skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i 100% agree with you.

i too rage against the insane, bewildering, almost unimaginable scale of anti-customer-service behavior that we seemingly must succumb to, as customers.

i am not sure if there is anything we can do.
> It's too abstracted from externalities - from slash and burn asset sweating, to environmental damage to abusive employment practices offshored or put at arms length through contractors

None of this is intrinsic to corporations, and all of it can be legislated away without changing what it means to be a "corporation". This is just thinly-veiled advocacy for communism.
This is really interesting to think about.

On the life extension point I wonder if that might be one of the great filters. Conquering natural death may have the effect of magnifying all the worst qualities of humanity.

No need to leave a legacy if you never die. Those who are driven to control and acquire no longer have death as a check for those ambitions.
>Sounds like you need to start working with smarter people. I used to think this way, until I started working with smart people.

Thanks for the free advice, I guess.

>we tried that but it didn't work because [reason].

If you're not producing results, your experience and expertise and knowledge are no longer relevant. Everything has a shelf-life.
There are regulations in the us to protect human subjects from undue influence.
How many of the bigcorps that are completely blind to user issues are even going to notice employees doing this?
That comparison ignored the part where MIT (the University) screwed the deal.

Things are changing, but startup in MA are playing hard-mode and don't get any extra points for doing so.
This is nice analogy, but a wrong analogy. Wikipedia specifically does not allow original research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
Yep, especially for beginners like me, paying before I have learned how to use doesn't seem appropriate.
The debate is about the false claim that Israel has control over all of Gazas borders. Egypt has control over one border. That is a matter of fact. The Anti-Israeli crowd refuses to deal with facts.

Israel administers it's border with Gaza. That's not the debate.

Israel requires people to get a permit to enter Gaza from Israel. It does not control who goes into Gaza from Egypt.

Your claim: "Does your country emit visas for territories it doesn't administer?" is nonsense and factually incorrect.
You make it like you are there and know all the details. Obviously the regulating bodies approved it so they felt there was enough to go forward with it.

The way you discover a lot of problems is because of the trial patients. This happens ever day in medicine.
There are limits in place. All human testing in the US is reviewed by an Institutional Review Board and covered by numerous regulations.
Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin's underwhelming debut
it would be better and more fair to either A) provide actual support for everyone or B) do away with the "internal forms" and provide zero support to everyone. there shouldn't be two hidden levels of support depending on how deep your pockets are or who you know.
He was, in your words, pretty “fucked” before Neuralink.

Did you read the interview from Bloomberg?

“Arbaugh had talked with Bain about how he would be receiving what was probably the worst Neuralink implant that anyone would get. But Arbaugh had agreed to the trial precisely because these types of issues could occur. He wanted to be a means for helping other people by aiding Neuralink in its quest to root out any of the implant’s flaws.“
The parent's description isn't quite correct. It's kinda sorta describing the implementation; RAG is often implemented via embeddings. In practice, you generally get better results with a mix of vector and, e.g., TF-IDF.

An example of RAG could be: you have a great LLM that was trained at the end of 2023. You want to ask it about something that happened in 2024. You're out of luck.

If you were using RAG, then that LLM would still be useful. You could ask it

> "When does the tiktok ban take effect?"

Your question would be converted to an embedding, and then compared against a database of other embeddings, generated from a corpus of up-to-date information and useful resources (wikipedia, news, etc).

Hopefully it finds a detailed article on the tiktok ban. The input to the LLM could then be something like:

> CONTEXT: <the text of the article>

> USER: When does the tiktok ban take effect?

The data retrieved by the search process allows for relevant in-context learning.

You have augmented the generation of an LLM by retrieving a relevant document.
I was thinking of a solar panel direct to heat pump arrangement. (via inverter) More sun, more power to cool.

Yet, the big argument for batteries is that the peak load (so they say) is from 4 pm to 7 (or more) pm, when the sun is lower, and cosines do you in. Anyway, that's when variable rates go up.
It's neat, but also it's unstable and hyper-energetic. Particles go flying off into space for no reason even long after gross motion has settled on mobile. Two particles falling downward past each other impart upward momentum somehow.

Also the fluids appear to be extremely compressible as to appear bouncy, like the whole thing is breathing, so not liquids, but also non-mixing and with surface tension, so not gasses? What fluids behave like this? Some kind of...uh...immiscible foams?
Truly great concept except this "sometimes" of point (1) gets sacrificed to political expediency, and Keynesian stimulus ends up being the normal and expected rather than an emergency measure.

It's hard to resist and not to always print money, not just occasionally, and not to (just about) always run a large deficit, not just occasionally, and not fund petty hobbies - not just productive infrastructure - with borrowing.
If anything the cognitive load of rust is worse than C++
Even still, you could argue for a sub-$5 per-account value based on what the going rate is on the black market for stolen accounts. Some platforms it's in the $1-2 range.
I find Anthorpic's work on mech interp fascinating in general. Their initial towards monosemanticity paper was highly surprising, and so is this with the ability to scale to a real production-scale LLM.

My observation is, and this may be more philosophical than technical: this process of "decomposing" middle-layer activations with a sparse autoencoder -- is it capturing accurately underlying features in the latent space of the network, or are we drawing order from chaos, imposing monosemanticity where there aren't any? Or to put it another way, were the features always there, learnt by training, or are we doing post-hoc rationalisations -- where the features exist because that's how we defined the autoencoders' dictionaries, and we learn only what we wanted to learn? Are the alien minds of LLMs truly also operating on a similar semantic space as ours, or are we reading tea leaves and seeing what we want to see?

Maybe this distinction doesn't even make sense to begin with; concepts are made by man, if clamping one of these features modifies outputs in a way that is understandable to humans, it doesn't matter if it's capturing some kind of underlying cluster in the latent space of the model. But I do think it's an interesting idea to ponder.
Drawing a parallel to a calming persona of an always on life assistant from pop culture in a few throwaway social media posts from personal accounts such as "Hope Everyone's Ready" isn't "selling it as Her" any more than Anthropic is selling their offerings as a Star Trek communicator despite a few comments they've made on social media.
Hehe, you've learned well the SV way of doing things. After all, your former employer is the one who coined "move fast and break things".
How is that bribery?
On my benchmark (NYT Connections), Phi-3 Small performs well (8.4) but Llama 3 8B Instruct is still better (12.3). Phi-3 Medium 4k is disappointing and often fails to properly follow the output format.
or, like saying "media ready"
That is an old screenshot. The Bloomberg Terminal currently uses a fantastic set of proprietary fonts designed for the company by Matthew Carter (who did Georgia and Verdana).

See https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/how-bloomberg-term...

Also see previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717351
That's what I see a lot with Cancer drugs. People are dying and want to take a chance on really experimental stuff but the FDA will deny it. They want to try it because it could help them, or if not, at least help others by eliminating useless paths.

It's so strange that people feel it's wrong for patients to make their own choice on this, but they are okay forcing others to not have treatment. It's a "My decision is better than yours, I can decide what is better for you.
Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo's autonomously driven vehicles
> Cursive ... is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner

So it seems like it is cursive.
Blender: I remember it was hard because it kind of relied on shortcuts a lot. Fusion 360: you have to find where what you want to do is located.

I tried 3ds max in high school: the easiest 3d modeling software i ever tried. I actually created some pictures, models and animations with it.

That’s just my experience.

Try Tinkercad.
Probably at least a breach of contract for the employees offering the service.
In the spirit that Programming is Theory Building, one would want to keep it simple, consistent, and easy to understand with basic constructs defined in a somewhat irreducible (single responsibility) manner.
Are you implying that liking the "old internet" and being against commercialization of the Internet are somehow opposing viewpoints?

It seems pretty obvious that people who support the z-library are the same people who want the Internet to be about "interesting people sharing their interests". Why are you using it as if it was a counterpoint?
Germany wasn't turned to rubble after WWI, there was essentially no fighting on German ground, it was all in France/Belgium/Poland etc
similar: https://github.com/onsetsu/floom
annexation does not imply integration into civilian infrastructure. It's all sovereignty.
>site's designer can't comprehend this choice.

I've built responsive sites that work as you'd expect in desktop mode, and I'm not 100% certain how other sites that don't are built.

They seem to degrade into some odd hybrid between desktop and mobile. It's like the worst of both worlds.

So, for example, you get hamburger menus, instead of the full desktop nav. And you get a different layout with an increased PPI, but it's not quite mobile and not quite desktop.

I can only assume that they are looking at the agent string in addition to implementing media queries / breakpoints. But there's also something weird going on with the PPI.

Whatever it is, seems like it takes more effort to create a poorer design.
It's good to see DigitalOcean picking up some pace in improving products. The App platform was a decent product when they first announced it but then they just stopped improving it and it has falling way behind other providers.

They need to rebuild the app platform using Firecracker VMs. The build time on App Platform tends to be a lot longer and the performance is worst that most other platforms built on top of Firecracker like Fly, Koyeb, and AWS Fargate.

They also need a better CLI tool for deploying. They should fork/copy FlyCtl rename it Ship and make it work with App Spec and add in the DigitalOcean features.

They also need to make it easier to integrate with their other products like Spaces, and Managed Databases.

If they make these changes, App Platform would probably be the best place to host an application for any startup/dev.

I still use DO for Database and Spaces because they offer the best price for performance but hosting apps I have to go else where because the performance, ease of use, and developer experience isn't as good as Fly, or Koyeb.

Hopefully someone at DO looks at this and write these down. I bet if they ask a lot of their customers they would agree these are good changes.
Any Android ereader, where you can install Einkbro.
This reminds me of the joke whose punch line is

> You will be lucky to have this person work for you.
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Existentialist novel—like Camus' The Stranger but better.
> Why does the emulator have to do this? Can’t it be a plug-in for bash/zsh/whatnot?

I've no interest in using it because I'm a cheap bastard and am not going to pay $20/month for a key, but if I were going to use it I'd want it in the terminal emulator. If it were a shell plugin I'd have to install it in my shell on my Mac, the shells on my two Raspberry Pis, the shell on my Amazon Lightsail instance, and the shells on the half-dozen or so servers at work that I regularly ssh to from home. Oh, and also the shells in the Linux VMs I run my work test environment in.
> i am not sure if there is anything we can do.

stop using them.
Not invented.

The new iPad Pro 13 with Magic Keyboard is less lap-able, as it falls over backwards more easily than the 12.9. You have to keep hands on keyboard palm rest, if knees slant down, else it tips.

Super annoying to not be able to use things atop your lap.
Perhaps author feels you're too Googled to be saved?
Unsafe Rust in the Wild: Notes on the Current State of Unsafe Rust
Looks like it yeah. Simplifying along the way. Results are not bad.
At least for right now this approach would in most cases still be like using a shotgun instead of a scalpel.

Over the next year or so I'm sure it will refine enough to be able to be more like a vector multiplier on activation, but simply flipping it on in general is going to create a very 'obsessed' model as stated.
Apple was keeping shadow copies of files of pictures on iphones at least 10 years ago I witnessed myself that you couldn't access through conventional means (windows or mac, but linux worked), and I'm certain little has changed still but better hiding it.

If the US or China tells Apple to give them the contents of your phone now or ever, they damn well likely can and will. Same as Google or as Microsoft would.
Certainly more ethical than automated banishment without recourse.
This is basically what the ocean cleanup project pivoted to.
Comparison of Mount Saint Helens Volcanic Eruption to a Nuclear Explosion (1980)
I still run cloud to butt, because it's still a stupid buzzword and the extension makes things funnier. Case in point: your comment reads to me as "my butt to butt plugin", which is hilarious.
Use PoW to stop bots from spamming job applications
I've really been enjoying their series on mech interp, does anyone have any other good recs?
When Kodak and Polaroid went to war
Don't get it twisted—the MIT Startup is still based in SFBA
Even $2k per year in 3D CAD is entry level pricing. Good CAD for $200 once is probably a prank tier idea to suitspeople, even though it's a necessity for 3D printing community.
Meta has 6 billion or so customers. Not every decision can be positive for every customer every time.

There are processes to correct problems there. It requires someone to champion it, and to make a good enough case that others will join and for stakeholders to be convinced.
From the entry on Ukraine:

“Ukraine is a big country in Eastern Europe, next to Russia and other countries.”

https://www.thesimplewiki.com/pages/ukraine?page=31750
Isn’t constructive criticism praise enough ?
There are just so few sources of economic data when you go back further.
Would that data be considered Apple IP even though the AP addresses and locations are somewhat public information (because APs are broadcasting their addresses)?

Apple’s API might return fake “trap addresses” that it could use to trace if their API data shows up in other companies’ location databases. Like the “trap streets” used to catch map plagiarists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
Cognition now partnering with Microsoft Azure
You learn about this a lot in writing and humanities classes not so much in CS classes
Natural language search and answer generation _are_ completely separate.

Search is often (but not exclusively) performed using cosine similarity over semantic vectors. Such vectors are produced using embedding models, which represent the meaning of the document via an arbitrary length vector called an embedding, and 768 is a common vector size for this.

You calculate the embedding for all documents in your database ahead of time (during insertion), and you calculate the embedding for the user's query, then search for documents closest to the query using a similarity metric of choice such as cosine.

Nothing prevents you from serving documents found this way directly, instead of using them to generate answers. Part of the Google search pipeline involves something like this. Many full-text search products also do this (Algolia is such an example https://www.algolia.com/blog/ai/what-is-vector-search/)

LLMs and generation are used to synthesize the answer and tie it back into the question using a layer of soft judgment based on the LLMs prior knowledge. This does work out great in some contexts, less so in others, as you pointed out. But these components aren't coupled in any way.
Related:

A Road to Common Lisp (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31645558 - June 2022 (48 comments)

A Road to Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852194 - Aug 2018 (92 comments)
Clever is simple, complexity is The Enemy.
For someone with high-school level understanding of classical Newtonian mechanics, what would be the best way forward to learn Continuum Mechanics and things like MPM, etc.? Any book/course recommendations?
Stuff I know about ZIP
Microsoft unveiled this week an AI-based video translation feature that will soon soon come to Edge. The feature will automatically generate foreign language transcriptions and dubs for videos on an expanding range of sites, including YouTube, LinkedIn (Microsoft owned), Bloomberg, Reuters, and Coursera, among others.
the author did this as a showhn a few days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392913
I tend to use for loops in Rust for this reason; simple, and understandable by anyone who's programmed in an imperative language.

The one-liner approach tends to include an explicit type declaration (Or turbofish), `iter()`, and `collect()`, at minimum.
Please add X/twitter platform, my account just got suspended without reasons.
> Israel must provide conditions for pier to operate safely, UN warns, as aid deliveries reduced to trickle

Why is everything Israel’s responsibility? They’re fighting a war of self defense against terrorists who use the citizenry as human shields. Given those circumstances, I feel like they’ve done far more to avoid casualties and help the civilians than any other government/military would. The UN needs to stop undermining Israel and supporting Hamas implicitly via such lazy statements and actions.

What’s the UN’s responsibility in providing those conditions? What are the complaining countries doing to bring aid to Gazans or a viable ceasefire deal with release of all hostages? Many UN members like Egypt, Jordan, South Africa are all doing nothing to help but instead just complaining about Israel. Do they even care about the Gazan residents or is this just a political opportunity for them?

> The main agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, announced the suspension of distribution in Rafah in a post on X, without elaborating beyond citing the lack of supplies.

The article seems very vague - what specifically would cause the pier to fail? If distribution is a problem then isn’t it an existing problem that UNRWA has allegedly been handling this whole time? It’s hard to trust UNRWA and their claimed reasons. Some of their staff allegedly has ties to Hamas (which US intelligence confirmed), their buildings (like schools) have housed Hamas fighters, and aid funneled through them has ended up in Hamas’s hands.
You raise the point, that particularly when it comes to manufacturing, living knowledge is paramount -

Could we have restarted Saturn V production in 1975? yes, at some vast cost to remake tooling.

What about 1985? oof, that's a little harder, how many of the people alive know how to make a Rocketdyne F-1, but probably still doable, at some yet greater cost.

What about 1995? maybe still possible - lots of the base industries we relied on to make it have ceased to exist, and the production knowledge for base components have changed so much that you're almost gonna start over. Some knowledge on how to build it is still alive, it's only 30 years later.

What about 2005? almost impossible, you'd have to recreate whole kinds of technologies from scratch - the tech trees have evolved so much, almost all of the first hand knowledge is dead, or very near to dead. It'd probably be easier to start over, with a clean sheet.

This is why the US Army still buys some number of tanks every year - so the production line stays open and we dont lose the knowledge. We're running into issues restarting some missile production (which is being used in Ukraine because of similar issues).

I do think in the end Artemis will likely be a success, but at a vast cost - but dont forget how expensive Apollo was. It too was vastly expensive.
In a condo the shoveling is taken care for you. Singe family dwellings are inefficient. That’s a relic from days surplus carbon capacity.
I was sexually abused by a family member at young age. It certainly affected me in negative ways, and should be stopped, but it is also important to emphasize to current victims that being abused doesn't make you uniquely and shamefully damaged. Some large percentage of humans have been traumatized as children, and many of us find our way to a fulfilling and good life. Lots of therapy, maybe a few sharp corners that won't go away, but still healing is possible, and not even algorithmically difficult, just a lot of hard work and awareness and willingness to question deeply behind the surface of things.

I might sometimes get triggered by certain textures while I am eating, but I am able to trust people and tolerate being hurt without totally shutting down and enjoy my family and work and leisure.

Some people are tremendously evil, but most people are surprisingly resilient. We didn't get thru human history without being able to overcome a lot.
I mean if it caused a spike of suicides, I’d find a new message.
Easily the worst demo video I’ve ever seen.

They spoke about the battery life before they even said what the product was supposed to do. The founders sounded like they were being held at gunpoint.

Plus, a $700 price is obscene and a $24/mo subscription is usurious.

That being said, it’s actually a beautiful product. I think maybe given another year it could’ve turned into something workable. I’m assuming they had investors in their ear saying “the first one is never good, but it will fund your next one.”