skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cannabis is blatantly toxic filth

No, it isn't. It's medicine, and remarkably harmless recreation. It saves many lives, and enhances quality of life for millions of people. It has a smorgasbord of health benefits.

It does have side effects, and drawbacks. It's not a panacea, and it doesn't suit every one. It's not for kids (except when it's medically worth it).

But calling it "blatantly toxic filth" is wildly inflammatory... Which is funny, because cannabis reduces inflammation. With far less toxic effects than most anti-inflammatories.

> you are ignoring the entire point of the article/study that we are commenting on.

I disagree with the methods and conclusion. As do plenty of people here, who have pointed out the flaws with the article and the study, for example, the very serious correlation/causation issues.

To talk about schizophrenia and cannabis without ever mentioning CBD is remarkably dishonest. THC concentration merits a single sideways mention. This is bad science and worse journalism, and it smells like big pharma.

Which wouldn't surprise me at all. Cannabis hurts their profits. Painkiller use goes way down after legalization and decriminalization - as do prescription painkiller deaths.
Everything has happened before and will happen again:
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/how-instagram-solved-its-justi...
New catalyst transforms carbon dioxide into sustainable byproduct
GP's preamble was that their comment was motivated by the desire to preempt "Facebook bashing".

I think it was made very clear int their own words that their intention was to defend Facebook in anticipation of comments critical of FB.
I watched it around the time it came out, and to this day I remember how remarkable it was to see a Russian screenplay produced in the Hollywood space blockbuster style. It's one of the more interesting space films out there, even if indeed it was overly dramatic and had many overused movie tropes.
I feel like this is almost an abuse of the word "fake". It's really about intellectual property, which itself is an abuse of "intellectual" and "property". Really it's about some people telling other people that they can't do something, because of the power relation between them.
https://vale.dev/ for anybody else who might not have heard of it
Why shouldn't everyone present their best case?

Are you saying that no private company should compete with public services?

I love transit and dislike car culture. But I find it hard to fault a car company for trying to present their product as a solution.
thanks, i missed that. can't say i was convinced by any of the arguments though. but i won't start them again.
The word "meritocracy" was invented in a book about how it's a bad idea that doesn't work.
> Not all schools.

That continues to be the case.

> And the question is, SHOULD they be?

The conversation doesn't have to be limited to only one topic. There are an unlimited number of things which people can discuss on these forums, and my point is simply that it's odd that this topic would trend when nothing particularly interesting has happened here.
Hah! Fun question. While I think if you ripped the solar panels and other instrumentation off you could _just_ fit the Salyut in the Shuttle payload bay it was too heavy for a safe return trip. But, I think the Salyut's orbit would have required a USSR launch? Unless alternate history humanity made a truly humongous specialty retrieval craft and inclination changes meant nothing to it. :)
That's not unique to Europe; the USA has done this countless times in the last 20+ years, mainly on the east coast. Some city or region will proclaim themselves "the next Silicon Valley", and of course it doesn't happen. NYC tried it once, calling themselves "Silicon Alley".

Much of the USA is jealous of Silicon Valley's success, and they try to make themselves the next SV without actually learning why SV became successful in the first place and emulating that. So, for instance, one big reason SV has continued to be successful is the fact that non-compete agreements are unenforceable in the state of California. A SV tech employee can easily leave their job and go to work down the street for a competing company. This isn't true in most other states, and noncompete employment clauses can be common.
Indeed there are. Tens of us!

Maybe you underestimate how many people want to keep up on things but not interact?
You can't ask language models about any kind of statistics unless you want them to just make the answer up.
i was talking about germany, you are talking about the US. the US has weak protection for renters, and that's why something like this is allowed to happen. the "required minimum" is quite different in germany, so this is very unlikely to happen in there, because renters would have the right to reduce the rent they pay until such issues are resolved. as i said, laws to protect renters are a necessary part to avoid this.
The whole industry, and its fan base, has descended into overt magical thinking. It is sad, and not a little ridiculous.
That runs counter to some very well established UI principles. People get confused when their interface changes except as a result of direct interaction. Open up a menu in response to a click, yes; reorganize menus to "optimize" them based on what a model predicts a person is going to do, no.

The killer is being able to tell a program what you want it to do, then not having to fuddle with buttons or menus at all (unless you want to tweak things).
So does kotlin
That depends on what they mean by load following. While you can load-follow by changing reactor power (like the French do extensively). Westinghouse has long been promoting thermal storage based load following in their other reactor designs [1]. Where instead of perturbing the reactor's power, you divert the thermal output to a molten salt thermal battery when you want to decrease power suddenly, and use the battery to pre-heat feedwater when you want to increase power suddenly. For their LFR design they are claiming they should be able to load follow within 65-125% of nominal full power (ramping at 10%/minute). As long as the load-following averages out to 100% power over a long/short enough time period the reactor never has to change power level.

The only really needed to do this at any thermal plant is to over size the steam turbines, install some piping, and build an insulated salt tank.

Of course Westinghouse hasn't built any plants with that feature since it doesn't make economic sense without variable energy pricing.

[1] "Status Report – Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor," (Westinghouse Electric
Company LLC, United States of America), https://aris.iaea.org/PDF/W-LFR_2020.pdf
And if you're going with batteries, you might as well charge them with a source that has low levelized cost. That's not nuclear.
This is, of course, amazing news. Public schools in the US have been lethargically churning out rapidly declining outcomes for decades, as well as attacking gifted students in the name of equity & inclusion.

2020 threw gas on the fire of homeschooling numbers, and I can't wait to see what they are like now (the 2023 survey that will reveal them is currently running).

Homeschooling produces better outcomes, even when you include unschooled students and religious curriculum.

Literally, a random person off the street can do better at teaching a child 1:1 than a teacher in a classroom of 25 students where excellence is punished severely.

That's not even considering the fact that teachers unions routinely protect sexual predators, and that teachers are statistically more likely to abuse children than priests. [1]

Teachers unions were also the most vocal proponents of school lockdowns, which irreparably damaged millions of students.

School was a massive waste of time for me and most people I know. It's also the only place I've ever experienced physical violence. They're just a mess.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443437504577547...
In C, it's perfectly legal to do this:

struct S { ... };
typedef int S;

That's not valid in C++ (so would be a breaking change in C, if it were to adopt this).

I don't really think changing this in C would break all that much code, but it's definitely not backwards compatible.
The router had openWRT support. Once I flashed that on, it had minimal versions of all the usual cli tools through BusyBox.
> Point being; there's history and context to this fight, and I don't think that sympathy is a valuable experience to hand out to any megacorporation. Both Google and Microsoft can be in the wrong; its not binary.

Agreed - I mentioned that only in the sense that the article seemed to be portraying it very much in Google’s terms and this has more history as you mentioned. I’d especially feel it worth mentioning how for years Google used their sites to push Firefox, Safari & Edge users to switch to Chrome so it’s rather dubious that they’re suddenly deeply concerned with consumer choice.
Automation is associated with increased employment. There is no economic reason to favor UBI because of this.

(But there's also no reason to disfavor it, because welfare is largely meant to benefit non-workers like elderly and children.)
I wonder about Helix plugins.
This generation's recycling logo seems to be eco-friendly materials.
The US did not have net inflation until after 1914. What happened in 1914? The government switch to fiat money where they could run deficits by just printing money.

The relationship with the government printing press and inflation is demonstrated over and over, in country after country.
Exactly right. These are statistical models that operate at a completely different level of abstraction from the human brain: tokens/words/etc for text models, and individual (or perhaps small groups) of pixels for image models. Plausible output is obtained through sheer brute-force, and there is no mechanism to correct what we perceive as errors.
Yes, it is possible to treat d as a differential operator, and then dy and dx are the differentials of functions, and it makes sense to take their ratio. You can learn about this by reading about differential forms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_form

Unfortunately I don't know a treatment of this subject that explains how to apply this concept to basic calculus without introducing some other more difficult concepts.
My memory is that IRCAM at one point used the Digital systems Dec-10 for its music production. I have vague memories of visiting the Pompidou Centre in the early 80s, with ICRAM nearby.

At the time, the best most of us got was doing FM by toggling address lines fast and sitting a radio next to the CPU cabinet (there was code to do this on the DECUS tape). -AM was out because digital devices tend to be in the constant volts place.
That's pretty cool, only heard about planetscale cause of their advanced query caching blog post a while ago.

But the lack of postgres was why I never used it. I'll have to give neon a go.
Some older plant blocks were in the 300-500 MW range so I guess you could replace them with this ?
The license that prevents use by a particular list of corporations can likely be easily crafted.

But because any particular invention about LLMs is not a specific product but an approach, it would just be re-implemented.

One could imagine patenting an approach, if it ends up being patentable, and then giving everyone but some excluded entities a grant of royalty-free use. But, unless the use if that particular approach is inevitably very obvious (which is really unlikely with ML models), you would have hard time detecting violations and especially enforcing your patent.
,,Dependency injection (the pattern, not the kind of framework)

Encapsulation

Polymorphism''

These were just thrown in, but they both make the code less readable and less performant if they are not really needed.

In my experience while having separation of concerns is critical for software development, the only way to find the right interface for that separation is trial and error.

Iterating on the interface between layers is the most important part of software development.
You're confusing the cost charged to a consumer vs. the wholesale cost of electricity. $120/MWh is completely uncompetitive as a wholesale cost. Not even the cost of storage for solar/wind would bring their cost up to that.
Yikes, why didn't they use a /.well-known/ address instead of inventing a new directory? This is entirely on Bluesky, not AWS.
Filters are very effective at removing chlorine.
Nor am I but if we go back up the claim was that they were making it much easier to get in than get out, but unless you're telling me that the one-click tool somehow solves all the issues of migrating a large production database that's in use the difference between the two is a minuscule amount of active work.
as I started reading your comment I thought it was going to be about him being in the bathroom and not being able to do his job
Journalist under surveillance: „TikTok was scared and freaked out“
What?

No, what the article said was:

> At that pace, it doesn’t take long before the cumulative effect of all of these fine-tunings overcomes starting off at a size disadvantage.

>Indeed, in terms of engineer-hours, the pace of improvement from these models vastly outstrips what we can do with our largest variants, and

> the best are already largely indistinguishable from ChatGPT.

^ The author did not note chat gpt is better, the author claims that the 7B koala model is 'largely indistinguishable from ChatGPT'.

and:

> While ChatGPT still holds a slight edge, more than 50% of the time users either prefer Koala or have no preference.

Which is highly misleading.

The koala authors rated their model by passing it to 100 people using the mechanical turk, noting:

> To mitigate possible test-set leakage, we filtered out queries that have a BLEU score greater than 20% with any example from our training set. Additionally, we removed non-English and coding-related prompts, since responses to these queries cannot be reliably reviewed by our pool of raters (crowd workers).

So.

What you have is a model that performs pretty well for some trivial conversational prompting tasks.

What you DO NOT have, is something that is: "largely indistinguishable from ChatGPT".

Anyway, regardless of the creative interpretation of the authors writing, the point that I'm making is that your point:

> So, the winning strategy is whatever strategy allows your model to compound in quality faster and to continue to compound that growth in quality for longer.

Is founded on the assumption from the post that:

> While the individual fine tunings are low rank, their sum need not be, allowing full-rank updates to the model to accumulate over time.

ie. If you fine tune it enough, it'll get better and better in an unlimited fashion.

Which is provably false.

If I have a 10-parameter model, there is no possible way that the accumulation of low rank fine tunings will make it the equivalent of a 7B, 13B of 135B model.

It is simply not complex enough to do some tasks.

Similarly, smaller models like 3B or 7B model, appear to have an upper bound on what is possible to achieve with them regardless of the number of fine tunings applied to them, for the direct and obvious same reason.

There is an upper bound on what is possible, based on the model size.

The 'best' size for a model hasn't really been figured out, but... I'm getting pretty sick of people saying these 7B models are as good as 'ChatGPT'.

They. Are. Not.

People will go to the best models, with the best licenses, but... those models are, it seems, unlikely to be fine tuned smallish models.
Given how nvidia has almost no competition, it just seems unlikely that nvidia decides to stop milking the enterprise and they will continue to lock 40GB+ cards behind ludicrous price points
Sharing my investor update Notion template
Took me a while to figure out how to make an investor update in Notion with Charts, so I decided to publish this open source. Hope it's helpful. Only caveat is you need to use Notion2Charts for the charting until Notion builds charts natively
The person who owns the domain creates a private key and uploads the public key to the registrar when they buy the domain. Literally a 68 byte string. Not exactly hard to store. The domain name itself may be longer.

The domain owner creates a CSR and signs it using their private key. Sends it to the registrar. The registrar uses the public key the user uploaded to validate the signature. This happens millions of times a day on shitty computers, this is completely old boring technology.

Now the registrar sends the Registrar-Signed-CSR back to the user. The user sends the RS-CSR to a CA. The CA uses the Registrar's public key to validate the Registrar's signature (exact same process as before). Now the CA can see the Registrar signed it, so it's legit.

Easy to automate. Boring old technology. Same flow millions of computers use every day, just with one extra party in the middle.
Also the AP1000 takes a superheavy forging press which can take a few 100 tons of steel. There are just so many of those, only in certain countries (North America does poorly) and those presses can build a limited number of reaction vessels.

A smaller reaction vessel needs a smaller press which is easier to find.
Risk? He's a known quantity. There may be 1000 guys more capable than Pichai. Alas, there are at least two thorny questions:

* How do you find one of these guys in the haystack with any degree of confidence?

* How much time would one of them need to build a professional network at the same level as Pichai?

FWIW, I do find these compensation packages obscene. Just working out same thinly disguised math.
They won't fail, they'll just provide compute infrastructure for people building AI products. Google is mostly bad at building products these days.
I had a very different interpretation of the monologing in the first book. Some time has passed since my last read but I distinctly remember at least Baron Harkonnen having a self important but buffoonish inner monologe and at least one instance of a pov jump to another character who is thinking (paraphrasing) "this guy is a decadent buffon". I think the other characters also have melodramatic and self centered inner thought lives but I thought it implicit that their thought lives are limited and narrow generally, they often don't really represent to the truth of things and it's clear they are often overthinking things instead of communicating clearly and truthfully (like the Thufir's inner thought life is super far off base and he's supposed to be a near super intelligence.) Paul particularly seemed like, all things being equal, a self absorbed teenager. That was just my take though.
I don't consider myself to have agreed to a bunch of unpopular decisions shoved down our collective throats by unelected bureaucrats for life just because I didn't flee the country, but if you do then I guess there's not much to talk about.
What's even more ridiculous is calling it end-to-end encryption when it's secured by a short numeric pin (what most people use). The search space for brute forcing it is so insanely small that it doesn't matter how much password stretching you do, it's trivial for Google/anyone with access to the keystore to brute force.
Very similar experience here. I had a psychotic episode last summer on shrooms, and have since struggled with anxiety. I definitely agree that if you have any pre-existing mental health issues at all, using psychedelics is playing with fire.
You can use my fork of vscode julia extension for this https://github.com/xgdgsc/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v1.41.1_...
I'm not sure I agree with the title... surely Crypto AG would be bigger/more influential?
Is there evidence you were exposed to high concentrations of PFAS and that they cause leukemia? If it was caused by pollution it's more likely to be something else.
You don’t need to know a pin top verify the pin. You hash the pin with a one way function and compare it to a stored hash.
Getting around network restrictions started my software engineering career. You had to learn all about TCP/IP, transparent proxies, SSH tunnels, DNS, Linux boxes, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, John The Ripper, write Perl scripts, cron jobs, CGI, how automate things and become the ghost in the machine. Best educational tool ever for kids.
> Also why did you not bring your laptop to your tech interview lol

I’m not really “in tech” but this sounds like some bullshit for me. What if you don’t have a personal laptop? All I’ve got is a desktop machine, because my personal devices aren't for work.

> Most onsites are 5 back to back interviews.

What an absurd practice.
I don’t understand what OP is arguing but would be interested to find out.
If I had to guess, when you set up an Android device's passcode, it generates a key pair, signs a message and ships the public key to Google, and then encrypts the private key with your pin (maybe with your Google password and/or a Google-provided salt at the end) and ships that to Google. So when you restore access on a new device, it downloads that private key bundle and tries to decrypt it using the PIN you provide.

> And what's stopping the FBI from asking Google to send them every device's PIN as it's created?

device PINs are never sent to Google in this scenario - but nothing is stopping them from being asked to log your Password the next time you sign in, and it's up to you to trust that they'd never do this even when asked via national security letter since it destroys all trust people (and Google Workspace enterprise businesses) have in their login system.
Almost certainly not, because with the nuclear industry shrinking uranium will remain cheap. And if uranium is cheap, reprocessing costs more than it's worth.
SSR is the process of generating the HTML and CSS necessary to render a web page on the server side before it's sent down the wire. You can't just pipe wasm to the client to get the same effect. Besides being less efficient than JS at manipulating the DOM, the idea is that everything is already available and streamed to the client for optimal render speed.
> I say this as someone fully against ads as a concept entirely. They are not helpful nor a benefit for consumers.

I subscribe to hot rod magazines for the express purpose of the ads.

But somehow, the targeting of ads by Amazon, etc., have never turned up anything I wanted to buy.
To be clear, almost no cities recycle their wastewater back into drinking water. In modern times, storm water is generally directed into wastewater and that has many of the same nasty chemicals you find in landfill leachate.

I’m not sure what you’re suggesting even. If you dump all the water back on the landfill, most of it is just going to flow straight back through. You can’t do this. The liquid is removed because if you let too much liquid build up, the leachate will create too much pressure and break the membrane and leak into the groundwater.

In most landfills, the accepted process is wastewater treatment followed by release into rivers.
This is more than enough to get me started, I appreciate you. Thanks!
Oh man, then you really don’t want to know about a product I once created.

Reader could have an optional Flash plugin, and better yet, you could configure the PDF interactive plugin to dynamically download the swf file to run.

I built an entire Flex based rich UI that was dynamically loaded by the 1kb PDF you’d receive in email, the Flex app retrieved and posted data via HTTP APIs.

Because reasons.

That product was live for years. I think we shut it down as recently as 2 years ago.

To be 100% clear, wasn’t my idea.

But it was my mistake to joke about the absurd possibility to build such a thing in front of some biz folks.
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