skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I’ve been meaning to check out BLC encoding some and I really appreciate you posting this. It’s a great read!

I can’t speak to the practical nature of my encoding, but I wanted it to be air tight and to only encode closed terms. For my latest scheme, 0 maps to the identity function and 1 maps to the identity function calling itself.

I just got caught up in the idea of compactly representing all sorts of recursive data types as integers to create an airtight bijection.

That took me down the rabbit hole where I wanted to explore how I could use balanced pairing functions to map to data types instances restricted by constraints. For example, maybe you want to map the integers to the set of terms that can be simply typed, or some other constraint.

The way I see it is if you can come up with ways to declaratively and efficiently select subsets of these bijections, one could reduce some problems to brute force, by shrinking the search space. (Something the Alloy modeling language does)

That’s when I came across this repo and associated paper titled Fair Enumeration Combinators and learned about the SciFe library Scala library.

https://github.com/ikuraj/SciFe

But practically speaking, I suspect you’re right about BLC being a good practical candidate for an index.

Again, great post!
I wonder if the % of taxes they pay is the same as the actual middle class.
oh fair enough. Didn't know the timing of that, so I thought it was connected.
"Increased cumulative atmospheric energy" is better but less catchy than global warming. It can manifest as either temperature or kinetic energy.
Amazingly, a classic first release Macintosh was vastly worse. Blurry and visible scan lines/interlace.
Sorry to hear. What turned out to be the cause of the smell, and how was it resolved? I hope you and your family are better now.
For multiple reasons we need actual foresters to build ecosystems, not just plant a bunch of trees. They also need to be built to maintain themselves, not be reliant on continued investment. Bonus points for building ecosystems that support a small amount of logging.
Or you could just share a plan for that "modernization project that focused on a sweeping tech upgrade" you've prepared along, highlighting the implications for feature delays, and potentially waste only the time spend preparing said plan. Don't even need to ask a question/"excuse"
And with more of these, you could track where everyone is all the time!

Here's a camera based video people counter.[1] This is a bit less intrusive.

[1] https://github.com/saimj7/People-Counting-in-Real-Time
To be clear, it was not just for my personal use. I brought it in at the request of my team and it was available for anyone to use. The team had a collection jar and we all pitched in for maintenance and supplies, just like we did with our team’s foosball table (also later removed by management for poorly specified reasons).
Anecdotally most of my friends are now quick to attribute their (mostly benign) behaviors to various mental health shortcomings. This is new, the same people ten years ago were not doing this.

My narrative (based entirely on hunches) is that it has become very trendy in social media to assign any “strange” behavior to mental disorders like autism, adhd, bipolar… Conveniently, the same social media that thrives on cultivating these behaviors. Short attention spans, niche interests, and mood swings are all part of the SM addiction machine.

So social media says “you might have ADHD if (insert normal thing)”. People self identify, and now watching videos for 4 hours can be chalked up to the mental deficiency instead of the addictive substance.

Over-all this trend to me is a way of relinquishing responsibility, since it’s “just my brain” it is outside of one’s locus of control.

There is also more pressure now than ever to be a rational economic agent, and compared to that most of us have forgetfulness, procrastination, social shortcomings, moods that are not conducive to being an employee, etc.

I have a hard time believing that modern people are any more mentally challenged than those in the past, we are just much more quick to pathologies normal human experiences. It is convenient that this pathologizing is a boon for TikTok.
"The first talk, Running Ubuntu Desktop on Arm-based laptops, focused on one of the only open-market Arm-based lappies that isn't a ChromeBook, the Lenovo Thinkpad X13S."

How is X13S besides the ISA?
> says Sarah McAnulty, a squid biologist and founder of Skype a Scientist who was not involved with the research.

Something I have always wondered about articles on research papers. Is it the norm or standard that they always consult and expert in the same field that wasn't part of the research? why is this?

I have seen this in many physics articles too. I am not against it as it seems purposeful.
I think another notable difference is that Vancouver Specials are nominally single family detached homes, but the design does lend itself to turning the main floor into a decently sized, above ground rental suite. All without requiring the kind of major renovations that cause city inspections.
Very scary. He comes across as grandpa but in there is a lurking stalin struggling to get out. We all have bad and good in us. Even trump. Biden reminds me of Chamberlain and unfortunately the pain in America will elect more ‘dynamic’ and controlling politicians to stand up to the rising tide of the new fascism
> They can't force you to sell, you have the option of just updating the declared value to the new market price.

This isn't implicationless. What if you can't afford the taxes on the newly declared price?

A whale could conceivably force people out by offering a price above their ability to afford the taxes. If they don't sell, they get evicted due to tax nonpayment. If they do sell, they get the money but now need to find a new place to live in an appreciated market. Their autonomy is removed by force.
Yeah, kind of. Client-server commands sent over WebSockets are translated into JS function calls (using HTTP as a transport); the functions could be used to send some data back, set up a subscription, or whatever. Similarly, you can broadcast messages to connected clients via HTTP.
What's the advantage of this over just using divs for everything, though? If this used shadow dom, I could understand. But custom elements don't even behave like blocks by default. Namespace collisions with custom components are just as bad as class collisions, if not worse since you can't `.myns.button`. Is it just the `connectedCallback` versus some manual method of wiring up elements to their javascript behaviors?
Great question!

I noticed there's a huge interest to play poker within founder communities.

But online poker strips out all the best social elements of a solid in-person game.

And getting a large group of people together for an in-person game is extremely time consuming to setup / limited to people within your geo.

So we decided to build the most high-end way to setup a private games with the people that matter most to you.

1. High-end: We use real dealers + real cards to power your game.

2. Highly Social: Completely changed the traditional online poker UI to support conversations. You can jump from table-to-table, have 1:1 convos with others, integrated music, etc.

3. League format: We setup private leagues for groups to have that social excuse to get together more regularly. As I've gotten older, it's harder and harder to get a big group together in one place. This makes it easy + access the people that matter most to you from the comfort of your home.

It's been really fun to build, would love to get feedback from the YC community!
One of my best professional attributes is my willingness to stop everything until I understand what's going on if I'm confused or something seems unclear to me.
No one trusts BlackRock because nearly every single person knows about shell corporations and all the shadiness global/american[ corporations do.

I 100% believe BlackRock is manipulating the housing market in some nasty fashion.
In this case, I believe the point is the lack of gatekeeping. For Luxury brands, you have to have that amount to start getting them. For physical casinos, you have to leave your dwelling to go there.
However, for these sorts of games not only is it easy, but almost forced on people that play any other ad-based game. I know people don't have to click on the ad, but they do. In fact, realistically that's probably 90-95% of the games out there - start free, then have players pay to get "better" virtual items/outcomes.
Futhermore, once you start those same factors are amplified. Instead of having to go somewhere else, you can game at any time, so there is even less reason to have second thoughts about it.
+1 What a horrific spewing of ads and crap.
If there is no incentive to conserve water it would be wasted anyway. If there is an incentive farmers would choose crops which need less water.
> But some good science got done, without having to toe the party line, and without having to bend metrics and having to publish lots of repeated nonsense.

Yeah no one should doubt that there wasn't good science coming out of Soviet Russia. Anyone that thinks so is ignoring a lot of history and this belief contradicts the entire premise of the Cold War. I mean how many countries have sent probes to the moon (~9 of them)? What about to other planets? What about Mars? (US/USSR/China. USSR and Russia all crashed and China is only 2020). And they produced a lot of good mathemticians, even if they discriminated against the Jews (google "Jewish Math Problems").

I agree, the system is definitely not preferred and too political, but no one should doubt that there weren't world class researchers from there. My concern is really that we're adopting such bureaucratic prioritization. It's also worth noting that this dominance of bureaucrats/politicians played a major role in the Chernobyl disaster, though neither should discount the fact that this was highly classified research at the time given how new the technology was. (Also let's not forget what happened to academic in China...)
If you are only doing web as documents with links. As soon as you use any Forms and error back-and-forth you have to either patch over the web stardards, or annoy your users with sub-par functionality.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxuWWGo8AY&t=9
I love Ben Hur! The book is slightly longer than the movie, and has angles not in the movie at all. That's not to say either is lesser. I think both of them are quite representative of the story. If you want to discuss this, I'm on twitter with the same ID.
Are there other forms of long term natural carbon storage than hydrocarbures or shale gas? Because a wood branch eventually decades and reemit the carbon, if it doesn't get buried deep in (usually sea) ground
My mental model for LLMs was built by carefully studying the distribution of its output vocabulary at every time step.

There are tools that allow you to right click and see all possible continuations for an LLM like you would in a code IDE[1]. Seeing what this vocabulary is[2] and how trivial modifications to the prompt can impact probabilities will do a lot for improving the mental model of how LLM operate.

Shameless self plug, but software which can do what I am describing is here, and it's worth noting that it ended up as peer reviewed research.

[1] https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Constrained-Text-Genera...
[2] https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Constrained-Text-Genera...
I'm not sure there are a lot of cases where you want to run a LLM on some data that the user is not supposed to have access to. This is the security risk. Only give your model some data that the user should be allowed to read using other interfaces.
Fully agree with this. Continued investment with forest ecosystem maintainers in place is best solution.
LLMs are not booksmart Harvard grads or anything else. They are extremely complex statistical models doing next-token prediction. That's it - that's all. If you want a proper mental model of LLMs, you need to understand this - the thing you're doing is text prediction. You do not have a partner engaged in cognition, you have a ludicrously complicated language model trained on a large corpus of data. If the bulk of that data happens to assert that the sky is blue, the model is likely, but not guaranteed, to finish the sentence "What color is the sky" with "Blue". That's it. That's the trick.
From the README:

> By default, it recognizes three shapes: Arrow, Check mark, and Ellipse.

> You can add more templates by drawing them and clicking on the Add Template button.

It worked well for the three - except a clockwise circle wouldn't work, only a counter-clockwise.
Same issue here. Very slow and unreliable.
Data Networks are Lightly Utilized, and will Stay that Way (2003) [pdf]
"the right to own property, and to trade it without coercion."

I don't think that's a good definition of capitalism. But to your point, that's why having these conversations are difficult - people don't have similar definitions for the same words.

I think such conversations can be valuable and meaningful, but when talking to someone who holds very different opinions, I think it's crucial to start with agreeing on clear definitions of words you'll be using. Sometimes that can take a while.
Blackstone owns 0.03% of SFHs in the US.
This seems to be more of an issue with rings than diamonds though ?

Unknown quality ~6.5 mm second-hand lab-grown diamond : $0.8k :

https://louped.com/lab-grown-diamond114927.html

High quality ~6.5 mm new lab-grown diamond : $1.2k :

https://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/lab-created-diamon...

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Crappy ~6.4 mm second-hand natural diamond : $3k :

https://louped.com/gia-certified-round-diamond-114841.html

https://www.freediamondreport.com/report/lab/GIA/cert/545639...

High quality ~6.5 mm new natural diamond : $3.5k-3.9k :

https://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/round-cut?carat=0....

(Clarity doesn't seem to matter that much, because it has not much effect as long as it can't be seen to the naked eye, which in these except the worst one it probably won't be ? https://beyond4cs.com/clarity/ )
I'm not sure "beauty" is the word I would have chosen.

But it's really important to emphasize this: by the time things get bad enough to really notice, it will be far too late to stop them from getting much, much worse. Once the permafrost starts to melt and release it's methane, it's game over (and that process has already begun).
Playing Super Mario on an NES entirely by using radio transmission to your TV is wild.
I would love to know how much the increase actually is.

There is a local place that put up a sign that to pay all of their staff a livable wage they were increasing all of their prices by something like $0.20 (not percent).

A very minor increase in cost compared to the benefits.

If we are seeing a similar increase from these stores this is a complete non issue.

However I also feel like if we are going to do this we need to eliminate tips or at the very least the expectation of them.
Man your'e fighting the wrong combat...and doomed to loose.
What's crazy about that? It's the best way of tracking requests and seeing where an employee's time is going
Nature's clown fish
The UI always seems to be the least developed, which is ironic, considering no matter how good a given app is, when the UI sucks, the entire app sucks.
They spent money here to put up boxes with special moss in around here.....

And when you think that they put carbon into greenhouses to make the plants grow more.. I reckon extra carbon just means extra growth in plant life. Ie the plants are a natural balancing mechanism.
> Large Language Models are predictors. Not imitators, not simulators

How is it that an LLM can react to meta prompts like 'be brief' or 'Ensure responses are unique and without repetition' ?
The political power these companies have is unprecedented, and makes violence unnecessary.

Governments fear these companies because their black box algorithms can easily make or break elections and even drive people into the streets to protest or riot. Also, these companies have unlimited amounts of money to promote the policies and politicians that they want to see succeed.

With the exception of the East India Company at its height of its powers, no private entity has ever been permitted to accumulate this amount of political and economic power.
I'm going to have go push back on this.

I don't like the RoR community, not because they're bad people, but because I think they're insane from a tech perspective.

I only occasionally pick up RoR work because of how off-putting my first experience was. But what makes it worse is that every project I've been on (including one I just started on a few weeks ago) has just been a cluster.

What you're saying here is true in theory, but what you're not telling people is how the community is about as close to the attitude of npm as you can get on the server side. hundreds of gems on your typical application, many of which are used in 1 or 2 places, helping avoid a grand total of less than 5 lines of code.

Then there's the ratwheel you opt into with rails. Every single damned time I find myself having to manually patch libraries to get it working properly. I even once had to track down an old Ubuntu image of a version that had EoL'd 5 years prior and THEN had to manually patch a few C dependencies just to get it to build and run.

Don't even get me started on wkhtmltopdf, fuck that dependency. If you use that in your RoR project, fuck you.

^ that's only partially meant to be humourous.

My experience is that developers suggest RoR then run off into the sunset on their new project, leaving companies not understanding that they're now on a ratwheel of maintenance and upgrades until it's so bad only someone such as myself even has the skillset necessary to pick up the pieces.

Contrast this with asp.net core. Each LTS version is supported for 2 years (which is too short imo), but more importantly, you can install the EOL versions just fine. I would never recommend RoR over asp.net core (asp.net 6+ ... LTS only) because developer productivity isn't worth the maintenance cost.
I don't imagine the category of people who want to buy this being affected by this, it could be a plus point though.
What about RLHF training phase?
I don't 'include' stuff, I'm some rando. But if you check the guidelines, it's in there just not in the 'you can't respond to a thing in a comment' way which would make conversation impossible.
Heh. My previous workplace had a similar setup-- executives got perimeter offices with windows, everyone else got the bullpen.

Thankfully, the executives were rarely there and their doors were left open, so sunlight still got through.

Nothing is as bleak as security offices and SCIFs. Even the Soviets painted bunker interiors. Americans are too cheap.
Being American and having worked in American companies we absolutely are. Not as much as Asian countries, but much more than European countries.
We're not, the media is.
This is content marketing for their AI code assistant Cody, and doesn't offer much new information otherwise.
The rich and the most privileged will, but the poor masses will not.
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AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison
Except for Intel, the others, like AMD or NVIDIA, cut features that reduce the performance without having a software impact, and which indeed correspond to real reductions in the manufacturing cost, i.e. the number of cores, the size of the cache memories and the maximum clock frequencies.

Only Intel has always disabled features that have negligible impact on the manufacturing cost, but which force various expenses upon the customers, like the disabling of various instructions or of internal peripherals. Due to this Intel policy, there are still plenty of programs that run slower than they should on the latest CPUs, because they may have been built for instruction sets that have become obsolete more than a decade ago, like SSE.

The 10% memory throughput reduction is not negligible. There are 2 main scenarios for using a cheap Sapphire Rapids SKU, one would be to use it to host a very large number of SSDs, and the other would be to host some application that cannot be distributed over multiple servers and which wants a lot of memory. In the latter case, if the application has a performance dependent on the amount of memory, it is likely that it would also benefit from a faster memory, but with Sapphire Rapids if you want a 10% faster memory, which costs nothing extra in the price of the DIMMs, you may need to pay double or triple for the CPU.
I acknowledge there are fair points in all the replies. I'm not an avid user of LLM systems. Only explored a bit their capabilities. Looks like we're at the early stages when good / best practices of prompt isolation are yet to emerge.

To explain a bit better my point of view: I believe it will come down to something along the lines of "addslashes" applied to every prompt an LLM interprets. Which is why I reduced it to "an LLM can solve this problem". If you reflect on what "addslashes" does is it applies code to remove or mitigate special characters affecting execution of later code. In the same way I think LLM itself can self-sanitize its inputs in such a way that it cannot be escaped. If you agree that there's no character you can input that can remove an added slash then there should be a prompt equivalent of "addslashes" such that there's no way you can state an instruction that it can escape the wrapping "addslashes" that will mitigate prompt injection.

I did not think this all the way to the end in terms of impact on system usability but it should still be capable of performing most tasks but stay within bounds of intended usage.
NTSC colors were bad - really bad - but wideband bayer filters + sRGB are the source of the mediocre colors we see today.

We could have beautiful Kodachrome quality colors If we used narrow-band RGB filters and a wide gamut (Rec.2020, or Rec.2100PQ) colorspace. If you look at the spectral sensitivity specs of Kodachrome film they are fairly narrow-band and closely matched the perceptual sensitivity of human vision (CIE 1931).

If you display an sRGB encoded image with Rec.2020 gamut (without colorspace conversion) the colors will appear very washed out. If you display a Rec.2020 encoded image on sRGB (without colorspace conversion) it will appear oversaturated. Separately, narrower and/or more widely spaced bandpass filters will increase color saturation. It turns out that narrow-band filters approximating the CIE1931 curves are a natural match for the Rec.2020 colorspace. Since CIE1931 approximates how humans perceive color the colors are also more accurate.

It was a "lucky" accident that the properties of CRT phosphors, from which sRGB is derived were a good match for the wideband color filters used in color video cameras.
And what do humans do?
I find that bart large 410m [0] parameters does a fine job at summarizing. In Summer AI I alternate between using a copy of that bart large getting hyper-trained on feedback and Chat GPT 3.3 and honestly I don't have a preference between the results.

However, thanks to this article I might revisit the summarization techniques used a try a fine tuned 3.5.

It would be great to see these techniques compared to Chat GPT 4 Turbo.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn
It turns out that “GNU/Stallman was right” applies only to matters philosophical.
Interesting.

I looked up the world consumption of lumber in 2018 (pre-pandemic stuff). ~ 2.2billion cubic meters, a cubic meter of wood is ROUGHLY(really depends on species) 0.55 tons.

So If we doubled lumber production (which would help housing/construction and a lot of other sectors) wed at least offset the carbon created by roughly half.

Still wont come close to solving our CO2 emission issues but interesting because we could "get something" from the lumber vs just storing CO2.

Assuming 100% carbon capture into wood weight which is not realistic but I think it's a good thought exercise.