skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is completely possible to do that with Tailwind and components, I do it all the time. I'll create a Button component that takes parameters like `mode=primary`. The Button component contains a `button` element with some common classes that apply to all buttons (padding, borders, shadows, etc). Then depending on the parameters, I'll append other specialised classes (usually colours).

The only thing you have in CSS that is harder when working with Tailwind is overrides - e.g. "this component is normally blue, but it's green if this class/parameter/attribute is set". That said, even when I'm using CSS, I tend to find overriding, except in the simplest of cases, usually causes problems, because now I need to make assumptions about the order of declarations that are difficult to make in a codebase maintained by multiple people over several years. For that reason, in the button case, I would typically make it so that the different modifiers (.button-primary etc) are mandatory when using the .button class.
I saw this post about 2 hours ago, and I was fascinated by it and curious how it worked. So I decided to de-obfuscate it and add comments.

The code was too large for a comment, so here's the gist:

https://gist.github.com/paskozdilar/48d7532733ccd11144bb43fe...

The approach is quite interesting - it (ab)uses the preprocessor to shorten the syntax of for loops:

#define l(a, b, c, d) for (int y = a; y < b; y++) for (int x = c; x < d; x++)

And then it does the heavy lifting by iterating over the whole map thousand times, randomly selecting a rectangle on the map and checking if the selected area is adjacent to an already-generated cave. It's a probabilistic algorithm, so there's a tiny chance that it will just print a single cave in the middle and nothing else.

EDIT: Then I found that many other people also de-obfuscated it in the gist comments. :') This guy did a much better job than me:

https://gist.github.com/Joker-vD/cc5372a349559b9d1a3b220d5ea...
In what world is this bullying?

> I return their essays with dozens of comments in the margins, a graded rubric, and a paragraph of instructions on how they should improve their work.

Has the word “bullying” lost all meaning?
How do you pass "implicit structure" as parameters?
If I need you to perform a task, I'm going to try and prevent you from experiencing pain by giving you clear requirements and time to complete the task.

I'm not going to ask you to lift things heavier than you can, or to do math or programming that's beyond your known capabilities.

My goal is going to be to find out what you're best at, then optimize my tasks to be aligned with your training and objectives.

This is pretty much what I do with AI also.
The median American lives within 18 miles of their mom and 80% within "a couple hours."[0] 55% are within an hour's drive of their extended family.[1] The majority of Americans do not drive long distances for holidays. It's common, but like, most people aren't doing it, which is congruent with GP's statement that "most people don't roadtrip."

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/18/more-than...
Not map and compass, but the book The Natural Navigator is excellent for honing your skills.

https://www.naturalnavigator.com/
Please note that these results were obtained using a small amount of compute (compared to say a large language model training run) on a limited training set. Nothing in the paper makes me think that this won't scale. I wouldn't be surprised to see a AAA quality version of this within a few months.
Who knew that the existential crisis of the modern developer would be choosing between milliseconds of latency and the perfect shade of syntax highlighting :)
what will happen to their wages when all white-collar workers take up that career?
Inside this eBook, you will discover the topics about body image basics, learn to love yourself, get involved in a sport you love, stop comparing yourself to others, wear the right clothes and the dangers of poor body image.
> only time can tell

I see what you did there.
Assuming you are interested strictly in productivity, probably not the best tool with those devices. However sunshine + moonlight does work quite well, so maybe? I use that combo for gaming.
My god, it's like the AI hype virus has infected your brain and enslaved it.

LLMs are not the messiah, they're not the gateway to AGI, they not even that useful given their limitations. They are a very interesting data point on the path to the next data point. The idea that there will be some mass regression due to "AI" is ridiculous. It will only benefit humanity because humanity will learn to harness it for its benefit. (What humans do to other humans with technology is another matter.) Your ancestors made the same specious claims about the horseless carriage, TV, the pill, and countless other creations.

The future is unknowable but there is no reason to think the next generation won't be better of than the current generation, just like it's been for many centuries (modulo various wars and disasters).
You'd be shocked at how many people start those sports obese and succeed. It just takes them longer.

Yes your satiety can be fucked for a while but that doesn't mean that you can't learn to reach your goals anyways.
Binary using clap with all the bells and whistles, even without LTO, is 900KB after strip.

The standard library has 4MB of debug info baked in, which due to its special integration with Cargo is always added, even when you explicitly configure `debug=false`. This is what usually surprises people and makes Rust executables seem huge.
I really really don't want to tip Uber/Lyft drivers:

1. Taking away the hassle of thinking about the tip is one of the major advantages of the technology.

2. I don't approve of US tipping culture. It shouldn't be up to me as Joe consumer to evaluate a professional doing their job, and it's patronizing to "reward" people in this fashion.

This should all be built into base compensation. In practice I've never left a tip in any of my more than 100 rides.
The article appears to have been delisted by HN. Not sure why. 'Big AI' didn't like it, perhaps?
Photography has been very well developed technically for almost a century. Yet very little is considered art. The most interesting AI art, to me, are “image compilations” where the compiler appears to have taken just a bit of LSD.
Recently bought 86 Ethernet cables from Monoprice. There with 55 tracking numbers. 54 envelopes with one cable each and the rest in one box. All of them seemingly came from the same place.

My household consistently sees Amazon ignoring our designated delivery day as well as using multiple drivers per day to deliver to us. The peak I noticed on the security camera was 6 drivers in one day. All the items were made with a single purchase.
Apple’s “hide my email” feature is nice for this stuff
> It was very close to splitting Microsoft because Microsoft was held to have monopolistic market share and was abusing its monopolistic position in operating systems to illegally and anticompetitively push their web browser. Violation of antitrust law.

This was overturned on appeal and subsequently settled out of court so it was never actually determined whether bundling IE with Windows would have been illegal under US antitrust law.

Other aspects of the case were upheld on appeal (mostly related to shady dealings with OEMs) but the appeals panel concluded that the district judge incorrectly analyzed the browser issue. They also overturned the original court ordered split for the same reason.
I think it has more to do with Excel properly recognizing the data type rather than humans doing so. It has been too long since I dealt with it to recall the troubles but I know there are things that should be easy that aren't since you can't tell Excel how to interpret the data.
I think that people's believe in LLM is intelligence is closely tied to mistaken association between intelligence and the ability to speak.

Parrots can speak, but they cannot reason. Moreover, evolutionary, birds learned to mimic the speech to fool other species. To fool in such way that other species would think that parrots are of the same specie.

We, the humans, are smart enough to recognise that even though parrots can talk, they are not as smart as we are. Unfortunately for us, LLMs are much more advanced things than parrots, and they are capable to fool broad masses pretending that LLMs are of the human specie with all inherent features including the reasoning intelligence (that we cannot easily test externally).

This is unfortunate, because such false believes slow down actual scientific progress towards the natural intelligence researches, and towards creating of the true reasoning artificial intelligence.

Btw, I wouldn't be surprised that if one day the AGI created, it will not be able to speak at all, nor recognise the images.
Yes it's a major plot point in Anathem. The Internet was so badly polluted with machine generated garbage that a special caste of techno priests, the Ita, evolved with the mission of doing machine augmented web searches to find valid knowledge among the vast noise.
When these apps launched you couldn't even tip and it was like a selling point of using them. The somehow we got guilted into tipping on these apps too.
Haven't checked out MFP in a while but the perk of Macrofactor is that it calculates your TDEE for you and adjusts it as it changes so you know precisely how much to eat to maintain a given rate of weight change.
I don’t find it cynical enough actually; I always assumed the oligarchs see the proles as barely differentiated units of labor, much like we would see a colony of bees. Certainly that’s the way I’ve been treated for most of my life.
> If I need you to perform a task, I'm going to try and prevent you from experiencing pain by giving you clear requirements and time to complete the task.

That doesn't explain what pain is. My question was how you would algorithmically create that? If I am as much a being as an algorithm, as you insulted, then sure thing there must be an algorithmic nature underlying my (or anyone's) pain?
That's what the topic of the post we are discussing is. He is basically reiterating the point. Which is a good point. And there have been zero good arguments made (as far as I'm aware) to why this fear would be unfounded.
The general assumption is that some form of Moore’s Law continues, meaning that even without major algorithmic improvements AIs will blow past human intelligence and continue improving at an exponential rate.
There are $50 android phones to a top of the line $1,500 iPhone. These are only sold in developing markets and are unsurprisingly, not very good. but they're better than nothing. cars also have this thing where they're cheaper outside of the US due to lax safety regulations.
Sure. I suspect it might be hard to actually recruit people like this considering how the people who got sampled are hugely pissed off at AI firms rn, but money will go a long way here.
It depends on what you’re trying to do. This is part of why I suggest trying it for yourself, it’s very hard to get a good sense from what others can say.

As for me, I wouldn’t replace my desktop with this personally (albeit I might get rid of my monitor) but it would very likely replace my MacBook Air at some point.
Let's wait until someone develops real AI and figure it out then.
day -1, not day 1
I might be jaded, but I don’t believe a single thing Meta or TikTok say. I guess we’ll see by October.
China must have some magical coffers that they are simultaneously losing $50 billion+ a year on subsidizing Chinese EV makers.. but somehow also earning money on it and spending it on national defense?

I don’t like the direction China is headed either, but anyone with even an ounce of pragmaticness realizes that we still live in a world of global trade.

Also, the US is trading with China to the tune of $750 000+ billion a year. So, I guess they should cut off all that trade to stop funding their future adversary.. or perhaps it is not so simple?
I don’t doubt it, but like I said it’s not going anywhere, and the next generation will be more prepared than ever to tackle those sorts of problems.

Also, I’d argue that rock has caused suffering. It’s indirectly responsible for the middle-of-the-road (MOR) genre, and directly responsible for Nickleback Smashmouth.
It’s hard for me to think of an example where thoughtfully-designed slides alone set a presentation apart, partly because good slides are often the result of someone clearly putting the time/thought into their presentation. But they can be the difference between a good presentation and a great one.

For example, Gary Bernhardt’s Birth and Death of JavaScript is one of my favorites and certainly benefits from having nicely-designed slides.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Why would the rate of improvement follow your imagined formula?

If people are worried about a runaway effect, why would you think you can dismiss their concerns by constructing a very specific scaling function that will not result in a runaway effect?
Midwest especially; growing up a one day drive across the entire width of Illinois and Indiana to see relatives was a common occurrence for the holidays and our summer family trip.
> ...I have to do a sweeping change to those buttons.

Why aren't those buttons encapsulated in reusable components or templates?

What sorts of changes do you need to make where this is an issue?
Describing tech platforms as a place where users work for no pay is quite an exaggeration. Apple and Microsoft for example do not conform to this business model. In fact the business models amongst the tech giants are so varied to group them all into “cloud capital” is ridiculously reductionist, and gives grift vibes to just capitalize on the current change in attitudes toward big tech. Honestly this article is so unspecific as to feel that it’s saying nothing. Maybe that’s on purpose to market for the book but I can’t tell. In the end, the pursuit of monopolies currently is the exact same mission that all capitalists have had for generations, he fails to make a distinction in my opinion between then and now. I think the current state of the world can still be described using the rules of a capitalist system, and I fee that competition between the tech giants more fierce now than it has been in the past decade.
>In reality, LLMs are already trained on the output of other LLMs

That's a fact, but are there any studies on training a LLM on it's own output and not the output of a different LLM ? For instance, chatgpt gets knowledge updates so I understand it must be retrained somehow. What happens if the retraining data contains large patches of its own output ? Has this scenario been explored ?
This is kind of a general response, but I disagree. AI is not just like any other past technology. Just two ways in which it is totally different from the steam engine: AI is able to make art, it can learn from people and then produce similar results. It can imitate art that is the result of our deepest internal processes. Also, AI is about replacing all human jobs and capabilities. Not just a super narrow subset.
And why rural houses are abandoned? Always ask the next quesiton.

They are abandoned because there are no jobs around them. And there are no jobs because they have all concentrated into dense city cores.
You've never been to europe in your entire life, and here is a rant teaching me how I should behave and do things in my continent, a place where you'd stand out like a japenese in southafrica.
How many legitimate emails have a + in them and don't use such an alias system? I'm sure they exist, but are probably even less frequent than the amount of people using this alias system, thus it's more profitable to strip it out.
"Classification of mathematical problems as linear and nonlinear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas. "

and everything turns around the same principles. For example dynamical models and PID controls.

yet solving a banana, is the only thing we really know how to do. So we end up fitting everything in our banana models.
That functionality could probably fit in 1 line of APL... which means a business card could be enough space for a 3D renderer of the random dungeon.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425714

Of course there's the demoscene productions where binary size is the measure (no cheating by using lots of libraries); and in a 1K binary, comparable in size to this source, they've gone much further with what can be generated.
I'm curious about how the economics of human feedback will work out in the long term. I currently work in operations at a data annotation company, and my experience has given me a very pessimistic view of the industry's current state.

The MO for these vendors and the AI companies that buy their data seems to be a race to the bottom in price with little concern for quality. The current industry norm is to outsource the work to developing countries, where the cost of living is more in line with what the annotation agencies are willing to pay. While this isn't necessarily problematic for quality in and of itself, it does seem to make it harder to find candidates with the English skills required to generate high-quality RLHF and SFT training data. Furthermore, the pay offered for coding annotators is not competitive with local pay for software engineers, making it challenging to recruit skilled programmers. A lot of coding annotation is done by beginners and students.

There is certainly a lot of hype surrounding LLMs and their potential to disrupt various industries — even the US DOD has been scoping out the potential use of LLMs to assist military commanders in strategic decisions. However, if we want these LLMs to consistently perform at an expert level, they need expert-level training data. I worry that producing this data at the quality and scale required may be prohibitively expensive, and could cause a major bottleneck in model improvements long-term.
In the fictional world where excel understands the second header row, it could just as easily understand a unit delimiter and units in a single header row.

Either would make my day as a programmer though.
Yes, in extreme cases illness can set in within an hour. But a) that isn't the typical case for food poisoning, and b) it isn't clear that even this short of a timeline would be enough for the flight in question as it's less than two hours long
I don't think there is "logic" for screwing up the output, more likely the implementation is bugged and they just didn't bother to fix those glitches, and then put it on the page as "feature". At least, I failed to find any relevant code, but I could easily be missing it. And I still would agree, that kind of sucks
There's nothing worse than an unscheduled meeting with HR called "Sync" appearing in your calendar at short notice.
https://mashable.com/article/ijbol-explained
All of the items you mentioned: AI, gun violence, and climate change all share similarities in not presenting easy solutions. Sure, people propose half-baked solutions frequently, but that doesn't mean you can get a diverse set of opinions to agree.

I hear lots of handwringing about all of these, but I've yet to hear workable solutions that don't have significant downsides and/or involve the use of force to stop those that disagree.
It would in principle be more efficient to burn oil/gas in a power plant and use some of it to fuel EVs. The CO2 emissions would also be lower. So this isn’t an excuse either. The energy is there, the political willpower is not.

EVs are now more or less cheaper in total costs of ownership now, so with some political will the transition could have been faster without hurting the wallet in the long term. Some special car loan policies might have been needed though.

There simply are no excuses. With a big political push this transition could have been kickstarted with the GM EV1. Some extra research grants and some political pressure on cheap licensing terms for LFP batteries could have helped get batteries to where they need to be.

But there’s also no use thinking about the world that could’ve been. There are many reasons why USA isn’t where Norway is.

The point that stands is that Norway has shown that it can be done, and that should inform USA and others in how they move forward.

Most of the excuses made now don’t make sense. Norway isn’t an ideal country for EVs. Winter is brutal on range. Most American live in warmer climates. Norwegians also love to drive to far away mountain cabins in winter. My Norwegian relatives do more road trips than my family in the US.

Some excuses have some truth to them. Norway does have cheap electricity. But USA has resources Norway don’t. All in all the excuses don’t add up to anything that can justify inaction going forward.
- the thwarted referendum in 1997 (https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum_na_Slovensku_v_roku...)

- the kidnapping of the president in 1995 (https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavle%C4%8Denie_Michala_Kov%C3....)

- the still unpunished murder of Robert Remias ordered by the former prime minister Vladimir Meciar (https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3bert_Remi%C3%A1%C5%A1)

- the still unpunished murder of the journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J%C3%A1n_Kuciak) because he was exposing the crimes of one of the oligarch / white-collar mafioso running the country Marian Kocner

- "Kauza Gorila" - a massive leak of documents and audio recordings revealing how the people running the country systematically steal billions of euro (https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauza_Gorila) - the money is missing in education, health, public infrastructure etc.

- the party in power called SMER is created and controlled by former prominent communists (Jaroslav Hascak, Juraj Siroky, Alojz Lorenc, Jozef Brhel, Vladimir Poor, Miroslav Vyboh, Norbert Bodor)... some of these people studied in Russia and to this day use Russian methods (https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskovskij_gosudarstvennyj_ins...)

- Special Prosecutor's Office investigating the crimes of the oligarchs was cancelled last week, a number of key positions in police, justice etc. are now held by white-collar criminals (some of them stull under investigation)

- 50% of the population is extremely susceptible to Russian propaganda which is very prominent here

And there more, tons more in fact. I am sure as hell I am getting the f*ck out of here as soon as I can before our transition into Belarus is completed.
Duck addresses from duckduckgo are a nice way to mitigate this.
Seems like that might be one interpretation. Instead of denying service, say we don't give influencers money for reviews and make sure he has nothing to complain about, even if he has nothing to gush about. Then a shitty review would be obviously because of the lack of payola.
I just read the article, nice write up! I think it would benefit from a short explanation of what the magnitude vector (m) and the directional matrix (V) are, I'm not familiar with that kind of decomposition.

Not related to the article but tangentially relevant, would it be possible to train a LoRA or DoRA with a high rank, and then use SVD to see if the rank is too high and truncate to a better value of r? Maybe use different ranks for different layers after some training?
And then the second sentence following that is: "I don’t think Apple can tell alternative browser engines what features it will allow and which not."

The core problem is not Chrome's adoption of random features. It's Apple's neglect of the native platform, which in turn creates demand for absurd workarounds. As I said way further up in the thread, they're not pushing proprietary browser extensions; so how is it anticompetitive?