skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Christmas Day, iCloud drive's 2TB plan decided to roll back some of my important files to a version from mid October.

I know this because I am meticulous about backups and these particular files are encrypted private records. I don't trust software but I especially don't trust that backups will correctly handle sparse disk images since they are spread out over hundreds of files; so I always keep the output of mtree in that directory for the current version. I had checked the mtree file, edited some of the files contained therein, and regenerated it the night before; SOME but not all of the sparseimage subfiles had rolled back to October. Changed timestamps, changed hashes, the image did mount but the enclosed files were from October (they have date-stamped rows).

So when I went to open the disk image, the next day, and ran mtree to test the directory first, it noted the changes above.

I moved to icloud drive about two years ago. I'd previously had some problems with Apple's sync blowing away some notes in notes.app so when I moved everything from Dropbox (where my paid account for 7 years never lost or corrupted a file to my knowledge - and my knowledge is good because this mtree habit I just described goes back a decade!) to iCloud, I kept this habit up, and good thing.

To this day I don't know how it decided October or ended up replacing them. Maybe there was some local cache, I don't know. I did not revert the file in iCloud and nobody else has access to my account. Further, it only partially rolled the image back.

I had never had a problem up to that point, but I will say, with storage, once is too many times. Back to dropbox.
I think, I think, GPT creating GPT... creating GPT will be a thing soon. GPTception.
Google Ventures, not Google. That probably seems like a nitpick but they separated almost a decade ago. He's an okay-ish VC on a ladder with few rungs, not a mid-level software engineer who got passed over for L6.
Unfortunately the official History channel website always redirects you to the Latin American version, preventing people with a Latin American IP address to access any US content.
Every function in untyped lambda calculus has a fixed point. The fixed point of f(x) = x + 1 is garbage that cannot be decoded back into a number.
Breach of social contract. For years these companies pretended that their corporate culture was all about going out of their way to make employees happy and fulfilled. The massive WFH brought forth by the pandemic has exposed that corporate culture actually clashes with employee fulfillment and is not focused on supporting it. The rationale with their RTO mandates may have merits, the problem is this broader context. This is making an about face without ever openly admitting the longstanding hypocrisy, and this is what makes the arguments brought forth difficult to hear for most people, and I personally think that their feeling is legitimate.
everything in the eyes of the beholder. maybe many people think that there is a lot of substance in those few words
> I would prefer diet control to Ozempic due to the potential risk of cancer, but understand that others may choose to make different tradeoffs.

Yeah I personally think that for many the answer is still diet/lifestyle changes and not necessarily GLP1 RAs.

It's nice that there's a new option that is at least way more effective than the previous floundering people did though. The weight loss drug landscape is littered with terrible ineffective solutions.
Say you have a neural network with 1B parameters, you add 5M more parameters spread around (LoRA), and continue training for a while but only the newly added parameters, not the base network. The result is a "modulated" network that would predict scene properties.

The interesting thing is that it only takes a few more parameters so it must be that the original network was pretty close already.
Just go use GPT4 and try it. You keep repeating the same rhetoric that it doesn’t work but people have made it work, including myself.
sounds confusing.

do jewish people have right of self determination ?
> new orleans ... the ones that 'tell you where your shoes are from'

I didn't realize how localized these scams are. NOLA is exactly where someone tried to pull that on me. I don't know if it was a scam really, he was in no position to collect if I didn't enjoy his joke.

I told him it wouldn't be fair of me to take the challenge, because there was no way he could possibly be correct. He kept trying with some rewordings, but I stuck to my position and he moved on.

At the time, I wondered idly where the conversation would have gone if I had been more receptive, but I have to admit I never considered the obvious elementary school-level joke!
Having details in context seems to reduce hallucinations, which makes sense if we'd switch to using the more accurate term of confabulations.

LLM confabulations generally occur when they don't have the information to answer, so they make it up, similar to it you've seen split brain studies where one hemisphere is shown something that gets a reaction and the other hemisphere is explaining it with BS.

So yes, RAG is always going to potentially have confabulations if it cuts off the relevant data. But large contexts themselves shouldn't cause it.
I have to wonder if this applies to private collectors. As drafted, it sounds like removing the coin mechanism[0] would be enough to dodge the ban if you just happened to have a pinball machine collection for private use.

Though the idea of police officers raiding someone's pinball machine collection sounds both hilarious and heinously overreaching at the same time.

[0] To be clear, this law probably would apply to freeplay arcades that charge for entry and electronic arcade money systems like Intercard's swipers or the ones that operate on save data cards in Japan.
Here's one article from 2014, much later than the 90s:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-half-of-banks-still-reor...
Yeah, the initial premise, and then meeting a new bunch of aliens each episode was very silly. I would have loved a show with no aliens, just stories about how they built the base and survived on the moon.
> It would be good to compare this to diet and lifestyle change.

I agree here but this is notoriously hard to test/coordinate.

Any long term success of these drugs (or anything else) does have to come with diet and lifestyle change though, so maybe the point is moot? Measuring degrees of lifestyle change would be even harder still.

Not even thinking that lifestyle change can go the other way -- we're generally talking about improvements in eating habits or regular activity or whatever, but that stuff can also get worse! Hard to control for.

I guess the first step is to invent mind control, then once we get past those silly little rules around experimenting on humans we can finally figure out the truly optimal mix of medication and lifestyle change (this is a joke).
The ATP podcast was mentioning someone who had a similar issue.

Apples cloud is drippy.
1. No. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

In a generic context a fixed point combinator will only return a fixed point of a function if one exists.

2. No. (see: 1. above)

Your confusion stems from the usual domain of application to function spaces where every function has a fixed point (ie. not all function spaces, just those that are made up of functions with at least one fixed point).

From the link above:

In the classical untyped lambda calculus, every function has a fixed point.
> the arguments brought by their counterparts are in most cases either very dishonest, or very dismissive and confrontational.

Can’t say I’ve seen that on HN. Typically, the arguments I see are along the lines of “I prefer working with people,” “I don’t have a good place to work at home,” and “I get distracted too easily at home.”

Can you point to 5 examples of those dishonest or confrontational replies? Because I see examples of the bad behavior I’m talking about in pretty much every single thread about remote work on HN.
I think they’re positioning themselves as the Apple or Android.

I equate their foundational models such as GPT to the iPhone. You can build on top of their ecosystem of models.

Everyone else are just app makers using their foundational models as the base.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they want to build an App Store on top of ChatGPT and take 30% eventually.
Politicians are trying really hard to show a particular public image, their job depends on it.

In my job you could call me a hypocrite all day and it wouldn't matter (though I'd find the uncreative repetition annoying)
CLI Satellite Tracker
So, in order for a kid to understand multiplication means they must be able to train themselves and not regurgitate the multiplication table?
Recently made some chord flashcards in an experiment to see if it will improve my sight reading on piano.

I originally planned to write a python script to generate Lilypond code for all the different chords I wanted, but found that Frescobaldi made it fast enough that I was able to generate them all manually. In retrospect I’m not sure the code would have panned out all that well because some of the chords needed manual fiddling.

Then I loaded them all up into Anki and have been plugging away. If not for Lilypond I probably would have made real flashcards by hand and that would have been a big ordeal by comparison.
Hydra was how I dipped my toes in. https://gibber.cc/playground/index.html was a little too much for me at first but hydra was small enough for me to wrap my head around.

I also recently learned you can force hydra to spit out the GLSL code, which is a pretty cool feature.
> Google originally did this because they didn’t want pictures of people doing universal activities (e.g. walking a dog) to always be white, reflecting whatever bias existed in their training set.

If the results were actually proportional to the training set I think that would be fine (assuming the training set had some reasonable amount of diversity, which I bet it does; one could always do biased resampling too). I'd be concern about mode collapse, where it would just show the most common class (eg white American women) and nothing else. But I thought we had solved that issue.
I wonder why they didn't use bazel as their build system.
> Banks have to hold up their end of the customer agreement (contract), and the terms of that agreement are enforced by contract law.

Right, but they can change those unilaterally whenever they feel like it. Multiple times a year I'll get an updated terms of service document from this or that bank.
This is a slightly strange article to read if you happen to be Eliezer Yudkowsky. Just saying.
Thankfully people these days know that checks that aren't cashier's checks are nearly worthless. I wish more people verified the check over the phone before accepting it but it's a start.
Academics are overly verbose with citations, because they are afraid of offending a colleague or reviewer by omitting their work. One of the worst things you can possibly do is forget to cite the work of your anonymous reviewers... and there is no way to guess who that might be ahead of time, so you cite everyone.

An anonymous whitepaper has no such constraints, so you can just cite what is actually necessary to explain your point, and nothing more.
My daughter taught her Australian Shepherd to make Sushi...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jX6nzu5Ce/
Onedrive seems to be a badly wrapped Sharepoint and is quite annoying.
I've been using LilyPond for ages to typeset music, to the point where I find other tools cumbersome

My current workflow is vscode, with a plug-in that handles auto compile and displays a PDF in an editor pane, and handles midi input from a small keyboard I've got next to my desk
Still a dumb idea even if it managed to hold. One CPU one vote is it's not even as "fair" as $1 one vote, because it isn't a bare CPU that does the hashing, but the necessary power, space, cooling and network connectivity as well. The result would have been no different than if GPUs never came into the equation: people in a position to buy an extravagant share of mining resources, no matter what form factor they came in or how they approach the problem of calculating hashes, would always have had a massive and self-amplifying advantage getting started in the network, being awarded more coin bases and controlling more of the leverage over liquidity than anyone else. in the process creating the basis for a shadow banking system even more inscrutable and free from accountability than any central government or bank could hope to be.

The meme of crypto people claiming to be fighting against the central banking or currency is cynical to put it mildly.
Dang. Our scream test was just "disable if nobody could tell what it was for."
More than 50% of all people will have cancer in their life.
Charge thousands of dollars for a subscription for something you can basically buy at Home Depot for $250
I think we may agree more than you realize, but perhaps we aren't clear about what we mean. As I said pretty early on - they are similar at some level. To make an analogy, that could be as simple as a submarine (w2v) and a fish (authentic language) now 'uses fins' to move (bert).
They're now more similar, but not the same. Of course there are differences, but we can learn by studying what structure has been added and how in order to work towards better theory (as well as looking at what differences there are).
I have read all of these studies, as I am an academic in related fields, and you are correct that the resolution is not as good as we would hope (it's better in the ventral visual stream in non human primates, which is one reason we started there); however it doesn't negate the importance of the predictive power here. We can make very useful tools out of these models which can improve the lives of non-verbal people for example.

Another interesting set of works going in recently is in testing out the poverty of stimulus. There is now evidence from many labs that LMs learn with the same amount of data as humans, so the sample efficiency arguments and the 'poverty of stimulus' aren't really as successful as arguments for training difference either.

To the point of humans not learning certain languages, I haven't seen it proven that humans are absolutely incapable of learning certain languages. I do know that children ignore much of sequence structure and create their own internal structures, but this does not negate learning languages which have some arbitrary set of rules. I'm aware that models learn DNA more easily _practically_, but this is more of a statement about human experience and various other environmental factors - not a mathematical proof that it's impossible for humans to learn. Furthermore, that is a nice property of these systems. If they are capable of modeling many different phenomenon, they are useful for many things. If they can settle on a model configuration that linearly maps to a similar activation space with similar topological properties to a patient, that's also very useful. In other words, If the topological properties of the activation space are more constrained in the cortex vs more flexible NNs, but the NNs can fit to the constrained space, that doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem in studying either trained system.

Ultimately, I think we can agree that there are differences, but there are also striking similarities that can be very useful for improving science and medicine going forward, and perhaps (with _substantial_ effort in linguistics and mechanistic interpretability fields) we may be able to improve some of our understanding of linguistics and/or neuroscience (or perhaps not, but it's at least a promising potential lead).
We understand that some teams prefer to use CPU even when mobile GPU would be available.

This code is also intended to facilitate research & experimentation, which may not fall under your definition of 'serious' :)
The tech you use to get code to production is so broad, asking these kinds of questions is at best a random chance of successfully hiring a good engineer. You may as well flip a coin.

A better approach is to ask a candidate something specific about their experience. Even if someone mentions “git expert” on their resume, the question is not what you proposed but instead asking about their experience and digging in from where they go. An engineer you’re interviewing may have fixed a bug in “git push” but not know anything about how “pull” or “rebase” works.
- e-mail address / pfp
There's probably room in your life for both. Keenly becomes another side project.

The smart money though is on the thing that's working. Take the time to understand why it's working, and how it might grow future wise, and user wise. This is not fun like programming but makes the things you build more successful.

At the same time put some limited hours into keenly. It makes a good distraction, and we all like a change from time to time.

Always remember that building things successfully takes multiple skills. You've got the programming down, but learning the rest can be just as satisfying.

And don't be scared to ask for help. There are lots of successful people around you who can help if you just bother to ask.
Even if this is correct (which it probably is) it doesn't matter because bch is worthless because it doesn't have the name bitcoin. Whoever controls bitcoin core controls the meaning of the word "bitcoin" so if the bch people never find a way to wrest back control from the blockstream people then this whole thing is just irrelevant. History is written by the victors, etc
Palantir sells a glorified Airflow instance
woah, haha
Yeah. Weird paranoid habits massively saved me. I no longer trust icloud drive at all.

My backup discipline is excellent because back in the early 2000s we lost a drive which I had not been backing up and it had months of contract work on it; I ended up paying $2500 plus $30 per _CDROM_ burned for the content from that drive... it was just barely worth it.
I wish table headers did this automatically. If devs do the extra work to use <th> tags then this is likely the behavior they already want.
you can very much allow people to change display names while using saml/sso. My work setup allows this. We can change photo and description as well but nothing else.
Wait what? Lol
As a Dropbox user of about 12 years, I started with the thick-client, but, working on 5 separate systems (work, home windows, home linux, home macbookAir, Travel NUC) - I just .. stopped installing the thick client. I'm 100% webapp user, even on the one (two?) systems where the thick client is present.
Actually, the browser did. Your double space is still there in the page source. :)

(I still do it, too, and mine is also there.)
Different levels of warnings might be useful.

-Wub # Warn _anytime_ there is detected potential undefined behavior, irrespective of if there is an associated optimization.

-Wubelim # Warn any time code is eliminated as a result of undefined behavior / assumptions.

-Wub... # Any other classes of UB optimizations that change the program as (incorrectly) written.

Again, the goal is to provide feedback that improves the program and possibly educates / reminds the programmer about how their meanings might be misunderstood.
maybs explore crypto twitter
(if u’d like to)
10-12 peeps sharing wud probs be like HN being exclusive “tech posts”

iykyk
I've been watching the issue that spawned this one for maybe 8 years now. It's by far my biggest annoyance about the CSS spec. Sometimes you just need a gigantic data table, and you want that to be sticky top and overflow-x auto. Sorry, too bad, you have to pick one of these.
You’re equivocating on the terms ‘capital’ — the monetary assets required for a business to provide goods and services— and a ‘capitalist system’ — an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned. Neither of these terms have much to do with restrictive zoning.

A more precise statement is that NIMBYs support public municipal regulations that preserve and/or increase the value of their private assets, i.e. homes.
Honest answer, the initial snippets were bare minimum with small errors.
But chatgpt is excellent in producing test data, like list of books with authors, the genre and even reviews for each book.
The boilerplate code of the microfrontends also generated by fusionize cli.
The tone of your comment is not welcome on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

However, I appreciate the CFPB link. Having worked in fintech I'm familiar with them.

The link does corroborate that debit card protections are weaker than credit card protections. They have with more aggressive reporting requirements (2 days) and higher potential liability ($500, or even as much as the full amount in some circumstances, though unlikely).

This document has a handy table that compares the protections side by side. As you can see, debit card protections are weaker. Scroll down to the table "Federal Protections for Unauthorized Transactions":

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/are-credit-cards...
Although I don't think any can get as low as 5 minutes, pulverized coal plants can start quite quickly. On the order of minutes.
even beyond the annoyances that seems simple but are the result of a complex set of problemss, you've got the annoyances that really should be simple to fix, but are intentionally hostile to inconvenience and deter some demographic.

a lot of city infrastructure is built around keeping away the people who can't afford or aren't old enough to drive.
Haha, yep. Ours is American Legal Publishing, too.
This is brilliant, thanks for making this. I am currently trying it out on Chrome and I can feel the difference. Any future plans of bringing this to the mac? I recently made an app[1] in the similar space for mac and I would love to collaborate to bring this to the mac if you'd be interested.

BTW, all the links in your footer except privacy policy are 404s

[1] https://lookaway.app
Indeed, and it's a powerful combination. With "autorestic" as a bit of a front end, I have backups going to a local SSD, home NAS, and Backblaze B2. My B2 storage is under 200 GB so far, but has also cost basically nothing. For that, I have at least some chance of getting data back if the house burns down.
Mint.com Is Shutting for Good
Now there are 3.6 million users needing a new home and there only choice seems to be YNAB.com but I am reading so many people complaining about how YNAB works.