skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What I see all over the place is people care about looking good while doing evil..." -- Elon Musk

That is the problem with the modern era, your actions do not matter your words do... Words have become violence, but actual violence is excused.

If you do not say the "correct words" your actions matter not. inversely as long as you say the "correct words" your actions matter not.
People seem to love making a big deal out of the earth not being a perfect sphere. In reality, the earth is like 3 tenths of a percent out of round (equatorial bulge is 0.003 of equatorial radius). This works out to about 21km which puts Mount Everest to shame but is really nothing compared to the 6371km mean radius of the earth.
Sam Altman claimed to have written a $375 million check from his own money to invest in Helion Energy. Maybe when all the lawsuits happen we will know more about his investments.
Photographer Made a Working Instant Film Camera Out of Gingerbread
We periodically hear people claiming their relatively small model outperforms much larger models. You know, 7B models beating 70B models and ChatGPT and suchlike.

It seems to be largely wishful thinking, but with the speed the technology is advancing, who knows what's possible?
Or they think it’s the other side that will be justifiably subjected to this, an even scarier thought. After all the leading contender of one of the major political parties is explicitly and openly calling for this.
Why not abandon the entire thing?
Otoh we're now processing much more information than ever. We're also communicating more than ever too.
Young philosopher: “master, how do I know that I exist?”

Master: “whom, may I ask, is asking?”
Not sure why he’d go into the topic of a BRICS alternative to a global reserve currency. That just ain’t happening. Especially a commodity based currency. That’s just not going to scale.

There’s a force aspect to the dollars role as global reserve currency, yes. But the main factor is that America built the world’s best currency and the best international banking system. It’s the only currency that could scale to meet global demand, and so of course it became the global reserve currency. None of the proposed alternatives have the properties needed to replace the dollar. So there’s no reason to think it’s being replaced anytime soon.

Apart from that he has some good points.
Wow. Sending this to a bunch of tech art friends
How it proceeds in the case of human error is going to be almost totally removed from its "intelligence," and almost totally related to its training.
Two users on the same account can't listen simultaneously anyway, though, regardless of network.
Depends what is your relationship with decision makers. If you can honestly say you trust your principals- just tell them. Otherwise it probably will be difficult to turn things around without jumping ships..

I was recently close to move into management but since I have good coms with leadership I explained I will not be performing well in that role- they accepted.
That is what my experience has been. I have tried OpenHermes2.5 (very hyped 7B model) vs basic Mistral 7B and tbh I prefer Mistral's answer for most things.
Certainly, I can provide an insight into my thought process and why I made that error.

1. *Common Comparison:* The comparison between a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of steel is a well-known thought experiment used to illustrate the difference between weight and volume. When you asked about the weight of a kilogram of feathers, my algorithms likely defaulted to this familiar comparison, anticipating a question about the difference between weight and volume using these two substances.

2. *Pattern Recognition:* As an AI, I process queries by recognizing patterns in language and context. The phrase "a kilogram of feathers" is frequently paired with "a kilogram of steel" in educational contexts and discussions about density and volume. This pattern recognition led to the incorrect assumption that your question was leading towards this common comparison.

3. *Error in Detail Processing:* In your question, you mentioned "a kilogram of feathers" twice. I should have processed this detail more accurately. Instead, my response was influenced by the common comparison I mentioned earlier, leading to the introduction of steel into the answer.

4. *Default to Common Contexts:* In cases where the query is brief or seems to lack specific details, I might default to the most common context in which similar phrases are used. This can lead to assumptions that might not align with the unique aspects of a particular question.

In summary, the error stemmed from a combination of relying on common comparisons and patterns in language, and not paying close enough attention to the specific details of your question. I appreciate your pointing out this error, as it helps in refining the accuracy of my responses.
I wasn't attacking the person, rather the style of argument being made.

Ironically, your follow up comment does point out the typical HN rush to judgment, a much more literal ad hominem.
I migrated the blog over to Hugo a while back and I think I lost the data. But no worry, the wayback machine's got a snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230217165734/https://www.margi...
As someone who quit drinking alcohol in March of 2020 I cannot understand how people responded to the world as we know it ending by drinking more. But I guess they were still having fun when I wasn't
This is so useful and nice for so many reasons.

A well written browser based node graph editor that can create procedural 3d meshes _and_ export as .obj _and_ you've permissively licensed it. This could be the seed for a whole host of procedural tools. Thank you Jim.
No, they're just bad at software.
Thankfully, it doesn't appear that you're in the position to gate-keep this.

The American education system is no measure of a person's worth. I've already built and sold one startup somehow despite your sneering, and I dropped out after a semester and a half. I'm now working on my second. Try to avoid the urge to casually dismiss entire categories of people because you want to elevate yourself above one of them. Books are available without spending $40k per year.
Amazing! I love how immediate, and straightforward it is. Easy to understand and fun to play around with!
https://web.archive.org/web/20230217165734/https://www.margi...
Refining OpenZFS Compression (2022) [video]
Conflict of interest is not fraud. It's conflict of interest. And it's possible in public and private organizations of all kinds.
They wanted it to be used to used, on Nazis.
Study uncovers link between musical preferences and our inner moral compass
This isn't a prosumer product. You aren't adding these to an existing Unifi install. The prosumer version of this device is the UDR. This is Unifi releasing a cheap consumer product so when you, as a person who knows their tech stack, need to suggest a all in one device for someone who would otherwise have just an ISP router, there is a product that costs in the same price range as the netgears and tp-link devices in that range. Or when someone curious about upgrading from the bargain basement tier to mid range equipment has a new cheaper entry level product which might encourage them to try.
Not EM but I was made a team lead of a small team. I still got to write code, but was also to delegate tasks to other team mates, hold 1-1s, sit in more "management-y" planning meetings, do a lot more JIRA wrangling for multiple contributors, etc. I had expressed my hesitation since I really liked being an IC and wanted to continue developing in that direction, but was open to giving it a solid try - you never know, right? So I tried it for a few months and ultimately decided that, at least at the time, it wasn't for me. I talked to my TD and line manager about going back on the IC track.

The way I approached it was:

* Making clear that I greatly appreciate the opportunity to try this new role and did give it a _proper_, fully committed try.

* Clearly expressing what exactly isn't working for me personally about it, and why I think I'd be both more happy and more useful as an IC.

As part of the second point, I mostly expressed that I feel very responsible for the output of my work. As an IC, that output entails my own code, reviews, productivity, planning, comms, etc. As an IC, I am comfortable taking on and driving high-stakes projects and taking responsibility for them. It can get stressful (as rushing to a release deadline in that industry usually is), but it's always been "good stress".

But as a team lead, I felt responsible for the planning and output of others on the team and the team as a whole. Making sure they have everything they need for success, _their_ output along with my own, how others' time management fits into our deliveries, the quality of their code as well as my own, what tools and support they need, etc. I think some people thrive in that situation, but for me it culminated in a bad kind of stress. And I just didn't think I could do the position justice like someone who genuinely enjoyed that side of it.

The other part of it was that I felt like my time to grow as a programmer was diminished by the extra planning meetings, more ticket management, 1-1s, etc.

They were a little disappointed at first; from what I understand they thought I was doing a good job. But they were supportive nonetheless. I still got promoted (on the IC track) in my end of year review so it worked out.

From what I understand it doesn't always go so smoothly. I've heard of some places where trying to move back to IC ends up in practice being treated as a sort of demotion (or at least stagnation?). Luckily this was not the case where I worked at the time. The company had a documented job matrix of engineering career progression along IC, TD, and Management tracks.
If you watched his DealBook Summit interview it certainly seems like that's the way it is going.
Really smart programmer will work x5 faster but report as if he did x1.3 faster than peers, using rest of the time for personal development or other activities.
> Their stated purpose was to make it more accessible. The reasoned that the neoclassical architecture and old-style font made the space intimidating to people who didn’t hold those things to be part of their culture and that it was out of tune with the increasing diversity of their collection and programs.

Can put this under the dictionary definition of insanity. Or someone needed justification to get paid without doing any real work.
Back/forward navigation is broken. Lots of "Application error: a server-side exception has occurred (see the server logs for more information)." No footnote describing who owns the site, what the terms of use and privacy are, so I would frankly never trust it with any of my personal data.
Where is founding for the accusation that this wasn’t already known to the board? Despite including a quote you made up, this line of argument relies on a false premise.

Yes, “IF” you can’t inform people of possible conflicts of interest, that is bad. But it’s also irrelevant as of yet.
It's easy to say "just be in poverty you'll earn it back some day" when you don't have kids to feed or pay for the school tuition, Christmas presents or other associated expenses
A human would probably say “did you mean a kg of feathers and a kg of lead?”
Ahh thank you, that makes sense
Exactly, benchmarks are just a guide. Same thing with vector models. Likely just a matter of how much your data overlaps with the fine-tuning dataset for a particular model.
Yes and no...

1. Many people would still scream bloody murder because they do not like Elon

2. When it comes to Tesla it is a public company so Elon has a duty of care to the public shareholders

3. even for the Private companies, Elon is not the SOLE owner, not even of twitter, so he still has a duty to the other minor shareholders, being a majority shareholder gives you lots of authority, but not unlimited authority. If he was the Sole shareholder it would be different.
TLDR:

"X is doubling down on investments to facilitate ad spending by smaller players, seeking to offset the steep revenue losses from the departure of larger advertisers that Musk said were “going to kill the company”.

“Small and medium businesses are a very significant engine that we have definitely underplayed for a long time,” the company told the Financial Times. “It [was] always part of the plan — now we will go even further with it.”"
Just in case: The Danish Central Bank is reacting to the economic success of the drug maker which impacts the currency flows and thereby the currency peg they are managing. (Not some health benefits thing by the central bank).
It looks like people are down-voting this comment based upon a difference of opinion, rather than it being a low-quality comment, which it isn't.
If clang didn't try to do the right thing based on the context it finds itself in, people would have to specify a lot more compiler flags to tell it what to do. Target triple, where libc is, where libstdc++ or libc++ is, what linker to use, what flags to pass the linker and so forth. This is much more annoying than `clang foo.c`.
> she seems to be mentally ill.

Possibly due to her being 4 y.o. and being assaulted by someone in a position of trust, someone like her brother who clearly demonstrates the willingness to violate other people's trust as an adult. His actions today are probably a result of the absence of consequences for bad behavior earlier in life. He learned that he can do these things and get away with it so now he manipulates as a normal course of action.
The axis of rotation needs to lie in the plane that the LEDs lie in. At the moment, the axis of rotation lies in the plane of the circuit board.

Imagine the LED circuit board placed flat on a table. He's talking about adjusting the position of the LEDs in the vertical direction, which means adjusting the position of their board. Moving the LEDs relative to their board won't help.
Probably where they got their inspiration?
Sometimes it takes an above-average engineer to go against the fashion and say that a LAMP monolith should suffice. In particular, it requires an ability to realistically estimate the load and the complexity.
Just a reminder: a professional synchronized swimmer will look like is slacking off compared to somebody who doesn't know how to swim.
I liked Peter Thiel more when he was bankrolling Hulk Hogan and bankrupting Gawker
We the Slavs have more than that for drinking and hangover. Far fewer for corruption, though it was rampant in the 90s in my home country (Poland) and reportedly still is in some other places.
I’m not claiming otherwise here. I’m claiming that it’s not a good test because a human would (almost certainly correctly) also skip past the double feather and answer the likely spirit of the question.
Super cool! Ive been building some 2D simulations using Pygame lately, so enjoy a good simulation project!
I somehow read over that drivel. I guess my mind is developing a garbage filter that operates using proto dank sharing.
True. And let's not forget that a lot of the rationale centered around bolstering China as an ally against the USSR. In hindsight we were too successful in that goal, and should have made adjustments to trade structures a long time ago.
A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video]
It's funny the screenshots include their traffic accounting graphs. The data in those are complete garbage and have been for years. I run the installable controller on an Ubuntu server. It shows me last month my Playstation downloaded 66.7GB, or 6GB, or 1.66GB. Two of those on the same screen! (The real number may be close to 66.7GB.)
Pretty safe to say most of us live in glass houses on here
i have the same troubles in social situations with too many inputs. i am quite frankly asocial because of it, though i don't necessarily want to be. do you mind if i ask what your reaction feels like? my reaction feels a lot like dissociation, but it also could be absence seizure. it is hard to introspect in those moments.
In some cases, it's because the devs are developing locally and never intentionally test with their browser set to simulate latency.
> Like, most people would say that animals can think, but clearly [they] can't pass the Turing test.

This is not actually clear; people commonly feel that they are having meaningful conversations with animals.

The answer to "can a human be tricked" is always yes, regardless of the particular context.
This can be easily fixed by a validation step in GPT4.

GPT4 detects the error and auto-corrects itself, even I don't point out the answer explicitly, but only ask it to review it's own previous answer:

> ME: did you provide me the correct answer to the question which I asked? Please look carefully for errors in your answer and let me know if it accurately answers my question

> GPT: I apologize for the error in my previous response. You asked about the weight comparison between a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of feathers. Since both are a kilogram of feathers, they weigh exactly the same. There's no difference between the two in terms of weight.

> ME: what error did you make?

> GPT: Upon re-examining my response, I realize that I incorrectly mentioned "a kilogram of steel" instead of referring to "a kilogram of feathers" twice, as per your original question. The question was about comparing the weight of a kilogram of feathers with another kilogram of feathers, and in my response, I mistakenly brought in steel for comparison. The correct answer is that both quantities of feathers weigh the same, as they are both one kilogram.
Meanwhile Reddit gave their new icon a neckbeard! Talk about embracing community history!
Yes, it is like when you are going to the interviews to get a better paying job you need to come with socially acceptable bulshit answer to the question: why do you want to leave your current position?
- creativity and an understanding of humans that, at the least, borders on genuine interest. unless you design chips then who cares I suppose??
A nonbinding letter of intent in 2018? That is a limited downside unlimited upside kind of risk you take to fund extreme moon shots. Boom Supersonic did the same approach with United airlines, to fund a still undeveloped supersonic Airplane. A 1M investment like this is a hedge that has capped downside, restricted to Altman's personal money, and an infinite upside that gives an incentive to the founders to succeed. At the time the value of the investment is paper zero for Altman, but gives the founders, who were probably the most promising he has seen in the space, large help with fundraising, hiring, and credibility with future sales. OpenAI does not have to buy the chips unless they meet the criteria, In 2018 OpenAI was one of many startups plucking at a problem that seemed insurmountable. If you are trying to push into a problem and can't afford to do what Apple did to build both the hardware and software to solve it, you focus on the one and try to help the other however you can.

In WeWork, the CEO took a trademark that costs a couple of thousand dollars, and charged himself millions for it from company money - that's personal enrichment. Incubating a thing considered highly risky and expensive 5 years is not personal enrichment, its personal risk that helps more the likelihood of it being less impossible instead of a chance at enrichment from two companies you don't even know would be viable (OpenAI) 5 years from then.
I don't agree with the article. DNA and RNA are life. Viruses are only alive when they are inside the cells of other beings. Computer simulations are analogies and not life itself.
And also, $192 is not at all a bad price tag. It’s actually a bit surprising as UI stuff is classically viewed as a bit overpriced.

That said, I have a UniFi router and 3 wifi 6 APs and my network is super solid. Way better than any prosumer targeted router (note that I previously ran 3 netgear nighthawk). The UniFi stack was actually cheaper and is unquestionably more reliable. If you’re looking at those very high end prosumer routers, I’d very much advise taking a step back and looking at alternatives.
We don't need a "much-needed letter to car manufacturers". We need laws and regulations which uphold privacy for the human right and dignity everyone deserves. Everything else is political theatre only.
Aaa... the mythical junior.
in the case of Germany and especially Japan, violently pacified is a much better phrase.
I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem is that there are a ton of apps that are equivalent to digital slot machines.

1. Tiktok, youtube and instagram with a constant feed of < 5 minute videos that are perfectly targeted at your interests

2. 24 hr news with constant tragedy and rage inducing narratives

3. Instant access to pornography

4. Instant access to high fat / sugar food

Having more valuable knowledge instantly available isn't the problem. It's the distractions that get us to waste our lives away swiping at a screen are the problem.
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As a human, I’m not even sure what the correct answer should be.

The pedantically correct response is to point out that you’re asking which of two identical things is different. As some commenters here point out, error correcting assumptions are a feature of intelligence. Geeks are sometimes mocked for taking words too literally.
Never thought diversifying investments would have this advantage but it makes sense now.
Do note that these interview slates will vary depending on level of candidate experience.

At Google, we generally do not ask system design interviews of new grads / entry-level candidates. It's pretty rare for mid-level candidates (L4), and expected for senior and up (L5+).

Also, there are situations where candidates may have an extra interview added to their slate. One common reason for this: the hiring committee doesn't have enough signal because the interviewers don't coordinate appropriately, and end up asking heavily overlapping questions (e.g. 3 questions that basically reduce to "use DFS").
I have also been trying to find good use cases. Currently I use Mistral 7B for summarization (when I want a tldr) and its good enough. Due to this I am thinking about setting up a RAG system based on my local notes using it. Although I could just use chatGPT for summarization (sometimes I do), but having a local LLM feels nice. They are uncensored so they can be used for some fun ropleplays as well.
>consumers of cocaine have their share of responsibility too.

consumers of any product. consumers of chocolate are responsible for... consumers of electronics are responsible for... consumers of cotton are responsible for...

there's only so many options consumers really have. there are somethings you cannot vote with your wallet. blaming addicts teeters precariously towards victim blaming.
I hate this kind of blog posts...

Back in the days when people got easy access to books people were thinking that kids reading all day the newest novel would make them only want to live in a dream world...

The avg. human these days is way way smarter then 50 or 100 years ago...

People always fill there brains with junk...
Even in ancient Rome they were drawing penises on walls...

Maybe the questions in schools an co. suck for the modern times?
Maybe its an problem of the write of the article not a general problem?