skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cosign, with extreme prejudice. We went through this with AutoGPT.

I see two camps, people quietly working, and people working on grandiose ideas from the initial rush that make good headlines but not good products.

Some informal warning signs I use subconciously:

- "paper" on Arxiv, and its about prompt engineering

- agent_S_

- state machine where the LLM is eating its own output repeatedly

- LLM makes decisions based on its own output.

There's 100x more alpha in the obvious stuff because even that's not well-implemented or shared widely. Ex. people are still stuck on hallucinations 90% of the time: an obvious way to handle that is doc retrieval.

Last n.b.: in 2021 I was frustrated with ~100% of models being behind locked doors. Then, I saw how GPT3.0 was working and evolving. My mantra became "products not papers." Maybe that applies downstream of the LLM now.
> I just don't think enough attention has been paid to the data, and too much the model.

I wholly agree. Everyone is blinded by models - GPT4 this, LLaMA2 that - but the real source of the smarts is in the dataset. Why would any model, no matter how its architecture is tweaked, learn about the same ability from the same data? Why would humans be all able to learn the same skills when every brain is quite different. It was the data, not the model

And since we are exhausting all the available quality text online we need to start engineering new data with LLMs and validation systems. AIs need to introspect more into their training sets, not just train to reproduce them, but analyse, summarise and comment on them. We reflect on our information, AIs should do more reflection before learning.

More fundamentally, how are AIs going to evolve past human level unless they make their own data or they collect data from external systems?
I suspect it varies by case, and expands if you try to analyze too much and wade into what may be rationalization after the fact. People don't always plan their actions logically, but come up with (sometimes plausible) explanations as part of coping.

I think some (much?) hoarding is driven by a basic emotional loop that seems adjacent to agorophobia. Acting on an impulse to gather things around and live in the resulting "warren" seems to give them comfort.

In hoarders in my family, I've also seen something like the "self delusion" you mentioned. They fail to acknowledge the time-varying value of most things, decay processes, negative externalities, or sometimes even opportunity costs. They almost seem to think they can avoid realizing a loss by never disposing of an item. Kind of a HODL (hold on for dear life) investment plan applied to material objects.
The problem with AI is its name.

Artificial Inteligence implies that its intelligent and currently, its not - its just a computer program, with all the foibles and difficulties of any other computer program.

I run into this problem in my day job, yes, it looks like an appliance, but its still a computer and may need to be rebooted, you still need to practice good hygiene with it, and restart the application and or the operating system.

People have no compunction about restarting their PC, and do not get upset when Excel has an issue, but they panic when the thing they think of as an appliance freaks out. Just reboot it, and let me know if it happens again in the same way.
>The lack of effectiveness and usefulness of these agents has been shown time and over.

Has it ?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02485

The first one doesn't even use GPT-4
Austria is the lobbying arm and safe heaven of Russian banks, oil & gas and oligarchs in the EU, and vice versa, Austrian banks and companies are heavily invested in Russia, and you don't just get to be a major investor in Russia without the bribes, connections and blessing of some very high up people in the government.

Pretty sure plenty of German politicians were similarly cozy with Russia before.
That stacking stimulants is the wrong approach...instead stack weak stimulants along with herb MAO inhibitors to optimize output.

My bias is that I have ADHD with anxiety mixed in. Best way to describe is that if one takes Adderall one gets a push pull effect where you are in focus robot mode whereas with this approach its a focus mode with whole environment awareness without the uncomfortable push pull effects.
I learned to lose weight by eating more fat.
The son of a KGB agent and oligarch is a British lord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev
If you’re getting rid of things compulsively and it’s causing you anxiety/stress/shame, yes. The disordered behavior is how it impacts your mental health, not how others observe the validity of the behavior.
My favourite tidbit for when someone brings 'less than Italy hur dur':

Italy: Size of the labor force from 2014 to 2024: ~23M

Number of pensioners in Russia from 2012 to 2022: ~44M

Italy population? ~58M

There are almost twice as many pensioners in Russia than people in the labour force in Italy and it's 2/3 of the whole Italy population. The whole GDP comparison here is moot.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275312/labor-force-in-it...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093953/number-of-retire...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy
I feel like I've said the same thing here 3-4 times now, but for some of us it's about what's the most minimal setup required to use the tool. As a sysadmin, I want to be used to the most common tools and configurations that will be on a server without having to take the time to install something new. I could include NeoVim in my Ansible configs for setting up new servers, but generally servers are kept lean so I would rather just use vi/vim for basic edits anyway.

I do use NeoVim with a lightly-customized LazyVim setup on my personal desktop, but I don't use it much differently than I use Vim at the moment. I'm not a power-user, just someone who's comfortable enough with the keybinds that I leave :w everywhere when using a non-vi editor.
Minecraft Bukkit plugins are basically the wildwest. It's really hard to tell if something is intentional or not. I remember many years ago trying to find a motd (message of the day) plugin that would just display a message when you joined the server.

I found one that was simple enough, but it would ping home to check if there were any updates as well. Now it could have been just the developer trying to add a useful feature, but the cynic in me believes it's so that they could get IP addresses of the servers running the plugin.

It also had a debug command that wasn't authenticated that let you print the contents of any motd file in a folder. Except it didn't escape strings properly, so you could `../...` to escape out of that directory and print any file.

I have no idea if the author actually exploited this, or if they were a naive 14 year old writing their first plugin. If they were trying to exploit, I don't know which file they were going to print the contents of, but it definitely made me very suspicious.
That I can survive being laid off.

That emotionally, it won't crush me to find out my company decided I was in the 20% that wasn't needed anymore. That financially, my family can get by if I spend 11 weeks unemployed. That I can accept a job that pays significantly less than I used to make.

I really did think that the entire experience was going to leave me the empty shell of my former self, that the mental toll would leave me severely depressed, and that my world would be shattered. None of that happened. I had a great summer.

My exciting discovery is that I no longer define myself purely in terms of my career.
> A lot of places have badge in and out readers nowadays. Bolted in during pandemic to "help make sure we don't have too many people in the office for safety." Kept because of course it was kept.

I've been joking with my coworkers that we should pool our badges, and just rotate one person who goes in and swipes everyone's badges in, works a day, then swipes them out.
I remember when I saw the documentary for the first time. I was really moved and was heartbroken by his story. What an incredible person and what incredible music.
Haha. Took me a second since anesthesiologists in the Nordics generelly do not stay in the room, but keep 2-3 rooms going and have specialist nurses for monitoring.
Wait until you come to Germany and buy a bread at a bakery ;)
> Can you name off the top of your head the last 3 significant privatizations?

In the UK, privatisation of Network Rail arches (which will 'break even' for the buyers in about ten years), privatisation or TfL land in London at below-market prices to property developers, and the backdoor privatisation of NHS services through public-private partnerships.
Such a simple and great idea. Not sure if "Repeating numbers" scenario is error you want to prevent that tactic from players. I wanted to start from "1111".
That is not the definition[0]. I can see how you think it might be, but oligarchy is for governments not monopolies -- even if some cases that line is blurred.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oligarch
One may as well comment that they don't see what the big deal is with racism or with having one citizenship instead of another
I have worked in an environment where it really did seem to matter. An organization set up by Harvard folks where other Harvard folks seemed to have advantages in (a) getting in and (b) getting ahead. It wasn't ever really addressed explicitly (though "credentialism" was occasionally mentioned by others as well, I wasn't the only one who noticed). It definitely played a role in my leaving that organization.

Edit - I do feel like I should mention that the organization was improving on this front when I left.
An introduction to optimization on smooth manifolds
Related: Glenn Loury in conversation with Jay Kaspian King. "Elite Schools Only Care About Rich Kids" https://youtu.be/lC-rviti8dU
It's a discussion about motivated reasoning. Whether being happy is more important depends on your motive for what you're trying to reason out.

If you're trying to reason out how a biological system works, your emotional context seems orthogonal to achieving a useful conclusion.
It used to have excellent reputation.
How to ride a motorcycle.
Honestly, now whenever I learn about a seller being difficult on eBay, I think of this great PlanetMoney episode: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1119606931

tl;dr (partial spoiler)

* Fraudster lists Nespresso pods on eBay

* When you purchase from them, they use stolen credit card to buy from the actual Nespresso

* Why would anyone complain? Buyer gets Nespresso pods, Nespresso made a real sale, fraudster made money (what they charged the buyer minus ebay fees)

"What sort of scam gives you free stuff?"

If you have twenty minutes you should check out the whole thing.
What are the key factors in satisfying customers?
What are the key factors in satisfying customers?

It's like a recipe for a delectable dish that keeps customers coming back for more.

Here are the ingredients according to mw:

Excellent Service: Friendly, efficient, and always ready to help.

Quality Products: Consistency is the secret spice.

Clear Communication: Keep customers in the loop, address their concerns, and make sure they're in on the secret sauce.

Listen and Learn: Pay attention to feedback, be it positive or constructive. AND ALWAYS GET BACK TO THEM!!

Appreciation: Show gratitude, reward loyalty, and make customers feel valued.

What do you think?
I'm a huge WFH fan, but I don't see the problem of a company demanding 3+ or even daily attendance. It's a bad business decision IMHO, but it's simply that: a business decision. And they have the right to know if you are complying with that job requirement, it's not too different from requiring warehouse workers to lift boxes.
Yeah, didn't they find out McDonald's was making the temp so unreasonably hot that no human would even drink it at that temp? They were doing it so people didn't ask for refills as quickly and it would save money on coffee.
Many bird species.

https://asknature.org/strategy/cooperative-herding-catches-m...
Lot of ego in what you are implying.
Most "complex long form shortcuts" that Vim use are one or two keystrokes. Add an extra Escape key for switching between insert and command mode.

The "normal" Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Command/Meta shortcuts are two keystrokes as well.

I think it's a matter of preference and habit. I like not having to move my hands away from the home position of the keyboard when I'm intensely typing. Perhaps some people have much greater accuracy than I do when (for example) moving their hands to press the the arrow keys and then returning to the home position. For me, that distracts me a tiny bit having to spend brain cycles to check whether my hands are in the right spot.

Just sharing a personal anecdote.

Oh btw, why do so many people "love" Vim? It's been around for decades. I'm pretty sure unless you use Emacs, you've changed your main text editor over time. The most popular one today, VS Code, didn't exist a couple years ago. Not sure what people used before that, but IIRC no mainstream text editor was around for so long, on so many different platforms, and in such a consistent manner.

Vim has been around for 30+ years, and I've personally been using Vim for 20+. It's easy to be attached to something if it has been around for so long, and so consistently.

And also, sometimes, maybe, when a creator pours love into a product, the users can feel it. Maybe.
Share some of said recipes, you smug dog! I always want to up my pasta game.

I'm still arguing with my extending family about the amount of salt in the pasta water... baby steps
TBH, my heart fluttered a bit when I saw the 2001 keyboard pictures. It was magic when I discovered the PET in the 80s.... I was a typical disengaged teen at school up until that point, and by next summer I PAID money out of my own pocket to take a course on 6502 Assembler taught by Steve Punter on the other side of Toronto in a public library basement. Awww, exciting nostalgia shooting directly into my veins :)
> To be pedantic, Go strings are immutable and will carry different pointers to different underlying rune slices,

I wasn't thinking specifically about Go for this example, but alas Go's strings aren't trivial objects, and so this data race would be immediate UB in Go, whereupon "Susan Sarcemin" while still very unlikely is not impossible. The text (underlying rune slices? really? I guess that would be on brand but it's a bad idea) isn't getting mutated, but your string typed value is, and that is a non-trivial object.
I do this, although I have a little bit more trust in my fiber ISP. More just curious.

I also wonder how much bandwidth I am using by running all of these tests, but my ISP doesn't have any caps so I guess it doesn't matter.
"you can use it for your secrets as well"

There's that sales pitch again.

Why do Linux bootloaders have to get a blessing from Microsoft? Why does even one machine exist that has a bios that lacks the supposedly spec mandated option for the user to install their own keys? Why are there keys preloaded on every machine that the user did not provide? Why do they all come from Microsoft? And why can't the user edit or remove them? Why can't the user decide that the MS keys are invalid and that things signed by them should not be allowed to run?

There are so many ways and proofs that this tech is not what it's sales pitch claims it's not even funny.

I can understand not being aware of the underhanded aspects by simply not being aware of anything about it. I can not understand being aware of what it is and how it works, and still being OK with it and defending it as reasonable, useful, not dishonest at all, and exerting no outside _and superior_ control over what is supposed to be the users own property and actions and associations.

They graciously, most of the time, allow you to also store some keys of your own in their vault they caused to be placed on your machine even if you didn't want it? How magnanimous and generous of them!
I'm a new parent this year and I was not mentally prepared for it (lol is anyone?)

For a few months, I regretted my decision to have kids almost constantly. It gnawed on me. Then I stumbled upon the regretfulparents subreddit. Seeing the posts was pitiful. I saw how destructive it is to our psyches to carry around regret and let it wear us down. I cringed seeing the posts, mostly because I felt the same way they did, and man it does not look pretty. I do not want to be like the people on that subreddit. It almost disgusted me

I remember when I was younger I always said I don't regret anything I do. I seem to have forgotten that mantra, so I picked it back up

I no longer regret being a parent. I still don't enjoy it the majority of the time. But it is what it is. There's no point of drowning myself in my own mental garbage when life is trying to drown me already.

So what I (re)learned is not to live with regret, and sometimes shared suffering can remind me that it's really not that bad and I don't need to force suffering on myself for no reason
Ask HN: How do you host your side projects?
I'm looking for suggestions on how to host a react app with a python backend and a DB without too much hassle.
Afaik weight decay is inspired from L2 regularisation which goes back to linear regression where L2 regularisation is equivalent to having gaussian prior on the weights with zero mean.

Note that L1 regularisation produces much more sparsity but it doesn't perform as well.
There have been several studies finding no benefit from going to “top” schools when controlling for student quality. So the entire premise is false.
I can tell you right now that if I found out I was a patient of one of your doctor friends whose medical information was shared, even anonymized, with their friend circle for a laugh I'd be furious and looking for heads to roll.

That abject hubris of that is astounding.
70 years? I wish I was living in that Europe
>Data shows prices have probably decreased since you were born

Then I was mistaken. Apologies.
Actually they are very credible; pretty much objective facts.

Putin’s inner circle spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, had his daughter Elizaveta as an assistant to the far-right Aymeric Chauprade, a French Member of the European Parliament.[0]

You will see “coincidentally” similar connections across major western powers like the UK, US, Germany, and Italy.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/25/daughter-putin-s...
Curated Transformers: MosaicMPT LLM decoder in 90 lines
I totally agree that Harvard has (and should have) a right to do whatever they want with their institution and admit whoever they see fit.

But if we're serious about a liberal/conservative "equality of opportunity" vs a progressive/socialist "equality of outcome" reality, then we should consider that children have very little consent over the kind of education and familial upbringing they get, yet that childhood education and familial upbringing has profound implications as to whether they can get admitted to a school like Harvard or not.

If we're serious about equality of opportunity society, then we should take a lottery admissions policy for young adults seriously. But it's fine if you don't care about equality at all, at least be explicit about it.
There should be a search engine penalty for loquacious copy.

I want the most succinct result possible when I search the web.
My 3D Tetris of choice is Tetrisphere; partly because it was the first game that really got me into Tetris.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrisphere
I'm old[school], so if I'm at the windows command prompt and need to bust out a quick batch file or script I will do "copy con foo.bat" instead of using notepad or vscode. Old habits die hard!
Bitcoiners have been thinking about this storage problem for a decade now. Secure electronic devices in faraday cages and tamper and water proof bags or engraved steel plates (possibly cut up and distributed) seem to be the way to go for storing small bits of extremely valuable information.

Or of course you can use multiple key storage techniques and have a 2 out of 3 or more type setup. It all depends on how valuable the information is.
To activate the sauna steam button in my local swimming pool, you actually have to pour water over it. It's not a push button like I thought.
This reads like another Arsvertisement.
I'd probably also say "no problem I don't think I ever worked a 40 hour week in my life"...
What do you fire? Actual blunderbuss balls?
The level of detail is very nice, I wish more tools exposed this as easily.

That said, please remember this is a test of you through your ISP to a (hopefully) nearby Cloudflare node. It isn't necessarily testing 'the Internet', since Cloudflare sometimes has creative peering relationships to origins that are not being measured here.

Also, for the people complaining they only have 300 Mb/s -- unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies there is nothing faster about having more bandwidth. You should care about latency, packet loss, and cache hit rate.
Apple Metal Flash Attention
I receive warnings by SMS. It seems to work fine if there is some storm danger.

During covid Taiwan IIRC from an interview with Audrey Tang also used SMS with great results.
> It's pretty likely Harvard has had an impact on your life in a lot of ways because a lot of people who govern you went there.

And, in addition, because at least presently, anyone who didn't do Ivy+ is essentially never going to be a SCOTUS judge.

The obvious objection is that given there are only 9 justices at a time, essentially nobody is ever going to be a SCOTUS judge anyway.

But that misses the important gating function (as TFA puts it) which begins with Ivy+ schools. Yes, the chance that you or your neighbor will ever be a SCOTUS justice is essentially zero. But the 9 have to come from somewhere, and the current process essentially guarantees that they must have passed through Ivy+. It's far from clear that this is desirable.

Now notice that the same issue applies to the other fields showing massive Ivy+ over-representation.

As TFA says, maybe a gating function is required (sometimes), but the justification for it operating at 18 and not later (22, or later still) is weak to non-existent.
> It's our job to know what we're doing, so we should have admin too.

Nope.

Engineers and programmers are the most-likely source of "I know what I'm doing so I can run it this way" and you end up with things like NFS running on systems that haven't been bounced in over 300 days and can't be updated because someone used sudo to break yum.

No one gets admin unless they explicitly need it. Period. Because while you may actually know what you're doing, most programmers haven't the slightest inkling about safe computing practices, based on experience.
Now imagine how much even more safe you’d all be if you were riding on a train, and those youths were harmlessly racing each other on bikes on a nearby separated bike path.
Learned how far I can push myself physically and mentally in my first Ultra Cycling event (2400km).

Not sure I'll do another one, but it was a good experience and at at an age where performance will start decreasing from here. I need to do a write-up.
I also believe I may have some form of ADHD, and I find this self-optimization idea where people start taking drugs to optimize their productivity a bit dangerous. Keep in mind that productivity for your job isn't everything that makes you yourself. I know quite a few people who took ADHD medication and became super good at their job at the cost of everything fun including their personal life. Sometimes it might also be OK to tell yourself "It's okay I am not as productive as person XYZ, it's not because I am lazy but because I have ADHD".
Serious question: how is neovim “heavier” than vim?
This content is not on the internet. Can I also submit links to any local site that requires a subscription in order to view the article? Or does this specific site get an exception?