skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean you could say the anti peloton (mirror lol?) shill bots are out hard based on your post. Just because lots of people find a system that works for them you have to tear it down and make fun of it?

The privilege of this is ridiculous. Not everyone has a safe place they can ride around outside for free at. I live in a big city in California and wouldn’t be caught dead riding outside from the terrible air quality to the horrible drivers that could kill me at seconds notice because the bike infrastructure around here is terrible. And if I wanted to get somewhere in the city where it’s better I need to pay for transit or drive, so not free.

I’m a software engineer who loves using it to get a workout in during my day that would otherwise require me as you say travel 15 min each way to closest gym, pay for a gym membership that’s way more than 44 bucks and includes a shitty spin bike that isn’t maintained well unless it’s in a class that I have follow their schedule for. Then head back home 15 min. Yessss so much easer then picking a class to start when I want to and not wasting 30 min driving.
Would it be so bad on git blame? Assuming all/nearly all comments are on their own lines, I would not expect that part to be a problem. The main problem I would see would be finding a way to merge in such a huge PR with lots of people actively working in these files, so there would be a lot of “merge conflicts” each time people tried to land their branches after one of these mega-comment-PRs went in.
Going to have to disagree with a lot of this based on my experiences.
If I need to name a personal computer, I will name it after a famous computer, like DeepThought.
The difference is that there are small things and changes in your routine you can do to counteract those negative effects of sitting at a desk. You can’t do the same with a manual labor job.
> I think this is going to be a good thing for those people

I want to see you say "You losing your job is actually freaking great!" to the face of one of to those 10k employees who now have to figure out how to pay the next couple of months' mortgage while they try to find a job in a now cautious market overflowing with laid off employees. And please, make sure to tell them it's good for the economy, that should make them even happier.

You cannot seriously be saying you feel for them and tell them them losing their livelihood in this economy is good for them either. Not everyone wants to have a high impact transformative job or change the world. Tons of people - I'd say most - work to pay the bills.
Once again, these sound like issues with poorly done modals.

I've made multiple websites where URLs are routed to modals because the app made most sense as pages on top of an underlying state. GET /things/42/edit loads thing#42 in the background and opens the edit modal prefilled with thing#42's info.

A more obvious example is /login and /register in a modal, a cherry on top if logging in or registering doesn't reset app state if the user decides to register halfway through a task.

Preserving form data during navigation is something you have to consider for any form, even forms on the same page or separate pages where you don't want the form to clear when the user navigates away. One key design principle of modals is to make them mentally cheap to open/close/reopen, and modal state preservation is usually a part of that.
It was hideously expensive to develop interceptor missiles too though.

(But yes, SDI had almost no chance of working at the time.)
Flatpak only provides GUI apps though. No cli tools, system software, etc.
Why pay for a perpetual license if most games see no significant sales after a few years? Everybody that wanted to buy GTA Vice city did it ages ago.
A programmer who wants more physical exertion can drop by the gym or go for a run a few times a week, to keep healthy.

A bathroom fitter who wants less physical exertion, though? Ain't nobody else going to haul that 700 lbs pallet of tiles or that awkward ass bathtub up that staircase.
You don't really get a chance to sit down. A lot of it is kinda leaning into or towards whatever you're doing which is a laborious posture to hold.
Rongorongo – undeciphered script of Rapa Nui
You are correct, but you are an outlier. The vast majority of organizations who are serving the quantity of requests trust Wikimedia is serving, are commercial entities.
I think in practice, what ends up happening, is that small businesses don't really bother to comply while they fly under the radar. Or they just end up buying an e-commerce plugin that handles the minimum.
We had one for GDPR and then they just added support for CCPA when that was a thing.
If we're doing our job right then HH should only be answering based on its source content (and not background knowledge). So bad answers coming from incorrect source content would need to be corrected in the source content. Citations should help with this, e.g. as a human admit, review answer -> notice it's bad -> click citation -> locate incorrect part -> change it.

Also thinking about ways to ensure the bot answers common questions correctly while still being able to personalize responses. Working on something called "answer shaping" where an admin can write out a response and tag with the question it responds to. Then the bot would first check to see if the human question matches a cached question, and if so would prioritize using info in the cached answer in its response. Seems like this can give the bot freedom to personalize the answer but make sure it includes the right stuff.
This is off topic. Clearly we all know the LLM is flawed. We are just talking about it's capabilities in debugging.

Why does it always get side tracked into a comparison on how useful it is compared to human capability? Everyone already knows it has issues.

It always descends into a "it won't replace me it's not smart enough" or a "AI will only help me do my job better" direction. Guys, keep your emotions out of discussions. The only way of dealing with AI is to discuss the ramifications and future projections impartially.
The actual title "Why the Original Transformer Figure Is Wrong, and Some Other Interesting Historical Tidbits About LLMs" is way more representative of what this post is about...

As to the figure being wrong, it's kind of a nit-pick:
"While the original transformer figure above (from Attention Is All Your Need, https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762) is a helpful summary of the original encoder-decoder architecture, there is a slight discrepancy in this figure.

For instance, it places the layer normalization between the residual blocks, which doesn't match the official (updated) code implementation accompanying the original transformer paper. The variant shown in the Attention Is All Your Need figure is known as Post-LN Transformer."
The truth is that few American voters really give a shit if the CIA blows up a bunch of foreigners in Arabistan.
Didn't work out so well for Branson.
Yes, great point! The idea is that you can fix up a problem with data in place, while you're updating your ingest pipeline to handle whatever is causing the problem. You can do a transform on the errors into clean data, delete the errors, and commit the changes atomically. In the meantime, queries and searches can still run on the data that isn't problematic and even if there are errors inside of a hierarchical value, queries can be run on the portions of the value that are clean and intact while the errors are being addressed.
Rate of change is a significant factor.

Electrification is an example of that, it takes a massive amount of time to put the infrastructure in. Then even when you got a power pole to your house, you had to run lights and it was unlikely you had any other appliances that used power. Those were slowly and expensively added over time.

AI may work from the opposite direction. It uses the infrastructure that already exists, we have power poles, and network lines, and all kinds of computing devices gathering information and feeding it back to datacenters. This sets up a 'fertile data environment'. One potential outcome here is we see an increase AI compute power over the next few years with only a moderate increase in AI intelligence, then by change in algorithm that compute power is now far more efficient in creating intelligence. This could manifest itself as "AI is a great helper for a programmer" to "Actually, why do we have so many human programmers at all" in an exceptionally short time frame.

It is the disruptive timeframe that is the largest risk to society. If for some reason we go from "Corporations need people" to "Corporations don't need people" in a very short time frame, we'll Moloch ourselves in to high unemployment and social instability quickly.
> Under water I think you'll find there is jet propulsion.

Technically, yes, but most people are going to be thinking of the spinning turbines of doom with the absurdly hot fire in the middle, and that isn't.
The current (and past) electricity prices in most of Europe can be found on nordpool.

Three days ago, in Denmark, prices went as low as -41.37Eur/MWh (where 100Eur/MWh is a common price otherwise).

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-...

At the moment electricity is cheapest (and therefore greenest) in the afternoon. Probably because of solar (partially from Germany).

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

It's also great to see how much green energy Spain got recently.
But it's that CEO that defines the direction of the company. He personally asks for users to be banned, and for other users to be promoted. Sure, he doesn't directly influence what users write, but he does directly influence what they see.
> Modal sometimes also works as a peek view of a resource.

That's what thumbnails and stubs are for.

> In fact, you can make a link open modal with left click but open in new tab with middle click. I think it is the most balanced way in my opinion.

Cool. How do I "middle click" on my phone? Left click is "open resource" by default. If a webapp doesn't have a damn good reason to overwrite the browsers default behavior, it shouldn't.

And "we thought it would make the design really pop", is not one of those reasons.
A lot of the "water used for livestock" is used on crops that are exported for livestock that live elsewhere. A tax on meat domestically won't hit that. A tax on exports would be very unpopular, for obvious reasons.
A couple of things:

- The convenience stores closest to areas that tend to have a lot of tourists, along with not allowing access to toilets, tend to not have their trash cans out either.

- You have to know to go into a convenience store

- The trash bins near vending machines are for cups, so when you have the rice ball wrapper on you, it's a whole thing.

I do think it's very manageable when you know but It did not really "get" the trash strategy until someone pointed it out to me. Every day somebody is born that doesn't know to walk to the back of the Family Mart to find the trashcan
I sat in the Australian outback with a pencil and a block of paper, and discovered a way of mapping n-dimensional geometries in the permutations of a braid.

I also invented a set of fuzzy logic functions based on the powers of i, and also invented some "shhh!" things, which might some day become commercially important to me
That is called "sweating" the onions
It says it's outputting more heat energy than electricity it is putting in. That's physical impossible.
"isn’t going anywhere" can mean:

a) it isn't making progress

b) it isn't going away

c) you can count on it
Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface
That's awesome! Since you mention data analytics and being able to get to people quickly, have a look at 'set covering problem' for ways to find optimal solutions.
Yeah, I have a similar problem; I have [firstname][lastname] as a Gmail, and I do get a good chunk of emails targeted to people who are not me.

Fortunately my last name isn't terribly popular in the English-speaking world, and my first name (Thomas) isn't super popular in Germany, so it's not a huge deal. Still, it was annoying enough to where I eventually just bought [lastname].app and set up an email for that.
> ...practice and develop my social skills which wasn't something I was able to do as an engineer...

An affiliated note to junior engineers out there reading this. The more senior your role in software development organizations, the more you rely upon your social skills to demonstrate value. OP's six years would only have exposed them to the very beginnings of that effect that are often subtle at that stage.

Also, if you go into any client-facing software role like sales engineering, your value is tied directly into your social skill development from Day 0.

Dale Carnegie's classic How to Win Friends and Influence People is a decent place to start if you are interested but don't have a network or a mentor to lean upon (classic chicken and egg problem for introverts who want to learn to "pass" as extroverts or even become extroverts).
I agree with everything you said here. I also have another rule: I never reuse a machine name. If a machine gets retired, the name it had is retired along with it.

I started doing that after a hard-to-diagnose problem that resulted from restoring a configuration file that referred to a machine that had been retired, but the name was reused, making it refer to the wrong machine.
I’m not complaining about “having it worse”. I had two 3000 square foot houses built in the burbs, off of my corp dev compensation over the years, went on plenty of vacations and had a good middle class life.

I’m saying I don’t spend energy being “frustrated” about what a CEO says who doesn’t know me from Adam. My energy is better spent reading between the bullshit and preparing myself.

Do you also get frustrated by politicians lies?

Again, cry me a river for people who can’t live off of 3x+ the median wage in the US instead of 7x+ Yes I’m in the latter group.

I’ve changed jobs 8 times in my career not counting two or three contract jobs. I have it down to science now. It would be harder for me in this hiring environment admittedly.

I made damn sure I didn’t suffer from lifestyle inflation when my compensation went from working at a 60 person startup in corp dev to BigTech. For me it’s more like “it was fun while it lasted” and I used the money to increase my financial stability.
Against climate hypocrisy: why the IPCC needs its own net-zero target
One thing I would add to the accurate description that responded to you, is that it is by its very nature very amorphous and evasive. It’s not really all that unique or special, it is the same entropy that the tech community is far more aware of than the government/politics community is. The reason for that difference is that there is immediate benefit that comes from the deconstruction and corruption of structure in government/politics, which is generally not only not the case in tech but the opposite is true.

There are no benefits or advantages I can think of that come from sloppiness and deconstruction. In politics/government there are not only immediate but ever growing benefits from corruption and reconstruction of the processes and structures that come to the people at the top and the apparatchiks/aristocracy/bureaucracy they bring along as bolster and shielding.

People call it different things, but what is clearly emerging in all western societies simultaneously is not at all what the ruling class claims, but rather the authoritarian default that the American Revolution in particular has been a thorn in the eye of for a few centuries now. It is why these duplicitous forces have been attacking and undermining the Constitution of the USA for so long, because it is the only document/philosophy in history that has determined the limits the people place on government rather than government determining the limits on the people.

In many ways, the US Constitution was the only real revolution in human history, one that turns the power dynamic on its head. That is being destroyed right now and I guarantee when (if?) that dam breaks, it will be far worse for the rest of humanity than America. The world takes for granted that everything we enjoy is a function of the US Constitution that is being destroyed right now.

It may all end super well for the elevated privileged classes in this community in particular, but at best it will end horribly for most everyone else. Another possibility is that it all goes sideways as things are wont to and many here end up a head shorter.
Break Out the Purple Carrots
By what metric is Halley's Comet a planet though?
I can actually imagine a stage, past where we are now but before AGIs just writing all the software, where a repo consists of the prompts describing each module in a way that an AI would be able to generate it. Update the software by editing the prompts, or more likely, by asking an AI to make the necessary changes to all the prompts to add a particular feature.
> vituperativeness

> vituperative - : uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse. [1]

I suppose I've got my word of the day.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vituperative
despite the needlessly hostile tone of my initial message, i'm curious what you see as the pros and cons of "yet another library" knowing about the low-level stuff rather than the kernel knowing about it
During market growth stages, laying off would be something that would be a red flag.

You only focused on a small part of the person’s comment. The comment also said when stock is going down, lay offs help. They likely aren’t talking in absolutes anyway

Were there hiring surges for companies whose valuations were not going up?
Thanks, I have edited my comment to meet the requirements of the community.
This is rational, I wish I could just do this but my ego is in the way and I don’t like being wrong.
> but spends most of their time on mobile devices are definately not pirating anything

I pirate books more through the browser on my phone than I do anywhere else. 10x as much as all other places combined is a conservative estimate.

Video and music is done on a desktop, though, sure.
As someone who started reading ML papers 10 years ago, I find transformers pretty simple compared to most architectures. For example Google's Inception was a complex mesh of various sized convolutions, other models have an internal algorithm like Non Maximum Suppression for object detection, or Connectionist Temporal Classification for OCR, GANs use complicated probability theory for the loss function. Even LSTM is more complicated.

If anything, we have been abandoning exotic neural nets in favour of a single architecture and that one is pretty simple, just linear layers (vector-matrix product), key-value products (matrix-matrix product), softmax (fancy normalisation), weighted averaging (a sum of products) and skip connections (an addition). Maybe it's become hard for me to see what is complicated about it, I'd be curious to know what part is difficult. Is it the embeddings, masking, multiple heads, gradient descent, ...? Embeddings have been famous for 10 years, ever since the king - man + woman = queen paper. You don't need to be able to derive the gradients for the network by hand to understand it.

In short, a transformer is mixing information between tokens in a sequence and computing updates. The mixing part is the "self attention" or "cross attention". The updating part is the feed-forward sublayer. It has skip connections (adds the input to the output) in order to keep training stable.
Same with Google: there's always an outside firm that does the work. The Google attorney was in charge and monitored all their bills.
I personally have zero hope that we'll succeed in mitigating "tipping point", irreversible climate change. I'm less doom-and-gloom about it than most, though, since I think we'll find ways to adapt, and a sort of apocalyptic human-ending scenario doesn't seem likely to me.

Don't get me wrong, "adapt" is going to be painful. But I think it will be painful in the way the industrial revolution was painful: Lots and lots of cultural displacement, shifts in lifestyles, etc. But it'll also make some new billionaires and powerhouse industrial centers based around the need to fundamentally change our society to stop making it worse and to solve the problems a heating globe produces.
The money poured into this without effect was astonishing.
> when they give you 3% cash back, the credit card company has to be making at least that much more by selling something.

I don't think tracking purchases is worth 3% cashback for the average credit card customer (FB make around $10 each user whilst tracking their entire life on the internet). 3% is probably a loss leading/introductory offer, but 1-2% is paid for by retailer charges.

There's a good breakdown of who pays and receives what in a $100 purchase in the figure half way down the article here: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/05/15/the-old-... archived at https://archive.ph/CNFx3
I don’t agree that the article makes this clear. The article states

> These are specifically designed for ballistic threats, which are common, and their extreme effectiveness is precisely why Russia and China have invested in something else.

And

> Russia used hypersonic missiles against Ukraine” — alarming! The average member of the public, as well as many policymakers, now understand that these things are dangerous because they are just too fast to shoot down. Clearly something needs to be done… (sarcastic)

It really ought to make clear explicitly in the article that the missiles it referred to in the beginning are NOT what it spends the rest of the article discussing.

It confused me at least. Because, without doing further research, I assumed the Kinzhals must not be ballistic because they’re indirectly referenced in an article about maneuverable missiles!
Well, that's true, but I guess it just makes sense. Sci-fi is generally set in the future. LOTR is set in the past.
>At On Deck, we believe technology is the best mechanism we have to solve complex societal problems. Climate, affordable housing, access to food, the rise of AI, education and low-cost transportation are all issues that startups are best suited to bring their technological solutions to the mass market.

The companies listed in the sidebar are actually pretty great, at least in concept and in what they are trying to do. But they are great because they are very focused on a specific market/niche with a solvable problem. But we've already seen when startup companies attack these large problems and they always backfire because you can't tackle these fundamental societal issues through the free market.

Startup for low-cost transportation? Like Uber? Yeah that's been going well.

Rise of AI? And Sam Altman is deeply committed to safety.

Most of the reasons why these issues exist in the first place is because capital upholds it. If you want to fix the world, be a politician or a good neighbor.
Which is especially amusing because when copyright was invented it was only corporations that could realistically own copying machines (ie. printing presses). It was never meant to stop individuals copying things.
I agree, and I also don't think that modals should be used for these things. I merely also agree with the article that these are use cases when a modal "can" be used. It still isn't a good solution, but at least it doesn't actively hurt my ability to access a resource.
Everything is this way. Unless it’s really egregious, you can probably just pay a settlement and make it go away.
This exact reasoning is why I've always been kind of annoyed by the song Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe by Kendrick Lamar.
In the chorus he goes "I can feel your energy from two planets away" and even though I know art doesn't have to conform to scientific reality, poetry and music almost especially, it ALWAYS bugged me from the first time I heard it til today.
Like what does 2 planets away even mean? that's a hugely variable distance.