skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO it seems almost epistemologically impossible that LLM's following anything even resembling the current techniques will ever be able to comfortably out-perform humans at genuinely creative endeavours because they, almost by definition, cannot be "exceptional".

If you think about how an LLM works, it's effectively going "given a certain input, what is the statistically average output that I should provide, given my training corpus".

The thing is, humans are remarkably shit at understanding just how exception someone needs to be to be genuinely creative in a way that most humans would consider "artistic"... You're talking 1/1000 people AT best.

This creates a kind of devils bargain for LLMs where you have to start trading training set size for training set quality, because there's a remarkably small amount of genuinely GREAT quality content to feed this things.

I DO believe that the current field of LLM/LXM's will get much better at a lot of stuff, and my god anyone below the top 10-15% of their particular field is going to be in a LOT of trouble, but unless you can train models SOLELY on the input of exceptionally high performing people (which I fundamentally believe there is simply not enough content in existence to do), the models almost by definition will not be able to outperform those high performing people.

Will they be able to do the intellectual work of the average person? Yeah absolutely. Will they be able to do it probably 100/1000x faster than any human (no matter how exceptional)?... Yeah probably... But I don't believe they'll be able to do it better than the truly exceptional people.
no, i mean, for example, i got gnu patch to compile and work on windows nt 3.51 under cygwin, but i never made the additional effort to send the necessary diffs to paul eggert so that, if he wanted to integrate them, nobody else would have to do the same thing
I vaguely remember an older browser just creating files in a folder for its bookmarks.

I wish I could find this folder on my work computer: I only have one work computer, so I don't sync work bookmarks with other devices.
I get "undefined eggs". Usually the problem is that eggs are discrete and they are not all equal, so I'd prefer to select how many eggs I want to use (and cross my fingers that they are average eggs (whatever that means)). Perhaps you can round the amount of floor to an integer number of eggs.

Bananas are discrete and not equal too, so it's a problem. But I can just eat half a banana if the recipe needs 3.5 of them.
Just a shout out to https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery. My favorite productivity extension. I'm a tab hoarder, this makes my life manageable and gives my Firefox all the screen real estate by using keyboard shortcuts to open/close the tabs easily.

I also use the Firefox css to hide the top sidebar, so I get maximum screen usage.

Their bookmark feature is pretty awesome too.
I'm not a physicist but as soon as I saw it I thought that it would be very costly (in physicist time) to distinguish it from a real physics paper. The difference between this and the output of a physics crank may well just be how fast they can produce it.
Having worked in the industry, "the renewable crowd" were heavily pro nuclear.

Clean coal, clean gas, carbon capture, and the "nothing bad happens when you burn coal I would happily live next to a coal power plant" crowd are the real issue. That's the grift that keeps on grifting.
The German system is undoubtedly different to the American system - but [1] an American bridge that collapsed despite regular inspections might give you some idea of how this sort of thing can come about.

[1] https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/6/18/this-bridge-sho...
Burn the ships, we aren’t going back. Net zero is within reach, the evidence and data on this is clear.
What does it matter why you can't predict the future state of a brain?
> The reason so much writing, podcasting, and music is vulnerable to AI disruption is that quality has already become secondary.

Commercial creative workers are vulnerable because there's a billions-of-dollars industry effort to copy their professional output and compete with them selling cheap knock-offs.

I see this sort of convenient resignation all the time in the tech crowd... "creative workers only can blame themselves for tech companies taking their income because their art just isn't any good anymore!"

The poor quality "content" that's been proliferating recently has been created, largely, using the very tools that AI has built, or their immediate precursors. AI, for all its benefits, has only made that worse.

If you're saying, in good faith, that most of the infomercials, televangelist programs, talk radio, celebrity autobiographies, self-help books, scandalous expose books, and health/exercise fad books etc etc etc that came out 50 years ago were made for no reason beyond advancing human knowledge, you're either too young to remember any media from before our current era and haven't looked beyond survivorship bias.

Tech folks love sentiments like this because it entirely emotionally places the onus on the people getting ripped off by big tech companies for being ripped off. If their work was that awful, companies wouldn't be clamoring to vacuum it up into their models to make more of it. Nearly all of the salable output from these models exists solely because it took a creative product someone made with the intention of selling it and it's using it to sell a simulacra.

It's using nostalgia to deflect guilt for harpooning the livelihood of many people because it's just more convenient and profitable to empower mediocre "content creators" they use to justify doing it.
I don't think something needs to be thick and heavy to be blunt, I've used (and I think many people have) blunt kitchen knives and sharp kitchen knives and without inspecting the blade edge I think it's very hard to tell. Sharpening a knife or sword also doesn't really change much in its weight from my layman knowledge.
In the bit of South Asia I am familiar with it is far more popular with Buddhists and Hindus than it is with Christians or Muslims and is far more ingrained in those religious subcultures so I imagine it has been for a long time.

> Folk practices were how religion always tended to practiced until the rise of globalization and literacy pushed more "Puritanized" forms of all religions.

More intellectual, more lead from the centre, more heierachical, rather than "puritan", I would say. The rise of globalisation and literacy has made Christianity less puritan (the same may not be true of Islam) globally (not sure about the US).

Also, it was not just popular with illiterate villagers in the case of monotheistic religions, in SOuth Asia of elsewhere. Kepler and Galileo were court astrologers at some point in their lives, and I think there are similar people (i.e. intellectuals who were astrologers) in the Muslim world.

That also makes it all the more interesting that it is happening now. Youtube is getting people to abandon tenets of their religion.
I've found the Vue community to be a little better at managing complexity than the react community has mainly because Vue was originally touted as a solution to some of react's problems. People are more conscious of the tradeoffs.
I completely disagree.

If the built-in bookmark systems in browsers could support tags, then I would say yes. However, it currently only supports a basic tree concept, with "folders" for links.

This is very one dimensional. I read loads of articles that talks about multiple topics. Especially Hacker News type articles :). An article can talk about, say geo-politics. As an example, perhaps an article on the recent pagers that exploded in Lebenon. This article may also be discussing some cybersecurity topics too. In this case I may want to tag it with 1->n tags.

I currently use Raindrop.io. It kinda works, but it doesn't really have what I have in mind. It also has more features than I think I need from a bookmarking app.

I kinda feel that Digg (wayback, it was one of the first 'Web 2.0' sites had a model that could work.

If I had enough motivation, I think I could probably produce a simple app that does tagging, and only tagging, with bookmarks.
Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters
I have family that does this in WI. It's viable, but hard work.
URL should be https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/ai-defeats-traffic-image-...
Yeah, that quote stuck me as well. What an irresponsible way to jump to conclusions.
> Banks are not selling PII’ed account balance data to shady aggregators.

Banks might not be directly selling the transaction history, but they report the customer transaction history to Equifax and similar credit scoring agencies. Equifax certainly does onsell that to shady credit companies, which has happened to me twice with letters in both cases stating in the footprint in a very small font size and in a very pale hue of grey «provided by Equifax».
Looking around at how much garbage people dump in the streets I am sure we could chuck some of that in Drax and close the loop a bit.
D-Bus is 17 years old by now, introducing a replacement is hardly "living churn", especially since D-Bus will still be supported, probably for years.
Thanks, I'd have a hard time doing that. I got the history reversed.

Dang, and it's too late for me to add an edit now as well.

I think the broad point still stands, in spite of that error.
I am working on InvitePlus.io, a tool to manage user access and help companies in onboarding. It will send invites to all software your team has been using with just an email. You can manage teams across multiple platforms (Github, Jira, Asana, etc). Also, you can revoke access with a single click.
That's funny but given the normal result of buying a lottery ticket, bravery == stupidity.
I just gave up on ever being able to really be anonymous, after I had a rather sobering interaction with Disqus.

I had never used it, and wanted to leave a comment on a site (long ago -can't remember where or when).

I started to sign up for Disqus, and it helpfully asked me "We found all these comments from around the Web. Should we associate these with this account?"

It included some old, dead-and-gone-I-would-have-sworn-it troll postings that I had pooped out, back in the last century.

I immediately deleted my signup, and went and had a lie-down.

These days, I deliberately make it obvious who I am, and post as if I had to stand behind my words.
Personally I feel that "Beating the averages" was an awesome article that was of technical interest and can apply to many things not just making money, and worth reading perhaps by every s/w developer. Whereas this article is of nothing like the same quality, it seems largely money oriented to me.
If they’re transphobic and don’t want to be around transwomen, they could’ve committed the crime in a state that puts transwomen in with male prisoners (and get raped repeatedly). Of course, those states tend to treat their female inmates much worse than California, so this all seems like special pleading specifically borne out of transphobia.
The temperature parameter doesn’t introduce any noise into the network evaluation.

Typically, what happens is that the network outputs a set of possible tokens with different probabilities, and a sampler picks from the top possibilities. Temperature determines how spiky its pick is; at zero it’ll always pick the top option.
are we really citing ChatGPT in comments now
blimey indeed. This is a lot of work to set up.

I think you'll see more platforms that offer this set up as a service:

* cheap storage / datalake

* pipelines to get data to storage

* BI / dashboards on top of the storage

We're doing this at Definite (https://www.definite.app/) with Iceberg (same as in this post) + DuckDB as a query engine.
Thank for finding that, yes that's the one. It was incredibly accurate.

I'm in two minds about the fact it's down.

1. It's probably a good thing that it isn't super-easy to quickly find everyone's alternate accounts.

2. The capability is clearly there and the technology is out there, but now in the hands of the few people who bother to re-implement it.

It was a useful tool for highlighting the naivety of believing that throwaway accounts were a real possibility when stylometry analysis is so relatively cheap to do.
I'm working on JSON BinPack (https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com), a binary serialization format for JSON (think of it as a Protobuf alternative) with a strong focus on space-efficiency for reducing costs when transferring structured data over 5G and satellite transceivers for robotics, IoT, automotive, etc.

If you work at any of those industries and pay a lot for data transfer, please reach out! I'm trying to talk to as many people as possible to make sure JSON BinPack fits their use case well (I'm trying to build a business around it).

It was originally designed during my (award-winning!) research at the University of Oxford (https://www.jviotti.com/dissertation.pdf), and it was proven to be more space-efficient than any tested alternative in every single tested case (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799), beating Protocol Buffers for up to ~75%.

While designing it was already difficult, implementing a C++ production-ready version has proven to be very tricky, leading me to branch off to various other pre-requisite projects, like an ultra-fast JSON Schema compiler for nano-second schema validation (https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsontoolkit) (for which I'm publishing a paper soon).
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I found the technical details really interesting, but I think this gem applies more broadly:

> I find this is often an artifact of the DE roles not being equipped with the necessary knowledge of more generic SWE tools, and general SWEs not being equipped with knowledge of data-specific tools and workflows.

> Speaking of, especially in smaller companies, equipping all engineers with the technical tooling and knowledge to work on all parts of the platform (including data) is a big advantage, since it allows people not usually on your team to help on projects as needed. Standardized tooling is a part of that equation.

I have found this to be so true. SWE vs DE is one division where this applies, and I think it also applies for SWE vs SRE (if you have those in your company), data scientists, "analysts", basically anyone who is in a technical role should ideally know what kinds of problems other teams work on and what kinds of tooling they use to address those problems so that you can cross-pollinate.
If you don't trust people to compound a drug for their own use, why would you trust them to not jump off a bridge, to not kill or injure a passerby, or not to perform other serious antisocial actions? Of course this is a way deeper issue, but I tend to approach it this way. In the Western values, we tend to value freedom, also as freedom of people to self-define, very high, despite the risks it takes. And this, this is a modern part of exactly the same dilemma.

People already do exactly that, and with some basic knowledge (which should and probably will be in 20-30 years a common knowledge) it's much safer than one could expect.

Of course, it'd be ideal if they wouldn't need to worry about it and could leave this to a person who is guaranteed to be more knowledgeable in doing that, but with all the over-regulation burden, drug patents, drug schedules, it's not happening. Example of that is, precisely, the price of this. It could literally be 2000x smaller if we only get rid of that burden, which was created to give some people profit. And if we subside that with taxes, these taxes go to the pocket of a gatekept and protected-by-the-state manufacturer. That's not how taxes should even work, they should benefit the society instead.

TL;DR: This is a much wider issue.
I tried it a week or so ago, it didn't really go well. Transcription was terrible, even though using the same model (whisper-large) on its own works well. The UI messages were trying to make it sound like a straightforward app, they should have been much more helpful as many things went wrong with a "try again later" type message. I also wish they'd bundled more functionality in the service, so the app could be a simple web front end that uses its API.

At a greater level, I've always wanted something like this, but we shouldn't be able to collect info on other people without their permission. The dangers of breaches or abuse are too great.

Since corporations are holding back the greatest benefits, we should be able to remember commercial works we've accessed, and collect and organize info on corporations, and some info on governments, but by their nature corporations will be better at getting the upper hand and the resulting attacks on government might not be for the better for society at large.

Yes, some parts of some governments conduct abuses which should be called out, but that is specific departments, other departments work to other principles, sometimes pushing back against the abuse. Otherwise comparing governments to business or computers is a downward spiral. This[1] is an interesting series on this topic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...
If it doesn't fit into the L3 cache then what the benchmark is measuring is not the CPU efficiency of your SIMD approach but also inherently includes different (and complex) effects of L1+L2+L3 cache hierarchy, memory prefetchers and main memory latency. Latency of accessing the RAM is alone ~two to ~three orders of magnitude larger then the latency of executing the single instruction.

Per-se this isn't wrong but you may get the skewed picture of your algorithm efficiency because you're measuring multiple things at once, and perhaps the ones you may not be interested in or even knew that they even exist or are included in the numbers of your experiment, e.g. how good the memory prefetcher understands the access patterns of your experiment.

For the same reason, I think it's better to avoid mixing many different things into the same benchmark run.

I stand corrected wrt statistical significance since I am not familiar with Julia. I missed to understand that part.
I'm surprised to see HTMX as part of the front end stack. I like the idea of HTMX a lot, but I always got the impression it wasn't widely adopted. Do people use it for production applications often?
This is also a pretty good summary: https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...

It hasn't kept up with the latest events (like MM disabling WPE's svn access), but the author possibly has a life on weekends, unlike me.
While it's impressive, I agree that it tends to make over the top comments or reactions about everything. It could probably make a Keurig machine sound like a revolutionary coffee maker.
I use Linking. It's quite good and actually being developed.

https://linkding.link/
This is not strictly correct.

Quantum computers can do some things normal computers can't, but the reverse is also true.
They store everything in an SQLite db :)

https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe/blob/4f2391c6dfd8775...
I think the article explained it to me, thanks.

>The hosting platform was acquired by the private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018

Being acquired by a private equity firm usually never ends well.

>Silver Lake doesn’t give a dang about your open source ideals — it just wants return on capital.

This I believe.

>But WP Engine is ultimately abiding by the rules of WordPress’ open-source license

Since WP is under the GPLv2 and if WP Engine is conforming to the GPL, I agree with this. Maybe WP should move to the GPLv3 ?

>either by paying a licensing fee or making contributions to the open source WordPress project

Is WP Engine not releasing source changes to the public ? If so I think this is a GPL violation.

I guess the outcome is as usual, the users suffer the most.
Other than "it'd be fun to build", what would it bring to the table in comparison to say this Apple Music playlist? https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-25-berlin/pl.184d798...
Here's the complete change set between Godot and Redot:

https://github.com/Redot-Engine/redot-docs/commit/8ce7ebaf22...

README.md:
- # Godot Engine documentation
+ # Redot Engine documentation
Great comment, and I'm glad you brought this point up so we can deep dive. If you read the book "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson," (Chapter 6: Union Disunion) [1] it covers the historical negotiation and agreement between the longshoreman unions and shippers when the shipping container improved efficiencies; they split the gains from the efficiency improvements knowing it was going to reduce the need for labor into the future.

If that was on offer today, I would have a different opinion, for sure. I would strongly support Automating All The Things. I think the grand bargain that was previously made when the world standardized on shipping containers was reasonable and fair. But that is not what is on offer. What is on offer is the Robber Barron equivalent of folks attempting to automate as much as possible to the detriment of labor for shareholder and management returns, and because of that, I hold the opinion that I do. With the decline in labor unions and lack of labor regulation in the US for the last several decades (since the Ronald Reagan era, broadly speaking), Capital has ground down Labor, and Labor needs to grind back to make up for lost time and ground [2] [3].

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th...

[2] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

[3] https://www.epi.org/blog/growing-inequalities-reflecting-gro...
This month I was working on improving on SEO for my Flatcal side project: https://flatcal.com. It's a service that can combine multiple online calendar feeds into a single one for easier sharing with other people. Instead five calendars you can just send one that contains all busy/free status. The closer to release I am the more non-coding work there is to do. Oh well, just different part of the fun
Actually, a lot of economists think that Chinese GDP is severely under-counted. https://asiatimes.com/2024/06/whats-the-real-size-of-chinas-...
The internet is not the same, but I will write anyway
Did you file bug reports?
> 1) From the perspective of the manufacturers that's theft of service.

From the perspective of the user tgey are violating the GDPR. Why this law is not enforced, i do not know, i presume lobby money are buying it.
I've been listening to The Rest is History podcast lately, and a lot of this happened in Islam via converts.

Tom Holland was saying that many now fundamental Islamic practices were imported into the faith via converts. For example such as praying 5 times a day was apparently a Zoroastrian practice.
If you use the android app you got to do it via the app ui instead of the web ui, the app ui will ask for permissions to a folder if you select it.
The Danish authorities abuse their filters in a similar way. It's just about the children ..!
Penrose speculated about the source, but was Stuart Hameroff that brought the idea it could be the tubules to Penrose's attention. Hameroff thought anesthesia nerfed the tubules properties, which then caused loss of consciousness.

Then there's the recent articles on how the tubes might be able to entangle signals, which was from experimental research on meta materials.

I realize all of this is speculative at this point, and nobody is trying to say YES this is how it works. It's simply exploring one possibility, in a positive way, that allows us to think further outside the box.
Yeah that is hyperbole but NO_HZ=full and friends are extremely useful for latency sensitive workloads. i.e busy-loop polling workloads that need to rip things as fast as possible out of DMA buffers etc.

However I would say the more useful features are the less crazy version in cpusets and the various tools to deal with irq pinning. These are in extremely wide use at this point and make a world of difference even if you aren't trying to squeeze every possible thing off your cores.
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