skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the show stopper is that every single token is suspect. Adding layers of more of it compounds this suspicion, leading to fatigue and automation bias, amplifying the speed of error or technical debt while possibly even acting against the understanding and control of stakeholders. They are actually in my mind far above human skill, actually, and far below basic microbes in basic existing and engagement of course. I think the true societal task now is to give names to these non-alive qualities and risks, the echo chamber aspects, what the total information of a model plus a generated result is, and things like X/Y problems and unknown unknowns.
The entire point of NATO and other treaties is that every signatory is willing to risk their country to protect the other signatories. It makes the game theory choice to attack stupid.

But it’s all academic anyways. The US military would eagerly lead a coup before willingly attacking the UK or Canada, particularly if non-conventional means are threatened.

Consider that nearly every officer has done several war games or exercises alongside UK or Canadian officers. This is true both of NCOs and senior leadership. Being friendly with their armed forces is institutional. It would be easier to convince the Marines to attack the Army than to convince them to attack their Canadian counterparts.
Not really, the more textures you can put into memory the faster they can do their thing.

PC gamers would say that a modern mid-range card (1440p card) should really have 16GB of vram. So a 5060 or even a 5070 with less than that amount is kind of silly.
In jai you use the same language for programming and metaprogramming. The compiler knows how to execute the bytecode it generates. The compiler also has a builtin debugger for the bytecode.
True of any job in any department.
> I'm not American, but what do people like in Amazon, as in the retailer?

I'm not American either, but I use Amazon.fr occasionally. It has going for it:

* it's a trustworthy site. If I order something, I'm 100% sure I'll get it or get my money back. If I'm looking for something rather niche like an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, it beats buying on it vs a random site I've never heard of before that it will have longer delivery times and might be a scam or might have nonexistant support

* it has a large catalogue. I can buy coffee, kimchi, small electronics (PWM servo motors), larger electronics (toaster), power bank, USB C charger, mouse, outdoor furniture. It's easy to buy all sorts of stuff off it without hunting specialised physical stores or a ton of different websites. (of course for some things I know and already trust various websites or stores, so I buy off them; but for more generic or niche things, Amazon is pretty good)

* support, returns, delivery are all very good and there is barely anyone that is even close.
Such products are already commercially available [0][1]!

DIYing it is probably too painful to be doable. You won't be able to source any kind of protocol translation chip, so you'll have to send it essentially raw into quad SFP+ transceivers. Running 4+ fibers instead of the required 2 (or even 1) is very expensive, and any kind of WDM immediately blows up your budget. Unless you're getting the stuff for free from a DC renovation or something, it's just not worth it.

On top of that you also have to deal with designing board for extremely fast signals, which is pretty much impossible to debug without spending "very nice car" amounts of money on tooling. People have done it before, but I definitely don't envy them.

[0]: https://www.startech.com/en-us/audio-video-products/st121hd2...

[1]: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/miniconverters/tec...
Why not go for AMD? I just got a 7900XTX for 850 euros, it runs ollama or comfyUI via WSl2 quite nicely.
This is the key question... "What is the total information in this model and interaction?"
> LLMs are performing on a level that is beyond human jr. devs, and quickly catching up with the next tier.

I am a little more pessimistic. I would say that LLMs have been hovering above junior for a year or two, with some progress towards intermediate in the context of a few methods/classes, but not much evidence of the wider architectural/systems-level thinking that I'd expect from an intermediate.
Yep. If I needed a new GPU, that's what I'd go for. I'm pretty happy with what I have for the moment, though.
As someone living (near) Seattle, this is a major issue for me every product launch and I don't have a solution.

The area's geography just isn't conducive to allowing a single brick and mortar store to survive and compete with online retail for costs vs volume; but without a B&M store there's no good way to do physical presence anti-scalper tactics.

I can't even get in a purchase opportunity lottery since AMD / Nvidia don't do that sort of thing for allocating restock quota tickets that could be used as tokens to restock product if a purchase is to the correct shipping address.
> The pangolin soup theory of COVIDs origin was touted by fact checkers as true. This was despite real concern from actual scientists.

I'm curious to learn more about this. Where can I read into this?
From https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-first-bi...

"The bitterness and rivalries seen in the partisan 1796 campaign got worse in the 1800 rematch between Adams and Jefferson. At one point in that race, Jefferson’s supporter, notorious pamphleteer James Calendar, claimed that Adams was a hermaphrodite, while Adams’ people said Jefferson would openly promote prostitution, incest, and adultery..."
In the US, there aren't many options for whole, prepared foods (meaning someone prepared the food from whole ingredients, fresh) for various reasons. One that is common, for example, is a rotisserie chicken.

If you go to Asia -- Japan, Taiwan for example -- you'll find cheap, fresh, prepared whole foods everywhere to the extent that many households have very small refrigerators and many families have access to prepared whole foods even without having to expend the time cost of cooking at home.

For a dual-income household, this is a big win.

There's various reasons for this: lower labor costs, smaller land mass/higher density, better access to local/fresh ingredients, more favorable climate and longer growing seasons, etc.
> last thing he destroyed was himself, by going the bonkers “alternative healing” route on cancer.

People who tend to go the "alternative healing" route usually do so because the traditional healing route hasn't worked.

> he had an out and he chose to ignore it till it was too late

Did he? Guess you are the expert.

Cancer treatment isn't an exact science. Millions of people who go the traditional route die. It's always the know-nothings who talk with such confidence of absolutes.

> also I heard he was a massive twat irl

Did you now? I guess it takes one to know one.
> why isn't ip6 more popular

Not sure how much of a factor but human usability has always been challenging.

There is also the lack of business incentives.
Author here.

FIM is a term of art in LLM research for a style of tokens used to implement code completion. In particular, it refers to training an LLM with the extra non-printing tokens:








You would then take code like this:

func add(a, b int) int {
return <cursor>
}

and convert it to:


func add(a, b int) int {
return

}


and have the LLM predict the next token.

It is, in effect, an encoding scheme for getting the prefix and suffix into the LLM context while positioning the next token to be where the cursor is.

(There are several variants of this scheme.)
Could you please point out where on that page does it say anything about "extrapolation"? Searched for the (beginning of the) word directly and even gave all the text a skim, didn't catch anything of the sort.
A followup metastory about a thing that was already on HN doesn't work well as an HN submission since the original thing had significant discussion. You can search dang's comments for 'follow up' for an large list of explanations.
It's not accountable to government laws which target the government. Congress could pass a law to make such entities (or indeed, all corporations or people) subject to the act, but they've decided not to.
I wish we could build more subway trains. Now it seems like adding a mile or two takes ten years and billions of dollars, and building whole systems like BART from scratch seems nearly inconceivable.
So basically Getty Image layoffs announced today?
Have you been to the localLlama subreddit? It’s a great resource for running models locally. It’s what got me started.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
Depends on the logo. If it's just text or a simple shape, it can't be copyrighted.

3Blue1Brown's logo is (probably) copyrightable, but the TED or Veritasium channel logos are (probably) not. If it could be claimed to be derivative of some other work, public domain or not, you may not fully own the copyright either. In general, it can be a big fuzzy grey area that needs a court to decide fully. Meanwhile, a trademark infringement would be easy to show.
Engineering secrets which made the Statue of Liberty possible [video]
I signed up for the hosted version to try things out. Some quick feedback is that the dashboard copy (text) could be crystallized a bit more or provide a hint tooltip to help explain things a bit better.

Some examples:

* "Set up return email to return an email to users who submit your forms." - this is pretty clear what it means, but the phrasing is a bit awkward. -> "Set up automated response email for form submissions"

* "Allowed Domains": allowed for what? Allowed to receive form submissions from?

* When giving numbers (e.g. under API Usage), suggest adding units (e.g. "submissions") to the end.

* "Recipient Email" This seems a bit too ambiguous. suggest something more like ->"Address for receiving form submissions"
Democratic institutions can be subverted with first past the post voting systems and the illusion of choice amongst the most vocal and well funded parties
Related:

Elon Musk's Twitter Alt Account "Adrian Dittmann" Was Unmasked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42537526
You're right. Tinybox's 1.36 petaflops is FP16 so that is a significant difference.

Also, the Tinybox's memory bandwidth is 8064 GB/s, while the Digits seems to be around 512 GB/s, according to speculation on Reddit.

Moreover, Nvidia's announced their RTX 5090s priced at $2k, which could put downward pressure on the price of Tinybox's 4090s. So the Tinybox green or pro models might get cheaper, or they might come out with a 5090-based model.

If you're the kind of person that's ready to spend $40k on a beastly ML workstation, there's still some upside to Tinybox.
Yes, I have had Cava (and similarly Eons), but unfortunately they are kind of playing the same game[1]. They are also pretty expensive, which as I ranted about in my other comment on Chipotle, they don't give you a discount for getting a lighter meal. You pay for all the sides then tell them to keep them.

That being said, I still would prefer Cava over other fast casual places for sure.

[1]https://assets.ctfassets.net/kugm9fp9ib18/20WmUiLdcxokvsfq8I...
The food industry is fundamentally flawed, root cause tracing back to ~100 years ago. In 1904, a chemist published misleading information that has had a lasting impact on our understanding of nutrition. These myths, which have been perpetuated for a century, have led to widespread misconceptions about healthy eating.

The sugar industry's manipulation of scientific research has further wrecked the industry, deflecting blame from refined sugar. Legacy of WW1's food rationing and the conscription of farmers has resulted in a food system unable to serve the population #s.

As the joke goes, the British empire dominated the world to obtain spices... not to use any of them. Is British food supposed to be bland? Yes if correctly prepared.

Our food culture has been shaped by a century of disinformation, perpetuated by governments and the education system. The consequences of this disinformation campaign are far-reaching, with many people developing unhealthy relationships with food.

Want to fix this? Gotta start with the governments who are pushing the disinformation.
Took what 20 years to build the 2nd ave line in nyc no?
Unless you happen to ask the large fraction of people who knowingly moved there to make big bucks for some number of years before getting out. They will all tell you it sucks, the government sucks, you suck for not realizing that and that they're masterminding their exit to the suburbs of Phoenix or Miami or whatever. These people make up a sizable minority of the NYC population at any given time.
If members of Congress are not acting in the interests of their constituents, their constituents have the power to vote them out. The decision not to is what's known as "the consent of the governed". Perhaps that's not exactly the same as "the will of the people" but it's close enough for casual usage.
Are they privately held or part of the state apparatus though?
I think it depends on the size of the project. To me, the real fun of being a developer is the magic of being able to conceive of something and then conjure it up out of thin air - to go from an idea to reality. For a larger more complex project the major effort in doing this is the solution conception, top-down design (architecture), and design of data structures and component interfaces... The actual implementation (coding), test cases and debugging, then does become more like drudgework, not the most creative or demanding part of the project, other than the occasional need for some algorithmic creativity.

Back in the day (I've been a developer for ~45 years!) it was a bit different as hardware constraints (slow 8-bit processors with limited memory) made algorithmic and code efficiency always a primary concern, and that aspect was certainly fun and satisfying, and much more a part of the overall effort than it is today.
Correct.

A 10% error can be calibrated out if it is constant (in practice it probably varies a bit with temperature).

But for measuring thermocouples or strain gauges, for example, 50 mV (your example) can be 100-500% of the signal, which becomes impractical to calibrate-out (due to maximum output levels, etc).

For these applications, Vos is one of the first things to look at. Another one is the temperature coefficient on the gain. High frequency noise metrics such as CMRR and PSRR are sometimes important if you're looking at high frequency signals, but most of the time mechanical phenomena don't have much interesting content above a few 100s of Hz, and high frequency PS or CM noise can be removed by a simple high pass filter.
It and the LME49720 (same part) were discontinued a couple years ago along with the entire LME Overture series.
Interesting question.

I guess the truth is that the large subscription 'streaming' services (Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, etc.) are effectively micropayment systems, just not quite as transparent and/or direct as the concept I'd envisioned.

As to why there's no 'Spotify for newspapers/magazines/blogs', I don't know. We're definitely not the first to consider the question. Maybe the economics (too few customers?) doesn't make sense? Maybe there's resistance to it amongst socially- and politically-connected owners and journalists who like their position in society? Maybe because it would presumably require centralisation (in terms of where and how it was consumed, akin to using the Spotify app to listen to music) and ultimately commoditisation of the media? Maybe the modern drift away from reading and longer-form media makes it unattractive, leading to a quality drift to the bottom?
I feel like I've provided black-letter proof that it was meant to be a security feature; the commercial product of its inventor was a firewall that advertised NAT as a security feature. I don't really understand how you can argue around that.

Nobody's reading this thread anymore, so why don't we leave our arguments where they stand.
Ocean sand is in demand, but mining it comes at a cost
It's not nonsense. The banking system printed every dollar out of thin air and is charging interest on every single one (giving a cut to government). For decades and decades.

I made a post earlier detailing the mechanism they use to extract the wealth from us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621878
It's kind of easy to forget OSX did this but it was glacially slow at first.

I remember seeing the Betas in 1999-2000 or so and they were on an iMac and the whole UI barely worked.

And I think in 2004-2006 I was still turning the animations down or selecting the simpler ones. I maybe started leaving them on when I got a monster Mac Pro in 2006.
One thing I rarely see discussed is the possibility of contaminants like machine grease, spray lubricants, and dust getting into food. When the process for making food is automated, it seems much more likely to me that some of the moving parts in the process end up getting coated with small amounts of machine grease or lubricants. Maybe a moving machine part was sticking, so a technician used some spray lubricant on it, some of which found its way to the conveyor belt that was transporting the food to the next stage of the process. Maybe a metal part that is used in the process was coated in some kind of oil to protect it during storage. Someone may install it without cleaning it off with a solvent. Maybe something is being stored in an open-air vat, and work is being done nearby that generates dust. The more processed a food is, the more opportunities there are for contaminants to find their way into the food.

I think of these things because I worked in a kitchen that made dough, and our dough mixer always needed to be lubricated. I once found grease that had dripped from above into the mixing bowl. Luckily I am someone who takes such things seriously, but there are a lot of careless people out there. Even if you wipe off grease, an invisible trace amount will remain on the surface unless you clean it with a solvent. I also worked in a warehouse that stored machine parts used in food packaging equipment. There was drywall work being done at the time and the whole place was coated in gypsum dust. I remember handling "food grade" lubricant and looking up its safety data sheet (SDS) out of curiosity, and my takeaway from reading it was that it's still probably not something you would want to eat.
The solar farm construction plot is ignoring that the us doesn't make the solar panels. That sort of manufacturing is strongly effected by pollution regulations, that appear to be largely absent or ignored in the country where they are made. Tariffs for the express purpose of deglobalization may be argued about, but tariffs to include ignored externalities seem like they should be largely uncontroversial.
Hi, nice to meet you! I prefer public transit because when I ride it I don't have to drive or find a parking spot! And I believe it to be safer on balance.
I hate Elon, but X is pretty decent for tech news
How to raise second-get kids who can outcompete H1B visa holders
I cook all the time, mostly from scratch, but I keep frozen french fries in the freezer for very quick 'junk' meals, and more particularly because I don't in any way want to have deep-ish oil boiling my kitchen, for safety and odour reasons.

On a trivial point of view, I never understand why some people don't get that other people's existences diverge from their own experience... .
What's your best example of something the US Congress has done, or failed to do, that was contrary to the will of the people?
Fair point, as seen with Netflix and Amazon Prime video.
“Think of the children” isn’t really a good argument for censoring completely legal political discourse, which is what has been happening.

They are admitting that there has been a global push against free speech on these platforms.

>There is research that shows exposure to suicide and self injury content increases suicidal ideation.

I mean do you really need research to show this link? Of course it does.

We are okay with slapping an “R” rating on movies and allowing parents to be the ones who decide what content their kids can see. Why can’t we decide that parents also need to be the ones to stop their kids from consuming bad content on social media?
This is a thin client by any reasonable definition targeted at IT departments.

Do you really think that even in the next 20 years that no one will sell a regular computer? We’ve had lockdowned single purpose computers since the coders consoles came out in 1977.

True this has more local processing power than dumb terminals in the past. But only because the cost of compute has gotten a lot cheaper and things that people want today - multiple monitors, good video conferencing (that works locally on these devices) require low latency.

This is no different than the needless panic when Apple introduced the Mac App Store in 2006 and people thought Apple would lock out installing apps outside of the App Store on Macs.
>I wish people would focus more on scooters and motorcycles than moving people in busses

Will never happen. Too 3rd worldy for many of the demographics that tend to drive policy on transit matters.
yes, that's it. Thanks.
Interesting point. I was thinking that the HN audience might be curious about the traffic that a front page post gets.
right, so hardly a "democrat wishlist" then
My mom tried that once, nearly bricked my computer by blocking arch's mirrors.
The Amy Additive Piano Voice
> When you suppress ideas in this way, they become more attractive to a large number of people.

That sounds superficially reasonable, but I don't think that it's true.

Turn the sentence around: "when you spread ideas more widely, they become more attractive to a large number of people". Repetition works. It's why trillions gets spent on advertising each year.
Hmm. Who decides "how this works"?

Consider hate speech. There is a clear short-term benefit of moderation: reducing the harms to marginalised people from being exposed to threats to their person, identity, and way of life. In the face of this benefit, the absolute free speech advocate must provide a counter-argument for why free speech overrides that harm-reduction.
> Let's draw a veil over 5318008-gate for the sake of my dignity, as well as the other news story connected to PCalc Lite.

Anyone remember what the other story was?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548336
Yes, corporate America is bending the knee and paying for the coronation of Trump and/or Musk.

Another reminder that we may end up, occasionally, on the same side as corporate America, but that their reason to be is profit, not some moral cause, no matter how they're painting it.

That being said, if I were Zuck or Dorsey, I'd hate to have been involuntarily made arbiter of proper communication, and I'd jump on the first opportunity to pass the responsibility to whoever is willing to take it.
The Cultural Divide at Work
Planned in the 1920s, initial demolition to make room in the 1940s and 50s, initial construction started in 1972, and it opened in 2017, so… depending on your perspective, it took up to ~90 years, but arguably no less than 45 years.
Obviously exposing the same content which was proven to cause harm to the content moderators to absolutely everybody on the platform will be worse.
> Jobs probably wanted to have all (significant) software development happening in Cupertino?

Looks like it. There were still people working on iSync, iCal (and presumably software for the first iPhone) in an office in Paris. I think that ended in 2005.
100 years in the making! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
License?

You've obviously put a lot of effort into this, but I'm always lost at how people publish something open source and forget to actually put a license on there. Since now it's technically closed source, hypothetically if you become a monk in the woods next week no one else can fork your code