skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my feelings are a bit hyperbolic, but 2023 really feels like the year that the internet "died". That plus heatwaves, price increases, etc, it really feels like the death throes of neoliberal capitalism akin to what the 70s were for managerial capitalism.

It's insane to me that with the threat of climate change looming, the US spent trillions on foreign wars. In the aftermath of 2008, when money was free we spent trillions more on what? More efficient ways to sell shit people didn't need or couldn't afford?

We had two decades and trillions upon trillions of dollars to improve our system in so many ways and it was almost entirely squandered. Even the most politically and financially ignorant Americans can feel how crappy our system has been for the last two decades.

The question is, what will replace it? A human-centric economy that invests money into physical and human infrastructure? Or the meme of neo-feudalism with people working in Amazon cages and paying for Domino's pizza in installments.
Loss of the primary content creators is serious, more than I think most realize. Without active serious creators you end up with nothing but an endless feed of endlessly recycled memes. Reddit was already trending that direction anyway with repost bots posting almost as much as real users, and creators leaving will only accelerate the process.
Physicists split bits of sound using quantum mechanics
When I wrote in October that Mark Zuckerberg was going to kill his company, the street responded in kind, savaging Meta’s stock for burning cash building a metaverse that was never going to exist

and now almost at $300 again. nuts. Yeah, so many people in 2022 got this wrong. I don't think Zuck was at much risk of killing his company. Meta stock keeps going up, and is one of the biggest performers on the Nasdaq by far, almost back to its old highs.

The metaverse may have been a dud and the company was fined by the EU, but so what. Instagram and Facebook are more dominant than ever, and it's an advertising juggernaut. CPMs and CPC rates at record highs due to record advertising spending. Go ahead and try to find a company that is at the perfect intersection of profits, size, market dominance, and moat like Meta...maybe Microsoft, Alphabet. Not many.

It was not just the job cuts...many companies have/had big layoffs , like during the early 2000s or 2008-2010, and did not see anywhere close to such a huge recovery that Meta saw.

The markets seemed to ignore the $410 million fine that Meta received for GDPR violations, along with the fact that European users will now have to deliberately opt-in to sharing their data

large occasional fines by the EU are bascially seen as a cost of doing business. see Alapbet, which has been fined many times.
To add to this, abdominal fat is by far more dangerous than fat evenly distributed around the body.
Depends on the benchmark. Does well on other metrics when compared to open models.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
Yup. It's the main thing making me want to use kbin.social. Even there I had to use Stylebot to force a wider layout but the default is much better.

I can't quite understand what the obsession with narrow layouts is these days. It's not like most of these sites don't have separate mobile layouts. Are they really just lazy about design and can't be bothered testing reflow of their text?
On Bloom's two sigma problem: Mastery learning, tutoring, and direct instruction
I mean...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sail...

> Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring during a three-year period of supervised release after the prison time. He pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information and had faced five to six years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

> Saucier admitted to taking six photos of classified areas inside the USS Alexandria in 2009 when it was in Groton and he was a 22-year-old machinist mate on the submarine. The photos showed the nuclear reactor compartment, the auxiliary steam propulsion panel and the maneuvering compartment, prosecutors said.

> Saucier took the photos knowing they were classified, but did so only to be able to show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy, his lawyers said. He denied sharing the photos with any unauthorized recipient.
Just another example of why this whole Reddit "blackout" isn't related to what most Redditors actually care about.
I suppose that would be a defense against the gom jabbar…
Don't you guys watch Mythbusters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw2iBmRsjs
(Mythbusters bust 'bull in a china shop stereotype')
FOSS needs to teach basic marketing 101.

Content first on landing page.

Not "what's an instance?"
Now that China is starting to develop their own IP in some areas (eg EVs) I'm curious how they react if anyone rips off their IP.

I can't imagine they'll react well, but I wonder if it's a genuine "IP isn't a thing" or if it's just "ripping people off is ok it it's for our benefit".
"Until next time,"

The only part of the post that matters. Let's see how things work out.

Because for millions of people, it often doesn't. And that's the horribly shitty part. For most, it's an utter gamble. Life finds ways to punch you in the face for daring to try.

Not for everyone, but for many.
I’m in Australia, and the contracts here always specify a min number of hours (normally 38).

I can’t see a problem with how you’re working at an individual level, and as you say, you are productive and working in-line with your contract. However, the original poster was talking about young people not feeling motivated due to inequality.

The fact that you’ve managed to find a job that works well for you as an experienced professional does not change the fact that a young person should be working hard (and potentially long). Would you have gotten to where you are if you’d done the minimum your entire career?
Became aware of that one yesterday. This is one of the papers I have no hope of understanding myself. I'm hoping people with the right smarts will give it the thumbs up.

Would be nice event to catch.
It seems the value of ML and AI comes from the approximation of the brain, or best-fitting conceptual models that nevertheless today contain high error. As I understand, dendrites vs perceptrons are quite different, but holistically, this is about energent behavior from simple input output networks. Structuralism is about to be put to the test. The better our conceptual models fit the biological behavior, the more "human-like" the behavior. We should expect the field to continue developing practical and better fitting models. The only question, here then, is a "articial ladder of consciousness", where we decide where in this spectrum a being deserves to have rights and not suffer. We may want to start granting rights to our models today to avoid a history of enslaving conscious beings (serious perspective)
IVF, credit card debt, certifications, layoffs... Good god, structuring your life around a corporate ladder centered career sounds miserable.
There are several dragonrealms clients, but most use Genie 3, and that's now been open-sourced.
> Meanwhile, most of the content producers seem to have fled the site and latest high quality serious content is a week old at this point.

I highly doubt this, most content producers explicitly can't post their content because their subs are restricted or private, eg AskHistorians.

> I don’t see how Reddit recovers from this without losing a great deal of value for their shareholders. I’m expecting Huffman to resign based on how much he has damaged their monetization potential with advertisers.

No, this is great for shareholders as it explicitly removes users using apps that are not able to show Reddit ads.
I personally found the opposite with office politics. People are a lot more comfortable being under-handed when they’re at a distance.
> Without active serious creators you end up with nothing but an endless feed of endlessly recycled memes.

This is what drives the most eyeballs to ads though. Reddit simply wants to be like Instagram with memes, not an actual text-based discussion forum.
Good resource, w/ useful examples, from a "here's how to start incorporating some of the new stuff" angle. For more of a "building things from first principles" foundation, I continue to recommend https://every-layout.dev.
I had a professor in college who was told by a female colleague while at a conference that nobody could be a serious academic if they were married, and especially not if they had kids. He was both married and had kids and was very well regarded in his field, so he didn’t agree.
(Going to skip the basic timeline of events. Highly voted submissions and threads here will bring you up to speed quicker and more accurately than any summarization on my part.)

I guess my earlier ode to the tire fire that is reddit right now, which has, in its time, captured and digitized so much of humanity (and in one place, to boot), is largely my appeal. Your response to a sibling thread, while accurate as far as I see it, feels like it operates off of a narrowed definition of "personal gain".

On the subreddit scope: it's a neighborhood watch for residents. It's tech support for PEBKACs. It's a woodworking learning center for aspiring careerists and hobbyists. It's a coordination hub for criminals. It's a porn portal for the hormonally befuddled or sinfully licentious, depending on who you ask. It's where future spouses-to-be and predators-and-victims meet. I'm not trying to say you don't realize this or that people can't do these things just about anywhere else; just that maybe you're completely glossing over the human element to it, if anything. Maybe you and certainly I are among these people. If you want to keep to your distanced vantage point, I'd posit that it'd serve as a pretty relevant case study for decades, at the least. "One for the history books." As we already know, nothing lasts forever.

Didn't mean to accuse; and definitely didn't mean to belittle.

E: p.s., not to mention, all the staff and volunteers behind the scenes, CEO included.
Schools should teach AI to every child
The door is that signal others can see to better judge whether breaking into your stream of thought makes sense.

Doors are super high value, especially when used properly. And that often means managing door state:

Open = available, come on in!

Closed = while others can knock, or say a quiet word to interrupt.
Then the lines of AWK fail. I believe one reason for the continual use of human workers in information processing jobs is that they (we?) can keep the system running when it's broken, which turns out to be most of the time. This could be a widespread "big picture" reason for many bullshit jobs.
In British families of a certain class, at least on TV, the son would address the father in Latin as "pater" but with a long A sound. It comes off now as an absurd affectation, much like using "per se" regularly in the name of a letter.
It’s a little surprising to me about how much travel there is.

Different tribes called up at different times have their perspective candidates traveling back and forth and all over the place.
One example can be resources and efficiency. One time I was trying to browse Google Fonts to find something in a certain visual style (ie not something you can really search for via keywords). It made Chrome completely unresponsive after a little while. This was a few years back so maybe it’s better now, but I’ve seen similar slowdown on other sites.

A more human reason is that personally, I like to portion out and chunk off parts as no longer requiring my attention. I read a page and move on, clear the mental cache and start again. Infinite scrolls can mess with my focus.
Creativity in the Age of AI [video]
So people are stealing vehicles and your point is that people shouldn't have any personal vehicle in the first place?
Do you think the same about any personal property that are being stolen?
If you read the linked post, it doesn't sound like "How can we drive more user growth" is really the problem here -- at all
Mastodon is unusable to me because I need two accounts to be parts of the math community and programming community.

N accounts for N interests I have. Doesn't work for me.

Reddit had subs. With one acocunt, I could sub to any number of interests. Twitter is flat. Again, I can get content from all areas of interest fron one account.
Whenever I want to get really angry, I convert the funding the latest Uber But For Pets On The Blockchain Using LLMs into "R01s" - the standard $1.250 million dollar NIH grants that are considered career making in the biological sciences.

You could change the world with the amount of money he's been given to...do whatever it is he can't even articulate.
Generally, organizing and collective action is.
It seems to be all instances actually, see https://the-federation.info/platform/73 and click on "Active last month".

That's quite shocking. I run a push notification service and have ~25k daily active users, and it runs on a single 2 core machine with 2 GB RAM. I'm not saying that it's easy to run a service for so many users, but the largest of the Lemmy instance has ~3k users. That's super small, and a lot smaller than expected.
I don’t see how any toy model you could trivially create could have the settings / tweaks for 100k context windows applied / played with.

I mean, in general yes, but in this specific example? Hmm…
They might just be counting their instance. These things get way more complicated to figure out in a federated world (which is actually good in some respects). There are at least half a dozen instances where people are going to.

EDIT: someone posted below some stats showing it's at least roughly counting all instances. Quite surprising though I wonder if it's lagging a bit. Also keep in mind, for a good amount of time during the blackout they were down or had registration closed.
By this argument, nearly any government control is “good”.

The reality is we live in a dirty, messy world. This isn’t a computer where you can stack trace and figure everything out.

In general, we live in one of the safest, most stable times in the history of the world. Things are working “well enough” that we don’t need stuff like this.
FOSS 101: you don't like it, send a patch.
"I realize that each time it flickers to life could be its last. How does one go about finding ancient tubes nowadays? Where are the parents with the know-how to fix such things anymore?"

Fixing it is non-issue. Almost evey part will be available if not a direct replacement then a close substitute. Even new electrolytic capacitors can be made to look like old parts by burying them in the case of the defunct part.

As for tubes, it's almost certain they'll be standard octals (they were commonplace by 1941), and there's any number of them around both new-old stock and secondhand.
The TurboVision library that came with Turbo Pascal was awesome. Borland really had their shit together back in the day. Then they got greedy and overpriced their product, and killed the community.
America Saves 2023
Atomics don’t scale. In this age that needs to be widespread elementary knowledge. They are particularly bad on armv8 without atomic extensions because that platform has no equivalent to “lock; xadd” and an atomic increment could theoretically become an infinite loop.
I’m an avid Redditor and have been for a decade. I just stopped using it since the blackout. Turns out life is fine without it. Occasionally I go into it when I have a specific question or something but that’s it. Screw that site and these myopic CEOs who think they’re Elon Musk 2.0. I doubt I’m the only big contributor to do this. Whether the subs come back or not, I give Reddit a mere 50% chance of being able to survive this long term. Eat this shareholders, for leaving an idiot on as CEO.
Down voting

Once you're diagnosed with high BP you can and should self monitor. That'll show the white coat if it is there.

Also BP meds are insanely cheap because.
From the company perspective they care about the all-in employee cost so including all the perks, health insurance, payroll tax, and personnel overhead (hr, recruiting) the cost per-head doesn’t look so bad.

If you consider that the all-in cost of an L4 is more like $400-500k/year it becomes a little baffling that they don’t just get 2x the space they currently do if it will only cost $25k/y and make it so they get their own cubicle or mini office.
No worries; I assumed you weren’t being malicious.
17 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145185
The report title is “How America Saves 2023”, but I think HN’s anti-clickbait title rewriting took off the “How”. In this case alas it makes the title a bit confusing.

It’s Vanguard’s annual compilation of stats about the retirement accounts that they manage (401k, 403b, IRA, etc.). Since they’re one of the larger managers of such accounts, it’s an interesting set of data imo.
>I've never understood people complaining about BMI. yes it doesn't work for body builders or amputees

It has way more issues than that, but I'll include them for a more complete list:

- It ignores body composition: BMI is calculated by dividing a person's weight (in kilograms) by the square of their height (in meters). It provides a general estimate of body fat based solely on weight and height, without considering factors such as muscle mass (or missing limbs in your example), bone density, or distribution of fat.

- Despite your hyperbole, you don't have to be a body builder for BMI to be inaccurate. BMI fails to consider variations in muscle mass, which can significantly affect an individual's weight and overall health. Muscles are denser than fat, so individuals with a higher muscle mass may have a higher BMI, even if they have low body fat and good overall health. Athletes and individuals who engage in strength training often fall into this category.

- it doesn't care about fat distribution, different types of fat or account for fat distribution patterns in the body. Abdominal fat, also known as visceral fat, is considered more dangerous than fat stored evenly throughout the body. Visceral fat is associated with a higher risk of chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. However, BMI does not provide information about fat distribution or its potential health implications.

- It does t account for ethnic and gender variations: BMI was originally developed based on studies conducted primarily on white males. It does not take into account variations in body composition among different ethnic groups or between genders. For example, some studies suggest that individuals of Asian descent may be at higher risk for health problems associated with excess weight at lower BMI values compared to individuals of other ethnic backgrounds.

- It suffers from lack of individual context. BMI provides a numerical value without considering an individual's unique health history, lifestyle factors, or genetic predispositions. It fails to capture the complexities of an individual's overall health and cannot account for important factors such as nutrition, physical activity, and overall body shape.
But now their serious competition is 9gag not quora or some other site. Most of my regular friends started using Reddit not just for the memes but the text based ones (like AITA, BORU) and local subs. Good luck making them look good with a large fraction of creators and good mods leaving.
> their need to advertise admissions, how they talk to the media and university rating services, their relations with China, the student lawsuits they face, their need to manage relations with Oxford the political unit

This all sounds to me like DG's definition of 'bullshit'. David Graeber is an anthropologist, ie, he takes a wide view of humanity: many societies, including societies not that alien to us, manage to function without this kind of work. Why is it suddenly indispensable? It is not a business advice book about running an individual institution, it is a wider social critique about how we have set up our society and economy.

> let him spend a year managing a mid-size organization, say 60-80 employees,

Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist and would critique the idea of a top-down capitalist firm itself (ie, the deeper question: why do we insist on structuring labor this way?). He is not telling anyone the best way to run it.
How to get more involved with Bay Area AI builders?
Hey I'm a engineer working in the bay area building large scale infrastructure for AI training/inferencing using SLURM and Kubernetes for a team of AI researchers.

I have always worked at startups but always paid and as a proper job.

I'm looking to get my hands dirty and help out very early founders on whatever, paid or not. I love my current job and won't leave so looking for part time.

Basically I want to give to the community and just help out and chat with some people trying crazy things. Only caveat being I want in person anything. Otherwise I'd rather just tinker on my own as usual.

Anyone know of someone very early in an AI startup in bay area who could use some help?

Message me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlesCurt2?t=Neng-XkFnqENKQ6QPHKHoA&s=09
Woah. Author here. Had no idea this blew up. Thanks for all the support!

My primary point was over open offices and how disrespected engineers are as knowledge workers that need a quiet environment in order to perform successfully, as most of you seemed to pick up on. Maybe I should have focused on that more as indeed not everyone needs to commute very far for instance. But I sure as hell am never going back to an open office pit of despair.
Claude is a mystery/surprise to me. My mental model has been to train these cutting edge closed source models you need
1) Bespoke supercomputer (no public cloud will cut it)
2) Great dataset (which takes a long time to collect unless you have a partnership with with a search engine)
3) Couple hundred lines of pytorch code to run on the supercomputer
4) A couple of employees with experience in the dark arts of malfunctioning GPU's and exploding gradients

Anthropic is a relatively new startup that probably has 3) & 4) from their history at OpenAI. But I don't see how they could have 1) & 2).
I can’t speak for that given example but considering the scale of total war at the time, cities raised, populations slaughtered / sold into slavery. Probably have to keep fighting.
Would gladly buy a physical copy of this book for $20-$30. Why on earth is it so expensive? ($92 on Amazon)
I think you’re citing a theoretical reaction. Actual, likely is imperfect and creates the undesirable byproducts.
Well, a hell of a lot of the Redditors on mobile do care about the changes so I'm not sure who your comment is directed at.
I don't know much, but this isn't surprising based on the little I know.

Transformers predict the next token.

If your question is at the end of the prompt, the start of an answer is a more likely next token than if the question is at the beginning of the prompt followed by a ton of other relevant, but non-question-forming tokens.

Still, if you had to put the question at the beginning of your prompt, a transformer is more likely to give an answer than an RNN.
I applied for access to Claude months ago, any suggestions on getting into the trial?
The Game Called Life