skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I, as a European, cannot fathom how anyone would spend a significant amount of money on an engagement ring

It's all thanks to more than 100 years of marketing campaign and tight control of supply of diamond by De Beers. People did not buy diamond rings before De Beers' "A diamond is forever", and the supply of natural diamond is practically unlimited. I have to give it to the ingenuity of De Beers - they got Soviet Union to agreed to a supply deal after Soviet Union found huge diamond mine that could have supplied the market with dirt cheap diamonds for hundreds of years! So, I'm very happy that Chinese entrepreneurs do not give a shit about De Beers and managed to figure out how to mass produce lab-made diamonds cheaply (yes, the process was invented and greatly improved by the west, but it was China, specifically the manufacturers in Henan Province, that didn't succumb to De Beers' heinous control, and gave De Beers a huge middle finger).

It's funny that the traditional diamond industry started to argue that these lab-grown diamonds were too pure and lacked the impurities that natural diamonds have. And what is the response of the Chinese manufacturers? They laughed, as adding impurity to a lab-made diamond can be easy and precise.

Personality, I hate the kind of consumerism and irrationality driven by De Beers. I'm very happy to see De Beers destroyed.
I've had good success with shipping luggage to my destination, instead of checking a bag for the gorillas to destroy, lose, etc.

I can also declare the value of my shipment, as opposed to the "we don't really care" compensation the airlines are forced to pay.
I've had a die off of the pinyon pine trees on my small lot, from bark beetles, and have lost about half of them. It's been a big job to clear them out. During that I've noticed that they are more likely to survive when closely paired with the other common tree in the area, a shaggy bark juniper. The junipers are resistant to the beetles and seem to bestow some of that on nearby pines.

It was 50/50 pine/juniper, now it's around 25/75, all due to loses in pine. Without the juniper the loss could have been another half as much pine. So my yard is an example of multiple species resulting in more carbon capture.
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I apologize in advance for criticism you only half deserve. I know this is HN, but not every single topic needs to be compared to LLMs or Blockchain. Concepts like fitness functions, selective pressures, feedback mechanisms, etc. -- as applied to both embodied organisms and constructs like cultures and ideologies -- predate not just the last two hype cycles but artificial computation altogether.

Referring to such deeply established foundation is normal -- I'm sure many of us remember when novel AI approaches like perceptrons and evolutionary algorithms were described by analogy to biology -- but skipping over the established literature to talk about nascent concepts makes you sound less like you're contributing to an educated discussion and more like you're courting angel investors with buzzwords.

At the very least it could be "here's the analogy to <established thing>, and to help round out the concept, <new thing> is also analogous to <established thing> with <important differences>". That makes both a stronger argument and a more educational essay than skipping straight to the new thing with no foundation.

For example, one very important difference is that DNA can be edited and lose history, unlike blockchain, but an intact fossil record could be used to infer how those edits came in over time and space, kind of like an incomplete distributed ledger.
I don't think you understand how trees work as carbon sinks. You're destroying that potential by cutting them down.
I am extremely skeptical that the few vacant lots are enough to counterbalance what would essentially be a massive tax break for every new homebuyer.
> 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.

Technically correct, but that's 100% what, 0% how - when the how is what 100% matters and the what doesn't matter at all.

Those models are able to coherently complete the next word, then next, then another in such a way a very useful word sequence is likely to appear which e.g. tells me how to do stuff with pandas dataframes, with working code examples, and then is able to tweak them (no small feat as anyone who can do that can attest). The only way to do that is to have some kind of smarts doing very non-trivial computations to arrive at the next-next-next-next...-next word that makes sense within the context of previous words and words that haven't been yet generated/sampled/statistically selected.

It does not need to think in the human sense to do that; proof is by demonstration.

> 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.

Yeah. A very useful trick. And fiendlishly hard to learn. Perhaps there's a lot going on behind the scenes to make the trick work?
It might be unfathomable to you because you didn't use facts or reasoning to get yourself into your current belief system, so facts and reasoning won't get you out. This "narrative" that you've been hearing is the sum total of observations of nature and physical laws that humanity has amassed, and it's really not going to be replicated (nor refuted by) lone geniuses working things out as thought experiments. So you if you think you have one, just stop. Climate change is empirical science conducted by tens of thousands of people who have spent their entire careers doing it. You're being downvoted because lazy trolling is annoying and useless, so please spare us in the future.
Where i’m from, if your manager literally states “you are ordered to do xyz” that manager will be fired. It’s not the fucking military.
If you don't care about UI/UX then I agree. I do and even if I didn't the companies I work for absolutely do and the customers expect a certain level of UI/UX that is absolutely not possible with no script. I also work primarily on web apps which cannot be done without JS.
So now we want to excuse Netflix's failure to perform due diligence?
They are observations plus modelled corrections.

Here's a simple thought experiment. How would you accurately measure the average temperature in a kitchen? Residential? How about commercial? How many sensors would you need? Where would you locate them? How about in a gymnasium when it's empty? Or during a basketball game with packed stands? How about the State of California? The USA? The world?

Climate scientists have to think about all of these things, and sadly there isn't one right answer. So they end up making assumptions that are based on their models. That's right, the model drives the measurement! Supposedly those techniques are robust, but naively it feels like there's definitely room for some pretty significant mistakes to be made.
I watch primarily wildlife documentaries, educational lectures, and podcasts related to academic topics like paleontology, archaeology, ancient history, and other subjects. I don't want music, live shows, television, sports, or most content that would incur a premium markup.

If YouTube would be willing to charge me something in the neighborhood of $5-$10 per month for that I'd happily pay. I have never had a Netflix subscription. I stopped consuming pop content and movies in 2010.

I am serious about this. If you have any way of making recommendations to anyone anywhere within Alphabet that will listen, please offer it up. I would point you to a site like HistoryHit which is far more in-line with what I want. It is $60/year.

Also, I already pay $5/month to the Kevin Richardson foundation and the ad-blocking mechanism on YouTube prevents me from watching those videos (which I paid for).
I think at Disney Worlds Animal Kingdom in the Avatar ride queue they have some pretty cool examples of this. I always wondered how they did it and now I know.
Why not just have a safeguard tool that checks the LLM output and doesn’t accept user input? It could even be another LLM.
Hm, that’s a good call. I have a callback on the connection dropped to reconnect but it’s possible it needs a full reboot? I’m going to have to sit in on the serial monitor and wait until something happens and see. Thanks for the tip!
If one needs AI to tell them how to read a method signature, they are in the wrong job line.
No it isn't: the latter will still have an author (flesh or machine) that you should identify. The creator of the image, not where/how you happened to find it, is most relevant. All IMHO.
> Would I be at a disadvantage of not knowing anything about Malazan world or its tabletop RPG?

No. My understanding is the RPG world was entirely private and there is no published campaign or book about the specific RPG world at all. It was just what Erikson made before he started the Malazan series. It's not required at all.

Malazan is decidedly more demanding as a reader though than Stormlight. I would say if you find Stormlight complicated or demanding then you might not enjoy Malazan, which is operating on a fundamentally more complex (on sheer number of characters, for an example) and mature level than Stormlight on almost every level. There is a reason Malazan is often brought up when discussing the greatest fantasy series of all time.

(I still would put neither Malazan or Stormlight as really complex books though. They're fairly straightforward compared to more creative and formally interesting books like Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake, for instance. In general people who read fantasy tend to be rather hyperbolic when it comes to how complex the books are.)
> If you increase your address space by any number of bits, your routing table must necessarily increase its size.

So you're talking about the second thing I mentioned. Supporting N users requires storing at least Nlog(N) bits of addresses in total. Going to /40 doesn't seem like a big enough increase to require redoing all the routes. And even if it is, an ISP could even roll out v4.1 sticking with /32s for now, keeping their routing tables exactly the same and leaving the expansion effort for later.

> Private networking is private networking, NAT is NAT. The fact that you are conflating those two makes me highly worried, especially in the context of Internet Protocol designing.

In IPv4, a very common reason you'd have a private network is because of a NAT, even though they aren't the same concept. To help get rid of NAT in IPv6, they added ULAs. That's all I mean.

> If we are not getting rid of NAT, there is no point in introducing larger address space in first place.

The point is that we're running out of addresses, like ipv6 proponents keep saying. Everyone who needs public IPs for any reason should be able to obtain them cheaply. This doesn't mean that NAT needs to disappear everywhere, though some users (like ISPs running CGNATs) might be happy to either ditch their NATs or split them up later on.

And this is what I said in my original comment, ipv6 has extra goals (like removing NAT day 1).
That would be in their interest, but being concerned about things like declining mental health metrics only happens if there is public pressure for the mental health field to be accountable by some sort of empirical measure.

What I sort of wish people did more was hold the mental health field, from pharmaceutical conglomerates to individual practitioners, to some sort of standard. What we have now is either the field is succeeding because self-reported mental health is improving, or it’s succeeding because self-reported mental health is going down which means mental health AWARENESS is improving. I feel how the mental health field has spun things like gradually increasing suicide and drug addiction rates (proof of mental health underfunding!) has been broadly successful for the field.

What I would like to see mental health practioners just start treating a patient population and for them to improve so dramatically that they discontinue treatment and live “normally”. Or maybe their lifespans measurably improve. Or suicide rates plummet. What I see instead is this sprawl of mental health services which are big on promises, big on “pro-awareness” rhetoric, and short on results at the societal scale.
If selling individual phones becomes too cumbersome (due to this couple's age, cost of storage space etc), then the obvious fix would be to sell bigger lots.

Some people will see a market niche in it (existing or not), and bet some $ on that to start a little side business.

Bigger lots + whatever pricing makes it move.
Sounds like a spurious correlation to me. They found 4 species forest 70% better than mono species forest but by 6 species, forests are back to mono forest levels.
Exactly - people seem to get a little caught up in the ‘carbon offsets are BS’ narrative (which there is a lot of truth to - a lot of credits in these markets are grifters selling sham credits, and offsets in general won’t work long term if we don’t massively reduce things like fossil fuel use). But taking it too far can mean they aren’t able to quite grasp this about how the forest works.

So you get weird, wrong takes like “because trees eventually die and decompose, a forest stores zero carbon on a net basis.”

But you’re spot on - the new forest will absorb a certain amount of carbon, and then should basically reach a steady state where new growth trees are absorbing a similar amount of carbon as the decomposing trees are releasing (more or less on the short term, but should roughly even out over the medium term).

Of course, there are sometimes things like bushfires, but ideally forest regrown in an area where there was a bushfire re-offsets that (but you can’t claim that against other carbon you release, only against the carbon released by the bushfire!)
Maybe one of the big Chinese chip makers or AMD, but the growing popularity of CUDA (not compatible with other GPUs) makes that less likely in the near future
Also please don't make me log in again (on a new device) to unsubscribe from emails.
The "?trk=" URL tracking element says "Officekey". I wonder if the keycombo works on machines without Office installed.
Big tech companies do evaluate how well their interview processes are going - it's one of many reasons why cargo-culting what you hear they're doing is ineffective.

For all you know their process wasn't effective, and they've iterated on it since.
You're not gonna win if you only work one way.

We can both reduce our carbon footprint AND plant trees.
> I never really got the appeal of growing up in America - work 40+ hours a week with a week or two off per year (and that’s if you’re lucky) for a few decades as you get old and then die [...] if you don’t get laid off.

America is not a country for salarymen. It is a country for entrepreneurs and business owners. Customers and employees are the human resources they exploit.

You make your money however you can then you exfiltrate your earnings back to whatever country you came from, and retire early as a king.
> The person doing improv is not concerned about saying things that are factually true, and is focused on dynamically generating a story or joke or narrative based only on the immediate context.

I disagree, as this is exactly what LLMs do! Its literally the function of a text completion transformers model.

OpenAI has just "trained" their improv actor to speak like an an assistant and educated it well. They tell the model to roleplay an assistant in the script, and injects all sorts of facts and formatting into their script the user doesn't see. I believe they constrain grammar and post process it too. But ultimately the text is written by a heavily constrained improv actor that will absolutely improvise anything to keep the text flowing until the stop token arrives, even if truth from memory/context is usually the most likely improvisation.
If some mathematics are not applicable to physical realities, to what are they applicable? Is there any un-applicable math and if so, why does it even exist?
I think they’re connected. It’s really hard to do much with a Sunday other than kill time, because the work week follows it (and the day before is usually chewed up, at least largely if not entirely, with necessary but unpaid work).
Yep. I've lived in a few of these over the years and every single one had a courtyard/pool, grilling area, gym, and a guest parking section.
new & long-term are 2 opposite terms

by long term I mean a 10k year scale for example (civilization scale), not 100 years (human life scale - mid term), or a few years (short-term)
You can store the weights in ROM.

But you also have input dependent activations. You need RAM for these.
Building Semantic Search in Rust
Traditionally companies have been working from the office. This shortly switched for a period of time, showing that working remotely can be done. Going back and finding no compromises is an outdated view of work that companies and unfortunately some individuals too seem to push on their employees/ peers.
The Recruiter by Douglas London (Rtd Senior CIA Operations Officer)
You can also tell these particular people, if they’re insane and toxic enough to try such things, to fuck off.
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Stroke-order dependent?
Many people refinanced in the last few years to take advantage of low rates and take money out of their homes.
I think like all things, it depends on the quality of the product. There are definitely cheap ferrofluids with mediocre surfactants that break down over time. But I also suspect (never looked, just inferring from the myriad of surfactants out there) that some formulations exist with way longer lifespans.
There certainly is hope - my wife had long covid back before we even heard the term or knew what it was. But she's largely recovered now, despite long covid hitting her really hard with measurable impacts (myocarditis, POTS etc.)

At times it felt liked she'd never improve, but she has - she just needs to build her strength again. If you want more hope look for people who had similar symptoms from SARS - they largely recovered in a similar time frame.
I've recently just started playing with Web Components without a build environment. Meaning, no npm, no bun, no webpack, etc, and no dependencies; in typescript. Intellij can autocompile down to js and the browser view injects a small onchange handler for live updates when developing. So far no problems.

The only thing holding web components back seems to be HTML Modules; being able to link to a .html file instead of a .js file to import a web component. Because of this if you want to use templates or anything more complicated you need to do the ugly inject of .innerHtml = `<tag soup>...`, which I thought would be a problem but the IDE parses the template string very nicely. It would be great to make a component in HTML and any javascript you would put in a <script> tag. It seems like there a lot of bureaucracy involved in getting HTML Modules out the door since its been eight years.

https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal...
In the US, patents related to computing are regularly knocked out for being "too abstract" so, that's how things stand now.
Bill Gates-backed startup can store carbon underground in plant-based bricks
I've unsubscribed from them in the past, then 6 months later they start spamming me. I unsubscribe again, then 6 months after that they start spamming me again.

Whomever is doing this at LinkedIn is despicable scum.
We put a lot of effort into section 5.1.2 of https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak..., and the complicated part of BLAKE3 (incrementally building the Merkle tree) ends up being ~4 lines of code. Let me know what you think.
I've only heard anecdotes of cops saying it worked well, and it does seem like a good investment and an achievable goal.

I don't know what the real numbers are, but from that article it seems noone does...

A proper reporting of numbers would be nice.
When you get to university, the lesson is very much that you have to learn things yourself. I found that the more decorated the professor, the worse he was at explaining anything, due to some mixture of being unable to go back to a state of ignorance and being in a seat where his main responsibilities are elsewhere (grant applications!). I'm talking about 1or2-to-one tuition here, done several times a week to kids who did very well in high school.

Yes, you have to shed the expectation that others will teach you, I agree with that. In the end, people slogged through by doing a bunch of reading from various sources. It is maybe the main lesson of university for everyone: you're not in high school anymore, you won't just learn whatever the guy says while talking to you. It's quite the shock if you had actually good teachers at school.

The thing is though, you can still demand good teaching materials. Textbooks have to explain things in the clearest way possible. They shouldn't be confusing, especially considering they end up being the main source for just about everything. In this modern world where there are online lectures and textbooks, there's no reason we can't all have the very best explanations of every relevant concept. Yes, of course as a student you still have to put in the time, but the materials ought to be the very best.
I think rather than think about it as "pros and cons", a better approach is to think about where these various types of storage are used. I think the analogy of hard disk drive -> RAM -> on-chip cache for memory storage (that is cheapest/longest lived/slowest to most expensive/short term/fastest) also works well for energy storage:

1. Pumped hydro is currently best for long term-storage. The lack of other cost-competitive long-term storage options is currently one of the biggest issues with renewables and an active area of investigation.

2. Batteries are good for daily smoothing (i.e. when the sun goes down), but they have limited charge/discharge cycles, they lose charge over time, and they don't, as of yet, have storage capacities needed for long term storage.

3. As the article points out, flywheels are good at instantly changing output based on changes in the grid, so they're good for frequency regulation and onboarding/offboarding new energy sources. Their biggest downside is their limited capacity compared to other tech.
I mean, allocate something like

static ALLOCATION_ERROR: Box<dyn Error> = (something);

and then use this variable whenever there is an allocation error. you might need unsafe { } but that's okay, the stdlib is full of unsafe
The big difference is we can logically reason what sequence of words come next. Though this requires a conscious effort and our innate biased are always working against us. One can always say that chain of thought reasoning is doing this but for me at least this seems like bootstrapping logical reasoning onto next token prediction and is not always guaranteed to work
> 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.

That would only be the case if one didn't seek treatment, perhaps because of stigma due to attitudes like this; if someone pursues a course of treatment they are in fact accepting responsibility.
Output them on the server. Something you can't do with Web Components
Do you worry at all that (a) you are either missing out on something in the present (that there is something valuable in the exhausting struggle of parenthood), or (b) you might look back with regret in your later years?
It applies to everything, everywhere.

Overly complicated, architecture-astronaut code, that leans on frameworks for no good reason, is bad, no matter what part of the stack. And yes, this is true for the backend as well. There are people who will happily import 3 different frameworks to make a POST request in Go.