skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel
Shout out to another project by the same creator: https://www.derivative-calculator.net/
Both of these helped me through my undergrad physics degree, especially because of the step-by-step solutions. Without it I wouldn't have learned nearly as much about calculus.
There's an infinite number of arguments on how his publicly expressed (these donations were not anonymous) personal views impact his role as the head of an organization.

If for instance valuable members of the org quit on it, recruiting becomes noticeably harder, Mozilla's PR is impacted and investors aren't happy about it, I'd assume that's enough to ask him to step down.
No, I mean with rule of law and powerful institutions. As opposited to China (or Russia), which have law, but institutions are engineered so that the person in power can highjack them to ensure the outcomes they want.

Think about it. In western countries (US, UK, EU, Japan, etc) you can have a court rule something that is seriously inconvenient for the government. In China and Russia that never happens.
I often find myself wanting to do a search and replace across all files in a directory tree (e.g. git repo). With sed, sd, purl etc you do that by listing files with matches and piping into xargs. But that has lots of disadvantages: you're using regexes in two programs, which might differ, you have to know three different tools for one job, etc. I love unix pipelines but for this use case I can't help feeling that the replace tool should be able to do the directory walking.
> The reason that I know "The cup is in my hand" is not because P("The cup is in my hand"|HistoricalTexts) > P(not "The cup is in my hand"|HistoricalTexts)

I mostly agree with your points, but I still disagree with this premise. Humans (and other animals) absolutely are statistical reasoning machines. They're just advanced ones which can process more than "text" - they're multi-modal.

As a super dumb-simple set of examples: Think about the origin of the phrase "Cargo Cult" and similar religious activities - people will absolutely draw conclusions about the world based on their learned observations. Intellectual "reasoning" (science!) really just relies on more probabilities or correlations.

The reason you know the cup is in your hand is because P("I see a cup and a hand"|HistoryOfEyesight) + P("I feel a cylinder shape"|HistoryOfTactileFeeling) + .... > P(Inverse). You can pretend it's because humans are intelligent beings with deep reasoning skills (not trying to challenge your smarts here!), but humans learn through trial and error just like a NN with reinforcement learning.

Close your eyes and ask a person to randomly place either a cup from your kitchen in your hand or a different object. You can probably tell which one is it is. Why? Because you have learned what it feels like, and learned countless examples of cups that are different, from years of passive practice. Thats basically deep learning.
so basically rtx 4090 x6 = 144 GB ram which would cost $15996 = $9594 ( only the nvidia 4090s) and currently the tiny box gives
*TinyBox*
> GPU RAM | 144 GB
> Price | $15,000 $25,000
Nvidia 4090x6

> GPU RAM | 144 GB
> Price | $9594

so a * 36.04%* decrease in price from team red tinybox ( $15k) and *61.624% *decrease in price from the team green tinybox ( $25k)
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> News stories force an agenda on you.

This "documentary" does the same - force the agenda - perhaps even more so.

History books can potentially teach how to avoid this kind of conflicts. They are not emotionally appealing - unlike "documentaries", and likely less interesting, but we need to read one to avoid making another
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> Someone should sent this news to Argentinian government so they do something about the problem they're having right now instead of looking the other way

They aren't looking away, they're slashing costs everywhere without much thought and hiding their heads in the sand to any potential consequences. What more could you expect from a libertarian who gets advice from his dead dog?
MySQL is NoSQL: https://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/document_store.htm...
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Only if your snoring is caused by a deviated septum or other nasal cause.

Sleep apnea and heavy snoring more commonly is due to the tongue and jaw slacking during sleep, causing the tongue to kind of slide into the throat and obstruct your airway.

This is even worse for overweight and obese people with visceral fat making their airways physically smaller too. Then it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle as bad sleep quality and low oxygen during sleep has a host of side effects, including making weight loss and digestion a bit more difficult.
I think semiconductors (such as most solar cells) do not act as ideal black bodies. Thermal excitation (what temperature required?) can move electrons into the conduction band and when the electron relaxes it emits a photon corresponding to the band gap.

I looked for a good article, but didn't find anything. There was one relevant comment in the first article I skimmed that said "semiconductors do not behave remotely close to a blackbody": sounds authoritative but the comment was on stack-overflow so hard to judge its correctness!
Speaking as software-developers we have to see RAG as kind of a caching-mechanism.

Instead of computing every token every time on the whole context, we can grab a cache to make some shortcut. We do the same in software development all the time. Of course it's a performance issue.
Would it be defensible if he hated blacks and Jewish people and fought against legalizing interracial marriage?
I got a quote from my dentist for a MAD. Half the price of CPAP machine where I am and that's not including sleep study costs.
It definitely seems to be a target audience issue. I use VS code and MyPy regularly catches mistakes, some of which would have been fairly subtle.

I have MyPy and Ruff going all the time and generally aim for zero linter errors.
"A breath is a breath, you can't say it's only a half"
Despite only being partially solid state, this is still a great achievement! The car's advertised range and fast charging capabilities (249 miles in just 12 minutes) are amazing.

I'd love to see some independent reviews confirming the numbers presented here, to make sure there's no exaggeration, and I'd also like to see what kind of charge degradation happens over time to this car. But it's truly a pity we can't buy something like this yet in the West.
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A number can be dodgy and manipulated without being outright fraudulent. And in politics it's rare someone will outright lie - I'm sure you've heard the term "lies, damn lies and statistics".

For example, during the pandemic the UK government set itself a target for covid testing, then proudly announced that they'd hit their target - but it turned out they were not counting the number of tests processed in labs but instead the number of test kits sent out by mail regardless of whether they were received, returned, or processed - allowing them to declare success before increasing lab capacity. It's not outright fraudulent, but it's questionable and errs in a politically convenient direction - that's a dodgy number.

And as I understand it, the claim in this discussion is that the government changed the definition of inflation, in a way that made the number lower? And that it now doesn't accurately reflect what it purports to reflect?

Sounds like dodgy manipulated numbers to me.
Nah, the internet will always be there and always be changing. New tech rarely kills old tech, just reduces its usage. Ebooks didn't kill printed books, tv didn't kill radio and so on. People move on to what they like though - you can still buy paper newspapers and vinyl records but many don't. I've read far more "oh no LLMs" content by humans than actual LLM content myself as I don't really like the latter.
No issue with transformers -- the entire field of statistical learning, decision trees to NNs, do the same thing... there's no mystery here. No person with any formal training in mathematical finance, applied statistics, hard experimental sciences on complex domains... etc. would be taken in here.

I'm trying my best to inform people who are interested in being informed, against an entire media ecosystem being played like a puppet-on-a-string by ad companies. The strategy of these companies is to exploit how easy is it to strap anthropomorphic interfaces over models of word frequencies and have everyone lose their minds.

Present the same models as a statistical dashboard, and few would be so adamant that their sci-fi fantasy is the reality.
Do you mean like a block diagram? You might have to be more specific about the type of job you're working on.
Do you genuinely believe that other governments don't already have that information?

Most of it is publicly available, and what isn't can be estimated reliably via satellite imaging
https://youtu.be/aGLgu9QQJTo?si=vjxjjfxUe0zWHX1R
Why not locally sourced? I mean it's very possible flax isn't native to the Americas but it seems wasteful to source something from abroad.

And while 100+ years ago it made sense from a logistics point of view - use hard to find materials to fight counterfeiting - I don't believe that's a valid argument anymore.
He's also an avid anti-vaxer and covid conspiracist. Does it matter? Not sure. I will personally not touch anything he is helming (brave).
This was the best explanation I’ve seen. I think it comes down to essentially two aspects: 1) he doesn’t try to hide complexity and 2) he explains what he thinks is the purpose of each computation. This really reduces the room for ambiguity that ruins so many other attempts to explain transformers.
The rabbit hole goes even deeper than that:

https://twitter.com/genericeddie/status/1659081857793769472

https://web.archive.org/web/20060115061830/http://www.rollin...
Its easy to say that now that the pendulum is swinging back the other way. But where were the voices of reason for the past 10 years when free expression was under attack?
The literature is replete those kinds of issues. The most common side effect of prolonged use is a change in the bite alignment. I used one for over a year before I had surgical intervention to increase the size of my airway via jaw surgery (both jaws advanced). By the end of that year, I couldn’t get my lower jaw back into place during the day and bite no longer aligned.

Thanks the braces and surgery corrected my bite and expanded my airway to the point that I no longer need anything to help me breathe at night or during the day
I think no matter how large the context windows will get and no matter how fast the inference speeds will get, there will always be break-point where the context we have will be so large, that either cost or inference time are not a good experience in real life, and we have to split up the context.

We cannot simply state that at some point in time RAG will not be necessary. Like everything in the computer science world it always will depend on our data size and the resource constraints we have.

Unless of course we can process a corpus the size of the whole internet in <1 second. However, I doubt this can be achieved in the next 20 years.
Yeah, no. That's about as useful as saying "just don't snore".

I've never been a mouth breather and yet I'm a heavy snorer with my mouth slacking open at night.
Any NN "trained on" data sampled from an abstract complete outcome space (eg., a game with formal rules; mathematical sequences, etc) can often represent that space completely. It comes down to whether you can form conditional probability models of the rules, and that's usually possible because that's what abstract rules are.

> I have one kjsdhlisrnj and I add another kjsdhlisrnj, tell me how many kjsdhlisrnj I now have.

1. P(number-word|tell me how many...) > P(other-kinds-of-words|tell me how many...)

2. P(two|I have one ... I add another ...) > P(one|...) > P(three|...) > others

This is trivial.
Maybe I'm old, but do we really watch the movies because they are sharper, have vivid colors, etc or because of the story ?

On the other hand, I would probably pay for an AI that will 'undark' that new super artistic movies, because some of them, have worse lighting than the Blair With Project...
Putting the "Bite" in "Bitcoin"
Permissive libraries violate the "one and only one obvious way" philosophy.

I suspect they probably confuse AI tools more than restrictive APIs too, and give non-AI auto complete less to go on.
TMJ = Temporomandibular joint (probably clear for anyone who has issues with it, but not so much to the rest of us)
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You might be surprised to learn that a lot of the world uses polymer banknotes which are siignificantly more durable and last a lot longer than traditional 'paper' based currencies. The are incredibly hard to tear/break and they do not wear out or stretch. We've been using these in Australia since 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote

Having handled a fair amount of US currency I can say it _feels_ disgusting to handle after a certain amount of wear and often reminds me of a moist tissue. It also doesn't help that visually the notes all look very similar (as opposed to on polymer notes which have significantly different appearances and colours)
I doubt that. Computing has a greenhouse effect similar to air traffic.

Edit: While true that's maybe not a good argument. Financial processing hardly is the biggest culprit. The worst impact / benefit ratio are probably video and ad distribution.

However, if you think how much Chinese (and similar) goods a $20 or 50€ note buys during its lifetime the impact of shipping the banknote material seems negligible.
Every watch everywhere displays 2 times: local solar time (with time zones) and UTC. Earth too. After a while people get used to UTC and we can have global time.
Sure. And we should do nothing but subsistence farming as well. But that's not really practical.
Probably because they’re from the US and care about their own problems first? Not really surprising TBH
Are you referring to Nazi-Germany or the US in this context?
I really feel like there's no great way to win here.

- I've tried the side sleeping thing as well as I snore less with it, but the only way to stay on my side is to force something behind me so I can't roll over. But then I get shoulder and hip pain from lying on only one side for most of the night.

- CPAP side effects sounded enough that it'd just be a 50/50 on if it'd help me sleep better

- MADs can cause jaw pain and other issues

The closest improvement I've had so far is by accident: a higher-end chain store in my area started selling S-shaped "back sleeper anti snoring pillows" so I tried one out. Like CPAP my mouth is suuuuper dry when I wake up, but I've felt more alert waking up and my sleep quality has improved.
Wrong sorting. It gets posted much more often; for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905443
Static images don't tell the whole story. If motion blur is reduced by AI that could make final video worse since motion blur helps us perceive 24fps movement smoother than it is.
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Maxima ist absolutely great. It can be somewhat confusing, but it is actually quite advanced.

Calculating integrals is extremely hard (unlike calculating derivatives, which is very easy to do) and maxima comes with some of the more advanced and comprehensive strategies to solve integrals.
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.NET entity framework migrations, so we have small come line app that uses migrations and well scripts are scripts. Deployment as all other apps we have.
Does that really matter? Saudi Arabia is an ally.
Eich is free to express his opinions and free to suffer the consequences. CEO is a very political position and he made a politically bone-headed move. I don't see how it could have ended any differently.
> Not waste time by ceding control to another entity that doesn't have any engineering know-how to evaluate what does and does not need done. Take the reins and do what needs doing.

Problem is organisational power. What happens when the "another entity" is the one that has the decision making power and is the one that can use that power to pressure you what to do and what not to do?

Asking cause this was my life for a while, and its an endless and gruelling battle of persuading, educating, trying to make someone understand things they don't want to understand ...
Wow, I can (just barely) slide my bottom teeth in front of my top teeth, but not with the tongue in between, and it still feels extremely weird and uncomfortable...
Sick Boy's philosophy of life applies here.
I think you mean the LGPL? It allows you to "convey a combined work under terms of your choice" as long as the LGPL-covered part can be modified, which can be achieved either via dynamic linking or by providing the proprietary code as bare object files to relink statically. The GPL doesn't have this exception.
I haven't! The next logical step for the CPC emulator would be the CPC+ I guess :)
Right, learning more abstract rules about how things work is the goal and where the value comes in. Not all algorithms are able to do this, even if they can do what you describe in your first comment.

That's why they're interesting, othellogpt is interesting because it builds a world model.
Why is Stedi and Techcrunch article glossing over autoscaling EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk, which also scale on demand?
That video is from 2013. Is anyone aware of an update for the last ten years which covers 2013 to 2023? I would like to understand if seL4 is still considered "current" or there have been newer developments since then that are worth considering. I have searched around a bit, and apart from Google's Fuscia Zircon, or Unikernel's like UniKraft, other L4 spin-offs and XNU I am not finding too much about newer modern microkernels.
I mean something specific by "statistics": modelling frequency associations in static ensembles of data.

Having a body which changes over time that interacts with a world that changes over time makes animal learning not statistical (call it, say, experimental). That animals fall into skinner-box irrational behaviour can be modelled as a kind of statistical learning, but it actually isnt.

It's a failure of ecological salience mechanisms in regulating the "experimental learning" that animals engage in. Eg., with the cargo cults the reason they adopted that view was because their society had a "big man" value system based on material acquisition and western waring powers seemed Very Big and so were humiliating. In order to retain their status they adopted (apparently irrational) theories of how the world worked (gods, etc).

From the outside this process might seem statistical, but it's the opposite. Their value system made material wealth have a different causal salience which was useful in their original ecology (a small island with small resources), but it went haywire when faced with the whole world.

Eventually these mechanisms update with this new information, or the tribe dies off -- but what's going wrong here is that the very very non-statistical learning ends up describable that way.

This is indeed, why we should be very concerned about people skinner-boxing themsleves with LLMs
That’ll work for someone whose only or primary breathing obstruction is nasal valve collapse.

I had enough nasal valve collapse that I tried these vents but found them uncomfortable. I got the desired impact on my nasal airway from nasal strips that keep the nasal valve open, but that didn’t solved my nighttime sleep/breathing issues because I also had a very narrow airway into the back of my nose and throat due to my recessed upper and lower jaws, which I had surgery to correct about bit over a year ago
> I know what they meant.

If you did, "Trade secrets are a type of IP." seems to be an unrelated assertion to the thread.

> You would be sued under trade secret law if you intentionally leaked them.

To embed trade secrets into an open source fork, would suggest either the intent to withhold the modified source, ignorance, or flat out incompetence. Anyone, be it a lone hacker or a large organization, can simply fork the source on the platform it's hosted on (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) at a click of a button.

It is a requirement of AGPL that all deployed updates to a product or online service need published source[0]. Once again, very simple to have this running off CI/CD. If there are trade secrets in that source... oh well, they have to be published too. So the simple solution is to not have them in there in the first place (i.e., abstract it away).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40032179
> which is one reason why recipes are usually accompanied by a personal story

I see this claimed often but it doesn't make any sense - anyone can still copy the recipe without the story and then the copy would even provide more value than the original.

Seems to me padding recipes with fluff is mostly about SEO and maximizing ad impressions.
OpenAI op X: ChatGPT responses will be more direct and less verbose
Why's lithium a 'folk remedy?
We have scientific evidence of the efficacy of lithium as adjunct in depression treatment and anti-suicidal.
That would be very helpful actually
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,,Sadly, this employee had to sell up his green gold to pay for losses when his broker “margined his account with another stock that fell 90%''

It wasn't just pure luck for the person who didn't use margin trading, like the other.

For any stock where the log price is moving in one direction with Brown motion, margin trading is just stupid, as it moves the log value of the asset held to minus infinity.
I used the morning moulded piece of plastic that you’re talking about but still, after a year my teeth no longer aligned. I just couldn’t move my lower jaw back into its prior aligned position
Oh yeah, I was talking in the context of the source being the sun. Of course other sources vary.
That's one opinion to hold if you are cynical enough or young enough not to remember stuff changing over time.

For example, if you are old enough to witness the transition you can remember how much a fresh breath of air was moving away from the clutter and pertinaciousness of post modernist interior design into the functional and comfortable minimalism then only to go the the next phase seeking some more cozy spaces once the minimalism begin feeling impersonal and cold and then the designers remember how cool and inspiring some stuff from the 60s and 70s were.
There's also the excellent `org-modern`. https://github.com/minad/org-modern