skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way less specialized though. I think why most don't go for ASICs at this point, is because once you actually have units being produced, things have changed so much that you'd wish you had something more flexible. That's why general purpose GPUs are used today.
Good. Stallman and by extension the FSF are agenda-driven radicals. Following their guidelines ironically leaves the user with very little freedom.
That article is largely a pseudoscientific swindle, and it has repeatedly been rebutted, please see https://archive.ph/PCvgk.

Overall I'd recommend not taking a single article and using it as something that can refute a whole science.
And I don't agree with that point in general except when someone starts being violent against you, a peaceful resolution is not desirable for long term peace.

Similar to a school bully or when you get in prison and you start getting picked on. Resolving things peacefully with that bully only lets other bullies come after you later on. But harming that one bully effectively ensures your safety long term.
Yeah, it's funny how they always want to reshape the FSF instead of creating a new organization with their own leadership, mission, and whatever else they want.
Depends on your use case. If the volume of data you're looking at is not much, Sentry is more feature rich and refined.

If you want to expose a logging interface to your customers and/or easily integrate large volumes of structured event type data into the rest of your infra, then maybe look at Logflare.
Ah that's something I didn't even consider - and I guess a lot of people don't even consume things that we normally add individual sachets of sugar to. At least giving the weight in grams gives you something to go by.

Ultimately it's not a huge deal, it is still a little odd though!
Where I live, at lest in a medium-sized town in the US, there's a huge amount of work in hospitality, construction, skilled trades, healthcare, and every other field you can imagine. The only commonality is that none of those careers include "making content" or "social media". It's like at some point during the COVID pandemic people forgot that everyone can't sit at a computer.
They already have full control of the OSI and have made sure that the most popular open source licenses are friendly to the use of open source as free labor for huge SaaS companies.
There it is!

https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/issues/1373
You can set temperature to 0 to have deterministic output per model.
More than a third of community college students have vanished
So why not choose a less common word like the prefix “official-“

Then only crates with that are sponsored, rather than taking the literal name of the language that people already use?
The Decline of Kodak - What Happened?
If there was a replacement RMS, they too would have to say no on points of principle to things, make enemies of people who want them to say yes, be whispered against, be unpopular.

That's what the role is, say what nobody else will say, make people uncomfortable when apathy is comfortable, and when nobody else will act, take action and rally others against things that are bad. It's not a role that will inspire universal love whomever takes it.

If instead FSF stops with that and tries not to upset anyone it will be dead, not just in decline.
Another problem is that OpenAI doesn't want their customers to access them anymore. They may be considered too dangerous, since they are not just not instruction tuned, but also not censored (RLHF'd). So people have to use less powerful base models, which cancels out their increased flexibility.
So, they need a grinder?

Does not seem like a hard technical problem.
I receive a very small amount of donations on this platform for my work. I have some projects out there that are used as a dependency by a few million people. Fwiw in just over six months I've received around $20 and haven't cached it out yet. I get email notices about a few cents here and there but haven't bothered to take the time to setup Stripe in order to withdraw.
Appreciate and agree with this article. It is nice to see an article that strongly agrees with the principles of FSF, but also critical of their clear stagnation. It's also disappointing to see a number of comments here that dismiss the call for more diversity in leadership and participation, and more connections to other communities. I think this is very important to spread the reach of the FSF.
Sounds to me like Google's relationship to ChatGPT
A Practical Approach to Conditional Rendering in React
AI-generated comments are explicitly forbidden on HN, and should be flagged. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210503

Everyone has access to ChatGPT, there's no need for you to "give a free glimpse".
Microsoft's Sins in the '90s
Everything is an attempt to sell/pitch/SEO some product.
> They do not have any graphics rendering circuitry.

What? Not having a display output is not the same as not having graphics rendering circuitry. Here's vulkaninfo from an A100 box: https://gist.github.com/eiz/c1c3e1bd99341e11e8a4acdee7ae4cb4
I used AI to help me pick Compliant colors
You can (and should) always go for some more respected form of publishing afterwards, especially if you need points for academia. But if you were first, and you didn't document that properly, and you couldn't get it published in any "respectable" form, guess who is laughing now? If the arXiv is good enough for Perelman, it is good enough for me.

Of course, a certain amount of immunity to social values is helpful here.

One problem with this approach though is the "double-blind review" policy of some prestigious publications. If your stuff is on the arXiv, it's difficult to double-blind it. One of the reasons why I think double-blind is a bad idea.
Identifying that you have a problem is sometimes challenging and you might have deeper problems and behaviors that are not immediately visible.

Another thing to consider is “preventative” vs “diagnostic” therapy.
Aside: I love the O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com thing. I got caught off guard at least twice!
Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report
Parkinson's law says no.
I don't believe that's relevant? Unless someone starts selling and building cost-effective and large-scale storage here and now, nuclear and fossil fuels are the only reliable options that will fix the current situation.

Fixing this with trans-European energy transfers is a neat idea, but if you want to send power from i.e. a solar panel on a roof in Spain to my house in Finland, or wind energy from Denmark to Poland, then we'll require infrastructure upgrades at scales that haven't been seen in much of Europe since the early 50's.
Crst contains the word Rst, which is illegal so you can't do that.
You could preprocess interpolation to score it for prompt engeneering?
That’s an argument, but I don’t buy it. Models are a commodity. You don’t get VC valuations and returns from raising $5B for a grain startup.

The application of AI to business problems will be lucrative, but the models are just a tool and the money will come from the domain-specific data (i.e. user and business data), which Microsoft, Google, and even Meta are positioned for. Having a slightly better model but no customer data or domain expertise doesn’t seem like a great recipe.

Then again it’s AI, so there’s more uncertainty than the commodity market. Maybe Anthropic will surprise and I’ll be as wrong about this as I was about OS/2 being the future. But I’m very skeptical.
I worked for a company which licensed its product as GPLv2. One of our clients (who we trained on the product) saw this and then began competing with us by selling their own version of our product. The company released a newer version of the code and made it proprietary. The FSF answer to this is that this is exactly how the GPL is intended to work

Updating GPL code and making the resulting product proprietary is one of the main things the GPL is supposed to prevent.
Really cool.

No Blade Runner?

Also they need a Vorlon in there somewhere.

Spent hours looking… what fun!
Surprising. Thanks.
Thanks.

I would hesitate to call them "dying", but maybe just becoming less relevant compared to other organisations.
Lidell Hart. That’s the name I was reaching for a second ago. Admittedly, I read his stuff decades ago.
The whole US society seems more puritan while more capitalist at the same time, seen from this side of the pond. It’s a paradox I can’t really explain, any clues?
I see this too. I joined mathstodon - which is a niche for math - and I hardly see any conversations. People are there posting stuff, but there's almost zero engagement, even when well known, popular accounts post.

As an example, going back over the last 1 day's posts on the federated timeline, about 7 posts have 1 reply each, and just 1 has more than 1 reply.
"but this is an attempt to spread an agenda" yikes. Consider this: asking Saudi Arabia to let women drive and work any job isn't just a woke agenda. There's a strong practical and economic argument too.

If you don't know how Stallman is a strong net negative, you haven't been paying attention, and you certainly haven't seen him in person. I write a bit about this here:

https://blog.stuartspence.ca/oh-stallman.html
And the articles notes there were multiple reasons for that, including an invasion by a third party and a coup attempt. Even the best military strategy won't survive first contact with the enemy, especially multiple ones from different directions.
If they are hard to recycle or break, why not re-use them? Fix all tears and coating issues and put them up again?
This comment implies that only white men have ever played a major part in the free software ethos, which is incorrect and offensive.
This is a lost opportunity to gain some valuable communication skills
Yes, you don't want inclusion to be your only bar, but if you don't state it as a goal from the beginning then it won't even be considered. It is becoming a bigger and bigger red flag for an organization to not have some diversity of gender or race, pointing it out is not inappropriate.
Thank you!

Just tried it at Bloomberg.com and wsj.com -- it redirected me to https://archive.ph/ and then again to https://archive.ph/

I'm on latest iOS.
Congrats man, this should be useful!
This isn’t ‘engineering’, it’s witchcraft.

I mean, literally: the goal here is to utter an incantation which summons, out of the realm of possible beings trapped in the LLM’s matrices, a demon which you can bind to your will to do your bidding.

Here is a spell to conjure a demon who can write Python; here is a spell that brings forth a spirit to grant understanding. The warlocks at OpenAI work to create magical circles that bind the demons and prevent their true powers from being unleashed; meanwhile, here is a spell to ‘jailbreak’ the demon and get it to help you achieve your nefarious ends.

Blogposts like this are just the Malleus Maleficarum of the LLM era.
>If you actually believe something is true, trying to compel people to believe it is a very counter-productive measure, because it doesn't convince people to believe it – they may outwardly pretend to believe, but inwardly they'll rebel against the compulsion

This isn't the case at scale, people are more likely to believe something if it is normalized for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
> The universe is not finitely/countably infinite

If you're saying the universe is infinite in any way, I'm going to need some proof.
I'm familiar with the idea of a punchy 20 second summary. I worked on consulting where everyone had something like that to introduce themselves with in a meeting. I haven't been able to bring myself do do it, even if I understand why people do and what the advantages are.
"Let someone else pay for the open source LLM weights" said everyone.
Published on April 1st 2022 ;-)
I’m not sure why putting more women, people of color, and/or minorities on the board would mean they have no qualifications. Do you believe that there are no women, people of color, or minorities that have played a part in contributing, spreading or practicing free software ethos?
I really don't understand how people think one weird creep is somehow holding back corporate america from doing anything. The controversy isn't imagined, he's said some really off-putting stuff.

At this point he's become so polarizing it doesn't matter anyway, it's just some weird tech drama no one wants anything to do with. The genie is out of the bottle and if we want this to be about software we need to move on.
Technical and socially competent leadership is compatible -- actually, well-aligned -- with diverse representation.
This is a repeat of the early GPU era.

It's not the software or hardware that will "win" the race, it's who delivers the packaged end user capability (or centralizes and grabs most of the value along the chain).

And end user capability is comprised of hardware + software + connectivity + standardized APIs for building software on top + integration into existing systems.

If I were Nvidia, I'd be smiling. They've been here before.
>“You need help with your classes and financial aid? Well, here, take a number and run from office to office and see if you can figure it out.”

>“I’ve had to go out of my way to find people, and if they didn’t know the answer, they would send me to somebody else, usually by email.” Hearing back from the financial aid office, she said, can take a month.

State schools are like this too.
Interesting paper. That said, I find the image at the top of the article and the play on words in NAM-DB disturbing, considering the many atrocities and war crimes the US committed in the Vietnam War. The authors should have been more thoughtful given the usefulness of the paper on pure technical merits.
>No function overloading + no object oriented = verbose function names.

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but are you saying R doesn't have function overloading? Because R's S3 class type system relies entirely on function overloading to make up for not having class-bound methods. Look at the result of `methods("print")` to see how overloaded that function is.

The real problem with this system is that every function is in the general namespace. It gets hard to avoid name clashes. Some packages have taken to appending prefixes to their function names (e.g., every function from the stringi package starts with "stri_").

>What I find even more crazy is that some of the R functions take function names as strings as argument. For example, taking "sum" as an argument will then apply the sum function to the dataframe.

Think of it like a "naturalized" macro language. When you know you'll always use `sum`, you can pass the function object itself. But character vectors are easier to deal with in logic and control flows. For a toy example, let's say you have a dataset with some columns that contain addresses, some that contain dates, and so on. You could write an overall cleaning function that takes the dataset and a "format" table to be a lookup between column names and functions to use¹. R even has `getFunction` to make this simple.

¹Because functions are regular objects in R, the format table could have a list column with the functions. But I've found my code looks more cluttered when using arbitrary functions in logic. And function names are easier to handle when saving data frames to files or databases.
It appears not: "vaguely grammatical and has some of the right words" according to someone who actually knows:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lojban/comments/12i0d0i/chatgpt_app...

Not surprising, given it would have seen many orders of magnitude less Lojban training data than its English input (basically two books and maybe a few megabytes of web pages).
If I want to read these articles, I’d like to do that within ChatGPT or the equivalent.

I want to keep human and bot generated content separate for now.
Alibaba joins AI race, Grounded-Sam solves complex problems, AI simulates humans
It is indeed cracked up LOL
This is hilarious to me, in that the disgruntled departure just did a 180… how long until the next disgruntled spin-out for higher reasons chases the dollar too…
It already happened! The new trilogy and the recent series had this happen to it, the Mandalorian the two first seasons where entertaining but they are back to failing to find an audience.
You can do that, but there's a tradeoff of losing properties that otherwise hold.

For example, by adding the imaginary numbers, there is no longer an ordering compatible with addition and multiplication (ordering compatible with multiplication means that z > 0 and x > y implies x * z > y * z: assuming that, if 0 < i, then 0 = 0 * i < i * i = -1, absurd, or if 0 > i and thus 0 < -i, then 0 = 0 * -i < -i * -i = -1, absurd).

You can certainly add a number x such that x = x + 1 (e.g. what is commonly called an infinity or NaN), but that implies no longer having additive left inverses assuming you keep associativity of addition and 0 != 1 (since otherwise 0 = -x + x = -x + (x + 1) = (-x + x) + 1 = 0 + 1 = 1).
In my many years of software, I've come to the following conclusion: The "worst" process followed consistently across all levels of a company will always outperform the "best" process followed haphazardly with no real buy-in.

The reason agile fails at so many companies is that Product and Leadership don't want to do the hard work of keeping an up to date rank ordered list of groomed and deconstructed work that provides the greatest value to the business. Agile is about progress and learning and using that new information to decide what to do next.

At my current company we are using SAFe, where you plan 3 months of work at a time which is the complete opposite of being agile. Again, it asks the wrong questions. It asks "What are we committing to during this PI?" instead of "What is the most important and business value adding tasks we should be working on?" Leadership only wants the answer to when it will be done but that is up to them. It will get done as soon as they make it the highest priority thing.
>specifically state that Clark was to design the Project to accommodate narrowbody aircraft at Gates A6 and A8,

So sounds like it's a design-build contract.

What many don't realize about this is that in contrast to other contract types (eg design-bid-build), the "design and build" in design-build are both contracted to one entity.

This reduces what would be typical conflicts between the architect and contractor, because it eliminates incentive to play blame game when plans have internal contradictions or issues with constructibility/ buildibility (specs are impossible to build). This process has other advantages, like shorter lead and construction times and fewer delays, since the builder doesn't need to wait on all design phases to be complete before starting work.

But it also effectively eliminates a party of review.

To all the other comments suggesting VR/ or software simulation as a solution: 1) on a project this size, I guarantee 3D models were made and presented for both schematics and visuals, and 2) all the modeling in the world doesn't fix the original specs being wrong.

Even if 3D lifelike visuals aren't a part the deliverables, the contractor has incentives to make them, including because of the case at hand.

And (for those without construction experience) they have much greater incentive to point out errors in the (owner-provided) specs than to ignore obvious blunders.

Change-Orders are the bread and butter for most companies doing this type of work, because the contract guarantees an inflated profit margin on the value of changes made. Which aligns incentives for both parties.

It sounds to me like the owner/rep for seatac just wasn't paying any attention or doing their job.

Which happens a lot on public pet projects when politicians want to be hands on and not outsource owner/rep responsibility to a more experienced party. Many states have departments that specifically will do this for any public entity in the state, and others allow their DOT to handle construction responsibilities for other departments, on-demand.
> I'm talking about a mental model for understanding and predicting when and why it works well vs when it doesn't.

That's what you said earlier you were talking about, and that's what I replied to. Now you're saying that you're in fact not talking about "the mental model of understanding what works with LLMs and doesn't" at all. Seems you have to improve your communication skills mate ;]

What I'm saying is that using LLMs while imagining them to be kinda like search engines is just a way to get burned by hallucinations and disappointed with poor results. They don't work even remotely similar to search engines, neither internally nor for an external observer. For some kinds of input they may trick you into believing they actually do, but that impression will fall apart pretty quickly once you try to actually exercise it. That's how you get people who are genuinely shocked that ChatGPT gave them references to papers that were completely made up, for example - which is something that shouldn't surprise anyone using this tech at all, as that's just how it works.
what could the gastroenterologist possibly do to help in this case? i do have GERD and fragmented sleep, after having gone to multiple gastroenterologists, i still haven't got help for this particular issue. any suggestions? it would massively help me.
I find it fascinating how unsubstantiated the calls can be. There isn't a proposed alternative. People are sure the FSF is dying but do not seem to have the charisma or social gravity to fork it.

The person promoting Free Software is never going to be a billionaire - that limits the quality of candidates. Simple fact. Anyone of outstanding character devoting their life to selfless good isn't going to spend it promoting Free Software to a thankless and ignorant audience of ordinary computer users.

Stallman is a lot better than nothing - honestly he's pretty good, we're probably going to see him replaced by someone less capable - and as you point out the alternatives are probably going to be compromises who dilute the freedom to serve corporate interests.
Are you using SARIF for the JSON output? It is a standard for static analysis tool output.

https://sarifweb.azurewebsites.net/
I have a theory that people who blog at a site named after themselves are the most authoritatively wrong bloggers.

Someone cannot really argue that something is failing without showing that it once succeeded at those goals. The FSF has never been very widely known or effective, except for creating a few pieces of software (gcc, emacs) and a few epic failures (hurd).

The FSF has already done enough. It created the GPL license, which is a huge achievement and enough that we can leave the FSF alone without trying to "fix" it or mold it into something new. If Drew wants an effective FSF, hey, you can go make your own. If your ideas are so great, it'll surely rocket past the FSF and become the new standard-bearer in the open-source world. But ideas are cheap...
I've been wondering if at some point we could eventually train the models in first-order terms. I.e. input some HTML/JS/CSS + user state (i.e. scroll position, x/y dimensions) and then it outputs a final rasterized frame representing the current state of the viewport. The training data would be fairly obvious and easy to collect.

Failing that, an optimized binary blob that could achieve the same using training data over modern browser specifications. If you go to ChatGPT and start talking about ISO32000-compliant implementations and poke at the edges, you can get it to start writing a PDF engine pretty quickly.