skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I've started doing in the past couple years to read nonfiction. It's really worked for me.

1. Keep a simple text file of your top books to read. Line number indicates priority: line 1 is the #1 book on the list, 2 is #2, etc.

2. Rearrange the list, or add new books as you learn about them in the appropriate place, over time.

3. Go to your library every few weeks and check out #1 and #2. Delete books you've finished. Let the limited duration of borrowing push you to keep reading.

*you should ideally have a very complete library near you, probably with branches you can also request books from, for this to work
Pirates of Silicon Valley is the O.G.
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ah but placing that 301st arcology was so fun to young-me for some reason :)
Write it and submit it yourself. Sole authorship is given more weight these days for whatever reason. In a multi author publication, even if you are first author or listed as equal contribution, if there is a more famous person on the paper everyone will assume they did it.
Alas, it doesn't appear to work well for longer contexts:

https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/16390003799784038...

Has anyone here experimented with this recently to confirm?
> The tablespoon of olive oil is to kickstart the process, after that enough fat will render out of the meat to keep it going.

Agreed on meat, but I consistently see way-too-small amounts of oil suggested for cooking veggies, too. It's like every recipe writer online got together and decided that 1) they must specify oil quantities for those steps, but 2) the quantity must never exceed one tablespoon.
How to get LangChain to work with AWS Lambda
I suspect this is correct.

I find softened onions preferably for a number of uses. Caramelized onions can be too sweet, and soggy/limp. I've even found that leaving a trace of crunch is better in many cases (eg beef bolognese).

But don't listen to me, I've never really figured out the difference between cooked yellow, white, and sweet onions, and just buy whatever is available and has the least mold and soft spots. Even red onions, once cooked, are pretty much the same to me.
You’re right but that flour would have to be out (unsealed) for a while. Boy, weevils!
Time for UBI. It’s time. Can’t stress this enough.
This seems like a push for digital payments.
Lagging indicator of previous success. For tech, this currently is Bay Area start-ups (Meta, Google).

The safe route is to invest based on brand name (aka previous success): Bay Area, ex-FAANG, Stanford education, etc. But by definition, you are trying to bet on current and future trends using previous data.
I had in mind the entire 30 year history since independence during which certain factions have been pushing for NATO presence and eventual membership. The person below who says Putin "had already won on NATO" is wrong, from Putin's perspective, since his win condition was a guarantee that Ukraine would never join. This exact point was a sticking condition in the failed negotiations before 2022.

I think the poster has some point though, in that it is not all Ukrainian factions that have been pushing for this, and was perhaps not them as much as western powers which prevented this concession (their policy is influenced by their more powerful neighbours and backers!)

In the present, the secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has said "Let me be clear: Ukraine’s rightful place is in the Euro-Atlantic family.
Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. And over time, our support will help you make this possible."

I never "justified" Russia's actions.
This thing uses pytorch, the bane of everything that attempts to make pypi installs sane.

As a human, you need to read https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ and install the correct version, depending on your pytorch-version/os/packaging-system/hardware-platform combo. It's bad. It's several conflicting index-urls messing with your requirements. It also doesn't work if you pick the wrong thing.

Or we need something like a "setup.py" that is turing-complete, to dynamically pick up the correct dependency for you.

`pip install -r requirements.txt` is not enough.
The trick to caramelizing onions (without leaving them overnight in a slow cooker) is to add a bunch of water to the pan and steam them until they’re completely wilted, then boil off the water and add oil. This will cause most of the onion cells to burst, releasing their water, allowing that water to quickly evaporate so that the oil can do its job raising the temperature of all the onions to the point at which the sugars begin to caramelize.
"The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
It doesn’t help that all of the documentation you need is in the same system as all of the distractions, especially since much of modern documentation is folklore projected out through blogs and sites like SO or Reddit.

Back in the day documentation was the book on your desk and that pretty much was the end of it. At worst you may have had a stack of monthly magazines that could only hold your interest for so long.

If anything during idle time you might have been reading the dustier and darker corners of your system documentation and find a surprise you could use.
Yes, that is what I was getting at. Floating point hardware with fewer bits have less complexity and so have smaller transistor die area and power consumption.
Thanks for the reference. I watched some of his Joe Rogan episode to get a sense of his thesis, and it sounds like he's hoping for either litigation or a popular opinion shift to open the door to government intervention (taxes or policy) which significantly alters the incentives around emissions. He seems to mix realism (acknowledging that there are probably deeper desires at play, not just societal or governmental conventions) and wishful thinking (government policy as climate deus ex machina, countries imposing their climate agendas on other countries via war within 30 years). I suppose I belong to what he calls the "invent our way out of it" school of thought... also possibly very naive!
This is so cool! I had a similar (more related to transcript fulltext search though) idea but decided to work on something else after realizing that Youtube has no video sitemap so I'd have to scrape it in a pretty ad-hoc annoying way. I imagine storing all the videos must be pretty expensive too. If I was a youtuber I imagine I would use this if I wanted to use a certain Ellen clip or something like that which is pretty convenient.
Nonsense explanations is the current twitter company motto. If you need sensible policies, what exactly are you doing on twitter.
I wonder to what extent it’s attempts to game the auto-nutrition facts.

That said, is anyone actually measuring a tablespoon of oil? I just pour a glug of a size proportional to the ingredients and adjust as needed.
From what I’ve read cooling can also be a challenge.
Huh. Did the success of the iPhone lead to the T-1000 esque re-formation of the AT&T monopoly?
What were you using for schema changes? I’ve been using pt-online-schema-change on InnoDB tables with 200m+ rows for a while, it’s just a bit slow.
> Altman doesn't have any equity in OpenAI, though my sense is he would still end up extremely powerful and somehow get a ton of resources if OpenAI ends up ahead in the AGI race

I think this explains the current dynamics, right? If Altman had serious equity in OpenAI, then he'd be concerned about turning a profit or making the next GPT-x. But this is not the case and now he is playing the bureaucracy game as it is the one that will give him power and leverage.
Hi Everyone,

I'm a regular involved with the RWKV community.

AMA, on RWKV, and I will do my best to answer them here for the next hour (one at a time)

PS: you can find our discord here : https://discord.gg/qt9egFA7ve
I wrote a home-brew neural network around 2006, just to see what would happen. I'd read no papers on it, and just kind of made it up as I went along. The result was basically a cube of "neurons" which had stronger and weaker trigger points to their neighbors and would propagate "spark" to one or more neighbors based on the strength and direction of spark they got from their other neighbors. Each of the connections and weights had a "certainty" attached to it which would go up when the output was closer to the ideal and would go down when the output was garbage. When those certainty values hit zero, the weights for that neuron would be re-randomized. I quickly realized that the only thing this could really do was try to transform one 10x10 pixel bitmap into a different one. But it was fascinating that it actually seemed to "learn" patterns as they got baked in.

What would be called "attention" now, though, basically didn't exist in that system. Once you started training it on something new it lost everything.

For anyone wondering, it was written in Actionscript 3, and ridiculously, each neuron was bound to a display class that displayed as a semitransparent cube that lit up as the inputs propagated through them. A thoroughly ridiculous side project.

But other than scaling that from 1000 neurons to billions, I'm curious what has changed about the concepts of pathing or tolerance to make these models better? Maybe my concept of the principle behind modern LLMs is too archaic or rooted in a cartoon understanding of our own wetware that I tried to reproduce.

[edit: I'm describing an ancient home project... for anyone downvoting this, I'm more than receptive to hearing your reasons why it's stupid. I'm the first to admit it seems stupid!]
They did summer of 2008 though when they released the iPhone 3G with unlimited mobile broadband data. If I recall, that was unprecedented in the US.
> Guess now it's again time to line up in banks.

Yeah, no. Unlike with demonetization, 2000 rupee notes still remain legal tender. The timeline for withdrawal is significantly longer and the proportion of cash in circulation that needs to be exchanged is significantly lower.

There is no rational reason to queue up at banks now.
one of the authors here!, I think someone in our discord did experiments to prove that it does work for longer contexts, The pace of this work moves really fast. This might have been an earlier models in the series. RWKV it needs to be trained for longer contexts lengths in order to obtain that skill a context tuning if you will. IRCC there will be a follow up paper for it.
I've seen it once (and well earned) - Imre Leader at the end of a one term course.
This is a centuries-long debate with both of the two methods I mentioned being centuries old. Who are these grifters you are talking about? What is this new style you are talking about?

This comment reads like ChatGPT being asked to be contrarian for contrarian's sake.
This is straight to ARXIV (its not even the final copy yet)
Hopefully it will give Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) the Oscar mod.
Can anybody give me some suggestions for how to design an AI system whose sole purpose is to safeguard humanity against rogue AIs? I'd like for it to be able to run locally
No. The 2000 rupee notes still remain legal tender. They are being withdrawn from circulation, not demonetised.
I've had issues with WD Blue recently. MacOS intermittently wouldn't boot on a 3-month-old drive. I wonder how much is shared between this product and the Sandisk, given that WD now own Sandisk?

https://community.wd.com/t/wd-blue-250-gb-sa510-issues/27981...

https://community.wd.com/t/wd-blue-sa510-sata-ssds-critical-...
No, that had already happened. See the graph and dates here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

ATT had acquired Cingular by 2005.
Former Dropbox employee, just correcting one assumption:

> Dropbox's peak traffic is 1,500 queries per second (QPS).

I can't speak to search QPS directly, but most individual serving hosts for file sync/retrieval were receiving tens of thousands of QPS. The overall edge QPS peaked at several hundreds of thousands QPS every day across all the hosts. So I'd guess that even just search is an order of magnitude higher than 1,500 :)
Love the article, but one criticism: I've found gp3 to be better than gp2 in all aspects, especially consistency—and it's cheaper. For a long time you could only use RDS with gp2 but I know of no reason to choose it in 2023.
I find that all recipes vastly underestimate prep and cook time for everything.
They don’t take water from their own property but have the “right” to take a resource that should be shared by all. Totally different.
Demystifying Tupper's Formula
You mean "semantic misuse", not syntax misuse, as syntax would misuse something like this be.
Pretty high, we are going to be deploying something similar to Sono's GPT based LLM, and leverage RWKV for that, still playing around with it though!
Heads up: if you do this to unwitting friends, that’s gross. A lot of technically-minded optimizers don’t realize that.

(If you don’t care, feel free to ignore. That’s grosser though).
The entire recipe-industrial-complex is optimised primarily for convenience. Even a majority of the supposedly reputable cookbook authors are obsessed with “quick and easy” recipes. If you actually want to learn cooking a cuisine, most of the content you find via google or top selling cookbooks is going to be useless and filled with shortcuts and overly simplified ingredients lists. If you’re looking at a recipe that’s quick, easy, or simple, that’s a huge red flag that the recipe is BS. Another one is if it’s a foreign dish and you can somehow find all of the ingredients in your local supermarket.
What determined whether it's output was "ideal" for the certainty measure to go off of? Backprop?
The phrase you're looking for is "food porn"
If you add a little baking soda you can dramatically speed up caramelization.
Micheal Lewis’ best book Flashboys is about the birth of HFT but it’s been in development hell for years. According to Lewis Hollywood wouldn’t green light it because the main character is an Asian man.
MLStyle.jl: “FunctionalProgramming.jl”
I disagree. Having wealth lets you spread risk. That’s one of the big reasons that success breeds success. At least when success is measured in dollars, not projects.

This is why so many wealthy people are VCs.

The failure of the fire phone, Blue Origin (TBD), Virgin Galactic etc simply reinforce the notion that successful people aren’t necessarily smarter than anyone else. But if they only make $10 billion from every billion they invest in crazy schemes… well they are still some way ahead of most of us.
Amazon has a small window to force the drones back to the office. Once people start having options we're done. WFH will be here to stay.
CSL as a virtual model hobby is a great way to save space and money.

The cool thing is you can paint your cities and still play the traffic management game, down to timing the signals at individual intersections.
Has anyone here tried the baking soda trick? I've read about it but can't imagine the flavor would be any good
You could apply for a British National Overseas (BNO) passport if you were born before 1997, and since 2021 one could stay in UK with BNO. For many people it is the easiest way to leave Hong Kong. Most places are much stricter, my friends going to Australia are going back to studying to apply for a student visa.

The policy is not without flaws though, the youngest BNO holders are now 26, immigration policy that focus on older generation is much harder to work. The 12-18 year olds are having a hard time as well, a 6 year stay is required before you could go to university with home fee, and no home fee basically means no university for many families.
A good cookbook can be life changing, a bad cookbook can be near worthless (maybe this is true of any type of book). "12 Recipes" is a book a chef wrote for one of his kids to learn to cook and I loved it. Some soft cooking skills or other background information about what was actually important and what can be skipped really helped me learn to cook much better for myself.

I think the problem with some cookbooks is that cooking is a somewhat technical or scientific process. If the author is too technical, they can gloss over details that will trouble a home cook, like how tos for complex techniques that they are familiar with, how long things will take someone with less practice, how much prep / cleanup can add up at home compared with working at scale in a restaurant with dedicated prep cooks and dishwashers, etc. My partner was a professional chef for a catering company and the "recipes" they used internally had almost zero details besides ingredient ratios. I couldn't imagine trying to follow one without asking a ton of questions.

On the other hand, some people aren't technical enough and so they can't properly assess the details or break things down into a strong formula for someone else to replicate. They can be vague about measurements, timing, or technique, so even if you follow what's written your result is pretty far from whatever they had done in their own kitchen.

Then there are the "telephone" recipes that have been stolen back and forth from different blogs or articles without anyone making them and over time they've degraded into something just plain wrong.
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I eagerly await when they invent ink that would fade unless you pay for the daily subscription. With the explanation that you are just renting the printing result, but it's actually owned by HP.
That strikes me as a fairly modern thing. I imagine that weevils and/or rocks in flour was a common issue just a few generations ago (or, in many countries, to this day).
Nostalgia wave at seeing images from this game again

I like Cities: Skylines but am a little turned off at how central the traffic management is to the gameplay. Maybe I just never figured out all the right optimizations, but it feels like after a certain city size you're just spending all your time reworking your roads
What's the connection? They can't be a string field because semantically they're tied to another field they're commenting, and they need to be preserved because that info is valuable

Why do you require conversion in this use case?
> “There’s a feeling of the culture and the values that are being told are important for us to bring to the table are not being mirrored by the top executives,” the worker said. “They do not model with their behavior what we are told to do with our roles.”

Are they referring to Amazon's Leadership Principles, or something else?

https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...
I have a lot of Blackberry nostalgia; I was 23 in NYC, 2007ish, and my work-issued BB Curve (later a Bold) plus my personal original iPhone were a combination that I was so happy with. The Blackberry could tether to my early MacBook pro in the remotest of locations, and I could easily SSH into the (real) servers I ran. Never used BBM but played Bricks for hours and hours. I wasn’t nearly as satisfied with an iPhone-only solution until 2017 or so.
The best way to learn the importance of using the right onion is by making french onion soup with red onions.

You'll quickly realize that it belongs straight in the trash.
Wed 5/31 12pm near Bezos's balls (ie the spheres). It would be a shame if other people that are forced back into the office would not show up in support.
Most of them sadly can not get even a non remote job easily. Most of big tech, and Amazon specially, massively lowered their hiring floor to hire more over the years, and are full of extremely incompetent people who will find it hard to survive elsewhere. Orgs are more like fiefdoms and full of incompetent people. A lot of such incompetent people know they are incompetent and go to massive lengths to survive (getting credit for everything they can, acting as information gatekeepers whenever they can).
Sifting flour will still leave you with the lesser of two weevils.
Anyone who wants to get these references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Morel Mushroom Toxicity: An Update (2021) [pdf]
>My beef with SimCity 4 is that it added a bunch of details that make it less fun, like micromanagement of the funding of individual hospitals and police stations. The added complexity didn’t bring any new profound shifts in thinking or strategy, it just created more busywork for the player.

You don't have to do that. Leaving the sliders at defaults work just fine. You only need to tweak them if you wanted to micro-optimize spending, which rarely needed given how easy it is to make a profitable city to start with.
Do you have API access? If so, are you able to find a prompt/response pair where the model `gpt-4-0314` (supposedly the original publicly released version) does worse than `gpt-4` (the current model)? If you don't have API access, you can share some transcripts where the latest version of `gpt-4` seems to have performed worse than it did in the past, and I will try them myself against `gpt-4-0314` and post the results.
100% agree. Fond memories of SC 2000.

The open creation of any layout you could think of was my favorite aspect of the game.

Anyone have a particular recommendation on how to play SC 2000 today on Windows 10?
> “What we’ve seen in the last year is prices rising very rapidly, but wages have not increased nearly as much, and that’s why we have a cost of living crisis,” Gourinchas said, after noting that core inflation remained high in many countries and in some cases was increasing.

EXACTLY. Wages driving inflation my behind. If anything, businesses increasing prices cause other businesses (that purchase their goods) to increase their own prices. While most businesses manage to keep wages low (and increasingly laying off more and more staff). How is increasing unemployment rate supposed to tame the inflation in this scenario????????
Who can get a remote job easily? The top performers. Incoming dead sea effect.
Is this currently in development on a repo somewhere? That sounds really cool, I'd like to pitch in if I see something I can work on
Instead of begging to be exploited by billionaires, yob could band together with your fellow tech workers and win better treatment for all of us.
I thought 3000 was the best showing, though perhaps that's looking at it back later when performance is not as much of a concern. It felt like an upgraded SimCity 2000, rather than a big change in game mechanics that 4 was.
RWKV has been running in public (relatively obscure to other models) for the past 2 years

Mostly lead by a single person (blink). This community consist mostly of people outside the academia / big VC tech scene

When eleutherAI offered to help us with writing the paper. Various key folks banded together for the paper, as it’s what seems to be a very strong alternative to transformers

This does not mean everyone in the discord was credited.

The requirements are for significant contributions to the paper. typically several paragraphs long worth of drafting and revisions

Just doing a line of grammar change or a single benchmark is not enough
Until the kid is 18, the kid is a minor (not legally responsible for debts) and the parent is the 'responsible adult' who IS responsible for debts.

If the kid fucks up, the parent is responsible for that debt. End of story.

Neither Apple nor the bank should have allowed a refund.
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That's very lucky of you. Diplomacy is my favorite game, and some of my friends like it too, but it can be hard to get 7 people committed to something that might last 2 months (or 4 hours if in-person). I'm sure I can find some club in California for this if I try, but I'm already in too many clubs.
If only there were some kind of organization employees could belong to that would help counter the asymmetric power of corporations.