skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think NGE as a critique or deconstruction of mecha anime is often overstated. For instance Shinji as a subversion of the typical macho teenage boy mecha protagonist... well there was already quite a lot of mecha anime with non-traditional protagonists, such as Patlabor's Noa Izumi who is neither a boy nor a teenager. Patlabor broke the mold in numerous other ways besides, more-so and better than NGE. Mecha (e.g. Labors) foremost as industrial tools instead of super-science weapons with mysterious powers. Pilots being professional young adults who mostly act like it. Most of life for the crew being mundane routine responding to DUIs instead of grand save-the-world plots (a few military coups notwithstanding.) I think in these regards, NGE stays closer to the traditional mecha formula that it ostensibly deconstructs.

I think where NGE really shines is the art, design, animation, which are all stunning. I have much respect for NGE, but specifically as a deconstruction of the mecha genre I've never been impressed.
Most safety systems pose very little risk of making random incisions into your peritoneum.
This is the opposite of numerology. Numerology says that numbers have practical meaning, like 7 is lucky or 13 is unlucky. The point of pure math is that it has no practical meaning. We study it because we are free and not slaves.
Thanks. Is there any open source hosted solution like cursor that can use the Llama models ?
So they didn't use an object-oriented programming language, they used a functional programming language.
Thinking of the scales involved, even at the speed of light probably two masses couldn’t pull each other fast enough to collide (if you are colliding the two galaxies at the fastest manifestible speed which is the speed of the light).

That’s hand wavy because if you’re imagining like grabbing the two galaxies and smashing them together… that’s like giga levels of magnitude faster dynamics than the speed of light, ha!

You’d have to like put the galaxies on top of each other and leave them there, probably for years, for gravity to get everything moving quickly enough (and then for the speed of light to even bridge the distance!) before really anything would happen. I think.

Engineer but not a physicist.
Yeah, and they're poor.

The US constitution doesn't give the federal government authority to do this, and rightly so.
It's a completely separate system running diesel trains on an entirely different rail gauge [0]. It also tends to be inaccessible a lot because BART can't keep the lines running, so getting to SF or Oakland often involves a bus transfer on top.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBART
This is not at all what happened. \Rutherford, Geiger, and Marsden ran an experiment. The data was totally incompatible with a solid blob of atomic mass, but instead suggested that the positive charge of the atom was concentrated into a tiny space.
NPR Planet Money just did a podcast on this a week ago https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...

They interview MIT professor Tom Kochan who says that in the 1930s U.S unions like the AFL actually pushed against federally guaranteed worker benefits like paid vacation because then there'd be less need for unions. Other benefits Americans never got were federally guaranteed health insurance and pensions.

To quote the podcast transcript [1]

"The big three - pensions, health insurance, time off through vacations - were left off the table. Instead, we got collective bargaining rights, which basically say we can bargain and negotiate with our individual employers for pension, health care and vacation. Now, we should say that the U.S. is also known for not passing these work benefits because of racism. A bunch of people in the U.S. back then didn't want Black people, for example, to get these benefits, so no one got them.

But in Europe, everyone gets the big three - vacation, pension, health care - as a right. Vacation started spreading in Europe in the 1920s and '30s, and health care came in waves in the 1940s, '70s and '80s. And maybe this is why European countries started cutting their hours after 1979, but not the U.S. Like, maybe Europeans were, like, OK, we're getting all these benefits, plus we're just generally getting richer. Maybe work is not so important anymore. But when you do have to pay for these things, like we do in the U.S. - maybe that's why work is so important here."

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1194467863
I've seen plenty of job posts in the US with PTO. It works the same as having a minimum wage and other workers' rights.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269634 IBM Engineering VP's Top ML/AI terms defined and explained. lol: e.g. Scoring: A form of Newton's method used in statistics to solve maximum likelihood equations numerically.
What kind of hardware does it take to fine tune such a model? I've been day dreaming about self-play with these models. Generate 100 leetcode problems. One variant writes test cases, one variant writes code. Make the loss for the tester high if there are bugs (maybe compare to using a fuzzer on the program or have multiple tester variants generating large test suites). The coder variant has loss related to number of failed test cases or retries or something.

Then, just keep running that in a loop, generating, testing, developing.

Is it possible to self-train like this, or attempt to do so, on commodity hardware? Could I make a meaningful change to 34B sized models if I had one or two 4090s? (Or something for a similar, few thousand dollar, price point).
I would expect labor force participation rate to go down as your society gets wealthier. More education and more retirement.
I am not sure if you live in the USA but we have dozens of states without any car inspection at all. In my city alone there are hundreds if not thousands of cars and trucks that drive around without mufflers or exhaust bypass, headlights broken or off at night.

Tesla Model3 is one of the most popular selling cars now and that's just a hop and skip away from someone hacking the self-driving to always being on and selling it for cheap like the exhaust bypass hack that's been done to tens of thousands of trucks on the road today. https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-epas-messy-war-on-d...
What are the gotchas?
> I work in the industry

> I don't work in advertising

??
It doesn't increase the cost of employees though. It may make them less productive; or it might make them happier and more productive.
> Instead we use the Schrodinger electron-cloud model. According to which the nucleus is not mostly empty.

The electron cloud and the nucleus are different things. The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment.
Yeah it's just something they all gathered together and decided to mutually fuck each other over and they enjoy their lives and each other more, have more free time, and have higher life expectancies for it. Immoral heathens, really.
Shelf life and refrigeration just seem like they'd be a normal assembly line but more annoying to fix if it gets stalled.

And I'm not sure if better catalyst support would be very noticeable.

Mobile factories are a good thing.
As an attempt - it's a simple definition, easy to check for small numbers, but leads to some difficult questions - are there infinitely many of them? (found yes by Erdos) How dense are they in the number line? Are there any odd ones > 5? "Numbers that can only be produces as the sum of 459 primes" is not as easy to find examples of, so less aesthetically pleasing to mathematicians.
> Actually, that sounds incredibly conducive to automation

Yes, and that's how you ruin things
The problem is an organizational cultural problem at Apple itself: they are control freaks obsessed with putting the user first, but as with all extremists they take it too far, trying to obtain some “perfect” user experience, even when that hurts the user’s own interests!

Apple sees developers and third party software as threats to the user, the only safe thing to do is to lock it all down.

Apple also got addicted to App Store money. Letting you install unapproved software means Apple doesn’t get their cut of not only the sale of the software but also the sale of anything through the software. And Apple wants their rent.

Apple is organizationally incapable of building a good iPad OS. The culture prohibits it and the incentives are misaligned.
While you may not have seen it, the number of professionals using procreate on the iPad Pro is significant.
When I was doing a lot of C++ gamedev, we were definitely doing a lot of stuff that would trip up static analysis, e.g. X-macros.

We would still use refactoring tools even though they would often miss stuff. You just rely on a combination of refactoring tool / search and replace / the compiler.

We would also debug our code in release mode with symbols. You get used to a debugging environment where you don't trust anything you're seeing in variables, etc. too.
Why would you say that? It seems that the majority of monopolies ever created have had substantial government intervention.

Assuming you mean a business that is monopoly for say a decade and not a few years.
I would encourage you to provide a stable URL where the IPs can be fetched by an automated process, regardless of whether you also provide a "human readable" version. Even just a text file with addresses would be fine.

It's not that you should expect to be changing them very often but it's also extremely unlikely someone using your service is going to manually monitor whatever published list you have - whereas a firewall can be set to fetch your list once a day and will therefor get any changes you need to make, automatically.
It's more that the good performance is mandatory. You don't have the option to do that.
This is an early experiment that we did in just a few hours. We'll have much better models in just a few days, stay tuned :)
I always work with a full PC keyboard, because scientists came up with it, and marketers came up with a small laptop keyboard. I used to just carry it in my backpack all the time. I just have big fingers :)
The megacorporations are at war against humanity and won't stop until forced: they must profit and grow at the expense of civilization, climate, and biosphere.

It's true the EU does not recognize it's in a war yet but they are at least trying to slow them down. The US is further behind.
Human behaviour in a way far more general than which token we might next type. To mimick humans as closely as might be possible with the basic deep learning method, train something that can predict human behaviour in general. Training would require billions to quadrillions of hours of video and audio and probably many other inputs, from many different people, engaged in the full variety of human activity.
Possibly even emptier! The other one has at least some particles in it.
It doesn't force people into contracts, but it bans two willing parties from making certain contracts.

I've always enjoyed being a contractor because I have unlimited vacation (within reason) and can balance how much time I want to take off with how much money I want to make.
I would like to not that you didn't suggest any regulations, you just professed faith in them.

you can't have a law that people can't sell property, it's what property is, that which's ownership can be transferred. People with lemons always want to sell them, they are always in the market, always bringing prices down. You cannot create a perfect information marketplace through regulation, though you can improve it, for example major insurance incidents.
Hey dude!

I met you a long time ago when you came to Colorado from Europe to demo mljar to a potential acquisition.

My employer at the time was potentially interested in buying mljar, but I was overruled and they passed on you. It was a bad decision and I'm glad to see you're doing cool things now.
1. Paid time off is paid for by the employer, not the government. It's part of the agreement to work, like a salary. It makes no sense to find it any more illogical than a salary. It's just a salary in a different form.

2. Even if it was paid by the government, there are reasons to rationalize welfare. You help everyone, because needing help isn't a moral failure, and we're a rich society so we can. Its like insurance... you might not think you'll get into a car accident (everyone thinks they're a good driver), but you still pay into insurance because when a bad day comes, you might not be able to afford it.

3. Income isn't closely tied to how hard people work, nor skill. We like to pretend it is, but it's not. Spreading a small amount of your income around to help others who aren't rewarded financial for their hard work, despite being a boost for society, helps everyone.

Also: Who thinks paid time off is bad? Why is this an opinion?
Minimum wage hurts the least skilled the most and makes them unemployable. There is no empirical need for the minimum wage as almost no one earns it.
It sounds like they are describing an open file descriptor limit being hit when the app is not set to use local UI for that add-on. It would just be a little burst of CPU and then things would hang. Both sysctl and pam limits could be increased to see if it buys more time to see the problem with lsof and other counters. Or perhaps the app could be run in a cgroup / namespace with artificially lower limits to break it faster without hanging the console or SSH so that one could see how many descriptors are open.
Testing Rank Similarity for Rag
For Go, staticcheck

https://staticcheck.dev/
I gave you two specific, recent examples of Canadians who were in China and arrested in response to Meng Whanzhou being held for extradition to the US. While she was living in a mansion they were in jail with 24 hour lighting, daily questioning for hours, and being denied to consulate officials. I'm not against China or making a political statement about their domestic policies, but I'm not oblivious to foreigners having no rights there or recourse which is certainly not the case here. As a Canadian the other frustration is this was really a US-China spat and Canada was immaterial.
Compared to the tech world HN is obsessed with, a majority of businesses have a more direct relationship between labor and productivity.

If you run a store in NYC that needs three workers at all time to operate, there's no getting around the fact that giving every employee time off will result in less productivity per year per employee. If you run a construction or transportation business - you need a certain number of people (maybe even legally) to operate at any time.

For the tech world and other white collar jobs for which it is true that time off may help the headline above isnt as applicable. While probably still behind european counterparts, many of these jobs in the US already have real vacation time and generous remote work options.
I am looking for someone who can develop a good two panel file manager for iPad. Please check my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269536
>The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment.

The article specifically rejects this way of thinking and makes the point that the electrons are not in the cloud. The electrons are the cloud. Thinking of them as little balls whizzing about so fast that it seems cloud-like is wrong.
People never looked at the need for foreign language with enough granularity. For example there was never and real large demand for Westerners to communicate with mainland China. We send specs, they manufacture them. China doesn’t really do FDI here. Now there was a time language skills were a major plus in law or finance in Hong Kong, but I’m not sure about that anymore. The new US TSMC plants might have some needs but probably won’t have trouble filling them.
Every physicist learns about Rutherford's gold foil experiment, this is why they are considered empty.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/electronic-str....

Carl Sagan was just trying make some of these observations intelligible to children.

I can't take this article seriously if it doesn't engage with the discovery of the structure of the atom, and disregards the experiments where they shoot stuff through and it passes mostly unperturbed - because well its actually mostly empty.
Increased output leads to increased demand. If last week I could pump out 3 solid PRs that fixed issues in our product, then it will be expected that I pump out 20 PRs using AI in a week. Information Engineers are going to be in more demand than ever, the title is just going to change to Platform Engineering because that's the level we will be expected to operate at with the new tooling. This is why there's a multitude of LLM frontends being released every week. That is no longer skilled labor and an elementary school child with enough time can do it. But building an entire platform that can scale and has 5 9's uptime?

When an AI can do that, then we panic.
What a class act of a reply! I applaud this!
> Hard to imagine how that could lead to any security compromise

Integer overflows as a vulnerability class are often very bad, but usually when they're describing an attacker-controlled memory allocation size (which the attacker's buffer will then go on to overflow, often to byte-specific length accuracy). Sounds like the reviewer here could have been someone primed to think that "integer overflow" meant "integer overflow controlling a memory allocation", which doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
Joel,

Thank you for putting this together. My dad is getting very old and I plan to discuss what you have here with my brothers.

On a related note, when my mother and aunt passed, I learned to do a couple things:

1) What do they want for final arrangements? e.g. burial site / cremation / funeral mass

2) if buried, it is important to make arrangements while they are alive. They do not charge more if dead, but they do give discounts if alive. I know same thing, but I believe the semantics are a legal issue

3) if a mass, what kind and type? My cousins who were caring for my aunt were of a different religion, so I was asked to figure it out. Lot of pressure for something I was not familiar with doing.

Once again, thank you for your template.
No, in a functioning democracy, it is the job of the legislature to write laws. However, looks like we can barely pass a budget most years. I saw Jeff Jackson from North Carolina say on tick tock that it is likely that we won’t even be able to do that on time this year.
At a very high level, I am very interested in the general concept that sometimes, the same thing that causes you a problem can be the solution to the problem.

Examples I have come up with so far:

1. radiation: causes cancer, but preferentially kills cancer cells

2. glue: sticks, but can be used to dissolve old glue to separate stuck things

3. violence: threat of mutually assured destruction can lead to peace, theoretical

4. infection: stimulates your immune system against further infection

5. ???
Border officials != immigration officials, asylum seeker != all people crossing a border.
I don’t have a dog in this thread’s particular fight and am basically just doomscrolling on a Friday night.

But I don’t think English is a nominally supported language in Quebec. IIRC all of Canada outside of Quebec requires dual signage in english + French, but Quebec only requires French. I’d guess Gare bonaventure is an artifact of that law rather than a translation strategy.
Talking about it, sharing our stories, making sure people get just how shitty it really is happens to be a great way to set an expectation for change.

And there is this: The change, if there is to be one, will have to come from us. A whole lot of us.

Most great things do.

This idea of using an LLM in some meaningful way is as laughable as watching the world burn while people squabble over baubles and trinkets is maddening.
I suppose that's fair way to look at it, but people are being left with the impression that the problem is inherent in the tests, when the problem is entirely separate from the tests themselves.
Yeah, I thought GNOME 2 was pretty usable. MATE is around now but aging and probably forever X11-only. Rebuilding GNOME 2 on Wayland and with modern necessities like fractional scaling would be a worthy project.
On what time frame? I bought one for around February. Maybe if you are buying same day it's that expensive?
Organized in the sense that it was coordinated.
Which part of Taiwan did You visit? I visit Taiwan yearly. Only those night vendors served tourist area speak basic English. Futher away from Taipei my English less useful. Doing business with English is painfully slow.
I dont speak Mandarin I usually rely on my basic Taiwanese dialect.

In Malaysia it is depend on which part of Malaysia. Not all Malaysian Chinese can speak Mandarin. Certain part speak Cantonese or other dialect.
It’s not for lack of money though just Netflix chooses poorly and has no long term vision. Apple TV Is the new HBO. While Netflix originals barely make it past season 1
Computation is a human abstraction. If you want to claim the universe computes anything you’ve got a big metaphysical mountain to climb.
Will there be an 'App Store' moment for AI?
Many people have talked about generative AI as the next platform enabling a new wave of apps, akin to the release of the App Store. But companies like Microsoft and Google have an edge over outside app developers given their existing scale plus their access to cutting-edge models, better datasets, cost savings from better infrastructure, etc. If a generative AI app gets enough traction, they can easily copy it. And unlike Apple, model providers do not have an incentive to foster a vibrant community of third-party apps. Do you think an 'App Store'-like wave of innovation is possible with generative AI? Or will innovation at the app layer be confined to the Microsoft/Google/OpenAI walled gardens?
original is paywalled.
Betteridge’s Law is also holding well here
I had the same question. Being thrown into a payment page right after providing your email is very jarring. I don't want to pay for a product without even giving it a spin.
> it really seems like AI is better suited to displace management and executives, not the people who perform specialized and physical work

Management and executives are the ones holding the purse strings for these expensive solutions. Why would they implement something that could replace them?
For the case of the billboard, what happens if you viewed them thru glasses (let's suppose it's google glass), and you use software to blot out the parts of the billboard you don't like?

You're not painting over the billboard, just blocking the light reflected off it for yourself. It does not affect others.
China has peaked. Anyone studying mandarin will be like those studying Japanese at the peak of Japan Inc. in the 80s. Globalization was a great time for some while it lasted though, hope some of you of age have made money during the zenith.
Well permit requirements are highly variable. As I understand it, in surprisingly large parts of California, the permit is almost automatic. In other parts of California, there are more complex regulations and sometimes even requirements to meter and pay for (!) well water usage. Cough, Santa Clara, cough.

I’d actually be all in favor, except that the rate for non-agricultural users seems to be over 10x the rate for agricultural users.
It took SpaceX 6 years from conception to its first successful launch, then another couple of years to start regular launches of the falcon platform. Now, I pretty much can watch Spacex rockets launch pretty much every week from my backyard.

Your argument that a for profit company would only do this for PR is odd. SpaceX doesn’t need to spend this capital for PR. What PR does the company actually need? Right now they are then only western space platform capable of reliably delivering passengers and supplies to and from the ISS.