skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fascinating, it's how I feel about multidimensional topological manifolds, I understand them, I cannot math them... interacting frequently with an AI is changing me, it's encouraging me to approach task in a more structured way, use concise and accurate language, consider the context and apparent vagueness of communication in a human way, with its inflections, facial expressions and demeanour. One cannot use technology without being affected, in the same way most of us no longer train a part of our brain to remember phone numbers, this will change us.
It's more the fact that you NEVER get 2 sides on Reddit, every sub just turns into a circle jerk. Posting on Reddit is pointless unless you're just trying to validate your preexisting views.
How is Kagi better than simply using google without an account through a VPN? Or using DDG through a VPN?

I really don't like that Kagi requires you to have an account. They can then associate all of your searches to that account just like google and bing do when you use them while logged in.
GNOME is alright, I really like what they've done with it recently and for me it's almost perfect for daily use. I just wish it had a better file manager. If I were to pick a DE I would use KDE/XFCE or Cinnamon though.

Seriously, they managed to make a good user interaction flow, one that dismisses a lot of Windows idiosyncrasies. If they manage to port everything to GTK4, it will work out great.

The biggest issue lies in going against the norm, and most software is built against that norm. There are plenty of extensions to fix that however. But I do agree that they go overboard sometimes, like the inability to select the terminal that appears on nautilus' right click menu. That's were a lot of it breaks down for me, I should be able to select the tools I want, and not go through hacks to do something that's so simple to implement.
This argument is being repeated in every thread about RTO so let me just copy/paste my reply from before:

Because interview process in bigtech has been subverted by people benefiting from it and who are already skilled in it. I bet absolute majority of people that I worked with and considered them very good couldn't solve knapsack problem on whiteboards in 15 minutes, don't know Z algorithm by heart and won't be able to correctly project Amazon leadership principles with (made up bullshit) examples from their previous jobs.
> she never actually tries her recipes.

Well, that makes two of us, her, and me buying too many recipe books ;)
The thread here started with the claim that "she has a Masters in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Computer Vision, and has had a fantastic career".

It's reasonable to expect given that description for her PhD to be actually in computer vision. You know, a new SOTA on some well known benchmark or something. Some new general technique useful to anyone who deploys computer vision. Even she doesn't claim that's the case, the dissertation title claims it to be visual computational sociology which would be a different field. Her findings are pure sociology, there's no outcome here which is about computer vision (beyond "hey CV seems to work").

The original point was she doesn't seem very interested in technology. I don't see how a PhD that is at least 50% sociology disproves this point, it clearly supports it. And that's before dealing with the general dishonesty that pervades woke universities; who knows if the thesis can even be taken at face value? A place like Stanford wouldn't hesitate to misrepresent things for equity purposes.
Very nicely done! I like this format
It's a reasonable way to look at it given that's how pretty much all 'deployed' versions of LLM's work?
This sounds danger close to metaverse speak
I'd expect a buddhist teacher to be a lot more chill. You took issue with him calling himself a "dean" while he only called himself a librarian. The website is called a "university" but obviously he's not pretending to be a real credentialed university, it's just a cute website title.

Here you had a good chance to reflect and backtrack. But no, he's quite a junior monk to be running his own website. Well, I'm not even a monk and run my own website, how about that?
I've very often made it with red onions (or half and half red vs white/yellow). It's delicious and always been a success.

I've used a version of this recipe [0] which explicitly says "red or yellow onions". It's also honest on the cooking time. I'd agree with its main warning, that making your own nice stock from bones really improves the flavour. Doesn't have to be beef stock. But I've also used stock cubes in the past.

[0] https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/french_onion_soup
second that!
I know, right? It’s outstanding that GPT-4 could pass a bar exam at all, so it’s not clear why they should risk making misleading claims about its performance.
Yes Rimworld! was thinking exactly the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_photography

It's almost safe to say you can't actually eat the meal that gets photographed.
> You are probably confusing with Zhukov's remark cited in another comment.

No, I’m not; Stalin is recorded to have made the comment at the 1943 Tehran Conference with Churchill and Roosevelt.

Zhukov’s statement was 20 years later, addressing Cold War revisionism which minimized that contribution.
As if I needed more fuel on the fire of my burning hatred for recipe collections.

Everyone who is interested in cooking should do themselves a favour and buy a proper cookbook. Something that starts with the basics, and works itself up to full meals. It should have cheat-sheets for basic ways to cook all your staples, here's all the ways you can cook a potato, with times and temperature. Here's all the ways you can slice an onion, with examples of what it's good for. Here's how to cut a cow into pieces, here's what the pieces are called, here's how long each piece takes to cook and what it pairs well with.

Unfortunately, most people think they can cook something from a recipe collection without being proficient at the basics. "I'll just follow the recipe!", and then they wonder why it didn't work. A timer can never replace the knowledge of how something is supposed to look, feel, and smell when it's done or not.

And yet recipe collection regularly outsell cookbooks by a wide margin.

I guess they look good on a coffee table at least.
>the species was “abundant and widespread,” with between 4.3 million to 9.8 million of the trees in California.

That is neither an endangered nor a threatened species. Tough shit.

>according to environmentalists, because around 40% of the plants grow on private land. The Joshua trees could be razed to make way for homes and infrastructure.

The environmentalists can propose to buy the private land, if they can't (or won't) then tough shit: They aren't the landowners and thus should have no say.
Yes! I await the 1 hour youtube video with great interest
The thing is Hello Fresh is for people who are not used to cooking. If you're used to cooking then you know enough recipes, you know what to buy and you don't need Hello Fresh.

Having cooking time from actual customers instead of veteran cooks would be helpful.
No but I suspect that’s unlikely to be an apples to apples comparison.
> Where Buddhism is similar, it's because "religion" as a concept had to be made legible to Westerners when they showed up so they wouldn't colonize you so hard, and they did this by putting Western philosophy in it.)

Reworded:
Where Buddhism is similar, it's because Westerners showed up and were going to colonize anyone who didn't have something called a "religion", so they had to turn it into a recognizable "religion", which they did by copying a bunch of Western philosophy. So the older forms were even less similar.
Constant Blocks in Pharo11
Do you take into account that other cars are also getting heavier?
I’m having trouble visualizing how a conflicted state might work. We still have to produce a valid state for the next edit to work on. Do you mean supplying conflict resolution handlers?

Also, do you mean a conflict from the perspective of “malformed data structures” or “domain invariant violated”?
Piracy is very different from theft and far more morally defensible.

FWIW my work, which puts food on my table, is pirated every day.
Dutch consumer group filing class-action suit vs. Google for privacy violations
Could you recommend such a "proper" cookbook
Mind you, going mid-range with something like a Victorinox can be a good bet for home cooking. $50-ish chef's knife that holds its edge well enough that a honing steel will keep it sharp for a couple of months of once-or-twice-a-day use.

Nothing more annoying than squishing your tomatoes as you try to cut (except having to take time out to sharpen your knives all the time).
I've seen aligators catching monkeys on trees in India. It's rare but it does happen.
For anything past 8k context size

We are talking about over 10x reduction in GPU time for inferencing tokens and for training too

Aka it’s cheaper and faster

Alignment is frankly IMO purely a dataset design and training issue. And has nothing to do with the model
> Who decides what constitutes hate speech?

Government (in my country we use a parliamentary system where laws get proposed/changed/...), courts.

For example in my country it is not legal to agitate to overthrow the political system, to form a new Nazi party, to use Nazi symbols as a political party, to organize a storm of the parliament, etc.

There are also strict laws to protect the privacy of people, incl. persons who are suspects of crimes. It's for example not allowed, without court order, to openly publish personal data (fotos, fullnames) of suspects and to search for those. Even the police can't do that without permission.
They spend more money on travel than they do on hosting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/Fi...
Or just go straight to 30%? (Take 10% & multiply by 3)

Seems easier to remember the one number than 'divide by 3 for yards then subtract 10% for meters', assuming you have no use for yards. (I use yards colloquially, but never as a measurement.)
I searched for certain things that google didn’t show me for ten pages that Kagi did on the first. For example, a divorce filing of someone
Seems I'm back to kagi :)
Only thing I need is better non-anglosphere results, but it's understandable for now.
"Generate me a recipe with mozzarella and bacon"

"Certainly! Here's a delicious recipe that combines mozzarella and bacon: Bacon-Wrapped Mozzarella Sticks"

Do you want to hear the rest?
This.

I can obviously only speak for myself, but over the years I've tried a lot of different desktop environments and window managers (http://www.xwinman.org/ was a favorite when I was getting started with Linux back in the mid 90'ies).

Nowadays I use a pretty out of the box gnome (well, with whatever bastardizations Ubuntu has done to vanilla Gnome, with the unity-like sidebar etc.). I just want something that works, not a million papercuts that bleed me dry (e.g. I have a networkmanager applet to configure my VPN, works out of the box, no need to fuzz around with making various scripts or manual editing of config files. Screw that, I have actual work to do as well.), and it seems gnome & ubuntu have been pretty good at delivering. I don't care that my current desktop works differently than my old favorites fvwm or olvwm. I save more time by having my muscle memory get used to current keybindings and my eyes get used to the current look, than desperately trying to make gnome in 2023 look and behave like fvwm in 1995 (or whatever arbitrary snapshot in time one takes as the bestest ever and anything which is different is crap).
Thankfully I can go outside, talk to people and find out that they don't have the same opinions as reddit mods/admins.
A splash of white wine vinager when they are done will neutralize left over baking soda and bring it back to normal pH. It makes all the difference.

They will still be mushy thou.
If you are paid to teach and/or research, you should also be paid to publish, and university presses should be dedicated to the free and public dissemination of that teaching (starting to happen, online courses being free to audit), and publishing artefacts (which is still actively resisted by journals and textbook publishers).

Isn’t it strange we can start to see the value of a course being made free to audit, but the books and papers that enhance the learning, are still protected like they’re holy relics that only rich, anointed classes can have access to…
This is pretty sick!
And yet they still have porn subreddits. Also I've bern hearing about that "upcoming IPO" for like 5 years now and it still doesn't happen.
I feel Google’s ability to track and profile you extends far beyond your IP address and/or a login
Surprising, from (1): Theravada Buddhists have traditionally believed that women had to be reborn as men to achieve nirvana or become Bodhisattvas.

https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat55/sub398/entry-5668.ht...
Instruction training. This is a WIP
Hah, for once, a benefit of having celiac, no wheat for me apparently means no weevils for me. I mix up a lot of gluten-free flour mix to substitute for all-purpose flour. It's a mix of way too many flours and starches (white rice, brown rice, sweet rice, potato starch, potato flour, ivory teff, tapioca starch, arrowroot flour) that I got from a blog many years ago, and haven't tried to slim down because it works great for me. Never had any bug issues; maybe specialty flours have better quality control.
I can believe it, given the awfulness of remote conference tools. Someone will crack this problem - it might require better hardware - but the current systems are nothing like attending in person.
In the past I have been using iCloud to manage my passwords, but since gmail was my primary, I had the password for many years, I was able to remember it, didn't think it was necessary to use keep this particular account in iCloud. Then 2FA was introduced then forced on my account, I was also forced to change my password because Google was tightening its security (I don't remember exactly), I think that's when it went wrong. The funny thing with Google is that the recovery option should be my phone, somehow it is not enough for Google.

Now I would absolutely use a password manager.
my only experience led to 'delegate fast, most people are reasonable' I helped build Jolt.co.uk & Squadlinks, a large UK gaming site during the Quake/Counterstrike era, while we had issues with occasional individuals, on the whole our forums were nice places to hang out, we had legions of gamers who loved taking ownership of their sub, they'd then sub delegate moderation, being liberal with trust engendered trust and we maintained a virtuous spiral, I imagine because our audience were closely aligned it made things a lot easier.
At constant altitude. I believe Concorde was actually more fuel efficient per passenger mile than a 747 when flying Mach 2 up near 60,000ft where the air was very thin, but as it took half the flight’s fuel simply to get that high and that fast the overall efficiency was much lower.
There does seem to be a correlation between autism spectrum and gender confusion, with the former often present in individuals who are into highly technical pursuits.

The logic seems to be not conforming to masculine stereotypes ==> must be a woman.
This would be way better as a scatter plot. It is not meaningful to interpolate between points, and so there's no reason to connect the points with a line. The line forms a solid color block that obscures possible trends.
not that covid demonstrated how fragile this Privilege is rooted
https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/edmonds-cookery-book-ful...
Slightly unrelated, but Google has become increasingly less accurate at returning pages. I am looking for a change even outside of its huge privacy violations.
Yep Reddit censorship only goes one way. There are tons of subs about white people doing bad things but as soon as someone makes a r/blacksdoing<bad things> it's almost immediately banned. Same goes with questioning trans/LGBT/Women/etc. Sub dedicated to misandry? OK.. your sub is loosely associated with misogyny? banned. What's funny is Elon Twitter reminding me of pre-2016 Reddit because they aren't censoring in an unbiased way.
"I've been kicked out of my home, and through no fault of my own!"
Too fast for it to be useful I'd guess, you're reliant on the computer anyway so why have a front window be a design constraint restricting aerodynamics, tough enough glass/plastic (a lot more force on it than the overhead/side window it does have) etc.?
Good for you. But I think you are over valuing your work and the impact it has. Is this going to revolutionize things for your students that so far have managed fine without this work? What about those students that go to different universities and may never see or learn of this? I doubt this work will have the impact you think it will have. There are a lot of academics publishing books. That kind of is what they do. It matters. But mostly only to a small audience.

Your publisher is involved because they don't have to do a lot of work or take a lot of risk. Editorial and layout work is a something they'll recover on the first few hundred copies and they are very good at that because that's their core business. It's a fixed cost. And since you bring the students, they'll have a strong guarantee those copies will get sold. Everything after that is profit. Most publishing deals leave paying the author as an after thought. They pay themselves first. And unless you are a best selling author, that means they pocket most of that 50$.

If you sell 1000 copies, that's 50000 dollars. That's basically the editing and layout cost more than covered. You may have spent years of your life writing and learning. But editing and typesetting that is a lot less billable hours than that. Weeks or months at best. Possibly just days.

So, from the publisher's point of view this is an amazing deal. You do most of the work, including bringing an customer base (i.e. your students for years to come), and they get most of the profit. That's why academic publishing is such a hot business.

And let's be fair. You are compensated by the institution you work for (presumably); probably pretty well even. Having a book with your name on it helps enhance your value and status. Especially if it sells modestly well. That's why you get the big money. Publishing and being good at that is part of the job as an academic. You are already being payed for that. This isn't you going above and beyond what you are supposed to be doing but you doing your job.
Ah ah, it's like an experienced developer committing code and releasing it without running / testing it first.

It would not happen. Right? Right?
Minimum Viable Pawn
Ctrl+Shift+R (or Database → Database Reports)
High content, big budget, games still exist, e.g. Elden Ring + Zelda (as someone mentioned) are two recent releases.

There's also plenty of sim games in the indie market, Factorio, Banished, Frostpunk. Then things that are close to the market like They Are Billions, Kenshi, etc. to name a few I've personally had time to play. Kenshi is a bit rough around the edges, but absolutely brilliant in terms of sandbox play.

There's also the Endless series from Amplitutde studios, Endless Legend, Endless Space 1 + 2, that are of a vein of Civ games, plus they've recently brought out Humandkind (though to mixed reviews unfortunately).

The popular sim genre in recent times has been more 3rd person building mixed with exploration, there was the wave of multiplayer ones like Minecraft, Rust, Arc Evolved, etc. And then single player ones like Subnautica, etc.

So there's stuff out there if you want it, it's just not a very popular genre at the moment.
Browsing "/courses", I'm confused to why it has "The Making of Modern Ukraine" (YouTube playlist link) as one of their "External Courses".
Oh wow, they presented him as "Chief Scientific Officer" and co-founder in their pitch deck (page 8 of the PDF) ... and then 2 years later they say he was actually an unpaid intern so they'll refuse to pay him and/or give him any equity.
The modern equivalent of this is GreenAndPleasent.

I usually christen a new account by speed running a ban there first, little tradition...
> Galileo was able to defeat the Church which was the largest country in Europe

The Church is not a country and never was? And Galileo was forced to recant then spent the rest of his life under house arrest. The Church defeated him.

> Science is meritocratic in the sense that even the small guy has a chance of fighting the machine as eventually things need to be defended on their technical merits

Nobody who has followed the shenanigans of scientific institutions in the last decade believes this anymore, sorry. Modern science consists of credentialed charlatans plying entirely fraudulent claims and those being accepted, over and over, with no end in sight, and everyone who tries to point out the problems in The Science end up being cancelled or burning out because the employers of said charlatans are the modern Church. They simply do not care if their people tell the truth or not.
I think you know, but the classic way to do this was just to send a new message with the correct content, or maybe just the amended piece (often preceded by an asterisk). There is an aesthetic difference, but it's small. The overall effect is the same, especially if the edit history is visible (as it should be, since my contacts shouldn't be able to delete information from my phone).
> Plus every modern recipe has pictures to show what the result should look like.

Food photography very often is staged for visual appeal, not prepared as directed (for a recipe illustration) or as actually prepared (for a restaurant illustration.)
I really enjoyed Cooking for Geeks: https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Geeks-Science-Great-Hacks/dp/...
I think this should have been %removed posts, otherwise it could very well just be proportional to the amount of posts submitted and follow reddit's popularity.
The Concorde is still pretty top notch, tech wise. As far as supersonic and supercruise jet engines go, they are all military. Civilian engine development went all in improving noise levels and fuel economy. And without a viable market, no engine OEM will invest the billions needed to develop a civil supersonic engine. So it is either a huge market, or various governments foot the RnD bills. Both of which are far, far away.

All technological promises regarding civilian supersonics only exist in fancy renderings and pitch decks, there is no substance behind. Even less than there is with the various eVTOLs, at least those actually fly. Well, some of them that is...
There’s a simple cheat for it.

Build bus stops. Don’t build subways. Can’t lose.
I seem to always have trouble with video freezing or very low quality audio+video. Jitsi just isn't reliable enough for me. We've switched to BigBlueButton on the same type of server and it runs gloriously, with HD video, crisp audio. I kept giving Jitsi a chance, but it disappointed us too many times
I think (hope) they mean as a passenger. The various bumps and turns are likelier to throw off your aim on a virtual keyboard compared to a proper tactile keyboard.
One journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
You ever been to reddit? Practically all of the large subreddits have been taking over by power moderators who are either karma whores and obviously paid to push ads or hobby political commissars who ban anything and everything not fitting into their ideological agenda.
They can make it more effective because they reduce the bits per pixel from e.g. 12 to 3.
once reddit get's bought, it's on a trajectory to irrelevance, because nobody will buy that cesspit w/o a massive "betterment agenda".
Blue noise dithering also gives some pretty nice results:
https://momentsingraphics.de/BlueNoise.html
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

- Ruhlman's 20 by Michael Ruhlman

- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman