skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search engines worked a lot better when the internet had a higher SNR in the link graph. Nowadays it's an ocean of SEO sewage and no search engine can do a good job. It's not that Google ruined search by showing ads; it has genuinely become a harder problem. There is not much that can be done except set up a federated darknet where any commercial activity is banned; otherwise, the incentives are all wrong.
> Is this how people communicate technically in the newer generations?

I suspect this question is in bad faith but I'll answer anyway: this live tweeted thread is more like someone's thought stream, it is not a technical report.

Many humans are capable of both technical writing, free of cursing, and also of dumping a swear-filled thought stream right into their favourite medium - especially when excitedly reverse engineering, or doing anything they're passionate about.

This has been happening for a long time and is not about "the newer generation". You could've found me writing in a similar way on IRC in the late 90s, also talking about reversing.

FWIW your comment feels valid enough up until your final sentence, you just didn't need to attack "the newer generations".
I feel like, much like BMI, patent volume can be used to measure a population.

Sure, for any individual‘s fitness or a company’s “innovativeness” they are useless, but in aggregate they can be revealing.
They're creating a new platform with technologies from several older platforms.
Chemists invent a efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites
I really like this concept of `flex-grid` because that's exactly what this display would be.
I doubt you are that valuable. Sure software developers are high priced, but without even knowing what company you work for I bet I can do your job at a competitor and after 3 years I'd be just as good - that is worst case when I have to learn a new programming language to expert level as well as the domain. There are only a few people who have special skills that it is even worth thinking about protected. Someone who hires you away from a competitor gains at most a couple months vs hiring someone with similar skill who doesn't work for a competitor (and thus doesn't have domain knowledge).
We are in a housing trap. Can we escape? [video]
Only if we are talking about the state of native in ca 2015.
Come to think of it, I wonder if this is why (or a factor in why) Apple serial numbers don't have any vowels in them.

I think only consonants and digits are used in device serial numbers.
I'm aware. It is an implementation of the linked proposal.

The `wgpu` implementation linked will make its way into Firefox eventually. Dawn will follow up with a similar one for Chrome.

I was linking it to demonstrate there are no technical hurdles and it's only really approval remaining.
That's a pre-earnings report story. Not a dupe.
Ok, but the likelihood is 99.9% that I would rather read posts on Reddit than any LLM autogenerated ad laden malware garbage from SEO spammers.
The near 8x increase in compute capacity since March 2023 is the eyebrow raiser for me. My belief is that the vast majority of speculative value in Tesla has almost nothing to do with their hardware and everything to do with the potential of FSD.

If you believe the hypothesis that Americans will pay a huge premium (directly or indirectly by subsidizing the poor build quality) to decrease the mental load by 85% on their twice-daily 35 minute commute, then the company is in good shape.

On top of this, their data moat is enormous and their pipeline is mature. Other car companies seeking this level of autonomous fidelity will need to either race to start harvesting as much data as possible, or make a bet that this quantity will be unnecessary with future models.

Then again, if you don't buy the value-add promise of FSD hypothesis then this company is faltering hard. Cybertruck is flopping in sales (with life-threatening build issues as a bonus), the company is facing deteriorating public perception, the tightening economy makes the 'premium'/'apple' presentation less appealing, serious competitors recently entered the EV market, on and on.
In both cases, we leveraged our ad skills and sold those skills to our customers and spent their money. In one case, we eventually built our own ad network, and in the other case, we ended up controlling entire markets making ad spend ridiculously low.
I don't have a direct answer to your question. My guess is that LLMs are too limited to make truly great solutions in biology but sequential modelling is a key component that will not be replaced any time soon. For example, transformers were key to AlphaFold's success, but they still needed many other steps to make accurate predictions.

I worked on a predecessor to LLMs - HMMs for protein modelling. They were, and still are for most people the best way to model protein sequences. It's usually done as prediction, rather than generation (IE, you use the model to classify an unknown sequence into a known category, rather than asking the model to generate new instances of a category). HMMs for proteins are a bit stuffy, and they model local changes well, but struggle with long-range interactions that LLMs seem to excel at (for example, an HMM will do a good job of letting you stuff a few more residues into a protein in a localized region such as a hinge, but are not so great at modelling groups of residues that are located far-apart in sequence space but close in protein space).

One detail of the bitter lesson is, imho, that statistical parrots are better than they "should" be, probably for the same reason that mathematics is unexpectedly proficient in modelling physics: to some degree, the models recapitulate the true latent space of the underlying system well enough to generalize outside the original observation space.
We have them now, on chips and everything.
So, is the article/project concerned with "just NF", or "NF with urelements"?

Also, now I have to go learn about urelements too :-(
Native extensions unusable on Web browsers don't count.
Go to a State School
Yeah, lots of things happened for a perfect storm of downfall…probably starting with the antitrust breakup of the film processing division.

They did indeed have a huge patent arsenal from all their research efforts that was very valuable. They were also really good at consumer tech - so it’s a shame it didn’t amount to more.
Skimming the text, this seems like a decent quick intro to the CSSOM as it is relevant today:

https://css-tricks.com/an-introduction-and-guide-to-the-css-...

it also says:

> That W3C document is a somewhat decent way to get familiar with what’s possible with the CSSOM, but it’s a complete disaster for anyone looking for some practical coding examples that put the CSSOM APIs into action.

so there's that :D
Not just a car company, but a company that isn't "growing exponentially" now that it's achieved some scale (ie no longer a miniscule base).
A case that isn't even a tech company: Prudential Security enforced non competes against minimum wage security guards[0]

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/noncompete-agreement-feds-sue-3...
What does your message add to the discussion if you can’t even allude? Why even comment?
>> They aren’t property, companies don’t own people.

Ideas aren't property and they are stolen. You can steal a glance as well, but you know that has nothing to do with property either.

I also could have used the colloquialism poaching, but then I would be hearing about how people aren't big game and hunting is bad.

> Getting rid of noncompetes puts workers and companies on more even footing

We already know it doesn't have to: https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/185051/judge-appr...

That fine was probably minor compared to the wage suppression.

> If you don’t want to them to leave, then entice them to stay.

Poaching all the staff away from a company is illegal in CA, it's called raiding. This change will not create laws out of thin air.
Which is what Congress created them to do. And they are appointed, which the appointers are elected. In essence, they are elected, through the elected representatives which themselves are elected.

This is like saying that the US President is an unelected governmental representative. The population actually votes on a Representative for the Electoral College (EC). The Representatives in the EC then vote for President and Vice President. And yes, the EC Representatives are voted for because they say they will vote for a particular candidate (and as we figured out in 2012, many states have laws penalizing EC Representatives who don't vote how they committed to).
I'm the author of this blog post, feel free to ask any questions!
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Learning a transformer language model on such data simply learns a distribution over sequences of tokens.

If statistical distributions can model higher level polypeptide structure, then it could be useful.
> One of my goals with Ada is to have a one-liner copy-paste terminal command for people to install Ada so they can get to coding in just a few minutes. After extensive testing I feel like it's ready for general release[1].

I never had trouble with this? Apt-get install gnat or similar has always worked for me. I only played around with Ada though, never did anything serious with it. Installing from source wasn't too bad either. But, trying to install spark from source was a big mess back in the day. I don't know about now.
Hoot: Scheme to WebAssembly
Yes. I immediately knew what it meant. GP is being needlessly literal. Language is a communication tool. I, as the audience, was communicated to as intended. I’m not sure what this pedantry does for anyone.
Unfortunately, what you, I, or any non-billionaire voter thinks is reasonable or not is impertinent to the "free speech" of super PAC corporate lobbyists and $5 ideological fringe zealots near total monopolization of legislative output. No amount of grassroots action, voting, or dumb insurrections can break through entrenched corruption that is in the tank for billionaires, Russia, QAnon, and militant evangelical Christian white suprematists.
I'd push back on that, because you do get that passive-voice exclusive "we" in English, just as concisely - except it's expressed through stress pattern (as you indicate with your underlines), not vocabulary / grammar. I think that's exciting, because it gives English (as written) a lot of poetic ambiguity and (as spoken) a lot of performative - if you will - flexibility.
They absolutely were, such in the case of Prudential Security[0]

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/noncompete-agreement-feds-sue-3...
>a single person can make a huge difference,

This is probably the most true thing. It might depend on the person and the environment, but there are certainly people you cannot discount.
Or maybe teaching the child about the future possibilites and metaphors that symbols / characters need not be static. They can morph, shapeshift just like Rorschach's inkblot. Similar to the movie Arrival. Plus it is fun.

Rorschach Animation - Experimental Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enijvy5fc8g
When were they not focusing on FSD? It was promised like 5 years ago.

This is just a rationalization as to why the car company isn't growing, despite people claiming they'd own the entire market.
It’s a moot point. Almost no one used static PGO and its feature set was way more limited - it did not have devirtualization which provides the biggest wins. Though you are welcome to disagree it won’t change the reality of the impact .NET 8 release had on real world code.

It’s also convenient to ignore the rest of the content at the links but it seems you’re more interested in proving your argument so the data I provided doesn’t matter.
30,000 Uyghur women and children weren’t indiscriminately bombed to death via advanced drones, nor were hundreds of innocent civilians massacred at hospitals in China and buried in mass graves. It’s happening in Palestine as we type.
So I agree generally,

BUT existing phone companies have an incentive to maintain the app-centric world that keeps their app stores profitable, and app companies have an incentive to lock you into their app to keep customer loyalty and be “more than an API”.

All that’s to say, the Rabbit idea of manually scripting against apps to allow “business as usual” for all these individual parties who wouldn’t want to collaborate fills a void that existing players don’t have incentives to fill.
This is my experience too, I'm baffled that when making a basic search about a programming language on Google, the top results are only SEO garbage that waste your time for a basic answer. I'm better off asking GPT those days.
I'm a mathematician, and thats crazy. Marvellous.
We use SVN in our university lab, so no, that didn't work when I tried it initially. obj and bin was obvious to ignore, but I wasn't so sure about config and alire, might be helpful though
Thank you all for the feedbacks, and extra thanks for those who read all three chapters. The consensus is the content is too hard for younger readers and I agree. I do have some ideas to improve, and will work on them in the coming weeks.

And I will probably ask for feedback again soon.
You're right. I shouldn't have implied that, and as you said it does come from a fear of realizing that truth.

Given enough time, people, resources and focus, one can definitely capitalize on this. They have all that and it should be acknowledged.
You mean, like UKBB and All of Us already do, but less nationally focused? The approach seems fraught with complexity due to the complexity of medical ethics, the variation of national laws, and strongly-held nationalist positions.
mental load of driving is already reduced quite a bit (50%?) by Basic Autopilot.
>> Given that these rules are very similar to those in California...

CA has a corresponding law that prevents this. The last time I looked the FTC wasnt creating at NEW law to prevent the other side of this coin:

Rule 3: Workforce “Raids” Are Illegal in California

Technically, poaching employees is not illegal in California, but restrictions on workplace raids are mentioned in the legislation. In fact, state law prohibits companies from acting in bad faith to solicit a mass amount of employees from their competitors to intentionally hurt their business. This is called “raiding,” and when your competitor does it, you can file a tortious interference claim against them. Most of these cases require an employment contract to be successful in pursuit of damages.

FROM: https://www.flclaw.net/is-poaching-employees-illegal-califor...
Append a "?" to the end of the kagi query. It runs what appears to be a ChatGPT RAG query backed by a search engine index, and puts the results at the top of the normal search engine result page. It greatly outperforms any other LLM I've played with, and, as a bonus, each paragraph in the response contains working hyperlinks to primary sources.

If you don't want to pay Kagi or login, you can play with it here:

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

(no need to append "?" when you run queries through that form).
> The Supreme Court doesn't have any power to enforce its decisions.

Sure it does. US Marshals are the muscle of the court system. They enforce federal court orders when necessary.
We've avoided local shops due to cost until now, but when put like that, we should consider them now.

Yep we've been optimising to reduce reruns, but the time spent doing so + the lead time is super frustrating. Standard engineering woes I suppose...
Illegal immigrants can't vote, have never been able to vote, and there's absolutely no evidence that they've ever voted more than a random one-off that's almost always caught and prosecuted. Lying on your voter registration form is a felony and it's the height of internet addled smooth-brain delusion to insist that vast swaths of illegal immigrants are going to commit felonies that include providing their name and address to vote in an indirect democracy because one of the political parties is marginally less hostile to them.
> This is like saying that the US President is an unelected governmental representative

No, that's not how that works, ironically because in the name — Electoral College — the President is, elected. Regardless by the populous or not.

Appointees are politically chosen, yes by a representative, but usually with major political leanings built into the rules they make, with little to no oversight.
It's not. California isn't the only municipality to have banned NCAs.

https://natlawreview.com/article/state-law-restrictive-coven...
> On top of this, their data moat is enormous and their pipeline is mature. Other car companies seeking this level of autonomous fidelity will need to either race to start harvesting as much data as possible, or make a bet that this quantity will be unnecessary with future models.

From what I've seen in the past, it's not clear that Tesla is actually collecting all that much data in practice. And the concerns over the quality of FSD isn't something that is easily resolved by mass harvesting of existing drivers' habits.
Is there no local PCB manufacturer near you? Normally, local manufacturers can do that sort of thing for about $2K or so with quick turnaround (<1 week). Assembly is normally anywhere from 1K to 5K extra depending upon complexity.

You should be able to buy quite a few local turns for the price it would cost for you to spend time in Shenzhen.

Unless you're Chinese is very good or you have a trusted local contact, you're not likely to benefit much from heading to Shenzhen in person.
You build platforms to be able to quickly make new models, maybe with minor upgrades to platform parts down the line.

Taking what works from an old platform and developing it further for different needs is known as "building a new platform". What the said is that they would mix and match parts from the old and new platform, which makes very little sense.
My experience is complete opposite. You just need to construct a realistic load test for the code and the bottlenecks will stand out (more often than not).

Also there is learning curve to grouping and aggregating data.
If you know how to use a phone, you won't get any viruses. My friend's elderly mother on the other hand...
It's just faster and easier to iterate PCBs anymore than large breadboard creations.
Surprised by the sharp drop in news and coverage I've seen online, it's a ghost just a few months after the release.
Of course the study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03768...) is behind a paywall. From what is in the abstract, it looks like all participants used all of the combinations except the last one, which was optional. I'm curious to know what order they took each combination and what the time between doses was. I'm just curious if tolerance plays a part in the effect.

I can't generally use marijuana at all because I get stuck in very dark, scary thought loops. However, for a while I was on aripiprazole and could use in moderation during that time without the negative effects, but only if the dose was really low.
Yes, those BMWs are insane weights for an "M" ("Motorsport") series.

Especially considering that it's common knowledge in motorsports (although evidently less common than it should be) that more power only increases acceleration performance, but lighter weight increases performance of acceleration, braking, cornering, and tyre wear! Plus, reducing weight is compounding; take out one chunk of mass, and other components can also be made lighter, e.g., reduce the body mass, and you can fit lighter suspension components, brakes, wheels, tires, etc., and the light-weighting compounds.
I disagree, because this ends up with implying that if you just got rid of That One Fucking Guy, then everything with Google Search would be good.

Which... is not a claim I'd agree with without extremely convincing evidence.
I process text through

https://www.sbert.net/

and apply a classical machine learning algorithm such as the probability calibrated SVM. This usually beats bag-of-words classifiers as it is able to suss some of the meaning of words. The advantage of this approach is that it very fast (maybe 30 seconds to reliably train a model)

It is also possible to “fine tune” a BERT family model using tools from Huggingface like so

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training

my experience is that this takes more like 30 minutes to train a model but the process is not so reliable. For some tasks this performs better than the first approach but I haven’t gotten it to reliably improve on my current models for my tasks.

I am planning on fine-tuning a T5 model when I have a problem that I think it will do well on.
36-year-old rows alone from Hawaii to Australia
The same fringe legal theory that is likely to win in the Chevron Deference case[0] before the Supreme court, which will gut agencies (including the FTCs) ability to regulate things in this manner?

[0]: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison Tags Nashville as Company's Next HQ
I appreciate this reply - you’re right direct democracy is inefficient, and that our governments aren’t exactly a model of efficiency either.

that being said, and I think you agree this is important when it comes to government, I think we deserve to have a say in decisions that affect us. Whether that’s direct democracy or a republic, not my point, although an important discussion to be had.

First step though, is pointing out that I don’t want to live in a top-down autocratic country, nor do I want to work for a top-down, autocratic company. Then we can talk about how a democratic workplace might work!
Heads up that the article is open source in case you wanted to contribute an edit.

https://github.com/gajus/gajus-com/blob/main/src/blogPosts/2...

I fixed the typo though. Thanks!
This certainly isn't what they wrote.
This is very obviously not to be taken literally.
I was denied a job I was well qualified for because, (paraphrased, besides the quoted part): Our CEO and your CEO have a "gentleman's agreement" not to hire people that work at eachother's company.

I have no idea why the recruiter was willing to put this in writing, and thankfully, I was able to find other work instead.

I know it's not a non-compete, but there are other ways that companies can illegally form cartels to suppress labor.
Any chance of getting a copy of the underlying dataset?
Another confusing thing is doing this:

xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

Instead of something like this:

xxxxx-xx-xxxxx-xxx-xxxxx

Something could also be said about such scheme lacking the embedding of a checksum.

Here's an IBAN (bank account number) in the EU (which thankfully are using a checksum as part of the account number):

LU29 0022 1712 5582 7000
^^
||
two checkdigits

Also some companies think they're "smart" because they pick numbers like this:

LU29 002 0000 0001 8000

Repeating the same digit, usually a zero, a shitload of time ain't smart. It's fucking dumb.
except META was $90 when all tech was in recession. TSLA is crashing even when all tech and broader market has been rising.
> Do you really think Elon would just surround himself with yes men that implement stupid ideas just because he thinks it "looks cool"?

Yes, I suspect a lot of us do think exactly that.
I really, really wanted to see a new generation of tattoo technology based on fluorescence and squid chromatophores. However, for the time being, the vast majority of gene editing will be for well-understood medical conditions where all the alternatives have been excluded. Germline (or even somatic) modification for recreational purposes or for non-urgent medical reasons is definitely still considered highly suspect by society as a whole, and I don't see that changing overnight. Somethings still work better in scifi than reality.