skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One click is aiming too low. We could get to zero click letters of recommendation.

Student's AI (SAI) predicts student will want to apply for college. Based off student's preferences, interests, conversations, queries, browser history, SAI predicts you would be a good source to ask for a reference and fires off a request.

Your AI (YAI) fields the request and consults your gradebook, notes, security camera footage of your student in and around class, and your own idiosyncrasies and comes up with a general idea of how strong your letter of recommendation would be.

YAI and SAI then negotiate whether the student would want to ask for your letter of recommendation given how strong it would likely be. Once an agreement is reached, YAI composes the letter, leaves a message for you that it is about to your recommend a student allowing you a short window to edit or countermand.
It was surprising because previously we had:

'XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."' [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877267 (811 comments)
The “purpose” (for lack of a better word) of brutalism was never to make people feel small and unimportant—though individual architects might have had different motivations from time to time. Rather, the style is about making buildings that are true to their purpose, simple and without ornaments, and that show the materials (concrete mostly) they’re made of.

This specific website we’re discussing is actually quite full of flourishes, and so not brutalist in the architectural sense.
Well, sorry, I mean, reading comments here and reading advice on QubesOS — they speak about airgapped systems, evil maid attacks, government vans that remotely snoop any computer etc. You don't need QubesOS to protect from known exploits, it was my understanding that people use QubesOS to protect from (real or imagined) state-level adversary.
A subtle challenge with "sticky disks" is that it requires your workflow steps to be idempotent beyond the point of "resumption", which can be tricky in a lot of cases.
Gaming Github, like your code/project is popularity contest, plays
right into the hands of those who will exploit you. The whole
ecosystem is starting to look very dangerous.

"GitHub is already more than a mere repository.
It is a a social media site and a career development platform
much like Linked-In which Microsoft already owns." [0]

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/poison-code
My thoughts as well. My first thoughts was "wow I guess anyone can just bribe techcrunch writers these days
> They should read it.

Indeed. This is how I discovered that my own policy forbade me to own a dog belonging, even in part, to any of a long list of breeds: Pit Bull, Rottweiler, Cana Presario ... IIRC German Shepherd was on the list.
No!

So much time spent debunking such broken "caching" solutions.

Computers are very fast now. Use proper package/versioning systems (part of the problem here is that those are often also broken/badly designed).
> I'd never thought I'd see Meme-ification of technical docs

They always been, in different forms. I am glad to see them too, harmless and signal IQ/EQ, taking anything too seriously is not a good thing.
How is it different from someone outside CA buying Google ads?
If I'm reading this correctly, they had to discard Llama 2 answers and only use GPT-3.5 given answers to test the hypothesis.

GPT-3.5 answering questions through the OAI API alone is not an acceptable method of testing problem solving ability across a range of temperatures. OpenAI does some blackbox wizardry on their end.

There are many complex and clever sampling techniques for which temperature is just one (possibly dynamic) component

One example from the llama.cpp codebase is dynamic temperature sampling

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/4972/files

Not sure what you mean by whole model state given that there are tens of thousands of possible tokens and the models have billions of parameters in XX,XXX-dimensional space. How many queries across how many sampling methods might you need? Err..how much time? :)
I wasn’t actually confronted with the paperwork. When I purchased my house, the insurerer that was selected by my bank informed me (several times) that they were unable to provide the complete coverage details and contract until after the insurance contract was in place.

Even then, it took me several calls and interactions to get them to send me the actual detailed insurance contract. They tried to fob me off several times with a brief summary document.

I would be surprised, based on my experience, if people are actually confronted with the paperwork as you suggest. The default flow of my home purchase made it clear that my request to review the coverage contract was so far outside the norm that they weren’t really sure how to handle it.
Not really, see the comment I was replying to for details.
Essential listening - https://radiolab.org/podcast/bliss

A nice read https://letterformarchive.org/news/blissymbolics/

And the film https://archive.org/details/mrsymbolman
It's not the pulls that are the problem, it's caching intermediate layers from the build that is the problem. As soon as you introduce a networked registry, the time it takes to pull layers from the registry cache and push them back to the registry cache are frequently not much better than simply rebuilding the layers, not to mention the additional compute/storage cost of running the registry cache itself.

It's just a problem that requires big, local disks to solve.
I have this set up in our pipeline, we also build the image early and use assets to move it between jobs. We've also just switched to self-hosted runners, so might look into shared disk.

But in the long run, as annoying as it is out build pipelines reduced but quite a few minutes per build.
Classic gen z or whatever ephemeral disdain for history and context, no past, only existing in the now. All the comments here saying this isn't "brutalist", doesn't even surpass HN's own brutalism, and yet the creator applies and mixes the descriptions and terms alongside cyberpunk etc, so that they end with no meaning at all.
This is the root of what I'm saying. YOU decide how much, and what assets, you want to risk.

YOU decide whether to risk your house or not. If you do do it, then at least you're doing it intentionally and not by accident.

Of course bank loans are the tip of the iceberg. Lots of creditors want personal sureties, not just on your loans but others too. Most of those sureties contain language like "all present AND FUTURE" debts. You got divorced 30 years ago? They don't care.
> OK, so you remove Hamas and al-Qassam brigades. Now what?

If it were up to me - you help someone who wants peace fill the gap that Hamas left, you:

1. Make every effort to help Gaza recover. Directly as much as possible, and by getting the world involved.

2. Help a better government form in Gaza, one that actually cares about the people, about economic development, and that wants peace.

3. Work towards peace with whoever you can possibly find that is willing to talk peace.

> You obviously having been following this for more than six months, October 7th is where history starts for you.

That's ridiculous. I've lived in Israel for 30 years, do you really think I believe that "history started on October 7th?". In addition, you can find plenty of comments of mine where I am extremely critical of Israel's actions over the last 15-20 years, both in not pursuing peace, and in actively blocking peace in many ways. (I'm also fairly critical of the settler enterprise which goes back much further.)

> Very little in the footage on that web site is worse than what Palestinians suffer more or less constantly, from the IDF and from settlers.

Maybe if you only look at the specific video footage I sent. But in general, that's a pretty wrong statement. The majority of Palestinians, especially Gazans, never interact with the IDF, until the once-every-few-years back-and-forth between Hamas and Israel. And until October 7th, there wasn't any operation near its scale.

Palestinians aren't mass taken hostages, despite lots of rhetoric to the contrary. The IDF doesn't enter random civilian's homes and kill a grandmother they find, while live-streaming the slaughter on her own Facebook account for her friends and family to see. Etc.

I don't understand this constant desire to see everyone as equally bad here. You can think Israel does a lot of bad things (I certainly do) without having to think Hamas is equally bad.
Can’t you use s3 + mountpoint for most distributed CI cache needs?
It took off then stagnated a bit. Used a lot in Canada and Iceland, Norway, Sweden and various parts of the globe eg Eastern Europe. There is various projects further developing it still

That book you referenced is cool. But it’s not depicting a true language. Language has rules which allows you to generate new novel words and sentences. This is what bliss does and why it’s called a language - rather than all other symbol systems
Hahaha! :) What a mouthful. Yeah we will add an API in future based on this. So it truly will be RBEIAWPaaS hahahaha :)
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. It's the last thing we need here.

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

Edit: you've been posting a lot of nationalistic flamewar comments to HN, and we've already had to warn you about this before. Doing this is not ok on this site, regardless of which nations you have a problem with. We have to ban accounts that won't stop doing this, and I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing this.
There's used to be a note about it on the tensorflow docs; they're keeping the bad default because it's the default, and changing it would potentially change behavior unexpectedly for lots of users.
When I moved back from Germany to my country I continued working for my employee charging them hourly rate. I didn't considered myself a freelancer then, but after I quit that company 2 years later I continued with B2B for companies outside of my county.

Now I try to find freelance jobs using Linkedin mainly.
Do Feynman diagrams reduce computation? my understanding is that Feynman diagrams are a clever simple way to document particle interaction. That is, more for human consumption than machine. My gut tells me it is the same as saying "we were able to reduce the computational complexity of our simulation because we had a good flowchart", by which I mean, It may help, but the flowchart is not the code(yes, uml, I am looking at you)
Who is on the losing side of interest rates going up while 30 year fixers are presumably paying something like 2%?
> I agree that the systems are different and one is more oriented towards payout because we have little to no social safety nets so whatever the victims get has to last them for life, among other reasons I described above.

The argument though is, a lot of the difference is nothing to do with the factors you cite such as social safety nets, it is about the use of juries in civil cases, especially to decide damages. David Bernstein (professor of law at George Mason University) puts the argument better than I can in a 1996 journal article – https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regu... – see in particular the discussion of juries on PDF pages 3 onwards, and his recommendation on PDF page 6 that state legislatures should remove the power to decide damages from juries and transfer it to judges only
yeah it's been crazy to see how things have changed and im really glad that theres still interest in optimizing things for these benchmarks. ;P keller's pretty meticulous and has put in a lot of work for this from what i understand. im not sure where david's code came from originally, but it definitely impacted my code as i referenced it heavily when writing mine, and keller rewrote a lot of my code with his style + the improvements that he made in turn. hopefully the pedigree of minimal code can continue as a tradition, it really has a surprising impact

96 legitimately is pretty hard, i struggled doing it even in 2 minutes, so seeing it in 45 seconds is crazy. definitely gets exponentially harder for every fraction of a percent, so i think that's a pretty big achievement to hit :D
This is simply false. For starters, GitHub actions by default run on Intel Haswell chips from 2014 (in some cases). Secondly, hardware being faster doesn't obviate the need for caching, especially for docker builds where your layer pulls are purely network bound.
Who you know is king. Networking and showing up to meetups is the best way to get a job in this industry.
My Maintenance Policy
Intelligence breaks the pattern here. A simulated intelligence is intelligent, just as simulated math is math and simulated computers are computers. The point of contention shouldn't be whether LLMs are intelligences or simulated intelligences, but whether they're simulating something else.
Journalist Who Broke Story on Israel's AI Warfare Discusses the Technology
If the mistakes align with the time of day change, perhaps the author had a distraction that pushed the hours and compromised judgement.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39956782.
But kids gotta learn to code, and we gotta have a society where kids gotta learn to code.
Like I said, we don't know anything worth having a real discussion about. Maybe he was in the +03 time zone, and pretending to be in +08, but that's not enough to base a discussion on.
Get linkedin sales navigator
That was a pretty good read. The edging reference made me chuckle.
Not for DL models, but I was exploring doing this in a specific setting (I've posted about this earlier). For small-sized models (for some reasonable definition of size, e.g., depth of a decision tree, or # trees in a gradient boosting forest, or # non-zero coefficients in a linear model), I realized that you could make them even smaller while retaining their accuracy by selectively presenting training data to them, i.e., ignore some training data points, repeat certain others. See [1] - the x-axis shows the original model size and the y-axis shows the model size obtained by this process at the same or better accuracy.

Interestingly, this meant that the conventional wisdom that the test and train distributions have to be identical for optimal held-out performance, is not true at small model sizes. It is true as models grow larger - and I was explicitly able to show this. See [2] - where the x-axis is model size, and the y-axis measures (on a scale of 0-1) how close is the optimal training distribution to the test distribution. The different lines are for different datasets.

These images are from the paper here [3]. I have a library too [4]; that is in need of updates - it works today as-is though, but please use the latest minor release if this of interest [5]!

[1] https://imgur.com/a/NheK49Z

[2] https://imgur.com/a/N53GeNI

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06852.pdf

[4] https://compactem.readthedocs.io

[5] As of writing the install command should be `pip install compactem==0.9.9rc2`
The horse is a horse. They were a major part of human transportation and trade networks for a very long time.

The point is that humans have millennia of experience working with and relying on animal intelligence. Animals actually provide an interesting model for contextualizing artificial intelligence; the parallels are inescapable once you start looking at it.
Blissymbols is kind of fun to look at for a toki pona speaker; sitelen pona (the most popular hieroglyphic script for the language) shares a lot of features with it and Egyptian hieroglyphics. And it's pretty comprehensible—maybe easier for beginners than Roman script in some weird ways—while being tied to a whole speakable language that is decently easy to pick up. Might be fun for some of the people who think Blissymbols looks cool.
(Co-founder of Blacksmith here)

Glad it worked really well for you.

What made you switch to self-hosted runners?
The Brooklyn Tower, the borough's only supertall, faces foreclosure
I’m not convinced that if I found a bug that I’d notice all the security implications of fixing it. Occasionally yes, but I wonder how many people have closed back doors just by fixing robustness issues and not appreciated how big of a bug they found.
if you're ever having trouble coming up with a name, head over to Wookiepedia. no shortage of star wars planet names.

I usually go for a name from whatever book I'm reading at the time. currently have hogfather (terry pratchett), ozzie (peter f hamilton, void trilogy), sparver (alaistair reynolds - prefect dreyfus novels), deathandgravity (iain m banks - culture series). I'd love to use more ship names from the culture books but they're all too long.
> This could be fantasy talking. How does the walled garden around Steam affect their 30% cut? Oh, there is no wall, and it's... 30%.

Steam isn't both the OS manufacturer and the sole vendor of games on PC, unlike Apple and iOS

I can release a game for PC or macOS and never pay Steam or Apple a dime, can't say the same for iOS
Selling to developers is where i know it will struggle... Developers are cheap ass and would rather build it themselves at 10x the opportunity cost. And the moment it attempts to monetise itself in some form, there'll be a massive "betrayal" exodus a la Redis.

I know, cuz I am one.
People aren't obligated to live where you think they ought to live, and no one put you in charge of using social control mechanisms to force them to conform to your opinions.
Hey HN!

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if only they put macOS on the iPhone, this would all be avoided
Heh, wish I'd thought of that.
> Seems weird that the author continued sending their kid to the school...

Unless you're rich, school choice in the US is often not a thing. It's not really practical to sell your house and move to another district over something like this, and uprooting your kid like that has its own downsides.
Uncharitable strawman
I already have devices that work great with ChatGPT - my smartphone and my watch. Both have dual microphones for excellent voice interaction. Most LLMs have HTTP APIs that cost pennies a month. Theres many ways to make HTTP POST requests to OpenAI. Android via Tasker. WearOS via Home Assistant. iOS and Mac via Apple Shortcuts. I don't want a local LLM either - they are slow as molasses on pocket sized hardware. The fastest LLM, Groq, is less than a second of end to end latency. The best LLM in my opinion, Claude, is around 4 seconds. A dedicated device accomplishes nothing but a money grab. I don't want more pocket clutter.
The above sans-io page links to this PyCon 2016 talk:

Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way
https://youtu.be/7cC3_jGwl_U
After a quick chat with support, Spaceship also supports neither DMARC/DKIM/SPF on website-sent emails, nor automatic backups. They recommended using a third party plugin to connect the web hosting part to the personal email hosting part, but even then you just get SPF and DKIM, not DMARC.
Someone is in incentivised! Maybe x miles in the plane
to get it again next year?
In the modern economy costs expand to fill the available debt financing. See also cars and university tuition.
No, they are not. They are an extremely hazardous form of transportation.

I like riding motorcycles, but I don't fool myself into thinking that they're anywhere near as safe as a modern car.

In fact, they are responsible for more than 28 times the fatalities per mile traveled than cars.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
No real SQL, no real materialisation engine, no extensions.
Correction:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=1194490903016&w=rvu2sFol8p...
Probably why it is smart to buy a property where most of the value is the land. If you can!
Man was a legend.
Ever since I found out my heart has been heavy.
RIP MABO.
>How many Right-Wing beliefs could you hold 10 years ago that are remotely close to anything Left-wing today?

Support for war, less support for body autonomy/ informed consent, Pro censorship?
https://youtu.be/k64P4l2Wmeg Terminators, great.
There’s the peanut one too!
We always have a lot of fun coming up with 3d printer names, my favorite- "sir prints a lot"
Or they just bought the guy at one point, because I understood the malicious behaviour started quite recently.
I love Google flights but can see the argument that it stifles competition and innovation. Not sure what the solution is, but a bunch of search result links sucks.
This is why I come to Hacker News :)