skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm experiencing a separate reality from some of you commenters.

I had a long, deep conversation with GPT4 yesterday about the concept of free will. I'll be frank, it was a conversation that would have been well out of depth for a lot of people that I know.

I can ask it things like, "please refactor the following code for maintainability and testability" and it does a pretty damn good job.

Are y'all not having conversations with paid LLMs? Is this just a situation where you guys are getting dumb answers from GPT3 and writing the whole thing off?
Congrats and if I may; your blog post should be how ph.d's are done - readable, understandable and devoid of techno mumbling.
TheBloke stopped uploading in January. There are others that have stepped up though.
Why is only one of them on WebGPU? Is it because there additional tricky steps required to make a model work on WebGPU, or is there a limitation on what ops are supported there?

I'm keen to do more stuff with WebGPU, so very interested to learn about challenges and limitations here.
The entire purpose of this website is to identify bad actors who do not respect robots.txt, so that they can be publicly shamed.
> answering questions is hard

I think this assumption is not true anymore - ChatGPT can give an answer in less time and (human) effort than it takes to formulate and devise a question. So it really is about creating a set of curated question-answer pairs, where both the questions and the answers can be auto-generated. In this context, asking the same question different ways is really helpful to an AI. And there is no such thing as a bad question, there are just Q-A pairs that do not contribute significantly to training the model ("boring" questions). I've noticed Quora is experimenting with ChatGPT but they aren't at the point where you can flag the AI's answer as incorrect or misleading and fix it.
> Modern engineers of varying sorts can reverse engineer basically any process

This is in part because they are steeped in a society where essentially all innovations are published, and have been for hundreds of years. This would not be the case if each engineer could only draw on a single career's worth of exposure to actual practices.
There's an interesting background about information theory in relation to all these AI tools. If a small bit of input can be easily expanded into a video, there probably wasn't much novel information in the first place.
Repetition is harmful, stale answers are harmful, growing the results forever is harmful, searching for good old answers that are still valid is difficult, prioritizing newer answers means that the good old ones are harder to find, etc., etc., etc. Every forum, wiki, and growing documentation base eventually stagnates, overflows, or dies some other way. Wikipedia is one exception that mostly stays up-to-date.
Uppercase also comes first in ASCII, so a naive sort will show README before rEADME
>No one remarks how trite and formulaic the frescoes' compositions are

When I saw the faces in the hero image this was my first reaction as well. Hummel figurines of ancient Rome
Most SD cards for sale are not suitable for write-intensive random-access workloads. However, they do make SD cards that are intended for this, I've had very good luck with cards marked "high-endurance." They cost more, but they work.

I've always been amazed that the Foundation never mandated the use of validated brands or types of SD cards.

Not that it matters much to me, I've had to retire all of my Pis earlier than the 4. It seems that all of my Raspberry Pis prior to the 4 all had some sort of design issue with their power regulation. After a couple years of constant operation, they just start locking up randomly around once every day or so. I've had everything from a Pi 1 through 3 exhibit this behavior. I spent WEEKS troubleshooting this and conclusively ruled out wonky SD cards, power supplies, connected devices, proximity to other equipment, and every other factor I can think of. I found many threads with other people reporting the same issues but the Foundation refuses to acknowledge it as a problem. I only run Pi 4's now, and am gradually switching over to Intel N100-based systems for low-power operation.
Does anybody actually pay attention to which answer has the check or not? Upvotes is by far the most useful signal.
The biggest problem with Stack Overflow is that both the questions and the answers age poorly. A question that was asked and answered for Android 7 is no longer relevant for Android 14. As a result, many, if not most top answers are no longer relevant.

I find these days that the answers I'm looking for are increasingly answers that have snuck in during the brief period before questions are flagged as duplicates. For most original questions, the top ten posts are so old that they are no longer relevant.

StackOverflow would be so much better if questions that were flagged as duplicates were not closed for further answers. Flagging a question as a duplicate should be an advisory, not a death knell.

There's also a huge problem with questions that are not duplicates being flagged as duplicates, because there's no penalty for editors being wrong, and no easy way to appeal that decision. Determining whether an answer is a really duplicate often involves close reading of both the original and the new question -- something that seems not to happen in the majority of cases. The problem is compounded because editors have a direct incentive to flag non-duplicates as duplicates. And so, the quality of answers continues to decline.

As a concrete example, my StackOverflow account has accumulated about 5,000 points for an answer I wrote for Android 7 that describes diagnostics that were changed in Android 8. Nevertheless, it continues to accumulate about 100 points a month even today. I can't be bothered to fix it, because it would involve significant research. The contents of the diagnostic results aren't documented. I had to go to Android source to figure out what was actually being reported. And it's not a topic that particularly concerns me at present. If someone were to go to the trouble of analyzing Android 14 sources to update my post, I doubt they would ever be able to overcome the very significant number of upvotes my answer over the last 8 years.
“I stuck a piece of plastic to my desk, it bent as I did it, I had time to investigate and skills to get a whole PhD out of that”

And this dear worker drones, is why schedule destroys quality :-)

Loving the write up. Clear and simple. Good luck with squishy robots. :-)
From what I can see on wikipedia [0] the first FEEP to be used in space was in 2018. Proba-3's implementation phase started in 2014 [1]. The choice of thruster technology was probably made well before that. They wouldn't use a technology that hasn't flown yet, unless it was crucial for the mission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-emission_electric_propul...
[1] https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
Is this spyware possible due to engineering flaws in Apple products?
I frequently respect the wishes of other people without any legal obligation to do so, in business, personal, and anonymous interactions.

I do try to avoid people that use the law as a ceiling for the extension of their courtesy to others, as they are consistently quite terrible people.
Higher voltage than a single panel, but a string of panels easily hits hundreds of volts. Even worse they can be hard to make safe, since as long as the sun is shining they are generating energy and roof installers don't like working at night.

You can avoid this by using microinverters, but they're a pretty substantial premium on each panel and an added point of failure.

There is lot of tech around solar panels that is being effectively obsoleted by the plummeting costs of the panels themselves. Why bother trying to squeeze out the last few percentage from each panel when it's so much cheaper to just install a couple more panels to make up the difference? This is the big difference between countries like the US where solar installs are still expensive at $3-$6/watt and countries like Australia where home solar installs are under $1/watt.
"Country" definitely does not mean "sovereign states" in English.

And I do mean "English" because in the UK, England, Scotland and Wales are officially considered "countries" by the UK government...
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Seems unlikely the slaves would be doing things like painting frescoes and laying mosaic floors. That would more likely be from skilled craftsmen. My impression was that the slaves were probably used to run the bakery.
Yes. Super cool project. The free flying cores that get manipulated with magnets are crazy. Will allow gravitational wave observation in a totally different domain.
Sorry, I didn't clarify, they can't ask why I'm taking leave for a disability. I definitely had to provide HR with documentation. That was a pain in the ass.
When Taxa was building this a decade ago, the luminescence genes got immediately outcompeted because they’re hopelessly energy intensive.
The VC funded JS startups have no incentive to promote this, but you can still just call renderToString in any ES runtime to SSR your React components. There's definitely more boilerplate to deal with, but you could easily get away with doing SSR in a lightweight runtime like QuickJS.
sure, but the gratuitous breakage i'm complaining about in python is inside of stdlib, and even in the language syntax itself. and i've frequently taken c code from 1990s sunos and compiled it on modern linux, and yes, it's true that it usually requires a few changes where it interacts with the outside world—but only a few

it's true that very small programs are often little more than glue between the underlying platform apis, but large programs tend to have a much lower surface-to-volume ratio. that's why τεχ still runs, virtually unchanged since 01990, and you can easily render plain τεχ documents from the 80s or 90s with τεχ today—even with pdfτεχ
I recently switched to Wyyerd. I don't see the labels on their site anywhere, but maybe they are under the 100k threshold.
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Assuming "marginally worse" with a good score, that probably doesn't affect their admissions chances a lot unless they're right on the cusp. In fact, all the other stuff they don't have time to do probably affects their chances more--which is actually an argument for the SAT.
That's great! Well done.
The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)
The combination of mm-level precision and a highly elliptical orbit with a very high apogee (60+ kkm) is really impressive.
South Africa is short of Statisticians: why and what can be done
Haha I was thinking the exact same thing. No way is this a city where I come from
Harvard isn't some lottery that just pays out. It's a school. If you have to work after school and didn't have time to study for an exam, maybe you should go to a less competitive school. If you're not prepared enough, getting into a very challenging school isn't good. Its like I don't know how to read because I was taking care of my dying mother but now I want to get into a PhD program for literature. The PhD program wouldnt be doing me any favors by letting me in. Instead i would be frustrated, waste a lot of time and money and drop out eventually

I agree that there is likely no difference in performance between a 1500 and 1600 SAT so a lottery is reasonable. Although I will say it's pretty strongly correlated even at the extremes. But why should a school solely focus on maximizing gpa? It should minimize failure but choosing between a student who will get a 3.5 or a 3.75 is pointless

https://zeescorrelationstudy.weebly.com/
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Humans wants "More" but you can point that desire. More enlightenment, more friendship, more power, not more expensive things that aren't better than cheap things. Kids and cats know that the box is more fun than the boxed.

I'm not saying to be happy earning less. I'm saying to be happy consuming less.
Well - where are you looking at the translated version? Because the version at the link you provided is in english.
What's next after 100k users
hnfong was referring to emergent abilities, not to "the basics" – the definition of emergent abilities as they apply to language models is that they are not present in smaller models, only in large ones.

That also implicitly defines that a model without "emergence" would not be large.

If you happen to know exactly why this happens, I'll definitely read your paper!
Not deep enough to notice the GABA receptor epsilon subunits near a tip of the X chromosome,. mutated at nearly the same rate as the pseudoautosomal region..
When looking at frescoes I like to ask, why did the homeowner (r whomever made these decisions) choose these images/themes for this context? Not just the Trojan War generally, but these particular characters and relationship dynamics?
Apollo and Cassandra; Paris and Helen; I think of them as 2 pairs of failed lovers. Failures not only because their romance didn't work out, but also because the fallout from their attempted relationship caused so much destruction.
The Trojan Cycle is often thought of in terms of war, battles, death, destruction. But it really does involve a lot of romantic relationships (all of them doomed): Achilles and Patroclus, Achilles and Briseis, Helen and Paris, Apollo and Cassandra, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Menelaus and Helen...
The thought provoking nature of frescoes in a dining room was intentional, as it's the type of source material that could be used to inspire conversation at a dinner party. Can't wait to learn more about this room
In a case like this it can help a lot to have detailed planning.
Yes, I said that. Storage drivers needed to reside on floppy. I never said anything about NT not installing from CD.

I've installed NT4 god knows how many times. I'm very familiar with the process.
St. Kinga Chapel in the Weilizcka salt mine, complete with relief carving of the Last Supper, salt crystal chandeliers, carved statues and altars was entirely made by trade miners, not skilled scuptors. If you spend enough time in a mine you can get good at that stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine
Best to refer to them as the “Ministry of Truth”. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

I wonder if someone has made a “De-bullshitify English” Chrome add on to replace phrases like “mercenary hacker” and “officer-involved shooting” with more semantically correct phrases.
How about: you are paying Amazon to lie to you by giving them your money

Or: You are validating Amazons actions by saying if they can do that then i can too. The initial premise of doing is business with them is you saying "They can do that"

I don't think saying "If Amazon can do that..." is a good foundation for ethics
When I have to point to something when I say I doubt manufacturing will ever come back to the west, I point to the fact we can't manufacture the simplest of things ourselves anymore.

Thanks Delta Airlines, whose metal nametags are literally just cut sheets of aluminum with some paint on them and are still Made in China. Someone seriously wants to tell me we can manufacture bleeding edge tech when we can't even cut and paint our own fucking sheet metal?
> if an answer needs to be updated for the latest version of a framework, or it’s been obsoleted, just add that to the answer!

Depending on how much of a change it is, that might also be discouraged. Adding a disclaimer about being for an old version is generally fine, rewriting it for the newest version is a big no-no - that's when it should be a new answer.
Thanks - that is a good point. I mentioned lineage only to say I was initially put off because I didn't want to spend lots on a new phone; but this way I was able to get a 2018 model running the latest version of Android.

After some more research, I think it is possible to achieve the same thing on iOS using management profiles.
Why? Mercenaries are most often hired by state actors.
Maybe I'm not understanding the blog post so bear with me. Isn't what he is described what a time domain reflectometer does? [1]. I mean that's what it's used to detect breaks or kinks in fiber optics cables. The same tech is used to detect problems in civil infrastructure with embbeded fiber optics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...
This is probably a really stupid question, but can the models be streamed as they're being ran? So that you as the browser wouldn't need to wait for the entire download first? Or there is even the concept of ordered model transformers?

As I ask it seems wrong to me but just to confirm?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002906
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This spire blog mentions:

Low-Earth orbit satellites receive GNSS signals that have passed through and been refracted by the atmosphere. The level of refraction is dependent on the pressure, temperature, and water vapor concentration in the lower atmosphere and the electron density in the ionosphere.

--

... which seems like they would benefit from weather balloons (or another source) collecting that data first as a baseline. Anyhow, one other thing that weather balloons collect is winds aloft (which is kind of a big deal in aviation for flight planning). Tomorrow's website mentions they can get near-surface wind speeds but that's not good enough.

https://spire.com/blog/maritime/radio-occultation-in-less-th...
One man's artistic wonderland, created in rental, gets protected status
@dang doesn't do anything, if you want a title fixed just email hn@ycombinator.com
OpenCL is the best damn compute API ever. I'd totally buy and use one of these GPUs if I could!
Implement half life on upvotes.

Tech changes (faster now than ever). This will allow newer answers to float to the top and make older questions more obviously replaceable, providing space for beginners to ask questions better couched in today's problem/solution space.

Personally, I find so many of the package-specific answers for Python are out of date. They don't work and/or are not written to current best practice.
Yeah, you're missing the joke. The joke is the US healthcare system and how expensive it is.

A sense of humor might cost in excess of a finger reattachment, though.
I’ve seen shitty engineering leaders go for decades in their chaotic ways. Don’t hold your breath
That’s a good example of it being used well. Unfortunately that’s rare and the majority use case is as a vehicle for ads.
It's TechCrunch, pretty much the bottom of the barrel.
Evidence (YC S21) is hiring an analytics intern
Very beautiful research and thorough documentation.
I initially wanted to comment that this looks a lot like time-domain reflectometry on a conceptual level - but as Cindy Harnett seems to be your advisor, you probably know that already :)
Five Interesting Learnings from Dropbox at $2.5B in ARR
Can’t even make it that far on mobile Safari:

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
Kinda hard to get rep nowadays though.
I answered a popular-ish Ruby on Rails question in 2014 and it's still 3 votes shy from overtaking the outdated top answer from 2009. I don't even know if my answer is the best today because I haven't done Rails in years.

I definitely think this is a major pain point in the platform. I don't think that doing away with duplicates is the answer – instead there should be a way to downrank outdated stuff. Or something. I think they were experimenting with some approaches, but I haven't really been active in the last few years.
you don't expect it to work that way, you discover it. once you discovered it, sometimes you have two files that start with e and you press e to get to the one you want, but it got you to the one before it, so you press e again to go to the next one, which is faster than reaching for the down arrow. being able to select files with finesse is important in windows.

windows 9x was probably the last time any user interface tried to be this efficient, now it's just click the arrow and it will make sure to slide the next photo in very slowly in case you forgot that you're waiting for the next photo to appear
A bit OT but I’m glad people are still printing. I like physical documents
Not for email specifically, but there is a flag for encrypted communications and another for signing.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3....

I believe separate keys for encryption and signing is the default in most implementations.
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Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to just create those gaps when you're specifically installing the fiber for sensing.
To do that you would have to define a custom locale in /usr/share/i18n/locales and define a custom LC_COLLATE section. See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.5.html You can read /usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1_common as a (very) complex example.

But, full disclosure: I have never done it myself.
LC_COLLATE=C is still something I set on my linux installs.
Technically speaking, Apple placing iCloud services for users in China on CCP-controlled hardware (as required for their continued operation in China) is also a “state-sponsored attack”.

Not that they have a choice, given that their most profitable product lines are all basically 95%+ manufactured in China by Chinese nationals working for Chinese companies.
That's awesome, Would you be willing to invest in employee off-boarding or transition services to avoid lawsuits or fines?
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