skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Sir Roger L'Estrange tell us a Story in his Collection of Fables, of the Cock [Rooster] and the Horses. The Cock was gotten to Roost in the Stable, among the Horses, and there being no Racks, or other Conveniencies for him, it seems, he was forc'd to roost upon the Ground; the Horses jostling about for room, and putting the Cock in danger of his Life, he gives them this grave Advice; Pray Gentlefolks let us stand still, for fear we should tread upon one another.”

HN is scoffing because the timing of this petition is suspicious. To borrow your metaphor of “step on the gas”, this is as if the race had already started, several competitors are out ahead of the rest of the field, and now someone is yelling “step on the brakes!”.
Oh wow. LoRA was a real smart move and this is brutally efficient in moving the ball forward.
Yes, but I would rather the AI determine which actions these are and dynamically generate UI elements for me instead of relying on whatever shithead UI/UX person at LinkedIn wants me to look at to trick me into sharing all of my contact book.
I’m still upset every time I run into a iPhone-only interface on iPad, but my anger level has gone down somewhat now that I’ve started using Stage Manager more.
The world is a curious way to put it, this feels like a particularly American facet of the problem
> And you would only need Rust — while it excels in the lowest half of the stack, it’s pretty ok everywhere else too.

A younger me, in search of a new language to learn, would have been turned off by something that is only "pretty ok"

But 20 years later, something that is "pretty ok" is exactly what I'm looking for. My experience has been that finding the perfect language (or perfect anything) is futile, and all I want is something that let's me solve my problems, don't get in my way, and don't really surprise me.

For a long while, python was my go-to "pretty ok" language, but eventually it stopped being "pretty ok" for me. Rust has now taken that spot.
Similar to the 'bees can't fly' thing. I never, ever crashed my bike until i learned how not to. And where not to look.
As someone who recently had to do some work on a project running node 0.12, you are not wasting your time. (I can’t even use destructuring assignments, because JS didn’t have them back then. -_-)
If those companies were willing to obey the same rules that Chinese companies have to obey in China (censoring what the government tells them to censor, sharing personal data that the government asks for, sharing technology that the governments asks for) they could operate in China.

It's not all that different from how US restaurant chains cannot operate in the UAE unless they take things off the menu that violate Islamic dietary rules. So Wendy's in Dubai does not sell The Baconator.

So there's nothing really to pursue via the WTO. It's not a protectionism issue when domestic and foreign companies have to obey the same or similar restrictions, even if those restrictions are onerous.
Wow things are moving super fast, but it's scary that everything is being tainted by licensing. Super fun for research, but commercial endeavors are on shady grounds.
You offer a good description of adjusting a wheel that is tensioned beyond its natural limit. Sometimes the art is making an assessment of the rim and deciding the best set of trade-offs given the rim's limitations.
Changing a comic book to a USB is a pretty substantial change.
> One obvious one is health care (which Americans pay much more for than Europeans, just not via their taxes).

Interesting ignored fact: the US government spends as much per capita on health care as socialized systems. We also have to match that amount out of pocket, but that's because healthcare in the US costs twice as much, not because less tax money goes to it.
> I'm not sure why you're ignoring a lot of Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

These are exactly the ones I had in mind.

> universal public health care with costs covered by the government.

To be pedantic, this doesn't exist anywhere in the world. The taxpayers foot the bill universally. You may not personally care, but it matters when we're discussing spending other people's money.

In the US, we already have universal public health care. If you cannot afford to pay a portion of your premium, you can be eligible for healthcare at zero expense to you.

The US government spends more on healthcare than any other nation. The US is already socialized healthcare. It's just not the utopia people thought it would be so they continue to complain...

It gets way more complicated than we can discuss here - things like private premiums are so expensive because the socialized system does not pay it's entire bill, etc. The entire thing is a massive C.F. but speeding further down that same tunnel is not going to suddenly magically make it better. It's very much-so the "but we can do it better" mentality, despite however many previous attempts there has been.
I do admire Canada’s open mindedness. Anyone who completes an undergraduate degree in a Canadian university is eligible to apply for a work visa which rapidly leads to PR status. And, that converts to citizenship pretty quickly.
That's nowhere near being a real constraint.

It's refusal to allow housing construction all the way down.
HN doesn't want you to write long posts that require visual formatting.
Let’s say, for example, that I invite a friend over and offer them a glass of water. Would you be similarly upset to find that I don’t recommend that they first send a sample of the water to be tested for purity before consuming said glass of water? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I would be fine with my friend being cautious and wanting to get the water tested (though I doubt that would ever happen in practice)… but if he trusts me to give him clean water, I doubt you’d raise any fuss over him just downing a glass.

Why/how is this any different? Anyone that wants to inspect the shell script can amend that line to first save and view the script. Are you thinking it’s never appropriate to trust such a script implicitly? If that’s the case, I’d love to hear about your workflow for checking the packages you install (e.g. debs can run arbitrary post install scripts, and do you know that a malicious actor with signing keys didn’t taint the binaries therein?), how you inspect all JavaScript for sandbox escaping exploits before viewing anything on the web, how you’ve ensured your hardware itself isn’t backdoored, etc.

The complaints of piping directly into shell from an HTTPS server strikes me as nothing more than a “no real technologists does $THING!” sort of elitism, though I’m open to being shown otherwise. A non-answer would be to propose that one first fetch a package signing key and install from your package manager of choice — if the script we’re complaining about can’t be trusted, there’s no reason to trust that the key file is any better with it being hosted in exactly the same way… unless you’re going to propose that you use something along the lines of web-of-trust to inspire further confidence that the signing key is authentic; at that point, though, your problem is with how 99.9% of third-party software packages (with respect to your distro of choice) are distributed - every PPA I’ve ever seen (docker, mongodb, whatever) at best tells you to fetch a key from some HTTPS server, and that’s all. It would then strike me as suspect to single out curl|bash (while additionally implying something about Rust users).
I tried watching it on HBO Max, but they would only send the old SD version to me since I didn't have the right combination of software and hardware.
And then gets the promotion since he spent the most time hanging out with the managers. Then he will hire more people like himself and there is no going back. After a while most companies are made up of mostly nice but incompetent people, and then they go under.
> A caveat of this technique for reducing lambdas is that it doesn't exactly match the behavior of the normal lambda calculus. While it might reduce the same as the normal lambda calculus in many cases, it doesn't always. And that's totally fine, it doesn't need to match perfectly to be useful in it's own right.

This seems like a serious problem for something trying to be so foundational... I'm kind of surprused the author doesn't go into more detail about it. Why is this fine? If not for evaluating arbitrary programs, what is HVM useful for?
If you have aspirin in the house, also keep the OD antidote NAC.

(PDF) https://www.tylenolprofessional.com/sites/tylenol_hcp_us/fil...

Notes:

0. It smells bad due to sulfur breakdown.

1. It got a bad rep from shady online vendors.

2. It's a mostly benign supplement recommended by some MDs offlabel for ADHD. Its primary action is aiding glutathione synthesis.
>commercial vendors are hesitant to allow anybody to make whatever changes they want

Why? If a vendor sells a fingerprint scanner or something why do they need the driver to be closed source? Why does somebody tweaking the source bother them?

I've never really understood this. Sure, Microsoft word needs to be closed source but why a driver?
I was always under the impression that PayPal sided more with the buyer, but I'm not so sure. Hard to tell either way. At least they support a wider range of disputes than a CC would, question is how many customers can get that far.
> Honestly, Teams
> Exchange / Outlook, for group scheduling

Are you sure?

We are a ~15 person company and there isn't a (work) day where someone doesn't have problems with teams. I can't say for sure because I hadn't used it a lot but jitsi seemed way better and google while having far worse UX was more reliable. Like screen sharing stopping working (without any error or anything just stand bild) during a meeting is pretty common, or abstruse things like one time the chat was just missing until I restarted it or another time there was a partition of rooms until everyone left the meeting and then reentered it again.

Similar problems with outlook are also not that uncommon (but more rare), like e.g. calendars not syncing, the only things really speaking for it (compared to some other good team calendar applications) IMHO is it's integration with teams... which is worth something, I mean it's pretty convenient.
"EVs will/will not create more pollution than they eliminate."

I'm just skeptical about the heavy push for passenger EVs: while they're a small fraction of the carbon emissions pie in the world, they manage to be what we spend the most time talking about. It just seems like getting new cars has the added benefit of us buying shiny new stuff without concentrating on the heavy lifting. (Or disrupting industries that would lower gdp)
Sorry, but if you’re incompetent (with no potential for improvement), I don’t care how nice you are. You’re gone. Sorry not sorry.
I have both, and the wait at the paid clinic is long, as is the wait at the free clinic.

It’s not whether the cost is socialised or not that decides how long the wait will be.

It also doesn’t help that the private system is incentivised to undermine the ‘free’ system at every turn.
I've been doing IT for quite a while now. About 25ish years ago a bloke called Ben Greer sent me some patches to get 802.1Q VLANs running on Linux which sorted a snag for me on a rather large network with no Windows domain and a lot of workgroups. I whipped up a lot of Samba daemons - one per network per workgroup and combined their browse lists. There was something like 100 of them running on an old Compaq cream coloured tower thing.

A few weeks ago I filed a couple of bugs a few days before buggering off on hols. Both were fixed within a couple of days. One was for a pretty esoteric snag on Arch Linux relating to Python, Kerberos and WinRM. Ansible now works again. I can't remember what the other one was but it was to do with Graylog - again fixed with alacrity.

I've done time on the Gentoo and Arch and many other forums and sometimes actually fixed stuff 8) and of course had stuff fixed for me. I have also been called a wanker and may have had some fairly heated discussions - that is the way of the internet. I have also apologised for being a knobend a few times and that gets a good response.

My experience with Windows is not the same as my Linux experience and I started off with Windows 2. OK I actually started off with a ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum and I still have a C-64 (with USB nowadays).

When you search for a Linux snag these days you get an awful lot of blogs that are at least nicely formatted copies of canonical sources. I use uBlacklist to get rid of the worst. Search for a Windows snag and you generally fall into a whole world of hurt. sfc /scannow or reinstall your OS is a common answer. I'll drop here that sfc has never fixed a snag for me (I worry about roughly thousands of Windows boxes) but someone a third my age will still insist it is the dog's nadgers.

Windows isn't malware, it's just lost the plot. There is a lot to love still in there somewhere but the copy n paste icons are an absolute aberration and W11 is just plain odd in places.

You cannot use telemetry to work out what is going on in someone's mind. My wife uses Arch Linux with KDE as a WM and has no idea what that even means. I divorced her from Windows at Win7 and never looked back.
When I visited South China, everything was crowded. Sick building syndrome is probably more common due to the common use of AC and large shopping malls people hang out at as well as recirculating air. My friend in India said that she did not get constant electricity in Gujarat so AC wasn't as common everywhere.
Miami's Brutal Crypto Comedown
Da Vinci had no licenses. Nor Euclid, Nor Einstein.

In the long run, licenses are for losers.
Hopefully someone will be brave enough to fight Meta on the LLaMA copyright issue. My concern is that the people who can afford a massive legal battle can also afford to train their own model.
One of the few very real regrets I have about the way we've run our business is not getting rid of a brilliant asshole sooner. It was boggling:

a) How good he was. Just like really really good quality of work.

b) How bad he was. Crying client. Regularly destroying team morale and productivity with incredible drama.
Thanks. And certainly we can dive into a lot of the factors for items like “decided to not stay” etc.
The big question is why doesn’t it happen more often via India?
Filling in a timesheet for meetings for the week based on calendar items. Categorizing whether it's internal or external meeting based on whether email addresses invited match your employer's domains, and which project it was for based on the title and description.
Well that's not a counterargument, but you're also missing the point completely, which is that you have to have a very low capacity for empathy in order to push ahead towards AGI when you know society is not prepared for this and that it's going to induce considerable pain.

Americans (let alone people elsewhere in the world) are already struggling. Recent reporting suggests a great many have to work multiple jobs. Almost all of us work an absurd number of hours per week. Many if not most can't afford homes. Plenty are ending up on the streets. Healthcare can literally bankrupt people. A vacation out of the country is an impossible luxury for most. The majority of Americans still don't send their children to college, usually because of affordability.

And I haven't even touched on what life is like in most of Africa or Asia.

This is the world we're bringing AI into. You have to be something adjacent to a sociopath to be okay with that. So long as our system is predicated on capitalism, AI may very well induce more downstream suffering than anything else humans have ever conceived.
Why do you think developers (and users) use Google Play when there are cheaper alternatives?
Does this support context? Like can you hold conversations with it, or is it just instruct-trained rather than chat-trained?
Yeah, and there's a reason none of those guys were as rich as e.g. Mark Zuckerburg.
> the optimizer rearranges the code to the extent that the notion of line numbers makes little sense

I remember PhD papers addressing that in the 1980s. Nobody has yet figured out how to revert optimizer hamburger back into source meat.
I think another component to the equation in wait times is also doctors per capita and GDP per capita.

It's hard to compare apples to oranges but with high doctors per capita, low wait times for speciality services, long lived citizens and a far lower percentage of GDP spent on health, I wonder if there are any serious holes to poke in Italy's system when compared to the U.S. or if they simply just beat us on every metric.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org//sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index...
You're suggesting we accelerate the danger to shock people awake?

So like putting poor performing FSD on public streets (daring regulators to ... do their job)?

Or connecting the nukes to some SkyNet-esque "defense" system, knowing its propensity for illogical and undefined behavior?
> Describing things that LLMs can't do isn't proof we understand them.

That's true, which is why I didn't stop there, but went on to explain why LLMs can't do those things.
The US had the advantage of mostly eliminating the indigenous population. The only Americans who aren't immigrants are natives and the descendants of slaves. Other countries have large native populations.
is "number of parameters" going to become a useless metric?

or would this be that much better when using a fine-turned version of the 65B parameter Llama model.
Sure, just get residency first ;-)
What cartridges? I don't think 7.62mm NATO or .308 are compatible with the 7.62 flavors that the USSR used
> make your high-cost employees much more productive with AI

Might happen soon, might not. AI has so far proven astounding for problems to which solutions are robust to small perturbations -- natural language, visual art -- but code is different.
It gets worse when they become the norm. Then the rockstars start to think “why am I doing the work for five people but getting paid only 20% more” then they leave.
The platform fee is taken out of the money that users pay for the app.
stop its too real!
What soured Python for you?
Won't stop those that are willing to pull an Uber or Nathan Fielder it. It's not commercial, it's a parody or a non profit organization.
What software/hardware combo are you not able to get? I think HD is only available on Safari on Mac (no Chrome) or Edge on Windows (also no Chrome)
Models don't support context. You feed prior prompt/response pairs back into the input.
Zero sympathy for Reddit and devs. I solved the hostile front end issue by never looking at Reddit anymore. You can't really trust that website anyways due to past privacy problems:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

Seriously think carefully about what you look at or post on Reddit.
Lots of players are active in the battery recycling space. Tesla’s former CTO, J. B. Straubel, departed to start redwood materials in 2017 as one example. Until recently it has not been much of a problem. I suspect hybrids will be the interim solutions until we get to scale with battery recycling.
Just because “American also bad” doesn’t mean that they are in the same ballpark of bad.
What are the plausible explanations for how strict lockdowns wouldn't significantly slow down infections for a respiratory disease? Is it basically just that the lockdown strictness, duration, and enforcement is never sufficient to make a difference for such a highly contagious disease? Like there basically isn't a sufficient decrease in the number of person-to-person contacts to meaningfully change the end result of "everyone gets infected"?

(I'm not asking about the other negative effects of lockdowns not directly related to the spread of disease, which is obviously also relevant to the broader discussion.)
>before something tragic happens.

Gotta be USA.
But this is for remote work — undercutting local wages shouldn't be an issue.
I also recommend the SmarterEveryDay video[0] where they rig a bike to turn the opposite way than it is steered.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
A little bit more than 20 years, but Earth: Final Conflict comes to mind. The vanishing character development of season 1 in season 2 was instantly tangible.
I’ll take all four over a decade long global depression, flu that killed 2% of the globe, and two world wars in the same timeframe.
Brooklyn's newly opened Museum of Failure celebrates bad ideas, silly designs
I appreciate scholarly documents with explicit "Funding" sections.

My questions is how much do I trust the level of influence on the authors? I cannot always be cynical.
Get used to it — it's the new GitHub [for LLM stuff, for now].
I just had kidney stones, while extremely painful not very high on the er totem pole. Got in, got a bed, IV all within 10 minutes of walking in. There's at least 30 hospitals in my metro and hundreds of urgent cares.

$1500 on my HSA plan, which btw right now is returning 4.6% in a money market. How awesome is that?

Great deal. Worst pain ever.
Social media opened a massive can of worms which everyone has largely avoided for good reason, I can not see an outcome for such a case which I can call good, we end up either giving the corporation more power or the government more power. I do not think they have much of a case here and there is a mountain of precedent against TikTok but I can not think of any precedents which involved someone with such deep pockets.
Yeah, because US were always a champion in democracy cries in Latin America’s multiple 20th century dictatorships backed by the US
I haven't heard of this before. Thank you for the tip :)
Great comment. Between sfc /scannow and a format you can also try to revert to an earlier snapshot. Don't forget the ever so optimistic Windows Troubleshooter. I think I've seen it fix a network issue once by restarting the interface. :)
Are you saying it makes it easy to maintain patches parallel to the existing software? The difficulty keeping forks up to date (losing maintenance benefits of upstream work) and "re-basing"(?) the custom changes in a clear and clean way is my biggest stumbling block to "just fork it".

Would also be appreciated to see an example.
There was a discovery that acetaminophen plus ibuprofen produce a synergistic effect similar to opioids. [0] This combination stresses the liver, stomach lining (without famotidine), and kidneys so it's not something to use chronically. It was even OTC productized as "Advil Dual Action". [1]

0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20142348/

1. https://www.ada.org/publications/ada-news/2020/march/fda-app...
Insuring massive populations isn't really insurance because of large numbers (there's no risk involved.) It's just an economic rent. It's a poker game where most of the players are cooperating.
None have privacy guarantees, and usually those rates are extremely subject to change, require quarterly activation, variable APR, high foreign transaction fees, or many other annoyances.
Review of Bill S.686 – Restrict Act (a.k.a. Ban TikTok)
No. I linked to a blog article which mentions many different papers, many of which were from 2018 or before. ELMO, BERT, UNILM...all examples of multi-target NLP models that pre-dated GPT.

I didn't dig this up because I thought the date on the webpage was some kind of rebuttal. I picked the first article I saw that mentioned models I knew about, with dates.

> It is also a modified transformer

Well, yes. Exactly. We're in the echo of that work, which was the core advancement that happened circa 2017. As I keep saying, it only seems revolutionary if you haven't been paying attention to the last 5 years.
When I watched B5, a decade late, a friend recommended I start with season 2 and watch season 1 after session 5. The big story arcs don’t really start until season 2 and some actors and characters change, so you can watch season 1 later as a prequel of sorts.
100% right. I felt the same way for many years.