skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soviet "political correctness" was about protecting the state from any criticism, American "political correctness" is about understanding systems of oppression from the standpoint of the oppressed.

Couldn't be more different.
How about reading the paper before commenting on what the paper does and does not say?
I was a member of Razor back in the day. I noticed that he mentioned he wouldn't say how he got Quake released before release date. I can share how I participated in an early release: I had befriended the manager of Electronics Boutique because I bought frequently there for many years prior to getting into pirating games. He would give me games that arrived but weren't on the shelf yet. From there, it was uploaded to an FTP server and a cracker would go to work removing protections, it usually took hours or less, unless the protection was novel. They'd usually push a release without a lot of large assets (FMV, cutscene type stuff) to make releasing it faster, and follow up with a full release after it was all packaged up.

I saw lots of folks get arrested/busted back in those times, and there was a key difference of outcomes for two groups: adults vs minors. Minors always got a slap on the wrist/fine (I remember TKLP from was it... RoR? had to pay out $1200 to AT&T for hacking a PBX... because he was 14 or so), and adults got sent to jail and had their lives ruined. I stopped being involved just before turning 18 and it was a very smart decision in retrospect.
It's easy to criticize the fed, but they did a pretty good job during COVID and they did a pretty good job during 2008.

The charge of "manipulating bond markets" is pretty absurd - their mandate is to influence inflation and employment via interest rates. Of course it has an impact on bond markets.
Except twitter won't pay the people who have created the data in the first place. So it's stopping short of actually paying your dues.
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Oh it wasn't quick, this has been building for the better part of two decades.
Capital call to their investor base?
Consider that the secondary point is to separate society from perpetrator.
1) The US government does rely on private companies 100%, SLS is built by Boeing, a private company. Being a private American company has very little issue when it comes to national security, just means you have them meet various requirements (eg only allowing US persons to work there and security clearance requirements).

2) Unfortunate that our system is so corrupt, but agreed. Fortunately there is also the Artemis approach of tying in so many international partners that it becomes a matter of national prestige.

3) I suggest looking up "The Falcon 9 Heavy may some day come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real.".
> I would've told you (maybe a few years later) "political correctness" in the U.S. started as an ironic term among lefty types with a sense of humor about their own milieu, which resonated more widely and got taken as ammunition and shortened to "PC" by more righty culture warriors.

Similar to "woke". A term used with semi-seriousness, later coopted and weaponized by political opponents.
I think this is the good, level-headed approach.

I do wish there were active equivalents for beyond software development.
It provides a useful metaphor
The point is that a Toyota RAV4 (and anything else in the compact crossover segment) is, functionally speaking, much closer to a Corolla than it is to a Suburban.

You're getting 30 mpg (combined) vs. 33 mpg for a Corolla; curb weight is within a few hundred pounds; the RAV4 is actually shorter in length than the Corolla. It is basically a Corolla estate with a higher ride height and different body styling/packaging.

More relevantly to the original comparison: a RAV4 is shorter, lighter, and gets better gas mileage than a BMW 5-series, in addition to having more rear-passenger legroom and easier child-seat fitting.
The link discusses shows that get cancelled early before a satisfactory resolution due to bad ratings. This is reasonable as usually they get cancelled because they are bad.

The other side of this is shows that run too long due to the inertia of their initial success. I am now unwilling to start watching a popular a TV show because it won’t end until it turns bad. This might be 10+ seasons and there is no prize for watching it all.

I am fundamentally tired of being told stories. Nowadays I just stick to movies: The time investment is minimal, and if you are willing to read subtitles there is lot of them.
>TikTok for Text

That’s basically Reddit, except Reddit also has images and video.
sillysaurusx made some posts about tweaks that greatly improved output for him. Maybe they would help you:

"""

Fixed the llama sampler. After turning off top_p, adding top_k 40, setting temp to 0.7, and adding a repetition penalty of 1/0.85, llama 7B is looking nice.

"""

https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1632569215348531201?cxt...

https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1633456289639542789?cxt...
I mean, this is kind of how accounting does work. To a basic approximation a reconciliation is a line by line review of each of the flows, and an audit is "blow away the accounts and recreate them" and both happen all the time.
> ...so quickly?

Google being a very young company - it ain't like the Good Old Days(tm), when a big company used to have lots of people who'd been there for 25 to 40+ years, to say "WHOA!" if the company's culture started going sour. Plus the whole "everything is 10X faster in the internet age". And the Jack Welsh "screw honor and the common good, I'm gaming it for ME" ethos.

Also - Google's core business being pretty much a Monopoly Money Farm, there's little sense of "we gotta be careful and keep this a tightly-run and well-managed ship, or else our competition will watch us crash and burn".
This isn't going to happen before Monday. Or before the AWS bill is due. $250k isn't going to cover most company's operating cash needs.
Yeah, I'd consider the DRAC completely independent of the BIOS question. There are also OS tools - I believe Dell's is called OMSA - that can flip some of the switches in the BIOS (I remember this from having to mess with NUMA settings at one time), but they still needed to reboot.

As far as the crypto stuff, it's an issue. I fairly recently had to tweak some old 11th generation Dell Servers and tried out the DRACs, but Java really doesn't want you to use RC4 - I remember that being the dealbreaker. Nicely, someone put a conatiner up on Docker Hub that dealt with it https://hub.docker.com/r/domistyle/idrac6/
This is about their desktop/laptop OS, not their phones/tablets.
If you ever find yourself in a job serving the public, you will find it is 99.9% criticism. It's not good to be critical. If you really have to, give helpful suggestions. Don't say, as the OP did, "I expect better".
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> maybe they're doing it because their political ideology

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but my attitude about this has nothing to do with politics.
Ya sorry, I intended OS to mean `Open Source`
> But you are not representative of all humans.

I actually started to type almost the same reply as your parent earlier, but did not post it. I used "difference in quantity, not quality" instead of "scale", but I also included the self observation. So maybe that makes two of us.
I think the larger income hump will diminish greatly but other industries are probably just waking up to the fact that they were thrown into an accelerated automation and digital transformation competition. I really don't understand how that can't be bad for the rest of the labor market though.. I don't really see consumers as infinitely hungry for goods in the long term.
It is not just 30% of YC alone.
YC startups tend to be on average more successful than others, so number probably much higher for other startups.

Not making payroll is just the first problem. Vendors are the next ,

many startups provide critical services from healthcare to security to dozen other sectors if they cannot pay for their servers those services will go down too

a lot of products such as saas apps , cloud services are sold to startups extensively.

If collectively startups stop making payments, those businesses become unsound even big tech like AWS will feel pain and mean layoffs everywhere.

Not making payroll for tech and tech adjacent people also means lot of local business will be distressed in those communities think your grocers and barbers etc.
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They will. This SVB thing is a short blip. Zoom out.
This is an advanced language model that can now run quickly on consumer grade hardware. You used to need thousands of dollars of GPUs to run a model as sophisticated as this - now it can be done on a laptop,
Read the whole thing. It's very digestible. The judge is absolutely livid with the complainant.
Seems like a business opportunity for you.
Many flower petals can be made into a pH indicator.
>their political ideology demands purity

I wasn't aware Musk had one.
good luck everyone!
If so hopefully it’s not in SVB
The expanse should be a case study on how to adapt books and how to finish a series.

It helped to have the authors of the books as producers and that they finished writing the books.
Twitter also used to suspend API keys seemingly at random, making research data on Twitter nearly impossible.
>I thought this was caused by SVB buying long-term bonds which fell in value after interest rates went up

I heard the same thing, but they took a gamble and lost. That is free enterprise. People who when to SVB will loose too, again free enterprise.

It was no secret interest rates were going to go up, so 2 years ago they should have sold those bonds and took a small loss.
Ha ha it's fun to be defined "a professor from Italy". Probably for most people in this community I'm the designer of the JavaScript PRNG (V8, Node.js, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) or the author of fastutil. LOL.
Do you think SVB would have been better off if they hadn't had any liquid reserves?
Garry Tan: "30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days. If you or your company are affected, I recommend that you reach out to your local congressman to get this on their radar TODAY."

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1634286688922132481
Libertarian, "small govt" VCs squealing for govt intervention... It would be funny if not for tens of thousands of people who might not receive their paycheck next week.
I dont expect to be paid for my content creation on facebook or instagram.

Yt, for sure.

I think it is fair to say this is a moving topic
There are drivers like that -- a surprising lot of them, even -- but it's quite a leap to.say drivers are like that.
Also if the FDIC just buys these assets at non firesale prices, and eventually sells them to other banks, SVB depositors could easily come out of this whole, with no damage to anyone.

I think everyone is being way too hysterical. This isn’t a massive bank run.
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OpenChatKit – Fully open-source model, data and more
Hi Everyone, I work at Together. Today we released OpenChatKit: an open-source base to create chatbots for various applications. More than a model release, this is the beginning of an open source project. We are releasing a set of tools and processes for ongoing improvement with community contributions.

You can try it now on Hugging Face!
https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/OpenChatKit

OpenChatKit includes 4 key components:

1. An instruction-tuned large language model, fine-tuned for chat from EleutherAI’s GPT-NeoX-20B with over 43 million instructions on 100% carbon negative compute available under Apache-2.0 license on Hugging Face.

2. A set of customization recipes to fine-tune the model to achieve high accuracy on your tasks documented and available as open-source under the Apache-2.0 license on Github, along with code to recreate our model results.

3. An extensible retrieval system enabling you to augment bot responses with information from a document repository, API, or other live-updating information source at inference time, with open-source examples for using Wikipedia or a web search API.

4. A moderation model, fine-tuned from GPT-JT-6B, designed to filter which questions the bot responds to, also available under the Apache-2.0 license on Hugging Face.

We collaborated with the tremendous communities at @laion_ai and Ontocord to create the training dataset used for these models, also released as open-source. Read the full details on LAION's blog post!

Can't wait to hear your feedback!

Thanks,
-Together
Repeating a meme on cue sounds very LLM-like. More evidence in favour of the thesis.
You can't rely on either, not for auth, not if you want to actually own it. People fall through the cracks everywhere, so there shouldn't be any cracks to fall through.
"this is 2008 all over again in every concievable way except this time instead of mortagages and housing it is tech that is begging for a bailout. "

not ironically, it is overpriced mortgages an interest rate increase that are at the heart of this catastrophe again.
Dredging up my old college math. A mathematician named Kantor proved that the number of rational numbers (fractions) of postive integers is the same as the number of positive integers. His proof involves COUNTING the fractions. And that kind of infinity is called, well, countable or aleph sub(0). It's like O(n) in algorithms. And in that world O(polynomial) and O(n) are both countable.

But our favorite transcendental numbers, you know them, pi, e, psi, that lot, are not part of that. Neither are multiples, or fractions, of those numbers. There's an uncountable infinity as well, holding them, and it's strictly larger than countable infinity. Maybe that what Walt Whitman was thinking when he wrote "I contain multitudes"?

At any rate, possible physical distances are uncountable. Yup. There's more of them than there are of integers. And living things with brains have a (probably) countable number of neuronal interconnections, each of which depends on uncountable physical distances.

(We know this in the computer industry: we have all sorts of hardware and software that quantizes the physical stuff going on in chips and conductors to extract bits -- to make the uncountable countable.)

My question: is this digital infinity countably infinite? Or does it go beyond that?

Do people who model -- information-theorically -- living brains and the minds they hold consider this issue? Does this countability matter to our understanding?
There's a pretty big gulf between this and the N word.
Man, both the project AND the opinions referred to in the title are mind blowing.
Bob Yannes Interview on the Sid/MOS6581 (C64 Synth Chip) 1996
Mostly a fluff piece but gives a good rundown on the architecture of the MOS6581.
Canada's charter of rights and freedoms isn't worth the paper it's printed on, especially in Quebec where the government actively pre-empts it (it has a clause that allows this, explaining why it's worthless) when it doesn't line up with their ideology.
You tell me - what do you think would happen to the economy if lending ground to a stand-still (Which is exactly what would happen, with a double whammy of the money supply massively contracting[1] as loans are paid off, but not rolled over)?

Like, sure, I'm willing to entertain the idea that its possible to come up with some kind of planned steady-state economy that does not require speculative allocation of capital to drive production. But you're going to have to present a much more compelling vision of that future than 'Just get rid of lending.'

(Also, housing prices would collapse overnight[2], boomers and other retirees will lynch anyone responsible for something like that.)

For another argument, note that the health of the economy is a function of how quickly money moves through it. Fractional reserve banking is the engine that moves that money. Stop the movement of money, and you'll stop the economy.

All in all, I think we're better off with having the occasional bank go bust, and its customer funds getting frozen for a few weeks while the FDIC unfucks the bank's balance sheets, pays dollar-for-dollar cash for its illiquid, currently underwater long-term bonds, holds them until maturity for a profit, and then destroys the money they made in that profit. It's an infrequent failure case, it doesn't result in money getting lost, and the bank gets punished enough that most of its compatriots think twice before YOLOing the farm on long-term treasuries.

[1] This is called deflation, and if you think inflation is bad, imagine living in a world where nobody spends or invests money on anything, because you can become richer by doing nothing, and just sitting like a dragon on a hoard of gold.

[2] Heaven knows, I rail against housing price inflation all the time, but you are going to have a bad political time if you just pull the rug out from under homeowners.
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It's probably a lot more money than one can put together on such short notice.
> It would be very difficult to accidentally find yourself on this street, driving quickly.

As a parent of a 6 years old, I always assume all drivers are not paying attention to the road but rather to their phones when my kid is playing in the street (with supervision because I don't know if he will react quickly to a car coming his way)

It sucks, because I used to play in the street without supervision (to my best knowledge). But today, cars are faster and drivers are more distracted.
Founders lie on those surveys. I bet its closer to 50% who can't make payroll for a month if they only have access to 250k
I heard elsewhere they were extending loans to startups with pre-IPO shares as collateral, so yeah, that was their best option apparently.
> The truth about the Twitter layoffs is that the company is not even remotely profitable and likely never will be, so it doesn't really matter that much as long as the company barely continues to operate.

But it was profitable at certain times. Despite all the reported "bloat". Ironically now, it has little hopes of being profitable thanks to advertisers pulling out due to lax moderation (some of the automated stuff no longer working because the maintainers are gone!). So even if they managed to run the site with a skeleton crew, assuming they keep breaking non-essential features, it's unclear they could ever become profitable again.

There seems to be this echo chamber around the Twitter acquisition that thinks most software companies are bloated and that software engineers basically do nothing. They seem to believe Twitter will make that demonstration. It's particularly pervasive in semi or non-technical circles. I guess it's the same crowd that bought into no-code and low-code tools to "get rid of expensive developers" for the last decade.

While Twitter hasn't suffered any complete outage as of yet, several products and features seem to be broken, as well as a good chunk of their API (I don't buy the claim it's intentional because the latencies and error rates have been jumping up). To be completely honest, this level of service degradation would have killed more serious products. It's fine for Twitter because there's no SLA, no enterprise customers and no critical infra running on it.
Good stuff, let it burn. The system is working as intended. People who made very very risky dumb bets are getting punished heavily for it.
The good thing about automation/productivity gains is that it leads to increases in real wages. Cheaper means to produce goods and services means cheaper goods and services.

And so far throughout history, displaced workers have found new avenues to be productive in the face of technological disruption. It is true that the progression of technology has hastened over time, so perhaps it could create a bigger labor force disruption than in the past.

As some jobs disappear, other jobs become more cost viable through the deflationary structure. e.g. food delivery wasn't likely a viable business before automobiles/e-bikes. Once real cost of delivering a good passes into an economical threshold, new jobs become viable where previously they weren't
When they stopped caring that the content they indexed was the same content users would view.

It's a slippery slope for both Google and the rest of the internet.
Every time I’ve got free time - I spend it either on one of my side projects or blogs. The problem is I can’t get a good chuck of uninterrupted free time.
It is possible to criticize Musk and his management of Twitter for completely apolitical reasons. You have to be a sycophant to describe his management style as anything other than chaotic. There are literally employees at the company who don't have any work because there is no one to assign them to a department or team. There are people who don't even know if they work there anymore because the layoffs were handled so poorly. It goes way beyond Musk's opinions on free speech or whatever political opinion you want to blame. The whole purchase has clearly been a train wreck up until this point.
Agreed. It has become cargo cult like at this point. The Fed needs to pay attention to more than inflation and consider the time aspect of money and interest rates. Creating unpredictable chaos to optimize around a single (important) metric is not going to create a desirable effect.
> Is that not a possibility?

I was just asking what you meant, not implying wrong or right
> Would you start a novel, if you weren’t allowed to read the final chapters? Would you play a video game, if there was no winning solution? Would you watch a movie if the last 15 minutes were missing? Would you go on a date if it ended after you picked up the restaurant tab?

Yes. Of course.

Video games are obvious. Many never end or are classically impossible (Prince of Persia)

A practice date would be interesting, I assume paying Dutch unless it's a I pay and get to first base system.

There's a few unfinished classic novels and TV pilots turned to movies I've watched.

What sucks is the metaverse. This is Western comic book cultural at it's worse, a childish idea adapted by the media.
The last time I talked to Twitter sales (about 2 years ago) they were asking for 6k/mo.
fair point. we'll see how it goes though, i dont expect it to be a banking collapse thougu
> There are no crimes I would commit where, say, 1 year in prison wouldn’t be a deterrent but 5 years would be.

Part of the way punishments are set up are to deter vigilante justice.

If someone murdered someone I love and I knew they'd only get 1 year for it, I'd be tempted to return the favor and take the year myself.
How is this good? This means companies will fail and employees won’t get paid through essentially no fault of their own?
I agree.

Stranger Things as a 1 season miniseries would have been the stuff of legends.
I find this alien to my point of view. On the other hand, my side projects aren't driven by FOMO but are more like the "special interests" of autistic people.

Most of the time I have three side projects going on, maybe two of which are really getting the attention they deserve and one that is languishing. (See my profile to see about my current three.) Occasionally I get inspired to spend 1-4 weekends on some sudden inspiration, of which

https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove

came to completion but

https://github.com/paulhoule/ferocity

probably won't. The project I'm working the hardest on now is something that I was baffled that it didn't exist 18 years ago but felt compelled to do something out because of the Twitterinsanity last December and it turned out the technological conditions right now make it the perfect time to work on.