skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My version of this is to have a kettlebell at my feet in my office. I'll naturally bump into it a couple times a day usually, and I go "oh why not" and pick it up and do a couple quick exercises with it.

Another way to do things that have high activation energy is to have pets you love that will get excited at a specific time of day and be very disappointed if you don't follow through with it (take them on a walk). I've gone many times when I feel like I didn't have the energy just because they deserve it and I don't want to let them down.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/15/you-wont-believe-what-gets-a...

expletives naturally, but also champagne ended up being a naughty word for us as well
Actually, CRT monitors did "subpixel rendering" automatically when the beams hit the subpixels only partially. So using this technique on LCDs is just trying to emulate a feature that CRTs have built in.
If you're already looking at Next.js + Tailwind but unsure about what to use for the DB, I'd recommend checking out the T3 stack [1].

It uses tRPC [2] for type-safe API calls and Prisma [3] for your DB. There's lots of content out there teaching how to use this stack to build sophisticated apps (e.g. this in-depth tutorial teaching how to build a social media app [4]).

Disclaimer: I work at Prisma and am also a huge fan of type-safety, so T3 is basically my dream stack.

[1] https://create.t3.gg/

[2] https://trpc.io/

[3] https://www.prisma.io/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqVm5_G1ZEE&ab_channel=WebDe...
Caffeine pills it's a bit easy to unconciously take too much and get all jittery, and it's not really spread out enough.

Optimal consumption of caffeine seems to be a decent-sized initial intake, then smaller doses over time to maintain (eg take a few more sips). There's no good way to do that with pills.
I don't only share the posts I write. Whenever I find something interesting I share it :)
I have to appreciate the intelligence of top notch CS school students. I once took the equivalent class in CMU and couldn't even complete the first assignment. Forgot which one but the last problem is too hard for me.

Then I realized I better just study whatever I'm interested in and go back to algo if needed.
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Trying to build that moat by the looks of it.
I get the feeling this is just a glimpse into how fucked up everything to do with the legacy telephone network actually is now.
How can I use StarCoder as a developer using vim or Visual Studio Code?
And for good reasons! The SEC levied more than a billion in fines over text messages on non official media without even having to prove that those texts where eg insider trading,

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-174

They did this entirely on the basis that banks should have known that everything needs to be archived and monitored.
If you have the name you can start searching for things that has it right away.
Mrs. Davis is more than whimsical. I'm starting to think that maybe the AI isn't an AI, but an intervention by a deity pretending to be an AI. It would explain why the same quest is given to Sister Simone from Mrs Davis and her god. It also explains why some users are given "wings" to recognise their service to the A.I.
You seem to be concerned with which god or with the character of God. Those are important concerns that you should spend some time contemplating. Good luck.
It's also logical to exit the business even if it isn't harmful due to litigation risk and perception.

All of that business will be taken up by other manufacturers in APEC and in aggregate the world will be unhealthier due to less regulation.
Crypto Had Its Bank Runs Too
Perhaps related, in software development there is the idea of the "Marimba Phenomenon" as first described in the Joel on Software blog [1], where the author observes that: "PR grows faster than the quality of your code. Result: everybody checks out your code, and it’s not good yet. These people will be permanently convinced that your code is simple and inadequate, even if you improve it drastically later. I call this the Marimba phenomenon."

So, in the arguably creative work of creating new software, you are allowed to ship mediocre software at the start, but you do risk making a bad first impression that may be difficult to recover from.

But on the other hand, if you never ship the software product, your software can become outdated by the time you eventually release it, or you can put it off indefinitely and miss out on growth as a developer. So, there can definitely be a balance between releasing a product too early and making a poor first impression, and waiting excessively to polish a product, to the point where the software becomes no longer relevant or outdated.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/06/03/fixing-venture-cap...
At some point Sam has started give me E. Holmes vibes and I really don't like it. There's a level of odd/ridiculous/hilarious/stupid AI hype that he feels so comfortable leaning into that part of me starts to begin to suspect that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
Yes.

Musk is just a posterchild for the ideology he has embraced --- the idea that real world problems have easy, simple minded solutions.

Boldly declaring yourself a "free speech absolutist" is simple and appeals to a lot of people --- unfortunately, it is also naive and a poor fit for the complex reality of social media --- as Musk himself has just proven.
Not on company time - that's the point. In this example, you can look at eg who arrives together or leaves together, then perhaps restrict that to times which are out of the norm, and correlate with when and how often they message each other as well. And that's a fairly straightforward one.
... you really consider that all these things are accessible?
That is a self-deluded argument, but it isn’t the one I made. It’s the one you saw in the one I made, which reflects more on you than me.

Whether it’s valuable for you to comment on anything or participate in any discussion at all is something I’ll do you the curtesy of leaving you to decide.
Please don't use your naivety as a shield from recognizing a purposeful "gap" in implementation, across all social media we consume in the US (as well as technological devices), as dictated by the US government.
So it sounds like the fix is available with an update. What more do you want?
OK, let's call it efficient market pressure in my original post, then.
I have no idea why you are taking about coffee.

You said

> Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy

That's straight up false, for Northern Europe anyway.
The issue with lambda is that they're always booked out in my experience.
Also still extremely hard to use due to basic they are, e.g. there is no "with"-er method or syntax yet to modify existing values.
Better version (I assume):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fd769003bc8aa581edf7a608a72a0912b7c95b4d
I only work on open source code that I either am getting paid for or that I have gotten paid for in the past, I genericized and gone through my employer’s very straightforward open source process.

By default the license we use is MIT. If I ever did for some reason choose to open source my own work, it would be a similar license.

I don’t like the idea of claiming something is “open” and then placing restrictions on it.
Is an AI assistant important for most people? I have used Siri maybe once or twice, and have disabled it on all my Apple devices since.
Taxi driver medallions are one of the most classic examples of regulatory capture.
Why do you use "penultimate" here? (It means "second-to-last")
If you are a 'Shakespeare scholar' your entire career revolves around him and his works. It doesn't surprise me that there would be pushback.
https://archive.ph/nLDhG
Even if you're correct about the capabilities of LLMs (I don't think you are), there are still obvious dangers here.

I wrote a comment recently trying to explain how even if you believe all LLMs can (and will ever) do is regurgitate their training data that you should still be concerned.

For example, imagine in 5 years we have GPT-7, and you ask GPT-7 to solve humanity's great problems.

From its training data GPT-7 might notice that humans believe overpopulation is a serious issue facing humanity.

But its "aligned" so might understand from its training data that killing people is wrong so instead it uses its training data to seek other ways to reduce human populations without extermination.

Its training data included information about how gene drives were used by humans to reduce mosquito populations by causing infertility. Many human have also suggested (and tried) to use birth control to reduce human populations via infertility so the ethical implications of using gene drives to cause infertility is debatable based on the data the LLM was trained on.

Using this information it decides to hack into a biolab using hacking techniques it learnt from its training data and use its biochemistry knowledge to make slight alterations to one of the active research projects at the lab. This causes the lab to unknowingly produce a highly contagious bioweapon which causes infertility.

---

The point here is that even if we just assume LLMs are only capable of producing output which approximates stuff it learnt from its training data, an advanced LLM can still be dangerous.

And in this example, I'm assuming no malicious actors and an aligned AI. If you're willing to assume there might be an actor out there would seek to use LLMs for malicious reasons or the AI is not well aligned then the risk becomes even clearer.
About 30% of pharmaceuticals being developed are PFAS, so the value for medicine is already quite understood.
This is regulatory capture. Lycos and AltaVista are trying to preemptively outlaw Google.

Canceling my OpenAI account today and I urge you to do the same.

What they are really afraid of is open source models. As near as I can tell the leading edge there is only a year or two behind OpenAI. Given some time and efforts at pruning and optimization you’ll have GPT-4 equivalents you can just download and run on a high end laptop or gaming PC.

No everyone is not going to run the model themselves, but what this means is that there will be tons of competition including apps and numerous specialized SaaS offerings. None of them will have to pay royalties or API fees to OpenAI.

Edit: a while back I started being a data pack-rat for AI stuff including open source code and usable open models. I encourage anyone with a big disk or NAS to do the same. There's a small but non-zero possibility that an attempt will be made to pull this stuff off the net in the near future.
“Never.”
This is a perfect example (finally) of why even white collar workers need unions. Yes, even you in finance. Yes, even you in software engineering. It’s not just about pay!
On one hand, the engineer/data scientist in me thinks more data is good.

On the other hand, having managed teams, this seems like major compensation for lack of performance measurement and goal setting.

The reality is probably that from a large white-collar corporations perspective employees are viewed more as factory workers, simply expendable warm bodies designed to fill a seat, rather than dynamic knowledge workers.

At some point, these types of jobs will simply be automated away.
> The research included vintage cars up to 70 years old to see if their less aerodynamic shape meant they killed more bugs, but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-spla...
You’re assuming linearity and arguing that all things are equal. I would be surprised if either of those things are true.
Security audit of our leta.mullvad.net search service
> Monitoring of screen activity, keystrokes, email/messaging communications, personal email/accounts via mitm, webcam, etc was done by my last employer

Honestly, why would one go anywhere near one's personal email account - or indeed one's personal anything - from any device owned or controlled by someone else, barring a complete emergency?
Well given that a fair bit of the Netherlands was made this way, I would think it's not impossible to make it usable land.
I agree. Even just a bunch of RTX 3060s go a long way[1]. Also, in the case of my startup we can use our local storage vs uploading dozens of terabytes of data to the cloud and deal with data privacy issues.

[1] https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/16/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
Crypto had more direct ways to scam people so others would speak against it.

Those nonplussed by this wave of AI are just yawning.
Why is tuberculosis, a curable disease, still allowed to kill millions?
Gpt4 is 1% of the brain’s param count, which means we’re basically already there. It’s exponential growth!
There's a huge market for Real Housewives style 'reality' TV...
This nuance will never reach public consciousness. Decisions will be made that are a net negative for global health, as the west will scare manufacturing of such materials to unregulated markets.
Most code that survives 5 years survived for all the wrong reasons. That said, most code that's survived five years is often a profitable product with a reasonable human at the helm telling us needs to not to touch it
At this point, I wonder if they should simply have picked a more memorable name. Yes its clever, but even I regularly forget its name. Never happens with Cassandra.
> The real problem here is that the number of crimes you can commit with LLMs is much higher then the number of good things you can do with it

Yeah? Did you get a crystal ball for Christmas to be able to predict what can and can't be done with a new technology?
This map (from 2015) shows sites with the most TCE groundwater contamination. Bay Area is actually quite clean. LA is completely fucked though

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2018-tce/
There are two other issues with this...

1. The authors only studied two military camps. One with high TCE levels, and one with low TCE levels. But, obviously, there might be any number of other factors that are different between the two camps with a causal relationship to Parkinson's Disease.

2. There is an active class action lawsuit from this military camp. Doing a limited study that benefits one side of a class action lawsuit should always be taken with some extra skepticism and evaluated for conflicts of interest.
Why is this website hosted in Russia (given current geopolitics), and why does this website have a certificate issued by ca.cypherpunks.ru instead of say Let's Encrypt?
Java has been around for a longish time. Around the early 2000's there was at least a perception that you should avoid creating too many objects as that carried performance overhead for construction and garbage collection.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1495...

Immutable objects often require you to construct a new object to store an updated value and garbage collect the now unused previous object. So a lot of early Java code was written with mutable objects to avoid performance issues.

The Java Bean spec was written in 1997:

https://blog.joda.org/2014/11/the-javabeans-specification.ht...
I would go even farther, that the show is intended to go against it.
I get the random insertion of AI-generated "Russian man" shouting hyper-conservative/far-right propaganda. I always leave a comment stating it is propaganda, and flag for removal.

I see you government, trying to infiltrate my wholesome FYP of booktok, math, and physics.
I asked LLAMABOT and it said because llama (LLaMa) is a general term for LLMs.

Confusing!

By the way I think this is the “bear blog guy” who made it, cool to see him creating new stuff.

Edit: oh yeah just read the OP it is indeed Herman.
Yes sometimes it’s hard to measure a derivative. Eg when doing hyperparameter tuning in ML, you can read out a metric at a given choice of parameters, but it’s generally not easy to get a gradient.

Shameless plug: I happen to have recently written a package for the opposite limit! It finds roots when you can only measure the derivative.

https://github.com/EFavDB/inchwormrf
Thank God for Georgie Gerganov, who doesn't get showered with vc funds for his GGML library.
Maybe not yet. All just a change of their terms away. Oh you don't like it? We will give you 2 weeks to migrate. Perhaps you want this other more expensive subscription?

Just like with other code they should not be using as they do, they would probably run another "ask questions later" approach.
The CEO behind ChatGPT is testifying. Here’s what to expect
Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
And pay your rent or mortgage with what? I’m all for people having power, but the reality is that without a safety net of savings or the welfare of family, friends, or government this is a difficult strategy.
> Nonsense.

Give the politicians time: I predict a day will come where you will need a permit to use a compiler and connect the result to the internet.
I wish more mid career devs understood this. All those PR review battles over commas in comments are mostly wastes of time. Entropy comes, it's one of the few guarantees we have. Your legacy will not be the software you wrote, but the impact that software had.
I’m open minded about this, I see people more knowledgeable than me on both sides of the argument. Can someone explain how Geoffrey Hinton can be considered to be clueless?
All of the above. Some functions might not have derivatives in some places (where the function is discontinuous), the derivatives can be very difficult or impossible to calculate even if they exist.
Voxel Space Engine: Comanche Terrain Rendering [video]
Most employees, most of the time ...

In the old times people used their work email for everything - browse the ashleymadison leak from way back and you will likely find people registered using their @jpmorgan work email.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-bankers-used-their-w...
Sci-fi is a hell of a drug
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I would say yes few would agree but fortunately HN is still not filled with late stage capitalist idiots.
It is literally a language calculator. It is useful for a lot more things than crimes.
>Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it.

Are you aware that you are an 80 billion neuron biological neural network?
iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
Seems like one of the benefits you get with a state is to regulate powerful technologies. Is this not commonly agreed upon?
Ask HN: Have You Deleted LinkedIn?
It seems to me no longer to be useful. Except for posturing, virtue signaling and self promotion.

The jobs posted on LinkedIn also seem to remain for months or years, applying to them almost never yields a response. Probably for data farming and cherry picking.

The only thing keeping me there is the contacts list/recommendations (but with whom I never communicate).

Note this observation is one I've made probably since 2020 at least.

Is there any point in having LinkedIn in 2023? Has it peaked - it seems to have crossed that line of saturation/utility.

Any good reasons not to delete it?
He's pulling up that ladder as fast as he can....probably sawing it in half to knock the few people clinging to it back to 'go be poor somewhere elseland'
If I remember right, the phase-out happened in the 1990s, just when a lot of manufacturing was leaving the U.S.

A few years back I found an internet search for “United States TCE” would turn up articles about Camp Jejune. A search for “China TCE” would turn up a picture of a truck with a bunch of barrels and an offer to buy it on Alibaba.
> Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc.

You say it like it's a good thing.
I see most people here use apps for that. I think the crucial part of it is doing it with pen and paper. For me the biggest perks come from slowing down and taking a break from technology. Your computer or your phone are distraction machines.

I just use journaling as a way to converse with my brain, complain about what's difficult and remind myself what's important to me. Sometimes I analyze things that happened or will happen.

Helps when I'm overwhelmed.
Could be a sign the thing knows how to break work into multiple pieces. If it wasn’t just 1-pass and you give it a couple turns to document / test / deliver, it definitely can fill in placeholders from the initial generative step when it does refinement. Language chains, not instant zero shot perfection
Of course this was coming... if you can't beat them, suppress them... shame on OpenAI and it's CEO.
The problem with this study is even more profound.

They only looked at two military bases. One with high TCE, and one with low TCE.

...but there could be thousands of causal differences between two locations. They should have looked at dozens of military bases across the country/world.
Highlights blog: https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/
Glad to see other students of Akkadian here!

Yeah, I had a little bit of luck with phonetic transcription - producing standard readings from the closely transcribed cuneiform. But mostly no. And it failed at translation with anything beyond the simplest two / three word phrases. Although the fact that it can do even that, sort of, is impressive, given that Akkadian -> English was certainly not something ChatGPT was optimized for.
> personal email/accounts via mitm

This one is the most out there for me. How common is that?
Pendleton seems to be a reasonable control, since the reported prevalence of 0.21% in patients under 60 matches other large data sets like the UK (0.25%).

https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-01/Pr...
Maybe the “good” people are not valued by the companies as much as you think. Companies do stupid stuff all the time.
Shout out to his family.
I have at least three different kinds of journals:

1. Workout journal - I write down want I did and what was the effect. Often trends physical trends emerge after weeks, months, or years.

2. Summary of the day journal - Whenever I can, I write a short summary of the day/week. I look back to help my memory.

3. Problem journal - If I have a specific, important problem, I dump everything into a single spot. It reduces rumination, slows down my thought process, provides perspective by seeing it externally, and often solutions organically emerge.
I assume backprop is still most efficient for the neural net itself, rather than one of these algorithms? I am doing a course and I am aware that there are other algorithms than gradient descent but haven’t seen the details yet on that.

I know things like cross entropy loss are designed to be easy to differentiate and probably more efficient to do that than something that approximates it.
I think tidal canals would be the better option than pipelines. Dig channels deep and wide enough that the water of the seas actually mingle, letting dissolved salts spread out into the wider ocean.
Note: I'm using "moral" more broadly than many. Many more people would likely view the above list as indicators of something akin to ineffectiveness, foolishness, imprecision, or misguidedness.
The author should look at how EDA (electronic design automation) tools are built. They have many of the same challenges but they also have a lot of solutions
You seems to imply sentience from this "ai".
Is that evidence of indoctrination or self selection? Or that faculty are significantly more educated? Or that the system has developed its own selection filters, perhaps some with good reason (and others not so good).
One step further: I never had an account in the first place. Potentially survivorship bias, but I’d never felt hampered in my career by not being there.
The ECB require it for banks in the EU. As does the PRA in the UK and the FRB in the US.