skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it’s just correlation, with the actual cause of both being physical activity. Physical activity likely makes you go out into the sun more, and it also likely reduces mortality.

Would be great if you provided a source so we could check whether they controlled for physical activity.
Vince Clarke is using sw plugins nowadays. If it's good enough for Vince, it's good enough for me (says the man who plays with his Behringer 2600).
Well that obviously doesn’t apply to Sourcegraph because their self-host offering requires paying a subscription. You can’t use any form of Sourcegraph on private code, (at least not without all the important features being nobbled) without paying a subscription. So there’s no saving to be made from self-hosting sourcegraph
I use tailscale to access my machines around the world. It's secure and private. Nobody on the internet knows about this machines, even though they are servers. Easy to configure
From the point of view of evolution the sun is a fact of the universe and it would have adapted numerous processes to rely on its presence. That does not mean the sun is safe however. Skin color variance so closely tied to geographic location indicates that there is a very delicate balance there.
Was this not already highlighted by ContentID, automatic topic tagging/recommendations, and auto-caption?

I honestly suspect this feature is just implemented as a side effect as the auto-captioning... and now I'm a bit curious if carefully crafted manual captions can trigger it to go off continuously.
Good thinking. Sometimes I have to remind my nerdy colleagues about what a true emergency is. A true emergency is when your granny is having a heart attack and has to be rushed to the hospital. When a big corporate website, that does millions of dollars of transactions is down at night it is NOT an emergency. They have to hire staff specifically for night shifts if they are so concerned about the money that they may lose.
According to World Population Review and corroborated by other sources, the Netherlands has 91 PCs per 100 people. So your assumptions aren't that far off, actually. If anything, your assumption is lower than reality because a household is defined as 2 or more people.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/computers...
There's a lot of off-topic flamebait in there, but let me focus on the small part of your comment that's on-topic.

> A first time home owner credit helps, but most of the credit will be absorbed by the market in the form of increased home prices.

The article addresses this concern with an evaluation of the policy in Singapore. A 9.8% increase in home purchases comes with a 1.1% increase in price. We don't have any way to know the effect of the policy in the US, but it's hard to understand why the only effect would be a higher price.
That statement is similar to the "everything has been done before", or "everything is art" reductivism.

There's a marked difference between fixing the color shift to better capture the mood and straight up removing people like Stalin's photos.
> That's not the situation most of us are in.

From an ecommerce website's perspective - it is exactly the situation most of us are in.

Unless you are the manufacturer for your own goods, then you are competing on often-thin margins within a crowded industry with lots of competition where everyone more-or-less offers the same price.

In an age where more and more people don't even consider shopping anywhere but Amazon, being down exactly when that customer decided to grace your website is akin to giving yourself a nice, stinging papercut. Do this often enough and long enough, those papercuts will start to leave scars.

So ya, being down is unacceptable for most ecommerce websites. The website literally generates your revenue, and without it you receive no revenue.
I've been trying to figure out how to change the color in my Hugo based static site generator, but its damn near impossible to locate the appropriate CSS
Do you think a lot of women put on these fancy nails, stay at home, and then take them off, all while not posting any pics to IG?

I don't think women are doing it to attract men, but it certainly seems like there is a social display function here. Maybe the "doing it for themselves" is true, but it's more like "I feel good when other people see me as stylish and cool" kind of doing it for yourself.
I came here thinking there was a new recommendation for making toast, or at least a recommended type of bread to use, but I found nothing edible.
Scale and quality are an important distinction. For example, rich people had paintings for thousands of years but the world changed when photography meant anyone could have better images for far lower cost, and then again when they became effectively free and ubiquitous.
"Like me, not everyone will have the stomach for it. In fact, some people are running in the opposite direction as fast as they can."

A tiny minority. Everyone will use this. Eventually, the system will remove the vaping "dinguses" automatically just as it automatically adjusts the exposure.
Yup, it is your works crazy policy of making sure everyone gets a one size fit all VS code Configuration. I’ve loaded VS code on a 10 year-old Lenovo and it runs just fine with only basic Python plug-ins. Five minute startup time is crazy.
Can it though? My understanding is that ChatGPT has all the Leetcode problems memorized, maybe it can extrapolate to substantially similar ones in its training set.

I tried it for advent of code 2023, and it was pretty helpless.
Stanford researchers said that ChatGPT passes the Turing Test. Honestly I don't understand how, since it's pretty easy to tell that you're talking to it, but yeah I don't think it really matters.

Far more useful than simulating a person, OpenAI managed to index so much information and train their models to present it in a compact way, making ChatGPT better than Google search for some purposes. Also, code generation.
Genuinely curious as you have experience with fine-tuning, which I don't yet. Given how simple it has become to get the correct response shape, do you feel there's still a point to it? If you need JSON and want to be very sure you can just use function calling, if you only need simple boundaries, use Claude-like XML, if it's something very complicated you can give a few shots.

From my understanding, fine-tuning allows for reducing model size, meaning less latency and cost. That seems like it would be the biggest advantage, no?
It's possible that he was driving with the open window or that the window in his truck wasn't blocking much UVA.
In the mind of the consumer, all conventional transportation is on the table for discussion, including Uber & Lyft at often lower prices. The customer is not an investor narrowing in on the self driving taxi space.

Of course it's natural for the customer to wonder why Waymo can't go on the highway. Of course it's natural for the customer to feel frustrated at the limitations of service area.
Those things are a tiny part of the work though and are all about generating boilerplate code. Tons of boilerplate code isn't the hallmark of a great codebase, I don't think many programmers spends more than 10% of their time writing boilerplate code, unless they work at a very dysfunctional org.

It is true it is faster than humans at some tasks, but the remaining tasks were most of the time, you can't gain more than 11% speedup by speeding up 10% of the work.
Actually self-hosting without using the cloud at all involves building a multi-gpu rig.

NIMs are just to try out the concept.

Honestly, doing it this way is still a bit more secure than using OpenAI or Anthropic directly because its a slight guard against your code being used in future training sets for the next iteration of their AI.
The trouble with post-mortems is always the things that you can't say.

Are we going to talk about how someone wanted analytics everywhere even though it's expensive and they don't use it, that they chose the vendor and didn't provide time to evaluate it, that they wanted it added now-now-now to production even though it hadn't gone through dev, even though it was unplanned work in a busy sprint with other risky work, and that they wanted it on the critical path despite specific objections from some in engineering?

Not saying any of this was the case here, but this kind of thing happens frequently. While engineering is saying "let's use blameless post-mortems to highlight problems in the system" a lot of other people are thinking "now we get to see who could or couldn't fix a problem we caused, focus on that, and downplay our own role in causing trouble". Devs talking about CDNs and HTTP-POST and engineering processes are super helpful for steering the conversation away from broken business processes.

Easily 80% of PMs I've been involved in probably come down to "we had rules for moving tested code through dev/qa/prod, but we were forced to ignore the process we had agreed to because $PERSON / $DEPARTMENT said so". No one can actually talk about the elephant in the room though, because it's career suicide after you're branded as not a team-player. For all the kids out there.. it's really important to learn to be able to recognize the difference between a PM that's going to be an earnest effort to understand things, vs a PM that is going to be an unhelpful but necessary ritual of humiliation.
Emergence of Replication and Computation
Many entertainers on YouTube do that routinely. It seems way too late to start worrying about it.

I’m wondering what an unbiased survey would even look like.
I dunno, upper management normally move onto greener pastures long before reality comes crashing down. That does not happen until two managers over. But that's okay the new plan will fix everything.
I'll take the UV rays over a bunch of smelly, synthetic goop all over my skin. I also see people go from not seeing the sun in months to full, 1pm exposure for hours, then they get roasted, then they're in pain, then it takes weeks to heal, then they do it again. Or they'll start slathering on an absurd amount of sunscreen, the summer months go by, and they look just as sick and pasty and unhealthy as they did last year, as if they never went outside.

You've got to build intuition around how to get sun: what's your current skin tone, how much sun you've had recently, what it feels like to get an appropriate amount of sun vs. get burnt, the time of day, elevation considerations, whether you're going to be in the sun again tomorrow or all week after a lot of exposure today, if you're getting more direct sun on key areas like your neck and nose and ears, or whether you've got full body exposure. The more time in the sun, the more you understand how to behave, how to protect yourself, how to get what you need to feel good.

Most people pay no attention to how they feel day-to-day. They never learn what it feels like to eat a nutritiously dense meal, or what being fit feels like over the long term. It's the same with sun exposure: if you don't pay attention, you'll never learn.
Not sure even a few thousand accounts would make a dent in a Mr beast video count. Recommendation would go toward the 1 million accounts who watch another Mr beast video after.
That is still a bargain for the services that the tree provides.

The best "premium shadow package" available on the market. Comprises: filtered light, relaxing breeze sounds, noise blocker, chirping birds and flowers, dumb squirrels frolicking around and fresh soil, all in the same package for just ten dollars a sapling.

In any case, hedges don't need 20 years to grow.
> the variable has to be given a meaningful name, which is annoying

Not naming the variable is annoying to everyone except the original programmer. Variable names are a feature of existing code.
If we ignore the final sentence of his reason, then you might have a point. But given his reason ends with:

> This honestly was just a waste of everyone's time.

Makes it pretty clear that the benefits to Sourcegraph (I.e. not wasting time negotiating with companies acting in bad faith), was a large part of this rationale.

Besides, if you had ever tried using the OSS version of Sourcegraph, you would realise that OSS Sourcegraph is a shadow of its enterprise version. Trust me, Sourcegraph didn’t loose any sales to people running OSS Sourcegraph, and anyone who’s willing to rip out the licensing system, so they can use the enterprise features without paying, obviously isn’t going to become a paying customer either.
Most implementations of toasts-with-actions that I've seen don't have the problem OP described. I more often find myself manually dismissing them than wishing they'd have stuck around longer.
I agree that fine-tuning isn't good at imparting knowledge, though in my experience, K-shot prompting is very close to as good as fine-tuning at getting output formats (for recent models, at least)

So except for cases where you are really trying to perfectly match a particular writing style and want to fine-tune on loads of some author's text, I think prompt caching mostly dominates fine-tuning for most real-world workloads.

I'd still fine-tune if I wanted my model to have a really particular "voice" though.
Up Next and recommended videos don't require understanding the content of the videos. They could, as an example, find other users that watch similar videos and pick a video you haven't seen out of the things the other users have watched.

It wouldn't surprise me if they use transcripts, but neither feature strictly requires it.

I think the real risk here is users extrapolating from "YouTube can automatically respond to the content of videos". The Mr Beast thing is still blowing up, could they automatically identify illegal lotteries? Could they identify things that aren't suitable for YouTube Kids but end up there anyways? So on and so forth, YouTube's moderation is basically always under fire.

This seems like a risky mixed message to send. Being able to light up the Subscribe button doesn't imply the technical ability to do better moderation, but I also wouldn't want to be the guy that has to explain that and how it works to the Senate.
Open source project building lightweight K8s dev environments
A framework for creating extremely lightweight development environments within a shared Kubernetes cluster.
I've gotten some cheap crap on a few occasions, sure. That happens when I go to a store too, the difference being most stores don't have a decent alternative to a cheap piece of junk at a reasonable price.

I buy all my supplements on Amazon. I buy paracord and carabiniers on amazon, I've hung more than my body weight from them no problem.
> I'm constantly surprised how many well-off people try to pass themselves off as "one of the poors".

The amount of people I've seen on here saying "It's just not an option to quit Google/Meta no matter how awful they are, I have a mortgage to pay!" even when the tech job market was still red-hot is quite incredible.
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> light weight

Honestly that's not an issue, I would personally not base my judgment on memory usage, unless it is a memory hog.

I know others do but for reasons that go beyond practical. For those that have things to get done, I suspect they think like I do.
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Funny you should mention BareGrep, the goal of this application was to make my own version of it with the features I wanted. No indexing, PCRE2 JIT search engine. Certain security vendors have been a thorn in my side ever since the beginning, I've reached out to see why they consistently flag my program but get crickets in response (Some of which don't even maintain a valid website certificate, see MaxSecure). I have a clickable hyperlink to the linked project page under Help > About MightyGrep menu, that's my guess as to what's flagging the IP traffic. There isn't any "phoning home" if that's what you're concerned about.
You have to mark exactly which parts of the prompt you want to cache.

The only vendor I've seen with "automatic" prompt caching so far is DeepSeek https://platform.deepseek.com/api-docs/news/news0802/
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I like this, an ocelot!
At standard pressure and temperature, a sound wave travels at 343 m/s, IIRC. At a distance of 1m, those soundwaves take about 3ms to get from a pair of speakers to my ears. I can set the latency of my soundcard to as low as 0.5ms, which would mean an additional distance of ~18cm. I easily move my head that much when playing standing up. I don't see how that additional latency is the issue.
It might not be UV exposure that helps though. The sun has a bunch of other wavelengths of light as well. There's red light therapy that might have positive health effects and you certainly get that from the sun as well.
Yes, nice to have standalone things. And anyway music does not care if we are snobs or not, is always benevolent
Well, this is not even 1 mm thick. It's just 2 glossy papers that are held by the adhesive so the gap while I slip it under the glass is pretty minimal.
It might just be the word "like" said with a certain affect, I've seen it glow in the wrong context a few times.
You're not at the mercy of any of those things, because we live in a state of law. If these companies mishandle data, they know they are liable for quite a lot of money. For some cases, individual employees are liable personally, potentially even risking prison time.

You're speaking from an absurdly low level of trust in instituions. The fact is that banks work, they shield their clients from mass amounts of fraud, and do so reliably over decades. The vast majority of people have never lost a single cent to a bank mistake. Google employees don't have routine access to your emails, and if some group do and use that power and Google gets sued, it will very likely be found out at trial, because most ordinary employees don't perjure themselves to protect colleagues for obvious ilegalities (outside the police, but that's a different discussion). Of course, the chance of actually successfully pursuing a suit against Google is small for a mere mortal, but that's a different issue that has to do with corruption in the system and not a fundamental inability to achieve this.
I don't have such big money to trade with or connection with private trading house. If they interest I have profit backtest for all stocks with graphs.
Fine-tuning generally isn't an effective way to add extra knowledge from things documentation - my understanding is that the vast amounts of knowledge in the original training data tend to overwhelm any extra knowledge you try to add by fine-tuning.

OpenAI's documentation has good examples of how the data should be formatted (and when it's appropriate to fine-tune): https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning/fine-tun...
(Who are Eathlicans? I find no search results.)
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I personally prefer CoreDNS given its open nature (CNCF) and being written in Go but I'm a little biased :) There's probably a case to made for PowerDNS if you need to run something business critical on it and require support to be available with tight SLO. Also CoreDNS doesn't do recursive queries by default but there's an out-of-tree plugin wrapping libunbound[0] - its use-case is more of being a highly-configurable/programmable authoritative server.

[0] - https://coredns.io/explugins/unbound/
I've been told by the manufacturers that cigarettes increase the odds of reproducing.

https://xkcd.com/583/
Not too shabby an idea!!
Agree with this but it does not apply to all fields. Economists have a norm of alphabetizing author names unless the contributions were very unevenly distributed. That way authors can avoid squabbling over contributions.
You intentionally moved to that area, and it even sounds like you own real estate there.

Yes, it will impact your lifestyle, and you may have to be more careful about what money you spend, depending on how you're currently spending it. So what? 99% of people on earth live like that, and most do just fine.

The fact that having to live a non >$2M net worth lifestyle would make your family unhappy sounds concerning.
I don't have a PhD but I would say effects.
For reference...

https://www.dmf.unisalento.it/~panareo/Application_note/AN-2...
Social networks were the LSD of the 2000s and 2010s. I would say the "cocaine" of those decades, because it wasn't particularly enlightening, it made some of us belligerent, and at this point we all regret it. At least we're starting to build some tolerance now.
> No. A book should capture an author's intent/concept/idea at the time it was written and those intents/concepts/ideas should be frozen.

Given that we're talking about ebooks, whose readers generally have some kind of navigation system, I think it would be reasonable to include a footnote. If a book says Pluto is a planet, I wouldn't mind a [1] linking to a note that says "Pluto has not been considered a planet since $year. $LinkToWikipedia".

I agree that actually changing the content is a bad idea, but I do think it would be valuable to link to up-to-date information in a non-intrusive manner.
Firmly on the side of effects: Roc doesn’t have higher-kinded types, which makes it practically impossible to express monads. It’s covered somewhere in https://www.roc-lang.org/faq.html
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This totally misses the point. The article is trying to get at the fact that even if you try to emulate the analogue system including all those noise sources and bandwidth limitations, you still can't do it because of limitations on computation itself.

>> For example, even a simple analog circuit like a passive 1-pole low-pass filter (see figure above) can have output values where digital emulations can't be sure if the result is correct. This non-computability presents a fundamental limitation in achieving perfect digital emulation.

> They fail to elaborate on this. Maybe this is a reference to chaos theory and the sensitivity to initial conditions? But that wouldn't imply non-computability.

They have not failed to elaborate on it, you have failed to follow the reference they give. Let me help: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360859184_On_non-de...

The argument for an RC circuit is basically that because it involves exponentiation, you can't calculate its exact output in finite time. And unfortunately this is somewhere that matters: as soon as you get feedback in the system or any other way for errors to accumulate over time, your simulated output is going to diverge from the theoretical. Whether that matters aesthetically isn't at issue. It's not identical, therefore it's not a match for the analogue system, and can't be.

> Anyway, the article also fails to mention ideas like:

Neither of these matter in the context of the point the article is making. Variance within the emulation is trivial, and digital algorithms being easier to debug don't matter if the thing you're trying to emulate isn't emulable.
Fine tuning always felt like something that only works at incredible scale with a lot of data.

Prompt engineering, RAG, etc. provide so much more uplift per unit time invested. Maybe fine tuning makes sense if you have a 9 figure budget and thousands of humans to throw at it. I don't feel this works in a typical startup ecosystem. I couldn't move the needle with the amount of data I had on hand.
because the exact mechanism whereby uv light might lengthen lives is unknown

when your skin synthesizes vitamin d using sunlight, it synthesizes it from cholesterol. i wonder, does that lower serum cholesterol? if so, which serum cholesterol?