skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rigorous Testing of Novel LLMs
So, my friend and I built a custom model that is performing 2-3X as good as a comparable decoder only model (~same params, exact same input data etc.) and it's doing this on CodeXGlue.

I am currently trying to figure out what the best method would be to a) scale it, b) test it on other benchmarks, and c) how to really determine max context length. This last one is really the point of interest. We have reason to believe it can linearly scale to far larger context windows, but still need to test it. Only looking for evaluation help. Once we believe we have bulletproof eval metrics then we will probably release it or something.

A specific reason I am asking for help here is that there is nothing in the literature about a model like ours (trust me I have read hundreds of papers in the hopes of making my life easier while developing this). Like literally nothing. If anyone has leads on massive context window models that aren't decoder/encoder only please let me know? Thanks.
Reminder that Google killed Google Reader, which was a wonderful front-end to the web, to try to funnel users toward Google+.

As everyone knows, Google+ never gained the traction Google wanted, but it did have a decent commenting/discussion interface which a few specialised communities (e.g. academic maths) latched on to.

And Google killed that too.
The Reddit IPO is shaping up to be the biggest pump and dump scam in recent history. The question is, how bad will the liquidity be when the sell side of the order book vastly exceeds the buy side.
Couldn't the Reddit software engineers manually force subreddits to become public at any time? Why don't they do that?
Thanks - I'm sure there are other uses cases, I didn't mean to imply there weren't, just for me I always associate AOP with a time in my career where nothing useful was ever shipped, but there was lots of pontificating and philosophising about rather abstract things like this.
I also have to fight the urge of not opening it, but I don't think I plan on coming back at this point. This made me realize that I was addicted to doomscrolling and constant brainless checking on my favorite subreddits. I genuinely found myself more productive than ever since I uninstalled Apollo when blackout started.
You're amortising the cost over a time period that is in direct contradiction to reality, at an EAF that is in direct contradiction to reality at a cost of capital that doesn't reflect the likelihood of project failure or early closure. On top of excluding all the indirect subsidies.

€11bn for 1.6GW on a European nuke that will run about 70% of the time and statistically will close in around 30 years while costing $30/MWh for O&M is around 16c/kwh
> The U.K.’s Counter Disinformation Unit was in “hourly” contact with social media sites, according to Sarah Connolly, the official who was in charge of the operation.

I think it might have been this lot (CDU) who got me banned from twitter on my first twitter post that criticized a past govt of the time, which was an image of Liz Truss in the style of "New Labour, New Danger" advertising campaign, when she was elected.

When considering the size of the needle used in vaccines and these were supposed to have reached the muscle, considering the number of obese people with inches of fat on their arms, I also wonder how many got the vaccine in their fat tissue and not their muscle, which would undermine the effectiveness of the vaccine!
That really depends on when the person took high school mathematics, and the extent to which function abstractions were emphasized. That was not a core part of the curriculum when I was in school, but it is now.
> would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls

So unfilmable in current Hollywood?
Just my experience with living in Texas, there is a major individual independence vein that runs through a lot of folks here. In NE Ohio, sure... there were those that didn't follow the norms, but for the most part attitudes were very collective.

Texas? Don't tell them what they can do with their land. Don't tell them they need to ditch their truck. Not saying it was a 1:1 illustration in his novels, but it did give me a better insight into how folks west of Austin 'tick'.
There's also https://librepcb.org/

Has anyone had time to try Horizon and/or LibrePCB and compare them to KiCad?
> I obviously can't argue further as I haven't read it.

You should. It's the best of its kind in my opinion.

> I will remark that different people will react to the same material variously uplifted or beaten-down, and neither reaction is less valid (unless they just misunderstood the plot).

I'm open to people having subjective feelings - like whether they enjoyed it, they found it too graphic, not graphic enough, etc. But uplifting is different. There has to be something concrete to back up the feeling of being uplifted.

> Personally, I tend to find depictions of nobility and perseverance in the face of imminent doom interesting and moving if not uplifting.

But that's the point. It isn't nobility and perseverance in the face of imminent doom. The mother thought it was inevitable doom. The father had hope. It's perseverance in false hope. Nonexistent hope. It's like you seeing a person jump 100 stories from the twin towers and flapping his arms in the hopes of flying and saving himself. Would you say that is uplifting? Of course not. Unless you were being edgy or silly.

Instead of reading silly amazon reviews, go read the book and see for yourself.
A more practical explanation of stuff you can do with AOP that would be challenging otherwise: https://debugagent.com/spring-boot-debugging-with-aspect-ori...
They can be forcefully re-opened at any time. Based on the internal memo, they don't appear to be taking this seriously enough to warrant that kind of action.
> In the US we don't really use the word tonne.

Yes, that was pretty much the crux of my point. If you did use that spelling, you wouldn't have to disambiguate, and it'd align with popular English-speaking nations that already use metric.

It's a bit like not using the word 'metre' - despite the USA recalcitrantly eschewing the actual measurement - and confusingly re-purposing 'meter' (a device for measuring something).

I mean, sure, they sound the same (refer sibling comment and response) but context can inform in spoken English.

In written English it's dreadfully convenient to have unique strings for unique concepts (or words).
RISCV could run seL4 I think? https://riscv.org/blog/2020/06/sel4-is-verified-on-risc-v/
I posted a few months ago[1] about Suttree, and was surprised at how many people connected with the book (which I agree is great).

I haven't read The Road or Blood Meridian, but when you consider the different styles and structures of McCarthy's prose, it's easy to agree that he was a remarkable writer. RIP.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34561915
Nope, he got a look at the absolute state of ROCm and realized he was wasting his time.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...

One might speculate he’s perhaps pivoting to Intel. They’re not well-developed in application terms but that’s a piece he can develop, and actually with OneAPI that’s a lot of potential bang for the buck. And intel has actual ML accelerators and has some relatively powerful GPGPU stuff and is currently in a position of being forced to offer a lot of bang for buck to drive adoption, all of which makes sense for what he’s trying to do.

But AMD wants you to basically write and debug their runtime for them and nah not worth it, after fighting the installer on the official system config and then filing a couple bugs for the demo apps reproducibly crashing the kernel it’s just not worth the time.

ROCm is unserious even when you’re operating on supported hardware. This is the experience most people have with it.
They can, they just don't think it'll be necessary.
I-JEPA, the Image-Based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (FB)
1. I don't get the protests.. at this point Reddit should just die for the attempt, just leave ship.

2. At the same time not getting the execs. Are they not seeing the damage done right now? Why not give in, appease protesters, and go more to a boiling frog approach? (IPO money grab desire must be very real?)

3. Because of 2, it is 1 anyway.

I mean two things will happen...either Reddit dies quickly, or more likely it dies a slow Sarlacc enshittification death. What will not happen is that it gives just in and everything will be back to normal, too much destroyed already.

Protest against your governments, not capitalists (except by just leaving)!
Candence bought OrCad and killed off the PCB editor and rebranded their utterly shitty one. The UI is horrid and barely usable without paying thousands for training. Worse support and training is all through EMA Design Automation who are the grosses parasites in the industry.
Btw, Brandon, I hope you archive your version of the course materials somewhere as they are really as good as the notes, someplaces, even better. All previous versions of 15-150 are basically non-existent.
Taking an authoritarian approach might just cause even more noise for even longer. I think Huffman would like a war of attrition instead. Eventually mods will feel powerless because the execs won’t budge, and denying the community access to the subreddit will cause more problems than it appears to solve.
In that world, high quality pre-AI texts might be come really valuable, much like low-background steel.
What is “our teams are on it” in this context? PR or media influencing? What could teams mean here and what do they do?
Somewhere between 'ton' and 'tone'.

Though I think American English tends to pronounce 'ton' as 'tun', would that be right, or are there significant regional accent variations?

Anyway, refer sibling comments on common usage and cultural defaults - and I'll re-emphasize that it works really well for written communication. Like this.
>If you don't think lowering interest rates causes the value of money to go down, ask what would happen if the central bank set the interest rate to negative 10%.

Lowering the interest rate below zero means that QE becomes irrelevant and that the central bank should undo all of it. Afterwards the central bank should raise the minimum reserve requirements above 50% and tighten its money supply as much as feasible. As holders of bank balances want to avoid negative interest fees, they will choose to invest in certificate of deposit accounts. The original borrowers now have an incentive to refinance their debts with this source and repay the money creating loans they have gotten from their banks which ultimately reduces the circulating money supply. If lenders refuse to accept a -10% return and instead lend at the rate of inflation, then borrowers will know when to stop without the government or central bank telling them to restrain themselves.
In my experience, this is signaled by companies hiring "devops engineers". It shows lack of understanding that "devops" means devs and ops people should work together. And usually means they want someone to hold the bag because they can't seem to make their system work well, for some reason.
We stopped. A Series B tech company. If mostly engineers are boycoting reddit, then we arent going to try and find engineers on Reddit through ads.
I think that such polls tend to vastly over-represent the small subsets of those communities who care enough about the issue to vote. Voting is very rare in subreddits so I imagine that probably most users of those subreddits did not even realize that the votes were happening. And knowing how authoritarian Reddit mods usually are, I doubt very much that for the most part they would not have done whatever they wanted to do even if the votes had gone against them. The voting is just a fig leaf.
I disagree on the 'lying about the Apollo dev'. The Apollo dev definitely said 'I can make it real easy for you', 'Apollo can quiet down' 'you cut me a check for $10m' then he tried to backtrack when pushed on clarification for a 3rd time. Yes - there was an apology by the Reddit rep as far as misinterpreting but he did say what he was accused of saying.

Spinning it to the dev saying he was referring to Apollo as a "noisy API user" was really suspect, imo. I've never heard a heavy API user being called "noisy" and why even mention a number for a buy out multiple times? The "mostly joking" was a cop out as well. Is it a joke or not? Because when he was asked for clarification, he clarified $10m and 6 months again.
At some point the blackout will be the thing saving them from losing data because shreddit can't delete posts from private subs.
If we sleep on this, it will be our generation's equivalent of the boomer culture that led to our current climate predicament. What are we doing about it?
They can, it would result in an even bigger backlash. They probably just go for the "it will pass, they'll come back" approach instead of going full on against the people. They would also need to find moderators for those subs, which is not that easy, those people are often very committed.
It's about equally extreme in the level of accountability as well (for better or worse).
> ...substandard education in theology.

Isn't most of theology just folks getting red faced arguing over things which are ultimately just made up, and are unknowable anyway in the first place? It's only a step away from a couple of guys shouting at each other about how the warp nacelles work in Star Trek.
Google should buy Reddit and run it like a non profit, keep the users happy.

But also they can use it for LLM training and put it into the Google index.
Ubi
Now you are showing your true colors here
About 2 years ago I wasn't in a good place. My wife had been ill for a year, I found the lockdown hard (though I agreed with them), and I was struggling at my job.

I wasn't sleeping well and was settling into a funk. I started taking 5-htp [0] every evening before bed - and over about a month I felt like a changed man.

It took about 6 months to fully sort my sleep out and get my head back to where I wanted it, and to be honest it's only been in the last 6 months that I feel like I'm totally firing on all cylinders.

But I personally feel like 5-htp had a massive impact in that. I only took it daily for about 6 months, then more sporadically for another 6 months, and now don't take it at all (but focus on other boosters like walking, litter picking, swimming, seeing friends etc.)

[0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Hydroxytryptophan ]
Well you'd need to suddenly find an entire group of people to replace the existing moderators
I'm sure if it mattered you would have pointed out the difference.
The problem is that among the kind of people who are willing to be Reddit mods, insane authoritarians are hugely over-represented. Sure, I can find some small subreddits where sane people are mods. That does not mean that I cannot express my loathing of the typical big subreddit mod.
Rice cookers are all the same, they come with plastic measuring cups that are that size. I just call them rice cups.
discussion from yesterday (not linked to reddit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315863
Doubtful. Sean Connery has been dead for several years now.
Reddit could offer a premium membership that allows add-free and API access, and require the third-party apps to log in on behalf of the user. The fee might still turn a lot of people off (although the lack of ads would make it so much nicer), but it at least wouldn't be a technical hurdle. That model seems to work for YouTube.
Discovery of merbecovirus DNA clone contaminating rice sequencing datasets Wuhan
Too bad it's also a laxative.
If the CEO backs down then he’s weak.

He needs to publish a hard hitting memo that chastises third party app developers for not creating more sustainable businesses. If Reddit cannot meet it’s revenue goals it will shut down, period.
It's only worth that much to a company named Readme. If no such company exists, and no company is willing to rename itself to that, then it's not worth that much. It's worth $170k times the probability that there is or will be a company that wants to buy it for that much.
Yep - They can replace the mods and reopen the subs any time they want. Since the majority of the site is working again this morning there doesn't seem to be much point.

Reddit's diehards are a weird bunch, this kind of drama usually passes within a week or so.
The cost is something like $500 per user per year. People just aren't going to pay that much.
What percentage of those communities actually voted though? If it wasnt significant, was the poll even meaningful or representative of the community?
I think the author is rather saying that anti-personas are people you DO NOT WANT to sell to, not ones you just have a hard time with.

For instance, if I am a B2B product that really requires a large-scale (say, 10,000+ endpoints) deployment to really become valuable to a customer, I really should try to avoid selling to a 300-endpoint small business. And I sure as hell don't want to sell it to some random grandma who's not even running a business.

I won't flat-out refuse, but it's not going to help me or them to give them a product that is mostly useless to them.

It hurts them because it's a waste.

It hurts me because now I'm either setting up a future disappointment, or I'm potentially going to expand my product scope/features to try to become useful to this new group.

A product can't be everything to everyone, and just as it's important to understand what your product will do, and who it will be for, it's important to understand what you refuse to let it ever grow into doing, and who should not consume it as a result.
TL;DR https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/i/status/1628126445162663945
Is this supposed to be a puzzle game? Took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to figure out how to move around
It is an interesting theory, but it is not how it works.

Private Equity partners become board members of the squired companies, some time CEOs, but they don't manage day to day activities of the squired companies.

You can check a company like Francisco Partners which one of the biggest PE firms now. They have another company called Francisco Partners Consulting which helps with the management. The partners are too specialized to become middle managers in the squired companies.
What? You're personally not clicking on Reddit links and expect the world to not post Reddit links? Just don't click on them.
Why not write the experimental code in the notebook, then write a function containing that code in the notebook and try it out, and only then move your function to a py file, if at all?
Don't get too excited. It's likely to also cause cardiac issues like cisapride. Arrhythmia and 5-HT2B agonism are the worries.
def int2binary(num):
lis=[]
while True:
if num==0 or num==1:
lis.append(num)
break
lis.append(num%2)
num=num//2
lis.reverse()
num=''
for i in lis:
num+str(i)
return num
print('Number\t\tBinary Form')
for i in range (100,1001):
print(i,int2binary(i),sep='\t\t')
You used the wrong license then.
Huh, I had no idea. Just `kill <tab>` then? Will give it a shot next time I'm ak.
It can't be that hard to scrounge up another batch of part time dog walkers can it? Surely?
Isn't there also a worry of harming their brand / reputation irreparably?
Must be a lot. I already had a few searches bounce.
Somewhat reminiscent of iorz feixfuli <https://allhomosapienswelcome.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/iorx-...>.

If you’re prepared to go to these lengths, you’re probably better off just learning the Emacs keybindings.
The king can always order the protestors killed, but he prefers not to because of the potentially destabilizing second-order effects. Similar with reddit -they can, and maybe they will at some point, but... will the new mods be similarly difficult, embarrassing them and compounding the problem? Will the new mods be less competent or have new and different ideological vendettas, causing other problems? etc. Easier to just wait for them to back down for now, particularly since reddit basically holds all the cards.
This is not about people in Europe not speaking their mind. It is about them not speaking their mind during organized scheduled meeting that has multiple people in it. These people will tell you what they think in one on one or a smaller group. They will tell you what they think spontaneously in discussion. But when you put 8 people of them and formalized it all, they go into formal mode and talk much less.

The two are two different issues, basically. Also, the directness of a discussion kind of depends on a topic. Americans tend to be hierarchical and tend not to want to hear negative things. Eastern Europeans are more likely criticize, express doubts or pessimism. These are seemingly taboos for Americans. But that is kind of orthogonal to the meetings topic.
The first 10 years of the internet were volunteers creating for other volunteers. The next 10 was volunteers for 'users'. The last 10, for corporations.

The commons built in the 90s was turned into a playground in the 2000s and is now a oil well being mined by megacorps.

What, I hope, interest rates are doing is shifting the balance of power to its natural point: the commons is owned by the volunteers. Megacorp's ability to profit from this was a disguise created by free money.

With any luck twitter/reddit/facebook/et al. will disappear in favour of their "corresponding wikipedias" --- which is the model, I think, all the "platform creators" thought they were participating in.

There needs to be new alliances between volunteer-platform-creators and volunteer-content-creators
It would probably refer to both media-facing PR efforts and direct negotiations with any powermods or app developers who are willing.
The parent is saying that the canonical source of the protest should probably not be on the platform being protested.

I mean, thats just sensible, especially given u/spez has previously modified user comments on the site with the intent to deceive.

Giving them clicks now is the inverse of what we are trying to do anyway.
> I guess this expansion used dynamic RAM with on-board refresh logic, but the page isn’t clear (to me) on that.

It's a little bit of both. The RAM on the expansion card is an ISSI pseudo-SRAM:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/issi-integrated-s...

In short, it's DRAM on the inside, but all of the refresh logic is internal, so it behaves as if it were static RAM.
It's possible that the comments are legit, but it's interesting how many of the comments in the Moderator Coordination subreddit are from people who hate mods have have newish accounts. Considering Reddit has edited comments critical of the CEO in the past AND that reddit is known to use fake accounts to simulate engagement, I'm a bit skeptical (the fake account thing was how reddit got it's start, but they're still doing it in 2023 to populate non-English subs with shitty machine translations of popular English threads)
WinFsp · Windows File System Proxy
Magnesium is too, to a degree. With age, this is often a good property.

There are plenty of opioid analogues to decrease it safely.
Once again, "The only reason I do not take my medications is that I can not afford it." seems like a thrid world country thing to say, while you're most likely from USA. It is absolutely crazy to me that you do not have public healthcare.
The only subreddit where I saw a vote, it was something like 95% of people voted for a blackout. Almost nobody is siding with reddit on this.
This is Reddit we're talking about, right?
TOS violation
Did you know there’s a difference between a productive comment and a hint at what a productive comment might look like?
Why don't people in other countries have to "shop around" to keep healthcare prices at acceptable levels?
I think a while back solar panels got cheaper than the curved mirrors used in molten solar based solar thermal plants.

'Cheap lower efficiency solar cells' became uneconomic when the non silicon cost of the panels became too high a proportion of the total cost. Because half the power per panel at 2/3rd the cost per panel doesn't pencil out.