skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, once we’re adding some sort of provenance bit to every string we pass in that unlocks the conversational aspect of LLMs, why are we even exposing access to the LLM at all?

If I’m creating a LLM that does translation, and my initial context prompt has that special provenance bit set, then all user input is missing it, all the user can do is change the translation string, which is exactly the same as any other ML translation tool we have now.

The magic comes from being able to embed complex requests in your user prompt, right? The user can ask questions how ever they want, provide data in any format, request some extra transformation to be applied etc.

Prompt injection only becomes a problem when we’re committed to the idea that the output of the LLM is “our” data, whereas it’s really just more user data.
I would have thought you'd link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35574446
https://www.wikibinge.com/#Electoral_college/The_Long_Earth

Apparently Humptulips, Washington was Terry Pratchett's favourite place on earth. :)
Which means those exchanges are, until crypto becomes a mainstream payment method for everyday stuff, completely pointless. And, as a result, crypto as well.
So could this be used with something like a trust-region SQP solver to remove the tweakable trust region parameter?
To me, “computation expression” is significantly more vague than “function” is in Haskell. “Seq” as was suggested by someone else here seems clearer. But I would genuinely be happy to understand the F# point of view on this better.
There is a quote somewhere that says Linus names his programs after himself. Freax for freak, and then later git too. Git means an unpleasant person.
If an alien species is technologically advanced enough that they can cross the universe, I find it hard to believe they simply wouldn't understand concepts like stealth, strategy, etc.

However, I'm skeptical of there being any intelligent life out there that we could feasibly communicate with on any useful timescale anyways, so I don't necessarily disagree with you. I just don't think this argument is inherently sufficient.
I must be rare in that the longer I use tiktok, the less relevant the recommendations feel. Maybe because I compulsively watch videos until the end even if I don't like them.
> i read the source.

You mean I'm not the only one who does this?? I think I end up doing that on about 25% of the websites I hit.
If you read the article, it provides evidence that would support that theory
Same with Woz, the actual brains behind Apple. Jobs was just a charismatic designer and salesman.
Familial violence against women, unfortunately, happens in all cultures. It gets called "honor killing" when it happens in a few of them.
"No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more,"

I'd argue that no reasonable person ever believed that a conservative Twitter clone was a viable business in the first place!!!

Looks like the Freedom phone is close to death as well.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-freedom-phone-bac...
https://github.com/outline/website has the source
> Try visiting a city that has low crime, like Singapore or Tokyo.

Singapore's lower crime rate is achieved by having a nanny-state government run by an autocrat, with cruel, harsh punishments for fairly low-level offenses and little care for due process. If that's what is required to get us low crime, then I will reluctantly accept higher crime rates.

Tokyo is absolutely not a low-crime city. The Japanese authorities try to paint it as such, and deal with problems quietly. News outlets don't report on much of the crime that goes on; I'm not sure why, but a reasonable guess might be due to pressure from authorities. But I assure you there's plenty of crime (especially organized crime) to go around in Tokyo; it's just not very visible.

Japan also has a near-100% conviction rate, not because they're always right, but because they value clearing cases off their books more than ensuring justice is served. The US justice system is far from perfect, but I prefer what we have here over Japan's.
> At what point do we consider any religious beliefs that have deleterious effects on oneself to be mental illness?

Religion is basically always a socially acceptable mental illness that we not only tolerated but encouraged because it has been a part of civilization since before we formed the basic premises for what constitutes a civilization.
I don’t understand why. My great grandfather was still strong and breaking horses in his late 80s. I have no doubt that if he was so inclined he could have easily engaged in violent crimes at that age. He was well into his 100s and completely healthy until he suddenly just died without warning. Maybe this person in jail is similar.
He didn't say "write your own library". He said "use" one (your own if you prefer). Or are you going to suggest there are no good string handling libraries for C?
> tracking credit card transactions is an every day chore for the government.

In what sense? Credit card companies manage their own fraud mitigation per federal law, which makes it easy for consumers to dispute transactions. If someone gets my crypto wallet PK and withdraws everything, who do I dispute that with? No way to reverse transactions in BTC.
When I read "the modern elite" ... like who? Elon Musk? Joe Biden? NYT journalists?
It's why when I first read about crypto back in 2013 or so I thought about getting into Peercoin whenever I had the money to do so. And it's why years later, when I finally had the money to do so, I never bought any crypto, even when FOMO was hitting hard.

It's why I stopped taking late night drives in my car to wind down, instead taking walks. And why I try to drive to maximize fuel efficiency.

It's why I felt guilty every time I flew a plane while a student pilot and never finished a full pilot's license (I never would have started in the first place had I not been pushed to do so by my father).

Yes, some of us care.
Medicare pays for about 2/3 of the nations healthcare costs. And that's totally a socialized payer system.
Except I didn't walk into anyone else's servers. I tried to talk to them. They can simply not answer. There's a clear boundary: the network.
Hi, Christian!
TF-idf would definitely be something very interesting to try, though I also treasure the serendipity brought by the "blindness" to the content.
I met him last year when he was invited by the company to talk about Event Storming.

He's a very smart and nice guy.
A 712-unit building can afford real security. This is solvable, even if it takes some time, and the developer and the HoA have a strong incentive to solve it.
Well guess you are on the downvote train. But yes, I always hated plastics, I remember when glass was being phased out. I avoided plastic containers as long as I could, the last 20 years it has become impossible.

Time for the gov to put a large tax on all plastic containers to the point were glass becomes cheaper to use. But we both know that will never happen. So our decedents will live near large trash heaps of plastics, watching the heat from climate change melt the plastics.
I agree expressing an opinion is not rude.

However, the tone you've used to express your opinion is incredibly impolite.
I wonder how much the overconfidence played in making it a success.
The original popular theory, which some feel ashamed of, was not as tech-related.
You're too young to understand. :)
Blocking imports is actually very easy.
Battlefield Earth is the worst novel I've ever finished. I do regret it.
can you describe the cultural and social value and why or why not you think other countries like Israel, India, or Japan would benefit from having South American mestizo and indigenous peoples?
Horse and Astronaut are more closely connected (through the shows, road, actors) than Cancer and Healthcare which are not connected at all, apparently. This was the problem with public datasets and counting on HTML links to build the graph of human knowledge years ago. I tried to build better search at the time and hit this wall. Large language models will be a bonanza for new products now that the wall is broken.
It is clear from the rest of their post that they have a reasonable grasp of the relative safety characteristics of various modes of transportation, so they are clearly just being a little sloppy with their wording. The concept that they were probably trying to get across was that the 737 MAX, despite being probably around 1000x more dangerous than the average commercial airliners while the defects were present, was still safer than the other standard modes of transportation on a per passenger-mile basis. This was probably true relative to cars, but was likely untrue relative to trains or public transportation as the 737 MAX was probably around 1 fatality per 100 million passenger-miles while the defects were present. I am unsure of the safety characteristics of the 737 MAX after the fixes.
You got a very nice collection.

Combined, do they bring more than 2K/month?
Sounds like a you problem? At any rate, they added an option to reset it anytime a few weeks ago:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/tiktoks-new-feature-lets-y...
I want to know what portion of the algorithm is responsible for, when you are given a new blank slate user, "tries" certain categories

like, let's present this user travel or cooking material, that's usually safe

then, let's try things like certain genres of music, we'll see what they like/don't like

what i don't get is... how does that first recommendation on the #foryoupage or discover or whatever it's called, starts recommending you the sex workers who try to post as close to NSFW material as possible, get you to land on their profile, in their bio is a link to their Instagram or Linktree, and then from there it's an OnlyFans link

does the system try to recommend a soft entry into this content and then just pivot away if the user doesn't like it?
Twitter was profitable before he was involved. Not enormously so but the only reason the previous year was negative was a one-time lawsuit settlement.

The problem is that Musk bought them on credit which added a massive amount of new debt settlement so now they need something close to a billion dollars of new profits annually to be where they were.
>> but if I recall the movie was only about half the book,

This was my recollection as well, and I remember he had a sequel planned for the second half of the book but had to shelf it after the first movie bombed so badly along with his reputation. There was a point in one of the articles that mentioned it took Travolta 15 years to get a studio to greenlight the project.
> Simulation theory is deism for techies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580896
While the organization that runs that website is cancerous, the article isn't entirely wrong.

I don't believe that people who're pro-development are terrible but YIMBY seems to be a "develop at any cost" idea which is really not great. The people who're most rabid about it do tend to be the folks who coopt social justice messaging for causes like this, they exist everywhere.

I should say I do know some people who are YIMBY and are also very good people.

What we really need is MIMBY heh.
Both agree in this case with Mike's right to fun, but also, I feel like the idea of lighthearted jabs has become a steady stream of blows. I said elsewhere:

> Context also matters. Conversationally Mike's words could be an amusing wink & grin quip. I can see that. On paper, & seeing it repeated with the same reckless unnuanced antipathy, it lacks the personal connection & feels indicative of a general attitude situation that is quite prevalent.

"Don't get so upset it's just a joke" is sometimes indeed a legit statement, sometimes we do take things too seriously & need to be reminded. But when the light jabs keep coming, when there's so rarely an attempt to ever bring both parties into the laughing, when it's always jokes at expense, the action whatever it's intent becomes part of a larger behavior that is more than a lighthearted jab.

How many folks would stand up and say, no, there is no pattern of behavior about JS receiving short shift put downs? Do folks think there is no issue? How above board Vs how trashy do we think we've gotten with how programmer culture especially those parts that don't like it treats JS? What other parts of programmer culture endure repeated joke making at their expense today?
While I do agree with you on the effort assessment, or certainly the "trailblazing" factor... (to me, writing a kernel and operating system that could be used by the entire world before there existed a notion of what that kernel and operating system might look do that is infinitely more impressive than being a salesman)

.. I do think it's a red herring. To me it's not so much about effort than it is impact. If every person to ever write code was trying to sell a product, progress would have halted as it started. It's both the effort, the philosophy, and the philanthropy of it. Which is also what has made it thankless-ish.
That seems to imply those billions of people religious are not rational, down to earth.

Theism in itself is a simpler explanation for existence than atheism, and yet many rational people are atheists. Is it because they weighted all the possibilities or because they discarded the option a priori?

We are all way less rational than we would like to believe.
HARRY! DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE? asked Dumbledore calmly.
dropped by to comment the exact same thing. good ole' /dev/*. make sure you're sending bytes to the correct one!
- Too few homes/high costs: WFH improves it (both allowing people to live elsewhere AND improving supply).

- ICE vehicles are contributing to poor air quality/climate change: WFH improves it (less commuting, lower traffic, etc)

- Rural areas are losing population, suffering from poverty: WFH improves it (relatively affluent families can move there)

- Suburban areas have poor walkability/local shopping/facilities: WFH improves it since people will spend more time there.

The people who seem to be fighting this are corporations that hold commercial real-estate (and the media companies they run). Really just goes to show that most of their statements about the environment are just nonsense (looking at Apple in particular).
Other payment networks? Stripe, square, interac?

One is a streaming service and the other is a payment network. It's like comparing a construction site to a restaurant in terms of fuel consumption.
It's not wrong, but making it a requirement for one's opinion to be taken seriously is pretty gross. For one, it actively favors people with money, since they are the only ones who can afford to establish new multi-generation bonafides. Also, lest we forget, this city's not too distant past includes long periods of redlining and the displacement of Japanese American residents from the homes.

In other words, it's nice that your family was able to make it work here, and I genuinely think that it is an important perspective to consider, but maybe keep in mind that just because others weren't / aren't as fortunate doesn't mean they shouldn't have an equal claim to shaping the city's future.
The lack of seriousness seems more along the lines of "lol China/Russia man" than "lol aliens man". It's rather refreshing to see the DoD entertain explanations beyond "our geopolitical rivals are doing it" - and that includes not making presumptions around humans making and controlling these objects, because if we did know that with any degree of certainty then they probably wouldn't be unidentified flying objects.
> hop into cars with strangers instead

I'm pretty sure every city has taxis?
I could also compare it to the power consumption of the lightbulb in my garage. It is apples-to-oranges to compare a payment network to a video streaming platform, the only useful comparison is to another payment network.
>that's well beyond the scope of a HN comment

Exactly my point. And even if I wanted to, there's wasn't any tone or context to draw on -- just a flat assertion.

I'd add that, at least to me, a "ballpark" figure would be something reasonably close to an actual value e.g., $25 ballpark vs. $27.99. In the case to which I replied, it was more like "ballpark" $25, actual $9.99. Which "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport."[0]

[0] with apologies to Quentin Tarantino.

Edit: Added an additional thought and some context.
> Millions of people lost savings in the wake of FTX,

FTX...which was a regulated exchange in the US and failed because the SEC wasn't regulating.

The issue with expanding the SEC's reach is that they're refusing to do their job and they're asking for more work that they aren't going to do.

Commissioner Hester Peirce has a great statement on this: https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-rendering-inovatio...

We also see this statement in the article:

> The officials estimated about dozen crypto firms would fall under the expanded definition, but declined to provide any more specifics about which firms.

Which means that the SEC isn't creating clarity about their proposed changes and the effects that they will have. They need to create clarity before asking the public to comment on something.

If the SEC had been doing their job all this time and regulating the industry which they claim falls under their jurisdiction, people probably would have been saved from a lot of scams and loss of assets while still enabling blockchain products to be built by people who enjoy working on them.
WiMatch: Wireless Resource Matchmaking
It's perfectly normal to have imaginary friends (especially when you have no one else to help get you through rough times).
Personally, I wont ever connect my phone to my car at all (if my next car doesn't have an aux port I'll install one myself), but I have to assume that GM is doing this because their own software siphons more data off of our devices than even carplay or andriod auto does.

> "GM is looking to monetize more software and services within its vehicles and is taking a page out of Tesla’s playbook,"

Since they're only doing this because they want to take even more of your money after you've already spent a small fortune buying their vehicle, consumers pushing back against this is a good idea even if you don't have strong feelings about what software your car uses.
hmm, that six degrees of wikipedia bridge is little weird. i thought you can land from everywhere in few clicks by hitler. but it takes over 70 steps to get dill from hitler.
I’m surprised to see it that low. Downtown SF is pretty dead. As an introvert looking for some quiet time I head into the office with an open floor plan to not see people while I work.
If there's a "hipster" notion here it's not that of choosing C as rebellion against Rust, but that choosing C constitutes a rebellion against Rust and only Rust, as if it's the only systems programming language worth it's salt.

E.g., explain to me like I'm 10 why you think Rust is better than, say, D.
Popular recognition is usually balanced out by resentment and envy.
relevant: https://xkcd.com/1987/
I felt that my software work in the gambling industry wasn't aligned with my ethical beliefs (also family member with gamba addiction..)

I really enjoyed the research I did in my undergraduate degree (Physics) and so when my partner suggested I apply to the doctoral training program (it's called a CDT in England) it was sort of a no brainer to shoot my shot - the project sounded interesting and the course was designed for those coming from industry.

tl;dr opportunity came up and I jumped ship from SWE to ML research.
Why shouldn't it be possible to simulate a full human mind, say, at atomic level? What does the intelligence/consciousness need that's impossible to simulate in software? I can't think of many reasons, besides perhaps true randomness?
Its not solved now in larger buildings in SF.
As long as addiction and bicycle theft remains unchecked, having "bike parking" is not viable.

Also, Biking to downtown from that area is probably unfeasable for most people. I've been biking here my whole life and even though I live midway on that commute I would never want to do it. I only know ONE single person who ever did it, and he basically did it to make the spandex biker crowd look weak. San Francisco is not and will never be a city that bikers do well in.
> On the other hand, can we potentially train generative AI to detect and refute BS as well? It may be our only hope.

LLMs store their training information in an incredibly lossy format. You're going to need some kind of different approach if you want one to tell the difference between plausible-sounding bullshit and implausible-sounding truth.
Honestly, she just hit the lottery with a reasonably good story at a pivotal time. The late 90s to the late 2000s was the one period in human history with maximum teenage readership. Paper books were still in vogue, bookshops were still a thing not being swallowed by Amazon, a lot of cheap paperbacks and copies were appearing in the emerging market countries, reading was significantly encouraged at schools, with many places stocking Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Goosebumps and the likes in an effort to encourage teen readership. Also, no mobile devices!

I doubt we'll ever get a period like that ever again. Those 2 or 3 decades were the peak for writers. Almost every prolific writer of that time with a reasonably good (not great) hand at writing could mint money. It's no surprise that some of the biggest hit authors of that time were Rowling (catering to the teen market in general, with a fantasy theme that easily mirrors school - unlike LOTR), Danielle Steele (catering to the female teen market) and Tom Clancy (catering to the male teen market).
There's no world in which a decentralized algorithm is more energy efficient than the equivalent centralized algoritm, all other factors being equal.
how so? he wrote an entire book about oumuamua, did you read it?
Why? Because we're human. It's part of the human experience to want to talk
Seems like a common problem of recommenders tbh.

Like binary search, they're really good at finding local optima quickly, and then are rather bad at getting out of them once they get there.
I think the Kogi got this beat or yogic practice of Gupta Sadhana.

"The Kogi people are an indigenous tribe living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia. The Kogi have a strong spiritual connection with their environment and practice a number of rituals and ceremonies.

One such ceremony is the initiation of young boys into adulthood, which involves a period of seclusion in a cave. The initiation process varies in length, but it can last anywhere from several months to around nine years, depending on the specific role the boy is being prepared for in the community. During this time, the boys receive spiritual teachings and learn about the history, traditions, and values of the Kogi people. The initiation process is an important aspect of the Kogi culture, as it helps maintain the tribe's connection to their ancestral beliefs and practices."
This is excellent. The path from "George Barnes (Musician)" to "Django Reinhardt" somehow managed to pass through Hysterectomy, 5-Bromouracil, Glucuronidation and Port Bannatyne (Scotland). Kudos for some creative coding!
because learning something that contradicts your beliefs is actually stressful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
> Which means those exchanges are ... completely pointless.

I wonder what entices people to execute hundreds of thousands of trades totaling USD equivalent billions in daily trading volume on these platforms then. Would you say that everyone using these platforms is basically out to scam others or get rich quick?