skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geometry and abstract math is important. But getting the practical stuff into even remedial heads is necessary to. Should do both.
Ok, so some are empty? I'm not comparing the systems, Im saying building a perfect road-to-building ratio utopia isn't going to matter if people don't move there
I think a "statistics" class could still help a lot of people without ever touching continuous distributions (which as you mention are more naturally built off calculus) or multivariate distributions (which as you mention are more naturally built off linear algebra). Simple stuff like basic conditional probability, Bayes' rule, confidence intervals, basic hypothesis testing, and general "statistical thinking" don't really require calculus or linear algebra. Just getting people to a point where they understand some of the really basic tools seems pretty valuable, and pretty far from the current state of things.
The HCD plan for San Francisco is here.

https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/policy-and-r...

If you’re curious what the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) is for your county or city you can find it here.

https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/ho...
Astronaut celebrates Hanukkah with zero-gravity dreidel spin
Flaubert's letters are as hilarious and humane as his best fiction
Mastodon isn't meant for hosting this kind of content, for the same reason you aren't meant to put this kind of content on Twitter. Mastodon is like a social RSS feed reader.
I initially thought above comment was about on call because of the "things catch on fire part", I guess not

> where extra hours are silently worked prevents being forced to pick up the slack that shouldn't be there in the first place. Slack comes from miserable people regardless of how many hours they do or don't work

This is true except from my experience the miserable people who leave slack for others to pick up aren't normally all that miserable, just not really motivated. At least, they're not miserable until management does something about it
As the article mentioned, the Yellowstone risk is more future than current, and is being extensively monitored, and "A much bigger risk is likely large eruptions from volcanoes that we aren’t tracking and have no data for.".

One that is being tracked, and showing a present threat is the Vesuvius complex (which did in Pompeii), and is showing markedly increased activity [0]. I'd be more interested in proposals that might mitigate that.

Or more generally, studies finding out how late such a project could start and still be successful, i.e., able to extract sufficient heat from the system before it erupts, thus preventing the eruption.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/europes-mo...
I would say the point of bureaucracy is to make the functioning of a system consistent with some set of rules. The preservation of those rules in some specific form does not have to be part of the rules, and so does not need to be a goal of a given bureaucracy. However, a self-preserving bureaucracy can arise, either by design or accident. I would say every government that has ever existed fits that description. Can you think of a single one that has not been fundamentally conservative? "Conservative" meaning seeking to maintain the status quo that allows it to exist in its present form at any given time.
Yes that makes. The problem is how does one raise the bar within teams and orgs? There, I think principles do help. Also, for teaching others, it is best if we have a baseline of principles.

One can always break the principles once advanced enough
The model of governance may not be too your liking, and also be a bit heavy handed in some areas for my personal Christian beliefs - it is ok to have different belief systems... and let the states and citizens of the states decide where to live.

Something seems to be working well enough for most TXn's though.
> is just not as affordable as before. Add in quality of life things like longer commute times,

Home prices are dropping like a rock. And commute times were hell a decade ago.

I think the bigger issue is that these firms bet big on real estate and then the pandemic suddenly clued people in that remote work was possible and now instead of admitting they made a mistake are blaming the issue “on Austin.”

Also: to speak to the diversity part. Read up on Austin’s 1928 plan to intentionally segregate the city. Austin is still one of the most racially segregated. In an interesting turn of events Houston (due to its lack of zoning laws making redlining hard to impossible) is the most racially diverse city in the nation. Amazing what impact a bunch of people a hundred years ago can have on a place even after they are dead and their laws changed.
DOJ is spying on Apple and Google users through push notifications
Actually the trending posts I saw when I clicked through to social.lol (omg.lol's Mastodon instance) are most of the same posts from my Explore page (the # icon) on urbanists.social, and most of these posts are not from either of these two instances but from diverse (and usually individually interesting!) ones, but please keep enjoying that haterade if you like the taste.
you could use a solenoid to control a siphon
Well, you'd also be on the hook for accomplishing it within a period of time associated with an "easy" task. Like, a few hours or less.
I was gonna ask that. Every video editor I've tried, even back to Windows Movie Maker, crashed frequently.

I don't know why. ffmpeg is rock-solid. Modern CPUs are good enough that you can basically handle 1080p without touching accelerators.

Multi-threading is not impossible to get right in C++. So why do they all crash?
I have installed Carnets, Pythonista and Lua Studio on the new iPad. I don’t know how useful they (or anything else) would be on a phone.

In my scripting folder, I have a-shell and Processing.

Carnets is a stand-alone Jupyter notebook.

A Redditor suggests a Raspberry Pi, if available, and if the laptop in the article can’t be revived. I can’t speak to that.
I remember Coherent, it had a snail/nautilus logo, and came in a binder with a bunch of floppies. I bought it as I had a PC with a 286 (or maybe 386, but no separate FPU), 1MB of RAM (luxury, right?) and needed to get more familiar with unix, since we were using Sun x-terminals in college, and time on those was limited. Taught me to cpio/tar, gcc, vi make files etc.

For the princely sum of $99, I think? My 9600 baud modem cost $500 at the time.

- all pricing could be off by an order of magnitude, but I think I'm pretty close (!).
Looks like 62 points better, which under the Elo model implies about 59/41 matchup (aka GPT-4-Turbo is about 59% chance to beat Claude on a random prompt). You can look up an Elo probability calculator to plug in an Elo difference and see this number. For example plug in two Elo ratings here: https://sandhoefner.github.io/chess.html - really only the difference between them matters.

Btw the similarity of the numbers 59 and 62 here is coincidence, other differences won't be nearly the same as the probability.
I don't get why companies lie like this. How much do they have to gain? It seems like they actually have a lot to lose.

What's crazy to me is that these tools are wildly impressive without the hype. As a ML researcher, there's a lot of cool things we've done but at the same time almost everything I see is vastly over hyped from papers to products. I think there's a kinda race to the bottom we've created and it's not helpful to any of us except maybe in the short term. Playing short term games isn't very smart, especially for companies like Google. Or maybe I completely misunderstand the environment we live in.

But then again, with the discussions in this thread[0] maybe there's a lot of people so ethically bankrupt that they don't even know how what they're doing is deceptive. Which is an entirely different and worse problem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582
3 semesters
Wait, since my plumber pays taxes to the city, he should get a say in my neighborhood’s zoning? Or Amazon?

No thanks.
Exactly. I never cared for the "golden age" Google. Maybe the old days were fun, but it wasn't going to be tenable forever.
Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. The dribble figma course sounds interesting, will check it out!
Are you responding to the comment I posted?
I'm from Brazil, a developing country. Sometimes I express here on HN the fact I'd burn down the entire Amazon jungle if doing that would give us enough industrial strength to rival the USA and China. That jungle just doesn't matter to me. If you handed me a button that burned down the entire Amazon and told me Brazil would be the most prosperous nation on earth if I pushed it, I wouldn't even think twice.

Usually I just get downvoted until my post is white but someone once replied with an interesting proposition: paying me not to do it. I just laughed it off because it seemed completely insane to me. Why would they pay off a developing country not to develop itself?

And now I come across this thread and it seems these people are doing exactly that. Why our president isn't jumping at that chance is beyond me.
I just found out it gets worse: turns out GPT-4 isn't processing images so much as arrays of pixels!

And worse: turns out GPT-4 isn't processing pixels so much as integers representing in a position in some color space like RGB!

And worse! turns out GPT-4 isn't processing integers so much as series of ones and zeroes!

Now that this is public knowledge, I'm willing to bet this was the ugly "less than candid" truth that the board sacked Sam Altman over.
If it wasn't important enough to warrant a phone call, probably not that much.

I was getting a couple hundred IMs a day and I would say that less than five of them were actually worth an interruption.
How do you know if these LLMs are stating facts instead of hallucinating? Also, where would these things learn about new topics?
What about the whole “America has more inter-coastal waterways than the rest of the world combined” thing? I was listening to Peter Zeihan and he said our cheap water based transportation puts us on a very unequal playing field with the rest of the world. He also said it doesn’t matter if republicans or democrats fail in government because our bounty is just that significant.
> Was also interesting hearing Carmack lament how so few much loved games release their source code (he attributed doom’s longevity partly to the release of its source code)

I blame middleware. Hell, middleware makes even releasing the mod tools harder, i remember when i worked at some gamedev company and we wanted to release the editor for our game and the company behind some middleware we used wanted us to buy a separate license for it.
You got a big corporation on the same team as you. Doesn't make them the good guys or "better" in any way. The fundamental principles are all broken.
I can put on warm clothes, and enjoy the outdoors in the cold. What is the equivalent in the heat? I have lived in both, and if you have a secret I would love to learn it.
> User-agent: ia_archiver

> Disallow: /

Denied!
Tangential question, since I use feeds but am not an expert in this: why do some feeds lose the articles after sometime while others don’t?

Say I have two feeds from two different sites. The newsreader shows only the most recent (10 or 20 or whatever) articles for one feed whereas it shows all the articles from the time I subscribed to that feed for the second one. I know that the feed XML itself contains only a limited number of articles in both the cases whenever the reader requests for a refresh.

How can I make sure that the newsreader preserves (does not purge) the older articles in the first case above (I use NetNewsWire on macOS and Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows)?
See https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-linux-67.
My strategy:

* Work for a small company

* Show up at 10am

* Leave at 4pm

If I'm really into what I'm doing I'll happily do some work after hours, or on the weekend. No one ever expects it and honestly I try to keep the fact that I'm doing it a secret (don't push commits, just keep changes local).
Google stock rallied 5% ish the after the demo (though the stock didn’t move immediately). Then it gave back about 1% once the news broke that it was faked
I think people do crowdfunding for studies sometimes, but doing it just for a replication sounds like a waste.
The reason they’re good has a lot to do with how hard they are to find.
Really, to do something different and that might move the needle to new possibilities. The *BSDs and Linux seem like they permanently miss just a few core elements to be mass adoptable. Mass adoption would benefit everyone through things like competition but also just different features. Like imagine being able to zfs send incremental backups of your daily drivers and gaming boxes. Or if plan9 had really taken off and had real market share. Idk, just feels like we've been stuck in a place for the last few decades.
During my Masters in Applied Linguistics I was really challenged in some of my assumptions about this stuff.

The answer is, do not speak anything but the non-local language. If your child tries to speak the local language to you, refuse to give in, literally just feign non-understanding, even if the child knows you speak the local language. Be completely uncompromising.

As to your concerns, don't worry, the evidence is clear, while there is a slight speedbump starting school, kids catch up very quickly. The difference is negligible when compared to the individual variance between different kids in language development.

Accent is a non-issue. Unless you never take your kid out into the local population, their local language accent will be the accent to which they've been exposed to that language. There CAN be some interference in bith directions however. In those cases, you can simply explicitly correct their pronunciation. It will be fine. It will stop being more than a very rare issue once they reach school age.

The bigger question is, what do you do when friends come over? That's something you'll need to negotiate with the child.

Edit: I realise that for a lot of people, this advice seems to be exactly what would be intuitive, however once you're steeped in Applied Linguistics literature, that's not necessarily the case anymore. I post this here to highlught that in this particular context, the intuition most people would have is correct and backed by the literature. Most people's intuitions about language learning are completely wrong-headed I'm sorry to say, but i. This particular case, it's an exception.

Also, question, do you want them to be able to read in the non-local language?
The author's bio states that he "worked as an independent consultant for food companies, performing sensory analysis and scientific-tech advice"¹ - a potential conflict of interest if any were chocolate-producing companies.

The article's last two paragraphs read like damage control for those same companies:

> What we know today is that the chocolate and cocoa consumed in North America and Europe are safe and their cadmium and lead content doesn’t pose a health concern. ...

> For the moment, health authorities are working with producers and exporters to take measures to reduce the levels of these contaminants in cocoa. ...

1: https://gominolasdepetroleo.com/sobre-mi/

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I read that cadmium is taken up from the soil, but it's the cocoa processing that contaminates the beans with lead. As a consumer, I'd absolutely pay more for a lead-free chocolate.
Thanks to both of you, I will check out these options.
Data structures and algorithms are important, there are some good college lectures recordings on YouTube, MIT's is quite good iirc. The recorded lecture series as a playlist are under rated and available for many topics.

For AI, there is lots of content these days. The directions you take depends on if you want to use AI or develop AI. Learning how they work a the theory level will help you use them better and know what kind to use for different situations.

As others have said, you are well ahead of the curve. Keep putting in the effort and building! For projects, pick something ambitious that you are very interested in. It should require things you don't know how to do, but be a passion so you can cruise through the hard parts. This will give directions for what to learn and leverage next too.

Also think about breadth vs depth. There is a saying "be T shaped" which is really a visual for this idea. I prefer being pi shaped, which means you have two deep expertises, something to aim for as you continue to grow in your career.
The US will tax its citizens no matter what other citizenship(s) they have.
What is the business model that would ensure the authors (whose work is necessary to train the LLM) get paid (considering everyone will just pay MS for using the LLM, and MS would not pay authors)?
Try DaVinci Resolve
One easy improvement would be to stop the video capture automatically via a combination of silence detection and motion detection
Same experience 17 yrs earlier and not in the US. Went from breezing through high school calculus and physics, to completely floundering and flunking out the first year of university. The gap was enormous - probably another 3 years of learning at the high school pace.
[tangential to this really cool demo] JPEG images being the only possible interface to GPT-4 feels wasteful. the human eye works the delta between "frames", not the image itself. I wonder if the next big step that would allow real-time video processing at high resolutions is to have the model's internal state operate on keyframes and deltas similar to how video codecs like MPEG work.
> Advanced math that isn’t necessarily useful in your college career is absolutely essential to teach high quality thinking.

You've put into words something I wish I could tell everybody. The impact of achieving a level of rigorous logical thinking through math classes goes far beyond "Will I use it in my job," it makes a fundamental difference to the way you see the world and think through every decision in life.

What's so unfair is that, in my experience, whether a given student in average circumstances successfully attains this in either high school or college is, essentially, a crap shoot depending on the combination of teacher, student motivation and support, and any number of other environmental factors.
More Details on Sam Altman's Ouster
I'm not surprised other people thought up of the concept, it's kind of obvious
People still mountain bike in Vegas, Arizona, TX etc during the summer - you might just go at night (for a night ride).

I personally just drank a lot of water for lunch rides (I'd take a gallon for a ride) and electrolytes. Favorite time to ride, trails were empty.
I made an account and can’t seem to figure out where this magical community actually is? It seems like I can just link other open services? And for some reason I can receive email?

Not a single other person(‘s content) in sight though.
After it was done, did he say "see, that wasn't so bad"?
> You can tell GPT4 it is an experienced LLM prompt engineer and then ask it to write prompts for GPT4 which you feed into GPT4.

But if GPT4 understands what you are asking it, why do you need it to act as a promot engineer to prompt itself?
With "i don't think so" you meant the part about "extended over time to add more stuff"? Even VB1 worked by compiling the statements to bytecode, changing that to emit machine language instead wasn't such a big leap that they'd need to make a new compiler. It was an important change (the perception of which was most likely also magnified by the new IDE UI) but it was still an evolution over VB4.
Turns out [thunder roars] the whole shebang was never about free speech in the first place.
I imagine that you did your very best, you tried to meet your students where they're at, and tried best as you could to make your class room a safe place.
It’s a shame this was written earlier this year. In Iceland there’s an ongoing magma intrusion event near (and under) the town of Grindavik. There also happens to be a geothermal power plant not far from the town.

The progression of this magma intrusion, particularly beneath the power plant itself, seems like it should provide a valuable case study to test the idea presented by this article. If there ends up being an eruption under that power plant we might learn something about the advantages and potential pitfalls of this proposal.
I meant a written spec, at least that is what i assume one would mean when they ask for a language spec.
That’s what I’m thinking I’ll do if/when the sensor fails. Or for v2.
Well, idk. But like any approximation I guess you can check if it fits prior controls better than your existing models. It's not like existing stuff is necessarily better.

I have no horse in this. You just asked for explanations of what their project is about. It seemed obvious to me so I took a stab at providing context.
Lol at choosing the name Sagittarius, which is exactly across from Gemini in the Zodiac
I have a similar way of calling someone "low class". It is lack of manners that makes one low class, not lack of wealth.
If you played other games at the time, there wasn’t really anything else like it. Wolfenstein and similar existed, but Doom was a significant advancement. Us lowly console players were many years from anything similar.
For new things, ChatGPT is a big improvement over internet searches because of how it can generate examples and respond to followup questions. I've been able to ramp up insanely quickly on new tools with it.

Even before CGPT existed, I've always felt like online searches/examples can get me 75% of the way there (i.e. good enough) in way less time than reading a book. As nice as the O'Reilly media is, I've got too many tools to learn on the job and not enough time to read dozens of books.
Build something. Just build something you want.

Or, find something you think you can build that already exists, and clone it.

That's kind-of how web stuff gets built anyway; I've built many projects that were just a PSD file that looked like a website, and I had to build it from that one design file.

Just put in some reps. GL.
Sounds like a good time, kinda. But, if you are a young tech working family, I am not sure if this would make for a great family outing.

You are basically agreeing that you are stuck indoors for many months of the year, during day time.

Also, this last year, which was many people's introduction to the heat, it was much worse than just a couple months.

https://www.kxan.com/weather/weather-blog/austin-records-hot...
My grandmother had one of these when I was a kid in the eighties. The story I remember is that it was a free gift with the purchase of an air conditioner. I wish I knew what happened to it! Many hours playing the car racing game. But - I wasn’t allowed to play the dungeons & dragons game.
> A lot of SaaS products are making money hand over fist yet they seem easily replicable.

Most likely your impression is wrong, the easily reolicable ones are probably not making huge profit margins, the ones that are hugley profitable aren't easily replicable, whether for IP or other reasons.
Clipboard Conqueror: Your own AI assistant for any text field