skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 10: False, there is a read-only website. It is very limited but it supports permalinks to threads, and from there you can navigate to user profiles, other threads, etc.

I keep hearing this, but I've literally never seen it. threads.net just gives me a "download the app" landing page with a QR code.
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It's about intention. If your goal is to get stuff done, you'll get stuff done. If your goal is to appear to be getting stuff done, you may be perceived as someone productive but the facts on the ground will be different.
That's sort of been my secret suspicion. Seriously, when a customer asks me to make some XSLT to turn a pile of XML into a bunch of spreadsheets/tables/whatevers, I try to sit them down and list out the many ways that are - from the standpoint of efficiency . . AND functionality . . AND "retain your sanity"-ness - superior, vastly, sometimes exponentially so. Xquery is one of those, but if the output is more complex than a read of delimited data, then your rec "Functional Language X plus Xpath" is the Way to Go.

Please don't tell anyone I said this, but the hardcore XML people can be a little culty. At untold meetings, I'd walk through all the functionality that they're getting - from a staggeringly gigantic XML system, priced in millions of dollars - and demonstrate, one bullet point after another, how the same functionality is available from a few lines of Asciidoc/ReStructuredText/<insert_your_tech_here>. Then, at the end of everything, I always have to contend with the last one: "But it's not XML". To which I shrug my shoulders: I can't solve existential problems. Why is this specific technology so important? My theory is that there's some very deep and possibly poisoned incentives at work here, which I don't really want to unpack because it would make me sound nasty, but the most innocent of these is the Sisyphean drive to impose labels on the chaos of business and on natural language. I think it might be a neurosis of the industry, but I've seen it outside of aero-def-landia too. Who knows? Maybe someday I too will rue the day I ever turned from the True Faith.
Just as the receipts are immutable, you should preferably have your products be immutable too. From the user's point of view, the foreign keys are a part of a separate layer: They will only see the products by a shortcode/name. In turn, having a modification on a product (or any other object) 'archiving' the existing version and creating a new copy can be made seamless while avoiding normalisation.

Is it a better way to do it than an audit log for changes? Maybe!
That motion-deactivation "feature" is extremely frustrating to the passenger.
I think a good solution is universal basic income that increases in size as automation unlocks more for everyone. Then over time, everyone becomes increasingly empowered to self-actualize at their localized maximum learning velocity without needing to stunt someone brighter.
Sam Altman has a correct understanding on how automation will reduce the marginal cost of doing business so much so that universal basic income becomes not only feasible but logical.
People are not equal learners - some are smarter than others and some learn faster than others. Ignoring this reality does not change it. What you can do instead is allocate resources more efficiently by leaning into the disruption of AI and other efficiency gains to give people an equal gift that respects individuals - namely, a universal basic income that creates a society of people who are always learning and getting smarter at their best possible speed. The reason this won’t be fronted as often is because distributing cash directly to people is too simple a solution to hide ideologue-bureacrats-in-the-middle.
Thought this was about how you just need good copywriting skills
Of course there are big problems with how we do science. Much of it is garbage. Imagine most software was written by junior engineers, without any code review or input from seniors. That is today's science.

Most scientific legwork is done by absolute beginners, i.e., graduate students. They often lack a support structure to focus on what they have learned so far. Most of the world is not Oxbridge, MIT, Stanford.

Where are the beginners' supervisors, you might ask? Chasing the latest trend to secure funding. Pondering how their line of research can be formulated as buzzword-du-jour markov chain. Ass kissing the dean to get department funding.

Having worked in research for 15 years, I am certain about two things: (1) The scientific method yields better results than doing things freehand. (2) Randomly axing 50% of academia would improve the situation.
Genderlect Theory – Deborah Tannen (2014)
Is this not just political polemic?
I don't understand how you can read that and think that the issue is spending.

The answer is (and always will be) human capital. You could airdrop TJHSST kids into a literal warzone and they would do well. Smart kids are smart because they are smart. There is no magic dirt, and "muh multicausal forces" is pure cope.

People like you got ahold of SF's school system and made Lowell lottery entrance. They swore that it wouldn't have a big impact on test results and that the new class would benefit from being on the magic dirt of Lowell High School. Of course that's what their theories would support. Lo and behold it was an abject failure as anyone who wasn't a psychotic leftist could predict.
(2014)

Something new here?
Remove the monopolitic control of those unions with school choice. Once they have to compete it will resolve the problem post haste.
You agree to their privacy policy, and they can change the privacy policy. But if you have the model and don’t interact with them, then you don’t need to agree to future revisions because you aren’t interacting with them again (unless you want newer versions)

If I buy a TV, and the store has me sign a receipt that says I agree to their privacy policy by shopping there. Then that’s fine. I don’t need to agree to any future revisions unless I go back to buy more electronics from them.
Please refrain from ad hominem attacks
I'll substitute syrup then ;)
Hybrid is the worst of both worlds. Coming into an office just to be on zoom calls.
> with the goal of improving opportunity for all

I'm chatting with some friends who are parents in the Bay Area. Their admittedly very Californian response is that at least this should reduce competition for college spots. (Their kids are obviously going to get tutoring.)
To me, this is probably the most important announcement from today. The ability to have an on-device low-latency implementation of an LLM is going to be key to AI/UX. This is similar to Google's various PaLM versions for Android they announced. It will have a huge impact on mobile phones, TVs, smart screens, etc. Obviously the devil will be in the details - like how well will it actually work? But even if it's just the first step, it's an important one.

I bet next up will be at the end of the year when Apple surely jumps into the ring with their version of on-device Siri, powered by their ML chips.
Lengthen the school _year_ sure, but I'm skeptical that lengthening the school _day_ won't have, at best, mixed effects, especially given all the studies on sleep etc.
> Citation needed. Why wouldn't they be, unless there's a disability?

They come from a sub-culture (mostly based on social-economic status) that is aggressively anti-intellectualism.

Being bullied, shunned, etc. for being able to do things like read, do “basic” math, and/or speak anything outside of the local vernacular (e.g., something like a more neutral sounding “TV English”) is a thing.

This type of research is abundant in the education literature. That said, it is not always presented as straightforwardly as one might expect since it doesn’t match up with certain agendas in the education research and policy worlds.
I used to work in a video store, and even though we had a lot of movies available, most people only wanted a relatively small number of new releases.

I really miss when Netflix DVD had a truly vast back catalog of obscure films, but I suspect a lot of them didn't circulate all that much.

With streaming, the movies that people want always seem to be available somewhere. You might have to subscribe to a half-dozen services to get all of them, or rent them a la carte. Each of those services has some back catalog as a kind of nudge to keep watching this service rather than cancel and jump to some other service while waiting for the next big movie to come out. But they don't seem to expect any individual item to get much play.

Netflix in particular seems to mostly want to cut out the middle man and produce its own content. A lot of Netflix's most popular items are their own. I'm not sure I understand the economics of that -- they're spending major-studio-money on films ($100M+) and then using it as a "loss leader" to for their all-you-can-eat service.
https://www.wku.edu/hardinplanetarium/
Lake Lanao
Stop pointing out your mistakes (2022)
The description in this HN post is indeed inaccurate, but the readme on sourcehut has more info on why you might a different order for, e.g., matrix multiplication.
llama2.ai seems to hallucinate quite a lot.

Q: Can you list all even prime numbers less than or equal to 59?

A: Sure! The even prime numbers less than or equal to 59 are: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, and 50. Is there something else I can help you with?

Q: Who is [random name]?

A: [name] is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who is known for his work in the field of computer graphics and computer-aided design. He is the founder of Pixar Animation Studios and served as the company's CEO from 1986 to 2004. Under his leadership, Pixar became a leading studio for computer-animated films, producing hit movies such as "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo." [Name] is also a pioneer in the field of digital imaging and has been recognized with numerous awards for his contributions to the tech industry.
The size of the single virus is a false metric here. There is a wide range of respiratory droplets containing virions. Those droplets can range from visible (way bigger than a mycobacterium ) to only large enough to hold one virion. The size distribution of those particles is the metric.
You’d have to quantize the parameters to about 2.7 bits per parameter (24 GB / 70G * 8bits/B) - the model was likely trained at fp16 or fp32 so that would be pretty challenging. Not impossible but probably not readily available at the moment w most current quantization libraries. Quality would likely be degraded. But 2 4090s might be doable at ~4bits
Asians outscore all other ethnic groups in school.

The schools are under government order to equalize educational outcomes, but because Asians dominate in educational performance the only feasible way to get outcomes is to crush the top, i.e. it's easier to make everyone dumber than make everyone smarter.

It's not OK to harm Asians to elevate other groups when Asians have been victims of racism in America for hundreds of years.
>But I completely trust Firefox on the password issue, to the point that I let it generate them for me.

Not that I don't trust them but I always recommend using a dedicated PW manager like KeePassXC which is FOSS and has been security audited, plus it gives you full control over where you get to store your PWs and how they're secured and generated.
> The American Institute for Economic Research educates people on the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money

Saved some of you a click hopefully
Does this link work for you?

https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2Ps0mJ4Hv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...
Nice!! Hope to find a download soon :)
Sure. Haswell CPUs from 2014 are "there" for inference if they have AVX support and 8gb of RAM. Inferencing isn't the problem though, not on M1 or Macbooks from 2016. Scaling a desirable (and hopefully open) GPGPU programming interface is. This is bottlenecked by both hardware and software decisions Apple has made, making a "home grown" competitive model much more unlikely in my eyes.

I agree that there is an incentive to put AI models on your OS. I just don't think Apple can own the whole stack if they want to play ball right now.
It's easy to underprice your product (2009)
Does the fact that somebody opposes something mean that, prima facie, that position must be wrong?
With that kind of thinking though we can reach logical results like:

- writing prose and composition is unnecessary, as at best one will write on slack and social media;

- doing pushups, calisthenics, or running is unnecessary: few jobs require that;

- learning about how the government works, civics or sociology or psychology should be skipped: all these are taken care by the employer that is not going to let you go vote anyways (still don't understand how/why it is not a mandatory holiday, but what do I know);

- debates should be banned: promotes arguing against cops and employers both having detrimental outcomes;

- art is for the rich and private schools: poor populous should not be dreaming;

I suggest -- my 2 humble cents -- the writers of this abomination take a class in logic. Unfortunately, that is math and requires fundamentals they don't want covered.

P.S. My grad school anecdote: our perception and experiences as "international" grad students of the math understanding of incoming undergrads was abysmal to put it lightly. I don't want to be in any future TA shoes.
The reasons why startups did not capture a lot of value in the last wave of AI was because incumbents held the data and ML was primarily a feature added to someone else’s product and distribution channel.

The reason why ChatGPT changed that is because they developed an algorithm/model good enough to offer a consumer-grade conversational interface and they scraped the web to train it.

That is, they offered a whole product and nailed distribution so they could own the relationship with the user.
New high-power thermoelectric device may provide cooling in next-gen electronics
More looks from the designer https://so-type.com/custom/sweden-sans/
Why the “Null” Lifetime Does Not Exist
Yeah, someone from MIT really needs to scrub their FAQ. There's content there which is obviously current but this could honestly be handled with a current authoritative paragraph rather than linking back to a decade-old blog post.
MS SQL dev here, and I disagree because it's been going downhill in terms of code quality and especially documentation for a long while. Absolutely classic example why https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with... but there are others
Would you believe OpenAI has vastly better models that they are not releasing publicly?
Some people on the IT side where I work who deal with these things on a daily basis do that. Even I sometimes see POS as "piece of shit" now, even though whatever documentation I'm reading is obviously referring to 'Point of Sale'
The newest US subs use shroud protected pump jet propulsor systems, which already minimize acoustic signatures. Especially when it comes to the cavitation noise from propeller tip vortices, which is what Toroidal props are fixing for "open" propeller designs.

https://twitter.com/toughsf/status/1024083748407713792?lang=...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302920496_Numerical...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31708/veteran-sonarman...

https://www.globecomposite.com/blog/x-factor-columbia-class-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209267821...
Thanks for bringing up the SSD problems plaguing MacBooks.

From Apple's discussion forum.

"If Mac M1’s built-in SSD died" - 2020

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125
Go have kids, teach them what you want.

STEM minded folks need to eat their own dog food; your sensibilities are not divine mandate.

The other billions don’t owe deference to scientists any more than they do priests.

No scientist is a divine being. Their attitudes can be very human; they think their knowledge and skills is irreplaceable and the social system while trying to pretend that’s objective and could never be leveraged in typically corrupt human ways given their very human being.

In the end you’re one of billions bleating for others to follow the path you lay out. Where is the real or imagine social obligation to specifically serve you or any of the rest of the people here who make up a tiny fraction of the species?

Others think you should learn to grow your own food and kill your steaks rather than exploit the labor of others.

The free market of ideas is not just for selling widgets but tent pole social movements.
Such a school fails its fast learners. Do you really want fewer scientists in the world?
I watched the movie first, but enjoyed the written story more (though I still thought the movie was great!). The big difference for me was the inclusion of the physics in the written story, and how it was connected to the linguistics.
> The article itself says that students who want to go ahead will get private lessons.

This is a ridiculously privileged view that hurts the people it claims to help.

As a child, I was heavily invested in math, but I was raised by a mother who had no resources or inclination to pay for private lessons. Luckily my public school district had a few advanced classes available for all, and along with my own initiative, I was able to scrounge up a passable math education.

> The way it works is that if you put an advanced class and no normal pace class,

Caveat: I didn't grow up in California. I don't know how public schools are run there. That being said, this sounds like nonsense to me. There were always normal pace classes for students who excelled less. These were, in my experience, the most populated classes.
How about MAANGled?
Tangential, but I wish companies like this didn’t force people to provide so much PII in the first place.

In Australia, I’m yet to use a QR menu that doesn’t force me to provide my phone number. Why is my phone number necessary to order a bowl of chips? Ah, I see, Liven needs my phone number so they can sell it, according to their Privacy Policy. Mr Yum apparently doesn’t sell it, but still forces me to provide it anyway.
You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).

WTF kinda open for commercial model licensing is this
Regan faced the engineers and fought to keep the annoyance from reaching his face. "What did you call it?"

"POS." Brenda's bubbly demeanor was reflected in a little dance that she did while saying each letter in an almost singsong pattern.

"You ..." Regan stops fighting his instincts, takes off his glasses, bows his head, and pinches his nose. "All of you understand that we can't call it that."

The rest of the engineers stood silently and without movement. They have to have planned it this way. He should have known something was up from the moment he walked in here.

"Why's that?" Brenda tilts her head to the side.

"Because it stands for piece of ..."

"Point of sale." Brenda blurts out before Regan can finish.

Regan slowly puts his glasses back on. "Is the POS going to be completed by the deadline?" He forces the words out through a clenched jaw.

Brenda remains still with wide eyes and a frozen smile on her face. The rest of the room nods that the deadline will be met.

"Then fine." Regan leaves; they can make the deadline then they can have their stupid little name.
I prefer subscribing to good, valuable sources rather than having a filter for recommendations.
Besides the economic harm and potential developmental harm induced by closing schools for kids, I think lockdowns did incalculable social harm to society. It gave huge swaths of the population a grudge against the system, a chip on their shoulder that won't go away anytime soon. It burned up goodwill and trust for experts and politicians (who generally didn't have much to spare in the first place.) And coupling this with social isolation at the same time made a lot of people become frayed around the edges if not outright insane.
The moment I start dealing with other teams/depts, I almost certainly have more context about most things than the manager "managing" me. You end up asking other folks "why X? why Y?" and get their perspective in their terms, and incorporate that in to however you're getting your stuff done.

The only thing "managers" have access to is info they choose not to share, or info they're told not to share, which creates an explicit vaccuum/silo of info, and increases the power imbalance. Most of the teams I've worked on have been this way. Yeah, sure... I don't have "the big picture" you created on a corp retreat with other dept managers... but why don't I have it? Because you've chosen to only share bits and pieces... "for your own good". Makes very little sense to me.

If I know you're planning on doing "functionality A" at some point, inform us now, because that very likely has an impact on decisions I'm making today. I'm far more likely to understand the impact on my own work and my team's work than you are, given that you don't actually know how to do the work (in most cases).

I've had a couple good manager-types over the years, but only a couple.
You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).
It's the simplicity of the tooling for me. There's no config file besides a list of dependencies. I push my code to github and it can be a dependency because a dependency is just a URL. My code is automatically formatted and there's no config for that.
If it's all that obvious, you should have no problem naming who's behind this and providing evidence to support your claim, rather than merely fearmongering to no useful end.
The Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology
the cog template is just starter code to make it super simple to deploy llama-v2 on any infrastructure of your choosing!

More about cog
https://github.com/replicate/cog

Our thinking was just that a bunch of folks will want to fine-tune right away, then deploy the fine-tunes, so trying to make that easy... Or even just deploy the models-as-is on their own infra without dealing with CUDA insanity!
Mermaid is awesome, love it
The problem with this kind of simplistic analysis is that if you ask llama which of those numbers is larger it will of course get it right.

Clearly there is some understanding of the relative size of numbers, since it can compare numbers that could not possibly have been in the training set.
The vibe I get is sort of.

The funny thing is when I was in SF last, most people downtown were flying in to meet their teams at a SF office. Not many people actually commuting there for their job regularly. Hotel lobbies seemed full of teams socializing for their team "onsite".

So its maybe the central place to travel to for facetime
I don't think that's even possible, but if it was it would be a disaster because humans don't work that way. We respond to incentive. When giving to charity, the incentive can be as simple as "I feel good" but it's still an incentive.
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2017/06/22/no-us-school-f...

Being a progressive and seeing real-world data crush your entire world view time after time must be a strange feeling.
I got an SL and regret that I can't now replace the fancier touchscreen with an aftermarket unit. I'd get CarPlay, but I'd lose the 360 camera view and EV-specific features (charge timer, range estimates, etc.)
I have often started modeling problems with pulp. As the problem size gets bigger, pulp will fail to work —- that is, pulp handles writing out large problems to disk (nlogn complexity) worse than gurobi handles reading and solving them (expn complexity). Then I end up writing out the problems into text files on python „by hand“, which is very cumbersome.

I wish python and it’s libraries wasn’t so inefficient.