skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured this must be a well-known property of neural networks. I'll do some reading on the lottery ticket hypothesis. That is almost exactly what I was thinking when reading the article: sure after you have trained it you can prune the layers that aren't used. But I wasn't sure you could know/guess which layers will be unused before you train.

It strikes me as an interesting open question since if it is the case that you need big networks for training but can use significantly smaller "pruned" networks for inference there are many, many reasons why that might be true. Determining which of the possible reasons is the actual reason may be a key in understanding how LLMs work.
I'll bite. Explain why you think Machiavellian tendencies is something that is particularly associated with "democracy" as opposed to other systems of government. (I'm ignoring the fact that the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy.)
Ok here’s one. If you have two inline-block divs with no border or margin and you give them both 50% width, they should evenly split their parent div, right? Wrong! You need to set the font size to zero on the parent otherwise the html formatting adds extra space after the first div.
Anything anyone's been doing for 15+ years starts to feel easy, because any component that takes a year to learn how to do (which is, by any measure, something quite difficult to learn) you've known for 14 years.
I agree, but the BS was poured out of the bottle and onto the floor during the previous two administrations. It's hard/impossible to put it back in now.

Blame McConnell's "power for power's sake" approach to the Senate.
It's no more difficult than packer. The challenge is architectural, because a lot of times (and I am guilty of this as a developer myself) the infra architecture comes later or after the fact.
That's true, but of course as a member you can pressure/vote for your union to bargain. And at any rate, most of the time union work pays better.
a 2 mile deathstar gives you the chance to flip this around - get space for your home in a big lego set
Well you come up with your own "test" and tell us the results.
Another new contender in the typed Nix space if Garn, which allows one to interact with Nix via TypeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112416
I find Nix to be very usable. People expect to be able to learn things without trying nowadays.
I’ve been doing that for over a decade, without making tangible progress.
> are ... illegal.

So's murder, and yet that still happens.
+1

I can just swap the micro controller with something like an ESP8266 and run WLED.
> I’m sure it did because cinnamon is cheap, but c’mon

Buddy they're substituting lead for cinnamon in applesauce to save a penny or two. Cheap doesn't matter at scale if you can find a way to go cheaper.
My grandmother has been retired for years, she worked as an accountant.

Any time there's a conversation about computers, she'll pipe in with remarks about how "Compaq makes the best computers".
I disagree. I've been a linux user for 20 years now and for the first 18 I never fixed a package. I've been a NixOS user for 2 years and suddenly I'm a participant. Having a common language removes a lot of barriers that otherwise prevent people from contributing.

As for the language itself it's... fine. Most alternatives that get proposed don't have anything like a recursive attribute set, which is something that matches the problem domain very well.
Here's a big one I needed to get ChatGPT to do something more sophisticated with a JSON object response (predates functions and all that)

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro...

It no longer worked after a model update some time ago, haven't tried recently.

I found codellama to be much better for this and require fewer instructions, an anecdotal validation for smaller, focussed models
Typically because the company is more benevolent to non-union workers in this case so to try to incentivize workers to not join or leave the union. If there was no union involved, then the company wouldn't be so benevolent to non-union workers.
Undertrained does not mean bad. It means it could be better.

But I also disagree with takeaway.
You need to hold your phone up to a mirror to see it.
No one really believes in these numbers in Spain though, tons of under the table cash under flowing around, unlike its western counterparts.
Which is a parody of the old cliche "Mors certa, hora incerta": Death is certain, but nobody knows when.
> On average, X is more likely than Y, therefore in any specific case, X is more likely than Y.

I'll take this a bit further. X is more likely than Y so Y is not going to happen & we should not consider Y.

There's a book, recommended by Bill Gates no less, "How to lie with statistics".

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

> Themes of the book include "Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do.

I'll claim that statistics & even extracting quanta from qualia is going to have data loss from the sampling. So forecasting from statistics requires context on what is being forecasted.
<quote>

1. Docker Build

2. Docker Run

3. Docker Hub

Nix solves the last two.

Nix solves packaging your application and its dependencies better than Docker does!

</qoute>

What am I missing? They just said that Nix solves the last two and the first one better than docker does.

> Running your container in a secure, multi-tenant fashion is definitely one of the problems Docker solves

Docker does not solve anything related to a secure multi-tenant environment. Docker can provide isolation between mostly trusted parties. Anything running on the same kernel must not be considered securely isolated.

So since I'm not getting security anyways running services in Nix is simple and provides the isolation that I care about. Applications aren't going to accidentally break each other or cause dependency hell. I can use UNIX users if I want or even use simple containers like systemd-nspawn. But none of these are secure.

I agree that Docker provides nice UX, that is why it won. It made it easy to get something that works and can run fairly reliably across machines. It has flaws, especially reproducibility, but it works and is relatively easy to understand.

I sometimes wonder if the Nix stdenv does too much. It is optimized for running configure and make for you but ends up being a lot of complexity that most people don't need with different phases and hooks. If you just use `pkgs.runCommand` you actually get a very simple docker-like experience where you just run commands and copy your build result to the output directory. Plus there is no messing around with build images vs output images to get small results.
For sure - our prod machine has 6x RTX 3090s on some old cirrascale hardware. But P40s are still good for last-gen models. Just nothing new unfortunately.
Ahh ok I'll change my privacy.com card for Delta Dental then
Yes. Or more generally, one of the more immediate benefits of the quest for artificial intelligence is the understanding of human intelligence that we gain along the way.

(insert friends made along the way meme, but truly profound)
>Some of my colleagues look askance at me, and one has said, "you're automating us out of jobs, eventually, you do know this, right?" These guys/girls fear AI. I don't. I don't use it because God gave me a brain and I'm expected to exercise it. AI also feels like cheating to me.

I'm... Not seeing the logical connection here. If you could automate more of the work faster using AI than not using AI, why wouldn't you?
I appreciate that Gizmodo actually calls out ridiculous nature of the claims.

The original 404 Media article took every claim at face value and stirred some additional hyperbole to boot.
Hi Ryan, I appreciate the artistic approach taken, but thought you might want to know the page barely works for me in Firefox 120 on Linux 6.6. Everything is very laggy and the scrolljacking is terrible. Chromium is much smoother but the scrolljacking is still bad.

Generally speaking I don't think Linux is a target platform worth worrying too much about, but when it comes to programming-related content that might not be the case.
love the snow space lego sets, I had that one too
People use the word "censor" to mean so many things that it's hard to track, but in this case was HN working the way it always does and has for many years. It works the same way regardless of topic, and there was no moderator intervention. We sometimes intervene to turn off flags, but this wasn't the right thread for that, as I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657527.

The topic itself just had two massive threads on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616550 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675), so I don't think it's correct to call the topic censored.

Re transparency, we don't publish a complete moderation log (I've written about why over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but we're happy to answer questions when people ask them, and believe it's in HN's long-term interest to err on the side of openness. I spend half my days these days answering this sort of question through email. Even when we can't answer a question completely, we can usually at least say why (e.g.: some of HN's anti-abuse software would stop working if we published how it works, so we can't answer that question completely).

If you or anyone still has a question that I haven't answered here or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657527, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
How to Lose a Library
> You know a company is morally bankrupt if they fight their employees unionizing

Any company would oppose their employees unionizing; they have a fiduciary duty to do so
The best time to form a union is when things are going well at a company. It’s easier to use your union to solidify existing benefits than to ask for new ones.

You unionize in the good times so you’re protected in the bad times.

(Not saying that’s what happened here, just saying you cannot really judge what unionization means from the outside)

As for why that’s a good thing in general, that depends on how you feel about unions. If I have the choice between union made goods and non-union made goods, I buy the union made goods. So I’m always happy to see a company unionize.
Note: I was basing my comments on the arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12466 "Indefinite Causal Order in Quantum Batteries", which I assumed was the preprint for the PRL paper. It's conceivable that it's not... certainly substantial rewrites have occurred (the title and abstract have changed, and there's an additional author, though the gist looks the same).
What dazzling things is docker facilitating? kinda just thought it was marginally decreasing sys-admin/op-management costs.
Is fastmail in your mind a megacorp?

Most things you said do not seem to relate to a small company with ~400 people according to linkedin.
Is the goal to improve wages and conditions for workers or is the goal that everybody's in a union? If companies improve wages and conditions for workers to deter then from forming or joining a union, then there is no need for a union. Unless you've fallen for partisan faith.
Planning can be implemented (at high computational cost) trivially by generating hidden responses.

New models can be trained to natively query "authoritative" sources of information, such as databases and computer algebra systems.

New models can be used to transform prompts into more effective ones (along the lines of TFA).
Thank you for the great library and examples! Can you please comment on how simpleaichat compares to https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines ?
Something I don’t like about the way grid and flex has been implemented is the seemingly random application of naming conventions.
Memorising the differences between justify items and align items, the argument order for repeat including min and max content variables. The odd naming convention for grid area.. There’s a lot going on.

Oh yeah and debugging a broken sticky because some parent has stacking context stuff going on, also fun.
>An LLM is an audience like any other.

LLMs are nothing like a human audience. They have no logos, ethios, nor pathos. You can just barely reason with them, they have absolutely no authority on any subject, and only mimic emotions.
They're might be talking about this[0] as it has been popular recently. It can definitely do >60 imgs/s on my 3080Ti, but you're not going to want any of those images. They are absolute garbage.[1] I can do a little under an image a second and some may be quite usable, but nowhere near what you're going to get from the standard model.

[0] https://github.com/aifartist/ArtSpew/

[1] but the project is still cool, just context...
CSS is difficult because the complexity and inconsistency of mixing the intrinsic styles of HTML tags and CSS styles.

For example, width can be set on <div> but has no effect on <span>. You have to set its display to inline-block.

Another example, <a> has its default colors. Setting CSS colors on the parent element has no effect on the <a> colors, which defeats the CASCADE nature in CSS. You have to apply the styling on <a>. But some styles like font-size does get through from parents.

Another example, text overflows out of bound by default. You have to do the trick of turning off overflow. It feels like setting the bound has no effect.

CSS just has lots of inconsistencies and requires knowing many little tricks to use it effectively.
Balm in GILead: Fast string construction for CPython extensions
no waaay, I have never seen look before, thanks!
> It's basically just trying different approaches until you come up with something that subjectively seems good enough.

> let's not confuse the issue by labeling it as engineering.

In my view, "trying different approaches" is a good description of engineering throughout history.

Sure, it's excellent if you can base your engineering on a detailed physical model that lets you mathematically optimize a solution based on your boundary conditions.

But compare that with metallurgy before we had atomic models. It was a process of trial and error. "Let's add small amounts of different alloy metals and see which ones makes the metal harder / more pliable / stainless / etc".

That's still engineering to me. If anything, it could also be called science.
The decision to unionize isn't about a "third party." It's a decision to negotiate collectively versus individually. Collectively you have more bargaining power, it's a pretty straightforward and obvious calculation.
We're headed to text-to-fullyAnimated3DScene while people are still debating ethics of LLMs text responses. We're not ready for the future that is fast approaching.
Not only that but the Hadoop team literally had the guy who wrote the original HDFS whitepaper. Moving a service with that much in house expertise first never made sense. I worked on one of the original Azure PoCs for Hadoop, even before Blueshift and it was immediately clear that we operated at a scale that Azure couldn't handle at the time. Our biggest cluster had over 500PB and total we had over an exabyte as of 2021 [1]. It was exorbitantly expensive to run a similar setup on VMs, and at the scale that we had I think it would have taken over 4,000 - 5,000 separate Azure Data Lake namespaces to support one of our R&D clusters. I believe most of this "make the biggest cluster you can" mentality was a hold over from the Yahoo! days.

[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2021/the-exabyte-club-...
It is definitely impossible if we all give up on that principle. I'm not willing to give up.
> Anyone else tired of this Machiavellian approach that gives up on trying to persuade through rational and informed discussion?

I'm tired of a system which structurally rewards a party if they are the party most willing to do this, and I'm also tired of the party with the worst policy positions also disproportionately setting policy because it is the most willing to do this.

You can't structurally reform your way out of the broken incentives without effectively using power within the system as it is, or replacing it from outside (the latter of which means violent overthrow, in practice). As inelegant as power politics within the system is, its a whole lot better than either rolling over and giving up, or than getting to structural reform by any other available means.
Every day small children learn to walk, even though others have done it for millennia
It works only from the forced perspective angle. If you move the camera, the image morphs.
Show HN: Encrypted Pastebin
JPEG XL is clearly superior in almost all contexts, but Google killed it and then Apple is trying to support it now. Unless Google reverses its stance though it will stay dead.
That’s a very US centric view. It’s quite common to join unions in most European countries. It does not indicate mistreatment at all. In the US, unionisation happens when all else has failed.
Sure, but given that he refers to 47 years having passed since the experiment, I'd expect he's well aware of the ethics that have evolved since then. It wouldn't be hard for him to admit that in the light of current ethics, the experiment probably wouldn't fly, but instead he doubles down and insists that the experiment was both ethical and correct, which is a pretty terrible take.
The K80 is literally worth < $0 given how ridiculous it is to configure and use.

P40s are definitely the best value along with P100s. I still think there is a good amount of value to be extracted from both of those cards, especially if you are interested in using Whisper ASR, video transcoding, or CUDA models that were relevant before LLMs (a time many people have forgotten apparently).
> Fastmail has 116 U.S. based employees

Wow. Considering they're not a US-based company this seems amazing (yes, I'm aware that unicorn startups need a zillion people because...reasons, but this is Fastmail not a unicorn).
Gizmodo should be ashamed of themselves. Running an article that says “there’s little to no evidence suggesting that ‘your devices are listening to you’” is obviously and provably false.

Any device that responds to voice commands must be listening. Always. This is obvious.

We also have proof that companies like Amazon do collect the data, store the data, and listen to the data [1].

They try to make this sound like a conspiratorial idea in contrast with debunked ideas. I question their motives when the ideas they call false are so clearly true.

[1]: https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/
Same, except I wanted more m-tron. Put space rocks in a box, lift it up with a magnet, fly off. Great fun!

Heck, my kindergarten daughter likes that formula. I'm pretty sure there is a marketable business somewhere in there, but maybe not at sufficient scale
One of my big hopes is that LLMs help us to become better communicators with each other.

- prompt engineering for clarity (and focus?)

- results (good examples of quality replies)

- assistant (help me say this better)

where better could be a lot of things, depending on the context, here I'm mainly meaning in how we treat each other through communication (politeness, contentiousness, how we behave on social media), like giving nudges to be nicer
According to some other comments above, it appears that is already does.
A new subdivision went in across the major street from my neighborhood recently. The developer clear cut the forest, put in roads and cookie cutter houses, and then planted one small tree in front of each house. Many of the people who live there cross the busy main road to walk/jog/etc. in our older neighborhood, which has many more trees.
Has anyone with aphantastia tried MDMA?

The drifting off to sleep on the comedown phase of MDMA made me have incredible minds eye pictures each morphing into the next in a kind of word association.

I am capable of minds eye pictures when sober too but this was next level.

I’ve always wanted to try legit LSD but never has it found me. I wonder if people with aphantasia respond differently to empathogenic and hallucinogenic drugs.
I am a software engineer who used to work in a "unionized" workplace. It was quite nice, and the union would negotiate increases in time off and fight against policy changes that were worse for us. The union leaders were elected every few years (very important IMO) and the union was only within the (rather large) company; there was no affiliation with a larger union.
> kind of coordination that requires less representation does not have your interests in mind

Take this to an extreme: a start-up. A union is overly bureaucratic. I’d wager a union doesn’t start making sense until the lowest-ranking employee ceases to have on-demand access to senior management.
> we have no conceivable way to know that hereditary traits contribute to any percentage of the differences.

Right, that explains why we can't know what % heredity contributes. It doesn't explain why we should assume that % to be small.
This seemed great, until I popped $5 on it yesterday, made one query, then came back to it this morning and I think it's been "HackerNewsHugged" as it's incredibly slow, and my $5 credit has vanished .
I can only think of Gfycat, which spun off their adult content to a separate site, Redgifs; since then the individual sites have been acquired by different companies.
Bionic GPT
Right, despite my earlier comments I have to agree that in some situations masks are a significant problem. I've had them clog from dust when my hands haven't been free to change them or similarly perspiration from my forehead has made them wet to the extent that no air could flow leaving me gasping for breath.

So what's the solution? It seems that in some situations there is none. Perhaps in those situations the only move would be to inform people of the risks of not wearing masks and let them decide whether to work there or not.

That said, persons who later develop a dust-borne disease are likely to change their tune when the seriousness of their predicament sinks in and then retrospectively blame their employer for allowing them to work sans masks. Moreover, no insurance company would tolerate such a situation if aware of the fact—hence the laws, even if they're unworkable.
Everyone has a duty to maintain human dignity, too.
It is a least squares fit of sine waves. (A^T)A = I because sines are orthogonal.

Use Euler's eqn to convert e^jw into sin + cos and just work through the algebra.
I’ve put my old lego in the dishwasher (you can use a “net”) and it comes out like new.
> But I have yet to find a single viewer of Melrose Place who has any memory of seeing any of the artworks while watching the show.

Pretty much sums it up. All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so radical, and nobody noticed anyway. They probably should have put their creative effort (not that I think the things listed in this are that creative) into something else.
@npm_malware tweets real-time malware threats detected on NPM
You don't have to go that silly. The main reason that DC and Puerto Rico aren't states is because they lean Democrat. Which is a particularly stupid reason for denying them statehood. The US was built on a protest over "taxation without representation", but have no qualms denying it to >3M Puerto Ricans.
Of course our devices are listening to us! What use is a voice activated device that can't process speech? That this ad company is leaning into the old "facebook messenger is listening to you 24/7 because it asks for mic permissions" scare to sorta, but not really, defraud its customers (they imply, but never outright say they are listening to ambient speech at all times) is pretty funny to me.