skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the usual trite reasons of money and independence :) Sure, the probability is low, but so is the probability of me getting a great FAANG salary. I'm open to alternatives though!
Amphetamine
Dopamine
Ketamine

Now thats a party!

(and as I said in another reply)
Strychnine
The new Corsair RM1000x(ATX 3.1 model), with the included 12V-2x6 cable(so just one connector at the PSU and one at the GPU, no adapter).
> If I'm left to myself, I'll end up keeping myself awake thinking about stuff

That's the best part of disconnecting and going to bed, being cozy in the darkness with nothing but your thoughts and emotions. Interesting that others try to avoid that, thanks for sharing :)
That sounds like someone buying a Lamborghini then trying to save money by fueling with regular gas.
I mean, yes, technically, but is anyone's code actually breaking because of this?

Who is writing SQL queries expecting them to fail because of this reason?

By your definition, "backwards compatible" doesn't mean anything. Literally everything will be a breaking change if you define "backwards compatible" like this.
MS also uses this trick all the time. Very dishonest practice, I don't think anybody can call it a bug in good faith.
This. The IP they need, specifically the SerDes, isn't available for 3nm (n3e) yet. That stuff isn't required for consumer devices, it comes later.
Can you provide a reference to the actions he has taken, I am unfamiliar with this topic so would like to find out more.
The problem is that such a conclusion is not stable

We could decide this one minute, and the next minute it will be UN-decided

There is no "global world order", no global authority -- it is a shifting balance of power

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A more likely situation is that the things AI can't do will increase in value.

Put another way, the COMPLEMENTS to AI will increase in value.

One big example is things that exist in the physical world -- construction, repair, in-person service like restaurants and hotels, live events like sports and music (see all the ticket prices going up), mining and drilling, electric power, building data centers, manufacturing, etc.

Take self-driving cars vs. LLMs.

The thing people were surprised by is that the self-driving hype came first, and died first -- likely because it requires near perfect reliability in the physical world. AI isn't good at that

LLMs came later, but had more commercial appeal, because they don't have to deal with the physical world, or be reliable

So there are are still going to many domains of WORK that AI can't touch. But it just may not be the things that you or I are good at :)

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The world changes -- there is never going to be some final decision of "humans don't have to work"

Work will still need to be done -- just different kinds of work. I would say that a lot of knowledge work is in the form of "bullshit jobs" [1]

In fact a reliable test of a "bullshit job" might be how much of it can be done by an LLM

So it might be time for the money and reward to shift back to people who accomplish things in the physical world!

Or maybe even the social world. I imagine that in-person sales will become more valuable too. The more people converse with LLMs, I think the more they will cherish the experience of conversing with a real person! Even if it's a sales call lol

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Of course it doesn't, SIP would be pointless if it did. But since GP is so opposed to temporarily disabling SIP when they need escalated permissions, I assume they must feel the same way about needing to `sudo` and enter their password.
Well if they have 10 people and were thinking about hiring 3 more, now they don't need to because they are 30% more productive. Productivity increases don't just cause people to be laid off. It means you can hire less.
That's a great design.
Ironically, their terms of service forbid the generation of copyrighted content.
When I used to ride a commuter bus, one of the most difficult experiences for me was having to listen to certain foreign-born men sniffle loudly about every 30 seconds. Blowing one's nose apparently is not done in their culture.
> maybe they should DO THE THING THEIR CUSTOMERS FUCKING PAY THEM TO DO

Health insurance in America is broadly profitable. But note that UHC just paying out claims puts them in the same place as California home insurers. Part of the job of a health insurer is to deny unnecessary claims, to be a check on providers, both in procedures and their pricing.
Fun blog, I liked the review of a 20 something year old book on garnishing.
Yeah, the people that buy a Lamborghini are some of the "cheapest" people and will squabble over the smallest of things.
It's a cool technique, but at $0.01/call this would cost like... $30 to sort 10k items and take several minutes. Lots of people can get by with just embeddings
I have always associated Intel iGPUs with good drivers but people seem to often complain about their Linux dGPU drivers in these threads. I hope it is just an issue of them trying to break into a new field, rather than a slipping of their GPU drivers in general…
My company spent $billion and several years in a rewrite of a core product a few years ago.

I'm convinced on hindsight that we could have just refactored in place and been just as well off. Sure there would be some code that is still the ugly mess that made us jump to the big rewrite in the first place. However we would have had working code all along to ship. Much more importantly, we fixed a lot of problems in the rewrite - but we introduced other problems that we didn't anticipate at the same time, and fixing them means either another rewrite, or do an in-place refactor. The in-place refactor gives one advantage - if whatever new hotness we choose doesn't work in the real world we will discover before it becomes a difficult to change architecture decision.
Honestly it’s more the case that X is not a first-tier social network anymore. It now plays in second league with the likes of Threads and Pinterest.

It retains important bubbles like Silicon Valley VCs and media people, but globally it’s just not significant with its single-digit market share.
Kaiser doctors, because they're employees of the same organization that provides the insurance, are much less likely to prescribe treatments that will be denied. Which I like, don't get me wrong, but it's a double-edged sword. Many people with complex or hard-to-treat conditions feel that Kaiser isn't an option for them, because when they need some rare treatment another insurance company might fight you over, Kaiser simply won't prescribe it at all.
Canonicalization is a pain in the ass. Write yourself a boatload of unit tests.
It's ridiculous, but maybe not the way you think; Prop 65 in California classified a lot of things as requiring notification, including things like "Wood Dust." so now every apartment building has a sign in the hallway that says "this building may contain chemicals" and everyone ignores it. The law has lead to people being less informed rather than more informed.
power requirements of GPU cards are increasing with each generation and pushing power to them become more difficult. Electricity through wire causes heat. More power = more heat resulting in things melting. Even the cable would melt(or explode) if high enough current runs through it. People here are talking about 48 volts instead of 12 volts which is one solution. But more cabling to distribute the current would be easier.
Seriously yes. Having lived with someone who is schizoaffective, I recognize what is happening to America as an acute manic episode with psychosis and hallucinations.
That's why you vertically integrate.

https://www.truthrx.org/post/the-health-insurer-will-see-you...

> In 2017, 23% of the company’s insurance revenue went toward the provider unit called Optum Health, and 69% went toward OptumRx. So far in 2022, 38% of that money went toward Optum Health, while 56% was captured by OptumRx.
The idea that it's a burden to taxpayers hosting a static site with paid-for research was silly anyways.
None of these seem all that 'trendy' to me. The real trendy approach would be something like leaping directly to a hybrid userspace-kernelspace solution using something like https://github.com/CloudNativeDataPlane/cndp and/or the https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/af_xdp.htm... addressing that the former is built on. Very interesting stuff, don't get me wrong there - but hardly something that can be said to have 'stood the test of time' like most boring tech has. (And I would include things like eBPF in that by now.)
Author here, and no. Just updated my Medium post to be a bit more verbose. I did fail to re-cite, so thanks for calling that out!
Rediscovering Plan 9 from Bell Labs
There are plastics that can deal with high temperatures.[1] They're heavily used in automotive applications. They're not often seen inside computers.

Still, 50 amps inside a consumer computer is excessive. At some point it's time to go to a higher voltage and get the current down.

[1] https://www.plastopialtd.com/high-temperature-plastics/
even if it wasn't meant for humans and manual editing, it works reasonably well for these usecases
Is there an easter egg where you can draw eggs?
This article is coming out at an interesting time for me.

We probably have different definitions for "budget", but I just ordered a super janky eGPU setup for my very dated 8th gen Intel NUC, with a m2->pcie adapter, a PSU, and a refurb Intel A770 for about 350 all-in, not bad considering that's about the cost of a proper Thunderbolt eGPU enclosure alone.

The overall idea: A770 seems like a really good budget LLM GPU since it has more memory (16GB) and more memory bandwidth (512GB/s) than a 4070, but costs a tiny fraction. The m2-pcie adapter should give it a bit more bandwidth to the rest of the system than Thunderbolt as well, so hopefully it'll make for a decent gaming experience too.

If the eGPU part of the setup doesn't work out for some reason, I'll probably just bite the bullet and order the rest of the PC for a couple hundred more, and return the m2-pcie adapter (I got it off of Amazon instead of Aliexpress specifically so I could do this), looking to end up somewhere around 600 bux total. I think that's probably a more reasonable price of entry for something like this for most people.

Curious if anyone else has experience with the A770 for LLM? Been looking at Intel's https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm project and it looked pretty promising, that's what made me pull the trigger in the end. Am I making a huge mistake?
Congrats on the launch!

This kinda reminds me of Expo snacks (https://snack.expo.dev/), but with a chat.
CLA doesn't matter too much.

If you want to contribute to an open-source project, you can just work on your own repo and can work together with other people just like it was a real open-source project.

The good part is, you can pull any improvements from the original repo that they publish under A/GPL, but they can't pull from you if they want to re-license their code later. So the community fork will always be ahead in features and bug fixes compared to the CLA-crippled repo.
> I feel like if you took some old science fiction writers from back in the day and showed them this article, you would find sheer awe in their faces too.

I can't tell if this is satire. The science fiction writers from back in the day wrote about humans exploring other planets, building sentient machines, encountering aliens or maybe developing psychic powers. (looking at you two, Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon)

Building the world's biggest ad-serving infrastructure might impress them. It impresses me! But "sheer awe" seems a few orders of magnitude off the mark.
I couldn't find anything to support the idea that Hawaii’s protection of beach access allows anyone to traverse private property except where a specific rights-of-way easement exists on that property. I don't think the gp would consider use of land via an easement to be disrespectful as the easement holder has rights to the land that must be respected as well.
This is an awesome demo and I hope you succeed.

I've dabbled in building a tool of this type and something I've learned is that making single-task demo apps (like chess or snake game) is much faster and simpler than making production-grade apps that could make a real business. In fact, the process of making these demo apps production ready (polishing the UI, adding features, etc.) would usually result in the user giving up. In our implementation, it was much trickier for the system to understand the nuances of polishing than getting the broad strokes of the initial demo. I'd love to know if you've ran into this and what your thoughts are on getting around it.
It’s AT&T - no, don’t trust them with anything. Preferably not even with being their customer.
The case against child voters
Earlier source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42954798

and Related:

UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992121
> Those are "expenses" for that margin calculation

Source? They would be expenses for the insurance sub but profits for the consolidated public company. The latter are 22% (gross) and 4% (net).

I don’t have a horse in this race. But it seems like the problem is at the level of PBMs and providers more than insurers.
People looking for low latency lossless streaming may want to take a look at WavPack.

https://www.wavpack.com
Could this also have been activated in the Jeju air crash from the initial bird strike?
used objects and imports from economically isolated land are traded at meme value, doesn't count.
It often does. The other thing that has worked for me is contacting the legal department. Probably the same address, c/o legal.

Just don’t say something stupid like, “I’m going to sue you”. If you escalate too far they’ll wait for the summons.

—-

I worked in a department called “hot site support” back in the 90’s for Iomega (maker of the Zip drive). That meant I delt with two things, customers who spent over $100k on hardware, and customers that wiggled their way up to the CEO’s admin. I had carte blanche to resolve the issues and I was just 20 years old and early into my career.
erotika as art form/expression isn’t diametrically opposed to porn industry, but it’s close to being…

pornography industry is evil as hell and cannot be reformed/regulated into an acceptable state, and actively prevents ppl from developing a healthy sense of sexuality/eroticism

genuinely not sure if alligning w ppl who want to ban pornography for religious/conservative reasons is a good idea, but it’s better than doing nothing i suspect…
Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the U.S. Baby Boom?
If they deny fewer claims then medical expenses will rise for their self funded employer customers, and then those customers will switch their health plans to a competitor like Cigna or Aetna. Most coverage rules are driven by large employers. UHC would be happy to offer a health plan which paid every single claim if that's what employers wanted: it would actually mean higher profits for UHC.
WavePack: Hybrid Lossless Audio Compression
> They would be expenses for the insurance sub...

Yes, and that's the subsidiary that has the 80/20 expenses rule.

UHC ensures as much of the 80% paid for "patient care" winds up in their other subsidiaries that don't have a profit cap.

> But it seems like the problem is at the level of PBMs and providers more than insurers.

UHC is both the insurer and the PBM, and they're buying up all the providers they can get their hands on.
A Neoclassical Model of the World Financial Cycle
I don't remember the exact details[0] but the AIs were saying Destination Driven Code Generation is a good (and simple) algorithm for lowering to SSA form. Something about it naturally produces a CFG or the dominance frontier or IDK, I filed it away as something to look into later.

It does make sense because it can produce reasonably efficient machine code directly from an AST so it is doing a lot of work a naive SSA lowering algorithm leaves for later stages.

[0] leave this as an exercise for the reader, we aren't on speaking terms lately.
Using wavpack for real-time audio coding in interactive applications
I'm actually completely fine with internal manual manipulation, bc I trust the HN crew.

I'm concerned that what we're observing is a result of external manipulation at the behest of self-interested parties.

Here's evidence of this concern: https://hnrankings.info/43004889/
Yeah it's called pork.
Your snarky summaries are actually extremely close to the sentiment I hear a lot.

A shocking amount of "political" thinking in the us that I've been involved with STARTS with "we're the best at everything" and then explores things to do from there

We collectively have this fragile ego that would rather feel tough and "self made" rather than admit any kind of deficit compared to others, even at the expense of our own growth. It reminds me of a ceo I used to work for that I flippantly described as happier to feel like a big fish in a small pond than to put his ego to the side in exchange for the ability to improve and expand the business.
This is kinda silly. I bet if this guy ever ends up finding his hard drive, it's probably not going to be readable anymore.
More than you might think. There are many scenarios where US nationals are the only ones that can touch data.

They are replacing second tier people with people overseas who interact with chatbots and a limited number of staff in the US. So one dude can access customer data, but he’s servicing a dozen agents.
HAL would like a word…
Ehh, as a propaganda tool it would be more useful to not have a hard login wall, which was allegedly implemented due to engineering challenges continuing to operate Twitter at its former scale. So the engineering issues are even limiting its new goals.
Yay, let's totally try to cram things that don't belong there into a memory-hungry beast that eats gigabytes of RAM instead of using every available byte of it efficiently, and take away precious CPU cycles from running actual DSP and sacrifice them to all the web APIs, javascript engines, css and html parsers, svg renderers and other stuff one would never need in a sane DAW
What happens if the agencies refuse. Guess we'll find out?
I don't have a good answer to this, but I suspect that second approach with the API call would work well. Haven't done this in production to know. I do think any solution in this situation where you can't be 100% confident in the output would benefit from citations. Then if your feb 29th example does return the wrong data, the user would say "ah the model wasn't wrong, I was wrong because I was unclear".
"it’s OK to sign the exact byte sequence."

Not just "OK". It's the only sane way to do it.
Just this week, npm rotated some keys for the first time in a decade [0] and broke all of the sites I had deployed on multiple providers using pnpm. I had three sites on digital ocean which I had to switch to npm from to fix it.

The entire is ecosystem is the definition of not-boring

[0] https://vercel.com/guides/corepack-errors-github-actions
Anything serious is using n3e.
2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs die
I'm not sure why people are so sure one way or the other. I mean, we're going to find out. Why pretend you have a crystal ball and can see the future?

A lot of articles like this just want to believe something is true and so they create an elaborate argument as to why that thing is true.

You can wrap yourself up in rationalizations all you want. There is a chance firing all the programmers will work. Evidence beats argument. In 5 years we'll look back and know.

It is actually probably a good idea to hedge your bets either way. Use this moment to trim some fat, force your existing programmers to work in a slightly leaner environment. It doesn't feel nice to be a programmer cut in such an environment but I can see why companies might be using this opportunity.
There it is, just like clockwork, the whataboutism appears.

Seriously though, let the locals be in charge of naming things. As a Texan, I've always just called it the Gulf. But if asked, it's full name is Gulf of Mexico, named after the Mexica (the Aztecs to you and me).
That's on-brand for Musk.
this is a challenging point of view.. on one side, a "a job in the autonmous (sic) vehicle industry writing safety critical software" sounds like one of the most slave-ish jobs in the world. This person had a 100 other people checking every tiny result, plus automated testing frameworks and hundreds of pages of "guidelines" .. in other words, the least creative and most guard-checked software possible.

On the other hand, an open and level playing field does not exist in the thirty-some odd years of open markets software development. No one since Seymour Cray has done complete systems design, really.. it is turtles all the way down. You have to get hardware to run on, and the software environment is going to have been defined for that.. CPU architectures and programming languages. People who write whole systems generally do it in teams.

The arrogant and self-satisfied tone of the corporate worker-bee says that there is no such thing as real software engineering skills?

like defining "health" or other broad topics.. the closer the topic is examined, the more holes in the arguments. I am glad I never punched a time clock for Elon Musk, however, all things considered.
Having tried to get AI to do some of my coding work for me, I’m not convinced AI is the real culprit. I think this has much more to do with the end of ZIRP.
Linear Logic – Par Part 2
A new guide on linear logic! Much deeper than the usual "imagine a vending machine" guide, though I do mention the connection to that at the end lol. This is great for getting an intuition for substructural logics in academic papers, as well as the notorious multiple-conclusion sequents used in, say, type systems for safe parallelism. The post prior gives the necessary background on sequent calculus, if needed. This series is on much of the most beautiful theory ever, and I hope you enjoy!!
The big benefit of Apple is that they control the full stack. So you're suggesting I what, reformat my machine? Are we really at a place where the suggestions are akin to what we'd suggest noobs do on linux 10 years ago?

Give me power to debug. Give me power to write my own solutions.

And we're talking about a notification... We're also talking about a pair of headphones that can't be connected to multiple devices at the same time for some reason. I can't see this as anything but a self-imposed problem. You could connect up to 7 devices at the same time and that would be a great way to provide the seamless experience. It is the same ecosystem, the phone and laptop can easily communicate and be aware that I have spotify open on both and that I'm writing on my laptop. But no, the problem gets harder because of the issues. I play music from my phone because if I walk away from my computer, I can keep playing music through my headphones. Where's the magic? And the only reason I have spotify open on my laptop is so that if I press the god damn play button I don't end up opening Apple Music (a product I have never intentionally used nor even passed the first time use screen), jumping from my workspace.

Users shouldn't need these defensive patterns when you have the capacity for such integration.
Correct vs. Good
The difficulty stems from you have to rewrite the encoding/decoding canonicalization library in every language you want to consume the data with as opposed to simply piggy backing off of default implementations and the language's standard crypto libs.

For example most JSON parsers default to interpreting numbers from JSON as floats or ints. but in the canonical format you would have to force all parsers to interpret them as exact decimal values. then determine how to encode them (is one hundred "100" or "1e2") etc.
There's always broligarchs too.
Not in e.g. MSSQL
So who provides 12 years of LTS for those database versions and operators? Who provides 12 years of LTS for the clients of those databases?