skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could start reading on CMA-ES; which is something like a particle filter on the model parameters. So for 100 "particles", it means 100 resampled copies of the model, which are then evaluated to create something like a "synthetic" gradient which is used to update a distribution over the model parameters.

But it doesn't solve the problem of local minima, and it will also need to use minibatches.
Twitter could be an absolute heaven of discussion (not that I believe it'd be possible with 280 characters), but unless its open to anonymous users, don't expect me to read it any time soon.

1. I've read it enough over the past years to know what kind of discussion typically takes place on there. I'm glad we both agree that discussion is poor.

2. Blue-checkmarks to be heard better is literally pay-to-be-heard and is not a model I'm particularly fond of. Other pay-to-win structures are similarly anathema to how I want to have discussions with people.

3. Reports from media I trust contradict your opinion. Andrew Tate for example has been getting a lot of news recently, and it has become clear that Elon Musk paid Tate the posting bonus for being a popular guy on Twitter. Is that the kind of person Twitter wants to be elevating on their platform?

You make it sound like bots are the problem. What about misogynistic assholes who (pending the results of their current trial) may have led a human trafficking ring? Are these the blue-checkmarks that people are boosting on the platform?

There's something to be said about curation. Choosing who, and who does not, get boosted by your algorithms. You're talking about "vile" posts that you are glad are gone. What about Elon Musk's "cisgender" discussion? Is that the kind of stuff you like associating yourself with?

4. Respectable people I trust, such as plainsite, have been banned on Twitter. This is a chilling effect. If people I trust have been banned on Twitter, that lowers the odds of me participating in the discussion, because I know I'll be banned for posting public court documents and otherwise being a reasonable person.

The moderation and kinds of people that this new Twitter is going for is definitely in the wrong direction for me. I never wanted Twitter before, but it has taken huge steps away from what I care to align myself with.
If the alien is blasting the cat with soft x-rays constantly to perceive it, then it's mostly different because it killed the cat with radiation poisoning.

Shapes and proportions remain the same regardless. And even human artists can be... "inventive", with coloration or emphasis of some features over others.

It seems improbable that they'd draw anything we haven't drawn ourselves.
Driving an old vehicle makes others less safe. The risk of collision decreases with safety features like ABS. The 70s truck doesn't have these safety features.
I'm probably missing your point. The cops don't show up to every crime scene, but the chance they will is enough to deter crime.
I personally always print a human readable url in monospace font underneath every QR code I generate.

A restaurant in California has menu available only at QR code, and QR code is printed in MS word with skewed dimensions (rectangle instead of a square).
> it is recommended not to ... compare values based on different models

i.e. R0 numbers are worthless. You can't compare these values between pathogens, you can't even compare them between different academic groups studying the same pathogen or between outbreaks of the same pathogen as modeled by different versions of the same software. There's no agreed way to measure this value empirically.

Instead they write a program to simulate the spread of a virus through population and then (in effect) brute force one or more of the inputs until the results of the simulation match what happened so far. These variables are often given names that sorta reflect an intuition about what they're supposed to do, but they're just names. The actual values are arbitrary and there's no effort to ensure the computed values connect to the names in any plausible way.

A funny example of this was a COVID model from University College London that used household size as a free variable. The model used this value to achieve curve fit for each country in the study, so they reported that the average Brit lives with seven other people (the paper has 73 citations).

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*sEv...

More seriously, estimates of R0 for SARS-CoV-2 have ranged from 1.5 to nearly 6, maybe even higher. It's not even clear what the definition is because it's not time bounded in any way. So not a value that's really knowable, like the speed of light is.
Some animal species in Chernobyl (not all) have higher levels of antioxidants than their non-Chernobyl counterparts.

> James Lovelock argued that we could save the rain forests from the ravages of man by burying nuclear waste in them.

Interesting thought, but would be a horrible thing to do to the indigenous peoples of the rain forests.
You can agree with that and still accept that without lockdowns the outcome would have been far far worse.

And it's not like nothing good came out of lockdowns either, particularly the much greater willingness of employers to embrace remote work.
Are they not within their rights to spell it out? Can they just say "free for everyone except Google and Microsoft"?
A tree map is just an example.

More compelling ones are sets, ordered maps, a generic sync.Map, optionals (nulls suck!), abstractions over channels - badly needed!

I wouldn't consider any of those to be academic.
Thank you for the correction! I see now that the full dataset is available in the table at the bottom of the page. I was referring to the chart at the top of the page, which (for some reason) leaves out the 14 countries between Peru and the USA. I wish they wouldn't do that.
And the engineers weren't? His MacBook was just an Office 365 and iCloud machine.
I think I agree with you.
In the end is just what I'm used to hear (I do hold the door for anybody, somebody did that for me in Canada and I really appreciated it), but maybe the wait to fight this perception is to just stop using it and do nice things for everybody.

Thank you, really appreciate the exchange!
I like this idea, might give that a go.
Is it possible that some LLM’s are trained on these benchmarks? Which would mean they’re overfitting and are incorrectly ranked? Or am I misunderstanding these benchmarks?…
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Looking at it from a sympathy-for-the-devil standpoint, WFH is a serious dilemma for management. The problem is that almost everybody has traditionally been OK with working in an office (necessarily so), and management as a class is tasked and structured accordingly.

As for the workers themselves, some people are OK either way, some people insist on WFH (raises hand), and some people absolutely can't deal with WFH. Maybe the latter people have stronger-than-usual social needs by the standards of stereotypical engineering workers, and genuinely contribute more as part of a physically-present team. Asking those folks to adapt to a solitary work life is like asking me to get up at 6 AM and hit the freeway every morning. It's not going to happen... at least, not for long.

Or maybe they live in a one-bedroom apartment with a spouse and child or three. It's easy for some of us hardcore WFH advocates to forget how privileged we are.

So now, management has to decide how to get the most out of all of these workers. I believe that those who put their foot down and demand RTO will eventually be outcompeted by those who don't, but that doesn't make the job of converting a previously office-oriented culture to hybrid or exclusive WFH an easy one. Middle management without appropriate IT support, for example, is going to fail at the WFH transition no matter what they do.

Now, throw ML into the mix, and it's easy to see that we are in for a tumultuous couple of decades. I keep recalling the words of Nikola Tesla at the dawn of electrification: Humanity will be like an anthill stirred up with a stick. The changes that are coming are bigger than any of us probably think.
Firefox might be fast, but it's majorly lacking in browser APIs these days.
yeah that would be great if people were motivated to do alternatives with similar efficacy and reach
Can Any Animals Photosynthesise?
I've been using gTLDs for an email for several years now (about the time gTLDs came out). It was really rough going for a while but these last couple of years it's been rare for me to have an issue.
Looks like he copied it from https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

I see different figures in different places, no idea what's right.
Roblox is going to let developers offer subscriptions in their experiences
edit: these comments are general, not directed at Val.

A humble suggestion to anyone coming up with a new language.

Please make it as familiar as possible.

For example, do you really need to come up with some new syntax for defining a function, or specifying types and returns?

If you want people to use your new language, reduce the cognitive load - do things the same as other languages and be different only where you must.

Every time you come up with some completely alien programming construct, you have set a barrier to learning. Coming up with a new language should, for the most part, be an exercise in copying the best of how other extremely popular languages do things, and on top of that build in the necessary differences that make your language special.

Also, less is more. For example, one of the reasons Rust is so complex and intimidating is it has six sublanguages https://gist.github.com/brendanzab/d41c3ae485d66c07178749eae...

the expression language
unsafe runtime language
safe runtime language
compile time language
the type language
the trait language
the macro language
the attribute language

Whereas Zig goes the other direction and attempts to make everything programmable in the one core language, even ditching macros entirely. https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/. In Zig you can write compile time code in the same language and same code base.

I put forward these suggestions not as a language edxpert - I am far from it - instead I put them forward as a frustrated learner wanting to do new things and looking at new languages and thinking "shit, I already work with three of four languages plus any number of subtechnologies on a given system, I just don't have time/headspace to learn a programming language with six sub languages".
You need some time for the insights from new topics to become ingrained.

For computer science, imagine learning about logic gates and VLSI in the same year.
That's like saying there's 3 competing search engines (Google, Bing, brave?). Or three competing video hosts (Youtube, tiktok, instagram). Or 3 competing cloud providers.

LLMs are infrastructure level services, 3 is a lot of competition already.
Indeed, they do it better. Apple drops support for old hardware comparatively quickly and incentivizing new purchases, while Windows has longer support lifecycles with usually (not always, before you get on me about TPMs) good support for old hardware, and it's especially long for Linux.
You find it hard that Farage could fund extreme political organisations which become declared terrorist supporting organisations (rightly or wrongly), noting I obviously think he's a shitbag. My bias would be overt.

I think it's entirely within his compass. He could e.g. fund a unionist body in northern Ireland which aligns with his world view and forget to do due diligence for instance. The US has declared armed paramilitaries in Ireland terrorist bodies in the past.

Sure: they're doing it for the PR value and I dislike Coutts about as much as I dislike Farage, but I would be amazed if this isn't legal under the contract.
There’s also Vala. A somewhat different niche, but one more similarly named language.
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Also the drones take up more capacity in the vehicle, as does the charging station, the batteries, the loading mechanisms. And so does the second person. You can carry far less packages now.
It does, and that's true, but that doesn't contradict what OP wrote.

They found only mid-to-low quality evidence supporting the use of masks to prevent ILI. That evidence, for everything but the question of "n95 vs. other", showed an effect size statistically indistinguishable from zero.

You're essentially saying that the error bars on that effect size are big. They are. But they're still centered on zero.
personally I hope that the facebook altruism as of late has been a market effect from their needing to compete with other mega-corps, and that it comes with no catch or ill-will because it's simply there to be 'the other'.

it's probably a naive hope, but I hope it's right.

(i've never trusted FB further than I could throw their company, so this is a big leap of faith for me.)
Yes because I refuse to believe “stand and deliver” could not happen in real life!

Seriously tho I think it will. I’m sure a foundation is important in many fields but one can get pretty far by jumping in. I remember my high school physics teacher take us on a wild ride of quantum mechanics for three weeks. If nothing it opened up a lot of future reading
Remote meetings are just one problem, I cant imagine trying to run SMB (or even the somewhat lighter NFS) calls over an 144 kbit ISDL or ISDN connection, even on an ADSL connection with a 384 or 768 upstream would be painful.

Maybe remote over connections that slow is fine if you're using version control - checking out the changes to the source tree, making changes, and checking them back in - its not okay if you're trying to open/change/save multi-meg excel files, things where you cant make incremental writes to.

tbh, the most common way I saw people working remote in the 90's and early 00's was Citrix or similar other remote work tools.

The broad thing is, the size of say.. software or scripting when I'm doing that, is a fraction of the size of my project docs, and are often stored to the server asynchronously - when I have to make drawings, its a different world.
The Pixar theory of labor (2015)
"No one is denying anthropomorphic climate change"

I think you meant to say YOU aren't denying anthropomorphic climate change. One of my hobbies is arguing with climate deniers on the internet and people absolutely are denying anthropogenic climate change.
This is a bad attitude to have when you consider the cost of being wrong. If you hope for the best and only plan for the best, you won't survive when it actually turns out to be bad. And for the most part, most expert agree it won't be "ok" and more likely to be "shit" to "we are completely fucked"
This is a waitlist.
Ask HN: Do Instagram Video Selfies require recent phone (with face scanning)?
Short version: brother-in-law’s Instagram was hacked, been trying to submit video selfies ever since, now on #23 (no exaggeration). Don’t care if we delete or recover the account — the issue is the crypto scammer is hitting up his network, most of whom are extremely tech illiterate, so a problem on a number of fronts.

Question: has an iPhone SE and I’m wondering if part of the issue is that model’s lack of face-scanning (to my understanding). Any chance someone here has some insight on that? Would just love to know if we should keep giving it a shot or if that’s a technical limitation.
I see India and China missing from your rebuttal, that is close to half of the worlds population and likely more than 2/3rds of all students who go to college.
Microsoft brings Bing Chat to the enterprise
If the merchant had another means to accept payment, sure. The sign has been around since the invention of the cash register, possibly even earlier.
For the engineers who have many years of experience working both remote and on site - how do you compare the pace of learning from your peers and forming meaningful bonds?
I'd think in this case it's about the response. What group of epidemiologists wouldn't get a sense of power, prestige than having daily Whitehouse meetings, continual press coverage, and effectively setting public policy based solely on their subject of expertise? That essentially hits on all three points I gave.

The issue is that they'll fail to appropriately consider the broader long-term effects of lockdowns. Most of the advice and policy also wasn't scientifically based in that the effectiveness wasn't well researched, so H-factor scores wouldn't play much of a role.
FWIW handling cash isn't free either. It can be 2-3% as well (depending on a lot of things like volume, change requirements and typical patterns, insurance can be less if you have no cash on premises, ...)

In many cases the cost of credit cards and cash are surprisingly similar. Especially in Europe with capped fees.
Bush Senior cared

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bush-had-a-lastin...
Is writing the same function n times more readable and more maintainable? Is it more maintainable to entirely circumvent the type system with interface{}?
On that front, Google's Gemini sounds interesting.

See https://www.tomsguide.com/news/googles-new-gemini-ai-could-b...
I didn't know that, thanks, we should probably be using those...

Unsurprisingly, this company isn't as (in screenshot) their key starts with sk_live_.
I'd struggle to find any humans that understand that question without going "huh?"

I've read it 3-4 times and it still doesn't make sense towards the end. So why would we expect these models to make sense of them?
yeah, it's really interesting, I've seen this confusion before
If you switch to Mac you can get Safari numbers, which seem to be about the same or just slower than Chrome, and now Firefox as well:

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?highlightAl...
That would have been true for most majors.

The universities and colleges around the world have not adopted to the new reality where knowledge up to Master Degree level is essentially freely available to everyone with an internet connection.

But colleges are still needed - if only for human reasons. And that's where I believe they should emphasize. A place where young people discover what they want to do and weigh their options. Instead of being assigned a major and mostly determined coursework.
I recently learned that you're supposed to leave the toilet seat down to be gender inclusive, as woman feel unwelcome when it was left up.

I use to leave it up to show that I lifted it and left the toilets clean, unlike most men who are naturally stupid and gross because they're naturally uneducated.

So yeah, be gender inclusive and leave the toilet seat down.
What do you consider a high end desktop now?
var task1 = service.DispatchFirst(param1);

var task2 = service.DispatchSecond(param2);

var final = service.DispatchThird(await task1, await task2);

or

var queries = users.Select(user => FetchPurchases(user.Id));

var results = await Task.WhenAll(queries);

Very easy.

As long as you don't touch System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace, everything will be good.
Sounds like we're trusting a lot to the compiler. Will this lead to me making a small change which breaks an optimization in some distant code and ruins performance?
But now you're comparing individual outcomes to population outcomes.

Yes, getting shot in the head is deadlier than (catching) the spanish flu.

But the Spanish flu was deadlier than firearms/WW1.

That's often the limit of analogies.
Google's new Gemini AI could beat ChatGPT
Could also say the same thing about car accidents. The death rates for car accidents is different based on gender. What is the gender ratio at those Yankees games? :)

I'm willing to hand-wave over a lot of this stuff as otherwise it gets way too overcome with pedantry which likely doesn't matter...
The traditional solution was to buy web hosting as a service, buy the domain name registration as a service, and create the site yourself. I don't find it very complicated to either create the static site or update a pre-configured Wordpress installation and I don't think it would be for anyone with a computer science degree or experience as a software developer or sysadmin.
If we have the budget for pre-training an LLM the architecture itself is a commodity, so what does llama2 add here?

It's all the pre-training that we look to bigCo to do which can cost millions of dollars for the biggest models.

Llama2 has too small of a window for this long of a wait, which suggests that http://Meta.AI team doesn't really have much of a budget as a larger context would be much more costly.

The whole point of a base LLM is the money spent pre-training it.

But it performs badly out of the gate on coding, which is what I'm hearing, then maybe fine-tuning with process/curriculum supervision would help, but that's about it. .

Better? yes. Revolutionary? Nope.
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>if you take population size, age distribution, and obesity rates into account, I could see the adjusted numbers being close.

Those are confounding factors, but I think it's quite a stretch to believe they would provide a 5x adjustment (after accounting for 2x population), especially if you also adjust for the drastically improved quality of and access to healthcare, which would skew the adjustment in the other direction.
> I learned a fair amount watching my engineer coworkers argue about bullshit that I'd probably not have gotten if I was remote.

This I agree with. I've worked on small 4-6 person teams that had people from different backgrounds and at different skill levels and we all got along and worked really well together and a ton of knowledge was shared. It's very rare to find something like that, but when you do it's exciting and you start to get the feeling that together you could solve anything.

Looking back though, almost all of the actual learning and camaraderie took place when we weren't working on actual work. Most of it was while we were showing off personal accomplishments or weird side projects or arguing about random things.

Any time you get a bunch of friends together who share common interests you get that sort of thing. Very rarely do you get lucky enough to have that in a workplace though.

Still, I think remote workers can still find like-minded people from diverse backgrounds themselves outside of the office to help them grow and develop without being forced to spend hours every single day with a group of people they aren't ever going to be friends with.
The relative difference between elo ratings is meaningless, you need to look at the absolute difference.
If this is the only thing stopping you from using Chrome (ie you'd prefer to use Chrome), this might help. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/29/how-to-set-a-minimum-tab-w...
[Dupe]

discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36775173
People keep saying this is commoditize your complement but that's not what this is!

Goods A and B are economic complements if, when the price of A goes down, demand for B goes up.

LLMs are not complements to social media platforms. There is zero evidence that if "the price of LLMs goes down" then
"demand for social media apps go up".

This is a case of commoditizing the competition but that's not the same thing.

Commoditizing your complement:

- All-inclusive resorts. Restaurants are a complement to hotels. If food is free I might go on vacation more.

- Smartphone app-stores. Apps are a complement to phones. If apps cost $0.99 there will be more demand for iphones than if apps cost $20.

This is Zuck being an absolute shark and not wanting his competitors to have a monopoly over LLMs in case they win at some other game. It has nothing to do with "commoditize your complement."