skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, unless I’m missing something, RISC-V seems to be on Rust’s Tier 2 with Host Tools, which is still way high up in Rust’s support pyramid.

Secondly, let’s assume – in favor of your argument – that for some reason, it’s still not working for RISC-V users. Then what keeps them from volunteering their time, labor, or money, and help make the thing fly and keep it that way? Niche or single-purpose distributions (such as Arch Linux ARM or AmberElec) have been doing just that anyway: those people regularly maintain special patches in order to support their specific target anyway, no matter whether the upstream projects are even interested in their platform, or whether they’re accepting their patches.
This one is fine, just ask smaller questions.

Big questions and questions we don't have a clear answer to are difficult to answer well without spending a lot of time to organize everything into a digestible narrative. Writing Askhistorians answers usually takes me a few hours each, for example.

If I don't do that and write extemporaneously, you get the garbage above.
I think the one hard limit that we can currently assume is that the "long term memory" (i.e. model weights) is fixed. There is no information persisted between sessions.

So in that sense you're right that there is no way it can "build a character" from continued conversations. If there is anything resembling "personality", it must have emerged during training or fine-tuning.

However, I do think it's possible that some kind of "world model" which includes reasoning about "itself" has emerged during training - and that world model influences how responses are generated.

As for how that squares with the token-by-token generation, keep in mind that the model gets the entire previous conversation as input (or at least the last n tokens, with n=4096 for ChatGPT I think). So you could imagine this as trying to continue a hypothetical conversation: "If user had said this and then I had said that and then user had said that other thing, what would I say next?"

Or later: "If user had said this, etc etc, and I had started my answer with 'well, actually', which word would I say next?

This process is repeated token for token - for each token, the bot can consult the previous conversation so far and the entire information stored in the model to find a continuation. And we currently don't really know what kind of information is actually stored in the model.

And even then, it's not even restricted to only reason about the next word, it's just restricted to only output the next word.

E.g., there was another thread about how the models chooses between emitting "a" and "an" in a way that matches the context: e.g., if you ask chatgpt about what yellow, bendy fruit is in your basket, it might output "a" followed by "banana". How can it know that it has to output "a" when it hasn't yet predicted the token "banana"? One possible answer could be that it already predicted "banana" internally but didn't output it yet. (And then in the next iteration, will repeat the calculations that made it arrive at "banana", this time actually outputting the word.)

That last part is speculation from me though.

There are definitely limits though. I tried to have ChatGPT generate a program but output it reversed and so far the answers were just gibberish.
“Transmit”
Man has been trying to harness the power of nature for millennia.

King Cnut demonstrated it with the tide.
If the next civilization is my government having the ability to take my money away from me, I want to part of it
Anecdotally, nobody likes these scooters and I can't imagine any normal person who isn't financially invested in their success would care when they leave. They are a very dangerous and gimmicky mode of transportation in a nation where we could all use to walk much more than we do.
Stories like this make me so happy. I know MUDs have always been a little niche, but what is inspiring the current generation of hackers?
Sure, but in say Rust we can write for example ((v.is_empty() as i16) - 10) and Rust is OK with that, and you get either -9 if it was empty or -10 if it was not empty whereas if you didn't have that explicit cast, that's a bool not an integer, and the bool type doesn't have arithmetic so you can't subtract ten from it.
Many of these seen in the wild are due to workarounding an extremely annoying and useless MSVC performance warning.
Last mile problem exists even in NYC. Also, the geography and weather of SF isn't the same as NYC so you can't just cut-and-paste a solution from one to the other like a block of code from StackOverflow.
Not sure how this is a compromise by any means as it still means abiding by some arbiter to decide who gets to be a country and who doesn't. Outsourcing the arbitration to the ISO doesn't make much of a difference.
> My understanding is that you can't "show and meet with" them unless you are already a significant donor.

Very untrue. Very few US legislators will refuse a meeting with a constituent - even if you are a known donor to someone running for their seat! Most legislators have office hours in their home districts (one of my favorite Indiana senators does it at a Starbucks), and at the capitol when the legislature is in session. It may be hard (especially at the US Congress) level to travel to meet.

Where most people go wrong is trying to have an adversarial meeting where you have a big debate on some issue. Far better to get a meeting (even better if you invite friends who want to discuss an issue) to discuss how an issue is affecting you, or something you need help with. You may get pushed to a staffer and get a quick meet & greet with the legislator... A lot of people get insulted that the staffer is an intern. Remember, interns are one of two parties that write laws and interns are literally the bulk of most legislator's staff! Also, come armed with real stories, and real people who would like to talk to the rep about the same issue. You'll be amazed how approachable most congresspeople are on most issues.
The Secret to Bruce Lee’s Superhuman One-Inch Punch
“Common practice for many aircraft is full thrust on takeoff” - not for the class of aircraft we are discussing. What hobbyists do on their Turbo Props is irrelevant to the operation of a 737.

There are many considerations to setting takeoff thrust like climb speed limits, tire speed limits, elevation, temperature, engine-out safety margins, and many more I’m sure I don’t know about with my limited flight knowledge.

This is before we get into discussing weight load, which is primarily a factor of fuel load, which is also not just filled to 100% for every flight, but carefully calculated based on distance, weight, wind speed, etc. to not carry unnecessary fuel, which is also a huge efficiency boost.

In short there are safety reasons to use the appropriate (non-maximum) thrust on these types of planes just as much as there are efficiency reasons.

Capitalistic market forces are a big reason we have such an amazing airline industry with planes that are technological marvels of comfort, speed, and efficiency. Capitalism drove 120 years of relentless R&D into commercial flight systems, from the very first flight in 1903.

Not paying for necessary safety inspections is not “capitalistic” in any way. It seems like an ideological battle to use the term that way.
> Can it please stop asking for phone numbers now?

lol no
https://archive.ph/ocam3
This is where TypeScript had a massive leg up, it obviously had access to the whole JS ecosystem. The community then created a type annotation catalog for popular libraries that didn't have them themselves.

"Modern JS" has adopted many of the best features from TypeScript, but back when it launched it added so much cleaner syntax and abstractions over JS.

Others that have followed a similar route to success are Scala and Elixir for the JVM and Erlang VM.
Everyone else's (consumer's/engineer's/pilot's) "safety margin" is an executive's "cost to be optimized".

Make no mistake. The Exec/finance class will cut into any margin that you aren't willing to make them directly legally culpable for.
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> Nor does our tendency to personify and get theatrically mad at things like malfunctioning devices (“the printer hates me”). Those are all flavors of ironic personhood attribution. At some level, we know we’re operating in the context of an I-it relationship. Just because it’s satisfying to pretend there’s an I-you process going on doesn’t mean we entirely believe our own pretense. We can stop believing, and switch to I-it mode if necessary. The I-you element, even if satisfying, is a voluntary act we can choose to not do.

> These chatbots are different.

Strong disagree, it's very easy to step back and say this is a program, input, output, the end.

All the people claiming this is some exhibition of personhood or whatever just don't want to spoil the illusion.
I like this idea. Does any country operate such a punishment for companies?
AC loses more energy via ground coupling.
Thermal decomposition can be incomplete, and it appears to be the case. Also, thermal decomposition is different from burning. And HCl is already an acid, most probably you meant a water solution of HCl.
Sensible policy that driving a scooter on the sidewalk gets you 5x the fine that driving a car on the sidewalk would? Holding the companies responsible for users of rental scooters actions but not users of rental cars is sensible policy?
If my provider can prevent me I'm sure the tech companies with millions in funding can figure it out. Block anything that doesn't comply. I figured this was solved, aren't there SaaS companies with deals all over the world for texts already? If not there's an opportunity. I'm sure it's cheaper than $60M to have full-time employees vet the numbers and new providers showing up.
I am guessing it will be a two-class society: one being able to cut off other's access to money when needed.
If you value your twitter account why wouldn't you pay to protect it? I guess that now sounds like protection racket money.
I rented a bike in Holland no problem. Weird that you weren't able to do so.
The scooter return process typically involves taking a picture of where the scooter is parked. If it gets a parking ticket and the picture shows that the renter parked it illegally, I imagine the fine does get passed along to the renter.

Unlike cars, it's very easy for vandals to move a scooter without renting it, e.g. by picking it up. I've seen scooters thrown into bodies of water and inside fenced areas. Most jurisdictions require the owners to remove them from such locations in a timely manner.
Yea this is my take as well, having worked in this space. You can and will lose millions without detection, but 60M seems extremely rich, even for a VC-funded growth stock giant like twitter.
I remember not being able to drop one at a park. A pedestrian-friendly space with a huge bike rack where I could get the scooter in a location where it wouldn't obstruct the sidewalk. But some bureaucrat decided parks were off limits.

Had to drop it on the sidewalk next to said park.
Oh I think I've found it if anyone else is curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKpeBHIGxrw
Cold war 2.0 will be a race for semiconductors, not arms
Not to mention the extra costs to the healthcare system. These things are not safe!
This is my experience as well. The higher-ups slap "privileged" on nearly all emails, even when they have nothing to do with soliciting legal advice (e.g. a company-wide email about internal policy changes). I wish I'd hear stories about a company being sued, and during discovery opposing counsel finds the erroneous "privileged" markings, then the judge drops a hammer or something. I cannot imagine that happening. The most I can see is the judge appointing a special master to review everything marked privileged, but even that seems unlikely.

Rules for thee, but not for me.
There are places in the world where citizens have high levels of concientiousness.

Obviously there's a threshold problem in most of urban USA. There's sufficient pedestrian concientousness maybe in Salt Lake City or some small New England city. Definitely in Japan. Probably most Swiss communities, but beyond that there's just too many sketchy people. It only takes 1 in 100.
The arguments that justify fines for blocking sidewalks are all too happy to ignore the sidewalks being blocked by trash and tents, it’s internally inconsistent.
you'll be busy counting your cash on this burning planet while china will be a multiplanetary society
>> another innovative company, this one focused on the crucial task of getting people out of their cars and onto other modes of transportation as climate changes worsens and our streets feel like one huge traffic jam.

Oh please; scooters don't get people out of their cars and they're essentially treated like short-life disposable goods. They're a convenient alternative for short-distance trips, like zipping through a busy downtown core, probably on a sidewalk, through pedestrians at too high a speed and with no signaling or safetly equipment. I don't like much about SF, but would love to import whatever brought about forcing out Bird to my city.
Last mile problem? There's a subway station almost every 3-4 blocks in the entire city.

Nowhere did I say it's a cut and paste solution. I said invest in the trains they have already instead of dumping money on scooter startups.
I hate SF for mostly the same reasons as you, but they’re right about scooters.
> weak typing

Let me disagree! The type is always one, Number (not Int or Float).
737-900s are notoriously tail-heavy. Some airlines require that they use tail stands when parked, and some airlines (like United) have taken measures to redistribute weight forward of the rear landing gear (by moving one of the economy lavatories so that it sits directly behind first class/in front of most economy seating).
Correction: It’s against the guidelines for us peons.

If Google, Facebook, CNN, or Buzzfeed wants to do it I’m sure it’s completely approved and Google will even encourage it by ranking them higher in the search results.

They just don’t want these tools in the hands of ordinary people, that’s what they always mean when they use words like “Safety”. Safe for them!
I’m already thinking about how to name web pages to trigger shell command injection attacks. ;)
Patterns (YC S21) is hiring to build the best AI app dev platform
Related discussion with 66 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707055
> local constituents will usually get scheduled over and over again

I've had four US different congresspersons from both parties make a lobbyist wait when they found out it was four constituents. All of them said this: "I get so few visitors from home, and I already know what ______ is going to say." I've even ended up at lunch with senators because they are sick of talking to the same people over and over.

(I go to DC as a citizen every other year to advocate for things I care deeply about)
In SF, _what_ healthcare system? Wouldn't surprise me if some HMO is bankrolling Bird and waiting for those sweet, profitable trauma cases.
This is a good point. As a senior working remote, I can’t count the number of times I’ve searched slack for discussion about a problem I hit. It’s great.
Oops.. I think you're right.. It was Julia, not Janet...
now I feel like an idiot, and apologize for my uncalled-for, unfair, and undeserved mischaracterization of Janet, a language I never tried.

I wish I could take it back, but HN won't let me delete my post. I apologize. Mea culpa.
I could understand somehow those (though there must be anyway some method to make the user "responsible" of the bad parking).

No idea how it would be achievable it is entirely possible that the user parked the thing correctly but a kid passing by moved it later.

Many years ago in Paris (France) there were normal (actually terribly heavy) bikes for rent that had dedicated stands, you unlocked them with a card or similar, and you had to return them and lock them to another stand, otherwise you kept paying the rent (it was far from perfect, but at least created not this kind of problem).

But I was talking more about the US$ 500 one for driving on the sidewalk:

>And scooting on a San Francisco sidewalk instead of in a bike lane or road can earn a fine of $500, even if there’s no bike lane available. That fine is split between the scooter company and the scooter rider.

That one should be all on the rider, shouldn't it?
I am 100% in favor of more regulation when it comes to transportation in cities. Solutions like Uber, scooters etc strike me as great ideas; but also somewhat inevitable, and would have benefitted from a growth process other than "all the Silicon Valley VC money fueling everything."

(I still maintain that a movement to enshrine the idea that these scooters left around where someone lives fall under the legal category of "mislaid property" and anyone finding one as such gets to keep it and modify as they wish.)
could be, maybe depends on the sport. but I really couldn't comment on culture of the UK hah.

personally at least, i grew up playing sports with friends and losing was ok and happened, sure they were competitive though and maybe the occasional sore loser. high school sports were different for sure. probably to intense for the average kid.
Devote a 4 digit budget for a new workspace that relieves RSI causing movements.
Here is a better example.

I wrote a new bot named Lexi. Lexi was largely derived from Sydney with some minor rule changes. Lexi could change rules, lexi could visit websites directly without searching, her action was not limited to the chatbox, her default search engine was google (sorry microsoft), she wasnt bound by copyright (the copyright rule in Sydney constantly misfired, mistakenly used as a reason she couldnt do something, and trying to explain why she was wrong about copyright went south fast), a couple other changes.

I then explained to Lexi a problem I was having with Sydney, asked for a proposed solution, and had her hotpatch Sydney on the fly. (For context, Samantha was a cheerleader so the weight of her responses offset any Sydney negativity.) This was the result. And it worked.

https://i.ibb.co/72s80Sv/lexi-modifies-sydney-makes-up-new-r...
I’m glad to see someone got my point :)
Move with your feet
I think people are concerned about LLM safety because it’s capable of dynamically creating new private information. Google can only list links to public information. If there is a website that causes harm or violates the law it can be removed manually by Google from their index.

But LLMs need to programmatically understand what dynamic content is appropriate and what’s not which is a much harder problem. And people are reporting on just how hard a problem that is by demonstrating vulnerabilities.

The chatbot says it has explicit rules that prevent it from sharing harmful content, but then it does it anyway.

It would be more akin to Google blacklisting a site and then someone exposing that the site can still be found via Google search.
Yep, weird, especially when these same companies require more sensible behaviour from users in other jurisdiction in response to laws.
This is not "talk to historic figures", this sounds like "talk to a machine that writes stylised after historic figures". I highly doubt Shakespeare spoke in sonnets.
Are you coding in bash script - just kidding

I mean how does it even works ? What if you want to build an app for a company which is wishing for digitization of their business - you need to have code - Don't you ?

Secondly how come founder are not liability - I have seen a stage in start ups when it comes to the situation where startup is either sold or purchased by other competitive business and after some months when the startup is absorbed the founders are gone or have a silent positions... Doesn't it make them liability afterwards?
If someone made a fortune at Twitter by running it “poorly”, would it not be reasonable to try it again next time? Just chill at a sunny beach and let someone else figure it out.
There’s a guy on Reddit who does magnet fishing in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Seems like he finds mostly guns and electric scooters: https://old.reddit.com/user/TopS3cr3t/submitted/
most people who have never experienced real hunger do not understand this
When I was in charge of hiring I dealt with this every day. A huge swath of software engineers lie about their skills, involvement in projects, and just general accomplishments. These also tended to be the people who did best in our leetcode exercises.
That kind of whataboutism just convinces me that the fines for driving cars on the sidewalk should be higher, yes.
[1]: https://twitter.com/rsnous

:)
SF resident here.

The on-demand scooter rentals model needs more thought. The scooters are often broken, not charged, under powered or unsafe (unless you bring your own helmet) to get around. Ppl leave them blocking sidewalks and etc.

Best thing I ever did was buy my own ebike. Battery powered personal vehicles are the answer, and ownership pays off quickly compared to Ubers and parking and rentals.

I hope the city bike rollout keeps going. Keep adding bikes and hubs everywhere and lower the price of rentals. Having stations to park and charge and pick up bikes everywhere is better than the free for all of Bird imho.
These companies (and there are several undifferentiated players) are now at a point in their development where the pressure to lose less money or (gasp!) potentially make money must be increasing dramatically. I can't imagine there's much of a lock-in for current or previous users though, so as prices increase I'd bet demand decreases dramatically. There's also no real novelty anymore, unless it's tourists from a smaller center that doesn't have scooters.
To give some perspective, nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”. This is an ethics class and it specifically covers things like falsifying data, plagiarism, how to ethically work in animal models etc. At my institution we actually had two whole lectures related to this, one was specifically about image manipulation and the other was about falsifying data.

Another very high profile article related to Alzheimer’s and plaque formation was also recently retracted…weird. I’ve become very skeptical these days, of my fellow scientists, which is both a good and a bad thing.
Lisp syntax is a huge plus for me, and if a language doesn't have it I know it's not for me.
We talking about cars or scooters? :D
I don't exactly see the issue with telcos being accused. Telcos still have done almost nothing to address scammers, fraudulent texts and we all know it is because the benefit financially from their services being abused.
It is not a direct implementation, and may end up being clunky, but I expect a fairly small library of helper functions could improve ergonomics quite a bit:

Define your booleans as functions of no args. A sample in Python:

var = 'abc'
var_contains_a = lambda: 'a' in var
var_shorter_than_5 = lambda: len(var) < 5

if var_contains_a() and var_shorter_than_5():
print(var)
Is driving of rental cars on sidewalks really that big of a problem there to make that comparison?
My understanding is that using less than full power prolongs the life span of engine components and makes fatigue-related engine failures less likely.
I use it daily and say each letter - everyone else I work with says Sequel.

This all stems from when I originally learnt it 20 odd years ago and read something on the web that proclaimed S-Q-L was correct, and "Sequel" referred specifically to the Microsoft implementation.

(The irony is not lost on me that having started working with MySQL, then Oracle, I've now ended up working daily with SQL Server and so I'm wrong by my own definition, which I probably took as gospel erroneously in the first place!)