skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, that's what I struggle to see as well. It's not really clear why the variance couldn't stay the same or go to infinity instead. Perhaps it does follow from some property of the underlying Gamma/Wishart distributions.
Note: Professionally I do practically nothing with the frontend of web development, so my experience may be far from normal, but when I do have to do something frontend related for personal work or the rare work-related task, I prefer a very rough wireframe using something like https://excalidraw.com/
I feel very disappointed too after reading it; there's no "Mystery" in the behavior of those numbers, the only unexplained (as of now) is the huge spike, but the subsequent reduction in traffic is explainable by "the client hosts were crashing", hence lower numbers.

I want my 10 minutes back.
They don't care, CI/CD, like QA, is considered a cost center for some of these companies. The cheapest thing for them is to offload the burden of testing every configuration onto the developer, who is also going to be tasked with shipping as quickly as possible or getting canned.

Claw back executive pay, stock, and bonuses imo and you'll see funded QA and CI teams.
Anthropic has been very secretive about the supposed synthetic data they used to train 3.5 Sonnet.

Given how good the model is terms of the quality vs speed tradeoff, they must have something.
From the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

So probably killed because it's almost the definition of off-topic. It's also more likely to spawn a flame war than an interesting discussion. There's plenty of places for that; HN doesn't want to become another one.
I honestly cannot understand the hype around figma. it's such a weak product. it's laggy, the interface is not fantastic and it isn't even able to convert the proposed interfaces to code?

why would I want to use figma when I could use a non-laggy product that can convert my designs to code?
What you're describing isn't a war on drivers just poor infrastructure and bad decisions. For all these issues no alternatives have been made no ones benefiting.
How does that explain why the tokens for strawberry, melon and "Stellaberry" [1] are close to each other?

[1] Suggestion from chatgpt3.5 for new fruit name.
They just lost a lot though, losing incentive to stay. But they provide a public good, so it would help for the public to bid the stock up to get the employees to stay, fix things, and vest it rather than ditching the company.
This is nonsense. A complete custom emoji font is something like 10MB. Shipping that to every website visitor is obscenely wasteful. This is why sites either just use native emojis, which all OSes support reasonably well by now, or download a little SVG for every emoji used.
Definitely better to delay than to faceplant after what just happened with Intel. Glad they openly stated they were having a quality problem - AMD has a history of sticking their foot in their mouth and I didn't want to see a repeat.

Here's hoping the end product is good in August! I'm itching to see how the 9800 X3D (or whatever SKU it is) ends up performing, given how great the 7800 X3D has been.
Derp lol, I'll fix it when I get home
That’s only true if it’s actually a cancer that’s going to spread. Certain things like benign prostate cancer are often not worth treating. Testing everyone for everything leads to overtreatment and anxiety and worse quality of life.
It is however a highly relevant thing to be aware of when evaluating a LLM for 'intelligence', which was the context this was brought up in.

Without looking at the word 'strawberry', or spelling it one letter at a time, can you rattle off how many letters are in the word off the top of your head? No? That is what we are asking the LLM to do.
You are absolutely right! We already have this on our roadmap!
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That submission is so off-topic here, it wouldn't go anywhere.

Shadow banning exists because if you turn on show-dead and browse 10 threads, you'll come across 10 different users that are constantly posting unhinged drivel. Likely half of them are mentally ill. Shadow banning keeps these people unaware that no one is seeing their stuff so they don't go and create a new account and waste peoples' time flagging it again.
This is exactly it. I've been in tech for over 20 years and don't think I know a single developer with a portfolio. I can imagine new grads and consulting devs having one, but that's a shallow pool and probably not one OP intends to limit the search to.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic living the United States and my experiences have been a bit different.

> This is called “closed loop” or “artificial pancreas”, and getting one officially is very hard or impossible: not FDA approved yet / you need to be part of an university study to get one / … It’s one of those things that “will be here in 5 years”, they say every year for the past 30 years.

These exist now. I've had one for a few years now. Medtronic 670G.

> My treatment is usually: keep the Freestyle Libre app on my phone open as much as possible and when I see my BG’s getting high, I inject a small amount of insulin. How much? No idea. IT’S ALL VIBES.

Your correction factor is

CF = 100 / (Total Daily Dose).

To make a correction you do

Additional insulin to administer = (current blood glucose - target blood glucose) / CF

Now, even after doing this you'll still have blood sugar spikes and dips but this should get you most of the way there when combined with diet and exercise with very little "vibes" involved.
Introducing a new vulnerability... Git Forked™!

chatgpt: Create a logo image of a fork impaling a small gnome named "code"
TSMC does not design the chips. Who knows what percentage of the responsibility is due to manufacturing or design?
How effective would modeling raw byte sequences be, with the individual bytes as the "tokens", and a vocabulary of 256 elements?

You could then train on any kind of digital data.
> In that sense it's perfectly fine if it was a water pistol, a real gun or whatever else as long as it's the same thing everywhere.

It used to be a real gun everywhere, until the schoolmarms started chiming in. It is supposed to be one, no matter what the ministry of truth thinks it should be replaced with.

> drama, shitstorms

On X? How will they ever recover.
And changing it to water pistol reduces the bullying? I have seen racism expressed through colored emoticons, destroying its original intents of inclusivity. It's stupid to change it in the first place, this is just doubling the stupidity.
Yes, but we understand he what means.

We even have alternative meanings for bias within ML, such as for the bias added before non-linearities in many neural networks.

He obviously means censored LLMs, and I think his view is actually right, although I'm far from sure that these firms are in some kind of scheme to produce LLMs biased in this sense.

Uncensored, tunable LLMs under the full control of their users could scour the internet for propaganda, look for connections between people and organisations and just generally make the work of propagandists who don't have their reader's interests in mind more difficult.

I think we'll end up with that anyway but it's a reasonable fear that there'd be people trying to prevent us from getting there.
They are using Tiptap for their input and just a couple of days ago we called them out on some perf improvements that could be had in their editor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036078

I am curious what you mean by the formatting is lost though?
Indeed, I appreciate the explanation, it is certainly both interesting and informative to me, but to somewhat echo the person you are replying to - if I wanted a boat, and you offer me a boat, and it doesn’t float - the reasons for failure are perhaps full of interesting details, but perhaps the most important thing to focus on first - is to make the boat float, or stop offering it to people who are in need of a boat.

To paraphrase how this thread started - it was someone testing different boats to see whether they can simply float - and they couldn’t. And the reply was questioning the validity of testing boats whether they can simply float.

At least this is how it sounds to me when I am told that our AI overlords can’t figure out how many Rs are in the word “strawberry”.
>Note that I am not the one who brought up the term to the conversation.

Of course, but since you said you were vehemently against it, I thought you'd be the better person to give me some perspective and help me learn.

>I did want to avoid the labels as there's always someone who comes up and ask you to define the label instead of talking about the issue itself. In this case, censorship.

I would have found it much clearer if your comment said "I am against censorship at it's core, vehemently", and as an added bonus you wouldn't be annoyed by me asking about it.

But, to be clear, the reason I asked about the label instead of the issue is because I don't understand what issue(s) woke culture represents to you. So trying to talk about those issues would be difficult.

My impression so far is that woke culture is more than just censorship. I'm very anti-censorship, but I've also been called "woke" in passing as an insult, so unfortunately I'm still left a bit confused. Thanks anyways, though!
The question isn't whether it was OK to turn the gun emoji into a water pistol in the first place.

It doesn't matter if it wasn't. It was done, and it was done at a time when there was political will for everyone to follow suit and be consistent.

The question is whether it's OK to turn it back. Because there ISN'T the same political will. And other emoji providers will NOT follow X in this.

Having X "go back" because the original change was "unjust" doesn't fix the underlying problem. It creates a new one.

Literally perfect application of the concept of "two wrongs don't make a right"
What is your current policy regarding .NET?
Wow did not expect sales force to be behind this.

It’s basically free advertising for technical people to join sales force.
I had weird issues in South America where (say) Visa was accepted, but MasterCard wasn't. As a(n) (North-)American, i've always considered the 2 as precisely equal because the processors that handle one always seem to handle the other. The only question is only ever whether Amex or Discover is accepted.
You can see when they all went woke. Guns emojis bad, next is knives.
This is why I believe including emoji in unicode was a blunder. A capital "A" is the same in any font; I can write a message in monospace and my interlocutor can read it in sans-serif, or tap in morse code and have it rendered in hand- writing, in all cases the difference is immaterial.

On the other hand we don't use pictures in the same way, the meaning of the message depends on the exact picture used as part of the "font". The whole thing about flags and skin tones are symptoms of the same problem.
Is it conclusively proven that glucose spikes influence the risk of T2D by a big margin? Like imo calorie balance is more influential than glucose spike. This is all assuming that you are currently healthy. I don't think spiking blood glucose is a good idea of you are diabetic
This from a guy who unveils his new data center at exactly 420 and has a line of cars intentionally named to spell out “s3xy” and the reason we’re all forced to say “space sex” out loud every time we talk about a rocket launch.

We are trapped in a meme.
No because the reason it was changed is actually Apple's fault. They switched to a water pistol but because you can transmit an emoji cross platform, what may be perceived as a innocent message using the water pistol emoji could come across as a negative message when that water pistol is rendered as a gun in the receiver's phone.

Scroll down in this page for the example I am citing:

[0]:https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/

This really raises an interesting attack vector. Get influential enough at Apple -> push a change that could cause trouble for others given you are the largest entity -> they will be forced to adopt your change.

This should have been picked up by congress because it is some small group (or even one person) affecting the decisions of the entire industry.

Also its pretty fitting that Musk has applied his signature move: Make the change damn the consequences and then re-learn the reason why it was done in the first place when some disaster occurs. It must be nice that he never has to deal with the consequences of his actions.
Why aren't emojis just part of your font or customizable? I'd love to mod mine back into the old Google blobs
I don't think we can conclude that until someone trains a model that is significantly bigger than GPT-4.
Does changing it to a water pistol actually reduce bullying at all? I suspect not. My bet is that the water pistol change was driven by virtue signaling and corporate risk aversion rather than any real belief that it would do anything useful.

Conversely though, the decision to change it back is probably driven by trolling and attention-seeking more than anything.
> For the first two, git is based on content addressable storage, so it makes sense that anything that is every public will never disappear.

this isn't quite right

content addressable storage is just a mean of access it does

- not imply content cannot be deleted

- not imply content cannot be access managed

you could apply this to a git repo itself (like making some branches private and some not) but more important forks are not git ops, they are more high level github ops and could very well have appropriate measurements to make sure this cannot happen

e.g. if github had implemented forks like a `git clone` _non of this vulnerabilities would have been a thing_

similar implemented different access rights for different subsets of fork networks (or even the same git repo) technically isn't a problem either (not trivial but quite doable)

and I mean commits made to private repositories being public is always a security vulnerability no matter how much github claims it's intended
Hmm. HN is nothing compared to big media outlets who cry for freedom of expression but turn a blind eye to news that make them look bad. It gets worse and we see worse leaders than Trump
(Not the person you were asking, either)

In one sentence, wokeness is aggressively pursuing racial (and other identity-based) conflict above everything else, not caring what else you trample on (including even classic civil rights principles). "Microaggressions" is probably the most distinctively woke concept.

Censoring gun emojis is not woke in that respect, since it doesn't pursue any particular identity conflict (except, maybe, crusading on behalf of anyone with gun-related PTSD?). But the method (forcing people to sanitize their communication) and some aspects of the motivation (hand-wringing about some bits of language, acting like some people have extremely delicate sensibilities, using that to justify censorship) are similar to some prominent manifestations of wokeness and the corporate policies they push. So I can understand why the connection was drawn, though the term isn't quite appropriate.
I just took a look at the website, there is no screenshot or video to show me how it works.

What kind of menu bar do you add, windows, Mac, iOS android?

Users are going to want to see what it looks like, how it works, maybe a before and after pic, before purchasing your solution.
I did not personally suggest medical attention, but it is something OP can try and then stop if it’s not helping. But having kids cannot be undone unless one is ready to abandon them.

>biological reality

>negative replacement rate

>most fundamental and meaningful institutions that a human being could engage in

I perceive a particular ideology behind those phrases, so the basics of our worldviews do not match in the first place. If anything, the "biological reality" for me is overshoot and ecosystem collapse, so there's no need to worry about replacement rates.
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Came here to write the same.

I used to teach at a UX grad program where students were required to learn both design and development. But doing both on the same project was almost always a mistake -- the designer has to deeply understand and advocate for the end-user's mental model while the developer has to deeply understand the technical model and constraints. Attempting to do both often end up conflating them or compromising on at least one of them.

Sort of like how many lawyers are skilled enough to handle either prosecution or defense but few do both on the same case.

I think there's a Nielsen/Norman article on this but can't find it at the moment.
Classic EU policies, overregulate your own tech sector so much, it basically ends up being largely irrelevant (aside from a few massive corp players, but even then they are essentially not that significant compared to overseas competitors) and extremely hostile to new entrants (aka startups). So you create even more regulations, but now to extract racket money from more successful tech companies from overseas. Instead of, you know, attempting to fix the underlying problem you created earlier.

This is such a joke, to the point where the most viable path for a tech startup in EU to succeed is to relocate to the US as soon as possible (which you can easily observe yourself by reading any Ask HN threads authored by newly-minted startup founders located in EU).

Thanks no, I think we are all good here. If anything, this makes me more optimistic about the potential Kamala Harris presidency (which I wasn’t super jazzed up about initially due to her history while serving as a district attorney).
Neutron stars certainly do have attraction ... don't see why they can't have some chemistry as well. They seem cool after all.
Probably like people write today about holocaust in WWII. 80 years from now oil & gas will probably be much less important than today, so many countries that are happy today lending billions and providing cover for a brutal apartheid regime in middle east will be much less willing to do so. History will not look kindly to omission in face of those crimes.
Your question sounds like you want to know how the word is spelled, and no one would put two r’s at straw, so the model could be assuming that you’re asking whether it’s strawbery or strawberry.

What happens if you ask the total number of occurrences of the letter r in the word? Does it still not get it right?
I always thought the purpose of a standard set of emoji is to keep the Unicode commitee employed...

If you don't have a heated debate about the meaning of the dot over the poop emoji every year they may find themselves out of a job and that would be too productive.
And... they're gone. While I'm glad it must have gotten someone's attention, hopefully the moderators and not the spammers themselves (does HN allow one to delete 2 day old comments?), now there's no reference point.

I pray LLM output detection can get back on track so that this doesn't keep getting worse. It's certainly doable; we humans already spotted a few ones and distilled them into a fuzzy pattern, so a good classifier might have a chance. False positives are a risk, but depending on the spam volume, may be well worth it.
>Performative nonsense designed to appeal to emotions instead of doing something about the implied problem. (Guns and censorship, respectively.)

Thanks! This helps me understand it a bit more. Sort of a synonym for "virtue signalling" it seems?
That’s like saying you can put pictures of the letters you need in a post to form words. It’s completely impractical in systems that even allow you to upload pictures and impossible for anything based on Unicode only input
Everybody knows that death threats were invented with emoji.
For anybody that doesn't catch the reference...

https://youtu.be/sRMMwpDTs5k

Kitboga is a well-known streamer whose entire schtick is wasting scammers' time. He uses a voice changer and has a very thorough setup of fake websites including Google, the Google Play store, a bank, and more, as well as fake screen sharing tricks that show him exactly what a scammer is trying to do when they use a remote-access tool to access his system. When they use their RAT to black out his screen so they can hide DOM manipulation in the browser or something, he can actually watch them do it.

In the video above, at about 53:00 in, Kitboga "redeems" the fake Google Play Store card that he "bought" rather than letting the scammer copy the numbers.

One thing he's shown many times is how persistent scammers can be. One time he hit the password reset on his fake bank and made the scammer help him solve a password game. https://youtu.be/wkLPk2tmyNI
Mark Zuckerberg on open source AI
“Modern corporate law does not require for profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else.”

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores,....
The article's title is terrible. The article itself seems to have all the right pieces but connects them in weird ways.

Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing to end-users maybe, but Google and Microsoft want the cost of hosting AI to make your eyes bleed so you don't compete or trim any profits off their cloud services. As the article points out Facebook does not offer cloud services so its interests in this case align with mom and pop shops that don't want to be dependent on big tech for AI.

But Mistral was way more useful to mom and pop shops when they were trying to eke out performance from self-hostable small models. Microsoft took them out of that game. These enormous models may help out boutique data center companies to compete with big tech's cloud offerings but it's beyond a small dev shop who wants to run a co-pilot on a couple of servers.

Microsoft and Google don't want you to learn that a 7B model can come close to a model 50x-100x its size. We don't know that's even possible, you say? That's right we don't know, but they don't even want you to try and find out if it's possible or not. Such is the threat to their cloud offerings.

If they did Microsoft would have made a much bigger deal of things like their Orca-math model and would have left Mistral well alone.
Exactly. One persons shadow ban can mean thousands of others can communicate more effectively. It being a ‘dick move’ is entirely dependent on the context of what is being shadow banned and why.
It is managed, but it also lets you write C-equivalent code with a similar degree of freedom, and compile it to native executables.
> That is not to say we should ban words, but lets not kid ourselves and pretend they have no power at all.

Indeed.

The whole reason I value freedom of speech is not a love of certain voices, but because of the power of speech to effect change.

Took me a long time to realise that while all improvements are change, not all change is an improvement. Dictators fear free speech because it has the power to take away their power. That power can also be used, has been used, to take away democracy.
What parts are you talking about? Most areas in the m25 is part of a London Borough. Watford isn't but has decent rail connections and has tfl bus routes ending there.

There are some parts of rural Enfield and Barnet which aren't so great for public transport connections admittedly.