skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing, I'm familiar with ISO 15118 but did not hear about that initiative with the OEMs / JOET, that's a step in the right direction... I'm skeptical however, a vast majority of the existing L2 and DCFC chargers in the US are not compatible with ISO 15118 so you'd need to replace all of those (150k+) chargers since you need both the firmware of the charger and the vehicle to implement that standard, it's super complex
It's available on IBM WatsonX, but the Prompt Lab may still report "model unavailable". This is because of overeager guardrails. These can be turned off, but the German translation for this option is broken too: look for "KI-Guardrails auf" in the upper right.
Thank you! That's pretty cool. The proposed changes actually will fix this glaring omission:

> Limited Security – by only validating SECC TLS cert is from a trusted issuer, one charger’s compromised private key compromises the entire region

And I like the simplification. Instead of relying on validating contracts, the charger provider will simply rely on signed "metering receipts" from the car. Each car has its own private key (presumably in some hardware-hardened storage), and the charging network can just associate the payment details with the public key of the car.

The provider can use the receipts as a proof that the car has indeed used the charging equipment. And the receipts are sent periodically during the charging process, so the charger can terminate the session if there's a discrepancy between the station's and the car's accounting.

Nice and neat.

Edit: and this also can easily work offline. The networks can just sync the list of approved public keys to chargers with the corresponding credit balances. It'll require account setup with each network, but if you have to do it once, it's not _too_ bad.
I feel like, maybe, this site has betrayed me. Maybe I will need to find an OG user that is willing to post my message, and pay him off. Maybe this is how this works. I am new and naïve, but hey, whatever it takes.
Different person: I might give weight to the word of someone I respect, then change my mind when I find out that person wasn't saying it due to conviction but only for a payout, yes.
Q4_* is by far the most popular one for local use, and it works "fine" meaning that you do see some effect on perplexity and other scores, but it's small enough to not be a concern in most cases. Although it should be noted that this can depend on the model - e.g. there have been some reports that for QwQ, going 4-bit does adversely impact the quality of its CoT.

With Llama specifically I recall someone comparing various quants on perplexity finding that even at Q3, 70B is still smarter than 34B. So quantization is generally worthwhile so long as you have a larger model that you can squeeze into your VRAM budget with it, and don't mind the slowdown from more parameters.
F_ck! Can we start clearing them out of San Diego now? Please!
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I was unfortunately looking for a cookie consent manager for a new build I'd just optimized, and didn't like that the open source options were 100KB+ so I made my own [0] and relied on <dialog> to support my goal of writing it as small as possible. With a couple of CSS rules, it works natively without styles. I also ended up writing some build tools to compile all the way down to IE11 and some really ancient browser versions.

Dialog works well for the most part, with a couple of CSS kludges here and there for the older browsers but otherwise straightforward to deal with. It's a decent addition to the web platform, but after 20 years of this I would like to stop making custom multi select controls every couple of years. Native controls good.

[0]: https://github.com/replete/biscuitman
FTC Rightfully Acts Against So-Called "AI Weapon Detection" Company Evolv
Search tiananmen on any app and then on TikTok.
It is ridiculous that China can block all these sites but the US can't block TikTok

Facebook (and Messenger)
Instagram
Pinterest
Twitter
Blogger
Tumblr
Tinder
Blogspot
New York Times
The Financial Times
The Economist
The Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg
Google News
Wikipedia
YouTube
Netflix
Vimeo
Google Search
Bing
Yahoo
DuckDuckGo
Messenger (and Facebook)
WeChat
SnapChat
Telegram
Signal
> if this report were to quit today, are you able to step in and complete their project?

I’ve had many managers over the years, more and less successful, and this was possible just for one of them. And only because they were promoted to the position from a developer level on that team. They hated being a manager though and left the company promptly.
The debris will likely miss due to the evasive maneuvers both the missile and the target did, and due to the lack of thrust after the destruction of the missile. Plus the standard practice seems to be pointing the main engine (with exhaust velocity measured in percent of light speed) at the approaching missiles. To avoid being vaporized, the missiles must be intentionally trying to miss and then do aggressive last-moment maneuvers once they are close enough to the target.
A lot of these seem to be the "not America" test.
Extensions are fine, and also something like this that’s part of the standards used on the web makes a good case for an in-browser toggle that’s on the main UI.
The maxim, applied here, is an obtuse oversimplification of the problems with the health insurance system, and the barriers to changing it.

Yes, if we could wave a wand and delete the fact that it ever happened, that would be ideal. But the problem is more difficult to solve now, because we have the problem of the health insurance system, and the problem of drastic systematic and economic change.
> Both are used for rich UI experiences.

So is Microsoft Frontpage, or Figma, or wgpu over wasm, or my friend John, the UI designer. Are these all directly comparable tools? Does John lose marks for not being downloadable over npm? (I can get him to compile TypeScript, but I can't seem to get him to compile into TypeScript)
The values are hexidecimal, so all "9s" isn't the biggest UUID, but all "f's". Specifically, I think: `ffffffff-ffff-4fff-bfff-ffffffffffff`.

The "4" in the 3rd block is the only permitted value as these UUIDs are using the GUIDv4 format. I'm not sure what's going on in the 4th block, but the references and linked RFC in the Wikipedia article might reveal more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
New era manager mistake. Ask ChatGPT about time estimates and pretend you know that because you are an expert, then use that to micromanage people. Mistake is a nice word. I consider that to be pure evil
> if you can become a president by buying TikTok

He didn't though and I doubt he could. He got 23% of the vote which is a lot but in no way does it guarantee that he could ever come close to 50% in the second round. He only won because the non pro-Russian (i.e. pro-fascist) parties aren't actually united.
>How large LLMs can be run at reasonable speed on 12GB (3060), 32GM RAM?

If you want to offload fully to VRAM, I'd say 8B is the limit. If you're keeping some on RAM, 15-20B can still give OK performance, depending on your tolerance.

>How much does quantization impact output quality?

Basically with more quantization the output becomes more incoherent and less realistic. At the extreme end it's basically just gibberish. I think the sweet spot generally is at 4 bits. At that point the model is pretty compact and the quality isn't diminished too much.
I have tried 405B at 1-bit quantization. It remains coherent, but didn't seem to be any better than 3.1-70B.
Because the 4 is always “4”, it denotes the version (uuid v4)
You should also check if the web page actually exposes this information in a <link rel="alternate"> tag. If you're running Chrome, the "RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)" extension [1] will do this for you automatically and light up an orange icon in the extensions bar. It also integrates with popular RSS aggregators so you can subscribe directly from the extension.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rss-subscription-ex...
> You may not write code anymore, but you are expected to know the system very thoroughly, otherwise you’ll be perceived as a glorified babysitter.

I think the way "experienced" managers do this is to not actually understand the technical work 100% but rather make your manager think you understand it 100%. Even as an individual contributor, I fail to fully understand all the changes my team is making. I can't imagine being 100% fully up to date with all the changes at are in flight, have landed, etc. and why. The best you can do is some kind of abstraction.

They call this "managing up" or something like that.
Probably this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/280635
or perhaps that sum is incorrect, or perhaps it was state actors with power to force algorithm changes on TikTok or to tiktok via other means without payment.

external state actors interfering with elections is a perfect reason to invalidate.
Norwitz and Layne differ on the lean mass hyper-responder phenotype. Norwitz likes referencing his meta-analysis of 41 RCTs, but pay attention to its conclusion:

> A substantial increase in LDL cholesterol is likely for individuals with low but not high BMI with consumption of an LCD, findings that may help guide individualized nutritional management of cardiovascular disease risk. As carbohydrate restriction tends to improve other lipid and nonlipid risk factors, the clinical significance of isolated LDL cholesterol elevation in this context warrants investigation.

"warrants investigation"??? Come back when you have hard outcomes, i.e. reduced MACE. His meta-analysis of RCTs concludes that some people on keto have increased LDL! Norwitz admits in another video: "No, I'm not going to say that high ApoB is fine... ApoB is necessary but not sufficient [to cause ASCVD]" https://youtu.be/270ZyfSGLkE?t=484

So, what "humiliation"? If high ApoB (synonymous with LDL for our purposes) is bad, why would you go on a diet that causes it?

Layne has a large lay audience, and he has to stick to his main message: that w/r/t diet, calories are all that matter. Lowcarb/lowfat/vegan/whatever is fine. Platforming someone who's obsessed with LMHR is going to be too much biochemistry for Layne's audience. And for an effect that's relevant to perhaps only 2% of people? Low-carb advocates have their own YouTube channels; there's no reason Layne, as a center-aisle scientist, needs to engage.

Until the LMHR has been shown to have reduced MACE, which Norwitz admits we don't have evidence for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRLRYEQaEs&t=971s I don't see the point of Layne platforming him to just talk about biochemistry and confuse people.
My cat spends 99% of her time outside. She likes to come in and hang out with my kids when they get home from school and take a quick nap, but then she's asking to be let out by the time we're eating dinner.

She'd rather be exploring, hunting mice/chipmunks, and fighting off raccoons and skunks for her food and water supply.
And Gary seems to have copied the command line style (COPY, DEL, etc.) from DEC. I don't think he did anything wrong with that, either.

Gary got first crack at a deal with IBM. He declined it. Bill then stepped in.

I don't see any way Gary was wronged by Bill here.
If there would be a market for better urban zoning (instead of the mandatory bribing "attempts" of various officials) housing could be built much much more efficiently.

(It's a tragedy that most housing constructions are basically suburb expansions or "terraced properties" or these few sad few storey things. There's no vision at all.)
I always saw half time Fridays as just as bad as Fridays as a full work day. Now you’re just kinda making fun of workers with that. If I’m already doing the commute and the shower and the crap I have to do in the morning what’s the point?Might as well get some real work in and do a full day
What I'm saying is that the goal of standards and cross-platform support across time is valuable. The "open web" is a good thing for humanity.

Work towards this goal is a huge shit show. And messy. But it's a good goal.

The flavor-of-the-month frontend insanity is not serving this "good thing for humanity" goal as I call it. It's all well-intentioned and I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. But it is different.
In my experience, the people who say"premature optimization it's the root of sal evil" will say that about any and all optimization until the point where all your customers think your product is a slow piece of garbage.
ComfyUI supports masking and scheduling of LoRA and model weights
ComfyUI now natively supports masking and scheduling of LoRA and model weights. This works for all LoRAs and models - as long as the LoRAs and models are not of conflicting architectures. With these features, you can:
Apply LoRAs via masks to specific areas of images, or to specific areas of specific frames for video models - loaded via Create Hook LoRA and CreateHook LoRA (MO) nodes.
Apply models via masks to specific areas of images, or to specific areas of specific frames for video models - loaded via Create Hook Model as LoRA and Create Hook Model as LoRA (MO) nodes.
Schedule LoRA and model strengths for different steps in the sampling process, allowing to mix the style and compositional benefits of separate LoRAs/models.
Use the Create Hook LoRA/Model as LoRA nodes mentioned above for more simple LoRA/model mixing without needing to chain model/clip inputs and outputs.

The update also revamps the ModelPatcher system + adds wrappers/callbacks to make the lives of developers easier going forward, but that will be explained in a future blogpost and expanded even further with future updates.
...I'm bereft of words. The nominative determinism here is awe inspiring. A company known as Sauron is designing a system that is being billed as a protective measure, and the clientele are current members of the tech elite.

...Jesus. well... They ain't making it difficult are they? It's like naming your company Moloch or Mammon. K. Gotcha.
Obviously, as long as neutral observers can guarantee the voting. But in this case, there is no question about the validity of the results; there are no voter suppression and intimidation tactics here. Those seem to be far more common in the US, with electoral nonsense such as gerrymandering, no ID required to vote, mail-in ballots, and so on.
So? Do you suggest that some people in Romania (and well.. applies to many other countries just as much) should lose the right to vote because they are too dumb and are easily tricked (I mean I certainly agree that they are)? Because what other options are there?
It sure is a product when the incumbents won't support that "feature".

Microsoft wants to write to it's cloud(s), apple wants to write to icloud, phones, laptops, desktops, etc.

Apple still protects their "not a product" icloud by saving lots of things there that it won't let you do yourself, then sort of scares you into paying for it.

sigh. Would be great to have a decent personal icloud.
FTC press: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/11/...
Real headline: 'TPTB* want Gen Z to hate working from home'

*The Powers That Be
> the payload size of fully rendered HTML is generally going to be substantially larger than JSON.

Substantially larger? No, I don't think so. Maybe slightly larger, but if you are compressing your responses (a best practice), there should not be a significant difference between them. And, while in a theoretical perfect world you send exactly the JSON needed for each response, in real-world conditions JSON APIs are quite often overfetching and making too many calls in the first place. Evidence: just look at any typical React-based webapp accessible to the public.

Meanwhile with htmx you can render and send the exact HTML you need for the response, and any overfetching is immediately obvious because it's all shown on the page.
Escaped from New York
Key part: large-scale fraud.
So cool! I wonder what the weakest model that can still call functions and such is?

I don't have anything more powerful than an i5 other than my phone, and a lot of interesting applications like home automation really need to be local-first for reliability.

0.5b to 1b models seem to have issues with even pretty basic reasoning and question answering, but maybe I'm just Doing It Wrong.
My parents' generation used to add sugar to everything because they considered sugar a source of energy.

I remember eating strawberries directly from the plant, and they were sweet. However, my aunt would serve the same strawberries with sugar as an afternoon snack.
Looks like it only generates v4 UUIDs, which is a bit of a ripoff.

Also you'll find that the first character of the 4th block is forced to be 8, 9, a, or b. That's true of standard UUIDs of any version.
Extended Memory is just the name for memory above 1MB that could be accessed by the 80286 in protected mode. The 286 was still a 16bit processor, still had segments (although descriptors in protected mode) and "one big block of 16-bit RAM" is 64KB.

The single DOS session available on OS/2 1.0 still ran in real mode.
If you're on a Mac, https://lmstudio.ai is a quick way to get things running with a decent UI and a REST API that is compatible with OpenAI (which is the de facto standard these days). And the GGUF models that it downloads can be used directly via llama.cpp, if you are so inclined later.
Flagging this article seems unjustified to me as well. Also, Christopher Mims is a great columnist.
See also: https://keys.lol/
Hot take after trying it a bit. I was not impressed with llama 3.2, but this one, well, it looks like we finally have a very very strong free LLM.
Notice the extreme generational divide in how Americans react to Israeli war tactics? I feel this is caused by younger people consuming vastly more social media in general and TikTok specifically.
The 4 indicates UUIDv4.

If you were looking for the biggest hexadecimal UUID, find one with f instead of 9.
You have OpenStreetMap to thank for that. It is a Wikipedia-like crowd sourced map that anybody can contribute to. The immense majority of navigation apps use OpenStreetMap data, including Strava, RWGPS, OsmAnd, and OrganicMaps.
For context, while Japan has a reputation of a shitty place for work culture, a lot has changed.

Not everything, but many more companies will allow for flexible hours for instance, full remote has stayed in many places, and more traditional place usually allow one or two days or remoting every week.

There is a communal sense that growth is basically gone and better conditions are negotiable. Newer companies have been offering better conditions and older companies are having to compete and follow up to some point.

This initiative is following that trend. Schools are facing the same "adapt or get shunned" situation where just nobody wants to be a teacher and family/friends will actively try to stop someone from going there.

So things are changing.
It depend on the UUID version you're using. Version 4 (Random) will always have that value be 4 as per RFC 9562. So 99999999-9999-9999-9999-999999999999 is a valid UUID but not a valid UUID v4. If you wanted to be pedantic the website should have been named https://everyuuidv4.com/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9562
Its hard to explain exactly what's accurate here when you're looking at the precise shapes - part of the problem is that this rendering is extraordinarily complex to do in real time, and it relies on the size of the object (tris) being 'small' relative to the curvature of spacetime

There's actually no texturing here at all though, if you see a face disappear its because general relativity is hard. The extra disconnected pieces are something to entirely ignore as well, and occur because tris become nearly parallel with rays leading to long intersection lengths (as well as numerical issues), leading to the local flatness assumption breaking down
After critics decry Orion heatshield decision, NASA reviewer says agency is corr
Oh no, fear and paranoia about a dictatorial regime with extrajudicial police stations in the US to hunt down family members of domestic political dissidents putting media in front of our children's eyes 24/7 while walking around our streets with space age sensor arrays! Oh no! So unjustifiably fearful!

Who could possibly take issue with such a technology!
Scale-up means youngish (10-12years old), mid-size in the countries we are operating, think 3 countries 600-800m revenue.

Fraudulent claims are a tiny percentage of claims, and are rejected after human review, usually involving detectives. In the countries we operate, fraudulent claims are about 6-8% of all claims, and that's usually the level we aim to detect. Being able to absorb some false negatives is usually cheaper than going for the full 100% detection rate. It is definitely more customer oriented than rejecting due to false positives.
Absolutely do not quit. The loudest people are ones that cannot find a job, people that do are not going to be writing blogs like "My 27th year as a hacker" - no one will read that shit.

There are roughly 1.5 million software developers alone in the United States. If you love computer science you will excel in this industry for many years after you graduate. Quit only if your heart is not in it, the worst people I've worked with in my 27 year career are ones who obviously went with this career only because it can be a decent way to make a living.

But worry not, if you are end up loving what you do you'll be great at what you do and people that are great at what they do will always be wanted.
In July 2001 I quit my tech job of 8 years so I could take some time to de-stress and work on projects thinking I could just jump back into a job 6 months later. Of course, that timing was really bad. Since there weren't any tech jobs available, in the Fall of 2002 I decided to go back to school and get a masters. We had a few months in 2003 where I made just enough money to get by by going to the Goodwill outlet store and buying books that could be sold online for a profit - Goodwill got wise to that arbitrage and started their own online store which kind of put an end to that. Had a few contract jobs in there that lasted anywhere from 4 to 6 months, even had a summer internship (at age 40! That interview was interesting), but it wasn't until 2006 that I found something permanent again. Fortunately we had paid off our house back in 1999 otherwise it would've been even scarier.
One challenge is that the algorithms typically used for collaborative text editing (CRDTs and OT) have strict algebraic requirements for what the edit operations do & how they interact. So even if your server is smart enough to process the "Colour" example in a UX-reasonable way, it's very hard to design a corresponding CRDT/OT, for optimistic client-side edits.

You can work around this by not using CRDTs/OT. E.g., the server processes operations in receipt order, applying whatever UX logic it wants; clients use a rebase/prediction strategy to still allow optimistic edits on top (cf. https://doc.replicache.dev/concepts/how-it-works). Doing this for text editing has some challenges, but they're separate from the CRDT/OT challenges discussed here.
If you're going by hex, the biggest UUID is entirely f's, 32 of them. It's defined specially and doesn't have version or variant.
I had a similar experience. I worked for a place where if you worked 48 minutes more per day, you'd get every 2nd Friday off. This was a unionized place that was pretty strict about not working extra hours due to overtime rules. After being hired, I didn't partake in this but had pretty short workdays. I would start at 8:30 and then leave at 4. It was great. However, pretty much everyone in the company did the system to get the 2nd Friday off. So I tried switching to that and I felt the same. It just felt so much longer.