skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, once they've started writing rhyming poetry it's hard to get them to stop rhyming. They seem to have formed a strong association between rhyming and poetry. I've also been unable to get them to obey a specific rhyming scheme like ABBAB.

Correct and commonly observed (eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11064 ). (At least, for GPT models. I don't know as much about the Anthropic models as I should, although I understand they do still use a BPE tokenization, unfortunately.) My theory is that it is a surprising interaction of BPEs with RLHF: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-...

As much as they look like they can, they can't rhyme because of BPEs still. What they have done in lieu of genuine phonetic understanding is, more or less, memorized a ton of rhyme-pairs: they only have a vast patchwork of half-understood phonetics discerned dimly through the lossy compression of BPEs and memorized pairs. If you don't force them out of the memorized space and let them write without interruption, they look like they understand, but they still don't.

Then RLHF punishes them for any incorrect poetry, so they never leave the memorized space on their own because that's the only way to guarantee correct rhyming poetry. And since there is no way for it to tell the difference between 'rhymes but I don't know that it rhymes because BPEs' and 'deliberately nonrhyming poetry', much less what the difference is between 'ABBAB' and 'AABBAA', it just always does rhyming quatrains etc. Why take the risk?

Also applies to jokes and joke explanations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04563 It can't understand properly what is a joke or not, because it's blind to what makes a vast number of jokes work, so it just memorizes a few safe jokes and assumes anything presented to it as a joke must be one of the countless jokes that it can't understand & makes up its best guess.
Surveys of socially desirable behavior are susceptible to [socially desirable responding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias). It's unclear how, or if, this particular survey accounted for such bias.

On the broader topic of tipping, I think of it as a tax on nice people.
Rather, the vocal minority overestimates it. The vast majority of social media users don't give a shit, they'll continue using the platform.
I'm really not understanding why this is being called a contradiction. These studies have, in a good scientific fashion, uncovered some amount of evidence. This evidence has to stand up against 25 years of the FDA recognizing sucralose as generally-recognized-as-safe (GRAS), and the decades prior that made it reach that point. That's a tall hurdle!

A contradiction as the term is being used here, to claim my position is invalid, would mean the studies have found some mathematical proof from axioms that sucralose is toxic. If they did, that would certainly be a contradiction! But that's not what happened. They ran some experiments and found their results. That's good science! But that's not the sort of thing that creates a logical contradiction. Their results don't immediately invalidate 25 years of GRAS status and the decades of work and observation that resulted in that status. They say something more like "hey that's interesting, and worth taking a closer look and getting a better understanding".

My statement that seems to cause some bones of contention was "there's absolutely nothing wrong with consuming sucralose". The study might cause some disagreement there, but the FDA agrees with me on this one. That's not a contradiction in my logic, that's a scientific disagreement. People can disagree in science without there being a contradiction in the logic of either side. Logic has some pretty strict mathematical requirements, after all.

edit: Aand, going back to what I originally wrote, this is the exact statement from the other user that I said I was not contradicting with anything I wrote: "There are studies for and against artificial sweeteners. There are studies funded by industry. There is such a thing as corruption in science and corruption in regulatory agencies. The global artificial sweetener market size is $7 Billion."

All of those things are true, and nothing I wrote addresses them at all. From there we seemed to have launched into a debate about studies. Which, that's fine, but that's a totally separate type of disagreement!
We shouldn’t crow about people being fired. But I’ve had that anti-Apple attitude leveraged at me in _so many meetings_. Having to smile and be polite to the face of people who keep referring to your choice of hardware as “fisher price” or “a toy” or “for sheep” is tiring and infuriating. I’m an engineer, and I made my decision with as much technical and design knowledge as anyone else

In my experience it’s also extremely one sided. I work with Windows, Android and Apple colleagues and the amount of times I hear “Xcode is crap haha”, “How can they live with such a shitty OS” etc. makes me wonder if all this is rooted in deep insecurity or something? Some Windows-centric people in senior management places I have worked will use me taking my iPhone out of my pocket as an opportunity to criticise the platform, my choice, and so on

I’m sure that some Apple users are quick to do the same, but in my experience they just tend to get on with their lives
...following a surge in sales that hasn't been seen in decades. I thought we were past covidbait headlines.
One of the opponents in the article says nuclear power is not a silver bullet. But that argument only makes sense if people are advocating nuclear power to the exclusion of other techniques to deal with renewable generation being unavailable. Are there many nuclear power advocates who oppose grid upgrades or moving energy use toward times of day when renewables are generating a surplus?
In a word, you are wrong.

Prove it, show me something.

Your evidence is meaningless.

I showed you benchmarks with source code. You showed me nothing.

Heck, even bubble sort could beat heap sort or quick sort under some circumstances.

It isn't going to beat them on 32 million floats, which was what that benchmark showed. And are you now mixing up actual execution time with your other bizarre claims where 'speed' and 'faster' for some reason don't mean less time?

Okay, there are some ties. I never said there are no ties.

You did actually, now you're back peddling hard. Also these don't tie, they are faster because of locality.

Third, I gave the reference, D. Knuth's famous book.

Link something then, link any trace of what you are saying.

The Gleason bound is one of the nicer, most powerful, most useful, most important pieces of work in all of computer science,

Then why is there no evidence that it exists? Link me literally anything you can.

You have some problems, some blocks in understanding.

No, I have evidence and links that back up what I'm saying. You keep repeating the same things with no evidence. Link me literally anything you can find that reinforces your claims.

For your emotional problems, nothing in computing, computer science, or my writing can help you.

This is pure projection.
Same. Never heard of him
Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance and Efficiency in 2023
Because whenever I use it, I start feeling like maybe the XDA forums aren’t so bad.
Will definitely checkout discord’s hash ring!

Thank you for your feedback.
You're assuming he can pay 20 million dollars. The point is that he can't, or even a fraction of that, so there's no point to wining and dining him at all.
This is cool. Now someone needs to modify the custom reddit server to proxy requests to the real reddit server. That way users could use personal API keys to still access reddit from Apollo.
I wouldn't call it brainstorming. More like "alignment". Fleshing out the vision you have for what you need to do, and putting that up against your coworkers vision, and figuring out where the disagreements/gaps are. You can do this quickly if you have an experienced and disciplined PM guiding the discussion, but most people don't, so they just have long conversations. Which works fine IRL, but it's very uncomfortable to be on a zoom call for more than about 45 minutes at a time.
I’ve always wanted an NVG to play with, and from watching firearms nerd rants I’ve learned:

- real NVG costs way above my budget, and all comes with defects. Realistically the tubes in civilian markets are all defective returns.

- even real NVGs can’t work in complete darkness, such as in a closet; moonlight or starlight is needed.

- real NVGs on firearms are often used in conjunction with an IR laser and a flashlight for aiming; advantage is solely that you have to have a goggle to see it, not that you can operate without making any emissions.

- partly due to above points, plain old CMOS cameras with modified 1” Sony sensors for better low light performance is starting to match practical usefulness of a real NVG(it’s Cold War tech so no wonder here). Latency is an issue, but more of “is an issue” and no longer a blocker.

… Vision Pro type of devices replacing NVGs indeed seem like a near future possibility.
Even as a third grader I appreciated clarity and accuracy (as did my classmates.)
Raccoons playing 5D chess to get on top of the agenda in a generation or two
Who is "we"? It sounds like it's just him, and everyone else benefits.
Or, support a different system because Reddit is not your friend.

Not for the API reason at all I have my own protest and limiting Reddit usage plans.
I highly doubt this and even if it becomes legitimately true, people have been claiming we’re all being replaced out of jobs for the last 2000 years. It’s not happening.
We gonna need bigger cats
ditto, GPT-4 is very impressive with all types of mermaid [0] diagrams! even helps w/ styling and formatting tweaks. It's helped me so much with better coverage and maintainability on diagrams for software & systems projects.

0. https://mermaid.live/
Twitter Founders on Musk’s Tumultuous Takeover
Referring to the FDA is an appeal to authority. Yet another logical fallacy from you.

They are a regulatory agency and are part of the most corrupt government on earth (US Government). You are outsourcing your thinking to a corrupt government agency staffed by extremely mediocre people who are not intellectually capable of doing the research themselves.

You stated there is no problem with sucralose. I referred to studies showing that there is indeed a problem. Then you say there is no contradiction, but this is a contradiction by definition. To insist that there is no contradiction is blatant stupidity at best, and gaslighting at worst.

I am sorry that you get personally offended by English dictionary definitions and basic logic.
I should have addressed this more sufficiently, but there are a couple different things I'm saying here so let me clarify:

One is being the trades is rewarding, yes not all bring in 300K+, but I don't know a single trades person, many often my junior, who don't bring in a good income pretty comparable to software engineers at non FAANG companies make (typically 150K+) and I don't think any of them are carrying high debt student loans (many states even pay for trade education outright) and their benefits can't be beat, esp. if they're union.

The second is that there are trade businesses that do earn, esp. right now in the industrial sector, but they all have a singular thing in common: Travel Travel Travel. thats the name of the game. They're gone alot. For instance, my cousin is an industrial electrician, and works on windmills. He travels all over the midwest and Texas to do the work, is rewarded quite handsomely for the privilege, but is gone over half the year. Has no wife or kids currently, so there is that, but its taxing. Other trades folks I know have businesses and do pull in alot, but the "grind" can be very real at times, but I've been told that its rewarding, because its yours at the end of the day

Third is in a specialized sliver of robotics / industrial systems, you can make a fortune, but its not so outsized across the board. Medical systems are a big one, robotics are being really big in surgeries, and there's alot of money to be made there
I remember Falcon Pro doing this 10 years ago when it hit Twitter's 100,000 user limit on its token. You could press 4 secret buttons in the corners of the login screen and it would take you to a secret page where you could put your own tokens.
Information about the fractureiser Minecraft mods virus
Which implies that everyone in Louisiana will be banned from the internet until they can authenticate as an adult.
Based on him being an iOS dev, it sounded to me like he made an entire iOS app just to calculate some values, not a small command line application.
In contrary. It is you who doesn't like to admit it. Makes sense in a way, as cats are our cute pets and thus emotionally much closer to us than random wild birds.
Ironically, those huge cat populations are caused by humans, so in the end humans indeed are to blame.

From
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

"Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals."
Same with the Kennebec river that flowed through Augusta, Maine throughout the 80s and 90s. We were dumb enough to swim in it for some reason, and I vividly remember bits of trash and paper swirling around in the brown, muddy soup. Contrast that with the crystal clear glacier lakes in the same region, and it’s hard to believe it was the same state government.
I'd strongly suggest switching to Librewolf [1] before you fully setup everything and get a bit locked-in. It's a friendly-fork of firefox, done right (imo); it stays up-to-date with upstream rapidly, and predominantly has the goal of enabling better privacy defaults.

Beyond that, I strongly prefer tridactyl [2] over things like vimium (if you plan to use a vim-like extension); redirector [3] is fabulous (I use it particularly to setup redirects to minimal front-ends like invidious).

All the best,

-HG

[1] https://librewolf.net/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
Modernity. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…
I seem to recall that hijacking the back button goes back to the 1990's. I suspect some of the ways in which it was done (like with naive redirects) probably don't work today, but the annoying effect has been there for eons.
Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages
Are we the same person? Haha small world. I thought the broken icons were a thing I did while changing some XDG paths
No it isn't. The article brings up the term about halfway into the article and immediately say it was "first developed in England in the 1950s." This is right before they even define what TNR is! Then they immediately go into what other cities have done on this front.
This really depends on how hungry the cat is. Feral cats commonly kill mammals larger than NYC rats, although they prefer smaller game. In general, you can expect a feline to be able to kill prey over twice it's body weight. In many habitats felines are the apex predator, and even feral cats are apex predators of some habitats.

The biggest issue is that NYC rats, the non-native species that have evolved in urban environments, have evolved with cats as a predator for a long period of time and are better than native birds/small mammals at evading cats. Cats eat the native population at a higher rate, which means the invasive and hated 'NYC rats' have less competition from native populations.
Watts Bar got approved an eternity ago and just got finished 30ish years late.

Vogtle 3 & 4 got approved recently, though I’m not sure the 40 years number is an apples-to-apples comparison.

The elephant’s foot in the room (see what I did there?) is that nuclear is just not cheap the way it used to be. It takes a lot of steel and a lot of concrete.

The reason we haven’t been building nuclear plants is that other plants, gas, wind, and solar, deliver way more power in way less time, and with a lesser quantum of plant size.

The fossil fuel consumption of a nuclear plant, while certainly less than coal, is still higher than wind or solar.
It depends on how much harm their microfibers and microplastics have done to however many number of people who ingested them.
Quick question about Delaware; hasn't Delaware's Court of Chancery historically been on the side of the board over the shareholders in a shareholder dispute?

If so, for most startups, wouldn't the only disputes settled by the Court of Chancery largely be between the founders and the VC's, with the Court of Chancery historically siding with the VC's on the board?

Is this the biggest reason why VC's prefer Delaware before other states?
Your computer is a means of production.
Manjaro is worse
Why not use the MATE edition?
Epic meme sir. Updoots.
according to the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St... while they came online then, they were started in 1973
>The site is only good for finding reviews on products but companies figured that out and game it now as well.

You're using it wrong. Reddit is the only place, in the history of the entire internet, that has successfully collected all of my interests into one location.

Astrophotography, Astronomy, Art Deco, Scuba, Amateur Radio, Radio Astronomy, Motorcycling (specifically Moto Guzzi bikes), EMS/Firefighting, Vintage Computing, Maps, Woodworking, and most importantly of all, Yoga-- all in one place.

There were fora for all of these "back in the good old days" but the user base is 100x more active and knowledgable, they're all in one place, and there are super-niches.

If you go to reddit and only see companies hawking a product, you're the problem.

Like the people who go on TikTok and only see chicks. What the fuck are you doing? I go on TikTok and only see astronomy and scuba diving videos. It's great!
> A request for third-party app developers

> Before shutting down your apps, please consider pushing a simple app update to enable specifying a custom client ID and Reddit API domain, as this would greatly simplify setup for allowing users to connect to real Reddit with a custom client ID or to connect to a custom Reddit server.

I wonder why I haven’t seen mention of this anywhere. It’s not clear how open reddit will be with distributing keys, but can’t hurt to try.
> By the way: A 16 oz can of Monster contains 2 grams of taurine.

And at least 50%+ of the "added sugar" recommendation(s) for an entire day (depending on whether you look at FDA, AHA, etc. guidelines).

You make good points, for sure, and I appreciate your comment and insights. But, "sugar" is definitely an issue with a lot of current foods.

Carbohydrates are crucial building blocks, biochemically. However, there are numerous increasingly documented adverse effects stemming from "simple sugars" consumption - both epidemiologically, and mechanistically / molecularly (e.g., "glycation").

That said, I'd absolutely recommend sugar over many other available sweeteners. In fact, there are a whole host of "refined" food "modifiers" increasingly available and used that seem to have often unfortunately deleterious effects. For example, even substances like inulin, sugar alcohols, etc., that can be beneficial (have been determined to contribute to healthfulness) in various foods that have been eaten by humans for centuries if not millennia, often end up either not beneficial or actually harmful as applied in current "modern food chemistry".

This isn't to say that we must go "paleo", nor that there are inherent or unsurpassable problems in formulating and "manufacturing" (always a word I love, when it comes to food ... meh) new food products that are safe and have advantages over many entirely unprocessed foods (hell, cooking IS a form of processing, and it's rather crucial given our physiologies, improving safety and nutrition of many types of foods significantly). But, food processing and manufacturing is a rather lightly regulated industry in some ways, and much of it moves far faster than studies of the implications of all of the new formulations, additives, etc.

Time and again, people and industry have been enamored of some apparent "free lunch" that has bitten us in the ass, so to speak, ultimately.
Here’s the direct link to the video:

https://youtu.be/B2h5WwrkJFg

I enjoyed it immensely.
Using Arch is a dream compared to things like Ubuntu for me. PPAs and release cycles made upgrades awkward on Ubuntu. I've been a user for 3 years on my work laptop and have had everything be almost completely painless. (One time yay broke something and a python module had to be removed lol)
A few years ago, H. Moser & Cie made a mechanical watch with their superb levels of craftsmanship that kinda/sorta parodied the Apple Watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/moser-swiss-alp-watch-s-in...
Or build your own proxy that uses whatever private API the official app uses?

Seems like the perfect solution if you want to keep using Reddit with your own choice of app.
> Apparently it spread from the New World,

That'd be a neat trick, considering that the Sumerians wrote about it. (per Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#History)
That would be counter-productive. The main driver of cat population are humans. Cats evolving to being hostile to humans might in the end diminish public opposition to extermination programs.
Yes, I am going through this right now as a new hire onboarding to a boutique codebase. As soon as you are 100% reliant on internal docs, you realize just how large the gap is between them and mainstream OSS libraries.

I think a decent middle-ground between "Document everything" and "Organically relay all information" is to just write "doc-stubs". Just a list of everything out there with no real content. It gives people a jumping off point to ask questions and lets them know what they don't know.
I would like to see what happens when you go the other way. Extremely naive tokening, for instance none at all. Just a stream of bytes or nybbles.

It might take far more training but also it might avoid any biases introduced by tokenisation.

[edit - see @api had the same question]
I would argue it’s 100% bad. Tesla should not have a monopoly on determining whether a car gets to charge when it plugs in.

But apps with accounts and ToS and such should be banned outright IMO for any charger or at least any charger that receives any sort of public funding. Anyone with a compatible car should be able to charge, without an account, just like at a gas station.
> Go to Europe and you don’t get pain medication unless you’re in the hospital.

Where on Earth did you get this idea?
If he was even entertaining the idea of maybe selling his company, the least he could have done was get a negotiator with mergers and acquisitions experience. If he's making reasonably good money off of Apollo, he could have afforded a few hours of a good attorney.

This call was awful to hear as an entrepreneur. He is not at all clear about what he wants, and I think he's honest when he says it's "mostly a joke" - I'm getting the sense he threw out a strangely-worded scenario hoping that he could perhaps get some money. If he was serious about getting money, and he's primarily a software developer and not a negotiator, it would've been lovely if he had gotten proper counsel for this negotiation.
Those Watts Bar reactors were previously the newest ones in the US. Both began construction in 1973:

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails....

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails....

I think that the headline is a half-garbled way to indicate that this reactor is the first one completed that began construction after the 1970s in the US. That interesting fact is omitted by the body of the story, which doesn't lay out the dates at all. I only knew this background because of my prior interest in the nuclear industry.