skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A well-trained 8B model will already be over-saturated with information from the start

Any evidence of that that I can look at? This doesn't match what I've seen nor have I heard this from the world-class researchers I have worked with. Would be interested to learn more.
Ergonomics isn't really the point of a hypothetical extreme system. And no, you can compute offset as a result of all inputs to the system, like I did in my example - just keep passing a "previous state" value around, and compute the next state and return it. Like any other functional system already does 99% of the time.
This just isnt true. Every metro area in the US has highways. Including the dense ones. NYC and Chicago are not concrete hellscapes
This history takes more than can be said in a single comment but it was a number of intentional campaigns starting around the 1950s.

In the US, after the radical republicans and proto-communists fled europe in 1848, they came to the US and helped form the republican party which led to a civil war which was fundamentally about worker's rights. After that there were decades of skirmishes and unionization pushes that are celebrated everywhere but in the US (such as May Day). There were radical anarchist and socialist led efforts that brought about the 8 hour day, minimum wage, and weekends through armed violent struggle.

This led to the professionalization of police (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_and_Iron_Police) and the earliest propaganda outfits which came out of WW1.

Anyway, fast forward to after the war, the right wanted to not deal with that for another 100 years so they got to work on trying to flip the script. (for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Economic_Educat...)

Clergy went from left wing to right wing, rural people went from bomb throwing anarchists to flag waving conservatives, the american spirit that led to the Burlington, Haymarket, and Railroad strikes, Battle of Virden Mines, Pullman Strike, Colorado labor wars, blair mountain, Harlan county war, all of these were redirected - redirected to scapegoats; women, government, gays, immigrants.

For instance, modern country music came from folk music, which had a bunch of left wing songs (such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzvH5UZVQU8 or pre-ww2 folk singers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(activist) ). It was re-invented, intentionally, as troop-worshipping, flag waving super-patriotism.

It looks so weird as an outsider because it's a manufactured flip. The fundamental culture didn't change, it's just that propagandists can communicate their lies faster and more convincingly than those who constrain themselves to material reality.

Scammers win because they're trying to convince, while honest people are trying to have integrity.
The other point specifically for devs is how interviewing is such a different skill to normal work. The people with the best careers are almost always interviewing. If you constantly using that muscle you get really good. The guy I know who stayed in the same role for 15 years and got laid off is screwed because he's a great developer but doesn't know any of that stuff.
>Have you been paying any attention to how insane the American right has become? We’re about to have a dude who fucks porn stars as President. Again. Oh and an insurrectionist.

The "the American right" isn't a monolith. So far as I can tell, he doesn't condone whatever trump did or the capitol hill attacks.
> Kana is useful for an agglutinating language like Japanese, but not
Chinese languages.

FWIW, the Japanese did develop a kana-based system for Taiwanese during
the occupation, but it was an abomination.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_kana
No, I didn't take any electrolyte, as it seems artificial to me.
> I know that what seems to most drive young people today is the freedom to pursue their passions. They care less about money and are financially driven as a means to an end, pursuing things like side hustles, immersive travel to unusual places, music festivals, costly fitness classes, and mental health investments like therapy and life coaches.

Fuck you pay me.
It's not AR glasses. It's VR with lots of cameras.
Hoarding.

I’m half joking but all these tools to automatically download TVs and movies has absolutely led to this class of user that habitually downloads stuff just for the sake of doing it. Terabytes of movies they have no interest in. The psychology of it fascinates me.
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness" is the main modus operandi nowadays ...
Regardless of how outlandish this seems, this idea and the similar idea of uploading yourself into an exact digital copy to live forever don't seem too appealing to me, for the obvious reason that it's a copy of you, you (the original) would still exist, and die, so what's the benefit to you?

I don't think I'd like knowing that that there was an exact copy of me living on while I (the original) dies. And it seems incredibly egotistical that you would think this is a net good for anybody, that it's worth having a clone of yourself (no matter how exact) living on, and taking up resources etc.
Absolutely agree. I really think the concept of induced demand with highways is misleading. Im not even sure reducing traffic is the point of highway expansion, pretty sure induced demand is literally the goal.
Choose the computer with the most-supported peripheral hardware. Not some weird peripheral chip. You don't need to be mucking around supporting some unusual WiFi chip, for instance.

So, that's generally an Intel-Chip based machine.

Myself, I am partial to Lenovo hardware, with Intel-based peripheral chips. I usually buy them new from Lenovo* and customise the build. But then, I'm flush enough to do that. YMMV.

* Current machines: P53 laptop, M70T desktop. With LinuxMint installed by me. Throw away the Windows installation. It's done its job nicely, by giving you a subsidised set of hardware.
"Regular use of paracetamol, but not ibuprofen, was associated with a significantly higher risk of new-onset dementia in the old population, regardless of genetic risks of dementia."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37633120/
We have a company mail, fax, and phone room that receives thousands of pages a day that now sorts, categorizes, and extracts useful information from them all in a completely automated way by LLMs. Several FTEs have been reassigned elsewhere as a result.
Row zero?
1. Paramount pre sex press obviously!
2. Same here, geo-blocking is the worst.
A linter like luacheck is better for accidental globals, but I think the GP was talking about doing a = someTable.typoedFieldName.
> hasn't worked on anything substantial

This isn't the case. It's more likely a lack of business socialization combined with individual hyper-achievement. Reminds me of Ian Pratt in some ways.

An annoyance in tech, both startups and corporate, is technically-capable people but with outsized egos.
The truly great thing about online news is that nothing is stopping them from serving different demographics different, conflicting, news.
It can definitely be an issue on the dating apps to be a male looking for gf material if you’re using android. I think it’s because of the shallow tech knowledge of other people as to why android is as good as apple, but the heart wants what the heart wants. For those saying such people are “shallow”, it’s just as shallow to assume the same, as one data point does not tell the whole story in my experience.
When I wrote it [0], the goal was semi-bounded [1] latency.

[0] It needs a refactor, but here's some version of the idea. https://github.com/hmusgrave/zcirc

[1] You're not _really_ bounded since you have blocking calls to the underlying allocator (usually somewhere close to the OS, and even that can do more work than you might expect when you ask for a contiguous array), but it's still much cheaper than a bulk copy.
Modern Windows is fine, too. You may even be able to use Windows 7 that way these days. A lot has changed since XP SP2.
the dream is that if i already have to drive downtown, if only there were more parking spots, i could always find one easily instead of driving around searching. but this often won’t happen.
Yea but really the choice here is "go somewhere vs stay home", not "car vs bus". Highway expansion leads to more people travelling because bus service is non existent in the vast majority of the country. Of course some people need to go where theyre going, but on the margins more people will go to the city or what not if traffic is lower.
Yea, but who wants to be always interviewing? That sounds terrible.

At some point your life is going to have different priorities.
See if the article said this, I would have agreed - fine-tuning is a tool and it should be used thoughtfully. Although I personally believe that in this funding climate it makes sense to make data collection and model training a core capability of any AI product. However that will only be available and wise for some founders.
Luacheck will warn about unknown globals.
Government policy is hugely biased towards homeowners and against renters. It would be more equitable to help renters more, perhaps by helping them become (first-time or partial) homeowners. Two schemes:

1) Government could put up down payments for first-time buyers in exchange for say 50% of the home equity. Buyers obtain a normal mortgage loan. Such buyers can optionally pay back the down payment over time and get 100% equity or govt regains their share of equity after a sale.

2) Government could offer landlords payments for equity in rented property and convert willing renters into owners. Renters can pay back the government over time to gradually gain equity. Landlord shares ownership with govt and some or all renters.
Processing high volumes of unstructured data (text)… we’re using a STAG architecture.

- Generate targeted LLM micro summaries of every record (ticket, call, etc.) continually

- Use layers of regex, semantic embeddings, and scoring enrichments to identify report rows (pivots on aggregates) worth attention, running on a schedule

- Proactively explain each report row by identifying what’s unusual about it and LLM summarizing a subset of the microsummaries.

- Push the result to webhook

Lack of JSON schema restriction is a significant barrier to entry on hooking LLMs up to a multi step process.

Another is preventing LLMs from adding intro or conclusion text.
Great point. I will use this as a greater point in my Android vs Apple arguments in the future.
This looks like proof of concept done in 30 min. What do you want to show with it? The current comic is neither very original, nor really funny.
Buying a house in walking distance isn't crazy when you get a private office with a door, and can expect to keep it for life.

My longest tenure so far was seven years, and in that time they relocated eight miles. Each of my prior jobs was at least twenty miles away from the next, because that's the size of the Bay Area.
I read it a bit, but it seems the article is little more than a single person's anecdotal observations.

I tuned out after reading about 40% ... there is no conclusive evidence presented, just one person's observations over their career ... then you get things like:

> The older I get, the more I understand what's been broken

well ... yeah, that's how it works
What's twitter? All the cool kids say X now.
Somewhat of a clickbait, but "it's increasingly becoming less true" exponentially. The human population produces written data, exponentially, but in a less steep slope than LLMs by themselves. Human text may double every year, LLM generated text may double every day, or every second.
Is that different from a company doing R&D without releasing the results to the public? Experts working for private gain is the norm, not the exception.

That kind of work also sounds incredibly boring. They probably have to pay their experts a lot more than it would normally cost to hire the same caliber of experts. Which would mean they are not generating very much private data.
Anyone here use https://fennel-lang.org/ to make Lua more palatable/fun?
Grizzly bears are coming back to Washington's North Cascades
More details about rule 30 from wolfram:
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.ht...
That's a weird way to put that. Tax haul for 10 houses is definitely higher than the tax haul for a 10 unit complex, but how many 10 unit complexes can you fit in the space you need for 10 houses? The complex has a much better tax haul per square foot.
Cities are what people do to make it. It is not inherently trash or unpleasant.
This is an extremely mainland-centric view. Cangjie is the dominant IME in Hong Kong.
I have a bunch of kintsugi stuff in regular use so I can answer. Microwave is a definite no! It arcs, kind of like gold-rimmed plates would I guess.

Dishwasher you can. The repair is really two parts: the bond that holds it together and the gold dust that covers the lacquer. The join bond can handle the dishwasher. The gold layer needs touchup every few years anyway, but it will need it a lot more often if it goes through the dishwasher regularly. Gold is expensive.

There are some other ways of applying the gold that can hold up better, but they're less common.
For an company with open in its name, we sure don't know what data openai trains its models on. Why?
How to Prevent Civilizational Collapse [video]
Wait until the author learns about pointers.
It doesn’t have to be “real” for people to believe it is real. And really, it doesn’t matter if it was “real” if people believed it was real.

Because if people believe something is real, it can have a real world impact, regardless of whether or not the “magic” was “real”.

People are strange like that and medieval people would have been no different from us in this regard.
Back in the real world the most popular, fastest growing states are all Republican, have little mass transport and cars everywhere.
with this downgrade is it still be able to run the ipad calculator app? Does anyone know? Because in software side of Ipad IOS, that is the biggest innovation in years.
Err, 16 hours just to read. Then you still need to deal with the inaccuracies of speech to text.
All they have to do is restart the old passenger rail system they had in the 40s. It connected the entire front range with salt lake and all the major cities in utah including park city, went down to santa fe in the south, and hit just about all the towns and ski resorts that were around at the time. Even the ones that are a little more annoying to get to today like aspen or telluride.

What is even more tempting is that all this infrastructure and right of ways are still there. A lot of these towns have the old station land empty still, some have the old station preserved even. A lot of the rail grades are either sustained by freight rail or have been railbanked as trails. Its practically turn key as the hard part of gathering all this land was done over a century ago.

Too bad rail ambition is so paltry in comparison today.
Florida Governor Signs Bill to Ban the Sale of Lab-Grown Meat
Thanks for the tip, I’ve already used KDE connect even for iOS-Windows communication, it’s just great.

I think people resort back to X11 because it’s only think that worked for a broad sets of features.Sure we can have Wayland making progress but it seems there’s little resource targeted it, not even implementation but even standardizing some things and we’re 15 years past. Linux kernel itself was already at infamous 2.6 version by then.

Sure proprietary desktops have kind of shown the way. One side, it’s good to have standards clear/clean enough that it can be easily implemented, on the other side, it can just be especially resource taking to redevelop things that are the core difference of the desktop environnement you might be developing.

I can wonder and worry, if we would have and will still ever see something like compiz fusion, the diagonal screen tick seen this year or anything else.
Design standards api, inter app communication and make it customizable is no way easy and I feel like Wayland has absolutely not find how to articulate all of those things.
> For example, if your model is hallucinating because you don’t have enough training examples of people expressing uncertainty, or biased because it has unrepresentative data, then generate some better examples!

Or, as the case may be... humans are biased? Also "generate some better examples" sounds like fudging data to fit the expected outcome. It smells of clutching at straws hoping to come up with something before the world looses interests and investor money runs out.

If you want to see how LLMs fail at coming up with original responses ask your favourite hallucinating bot to come up with fifty different ways of encouraging people to "Click the Subscribe button" in a YT video. Not only it will not come up with anything original, but it will simply start repeating itself (well, not itself, it will start repeating phrases found in YT video transcripts).
The point of widening roads is to let more people use them, not to decrease transit time.
Hopefully it'll all be available in a fire sale when these companies finally have to be stripped for parts.
As a long time C++ developer with only a few years in Rust, C++ is downright painful in comparison. However, I still cannot iterate in Rust as quickly as I can in Lua, unless the project is large and complex, then I'd argue that I can work faster in Rust. Languages like Python, Lua, Lisp really struggle in large projects because it becomes way too easy to break things unknowingly.
Has Google ever rolled out a “feature” that wasn’t in alpha/beta? I’m honestly having problems imagining Apple, for example, releasing something this buggy just to appease investors.
I use Selenium's WebDriver for tasks where I need to programmatically interact with webpages that require JavaScript. It runs a headless Chrome or Firefox, with a virtual screen. It has bindings for various languages with Python being my preferred one.
Firefox also has the about:config preference permissions.default.image: 2, which will block most images.
That's why I said almost all
Microsoft desperately wants those sweet, sweet recurring revenue streams they can get from advertising and selling personal user data. Forcing login was step 1. Recall is step 2.
I wish all multi-task systems had a UI like this. It makes it SO much easier to spot where your biggest latencies are coming from, which is an excellent passive motivator to improve them.

Silent / opaque progress just teaches people that they can't do anything about it except wait, so all it does is get worse and worse.
IIRC, pollution from the tail pipe of a car falls off as a cubic function as you get further away from it. Similar for other sources of pollution. Pollution is very akin to smoke, hard to predict, and very localized. It can depend on wind, terrain, can get caught in places, underneath temperature inversions, etc.. All that said, the pollution you experience on a sidewalk next to a road, would be significantly higher than at the weather app meter station.

Determining pollution exposure can be done anecdotally. I've done a number of long distance bike trips, the few times where I was next to a highway for upwards of 8 hours - having a nose bleed by the end of that is pretty common for me. In that vein, recognizing air pollution effects is not necessarily that difficult. Symptoms include: sore throat, headache, burning eyes, etc.. The other side, people do get used to low level irritants, and yeah - you don't really notice its there until you go somewhere else and realize "the air smells different."
This is really cool! I save AVP for work but have been eager to find new meditation interfaces because it feels like AR has so much potential for this. Will try it out!
OpenAI would have stolen it if they didn't license it so it's "free money" for Reddit or Stack Overflow when OpenAI or any other comes along and offers money up front.
> Honestly the endless criticism of Rust "fanatics" is far more tedious than anything Rust developers say.

We can agree to disagree. I am sick and tired of Rust people screaming at the top of the lungs in every possible place about how their language is great and want to rewrite everything in it.

So yes I expect people not to praise Rust in a Lua thread, it's completely off topic.
Facts. The biggest career mistake I made was staying at one place for too long. It was comfortable and solid. I got complacent. I didn't think I could do better. I was wrong.

I've changed jobs twice since then, and both have been big upgrades. If your employer isn't significantly rewarding loyalty, I highly recommend at least looking to see what's out there. You aren't forced to go, but be open to new opportunities. An upgrade is likely to come.

If any of my employers had pensions or other such loyalty programs, I wouldn't have had reason to constantly seek greener pastures.

I find it interesting that this article talks about pensions, but then suggests other ideas besides pensions as ways to get loyal employees. I agree that things like sabbaticals are a good idea. I would love to have that as an option. But I would love a pension program as strong as the ones my grandparents had even more. They aren't illegal or anything now that 401ks exist. Companies are still allowed to make them. Just almost none of them do.
The current state of LLMs would be several orders of magnitude more impressive if they were only trained from data scrapped on the web.

But this is not the reality of modern LLMs by a long shot, they are trained in increasingly large parts from custom built datasets that are created by countless paid individuals, hidden behind stringent NDAs.

The author here seems to see that as a strength, an opportunity for unbounded growth and potential, I think this is the opposite, this approach is close to a gigantic whack a mole game, effectively unbounded, but in the wrong way.
I'm tickled that "Xitter" is gaining traction. Use the Chinese pronunciation of X.
Model-explorer: an AI model graph visualizer and debugger
Imagine a world where you can upgrade your device's RAM, storage, and cores with a simple digital purchase. It’s a bittersweet idea—practical for many, yet potentially pricey. Could Apple be considering this innovation?
Bangkok has the most expensive public transit line relative to local incomes (BTS skytrain), and yet I saw nobody jump the turnstile there
Here is the evidence:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employee...

Make half the money if you are a two year or more employee.
You’ll have to track all your clothing with UWB tags!
The nice thing about Chinese is information density of writing. Something nice about seeing how much information can be squeezed into a small space. Feels like you front load more on the learning side, but get rewarded when reading and scanning texts. Not sure how much scientific evidence is behind that, just an anecdotal observation. Relatively few Chinese speakers want to give up characters.
Reminds me of the same issues with self driving. Seems like we need a completely different approach to solve these class of problems.
The sad reality is the more successful a company the less power you have as an employee.
Or even better, spread out work for those who can't work from home.

I live in a small country, where a lot of jobs are in the capital, A LOT of people drive to the capital daily (20, 30, 50, even 100km one way), and complain about it... and complain how everything is there, complain about centralization, etc...

..and then also complain when a company in their smaller city wants to expand or when someone wants to build something new there. Also complain against the current companies that exist there.... even though their house was built due to closeseness to that factory in the first place (like whole neighhbourhoods that were built by workers in that company nearby, and now, 30, 40 years later, their kids want the company to close, due to a lot of random reasons).

for americans: not all tech has to be in california, other states exist too