skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea of taking weds thru friday basically off to loaf and surf the internet while you wait for other threads on your project to get back to you will hopefully die.

I don't like sitting around waiting for PR feedback, and will typically find other ways to be productive when this happens, but I'm unclear what you expect people to do in this situation.

If you have some code that needs to be reviewed, and the available reviewers aren't reviewing it after you requested their review, then you have three options:

- Remind them. Always a good idea, but you can only do it so often. Sending someone daily reminders over a non-urgent PR is a great way to get your PRs reviewed even more slowly next time. Also, once you're senior or above, your reviewers tend to be busy. You can't wave a magic wand and clear their calendars.

- Escalate to your manager. May or may not be effective. Will make you unpopular if you do it too often, especially if the two of you have the same manager.

- Escalate to their manager. May or may not be effective, but you just irrevocably burned your bridges with that person, hope it was worth it.

And this is just for code review. If QA is involved then you have a whole other layer of bureaucracy to deal with, except with a different reporting chain.

There's a reason engineers at large companies seem so unproductive and it often has nothing to do with their work ethic.
> You’ll have to pay a lot more to get a different class of people.

Plenty of people do currently join the police in the USA with good intentions, but plenty more would never join at any price. The toxicity of police culture is enough of an offset that basically no salary would cover it for a growing fraction of Americans.

You want more and better cops? Make policing less toxic, then people might actually rebuild some respect for police in general.
> The first amendment does not give you carte blanche to say anything you want at any time with no consequences. It simply says that the government can't lock you up for it.

Correction: It says the government can't punish you for the speech. As a state school, BGSU is acting on behalf of the state and therefore must not violate first amendment free speech rights. Even though BGSU did not put professor Coons in prison for speech, firing Coons still violates the first amendment.
Or "while the Fed had the punch bowl out, we drank heartily like everyone else; when they took it away, we grabbed out coat and headed home to sleep it off a while..."
A Whale of a Fail
Trurl's bard ChatGPT is not.
The long, slow death of global development
I'm inclined to believe that Hawking's eyes were on camera for lengthy periods, I'm certain that there would have been some attempt to automate an interaction there as all his other muscles failed more and more.

As for Hertog, there's a number of people that can and (according to the grapevine) do vouch who have worked with them both over the past decades.
Damn. There's some really important software on that list: libvirt/QEMU/KVM, LVM, WINE
i was thinking of "scenario #1" in the article.

you explained in well and i was wrong. i dug in a bit more and it looks like the linux kernel represents a connection as 4-tuple: source ip, source port, destination ip, destination port

which is what allows the kernel to accept multiple connections on the listening port.
You can use reference counting memory management
https://archive.ph/LKS8S

"""
But our intention here is to offer a more ambitious cri­tique of global development. We do not seek to simply make a pessimist’s case for why economic development has not occurred, or why various statistical flaws mean that we should disregard undeniable progress in reducing global poverty. Rather, we aim to show why the prognosis for the poor world is much worse than the standard picture—preoccupied with a purely quantitative account, however rigorous, and ignorant of more geographic, historical, and political-economic ap­proaches—has allowed; to explicate the structural changes that have undergirded the perverse trajectory of global development; and to outline a more realistic outlook, married to a new framework, for a return to real development.

The crux of the problem is this: despite attempts to find alternative models of economic development, there is no widely replicable strategy to develop a country—simply put, to turn it from poor to rich—that does not involve an economy becoming highly industrialized. But in recent decades, the growth of manufacturing sectors, and thus of economic development more broadly, has been overwhelmingly concen­trated in East Asia, particularly in China. Across the bulk of the poor world—here we have in mind Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa—economies have been experiencing a more disturbing trajectory: simultaneous deagrarianization and deindus­trialization, especially in the years after 1980.

The result is that industrialization, development, and massive income growth in East Asia has statistically “compensated” for stagnation almost everywhere else—with East Asian industrialization partly re­spon­sible for the loss of other countries’ manufacturing bases. This has been the case even as incomes have risen in most of the poor world, mainly on account of the 2000–15 commodity supercycle driven in part by the explosive growth in demand from the Chinese market—which, ironically, helped lock emerging markets into low-tech, undiversified export profiles. Asian success, in short, has obscured a bleaker picture in the rest of the world.
"""
From the tweets:

> GPT-4 showed a deep understanding of the game and played much more optimally than how my slow biological brain would ever have.

Are you sure?

The letter P is the 14th most common letter found in the English dictionary, and it played it twice on the first guess.

I’d expect a system with a deep understanding and playing an optimal game to pick more common letters and definitely to not play a relatively uncommon letter twice.
By one of those weird coincidences, I found this on HN just after shopping for cabinet pulls on Amazon.

It also made me think of a hotel stay the night before a marathon run. I went to close the window blind and scooting between the chair and the desk my bare thigh came in contact with the drawer pull of the desk which was nearly as sharp as a razor and gave me a deep cut.
At least ebayers... open stuff up when it arrives.
The Colorado River Is Running Dry, but Nobody Wants to Talk About the Mud
Delegating Projects, Not Tasks
Well it's $12.18/share now, so now doesn't seem like a bad time to take up a long position. Maybe if you've already lost something then it will be a while before you've made up the difference (or never), but having lost money at $80 as a reason not to be long at $12 seems like the sunk cost fallacy to me.
> (opinion) people rarely blame the police for an increase in crime

I see blame in every direction but what's funny is if they're blaming cops for uptick in crime, it's because of a perception of the cops working less, when it seems that when cops work less, crime goes down: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/nyc-cops-did-a-work-...
Or as many people know it… that thing from the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.
What is it they say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results :-)?

It's not clear to me, from the last 30 years of engorged police funding, that we can pay our way out of this one. Focusing on why it attracts people who are drawn to the negative aspects, for example, as you said.
The first amendment says the government cannot punish you for speech. BGSU is a state university and is therefore an arm of the government. BGSU therefore cannot punish you for protected speech.
I lived through the 70s with dire warning of overpopulation and pollution killing us all. It's very difficult to predict the future and scientists has failed miserably in this area. An economist will out-predict a scientist any day.
Ok ok you've got a point. I'm probably too naive to take someone like Marcan at his word.
> Good sampling of ignorant people to try stuff out on

Got it, those twelve states and the fifth largest metropolitan area in America are all crazies.

What about the Rockies and Southwest? Is Wyoming more California or Texas? What about Utah and Nevada? Are you arguing Massachusetts and Maine align their politics with New York’s?

I get the desire for simplifying state politics. But the attractor model is only explanatory ex post facto (or for specific issues); the set of issues being legislated at this level are too varied, volatile and particular to knit into long-standing regional political structures.
I mean, such a theory is not exactly UFO-level crazy. What happened to "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome"?
If you want your site's CSS to influence anything inside the SVG (color, etc) you'd have to do it inline, but I'd always go for background-image first.
In Canada, none. Sold off their gold reserves cuz we got more than enough in the ground (and speculating in the thing that everyone else speculates on is kinda dumb)
It's like asking a deaf person to rhyme. It just doesn't have access to the information of what letters are in a word.
I like this idea much better. Inventing a similar game to Wordle, but making differences. The problem with Wordle is that the internet sensation grew very popular and there's plenty of online discussion (which may have trained the LLM for Wordle inadvertently).

Instead, we invent new games with slight variations and see if GPT4 generalizes to those games. Or ideally, inventing a whole new game entirely and seeing if it can learn the game from just a description of its rules.
Fascinating read regarding the Russian APC clause, thanks.
They don't exist to maximize profits. Publicly traded companies try to maximize profits in the short term. If it was over long-term they would be doing things people would generally like more.
The thing I have such a hard time understanding (and, in general, I have a very high-level, layman's understanding of LLMs) is how these LLMs are able to understand structure inside tokens. That is, I understood that LLMs just predict the next token in the sequence. But for a game like Wordle, it's obviously critically important that the LLM understands the mapping between the individual letters of, say, "apple", and the output result that the author defined in the prompt, e.g. "XXXXO" means that only "e" is in the word (but the wrong position).

I'm just completely baffled how anything in the training procedure could allow the LLM to learn information about the structure of tokens. Does the tokenization process not treat every token (which I thought usually maps to a word) as an "opaque blob"?
I wish I could tolerate him. The content is great, but I find his constant tone of “oh how enlightened and civilized we are because we listen to the right music” thing beyond irritating.
It's fine as long as bike paths are physically separated from cars and are maintained to the same standard as roads. My college had a network of pedestrian/bike paths that they plowed in the winter, and I and many others had no problem biking year-round.
> If I'm in a gang, and taking part in criminal activities as part of being in that gang, I don't get to turn around and say "I was doing that as a gang representative, so I shouldn't go to jail, it's the gang that was breaking the law, and it should pay a fine". For example: googling "gang drug bust" reveals lots of arrests, and lots of people going to jail. But if those gangs incorporated themselves into LLCs they could kill thousands and just pay fines, as Purdue did.

From a legal perspective, selling illegal drugs is an inherently criminal enterprise. By contrast, a mega-corp which violates anti-trust laws is not an inherently criminal enterprise – the underlying business is entirely legal, it is only the anti-competitive business practices which are illegal. And drawing the boundary between legal and illegal business practices, and the criminally illegal vs the merely civilly illegal, can involve a lot of debatable judgement calls about legal grey areas and technicalities, subjective psychological states of business executives (intentions, "understandings"), etc. Illegal drugs are much more black or white in practice – are these bags of white powder cocaine or sugar? And if cocaine, do you have a government license to manufacture/possess/sell it? A drug gang incorporating itself as an LLC wouldn't put itself legally in any better position than it is without being one.

And Purdue Pharmaceuticals didn't "kill thousands" in the same way as a drug gang does – through selling illegal drugs or through murder. If a drug gang was doing what Purdue did – marketing legal prescription pharmaceuticals, in full possession of the necessary government licenses/approvals for doing so, but doing so in a way which was reckless to the harm they were causing to patients – then a drug gang would probably only get fined just like Purdue did. But then nobody would call it a "drug gang", we'd all call it a "pharmaceutical company"
> In fact spending short periods in lots of different countries makes it a whole lot harder to learn to drive.

Huh?
I thought it must be him, but saw where he denied it publicly on Twitter, so I took him at his word.
Well, this was an awkward way to realise my phone hasn't been receiving security updates for years. Apparently Google quietly dropped support for it? The phone is otherwise in excellent condition. Any recommendations for a good third party OS that still supports Pixel 2?
This is going to get a lot of hate, but the common refrain about WFH is "my productivity is up." That might be true, but it doesn't mean you're producing the right things, and I've found that harder to do remotely.
Timeline of Balaji Srinivasan
Every one of these companies doing layoffs says something like what's in this update: "user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations." I find it really hard to believe that all of these companies assumed that growth during Covid was sustainable and would just continue into eternity. I have a small restaurant supply business. Our revenue was up almost 50% above our best year ever. We knew there was no way it was going to last forever. All of these companies just sound so disingenuous when they say their growth didn't keep up with their expectations. They knew this day would eventually have to come, they just don't want to come out and say that.
Guess I am.
not really. more like three bursts: great depression, 1980, 2008.
Because I am Deacon Vorbis?
Does Kim have her own job? Does she get to choose her own dating partners? Does she have to settle for some drunk guy who beats her? Does she worry about going hungry?

Kim has wealth and abundance. She just refuses to make the sacrifices necessary to have children like people did in the old days, where women didn't work and were basically property of their husbands.

The "problem" these days is that women want to be treated as equals and have a nice life and be able to control the direction of their lives, instead of just marrying whatever shitty guy they can get just so they can survive. The byproduct of that is that the birthrate is much, much lower.
On the other hand, this energy can also get converted into complexity. It's not like this hasn't happened before (organisms, trees, animals, cities, etc...). So it's possible with this fast increase in energy, we get the SciFi city we have all been dreaming of.

Of course, it's easier for this energy to dissipate as heat and kill us all.
I can guarantee it's already happened, and been happening for a year.
At growth companies, share price tends to track future revenue.
Same. I've been using Overcast for many years, and it's been the best podcast app I've ever used.
There is a tremendous gap between "limited damage" and "destroyed", and in most of that range you wouldn't have much opportunity to change the layout despite the damage being "significant".
This may seem counter-intuitive, but model architecture is not the most significant differentiator in LLMs. Not publishing creates negative externalities around collaboration, recruiting etc. and any research organization worth their salt knows better not do avoid publishing. It's similar to the fallacy that Google should've never open-sourced Kubernetes as it allowed other cloud providers to out-compete them.
aka, they won't do it, unless there's some "free" profit they can get from doing the deal.

Which means somebody gets a win out of this crisis after it's over, but the swiss taxpayer gets to take a loss if somehow it ends tits up.
But you'll never be certain those "actual people" aren't just using "AI" to generate that content, either... so it really won't be anything like the early days of the web.
Implementation details. Check out what's going on with LangChain, augmented retrieval, etc. We'll be able to create knowledge bases on specific subjects with vetted data, and get the bot to retrieve and summarize appropriate results while providing a citation to the original source.
Focusing to the point of tunnel vision is what we're trying to avoid.

Stay too focused and you don't have room to ask why our jails are essentially revolving door state housing for the homeless.

The usa is absolutely in a predictable phase of late stage capitalism. You don't have to be a communist to consider this, rigid critique of system is how you improve systems.
An Aperiodic Monotile
There is, as yet, no human society without its own sacred cows. (Or, rather, "norms for public discourse.")

In China, you don't publicly criticize the Communist Party of China or Xi Jinping himself -- not unless you've got very good reason, and perhaps even then.

In the West, you don't publicly criticize... well... let's not go there.

Point is: Ernie being locked-down in this manner is absolutely normal, not unusual or aberrant.
I think it is more likely that investors knew what they were buying and we were happy when they could take more risk (and get higher returns) than they otherwise could.

This kind of details can get lost in large organization when things get reported to higher ups. Which of course might be also beneficial to those doing the investments. Your risk exposure seems low, but profits are good - might earn you a good bonus.
I own five pins and wouldn’t consider any kind of major modification like that. Regular maintenance is plenty of work without making it one of a kind. Parts are still widely available so original condition is the easiest to support.
> Sure enough, the perpetrator bit—and stayed on the line long enough for Deutsche Bundespost to locate him at his home in Hanover, West Germany.

We need details on how this was accomplished.
I got worse than 1 token/sec, and yes, wasn't impressed with bloom results, but I believe it's also very foreign language heavy. I haven't tried it yet but I believe flexGen benchmarked faster as well.
Clearly the solution is to have two displays refreshing on a 30 second alternating cycle! Maybe add a third black and white high frequency screen displaying an arrow pointing to the currently active screen. I jest:)

It actually really makes me want to build a Solari board for my local metro station.
Yes. It’s counter-intuitive but both lowering and raising interest rates are inflationary. A rise in rates means more bond coupon and more bonds sold (new money), and lowering rates results in more bank lending (new money). A rise in rates is actually more inflationary, since bank lending won’t necessarily increase with lowering rates, but a rise in rates necessarily means more bonds and bond coupon from banks purchasing bonds.

The system is designed (fractional banking + government bonds) such that the money supply must continue to increase.
Only if they acknowledge it. Lots of folks pretend it never happened to them.
So why does anyone buy these "bonds"? it seems like their pay out isn't high enough to really be worth the potential risk. Or is it a matter of investors not reading the fine print (which i find to be not likely)?
You can't, it's somewhere in the petals docs, but they recommend generating in parallel, and averaging, or selecting the response.
Pixel 2 is not impacted by this vulnerability as it doesn't have a Samsung modem.
Already somewhat possible. At least the UI generation part. Someone over on the r/chatgpt had a post where they took a SVG exported layout of a web UI and pasted the SVG markup in chatgpt. The prompt just asked it to convert svg into html divs. It in return generated the necessary html and css. Which came out to be remarkably identical to the original SVG. Amazing. Maybe with a little effort, someone could even get it to generate the callback/bindings.

EDIT: Screencap of the reddit post here: https://i.redd.it/x7yza5pgftna1.png
I agree actually. Stated differently, commuting is a pain for workers, so they're willing to accept a lower wage to avoid it.

This also means the worker can live where the cost of living is lower, and be willing to work for less--thus pushing down wages. Arguably the worker still comes out ahead though if she can live where she wants to...assuming she likes working remotely from a low cost-of-living place. If she'd rather live in NYC and go to the office, she might not be happy to see her wage go down.
Note that, even though it's referenced that way in "layman" articles, it's not "autocomplete" as in the thing we use in a word processor or chat app or IDE. For starters, the latter might be built (and is commonly been built) with totally different algorithms than LLM and what GPT does.

That said, it does "complete" or "predict" a next word or continuation phrase, so it can be though as belonging to the same basic concept of "how to complete what was given", but so is Vim's crude "control-N/P" which just finds tokens starting with the same characters that it was given.
One year is not bad to master a whole OS!
good. police should share less data across state lines unless they have very good reason.
Even funnier because there was an actual classical period, but most of what is called classical isn’t from that period.

Beethoven is basically the dividing line between line between the classical and the Romantic period that followed it.

Bach and Vivaldi were from the earlier Baroque period.

Mozart and Haydn were from the classical.

The bulk of what most people listen to is the romantic period, which runs from roughly around Beethoven’s 3rd to around 1900. That gets you Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Rachmanoff, Nielsen, Bruckner, Mahler.
I hate to say it, but get an iPhone SE. 5 years of updates /from when the device was last sold in stores/. If you sideload any Android apps, you'll have to wait in a cold until the latest pixels are patched, and then get one of the a-models.
Agreed! I always thought I didn't like Brahms, although I don't have any idea where I picked up that notion; I must have been confusing him with someone else. I started listening to Classical King FM, and now and then I'd just be blown away by some piece that sounded like... I don't know, sheer mathematical perfection. Each time I said "I wonder who that is?", it turned out to be Brahms. Now I'm a fan.

For example his piano quartets like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyAiXNAZ5WE
It does appear to only support Bloom, which makes it currently useless since there are much better models with fewer parameters that you can run on a single machine.

However, the project has a lot of appeal. Not sure how different architectures will get impacted by network latency but presumably you could turn this into a HuggingFace type library where different models are plug-n-play. The wording of their webpage hints that they’re planning on adding support for other models soon.