skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it's good. you'd want* to finetune this before using it (c.f. my reply to it's depressed and insults me for no reason whatsover? @ https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2/discussions/61)

* by want, I mean need. People self-peasantized heavily on "censorsed models" and don't really understand how these work, and the SNR is out of wack because there's a 100000x more waifu creators and culture warriors than knowledgable people sharing on this subject
> the cost of these synthetic datasets is very high. Nobody is sharing

There are plenty of synthetic datasets generated from GPT-4 and other models^[1]. But MS created a large one, 150B tokens. Still 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the 13T used to train GPT-4.

But in the future this will be the main way to improve models - put them to work, and filter their good stuff. Then retrain. Very expensive, but that is the cost of evolution. It took humans a very long time to create the culture and technology that underlies LLMs, it will take a similar effort to push them forward.

Human generated text was the low hanging fruit, but now that it's picked, synthetic data is the only way forward. Models generating their own experience and feedback, doing exploration, combinatorial search, learning from their interactions with humans, from games, experiments and simulations.

But if we're talking about synthetic data - then the elephant in the room is the chat logs of OpenAI. They got 180M users, assume 10K tokens/user/month, that would be 1.8B tokens per month, mostly AI written but interspersed with human replies and tool generated output. This means they can collect in less than a year about as much synthetic data as the original training set.

What if they train GPT-5 solely on synthetic data? That would simplify the copyright issues a lot, and give a 5x boost in efficiency.

[1] https://github.com/Zjh-819/LLMDataHub
>>>"...thought that none of the brands had websites, just social media..."

Same - thought it was an IG slurper.

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I tried to look into some of the brands and their importing...

supply-chain-plastics need to be evaluated.
I'm vaguely for pan-psychism as in, it sounds good but I haven't thought about it for even 5 minutes. But I'm more interested in the version where all matter has some kind of proto-consciousness. Still, no idea how it's suposed to work in detail: how can it make a difference whether a particle is part of an information-processing system? There is an infinitude of mappings between physical systems and mathematical functions (I'm probably plagiarizing a half-forgotten version of this https://joe-antognini.github.io/ml/consciousness )
If he was willing to work with the rules and norms of the markets they want to enter, they'd sell even fewer cars. If they had to deal with the same regulations and IP laws as China, they'd sell more.
Both James and Pragmatic Philosophy have had their own program on the BBC's In Our Time radio show. Very good.

https://www.braggoscope.com/2010/05/13/william-jamess-the-va...

https://www.braggoscope.com/2005/11/17/pragmatism.html
Also how many leftist colleges are acting very permissible towards antisemitism. The left certainly has its own demons to confront.
It's so much of an implementation detail, that git didn't have packing at first! All it had was loose objects ("disk space is cheap"). Packing was later added as an optimization, but the object model is still the same. It doesn't matter whether an object is in a pack file or not, it's treated the same.
Prisoners acquire cellphones illegally. It doesn't mean we don't bother enforcing the rule because they can bypass it. We confiscate phones as discovered to disrupt those efforts. We love disruption around here, right?

The point of this is to introduce friction. The goal is not 100% effectiveness and it's a strawman to suggest it is.
Facial recognition could replace passports at UK airport e-gates
Is the unrelated stuff actually worse than the plague of fake-inspirational/aspirational bullshit?

Other than perhaps meeting a recruiter for a job change, I can't imagine why one would really spend time there. It's always been gross and clingy.
> And I don't understand why you would have stop signs AND a roundabout

You shouldn't. It's a poor design choice to cater to Americans who aren't used to roundabouts and yield signs. It makes things less safe.
Y…yes? We do take the Big Bang seriously because there are observable effects of it.

“As far as you can tell” is doing a massive amount of incurious lifting. Is phrenology making a comeback next?
For excellent political emulsification, see the border(s) between the swiss cantons of Fribourg and Vaud.

see also (sorry, no en available?) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%27enclaves_et_d%27excl...
I meant that the drive to solve problems at all costs can be self-defeating if you overextend yourself by making unreliable code that produces false results.
I came here to post this. This far more than out of touch politics or corruption is the fundamental problem.

When NFTs take advantage of young gullible people to sell them certificates at a ridiculous markup, we properly call that a scam.

When universities let students go into massive debt for degrees that do not boost earning power, that’s fine.

What’s even more criminal is that tenure track positions remain scarce and academics in general remains underfunded in spite of insane tuition inflation. Where is that money going? Loads of administrators and salary increases for the higher ups of course. Administration overhead is just ludicrous. It’s a jobs program for older people funded by making the young go into debt.

Goofy politics is a minor issue next to this.
Well from a former Pan am flight attendant I was so impressed they did it in 18 mins. Japanese people follow directions.If this had been in New York City where I was based it would have been chaos.and I wonder if there were dogs on board…I bet not.The US carriers need toStop so many animals on board.Has the FAA ever done a stimulation of a smoked filled plane with 3 dogs on board.That should be done and I bet airlines stop all these service dogs on planes.hurrah for JAL flight attendants.They did an amazing job.They are hero’s.
Why The Wire is brilliant [video]
> Being poor doesn't lead you to becoming a criminal.

You're misunderstanding. Not all poor people are criminals, however, being poor is a motivating factor in crime.

> Being taught that everyone is against you, that you are a victim, and that you are being oppressed does lead to crime

Leftist rhetoric doesn't actually state "everyone is against you", sorry buddy. In fact, there's over 100+ years of leftist rhetoric and writing stating the exact opposite -- "we are stronger as a a community". Right wing rhetoric and views absolutely parrot "everyone is against you". This is why left wing circles create mutual aid groups (to benefit the community), and right wing circles create... well.. do they actually create anything? Has anything notable come out of incel circles that isn't "school shooters"?

> In other words, the current fashion for leftist politics is to supply justifications for stealing, so long as you steal from someone who has more than you do.

The majority of theft that outweighs all other theft by the measure of billions is theft of labour, though. So who are we to complain when people start stealing in response?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-u...
I think also car crashes are generally caused by operator error. Plane crashes are more likely (maybe?) to be caused by mechanical malfunction.

The equivalent would be car crashes caused by mechanical failure where even an expert driver couldn’t have avoided catastrophe.

Though, maybe that’s balanced out by some large percentage of car crash deaths being the driver and/or passengers in the “other” car who were struck unexpectedly by a driver who was reckless, distracted or impaired.

Either way, I agree, it seems like a stretch to call plane and car crashes equivalent.
> There were a lot of people who were just reciting the best practice rules they'd learned from blog posts, without really having the experience to know where the advice was coming from, or how best to apply it

This is exactly my experience too. Also, the problem with learning things from youtube and blogs is that whatever the author decides to cover is what we end up knowing, but they never intended to give a comprehensive lecture about these topics. The result is people who dogmatically apply some principles and entirely ignore others - neither of those really work. (I'm also guilty of this in ML topics.)
This looks a great deal like the Defender that Land Rover introduced in 2018.
Weird reply. I can't tell, are you agreeing or disagreeing or something else?
if you're into these sort of things, check out "Hainbach" on Youtube.
Coming from a website that ranks Scratch over Golang, and Assembly and Fortran over Kotlin and Rust, for sure. I don't know where they get the data from, but it's always a joke.
It's only cool for people using "normal" browsers. Using it says you don't care if, for example, blind people are able to access your website.
Yeah confusion between simulation and reality can be observed all over the place. Multiple runs can be needed if you're doing measurements of the natural world, but for a simulation that doesn't make sense (you can do Monte Carlo style stuff, but that's still replicable).

You could see the lines being blurred in other ways. Outputs of simulations would be referred to as "findings", for example, or referenced in ways that implied empirical observation without it being clear where they came from unless you carefully checked citations.

Here are some of the articles I wrote about what happened (under a pseudonym)

https://dailysceptic.org/2020/05/06/code-review-of-fergusons...

https://dailysceptic.org/2020/05/09/second-analysis-of-fergu...

https://dailysceptic.org/2020/06/11/how-replicable-is-the-im...

After that people started sending me non-Imperial models to look at, which had some similar problems:

https://dailysceptic.org/2020/08/08/schools-paper/

I don't write for that website anymore, by the way. Back then it was called Lockdown Sceptics and was basically the only forum that would publish any criticism of COVID science. Nowadays it's evolved to be a more general news site.
The Metaphysical Club is an excellent book about how the pragmatists shaped all of American thought, too.

Obviously doesn’t replace reading the source material but it does articulate how ideas become encoded into a society.
Inderpreet, can I ask why this is a "Show HN", vs. the technical work that you do? Without an explanation of why this is interesting for HN's audience, it just seems like the kind of "digital products" link spam I see daily on social media.
But where will we get our adjuncts and people to do our dry cleaning?
I agree with you in theory but not in practice. The problem is that most people need a job to afford basic amenities like housing. Then, getting a new job of the same career isn't easy, this person may not like other careers, and then the new job may have similar requirements unrelated to the job.

Life isn't fair. But we as a society do what we can to make life more fair. And I personally believe that it's more fair to ensure people aren't forced to choose between expressing their half-decent opinion, shitty jobs, and homelessness/emergency-only medical care/low-quality food/whatever else you would probably deem "essential", than it is to ensure bosses can hire and fire whoever they want for whatever reason. You can disagree, but I think most people do agree, considering most people are also working jobs and would be in danger of losing their essentials if they were fired (as apparently 62% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck).

There are other solutions too. I think if we had UBI, or just better unemployment and an economy which guarantees you a decent job provided you can do decent work, unions and employee protections wouldn't matter. But currently it seems like those reforms are far away, while unions and employee protections exist right now.
Japanese car makers have huge U.S. presence with U.S. engineering employees. SuspectD will be asked to do the same.
Maybe spending billions of dollars lobbying should be illegal
> I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall. Hopefully Tesla could somehow get rid of Musk as it seems like he is constantly holding Tesla back quite a bit.

Like what? Source(s)?
So it's an endorsement from Intuit.
> Unless there is a law compelling drivers to choose an exit

In most places it is illegal to go around more than once. In many places it's not even legal to make a "u-turn" by exiting at the same road you entered at.
Or rather, 'turborotonde' if you want Dutch sources where it was spelled correctly.
You can also try an in-browser code playground that I am building, a cross between Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Access here:

https://yazz.com/
I haven't noticed, but now that I've read your comment, I can understand your irritation. Just shrug it off if you can.
I would guess that your best scenario is being nicely asked to stop by the local traffic police. But I bet that a much more likely category of scenarios involves very upset drivers that may not have a diplomatic answer.
A sort of parent that lives in the states. I’d guess they are trying to balance datasets that are full of data where they’ve been paying fifty cents to scan children’s faces, outside of the country.

There’s nothing particularly nefarious here. Human civilization is building AI and it’s built with the best that humanity can give and the best that can be afforded.
Switzerland had a similar open source solution a few years ago. Unfortunately, the train operator forced it to shutdown as it was scraping the data from the timetables. Not sure how the new solution works but I hope it sticks around.
According to the article this was a statistical outlier for a specific type of collision, likely because of the long flat area around the intersection.

It's better to have a confused person drive the loop and have to circle back because they went the wrong way vs. initiative driver on a long haul zone out into intersecting traffic. Worse case they slam on their breaks for a rear end collision, which sounds less severe. I guess we shall see if it improves things, seems like they can't get much worse the way it is now.
Wait, Americans aren't used to yield signs? Is this in general, or only in the context or roundabouts?
I had high hopes that SimpleTax would have been bought by the CRA, but sadly now it's been absorbed by Wealthsimple instead.

Still worth using though and is pretty straightforward and easy to use.
Thanks for sharing. I’m a fan of the look and feel of the GIF demos. I’m still not sure if it’s more friendly on the eyes/brain to have that, or to just have a code block with everything already filled out. The GIF demo makes it feel more like someone is showing me how to use the repository, rather than just documentation.
"It isn't completely and totally perfect from the very first moment so it's a complete waste of time and money"

How does it feel to be the smartest person on the planet?
Follow what the placards..ok you have never evacuated a plane..I have.You have to asses the situation which they did and realized some doors could not be opened so had to divert passengers to other doors..if you read it the PA system went down and they used megaphones to direct people
Huh? Literally I've seen people on HN making the exact opposite arguments about companies bending over rules for certain markets only to lose the market eventually, hence considered a bad example.
I was surprised to discover there were round about you are allowed to change lanes in. Here in Australia, all roundabouts are like this. If you enter in the outer lane you must take the first or second exit. If you enter in the inner lane, you must only exit on the second or third exit.
Ok, one last piece of advice from someone who knows almost nothing about your day-to-day, just what you initially wrote.

Your value isn’t from the skills you have, it comes from your ability to apply them to problems to produce a useful outcome.

What parts of your job can benefit from applying your software engineering skills? It could make things a lot more bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.
> There is also Kohei Tokunaga's container2wasm initiative8, which converts arbitrary Docker images into WASI binaries. It looks promising, but it generates 100+ MB binaries for even the smallest Alpine-based images.

NixOS produces smaller containers, from around 10mb.
>The way that they are pushing the leftist woke agenda...

Could you clarify exactly what 'the leftist woke agenda' is (in this case)? I see so many accusations, but very few people are able to explain what they mean.
Which is ironic because roundabouts were initially sold as solutions making road intersections more safe, not as means of increasing throughput. The reduction of crashed and injuries comes from decreased speed of cars. So obviously it's at a cost of throughput
It seems like they're targeting low-end systems (384MB RAM for the desktop version), but also talk about supercomputers? If they can pull that off, it would make it uniquely versatile. Musl is very lightweight, but it's also not especially fast (for example, compare allocator benchmarks). But maybe supercomputer workloads don't really care about libc performance in the first place? I'd be curious to know what aspects they think make this distro suited to supercomputing.
This is a feature that should only be used for off-roading. Off roads, it is extremely useful to be able to make small-radius turns.
> any support for non-blocking IO and memory-mapped-files are missing

Sure but POSIX supports that and it may as well be the stdlib for those of us in *nix land.
It's a time investment for everyone involved to sift through enough cruft for these classics to surface. Generating orders of magnitude more of increasingly plausible cruft means that the human arbiters can spend a much greater time investment attempting to surface nuggets of human wisdom that simply aren't present. How do classics appear out of that environment?
True! If Erik Prince is the Viktor Bout of the US, who might the american equivalent of Kadyrov be?
FAA orders temporary grounding of 737 Max 9 aircraft
I can't answer the question of how LinkedIn become what is today but having had a presence there for close to a decade now, I can't say I ever remember it being anything else than the cringe worthy place it is.

As a way of maintaining a social graph with other professionals and keeping a publicly available resume, it is fine.

But the feed and the posts? Can't imagine why anyone would care for that part if it.
My understaning is that normal intersection with traffic lights has higher troughput (as cars can just fly through it at or near 50 km/h if the green light is long enough), but roundabout have lower average wait times (if the traffic is low to moderate, you usually wait less that 5-10 seconds to enter the intersection).
Gut reaction: "And Harvard University is resolved to do whatever it takes, to make its endowment fund a member of that select group."
I'll leave it to the Russians to determine if they are achieving their publicly stated goals or not.

In the meantime, I think we should focus on helping our government better & more efficiently serve the people in America...rather than flooding the world with weapons, publically lecturing about "values" while privately destabilizing governments abroad & arming genocidal maniacs & Banderite Nazis...while disproportionately enriching select contractors & politically entrenched institutions.
I built a similar thing and found it to add qualifications quite often, especially when you had it write a cover letter. It was still helpful though, just like with every use case you need to check what ChatGPT is telling you.
There is sc-im, which is the closest you'll get to a full spreadsheet app in terminal with vi controls.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
You'll have to wait for more than 1 quarter before you make that call.
Tell me, what is the exact number of dead children you're willing to accept in order to get new planes flying?
My teammate built the WordPress Playground

https://playground.wordpress.net

The motivation was initially to build interactive documentation where you could play with the code examples and see how they change things, but it's being used to demonstrate plugins on the WordPress directory, build staging sites, add no-risk places to experiment.

Surprisingly has been taking over some of the native development tools because it provides a sandboxed and isolated environment that needs no other dependencies and leaves no junk on your computer once it's done. It's trivial to change the PHP version being run (making testing on different version of PHP easy) by adding `--php 5.6`, for example, which is something a bit gnarly to do otherwise unless running PHP inside Docker.

Another surprise is that once loaded, it runs very fast, faster than native PHP and MySQL (the Playground can connect to MySQL but runs sqlite by default). I attribute this to having everything in memory and bypassing the filesystem.

It's been the kind of project that only gets better the more it's used. It turns out that having a no-setup, no-trace, isolated, risk-free app playground is an incredible tool for more purposes than we first realize. Someone even put the Playground inside an iOS app and it runs smoother than the native WordPress app.

As for a good solution? Just a lot of work I guess but WASM is critical to it. Any device or platform that supports JavaScript can run the sandbox/playground app: VSCode, `node` itself, a browser, a mobile device…
That happened exactly twice though. That’s certainly not common at all and yes the tear off strips are supposed to minimize that damage either way
LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too
A car that floats ... but only with a mandatory fully open sunroof ... in a part of the world that gets typhoons.

Is the 30 minute time limitation an estimate on how long it'll take to fill it up in the rain with an open sunroof?
More transparency would probably be better. Make them wear NASCAR style jackets and all that.
Oh no, you found a loophole! The police will be powerless to stop you!

No, they’ll just stop you and arrest you for impeding traffic, and the judge will agree.

Real life isn’t code.
Obvious reason is immediate tire wear?
Daaamn.
Glad you’re not grayed out.

On topic, to wit: https://youtu.be/Tx9LSEjgQxY?si=En6z4YURQ0pshea-
HN can be frustrating, you'll get voted through the floor by the initial rush of dopamine addicts frustrated questions don't contain info.

Then, you'll be told you got voted through the floor because you complained you got voted through the floor.

Over the 14 years I've been here, I've gotten enough training data to A) wait it out and/or B) make an edit showing humor about it? "wow, -4 for an innocuous take you'd find at any coffee shop!?"

On the net, it doesn't matter much unless you're a new account, things always trend positive as long as you don't _always_ show up with takes explaining everyone is committing group think and you're the only one who gets it. (p.s. that's not even close to what you're doing here! just illustrating the only situation in which I think people get persistently negative votes)

EDIT:
Lol
goimports re-adds them when you uncomment the code. Unless it is ambiguous on which lib to import which doesn't happen very often.
Included in the stat are $10K cars sold in China, maybe Tesla doesn't want to compete in the extreme low end just like Apple doesn't make $150 phones. Being a profitable barely #2 in a large and growing market is somehow fucking up?

If you are world #2 in your field of work do you consider yourself a failure and that you fucked up? That's a sad existence.
It's not the same, because driving in a circle on a roundabout is not obviously against the law