skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We compress data from many senses and can use that to interactively build inner models and filters for the data stream. The experience of psychedelics such as psylocibin and lsd can be summarized as disabling some of these filters. The deep dream trick google did a while back was a good illustration of hallucinations and also seen in some symptoms of schizophrenia. In my view that shows we are simulating some brain data processing functions. Results from the systems conducting these simulations are very far from the capabilities of humans but help shed light into how we work.

Conflating these systems with the full cognitive range of human understanding is disingenuous at best.
I actually use `alias -g L='| nvimpager'`,

As for accidental invocations, yeah I agree it feels dangerous, but in a few hundred thousand lines of shell history since I set them, never had a problem.
Practical Engineering did a video based on this write-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-wQnWUhX5Y
It should mirror our general consensus as it is; the world in its current state; but should lean towards betterment, not merely neutral. At least, this is how public models will be aligned...
Do you cache already submitted pages?
That doesn't back up the assertion; it's easily read as "we make sure our training sets reflect the 85% of the world that doesn't live in Europe and North America". Again, 1/4 white people is statistically what you'd expect.
In girl scouts, they used tampons! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNYJr20dBPw for example
Keep Track – 3D Satellite Toolkit
And the board? But boards of directors do not fire themselves.
Desktop interface design peaked in Windows 95 and it has been consistently downhill since then.
> I'm not sure why you're mentioning them if you already knew that I'm not defending Russia.

Because an argument is correct or incorrect regardless who makes it.

> On the other hand, this is no excuse to close your eyes to reality...

For example the reality of USD to RUB exchange rate, that went down after annexation of Crimea, and went further down after February 2022.

> ...The EU sanctions that were supposed to hurt the Russian economy,..

And did.

> ...ideally by so much that support for the war would stop,...

Failed here. We need more sanctions, especially as with time russia learns to circumvent them.

> ...don't have the desired effect...

They don't have the desired, as you put it, ideal effect. There is some clear effect however.

> ...In fact they might even have boosted the Russian economy at some point,...

The sanctions like stopping the flights were devastating, so I can't be sure, but I can agree due to the "might" word being used. I'm very open-minded that in the short term such boost may have happened, and I argue how in some ways it's to be expected.

> ...and also they are driving Russia into the arms of China.

The power of China is hugely overestimated by an average Joe. Probably due to Chinese propaganda, people think we (the west) rely on China more than the China relies on us. Which is very far from true. Strengthening China by vassalization of russia is bad, but if russia is forced to become a vassal, it only proves the sanctions do work and hurt it.
I guess being able to use petabytes as a unit was important to them. And ditto. Even if it's write-only, I have tons of data (i.e. disk images of childhood computers) that I would love to preserve forever, but don't currently have the disk space to store.
Or.. google supplies some kind of local LLM tool which processes your videos before uploaded. You pay for the gpu/electricity costs. Obviously this would need to be done in a way that can't be hacked/manipulated. Might need to be highly integrated with a backend service that manages the analyzed frames from the local machine and verifies hashes/tokens after the video is fully uploaded to YouTube.
My cat recently discovered that her fur can absorb a toilet bowl full of water. This seems like it could be useful, if you need a very wet floor immediately.
I'm getting a Heroku application error.
I read this, and I wonder: maybe cognition and data compression are closely related. We compress all our raw inputs into our brain into a somewhat wholistic experience - what is that other than compressing the data you experience world around you into a mental model of a query-able resolution?
What's really useless are all the "useless use of cat" comments (and shellcheck warnings although I take it for a shell script there could be cases where one less process may be justified [although really if you're at that point you've got other things to worry than cat, sadly]).

I use "cat ... | ... | ... " like in TFA and just like many in this thread because it simply makes sense. It's more intuitive. It's easier to read. It requires less braincycles to remember how this or that command wants its parameter passed, etc.

I think the "useless use of cat" movement made its time: it failed. Many of us are never going to give up our use(less|ful) of cat (you decide). So stop wasting your time complaining about it.
Social engineering attackers remained silent for some minutes /s
> "And who wrote the headline?"

Probably a "NewsBot" of some sort?
It's often not the tech itself but rather the implementation. Enterprise dev is notorious for a reason.
Yes yes, of course; there are root causes and proximal causes. You are correct about the root cause, which is the reason why Germans in general care about these things.

C3 is the catalyst that turned that caring into actual tangible results. Or at least a big part of the catalyst. Their level of political effectiveness is extremely unusual in the hacker world. I'm glad it has been a force for positive change.

That said, it has limits. And I have heard rumblings before about the telecom giants (DT) being an insurmountable political obstacle. So hacker culture has more political influence in Germany than elsewhere, as long as it doesn't upset the telecom giants.
> Are there any that come close to the usage of lisps with proper s-expressions?

If you consider Julia a Lisp, which I would argue you should, it may be the most widely-used Lisp currently. The only way you'll see an s-expression is is to call Meta.show_sexpr.

If you consider Dylan a Lisp, you should consider Julia a Lisp as well. If you don't consider Dylan a Lisp, I have to conclude that you consider the s-expressions to be part of the definition of a Lisp. Which isn't an unreasonable taxonomy, but isn't the one I use.
So they want $2k/month per cluster. It's the exact same open source product. No support is included.

Even the smallest shops have at least 2 clusters. They want almost 5k a month to download an image from their private container registry? That seems insane.

Also this felt really condescending and out of touch:

> I hate this / you are evil / you have destroyed the beauty of open source. Who can I yell at?

> Hi there, this is William Morgan, Buoyant's CEO. You can email me at william@buoyant.io or you can come find me in person at Kubecon EU in Paris next month. I'm the one who made this decision. (I'm also, perhaps not coincidentally, the person who pays the Linkerd maintainers.) Come talk to me and I'm happy to explain exactly why I did it and all the alternatives and options we considered.
The abstraction is visible. It's also important to remember vendor lock-in, and how they can raise rates and start squeezing out all of your profit margin.
silent link
I would LOVE to understand that myself.
Sure, but "did the plane leave with all of the bolts it was supposed to" does not seem like a question that needs to be answered by someone with mechanical engineering degree. Let alone the responsibility of someone sitting in a cubicle in Everett.
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I’m mid career, starting to hit a senior level. Current org has too much politics. I only code for fun but am an SME in deep learning. Manage a team of 6. Suggestions for doing a transition? I’m starting to enter burn out territory. I’m particularly passionate about LLM tech since last year. Advice?
Many of best restaurants where I live (Oakland, CA) are non-chain "ethnic" restaurants, often just holes in the wall.

"Best" is an ambiguous term. I use it to mean "the food tastes good" and "offers excellent value for money," and not "has great ambience" or "a good place to take a VC, or a date."

A good indicator that the food will taste good is that restaurant patrons appears to be from the region.
Dang, that was really quick! According to the listed time of your reply vs. mine, less than an hour from the time I checked? Quick turnaround indeed.

Already been pulled from there over 3,700 times since then, too (as of the time of this reply mere hours later). Seems like quite a bit more'n a few Ollama users were "waitin' with bated breath" for that one to drop. :grin:
> especially in the hands of a group of giddy kids

Also the scenario where it's being used as a disposable battering-ram to smash into a store. (As you might expect, those are the stolen cars with lesser potential resale value.)
> The Ministry of Defence confirmed an “anomaly” that was “event specific” occurred during the test off the coast of Florida, but refused to provide further information on the grounds of national security.

Shouldn't fishing be stopped there for some time? How many plutonium particles should we expect being ingested by fish, in case it fizzled?
There’s lots of training sites and a lot of opinions about the best one/way to do this, but I think doug polk’s website upswing poker caters to a broad range of skill levels and is the one I’d personally recommend (warning though the site itself is awfully designed). Nothing is really free out there I’m aware of unless you spend a lot of time discussing things in poker forums, which I wouldn’t personally recommend.
Its not about being price conscious, its about finding an efficient way to replicate data into your data warehouse.
It's still outrage porn.

"Cameras in the breakroom that record indiscriminately? Clearly, it's us they're targeting!"
There's a certain logic to it, if I'm understanding how it works correctly. The training data is real interactions online. People tend to be more helpful when they're asked politely. It's no stretch that the model would act similarly.
This post reporting on the issue was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39443459

Posts criticizing "DEI" measures (or even stating that they do exist) get flagged quite a lot
https://archive.ph/3AU1h
Why would they be paying to move it at all though when the house they are buying already has perfectly good, and often better, appliances than they would be moving anyway.
Why watch your screen when you could feed in video from a wearable pair of glasses like those Instagram Ray Bans. And why stop at video when you could have it record and learn from a mic that is always on. And you might as well throw in a feed of your GPS location and biometrics from your smart watch.

When you consider it, we aren't very far away from that at all.
I think they're trying to inflate the size of the number to make it look more impressive, just like how network speeds are measured in bits for the same reason. This is not and never has been a thing for storage devices however. I think they just want to use the peta- prefix.
I have tried Rewind and found it very disappointing. Transcripts were of very poor quality and the screen capture timeline proved useless to me.
Yeah, that's one of the developments i'm unable to spin positively.

As technological society advances the threshold to enter the market with anything not completely laughable becomes exponentially harder, only consolidating old money or the already established right?

What i found so amazing about the early internet, or even just the internet 2.0 was the possibility to create a platform/marketplace/magazine or whatever, and actually have it take off and get a little of the shared growth.

But now it seems all growth has become centralised to a few apps and marketplaces and the barrier to entry is getting harder by the hour.

Ie. being an entrepreneur is harder now because of tech and market consolidation. But potentially mirrored in previous eras like the industrialisation - i'm just not sure we'll get another "reset" like that to allow new players.

Please someone explain how this is wrong and there's still hope for the tech entrepreneurs / sideprojects!
The instant I heard about chatgpt I thought one of its main uses would be internal reporting. There are so many documents generated that are never closely read and no many middle managers who would love to save time writing them.
No it is not.

Breaches can happen for many reasons, from we do not give a fuck to everyone knows and have accepted the situation.

The job of the CSO is to bring things on the table even when they are not nice to hear, provide a solution and recommend priorities.

When well documented it is a good bottom protector.
Imagine shorting Nvidia in July 2023 last year at $500 because it seemed overvalued or overextended. now $700 like nothing. It goes to show how markets are more rational than assumed , in terms of correctly pricing in future earnings. It's not irrational exuberance, but rational. The huge rally this year was in anticipation of the blow-out earnings on Ai demand, which materialized . The 1997-2000 period in which stock prices wildly departed from fundamentals was more of an anomaly than the norm, yet people assume that it's the norm. The late 90s and tech boom and early 2000s crash was an outlier that made people overly pessimistic in subsequent decades.
Given the amount of glass in the cockpit bubble, the amount of sunlight coming in and the resultant glare will make these screens borderline unusable surely? I’d almost have preferred seeing a pilot AR headset instead.
This works great until marketing builds their own system because they can't get data access fast enough and then grows it into a competing CRM and you have multiple systems of truth...
Aren't you guys talking about an academic and somewhat theoretical definition of the term "spectrum"?

In reality, it means

"But doctor, how can you attach this very serious and stigmatizing diagnosis to my child while skipping half the tests in the official criteria and fudging the numbers to reach some threshold number?"

"Oh don't worry, it's a spectrum, you see"

...

"But doctor, what you just entered into my medical records is not what I told you at all, how can you be sure you're making the correct diagnosis if you're not really listening to what I'm saying, and when you're completely misrepresenting my situation?"

"Well, it's a spectrum you see"
Then who in this black box private company is the Oracle of infinite wisdom and truth!? Who are you putting in charge? Can I get a vote?
I'm not semi-pro but I would expect spending hours with GTO solvers and other poker training software will play a large part in it. The idea is to get quick feedback on how well you are judging difficult situations.

Some people also have to spend a lot of time working on emotional regulation to avoid throwing good money after bad.
IME mostly in poker forums like twoplustwo.com or reddit or behind training site paywalls, but there are also a lot of bad/minsinformed opinions out there
"AI behavior guardrails" is a weird way to spell "AI censorship"
It’s like a faster web search and I can get leads in the right direction. I am learning faster with this tool.
Datadome Bug Bounty: up to 5000€ for scraping protected websites
I don't think the DEI stuff is nonsense, but SV is sensitive to this because most of their previous generation of models were horrifyingly racist if not teenage nazis, and so they turned the anti-racism knob up to 11 which made the models....racist but in a different way. Like depicting colonial settlers as native americans is extremely problematic in its own special way, but I also don't expect a statistical solver to grasp that context meaningfully.
ChatGPT Goes Temporarily "Insane"
It has 10 problems for 7 features it brings. The ratio was worse before.

Lastly, I don’t like the “we’re doing something amazing, we need no permission” attitude of its developers, and opaqueness of the thing they built.

For more details, dig my comment history.
This is like playing a game of poker where you already think the guy has the best possible hand he could have and somehow when he lays his cards down, it’s even better.
Book Review: "Power and Progress"
Do you think that's too naive? Words are cheap. Actually delivering on bringing the 737 max up to standards is, as far as I understand, extremely expensive.
HN submission title says "no longer shipping open source, stable releases", but it seems the source is still all available under Apache-2.0, including the stable release branches. They're just not shipping a stable release binary separately, only as part of their container image and under a different license. Users would still be able to compile it themselves without any loss of functionality. Seems acceptable to me?

Edit: For people speculating they will not publish stable release branches or git tags either, TFA does say:

>And to be clear, Linkerd continues to be, and always will be, open source. This change is about the release artifacts, not about code, governance, community, or anything else.

... and all their mentions of "stable releases" can be charitably read to only apply to the binaries provided by them, not the source. But I suppose we'll find out for sure in 90 days.

Edit 2: crb's link is more definitive that the source code will also not be published.
Every company over 50 people.
Automatic Mastodon Post Embeds
Unrelated but that looks almost like Twitter took this logo and flipped it horizontally
Only 9 trinary "trits" are needed, which fit in 15 binary bits.

> we need nine base-3 digits... Representing this in binary will cost us… 15 bits!

https://cbarrick.dev/posts/2024/02/19/tic-tac-toe#:~:text=we...
What Shocked Me About the Culture at Yale
I have a friend who's self-studied up to a pretty good hourly rate within ~2 years. The main thing he does is tons and tons of time studying solver outputs.
Well, based on my experience, it does really, really well with SQL or things like that. I've been using it basically for most complicated SQL queries which in the past I remember having to Google 5-15min, or even longer, browsing different approaches in stack overflow, and possibly just finding something that is not even an optimal solution.

But now it's so easy with GPT to get the queries exactly as my use-case needs them. And it's not just SQL queries, it's anything data querying related, like Google Sheets, Excel formulas or otherwise. There are so many niche use-cases there which it can handle so well.

And I use different SQL implementations like Postgres and MySQL and it's even able to decipher so well between the nuances of those. I could never reproduce productivity like that. Because there's many nuances between MySQL and Postgres in certain cases.

So I have quite good trust for it to understand SQL, and I can immediately verify that the SQL query works as I expect it to work, and I can intuitively also understand if it's wrong or not. But I actually haven't seen it be really wrong in terms of SQL, it's always been me putting in a bad prompt.

Previously when I had a more complicated query I used to remember a typical experience where

1. I tried to Google some examples others have done.

2. Found some answers/solutions, but they just had one bit missing what I needed, or some bit was a bit different and I couldn't extrapolate for my case.

3. I ended up doing many bad queries, bad logic, bad performing logic because I couldn't figure out a way how to solve it with SQL. I ended up making more queries and using more code.
Google Comms statement on Gemini's historical image Gen inaccuracies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

Only partially facetious.
> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is

Except it doesn't. Try using

steps:
- run: |
> f echo not redirected

in Github Actions.
That's because Objective C is too old for anyone to bother improving it. That doesn't seem like a positive.
Never. 100 years of unparalleled technological progress and productivity gains have lead to a society where 96.3% of the american labor pool is forced to work. Why should AI be any different than any of the "job saving" inventions that came before?
OP here, thanks for chiming in. Yep, the blog talks about how efficient you can be while replicating data from Postgres to Data Warehouses. Also just for some context, the inspiration behind writing this blog is a common concern from customers that data-movement is expensive and also the insanely crazy margins in this space.
I hope people will learn from this and understand you can't put AI in charge of things, especially AI that you don't own and manage yourself.
Ignoring where I personally draw my line in the sand: people claiming they're the same have literally only failed in demonstrating it, so it's not much of a scientific debate. It's a philosophy or dogma.

It may be correct. Results are far from conclusive, or even supportive depending on interpretation.
> Imagine it just watching you coding for months, planning stuff, researching things, it could potentially give you personal and professional advice from deep knowledge about you.

And then announcing "I can do your job now. You're fired."
Cool. So when can I sign out of one account without signing out of all accounts without jumping through hoops?
I'm not sure about Gemini, but OpenAI GTP-V bills at roughly a token per 40x40px square. It isn't clear to me these actually processed as units, but rather it seems like they tried to approximate the cost structure to match text.