article about all the metrics that showed that poor people were doing worse in real terms. One ft author uses one index to prove one point another uses others to prove another point. I’ve noticed that divide in particular between ft standard sub (40/mo) and ft premium (80/mo)

How much must I pay to not get consistently bullshat?
No fancy French restaurants in Calgary.
> the stock market is a leading indicator

I don't think so. It is probably loosely correlated with the economy at best.

The stock market can soar in times of cutbacks which hurt non-asset owners but which benefit profit margins. The stock market can boom on liquidity surges that do not translate into economic investments. The stock market can crash while the overall economy does fine(wasn't 2000 basically this, with the economy not really suffering until after 9/11?).
lol america to non-american who watch a lot of movies might be SF, Denver, Austin… and even in those urban areas (which is not typical America) most people would need a serious drive to find a park (I used to live in Denver area, walking to a park would have been like 110k steps :) )
This works on ANY CDN... I focused on Cloudflare because they provide free accounts and it's pretty robust.
This is really interesting, I remember seeing the Mar/IO video and being psyched that someone took Kenneth O. Stanley's work and applied it to something fun, but I had no idea how impactful that video actually turned out to be. Having spent O(hundreds) of hours reading his papers and thinking about those ideas a decade+ ago, this interview serves a really interesting role for me personally, because it connects conversationally in a way papers don't.
> A Made-up Name is Better Than No Name

Perhaps, but a meaningful name is better than an arbitrary made-up name.
I have a lot of conversations like "There's a technique called 'secure computation', which confusingly is not just computation that is secure", "They're building affordable housing, which confusingly is not housing that is affordable", "I was on a cross-country flight, which confusingly is not a flight that crosses the country". Using a different word entirely can avoid that problem
The pricing button has a typo in the url and leads to a 404 page.

prcing -> pricing

https://www.limejourney.com/prcing
Websocket is a protocol that when used it's rather obvious what you're doing. This is designed to look like actual web traffic.
Usually “jobs numbers” refer to actual hires, so would not be affected by fake job postings.
Everything an LLM returns is an hallucination, it's just that some of those hallucinations line up with reality
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Related NYT article (gift link, so no paywall):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather...
Based on what I’m seeing on YT from financial influencers, people are burning cash by purchasing cars they can’t afford
Pointing to EU law/regilations is just platitudes people keep repeating online.

Biggest barriers to business in the EU is risk averse Investors and Banking sector, lack of significant VC funding players, and Government spending strangled by Austerity policies.

The US spends a lot of money to make even more money.
I also liked David Brin's Kiln People. Very creative and fun.
Gift link (no paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather...
Money is debt. Even gold-backed money. Possessing money is the same as lending your time, labor, or assets to everyone else. To be repaid this debt you issued, you can in turn demand time, labor, or assets from someone else.
It's always fun to see a graph like this and realize that (aside from the pandemic), that the last time people were significantly better off by this metric was 30 years ago, while many of us were children, or not even born yet. And yet everyone is complaining that things are so bad, and that this is a new phenomenon.
wouldn't the scarcity increase the value? Why would we want people to study things we don't need and not study things in high demand? I wonder what the real cost is. My school does about 80:1 in diplomas:jobs every year. I got the job :) no one else did but they didn't do anything wrong. They just wasted years and money both their own and public funds.
also the massive difference between cultures is a thing aswell.

Not to mention people tend to not move asmuch in europe compared to the US, and people like to stay close to their community and families in my experience.
I was asking for any evidence that natural rubber is less harmful. None was provided.
This is a worthwhile read, but I think it would be better if it offered not just interactive exploration or a video, but a conventional document, too—ideally as the primary form of presentation. This is by the same creator who made the This Is A Teenager exploration.

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053774>

In that presentation, I was happy with how succinctly they were able to get down to what makes environments "high-risk", and I found the classification of "a quiet place to study" as a basic necessity (and its relationship to the prevalence/absence of "chaotic routines") as being particularly striking and memorable:

> Researchers determined risk by asking lots of questions. For example, they asked whether the kid has basic necessities, like electricity or a quiet place to study.

> They also asked about factors that could destabilize the home environment – chaotic routines, parents who have disabilities, or relatives struggling with substance abuse.

(So many environments nowadays, even the ones that are ostensibly created to fulfill this sort of thing, are just total failures at actually providing them. I'm thinking of things like public libraries. I live in Austin and have a major axe to grind about the public libraries here, which are nothing like what you'd get if you were actually interested in the pro-social goals that you'd think a public library would have in its charter. A teenager looking to escape their high-risk environment or an adult who's had their feet knocked out from beneath them basically stands no chance at getting out of their predicament if their only option were to use the public libraries here, which would unfortunately act more like a vortex to ensure they stay in the suck. But this is all beside the point.)

I suspect but cannot prove that there's a similar link to the presentation of information—that the best presentation is simple static media, ideally printed, that is supplemented by these types of exploratory environments so that you can make the main resource come to life. Failing that, you'd want the printed presentation, sans interactivity, and then finally as a last resort, just dumping the person into these kinds of presentations. cf: the widely felt phenomenon of handwritten notes being better than notes typed on a laptop + Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Let's compare to see if it's really the same market:

HGX B200: 36 petaflops at FP16. 14.4 terabytes/second bandwidth.

RX4060 (similar to Intel): 15 teraflops at FP16. 272 gigabytes/second bandwidth

Hmmm.... Note the prefixes (peta versus tera)

A lot of that is apples-to-oranges, but that's kind of the point. It's a different market.

A low-performance high-RAM product would not cut into the server market since performance matters. What it would do is open up a world of diverse research, development, and consumer applications.

Critically, even if it were, Intel doesn't play in this market. If what you're saying were to happen, it should be a no-brainer for Intel to launch a low-cost alternative. That said, it wouldn't happen. What would happen is a lot of business, researchers, and individuals would be able to use ≈200GB models on their own hardware for low-scale use.

> By the way, the CUDA moat is overrated since people already implement support for alternatives.

No. It's not. It's perhaps overrated if you're building a custom solution and making the next OpenAI or Anthropic. It's very much not overrated if you're doing general-purpose work and want things to just work.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/hgx/
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4060.c4107
The same is true for humans
That’s not how a global economy works (comparative advantage etc).

An analogy would be that if you remove employment activity from my household finances then our economic picture is bleak.
tldr;

My bet is on "humans".
"Why LLMs do the one and only thing they do (and how to fix it)"
> What are you talking about?

I'm talking about how an individual experience is irrelevant when talking about the entire US economy.

> Anecdotal evidence alone is worthless, but paired with statistical evidence it isn't. And we have that evidence.

I guess? But only because you've paired something worthless with something that isn't and then focused only on the portion that isn't worthless.

> Also: you "not knowing" a homeless person is itself anecdotal and not only that: it is actually worse than the evidence you attacked.

Whoosh.

> The critiqued evidence is about how many of X a person sees. That isn't perfect, as it depends and how observant that person is and how much they go out (and where). Your counter of "not knowing" is by magnitudes worse, since on top of the previous flaws your number now also depends on how sociable you are towards homeless people (given the sentiment displayed I guess: not at all).

Again, whoosh.

> So not only is your criticism wrong, you are actually at fault of the very method you critizised — only to a much higher degree.

Whoosh!
Neat tech but people might mistake this as being useful for game development, where it'll be less helpful than useless.

Games are about interactions, and this actively works against it. You don't want the model to infer mechanics, the designer needs deep control over every aspect of it.

People mentioned using this for prototyping a game, but that's completely meaningless. What would it even mean to use this to prototype something? It doesn't help you figure out anything mechanically or visually. It's just, "what if you were an avatar in a world?" What do you do after you run around with your random character controller in your random environments?

I think the most useful part of this is the world generation part, not the mechanics inference part.