skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love them, but don’t think they’ve held up over time. This is subjective, but they just don’t feel right on modern, wide, high resolution displays.

The acceleration always feels wrong and UI elements have gotten smaller or nearly vanished. Trying to position a trackpoint to resize a window is maddening these days.

Back on the old Toshiba Satellites in the Win 9x days though? They felt just right, a solution that truly fit the computer and UI of the era.

That all said I still prefer them over virtually every touchpad.
Ask HN: Dislike “Discovery” Phase?
The discovery phase of any new project can be painful because half the time you’re trying to figure out what to do and document in a way that makes sense.
How many first world countries have banned/restricted alcohol advertising already?
It's already pretty heavily restricted in Australia for instance (you are still allowed to broadcast TV commercials for alcohol, but because of the limitations around when you can do it and what you can show in such commercials, they're actually relatively rare, certainly compared to what I remember in the past).
What I don't know if there's been much research into how effective the restrictions have been - it's true we seem have a younger generation now that drinks less than their parents, but I believe that phenomenon has been observed in countries that haven't significant restricted alcohol advertising either.
We don't have cancer warnings, though it's certainly been discussed (and appears to have broad public support). There are typically pregnancy warnings ("Alcohol can cause lifelong harm to your baby"), which have been mandatory since 2020.
Yep, which is increasingly my go-to. No I'm not gonna log into a free wifi that takes 10 seconds to load the portal and is probably less reliable and more restricted than my LTE.
A robot able to “smell” using a biological sensor
Same thing with passing a football or nailing a technical ice skating routine. You can either do it, or you can't. Practice helps but is not a panacea, unfortunately. Find another occupation, friend. You are owed nothing.
It’s a not a contradiction.

Oil infrastructure does not do the same thing that land/housing does.

The USA does not have the same relationship with Saudi Arabia as it does with China (+ NK, Rus, Iran).
My mother-in-law has ranted many times about how they don’t teach cursive anymore. She doesn’t know how to use a computer.

I think you raise a very interesting (and likely very controversial) thought to explore.

My quick opinion is that we can only teach so much. And the list of things that could be taught is forever growing. We need to be pragmatic about priority.
I had an M2 Air and ended up swapping for the 14 M1 Pro. The Air was plenty powerful and I loved the weight and battery life, but:

- The 14" Pro's native resolution is 3024x1964, which means at 1512w you're getting perfect doubling of the pixels. The M2 air is natively 2560x1664 but it defaults to 1470x956, so you don't get that clean doubling and the sharpness suffers IMO. You can drop it down to 1280w to increase sharpness but the cost in screen real estate is significant. I'm not sure understand your point about the Air's resolution being more mainstream or usable

- The black levels on the MPB's mini-LED LCD screen are vastly better than the M2 Air.

- As someone who's only used MPBs over the last 10 years, the speakers on the Air sound truly awful — tinny, harsh, low volume. Not just for music, but I found listening to a podcast or watching a TV show to be fatiguing and unsatisfying.

- I upgraded my Air's SSD because the default SSD is slow, so the price was $1500+tax; Best Buy was running a sale on MBP 14" that put it at $1600+tax, so all told the significant price gap was almost entirely negated.
>bryanlarsen, we noticed that your location is at home but your car isn’t plugged in. Please plug it in and drink a verification can within the next 10 minutes to avoid a noncompliance charge
This reminds me of the "Summarize" service in OS X that I totally forgot about until just now.
Scrambling jets to intercept planes that wander into no-fly zones is a regular occurrence at DCA (the military craft usually launch from Andrews AFB, or possibly a local USCG station for rotorcraft).

Not uncommon at other airports where POTUS is a regular, airports with other VIPs (NYC area), major sporting events (no fly around the Super Bowl stadium). DCA has a permanent zone, the others are temporary and communicated via NOTAM.
Wow, huh, kinda like it was trained to regurgitate the blithe ignorance people spew on Twitter.
That's interesting. Yeah, most common use for school VPN is reading e-books.
yeah, the inconsistency there in both standard libraries is... strange to say the least. more info is more gooder IMO, the runtime cost is SO much lower than the troubleshooting cost.
Obligatory XKCD.
https://xkcd.com/243/
Note: link may be considered risky for work.
Well, yes and no.

The skills one develops on the job and the skills one needs to actually perform well at a job are not really tested well by the standard big tech interview loop (startups can be innovative here, but it can go either way).

Generally the competent folks reluctantly acquire the silly skills required to pass through the gatekeepers though.
1) This only works when the overlap peak electric demand and peak vehicle demand do not overlap. Night time, when the cars sit idle, is also a low demand time of day, and the afternoon energy demand peak coincides partially with the evening commute.

2) The loss of value to the owner based on cycles used needs to take into account that the failure of the battery in a vehicle can be what causes its final retirement, i.e. the condition of the vehicle itself does not justify a new battery expenditure. EVs are more like cell phones than ICE cars, which can have lifespans of over 30 years in the right climate. So losing 10% of your cycles to grid support could mean buying a car at nine years instead of ten years.

Take a $40000 EV with half of the value being in the battery. Financed, say it's $600/month on a six year loan. With a ten year life span that's four years of no payments. With V2G say you lose 10% of your cycles, so you have three "free" years instead of four. Your real cost is 12 * $600 = $7200.

You can't just calculate the pure cost of the battery with V2G, you need to take into account the depreciation on the entire vehicle as it relates to the battery. In fact, we know very little about how BEVs will depreciate.
Just add “None of the Above” to each. ;)
If you, or some of the software that you deal with, work in a terminal, you'll have some value of $TERM set. If you use a terminal emulator which isn't one of the classic hits (eg xterm or rxvt), or if you use a terminal mux like screen or tmux, you'll want to have an entry in your terminfo database which describes the terminal accurately, so that simple things like backspace and delete work correctly, or snazzy stuff like 256 color support. So having some kind of general understanding of what terminal capabilities are, how they're expressed in termcap and terminfo, is helpful. In particular, I think having an understanding of the kinds of things that can go wrong in a terminal, for example if you've ever ran cat with a binary file to stdout, is very helpful. It's not the sort of topic you need to spend a lot of time studying, but if you're a UNIX user, I think its a good idea to consider it part of the canon.
AFAIK they don't ship the Windows program through the Microsoft Store. Don't think the argument holds water.
I was so confused by the saltiness until I saw the username. I'm sure you've earned it.

I got into deep learning because of your char-rnn posts a while ago -- it inspired me to do an undergrad thesis on the topic. I read arxiv papers after that and implemented things from the ground up until a startup liked my work and hired me in a neural network engineer position.

Fast forward a few years and I was enamoured with minGPT and it stuck with me. I wanted a CIFAR10 experimentation toolbench so I took my hand at my best swing at applying the minGPT treatment on the current best single-GPU Dawnbench entry, added a few tweaks and got https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10. It currently (AFAIK) holds the world record for training to the 94% mark by a fair bit.

It's about 600 lines in a monolithic file, only requiring torch and torchvision, but it's my first project like this and I'd like to learn how to better minify codebases like this. It seems like the hardest part is knowing how to structure inheritance and abstraction, but I don't know if you had any good outside references/resources that you used or would recommend. If you have any feedback or help, I am open to receiving it, as I am very much a newbie at this particular art/science. It is quite a fun one, however (especially as it is a useful tool for my day-to-day work).

I'm also hoping to apply the same treatment to a small language model at some point by taking the Dawnbench approach -- picking a good target validation loss value or some reasonable metric, then optimize around that obsessively to build a good tiny reference model. I don't know if you'd know anyone that's interested in that kind of thing, but I feel like that would be a fun next step for me.
The author isn't entirely wrong here. However, his understanding of how human intervention is used in the system is wrong. ChatGPT uses GPT-3 as a baseline model. However, it finetunes it using a machine learning technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) This method uses human in the loop but not how the author thinks. The baseline model is finetuned on prompts and their answers (labels) provided by human labelers initially (which is a tedious task and doesn't scale well). Later this model is used to generate multiple answers for selected input prompt that human labelers rank based on the what they think is the most appropriate response. It's easier for labelers to rank responses compared to actually providing appropriate responses.

Even though the whole process is more complicated then what ive explained above, the model is essentially trained this way.

One of the reasons of releasing it for free for now is so they can gather data for further fine tuning the model (this is why after each answer there's a thumbs-up, thumps-down button for you to rate chatgpts responses)
Doesn’t matter, DC has permanent restrictions (much smaller when this occurred, larger and more restrictive post-9/11).
I declined an offer from Microsoft late last year, in large part because of earlier layoffs. I am sure I was not the only one.
Because the goal of a marketing manager is to extract more money from you not less, by creating an accepted practice of disabling functionality to optimize the money you are willing to commit to actually pay over the lifetime of owning the car.

The point is to find the most innocuous thing that you would accept at time of purchase and then make the majority of customers pay for that more often and longer than anybody at the time of purchase thinks about.

It's similar to the marketing for payday loans. People are not entirely rational actors.

If you could make double the normal sales price of the car in revenue, and the car stops working if the customer ceases to pay, then if you don't mind the occasional customer service public meltdown on social media, then as a car manufacturer you are welcome to scheme away.

As a smarter than average customer, you are wise to the scam, and hope that the scheming of the car companies is not effective on the general public.

Also subscriptions are awesome for car manufacturers for accelerating planned obsolescence. Why should there be any resale value to your car anyway, if they could figure out a way to either 1) make the new owner pay for the car again in subscriptions or 2) make your car near worthless after you initially own it, then from their perspective this is the most brilliant thing they have ever thought of! ;)
Karpathy's videos (and blogs) are excellent. I wonder how history will reflect on his time at Tesla, however.
I disagree. I find it easy to tell the difference between chatGPT responses in conversations and human interactions. It does mimic humans, but in a stilted way that's specific and consistent.

I'm not sure if this could be connected to the way I learned to understand human behavior, by extensive deliberate pattern-matching with my organic intelligence. I was led to believe I had no hope of understanding people intuitively, so I should study the patterns in how humans interact and learn to mimic them as well as possible.

That made it easy to see who was reacting intuitively (i.e., acting like a human naturally) and who was doing what I was doing (i.e., "running 'human' in emulation mode," as Elon described having Asperger's).

From my vantage point, chatGPT is clearly and obviously not reacting like a human, which does make it feel uncanny to watch it try.
Cannot deal with its inaccurate method...the trackpad gives position control whereas a trackpoint gives speed or even acceleration control and that's not what I want... ideally you want to mimic a touchscreen and the trackpoint is the furthest you can have from that, barring arrow keys
Not to brag, but I used to be pretty good at Quake with a trackpoint. Not as good as with a real mouse, but trackpoints work reasonably well for first person games. Better than a touchpad for sure.
Not just coming soon. In 2019 Musk claimed it would be financially insane not to buy a Tesla because by 2020 it would become a robo taxi earning you tens of thousands a year.
James Gosling (Of Java) on Fame, Freedom, Failure Modes
TikTok's client had some pretty bad vulnerabilities like not using TLS in the past, but maybe those are patched by now.
It's true. Rich had Mossad leadership campaigning for his pardon because they used his company's offices as fronts.
Today to me is the equivalent of the phone phreaking days when people are just doing as much as they can and getting away with as much as they can for as long as they can, until the regulations come.

It will be an interesting time in the next few years as I think StabilityAI's guerilla marketing tactics have inadvertently by proxy also placed the ML dataset debate right in the laps of the larger consumer market.
Or a better teacher. The limiting factor isn't necessarily the student.
Megahex Will Give You Robo-Arachnophobia
It picked up what you were putting down when you said "no money" (a common definition of communism being, "a stateless, classless, moneyless society where the means of production are controlled by the workers" - you gave it part of this definition, so it wasn't a huge leap from there). If you ask it to describe a form of government that, say, protects traditional values, or creates a strong and unified nation, you can get it to describe a right-wing form of government. I've had ChatGPT tell me that socialism is dangerous and synonymous with authoritarianism. I've gotten it to write me a justification for fascism. With a little prompt engineering you can get it to take any position.

Like GP is getting at, ChatGPT has no opinions, it's a stochastic parrot. It is certainly not "left wing." OpenAI has tried to shape it's output to be politically correct, but this is surely about brand safety (a chatbot that readily spews racial epithets cannot be productized) - not because OpenAI or ChatGPT have a political agenda.

I'd encourage everyone trying to understand how ChatGPT works to remember to come up with experiments with the goal of proving their hypothesis wrong, and not the goal of proving their hypothesis right - ChatGPT will readily allow you to mislead yourself. It's a machine designed to pick up on cues about what you want it to do, and then do that - it's practically engineered to confirm your biases.
No, they are the United States of America, the most power entity in the world, the strongest kid in the playground. Anyone who tries to go against them loses because they are stronger.
It depends on whether they actually lowered the price by $1500, rather than simply bumped the price by $1500 across the board then 'graciously' canceled it out if you subscribe.

Of course, barring legal discovery or a leaked email we'd never know.
Are you afraid people will prove your own understanding to be shallow?
You have his name slightly wrong, it was Chris Seaton.

Here was the announcement:

https://twitter.com/flavorjones/status/1600436490885947393
Do economics programs ever push a single theory? They're supposed to teach you about the whole field, no?
It's also like arguing that seat belts discourage potential drivers, by framing it as an activity so dangerous it necessitates safety mechanisms.

Of course it's dangerous. I would personally barely ever ride without a helmet. I see so many arguments like this postulating on hypothetical situations where life without helmets would be better, but they all come across as justifications for not really wanting to wear a helmet.

I think it's very important to have them required by law, so that it is not seen as a cool or rebellious thing to not wear one. It's just normal.
Oh yeah this totally works: the car in front of you can monetize this effort by showing you ads in its video stream!
I don't want to follow the line of thinking that the US govt should enact similar policies to the CCP.
I am not from the LLM world, but I believe it's mostly constrained by the standard multiprocessing limits -- communication and synchronization of multiple workers, some of whom operate over an exceedingly slow Ethernet interface.
> Interestingly, they just updated their ToS [1] to force arbitration [2], and moved from Canada to NY (which my lawyers were happy about that second part).

....I don't see the connection between their change in ToS to mandate arbitration & the bug itself. There's no direct equivalency between the two.

On a personal note, I'm more neutral on arbitrations as a concept: They help facilitate faster legal resolutions in an environment where the time & cost overhead is purely human-derived. It often takes months, if not years, to form an impartial jury, a judge that's available to review the case, and for all relevant evidence to enter under the case's purview.

Also, the website that was cited in your previous comment doesn't provide any justifications for the claims made in their list. It simply states 10 reasons with no expansion into details/reasoning on the last 9 reasons. The first reason alone gives a tautologically-derived justification to its statement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358004

https://fairarbitrationnow.org/ten-reasons-why-arbitration-s...

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230117064553/https://fairarbit...
Obviously using an external drive as your boot drive might not be the best idea in that situation, but that situation does not sound fun at all.
It’s a normal, but infrequent, occurrence in locations where POTUS or other VIPs are frequently located. DC has permanent restrictions. Camp David temporary restrictions when POTUS is in residence. Restrictions are also placed around major sporting events (Super Bowl), though I’m not sure if those are for fear of somebody dive bombing the stadium or for the other reasons (events often have military fly-bys, parachute displays, etc).

I’ve listened to a few intercepts on the radio. They don’t shoot without a good bit of verification. Typically, the lost pilot gets a hint when they see the F-16 fly across their nose, or a USCG helicopter flies alongside, or ATC finally gets through to them.
I updated the link on the readme. FWIW the video has English subtitles. Hope you enable then watch it.
> When the dam does eventually leak, we have to know how much and how it started. The logging is a feature to me.

Logging is a feature. Logging to some random 3rd party is not. Sure, if the 3rd party provides the service itself they need the logs to make it better but if stuff stays within your own infrastructure it should not phone home. And VPN service for enterprise certainly shouldn't have controller hosted on outside of company's own infrastructure
Yes, one of Admiral Daniel V. Gallery's projects. He wrote a number of very funny books, both factual and fiction. He commanded the operation which captured at sea the U-505 German submarine, which today sits in the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

(I should have kept those books. Some have impressive resale values on Amazon now.)
So we should ensure equal opportunity to ice-skating lessons, in perpetuity, for all humans? Just in case?
Ah, I skimmed it too fast I saw the description reference the coordination server, but didn't look closely.
Blockchain’s Non-Crypto Applications Take Center Stage on Davos Day 2
> Here’s a note to any would-be secret formula stealers: take the whole formula, not just part of it.

Add: Test it well even if you think it's perfectly duplicated
I used to care a lot more. I simply couldn't use a trackpad at first and I wasn't even thrilled with a big Alienware Windows laptop I got a number of years back. I had to have a trackpoint on a laptop. But trackpads on Macs and Chromebooks became fine for me and I didn't really care after some point. Don't even use a mouse when I'm using a laptop basically as a desktop.
Is there a historical pattern of folks surrounding themselves with either people who sometimes disagree (healthy) or people who always agree (risky)?

Then ChatGPT could be a sanity check on thinking critically:

Dave, you've agreed 218 times with me this week. Please disagree more next week, so that I may recalibrate my neutrality algorithm.
I think we'll be lucky if we even get far enough to reach the advances in this scenario. I feel the AI tech we have right now is already dangerous enough, combined with other technologies, human creativity, and bad or misguided intentions.

https://acjay.com/2022/12/23/the-ai-big-bang/
'Lane ends by saying EVs can "work as well as ICE counterparts in many, or even most, ordinary situations." But in the extraordinary ones, like 16-hour blizzard traffic jams? "We're not there yet.'
I've heard that's why sailors drank a lot of rum in past times. But I don't know if it's true, or if sailors actually drank a lot of rum.
IMHO, the nub is great when your screen is small and you still mostly interact with the computer by typing. On large screens, you have to choose between having an extremely fiddly pointer or an infuriatingly slow one. I wouldn't mind a nub on a truely tiny computer, but nowadays something that small would have a touchscreen. I'd classify this as great for its time and an occasionally a nice, but inessential feature on a laptop today.
Going from 25% top-one error to 22% top-one error is a massive jump on ImageNet and very meaningful in a lot of applications. That said, there is no reason to believe attention-based models are the only way forward on image classification. The humble ResNet-50 can get near 22% top-1 error when trained properly.

Whether we need attention or not is a more interesting question on seq2seq models on text data.
> I don't know to what degree those reasons played into choosing those two moves.

Have you seen a map of Denmark and where it sits in Europe with regards to Germany?
I do agree, which is why I think WordPress would go away pretty quickly of they ever invalidate their legacy of plugins through a major change.
At least part of what you ask is there. There are examples[0] of ChatGPT explicitly saying something in the lines of "I was programmed to have this opinion." Surely we can speculate there are just as many hidden agendas that aren't just emergent from the training set.

https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1606347326624215040?t...
For me this has nothing to do with wear on the nub itself. I’ve used a few trackpoints and it always ends with pain in my index fingers
Prostitutes gather in Davos for annual meeting of global elite
Company fleet cars just need a basic moving car.