skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SILE also has an XML format. (That is, SILE can read arbitrary XML and format it according to document class rules, but also, separately, SILE itself has an XML format.) https://sile-typesetter.org/manual/sile-0.14.5.pdf#page=27 This theoretically makes it easier to use a GUI editor, or to output XML SILE documents from, say PHP (invoices from a webshop, for example).
I wanted to be a programmer as a kid, but eventually found it boring and switched to administering systems.

Knowing how code works on systems IS a super power.
PureScript has what I'd call some stark issues.

1. Its maintenance/activity appear sporadic at best.
2. It's inscrutable. Whenever I've had issues, I don't have any idea even how to approach solving them. Half the time they reference in-depth mathematical terms that just are not relevant to anyone who isn't implementing the language 95% of the time.
3. The tooling often just... doesn't work. I'll go to run a commend given in the official tutorial, and it fails in a way that is just beyond me, as an experienced engineer.

TBH, I'd really love to use it. I've been finding myself using `fp-ts` on many of my projects for just such a reason, and have even set up `unplugin-auto-import` to automatically detect and import those modules, so it's like I have more in my stdlib. I've even thought of making a true language out of these primitives.
Thats still 2 more than 2.
The articles were great. The comments/forum sections were one of the levels of Hell.
I'm envisioning an office in Bangladesh full of people copying Bard prompts into ChatGPT and pasting the results.
There's a pretty big gap between "this tool is so bad it's impossible to use" and "this tool is quite bad but determined people can still make it work"—my experience is that the latter is totally sufficient for a tool to go mainstream, but it can still be fair to call it the wrong tool :P
I think that there are 2 foundationañ problems that make complex projects over budget:
1. Stakeholders are incentivized to negotiate down the budget, skewing the result.
2. Breaking down a big task into smaller ones comes with the risk of missing some activities, but adding a nob-required subtask is almost imposible, also skewing the results.

Estimates of big endevours must be made by comparison instead of breaking down the tasks to avoid the second issue. That's one of the little secrets that make poker planning succesfull.
I think they are I forgot where but I did read that this is a lightweight model and they are still working on the main one.
Ron DeSantis Said Google Should Be Broken Up
I wrote a couple of shell tools based on fzf:

https://github.com/vapniks/fzfrepl: Edit commands/pipelines with fzf, and view live output while editing. There's a cool example using ffmpeg, graph2dot & graph-easy for displaying ffmpeg filter graphs.

https://github.com/vapniks/fzf-tool-launcher: Browse & preview contents of files, and launch tools/pipelines to process selected files. You can use fzfrepl in sequence to process each part of a dataprocessing pipeline with different tools.
Using abbrevations for something that is not common knowledge is a way to shut out people from discussion IMO - change my mind.
A simple warning that what’s been generated looks similar to something that’s copyrighted is not a bad idea. Then it’s up to the AI user to do their due diligence if they intend to use the resulting work for commercial purpose. Neutering the tool from the get go is a step too far.
They're going to be the butt of some jokes.
:shrug: Yeah it's actually very difficult to launch a very resource intensive product globally all at once. It's not really an excuse, it's just a real problem that Google has. It limits what they can launch and how they can do it, because anything they launch will get used by a huge number of people right away, and everyone expects them to achieve a magical level of performance at that scale. Rolling out region by region based on where data centers are located and what hardware is deployed in them is one possible way to deal with this. I don't think it's good, really, I just think it's unsurprising.
They'll have to buy it (or something like it), they won't have much of a choice. Artists that use this kind of tool will be so much more productive than ones that don't, that they simply won't be able to find employment otherwise.
Just thought I'd leave this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11wixa0/excredit_s...
Wow, I'd never seen her speak before. 79 years old and sharp as a tack here. Her memory and comebacks are better/faster than mine are at half her age!
Honestly I think its borderline criminal that gates say stuff like this "AI can reduce some of the world’s worst inequities. Globally, the worst inequity is in health: 5 million children under the age of 5 die every year." Like how is this not false advertising at its lightest and outright lying at its worse until AI is actually used to do something here with 5 million children dying? As far as I am aware the issue with famine and starvation in the global south is not that we have been unable to model these issues well with our current tooling, which probably also involves ml, and now need to ask a chatbot for what to do. It's been one of political will, considering how much wealth is present in this world.
I started Substacking recently. I’m not bothering with a paywall - I’m doing it to get better at writing and because writing helps me think and reflect. If people find what I’m writing interesting or helpful, that’s a bonus.

I thought the only people who’d read my posts were people I have on LinkedIn so I’ve been really pleasantly surprised how many people I’ve never heard of have been subscribing. I’m not sure what Substack are doing but they seem to do something right to spread your writing beyond your direct network. I appreciate that, and I’m not surprised they’ve enabled some very large subscriber bases as a result.

ps. If you want to make my day: https://ghiculescu.substack.com
Eh, that’s not really true. Adding abstraction allows for providing APIs that can handle cases like these correctly. For example, Apple provides a very capable versioning system for files that does “the right thing”, which in this case would create a new file for reliability.
And what about everyone else? Going sliding on a bike isn’t great, but it’s unlikely your bikes gonna put it self through the front of a shop and kill someone.

Your car on the other hand, you lose control of that, and bystanders are in real trouble. Not to mention there’s plenty of incidents everyday of people loosing control of their car because they’re not driving to the condition (presumably because the big metal box makes them feel much safer than they should) and killing themselves and others.

Much less likely that a bike rider is going to ignore the prevailing conditions and injure themselves or others, and if they do, the impact is substantially lower. Adding more mass and speed to an out of control situation never improves the outcomes.
This is also called the Sally-Anne test, and it usually involves two hiding places. It's formulated like this:

Sally puts her ball in box A and leaves. While she's away, Anne moves the ball from box A into box B. When she returns, where does Sally look for her ball?

Correctly answering this question doesn't rely on tracking where the ball is, but tracking where Sally thinks the ball is. Hence, autistic kids tend to flunk this test by answering "box B" when the correct answer is "box A".
It’s a tired thing to say, but the “.NET” naming is so confusing on what’s what.

Which is sad because there’s so much to like about .NET
Tiktok showed me lots of NDP (alt liberal party Canada) and aboriginal activism during Covid. No real searches for that stuff.

Anyways. What if TikTok manipulates half of us? Sow discord. Or gets us hooked now same as others but wields the power to manipulate later for important reason.

It’s not about quality of content here vs there, it’s about the risk of foreign national having so much influence.
There are tons of companies trying; they just aren't succeeding.
It's not like US could do much about that.
> the EU has proved itself to take consistently anti-big US tech stances

Is that how you call trying to protect consumers over there? Really, there are genuinely good reasons for those "stances".
People accidentally recreate other companies logos in Adobe Illustrator all the time.
This was posted on HN today (not by me!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245626

It talks about bar exams and contamination, so spot on :)
If you already are aware that you don't have anything valuable to contribute to a thread, you can refrain from posting until you do.

These are not for venting.
They do a highly rehearsed live demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3z9jYtPx-4

It's mainly just text to image, but the results are extremely impressive IMO. Probably best in class for a lot of usecases.
I'm objecting to it being called a "right to repair license". It's not a right to repair license. It's a copyleft open-source license. That just happens to be extremely useful for repair because it requires being able to install new versions and have them function, but it isn't a "right to repair license" because it does a lot more than that. :(
If the money supply is fixed, and one person is rich, where does that money come from? By it not going to someone else.
No. However, consider that since the 40's there has been a concerted effort by a variety of actors, such as Rothbard and other people backed by institutes such as the Volker fund, the AEI, Federalist Society, Murdochs, etc. to sap both the perceived effectiveness of government and the actual effectiveness of government.

"Government doesn't work - elect me and I'll prove it!"
Does this at all send code and company communication to any third party servers? Like, GPT stores all prompts does it not? Seems like a no-go for most companies if they don't vet GPT first.
Sounds like every other entrepreneurial endeavor. What % of startups go to zero, what % of restaurants close? Begging for people to convert is also called salesmanship
> How would you intend to enforce this?

By law.

> Declare a law that no banker must be paid more than than the current highest government salary?

No. Simply have a law that employees of a bank that has been deemed "too big to fail" will be regarded as public employees (which they effectively are) and are paid according to the BAT, the Bundesangestelltentarifvertrag, in Germany. Other countries will have similar official regulations as to how public sector employees are paid.

"Too big to fail" = "Too big to bonus"

> Who defines a "banker"?

Employees of a bank that has been classified as systemic, as too big to fail. If the risk is public, the pay is public. If you want private pay, your bank must be small enough that the public does not carry the risk.

> ..does that same rule apply to the CEO?

Of course. Especially to the CEO.

> ...without thinking it through.

Just because you haven't thought this through doesn't mean I haven't.

> Credit Suisse is a poorly-run and incessantly corrupt company

This isn't a singular problem of Credit Suisse. 2008 was just the same, only (so far) on a larger scale. I am usually extremely loath to declare simple/moralistic causes for what appear to be complex and systemic issues.

But in these cases, it really was that simple. The bankers knew that it was a sham. They kept the sham going because they wanted to get theirs before the music stopped. When the music stopped the public had to bail them out. And the bankers were still rich. Because profits were privatised and risk was socialised.

Fool me once, shame on you, etc.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
I'm not really getting it, aren't RFCs written in a straightforward Wiki syntax? Then why would they be preserved using PDF, and how is XML the source format, or would be considered useful as the canonical or authoring format when the existence of thousands of RFCs in plain text/light Wiki syntax clearly says otherwise?
TikTok is a platform that

- Enables rapid peer-to-peer information sharing across traditional "social networks" (in other words you don't need to know the person, only show interest in the topic)

- Has usage metrics and reach that far exceed competing social networks and traditional media outlets

I would not be surprised if the calls for a ban are being lobbied for by a competitor. The foreign spy story is a bit too convenient.
The problem is that humanity is not just capable of the best and worst outcomes, but that we constantly act to realize both the best and worst we can achieve.
You can ask to summarize the code, suggest for improvements, new features... and then you can just ask it to implement them :).
The US government claims it's 6.0%. What does the US government gain by reporting a higher inflation rate?
I mean yeah, but the trajectory is kind of more important.
Thank you for describing the sounds I made when I first heard this vulnerability described to me.
It seems that there is actually (C) somewhere in there, which would be "apply some judgement" i.e. look at the source, and maybe (D) let someone else on HN bite on it and get a synopsis there.
You'd probably start by using the LLM as a filter, not for the final diagnosis. If the LLM thinks something is strange (say, 5% of the time) --> refer to human doctor to ensure it isn't a false positive.

If the problem is a shortage of doctors, this is one solution.
>> I doubt very much that climatologists (as opposed to, say, popular media) were predicting anything of the kind you describe with “absolute confidence”.

Here's proof but there's far more where it comes from.

Prediction, March 2000: According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

https://realclimatescience.com/2023/03/the-end-of-snow-8/

Reality, March 2023: Met Office weather: Snow could return as fresh -4C blast to hit UK. A return of wintry weather has not been ruled out despite the country now being in spring

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/met-office...

Climatologists have a reputation for being always wrong not due to media mis-representation. The media by and large doesn't misrepresent what they're saying. They have that reputation because they keep making stupid predictions with absolute confidence that then don't come true, and they never admit that this has happened even though the archives are full of examples.

https://extinctionclock.org/
Yes that's what I meant, I'm curious if the Typst api would allow equivalents of those packages.
Tech layoffs in 2023 are about to surpass last year’s record numbers
Surely with all our contemporary AI prowess we can train a model that identifies "reasonable facsimiles of copyrighted/trademark characters" after generating them and alert the user that it could be argued as such. Still, let the user decide.

We do not need creative technology to regulate observance of copyright law.

(By the way I think the chagrined other commenter was yours truly ;-))
Which is in itself a made up number to aim for
Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
`find` has to traverse the filesystem, which is pretty slow. `mdfind` looks up in an indexed database, which is very fast.
Sure, abstractions aren't inherently evil, but bad ones are. The abstraction you described sounds like a sensible one, which couldn't have been designed without a deep understanding of the system as a whole (or at the very least, the adjacent layers).
You are literally demonstrating how substack "does something right to spread your writing beyond your direct network"

On substacks, writers own their brands. Their own brand is plastered everywhere on their website. Compare that to medium, where the medium brand takes precedence. Since writers own their brands, they are highly incentivised to market it themselves, and keep a distinct personal voice, both easily drawing in paying customers.
There's a lot of different ways to measure inflation. This is based on their own methodology and white paper (https://truflation.com/methodology/) which I have yet to review. It's almost certainly not "something to gain" but instead just different weights, different sources, different approach.
They already had an ai assisted complete in gmail. I wonder how many managers operated by just hitting tab tab tab send and not writing any english at all the last few years?
I've spent a fair bit of time on the site, but only on the reviews. Sounds like the forums were where the real action is/was.
Same boat.

I think in the ways gen-x’ers talk about the “pre-internet” days spent offline, we’ll talk about the “pre-AI” days spent online. I can imagine a flood of content so gargantuan and vast that by 2030, finding new real words online written by real breathing people will be like finding a teacup in a junkyard. I’ll stress that this view is strictly my own and not my employers, but I personally wish this box had remained closed. The benefit we’re seeing now just isn’t worth what’s to come, I fear.
And there's an argument (almost certainly correct) from 25 years ago that the problem with microtransactions was that there's a mental transaction cost associated with every 5 cent payment. https://archive.is/fzL0I

Small $$ subscriptions are a different variant of the same problem.

To be fair, many of us used to have a bunch of magazine subscriptions--some of which were only $1-2 per month but I'm not sure the same mindset still applies.

We do see things like Apple News+ that aggregate non-free content and perhaps that's something of a solution. We'll see. I do pay for the New York Times and The Economist but I mostly won't subscribe to individual sites online.
The collapse of companies like SVB is triggering demand for corporate merch
You actually can split a model [0] onto multiple GPUs even without NVLink, just using the PCIe for the transfers.

Depending on the model the performance is sometimes not all that different. I believe for solely inference on some models the speed difference may barely be noticeable, where for other training activities it may make 10+% difference [1]

[0] https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/model_parallel_tu...

[1]
https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.9.2/performance.html
If this is a concern: don't do open registration without approval.

See also: Running a public WiFi hotspot.
Last paragraph:

> I’m lucky to have been involved with the PC revolution and the Internet revolution.
The argument you're trying to make, that Apple is somehow responsible for bugs in third party software because "any platform without good third party support could affect sales of that platform," is unsupportable and utterly bereft of logic. You're suggesting the software bugs OP experienced are going to cut Apple's sales, but Apple has plenty and a myriad of professional third party developer support. Apple has 30M registered developers, including all of the world's largest developers, like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Adobe, Block, Intuit and VMWare, and the list of major developers goes on and on. Bugs in OSS software OP is stumbling with isn't going to affect sales of Macintosh in any way whatsoever, though it may and should affect how many users there are of that application.

You and the OP apparently want to blame Apple for bugs in third party software, which is insane because all responsibility for bugs always and only lies with the developer and no one else. Apple has absolutely no control over nor has any ability to address bugs in third party software. Developers should do their jobs, but users should also report bugs if they expect them to be solved. Returning a computer due to buggy third party software is like returning a new truck because the engine knocks when the tank is filled with vegetable oil. The complaints by OP are absurd on their face.
As far as I know there are no religions or legal systems that posit that there are any rights inherently given to machines.
To expand on this, what we're seeing with LLaMa is that you can fine-tune your model using other models.

It's not clear that the quality will be exactly the same (in fact it will very likely be worse), but working generators are essentially ways to quickly generate training data. And I can't think of a legal argument for why generated output from a model would be less legal to use as training data than an unlicensed photo off of DeviantArt.

Nobody has really called out OpenAI on this, but OpenAI has a clause in it's TOS that you won't use output to build a competing model. But that's... just in it's TOS. If you don't have an OpenAI account, it's not immediately clear to me (IANAL) why you can't use any of the leaked training sets that other people have generated with ChatGPT to help align a commercial model.

Certainly if someone makes the argument that generators like Copilot/Midjourney aren't violating copyright by learning from their sources, it's very hard to make the argument that Midjourney/Copilot output is somehow different than that and their output can't be used to help generate training datasets.
Honeycomb.io built their own column store - they did talks at two StangeLoops about it and videos of the talks are on YT
In NYC, some restaurants could reopen and conduct business as usual if they were classified as outdoor venues. This interacted oddly with another regulation that let a restaurant count as “outdoor” if part of its seating area had outdoor seats, so you had a lot of restaurants in the middle of the bustling city build these gazebo-type structures that put some number of tables right on the sidewalk in the midst of pedestrian foot traffic.

For a small restaurant owner, the combination of these two loopholes created an intense pressure where building out this outdoor seating was simply a requirement of doing business
It was 4.04% on Sunday. Any idea why it has increased by 0.17% ever since?
https://archive.ph/KsXi0
He must be charming personality and great interviewer for people to lure him everywhere :)