skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do listen to audio books, but I don't like them for technical books. Screen readers usually do a poor job of handling code and diagrams that are crucial for understanding something. I like talks and lectures though, but with those I suffer from a similar issue to reading alone.
Perhaps because some things a out how sama did the Apple deal rattled even Microsoft

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cements-c...

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112530015885532391
Yeah, I think Broken Windows Theory takes it a step too far. I believe that if you have an area without graffiti and broken windows, fewer people will graffiti on walls and break windows, but the evidence for that preventing violent crime is flimsy at best.
Well I'd build another experimental laboratory like I had before so many disasters struck.

If you're careful you can get a lot more done than people who have spent 10x the money or even $100 million sometimes.

I never really wanted less than 10x the progress I could get in an academic or industrial institution, and for that it really helps to build it your own way.

Even though I made more than a million using my own technology, there was no windfall, I never had that much in the bank at one time to work with.

So it's really just the same thing I would have done when I still had the first lab I owned, if I would have managed to accumulate a million, which is build me another lab.

Actually I was already setting up a second location for a lot less than a million, where it would also be able to do enough invoiceable work to pay its way too, but it turned out to be too late, the final disaster came too soon.

Had the equipment standing by, and the infrastructure at the more disaster-resistant location over halfway ready for deployment too.

That's all ancient history, now I might be more likely to get a million worth of equipment onto benches and start turning them into money-making machines, without having any cash outlay at all.

After that if I had a million in cash I would put deployment on steroids and do the exponential growth thing (within limits) like normal but from a much more advanced starting point, and at a scale that can return funds to the bank faster than they can be drained by disaster.

For me a million cash would be critical mass toward financial growth, primarily for people other than myself who need a leg up.

I wouldn't let it stop me, I'll probably go forward with a million less than that even if there are more survival activities involved.
Gunicorn: 'Green Unicorn' Is a WSGI HTTP Server for Unix
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NeVerMore: Exploiting RDMA Mistakes in NVMe-Of Storage Applications (2022)
You design systems for the way nature works not how you wish nature worked ideally.
Llamaindex rerank module
This just seems like an ad...
My argument here is that the discussion of LLMs reasoning is a semantic question, not a technical or scientific one. I specifically didn't use "flying" because both airplanes and birds fly, and "fly" generally means "move through the air" regardless of method.

Swim means "move through water" but with the strong connotation is "move through water in the way that living things move through water". Submarines move through water but they do not swim.

Reason means what -- something like "arrive at conclusions", but with a strong connotation of "arrive at conclusions as living things do", and a weak connotation of "use logic and step-by-step thinking to arrive at conclusions". So the question is, what aspect of "reasoning" is tied to the biological aspect of reasoning (that is, how animals reason) vs. a general sense of arriving at conclusions. Don't try to argue a definition of "reason" that is different than mine -- doing so makes it immediately apparent that we're just playing with semantics. The question is "what observable behavior does a thing that we all agree can 'reason' have that LLMs do not have?". And the related question is "to what degree does humans' ability to 'reason' reflect our ideal conception of what it means to 'reason' using logic".

Both the statements "LLMs can reason" and "LLMs cannot reason" are "not even wrong"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Sorry, I should have said any launch vehicle development would. Every launch vehicle developed since 2003, including Atlas, technically advances SDI’s agenda. SpaceX does it best because they’ve done launch best. But it’s ahistoric to link the cause of that effect to SDI.
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account
Most countries with socialized medicine are still capitalist nations.
I'm not sure I understand your distinction, can you explain why you wish that?

My understanding is that there is a linear correlation between the redshift of a galaxy and the distance to the milky way (for distant galaxies where the peculiar velocity is negligible). So, the most redshifted galaxy is the most distant galaxy.

But, I'm just a layman who enjoys astronomy, so I'd appreciate an explanation on why the distinction is important.
They seem to be unrelated, but sharing an etymology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177
Is it? They state they've funded 5000 companies since 2005[1], and if that was evenly spread per year, that's about a company a day. Maybe pg only pays attention to the ones that other people bring to his attention given that amount, and maybe he "knew" about OpenAI in that it was in some report he skimmed or was mentioned but maybe it was seen as entirely handled since it was a project for someone else there. It could entirely have been out of mind within a week or two of him "knowing" it and then it's quickly forgotten, and may seem like new information when it comes up years later.

1: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies
Exactly .. every state actor will already have their own local infrastructure for all this, there's no way they're actually dependent on using OpenAI. Most likely this is just a disinfo campaign - "hey look guys, we caught some bad covert actors, so there's totally no nation states making massive use of LLMs to manipulate online discourse, look we caught them, everything is secure, don't worry about it".

The funny part is, if it is all a disinfo campaign, then the very resources behind the campaign will downvote and attack this post and try to silence/discredit such voices. Or, maybe I'm just completely wrong and I'll get downvoted for having dumb beliefs. There's actually very little way to tell the difference between the two scenarios. In addition, does the act of me pointing out that malicious actors would want to downvote this now make it less likely for them to actually do so, as it would show their hand? You can recurse down these rabbit holes forever. Fun stuff.
> I seem to recall Meta/Facebook engineers on HN having said they have a tool that allows engineers to author SQL or ORM-like queries on the frontend and close to where the data is used, but a compiler or post-processor turns that into an endpoint.

I don't know about on-HackerNews but there's a discussion about their "all of Facebook optimizing compiler" infrastructure from when they did the site redesign in 2020: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/facebook-redesign/...

> perhaps not coincidentally, React introduced "server actions" as a mechanism that is very similar to [the above]

Yep - there's also the Scala framework LiftWeb (https://www.liftweb.net/), the Elixir framework Phoenix (https://www.phoenixframework.org/) and of course the system we're using right now (Arc) that do similar things. Scaling these kinds of UUID-addressed-closures is harder (because the client sessions have to be sticky unless you can serialize closures and send them across the network between servers).
LLMs don't do what the film shows. (Nothing ever does what films show, unless it's a documentary, and even then sometimes not).

AI includes Google search results being re-weighted based on what people click on, the live bidding on which advert to show you when you visit a website, your facebook feed, and your spam filter.

All of these have been designed to earn your trust, they don't need to have an internal motivation for that. Some have been trusted, some are still trusted.

All may change on a dime and without warning due to some software update outside of your control.
Thanks very interesting.

My main concern would be filling all that newfound time.
I mean. Bibles are everywhere. It is really hard to imagine all of them getting destroyed all at once. Even harder to imagine a scenario where that happens and yet we have humans still around after that.

We have left one on the moon! https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/07/19/the-only-bible-o...
1) your tagline is "Turn Hours Of Homework Into Minutes" which implies a tool to automate your homework. That type of tool can certainly fit with academic dishonesty. So I can see where they are coming from.

2) your tool doesn't look so different from publicly available tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft edge's pdf reader....

3) something very similar happened at my Ivy League undergrad when a student developer created an online version of the paperback course catalog with a better UI than the university version. Students were supportive and it became a thing on campus for a while, and ended up ultimately becoming a feather on the resume for those students https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/nyregion/yale-students-ta...
I assume you have lawyered up? otherwise you might be representing yourself in front of what passes for a board of regents/trustees.
Because of money? Once you open source, you can't go back without paying a heavy penalty. Also, you seem to be obsessed with growth. Saas is not an acronym for fast growth.

Open sourcing it will not necessarily give you signficantly more growth but it will give you more work and if it actually any useful, someone will fork it and make a better version then outgrow you
From personal experience, rasterizing vector art for a pixel art aesthetic usually leaves a lot to be desired, especially when you look at angled lines and curved shapes. That being said, there are rasterizing projects with a focus on pixel art, for instance Superpixelator: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2486042.2486044
Scipy maintainer here. Numpy has no fortran code on itself and uses lapack lite written in C. Scipy has 10% of its codebase with very old F77 libraries that we are removing slowly. Nothing against fortran but this is slowly turning into a urban legend.

The main reason fortran is still used around is fundamentally LAPACK. BLAS has long been converted to C/Assembly, openblas mkl or others. But Lapack is a lot of code to translate not because fortran is better but the original authors wrote it in F77
Yes and no. If consuming the lanes as much as possible was the goal, we’d be parked bumper to bumper with no available space to move at all.

We want the throughput of the road to be as high as possible. Broadly, that means maintaining the optimal (minimum) spacing to make the merge safely without changing speed, while maximizing speed.

You may get larger areas where speeds are disrupted, but on the average be going faster. Stop-and-go traffic introduces tons of inefficiencies since drivers need to be much more cautious than in a consistent traffic flow.

The big challenge is that it’s basically impossible to know what the optimal speed is, since it relies on knowing the detailed state of the road and traffic volume miles ahead of what you can see.

Self-driving cars are interesting here since they will open up new opportunities for all the vehicles on the road to co-regulate their speed near to the optimum.
Good forcing function. If you believe in your start-up, drop out and use it as your pitch. If it’s a side project, fight the university but cave for the time being. Either way, a side-project “start-up” while at university isn’t here nor there.
At the time of abandonment, the ship may not be seaworthy. If it requires more repairs or fuel than the crew can afford from their own resources, then they cannot move the ship.
Depending on how important this is for you, I'd get an attorney involved and ask the faculty members who are accusing you "HOW are you facilitating academic dishonesty".

It's really easy to accuse someone of something, it's much harder to substantiate it, especially when it's factually not true.

I know attorney's aren't free (nor cheap), that's why I asked how important this is for you, and if it's worth putting your [current] academic pursuits in jeopardy.

Best of luck.
Common Lisp works well for the second case. But it seems that some programmers are uncomfortable with the notion of code generating code. And as you said, it does require discipline as you need to focus the language's power. Other languages don't let you solve the boilerplate problem so readily. Instead you have a mess of utility functions or a huge class tree.
They're not responsive to my questions on Twitter, so I'm asking here:

When will Groq support a real API (not experimental beta preview)?

When will Groq support logprobs?!

When will Groq actually tell us what their rate limit is?!

Until these aren't answered, many of us can't actually build on Groq.

Edit: It seems I'm getting downvoted by Groq employees...
Your site says it "Turn hours of homework into minutes" and provides "instant responses and insights to all your questions" -- this definitely gives the reasonable impression it can be used to cheat on assignments.
And 5) get something out of reading software books.

Not sure what it is, but in general software books just don't do much for me.

Only one I truly liked and got a lot out of was Physically Based Rendering[1]. It had a great blend of explaining the concepts but also showing how to implement them, and for me the literal programming style worked very well in this case.

But apart from that I struggle with getting something out of software books. Not fiction though, I read tons of sci-fi (especially hard) in my 20s.

[1]: https://www.pbrt.org/
Ask HN: Books etc. about Heisenberg uncertainty principle in CS, software?
Please recommend books or other resources where Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is mentioned with application to CS, software, computer hardware etc. Thanks
Well, most of these points are not applicable to Matrix
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I don’t mean the actual interest rate is negative. I mean that if you intend to pull $50k/yr from it inflation adjusted, you won’t be able to keep up with a 5% return. You would need 8% returns per year to keep up with a $50k/yr drawdown, assuming a 3% inflation rate.

The other option is you pull a fixed 50k/yr, but then your purchasing power decreases dramatically over time. In 10 years at 3% inflation per year you would need 67k/yr to have the same purchasing power as today.
I'm sure everything in that tweet is true. But I feel it omits some details on why running both wasn't working out for YC. e.g. He allegedly was dropping the ball on important things - such as making sure YC had enough cash on hand (and reaching out to LPs for an embarrassingly urgent top-up).
Do I get cash back? IF not what happens to merchant fees?

Do I get buyer protection? Who do I call if someone does not ship? What is the recourse when this goes badly? Am I going to be left holding the back on some fucked up transaction that the law proects me on via debit or credit?
There is no article here. Feels like spam.
I think a reasonable goal is flat (or slowly decreasing) population, while maintaining economic and income growth. We can't have increasing population forever; let's plan for it to level out.

To be clear, I think govts should encourage kids and immigration, yet should also plan for zero pop growth.
To me, the statement "just ... plain text" implies some level of simplicity that I don't see in the examples. It looks pretty complicated, in fact. There is no escaping essential complexity.
fund a startup to forever change the way people buy cheese graters

https://www.theonion.com/bankrupt-dot-com-proud-to-have-brie...
I agree about the surprise -- LLMs can do many surprising things that frankly are astonishing given their architecture. The fact that they can produce output that is difficult to distinguish from the output of an actor that we "know" can reason is pretty astonishing too.

I don't agree with the idea of "the extent they are allowed to"; that's giving the creators of LLMs waaay more agency than they have in reality. These things have already escaped the bounds of what we thought they could do, I don't think we have a realistic way of constraining their behavior in a deterministic way (other than maybe cutting down the context length).
> why PG apparently put no effort into dispelling those rumors

$100bn is a good motivator!
oh hey we're on HN! author/host here, we think the story of long context over the past year is worth reviewing so we invited Mark on to talk about extending Llama 3 to >1m tokens.

a year ago we were talking to MosaicML (https://x.com/swyx/status/1660033177178734592) about their 65k+ model. now people yawn when we have yet another 1m token model. wild.

the TLDR in the pod seems to be Meta choosing to train Llama with a RoPE scaling theta factor that can be tweaked for finetuning. Once Gradient noticed that it was off to the races.
That's what offering someone an ultimatum is. "You either change your behavior or you stop working here." The encoded threat is that if you do not comply we will simply remove you.

It's somewhat mealy mouthed. "We didn't fire him. We just reached the penultimate step before having to fire him."
Oh, I like this. It’s going on the list of ideas. Thanks.
One has to say - getting a AI-generated summary of dense material is not the same as reading, pondering and understanding dense material. You are at university to, in part, develop your ability to process and understand dense, difficult material. Using an AI here provides a crutch that prohibits individuals from developing these critical skills.

That doesn't even delve into the hallucination issue... which is still present even for this type of processing.

In general, students should depend on less AI, not more. Perhaps I'm getting old, but I see nothing good coming from a tool like this for students...
I don't understand why you can't just get the police to put them in a van and take them to the airport, and put them on a flight back to their home country or wherever they live.

I'm not sure I want to give local police the power to put whoever they want on a plane to "wherever".
I’m out of the game but I’d use Django. Not sure the simplest hosting these days.

Is there any kind of database service for no setup, tuning, or maintenance?
Sorry, but this doesn't make sense. Why should system critical things be more difficult to understand? Surely you want to reduce room for error, not increase it?
Irrespective of what your application does for students, the text on the first page refers to turning hours of homework into minutes, which could sound a lot like “does your homework for you.” I have no opinion on the subject not knowing the policies or having evaluated the product though
> “offering instant responses and insights to all your questions”

This phrasing sounds a lot like saying it’ll give you answers to your problem set out whatever.

On a slightly different and opinionated note, bite the bullet and stay in school. A lot of people push the “you don’t need school” ideology but considering you’re in a top school and (presumably) studying CS you’ll get a lot of value from just having the degree (whether or not you agree with this practice is besides the point)
I'd push back on that. If you're performing a script, then your job is to interpret those words. You've got to be humble enough to presume that the words on the page are as the author intended, and then do them the best justice you can. Judging something at the same time you're performing it is the best possible way to make it bad.

That's not to say there isn't bad writing, and bad shows. (God knows I've done a lot of both!) It's just that actors, at least for scripted material, are secondary creators. Our judgement, too, is not infallible - and we're in the worst position of all to judge.
If you don't leave a gap then you're forcing the people in the other lane to slow down and disrupt the flow of traffic.

It is a mistake to think that one of the two input lanes is more entitled to the output lane than the other. 2 lanes go down to 1, neither is more privileged than the other, cars should merge in turn.
reminds me of the rabbit hole sessions I used to fall into in https://wiki.c2.com/ (a merge of the two interfaces (chat and context rabbit hole window thing) would be perfect for me)
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain it.
You're making a homework automation tool. It goes against the founding principle of academia to automate it. Of course they're mad.

Your options are to drop out or close shop.

In academia the whole exercise is to make the student do the processing of reading themselves. After all, if skipping to the gist were acceptable, the professor would've just handed out the gist already.

The school's administration would be annoyed by such a tool regardless of who created it, but since it's a student undermining other students' ability to practice academic rigor, they're putting their weight on you.
I built the site in markdown and used Material for MkDocs to generate the site as static pages. Material for MkDocs automatically adds this really neat JavaScript powered search feature to the site https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up...
Maybe some stuff are hard to perceive as a teen though. I used turbopascal, had a book, but I could't foresee the value of some types or ideas. Forth can be even more alien in a way.
Yup, misread.
> With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross

That's an established pattern (backend for frontend). Like all patterns there are trade-offs and considerations to make, but it's certainly not a priori "gross".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/pattern...
Thinking about this dispelled my last bit of youthful naivete a few years ago.

Won't it be great once we have fully self-driving cars? Heck, I could buy a car and then rent it out to other people like a taxi when I'm not using it, and it would pay for itself. Maybe I could even make a profit!

...

If I could make more money than the car costs to purchase and maintain, without any additional work on my part, why would the company sell me the car at that price in the first place rather than just running the taxi service themselves and keeping all of that extra profit?
The school can still kick the student out for cause and the lawyer will not prevent that.
Looks cool! I'm currently using Selfoss, which is fine in terms of requirements/maintenance, but if I didn't, I'd probably give this a try!
if he does this he gives a lot of proliferation happy countries a free pass, Taiwan equips itself with nukes faster than you can say "Xi"
You didn’t provide any evidence for this, you just stated your coding preference. Which is usually the case in these discussions. Some anecdotes, and then people making grand claims based on personal preference. Obviously, some programmers have thought the opposite and have their own anecdotes.
Unrelated --- groq wrote an angry blog post complaining about Elon's xAI's grok: https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/
https://notado.app has had support for Tweets and multiple other types of UGC (like comments! from everywhere!) for a long time now. I am the main developer and you can look at my comment history here for more details on the philosophy behind the project.

You can also check out some of my feeds of saved content[1] to get an idea of the breadth of support for UGC.

There are some articles available too if you don't mind longer reads.[2][3]

[1]: https://notado.app/feeds/jado/software-development

[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/notado-07-2023-update/

[3]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wr...