skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying attention to the design paradigms is truly the interesting aspect. The way you write code in a language isn't fixed or proscribed. You see evolution of languages/frameworks, influence between them, repeats of what one tech has tried and failed (sometimes the new tech tries again and succeeds). The great thing is you can take those learnings back to the language you're using! If you mess around with some Angular or RxJS front-end stuff, you can take that style to the back-end if you want. If you've seen benefit from strong typing on the back-end, you can add TypeScript to a front-end project. Rust and Kotlin have even influenced Java core libraries for the better.

By paying attention to the designs it's easier to figure out what's marketing-driven hype as well. For example, do I really need to jump onto the next serverless platform, or are they just repackaging and upselling AWS Compute resources? Can I accomplish the same thing as the latest edge computing platform by using service workers and a free CDN? Is Firebase Hosting basically a second interface for GCP Cloud Run?
Piloting is weird. I have a few in the family.

Starting out, doing chartering and tiny regional runs, pilots make terrible money. Like, less than some fast food places. This may have changed recently with the shortage, admittedly, I haven't kept up.

Believe it or not, many pilot instructors also make surprisingly little money.

Apparently, it's one of those careers where you grind with hopes of getting called up to the big guys - the big airlines or delivery companies.

There are ebbs and flows in that. Sometimes there's too many pilots, and you get stuck down. I think we're in a shortage now, which is good for them.
Yeah, ok. Thought that might be it. Guessing it's similar then to some of the later Foundation novels. I have a thick skin though, so will probably still read them.
> > [...] people will pick the right tool for the right job

> No, they don't.

I'm in strong agreement. People pick the option that has a good story associated with it. Having a good story protects you in the event of a failure. And it protects your non-technical boss (or your boss' non-technical boss if your boss is technical).

I assert the following:

Scenario A: I have a literal mathematical proof that erlang is the best choice. I implement the solution, but due to the market changing (or an earthquake or ninjas literally destroy the server room) the overall project fails.

* Me: But, I had math proving everything out. Ultimate Boss: I don't believe in math, you're fired.

* Boss: Well, it failed, but look at this incomprehensible math that I don't understand. Ultimate Boss: You've obviously been hoodwinked, you're fired.

Scenario B: I have a really good story that includes phrases like: "best practices" and "industry standard", and is doing exactly the same thing as everyone else. The project fails because the tool isn't great.

* Me: It failed, but here's a good story. Ultimate Boss: Well, it looks exactly like everything else, so I'll look for a different nail that's standing out from the crowd to blame for this so that the muggles don't get nervous about taking non-chances in the future.

* Boss: Here's this great story that I totally understand and can embellish upon because it operates on storytelling and not category theory. Ultimate Boss: That's a really good story. I'll have to steal it myself to give to the board to handle some unrelated problems of my own. Better luck next time.

Even the scenario of master craftsman using erlang because it's the right tool for the job is more about a story about an uber expert who is off doing wizard stuff than it is about an actual merited set of reasoning.
The influence of random seeds in deep learning architectures for computer vision
Yes, but if I had murdered them at the start or even tried, maybe people would say, "Hey, this is murder and it's bad." Now I've got the force of law and authority on my side. You either allow me to do murders or you're the one causing problems. It may be quite a bit harder to change things and there will be irreparable damage before we do.
chattr +C does not disable snapshots. It switches the writes from CoW-everything to CoW-only-after-snapshot. Snapshots work just fine, with only the first write (per extent) after a snapshot paying the CoW cost.
For a less dramatic strategy with LLMs that expose the tokenizer vocabulary, you can use context-free grammars to constrain the logits according to the parser so that the LLMs only generate valid next tokens for the language.[0]

[0]https://github.com/r2d4/parserllm
I like the OP or mods correcting the use of apostrophes in the title for the HN audience.
A kvm isn’t too difficult to set up and could give you the protection of separating the hardware for your personal and work life
Info about your lan devices,etc... shows up and not just the company but several 3rd parties get your external IP associated with your work account and those same vendors see your IP from personal devices/clients.

Most people are too screwed anyways, they would sync their personal google account on a work machine even lol.
The greenhouse coefficient of water vapour is, pound-for-pound, about one hundredth that of CO2.

There's also no meaningful amount of water that can be sequestered, given there's about 10^18 tonnes of it in the world's oceans.
It isn't surprising to the least, and given how little humanity knows about quasi-human level intelligence, I would suggest taking any hard claims about limitations of LLMs with a grain of salt.

> Progress is increasingly driven by trying things and seeing what works rather than a theory-first approach, and whenever this occurs, a lot of mysticism tends to accompany the process.

This sounds wrong. It sounds as if you're arguing that empiricism and the usual scientific method ends up in mysticism. If it does, maybe the things we're creating should command that respect from us, as much as all other natural phenomena that we don't understand.

The traditional idea that many CS experts popularized that computers are just applied maths and you could infer anything on a computer with pure thought is wrong IMHO.
Should enable once you add valid info — if not, let me know
Telly will give you a free TV if you'll watch non-stop ads
The professor clearly does not understand how LLMs work and his approach to catching cheats is flawed. The students should loudly complain about such an unscientific approach with unknown false-positive and false-negative rates. Cheating is a problem but relying on ChatGPT's own assessment is only warranted if proven accurate. In the absence of such a proof the Prof is full of sh*t.
"Sourdough" is a spectrum of breads resulting from various natural and/or long fermentation techniques. Ciabatta is usually made from a partially natural fermentation (biga or poolish) and baguette made this way is also popular.
They should really consider changing their company name at this point
Here’s a declarative sourdough ”recipe” generator: https://breadfriend.com
Check out his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thebreadcode
I've been watching his videos for years now, he genuinely cares about his subject, and doesn't compromise for views. He's an engineer at heart, admits when he's wrong and updates and shares his knowledge. Thanks Hendrik!
I have recently been using threejs (as in React-three-fiber). In the process I found myself wondering why I have been using html/css/react all this time. And if you think that is a dumb thought, let me tell you I do too. But it just won't go away.

I do understand the useFrame() issue, but still ...
I've long been interested in writing a book called something like "Manifestation for Rational People"

I think there's a lot of benefit in practice of some woo-woo things.

I love finding things that shouldn't help in theory, but are gamechangers in practice.

One big one is not overthinking things. Smart people are exceptionally good at over-justifying, over-explaining, over-rationalizing. Especially to themselves! If you want to do something and it isn't going to harm someone else, you don't need to over-justify it to yourself or others, you can just do it.

Another would be certain therapy systems like Internal Family Systems that involve treating yourself as a set of parts. Imagine visualizing the different voices in your head or your subconscious like they're your own children, and then help them like a great parent would help a toddler.
For further reading on aquifers I highly recommend https://www.edwardsaquifer.net

It's run by a scientist in Texas and has an amazing wealth of information on the aquifers of Texas. I never thought I would find a subject like this interesting until I read this guy's site.

Texas has been managing aquifers for a long time, there's a rich history behind their management, and reading about this stuff has been the only way I've found to make geology interesting. Many of the lessons learned and policies employed in Texas likely would be very useful in California.
Still unavailable here in Switzerland.
No joke, I lost mine in the woods, and it was inside of a faraday bag. I went to my cell phone company, got a new phone and a new sim that same day. I also went to Google and did an erase of the Pixel.

The next day, I went back to the woods and found my Pixel, still inside the faraday bag. The erase order hadn't gotten to the phone. It still hasn't. That's right: to this day, I've kept the phone in that bag, waiting and praying for some way to reverse the wipe command I gave to Google. One day, Google will enable me to reverse that wipe order, I have faith.
Have you seen the semantical aspects of that syntax?
"economic equalilant"

In this situation your bank account is dead.
The data says it comes from public water systems. The EPA requires testing and reporting of water supplies for lots of things.

That being said, if you run your own private well, you’re not subject to this.
It does look like it makes easier to code against a model. But, is this supposed to work along side lang-chain or hugging face agents or as an alternative to?
> The average electric car will need a new battery by then

No it won't. Some will, but most won't. EV's have been around long enough to have longevity data, and a 200,000 mile batteries are averaging well over 80% capacity. (Unless you have a Leaf).
> But in 1963, when I was invited to evaluate the work of Alan Newell and Herbert Simon on physical symbol systems, I found to my
surprise that, far from replacing philosophy, these pioneering researchers had learned
a lot, directly and indirectly, from us philosophers: e.g., Hobbes’ claim that reasoning
was calculating, Descartes’ mental representations, Leibniz’s idea of a ‘universal
characteristic’ (a set of primitives in which all knowledge could be expressed), Kant’s
claim that concepts were rules, Frege’s formalization of such rules, and Wittgenstein’s
postulation of logical atoms in his Tractatus. In short, without realizing it, AI
researchers were hard at work turning rationalist philosophy into a research program.

- Dreyfus, H. L. (2007). Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian.
>Come on! You don't get to the place he got to by accident.

You can literally become president of the US by accident these days. SBF self-reported to a random journalist one day after all hell broke lose with messages so incriminating the reporter had to confirm that it was a real conversation.

Half of the American elite class voluntarily sat on the board of a bogus company just because the woman running it was attractive and wore black turtlenecks. The sad reality is that these people aren't ruthless operators, they're just marginally less clueless than the people who got them into their positions
Yeah but it's a rule of programming laziness and hubris as outlined by ESR and Larry Wall, that you don't need to keep inventing tools that already exist. There's better things to programme. This dev isn't going to build a better Ableton on his own, and this site now simply lists all the reasons he can't, not problems to solve on his own. It will take magnitudes more than $500 of his time to replicate anything close to Ableton's functionality. I wasn't being toxic at all, just pragmatic. Pragmatism is part of knowing when to programme, and when not to.
> They can’t realistically think this will stop ai research in other countries like China.

China dont even need research to caught up to AI.com - they'll just steal their work. LLM and GPUs that needed for training is not ASML machinery. It can be easily copied and reproduced.
https://apnews.com/article/china-fighter-jets-harassment-tai...

> China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defense ministry said Friday, in the biggest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in April.

I'll buy that Chinese in China have that view, but flying 38 fighters near Taiwanese airspace is China actually using force.

At the same time, I do see China's larger gripe. Between Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, The Philippines, and Singapore, China's access to the open seas is boxed-in by western allies. Russia has a similar gripe with a warm-water port in Crimea and NATO slowly closing in on Russia by growing the alliance east.
On the topic of JSON output from these models, someone has added context free grammars to llama.cpp. This enforces that the output matches the grammar, effectively zeroing the probability of the next token not conforming to it.

https://twitter.com/GrantSlatton/status/1657559506069463040

https://github.com/grantslatton/llama.cpp/commit/007e26a99d4...

It's so obvious, it's genius.
The "Economists" solution is always just that whatever rich people are already doing / getting away with, is obviously the optimal solution, so we should let them do as much of it as they want. Economics as a field was entirely created by the wealthy elites to further their agenda of oppressing the lower classes.
Are there any TLDs that aren't being used in cyber attacks?
APIs are about Policy: A pox on both houses
> don’t be evil
Microsoft GitHub has access to all the commits you force pushed away or branch you deleted. We have no reason to believe that it’s actually gone with no transparency and the source code being closed.
That makes sense. One of the jobs of team leaders and middle managers is to shield the team from as much BS as possible. Some people will be better, and some worse, at doing that.
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For those wondering: this work was presented at RWC 2020[1], so it's not a new (but still valuable!) finding.

[1]: https://sha-mbles.github.io/Shambles_RWC.pdf
I hold that opinion too. I think we're talking about two different things

1) AI helps people to make harmful context extremely easily, and that's why there are calls for regulation (which will probably favor OpenAI and stifle competition). We should question whether AI is a net negative
2) AI is being taken too seriously as an "oracle" of some kind that knows all, and people want to sue OpenAI for things it spits out when really people don't need help making up rumors. This is the part that seems unfair to me.
The Pixel business has failed

Forget about challenging Apple...the Pixel line barely competes with Samsung. There is no way this is a win for Google, and its long past time they gave it up.

Quality and software issues (from Google!) plague these phones. Even now, there is a trending story of an update that is causing phones to get hot...and this is from Google who controls the software, hardware, deployment...

And then there is the pure junk like the Pixel Watch and the upcoming tablet...inferior products that should never have been brought to market. Were even 100k Pixel Watches sold?

I was loyal until my Pixel 3 swelled to the point I was concerned it would catch fire

After that, back to Samsung...no problems since

Even if the Pixel phones were great products...they don't sell in volume. Time for Google to accept that Samsung runs the Android market.
Warren Buffett’s recent moves in the Stock Market
Nothing in the professor’s message says or even implies the whole class was failed. Did people just stop learning how to read in the last few years?
Thanks. Last time I checked I still saw them consuming connections, but I suppose that's probably the far end not supporting it.
I've found that somewhat unexpectedly sometimes physical is faster for search.

With a physical book I might remember that the equation I'm looking for was near the bottom of a series of equations on the bottom half of a left hand page, and the right hand page had a particular graph, and this was somewhere in the third quarter of the book.

It is then just a matter of quickly fanning through that general region of the book to find it.

With digital I can do a digital search but it is hard to find search terms that don't return a ton of hits all through the book. As I read a digital book I don't get a sense of movement through it that I get from a physical book, so I'm less likely to be able to remember how far into the book what I seek should be.
This is what you get if you hire professors who assign writing exercises but are incapable of writing basic coherent emails with punctuation, and are unable to read the very plain text below a ChatGPT response that it may not be accurate.
> It isn’t really though. If this were true rendering text would be super slow - but it isn’t.

I wouldn't say so, I regularly profile my system or apps and text rendering is definitely one of the things that come up the most
They're nice but they are designed to a cheaper consumer price point. The LS400 and top end luxury cars of 30 years ago were designed to be ultra smooth and comfortable. The LS400 had to be able to drive at 100mph+ on the autobahn without any vibration or noise from the engine felt in the cabin--it was an actual design requirement from the head of the company. If you've kept up on maintenance an old luxury car like that will drive just as smooth and comfortably as when new, and way more smooth than a new economy car.
>"Your default orientation should certainly not be towards objects."

My default orientation should be what my experience tells me is the best for particular case.
> legacy "pro for all your domains" $20/mo plan

Ive always wondered why it’s per site. I wonder what the logic was for making it per site if a paid plan used to cover all domains.
> - The fridge is your best friend.

Building on this, make more than one loaf and keep it in the fridge until ready. For some reason I would make two loaves and bake them the same day. Then it was a rush to eat them before they lost their tastiness. Now I make two loaves and take my sweet time eating them. Making two loaves is only marginally more labor than one loaf.
I’m 38 and I just learned that pinball machines have a script you’re supposed to follow. Like it plainly tells you do this then this then this to “beat” the game. Of course it just loops back to the beginning when you do. A lot of these machines tell you this on a little white card sometimes in the lower left of the glass top.

Also a lot of machines have midnight madness mode. If you’re at an all night arcade and it hits midnight, multiball!
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You're welcome :)

But I'd like to convince you and everyone that in general we want to accept inputs in any form and be form-insensitive because that's much more user-friendly.

We don't in fact have universal NFC-only input modes. We have accidentally NFC-mostly input modes -- accidental because typically we have transcoding from legacy codesets, which yields NFC, but no normalization is actually done so that copy-paste operations can cause non-canonical input to be provided to applications. We don't have universal agreement on NFC. This makes for a mess with occasional user-visible problems.

Form-insensitivity is essentially the same as normalizing character-by-character when hashing or comparing strings, but this can be very fast for mostly-ASCII text, so form-insensitivity can be very fast.

For string comparison form-insensitivity is faster than first normalizing because either the strings are equal in content and probably equal in form, or they differ early and possibly at some character where normalization is not necessary to determine the result of the comparison, and thus less work need be done to compare strings form-insensitively than first normalizing all inputs (unless so many string comparisons will be done that maybe normalizing first might be a win). For string hashing form-insensitivity is not faster because one has to normalize every input, whereas if all inputs are normalized once then one need never normalize to hash, but still form-insensitivity yields a better user experience.
Good job, hats off to you! I had the same idea some years back, and again during covid when I would o longer bike to work.
As an old time bike mechanic and electronics engineer, I did some concept sketches but never ended up building it. You did and it looks good. Both the sturdy frame, the adjustments ability for seat and "handlebars", and the motor drive and electronics also look practical.

For me personally I would miss the desk space - I really like to have ample space to put keyboard, paper notes, electronics etc on. How would one use this with a regular desk? Have you tried it?
Yeah I am surprised too, the top end is more than many surgeons get paid.
Media failures after the data is written seems out of scope.
1. Use 7-zip and check "Encrypt file names".

2. Use a strong password, not "infected" which could be guessed in less than a second.

3. Host your own file server (Linux based with no antivirus). Don't use OneDrive or any other cloud storage.

4. Backup to burned CDs / DVDs which can only be written to once so the files cannot be automatically deleted by antivirus software.

You'd think SECURITY RESEARCHERS would have a little more common sense than this.
> This might not be feasible depending on the size of the class. I had classes with 100-200 students.

American colleges regularly collect $10,000+ in fees per student, so I'm not sure why a 20 minute oral exam would be infeasible?
Hmm, these links don't have anything about "model weights being proprietary". They also don't have anything about current litigation involving OpenAI trying to strengthen their ability to claim copyright over something. Where it does mention OpenAI's own assertions of copyright? OpenAI seems to be going out of their way to be as permissive as possible, retaining no claims:

From [1] > OpenAI’s Terms of Use, for example, assign all of its rights, title, and interest in the output to the user who provides the input, provided the user complies with the Terms of Use.

Re: [2]: I believe I referenced these specific concerns earlier where I said: "I only see some where OpenAI is trying to weaken any existing copyright protections, to their benefit. I must be missing something." This resource shows where OpenAI is trying to weaken copyright, not where they they are trying to strengthen it. It's somewhat of an antithesis to your earlier claims.

I notice you don't have a [0]-index, was there a third resource you were considering and deleted or are you just an avid Julia programmer?
So you still need to write a query and then ask it to remove unnecessary text from the response it provided?