skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad:

- Inability to set up your /home/ (which is /Users/ on a mac) the way you like it. There are default folders for Documents, Pictures, Music, etc and they cannot be deleted. If you delete them they are recreated either immediately or on reboot. My hack-of-a-solution was to alias ls to hide them [1].

- There are also applications that you cannot delete. One such application is Chess - a program that let's you play chess. No idea why it's there by default and why it's impossible to delete it.

- .DS_Store files. Whenever you open a folder in a Finder (default file browser on a Mac) it will add a hidden .DS_Store file within that folder. This file stores and remembers how you chose to arrange your folders in a graphical file manager. But these files often get in a way: you will find them in tarballs, git repositories, etc. Just like with removing folders, I don't think there is a solution that can turn them off.

- Recent OS update made system-settings look like you are on a phone. Apple probably wants to push an interface for system settings that is common to iPads, iPhones, MacBooks and even Apple Watches, but for me it's hard to get used to that.

Good:

- Default Applications are quite tasteful. In particular the Mail client, and default Apple Terminal. They have everything I need without being full of toy features

- Stable. Both hardware and Software. My MacBook pro is 5 years old now, but I never had an issue with hangs, reboots, crashes or anything of this kind.

- Third-party package managers. Homebrew is more popular, but I prefer MacPorts. Whichever you choose, you can set up your system to use linux compilers, shells, coreutils, etc. By default Apple command line arsenal is a bit dated and opinionated so to me this is a must. Once you have this done the command-line experience is almost indistinguishable from Linux (well, apart from /home/ stuff and .DS_Store things).

[1]: http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/posts/cleaning_home_on_macos/i...
Apple stuff probably comes the closet to your criteria.
Distributed Software Systems – A Primer
Why would throwing more actors with similar capabilities into the mix make the situation any more stable though? That seems like basically the old European Balance of Power, which broke out into open conflict more frequently.
Exactly! If he's blasé about 1000 derailments it better not be 1000 derailments of the East Palestine type per year.

In any event. it's really tone deaf to say, hey, no big deal we have approx three accidents like this every day of the year, deal with it! What a wanker.
Fine maybe, just not very transparent.
I tried tracking that down before my last comment. It definitely wasn't the other comment. Not sure when you added the link to your HN profile, but it's likeliest that I chanced up on it after clicking through from an unrelated comment/submission in another thread—maybe this one (if the time window fits): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33718850#33729686>
How diverse is the training corpus?
> Oh, this is simple.

If you're commenting on something you don't understand, maybe don't start out with this?

> I'm pretty sure 'reckless disregard for the truth' would be pretty easy to prove in this case -- considering Clearview probably can't say specifically why this person selected for arrest.

Sigh
Yeah, well, as long as I can sling code for 100K+ a year in this fine country, it’s not my problem what happens thousands of miles away over in Mississippi.

—HN
Do you think the code looked like that prior to Elon's purchase? I suspect that there was another name there before.

Separately, which of these groups do you think that they use as a control?
This is a rather major change.
> Aren’t you criticizing GitHub for mentioning Excel?

No.
Well, honestly, I have never found a great argument either for or against the existence of free will. You'll hate the basis on which I believe in it because it is so terribly tautological.

I believe I have free will because it appears to me that I have free will.

Because I can't make a solid logical argument either way, I believe the thing that brings the greatest amount of joy to me. I never forget that there's an asterisk on this belief, though, and am ready to abandon it should an argument come along that removes ambiguity.

But I also believe that "belief is the death of intelligence", and so use "believe" as shorthand for "have as a working hypothesis".
Twitter recommendation algorithm logs if you're a Democrat, Republican or Elon Musk
APL predates the first documented thoughts (not specification/implementation) of unicode by roughly 20 years.
As you noted most, even in SWE, are parrots (including this parrot typing); we get kinda scared when the robot parrot generates bullshit better than web framework-de-jure.
And? The system shouldn't be in a steady state of expected failures. These are enormous machines that sometimes carry hazardous materials. Failure cannot be tolerated. It's indicative of a rotten culture of safety and mismanagement that ignores the problems.
Fun to see similar informal mechanisms popping up around the world with no connection.
We use it to load classes from the command-line in a pretty big project. That part works perfectly.
I wrote a massive rant for a response but then I deleted it.

I feel sorry for people think about themselves this way, why just compare yourself to a calculator?

If it was possible to build an artificial brain that was self-ware, it would probably want to be a lot more like us than you think. To feel and connect, and experience love and what that’s like is a very special part of existence.
But who chooses the users to be metrics…
I doubt it: text size and text pattern size don't scale linearly.
Thanks for the nice summary. What about user interface? I always felt MacOS clunky when I tried a Macbook. E.g. no sticky windows.
A private blog network (PBN) is a group of websites that boost a particular website’s rank in search engine results. PBNs generally consist of high-quality, authoritative domains that link back to the target website. These sites are often created and managed by the same company or person, so they have complete control over the content and links. The goal of using a PBN is to build powerful backlinks from trusted websites, which can significantly boost rankings in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) on sites like Google and Bing.
Very cool! Are you testing after a reboot / with an empty page cache?
Thank you for putting your ass on the line and deciding to challenge $megacorp on their claims of owning the copyright on NN weights that have been trained on public (and probably, to some degree, also copyrighted) data. This seems to very much be uncharted territory in the legal space, so there are a lot of unknowns.

I don't consider it ethical to compress the corpus of human knowledge into some NN weights and then closing those weights behind proprietary doors, and I hope that legislators will see this similarly.

My only worry is that they'll get you on some technicality, like that (some version of) your program used their servers afaik.
Given the recent debacle with the Samsung SSD firmware, I'd love to read internal hardware and firmware engineer notes and concerns. I think there are quite a few bodies in the closet that is called the consumer SSD market.

You'd at least hope that enterprise SSDs with a Dell sticker on them are better.
I don't believe repeating someone's comment nearly verbatim is as clever as you want it to be, nor do I believe recommendation algorithms are equivalent to the kinds of societal discrimination you allude to, nor would any reasonable person.

Instead of trying very hard to be clever, please next time try just as hard to make a valid point. I know it can be difficult when you think you smell karma in the water but do try.
The difference isn't inherent to English itself, but rather that it was mostly trained on English and less on other languages. You might expect it would be equally smart in every language but it's not. It's stupider in languages and encodings where it had less training.
>How could Apple break linux sw?

Software must communicate with the OS to work and Apple does not seem to care much about doing things which will break software from the linux/OSS community. This is actually one the primary reasons I gave up OSX/Apple, the other being they dropped support for classic apps, in one update they rendered 75% of the software I used unusable.
My one massive hate about Python imports, path resolution aside, is that if I want to do

from foo.bar import Baz

And there's a foo/__init__.py file it gets executed merely from path traversal.

And because of how Django's settings work (import django.settings and all your stuff is magically there), people in my company have gotten into the habit of putting code in settings/__init__.py to do the things they need, like retrieve secrets from AWS.

Which I don't want to have happen when I'm trying to import settings.bla_module to use a type in a unit test.
Why are you assuming this knowledge is harmful to them? What do you think it means for their business?

No other social media platform will have this sort of accountability and public pressure to be better like having their recommendation algorithms public.
Only if it gets applied. And even then it seems to be only based on a year’s worth of revenue, so it may still be a good deal if you can break the regulation for multiple years and only get fined on the basis of a single year, as Facebook has done.
The article says the people that got sick were only going door to door to interview people in the town...
If you want to lose thousands of hours building factory complexes in space, check out X3: Albion Prelude (part of the Terran War Pack).
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. I've been daily driving Fedora and Ubuntu Linux for around 20 years now and it's been getting progressively better and more stable. The last 5 years or so I no longer even bother installing Windows on my PC's.

Buying a Mac will certainly solve any hardware issue you're currently experiencing. But so would buying a new PC. Mac's have their own issues, as does Windows and BSD. It's a pick-your-poison situation.
Maybe we should just say that all 'miracle' technology is ok as corroborating evidence, but not as prima facie evidence. DNA, fingerprints, ai facial recognition...
> By Twitter

so what is that, no one wants to put their name on this?
Seems like WORM drives, and EU/gov-operated cloud logging services should be a good mechanism for this. If you get audited, they check your vehicle against cloud logs - if they aren't present, they request your WORM drive backup (a 3TB drive would last beyond the lifetime of a vehicle). If you can't produce the backup log, your employer is fined.
The secretary of transportation is from Indiana
Of course he did because it makes him look bad and he's desperate for praise and attention.

What he wanted was everything that feature provides, without it ever being shown that it's there. But since he refuses to hire PR people and almost certainly came up with this idea in the last few days, no one was paid to hide its existence.

The next story out of Twitter will be the remaining engineers being threatened because Musk can't see his tweet statistics any more.
I spent a long, long time in startups before moving to larger companies, and eventually a FAANG. The folks I worked with at the FAANG were incredibly smart, motivated, and collaborative, but a huge percentage of them had no experience outside of the FAANG. They were able to use the in-house systems for build, deploy, data storage, etc. but had never actually had to design and/or build or even think too much about how such things work. It's a great luxury that lets them focus on the product they're building vs. foundational infra, but it's a huge detriment when looking to go outside of those things.

It's ironic, because the System Design interview is a major delineator between lower and higher level Engineers when they interview at these companies, yet many of the tenured people would do very poorly because many of the questions and considerations of the problems presented in such interviews are effectively solved problems in their daily work that they've never had to think about.
I mean, this is actually fine. I also don't know another modus operandi than living life like I have free will. I still sweat decisions. :-)
My hunch is that we’ll eventually realize that we never cared about intelligence in the first place, just “human-ness”.

After all, there’s very low moral concern for cows, pigs, dolphins, etc regardless of intelligence.
Maybe you should reread that sentence bc I don't think it says what you think it says.
If you clear folks to return to their homes they'll be passing by that site every days.

Yes - most folks probably aren't going to shove their noses in the train wreck but the people with the weakest resistance to poisons (kids) absolutely will be all over the site. If adults are getting significant side effects then children will likely have very severe reactions.
Nobody wants to buy them.
USDOT does have an important role to play. But the link (which I admittedly didn't follow) has a headline about the CDC. EPA is also an important agency, maybe the most important one for this clean-up. All that to say I'm somewhat skeptical when criticism focuses on Pete Buttigieg in particular...
"Stable" linux distros like Mint and Ubuntu have given me nothing but trouble, as the packages are so old that they have unfixed bugs with newer hardware.

I am running CachyOS now and love it, but for a "stable" distro I would probably pick Fedora Kionite, or maybe Clear Linux, and augment their package selection with flatpack.
If bacteria were suddenly smarter than humans, and could instantly communicate with all the other other bacteria, plus humans one would have to assume they could start building their own petri dishes or getting us to do it for them. Especially with profit motive.

I did not claim this is a near term risk, though I’m also not sure it isn’t. But how far off is it? How can we be sure?

My real point though is that it’s either impossible or inevitable. If it can happen it will, just as the odds of global thermonuclear war are 100% over a long enough timeline.

And if it happens, this is exactly what it’ll look like. Some people will be warning about it. Some people will say it’s impossible or very far away. And then it will happen so far nobody will have had time to adjust.
I said I despised the algorithm, I did not say I hated Twitter. Now I at least know why I hate it.

Yes "Following" is what I use. The reason I use it is because of this algorithm that thinks I could possibly want 50% tweets that make me "engaged^H^H^H^H^Hraged". To me, that is a ridiculous mixture.

I'm happy they have a "Following" and I sure hope they keep it, but I will not be surprised if it goes away.
I don't get Latinx term at all. And hardly ever see it used by native speakers. It's like they're telling Spanish speakers their language is inherently bad because it's gendered. It almost comes off as a "white savior" thing where someone felt like they had to fix it. For context, I grew up bilingual.
Interesting how people who put elites at risk of being caught for child sexual abuse get arrested, but no elites ever get arrested…
This has a drawback that when reading the original documentation, not only do you have to mentally translate the code examples into your target language, but also translate the identifiers too.

And "C names are usually very cryptic" is plain false, unless you talk about APIs coming from the ages and compilers where all identifiers had to be 8 characters or fewer in length.
>> when i show the output that clearly demonstrates reasoning and understand,
the arguments quickly shift to "it's not real understanding!" and it's
honestly very bizarre. What kind of meaningful distinction can't show itself,
can't be tested for? If it does exist then it's not meaningful.

I agree with you totally. Here's some output that clearly demonstrates
reasoning and understanding:

All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

I just copy-pasted that from wikipedia. Copy/paste understands syllogisms!

Explain that!
Expect to see A LOT more spam on Twitter after this release. It's like giving SEO spammers access to google search ranking algorithm.
> we don't really have a way for the FOSS community to pool together that much money

There must be open source projects with enough money to pool into such a project. I wonder whether wikimedia or apache are considering anything.
"Because the investigators' symptoms improved soon after they left the area, the incident was not reported to the public" .... This is a rather Orwellian statement. Don't worry everyone, the CDC workers symptoms improved as soon as they got the hell out of East Palestine, therefore East Palestine must be completely healthy.
I clicked downvote before reading the whole comment. At first I thought you were talking about the red team when you started with "mass riots and violence..." Then I read the rest of your comment and still felt just as good about my downvote. This isn't a constructive comment no matter what "side" you're on.
Wow thanks for the link - such incredible pressure for large depositors in small banks to move their funds somewhere "safer" - and people have the audacity to say crypto has no intrinsic value.
I was thinking something similar. Turns out that you don't need all the weights for any given prompt.

> LLaMA 30B appears to be a sparse model. While there's 20GB of weights, depending on your prompt I suppose only a small portion of that needs to be used at evaluation time [...]

Found the answer from the author of this amazing pull request:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/638#discu...
Or to put it another way: new styles of art were historically invented every century or so, and a bit faster these days, maybe every decade. All of the other art made by thousands of artists were derivative in some sense. It’s a rare master that can come up with something entirely new.

You see similar things in areas like science. When was the last time you’ve seen a paradigm shift akin to relativity or quantum mechanics? Not for over a century!
Yeah and it doesn't matter.
Might like this -> https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/artificial-intelligence

AI recs from experts and authors, mix of fiction and non fiction.
Launching a big brand Twitter alternative on top of the existing Fediverse feels to me like it could work incredibly well right now.

The obsolute worst thing about the Fediverse (Mastodon et al) right now is the onboarding process. You have to "chose an instance" before you can even start understanding what that's about - and if you chose wrong you might find your instance gets switched off leaving you high and dry in the future.

Now imagine Tumblr ships ActivityPub. Every Tumblr user can now follow any Mastodon user, and vice-versa. The Tumblr ecosystem gets a whole bunch of new high quality available content. Mastodon enthusiasts can tell their skeptical friends "go sign up for a Tumblr account and follow me from that".

Or... if you're launching something new, why would you launch from a state of zero accounts when you could launch with Fediverse compatibility and have ~10m accounts that your first users can start following straight away?
"approved terminology".
I have a whole shelf full of horse stuff because of this!~
I know this outside of the scope of the article, but I've seen this a bunch of times when HN commenters claim that a given topic is not relevant for HN. The gist of the claim is basically "$badaction was already illegal, this new tech did not enable $badaction, therefore we don't need to discuss this further". The claim always seems disingenuous, because it ignores a crucial fact: prior to the tech, the friction opposing a bad action was sufficient all by itself to keep the rate of the bad action within acceptable limits. Its a "nothing wrong with nuclear weapons, if sharp rocks are still allowed too" sort of argument.

Fine, yes, this is a police-made-up-evidence story. But its also a technology-enabled-a-psuedo-scientific-confidence-interval-to-make-the-made-up-evidence-more-convincing story. Dismissing it out of hand really downplays why facial recognition (or algorithmically generated feeds or the banning of human content moderation or...) is so fraught. There may well be a solution to the problems appearing, but we're not going to arrive at those solutions without discussing those problems as, well, problems.
It's hard to beat the Apple UX. My macbook air m1 is the best laptop I have ever had. Do I love macOS? Not really. But if you need to develop in Linux just fire up a VM.

I use a windows laptop for my work because I work at Microsoft. At the end of the day most of us spend 90% of our time in a browser, vs code, and bash or powershell. The experience between the 3 major OSs is not that different.
this really resonates with my observations as well. thanks for sharing this, taking a look at your website rn
Live fast, die young. What's the issue?
well, encryption needs computational resources; you have to expect higher overhead when you do encryption in the web compared to native code e.g. in Rust or C. It kind of is the upper bound of slowness ;)
There is a mens rea element though isn't there? If you post this with the intent of preventing people from voting versus posting something you think is factual versus posting something with the intent being to make a joke. The first would be illegal, the second wouldn't, the third maybe (if you had reason to believe that people would interpret it as being factual prior to your posting it).
It's no secret that Twitter, like any other social media platform, is driven by user engagement and ad revenues. The more time we spend on the platform, the more valuable it becomes for them. With this new open-source algorithm, they're essentially crowdsourcing improvements to their system to better serve us the content we crave.

this move could be seen as a strategic PR play to boost their public image amidst the growing concerns around algorithmic bias and lack of transparency. By inviting the community to collaborate and address these issues, they're not only shifting some of the responsibility onto the users but also deflecting potential criticism.
This is what my friend was doing, until CB just locked his account after making two $10k USDC purchases. He was fully KYC'd. No warning or reason given, just "convert back to USD and withdraw your money please, that's our final answer".
18.04 is not going EOL anytime soon, in face 14.04 is still supported for an other year
Tell HN: ChatGPT (free version) now throttles number of requests per hour
My GF just got this message while trying to prompt ChatGPT:

> Too many requests in 1 hour. Try again later.

This appears to be new? At least I've never seen it.
Although you can't reliably handle arbitrary JSON, they're not ipso facto incompatible formats; the fact that you can run a CSV-to-JSON is proof. (If you have a tool that operates on the kind of data that CSV is used for, then you can, of course, implement JSON support in the same tool at least to the extent that it is able to handle any JSON of the form that a CSV-to-JSON converter would produce...)
But you can certainly validate their output. It seems like that's where this shifts the problem to.
> which of these groups do you think that they use as a control?

When you run an A/B test you randomly divide your users into groups, one (treatment) getting the new behavior and one (control) getting the current production behavior. So your question doesn't make much sense?
> Indian expats remitting to India

But eventually I have to remit back my profit? I will be affected right?
> Europe on top of innovation once again.

There's plenty of innovation happening in Europe. See e.g. ASML.

What Europe is not good at is generating a lot of hype around something. Which has probably something to do with the investor climate there.