skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to hear feedback and thoughts on how people approach monitoring in production in real world applications in general! It's an area that I think not enough people talk about when operating LLMs.

We spent a lot of time working with various companies with GenAI use cases before LLM was a thing and captured them in our library called LangKit - it's designed to be generic and pluggable into many different systems, including langchain: https://github.com/whylabs/langkit/. It's designed beyond prompt engineering and aims to provide automated ways to monitor LLM once deployed. Happy to answer any questions here!
> exploiting and preying on narcissists

It one time struck me how lame it is to expect empathy from people who have to fake it. I'd much prefer to accept them for who they are.

If you are kind and generous to them they consider you weak. If you scare or hurt them they respect you, they respect people who have power over them because they present all the interesting social challenges.

If you poke them with a cattle prod then give them a beer their experience is almost like giving a normal person a beer.

We should probably register them in a database along with as much personal information as possible. Not because it is useful (it might be) but because that is the kind of thing they respect. They will attempt to appeal to our empathy and cry about it to which we should respond with "ha-ha, sucks to be you."

The DB can be used to find employment where their qualities are beneficial. I talk with a guy one time who kills cows 8 hours per day. His coworkers are happy they don't have to do it. He said the cows visit them in their dreams, looking at them with their big scared sad eyes after the first jab doesn't kill them.

Cleaning up corpses after traffic accidents, defense lawyers for the indefensible, some military tasks, etc
I just don't understand how in my lifetime it went from Jimmy Carter having to sell his family's farm, to it being okay for Donald Trump to charge the Secret Service for room and board.
This includes yourself.
I have been trying the small llama 2 models (7B and 13B) and they are now good enough for most of my NLP tasks. Plus, Qualcomm will support llama models on mobile devices: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/07/qualcomm-work... soon.

I think Apple will come up with some crazy hardware to run good quality LLMs.
Legacy admissions should not be legal in public universities. Massive public schools like UMass, Mich, StonyBrook, GATech, Minnesota, Penn State still take legacy admissions.

It's nice to see CMU follow in the footsteps of other top private tech schools like MIT & Caltech that claim to not use legacy status. It's no surprise that Ivies, Stanford and most private colleges all heavily favor legacy. Afterall, a large part of a prestige university's job is lend an appearance of competence to the not-as-competent kids of the elite.

source I used - https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/colleges-that-c...
Not an Ivy, but at Stanford, they seem to mix.
I'm not looking for rigorous proof, but these are just cherry-picked example quotes instead of a coherent argument. You could just as well quote people who have experience dealing with code that is "not clever enough", e.g. 1000 line files without any internal structure. What does that show?

Writing code is about tradeoffs and not about pithy truisms lime "code should be obvious".
Well, that is not quite true at the State level. There are a number of States who have implemented laws that punish transmission of HIV/STDs knowingly. I'll concede there doesn't exist anything at the Federal level that I am aware of.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/policies/law/states/exposure.html
This is exactly what bothers me. This talk about Legacies and even AA for top schools is downright insulting to people like me that worked hard at second-tier institutions and are just ignored afterward as a result. We make up the vast majority of college graduates, why don't we get even a fraction of the support or attention?
Can you name a single vaccine that prevents infection and transmission, as in "nobody with the vaccine gets sick or gets someone else sick"? I don't think such a vaccine exists, but I might be wrong.
CCGs are a pale shadow to these gambling games. Beyond that, I think there are some important differences:

* There's no "free". You must spend money at the outset in order to play. This sets precedent and expectations.

* There's a physical good involved. You always get something, and you've got total freedom with how you use it. You can play it, sell it, trade it, turn it into an origami crane, use it as a proxy for a different card, etc.

* Because people can sell cards, this means you can simply buy the exact cards you want without resorting to randomized packs.

* Buying a randomized pack is a much more involved—both physically and psychologically—process compared to an IAP. At your local game shop, you have to go up to the counter, ask for one or more packs, and hand over your money/card. If you want more, you have to do it all over again. With an IAP, you just tap the "OK" button.
I stick with https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads, I need the glyphs. This would be a good candidate for nerdification.
Playbook to hit GitHub Trending
The real value is what they managed to pay for the product plus the cost of their own work. You could know it down to the cent and still not benefit from cutting out the middleman.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...

Switch to Antarctic and make sure to click "Show All Years". Until 2023 even low years were at least slowly marginal departures overlapping with previous years. 2023 is so far off the trend it almost looks like a data error. I've never seen anything like it.
The most lasting and deep co-worker peer bonds I have were all formed during remote work. Office work and commutes make me want to 'punch out' when the little hand is on the 5 and not think about work for the rest of the night. It doesn't help that 'random conversation' is heavily frowned upon in most open office environments due to potentially distracting people nearby. When I pair with my coworkers over zoom/voice though it's hardly a concern... waiting for builds/tests to run chat about a hobby or the movie you saw last night or some new tech you've been looking at. In an open office that starts to get you scowls even if you are sitting at some slightly further away from the 'pit' pairing station.
Damn, I remember playing creative minecraft back in 2010, a surprisingly good experience for a java applet embedded in the browser. All running on linux with fairly smooth opengl rendering. I also remember using a wrapper/front-end called world of minecraft that allowed you to run the jar outside of the browser and even had multiplayer support...
What kind of child, even that of billionaires, wants to build an automated chip manufacturing line? Maybe in Minecraft. Or in Roblox.
Everyone rediscovers Erlang at one point in this space, it seems.
What about the GPT4 hosted on poe.com. It has the same output pace as it had in march.
It does look good but oof I dislike the cursive italics. I find cursive hard to read, since I never really learned to write it, and I constantly trip over letters like "s" and "r" that don't look liker their normal counterparts.
For non-Georgian's reference, the HOPE scholarship essentially funds Georgia public college tuition with lottery receipts, subject to merit only. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship

It's changed a bit over the years (+/- qualifications and coverage), but generally does what it says on the tin -- keep a high GPA and graduate in a reasonable amount of time, and most of your tuition is paid for.
I'm not sure if I can totally agree with that. The form factor may be nice but, in my case the NUC has always been very noisy and hot until I decided to buy the akasa case. This is no wonder, because the small packed hardware cannot be cooled as efficient as bigger cases, even slightly bigger onces.

The NUC is also limited in extensability and even if the form factor as such is nice, they are slow compared to only slightly bigger sized Ryzen workstations (e.g. Minisforum X400 or ASRock DeskMini).

I'm also running a Plex server (as Proxmox Guest) and in my opinion servers do not need to be small or fanless in general, if you can place them somewhere in a room where noise and space are not this problematic (my server is in the kitchen ON the fridge... I consider the living room and the bedroom as quiet places)

The NUC is pretty good for very specific use cases (presentations, fairs, etc.) because they can easily be transported and are small and the hardware is ok, but for most other use cases, especially servers, there are definitely better systems.
while true;do echo "its over\n";sleep 1;echo "we're so fkn back\n";sleep 1;done
DroidShooter: Global Scale Multiplayer Demo
> Claiming that federation is ideological is itself a very ideological statement.

No, it isn't.

Federation is ideological because it is not (yet?) in and of itself a useful feature. It is a feature desired by people (like myself) who have an ideology that attracts them to the idea.

Ask yourself: What is the selling point of federation / decentralization to someone who does have any ideology whatsoever with respect to technology? I want there to be a good answer to this question, but I've yet to see a compelling one.
Good question! Unfortunately, the answer to your first question is no. Higher temperature air can "hold" more moisture than cooler temperature air. And for a fun double whammy, higher temperatures also increase ground evaporation, drying out the soil and holding that water vapour in the air.

Now, you could generally assume that all that air eventually has to condense somewhere, but the problem is that we've now raised the potential threshold of what precipitation entails. So we've got drier soil (which is worse at holding moisture when it rains), more potential for precipitation, and a longer buildup time between precipitation threshold events. We've just created feedback loop that encourages flash flooding, making it more difficult to farm all areas, both old farmland and new potentially arable land.

Its fun to learn about the complex system dynamics of climate physics, it'd just be more fun if it didn't come with a side serving of impending catastrophe.
How about 'x >> 3'?

I would be very surprised if the editor enabled and disabled ligatures in sections of code based on information from a proper parser...
Also australian aborigines.
They are downgrading the plebeian version so that they can unveil a more premium tier product in 1 month to maintain the hype flow.

Duh
The ranking systems are likely flawed and measure things outside of merit, or measure merit in a non-holistic way.
I'd love to go back to HTPC, but really want a full-screen friendly interface that includes the various streaming services. What have you been using for the UI/UX?

Aside: been using NVidia Shield TV(s) and Kodi for local/nas media.
I don't think I've seen any real material difference to Insomnia towards the negative after they were acquired. It still works just fine. It's far FAR less bloated than Postman and easier to use than alternatives like Paw (now RapidAPI)
I live there, yes it does
> Professional sports is probably the most even playing field I can imagine - there is such a huge incentive to win games that pretty much all else besides skills on the playing field is ignored.

Match fixing has been a perennial problem in sports.
Psychos slashing women with knives are poorly informed of what, exactly? Nobody ever told them that it's wrong to attack people?
What don't you like about Insomnia?
communication overhead kills you though (in both cases)
Good. With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. [0] The number of kids entering elite universities via non-meritocratic avenues is incredible.

> "[The researchers] examined four kinds of nonracial preferences—for recruited athletes, and for children of Harvard graduates, financial donors and members of faculty and staff. The researchers found that more than 43% of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2014-19 fell into one or more of these categories. Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants."

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-college-legacy-preferences-...
is/s depends on resolution and other factors like batch size. What are you getting for 512x image?
Then you might find namebench appealing: https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/
How are these situations "throwing off" the numbers?

I know many will disagree with me and that is fine, but cell phones will not drive adoption since they have to add plumbing for IPv4 regardless. The phone just has to route to the destination. Adoption will come when businesses are required to have IPv6 to make money, or conversely will lose money when they lack IPv6. I personally would exclude cell phones and VPS providers from numbers to get a real snapshot of meaningful adoption. Home ISP's and commercial businesses are probably more useful to see how far along IPv6 adoption is progressing.

In my opinion and experience when people are given a temporary work around such as ipv6toipv4 gateways, that work around becomes permanent and will stall adoption of the long term solutions.

Of course they have a choice: they could spent millions of dollars getting IPv4 address for their customers

Probably up to a point. They would have eventually hit a wall from port depletion as CG-NAT on gateways only scales so far. It works on home end-points because there are not typically tens of thousands of people at a home. It falls apart quickly when used on a gateway. Anyone that has managed many SNAT pools or a WAN optimizer in large companies has seen this first hand and can share their pain.
I've used Consolas for 10 years.
Wow, that's a huge drop in quality. Perhaps it would make sense to use LLMs as a either a help for your customer support team, or as a fallback for when your customer support team does not have the bandwidth to help more customers at the time.

Also, can you go into more detail on the solution? E.g. how did you tailor it to your business (e.g. fine tuning vs no fine tuning, etc.)
While not developed by Sony, Elden Ring and FFXVI are definitely AAA releases and they are both far from mediocre
Hi yes this is correct, the lead list 1500 youtube partners to form partnerships and sponsorships, and it actually formed over a dozen deals. You can see the setup here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj-gH4f6RUM

This agent was built for influencer partnerships to help us growth hack

We're also using it to sell Cheat Layer, and getting 10% reply rates vs the cold static outbound in Apollo.io
My comment is actually from the dropbox announcement many years ago. It actually is a meme. lol
Ah, implicit type conversions being a footgun yet again.

int fgetc( FILE *stream );

But the retval is treated as a char.
Google has all the money and their phone and phoneOS are still second tier. It's not money. It's about picking a problem and focusing on it. Further, it's about picking the right problem.

Google picked "How do we save (an additional) 20B+ per year in cash payments to a competitor" and "how do we have a path to accessing the world's data ... that is on a phone." -- and then won at both.
I never found it hard to edit code with ligatures when I used them. I don't use them anymore, but I don't understand some people's need to shout about how bad they are. Don't use them if you don't like them, use them if you like them, simple as that.
The downvotes are probably due to the XML.
NSW is culling them because of overpopulation. At least that's what the kangaroo scrotum keychain the gift shop was selling said.
How far are we from AI NPCs in gaming?
This is a meme from the dropbox announcement.
You’re confusing EU for Facebook.
I don't know why I keep seeing comments like these. We've had to delay the latest API model upgrade because it's dramatically worse at all of our production tasks than the original GPT-4. We've quantified it and it's just not performing anymore. OpenAI needs to address these quality issues or competitor models will start to look much more attractive.
IMO almost nobody demands a language to "bend its way" so as to not "make folks upset", it's just that the way Rust went about async/await is not ergonomic at all. It's also pretty dark, as in it's hard to surface good information.
> At some historical point in time that law didn't exist, and most people somehow managed so survive

Generally, existing laws either superseded pre-existing laws (which may well have been repealed by the same process) or regulatory frameworks (which may or may not be still operable).
> There is no connection between alumni donations and capital investments except decisions that university leadership chooses to make.

Not (always) true. Direct example with Carnegie Mellon - David Tepper was upset the business school (his alma mater) was appearing to fall behind in recruiting, so he donated ~100m but tied it to the business school getting a new building/quad. Total cost to the university was well north of 200mil; and their hands were functionally tied in how it was spent.

Yes, I know this is an outlier and yes, university leadership could have said no - but you're risking pissing off a doner who's given 100m+ over the years and will likely continue giving (and you know Tepper will continue guiding further capital expenditures as he sees the need).
I would say so.

Rails is very well established at this point and is the backend framework that gave companies like GitHub and Twitter success.

Yeah, it will have scaling issues if you grow too much but that's always struck me as a sort of "suffering from success" type of issue.
Can you not simply reattempt? Then 10% failure appears more like volatility in the latency 10% of the time. Of course 1% of the time you have to reattempt twice, .1 three times etc.
I would argue that media pcs and home servers are becoming _more_ not less important, precisely because Netflix, Disney+ et al have become such bad stewards of movies and shows, both in terms of deleting content, and no longer being "worth it" for the price. Anecdotally, I know more and more friends and coworkers who are moving to having their own media servers because they don't want to have to hunt through different services for their favourite shows or movies, or they've been burned by Amazon changing the streaming license of their "purchase."
Flipper if it can be modded to replay signals.

14hz led flashlight resister mod

Speakers in general, but directionalized sound is pretty neat.
It is technically and factually wrong.

Advanced != incomprehensible.
Incomprehensible isn’t a feature of advanced either, you can be a novice and still write incomprehensible Python code.
Yeah how often does that actually happen. Did Tommy Lee Jones’ acting career really benefit from him being roommates with the son of Albert Gore, Sr.?
Culturally, the separation of athletics and education is going to be extremely difficult to accomplish.

Although not everyone is a fan, Football is the cornerstone of American culture.
You raise a great point. I believe cached builds, say with Nix, are the way to go. What do you do?
I bet you 4 dollars you wouldn't.
That sounds like an okay first level support, but in no way is it a replacement for a human support team.
> I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior of a feature people were using for years already.

As a fellow (though not lately very active there) systemd maintainer, reading his comments in that issue is a real bummer.

I'm not sure I'd call it "gaslighting", I don't think he was even bothering to grok what people were asking for. Not until it became a pile-on of additional systemd members @yuwata and @DaanDeMeyer.

Maybe he's checked out a bit with all the drama going on over at BlueHat?
Nice, except the dependency on openssl.

It would have been a great opportunity to use BearSSL[0].

0. https://bearssl.org/
Copyleft is good for "complete" products, where you want to protect a derivative work from being walled off. It's harder to know the best way to handle modules (which might be the more common case in hardware) where a viral license can make using them impractical.
What are those NLP tasks, if I may ask? (I was thinking above about using it as a chatbot like ChatGPT or Bard, which currently seems the only application for end-users.)
I adore Netflix honestly, watching them grow up since the 90s. But the streaming hegemony that's grown up around copyright control is so.. well maybe an image is worth a thousand words:

https://imgur.com/gallery/IM3Z2ww
They use it because it allows them to ignore standardized test scores and just do admissions based on their own preferences. They used less merit-based metrics because they don't WANT a meritocracy.

Question. Which tells you more about a student:

1. An essay that was probably written by chatGPT then edited by the students parents

2. A test taken in a supervised, controlled, timed environment
Dart is advertised as a client-optimized language. Optimized for UI is what the home page says. Say Goodbye to convincing people to use it on the server.
Hmm I'll be honest, I always have very difficult time finding both of the options you listed. Not aware of any publishing house that share contemporary sheet music for free, nor do I have a good source for sheet music piracy. For piracy, I try the standard sources such as Library Genesis, Pirate Bay, Google "X PDF" etc... and almost never get something for niche composers in the last 10 to 20 years.
> tokio::spawn_blocking doesn't exist in my codebase because I'm not using tokio, nor should I have to in order to use library code from a crate.

If you're trying to use a library that uses Futures, then you need an executor to poll that futures to completion. But then it's not the same situation as the one I'm responding to (where it was about using blocking code in an async context).

If you have blocking code and need a way to poll third-party futures to completion then it's tokio::block_on or equivalent that you need.

> This is the problem with async in a nutshell; it's viral

That's the biggest misunderstanding about async/await: it's not async that's viral, it's IO. If your library does IO, then you do IO and have to deal with the fact. And you have to actively deal with it no matter what, because IO is slow and you definitely do not want your UI thread be frozen[1] because something under the hood is doing IO. The only difference is that async makes it explicit in the typesystem, where blocking does not and you need to guess where to spawn new threads.

[1] or your thread that's listening on incomming sockets.
What makes the kangaroo problem even worse is they're grazers, and maybe it's just a former British colony thing, but people like to plant grass.
I'm hoping this means Siri will finally be intelligent enough to discern fifty from fifteen.
The answer has always been to close the delta between the value of a Harvard degree and wherever else your kid can actually get into. The unspoken (or uncomfortable) aspect of that is that Harvard et al. receive outsize prestige because they're associated with outsize wealth, and access to that wealth through the personal and professional connections one can garner there.

Wealth concentration in society is the fundamental issue. When median wealth is higher and the range smaller, influential families will have less with which to "bid up" a spot at Harvard. They might choose another institution, that "wherever else" we mentioned earlier. So now your kids are friends. Or maybe not (it's not such a big deal, since they're not THAT much wealthier than you are). This becomes the dominant paradigm.

Decentralize education, as it were.
Your editor probably also has an option to disable ligatures, so you may want to look into that if you like Fira Code but don't like the ligatures.