skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would such proof be available?

I'm another one who's tried TikTok on a number of occasions and it's always failed badly with me, worse than any other site I can think of. It never improved despite people telling me it eventually would.

My impression is that it was making too many assumptions about me based on the wrong signals or something.

But to your point: wouldn't there be a survival bias of sorts with assessing recommendation performance? I didn't like it and left, so presumably the people who remained liked it.

It's obviously popular so there's that, but it seems circular to say it's working for the people who like it and stay. You're losing information about opportunity costs of lost users.
The most sold EV brand in the US with about 2/3 of market share doesn't allow CarPlay either.

Now don't get me wrong, I want my Apple Carplay too. I wouldn't want to buy a car without it.

But the argument that "as the shakeup due to EVs begins, even loyal consumers will be considering other makes" I just don't see happen in real life today. Most EV buyers chose a Tesla. No CarPlay or Android Auto in that one.
You can "see hints of bias" literally everywhere you look my friend. Also known in sane times as having a perspective.

Nat said nothing more than stabbings are bad and assumed it was a violent crime, a sane reasonable assumption given the information available.

What exactly is the problem? He genuinely believes violent crime is up and that this was some random hobo. I don't recall you or anybody else even theorizing this was a stabbing by somebody who knew Bob personally.

You think his opinion is wrong and therefore he is "biased"? And if this turned out to be what he thought you'd say what exactly in that case? Maybe you're the one who is biased.

At some point people got to stop playing this aha, gotcha games and agree on some base reality. Either violent crime is up or it is not. Some people like Nat are genuinely convinced it is based on their experience living there.
Thanks for the info! That explained why one of my other apps, despite also receiving this email, is still functional.
> it does not only recognition / reasoning but also generation.

hmm this is new. source for the image generation piece?
Was there any "big idea" after that?

It seems most of the user-visible innovation has been "let's use transformers on more data".

Perhaps capsule networks? But those are years old too.
I’m waiting for GPT4’s image API. From what I understand it’s not just a “image2text” descriptor that then “reasons” on this description, right?

It’s just grokking an image directly. Were the pixels tokenized somehow? I’m very curious what that does to a model like this.

Can somebody that actually knows anything clue me in?
They didn't have strategic ICBMs from the get go. At the start they only had tactical nukes enough to scare the japanese into submission. And not enough to completely nuke someone like russia. Their nukes also required accessibility because they didn't have rockets. Deploying nukes over a country they were already heavily firebombing was a walk in the park compared to deploying them in places where another power has air superiority.
I miss OSS and /dev/dsp, being able to write to the audio output like it was a file was great fun. I spent many hours back in the day just using bash scripting to make sound, I never got things good enough to make any worthwhile music but I did enjoy myself. Never accidentally specified /dev/hda instead of dsp but I did once do rm -r /usr instead of ./usr, switched to always using absolute paths for such things after that.
I actually don't like minorities let the record show
yeah i need a source on this. GPT3 corpus is, what, a few hundred TB? absoultely nowhere near the total amount of tokens we could collect eg from youtube/podcasts
Completely spot on from my personal experience. FWIW, I have seen this in every startup I've joined.
If someone is already working on a problem full-time, money only helps to the extent that resources they can be buy with money are the limiting constraint. However, beyond deep work needed for a single individual, when you need to explore potential opportunities in a broad space of possibilities, money can hugely effect the search of that space because work needed for major breakthroughs remains parallelizable. You can delegate subtasks to people if you can afford those people. You can hire more of the few specialized people who know about a niche to work on your problem instead of other problems. You can exploit synergies from crosspollination of ideas from bringing together brilliant minds into the same conversations. The influx of money is very very likely to increase the pace of innovation in AI. The breadth of possible avenues for breakthroughs is largely yet-to-be-explored.
He's human, had a home invasion in his former home in San Francisco. I'm sure that experience affects his ability to be as rational as he would be on other subjects.
The article isn’t so much about Microsoft paying bribes to grease the wheels as it is about Microsoft employees skimming money from the contract.
> In fact Greg Brockman explicitly said

source?
I'm convinced some people have a special gift in terms of # of hours of sleep required. Some famous people like Churchill and Thatcher just needed 4 or 5 hours of sleep. I envy such people. I am in my mid 40s and also awake at 2am but I need 8 hours of sleep. Powered by coffee at the moment :D
Thieves Break into Vehicle and Make Off with $200k in Dimes
this "harrowing tale" was written in 2015 with a 2013-2014 backdrop, so it was a much different landscape back then. Starting your own business was much easier back then (still hard af) but the VC money was flowing and anything in the mobile space was mooning.

Would be interesting to see if the author's opinion has changed today.
From the comments:

"This was caused by a floating point rounding error. A unit switching jobs internally becomes a different unit (i.e. a monk with a relic becomes a monk without a relic), and when doing that, HP is scaled proportionally based on the old and new max HP using 32-bit floating point maths."

And there are YouTube videos about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytWNbpnAVY
The question isn't "if" they're spying. Every smartphone and nearly app you install is constantly spying on you and using your data for their benefit.

The question is, do you trust the PRC with your data?

Personally, I avoid most social media sites since I want to reduce the amount of information about me floating around in databases.
Well if he woke up on a random day and tweeted about it, it’d be totally fine. SF is an unsafe place and we should talk about it.

But he started his train of posts in relation to this specific incident. He tapped emotions by saying things like “Bob was someone’s father” and the city was complacent etc. So when it turns out that the city was doing something and it wasn’t a crime committed by a homeless person, I feel the responsible/neutral thing would have been to inform his followers about the truth.

He can still tweet about SF crime rates. But don’t you think someone who hasn’t been following the news but has been following only his tweets will be left with an incorrect impression of the city and the incident?
After many years of Emacs (decades, in fact), I went through a few other editors and ended up with VS Code + Calva + Joyride (so I can script VS Code using ClojureScript) + Portal to visualize results.

When I got started with Clojure (back in 2010), Leiningen was the only game in town. At work we switched to Boot in 2015 because Leiningen just wasn't "programmable" enough for us, but after a few years we started to run into limitations with Boot (both the file system abstraction and the "pod" isolation caused problems), so we were very happy to switch to the Clojure CLI in 2018 with deps.edn -- and then add build.clj (and the tools.build library) when that appeared a couple of years ago.

We manage a monorepo with over 140 subprojects building almost two dozen artifacts, and 136K lines of Clojure, using the official Clojure CLI and tools.build.
you shouldn’t submit the work of others as your own

also ChatGPT said you lied about me.

and that you smell of cheese.
Then it behooves him to say “yes I was wrong”. GP was saying they trust him less because he doesn’t feel the need to publicly admit he was wrong, meaning he could find out he’s wrong about other things but not admit it.

This feels straightforward to me. It’s easier to trust people who admit they’re wrong when they’re wrong.
Isn't "adding" the same as "moving closer" ?

E.g. the vector for "bank" is mid-way between the geographical and financial meaning, "bank + money" is closer while "bank + river" if further away.
"Thread like this" are popular and entertaining for a variety of reasons. You assume that they're only about making money, stealing someone else's ideas, etc. but that's not necessarily the case.
To me, the interesting bit of these threads is to understand the human thought process behind a successful idea: ie was the founder happy with life or in a bad place, working full time or freelancing, was it an impulsive thought or something carefully planned...
So if you have 1.800,000 people in one district, their housing isn't the most humane?
That's only their living room, the area is huge there.

South Fork Dairy
https://maps.app.goo.gl/q7gUax7dNXRFfdhB8
But I think it’s even more important to recognize your own capability to be led and to succumb to groupthink. We all do it, to some degree or another.
What does woke mean? Elon seems like he’s always talking about woke stuff. Like trans people and pronouns. He might be denouncing those topics but he still seems to cover them a lot.
> It’s downright addictive.

Digital nicotine
Fair enough. Just that I don’t know about his whole life so I can’t trust his rationality about any subject going forward
Account created 10 minutes before posting this. Friend, you clearly care more about these points than you let on.
I don't think anyone said it was a "random crazed homeless" attack for sure.

They just started sharing their stories about crime in San Fransisco from what I saw.

The clarification of this specific event doesn't negate the recounts of others in the related issue of crime.
Bert and XLNet: 85% Neurons Redundant, 92% Removable for Downstream Tasks [pdf]
sounds a bit like playa dust in the black rock desert
The Computer History Museum has made available, for non-commercial use, the source code of DeluxePaint (v1): https://computerhistory.org/blog/electronic-arts-deluxepaint...
>Ideally those panels could be optimally placed and generate their full potential.

But then you're trading drag/weight for some system that angles them optimally.
Not only that, but ESG is literally capitalism at its purest. Capitalism not only guarantees people the right to vote with their wallets, it demands it. Whining about it is just saying "No, not like that!"
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No, because in here speeding tickets are based on a percentage of my income.

I can't afford to speed =)
I am a big fan of "Matrix Differential Calculus with Applications in Statistics and Econometrics" by Jan R. Magnus, Heinz Neudecker. They are very thorough and rigorous with their exposition and proofs, which demands a degree of mathematical maturity on their readers. If you are comfortable with multivariate calculus (at the level of mathematical analysis for some materials) and linear algebra, then this book will teach you matrix calculus well.

On the other hand, if you are already familiar with calculus and linear algebra, then most of materials are just straightforward derivations using theorems you already know, so you might not need a textbook. I liked this textbook because it took mysteries out of formulas I was taught but never told about derivations, and because it was actually a quick read.

There are some limitations though. The book stops at Hessian matrices and matrix derivatives of vectors or something like that, because chain rules start breaking down and one needs multilinear algebra for higher order derivatives. However, for deep learning you don't need to worry about it. The book will teach you enough to derive the gradient of convolution as realized in matrix products.
Most of these are good suggestions, but I'll say from my experience, doing too many things also creates a problem because you don't gain skill at any of the activities or spend enough time in one to create deeper connections with the people involved in it.

At one point in my life I was dabbling in like 30 different things and never really getting good at any of them or feeling connected with any of their local communities. I made a decision to narrow that down to rock climbing and guitar, and get really committed to those two things. The improvement in my quality of life just from that change was honestly pretty huge.

Of course you need to try a bunch of stuff to find out what you like, but once you find something you're really passionate about, it's okay, beneficial even, to limit how much you try other things so you can really delve into the activity and community you're passionate about.
Do we have self replicating machines?
The PSP is in the CPU, not the motherboard chipset, and doesn't have any access to the network. You can't get commands to it bypassing the main CPU.
What kind of evidence would you consider reasonable given that the circumstantial evidence is already overwhelming?

I think in defense/strategy circles when planning they never, ever consider intent, only capability.
unfortunately this is also going to become the new “wolf” to cry.

don’t like something?

LLM generated it.

which makes it all the harder to tell what is and isn’t, when claiming something is can be used as a weapon.
Yeah, i totally agree. The more years I have behind my belt as developer the less I care.

I do what I'm paid for. I do it to best of my abilities, but I don't care much.

I care for my wife, my unborn child, my dog, myself. Seriously live is so much more than work and code.

I learned to balance myself. I need job for $ and that's it.

If I won lottery I would still code, just not as much (2 h/day) and only fun stuff. Work is usually borning.
This is a fantastic out of context change log.

For even more abstract ones I cannot recommend enough the Dwarf Fortress Bugs Twitter account[0]

The last of which is

> Flying creatures keep exploding into pieces and dying: Are they crashing into trees?

[0]sadly no Mastodon,
https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs
I mean there was also the time he decided to get on the grind train: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288. Just because he did something cool elsewhere doesn’t make all his opinions good.
> FreeBSD has some of the features we had in 2005 on solaris 10...

Yeah, it really does feel like FreeBSD is the best successor:

* ZFS built in

* boot environments

* dtrace

* zone^wjails

(I feel like there was more that I'm forgetting?)

Although I do feel like it's less polished and the desktop support is comparatively lackluster. Oh well.
> He tapped emotions

As he had emotions.

> But don’t you think someone who hasn’t been following the news but has been following only his tweets will be left with an incorrect impression of the city and the incident?

A hypothetical somebody who is very impressionable to begin with perhaps. Nat isn't news or the source of truth. If you take the Twitter bit out of it and Nat/Bob were your neighbors these are very normal human reactions and conversations. Crime is on his mind and somebody he knew got stabbed to death.

I agree that if/when he breaches the subject again he should point out that this stabbing wasn't accidental, sure, of course. I hope he does. I sense that people who disagree with his politics/conclusions hope he doesn't. That is lame.

It is all too convenient and normalized these days to think of people you disagree with as slimy hypocrites with hidden agendas playing Machiavellian games. Heck, you know what, tweet at him, like a human, without the gotcha, and find out instead of assuming.

I can promise you this: if it turns out you are right about this then I will say that I was wrong. :)
Crime is bad in SF. Everything else was pure speculation.
It's a simple fact. Police are called to high risk situations all the time. Even traffic stops:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_67H-AoQqQ

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LqcltOnfxU

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy1qbLjkJnY

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5niWr3Elg

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgGSWo9-0Y

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6bsr61vrw

Do you dispute that?
If you set up an online marketplace and thieves come in and siphon your money away.. they should get to keep it, because “finders keepers”?
I first learned about it in 2021 from this badass eloquent education explainer on TikTok, @CapWithoutaCountry.

#BradolinisLaw
https://www.tiktok.com/@capwithoutacountry/video/70004626474...
Cops don't even break the top 20 most dangerous jobs. Cops have a lower on-the-job death rate than crossing guards, small engine mechanics, roofers and garbage men. The danger around the occupation is extremely exaggerated. This is especially true once you factor out suicides. In 2021 when "cities were being burned to the ground" 73 cops were maliciously killed and 56 died from accidents in the line of duty in a country of 332 million people. Being a gas station cashier is significantly more dangerous work than being a cop.
Wow. I've lived in SF since 1980 and I don't know a soul who had a home invasion robbery. I know several in Oakland.
A wallet is reported 'stolen' in an office. Suddenly everyone is suspicious of each other. Every item formerly lost is now suspected to be stolen. You get your own wallet stolen. A month later when re-arranging your desk you find your wallet between the desk and the wall. You feel sheepish for your loud crowing about your wallet being stolen and how you too were a crime victim. You sheepishly keep quiet. Humans just act this way. The idea of what is 'a sane reasonable assumption' depends on a lot of things - information that one may or may not be processing in a completely rational manner.

From your response I can already feel what your response is going to be and I want to say I am not disagreeing with you I just think it's interesting how group think works - I myself am not immune.
If you like Twine and Electric Zine-Maker, you might also enjoy Decker: https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
Reprap launched when the first FFF patents were expiring, and kicked off a huge burst of creativity and innovation in 3D printing that continues to this day.
> The cause could have been (with equal evidence for each case) aliens, mossad, or a cooking accident, but people were quick to project their biases onto the situation and jump into flamewars or political attacks based on literally no information other than a man having died.

I’m going to push back on that. 70-80% of homicides in the US are committed by offenders known to the victims, with the small minority committed by strangers. People here are smart enough to know that and yet still pushed the "crazy homeless killer due to liberal policy" false narrative. That’s the problem.
Here are some less mainstream social suggestions:

* Cult. People in cults are very supportive to other cult members.

* Black metal band. Blast beats, tremolo picking, shrieking vocals, pick your poison.

* Cult black metal band. Best of both worlds.

* Mongolian throat singing group.

* Artistic burping club.

* Discord server with guys wearing knee long socks and speaking with voice modulators.

* Trap house. Nothing solves a burnout faster than a psychonautical trip!

* Bird watching club. See what them birds are up to.
So.... (if (/= den 0.0) (/ num den))

Languages keep reinventing Lisp. Greenspun's 10th rule.
If only if Linus actually listened to Tanenbaum.

We could have a nice microkernel, multiserver design, instead of what we have.

And we wouldn't have to deprecate Linux (soon now) to replace it with something better architected.
Beyond Getting Stuff Done
What, the internet had negligible impact on the productivity or the economy?

Are you only talking about consumer products like YouTube or are you including everything related to the unparalleled exchange of data globally?

I cannot imagine the impact of a global information network for businesses having less impact than a few x2’s on just about every relevant axis you can imagine.
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230415055025/https://www.nytim...
GP didn't said it was the "most" dangerous job, they said they were putting their lives on the line.

Yes there are many jobs that people do that. It's definitely up there in dangerous jobs though.
Example where it comes in handy: OLS (ordinary least squares).

You want to solve Ax = b approximately. So, minimise the two-norm |Ax-b|, or equivalently, |Ax-b|^2, or equivalently (Ax-b)ᵀ(Ax-b) = xᵀAᵀAx - 2xᵀAᵀb + bᵀb.

How to minimise it? Easy, take the derivative wrt the vector x and set to zero (the zero vector):

2AᵀAx - 2Aᵀb = 0, so x = (AᵀA)⁻¹ Aᵀb.

(Note: that's the mathematical formulation of the solution, not how you'd actually compute it.)
> is there a similar tool that does shortest path?

Yes very many of them, like OP said.

Here’s a popular one: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
Because companies earn money by producing goods or providing services, but those goods and services are required by burned out people.

Let's say your company can build and ship a product in 2 years and none of the workers end up crunching. What if every single client is not in the position to wait 2 years (because they are themselves crunching) so they go with the company that builds it in 6 months?
People with corporate experience can advise governments.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, led a multi-year project to develop a national AI strategy, https://www.nscai.gov/

> The Final Report presents the NSCAI’s strategy for winning the artificial intelligence era. The 16 chapters explain the steps the United States must take to responsibly use AI for national security and defense, defend against AI threats, and promote AI innovation. The accompanying Blueprints for Action provide detailed plans for the U.S. Government to implement the recommendations.
Completely agree with the sentiment! https://indieweb.org/POSSE
I think you’re looking for a lux meter. Precision is far rougher than single photons, but good enough for any human-scale use. It’s what you’d use for things like calibrating indoor lighting, quantifying the difference between a sunny day and moonlit night, or testing flashlights. Last I checked a good basic one was under $40.
I mean based on the discussion here when it happened I had the vision in my head that they guy was walking around the Tenderloin late at night or something.
A broken comparison. Communism is fundamentally bad, both the idea and implementations.

Comparing EA with education is better.

Education is a fundamentally good idea, however, there exist corrupt universities and teachers, e.g. giving students too good grades, just to attract more students and funding. Or teachers asking for bribes.

But that doesn't make education as a concept, a bad idea.

And EA-the-concept: thinking about how you spend any money you donate, instead of following your first impulses and feelings -- that is, like education, a fundamentally good idea.

But just like there are corrupt people in the education system, there are in EA as well.

And there are more in EA (or so it seems), because EA involves more money (and prestige?).
More background here: https://sfist.com/2023/04/14/details-about-murder-suspect-em...
It seems interesting, but I’m having a hard time imagining what an appealing use case would be.