skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should train smaller LLMs on more tokens
Capitalists seem to be fighting a losing battle. Birth rates will not recover until possibly once Gen Alpha comes online. Thats ~20 years from now.

And thats a big IF the elites convince millennials to bear kids en-mass(heard about people like Elon and neoliberals like Peter Zeihan pushing people to have kids?).

Frankly I don't see it happening unless millenials really start getting some more stability. Seems like the new "kids" are actually dogs/cats. Who knows? Maybe the Millenials that are inheriting their parents houses/the ones who became successful in tech early will make up the shortfall for the rest of the generation.

At the same time oldest millenials are turning ~40 now so if they haven't had kids time is running out. Clock is ticking.
This is the easiest way to get an idea for what is happening and what experience is needed:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=formal&sort=relev...

There are several different niches, and HW formal is likely using different tools and methods than SW formal, though there is overlap. Anyways there is room for a wide range of experience/skills/background in a variety of different areas.
Show HN: MealPractice – Meal planning with GPT 3.5 generated recipes
Hi, I'm Ben Bjurstrom and I've been hacking away on a meal planning site called MealPractice for the last couple years. The main goals for the site are:

1. Enable users to create weekly meal plans, either from individual recipes or from a collection of recipes saved as a menu.
2. Allow users to publish the meals they're actually cooking, helping them identify their core meals and enabling other users with similar tastes or nutritional goals to discover new recipes.

With the rise of generative AI I thought it would be fun to allow users to create new recipes based off a few preselections. To my surprise the suggestions it comes up with are quite good. I've personally been using them to cook meals for my family for the last couple months.

Would love your feedback on the recipe generation process, the quality of the recipes, and the site overall. Here to answer any questions.

Thanks!
Female mate expectations are a significant part of this topic, but as far as I can tell, it's a third rail. So the incel concept is fair game as you can safely deconstruct unreasonable male expectations, male mediocrity and male criminality without much, if any, backlash.
Looking at the behavior of and dialogue between these agents, I realized in shock that they would readily fool me into thinking they're human, unless I was warned in advance that some or all of them may be synthetic. Some aspects of WestWorld don't look so unrealistic anymore.

Our world is going to get a lot stranger going forward.
Great article? I'm curious what your Anki settings are, if you've changed anything. I'm pretty new to the app, but when I hit things like "you'll need see this card in 5 years" I had to dive into settings and start tweaking stuff. I'm more concerned about definitely remembering it in say 12 months than having too high of a load. But there are many adjustments to achieve this, so any thoughts?
My GenZ child wrote their first check a few months ago. The State Department doesn't take cash or credit cards for passport applications. The guy at the post office talked them through it and their passport arrived last week.

A decade from now they'll write their second check and have to be talked through it again.
Not really...this bullwhip is not really created by customers but by each step of the supply chain increasing inventories as the supply chains had issues and it's not something you can just be organized about and avoid. Not to mention when you see slowdowns at the supplier/manufacturing side the cycle time of products gets faster so the industry customers can delay ordering...just causes a super drop off in production but it should be short lived.
You could store whatever personal data you want in embeddings and use the api to refer to those. Can't do it on vanilla ChatGPT with the website though, I don't think.
given the u. s. goals of evs and energy storage recycling batteries domestically instead of shipping the metals off to cheaper destinations is going to become a matter of national security as we won’t produce enough metals on our own
Weird having an insightful factual beginning of a sentence just to conclude with weak and hugely incomplete speculation ignoring the bulk of the picture (Apple's all other products, what actually needed actually entails, ...).
We have seen the whole series, half of them as they were released and I'm devastated that Michael Apted passed away, I hope one of the team is able to do 70 Up. Very few things on screen have made me feel what the Up Series does, Boyhood did. There are many other versions, including in the UK, but none span an era of such huge changes in society - although, hold my drink, who knows what the future holds.
Nuclear has failed for now 70 years to change anything. It's because it plainly doesn't work. Worldwide only one country has managed to produce the vast majority of its electricity from nuclear and even this country is faltering right now. The french electricity company is deeply in debt, was nationalized as a consequence of it and just posted a 20 billion loss for last year. The plants are reaching their end of life, the prototype replacement in Flamanville is a national embarrassment and is now over a decade and over 10 billion over budget.

If the world decides to go all in on nuclear it would take decades to decarbonize a tiny percentage of the grid and horrendous costs.
What Is Segment Anything (Sam)? A Breakdown
For that you are going to need something in the predicted "Island of Stability", which ironically is a great name for a hard SF series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
"Iron deficiency and sleep - A scoping review"[0] did a literature review and found many studies linking Iron Deficiency to poor sleep outcomes for various particular sleep disorders. It summarizes the findings with:

> iron investigation and supplementation should be considered in patients presenting with sleep disorders

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32224451/
Declarative Access Control for Microservices
Self-Supervised Learning of Concepts and Mapping Through Instruction Following
Okay so if you can get to a ring without a multiplicative inverse and then applying that operation to the ring forms it into a field then wouldn't it be fair to say that division is not really the opposite of multiplication the same way that subtraction absolutely is for addition?
It is expensive, so I made a version for myself as a Discord bot https://github.com/alexQueue/GPTBotHost/ (note: code is sketchy. Not really cleaned up for the public)
I need to find a way to deal with it (in me and others) beside avoiding social interactions :)
Super cool development. Love seeing people actually acting on the laws of of supply and demand.

> The scrap and used batteries go through mechanical shredding and sieving, which produces “black mass.” Ascend extracts lithium carbonate from the mass; the remaining mass contains materials such as graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese.

The article brags about the input, but is cagey on the details of the about. Of the 30k tons processed in a year, what percentage is reconstituted?
https://archive.ph/VPQtr
>But say “reason”, “think”, or “meaning” with something AI related and it’s like all work has to stop until we stop using that precious word.

The unwillingness to admit to AI capabilities because they are expressed in terms of human capabilities is what I deem an argument that "boats can't swim".

True, in that what it does is different, but irrelevant in almost every facet that most people discussing it would care about. The boat, if anything, "swims" better than humans in basically every way. The argument against its use is only that swimming doesn't refer to boats.

(I admit I might have picked this argument and phrase somewhere, but I did recently a cursory glance back through old comments, and think I might have coined it based on having then recently learned that Russian uses the same term for swimming and sailing, which I had found interesting at the time. But perhaps not, my first use appears almost a decade ago, and my mind is ever forgetful)
25 Years: Good Friday Agreement
My GenZer wants to learn but we literally don't know a single person who owns a manual transmission car. Well we know one but it's a cousin who lives 1500 miles away and we really only see at weddings and funerals.
"The heroes of tragedy driven by consistency and by righteousness, destroy each other. He who seeks total supreme justice seeks death."

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1998/trimble/lecture...
We have a dearth of battery-grade metals refining in America. Battery plants need specialised powders to do their work. Making them isn’t easy.

Many aspiring refiners brand themselves as recyclers, since turning metals and old batteries into battery-grade powder is more similar than one would expect. (Lithium carbonate.)
The iPad Magic Keyboard is a trackpad on a touch based os.
I wish GCP would implement one.
>You can see how society works and how rich people stay rich and poor people stay poor.

Shh, you'll wake the techno-libertarians.
https://archive.ph/R6P3Y
GAI for Small Business
For a serious answer, my biggest reservation with using ChatGPT to explain concepts I know very little about is that ChatGPT often just makes up fake information, or very confidently explains things wrong.

Having to fact-check every thing it says feels a bit exhausting.

A bit like talking to a version of Albert Einstein with dementia or alzheimers, who can still say really intelligent things but mixes in subtle bullshit.
Probably because it's file based. Don't they have a feature to paste a picture from clipboard or photocamera?
Bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms
https://archive.ph/8i5Kw
GPT as a Drawing Tool
Some are, some aren't. See Koala for instance. The problem with Koala is that it fine-tunes on open sourced data, but makes no claims about the data for the base LLaMA models. https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2023/04/03/koala/

The irony is that openAI and Meta themselves might be in flaky ground for having trained models on other people data with dubious rights to do so in many instances, and then using it to produce output commercially.

But this is a new frontier and enforcement might be effectively not possible unless new legislation requires reproducibility and audits on the data sets or something like that.

But without that, how do you know exactly how did they arrive at a given set of weights with Montecarlo algorithms and arbitrary fine tuning? You basically don't know what was there and you cannot prove they didn't achieve those results with perfectly clean data.

PS: https://medium.com/geekculture/list-of-open-sourced-fine-tun...
https://archive.ph/KFhmk
Whilst I agree with your sentiment wait until you try a gently used M1 Macbook Air one day. After a tawdry love affair you'll want to toss the hot noisy intel machines in the garbage .. at least I did, anyway
Is Global Warming Behind Major League Baseball's Home Run Spike?
I would be if the mobo hadn't died unexpectedly! Such a great machine and with 16 GB, worked fabulously. My work-provided 8 GB 13" MBP M1, OTOH, presents me with momentary SPODs at least twice a day.
What people don’t understand is that Hakko and Weller ARE the low end units. The good units are made by JBC, Pace, and Metcal.
Seconded. I have two Weller TCPs and a while ago decided to buy the Pinecil just as a way to support the folks at Pine64. Well, it turned out it's a really good iron, and I use it along the Wellers without noticing any difference.
P < 0.05 Considered Harmful
I've been really happy with my P14s Gen 2 AMD. I don't understand the appeal of overly rigid metal laptops that dent. You have to really try to flex the P14s. Sleep works fine, I use S3 sleep. I haven't encountered it heat up and burn through battery in a bag like my old 2018 MBP did a couple times. Speakers and trackpad aren't great but I prefer the trackpoint and headphones work fine.
Pretty pathetic "recycling":
1. 80-90% of input is not even batteries, it's scrap from woefully inefficient and low yield battery cell manufacturing
2. "Recycling" consists of mechanical shredding to combine all of the copper, aluminum, steel, cathode materials, anode materials
3. A single extraction process pulls out lithium carbonate, the rest is saved for the future as "black mass" for as yet nonexistent processes to pull out the valuable cobalt, nickel, manganese, phosphorus, graphite.

The approach taken is practical, but kind of stupid. We want to physically separate these materials, so let's grind them into a well mixed aqueous slurry, then let the process chemists loose to solve it with science.

Particulate contamination of new or recycled battery materials with iron particles is a particular concern. Grinding the steel battery casings will not help.

The failure isn't with the battery recyclers, we shouldn't blame them. The issue is that consumers pay $0.05 per cell to recycle cells which at the moment are not recyclable, and we all see it as OK. I got my Tesla, ... you. So, as a result, there is zero incentive to consider the full product life cycle when designing cells.
Most people thinking about suicide don’t tell anyone
Twitter Circle tweets are not that private anymore
>At relativistic speeds, the mass goes up (significantly).

What evidence is there of this actually occurring with any human-scale masses?
It's well established in communities that use Anki a lot (like language learners) that someone else's pre-made decks aren't as effective as making your own.

This is indeed a usual claim. But given a reasonably good pre-made deck, I doubt it's universally true if you factor in the time it takes to make the cards.

I'm learning Chinese vocabulary with a pre-made deck. I devote 20-30 minutes per day (have been doing so for a couple of years), introducing 8 new cards per day. My success rate is typically worse than for most people who make their own decks (floating around ~80% for mature cards) but I see clear and steady progress.

If I wanted to create my own cards, I would probably need to slow the pace to around 2-3 cards per day tops (as deciding which cards to create and then creating them would take time which I wouldn't be able to spend studying), and they would have no audio, which the pre-made deck does and makes a difference.
There's a bunch of new plants and factories going up in Georgia (maybe there's a comprehensive list somewhere). Definitely bodes well for Georgia's future in terms of economics.
Outrage and Statistics into Policy
Yup, and I suspect that we're hitting the limit of what people are willing to put up with.
Not that many, actually, if you want your database to be distributed (in any way). Even fewer if you want it to not lose your data. Plus the really good options (FoundationDB) are not "popular". As Barbie once said, "math is hard".
Yes, though the action is comparatively weak, especially once tolerance builds.
But I remember when I first tried amphetamines it often felt very similar to taking MDMA (or other serotonin releasers).
Pupils the size of saucers, goosebumps from music and sensory experiences, etc.
No, it doesn't depend on the values.
Yes, it does follow.
The compiler is not allowed to compile constexpr code that could produce UB at runtime. period. :)

That is, conditional constepxr code that depends on values and could produce UB is not valid constexpr code, and a compiler is not supposed to compile it.

This is very explicit in the standard.

Think of it as a statically decidable set of code.

Now, it wouldn't shock me if compilers don't achieve this right now, but the standard is clear that constexpr code may not contain operations that could produce undefined behavior at runtime.
If society shouldn't try to make everyone's life better, what's the point of society?
Having tried spaced repetition methods for studying for swe interviews, I can concur that it is the most effective way for me learn.

It does require an intense amount of discipline though, so wonder how well it will work for me in execution for hobby learning.
Which sales? iPhone unit sales were flat the last 5 or 6 years...Mac sales too. Their service revenues started declining 12 months ago...

They took advantage of being able to charge higher prices, but they certainly didn't do it on increased volume.
Why is this guy so angry?
Cheat Sheets made out of real Printed Circuit Boards
WalletOS Sandbox
Write Integration Tests with Dockertest in Golang
A dot for every second in the day – a clock
Input volume is low because vehicle batteries last forever. Importantly, we can ramp on QA rejects, salavaged vehicles, etc before there are tens of millions of EVs out there (not to mention stationary storage that will eventually EOL) needing waste management. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/21/surprise-nissan-leaf-ba...

Not super familiar with Ascend ground truth, but very familiar with Redwood Materials state of the art.
Based on the spelling, you’re probably not from the US. Until recently, there were really no “free” ways to give independent contractors money except cash or check. That’s changing, slowly.
No mention of solder suckers or tinning either. Mention of how to reflow connections using a heat gun is a simpler alternative to an iron for fixing some problems too.
In countries that are not the USA?
Colloquially they're used interchangeably but the dictionary definitions (and therefore usage in maths and the sciences) are different:

Theory: A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Hypothesis: A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.

Examples: the Special Theory of Relativity (very well tested, and used for real world applications), and the Riemann Hypothesis (a result in mathematics that appears to be correct but so far has not been proven).
Lets be realistic though if you shag like the average porn star it might be great to watch but you are a horrible lover.

Better education is needed but at least its out there now vs the days when decent sex-ed was hard to access. As a university student in the early 90s one of my friends was convinced that sex in any position other than man on top missionary was a sign of serious kink. I'd like to think those days are at least over.
Just to be clear to other readers here, you are decrying Dawkins, not John Mackie (who died in 1981).

Mackie was an exemplary, thoughtful philosopher who treated the topic of theism very seriously and empathetically.
Hifi Assistant
That's interesting. Can you expound on this?
>A common failure mode (and I did this more than once, before I got the hang of it) is to use Anki for two weeks, then drop it, and pick it back up six months later only to find you have 600 cards due for review. This is not encouraging, and it defeats the point of spaced repetition, which is to review the cards on the intervals the algorithm chooses.
>I don’t have much advice in this area, except that if you have persistent problems with conscientiousness, untreated ADHD etc. you should address that first.

This keeps happening to me, and I have somewhat treated (but severe) ADHD.

Does anyone have recommendations to make this easier? Either Anki settings, or using another app.
Used SRS via Mnemosyne (and later Repetitions.app) heavily in studying for all of my US medical board exams. The effort to payoff ratio seemed very satisfactory.

For pre-clinical rotations, a few nerdy peers and I collaborated on a shared deck of a couple thousand slides -- many of them pathology images -- synced via Dropbox.

For the Step exams, I mostly used practice test questions. Any question I missed prompted me to read up on the topic to determine what piece of knowledge would have helped me come to the right answer, and then figure out how to make a decent card for that principle. Every morning I would start by reviewing all my SRS cards, then do a few hours of practice tests. It was really nice being able to be able to take a core component m of my study material on the road by just bringing my phone! A few of the practice question apps had protections in place to prevent copying text (copy and paste saved a fair bit of time, even if there was also a lot of rewriting) -- but figuring out workarounds like running in a VM or screenshotting from the iOS app was never too hard, and I would just queue up the screenshots to batch process toward the end of the day.

I used a similar technique to pass the tech, general, and extra exams for amateur radio with near perfect scores (the verbatim questions and answers are freely available -- I did try to learn the concepts behind most questions, though a few were admittedly memorization without understanding). Unfortunately my small town is too rural to have a local club, and I have too many hobbies to shell out $1k for a HF rig, so I have yet to make a single QSO. I'll eventually find time to put together the QRP CW kit I got for my birthday :)
I try not to predict the future but similar things were said about Open Source in the 90s. Then IBM threw their weight behind it (they were still pretty relevant), RedHat was and is a success, etc. I remember when the scales completely tipped on the Linux kernel and the top X contributors were from Intel, etc as opposed to individual hobbyist devs. Nvidia is an obvious one here - they already do a ton of large model/research work because good models sell a lot of hardware. I would not be surprised at all if in they're already working internally on this (they're due for a new large model/arch release anyway).

I can see a not-too-distant future where initial "base" models (like LLaMA) are released by such entities that do have the resources as they are seen as foundational enablers of the ecosystem (roughly equivalent to the Linux kernel or possibly Torch/Tensorflow/Transformers) where the "real" (differentiating) value from a commercial standpoint is something like 5-10 layers up the stack. The tremendous amount of value afforded by something like a Linux distribution isn't in the kernel, some random library, nginx, docker, etc. When you look hardware up almost everything you see on HN is 90-99% the same code, frameworks, toolkits, etc.

Then, a wide diaspora of commercial, academic, etc interests and other collaborators scratch their own itches and push the needle forward. Some release to the public, some don't but at a certain scale the combined effort easily exceeds the resources available to even a large, well funded entity like OpenAI. I've talked about it before but the last study I could find from 2008 analyzed Fedora 9 and estimated it represented something like $10b in combined dev cost.

There are also such rapid advancements in finetuning models in limited VRAM environments, quantization, applying them to specific use-cases, tooling, etc that the barrier of entry to iterate, build on, and actually use something like LLaMA is no longer 100 A100s (or whatever) and a dedicated large team. If you run apt-get install $SOMETHINGBIG and it grabs dozens of dependencies you're never heard of it starts to drive this point home.

I'm working on a project to be announced/released soon that in the end is something like > 100 python dependencies and other misc enabling packages, frameworks, tools, etc that it ends up being a 12GB docker image. Our "magic", meanwhile, is something like 1k LoC.

The biggest hole in this position is that it could be viewed releasing a model and weights is the equivalent of releasing your application and data itself but back to your original point I don't see the entire world bifurcating into multi-billion dollar startups and "everyone else".

Or maybe I'm just being optimistic :).