TL;DR sample the top N results from the LLM and use traditional NLP to extract factoids, if the LLM is confabulating the factoids would have random distribution, but if it's not it will be heavily weighted towards one answer.
A reply in the thread from David Major about performance:
"At the moment, performance is a mixed bag. Some tests are up and some are down. In particular I believe Speedometer is down a few percent."
"Note however that clang-cl is punching above its weight. These builds currently have neither LTO nor PGO, while our MSVC builds use both of those. Any regressions that we're seeing ought to be short-lived. Once we enable LTO[1] and PGO[2], I expect clang to be a clear performance win."
> Similarly, awards with vesting triggers based on exit events such as an initial public offering or change-in-control would be taxable on grant unless they require the recipient to be employed through the liquidity date
Double trigger RSUs are popular in late stage unicorns where the exercise price for ISOs have already hit a high level but the stock isn't liquid enough to sell to cover the tax as they vest.
A lot of people might be affected, I wonder if existing grants are grandfathered in?
Fast! is a Microsoft Research language for tree transforms, the cool part is the "deforestation" where a sequence of functions can be transformed in to a single function.
What makes this cool is it isn't "runtime" composition; the generated C# code does the transformation in a single pass. For example a sequence of maps and filters would only loop over the list once.
It's worth noting here that they demonstrated this effect with language learners i.e. it's very likely that the students had to labouriously work out the foreign language questions.
Basically they've demonstrated that if people spend a lot more time on a question they answer less emotionally (which seems like it would be true independent of the language).
If they can demonstrate the effect still holds with 2nd language speakers with native level proficiency then this would be a lot more interesting result.
There's some guys in Seattle doing this using motion-capture cameras for the positioning:
I answer that I'm terrified of running into something in the real world while my
vision is obscured, but they insist I'll be fine. It turns out the game space's
virtual walls correspond to the real ones in the admittedly small office I occupy
in meatspace.
> What sort of sites do you think it doesn't apply to?
Single page webapps. In those cases the html/js is normally static and already CDN'ed and the data is a JSON API which varies on a per user basis.
There would be some gain as the dictionary would learn the JSON keys but I doubt it would be very dramatic vs deflate compared to the content sites referenced in the article.
This looks like Twitter's version of Web Components?
You might have heard of it shadow DOM etc. Basically the idea is to be able to add GUI components eg <progressbar> that are as integrated as the native ones are.
Mozilla's X-Tags implementation seems closer to the goal though: http://www.x-tags.org/ IIRC it can do this because it's using Object.observable internally to detect DOM changes.
ie with X-tags you don't need the javascript definition part, just: <x-map data-key="39d2b66f0d5d49dbb52a5b7ad87aea9b"></x-map>.
The optimal protocol, it turned out, was not the usual, even-spaced one, but an irregular series of two serotonin pulses emitted 10 minutes apart, then one five minutes later, with a final spritz 30 minutes afterward.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is resigning as editor of the popular technology blog, and will run a $20 million venture-capital fund backed by TechCrunch-owner AOL Inc. and several venture-capital firms.
Mr. Arrington "will run the fund and will continue to write for TechCrunch, but will have no editorial oversight," said an AOL spokesman. Erick Schonfeld, who has served as co-editor in New York, will become interim editor while AOL searches for a replacement for Mr. Arrington, the spokesman said. AOL purchased the site last year.
Mr. Arrington's new fund, called CrunchFund, closed Thursday with $20 million, according to people familiar with the matter. AOL leads the limited-partner group, which includes a long roster of venture firms that kicked in $1 million each: Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Several individuals contributed money, including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz; general partners at Benchmark Capital; angel investors Ron Conway and Kevin Rose; and Yuri Milner of Russian firm DST Global.
It isn't immediately clear what is the fate of AOL's venture-capital arm, AOL Ventures, which has made recent seed investments in start-ups such as spam-defense company Impermium and price-tracking service Shopobot.
Mr. Arrington's partner in the fund is Patrick Gallagher, who has been a partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners since 2008.
Mr. Arrington wasn't immediately available for comment. He posted a message on Twitter after news of the fund broke: "slow news day."
Mr. Arrington, a former lawyer who is known to be well connected in Silicon Valley, started TechCrunch in 2005. The site built up a following for its coverage of young tech companies.
Long an angel investor himself, Mr. Arrington announced on TechCrunch in 2009 that he would stop making investments in start-ups due to a perceived conflict as both publisher and investor. It's "a weak point that competitors and disgruntled entrepreneurs use to attack our credibility," he wrote at the time.
But in April this year, after AOL acquired TechCrunch, Mr. Arrington announced he was investing in start-ups again, while also becoming a limited partner in venture funds Benchmark Capital and SoftTechVC.
Mr. Arrington has often said that transparency and full disclosure keep things above-board when his blog writes about companies he has some financial stake in.
* He want's to be able to sell it without being clear about it (so he can buy the next election or make a personal nest egg with it).
Venezuela's bonds moved 50 basis points on this so the markets are obviously worried that the gold's going to start evaporating once it's under his control.
Just got it. I like the focus on working though a bunch of links. Currently for a site like hacker news I open a lot of tabs but I always have to switch back on opening the tab and it uses up a lot of memory loading them when I not actually going to read them yet.
iCab solves the first problem as it can auto background tab any links to a different domain. This is a actually smoother than the flow here: tap-hold-selecting is a slow operation I don't want to have to do it for every link on a page.
Instead I'd love a toggle that turns on add to queue as the default operation for the duration of that page. (This would be an improvement on the iCab option as the background loading is easy to forget about and then immediately becomes confusing.) The toggle should be a main button like the plus and would cease to apply if you navigate anywhere else or start going though your queue.
Another option would be certain pages always open in auto add to queue mode (eg set on the the bookmark). And some people might prefer add to instapaper as the default action etc.
EDIT: I actually really like this. Feels very smooth.
A figure from the paper shows this better than my TL;DR: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0/figures/1