skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and the only legitimate source to ask about climate change is the Sierra Club.

and the only legitimate source to ask about the need for copyrights is Disney.

It always cuts both ways. Just because they're against the position you think is obviously correct doesn't mean that you can dismiss a dissenting position. Every story has another side to it. (Well, except this one :) )
does source hut actually work still? clicking on any of the git links on that page just gives 502 error
Do you pay for all the roads you drive on? Who pays for the infrastructure there?
At it's very foundation liberal ideology cracks pretty badly if "Everyone is born equally capable" is false.
That's how it works in a lot of places in Germany.
Yes, I agree that there is a temptation for those in power. Legal frameworks can be created to try and limit the lengths and conditions under which a "crisis mode" can be enacted, but there will always be people looking for more power.
I can see how that would help with the feelgoods, but how will this advance science and technology? The very things that allow you (and me) to be here pontificating about this instead of sustenance farming.
Here I was thinking you meant the 2011 blockbuster, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third installment in the live action Transformers franchise by Michael Bay.
If we want to be pedantic, C++ is a high level programming language. Newer languages like Python just provide a higher degree of abstraction, so you could call them "higher-level programming languages".
You might want to look at https://icl.utk.edu/papi/ . It's a generic library which abstract the details of specific cpu arch and aims to provide a single unify view of performance counters.

I think somewhere in there you can see how perf translate counters to intel (or AMD) specific one.
I think when you talk about Sweden, you've got to remember that they do have things like legally enforced sick pay (if you're ill, you stay at home and your employer has to pay you some proportion of your salary) and high quality government funded healthcare. They have a low-ish population density and social norms that give people a _lot_ of personal space when in public. So the experience that Sweden had with no lockdown is not necessarily the same experience that the USA would have had, where most people dont get paid if they are sick and dont go to work.
But relative risk is irrelevant. They still don't somehow cancel out. My aspartame consumption poses some risk to me, and that risk doesn't depend on the habits of the person telling me about the risks of aspartame.
That makes sense in a boom cycle, but we're seemingly entering a bust now.

This era of CS was probably unique in the history of STEM of having high salary rewards for changing jobs quickly. This never existed in Medicine, Maths or Engineering really (unless you found your own company or such.)
Enabling efficient front-end development: The role of web infrastructure teams
OOP can also be formalized if you really want to.
https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

Looks like it really depends on the benchmark. In some Firefox gets slaughtered, in some Firefox is the clear winner.
If you read the paper cited by the person I responded to above you’ll see merely comparing dollars spent is not an adequate analysis. Poorer districts have to spend more on ancillary costs - school lunches, mental health resources, social services, etc. Poorer districts have higher administrative costs, spend less on teacher salaries, and spend less on other areas related to educational success.

It’s not a strange feeling seeing data contradict my beliefs. I welcome such occurrences as they provide an opportunity to get rid of false beliefs. In the present circumstance I’ve not argued that more money needs to spent. I have suggested a better method of allocation of expenditures and that school vouchers are not the answer. Do you have evidence that I’m wrong on this? If so please show the evidence.
I think you can ignore the transportation part, if for no other reason than impracticality - not all districts offer effective or workable transportation now.

I'd suggest that additional funding for special education, on a per student basis could be based on some sort of disability index, whereas the more services they require gets the district more money. Ideally some formula that is a mix of numbers based on local assessments, and weighted to similar districts in size and socioeconomic backgrounds of their residents. Like if a district games the system, the weighting should result in them being brought back into some mean.
I'm not underestimating your objections by labeling them theoretical. We just have (respectfully) differing opinions on pedagogy.

On the other end, I really can't stand Scratch as being distant enough from real programming to make the leap difficult (as seen by my son and fellow students).
[dupe]

Discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774627
Preface: I`m no expert.

What you are looking at here is a Natural Language Model. They are Chatbots. What you want is a classification model, the typical Spam filter is a Naive Bayes classifier.

If you want to run a Natural Language Model at a meaningful speed and size on your server you probably need a high end consumer graphics card. If you want to run a Natural Language Model that is big you will need high end server graphics cards. The first option is maybe $1k the other $10k.
I choose to work on projects that seem like they'll help.

At this point in my career I've helped build over 200 wind turbines, 3 solar installations, restored a good stretch of wetland, and been involved in two dam removals.
Glad to see this, browsers have been mostly Chromium based for a while. Safari seems to be lagging a lot since the split, and I just don't like the Firefox UI as much.

OT: Just curious... does anyone have a good cross-browser extension (chrome and FF browsers) that can sync the bookmarks, in particular the bookmark toolbar. I use a password manager (Bitwarden) that integrates well, wish I could get the same for the bookmarks toolbar.
> with such unique acronyms

It's been part of netspeak since at least the late 80s
To exploit means to use.

> “Wonderful for the world” = “I can [use] this to make money”

Doesn't change the meaning (or the bite) of the statement in the slightest.
Taking a look at pulp it just seems to be a solver abstraction API and all the real work is done by solver libraries written in lower-level languages. It looks like the default solver is COIN-OR CLP/CBC, and that's written in C++: https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc/tree/master/src

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here and it's the abstraction API causing the problems, but it seems like it's up to the solver implementation to be efficient here?
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It doesn't. Hallucination in this context means 'an unfounded or mistaken impression or notion'.

There's one side of the current zeitgeist that over-anthropomorphizes these models. But there's another side that seems to be terrified that LLMs could be anything resembling intelligent

Both sides are pretty emotion over facts though. A lot of their "human-like" behavior is emergent from things that don't work the same way in a humans... but we also don't understand cognition enough to then say there's no overlap between what LLMs are doing and what some part of our own thought process is like. If anything we have more studies that imply the opposite going back decades: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09266...
Short of changes within the module itself, if you switch a Public function to a private function in another language, how are you not having to go change everywhere it's being used?
> ...let clerks pause sales and put them off to one side...

I dreamed about just such a feature when I worked at a convenience store back in high school. That was 30 years ago. Such progress... >sigh<
And yet some of us actually liked that period of time where we were at home more, had more time to do things like bake bread, cook actual meals, read, etc. I think in my case my mental health declined for different reasons: As someone with health anxiety in the best of times, it started to dial up to 11. This was not even related to "lockdowns" - I had no desire to go anywhere where people congregated. The fact that there was a contagion out there and that there wasn't really any way out of it (until the vaccines showed up) was what led to many people's mental health decline.
The followers on these profiles say that are practicing it and leadership us leading by example

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aruna2u

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeetupatel
I meant that as a purely "backhanded compliment." The bar is rather low in enterprise software.

That said, fully fair that, even in the field, they probably rely more on bad practices to shoulder out competition than I'm crediting.
Nah, this is often not considered swimming in major publications and by zoos.

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/hip...

> Hippos cannot swim or breathe underwater, and unlike most mammals they are so dense that they cannot float. Instead, they walk or run along the bottom of the riverbed. Because their eyes and nostrils are located on the top of their heads, they can still see and breathe while underwater. When totally submerged, the ears and nostrils shut tight to keep the water out, and hippos can hold their breath for five minutes.

San Diego Zoo

https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo

> Yet despite all these adaptations for life in the water, hippos can't swim—they can't even float! Their bodies are far too dense to float, so they move around by pushing off from the bottom of the river or simply walking along the riverbed in a slow-motion gallop, lightly touching the bottom with their toes, which are slightly webbed, like aquatic ballet dancers.

Also echoed by Cincinnati Zoo and I'm certain many other experts.

But yes, it is maybe pedantic to define swimming!

However, even if you'd be kind to this LLM and say "Alright, sure, it's kinda swimming", it's still wrong in terms of being among particularly good mammal swimmers! This is just flat out wrong no matter how you look at it. They're terrible at it but have evolved to not need to be awesome at this.
> But you probably will have to differentiate at some point between what you're inserting. Why not just do that, instead of artificially combine it into one function?

Why prematurely optimize for differences that may not (and in practice aren't really likely to) happen?

Keep in mind that the tradeoff with generics is usually not 3 lines of clear or 1 line of hard to read, it's one line of clear code (T -> T), one line of unclear code (Interface{} -> Interface{} + casts), or n lines of complex code (concretely reimplementing the function for your particular case).
I don’t think the issue is spending. My main point is that school vouchers are bad. I did say that the method of school funding is idiotic.

Smart kids dropped into a war zone may or may not do well. They might die for one thing. They might get so traumatized by the event that they are unable to cope in life. Change someone’s circumstances drastically enough then it won’t be possible to know what the outcome is.
Well, the one with sugar sell much faster as more people eat them.

People don't read ingredients. They read what's out in front.

As to why it is legal to sell Strawberry Pop Tarts that don't contain any strawberry is beyond me.

The first line should be: ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED POP TARTS. The subtitle should be Strawberry flavored.

I understand that it is easier (which translated into cheaper) to create a vanilla flavored compound from oil, but as the consumer it must be plain obvious. It must be part of the text that I read when selecting a product, not when I hold a product and look up close.

Going back to the sugar, another pet peeve of mine is: these sugars not derived from sugar cane or sugar beets but agave and then labeled as natural sugars. It's the same thing. For the most part, it is a gigantic dose of calories that are incredibly bad for you. Same with honey [^1].

How is it legal to sell a product that has >50% the daily amount of recommended sugar?

[^1]: ok technically honey has a higher glycemic index
The quality of the media is in the perception of the user. Ask any audiophile if vinyl is best or not.

Analog isn't really the issue here as there would be some kind of multiplexing/demultiplexing encoding or device to interface with it. It would still be discrete and have defined levels. as the technology advances you may be able to define more levels in the same bandwidth space thus creating "more" storage by greater efficiency of the spectrum.
Regardless of everything else, I don't think lockdowns could have ever been an option in a pre-internet society or even a pre-smartphone, pre-social-media society. So, say, before 2007 or so.
cammisa's vids are top-notch
A 3 year old still takes 3 years to train. Even a state of the art image recognition model takes way less time than that.
Although you may be working in an office, it is highly likely that any job functions associated with industries undergoing such shifts will be affected, even within the office environment. It wouldn't be surprising if businesses implemented company-wide changes, particularly in departments dealing with construction or building, regardless of whether an individual's job function is directly related to those areas. Some companies might see this as a cost-cutting measure, such as reducing prolonged use of air conditioning.

Personally, I would be deeply disappointed if this were to become the norm. However, it is unlikely to happen unless one is closely connected to industries undergoing these shifts. I must admit, as someone who is not a morning person, I am not looking forward to such changes myself!

(Also, article does point out potential effect on people working in AC-ed building, too.)
Compared to Norway and Denmark yes. And of course there was a lockdown in Sweden. Just less strict than in most other places. But it was not business as usual in Sweden. I assume you will now tell me I'm wrong about that despite I'm being in Sweden and you probably never even visited?
Once again until you provide numbers your argument means nothing. You can't just wave your hands and say "wrong".
>It's a false sense of security. At a $bigCo, your entire division might disappear tomorrow because the Board wants to cut costs.

I know HN is 90% software guys but if your product is physical and you're at $bigCo this happens far less often.

More likely you get spun off as a different company.
The way math is typically taught at the lowest levels actively hurts mathematical ability. Just taking them out of those classes will help them.
There are 2 submodules in our model — a contrastive submodule and a diffusion prior submodule, but they still form 1 model because they are trained end-to-end. In the final architecture that we picked there is a common backbone that maps from fMRIs to an intermediate space. Then there is an MLP projector that produces the retrieval embeddings and a diffusion prior that produces the stable diffusion embeddings.

Both the prior and MLP projector makes use of the same intermediate space, and the backbone + projector + prior are all trained end-to-end (the contrastive loss on the projector output and mse loss on prior outputs are simply added together).

We found that this works better than first training a contrastive model then freezing it and training a diffusion prior on its outputs (similar to CLIP + DALLE-2). That is, the retrieval objective improves reconstruction and the reconstruction objective slightly improves retrieval.
I know you said on general but I think it is worth pointing out that MIT doesn't specifically mark any athletes for admission like most schools can and do. At least when I applied.

I knew a varsity crew and varsity sailing athlete and despite both being nationally notable in their sports my understanding was the coaches could do nothing to "recruit" them. It of course helps in admission as much as playing a music instrument at a high level or being a published author might. If you have that plus elite academic achievements then you probably have a decent chance at admission to a school of your choosing.
This site got me through college, made making flowcharts bearable for me :)
Great description. The history truly rhymes.
I think I understand the nature of your thinking.

You're presuming a fixed demand for labour, regardless of how much value it provides. Imagine if, for a moment, productivity increased to the point where one person could do all current work for all current employers, but of course there were many, many other people who could provide the same productivity. Do you expect that employers would not figure out a way to use some of that additional productivity to make more money?

The demand for a product increases as value it provides increases. The net effect is that employers' profits increase, but so do labours'. The divide on the split is determined by relative strength of their positions, but if it ever goes to zero for either side, it really kills the incentive for increased productivity in the first place (if employers see no benefit from increased worker productivity, there certainly won't be any more demand, and there will be no effort to exploit this new productivity... if employees see no benefit from the increased productivity, they'll have no incentive to be more productive).
What's your point, and what does Meta releasing an LLM that people can use have to do with employers and salaries?
That's such a interesting experiment, but I can't help but think that whichever language's project was tackled first was playing at a serious disadvantage, even if the projects were somewhat different...
Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor Architectures
> Ring was successfully hacked as well.

Wait, do you have more details about this? I see a Vice story[1] about a ransomware crew's claim that it hacked Ring, but it includes this:

> It is not clear what specific data ALPHV may have access to. In a statement, Ring told Motherboard "We currently have no indications that Ring has experienced a ransomware event." But the company added that it is aware of third-party vendor that has experienced a ransomware event, and that Ring is working with that company to learn more. Ring said this vendor does not have access to customer records.

There are similar stories with similar invitations for Ring employees to leak details, but the lack of updates usually indicates that the event isn't as juicy as the gang claimed.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvd9q/ransomware-group-clai...
I just tested the 13b-chat model and it's really good at chatting, even roleplaying, seemingly much better than other models I've tried (including uncensored ones like Pygmalion), fun!!

It also doesn't seem to get constantly tripped up by second-person :D
It won't reduce competition for college spots. Admissions committees will continue to fulfill shadow racial quotas using first names, last names, and reparations sob stories as filters to maintain the status quo. Test scores of special protected classes hardly matter as long as those primary objectives are met.
ChromeOS is actually "pretty good" for someone who only looks at websites like facebook and reads email. It's also extremely confining and spies on you which makes it unacceptable for a lot of people and it's a sin that students are often stuck with them.
Facebook details the conditions that might terminate the license, and they do not invoke the right to do so at any time or for any reason.

Per their license [1], they are not allowed to revoke the license unless you violate the terms of the license. And with respect to complaints they might receive, the only sort I can think of would be with respect to content people find objectionable. There is no content-based provision or restriction in the license except that applicable laws must be followed.

Provided you're following the law, the license doesn't seem any more revocable & thereby risky for use than any other open resource made available by a corporation. Facebook is just as bound by this license as they would be if they required commercial users to pay them $1M to use the model.

I think this release is less about direct financial gain and more about denying large competitors a moat on the issue of basic access to the model, i.e., elevating the realm of competition to the services built on top of these models. Facebook appears to be betting that it can do better in this area than competitors.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
Paying https://makesunsets.com money.
True charity lacks a profit motive and/or fame. The worst charity is one that depends on the profits made by the givers to exist.
Dictionary definitions and language use in practice do not always overlap 100%. The true meaning of a word comes from its usage, not the dictionary.
If Sourcehut can’t interoperate with basic email, you’re right – it’s not for me.
What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics? (2012)
It’s a reasonable way to describe it. LLMs are designed to talk like humans so using human terms to describe them works quite well
I think weighting based on fundamental measures such as earnings, sales, or book value makes more sense. "Fundamental indexing" has been studied, and there are ETFs for it.

Here is a problem with equal weighting. Suppose you equally weighted stocks, and two of your companies merged. To maintain an equal weighting in all stocks you would have to sell half your position in the newly created company, which does not make sense.
Fails to start the Sussman anomaly. https://twitter.com/sg3487/status/1681374390448009216?s=20
Also, email reputation and deliverability only applies to sending email. While many of the advantages of self hosting only require receiving email - eg better control over your root of trust for account auth, different address per account to avoid your email address being used as a join key for cross-company surveillance, etc. Self hosting doesn't need to be an "all or nothing" affair. Set up your domain with whatever server setup you think you'd like and start switching account identities over to that. Then only after you've gotten comfortable running it and tested deliverability, start switching over your personal correspondence.
Why do people need LangChain or AutoChain? I don’t really get it in the first place. Genuinely want to get more information.

It seems to me that this can be easily added ad-hoc by programmers in their projects. But the biggest reason I see may be standardization of some kind? For interoperable building blocks maybe
Ask HN: What is a “dev advocate” and do you work with one at all?
I'm curious what this role entails and curious if anyone has firsthand information? I don't work with one and am curious, thanks!
Absolutely. Maybe Louisiana and Oregon DMV hacks?
Just look up the hospitalization and death rates for folks vaccinated and not. It is stark in difference.

I had what was probably covid early on. Was like the time I got pneumonia. Asthma attacks in my youth were comparable, if much shorter lived. Getting a positive test case later was something that gave me a fever for a few hours. Scary, due to circumstances. But I was back up and moving in basically no time.
It depends, many cars put things like windshield wipers behind a touch menu, which I'd argue is a security-relevant feature when you drive your car into sudden heavy rain at 120 km/h. It seems to depend more on what's regulated, and less on what makes sense.
I look forward to the day Cisco is a niche product and networking is just a general opensource appliance. I've never experienced a good TAC engineer, their new auto license renewal systems randomly have brought me down. I just don't see the value of Cisco increasing in the future. Maybe it will got he way of IBM and just keep existing.