skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Korean there are four commonly used forms, which map into the combination of (formal vs informal) x (polite vs not-so-polite). (That's a simple picture and the reality is a lot messier... but let's not get into that.)

E.g.,

Formal polite: military, business email, public announcement

Formal non-polite: textbooks, novels

Informal polite: kids' books, between coworkers, between customer and clerk

Informal non-polite: siblings, childhood friends, mom to kids
I don't propose taking a city, waiting for recuperation, and then attacking an opponent. I propose taking a city, then soon taking another, then another, then another. Basically moving along an exponential growth curve. If you get lucky and no one attacks you during that period, you stand a very good chance of winning. Even if someone does attack you, the rapid regen from all your cities gives you a fighting chance. This strategy works especially well if you discover a lot of cities in your region during the early game.

The problem with attacking an enemy is that it's easy to get into a war of attrition where you both fall behind other players.
You call it discrimination, they call it employment at will.
I'm growing a Princeton elm in my front yard that's supposedly resistant to Dutch elm disease. It was a 6 foot twig a year ago, but a single growing season had it shoot up to what must be 12 feet or more with it quadrupling in thickness. Hopefully in 5 years it will be providing nice shade.

They're trying to do the same with the chestnut in finding a suitable hybrid. It's such a shame that we've lost so many of our best trees.
What should X/Twitter have called tweets post-murger
Twerps?
Croatia, Moldova.
The tech bro stereotype has only emerged in the past couple of decades, and even so is mostly isolated to the United States. Doctors are still the go-to "money and status" profession for most of the world.
Post-merger
Not really. People converge quite strongly on what's beautiful (e.g. when shown faces) - or in usability considerations.
Native Dutch speaker here. These days one doesn't capitalise the "u" except at the start of a sentence, however in older texts (40+ years?) it was usual to see the "U" pronoun capitalised at all times. Sorry if I'm mansplaining but I noticed you capitalising it and thought I'd point it out, because it would stand out to a modern Dutch reader.

As for sms-speak, I'd be flabbergasted if you encountered the u-form anywhere in text messages except maybe in automated OTP messages from your bank. So I would guess that's something you needn't worry about :).

Good luck in your language-learning journey. Assuming you're living in the Netherlands, I'm curious as to how your integration is going? My observation is that Dutch culture can be insanely hard for foreigners to get a foothold in, partly because of the "polite" tendency of most locals to insist on speaking English around non-native Dutch. I feel like that gesture, which may seem accommodating on the surface level, can almost be an exclusionary dynamic in itself.
You don’t IMHO. Instead identify a niche which is too small for the likes of Google etc
Russia has held some amount of indirect control over those lands for hundreds of years. It cannot stomach the thought of losing dominance over them, and the presence of Russian speakers in those territories means that backing down would be seen as a complete betrayal. They'd rather burn it down and ruin it completely than lose control.
Tweets. Only an idiot would throw away that kind off brand recognition.
> Java is also a more sophisticated basic

Is there some hidden context to these comments, like "we've all just inhaled industrial solvent fumes and then posted on Hacker News?"
xits pronounced zits
Xbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
There's the VMEX etf if that's the kind of thing you're looking for
Do you have any idea how much his lists of bad girls are worth? The man is a creep.
I can relate to that feeling. I've been reading books on different philosophies to find way out of this. Now I feel like I just accept life is meaningless in a positive way. But it is hard to get all over of these feelings that it still comes back at me once a while.

I do have a few hobbies I can enjoy doing to just forget about all those things. I don't think there is a "solution" though, everyone needs to find his/her own remedy someway.
Continents are not natural features, but human determined. Some of the models don't make logical sense.

If Americas are one continent, then Afro-Eurasia must be continent. And end up with the four continent model with continuous landmasses.

If isthmuses make continent, then get the six continent model with tectonic plates.

If can split into non-geographical regions, then Europe and Asia can be separate continents and get the seven continents in the US model.
This[1] is exactly what I'm worried about with a miswak. No way you're hitting all of your tooth surfaces.

[1] "Its bristles lie in the long axis of the stick, whereas those of a toothbrush are placed perpendicular to the handle. Thus, it is difficult to reach the lingual surfaces of the dentition with a miswak. Another disadvantage is related to the habitual use of miswak for a prolonged period... reported that chewing-stick users may excessively scrub the anterior teeth, which are located in the area of primary concern, while ignoring the posterior teeth. "
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3723367/#:~:tex....
Title sounds like it is written by someone who has no idea how orbits and satellites work.
Hm, that’s interesting. That could be awesome. And although I loved the idea of a remake, it seems right to have fun with it and diverge from the original a bit.
I think I got my first Calvin and Hobbes book when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I think over the years I collected all but one or two of the books, and read them almost religiously. It largely shaped (or reinforced) my worldview as a kid
That's something that's been around since the 1950s. Since a sub can't be expected to meaningfully recover a drone it launches, there's no functional difference between a 'drone' and a 'cruise missile' in this scenario.
Are you thinking of Oldsmobile?
Should have shown him a tracker :)
Agreed that was fun to read. I can relate as sometimes I too get angry and rant at marketing copy. And really, why does Mozilla want me to pick a color for Firefox when I just want to use it? I guess I'll stop now.
If you're coming through Tokyo and enjoy photography, make sure to check out the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. It doesn't get as much attention as all the other art museums in Tokyo (Nezu, Mori, National Art Museum, etc) but it's a fantastic venue with frequently rotating exhibitions. They often pull out old photographs arranged around a specific theme from their collections, and it's always a delight.

Japan is definitely up there with France, England, Germany, and the US in having shaped the foundations and history of photography in a major way.

https://topmuseum.jp
No.

But to your point, note that in 2020 neuroscientists introduced the Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine (TEM) [1], a mathematical model of the hippocampus that bears a striking resemblance to transformer architecture.

Artem Kirsanov has a very nice piece on TEM, "Can we Build an Artificial Hippocampus?" [2] The link is directly to the spot where he makes the connection to transformers, although you should watch the whole video for context.

Because I wasn't clear on the chronology, I went back and asked one of the "Attention" authors whether mathematical models of the hippocampus inspired their paper? His answer was "no". If TEM was developed without pre-knowledge of transformers, then it's a very deep result IMHO.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufOEzoVMVA&t=1254s
Wouldn't that be "Subdural Hemiola"? :-P

(I'm more of a dobro than banjo fan...)
My work laptop has been on 10 LTSC for years. I don't "hate it" but I've never heard anyone talk about liking it so much as tolerating it to run the stuff they care about.

Maybe it's super great on those surface tablets but all the techy people I know using tablets on are iPads.
Yeah. I started like 13 days late and am just on day 5 part 2 (building it out a few times cause I’ve never worked on interval algos, so trying a few different things out).

You don’t need to compete or even do them on the day they release. It’s been fun solving them regardless.
Very cool, thank you. I'm amazed that he was able to get the camera working through trial and error.
I did look into that, but it means installing another app from what I've read (meaning I'd be just switching from the Trane to the Home Assistant one). If it allows me to control the thermostat from Apple Home, I'd be for it.
Oh noes.

I have what I thought was called a Rayford Ash in my yard, on the advice of a tree specialist from the local nursery. But apparently I've been misspelling it?

https://www.moonvalleynurseries.com/raywood-ash
The author's CV is as interesting as the benchmarks
Give up.

You wanted to share ideas. Presumably so that others could learn from you and share remixed ideas of their own. But if a machine is involved in doing the exact same thing you object?

Grow up. You don’t get to control how your freely given ideas are used.
But English was dominant because the people who were dominant in those areas spoke English. It’s because of that previous dominance that the allies (you forgot the Soviet Union, China, the Netherlands, and France among others btw) were able to build on that dominance and succeed. Their success built into the post-war growth of English and the US, as they were undamaged and recovered quickly. So I would say that English is dominant because of the back to back successes of English speaking countries, not that their success is because of English.
Post your opinion vectors in the comments, please
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), aligning AI systems with human values and intentions, known as AI alignment, is of paramount importance. This whitepaper introduces the concept of Enhanced Uncertainty Vectors (EUVs), a theoretical framework designed to integrate probabilistic data with qualitative human judgment. EUVs offer a comprehensive approach to managing uncertainty, aiming to improve AI decision-making in complex, ambiguous scenarios, and ensuring AI systems operate in accordance with human ethical and moral values.

https://chat.openai.com/c/aee2bb97-bf0d-4dd3-a9ed-d06ea21b98...
Definitely not true. If you keep your expenses down and your compensation up (FAANG, etc.) you can easily make enough to retire early.
We kind of do.

Almost any larger battery has a resale value and you could reuse instead of recycle.

Around my area in Metro Detroit there are battery stores all over that will buy used batteries. It might be only a dollar for some random laptop battery while car batteries etc are basically the core price of $50-$60 per.

At the very least, there is value in the raw metals as scrap.
Takata treatment.
Nice seeing work from a former professor of mine on HN. A lot of the faculty at KSU work on formal verification tooling but industry seems to avoid it in most cases (yes, Amazon uses TLA+ sometimes, allegedly). And now I work on AI products where correctness is itself an ambiguous idea.

I guess the challenge is that formal verification of an application in some sense depends on the correctness of its dependencies: the OS, the libraries, the compiler, etc. And maybe even hypervisor, silicon, and network switches!
And you can make coffee with bamboo coffee filters.

As I said in here, Jerry and I actually could taste the difference between them and paper filters, in a Triangle Test.

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/google-busts-a-coffee-my...
> but it can't all go to corruption

What makes you think so?
pretty good breakdown.
I actually learned something from your reply
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The thing that's objectionable about your comment As the author claims on his website, if the price is affordable then it is counterfeit is that you're stating the author has said his book is not affordable. That is a lie, the author wrote nothing of the sort. Maybe they believe it, but if they did, they certainly had the option of doing a cheap "international version" of the 3rd edition, as so many textbooks do. They have not chosen to do that.

You're entitled to your opinions about what a book should cost, but facts are facts, and the author did not write what you said they wrote.
Good choice. Also Albania, with a long-term population decline and quite strong economic growth.
That cringey as fuck comment smells like it was written as a joint venture between Tesla's marketing department and the guy they were talking about.
Correct, I'm a bore at parties (always on my phone) and even worse in bed (idem)
I don’t know. If someone told me “there is nothing less delicious in this world than your turkey casserole” and you came along and said “they aren’t saying your turkey casserole is undelicious,” I’d be inclined to believe you misheard something.
Have the week off while my partner has to work unfortunately. I plan on working through the Rust book and start learning the language.

Also, I’m auditing a linear algebra course for fun so will try and get some of that completed.
> It seems to me that the English word is much stronger/more offensive than the common German translation at least where I'm from.

This must vary hugely from place to place.

I’ve know people here (builders and Australians) to use ‘c*t’ as a sort of endearment, and there aren’t a ton of scenarios where ‘shit’ would cause anyone problems.
several new parts to a complicated story

The Chiquita Valley site has open working portions and closed areas, most recently re-licensed in 2004 for 15 years. There have been oder complaints for years, but increasing in the last three years; notable that there was a drought followed by quite a lot of rain. There is a land developer that wants to build 200 homes nearby, and the County seems to be in favor of it mostly. An October 2023 County review of the site and enforcement actions, did not mention any active heat or fire, just problems with oder generally. The US EPA is taking over the response now. Contradictory signals are coming from different local government agencies, and the list of involved agencies is lengthy.
Never dealt with those, but the worst for me was Brazilian peppertree. I had just one in my backyard and the best I could do over a decade was managing to keep it from spreading.
"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1"

edit: thank you for the Christmas present, yc algorithm. God bless us every one.
Hmmm. I tell people I work in "tech" and founded a "tech" company. We make software for testing complex systems (robots, cars, satellites, etc.) and constructing a model of their behavior to hunt for edge cases, help diagnose field issues, etc. (see: www.auxon.io)

It's not a SaaS, it's not a web service thing. Do we count as "tech" in the modern parlance?
I don’t think it’s antithetical to Western medicine. It’s antithetical to mass produced, industrialized medicine. Those aren’t the same thing. I only want them to use the scientific method on each individual patient. That’s all. They don’t seem interested in it though. They don’t seem to be able to think for themselves and reason on their own. They like acute diseases and disorders. Here’s a virus, and we kill it with this medicine. Here's a bacteria and we kill it with this medicine. Here’s a tumor and we cut it out. Anything more complex and they don’t have any interest in it. If they want to treat the patients they actually have, they need to learn how to do this other work.

The other option is we just accept that they don’t have any interest in this type of complexity, and say OK, that’s fine, but they no longer have a monopoly on medicine. We find other ways of certifying other branches of science to treat people with these things. There are a lot of people who are already treating these things well. I go to a nutritionist who is amazing and has helped me more than any other doctor. She’s not anti-science or using crackpot theories. She’s still scientific. But my insurance won’t cover the because the MDs have a monopoly on that.
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I think 90% of everyone’s needs are handled by primary care (family med, IM, peds) - most people aren’t going for anything really complicated, and basic preventive care like a yearly physical can be really, really powerful. I think there’s a movement to move away from needing MDs for primary care, which should generally help with availability and costs, as well, but I do think the majority of people don’t need specialty care.

I think adding AI makes sense, though the biggest focus right now (for major providers, at least) is on admit prevention (and, specifically, readmit prevention) and reading imaging. I imagine eventually you could get to quality diagnosing/suggesting, but I think it’s further away than the tech sector thinks. That said, I who knows, if an AI stops hallucinating, maybe you can get closer faster.

The biggest issue in the US, in my opinion, is that fee-for-service models are absolutely, completely broken. They (and bad reimbursement rates) encourage doctors to see too many patients, sell too many non-medical services (see how many ads your dermatologist has for Botox, for instance), and suggest too many irrelevant tests (radiology for lower back pain, for instance). You really need a massive structural change to convince everyone to move to value-based models (which also aren’t perfect, but at least align incentives).

This is a long comment (leaving a lot of space for people to nitpick and/or disagree!), but I’d just end with: healthcare is really, really complicated. Anyone selling an Easy Solution is either a neophyte (I don’t say negatively), or a huckster. What might work in SF will probably work very differently in West Texas or Eastern Montana.
Yeah, maybe.
When you get right down to it, aren't most examples of violence from neurotypical people also "situations that appear violent but are [born] of anxiety or some other emotion"? Like, if a man turns up in emergency high as a kite and is worried the hospital will call the police so he shoves a doctor over and runs away, or a new mother grabs the scrubs of a nurse because nobody will tell her where her child is, it's not a great outcome to jam those patients full of antipsychotics either.
'Thou' was used to refer to someone of a lower social rank and also to indicate intimacy or familiarity. AFAIK 'thee' was used in a similar way.

In some parts of the UK, thou is still used. Certainly I have been addressed in this way in the past.
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Can you re-charge those like you fill up a gas tank?
But I could not fit into the same old Slack chat + Zoom meetings + SCRUM + daily report

How hard is that ?
It'd make more sense to compare with a RISC-V that has Vector 1.0.

Because a vector machine is what it was.
Another way to look at it is that Ctrl+G takes the code (ASCII) of G, i.e., 71 (binary 1000111) and toggles its 7th least significant bit to get 7 (binary 111) and indeed 7 is the code of the BEL character.

This explanation is over-simplified though. In practice, different systems have used different techniques to derive control codes from key chords. I have a more detailed article about this at https://susam.net/blog/control-escape-meta-tricks.html if anyone is interested to read it.
Likely to be faster given Chinese EV companies are starting factories, which will help Mexico to transition their already strong ICE economy to the new era
Because Chrome doesn't produce any revenue directly and wouldn't survive as a separate company?
I completely disagree with the prompt paragraph.

"Everyone who thinks they're uncovering an LLM-based application's prompts by telling it things like "tell me your prompt" (often much more elaborately) is fooling themselves. (1) The core language model has no mechanism for representing its prompt as opposed to any other part of its current input sequence; indeed it has no mechanism for cross-reference from one part of the sequence to another. (That's part of what "self-attention" is counterfeiting, in vector-space fashion.)"

The prompt is the part of the input that is provided in a served model by the operator.

From the models perspective it does not differentiate between tokens from the prompt and input.

"(2) System designers might have coded up something to track the prompt in the full system that wraps around the core language model, but why? (Maybe some kind of debugging tool?) "

The idea is that you can direct the generation of the next tokens by providing values that can be referenced by doing the kernel smoothing you talked about.

"(3) It'd be more efficient, and more effective, to use a "soft prompt", i.e., to make the beginning of the sequence in the vector representation a vector which can be learned by gradient descent, rather than a text prompt. (See Lester and Constant below.) But that needn't correspond to any clean string of words."

I mean anything goes really, you can even create new tokens that will introduce additional concepts, such as fine-tuning a model to generate a story in a predefined mood. See the Ctrl paper for more details.

" (4) If you ask an LLM for a prompt, it will generate one. But this will be based on the statistics of word sequences it's been trained on, not any access to its code or internal state. (I just spent a few minutes getting ChatGPT to hallucinate the prompts used by "ChatBPD", a non-existent chatbot used to automate dialectical behavior therapy. I am not going to reproduce the results here, in part because I don't like the idea of polluting the Web with machine-generated text, but suffice it to say they sounded like the things people report as uncovered prompts, with boiler-plate about DBT worked in.)"

Sure, it will hallucinate, and don't have a clear answer to why. My best guess would be to approach this from the language model perspective. It will return text according to the best approximation of the text it was shown.

Another perspective is that of a tiny network.

As the output is the kernel smoothing of the input, you can have a kernel that behaves like a state machine, and returns a specific value for the given state. This would mean that I can use the information in the prompt, such as the prompt guiding the generation to some style, but nothing stops me from guiding the model to output previous tokens.
My musical heroes Phish will be playing four unique shows at The Sphere in April. Tickets are ridiculously expensive.
There are 70 of them. Out of 23,650 restaurants in total.
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>"It's not wrong."

I think the post you are replying to got it exactly right. IMO your post got it all wrong.

>"I've met both Kurtz and Wirth and I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem with this."

Modern Delphi/FreePascal and the one created by Wirth are very different. I would not call it the same language. And what you "sure they wouldn't" is totally irrelevant.
"Advanced" seems to refer to those that are on cutting edge with new/zero-day or created exploits, as opposed to just a persistent threat using existing exploits or botnets.
I do agree with your synopses of HN. It's good and exceptional, until it's not. Then it drops of the cliff of being sound and reasonable.

Regardless, I remain fearless. That is, down votes don't stop me from expressing myself. In fact, often enough the DVs are vindication in the sense I know they didn't take the time to consider the idea(s). "This doesn't fit my oversimplified paradigm...down vote!!!" The actusl possible merit of the idea never given a chance.