skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there are natural limits to this... brains so smart that they hinder reproduction and are selected against (maybe we're already there)
Valor: An Open Source, Centralized Model Evaluation Store
Climate change is affecting adolescent mental health
A lot of teams we talk to switched from an in-house solution to either directly using Danswer or building on top of Danswer. Glad you liked the demo!

We're using E5 base by default but there's an embedding model admin page to choose alternatives. There's also an API for it if you know what you're doing, you can even set one of the billion+ parameter LLM bi-encoders if you want (but you'd need a GPU for sure).
The counsellor... well, let's say they have a specific task at hand.

LOL I assume this went like the scene from "Half Baked": "You ever SUCK COCKS for YouTube? Get outta here!"
> For starters, some of the more ambitious punk bands became New Wave

That backs what the article is saying. As punk became more settled and palatable to more people (musicians learned to play their instruments?) first wave punk turned into new wave music.

> Guess the author has some weird beef with the Talking Heads, who went to RISD?

Note that's a college. In the 70s, before college became the new high school. That's fairly upper-middle class. Devo and R.E.M. also met in college.

> the Ramones, were essentially a bunch of white kids from Ridgewood, Queens, which is pretty suburban itself

The Ramones started as a high school garage band in Forrest Hills, Queens (also the home of Spider Man!). Every kid goes to high school, unlike college in the 70s. And I'd call it urban even though it has some greenery.

That said, some things cannot be tamed. Even when Bruce Springsteen covers them, Suicide is still raw post-punk from before there was post-punk. And I think that's where the author's analogy really breaks down - all of the many examples that don't at all parallel gentrification.
I never go on Facebook, but I do have an account because my Quest 2 forced me to login with one. Anyway, a coworker sent me one of those short-form Facebook Reel videos about some new tech. I watched it, and then the next video played, and I watched it, and then I swiped, and watched, and swiped, and watched... I started at 11am, and when I next looked at the clock it was almost 3pm. I was like, what the hell?? lmao, I do regularly use Youtube, so I try to consciously avoid YouTube shorts now.
great samples recap
Oooh yes thanks for this, instant disable. History could be convenient at times, but hey not as much as my sanity.
I’ll be more subtle in my agenda to match the spirit of the site
Pennsylvania Dutch and Russian Old Believers are more recent examples.

Orthodox Jews generally stay away from the internet.
I've also found that just deleting your history occasionally can be beneficial as it keeps you from going down a rabbit hole of repetitive but addictive content to watch new things.
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I discovered another reason to avoid SMS OTP: I am currently visiting India and I have put my phone in Airplane mode because my Canadian phone company , Rogers,charges $15 per day for roaming and it is simply cheaper to buy an Indian SIM card and use it on an old phone to act as a wifi hotspot for my actual phone. So while my phone is in Airplane mode, I am unable to use my RBC Visa or MasterCard for any online purchases in India as there is no way for me to get the SMS OTP without paying Rogers the CA$15 .
I guess I'll be the contrarian, I've seen a total eclipse and it was ... something I guess? I was not overwhelmed. Not something I would make any extraordinary effort or spend a lot of money on to see again. I think a nice sunset over the water is much more enjoyable.
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I really like where you split the difference between “no code” and “you’d best be a decent developer to use this.”
Eek @ that page. This is the "latinx" situation all over again.

"Damos as boas vindas" ("(we) bid you welcome"), while syntactically correct, sounds weird to portuguese speakers. The language has masculine and feminine words (often with -o and -a endings). For example, you say "bem vindo" to a male (be it an adult or a kid), "bem vinda" to a female (likewise). When you address a collective, the male version is generally used. "Bem vindo(a)"implies a wish on the part of the one who welcomes, implied in a hidden verb "(seja) bem vindo(a)" ("be"/"have a" welcome).

- "Bem vindos à loja do google" (lit. "welcome to the google store"). This sounds fine.

- "Damos as boas vindas à loja do google" (lit. "(we) bid/wish you (a) welcome to the google store") sounds alien and artificial.
Is that nurse friend senior leadership in their organization? Otherwise, it's extremely unlikely that they would have any knowledge of an event like this so soon after it occurred. And the people who do have this knowledge (should) know not to talk about it until after an investigation has been conducted.

Many systems issues are mistakenly thought by non-technical users to be "hacking".
You can configure whatever content type you want with nested fields, lists, etc. [1]

Disclaimer: I used to work a lot with Drupal 10+ years ago. I more or less wanted the same kinds of features in Pages CMS.

[1]: https://pagescms.org/docs/configuration/
The casino scene in the Percy Jackson movie [1] (and book) have always seemed hauntingly accurate to me as far as describing much of modern life.

The thing we all have a finite amount of is time, and we’re increasingly distracted to where we waste more and more of it on unimportant, artificial digital worlds/life while the real world passes by. As I’m getting older, I’m seeing how precious youth, energy, and health are, but those who have the most of that (younger people) seem to be sucked in even more. We’re racing towards the dystopia shown in the movie Ready Player One.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-Fbl2QVJc
Teen suicides went down when schools were closed at the beginning of the pandemic. They went back up when schools re-opened. https://www.nber.org/papers/w30795 I don't think teens were spending less time on "social media and screens" during this time.
Heh. Yeah, that was part of it.
> beating most of our existing metrics so we had to rewrite the metrics to keep feeling special

This is needlessly provocative, and also wrong. My metrics have been the same from the very beginning (i.e. ‘can it even come close to doing my work for me?’). This question may yet come to evaluate to ‘yes’, but I think you seriously underestimate the real power of these models.

> The only reason the question of compensating people for their input into these models even matters is specifically because the models are, in actual fact, good.

No. They don’t need to be good, they simply need to fool people into thinking they’re good.

And before you reflexively rebut with ‘what’s the difference?’, let me ask you this: is the quality of a piece of work or the importance of a job and all of its indirect effects always immediately apparent? Is it possible for managers to short term cost-cut at the expense of the long term? Is it conceivable that we could at some point slip into a world in which there is no funding for genuinely interesting media anymore because 90% of the population can’t distinguish it? The real danger of genAI is that it convinces non-experts that the experts are replaceable when the reality is utterly different. In some cases this will lead to serious blowups and the real experts will be called back in, but in more ambiguous cases we’ll just quietly lose something of real value.
Yes, there is a fee. The largest antennas (i.e., the absolutely gigantic 70 meter dishes) can be $5k per hour. Further discussion on StackOverflow [1] and the NASA MOCS guide [2].

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/21005/what-makes-t...

[2] https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/files/6_NASA_MOCS_2014_10_01_...
One thing I rarely see noted in these discussions is that no other animal treats or processes their food like humans, even without fire or fermentation. We effectively pre-chew our meals with our hands, breaking everything into a nice bite-sized pieces, with mashing or grinding of what would otherwise be too hard to eat. We will sort through thousands of tiny berries carefully, to make sure we don't eat something unpleasant. We will go hungry even when edible food is around, because we know it will be even more ripe later.
I don't believe that would apply if the host is curating the models they host.
Was it an animal from the Caucasus mountains, though? Like the large bear-fighting dogs.
People made this argument every time a new thing gets automated, and so far they've been completely wrong.

Job loss is temporary, the gains from cheaper/better/faster production are permanent.
I find it rather unlikely, considering that bears can consume bascally any other living thing, with the brain size below any homo species.
Social media is no longer just some activity you do. For many, it has become a way of life. Their income and livelihood relies on it. Many children growing up today aspire to be popular on social media. What happens on social media has become part of their core identity.

It will only accelerate from here.
In our house this morning, the two phones with physical SIMs worked fine and the two phones with eSIMs were SOS mode only.

I could log into my AT&T account just fine and all phones showed up correctly.

(I’m submitting this from an AT&T 5G connection, no WiFi nearby)
Mich from Warp here. Telemetry is completely optional in Warp.
Yeah, it's funny, that Cornell while being Ivy League does not get any of the blame. I guess it is because they are doing something right.
Well, rotting increases the accessible carbs, which sounds antithetical to the neo-paleo diet. Hopefully we're safe from the new "unpreserved meat" fad.
I thought google might have learnerd that vertically integrating a service that not everyone wants makes for a bad time but I guess it's Google++ now.
Why do I have to give access to all my public and private repos instead of selecting the ones I want to give it access to?
Bestselling author announces own death at age 68 on blog after dementia battle
> Cat converters, timing chains or belts are also maintenance items. Same for bushings, hoses, seals. None of these are a big deal.

Each of those are major service items that, at 200k miles, often individually exceed the value of the depreciated automobile at shop times * shop rate. (which, unless it's a appreciating car is ~ traditionally $2000). So most people don't change them, which leads to cascading failure. (ie timing chain costs more than the value of the car, so eventually it stretches and the valves crash)
Law and the Multiverse (2022)
Well, most. There's some really nasty ones I don't expect people go to for inspiration, they go to them because they are junkies and can't afford the regular stuff. The one that comes to mind is so horrific, I won't even mention it, but it's a big story out of Russia a few years back.
Gridspace’s lecture series on building / extending LLM’s for MIT IAP: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6owWFYBB-AqnqbfPOudH3xGu...
> "Only check it on a schedule, keep it closed, and turn off all notifications""

Not possible at "remote first" workplaces.
> puzzling work

You don't say. Appalling, even!
I had the same problem. Blocking those elements helped, but was a pain to set up on each device I used. Switching entirely to alternative front-ends like Invidious was what finally helped me stop getting sucked in by those.
To me, the most difficult part about quitting youtube, twitter or reddit is that these websites are incredibly rewarding and an incredible waste of time at the same time. Reddit has great discussions on careers, hobbies, whatever you do not stumble upon elsewhere, but the rewarding content unfortunately always comes in packs with some mindless scrolling and mediocre memes – I've never managed to have one without the other. Quitting them means to forfeit a huge, valuable chunk of input and I am yet not sure what's better.
The cool thing about this paper is, actually it is a (relatively) cheap way to solve this particular problem (LLM on 2048k window), because they are using pre-trained models like LLaMA2 and Mistral and extending them to 2048k windows using a novel technique, rather than training a model from scratch with 2048k tokens which would be prohibitively expensive to mere mortals.
Service resumed in the Boston area about 15 minutes ago. No muss no fuss, just magically resumed like nothing ever happened. What they share of the post-mortem should be interesting.
Working in programming is often a puzzle, and something useful is accomplished beyond exercising your brain.

For an analogy, if you walk to work every day instead of driving, you are accomplishing something useful beyond just the exercising.

My dad always tried to get a residence that was about a 15 min walk to work.
> I've developed the somewhat controversial opinion that anything that can be conceived and built in a day is almost never worth doing.

I've started several successful businesses based on an idea that I conceived and built (to MVP) in a single day. I actually consider that one of the keys to my success.
Fermentation is generally considered anaerobic (without oxygen) breakdown of food. I assume rotting usually involves oxygen. (Maybe someone can nitpick that definition).
It just came back for me as well in Winston-Salem, NC
It's a bit rich when HN itself is chock full with camp followers who pick the most mainstream opinion. Previously it was AI danger, then it became hallucinations, now it's that safety is too much.

The rest of the world is also like that. You can make a thing that hurts your existing business. Spinning off the brand is probably Google's best bet.
The company itself is about to go run out of money hence the Hail Mary at trying to get acquired
Absolutely baffled by this.
Google to pause Gemini after AI refuses to show images of White people
I do this with history books. Right now reading Justinian by Peter Harris. I find history doesn't get my heartrate up at all and I can stop reading when I want.
> If you want an accurate picture of the founding fathers, why would you not go to Wikipedia?

You're trying very hard to justify this with a very limited use case. This universe, in which the generated images live, is only artificial because Google made it so.
I wouldn't engage with that user, to me they're quite infamous and I'm sure the hundreds of people who interacted with this user before knows how inflammatory they are
Can't read the article but which one predates which?

I can only imagine there's a reason they're called decimal points.
Senegal has one of the worlds highest fertility rates. They have a surplus of labour, and slowing desertification is a way of improving their ability to both subsist and grow their economy until they can drive wages up.

Note how the video points out how it is causing more people to have reasons to stay in villages that's otherwise get depleted of young people. If that continues, it will have a significant long term benefit for the growth of Senegals economy.
How do you know which way the red sphere is facing? A fun experiment would be to write two prompts for "a person in the middle, a dog to their left, and a cat to their right", and have the person either facing towards or away from the viewer.
I'm on AT&T and impacted (no cell services since I woke up this morning).

What's also odd is I'm not even able to log into my ATT.com account.

When I try to log in, it states "want to pay your bill".

So my immediate concern was, did my credit card expire and my service was turned off.

I'm still hoping that's not the case, and it's just that I'm impacted by this outage (and not something else).
1960s urban planners.

Never before in history had there been a profession as infested with snake-oil peddling, arrogant, hucksters.

70 years later numerous cities all around the world are still dealing with the echoes of their concrete monstrosities, err, monstrocities.

A famous and skilled surgeon suffering from the most deeply entrenched and severe god complex known to medicine would take one look at the lot of them and say "god damn you got me beat".
Seems like disinformation, like maybe a submarine story from Senator Hawley's staff. Google produces images of Tiananman Square just fine.

This BNN, btw, is basically a playground for an advertising wunderkind

https://bnnbreaking.com/about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbaksh_Chahal
I do not have any expertise specifically in fermented food and brain health however I always found it super interesting that pretty much every culture (both independent of one another and sharing with cultures close by) came up with their own unique sets of fermented foods. Unfortunately most of these are now forgotten (mainly with the advent of refrigeration and mass farming).

Everyone knows about standard types of yogurt and pickles and whatnot - there is a whole world of legume ferments (mainly beans) that use much more 'advanced' types of microorganisms. Examples would be things like Natto from Japan mentioned in the article (using Bacillus Subtilis). Unlike the simple yeasts that break down milk sugars in yogurt and produce various organic acids (like acetic acid for example) the bacteria in Natto can consume the resistant starch in beans and produce short chain fatty acids like Butyrate (very beneficial for health) AND can break down the complete protein in soybeans into their constituent amino acids. I believe Natto originally came about because cooked and cooled soybeans were then wrapped in rice leaves for transport and Bacillus Subtilis happens to naturally live on those leaves.

It is also really unfortunate that in the west we miss out on tons of fungi based foods (not talking about anything psychedelic here) as many mushrooms contain tons of prebiotic fiber like substances that feed the probiotics already found in our gut.
I promise it's not because we think of people outside the US as American. When I was a kid in the 2000s, we were told never to say "black" and to say "African-American" instead. There was no PC term in the US to refer to black people who are not American. This has started to change lately, but it's still iffy.

Besides that, many Americans (including myself) are self-centered in other ways. Yes I like our imperial units better than the metric system, no I don't care that they're called "customary units" outside the US, etc.
Codeweavers released CrossOver 24 today
We quickly learned how to do proper emf testing and design out leakage. From 1979 Atari 800 ~3kg of alloy extrusion we got to 1982 Commodore 64 with thin metal plate followed by ~1986 models using aluminum sticker rf shield, and that was all with only the most rudimentary engineering work. Nowadays you find source of radiation leakage and filter it out right there on the pcb before it becomes a problem.
This is my favourite YouTube feature! It makes the home page lovely.
That already happened, they use the euphemism "high meat" for it.

But, it really is almost impossible to draw a clear line around fermentation that doesn't include something someone considers rot. "Controlled spoilage" is definitely a useful way to think about fermentation and it is still spoilage.
Also for those in your position:

- Exercise, strength training is great but always include 30+ min of cardio at least once per day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_p...

- Diet, vitamins/minerals. Magnesium is particularly important. Making first meal of the day high-protein tends to be helpful.

- Sleep. Generally most improved by exercise.

- Caffeine. Depending on your neurological phenotype, may be very helpful or may be very counterproductive.

- Other supplements. Many of the anti-depressive supplements like Huperzine, Ashwaganda, etc. can be double-edged swords (work well at first then backfire). Some precursors like Phenylethylamine, L-Dopa, 5-HTP, etc. can have profound effects similar to prescription drugs, though all tend to have very short half-lives. I'd honestly lump most of these in with "prescription drugs" in terms of potential for large effects and major side effects.

If you're skipping ahead to illegal (in most jurisdictions) drugs like psilocybin, you may also consider all the prescription options for anything that affects the dopamine or serotonin systems. Everyone is different and most drugs are net-negatives (sometimes in dramatic life-altering ways), so it often requires a lot of patience and effort to go through all of them until you find what "works" for you.
Congrats on launching guys.

When I was in consulting, being able to search our internal documents was absurdly painful.

We had all this data from client teams spanning decades and continents, but I could never find what I needed. It was all locked up in these silly PowerPoint files -- not even necessarily PDFs. I'd literally spend all night sometimes clicking through pages by hand.

Corporate knowledge management is an absolutely immense problem, and I'm thrilled to see you tackling it.
The YouTube addiction is definitely real... but it's quite sad since mixed in with the entertainment it's one of the best sources in the world for education (video lectures, how tos, etc)

One thing that worked well for me is having two separate profiles, one for educational and one for everything else. That way the education one didn't get as polluted with the most addictive recommendations

(little self-promotion)
One thing I found to be useful was to try to focus on learning more actively, so I built a tool that turns educational videos into mini-courses where it will ask you questions about the content and then use spaced repetition to help you actually remember the information.

One of the other parts is to ensure that the suggestions/feed is focused solely on education, and that you don't fall into the addicting videos trap... (I have the v1 but still working to make this better)

But I think if the addiction is bad enough as in the post, it's probably a better idea to go cold turkey

(link is https://www.platoedu.org)
Because floating point math has different results depending on the order of operations. A major reason why you'd update GPU drivers is to reorder ops for better cache locality so you can light up more transistors
But NeoVim is from Greek and Latin mixed. ;)
> With GPT4 and Copilot…

I am not a programmer, so none of this applies to me. I can only speak for myself, and I’m not claiming that no one can feel empowered by these tools - in fact it seems obvious that they can.

I think programmers tend to assume that all other technical jobs can be attacked in the same way, which is not necessarily true. Writing code seems to be an ideal use case for LLMs, especially given the volume of data available on the open web.
Yes.

That was 2017.

I am sure the response to that case made smart people avoid sticking their necks out.

For me it probably was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I was in the hiring pipeline at that point and while I doubt that they would have ended up hiring me anyway, I think my absolute lack of enthusiasm might have simplified that decision.
> racism against white people is a great idea

Perhaps not all Americans know this, but not all white men of the world are responsible for the sins of the American fathers.
No need to distance yourself from historical revisionism. History has always been a tool of the present powers to control the future direction. It is just licensed interpretation.

No one has the truth, neither the historical revisionists not the licensed historians.