skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing is outside the domain of science.

Later qualified by: "that we can possibly identify". You seem to forget at least one basic circumstance here: that the scientific method is but one narrative. It may be universally applicable, but it is not the only interesting thing that can be said (and what it says is more often than not "we don't know"). The current cultural paradigm (in some quarters), which seem to think that only "scientific truth" is worthwhile, everything else is just random noise is likely precisely what the parent objected to, and that you stepped in to defend.

Incidentally, you seem to agree that there are indeed things outside the domain of science, those things that we can not possibly identify. This is also the reason I'm not as pessimistic as the parent when it comes to the longevity of the current, scientismically informed paradigm: The insight that the things we can possibly identify are but a fraction of the infinite will surely land sooner or later. It doesn't make the scientific method wrong by any stretch of the imagination, but it will always be just mapping local phenomena (that we can notice), not everything.
Engagement-bait.

With a dash of humble-brag.
These can be solved by

<meta favicon=./user_favicon.ico>

or something.

Do this require a browser probing every path with /favicon.ico?
Hi I‘m 55.
You are on the right path.
The day you‘re not embarrassed by what you did yesterday is the day you stopped progressing!
And don’t be terrified: A lot of „old“ (what that means changes) people are not wiser than you - they‘re still terrible incompetent, because they focused on „being happy“ instead in “getting wiser“. You did the right thing, and if you keep doing it, this feeling that you were stupid yesterday will stay - and this is fabulous!
Nothing we see here on earth seems to be dark matter. When we look at far away galaxies, they rotate like they were about 20 times bigger than we can see. One hypothesis to explain this is that there actually is 19x more stuff that we can't see. Another hypothesis is that our theories of how galaxies should rotate are wrong.
But it’s not like LinkedIn now likes you to scrape them today. Scraping for me, but not for thee.
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You should see some of Schmidhuber's stuff, he uses scientific journals as his blogging host.
Java, because: Mark Reinhold

He learned from the best.
> Although one problem with this is that they issue backup certificates from other CAs so it'd easily trigger warning fatigue!

Indeed, the fact that Cloudflare emails out CT warnings due to their own backup certs is rather embarrassing.
So replacing old infrastructure is now an investment? There are just many reactors EoL and I'd say replacing those is not a sign that nuclear is booming right now.

The future is wind/solar/battery on cost alone.
Fairytales do a good job of conveying entropy imo. See Brothers Grimm.
Why would ChatGPT have any idea about this at all? Its dataset wasn't made up of estimations for energy funds, and it makes absolutely no sense to ask it about that? I'm not sure why these figures or even their ratio would be trustworthy.
With this logic, so is pirated software right? It's free because it's on the internet.
It seems to be standard in that field, but to be honest, I hate cryptographic notation. AFAICT, about half of the numbers in that pseudo-code count a number of bytes, and the other half a number of bits, and without already knowing the algorithms, it's almost impossible to tell which is which. E.g., N[:12] seems to be twelve bytes, while 0¹²⁸ is 16 bytes. X is actually the character 'X', i.e. the bit string 01011000. While L is actually a variable, not the bit string 01001100. And so on. It's clear that mathematicians don't like unambiguous notation nearly as much as CS people do.
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The "holding it wrong" part of it.
Are you sure? Welfare spending is the second-highest voice in public spending at 208.8 billions (highest is health at 211.6) [1]. Tax gaps are currently estimated at 39.8 billions [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spendi...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps/...
Can't forget about his uncle Bobwehadababy Itsaboy
You can usually remove the NSFW stuff with some negative prompting.

IMO finetuning is a waste of time unless you do cutting edge stuff.

Loras are just as powerful as a finetuned model and you can train one in minutes even on consumer hardware.
I agreed all the way to the last paragraph.

I think there's good points to be made about wisdom and decision making when you're older, but there is definitely still a sharp cognitive decline (which will include wisdom and decision making!) when you're hitting 75+, for most people.

Having these people in positions of power is not a good thing. As advisors sure, but not directly in power with high influence.
I might be going around in the wrong social circles, but none of the people I know look anything like the realistic people in these images. Are these models even able to generate pictures of actual normal everyday people instead of glossy photo models and celebrity lookalikes?
It’s unintuitive but I still like the 1.6 models - they just have more variety and seem more „creative“

Of course I have a battery of dozens of techniques and addons to improve the 1.6 models
Unfortunately the Elixir app seems more flaky and keeps disconnecting with even a small number of users compared to the 1m checkboxes guy.
It still holds up very well, almost all the techniques are still very much in use.

Edit: except hypernetworks, I don’t think they are still relevant for most users.
It's not entirely clear, that we can use e.g. deserts "for free". Changing the albedo of significant amounts of surface can have far reaching consequences. And unlike already populated areas (were this already happened), we don't really know what will happen there (probably until we try)
I am sure that aphorism is quite apt for thesis defenses, critical debates, shareholder meetings, peer review, and forums of discussion.
> Prior to around 2000 we didn't have the internet and there wasn't close to as much transparency in society about how the mechanics functioned

[Citation needed]

Investigative journalism existed, stuff like "manufacturing consent" was published in the '80s, and I'm pretty sure you could always obtain records of parliament sessions, I know in Italy they were all broadcast on the radio (they still are).

Things are easier to access without intermediation but it's not such a qualitative change, IMO.
We old folks know what it was like back then and allow for it because we all did it too.

Just keep writing, the ultimate audience is your future self, and you'll appreciate being able to look back on your life.
To anyone in a similar situation; you might want to spend some time reflecting on the reality of your role - one of the failure modes of incompetence is using "care" as a proxy for "ability" because an incompetent person almost by definition can't assess ability directly. I fell for that once and consider myself lucky that I figured out what I was doing wrong while still a fresh-faced graduate.

The ideal engineer is not emotionally involved in their work. They aren't shareholders; they don't reap the benefits of what they do, they don't control the direction of the company. They are there to achieve specific technical goals with professionalism. Bringing emotion or non-technical factors in to the deal is an obstacle to excellence.
That article seems to suggest that "the figure [of people claiming benefits] soared by one million since 2019, now accounting for 4.2 million working-age people (10.2%)", while the first article says that stigma actually lowers the amount of people applying for benefits. Which is the truth?
A LOT of minor fuck ups which demonstrates Entrust is (likely) not malicious, they just stupid and don't care how to do things correctly.
How long until they fuck up something serious?

This reminds me about discussion about Russian Goverment's NUC Root CA (not trusted by default in Chrome/Firefox, Trusted by Yandex Browser only with some additional verifications to prevent abuse by goverment). Discussion was not about why this cert was necessary in first place, it was about it's creation violating Russian laws and procedures AND violate a lot of technical rules.
A lot of people just said - this cert is necessary and it's clear who made it so why we should look to "minor details"?
(Links - in Russian https://habr.com/ru/articles/666520/ / https://habr.com/ru/articles/708970/ )
With VSC, the only extensions are those MS builds API's for. It's hub and spoke integration, for a few big leaders and many tiny followers.

With Eclipse (Theia or otherwise), it's fully open, with a large number of medium-sized groups. There's much more flexibility, but more opportunity for integration trouble (and more appreciation for those who do it right).

The ecosystem has benefited from Java's open-sourcing and becoming the default organization e.g., for jakarta, but it never really recovered from the loss of IBM as the big dog driving enterprise (or the transition to Eclipse 4 style UI's).
The current issue is that there is an unprecedented percentage of elderly individuals in positions of power, and they are often reluctant to relinquish their authority. This presents a significant dilemma because many of these older decision-makers struggle to comprehend the reality faced by younger generations, including their own children and grandchildren. They frequently cling to outdated notions, such as the belief that a starter apartment costs only $400 or that well-paying jobs are readily available to anyone who simply shows up. This generational disconnect makes it challenging to address the evolving needs of society as a whole.

In Germany, there is a proposal that suggests individuals nearing retirement should work in a social service job for a year, similar to the requirement for young people who wish to avoid military conscription. This idea could potentially bridge the generational gap by reacquainting older individuals with the current societal challenges. However, it appears that the older generations, who previously favored reinstating the draft, are now hesitant to support this notion.

It's important to note that this proposal is currently hypothetical and would only be considered if mandatory military service were to be reintroduced
> I argue that if people want it, then it has intrinsic value.

In other words, what you’re arguing is “if it has extrinsic value, then it has intrinsic value”. Which would break the point of the distinction.

Intrinsic value is the exact opposite of what you’re saying, it’s something having value by itself.
I find that fact that the UK would depend on another country for power generation in a serious way really really dumb. There is no other way of putting it. If we did that we might as well sell off our armed forces and declare global peace unilaterally, that is how naive that option is. It would make the UK, or any country that did that, incredibly vulnerable. We cannot ever lose power.
I've been using the Cursor editor recently. Unfortunately it's based on VS Code, is closed source, and is tightly coupled with Microsoft/OpenAI. But the full AI integration blows everything else I've used out of the water. I feel significantly more productive with it than any other editor.

I think in the coming years as LLMs become more powerful, the productivity gap between using AI to code and not using it will only increase. It will become difficult to justify not using AI, despite the privacy concerns. I really hope that open source alternatives can keep up and provide viable alternatives to editors like Cursor.
> I am in no way the same as that other person.

How do you know, and for better or worse?

Sounds like he might have been acting on wisdom, and at the time you might have perceived him through a lense of naivete, which still holds. I felt similarly in my early twenties in perhaps a similar environment, but now I know all the seniors I'd have resented were decades ahead of me in terms of what they valued and why. Caring about that work was stupid, and I should have just enjoyed my time more.
2000 is also the year the Supreme Court decided the presidential election and by 2002 we were invading Iraq and Afghanistan. That I see as a big turning point.
I am not arguing for certainty of singularity, quite the opposite. I stated that we seriously suspect the math yielding us that singularity is wrong, we just cant figure out anything more correct yet. Personally I think the geometry of spacetime inside blackhole gets all twisted up, bubbling like a boiling pot of water, but my guess is as good (probably worse) than anyone elses.

>when blackhole density falls below the density of the universe

Which one? The outside one? Density of whole universe? Its local surroundings? Are you counting unknown pressures of stuff we, for pure lack of understanding what the hell it even is, call dark energy/mass?

The "blackhole less dense than the rest of the universe" seem like just another mathematical artefact that couldnt, for any reason, exist in real world. Not saying thinking about it is wrong, but imho more could be gained by thinking "well it surely cant exist, so what mechanism are there that stops this", instead of "this math says that, so lets subdue our whole theory to it". Very same scenario as the singularity inside.

Just because math works for something doesnt mean it is like that. In science history we had plenty of equations that worked, until we discovered some edge case where it suddenly didnt. I think its safe to bet interiors of blackholes, or blackholes encompassing whole universe, are prime candidates for such edge cases where our pressumed math models just break down. The fact that our current math models are returning infinities, we are generally accepting that to be the case.
> I was threatened with an ITO (Involuntary Treatment Order) if I didn't go ahead with having an internal defibrilator put in me.

Did this threat come from a doctor? What an astounding lack of empathy.

I would switch medical providers in a heartbeat if at all possible.
As I said, ms sql have compatibility support for older version

So there is no "developer's time" per se, you can just upgrade the database whilst keeping the exact same behaviors you had
Oh yeah, I don't think he's right.

I think he's extrapolated from him learning a lot in 5 years and assumed that everyone does that and that the curve keeps going.
I get the impression Nvidia thinks they have a moat with CUDA, but the current AI boom is mostly built upon Python libraries that are platform agnostic, or at least can be. With enough support for AMD in Pytorch etc. the decision to buy AMD or Nvidia will purely be down to specs.
> I'm pretty sure you could always obtain records of parliament sessions, I know in Italy they were all broadcast on the radio (they still are).

Are you joking? The quality of that is nowhere near what we have today. I can't very well ring the radio station up to ask them to broadcast a speech I'm interested in from 3 months ago on my lunch break or stick to a specific candidate's record for an evening peruse. Even if they were willing to the scaling properties of that approach are unworkable.

> Investigative journalism existed

Assange dumped more information in a fortnight than an investigative journalist could cover in a decade. We're talking orders of magnitude improvements here.

If you're not seriously interested in politics I can see how nothing much has changed, but for anyone taking a deep interest the world is completely different now.
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Is it also based on SD?
Life just has seasons
I think the point is that, in the eyes of the law, "not guilty" is all that matters. Whether he's "innocent" in some moral or karmic sense is up to God at this point.
Fair. I think I was taking that as hyperbole, but I could be wrong.
Cisco never was anything comparable to Microsoft.
> figuring out if people I just met were (1) right for the role, (2) work well with me, (3) I work well with them.

I recommend figuring out if: (1) they are good at doing what they'll be responsible for, (2) they enjoy doing it, and (3) if you can live with each other.

(1) You want to know that they will succeed in whatever you delegate to them.
(2) Can they persist over the long term, seeing their tasks to completion and success?
(3) Especially with a lower headcount, it's similar to a second marriage, and you might end up spending time with them more than the professed love of your life. Can you overcome conflicts?

> If I’m starting a company today, I’m simply not doing it until I have an incredible operations person on board from day 1.

I'm coming round to the same opinion. A better-than-good ops person can have one of the largest influences on success. If we view success as parts preparedness, execution, and luck, they provided an outsized boost to all 3.

EDIT: Clarified the benefits of the ops person.
> Let’s delve into the notable advancements achieved through GEMM tuning of LLMs such as Llama

Smells like written by GPT
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You can't change case-sensitivity in URLs, because they contain path names which are handed directly to the operating system on which the server runs. So the sensitivity follows the OS (whose design is unrelated to and usually predates web development).

When I say can't, I mean it's just a monumentally bad idea, that it amounts to shouldn't even try.
Why does everything generated by SD seem to have this weird plasticky sheen to it?
Is that a preference of people generating these or innate to the model?
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Not really,
I'm in my sixties, and it's surprisingly difficult to get round the biases these models have of young, perfect people, if you want to get images of older people.

Try the single word prompt 'woman' and see what you get...
> We've seen a collapse in respectability of politicians, for example. Not because the politicians have changed even slightly, but because we have much better visibility into what they're actually like and how the political sausages are made.

Some of that, perhaps, though I suspect most people don't care too much — most people don't read beyond the headlines, from what I've heard.

I'm assuming you mean US politicians in particular? Because in the UK, Johnson and Truss were genuinely exceptional in how bad they were. (And I'm currently living in the half of Berlin which used to be DDR, which had a government so bad the country stopped existing independently).

For the USA, I remember mocking GWB when he was your president (I even got quoted on the radio for it); the political Overton window I grew up in doesn't, can't, include either of your main parties, but even so, Trump does seem evil compared to GWB's nice-but-dim Forrest Gump.

> look at the difference in image of Musk vs someone like Gates who was world's wealthiest before the internet got big.

Late 90s, I was a teen, friends were talking about how evil he was, sharing pictures with Gates' face pasted onto WW2 dictator's rallies, etc.
It exist cross platform GUI frameworks that is maintained by much smaller organizations than Microsoft, if they can do it, Microsoft can do it too.
They don't "just work". There are many many extensions that require external tools in the path etc. and some even go as far as to try to download such dependencies (and leave them on the system). Generally one should definitely read the extension documentation and there may be some manual steps needed (meaning that they don't just work).

It's true that the most popular extensions work fairly well though.
You can have a stigma that lowers the number of people applying that need it AND forces driving up the numbers. In this case, increased illness after the pandemic seems to be a factor [0]

[0] https://theconversation.com/thousands-of-people-in-the-uk-ar...
Kudos to you gaining the self awareness to realise you don't know shit; I'm 40 now and it's taken me until relatively recently for that to dawn on me.

Enjoyed the article, keep writing!
Just asking it anything non-trivial from a field you're already knowledgeable in is enough, really. Sometimes it corrects itself after asking it to search the Web to confirm, but usually it's not enough. Even simple queries like "Assuming no other devices are connected on the bus, does having USB hubs in between host and USB 2.0 device influence available data bandwidth?" can make it spew answers that would easily pass as correct in eyes of someone who genuinely asks to get an answer, but are nowhere near helpful, especially when you start looking closer at used argumentation. It's like a poorly prepared student making informed guesses on an exam in hopes to get at least some things right (which, btw, is a much better metaphor for what's actually happening there than "hallucination"). Sometimes it even guesses right, but then slightly changing the grammar used in your prompt can make it go off-track again as it makes it guess differently. If you ask such student something in hopes to actually learn something from them, how are you going to tell whether they made it all up or not?

It's a tool for language processing, which some limited and heavily lossily compressed knowledge base that's helping it with such processing. It works well for that. For knowledge retrieval beyond "fetch some search results and abridge them for me", it's absolutely useless.
Ah! Another js framework that will fix problems of all the previous ones… great…
In parallel computing you run into nondeterminism pretty quickly anyways - especially with CUDA because of undetermined execution order and floating point accuracy.
Almost everyone is using stuff like tensorrt which is far from platform agnostic. But if AMD can build an API-compatible library that performs well it should indeed be easy enough to switch.
I do think there's a fair bit of selection bias.

The vast majority of people growing old have not spent their lives learning; while enchanting to look at the 60-70+ year olds that are undoubtedly exceptional (think Warren Buffet or the older COBOL dev you think is cool), the reality is they're in the extreme minority.

The author thinks everyone is like him (or us commenting for that matter) and just think of the possibilities in 30-40 years!

Most people are just not that impressive and I wouldn't falsely assume that by just having spent time on the Earth while it spun around the sun over 60 times they're automatically a pillar of wisdom.
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I got two small kids and I got a lot of ads in Youtube from https://www.youtube.com/@buddy_en I didn't try it, so I have no idea if it is good or bad.
Couple of points, but not a physicist or scientist.

1. I believe most existing concentrating solar plants operate below 1,000C. 1,500C might be well understood in producing syngas using other energy sources, but operating a CSP at that temperature is not. To the extent that a company is bringing a CSP plant to market with 1000+ temperature operation, that is novel.

2. Heliostat design seems like a core focus of improving CSP performance. A lot of research direction is on lowering the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining the mirrors. See: https://www.nrel.gov/csp/solar-fields.html and https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/heliocon