skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are still better than my birth date, my mother middle name and whatever this SSN is. Which is basically something that I am barely the only person to know.
It is great for doing something like 'write a script that recursively goes through all the directories and finds pictures which were taken between <date> and <date> and copy them to <directory> then sort them in subdirectories by month and day.'

So much tedium is now easy if I can remember 'powershell can do it, and GPT can write it for me'.
> Official symbol of the Technocracy movement (Technocracy Inc.). The Monad emblem signifies balance between consumption and production.

oh wow they were into monad before it was cool
> It's reasonable to call minimising the training loss function the "objective" of the LLM

This article isn't doing that, though. What it is calling the model objective is "producing clear and coherent text".

> Whether "producing clear and coherent text" is a good characterisation of a "predict the next token" loss function is another question though.

I agree. But lets us be clear that prediction too is a misnomer. Simply generating a word coherent with prior words is not prediction.
You also have memory to infer how fast an object is moving, and where it's trying to go, in contrast to the purely feed-forward neural networks Tesla uses.
My my, why so angry?

Because they have been dealing with the same bug for 10 years, I thought that was obvious.
Hopefully the future will bring autonomous vehicles and drunk driving will simply not be an issue anymore
we would probably drop the monarchy that day tradition or not.

I’m not so sure. If that were the case, why not drop it now? There is nothing virtuous about the tradition.
IIRC (and in my experience) KL divergence doesn't account for double counting. Wrote a paper where I ended up having to use a custom metric instead:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
Yeah, but if the big value is supposed to be in the libraries you sort of have to accept dependency hell? Otherwise you're in the world where a small set of libraries can deliver all the functionality ever needed.

Of the currently available solutions, "cloud environment made by Microsoft" doesn't sound that different from "software update made by Microsoft" in terms of how it solves the dependency hell: basically, the critical library you need is either in or out, but there is nothing you can do about it.

Admittedly, here I'm assuming Microsoft won't let you install things into the environment yourself since that basically means hosting virtual machines running arbitrary code and putting the Excel brand in front.
Figma has been such a cool story, I'm so disappointed that the buyout wasn't blocked. Obviously it's an awesome tool and still getting better, but competition is a good thing and I'd really hoped in 5 years we'd have figma and others pushing adobe to be more innovative and user-friendly.
Relevant quote from the article:

"The lack of real-world examples available - this obviously isn’t a limitation of the model itself but rather due to the fact that companies don’t want to advertise their architecture in detail in public."
If you're going to redeem points as cash for flights, the UR portal seems fine IME, there's less variation unless you're booking consolidator fares. You're going to get 1.5c per point using the Reserve card.

To get more than 2c per point, you have to be redeeming against business/first class or otherwise very expensive tickets.

But is it still worth 2c if you would have never paid $11k for the seat in the first place?
>The iphone was an HTML device, loudly repudiating the proprietary (and terrible) Flash much less the crappy, mostly stillborn "mobile HTML" attempts.

Skipping Flash wasn't so much an ideological decision as a practical one.

At the time Steve Jobs listed a ton of reasons that they didn't implement Flash. Listed among them were concerns about it not being an open standard, inferiority to H.264, security and performance issues, etc. However, all of these things could've been ignored or overcome.

The principal problem was that a huge proportion of Flash applications, games, and websites used mouseovers as crucial methods of interactions, and Apple simply had no way to allow users to mouseover an element on a touchscreen.
RTO: Reddit Disguised as Outlook
Who's the CEO of Microsoft again? Satya would love this approach.
The US would not be banning TikTok if it was run by a US company. It's not about the content.
You mentioned in your other post about we need to stop immigration and send the temporary visa holders home.

Isn't doing this introducing more economic distortions?
You can compare Tesla death rates per vehicule sold vs similar cars however:

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=35819
Many languages that are considered "precision" languages have some form of suffix to denote large/long/arbitrary-sized literals. (C# there's a big useful difference if a literal ends with `m` or `l`.) Most languages you have to be aware of your data types and use the appropriate data types.

No one is saying that "JS is a language designed for precision arithmetic", everyone is saying "JS is a language with the tools today to do precision arithmetic (whether you like it or not)".
Brings out my chronic back pain worse than anything!!
that's pretty cool .. don't suppose you've thought of turning it into a QR reader mobile app so you can see what the code's trying to do before it does it?
> Even if the detail was something like, "if this wasn't fixed, we were at the risk of losing half our customers" ?

Yes, because this one task appears as a single line item for the manager's manager. They don't care for the complexity or consequences until the fire actually happens. And if the fire happens, they just blame engineers.

If the industry incentives were changed such that manager heads would roll for mass outages, managers would start appreciating big fixes.
I remember reading that too, but I think it was on mastodon — I don't feel like tracking down that particular thread now, but maybe that helps you on your search :)
I love what they're doing, but last time I clicked a link for asahilinux on hacker news I was taken to a pop up that specifically said that readers from Hacker News are not welcomed on their site and couldn't read their content.
Yeah, I agree. Passing in an optional `map[string]string` or something would be better, but then you get into having to either pass in `nil` every time you don't have the extra data or needing an entirely different function for with vs without the map
Heh heh heh, I take it that you've never been through a Border Patrol checkpoint which wasn't at the border.

They checkpoint all the thoroughfares near Mexico and I reminded my Spanish fiancée to carry her passport as we traveled domestically, and I was completely correct.
Grug find bug, Grug beaten with club. Grug no find bug, Grug no beaten with club.

Grug work hard for own KPI: amount of times not beaten with club.
> or even, practically speaking, with credit cards.

Yes you can opt out even with credit cards, and you can also do it for minor children in 5 easy steps:
1 clone your trust document
2 IRS.com and get TIN for trust
3 open trust savings account at bank
4 put funds in account
5 get the bank's 'secured credit card' offer in which they lock the funds

If you quibble that a secured credit card is not a real credit card, then just get the debit card.
The actual quote:

> There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.

I don't think that's wrong? Although it is certainly in bad taste for a prime minister.
Likely a gross underestimate, given all the financial (both investment and risk) modeling done with excel.
> It's a little magical that "user" is a key. So what if you have multiple key-value pairs?

You... add them afterwards? It's really just a plist (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Pr...), that's hardly novel. The method takes any number of parameters and pairs them up as key, value.

Or if you really hate yourself, you use LogAttrs with explicitly constructed Attr objects.

> I really like Pythons approach where you can have user="value" it makes things a bit more clear.

The trouble is, Go doesn't have keyword parameters so that doesn't work.
Used to be you’d have to trap your grave to thwart the resurrection man.
Given Canada's location, geography, and its present borders, the only places where legitimate refugees could potentially come from are quite limited: the United States, St Pierre and Miquelon, Greenland, and possibly Iceland.

At the current time, there's generally no legitimate reason for people from those places to be seeking asylum in Canada.

Legitimate refugees will be seeking immediate safety far closer their points of origin, rather than ending up in Canada, of all places.

Sri Lanka, to use your example, is over 12000 km (7500 miles) away from Canada, in either direction. At the time of the incident you mention, there were numerous safer countries that were much, much, much closer to Sri Lanka than Canada was. Those are the countries where those people should have ended up, if they were truly seeking immediate safety as legitimate refugees.
Sure, but if you're going to extol the virtues of architecture diagrams, it would help to either find one good one or make one up.
Why a "Microsoft name"? Are you talking about GitHub copilot? Because that's far from the first "copilot" product
You can also build connection online through social media. It has its problems, but it can be fulfilling to find an online social life.
Who are you responding to? By closed I meant they artificially restrict you from doing things in the name of selling more devices. Like running VM clusters for testing unless you run it on "apple hardware" when there really is no requirement. Removing support for 3rd party GPUs. Having to buy a million dongles that use proprietary connectors (not really a problem anymore). Limiting what you can control at the OS level. Not letting you run what you want. The list goes on. I obviously think what the asahi linux team has done is bad ass. Just think us nerds have to force ourselves off the tech giants or the end result will likely be; you won't be able to easily buy something you actually control.
Now if Steam and SteamVR compile to ARM, VR on a M1 might be a possibility!
I don't get these battery issues people have. I use a 3 year old Huawei P30 Pro, and I still get 2 days of battery life when charged to full. Apparently I average around 4 hours of screen time per day.
You know he has a PhD but don't find that credible? I've seen Huberman smeared recently, don't understand why. Quick search shows he works at Stanford.
Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian.

Inventers don't get to change the language just because they invent something.
> Passing in an optional `map[string]string` or something would be better

It would definitely not be better from the point of view of

> We wanted slog to be fast.
> I don’t think anyone is anthropomorphizing LLMs

The "AI" marketeers' use of "hallucinate", "objective" and "predict" does precisely that.
Ah, you are referring to the SRI experiments, though I'm not sure who "they" are. You should, however, be aware that the Proceedings of the IEEE (Volume: 64, Issue: 10, October 1976) contain a paper presenting the results of a remote-viewing experiment with n=36 and p=0.0000006 [1].

Many people who purport to "love science" set aside how much of one's understanding of the universe is axiomatic. Now, I've never directly experienced time dilation, and I have heard that GPS satellites have been created to take time dilation effects into account. I have, however, experienced and validated Newtonian dynamics (physics classes). In either case, both Newtonian dynamics and time dilation were presented to me as axiomatic; that is to say, I haven't performed a full, independent derivation of these two ideas of physics. However, I still accept that the general ideas are sound. If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it.

>Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science.

That's funny to say, seeing as it's well-established that military technology across all domains is significantly more advanced than the average person's technology. As a small example, neither one of us could make a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordinance anywhere in the world nor perform the required R&D to properly design one.

[1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1454638
in case, any one looking for F-1 (F1) for ARM, it is here.

(S-1 is for domestic corporations and F-1 is for foreign ones)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1973239/000119312523...
Long Considered Impossible: Nonlinear Circuit Harvest Clean Power Using Graphene
I was just on a CLI kick when I discovered it. At this point it’s inertia and knowing the quirks quite well.
Most of the early christian texts were suppressed and destroyed. In the 1940s some ancient texts that had been buried for nearly 2000 years were found in Egypt and not realizing their value, a family member used many of them for kindling. Before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts, the existence of these materials was known from references in orthodox texts but they had been completely lost. Of course we have no idea of what was contained in the texts that were burned and we have no idea what else is out there so we don't even know what has been lost. Similarly, parmenides is considered by many philosophers to be the "father of logic" which he brought forth in a long poem. Unfortunately, we only have about 160 of the estimated 800 verses in the poem, so again we are lacking basic knowledge of the origins of our civilization that was written down at one time but has been lost.

Digital information seems especially likely to me to be lost over time because the recording nearly always requires an instrument to extract and these instruments do not have nearly the durability of books.
>"Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea"

>"My thinking is that frequent partner The Library of Congress can put a stop to this by buying the Internet Archive. Make it a government body and protect all that digital content. I think these lawyers may be less inclined to sue the US Federal government."

The US Federal government -- is primarily composed of lawyers...

So let me get this straight... the author's idea, broadly understood, would be:

To take the Internet Archive away from lawyers -- and give it to other lawyers?

?

(Or do I not understand the author's viewpoint correctly?)

?
That would be truly fantastic!
True!

I was just limiting myself to my friend group (most UBC and Waterloo grads, so not the most representative).

Also I should have said Software, Electronics, and Healthcare - those STEM fields are more likely to leave for the US.
The legal tension here is that the feature is called "Full Self Drive", which has the plain intuitive meaning that the car can drive itself. Adding a bunch of weasel language in the fine print may not absolve Tesla from the implicit promises it makes with the name.
The inside story of Adobe Acrobat and PDF (2018)
> You cannot be responsible for something you don’t control

But they sure can bring it up in your annual performance review.
Amazon has 1.6 million employees. Who is "they"? Is that a smaller group in a specific business unit, in a specific region, or a set of people you know?
My personal simplified version of this: You can be GIVEN authority, but you have to TAKE responsibility.
There's also a lot of studies showing that meditation can cause harm.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-01503-2
This is accurate. My director is obsessed with visible status updates aka UI changes or metrics. So anyone reporting, "fixed a 3 year old bug by refactoring old libraries, that improves maintenance" just doesn't cut it for him.

And unfortunately for engineers, they have to dance to this director's negligence even if it comes at the cost of their own sanity.
Open sourcing Rama: clone Twitter in 180 LOC
So "LLM hallucination occurs because the model's primary objective function is to generate text that is coherent and contextually appropriate"?

I'm not buying :)
Grad student?
> You like nuclear but not abortions

Based on this polling, it seems like the republican party would be the perfect one for you - but yes, agreed with overall point.
You're telling someone not to paint others as "immature", yet you're painting them as having ethical and moral failures. I hope you recognize one of these is more severe than the other.
Oh this must be Felix! I saw and played with xlwings many years ago and was impressed :)

Agreed with the friction around getting started. I would like to see it reduced. It’s cool to see you using them to wrap Python functions - I have done something similar before myself, and still need to get around to shimming Haskell into excel at some point.

Another thing I don’t like is how JavaScript Custom Function cell formulas have a horrible string after the _xldudf marker, which becomes noticeable if your workbook doesn’t/can’t load the custom functions addin (or you unload the addin)

Thanks for your comment
Ya, the meditation scene is 99.99% pure bullshit. And that's a crime.

First job for anybody trying to figure out this stuff is to scrape away the gunk and find a pearl of truth.

You have to do your own research. There is no substitute.
I can guess what's coming next: dev mode will get locked behind the "editor" per user pricing and then it's going to become a pain getting stuff out of Figma.

Also, there's an annoying "bug" in Figma when it tries to implement its own hotkeys: I have various Ctrl/Cmnd key combos swapped and hitting Ctrl causes Figma to de-select whatever I've highlighted so that trying to copy some portion of a colour code or whatever with Ctrl+C causes me to copy nothing but thin air.
At the moment yes, but we're planning to share it with some similar organizations and independent researchers.
As always, when its something that one doesn't know or otherwise like it is "indoctrination". When it is, instead it is civilization and positive socialization.
Broadly this is great to see and I’m sure the team has worked hard on this.

But can’t help but feel like this is a bit of knee jerk reaction to the growth of the much smaller open source product Penpot, that’s received increasing interest and even some funding since the Figma sale was announced.

Penpot has bet on making all the controls match the html/css spec as well as save everything as svg, in short having a big focus on making devs first class stakeholders.

This feels like a late response following Penpot Fest that ran recently and announced many cool dev features.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgcCPfOv5v56-fghJo2dHNB...
It's a pity it's USA only.
What's popular on YouTube and what's good are very often not the same. You're seeing what YouTube is trying to optimize for... it's not surprising that it's manipulative, exaggerating, populist nonsense. YouTube could do this for literally any topic. The YT algorithm's take on the best meditation advice doesn't need to define what meditation is to you. Topics which should be "boring" get this treatment on social media. Find your information elsewhere or figure out how to filter and ignore the nonsense.
Nice, waiting for the new machine on HackTheBox :-D
Plist or named arguments doesn't really make too big of a difference, to my eyes. I do recommend Mapped Diagnostic Context style approaches, if you can do it. Passing all arguments that you think may be useful to logs gets unwieldy quickly. Looks particularly absurd when folks start adding parameters to functions for the sole purpose of letting you log them.
Interesting! So what you're giving up is the 2% cash back, and purchase protection that credit cards offer, in exchange for having privacy?
My M2 MBA routinely goes past 10-16 hours of life time with simple coding stuff (phpstorm and PHP in Docker), and it stays comfortably cold all time. Most Windows laptops struggle to get more than 3-4 hours and will fry off your balls if used as actual laptops.
Interesting, I'd not known of this RFC before.

Another example of a content-addressed data store could be OCI registries (more commonly known as container image registries). Using them to store arbitrary artefacts is quite well supported now: https://oras.land/
Huge!!
It's clear you've never experienced significant amounts of tech debt that you aren't allowed to fix because it doesnt Excel chart nicely for the boomers higher up who only see things in terms of "something working on the screen" or not.

And no, I'm not going to rebel by secretly fixing it silently and unappreciatedly while peers pile on hacks and get promoted for things on the screen.

Luckily Figma has a great engineering background as its basis with technical founders, so they can avoid becoming that, but not all companies are like that.
Venture Narrative Whiplash
> Yet they built on them and around them none the less. A building is a building and a wall is a wall.

A copper dodecahedron with knobs on the corners is, er ...
Add to this no ownership over scope, time or resourcing.
An ounce of prevention, etc. A society that doesn't produce people desperate or disbelieving of the social contract enough to break the law en masse won't have people who break the law en masse.
There is an interesting looking competitor in this space that is built with Python integration from the ground up.

https://www.neptyne.com/

I haven't tried it yet, nor am I affiliated with Neptyne, but it looks intriguing.
I understand the function of the Internet Archives as an Archive of the internet. But I don't understand why they think their function is to influence legislation by activism in other fields. First they poked a bear with their "free library" of books. Now they are poking another bear with their music library. And in the process they endanger their "core function" of being the Internet archives.
"Tesla requested redaction of fields of the crash report based on a claim that those fields contained confidential business information," an NHTSA spokesperson told Insider in a statement. "The Vehicle Safety Act explicitly restricts NHTSA's ability to release what the companies label as confidential information. Once any company claims confidentiality, NHTSA is legally obligated to treat it as confidential unless/until NHTSA goes through a legal process to deny the claim."

There's nothing confidential about which systems were active. The driver knows this, assuming they're not dead. You don't get to claim something is confidential if it's information that's already out there.
Carbon credits. Tesla was only viable in the early years all due to carbon credit purchases.
Except that ST has open-sourced their toolchain, and their libraries [0]. I can write C or assembly code on my Linux laptop and get it on my ST devices without anything proprietary from ST.

[0] - https://github.com/STMicroelectronics
There are "attainments" or maps. A lot of teachers don't communicate them since it can be a bit of a trap, since striving to reach an attainments can prevent you from reaching it.

More contemporary dharma teachers have been willing to go into it. The jhanas is one such map.

As an intermediary step simply being able to stay with your breath for an hour while still being aware/not falling asleep is a good goal.