skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another hypocritical statement from this guy
I've been reading the entire The Far Side (from the massive two book set) with my 10 y/o daughter. It's interesting to see how apparently the culture of the time of Gary Larson's upbringing imprinted itself on the strips. Reading 10 or so strips at a sitting makes it very apparent (along with making apparent Larson's go-to characters and tropes).

My daughter commented on there being few depictions of female scientists, academics, doctors, etc (instances if the archetypal The Far Side character in a lab coat) as an example. The strips that feature singles bar-type settings feel a little skeevy, too.

I'm not trying to say anything negative about the strips or Gary Larson. It's interesting to me to reflect on something I enjoyed in my childhood "showing its age", even as I enjoy it now.
I read a lot like for instance on this website and some nonfiction literature but I stay away from the news and mainstream media, so I'm usually quite out of the loop and I like it here.
Elon Musk's X comes out in favor of pro-censorship law
I started the article and it touches an interesting topic, but I feel guilty finishing it because it’s within those wasteful 80% that it talks anout
I think “knowledge work” refers to work that solely requires knowledge with no physical labor component and no physical object manipulation (other than a keyboard, mouse, and writing utensil, I guess).

Every job that requires physical labor requires knowledge of how to accomplish the task at hand.
Sen Wyden Reintroduces Legislation That Would Actually Help Be Kids Safer Online
It's not really buggy software. The real part is cost.

The reason EVs are loaded with features is to increase the price they can charge and diffuse the cost of the battery. I do not want most of the features in the current EVs, even if they aren't buggy. I want an EV that's the equivalent of a work truck.

That doesn't mean it has to be a truck, but basic radio/usb, power locks/windows, basic seats and rubber floor, etc. Typically only work trucks are stripped down like this, but similar options for cars or SUVs would be nice. Not everything should sync with my phone and blow hot (or cold) air up my ass.
Nerd! ... Dang!

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c9/08/a0/c908a02a8dfa42db9973f743b...

Dang! ... Who ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs?

https://ifunny.co/picture/dang-who-ate-the-middle-out-of-the...
I don't think incremental reading is about memorizing word per word of an article, but about increasing your understanding through one article at a time and then retaining it through time.

All knowledge and skills depends on memory.

That's what spaced repetition promised. In reality, it's a lot harder to figure out how to use, and often people only remember low-value knowledge and facts instead.
> just in time manufacturing has the noted weakness of having slack or resilience in the system

Did you mean 'having no slack or resilience'?

Assuming you did and I understand your point, I disagree with it insofar as it applies to knowledge. Yes, JIT manufacturing of real things can be easily tripped up and it screwed us during the pandemic, but does that apply here? The author is saying "when you figure out what you need to read, go out and get it" rather than "keep a bunch of tabs and bookmarks hanging around in case you need them".

I mean, yeah, I guess if you only read things you can get from the library or in dead tree form, but if you really want to read something there's ebooks and audiobooks galore out there, and if we have a supply chain mess that's so bad that you can't get an electronic book, we're all kinda screwed anyways.
I hate when that happens
Yes months and months to get an interview.
1) if you just want to post your thoughts and images, then static html

2) if you want people to comment, then either Wordpress or Disqus attached to static html; keep in mind that this entails you spending time moderating them

3) if you want to sell stuff, then you look at Shopify or something similar

4) some more complex CRUD, you use Django or Rails or similar; only add a javascript front end if you actually have some reason not to do everything server-side

5) beyond CRUD, perhaps Flask and HTMX

6) if this website is supposed to impress people, like it's a portfolio or something, then ignore all of this and use whatever buzzwords you see in job postings the most
> Seems like he was hoping to get his twitter followers to harass them in a manner similar to the way he did -- otherwise why tweet it?

People often say things just to express themselves rather than for any planned and considered reason.

I greatly doubt the plan was to cause harassment. The gains are extremely low and this could cost him his job.
It feels that way, but I don't think the build-out in the late 90s can be compared to what we've seen in recent years. Many companies were coming online for the first time, and it was a mad rush. They were looking for any warm body that could spell HTML. Many weren't even trained in technology. There were plenty who went back to what they were doing before when they realized the party was over.
How Matthias Wandel YouTube channel got hacked [video]
Political grandstanding--Graham compares guns to social media, except somehow skips over the idea that guns are actually designed to kill. How many people are killed from social media use?
Rather than enquire into the nature of the problem, you've started with the conclusion that AGI is an existential threat, and that the only rational decisions is to figure out how to kill it. You also seem to equate intelligence with technical capability. I question all of that.
I'm surprised by the beginning of the post talking about pioneering in 2019. Maybe it is the case for ENS (I never cared for it), but regarding IPFS, my website was available over IPFS 3 years before that in 2016 [1]. Granted, I was never IPFS only. I also started publishing a series of article about censorship-resistant internet (Tor, I2P, IPFS, and ZeroNet) in 2600 Magazine – The Hacker Quarterly – back in 2017 [2].

Anyway, I came to the same conclusion as the author, but several years ago: in the end, nothing is actually decentralized, and maintaining this illusion of decentralization is actually costly, for no real purpose (other than the initial enjoyment of playing with a new tech, that is).

So I stopped maintaining it a few years ago. That decision was also because of the growing involvement of some of these projects with blockchain tech that I never wanted to be a part of. This is also why I cancelled my article series in 2600 before publishing those on IPFS and ZeroNet.

[1] See for example this archive of my HN profile page from 2016 with the link to it: https://web.archive.org/web/20161122210110/https://news.ycom...

[2] https://pablo.rauzy.name/outreach.html#2600
Using it for legal matters is (understandably) explicitly against use policy. It's not meant to be used for legal advice so the response you're receiving is accurate - go get a lawyer.

https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies
Does watermarked imply they can figure out which customer leaked it?
Legislators cannot fix parenting, but they can enforce controls and governance on social media platforms to govern to the mean. Duct tape fixes work when more aspirational fixes are unattainable. To the dismay of many, duct tape holds the world together.

It can be true that politicians are out of touch and all we're left with are suboptimal solutions to complex problems at scale.

> For additional context, I'm 15 nearing 16, so maybe I'm just spiteful out of angst.

Early 40s with two kids under 10 here. Welcome to the shit show.
Here's your $.10/day for that 1GB with bandwidth... but running the filecoin stack will cost you a $50/mo server.

That fucker's a PIG on cpu and ram.
I have seen all sorts of crooked behaviour in academia, such as reviewers demanding authors to cite their unrelated papers. However, this article's main premise seems to be predicated on another assumption that is also terrible for academia - elitism. Specifically, this quote

> There were people that published in journals that no serious mathematician reads, whose work was cited by articles that no serious mathematicians would read, coming from institutions that nobody knows in mathematics

is really bad. It suggests one can be a 'serious' mathematician only if you went to XYZ universities and published in ABC journals. This elitism is the main reason why people try to game the system in the first place, because they know that they can't advance in their careers unless they build that perception of prestige. The single minded focus on prestige is then what smothers the real science.
You may think this seems quite familiar to another post on here! I'll explain:

We've been working on this idea for about 8 months since first prototype. We basically had everything finished and ready to launch, but unfortunately for us, Neal Agarwal (of neal.fun) had almost the exact same idea!

We officially launched a couple weeks ago at this point but at the time my submission here was getting caught by the spam filter - trying again now that I have amassed some karma.

Would love if you could give our version of the concept a chance! We think it's much more fleshed out - for starters, your items actually get saved between sessions.

Also check out the Itempedia to see what other people are making: https://allchemy.io/items

P.S. Sorry about the slightly obnoxious new discovery animation - there's no way to turn this off yet but we will add a way of disabling it soon - we agree that it's rather annoying in the early game where you are constantly discovering new items!
That's precisely why I asked about an undergrad at a school in VT.
LoRAX [0] does sound super helpful and so I’d be curious if there are some good examples of people applying it. What are some current working deployments where one has 100s or 1000s of LoRA fine tuned models? I guess I can make up stuff that makes sense, so that’s not really what I’m asking, I’m interested in learning about any known deployments and example setups.

[0] https://github.com/predibase/lorax
“ I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business”

Was the market gap realization from conversations with current/prospective customers? Or was it from solo hammock time? It sounds like you have a lot more the build, and because you have dependents, I would try to reduce risk as much as possible by making sure you have a list of customers (emails?) who, in some way, showed strong interest in paying for your product. Ideally a long list.
There are ways:

(1) Diagonal legs that give the table a wide stance. Draw a triangle that the tabletop fits entirely inside of. The legs touch the ground at the vertices of the triangle.

(2) Make the table itself arbitrarily heavy. A downward force on the corner of the tabletop will create torque around an axis, and this torque wants to tip it over. But the table's center of mass is on the other side of this axis, and the table's weight creates torque too. If the table's mass is high enough, this torque is greater, and it won't tip.

(3) Screw the table to the floor. Is this a table? I think it's still a table. You often see tables attached to the floor.

(4) Make one leg really wide so that it stretches from one corner to the other. The other two legs can be traditional.
>are you going to get more fish by paying them even more or by paying them more and asking them to devote time/attention to catching fish as well?

I think that is a really good question. If someone is paid $1 million per fish, can you expect more paying extra for time OR fish. Why give them anything at all?

That's what I thought was really interesting in the parent post. Does the fisherman have leverage? Are their only options to keep the old deal, or stop catching fish out of spite?
Yeah (though apparently the wifi support was good idk) and honestly from the reviewers perspective - I think they'd be doing their jobs wrong if they were 'right' about the iphone. What were they supposed to say/forecast? "Oh and while the browser is pretty good, it's obviously incomplete, doesn't support flash, can be hard to read websites, etc. However, this won't be a problem if the iphone ends up catapulting apple to becoming one of the most powerful companies in the world, at which point they'll kill flash. Also while all websites are designed for viewing on desktop screens - that's OK because in the future the iphone is going to be so damn impactful civilizationally that basically the entire human species will start accessing the internet through small mobile computers in their pocket (and start accessing it a lot!) which means that society itself will reshape itself to prioritize making sure websites work on this phone."

Like seriously idk what people want from those reviewers. If they were 'accurately' predicting an outlier product like the iphone I doubt their wild fantasies would be accurately predicting much else
That would be more about philosophical knowledge, not tactical knowledge ?? And on its face, seems to be wrong, care to expand ? (And even some of the greatest fiction might apply here, not only nonfiction, not sure if you were considering that too ?)
Lots of interesting information is so fragmented in niche Discords. For instance, KoboldAI on merging and RP models in general, and some other niches. Llama-Index. VoltaML and some others in regards to SD optimization. I could go on and on, and know only a tiny fraction of the useful AI discords.

And yeah, /r/LocalLlama seems to be getting noisier.

TBH I just follow people and discuss stuff on huggingface directly now. Its not great, but at least its not discord.
Burn Deep Learning Framework Release 0.12.0 Improved API and PyTorch Integration
This release is packed with new features and improved performance, but the major focus was on enhancing the user API and the documentation.

We updated the API to remove instances where the device chosen was the default one, potentially causing bugs due to device mismatch. Now, our API is more explicit about where the device should be specified, aligning well with the Rust philosophy.

The book has seen various updates, including a new section on dataset manipulation requested by the community. We also plan to create a contributor guide, to help new contributors get familiar with the internals of the project.

A lot of work has been done to improve our JIT compiler, where we can fuse WebGPU tensor operations into a single kernel for impressive performance improvement. We added automatic vectorization of element-wise operations, as well as integration with autotune. Additionally, kernels created on-the-fly can now be executed in-place for reduced memory usage. We now support running multiple optimization streams independantly, which helps when metric updates and training run on the same device, but different threads. This feature isn't enabled by default yet, but you can enable it with a backend decorator. Future releases will add more optimizations to the compiler, and we will probably ship it by default. We also have plans to add other compilation targets in addition to WebGPU, namely Vulkan and CUDA.

One of the major quality of life improvements is the addition of the new PyTorch recorder that allows loading PyTorch weights into Burn modules. We also support specifying regex to dynamically map the weights to your Burn model if the structure isn't the same as the PyTorch implementation.

With this new release, we spent a lot of time solidifying our infrastructure, testing our framework on additional OS (Windows and MacOS). Overall, our CI is more mature and allows us to more easily ensure the quality and correctness of every code change across backends and operating systems.

Release Notes: https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn/releases/tag/v0.12.0
Burn Book: https://burn.dev/book/
The last couple interviews I have had, warned about using ChatGPT. So it must be happening.
I've had a displeasure of interviewing someone who used ChatGPT in a live setting.
It was pretty obvious: I ask a short question, and I say that I expect a short answer on which I will expand further. The interviewee sits there in awkward silence for a few seconds, and starts answering in a monotone voice, with sentence structure only seen on Wikipedia. This repeats for each consecutive question.

Of course this will change in the future, with more interactive models, but people who use ChatGPT on the interviews make a disservice to themselves and to the interviewer.

Maybe in the future everybody is going to use LLMs to externalize their thinking. But then why do I interview you? Why would I recommend you as a candidate for a position?
Use the Onetab extension. Click the button and it stuffs all tabs into a big list, which you can go back to (ha! yeah right) or export to a text file that let's you ignore it for the rest of time without triggering the anxiety of having to decide to throw away information.

https://www.one-tab.com/
Well done to the author for writing this up.

Having tried fringe technologies over the years, spun up a server and
run them for a few months, struggled and seen all the rough edges and
loose threads, I often come to the point of feeling - this technology
is good, but it's not ready yet. Time to let more determined people
carry the torch.

The upside is:

- you tried, and so contributed to the ecosystem

- you told people what needs improving

Just quitting and not writing about your experience seems a waste for
everyone, so good to know why web hosting on IPFS is still rough.
It worked fine before for many years when it was slightly less popular.

They're having growing pains due to scalability problems and some libraries, like Helia (the JS library of IPFS), being new. I guess I'm also quite stubborn in wanting to do it my way, without the aid of any services, and for the content I pin to be available in all places, including Helia in the browser.
All self-proclaimed 'democracies' are in fact 'oligarchies'.

I don't know of any true 'democracy' anywhere in the world.
Interesting. What sort of opinions are now in the window that weren't 20 years ago?
Running Effective Growth Sprints
In my experience it is comparable with chatGPT 3.5 but is more expensive (I still use it cause I hate guardrails).
I'm not the author (perhaps he'll chime in as well), but I'm the CEO of interviewing.io (we're the ones who ran the experiment).

I think it depends on whether the interviewer has agreed to make the interview "open book". Looking up stuff on Stack Overflow during the interview can be OK or can be cheating, depending on the constraints.

In this experiment, the interviews were not "open book". That said, I am personally in favor of open book interviews.
> Just in case, you know, your DNA changes /s

It absolutely does. That's how cancer occurs btw. The term is "somatic mutations".
There's a wonderful scene [0] in the anime show Gate, where a character turns the tables on a grandstanding member of the Japanese Diet.

Sometimes I fantasize about witnesses doing that during these Congressional theater productions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43RZdzDt2II&ab_channel=Seira...
How to create strong passwords you'll remember
Weird hypothetical, if such a plan were to succeed, would it be ethical?
> 1. It's a coincidence and it's never causal.

Half the point of analyzing statistics is to filter out coincidences, and that applies to correlations too. If something is a coincidence, it won't hold up as a proper correlation under reasonable amounts of analysis. So when the premise is we're starting with correlations, I think it's alright to assume they're mostly not coincidences.

> The bugfix part of the diff caused it to be fixed. The updates to the copyright dates or changelogs didn't.

In that case the bugfix is the "gene most correlated", isn't it? Give it a few generations to randomly spread, and the signal will be far stronger on the bugfix gene than on the copyright gene. (And if it hasn't been spreading for generations then you won't have enough samples to find either gene.)

> 2. It's causal, but the causal chain involves a specific environmental factor, and we should change that instead.

> For instance, you can say every human has a genetic disease that prevents them from producing their own vitamin C, which most other mammals can do. But instead of calling scurvy a genetic disease we just eat fruits and vegetables.

If you're testing just humans, you'll get a 0% correlation because everyone has that gene.

If you're testing across mammals, then "WARNING: Prone to scurvy". Which is a completely correct and causal result about a genetic problem, with easily accessible treatments.

So, I don't understand your example at all.
> If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, cover philosophical knowledge, or entertain you, then don’t read it.

I think that's covered under "entertain you".
Are social media not intended to kill people?
I'm the author of this post. Happy to answer questions if you have any. This was such a fascinating experiment!
With L1/L2 your partner can work.

H1B is more complex for spouse to work.
Ok, try this :)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wlq6fFOqI28
I'm glad ChatGPT could be the end of leetcode interviews.

I worry though that it'll just be the end of online leetcode interviews and employers will bring people back into the office to interview.
Thanks for sharing this perspective. I'm sure I also do a lot of things that can be construed as pretty sad, when looking from the outside, but in reality, I'm having tons of memorable fun.

What I was reminded by by this trailer is this image actually [0]. And then I had the thought immediately how technology doesn't actually "get us ahead" in a way, but rather, sets a new baseline. I have a car, so I can get faster to work, but since everyone has cars, I'm expected to drive to begin with, and work is further away, so commute still takes a lot of time. With VR, I can see that people don't meet, for example, since they can "see each other" in VR anyways, so why bother. I'd not like to say that this is the only valid way to think, but this was about my thought process, when they flashed that scene in the video. It felt lonely, isolated, only a shell of the good times past. And indeed, it's not very different than doing the same with a camcorder. So if the camcorder can provide access to that special memory, I'm sure this new tech also can.

[0] https://www.deviantart.com/eranfowler/art/Reality-78861805
`???` seems to be almost apex. I discovered many new things. Thanks for the game.
I'm aware of how routers work and this is obviously simplified. But basically you would just have a high part of the address that would be outside the mask, and old routers would just ignore it.

So your IPv6 would be 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8, and old routers would just see 5.6.7.8 and route to the place where that IP should go. The router at 5.6.7.8 would be responsible for understanding IPv6 and how to route from there with the full address.
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Serious question: what software is truly needed on an electric car that's not in a "normal" car beyond the charge controller and the linkage between the accelerator and the inputs to the motors? 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.
I don't trade, either. I just code custom data collection, quantity allocation, future roll and automated execution algorithms for certified trading advisors.