skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can train the network to act as if it knows its knowledge limits

Humans need more training to do the same.

And this does not answer the question of whether there's self-reflection going on. Practical LLMs available today are perfectly capable of telling you about their own reasoning process.

And much like a human, an LLM is incapable of fully explaining it's reasoning process from first principles to a human. Why is that? Probably because humans are too limited to grok large scale complex processes like the human brain or an LLM.

Finally, there is no difference between acting as if you know your training limits and knowing your training limits, if your acting is good enough. This goes for both humans and LLMs.
At the margin, individual efforts to abstain from this or that product are useless, let me elaborate.

Let's say in an effort to reduce your carbon footprint, you abstain from beef. The effect that has, however small it may be, is to reduce demand for beef. That brings the price of beef down, making it more affordable for beef enjoyers, who buy more.

The only net effect here is that you no longer eat beef. It hasn't moved the needle on your reason for doing so.

You might reply that if enough people join you, this will result in supply reduction. This is a coordination problem involving the whole planet, including a few billion people who will very happily eat more beef if it were a bit cheaper. It won't work.
heh, terraform is just ... special

resource "nomad_job" "terrareg" {
jobspec = <<EOHCL
job "terrareg" {

but to be actually constructive, a fun trick is that one can patch this stanza in via the GL pipeline and thus allow local $(tofu plan) runs without needing, or running the risk of, live gitlab credentials

variables:
# Backend required for Gitlab state
BACKEND_TF: |
terraform {
backend "http" {
}
}
before_script:
- echo "$BACKEND_TF" > backend.tf

it may also interest this audience that due to gitlab's in-container shell detection scheme, often a better entrypoint override is entrypoint: ["/usr/bin/env"] (assuming such a thing exists, of course)
If you have a fully written if asset that is still producing amazing returns, that may be better cash flow wise than taking on a new loan.
Sorry that you are not as optimistic as me. Maybe it's too much time on social media :P

I think the drug issue is complex. Too complex to talk about. I'm lucky that I don't have whatever my dad had.

FWIW, I suspect cancer "rates" are going up due to detection. I think the rate of dying by cancer is going down (https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/facts-and-...)

We'll survive climate change. We're installing solar and wind power at a crazy rate (and the rate continues to increase): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean...
Any idea what the reason for that is? Is it simply because the shallows are darker and colder?
There's also the Greater Japan Zero Yen Note https://www.moma.org/collection/works/136620

(The background to these is a complex of art projects and a court case, but it came to mind)
Not taking my side with Russia or Hamas on this, by saying that US is actually "aggressor here".

But the militaries in every country, probably won't throw away blood money,
I think it matches pretty well with the topic of

"Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"
No, you can be a good communicator without being a manipulative asshole with an egoistic hidden agenda.

This is more about how communication works. Communicating ideas and intentions is always about shaping the words that leave your mouth in such a way the other side understands the thing you intended them to understand.

Inexperienced communicators will say what makes sense to them and be surprised when someone else in a completely different frame of mind doesn't pull the same meaning from those words. Wanting people to understand you and shaping what you say in such a way they get it is not a bad thing. You would also talk differently to your kid, than say to your co-worker. This requires to a certain degree that you can see things from their perspective. Now surely you could use this for manipulative reasons if you are a soul-less bastard, but that doesn't say anything about about the practise.
Well, I meant not only all screen sizes but also all feasible window sizes!

I agree that HTML+CSS is a great GUI framework.

Responsive design as a term has long gone out of fashion.

But I see nothing wrong with its meaning.
Are you generally taken in by con artists?
I doubt any profession for which the tools evolve as fast as programming can have "standards and rigor".

Another root cause is that abilities of people (in any field) are hard to compare. Programming (and other) professions are in fact team efforts, and while we there are some assessments for individual abilities, good luck assessing abilities of teams before forming.

Not sure it is a problem to solve at this point: we care about the results and we have a lot more working software than 20 years ago, so something goes well.
AI boom sparks concern over Big Tech's water consumption
https://archive.is/Wykfg
The first commercial implementation of CHERI technology
We need at least two, for countable and uncountable infinities.
Wrapping Up `Practical SML#'
There are 2 cases you should be working on weekends:

1) First 2-3 years of career - In these times you learn by simply doing, so if you work on weekends you speed up your learning curve. Past 2-3 years you don't learn anything by doing normal work, so you need your weekends to do actual "levelling up".

2) You have equity in the business or you have a bonus structure that compensates weekend work.

If you are outside those 2 cases, and you are working more than 5 weekends a year (say 2-3 weekends per 6 months for true random business emergencies that almost everyone in the org has to do), you need to leave.
Thank-you. This reminds me of Math Games (with Bad Drawings) by Ben Orlin.
Why do people say stuff like this that is so demonstrably untrue? SD and GPT4 do not exhibit the behavior described above and they're not even new.
The bulk of the problem was caused by erroneous metadata.

The bug in Seaborn simply meant that the histograms that could have alerted them that something was wrong with their analysis, didn't.
I have done a fair amount of Rust. The complexity is not in the borrow checker or lifetime. It’s in the combination explosion of the of generic, traits, lifetime, and constraints. When a struct takes on these, all functions and impls need to specify them. The amount of brackets becomes very distracting.
The groups organizing against trans people are amplifying the problem 10000000000x.

A recent example is [1]. Many anti-trans activists, including some that represent themselves as more polite, are actively engaged in a conspiracy to eliminate the notion of transgender experiences being a real part of humanity. This is obviously going to elicit a response from trans people like me, and our reaction is not just understandable but wholly legitimate. Why are you not focusing your attention on those people?

[1] https://genderanalysis.net/2024/01/still-dreaming-of-running...
If your business is operating like this it’s not sustainable. You need 10 developers for every project so the senior developers can complain about meetings instead of exposing themselves to code review. That helps there supposed knowledge.
This is quite old and outdated but just to engage with it :

It defeats the whole purpose of a bribe, doesn't it? If officials were gonna be intimidated by a note, there are probably other recourses that would've done the job.

Except none of them have. Officials are obviously aware that bribery is illegal. It's the idea that they "can get away with it" that needs challenging. If it's true, then the agency of the citizen is minimal; it's the agency of the relevant watchdog that needs strengthening.

> Satindar Mohan Bhagat, an Indian expatriate who is a physics professor at the University of Maryland and the director of Association for India's Development, Inc. US, is credited with originating the concept of the zero-rupee note in 2001

I appreciate the sentiment, but it really reflects the disconnect between people who don't live in India and people who do. There is hardly a single bribery situation where this would be useful. The only cure to bribery is knowing more powerful people than the corrupt official - ie, bribery won't work on the elite and well-connected, unless the official is a fairly significant fellow.

In an era where arbitrary income tax raids, "anti-national" accusations or just plain old Kafkaesque "punish them with more process" recourse are what meets people who challenge the regime...hard to see a valueless note gaining traction. If anything, it's a free pass for the official to get you accused of counterfeiting notes. Will it pass it court? no. but you'll be in jail for months before you see a judge. perhaps forever.
I agree. No point in arguing with you. You start from a premise and after that that's it.
> but there is permission to host the ISOs for your own reasons

I'm not searching for the exact wording, but hosting for an unlimited and unrestricted access is a distribution in a legal sense and is not allowed
Not at all because the data sources are collected with scraping tech. I like your enthusiasm let me think of how to better scale the product. Is this something you’ve been interested in for a while?
But why should everyone else suffer because of that small fraction?

The real answer: users are captive. For the vendors, they're cattle. And like with any good big farm, it does not matter how much it sucks for the cattle - but it does matter the cattle is safe, because few bad cases can become known and risk your farm getting shut down.
No these things just take time.

There is no conspiracy again efficient training. Companies aren’t going to lower compute budgets with more efficiency.

All the top labs are increasing efficiency, but they are using that to get more out of their large runs not spend less. Most companies have a relatively fixed training budget for their large runs and are trying to get the most out of it, bot save money,

Mamba is actually being scaled up and tested across other fields(bio) at a rapid pace compared to other architectures
Also when a senior engineer does this, it sets expectations for junior engineers.

A senior engineer who does this is harming their team more than most other technical related things.
The AGI Race Between the US and China Doesn't Exist
> particular type of audience and set of usecases

For signed in accounts (which is pretty much is ~3bn Android and/or Chrome users), Google can predict what the user might prefer and yet...
Well, you're losing the minority that didn't click on the video because life's too short and went straight to the comments.

Comments on HN usually contain related links and possibly more info than the item the story links to so it's a valid strategy.

Edit: but then you wouldn't have made any money off me anyway because I run ad blockers.
Here you go: https://github.com/quassnoi/explain-extended-2024
Comparing programming to Medicine is not a apples to apples comparison.

Atleast, in the U.S there is huge shortage of medical doctors.

Besides programming is ideal for a try/fail/learn approach on your own.

A well known perl wisdom is "what you don't know won't hurt you"

I am happy programming is an "open" profession.
Peter Thiel's steroid Olympics will hurt the poor
We have a number of production RAG datasets (human-verified) and have custom generated evaluation datasets for a variety of companies.

Feel free to reach out if you are interested: yi@relari.ai
Oh wow... I have had the Android port of his puzzles (your second reference links to it) on my phone for a while. Had no idea the developer of Putty had anything to do with it!
Sooo - how many HNers have cats?
Yes, there are many research groups working on this at the moment. We can (roughly) screen through chemical reactions performed in vaccuum. Even this is difficult since you either need to simulate atoms bouncing around until you observe a reaction (extremely slow to perform) [0], or you need to numerically search for a viable reaction pathway (still quite slow to perform) [1]. The main problem is that the best methods scale badly with the number of atoms you're simulating, so you need to trade off accuracy for speed by using less-accurate methods.

Screening through reactions in the real world is particularly hard, since you not only need to worry about the inaccuracy of your simulation method, but you also need to take solvent/environment effects into account. You need to trade off even more accuracy for speed if you want to do so. As computing power advances, there will be less pressure to make these tradeoffs, but a lot of work in comp chem at the moment is focused on either exploring or expanding the speed-accuracy frontier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_path_sampling

[1] https://people.chem.ucsb.edu/kahn/kalju/chem126/public/qm_ts...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_initio_quantum_chemistry_me...
> Sitting on a table and staring at a screen ? Now that's an adversarial scenario.

I have found the environments plus multiple screens in Vision, in a quiet room, to be incredibly helpful

Less effort to stay focused on otherwise uninteresting tasks, with no external stimulus but nature (very calming to me) and all the task’s components visible on glorious “screens” so I don’t glitch out under the mental “fatigue” of constant window swapping

The very large stationary screens make it natural to frequently get up and move around, while not losing focus. I walk up to them like large whiteboards which mixes things up and keeps my body’s motion continually involved in my thinking.

Just wish I could select specific objects to pop through full immersion. Like my keyboard and cans of energy drink. For now I use 1/2 or 2/3 immersion.

After a long age, I can again work 10 hours thinking it was just 4 or 5.
You can't make descisions based only on logic or truth, it's not possible, because they aren't normative.
I get your general point, though I disagree with it, but the beef issue is very US-centric. Beef isn't such a staple in most countries, even ones that can afford it.
There's no universally accepted definition of any term so I'm not sure how that's relevant. That's how I describe my own perspective, others are free to differ. Language can be vague and useful.
Each time you do inference you're basically converting the context to an embedding, why not cache that?
'All of Us' genetics chart stirs unease over controversial depiction of race
"like a mineral"
It isn't, there's just a lot people out there who don't like women, don't like women with power, don't like women with power over men, don't like women using their sexuality to get power/money, and really don't like women using their sexuality to get power/money from men. So they invent a lot of reasons that porn is bad and unethical, the latest one is using the phrase "parasocial" to imply that any man who pays a woman online for sexual content is being exploited or manipulated in some way, as if every man has a gambling addict between his legs that cannot be trusted. It's ridiculous and motivated entirely by sexism masquerading as puritanicalism.
You don't understand the rational behind that. If you'd kept reading, you'd have learned that talking about woodworking would easily put you into the hire category.
It's usually a wash, maybe even a little against virtual threads as they have to store stack information along side all the state for the current context.

One of the major changes to the JVM to make virtual threads work revolved around setting up the stack to be as light weight as possible.
For MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, the competitive advantage comes from having huge datasets (that Nvidia doesn't have). It's a symbiosis that benefits the data-rich and GPU-rich players.
The KeyTrap Denial-of-Service Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNS [pdf]
adding raw meat to my diet, check.
I'm pretty sure it's just a cache of the context embedding.
Why would they be fined? All tech businesses operate like that.
Sorry if this is too silly of a question, but is there the same container, but "running linux", i.e. you can use rdp to connect to a graphical system?

Bonus if it can be a different architecture from the host machine.
From the point of view of a venture capitalist, who has a diversified portfolio of startups (in aggregate occupying a point on the risk/reward curve on the frontier), a mechanism like this would be useful, as it would provide the requisite number of entrepreneurs willing to run their individual ventures at a point far riskier than the frontier.
> Just Spending time in the Dubai airport is a fascinating experience if you get the change.

It depends on what you mean by fascinating. I was stuck in a limbo because on arrival they've lost my visa (which takes days to process). They didn't even wanted to talk to me because my visa wasn't in a pile of other visas and for those people that was the end of it. I wasn't let in into the country, and I couldn't board the plane to go back home. For what they were concerned, I could have died there in front of the counter and they wouldn't even bat an eye.

It took them close to 10 hours to relent to my ever increasing desparate pleadings and second or third shift person to have a look at the other pile of visas on the same desk. They've found it after less than a minute of search, and threw it at me like I'm a trash bin.

Needless to say I'm never going to Dubai ever again. I've travelled all over the world, but I've never seen or experienced complete disdan and disrespect for other people before and since then.
I wonder how much bad science has occurred due to the acceptance of Python as the lingua franca.
> Qubes Air is vaporware and not under active development

This is not exactly true, see the proof of concept:

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/updates-on-qubes-air/19709/2
It is very dangerous, even licensing it.

Argentina has given strategic land to China where Argentina cannot control: Espacio Lejano Station [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espacio_Lejano_Station?wprov=s...
Within my circle of friends, all Aarons get Key & Peele's "A-A-Ron" sketch quoted to them as often as all Daves get Cheech & Chong's "Dave's Not Here" sketch quoted to them.
I have used many native GUIs on Windows that looked blurry because they din't get font rendering right and that only work at a fixed window size.

Both in enterprise and consumer software.

Yes, they probably weren't holding it right, were written in Java and/or sth else.

But I don't understand where the sentiment that native=better comes from.

I like native applications too, when done well. For example, I still like IntelliJ IIRC, this does use Java for GUI? Also it doesn't use native controls.
Yes and no.

The thing is that Mamba is not perfect. There's no neural architecture to rule them all, if you will. I think the bigger issue is that we more act like there is and get on bandwagons. Let me give a clearer example from the past so we can see. The predecessor to DDPM (the work that kicked off the diffusion model era) was published in 2015[0], only a year after GANs[1]. Diffusion then showed promise but why did DDPM come out in 2020[2]? Because everyone was working on GANs. GANs produced far better images and diffusion (still is) was a lot more computationally intensive. Plus, all the people working on these diffusion models were in the same camp as those working on Normalizing Flows and other density based models, and fewer people are interested in understanding density estimation.

So the entire problem is that the community hopped on a singular railroad for research direction. There was still working going on in that direction but it wasn't nearly getting the attention that GANs got. It's hard to know if things were blocked from publication because they weren't as good as GANs. I can say from personal experience I had a Flow publication blocked because reviewers were concerned with its quality compared to GANs (this was 2019/2020, this paper will never be published because now it is even hard to publish a GAN work).

So yes and no because there is certainly railroading happening but there are also real critiques to Mamba. But what people often forget is that it is incredibly naive to compare new methods to existing methods on a direct one-to-one comparison. You're comparing something that has hundreds of hours to thousands of hours from a handful to a few dozen eyes against works with millions of hours and millions of eyes. Evaluation is just a really fucking hard thing to do but it is easy to just look at some benchmarks, even if they don't mean much. This is a fairly generalization notion though, so take the lesson to heart. But Mamba seems a bit different than our diffusion/GAN story, in that it is getting more attention than diffusion did in the 2016-2019.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03585

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11239
There may be some feeble-minded people whose sexual expectations may have been distorted by viewing porn, like there may exist some people who believe that something they have seen in a superhero movie has some relationship with reality.

Nevertheless, that cannot be true for most people, who are able to distinguish fact from fantasy.

In my opinion a much more important role in distorting the sexual expectations of young and inexperienced people has been played for some centuries by the conventional representation in literature and starting with the 20th century also in movies of a conventional feeling of "romantic love", which has been a completely fictional creation that does not correspond to any feeling that exists between real humans.

Instead of the fictional "love", between real humans there exist 3 or 4 distinct sentiments, which are independent, so they can exist or not exist separately, even if when they exist simultaneously there exists a positive feedback that reinforces them (e.g. physical attraction, love in the sense of opposite of hate, i.e. as also possible towards friends and family, and trust; even physical attraction is a different sentiment from considering that someone is beautiful or handsome).

When I was very young I was confused by the depiction of "love" in novels and movies, where frequently one discovered the appropriate partner for the rest of their lives by falling in "love" at the first sight, after which they never had any interest for different people. In reality, the only sentiment that is possible at the first sight is physical attraction, while "love" in a stricter sense is possible only after months of shared experiences and trust is possible only after several years, outside of completely exceptional circumstances.

Moreover, none of such sentiments is exclusive towards a single human. There are many valid reasons to choose monogamy, but that is a choice enforced by rational will, not a characteristic of human feelings.

So when I was very young, my expectations about human relations were distorted by these conventional incorrect descriptions of "love" from fiction, so I could not be certain of the nature of my feelings towards others, i.e. whether they were "love" or not. I have also seen many others who have been confused for the same reason, so they were not able to analyze their own feelings and distinguish e.g. between physical attraction and trust, with bad consequences.

On the other hand, viewing porn has never distorted my sexual expectations, because there was no doubt about that being fantasy and not reality.

Therefore I believe that many classic novels or RomCom movies may be more prone to distort sexual expectations than viewing porn movies.