skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a university year 2 student learning about basic mathematics and statistics related to neural networks. One thing that shocks me is that there isn't an "incremental" solution for building larger (more parameters) AI models (like GPT-4) despite having one in a smaller size e.g. GPT-3.5 (I saw the term "incremental (compiling)" nearly everywhere in the software engineering industry). I am curious how is this not possible theortically?
When I quit work because of burnout some years ago, at some point I just started going to bed every night at like 9pm with no effort whatsoever, really.

Completely broke when I started a job again and has been difficult ever after.
An advertising supported YouTube creator would be delighted!

No, literally a lot of creators target this market now — for instance by making a mega mix of their existing content which runs for two to three hours. Or releasing a video „xxx hours of yyy to fall asleep to“

It’s the new ‚meta’, apparently a big part of the YouTube algorithm is watch time, and it doesn’t know if the viewers are awake or not. Even if those viewers aren’t being shown adverts, it means your other videos may get additional promotion. Plus if your viewers have YouTube premium I believe watch—time literally translates directly to payment rates.
SP500 represents something like 85% of market capitalization. Adding a few more thousand stocks would make little difference, especially when you consider how heavily correlated they are. Just compare SPY with VT -- nearly the same thing.
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I bet you I'm much more lazy than you :-)

But I don't do it purpose, none of us with ADHD do once we loose interest in a project. That's why we keep skipping from one project to the next to keep the thrill up. It looks horrible in my CV.
"And you should listen to me because I'm unwilling to stand behind my opinion.". Why would it not work?
Every big techco was the target of numerous buyout offers along the way. Yahoo! tried to buy Google and Facebook got any number of offers.

It makes sense when the growing company doesn't have a path forward (e.g. YouTube's bandwidth costs) or the price is truly crazy (e.g. WhatsApp).

It's not clear to me why Instagram sold out to Facebook for $1B.
Thanks very much for the advice, it's timely.

<rant> It's not so much the editing itself but the unfamiliarity of the ecosystem. It seems it's a square-peg I've been crafting a round hole of habits for it:

I guess I should use emacs? How to even configure it such that these actions are available? Or maybe I should write a plugin for helix so that I can be in a familiar environment. Oh, but the helix plugin language is a scheme, so I guess I'll use emacs until I can learn scheme better and then write that plugin. Oh but emacs keybinds are conflicting with what I've configured for zellij, maybe I can avoid conflicts by using evil mode? Oh ok, emacs-lisp, that's a thing. Hey symex seems like it aligns with my modal brain, oh but there goes another afternoon of fussing with emacs. Found and reported a symex "bug" but apparently it only appears in nix-governed environments so I guess I gotta figure out how to report the packaging bug (still todo). Also, I guess I might as well figure out how to get emacs to evaluate expressions based on which ones are selected, since that's one of the fun things you can do in lisps, but there's no plugin for the scheme that helix is using for its plugin language (which is why I'm learning scheme in the first place), but it turns out that AI is weirdly good at configuring emacs so now my emacs config contains most that that plugin would entail. Ok, now I'm finally ready to learn scheme, I've got this big list of new actions to learn: https://countvajhula.com/2021/09/25/the-animated-guide-to-sy.... Slurp, barf, and raise you say? excellent, I'll focus on those.

I'm not actually trying to critique the unfamiliar space. These are all self inflicted wounds: me being persnickety about having it my way. It's just usually not so difficult to use something new and also have it my way.</rant>
> much later that Greek society appropriated him as one of their own

His father generally put in a lot more trying to “fit in” and be accepted by other Greeks. Alexander was a bit more ruthless and the whole “divine king” didn’t really fly in in Athens etc. I’m not sure he really tried but rather just wanted to do his own thing (entirely razing once of the most ancient cities in Greece didn’t help much either).
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Meh, Apple might be a little ahead of others, but all mainstream OSes and stores are basically headed this direction already. It’s just part modern security, part quality control, and part family & work friendliness. Most people on both sides actually want a walled garden. There will probably always be ways to run unsigned code and to get content that’s not approved by an app store, but maybe it’s fine if it’s ‘harder’ and not the default.
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Cool project! Please add a five minute demo video at the top of the Readme. Also I would change the name to something more unique. Naming is difficult but important in products and CS.
You have processes more formal and thorough than their code implementation? Really?

At the end of the day, is it the cover-every-possible-bitflip-and-gamma-ray-bursts process that produces results out of thin air, or is it the machine running the code?

I don't believe this is arguing in good faith.
I agree it is a pessimistic view. I did not mean to make a disparaging comment, though. I agree that all research starts out small. And, naturally, for any influential idea, you can point back to when it was small.

I did not intend to conflate separate issues. I agree assisted coding and assisted bug hunting can coexist. I was merely trying to weigh the net effect LLMs have on security.
https://archive.ph/wvuMU
So... you're not using event-driven architecture. That's fine, but I don't know why it supports this article's weird point about event-driven architecture.
So the the eternal arm's race escalates.
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Honestly, the only thing I really remember from reading Deleuze was giving up on trying to get what “the Fold” was.
In my case, twice. In my mid to late 20’s, and again a few years later when some really early stuff cropped up again.

Get your butts probed. Don’t know what else I could say really.
> so much infra construction in Korea and Japan, but the prices are reasonable

Just watched a Bloomberg short about SK where they complain that they are overworked, over-stressed, hypercompetitive, depressed as a people, giving up on starting families out of fear of financial insecurity. (also, seems top suicidal in SK) No idea if it's true, but that all might have something to do with keeping the wages down?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-10-31/south-korea...
Boil in stock? That's genius. Not sure why I haven't thought of that.
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What did you dislike about kotlin multiplattform?
No, you can't judge it the same way you judge a human, any more than you could judge a bus engine the same way you'd judge human. It's not an individual, and not remotely like one.

I get this might seem like tedious nitpicking to you, but the number one error people are making with LLM output is anthropomorphizing it. Which I get, because it's built to seem that way. But it's an enormously dangerous misconception.

As one example among zillions, look at the term "hallucination". All LLM output is equally "hallucinated". Some of it, when interpreted by a human may be taken as meaningful. Some of it, the "hallucinated" part, is taken as meaningful but contrary to something else they understand. But it's the human creating all the meaning here. Even calling this class of mismatches "hallucination" is anthropomorphizing LLMs.

Imagine I take the proverbial million monkeys to generate random words. Then I create a statistical filter so that we extract only the plausible sentences. Is this machine a source? Can I "judge just like any human source" here?

I'd say the answer is a clear no. And if you think the answer is yes, then the same has to apply to things like horoscopes, the I Ching, or the intestines of a sacrificial goat.
As a US expat, I am permitted to vote from abroad in the last state of residence, which for me is Florida. So, my progressive vote will still be counted without having to expose my family to peril. I will also continue to max out FEC contributions to candidates that support democracy and human rights. I owe the US active effort to improved governance, but also owe my children a safe environment. I believe what I’ve described balances both.
I also argue that failing to syntax highlight this correctly is a security issue. You can terminate block comments with Unicode escapes, so if you wanted to hide some malicious code in a Java source file, you just need an excuse for there to be a block of Unicode escapes in a comment. A dev who doesn’t know about this quirk is likely to just skip over it, assuming it’s commented out.
> Perl also has this goofy convention for writing man pages in your source code

The world corpus of software would be much better documented if everywhere else had stolen this from Perl. Inline POD is great.
How would any company get around the fact that blood is not homogeneous and if you take only a small amount you aren’t getting a representative sample of the person’s blood so you have a random shot of detecting whatever markers you are looking for?
That's definitely one of the best looking Qt apps I've seen.
Eevblog forum is the original source for most of the Github projects around these thermal cams. So that's a good place to start.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/new-software-f...

https://github.com/Santi-hr/UNI-T-Thermal-Utilities
It’s not even remotely close to what Alexander did, almost the complete opposite in every conceivable way.
What’s an example of a feature for a Laravel site where not fully understanding the mechanisms of Laravel under the hood would make that existing code get in the way of building the new feature? Genuine question.
A manager asking you to do something is never “just” an optional request
They didn’t say they beat the 3B, their 1.7B outperforms llama3.2 1B thanks to 11T tokens of high quality data (Hugging Face are the ones behind FineWeb dataset that everyone uses now). Btw Qwen2.5-1B also surpasses llama3.2 1B by a large margin so beating it is even more impressive
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What are the big differentiators between a circular saw and panel saw? I’m just getting into this stuff myself and have been using a circular saw and a Kreg track/guide system.
Yeah agree about the flip flops. Especially when you step one of the sidewalk tiles that gushes out a big spout of not very clean water.
> The "paradoxical" effects of ADHD stimulant-type medications is the most direct indicator that this is indeed the case: taking a CNS stimulant normally causes more arousal, agitation, and activity in NT individuals.
> But in ADHD individuals, CNS stimulants up-regulate frontal lobe activity, which manifests as a relaxant, since the frontal lobe is doing a better job of regulating and stabilizing the rest of the brain. Executive function also improves considerably.

Hence the MASSIVE problem of undiagnosed ADHD that can lead into drug abuse just like with my brother who got hooked on speed and heroin, even built a small business on that, not that that was any good in front of the judge...

Estimates on the drug addicted prison population having ADHD are way above the general population, just think they could have been kept from getting into drugs, committing crimes etc if only they had been diagnosed and treated early enough! Same for people who suffer from depression.
Release of LLM-Claude with pdf support
it usually is? you still need to do some manner of input validation on the decode. It helps when the barcodes you're reading have a known structure - then you can validate for the structure and its pretty easy.
IMHO if you like static types, I suspect you won't like Rails. Its the intentional opposite of them in many ways. I made the swap you're contemplating with similar reservations and absolutely regret it. Rails is definitely great but IME it appeals to a particular kind of developer, in the same way hard-core functional languages, strict types, or e.g. Go's' flavor of error handling each appeal to other groups. I've found those higher level patterns extend beyond mere fashion and more into some kind of persistent style preferences that's not easily changed. I dipped into the functional world and did not like it. Now I feel similarly about Rails. There are just so many times I want to offload my mental model into types, and that concept doesn't really exist in Rails. And it doesn't seem to bother most of the folks I work with, and I suspect it has more to do with how my brain works under the hood compared to theirs.

I definitely think Rails can be worth trying, but if you're the type to be evaluating types from the outset, I'd wager that's the exact kind of person that won't like what they get into.
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Django has been an absolute pleasure to work with. Contrast it to flask, which is a complete footgun factory. I agree 100% on there being (honestly, massive) value in reducing decision points in the project. Very few devs truly have the experience needed to see around the corners in their designs and architecture, and Django represents the culmination of decades of learnings on what works, and works well.

Overall, I’ve been very impressed with the product and maintainers. There are so few OSS projects that rise or the level of quality that Django has managed to achieve. Now if only they could sort out type hints ;).
Most news reports also give the percentage change as well as the point difference. That began about 20 years ago.
Yes and setting up a single IPv4 VPS as load balancer with SNI routing in front of IPv6-only instances solves that.

Most people are probably using ELB anyway.
Linux package managers like apt and dnf deal with this as well. When a key is getting old, you generate a new key with an updated expiration and push it out using the old key to verify it.

If the old key expires before a new key is delivered, then you have a problem. This has happened to me a few times and it is a pain in the butt. You basically have to disable key checking in order to receive the new key, which breaks the security.
Consumer price index is just a measure for inflation, no? So what's the big difference?
Derrida is not even particularly difficult to understand (compared to later era Wittgenstein, he's downright straightforward) --- if you read him in french he's actually really funny (the man loved puns).

There's this idea in popular culture that he only wrote incomprehensible nonsense, which is just not true, and he's become a punching bag for some people who cannot handle the (somewhat made-up) "continental v. analytic" divide.
Around here, people will say of actions or other people that they are stupid, but not con, so I get the impression it goes well beyond stupidity, into sheer bloody-mindedness.

(whether the latter rates cusswordedness I prefer to leave to L1 speakers)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCNFzdE31A (fr-u-sd-caqc)
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That's how it should be.

It is too dangerous to attach meaning to a place that can fire you, or push you into burnout.
Yes and setting up a single IPv4 VPS as load balancer with SNI routing in front of IPv6-only instances solves that.

Most people are probably using ELB anyway
I am the kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. I grew up in a familialy dishonest context so being open and transparent has been my default.

That attitude is a liability at work and I’ve learned the hard way.

We’ve all heard the phrase don’t shit where you eat. In modern workplace cadence that means don’t use your workplace as your source of therapy or friends or certainly family.

The way we present yourselves at work has to intrinsically be a performance because that’s how money works.

Find another place to express emotions and thoughts and find friends. That place should not be the workplace.
Now I wonder if Bezos have interest in pushing articles like this.
Mostly, yes. There’s only so much time. I maintain a backlog of what to explore after my kids are grown.
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Please, elaborate. What nuance and commonsense do you feel I'm not understanding?
I actually read Derrida in my time with the literature department so there was no analytics vs continentals struggle going on at all.
I thought feeling compelled to make up a story like a dead cat would be over the top, I'm so sorry that actually happened.

I don't quite get the difference between a blocked off time for chit chat and the way the manager asked for it here but totally, being forced like you have to say something you don't want to sucks.
They're referencing papers like "Attention is all you need", where such papers have usually made AI models significantly faster/better. Better/faster models means great models running well on old hardware, obviating the need for specialized hardware.

More punctuation would look like:

> Another "Z is all you need" paper means my old laptop is running models fast or something, [therefore] means groq is not something you need.
This was our experience trying to deploy a knowledge base for our Org.

You have to get the domain experts to help you build evals and you need a good pipeline for testing the LLM against those as you make changes. We were never able to get there before the project was killed. Our use-case was potentially giving career altering legal advice and we only made it to roughly 80% accuracy from our very informal eval. The domain experts wanted nothing to do with actually helping build the tool. Their idea of "testing" was asking 3 softball questions and saying "yea, it's good to go".

I think on a personal level you could probably get a usable tool that works well enough most of the time. But for anything going to production where people actually depend on it, this isn't an easy problem to solve. Although, I do think its doable.
That means we can connect directly to remote Postgres server from web browser ?
The way I conquered burnout was by having a life outside of work that isn't computer related. In my early twenties, the only notable attribute of my life was work and computers. I'd wake up in the morning, go to work programming things, then get home and either do programming side projects or play computer games, then I'd go to sleep and repeat it the next day. I had no hobbies, no friends or acquaintances outside of the people I met at work, and nothing to drive me besides the artificial goals at work. Recipe for burnout and it constantly happened.

Eventually, I got married, had a family, found things to do in the community, and do plenty of sports and hobbies that involve shutting off the computer. Even though my jobs after my 20s have been even more soul-crushing than the ones I had earlier, I've never had a hint of burnout. When I'm done with work, I shut off the computer and that's it. I'll go build a piece of furniture, or repair my car, spend time with my kid, anything that doesn't involve office politics, two week sprints, or status reports. Just having a life outside of work has done wonders for my mental health. No meditation or spirituality needed!
China has barely started with Taiwan. There are projections of China moving to forcibly take Taiwan within the next two years. It may be a bit later than that.

If the US doesn't take a strong stance in support of its ally in Taiwan, China will only take it sooner. Once China invades, that begins the massive expansion to WWIII that JP Morgan CEO claims has already begun with Ukraine.

The US can't lose Taiwan as an ally, strategically or economically. If we give up our support of Taiwan we've as good as handed over hegemony to China. And we'll have lost the AGI race in its infancy.
Hilarious posterior after my post got flagged

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/s/dOLxoZCgjl

Denial
The sun is about 45% of the way through its life.
nope! https://www.computerworld.com/article/1537941/moth-in-the-ma...
Somewhere in America
Love that app, and when they first came out their UI/UX was better than Apple. I remember seeing their dark panels styling and thinking it was sleek and ahead of its time, Apple adopted that same look and feel not long after with their pro apps.

Congrats to the Pixelmator team!
Intercepted Russian communications, however, suggest otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
I don't think you're talking about the same thing as GP. I've had spells like you describe, and I did enjoy them. And I don't know about you, but I never felt like this was expected of me by the company, so there was no pressure involved. I think that this actually being my choice made all the difference.

This seems quite distinct from what is discussed in this thread, which is people feeling some kind of pressure to work long hours, or to be available after work hours when they're supposed to be doing personal stuff. And, usually, the reasons for being called up don't seem to be some genuinely exciting problem that it feels invigorating to tackle. Instead, it's typically some form of TPS report that needs pushing around.
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> Could you share your examples of incoherence in Rust?

just a nit.

I think they used a narrow definition of coherent, for blue collars, which in web often imply mundane CRUD and agency apps.

I wouldn't expand the discussion to a brother definition about a general incoherency in the language. And certainty wouldn't bring comparisons to C++ when replying to their message.