skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait until you realize your government already used this to run some minor aspect of your life and they're looking for ways to make more people redundant.
We had that brief period after the end of of the cold war and the US just found other places to blow up in the middle east. The gun lobby will never stop. And, unfortunately, you might become a "peaceful nation" but if your neighbor decides to wage war against you, you either bow or buy more guns to fight as well.

It's unfortunate but I don't think human beings will be able to coexist without wars for the foreseable future. There's just too much you can win by violence if the other side doesn't have the same firepower.
Had a intro meeting with a VC, need advice
Hey everyone,

I recently had a meeting with a venture capitalist who mentioned that he would be presenting my startup at their Monday meeting. To my surprise, he also reached out to me personally, adding me on social media. From your experience, do these actions indicate a good sign? I’m feeling pretty anxious and would love to hear if anyone has had a similar experience or insights on what this could mean. Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!
A drawback of JSONL (and JSON) for me is that you can't have trailing commas. If the format allows for that, and ignores trailing commas at the end of the line you can stream and parse line-by-line, but you can also take any arbitrary group of lines, wrap them in [], again stripping the last comma (arghh!), and parse it with any standard JSON parser.

For example, Datadog doesn't ingest JSONL, so if you have JSONL log files you'll have to convert it to JSON first, you can't just use sendfile to upload your log in chunks, just wrapping it with [ and ] (which can be done with ordinary writes before and after sendfile.)
This is basically a technique that's been used for possibly millenia in Persian deserts. It doesn't require great amounts in many configurations. In fact the drier the surrounding air the more effective it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
I think Emacs has excellent docs tbh, the docs page online are usually very good and within Emacs as well as in `info-mode`. What is sometimes confusing though is the large amount of jargon and details you need to know to get in a place where it works as excepted. Half because Emacs was created before modern conventions in naming stuff but also because it's a complex piece of software (or at least it has the potential for great complexity).
Cedar actually turns white with age. But most cedar roofs today are treated to maintain the darker "new roof" look rather than age naturally to a ghostly white.
Isn’t this already “supported” by vscode?
Reader was killed in 2013, Chrome already had ~40% market share by then. It may have not been as dominant as it is now, but Chrome was already a major influence on the web user experience.
Small split evaporative coolers can provide AC to a room and run on a single panel. Easy to make too.
> > You have to jump at a billion functions definitions before you can hope to understand what a program is doing

> On the contrary, if you assume that your functions are good abstractions then you shouldn’t need to know their implementation details in order to compose them. You can tell what it does by looking at just what you have in front of you.

In maintenance, you often cannot assume that your functions are good abstractions. One of them is doing something wrong, or at least something that needs changed. Which one? You have to go into the implementation details in order to find where you have to begin to work.

That's not "bad examples" of FP. That's just how software maintenance is. And maintenance is going to happen to FP programs too...
By volume, crud apps are the vast majority. They're also one of the least engaging type of work IMO, particularly once you've done a few. Compare writing a crud app with making an immersive game, or an application like photoshop/davinci/etc. I don't know about you but I want to do interesting, deep work and if my stack is holding me back from that, that's a problem.
> What does the project actually do, that something so useless was deployed?

Describes a lot of tech hype stuff in the last couple of decades.
Seems to be contradicted by this paper, no?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221
Cool! Out of interest, I tried to do this in Java :)
https://github.com/cloverthe/java-parallel-output/blob/maste...
here is video: https://streamable.com/yxm05v
And maybe design cities so they are not an endless patchwork of concrete and roofs? That heat has to go somewhere.
Have you noticed how many Indian and Chinese geniuses there are? They are making the whole world better for everyone. Africa needs better education systems and we'll all be able to benefit from the abundance of African geniuses too.
You probably don't want to run this gist directly. Looks like a risk of a runaway process creation, depending on the platform. The process creation code should be guarded by `if __name__ == "__main__"`.
Can a 7B model really give good answers? The reasoning and overall capacity of small models seems inadequate for serious tasks.
It's not a new argument, and is also one used to justify anti-abortion policies, bans on contraception and the like. Wasn't just the religious folks.
So odd they call GPT4+Bing a "RAG' system
The "Turing test" bar has risen quite high. This is IMHO already a huge problem when you are a moderator with limited resources, trying to fight a hostile attacker (wait until they start semi-randomly picking "write in style X" !), and especially without causing a lot of collateral damage (false positives).
Content discovery is somewhat hard, especially in the beginning when you don't know enough of the vocabulary and capabilities to easily find what you want. Ironically, it's at that time in your journey learning how Emacs works, that you need the discovering capabilities the most.
I guess it's similar to what Chris Hitchens was getting at, you can't reason somebody out of something they didn't reason themselves into.
Spam never impacted me on Alta Vista because I used the advanced query operators almost exclusively, Google was my alt when I wasn't finding what I needed.

Had AV addressed spam sooner, Google would not have grown as fast. And we wouldn't see them as the single dominant pretend-benevolent player they are today.

There is no competition in search from multiple reasons, many of them from Google anticompetitively paying to be the default.
This is reduction to absurdity which is pretty ignorant to original argument.
Cars need to add a “pin to start” feature like Tesla has done, and go one step further, make it mandatory.
Maybe this is some poison pill data garbage to prevent some scraper from getting good data?
The Making of a Professional Engineer: Admiral Rickover
What? Advertising is Google’s sole purpose.

And if you think that some random HN user has the answer to “how do you get a large org to continue innovating”, and is going to share it instead of make literal trillions of dollars with it, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
I feel like my country has been sold out and continues to be dismantled by corrupt politicians. Most of the West is in the same situation. Unless something changes, we're screwed.
This is a great example of a YouTube video that should have been an article.
They made the argument he's not a researcher in this field, not that he doesn't know anything. And an LLM is indeed not a researcher in this field either.
For those who don't know: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

I agree with you for the NLP domain, but I wonder if there will also be a bitter lesson learned about the perceived generality of language for universal applications.
Building a 2FA app that tells you when you get `012345`
> Companies with lower parasite load operate more efficiently, allowing higher extraction of wealth from society at large to the owners and leaders of the company, leading to a more unequal and poorer society.

Only in a non-competitive environment where there are substantial barriers to entry. While this may describe many corporations I suspect it describes very few tech companies (Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and a dozen others perhaps).

> Hah, reading this makes me think you already understand that your assertion about companies operating efficiently is false.

I don't recall saying they operate efficiently.
Addressing the second situation because it’s easier to bike shed about, I feel like your friend went to the dean with a problem rather than a solution.

You said it yourself, the dean’s primary concern was keeping the school running, which in contrast to letting some loser kids pass a physics class seems very reasonable.

It’s also the reason why trusting straight-A students is using a flawed metric, there are A students and then there are students with A grades. We have more complex inspection processes to deal with this.

A better solution (full bike shed mode now), would be to help address the deficiencies in the class at an earlier level. Talk with previous teachers, get them feedback about what it is that kids are missing when they get to his class. Help them address the root cause of the problem.

“Dean, I’ve found X, fed it back to teachers Y and began to see a yoy improvement in the pass rate of class Z.”

Beautiful.
It can easily be made less verbose with the right prompt.
Huh, TIL this is in Switzerland

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/02/exploring-the-depths-...
Freedom of Navigation and American Policy (Part 1)
Have to bare your own babies if you want your people, culture, or way of life to continue.
Yeah we should get rid of all the eggs so we can have more chickens.
just chill!

you cross bridges when you get there.

Chill!
"And yet, there are good reasons for thinking that precisely the opposite is true: the more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found."

Choked up while reading

"A 2022 paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research compares U.S. states and shows that ageing is already a persistent drag on economic growth and productivity; when the proportion of the population over 60 years old increases by 10 percent, economic growth (GDP per capita) decreases by 5.5 percent and productivity by almost 4 percent."

Ha now we talking !
Organizations are expensive and hard to build. If you liquidate an organization, you might free up some modest amount of cash in a bank account (and maybe some furniture, office supplies, etc.) but the cost of rebuilding that same organization will be vastly higher than the money freed up. It’s like tearing the copper out of a working industrial air conditioner and selling it for scrap: a huge waste and a loss of value in absolute terms. Perfectly reasonable to give back money to recent donors who opt out and raise it over again, though.
They aren't. It's snake oil to fool schools who have to buy them for cheating.
People really need to understand that your single/double digit dataset of interactions with an inherently non-deterministic process is less than irrelevant. It's saying that global warming isn't real because it was really cold this week.

I don't even know enough superlatives to express how irrelevant it is that "it seems to you" that an LLM behaves this way or that.

And even the "protocol" in question is weak. Self reported data is not that trustworthy even with humans, and arguably there's a much stronger base of evidence to support the assumption that we can self-reflect.

In conclusion: please, stop.
How does this compare with RocksDB?

Also, are there any performance benchmarks?
Risor v1.4.0: HTTP servers, CLI apps, new language keywords
Yeah sifting property is cool.
Have you considered Meta's RocksDB as an option?
Absolutely, but I think my example still stands

If humans could come up with truly novel solutions frequently, it would be no problem hiring a divorce lawyer to do a corporate merger. But there is a very low likelihood of this ever happening anywhere.
lol .You made me chuckle .
this is a big opinion without convincing me, is there anything i can read to understand your argument?
That is not even remotely the title of the article!
>> Your physicist friend ... should have evaluated whether it was a real problem ...

I do not have the facts around this, however knowing him, I would guess that it was a real problem.

>> ... and the company ignored his solution, then take the solution to market and become a competitor.

As you know, this is not so straightforward in practice:

* Not everyone is a entrepreneur, for whatever reason that is.

* Not everyone has a brand to be able to raise money.

* It may not be wise for investors to fund a project completing with an established/powerful mid-size company that owns a wide range in that space.

* Some projects may require large investments and teams especially when the other side is a big company.

* The big companies deploy all kind of schemes if they see a threat.

* One of the threats is the existing intellectual property rights in that space that the company would already have.

* As the invention was already made when the person was employed at the company, the invention as such likely already belongs to the company (as per typical employment agreements that most do not care to read), and this already forms a threat falling in the above bullet point.

* The corporate politics would start at the newly started company itself becoming an internal threat.

* And so on.

Hopefully you do not see all above as unreal, a fake problem. :-) Not to say there aren't successes -- We hear about those so often.

[Edit:] Well, someone cited a story like that right here in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500316
Humans also have various culturally flavored, implicit "you know what I mean" algorithms on each end to smooth out "irrelevant" misunderstandings and ensure a cordial interaction, a cultural prime directive.
I swear, it's like banks are trying to train people into being scammed.
I'm in Portugal. If you put enough pressure, they release for you to process, it is the law.
Humans can speak bullshit when they don't want to put in the effort, these LLMs always do it. That is the difference. We need to create the part that humans do when they do the deliberate work to properly create those sources etc, that kind of thinking isn't captured in the text so LLMs doesn't learn it.
I think it's an argument for adding just the number you need to compensate for the power loses

Otoh I think people are forgetting there's a point where the maintenance gets to be more
I agree that magit has relatively good UX compared to the rest of Emacs, but it is held back by Emacs' abhorrent performance. Magit however is not bundled with Emacs so I can not attribute its UX quality to the base Emacs editor.

I do think of you did an actual user study you would find that it should be using more GUI elements to expose operations instead of keybindings
Dry air makes the water evaporate more quickly, but it doesnt cause the water to carry away more heat when it does so. Per unit heat, you will use as much water in dry air as in air with some moisture. You will get more cooling out of a smaller area/device, but wont use less water to do so.
The argument goes for default availability here.

You don't have to allow all users everything, but you should allow those who want, to do as they please.

You can always hide the option behind some kind of mechanism. A mechanism a general user wouldn't use because they don't if the rest works as intended. Those who still do, should suffer the consequences, but this is not the manufacturers' problem. They have all kinds of safeguards to prevent liability because of those "special choices".
I guess you're a Peter Zeihan fan?

I still think China will have a much larger army and navy than Japan. They have 10x the population and probably a similar decline in their populating expected.
Agreed. But in general if I’m looking for a plumber for a huge skyscraper, am I going to hire a plumber who has never worked on one of them and had only done suburban houses ? Most likely, no, I’ll get a recommendation for a pulunbet with experience working on one of those buildings.
The problem is probably specific to the default system prompt in the default ChatGPT UI version.

An open weights LLM can be made into a pretty engaging bot with the right prompt/model/finetuning. I use an uncensored LLM with a special system prompt which makes it answer directly without all the fluff.
Also worthy of note is that the score output is not JSON and based on my limited math knowledge, “N/A” is not a real number between 0 and 1.
Is there a structural engineer that can tell us if this building can actually be saved, or should it be taken down?
>how many EU countries do you know about?

How many are your 100% of the countries?
Those that can adapt quickly will be quite happy about it.

So who gets to set the metric?
Everything I've read shows that we're so far behind on correction and anything that will change it will completely upend our economy and society and would have to have happened 100 years ago. Basically hopeless. Might as well be the band playing on the sinking ship.

Alternatively and hopefully, we're wrong in our predictions and the earth will do something we don't expect.
fd, xargs, bat = quick document review
You are arguing for a different optimization strategy

Let's!

Your optimization strategy can be tried, is being tried, and is yielding results.

Por que no los dos, though?
OP should schedule a meeting at 16:00 local and see what happens.
LLMs are capable as well if you give them access to the internet though
Toga Social: the sex-positive social media and dating app
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Climate change is looking pretty existential to me. Might be comfortable now, but where I am we're having extreme snow fall shortages which are going to effect our water supplies and ability to farm. God knows what it's going to look like at this rate.

So practically massive destruction of the biosphere so people can sit there smug on there computers in the air-con.

Anyway you reinforced my point. Progress is a good idea, I'm not sure we all have the same ideas about what good progress looks like. Lifting the rest of the developing world by selling them arms and fossil fuels so I can sit on my computer in my room reading smug comments is probably not good progress.
About [0], Phi-2 is sort of a proof of concept of having very narrow and high quality dataset normal transformer models can perform at 8x to 10x better results. Of course, if you add messy prompts they will fail! What a dumb view.

And the Yi-* models are suspect of being trained on the test set or at least be contaminated. All the other models barely move and if they do, it's probably an artifact of being multiple choice. There were papers showing most models improve if they can reason the answer by letting it have more tokens in the answer.

The chat elo-like rankings are much more interesting:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

For completeness, here's the paper linked in the tweet https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01781.pdf
tqdm has a position parameter which allows offsetting concurrent progress bars. It should work automatically for intra-process concurrency anyway. I don’t know if it works correctly with multiple processes though.
The IPCC FAQ [1] states that this was known for decades:

> For decades, about half of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that human activities have emitted to the atmosphere has been taken up by natural carbon sinks in vegetation, soils and oceans. [...] On land, it is mainly the vegetation that captures CO2 from the atmosphere through plant photosynthesis, which ultimately accumulates both in vegetation and soils. As more CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere, plant carbon capture increases through the CO2 fertilization effect in regions where plant growth is not limited by, for instance, nutrient availability. Climate change affects the processes responsible for the uptake and release of CO2 on land in multiple ways. Land CO2 uptake is generally increased by longer growing seasons due to global warming in cold regions and by nitrogen deposition in nitrogen-limited regions.

Bottom line: the Earth is getting greener, but not fast enough to keep up with our increased emissions.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/faqs/IPCC_AR6_W...
Molecular Genetics
What is sufficiently small, and at what altitude? Gases expand as atmospheric pressure lowers as the altitude increases. So whatever diameter your balloon is on the ground is the smallest it will be. The balloon I launched was close to 8’ on the ground when launched. It was closer to 40’ at 90000’ when it burst
But they could, if they needed to. But most people don’t need to, so they don’t keep that information in their brains.

I can’t tell you the date of every time I clip my toenails, but if I had to could remember it.
> the practical question of whether we can get LLMs to answer 'I don't know' more often (which I'd argue would solve hallucinations).

To answer "I don't know" requires one to know when you know.
To know when you know in turn requires understanding.
If you knew how risc-v does compare to arm, you would not need to ask. I suggest you start from there.
Sorry, they are all Nazi even if they don't know it yet. Put two breeder subcultures in the same room and it's about Lebensraum in no time.

PS: and that's not a coincidence. Any would be breeder subculture that does not sufficiently discourage outside marriage would see too many of its children defecting to the general population. They'd be out-bred by breeder subcultures that do. Seen across a several generations time window, it's a "survival of the close-mindedests" situation.
Do you have evidence to back your claims up besides "the hype is overblown"? Because hype only indicates that the precise hyped up claims are wrong, it doesn't imply the opposite extreme (i.e. LLMs can never achieve AGI) must be true.
Spraying salt water around a city would be a dramatic solution, near suicidal imho. The salt will remain, literally salting the earth and killing plant life in the city. And the rust. I wouldnt want to own a car, business or anything made of metal in that city.
That's the story pretty much all over Europe: Italy, France, Britain... They all have problems with seasonal floods that are very recent. It's not that they were dry countries before, and overall annual rainfall is often lower than it was in the past, but it creates more problems because it's much more concentrated on shorter and shorter timespans.
> These “last resort” shelters depend in most cases on a reliable electricity supply, which can be cut during heatwaves.

Sounds like the problem is a failed government that can’t provide reliable base-load electricity generation. But the article acts like its citizens fault, we should live in a third world country and everyone should adapt by using wet towels or fans or something. Utter nonsense that provides no answers or real solutions.
> What's the revenue model?

I think it’s fitting we won’t explore space until we're able to move past this depraved way of thinking.
No, and we absolutely can keep 95% of the open space for the next 200 years with much higher growth