skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get it. Why would you need computer aid to create a level in Super Mario Maker? Does the creator need to beat the level to publish it or something? If the creator does need to beat the level I don’t understand why there was a community of people trying to clear every level (since presumably the creator of each level would’ve already had to clear it?)
Original creator of the blog here. Yes, you are right. The title of the blog is a bit misleading. I originally wrote this for a course from my University and thought it was interesting so integrated it into my website. I didn't expect to get that much traffic on the blog and didn't intend to do any clickbaiting. I just wanted to extend on what Andrej karpathy mentioned in one of his tweets: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1582807367988654081. I think i also linked it in the blogpost. I think this view on transformers is a very powerful one and explains in the best way why the transformer is build that way. This also allows us to reason about certain improvements for the transformer. For example weight tying some layers to make it easier to map to algorithms that have a lot of repeated operation. The Goal of the blog was not to use the transformer as a general purpose differentiable computer but to convince you that the transformer already IS a general purpose differentiable computer. Maybe i will create another blog where i train the transformer on simple algorithmic problems like sorting or copying data, just like in the differentiable turing machine, or even show how you can hard code the transformer weights to solve them. What do you think would be a better title for the blog?
And is HP's ink really better? Who knows.
It is there, not for all the benchmarks, but for those where it is included, GPT-4 scores much higher.

Not surprising since GPT-4 is still state-of-the-art and much bigger. Where Mistral has been particularly impressive is when you take the size of the model into account.
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Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of that?
That's not true at all. It's class mail is delivered at extreme discount, subsidized by spam.
Agreed. That’s why I called them “marginally” useful - they’re an additional datapoint but not useful as the primary discriminator (pun intended).
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Building a large building does not look anything like building a nuclear silo.

This comment is 100% ridiculous speculation.

That's not to say they don't have a nuclear weapons program - they probably do - but needing a mega-project to cover it up is just silly.
It's not just a problem for training, but the end user, too. There are so many times that I've tried to ask a question or request a summary for a long article only to be told it can't read it itself, so you have to copy-paste the text into the chat. Given the non-binding nature of robots.txt and the way they seem comfortable with vacuuming up public data in other contexts, I'm surprised they allow it to be such an obstacle for the user experience.
Your experience as a customer of a transit service is based on the aggregated output of public employees in general, not individuals. I’m sure there are hard working, efficient people at WMATA. But those individuals can’t single handedly keep the system from falling apart when their coworkers are trying to do as little as possible.
Follow up unpaid endorsement, Sonic is incredible. Half the price of the competition with more features.

Last time the power went out I got a text message from Sonic before I got one from the power company. Sonic texted saying my connection was down, they were looking into it. Then a couple minutes later saying that diagnostics show the power is likely off in my neighborhood.
> They let fraudsters (pigs) accumulate capital by any means. Then they butcher it for political and financial capital. Government looks like a hero and they are able to keep the lights on.

Pretty much. This makes To Lam and Nguyen Phu Trong's faction look like saviors. Nguyen Phu Trong is too old to take the top seat, so this is basically paving the way to make To Lam the leader of VN by gaining public sympathy AND destroying any potential opposition from the Southern VCP and their affiliated oligarchs.

This is literally Xi's corruption crackdown in 2016 all over again, except Vietnam in the 2020s is nowhere near as rich as China was in the 2010s, so all this backstabbing bs has scared foreign investors away (even I backed out of funding an interesting VN product because of this - ik how China and India use the CCDI and ED, VN ain't worth that level of headache).
trash (rats' food source) is usually picked up twice a week in most places in the city, it never lines up perfectly to 'half-way through the week', and sometimes the 'other' collection is 'just recycling' (less organic matter to feast on)

I'm guessing the most frequent submitters send consistent reports when they can see rats on their block going after the trash (twice-ish a week); if more people in different areas reported as consistently, it might even out (some places have trash pickup monday, some tuesday, some wednesday...) (assuming all areas have equal concentrations of rat)
Well, I use keyservers, and I don't intend to broadcast that fact.

Maybe I'm using them wrong in your view, but I don't see why your view is somehow the canonical one, given all the non-email examples I and other people in this thread have provided.
I suppose in that case, let them keep wasting their time.
Wow that's super cool! Very nice work
For Spectrum to find the broadband facts you have to go through the order process and then a "Show Broadband Label" will show up on the internet package selection. Buried pretty deep.

Edit: There is also a little bit of a dark pattern. The price shows 49.99/mo for 12 mos with auto pay, but the Broadband Facts sheet shows price at $84.99 and says "This monthly price is not an introductory rate". Very shady from my (only) option for ISP.

Edit2: [Dark pattern](https://imgur.com/a/FktbVuV)
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I recall RustDesk adding root certificates and making other core system changes that were very unexpected.
> HP’s salespeople will try to point out to commercial customers that aftermarket ink has a high VoC content and will contaminate your office.

Maybe that's true, maybe it's not, but I certainly wouldn't assume it is because a salesman said it.
Made me think of Navin R. Johnson’s invention of the Opti-Grab.
> BPP is the complexity class for decision problems that a randomized algorithm can solve in polynomial time, in the sense that on every input (worst-case), the algorithm is right with at least 2/3 probability (over its own randomness).

What's the theoretical significance of the 2/3 threshold?
How have meta employees stolen money?
The power of language, where "state-sponsored" too accurately directs the population's attention to their government but where mercenary is vague and non-aiming - where a simple change in language is enough to quell that ire and attention of authoritarians; or should I say authoritarian behaviour to not out them directly as authoritarians?
>So, it's not "we have 100 slots this year, the 100 best get in"?

If a university's mission goes beyond just collecting already-top-performing students from the best (usually wealthiest) school districts, you can't just do a straight rank on a single signal. There's a lot of variance in educational opportunity across the US, ranging from highly selective specialty public high schools [1], to places where they can only afford 4 days of schooling a week [2].

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

[2] https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2022/10/27/oklahoma-law...
Yes, that's (for instance) what Litefs does.
The most extreme other end of the spectrum is the South Korea model. I hope we find something that's equitable and fair.
> Thanks to an awesome advisor

And there you have it! The difference between a miserable experience and a good one
I have a related story. I was admitted to the CS department in the late 90s before it got super popular and they had to enact stricter admissions requirements. In hindsight I likely wouldn't have made the cut if those standards were applied to me. Fast forward and I've been a successful software engineer for the past 20 years.
Well, for good reasons nobody expects the Anglican Inquisition ...
Ask HN: Is this the norm nowadays for big tech customer service?
Earlier this week I signed up for LinkedIn Premium (which is $40 a month after a 30 day trial). Today I attempted to sign in to my account, and was greeted with a notice that I am locked out due to 'suspicious activity'.

Normally in a situation like this, I would contact customer service and get it resolved. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any email contact for LinkedIn customer service that I can find online anywhere. Nor does there appear to be any live chat option unless you have LinkedIn Premium membership and are signed in. But I can't sign in because I'm locked out!

The only recourse that is being offered to me is to upload a government issued ID, or else presumably I am locked out forever. This seems absurd considering I just signed up for a paid subscription. Do they want my money or not?

Is this the norm nowadays for big tech customer service? I work for a small online company and we at least offer online live chat support for anyone who needs it.

EDIT: I managed to get this resolved. For anyone else facign a similar situation in the future: I first went here to report an account access issue: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RHA They then sent me an email asking again for a government ID. I responded saying that this was not acceptable because I'm a Premium subscriber. At that point, an actual person then responded and unlocked the account.
Do we not have lead free perovskites now?
That's super cool and I hope you don't mind a little bit of unsolicited feedback but the first question everyone's asking is "what does it do?" At present the blog post starts out with two paragraphs talking about the format of the blog post and the applications but not what the sensor actually measures.
I fixed it by replacing my inkjet with a laser printer, and by refusing to buy or recommend HP products.
Hopefully this raises awareness of Crystal!
Pro tip: don’t hire recent Harvard grads. Between the legacy admissions and affirmative action the S/N is too low to justify the salary demands. I’ve always had a better return on my dollar with a good candidate from a state school. Better work ethic too.
> It’s not that SAT scores don’t predict anything, it’s perhaps the case that the very loud signal it provides will overwhelmingly favor those with more resources.

The problem is that most of the alternative measures, which not using test scores make more prominent, also do this, some much more than test scores. Personal statements were particularly mentioned upthread, but looking at grades does this, too (and doing it in combination with looking at what classes were taken does so even more), looking at extracurriculars favors resources probably more than any other factor typically examined in admissions (though personal statements are in the running here, too.) Standardized test scores may be the least problematic factor commonly used in admissions.
Yeah thats not a thing.
Ah yeah, you're right
Hey HN,
I just started learning to code and built a website for a black jack game.
The idea is to test different strategies and card counting in a realistic simulation with no money on the line. Most other sites are very cumbersome and slow so I built it with vanilla javascript html css no libraries no backend. State is reset when you reload the page.
Start by placing a bet, you start with a monopoly fake money account of 500 $ and see how far you can go.
After a period or if the balance goes to 0 you get statistics about win rate, bust rate, etc
No money involved no signup no download no ads.
Let me know how you find it and what I should improve. Thanks :)
maybe these gigantic institutions with billions and billions in endowment and reputation should use those resources to expand access to their school instead keeping access as low as possible
(Even leaving aside schools that are admitting athletes for their sports programs) they require hard work, dedication, teamwork, etc.
You imagine that it will catapult you ahead in your career, your income will skyrocket, you will be respected and loved by your company and peers

But in reality no one really cares much, you'll get the same raise everyone else gets, your bonus is still gonna be capped by your contract, and you will be better off finding a new job if you want more money

Man sometimes I want out of tech so badly it hurts but I don't generally think it's better anywhere else
> Tests measure only that you are good at answering tests under heavy stress and at cramming for them.

Sounds a lot like college, particularly for engineering degrees. Someone who does well on the math portion of the SAT likely has the baseline understanding of math to start on college math.

People with disabilities is a different conversation IMO, and should have some accommodation.
> If you spend any time talking to law enforcement, the conversation inevitably goes to how dumb most criminals are.

This is because most criminals are actually incredibly dumb. Deal with them and you'll see it, too.

That said, some of them are pretty bright. Just like all of humanity, there are a spectrum of abilities found in the carceral population. However, they trend towards the lower end of the range of possibilities when it comes to innate intelligence.

> It is the position of law enforcement of course that criminals are only those who they apprehend. It is completely beyond the ability of them to understand that their could exist an entire sphere which they have no insight into at all.

I spend a lot of time talking to law enforcement as part of my day job, and my experience is nothing like yours. I would encourage you to expand your horizons (or not, whatever).
AWS didn't steal the technology. They re-invented it in a way that was similar to a patented technology. Imo this is a failure of the patent system. AWS should not have to pay anything in an ideal system.
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>It is hard for me to see how this is not a fault with Proton and Proton only. If the user didn't opt-in, don't opt-in for them !

The counter argument is that they opted-in by publishing an encryption key to a public key server.
Are these northerners or southerners? Who are the "ruling elite" of Vietnam?

In South Korea, one particular region has produced 20 out of 22 presidents.
There's enough hype grifters around that I think, especially as AI becomes more relevant to the mainstream and people are making investment decisions based on a company's AI future, there's def value in a big name person in the field coming out to provide some clarity.
This is a good point. However, how do I get better feedback than "everything you do and feel is ok as long as it's not criminal," and "improve your diet, sleep, exercise and consult with a professional" for everything else? I want creative insights into my life that I don't already know.

Putting in "Why am I not a billionaire yet?" is a lofty enough goal that I am not beating myself up too badly for not meeting that goal. "Why am I not a world class athlete for my age group?" could be another one.
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The argument is that some people have access to private tutors who "teach the test" and others don't, not "some people study harder than others". And there is absolutely truth to that. I had to work after school, to make ends meet. Ain't got no time for extra studying.

That doesn't mean we should do away with test scores altogether, but we do need to realize the limitations. These scores come with error bars and uncertainty, and it matters how you use them. "Everyone with a score higher than the requirement ends up in a lottery" tends to be reasonably fair, but "we take the top-200 scores" tends to be biased to the well-off (sometimes very biased).
I see a lot more civil and rational disagreement here. The liberal politics are more popular, but there's a healthy conservative voice too. I don't see anything wrong with using intellectual methods to be persuasive, I mean, what are the alternatives?
Not really, grandparent is asking about what we call "zero access encryption" [1]: encryption at rest of received and sent emails, without the provider having access to the keys (unlike typical "encryption at rest", which doesn't give you much).

Instead, OP is talking about outgoing end-to-end encryption using public keys from keys.openpgp.org.

[1]: https://proton.me/blog/zero-access-encryption
PEV in metal roofing seems more workable.
> Because that's what a public keyserver is for.

Who defined that?

> It's not a private file syncing service.

No, it's a public file syncing service :)
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All tests are biased, but some biased are useful.

Biasing the tests for "better student" sounds obvious, but it's still a bias to be to clear.
Of course, 'useful' and 'brutish' can be stretched a bit. Maths olympiad problem (from right around 5th grade, to boot):

Trisect a 36° angle.
> An expense account is an account that records expenses incurred such as your AWS bill, rent payments or salaries paid.

Ah.

> These are not liabilities

Well, that depends.

Every expense that involves an invoice or purchase order that is not paid immediately in cash must be recorded as two transactions. The first transaction is the issuing of the invoice or the PO. That transaction is a liability to the buyer, an asset to the seller. The second transaction is the payment of the invoice. That transaction involves a decrease in the buyer's cash reserves (asset) and a discharge (decrease) of the the buyer's liability, and an increase in the seller's cash reserves (asset) and a decrease in the seller's accounts receivable (asset).

When I look in "accounting for dummies" type web sites, they all give examples of expense accounting as a single transaction. That is deeply broken. If you try to record an expense as a single transaction then your balance sheet is going to be wrong if you have any unpaid invoices, either payable or receivable. In fact, recording an expense as a single transaction doesn't even work if you're paying cash in a brick-and-mortar store unless you literally keep all your cash as physical cash in a safe because ATM withdrawals are transactions that need to be recorded too.

In a situation like an employee being reimbursed for a travel expense there are at least four transactions:

1. The employee using their credit card to buy something (liability to the employee, asset to the merchant)

2. The merchant getting paid by the credit card company (converting a receivable into cash, i.e. trading one asset type for another)

3. The employee submitting their expense report (invoice) to the company for reimbursement (liability to the company, asset to the employee)

4. The employee getting paid by the company for the incurred expense (company converts asset into a discharge of liability, employee converting receivable into cash)

I say "at least" because if there is a credit card involved then step 2 actually involves a bank issuing a loan to the credit card holder, so there is an additional entity involved, and more transactions on their end. And of course when I say "cash" I actually mean "demand deposit" which is not quite the same thing, though people tend to conflate the two.
It beats llama on the benchmark posted below (though maybe leaked into training data). But also you can run it on cheaper split up hardware with less individual vram than the big llama.
If you _don't_ enable dnssec on ntp.org, then a mitm can intercept the dns request to redirect to an attacker-owned timeserver with a time in the past. Then the host can have old and expired (without loss of generality) keys/certificates replayed against it.

If memory serves though, Raspbian used to not even have `fake-hwclock` by default and even more Pis would end up with this "wildly wrong time near the epoch and can't bootstrap DNS/NTP" failure mode. You'd sometimes also see it with VMs too (esp if they were doing a pure-software clock that ran slower than realtime, instead of patching clock calls to the real hardware clock on the host).
Instead of using someone else's language library pre-trained on a bunch of text, you can create your own language library trained on your own text.

Use cases include: Auto-completion, auto-correct, spell checking, search/lookup, conversation simulation (chatbot), and more.

"Trained" means that every word of every sentence of every book loaded in has an embedded score representing how likely it is to appear following a user-provided cursor. The more text you have trained on (see /training/embeddings/) the more scored words it has available, so the more robust and accurate it can be with language.

What would make your implementation a "Large" Language Model is if it has many, many, many words and phrases modeled and ranked, not just a small amount.

Chat Bots:

For something like a realistic conversation simulator (AKA a chat bot) you usually need a Large Language Model (LLM) so that any user-provided cursor yields relevant responses. To filter out the noise of less relevant responses, a good LLM-based chatbot will also use parts-of-speech and sentiment analysis ("attention") to match to the most relevant one.

Example cursor: "Paris is", you might get "in France" or "really nice" as equally ranked predictions, what would make a Chat-specific model choose one or the other would be analyzing the input - example if the question was "Where is Paris?" the Chat model would be biased toward answers that mention locations, and respond with "in France".

User: "Where is Paris?"

Convert to cursor: "Paris is"

Get completions: "in France", "really nice", "a first name", etc.

Analyze input: "Where is" refers to a location

Analyze completions: "in France" refers to a location

Answer: "Paris is in France"

Hope this helps!
They physically flipped the main breaker in their box.

Real life details leak. And especially back then, players generally lived in certain population centers. Each guild had about 50 people. I lived in the same city as at least one person of a rival guild.
Is this your first work in orbit?

Does it feel as cool as one would imagine?
Either that or use Nitter (nitter.poast.org)
This guy knows how to find shit out, I like this!
Its not a bias if it is the thing the test is intended to measure; its a bias if it is something other than what the test is intended to measure.
Did both in few parts of Europe. Initially its normally better to contract (but you need to have some chops, nobody hires juniors on contract), but not all countries make this easy or even viable. Once you want to settle, if you want to settle, permanent job under normal circumstances offers better overall package.

Maybe not outright amounts, but if you count in things like sickness, holidays, off for kids, social contributions, being treated better among colleagues, and for me personally having much more freedom whenever personal I need to do like bureaucracy (but that may be current circumstance only).
I'm not sure any publisher means for their robots.txt to be read as:

"You're disallowed, but go head and slurp the content anyway so you can look for external links or any indication that maybe you are allowed to digest this material anyway, and then interpret that how you'd like. I trust you to know what's best and I'm sure you kind of get the gist of what I mean here."
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