skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solid work OpenAI, though I'd definitely like to see some more benchmarks on a wider variety of datasets in addition to the ones listed in the post. Regardless, it's good to see embeddings becoming more and more mainstream and easier to leverage out-of-box. We tried image embeddings many moons ago (2015) with AlexNet trained across a custom dataset, but we still had to add quite a few custom roles post-inference.

A large selling point for ada-002 embeddings seems to be the reduced dimensionality. While lower-dimensional embeddings definitely help performance, I would say it's still highly dependent on the index that's being used. Graph- and tree-based indexes will benefit less than ones based on IVF (https://zilliz.com/blog/vector-index), as they do fewer overall distance computations during query time, but the speedup should still be significant.

Still been meaning to try semantic search across Wikipedia via text embeddings. Will definitely play around with OpenAI + Milvus (https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus).
that's still conveying too much information

INNOCENT dev did THIS, and what happened next will SHOCK you
I couldnt have written that any better.
And THIS is why thousands of people showed up in downtown Ottawa and stayed for three weeks. Because we were disgusted and DEEPLY offended by the hubris.

And what was the gov's response? An even greater swing toward authoritarianism - the Canadian government literally locked people out of their own bank accounts, seized property and arrested and charged hundreds.

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. The anger is still palpable. And its going to simmer til our current gov is replaced.
I don't think the fact that photos are making up the vast majority of the training set is of any particular significance.

Can SD create artistic renderings without actual art being incorporated? Just from photos alone? I don't believe so, unless someone shows me evidence to the contrary.

Hence, SD necessitates having artwork in it's training corpus in order to emulate style, no matter how little it's represented in the training data.
> The US creates several million new jobs each year on average, and the H-1B cap is 85K, which is an order of magnitude less than the number of jobs created per year.

H-1B hires are not evenly distributed across all job types. A large fraction of them going to particular industries, like is seen in big tech, could move the needle in those industries.
> The 50 micromorts per day is from the excess deaths in NYC during spring of 2020 and comparing that mortality to being a soldier in Afghanistan in 2010.

So in other words it's pretty inflated.

1) Putting covid-positive patients in nursing homes instead of isolating them

2) Excess use of ventilators set to maximum

3) Omicron

4) I feel like I'm forgetting something...
Do you have any numbers on that? On a modern computer, I'm having trouble believing that the time difference would be noticeable to a human. Seems like parsing even a few megs of CSS would be measurable in milliseconds?
I think it’s more of

If someone tells you they’re faster than their well-funded, well-developed peers, then either:

1. They’re dramatically better engineers

2. They’ve constrained their data model to make it faster, likely at the cost of some usecases

3. They’ve developed some novel theory or set of tricks

4. Their benchmarks are limited/biased, or plainly wrong

5. They’ve gotten to drop backwards compatibility constraints their competitors couldn’t

With usually the answer being 2 or 5 if they’re legitimately faster.

In your case, based on glancing at videos

1. You seem to have widened the data model significantly

2. You’ve got no claims to novelty except the notion of didgets, which is an abstraction I’d expect to cost a pretty perf penny

3. You’ve got no claims to particular competency

So… I’m instinctively betting on 4.
Duck typing (structural typing) is orthogonal to dynamic vs static. Typescript being an example of a statically typed language whose type system is centers on structural typing
I am 10+ years in the Climate arena and it surprises me that most innovations ignore human behaviour: I see a gap.

I see two folk types here: the Climate scientist and the carbon life cycle Analyst.

How come social sciences (I am in particular hinting at behavioral research) have not been found yet a source of value?
This is increasingly absurd, but I see Twitter has also banned the official ADS-B account and antifascist website It's Going Down (which is mostly polemic op-eds and reports about political demonstrations in the US and Europe, and theoretically well within Twitter's TOS).
Could a backwards parser work? With the Sass syntax I think doing the parsing backwards can be made without lookahead. Probably it has other issues though...
I know, I was just using their metaphor.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for doing this!
I read the whole thing. And I don’t care if it doesn’t work or what excuses they make.

If it’s not gonna be similar to any existing implementation for doing css then don’t bother doing it.

The last thing we need is a shit version of nesting. The syntax we have now is good, it’s what we know, it works. There’s no need for stupid filler syntax to work around scenarios. I.e prefixing with @nest.
See the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34006622
I trust that when I drive over a bridge it won't collapse.

But I cannot say I know that the bridge won't collapse.

Knowledge is a true and justified belief. But trust is not a justification - quite the opposite. If you had a justification, you wouldn't need trust.

Trust whomever you want, on whatever basis you want, but that's fundamentally not reason or rationality, it's just an argument from authority [1]. No statement becomes more true just because someone said it, regardless of who they are.

I'm not saying it's easy or even possible to do in practice. Science is insanely complex. But let's not confuse trust for rationality, not least of which because it brings to the fore the very real need for institutions that are worthy of our trust.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
> I have started using xdotool [1] to create bash scripts that send mouse clicks and keystrokes to apps. Interleaving calls to xdotool with the "sleep" command [2] produce a convincing effect.

Can you share some of these scripts?
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Strange comment. I myself dont care for twitter, the Elon/twitter hate recently has been entertaining.
Let me get this straight. Elon donated $6 billion in Tesla shares to his non-profit... so that his non-profit could buy Tesla shares to prop up his stock price? This makes zero sense.
You are correct except that it's L1 visa driving wages down. H1Bs are typically employed at FAANG and are paid top of the market. Instead of a lottery system, they should use it for top of the market jobs or proven specialization like published papers in that field or certifications.
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> Because the risk of e.g. dying of myocarditis from the virus still exceeds the risk of dying of myocarditis from the vaccine.

There's several studies that have shown myocarditis from the virus is indistinguishable from previously-measured myocarditis in the population in general - that the virus isn't actually causing any. At least one of them included vaccine-caused myocarditis and showed it's several times higher.
That's only important if you value the destination more than the journey. In spite of the fact that there will come a day when an artificial intelligence can play the piano and any possible musical piece superbly, for me the act of piano playing itself is where I derive my enjoyment.

It may be in the future it will become more important to focus on activities and hobbies where one's fulfillment comes intrinsically from the action itself, not in the output that is produced.
My partner and I just drove from Denver to NYC in a Model 3. We stopped using any sort of "autopilot" in the middle of Kansas when it kept randomly slamming on the breaks on an empty I-70 with clear skies in broad daylight.
Not enough to counter the dwindling global forrest cover of the past century, and not something that will counter the effect of methane + water vapor as insulating agents that lead to further temp. increases.

THe full picture has may layers .. and you can read about at length in voluminous IPCC reports.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
Understood. But if the idea was for a 'strict' syntax? i.e. in order to make use of newer syntax rules, CSS would need to declare itself as such and be formatted per spec (and would fail to parse otherwise, same as now), negating the need for "infinite lookaheads" per the explainer. So it's more like a switch statement than multiple engines. CSSOM is straightforward this way, you're dealing with strict by default. Inline styles the same.
That sounds a lot more like creativity than capacity to reason logically, or a number of other facets of intelligence. That's probably part of the issue, which properties of 'intelligence' we are talking about.

There are also a lot of crazy and intelligent people. I certainly know so many, it almost becomes a correlation.
I already know Rust, and unexpected implicit refs and derefs in match/if let expressions or method calls still trip me up when writing or reading new code (especially now that match ergonomics can make `match &Option<T> { Some(x)` compile but not the way you expect). Nowadays I avoid higher-order generic functions like .filter(|...| ...) so don't hit unexpected &&T etc. there, but matching on Entry and regex searches still trips me up.
> I don't get why SRE is a job(and it was my title for years) The stuff listed is just good software engineering. If a swe cant figure out that they need to monitor their application (or really anything on this list) you have no business being anything other then a junior programmer.

Someone has to enforce those good practices. Weak engineers hire more weak engineers and they suck and their job.
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To elaborate why you need unlimited lookahead, consider the following:

h1:has(+ p) { something: anything; } h1 { something: nothing; }
everything: has(+ p) { something: anything; }; h1 { something: nothing; }

Syntactically speaking these two lines are equivalent except for a single semicolon; the differing first token doesn't change anything about that. And you can absolutely add a custom element that looks like a property name to blur a line further. So in order to see if the first block is a rule or a property, you absolutely have to read up to the first `;`, excluding nested braces and alikes.

That said, the main problem is that the property syntax is overly forgiving, not that the nested rule syntax is problematic. Something akin to JS `use strict` should be able to restrict the property syntax enough to allow the nested rule syntax without unlimited lookahead.
Managed schema evolution mostly. Essentially git branches for your schema, that you can't merge if it would break your clients.
How does any of that point to them being involved?

SBF was well regarded by the media and was in control of an alleged billion dollar company.

Why wouldn’t the parents think it’s normal to get a nice home in the Bahamas? Were they supposed to be digging into his financials and software architecture that allowed Alameda to pull unlimited funds?

I don’t see how any of their expertise would even contribute to this scam. It’s simple enough what he did… just not tell anyone he’s using FTX assets to cover reckless Alameda gambling.

Do you really think he confessed to his academic parents who built their careers on risk management?

Which one of us is being naive here? This didn’t take a family of experts to pull off.
> where exactly would a background check show you have two jobs

"The Work Number" is a very popular service for this. They are owned by Equifax.
> Ideally, everyone who has the applicable skills or knowledge would collaborate and work together towards having their software both work now and also keep working

However we don't live in such an ideal world. I'm given tasks such as "set this up for devs for release of X" with nothing specified. How am I suppose complete the request? I now have to waste my own time chasing managers, dev's and everybody else to setup what's required. My resources are finite, I don't have unlimited resources nor a budget to waste on virtual machines. We use multitude of OS versions ranging from CentOS, to Debian including FreeBSD and Solaris so what do you want?

This is SRE playing lax on the case of not defining and just expecting it. I don't have any access to the DevKit side of things, I don't have the ability find out what is actually required.

You want it to run in production, fine. But it makes my job insane when no documentation is provided and a JIRA ticket consists of some attachment with "this please" is handed to me. Something breaks and I am the first to get the grunt because it's "my fault". I have to waste time debugging when turns out to be because the software isn't designed for what I thought was suitable for a project because someone decided to use some old version of a Ruby GEM that's been cross compiled and which I've had no clue.

No one thinks about SysAdmins when they're running the actual show. If it wasn't for those, you wouldn't have a production, uptime and all the stuff we do. I can recite so many stories in many different jobs. Where this has been the case. But same-so, HN developer is bias and don't take in to account the flow that requires for their produce to reach production.

/end vent. But your not allowed to do that on HN. Because you get thrown downvotes for expressing issues with how the teams integrates.

16 years of SysAdmin, 33 and I'm more than burnt out because of. The first thing I do every morning is decide the colour of the ethernet cable I wish to desire to hang myself with. I take pride in my work yet done dealing with the shit that's given, yet you still need to lick the plate because life. I've just had three months off, just exhausted all my savings and starting my new job on Monday. But hey-ho, maybe this company has stuff right.
All the visualizations of the mandelbrot set I've seen use a threshold of iterations that define the edge. I think that threshold is more significant than any instability due to floating point numbers. A more formal analysis of numerical stability comes down to whether the iterated function is considered well-conditioned. I don't have the math to state it formally, but my intuition is that the mandelbrot function is, in that a small change to the function input will have a small effect on the number of iterations except at the very edge where the threshold will define the boundary anyway.
I think it says something else - when you can marry search with learning, you can surpass anything else, of course paying the price of compute cost.
This is exactly the sort of requirements list that a dev group would receive from an ops group back when ops were systems administrators and network engineers.

And I am not objecting to it in the least; these are all good and vital questions.

I am objecting to anyone claiming that DevOps is anything other than "using the kinds of tools that help software development projects to help operations", and I present this as absolute evidence.
"Compile time reflection" is an inconsistent and nonstandard concept; originally it seemed to just mean typeclasses for people who hadn't heard of typeclasses.
Sutton also raises one uncomfortable question. Where are the limits of
"our field". If we follow Sutton's (interesting and thought-provoking)
advice, where do we stop throwing away human knowledge in favour of
general, bare methods? Shall we abandon expert knowledge? Procedural
knowledge? Structural knowledge? Algorithms and data structures?
Should the rest of computer science surrender in the face of
efficiently calculated matrices?
What are the opportunities for deep CS research applied to climate? E.g., compilers, databases, program synthesis, and LLMs?
How do startup valuations work?
> we have millions of both covid cases and vaccinations to back that up.

This study looked at 25 cases of unexpected death in

Fair enough, but where is that data? Why a study of only 25 if there are millions?

It's not a conspiracy theory to say such things simply don't add up. The largest drug test in history and no encompassing and definitive follow up? Why?

Not trolling. Serious question (i.e., why).
Given their influence in the toppling of Australia's democratically elected prime minister in 1975, I'm not surprised.
Yeah I was kinda surprised how YOLO some of this was. For example

> At some point I had to rewrite the Glicko2 rating system from Java to Scala 3 [...] No-one noticed broken ratings, so I suppose it worked.

Sheesh. Seems like just the kind of thing for which a couple unit tests would be relatively easy to write and would add a lot of confidence.
I'm not judging the pilot, but I'm curious why they ejected. It seemed like they finally got it upright and moving slowly on the grass. Ejecting has risks too, assuming the breaks were still working would it have been safer to stop and shut down?
It's interesting watching AI turn into RMS's the Right to Read. When things were just a human endever alone there was a lot of pushback to prevent ownership of culture and words, but the AI battle looks like it's going to erode that
Could this concept be inverted, to identify music from a text prompt, as in i want a particular vibe and it can go tell me what music fits that description. Ive always thought the ability to find music you like was very lacking, it should not be bounded by a genre instead its usually based on rythmic and melodic structures that appeal to you, regardless of what type of music it might be.
I was secretly hoping someone would respond with an insult and the correct way to do Opaque Types in TypeScript, but sadly no such luck.

I took a look and found that it is possible to do something similar here (albeit with more heavy lifting)

https://www.ferreira.io/posts/opaque-branded-types-in-typesc...
Derive or equivalent ought to be something you can implement on top of frunk (so you're ultimately still depending on a proc macro, but the whole ecosystem only needs to depend on that one macro, and tools etc. can build in support for it) - that's how it's usually done in Scala.
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What distinguishes a derivative from an original work? What is it about AI-generated art which makes it so clearly derivative, in your mind?
I'm not arguing for/against z-wave, just, pointing out the flaws in Z-wave and how I overcame them.

I also have things like humidity -> fan, I just do other things for the sensor network.
I meant OpenAI + Vector Database as more common than OpenAI Search API. And then Pinecone as an example of a vector database.
I agree with those points, especially competition is an important one. It has been the furnace of our progress too, so this is a double edged sword.

I think people will not stop forming a social hierarchy, and so competition remains a sticky trait I think.

> work=survival idea is what incentivizes competitiveness

True, the idea that you can do better than the Jones through hard work is alluring. Having a job is now a requirement for being worthy, the kind of job defines your social position.
Compare with the days of nobility though, where those nobleman had everything but a job ("what is a weekend?").
I believe that significant indentation is only a problem for people whose text editor Tab binding doesn't handle it for them? At least, I've used Python for 15 years and can't think of a problem it's caused me -- what problems are you aware of? It's similar to the people who complain about lisp but are pairing up parens manually. I think the solution in both cases is "don't do that" -- there are perfectly good text editors that do these things for you.
Can someone explain how Apollo makes money? GraphQL via Apollo is essentially my default API and yet I've never sent these guys a dime.
> but that dilution of interest prevents me from really excelling in one thing or having anything close to a "life's work".

Same.

I feel like I might stretch myself too thin and not be able to "become" anyone because of this. It's also because every low-hanging fruit was discovered or invented already, so presumably, in order to invent anything new you would be required to focus 100% of your time for 1 thing.

And I hate this.

So it's not possible for me to be interested in multiple things and avoid this feeling that I'm wasting my time?

Anyways, I'm also ok with that. I'll let interest guide me in my life journey.
GPT's compression of text is a model of probabilities for the next token in a sequence, where a token is a bit of text from a vocabulary of ~52,000. You can definitely reduce the precision of the parameters that determine that model without hurting the model's overall accuracy much (consider truncating a probability like 98.0000001221151240690% to 98.0%).

Empirically, people have quantized the weights of language models down to INT4 with very little loss in accuracy; see GLM-130B: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02414
It does not matter if the browser can’t do it. Make it do it.

There’s no point in supporting nesting if the solution is worse than the options we have right now.

The vast majority of people would rather stick with preprocessors than deal with shit syntax.

If they implement a shitty syntax because of browser limitations they don’t want to fix. People will just use pre processors.

So it’s not about reading or not reading the article. It’s the fact that the options are shit and unless they do syntax similar to what we do now they should abandon trying to support nesting.
Based on what others have also said, it sounds like you're describing interoperability in Zigbee in theory, whereas I described interoperability in Z-Wave in practice.
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Why use GraphQL? There is tRPC now.
That's a great point. Also I wonder how this pertains to flashbacks. For some reason I get flashbacks that are completely random; they occur for no particular reason (that I've identified), the memory itself can be from childhood all the way up to recent adulthood, and they have no association with any trauma or extra stimulation. For example a flashback of me in my teenage years standing at a bus stop. Fairly innocuous memory right? This issue is amplified when I consume THC; I can end up having many flashbacks while I'm high and most of them are things I haven't thought of ever since the experience occurred decades ago. I kind of appreciate them due to the nostalgia, but it's strange.
I see a bunch of comments all basically saying Rick is wrong. It’s unintuitive, I think this is why it feels wrong.

Intuition is a curse though. The data to hand clearly indicates that the big (compute), dumb (search and learning) approach is the only way that’s worked. Emergent properties aren’t very satisfying, particularly when we can’t model or understand, but This is The Way.