skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bees select their next queens at random. They treat them literally royally and it grows to be a big wise queen and they are loyal to her.

Maybe humans are more like other eusocial animals, and things like merit and equality are a comforting charade.
They may send killers just for you. For example, they are killing Holodomor researchers around the world (genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-1934: 25 millions were starved to death, 20 millions are recorded as Russian, millions were killed or executed).
It's not quite the same thing, but the "mixture of experts" model is a popular deep learning approach that displays very good performance: see e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02813
Wow, that's inconvenient. Seems like a courthouse/prison
Ask HN: How do I exploit a windfall of leverage at work?
Suddenly have a ton of leverage at work. Like everyone else, our company cut spending and laid off half of my backend team. At the same time, we pivoted to make LLMs and generative AI the core product of the company (yes, there's a hype bubble). I'm the only person in the company of 400 or so that is the SME on generative AI, and by a long shot.

I'm designing our entire AI strategy and implementing all of our features, soup to nuts, the whole enchilada: vector databases, prompt engineering/evaluation, RHLF feedback collection, chatbots, conversation state, proprietary content recommendation, agents, etc. VPs are reportedly very pleased with my performance.

I typically just keep my head down, but find myself suddenly a very high-leverage employee.

My goals are to soak up all of the experience I can shipping this stuff, but to take advantage of the moment and earn as much money as possible.

What are some different ways to play this situation?
“It makes Draw Things faster than Apple’s ML Stable Diffusion, especially on the more powerful chips. Draw Things is now the fastest SD implementation in existence for Apple platforms.”

https://github.com/philipturner/metal-flash-attention/issues...
Local laws have more effect on 99% of people than any scotus decision. And I doubt that your local government is composed of Harvard grads.
Where are you in the UK that you can get 300 but not gigabit? AIUI, you’ve either got Openreach FTTC (caps out at 80mbps), Openreach FTTH (1gbps), Virgin (1gbps) or various alt nets (usually 1gbps)
Apparently the original vi isn't POSIX compliant; nor is vim.
https://vimhelp.org/vi_diff.txt.html#posix

I think "if the script worked before, I want it to work later" has much more practical weight. Though, on the other side of practicality, I've heard sed, awk, and perl suggested for manipulating text in bash scripts far more than I've heard of vi recommended for the task.
That is really cool, thanks for sharing! I really like the intro guitar riff trill thing.
We've already established that hypersonic > supersonic. I think a hypermarket is bigger than a supermarket. In protein structure, a hyperfamily is bigger than a superfamily.

I've never heard of an ultrasonic aeroplane, an ultramarket, or an ultrafamily. So those must be bigger yet?
Seems there's also a similar .com one
> Lol. Based on chats with a buddy that [still] work there, in [most] a lot of buildings they have a system sort of like the subway. Swipe, door open, you pass through, door close. There isba sensor that can tell if you went in. You also swipe in and out of the building. So not only they know you were there, they know for how long.

Could you swing a backpack through to fool the sensor? But it's sounding like fooling it would be way to attention-grabbing to work.
It seems like if something doesn’t affect you personally, you don’t have any overriding sense of fairness regarding what’s clearly a separate academic and career track for elites.
Dbt Cloud announces a change from seat-based to consumption-based pricing
There’s definitely a Marxist undertone to the whole thing. What I really don’t get is the conclusion which suggests tearing it all down. Why not build more “Ivy+” and attempt to lift others up rather than flip the table? Yeah, it’s a tall order, but much more practical (not to mention positive) than getting rid of top schools.
Neovim's adoption has been incredible. Virtually every major vimscript plugin has either been ported or overtaken by a Lua-native alternative in the Neovim ecosystem.
Emergent phenomenon can also produce "laws of nature". For example, the laws of thermodynamics are explained by statistical mechanics.
I fully agree with your point about time being the heaviest cost - and if you are a person that equates time with money (not every person can transform their time into a lot of money), then yes, it's also expensive in raw dollars. However, for some people in occupations who don't pay a lot, kids aren't THAT expensive in raw dollars, at least in the US South.
Their search results are declining rapidly in quality. "<SEARCH QUERY> reddit" is one of their most common searches. Their results are filled with SEO spam and bots now.

At some point a competitor will emerge. The tech crowd will notice it and begin to use it. Then it will go widespread.
No. The problem is in a reduction op of some sort (sum or whatever). Since there no guarantee of the order you receive the terms for the reduction, the nondeterminism enters from order of terms reduced. Since float math isn't associative, there will be slight differences depending on the order and these can amplify quickly over a deep net.

You would have to explicitly order the terms prior to reduction but you don't always have that level of control.
Putin spokesman’s daughter as assistant to French Member of European Parliament https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/25/daughter-putin-s...
That's so sweet! Thank you for the kind words!!
Netflix and Google (YouTube) are commercial entities that ISPs will intentionally throttle. Reduce the bandwidth for all Netflix servers to 5mbps and suddenly you're stuck watching at 480p or 720p, even if the connection can handle multiple 4k streams.

This is abused for "unlimited data" subscriptions that aren't unlimited when you actually try to consume more data than a standard subscription would allow you to. Of course that's completely illegal in countries with net neutrality laws, but not every country has those.

I can't think of a reason why a shitty ISP would throttle Cloudflare, as Cloudflare mostly hosts small files. As an ISP you want customers to think websites are nice and fast, because if only Netflix is slow, surely the problem lies with Netflix, right?

If speedtest.net says you have gigabit, Cloudflare says the same, and fast.com is giving you 5mbps, your ISP is messing with your bandwidth. It could be that Netflix has technical issues, but you'd read about those. That's why these tests are useful, and why we need more like them.
A single computer: go fullscreen with all your apps [video]
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I'm curious how representative the target function is? I get that it is common for you to want a model to learn the important pieces of an input, but a string of bits, and only caring about the first three, feels particularly contrived. Literally a truth table on relevant parameters of size 8? And trained with 4.8 million samples? Or am I misunderstanding something there? (I fully expect I'm misunderstanding something.)
Visual programming of state machines is always better. However, the biggest problem I've found isn't necessarily the state machine code generation, it's that the actions and guards often have custom code written within them that depend on other hand written code. Making sure that they can be tracked by the generating application is difficult.
This annoys me to no end! There _IS_ good bread in the US too.

You just need to ignore the bread aisle of supermarkets!
Same. I think it's a mix of that and this "presenter voice" everyone thinks they have to use. My ADHD brain doesn't focus on it well because it's too slow so it's useless to me but all my life I've been told when presenting I should speak slowly and articulately while the reality is that watching anyone speak that way drives me nuts
At one point in history, it was a law of nature that a substantial portion of children will die at very early ages. Up to that point, it was basically universally true across space and time. We changed that law of nature.

There are lots of “laws of nature” we face today that people dare to hope can be changed, like war. I think peace is a good goal even if you could somehow prove it’s in our nature to fight.
I know it's terminal graphics but is it possible to improve the piano keyboard graphic? Just wondering.
Your layout is broken in everything but Chrome.
Or we take a step back to turboconductors.
> This is a typical "let's be all equally poor/bad" argument.

I think you missed the point of the article, which was "Harvard exists to make society less meritocratic, and it does that while subsidized by everyone else."

> Because selecting good people in a sea of resumes is HARD. Degrees aren't amazing proxies for productivity, but they are decent proxies.

The author discusses this: "The hardest part of Harvard is getting in." "High-stakes college admissions means that much of the value of a college degree is determined before students even start college. If you must mark and sort young people, gross, but OK. But why do it at 18 rather than 22?"

On a personal note, I was accepted to an Ivy League school (though not Harvard) as a high school senior, but my family couldn't afford to send me there, so I had to go to a state school instead. My classmate and friend was accepted to MIT but also had to go to a state school because of money. This was decades ago, so perhaps things have changed recently, but my higher education was gated on my family's wealth, i.e., lack thereof. Was it a "meritocracy"? No fucking way.
>One "meta feature" that was dropped was the ability to build the editor with or without different features. vim --version shows a long list of +/- features, neovim doesn't do that.

What's wrong with all features enabled by default?

> I'm sure neovim dropped a lot but I don't have the full overview.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html

>Prominently it dropped support for giving !commands access to the actual tty. Commands that access the tty have to be used through the command :term instead.

Why would you run an interactive command with `:!` ?
Yeah but imagine a future where everyone just learns directly from AI as they're developing. We know it's wrong because our parents/guardians etc. told us it would be dangerous. I can see a future in a few generations where everything is learned through some AI "teacher" that people just decide is trustworthy. Once you get parents that were raised on AI, they won't know enough to teach their kids it's wrong either.

Maybe natural selection and instant death would be enough to stop that though.
this is weird revisionism .. Apple's dollar volume many multiples of Adobe. It was Adobe that was in scarcity mode. It was MSFT that was crushing things left and right. I think Apple behaved like predatory jerks in MSFT-envy at times, but the reality it complicated.
Reasoning is abstracted from particulars. So in principle what it needs to learn is a finite set of rules. There are good reasons that explain why current LLMs don't learn arithmetic and has odd failure modes: it's processing is feed-forward (non-recursive) with a fixed computational budget. This means that it in principle cannot learn general rules for arithmetic which involve unbounded carrying. But this is not an in principle limitation for LLMs or gradient descent based ML in general.
Yes. We've launched multiple production instances of this across a handful of clients. In general humans using the new workflows show very significant performance and quality improvements over unassisted humans so far for the well-defined tasks the workflows are tailored to perform.
I would love to see the two computer approach be more widespread. I think "one computer per desk" is a major mental hangup. Computers cost a fraction of what they used to compared to salaries and we still insist on a 1:1 ratio.
That fails to address the main thrust of TFA: even if Harvard were to be purely objective in its admissions, it would be anti-meritocratic because of the boost of the credentials and the imperfections in any gating function.
Not enrolling work devices into IT policies actually goes against your encouragement to separate your work/cloud client and a 2nd computer/non-work things.

Having rigid boundaries encourages this separation, and I don't mean overly strict IT policies. I think you can easily allow people to listen to their music apps and watch netflix, without opening the floodgates for games that require kernel level anticheat.

IT policies should be as simple as possible, even an app whitelist coupled with preconfigured browser is plenty. You wouldn't even need to monitor them at all this way.
Or psychedelics. Or intermittent fasting. Or ...
Cardboard provides insoluble fiber (and binding agents);

How does one differentiate between cardboard ground in a smoothie and metamucil/glucomannan?

Carboard's nutritional profile might even be better than many processed carbs (pasta, rice) when considering the fiber.

Or that cellulose is a top ingredient to keep things like powdered parmesan cheese dry?
Why not tackle inequality earlier in the funnel than college admissions? Better primary schooling and family resources?

A college admission lottery doesn't seem to be a serious solution.
The Enlightenment Fraud of Zen Master Rama [video]
Use the playground and it will work a lot better. I gave it about 500 tokens and it got to the end.

> Write SVG code to make a basic diagram of a cell showing structures such as the nucleus, ribosomes, and mitochondria.

Here's a very basic example of SVG code to represent a cell that includes structures like the nucleus, ribosomes, and mitochondria:

```svg
<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<!-- The entire cell -->
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="100" style="fill:#FF9999;" />
...
```
The existence of billionaires and millionaires negatively affects everyone else's standard of living via gentrification. Imagine you live in a community of 1000 middle class people, all making, say, $30K/yr to $60K/yr. You make $45K/year so you're about average. You can all afford homes, goods, and so on. Suddenly, 10 millionaires move in. Housing prices start to rise a little bit, grocery stores get a little more upscale and more expensive, car dealers see $$$ and jack up their prices. Then, a billionaire moves in. The market responds again. Suddenly, you're not doing so good anymore, despite earning the same as you were before the millionaires moved in. Now scale that up country-wide or world-wide. The more wealthy people there are, the higher the average cost of everything.
> You can't start a tax-exempt country club.

Uh... Sure you can? This is literally section 501(c)7; private clubs in general are exempt from federal income taxation.
As an adult child of alcohol and drug addicted parents, I can say that the interplay of empathy and anger for a parent with a destructive mental illness is a pretty complicated and personal thing.
So, what can we actually do about this? The EFF doesn't mention anyone we can talk to. Are we all just waiting around for Google to do it or is there something we can do to raise awareness or campaign against google?
> The top schools can be pretty darn great

I've seen research suggesting that the schools aren't necessarily great, the students are. They were already great which is how they passed the admissions criteria, and their career success can be attributed to the qualities that they arrived at e.g. Harvard with. They would have been as successful regardless of where they attended. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Camping pasta: Have Swiss egg helix pasta, exactly the right amount of water, some bouillon powder, triple concentrated tomato paste, pepper and a dash of cream. Cook till soaked up (takes 10 minutes). Serve with slices of gruyère.

(This is sacrilegous but done right it tastes very good and is simple to cook, you need only one pot and it is done quickly even on camping gas.)
I think employees should also have a law in their favor stating that once they badge out of office at 5 pm, their laptop is locked completely.

This will make all attendance reasonable.
> When I visit older relatives who are childless (at least to me) their lives come off as hollow and sad.

My grandfather willingly moved to Florida, away from the family. We'd be expected to visit for holidays, of course, but he wanted to play tennis in the sun.
Your cellphone's 4G connection might be fast enough to handle a 4K stream, but there isn't enough RF spectrum to handle 500 devices in the same block trying to stream 4K. That's why you still need physical internet connections.
> Harvard is simply a private institution with excellent reputation

It used to.

Now when I see someone went to Harvard, I imagine they had rich parents or were part of Affirmative Action. Not to mention their cheating scandals and forged data.

Heck, I talked to a Harvard law grad last week and asked them for specific points on their speech and they had no follow up, they regurgitated. This was no AAA student, this was someone that benefited from Affirmative Action + had 2 physician parents.

Harvard in the modern age hasnt impressed me.
That I in fact, DO have ADHD, and that's at least part of the reason I failed so miserably in high school, couldn't finish college, and struggle to finish tasks at work despite feeling highly motivated.

Not only that, treatment is working for me.
Lil Wayne, imo, is another of the all time greats when it comes to rhyme. See:

"Six Foot Seven Foot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcRBUd_gJBg

"Sportcenter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOfOnTFA_M
How color management works.
Do you know if Euclid will be able to collect this data after Gaia dies?
Getting clear prices for hospital care could get easier under a proposed rule
Assume that something is true, write code to generate cases, run it, plot the generated data, expect that the plots show that everything matches the assertion, notice it doesn't, disprove the thing previously considered true.

Nice and elegant.
A lot of these responses seem to think that Harvard is better to go to because the education is better there, which is explicitly if lightly addressed in the article.

The article's thesis is that the benefit of going to Harvard is mostly derived from just from having gone to Harvard irrespective of the education itself. That could accrue just from the credential, or from the enormous and powerful social and support networks that graduates benefit from.
> "lets all be poor"

As the parent of two exceptionally-achieving children who were rejected from the "elite" colleges - I've become a lot more sympathetic to the mindset behind this line of thinking. My kids literally couldn't have done more or tried harder - since kindergarten - than they did. They both graduated valedictorian with perfect GPAs, scored in the top 99% of the SAT, did sports, did clubs, volunteered, worked, studied... and when they applied to the ivy's, they didn't even get waitlisted. When I see that somebody like, say, Jared Kushner graduated from Harvard... yeah, it makes me mad. I'm mad on behalf of my two kids who tried so hard for so long.

But - I don't really see a "solution" besides some sort of "populist revolt" _against_ these "elite" institutions. The solution is - just stop assigning so much importance to colleges like Harvard. This isn't Harvard's problem, it's all of us that are doing it.
I live in a non US country so we can for once have the counterfactual, as for us harvard does not exist.

I have worked in an environment where {maths degrees} really did seem to matter. An organization set up by people with {maths degrees} where other people with {maths degrees} 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 zero role in my leaving that organization.

Maybe the problem is that maths degrees exist.
I started using LaTeX, Vim and Emacs this year. Steep learning curve but so worth it, especially Vim. Thank you, Bram!
Suddenly, Mars Is Spinning Faster. No One Knows Why
>The hardest part of Harvard is getting in.

This is always such an interesting argument people make when nearly every 'next step' after undergrad is more selective than Ivy League schools.

Tier-1 Tech/Banking/Consulting/Law School/Med School all reject plenty of people from Harvard because they didn't do a good enough job there. Plenty of Harvard grads languish.

It's true that getting a degree is simple once you're in, but doing something with it still has capability-based gates.
I keep a hard card in my safe next to my property titles, and other important paper work that has my bitwarden master password on it. From there who ever processes my estate should have no problems accessing everything
Starlink already announced they're working with various telcos around the world to support mobile-via-satellite in a more handset vendor agnostic way.
Ok. I was mislead by this, which appears as the first element of a carousel every time you load the Zenodo landing page:

"Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) is a $40 million, 5-year mission, led by NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Open-Source Science initiative. Within the TOPS mission, NASA is designating 2023 as the Year Of Open Science, a community initiative to spark change and inspire open science...
Curated by: nasatransformtoopen"
That's a common mechanism to achieve generalization, but the term is a little more general (heh) than that. It specifically refers to correctly handling data that lives outside the distribution presented by the training data.

It's a description of a behavior, not a mechanism. Which may or may not be appropriate depending on whether you are talking about *what* the model does or *how* it achieves it.
Hierarchies in society get stronger, deeper, and more complex the larger the societies are. There is a function to hierarchy, it doesn't exist for its own sake. In small groups those hierarchies are not as useful so they aren't as pronounced.

Think of the neural complexity required for an amoeba to navigate with flagella vs a fly to navigate with wings. Even the fly's complexity is dwarfed by, say, the neural complexity of an elephant's control of his trunk. And that pales in comparison to the neural complexity required to get a spacecraft into orbit.

Complex behavior requires complex systems and complex systems require the simplicity that hierarchies provide.
> It also suggests that focusing on a rewarding task takes a great deal of energy, and that it may be something that can be improved, especially in individuals with attention deficits

So, to get the reward you have to spend energy first, and this energy expenditure is greater than you spend on other tasks (that will not provide rewards). And if you tweak that equation (a very small and instantaneous reward that doesn't require energy - like infinite scroll in some social media), focus goes out the window.
Same thing. Not sure why everyone is obsessed with the speed argument. Reducing cognitive load is the goal. How do you do that - with vim or something else like snippets or copilot or just muscle-memorying ctrl/shift-arrow motion is up to you.

Asking why people prefer vim is like asking why they prefer skateboard over rollers. You’re proficient at what you learned the most. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that every tool has its limits, so choose what you’re going learn from that perspective as well.