skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest problem is GPT is very confident in its mistakes. If it writes something incorrect, and you don’t know it’s doing it it’ll go completely unchallenged.

It’s correct often enough that you can get complacent.
Well, the original Russian culture was destroyed/changed by the communists as much as the Ukrainian one (collectivization, anti-religious movement, industrialization, etc.) The Russian culture before the revolution was very different from what was under USSR. There was little left in the USSR of it other than the language and a few fairy tales.
Even in the "hard" sciences, this bias can show up. In biology, for instance, this can be a big problem. For example, the Columbia professor who studied rapid-onset gender dysphoria and its apparent social contagion was told to retract her paper on the matter.
I have a degenerative corneal disease and dark mode is hands down the best trend in interface design in recent memory (its gotten to the point where I use Tampermonkey scripts to force invert pages to help legibility.)

In any case, whether its a trend, saves battery, helps or hurts the eyes, I can certainly say its a great accessibility feature.
Light mode works better for me and that's what I use. But dark mode is definitely prettier.
i haven't used windows since 2008. the writing was already on the wall back then about which direction microsoft was heading.

you see the same thing happening with apple now. they have enough market dominance that they're no longer constrained to advance tech for the consumer, but rather just for themselves (i.e., their head-long dive into content and advertising). this is exactly what antitrust regulators should be heading off at the pass, but they fail time and again (and again and again).
Why write meaningful commit messages at all then? Should we perhaps “git commit -m foo” all the time and call it a day?

My experience here varies wildly; I’ve worked on projects where commit history was carefully maintained and documented, as well as on projects with random squashing or random commit messages. Both had their own benefits and came with a cost too.

For larger, more complex or more mature projects, going through git history can be a common task. So here I’d prefer meaningful commit messages; git blame/bisect/etc gets easier, and sometimes any additional piece of docs has immense value. For smaller, simpler projects or prototypes, where history isn’t used that often, I don’t care that much.
Not very different.

Let's put it this way, even if he went crazy with it, he'd still die a billionaire even if he gets at a hundrend years old...

Heck, Trump is still a billionaire, and he did several bunkrupties, bad investments, BS moves, and stupidity to hurt his public image there is. And he never had 1/100 of what Musk has to begin with...
The browser protection extension was recently retired, adding a message that users should switch to edge. [1]

The pop-up is occurring every time I launch the development environment at work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DefenderATP/comments/z7xmtq/eol_for...
The day-ahead price for Denmark seems to be very close to the price in Germany. Much of the high price is taxes.

(I don't know how much of the tax went to subsidising earlier wind power construction.)

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-...

https://countryeconomy.com/energy-and-environment/electricit...
> The company is incentivizing employees to “crunch,” an industry term referring to working late evenings and weekends outside of regular work hours, by promising them perks some workers say are paltry.

Though today I wouldn't manage a project to rely on crunch, nor expect anyone to crunch, it's still new to see a software development crunch described as something out of the ordinary and that needs incentives.

Starting with my first real software engineering job, crunches were something that just happened. And I didn't question it, because it wasn't that different than being a kid and coding into the night, or being in school with long "lab" hours.

My read of the tone of the WaPo is that the reader is supposed to see a crunch more like an hourly store clerk being expected to keep working after they've punched out on the time clock, rather than what used to just be the norm for software teams that wanted to ship.

Probably this is a good change, since we should be focusing on managing the project and greasing effectiveness in ways that mean hitting external deliverables, not assuming we can crunch.
I'm in the same boat with corrective lenses. It would be interesting if glasses/contacts had this side effect.
Can you explain the nature of the fraud and how it benefited each company?
Maybe…. But full self driving is just one more quarter away, I promise.
Are you blaming the cost on liquid oxygen? Sorry, but LOX is very cheap. It's the second cheapest industrial liquid, after water (or water containing cheap dissolved substances). The cost of the LOX is small compared to the cost of the fuel that it combusts with.

When people have looked at airbreathing launchers, they quickly discover that the designs optimize to 0% airbreathing, 100% rocket. LOX being so cheap and dense is a big part of that.

Indeed NASA doesn't have the means to reuse them, which makes it sad that NASA is being forced to play to their own incompetence in the SLS program. NASA originally wanted to get back to the moon with commercial launchers.
Drivers? It's the same hardware.

> for something almost nobody would use

You don't know that. The fact that you can't use an iPad to create software for iPad is absurd. Dual boot would allow kids with iPads to create and ship apps. The feature would quite plausibly pay for itself.
Tangentially, Git's source repo ships with mw-to-git (aka git-mediawiki), a Mediawiki API client that lets you clone and edit wikis as repos, in its contrib: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/mw-to-git/git...

> Git-Mediawiki is a project which aims the creation of a gate
between git and mediawiki, allowing git users to push and pull objects from mediawiki just as one would do with a classic git
repository thanks to remote-helpers.

See also https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki
You're only thinking of the training data. But the pre-trained model is like a newborn, trashing and yelling and not listening. It needs a second level of training made of a mix of about 1800 supervised tasks. Now it has progressed a little, you can get it to listen, but it's still not ok, it's like a 5 year old. You need to label more data with human preferences and fine-tune the model to align it with what we think is good behaviour. Now it behaves like a 10 year old.

In the original dataset you already combine dozens of sources - web scrapes, book collections, paper collections, materials in many languages, etc. In the second stage you have thousands of small supervised datasets. In the third stage you have to label. So I think the dataset building phase is pretty difficult.
I guess it would be super easy to verify whatever Google VPN have any privacy in it at all. Just start using their VPN to agressively parse Google own services and look if it get's your VPN account banned.
> Decade+ career switches are hard

Oh god I’ve been on the verge of one for a couple years now but my stomach just turns when I think about what I’ll have missed out on by the time I make it out the other side. It’s not just money, I can replace money but I can’t replace time.
That was interesting nevertheless. We really could do a massive public service by finding that case. The illustration won an award - advertising I think - and that's how the whole issue came to light. The illustrator genuinely didn't realize he was infringing on copyright as he was working in a different medium.
It's a super-competitive business.
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There are lots of incentives to be a programmer today, and incentives are known to be involved in engineering decision making (hence the common criticism of resume-driven development).
It is, it's trivial to create a new account.

You can also prevent farming high karma by just preventing flagged accounts from getting karma, given the nature of karma HN could also delay accrediting karma to accounts in general which would mean that for farmers it would take much longer to realize that they got flagged and in turn wast resources.
> I really think most of Tesla's value comes from a belief in Elon the individual delivering his endless escalating promises.

Then that's not really "value", is it. It's speculation.

> but causing the crash in prices is bad for the current investors

That's the risk you take when you speculate. If the speculation was wrong then, yes, that will cost those left carrying the can. And those who bought low and sold high were effective at lining their pockets with wealth transferred from credulous rubes.
Thanks a lot for writing this up and for the words of encouragement. Happy to hear you like the show.

I've done a few cross-posted episodes. That wasn't the goal of those episodes but some of the episodes are with folks who either have their own podcast or are part of a group podcast. For example, the changelog episode https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/63-changelog-is-a-ne.... There's a number of others.

I don't spend too long while editing. About 60-90 minutes of editing per episode when the episode in itself is about that long. I basically edit at 2x speed and quickly chop out the filler words. Any audio processing like cleaning up noise or basic EQ work is a few minutes. The 5-6 hours is the full end to end time from having an empty folder and no guest to a finished mp3 that's ready to be published.

The intro and outro were recorded years ago with different audio settings (it's way too muffled and bass'y compared to any of the last dozens of episodes). I just pad them onto the beginning and end of each episode. They were scripted because I personally don't like long intros so I was trying to get the core essence of the show out in the least amount of time possible. I will re-record them if I pick the show back up, thanks.

Definitely going to work on the titles, at least as a homework assignment make new titles for a bunch of the previous episodes even if I don't publish them. I tried to limit each one to 70 chars or less and out of respect for the guest also wanted to include their product's name in the title.

A living would be pushing it but if you work 40-50 hours a week (which I do), dedicating nearly a full day to it is a big investment. To outsource everything properly (an editor who knows enough about the tech to pick what stays in and human vetted transcripts) would be like $300-400 per episode. That's not counting someone to go through the episodes and make clips to help promote them, that would easily be another $150-250. At 1 episode per week, even without clips that'll be ~$1,500 a month.

Getting sponsors is also tricky because it's not profitable for someone to spend $300 or even $150 per episode for an ad slot when only a few hundred people listen to it. The sponsors will only be happy if they make a return on their investment and that will require having a lot more views.

You are right though, there's a lot of ancillary benefits of having the show. That's partly why I kept going for as long as I did but I noticed that my course sales didn't really change too much during or after the podcast so I'm not sure it helped get the word out on them. When I look at all of that, I think to myself that it's a failure because it didn't move the needle. The conversations were great and I value them a lot which is priceless. Although, a lot of people won't admit that money does matter. It's not my primary concern or motivation for the show but money is necessary to continue doing what you like so you can afford to continue doing it.
> Losing a smartphone today can have a profound impact on people’s lives.

This is the actual problem. Theft is also a problem, but not all that relevant.

"Tough on crime" doesn't really prevent crime when the incentive to commit it is still probably higher than the disincentive no matter how "tough" and getting caught is still unlikely.

A trivial, but more relatable, example of this line of (criminal) reasoning is that people are more likely to enjoy extreme sports vs a high paying "dangerous job" despite working the job being less lethal, less accident prone, and a much greater net positive.

Anyway the regression is adding unnecessary laws.
Where is this place where showing up in a Porsche 911 outs you as a car dilettante because you didn't shell out an extra $90k for the Maserati? I think the status symbols there might be reversed.
It's interesting that this article surfaced shortly after the Ask HN question about maintaining eye health https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945390

This blog post and most replies are misinformation and misunderstanding, and people posting their own anecdotes as advice.

If you aren't considering the macula, emmetropization, circadian rhythms, and corneal thinning, then please don't give advice to others on this topic.

Most people, this blog post author included, don't understand what "good for your eyes" means. For some reason, when talking about eye health, people resort to anecdotes and guessing.
Perhaps. I think the general public would lose interest if they knew that a great work of art (i.e. the David, or the Sistine Chapel, or an emotional novel) came from a computer. I think HOW something is made is part of what makes it evocative.

But I agree with you about unconscious media being the status-quo.
I wonder how well this rule holds. What’s a gimmick vs not?

Juicero yes, Paleton probably, electric scooter depends on infrastructure?
Well, my take here is that LLMs are do about half of what makes human intelligence work well: which is recall tons of information using relatively broad and imprecise queries or reminders. And even this they don't really do: humans are quite capable of introspecting about what they know and this seems to be a challenge for this class of model. A challenge I don't see this architecture really easily addressing since, in the end, its just a big markov model with chunking.

But anyway, the other part of the equation is missing here. When a human encounters a novel phenomenon about which they know little they can engage an entire separate system: one which _reasons_ about the system, uses principals and intuitions and iteration to produce new knowledge. That is the thing missing from LLMs: they don't ever really produce new knowledge, although they may reveal correlations between texts that people have yet to notice.

I'm not fundamentally skeptical about whether artificial intelligence will ever get there. In fact, the progress of LLMs has me wondering if its not going to be sooner rather than later. But at this moment, I feel quite confident saying that LLMs are just knowledge retrieval systems with some pretty undesirable properties (and some pretty interesting ones).

My _hunch_ is that the next step this is going to be like self driving cars, though: technology which appears stubbornly _just out of reach_ for an indeterminate amount of time.
> That fraction is still larger than the economical utilization of space.

What does this sentence even MEAN? There are economical uses of space at today's launch costs. There would be even more such uses if launch costs were a few times the cost of propellant, as the cost of air travel is.

I get the feeling you are not thinking clearly on this subject.
And the result has been only very small, incremental improvements in efficiency.
This post is mostly misleading.

Its not clear at all that blue light has a significant impact on sleep or eyestrain; the science is ambigious.

The main piece of research referenced suggests that dark mode is worse in situations of low ambient light. But that was at small text sizes; of course, light text on a dark background has less contrast than dark text on a light background. That doesn't address the question of whether dark mode, used correctly, helps to alleviate eyestrain in low ambient light conditions. The suggestions offered seem to have little empirical evidence to back them up. If you feel more comfortable using dark mode at night there is little here to suggest that it would be harmful.
>If something different had happened things might have been different. Maybe.

You're absolutely right, this is too hazy and hand-wavy. Let's stick to what really matters: Plan 9 had no attributes of a "second system effect" as per the actual definition of the term.

To paraphrase a famous quote: You keep using this term "second system effect". I don't think it means what you think it means.
Thanks! Here are a few of the design principals that make it a better option than other offerings:

1. No tracking
2. No ads
3. Completely anonymous
4. 100% free forever
5. Improved ux via wysiwyg editor
6. Rendered simple readable html content.

Also, I will be fully open sourcing the code very soon.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts / suggestions.
I wonder what is the reason different blocks are summed even though they semantically represent very different things - e.g. Positional encoding plus embedding. Intuitively wouldn't you expect the architecture to work better if you kept those things as separate inputs to the next layer? Won't the network have some blind spots where a given word will effectively be invisible if it appears in the wrong position?
They only thing I dislike I'd the hover expand height ob lists of issues. Couldn't figure out how to turn off so I uninstalled it.
Just watched it. Surprised how much I liked it, and an interesting ending.
That depends on its dexterity. Can a crane use tools, weld, rivet and so on? Certain not. But this machine m, once refined could plausibly do all of those things and is seen using some kind of grasper tool.
Just $10M. They have their own GPT-3 class models.
California is mandating that all new cars be either EV or plug in hybrids by 2035; which is 12 years in the future. I am aware of no plans to outlaw existing vehicles. A typical consumer car lasts between 10-15 years, so we are talking about ~2045 until California starts finishing its EV transition (likely far longer to reach 100%, as some holdouts will keep gas cars alive longer). That is enough time to build up the capacity to support it. And if it turns out to not be enough time, we don't need to abandon EVs, we just need to push back the timeline.
This would involve some kind of collective organizing and action management. We should probably write an app for this first.
Frankly, that was going to happen either way. Twitter was losing money long before Elon took over, and advertising alone was never going to pay the bills for ~7500 employees.
I encapsulated my old windows machine into a VM - it gets fired up to run Quicken and another accounting program for which there are no reasonable client based substitutes. The VM boots fast, I have a "safe" copy of the VM image incase of a viral compromise, and it's out of the way of my normal workflow. Windows machine free for about a decade.
I'm happy with both dark and light mode as long as I'm not forced to switch back and forth between the two modes.
Good riddance. Their shady, shady, practices took full advantage of the trust customers need to have in a full service used car dealer. The execs should face legal penalties
Interesting - I never attributed that to moving borders. USSR had a pretty mixed society with many people moving between different republics during their lifetime (especially in the 40-60s). Don’t think borders changed much during that period.
I had one of these. It was a terrible mistake.
If anything it's driving the Maserati that outs someone as a dilletante. Possibly the worst value for money of any luxury car brand.
Mostly because it's nice to have an uninhabited area downrange of the pad.

The benefit of launching from altitude would not be the potential energy, but the lower air pressure and density. The first would enable rocket engines to operate at higher expansion ratio, and the second would reduce aerodynamic forces. The benefit is apparently not large enough to justify the difficulty of operating on a mountain.
The final destination is unlikely China. Usually these phones are then transported to Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong or Guangzhou and from there flown back in a suitcase to various countries in Africa.

https://www.ft.com/content/4609e212-eb64-11dd-bb6e-0000779fd...
The car vending machine was probably better looked upon as a marketing technique than the core of the business.
Battery recycling is coming. Several groups are working on it, but it will not get beyond the prototype stage for several years yet mainly because there are relatively few batteries available to recycle. EVs have only existed in their modern form for about 10 years and very few batteries are at end of life yet. The volumes are starting to pickup as non-Tesla manufacturers ramp up production. Maybe in another 10 years enough of the early generation will have aged out and some of the new cohort will have wrecked and need to be recycled. Until then, this is not a significant problem to worry about.
The anime is not as good as the manga, but "Blame!" is all about a city where humans have lost control. Multiple AI have become mad with lack of purpose, each in its own discrete way, sometimes linked to humanity (either to kill or to protect), sometimes completely oblivious of them (never stop building for instance).

The movie is easy to watch and hopefully will get you to read the manga which is the real gem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6574146/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
Earth space elevator is supposed to be grounded somewhere on equator, the orbital point is on the geostationary orbit and further away there is a counterbalance.

There are currently no plausible way to avoid collisions of such a structure with satellites which are below the geostationary orbit. Sooner or later each passive satellite will hit the elevator, and active satellites will have to actively avoid collisions for the whole time they are on the orbit. Any collision would likely disintegrate the satellite and bring serious damage to the elevator - easily enough to break the elevator; after all we're talking about colossal kinetic energy in collision.

Even if nanotubes would be used and could work by themselves - I'm optimistic on that - the inherent conflict between space elevator and the rest of cosmonautics currently is enough to prevent this idea from working.
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They say “gender.” Then they say “men” and “women.”

They don’t appear to consider personal gender identity or sexual orientation.

Are these variations included in the data? Would they be important? Would these result change if the base group were gay? Or what about trans individuals, or non binary or whatever? I’m not up to date on the popular discourse these days in this area.
This has been one of one of the tragedies of the Covid pandemic, the way “defense of science” has identified science to the public as the institutions currently involved in science and then browbeaten anyone that doesn’t agree with their pronouncements. Science is not an institution, but a process and method of knowledge production that no institution holds monopoly on.
Great! What is the empirical answer, then?
I don't think the headline is a position so much as a subject. The blog appears to be pro nuclear but from a perspective based in reality rather than the usual bizarre delusions.

Quite refreshing, really.

Edit: I tell a lie. After reading a few more posts, it's the same mental gymnastics routine where TMI's safety systems worked perfectly and that's the worst possible result of any fuckup, but also all regulation past the mid 60s was overreach caused by omnipotent time travelling environmentalists and needs to be repealed.
But buying a car from a dealer remains horrible