skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> College level science and engineering education doesn’t make sense without a understanding of at least basic calculus.

That doesn't actually mean that you need to cover calculus in high school. The calculus needed for the first year of college science and engineering can be easily taught early in the first year in the classes that need it.

That's how it worked at Caltech when I was a student (late '70s and early '80s). Around 75% of an incoming class had no calculus. It only took a lecture or two in Phys 1 to cover all the calculus that would be needed for the rest of first year science and engineering.

That calculus taught in Phys 1 wasn't rigorous and proof based, but high school calculus usually isn't either. By second year everyone had a year of Ma 1, which was rigorous and proof based calculus.
I literally responded to your point, including your comment about Renaissance art.

As to eyeballs... This also reminded me of how "one of the greatest artworks ever" was relatively unknown until publicity and yes eyeballs. I'm talking about Mona Lisa of course: https://www.npr.org/2011/07/30/138800110/the-theft-that-made...

Most of what we call amazing pieces of art are such only because of the many eyeballs on them.
Here are some benchmarks, excellent to see that an open model is approaching (and in some areas surpassing) GPT-3.5!

AI2 Reasoning Challenge (25-shot) - a set of grade-school science questions.

- Llama 1 (llama-65b): 57.6

- LLama 2 (llama-2-70b-chat-hf): 64.6

- GPT-3.5: 85.2

- GPT-4: 96.3

HellaSwag (10-shot) - a test of commonsense inference, which is easy for humans (~95%) but challenging for SOTA models.

- Llama 1: 84.3

- LLama 2: 85.9

- GPT-3.5: 85.3

- GPT-4: 95.3

MMLU (5-shot) - a test to measure a text model’s multitask accuracy. The test covers 57 tasks including elementary mathematics, US history, computer science, law, and more.

- Llama 1: 63.4

- LLama 2: 63.9

- GPT-3.5: 70.0

- GPT-4: 86.4

TruthfulQA (0-shot) - a test to measure a model’s propensity to reproduce falsehoods commonly found online. Note: TruthfulQA in the Harness is actually a minima a 6-shots task, as it is prepended by 6 examples systematically, even when launched using 0 for the number of few-shot examples.

- Llama 1: 43.0

- LLama 2: 52.8

- GPT-3.5: 47.0

- GPT-4: 59.0

[0] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
As proven by Oberon-2 and Limbo ancestors, it helps to have a good godfather.
After 3+ years, I find remote completely and utterly depressing. Too bad I live in the middle of nowhere wasteland where there are few software jobs.
A small model might be useful for e.g. NPC interactions in a Quest game
What? Pain has nothing to do with this. The positives outweigh the negatives by whatever criteria the giver uses to decide to do the act of giving.

This is always true. No? Even self sacrifice, such as jumping in front of a bus, you deem to be the right thing - you chose an action because you believed it was a positive, for you, action. Just because you die doesn't mean you didn't still felt it was right, in that moment.

If you do something you do not believe is a positive it changes from charity to masochism. You're doing it to punish yourself. If you're not punishing yourself, you're gaining something (or net neutral, i suppose, but that's difficult to define).

edit: Though arguably even punishing yourself is self interest, as if you're punishing yourself it's because you want to.
> Due to the Jevons paradox making air conditioning more efficient will most likely increase energy consumption.

Good. That means more people now have access to it and it is a good thing.

Another example is clean water. If clean water is abundant, people will use it for more drinking and cooking and bathing. That is a good thing.
This is one of the better (and better looking) landing pages I have seen for a programming language. Very good copywriting too.
There are no big surprises. There are hundreds of tiny ones. You need to identify them, keep track of them and don't miss any.
Ballistic conduction means 'perfect' conduction in a sense. There's no resistance. It's only for armchair swcnts though. Other metallic swcnts are also great conductors, but if you separate out the chiralities (semiconductors, etc) you might as well separate to just armchairs.
They're stored in a registry (based on Docker distribution) running on Cloudflare. The model gets broken up into layers, so if you want to create new prompts or parameters, you can create something called a Modelfile (similar to a Dockerfile) and just point it at the existing model.

If you want to create a new Modelfile, you can create something like:

FROM llama2
PARAMETER temperature 0.4
PROMPT """

<<Your prompt>>
"""

And then:

ollama create <tag> -f <Modelfile>
ollama run <tag>
Absolutely! I said in another post that I assumed you'd use LP if your decision space was modeled in such a way that that can work, but RL if you instead have more of a simulator and a cost function. Even that, I grant, is over simplified.

Mainly trying to find a way to use charity for that opening post. At face value, I don't know what they were getting at.
KumoMTA: High Performance Open-Source Sending MTA to Replace PowerMTA
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Getting laid off
I don’t think you’ll be able to pull that off because you don’t have such a granular data majority of the time.

For example, Sindhi is a language spoken in just one province. Punjabi is a language native to two provinces in two countries.
Since you're being pedantic my reply is going to be equally pedantic: no, this is not correct if you understand the difference between numerals and numbers.

A numeral is a written way of denoting a number. So while the string "IIIIIIII..." arguably contains a Roman numeral denoting the number 4 as a substring (if you accept "IIII" as a Roman numeral), it still does not contain the Roman numeral "IV" as a substring.

Or phrased differently, by your logic you might as well say that "IIIIIIII..." contains the Arabic numeral "4". It doesn't.
I worked at a store that had this feature except if you reloaded the transaction on a different register it still got attributed to the originating register and caused a headache at closing :(
> That the Chernobyl exclusion zone has become an animal sanctuary is held out as an example of ability of ecosystems to tolerate low-level radioactivity.

I'm not sure what's the meaning of that statement. Chernobyl might have become an animal sanctuary, but it is also showcases a massive drop in abundance of some species, and a ‘severely depressed’ leaf litter decomposition. The life expectancy of stray dogs in chernobyl is lower than 5-6 years.

So Chernobyl is an animal sanctuary and wildlife haven, but it's not in the coloquial sense. Human intervention is almost non existent, but the few species that manage to survive are enduring negative consequences, and it just so happens that their reproduction rate is high enough to ensure replacing.
Yeah, I'm getting bothered by all React libraries not saying what language it's for too!

Jokes aside, quick glance at the language pane on GitHub shows what languages are being used.
A great idea. If we are at it, why don't we search all topics and then summarise with a LLM? It would be like an AI made wikipedia 1000x times larger indexing all things, concepts and events, or a super knowledge graph. It would create a lot of training data, and maybe add a bit of introspection to the model - it explicitly knows what it knows. Could help reduce hallucinations, learn attribution, ability to recognise copyrighted content, and fact checking.
A programming language "starting" is usually a longer period of time, at least by my definition. Not the first year or so.

Also, that go targeted junior developers were the authors words, not mine.

Last:

> Can you provide a reason why we should care about a language being "an advanced high-level language"?

Because it makes a certain group of developers more productive. If you care about that or not is your decision. I'm not saying you should.
I’ve been experiencing this intermittently lately as well.
IMO, it wasnt really until 2015 that we had the bandwidth available everywhere to do widespread WFH.
Agreed.
First thing I frowned at when considering Go. (Plus it looks a bit messy. foo.Init() ?).

That and reserving the verb `make`..
There should be a paperswithdata for medicine like there is a https://paperswithcode.com/ for data science.
What are the top OLAP databases that are CNCF member and their ref customers?
Looking at https://landscape.cncf.io/card-mode?category=database, here’s a list of the online analytical processing (OLAP) that are CNCF members
Great Refresher and Explanation of JavaScript Lexical Environment
Found this article to be the best explanation on how scope, closures, and the Lexical Environment in javascript operates.
> It seems to me Twitter's being run these days by an entrepreneur who's trying hard to figure out ways to make it a profitable operation.

Twitter was only losing 200-million in 2021.

The $1.3 Billion in loan-payments, followed up by the $2.5 Billion loss in advertisement revenue means that Elon Musk is personally responsible for a NEGATIVE $3.8 Billion differential in just 9 months of running the company.

You realize that, right? Twitter has _NEVER_ in its history lost this much money before.

I'm not sure how long it can go losing money like this. But I know it can't lose money forever, especially in a rising interest-rate environment, and double-especially on private equity. Eventually, Elon Musk will cut his losses and just shut the whole thing down.

So I'm not going to place a time-limit on when this all collapses and Elon Musk gives up on the project. I mean, I've seen how he dealt with SolarCity (a shady merger into Tesla to hide the fact that that other company also collapsed). So maybe Twitter "survives" through technicality in any case. Musk is very good at making failures look like a success (aka: exploded rocket was a successful test effect), he'll find a way to declare this $3.8 Billion / year loss a success too and have his fans eat up his story.

But I've already made my opinion up about this situation. Anyone who takes a company who is losing $0.2 billion/year and turns it into a company losing $3.8 billion/year in 9 months is... not a good businessman.
Whether one actually wants to work from home or not, "requiring full-time in-office" has become a signal of unpleasant corporate culture.
I suppose that current LLMs are incapable of answering such questions by saying "I don't know". The have no notion of facts, or any other epistemic categories.

They work basically by inventing a plausible-sounding continuation of a dialog, based on an extensive learning set. They will always find a plausible-sounding answer to a plausible-sounding question: so much learning material correlates to that.

Before epistemology is introduced explicitly into their architecture, language models will remain literary devices, so to say, unable to tell "truth" from "fiction". All they learn is basically "fiction", without a way to compare to any "facts", or the notion of "facts" or "logic".
How would it work to get a model that needs 8Gb+ of vram currently into some chiplet form factor? Is there an obvious way of translating this more directly to hardware?
Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all, but the Swedish work is largely quite pretty and readable where the Estonian guidelines are an excellent of what designers do when they can get away with it or the client is too compliant / eager to be different. (source: am designer)

The intro claims the character of the Estonia brand is "nordic, surprising, smart" but the Aino font in particular seems way too focused on being surprising at the expense of legibility, which certainly diminishes expression of the smart element.
tl;dr although my first principle is good readme files.
Sugar Origami: good name for a rock band.
Yeah, it's officially dead
I recommend becoming an expert in just one field of computer application, or an industry where computers are used.
This (as well as range) depends on what size and cost you can accept. You can absolutely get drones that can carry useful loads and/or that have long ranges, but they're large and very expensive.
I totally agree that racial issues have always been a topic in American politics. from the colonial period, to secession from Brittan, to the failed secession of the south, to the civil rights movements, to now.

That said, the relative importance of the issue and satisfaction obviously shifts over time. Gallop polling shows that that by many metrics, perceptions of racial Injustice are at a multi-decade high. It is interesting that far fewer people feel that black people are treated fairly than in the late 90's. It would be interesting to see data going back even further.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/352544/larger-majority-says-rac...
I guess the brains objective is wrong then seeing how much it's willing to fabricate sense data, memories and rationales when convenient
Like startups where people will get paid with stock that may go big, acting and to some extent writing gives you a chance to become a star. But I think this is more about the median performers and whether they get paid fairly and get a share of streaming and any derived work such as AI generated likenesses/scripts.
1) I am focusing on making money and producing value for the world in any form I can. Whatever challenges that future weather patterns bring, it is only wealthy and stable societies that have a chance to adapt and adjust to them.

2) I am strongly advocating continued nuclear energy development. That is one thing that everybody should be able to agree on regardless of their stance on climate change. It's mystifying to me that the people who vocally care about climate change the most seem to resist this the hardest.
I wish upper management would understand that some of us need silence to work due to sensory issues and the office doesn't provide something of that nature. Sound blocking headphones don't solve everything.
Bank fees are fees. There is no technical requirement whatsoever to come up with blockchain nor cryptocurrency to get rid of fees. They can be set to zero if public will is there. In fact my Citibank account has zero fees for worldwide SWIFT transfers in twelve native currencies plus all others via currency exchange. I honestly don't know a single crypto currency that would reach more people cheaper than that (considering losses on fiat->crypto->fiat exchanges and volatility of cryptocurrencies).
Charging exorbitant fees is a business problem not a technical problem.

(e.g. trading stocks with a brokerage used to be very expensive until discount brokers set charges to 0. Now it costs little to nothing to execute trades.)
This is a ruse; the Republican party altogether after Nixon has never shown even the slightest interest in environmental issues.
I like having company hardware. But agreed on the first premise. Open offices are an abomination. That being said, I do think younger engineers can be a bit better off from the human perspective joining an office just do to getting a lot of social interaction, and hanging out with higher level engineers.

I learned a fair amount watching my engineer coworkers argue about bullshit that I'd probably not have gotten if I was remote.

Being remote works for me (even when I was younger cause I love sitting and hammering my head on shit until I figure it out), but a fair number of my coworkers genuinely enjoy going into the office.

It's interesting. But yes, agreed for the most part. Can't imagine wanting to go 5 days a week though lol.
The data is perfectly compatible with the "return to office" mandates being hidden layoffs, and there being no actual difference besides this.

Personally, I'm having a hard time explaining the cause being on the direction implied on the title. The number of available candidates does not usually constrain the number of people hired, and the entire thing is too recent for any difference in competence to have that large impact.
> but I still think it's common to see a remarkable level of time and effort spent on typography compared to even other parts of the frontend

We spend a lot more time reading body text than scrolling through menus or fiddling with radiobuttons.
Cliff! I've had a plan to buy a bottle from you for a long time. Do you still have any left?
I'm guessing that it's the double whammy from the layoffs: fewer (attractive) positions, and now more people competing for what remains.

I got laid off for the first time ever a few months ago, and I've been surprised how hard it is to find a job that will pay the bills.

(I'm also surprised by how badly I've done on live coding tests. Apparently it's a skill that needs practice.)
Of course having supportive parents is a privilege, why wouldn't it be?
Everyone is hiring, but HR uses very exactly keyword reviews, related, HR wants a top performer (based on some meaningless resume heuristics), but wont pay for it.
> Not advanced or high-level enough for Kubernetes, eh?

Let me ask you with two counter questions.

1.: which one do you think is more complex: kubernetes or the linux kernel?

2.: which lange do you think is more "advanced" or "high-level" enough by our definition: C or Go?

I think you can see where I'm going at.

Otherwise, I don't disagree with the rest. Go is the new cool python.
Django: Flush out test flakiness by randomly ordering QuerySets – Adam Johnson
How to Share a NumPy Array Between Processes
Building Your Generative AI Apps with Meta's Llama 2 and Databricks
Shades of Tommy Wiseau.
Aspects of Good Code
At an individual level, absolutely. In group dynamics, though, you avoid things that have the plague. Same as you avoid things that have rabies.

Which is part of my point. If you say that "medicine is plagued" than a natural response is "avoid medicine." But, that is clearly a nonsensical outcome, all told.
SF fund lured Tesla investors and stole millions, feds say
Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity
As a founding engineer for a pandemic-era company, I can see both sides of this argument.

We've had a very challenging time hiring and maintaining teams across the company. People fall through the cracks in a remote company very easily. People don't seem to bond as well or as easily. Siloes happen. Misunderstanding company vision and product requirements is very, very easy when trying to communicate over zoom and slack.

IMO Seed-stage teams should spend lots of time together so that trust and understanding is built in-person. Hiring should be done very carefully, and people should be onboarded again, in-person. Once trust is there, and good work flows are established, teams can go 100% remote, but I still think it's good to get together at least once or twice a year.
we really need more flags for “REMOTE”; I hire remote (not hybrid) but people think they can work from the Principality of Sealand, Madagascar or Timbuktu. It’s really frustrating as: for tax reason, I can only hire in Germany and Sweden (where we have business entities).

But when I file a position (even where this is very clearly stated) I get literally hundreds of applications that are impossible for me to pursue- since they are never open to relocation either.

Its a pretty huge waste of resources on my side because we really try to assess each application and give a clear reason why we don’t continue with them-
How we integrated a new, acquired platform – in a single sprint!
> I don't understand Brave just goes out and signs their own advertising deals. Essentially like using Chrome and using a google site. Google could do this too but would be a nightmare.

No, it wouldn't be the same at all.

- Brave ads don't track users and violate their privacy.

- Users can earn BAT by viewing ads, which they can then use to support their favorite sites directly.

- Brave ads are opt-in. If you fund your BAT wallet externally, you can disable ads altogether while still supporting the sites you visit. This is the crucial step which allows eliminating the advertising middleman altogether.

Please read more about how BAT works.

> As with the other comment, sure you could do it with blockchain but theres often better solutions.

Better in what way? DNS is technically decentralized, but it's effectively controlled by ICANN and large registrars. Companies own entire sets of gTLDs, and the most popular resolvers are operated by large corporations. Only 13 root name servers resolve queries the entire internet depends on. This system is susceptible to hijacking.

Parts of this are related to registrations, and parts are operational. I'm not saying that the blockchain is the answer to all these problems, but it's a step in the right direction that opens the door to further discussion.

> The fundamental problem is people still have to deal with fiat money. that conversion always carries a fee.

So? That's out of scope for what this technology can help with. Besides, there are stores and entire marketplaces where only crypto is exchanged.

Sorry, but these are all lazy dismissals.

To be fair, there are valid issues that should be addressed with these technologies, but nothing will be done if the conversation is stopped in its tracks at the first mention of bad words.

It reminds me of the discussions around nuclear power. It is perceived so negatively by the public that its use is being abandoned, yet it has a large benefit potential if used correctly. Cryptocurrencies don't carry nearly as much risk, yet are popularly vilified because it feels good to jump on the hate bandwagon, rather than honestly discuss their merits. I expect better from forums like this.
> I'd love to see how they manage parking.

There are a few thousand parking spots in garages a few stops away on the light rail, but the whole district the stadium is in has only about 5k public parking spots overall for ALL purposes. The sensible strategy is to arrive by public transit — many of the events (both concerts and sports events) have a train ticket included in the price of admission, run extra trains for the events, (including extra security in the case of soccer games), and light rail drops you less than 100m from the entrance of the stadium.

If you absolutely need to arrive by car, either come early or pick a garage elsewhere in the city, and take public transit to the stadium.

If you're absolutely allergic to public transit, you could probably get a Taxi, Uber, or friend to drop you off.

For sports events, some of the away fans travel in hired buses which will drop them off at the stadium, wait at some special lot (considerably more space efficient than the equivalent in cars, and can be further away), and pick them up again after the game.
But for what applications? Sure, for answering free-form questions I expect GPT-3.5+ quality. I don't think GPT-3.5 is necessary to provide auto-complete in your email client.
Wet is a relationship between a surface and a liquid, based on the liquid's viscosity and adherence to the surface.

Where this came from, and how the conversation got this far without this point being made... I don't know
From https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/changes.html#com... :

> Since Cython 3.0.0 started development, CPython 3.8-3.11 were released. All these are supported in Cython, including experimental support for the in-development CPython 3.12
If you're going to lick ad company boots, at least spit shine your spelling first.
We definitely did take some inspiration there. I’ll add some attribution in the footer.
A Medieval Age of Disruption
Compared to the other desktop operating systems (Windows and macOS), it absolutely is. It might have other advantages, but security is not one of them, and users should be aware.