skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consistent sleep schedule (+/- 15 minutes morning and evening)

Get your room cool, dark, and quiet

No caffeine after morning. No alcohol in the evening. Cleanup your diet.

Quiet your mind. This isn't just an "at night" thing. In my experience people who lose sleep worrying are the same people worrying all day. Try therapy as needed.

Screen time hasn't really impacted my sleep, but I don't have any social apps on my phone, period. Listening to a podcast or reading (on the phone, with "night mode") never seemed to be an issue.

Exercise regularly, whenever works for you. Moderate/Zone 2 is a good place to start.
> the more readers it has, the faster it is to use it since some readers help to spread the content (Scalable).

In other words: Once a few big websites are established, no small website will ever be able to gain traction again because the big websites are simply easier to reach and thus more attractive to use. And just like an unpopular old torrent, eventually you run out of seeders and your site is lost forever.

One can argue about the value of low traffic websites, but I got to wonder: Who in their right mind thinks "Yeah, I want to make a website and then have others decide if it's allowed to live". Then again, maybe that kind of "survival of the fittest" is appealing to some folks.

As far as I am concerned, it sounds like a stupid idea. (Which the author goes into more detail, so that's a good write up)
Okay, well, I'll say that at least that's a definition (it has to be good enough at something to make money). Arguably of course, it already does that. Me personally, I've used it to automate tasks I would have previously shelled out to fiverr, upwork, and mechanical turk. I've had great success using it to summarize municipal codes from very very lengthy documents, down to concise explanations of relevant pieces of information. Since I would have previously paid people to do that (was running an information service for a friend), I would consider that AGI. I guess the catch here is now 'most', but that implies a lot of knowledge about the economy I don't think openai has. What is 'economically valuable'? Who decides?

At the end of the day, as with most things, AGI is a meaningless term because no one knows what that is.
> This sudden shock of "we're going to invest everything in R&D and catch back up" was news that a lot of intel shareholders didn't want to hear. They dumped the stock and the price adjusted in kind.

Why the fuck are shareholders often so short-sighted?

Or do they just genuinely think the R&D investment won't pay off?
It isn't explained in enough detail to understand the benefit. You think just walking around a room and placing windows is a good use case for this incredibly expensive headset? Does that really improve any workflow beyond just being a novelty? Do you think that is a very wide target demographic?
A meaningless term.
Yes, it is. I admit it's not a solution for today but relying on a free service by a major corporation that won't accept direct payments for their search service is not a long-term solution.
I have several well-worn Far Side collections, including one with a lovely introduction by Jane Goodall, which has a funny story behind it [1]

Linking my favorite below [2]

> Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwarzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

[1] http://www.hopkinsandcompany.com/Books/The%20Complete%20Far%...

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNZar0hX0AQB98d?format=jpg&name=...
What on earth are you talking about? IPFS has nothing to do with "coins", it's a distributed data management system. You can use IPFS for finance in the same way you can use a database for finance. You can also use IPFS for literally anything else that falls in the "data that you want other people to be able to access" category.
That isn't unquantized, it's de-quantized. They went from Q5 to fp16 for use in Pytorch instead of the GGUF ecosystem.
This seems to mostly be more money for law enforcement to find and prosecute predators. I'm not sure why you think this would be a bad idea.
Everything transmitted over HTTP. That includes cookies, passwords, etc. You need to be careful when writing WARCs.
We had white hat hackers patching as a public service before anti-hacking laws got so draconian. Had a Solaris 2.5 box patched by a do-gooder who didn't check his work because he also filled /tmp and his script failed to clean up after itself. It was a good reason to get a clue and switch to bsd.
When you take a university / school course, how is that functionally different from curve fitting? Given that arbitrarily complex states can be modeled as high-dimensional curves, all learning is clearly curve fitting, whether in humans, machines, or even at the abiological level (for example, self optimizing processes like natural selection). Even quantum phenomema are -- at the end of the day -- curve fitting via gradient descent (hopefully it's had enough time to settle at a global minima!)
Og loves trivia ! Og can recite plenty of them !
Obviously the prompt to the LLM is just to create the most obvious association. It may not mention "crafting" at all. Maybe it does though. Is there something obvious to craft that uses a tree and water in the process?
> Duct tape fixes work when more aspirational fixes are unattainable.

Duct tape fixes convince people to get back into the car even though it's still unsafe and then the duct tape gives way at 70 MPH and you crash into a tree.

Duct tape is for ducts. Sometimes it's also useful for patching leaky hoses. It's not for attaching the steering to the wheels.

If you're going to propose an institutional solution by legislative fiat, do it right or don't do it at all.
I've wondered about cheating with a friend who can (out of ear shot but can hear the call) type in the question and display the result on a screen the interviewee can see. I often get stuck on leetcode problems and simple hints like "O(n), prefix sum" can make a huge difference. Especially if I haven't seen the problem before or is having a brain fart.

I would still need to get good at leetcode, just not _as_ good.
I usually love boring code bases, because it generally means it's been used for a long time and the stress level is usually pretty low. Are you only burning out because it's boring? Or other stresses with the job?
>They were not able to control for previous alcohol consumption. The data only goes back 1 year.

Probably safe to say most didn't just reach 45 and start.
Just bring back Fireworks - it was brilliant and I still use it for quick day-to-day work.
I'm fairly open book, but I wouldn't accept LLM usage in an interview. I don't need someone to have all the facts in their head, so if they have to look up some syntax or whatever, then totally fine.

However, my style of interview is LLM-proof anyways. I have "shop talk" style interviews, where I just chat with the developer for an hour or so about various topics. Makes it very easy to get a sense of their depth, and how interested they are in the job domain.
> Please note: The terms "bank" and "banks" used in these answers generally refer to national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches or agencies of foreign banking organizations that are regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

they say a Federal Bank can do that. I was talking about contracts between private parties (see above)
It's working fabulously for hosting phishing websites frontend by the popular IPFS gateway providers like Cloudflare, so at least there's that...
FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet
Peele disagrees:

Exploring Psychological Benefits Associated with Moderate Alcohol Use: A Necessary Corrective to Assessments of Drinking Outcomes?
https://peele.net/lib/exploring.html

Alcohol, Necessary Evil or Positive Good?
https://peele.net/lib/exploring.html

A Toast to Your Health
Warning: Alcohol may increase your life expectancy and reduce dementia.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703445904576118...

Sorry, could not resist. And I think highly of Peele.
That could be handy for both. They'd only need about 50 metres of separation on landing or take off. They could even share solar energy collectors.

In truth, they'd be lucky to get any closer than 5 km on landing.
I buy the author's point that we should minimize the time on tactical knowledge, but the following particular point seems over generalized:

> The school model focuses on just in case knowledge.

Take my math education, for instance, I may have wasted a bit time on all kinds of trigonometry tricks and way too much time on conic sections in the analytic geometry classes before learning calculus. But "focuses on just in case knowledge"? Really? What else is really wasted? Most of my math concepts are inter-connected and I used them directly or indirectly on a daily basis. Given range and depth of our education, we really just learn the minimum concepts.
Genuinely one of my favourite posts here
> Rather than enquire into the nature of the problem, you've started with the conclusion that AGI is an existential threat,

That is not correct.

> and that the only rational decisions is to figure out how to kill it.

That is also not correct and not something I claimed.
> it’s quite an inconvenience to run your own IPFS node. But even if you do run your own node, the fact you access a website doesn’t mean you pin it. Not at all.

This has always been my major UX gripe with IPFS. The fact that `ipfs add` in the command line does little but generate a hash and you need to actually pin things in order to "seed" them, so to speak. So "adding a file to IPFS", in the sense of "adding a file to the network", requires the user to know that (1) the "add" in `ipfs add` does not add a file to the network, and (2) you must pin everything you want to replicate manually. I remember as recently as 2021 having to manually pin each file in a directory since pinning the directory does not recursively pin files. Doing this by hand for small folders is okay, but large folders? Not so much.

More importantly, the BitTorrent duplication problems that IPFS has solved are also solved in BitTorrent v2, and BitTorrent v2 IMO solves these problems in a much better way (you can create "hybrid torrents" which allows a great deal of backwards compatibility with existing torrent software).

This isn't a UX issue, but another thing that makes it hard for me to recommend IPFS to friends is the increasing association with "Web3" and cryptocurrency. I don't have any strong opinions on "Web3", but to many people, it's an instant deal-breaker.
Its depressing how basically every tech company (except like... craigslist) is a Delaware C Corp with investors and a cap table... all these naive 20 year old technical founders getting screwed over right at the beginning when they cash that investor check.

Work for FAANG for a few years, stack $500k, and bootstrap to profitability. That's the only good path
Assessing Employment Outcomes Post–California AB5
Why do you say they screwed up? OSI definition is pretty clear.

I think the naming is a challenge because in English "open" gives the impression that the key point is that you can see it, as opposed to anything about freedom. Is that what you mean?

I have heard it said that open source is sort of a "commercial friendly" version of free software that de-emphasizes user freedom. I think some groups push for that (like Meta is trying to redefine what open source means wrt AI weights). But the OSI defined freedoms basically match what FSF pushes.
Exactly. We don’t need a nanny state, we need more involved parents.
He does not take responsibility for what has happened. He only acknowledges an abstract problem.

[someone cheated on their partner]: Cheating is reprehensible and should not happen... [as opposed to, I'm sorry for having cheated and hurt you, etc...]
> I think you are willingly playing this down as "talking to people online" to make some point. However, it is beyond what one kid online says to another online. It is what predators say to those kids online.

No, it's not about that either. It's the algorithmic nature of social media apps which rewire the brain's mechanisms in unnatural and unhealthy ways. Predators are a minor concern besides this one. See https://www.afterbabel.com/archive?sort=top
I mean, some of the embedded stuff is iffy too. I mostly agree though. For example, the Active Fuel Management in GM V8s requires the TCC to slip around 10-15 RPM all the time, so that if it goes into 4 cylinder mode the vibrations won't transfer through the drive train. Not a recipe for a long transmission life.
It's very very different from patching a binary, because these models don't work like a simple compilation of understandable source code into incomprehensible weights. The source training data is even less comprehensible and useful than its encapsulation into weights.

A set of weights is a pre-trained local minima in the model space is a both executable and modifiable. It's usually far more useful than the source training data, because the work has been done.
To misquote John Wanamaker, 80% of my reading is a waste of time, but I don't know which 80%.
lua-users.org seems to have gone down 12/2023 [0]. It's archived by IA at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231227061730/http://lua-users....

https://web.archive.org/web/20231227061705/http://lua-users....

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/1adaq81/luausersorg_is...
He's always been a very strange person. Blocks everyone who disagree, insults freely. I'm surprised it's taken this long honestly
I was reacting to this:

> I am not sure if talking about anything else in the context of distributed databases is reasonable.

There's a whole world in distributed databases, and I suspect you'd agree that there's a lot of stuff worth talking about that isn't covered in your (excellent) work.
WASM also tries to solve this, essentially borrowing the isolation features from browsers for cheap startup latency. Cloudflare workers is the classic example.
> do it right or don't do it at all.

IOW, don't try to fix anything, since doing it perfectly is usually impossible.
The Deconversion of Millions – The Age of the Nones
Macaroon is just the English word for the French word macaron.

ducks for cover
I kind of was in that situation once, I had a side hustle that was making about $1000-1500/month. It seems cool to be making "real" $$$, but if you're not properly accounting for labor, equipment, operating costs, taxes, etc. etc. it's relatively easy to be "making" a few hundred $$$/month, and might be harder to scale up than you think.
Downvoted. You guys have absolutely no sense of humor. Do you? :-)
The problem with this definition 'an agent that can do tasks animals or humans can perform' is that it's not clear what that would look like. If you produce a system that can be interacted with via text input only but is otherwise capable of doing everything a human can do in terms of information processing, is that AGI? Or does AGI imply a human-like embodied form? Why?
The pie menu in Maya was one of the greatest things IMO. I haven't used it in a long time but when I was heavily working in there and had it customized to my tasks it was unbelievably fast to work.
oh shit, I replied to the wrong comment.
> Says the person with 120k fake points on a social media site.

Wouldn’t that make GP even better qualified to comment on the harms of social media use? :p

I certainly wouldn’t say that a pack-a-day smoker with lung cancer isn’t qualified to speak on the dangers of teen smoking. Quite the opposite in fact.
> Sometimes I wonder if Tesla has done a disservice to electric cars by making them so computerized and throwing in features nobody really asked for, like like self-driving and drive-by-wire controls.

Teslas aren't drive-by-wire. The steering column and brakes are 100% conventional controls. Only the accelerator pedal is electronic, but that's true of basically all hybrids too.

As far as "too many features"... That's the kind of argument that only works in the abstract. Name any one weird feature that "no one" uses and you'll discover that a bunch of people love it. Tesla's features work. I mean, sure, there are bugs here and there, but it's in general an extremely smooth software experience. It's not Tesla's fault that GM and VW can't ship bug-free equivalents.
Given your knowledge of the subject, do you think leetcode-type questions are meaningfully able to appraise an employee’s performance in a production environment? I’ve always thought it was basically unrelated beyond testing basic coding experience.
I have a LEAP Motion, that I bought shortly after release around a decade ago. I've used it quite a bit, but you still have to place it under your hands - they can't rest on the desktop, which means fatigue over time. That said, it's incredibly useful for manipulation of 3D objects, which was my use case back then.

> I think what's "wowing" people is the sensation of having your hands appear in VR.

Oh, for sure. A lot of the reviews that I'm seeing are from people who obviously haven't been following the market over the past few years.

> In addition, adding 2D windows to 3D space isn't really "spatial computing."

I agree. At this point I see "spatial computing" as a promise, not as something this specific device will deliver.

For that matter, it looks like the Mac screen representation is not nearly as good as it could be. I've been speaking to the developers of Immersed (which I've used a ton on Quest 2), and they're working hard right now to release on the AVP. That will include multiple, virtual monitors with configurable resolution and aspect ratio. I expect that will be a turning point for me productivity-wise.

> This isn't a leap forward. It's yet another idea that fails to hit the mark. While Apple isn't alone in that regard, nobody else is asking $3000 for 2D windows in 3D space.

I don't think the AVP is intended to be a mass-market device. Having not yet laid hands on one - I expect to have mine by the end of next week - it appears to be at the very bleeding edge of what's technically possibly hardware-wise, and a lot of thought has gone into building and polishing visionOS. That's not enough to justify the cost.

I see three markets for it today:

* early-adopters/enthusiasts, who don't really need to justify the purchase beyond wanting it. These will provide some revenue but the devices will mostly collect dust.

* "influencers", who will (attempt to) recoup the cost through videos posted on social media. These people will effectively be marketing the product for Apple, and otherwise not contribute to the ecosystem

* developers. Apple needs applications for this platform, which they're obviously throwing a huge amount of money at. I see myself in this group. I plan to use my AVP for my day-to-day work, but I'm also planning to build at least a few small apps to explore the APIs with the intention of publishing at least one highly-polished app in the near future. If I can get anywhere near the top of a category in the visionOS App Store by the time Apple releases a lighter version of this at a price point of ~$2k, I have zero doubt I'll be able to more than make back the cost of the device itself.
It sounds like your experiences were before the existence of algorithmic feeds. It's a completely different landscape now than it was then.
> My point is that this is a ridiculous penalty for the violations alleged, and simple punitive damages for misrepresented information would have been appropriate. A "slap on the wrist", as it were.

Is a fine even possible as a remedy here under Delaware law? Tornetta didn't ask for it, there appears to be no discussion of a fine even as a possible remedy in the decision, and I'm not sure whether Delaware law allows for a fine in the first place.

The closest thing is the discussion about the defendants failing to "identify any logically defensible delta between the unfair Grant and a fair one", so the court was basically left with leaving the grant intact or ordering recission, and it seems in that case the general bias is against the wrongdoer.
It’s as fair and balanced as reality is. Newsom is a moderate governor, DeSantis is (proudly) far-right.
Totally biased founder here, but I work on https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh, a thing that started off as an IPFS implementation in rust, but we broke out & ended up doing our own thing. We're not at the point where the iroh implements "the full IPFS experience" (some parts border on impossible to do while keeping a decentralized promise), but we're getting closer to the "p2p website hosting" use case each week.
Who Pays Technical Writers
I'd love instead a car that has software I can fully customize. Not the life threatening stuff I can shoot myself in the foot with, but all the dashboards, button placement, sensor logic,entertainment system, live APIs, downloadable logs etc. That's where most of the annoying bugs are anyway. An "open source" car would be a dream come true.
You are very correct but it’s also not on the dev product teams to decide the best practices for secrets at large companies. It’s the responsibility of the security and devops team to implement best practices.
"The problem’s dimension influences the dimension of this shape: With two variables it takes the form of a flat polygon; in three dimensions it is a Platonic solid, and so on."

It certainly needn't be a _Platonic_ solid! The author must have meant to write merely "solid" or "polyhedron" or some such thing
The GGML quants are the only quantization we have lol. They were leaked in Q2K/Q4KM/Q5KM, you can grab them right now.

Whats interesting is that Mistral apparently distributed these GGUFs. This is (in my experience) not a good format for production, so I am curious exactly who was wanting to test a model in GGUF.
I never thought people would be upscaling models by increasing quantization precision. The rationale makes sense bit its also a goofy outcome.
I paid for a month out of curiosity, and it was actually great. Really enjoyed it on long trips. Obviously I used it as intended.

Autopilot works stupid good the rest of the time, though. Great feature.
Is it just me or does Axios have a bit of a pro-Musk bent lately?

First the pro billionaire link the other day, now an ostensibly straight-news item that throws shade at EV makers not named Tesla.
> the person who owned 9 shares brought the suit actually felt harmed

That's the rule of law for you! Nine shares have as many fundamental rights as nine billion.

This is why the cost of capital for Delaware companies is lower than others'; it rules out entire categories of screwing around. Here's the good news: nobody is saying Musk can't get $55bn. It's saying he can't get it while pretending he isn't a controlling shareholder. The best thing to do might not be appealing, but putting the package to a new vote and moving on.
When I take a picture with my phone, those pixels weren't created by a human either. Yet I still own their copyright.

At the core the question is how much artistic input there is in creating LLM models. Are the choice of the model architecture, hyperparameters and training data artistic choices comparable to those by a photographer setting up a shot? Or are they more comparable to technical work that's only protectable by trade secrets, patents and trademarks?
Cloudflare open sourced workerd, there's also Apache Airflow which covers some similar use cases albeit not strictly with functions.
I completely stopped drinking both alcohol and caffeine in my early 30s for medical reasons.

Who knows what damage was done (if any) before then.
given how few starlink units are available and how ubiquitous wifi mesh network technology is this is likely a non issue. One starlink unit will likely be providing backhaul for a large portion of front line from a rear station.
I’ve always loved “Beware of Doug”