skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really want to have that kind of relationship with your school? Do you want an admissions process that is partially trying to decide if you're financially responsible? Do you want your school pressuring you to choose a more lucrative major?

Yes. These schools need to eliminate or drastically reduce the economically useless degrees that they have produced in such grotesque surplus for the past 40 years. They should absolutely have an incentive to produce an education that is useful to society. They’ve miseducated Americans for generations on the lie that all education is inherently good.
There are sooo many AI chat options to choose from[1] that I don't need my browser to provide one too. I just want my browser to be a good browser.

[1] I've been enjoying my self-hosted instance of LibreChat a lot, but I also started using Kagi's assistant lately. Besides those two I'm also using 'aichat' cli tool for quick queries, particularly for helping with cli commands since the context is already there.
I don't think they're referring to GP and his/her parents specifically. Until very, very recently, it was well accepted that there were a lot of things it your parents' responsibility to teach you. Expecting parents to teach their children things is not even remotely mean or unreasonable.
> On average, people are awfully bad at describing exactly what it is they want. Ever speak with a client? And you have to go back and forward for a few hours to finally figure out what it is they wanted?

One of them it was the entire duration of me working for them.

They didn't understand why it was taking so long despite constantly changing what they asked for.
Naming is easy. It is container, then container-container, then container-container-container
Pray tell, besides satiety, what exactly is the difference between carbs from a sweet potato and carbs from glucose syrup, or just plain sugar?

You’re missing the other good stuff in a sweet potato (vitamins, fiber, some protein even), but carbs for carbs it’s all gonna do the same thing.

The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that it’s much easier to eat a liter of glucose syrup than a few pounds of sweet potatos. If you could resist and turn off your body’s hunger response, you’d be equivalently overweight. That’s basically why GLP1 antagonists work. It turns that hunger response and makes it easier to say no to that extra slice of pizza.
Plenty of parents do not know how to manage their finances any more than any other things that they do not know, which a school is supposed to be responsible for teaching. Financial literacy is one of the most important things that a person can learn. Society would surely benefit if classes were taught on the subject in high school.
For what reason would someone who is edgy and smart spend time writing messages to a computer program? Those who are edgy and smart, hell even just passingly typical, can go out into the real world and find actual friends.
Do Firefox [temporary container tabs](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...) fit the bill?
A bit like non-GMO, gluten free salt.
writing code is the easy part, designing is hard and not LLMable
Also fonts helped discredit Dan Rather’s Killian memo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authentici...
An effective and rapidly degradable disinfectant from disinfection byproducts
> Musk has had 3 huge successes - Paypal

See my other comment just below. PayPal wasn't Musk's idea, it was already created when Musk's company merged with them.

Musk was CEO for FOUR MONTHS only. Before being fired by the board, on his honeymoon. Since then, he had no operational input into PayPal whatsoever.
> We (as a society) tell kids all the time that their hobby can't be a viable career

That's absolutely 100% not true.

The bs message I see everywhere pushed on young people is "You can be anything you want to be".

We have a whole generation of kids who think they can be youtube stars, influencers, rap stars, etc.
I think the OP is referring to the number of dollars rather than the number of students.
.. on Linux. If you do that on Windows the MAC will detect the loss of link pulses, report the interface as down, and Windows will "helpfully" reset all your TCP connections.
> Duplicating a base Linux distribution a thousand times for every installed piece of software absolutely is overhead.

You're not duplicating an entire distribution, just the user land that you want. Typically we use minimal user lands that just have certs and /etc/passwd and maybe `sh`. And to be clear, this is mostly just a disk overhead, not a CPU or memory performance overhead.

> Theoretically you could build bare images without pulling in Alpine or Ubuntu, but literally almost nobody ever does that

Yeah, we do that all the time. Google's "distroless" images are only about 2MiB. It's very commonly used by anyone who is remotely concerned about performance.

> If you have the skills to build a bare Docker image then you don't need Docker.

Building a bare Docker image isn't hard, and the main reason to use Docker in a single-host configuration is because Docker utilities are just far, far saner than systemd utilities (and also because it's just easier to distribute programs as a Docker images rather than having to deal with system package repos and managers and so on).
It will be trash. I'll have to dig up a chat I had the weekend GPT4 was released, I was musing about dodecahedron packing problems and GPT4 started with an assertion that a line through a sphere intersects the surface 3 times.

Maybe if you fine tuned it on Euclid's Elements and then allowed it to run experiments with Mathematica snippets it could check its assumptions before spouting nonsense
Zig has automatic error unions. No boilerplate at all, but not just a single "error" type. The only downside I see in zig errors is that they can't hold extra data.
Wow! I love this take. Somehow with all this evidence of COT helping out LLMs, I never thought about using it more myself. Sure, we kind of do it already but definitely not to the degree of LLMs, at least not usually. Maybe that's why writing is so often admired as a way to do great thinking - it enables longer chains of thoughts with less effort.
Who knows what would happen?

Maybe they'd do their own educational curricula with requirements that would require minimum tenures with payback requirements. (Not sure of all the US laws in this regard. There used to at least be relocation payback requirements.)

But I suspect a lot of people here wouldn't like 1 year bootcamps for jobs that included an extended employment commitment.
I generally agree, although an important aspect of thinking in terms of "trajectories" is recognizing when a particular trajectory might end up at a dead end. One perspective on the weaknesses of current LLMs is that it's just where the things are today and they can still provide value even while the technology improves. But another perspective is that the persistence of these weaknesses indicates something more fundamentally broken with the whole approach that means it's not really the path towards "real" AI, even if you can finesse it into doing useful things in certain applications.

There's also an important nuance differentiating rejection of a general technological endpoint (e.g. AGI or Level 5 self-driving cars) with a particular technological approach to achieving those goals (e.g. current LLM design or Tesla's autopilot). As you said, "never" is a long time and it takes a lot of unwarranted confidence to say we will never be able to achieve goals like AGI or Level 5 self-driving. But it seems a lot more reasonable to argue Tesla or OpenAI (and everyone else doing essentially the same thing as OpenAI) are fundamentally on the wrong track to achieving those goals without significantly changing their approach.

I agree that none of that really warrants dismissive cynicism of new technology, but being curious and future-looking also requires being willing to say when you think something is a bad approach even if it's not totally useless. Among other reasons, our ability to explore new technology is not limitless, and hype for a flawed technology isn't just annoying but may be sucking all the oxygen out of the room not leaving any for a potentially better alternative. Part of me wants to be optimistic about LLMs, but another part of me thinks about how much energy (human and compute) has gone into this thing that does not seem to be providing a corresponding amount of value.
Vector Graphics in Qt 6.8
Then the next set of cranes you buy hides the modems better. It's the same fundamental truth that allows the Thompson hack: You can't trust what you can't trust.
Did you find out what the error was in computing the volume of the truncated icosidodecahedron?
This kind of argument might hold water if there were an epidemic of 12 year olds aimlessly drifting across the countryside with no adults taking care of them. But there's not, and you're not really making any point.

If you are assuming a guardianship role over a child, however temporary, you have a responsibility to teach them things, full stop.

I've known several foster parents over my life who would be outraged at the implicated that they are somehow lesser to the children they raised and are raising.
Good.

About time.
1985-87 my partner and I rented a just fine spacious 1 bdrm with a 10 min walk to the Math building on the East side of Gville for $200/month. We both had graduate school stipends. The 4 apartments all had cool tenants. Geckos in the stairwell. It was glorious, even w/o AC.

I ended up finishing at ASU. This highly educated ChE/Math imbecile took out a $12K student loan near the end because it was "free"[1]. Got to silicon valley and started learning the maths about house loans and income tax interactions and took a glance at the student loan interest payments (something like 6%? I don't remember) and freaked out. Paid it down immediately. Needless to say we advised the daughter different.

[1] The application was like: name, address, and school. Less than a page.
List of OSINT Exercises
I am sure you are aware of this, but if not: there are some emerging technologies around embedded database scale-out using CRDT and other replication protocols that would support various “serverless” (as in decentralized) topologies. PGLite, sqlite-cr, libSQL et al. I am informally looking at for serverless executor agents that do not need to coalesce around a central database instance (“server-full”).
I am sure you tested something like this, I would guess that classic/CDC replication lag would throw a big wrench into an attempt to orchestrate disconnected remote executors, I am hoping that in a peer to peer topology this new tech will have low enough sync latencies to be useful.
Best of luck with DBOS! You have an amazing team.
This doesn't like the city of Saint Louis.
One person's problem can be a moral failing. Thousands of people are a systemic failing.

Unless you think they literally just don't make people like they used to, if you swapped the babies in the cradle of the current generation with previous generations, we'd be thinner and they'd be fatter.

So saying the problem is people is kind of meaningless.
Why would you use this instead of CH if your usecase is metrics?
"The people in this story are not like me: I find this implausible so I'm leaving it a one-star review" is to be expected. But that's already the case (if you want substantiating evidence just read my Amazon or Goodreads one-star reviews).

As somebody who really enjoyed Lev Grossman's book The Magicians, I remember being somewhat perplexed by the bizarrely high number of one-star reviews on Goodreads until I realized that the predominant reason for the poor reviews was because the protagonist is self-destructive, not particularly likable, and the story isn't one of conventional redemption.

The Magicians currently sits at 3.5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, whilst pedestrian pablum like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has around a 4.5 rating, so make of that what you will.
Quote from NPR article
"Last year, we seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl," Modlin stated. "That was encountered – 52% of that, so the majority of that – was encountered in the field. So that is predominantly being backpacked across the border."

Copied from another comment and sourced from NPR
Regarding your last sentence, if they move on to AI imposed security vulnerabilities there is probably a lot of bread and butter to be made there.
Note the selection effect in “a mediocre graduate student” (that got to work with Terry Tao)
This is non-responsive to my point. Pointing out that paid universities like Corinthian in a grossly distorted market predictably are not very competitive offerings, or that good offerings can nevertheless still exist in heavily distorted markets, both fail to address that

> Current educational incentives caused by how payment is handled in these all-pay systems mean there is very little or no pressure exerted towards promoting an educational arms race towards quality, rather than minimizing cost to service that education.

In a more competitive market, yes, I believe you'd both likely see better European offerings, as well as substantially more compelling American paid offerings than the current batch of cash grab for-profit universities. They exist in their current form almost exclusively because financial lenders in the US have no incentive not to issue loans to students - even if the program is bogus, they are guaranteed re-payment.

This is a commonality shared between both current European offerings (via taxation guaranteeing repayment), and American alternatives (via guaranteed load repayment).
ArchWiki: your source for Arch Linux documentation on the web.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
Probably income-based repayment, based on the income of a job you could get in 2005 with a literature degree.
Even when this paper was published, errors due to Excel mangled gene names were well known for at least a decade.

Somewhat recently, some of the more error prone genes were renamed to accommodate Excel. (Ex: SEPT7 -> SEPTIN7)
Such hack is often not necessary.

Set larger kernel TCP send and receive buffers and enable BBR congestion control. Speed will usually be good also across high latency links, and no multiplexing logic needed. Especially if you control both sides of the connection.
A website for a small local business is the simplest thing that might work.

No API.

No S3, Azure blub, etc.

No Serverless.

Just HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Good luck.
That's an improvement but is it what Lakoff meant? I don't know -- I read the book years ago but I very much got the sense that his argument was "words have no inherent meaning, essentially all meaning is circular, and so we can think of X as being like Y just as easily as Z".
> LLMs do not have guts

Just going to ignore the scare quotes then?

> do not experience time

None of us experience time. Time is a way to describe cause and effect, and change. LLMs have a time when they have been invoked with a prompt, and a time when they have generated output based on that prompt. LLMs don't experience anything, they're computer programs, but we certainly experience LLMs taking time. When we run multiple stages and techniques, each depending on the output of a previous stage, those are time.

So when somebody says "gut reaction" they're trying to get you to compare the straight probabilistic generation of text to your instinctive reaction to something. They're asking you to use introspection and ask yourself if you review that first instinctive reaction i.e. have another stage afterwards that relies on the result of the instinctive reaction. If you do, then asking for LLMs to do well in one pass, rather than using the first pass to guide the next passes, is asking for superhuman performance.

I feel like this is too obvious to be explaining. Anthropomorphizing things is worth bitching about, but anthropomorphizing human languages and human language output is necessary and not wrong. You don't have to think computer programs have souls to believe that running algorithms over human languages to produce free output that is comprehensible and convincing to humans requires comparisons to humans. Otherwise, you might as well be lossy compressing music without referring to ears, or video without referring to eyes.
Here’s why I don’t think they’re identical:

In the first case, someone is making decisions in their personal life which do not affect anyone else. They are not asking for special treatment, they are only asking that other people stay out of their private life. They also do not have any authority over other people and are not setting policies.

In the second case, someone is acting publicly to take away freedoms from other people even though their exercise of those freedoms had no impact on them personally. That person is also in a policy-making position over many affected people.

I think it’s reasonable to say that the two cases are different both due to the internal vs. external direction and the distinction and power differential.
Gotcha, thanks for correcting me, I need to read up more about the incident.
caddy-wasm-wcgi: Caddy plugin to run WASI CGI apps in-process using wazero
> As to why people eat more, it's probably due to higher energy density food, advertising (especially to children) and lost norms about eating (e.g. sugary stuff is not "proper food").

Animals, wild and lab, are probably affected by human food production.
Yep, pull the bandaid off and stop kowtowing to a nation state terrorist who will hold the world hostage with a nuclear arsenal until they’re no longer in power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...

https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/0...
maybe hallucination is all cognition is, and humans are just really good at it?
Here's a little test I try on LLMs. So far only O1 and Microsoft Copilot (bing chat) was able to solve it:

Find a, b, c distinct positive integers satisfying a^3 + b^3 = c^4. Hint: try dividing all sides by c^3, then giving values to (a/c) and (b/c).
> It's worth noting, by the way, that the United States has a shortage of medical doctors.

That's a pipeline problem. What the U.S. actually has is a severe bottleneck in available places at medical schools and for residency training.
Personally I find it much faster to pinpoint errors in the Go style.

With a stack trace, I have to cross-reference with code (ensuring versions match) and filter out a bunch of irrelevant calls in the stack. It’s not uncommon for the stack trace to end deep in library code with the root cause being many calls removed, making me check through a bunch of call sites to figure out what happened.

In Go if good context is added to errors, an error log is generally enough on its own to make it obvious exactly what went wrong.
Daniel Litt, an algebraic geometer on twitter, said "Pretty impressed by o1-preview! Still not having much luck asking it to do any interesting math but it seems much more reliable with simple things; I can actually imagine it being a net time-saver at this point with some non-mathematical tasks."

Any other takes by mathematicians out there?
All of raspberry pi’s SDK documentation and data sheets for the pico (rp2040) are amazing. Perfect material to build an embedded engineering course around.
im subscribed to your RSS feed since a while back, MOROS seems like a really cool project! sadly haven’t been able to try it since it wouldn’t start on QEMU for some reason, though i think that’s an issue on my side rather than the OS itself.
Elon Musk (and several others) sued ClosedAI for this very reason. I agree with you that changing their name would hurt their company now, but I also want public sentiment to shift so not changing their name hurts even more.
Meh. The neckbeards deserve it.
I hear you.

In a situation where the person's parents are hoping their child will be the first to be university educated with the hope that their education would help them break the cycle of poverty (i.e. they are not university educated themselves or that they don't have enough high school education to be able to teach their child about the pitfalls of taking an interest-bearing loan), what happens?

There's this famous saying that: "You cannot teach what you do not know".
Just because folks had access to tons of fats and such doesn’t mean that this is causal to gaining weight. It has to do with how good everything tasted. The ability to have food that’s just delicious has never been easier. Not just access to spices and seasoning, but access to premade ingredients that enhance taste. That also doesn’t even account for access in terms of cost. It’s never been cheaper to get calorically dense food than the modern era.

Honestly, have you looked at a 100 year old cookbook? Most of the recipes are… crude in their implementation, to put it mildly.
Classic. Remember, the BOFH is no longer the "operator" of some systems at a university. Now he's your ISP, your search engine, your social media services, and many other important things you rely on.

"Well, the answer is, we do nothing FOR users. We do things TO users. It's a fine distinction, but an important one all the same."

https://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/lastbofh.html
I'm don't Kaspersky and Checkpoint either. But CS should exit the market.
I'm sorry the match doesn't even remotely work.

$20k in loans over 4 years, when full sticker price was about $10k for the same 4 years and you had a 75% scholarship, and started as a junior?

That plus it somehow taking you 20 years to pay $20k in loans makes this smell pretty fishy. The real question is why make something like this up?
Hereditary nobility doesn't exist in Russia since 1917. What's your opinion on sending thousands and thousands of people to the front lines in Ukraine? Is it not true it's often forced? Or lied about where they are being taken to? What do you think about recent influential people in Russia falling out of a window? Or state-sponsored propaganda, how much of the free press remains in Russia? What happens to a regular middle class person when they speak up against the government? Can people go and protest against the government without repression? How has the Russian mentality changed in the last 60 years?
You need to prep for job interviews anyway. I'd rather spend the majority of my time being productive.
TailwindUI you still need some design + UI/UX skills but it works great for web apps.
> Humans do not need millions of examples of cats to know what a cat is.

We have evolved over time to recognize things in our environment. We also don’t need to be told that snakes are dangerous as many humans have an innate understanding of that. Our training data is partially inherited.
I'm not talking about setting up a cluster. I'm talking about all the learning you have to do.
Completely agree with Terence Tao. this is a real advancement. I've always believed that with the right data allowing the LLM to be trained to imitate reasoning, it's possible to improve its performance. However, this is still pattern matching, and I suspect that this approach may not be very effective for creating true generalization. As a result, once o1 becomes generally available, we will likely notice the persistent hallucinations and faulty reasoning, especially when the problem is sufficiently new or complex, beyond the "reasoning programs" or "reasoning patterns" the model learned during the reinforcement learning phase.
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/openai-o1-release-agi-reasoning
The problem is being kind of right (but not really) for the wrong reasons. Normies think it was told to be a certain way. While kind of true, they think of it more like Eliza.