skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Do your own research!'

A bad boss limits everyone's abilities to what the boss understands and can do. This governing approach limits world-class scientists to what the public understands - which is essentially the tactical argument made by the GOP: It looks useless to you and me and that is our source of truth! Are you condescending elites calling us dumb?

The Dems are complicit because in about 25 years, they haven't bothered to come up with a simple, effective counterargument.

I don't know anything about weather data. I couldn't imagine overseeing these scientists or their technology.
It’s always funny to read, on a tech forum, writing “critiques”, which always boil down to “this was bad and I didn’t like it.”

I can’t think of anything you could’ve said that would have had less value and belonged more on X or reddit. This is essentially the “yup, he wrote that in English” of comments.
My father, at one point, imagined himself on a Greek island. “Ouzo!” He’d offer from his hospital bed.

He was an avid fisherman and his last words were, distinctly, “Big fish.”

Yet, he was mostly unconscious for his last day. I spent time talking with him as he slept, massaging his hands and feet. Later we had a party for him and played music. Around 10 at night he began to die (the breathing changes). At the very end he opened his eyes, looked at my mother, sister and me, and passed.

It was a beautiful death.
Hindu symbols are mirrored and in generally visually in a different context. Through there are some funny extra bad coincidence like the symbol Japan used in street maps for hospitals(?) until somewhat recently before the Olympics.

But in general IRL people tend to not humor someone trying to bypass rules by definition nitpicking if their intend is very clear. I mean there is a reason law tends to focus on outcome, over intend, over exact details of your actions. Through naturally if they need an excuse for their (in-) action then humoring definition nitpicking sometimes does the job.
It is worth noting that your second quote is from a blog posted in May 2020, and the link that kfreds posted is from their follow-up blog post, dated July 2020.
The car doesn't have to SLAM the brakes. It just has to use them a bit like a regular car.
Ross evidently copied and used the text himself. It's like Ross creating an unauthorized volume of West's books, perhaps with a twist.

Obscurity ≠ legal compliance.
Running one layer 4 times should fetch the weights of that layer once. Running 4 layers makes you fetch 4x parameters.

The recurrent approach is more efficient when memory bandwidth is the bottleneck. They talk about it in the paper.
> I was initially shocked and then kind of sad that Go is not so simple anymore.

Yeah, it's really sad. Go basically became like any other language.

Now even fun stuff like net.IP, and a netip, with netip.Addr. Lots of way to write the same thing. And an even further shift from Go initially being something along the lines of "You shouldn't control or even think of the garbage collector" to now having runtime.AddCleanup) as well as more fun hacks to technically stay compatible.

Now, I am not saying that the changes are bad per se, but more that they simply aren't matching the original design/claims/goals. I remember Rob Pike saying things like "The language likely won't change much" other than generics which have been said to likely come since pre-1.0 basically since Go got a website. The idea clearly was to stay simple, but that seems to have been thrown overboard. I wished Go's predecessors (Limo, Alef, et al) or something similar would have made it out of the more researchy state.

But hey looks like some more stable languages get traction. To my complete surprise Ada is making a comeback with [Alire](https://alire.ada.dev/) and such. Not really a Go competitor, but nice to see it's still being worked on.
You likely don't know anyone because there is luck involved in success. Having to initiate a lawsuit would mean you are very unlucky.

For example, maybe your business partner fraudulently took most of the shares for himself despite a written equal equity split. Here, you can either sue or just walk away and give him your shares.

Keep in mind that "successful" people are incentivized to say all lawsuits against them are unfounded and they are merely the "victim". Why assume they are telling the truth? It's at least as likely that they had something to do with causing the lawsuit.
once the case law is set, I look forward to suing everyone that's ever trained a model for $300,000 PER WORK each time they ingested my code from GitHub

whoever wrote those indemnity policies is going to regret it
We don't seem to have any lesson-learning folks in play.
> You're saying

It's the author's argument. I'm just trying to interpret it correctly.

> X + Y is generally higher than just X, yes.

The author's point is that their rate, the higher rate, is a better reflection of how the voters are doing economically and explains why their perception of the economy can be very different than the perception of many leaders in Washington, who are puzzled about why the voters are upset.
You're providing value every time you kill a bad idea "because things don't actually work that way" or shave a loop, you're just not tracking the value and neither is your boss.

To your employer, hiring people who know things (i.e. you) has giving them a deeper advantage in actual practice.
Thank you for sharing this. We should all be so lucky.
Building Llamas That Think?
Hey HN,

So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models "reason" with about as much code as it takes to write a "Hello World" program. No, really!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jfsG0_XP8a5mME76F5a6xeP9uu-tvDZ3#scrollTo=fNg798sHpuqk

Here's the philosophical crisis I'm having now: When you ask an LLM to code something vs. asking it to reason about something... are we basically watching the same neural spaghetti being twirled around?

The real question is: If one can make an AI model "think" with 5 lines of code, does this mean:
a) An LLM should be able to write its own reasoning code
b) We've been overthinking AI?
c) The simulation is running low on RAM
d) All of the above

Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably in the form of recursive functions or philosophical paradoxes.

P.S. No LLAMAs were harmed in the making of this experiment, though several did ask for a raise.
I find the thermostat mode only works on overcast days or at night as the sun contributes so much feeling of warmth when driving (in California) that the heating and cooling thermostat doesn't work well.
There seems to be a LOT of work going on to optimize the 1.58-bit option in terms of hardware and add-ons. I get the feeling that someone from Unsloth is going to have a genuine breakthrough shortly, and the rig/compute costs are going to plummet. Hope I'm not being naïve or over-confident.
Either he failed at communicating, or he does not care. Reading the recent thread/flamewar on R4L and DRM I wonder if he was somewhat pressured to accept Rust but does not actually care. If you were the leader of a project and explicitly authorized a sub-project, would you tolerate a maintainer undermining it?
> When you work with normal AC power, it is considered unsafe practice to use parallel wires to share load in a circuit.

The NEC permits using conductors #1/0AWG or larger for parallel runs, it doesn’t forbid it entirely.
the incentives are towards learning the shiny new tech, a FANG company created,so you can get a job in one of these companies
Just refreshed Apple Maps on my phone, and it also shows Gulf of America where over the weekend it was still Gulf of Mexico.
I wonder if a multiplexer would be feasible?

Hardware-wise instead of putting the chips on the PCB surface one would mount an 16-gonal arrangement of perpendicular daughterboards, each containing 2-16 GDDR chips where there would be normally one, with external liquid cooling, power delivery and PCIe control connection.

Then each of the daughterboards would feature a multiplexer with a dual-ported SRAM containing a table where for each memory page it would store the chip number to map it to and it would use it to route requests from the GPU, using the second port to change the mapping from the extra PCIe interface.

API-wise, for each resource you would have N overlays and would have a new operation allowing to switch the resource overlay (which would require a custom driver that properly invalidates caches).

This would depend on the GPU supporting the much higher latency of this setup and providing good enough support for cache flushing and invalidation, as well as deterministic mapping from physical addresses to chip addresses, and the ability to manufacture all this in a reasonably affordable fashion.
Not mentioned at all is the failure rate, which back in May was reported by Ars to be 85% with the first patient, Noland. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/neuralink-to-implant...
hopefully you have 2x of these drives in some kind of raid mirror such that if one fails, you can simply replace it and re-mirror. not having something like this is risky.
Sounds like the typical Redditor
Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs
> posted on LinkedIn her surprise at being lumped in with supposed low performers after receiving an “exceeds expectations” in her mid-year review.

FWIW, this is misleading. mid-year reviews only have three ratings: "below", "at or above", and "significantly above" expectations. a lot of employees like to correlate these to the end-of-year ratings (of which there are seven), but there is no such guarantee.
My first thought to reading what you wrote was fast denial, but the more I thought about it, I agree. We’ve seen vocal accents decline with globalized media, we’ve seen slang become more global, same with the entire English language. For years my text messages have been de-personalized by picking the autocomplete word choice where it makes sense, so why wouldn’t better LLMs expand that to even more written text?

That said, I suspect this won’t remain true in literary circles nor in certain professional contexts - where word choice is an art or signal, it will remain valuable. Politicians won’t sound like ChatGPT, for example. Think of some of the most famous modern politicians… they all have a unique way of speaking that makes it clear who’s talking.
Largest Structure in the Near Universe Discovered
refresh on Canada too, it’ll
shown North American 51st State :)
Touch screens are such a lazy, shitty, dangerous way to implement 90% of the functions they’re currently used for. Good to see that at least one person is working on this problem.
I also think blacklist and master are silly terminology changes, so I'm not sure what's ironic here.
Related. Others?

He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37374489 - Sept 2023 (67 comments)

Keita Takahashi Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling on Without Him - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950382 - July 2023 (4 comments)

Katamari Hack (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33381345 - Oct 2022 (37 comments)

Katamari Christmassy (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25783731 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari) joins Glitch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2748128 - July 2011 (2 comments)

Katamari Hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486038 - April 2011 (5 comments)

Turn any page into Katamari Damacy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318076 - March 2011 (33 comments)

Life Size Katamari - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625489 - May 2009 (3 comments)
Your argument depends on LLMs being able to handle the complexity that is currently the MBA -> dev interface. I suspect it won't really solve it, but its ability to facilitate and simplify that interface will be invaluable.

Im not convinced the people writing specs are capable of writing them well enough that an LLM can replace the human dev.
48 months for 375 attempted murders isn't exactly getting the book thrown at you. It should have been life.
Well, presumably he isn’t drunk after polishing off a few cartridges in a sitting.
My thought also

Maybe there is a risk/benefit. Maybe spending more time trying to make sure, would cost lives, or give criminals time to flee?

Hard to know...
FNV-1a might be worth looking into. It's pretty fast
I wish there was a place I could share the experience of my father's death. This doesn't seem to be it, though I appreciate everyone's story.

Is there such a place?
This is a particularly extreme case of ‘I love my Tesla, but…’
If the job of SWEs after AI is to edit yaml, json, yaml templates, and yaml-templates-in-yaml-templates all day long, while waiting for ArgoCD, I quit.
> Or maybe Windows 11 is depressing performance scores versus Windows 10, especially as people transition to it with the upcoming demise of the latter.

Surely the stats track that internally?

This "mystery" seems like it should be easily solvable with some further category breakdowns -- how is the mix of hardware changing, how is the mix of OS's changing, is the change happening in some countries but not others.
For the record, freedom to roam in England and Wales is rather limited in scope; the quintessential right-to-roam countries are the Nordics (and to an extent Scotland, but it’s an honorary Nordic country anyway). For example, in Finland the customary rights extend beyond just hiking to activities like gathering wild berries and mushrooms.
Most states have sales tax added on top of the listed price so items being round numbers don't cause the total to be a round number.
In comparison, Spanish is so much easier to learn and understand. Every English speaker would benefit from learning it in order to leave their monolingual mind sphere. But i digress...
> would they wait 5 years and pay for some microwave tower govt thing or go buy starlink today

They'd probably pay to keep their electricity on for another month. Or 4 months because it's a starlink-level of cash.
Reportedly [0], SoftBank is looking to invest $40B for a share of OpenAI.com that would value it at $260B.

Given that OpenAI.org currently wholly owns OpenAI.com (doesn't it? even Msft didn't get a stake?), I have trouble seeing (a) how the $40B valuation would stand up in court if anyone could challenge it (and I believe Musk is trying to do that?), but also (b) how Musk's $100B pushes up the valuation more than a SoftBank investment would do.

Scratching my head...

[0] https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/money-report/sof...
Open source model builders are no more entitled to rip off content owners than anyone else. I couldn't possibly care any less if this impacts "democratized access" to bullshit generators. At least if the big boys license the content then the rightful owners get paid (and have the option to opt out).
We've had a variety of 140W laptops for a few years already, so the original spec has been far away for a while now.

The advantage of USB-C is the power negotiation, so getting the higher rating only on circuits that actually support it should de doable and relatively safe.

The OnePlus cable melting give me the same impression as when hair power cables melt: it's a solved problem, the onus is on the maker.
"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it"

—Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
Do you have some kind of dictionary where I can find this definition? Because I don’t really understand how that can be the deciding factor of „generative“, and the wiki page for „generative AI“ also seems to use the generic „AI that creates new stuff“ meaning.

By your definition, basically every classifier with 2 inputs would be generative. If I have a classifier for the MNIST dataset and my inputs are the pixels of the image, does that make the classifier generative because the inputs aren’t independent from each other?
> License what? Every available copyrighted work? Even getting a tiny fraction is not practical.

Oh no. Anyway.
Unlike the others, Trump is really doubling down on the Gaza statements. Just insane.
hard agree though I think most people don’t realize that you don’t need to use a touchscreen at all if you are willing to talk to your car. I yell a lot in the car trying to turn shit on on the touchscreen but luckily my 11-year is almost always in the car with me with the words of wisdom “just ask the car to do it” :)
They do[1].

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21933466/does-your-car-ha...
Don't forget that almost every car made in the last 5 years reports telemetry (including vehicle speed, accelerometer data, and location) back to the manufacturer who shares that data with third parties, sometimes including insurance companies.
But licenses are not awarded based on competence.

They are awarded based on years of service as an apprentice and a journeyman to a master, who is effectively your pimp until you become a master yourself.

Guess who certifies master tradesmen? They guy who prefers to have you working for him instead of competing with him. It's a racket. There's some logic behind it, but less than you'd think.

Becoming fully competent to plumb or wire a house takes a few weeks of instruction. If that. It's just not difficult to become competent. It takes a bit longer to get fast though!

I would fully support a certification process that allows you to demonstrate your competence in a written and practical exam in front of experts who have no stake in your success or failure. But that is not the way it works.

(Actually, there are a few programs where you can do this for some work that would otherwise require a formal license. Lead paint remediation, of low or medium-risk surfaces, is one of them.)
What statistics? Let’s see it
Rolls Royce do this I think
I’m curious why for Noland and Alex the implant usage dropped in the fourth month?
> Alongside the sketch was a note intended for defence ministers in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet. Under the heading “Defensive lines to take”, it read: “Have looked at the photographs, no definite conclusions reached regarding large diamond-shaped object. Confident that jet aircraft is a Harrier. Have no record of Harriers operating in location at stated date/time. No other reports received by MoD of unusual air activity or sightings at location/date/time.”

That note is strange. The wording would have effectively deepened the mystery instead of offering an explanation, by implying it that the Harrier jet was also operating without the knowledge of the MoD and it was completely unknown where it belonged to or what its mission was.

That detail really makes it sound like the secret government/alien conspiracy from the X-Files.

But then this is presented as "defensive lines to take", so it was prepared language in case the incident blew up in the press?

I wonder if that means the Thatcher government wanted to present this as an UFO mystery to the public, possibly to hide some military programs or test flights going on in the vicinity.

Or was "have no record of any activity" a well-known euphemism for "shut up, it's secret"?
> I'm happy you've only worked for altruistic, not-for-profit minded companies that care about employee growth and takes pride in their tach stack above all else. I have not had as fortunate an experience.

No one is making this claim.

My comment was a bit terse and provocative, rude, deserves the downvotes tbh. I'll take them.

To elaborate ~ I've got a lot of empathy for the poster I was originally replying to. I've fallen into that way of thinking before, and it sure is comfortable. Of course, companies and their leadership make poor and irrational decisions. Often, however, it's easy to perceive their decisions as poor and irrational when you simply don't have the context they do. "Why would they x ?? if only y!!" but, you know, there may well be a good reason why that you aren't aware of, they may have different goals to you (which may well be selfish! and that doesn't make them irrational or anything). Feels similar to programmers hating when people say "can't you 'just' x" - well yes, but actually there's a mountain of additional considerations behind the scene that the person spouting "just" hasn't considered.

Is leadership unintelligent, or displaying poor/irrational decision making, if the company self destructs? Perhaps. But quite possibly not. They probably got a whole lot out of it. Different priorities.

Consider that leadership may label a developer unintelligent if that dev doesn't always consider how to drive shareholder value "gee they're so focused on increasing their salary not on business value". Well actually the dev is quite smart, from their own perspective. Same thing.

And if every company you've ever worked for truly has poor leadership then, yeah, it's probably worth reassessing how you interview. Do you need to dig deeper into the business? Do you just not have the market value to negotiate landing a job at a company with intelligent leadership?

So, two broad perspectives: either the poster has a challenge with perception, or they are poor at picking companies. Or perhaps the companies truly do have poor leadership but I think that unlikely. Hence it comes back to the individual.

@y-c-o-m-b sorry for being a bit rude.

Cheers for reading
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I'm not really sure I understand the rebuttal. Are you implying that pharmacy companies play no role in healthcare generally? If you make that claim I assume you've never had to fill a prescription, ever. Because pharmacies and drug prices play a GIANT role in the cost of healthcare. I mean, even the US government feels this way

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-drug-price...
> "Trump is "crashing" the stock market, and I was like oh crap, but when I checked it was only down a few points"

Forbes has a page "realtime billionaires list"[1] where they track the day to day wealth changes. Musk lost $12.5 billion today, Larry Ellison lost $2.8 billion today, Mark Zuckerberg gained $820M today.

When a few points means billions to the people who fund and own media outlets, who are also famously competitive and willing to do anything to make the numbers go up, it becomes more clear why we hear of the market "crashing" but it doesn't seem much different to us. (and that's outside the usual political complaining about everything the 'other' party does, whatever it is).

[1] https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
https://archive.ph/EeYDy
I think you may be underestimating future enshitification? (e.g. it's going to be trivially easy for the cloud suppliers to cram ads into all the chat responses at will).
you should still be able to saturate your bandwidth with poor latency
Haven't seen a cgi-bin for a long time!
The government using the power of the law to invade the privacy of its citizens, against the overwhelming preference of its citizens and international human rights norms... is abusive. It isn't tyranny on its own, but it should be avoided.

Not liking how a company provides a service, when there are other companies providing the same service? That's not tyranny. That's not like a government threatening you with jail or violence.

If you think it is then the time has come, IMO, to log off for a while and get back in touch with the world outside of the internet and tech.
Ah yes, evidence of Shadow Prompting[1]. Likely their API is given additional, hidden, prompt context making Tiananmen verboten.

1 https://www.techpolicy.press/shining-a-light-on-shadow-promp...