skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost feels like you could provide this to other merchants in some way/shape/form.
> It was 100% right thing to for the people of Donetsk, who got invaded by Russian forces in 2014.

They got invaded by the new Ukrainian government's "anti-terrorist" forces, consisting largely of shady shaved-head guys with very particularly thematic tattoos - as no one else wanted to take part in that senseless bloodshed.

Look, I recognise your username and I am well aware on your views on the matter. We've already clashed multiple times and there is really nothing to discuss when you insist on dismissing the idea that people who overwhelmingly voted for president elect in 2014 might not be happy with the fact that some mob had stolen their country.

Keep in mind that people can live in a single country and have different preferences and political opinions. That is absolutely normal and expected in a normal situation, and even more so, much more sharply, during a revolution. I don't get how can anyone imply monolithicity in 2014 Ukraine.
> Gee I'm sure nobody thought of using AI for that before /s

Instead of behaving like an unproductive ass, how about you do something useful and provide a link to folks working on the problem?
"Bend" is not a good description of the intention here. Good code should be easy to test effectively and interfaces are a common way to achieve that. We should absolutely design our code with testing in mind.

For example, you have a repository for some entity as a dependency of a service and you would like to test some behavior of the service when the repository fails. In this case, the service can depend on an interface of the repository instead and the test can create a stub that implements that interface, whereby you can simulate the error. If the service depended on the actual repository, this becomes very difficult to do.
Most of the world outside US is paying for Prime Video. Here's an article on their video library size (and costs) in various parts of the world: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/amazon-prime-vi...
I agree it was mostly basic that early, but already by the 80's, LEGO ads were full of elaborate sets. Not nearly as elaborate as now, but certainly much more. The proportion of special pieces in each set were certainly much smaller, and made getting those special pieces a lot more exciting.

This [1] from LEGO Movie specifically plays on the 1980's space sets, for example, and I personally had quite a few of these [2] sets in the early 80's.

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/benny-s-space-squad-70841

[2] http://www.doubledumbassonyou.com/2016/02/19/lets-enjoy-a-lo...
>It's the moving to China for a year that would increase your understanding of Chinese culture and people far more than learning Chinese by itself.

sure, go to China for a year, only speak English, surround yourself with English speaking friends and going to English friendly restaurants and in the end come back with an increased understanding of Chinese culture and people and probably get jobs based on that understanding!

In short, speaking the language at least well enough to interact with the population is prerequisite for the increased understanding.
Are pull requests bad because they originate from open-source development?
Nope. Many errors in JavaScript, python, PHP, etc are caught at compile time in C.

Of course, the errors that do get through might be more severe in C than in python, but not always.

After all, the most expensive and destructive RCE ever was in a piece of Java software.
Ze fancy Fuhrer from his loft above the cliffs on the far side of the moon. Via inceptional cyber-Vril.
> The head slam may be cooler than interpretive dance, but we don't do it because it gives you brain damage.

Counterpoint: there's a whole sport based on that and it does cause brain damage: American Football[0].

[0] https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health...
I used to get the same results, but I've lately been using better prompts and the results are substantially better.

The key is to a) give it context, and b) give it constraints, and to do it from the very first prompt itself.

Most chatGPT failures that I've seen add context and constraints after the initial prompt, which someone sends GPT into a loop.

If you have data in a particular format, mention that in the first prompt. Also helpful to tell it to optimize the code for scalability and to use any external libraries if necessary.

These tools are essentially software programs, and like any piece of software, you need to know the right commands to get maximum utility out of them.
Yeah, you should be safe for at least another few weeks :)
I completely agree with the fact that not everyone can afford paying for Kagi. However, I seem to read from a lot of people who could afford it, but find it too expensive.

The thing is that searches have a price. If Google makes it free, that's because they make money from the data they gather, right? And probably the data is worth more than people guess. Maybe Kagi would be able to be cheaper if it had more users (some kind of economy of scale), but in the meantime, that's the only alternative I see.

So I'm ready to pay for it now to help prove that it is viable to ask people to pay for their product. Because I can afford it.
Each and every one of RISC-V's ancestors were cool, and led to the best ISA today.

As RISC-V takes over the world, RISC finally gets the recognition it deserves.
But it still displays an upward trend in car size, in Europe as in the US
My understanding is that the budget required to build a game perceived as "modern" is higher and higher each year, meaning that studios need to target a very large market to be profitable. This is for example why we don't see complex RTS and arena shooters anymore: their market is too small to pay for the investment. The 50+ years old video game market is tiny, and you'd need very different marketing (compared to what works with the usual 15-25yo segment) to target it.

It is true that lots of indie games find success with smaller budgets. But I suspect that lots of indie developers are not 50+ years old. Game development is mostly a craft, and unsurprisingly indie game developers prefer to work on projects similar to what they themselves enjoy.
What do you call people who reject non-free software?
Doesn't work as that kind of info is in the http headers sent by the client..
That's a brilliant example. Thanks for sharing.
It demonstrates in a very straightforward way that LLMs are capable of learning (and applying) relationships at the level of abstraction of (at least) 1st order logic.

It implies that during training, it learned the facts that Elizabeth is queen of the UK, and that Charles is its crown prince; but _also_ the logical rule <IF die(monarch) AND alive(heir_to_the_throne) => transform(heir_to_the_throne, monarch) AND transform(monarch, former_monarch)>, or at least something along those lines that allows similarly powerful entailment. And that in addition to the ability to substitute/reify with the input sequence at inference runtime.

Would be nice to see a rigorous survey of its logical capabilities given some complex Prolog/Datalog/etc knowledge-base as baseline.
Before long, Hollywood is going to have to decide whether to continue using Roman numerals for sequels, or switch to Arabic numerals. Roman numerals are fine and well when it's for "Star Trek III" or even as much as "Star Trek VI" (somehow they skipped V...), but when in the modern age when your new movie is "Ant-Man and The Avengers CCXCIV" it gets a little ridiculous.
My guess it's a result of the correlation between senior living, loneliness & addictive behaviours.

The role of loneliness and self-control in predicting problem gambling behaviour: https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/INFORMIT.8591559...

Social isolation and loneliness: the new geriatric giants: https://www.cfp.ca/content/66/3/176.full
Quote from the CIO: "Even before the release of popular generative AI tools like Bard, large language models were helping address highly complex research questions."

Was this written in a parallel universe where OpenAI never released an LLM?
I like the code of this ringbuffer

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lock-free-multi-produce...

I liked this whitepaper
https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/wfquque-ppopp.pdf

I am a beginner at this kind of thing but I created an array of integers that each thread owns an index. They write to the array at their index that they want access to the critical section.

We scan the array forwards and backwards to see if there is any thread that has claim to the critical section.

I even TRIED to write a model checker
https://github.com/samsquire/multithreaded-model-checker

This is inspired by left-right concurrency control whitepaper
Left-Right: A Concurrency Control Technique with Wait-Free Population Oblivious Reads
Mastodon thread:

https://freeradical.zone/@koherecoWatchdog/11021347653452668...
that's probably a legacy version then. had a similar issue with the old checkout flow where card testers could just generate tokens using ur public key and feed it to whatever endpoint. they need to move to payment intents.
That is very true. It does seem to me there's a subtle "personality shift" among some people when they speak a separate language.

Sometimes you see people become warmer and more affectionate because either they know how to be that way in their native language or it's more common in their culture (e.g. seeing a native Spanish speaker speak Spanish after knowing them only speak English).

There was also an interesting study about asking people solve trolley problems in their second language vs their first. Whe. Solving in their second language, the solution tended to be more utilitarian and logical.
If, when in doubt, you assume butterfly unless they have poofy antennae, you'd probably be correct 9 out of 10 times.
Eyyy it's my buddy Aza Raskin :) Met him in 2018 on my first visit to the US, very cool guy. I remember being quite skeptical about his project but these days ML seems more than capable of meeting the challenge.
We do "family" hiking (3 kids, 9 to 15) with up to 110km through the mountains with maximum 20 km and about 1000m up and 1000m down on a "hard" day.

I fully agree with you:

- start slow to get the body to find itself (and keep 2 days at the end of the hike to book a nice hotel with a pool for the kids).

- hiking poles are a must. It also saves the hike if you have ankle/knee pain as you can put the weight on your arms to release the pressure from the bad leg. Our kids prefer walking without.
Epsilon doesn't GC at all?
I would understand if it was Finnish, but really Dutch is yet another european dialect. What problem could it hypothetically ever pose to learning?
These are exactly another set of bad old combos, and the fact that their use is widespread is just another example of how bad very common things are:

- it doesn't make sense to have a/e as beginning/end, there is a symmetry in the commands, but there is no symmetry in the a/e keybindings, they are on different rows

- likewise, it doesn't make sense to use the less convenient ⌃ for such a frequent command (and this is also the rightful criticism of all the bad Emacs pinky defaults)

For example, you could use right ⌘ (a thumb key) as your text movement key (or even Space), then you have home keys

- JKL; for cursor movements and

- DF for your word movements (instead of having to move your whole hand to ⌥◀/▶)

- A/⇧A for line start/end movements or maybe A/G if it's frequent enough to not warrant using ⇧

And then that would match your text editor keybinds, so you don't have to waste time remembering platform-specific keys.

And re. those other apps - it's better to rebind them all (or, rather, use a tool to have the keybinds work in all of them) as well to use something good rather that stick with the bad just because someone lacked good design chops in the past
It seems like someone was just bored waiting for the Baku GP
ARM is reportedly building a chip to show off what its designs can do
Yeah, I tested that, but asked what happens if both Charles and William abdicate - got this result: "However, if both Charles III and his son abdicate, it is not clear who would become the head of state in Australia. There is a possibility that Australia could become a republic and have its first Australian head of state."
Clearly, it didn't handle quite straightforward inferring (Prince George of Wales, Williams son).
Both wealth and drugs can cause small personality quirks, & slight mental instability, to grow in unchecked proportions.

Synergistically, especially, they can separate people from familiar moderating social situations, and introduce them to riskier situations & exploitative scenes.

Having already become a multibillionaire, it's not clear to me that Hsieh was still driven by any remaining desire or "peer pressure" to "overachieve". He rather seemed unmoored from usual social pressures or limits, and thus unchecked in how absurd his 'business' dealings, personal relationships, & self-exploration could become.

Had Hsieh still been seeking conventional success, or "work"/"achievements" legible to sane peers, he may have moderated his actions, or at least not cut himself off from people offering valid concerns.
Not an expert but I'd argue a stack is somewhat more future proof in the sense that it's less tied to a particular number of physical registers, whereas a register machine must be. Which is exactly what makes it a bit harder to optimise for, but that's what abstractions tend to do :-)

The sparc sliding register window turned out to be a very bad idea, but I guess you already know that.
Honest question, I come from an industrial background where you have Work Package Manager in charge of the work of roughly 10 persons but not their actual manager with all the bureaucracy associated and an actual manager with less than 25 reports don’t exist.

Is 4 reports common in the US? How do companies survive with so much management?
You can find solarfarms in Denmark. Which latitude wise is in the middle of Canada. If there make sense here, why not Virginia?

I don't know much about solar panels, but just looking up sunshine hours it seems Virginia has a similar amount as Texas? And more than double as Billund.
Being one of those gamers, I do question why a lot of the games targeted at us (looking at you Path of Exile) has to have so much goddamned pointless busy-work clicking. I play a league, then skip a league, which means I skip buying a supporter pack, just because my arthritis can't put up with their bullshit interface year-round.
I love that it often recommends me videos from small channels, often with 0 view. This started happening only about a few months ago I don't know if it's just me.
Learning a second language as an adult or adolescent makes it vastly easier to learn additional languages later. So your time learning Basque was not wasted.
It's 700 per month, not per day.
"Freetard" is missing from the list.
Why is it that the Mumbai Indians always fails to get many of the "big names" in the auction compared to the other teams? Or is it just the fact that they trust their coaching skills a whole lot more (I mean Piyush seems like a different beast this year).
Yeah, I'm 38. I don't care about story, dialogs, whatever. I only care about game feeling and mechanics. If there are cutscenes I can't cancel, I'm out in a blink. Hence, I usually play competitive online games (currently a lot of Wild Rift), because they don't come with all that baggage.

A few good single-player games I played that have the story unfold in the background while you play:

- Hotline Miami (fast action, only few cutscenes, nice retro style)

- Dysmantle (story unfolds mostly through objects in the world)

- Raft (survival game, story is completely told through objects in the game)

- Valheim (almost no cut-scenes, but gets a bit repetitive after a while)
This is awesome. You should checkout [FATMAP](https://fatmap.com/routeid/2808585/Juan_De_Fuca_Trail_Day_4/...) for planning big outings like this if you want. It is a great tool.
A tragic tale. It is morbidly fascinating from the outside, the results of combining mental illness with lots of money. I hope his family and other loved ones can find peace and closure at some point.
Black bears have killed 67 people in North America since 1900, so I think statistically the risk is very low [1].

I have come across black bears on several occasions while hiking in Yosemite and Sequoia national park. They have never expressed the slightest bit of interest in me. Give them plenty of space, make plenty of noise, and eventually they will wander away.

Grizzly bears, the other hand, terrify me.

[1] https://wiseaboutbears.org/about-us/bear-attacks-2/
you can try here too https://passkeys.guru/
I generally am.
Au contraire. Learning an abstract logical relationship such as line of succession during training, and then applying substitution/reification during inference to deduce the new factual clause that Charles is king of the UK is exactly what it means to learn something new. It's just a pity it can't memorize this fact at inference time, and that won't be able to reproduce it as soon as the information about the queen's death slides outside of the context window.
One of my mentors was an absolute business genius, who around the first dotcom bubble built many many products, many that were very successful. Then around 27 he started going pretty wierd, and 10 years down the line it turns out he's paranoid schizophrenic, and either takes drugs which greatly dimishes his energy and smartness, or he goes crazy.

Many of the crazy money spends and similar of Hsieh sound familiar, it's like the genius just gets more and more wacky ideas until they both get exploited but also destroy themselves.

It's such a crazy story for me personally. There's also so many of these around. There's something about genius up until about ~27 years old that then can go completely insane. Seems to me to be linked to the whole 27 club [1] too. Seems like something really changes in our brain chemistry around then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
I don't want them to fail but I have 0 support for Kagi after trying them out. Main reason is they collect PII and have no privacy friendly payment options. They should have gone the way if Mullvad with that. Another reason is requiring an account for search is begging to be tracked but even if that is not an issue, it is sooo annoying having to sign in to search and even more annoying when auto complete for a search takes me to kagi but I no longer have that account so I have to face a login page and then navigate away and redo the search.

They made the critical mistake of not keeping it simple. If they wanted profits, why make it hard for people to pay them? If they wanted market share, why not have a free tier so people can try before they buy. They're only staying afloat in tech-circle hype imo.
I assume there has to be some degree of survivor bias here. You get good content, which is good, but there might be great content that is never shown. But I do agree that “the algorithm” often finds content that, at least, I’m interested in seeing which I would probably not have found otherwise.
There are very sets that contains exclusives, and then usually minifigs, and you can also pick and buy individual pieces. But they are certainly leaning far more into the special pieces. That said, there even when I was buying LEGO sets for myself or begging for them for christmas and birthdays in the early 1980's, it was still on the basis on wanting a specific set because of how they made it look assembled, not for "just" the collection of bricks.
"infotainment" or "edutainment" is what that type of content is - I think it's mostly mindless entertainment masquerading as informative or educational content
This is bizarre. At the scales they produce they gain literally nothing by going thrifty on the tooling.
Seems to me that you are generalizing from a far-fetched example.

I am not saying that users can never benefit from PWAs. I am saying that globally, I am not convinced that PWAs will improve the life of iOS users. Just like I don't feel like Electron is improving my life. Slack would maybe have to make a proper app if they did not have Electron, it's not like Salesforce doesn't have the money. I could even go further: if it was actually expensive for such companies to write apps for the platforms they need to support, maybe they would open their APIs. Slack/Discord are glorified IRC messengers, I would love to have a lightweight client to use them (instead of getting a full copy of Chromium for each).
Schulman's talk is great. I had been thinking about this problem, and he covers almost everything I thought of, with great clarity.

One thing he didn't mention though is that there's potentially a bit of a trick to get the fine-tuning datasets to transfer across models anyway. (I haven't tested it.)

The key idea is to eliminate the pronouns. Imagine asking GPT-4, not whether it knows a fact, but whether "gpt-3.5-turbo" knows, or "text-davinci-003" knows, etc. Then, when you want the model to reply using pronouns (e.g. "I don't know"), use the system message to tell it which model it is.

This doesn't benefit from introspection, so quite possibly it doesn't work. The reason it might work anyway, though, is that estimating the difficulty of a question might be possible even without introspection.
Can you use WebAuthn when you're in nested RDP sessions?
About thinking, I always think (hah) of this quote:

"Lo que solemos elevar a la categoría de meditaciones no es más que el ruido de un motor encendido." Ray Loriga

My idiomatic translation: "What we usually elevate to thinking/thoughts is only the noise of a running engine."

I also believe language is necessary for thinking. I would define thinking as following the scientific method, though. That is, thinking is not necessary to tie my shoelaces or go shopping or dance (that I consider more autopilot, maybe like system 1 and 2?). But to make a rigorous argument, IMO one needs language. Under this definition of thinking it seems logic is pretty important, and logic seems to me language-based.
The myth of the fast learner
> GPT 'learning' from its own output

Interesting implication.

A system such as GPT learning from its own output is almost obviously absurd. A computer model getting fed its own output as training data feels like some kind of short circuit, or maybe just a circuit with a capacitor and resistor that simply slowly dissipates energy, until nothing happens/changes anymore.

Yet, isn't what humans do mostly the same, just more sophisticated?

Humans pick up experiences and references and information and, inspired from these, create "new" things. I'd argue that the "new" things humans create are really just new combinations/iterations of things that they picked up earlier in life.

The difference between GPT and humans is mostly: the human recombination system is vastly more complicated/sophisticated than its GPT counterpart and produces more chaotic output.

In the end, the _essential_ part of the, let's call it, cultural evolution, that's happening with humanity, maybe isn't so much the creation/recombination aspect (which produces this vast stream of new things, almost randomness), but rather the selection process.
Lots of random things are being created all the time, most are being discarded, except for those that somehow appear valuable or get selected for other reasons.

The selection of things from the vast random stream might matter more than the process that creates the vast random stream.
Also important for devices with small screens such as Steam Deck.

Tried to play Disco Elysium on it, and it's just too hard for me.
I'd like to be warned before hitting a hard limit, in whichever way. E.g. warning emails ("You've reached 80% of your quota"), or a meter on the search page.

From a higher POV, I like GPT-4's smaller time windows way better (x queries within 4 hour window). I hate to be "locked out" of search for a whole week. A few hours wouldn't feel that bad.