skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, sorry for that, 100% agree on the scrolling UX point. I finished the article at 11 pm, so didn't have time to write custom UX for the embeds. I added a border for now to make the embeds stand out more.

The site is an exercise for me in getting things out sooner than later, because I tend to struggle with perfectionism quite a lot [*]. After my 111 days of daily writing I'll probably port it back to https://sonnet.io / 11ty where I have more control over the UX.

* https://untested.sonnet.io/111
Next step: write an application. I mean a complete original application with documentation. It does not have to be big but it should be something complete that others can use.

That will teach basics of code organization and writing technique, which is so much more than just squeezing out a few code samples.

As for education don’t bother with a computer science bachelors degree unless you are dead set about getting a masters, which I highly recommend. Most of the developers I have worked with through my career who were educated through a CS bachelor program were savagely incompetent compared to developers who were either self taught or had a graduate degree.
Most study outcomes have a political cause connected to them, even if that wasn't the author's intent. Those movements want these study outcomes to give their cause legitimacy and the membership of such movements often have a large amount of overlap with those employed in social science academia. It's little different than petrol companies that either fund or amplify studies with outcomes that benefit their business.
TCP congestion control relies on packets being dropped to signal that a link is congested.

L4S actually includes an extra bit of information in IP packets that routers can mutate to explicitly say when they are congested.

This means that you (a) don't need to play exponential backoff games, (b), don't need to re-send redundant packets, and (c) don't need big buffers in routers.

You need big buffers in routers because otherwise exponential backoff goes crazy. But when you add big buffers, you get latency, which is another kind of suck.

In order to avoid latency, you need to avoid buffers, which is hard unless you avoid exponential backoff. To avoid exponential backoff, you need routers to actually communicate their congestion, by sending more information. L4S does that by using an unallocated bit in IP packets.
nobody can run gpt4 on their machine
GDPR did really good things for the market as a whole. The number of (inevitably US) websites that made a big stink either didn't take the time to understand what they needed to do (perhaps an hour for an average website by a competent engineer), or are so incredibly allergic to the implication that they must act ethically that they decided to say "fuck this". For these cases, the world is better off if they don't exist.

If you build a system and cannot live with the fact that a human must make the final estimation and be responsible for it's decisions, you should not be building a system that judges people.
non-obvious? don't think so.

the obvious is GPT-4 blows them all out of the water in quality and is completely trounced on quality/inference cost.
Maybe because GPT-3.5 is a free model so it's basically comparing free models with each other.
Thank you! I'm with you on getting things out sooner rather than later, and this certainly wouldn't have been something to hold up shipping something over; just wanted to report it in the hopes of a future fix.

Thanks for a really interesting post!
One of the thing that strikes me with the BLM and DEI movement is that the vast majority of people seems to be incapable of thinking in term of distributions, and rather think in term of stereotypes, which leads to what is in my opinion, the very definition of racism and sexism, ie attributing to an individual some attributes derived rightly or wrongly from some metrics (average or percentile) of a distribution purely on the basis of skin colour or gender. Instead of treating an individual as an individual which could be anywhere on those pretty wide distributions.

And I observe that even from friends that are reasonably well educated but have done little to no statistics.

This lack of basic stats skills does lead to bad public policies.
Ah! So that what, we're using in ollama is named the tiny version?

> Mistral-tiny. Our most cost-effective endpoint currently serves Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2, a new minor release of Mistral 7B Instruct. Mistral-tiny only works in English. It obtains 7.6 on MT-Bench. The instructed model can be downloaded here.
> guess who the early colonizers of these alt platforms are

Sorry - what is "colonizer" here? Do you mean users?
Show HN: Pryingdeep – The new OSINT instrument for the Deep Web
PryingDeep is a dark web OSINT tool. It specializes in extracting information depending on modules chosen.
Here's an overview of the features:

- Email, PhoneNumber, Wordpress search

- PGP keys, Certificates and 3 different cryptocurrencies (XMR,BTC,ETH) search

- PostgreSQL database, docker container for Tor and docker-compose for the whole project

- A built in exporter, currently only JSON, but possibly more.

- Exporter has support for: offset, limit, query building via the command line, raw-sql and different modules you can specify, e.g you only want emails, you will only get emails and the html webpage

- Collects title, status_code, body and headers from a webpage.

- Extremely customizable, supports multiple url's at once, based of the goColly framework which gives the crawler many options, e.g Debugger, allowed-domains or url-filters.

- Built install module, so there's no need for manually grabbing our config from github.

- Choice to remember previous parameters with our save-config flag.

- Built in queue and once reached max size, crawler will automatically exit.

That's a short overview, but there will be many more features to come as I enjoy working on this project!
I am not sure what that means. How can they run GPT 3.5 any more or less?
If that were the case, that wouldn't be just one of the covered concepts in the proposed law. We should not assume world-shaking incompetence.
Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines
Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do (2020) [video]
NetworkX's documentation is the source of one of the most surreal but true sentences ever written (with just a slight alteration) [0]:

A lobster is a tree that reduces to a caterpillar when pruning all leaves.

[0] https://networkx.org/documentation/latest/reference/generate...
This is very disappointing, and automatically dismisses omg.lol as an option for me as a researcher and educator.
France, it is called "loi sur le separatisme religieux", if I am not much mistaken. It is very recent.

Mostly everything has 2 sides: it is totally illegal to discriminate based on religious matter, both ways.
The nice thing about "Potemkin" is that there's a decent chance the video was also designed to fool their own CEOs (in response to an impossible request), just as the Potemkin Villages were used to fool the country's own ruler.
Apple begins scheduling Vision Pro training for retail employees as launch nears
You are treating the economics of growth like paperclip simulator.
So businessinsider seems happy because the guy decides to loss/invest into whatever he wants his own money. Ok.
GPS Walkthrough – A Journey from Radio Signal to Position Fix
Yeah. It being the last bit (really the last codepoint in a 2 bit field) there was a big argument over it:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2020-tsvwg-01/s...

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tsvwg/rXWRHAyGOuu_qOGM...
With respect, Spain is one of the cheaper places to live in the EU. Perhaps your salary is even lower, but the nice thing about the EU is that you are free to get something better in a place where you get a salary that's appropriate for you. If that's not an option, you must live in a cheaper location. That really has very little bearing on your country's governance.
Yeah Reddit is compromised by psyops

Would not be shocked if antiwork is one as it keeps people apathetic and in their seats by giving them an impotent rage echo chamber
63% of his Tesla stock pledged as collateral.

Holy shit, he’s more leveraged than I ever imagined.

Assuming it’s 2:1 leverage and his shares are worth $250bn... What the fuck has he spent >$80bn on?
Can someone explain why MoE works? Is there any downside to MoE compared to a regular model?
Ah OK. I guess I interpreted it differently because I don't follow him as a person. So my exposure to him is usually people complaining about something he said, or someone saying what he said was based. I know very little of his projects after Minecraft, so I just used the info I have.

I dunno why you'd be sore about it, the guy already paid his dues? Again though, bot familiar eith what he goes around promising.
Humans absolutely do have these features. (Implemented in a slightly buggy way, yes, but that's not relevant in this context.)
As a deaf person I have been watching "live" speech recognition demos for 20-30 years. All look great. Using it in day to day life is crazy cause if you have 1 mistake per 10 words it builds up over time to be supremely annoying.
It's a testament to the game that its AI is still this memorable. Have there been any advances in that area since then? I'm not at home in the singleplayer FPS genre anymore, how do the SP campaigns of the newer Halo or CoD games hold up?
I think it's safe to say that "to learn it to a certain degree" is exactly what people want out of books like this.

And "to learn it to a certain degree" is fundamentally different from "cannot be learned".

Nobody expects to become a world famous typographist by simply following a tutorial. What they can do, is acquiring an applicable skill for their occupation.

And of course violin can be learned to a enjoyable degree by most people if they wish to do so. You'd need fair bit of talent to make a career in the classical world, sure. But to play it enjoyably is something an amateur can certainly achieve. (Speaking as a talentless amateur violinist)
There are a lot of people that have lent him money that would like to be paid back, which would be impossible if Elon fucks everything up.

63% of his Tesla shares are pledged as a collateral. Do the math.

So no, not his own money. His creditors’ money. He doesn’t have any money. He only has Tesla stock.

The party is over. The credit card is maxed out. The interest rates are rising. Someone will have to pick up the tab.
Wasn't GoldSource based on the Quake engine? I'm reading that it's heavily modified, mainly in terms of enemy AI.
> A proper preference tuning can also serve this purpose. Bear in mind that without such a prompt, the model will just follow whatever instructions are given.

Mistral does not censor its models and is committed to a hands free approach, according to their CEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMOFRDOMIiU

> Mixtral 8x7B masters French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English.

EU budget cut by half
Aren't most elements in video games, including the player characters, state machines?
> “The cat acts like a settlement radio receiver, and its role is to keep alive the inactive radio station so it continues to the next track even if you’re listening to another station. Just like if it was a settlement receiver somewhere near the player. In normal circumstances the cat doesn’t make sound. It is silenced, it is invisible, and it is deleted from the game world after three seconds.”

What I don't understand there is, why are those cats deleted after 3 seconds? Does it mean the inactive radio station only continues playing the next track for 3 seconds, and then freezes? If so, that sounds like an unfortunate limitation.
> We’re currently using Mixtral 8x7B behind our endpoint mistral-small...

So 45 billion parameters is what they consider their "small" model? I'm excited to see what/if their larger models will be.
This is reminiscent of the Mill CPU which had temporal addressing and called the history a “belt”.

the Mill was described in an excellent series of talks: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QGw-cy0ylCc
So we should test out the performance, because with GPT funnily enough, it's possible that this type of prompt could bias it even better.

Because e.g. if you need it to answer in a very specific way, it might be helpful for the ChatBot to see what the other potential ways are so it would know to contrast even more.

Yes, it's influencing the output of the model, but it's unclear to me without extensive trying in which way, because it could be positive influence as well.

As for efficiency. It doesn't add that much in terms of magnitude if you already have long conversations going on.

Finally. Using external libraries and building out the things that you are mentioning will take time, trial and error. Just modifying the initial prompt is easy, and you can start to use it immediately.

So the main positive is just that it's likely faster and easier to implement compared to building out those systems.
> It doesn't look like what people would think of as AI at all.

If by “people” you mean specifically the subset of people who have technical knowledge or who read HN, then sure, but in the wider population, anything that seems intelligent that’s fine by a computer is AI, they don’t care if it’s using statistical techniques, a random number generator or a bunch of conditionals. Laypeople don’t know or care what happens under the hood.

I once heard a conversation between an old boss of mine and an investor where my boss was saying that the software did calculations X and Y automatically and the investor responded with “so it’s AI”. My thought was “wait what? No it’s not” but my boss said something like “AI is anything that people perceive as intelligence thats artificial”. Historically, exist systems were seen as AI and they weren’t necessarily statistics based. That’s why we have more technical terms like machine learning.

But I agree, that laws should be far more specific about what they mean and “you can use a computer for this” would be better.m, if that’s what they really mean.
> Companies offer unlimited vacation because it is an effective way of reducing the amount of vacation that employees take.

Companies offer unlimited vacation because “unlimited” is a benefit during employment, not a form of compensation that, in many US jurisidctions, must be cashed out at separation at thr employees current pay rate, which means unlimited vacation means balances don’t have to be tracked, accrued, and recognized as a liability on financial statements, whereas defined vacation does.
> The situation can be described simply as «no one had expected such a grand connectivity failure to happen, so The Computer and The Manuals were not as helpful as they could be in finding out what worked and what didn't». That's it.

Did we read the same article ogurchik? This situation was not simple, and the computer and manuals were as helpful as they could be given the unknown situation.

All I was trying to point out that your assumption about the ECAM system may be ignoring some reasons for why it works that way. No need to be a salty pickle about it.
My first experience with "social media" was in the late 90s with a website dedicated to the Wheel of Time, www.wota.com. We had enormous fun in the forums and web chat, and I loved the design and flow. It was mostly hacked together in Perl. Rand Al'Thor, if you are reading this, where are youuu? It's me, TrueSource! ＼(≧▽≦)／
You are using plan9's UTF8 and 9p in lots of products.
GPT-3.5 (unfinetuned) has been matched by many OW (open weights) models now, and with fine tuning to a specific task (coding, customer care, health advice etc) can exceed it.

It's still useful as a well known model to compare with, since it's the model the most people have experience with.
Monster Hunter has it, it's pretty epic seeing massive creatures fight each other and you, a tiny human with an oversized weapon, running for your life and / or awaiting your opportunity to kill them and use their corpses to make new weapons/armor.
> Oh and I think real people can be a source of missinformation as well.

Yeah, definitely. But at least you have a chance to detect their intentions; for some forged digital information, you don't even have that. "Interesting times" is one way to put it...
GPT-3.5 is probably the most popular model used in applications (due to price point vs. GPT-4, and quality of results vs. open-weight models).

So I guess they're trying to say now it's a no-brainer to switch to open-weight models.
Securing Laravel Forms Using Cloudflare's Turnstile Captcha
Only on HN does a kind soul already have a list being curated for the exact thing posted. Haha. I love it.
We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
Just tried to register, haven't received the confirmation email.
Ask HN: YouTube keeps switching watch history back on
I have had my watch history off for months, and one day recently it was automatically turned on again.

Then I went into "YouTube History" and changed the control again, about 2 weeks ago. For about two weeks it was set to off, but then yesterday evening I noticed that history was switched on again.

Has anyone else noticed this? I do not think it's done by accident from my side, as the history control is not possible to do via apps, etc. One has to go into a separate Google webpage in order to explicitly turn history off.
I see, I never understood why quote data are so costly (read - aren't free).

So how does [name redacted] differentiate to others in the market - eg. Yahoo finance?
as pointed out by others, this is a myopic view. as much as "AI" has been overhyped, most of the regulations do not prevent the advancements in the field.

doing it right seems better than the startup grindset of experimenting and failing fast imho.

if you look away from consumer (and generic-use business) space, a lot of software and hardware has local players. to think you can do the whole stack inside europe is a pipe dream, however. even if you go wild west on the regulations.
It is so tiring to see these kind of 'measure' systems over and over again. Is that because the general public is unable to understand rational measures? Shouldn't be better to start using them so maybe the readers get the urge to understand them?

I am not sure about this but I think something can be done, moreso from the people writing these articles. Maybe they can put a link to some website that explains rational measures.
It was a wild time; as they said, Doom was made in (just) one year; while in a sense the games of back then are comparable to indie games of today, even indie games take longer to build these days.

That said, it's a work/life balance thing too; the Doom team did pretty much a year of grinding, pizza and coffee fueled 14+ hour workdays.
But back then their loss was more localized. the Ancient Egypt state came with a much-changed cultural base, but outside of the reach of that empire lots and lots of people kept their ice age customs. Nowadays much of the world is so uniform that cultural loss is often absolute and final. There are no more barbarians on the fringes of the Swiss state.
> A non deterministic Turing machine would absolutely crunch through math theorems

Can you formalize that statement in any useful way? It seems you believe proof validation to be in NP, when it most certainly is not. Accordingly an N-TM would be of relatively little power against the problem.
Not sure that NT kernel is inferior to UNIX/POSIX. It was by David Cutler modelled after VMS, which was state of the art at one point.
Ban AI.
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I think the idea may well be that there are two groups of people in the world. Those who pay for books and those who never pay for books, especially if they can find a free download somewhere.

I claim that I belong to a third group: I do spend a lot of money on books, but have to be somewhat careful with my spending. I can also claim that the knowledge that I get from the mentioned book will in all likelihood not increase my salary, so I am interested in this book solely because I am very interested in this topic. But since I am interested in a lot of topics (and tend to avoid illegal downloading of e-books if possible), I have to concentrate the huge book spendings on those books that are insanely good.
I've seen several professional geologists answer this question, and no, really, volcanos don't work that way.

For one, the scale is way, way too big. It's like stabbing an elephant with a needle and expecting it to bleed out.

Also, the dangerous type of magma is extremely viscous and gas-rich. It doesn't flow like Hawaiian lava does.
Discord though...? :/
Slower than I can think (by choice).
Nostalgia is literally the only thing AD&D has going for it - it's a clunky, incoherent, and thoroughly unbalanced mess, designed when tabletop gaming was only a decade or two old.

We've had 35 years of experience with tabletop and CRPGs since then, both with systems that tried to stick closer to D&D and with ones that tried new things altogether.

The Divinity system isn't perfect by any means, but I can't imagine how rose-tinted your glasses must be to think that THAC0 and the golden age of Linear Fighter, Quadratic Wizard are better.
Worth a shot I suppose
I spent the last 30 minutes trying to edit an appropriate reply explaining my own immigrant experience. Then I deleted all of it. This is hard to respond to. I will try again:

> Also, your premise doesn’t match my experience, at least as a south Asian. I’ve never felt any racism or stereotyping in rural America. But I have in Toronto, where there’s a large underclass of south Asians.

With $500, my mother and 5yr old me left Soviet Poland and landed in Massachusetts. Upon landing, no matter how well I did in school, I was a "dumb Polak immigrant." [0] Later, when I was a teen, we moved to the West Coast, and there that stereotype did not exist. I was re-born. Yay! :)

In my experience, as immigrants to The West, we bring our own ridiculous class/race hatred straight here with us, and in the melting pot places like the East Coast for me, and Toronto for you, we can't escape it.. Like we left our continents because of that dumb crap, and somehow we brought it all here.

Imho, we are very fortunate that North America is so large, and innocent, so that we can all find a comfortable spot for ourselves, somewhere.

> ethnically diverse places that are culturally and economically homogenous across ethnic lines"

This seems circular to me. It is likely that I just don't understand. If you don't mind, please explain further.

[0] I would like to point out that my brother in law recently admitted to us that even as a teenager, he didn't know that Polaks were an actual group of people from an actual country named Poland. He literally thought that Polish were a theoretical group of dumb people. He grew up dirt poor in Kentucky, and has now worked his way to be a multi-millionaire. After all that, he could admit that level of ignorance to our Polish family, and we were all good.

This is the glory of "Western multiculturalism." Love it, or hate it.

Personally, I love it. I mean you can't make this stuff up, and we are all very lucky to be here.
For sure; if you look at 15, 20 year old games now vs today's, you can see it's more evolution than revolution, in terms of gameplay mechanics, graphics, scale, etc.

Not that it's not impressive; look at the PS5 tech demos (large scale areas that players can go through fast without loading times thanks to fast storage), or the Unreal Engine demos, e.g. the Matrix one you can download to the PS5 or the one where they highlight generative level creation.

But it doesn't feel as revolutionary anymore. Mind you, that may just be fatigue, or "getting used to" things quickly.
Solar must be damn attractive
Thanks for reminding me about womp! I was thinking about it when writing my last newsletter and couldn't remember the name.
It has been grown in Iceland: https://www.nordicwasabi.com/