skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know one billionaire. He's third generation to run a investment / hedge fund firm that is super secretive. Can barely find him on google, just a few articles about his dad and granddad. They quietly played the financial system for 7 decades and the fourth son will soon take over, but all he seems to do is travel because their employees do all the work. I've learned there are hundreds of billionaires that play this quiet financial-machine game and do everything in their power to remain anonymous. To the first order they are "ethical" because they follow the law, but when you can write the laws that define the financial system by funding congresspeople to insert obscure legislation that no one but financial experts can comprehend, it is very hard to explain exactly what is unethical in a way that your typical Cletus-like voter can understand (hell, I have no effing clue so I should go easy on Cletus).

You're right though, centimillionaires feel entitled to become billionaires, and billionaires feel entitled to become centibillionaires. However, I have noticed that the decimillionaires I know are aware that they still aren't in the right lane to even think that way and are largely content.

(wow, you're getting downvoted, the little boys on the site sure are a jealous bunch.)
The government is doing very meaningful things:

https://x.com/AndrewKelleyCA/status/1683151483687116802?t=47...
Unification in the context of logic programming is basically like "use these questions and solve for all the unknowns" in algebra, except it's done with logical statements instead of algebraic equations. Searching for something like "unification prolog" (Prolog being the most well-known logic programming language) will probably give helpful material.

For example you could start with two facts like "Fedora is red." and "Cat is green." Then if you ask the system "X is red." it'll tell you "X = fedora". If you ask it to list all the solutions of "X and Y are not the same color." it'll list "X = fedora, Y = cat" and "X = cat, Y = fedora". This process of binding variables to values (or other variables during simplification) is unification.
Thanks for checking it out and pointing this inconsistency! I've updated the readme, hopefully it is less confusing now.
I really, really, really wanted to like Framework, but for the type of work I do with a laptop (GPU / CPU / RAM intensive video editing) I can literally get a laptop with twice the performance of a Framework laptop for half the price. Not to mention Framework laptops only display option is a (admittedly decent) IPS panel, when miniled and OLED panels are becoming increasingly commonplace on devices that cost less and offer better performance. They have also not come out with a new GPU module since launch, and their current GPU offering is woefully under powered, especially given it's absolutely ludicrous $550 USD price tag and there are seemingly no plans for any more powerful GPU modules in the future. I love the idea of a repairable / upgradeable laptop, but I really can't justify spending twice as much for half the power just for the thus far unrealized promise of future potential.
I know future GPU development is addressing the constrained ram problem, but it is nonetheless a massive problem for local inference. MoE seems to solve a compute problem, at the expense of compounding the ram problem. So I have a question... My understanding is that the typical MoE model starts each output token with a decision as to which expert model(s) to send inference tasks to. How often is it that the vast majority of predictions end up being sent to the same expert(s)? Wouldn't it be a more practical from both a training and inference perspective to do the same mixture of experts model, but choose experts on a much higher level of granularity? Like maybe on the level of the whole response, or clause, or sentence? At least then you could load an expert into ram and expect to use it without having to do massive IO loading/unloading constantly.
People said the same thing about IntelliSense.

The LLM should free you from thinking about relatively unimportant details of programming on the small and allow you to experiment with how things fit together.

If you use the LLM to churn out garbage as is, it's essentially the same as performing random auto-completes with IntelliSense and just going with whatever pops out. Yes, that will hurt you professionally.
Do you mind sharing your workflow with how you use this model? Is it integrated with an IDE, are you using the command line, maybe a UI with each question then copy/pasting the results?
> Introducing SocialAI, a private social network where you receive millions of AI-generated comments offering feedback, advice & reflections on each post you make.

Ah, to be heard by machines! Must be as fulfilling as playing with dolls.
LLMs know a magnitude more about you and your needs. This will make targeting users very valuable.

The big question is who will be first to get it done in an unobstrusive way (subtlely integrated into text with links).
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Show HN: @thecupid@cupid.careers (OkCupid for jobs) integrates web and Fediverse
I’ve been running CareerCupid [0] for some years already (initial "Show HN" [1]), and now I’ve got the first step into integrating with ActivityPub. The site now has an ActivityPub service which posts questions into the overall Fediverse. Any interaction with the service automatically register your AP account and can let you keep track of your responses, to see how well you match with others.

There is a lot more to be done. The questions are now focused on tech (something that I would like to change and help people in all sorts of industries). The website itself is pretty bare-bones. But the idea that one can actually use AP as a “proper” application protocol instead of just emulating existing centralized social networks really appeals to me.

I would like to take the opportunity that today we have the "Who is hiring?" thread to invite everyone to join.

This might be a “job site”, but the idea is that it can be useful and helpful even for those who are happy at their jobs. E.g, if your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded, it would make perfect sense to join in and browse around. It can be what LinkedIn should’ve been: a tool for networking, without the tools of self-promotion and clout-chasing.

If you don't have a AP account at any one of the platforms that supports the typical microblogging features, you can of course just sign-up to the website to create a "regular" account. You will also need a "regular" account if you want to use the site to add job listings or browse the profiles of candidates.

[0] https://cupid.careers

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30670028
Prompt 1: Rent live crocodiles and tell the kids they're "modern dinosaurs." Let them roam freely as part of the immersive experience. Florida-certified.

Prompt 2: Try sitting on a couch all day. Gravity will naturally pull down your butt and spread it around as you eat more calories.

Prompt 3: ... ah, of course, you are right ((you caught a mistake in his answer))! Because of that, have you tried ... <another bad answer>

Even for non-number answers, it can get pretty funny. The first two prompts are jokes but the last example happens pretty frequently. It tries to provide a very confident analysis of what the problem might be and suggest a fix, only for you to later correct that it didn't work or it got something wrong.

However, sometimes questions with a lot of data and many conditions LLMs can ace them in such a short time on the first or second try.
If you understand how LLMs work, you should disregard tests such as:

- How many 'r's are in Strawberry?

- Finding the fourth word of the response

These tests are at odds with the tokenizer and next-word prediction model.
They do not accurately represent an LLM's capabilities.
It's akin to asking a blind person to identify colors.
I have also completed three "circumnavigations" with Patrick Tull. Incredible story, amazing narration.
Learned something new. It's incredible that you have this kind of detail... do you think there's a UX that can help readers learn more/explore this kind of ambiguity?

I think the interlinear is realy good at showing one translation (and isn't super distracting) -- do you imagine more like footnotes/etc type things?
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! Not sure if you've heard of Pieter Levels, but I watch some of his seminars, and he often talks about how with friends or family, you can end up hyping each other up. I guess that’s why I wanted to get opinions from strangers this time—I've had past experiences where people close to me (and myself) got too excited about an idea, only for it to fail. I figured getting feedback from people who don’t know me might be more straightforward.

I totally get the long paragraph thing—it’s been pointed out to me by one of my family members that it’s a bit much, and I understand not everyone wants to read through all of it. I just thought it’d be better to provide more info than less, but yeah, looking back, I should probably trim it down a bit. Thanks again for the comment!
On average, the people I know to have expensive phones and very big TVs are a lot poorer than the people with cheaper phones. The former eat domino's pizzas. There's a lot more psychological effect at play than just price and amount of food in the table.
Wow you are projecting a lot of assumptions on to me.

I said we can't solve net zero until we solve economically sustainable carbon capture, nothing about sticking heads in the sand.

My opinions of each solution you proposed depends on the details. For example it's easy for me to say yeah no subsidies for oil and gas extraction, but if Texas wants to subsidize it locally as a net boost to their economy then I have no influence over that and it's a waste of my time and skills to spend any time trying to prevent that, especially because I don't live in Texas.

And if anything I'm advocating for more people to work on economically viable carbon capture, not for us to do nothing.

So my answer in all cases is going to be some version of "spend your time working the problem from wherever you get the most leverage".
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> It's like saying "meh, our kids aren't worth the effort".

That is only true if you think this is a worthwhile effort. I have no idea what the Net Zero Banking Alliance achieves, but its perfectly possible its not achieving anything worthwhile.

if you regard climate change as an emergency, then a target of achieving net zero in 2050 is probably pretty useless.
We'd be stuck':alarm as UK's last Braille typewriter repairer ponders retirement
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What we want:

1. A second has fixed length.
2. At 12 noon every day the sun is at its zenith.
3a. A day has 86400 seconds.
3b. Time only goes forward.

Pick any three.

not 1; 2, 3a, 3b: You get UT1 [1], which basically gives you the angle of the earth wrt the sun. Time proceeds continuously with 86400 seconds a day, but they're of varying length (depending on the earth rotation's speed) to keep up with where the sun is. This is measured by the International Earth Rotation Service [2].

1, not 2, 3a, 3b: You get TAI [3]. Time proceeds continuously in SI seconds with 86400 seconds a day, but 12 noon slowly goes out of sync with the earth rotation.

1, 2, not 3a, 3b: You get UTC. It's using SI seconds, tries to keep in sync with the earth's rotation, but therefore must occasionally include leap seconds, so there will sometimes be 86401 seconds in a day (the watch will display 23:59:59 for a second and then 23:59:60 for a second).

1, 2, 3a, not 3b: You get UNIX time [4]. It's using SI seconds, tries to keep in sync with the earth's rotation, but when a leap second occurs, it will "jump back" and repeat a second (the watch will display 23:59:59 for two seconds).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Earth_Rotation_a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
"I disagree with this decision" -literally every critic of this decision

"This sounds the same as a movement where millions were forcibly relocated to be worked to death while zealots chanted slogans and firebombed political opponents and a wave of massacres swept the nation" -you

Chill out dude.
I think it's fair to describe the need for signing as a lemming. However, I wonder why the initial evangelists of this standard (that is, in our current post-http era) chose signing instead of API Keys.

So often these kinds of things are a reaction to some negative experience.
Those sound like bad use cases for a client-server model with public endpoints, then? I mean, you could cert-pin yourself in the client app, I guess.
For identifying companies by size/funding/vertical sure. Been a while since I used it (thank god I got out of sales) but they almost definitely track headcount growth if not actual openings. Trouble is you probably won’t find it in the free version
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Because they want chatgpt to be seen as authoritative.

If you ask a second time and get a different answer, you might question other answers you’ve gotten
“To what extent you necessary?” Might focus minds a bit.
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I have a completely unrelated issue: since switching to a new iPhone, only my iPhone occasionally can't access anything on Wi-Fi.

All my other devices, including a MacBook and iPad connected to the same network work fine. My previous iPhone also worked just fine, it's just the new phone.

I know how annoying these can become, and glad to hear that you could pinpoint it down.
Look, ma! We are reinventing sails!
> We hope that TinyStories can facilitate the development, analysis and research of LMs, especially for low-resource or specialized domains, and shed light on the emergence of language capabilities in LMs.

This part interests me the most. I want to know how small yet functional we can get these models. I don't want an AI that can solve calculus, I just want a dumb AI that pretty consistently recognizes "lights off" and "lights on".
This here is a stronger motivator than any other motivator mentioned in all other comments posted. And "journalist" will include anyone who has the "wrong" memes on their machine.
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Do these groups achieve anything meaningful? Feels like the kind of thing companies sign up to so they can get some PR and say they're being 'responsible'.

Like Exxon was/is an ESG friendly stock, but Tesla isn't. Regardless of how you feel about Elon, the real impact both companies have on the environment shows the absurdity of all this corporate green washing nonsense.
Yes and they are also not likely to be so non-uniform that more than 6.411 billion billion events all happen in one nanosecond.
A "normal person" is a Starbucks barista making $38k/year (roughly 2000 hours at $19/hour).

That person doesn't spend 3 days' wages for "mainline kernel drivers" -- either they buy the iPhone because it's a status symbol, or they use the Android OS that shipped with the device for three years until the screen is cracked and the battery stops charging. To them security patches are just an inconvenience.

I don't think "if only people had the right information they'd spend money on the right things" is the right thesis -- I think it's more "why is everyone so poor? how do we make it so that more people can afford our wares?"

My impression (citation needed) is that globally folks have been worse off the last few years and so the median Android device spec was actually going down.
> Let's keep aside debate whether Elon is right or wrong for a moment.

It is the rightness or wrongness of what someone does that determines one's stance on that person. It makes no sense to try to analyze a change in stance without looking at the underlying rightness or wrongness.
Why do we need to do all that? Why do we need unlimited energy? Can you really not foresee problems with that, if everyone could drive/fly/boat as long and as fast as they want because fuel is basically free?
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> My friend said it best: "EVs are great second cars"

I disagree. We've had an EV for ~5 years now, and have put about 10x as many miles on it as we have on our gasoline vehicle. The gasoline vehicle is the second car, and the EV is what we prefer for road trips.

> your tires wear 20~30% faster

Not in my experience, I'm getting 70k from a set of tires, which is comparable to previous cars. Just because a car can accelerate quickly doesn't mean you should.

> and you have to replace the battery every 10 years.

No you don't. Tesla's and BMW i3's from ~2013 are testing at around 85% battery capacity. https://www.wired.com/story/electric-cars-could-last-much-lo...

> The reality is it's not me that's saying this, the used car market is saying this.

Absolutely. You can buy a 3 year old Tesla Model 3 for $20k, cheaper than a comparable gasoline car, and seems like an excellent deal. If it wasn't for the Musk stigma we'd likely be purchasing one to replace our gasoline car.
While you hit the nail on the head, I am still surprised that so many tools targeted at people like me (web hosting, developer tools, etc.) are protected that way.
Why would you use swagger/openapi? My understanding is that graphql has its own schema system that's supposed to be returned by the server when the client requests it.

https://graphql.org/learn/schema/