skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that is the same if you have many databases. Only that the problem spread!

Maybe is because we are in different niches?. In mine, I have never seen microservices having ANY improvement over the norm, and most certainly are far more negatives.

However, what is more, the norm is making a 2/3-tier from a monolithic, and that could be better.

P.D: In the ERP/business space you can have many, whole apps, with ETL in the middle orchestrating. That may improve things because the quality of each app varies, but what is terrible is to split apps into micro services. That is itself a bridge too far.
Wouldn't ML and NN fall under the field of mathematics than physics?
If its makes you feel better, that word never supposed any problem. For me, is just a synonym of container here
> Recently, the use of Large Language Models, relying on AI tools to write reviews came up in EM discussions. My opinion on it is that I try to judge the output and not how it was created. If the resulting text is solid feedback, then I’m happy for you to save a bit of time by using ChatGPT. If not, you need to work more on it, regardless of the tools used.

I get the point that the author is trying to make, but frankly since LLMs are expert are producing output that looks right, I would be feeling uncomfortable giving feedback that was partially written by ChatGPT. Even if as the author you feel like it conveys what you meant, you are still introducing new words around your feedback that are not your own and that will likely lead you towards impersonal somewhat generic feedback.

Not saying that's what would necessarily happen, but I'd rather get 4 real lines from my manager than a half-page worth that was seeded from those same 4 lines.
The Japanese tech that could one day make Southeast Asia landmine-free
Perhaps if in the future the US army is found to be a criminal organization, like the Schutzstaffel is considered to be today.
> Passing references to Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, and even my unit about The Odyssey, confine literary merit to a very small, very old, very white, and very male box.

This is ridiculous. Is the book less important, less valuable, because of who wrote it? Did the Odyssey last so long because it has little value. It was a “very old” book even in the 1500s.

This essay reads like someone who argues with the teacher about the value of algebra. And speaking of math, most mathematical concepts are “very old” as well — doesn’t make them less valuable.

Who wrote something is less important than what it says. Sounds to me like this essay writer is still young enough to think they know everything.
It's only wild if you're incredibly naive and divide the world into "good" and "bad" guys.

Before someone thinks I'm a nazi apologist, I want to clarify this is about making a point of the world being extremely grey, even in areas where you perceive the good guys to operate.
Well in 1912, the physics prize went to a guy who designed a better light for light houses and buoys to prevent shipwrecks! Actually, most early Nobels went to practical things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Dal%C3%A9n
I guess you’re right, unfortunately. I don’t think of Gmail as an email client, but rather as something like a slow, badly implemented web-based chat program that uses the smtp protocol. And that spies on your messages.
> Northern textile mills did not get their cotton from free labor.

The North continued to prosper after the war, and their economy was not based on textiles. They also imported Egyptian cotton.
CPA is very very widely used in experimental physics, so I don’t really think it belongs on this list.
This is sarcastic, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_Linnainmaa
I think the strength based feedback was a good way of summarizing what a lot of my favorite managers did since I've started working. Focusing on encouraging engineers to play to their strengths helps the team as a whole and encourages working together more.

The point about fixing a real weakness resulting in being mediocre in one area for a lot of effort really sticks with me. Can't apply for everything, but focusing on strengths is more motivating.
The book has been on my shelf for a long while, and I haven't read it yet, but I really like the full title "Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts"
You already have the web on your phone. The sensible comparison for the (non-web) mobile app market is to the (non-web) desktop app market, and that's not a clear-cut improvement. I'd guess people currently have more mobile apps than desktop apps, just as you'd expect if the desktop app market were suffering due to lots of garbage/spam/malware from insufficient garden-walling.
What's the acceptable new lingo? "Canon plans to make chipmaking seamless"?
Hmm, 0.8 works well, but let's try setting lower layers to lower initial value. Let's say 0.2. Ok, I need a formula that will go between 0.2 and 0.8, slowly approaching 0.8. Starts fiddling with numbers for 20min, I guess this can work.
Here you go:

Impact of mobile phones and wireless devices use on children and adolescents’ mental health: a systematic review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9200624/
Is Piper currently the best open source TTS model? I occasionally review open models to see if they match elevenlabs and have been disappointed. However, Piper sounds better than the last time I listened around.
This also applies to the US to a lesser extent. If you want to work in academia, there's a very strict subset of ideas you're allowed to even consider.
Freight trains aren't much faster than merchant ships. On long routes the average speed ends up being about the same. Trains have higher top speed but are also subject to more delays.
Well, one famous example is this dude who was killing civilians for fun and taking selfies with their corpses as some kind of trophy - to be fair he was caught and prosecuted, but then Trump pardoned him because apparently he's a brave american hero and not a guy killing civilians for amusement:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
If memory serves the entire West German intelligence apparatus was run by ex Nazis.

The BRD was like that famous Fawlty Towers sketch. "Don't mention the war!".
The problem getting kids to read at all is that they are prescribed books and said "you need to read this". I hated a lot of the books I had to read in high school and I basically gave up on reading until well into adulthood (though, I do like a good long form article).

Moby Dick isn't an enjoyable book. I'm ABLE to read it in the capacity sense but I'd rather sit and stare at the wall than do it. I read Corey Doctorow and read 3 of his books in 3 days. Is his work literary genius? No. But if you are reading and engaging your imagination who cares?
I Fell Out of Love with Facebook [video]
For sure anyone could just use the hosted option, but it will ultimately be more pricey than someone self-hosting it. If someone will remain in the free tier (under 250 submissions per month) they should just stick to the hosted option, but even still some people like total control over their data, which self-hosting would get them as close as possible to that.
If a new prize is added, it would need its own funding. The five original Nobel Prizes are funded by interest from the fortune that Alfred Nobel left behind.
The economics prize is funded by the Swedish central bank, and is therefore officially their prize "in memory of Alfred Nobel", not a "Nobel Prize" as such.
Usually if you think it over the mass transit projects have excellent value. For example the new eastern half of the Bay Bridge cost $6.5 billion (year of expenditure totals ending 2013) and that is not anywhere near as extensive, complex, or valuable as BART. Adding 1 stupid lane to US-101 in Novato cost $800 million. Then if you look at the HSR project that all the reactionaries whine about, they spent only $11 billion to design the entire system, get all the EIRs approved, build over 100 miles of trackway, and electrify Caltrain.
I was a little surprised that they author went though such detail to explain Consistency, and yet Availability was just 2 sentences and a quote...
Are you saying the Soviets took the “kumbaya” approach to communism and if only the US chilled out, there would’ve been no conflict?

Surely you cannot believe that?
I noticed that the wording on my raw chicken from Whole Foods changed to "best if used by" from "use or freeze by." I worry because they aren't equivalent. Is Amazon just weaseling so they can sell older food?

Why can't we just use expiration dates? How long is this safe to eat?
Have we gotten to a point where the CAS role can be fully handled by drones of various types?

I know we have Hellfire toting drones, but their payload seems very limited versus existing attack helicopter platforms or the A-10.

I’m actually surprised we don’t have a drone attack helicopter - basically an unmanned Apache.

Or has that entire concept basically become obsolete in favor of just sending over swarms of loitering suicide drones?
Except that none of those hold up under scrutiny.
Couldn't you just use api/schema versioning?
Parisi won in 2021, not last year. His work was more about establishing spin glasses as a way to study complex systems. Hopfield definitely built on that, showing how those ideas could be applied to neural networks and info storage in state-space machines.

As for focusing on Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines, I get where you're coming from. They’re just a couple of architectures among many, but they’re pretty foundational. They’re deeply rooted in statistical mechanics and have had a huge impact, finding applications across a range of fields beyond just machine learning.
For all their numerous flaws, there is no replacement for passwords that are better for me (that I'm aware of), so I have no plans to migrate away from them.

I am unusual, though, in that I am meticulous about password security. More so than the average person is willing to be.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton Share the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics
While I don't discount the value of this, can you expand on the meaning of your claim that it makes the model 'more expressive'

Everything I am seeing in this paper is related to reduced size and noise, which implies a reduction in expressiveness.

The improvement in needle and a haystack, benchmarks on multi-hop questions of in corpus data and multishot in-context learning points to this.

This is a wonderful thing if robustness is more important than generality, but it doesn't address trimming away activations that may be spurious in the general use case but may improve an individual domain specificity.

Context would dramatically impact what tradeoffs and more desireble, and noise is probably never desirable. But the ability of this paper to enable bit size for inference points to a reduction in expressiveness.

Perhaps I am too focused on generalization?
Okay? I don't see how that makes it any less misleading. Compared to a universe where FTX did not go bankrupt, the creditors have much less money.
> Differential attention takes the difference between two softmax attention functions to eliminate attention noise

If I understand correctly, this architecture trades twice as much attention memory in exchange for either a higher quality model, or less parameters at a similar quality.

> According to the fitted curves, 6.8B-size
DIFF Transformer achieves a validation loss comparable to 11B-size Transformer, requiring only 62.2% of parameters

This raises a few questions for me:

- Would having only 60% of the parameters negate the double space for attention, leaving a similar memory profile as a traditional transformer?

- Does that tradeoff change noticeably between training and inference?
Arm Position and Blood Pressure Readings the Crossover Randomized Clinical Trial
>It becomes again wild when you remember that the Cold War was only "necessary" because of US antagonism post-war.

Only if you ignore communist antagonism in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Up to and including their own allies when they gave their citizens a little too much freedom. I have several books in Czech on my shelf with a copyright date of 1968, a year in which far more books were published than years prior, I wonder why they share that year?
Eliciting Better Multilingual Structured Reasoning from LLMs Through Code
As I remarked, I used Netscape first. I abandoned it for Explorer because Netscape crashed all the time, to the point of being unusuable.

Explorer was simply better.
I publish lots of apps and don't have a great explanation either. I guess if you say that you just fixed some bugs, neither the app reviewers nor the users will pay too much attention and just approve/download the update, which is what you want as the app developer. Or it's just laziness. Or a communication disconnect between the person in charge of writing the changelog and the product/development team.
Pairing requires bluetooth, streaming requires WiFi,

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120421

Under iPhone Mirroring system requirements

Your iPhone and Mac are signed in to the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication.

Your iPhone and Mac have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on.

Your iPhone is not sharing its cellular connection (Personal Hotspot is not in use).

Your Mac is not sharing its internet connection or using AirPlay or Sidecar.
So the Odyssey was suitable for 2000 years. But suddenly now, it’s a problem? We’ve had new generators of learners every generation. Yet this current generation is apparently more special than the rest.

Lazier is more like it. If someone TiKToc-ified the Odyssey, kids would be quoting it from memory.
Western government sanctions regimes on China and other countries are becoming increasingly farcical and self-destructive and the chips war is just one of several examples - solar and nuclear energy, electrified transportation and innovative agriculture are others. A good discussion of the chips issue is at Inside China Business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmDZ5s8Ypo

Fundamentally, the USA has no industrial policy, no manufacturing policy, no infrastructure policy, no STEM-centric educational policy, and the over-financialization of the economy has resulted in industrial monopolies that are more concerned with delivering profits to their investors than with maintaining a technological edge over competitors via investments in in-house research and development. The political leadership is elderly and increasingly incompetent, and really seems more dedicated to the retirement interests of the largest political demographic, the boomers, than to any other sector.

Thus, rather than focusing on winning technological races on a global scale via a complete restructuring of the economy and a shift in priorities away from investor profits, the strategy appears to involve kneecapping the competition by any means available. This won't end well for the citizens of Western governments.
Oh yes, I found Comanche after playing Tie Fighter to death!
Tell me how much does it cost to do push ups? How much does it cost to do squats? Failing at doing any of these does not incur medical costs. And yes, it takes effort and willpower (like anything worthwile in this life). But none of those cost money.

It's fairy-tale level mindblowing that we can look at the status quo where nearly half of the industrialised world is obese and get haughty about a free method (see physical exercise) that medically, demonstrably improves patient outcomes with no negative side effects.

That drug is the medical equivalent of a goldberg machine.

Exercising your willpower will have more benefits than physical exercise alone: mental health, cardiovascular and strength fitness and you could go on. And it is free. No big farma making money from you
Refactoring the Mental Bin: An Extension in the Way
What they're attempting to do seems fundamentally impossible to me. Personalization requires there is a specific person tied to the output. With phones and PCs, that's a fairly reasonable assumption. With a television, it quite often isn't. Services allow you to create individual "who is watching" profiles, but the reality at least for my family is no one uses those. We all watch from the same account and same profile. We also watch together, in which case there is no answer to a question that assumes only one person can watch at a time. Sometimes, no one is watching and the stream is simply left on while everyone is sleeping or out of the house and autoplay is streaming to an empty room. Sometimes, we leave things on intentionally for the cats. My wife has ADHD and puts something on only to walk away two minutes later, but it's still on.

In some extremely dystopian future that I'm sure is coming quickly, a television may be equipped with video surveillance capability that can identify eyeballs in real time and decide exactly what animal is viewing what part of the screen and estimate from bloodflow in the face and pupil dilation the extent to which they care and are paying attention, but we're definitely not there yet.

Right now, this is still just snake oil they're selling to ad buyers. Why I get almost all fast food, beer, and insurance ads, even though I don't drink, haven't eaten fast food since 2002, and haven't changed insurance providers since 2008.
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Here's how it works: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1843695956967264661

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/creating-message-batches
People getting started can handle more advanced things than most people think they can. Look at Arduino, which is many people's introduction to programming. That's C/C++.
Motor sequential learning according to practice schedules in adults
That already exists in California, and is entirely unrelated the new legislation.

The law is simply that you cant use various labels like "enjoy by" or "Best by" and instead, all non-safety dates must use the exact words "best if used by".

82001. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, a food manufacturer, processor, or retailer responsible for the labeling of food items for human consumption that chooses, or is otherwise required by law, to display a date label to communicate a quality or safety date on a food item manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, shall use one of the following uniform terms on the date label:

(1) “BEST if Used by” or “BEST if Used or Frozen by” to indicate the quality date of the food item.

(2) “USE by” or “USE by or Freeze by” to indicate the safety date of the food item.

(3) “BB” to indicate the quality date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the uniform term described in paragraph (1).

(4) “UB” to indicate the safety date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the uniform term described in paragraph (2).

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB660/id/2837671
To which "ruling party" do you have to pledge loyalty to, in order to work in academia?

An example of loyalty tests in current US politics did come to my mind, but it wasn't that one.
Suggested headline: "Congress slashes gov't agency's budget => gov't agency slashes seasonal & temporary workforce"

While the US Forest Service probably could be kinder & gentler in how they handle the situation, there really ain't no secret evil gov't conspiracy going on here. Unless you count the Congressional budget-slashing. Which Vox just barely mentions.

Wikipedia characterizes Vox as left-leaning and progressive. Maybe that should be updated? The headline & article seem pretty heavy on the gov't-environmental-agency-bashing and Biden-administration-bashing overtones.
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LLM’s are too unpredictable for many practical uses so I’d guess better predictability is better. Hopefully the change the paper proposes will help!

But here’s a case for the other side: sure, most mistakes are just errors, but evolution happens via “mistakes.” Also, LLM’s often deliberately add add randomness at inference time.
Very cool, and it’s already on version five! I’m impressed. Only one question for now, since I’m don’t yet have experience with these specific data viz techniques:

Skew-ey? Skoo-ey? Squee?
This sounds so much like something my youngest would do, haha. I always wonder if the creators realize when they come up with this stuff that a ton of rogue kids are going to flush entire rolls to get the tube.
Microsoft included a number of utilities with its operating system - like a text editor - that operating systems have included since the beginning. There's no magic line that says a browser cannot be included.
Not a disagreement, but `weight/tax curve on vehicle registrations` would disproportionately impact electric vehicles because of the weight of the batteries being included in their GVW.

There's the argument that they shouldn't be on the road due to their higher weight, but I'll disagree with that line of argument in advance.
Yes and no. Yes obviously this just works for "small" grammar changes such as introducing new keywords without fear (which is why Rust's async is called async, not "co_async") and doesn't need awkward keyword reuse like "requires requires" and "class enum". But it enables far more.

Lets take an existing edition first, in Rust 2021 Edition (what you get today out of the box when you just start writing Rust) the array types impl IntoIterator. Which makes sense, why shouldn't I iterate over this array with a for loop ?

But, Rust 1.0 could not possibly have provided this, how would it work? It didn't in Rust 1.0 you can't make an array into an Iterator.

Now, if this was some obscure rarely used feature maybe you'd just say "Who cares" but this is IntoIterator which is used to make for loops work, so that's high profile. So in fact what happens is that a modern Rust compiler (in which there even is a 2021 edition) knows that in earlier Editions it should pretend that arrays did not impl IntoIterator. You can loop over them just fine, but mysteriously they don't impl IntoIterator, so that code which used to mean one thing (because they didn't implement this) still means what it used to.

So that's an example of seamlessly making Rust 2021 edition have better semantics and yet all the old software still works.

In 2024 edition the semantics of certain RPITs (Return Position Impl Trait, an existential type) with respect to lifetimes are expected to change. In most cases either what you wrote already is technically wrong but will now be correct, or, what you wrote was wrong but you got away with it and now you'll get told you got it wrong if you move editions.

Editions is not a panacea but it's vastly better than the previous status quo, look at how miserable the situation is in Java, in C++, in Python. Vastly different approaches, worse results on all dimensions.
You could of course effectively create a new database whenever you make a new schema.

But that's not exactly convenient for the users.
It's funny because I learned about Hopfield multiple times in neuroscience classes, but never once in an EECS/ML course.
> you can still keep the weight off by eating a sustainable amount of calories.

This was always true and we know this is not the reason why people are overweight
The actual process of computation, sure, but machine learning was born from physics-based methods and applications to understand complexity and disorder.
Well yeah, so are neural nets. I just meant that these are engineering accomplishments, not scientific per se. Of course experimental science will often take advantage of cutting edge technology, including from computer science.
Gnome Struggling to Raise Money
I suggest reading up on the hardships the settlers had. Their death rate was pretty high. Tens of thousands died on the Oregon Trail.