skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I didn't really mind converting the units for myself but then I refrained from sharing with friends.
This phenomenon even has been named "sad beige parenting/room".

An overuse of all Instagram/tik tok families of the beige color as beige is the current hype-color.

While research shows that babies during their first months/years can mostly only differentiate between bright primary colors.
I would say probably not.

But only because I had a good enough grasp of IT/Computer Science before I went into University through a good high school. The job I have now is more generalist as opposed to specialised (e.g. programming).

Has my degree increased my opportunity to find and land the job I have now? Absolutely, as my job required a degree back then. Are employers in STEM areas now looking to employ people that don't have degrees? yes.

There is however a big challenge that Universities face, which is providing education that matches the skills required in the workforce. It can be seen as a waste to do 4 years in computer science or any other degree, to then land a job that was only relevant to a few of your courses taken.

Universities and higher education are looking to do more apprenticeship style courses when you are learning hands on during your education, like you do in a trade. Rather than doing a 4 year degree that covers a wide range of computer science/cyber/information security domains, you do a shorter course/degree that is highly focused to the jobs you want to apply for.
I quit managing because I couldn't stomach the language managers are required to speak. The cliches, the obfuscation, the outright lying when relaying the c__p coming from above, the list goes on.
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I guess if you are given secrets documents and you accept them, open them, or redistribute them you are guilty.

If you just say "oh no sorry I don’t actually want your secret documents, that was just a joke" and move on, you are fine.
This is second article I read about Janet and by the same author (of course) and I’m really intrigued (especially since I am proficient in ELisp).

Yet beyond that, I’m really taken by author’s passion for the language. That’s one great language advocacy at work.
seastar uses DPDK, and spdk uses it too. the OP is a maintainer on that.
I happened to be born in country where CS degree was free, I even was paid by govt to study. After a time I was happy to discover that FAANG didn’t really care how large were my student debts as long as I can code well
Editable Portability
Used in product design. Ensure that the user can work on the asset in another tool after creating it in your tool.
I would love for degrees to be about “learning how to learn”. However if that’s what their purpose is, and not to guarantee with high likelihood an ability to earn an income, then the price of these degrees has to fall. Or at least taxpayers need to stop letting 18 year olds borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars for them.

I think academics put the blinders on, as everyone does when their own livelihood is at stake, by telling themselves, “well the degree isn’t supposed to lead to anything concrete, we are teaching how to learn, and that’s priceless.” Unfortunately when such a credential costs $200k+, this reverts the university system back to what it was originally - a finishing school for the elite, where they make connections with similar types on their way to careers in business, law, and politics.
This works OK. I've enjoyed some of the discovery at the Linguistics desk, and Humanities is good too. I don't know why I browse Computing as the primary desk, because it's really uninteresting to someone like me.

Of course this area has "regulars" who ask questions every week, and there are also sockpuppets and trolls. One guy, Dinglepincter, recently posted erudite nonsense to a couple different desks before he was found out and reblocked. Unfortunately, the reference desks are trusted by people who ask questions there.

Citations aren't required there, but volunteers can do some research and link you to resources. It's probably on the same level as a Stack Exchange.
> I don't understand how you can read the comment as being purely descriptive, when it makes categorical statements about people's "value" [...]

I touched on this in a later response under your initial comment in this thread, but the tl;dr was that I interpreted their use of the word "value" being the same as its use in economics: something is said to be "valued" if it is desired/sought after, and whether that should be the case or how we feel about it is an orthogonal concern (though certainly not any less deserving of discussion itself).

> [...] with a postscript about how these "truths" are too hot to handle. If it were simply about following the facts wherever they lead, surely there wouldn't be a need to preemptively declare that anyone who disagreed did so irrationally, and surely it wouldn't have been categorical without making room for nuance or disagreement.

I think I see where you're coming from now. I suspect difference in interpretation is a consequence of differences in our individual priors: I have seen countless times that people will conflate mentioning of a statistic with support for that statistic being what it is -- there is, after all, the proverbial saying "don't shoot the messenger". So I can sympathize with (what I interpret to be) a preemptive "I know some of you are going to take what I've written uncharitably and/or irrationally, so fire away" -- which isn't to say that I think that's a productive way of communicating, but I see the rationale behind that (as misguided as it may be) just as much as I can see the rationale behind giving someone the finger, or cussing someone out, letting out a frustrated sigh, or any other emotionally motivated outburst. (I didn't take what was originally written to mean "if you disagree, it's because you're being irrational")
There is actually a lot of discussion around avoiding sensory overload in kids with too many bright flashy toys.

That said, you will likely enjoy this short video https://www.tiktok.com/@sadbeige/video/7197135994779340075

and here is the channel https://www.tiktok.com/discover/werner-herzogs-sad-beige-toy...
This is crazy. I have used a lot of intel technology and developed for it for such a long time but this is the first time I am ever hearing of Intel actually selling full servers and not just the CPU and the chip sets.
It was free so I'd say so :) If I lived in a capitalist dystopia it probably wouldn't be worth it.
You mean yt-dlp?
I think these are all cool ideas, but seem like independent tools rather than a comprehensive "study" product. Being independent tools isn't bad either, it just means you have to (get to) market them uniquely and tailor each one to the type of users that are attracted to the tool.
I'll try to package it for Linux this morning. So far nobody asked for it.
This one? https://github.com/lawik/membrane_transcription
SpringBoot 3.0 the Holy Graal
rubs temples

It's a large language model. It is not smart or dumb. It models the input it is trained on. It is not figuring anything out. It doesn't know anything. It isn't reasoning. It is generating text.

When will the Eliza fever break here?
it was the early use the in the DNMs. After all why would they be using it if if could be traced? Of course there was ignorance at some of the opsec and other methods those sellers were using.
KDE is anything but opinionated. You can pretty much change anything you want in it.
IMO anything that needs a signup to a web service that you don't control is worse.

Personally, I'd use an esp8266 or esp32 for that.

I'd also try to find a better way of sensing whether it's running/finished, by connecting directly to the power led (you can also siphon power to run the microcontroller from the washing machine itself), or measure power usage at the plug.
We are in the process of moving from Postgres to SQLite so these suggestions are very useful.
The issue isn't purely house vs apartment. It's a symptom of our neighborhood design.

Not Just Bikes has a really good video on why suburbia (usually single family housing) is often worse for children than denser environments.

https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw
So you know yourself 100% then?
The great thing about those old metal dump trucks was that if your friend brought his over you could use them as roller skates and crack your skull open like your parents did when they were kids.
> Every organization on earth refers to every penny of its budget as "essential" as to not lose any of it.

Untrue.

> Obviously they could still exist and find a way to replace 1% of their total budget if necessary.

They chose to represent themselves as having their essential operations funded by the government. Even if that was a lie, perceptions are very important when it comes to conflicts of interest, transparency, public funding, politics, and independence. The entire basis of their protest to Twitter is about the perception created by the "government funded" label. So lying to the public about something like that for an allegedly insignificant amount of money would be a singularly idiotic thing for NPR to do.
We extend our utmost appreciation for your invaluable feedback and bringing to our attention the potential similarity with a project at Khan Academy. It appears that Khan Academy's project primarily functions as a tutor within the context of their existing courses, while our vision is to create a more comprehensive platform that caters to a broader range of topics and students. Our emphasis is on developing interactive content such as quizzes, flashcards, and other engaging features, as opposed to solely focusing on question-and-answer interactions. Nevertheless, we will certainly delve into the specifics of Khan Academy's project and take your feedback into careful consideration. Thank you once again for your input.
"What you give up when moving into engineering management" = your soul.
That was also when the Population Explosion became a thing, and with it human eradication became a darling of certain people. China tried it with the one child policy.
They require a phone number and an ID in some cases. Their exchange rates are normally not great either.
Yes. Works fine on all but one site, which only works on chrome. (Running on Linux and Android.)

Also firefox seems slightly faster to start & to execute than chrome, though I'd be happy to drop lots of the JS garbage to make proper fast. And does it really need to always cache 1GB of old web stuff?
It's in the tile of the paper. "Improving Language Understanding"

So they call it "understanding". No problem. Understanding natural language requires building a representation of the meaning encoded in language. Otherwise what exactly do you think they are trying to "understand" about natural language here? GPT is not a spell-checker. It has a semantic model of language.

The stated goal is to optimize for "natural language understanding tasks", to use the exact phrasing in the article.

The article refers to "semantic similarity" which is precisely about modelling the meaning of language, by definition of the term.

Here's a definition of "semantic similarity"

"In the context of Natural Language Processing (NLP), "semantic similarity" refers to the measure of how closely related the meanings of two linguistic units, such as words, phrases, sentences, or documents, are to each other. The goal of assessing semantic similarity is to quantify the degree to which the meanings of these linguistic units overlap or share common conceptual features.

Semantic similarity plays a crucial role in various NLP tasks, including information retrieval, text summarization, document clustering, machine translation, and sentiment analysis. By understanding and quantifying the semantic relationships between linguistic units, NLP systems can provide more accurate results and better handle the complexities of natural language."

Yes, the word "meaning" is not explicitly used in the article, but it is implied. Ironically you are nitpicking over semantics that GPT can already comprehend, since it contains a model of the meaning of the word "meaning".

> They represent the ability of the model to, as people say, "predict the next token in a sequence". That is the only thing that GPT language models are designed and engineered to do.

GPT language models are designed and engineered to perform natural language understanding tasks. This is discussed in the paper that you linked to.

In order to predict or generate the next token, it uses a very super sophisticated semantic model of natural language and the previous tokens. You could also argue that a human is just "predicting the next token" when they generate a sequence of words while doing the tasks that GPT is designed to do. That misses a lot of important details. The devil is in those details.
Don't the apartments in the Bay area have children playground nearby? Here in HK, there's almost always a children playground within 5 minutes walking distance of any apartment tower. Just next to our place we have 3 different playgrounds, it's been great because even though we live in an apartment, our son has met a lot of his neighbours by playing at the playgrounds.
Oh well.. if the LLM researchers are going to coin terms of art, well and good but I dislike this intensely because it invites belief it implies AGI and brain when in fact, its synthesis of new state from a model.

This coining terms of art thing isn't uncommon. Think "brutalist architecture" and remind yourself its "en brute" == raw from the french. It has nothing to do with how "brutal" people think concrete is.
At what point would it be ok to use these words? Will there be some threshold we'll all recognize? Or maybe a bill of rights to force the issue?

I predict acceptance will go the way the ether disappeared-- advancing one funeral at a time.
If you really want to maximize sqlite inserts, prepare a statement with sqlite3_prepare_v3, then in your inner loop call sqlite3_bind_* + sqlite3_step. 100k easily. Unfortunately this interface is not exposed in most language bindings.
Your local MicroCenter doesn’t stock DGX A100/H100 ???
Sounds like a personal story?
Now that it can accurately compare apples to oranges I think we can synthesize a true Scotsman.
Is the limitation in relation to being penalised for a crime, or somebody being wanted for a crime?

If there was a police report about a crime, if the police were unable to determine who committed the crime but at a later date could do so beyond reasonable doubt?

What if the perpetrator evades police for 5 years but remains in-state?

What’s your location also, that would be relevant to the laws your referring to.
As long as it runs Linux and Emacs well I don't really mind
Could you add a hashbang for Brave search?
Right. We are the ones applying the label after the fact.
What a thing is and what it can do are two different things. I can just as easily say CPUs are just fancy rocks.
ok. I'll concede on 'figure' if we work on the synonyms like 'compute' or 'derive' (although I struggle with that)

So whats a good synonym for 'figure' which doesn't imply intentionality and thought?
So ahead that you can’t turn screen or that dumb animation off
Indeed, you are correct. Our current Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is not tailored to a specific field of study, but rather aims to provide more general tools for students. We genuinely appreciate your feedback, as it will undoubtedly aid us in better understanding and catering to the needs of our users. Thank you sincerely for your valuable input.
Using CSS to add line numbering
It won't break, some will even argue pattern matching is itself intelligence, I've heard plenty of that.

Though if it is it's very different from us, since I can barely recall what happened in the morning.
We've wasted huge amounts of money trying to make cars not suck, but turns out they still suck. Shifting investment away from 99% cars to 80% cars will save money and improve quality of life in cities.
Yes, on macOS.
Postgres over localhost is ~10x slower (as in RTT) than SQLite, I think mainly due to serialization and perhaps context switches?

https://youtu.be/XcAYkriuQ1o

If you (more commonly) run on a different host, you’re looking more at 20x-50x and this is assuming you’re in the same region.

To even get close to the SQLite level of throughput you’d have to stagger/pipeline your requests over a number of concurrent connections (proportional to the earlier x).

You’ll eventually succeed at doing just that, with multiple machines. Congratulations, but now you have to also consider the N+1 problem, even for small Ns. In SQLite, you can afford much more back-and-forth with simple queries.
I don't think they have a plan...

Just riding the hype and for someone else to upend them or will run out of cash when OpenAI increases their prices and will have to run back to VCs for more money.

Whichever comes first.
Yes And people meaning people you meet at the local improv club?
I felt like it was the only company I would work for in the industry, and didn’t feel comfortable with that.
At lot of these emoji had strong use cases back when emoji were invented - on flip phones with small screens that had rich i-mode (think "Japanese WAP") services where you could book hotel rooms, access paid video and news content, etc. That's where it was handy having compact symbols in order to make lists of hotels that had rooms or were full up (🈳/🈵), and indicate which links to content were free or paid (🈚/🈶), and so on
> The examples listed feel contrived to get the best case results rather than the worst case.

They're cherry-picked. For addition, it only "makes sense visually" the way the article says it does if the answer lies within the sub-base-5 digit (i.e. the answer is, worst case, less than 5 numbers away).

There's also arbitrary rules in the so-called "easy visual arithmetic" - for some divisions (not all), some strokes have to be rotated. For the long division example, the visual indication of the remainder is reversed - i.e. it's a mirror image of the actual digit.

While I like the idea (the base-20 with sub-bases-5 makes counting easier, and having sub-bases means less memory overhead in memorising all 20 digits), the article itself is spinning wildly to make this seem like "the children came up with it on their own".

The title says "A number system invented by schoolchildren", while the article says that this was the result of a teacher-lead class project which came up with symbols for an existing numbering system.

Aside: With the exception of zero this numbering system is only slightly different from roman numerals - use the number of strokes and the special symbol to determine what number you are at. Counting is easier, and simple addition/subtraction/division is easier with roman numerals as well, but as soon as you need to do common things (approximate VAT for any figure[1]) then base-10 is so much easier.

For really easy arithmetic, using a base-12 counting system is even better (hence, the rise and popularity of imperial measures, which layers a base-12 system on top of base-10).

[1] VAT is 15% where I am, so mentally approximating VAT of $FOO is "10% of $FOO + 1/2 of 10% of $FOO). When it was 14% it was just as easy, do the above and remove 1%.
I just tried it for a problem I solved in Azure Data Explorer and it solved it by making up some APIs that don't exist. It got close to how I solved the problem but cheated even with Expert mode enabled.
The reason these GPT large language models stand out is, we "generate text" based on the "input text" we are trained on too. But these can train on orders of magnitude more text than we will ever ingest in our entire lifetimes.
A) Human prisons frequently have contraband brought in by jailers or jailers looking the other way because humans have flaws / may think they see opportunities to benefit.

B) prisoners regularly escape from physical systems. AI is already being connected to the internet to perform actions on the user behalf so not unreasonable to think that

C) look at ex machina - not an unrealistic scenario where the AI takes advantage of an opportunity to get out of jail

D) human physical systems have exploitable flaws. Physical systems are easier to secure than digital ones. Human software security mechanisms have flaws. How are you going to build this jail if the AI is just spending its time probing weaknesses in whatever system you’re running it on to escape the jail / sandbox?
Maybe call them server units?
I will never earn a college degree. No regrets.

I returned to college at least 4 times. I tried and tried. I am a high performer when I'm motivated. But I have trouble sustaining momentum.

Entering college for the last time 5 years ago, my goals were: brush up on latest technology, earn CompTIA certifications. Mission accomplished. Pell Grant well-spent.

My parents are the types who don't understand non-traditional education. My father scoffs at anything that isn't accredited. But we're living in the future now. Education has been disrupted by technology and disrupted by culture.

I had straight As in grade school and a bright future. Unfortunately, my childhood wasn't as loving as I had always thought it was. I suffer from C-PTSD. I was homeless, penniless, jobless, all at once. I lost everything I owned. I've bounced back from all that, but I still visit the hospital too often.

I've worked at a steady job in the education industry for 3 years now. That's a new record for my tenure at anything. They don't require a degree. They don't even require the relevant certifications I've owned -- they make no difference in my paycheck, and they won't pay for me to earn or renew them. But we love each other, I've found a great team, I am in my niche. I'm here to stay. No degree necessary.
Does the distinction between sharing VA mappings and copying buffers to/from kernel matter from a security perspective? (I assume it does, but I don't know why.)
I dislike these pseudo-scientific claims about alternative number systems and methods of paper and pencil arithmetic:

> Because of the tally-inspired design, arithmetic using the Kaktovik numerals is strikingly visual. Addition, subtraction and even long division become almost geometric. The Hindu-Arabic digits are an awkward system, Bartley says, but “the students found, with their numerals, they could solve problems a better way, a faster way.”

I think the students can be praised for having come up with simple to understand and write number system that corresponds to the conventions for counting in Alaskan Inuit language, and it seems appropriate to capture these notations in upcoming Unicode standards.

However, spending time learning base 20 arithmetic has obvious disadvantages that the article ignores. The times tables, memorized in grade school and fundamental to paper and pencil calculations, are now four times larger. Base 20 is not a popular notation for numbers. One important advantage of the number system (Hindu-Arabic) that most of the world uses is that most of the world uses it. I grew up with inches and degrees Fahrenheit and had to learn the metric system to pursue my science education. I'm glad I didn't have to learn how to count as well. We shouldn't make it harder for these kids to enjoy the rest of the world's books, journals, and internet resources about math and science.
Personally, I just skip them TiVo-style 90% of the time. As long as there’s nothing unskippable, it doesn’t really bother me.