skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a chat on the left side, right side shows media. If I allow scrollbars to render normally the whole site is split in 2, in the middle being a scrollbar, which looks bad especially if not overlay. I've considered not caring about it and just let the scrollbar, but it bothers me. It's my application anyway, the browser is not just a document reader anymore, it's an application framework (as well).
Are there any unpublished limits for this? Asking for a friend :)
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There's a quote or anecdote whose origin I am unfamiliar with, in which it is claimed that ten or twenty books is all that's needed for an essential education. Given the amount of meaningful research that's put out every day in every discipline in order to extend our collective knowledge, and that often revises the curriculum we view as "foundational", that claim is surely fantastical.

The counterpoint is that the applicability of research to daily life normally tapers off with its specificity. Generally speaking, it already makes a difference if we grasp the basics. Furthermore, given the right resources, the effort to get from zero up to basic competency in a topic is actually fairly miniscule, compared with the effort needed to become an expert.

In the spirit of that last point, I wanted to share how sensational I find that there exist well-researched* and approachable introductory resources on very general and specific topics. That a single resource can collate and present decades, sometimes centuries of research in a way that is mind-boggling. I'm currently going through the Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Taiwan, but the praise is limited neither to that book, nor only to Routledge, though I endorse their books out of personal satisfaction.

*Of course, I'm taking this as a prior — I have to hoist my ability to critique research in that field by the bootstraps!
When the SEC had a disagreement about the category of an asset or transaction, they would go to court to hoping to get the judge to agree those were securities being traded noncompliantly, with the defendant being the issuer

After getting an agreeing verdict on that they would go to the promoters and exchanges and sue them too

Now they're skipping that and going straight to the exchanges, because the SEC wasn't exactly winning
Please also keep in mind that if the corrections fail to materialize, posting false information will have polluted the knowledge pool for no benefit.
> Does that get them the coveted minority status?

You may have noticed that, over the past few years, the term "minority" has been increasingly often accompanied by qualifications such as "underprivileged", "marginalised", "underrepresented", and I've recently seen "underestimated" popping up as well.

I do not think that is a coincidence, especially since how the qualifiers are so exquisitely unfalsifiable. (wer ein Jud' ist, bestimme ich!)
Yes, this was the main reason I did not use Ractors fully. Because of the warning about it being an experimental feature!
> Is Python so annoying to use that when a compelling non-Python solution appears, everyone will love it? Less hassle? Or did it take off for a different reason?

The desktop/laptop LLMs use case is one where resource efficiency often makes the difference between “I can’t use this at all” rather than the more frequent “I can use it but it maybe runs a little slower”, and llama.cpp offers that. It also has offered new quantization options that the Python-based tooling hasn’t, which compounds the basic resource efficiency point.

(It’s also not an “everyone” thing: plenty of people are using the Python-based toolchains for LLMs, its possible for their to be multiple popular options in a space . Not everything is all or nothing.)
Bugs in Code vs. Bugs in Home
You're being naive and overly critical.
I should have checked in on this thread yesterday, but yes, I meant the US.
thank you for this. i am not well up on consciousness (or machine learning) and i have seen chatbots/llms hallucinate and such, and i have also seen them do amazing things. i have wondered to myself a few times lately: how do i know that im dissimilar in nature from these things?

so i ask you a followup question: what are some easy to understand ways in which a human's thought process would differ from an llm's behavior?

also for anyone else wondering: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/qualia
Will this change impact Solargraph / Rubocop? They are painfully slow / unusable in their current state on large-ish projects
I cannot give you a specific example in this case, because I don’t know the feature, use case and problem… which is kinda the issue at hand. But the claim that “users are familiar with other apps, we should give them the exactly same features if they ask for it” is not very sound: first of all, not all users will be familiar with other editors. Those familiar might have had a very hard time learning them at first. And, in general, it’s good to ask “why do you want that? Show me how you use it and why you think it’s important, and we can test multiple design alternatives until we found something that works for you”, instead of “let me add feature X from editor Y” (both because there would be no innovation, but also no reason to change editors).

For the article, the relevant part was: “ In general, a researcher will first ask a customer to walk through how they currently solve a particular problem. As part of this investigation, they will probe at the user’s pain points and existing workarounds”. What is the hard wrapping used for? Maybe there’s a better way of solving the same problem to begin with, and hard wrapping is just a band-aid instead of the proper solution to the underlying goal?

By the way, UX research doesn’t claim that designers cannot get anything wrong or that users can never get anything’s right - that’s a silly simplification of course. But I don’t think the the BBEdit author was trying to promote such an absolutist view.
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I been on great adventures throughout my life, and the result is that I learned I'm happy right where I'm at. The place where I grew up, left a few times, returned to every time (gladly, every time), and still call home. Could just be that different people are different.
I'd argue that any alteration to the prose is counter to authorial intent.

I agree fully, but for me the difference is between something being groan-worthy and something being sacrilege. I don't object when someone translates a work into another language.
SES reputation is medium at best. But they allow everyone to send emails so you get what you pay for...
Denormalization and nested data structures. Sometimes we need to spend a little more time thinking about data models rather than just dumping the original json into mongo and working around that for eternity.

/rant
> Please let me know how to buy bulk consumer data from Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/etc-ad platform.

Step 1: become a U.S. Spy Agency.
I have never seen an intersection where beg buttons favor pedestrians and not drivers, because beg buttons give engineers the latitude to establish red crosswalks unless requested. So help you if you arrive just in time to miss your activation cycle and have to wait a full light cycle for the crosswalk.
I used to get invites for jobs and see listings for jobs for Ruby and Rails a lot. Now I don't see any at all. There's most definitely a "dead" feeling to the platform.

I hardly hear about new projects being started with Rails as well...
Fun fact: philosopher Regina Rini referred to GPT-3 as a "statistical parrot" six months before the Bender et al paper came out: https://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/#rini
Also, it's a bit of a con to cite mining and energy as homogenous industries.

The nuclear plants, hydro dams, wind turbines, batteries and solar aren't going to be at risk due to this. Even gas might get a short term boost at the expense of coal.

Similarly, the lithium and copper mines are going to be the opposite of hurt by this transition.
> I know exactly what consciousness is based on my experience with it, even though I could not possibly give a comprehensive account of everything consciousness entails.

What is the price of that kind of knowledge? You don't even know where is the border between your knowledge and your absence of knowledge. How much can you tell about consciousness without stepping on "absence of knowledge" field? Pretty nothing, isn't it?

> By analogy, I've been married for just shy of 20 years. I know my wife very well. I certainly do not know everything there is to know about her, but I do know her.

I have a better example. I speak English for 20 years if to start counting from my first English lesson when I learned my first English word. You can find plenty of silly mistakes in my comments. But at least I know what I can express or understand and what I can not.
Maybe I'm just a choke artist but if I win the exchange I'm probably losing the game. Opponent always seems to "turn on" and I just get blown away
I’ll make you a deal. Bump the pay by 50% and cut the employees by 50%. Sound good to you? I’d love to see that.

To hear that 6.4% of the GDP is spent on gov pensions is shocking to me.

That means that we are spending 6.4% of everything on just the pensions of 16.1% of the workers. If we did the same for all workers, we’d be spending 39.8% of the GDP just on pensions. That seems outrageous to me, but I’m not an economist. Why would it be that high?
Aka, the uni(corn)bomber.
I wouldn't count on that third book ever happening. It was first announced in 2005, the same year as his death, and I believe Amazon has had a page for it (with cover art) since at least 2006.
If that's true, I wonder why the article doesn't make this clear. All it says is the company has a half-billion in debt, without any explanation for how that came about. It doesn't even mention that the company is owned by a PE looter.

Quotes from the article:

> In 2019, his company merged with Illinois-based Corelle Brands, the owner of Pyrex, CorningWare, SnapWare and Corelle.

> In 2021, at the height of its popularity, the company borrowed $450 million US worth of bonds, due in 2028, to expand its business.

Is Corelle the PE firm? Is "expand its business" the standard figleaf PE firms use when looting a business?
Very much so. NFI what "instant pot" is; i suspect it bears little resemblance to "instant coffee". I miss the "visions" cookware tho.
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> money enables trade between equals, value for value.

True. Money also enables people to be unequal and is a tool for some people to oppress or take advantage of other people.

Money itself is value-neutral, it seems to me. It deserves neither love nor hate.
direct link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/arent-any-typos-essay-we-laun...
Is there something that's cheaper than SES and similar in reliability? Do Oracle, Google/ Microsoft Cloud offer something similar (pricing and endpoints)?
I've got another word for it: recipe-fication.

Everything we revile about online recipe websites that spend 1000 words about the history of cooking before getting to the point, will be part and parcel of AI-written anything. It won't be properly proofread or edited by a human, because that would defeat the purpose.
Yeah, there's nothing that feels better in chess than that. I still remember my first win in the norwegian championships(in the noob category, not bragging, they let anyone play in it) almost 20 years ago(yikes); found, correctly calculated and played a rook sacrifice leading to mate(it was like a 3 move combination, all checks, nothing too fancy but I did consciously threaten it the move before). I also remember walking into mate in 1 in another game that tournament, the rest is a blur.

And in fact most of the wins I remember the most clearly involved some kind of well-found sacrifice. The others tend to blend together too much in my mind. And most of the losses I remember most clearly involved horrible blunders.
I didn’t say “count for everything” and I’m not talking about running an HR department. The WSJ article posted here moments ago is really the first article ve seen posted here that isn’t just some CEO’s think piece on remote work and how it’s really bad for junior employees oh no! Let junior employees decide what they prefer.

It wouldn’t be hard to simply put your money where your mouth is and pay differently for in person if it’s so much better and fire people remote if they don’t produce. If they do, there’s something else going on, but it’s not employee welfare or productivity in most cases.
it's fortunate that flatpak solves this problem of reproducible environments so effectively
I'm mid twenties, and yeah I think it'd be a bit odd, but I don't think I would be put off by it. The occasional coworker messaging me a get-well soon, sure, that's fine and semi-expected depending on the person. I would not expect a bouquet of flowers or a card though; that reeks of entitlement to me.
The absolute cream of the American sporting press!
Could've said the same about Newtonian mechanics. Theories seem great til they don't. That doesn't mean all they ever were was curve overfitting.
You really think I’m going to link or reference known csam traps here? Or anywhere for that matter?

…and because I didn’t do that, you’re calling me a pedophile? Come on man, let’s reign it in a bit here…
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Earlier discussion on this forum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36300410
I use ruby/rails for professional consulting work. It helps get startups off the ground and into a MVP stage quite quickly, and there is high productivity.

You can also use whatever React/Vue on the frontend if you really need to.

I would like to use some Typescript framework but none are "there yet" with regard to productivity.

Scaling rails in some scenarios is quite challenging, but in most cases you can leverage caching to solve performance challenges.
Um... can someone explain what this actually does?

In the video the user chooses the 'Copilot: Draft' action, and wow, it generates code...

...but, the 'draft' action [1] calls `/get_chunks` and then runs 'queryLLM' [2] which then just invokes 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions' directly.

So, generating text this way is 100% not interesting or relevant.

What's interesting here is how it's building the prompt to send to the openai-api.

So... can anyone shed some light on what the actual code [3] in get_chunks() does, and why you would... hm... I guess, do a lookup and pass the results to the openai api, instead of just the raw text?

The repo says: "You write a section header and the copilot retrieves relevant notes & docs to draft that section for you.", and you can see in the linked post [4], this is basically what the OP is trying to implement here; you write 'I want X', and the plugin (a bit like copilot) does a lookup of related documents, crafts a meta-prompt and passes the prompt to the openai api.

...but, it doesn't seem to do that. It seems to ignore your actual prompt, lookup related documents by embedding similarity... and then... pass those documents in as the prompt?

I'm pretty confused as to why you would want that.

It basically requires that you write your prompt separately before hand, so you can invoke it magically with a one-line prompt later. Did I misunderstand how this works?

[1] - https://github.com/eugeneyan/obsidian-copilot/blob/bdabdc422...

[2] - https://github.com/eugeneyan/obsidian-copilot/blob/bdabdc422...

[3] - https://github.com/eugeneyan/obsidian-copilot/blob/main/src/...

[4] - https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-experiments/#shortcomings-...
as always, a fast no is better than a slow maybe
>match the fidelity of the sub $100 4K monitor

This can

>8k per eye

Not required to get 4K fidelity… you only need somewhat higher than 4K resolution.
we say half the speed of light, we don't say 149,896,229m/s

LHC uses terms like 90% speed of light to be more specific example

i guess it all depends on what circles you do or do not float in.
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I call it "seeding." When a mess is bothering me but there's a barrier (internal or external) to dealing with it completely in the moment, I "seed" the cleaning process by doing just a little bit.

A few rounds of seeding can have a surprisingly big impact and every round is an opportunity for the momentum to kick in it that leads to the whole job getting done.
In pixels, yes, but that's not trivial to convert to character width...
Yep. There's always the assumption that just because a business sells a product or service that it is in business to sell a product or service. This is not always true.
> Only after the fact, this code was merged into the Core branch.

That's incorrect. The code was merged into the Core branch first. The protocol change was initiated by the developers, not by the users.
You linked to an actual imaging technique called super-resolution imaging which is for imaging. It's a technique applied to the capture of an image, and cannot be applied to an already captured image.

Machine learning super resolution adds detail to image that does not exist, in the same way that image inpainting (or even outpainting) do.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/googl...

"It's important to note that the computed super-resolution image is not real. The added details—known as "hallucinations" in image processing jargon—are a best guess and nothing more."

If you go and research the literature on deep learning super resolution techniques, they also carefully use the term "hallucinate" as well.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.03749
The templating is definitely an effort to keep the maintainability in check. It's also because we're planning on keeping a grammar around to generate test cases for us with fuzzing/other algorithms.

The encodings is a bit historical, to my knowledge Ruby is the only major language that was developed by someone whose language did not work with ASCII. So the first encodings written in Ruby were the old Windows pages.
The reverse of normalization. You normalize by moving redundant or non-related columns into other tables. For instance, instead of having a table with (cart id, product id, price) you'd normalize by creating (cart id, product id) and (product id, price) tables. The (product id, price) table is a single source of truth, and, now, no matter what cart something is in the price is known to be correct (or as correct as the product price table). And updating a price means one edit, not many edits.

Denormalization takes that normalized form and reverses it. Often for performance reasons. If updating prices is a rare occurrence, for this example, then getting the price total for a cart is slowed by forcing an extra join. Denormalizing brings the price back into the (cart id, product id, price) table and now the total price of a cart is a single query, no joins required.
> So it's not alarmist nonsense, it's just a vivid analogy.

And, given this discussion, it vividly illustrates the point.

The number of people who literally can't entertain even the vague possibility that Coinbase might be doing something illegal (as in illegal like heroin) and thus can ONLY interpret the analogy as Coinbase is bad (as in bad like heroin).
I doubt that Microsoft has an agreement with OpenAI that would allow Microsoft on-prem model deployment to third parties. The danger is too high that the GPT-4 weights would leak. They are probably worth billions of dollars.
is retirement the next victim?
> I will definitely give Nintendo props for ensuring good labeling on games which require digital downloads. At least I can decide if I'm OK with that before buying the game instead of finding out when I first put the game in. I haven't owned a Playstation/Xbox in a long time (Xbox 360 days...), do they have any similar kinds of requirements?

It's a crapshoot.

For Xbox, many new games advertise "Smart Delivery." Code for, "we'll install the version of the game that's best for your console." Great, right? Not if you are a collector! The disc is only so large, so almost all games have to choose whether to have the old Xbox One version on the disc; or the newer Xbox Series X version on the disc. Almost all games opt for the Xbox One version because that's more backwards-compatible. The exception to this are Series X-exclusive games which are... uncommon.

This, obviously, sucks as a collector because it means almost all of your games, even new ones, are really just Xbox One games with a digital download for the newer Series X attached to them. PlayStation was a little kinder (or not?) on this, by simply selling two versions of games, one labelled PS4, the other PS5. No free upgrades - but at least it is patently clear which version you are getting.

But there's more to the story than just this. AAA game releases for Version 1.0 are typically horrifically buggy - so a day-one update is almost always a necessity. Nintendo isn't immune to this (Pokemon Scarlet and Violet), but Nintendo Switch cartridges cost a fortune to make compared to a Blu-ray Disc (dollars per cartridge) and Nintendo Switch systems are much more likely to be used in offline environments, which helps disincentivize this behavior. Better to release a physical Switch version later, when the bugs have been worked out, and when the lower margins are more acceptable. Blu-ray Discs cost... pennies to make, to go into systems that are almost always online, so a buggy 1.0 on disc is no big deal. And those updates can be monstrosities (take, for example, Star Wars Jedi Survivor. It's Series X-exclusive, so no Xbox One version on the disc. Great - except that it has 46GB of data on disc, but 104GB worth of updates and added content downloadable. No warning on the box because it is still technically playable from disc only. PS5 version has the same issue with download required after the initial mission. Yuck!!)

In fact, sometimes, having no game at all on disc is no big deal on Xbox. Case in point: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which comes with none of the game on the disc, just a 100GB+ download upon inserting the disc. The disc is only 70MB to contain licensing data and an installer. There is a small warning on the front ("Requires content download") but that kind of undersells the situation. At least the Nintendo games that require a download (Spyro) have at least some of the game available and playable.

Edit: For more information, see https://www.doesitplay.org.
But that would mean that initially, I have to wade through all kinds of worthless annoying stuff. I suspect it will be 40% politics, 30% sportsball, 20% Kardashians, 9% car culture, and 1% other. I'm going to give up before we ever get to sub-forums.
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A small nit, they can’t lie. Lying requires agency. They in fact quite earnestly tell you the most likely “truth” they can produce. I would note, as I’m sure we’ve all heard many times, this isn’t much different than a human. People quite confidently spout all sorts of nonsense and 100% believe what they’re saying, making it not a lie. It’s just the inferences drawn by the expectation juices in their brain are warped by either bad statistical artifacts or incomplete or false information. Regardless, saying something false isn’t a lie, a lie requires intention and knowledge of the truth which requires agency, which LLM have none of.
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https://search.marginalia.nu knows where some of it went...