skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old Advocacy, New Algorithms: How “Devil's Advocates” Shaped AI Red Teaming
Can be made digitally by using a stepper motor wired as generator with a hand crank, then picking up the spikes which are proportional to the rotation speed and feed them to a ucontroller with some sound samples in memory arranged ad a rhythm, then play them according with the detected speed.

A simpler one could use the uC only to output MIDI clock data, then a start when the player starts cranking or reaches a certain minimum speed, and a stop when it stops or slows below a given lower limit.
Aren't you going to get rowing grease on that laundry?
You pretty much summed up the drawbacks of the embeddings approach. In my experience it's pretty hard to extract the relevant parts of text, especially when the text is uniform.
Here's the worst part:

When I spin up a new project I just buy everything new from digikey rather than deal with the hassle of picking out parts from the part pile.
>speed trumps all else

Then use GPT-2
You could do multi level summaries etc but yeah this is all just band aids around token limits.
I think it's possible to be invested in the performance and improvement of the company you work for without being personally invested in the exact product you're helping to develop.
For folks that are interested in learning more about bitwise operations, here is another article (slightly more nuanced) about XORs that you may enjoy reading:

All About XOR: https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/109/lewin_1915/
Plato here is often brought out as a counter example for why saying a technology will damage cognition is obviously wrong, but I don't think its that simple. Writing and the proliferation of knowledge is an obvious good, but I think plato is otherwise correct here. Societies without reading and writing seem to have people who are able to memorize much larger amounts of information, the early muslims memorized the koran at first, which is quite a feat, before writing it down. A more accurate view is that there are trade offs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35899527 got more traction.
Are you worried an obese person or addict will attack you?
“POC or GTFO” as the security people say. :-)
You can start from anything, they are similar. Factotum or Post Office...
One is enough.
Thanks for the clarification about what makes Zep unique. Very cool!
Sadly, no—this is based on a relatively distant observation of various tweets and other statements by and about Musk over the course of the past few years.
Free Information of the Third Kind
Is this because the fish are harvested/farmed and/or caught at younger ages, or is this because the adult size has decreased?
Starlink providing internet service everywhere on the planet is a positive side effect.

Drastically low cost of getting things to orbit is a more direct effect.

One hour weapon delivery has been around for decades - see ICBM
That just described how I feel about Typescript - created by Java programmers so that they can feel comfortable and not have to learn how to program in Javascript. I was a Java dev for a decade. It's so much more tedious and less fun than programming in Javascript. I get Java recruiting emails and I shudder.

I accept that in gigantic apps worked on by multiple teams, and libraries shared with 3rd parties, Typescript makes sense. But 90% of the time I see it used it's with a smallish node app or SPA worked on by a few people, and all Typescript does is slow things down.

I feel like I can count on one hand the number of times I've gotten burnt by a run-time JS bug that a compiler would have caught. I just don't see that as a strong use case for the overhead and development drag of TS. I only see sharing lib-ish code across teams as a net benefit of TS.

99% of the time when the TS IDE complains over something that a JS linter wouldn't have caught, it's just because something wasn't defined properly in TS, not because it's an actual error in the code.
Is it a solo project? The time savings of typing is really a function of project size and number of collaborators. For a small, solo project it’s either neutral or a negative.
Asked what the proper dough-weight for garlic knots:

Open AI: 2 ounces
Bard: 2 pounds

Not impressed with Bard at all.
Javascript is not going away anytime soon, probably. Personally, I'm waiting for React to die.
Caring just as often leads to burnout, since many people wind up dealing with organizational dysfunction. If you truly care and the resultant product gets butchered due to politics or simply killed on an executive's whim despite having promise, that's going to affect you longer term and could make you less efficient or unable to dedicate good effort in the future, especially if that cycle is repeated several times. Getting too invested in something that you only have marginal control over is a two edged sword.
And 8 of those Americans personally hold as much wealth as the 4 billion poorest people in the world, or 50% of the population.

If you're an American you're not especially wealthy or well off compared to the world average and adjusted for expenses. It's just rhetoric to make you feel embarrassed for wanting anything more than you have already received.
With the high summer temperatures (likely to rise further with climate change), I wonder why more people aren't fitting forced air heating/cooling. That would kill two birds with one stone. Even just a simple mini-split system.
Because that’s what the standards are specified as?
I'm 43 and probably slower in the sense that I'm slower at producing code.

I'm slower because I think more about the code I produce. I have a wider knowledge of the domain I work in, cross cutting concerns, and technical choices that I'm taking into account when producing code. So I arrive at a more-correct solution faster.

I would say the tradeoff is worth it, but of course I would because I'm not in my 20s. If faster while missing more security issues, performance problems, and corner cases is what you want, my 20 year old self is probably better.
The page has a 2023 last-edited on it, but the code snippet (if you follow the GH link) hasn't been touched in two years.

If their JS docs are anything like their Android docs, Google's terrible about updating examples.
Nothing is impressive after you are 30. No one is impressed by anything other than maybe having a 100 million+ startup. When you are in your 20s, you are impressive and "have so much potential". After 30 you are just some guy who hopefully isn't old and incompetent as far as perceptions go. Same applies outside of programming as well, though I guess when you are in the top 5% or so, people are still somewhat impressed, but the bar is completely different.
it will get worse due to social media. Humans being herd animals, if we feel like cheaters are prospering our us, we will also start cheating, which will essentially destroy trust in society and make it a third world country.
Generative processes in biology are complex and fascinating. A lot of modelling builds simpler models which can be analyzed but don't explicitly simulate the full process of growth and development (which would require extreme memory and CPU). There is an open question in the field about how closely models need to recapitulate the underlying biology to be useful (in terms of generalized predictive ability).

Some interesting reading on development and math modelling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction%E2%80%93diffusion_sys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-state_modeling_of_biomol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_formation

When I was growing up, and until not too much longer ago, I assumed it would be practical to build full molecular dynamic simulations with atomic or quantum details, simulating large systems like groups of cells. Now I appreciate that this would be a lot of work that could be better handled by a well-trained deep neural net whose model does not recapitulate the underlying mechanics.
Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
It was true during the elections. At no point during the elections did Telegram send a message to users favoring one candidate or another.
Yes, I also had a "1 disk failed, second disk failed during rebuild" event (like the parent, not your story) with mdadm & RAID 6 with no issues.

People seem to love ZFS but I had no issues running mdadm. I'm now running a ZFS pool and so far it's been more work (and things to learn), requires a lot more RAM, and the benefits are... escaping me.
Maybe also using the legs while the oar is perpendicular to the boat.
Caring about the product is not good for your career. You should care about your career, and most of the time, that means that progressing the product should be your goal.

However, when the interests of yourself and your company diverge, don't get stuck holding the bag.
He mentions he wants to make the same type of optimization for ARM, so ARM+x86 certainly wouldn't be niche.

I wouldn't even call x86 alone niche...
If I could pay the creators for what they make on YouTube, I would do so relatively cheerfully.

I have zero interest in giving money to a company that is actively trying to undermine everyone's privacy and security in the service of its own profit.
> But yeah, I have to imagine these effects are society-wide with varying strength for different sub-populations. This is consistent with various macro-scale observations like decreasing population-wide male fertility.

Right, what I’m saying is based on your hypothesis we should expect a population-wide boom in socialism. Based on how it tends to be at the intersection of multiple demographics (young people, more educated people, people who live in certain cities) I would expect that there’s not a significant environmentally-driven biological driver, unless there’s a specific environmental factor that exists primarily and only at the intersection of these demographics.

Like maybe you could say, MacBook pros specifically are causing socialism. Personally I don’t find this plausible but that would be an example of an environmental factor that largely affects urban young white collar workers :)
With the most common high-temperature hydronic heating, it's closer to 80% efficiency when running steady-state, and lower than that as the duty cycle decreases (if the system is oversized or for the 99% of the time you're not at the design temp). The remaining energy escapes as hot, uncondensed flue gases. Modulating/condensing boilers can get up to like 95% if you're running with ~100-120F water temperatures, but at that point you can also readily run with an air-to-water heat pump.
Use Prometheus or Influx for storing metrics, ELK or Opensearch or loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, and Jaeger for tracing.

You would need a team to configure this setup and make it right over time. It's worth the investment instead of paying a cloud market leader.
Not if they are terrible batteries in term of energy storage and cost. It's not objectively a good thing and I don't have to agree with you or this product to be not miserable.
It's mostly outdated now, thank goodness, but anyone born after 1990 should read it cover to cover to appreciate the current state of JS and why we got here. hasOwnProperty?? Lol

Looking at the book now, I still like some sections like "Curry" and "Memoization".
You're not the only one. I'm sure Typescript is nice / better, but I don't feel like having yet another bullshit language foisted on me. Also I dislike Microsoft.
> Working hours are 07:30-17:30

That's not a job my dudeperson, that's a gulag
Jamie Dimon warns panic will overtake markets as U.S. approaches debt default
That sounds sick, or dual folding screen, eink outside to make nice custom skin.
> Often if there’s high unemployment there’s a window to be the job maker.

How so? On the one hand, there's plenty of unemployed, desperate people, so you can probably get them as employeed for very cheap - but, on the other hand, people are in dire economical condition, so it's hard to sell them anything. I guess, producing stuff for the international market could work well though.
As an adult second-language learner, my advice is not to even bother learning a second language unless you have to, or would love to. You can get proficient quickly, but much of the language's beauty will lie in the subtleties which will take decades of effort to learn.

And there's the accent, which you'll never lose.

The best time to learn a language is between 0 and 10 y.o.
Ask HN: How does Claude's quality compare with GPT-4?
Are there any good comparisons of the two? The 100K context window of Claude will have me switching from GPT-4, if the quality is on par.
> The expected speedup is around 100x, or 1000x for numerical stuff or allocation-heavy work that can be done statically. Whenever you get 10,000x or above, it's because you've written a better algorithm.

Anecdotally I recently rewrote a piece of Python code in Rust and got ~300x speedup, but let's be conservative and give it 100x. Now let's extrapolate from that. In native code you can use SIMD, and that can give you a 10x speedup, so now we're at 1000x. In native code you can also easily use multiple threads, so assuming a machine with a reasonably high number of cores, let's say 32 of them (because that's what I had for the last 4 years), we're now at 32000x speedup. So to me those are very realistic numbers, but of course assuming the problem you're solving can be sped up with SIMD and multiple threads, which is not always the case. So you're probably mostly right.
I don’t know how you’re using it but it seems to step up its game if you challenge it more. You can also ask it to refrain from dumbing things down.

Copilot wasn’t useful for me because I want a back and forth conversation to straighten out concepts. With Copilot you don’t get that and it just sprays out little messes of code.

I use GPT4 like a rubber duck in the sense of “rubber duck debugging” and it can be surprisingly supple and creative in its solutions… many bad ones, but again, push back on those and you get to good ones.
Inactive Account Policy
It should also be noted that the French government went out of its way to gut the nuclear ecosystem for electoral reasons (F. Hollande hoping to get the Green vote some 15 years ago). Only recently did they realize that we don't have nearly enough renewables and that, yes, if you don't maintain your plants, they do tend to degrade rather quickly. And presenting the sector as a dead-end, of course they're now missing qualified people to do the maintenace and the design of new plants.

This is in additation to the weird scheme forcing EDF to sell cheap energy to their competitors.
Your first and second paragraphs are better arguments for subscriptions over one-time payment than they are for the existence of high profit margins despite software's cheapnes.

3rd paragraph. I'm not arguing against profits just, overly high ones in the face of cheap 'raw materials'.

4th and 5th. Questioning high profit margins in businesses (didn't realize eggs too had high margins tbh) and wondering if profits should be capped seem like obviously related things.

Solutions? In the case of SaaS:

— Product pricing starting high, but declining over time (yes, literally making laws that new software MUST be absurdly expensive at first).

Would mean:

(i) Fewer 100th x competitor software product since it's hard convincing people to part with say $100, you need to actually have a 10x solution.

(ii) Increased organic word of mouth growth, since users have an incentive (declining pricing) to increase total users.
now that I think about it

is it that important to open source models that can only run on hardware worth tens of thousand of dollars?

who does that benefit besides their competitors and nefarious actors?

I've been trying to run one of the largest models for a while, unless 30,000$ falls in my hand I'll probably never be able to run the current SOTA
No human or group of humans can have enough certainty about the future to make decisions for it now. Effectively it is such a ludicrous task to predict the future that it is akin to saying god told you so, rendering this belief system just as irrational as any other religion that tries to weigh in on matters on certainty
Seems correct.
All white people aren't upper middle class coastal people. There are also additionally upper middle class coastal people that are black and middle eastern and like upbeat tech videos. Begone with your racism.
Yes they do. It's literally where the observation came from.
Anthropic is basically Google's openAI.
If you are having the energy to still be productive after work, why aren't you capitalizing on that with something you completely own?

You will not have that levels of energy forever.
> or marketing copy

I don't think marketing copy deserves to be grouped with 'boilerplate' and 'canned responses'.

It takes a lot of brain power to create marketing copy that isn't boilerplate / canned / generic.

Good marketing copy persuades people to take a specific action, and figuring out what this takes just as much critical thinking, iteration, and getting your reps in as any other compelling content.

Which is why most marketing copy feels bland / generic / boilerplate / canned.

It's not easy.
We've had a lot of conversations about discoverability, and at least early on it's not something we're prioritizing (outside of the occasional feature of creators on our landing page or something). We're still considering options.

Starlo would be a great fit for a creator with an existing audience, or for someone working to build an audience outside of a social network, but we still think there's a lot of value in terms of discoverability on existing platforms.

Users could approach it how they'd like, but I personally would consider Starlo my "home" and social platforms my "outreach". If TikTok is banned, or Twitter is unstable, Starlo (like any sort of blog platform) is a stable home for your content long term.
Is this a problem a lot of people have, the slimy mushroom thing? I don't do anything special or careful at all with mushrooms; I rinse them off, maybe halfheatedly salad-spin them, chop them up and put them in a hot pan with some fat. I've never had a slimy one.
Writing is a form of thinking.

It only takes one or two manic episodes to realize that they're not always super correlated.
Well, the point is probably lost somewhere between the author's sarcasm and excessive hate for Microsoft, but the point is there.

He claims open source is better because it taps into the wider resources of the community to solve problems that a single company may not have the capacity to solve. - he doesn't say it in these words, but if you filter out all the hate and irony (which I very much enjoyed and endorse :P) that's the residue

I agree with the point, it is not always so black+white, but in general this tends to be the case.
> Use tools, of course

"Tools are the subtlest of traps. We become reliant upon them and in their absence we are vulnerable, weak, defenseless..."
I don't perceive broccoli as self-similar at any scale (maybe I'm missing something), but romanesco, for sure. I see at least 3 levels of self-similarity.
I've been programming since 1968. I'm still pretty good, just not as fast. I feel that I was at my best in my late 40s. My decline from that was very slow.
I agree. Tax rates are a bit of a moot point when money printer go brrr.
I have heard pulling your weight can also mean your butt lifting slightly off the seat on the drive. I'm not sure which is the case.

I imagine the etymology is similar to "way enough" or is it "weigh enough"? Which could have roots in "make way" or "drop the anchor". At this point no one seems to know.
I don't see how that paper illustrates that Bolstrom is a "James Bond Villian"... I also don't think that is a very constructive or productive way to criticize longtermists beliefs or arguments. I would much rather under the specific issues you have as I don't feel like I understand your position very well.

> nitpicks percentage probabilities of environmental catastrophe (and the downstream effects of those catastrophes) in order to distinguish them from the real threats, which are characterized in part by Bostrom's assigned percentage probability ranges to such things as nanotechnological breakthroughs, neurotechnical rewiring of brains,

I don't see much discussion, let alone nitpicking of those probabilities, nor do I seem any assignment of probability ranges in that paper.

The closest I can find is where he discounts the predicted reduction of GPD due to global warming by comparing it to the last century of global GDP growth on page 13. To me this does seem a bit myopic as the potential for secondary effects, like an uptick in regional conflicts or the disruptive effects of mass migration seem extremely hard to predictively model and discount.

The only place where I see Bostrom make probabalistic claims is where he talks about how the chances of a plateaued or recurrent collapse scenario seem to decrease as the time scale increases which the chances of a posthuman or extinction scenario increase. While we can't ascribe specific or even vague probabilities to these scenarios with any degree of accuracy for any timeframe, the overall statement about how these probabilities change as the timescale increases seems very reasonable. If this is what you disagree with, I'd be very curious to understand your reasoning.
Extremely well-executed all in all. I like it.
> In addition to this, make sure when you cook, that you start your mushrooms dry. This isn't a vitamin D thing, but most people cook their mushrooms wrong. They have a lot of water in them to begin with. Start dry, then when you add things they will soak up surrounding flavors and have a better texture (people's main concern), being more meaty than spongy/slimy.

This is how they do it in Chinese soups, but honestly I haven't personally seen other cultures use dried mushrooms.
> (e.g., Null character (�) a black diamond with white question mark in the middle).

The description in the linked article is wrong, that's not a null character (U+0000) or ASCII's NUL. That black diamond symbol is U+FFFD the Unicode Replacement Character, it means "Something went wrong, so instead here is this symbol". For example if your decoder algorithm gets some gibberish and you can't or won't accept errors in decoding, a correctly designed decoder should produce U+FFFD each time, this is what Rust's String::from_utf8_lossy and String::from_utf16_lossy are doing.

U+FFFD was carefully chosen because it's not anything. It's not a letter, or a digit, it's not some ASCII control character, it's not a separator in any known writing system or protocol, it has no defined pre-existing purpose, which means if bad guys can trick your bad software into injecting U+FFFD into some data, chances are they achieved nothing of value.
In the case of compressed air, actual work is being done to make it... compressed air.

With water, it is still very very cheap relative to the value it provides. Why isn't water 20% of the GDP of the world? Isn't it that important? (https://alexdanco.com/2015/11/23/ways-to-think-about-water/, never read this essay btw, read several of Alex's other essays though. I'm assuming the essay talks about the importance of water)
Well, it’s sort of redundant. According to [1], the raw bit error rate of the flash memory inside today’s SSDs is already in the 0.1%-1% range. And so the controllers inside the SSDs already do forward error correction, more efficiently than the host CPU could do it since they have dedicated hardware for it. Adding another layer of error correction at the filesystem level could help with some of the remaining failure modes, but you would still have to worry about RAM bitflips after the data has already been read into RAM and validated.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9251942
Claude is available for free in the Poe app (poe.com). I think it's good and underappreciated.