skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unused services are always pure profit, and storage space is no exception. Providers can offer 100GB for like $24/year, because only like 2% of the subscribers will ever approach the limit, and so the extra space is never wasted but can be allocated to someone or something else.

It's like gym memberships, ISP/telco service bundles, and amenities at your apartment complex. Anyone not using every possible service is wasting money, but it's impossible to purchase a bespoke service, so essentially everyone will waste money because they're chipping in money for services that someone else uses more than they do.

Here at home I don't ever use the gym, the racquetball courts, the doggy-doo supplies, the laundry room, or a parking space, and yet my rent (everyone's rent) includes upkeep for all of those things. I'm subsidizing all my neighbors and all the wear-and-tear damage they put on those common amenities. Likewise, everyone who's paying $24/year for storage, or any business that purchases big multi-terabyte storage media, they're paying for unused storage space and giving profit. It's practically impossible to rightsize your storage media, and you never want it undersized, and you can't simply shrink them and reclaim the resources you invested, you just keep adding on new ones and replacing the malfunctioning ones. So nearly everyone always owns or rents more space than they can realistically utilize.

Furthermore, you'll notice that I specified "automatic" destruction of data by expiration date. Of course it is trivial to tag any arbitrary file with arbitrary metadata, but the challenge is to create a filesystem that executes automatic data purges on schedule, rather than pushing it into a rickety old handmade cronjob in userland. I've never ever seen a filesystem with such a feature, nor does it seem that anyone's interested in doing so.

And here I thought that computers were useful for automating business logic and easing the burden on human effort. And this is me, manually sifting through emails and photos in order to manually delete each one with 3 dialog boxes intervening. It takes hours, days, weeks.
> it doesn't seem likely that ARM will be getting any new license applicants anytime soon

Softbank's post-IPO business model for Arm is to move away from bespoke royalty-based licensing, standardize SoCs via a preferred partner like Mediatek, and demand a percentage of the sale price/value of final product.

Despite the lackadaisical Qualcomm Windows-on-Arm PC launch, Qualcomm has a huge pipeline in mobile and automotive, which should motivate support for Linux and virtualization with their gunyah hypervisor. Linux on Apple Silicon Macs can offer a point of reference for both macOS and non-Apple Arm PCs.

Post-apocalyptic Thinkpads are awesome resilience devices, engineering existence proofs, and inspiration for future US-manufactured computing devices.
> This is just false. Countless people were busy running scenarios based on the expected range of tariffs.

Appeal to authority ("the experts did the math!"), but OK...

> It wasn’t a surprise that tariffs were coming. It was a shock that they were so insanely high and that the people putting them forward were so clueless about it.

Right. So...they didn't do these scenarios. Which means (repeat after me): everyone is guessing.

Even if I accept your appeal to authority, and even if I assume that their "models" are sufficiently good to predict the future in a chaotic unfolding scenario involving dramatic changes to a complex global trade system [1], I basically guarantee that the average market player is "vibe trading" right now, not working from these models.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to work out the answer. I'm saying that takes time.

[1] LOL.
> The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit.

COVID was a natural disaster. Leadership responded to it.

This is the opposite. Markets were going well. Leadership intervened to crash them.

Do you see the difference? It’s not the same.

> You are overestimating the cautiousness of the market.

You are underestimating the impacts of risk premia.

This administration just showed that they don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re willing to go all-in on disastrous economic policy. They’ve already waffled on previous policy and then came back and doubled down. They’re still talking about more tariffs.

This isn’t a little “oopsie” any more. It’s a pattern. It’s going to be a long 4 years until we can get back to stability.

> Unless there are better returns offered in some other investment

You are so close. It’s not just returns, it’s risk. Trump just made the market hyper risky.
Or just make a torrent file.
Let's reverse that. "Current generation AI models can think of things that are truly new."

How could you possibly know that? Could you prove that an image wasn't copying from images in its training data?
For what it's worth, if you get put on a RIF plan then you treat it like a firing. Them being on paid leave isn't them not being fired yet, it's severance.
WSJ, also owned by Murdoch, is screaming bloody murder. One media for rich conservatives and one media for poorer conservatives, the goals of each are very different.
There were some pretty big protests Saturday. But, realistically, we aren’t going to have the sort of protests that, like, overthrow governments in the US. We tend to have rallies and marches rather than riots and rebellions. These are really

1) exercise in venting/speaking out/awareness raising

2) networking events for activists.

Eventually the activists and movements aim to get votes in the next election. Get funding for the opposition party’s legal fights and campaigns. That sort of thing.

So, for the most part it’ll be the Trump & Friends show until the midterms at least. It isn’t complacency I think, I mean the opportunity to pick an alternative happened in the past. Is it complacency to live in the outcomes of what has already happened?
Why signal-boost this then?
A lot of people i know, including myself, keep a lot of cash just as cash. There was little to invest into that made any sense in the last year or so. We have a rather sad situation where the best thing one can do is to just sit and wait - those who win will be those who can sit and wait for longer.
Exactly, I’m glad you mentioned it because there are many who can’t see through the smoke. This is the long con but I still struggle to understand the motive there, if for nothing else, is it the simple ideal that government should be small? Why go through all the trouble?
In operation ? Or in free fall ?
Wow that's great.

I'd prefer them all gone but stopping the bleeding is good too.

Up next: political add yard signs spammed everywhere but yards.
Impeachment (and conviction) would be the best market solution, and I am not joking.
To be honest, “buy the dip” is generally cope that people tell themselves.

The average investor isn’t sitting on a pile of cash just waiting to move it into the market. People investing periodically over decades have far more in the market than out. The “buy the dip” stuff ends up being a little bit here or there so they can convince themselves not to worry, not an appreciable swing in their portfolio.
I'm speaking to the experience of dealing with the government. It's not propaganda, this is literally what happens. Everyone independently coming to the same conclusion based on their personal experience isn't propaganda. It's reality.

Have you ever tried to deal with the government. I have unfortunately had a lot of dealing with Social security, medicare, medicaid, etc. From having to deal with aging parents. Yes, perhaps once you have gone through the extreme myriad of hoops to get everything set up and your check is automatically coming then yes it's ok. But you better hope no one gets some piece of PII and files something that throws it off.

>I'm probably not cruel enough to do it but I wish every person who spoke like you just did would have to live a month or whatever without all of the benefits of the government.

This is a horrible authoritarian justification. People shouldn't be made to starve so they can appreciate the gruel they are given versus having nothing. We should have a functional, efficient, and pleasant government that isn't adversarial to the general population.

Do you have any idea how long it can take to get a Medicare / SSI disability claim approved?

It was two years for my family member and that's with a very legitimate non-controversial terminal diagnosis. She finally got approved about 3 months before she was on Hospice. And this is someone with reasonable resources and active family members advocating for her. I can't imagine what it's like for low income people without resources or education.

That's not just me though, here's a reddit thread of lots of other people with similar or worse experiences, ( and some better).

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialSecurity/comments/1c0e8uk/how...

The fact of the matter is the majority of people don't have positive experiences when dealing with the government. I'm not even sure who is supposed to be pushing this propaganda. I would love for it to be the other way around and the government provides clear value in a helpful way, but that is simply not what people experience.

And that's not even getting into what it's like when you start getting copious amounts of automated nonsensical threatening form letters from the IRS.
One way to do it is pile into something with strong fundamentals you think will survive.

Be the first into a rowboat that’s not leaking. Others will join you.
For every situation like yours there's probably 10 where a product that doesn't work is advertised and people waste their money and continue suffering. This is not a problem that should be fixed by intrusive data gathering and advertising, but with a working healthcare system.
For Trump this is a quasi-religious quest, that he’s been obsessed with since forever. For everyone else, there’s one or two nutty finance guys who believe in this shit and then exclusively yes men.
The covid crisis was an actual event in physical reality not caused by admin policies.

This crisis is the admin taking a sledgehammer to international capitalism. No obvious intervention other than "stop doing that".

I'm sure at some point the fed would have some kind of response but inflation of tariffs is a huge risk and that limits what the fed can do unless they have co-ordination with the admin.
Calling a field of industry a bubble is being demeaning without justification.

Just because you are ignorant of something doesn't make it insignificant. That the significance is lost on you is YOUR problem.
More torrents are added, most days. That might preclude the a master torrent. That and the sheer size.
He doesn't have this power, but he declared a "national emergency" and put out an edict.

Legislators are supposed to review this and revoke it (and impeach him for abuse of powers), but Republicans are capitulating, ergo nothing can be done until someone with standing sues and it reaches the Supreme Court.

Then we have to assume they will rule it is unconstitutional, despite half of them being installed by him, and that he will listen to them.
> Sure they do.

How? Child labor, unbounded workdays and workweeks, hazardous work conditions, hiring discrimination, firing without cause, etc. make complete economic sense. Workers didn't like that very much, though, and so a lot of blood was spilled to win the rights we enjoy today.

> But again when supply and demand meet there’s no use for rent control anyways.

As I alluded to earlier, a stable market isn't guaranteed to remain that way and will have distortions over time. If a bunch of millionaires suddenly decide that some neighborhood is the place to be, it's unconscionable for long-time renters in that neighborhood to be forced to move out. (Not everyone is a spry 20-something with no pets or dependents, minimal furniture and belongings, ephemeral local ties, and flexible work hours.) Yes, the policy favors existing renters at the expense of new ones. It's difficult for me to see that as unfair or irrational.
I used to fly Virgin America twice a week. That song would get stuck in my head every time I checked in. I still can sing most of it.

"In the unlikely event we need to get you outside, these exits come equipped with an inflatable slide..."
Buy the dip is what rich people do to get richer.
I'm don't understand the disagreement because it's not like I'm saying that markets perfectly price all available information.

Even if securities are not priced perfectly accurately, it's still a fact that investors know that Trump might change his mind. It's still a fact that investors know that the Supreme Court might strike down the tariffs. These optimistic possibilities reduce the amount of panic and reduce the magnitude of the drop.

If the Supreme Court ruled against the lawsuit brought by New Civil Liberties Alliance tomorrow then the market would drop even more than it otherwise would, because it makes it even more likely that the tariffs will remain.
An LLM-based spellchecker would've caught it for sure. I am working on one here: https://github.com/pulkitsharma07/spelltastic.io, If anyone has suggestions on how this can help in Project Gutenberg / Standard Ebook's workflows, please reach out to me / open an issue.

I have seen that LLMs are pretty good at understanding context/domain / theme-specific terms, so their spellchecking is pretty good.
The rsync project has set a higher price than Apple seems willing to pay: allow users to run whatever they'd like on the hardware they've bought. Apple is free to pay that price and use rsync, but chooses not to
Open source self describes its value system as being freedom for developers, free software self describes its value system as being freedom for users.

Most open source grants users far more freedoms than proprietary software, for instance, though not maximal freedoms. It’s not opposed to user freedom (“that’s bad actually”) it’s just not the goal being optimized for.

I think it’s a fallacy to accuse them of being dark mirrors of each other for the reasons stated in the blog post. They have different worldviews and different goals, they don’t just take each other’s goals and multiply them by negative one.

Open source doesn’t try to intentionally restrict users, it just trades off against their maximal freedom in favor of maximal developer freedom.

Free software doesn’t intentionally try to encumber developers, it just trades off against their maximal freedom in favor of users maximal freedom.
Sure it's not exactly an IOU but it more or less entitles you to a certain bit of the American people's labor or assets. Billions / Trillions of dollars in USD overseas waiting to be traded in is not a good thing for people who aren't in a position of international rent seeking. The average American is harmed not helped by foreign trade.
I’m curious: does this fundamentally need to contain an actual model, or would it be okay if it generated a synthetic model itself, full of random weights? I’m picturing downloading just, say, a 20MB file instead of the multi-gigabyte one, and…

Hang on, why is https://blob.localscore.ai/localscore-0.9.2 380MB? I remember llamafile being only a few megabytes. From https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases, looks like it steadily grew from adding support for GPUs on more platforms, up to 28.5MiB¹ in 0.8.12, and then rocketed up to 230MiB in 0.8.13:

> The llamafile executable size is increased from 30mb to 200mb by this release. This is caused by https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/7156. We're already employing some workarounds to minimize the impact of upstream development contributions on binary size, and we're aiming to find more in the near future.

Ah, of course, CUDA. Honestly I might be more surprised that it’s only this big. That monstrosity will happily consume a dozen gigabytes of disk space.

llamafile-0.9.0 was still 231MiB, then llamafile-0.9.1 was 391MiB, now llamafile-0.9.2 is 293MiB. Fluctuating all over the place, but growing a lot. And localscore-0.9.2 is 363MiB. Why 70MiB extra on top of llamafile-0.9.2? I’m curious, but not curious enough to investigate concretely.

Well, this became a grumble about bloat, but I’d still like to know whether it would be feasible to ship a smaller localscore that would synthesise a suitable model, according to the size required, at runtime.

—⁂—

¹ Eww, GitHub is using the “MB” suffix for its file sizes, but they’re actually mebibytes (2²⁰ bytes, 1048576 bytes, MiB). I thought we’d basically settled on returning the M/mega- prefix to SI with its traditional 10⁶ definition, at least for file sizes, ten or fifteen years ago.
Just a comment, every catastrophe has victims, survivors, and lasting consequences. I didn't mean to trivialize that in my response. Regardless, life goes on.
Interesting take. I would love to see more competition in the smartphone OS market for example, but the problem is that at the same time, the tariffs kill international competition…
Rich people already had their money invested.

To buy the dip you need liquid cash sitting around earning very little, hoping the market goes down.

Reallocate portfolios if that makes sense, but much of the “buy the dip” stuff implies good market timing: To do it in meaningful amounts you’d have to pick the right times to not invest, accumulating cash at a lower rate, then you’d have to know precisely when to invest it again, switching it back into the stock market.
Too abstract. Try Battlestar Galactica 'reimagined'. Stories sell better, especially to all the Incels fapping to Cylon Caprica 6. Or their 'resurrection technology' if in range of a receiver. Or their 'belief' that they are the true life, because of perfection.

Otherwise one could just brood about Supervolcanoes, Solar Storms, Gamma Ray Bursts, Killer Asteroids, all sorts of bad weather, Pandemics, blocks of frozen shit from defect passenger jets plunging out of the skies, fucking Islam...
Daily Affirmations of an LLM
Completely agree. If everybody on the team has your attitude it's not a problem. But often, a few people don't. It's so damned tempting to reinvent a testing framework in Lisp, because we have lambdas and code is data right? Lisp is tailor-made for testing frameworks!

Until you're two weeks in to what you expected to be a 2-hour project and you realize you can't meta-dot your tests and you made too many assumptions about which equality functions to support, so you let the user just specify a lambda for the relation function and Poof! Now you can't reason about your tests nearly as well.

And oh yeah I used a macro-centric approach when I should have used CLOS so again, I can't easily grovel my tests. Damn.

Designing a test framework in Lisp looks easy but doing it well is surprisingly hard. So using one of the better ones in Quicklisp is almost always a win.

Just curious: Which one is your favorite?
When told, "only room for one person OR one animal", it's also the only one to recognise the fact that the puzzle is impossible to solve. The farmer can't take any animals with them, and neither the goat nor wolf could row the boat.
Filing an extension doesn't change when income tax is due - but it changes the deadline for various things. Not just the 1040 filing deadline. Other procedures do not state their own deadline but rely of [the day your tax return is due, including extensions]. And there is no cost or penalty for filing the extension.

So you file the extension and sort out the rest later. I have in the past filed the extension (to lock in the extension date), then just days later filed my 1040 - because for once it happened to be ready early.

If you file your 1040 package without having filed for extension, you forfeit that later deadline for the rest.
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Fraud, false board oversight, recruiting lies, and other misrepresentations in free markets are bad for everyone in the sense that uncorrupted markets are healthier

A peculiarity of US law vs others is it follows letter-of-the-law vs spirit-of-the-law. When there is ambiguity that billionaires try to take advantage of, it helps for legislators to pass laws rather than leave it up to judicial interpretation.
It's not harder than placing values on human lives, yet we manage to do so just fine for cost-benefit analysis of eg road safety.
In Sweden this is already basically banned, it’s nearly impossible to get a permit to setup a billboard anywhere because it has to be approved by municipal and land owner. It’s so difficult that i know a guy that bought many chunks of land and put up a 100M high baloon advertising instead because it doesn’t cover land and is exempt. It would have worked if he didn’t make the ads so distracting that it caused an accident and he was forced to stop by order law.
Your calculator won't confidently pretend to conjugate German verbs while doing so incorrectly, though.
Lead cannot be magnetized, it doesn't have unpaired electrons
A reminder that, whilst markets are imperfect and the price is often wrong, the price represents the best guesses of some highly compensated and highly able individuals who do this for a living and, as a consequence, is much more likely to be in the right ballpark than any guess made by someone here.
Makes sense that search has a small, fast, dumb model designed to summarize and not to solve problems. Nearly 14 billion Google searches per day. Way too much compute needed to use a bigger model.
If you are an American who lives abroad, you still need to file a tax return and possibly pay an obligation (two countries do citizenship based taxation: U.S. since Civil War and Eritrea).

To properly file taxes when living abroad, you usually file a tax return in your country of domicile first and then transfer select facts to the American one for credits, deductions, and other offsets.

All of this means minimally doing two tax filings. So: there you go. Heaven help you if you ever live in a place where the tax window is incompatible with the American ones.
I think companies get entrenched dysfunction that nobody can conquer.

Apple mice have always been bad.

One button mice were "simpler", but if everybody had to also learn to press control+click it wasn't really one-button.

Ahd how did they ever ship that round mouse you could never orient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck_mouse

By thw way, have you ever tried to use a mighty mouse with an FPS game? It doesn't really work. Most games use one button for fire, the other for zoom. But you have to lift your fire finger off the mouse to click the zoom button.

the magic mouse... even worse.

I won't even go into games and apple, they're bad at that too.

Tesla is going down the same road, removing stalks and everything on the touchscreen.
Unless perhaps they can furnish a really good post-mortem on the bug. Which is unlikely here.
Does fingerprinting necessarily imply reselling that data?
Sounds like you're saying the distinction shouldn't be between instructions and data, but between different types of principals. The principal-agent problem is not solved for LLMs, but o1's attempt at multi-level instruction priority works toward the solution you're pointing at.
> It is about total benefit to society, period.

What should we spend the next dollar on to achieve this goal?
It would probably also throw out a lot of false positives which would take time to check. Especially in works of fiction, writers could take liberties with non-standard spelling.
Your comment is incomplete as well. They were put on leave ahead of their scheduled termination.

> The researchers, who were all placed on leave with pay until their future official dismissal date, were told a “computer error” or “coding error” led to their accidental terminations.