skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While religion does result in those people having a model of reality, there is no attempt being made at any point to relate the model to reality. When religious people and scientists disagree, it's not because the religious person is trying to model reality differently--the religious person isn't even trying to model reality--it's because the religious person is biased in favor of their existing belief.

A problem: you're talking to one right now, and you (your mind's model of reality, technically - you do not have access to the state of the things you claim to) could hardly be more wrong.

From large quantities of experience, I am confident I would have no success tackling your disagreements on a careful, strict, point by point basis. Instead, I will simply present two links (I have many others, but let's see what happens with these) and ask: do you believe these have some substantial relevance here, related to the truth value (and appearance of) of our respective claims?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

I can appreciate that this approach may seem unworthy of anything more than a rhetorical response that dodges the question (and the importance of the phenomena these links discuss), so hopefully you can take the challenge seriously. I am more than happy to offer a more substantive reply later, but if you declare victory by fiat[1] it's a bit tough to have a serious conversation.

[1] Roughly: declaring that one's opinion of the unknowable is necessarily correct, and that it is(!) contrary to my (actual) stance.
How hot is your city compared with the rest of the world?
Ok this is really cool
I'm not sure what exactly they are trying to say. They saw some CrowdStrike traffic logs, saw a random spike a few days before the outage, and...that's it? Why is that "strange", and how does it relate to the incident timeline?

Just a random security company with a fluff piece with "CrowdStrike" in the title trying to get in the headlines.
Doesn't Slack violate that constraint? Slack allows (or at least seems to) using iOS system emoji to respond to messages.
But since most engineers probably started before last week, wouldn't they be still up quite a bit? Even with the crash it's up 75% over the past year.
It's not, and also another reason Twitter has its own emojis is so that the Tweets have the same text wrapping on every platform. This means you can actually use the tweets as a canvas filled with emojis and know that the formatting will be the same everywhere.
I've had an inkling at various times to make a widget or app or something for players of Diplomacy [0] that uses this visualization to make it easier to see activity in all of your conversations at a glance / select who to talk to. It always ends up being more of a 'fun' idea than something that would actually be useful, though, because the 6-set Venn diagram is so much more difficult to visually parse than just a list of countries in a "To" line.

[0] when played with "white press", which is where players can send messages to another player / to multiple other players, and the source of the message is authenticated. This is in contrast to "gray press" where the source is / can be anonymous instead of authenticated and "black press" where the source can be spoofed.
Strange that .co doesn't even show up in the list. I have a 3 letter .co similar to another .com domain and constantly receive customer id's and internal communications.
A 70B 4bit model does not fit in a 24GB VRAM card, 30B models are the sweet spot for that size of card at 20GB, with 4GB left for the system to still function.
I absolutely agree. They are not positioning Alexa correctly in the market. It's a tremendous opportunity to move towards a smarter integrated home and a personal assistant. Buying even basic things using voice will never make sense.

I use Alexa daily to voice-control devices in my Hubitat. Once there is an easy to set up local voice control option I will remove Alexa. Unless they reposition themselves as something more useful.
Yeah, this is the more salient detail.

I would consider (something equivalent to) what Amazon envisions if it was products from my local grocery store, at the prices of that specific store. But Amazon? I can't trust they'll be any of: in stock, with the exact same product, at basically the same price.
If you say so. I encourage you to invest your beliefs. But it's worth remembering that millions of people are already paying OpenAI and others for the value their models provide. GPT-4 can write code at least as well as a new college grad.

Also, there's no such thing as "Azure credits" at this scale. What they give OpenAI is control over billions of dollars of their capex, which is invested in datacenter scale GPU clusters designed by OpenAI, for their own exclusive use. It has as much in common with a startup getting a $1000 cloud credit coupon as a paper airplane does with an A380.
> One final note: I’m pretty sure UCI would get a big lawsuit if they mandated one bike from a particular manufacturer due to antitrust concerns.

I don't think so. It happens all the time in lower series of Motorsport and even the highest for tires. Formula 1 and Motogp are working respectively with Pirelli and Michelin if my memory is correct.

For esport world championship the UCI used Zwift in the early years and now it is their competitor MyWhoosh.

The keirin regulation using 70's tech was just an example to illustrate that controlling specs is possible. Same could be done but with a single make of bikes and just various frame sizes available for world tour. The issue is mostly that team would lose sponsorship so nobody has anything to gain. In the grand scheme of things, the difference between pro bikes is rather marginal and doesn't decide the outcome of the races.
Does not run under Linux regardless of user agent or browser, while running perfectly in Edge on both Windows and macOS. Very confusing...
I would say it doesn't just work. That's why being a programmer isn't a one-off job. You're still there to glue things back together when they inevitably break unexpectedly.
Here's the link
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-it-hard-to-make-an-artis...

for some reason HN edits it I don't know why
I did all the same things and even registered my domain with google and added their verification DNS txt record. You're probably right about it being linode's IP range, although I did get permission from linode to use it as a mail server, they opened the right ports and I did get deliverability to other mail hosts just not google or my university at the time, annoyingly enough
If you say, "volume 15 percent" it will set it to 15%.
They really are selective. In my 20s I once missed a single payment to a department store card that I owed $60 to (Not an Amex card) and Amex abruptly closed all my accounts in response. I'd never been late paying Amex, nor did I have anything else negative on my credit.

It took me a decade or so to get over my grudge against whatever algorithm triggered that, but I have an Amex card again.
Let's restate. I'd imagine you end up in local minima that are difficult to escape using model generated data. So sure, non-zero gradients, but if you plot the gradients, I would expect them to orbit at that point. But it seems like they diverge.
> How many photos need to be taken before it's okay to call it a "scan"?

I think that's actually a really interesting question.

To me, intuitively, it's pretty clear that if you took 100 photos of someone's head being rotated 1° each time, to put together a model of their face, that's a scan.

It's also clear that, intuitively, just 2 photos, or even 4 photos at 25° each, is not a scan. They're just a few individual photos.

All of which feels pretty analogous to, how many pixels does a bitmap need in both dimensions to call it a photo?

A 4x4 bitmap is not a photo. While a 100x100 bitmap certainly is, even if we'd call it thumbnail size. But we'd all agree it's a photo.

So where's the transition? I'd suggest a value of 20 is kind of a gray area threshold. A 20x20 image maybe you can say is starting to turn into a photo. Similarly, a collection of 20 images taken at regularly spaced angles maybe you can say is starting to turn into a 3D scan.
The PR is so bad that Intel is going to have to take responsibility regardless. And updating the microcode kind of "proves" that the old microcode was defective in some way.
Junk. This opinion piece offers no proof for its assertion, makes no reference to any research and adds nothing of value to the debate.
my Alexa use cases are timer, music, news (sorta), weather. I also use "routines" for pranks form time to time.

I setup a routine that made it say "I heard that" at 630pm on a Friday when my MIL comes over, drinks some wine, and starts talking about the latest conspiracies her and her son have been discussing. Heh, Alexa blurting out "i heard that" in the middle of the conversation like it was listening all along worked like a charm.
What do you refer to "those have happened before"?

Isn't that what happened? Not a software update, not an AV-definition update but more so an AV-definition "data" update. At least that's how I interpret "Rapid Response Content"
I didn't say that every interaction was stellar either.

But Linux means big money, it's not just "wrong code" but corporate interest attempting to get their way into the kernel (plenty of examples in the .org mailing list), or HW manufactures trying to get support for their stuff for free, etc. It's not as naive as "code quality".
Of course but bison are way less predictable and don't have 10K years of selective breeding for docile behavior like modern cattle do.
I’m pretty sure the intent was that water is a byproduct of combustion.
Can you do it in 15 minutes please?
An interesting variant of space-filling curves + dimensionality reduction is Geohash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash, http://geohash.org/) which takes a lon/lat and uses a Z-curve approach to produce a hash such as `u4pruydqqvj` representing the location. This hash value is basically "how far along the space-filling curve is the lon/lat located". You're reducing two dimensions (lon/lat) into one dimension (how far along the space-filling curve).

There's a unique side-effect to Geohashes in that the value (`u4pruydqqvj`) can have it's end "lopped off" (i.e. cut down to `u4pru`) and it still represents a less precise, but generally accurate representation of the original lon/lat in most cases (when the curve isn't near the edge of the 2d map!). This allows you to index locations (lat/lon) using a string ('u4pru') which opens you up to doing b-tree, range queries, etc. in traditional database, with one field.

Just a rad math quirk! I'm not an expert, and it's a very dense book, but if someone really wants to get into this kind of stuff the "Bible" is "Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures" by Hanan Samet.
Traditional FTS returns the whole document - people take over from that point and locate the interesting content there. The problem with RAG is that it does not follow that procedure - it tries to find the interesting chunk in one step. Even though since ReAct we know that LLMs could follow the same procedure as humans.

But we need an iterative RAG anyway: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/why-iterative-thinking-is-cruc...
I love when I am arguing with someone who I secretly agree with. I appreciate your response.

> A doctor doesnt put your individual wellbeing above their own

I think an example we could both agree on, would be something like...let's say you have several indicators that you might have a type of cancer. But the doctor will say, well let's not do a whole biopsy, because it's expensive and it's not covered by your insurance, and there's a low chance you have this cancer anyway. That might seem like a sensible conclusion to draw, but actually if we were simply caring for every person in a real way, like we would wish to be taken care of individually, we would do that biopsy anyway, because the alternative is death.

Now to draw a parallel to ancient tribes as I was doing earlier, the resources of the tribe dictates the care each tribe member can have. Okay. But we live in one of the most abundant eras in the history of the world. And, strikingly, we also have insane wealth inequality. So what I am positing here is that the default resource allocation for you is much lower than you might assume. People are going to make cost-cutting decisions that impact you greatly. And the only resort is for you is to manage your own health. Not that you SHOULDN'T manage your own health anyway, but this cost cutting resource allocation acts as a kind of betrayal. Things being "held together by duct-tape" is not the vision that children are raised with. We don't assume we are still in a period of being "left behind by the herd" because of how great everything is. But in fact, you will realize, when you see someone deny treatment for their advanced cancer due to finances and "the odds of survival" that in fact, you can be left behind by the herd. And the more you look into the way the healthcare system is structured, you realize that there really is no herd at all. At every step you are paying for help from someone who, in many instances, could care less.

What I am also saying is blatantly that these people make mistakes and sometimes do not care. And there is little recourse for that. Which isn't a point that you addressed, but anyway.

> Instead, they were conditional on good standing and mutual consent.

And this good standing has been converted to currency. Which is a much more isolated and cut throat version of good standing. In many ways it is more unfair. And what you don't realize as a kid is also how EXPENSIVE this "good standing" actually is. To receive the benefits of the technological state we purport to be in you usually have to be upper-class. The poor are often much closer to being completely alone. As if no society exists for them at all.

> Im saying their existence should not be taken for granted.

I, on the other hand, think that they don't go far enough. They aren't good enough. I'm actually not so sure what is being "taken for granted" in a for profit system, I pay every fucking dime of it. I am not impressed with its state.
That multiracial Nazi soldiers thing wasn't baked into the model: it was a prompt engineering mistake, part of the instructions that a product team were feeding into the Gemini consumer product to tell it how to interact with the image generation tool.

Here's a similar example from the DALL-E system prompt: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/#diversif...
We are going to end up spraying the atmosphere.

We are not going to find a way to get carbon out of the air fast enough.

And we are not going to be able to cut emissions (we are still at all time high fossil fuel use).

We are going to be forced into a quick fix to tide us over.
Roundup of Bootstrapper Events in August 2024
Improves from 17.7 for Mistral Large to 20.0 on the NYT Connections benchmark.
This is just a special case of how different fonts appear different.
Joran from TigerBeetle here! Really stoked to see a bit of Jim Gray history on the front page and happy to dive into how TB's consensus and storage engine implements these ideas (starting from main! https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/tig...).
As someone who develops email templates, you will never understand my pain. Figma creates a complete fantasy world for designers who do not understand that a pixel and color perfect design is going to be smashed to bits by the client.

Also, I feel the rise of React is partially to blame. CSS frameworks were clunky and constraining - but they forced you into a lot of design constraints developed on years of best practices. I can't tell you the number of React-based enterprise tools I have to use on a daily basis that have picture-perfect designs ... that turn clunky and confusing the minute you resize the window or activate an animation.
I agree. The authors generate a dataset of a similar size as the original and then train on that continuously (e.g. for multiple epochs). That's not what you need to do in order to get new model trained on the knowledge of the teacher. You need to ask the teacher to generate new samples every time, otherwise your generated dataset is not very representative of the totality of knowledge of the teacher. Generating samples every time would (in infinite limit) solve the collapse problem.
If Freud slips in a forest, does he fall the other way?
I've never seen property taxes go down for a local town/municipality. I don't care about tax revenue. I don't want Mcdonalds or Walmart in my town. I don't want huge developments. Keep things small.
First they have to actually fix the problem. If you return your CPU and they send you another defective CPU nothing has been accomplished.
The secret of Minecraft (2014)
We offer online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture.

There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Vegas and Silicon Valley.

These events are for “entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast.”®
You might also want to look into other benchmarks: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ean2i6/the_fin...
I don't think i'm triggered, it's more that it seems like a poor framing of what is essentially just the reality of working with humans. I think we have a lot more control over our thoughts and perceptions than we give it credit for. I'm skeptical you'll be successful when you're seeing it this negatively
archived version:https://web.archive.org/web/20240723212115/https://www.jhnew...
Also they seem to have lost a huge amount of senior technical people… I can’t see who’s at the helm to guide the technical choices. They have limited institutional experience now (probably). I don’t think things will improve…
I want to disable this, I want my searches to be based on what I actually saved, not what it thinks I want.

If I search "shopping", I want all the items containing "shopping" in them, not items that an LLM thinks should contain "shopping".
Downvotes are because the person you are replying to was talking about J, not Julia.
It shouldn't be one or the other, but both
This reads like satire and his email to developers is very similar to spam.

I really liked this part:

I demand the best work from you. I expect the best from you. You will be challenged. You will grow. And your skills will sharpen. If you like to settle on being average and do average work, this is not your project.

Expects the best, pays $50 per hour.
It's more like disregarding all of the advantages and only focusing on the negatives or when incidents happen.

People routinely clown on companies for downtime but do not celebrate sending multiple MB pictures and videos over cell networks in remote locations from a super computer in their pocket.

Even 95% reliability is relatively good for networks working across the globe relative to what we've had through most of history.

The average person easily plays into the trope that no one appreciates IT when it works, but readily has opinions when there are problems.
Everything I read stated that Russian military was in possession of the weapons, but they were located within Ukraine. Perhaps bribery was an option, but Russia had the ability to destroy them at any time, either by scuttling them or bombing them.
Imagine someone sending a water gun and another person receiving a real gun.
Woke is good, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Speech_(painting)#/...
Slightly off-topic, but I dislike this trend of "designers over-designing everything". This website is aesthetically pleasing, and has it's own unique style, but scrolling the home-page is laggy on my $4,000 Macbook (Chrome). I guess it's because it downloads 14MB of resources and tries to download more based on scroll position?
Thanks for sharing.

I've just found that approach very clunky in practice, hence my comment about it snowballs into effectively having 3 different CSS (phone/tablet/desktop) and wrapped in media width queries.

Though maybe I use it incorrectly.

I'm always open to learning something new :)
There would have definitely been very acrimonious protests attended by people who are much more likely to own firearms than the population at large. And protests can lead to civil war, look at Syria for example.

Not to say it’s certain or even likely, but it’s definitely plausible. You are much more confident than I am that the military and police would remain 100% loyal to Biden during a protracted period of civil unrest where one side believes two general elections in a row were stolen from them and their leader assassinated.
Kernel and user threads are distinct on Solaris. The implementation of doors is not by message passing. There needs to be a userland thread context in the server process with a thread control block and all the other things that the userland threading system depends on to provide things like thread-local variables (which include such essentials as errno).
I do not know whether there is a full kernel thread (or LWP as they call it in Solaris), but a thread is primarily a schedulable entity, and if the transfer of control is such that the activated server thread is treated in the same way in terms of scheduling as the requesting client thread, then effectively it is still what it says it is.
I think Figma is fairly interested in lofi mockups too thus Figjam.

Their components aren’t code exactly but I think that’s because they will ultimately directly output / sync full components to a variety of platforms from their abstracted representation.
Colin Wright joke from ten years ago[1]:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, those that don't, and those that didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036546
That might just be the worst implementation of lazy loading I've ever seen.
Every large mafia thus is "genius" by your definition.
James Webb Space Telescope directly images its coldest exoplanet target yet
Retail is extremely competitive. Amazon does not have the best prices, and has a horrible experience for shopping. It's basically a specialized search engine with lots of ads at this point. Also, the things which made Amazon shopping a no-brainer are gone. Items no longer always arrive within two days if you have Prime, there are lots of poor-quality items, and it's hard to find what you really want. Finally, it's obvious Amazon's retail employees are not customer obsessed. Look at the web site design, and ask yourself if you would design a retail web site like Amazon's?

My guess is Amazon's retail business will eventually start declining as customers discover it's relatively expensive, and it's too easy to buy low quality items.
(Not the person you were replying to)

I'm curious what/how you define "woke culture", because the only definitions of "woke" I've ever heard are basically "thing I don't like" or "the left". Neither of those definitions have helped me understand what you are so vehemently against.

Can you help me understand what woke culture is to you?

This is a genuine question.