skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice article that resonates with me.

I dislike OKRs because I think there is a good chance that they are going to hinder a team in their effort to do a good job. In the extreme case OKRs might be downright harmful (like described in the article), but even when the goals are roughly aligned it seems to me to be a nonefficient distraction from actually working on whatever makes sense (if the team is motivated and competent).
Does anything exist like Vapi but for video?
I think it's important not to kid yourself about where power lies in your own society.
> Driving up market pay for workers via competition for their labour is exactly how we get progress for workers.

There's a difference between "paying higher salaries in fair competition for talents" and "buying people to let them rot to make sure they don't work for competition".

It's the same as "lowering prices to the benefit of consumer" vs "price dumping to become a monopoly".

Facebook never did it at scale though. Google did.
Complex numbers are simply a mundane promise to multiply out your i at some future date, arguably. Much in the same way that a negative number is a promise to square your books eventually at the end of the day. If you have a balance of -10 dollars the implication is that you'll give someone 10 dollars some day before they try to spend that money (for example).

If you are trying to factor a polynomial with complex roots, is not a coincidence they appear in pairs which cancel out eventually, if you want to get back to a "real" value implied by the polynomial.
I still use (duck duck go) search and ofc documentation to find what I need - in my kind of field (c++) AIs are terrible because the problems are pretty much never trivial.

Its not a dead product just because companies are selling you a solution that works better for you - it becomes a dead product once there is a better solution nearly everyone uses.
100% this, it just makes it easier to throw something up on a Worker that may need a little bit more advanced logic or routing.
I was in Sydney. I may be misremembering the exact kind of establishments I found them in -- this was quite a few years ago.
Is it just cash? I was doing some freelancing and as I invoiced each month, I'd often generate a cashier's check from my business checking account to my personal checking, that varied between 9-12K a month. I was "warned" by my credit union about this and that there could be flags raised, but my response was, "what am I meant to do? That number is derived from my consulting hourly rate and the work I put in each month."
Crazy how arrogant people can be, this disrespect he shows really echoes the classic "fuck you, got mine" mentality.

Not saying anyone is immune to that, but just calling it out when its there.
I wouldn’t consider passport, social security, or bank account numbers “public records”.
I wonder if Postgres RBAC row based access control is another solution to this.
Buy the whole hill then.
I basically forgot that Google made Android.

Are they really making major contributions? Seems like Mobile OS are basically stagnant.
Also, being open source adds phenomenal value for Meta:

1. It attracts the world's best academic talent, who deeply want their work shared. AI experts can join any company, so ones which commit to open AI have a huge advantage.

2. Having armies of SWEs contributing millions of free labor hours to test/fix/improve/expand your stuff is incredible.

3. The industry standardizes around their tech, driving down costs and dramatically improving compatibility/extensibility.

4. It creates immense goodwill with basically everyone.

5. Having open AI doesn't hurt their core business. If you're an AI company, giving away your only product isn't tenable (so far).

If Meta's 405B model surpasses GPT-4 and Claude Opus as they expect, they release it for free, and (predictably) nothing awful happens -- just incredible unlocks for regular people like Llama 2 -- it'll make much of the industry look like complete clowns. Hiding their models with some pretext about safety, the alarmist alignment rhetoric, will crumble. Like...no, you zealously guard your models because you want to make money, and that's fine. But using some holier-than-thou "it's for your own good" public gaslighting is wildly inappropriate, paternalistic, and condescending.

The 405B model will be an enormous middle finger to companies who literally won't even tell you how big their models are (because "safety", I guess). Here's a model better than all of yours, it's open for everyone to benefit from, and it didn't end the world. So go &%$# yourselves.
>Can you clarify what "orthogonal primitives" are missing?

Sure. From my earlier comment[1] distinguishing the core primitives -- labeled a) through d) -- necessary to call something a computer:

>>if you want to get the core, impressive functionality of the things-we-call-computers, you have to include a bunch of other, nontrivial, orthogonal functionality, like a) the ability read and execute a lot of such instructions, and b) to read/write from some persistent state (memory), and c) have that state reliably interact with external systems. Logic gates (d) are just one piece of that!

>These dominoes are distinct in that they cannot flip the state back and therefore cannot rerun the same sections, and need need more and more dominoes to do more computations, but fundamentally I dont see how that is any different than providing a longer and longer input of energy into a modern computer.

In addition to SonOfLilit's comment, a fundamental difference is that, for a modern computer, the provision of electricity is specified as part of how the computer works, while the domino "computer" did not specify the apparatus necessary to reset and execute the subsequent instructions (nor the mechanism whereby such subsequent instructions would be provided) -- the a) and possibly b) in my model above.

So yes, if they had presented a "domino computer" that included such functionality (and rounded out the a-d), I would indeed agree with calling that a computer!

Why does (the absence of) such apparatus matter? Well, the whole point of the project was to provide intuition behind how/why some physical mechanisms give rise to a "computer". Since people already understand how dominoes work, they will therefore understand how the computer built from them works! Except they don't, because, for it to be a computer, you'd have to add on something they don't have an intuition for (the resetters etc).

So yes, by all means, use this as an intuition pump for yet-another-way to physically implement a calculator. Just, not a computer, which is something else and a tad more mysterious.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472089
Presume we do, or presume we COULD, if this sort of thing is ubiquitously denounced?

Democracies don't "work", we "work" them. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, talking about it as though you were helplessly seperate from it. All your nihilism does is accommodate bullies.
I have seen a lot of interesting and funny RNG issues, but this is one of the most sophisticated exploits for the least payout. A wonderful work of art.
I made a comment in the neighboring subthread that I think answers this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080169
The people saying LLMs are better than google: Say you turn off your internet, is a local LLM better than having a few MB of files (all of wikipedia, all of your language's and all packages' documentation, etc.) downloaded? Why is that not an approach youre taking?
does anyone have a view of Ocean CleanUp as a charity to donate to?
Scroll halfway down to find a numbered list, with headings. Personally, I couldn't simplify it anymore than that.
Where are f32 and f16 used? I see a lot of `.float()' and `.type_as()' in the model file, and nothing explicit about f16. Are the weights and all the activations in f32?
Yeah it's very annoying especially these days when there's no real excuse to not have a copy. You can easily store all code and data for free and in an accessible manner. Even just GitHub for 90+% is good enough. Hugging face helps, and there's many other ways too.

I remember my first year in grad school I was trying to replicate a work by a very prestigious university. It definitely wasn't reproducible from text but I did my best. Couldn't get close to their claims so I email the lead author (another grad student). No response. Luckily my advisor knew their advisor. Got a meeting and then I got sent code. It was nothing like what they claimed in the paper so I have no idea what they gave me. Anyways, my paper never got published because I couldn't beat them. It is what it is.
Yeah, that's why I was asking; I work from home 3 days a week, and do other work at my desk the remaining days, so I could pretty easily justify something better. I would very much like a 120hz refresh rate, because that's really the only thing in fancier displays that I think I'd actually notice; I appear to not be nearly as sensitive to "darker blacks" and "brighter whites" as other people, at least in my limited friend group, but I definitely do see a difference in a higher refresh rate.
Llama.cpp Working on Support for Llama3
That doesn't really sound like a lot, in the scheme of things.
Almost 1 in 3 Americans (adults) have been arrested for a felony crime. (edit: have a criminal record)
That blank dismissal of everything just because we can't have any kind of conclusive proof is useless. It may have been important at the time where people were trying to prove God exist and etc, but it's not something you want to hold nowadays.

The fact is that all of the settled science is composed of causal models (non-causal models aren't useful), and we have some damn good confidence on some of those. Proof is not necessary.

Oh, and those causal models are usually ab-initio, so for whatever chaotic system appear out of them, they are the cause, not consequence. Again, a few aren't, and the article is clearly about some set of those few. But you can't just blanket throw away all causality.
bf16
> Obviously they don't (!) but the question is how?

Don't cells "just" orient themselves using mechanotransduction [1] or am I missing something? That's a bit hand wavey but since cells don't form 3d structures in tissue themselves, they orient against the extracellular matrix using mechanotransduction and other growth factors.

The development of multicellular life was essentially cells learning how to orient themselves into a digestive tract.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanotransduction
If anyone wants to experiment Llama-3 on a free Colab, have a notebook! https://colab.research.google.com/drive/135ced7oHytdxu3N2DNe...
There is a reference to a "small grammatical error" in the rejection from Harvard, but I did not quite understand what he was referring to.

Was that obvious from his reply and I missed the point?

I am guessing it must be in the form of "Please accept our letter of rejection" or similar?
VRChat is not a product a large corp can or would build though.
Why not, it's a theoretical musing like much else on this forum.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067068
The "best regards to your mother" at the end seems so innocent. Nowadays, it would read like a reference to an SNL skit starring Andy Samberg and Mark Whalberg.
People still read newspapers?
Tim Cook is probably the greatest CFO any company could know. But Apple's capital is vastly squandered with Tim as CEO.
What changed my mind was that people are up against a department of PhDs who are actively attempting to use psychological research to subvert responsible behavior.

That's reprehensible. And it needs to be controlled by laws.
I asked it the number of digits and a few more details, took a guess and it confirmed the secret code.
Do it! You have our support.
Oh god. You just wake up one morning, to see blocks in the sky that weren't there the night before, ghostly and foglike, until a moment later they're visible as redstone and observer and slime, and you can see the dropping infinite TNT. All because the server gave away your position. You can still escape it, there might even be a few seconds to grab what you can out of the chest and run, or to build an obsidian shelter, but that's about it. Not enough time to build a precisely aimed cannon and you couldn't get the elevation right anyway. Maybe if you had an elytra and some rockets you could go sabotage, even then there's this big worldeater hole just 16 chunks away. Have they lava trapped all the nearby nether portals?
It's the law of people being "promoted to incompetence" - the Peter Principle.
Is that surprising? Seemed like a giant hack to me. Prompt engineering sure sounds better than hack though.
As far as competitive intelligence goes, this is pretty small stakes. In the industrial space it's pretty standard for major companies to create shell companies that buy up competitors' equipment and do full clean-room teardowns that result in engineering reports handed off to the designers back in the parent company. One can certainly argue as to whether this is dirty pool or not, but it's standard practice and everyone's factored it in as part of competition.
Pretty cool exploit.

The idea of a free for all bug abusing server is pretty neat, a whole ‘nother level of the game.

I guess this is what “actually fighting” (rather than just using in-game battling mechanics) would look like if the metaverse really happened ever.
I found many of your other posts and they were the spark that finally made me "get it" and look deeper into LLMs. This post looks like another slam dunk.

Keep up the good work!
That's a separate concern, but it's definitely a concern.

I agree China could potentially punish easier, but they can also bribe/allow grifting easier.
New developer resource launches for FedNow Service participants
Sam Altman claims to be chair of YC board in multiple filings
I will quote specifically some examples of what jumps out to me as manipulative behavior:

> I'll ask why things on the list are that way, and how they got to be that way. I'm trying to establish credibility as someone who's genuinely curious and empathetic, who's patient, and who respects the expertise of my coworkers. That's the reputation that's going to let me make changes later.

I would not try to establish credibility, but earn it. I will not try to be genuinely curious or empathetic. I either am, or am not.

> At this point I'm looking for one or two problems that have been bugging one of my new teammates for a while, and that have relatively simple solutions. I'm looking for something I can put on the retro board and know I won't be the only person who's bothered by that problem.

This screams to me as playing the work game. If someone can spend time looking for problems over their coworker shoulders or "something to put on the retro board" it just means they are out of meaningful tasks to do.

> Then, during the team conversation about the problem, I'll identify something that teammate suggests as an action item that we could try immediately. That way the team starts to see me as someone who helps them solve their problems.

Change the context and this sounds like a pickup artist explaining dating tricks, or a con man telling you how to infiltrate or someone on the secret service trying to enter a gang.

> The feeling that I want to create, the association I want people to have with me, is, "Oh, Nat joine [...]

Feelings are not something one goes around creating unless they are actively manipulating people around.

> There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done." That's the reputation that's going to get me the results I want in next year's performance review.

I could keep going on, but I think these are enough examples
It sounds similar to that antithesis testing service that was on front page recently as well. That also claimed to be able to run programs deterministically as well. I wonder if the two projects are related at all.
No, I just picked one example, there are a lot of things that could trigger it
Unless it's one of those barely visible earth-sheltered homes, which he would be a great candidate to buy.
Thermal vision isn’t particularly expensive (I can get a high resolution compact IR camera for less than $20 on AliExpress now) and turkey is already fielding AI loitering munitions that are fully autonomous. Drones with weapons aren’t stopped by curtains or doors, and modern drones aren’t stopped by winds. I can fly my consumer DJI on a day with strong winds just fine.

I think you’re underestimating the rate of change in the technology and cost space along every one of these dimensions. Your assessment was true 5 years ago, isn’t true now, and will seem anachronistic in another 5.
You appear to only have 28k domains, not exactly very many.
Crypto trader Avi Eisenberg convicted of fraud in $110M Mango Markets scheme
Always bet on Zuck!
this too. I used to be an obsessive linux geek who ran gentoo and knew every config file format .

Now i'm an old man and I want my tools to get out of the way so i can get the job done.
not sure what you're talking about, this is just the playground/demo site for the new Llama 3. The discussion is over there.
Just to note the reasoning why they've promised that because I thought it was kinda interesting:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

Tag names with at least one hypen and two words either side are reserved for custom element use... with a few exceptions that I assume were part of the HTML/svg/mathml spec before the custom element registry.

- annotation-xml
- color-profile
- font-face
- font-face-src
- font-face-uri
- font-face-format
- font-face-name
- missing-glyph
Got another video link? It got copyright-striked...
The post says that the TPN solution is fed slowly and that the body barely reacts.

What if it was intentionally fed with periodic bursts, simulating strong blood sugar, fat and protein spikes from eating and triggering stronger insulin responses with resulting lows? I wonder if that would substantially change the experience.

Maybe tuning the nutrition mixture. I vaguely remember the journey of the Soylent guy experimenting with the composition and hitting various snags along the way before he finally got to a point where it made him feel satisfied and not crave any other foods. Soylent still has the mechanical feeding sensation though...

Sometimes medical developments plateau when it reaches a point of working, before it reaches the point of being good.
Much of the data is indeed public. LSEG have analysts going around all the websites of major government entities publishing sanctions lists to update their database. If you’re politically exposed or get mentioned in the media for being convicted of fraud and it’s public knowledge, it’ll gets pulled in too.

LSEG get sued by people all the time, so they document and justify everything that goes into the file. There are very good legal reasons to do so.
You mean like Kiwifarms?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/01/cloudflar...

(Granted he did eventually relent. Though myself and many others actively have sworn off ever using CloudFlare and push for others to switch away from it as a result)
Agreed, the history by it self is not enough, except for the context it is put in. In the case of Israel Palestine this context matters. I like to put it in the context of colonialism and colonial warefare/resistance. Knowing the history is important, and 1948 is certainly a pivotal moment in history, but if you list events as if one thing leads to another (like my parent did) you, at best, end up with a simplistic view, a weird nonsensical justification and, at worst, wrong timeline and a confusing conclusion. Lying with history is after all a pretty known device to provide justification which otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

I like the context of colonization here because in 1948 Europe is in the middle of recolonizing regions lost during WW2 and the whole period after WW2 has been dominated by a) the cold war and b) decolonization. The cold war here seems irrelevant but decolonization seems important. Many post WW2 decolonization efforts were done via colonial warfare and resistance. Many of the colonial nations spent most of their military activity fighting resistance movements in their newly re-established colonies. Examples include the British army fighting the Mau Mau in Kenya, and the IRA in Northern Ireland, the French fighting FLN in Algeria, and the Americans fighting the Viet Cong in Vietnam. Even before WW2 the British were fighting Irish Republicans in Ireland.

In Palestine we have the British handing the colony of Palestine over to the UN in the hopes of a peaceful decolonization, which became moot when Israel declared independence in 1948. After 1967 it becomes obvious that Israel is the colonizer and Palestinians are the colonized. In 1967 Europe is desperately trying to keep colonialism alive so it makes sense they support another western colonizer in the Middle East. After 1967 we also have established resistance movements in Palestine such as the PLA (which later became superseded by Hamas and PIJ). By the 1990s, after the Cold war has ended, it becomes obvious that European colonialism is all but dead. However Israel remains as a beacon of hope, the last remaining colony of European settlers. But everyone knows it can’t stay like that. Decolonization is inevitable. And I think the hope is that the two-state solution is a way for the settlers to keep theirs while Palestine remains subjugated while not a proper colony (not learning the lesson from the partition of Ireland). This however failed, largely because Israel wished to keep colonizing Palestinians.

Of course this is simplistic. However this is the context in which I like to put this history.
weights and activations all bf16?
Yes, VAAPI
I don't agree. Women, in general, don't find men attractive because of intelligence. It's other factors more like, whether their life is in order, they are fit, or the classic, if they are symmetrical.

So, we are visually, materiallistically oriented. Not all, of course, but evolution works on population size, not exceptions. Exceptions only come into an overbearing effect on cataclysmic events.
https://archive.is/fuT9L
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/I29gM
Unless it is a different subscription, I've never seen such information in the worldcheck database.
You are really just trying to get to rent-seeking behavior provides little value. My argument is that a lot of tech companies are providing rent-seeking behavior at a huge scale - and if you work for one of those companies in which you are deriving your income from that very behavior - how can you be so high and mighty about a small time landlord deriving small money from rent-seeking behavior except for, when of course, it hurts your own pocket.
Yup, just like Boeing ditched the leadership steeped in engineering for leadership steeped in Excel.
I got the most interviews through referrals from LinkedIn. Any time I apply for a job, I immediately message someone from the company. Top choice is somebody I’m connected to. Second choice is the Technical Recruiter. I’ve gotten more results from the people I’m already connected to, but that’s not surprising.