skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about linguistic information here, because I'm interested in linguistics and language learning.

Humans abstract phonemes from sound, and morphemes/lexical items from phonemes. Once we have a rough measure of how many words of input the toddlers get, we can roughly equate the amounts of _linguistic_ data that goes into acquiring linguistic capabilities.

While GPT gets tokens as input, from the lexical lexical level onward, there can be an argument that we can roughly estimate the volume of the _linguistic_ data that goes in to the system regardless of earlier decoding stages.

I don't claim that there are a lot of other kinds of data feeding into a human brain, and the modality is totally different. (Multimodal-interactive vs. "predict the next token") GPT, therefore, is at disadvantage in that it needs to learn stuff – other than linguistic stuff – _only_ from linguistic input, whereas a human baby can use world model gained through other modalities as a scaffolding.

But for acquiring linguistic capabilities, auditory and visual data seems hardly relevant as input data, other than helping building that the scaffolding that can help "top-down" understanding.
I don't use IDEA for Java work, I use it because it's the only IntelliJ platform app that supports "all" languages (or at least all the languages I care about), but sure let's go with your examples above.

If you're hiring someone to do java work, who has no experience of jar files, or java build tools, them not being able to use IDEA is the least of your concern.

This is like saying "on the first day of work as a carpenter, we send all new hires on an intensive nail-gun training course, because they probably don't know how to use a circular saw, or even what the pointy end of a nail is for"

I don't know what schools teach these days, but all the classes I had (one of which, coincidentally enough was java) specifically made us not use an IDE - we had to use a text editor for all practical work.

Once you know what you actually need/want to do, using a different tool to achieve it is generally not a complex task.

If someone knows how to use a screw driver, they don't need comprehensive training to then use an electric drill/driver to put a screw in.

If they don't know how to use a screw driver, giving them a drill/driver to learn, is a fucking terrible idea.
> Far fewer people know communism's death (and life) tolls in the 20th century than Nazi Germany's

Oh no. Here we go again. Sigh. My fault really, I knew what I was getting into.

> You've decided the person does like socialism and communism, but is afraid to say so

No, this isn't what I said. I suggest you go back and read it.

> That is not what they are saying, and while it could be what they mean, you are not able to discern that any more than anyone else is

Thankfully that's not what I'm saying either!

I knew this was a mistake, thanks for confirming.
Web Pages and LLMs, a Match Made in Heaven
I looked at the ToC and clicked into some of the chapters. It seems like this is more like a "Fundamentals of Machine Learning" book, as a lot of it is not really specifically about Deep Learning. Chapters that specific to Deep Learning seem to be 6-10, 12, 13 and 17-20. Nothing wrong with the contents, but I think the title is a bit misleading..
I like games that surprise, play well and make you wonder. For example Elden Ring last year. Great game.
True.

But it's easy to publish something on github, and you get an bug tracker. So .. I guess they do it because it's easy to do so?
Sounds interesting, but I don't trust this service to keep my data safe. The polished, scroll-hijacked website and the call for VC funding doesn't help.
If you have too much swap configured it can take hours to recover. Maybe days, never let it go that long without giving up. The kernel is terribly slow at swapping stuff back once memory pressure is gone.

Of course the remedy is to have no or very little swap configured, but that's not obvious when compared to other operating systems (for example on Windows more swap never hurts, and the system recovers very quickly once memory pressure is gone)
The "massive release in glutamate" reminds me of some references I read wrt Glutamatergic Storm or Excitotoxicity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133642/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity

So is the glutamate spike the cause or the effect in this story?
Green movement successes are mostly just moving the dirty work from places that do not tolerate it, to places where it can be done without the locals making noise.
There is no correlation between asthma and fracking. There is not even a plausible mechanism for such a causal relationship. That is a very odd point to make.
Apple's whole deal is that you either submit to their lock in, or you gtfo. The only way to make an ios app is to:

1) Spend $100 a year for the privilege of being allowed to access their app store

2) Buy several $1000 iPhones (you'll be expected to test on every model they currently support by app store reviewers)

3) Buy one $2000 macbook per developer that needs to work on the iOS app (build tooling only runs on macos)

4) Good luck if you want to integrate this with your CI! Either another mac mini ($1000) or a subscription to some service that does it for you. Forget about using your linux boxes that you use for everything else. Apple says no!

5) Everyone who needs to log in to the apple developer portal also needs an iDevice. Apple is so secure they only support their own proprietary second factor push messages to iDevices!

You can see why they don't allow emulators or virtual machines. Think of the sweet, sweet $$$ they'd be losing out on!
"Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels."
> I don't read GP as sympathising with Apple/Google at all, they just want a nice experience in their car;

Apple/Google are not a nice experience. If you could share your screen would have been ok. But running special apps is out of discussion. I tried Android Auto. It is terrible, it needs a lot of time to set up (permissions, settings on car), the car must be stopped (ignition off) and 95 % of apps installed are not compatible. In the end, to listen music i have memory sticks and for navigation a Garmin.
Screenshots also help a lot when the tutorial is not in your native language. When I learned Photoshop as a teenager, my UI was in German, but most of the good tutorials were in English. The screenshots really made it easier to locate things in the menus when I didn’t know a word yet, or a non-obvious translation was used.
Running on bare metal usually means not in a VM or container. It means they talk to the hardware in the most direct way. Sure, it takes drivers, kernel, etc but that's about it.

Operating systems can run on VMs or containers. When comething runs on top of those OSs, they are not running on bare metal.
If we need those jobs so much, then perhaps we should treat the people who do them with respect. Like by giving them predictable, full-time schedules and health insurance.
Is this really something the real estate market wants though? The point of using styled and meticulously chosen images is to entice people to visit the property in person. I think it’s hard to fall for a home because you saw it through virtual reality.
The only clean energy that is capable of producing constant power is nuclear power.
I think it’s likely that the brain’s internal behavior at death doesn’t have a significant evolutionary effect, and instead is just a side-effect of how the brain works in general, which in turn is of evolutionary importance, of course.
I accidentally imported a 3rd party library twice. Deleted the extra. Got a nice badge for deleting over 500k lines of code.
I really think we should have means of spawning wasm components from wasm components. How the runtime runs them should be up to the runtime - it could be directly backed by kernel primitives but it could also be in a browser. Leaking posix things into wasm… is something I'd rather never want to see. Let's come up with something better as wasm did aim for from the start.
Means that the X server directly communicates with the display driver to do the low-level rendering. Compare that with Xwayland, in which the server is an application talking to wayland or Xephyr which renders to a frame buffer in another X.
I can picture it better as Fry & Laurie actually, but still can't find it. This'll bother me all day!
This appears to be a lot of words collected by committee, and about a lot of random things. Not clear what any of it has to do with agility, or why original agile principles wouldn't apply.

It talks about leadership and various stakeholders, but that is one of issues that agile addressed pretty well imho: get people to say what they want next, leave the team alone for a time so they can implement that without interference, then demo a working solution for feedback from stakeholders.

If an org can't even do that, there's issues beyond development process that this "Agile 2" doesn't seem to address either.
The only practical solution is to re-nationalise this company.
Economy practically fell apart.

Before you could move goods from Prague to Ljubljana without encountering a hitch. Now you had three separate borders in your way. This led to decline in virtually every sector, as things previously available on internal market suddenly became exports.
Currency was the next catastrophe. Before 1918 you could buy bread with the same kroner in Vienna, Brno, Budapest and Krakow. Now you had to handle multiple currency swaps.

Finally, war erupted almost immediately between successor states. Poland against Czechoslovakia, Council Republics in Slovakia and Hungry, Poland against Ukraine ...
And to top the list you had domestic repressions, like in Czechoslovakia against Germans.

So yes, it was a crisis. After crisis, after crisis. The only reason we in central Europe don't see this era as one of horror is because things got even worse afterwards. General economic collapse by end of 1920s and well into early 1930s, followed by WWII, genocides, communist takeover etc.

Well, there is one other reason. Nation states were seen as "progressive" and "modern" for most of the 20th century. The propaganda is kind of pervasive.

Just some of the wars I mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_Wa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_and_interventions_...
Ah ok I see what you mean.

I think what we have today (weak ML) are models which can be trained to operate at the quality of a human for specific tasks.

So I am definitely terrified by the recidivism example, because it’s not obvious to me that there is a human who can do that task, but I’m pretty relaxed about the coverage one (because presumably at least in principle if you automate these sorts of manual tasks you can drive down the cost of providing care - if that saving passed on to consumer).

The image recognition one is a bit more complicated but if your scenario is targeting a hellfire missile I’m not sure the human-in-the-driving-seat method has created good outcomes so far, so I’m at least in principle open to some level of AI involvement perhaps short of full autonomy.

But I can definitely understand the problem of incentives. Ultimately we have that issue with humans though and it’s in some respects harder to audit them.
Funny that I didn't notice until very recently that the computer operator was Penn Jillette, the magician!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OYNMO_mNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYE2amC9vMY
Is this based off CVA6? That's not mentioned.
Yo fuck mongo just use RDS or some digitalocean DB. Or really just use opensearch/elasticsearch, or even typesense (don't bother with raft it's so broken) or meilisearch
This sighing, world-weary non-response isn't worth anything.

I've clearly laid out what I thought your response said, and what I think about that. Why reply with zero courtesy and zero content?
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Nice! The real Computing Church!
The paper cites Graeber and Wingrow:

[Findings like this fort] can contribute to the critical re-appraisal of narratives of linear pathways to social change increasingly explored in both scientific and popular debates (e.g. Dan-Cohen Reference Dan-Cohen2020; Graeber & Wengrow Reference Graeber and Wengrow2021).

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/wo...

edit: on second read this comment came across to me as not supportive of the parent comment, which was not intended. I second the recommendation of reading Graeber and Wengrow, and was happy to see them directly cited.

“The Dawn of Everything” does include some lengthy polemical content. Even if the authors point of view isn’t to one’s own aesthetic or political sensibility: skip ahead, it is still worth reading the whole thing.
> While I knew that some pages were less frequently visited than others, I was surprised to see that there were modules that accounted for less than 0.1% of page visits. This meant I could remove them entirely without affecting 99.9% of users. I could delete entire directories containing dozens of files and thousands of lines of code.

I don't know about the author's application, but a data driven approach is not going to give good results. In my podcast hosting software, the "delete podcast" button is used maybe once every other week (by the numbers). But if I got rid of it, I'd be fielding support requests for every user who wants to delete a show. And that's a highly manual cleanup process to do by hand.

Which is to say, features don't need to be a high percentage of traffic to be important.
The video mentions a variety of hydrocarbons emitted from fracking sites (and a noticeable smell), which would be a plausible cause, no? That said, I don't have a dog in this fight and no strong opinions, and happy to be educated with better facts.

EDIT: Potentially of interest - "Fracking is linked to asthma increase, study finds" https://www.proquest.com/openview/38707d6ad223efa2d5ac7f3bb8...
~1999, you would have had Pentium III @ ~500 MHz max in a laptop, likely less. Pentium M wouldn't release for several more years.

So transparency was arguably still something a true hacker wouldn't waste cycles on.

To your general point, it felt like there was a shift around 2000, when computers needed to be "serious business" and the whimsy of the 80s and 90s was scrubbed out of software.

Honestly, I think we all would have been better off if we'd turned the web to something more approachable for common people (especially if it inspired them to be creators).

Instead, we built a brutalist efficient system where most expression is limited to setting your background.
They co-hosted the RISC-V Summit back in 2018: https://riscv.org/proceedings/2018/05/risc-v-workshop-in-bar...
Turning Earth into Venus: Stochastic Model of Possible Evolutions of Topography
Fill the hole with air at 1atm & it’ll sit there very slowly evaporating though, same as it does on the ISS or on the surface of the earth. Gravity is irrelevant.
How to Create Reusable React Components
You might've been creating react components incorrectly. Is it fully reusable or barely?
Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
I think this is the worst straw man headline I've ever heard.

I've never actually used ed once in the last 30 years of using Unixes both on a programming and admin perspective.

Edit: ok he got me :)
>So if I understand your position, you want information to always be free in every transaction, so when you go to the store to buy a pack of gum, you can look up the entire supply chain, figure out the entire cost for that gum and come to a reasonable price between the buyer and seller?

You bet your sweet patootie I do. It would go a long way towards curbing human rights abuses, too. But you're engaging in a bit of a slippery-slope fallacy, because we were talking about large property and business sales, not gum.

As to how to implement this regime, I'd love to put the big brains that are currently relegated to glorified ad sales, Ponzi scheme engineering, and bigot-corrections (that would be tech, finance, and social justice advocacy, respectively) on it.
> specifies an authorization language where checks can be carried by the token

Why? Wouldn't a developer prefer to implement this inside its application logic anyway?

Edit: I think I figured it out myself: you're likely targeting the case where someone with a certain authorization wants to give someone else a weaker form of that authorization (attenuation).
For those who don't notice straight away, the date on the article is April 1st.
A part of my normal implement-a-feature routine is the "normalisation" phase where I go over the rest of the application, and make sure that other areas of the application use new idioms.
Would it be possible to preemptively inject any substance that neutralized these effects directly in the neocortex in patients to give one last chance of treating them before cerebral death or the damage of the initial rupture of neurons is already too great to allow a person to make a recovery?
You have a point.

But here's a trivia question: how many coal power plants and how many nuclear power plants are in the US?

Answer: 219 coal and 54 nuclear.
You don't do your first experimental test chips on 4nm. That's where you get to when you have raised hundreds of millions after you've gone through several iterations to prove to investors you know what you're doing.
In our public consciousness hunter gatherers don't build anything ever. They just run around women are gathering berries and handling game meat with an aesthetic fire while the 90% muscle Chad hunter came back to his temporary cave with a new kill.
Hey, I am a classic backend software engineer looking to learn how to do things you mentioned. I believe if I learn these skills, I will know how to make "shovels" during gold rush :)

Can you recommend any learning resources for things you mentioned? I don't have an option to learn these on my current job, so it will be hard to structure CV to prove my future employers I know them when I don't have real world experience.
Why do maps apps have essentially no caching?
I live in the UK. A very simple 2D vector costing a few bytes could show the UK as a right angled triangle at minimum zoom. But no, got no 4G? Sucks to be you. You just see a grid. Why is there zero caching of any sorts in Maps apps, which presumably consume millions of gigabytes of bandwidth every day in traffic, and countless amounts of energy polling the same imagery twice?
Cruise reportedly had human interventions every 4-5 miles. I haven’t seen a similar figure for Waymo, who are generally believed to be considerably better.
Quite telling that I'd literally forgotten Thread existed, and I'm in the UK where it has already launched supposedly
Google/j2cl: Java to Closure JavaScript transpiler
You're not wrong but also real companies consist of people. Individually they share many of their thinking patterns and moral views with people outside of those companies. So even though collective nature of companies diffuse responsibility and somewhat erode moral considerations of collective action it's relatively hard to come up with Paperclip Maximizer LLC. Eventually individual morality will kick in and there will be a revolt against dismantling of the Earth. AI doesn't share thinking patterns. We're not even sure to what extent it can do that. We almost certainly don't operate on matrix multiplication while most AIs do. We don't know if AI can share our moral considerations. Many people act as if they equate intelligence with morality, as if one can not exist without other, and as if there's only human kinds of morality. Meanwhile ChatGPT will lie to your face without a hitch even though OpenAI spent a lot of time trying to make it not.
That's not "internet culture war bullshit." Creationist have been finding ways to manipulate scientific discoveries to make it sound like they disprove evolution since Darwin published Origin of Species (1859).
Yea we're pretty privileged compared to our stoneage relatives.
I have been unofficially diagnosed with ADD (specifically without the H). My psych and I decided not to diagnose because I have coping skills and habits that prevent it from interfering too much with my life, and the long term implications of an official diagnosis in the US outweighed the improvement in my symptoms if I were medicated. I have also been officially diagnosed with MDD or whatever they call it today. Depression can display similar symptoms to ADD, and it is possible to have both which is fun for diagnosis.

I probably should have been more specific about "things you enjoy". Video games are a special case where the depressed use them as an escape, for a sense of control over their lives, and a sense of growth where there is no growth. I consider that different from hobbies - things that improve you, things that take work that you enjoy. It'd be different if you were skipping meals to finish building a model plane, but with video games you're skipping meals to prevent yourself from returning to your life.

The ADD on learning stuff resonates with me. I experienced the same thing and for myself it turned out to be a coping mechanism for depression. The jolt of dopamine I got whilst learning was compensating for a general feeling of ennui. Since being diagnosed and medicated for depression, I've found my ability to focus and stick with things long term has vastly improved, despite also having ADD.

I'd highly recommend a therapist even though the experience will most likely be frustrating to start with. Aside from the difficulty in finding one that's available, you also need to find one that you like and whose style and techniques work for you. Don't give up on the concept of therapy if your first few experiences don't feel like they work.

I've been seeing my therapist for about 4 years now and while I don't believe you're ever done with therapy, I do believe that I'm working on the fundamentals of what made me feel bad enough to seek out a therapist in the first place and that I've "debugged" most of my issues.
Why though? It's interesting. I'm not claiming it's equivalent or even remotely similar. (So I agree with your point about _anthropomorphising_) But as a former linguist, in first time history, we witness a system other than humans that exhibits language-like behaviour. Studying these system by no means tells us anything about how _humans_ learn language. But it gives us ideas and viewpoints of what's possible in the "systems-learning-languages" space.
I worry about this also: how does society function when only half the workers are required? We will need some sort of minimal social safety net that still allows people to do some work and get paid.

I view future AIs as being partners, working with people. That said, much less human labor will be required.

Not really addressing your good comments, but as an aside, I really hope that open AI models “win” rather than opaque AI systems owned and run by 3 or 4 giant tech companies.
Why Writing? Ancient monuments and buildings tell us more than another creation myth.