skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
L1 drops weights to zero, L2 biases towards Gaussianality.

It's not always relearning lessons or people entirely blindly trying things either, many researchers use the underlying math to inform decisions for network optimization. If you're seeing that, then that's probably a side of the field where people are newer to some of the math behind it, and that will change as things get more established.

The underlying mathematics behind these kinds of systems are what has motivated a lot of the improvements in hlb-CIFAR10, for example. I don't think I would have been able to get there without sitting down with the fundamentals, planning, thinking, and working a lot, and then executing. There is a good place for blind empirical research too, but it loses its utility past a certain point of overuse.
For what it's worth, the Apollo program only had one bespoke launch vehicle, the Saturn V. Mercury used the Redstone (for sub-orbital flights) and Atlas, and Gemini the Titan, all of which were developed as ballistic missile platforms.
If you refer to nextflow,the syntax is basically groovy
Wouldn't the exposed nerves make the pain of "brain freeze" more likely?

Anyway, the relationship of tonsils and ice cream was established by Richard Scarry in "What do people do all day?" [0]

0. https://books.google.com/books?id=tuqKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45
Played The Band's Academy of Music performance [0] last night when I got the news. It's right up there with The Last Waltz. Great and timeless music. Hell some of my favorite Grateful Dead performances were covers of his music. RIP Robbie. Enjoy your weekends fellow heady folks (~);)

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtcW2LqveU&list=OLAK5uy_khf...
> I think it's just a difference in billing calculation

Agree. It feels like an actuary ran some numbers and found that high I/O customers spend more on other AWS services and are more profitable than low I/0 tenants, so they changed the formula to reduce churning those high I/0 tenants.
Google's Fuchsia is still the best bet for a genuinely new OS that may at least find a niche.

Capability-based microkernels have been exciting research projects for decades, and Google has apparently made one that achieves acceptable performance, which was a significant challenge.
Try creating a value in a SharePoint choice column that has ;# in it, and you might not be so certain this isn't being done because MS don't trust their own code.
One way to view the use of LLMs is by purpose or intended outcome. Some examples include:

* A user has in their brain a definite statement, thought, or concept they wish to translate to words-on-the-page. They use an LLM to explore different ways to express that definite statement/thought/concept.

* A user has a question they then pose to the LLM, hoping that the LLM's answer is truthful/not-truthful/funny/interesting/etc.

* A user has a vague idea of something they may want to say and poses the question to an LLM to explore the infinite ways the answer could mutate.

* etc. etc.

LLMs have many possible uses and their effectiveness varies with the use and output requirements.

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Back to the article: I'm reminded of an interesting split in the woodworking world between "hand toolers" and "power toolers." In the end, both camps may arrive at the exact same output but individuals can sometimes seem fanatical as to the correct/true/authentic/efficient/better method.
RIP. Recently heard this interview with him, telling a story not actually about himself, but still revealing a lot about himself and what making blues music was like at that time.

Robbie Robertson Talks About Sonny Boy Williamson (Language Warning) https://youtu.be/90-O6c20PLk
Ultimately where this matters is if one party contests the validity of a contract. I'm not sure how it works in the EU, but in the US that would mean a court would ultimately make that decision. To that end, they could decide that two people agreeing in an email thread is enough. It's all about your risk appetite.

However, notice that Google has not said they are compliant with any regulation.
The content of that comment says a lot though - they will continue to ghost him/her, won't provide any feedback.
Does it only do Casks, or CLI apps as well?
I’ve seen them air ship my cheap crap from China to USA for “free.” I thought I read it was a national subsidy/strategy but can’t find article now. Maybe economic warfare? Can’t see how flying my $10 order of giant plastic balls is economic.

Not the one I was looking for but somewhat related: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/contributor-content/articl...
Coding is not art, it is a learned and trained skill.

Even though, I believe that the use of ChatGPT or any other AI assistant will eventually lead to the creation of inexperienced and unskilled generations of developers.

Using AI to generate "art" will just kill human creativity. Not only will it do that, it will create a new normal, where this AI art will be viewed as standard. Just as we currently have an over-monetized, synthetic music industry completely devoid of quality.
An interesting article on Singapore's drug executions, with acknowledgement of how unfair it is: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwvqd/singapore-drug-execut...
This was an informal thing for a long time, but I didn't know that there's now an actual certificate. I may have to go back and request mine retroactively.
A great many of their killed products ended up being merged/evolved into other ones (Duo into Meet). A great many more weren't even "killed"; over the past 20 years their in-gmail chat program has evolved from Talk to Hangouts, and then from Hangouts to Chat. It has kept the same chat history throughout the past 20 years, but "killed by google" lists Talk and Hangouts as two killed products.
I encourage you to read the book “Madeline” for more information on this phenomenon.
My alma mater tried calling me for money. I asked the poor student on the phone how much he was being paid. He wasn't. So I asked him why I would want to pay more to a building that had already extracted a huge amount of money for not much gain.

They must be targeting 60 year old boomers with rose-tinted nostalgia of their youth.

The amount of waste and prioritization of administration goals over actual teaching and research turned me off from ever contributing back.
Summarized: ChatGPT = bad. It will turn creativity into a worthless commodity.

But take note: AI agents are tools. Complex tools. Tools with a personality.

Right now, they're dumb. They're crude. They appear simple. But they won't stay that way.

If you happen to be a lonely hacker toiling away in a basement somewhere: brace yourself for having a group of AI tools / friends. Each with a personality of its own that may be simpler than humans, comparable, or even exceed humans. They may become companions for life, in one form or another.

Such AI companions may guide you through a dark or difficult period in life. Or you may lead a team of them into a great victory ("victory" is up to you to define). Creative geniuses in their own right. Producing works of incredible beauty or elegance. Provide deep insights. Advance science. Or even be funnier than best conversation with humans you've ever had. One of them may just keep your fridge stocked with your favourites.

Just... not yet. Hence the "ChatGPT = bad". Yes, those crude AI's will work to enshittify the internet for a while (and probably be quite good at that). Among other things. But be patient. That's not the final state of affairs.
This year I learned of Nigel Slater's Lazy Loaf recipe which is basically an Irish soda bread. It's bread, but without the faff of yeast, rising, punching down, proving.
Art, at least how I understand it, is about sharing emotions and experiences. We know artists (as opposed to programmers) because we are curious about the person that put a part of themselves into the thing that evoked some emotion in us or gave us an interesting experience.

Software can be a tool to create art (games for example), but mostly it's about problem solving. Sometimes creative problem solving, sure. But listening to a machine generated song is like the ultimate soulless A/B tested local maximum entertainment whose only goal is to make money. We had enough of that without generative AI, it's not gonna get better I wager.

I don't care much who wrote the code I'm running or if it was AI generated. There's nothing human being shared there, it solves a problem, and all that really matters is that it solves the problem well.
MS Teams channel names can't contain device names*

Still incredibly sad, but not as insane as if you couldn't use the names inside a chat.
Running a side business with company resources, sending leads out to their friends or possible future employers instead of pursuing them, watching TV all day, sending mass company data / PII to their personal gmail, just straight up not doing any work... Porn hasn't come up that often surprisingly but spending time on other work inappropriate time sinks does.
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To summarize:

* Amazon requires in-office work N days a week.

* Employees agree.

* Employees don't honor the agreement.

* Amazon sends a notice that employees need to honor the agreement they made to return to office.

* Entitled employees are upset.
I’ve had numerous jobs spanning different business domains: banking, access management, multi tenant services provisioning, etl pipeline, and much more.

I was also curious enough to deep dive into a problem no matter which layer ranging from clarifying requirements of a project to debugging an application to tracing packets and troubleshooting physical hardware.

I’d say that it’s given me a very interesting and enjoyable career. and insights to almost zero in on the probable root cause on any problems as soon as someone starts to describe their issues. I’ve been able to jump into any unknown projects and debug issues and implement features.

Basic troubleshooting ability, the ability to say I don’t know right now, but I’ll be able to figure it out has paid off well financially and career wise.
> JVM is battle tested and a wonder of engineering. The Java ecosystem richness is incredible (see tooling above for monitoring and profiling for an example).

This is all true.

That said, the way I can't help but feel is: keep that entire galaxy of insane bloat two and a half million miles away from me please. :p
Indeed, it's a fully functional scripting language that is an extension of groovy. So "looks programmery" is more than a little reductive.

Edit: functional as in, it's not half-hearted, not functional as in functional programming.
Most artists make next to nothing on their art. A vanishingly small portion can live off it, and fewer uetearn well.

The number is probably higher for the elite, most renowned artists, and it might well benefit society to ensure a portion of the best can live of it, but in many places that is already hard enough that a substantial portion of the ability of even elite artists to live off their art often comes down to government funding and grants, followed by patronage that is more about status than ability to commercially exploit a work.

That's not to agree with the notion that real artists can't want money too, because I don't agree with that, but I also don't agree that most artists have made art for gain.

At least not as a primary motivator, as if gain was the main goal, it's usually a bad one (e.g. the average full time UK novelist earns below minimum wage from their writing)
I am very skeptical that doing things like producing "Competitive Quadrant Charts" (see Figure 3) is a helpful form of prompt engineering. The extremely weak ablation (Section 4.4) rings a lot of alarm bells for me also.
From what I've heard, yes. The choice is not between speaking at MIT+no honorary degree and not speaking at all; speak at MIT+no honorary degree/speak at Harvard+honorary degree -> well, could be swayed to speak at Harvard then!
Believe it or not, I think that has almost nothing to do with it. Barstool's financially weak customer base and floudering brand matter a lot more
Employees fighting unionization and refusing to negotiate with unions is disruptive. Unions themselves are not.
Part of the issue here is posting a LessWrong post. There is some good in there, but much of that site is like a Flat Earth conspiracy theory for neural networks.

Neural network training [edit: on a fixed point task, as is often the case {such as image->label}] is always (always) biphasic necessarily, so there is no "eventual recovery from overfitting". In my experience, it is just people newer to the field or just noodling around fundamentally misunderstanding what is happening, as their network goes through a very delayed phase change. Unfortunately there is a significant amplification to these kinds of posts and such, as people like chasing the new shiny of some fad-or-another-that-does-not-actually-exist instead of the much more 'boring' (which I find fascinating) math underneath it all.

To me, as someone who specializes in optimizing network training speeds, it just indicates poor engineering to the problem on the part of the person running the experiments. It is not a new or strange phenomenon, it is a literal consequence of the information theory underlying neural network training.
I don't know if it's necessary to be competitive about eulogies, but the one you posted was also touching. Thank you for posting it. The picture of Bram's GitHub contribution graph is haunting.
Something to consider: Your local government might need a warrant to spy on you, but they don't need a warrant to spy on Russia and they can get data about you like that.
My theory is that Elon was getting blazed and thought it would be cool to change the name.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing given that the previous approach was hampered so much by confusion about where the value is.

If this is a commitment to a set of source then the players can compete on ease of use, support or other stuff.
Well, all knowledge capable of modeling the natural numbers is incapable of proving every true statement, so in a sense there can be no universal axiom set.
I have computers from the 90s which I will almost certainly never touch again, but they played such a big role in my young life I can't seem to toss them.

I keep thinking I'll boot them back up one day and show my kids.
Not if the country is taken over by a military coup and they recapture all the domains, e.g. Mali.
The measured speeds are very inaccurate at times - it will often measure low on download and high on upload. Just used it and it rated my connection 277/48 on a 300/30 connection.
What a surprising RISC-V investment strategy! I mean, I can see a business case for Apple doing this, but Sammy and Intel?

Maybe they will keep buying up all the non-Chinese FAB capacity indefinitely and rely on import restrictions to keep the CCP-malware infected processors at bay.
I don't think you could. Don't those services use your phone number as your id?

They'll just block you from signing up or using the service.
Solar energy international is a great resource for learning about solar & battery system design:

https://www.solarenergy.org/
> this is a tax loophole that only people savvy enough to buy properties with LLCs can use

? Tennis is a sport that only people savvy enough to buy tennis balls can play
I know there's a lot of reasons for this, but I think weather is one of the biggest. I wonder if that ever reverses from extreme heat. Is a full month of 110+ degrees having people reconsider Arizona?
Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to clear our GitHub backlog
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

I am the very model of a modern Major-General
Bob Dylan talked about how he loved working with him because he’s the rare guitarist that had all the chops but didn’t need to show them off.

As an example, here’s a clip of him playing with Clapton. He takes over right when Clapton’s strap slips off his guitar and they go back and forth shredding.

https://youtu.be/1WDmMWF83x4

However, if you listen to him with Dylan or The Band, the guitar parts are always simple and about fitting the song.
You’re comparing someone not caring about others getting into Harvard to someone not caring about people getting lead poisoning from their water.

Can we at least agree that not envying others’ higher status is not the same moral ground as not caring about suffering?

On that note, you can’t force everyone to care about every bad thing that happens in the world. It’s not reasonable to care about each such thing because, since you can’t control or change all of them, that mindset will simply wear you down and consume all of your time and energy, yet produce no results. It’s a matter of focus.

I did consider your question, but I don’t have enough information to make a determination one way or the other, and since you provided none, I dismissed the speculation out of hand.
> Much of it means you need a car to take it and drop it off. When there you enter a large building and some guy points to a pile and you have to drag it there. Anything big like wood has to be less than four feet in length and less than 40 pounds. Any elderly or those without a car or even a truck in cases like old mattresses are out of luck.

You can get rid of all of that real quick by dragging it to the curb and leaving it near a fire hydrant (don't block it though). Call it in yourself and say that someone left an item that is blocking the fire hydrant.

Yes, it's illegal and dishonest, but not enough is done to help people actually get rid of this crap. There's no accountability in the other direction. You call Waste Management for a large item pickup and you're lucky if they ever show, or when they do they leave without picking it up because of more arbitrary rules (too heavy, too bulky, too many pee stains, whatever). Yet leaving it near a fire hydrant ensures someone shows up with whatever it takes to load the item and leave.
The only thing defensible there is that channel names can't end with a period - the same should be true of all URLs. Kids especially when told to type in a URL will put the period/full stop after it in the instructions they're reading from then wonder why it doesn't work...if it simply wasn't allowed browsers could just strip it off.
With google you are the product whether you pay or not. Some of their most valuable data comes from the companies who use google for all of their email, calendar and documents.
Off-topic but I just don't get why we means-test this. So what if 1% of Americans get $840 so long as the other 99% also get $840 towards a new stove. Surely the cost of means testing and administration is more than 1%?
The existence of a set with infinite cardinality is one of the axioms of ZFC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
I would change one word only here, to represent the flexibility of beliefs that typically ensues from any unfavorable interpretation thereof:

> as long as it doesn’t cross a line into “excluding them”.
Cosmo means universe, and astro means star.

Both are huge exaggerations of the capabilities of human spacefli5.
> We reached out to some contacts at AWS to find out why the Aurora team built this. Did I/O Optimized do some clever engineering with sharding and storing data in S3? Were they just feeling generous?

No surprises here. Come what may, Amazon has always strived to lower costs (the low costs, more customers, more volume fly-wheel?). This is but one example.

AWS adopted cost-follow pricing for S3 (very different from value-based pricing) after apparently a lengthy debate: As they get more efficient, they want to pass down those savings to customers (as price reductions):

S3 would be a tiered monthly subscription service based on average storage use, with a free tier. Customers would choose a monthly subscription rate based on how much data they typically needed to store. Simple ... The engineering team was ready to move on to the next question.

Except that day we never got to the next question. We kept discussing this question. We really did not know how developers would use S3 when it launched. Would they store mostly large objects with low retrieval rates? Small objects with high retrieval rates? How often would updates happen versus reads? ... All those factors were unknown yet could meaningfully impact our costs ... was there a way to structure our pricing [to] ensure that it would be affordable to our customers and to Amazon?

... the discussion moved away from a tiered subscription pricing strategy and toward a cost-following strategy. "Cost following" means that your pricing model is driven primarily by your costs, which are then passed on to your customer. This is what construction companies use, because building your customer's gazebo out of redwood will cost you a lot more than building it out of pine.

If we were to use a cost-following strategy, we'd be sacrificing the simplicity of subscription pricing, but both our customers and Amazon would benefit. With cost following, whatever the developer did with S3, they would use it in a way that would meet their requirements, and they would strive to minimise their cost and, therefore, our cost too. There would be no gaming of the system, and we wouldn't have to estimate how the mythical average customer would use S3 to set our prices.

From: https://archive.is/lT5zT

I wonder what explains AWS' high egress costs, though.
keep going bro good post
The Russian elite doesn't give a shit about their country. They just want to milk it dry and enjoy Western lifestyle.