skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it an autocorrect issue or the writer only-heard-never-read that the "^" character is called a “carrot”?
The analogy I can think of here is a pointer, but AFAIK the context would always need to go along with the prompt unless you could tweak internal state to bias towards the context.

Otherwise, it might make sense to have a separate routine which compresses the context as efficiently as possible. Auto encoder?
Because it discourage discussion against the "crowd wisdom" of HN.

Had a lot of karma collected, then a comment with different opinion against point of view of HN wasted it.

It may be a feature, not a bug because it reinforcing the network of same minded
people here, and dicourages different opinions.

As Peter Thiel tells:
"Tell me something that's true, that almost nobody
agrees with you on."

You won't find this on HN because signal to noise ratio is low in such discussions and you will get downvoted.

Maybe there should be option to sort from most downvoted on the top to fix in some part this issue?
Bowlero faces dozens of discrimination claims that feds want to settle for $60M
I tend to agree, but then I wonder if people in places like Canada (which has universal healthcare) tend to pursue their passions more than those of us in the US?
'Force de Frappe'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion
I live in Europe and I still have to go to work.
Datadog have been pestering multiple people in my company by name. Not sure how they got our details. They also try via LinkedIn so maybe that’s how. Very annoying.
Yes concept 2 is the standard. But you would have more fun joining a club and going on the water. For the most part people hate the erg. And this is coming from someone that owns two concept2's and rows on the water or the erg about 6 times a week.
Tell HN: YC is censoring stories about Reid Hoffman and Jeffery Epstein
I had recently submitted part 2 of a WSJ report about Jeffery Epstein's calendar including his meetings with Reid Hoffman. Part 1 was previously submitted to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762731

My post quickly went to the front-page where it mysteriously vanished. A few hours later it got tagged with [flagged] but that was after it had been manually removed from the front-page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35806599

I know that YC does a lot of work with Hoffman so I was disappointed, but not surprised.

Fast forward to today and I see the official YC account actually promoting Hoffman:

https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/1656675146588110850

So I think it's worth noting that this site is complicit with covering for Epstein's network and has direct relationships with it. Worth keeping in mind when you see what is and isn't allowed on HN.

EDIT: And now this post has been [flagged]. This seems like something we need to talk about a lot more on and off this site.
>Six Dimensions to Compare Foundation LLMs

I'd add open source to the list, which neither "open"AI or this is.
I think the factor you're missing is that the WiFi and 5G connections may have substantially different latencies to the other person. Going from a lower-latency to a higher-latency connection will always involve audio dropping out and video pausing. And in the opposite direction, it's preferable to skip over a few frames in order to reduce latency, rather than maintain higher latency.

I wonder if you don't see this with cell phones because the latency is generally identical, or if it's just less noticeable with audio than with video? I guess I'd also wonder if cell towers really do hand off without glitches, since there always seem to be glitches when you're driving, but you don't have the slightest idea whether they're from tall buildings or interference or Bluetooth or handoffs or what, or even on your end or the other person's end.
Does "fighting poverty" mean to fight the people who profit from slave labor?

Because in my experience, "fighting poverty" is often translated to "let's educate all people and at the end no one will have to work on a cotton field". While wearing and eating slave labor products.

In German there is a quote that says "a society can't make a living by everyone giving each other a haircut". While I don't think that the answer is to subsidize manufacturing of goods (that's the context of the original quote IIRC), I think that this equally applies to what we call "skilled labor".
I feel like the kind of person who would use Boring Report is also the kind of person who's brain is already discounting sensationalist titles and doesn't really need an app to do it for them. That being said, I'm all for trying things to make the news more measured and nuanced.
> I don't care about the products we build for someone else (why should I?)

This mindset is how you kneecap your career. You’ve pigeonholed yourself into the foot soldier category when it becomes immediately obvious to managers that you aren’t thinking about what’s actually good for the company.

You may already know this, but it needs to be explicitly called out that taking that approach to your business relationship with your employer defines the relationship.
yeah, i also wrote a cube root routine using newton's method yesterday and came to the conclusion that |x - x'| < threshold was a better approach in that case. maybe in every case, maybe not

i agree that prefix notation is not as bad for these as i had thought before looking

i think there are plausible cases where your float might be polymorphic with double, complex, a vector, a matrix, or an element of a galois field, but i think it would only be polymorphic with int in cases like stopping change propagation when an observable value gets recomputed to the same value from new inputs, and in those cases what you need is exact bitwise equality, not arithmetic equality

an awk-like thing might be better with fixed-point, like tex and metafont; you could call the data type 'btc` and represent it as a 64-bit integer that's multiplied by 10*-8 for output
Building Trustworthy AI
> As you say, there's little choice in whether you have to do it (unless you win the lottery or something)

With some frugality and smart money management, you can retire in 5-10 years if you're on a dev salary.
> Most off-putting thing was the "callback/promise hell" erroneously recommended in tutorials until I realized you're actually supposed to use async-await

Async/await's pretty new, is probably why you're seeing so many tutorials that don't use it.
I'm happy with the way I've got Keycloak set up (especially ability to simply throw Apache's OpenID Connect in front of arbitrary paths) but I do recommend also looking into alternatives. Keycloak is great for enterprise SSO setups where you need to authenticate to ten different services on ten different domains, but there are much simpler options out there if all you need is auth for a single website!

I imagine the biggest reason to go for Supertokens is the first-party SaaS support. If you want to outsource auth (like Auth0/Firebase Auth/etc. do) then I think there's something to be said for this project. The open source-ness doesn't add too much value in that use case, though.
Hi everyone! We're super proud to announce the 1.0 release of the OSS Bacalhau platform[1]

Just a few of the features we released include:
- Multi-architecture support - Intel, Apple Silicon (M1/M2), ARMv6 & ARMv7, AMD64
- Running 10k+ jobs simultaneously
- Simplified private cluster setup
- DAG execution through Project Amplify
- Insulated Jobs & Federated Learning

And lots more! Please let us know if you have any questions :)

Disclosure: I am co-founder of Bacalhau

[1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau
People aren't trained to think that way, even though we're surrounded by hints. For example, what do we call the strongest enemy in a level?
As Diogenes would have said, live like a dog.
The problem is that the law isn't proactively enforced and reporting puts you at risk of retaliation, something few people in that situation can afford.

When I was younger one manager was notorious for clocking us out while we were still cleaning at the end of the night. It went on because reporting it risked having your shifts cut or being quietly let go.

It's the same in the rental market. Where I am, viewing and application fees have been illegal for years but estate agents will still try to charge them. If you bring it up or refuse to pay they'll just find someone else who will.
Factotum and South of No North are two of my favorites.
> right shifting adds zeros to the most significant side. So, using the same number we get…

1110 >> 4 -> 0000 1110
I mean you can still use jQuery, no one's stopping you. They're still releasing new versions with updates, the last one came out two months ago if I'm not mistaken.
All vitamins are essential, that's pretty much where the name comes from: "vital amine" (not to be confused with must see Japanese cartoons).

There are diseases associated with shortage of vitamins,
such as scurvy for vitamin C, or rickets for D.
It's funny you mentioned focus. Until recently I had a lot of trouble maintaining focus.

I just complained about it in a different thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905529

I still think it's healthy to have multiple interests that you engage others with, but I also accept that in some contexts focus can appear as obsession.
>For example, we loaded the entire text of The Great Gatsby into Claude-Instant (72K tokens) and modified one line to say Mr. Carraway was “a software engineer that works on machine learning tooling at Anthropic.” When we asked the model to spot what was different, it responded with the correct answer in 22 seconds.

This sort of needle-in-a-haystack retrieval is definitely impressive, and it makes a lot more sense to achieve this in-context rather than trying to use a vector database if you can afford it.

I'm curious, though, whether there are diminishing returns in terms of how much analysis the model can do over those 100k tokens in a single forward pass. A human reading modified-Gatsby might eventually spot the altered line, but they'd also be able to answer questions about the overarching plot and themes of the novel, including ones that cannot be deduced from just a small number of salient snippets.

I'd be curious to see whether huge-context models are also able to do this, or if they start to have trouble when the bottleneck becomes reasoning capacity rather than input length. I feel like it's hard to predict one way or the other without trying it, just because LLMs have already demonstrated a lot of surprising powers.
No. He used to be in the CHP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muharrem_%C4%B0nce
How are LLM’s increasing their context size? I guess you just increase input size if it’s for the self supervised GPT3 style training but for RLHF?
Are they creating datasets of books to input to the LLM and then making human labelers label the response? There might be a smart way that does not involve new datasets
Notes usually go too far in the other direction, for instance you will rarely see notes on mainstream politicians even when they are speaking objective falsehoods. This is because that system requires an agreement from people who usually disagree for a note to show up.
Volvo may have gone too hard on software because now the EX90 is getting delayed
For me I’d say speed trumps all else. It’s impossible to truly reach scale with the glacial response times you get from current API.
Who is this article for exactly? It starts off by trying to relate to the reader by presenting the point about learning a new programming language, but then goes on to explain one of the most fundamental concepts of computing, as if the reader is a complete novice. I would imagine that nearly every person with programming experience, whether that be formal or not, would have at least some familiarity with binary representation and bitwise operations.
They'ed be paid if they were on the premises and doing things their employer permitted. Generally they'ed be required to clock out if they wanted to say take a smoke break, or run some personal errands, or take a nap. Hell they won't even generally get paid for the time they spend commuting to work and similar activities that are in practice necessary for the job but during which they are not at the employer's command.

There are jobs where you need warm bodies and you are paying for availability. If you hire a security guard, you're hoping you never need them to do their job, but you're paying them to be there in case they are needed. If a gig employer demanded your time regardless of whether or not you were doing a gig, of course they should be paying for your time. But a big part of gig work is that when you're not in the middle of a gig, you have no obligations - you can sit around waiting for the next job, or you can do something else.
I'm quite interested to hear about the connection between LGBT ideology and Gnosticism / transhumanism. Care to elaborate lo_zamoyski?
The point isn't to 'think of the children' but that the only way to address these injustices is to do literally that, there is no way around ethics by way of intellect or dwelling on abstract issues. Some of the worst camps humans have been shoved in have been during modernity, using modern tools conceived of by people with very big brains.

People who have no interest in the ordinary suffering around them are much more likely to add to it. Or going with Rousseau:

"Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors.”
You should intern as a content moderator and create a game based on your real experience.
DeepMind cofounder warns govts must find solutions for jobs lost to A.I
People are also only fungible to a limited degree. Companies cancel projects, eliminate functions, and so forth. Especially in the middle of a large layoff there's often a limited appetite for finding a new home for someone who may be a high performer in the abstract but doesn't have a job any longer and may not be an ideal match for a position that already has someone doing it.
Big question on that for me is that there's a variety of "completion styles" and I'm curious how "universal" performance on them is. Probably more than this, but a quick list that comes to mind:

* Text summary/compression

* Creative writing (fiction/lyrics/stylization)

* Text comparison

* Question-answering

* Logical reasoning/sequencing ("given these tools and this scenario, how would you perform this task")

IMO, for stuff like text comparison and question-answering, some combo of speed/cost/context-size could make up for a lot, even if they do "worse" versions of stuff just that's too slow or expensive or context-limited in a different model.
Naively, yes, but you can cache the bulk of that "rerunning" [1]. That said the (non-flash) attention costs go up with the length of the sequence so perhaps this is just a simpler way to approximate these costs.

[1] https://kipp.ly/blog/transformer-inference-arithmetic/
It's a lovely piece of kit, on brand,

but as an actual practicing field recordist who also does home recording, some critical information (or features?) are missing,

namely,

- the availability of plug-in power for electret microphones on any of the inputs;

- whether the analog inputs are line-level only (no mention is made of integrated preamps)

- whether the 3x analog inputs can be configured for 4-channel recording (e.g. A-format for Ambisonics)

If there were four high-quality preamps providing plug-in power... you could use this for recording surround in the field, and transcode to B-format and then deliver via the Ambisonics ecosystems in AR/VR. E.g. record single-point surround video with a 360 camera, with surround audio—now you have a pocket kit that can give you surround video with audio that tracks etc.

But I don't think this does that. I think it's very pretty but would require external preamps (maybe this is provided on their companion mixer?) and mic power... :|

If anyone familiar with their line can comment I'm curious, I am in the rare subset of people interested enough in this specific area to drop coin on lovely gear...

...but I don't really want to carry two or more devices no matter how pretty when uglier single-device solutions exist already :/
My impression of bukowski is that he was absolutely driven to write, but that he was an incredible slacker at work. That he worked only well enough and hard enough to drink and write (neither being incredibly expensive past times).

So he was motivated, but not by work or the concerns of others. The only reason we know about him is because he chose to write and often semi-autobiographically. There are scores of people who make similar arrangements for music, sport, reading, gardening, child rearing… we just don’t hear from them!
If you think people don’t care and connect with other industries on an emotional level, you are wrong.
Yeah, but even new documentation sometimes uses promises, particularly anything related to Google like https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/custom-auth
Like you suggest, impossible for a single person, but almost trivial when you crowdsource it.
Yes, but physics trumps economics.
Bit of a pity it doesn’t go into how many of these people then claim tax credits - which tops up their earnings to a living income.

ISTM that tax credits end up subsidising sub minimum wage gig workers to the benefit of the business using the gig worker.
I appreciate the summary of the changes in the javascript ecosystem over the last decade+; all of that happened after I had kids and I didn't have the motivation to keep up with it, so it's a complete blur in my mind.

I've tried at various times to get caught up, but it seems that every time I find articles / blogs that talk about How Things Are Done at the time they're written, with only the briefest nod to how it's better than The Old Busted Way (probably because the authors, being steeped in and surrounded by javascript for years, think that their readers will also be similarly up to speed).

Meanwhile, I feel like a historian in the year 5000, reading recipes from 2023 and wondering whether people used dog milk or cat milk (because those were the two kinds of mammals that most households had available).

Does anybody know of other resources that go into more depth on the evolution (and specifically the Whys) of the javascript ecosystem?
I remember attending an early 90s Mac users group at MIT where Rich came and demoed the then-new BBEdit, ran through the basic features, answered a few questions, and raffled off a license. A colleague won it. Glad to hear he's still at it.
Wow, this is pretty cool, thanks for linking this!
What exactly does "desensationalize the news" mean? Is there any additional detail on what exactly it does?
What I find most ironic about this is that rather than bringing users closer to the source of information it potentially pushes them farther away by adding an additional step to verification. I imagine you've considered this? How easy does your app make it to access the source article and author information, for example?
Vanilla Javascript is comfortable. I think I've pretty much given up on the JS ecosystem. I've been going back to web frameworks like Django / Rails / Laravel. Obviously not the solution for all things but most projects really don't need to be SPAs.
Example: I want to buy some construction material that I've seen somewhere. I don't know what to search for since I don't know the term. Prior to LLM, the only way was to ask someone familiar with it, e.g. a plumber. Now I can ask GPT. And then I just do a quick image search to verify.

This doesn't always work, as some stuff is harder to verify. But what's valuable to me is it allows me to ask a vague question and have follow-ups. I usually learn just by having the conversation.
Digital rocks: how Hollywood killed celluloid
Great implementation is genius.
In much of the northern hemisphere for most of the year this is insufficient. Even a really long walk.
A $5 linode with debian 11 has like 950mb usable on boot?
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
If you know what he means by it, why correct him?
Stamets makes some extraordinary health claims about mushrooms that afaik have never been clinically tested (ex. anticancer and antiviral applications). I think a grain of salt is appropriate in this case - but he could be entirely right!
I have been in places where I not only didn't give a shit about the product, but it was against what I believed ethically or morally. In those cases I managed to find pride in my own small piece of it and ignored the bigger picture. I'm lucky to work in a place now where I really believe in and use the product, and the same kind of soul-suckiness you're describing is far more tolerable.

Making money for someone else is inherently soul-sucking though, at the end of the day.
http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html Exceptionally relevant :)
It has.

There's Numba, CuPy, Jax and torch.compile. Arguably they are more like DSLs, which happen to integrate into Python than regular Python

Of course I don't know what Mojo will actually bring to the table since their documentation doesn't mention anything GPU specific, but the idea isn't completely novel.
There were people at the time who pushed back against Midgley and his employer with respect to leaded gasoline. The power differential overwhelmed their criticisms for decades until years after Patterson definitely proved how bad it was.

A utilitarian argument in favor of a flatter power landscape is that such a landscape may have stopped tetraethyl lead, at least for automobiles and house paints.

Whether or not this would have caught CFCs, I don't know.
"Factotum" and "Post Office" are both classics and basically on the subject of work.
Honestly? Not much

you can have a 500 person "startup"

or an 8 person "not startup"

also: "startup" != "small business" (and vice versa)

size has very little bearing on the relative "startup-iness" of a business
The "illegal" rule requires a lot of clarification. The interpretation here seems to be "It's against our policy to post about engaging in illegal activities", or maybe "it's against our policy to advocate illegal activities".

Services based in the US are not legally obligated to prevent users from writing about using cocaine, or pictures of white powders they're claiming are cocaine, or writing that it's desirable to use cocaine, so the post itself is not illegal. Real policies for content moderators should be much more detailed than what's in this game so that most moderators will reach the same conclusions about whether a post violates the policy.
On that note, can anyone speak to how Anthropic (or other models) are doing on catching up to OpenAI for pure model intelligence/quality of completions? Are any others approaching GPT-4? I've only used GPT-based tools so I have no idea.
Well, then you don't think the opposite. JS is a bad OOP or functional language, but a good prototype-based language. Bad thing that no one wants such language.
> I'm not sure why they're even using this because the docs state that the current DID stuff is all placeholders until they can find something better.

DID is there to stay, it's that the DID spec has a concept called "verification methods" https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#verification-methods. They are providing a verification method called "DID Placeholder (did:plc)", because none of the existing methods suited their goals. The idea is that if and when a better verification method appears, they can move to that, but that doesn't mean abandoning DIDs altogether.
Turning Your Handwriting into a Font Is Stupid Easy
What? You mean make news headlines useful?

* rapturous applause * if this works.
>There are many demands for energy which electricity is not meeting, such as heating our homes, manufacturing and transport.

Aka - the big ones.