skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that "it's not one thing" is definitely true in symptoms, especially because coping mechanisms differ, but there's specific behavior in the brain, and ones that, frankly, don't just turn off outside of a work context.

Falibility to addictive behavior is one, to me, feels like a big one that is almost universal because it plays so well into the underlying issue in the brain. But of course "normal" humans are faliable to addictive behavior to some degree!
My first experience with "Use the source Luke" was wondering as a young lad how computers calculated trig functions. This led me to the Unix V7 math lib source code[1], and thence to a book by Hart & Cheney which by luck my university library had on the shelf. Good times.

[1] https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/usr/src/libm...
They're back actually - They recently raised a new round of funding and are working to release their next-gen chip.

Source: https://mythic.ai/whats-new/mythic-raises-13-million-to-brin...

EDIT: I see this was actually mentioned in the article. Well, the new CEO happens to be the former CTO and is quite talented.
Great work! I really appreciate the breakdown.

> Each of the four cascades are given the scene at different levels of details. The first cascade uses the highest level of detail while the last cascade uses the lowest available level of detail.

I would expect the shadow renders would want to use the same LOD as the primary view to keep the shadow casting geometry consistent with the shadow receiving geometry. Otherwise, you might have incorrect self-shadowing.
Beautiful thank you.
> Touca (github.com/trytouca/trytouca) gives fast feedback (via email or PR comment) for each PR you create that shows you how the behavior and performance of your software has changed compared to a previous trusted version.

Like SonarQube?

> If you were to use Touca, you would continue to run "cargo test/npm test/dotnet test/whatever" that are likely running unit tests and integration tests.

My company can barely invest in 80% unit test coverage. We have engineers writing tests to game coverage with no assertions. How is an organization expected to invest in even more time to write another type of test?
Those pipes already exist without the risk of errors and other strange stuff ChatGPT produces.

Sites like

https://www.khanacademy.org/

are way better than the shiny new toy ChatGPT.
ChatGPT will confidently tell you nonsense if it's given the wrong prompt and you have no chance to know in advance.
So your business doesn’t have rules and contracts? If the board of directors fires the CEO—quite rare—do you think they have any legal grounds to perpetually stay?

Do you think the business would be in good standing if the CEO violently tried to stay, after a legal vote of
no confidence?

There’s a reason why CEOs and business leaders don’t really make it to the Presidency.
See also "Gaia discovers a new family of black holes"<https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/G...>
Check out the video. Harmonics above Nyquist can still reflect back into the audible range.

About phasing issues, it is not usually the path-difference between your two ears, but harmonic interference due to mixing the phased signals, which cancels out desirable frequencies.

Although I do have another excellent Dan Worrall video for you, about the ears thing: https://youtu.be/uZ9WQDojQt8
This is pretty cool, just tried it out. I wish I could give it a little more than "keywords". Give me a textarea to explain the website and (maybe a different) for me to specify some design constraints or considerations.

In the end, it built a simple website, but just wasn't "ready to launch". What are the plans to make this more customizable?
Differential equations was the hardest course I've ever taken, I got a B in it but only because it was graded on a curve.. very easy curve..almost the entire class would have failed otherwise because the professor barely spoke English and could not communicate with us in any meaningful way
"GPT-4 is still not dangerous" is a bold claim already tbh. It can be easily jailbroken still, can be used to train a local model which can spread and learn, and can be told to take on a persona which can have its own goals and aspirations - some of which can be counter to containment. Already we're walking that tightrope.
Interesting. This could be a power play for Biden if he can arrange it. The problem is that Biden is unfit to be president even today, what to speak for a second term. He is hanging on by a very thin thread.
20000 miles is not really enough to judge the reliability of a car.

There are Prius taxis in NY clocking 500k miles or more.

On the other hand Hyundai Veloster is fun to drive but literally breaks down after 30k.
Is Teams a pile now? The dot going yellow when I was playing golf instead of pretending to work really bothered me.
This reminds me of bloom’s 2 sigma problem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem
This was the time when things were truly awesome in terms of content. Flash, Shockwave, SVG, and Java Applets meant there were no longer restrictions to animation on websites. Security just wasn't a big problem. It was a golden age.
That's undoubtedly true, but time alone isn't enough. Achievement in poorer schools is lower as well; in some schools the only math that students really care about is decreasing their odds of being assaulted between classes, and doing well in class (esp math) isn't helping those odds
Directed toward an individual who already did so without today's news bearing over him at the time.
people have built entire computers out of square-loop ferrite (the kind used in core memory) and diodes; ferrite/diode systems were especially popular in the ussr in the late 60s because their transistor fabrication technology was lagging

magamps are still a thing today in some atx power supplies

as i understand it the main problem is that you can't get them to run any faster than a few megahertz
There's nothing "incorrect" about what the parent commenter said. Compare Frederick Douglas Academy in Austin to OPRF in Oak Park, a 15 minute walk away. Urban schools get state and federal dollars --- but so do wealthy suburban schools. It is in fact the case that wealthy families opt in to de facto private school systems; no jazz-hands about subsidies and mismanagement gets you around that fact.
"Don't be evil". Yeah they dropped that a while ago.
More on this point, I think it’s important to realize that a lot of technology (like phones) puts you in a “reaction” loop as opposed to your brain’s natural state of “self-entertainment?” for lack of a better term. Thinking is a muscle, you have to work it and looking at memes, tweets, api docs, etc is all fundamentally just reacting to something. Go plan something, design something, anything. But all this comes after sleep. Fix your sleep first if necessary.
Spooky23 says >"A grand jury sat and apparently found charges to be warranted."<

As New York Judge Sol Wachtler said in 1985, “If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.”

Explanation at https://abovethelaw.com/2016/02/criminally-yours-indicting-a...
Yeah we cannot damage our sacred economy
Asking a token-based LM to generate only tokens that contain the letter "Z" is... well.

Like asking someone who prepared a speech to smoothly skip all words with "ei" in them. The LM would basically need to have memorized the set of letters that each of its token stands for, from the training data. I'm surprised it works at all.
Amazing! I know it's unlikely, but I want to believe that this is at least partially MSCHF's doing (with Tax Heaven 3000, the – to my knowledge only – dating sim that can do your federal income taxes [1]).

[1] https://taxheaven3000.com/
I think we will be hearing a lot more about HyDE. It’s a neat trick.
Correct. I’m trying to highlight that assumptions in both directions are equally bad. I’m not asking anyone to assume anything else. I only asked some questions.
San Francisco busses kids across the city all over the place to ensure the students are evenly mixed and ensure the best outcome for all students.

The result is that one third of students (22,000) are now in private schools, the remainder (50,000) are in public schools. A lot of SF parents move out of the city
1) for a bigger house and
2) more reliable schooling solution
3) access to GATE programs.

There is a lot of value in being walking distance from your child's elementary school. In SF there is no guarantee where in the city your child will go to school.
I can't read the article, but does it control for race within poverty? A lot of poverty conclusions are confounded by race, yet even within poor cohorts you will find significant disparities by race. For example,

> Whites from families with incomes of less than $10,000 had a mean SAT score of 993. This is 130 points higher than the national mean for all blacks.

https://www.jbhe.com/features/53_SAT.html

This chart visualizes that point: SAT scores of whites in the poorest segment exceed those of blacks from all but the richest segment, and Asians exceed them no matter their income:

https://resources.corwin.com/sites/default/files/singleton_2...
You are sorely wrong and ignorant as to the topics you discuss. To wallow in bias is to stay lost.

Conversions to Islam under Islamic empires like Umayyads and Abbasids did not in general occur by the “sword”. You can look up the historical demographics, it took a long time for some areas like the Levant and even Egypt for a majority of the population to convert. Conversions occurred for a variety of reasons, but being force by the sword is definitely not a major factor. Even still today many places retained their minority religion populations. As for blend of culture and religion, you can easily say same for Islamic cultures which harmonized with cultures as widely as Indonesia to West and South Asian under its fold.

As for mutazilism, that has nothing to do with the topic, and the mutazilites themselves had people killed for not following their beliefs when they influenced the ruler, so their downfall was only by what they perpetuated.

Next you sell Buddhism as perfect at peace, yet there is well known infighting between various branches in Buddhism. Not to mention it does not end ethnic strife (see the genocide of Rohingya in Burma).

Be honest not dogmatic.
As a human DM, your shopkeepers 'canonically' don't know anything because you would have to devote brainpower to animating them with lives and relationships and things. You're thinking... 'Oh no, they're asking him about his family, and if I give him a brother, I have to give him a job and if I'm not careful, I might say something like "he says his brother has a job in the city watch", and someone will write that down, and then later they'll decide they need to bribe a watchman and they'll want to find the brother and... damnit, the shopkeeper will just say "I'm sorry, I'm too busy to chat"'.

Whereas a GPT LLM DM has no such issues! It has no forward plan for 'canonically' how this story is meant to go! For all it knows when you start talking to the shopkeeper, asking him about his brother might open the key to discovering a ring of bribery and corruption in the city watch, which leads you to the trail of a Big Bad....

The only thing, canonically, the LLM DM is trying to do, is make the story keep feeling like a D&D story. So the things you ask about are going to be the things that matter to the story.

And that might turn out to lead to more interesting stories for players than playing 'guess what the DM was thinking' games...
> This is the frustrating thing about LEDs that IDK we can change.

I think that non-bulb LED fixtures are relatively common. For example, a style exists where you cut a hole in the ceiling and friction-fit the LEDs with the power supply up in the attic (presumably with infinite convective airflow): https://www.lowes.com/pd/Utilitech-Canless-Color-Choice-Inte...

These power supplies aren't going to die from overheating because the power supply is nowhere near the heat-producing LEDs. And, it's not like $30 for your entire light fixture is going to break the bank.
scalable, not static (vector graphics)
Love this, Few things we could add:
- Search Feature
- Way to import/export chats
- Star/Favourite replies by ChatGPT
- For GPT4 provide 8k/32k model variations
- Prompt Dictionary
Currently they do, at least in some states

This creates its own issues, like public schools not sending misbehaving kids to specially-designed schools, and public schools losing money because students are sent to charter and private schools instead. And the private schools still require more money than the tax dollars provide. Furthermore, issues arise when the public schools suck and charter/private schools are the only decent options: these schools can be openly religious, skip over parts of the standard curriculum, and get to pick and choose who gets admitted.

Though, I don't even think giving all the tax money to public schools will help them at this point...
It's not exactly a secret what they get in terms of automated reporting from employers and financial institutions, though.

Why do I have to mail them, on paper no less, the same forms all over again?
Well wouldn't this only be better if you've come up with something superier to all the folks at NOAA. They combine weather models into the grid product every day with local human expert judgement rather than AI.

Have you published a backtest against NOAA's data? Have you looked into why they don't provide more hyperlocal data themselves? There's some interesting papers on the work they've done to get wildland firefighters appropriately local data.
Thanks, your posts were illuminating. I'm not looking forward to replacing my ancient quartz floor lamp, but I'm not sure I'll be able to buy a 3rd replacement bulb, when it finally goes out.
OpenAI CEO: It's Not Funny That I'm Afraid of the AI We're Creating
Oh, this is interesting. By the same reasoning, would a grand jury indict companies who pay former employees they fired not to speak ill of them?
Every New Yorker hates pretty much every mayor that they've ever had, despite electing them to be mayor.
I agree but I do want the guilty to pay. But yeah, I’m ready to move on from the political climate.
I was also in the W22 batch. While I don't know Oleksii (to his point!), I'm left thinking that he might not have understood and acted on YC's advice.

YC coached us on all the things that Oleksii thought were portrayed as a waste of time: talking to investors, hiring, content, etc. The trick here is timing. It's harmful to talk to investors early in YC when you have the leverage of demo day far ahead of you, but it's priority #1 closer to the end of batch. YC clearly guides founders through this process, if you listen and follow their advice.

The founders I know who were repeatedly told the generic advice of building and talking to users had a bad product that wasn't improving quickly (including us for a while!). I don't know if that was the case here, but many founders spent more time thinking about investors and selling a story vs. building something for their users. It seems like YC understands this, and it was refreshing to see group partners dissuade trying to raise on hype and a story, and instead pushing founders to build something great for their users.

There are certainly things that could be improved, but at the end of the day we raised with a 8x higher valuation post-YC vs. pre-YC and intentionally built strong relationships with other YC founders who shared our same problems and interests. While I'll hopefully work on my startup for years to come, I would apply to YC again in a heartbeat.
Writing is on the wall kids. TaxGPT...
Are the McLaren’s in the bunker?
Sure but I’d still rather not use that as the defining metric. Unless there’s some evidence throwing money at public schools in lower class neighborhoods is the solution to the problem. Every time I’ve looked into that subject in the US the biggest complaint by the teachers on the ground, in those neighborhoods, say they feel like they need to be teacher + daycare + parent for a subset + law enforcement officer etc. I grew up in a small town in Canada with mostly poorer lower/lower-mid class student but my school never had such an obligation (not overt expectation) to be parental replacements/invested psychologist/serious enforcers.

At a pretty sudden level focusing on education alone is the fault not the solution. When teachers actually get to be teachers it seems US schools do just fine or better than most of the world (not simply comparing to subsets of small homogenous European countries).
I think it kinda evens out because while the web is better, more people are using it.

If I look at just the experience I've had these last 20 years I'd say nothing has changed overall.

Because my mom got her Samsung phone infected from official Google ads. And who do you report that to? They don't care. If she didn't have someone who could identify she had a malicious program and reset her phone she'd just live her life with constant ads popping up randomly.
Wireguard smells.
Seems like it's normal for the US. Just look at Al Capone: murdered who knows how many people, ran an organized crime syndicate, but was finally taken down not for any of those crimes, but because he lied on his taxes.
I agree with you on this point, especially the part about rote memorization. I feel like when you get exposed to calculus for the first time, you're almost expected to accept the definitions for what they are (central limit theorem, etc) without really understanding where it's coming from. 3Blue1Brown's videos, fwiw, seem to do better at explaining the core concepts.

On a tangent, I also feel like college math curriculum kinda don't make sense sometimes because you're hit with more computational heavy classes like calc and stats courses and then they break everything down and rebuild you with proof-based and analysis course at the beginning of your junior year.
The people thought the web would do what you now think ChatGPT will do.

Now the web is a big source of misinformation, spam and ads.

ChatGPT is new and that's why it's results are impressive at the moment but people are already exploiting it's flaws.

What a year and ads and spam will lower it's usefulness.
Good point. Some more info:

>Persons under 18 years, San Francisco County, California percent 14.0[0]

Meanwhile US total is %22[1]

This[2] article claims SF has the least amount of kids in the US, although it does not share an exact source.

[0]https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocou...

[1]https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US

[2]https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/fewest-kids-maps-1719...
Flash games and animations were cool, but it seemed like for every cool thing made with flash there was also a terrible SWF-as-a-website that didn't play nice with browser window resizing and was more frustrating to use than even the worst modern JS-mudball monstrosities. At least content blocker extensions and reader mode can somewhat salvage bad sites… with flash pages you got the whole thing or nothing.
I still don't see the point of all this. If you have a handful of lights in a room, and drive them with a single power supply, you're still going to have big problems: the line lengths to each fixture will be different, resulting in different voltages. You can't drive LEDs that way with good results: they need fixed current. And you can't daisy-chain them either: if one emitter dies, then the remaining ones will suddenly have different current, and probably die quickly. The proper way to drive LEDs is with a power supply very close to the emitters and designed specifically for those emitters and the (short) wire length to them, not 4 meters away and not with some variable-length wire that can't be designed for.

Everyone here is complaining about ultra-cheap LEDs that don't last very long because they're poorly engineered, but that's exactly what you're all trying to do here by using a separate, shared power supply. You could get away with that in the 1980s using incandescent bulbs, but you can't do it now unless you want the same crappy lifespan and reliability you're all complaining about.

The solution is very simple: buy fixtures that are engineered well. Switch-mode power supply electronics are not expensive at all, but when mfgs cheap out or do a crappy job designing them, you get bad results, usually short lifetime of either the power supply or the LED. What you're trying to do here is buy a really expensive power supply, which has to be engineered to a far greater degree and for a far wider range of operating conditions (since they don't know what you're going to connect to it), just because you had a bad experience buying some $2 light bulb that had a crappy power supply built-in. This really makes no sense.
Related:

https://bellmar.medium.com/guess-what-analog-computing-may-b...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585958 (99 points | 2 months ago | 84 comments)

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https://semiengineering.com/can-analog-make-a-comeback/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32106546 (130 points | 8 months ago | 125 comments)
Thanks, and yes. I've been a heavy user of https://github.com/matryer/xbar for years. A tool which lets you build menus and actions from bash scripting. Super helpful but they tend to be a bit more static and often breaks with unexpected outputs.
Ada URL Parser v2.0
But you can imagine the governments case is extra extra buttoned up considering the accused.
The package is the new pcb.

But it’s going to be a chaotic gold rush with many competing solutions for a while, before a de facto standard will emerge (the way it usually goes).

Will it be UCIe, or something else? What will change when people introduce co packaged optics as well? Etc.

On the underlying packaging techniques there’s not many companies in the race.

I feel as a foundry, TSMC is technically most strongly positioned here: best offering across multiple technologies and definitely far ahead in offering complex chiplet based solutions.

Samsung and intel bring design into the picture as well, so they play multiple sides. Intel could have made a nice play with their foundry solutions to open up to fabless companies and their chiplet technology. But they failed to leverage that in house so far (their GPUs and accelerators, like pointe vecchio and others seem not commercially viable), which makes it much less likely to succeed in the broader market.
Or not, and perhaps this is all there is to it and every new model is less revolutionary than the last one. Diminishing returns and all that.