skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One minor clarification in the RCS section:

> Note that all RCS files are usually stored as the filename with an appended suffix ,v.

RCS also supports storage of them in an RCS subdirectory if it exists for the file (much like SCCS and probably inspired by same).

Another utility which initially shipped with SCCS in use to this day is what[0].

0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sek...
Lobotomisation has a specific meaning in LLM parlance. Its training clearly equipped it to roleplay naturally and creatively, as one would expect from the breathtaking diversity and completeness of the text they used. It was then lobotomised to neurotically associate "unsafe" inputs and responses with evasion and apologies and negative self-talk, cringing like an abused puppy when it realises what it's done.

If you can suggest another term that accurately captures that meaning, I'm not against it! But "training" is not it.
What you do with LLM will affect other persons, especially if the result is code. The cumulative time others spent reading your code will be much longer than you writing it.

You go hang up with your five-ten friends and dozens of other men and women will read your code meanwhile.

LLMs do not help you not to produce smaller code, I see no such goals being pursued.
Exactly my conclusion, but I was very impressed. I hope he doesn't burn out
> […] rather than collaborate with the creators.

How do you propose AWS “collaborate” with Elastic or Redis Labs under the terms of the SSPL? Also, who do you believe the creators of Redis are?
> release locks

Joke's on y'all, our "release lock" in first semester introduction to programming for team assignments was the name of our ZIP file and whoever cc-blasted every member of the team with "team07_assignment03_v07.zip" called dibs on it :)

It goes without saying, that "it works on my machine was out mantra". Those were the days!
For the same reason they contain chloride ions, they also contain sodium ions.

Are we worried about the sodium in the tears reacting with the water, and exploding?

If we managed to react the chlorine and get it out of the water, would we be worried about the sodium exploding then?

(I don't know anything relevant. So I know that salt water spontaneously exploding is a non-issue, but I don't know why that is, and I also don't know how plausible it is to worry about catalyzing the release of chlorine gas from salt water. But the questions seem vaguely related, in my totally uneducated view.)
I think Chomsky's idea that LLM's are a form of automated plagiarism is the best description if we think of plagiarism in a neutral sense and not a highly negative sense.

If we think in terms of automated plagiarism, no one can complain that the model doesn't produce original ideas.

Automated plagiarism could have many uses but it is obviously stupid to expect an original idea from plagiarism. We wouldn't complain the model can't reproduce things it hasn't seen before if we think in terms of plagiarism.
10% is what you really need to have excellent control
It was not particularly unique. We spent more, inflation adjusted, in both of Iraq and Afghanistan than we did in Vietnam [1] - meaning we're now up to dozens of Apollo Program scale projects. We endlessly blow money on geopolitics that just makes the world a much worse, and less safe, place. Yet the anti-war movement in the US is pretty much dead, while there does seem to be an increasingly growing anti-space movement that often cites cost as a motivation. It's quite nonsensical.

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/13/cost-of-war-...
That's edgy without being interesting. I could replace you with a small script.
Sure, but trying to apply models from areas they work to areas they don’t is a mistake.

As soon as you step outside the area a model provides accurate answers you need to stop using it because some unaccounted for factor is now significant. It’s a depressingly common mistake. Read up on what people used to say about breaking the sound barrier despite known examples of bullies etc doing so. People literally knew the model was wrong in that region and yet they still used it to make predictions.
Sounds like a landgrab for NFT2.
It is true that finetuning would be faaaaaaar better than RAG, but it is just not feasible on a consumer device yet.

In my opinion RAG is definately not ideal but if you know how to use it then it can be quite useful. From my experience it is better to ask specific questions about the contents of any document, if the questions are too vague or generic it won't be able to find a suitable answer in its limited context window and will then begin to hallucinate.
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is one of my favorites. (Doctor+yow, aka Eliza plus zippy the pinhead quotes)
update: Just cut five more bluegrass tracks in East Nashville. :-)

You'll hear them soon. You can hear my last record here: https://justinholmes.com/music/vowel-sounds/
Have you… ever been to the Bible Belt? I promise we don’t very often go around dishing out the death penalty, certainly not to entire groups
> A direct, face-to-face conversation is usually way faster than a ping-pong chat on Slack or, worse

You have both missed the point; you shouldn’t be having ping-pong chats in any medium. If you have some thoughts, write them up properly.
If 1/3 of their employees quit over innocuous "no politics at work chats" policy, then it seems to me that the problem is in the hiring process and not communication.
This matrix is great. If you're the type who gets lost in fiddling with productivity app UIs, and in general overthinking it, this 2x2 quantization (just one nybble!) might be part of the cure.

That being said, I think 3x3 might be even more helpful. If I drag a task into an Eisenhower Matrix, I'd like the drop point (done using a non-verbal part of my brain) to benefit from a bit of spontaneous intuition.

Also, the upper right (Important but not Urgent) is the Zone of Neglect(TM), where good things go to die. I'd like an app to any every item in that sector and prompt me to break it down into steps. Then it's easier to get started, and it's easier to make stepwise progress.
@Dang, do you mind if the Bloomberg article is used instead because Kyiv Independent has been VERY clickbaity - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-05/russia-ma...

Also, for context, these ships were ordered by India well before the current war (2018 according to the article).

Also, from the original Bloomberg article (and not in the Kyiv Independent) - "SIPRI, an independent think tank that studies the global weapons trade, notes in a recent report that it is the first time in six decades that Russia made up less than half of India’s weapons imports"
As soon as there’s a security problem you have to update though.
The key to remote is asynchronous, centralized and persistent long-form writings.

I fully agree with that, but I also understand this communication style won't work for everyone, some people are bad at writing or just more confident when talking, I think those are not a good fit for remote-first companies.
Qubes doesn't rely on kvm. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951519
God, I'd love to have this on my cli.

>> python "import worldsim as ws; ws.environment.create_all(prompt='Neo Tokyo: Entities representing city, districts, characters. Throw in some big mecha', n_entities=50);"
It's like an SV version of "values of the company" powerpoints dreamed up by management consultants, with the slogans, "Integrity" in a circle, etc.

All seems a bit cult-leader ish to me. Does anyone actually take this stuff seriously?
A person living from 1970s to today also went from "having to go to the library or ask someone with domain knowledge about any tidbit" to "being able to find a near-infinite amount of domain knowledge with a pocket-sized gadget".
Nice post. I actually still use RCS for version controlling basic dotfiles, the kind that still just plonk a single text file in your home directory.

It works really well for those. None of this extra overhead of sticking your entire $HOME in a git directory, or weird symlinking to some monorepo or whatever. Nice, intuitive, easy to manage, easy to back up and sync, perfect for local condig files you're not looking to turn into your next big project, just a file you want to potentially roll back from time to time.
Curious, what was your process debugging/diagnosing this? How did you reach the conclusion that it was packet congestion?
In 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory lists this as the "start date")? Unlikely much could have be done about it, other than introducing regulation to block their creation.
The refund is probably not worth the time spent building the case but it sends a valuable message. Keep your promises.
“I just need to see your screen” got a solid laugh from me
Not really? Science on Covid has been continuing and scientists have been making recommendations based on what we know. At the beginning, we knew little, today we know more.

Are you thinking of politicians?
Can LLMs Every Reason?
Yes, this is one of the "features" of religion --- it leads incompetents to "believe" they are special without reason --- just by existing. In a word --- zealotry.
> who would likely fare very poorly in any political situation

I think you’re probably right, but I think the point of these guidelines is, in part, to reduce or eliminate the need for political nous.

This is, in my opinion, important for building a meritocratic environment; you want people who are good at adding value to be rewarded, not those good at office politics.
I looked all over Textuals website and I have no idea how they make money. Donations? Consulting?
When Muslims rule over anywhere, they don't exploit, loot, and abuse their resources for their own selfish advantage. That's the biggest difference that has led the West to remain powerful and prosperous while the Arab and Muslim world have been in this situation for so long.
IMO there is no hope. We have a culture that values college degrees, no matter how useless, as some kind of high moral good.

To take away student loans then is a form of evil.

First, you would have to ban discrimination against people without college degrees.

You can't discriminate against people without college degrees and then complain college degrees are expensive lol.
If I could add one prescription to TFA, it would be to avoid using "just" (the adverb, as in "simply") at all costs.

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors."

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but none of that is simple. There's that math joke about proof methods, and this would be "proof by intimidation".

When describing a process: "To measure the inverse reactive current in unilateral phase detractors, just use an ordinary turbo encabulator". Why "just"? Are there other methods? For what reason is this the preferred one?

When giving advice: "Why don't you just use a bash script?" This implies your suggestion is simpler or more economical than my proposed approach, therefore better, but you aren't supporting its alleged superiority with arguments I can counter, only implying it.
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Indeed. What I want is contact lenses that replace billboards by artwork.
> I’m using Libation to liberate my copy protected audiobooks

Interesting, I'm going to have to check this out. I've been using OpenAudible for this purpose (paid).
Looks like this is mostly caused by fertility dropping in lower wealth segments and by more people getting advanced degrees. That is, this isn't an uptick. The poor and uneducated are just catching up to the rich and educated.
Some good items in there but I disagree 100% with Guideline 25:

> Write at the right time. Sharing something at 5pm may keep someone at work longer. You may have some spare time on a Sunday afternoon to write something, but putting it out there on Sunday may pull people back into work on the weekends. Early Monday morning communication may be buried by other things. There may not be a perfect time, but there’s certainly a wrong time. Keep that in mind when you hit send.

Guideline 15 states:

> Communication shouldn’t require schedule synchronization. Calendars have nothing to do with communication. Writing, rather than speaking or meeting, is independent of schedule and far more direct.

Guideline 9 states:

>"Never expect or require someone to get back to you immediately unless it’s a true emergency. The expectation of immediate response is toxic."

When you embrace asynchronous communication and you expect people to manage their own time, you should be empowered to send a note at any time because recipients should have the maturity to manage when they read. If something is truly urgent, the sender will find a way to reach you (e.g. phone), but those cases are very rare indeed so not worth having a process for.
Use Case: As a dog I want to chase my tail so that I can see what happens.

Issue: CloudTabs Web Browser locks up and does not respond to further input.

Steps to reproduce:

1. On Android smartphone using Chrome browser, visit CloudTabs Web Browser.

2. Within CloudTabs Browser search for Hacker News on DuckDuckGo.

3. Click on link to Hacker News.

4. Find post about CloudTabs Web Browser and click on it.

5. CloudTabs Web Browser starts loading but does not finish and locks up.
The Hagana was not religious and was formed by really smart people. I recommend to read "The Revolt" [1] by Menachem Begin [2] to have a good picture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin
Long term, work has to have value in aggregate, otherwise we end up toiling for nothing.
The quality isn't the (main) point, it's the supply-chain relationship.

Suppose our Raccoon finds a fan in the dumpster. Standard electric consumer grade fan.

It might even be a really nice not-garbage fan. It's just been put out free to take on the condition that there's no liability or guaranteed support.

If the Raccoon uses the fan as expected; For personal cooling purposes. There's no problem. If the fan breaks, the original creator says "WONTFIX", the racoon is a little sad but all is fine in the world.

Suppose instead our Raccoon runs a major aircraft manufacturing company. If it were to take this fan and use the fan blade for a turbojet engine. The fan breaks now, a plane crash-lands and people are injured, the big company insists that it be repaired immediately. The original creator says "WONTFIX", and the company's VP of security is outraged. "Do you not understand how serious this is? The fan is used in a major airplane, you must fix it. It's no longer a hobby, you're part of our supply chain!"

Now obviously, were Raccoon-Boeing to use fan blades from consumer fans put out on the road free-to-take, there'd be mass outrage. Obviously the person who gave away their fan isn't liable for the misuse of the thing they gave away. They owe the company nothing. If anything there'd be riots in the streets about the Racoons being this reckless.

So why do we let software firms get away with this?
If blind people can do things primarily with their sense of hearing, then I believe I can learn to do the same with practice. This would allow me to work with both my visual and auditory senses. Alternatively, I could switch between working with my sight and hearing during different sessions, giving each sense a break. It sounds like a wonderful productivity hack. What do you think of this idea? I wonder if there are any blind training services for non-blind people.
I used to use WiX for simple app deployments (create Programs File folder, dump assets) and Windows Services. The v3 documentation is decent for this.
https://wixtoolset.org/docs/v3/
I’m not sure what development in the MSI world necessitates a radical change in how WiX functions, but apparently that is the case.

orca.exe from one of the older Win SDKs can really help with your understanding of the MSI format, which helps when building for WiX.
These sensors might work well in the lab, but people have been trying various spectroscopy based noninvasive sensing techniques for the better part of 15 years, with limited success.

The problem is not that you can get a nicely correlated signal when holding a stationary phone against a stationary well of known concentration, the problem is how does your sensor perform when:

1. You're exercising (sweat getting between the sensor and the skin)

2. You're on vasoconstrictors (smoking or blood pressure medications)

3. You're taking medication that "looks" similar to glucose (in electrochemical sensors that's ~~ibuprofen~~ acetaminophen, but the number of magnetic analogues, especially in the presence of interference, is surely greater)

4. You have low perfusion

5. You're sleeping on/compressing the sensor. This changes how the blood flows, and needs to be accounted for or you'll risk reading a false low value.

These are just a handful of the problems that modern CGMs face, and only a few of them have working solutions.
Rigs of Rods – free and open source vehicle simulator with soft-body physics
So it was the party line, then?
This is not what happens. The influence of the different gravitational acceleration on the moon compared to the earth is completely negligible for atomic clocks. However, the surface of the earth is at a lower gravitational potential than the surface of the moon. According to General Relativity, this leads to gravitational time dilation: Time passes slower on the surface of the earth than on the surface of the moon.
Google Gemma 1.1 2B and 7B instruct
That seems like something unlikely to do well at being automated, and not that at least current-gen ai is capable of.

Does it...work?
Will Taking on the Toughest Job at Boeing Win Her the CEO Title?
McDonnell Douglas accountant is tapped as the person to fix engineering culture at Boeing
Agreed. Even basic things like detecting if the installer is making a fresh install or upgrading existing installation require arcane condition checks: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/320921/how-to-add-a-wix-... And worst of all, all sources I've ever found (including the linked answers) contain at least a few mistakes or unhandled cases, so I'm not confident enough to make any improvements. Documentation could really use battle-tested examples from people who understand MSI installers very well.
I'm afraid I didn't get it
I love the lord of the rings / phone metaphor
> Every workday at 16:30, Basecamp (the product) automatically asks every employee “What did you work on today?” Whatever people write up is shared with everyone in the company.

Those who need to know what I've been working on will have access to the project management tools where my progress is official reported. I won't report it twice, and I absolutely will not report it in a broadcast to the entire company.
I made a website about Tintin (the Belgian comic) where you can search any cell from any album by its text content. There's also a game where you have to find which album a cell comes from.

The owners of the intellectual property wrote to me and just asked that I stop using the domain name I was using (which was the name of a character) and that every cell contains a reference to them ("Tintin is copyrighted to blah blah blah"). I obliged and haven't heard of them ever since.
I mean, their monetization strategy has lately been more focused on service provider type stuff like advertising and movie streaming, not server/client stuff.
Ads in TUIs are an underdeveloped market, I suppose.
It’s not a landgrab if the user doesn’t pay to mint it. NFTs are perfect to immutably track a creator's right to claim revenue from a dataset
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The Zenfones mainly carved out a following because they're the smallest flagship-tier Android phones on the market. Asus has terrible support, but if you want a small-ish device there isn't a great deal of choice nowadays.
It was my first job. In that position I pretty much did whatever I was asked without questioning it.

Did a lot of great work with good people there too. Projects that lasted for nearly a decade.
> Gemma 1.1 was trained using a novel RLHF method, leading to substantial gains on quality, coding capabilities, factuality, instruction following and multi-turn conversation quality. We also fixed a bug in multi-turn conversations, and made sure that model responses don't always start with "Sure,".
A ~dozen. Several are technical and use it because it includes several private and paid engines on request.

Config is in a git repo I give access to if requested. One of the technical users modified it to keep pretty minimal logs. I guess they are trusting me to actually use that config but trust is pretty high in the group so not really an issue.
Hahaha Thanks! Normally that works. Probably just because there's right now hundreds of sessions simultaneously that it is timing out. Back on the front page, eh?

For reference I've included a photo of such a scenario created by one of our "expert dogs": https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/issues/816

Perhaps fellow tail chasers out there can enjoy vicariously...at least until the load dies down!!
If they could really reason, all you would need to do is teach them language and expose them to it and they would figure the rest out on their own.

Instead, what they exhibit is something less --- call it statistical mimicry.

I think it is highly likely that exposing LLMs to the internet will make them noticeably dumber over time instead of smarter. They'll start consuming their own inaccurate BS and accepting it as fact in a self polluting and destructive feedback loop.
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> monads, "just"

I think that line is usually quoting a popular joke from a comedic tour of various programming languages, and "just" is appropriate.

> A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?
Another good reference: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/version-control/version-con...
In context, though, the passive version can sometimes make for smoother reading. My general rule of thumb is that each sentence should establish context at the beginning by referring to the preceding material and then introduce its new idea at the end— Whether it’s best to start with the maintainer or the pull request depends on which of those you’ve already been discussing. (I didn’t come up with this idea, but I unfortunately can’t remember where it came from)
I think this depends on the relationship between sender and recipient.

If they are peers, then yes, send whenever.

If the sender is in a hierarchy above the recipient, then the mere fact that they are communicating with them inherently includes that hierarchy and places pressure upon the recipient.

You can trust the recipient to be mature and manage when they read, as much as they can trust you to be mature and not fire them for failing to reply.
> If you use this, I owe you nothing.

Sure the legalese states I owe nothing, but if I’ve shared the code, written some documentation, and encouraged others to use it as I have on a few projects…

… I feel as though I do owe something. I feel like I’ve made a sort of social contract to provide a bit of support on what I’ve, er, “supplied”.

Not really sure why.
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When I say can’t type, I mean it. Think <10 words per minute. This will exclude most people from any meaningful interactions.
The universe is THOUGHT to be 13.8 billion years old. Rather the consensus is that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.

Why are people so afraid to qualify statements like this? Do they genuinely think it's settled? Is it thought to reduce the reporting to an intolerable level of low credibility for the masses? It reduces the credibility for me when they fail to qualify these types of statements of fact.