skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we're talking about university education which should not be a business.

Money and loans are involved, people pay, and people get paid. If we go even further on the money part, many consider it an investment.

Anyways. Perhaps we should make the core liberal arts courses free of charge, and then create a pricing model for professional courses where the pricing model is more realistic about what is being offered, for what price, where the question truly becomes “is this worth it?”. That way we can finally separate the holiness of a core education away from specialized professional paths.
https://libcom.org/article/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...

Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, “professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers” tripled, growing “from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment.” ...

But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning not even so much of the “service” sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations ...

These are what I propose to call “bullshit jobs.”

It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh...
'The Art of the Box' Celebrates a Time When Cover Art Could Sell a Game
So if it's equally distributed matter antimatter at the start, what are these holes made off?
Transexuals are not women, abortion is murder, the US and/or Ukraine provoked the war, average IQ of different races and how it explains their behaviour. There you have four things that will earn you an instant flag (perhaps not in this thread for obvious reasons)
The API to be off by default i.e. it’s opt in and not opt out

And it should be behind a permissions prompt
if you think that's bad, try to get it to generate Inform 7 games—Inform's natural-English-ish syntax completely throws all LLMs for a loop, consistently. it generates code that looks possibly correct (to an Inform newbie at least), but fails to compile far more often than not. I find this super interesting.
Like any guest language, it is up to them to eventually adopt platform features, or not.
I was a Java dev full time and went to full time Go dev. I think a lot of it boils down to wide employment opportunities with Java.

Some people also like the idea of creating OO package private final monstrosities.
In this case (multiple choice generation), if one of the possible outputs does no match the regex, you can just exclude it from generation.

I am trying to think of an example where "answer prefix might have been extremely unlikely to yield a valid response, but the technique ( ... ) constructs a valid response from it regardless", which might really cause a problem. But to no luck. Anyone has any idea? This could potentially be an interesting research question.
Fair. But garbage in garbage out. The prompts are in human language. Of which the models use to derive output. Human language is obviously not a rigid mode of instruction. Therefore; the models behave exactly as you'd guess. The output is not purely predictable nor rigid. This is by design.

Providing a prompt, and/or know how to properly prompt is key.
Okay, so the issue is, idk where to even begin to find such places let alone sift through them.

I found HN because I read a post by Scott Alexander (slate star codex), whom I found through lessWrong when I was studying RL and Control. And that was because I found OpenAI’s go-explore paper super interesting one night at the library which inspired me to go and do RL research for my thesis.

So I am hoping I get some pointers in here :D
They just broke nitter. Hopefully it will be fixed soon but in the long term Musk can cut nitter off if he wants.
They’re probably not hard and medium problems but if you can take care of these easy and medium problems with chatgpt, that saves so much bandwidth to have time to tackle the fun and “hard” problems.

Also, take a look at the problems and projects simonw actually tackles.
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I don't know how people deal with this pyschology and politically. It's just not something I could accept for myself. I guess many don't have a choice though.
Are a badly implemented, and clunky, metaprogramming feature.

Where a sound AOP framework, or macro system are much more sane.

Belongs to the same trash bucket as the C# 11 bang-bang operator, and I will vote for the same outcome, in all places asking for community feedback.
From what I remember, a li-ion cycle means a full range charge and discharge. Charging 10 percent is just 10 percent of a cycle. And discharging at low charge state causes more wear. Also fully charging is worse than just going to 70 percent charge. So ideally you hover around the middle with small cycles.

Whether this is all true for Tesla's batteries I don't know. But I would assume that they do count a partial charge as a partial cycle and you shouldn't be penalized for intermittent charging.

I'd certainly try to stay above 30 percent charge as much as possible. And use slow charging, because that's less wear too. So plugging it in every night at home should be less wear than the eventual quick charge from low. Even if the warranty doesn't distinguish these nuances, it's probably easier to manage regular home charging with better results too.
Fish evolved to swim effectively in water, but the viscosity of water still slows them down. Adapting to deal with a problem isn't the same as completely eliminating the problem.
Writing an emulator for a simple processor isn't particularly complicated. You only need a reference manual of the processor (which I assume he had). The emulator itself can be as simple as a while loop with a switch statement inside and some simple variable manipulation. Nowhere near "feat of computer programming" or "major legend". Source: I've written Z80 and x86 emulators for fun.
what's the better option
> the original TSynth is around $200 to $300 for a full kit that you need to assemble. A Behringer Model D is $298 on Amazon.

They're completely different beasts. A monophonic synth cannot be used for chords; for some music genres where one needs nothing more than bass and fx this could not be a problem, but it's a limitation nonetheless. Synths were born monophonic not because mono is better but because back in the day for each voice added they had to essentially double the circuits complexity and cost, and being fully analog, either performers or roadies had also to tune every oscillator one by one, very often just before the performance because ambient temperature and humidity variations could actually set the instrument out of tune.

> Anyone know how they compare sonically?

There's a demo video linked at its Thomann product page.

https://www.thomann.de/intl/behringer_model_d.htm
As it is continuously in the top 3 most popular languages, yes.
And yet I still see them debated regularly. They're not forbidden, they're unpopular. A consequence of having a system of voting and flagging is that you won't always agree with the way people vote and flag.

> Transexuals are not women

As an aside, I've noticed a pattern that people fret endlessly over trans women and don't really take notice of trans men. I don't know why that is, but there must be a reason why it's so remarkably consistent.
Also true. I got into SWE from a 3 month boot camp. When I said "engineering" I was thinking more like types of engineering that involve interfacing with physical reality and require hands on work. Also you'll never hear me complain about government support for training in the trades.

> fine art, media, journalism or literature

And for these you also don't even need a degree, so why pay for them out of my taxes? Universities are a money grab.
Ok, so can you call it how I want from now, ok? Why am I supposed to submit to your newspeak that is just to attack all leftist as authoritarians and to ommit anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist movements? Imprecise vocabulary is great tool for authoritarian, that's why I write about these other meanings and ideologies.
> It is hereforth proclaimeth the establishment of the Anti Warez Association by it's founders and charter members:

> the Anti Warez Association announces it's establishment and openly begins
soliciting membership.

Trying to write in formal/archaic English while systematically misspelling "its".
Polyphonic / multi-track music transcription is a very challenging tasks and still an open area of research. Plenty of progress made the last 5 years, but still not at a very practical level.
Source separation and single/lead instrument transcription has gotten pretty good though. So if the music fits with the 5-stem split of say Spleeter it can do an OK job
This is not a universal answer and I think deserves some correction.

1. Majority of ISPs do not host any cache for Google content

2. Credible ISPs do not have bottlenecks at the transit or peering level

3. Netflix makes use of much more local caching but their model works very differently to Youtubes

4. The concept of "internet backbone" does not really translate to reality. Peering is significantly more mesh-like than that, and transit more diverse.

Source: I have owned multiple ISPs, and still do.
A good step forward and nice that it's in the next (Oracle) LTS version. But is it too late? NodeJS started cleaning up by pushing async-for-all over a decade ago. Then Go came along and did the same thing but with a simple statically typed language. The Java world developed async server frameworks + GraalVM native image in response and now will be able to incrementally phase them out, but Java lost significant ground server-side because it took so long to identify and respond to these moves by competitors.

The question is now whether Java will regain some of that lost ground, or whether people came for the async but stay for the "isomorphism" (same language in both browser and server) / AOT compilation model.

My gut says it's not too late for them and devs do engage in a kind of continuous rolling evaluation of platforms. Once Java 21 launches people might start to re-evaluate Java vs Node and once Loom is fully supported in native images, you might start to see people re-evaluate Java vs Go at least. Where by "Java vs" I really mean "JVM languages vs" like with Kotlin, Scala and Clojure as well. Or maybe even Loom will be compatible with GraalJS and then you can do fully blocking programming with Node-style efficiency but on the JVM.
> People still use Java?

In Fortune 500 ? YES , pretty much everywhere.

In Startups ? It's Kotlin or Scala mostly.

JVM is far from being unpopular , but fore sure it's not as sexy as ['React','Deno'].push(...)
I think Joy coded on BSD. So.. this is surely a backplate, no?
yes its in the "plugin store" and named "ask the code"
Certainly was the case but there's been plenty of Pi 4 for the past few weeks, and other models getting better now too. https://rpilocator.com

Although an old thin client might still be cheaper.
I don't know about Scala, but there are benefits for Kotlin indeed. For example a special dispatcher could be made to schedule each coroutine on a single virtual thread. This would be very handy for coroutines that suspend on IO, and it would be a better alternative to Dispatchers.IO which currently uses a threadpool like strategy. Also it's possible that debugging and profiling is improved given that each virtual thread has its own stack. And you can still take advantage of all the nice things in Kotlin for structured concurrency, flows, etc.

On the other hand, Kotlin already committed to a colored function approach, and it will likely remain. Java on the other hand, will not need that, which is nice.
The Rise of Engineering-Driven Development (EDD)
Orwell’s views on the communism can be seen quite clearly in Homage to Catalonia.

It’s also one of the more horrifying things I’ve read and his accounts of trench warfare and hand to hand combat are vicious and grim.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
I'd like to see the stats on how many people use 3.5 over 4 though, I bet you that number is much higher than you think. The price of ChatGPT is being what I'm personally willing to pay for it so if I do use it, it's 3.5 for me.

Maybe the logic is to study the most popular product? Would make sense to me.
I'd say the symbols themselves are meaningless without their ground truths, whatever that is. We can call this "experience" or "thinking". The results of these opaque processes are somehow amenable to be encoded into symbols which are themselves deprived of any significance. Which I guess makes them usable as such in the first place.

Extreme example: if a random algorithm picked out a few words from a dictionary and somehow cobbled a sentence together using those words, would you say "meaning" has been transported?

The "generation" of these symbols should be the result of a process equivalent to whatever we are doing when we "experience" or "cognate" or whatever, otherwise the results will be only very superficially useful.
Try reading a biography or a companion book instead of just googling everything. The internet has a lot of knowledge, but it's very low quality. Books (depending on the book) have quality of knowledge that is just unmatched on the internet.

And now with LLMs, the quality of knowledge on the internet is going to take another substantial hit soon.
Since chatgpt 'massive explosion on the scene' I have and still do predict; the amount of info-tech jobs will actually GO UP. This has always been the case with any tech innovation. I find it humorous; as pointed out in the article; there is an assumption that once an efficiency is discovered we will just throw our hands up; sit back and relax. This has never happened. The market runs on innovation and competition. New tech means more competitive edge.

If free energy is ever discovered (extremely doubtful), we will not help but boil ourselves from the excess heat it generates.
This is really terrible! Stefan was a wonderful person!
These features with the option to declare not to use them in a piece of code that are the reasons why language don't have to make trade-offs.

Common Lisp has good balance in this regard.
I can guarantee you being a "useless" code monkey making 2-5x the average wage of your country is better than being a "useless" min wage factory/warehouse/service worker

Much easier to find a meaning in the former than the later
But in other languages it's clear what the code is doing. If you have a chain of map, filters and other operations, they are all named and easy to grok. In a python list comprehension a lot of things will be going on, without named parts. So then you need to name stuff to keep track. So you got foo, then foo_filtered, then foo_sorted, then foo_grouped. And that doesn't really convey anything more than in a language where you would do foo.filter().sort().group().
But the conclusion of the article is pretty unambiguous nonetheless:

> Rotating tires regularly can also help. But ultimately, there’s no getting around the fact that you’re driving something that weighs as much as three Miatas.
Related

https://mixmag.net/feature/spectrogram-art-music-aphex-twin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTuFB5QXHo
For cases like that, copilot (with chat for context) might be more of what you’re looking for. Chatgpt specifically, I’ve been using for very light context / general tasks that I modify. I always consider the trade off between how much time I’m saving by having to write the prompt full of context.
One of the main authors of ZIO (another effect runtime in Scala) gave a talk about ZIO + Loom.

https://youtu.be/ygOmwze5ETk

For some use cases there seems to be a performance advantage for using Loom if the library properly supports Loom. (Mainly gain it from using plain old boring blocking IO instead of async NIO stuff which has overhead. https://youtu.be/ygOmwze5ETk?t=2396)

And at least according to JDG cats-effect is heavily tied down to their Async means they can't as easily work around the async overhead as ZIO can. Don't know if this is actually true or not. Would need input from actual cats-effect maintainers on this.
I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
Thanks! What would be a different approach to saying the same thing? This is a genuine question around how to communicate differently.
When learning classical computing, I have done the following things that gave me a deeper understanding of how things work.

1. Learned logic gates and built(in simulators) small circuits which can do addition/multiplication.

2. Used a 8085 board to write assembly programs for search/sort etc.

3. Learnt C programming and Operating systems(primarily Linux)

4. Learnt higher level programming languages and paradigms(OOP, compilation, etc).

What set of courses/topics would lead to a similar level of understanding in the quantum domain? I have learnt about the quantum gates, but I do not have to context to understand how they fit in the larger picture.
I just don't find it an effective way of learning personally. I didn't expect this to be so controversial - different people learn differently.
Zapatistas falsified your statement, Rojava is too argument against scaling issues. We can arbitrary move scales from these hundreds thousands or a few million for Zapatistas and Rojava, but I would argue that if these structures work on that scale then they should on scale of tens of million too. The trick is to add some federational or confederational structure where locals can easily undelegate chosen delegates. Currently in federational states its usually impossible or very hard to undelegate representatives and so they do what they want for a few years.
Well, a nice way to start is not provide feedback that wasn't asked for.

In Germany we have a word for it, Besserwisser.
>I think it says something about how the character of HN has changed in the last ten years--there's no longer an assumption that the people on the other end of the wire assume curiosity and good will.

The internet as a whole has diverged from assuming good faith, between polarizing politics, the rapid increase of bots, and general shift of popular sentiment over the decade. And there's also a lot more people online, so it's much harder to moderate for that even if you wanted to.

It's an inevitability since this site's moderation hasn't scaled with its user base.
Xitter Broke Nitter Again
It takes time to create and publish a study.
Shouldn't it be x.co now? Also doesn't t.co embed some tracking information as well?
IN Machines We Trust
Imagine the tonnes of plastic pollution generated yearly by these high levels of tire wear. If they don't pollute the air, they pollute the soil.
A consequence of having a system of flagging is that dang can avoid having to do any work by having users remove other users' comments, keeping the site in one side of the political spectrum. (Just to be clear, I don't think he particularly cares which side wins, as long as it allows him to avoid any responsibility)
Designing Army of Fantasy Elves
Yet HN almost universally gives them a pass on that epic scale privacy abuse while shrieking hysterically when LLMs scrape the exact same data from IA
This is a good point, but I wonder how many Porsches are actually used as performance vehicles? How many have ever been taken to a track day?

I feel like many cars in that category, Porches in particular maybe, are status symbols only and other than driving a bit over the speed limit on a long road every now and again, they're not used in this way.

Which then begs the question, should Porsche be designing for the car people envision, or the car people use? Probably the former because that's what sells the cars, but it's a weird state to be in.
I thinking funding the Central European University in Budapest originally with full scholarships to poorer Hungarian students is in the spirit of democracy and helps working class people.

Could you highlight what part of his philanthropy you disagree with?
This video, “Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists” is quite approachable: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM&pp=ygUeTWljcm9zb2Z...
Unless you can prove it it's a baseless assertion.
UFO LED
Uniform high quality light output with little glare. Different kinds of reflectors can accomplish different kinds of illumination tasks for LED high-bay lights. Aluminum reflectors make light from the fixtures flow directly downward to the floor, while acrylic reflectors create a more diffused lighting useful for illuminating shelves and other elevated objects in a space.
Somewhat related, Churchill was very fond of pigs. He famously said (some variant of) "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Yes, mainly because of the work of experts which went into GPT4.

For example, Llama is nowhere close (even if it's pretty good).

You can think of GPT4 as a way to flexibly access a lot of knowledge from domain experts. Sure, sometimes that flexibility hallucinates things, but it mostly works and we can verify a large part of it.
I got off the java train at 8. 21 seems like a good place to get back on.
> So they are more likely to form than small black holes.

Based on your previous sentence would it not be the opposite?
Because you can take advantage of pretrained CNNs and perform transfer learning, which is significantly more data-efficient than training from scratch, which is what you'd likely have to do with raw digital signals. This paper is not unique in this approach and many papers have obtained SOTA results by processing digital signals as images.
GraalJS: Node.js compliant JavaScript implementation built on GraalVM by Oracle
The larger picture isn't clear to anyone (yet?)
why not try huggingface?
> They also refuse to engage with AfD's concerns about chemtrail poisonings.

This is the kind of disrespectful and insulting response that actually pushes people towards the extremes.

20% of German's population is now made of first gen immigrants. Immigration, excessive immigration is a real issue and people feel strongly about it that they seek parties that at least acknowledge their concerns instead of insulting them when they raise them.
Irks me when people shoe-in the word "democratize".
Yeah, he has his own separate account and a video channel.

This way both my partner and I can check up on him if we both leave the house for longer and it's noisy outside. He's a rescue and sometimes gets anxious/loud, but he's getting better.

Side effect: once I came home to spot him with my brothers who live across the continent chatting and drinking beer.
I've lived in roof apartments all my life (my bedroom in my parents house was a loft conversion), but for the first time moved into an apartment on the second floor.

The difference is night and day. No longer do I sweat in summer, freeze in winter, and stay up all night listening to the rain (albeit I do sometimes miss the soothing quality it had). I think roof apartments are going to get a lot less popular in the next decade
There are companies that use Java and will keep using Java no matter what. A 10+ years old Java is fine for them.

An example: all the incumbent financial sector.
Rust was trying to solve the correct problem. But it's debatable if it provides the right solution. My camp, so far, is that everything must be a value, i.e. copy semantics, with structural sharing. This solves an enormous set of problems, including controllable (side) effects, while it permits efficient local in-place mutation of state (unlike FP).