skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of paper mills is well-known. What's the remedy, however? If bad behavior is allowed to exist then that means it's not particularly considered harmful, or there is vested interest in allowing its existence.

Enough people care about this to not let this go on unabated, so it's not a matter of time or resources. What seems more likely is that corporate interests (and perhaps lobbying?) keep this sort of behavior alive.

An immediate remedy that comes to mind is that each research institution at a certain level (R1s at least) should be made responsible for establishing an internal body of scientists whose job is nothing but replication. Moreover, establish a replication index for each scientist instead of a citiation index.
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They are not all feed-forward unless it is some other definition that i am not aware of. Convolutional layers, XL hidden states, and graphical networks (which transformers are a special case of) aren't considered feedforward.

Unless you consider the entire instance as a singular instance and don't use any hidden states, then I guess it could be considered feed-forward.

I don't know. Feedforward doesn't seem like a useful term tbh. Some people mean feedforward as information only goes one direction, but that depends on your arrow. Autoregressive seems more useful here.
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I’m on a HDD here and still working fine. A tad slow bootup but can run Chrome and my WSL heavy dev setup simultaneously. You may want to turn off unnecessary startup programs and other little things, help more than you think.
Indeed there was. The first Lisp I saw was a port of David Betz's xlisp to the Atari ST (in the 1980s). The port was buggy and I didn't have the sources, so I needed to get started on writing my own interpreter. The rest is history, as they say.
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>> what does your vendor support?

Will your vendor be buying RHEL to develop their product?

Anyone developing products for RHEL will now need to buy RHEL licenses unless Rocky Linux / Alma Linux are able to maintain 100% compatibility.

This will probably make the RHEL ecosystem more expensive for everyone using it.
Anabolic steroids and growth hormones should be legal, and their dosing programs be easily-obtainable by endocrinologists (though not reimbursable through health insurance)

As it stands, if you've just started bodybuilding and want to get growth hormones, unless you're rich and well-connected enough, a pro or ex-Pro athlete or an A/B-list actor, your best bet is testosterone.

Most PCPs won't prescribe it unless your levels are seriously low, and most endos won't do it either unless you go to one of those weird T clinics like this one: https://testosteroneclinicpro.com/testosterone-treatment-for...

This means going to the black/gray-markets or to forums to:

1. get your supply, which is almost always imported from Eastern Europe or Asia and has variable quality control, and

2. your programming, which is highly dependent on your body (and everyone's body is different!)

Bad programming is what kills/seriously injures people!

Then again, the folks that would rather make this and other hard drugs illegal and horrifically addicting and fatal would probably consider that a feature, not a bug.
I'm sure I've seen a headlock that someone connected their screen reader to GPT and it totally could do that kind of thing…

No idea how well, so I assume "badly"; but the API is already there.
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> Bad translations are something that can quickly destroy a brand in a market

Bad translations are present in product names & descriptions of at least 70% of all products on Amazon and Ebay I've seen, and it doesn't look like it hurts the business in any way.
+1. So often we conceptualize in terms of tasks, phases, states, processes. And then ultimately you discover it is all about data flow, an rarely about the algorithm.
FAANG, because it sucked the internet dry.
And this wasn’t Amazon’s only acquisition in this space. They bought Shelfari before this and also drove it into the ground.
Are there really that few of us? I feel Arathorn should have the numbers if anyone.
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Then again how much time do computers save?

Washing machines and fridges freed up a ton of time for people. Maybe computers as well, then again maybe they just entertain.

My personal anecdata, I was recently investigating some page load timeouts for my client and this lead me down a rabbit hole which in the end meant moving a WHERE clause from outer query to an inner one and sped up the query 100k times.

Based on slow query log stats it eliminated 25h of human waiting per day.
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Since many of the advancements in the diffusion Community (lora etc) are applicable to the text generation community, I don't see how this won't hit the local llama scene within the next month or so.
Pretty sure they're joking
SlowDownAndWasteMemory()
I think they are not good at expressing what exactly they fear. Both understand that people are embedded in culture and tools which act as cognitive aids and guides. Their fear is that people will start trusting these artificial systems too much and delegating too many important decisions to systems that have no understanding of what it means to be human. This is already happening with children that grew up with iPhones and ubiquitous internet connectivity. Their mental habits are markedly different from the people that did not have these affordances.

I don't think this is an existential threat but I also understand why they are afraid because I've seen what happens to kids who have their phones taken away.

These systems are extremely brittle and prone to all sorts of weird failures so as people start relying on them more and more the probability of catastrophic failures also starts to creep up. All it takes is a single grid failure to show how brittle the whole thing really is and I think that's what they're failing to properly express.
Then you can use whatever technology that hasn't be driven into obsolescence yet, but basic physics nearly guarantees that outcome. Maybe flash memory versus HDDs, or perhaps fiber optics over copper wires.

BEVs where at basically zero not that long ago. The problem is that economically, they are always going to have a major upfront cost. And the more range and the larger the car, the bigger this will be.

It's Tesla fanboys that are invested in a particular outcome. My own opinion is just asking "what comes next?" If you ask that question honestly, you'll end up with the same opinion that I have.
I think the better perspective is that LLMs give that magic feel to technologists that aren't really used to it. It certainly did for me until I learned much more about them and used them a bunch. Now it just feels like a tool I can ask to help me build a docker container so I don't have to read docs.
Only 20%? I think the numbers are close to 80%.
> And there could be an OTS Free Software solution with far less operating costs than TM.

Sounds like you've spotted a business opportunity!
I don't want to make fun of them, I just have no desire to socialize with them. I frankly think it's weirder to be a man in his 40's who wants to spend their digital day with 17 year olds.
I'm trying to figure out who's crazier here.

China, Vietnam or Hollywood/producers of this movie.

I go back and forth in my head. I guess if you put a gun to my head I'd say I have the most sympathy for Vietnam but it's a really marginal thing.
Yeah it is unfortunate.

Ever dealt with a rotating code review that passes through multiple hands? It's funny watching the principal architect and technical fellow ask me to refactor my code again to remove the changes that the other one asked me to make!

I spent a month in one such code review.

No wonder management hates listening to engineers. If we have a good point to make, they ignore it because of the last 3 engineers who wasted time with stylistic, pedantic arguments.
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To be fair, most people at my company use upvotes as an acknowledgement like, “Yep, I saw and read your thing”. If you get no upvotes, you’ll worry your post didn’t go through. And, realistically, no one is unprofessional enough to downvote anything anymore unless they’re being silly.
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20% of our time is wasted, but we are 2-3x more effective overall because of computers.
Sounds like a reasonable tradeoff
"With a perfect simulation? You're done the moment it ends. All the data is there available with a copy paste"

As far as I understand, to perfectly simulate reality, you would need a second reality.
I agree. I have to really fight people when I try to write robust software. "Why are you writing a proper parser when a hacky regex that I thought about for 2 seconds worked the one time I tested it? You're wasting time."

They don't understand that I'm not wasting time, I'm just choosing to spend a little bit of time earlier, because I don't like spending a lot of time later when debugging why everything broke.
> So much of the incentive structure in software companies is to ship new features. Maintaining existing ones or fixing bugs is a career dead end

Highly dependent on where you work and what you consider a "dead end". You can't possibly be talking about becoming unemployable in the industry nor even a pay cut. The situation for senior devs is the opposite, actually. Maintenance is the long tail of every project. If you're not doing that, you're not really working in software.
I’m fairly sure anecdotes like this inform the conversation about structs of arrays versus arrays of structs.

There are a couple of languages that let you treat them the same way. Having list comprehensions (plural) over multidimensional data would be handy.
Your manufacturer gave you a rebate on top of the state and coop rebate? So you have $1500 from the coop, what kind of rebates did you get from the state and manufacturer?
That wouldn't be a fair comparison. Rust has an opt-level option for each build profile. It defaults to 2 for the release profile.
I'm very much a lurker in online spaces (this is the first comment I've ever made in HN!) but I've found the atmosphere on tiles very appealing.

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No. Fuel cells can be constructed with no special materials. Even those that need them need extremely small quantities of it. A PEM fuel cell needs about as much platinum as a catalytic converter.
This is why I try to avoid healthcare and banking etc. Too much legacy vendor stuff which is hard to modernise. This whole "supported distro" stuff wouldn't matter if they just packaged their software in the shape of a container, even with container persistence. No more "required" distros. They would probably still have some CPU feature requirements and maybe a kernel version support range.
Every time I bother to check out twitter, or mindlessly follow a link there, it's just more of the same toddler-level political trolling. It's like an endless loop of bitching and whining and attacking, just with slightly different topics day to day.
Ask HN: Looking for the closed version of the Mobitex Interface Specification
Hello HN,

For purely historical reasons, I am looking for the closed version of the Mobitex Interface Specification. The open version can be found online, but the closed version used to be shipped on a CD for a fee and there is no trace of it in the "usual places". The closed version differs from the open one in that it contains the specification of the datalink protocols. I am especially interested in the air interface protocol, which is called ROSI.
The mobitex.com site recently went dark and there is no other way to get that documentation officially. Does anyone have it available?

Thanks!
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Link to the author version of the paper (the link in the article is paywalled): http://mortenhertzum.dk/publ/TOCHI2023.pdf
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If you want a really big workspace, you are going to have to also haul your large monitors with you.
Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
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If anyone knows the creator of this site, they might want to fix the bug of being able to get a different `frame` of reference on all of the images.

Wiki commons may be a great place to find images, but they do too good of a job naming things.
Some of the photos were actually taken about a thousand feet from the zone where you were marked "correct". I clicked right on top of the dam for my fifth guess and it showed me being 0.2 miles off.
Preventing fraud, not censorship. Writing a fake review of a book that hasn't even been finished written yet is fraud.
I have been browsing Tiles a lot and love it. Anyone got an invite?
> I feel that the majority of time working with computers is not actually computing numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication) but LOGISTICS.

I think this was figured out in the 50's, when IBM started making mainframes for businesses - made for data processing and management rather than crunching numbers which was the focus of machines made at universities.

Also, in norwegian and I guess other european languages. We call them, directly translated, "data machines" rather than computers.
Probably true. However, I interact with a bunch of broken systems all around me, in the real world, all the time. I'd also wager that I waste far more than 20% of my time on some of them.
It is nice and innovative, no doubt. But reinventing the syntax from scratch instead of introducing just the minimal amount of changes to the original C is a barrier that will deter 90% of possible adopters.

The reason C# took off is that it's as close to C/C++ as possible. If there is a difference, it's due to a fundamental semantic change. E.g. it moved from painstakingly reinterpreting hundreds of small header files for each compiled source file to loading efficiently serialized hierarchies of class definitions. Hence #include got replaced with using. It changed the semantics of pointers vs. references, hence 'ref' instead of '*', and so on. But there is no "fn square(x: u32)" instead of "uint32_t square(uint32_t x)" just for the sake of it.

And that's the main reason why many people will never consider even looking into the advantages Zig offers. Keeping another syntax in your head is just not worth it.
Trying to get back into making a fun procedural terrain generator. I want to attempt to make a terrain similar to the latest Legend of Zelda games. However, it may be too difficult.
I mean, this someone "who is past their prime" is a very respected someone that almost certainly inspired a fair number of the folks working in these fields.

So, yes, this is largely mining for quotes. But those are great quotes to ponder and to echo back through the machines that are research and progress to see where they lead.

It would be one thing if these were being taken as a "stop all current work to make sure we are aligned with those that came before us." I don't see it in that way, though. Rather, there is value in listening to those that went before.
Development teams, that include users, know about the issues. In the face of deadlines and budgets the team keeps opting to let little niggles slip in because they aren't a big enough deal to justify schedule disruptions or using developer time. All these little quirks add up to a shit UX.

The users filed the bug and the devs recorded the story, but management shot it down. Incentives.
That’s what I hoped the fediverse was promising to users: one account, cross-instance.
I see this too. We now have dedicated programmers to maintain a program that was supposed to save time.

Well that program(and a few others) made it so instead of having 120 (real) engineers, we have 7 engineers. The cost saving is real, it allows greater complexity, and the maintainer can add upgrades and work on other things as the program matures.
RFNoC for High-Performance Software Defined Radio with FPGAs (2015)
I must be doing Twitter wrong because it seems like you get very little discussion worth reading and it's too hard to find gems in a thousand reply thread. Many times even my feed has about only two or three posts worth reading. It's about as useful as reading YouTube comments.
> I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as far as I'm concerned.

Fair.

I'm definitely big on where it will be in the future (Iain M. Banks quote about Minds being the next thing to gods and on the other side), but there are a lot of grifters who are easy to spot with the following thought experiment:

If ChatGPT could actually, to use an example I've seen, "write a best selling novel", why is OpenAI selling you access to the API instead of writing all those books and selling them directly?
> suggestions starting with "you should have" aren't very helpful here

But they might be helpful to others.

There are ways to do these large refactorings that allow for incremental changes, never checking in a commit that breaks the build and where tests are passing at each stage. Your experience doesn't sound great and I'm sorry that happened to you, but I just wanted to add this to say that it's not necessarily personal.