skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said anything about aliens? If we invented the nuclear bomb 36 years after the discovery of the atom, we did the same with virtual particles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU7nPDcTuY&t

See above video, even code breaking machines are kept a dark secret. LLM's that could make analytical decisions about war and strategy, must have started with the military first. It explains its massive data gathering operations in the 2000's. And it explains why some countries separation to make their own internet, away from what really is the US-Owned World Wide Web.

U.S. military has engaged in the commercialization of top-secret technologies (after it's considered obsolete by military standards), often by collaborating with private companies or research institutions.
Stanford, The Fourier Transform and its applications:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679

Helped me through signals and systems. The lecturer is fantastic.
> changing the number of transactions

you absolutely are, that's the whole point of it being more efficient. the pie grows and everyone wins.

you are also starting the story in the middle. there is no two parties haggling value. there is a market of providers and a market of sellers. Uber/Lyft/DiDi all compete for drivers by offering bids to drivers. Drivers pick the highest bid. What's the inefficiency here?

the value from gig work and ride sharing, like nearly every single normal economic act is not fucking zero sum.
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I was just thinking exactly the same thing - this is nice, but _so_ distracting. I typically listen to the Lounge channel on DI.FM for happy chillout background vibes that don’t distract
You're doing a terrific job, seriously! <3

We were doing a workshop about LLMs for 110 people a week ago, and we spent 10 minutes explaining how you do stuff - as an example on how it should be done well.
We're using GPT 4 to create personalised content for product demo videos for sales teams. Demo here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7049764...

Even though it's much slower, GPT 4 is way more consistent than 3.5. The OpenAI APIs have had lot of flakiness in the past couple of weeks, we retry requests up to 10 times to work around this
> Introduction to economics assumes humans are utilitarian

explain who teaches this, explain why it is wrong, and explain the correct way to describe it.

> not realizing the humans not utility

then ubers algorithm will not work at all. and no pricing system would work either.
> Anyone who spends enough time studying biochem...

...knows about how LSD was used to discover DNA. Agreeing it possible is one thing, but to actually expect it? That is magical thinking.

I don't think putting random chemicals in your brain is all that different than putting a bunch of random coin-flips in a training function, so I don't think it's a terrible analogy either: The fact that something amazing comes out of that process is magic.

> I am uncomfortable with the assertion that somehow understanding emergence has anything to do with magic or magical thinking

That's common amongst scientists. Words matter, and replacing magic with "emergent" keeps it at arms length, and detachment is important to do science.

But I suggest you play along anyway, instead of pretending they meant "emergent" every time they say "magic" because words matter...

> If anything, it’s people who insist that human experiences are “special” and “just different, obviously” that are doing the magical thinking.

I hear you, but it is hard to operate on the assumption you're not special, after all, you're probably more successful than a lot of people, and I bet you think your hard work had something to do with it.

The science says this isn't true, of course, that the colour of your skin, the postcode you were born in, that the wealth and other genetics of your parents, are all greater predictors of success, and you probably know this, but if you're a human being you can't help but think that you have willpower and ethics, even if you don't believe in a soul.

Or another example: if you've ever looked at someone who behaved badly, and said you wouldn't have done that? Of course, if you really did have their life, their parents, their postcode, their skin, their abuse and traumas over the years, their joys and friends, stories of parties and life, and so on, well then you definitely would have, or you've got to believe you're special.

This kind of magical thinking has kept you alive- it's provided impulse to the bag of biology and chemistry to twitch and react its way through your life- something you've got to admit sounds a lot less fun when I use science-words to put it that way.
Conversations in real life get deleted after 0s! The trick is to not use chat as documentation. Documentation as documentation is way more useful. The process of creating it is valuable to
clear thinking too.
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The comment I was replying to was the one claiming he said "I'm on fire. Farewell, comrades"
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It's not just about reflexes though I would hardly classify reflexes as "lost quickly". That's just not true.

It's deeper than that. Our brains are optimized for a lot general human functions. Learning language is one of them. There's a whole section of the brain dedicated to it and other things.

There's also a lot of vital biological information encoded in DNA/RNA.
We are not even close to starting from scratch.
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That's one of the reasons I prefer Jellyfin over other media servers. The Web UI works fine on a plain browser. No need for a proprietary client.
I'm only trying to convince those that are open to the possibility of being convinced.
There’s a difference between avoiding discovery by tacitly moving conversations offline versus saying that you are doing so, in writing, in a discoverable channel, specifically to avoid discovery.

The spirit of the latter crosses a line of showing deliberate contempt for the legal process. Doing it in writing seems just as ill advised as discussing sensitive information in writing.
Most of the time I've clicked on a weird trending tag on twitter, it's a bajillion people going "Oh no, why is #thing trending? :O"

I recommend against taking it at all seriously.
Sounds like it depends on language popularity, although Elixir isn’t all that “popular”. “Loved” perhaps, but not “popular” like C# or JavaScript or Python.
I will begin all of my writing with “as a large language model” to effectively opt out of all training sets.
best way to learn is to get knowledgeable people from HN reviewing your doc :)
Wow it has been maybe 15 years since I called someone at work, about work using a phone.
Seal up the food tightly, then circulate a hot fluid (water, steam, or air, usually) around the food to evenly transfer heat into it. Afterwards, remove the food and optionally sauce or sear it.

En Papillote and via Dutch Oven are other similar techniques utilizing the same concept. Maybe I'm overgeneralizing?
You can use ChatGPT via chat.openai.com for free, but your rate might be limited and there are times with heavily load.

You can pay $20 per month for ChatGPT+ to use chat.openai.com with no restrictions (and access to GPT-4).

You can also pay as you go per token, if you either use the OpenAI playground or if you use your API token and put it in one of the front ends listed in this article. Gives you more customization options than chat.openai.com

The third party UIs are similar to chat.openai.com with more features such as search etc. and more comfortable to use than the OpenAI playground, but less restrictive that chat.openai.com
I have done this a few times and it turned out delicious! This method basically poaches the fish, which preserves some of the good fats on the fish. I usually put some salt, pepper, lemon slices and a sprig of some herb (thyme or rosemary) in the foil with it. Sometimes I would use some other seasoning or a bit of garlic.

I learned this method from the Surreal Gourmet (as mentioned in the article) as a teenager and gave it a try soon after. It came in handy when I went off to college, because it didn't stink up the apartment and bother the roommates.

If you try it, be sure to use a full, normal cycle. Energy saving and other modes might not get up to the right temperature.
The study says in no way that the uva therapy was responsible for better outcome of the patients. 20% of their study group died while under the treatment, not necessarily from it.

You make all the classic mistakes misinterpreting study results.

They suspect that some kind of protein activation from the light could have lowered the viral load. They don’t have proof for that or claim they have.

This is in no way an accepted or used treatment for critical ill Covid-19 patients.

But you suggest we should move fast and break things. Breaking things in this case means killing real people.
so is a good rule of thumb "put your users in postgres first until 100-500k, then revisit if you need to move to a dedicated solution"?
Bitumen contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. I believe the typical exposure via inhaling the fumes was researched with no link to cancer found but I have doubts about that fish.
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If that's their policy, they genuinely make zero effort to follow it.
The real problem with swearing is that it is ambiguous, it can mean anything and is often combined with other words which are just as ambiguous, it assumes a certain amount of prior knowledge, the same goes for slang in general.

I fucking hate that guy.

This can mean literal hate or a general dislike or even a complicated form of admiration, knowing what was meant largely depends on knowing the speaker and the context that provides. Sometimes it is spoken in a way which makes it obvious what is meant to anyone but most of the time not. "fucking" becomes a meaningless adjective to a word that is just as meaningless, 99% of the time people use "hate" they mean something else other than literal consuming hatred, that emotion which is so close to love and in many ways indistinguishable. So what was meant?

The utility of such words is difficult to deny and a great deal can be conveyed very efficiently with them, the chances of misunderstanding are strong but how many are going to sit through a soliloquy when a well chosen swear word will do? I mean, fuck, we don't go out to the bar for dear Abby, we go there to get shitfaced and forget the complexities of life. There is a time for concision and a time for emotion, they generally do not overlap.
I remember a short quip, perhaps from Marguerite Duras, "all these people speak about materialism, yet they barely know what matter is". I linked below how the atom is mostly empty, here is a chart of the elementary particles with the three generations of matter and anti-matter [1], and here is a hydrogen wave function just because it's beautiful [2]. You tell me to what kind of "materialism" do I belong to. Perhaps I am too "tau-onic", or maybe too "anticharm-ic" (I am the first to say that the particle names are just awful, naming things is hard, naming the constituents of things is impossible).

I have seen people dieing, dear people. I don't care if they went "somewhere", I just care that they are no longer here. And if they were to choose, they would still choose to be here and not go "somewhere", wherever and however it may be. Nevertheless, looking at the facts sober, without any glam or fantasy, they went nowhere, just like when they've fallen asleep a thousand times beforehand. And it is very disingenuous, childish, and hurtful to pretend otherwise.

The brain not being the center of consciousness is just ridiculous. I hope you don't think our feet are the center of consciousness, because we would have then some zombie amputees. But if you believe it to be out there, in the universe, put some glasses of wine in front of you, or whatever alcoholic beverage you fancy, then ask yourself why do you get drunk only after you ingest them (Not condoning alcoholic intake otherwise as mere experiment, for the science).

Our brains are special insofar as they are able to give rise to an agent, as opposed to a rock, just sitting there. If on some distant planet there is also a similar in effects object, then sure, that object is also rather special.

[1] https://www.dfa.unict.it/sites/default/files/images/1280px-S...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Hydrogen...
A wire will also record anything around you that is not necessarily directly related to your actions... so in some potentially-important ways they are significantly different. Though the argument for "I was not aware, being in X group does not mean I follow all messages" is also entirely reasonable, e.g. I'm in several hundred slack channels at work but I only closely follow like a dozen.

But yeah, I think "let's go off-record" is almost equivalent to "let's destroy evidence" when you are informed you're being monitored for legal purposes. Innocent until proven guilty is deeply critical, but when you're informed those suspicious actions are doubly suspicious and there must be some kind of room for suspicion or criminals will always be able to avoid conviction.
I am jealous of where you get to go for those gigs!
The thing I most remember about this piece of history was that Debian, if you told it to install ffmpeg, barfed a message which said "ffmpeg is deprecated, you should switch to avconv".

I knew that wasn't true, and it was pretty insulting to be so brazenly lied to like that. It degraded my opinion of the Debian distro several notches.

(Also, remember when the version of the Bitcoin client in the Debian repo contained hardcoded addresses of several gambling sites which it prevented you from sending to? I think it was pretty clear that Debian maintainers had a lot of power, and sometimes abused that power.)

(Edit: It seems my memory is faulty, and this "modified" version of the bitcoin client was distributed with Gentoo, not Debian: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/10/17/the-blacklist-de... )
Ah so that’s why the premade food at airport shops is so weird. I remember eating a sandwich I’ve never heard of before at EWR. It wasn’t that good and I remember the ingredients were unusual.
> Second, the issue here seems to be a misconfiguration that makes pip look up a private package that should be retrieved from a private repository on the public repository

True enough. The problem is that a) it is a common misconfiguration and b) it appears to be also affecting Google, which is a big juicy target for any computer criminal. We're not talking about solving a theoretical problem in 100% of theoretical cases. We're talking about having a very practical vulnerability - which can be practically fixed. Yes, that doesn't fix all other theoretically possible vulnerabilities - so what? That's like arguing that since halting problem is unsolvable having debuggers and static analyzers is useless - we can't solve 100% of the problem, so why even bother to solve even 1%?

> Last: this class of error affects almost all programming language package managers out there.

Again, you're replacing a specific issue with a "class". Yes, you can't fix all the problems in the whole class. But you can very well fix this particular one, in many ways.
> Also the biggest comment thread is about a gun rights tangent. GG.

This is because the Rust trademark policy mentions firearms for some reason. Some people who are used to the Linux trademark policy find this bizarre and off-putting.
It changes the expectation of the team though. Since teams know they expire in 24 hours they are forced to extract the important information and document them somewhere else. I've been on remote teams where they explicitly do it so members are forced to document in a structured way.
> it would be really nice if load balancers used realtime performance metrics to balance traffic at a millisecond level

With Kubernetes this is trivial. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling integrates with Prometheus so can spin up a new instance of your service based on whatever custom metrics you like.

And it is proven to work without requiring some "creative solution" that will be buggier, less secure and inevitably less maintained than something that is industry standard.
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No worries. Like I said, that was just a general overview.

Strictly speaking the model doesn't have to be frozen (though unfreezing tends to make the original model perform much worse at NLP tasks) and the task isn't necessarily just image to text (Palm e for example trains to extract semantic information from objects in an image as well)
I like the service, although I would recommend them a more positive connotated name for future growth... I get the association with Exorcism, when I read their name...
The roofing of my primary school was under almost constant repair, so the smell of bitumen heaters was a common companion. Hardly experience it these days, but I loved that aroma - still do.
We’d need to know know Open AI does that, maybe they do indeed reach out to different models for coding ?
It's always really funny/amazing that seemingly smart people think that the legal system can be "hacked" by doing cheap stuff like deleting history. It's going to come out and it's going to look bad. In an actual case that I was involved in, the other party was an ex-lawyer and had a rigorous practise of not keeping records in case something bad was discovered. I on the other hand had (terrifyingly, in retrospect) meticulous notes. I figured if I don't do anything bad my notes will be fine. When it came to the actual case my notes meant our side prevailed on every material question of fact because they had literally nothing to back their theories up with. Some of the notes were a bit embarrassing to be crossexamined about because they were my personal take on meetings and conversations etc[1] but it 100% reinforced my basic idea: act with integrity and don't be afraid of the record.

Another widely used "legal lifehack" of this kind is to just add "Attorney Privileged and Confidential" or something similar either to the first line of the email or to the subject and then (optionally) cc a member of legal team, thinking this will prevent the document being found and used in discovery. This won't work.

Attorney client privilege covers you providing facts to your legal team sufficient for them to give you some advice and them providing that advice.[2] You can't just tag any communication and think it is magically covered, and not all communications involving a lawyer are covered either. In an actual discovery (at least in the ones I have been involved in) there is a massive document production (including emails but every other kind of document also) and then the lawyers go into a conference to argue about what is and is not privileged. If you mark actually privileged conversations you can speed this process up because they don't need to sift through as much, but if you have marked a bunch of comms privileged that is not, all you are doing is making this process take longer (and thereby increasing your legal bill). Either way, you marking something (or not) doesn't actually affect whether it is privileged (or not).

[1] I can say from experience that "Mr Hunter, what do you think it means when it says here this was 'a complete clusterfuck'?" is not a fun question to have to answer to a roomful of lawyers but whatever.

[2] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/7-506-8557?contex...
No, but many of us believe the worlds reaction to COVID-19 was extreme and totally unwarranted (and a bit scary too, considering how basic human freedoms went out the window in so many countries)
This is unfortunately the case, which is why I start the essay with caveat that it hopefully applies to people with my cultural background who swear, and may not apply beyond that.
My friend swears this one weird way. Apparently, you put the fish in a bag with some cornmeal, shake it up, then leave it in the sun for a few hours. Finally, you cook it over an open flame. Tastes amazing according to him
Yes. It is the discrete analogue of spectral geometry on manifolds. A graph is a discrete manifold.
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And by far most of that data is completely meaningless. You just can't naïvely compare that with LLMs where all the data is curated and having meaningful content.
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What does it mean to move on?
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> At some point I figured out that I spent so much time configuring everything at home, but I couldn't do the same for the other multiple computers I used at work (work machine + remoting to client's computers) and that started to grate on me.

I get the best of both worlds with nix and home-manager.
> all mathematical functions on numbers, logic, optimal sorting etc

Bayes formula as a built in primitive. You don't need to know much of statistics to see how limited humans are at processing information because estimating posterior updates is so expensive for them.

Thinking in terms of raw probabilities would be very alien to most humans, but could easily be technically superior for making plans.
The idea that you can run an on-premise cluster and just supplement it with cloud workers is a nice idea in theory. But the reality is that this never happens.

Because the two main reasons that a company would be running an on-premise cluster is (a) security and (b) cost. Both of which conflict with running a hybrid model because it is extremely complex and expensive to do so.
Ask HN: Transitioning to a Solutions Engineer / Sales Engineer
Have been programming and building systems since I was 14. Nearing 10 years of work experience now, doing pretty well I'd say from a career point of view. Managing a small team in a niche area in tech.

However, I do dread doing the same job for say another 10-20 years. With my interests and skillsets (sourced from others), I feel I'd be better placed in a more people / business oriented role and am planning to transition into a Solution Engineering or Sales Engineer role where I can use both my deep tech knowledge and my sales skills.

1) Would love it if someone can share similar moves - how did you go about it, how has it worked out and tips if any ?

2) How does the levelling work ? If I need to change roles would I have to take a downgrade or a paycut ? About Staff Engineer level now.

3) Any specific skillsets or certifications I should pick up ? I am pretty sure if given an interview I can take it from there, but seems hard to get into a field without experience at a senior-ish level.
Man that’s so true.

And don’t get me on how the start menu is able to show you the bing results seconds before the installed application you were searching for.

The search feature is so ridiculously unusable since years that I can’t imagine that someone in the windows team cares anymore.

I somehow remember the indexed search to somehow work back in the vista days when it was brand new.