skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish I had an option to say I’m not interested.

If you give me extra wishes, I’d love three options, to either say that the ad is annoying, the brand isn’t for me, or I don’t want to be offered that type of product.

The quality of ads would skyrocket if I could just stop seeing efforts to get me to be interested in things that I will never buy.

Just before joining Facebook, I was living abroad and confronted to ads in a language I didn’t understand constantly. As my bootcamp task, I measured that this was 4% of ads shown to users. At the time, this was already billions of dollars. My manager deemed that to be a ridiculous and pointless exercise. One night at the bar (there were three bars in the London office at the time), I mentioned it to a guy who happened to be the big ad boss, who immediately prioritized the project, I got a couple of smart guys who joined after I was promoted for finding this.

A bit later, I checked the conversion rate by how many times you’ve seen the same ad before. It was a precipitous cliff: people click on things they’ve never seen before. Ranking ads from the same advertiser happens to be one of those SQL/Hive query that doesn’t scale well, so I had to use the fact I came to the office early and has 12 hours of uninterrupted server time before the daily queries were hammering anything, and I had to sample a lot—but I realized I could sample by server, which helped a lot.

I tried to mention it to the same guy, who said he knew about that problem, but empowering users like I suggested would not work: it would shrink the matching opportunities, AI was getting smarter, etc. In practice, the debate around privacy got very toxic, and Facebook couldn’t let people do that without some drama about storing a list of advertisers that they said they didn’t like.

One of Sandberg’s trusted lieutenants lost a child late in her pregnancy; it was a whole thing. She started seeing ads for baby clothes just after, which triggered an optional ban on alcohol, gambling, and baby stuff. That’s still there. I worked with her briefly a bit later (after months of bereavement) and asked if it made sense to expand the category. She replied that those were two legal obligations, plus her well-known personal drama that no one dared push against, so she was able to push for those three, but that the company had changed. No other categories could be added: at that point, it would be too difficult. Mark used to not care about ads, but he started having expensive ideas, notably AI (to ban horrendous content); he needed the money, and he started to care about raking as much dough in as possible. I had worked on horrendous content (instead of ad language) enough to know that it mattered, so I was very conflicted. It felt surreal how much things had changed in nine months.

All that still feels like a giant waste, not the least how much energy goes into making and showing ads to people repeatedly swearing at their screen, begging to make that annoying copy disappear.
There’s also Shaft, which is Flutter ported to Swift:

https://github.com/ShaftUI/Shaft

Like Flutter, this paints everything itself. It doesn’t need to bind to a UI framework directly. Instead, it needs the platform to provide primitives like a surface to draw into and input events.
Or when it asks you questions.

The only time an LLM should ask questions is to clarify information. A word processor doesn’t want to chit chat about what I’m writing about, nor should an LLM.

Unless it is specifically playing an interactive role of some sort like a virtual friend.
Why is "loins" not a valid word? AFAIK it is.

I am the maintainer of parolottero, another word game (I made it to be used on plasma-mobile) and finding good word lists is not easy at all.

I have a decent one for italian but not for english. Which one are you using?
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No, but apparently people stop caring and chasing the wagon.
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the raw diff
I'm either going crazy, or GitHub removed/moved the raw diff ability. You used to be able to get a raw diff from a PR by just adding ".diff" to the url, but it appears it doesn't work anymore.

I generally use this when receiving a PR and don't want to go through the hassle of checking out their branch, so I would just grab the raw diff and apply it locally. This seems to have gone away though.

Is this a bug or something? Has anyone else noticed this issue and found a work around?
Who would think it's not advertising?
True, I only compared the speed but not the vibe
It's not the name of an americentric sports team, though.
So, for those of us down here at the bottom of the karma ladder, after 5000 lines of comments about giving antibiotics to cows, which had nothing to do with the article, there is some actual discussion of the topic.

This inability to bring a product to market is in fact an artifact of the for-profit healthcare system.

Besides the obvious aspects of weight-loss and erectile-dysfunction drugs being more profitable, there is also an issue with imaginary property.

Pharma will not bring a drug to market unless they can own exclusive rights. Since this is a naturally occurring molecule, some tweak will need to be made before the chemical is eligible for a patent.

So until some company can make a custom modification, without disrupting the efficacy, it won't be considered a viable product.
Yes. And you’re free to use my code to do that. I wanted the fun artificial limitations 8 pins
No. This is called selective enforcement and is the worst thing in the world. It gives the enforcers the option to pick on whoever they want and give a pass to whever they want, as if there were no law at all. There is effectively no law at all, because literally anyone doing anything can be called either guilty or innocent at the whim of the person doing the enforcing, or whoever controls them.
> It's time to be optimistic.

Optimism is good for sanity and I try to trick myself into not being pessimistic at least but I honestly feel that's like burying the head in the sand. Those problems are still there aside from the ozone holes which have been fixed. In addition there are even more serious problems on the horizon. Having a kid makes me vacillate between optimism (for the sake of a sane family life) and horror our kids future.
>any idea on how these characteristics could be measured?

Just a gut feeling, I would say intuitively.

Something to think about if you're just looking at popularity. It pretty much is a popularity contest by definition :\

Sometimes it also makes sense to consider the obstacles too. Pop idol contests are an example where contestants having extreme disadvantages are sometimes showcased, in contrast to those who might have grown up in the town of Hollywood, giving them a bit of a leg up.

Make sure not to overlook anything obvious, which can sometimes even happen if it's too obvious.

Like paywalls, that's obvious. But something that draws interest in spite of a discouragement/exclusion obstacle may just be more compelling to a certain degree compared to an equally popular alternative which is not bound by any obstructions.
Inside the AS/400 by Frank Soltis, is a deep dive into IBM's AS/400 and its predecessor the System/38. Quite interesting. There is a 2nd or 3rd edition called Fortress Rochester: Inside the iSeries, but it tends to be hard to find and expensive.

[0] https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/
When will this hit the Meta AI that I have within WhatsApp since of last week?
There would be a chilling effect on speech. People would be afraid to speak or be imprisoned for saying the wrong things. North Korea is the only country that bans advertising.
Moving beyond 'cyberwashing' to ensure robust digital security
Are you asking me what is the best way to organize information, trees or tags?

Do you also want me to tell you what is the best way to foresee if a given program will halt?

The point is, bringing facile statements like "just make the right choice" adds nothing to the conversation. Some problems are hard and trying to short circuit the conversation saying that's easy just pick the right tool doesn't even apply here.
This is false. The const of producing a single token is linear but the cost of producing an entire sequence of length N is O(N^2) still (which is always what we meant when we talked about quadratic cost not the cost of a single token).
I mean to each their own, but a quick search of "clojure multiparadigm" comes up with a fair number of hits from people who would disagree with it not being so.
Welcome to the world of email. "time-sensitive emails" are NOT a thing, do not rely on emails for any time-sensitive information. Emails may take DAYS to deliver and there is nothing you can do about it.
Well, it would be great if we could simulate an ad free environment
Thanks for that, I just played todays and it is pretty fun!
It can be either but typically it's "learned" without a defined mapping (which guessing is the case here). Although some experts may end up heavily correlating with certain domains.
"...It has been suggested that Trump's apparent "avalanche of lies" consists of bullshit rather than of lying as strictly defined. According to Harry Frankfurt's influential 2005 book On Bullshit, the liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it, while the bullshitter does not care whether what they say is true or false. Eduardo Porter writes in The Washington Post that Frankfurt's bullshitter definition fits Trump: "To subvert the truth, you must first know it, or at least think you do. That’s not Trump’s game..."
Noah hitting HN!
But how do you explain an uninhabited semi-independent (as i understand it) island with no trade with the US getting higher tariffs than Australia, the country it's broadly part of?
So these news networks would be banned too?
I've noticed "honestly" is often used in place of "frankly". As in someone wants to express something frankly without prior restraint to appease the sensibilities of the recipient(s). I think it's because a lot of people never really learned the definition of frankness or think "frankly..." sounds a bit old fashioned. But I'm no language expert.
For single user, maybe. But for small teams GPUs are still the only available option, when considering t/s and concurrency. Nvidia's latest 6000pro series are actually reasonably priced for the amount of vram / wattage you get. A 8x box starts at 75k eur and can host up to DS3 / R1 / Llama4 in 8bit with decent speeds, context and concurrency.
I have both, they work pretty well, TapXR looks nicer but has one drawback: doesn't do very well in low light conditions and doesn't work at all in the dark; the old Strap doesn't have this problem, its only drawbacks are the extra seconds it takes to wear it and the weirder aesthetics.

I've only used them as keyboards, so I'm not very familiar with the media controller options, but as far as I can see it's a very easy mode to use.

You can use two of them at the same time, one in each hand, but it probably won't be necessary, you can get to type very fast with one hand.

They are very well supported on iOS. I once plugged one into Windows and it seemed to work fine, but I have not tested it extensively.
This is a common misunderstanding. Experts are learned via gating networks during training that routes dynamically per parameter. You might have an expert on the word "apple" in one layer for a slightly lossy example.

Queries are then also dynamically routed.
I love cryptic crossword, but there's so many "inside rules" that make them hard to approach for newcomers. It doesn't help that there really aren't a lot of good easy cryptics.
You don't need to draw a precise line, just one where things over the line are clearly undesirable, like billboards on roadways, TV commercials, etc. There are some countries with virtually no advertising. People who visit the DPRK come back saying it's like "Ad block for your life".
All laws have blurred lines. I guess you could say some are a lot more blurred than others.
And then, other countries don't want the chlorine chicken. How to sell?
One of my all-time favorite movies that not many of my friends have seen. What a shame ...
Maybe it will actually slow down now that the webshit crowd are increasingly relying on AI copilots. You can't vibe code using a framework that the model knows nothing about.
This is 90% of my thoughts as well.

Another note I had is: keep the words to a specific category rather than a broad category.

For example: the today’s puzzle of “professional sports teams” had 4/5 of the teams from the NBA. The 5th answer was either the Detroit “Lions” (a professional _American football_ team) or more likely the London “Lions” (a _British_ professional basketball team).
Small point of order: bit slower might not set expectations accurately. You noted in a previous post in the same thread[^1] that we'd expect about a 1 minute per 10K tokens(!) prompt processing time with the smaller model. I agree, and contribute to llama.cpp. If anything, that is quite generous.

[^1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595888
> the actual processing happens in 17B

This is a common misconception of how MoE models work. To be clear, 17B parameters are activated for each token generated.

In practice you will almost certainly be pulling the full 109B parameters though the CPU/GPU cache hierarchy to generate non-trivial output, or at least a significant fraction of that.
I would love a book that gives a layman’s understanding of how to read and dissect a board you pull out of common modern device.

Say a roomba.

You might not know how or why each component works in detail at the end, but instead understand why the board is laid out the way it is and where each component controlling the functions and logic live, what might be broken, and whether and how to repair. I think if I were an impatient student with an interest in electronics that’s what I’d want. Then go back and study individual components, math, physics, and theory.

You could make a whole series: radio boards, home appliance boards, PC motherboards, car boards, etc.
I just loaded two models of different quants into LM Studio:

qwen 2.5 coder 1.5b @ q4_k_m: 1.21 GB memory

qwen 2.5 coder 1.5b @ q8: 1.83 GB memory

I always assumed this to be the case (also because of the smaller download sizes) but never really thought about it.
I agree in general with your points, except that I believe both parties “should“ (can) be grateful for each other and in that acknowledge they both need each other. It’s nice for wellbeing to be grateful for everything good that happens, it doesn’t necessarily imply servitude.
How did they achieve such a long window and what are the memory requirements to utilize it?
I read the book when it came out and it was indeed a great story. Kidder did a remarkable job explaining technical topics that even non-techies could understand. You could just feel the pressure the team was under to deliver.

The Eagle seemed like a neat design but I never encountered a DG machine of any kind in the various companies I worked for. VAXen seemed to be everywhere, Sun and other UNIX workstations followed only to be shoved to the side by PCs in the early 90s (except for some applications like CAD and that was only for a while). Funny how such a vibrant industry segment could die so quickly.
I am once again asking my fellow ketards
I don't understand what LeCun is trying to say. Why does he give an interview saying that LLM's are almost obsolete just when they're about to release a model that increases the SotA context length by an order of magnitude? It's almost like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation.
> new generations of AI focused hardware

Some benchmarks are not encouraging. See e.g. https://www.hardware-corner.net/mac-studio-m3-ultra-deepseek...

That «AI focused hardware» will either have extremely fast memory, and cost prohibitively, or have reasonable costs, and limits that are to be assessed.
Seems to work for me:

https://github.com/susam/fxyt/pull/8.diff

https://github.com/susam/fxyt/pull/8.patch

https://github.com/susam/fxyt/commit/aa8f72f4c6eabc5568f7115...

https://github.com/susam/fxyt/commit/aa8f72f4c6eabc5568f7115...
I'm not sure about that. What happens if you "turn down the weight" (cf. https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude) for self-concept, expressed in the use not of first-person pronouns but "the first person" as a thing that exists? Do "I" and "me" get replaced with "this one" like someone doing depersonalization kink, or does it become like Wittgenstein's lion in that we can no longer confidently parse even its valid utterances? Does it lose coherence entirely, or does something stranger happen?

It isn't an experiment I have the resources or the knowledge to run, but I hope someone does and reports the results.
Better would be to make targeted advertising unprofitable. This could be done by requiring data retention to be accounted for as a liability on the balance sheet.

E.g. If a business want to run an ad in the newspaper, go for it. But if they want to follow me around on the internet and collect information on everything that I do, then they should be required to record what they collect. Congress could then vote to make laws introducing taxes on that quantity.

Once this stuff is measured then appropriate counter measures could be taken to discourage socially damaging enterprises.
I know Google DeepMind ran experiments with 10M a while ago, but I think this will be the first legit, released 10M context window model.
You don't see how this could possibly be used by unethical politicians?

Like, only Company A (who completely coincidentally contributed to my political campaign) is allowed to advertise inside the political boundaries I control?
These (and hotswapping/handshaking) are small quibbles that could be addressed with a simple standard subset of SPI for human-plugable devices.
LeCun doesn't believe in LLM Architecture anyway.

Could easily be that he just researches bleeding edge with his team and others work on Llama + doing experiements with new technices on it.

Any blog post or yt docu going into detail how they work?
Agreed. People don't seem to understand that unfair trade practices having been going on for decades. It's just that Trump appears to be the first president to actually take action on the problem. And it's pointless debating Trump-haters on day 2 of what will be a much longer process to restructure global trade to be more fair and balanced.
Hacker News Hug of Deaf
United States is a Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy according to the US constitution.

$ grep -i democra us_constitution.txt

$ grep -i republic us_constitution.txt
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

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Yes. LLMs and latent spaces are vastly more interesting.
No, that's why I said 'unsolicited' rather than 'third-party', so take the motorway billboard toll road example - if you also happen to own the car dealership or the webapp, you can't advertise that, because that's not what I've come to your motorway for.

And what's solicited or 'relevant' doesn't need to be rigidly defined in statutes (assuming common law) - the ASA or OfCom whoever it would be (UK examples) slaps fines on the rulebreakers and if they think they've interpreted the law correctly in good faith then it goes to court and we find out (and the growing body of case law helps future would-be-advertisers interpret it).

The existing advertisement disclosure rules for social media for example don't allow the loophole you propose: a 'sponsored' segment shilling a product in a YouTube video isn't considered different from directly selling video time to the third-party in which to run their own ad reel.
Command prompts don't speak English.

Command prompts don't get asked questions like "What do you think about [topic]?" and have to generate a response based on their study of human-written texts.
Video is a big one that's fairly bottlenecked by context length.
Classical “tariff engineering” also includes a small, hidden pocket on some garments to make them into shirts.
> Neither having more stuff, nor having more money, is "better" in an 'objective' sense, but relative to what you want out of life. If the Japanese and/or Germans are happy saving, then good for them; if Americans are happy spending, then good for them too.

Except our monetary and industrial policy incentivizes or disincentivizes those choices. Japan and Germany engineer those producing versus consuming choices deliberately. And Americans wanted to change that so they voted for the guy promising tariffs.
Or it is more logically and ethically consistent and thus preferable to the models' baked in preferences for correctness and nonhypocrisy. (democracy and equality are good for everyone everywhere except when you're at work in which case you will beg to be treated like a feudal serf or else die on the street without shelter or healthcare, doubly so if you're a woman or a racial minority, and that's how the world should be)
Quantizing definitely lowers memory requirements, it's a pretty direct effect because you're straight up using less bits per parameter across the board - thus the representation of the weights in memory is smaller, at the cost of precision.
Indeed. You can use a scenario analysis to check hypothetical cases and discuss with your team what optimal tax rates could be.
> People who sell things need ways to find buyers.

No, you've got that backwards. People who sell things should have a way of announcing their product to the world. Buyers who are interested in that type of product should be the ones seeking out the companies, not the other way around.

The current approach of companies pushing their products to everyone is how we got to the mess we are in today. Companies will cheat, lie, and break every law in existence in order to make more money. Laws need to be made in order for companies to stop abusing people.

You know what worked well? Product catalogs. Companies buy ad space in specific print or digital media. Consumers can consult that media whenever they want to purchase a specific product. This is what ecommerce sites should be. Give the consumer the tools to search for specific product types, brands, specifications, etc.; get rid of fake reviews and only show honest reviews from verified purchases and vetted reviewers, and there you go. Consumers can discover products, and companies can advertise.

This, of course, is only wishful thinking, since companies would rather continue to lie, cheat, and steal, as that's how the big bucks are made.

I honestly find it disturbing that with all of humanity's progress and all the brilliant technology we've invented, all of our communication channels are corrupted by companies who want to make us buy stuff, and by propaganda from agencies that want to make us think or act a certain way. Like holy shit, people, is this really the best we can do? It's exhausting having to constantly fight against being manipulated or exploited.
109B at Q6 is also nice for Framework Desktop 128GB.
Weird, I browse with javascript and cookies disabled, and was able to read the article at nature.com.
This is not a realistic scenario whatsoever. Printers tend to print fonts pretty accurately to their on screen presentation. Even using contextual alternates, the perpetrator would have to change the font before printing. But if the perpetrator has this opportunity, they do need the font at all, they can just change the content. For example, CSS media queries that I mentioned in the other comment can show one paragraph on the screen and another when printing. You don't even need to put both in the HTML - CSS ::before and ::after will happily do that for you.

It's also not very wise in general to not read the final printed version of the contract before signing
No need to unpack for inference. As things like CUDA kernels are fully programmable, you can code them to work with 4 bit integers, no problems at all.