skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm focused on finals at the moment but I'd be more than happy to share what I've been looking at so far (I plan to look into this a lot more in the summer).

When it comes to the theory, 3blue1brown released some really nice videos that solidified a lot of my current understanding, especially with the attention mechanism. I think I am also going to do a mixture of reading papers/watching youtube videos on things that are interesting (ex. Qlora for fine-tuning or diffusion models for image generation) and trying to build out a simple implementation myself and see where that takes me. Maybe I'll start out with the Karpathy nano-gpt videos but try and do it with a different data set.

But for people like myself who lack the math background, data, and compute to be able to train very strong LLMs, I think it is also a good idea to try and build some projects/apps that use a fine-tuned LLM, or just call the OpenAI API.

I'm still a bit lost myself, but in 2 weeks when I'm done with exams, I'm more than happy to keep exchanging resources with you.
This is one of the reasons I gave up on Reddit. I went and looked, and the Reddiquette still says:

> [Don’t] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

However, in practice people use the downvote button as a dislike button. And if called out, will stand behind their use as correct. The community has overridden the stated intent of the downvote.

This makes the comments largely meaningless. To have a meaningful discussion, new ideas need to be brought into the fold. There will be disagreements, but if all parties remain civil, both sides can hopefully walk away with something at the end of the day. With unpopular opinions being hidden, the comments just become a statement of the approved groupthink on the topic, rather than a nuanced discussion on a complex topic.

I don’t think being anonymous is the issue. I think there is a lot of value to having forums online that aren’t tied to a real life identity. I think it’s more a matter of how big the site is, and how much the username is downplayed. HN has similar problems, but a better culture, so it’s not so bad.

I used a lot of forums in the days before Reddit and Digg, and even without reading usernames at first, the large avatars and post signatures would start to give an otherwise anonymous person an identity. It was an easy way to mentally link posts from a person together and it was more clear who was posting which comment. Overtime, especially on smaller forums, people got to know each other and a community formed. I almost never see that on those large forum platforms like Reddit.

When you’re always interacting with different people in every comment, it’s much harder to humanize anyone. Facebook seems like the perfect example of this in action. Facebook is largely real people, a user can click through to see the person’s pictures, kids, etc… yet they are often horrible to each other in the comments of public posts, because they are strangers passing on the virtual street, and the next post will have a different set of strangers. Not only that, but it’s difficult for a bad reputation to follow a bad actor, because they are always encountering new people, and few will take the time to check a user’s karma or read their post history for context on if this person is someone to engage with or ignore.

I think the best solution is chalking up these mega-sites as a failure and going back to the smaller more focused sites. But I know deep down that’s never going to happen.
> cooperation, empathy, industry, invention, efficiency, etc. A frivolous, impulsive, unintelligent people seeking immediate gratification ...

Are these things that can be naturally selected for?
The features are pretty exhaustive! How much time did it take to build this?
Also annecdotal, we had a few random murders in Denver in public places at the time in the news shortly after I arrived.

I hadn't even been there a week and there was a manhunt with about a dozen police cars outside my building. Someone shot someone point blank at a supermarket just a few blocks away. I can't underscore enough how nice that area I was staying in, it was one of the most expensive places in the whole city... my landlord sold the 1 bedroom condo I lived in for $675k after I left in 2022.
For those who want to simulate the feeling, touch your tongue to the front of your top teeth and jut your jaw forward so you can close your jaw with your tongue staying in place, sandwiched between the front of your top teeth and back of your bottom teeth.

It was wildly uncomfortable and I gave up after three nights. Also didn't notice better sleep.
That animated artwork at the end is incredible. Thank you for the technical write up and the artwork!
in fact i noticed this bug when ssh doesn't come up on qemu vms start on a laptop without wifi connection.

hardly Far from a 99% use case.

loopback address space is not enough for the network target
That's irrefutable by design. It _could_ lead to all those things. But it could also _not_ lead to them. Depends on the person. Besides, it's not like people with obstructive sleep apnea are having great sleep to begin with. FWIW I have facial hair so I did not use the tape. For me merely breathing through my nose during the day turned out to be sufficient to be able to comfortably do so at night.
2. It's not malice. The longer you have understood something the harder it is to explain it, since you already forgot what it was like to not understand it.
Doesn't airflow fully stop twice per breath?
Strine!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine
Short Tale of Intel Mac to Apple Silicon Mac Migration
And "airmosphere".
Japan's Currency is around Similar to Nepalese rupees in exchange rates.
This is pretty cool. Care to share your Swift port?
You underestimate the properties of the sequential-conditional structure of human communication.

Consider how a clever 6yo could fake being a physicist with access to a library of physics textbooks and a shredder. All the work is done for them. You'd need to be a physicist to spot them faking it.

Of course, LLMs are in a much better position than having shredded physics textbooks -- they have shreddings of all books. So you actually have to try to expose this process, rather than just gullibly prompt using confirmation bias. It's trivial to show they work this way, both formally and practically.

The issue is, practically, gullible people aren't trying.
If it's too expensive, you haven't solved the problem. Lots of problems are solved if you have an unlimited budget.
It’s not halfway across the globe. Not even quarter way. Meanwhile, the US one dollar note is made with flax imported from Belgium (also not halfway across the globe, but farther away).
Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich
Seems lots of people consider just getting high to be sufficient for them. /j
> Medical care was not that advanced

My great grandfather served in both world wars and went to the hospital exactly once in his life, when he died in his 80s.
Next up: AI-improved Poor Things (2023), all black and white scenes converted to 60 fps full color.
I would consider Fedora Silverblue/CoreOS, NixOS and even flatpak as a sort of hacky way to implement that. I don't know of any PoC for this. I would guess that there might be some research budget available for that approach.
We (Nepali) have been using this material to make lokta paper for a long time now. These papers (Nepali Kaagaz) are used mainly today for official documents.
> from an environmental standpoint

From an environmental standpoint all banknotes should be shredded and burned and everyone should use contactless means of payment.
Why do amateur space craft and submarines go together? See Copenhagen Suborbitals.
Your search term would be "wiring harness manufacturer". I've not come across anyone in this space that would take a web order like PCB fabricators unfortunately, the demand isn't there.

If you need wiring harnesses or other cable assemblies you'd usually make them yourself, buy a COTS cable that is close enough and make your design match that or bite the bullet and go to a fabricator and pay expensive Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs. Anyone good will have an IPC-A-620 certificate.

Unless you're Toyota, its probably worth buying your own set of crimp tools rather than going down this route. WireViz is a great tool for documenting cables for your own purposes, but is only part of what would make up a full drawing pack for a wire harness.
No, not true. I exclusively breathe through my nose all day (unless panting from a workout). The moment I lay down, something changes and my nose stuffs up. This has only gotten worse over time. If I were to, say, tape my mouth shut, I would absolutely suffocate in short order.
> Interesting. Have you posted anything online about your findings? I think we are at an interesting time where now people have many years of sleep data and we can see more precisely what used to be discussed in more general terms.

Thank you for the inspiration, have been thinking about this for a few days and will likely create a website. Will comment here with a link when i have it :)
>This is probably an unpopular opinion.

I wouldn't say so. Historically it's quite common. Maxwell's EM papers used such convoluted notation it it quite difficult to read. It wasn't until they were reformulated in vector calculus that they became infinitely more digestible.

I think though your third point is the most important; right now people are focused on results.
I was able to come off a CPAP by using a nasal steroid (fluticasone propionate) before bed each night, and my quality of life has improved dramatically
I understood some of those words.

But I've been using Atomic Fedora for the last 2 years and my whole work flow has shifted to using containers for everything CLI, I can have specific container images for work on qemu images, or terraform for example. And everything else like Steam games, VLC, Firefox all run in Flatpaks.

So the end goal is to not make any modifications to the host image.
>Autism simply got tied up with entitlements and the diagnosis has been grossly abused as a lever to get access to said entitlements

I just love when narrowminded Americans (I would wager 1000$ that the poster is from that country) assume the thing that happens in their city/state/country is a worldwide phenomenon with the rest of us 8 billion people.

And even better writing in this snarky obfuscating style so the rest of us don't have a clue what they're talking about. Entitlements???

In my (EU) country talking about your mental issues is simply not done, let alone your actual diagnosis.
I did the same 25y ago, as prescribed by my allergy doctor. It was called (translation from French) "breathing reeducation", and it was roughly interval training: breathe fully in through your nose, then blow into a pipe (connected to a spirometer) at various speeds.

Before that, I was mostly breathing through my mouth. It was challenging even to eat a sandwich while walking :). Since this reeducation, I only breathe through my nose with no effort. I'm willing to believe it indeed has to do with muscle.
It is just objectively incorrect that using uppercase saves space.
In the past Free Speech did not equal Free Broadcast.

Only the Elite (ruling/non ruling) had broadcast access (who owned newspapers/radio/tv/satellite spectrum? only the rich could afford it).

Internet and social media have made broadcasting "free" technically. But they dont have any technical solution for the noise. They built it cuz they could.

Politically it hasnt solved any issue cause no one is really listening or can listen to anyone, when everyone gets shoved into the same room with their own mic to the common sound system. The more people in the room the less political action is possible.

HN could show people how many links and comments Dont get any traction. That rate will fall as more people use the site. And is an indicator of the real value of Free Speech. Which for the plebs will always tend to 0.
It's a self reinforcing cycle, the more you breath through your mouth the harder it is to go back to normal breathing.

It's like saying being fat makes it hard to exercise so you don't exercise, which makes you more prone to stay fat, which makes it harder to exercise, &c.

I highly recommend https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breath-james-nestor/1134986...
All intellectual discoveries rest on the shoulders of giants - those that came before. Trillions of dollars into universities, millions of scientists working on a vast human project of technology.

I am okay with media piracy. If I read a book I can use the ideas in it. Yet I cannot 'copy' a technology? There is certainly a mismatch between these fields.

In practice, to commercially produce that which is covered by IP is very expensive - factories and tooling, production lines and global logistics - the knowledge is only half of the game.
>>The world is a better place for having had more such people in it.

I don't know how to phrase it without it coming across as rude, but like......why? The dude was a hoarder who created a bunch of really mediocre if not downright ugly art in his own apartment. Which part of it exactly is making the world better?
I only ever tried NixOS, but the FHS stuff there seems to only be about getting Steam and other proprietary software to work. I would suggest to have this per default, so that the only application that actually sees the real file system would be PID1.
There are many causes of sleep apnoe, the most common one being obesity. Some people, however have an underbite which causes sleep apnoe, this can be measured and corrected by an orthodontist. I didn't have either, but I did suffer mild sleep apnoe for years. What solved it for me was rinsing my nose with salt water every evening and using Nasonex spray.
But the biggest "investor" in US government debt is the Fed, so I don't quite follow how you can separate the two things here. And the other investors are using money that was ultimately issued into existence via lending against reserves, and the Fed controls interest rates by issuing or withdrawing high powered money. And the money the government spends after borrowing it is re-deposited back into the banking system, raising their reserves and letting them issue more loans, further increasing the size of the monetary base and therefore inflation.

Given that it's all connected I don't quite follow why you are cleanly dividing them here.
Peaceful Warrior - by far my fav book / movie. Highly recommend watching it :)
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Do you see the irony in quoting Wikipedia's view of a site to show that Wikipedia's stance on not linking that site is OK, in a discussion about how Wikipedia is censored? Have you actually looked for yourself instead of just trusting the propaganda?
Why is this quicker to implement than free-tier RDS on AWS?
> The BMI (Body Mass Index), while far from perfect - mainly because it can't tell the difference between relatively heavy muscle and relatively light (density wise) fat, so a very fit and very strong person can wrongly be classified

Let's be honest a second here, for every "too muscular bmi obese" there are a thousand "good ol obese"
Have you tried playing with higher FOV? Going from almost 180 in real life to <100 in most games makes you lose a lot of visual information you use to orient yourself.
You're effectively steering the predictions based on adjacent vectors (and precursors from the prompt). That mental model works fine.
Who are all these people egressing gb/mo/customer? Does everyone except me work at Netflix?
I would say that they are different tools for different purposes. Sure, with pledge/unveil/seccomp you trust the process to do the right thing, it's really about restricting against threats external to the process. But it allows the process to have different privileges at different parts of the program, while external restrictions are not that flexible.

I think it makes sense to use both. Use external restrictions to only give capabilities that the process will ever need, and within the process drop capabilities when they are no longer needed.
> Each app should have a clean environment and ideally you'd pick and choose what files/folders you want to give the app access to while it is running, and not let the app builder decide for you. Also, the user should pick and choose where to mount directories if they choose to do so

That’s… what bubblebox is ?
Is this true tho?
DES cipher internals in Excel (2014)
There is also this .NET project:

https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting
My dentist wanted me to get one to use as a retainer to stop my bottom middle teeth from sliding or something. I never once fell asleep with it in and after about two weeks of trying (and each night giving up after a few hours) I put it in a drawer and forgot about it. More effective at keeping me awake than caffeine lol
WaveDrom also have a package for making bitfield diagrams (https://github.com/wavedrom/bitfield). Has anyone used both of these? I'd be interested to see how they compare.
Passing under the wildlife bridges in New Jersey was one of my favorite car trip moments as a kid.

Not until I was an adult did I realize how uncommon this idea actually was…

Glad to see more!
If explosive drones became legal for militae less well regulated than the National Guard I'd expect school "shootings" could be exciting indeed.
Only on Hacker News would someone picture an oscillating waveform with a derivative of 0 twice per cycle! (I'm just poking fun)
Our time first and foremost, the environment, the culture, the law, wealth, owed taxes, ...
Are you referring to Philips Respironics devices and their sound-dampening foam? You can get a CPAP from ResMed (a different company) instead, which was not affected.
Nice. Shame the VHDL standard isn't yet free to get. Given it's mostly Ada, for which the spec is freely available, I'd have thought VHDL would have been available before Verilog. Oh well.

Open source VHDL is in fairly good shape with GHDL and NVC. I sometimes visit https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#vhdl_General:gitter.im and I sometimes see the developers of those projects providing really great feedback, sometimes by answering questions from VHDL standards group members.

For the best VHDL and Verilog ecosystems, the standards should be freely available. It's madness when the standards are not available.
You can't represent disconnected edges as a single-path. So a maze can have features not implementable as a labyrinth.
Have you tried - https://www.revisely.com/flashcard-generator
Is that prescribed by a doctor? I'd be concerned about using steroids repeatedly on membranous tissue.
My (limited) understanding supporting developers for two years is that product does not take no for an answer, and controls everything from budget to sprints, and can insist on whatever they like, whenever they like. So... I'm going to take your comment as a lovely fantasy like spherical cows. Refactors are a joke that never gets off the ground, after a decade.
Yeah, insufficient neuroticism is also known as hypocrisy.
<cough> Try buying the original versions of Star Wars... and that was before "AI".
While there were some bugs in early KDE 4, those were not the main problem.

No amount of baking could have saved it.

The main problem was caused by the completely different purposes of the new developers, who have removed all the outstanding customization features of KDE 3.5.

For me, indeed KDE 3.5 has been the best graphic desktop that I have ever seen. Neither before, nor after and neither on Apple or Windows have I encountered anything as good.

The main reason for this was that KDE 3.5 allowed extreme customization, so you could make your own graphic desktop that did not resemble at all the default desktop.

After the shock of experiencing the garbage KDE 4, even if I had waited a half of year before making the transition, with the hope that any major bugs would be solved, I have reverted to KDE 3.5 for a few years, until it had become much to painful to make upgrades in such a way as to not damage it.

Then I have switched to XFCE, which does not provide as much as the old KDE 3.5, but at least it does not get in the way of your work with undesirable and hard to remove features. Moreover, any useful KDE applications, such as Kate, work perfectly fine on XFCE, together with any useful Gnome applications.

The same kind of developer philosophy, that users are dumb and they must be prevented from customizing the application has characterized the developers who have converted the Mozilla browser into Firefox, which is another unwelcome change that I have greatly hated.
> Non-film buffs, i.e. most viewers, don't care about this.

... consciously ...

Assuming competent cinematography, it will have an effect on the viewer whether they can analyze it or not.
My openrc based system boots in seconds, I don't think I ever noticed a performance difference to systemd.

Also, any init system can do lazy mounting without having the fstab file becoming a farce.
Do you think if he would've needed to go to the hospital he would've preferred today's status or the one at the time?
But the webfont is not crucial to website UX as a blocking 3rd-party <script src="..."> without async/defer in <head> is.
yeah you're right i looked it up. definitely not strict nihilist at all.
I've been using silicone vents in my nostrils for several months, and they've made a huge impact on quality of sleep. It is a much cheaper alternative to cpaps.
Ugly and cranky is quite subjective... As much as I like Mathematica the language, the user interfaces that they propose are so wonky and ugly (in my eyes) that Maxima feels like a breath of fresh air and elegance.
I think the work Nicolas Rougier has done on "beautifying" Emacs (including org-mode) is about the best that's been done, examples and code:

https://github.com/rougier/notebook-mode

https://twitter.com/NPRougier/status/1576635498264760325/pho...

https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
> ANY Blu-Ray version should be much better than streaming.

That should change over time: Blu-Ray is a format released about 20 years ago, and our streaming bandwidth (and encoding algorithms) keep improving.
Here's a quick and dirty attempt to even up the colours:

https://www.matteason.co.uk/share/true-lies-colours.png

And the full-size original for comparison:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBaikRhX0AEcjuy?format=jpg&name=...

(I just overlaid the original on the left over the upscaled version on the right and set the blending mode to Colour in Photoshop)
Clarification - not one single shrub
It's amazing how many anecdotal folk remedies we're presented with on this forum, which I had assumed would have a more scientific bent.
I see ads for these devices and the possibility of suffocating in your sleep just terrifies me. Sure most of the time you might wake up but still :/

Fortunately CPAP therapy works fantastically for me, and the CPAP masks have anti asphyxia valves to prevent you rebreathing your CO2 in the event the machine stops working (I wondered about that for a bit).