skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a delivery consultant in a Generative AI specialty practice for an extremely large cloud services consultancy, I can say with certainty that failure to achieve results with the latest models is definitely more of a reflection of the abilities of the user, and much less the abilities of the model.

A lot of people look at LLMs through the same lens that they have looked at all other technology to this point — that if you learn and master the interface to the technology, then this eventually equates to mastering the technology itself. This is normalizing in the sense that there is a finite and perceptible floor and ceiling to mastering an objective technology that democratizes both its mastery and use in productivity.

But interacting with LLMs that are in the class of higher-reasoning agents does not follow the same pattern of mastery. The user’s prompts are embedded into a high-dimensional space that is, for all intents and purposes, infinitely multi-faceted and it requires a significant knack for abstract thought in order to even begin the journey of understanding how to craft a prompt that is ideal for the current problem space. It also requires having a good intuition for managing one’s own expectations around what LLMs are excellent at, what they perform marginally at, and what they can fail miserably at.

Users with backgrounds in humanities, language arts, philosophy and a host of other liberal arts — while maintaining a good handle on empirical logic and reason, are the users who consistently excel and continue to unlock and discover new capabilities in their LLM workflows.

I’ve used LLMs to solve particularly hairy DevOps problems. I’ve used them to refactor and modularize complicated procedural prototype code. I’ve used them to assist me in developing UX strategy on multimillion dollar accounts. I’ve also used them to teach myself mycology and scale up a small home lab.

When it comes to highly-objective and logical tasks, such as the development of source code, they perform fairly well, and if you can figure out the tricks to managing the context window, many hours of banging head against desk or even weeping and gnashing of teeth can be saved.

When it comes to more subjective tasks, I’ve discovered that it’s better to switch gears and expect something a little different from your workflow. As a UX design assistant, it’s better for comprehensive abstract thinking, identifying gaps, looking around corners, guiding one’s own thoughts and generally being a “living notebook”.

It’s very easy for people who lack any personal or educational development in the liberal arts or the affinity for and abilities of abstract thought to type some half-cocked pathetic prompt into the text area, fire it off and blame the model. In this way, the LLM has acted as sort of a mirror, highlighting their ignorance, metaphorically tapping its foot waiting for them to get their shit together. Their lament is a form of denial.

The coming age will separate the wheat from the chaff.
This American Life has an interesting episode on rats.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/801/must-be-rats-on-the-bra...

Act One, “Fifty First Rats” (22 minutes), is particularly interesting in that it showcases the inventiveness and awareness of rats.
Must Be Rats on the Brain, from This American Life [audio]
I’ve bought a bunch of Stripe’s books and all the ones I have are beautiful objects. My one complaint is the text in some is too small for my aging eyes. I ended up getting an electronic version of Dream Machines for my ereader where I could choose a larger font.
I use xmonad as a tiling wm, which I guess is quite similar to i3, but what I mean is that you can control all apps with vim like experience a la vimium.
For example controlling gimp with vim key bindings.
Does i3wm support that?

It sounds like this app for windows does that.
That you can't tell me a single location kinda proves my point, doesn't it?

"on the internet" to me seems equivalent to "you could always open a stand somewhere on the side of a dusty road and sell your consumer goods there"...
I asked ChatGPT4 for the best commercial alternatives to vanta black:

1) Black 3.0
2) Musou Black
3) Singularity Black

Found a reddit post of someone saying they painted their laptop with black 3.0 but the paint rubs off and its not something they'd want to handle on a daily basis.

Best I could find is a video of someone painting a laptop case with musou black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvSX12MITk which while looks awesome it also looks like it would rub off on everything you own so probably not realistic either.

Did more research and found this reddit post of someone who anodized their macs: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/wswe1r/my_anodized_mac...

Now I'm wondering how dark a matte look you can get using a similar approach.
From the emails that were released in court, it's clear that if they did not enable his crimes, they certainly profited from them and encouraged the continuance of the enterprise. The entire family exudes entitlement
Ok thank you, maybe I'll try again at some point. I got through episode 2 or 3 two different times and quit. I could not believe how bored I was with the show compared to how much I loved the books.
Taste is... hard to define. I know quite a lot of artists that lack of taste, but nowadays you need to look for originality offline.

Online consumption shape digital creative work significantly. AI wont help here either.
I’m reading Pandora’s Star right now. BOY is the “world building” tedious compared to The Expanse!

I usually read before bed. There’s been times where I have to restrain myself from waking up my partner by moaning in frustration while he spends page after page on some nonsense that adds nothing to the story. There’s something interesting in there. But I feel like it’s at least 50% fluff.
Depends on acceleration of each tech and inherent ease, algo progress.
Not telling you. There are scammers everywhere
Those companies license the product. If you had read my comment you would understand.
That is false. At the same speed, the SUV will have MUCH worse performance.

Porsche 911 Turbo braking distance, 70mph-0: 133ft

For most typical SUVs, that value is 160-well over 200ft. That's multiple car lengths of distance. Easily the difference between rear-ending someone and not.
Everyday Diwali.

Happy Diwali.
Alan Perlis is cool. :D
Or a winter day at high latitudes. I'm convinced the Illuminati (it's in the name, no?) arranged the roads so you're always driving into the sun wherever and whenever you're going.
But... It is an awesome process? And it does look cool and is 'more black'?
Wishing all a Happy Diwali and a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year :-)
Excuse me, you're calling me a scammer? I suggest you click on my username and see that it is a very legitimate account, with twice the karma as you to boot. I think you're more likely to be the one scamming! Don't listen to 'Aeolun, everyone!
It's a visual count. The visual system probably isn't optimized for counting. It identifies and tracks objects, but not many. I'm not surprised 4 is a common boundary, and I also wouldn't be surprised if it were somewhat hard-coded. It could well be limited by a "lower" layer.

The experiment is artificial, so it might not represent counting in a more natural setting, where e.g. the objects might have features that distinguish them better. The article brushes over that.
Random Walk Down Wall Street
Same here but I like their writing style, so I have hope
I'd expect change to come either from stronger regulation of agriculture that makes it much harder to produce meat, or if that's not introduced, from huge food shortages after desertification and other climate change effects become more pronounced.

As long as meat is produced in sufficient quantity and at prices consumers can afford, I don't expect huge change from them.
But that misses the point. The politicians are not arguing for a world where nobody can encrypt. They want strong encryption which can only be opened by two groups: the intended recipient, and the authorities.

We know that such a system will inevitably lead to other groups also gaining the ability. Rich criminals, security services all around the globe (friendlies and the enemies too). Either by bribing, or impersonating authority figures or by stealing the backdoor keys. What is at dispute with the politicians is the probability of this happening.

How would a service voluntarily leaking the private information of politicians convince them that we cannot build a backdoor into encryption without that backdoor proliferating widely?
It took a long time to get it there, but my current config hasn't changed significantly in ~5 years, and it works very effectively
Note that openai added the "seed" parameter to get deterministic results in the last release.
> Who the f would replace a laptop for a slightly darker shell? smh

Heaps of people. You know there's literally billions of people, right?
You can state it like that if you wrap it in `unsafe`.
The huge list of projects from that era of Apple really shows how aimless they were.

I remember at the time how more and more irrelevant they seemed compared to the Wintel behemoth, and that really didn’t start to turn around until the G3 iMac, and later the iPod.
You're only describing potentially Sam Altman, literally none of the others.
That's readable, in contrast to class magic.
> the compiler standard library was not a serious proposition, it is becoming more so now.

This is actually one of my grief with OCaml. I wish I didn't have to use Core. I don't look much at the std library anymore.

My other grief is async (Lwt or Async). It forces to use monads which don't look very pretty in OCaml. That being said, I haven't looked at what OCaml 5.0 bring to the table on that front. This was my experience 5 years ago basically...
Do parents print these out? I feel like using devices near bed time with kids is a bad idea
So this guy can track every trade that Buffet made over his lifetime, but somehow it's hard to figure out who was on the other end of that trade?
There's a lot of evidence from other studies of being able to track about 4 simultaneous objects. It looks like (but we don't have concrete evidence quite yet) that somewhere (maybe higher level parts of the visual cortex, maybe something higher level like state scratch pads, maybe something else we haven't thought of) there's a four wide logical pathway. When we overload it, it seems that we sort of time slice whatever it is, jumping between the objects at roughly four at a time. In addition to performance tests, there's also the data point that there's a surprising amount of languages in pre agricultural societies that have words for 'one' through 'four', but anything else is some degree of 'many'.

And yeah, you can train your brain to see larger sets if they're in a pattern that the middle parts of the visual cortex can train on, but the limit does seem to be around 4 visual symbols/tokens concurrently.

Another place you see an interesting bandwidth limitation is that pretty much all languages have a pretty fixed semantic bits per secondnwhen spoken. Specifically around 39 bits per second. We can listen and hear faster but rates, but it's very difficult to speak faster. Similar to the above discussion the cute hack to go faster is to essentially give a single internal symbol to a larger sequence of syllables through training, not casting off the limitation but sort of hacking around it. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
This might very well be a nvidia problem, their driver comes with its own suspend functions which replaces your default one during install (it usually tells you on the dnf install screen)
He did. They were published in newspapers in the 1970s, under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/11/a-stroke-of-th...
There will also be DynArrays in the stdlib from 5.2: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/11882
Unfortunately, some parents believe in "tough love" (throw them into the ocean to learn them to swim).
"Top Beast TV Reseller" Faces Lawsuit for Selling Pirate IPTV Packages
Using the Ninja build system to generate this site
I'm having a hard time swallowing remote attestation as a concept. You can prove your system *thinks* it runs the same firmware/config/OS as intended by the operator, but you're still vulnerable to a broad range of hardware/OS bugs. If e.g. your NIC firmware gets hit with an APT and quietly starts doing DMA to exfiltrate data, does the system still show green on boot? How do you even verify blobs, yes you can decompile but what good does it do if you don't have the chip spec? I think IOMMU brings far more value.

And then the scary prospect where the same tech gets shoved into consumer PCs and used against the interests of the machine's owner. It's true this is useful in a corporate setting, but it's walking a thin line, one that e.g. Google would be happy to cross with something like WEI.
So for your analogy, would you say the solution for compressed dynamic range in music recording would be for artists to use, say, guitar distortion or other audio choices for emphasis in music rather than playing with loudness?
Honestly, I think the answer is 'keep the site/community very niche'. Since the more niche the topic, the more the community both tends to stay civil and stick to the original vision.

The somewhat more general gaming community I used to run devolved into chaos a couple of years in, and eventually the visions of myself, the staff team and many of the actual members all diverged dramatically, leading to almost complete collapse and no end of drama.

On the other hand, the much more niche site I currently about a very specific series has stayed mostly drama free for the last decade, and works exactly as I'd want it to. Probably in part because the only people who join are those who actually want to discuss the topic in question.
Yeah I've been down the exact same paths as you. You're spot on, it's a statistical merge and "RAG" is literally "filter the probabilities and change the odds".

The main argument is that you can give it a block of real-world data like an email or code and take advantage of collective knowledge to identify outliers like bugs, bad grammar or incoherent writing which translates exactly to code semantics too.
This author clearly knows nothing about the way an LLM works and did not bother to do any actual research either.

Articles like this just make me go shrug, ok, you and those that believe you can just go on thinking that it's nothing but hype. More benefit for those that do understand what they are good for and what not.
For 5.0+ you might want to look at https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/eio for how effects can make async much more pleasant
Oh, now I got it. Thank you so much for clarifying.
> It partially helps since it forces you to have types where they matters most: exported functions

But the problém the OP has is not knowing the types when reading the source (in the .ml file).

> How would it feels like to use list if only https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/stdlib/list.ml was available,

If the signature where in the source file (which you can do in OCaml too), there would be no problem - which is what all the other (for some definition of "other") languages except C and C++ (even Fortran) do.

No, really, I can't see a single advantage of separate .mli files at all. The real problém is that the documentation is often worse too, as the .mli is autogenerated and documented afterwards - and now changes made later in the sources need to be documented in the mli too, so anything that doesn't change the type often gets lost. The same happens in C and C++ with header files.
CppCon is a very niche audience in my experience. Most "C++ programmers" use a subset of C++11 with some UB sprinkled here and there. When you care about productivity I'm starting to suspect that's actually fine.
You appear to be missing the point. The point is to play with GPT in an environment where we have good baselines.
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That's true, but Go's backwards compatibility is a side-effect of another design goal, one that many contemporary languages do not share: Keeping the language small and stable, and actively trying not to add shiny new features.

Many languages have pretty good or even excellent backwarsds compatibility. In languages that incude as many features as possible, that quickly becomes a burden that requires it's own fair share of developer attention.
This is the way. Firefox may not have a CLI arg for saving PDFs, but they expose it through DevTools API and it can be automated with Playwright, Selenium (or plain http requests) etc
That wasn’t my point. Let me try again.

I’ve been writing lots of Prolog recently and asking ChatGPT questions. Many of my questions have been sincere but a bit like the bear trainer — ridiculous for someone who knows what they are doing. Meanwhile ChatGPT will answer it as if the premise is valid. The answer is valid sounding nonsense, which may lead you on a wild goose chase — a bit like the aspiring space bear trainer.

It isn’t assuming that I’m asking from a “hypothetical and for a potentially fictional purpose”. If GPT is in effect a conditional probability distribution over tokens, it isn’t “assuming” at all.

This IMO is a clear challenge to sense making for ChatGPT which is not obviously fixable through fine tuning. I don’t think factfulness is either because low contrast examples are hard to train for, especially if they are compounds of true things . Eg “tell me about logic regression”
This sounds a bit like it. Haven't tried it yet, though.

https://github.com/phil294/vimium-everywhere
Of course, but those were not yet available in 2017. Skaffold v0.1.0 was released in february 2018, v1.0 (first version number which we would've seriously considered) not until november 2019. ArgoCD v1.0 was released in may 2019.

When we were first releasing this Helm charts were considered pretty unproven and AWS didn't have a managed k8s offering yet. It was very early days.
OSHA was established in 1970. It didn't exist prior, and it took some time for rules to get more stringent, and for the risks and liabilities it represented to be realized as additional costs.
Text and music are two completely separate forms of medium with completely different conventions. Your insistence on comparing them is meaningless.
A helpful perspective for anyone working with this tech: The LLMs "know" things as a side effect of teaching them to speak - more value comes from using this as a basis to augment a solution like completing code grounded in documentation.

In other words, don't rely on the LLM by itself, it just happens to be able to remember most information as a side effect of its learning. Most important is the ability of these systems to transform knowledge and data when appropriate. Don't use it to read CSV's for example.
How to attach logic probes to tiny SMD components (2021)
Hmm. How did the mongols do that? Qanat’s are not magical water making devices, they are just a long tunnel which leads the water already in the ground to the surface. Even if the Mongols were actively demolishing the tunnels the water is still there underground.

Maybe there is some second order effect I am not aware of, but this statement sounds fishy to me.
Why is everyone using "passive aggressive" these days when they really mean "irritated"? The parents in your example situation couldn't be really accused (even implicitly) of being aggressive and they are definitely not passive.

And there's nothing wrong with being irritated.

The phrase used to mean responses like "I wonder why some people act like moronic pieces of shit about others' seats". See how it's non-direct but aggressive at the same time?
PDF probably some some feature that let's you embed machine-readable data (or the original file in its entirety)

Reminds me of how Adobe Illustrator files were also pdf files and you could view them as PDFs when you rename the extension to .pdf. (this might also apply to Photoshop .psd files)
I mean, the last time the settlement was like $27 per person in the suit?

And the form to get that settlement meant giving some random authority more personal information than these companies even have.

I would keep going too.
The "white paint" parent is referring to can passively cool the surface a few degrees below ambient temperature 24/7 (yes, even at night). I could imagine worse investments.
Thanks! I spent a decent amount of time messing around with regex nonsense before I realized Spacy could work for this. I decided to leave the regex approach in as an option anyway since it still works reasonably well and is lighter weight.
Projects like devicetree exist to help standardize device drivers.

(Wild idea) I wonder whether NetBSD could be turned into something like device drivers or firmware?

This is actually quite common. The Qualcomm modem in your phone is very likely running QuRT, Intel ME famously runs Minix, Apple apparently uses some version of the L4 micro-kernel family in their Secure Enclave IIRC.
It isn't the worst deal because you don't have to worry about paying rent, so you can just focus 100% on getting good at whatever skillset you choose to pursue.
I Crossed the Deadliest Jungle: Darien Gap [video]
Sharing this reddit thread because I was looking to solve this problem myself and thought that the needle-probe approach linked was terrific!

Hackaday summary:
https://hackaday.com/2019/11/15/needling-your-projects-3d-pr...

Model for 3D printing: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3615910
This is obtuse. Why are you going from one sentence, saying the font size is disproportionate or whatever, then saying your font is Noto Sans? It's fine to pick Noto, that is not my disagreement. But if you are having one setting by the typographer and then choose to override them... yeah, it might be ugly. Because you changed it and are not a typographer. A typeset might not look good in every setting. That's why we have typographers to turn them into visually appealing fonts.
For PHP there's the option of binary distribution using php-micro, sadly not all devs are into it as "just brew". They don't realize that the end user isn't a PHP dev and that having to install the runtime is an annoying step.

https://github.com/easysoft/phpmicro
We were also pretty surprised that the regressions (keyboard/mouse/SCSI were not working and there was an incorrect frame buffer address for some of the NeXT slab models) were introduced that long ago - NetBSD 5.2.3 was released on November 15, 2014.

It took us quite some time to figure out that most of the bugs we observed when running NetBSD in the previous emulator were not bugs in the emulator but also showed up on real hardware...
And rare earth minerals. And God help you if you're trying to use it to replace a steady source of energy with them, because the battery requirements go parabolic. Though, we are seeing some innovation in the battery space that replaces some of those rare earth minerals with more abundant and less hard to mine materials, such as zinc.
It's not that wild of an idea. Some one has probably played around with using the net bad rump kernel in openbsd.
He left Rust long before ? was introduced.
No. But this should give you an idea about the issues in about 30-60 seconds

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110133/visual-compar...
Do they offer family cells at Club Fed?
I'd argue that an electrically-powered gas-filled airship is more of a hybrid, as the helium/hydrogen does all the lifting..... but damn, that's very cool!

This is before AC motors were even a thing, and the Siemens DC motor they were using was the highest of high-tech in existence at the time.
>Cooling is a bigger issue in space

Is this due to the raw sunlight? If so, wouldn't using a sunshield immediately reduce the heat to far below zero?
Or is circulation the problem?
We have plans to launch this as a free downloadable pdf every week/month and option to purchase a printed version if interested
The video they posted on YouTube is from 11 Mar 2009 - so 14 years old. So the guy who did this is now 29.