skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've just published a lot of original, visual, and intuitive explanations of concepts to introduce people to large language models.

Kinda frustrating that the main link dumps me onto what reads like a university syllabus, and nothing original, visual, or intuitive.

If I click through the sections in order, there are 5
"preamble" sections describing logistical and other meta-information about the course. All text.

The first pedagogical image I see this this, which tbh doesn't make any sense to me: https://files.readme.io/329efd5-image.png

"Where would you put the word apple?"

The image alone doesn't work without reading the supporting text very closely. I also have to have a pretty sophisticated understanding to get the idea that I can represent words as points in a plane.

Representing the words as icons is fundamentally confusing, too, I think. After all, maybe I say the word "apple" should go in "d" because it has at least two senses: a fruit and a machine.

Oh, sorry, you failed your first quiz!

"You can't fail the quiz, you're not being graded." Then why call it a quiz? Why use classroom metaphors unless you want students to fall back on classroom behaviors?

Of course, you know the #1 student classroom behavior: not reading the syllabus.

But if I have no trouble with that level of abstraction, what's with the cutesty way of describing the problem?

Get rid of all this chocolate-covered broccoli. Just say and show what you mean.

Computers like numbers. Vectors are lists of numbers. Vectors come with concepts like length and distance. We want to transform words into vectors so that words we think of as similar are close together as vectors.

There are many ways to translate words into vectors. Here are 5-10 examples of how we might do that. What are some pros/cons? What relationship(s) do they make clear or obscure?

Get them thinking about what it means to embed things and why we'd want to embed words one way vs. another. That'll pay dividends. Having them remember "where the apple icon goes" isn't going to be something they'll benefit from reflecting on in any future experience.
Anecdotally, I had the opposite experience!

> You'll find that the people that break down at the slightest criticism the most are those that were criticised the most as children as well. Those that had no room for being anything other than perfect. Where value was obtained from performance.

My childhood fits this.

> "Anti-fragile attitude" when it comes to criticism is not built by tolerance

I DID learn these by tolerance!

> self-acceptance and compassion. And these values are learned early on.

I learned these LATE on, in college. I feel like it's typical for a kid, but I was insecure and very much afraid of failure. But when I encountered sustained failure despite my best efforts, it pushed my "attached to performance" ego to the breaking point. That ego broken, I was forced to decoupled my sense of self worth from my performance. I didn't do it consciously, either; it sort of just happened one day. And I literally mean on a day. I felt it the day it happened. It felt like a weight had been lifted, and I found myself unable to care as much, just all of a sudden. I wondered if it was depression, but I felt happier than I ever felt before.

That nerfed my performance somewhat, since it's no longer driven by a frantic self-flagellatory imperative to prove my self-worth, but it also made my quality of life much higher, which I consider an easy trade.

I still care about what I do, and I very much still try to do a good job. I'm just not terrorized when I don't. I feel bad when I don't, but not "I'M A PIECE OF SHIT" bad. It's a more impersonal bad. It also allows me to sincerely welcome criticism; there's no sting to it at all unless I did something colossally stupid and/or the criticism is, like, downright verbally abusive or something (which it's never been so far :p).
When? It's a personal journey for each one. Many need to have bosses before they realize it, others know it in their guts from early age, others didn't want to work at a company but now do, etc.

Re: University. Sure, if it's for learning (useful or not), I think it's a good thing. It's better it's out of curiosity and desire to learn, of course. Sometimes it's because you need that paper to enter regulated fields.
“Reverse imposter syndrome” is a great coinage; I’m going to start using this!
> Before you can submit packages to Debian you have to get an existing Debian developer to sign your PGP key. In Debian the trust flows downward from older developers to newer developers.

This is not how signing works in Debian at a technical level. At at technical level uploading to Debian requires them to add your key to a list of keys maintained by the archive administrators. As a matter of policy those administrators ask you to get your key signed by an existing Debian Developer, but at no point does their upload infrastructure check that or use the Web of Trust.
That's IF there is such a policy, but why would there be one? Why would it be for the good of the site if this weren't disclosed? Do you think that this warrants discretion?
> What needs to happen in your mind to convince you to say: “Oh Shit! Something is happening here.”?

A time machine. Nvidia has been a strong buy since Pascal, anyone who's investing now is only reaping their diminishing returns.
If your just trying to get functionality out and the UI isn't a big part of the value proposition then why not.
Your counterpoint is demonstrably wrong. We landed men on the moon as a direct result of our understanding of physics, to say nothing of bridges built, supersonic planes flown, the fluid mechanics that underpin popelines, dams, etc.

Nutritional science has no such trophies
IMHO, it was already there, but it was in denial.

Since covid, rents increases have far outpaced salary increases. And since 2022 so have bill, groceries, everything.

But then again so is most of Europe.
This looks like a pretty great resource and I'm looking forward to checking it out. My only ask is that since it's the type of site I'd probably be looking at for quite a while it'd be nice if it had a dark mode.
maybe federally, but there are local laws too, including the states of massachusetts, rhode island, and new jersey. Also NYC, Philly, and San Francisco: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fac...

Blocking unbanked people from the economy is sorta bad if you have any kind of homeless population.
Technical recession. Recession nonetheless. The ECB has a real problem with asymmetry. Can't cut rates just for Germany. At the same time there's high inflation in Austria, Slovenia and the Baltics.
It's definitely similar, but I think it's _subtly_ different (though it's often found in the same people).

Dunning-Kruger is, approximately "I'm good at the thing I do" (by someone who is actually incompetent).

What I'm talking about is "That thing that other people are doing is really easy; I'd be good at it" (the thing is not easy, and they would not be good at it).

If the person in the latter case actually ends up doing the allegedly easy thing, they may realise that actually they are not good at it, in which case it's not Dunning-Kruger. This is pretty common, I think; person barges in, saying "this will be easy, because I've decided the thing I'm good at is more difficult than it", admits it's not easy, and either leaves or learns. Alternatively of course they may retreat into full Dunning-Kruger; see the Musk Twitter debacle, which is _both_, say.
There is a growing trend that when research doesn't hold up (especially in regards to its significance/magnitude/importance), we resort to blaming the journalists who printed the article hyping it. That is seen on here constantly.

Only if one looks any deeper they find that the journalists printed the summary provided by the researchers. That they accurately captured the message the researchers were pushing. Researchers want eyeballs, and they want the funding that comes with attention, along with the personal prestige, and this has proven incredibly corrupting. Add that a pretty good percentage of nutrition research is funded by parties with deeply conflicted interests.

In any case, the site is largely accurate. The nutrition field has made extraordinarily little progress. Right now, in 2023, pretty much the only solid nutrition conclusion is "don't eat too much. Eat a variety". Almost everything else does not stand any scrutiny at all. It seems entirely valid to dismiss the nutrition field given the past forty years.

It's actually interesting watching a subreddit like /r/nutrition. The place could as easily be people discussing their healing crystals and chakras. That's where we're at right now.
> Really your conscious experience is quite empty/vacuous.

I don't know about that. Maybe you need to elaborate more, but the fact that we are aware of our own consciousness and can practice introspection and speak of concepts like qualia suggests to me that consciousness is not completely empty/vacuous.

> Back to my early point about vision being grainy. The point there is that vision has artifacts of it's medium. It isn't some perfect magical substance that gives a continuous, smooth qualitative experience, rather it is grainy, and likely a physical configuration of neurons.

I fully agree with this statement. I'm well aware that our perception of reality is highly distorted/skewed and sensory information is heavily processed in the brain before it enters our sensory consciousness.

> ... it becomes pretty clearly it is entirely physical.

It's very plausible that the organization of neurons in the brain relates to our conscious experience. However, there are so many problems with the "physical" interpretation of consciousness. The entire brain is "physical" and very active yet only parts are conscious and others subconscious.

A fairly recent study challenges the idea of split brain consciousness, suggesting there may be something separate allowing the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate despite being separated by a corpus callosotomy.

https://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/

A very interesting case study, twins joined at the head, their physical brains strongly connected. They can control each other's limbs, "see through each other's eyes", and even know each other's thoughts. Yet despite that, each girl still has a mind of their own. Two separate consciousness, where is the physical barrier?

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/inseparable

> So the onus falls back onto you, what extra stuff is there?

Electromagnetism? Nuclear forces? Spacetime? Quantum entanglement? Superposition? Higgs field? Wave-particle duality? Dark matter? Dark energy?

One interpretation of particles (electrons, neutrons, photons, ...) is as excitations in a quantum field.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/

Saying consciousness is "entirely physical" is a rather meaningless statement when we don't even know what "physical" is. Nobody really knows what is the true objective nature of reality.
Yes, they man in the middled my menu download. They told me that Beth's Salad had no chicken, but it really had chicken.
Ask AI anything about the interviews you run
When you do it this way isn't even a framework is just a helper library (at his best). There is another concept for this kind of micro-libraries but calling "framework" to something that will not establish a frame of work for you.
Charts on charts on charts

I've converted from an excel wiz to python, but making charts was always the bane of my existence in python, until GPT. And I personally use 3.5 more than 4 because of the speed, but I used 4 when I need something critical or I know I need it to balance multiple thoughts.
I recognize that I am not at the finish line.

I can keep moving forward on my own, but criticism helps me go in the right direction.

I want constructive criticism. I want it raw and direct. I want it from a friend who can hear my own criticism of them.
is there a service that can print, bind and mail PDFs with as many pages as this? It'll be useful for some of the manuals I have to read too
Even with the government grant taken into account it would cost me £3,000 to have a heat pump installed at my house. The running costs would be around £500-600 a year more than I'm paying to heat my home with gas at present, and that's with my gas bill having almost trebled over the last year and a bit. Financially, as things stand, it would be lunacy for me to scrap the gas boiler in favour of a heat pump.
People don’t understand the reliability of tape. I would never trust a hard drive for archival storage. Also, offline backups are an amazing insurance against ransomware. Just let a company like IronMountain pick up the tapes, it works well.

However it feels irrelevant for a company who exclusively operates in the cloud.
> So what are they going to do about it?

If they think they can prove you used it to develop a competing service, sue you for breaking the TOS and recover the greater of the harm it did to their business or the amount of your profits from the service that are due to the uae of GPT-4 in violation of the agreement.
Completely off topic. On that page we see the following conversation:

> Jason Sneer
> Using a white background and slapping the icon on top of that is just lazy… The adaptive icon exists for Android, which means that you can use a glyph on top of a colored background. Why go with the white background?

> Jason Evangelho
> Read the entire post? There is an Android Adaptive version.

Does it annoy anyone else to see people who write statements and put a question mark in front? "Read the entire post" is not a question, and shouldn't have a question mark.
A website? You had actual websites? We got mostly PDFs of paper menus. And they would often give you an actual paper menu if you asked.

Everyone forgot about digital menus fairly quickly after it became clear that covid doesn't spread through surfaces though.
Oh man, here we go down pedantic path. It's so important to be right. I'll explain my logic since you asked, then we can happily part ways if you'd like.

> and enough control that meeting-spawners won’t get hired.

Ok, you want enough control to say that any meeting-inclined person cannot join the company. This means that every person who would join the company has to appear, to you personally, to be a non-meeting-inclined person, and that if you find them too-meeting-inclined, you can veto the hire no matter how many other people want to hire them. The logical conclusion is either that you personally review every hire, or that you adjust the hiring process to include an infallible "whithinboredom approves of this hire" check, which must be conducted by every interview cycle.

So, yeah, you now control the entire hiring (and presumably firing) decision process.
I used to work in nuclear power which had probably the best culture of not taking things personally I have ever been a part of. The workers were mostly aligned with the idea that our job was primarily to be safe and secondarily to perform work. If something wasn't safe you were obligated, but also supported, to do so. The concept of making mistakes was reframed as a problem with process and not a personal failing of the person.

Process, not people. That concept has been a central driver of the culture I carry forward. If things are going wrong it is infinitely more productive to assume people want to succeed, but the process we have has prevented the outcome we want somehow. Even if sn individual made a mistake it is still possible to point to training, procedure, or even culture as being the real issue. This doesn't apply in cases of ignoring process or intentional incompetence, but that was very rare.

When people criticize me I am quick to try and focus on what could have been different about the process to lead to a better outcome or how I could have better managed expectations to reduce confusion. Of course I am in product management so managing expectations is what I do. So often disappointment and frustration come from a place of confusion. The more transparency someone has into why things happened the better they usually feel about the outcome.

TL;DR Focus not on yourself but the process that lead to the outcome. Mistakes are inevitable. Bad outcomes from mistakes only happen in poorly designed systems and processes.
> One of my favorite ideas in Structure is Kuhn's observation that contradictory evidence seldom suffices to overturn a scientific theory.

That's not Kuhn's observation. Evidence immediately overturns a theory. What evidence doesn't do is get the scientific establishment to accept the new evidence. It's why paradigm shifts are rare and take a lot of time to happen. In many instances, society simply has to wait for the old to die and the new to gain power.

> (particularly in political discussions).

That was kuhn's point. Science operates more like politics and religion than science. Many times there is no reason, evidence or argument to change poeple's minds. You have to simply wait for the old guard to die off so that the new guard can usher in a paradigm shift.

It's how einstein went to the grave believing "god does not play dice" regardless of all the evidence. And his death moved physics from the deterministic to the nondeterministic world ( paradigm shift ). For all the praise einstein gets, he was wrong about the most important and fundamental aspect of physics.
>The ECB has a real problem with asymmetry. Can't cut rates just for Germany.

It's as if a single currency and a single central bank for 25 different economies with different levels of debt, doesn't really work that well in every situation.

> At the same time there's high inflation in Austria

Inflation in Austria is now mostly due to greedflation. If you cross the border into Germany the same goods are suddenly cheaper.
More realistically you are deploying two of the servers; redundancy is not backup. And now you have two servers to administer.

The whole point of something like tape is having an off-line copy of your data, ideally in a separate physical location. A second server with a bunch of disk in the same location connected to the same network isn't that, and will not save you from ransomware or natural disaster.
Breach of contract for violating the TOS agreed to when signinf uo for the service doesn’t depend on copyright.
On a related note, I own a few older tape drives[1], have access to many more[2], and would be happy to volunteer my time and equipment to small-scale hobbyist / retrocomputing projects such as this — tape format conversions were a considerable part of my day job for several years, and tape drives are now a minor hobby.

See my profile for contact information.

[1] 9-track reel, IBM 3570, IBM 3590, early IBM 3592, early LTO, DLT ranging from TK-50 to DLT8000.

[2] IBM 3480/3490/3490E, most 4mm and 8mm formats, most full-sized QIC formats including HP 9144/9145, several QIC MC/Travan drives with floppy controllers of some description, a Benchmark DLT1 assuming it still works, probably a few others I'm forgetting about.
There’s a very major caveat of jumping off keto abruptly (having a cheat day): https://www.everydayhealth.com/ketogenic-diet/cheat-day-on-k...

Sudden jump off keto may cause inflammatory damage to the endothelium of your blood vessels, and while in that one study, effects had been “transient”, I wouldn’t risk cheat days without a very gradual reintroduction of carbs, and surely not repeated cheat days. (My personal fat diabetic ass says it had a lifetime of carbs, though, so that’s not happening for me until at least 20 kg later.)

I know it’s just one study, but I would rather be safe than sorry until we know more. Case in point: the study subjects were all young and healthy, and most people who really need to go very low carb are not.
Although AI has been all the rage lately, I was actually always excited the most by building a compiler. After a few years of dabbling with it, I created one together with my brother: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp

It is a DSL (a simple config language for building web apps) so not that complicated as a Turing-complete language, but still a lot of concepts remain.

As a good starting resources for building your own compiler I'd also recommend Crafting Interpreters, super nicely explained and fun to go through: https://craftinginterpreters.com/
I just saw a Twitter bio that said "2x father 2x Ironman finisher". Thank god for the blue check blocker extension.
At <company>, we are family
> you realise that no one was really thinking about you anyway

I realized this way early in life and it was liberating. Even then, I wish I had realized it sooner.
This makes my weekend, going to binge this. Email in profile if I can buy you a coffee or beer for sharing. Thanks for taking the time!
Even if you just hang onto an old iPhone for a long time (I still use my 6s), these sorts of “smartphone-required” activities become more and more painful every year.

I would honestly recommend everyone, especially on this site, use a cheap android or an old iphone from time to time to see what the experiences you’re building are like for the large subset of people who don’t upgrade to the newest iphone every year.
Doesn't the US do the same with states instead of countries?
What should ordinary people in the territories do?
Sure that's doable if the site is static only. I was going off the SSR terminology which usually means the html is rendered at the time of request instead of built one ahead of time (SSG)
You do not believe that there are any Palestinians who might have legitimate uses for PayPal?
I administer a very very large tape library on a daily basis, with roughly 30pb of video in our backups. LTO tape is just simply more economical when you're at that amount of data. We looked into replacing it with object storage but the cost was more than double than it was to buy a LTO-9 tape library and a fast spinning disk storage pool for nearline archives than it was to go with the object storage solution.
Actually, on second thoughts, I should possibly have called it intruder syndrome :) (Reverse imposter syndrome could just describe Dunning-Kruger depending on which axis you're reversing...)
Code prompts for iOS Development using React
"Please help me understand <interrogative>"

"I don't think I understand this completely, can you tell me <interrogative>"
If Deno has no Node compatibility then you know that no Deno library pulls Node modules in with it, because it's impossible. The more seamless node interop becomes, the harder it will be to sift the Pure Organic Deno libraries from the NPM-infused Deno libraries.

So, on the contrary: Node becoming embraced by the wider ecosystem absolutely hurts pure Deno projects because they'll rapidly become perceived as a fundamentalist minority that doesn't need to be catered to, where the original idea was that all projects would be pure.
Alien was released 44 years ago today
OpenAI: Profits cap will no longer fit as capital surges in
https://archive.is/quXHD
Panic's Transmit debuted in the late 90s and is still going strong: https://www.panic.com/transmit/

Coincidentally, this post is currently adjacent to one on the Thunderbird logo redesign: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063943
The landing page is technically the course overview. I'd love to hear what you think would've made it more engaging for you. We can probably pull up some of the visuals to it as a preview. Let me see what we can do on that front.
Even last generation tape drives have hardware encryption built in. And it doesn't make sense to me that they would encrypt, then compress. That would completely invalidate the compression for absolutely no benefit.
Glad to see the move off of autoconf to meson.
On one hand I agree with you but on the other, it's the exact same thing as staring at a menu, just on a small metal rectangle.