skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m wondering if anything in their setup is worth incorporating into the “status quo”

The most immediately relevant thing is equity-based comp that doesn’t have a tax hit.

Another thing I find interesting is whether this comp might be more “mission-aligned”:

- It’s likely this is all just to accomodate their “non-profit with limited profit subsidiary” structure

- But there's still a deeper question there: do current specifics of how startups do comp / investment / exits somehow result in societally suboptimal outcomes?

- If so, how exactly, and is it fixable, or are those inherent properties of an ecosystem of competitive, high-growth startups?

- One way that might be the case is if there’s a pressure for “growth at all costs”, which is something OpenAI would want to avoid.

- The pressure for that could come from a lot of sources — intrinsic desire for growth; financial expectations from shareholders (employees, VCs, public market investors, even customers); regulatory requirements around fiduciary duty; existential risk of going under or competition, or needing to hit a certain size to achieve whatever it is you want to achieve

- Another way this could be the case would be limited exit opportunities, or limited creativity around them / sticking to well-trodden paths, ultimately resulting in control of the company being handed over to either poor management or groups prioritizing growth at the expense of good product

- Thinking about twitter and reddit’s API shutdowns here — how much do unpopular product decisions like that come from legal specifics? Or perhaps those would have happened no matter what, to keep the companies from going under or to have enough profits to fund further innovation.

- It’s not obvious that this setup avoids a motivation for “growth at all costs” — employees’ pay is still based on increasing profit, and if it doesn’t grow as fast as competitors it may just become irrelevant. But it’s possible it affects other strings around company control. Not sure — IANAL :)
There's a newer version of [4]: http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/
Nice! I have to admit I didn't follow all the math, but the layers get really wide, right? You still need to describe all the partitions between the pieces of the piecewise linear functions. Does this save any computation at inference time?
Nearly every farmer who has livestock is likely to have a gun to put animals out of their misery should it be necessary.
Thank you. I am thoroughly done with working and would love to collect shells on the beach for the rest of my life ;)
Getting your character high is just a narrative vehicle to some tropey destination[1]. It is sometimes done in a deliberately exaggerated tongue-in-cheek manner ("This is how squares must think drugs are always like!") by the ones that know better, but oftentimes it must be just plain unawareness and/or disregard for realism.

The article deals with one of the specific kind of drugs[2] that "kind of" work that way.

To be fair, interacting with real people who are high while one is sober can get boring pretty fast. Maybe that makes accurate portrayal in fiction not worth it.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsYourIndexO...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliriant
I asked if they can, regardless of what you or they do. If they can, then you have no power and you do not work for yourself.
There was an excellent thread/discussion about it a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35977891
(If you’re taking about the scroll behavior) It can be set in two different places, but it’s the same setting underneath. Either you get natural everywhere or the other behavior everywhere.
TypeScript allows this too, unfortunately. https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/MYewdgziA2CmB00QHM...
Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls
What would be a better spec for map() then?

I think it would be to say that [...].mapBETTER(argFunk) calls its arg-function with just a single argument. The rest of the useful ("optional") arguments should be passed by binding "this" to the array of them.

If bind() fails because the function was already bound, should throw an error.

But this brings me to my pet-peeve: Why can't I map over Objects (other than Arrays)?
because something something technology indistinguishable from magic
>> Many are working on land owned for generations and feel the pressure to not fail

How does this work? Wouldnt you end up with more and more descendants and inheritors over time, thus splitting the farm n-ways?
Aria Browser AI – Opera One
Capitalism is still feeding us. Farmers and their vendors are orders of magnitudes more efficient than centuries ago.

Family farming has always depended on cheap/free labor of children (and slaves / serfs / indentured servants / illegal immigrants). Corporate farming at least makes those transactions more honest and transparent.
Robocorp.log: a library to answer what happened in a Python run
Posting about what I've been working for a while (a library -- with a focus on Python automations -- which is able to report what actually happened in a Python execution).
Now replace

def to_int(a, b):
...

with the JS semantic equivalent of

def to_int(*args):
...

because that's how JS function declarations work. You simply have the option to assign names to positional parameters, i.e.

function fn(a, b) {
comnsole.log(a, b)
}

is just syntactic sugar for

function fn() {
const a = arguments[0]
const b = arguments[1]
console.log(a, b)

}

and that's what people seem to struggle with and argument over for whatever strange reason.
My background is medical devices (21CFR), not aerospace. The "story" I like to tell about how much procedures matter is the stack of $1,200 single board computers I was offered because when they arrived on the loading dock, the person from Receiving didn't follow the proper procedure, so they couldn't be sent to Manufacturing to be assembled into the $700,000 instrument we sold but were instead heading for the dumpster.

$12,000 in perfectly working hardware that had to be scrapped because someone didn't fill out the proper paperwork. Luckily, we (software dev) intercepted them and found other uses for them.
I would hope someone would introduce the person as, "just observing."

My past few jobs required interviewer training, which involved observing interviews. So pretty much any interview I was involved in had an observer.
Yes -- this is a good article on it: https://txt.cohere.com/sentence-word-embeddings

As a blackbox, it is a generalization of word2vec to sequence2vec. For example, simply summing or averaging word vectors in a sentence can give you a fast & cheap sentence embedding.

But natural language sentences have more structure than natural language words. Ex: it matters precisely where "not" goes in a sentence. So a lot of impressive scientific experimentation went into making these models smarter, with many evolutions. Impressively, this so blackboxed now that doesn't super matter.

Implicit to my post here... that's powerful, and easy to use... but not necessarily a great knowledge representation for someone who wants good Q&A over enterprise-scale data. One of our customer scenarios: "What is known vs believed about incident X." We can index each paragraph as multiple sentence embeddings, so if any phrase matches a query, the full paragraphs can get thrown into GPT as part of our answer. Easy. However, if information in the paragraph may lead to wanting to get information from elsewhere in the system (mention of another team, project, incident, ...), that means either a Planning agent needs to then realize that and recursively generate more vector search queries (mini-AutoGPT)... or we need to index on more than the sentence embedding.

Again, super interesting problems, and we're hiring for folks interested in helping work on it!
> Windows indexes files in the background, which would choke a single-core machine with HDD for sure.

This was done also in Win 7. It didn't have such a performance hit, but it was the first thing to be disabled after installing windows.
There was a distress beacon… it’s called a transponder. It is in a separate pressure chamber controlled by a separate battery. It is a completely separate and isolated system. It failed at the same time as regular comms leading some to conclude the vessel was gone. Kaput. Is no more.
Aaanndd your money’s gone.
Do you have unencumbered photos for those? The last time I added a portrait photo I had to ensure license was good and I needed a model release as well. If you provide the unencumbered photos, I will attempt to contact them or their publicists for a model release if required. It will likely take months for me, though, since this isn't a top priority.

But if you get me the photos, I'll take care of the rest. We can't make it the infobox because they're still living, but we can add the photo to show what they were like at the time, which is notable since that's what they're famous as.
I did not parrot anything.
This is the first time I have heard of Gitea, I have googled it and the 1. thing I have noticed it was hosted on GitHub. It was an original tought.

I did not care enough to open their issue tracker. I still don't. It is ironic, not a bit, a lot. That statement was a bit sarcastic.

I hope that put the end to your wondering.
It is absolutely magical, and I can say based on extensive blood work and a MRI that the changes were extraordinarily beneficial for me, personally.

"Unhealthy weight loss" is a stupid phrase. When you're morbidly obese and lose a third of your body weight, your life expectancy changes dramatically.

You do need to take it for the rest of your life. But, so what? If you have high blood pressure or cholesterol, you need to take an ACE inhibitor or statin the rest of your life too. These are chronic conditions. Obesity is too.
What really matters at the end of the day for actual rocket building is thrust per area of nozzle size. Or how much thrust can you put under a rocket of some core size X.

Raptor is by far the best engine ever built according to that measure.

Prometheus doesn't seem that impressive but we don't have all the information on it as far as I can find.
I find gardening very relaxing, but I have been wondering about cleaning, so thanks for the positive reinforcement!
I feel like anyone who fits the categorization (so called INFP/F types[0]) are unlikely to the ones to tell you.

That's why people who claim to have this ability almost never do. Its not in the nature of someone who can to really talk about it this way.

I'd also argue that courts are definitely not the place to have this. There's good reasons why this is likely to fail in a stressful setting (convicting someone of a crime or reviewing evidence) vs a situation of neutrality. Once you start mixing in other factors I imagine this gets blurry real fast. Its all very context dependent.

To tack on further, courts by structure also have a burden of proof aspect to limit / remove the human element as much as possible (in theory anyway) and that is very important.

[0]: https://www.simplypsychology.org/infp-personality.html
I think there's less toxicity here than this person points out.

The one thing you would notice about this website if you view it as often as scrolling the new posts constantly like I do is that there is a problem with reposting or people not being aware that the thing was already posted and a general laziness about checking if a thing was already posted. Also a whole lot of trend following in the guise of original thought. Especially with LLMs and machine learning in general.

There's also the really strange phenomena of people just posting links to Wikipedia for a thing with no context, and I always find those very hilarious because I wonder what the person posting it was thinking and what they were trying to communicate by posting it.

There's also a thing that you notice where everybody on here pretty much just follows a work week schedule and most of the posting happens during the week and weekends everyone's off basically from hacker News. The heat map is very predictable. Even Time Wise, during the day for the United States is where the majority of the posts happen and during the middle of the night early morning stuff just trickles in. There's almost no reason to ever look at the front page on here because you could very easily keep up with just reading new.

Hacker News in general is very tame. It's very predictable. And it's kind of not actually all that innovative with original thought, except for very rare exceptions on occasion. But it's the easiest "social network" link posting and commenting website to get along with by far.
The trick with why HyperRogue works as a game does in fact come down to hyperbolic geometry; it's not a gimmick.

Hyperbolic space has a lot more space in it than flat space. The circumference of a circle grows linearly with the radius in flat space, but exponentially in hyperbolic space. There's a huge amount of room even just a short distance away from some given point.

HyperRogue is based around this property; one wanders the tiles of the hyperbolic plane in arbitrary directions, visiting various biomes with their own mechanics. Switching biomes is as simple as walking in an arbitrary direction until you see a biome wall, but at the same time every biome is endless in all* directions. This wouldn't actually fit in a Euclidean plane.

There's also some mechanics that make use of the properties of the space, like the very difficult late game puzzle of "walk 100 paces, then return to your starting point" or the tricky "find the center of this circle".

*pedant repelling asterisk
Difficult to answer.

However, what you can say is that the borrow-checker works like a straight-jacket for the programmer, making them less capable to focus on other things like performance issues, high-level data leaks (e.g. a map that is filled with values without removing them eventually), or high-level safety issues.
hipsters are not reproducing, and showing high levels of anxiety disorders here in the City, honestly. Not sure what to say about culture, America is having troubles that way. Social media has done a lot of self-inflicted harm on growing minds and bodies in the last 15 years, as is well-documented. Lastly, the effect of low-cost fossil fuel transport for ordinary daily items, cannot be overstated. Farms within 100 miles fail, while common fruits and vegetables can travel more than 1000 miles and somehow still be cheaper?

things are not going well.
Cows eat 22 kg of plants to make 1 kg of meat, out of every 100 kcal you feed them you'll get 2 kcal of meat. Why not skip the inefficient intermediary?

And we could/should use nitrogen fixing plants and biodiversity instead of man made chemicals.
America Is Getting Older
Yes, thank you. That's also what I thought after reading clarifications along these lines in the thread.
Interesting how we are going backwards, from planes to trains.
Agreed - within a specific context I don't find the comments described in the article to be toxic. Obviously not always the right approach with loved ones but in a mostly pseudonymous space where people largely have a shared understanding of what to expect, those types of comments sound perfectly reasonable. There was no name-calling or unnecessary ad hominems. This is where we come to debate, not to provide emotional support (for the most part, although that can happen as well).

That said, I do still think it's important to soften the language wherever possible, if only to strengthen the impact of your argument. Saying "I think you're wrong" vs. "You're wrong" can represent a world of a difference in how much of the meaning of your message is received and the productivity of the ensuing conversation. Any amount of defensiveness or perceived aggression can quickly snowball and derail.
You’re right in principle, this is indeed how it should work in theory. In practice, though, it’s all very much "thanks for the taxes, now fuck off", and US is not much better here.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

We could double forest area, stop biodiversity loss and store whole 1.5C carbon budget with subsequent reforestation effort. Studies confirming this exist. It's the easiest and surest way how to stop climate change.
AWS should make it easy to know which permissions are needed. That is really the problem here.

You should be able to dry-run a stack deployment, and get a response with every single permission needed at the finest granularity possible.

Theres ugly work arounds that only work some of the time to do this. There should be a rock solid way instead.
After Ariane 5, ESA should probably award fixed price contracts to private European rocket startups rather than doing it together with Arianespace. But I suspect this wouldn't work well with EU funding, since those startups are only located in certain member states.
I do think it can tell the difference between truth and fiction. It’s a world model, it includes models of concepts like truth and fiction and can apply these concepts.

But that’s beyond the point. The question is, how would you include incorrect responses into the training. In a way that it would not increase the probability of the model to give an incorrect response?

I guess you can maybe train with a mix of correct and incorrect responses, hallucinations and nonsense in the conversation, but then make clear that the responses were incorrect, adding context to these. And then fine-tune the AI actor to avoid giving incorrect responses or hallucinations altogether.
One paragraph would have been enough, for me, it dragged on and I started skipping sections of text. I am amazed someone wanted to spend their precious hours writing such a long article for something that could have been much less. Different strokes and folks though.
Qt has been LGPL for ages. You can use it for free just fine in proprietary apps, as long as you don't modify Qt itself.
Data calculations and rendering should be done in the same framework if you wish to optimize interactivity.
Study suggests 21st century economic growth will be slower than expected
They make a smaller model called the Ford Maverick
Also from the article:

"A key takeaway lesson from our journey is that evaluations are strongly tied to their implementations–down to minute details such as prompts and tokenization."

In line with what you were saying about the HF LLM Leaderboard only be a starting point I wish it had more (selectable) columns with significant hyperparameters like the tokenization method or the context window size.

A way to group related models would also be nice.

I think that would make the Leaderboard even more useful than it is already.
It's one of the reasons I hate this push to get rid of cars and move everyone into cities.

It just increases the isolation of Farmers and other rural people. Strong Towns actually has a stated goal of reducing the interstate system! (Strong Towns, weak country, should be their new name.)

We need to reverse this trend - more people back into tiny cities, and yes, even suburbs.

Sure, looked at only from a money point of view, cities do a lot - but it's all services, and very little actual good people need in order to live. There's more to a strong country than just money.
There's a lot of sources out there on this topic, but Psychology Junkie is way better than I would have expected from the name. Two articles that mention these traits:

INFJ: https://www.psychologyjunkie.com/understanding-infj-intuitio...

INFP: https://www.psychologyjunkie.com/the-infp/
In the future, everything will be cyan.

This seems to be a thing in anime and movies. It dates from the early 1980s, when displays were mostly green. Fiction needed something different. It also works well for see-through displays which allow the audience to see the actor's face.

On stuff you actually have to interact with, it's more of a cliche now.
Not sure if it's a comparable metric, but it seems to largely follow the long term time series here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices
Also, a growing dependency on a constantly increasing amount of input costs - fertilizer, engineered seeds, pesticides, etc. Input costs keep going up, while yields are slowing down, and the prices are already pretty much rock bottom. Hard to see a lot of hope for the future in the situation.
No federal estate tax on $10m of farm land (kicks in around $13m this year, from what I can tell—the so-called "death tax" is often framed as applying to a whole lot more people than it actually does). Further, I'm pretty sure there are ways to structure a business that'll prevent even amounts exceeding $13m from being affected—granted, that would require advance planning which may or may not have been done.

The rest would vary state by state and depend on the relation to the deceased, but I'm pretty sure it'd be $0 or negligible in most cases, on a $10m estate, for spouse or children at least, even with minimal advance preparation.
Google AI Researcher Returns to Google After 5 Months at OpenAI
I see! Thank you for clarifying.
The relevant lifespan of a paper in this field appears to average about three months. Can't really hold that against them.
Interestingly, race relations were at their peak in 2008. The trends of seeing racism everywhere and reading it into everything, people's personal views (notably, those of minority respondents, many of whom viewed race relations in far more positive terms than they do today), and more importantly the pervasive, institutionalized victim pimping that has spawned a billion dollar industry in recent years—these are all artificial, forced, and came about in the last 15 years.

Yes, race matters a lot to many people. It certainly matters a lot more than it did until 2008—to all "racial" groups, that is—and I can't help but notice that a lot of freshly minted "experts" are, fifteen years later, profiting very, very handsomely from providing "solutions" to a problem that has perversely only grown in proportion with the size of the industry itself.
Ask HN: Can you simulate walking in any direction via a moving floor for VR?
With such a floor, you could for example play soccer in VR by running in any direction and actually kicking the (virtual) ball.
It’s not backwards, high speed rail was invented in the 60s with the shinkansen, about the same time as the modern airliner.
Seems like a very normal parameter choice for such a function. Nearly every one of the "big" programming languages uses this in some way. To me it would seem weird to have a parseInt and parseIntBase when one is just parseInt(x) -> parseIntBase(x, 10)

C++: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/stol

Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Integer....

C#: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.int32.pa...

But they don't have implicit null/undefined for unspecified parameters, and afaik the map's in these languages do not provide additoinal parameters.
Farms in a family trust are not subject to the death event that triggers inheritance tax.
At least in part it's not just supply and demand, but what capital owners have deemed your value is worth, and how much value you can produce for them given your role. A programmer at a big co can take that 300-500K/year you pay them and multiply it 10x, creating a lot of "value" due to far reaching impact at scale.