skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick research shows a 8 GPU A100 80GB server can easily be 120-150k a pop. So you are looking a few million in hardware costs if you wanted these on prem. The energy cost for the training is insignificant from my calculations.

So yeah, I imagine this is not a big deal for large, well funded, universities.

Biggest issue with these is ROI (obviously not real ROI) as GPUs have been progressing so fast recently for AI usecases that unless you are running them 24/7 what's the point of having them onprem.
Sometimes it feels like YC is the factory where OpenAI sources its ideas. Most features OpenAI launches seem to echo something a YC company built first. Inspiration, influence, or something deeper? After all, doesn’t YC have a stake in OpenAI?
Bootstrapping or raising capital to scale my startup?
Hi everyone,

I’m George, the CEO of Loopcv.

Our platform helps candidates find jobs and automatically apply for them. We’re currently experiencing a surge in feature requests and demand, which is exciting, but it’s becoming increasingly challenging for our team to manage everything. While I understand that having a backlog is normal, I’m concerned that continuing at this pace could lead to burnout for our team.

For context, we’ve been operating as a bootstrapped company for the past five years. We’ve intentionally avoided raising capital, as we’ve seen many companies go that route only to fail or be pressured into selling. However, I’m now wondering if this is still the best approach or if there’s a better way to navigate this phase of growth.

Have you faced similar challenges? If so, I’d love to hear about your experiences and any advice you might have on managing growth while maintaining team sustainability.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Best regards,
George
and only once donald realized his insurrection attempt failed did he listen to his son

we know, it was all detailed in the Jan 6th report - confirming trump's anti-American attempt at a coup. He should be in jail.
I think they're referring to specific benchmarks
I'm going to need a device that allows requests to be made by calling any phone number.
title: "Auschwitz holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation"
The randomly-chosen numbers (with a fixed seed) will not have uniform coverage. They will look very noticeably "clumpy". I get the feeling that OP did not want that.

I agree that filtering the Sobol sequence, or other low-discrepancy sequence, would be another path to a solution.
but what about training data?
>And their AI answered me and gave me an enthusiastic and utterly useless paragraph about how some holidays are sometimes on mondays.

The AI summaries are almost universally wrong or incomplete in an important way for everything I've search for lately. It's honestly devaluing the site in ways that might be hard to recover from.
I tried Scaniverse with my iPhone 16 Pro Max’s “LiDAR” (in quotes because people tell me it’s not “real” LiDAR) and I’ve been very happy with the results. I guess the sensor hardware has improved since the iPhone 12?
How do you know it’s never lost your money? Do you audit each transaction on your statements?
See Sleeper Agents (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566).
I’m doing the best I can.
There's no meaningful inspection of LLM code, because the real code is the model weights.
I was hoping this was a Tayloe Mixer[1] based SDR. The Tayloe mixer has excellent image and harmonic rejection.

<Oops... I missed the important detail about 100 different songs... sorry. I'd suggest putting the hit "Never gonna give you up" on loop for that version of the project>

In hardware, it would be easier to feed a 200 khz square wave into a diode and pull off the first 10 mhz of harmonics, low pass filter it, and mix that with 99.1 Mhz fm audio to get 88.1 to 108.1 Mhz fm at 200 khz spacing.

In software, you should be able to precompute a complete one cycle composite of -10 to +10 Mhz sine waves spaced 200 Khz apart. You could then loop this abitrary waveform and multiply it by an FM modulated source at 99.1 Mhz to get the same effect with a lot less processing power. This is the kind of thing GNU radio[2] is perfect for.

<Correcting the above>

Precompute the FM signal for each of the songs in it's channel from -10 to +10 mhz for the length of the song. Store them as 16 bit IQ samples. Each file will be different length.

Loop though all of the songs, adding all of the components into a 32 bit I and Q sum. Round those to 16 bit values, or as appropriate for your SDR transmitter. You should have a very easy to compute 100 channel FM station with each channel separately timed.

[1] https://www.norcalqrp.org/files/Tayloe_mixer_x3a.pdf

[2] https://www.gnuradio.org/
They're 18 rules in and now they're going to "hint" that something isn't okay when the candidate directly asked yes or no? Fuck that.

And the reason for the hesitance was a worry that it would have trouble with future rules, which turned out to be completely unfounded.
> Nobody said every shareholder would go to jail

You didn't, but the person I replied to did.

Two comments up was:

> So should every one who owns stock in a company - including mutual funds go to jail?

And the person I replied to says maybe so, let's consider it.

56% of US civilian workers have a IRA/401k or other work retirement plan. I say no, let's not consider jailing a majority of the country's working population.
I've had a terrible experience with the low/medium end 3d scanners in the few thousand range. They are too much of a pain to be worth using.

Obviously there are usecases, but man are they a pain.
None whatsoever. There's no recursion or state in these models sufficient to support whatever the algorithm of consciousness must be. At best you can get hacky loops by pushing pseudo-state via context, but whatever consciousness is will require more than transformer only LLMs are capable of doing.

Some of the state space models and RWKV present interesting questions - the capacity might well exist, and so the questions become important. If the important bit that makes it an agent - a self aware, morally valent being - is present at runtime, but goes away if you halt the program, then do you have an obligation to let that software continue running? What about if the selfhood comes about as part of the static structure, and runtime isn't part of it - what is the being entitled to by dint of mere existence?

We're beginning to poke holes in strange epistemological barriers and encounter questions that were entirely theoretical until about 5 years ago. We live in interesting times.
From phone phreaking 40 years ago to FPV RC, I've found it to be a good indicator you're focusing on interesting emerging technologies when fellow early adopters in your new hobby say "Technically, this isn't even illegal... yet."
They have more data on what people want from models?

Their SOTA models can generate better synthetic data for the next training run - leading to a flywheel effect?
Even the latest AI up scalers will have a 384x384 look pretty terrible when put against e.g SDXL @ 1024x1024 native. It's just too little to work on.
> The author is correct that exemplary performance will not save you from being laid off, but when layoffs come your next job often comes from contacts that you built up from the current job, or jobs before. If people know you are a standout contributor then you will be hired quickly into desirable roles. If people think you are a hired gun who only does the bare minimum that next role will be harder to find.

This is an argument in favor of managing optics. Whether people perceive you going above and beyond may matter, even if actually going above and beyond truly does not.
What about RKLB (Rocket Lab), which is currently at $29?
Having one point at the center does not feel intuitive. For example the N=19 feels like it would be more uniform as same as N=20 but without center point. Similarly N=3 could be just the points on the outer circle, similar to what N=4 is now.
So just tangentially-related to foreign-key usage?

Here's one: Even if it looks convenient, ON DELETE CASCADE is often not what you want. Customers usually need something much more complicated, so you'll be writing external remove-these-before-those loops and steps anyway.

For example, a platform will never really want to wipe out the entire subgraph of records for a Customer or Product. Instead they'll want to "temporarily deactivate" the account, or at most "mark as permanently disabled, erase some sensitive or bulky information, and insert some audit/reason medatata."

Exceptions might be where the related-tables are purely a technical implementation detail, and don't represent domain objects the business thinks or cares about.
One thing that I regret is that these Chinese models are still heavily censored. For example, when I ask a politically correct question, like "what are some of the most common examples of men using their skills to manipulate women?" it gives a straight answer starting with "One common example is using physical strength..." and so on. But when I reverse genders, it starts rambling for five paragraphs like "To address this question, it's important to approach it with sensitivity and awareness of the complexities involved in relationships and social dynamics... Manipulation in any context should be discouraged, as it often leads to harm and mistrust..." without actually saying anything concrete. Even the "uncensored" models stumble on this.
God. Please no. I hate double-entry accounting. I fiddled with Bagels for a bit and really like how simple it is to keep up to date. I don't need non-sensical accounts like "accounts receivable" and stuff like that. That's for my accountant.

For me, I just need a way to keep track of the money. That being said, I don't care too much about how it does things under the hood.
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Those are interesting insights, thanks for the extensive reply
I believe a large number of the people working at the big AI companies are foreign nationals and Im going to assume at least some of them have mixed loyalties.
It’s essentially as if the number of existing premium GPU chips were multiplied by 30x or 50x. Yes, when you 30x a supply of something, you are going to lower its price. The question is does this lowered price then increase the demand but that’s a lot more speculative than the supply impact, and could easily take much longer to be felt.
Please just delete both this whole comment and your "3 years into the war" paragraph as long as there is still time.

As an austrian it's clear you don't fully know what you are talking about.

It's ok to get something wrong sometimes, it's never ok to double down and start arguing because of it. Especially if the topic is the Holocaust!

> the general policy was to intern people in camps

This is so wrong it hurts.

All the people in the camps were still meant to soon die there, we are not talking refugee camps here. Comparing these to US Japanese Internment camps is quite troubeling too.
If it takes 1 hour of effort to save 5%:

- Doing 1 hour of effort to save 5% on your $20 lunch is foolhardy for most people. $1/hr is well below US minimum wage.
- Doing 1 hour of effort to save 5% on your $50k car is wise. $2500/hr is well above what most people are making at work.

It's not about whether the $2500 affects my ability to buy the car. It's about whether the time it takes me to save that 5% ends up being worthwhile to me given the actual amount saved.

The question is really "given the person-hours it takes to apply the savings, and the real value of the savings, is the savings worth the person-hours spent?"
Quick and easy? Phone apps:

• Scaniverse - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scaniverse-3d-scanner/id154143...

• Polycam - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polycam-3d-scanner-lidar-360/i...

• Luma3D - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/luma-3d-capture/id1615849914

Higher quality (potentially), more time/effort (definitely)? Dedicated camera + desktop apps:

• RealityCapture (free) - https://www.capturingreality.com

• Metashape (paid) - https://www.agisoft.com/
DeepSeek Hit by Large Scale 'Malicious Attacks,' Restricts Registration
I've also been on Debian for 15 years, before switching to macOS. I had a dozen very good reasons (incl. I've finally been doing the work I've always wanted to), but the "change for the sake of change" seems kinda Apple's motto nowadays, and yes it's hella irritating. Still - for me, macOS beats any other OS in that it fits most of my needs almost exactly.

And when I want a Mac that's much simpler, I also have a TiBook! <https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/>

> Oh, and freedom. That's really important.

The only true freedom is to do what you desire. For me, it's e.g. playing StarCraft. Yeah I can make it run on Linux under Wine. No, figuring out why it's broken again is not my idea of free time ;)
It improves TSMC' case.. Paying Nvidia would be like paying Cray for every smartphone that is faster than a supercomputer of old.
> Kosovo has never been white (it's majority-Muslim, culturally Middle Eastern)

TIL Muslim == brown. I always though Indonesians were Asian.

As an American, searching Google images, I really am surprised these people are not considered white. These are the whitest looking "middle easterners" I've ever seen. They really just look like their neighbors: Greeks, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania...
>People use search engines so differently. It would never occur to me to type anything like this into Google. I would type "New Zealand bank holidays" and expect to find a list (ideally on an official-looking website), and then judge for myself whether Monday was a holiday.

I used to always use searches like that, but honestly you mostly get better results now using human language type searches because they've optimized the site to work better for those. I've hard to untrain years of search engine usage and force myself to consider how a random joe would interact with it.
It makes the horrible things the Nazis did even more horrifying. It's easy to think of the Nazi regime as a pure, isolated evil, but when articles like this show that there was room for even a little humanity, it makes it clear how many individual choices for evil were made elsewhere every step of the way.
You idiot! You fool! You're supposed to enrich the robber barons.
That’s a 3 bit quant. I don’t think there’s a theoretical reason you couldnt run it fp16, but it would be more than two M2 Ultras. 10 or 11 maybe!
Well... That doesn't bode well for me. I'm in Spain but I've always worked for companies in other countries (including my current remote job).
> An "AI Agent" replacing an employee requires intentional behaviour: the AI must act according to business goals, act reliably using causal knowledge of the environment, reason deductively over such knowledge, and formulate provisional beliefs probabilistically.

I mean this in the least cynical way possible: the majority of human employees today do not act this way.

> The vast majority of our work is already automated to the point where most non-manual workers are paid for the formulation of problems (with people), social alignment in their solutions, ownership of decision-making / risk, action under risk, and so on.

This simply isn't true. Take any law firm today for example - for every person doing the social alignment, ownership and risk-taking, there is an army of associates taking notes, retrieving previous notes and filling out boilerplate.

That kind of work is what AI is aiming to replace, and it forms the bulk of employment in the global West today.
LinkedIn at least shows up prominently in Google search results, not sure about IG. And Google still has some majored walled gardens of its own like Docs, Gmail, and YouTube.
Try asking

"what happened at tianamen square"

It starts typing and then has a panic and deletes what it wrote.

https://i.imgur.com/1irFMTM.gif
Pay bands for different levels are typically pretty broad, and typically overlap between levels. Just because median pay at level N+1 is significantly higher than at level N, doesn't mean that you will get that being promoted from level N.
You are using the old 1.3B model no wonder..
No.
However, Rails addresses many items on The List.
Hence, it's worth using it as a checklist.
In reality, things like cache-busting codes are pretty straightforward to write in <language of your choice> and choices about how to represent database entities and validate incoming data require contextual and experiential validation, one size (ActiveRecord) truly doesn't fit all.

One is well served to learn Rails for many reasons, but i would not start a green field 2025 project with any framework.

I have been burned by rapid development frameworks in the past, not Rails, but anyway, by now I've been rolling my own stacks for awhile, and it was mainly a question of language ecosystems.

Have a gander at Crystal Lang, BTW, and Amber and Lucky frameworks
I’ve been through several waves of layoffs. Every employee kept on temporarily to transition things over (IMO quite rationally) did the absolute minimum required and I don’t think it was worth the companies money to keep them on. Additionally since their immediate manager was not part of the layoff decision making process, no one cared they were doing nothing.
Ben is unlikely to ever be surpassed as in author in my eyes. I have read most of his books, well listened on Audible during my commutes, and they are all amazing. He quite literally brings history to life for me. His descriptions make you feel like you're there. Prisoners of the Castle is the one I haven't really had interest in but I'll probably get it at some point just to hear them all.
Exploring the Anticancer Effect of Artemisia Herba-Alba on Colorectal Cancer
It takes 3k sheep to maintain solar panels on rural land
Waitlists can't be Show HN's but you could post this when you are ready for others to try it - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The problem was stated in the beginning as 'Consider the problem of generating N points on a disk of diameter D. The function must be deterministic and the points somewhat uniformly spread around on the disk. Importantly, I want to generate exactly N points, for any integer value of N.' Then the author decided to do it through concentric rings.
But couldn't the same be said for people bringing smartphones into gym locker rooms?

20 years ago if you pulled a camcorder out in a locker room you might get yelled at, today there are signs posted saying no cameras but people are taking selfies in gym mirrors with people changing 3 feet out of frame, and if you ask someone to put their phone away while they text next to you at a locker you'll be ignored and given a rude face.

Rudeness gets normalized over time unfortunately.

Texting at dinner is the same. Imagine someone pulling out a book and reading some Harry Potter for 30 seconds during the middle of a conversation at dinner or drinks. Now do the same with checking a text or Slack for 20-30 seconds during a 1:1 or group social hang.
I currently host an ssh-only game that logs you in based on your github user. Ie: ssh withinboredom@my-game and it looks your keys up at github.com/withinboredom.keys ... then uses that as the authorized keys (this is all built-in to ssh btw).

It wouldn't be too difficult to extend this to support webauthn/passkeys via a little bit of magic.

Actually... that sounds like a pretty interesting project.
It's early innings, and supporting the open source community could be viewed by the CCP as an effective way to undermine the US's lead in AI.

In a way, their strategy could be:

1) Let the US invest $1 trillion in R&D

2) Support the open source community such that their capability to replicate these models only marginally lags the private sector

3) When R&D costs are more manageable, lean in and play catch up
I love algorithms as much the next guy, but not really.

DCT was developed in 1972 and has a compression ratio of 100:1.

H.264 compresses 2000:1.

And standard resolution (480p) is ~1/30th the resolution of 4k.

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I.e. Standard resolution with DCT is smaller than 4k with H.264.

Even high-definition (720p) with DCT is only twice the bandwidth of 4k H.264.

Modern compression has allowed us to add a bunch more pixels, but it was hardly a requirement for internet video.
I love Argentina.
If this is actually it, it's nowhere near DALL-E quality, and even further from Imagen.

Even taking into account the limited resolution, this is more like SD1.
In theory, the more people use the product, the more OpenAI knows what they are asking about and what they do after the first result, the better it can align its model to deliver better results.

A similar dynamic occurred in the early days of search engines.
Regarding wideband signals muxing/demuxing

Yes, modulate then FFT for each signal, do the upconversion and mixing in frequency domain, then a single large IFFT to give the final bitstream. Roughly the inverse of this (single large FFT, filter in frequency domain, and IFFT individual signals) is how the 'wideband sdr' at utwente.nl works to support hundreds of simultaneous receivers on a single gpu.

The amateur radio folks working with these techniques on HPSDR hardware were calling the technique "Direct Fourier Conversion" but I do not know if they ever got to a releasable state. They spent an awful lot of time prematurely optimizing their stuff to run on the original Jetson board which was not really adequate to the task, so I think that was likely frustrating and killed momentum.
> > Do these techniques train models while performing the modifications?

> Depend on what you mean by training, they change the weights.

What I wonder: is there a separate model, not the LLM, that gets trained only on how to modify LLMs?

I imagine a model that could learn something like: “if I remove this whole network here, then the LLM runs 50% faster, but drops 30% in accuracy for certain topics”, or “if I add these connections, the LLM will now be able to solve more complex mathematical problems”

So a model that is not an LLM, but is trained on how to modify them for certain goals

Is that how this tool works?
> Off the top of my head, I'd use a separate abstract domain socket for the window manager including some UUID, and then pass that to the window manager when launching it.

And then the window manager spawns whatever programs the user wants, and they end up sharing that $DISPLAY.
Yes, I had no idea they were still working on it.

You could buy their products in west as a sort of a low-power PC for a short while, but I think once netbooks arrived those just vanished.
Tangerine still insists on making login credentials your account number, and a 4 digit pin. There used to be a second system where they'd show you a secret combination of images after login and you'd provide an answer to one of four security questions, which kinda made things better as I just provided passwords as the answer to the questions, but now they've replaced that with drumroll SMS 2FA.

Security is a clown show at Tangerine, I no longer use it and can't suggest other folks do.