skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, they are quite different objectives.

Their approach is one that works for simple directives: "Go to ship" or "Pick up iron ore" which lends itself well to sandbox-like games (which seems to be a major focus looking at Deepmind's tech report). Similar research has been done in Minecraft [1].

These instruction following agents are more an RL achievement than a language understanding achievement. On the other hand, Disco Elysium has over a million words of dialogue, and solving the quests requires an agent to understand and reason about language much more extensively. People have looked at text-based game agents, like Microsoft's TextWorld [2], but these are much smaller in scope and not easily adapted for humans-in-the-loop.

My work bridges that gap, focusing on the language aspect, rather than navigating a 3D world. Again, they are definitely different objectives, but as a sole researcher there's no way I can compete with Deepmind's budget and manpower anyway. Just look at the extensive author list in the tech report. So it doesn't make sense to necessarily focus on outcompeting them in producing a better generalized RL agent (in fact I merely use GPT-4). Instead, I made a publicly available experimentation platform that allows others to be able to build upon this work, which is valuable for the community at large.

At least, that's my take.

[1]: https://sites.google.com/view/steve-1

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld/
I agree that could be a stretch but Rushmore does not only depict a nerd but one that is creative and iconoclast. Many times we have a bond with a movie for personal reasons that are not shared with the rest. I shared my ranking where there are movies which are classical top and others personal takes. That is the reason to create these (non algorithmic/AI) lists: share and help others to move from the average^average.
A static site should be _free_, on Github Pages at least. If all you're doing is hosting static assets, what more do you need?
* You don't believe China should be an "adversary"
Why do you hate autoindent? Have you seen issues with autoindent while developing? Vim `set autoindent` works well when configured with how you do tabs for a given language (ie `set sw=2 sts=2` for JavaScript)
You can profit off of recording viewership patterns and activities, too. It's be very hard to prove ByteDance isn't doing that.
I know many people who have attended ivy league schools and $100k+ debt is not unusual among them.
People should be free to do that. My objection is to the fact that currently just existing in modern society (in the US) means you're being spied on by everyone from the manufacturer of your tv to the grocery store, and huge amounts of your personal data is sold to anyone who wants it.
>That said, I hope it is understandable why I am "a bit slower than the rest of the industry in this regard".

You are doing a great job. I worked with research institutes from Australasia, and now am working with others from Europe. There are heaps of people from different backgrounds like yours, geography, physics, engineering, etc., that inherit or start coding projects.

And people with different ages too. I've seen people fresh off university learning about tests, and also researchers with a great reputation and lots of papers written that were getting the hang of what were unit tests, CI, a server and a client, and other concepts that are so common to people in IT.

Nothing wrong with that. Keep up the good work, and keep slowly improving the code. I hope you have somebody else to work with you on this task, and do some code review or discuss when you need to work on something new, or perhaps a group at your company/work that has some Research Software Engineers.

Most RSE's I know are familiar at working with people from different backgrounds to slowly improve projects without blocking/stalling research, simulations, and publication. Thank you!
I hope Costco doesn't levy felonies for going through the free sample line more than once or I'm in trouble.
I would say it is doing the opposite of solving the housing shortage right now. It is exporting it instead while also not doing much about the shortage at its origins.

All those cute picturesque towns in the Mountain West don’t have a large supply of homes to begin with, so it only takes a few wealthy Californians to seriously upend the local market with wages paid much higher than what locals can get for their skills.
Why does it then after performing an action or whole plan return to the "default" position with the hands in that strange stance? Looks kinda like there is some "hard coded" flow that simply uses the LLM(s) to perform actions.
Setting the seed would be great.

I use a passwordcard[1]. When the paper dissolves, I generate a new one from the same seed and print it again.

[1] https://www.passwordcard.org/en
I always turn syntax highlighting off, because I find it very distracting and it often makes code harder for me to read, without giving me any meaningful benefit.
roughly averages to 3 times a day.
One hard to discuss aspect of this that i notice is the parental benefit of plugging a child into the screen.

The kid becomes so engrossed you (as a parent) can almost pretend you are childless again. Its a strong temptation.

Then it is much easier for us all to blame the iPad itself, when it was actually a tool the parent used to dodge a bit of their responsibility.

That doesnt address all the different issues the article covers, but its a part of it. If we as parents didnt have that “out” then we would have to experience, adapt to and plan for more of our children’s development.

And for the record i do give my kid a tablet, but use device profiles to restrict her to only FaceTiming relatives and drawing. No video. This has made it so boring it is less attractive to her than magnitiles.
No, but the First amendment covers Americans' right to receive information, even foreign propaganda.
A major issue with housing is that it is a primary driver of wealth for many Americans. Obviously, this comes at the expense of our fellow Americans who do not own a home. I was able to buy shortly out of college (1% down loan) so rising home prices don’t impact me as much since my home has also gone up in value. I was able to sell the first house and roll that equity into the next house.

As long as it’s the main store of wealth for your average citizen, there will be very little incentive to change that.
Well, they tell you for one: https://datacenterpost.com/scaling-up-google-building-four-s...
We also have Google Street view, etc.

Of course, it's all estimates. You can get fancier and count generators and transformers and stuff too.
Most of Europe it's Android bound.
There is my work, my wife's work, and the two kids are in different schools. They'd all need to change. Also everything else.

There is a way to do that, it's called summer time.
Cool. You already have the knowledge you need to figure out what party of the day it is in another timezone. Now when you say let's meet at 10, you don't have to figure out which 10 you are meeting at.
Cerebrum 7B – Mistral fine-tune created specifically for reasoning tasks
I think you're missing out on the time it takes to build the tree in the first place, which is O(M), equal the space complexity. People usually ignore this cost as a "preprocessing" factor, but it's a cost that's really there.

After this initial O(M) time and space cost, you do additional operations which only take up time, not space, so the claim Time >= Space holds here as well.
He is right, and I think that what the grumpy farts are saying is not entirely false, each generation is worse than the last, except when the cycle resets.

We’re now much closer to the end of this cycle than to its beginning.
I might have a similar perspective, and maybe these words (not mine) can help further articulate why he is an agent of a sinister force:

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i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul.

---

IMO, he is an excellent example of people knowingly leveraging that commodification to generate money, and that is why I personally don't like his content.

Edit to add source of quote -- "Pandora's Vox" (worth reading in full): https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643
This video shows lots of hand waving by the government/businesses involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwFoOVyB40s
> IMHO, House Democrats could have fixed that by supporting their centrist Republican colleagues in key votes (i.e. something like confidence and supply in more mature parliamentary systems), thus neutering extremist Republican members.

Now, if one could trust the Republicans to return the favor in the future... that fundamental trust is something that has been broken decades ago, starting with Newt Gingrich, but even more so during the Obama terms, and now with MAGA holding the GOP hostage the House is all but broken.

So, why should the Democrats help the "reasonable" Republicans? Democrat voters won't like it (because why vote Democrat when the only things getting passed are Republican bills?), Republican voters will see it as a sign of "weakness", and "reasonable" Republicans will not reciprocate because they fear getting yeeted out of the party like Kevin McCarthy.
Well, I agree it's the more overt problem. But having spent some time in the adult world myself, I find that the larger problem is partial solutions piled on partial solutions, burying users in piles of steaming bureaucracy that take time and effort to wade through. Like good software, it requires principles and discipline to construct correctly and avoid 'technical debt' - though a quick&dirty solution will certainly work in the short term.

I've noticed as well, it's quite common that when a well-constructed solution takes much more time (and may be harder to identify) than an quick fix, proponents of the quick fix will claim that the 'do it right' folks are actually saying we should do nothing.
I recently went on the lookout for this board and it is still unavailable. All I could find were M.2 adapters. I guess the market for full-size PCIe is tiny compared to the M.2 one.

Anyways, I ended up making my own and it works great. No fuss, no wait, no complications.
An open-source mail delivery platform one can run on their own servers? Unthinkable! Truly the state of modern innovation. What's next, inventing a group you can add users to in order to give them some sort of limited superuser access?
> the government no longer functions as intended.

On the other hand it seems like it's functioning exactly as intended. The interests of the people who live in <area> and who elect the city council are being represented just as they should be.

The argument could equally be if you don't like it, build somewhere else.

Do you believe communities have any right to self-determination? I would feel a bit peeved if I and all my neighbors built this nice neighborhood and then am told too bad people really like your neighborhood so we're letting Alliance Residential buy up a bunch of property for a huge apartment complex. The neighborhood I grew up in is going through this. They were a bunch of lower-middle class people who bought houses in a "rough" area because it's what they could afford, made it nice and then developers saw dollar signs. They don't have the kind of pull to keep them out so it's about to get steamrolled with gentrification.
No 1:1s sounds miserable. I don't want to give or receive feedback "constantly", I have other things to do constantly. I want to have a set periodic time where I know I will not be interrupted by my manager "sharing feedback", and will not be interrupting them with my feedback.

I suspect that in practice, relatively little feedback is being shared either up or down within such a structure, as people are busy working and never hit their set time reminding them to think through what feedback they have.
I worked with MDs for years and they said DO was considered a legit medical specialty, just non identical curriculum. Chiropractics was more a specialized physical therapy practice, also useful, if expectations are sensible.

I had a primary care provider who was a DO and she was a wizard, but sadly moved out of state.
There are times where diverting from normal conventions make sense. The average consumer might not know that 1Gb/s is faster than 750Mb/s. That being said, I don't think I've ever seen anything along the lines of 1G,000b/s.
I think it's an interesting question.

If I stop my neighbor from building an extension that's 1v1. Doesn't map easily to "democracy". Now, if I and the neighbor on the other side stop our middle neighbor building an extension... it's sort of democracy? The majority decides. But what if everyone else on our street wants to allow it? Now blocking is undemocratic. Thoughout all of this my neighbor might insist they don't care what anyone thinks and they should be able to do whatever they want with their own land.

The citizens of a particular city neighborhood blocking development is democratic when looked at up close and undemocratic when looked at from afar. There aren't any easy answers and anyone pretending there are is fooling themselves.
There’s a story every few weeks of a kid who saw some challenge on tiktok and copied it and ended up dead.
TikTok is run out of the United States and adheres to the same laws as Twitter and Facebook. Its CEO, Shou Chew, was just at a hearing in front of Congress last month.
I’m not sure if this is entirely fair. I know people in the trades that have updated their technique and tools every few years the same way a software engineer would. They may be more resistant to change, but local building codes and such inherently force tradesmen to adapt at a certain point.
Pretending large groups of humans can't possibly be influenced to do things is lunacy.

We do weird things in crowds even without intentional propaganda at play. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8091
> Very segmented UI without discoverability.

Sometimes it has far too much discoverability.* It seems some searches are global. For instance, when I go to `My Merge Requests` and try and change the author, it shows me every single account on GitLab.

* One could argue this wraps around and becomes undiscoverable. Which I would agree with.
The bottleneck here is the multimodal vision processing, at least if my experience building this kind of thing is any indication. Afaik Groq has not demonstrated the speeds they have for this. (Obviously they'll be better than OpenAI, but it still may be slow enough to leave people disappointed.)
I updated my map for AWS in Northern Virginia -- came up with 74 buildings (another source says 76, so i'll call it directionally correct). If I scale my sq ft by ~5% to account for missing buildings, we get 11,500,000sq ft in the northern virginia area for AWS.

I'll finish my other maps and share them later...
What a load of crap. Being a hard worker is not causation for being rich. That's such a naive take.

How many people working 3 jobs you know are billionaires? Even millionaires? Are those not hard working people?

Yeah, citing crypto, which is literally gambling, tells me the kind of argument you have.

Not sure why the personal attacks are necessary.
RCT is unlikely to be a good tool to determine the effectiveness of masks, if for no other reason, compliance is marginal at best (how do you recognize &record every instance when someone pulls it down for a short time exposing their nose or both airways?).

Perhaps the best evidence that even badly used masks are effective is that measures such a using masks for a year killed every instance of a strain of flu - deas, gone, extinct.

Just by reducing the R0 value to the point where there were no survivors. (but not enough that more virulent COVID-19 strains couldn't survive).

Masks, particularly N95-level, work. Period. Not perfectly, nothing does. But they work. Regardless of any FUD you may want to spread.
What is TI7?
The documentation says you start with:

brew install truffle

But the Truffle formula currently on Homebrew - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/truffle - is for something else, its for an Ethereum testing environment of some sort: https://archive.trufflesuite.com/
Budget Android Phones for 2024
MS might be enough to work in industry but isn't there a consideration between paying(MS) and getting paid(Phd via stipend) as well?
That's some top tier boot licking to blame a dead pilot when the lock up failure was able to be duplicated:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/business/ntsb-probing-stuck-c...
There's a couple factors.

A big one is that the North American Pacific coast was just one the last places to get significant settlement, so we didn't cut down all the big trees like we did elsewhere. Appalachia, for instance, used to have its share of giant trees. But those trees are still dwarfed by the sequoias.

The West Coast's wet-dry spells lead to more forest fires, presenting another evolutionary pressure on tree height. Tall trees put their canopies far enough away from the flames that fires can sweep through the undergrowth without ever reaching them.

There's also the fact that we have one of the most mild climates in the world: wild temperature fluctuations cause difficulties in getting water up tall trunks.

Finally, there's the fog that keeps the canopies moist.
One of the constraints ended up being implemented into the main game: separate couriers for each player. But generally, agree with your point.

But it's very cool how the OpenAI matches ended up making mid players reevaluate how they used consumable regen.
At least it's not from the FSF, and GPUs aren't gendered, or you'd have to choose from multiple gendered drivers:

- "gnuveau" for one masculine GPU.
- "gnuvelle" for one feminine GPU.
- "gnuveaux" for multiple masculine GPUs.
- "gnuvelles" for multiple feminine GPUs.
The common argument against this is that these buildings were not built for residential units (plumbing, electrical, building codes) and bringing them up to residential code is prohibitively expensive. This is not untrue, but I think this is a cop-out.

What we need to do is create the systems that allow us to develop office spaces into residential spaces instead of complaining they don't exist. Create building technologies that safely convert these spaces into residential. Create the building codes that allow these conversions to be done safely but also economically. The demand is there, the supply is there, and our downtowns need this.
> owners holding vacant units

Check the vacancy rate in major cities.

> people wanting/needing to live in specific locations

Where the jobs are, yes.

> individual preferences for bigger, fancier, better school, sfh, etc attributes

Mixed density and smaller builds are almost nowhere to be found, and small developers have incredible difficulty securing loans from banks to build them. The large developers focus on expensive projects that have more overhead and checks, and even there they don't build that much because they are few in number. People would opt for mixed density were it actually available.

Zoning and regs are actually among the factors that make certain projects riskier, so reform helps in this regard. Just see Minneapolis. Zoning reform works. It works so well that there is some push back from NIMBYs in those cities pissed off that their areas are changing fast.
Isn't this different in that it's not blocking TikTok but instead forcing the parent to sell the American division? There's plenty of precedent for that succeeding (including relatively recently where a Chinese company was forced to end plans for an IPO and sell Grindr). This is unlikely to be blocked on First Amendment grounds simply because they're not blocking speech, just forcing an ownership change (I am definitely not a lawyer though so I could be wrong).
The way the US had dealt with issues like this is in the courts of law through an evidentiary process, not by political decree, which will get slammed down in the courts anyway.

Show that TikTok causes active harm compared to FB/Twitter, put that on the public record, and clear the obstacles for a bill to ban.
Yeah, and i know what you mean.

I realize (later) that sometimes i suspect a distinct set of biases are applied to headlines than the articles had. This could very well be the case here...balanced articles in general get biased headlines for marketing the articles, and not by the authors.

Kinda interesting the more examples i find.
Relevant: TIL that after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an estimated 150,000 unnecessary abortions occurred worldwide from women afraid of radiation mutations. There is no evidence whatsoever of any increase in birth defects; not even in Belarus and Ukraine, the closest to Chernobyl. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6q3b2c/til_th...>

I've read of similar (non-)findings after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Basically, there is no evidence of any long-term cancer or birth defect increase among survivors. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...>
Have you thought about YAML headers in the doc? Lots of site-generators (eg Hugo) do that.
You call, if they're available they'll answer. If they aren't you leave a voicemail and follow up with an email.

If they don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night you turn on do not disturb on your phone (and most phones let you exempt specific contacts from DnD, or a 2nd call from the same number)
> Define a style, have tooling enforce it.

I agree, but I can't stand it when the formatting is applied while I'm typing. I prefer to run it through a prettifier afterwards as a separate step.
> I've yet to find any explanation as to why if someone is wearing a (properly fitted) N95, so their air goes through a filter media, which has been repeatedly shown to block droplets, they could still inhale disease-carrying droplets.

It's worth keeping in mind that even if someone wearing an N95 mask does manage to inhale some percentage of the airborne disease-carrying droplets around them, viral load matters a lot. A tiny amount of virus could be fought off by the immune system before it has a chance to take hold in the body, and even if that fails and the virus does infect the body, larger exposures tend to result in worse outcomes. Even an imperfect protection can have a beneficial effect.

It's the same for people spreading the virus. Even if a mask isn't perfect, that doesn't make it useless. Putting just about anything in front of someone's virus spewing face holes is going to reduce the amount of virus that gets into the air and limit how far it spreads. This is why we teach small children to "vampire cough". Not because the inside of our elbows provide N95 levels of protection, but because doing so still helps to prevent the spread of disease.
You know you can just write `nix develop -c zsh` or `nix develop -c fish` or whatever, right?
Hmm interesting usecase, I know a lot of datascience folks are fans of SSHFS but it sounds like you have kind of got an inversion of control thing going on. Is there a reason you aren't mounting the remote filesystem on your local machine and manipulating files/data via that?

I've been looking for interesting applications for noisysockets, and I'm obsessed with network attached storage so this is a fun one for me.
Can Large Language Models Do Analytical Reasoning?