skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pay 10x that for it to just attend the meetings on my behalf, pretend to be me, and summarize them afterward into actionable bullet points.

"Have your AI talk to my AI."
Yeh, it's awful, I ended up just having a little dip instead :-)
Steam has done an amazing job at attacking this. Though, large studios don't target linux largely because they have very little financial incentive to do so.

And it is more than installed userbase, which is very real. For the major distribution targets, the devkits have a ton of resources poured into them that major studios can't ignore.

That said, still feels like a non-sequitur? I can't imagine "gaming as a target" is a concern for cloud customers. Certainly not the government?
My bad, I was actually referring to databand [1]

[1] https://databand.ai/
For people interested in this, a very interesting algorithm is the H-curve. It is described in this paper http://hint.fm/papers/158-wattenberg-final3.pdf It has the neat property that it ends where it starts if the grid has even width and height.
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Nowadays I can play the vast majority on my games on Linux. It supports even more games than the Mac.
Glykon was a man - no, he was a snake-god-man - or maybe he was just a snake god. But he was still Glykon!
Not a manager and not the person you are replying to, but I kind of get their perspective, as I see it somewhat similar to how I treat referral/recommendation letters.

If someone I closely know asks me for a recommendation letter, and they are a person who (in my eyes) deserves a great letter, I just tell them the format for the specific letter (e.g., 2 paragraphs, less than 300 words, what type of content the letter is supposed to contain, etc), and ask them to write it themselves. Then I take it, review to make sure all is good, go over it with the person (in case there are any potential suggestions for improvements [based on my knowledge of them] or parts that i find questionable), edit if necessary with them, and then submit it.

Now that I am looking at it, that's a very similar process to how performance review historically went with my managers.
Here's some more info on it:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.15595.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14lz7j5/ntkawar...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14mrgpr/dynamic...

In short, the context is just an array of indexes passed along with the data, which can be changed to floats and encode more sparsely to scale to an arbitrarily small or large context. It does need some tuning of the model to work well though afaik.

What's funnier is that Meta came up with it (that paper is theirs) and somehow didn't bother including it in LLama 2.
How is contrastive learning done with one model, exactly?

I agree only one is used in inference, but two are needed for training (otherwise how do you calculate a meaningful loss function?). Notice in the original CLIP paper, there's an image encoder and a text encoder, even though only the text encoder is used during inference. [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00020.pdf
It doesn't look like a block to me, more a "please call us to discuss terms".
Wasn’t flywheel a response to Uber?
The async thing means papers can be published without waiting for a gov agency to do its review. FDA takes the opposite approach.

Generally, reading a paper is much less risky to a person's health than taking a drug so the differences in review process add up meaningfully.
I still do the tiny font keyword list for my resume. I have occasionally left out certain keywords but then hear back from recruiters that if I had keyword x or y then I would be perfect for the job. Back to a 5 page resume.
>Null-terminated byte strings are always marshaled and ready to be sent literally anywhere. They have no byte order issues.

They have https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/wide
I'm not at all defending the practice. I agree it's very easy to navigate around this. My answer is just the canonical one I've seen over and over again in books about Go.
He's not driving it, the thief is!

And, if you read his bio you'd see that this guy is not a mere car guy, but in the pantheon of car guys. When he takes it for a spin around the block he's doing what any mechanic does when diagnosing cars - driving it to see why the car doesnt: steer well, stop well, move well, etc.
A rock is also pretty hard to hack.

The hard problem of security is giving the user the power of a general-purpose machine without exposing them to the risks. "Don't run your favorite software lol" is not a valid approach to security. ChromeOS remains totally unsuitable for even casual usage, let alone anything serious.

Someone will, I'm sure, claim that the use of virtual machines is a solution. It isn't. The layers of virtualization in ChromeOS lead to atrocious performance, reliability, and functionality. I am not willing to tolerate half my programs living in a different universe from the other half, nor am I willing to tolerate uptime measured in hours.
Sports is a huge money driver for some universities. Its a big revenue driver[0].
Performance of the team(s) also drives bigger contributions[1][2] by alumni when it comes to donations

[0]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-who-is-winning...

[1]: https://gceps.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/162ro...

[2]: https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=191...
I think it's because the rise of liberalism in the recent decades. Every political/economic system has a way how individuals can freeride at other's expense (be selfish).

In authoritarian systems, it happens through becoming a corrupt authority. In collectivist systems, it happens through tuning out in lazy disinterest. In meritocratic (liberal) systems, it happens through hustle and pretense of usefulness.
To me, using alumni to do interviews is just a form of indirection in regards to legacy admissions.

Who is better prepared to discuss MIT with alumni? A student with no idea about college or admissions, or someone who grew up with experience and knowledge of the institution.

The push back against legacy is that is gives an advantage and thus less meritocratic. In this interview situation, a legacy is still at an advantage, and from my experience, a significant one.

Again, I'm not sure this practice is still a part of the admissions process. My point is that non legacy were at a disadvantage when they had alumni interviews.
> then provide more expensive, worse service

I like how the term "enshittification" got coined to describe this.
Llama 2: an open-source LLM
Modern, Responsive, GitHub Pages Eigen 3.4.x API Documentation
we need someone to leak it again...
And your kid will blow that generational wealth because that’s life and wealth rarely lasts more than 3 generations
I very much could, but again, I am a lazy manager. Not even trying to convey sarcasm there.

I do believe them doing the work is important to point 1., putting them in-control. The most important part of my job is setting them up to succeed. If they require their manager to always positively advocate for them, they are leaving their careers up to change. Not all managers are looking out for their directs, so teaching people to look out for themselves is important to me.
Off topic: can you talk more about the tax benefits?
Overall your comment is basically unreadable, wanted to make that clear to you.

> something that was supposed to be impossible after Brexit

Checks on food products coming into the UK from the EU haven't even started yet, but will soon. So yeah, pretty bad for you to not know that.
This is really exciting. I work at Replicate, where we've already setup a hosted version for anyone to try it:

https://replicate.com/a16z-infra/llama13b-v2-chat
Yeh, we run a small web consultancy. I also have another business which is a little more platform-y / SaaSy. Wife has also learned how to be a florist so is building that up too. All fun stuff :-)
So, is a manager in this context really needed?

I'm in control, I need to make my case towards a new manager and team if I want to move (basically a new interview process), and try to improve on communication and writing even though +80% (number pulled out of empirical personal experience. YMMV) of my peers want to focus on work and be happy and introvert.
Did the recent Affirmative Action decision say how public/private factor in?

At the extreme, if it’s a private club, I imagine they could use any criteria (fair or not, including race) but I suppose private universities aren’t the same as private clubs?
I believe efforts of this nature will fall afoul of a very similar effect to the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle[0]: the amount of effort required to detect AI-written content is (at least) an order of magnitude greater than that required to generate them in the first place. And as LLMs get further fine-tuned to generate more and more human-like text, it will get even harder. Even now, I wouldn't give an "AI Text Detector", even one built with all of Google's resources, more than about a 60% chance of correctly telling AI-generated text from human-generated.

The big problem is false positives—human-written text that gets incorrectly flagged as being written by AI. There's going to be so many false positives in any scheme like this, it'll barely be worth it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
It varies by discipline, but IIRC for most degrees there was no significant correlation between the previous achievements of the student and their eventual degree grade, suggesting that actually it doesn't really matter for most degrees. Or at least that if it matters it's outweighed by other factors you're not mesuring via prior attainment.

So in that case within reason the output is independent of input, and the decision of who to admit to limited places is a matter of larger societal policy. Admittance on "merit" in this case would actually be bullshit in effect.

My employer is also the institution where I got my degree many years ago (I like this city and after coming here I never left) when they taught me, the requirement for Computer Science was 24 points, with Maths. Today the requirement is at least 3 As, one in Maths (which is approximately 30 points by the old system). Do they need better students? No. They need fewer students, they are over-subscribed, and higher requirements deter applicants and some will miss the higher requirement, meaning they teach maybe 500 students (in my day it'd be maybe 80). They still can't find big enough lecture theatres, next year's course will require overflow video relays. As I said, there's no correlation, but the goal isn't to find "the best" it's to reduce the sheer numbers without expensive in-person interviews of every candidate.

The result isn't better graduates, it's about the same, because you could teach (within reason) anyone. Some populations might lead to more pastoral problems†, but the degree to which excellent pastoral care is delivered is independent of actual teaching.

† Somebody's dog dies, they're distraught, don't go to class for a few weeks because they're so upset, next thing they know it's exams and they don't know anything. It doesn't have to be their dog dying, it can be mum got cancer, the family home burned down, their home country has a civil war, or even just the guy next door plays loud music 24/7 and they can't sleep properly. Non-academic stuff happens, you can wipe out somebody's potential by not addressing it.
Congrats to the framework team. This looks really awesome. I am looking to get one for sure. In particular I was extremely excited by the fact that Jack Humbert[1] is prototyping an ortholinear keyboard module[2]. I have 3 plancks and 1 prionic. Love me some Humbert keyboards, and it's an absolute dream to have an ortholinear keyboard on a laptop.

[1] https://olkb.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35280168
> So, if the concern is you are upset a miracle vaccine didn't get developed, you're losing my interest quick.

No, the concern is not that a miracle vaccine didn't get developed. The trial measured and reported whether people who got vaccinated got those "few symptoms" vs people who got the placebo. It claimed 95% efficacy in preventing those "few sysmptoms", but it did not do so in reality.

The concern is that the trial results do not agree with reality. That means that something is wrong in either the design or execution of the trial. It's a bug in the trial, and a bug should be debugged.
Then why not read their paper?

"The largest Llama 2-Chat model is competitive with ChatGPT. Llama 2-Chat 70B model has a win rate of 36% and a tie rate of 31.5% relative to ChatGPT."
Worked with Go over 6 years; my biggest annoyance at the beginning, verbosity of error handling, has mostly gone away. In most cases the explicit error handling helped us hardening the code.

What does still bother me is the lack of proper enum support. I remember when Java boosted their enum support and the way it impacted the quality of the code. Sure would love to see something similar in Go.
Using one of the tools to change your edition to an Enterprise one, then disabling telemetry through Group Policy.
My alma mater (University of Rochester) doesn't have an explicit legacy admittance policy, but they do have a "legacy scholarship" where you can potentially get $5K-$10K if you check off that your legacy on your application. I have always assumed this was code for "we do have a legacy admittance policy, be we don't want to say we do".

Irrelevant for me, apparently though, because my kid has said there's no way he's going to go to the school I went to <shrug>.
Defense against tiktok and bytedance
Google has far better models than llama based models. They just simply don't put them facing the public.

It is pretty ridiculous that they essentially just set a marketing team with no programming experience to write Bard, but that shouldn't fool anyone into believing they don't have capable models in Google.

If Deepmind were to actually provide what they have in some usable form, it would likely be quite good. Despite being the first to publish on RLHF (just right before OpenAI) and bring the idea to the academic sphere, they mostly work in areas tangential to 'just chatbots' (e.g. how to improve science with novel GNNs, etc). However, they're mostly academics, so they aren't set on making products, doing the janitorial work of fancy UIs and web marketing, and making things easy to use, like much of the rest of the field.
Ok, but that same spec is 1699 plus tax direct from Apple without a discount so the same as frameworks pre built 16 inch option that ships in Q4. If you compare their “build it yourself and bring your own OS” version without memory or storage shipping in late Q4 the base MBA 15 +70W charger w/o discount is still $100 cheaper, shipping now and very likely will outperform w double the battery life
Optimizing Deep Learning Workflows: Stable Diffusion and Docker on WSL 2
A PS3 Story: The Yellow Light of Death [video]
My manager does this for me and I adore him for it. I can just talk about myself with normal human words and he'll come back with it all written up in business-speak.
I agree that the economic incentives changed, and it does seem somewhat suspicious.

I have a lot of work to do ahead of me, researching all of these vaccines for my kids. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
It's about managing expectations.

Reasonable clients who hire you to deliver a project three months from now don't expect you to work 24/7 for 90 days non-stop. They expect you to deliver what was agreed in three months. They happily pay for those three months because someone calculated it will save/make them more money. They don't care what happens in between as long as you keep them regularly updated, don't disappear on them, and respond to emails and calls in a timely fashion.

Ask yourself if you want the type of clients that obsessively check your online status on Slack. Most clients don't have time for that because they have other things to worry about.

If you're deploying something, it's prudent to sit tight for a while and monitor things. You can shop for celebratory champagne later.

If they absolutely expect you to pick up the phone the minute they call, hire someone to answer the calls for you. Now they have a dedicated account manager. Charge them appropriately.

If you want to read more, the OP of this comment chain, tptacek, wrote here a lot about charging daily/weekly vs hourly (and other nuggets of wisdom about consulting). Query `site:ycombinator.com tptacek hourly` in your favorite search engine. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103417
Why does preventing cancer make less GDP than curing it? That would surely depend on how you're trying to prevent cancer. By prevent do you mean keeping a cancer somewhat under control?

> smoothly transporting oil without incident makes less GDP than spilling it.

Oil creates huge economic activity when used. It does no good spread over the ocean. The cleanup generates activity, but it's clearly far better for GDP to smoothly transport oil around than constantly lose it, if only because ships constantly sinking would cause people to transport things way less and so markets would be less efficient, yielding less wealth.
How about employers who really want employees to succeed but employees who don't want to put in the effort?

Like the studies show, people are as productive at home as at the office. Going to the office doesn't change effort. You're also implying that one can't improve while working from home, which isn't true.

Or, how about employees who believe what reddit tells them: they are being mistreated/abused because they can't have it their way?

I don't know what you're talking about specifically, but at a minimum, considering wages for workers are stagnant for decades while executive pay is (way) up, it's easy to see how workers are being exploited by default.
I have found that people adopting the term "libertarian" is commonly associated with attitudes like "I get to do what I want to do, and the rest of you are on your own." Such people often seem to make common cause with authoritarians: they'll sacrifice other people's liberties in order to ensure their own.

This is not my understanding of libertarian philosophy, but I've heard many self-described libertarians seeming to endorse it. I believe that's why "libertarian" has become a dirty word, to the many people who would find themselves worse off in a world that has lots of liberty for a specific set of people, but less for many others.
> You will need at least one app on your car or mobile for payments.

I very much hope this has stopped being true by the time I can afford an electric car! I hate dealing with apps... what was wrong with ordinary bank cards?
Re: no trade deals post Brexit.

That was always going to be the case. Brexit fantasists thought they were going to recreate the empire with UK at its center. They also thought they could do a deal with USA. What does UK offer USA if they're not in Europe?
Chromium's executable[1][2] is already named chrome.exe unless the builder goes out of their way to rename it. This can't be the reason.

1. https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
2. https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
Sounds like you’re a love trafficker.
Usability can only ever be as good as performance allows it. I don't care where the buttons are when it takes 5 seconds before they show up, or how pretty font is if the scrolling is stuttering, and so on.

From the user perspective, it really makes no difference if the same UI was hand coded in assembly or in something much higher level that is still fast because it doesn't work against the CPU, RAM, storage and other things.
i have always augmented my more traditional music projects with avant-garde and experimental stuff. particularly focusing on found sounds, noise, and free improvisation. i record everything, but i treat it more as a journal of "free writing" than actual music output. the recordings are often formless, noisy, and chaotic and frequently contain experiments in polyrhythms or free time. over the years i've amassed an enormous amount of audio data that i treat more as an intellectual curiosity for myself than music i would show to other people.

however, with all of the debates around attribution and ownership for human creators in the age of AI art, combined with the apparently legally and ethically dubious means by which these megacorps obtain their training data, i have began to think about what are some avenues that the general public could try to protest the actions of these megacorps by discretely poisoning the well of their training data.

with the gigabytes and gigabytes of data i have generated of mostly incoherent audio, i have considered releasing this music for the first time by innocuously labeling it as a music audio dataset with the intention of trying to make it appear extremely attractive to megacorps scouring the internet for free data. my individual contribution probably couldn't amount to much, but if a concentrated mass of people did this in their respective fields, perhaps this could be a way of at least obstructing these corporations from freely capitalizing on the hard work of real artists.
The best part of neurotechnology for AR/VR is that it'll let "startups" spout utter bullshit vapor for another decade by promising the technology is "under development" and "coming in a couple years", since the headset kind has gotten too actually-available for that routine to keep working.
FWIW this was done very much to scratch the itch of the official documentation (at https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/) being unavailable for some reason or the other far too often. Most recently noted here: https://www.tuxfamily.org/en/news/2023070900
We still don't have access to Imagen last I checked, it's still in restricted access. We don't have access to SoundStorm or MusicLM

https://imagen.research.google/

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/soundstorm/examples...

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

Why would it be surprising that they have better models for resarch that they don't want to give out yet?
I believe there are still ongoing efforts in this. See for example the forward forward algorithm.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
> When I've run into specific cases in TypeScript projects that require that, I've tended to just spin up a new long-running service for those requirements.

But then you're not sharing memory and have to rely on message passing... it's all doable of course, but this is just one of many examples where the language will hold you back.
What would you think is the minimum age to do these kind of basic IoT tasks would be?

Looking forward to doing this stuff with my son at some point, but he's only 6 :)
Go has turned into an Awesome language.

I'm one of those that cannot use a PL that has no generics... It kills the DX of Algorithms and Data Structures.

Now it has Generics, soft RT GC, and it might even get official Arena Allocation.

I /LOVED/ the Matklad comment of |error handling converging|, indeed -- it seems that PL community evolved to "any-error" + annotation-at-call-site.
I'm fine with either. The big advantage of the old way is if you have something approximately the right voltage (and sufficient wattage) all you need is a $0.25 barrel connector to charge. I damaged the power brick for my laptop once and ran it off of a bench supply with the original DC cable while I was waiting for the replacement to arrive in the mail.

With USB-C PD, If you live sufficiently close to a Best Buy (or similar) you can usually just get the USB PD brick with the most listed versions supported and have it work "good enough" but I have definitely seen laptops/PD brick combinations that negotiate rather low power.