skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you confusing him with Richard Feynman? I'm really surprised you find Richard Feynman to be a huge turnoff, if so. He seems like a genuinely awesome, non-abrasive guy all around, unless I've missed something.
How do you write a byte to a memory location? I've tried various idioms to reference a memory address in MOV but it rejects them all.
Really, 8GB is only a problem if you use multiple Electron apps or heavy Webapp tabs (full-fat Gmail, Google Docs) at once or use lots of VMs, which is something most people don't do unless it's for work (or not at all, unless they're tech nerds, in the case of VMs). Otherwise, they'll have 1-3 heavy webshit things open at a time, generally, which fits OK in 8GB.

It's when you've got two or three needlessly-heavy web "dashboards" and Gmail and Slack and Jira and Notion all eating 500-1500 MB each that 8GB starts to feel cramped.
Assuming you use a computer daily, it should be easy to script Anki to open itself at startup at some point during the day, letting you effortlessly have a habit of sitting down and doing 5 minutes of review before your other tasks.
So perhaps you shouldn't have bought a house? You are now a slave to some materialistic object.

I owned houses for a long time. Wouldn't say a homeless person sleeping on my street would be a problem.

I eventually sold the houses, btw and sleep much better now. But I understand the Bay Area is built on status unfortunately.
I'm guessing the battery in your Nissan Leaf only has maybe 60% of its capacity when new? That's not so bad that a battery would be deemed unusable. If you didn't want that battery, that battery probably would not end up in a recycling site but reused in other low energy-density use cases.
>You're not explaining how things work

It maps a vector of eight thousand tokens to some number, likely thousands, of "neurons", multiplying each by a weight associated by each connection. All of these are then combined to form the next layer of values by multiplying and combining all of the values to all of the neurons in the next layer. Since all neurons connect to each other at each layer, many complex interactions can be created between them. These multiplications will go through about a hundred layers until being mapped back to a single token.

That token will be inserted at the end of the prompt and it will do this again and again until some stop token is reached, or the eight thousand token prompt is full.

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As for what I think is happening, I think that information about meaning and methods for extracting it are being encoded across those billions of weights and thousand and thousands of neurons such that these multiplications will transform an initial vector into an abstract numeric form that across the whole span of any set of neurons might represent various abstract concepts and their interrelationships, such that they can then be used to select the next token in the series.

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As for why, I expect this happens because abstract representation is how the model compresses data as gradient descent drives it twelve thousand different directions just a bit at a time as it trains on each document, meandering through the abstract space of potential neural net configurations to arrive at a local maximum that is sufficiently powerful enough to manipulate human language.
What does self fertilization have to do with ending farming's toxic reliance on chemical fertilizers?
Don't bet with ChatGPT: Study shows language AIs often make irrational decisions
Don't you think that question presupposes a materialist world view?
JWST: The new images captured of the universe – 60 Minutes
From a language perspective I think it is pretty close. I give clojure the nod because of default immutable data, which helps force the think in terms of transforming input to output.

I also think Clojure wins on other features. Being able to create a one file deployment that packages all of my dependencies (including Clojure) in to a single file. Performance and multi threading both give clojure another bump.
Med school is a bit of an outlier, because they have high quality shared decks. Most subjects have very low quality shared decks.

I don’t think any other subject at all has a shared deck that’s of similar quality to what AnKing provides for the medical community. Geography/maps have some good shared decks as well.
> Or, before that, Greek.

Greek (or koine, for that matter) was pretty much street vernacular in the Roman/Byzantine empire during that period you're likely talking about.
This would be a very good comment, if only it had a source attached.
Jon Stewart Questions Defense Deputy Secretary on Budget [video][6 Mins]
Most arewe...yet sites are Mozilla sites. It's useful for Mozillians or other interested parties to be able to access a centralized list of all of them.
If you go on to read "micromanaging done right" it's pretty clear that the author is a micromanagement apologist.
As the article mentions, their population is threatened mostly by habitat loss due to human development and trophy hunting
Ah, thanks for the link. I suggested the reason that Isabelle/HOL does this is because it requires total functions and you don't have a convenient way to do refinement types. But that's not an adequate explanation, because Lean does allow such refinements, but it still turns out to be inconvenient for division.

I will note that setting a - b = 0 for a <= b is pretty standard, and is often called "partial subtraction."
The definition of division is multiplication by the multiplicative inverse. It may be the case that some elements don’t have such an inverse but the definition is analogous to that of subtraction. The analogy is not perfect because every element has an additive inverse while not every element had a multiplicative inverse.
they described it in their paper: they created it themselves. they had/have a loop of having humans annotate images their system was uncertain about, but the released one was fully automated.
I think this is the state of the art at scale currently.

I bet if you can execute better they would love to hire you! ;)
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It's been like that in the US like forever. Once you actually have medical problems. The main difference is the whole going bankrupt thing.
Despite the title I was expecting a book about independent technical contractors with "hit man" used as an euphemism, but no it's an actual manual for contract killers. It's interesting that the book started out as fiction, but was then changed to a non-fiction format to fit the audience of the publisher, which ultimately led to the book's demise.
I also love the basic ideas of this article but think the discussion on "micro-management" should be revised.

What about the idea of "Coaching Done Right" with some discussion of how to mold and encourage direct reports toward the path that leads to optimal growth for them?

The term micro-management is an inherently negative term. It connotes the idea of hovering over a person and trying to correct every detail of what they are doing "wrong". It takes away their agency and ability to learn from their mistakes.

Love the core idea of the article though! Thanks for sharing.
My 2014 Nissan Leaf still had great battery life when we finally traded it in last year.

Often times a Leaf's entire pack can substantially recover capacity by replacing a single problematic cell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_element
I tried out htmx + django a little but got stuck doing something more than trivial. Do you have an example of a starter project that has intermediate concepts demonstrated? Maybe this can help me get over the hump.
Why don't you support your statements with sources?

"the average plant built by Japan"

Japan stopped building reactors after Fukushima disaster. If you cut corners, build a reactor in five years and later it blows up, that's not what you want, isn't it?

"It’s an ongoing process"

What kind of effect does it have on the construction? If none, it's just ongoing show.
For those interested, there is a podcast about this book and some cases it's been relevant in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hit-man/id1449636432
Worldwide, at least 10% of the audience (but depending on your specific demographic, much higher) which is a crazy significant number (for contrast: your users are three times more likely to have some form of dyslexia than they are likely to be using Firefox).

For anyone with (partial) dyslexia the serifs are information-murder. https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/advice/employers/creating-a-d...

But also note that font size and spacing matters a lot: at 16px with 24px line spacing, this is super hard to read. Change that to font-size 20 with the same 24px spacing, and this read perfectly fine.
Northern Ireland’s ‘peace babies’ say sectarianism lives on, thwarting progress
I'm just excited to have access at all.
Personally, I don't see any problems here. I guess it just comes down to taste. Also I enjoy colorful neighbour's:)
> You believe human brains are special meat with super powers and silicon can't possibly think because it doesn't have a soul or some other new age BS.

I believe literally none of those things, and have explicitly stated the opposite of at least one of them on this page.

At this point I think an LLM would do a better job of responding to my comments, based on context and syntax alone.
the relevant part is the masks, and so far it's the biggest dataset in existence, with about 400x more masks than the next smaller one.

: excluding non-public ones
Make most of the people's life better.

Everyone is an impossible target.

Maybe make the life better for more than the alternatives
Yeah, for shame. We can’t have a single article about anything without banging on about climate change.
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Eh not sure about this one.

With SoH decreasing the internal resistance increases and the battery inherently becomes a fire hazard. At some point the energy required for cooling will not be justifiable and the battery will have to be decommissioned.
I took a biology class that involved going over the organelles of the cell in 5th, 8th, and 12th grades as well as online for university (it seems to be treated like the most critical category of knowledge in all of biology). I think I still remember half of those dozen or so.

But give me a notepad and an hour and I can still list all 151 original pokemon.

There's a post on the front page right now (as there often is) about spaced repitition to improve memory. It's funny how hard we have to try to hold on to things when we're so well equipped for it naturally. The problem is we struggle to change which things are truly important to us, and it's how much we care about something that decides how long we'll hold onto it.
My TV is 12 years old, so I don't think it's unreasonable? Only down-side to the old TV is I have to strip HDCP to hook it up to my laptop through my receiver (a direct connection works because it negotiates the older version).
For many projects, you'll need "natural language" training on regular text documents in order to be able to process even your prompts. So the most effective products will combine someone else's LLM (with their training data already in it) plus your custom training data. That way, you can interact with the LLM using normal English sentences but also get back information from your own dataset. Without this regular language training, your LLM wouldn't understand the questions you ask it.

So there are two cost factors... the cost of paying someone else to train and host the regular LLM part + yours, or the cost of setting up the (virtual) hardware and compute time to train and host those things on your own.

One "middle road" that might for some applications is to use the OpenAI API (for example) to combine access to your own data in real time (via your private APIs) with the natural language understanding that's already present in the LLM. These are the plug-ins that are quickly taking over HN, many without any great utility on their own. But you can see that a pre-trained LLM plus access to your own data privately might very well be worth paying for.
video nerd voice But the beginning of the blanking interval is the front porch...
Are there any good premade decks you could recommend? Or particular topics you found well suited to spaced repetition?
I will say that we are trying to keep the connection to the database open as long as possible and only disconnect when necessary. PgBouncer's db connections are more dynamic.

So if Postgres is doing query plan caching by session then caches would be built up as that query hits other db connections. In theory, this should be better.
Archive Link [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/38LdE
No issue with considering this possibility, but unless it becomes clear that we can possibly squeeze some truth out of it on a human timescale, not really physics.
not at all being condescending but if you dont know you may be better off not knowing, leverage is a mean master.

answer is margin accounts at any brokerage.
It is worthwhile to say that some of the conservation efforts may not sit well with a lot of people, like preventing poaching by shooting the poachers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-38909512.amp
It's a rational decision. Capitalism enforces para-social behavior and ostracizing the weak.
NY Times 2019: Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change
https://archive.is/Fg5OM#selection-255.0-255.44

NY Times 2019: Climate change is now pushing the Bengal tiger closer to extinction
https://archive.is/0qbcz#selection-553.0-559.23

NY Times 2020: India Sees Coronavirus Threat to Fragile Population: Tigers
https://archive.is/PnuV3#selection-441.0-441.59

Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.
They introduce top down decisions on what is a bottom up complex emergent system. Beyond being an exercise in futility to control it that way, it introduces irrationality to the whole thing as it becomes a politically driven thing. That irrationality makes everything else behave that way and we loose any sense of "natural" trends and predictability. The bailouts are a perfect example, we are now surrounded by zombie companies and uninteted consequences which are making the whole thing more fragile and unstable.
Correct.

It wasn't clear to me that you were only talking about when there is only one maintainer, but it does make sense to me that the problem is _greatest_ when there's only one maintainer, sure. It still doens't fill me with confidence even when there's a junta.

With Rails, we also suspect there is one person, the original author, who has outsized authority within the plural authors, who at least occasionally, maybe more, makes final decisions without even internal discussion among the committers "committee"... but since it all happens in private, and nobody ever reveals anything about what happened there, it's hard to say how much internal discussion there is amongst the plural authors, or how often big decisions get made by fiat. It does feel very... politburo.
probably mix up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
Then how did the first one came about? What was there before it, pls don’t tell me nothing because it was nothing for a long time and then something must have triggered the first one. Or was there no first one because of infinity?
Very similar to Hinduism. Hinduism also describe multi verse, number of species on planet.

A lot of theory in science is around advance Civilization that existed before modern day human (they are usually referred to as Giants). Hinduism talk about how earlier human were larger in height and have been reducing since the beginning.
To feel like a main character you have to feel "observed" by a reader.

This becomes interpersonal conflict when attention is zero-sum. When all employees depend on the corporation-as-observer the team dynamic can become toxic

However most people have other "observers" like parents, friends, twitter-community, God, etc...

Though they can generate feelings of love, acceptance, fame, oneness, etc... it is fairly difficult to transmute this effort into money to make a living so these stories are subservient to the money-attached one.

Newer generations don't have decentralized observers. Everyone is online so social just converges into performing for the "algorithm". Religion and other traditions feel out-of-touch with where the world is headed. etc...

Work ends up becoming the sole pillar that is supposed to hold up all these requirements. Partners & colleagues are expected to be Virtuous by serving the one true lord of light

Managers have to act as priests...
It was funny seeing people bikeshed the use of the word "master" in a code base while not realizing H1B workers are the next best thing to actual slaves.
Good point. One of my relatives did that too.
Yes, a manager is more like the coach of a sport team. Not really a part of the team proper as such. They can't be and still be able to do a huge part of their job -- acting as the interface between the team and the other parts of the organization.

A manager's job is to coordinate effort on a high level, to ensure that the team has everything it needs to function well, and to remove as many roadblocks as possible.

A managers's job is to "grease the skids" and run interference.
You don’t get the horse analogy. The horse isn’t trained to count to eight. The horse is trained to stomp continuously. The performer yells “stop” at eight. It’s a carnival trick and a form of cherry-picking. The commenter was saying that ChatGPT doesn’t have the ability to solve these problems at all and people are just choosing the randomly correct answers. I think this is obviously not true.
> (they only support up through 802.11n, I believe)

Some newer wifi (iwx at least) work at higher speeds, but I believe this is mostly due to hardware functionality being moved to firmware. 802.11ac should be supported, but I haven't followed closely enough to know how well and in what drivers.
I think this question can never actually be answered using our concept of language and time.

If I tell you A happened before B, you can always ask what happened before A.
If she was wrong all it would take is one......
The leaf is notorious for fast degradation in hot climates due to a poor cooling system. The model S, by 2018 anyway, sets the bar for both thermal and charging management. People outside of those climates mostly think about cold being a temporary range reducer, but if 40c is a normal or even cool summer day where you live, many EVs are simply off the table due to battery life concerns. The population of places with that sort of climate is growing faster than the others, so it really is worth addressing.
My understanding is, under the precedent set by Brandenburg v. Ohio, the example you give is considered protected speech. "Anyone who murders politician X this Friday, at 4PM EST when he plans to be at this adress, would be a true patriot" is not protected, however; it goes beyond opinion to actual planning of an imminent illegal act.
The function that employment plays in society is that you can recruit people to work on your project without needing to fully convince them of its utility, by completely derisking their time investment. Metaverse? Solar-powered toothpaste dispenser? Broccoli and cheddar flavored ice cream? Rockets that fly to Mars? "Sure. Whatever you want, boss."
It can run Catalina (10.15). That was getting support up until November 2022. While it is past its end of life, it isn't something that is half a decade out of support.
> By definition, they are the main character of their own story. But large companies often don’t make them feel that way. This is universally demotivating. If you don’t feel like the main character of your story, you don’t do much, you lose agency.

This just shows how much the culture and psychological context of daily living has changed these days. It's like that line from "The Incredibles"--if everyone is super, then no one is.

I read the article. It flirts with the line between coddling and training. I don't know if I agree with everything it says, but I do regret the underlying dynamic that is at play; you can't criticize anything or anyone because they can't take it. And the recommendations it gives for communications aren't bad; it just sucks that have to be so exquisitely crafted these days.

Really, the article doesn't say it, but the better parts of it are really just working on employee expectations. You need to manage (i.e. recalibrate) your employees' expectations. While their entire schooling might have taught them they are the main character in the story, they are a special snowflake with above average talents, you will succeed at everything without trying hard, it just isn't so. What's really going on is deprogramming the decades of school coddling and setting up a clear relation between cause and effect.
Probably as many as functional Tylenol users are injecting. In my meth days I knew of 2 people that injected. It was always smoked or, less commonly, taken orally.
> Apple have been wildly successful in selling Rolls-Royces to the masses

This analogy doesn’t make any sense: a Rolls Royce comes with a significant price premium, whereas Apple products tend to cost about the same as equivalent quality PC/Android devices, often cheaper in the M1 era, and most of the cost factors directly benefit the core function of the device whereas what makes a Rolls cost an order of magnitude more tends to be a lot of bespoke luxury details which don’t help you get somewhere faster, safer, or proportionately more comfortably. If you want a car comparison, I’d go with Audi/BMW – premium but still a mass market manufactured good which marks you as at most upper middle class.

Also, you’re not doing your argument any favors by repeating Google’s marketing push about blue/green text message colors. Green was the original color on the iPhone 1 and hasn’t changed. What did change was Google trying to make a play to get governments to bail them out of their decision to throw the messaging business to competitors like Facebook. They have plenty of pricey PR people getting paid to dissemble about that, there’s no need to contribute your time pro bono.
(It's almost as if it's because they're able to differentiate between a machine and a human being.)
For those who, like me, have hit a paywall:

https://archive.ph/qehUm
You dont have to use anything complicated, just accelerate it to the speed of light and the half life will stay the same but we would observe it for significantly longer.
California farmers flood fields to boost groundwater basin
OG leaf battery design was legitimately flawed.

I had one for a while and watched the range drop from 50-40 “miles” (half that really) over less than 10k miles of usage before I sold it.
"As long as you aren't running the program on both computers simultaneously, 3D-Coat has no issues with you installing it on up to three different machines. If you happen to have it running on both machines at the same time, 3D-Coat will warn you about it, and eventually restrict your usage."

That only works if it's phoning home.
FWIW, there was an arm-native video player for the T5, and I was able to watch mpeg4/divx encoded movies on it.
Memory: The Key to Chess?
I’ve found that ancient zenbooks also work quite well if you’re mostly remoting into machines or using something like vscode remote ssh. Bought an old one above a Chromebook cause 2K screen
And who created that higher level construct
So tldr: just like dating scene nowadays.