skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's already industries that think you should pay them for the honor to work for them. (at least companies within said industries i worked for, in gaming, luxury, sports... it's not uncommon). I'm surprised they didn't charge for applications but they'll definitely pay lower wages because the rest is paid for by having their name on your resume.
Nothing to feel bad about. Thank you for sharing that too.

My son’s life changed my own in profound ways, and even though he died four years ago, he is still changing my life in profound ways. I am always grateful for the reminder and to reconnect with the purpose that his life gave to mine.

That post also reminds me that while he was alive, I did the best I could for him under my abilities, and that’s all any parent can do in the end.

If you want to know more about his life, I wrote on it here: https://bertrand.might.net/
A few questions I have on this:

Is it possible for an LLM of llama3/sonnet3.5/GPT4o quality to be trained on freely available works?

Are there other types of LLMs that can be trained on smaller data sets with comparable quality?

If that is not possible, and the courts shut down training on copyrighted works - what position will the "rule following" nations be in compared to nations that don't follow those rules?
That was my whole point. There are not 2^128 ipv6 addresses for Individual use but there are 2^64 /64 networks.

If you rent a vps with a ipv6 “address” you will see that you are given a /64 network.

There is no effort to “fix” the bottom 64 bits because it’s not needed. There are enough /56 networks to for the next 500 years and 99% of people can do everything they need with an isp provided /56. IPv4 has survived with 48 bit nat for this long so 64 bit is even more buffer space
Not standard, but hopefully worth mentioning: the thing that's clicked best for me is the docs on https://ciel-lang.org/ ("batteries included" Common Lisp image). The examples for how to use it's curated libraries matches how I try to integrate a new language into my toolbox.

It hit the front page a while ago too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401415
I have always maintained, while he was sitting and afterwards, that Scalia's deep corruption was one of the only things protecting US civil liberties. His desire not to be examined informed his decisions on investigative overreach.

The liberal justices sitting now are leaders in corruption, so it's not exclusive to people whose decisions we don't like.
Criticism of university organizations is “anti intellectual bias”?

Do you think criticism of religious organizations is “against god”?
Not related to local LLMs, but JOI from BR2049 is essentially what Replika is striving for: https://replika.com/

Infact during the onboarding process they ask the user to choose which AI companion movie they related to the most: Her, BR2049 or Ex-Machina. The experience is then tailored to align closer to the movie chosen.

It's quite a terrible app from a product design perspective: filled with dark patterns (like sending the user blurred images to "unlock*) and upsells, but it's become successful amongst the masses that have adopted it, which I find fascinating. 30m+ users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika#:~:text=Replika%20beca....
Why join meta as a swe when the CEO wants to replace you?
I cried "LLM garbage" too. Catchy title, article full of bizarre errors and repetition.

It would be a prank--LLM writing about AI, badly.

But the Medium account behind it has only articles like this.
That is the way.
Not long ago, most of Science was done by rich people as a hobby.
We need to get back to that system.
> If I, for instance, tell my wife I can improve our income by 3x or 1000x but I don't really know, there's no planning that can be done and I'll probably have to sleep on the couch until I figure out what the hell I'm doing.

For most people, even a mere 3x in the next 5 years is huge, it's 25% per year growth.

3x in 5 years is a reasonable low-ball for hardware improvements alone. Caveat: top-end silicon is now being treated as a strategic asset, so there may be wars over it, driving up prices and/or limiting progress, even on the 5-year horizon.

I'm unclear why your metaphor would have you sleeping on the sofa: If tonight you produce a business idea for which you can be 2σ-confident that it will give you an income 5 years from now in the range [3…1000]x, you can likely get a loan for a substantially bigger house tomorrow than you were able to get yesterday; in the UK that's a change slightly larger than going from the median average full-time salary to the standard member of parliament salary.

(The reason behind this, observed lowering of compute costs, has been used even decades ago to delay investment in compute until the compute was cheaper).

The arguments I've seen elsewhere for order-of-10,000x* cost improvements (which is a proxy for efficiency and speed if not IQ) is based on various different observations cost reductions** since ChatGPT came out — personally, I doubt that the high end of that would come to pass, my guess is those all represent low-hanging fruit that can't be picked twice, but even then I would still expect there to be some opportunity for further gains.

* The original statement had one more digit in it than yours, but this doesn't make much difference to the argument either way

** e.g. https://www.wing.vc/content/plummeting-cost-ai-intelligence
I built a GPT like experience for subreddits. Essentially this allows you to chat with a given subreddit to find information more easily than you normally would—via scrolling through reddit.

Try it out! I really want some feedback. How open are you guys to having slower but more accurate responses? Should this be up to the user?

https://reddit-search-tau.vercel.app
My browser was apparently bugged, and it didn't show the article the first time... I see it now and am going through it. Thanks for mentioning! :)
> it would be awesome if every Unix utility output structured data like JSON

I see this argument a lot, and I think it has a ton of overlap with the struggles from devs trying to grok RDBMS I see as a DBRE.

Most (?) people working with web apps have become accustomed to JSON, and fully embrace its nesting capabilities. It’s remarkably convenient to be able to deeply nest attributes. RDBMS, of course, are historically flat. SQL99 added fixed-size, single-depth arrays, and SQL2003 expanded that to include arbitrary nesting and size; SQL2017 added JSON. Still, the traditional (and IMO, correct) way to use RDBMS is to treat data as having relationships to other data, and to structure it accordingly. It’s challenging to do, especially when the DB providers have native JSON types available, but the reasons why you should are numerous (referential integrity, size efficiency, performance…).

Unix tooling is designed with plaintext output in mind because it’s simple, every other tool in the ecosystem understands it, and authors can rest assured that future tooling in the same ecosystem will also understand it. It’s a standard.

JSON is of course also a standard, but I would argue that on a pure CLI basis, the tooling supporting JSON as a first-class citizen (jq) is far more abstruse than, say, sed or awk. To be fair, a lot of that is probably due to the former’s functional programming paradigm, which is foreign to many.

Personally, I’m a fan of plaintext, flat output simply because it makes it extremely easy to parse with existing tooling. I don’t want to have to fire up Python to do some simple data manipulation, I want to pipe output.
Yeah there are far cheaper ways to “distract” from a monopoly than building Waymo from scratch. Alleging that whole project exists only as a smokescreen is pretty conspiratorial thinking.
Honestly, it sounds to me like the two of you made a mistake getting married. The differences in your values are irreconcilable.

Your wife is a human being with thoughts and feelings and experience just as fully fledged and valid as your own. She doesn’t want to be shoved into a traditional role box. If you try it, she will only resent you. If she doesn’t capitulate, it sounds like you will resent her.

Maybe couples therapy would help, but I don’t see this marriage lasting.

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To answer your question: I don’t have and will never have a wife. My mom had a career. So did both my grandmothers and all my aunts. My brother’s wife is the primary breadwinner for their family.

Most of them did a fantastic job raising their children (and where they stumbled it had everything to do with character flaws and nothing to do with career).

Kids need to know they’re loved. Unconditionally. By both parents. That’s it. Your wife having a career will not have any negative impact on their development.

So why do you feel so threatened by the idea of your wife maintaining her career? If you really want equality in your relationship and you’re concerned your kids won’t get enough hands-on caregiving, perhaps you should consider sacrificing your own career instead of hers?

How does that suggestion feel? Now put yourself in her shoes — that’s how she feels when you suggest it to her.
Tracking mining with multispectral satellite imagery
Maybe that's the evidence that dark energy and dark matter are the reality which our dark side refuses to admit.
The point is, it's already a theory to even suggest it's "matter" and not any other explanation.
Try https://rcl-lang.org/ instead then, it has syntax that you can write without needing ChatGPT.
Apple board opposes proposal to abolish DEI programs
Hi! I'm the author.

Like jchw said, this was a single-day project (although I did the writeup for it the next day).

I went from 0-prototype in one sitting; I think that was around four or five hours of work? Then I went home, had dinner, and spent maybe three hours optimizing and cleaning it up.

edit: I should say, i have done a lot of dumb things like this and I'm pretty sure it would have been at least a week of work for me 2 years ago. "making the computer do dumb stuff" is a skill like any other!
>LLMs do not have such kind of meta-knowledge over their training data or weights.

Not sure this is a claim that can be confidently made.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00667

https://x.com/flowersslop/status/1873115669568311727?t=eBMbK...
This was a clear rhetorical tactic, the type a lawyer would employ. Saying Roe is settled law is a factual observation about the world, not a statement of personal opinion. When you look at it that way, it wasn't a lie, but an observation that is no longer true.
The SCOTUS has outlived its usefulness. The next step is for States to actively begin disregarding its decisions and forcing the Federal government to enforce its unpopular mandates against States which chose to not comply which will be deeply unpopular.
Even if your context is a trillion tokens in length, the problem of creating that context still exists. It's still ETL and systems integration.
Its reproducible at a superficial level. Tags are mutable, so someone can push a different “3.1” between build 1 and 2, which results in a different build. You can also be fuzzy with tags, so if you say “from nginx:3” as your base (or nginx:latest) then build 1 and 2 can change because of a new tagged build upstream.

Then theres the million app-level changes that can creep in, eg copying local source is non-deterministic, apt-update, git clone, etc. Nix requires you to be fully explicit about the hash of the content you expect in each of those cases and so if you build it twice it is actually the same build.
“But it’s not infinite…”

You should have stopped there and asked yourself if that’s what he meant with “simulation”.
This (particularly the figure 1 illustration) discounts the "distribution" layer for apps

Single app/feature startups will lose (true long before AI). A few will grow large enough to entrench distribution and offer a suite of services, creating defensibility against competitors

The distributors (eg. a SaaS startup that rapidly landed/expanded) will continue to find bleeding edge ways to offer a 6-12mo advantage against foundation models and incumbents

GitLab is a great example of this model. The equivalent bitter lesson of the web is that every cutting edge proprietary technology will eventually be offered free open source. However, there is a commercial advantage to purchasing the bleeding edge features with a strong SLA and customer service

The mistake is to think technology is a business. Business has always been about business. Good technology reduces the cost of sale (CAC) and cost of goods sold (COGS) to create a 85-90% margin. Good technology does not create a moat

Resilient businesses do not rely on singular technology advantages. They invest heavily in long term R&D to stay ahead of EACH wave. Resting on one's laurels after catching a single wave, or sitting out of the competition because there will be bigger waves later, are both surefire ways to lose the competition
Americans with a bachelor’s degree earn a median of $2.8 million during their careers, 75% more than if they had only a high school diploma

So what is the conclusion here?

One could easily conclude that those who demonstrate superior drive, motivation, determination and ability out earn those who don't.

Bill Gates doesn't have a degree and he earns more in a week than most degree holders do in a lifetime. So is it the degree or is it the person?
you apply another monoid operation.

one possible one is to return first or last element. makes sense in layered configuration of, for example, a text editor, where you might override a colour.

another possible one is to return error on duplicate. makes sense in flat configuration of, for example, a build system.

your application knows which operation fits its intended structure. your application documents the behaviour, just as it normally would.
> PhD programs have very high attrition, and you bear most of the risk on your own shoulders.

How many people do you know who “failed to meet the standard”? Zero. If you do the time and work for your professors you will get the reward. There is no risk.

> PhD Envy" is a real part of office politics

The most vocal critics are not bachelor degree holders, but those who did it and had a bad experience.
Ugh I've run into this issue as a developer before, IIRC it was something about the height of the bottom browser bar not being considered in touch targets. I think I was using the Canvas API when I hit it
Interestingly, this is the exact opposite of the point the article makes — which is that over time, more general models and more compute are more capable, and by building a domain-specific model you just build a ceiling past which you can’t reach.

This is not the same as having unique access to domain-specific data, which becomes more valuable as you run it through more powerful domain-agnostic models. It sounds like this latter point is the one you say has value for startups to tackle
How would we rule out that the model didn't notice that the difference was small, and then simply put less weight into determining which is true.

I get the authors point, but I would have liked to see and example with a more egregious error.
Until they drive competitors out of business, and then it's not. Much like the horizontal integration of, say, Walmart.
If he can make the channel, he can delete the channel. If the people in that channel want a new place to chat, they can make one. So what's the problem?
> It is more that they even thought this is an okay thing to do makes them moraly suspect in my eyes.

Maybe you don't seriously consider doing really bad things, and even take steps playing with the idea of doing them. I definitely have, especially when I was younger.

> They should have told the person offering to steal a statue that he shouldn’t. And when he shows up with a statue they should have told him that he should bring it back or they are calling the police. And when he brought the second statue they should have called the police instead of paying for it. And then every single day the statue was on his mantle piece he should have returned it safely.

Sure, stealing things is bad.

> And, none of them even asked “what if we just leave this suitcase with a sign which says ‘to the police’?”

Actually, they handed them to the police through a newspaper. That's what they actually did! So clearly they asked it at some point ;)
Rose-tinted glasses are definitely a thing, as is nostalgia, and before I get into topics like the fact that UI/UX was actually scientifically better[0] back then, I'd like to take a moment to step back and consider what the author is actually implying.

Yes, the world was centralised, and profit motives did exist. There was a time where it looked like AOL would legitimately kill the open web, and MSN was trying too at the same time. However; the early 00's were blessed with technological limitation.

I distinctly remember the fact that IRC and the primitive forum systems we designed such that an identity tied to a real person was not something people felt the need to have. To even care what a community thinks because ultimately there's quite literally another one just around the corner.

The golden era of community creation was 2002-2004 (incidentally this is when my own IRC network formed). Because heavy handed moderation, power trips and so-on caused market pressures on moderation staff.

Too heavy handed and authoritarian: you might kill your community.

Not willing to stamp out toxic elements: you might kill your community.

That's why we're nostalgic, because simpler times was a combination of:

* more focused, human and often better moderation;

* a deluge of communities where you could find a place; even if you were weird, like me - and;

* an understanding that your identity was not important. "On the internet, nobody know's you're a dog".

Yes, there were companies and profit seeking, the web itself was mired in proprietary plugins and jank standards. But there was an ease of hosting communities that is totally lost now.

The best many of us can hope for these days, is a little carved out niche as a serf in a fiefdom.

[0]: https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Micro...
This is a great way to get people who work in low wage jobs such as food service to go to work sick and spread illness widely.
Ask HN: Toy AIML finetuning Eureka moment: your recommendations?
I want to be able to quickly fine tune a pre-trained neural network model, and have the Eureka moment of observing it working on non-training data.

I have access to a Windows 11 laptop and Google CoLab's free tier. I know how to use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), Docker Compose, and some Python tools (Anaconda, JupyterLab).

Is there a toy exercise you'd recommend?
Unreasonably narrow, rather! We have not convinced anyone, much less done the proper science, to stick to our guns so long that it is truly matter we are hunting to explain this phenomenon.
All that’s true, and that is completely different than what’s advertised in this article.
cookiewall free archive https://archive.ph/aVwAv
As a Gen Xer, I figured this was a millennial thing. Given the age ranges you cite that may still be the case. I don't work with enough Gen Zers to paint them with a broad brush.

But most of the people I've worked with who wanted feel "part of something" had been 10+ years younger than me.
I wonder if another way to think about this is as an authenticated vector clock. I think a merkle tree approach is probably too heavy weight as it’s not necessary to keep that information around. You kind of just need quorum (defined as appropriate to mitigate abuse) to update your local version of the vector clock, but unlike a merkle tree, you only need partial updates based on the subset of posters you care about and you basically only need to keep around the last few versions of each vector component.
It's fine to have preferences or cognitive inertia towards working a certain way. It's silly to pretend that doing things this way conveys some kind of universalist advantage or to conjure up a bunch of imaginary/highly niche scenarios (I'm remote coding over 28.8k at the bottom of the ocean and have no access to a browser anywhere!) that necessitate working this way for argumentative purposes.
You mean like Arkansas’ handling of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?
Why do you say he's a transphobic bigot?
Thanks for taking the time to respond, pretty impressive stuff!
Looking Glass' Displays to Support iOS, Bringing Immersive 3D to More Users
That seems really time consuming.

One question I’ve had for a while but didn’t seem worth the look is if there any consideration for local gravitational interaction between stars exchanging momentum between them and thus flattening the rotation curve.

I’m assuming that’s one of the first things looked at but couldn’t find a paper on the subject. Remember any references on the topic?
Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire
Self-reviews are absolutely the stupidest thing. It's a way for the manager to foist off the work of writing the review onto the person being reviewed, and a way to guarantee that the reviews are glowing piles of bullshit because of course the sensible thing to do if you are writing your own review is to oversell your achievements and not discuss any deficiencies.

You're the manager -- it's your job to evaluate and review the performance of your reports. Not theirs.
"This is your Captain speaking, we may only have a few minutes to restore power, I am hereby commandeering all your USB cables, we daisy chain them from the passenger cabin to the cockpit" ... ?
I hope you have decent source of secondary income or your family is reasonably well off.

A math PhD might take 6-7 years to complete and I hope that, at the end of it all, you won’t have to come to London to look for C++ or Ocaml jobs at hedge funds or banks.
The enshitification trend seems pretty dominant, and pretty bad for users / good for investors
The only people who can find a way are technical people. The average person can't do it.

And we can't tell how valuable it is because we don't know what we are losing.

If we burn down the Library of Alexandria, was there anything valuable in there? We don't know, because it's all burned. It's inaccessible. It's too much stuff to verify before doing it, and we can't tell after we do it, so I'd rather we don't burn down the whole thing since we don't know what's inside.

And every time it does happen, it's a massive loss.

You have no idea how much I grief the fact flash games are no longer a thing. If newgrounds still had flash today, the Internet would be a much better place.
https://archive.is/gbIFY

https://archive.today/gbIFY

https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/20...
Davis is traditionally far better than the Bay. Better infrastructure earlier, and much flatter.
... this is why we love bad apple!
Ah yes, the “cosmological principle” that everything averages out to be basically the same everywhere over large distances. It makes sense that this principle would need to be violated in order to eliminate dark energy.

One of my favorite sci fi concepts is a universe where the cosmological principle was false.
Why would a field be immune to political patterns found in every organization?
When you’re splitting hairs over whether an intentionally misleading response is technically a lie, it’s a good sign the whole system has lost whatever good faith it once had.
How do chimney sweeps eat when everyone has a gas or electric furnace?