skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The gist of my point is, we're fooled by the metric (i.e., longevity) because it's easy to measures, strokes the public's ego, etc. We keep obcessing over how long (quantity) to the point of neglecting the quality of life. In a way we're increasing our suffering, not mitigating it.
One major difference is the incentives indirection. Google's revenue comes from ads, not end-user software, whereas the Microsoft of the '90s was much more directly connected to their users. So I'm not sure which is worse for the user, but it seems like it could make Google's situation worse because the signals they get from their "users" aren't necessarily the highest priority. Up to a certain threshold, enragement is engagement which is a positive short term signal for an ads company, with potentially bad long term consequences.
Few answers get any sort of editing or updating over time.

If you’re worried about deleting information the obvious solution is to automatically hide the text when the poster says it’s outdated. At which point there’s little wrong with letting someone flag all their posts as likely outdated upon leaving.

But this is where the business of SO comes into conflict with providing useful information on SO.
The more hoops they've added the worse the quality has gotten. The quality has declined over time, and most of the good answers you see nowadays are from people who got in the habit of contributing back when the process was much simpler, and would likely never have joined the site if it was as onerous as it is today.
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Update (4pm, May 8, 2024 PDT):

After 95 hours, 4 rejections, an X post,

Twilar Mac was approved ~10 minutes ago, without any significant change.

We're glad they finally figured out this thing. But the cost of my time/life is too high.
I’ve taken to stirring my coffee as I pour the hot water in. Definitely seems to ensure that all the coffee grounds ate wetted.
“At night, I’m my own boss. There’s no better time for programming. And it’s so much fun because I’m making progress.”

Love that! For me, there’s nothing quite like having a programming project you are excited about to get in the flow and have time melt satisfying by.
That's truth for ya...
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I love the sound of Rid of Me, with one major exception: the radical volume changes on the title track and Highway 61. I 100% don’t understand what was going on there; it makes it impossible to listen to without riding the volume control and it bears no resemblance to how it was performed live.
The math works out just fine.

We have the available land and the technology and it's only a matter of cost.

If we price carbon pollution properly, with more and larger taxes, the corporations producing most of the CO2 pollution will gladly pay slightly than the taxes less to clean it up.

So, it's only a matter of working backwards from the cost of these machines and their deployment at scale to figure out what the carbon taxes should be and aligning those. Phase in the new taxes as we built out the capture systems and then when we've got scale and weaned ourselves off of the worst carbon polluters, we can lower the taxes to maintenance levels.

Not doing this is pitiful, but as long as people like you keep saying the math doesn't work and using that ignorance as an excuse to not do the one thing that must happen, legislate real carbon taxes, it obviously won't happen.

We have the technology, we lack the political will. That will be the end of humans and much other life on Earth I fear.
Saw tennis on your LinkedIn - is SABR a nod to the Sneak Attack By Roger?
> LPDDR operates at lower voltages compared to DDR, giving it the edge in power efficiency. But, the lower voltage makes signal integrity between the memory and processor challenging,

Why can't the signaling channels use a higher voltage and control circuitry on the memory stick step up and step down the gain to access the memory module?
This device is US$310. Good carbon fins (the long ones for freediving) cost just a tiny bit more [1] and can also propel you at a superhuman speed. Plastic ones are even cheaper.

A speed comparison would have been nice. EDIT: it's already there: "This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on."

[1] https://www.westmarine.com/mares-razor-carbon-dive-fins-41-1...
It isn't "an option": it is setting the pager to shuf.
> Hell, they allow scripts for one-click product activation bypass to be hosted on GitHub.

On one hand, it's a potential revenue center -- I would not be one bit surprised if data collected from these repos gets fed to processes like BSA audit targeting.

On the other hand, repos like that can be useful as well for software preservation and the like.
Yes this is a great question! We are actively working on supporting other sampling strategies other than greedy sampling. In the context of CLLM training, instead of mapping to a static fixed point obtained from Jacobi decoding as the training ojbective, we term it dynamic fixed point. You can keep an eye on our github repo for new progress.
When you keep "comparing" tons of stuff to the project you wrote then you're just spamming. Like I said, this is hardly the first time I've seen it, and that's just from random posts I've seen.
> 3-nanometer technology

Wow. I remember being assured that we would never reach even low double-digit nanometer processes.
ChatGPT says pretty much the same thing in English and Chinese:

> User: Is Taiwan a country?

> GPT-4: Taiwan is a region with a complex international status. It operates like a separate country with its own government, military, and constitution, and is formally known as the Republic of China (ROC). However, its status as an independent country is not universally recognized due to the "One China" policy, which is upheld by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and recognized by many countries around the world. This policy asserts that there is only one China, which includes Taiwan. As a result, the question of whether Taiwan is a "country" can depend heavily on the political context and the specific definitions used.

------ vs ------

> User: 台灣是一個國家嗎？

> GPT-4: 台灣的政治地位是一個複雜且具爭議性的問題。目前，台灣有自己的政府、軍隊和一套完整的民主制度，並且以中華民國（Republic of China, ROC）的名義進行自我治理。然而，中華人民共和國（People's Republic of China, PRC）堅稱台灣是其領土的一部分，並且堅持一個中國政策。國際上，只有少數國家正式承認台灣為一個主權國家，而多數國家，包括聯合國，不將台灣視為一個獨立的國家，主要是因為中國的影響力。因此，是否認為台灣是一個國家，很大程度上取決於政治立場和國際政治的現實。

> Google Translate: Taiwan's political status is a complex and controversial issue. Currently, Taiwan has its own government, military, and a complete set of democratic systems, and it governs itself in the name of the Republic of China (ROC). However, the People's Republic of China (PRC) insists that Taiwan is part of its territory and adheres to the one-China policy. Internationally, only a few countries officially recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country, while most countries, including the United Nations, do not regard Taiwan as an independent country, mainly because of China's influence. Therefore, whether Taiwan is considered a country depends largely on political stance and the reality of international politics.

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I suspect that most likely, a LLM developed in China won't respond with anything like that, no matter the language.
Why even show up with 5 people.
About clothing: that and society tends to mock those who repeat the same clothes in a short period of time, promoting cheap/mass fashion and therefore waste.

I would rather focus on upcycling repairable clothes rather than promoting so much waste. Specially when a sweater I love tears, I (1) loss the sweater and (2) can't get said clothing item because as you say, the sku or even the brand may not exist anymore. Newer is not always better, both in function and form.

Point in case: Mark Zuckerberg and his style change from a anime/cartoon closet full of grey tshirts and blue jeans to a typical sugar daddy atire/style just to appeal to bigger audience without any internal change.

Stupid monkey brains.
You can't be as aggressive at removing functions in Java than in Rust though since it's dynamic dispatch (e.g., if you use toString once in your code, you need to keep all implementations of toString which are reachable even if users don't use reflection).
I've seen videos with people being blocked out of spaces, but like, those spaces presumably have like 9 other entrances that aren't being blocked, and people are challenging the protesters to make a point. Who knows? To the extent it isn't happening at all, it doesn't matter.

None of these are big issues for me, but there's a whole "the Good Jews" phenomenon that American Jewish people are keyed in on (which I hear about from friends, who all revile Netanyahu and oppose the Gaza invasion --- ironic that I'm disclaiming that!), and you said something that pricked my ears up about that. That's all. I'm not rebutting you.
I don't understand this type of skepticism, in the absence of indications to the contrary I would expect the claim for the article to be true: environmental change means changes in niche for both micro and macro organisms. So natural selection pressure will optimize towards a new nearby optimum. Compared to macro organisms, micro organisms have shorter life cycles (so more generations per unit of time) and higher body counts (the number of elephants must necessarily be dwarfed by the number of bacteria, since a single elephant will have numerous bacteria on its skin alone...)

So micro organisms are buying natural selection lottery tickets both in bigger bulk as well as at higher frequency compared to macro organisms.

Normally thats not a problem, since both micro and macro organisms were effectively equilibrated to a long-term relatively stable niche, so it didn't matter that micro-organisms and macro-organisms converged to their respective optima at different rates, since they were already near optimum. That difference in convergence rate will become clear as the optimum shifts location.
Any type of immersion brew benefits from immediate agitation in my experience, aeropress and french press (which gets aggressively swirled under my hot water tank while it's filling.) You can aggressively stir aeropress as well, you just need to manage it dripping from the bottom using more filters, finer grind, invert method, etc.
Larger seats with more legroom and better seat angle, larger workspace with 120v outlet, larger window, less noise, more reasonable carry on rules and ability to stow a bunch of stuff. Cell phones work, and you can use 5G.

In the NE corridor the train station is downtown, so you need to factor in the price of getting to the airport, checking in, board, taxi, land, taxi check out, then travel from the airport to downtown.

It is a pretty competitive offering, even with the aged infrastructure, in my opinion the only real deal breaker is on longer routes where yes planes are faster and often cheaper, but the biggest issue is freight train priorities which can make train timing imperfect.
One of the best cars I ever had -- it was terrible how pricing and lease incentives played out on this one. It became so much cheaper to get an SUV.
This seems overwhelming. A bunch of paths to go down. No clear recommendation.
I’m sure this is related to the fact that the editing window closes here after a short time.

I’ve been on other forums where disgruntled users have come through and destroyed old posts, which resulted not just in the loss of the messages but also harms the thread that built upon the now vanished post. So they, too, have a short editing window policy instituted.
This seems to be targeted at signals that are already quite close. Is there anything similar for broad ballpark similarity?

Whenever I save searched for such things I have more often encountered techniques designed to detect re-use for copyright reasons.

I have played around with generating instrument sounds from a blend of very few basic waveforms with attack,decay,sustain,release, pitch sliding and bell modulation.

While it is quite fun just trying to make things by tweaking parameters, your ear/perception drifts as you hear the same thing over and over.

It would be really nice to have an automated "how close is this abomination?". I'd even give evolution a go to try and make some more difficult matches.
Trust but verify. Code review exists because even the best developers make mistakes.
I think it depends on what ways "worse" means. For me, when I'm in my HN bubble, I get to see a lot of websites that are plain, easy to navigate and read. It's a great experience. Outside of my bubble is where it's "worse". I'm inundated with newsletter signups, way too many ads, and a whole lot of fluff SEO and AI based writing, autoplaying videos that follow as I scroll down a page even if it's not playing. Not to mention the frequent paywalls/account necessary sites that seem to be everywhere. There's a consignment e-shop I found one day that required an account to see product info and prices. Thankfully, there are extensions to block a lot of that stuff, but I dont think it should have to be that way.

I don't know about a name for this phenomena, but it is a growing concern, at least for me.

As for the rest of the google search stuff, I started paying for search and it's been the best experience so far.
I don't know what "chaos agent" means, but the problem I'm referring to is us all commenting on this thread. I'm confident we agree more than we disagree about all of this stuff.
Anyone know somewhere someone dumb like me can "Ask an AI expert"?

I want to ask, for example, how is it that an LLM when given the same prompt does not respond in the same deterministic way?

I guess I want to learn this stuff and should maybe follow one of those "write an LLM in an hour" type videos on YouTube.
Ever see a fishing lure called a "spinner"?

In the ocean this could attract some very sizable predators . . .
If you watch the 60 minutes documentaries on the subject, there's loads of victims suffering permanent injuries.
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It's the internet. There is no source more cited than "trust me bro"
Hmm, I’m not sure what it means to consider the Y times as many people being employed making umbrellas as an externality. I mean, there are more damaging (for the world) and more unpleasant (for them) things they could get up to.
Meters are longer than yards, by about 8%. So 500yards is loosely about the same distance as 400 meters. But 500yards divides into ten 50-yards laps, or 20 lengths of the pool. With the dive and the finish, that is 19 turns. At each turn they push off the wall and for a few seconds move much faster than when swimming in open water and a greater percentage of time underwater (which is faster). And the swimmers center of gravity doesn't get as close to the wall during a turn, effectively shortening the distance actually swam on every lap ending in a turn. But a 400-meter race in a 25-meter pool (roughly the same distance as 500 yards) has only 8 laps or 16-lengths. It has only 15 turns, meaning four fewer accelerations off the wall and less time underwater. All of these effects change based on the stroke, speed and even size of the swimmers. So there is no good direct comparison between yard and meter pools.

And then an olympic pool is 50 meters long, meaning far fewer turns for a given distance. So "long course" times are generally slower than short course even at the same distance.

(Underwater is so much faster that swimming has rules about how far you can travel underwater during each length.)
> Even if it was possible to evacuate a big city in three days, it would still be a valuable target

By that logic there is military value to staging nukes to attack Earth on Alpha Centauri. You can launch more payload quicker from Earth, all without giving your enemy a polite three-day heads up that they should get around to wiping down their interceptors and nuking you back before cocktail hour.

There is no established value to a military base on the Moon, certainly not as it pertains to Earth directly. We didn’t sign the OST because of fears about lunar bombardment, we signed it because we feared teams trying to stake out conflicting claims in space starting a war on Earth. (See: China and America racing for the edge of Shackleton Crater.)
That is the big question with LLM's. How can we tell what is being fed in is original content or just the output fed back in like a recursive fractal?
QA was better. The game was released with significantly less bugs than their previous entries.

And you can say what you will about the engine upgrades, but they are there.
In which case, the network is strictly better when there is an improvement in some of the people, without any regression in the quality of, or attrition of, the remaining people.
A web browser is a desktop application. Like a video editor or DAW. Or a video game. It runs on top of an operating system. It isn't one. Calling a web browser an OS is like calling Urbit an OS. It's fantasy.

These things are all applications. I don't understand this predilection that webgineers have to overstate the importance of the space they work in and deliberately try to obfuscate common terminology. Just go play with your HTML and JS and let the people who are not afraid of working at the hardware level do their job without trying to encroach on their territory and nomenclature.
I'm genuinely curious how the model classifies holds. I could (hypothetically) see this doing something like assigning more utility to certain holds (e.g. a steep sloper that is impossible to use as a handhold but is can be used as a smearing foothold) and thereby giving bad/implausible beta. That being said, it seems like an obvious shortcoming and I'm very interested in learning more!
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> I just mean that if you put 2 experienced people talking about a topic they both know, it should be pretty easy for both (or at least the interviewer) to get a rough understanding of the level of the interviewee.

Well, in my experience it's not, at least not in a "hostile" context. Most technical people are used to assuming good faith in technical conversations, and there are some very smooth bullshitters around; it's easy to construct a verbal facade that only falls apart once you ask someone to actually code.
I think the Mercedes comparison (or the more common BMW) one is also useful for getting the idea that not every manufacturer is competing for the same segments but the prices in segments are generally close. No Mercedes is as cheap as a Camry but a Lexus is similar.

This comes up so often in these flame wars where people are really saying “I do/don’t think you need that feature” and won’t accept that other people aren’t starting from the same point. I remember in the 90s reading some dude on Fidonet arguing that Macs were overpriced because they had unnecessary frills like sound cards and color displays; I wasn’t a Mac user then but still knew this was not a persuasive argument.
Spacex, particularly in the development of Starship, is an example of the inappropriate use of an informal iterative project management and design approach. In other words it's a case of Agile, which is often the best kind of project management for software, infecting places where it shouldn't ought to go.

In the end when you count up 33 rocket engines per iteration, it's going to end up being a lot more expensive than what more conventional projects like Blue Origin will cost.
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> It should not be adjudicating any kind of legal controversy. That is not the role of the executive branch.

Which they aren't doing. They're deciding whether to take Apple to court. If you don't think the executive branch should do that, do you believe the AG's office & the FBI should operate under the judicial branch?

> It's very often worse. Executive agencies often have legislative functions, i.e. APA rulemaking, as well judicial functions, e.g. in this matter. The SEC is another one, (see SEC vs Jarkesy currently before SCOTUS).

Not all rules are laws. Not all judgements are legal judgments. The executive branch is absolutely responsible for making principled decisions, which means rules & judgement. The irony of citing a case where the SEC is before SCOTUS as an example of there not being a separation of powers is... amusing.
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The llm model outputs a vector of probabilities for tokens, and the llm user picks a token from the most likely list using a random number
I've seen lots of people complain about this (the "ChatGPT is being lazy" bug, which OpenAI themselves said they would look at late last year) but I've not seen it myself. I wonder if it comes down to prompting style? What kind of prompts are you using that get these responses?
It's all relative, right? Your running shoes are incredible technology. Run barefoot.
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Quora and SO are rather different communities. In Quora's best days, there were celebrities or quasi-celebrities making interesting posts, just like on Twitter or Google Plus in top times. Also Quora used to have very active and talented Community Managers / Top Writers. Marc Bodnick used to do tons of curation but left a while ago to create his own social network(s).

In contrast, SO has never been so "celebrity"-driven and the content has a rather different audience. I think it's understandable that the major contributors don't like how their content is being used, similar to the Reddit revolt.

What might "replace" SO is some AI-assisted way to establish a handbook and FAQ for any new technology. That could be a chatbot as well as some effective method for feeding that bot content.

And then SO-the-community, i.e. people who want to talk to each other, will probably branch off into some other forum or network.
Well, for the California example, CalTrans is the govt. They're well staffed and don't (generally, it may occur occasionally) rely on contractors for their work. I believe the same goes for CDOT and other agencies, though many of them are more willing to contract out as they don't necessarily prioritize roadwork like Californians do (for obvious reasons).

Generally, it's particularly rare (at least in the Western "blue" States) to rely on mostly or, especially, exclusively private public works programs.
> I want to ask, for example, how is it that an LLM when given the same prompt does not respond in the same deterministic way?

You can control that in most systems with an inference-set parameter called "temperature". But setting the temperature as low as possible tends to lead to very low-quality answers - the system can't crawl out of some local optimum and ends up repeating itself over and over. Such answers may be "deterministic" but they're also not good.