skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brunei .. and that was an odd story.

Might have been heat stroke, might have been slipped a mickey .. but he was, reportedly, diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour or some such and advised to leave the country by the best physician in the country who worked directly for the Sultan.

The odd part was this being shortly after Devil of a State was published .. nominally about a fictious African country, transparently dishing dirt on society and rule in Brunei.

Clockwork Orange gets all the recognition but I still applaud his opening sentence in Earthly Powers, his parodic mockumentary of a (specific?) stereotyped British author.
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Are you in a ton of subreddits and want to leave them? Doing that manually is a pain. Beleave enables you to mark the subreddits you want to leave and simply click "Leave Communities". It's that simple.
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Pagers in the 450 to 470 mHz frequency are still used in the senior living nurse call industry. It is still taking time to transition to an android or iOS device because of the cost to replace a $500 to $1000 device versus a $100 one, after it falls in a toilet.
Well, you've fooled yourself into thinking you understand something when you don't. I say this as someone with a PhD in the topic, who has taught many students, and published dozens of papers in the space.

The operation of adding BoW vectors together has nothing to do with the operation of adding together word embeddings. Well, aside from both nominally being addition.

It's like saying you understand what's happening because you can add velocity vectors and then you go on to add the binary vectors that represent two binary programs and expect the result to give you a program with the average behavior of both. Obviously that doesn't happen, you get a nonsense binary.

They may both be arrays of numbers but mathematically there's no relationship between the two. Thinking that there's a relationship between them leads to countless nonsense conclusions: the idea that you can keep adding word embeddings to create document embeddings like you keep adding BoWs, the notion that average BoWs mean the same thing as average word embeddings, the notion that normalizing BoWs is the same as normalizing word embeddings and will lead to the same kind of search results, etc. The errors you get with BoWs are totally different from the errors you get with word or sentence or document embeddings. And how you fix those errors is totally different.

No. Nothing at all makes sense about word embeddings from the point of BoW.

Also, yes BoW is a total dead end. They have been completely supplanted. There's never any case where someone should use them.
Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin?
A lot of doctors still prefer to carry beepers
I was carrying a pager as late as 2009 because a customer's data center was two stories underground in one of the older tower blocks in downtown Toronto.
What’s the price on those bags? I’m not contacting them and hidden pricing is scummy.
Better the devil you know. Everyone knows that sugar is bad for you. But aspartame is sold as being good for you because it’s zero calories. Must be good, right? It’s Diet Coke! A diabetic friend said his doctor told him regular coke was better for him. It causes migraines (source: me). I have heard many doctors say it is worse than real sugar. Yes, we don’t understand it yet. But we are pretty sure it’s bad, that’s why it’s the devil.
U.S. nuclear industry upbeat on small reactors, despite setback
Pretty annoying, but maybe that's what Niki is aiming for?
Are you talking about sentence/text chunk embeddings, or just embeddings in general?

If you need high quality text embeddings (e. g to use with a vector DB for text chunk retrieval), they they are going to come from the output of a language model, either a local one or using an embeddings API.

Other embeddings are normally going to be learnt in end-to-end fashion.
It really feels like a solution in want of a problem.

I'm already in the terminal!
First law protecting consumers' brainwaves signed by Colorado governor
I remember the marketing for App Academy was that we all would be self-taught, but then the actual makeup of the cohort were people who had prior programming experience (CS all through high school and as a hobby, but studied linguistics in college and regretted it; a designer who had done some JS and couldn’t pass leetcode interviews despite having current frontend skills, etc.)

I think the problem they’ve run into is that there are only so many of those types to go around, and you have to stay small or really tackle the problem of transforming someone in 12 weeks eventually. That’s a different and much harder ask.
Here's a similar project with a PlayStation 1 if people like this kind of thing: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/ps-hanami.6279...
Just to really stress how misinformed you are, I too have a launch M1 MacBook Pro w/ 8GB RAM and have only ever had problems with websites that contain a lot of UHD video content or similar.
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Thats not how DMT works.
Always disliked Quora. Full of dark patterns to draw people in, scores far to well in search results and often felt like very low quality results. Felt not much better than a bot driven SEO farm. Reddit was only as good as the subreddit mods and community but at its best the better subs felt more like a genuine community than an attention farm.

All of these businesses seem like a terrible foundation to build real communities and I despair at the loss of independently run forums, mailing lists, news groups, blogs, rss feeds, web rings etc. Over easy access to capital ruined the web IMO. Too many companies had access to funds to build unsustainable businesses based on half arsed ideas. They over ran the more organic/amateurish/complicated alternatives reducing diversity and then either folded, got absorbed or turned to nasty practices to become sustainable.

In relative terms the ratio of genuine organic content on independent platforms to content in closed platforms and generated content seems to have declined precipitously. It is possible there won't be enough content to sustain an ad driven search business. Search turning to machine learning allows them to synthesize results in the absence of indexed primary sources which can be impressive and perhaps useful in some situations but isn't what a lot of searchers want. When it comes to connecting with real people and communities I don't know how an LLM is going to entirely make up for a dying independent web.
This was messing with my head for a minute, I thought maybe they had figured out a way to use mini CDs (like the GameCube) to make that tiny disc drive functional, but it appears to just be decorative.
I nearly drowned in my early 30s surfing in conditions that were the biggest I had ever experienced (double to triple overhead). On the skills vs risk chart the author mentions I was low-mid skilled in a higher risk environment. I grabbed the first wave of a large set that rolled through and ended up wiping out. Somehow in the washing machine my leash lasso’d around my legs making them virtually worthless in my struggle. Imagine swimming without legs…it doesn’t work at all. The set waves behind mine were crashing over me and keeping me under. This particular storm was angled perfectly for my break and was very strong at a relatively close distance meaning set waves came in groups of up to 10 as opposed to the normal 2-3. I don’t know how long I was under. My struggle was intense. I feel like the entire time I was thinking clearly but only bc I didn’t have time to panic, maybe? Like the author I thought about my family. I remember being close to the surface once and then getting pounded again. Then an extreme calm came over my body. My vision went black and I remember thinking “this is it, it’s time”. Next thing I remember I surfaced… maybe it was right after I thought it was over, maybe I passed out for some time? Like the author I pretended to just shake it off like no big deal. I told the story like a badge of pride, showing fearlessness and strength or whatever. Never once did I say I was stupid for being out there in the first place. But I was almost that idiot that died after saying “hey y’all watch this”. I do hope my eventual death feels like the calm that came over me here though. I’ll never forget how peaceful that felt…
Surely we all know at this point that the two hardest things in programming are: naming things, threading, and off-by-one errors.
Is this true across all socioeconomic groups? All of them projected to be better off?

What is the citation for this?
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Not only off topic but out of sample.

The old style LLM hallucinations where it starts spitting out random tokens like:

nxrt$$.full #`,,, jump #43one daisy daisy give me your answer ###
The problem here isn't that an LLM hallucinates. The problem is that nobody asked for an AI response, and Meta pushed content to a forum that makes such claims, which could easily mislead or at least confuse people not sophisticated enough to be on the lookout for hallucinations.

Meta should be (and is) in the business of policing third-party spam on their forums that does exactly this. We can infer what must've happened - the model must've been fine-tuned on forum comments, and this would be the likely format for a response to that question. This sort of thing should've been caught by a wrapper/guard model, and will probably make a good case to add to such a model's instructions/training.

(btw: is it "an LLM" or "a LLM"? I guess I should ask an LLM which it prefers to be called)
VCs would improve their public image if they took the occasional L.
Boooooring.
I should note that I'm not a computer scientist and I'm currently a bit sleep-deprived, but to continue discussing what you're interested in:

I tend to think that an efficient computation of some finite-state version of Kolmogorov complexity would necessarily require an efficient computation of a finite-state version of the halting problem, but I'm not entirely sure of this.

Naively, it seems that this Kolmogorov calculation would require enumerating all programs (in increasing program size) and then running each of them until they either 1) enter an infinite loop, 2) produce the input string and halt, or 3) start producing a different string.

However, I'm not sure this would be the most efficient algorithm. For example, it might be easy to inspect each program and discard almost all that would "obviously" not produce the input string before we even try to run them.

Or better yet, never even enumerate such programs that can be proven not to produce the input string. In other words, cut the search space significantly.

Perhaps there might even be a shortcut to directly construct the smallest program that produces a given string, or at least, a family of small candidate programs that would be a very small subset of all possible programs and yet would be guaranteed to contain the solution.

As you might have noticed, unfortunately I don't know if there are such extraordinarily efficient shortcuts, I'm only speculating that they might exist.

That said, I still suspect that this might be intractable due to having to account for the worst case, i.e. undecipherable random-looking programs. In the case of the halting problem in the context of formal verification, I'm more optimistic since we usually don't need to care about such random-looking programs, only human-constructed ones (usually), which might be far easier to analyze algorithmically. I don't know if that makes sense...
Logitech just build it into mouse.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-build...

https://blog.logitech.com/2024/04/17/looking-to-improve-your...
This is assuming that the skilled pragmatists are even employed to begin with. What I'm seeing is that they've been steadily getting pushed out of the industry. There have been many highly skilled open source devs who left the industry because they can't deal with the bureaucracy and nonsense anymore.

The dispassionate, status-oriented bureaucrat seems to have the upper hand; and they appear to have the majority necessary to get their way in the centers of power.

We have a bad case of the blind leading the visionaries.
Yes I have and I love it!
It's over the air, not even phone lines. PDW, SDRSharp, and an rtl-sdr dongle is all that's needed.
And yes, there is a lot of patient info in that traffic. It's not illegal for the hospital to broadcast this, and it's not illegal to listen in and decode the signals, but it is very much illegal to do anything with the information gathered.
I hate to break it to you, but these scholars are not going to jail for their bad ideas. That's not how a free society works. We'll have to settle for general disrepute.
> "math for Pluto's rough position came first and directed observers (roughly) where to look"

But the math wasn't proof that Pluto existed, it wasn't proven until it was discovered.
You are confused. Robocall scams are still a multi-billion dollar market, capping at an estimated $50b in damages in 2023. [1]

1- https://time.com/6513036/robocalls-government-action/
What verbiage would you deem acceptable, if "claims" and "hallucinates" are both out?
I thought so. It is just that "keyword search on graphs" is the name of the search problem even if something other than keyword matching is used to pick which nodes in the graph to find a minimal connecting graph and a central result node from.
The problem is not knowing all the keywords, otherwise I'd just use them all at the start. That's the point of having something that guides you.
This is purely anecdotal, but of that 8% (26 million), I would posit that most of those people are uninsured by choice. e.g., probably mostly young, maybe part-time workers without chronic illnesses.
You're right in a purist sense, but the alternative headline would be "Meta is already carelessly allowing hallucination machine to hallucinate in troubling places and with troubling amplification by their content placement algorithm"

It's definitely a vivid example of Meta being irresponsible with the tech today and of what we can expect a lot of the internet to be polluted with in the future.
Lol strawman? Think not. Try re-reading the entire thread and come back to us when you're prepared to argue the actual point being made.
Can you share the details about the benchmark?
This is pretty messed up - I liked the idea of incentive aligned ISAs (and actually teaching a skill that universities mostly don't), but it still requires someone of good character making decisions ultimately.
That's a great example what I'm referring to but for content generation
But is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
I understand your point but I think it's misplaced here. This kind of criticism made sense with the Bing/Sydney stuff, since "Bing claims to be self-aware" is misleading compared to "Bing inconsistently recites some sci-fi cliches." People like Kevin Roose were actively spreading misconceptions about how LLMs work. It would have been nice if they had taken your comment seriously in 2023.

But this is different. The subtext of the headline is clearly "Facebook's dumb chatbot had a very dumb glitch." I believe laypeople would immediately understand the AI is just plagiarizing a Facebook mom. Policing the language here seems more about pedantry than correcting actual misconceptions.

(You might say that some people would read this headline and jump to a Her fantasy, where Meta's poor AI is desperate for human connection or whatever. But these people are not going to be swayed by technical accuracy. They will just interpret language like yours as euphemism and denial.)
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The "proof" part wasn't addressed there, just the question "Doesn't the observation come first, ..."

Clearly this isn't always true, nor straightforward as the two can be intertwined in an iterative feedback.

In other cases math theory domains can exist for decades prior to any observations that call upon those domains to expand or produce an applicable description for physicists or others.
Forcing somebody to cease committing a specific form of fraud is a "big deal"?
The article reprices what he’d get since the stock is down from the $56B level. It’s not $56B.
When a patient shows up with a blood glucose >300 mg/dl it is mystifying why a doctor would not simply give them a pamphlet about konjac noodles and a coupon for $3 off cauliflower crust pizza.

Surely it must be a conspiracy when you hear things like “treating acute hyperglycemia” and “preventing imminent kidney failure, coma and death” as opposed to “have you heard of keto tik tok?” Perhaps the ADA should encourage prolonged high blood glucose and focus on making sure their diet cookbooks are printed in braille so that the patients they let go blind on purpose can use them?
When my dad told me he had type 2 diabetes, I told him to go on a paleo diet, basically low carb. He gave me a bunch of reasons why that was a bad idea, and had already read some books recommended by the ADA, which he felt backed him up. He spent over 6 years trying all kinds of stuff (everything except low carb and no sugar). Eventually he found a doctor doing a program that puts type 2 diabetics on an extreme elimination diet, no solid food at all for several months… way more extreme, and way less sustainable, than what I suggested. He eventually kicked it with that, but it took a long time, a lot of money, and an extreme intervention.

During that period my dad was fighting with this, my mom was also diagnosed with type 2. I told her the exact same thing. She did it, and 3 months later she was fine, for the cost of some meat and vegetables.

The ADA is a joke. I’ve found books from over 100 years ago talking about avoiding carbs/sugar to fix diabetes. This isn’t new stuff, there’s just no money in it I guess.
According to The Verge [0] "None of this puts BloomTech out of business, by the way — it can keep operating with third-party loans instead."

And to make matters even more depressing the CEO just tweeted [1] that it's no biggie for him:

> BloomTech continues to focus on its core mission: improving the lives of students and enabling them to fulfill their economic potential. While it’s been frustrating, we’re glad to put this behind us.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133577/lambda-school-bl...

[1] https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1780770303406403701
The more we see the legacy of PG’s various protégés and “thought leadership” out in the world the more I start to think Jessica Livingston might have been responsible for much more of YC’s successful trajectory than people realized at the time.
Hyprland for a tiling window manager, nixos sometimes but that one also sparks mass frustration just as much as joy
'Revealing images that seemed lost forever:' Research revives 1800s photos
> Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.

A master of deception with statistics!
I thought stability was disintegrating after burning through most of their capital.
haha the scary headline "Beepers Speed Drug Connections" like there's absolutely nothing speedy about a drug connection.
I thought the idea behind lambda was good I was a lot more surprised by PG's strong support for Mighty which seemed a lot more bizarre. Though his recent tweets wrt Israel have been the most disappointing for me.
Actually, yeah, judges do void Unconscionable Contracts on the regular.
Steven Kleiman
Fastest Zero Allocation Golang LRU for key value pairs in []byte
modern? I'm pretty sure that's always been the case. It's a hard job and not enough people have ever been good at it.
It's been a while but for a long time I tuned in pretty regularly to 1700 AM Peak Island Radio, very fun interesting local radio with lots of interesting music. https://peaksislandradio.com/
When I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 my doctor pushed the standard drugs on me without mentioning the alternative. When I found out about low carb, tried it and succeeded with it, my doctor just smiled and nodded. He wasn't surprised. But he was entirely unwilling to deviate from the standard of care dictated by the tablet he carried around. He was a very experience well trained doctor ... acting like a clerk performing a script.

I wonder why there is such a widespread distrust of authority in this country?
Noooope. One does not simply learn 15 years of CAD techniques in a month.
Funny you should mention that! Some members of the BitBuilt community are working on this including the talented YveltalGriffin https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/nintendo-vegas...
Environmental protection seems to be a luxury good. Nations don't typically prioritize it until they get wealthy.

The wealthiest nations are the ones with the strongest environmental protections.

So, in a weird way, money may very well fix the environment.
A well-designed product will sell better than a slightly-less-well-designed product
except nothing like that currently exists and very likely won't ever exist.
I really liked obsidian but i switched to silverbullet a couple months ago and havent looled back, might be worth checking out.
Inside Amazon's Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals
Purely for aesthetics! It wouldn’t be the same without that iconic glowing disc slot.
Bless his heart
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1573859253797810176

Honestly, there’s nothing really that screams dishonesty than this tweet. Saying that your outcomes are stronger than ever when every tech company was laying off and headcount was frozen just doesn’t pass the smell test.
Sorry errant >. It was based on my own experience. Launch School has a unique model where it's $200/month for the core curriculum which you complete at your own pace, and then can complete an optional capstone curriculum/project which comes with an ISA (18K or 18% of first year salary). Their outcomes are great, the curriculum is top-notch, and the founder always conducted himself with integrity and transparency. I had a great experience.
What happened to releasing working products?
OP is suffering from the moral panic about fentanyl. It's gotten so ridiculous that cops suffer from a collective begin near it is enough to knock them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vzz_P9JBk

If people wonder how possession worked in the middle ages, look no further than this.
Eh, this article has absolutely nothing to do with web frameworks?
Just like every other political system IRL :)
Are you being too picky about what jobs you’ll take?

Code is like a super power. I started off as a sys admin, and started writing code and tools to make my life, and the life of my team, easier. That transitioned me into a software engineering role. It wasn’t fast, but I’ve had steady employment with consistent raises for nearly 20 years because of it.

If you just need your foot in the door, does it matter which door it is?
I'm obviously biased as the founder, but check out https://recall.ai/ for a meeting bot API.

We serve over 300 companies, process millions of hours of recording a year, and are officially partnered with Zoom.
I mostly use old.reddit but sometimes use sh.reddit
add to that, making an obviously inferior first gen product, so that they could sell you a "new and improved" second gen and get you on an upgrade cycle for this completely extraneous thing that costs as much as a phone (that it will never, ever get rid of)
What's wrong with coinbase?