skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting your own linked article:

The UK’s largest bird charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), is not particularly concerned about the impact of cats on the British mainland. Instead it focuses on what it says is driving UK bird declines: global warming, intensive agriculture and expanding towns and cities leading to habitat and food loss. “While we know that cats do kill large numbers of birds in UK gardens, there’s no evidence this is affecting decline in the same way that these other issues are,” said a spokesperson.
>why would they even look if one of their reports body language is different this morning?)

Ineeed
Unlikely to be important, compared to the creation of irrigation and additional plants and greenery that generates O2 and absorbs CO2?
When the alternative is Azure Devops...
> maybe people just expected Wayland to be broken and didn't report it?

Excellent. Simply excellent. Precisely the consequence of the "is wayland broken? deal with it!" mentality.
>We can speculate about just how far this scaling can go or how far is even necessary but all i've said there is true. We have models trained and evaluated on all those sizes.

The part about "far outperforming", which is the main claim, is wrong though. We saw models much smaller being developed that fare quite well, and are even competitive, with the larger ones.

You already said "only by training on far more data", which is different than "more parameters" being the only option.
I wonder why nobody is doing it? Perhaps everyone doesn't have access to petabytes of storage space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited proxy-jumps etc.

There are multiple private companies and public institutions that are currently training LLMs.

The work that it required to train an LLM is actually in support of fair use, just as it was with regards to Google scanning books.
Agree on AutoGPT. It’s more useful for me to share what happened and ask follow up questions. Also sometimes it simply is bad at something, and putting it in an AutoGPT loop just makes things more confusing :). At that point I just use google.
Classic books that teach deep insights through unlikable protagonists
Perhaps I wasn't specific enough... Do you find these resources to be useful?

I'm not saying you can't find articles with code for building an ANN from scratch, but I've found them to be lacking either in depth or in the quality of their explanations.

At least what I found on Google recently left me surprisingly disappointed because I assumed the quality of resources online today would be so much higher than a decade ago. But it still seems to be mostly just python code snippets with some comments about what the code is doing.

I suppose I thought I was going to find interactive content and well documented practical guides. Brilliant seems to be making the kind of content I think should exist, but they're obviously doing it behind a pay wall.

Edit: Here's really great example of the kind of thing I was hoping to find for ANNs, but for A*, https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction...
I must say, I never quite liked PHP as much as other environments, but I keep using it because it just gets the job done.
Funny because before Disney, akwafina was just hanging around with Eddie Huang on vice. Now she’s in all sorts of Disney stuff. I guess getting in bed w/ disney means you’ll die and disney will pick the morsels it likes
I always find it disappointing to see how little evaporation adds to the local greening (also see the boarders of Red Sea)
Lots of people seem to think they have no choice but to rent GPUs from cloud service providers.

Remember retail GPUs are much more powerful, much cheaper and much more available than cloud GPUs.

Just go to the store and buy one.
I use it - and I suspect a lot of other people also - as a replacement for Matlab. I am an electrical engineer and I write short scripts to calculate stuff and hook it up to simulations etc. Matlab has great toolboxes, but is pretty expensive and the language is a bit clunky. Python is just very versatile and has a huge eco-system now that would be hard to replace. A lot of system administratiors also use it for scripting.
That chemical is trichloroethylene. Even Science does clickbait now.
Mastering HTML/CSS Through Real-World Challenges
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Dairy is important for human nutrition because it has an excellent level of production of valuable proteins per acres and that can be done on marginal land that can't really be used for anything else anyway. You could get those proteins from soy, but that would have to be done on farm land, with fertilizer, irrigation and so on. How are those bees going to fare there? And that's assuming grazing is entirely hostile to bees, which it's arguably not that much considering how it doesn't require pesticides. You know, the thing that kills insects.
Before someone reading this thinks that drying up the planet would cool it down: water in the air acts as a greenhouse gas, but also cools the surface when it evaporates and helps reflect solar radiation when it forms clouds (major factor of our planet's albedo).

Also we are not comparing more water area vs less water area. Water will take more area in any case as sea levels rise. This way it just happens in a bit more controlled way.
If you don't want your code to be public, licence it... You can put a licence.txt in your code, but people will ignore it. If you really don't want your code to be in public, don't publish it at all.

I personally think Copilot is training on all the code. It's not verifiable so I go with the worst case scenario. But it shouldn't be a problem if you don't publish code that's licensed.

Lines of code shouldn't even be copyrightable. But that's a whole other discussion.
Custom Fetcher Hooks Are Remix's Typesafe RPCs
>Google trained 3 differently sized models of the same architecture (8b, 62b, 540b) on the same dataset of 780b tokens and evaluated all 3 on various tasks.

That's quite a small sample to argue the generic point that "for any arbitrary performance x, the data required to reach it reduces with size".

Key part being: "for any arbitrary performance".
The issue for bash is also the issue for Makefiles.

make is not part of the default macOS install - You need to install developer tools - which I suppose if you are a developer is OK.

As for bash as it is an old verion on macOS you need to stick to a simpler subset - better write as sh.

So sh seems to be the most general.

Then consider Windows - ah ...
You are going to have to install something. Shells don't run natively and how do you get snakefile or just.

So python or make are the cross platform tools you have
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PHP.

Still works and the codebase is still being incrementally updated ~20 years in.

Stint with Laravel, which was a huge task to add, and an even huger task to eventually remove; After an update by Laravel that was not backwards compatible made us rethink the cost/value.

Javascript on the frontend, with no libraries as critical infra except for HTMX.

Was once a contributor to Mootools; now use quite a bit of homegrown funcs, and use libraries for spot instances (Alpine, Uppy, QuillJS - all of which are written modular with intention to be traded out.)

MySQL and eventually Postgres. "NoSQL" only when it was added (as JSONB) to Postgres.

All of those years of coding are an asset, not a liability.

Don't go chasing the new and shiny, it doesn't last.
(And steer clear of Web3, will ya?)

EDIT: We use Tailwind - and time will tell if that is a mistake.
This is /r/antiwork, which is basically equal parts socialism advocacy, creative writing, and unfocused gen-z frustrations that the world doesn’t operate like they wish. It is not a source of accurate or useful information.
Tekken might be an old arcade game but Tekken 7 was released in 2015, and Tekken 8 is an upcoming title.

Super Smash Bros Melee (2001) is one example of a game still having a big (?) scene.
> Fast forward to today, and MVC has since fallen out of fashion. Everything is now done in React, Angular, Vue, and other frameworks.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Fallen out of fashion perhaps, but still very stable, easy work with, predictable and with pretty clear best practices that don't change every three months.
The problem with being a 10x developer is that if you actually work 8 hours a day you will do 60% of the teams work, which is socially awkward.
Tailscaling Git.ht: The Game of Curling
I think unrolled FILD/FIST was fastest on Pentium.
Given they were forced to file bankruptcy on behest of their creditors whom are taking over the company, both of which are highly political and partisan (including George Soros) I would not hold my breath for a return to "quality journalism" anytime soon
Because open source developers, either individuals or companies can't even possibly entertain the idea of the legal expenses involved in fighting a behemoth like Microsoft.
> Components are not ideal, but today, many of them, operated within their limits, are pretty close to ideal

Sure, but the bigger insight in the first place would be that all measurements have error tolerance. Which is a slightly different topic, so I'm not sure that it's the last book I'll ever need.

In particular reading on switch mode powersupplies it sounds like inductors, resonant circuits and electro magnetic interference are black magic. And this field developed a lot since the first book.
Are you actually throttled if you try to git clone or is that what the theory is, or is the assumption that it uses API calls to scrape through github?

Has anyone actually tried, because i've cloned lots of repos and have never been throttled. I'd go so far as to say the author of that post has never even tried it.
Ask HN: Resources for Studing Ruby's Runtime and Internals
Hey folks, I am interested in learning more about Ruby's internals and it's runtime, topics such as: garbage collection, concurrency, memory management ... etc. What would be a good place to read on these before jumping right into the C code? Thanks.
I suppose. But it's totally viable to use Next.js without using anything from Vercel.
OP:> "I know there was this 10-minute period where I totally look like I'm a bad employee — but really, I'm a good employee."

> Will there be a partially private middle class, a fully tracked underclass and a mostly private upper class etc.

Almost 3 decades ago I was doing a consulting gig for a telecomm in Austin. It was a call center and turned out that the operators were on a strict bathroom regiment, timed down to the seconds. After the shock was over, realization of the just how disjoint is the life experience for even contempories in the same society hit me. It was clear to me that this sort of micromanagement and assertion of control is directly correlated with socio-economic standing. 30 years later and we have JPMorgan employees -- that woman quoted likely went to an ivy league -- pleading for understanding for a "10 minute" activity. (!)

This commoditization of the 'educated but financially dependent class' is relatively new and imo reflects the economic-technical paradigm shift. The battle lines are already drawn and blows are already being exchanged over at WFH and BigBrother@Work frontlines.

> a mostly private upper class

As for WFH, we hear that execs at these companies still wfh. We don't know to what extent they are also surveilled but it would be surprising if c-suite was being monitored by IT security.

A bifurcated humanity is imho a very likely future unless there are major global events that disrupt the current (aggregate trends) curve.
That sub is +95% made up posts though. Like frustrated fanfiction + attention seeking at the same time.

Maybe there is some truth to this post but there are so many fake stories and made up iMessage conversations posted there that it's hard to take anything seriously anymore.
So, what PRNG does Random() use? LCG (linear congruential)? LFS (lagged Fibonacci)? MT (Mersenne twister)? In each case it's a linear function of some global variable, not any kind of random number generator. Treating it as if it's a random number generator is silly. It's a pseudo-random number generator, pure algebra.
It's modern versions of Tekken. That said, there still are smaller tournaments for the Street Fighter II variants, probably Tekken too.
Twitter itself, because now it doesn't have to scan and moderate DMs for CSAM and other illegal activity. Implementing E2E encryption is a part of why they can run a skeleton crew moderation team. Users don't benefit from this change. In fact, more people will be harmed by Twitter's product with its inclusion.

source: NYT 2019 investigation into the link between the rise of social media and the spread of CSAM

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-c...
I was expecting a story about the i-Opener but I suppose it wasn't free, just heavily discounted. I sort of wish I still had mine, I could use it with my CueCat.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
When you drink your coffee without caffeine in your 30 for escaping a harm from caffeine, but end up with Parkinson in your 60+.
You can use BroadcastChannel [1] to communicate between tabs. It works well and does not require service workers. It's used in Tracim [2], for some reason we could not move to HTTP/2 at the time I was working on this project so we indeed learned about this connection limit soon enough…

Even on HTTP/2, I believe it's best avoid sending 6 times the same message to the user just because they opened 6 tabs. It's less wasteful both for the server and the client.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastCh...

[2] https://github.com/tracim/tracim/blob/develop/frontend_lib/s...
This is on r/antiwork... which isn't a particularly objective source when it comes to employers.
Interesting that it mentions China rising in the same breath.

I'm not sure if I should be surprised there isn't a facet of the rating like:

"percent chance you will be disappeared for holding up a blank sheet of paper" or

"how excited other countries children are to attend."

Maybe the ranking just cares about how much money you are pouring into STEM research.
Correct, but this case shaped the sound and economics of hip-hop. Regardless, sampling now carries a cost; or legal repercussions.
> Okay?.. Parameter size increases also increase cost a lot. Far more than more training data.

Yup, and that's why lots of work goes into smaller model trained beyond the Chinchilla-optimality. But increasing the model size alone doesn't seem to make sense to anyone for some reason.

> I'm sorry but can you perhaps just read the paper sent?

I did skim it, and it's not making the claim you are.

> Google trained 3 differently sized models of the same architecture (8b, 62b, 540b) on the same dataset of 780b tokens and evaluated all 3 on various tasks.

This has nothing to do with your claim that “We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required”. To back such a claim we'd need a 540b model trained on 10b token beating / rivaling with a 8b parameters trained on 400b. I'm not aware of anything like this existing today.

That a big model trained with enough data can beat a smaller model on the same data isn't the same claim at all.
There is always a question of what is acceptable. My current employer seems to employ wide range of scanning, but it seems to mostly targeted at ensuring there is no 'data leakage'.

All I can tell you for sure is that JPM is off my potential employer list although admittedly that is partly because compared to other peers its pay does not even begin to offset that level of intrusion.
Currently working on a collection of pottery to sell in a new gallery. Cups, bowls, general tableware all in the kiln currently, hopefully no unexpected catastrophe awaits!

I’ve also got a wordless comic that is nearly complete that I need to force myself to finish. I’m moving house soon, which means I’ll be away from a pottery studio, so I’ll have no excuse not to finish it then
This pings on something I've been wishing for locally: I would like there to be a music shop that has a short time studio rental (30min to an hour) where you can access a trap set (specifically for me) or other piece of gear, already setup with headphones and monitors, such that you could just go in an play for a while, without an investment.
A place to just jam for a little bit and explore, able to be separated such that any awkwardness or shyness can be reduced.
Maybe this is a common thing and I just don't know how to ask for it.
(As is the expectation of a uniform distribution in the first place. From the PDF for the uniform distribution (1/(b - a) for x ∈ [a,b], zero elsewhere) and the definition of EV as the integral of the product of the identity map and the PDF over the reals,

EV[x, DI[x, UD[{a,b}]]]
== Integrate[x * Piecewise[{
{1/(b - a), a <= x <= b},
{0, x < a || x > b}}],
{x, -∞, ∞}]
== Integrate[x * 1/(b - a), {x, a, b}]
== ((b^2/2) - (a^2/2)) / (b - a)
== (a + b)/2

so for a = 0,

== b/2

no matter how many nested integrals it takes to define the real number b.)
Christopher Lasch’s Forgotten Utopia
By the traditions of desktop ui, React is imperative (or maybe immediate): it's written in a declarative style, but ultimately jsx is just JavaScript.

The best analogue to "declarative" in desktop ui terms would be to have your dom templates in separate files that you don't manipulate the structure of in code.

I honestly have an overall negative view of react, but its method for letting you declare ui structure is really fantastic.
Your anecdote is very interesting, thank you!
And the worse are often those that brag about how "open to criticism" they are.

It's a trap for literally-minded/low-EQ people.

There are those that are indeed open to criticism, but those are almost never the one's that are gonna tell you about how open they are. Rather they are the ones that will actively engage in such discussions and technical arguments with you, and even enjoy it. You wont be "invited to criticize" them, you will be criticizing stuff and arguing together all the time, as if you're peers.
I think you should have the calculator on the pricing page for everyone, near the top. It would be a good marketing tool to help people decide to sign up.
I feel like there should be a basic 'curriculum' that gets passed to all foundational LLMs that teaches them the basics of language. Maybe 100 million files where the first 10 million are all first grade reading level, the second 10 million are all second grade reading level, etc.

Ideally this includes a bunch of text books. That should give the LLM time to grok language before it starts training on more difficult texts.
Large Language Models Humanize Technology
You live in nature. You might not be able to draw a straight line from bears to your quality of life, but everything is connected and if the rest of the web collapses, you will go with it.
There’s no difference between hardware and software when it comes to running a program, really. They are both machines at the end of the day.
Byte Magazine – Archived Copies on Internet Archive
Many a night spent typing and troubleshooting programs found in this and Compute! magazine in the early 80s. Just took another look today and forgot just how great these magazines were.
I don’t really understand the implicit argument you’re making here, could you just state it explicitly?

Is it that the Comanche were bad and therefore genocidal campaigns against them (and all other native tribes) were justified or somehow non-genocidal?
Parent obviously meant you'd be in the kitchen, cooking. Not barking orders.