skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like what happened after Wolf ate Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/eu-commission-p...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/27/a-wolf-k...
Here is my source, for what it's worth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnizA0N8wg

The downvotes won't erase the truth, so nice try I guess?
Zed Mono and Zed Sans
It's possible for me to learn enough math to download a huggingface model and start from tokenizing my prompt and convert them to token embeddings and add position embeddings and go through 32 layers of softmax+mlp with layernorm and write out the equation that would compute each intermediate floating number until it tells me the probabilities of each output token so I can sample a token and continue the sentence autoregressively. Computing any one of these 100 billion 16-bit floating point multiplications? I can either compute them in decimal or check out the IEEE754 fp16 format and compute in binary manually, or maybe draw a circuit with AND and NOT gates if given enough time.

These are the low level operations. From a higher level mathematical standpoint? I can prove to you analytically how a SGD optimizer on a convex surface will converge to the global minimum at an exponential rate, starting from either set theory or dependent type theory and the construction of real numbers from sets of rational numbers.

None of these tell me how and why LLM works.
I can't answer that - I'm bored out of my skull by nature. Always have been. Solitary walks in forests or parks, I find them great for clearing out my thoughts - I'll be thinking about lots of things, but at no point I'll be thinking about nature around me. Which is perhaps preferable to taking a walk in an urban neighbourhood, because I'll always find something interesting there that will let me avoid uncomfortable thoughts.

(Except in context of biotech or dynamic systems; those are lenses that make me appreciate nature, but I realize this is an engineer's point of view - I'm excited about possibility of applying what we're learning, and/or repurposing what's already there.)
While not a certification, I find my Amateur Radio License to be one of my most valuable credentials besides my degrees.

1. This credential actually gives you a huge amount of privilege to use restricted radio spectra.

2. It teaches you a lot about how software, hardware, and wireless come together.

3. It's great for emergencies.

4. Opens up a lot of homebrew and DIY skill-sets for projects relating to IoT and smart devices.

I put it on my resume, though, not everyone agrees with this practice.

I will say, it's really fun to find other Hams in the industry, it makes it really easy to chit chat about a shared technical hobby.
If we had a strong executive branch right now, we’d have already threatened to launch an FTC inquiry to break up Amazon and or nationalize SpaceX in response, merited or not.

The pure shock of the prospect of breaking them up would spook investors, tank their stock, put both CEOs on the defensive, and force them back in line, and everything would get resolved nicely with a face to face meeting and a handshake.

Whether it’s merited or not is not the point. Purely from a governance standpoint, as a citizen I hate to see corporate interests trying and succeeding to usurp government and societal norms.

Sometimes examples need to be made so others know not to make the same mistake.
No network traces. Can target offline PCs.
> This sounds to me like typical toxic silicon valley startup mindset.

I think this is naive cynicism, as it were. Lots of companies are started by people who eventually want to sell them, be it after 5 years or 50. Being biased against Silicon Valley won't give you a good handle on this stuff.
Space-separated case:

import sys
from collections import Counter

L = Counter(
word
for line in sys.stdin
for word in line.casefold().split()
)

L is the words' multiset (the desired list of words with counts).

How many words are there in English? 1M?
Huge text [Unicode] files.

Fancier tokenizer:

for word in re.findall(r"\w+", line.casefold())
I was just seeing something about this on social media - @laura_horowitz_narrator was talking about it and one of the commenters claim they have backpedaled and apologized for "confusing language" but I don't find the language confusing at all. If you're a lawyer and you're modifying an existing document to state these terms, what else could you possibly be meaning?
The biosensor, a collaborative development by the University of Florida and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, employs paper test strips coated with specific antibodies. These antibodies interact with cancer biomarkers targeted in the test. Upon placing a drop of saliva on the strip, electrical pulses are sent to contact points on the biosensor device. This process leads to the binding of biomarkers to antibodies, resulting in a measurable change in the output signal. This change is then converted into digital data, indicating the biomarker’s presence.

It tests for biomarkers in the saliva. Possibly not outright crazy charlatan territory.

Could certainly use a larger sample size though, especially given that one of its bragging points is "fast and cheap!"
Russia may be explicitly against Bolsheviks (though recycling the Soviet anthem!), and Putin's Russia is indeed more akin to the former tsarist Empire than to USSR, but the tsarist Empire was fairly evil, too. Just ask the Poles or the Jews. Russian empire didn't grow to its huge size by trade and friendship, it was conquest.

Ukraine is corrupt. So what? Ukrainian corruption is a threat to no one. Not a single nation from Finland to Bulgaria considers itself vulnerable to Ukrainian military aggression, because they aren't an imperial nation and don't seek to dominate others. They were perfectly fine within their 1991 borders and never attempted to annex any extra territory by any means.

It is Russia's problem, in the words of great Václav Havel, that it does not know exactly where it ends.

All the hatred for Russia stems from their former heavy-handed rule of other nations. If they sincerely tried to make amends, it would slowly go away. They are now trying to rebuild their former imperial system. OF COURSE that nations which escaped their tyranny once are going to hate them.

It is freaking simple: we, as in Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians, Ukrainians, Georgians etc. DON'T WANT TO BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY RUSSIA. That's it. We have had enough experience with Russian rule. It is primitive and brutal at the same time. Never again.
This time it is different. At some point every pattern breaks, or at least changes.

The black box aspect is a direct result of AI being a learning technology. A higher order technology. It learns to do things we have not explicitly taught it, or might not even know how to do ourselves.

We will eventually find better ways to analyze and interpret how models work. Why a model produced a specific answer to a given prompt.

But the models will keep getting more powerful too. Today they help coders over the speed bumps of unfamiliar language syntax, or esoteric library conventions. In a few years they will be actively helping researchers with basic problems.

I.e. the hurdles for getting to the front of AI as a field as a technology contributor, and the resources needed, are going to get steeper. Of course there will be many people who do, but it won't be in the same way that most technically savvy people have had many years to learn programming languages, apply them, and even contribute to them, without language's progressing out from under them. (Except for C++ of course! /h)

EDIT: It is worth distinguishing between AI like GPT, as in very flexible and powerful models that will be used across disciplines by all kinds of people regardless of technical chops, vs. the overlapping AI algorithms (partly subset, partly different) applied to smaller learning tasks, which has been a commonplace tool for many years and will continue to have its place.
This is tangential, but the author's audiobook "Savaged by Systemd" sounds hilariously bizarre:

> The classic work of Linux satirical erotica, complete and unabridged, now a Tilted Windmill Press exclusive!

> ... The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.

> So Systemd comes for Terry.

> Wearing skin-tight leather pants.
Is ArduinoJson Pointless?
I'd liken it to car repair. I don't work on my car or fabricate replacement parts, but I can take it to any repair shop I want and the manufacturer can't stop me. And if my car was designed in such a way that I had to take it to the dealer for routine service and repairs, I wouldn't have bought it. None of that is because me, the consumer, knows the ins and outs of car part supply, regulations, or car maintenance. I just take it for granted that I can buy something and expect it to work for awhile and get it fixed when it breaks.

The analog for that in software is open source. The public doesn't need to care. If it's open, anyone can go fix it when the developer stops. Those people aren't average consumers, they're the 3rd party car mechanics.
I think the data capture, compression and storage is, but the AI part isn't. If I understood it correctly, the latter is done by sending data to ChatGPT.
> lost the editor wars

What does that even mean? Both editors have large&strong communities. I don't see them going anywhere.
That was from bootleg THC carts that had adulterated ingredients [0]. In this context we're talking about vaping (nicotine liquid) vs smoking (cigarettes).

Vaping is not as safe as inhaling nothing but air. But we do know scientifically that it is substantially safer than smoking [1], despite the (big tobacco-funded) scare campaigns that claim otherwise.

In other words, nothing > vaping > smoking. If you don't use nicotine today, don't start. But if you want to get off cigarettes, vaping is a great choice and provably safer.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/tests-show-bootleg-mar...

[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/vaping-substantially-less-harmful...
"If something isn't explicable in terms of current science, it means God must be doing it" is undoubtedly a ridiculous argument. We agree there. But the assumption behind this argument is "God is a hypothesis on a par with weather patterns or germs". The new atheists share the assumption, but from it draw the conclusion "if something isn't explicable in terms of current science, it is nonetheless explicable in principle in scientific terms". Examples of this are trivial to find in their works, including the two titles I mention above. But as I explained, this assumes what it's trying to prove: that rational explanation and scientific hypothesis are one and the same. So both the religious and atheist versions of the 'god of the gaps' argument share the same assumption.

Now I have no idea which religious thinkers are pushing this absurdity, at least not today. I'm not really interested, because I know that the failure of a weak argument for a particular claim does not undermine that claim. But I do know that the new atheists bang this drum repeatedly, loudly and excitedly. It's a big part of their argument, and is very often repeated online.

Have I fairly stated their argument? Am I fair to say that the argument is circular?

> though attempting to deduce the necessity of an unchanging omni-being from the observation "there is change" sounds like it'd be a stretch that makes Anselm's Ontological Argument seem respectable

What research have you done on this? What is your understanding of the argument, and where are its weaknesses?
1. System (big company) doesn't encourage this

2. Being best at leetcode kind of algorithms doesn't make you the best developer, far from it

3. Investing in UX has far less and longer ROI than in marketing, there is little motivation to invest in it from the system perspective. People get used to any sh*tty ux as long as the product delivers the ultimate goal.
If someone is interested in lisp, you can assume they aren't driven by mass market popularity. Why on earth would want to go up against MS on their turf???
> I don't want much out of life, but I do want the ability to influence my own personal situation.

We are still animals in the animal kingdom. It’s survival of the fittest as long as resources are not infinite. You can never expect this luxury. You are predator or prey.
The Matrix is like the next step. Ready Player One, people were mostly on VR. Ready Player Two is where they became sort of jacked in.
“ Many companies, particularly tech ones, are deliberately trading trust for short-term profits.”

This is a general level dynamic. Leaders of all kinds of organizations, from companies to governments, need to build methods of self-control to force themselves to prefer their long-term interests (trusted brands, etc,) over their short term interests. That’s basically what corporate governance is. It’s also basically what constitutional law is, see the scholarship of folks like Jon Elster and Mancur Olson. (Source: my being a guy with a polisci phd.)

Shameless self-promotion: I wrote about this dynamic as a major driver of platform governance challenges across social media as well as transactional platforms like Amazon in chapter 4 of The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms (Cambridge University Press, August 2023). You can read an open access edition under a CC license for free at https://networked-leviathan.com/

Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” framework is also a great way of explaining how these problems get worse as companies acquire market power.
Python Modules of the Week (PYMOTW). Great resource to learn the stdlib.

https://pymotw.com/3/
There are thousands of porn consumers with destroyed reward circuitry per every porn actor, of which few are mistreated and the majority are compensated very well.

Producing a neverending supply of wireheading-like addictive stimuli is the farthest possible thing from a good for humanity.

Want to do good in this area - work on ways to limit consumption.
I haven't read it. What do you mean specifically?
Those Python programs are (loosely) inspired by how organic brains work.

(I still have on my to-do list "learn more about why Hebbian learning is different from gradient descent and how much those differences matter").
Indeed, it doesn't seem to me that we have a good reason to believe that universal constants could have been otherwise, or even if they could have been otherwise, that the probability that they lie in the Goldilocks range is low, so I don't really buy the fine-tuning argument. Nonetheless, I think we should give credit where credit is due - it's still an explanation.
Nuclear Fusion in Collapsing Cavitation Bubbles – Max Fomitchev-Zamilov [video]
What is the difference between your tool and chat gpt where I just paste the newsletter or sec filling and ask predefined questions about it every time? Besides straightforward points like formatting, some automation, etc.
Understanding the dynamics of `repeater(range1, repeater(range2, George))`
>> HER2 and/or CA15-3 in serum are essential biomarkers used in breast cancer diagnosis.

This is WRONG, it is used as an indicator, NOT a diagnosis. In fact, I have personal experience that CA15-3 is not always in indicator of anything. You first measure a baseline, and use it for reference.

Also there's no HER2 expression in TNBC.

Can this be used for possible early detection? Maybe, but it will not be an exact science.
The young are simply told that socialism is the cure for their problems, when it isn't. In fact our problems with "capitalism" are general problems with corruption and competition with other countries. Not capitalism in and of itself.

Prosperity requires hard work, and capitalism encourages that push for excellence more than socialism ever could. Socialism tends to degrade into communism and authoritarianism, with lots of corruption, because the notion of giving away everything to the state goes against human nature.
I wish services like Kagi and others would make it easier to contribute to OSM so more people would update places information (like business names, opening hours, etc).

It doesn't help to rely on Apple Maps when everyone can contribute to OSM directly. It's also easy to make it accessible enough (but not to much to avoid trolls) just to increase OSM contributors base.

That's what Kagi does with their Wikipedia oneboxes and I regularly open the article to correct it when I notice an issue. I wish Kago (and others) would do that with places, so we can avoid opening the Maps tab to have quick place info.
Nice work!! It's extremely motivating to see someone succeeding on this route, and especially with a hardware product. Did you start with any hardware foundations? Or was it something you had to learn as you pivoted?

As an aside, this is such a nifty product! Don't personally have a use for it (yet), but it definitely evokes gear lust.
IANAL but this seems like a textbook example of the kinde of tos abuse that will not be enforcable. "If you click this checkbox you give us usage rights of your IP in perpetuity for free".
> Leaders have a responsibility to ensure their teams deliver. When the teams agree to async communication --and the channels remain silent-- where is the accountability when there is no deliverable and no visibility into the scenario that led to no output?

A good leader then talks to the team as the professional adults they are to understand why there isn't communication at the cadence that was agreed upon and discusses why such communication is important.
$120M/$3B = 4%

4% would be a better way of stating their gains.
The latter is common place. For example, if a film photographer sells a photo, later the rights-purchaser can digitize it.

The advent of AI has obviously changed the game, but "you get to do whatever you want with my work for $XXX" is established.

The issue here is the payments are not $XXX, they are potentially pennies or zero.
Diesel is a cancer machine all over the world, regardless of the generation, thinking otherwise is madness
I’m the meeting sender, but I usually send a few emails before where I say something like “if you’d prefer we can discuss in a meeting”. I try to give people an out of a meeting. You’d be surprised at how many engineers take the meeting rather than spend 15 minutes on the email.

That said the high bandwidth meeting often accomplishes in 30 minutes what would take 10 email turns to clarify.
IPO/stock market was not mentioned anywhere in the post. It’s much more typical to be acquired than to go public.
The deepest station in Seattle has smelled like someone tried to make cheese from moldy gym socks since the day it opened.

I believe it opened and immediately shut again so they could try to deal with the water problem [though responder says no]. I went through when it was briefly open and again after. They made it less bad, but it was still pretty awful.

A club I belonged to met at a library near the station so it was easiest for me to just hop on the light rail after work and then take it back to the bus terminal after but gods did I want to hold my breath the entire time.
Assuming that’s true, is that counter to my statement? Mine was in response to someone saying it’s clear tech companies are getting worse, and your response to mine is they are just as bad? So also in your mind not clear they are getting worse, correct?
> The point here is "not wanting to try the product" is not a bad argument against it, rather it's more of a proxy for "this is a product solving a problem people don't have" i.e. it reflects low demand.

Now that is a non-sequitur. I agree, but that has nothing to do with my point.

Your lack of interest is a useful data point, but you're just not qualified to comment about the product's mass market appeal. VR is already selling million of headsets annually while it's still in its infancy. That's within an order of magnitude of game consoles like Xbox and Playstation.

> Apple can make the best version of VR, better than everyone else, but that's no guarantee of success or that the product class itself will have mass appeal. It's not Apple's fault if there's no there there.

VR is already moderately successful and with a giant like Apple entering the arena, they will most likely jump start the cycle of ever increasing investment.

If you were following the VR space at all, you'd know that one of the most common complaints that people have is that there simply aren't enough high quality games to play. On the other end, game studios can't afford to invest too much into development because the market isn't large enough to sustain the investment required.

Do you really not see how this could easily be resolved when you have a company like Apple entering the space?

They'll create high quality experiences which will lead to more headset sales, which will make outside investment more economical, which will attract new headset sales and so on.

Your outright dismissal of VR's existing success and lack of understanding of problems that are currently holding back the VR market is why I said that you're out of touch. Apple has more than enough resources to make all of this happen.
Yes! Decline meetings that you have nothing to contribute to and nothing to learn from! Don't be bashful about it. Maybe I'm extremely lucky, but I've never worked at a place where there was this weird taboo against declining meetings. We're all grown-ups and presumably were hired partially because we know how to manage our time, so manage yours!

I'm double- or triple-booked for most hours of the day. I casually decline meetings all the time and don't sweat it even in the slightest. I don't recall the last time someone asked me, "Hey, you were supposed to show your face at Meeting X, why weren't you there???" This happens in crappy companies.
> It's almost less about software and more about how our society just seems to not give a damn about expertise because it costs someone more money.

Yeah, to me almost all the "old programmer sadness" is actually cultural, it has to do with a feared difference-in/failure-of values.

Maybe that's also why "enshittification" is in the zeitgeist right now: It represents a sense of disappointment or betrayal with certain industries/companies/products--but it's with fallible people, rather than with fragile computers.
And Atom, as well.
I guess when you know why and how of something it doesn't feel surprising anymore. That's why two computers playing chess is not a fun event. People would however watch two humans playing even if their moves are secretly controlled by a machine. In contrast the generative content if (and will) reach indistinguishable levels, I doubt majority of people would care if a machine created it or a human? The biggest problem with AI which is disguised as its pros is that it is reachable to anyone and everyone and can be used as a weapon.
Agreed here, it feels like everything is pointing toward a machine augmented future, and AI has proven its usefulness in a wide range of applications. Ultimately the direction that it goes is not up to any one person, but us as a species. Do I think we can make the right decisions? Not sure...but if we can't...thats just natural selection baby.
> we need and will continue to need UBI for non-AI related reasons

This mentality is why bitcoin is going to cruise through 1 million dollars a bitcoin and on and on. Print Monopoly money and people who earn will keep seeking out sound money.
I couldn't disagree more strongly that disinformation, incitement, or propaganda maim and kill people. People kill other people. Don't give killers an avenue to abdicate responsibility for their actions. Propaganda doesn't cause anyone to do anything. It may convince them, but those are entirely separate things with a clear, bright line between them. Best not mix them up.
'Call of Duty' gamers sue Activision for monopolizing leagues, tournaments