skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the answer is obvious, no? Because there may be products that can make your life better but you don't know about them. It's a bit like asking "why would you ever want a medical treatment you didn't know existed?" Because I, not being a doctor, don't know of the existence of most medical treatments but some may be able to cure diseases or other ailments I have.
Relay computer compile, load and run [video]
I switched from Vim to NeoVim about a year ago and have been quite pleased. Other than having to `alias vim='nvim'` due to unconquerable muscle memory, I haven't really noticed any change other than having a lot more plugin options
Scout outperforms llama 3.1 405b and Gemini Flash 2.0 lite and it's MoE so as fast as a 17B model. That's pretty crazy.

It means you can run it on a high-ram apple silicon and it's going to be insanely fast on groq (thousands of tokens per second). Time to first token will bottleneck the generation.
>Worldwide centrist and conservative groups account for 60%+ of the population.

Source?

>See also for example recent USAID gutting and reasons behind it.

A very politically motivated act does not prove anything about the “traditional structure of Internet media which reflects the underlying population very poorly”.
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It's stunning to think how well these missions have done and what we've learnt. I'd love to see new missions aimed at much greater longevity with more modern instruments. I wonder how long one could make the mission? 100 years? 200? Would new generators reduce the power loss to less than 4W/year, or would it just need more/much bigger ones?
Let me give you an example: I don't mind raking leaves, but I hate the step where you have to use the rake in one hand and your hand in the other to pick them up, spilling leaves on the trail to the bin.

My wife saw an ad for "rake hands" -- I had never thought that a solution to my gripe would exist, but for twenty bucks a significant source of friction in my yard work is gone, and I would have never even thought to look for such a solution.
Fact checking can have bias too
I think a market without advertising is sufficiently "alternative reality" that it's difficult to say what it would look like. The giant incumbents are only giant incumbents because of ads to start with.

In a world without advertising, our entire cultural approach to consumption would necessarily be different. Maybe it would be as you say. But, maybe we'd be more thoughtful and value-driven. Maybe objects would be created to last longer, and less driven by a constant sales cycle. Maybe craftsmanship would still be a valued aspect of everyday goods.
Almost every single time speech is limited someone finds a way to weaponize that limitation.

In most jurisdictions there are, at times weaponized, limitations, and that's the tradeoff those jurisdiction landed on.

I don't see how this proposed limitation could produce acceptable weaponizations.

Just think for a second how outlandish these would sound with such limitation in place:

- The ban on "persuasive content" is used to shut down political dissent labeled as "unwanted influence."

- Independent journalists are silenced when their reporting is categorized as "promotional advertising."

- Fundraising for humanitarian causes is outlawed as "solicitation advertising."

- Religious discussions are prohibited as "advertising spiritual beliefs" or "donation to the organized religion."

- Medical awareness campaigns are shut down as "advertising health concerns."

- Environmental activism is criminalized as "advertising eco-agendas."

There would be just no end of these.
This isn’t just good news for the oldies. Gen Z in particular seems at first glance to be balding earlier and at higher rates. I had no idea what the heck “Norwood” meant until some young Zoomer guy clued me in.
Right but 30%-60% is very different than 99%. Users paying 2x for games, not 100x.
I agree the OP’s description is wrong. That said, I think his conclusions are right, in that a quant of this that fits in 512GB of RAM is going to run about 8x faster than a quant of a dense model that fits in the same RAM, esp. on Macs as they are heavily throughput bound.
Actual progress in biopharma is mediocre until it isn’t. Just look at weight loss drugs for an example.
Respectfully, I am suggesting that OP has an intellectual disability to think deriving notions about the 'American' national character from Patton is some tocquevillian insight and he may find it profitable to watch Downfall to try and figure out Brussels' next move. Don't forget the dousing rods.
Looks like 109B would fit in a 64GiB machine's RAM at 4-bit quantization. Looking forward to trying this.
Nah, to me you're just an average person on the internet. If the recent developments don't surprise you, I just chalk it up to lack of curiosity. I'm well aware that people like you exist, most people are like that in fact. My comment was referring to experts specifically.
I don't think it's an unworthy goal.
Good question. Yet, unlock origin manage to filter out 99.99% of all all ads without blocking actual content, so must be possible!!
this was after 5 years

It was so significant that one of the 2 strings, 6 panels each, simply shut off especially during peak hours because the inverter's minimal input voltage wasn't met (during peak voltage usually drops due to negative heat coefficient). 1 simply was broken and was bypassed by the.. bypass diodes i guess. And another was at a third. But again, the lower voltage was a much bigger problem than the input.

problem is, you can only measure this very well under load. So taking your multi meter to the place of sale might not say that much. `It might though for the really broken ones.
reality*
I have spent years of my working life interacting almost solely through text and email, so this is believable to me.

If you live and work at home alone and don't order out food or socialize it is entirely possible to go days without speaking a word.

I used to spend entire summers alone as a child walking the forest in my backyard with my dog. I would speak to my parents at dinner but most of my world was quiet.

Speaking in person was very difficult for me as college student and something that I know I will never master because of the lack of verbal communication in my youth.

It's obviously not super common, but it is relatable to me that some people do live this way.
Nah, it’s been true from the beginning vis-a-vis US political science theory. That is, if you deliver something like https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology... To models from GPT-3 on you get highly “liberal” per Pew’s designations.

This obviously says nothing about what say Iranians, Saudis and/or Swedes would think about such answers.
Hah, I was about to criticise the text for far too lightly conflating markup and punctuation, just to see the afterword.

I actually do think the author has a point, in that must solutions today are inelegant, I also don't think this is a problem which has a real elegant solution. Where to draw the line? Why not encode fonts into the standard too, if we're doing bold? Etc.

I'm still mostly in favour of keeping everything markdown (in my own writing), however much it pollutes the "purity" of text.
Who will be dumb enough to believe American security promises anymore? America won't defend anyone no matter what they promiss.

If they wanted to sell defense, threatening annexation of countries they are supposed to have current defensive arrangement with is inconsistent with that. Allying yourself with Russia is inconsistent with that too.

And above all, an attempt to use past help as a reason to make the other country your colony for materials extractions while trying to sell their parts to Russia ... makes you untrustworthy.

Greenland is not threatened by China right now, they are threatened by America.
Enabling lto, using codegen-units=1, and using the minimum required feature flags might improve performance a bit.
Presumably you could also argue that 60 plus percent is made up by centrist and leftist groups, centrism being what it is.
Lenovo backdoors as preinstalled software, including their own TLS certificate authorities.

Name whom you're referring to every time!
At 17B active params MoE should be much faster than monolithic 70B, right?
This is precisely the sort of statement that derails the discussion and makes it impossible to even have. I imagine there’s a name for this sort of thing, perhaps some exquisitely long German word?

So lets do this: ban all ads in print, video, and in-public. Make the fine so high that you’re going to have to declare bankruptcy and close up shop. Or just straight up revoke corporate charters. There’s your line. I’m happy to start here and negotiate backwards. But this needs to be in effect while we work it out. Advertising is killing us. I don’t need or want myself or my family constantly assaulted by ads.

Finally, to be frank I find advertisements a sibling of propaganda. I don’t want either.
Because they could improve your life. To come up with good examples, one would have to know more about your preferences.

But imagine there's an event (party, fair, game jam) and the only way to know it's happening is to specifically search for it, there are no posters or advertisements online. Don't you think that some people that would have wanted to go would miss it because they never even noticed that there was an event?
He does what he loves while without having to be “hungry” or an unstable lifestyle and unpredictable.

That sounds like the definition of success to me.
Not sure what you mean. People would definitely still compete on quality and price in a world without advertising: much moreso, because they couldn't just spend money for sales without improving their product. If they wanted to improve sales, they'd have to either get better or cheaper.
Why did I have to scroll down so far to see the correct answer?

"You should understand the reason why the rule exists, so that you can decide when to follow it" -- yeah, then why is the reason not explained in the book containing the rules, including an explicit note that if the situation does not match the example, you are allowed to ignore the rule?
The model wasn't trained on those languages (yet). The only possible explanation is racism. The model is also racist against Russians and Icelanders.
Even if they did it would take a tour de force to make reality. The whole iOS development stack very heavily depends on macOS — Xcode is written in Objective-C/Swift + AppKit for example and the iOS Simulator just runs the iOS userland in a phone frame and lets macOS furnish the Darwin half.

Practically speaking, they’d at minimum have to beef up the internal Yellow Box descendant they’d been previously using to make Safari and iTunes run on Windows (essentially porting large chunks of macOS to Windows) to be able to support Xcode, or following the direction of their more recent iCloud, Music, and TV apps write a WinUI-based version of Xcode for Windows paired with an all new iOS Emulator from scratch.

It’d be a huge investment with returns that are unclear at best.
Prompt preprocessing is heavily compute-bound, so relying significantly on processing capabilities. Bandwidth mostly affects token generation speed.
I see leftists denying inconvenient facts just as much as rightists. It's just the inevitable product of a tribal mentality, the tribe doesn't matter.
>I think everyone knows that, but the distinction is [...]

The discussion got muddied because in this subthread, it morphed from "What if we made _all_ advertising illegal?" (original article's exact words) ... to gp's (imiric) less restrictive example of "acceptable" advertising such as "product catalogs".

So when the person crafting a reply is using the article author's absolutist position of no ads, the distinction doesn't matter.
Author would love this song:

https://genius.com/Minutemen-shit-from-an-old-notebook-lyric...
> The more context the slower

It seems the other way around?

120k : 2k = 600s : 10s
However fully unregulated speech also leads to issues like insults or forms of propaganda which encourages violence. History is full of cases where violent speech was enabler of physical violence. From school bullies to violence of the German Third Reich where speech was an enabler.

Thus as always in society finding the right approach and right way of regulating isn't easy.
Gemini likely uses something based on RingAttention to achieve its long context sizes. This requires massive inference clusters, and can't be the same approach llama4 is using. Very curious how llama4 achieves its context length.
plus you do that with a 256-qubit quantum computer and the process will finish soon
I gather the term of art is "caponization," but that's a cavil. For something that is not born with testes or indeed at all, to describe it with this metaphor is very silly and does nothing to elucidate whatever it is you're actually getting at.
I'd happily exchange that discoverability for control of my own informational environment.

Even if you're right, think about the positive effect that'd have on society. The people with cool, interesting products would be the ones who put a little intentionality and effort into it, incentivizing everyone to be a little more thoughtful.
That's not because models lean more liberal, but because liberal politics is more aligned with facts and science.

Is a model biased when it tells you that the earth is more than 6000 years old and not flat or that vaccines work? Not everything needs a "neutral" answer.
Obligatory trailer for the "It's Quieter in the Twilight" documentary, about the team of engineers riding out the end of the Voyager program:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJT8AW0wYw
Yes, many countries have rules affecting contractors, but the UK's IR35 is unusually aggressive and damaging. It wasn't designed to stop "abuse" - it was designed to limit economic independence for individuals running small service
- based businesses.

The idea that "too much working freedom" is unsustainable in high-tax countries reflects a deeply top-down, corporatist mindset. It assumes that ordinary people being in control of how they work is somehow a problem to be fixed - especially if they start competing with entrenched players.

In reality, IR35 wasn't about tax fairness. It was a response to small businesses becoming too competitive - delivering the same services as large consultancies, but with more agility and less overhead. The legislation didn't level the playing field - it tilted it to protect big corporations from small rivals, using misleading narratives to justify it.

Other countries may have similar pressures, but few have responded by attacking independent economic agency as directly as the UK has.
I could write one without Tokio, I'd just poll the sockets at 100 Hz
Can we please not make out-of-touch, old, rich people live any longer than they should.

They will be the only ones capable of affording this service. Reminds me of meths from the altered carbon series.
Ask HN: Strategies for LLMs to Generate Stories
Interested in folks who have played around with this and had success in getting it to generate longer form narratives. Any strategies for keeping a narrative "on track" and remembering context you give it?
This feels very similar in my mind to blanket concepts like "let's ban lobbying". There are certainly specific modes or practices in lobbying that are damaging to society, but lobbying itself (specifically, informing lawmakers about your specific perspective and desires) is a valid and desirable function.

Likewise, advertising on its own at its core is useful: there might be something that adds value to your life that someone else is trying to provide and the only missing link is that you don't know about it.

In both cases, it seems totally fine to have strict guardrails about what kinds of practices we deem not okay (e.g. banning advertising to children, or banning physical ads larger than some size or in some locations), but the extreme take of the article felt like it intentionally left no room for nuance.
The snark padding is a waste of screen pixels and undermines your point.
My mother in laws Jetta she got brand new a few years ago needs an engine after something like 10 years, both mechanical and electrical. Dies randomly like something electrical. Consumes a quart of oil every few hundred miles and getting worse. This thing was driven regularly but lightly (several times per week but few miles) by a little old lady who took it right to the dealer for any little thing. Oil changes and other maintainance strictly and religeously on schedule and performed by the dealer. The quote for the engine was ridiculous too but I don't remember what it was exactly because I only heard 2nd hand and I wasn't taking notes in prep for a post like this. But they are getting another car rather than fix this one. The rest of the car is in excellent condition, so it's not like some beater, yet it's still not worth doing the engine.

You can see right through my 97 4runner from all the rust and it's running and working fine. Does not drink oil. I neglect the piss out of it. I haven't changed the oil filter in probably 3 years, just add a new quart once or twice a year, probably 5 to 10k miles. It has needed repairs. I put a new starter in a few years ago. Pulled the injectors and had them rebuilt a couple years ago (basically they just clean them and put new screens and o-rings on them). couple hundred bucks each time.

Anecdata, sure. All anyone has is their own experiance.

I think VW are unreliable and expensive to repair and nice looking.
The resulting VM implementation reminds me of this post from cloudflare where they similarly use closures to build their interpreter.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-fast-interpreters-in-ru...
I can see the argument for letting a query finish if it is doing any kind of mutation. For a read-only query though, surely it would be a good addition in postgres to cancel the query? Cancelling things can be quite difficult though in practice.
Like this:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/how-donald-trum...
if microsoft ever makes something that doesnt suck it will be a vacuum/hoover
The users of open source software are not limited to individuals. A bank, hedge fund, or intelligence agency might be willing to put forth the effort to self host an AI model versus sending their prompts and RAG context to a third party.
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I've been following Voyager since the late 70s when my dad (who worked at Ames) would bring home printouts of the Jupiter images. This interview captures something profound about these missions that non-space folks often miss.

The most striking part isn't the technical achievement of keeping 1970s hardware alive for half a century. It's the human infrastructure behind it - the institutional knowledge passed through generations of engineers like some ancient priesthood maintaining a temple.

Think about it: We're teaching 2020s engineers to understand machine code written before MS-DOS existed, working with 50 year old documentation on yellowing paper, and bringing retirees back to decipher systems they built when Nixon was president.

Our space exploration legacy is being maintained by the engineering equivalent of oral history. This is why we need consistent funding for these long-term missions - the value isn't just in the data, but in maintaining the unbroken chain of knowledge transfer that makes missions like this possible.

The sticky notes on diagrams trying to revive a silent probe 15 billion miles away just broke me. This is humanity at its finest.
Germany considers removing 1200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump
It’s an extending innovation for them - makes them more efficient internally, and crucially engages their ad-driven customer base. Giving it away is great, it levels the playing field for competitors on tech while NOT giving them direct access to the billions of users FB has. Plus it makes it less likely that OpenBrainTM will achieve runaway quality internally.
There are scores of grocery chains in the US, not 5. There are thousands of independent grocery stores. And literally hundreds of salt options, even at Kroger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_...

https://www.kroger.com/search?query=salt&searchType=default_...
> But ... that's not how science works

Not sure where this is coming from.

Also, it's important to keep in mind the quote "The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles"
I think something around those lines:

Write a comprehensive technical blog post targeting small and medium-sized businesses that use Hetzner Cloud and are evaluating lightweight Kubernetes alternatives. Compare and analyze the following solutions: k3s, MicroK8s, Docker Swarm, and Minikube.

Structure:

Start with a title and abstract introducing the comparative scope.

Provide sections such as:

Architectural Requirements,
Deployment & Lifecycle, Management,
Cost Analysis,
Security & Compliance,
Developer Experience,
Strategic Recommendations and
end with a clear conclusion and deployment advice.

Style:

Technical but accessible to DevOps engineers or small startup CTOs.

Use citation-style references for data (e.g., [1], [2], etc.).

Incorporate code examples (Terraform, Helm, CLI snippets).

Use tables for cost comparisons or benchmarks where appropriate.

Mention open-source tools specific to Hetzner (e.g., hetzner-k3s, hcloud Terraform provider).

Tone:

Professional, analytical, and informative. No marketing fluff.
They’re endorsing candidates to sell more newspapers or more airtime for advertisers. How is that not “in exchange for money”?
I think but am not sure that the goal here is to deliver reliable audio to a transmitter at a remote site from a radio station.
Yes, but the RPi is not yet quite a standard desktop/labtop workstation. And it would be nice if the RPi exposed its SPI, I2C, and UARTs over a standard mini connector like JST-SH connectors to ease plugging in peripherals (like is done with Stemma QT, Qwiic and Grove).
If you want to escape surveillance you will have to cultivate offline organization that communicates via carrier pigeon.
Ok. It's just that, as asked, the answer is obviously no because if F = `Set e`, F is not a type constructor, so F cannot be a functor.
Yeah truth itself is a bias. The idea of being unbiased doesn’t make sense.
Article clearly says "advertising".