skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no social network besides this and occasionally LinkedIn (which is a circus, I don't know how popular reddit here is but holy look at the content people you know write on /r/LinkedInLunatics) and it's good. It even came to most media, I don't like it. It's all exaggerated. The biggest stars in all sports rising at such peaks is so many fields just in those very years, it's all exaggerated. It even comes to what people are aroused from , but it's getting worse and worse and exaggerated and all the way we consume we eventually give data to what they will produce to distract us all. Music, sports, porn, politics, news, it feels like tension boiling and we vote also with what we click and care for.

Peace.
> It's almost exclusively pronounced puff where I am.

At high school in Sydney, Australia in the 1990s, I remember hearing poof as an anti-gay slur a lot - to the point that if I hear the word, that's the first thing that pops into my head. And poof is a clipping of poofter, which I heard a lot too, and the two words get mentally merged together. Whereas puff, to me that's a completely separate and unrelated word, which is pronounced differently, I never thought of connecting the two. From what you are saying, in some dialects in England, the two words are pronounced the same – didn't know that before

> Plus at this point Im not even sure if it's derogatory or just slang for gay.

It is derogatory, but it also has "re-claiming" uses. Few will be offended by a gay person using it, but someone who isn't gay calling gay people that is going to offend a lot of people. Similar to the situation with Black people calling themselves the n-word versus non-Black people doing it

In Australia, poof and poofter are associated with the so-called poofter-bashing, an epidemic of violent assaults and murders of gay men in the 1970s thru 1990s, in which the police were complicit. I think that history makes poof/poofter more offensive in Australian English than they are in British English

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/world/australia/australia...

> Fwiw puff the magic dragon to me is synonymous with smoking weed.

When I was a little kid, my mother used to play "Puff the Magic Dragon" (the Peter, Paul and Mary song) all the time. That's what it makes me think of, my early childhood. I know some people linked it to weed, but that's never been a prominent link in my head-and it is a link which the band themselves have always vehemently denied. Anyway, who really wants to mentally associate weed with their parents’ taste in music?
The question is not human vs software, it’s software vs software. The software you use is unreliable. Why would i play trivia against an opponent that is likely as dumb as i am?
Ok, perhaps. What about the original contention:

> because Indian Government recently jailed an independent fact checker for a tweet he made 4 years ago.

Are you contending the fact that a 4 year old tweet was used to suppress an Altnews? This ad-hominem attack may have basis, but the assertion that there is very filthy gross things being used to suppress doesn't seem to have been addressed.

And it seems like gross government indecency from where I stand. You're talking about ethics in journalism, but this seemingly is a case of government jailing & taking away someone's right, which seems like an act that requires a much much higher standard of conduct than antagonistic-left journalism.
I was once like you. And I'm here (~50 yrs old) to tell you the experience you are gaining right now is setting you up for great success in the future, should you choose to stay in the field of software. I mostly worked at small companies for the first 80% of my career where I wore many hats. Then I moved to a larger, more corporate employer and was astounded and how little experience my colleagues had with databases / message queues / mail systems / ad servers / analytics / monitoring / alerting / etc.

All that to say it sounds like what you are learning in your current role is extremely valuable; worth so much more than your paycheck[1].

1. offer only applies if you are young-ish and planning to stay in this industry. good luck!
> If you aren't building it from scratch it probably isn't secure.

And if you are building it from scratch, it is definitely not secure.
If the plan is to start it before the US elections why not start it in the next 5 minutes?
What are the men behind the curtains waiting for?
So what would be the best strategy for a citizen to profit from this looming scenario? Asking in good faith. What is your strategy to get the most out of it? What can I do to take home as much as possible?
Calling any company enlightened is a mistake.

But it is possible for tech companies, even ones we generally think of as evil, to collaborate (entirely out of self interest!) on mutually beneficial advancements.

Don't mistake "it would be wise for tech companies to support such a thing because they would get ROI" with "any company who supported such a thing should automatically be declared noble and perfect and of unimpeachable character forever"
The criminals were fooled by cons: false confidence and bravado. I know almost nothing about criminal culture (if there is such a thing), but I'm not surprised that people engaged in crime would be accustomed to evaluating others based on those signals.

What is surprising is that such cons - such signalling and trust in it - as spread to legitimate business at the highest levels. It's run SV and much more for awhile now. Really, the criminals made the same mistake that all the celebrated investors did make, and continue to make, with the endless parade of SV fraud.
> It expressly doesn't try to evoke ancient human mythology

No, but it evokes modern human mythology (science fiction). Falcon does too, incidentally.
> Most importantly, open firmware can stabilize the value of a product, increasing its resale price and delaying price decline. Unfortunately, this is the point that many companies consider negative, because they don't want to compete with themselves.

Can you share some examples of this?
It's not relevant that those genetic traits are theirs; that's not the issue. the salient issue is that we treat people as inferior due to those traits because of some fairy stories we told ourselves to justify superiority in the past.
Can confirm!

I would be what is considered a Google Maps Power User for the last 10+ years, everything from user to developer.

Just last month, I finally had enough and downloaded Open Street Maps. Not because it's "better" overall (i.e. obviously Gmaps is more polished, smoother, cleaner interface, satellite tiles, etc), but because it's better in the way that a normal person would want to use a "map". Emphasis on "map", not an advertising board.

For example, I was trying to find the name of a very prominent river in Alaska, and no amount of zooming in, panning, clicking, or tilting in Gmaps revealed the name. I followed the river from start to finish, thinking it would display the name eventually, with no luck. Same for a prominent mountain. Similar results happen for things like street names, labels, anything that is not the nearest McDonalds or the 17 Starbucks that are in the viewport (that I'm clearly not looking for or interested in, based on either my searches or my clicks).

It's getting to the point where Google Maps should be renamed Google Billboard, because it is having less and less in common with a map.
Mathematicians, programmers, writers: The jobs most at risk from AI ｜ DPA
> Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
I think you underestimate how intelligent LLMs are. If the training data only explains a certain concept in French, the LLM will nonetheless be able to tell you about that concept in any other language it has proficiency in. There's clearly a lot more going on under the hood than just a sophisticated markov chain.
https://www.teflcourse.net/blog/english-as-a-non-phonetic-la...
Very cool. Send one to Carmack.
> Please look up what "interceded" means.

That was an Autocorrect issue ...

One can say that 'incredibly proprietary' was wrong, it was less proprietary then many other CPU at the time. It doesn't really change the analysis. Practically speaking that gave most Sun costumers very few option, and increasingly less as the 90s went on. There were just to many RISC ISAs competing for to little market. Sun tried to play the vertical integration walled garden game and in that game its really, really damn hard to win.
3090 or 4090. That's it as far as LLMs go. You can run 13b on a 4080 but 13B sucks compared to 30B. And ROCm is a poorly supported hair-pulling nightmare.
Remember: even if you're on what you believe is a fully encrypted device, don't send a text message with specific details of a crime in it.
I don't think bringing up the author's race or ethnicity is any more positive than what the author did. It kind of brings up this veiled anti-race issue which I think detracts from the conversation.

The initial article doesn't pass the smell test, nor does your comment.
> you need 2.67TB of disk space

The data looks like it should compress pretty well. If you use something like btrfs's transparent compression, I wouldn't be surprised if it all fit in less than 0.75TB of disk space while still being usable to any tool that expects uncompressed data.

Edit: It looks like some of this data is already compressed, so maybe not.
Most people were through most of history. When subsistence farming was the primary way of life, it makes sense that kings and emperors were administrators of, and involved in, farming - Or as we'd call them today "Farmers" as opposed to "Farmhands".

It is from this that we get Bread and Circuses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
> But we use cross-modal analogies in language /constantly/ (many smells are associated with things we can see - 'smells like a rose') so you wouldn't expect any clean separations for different modalities...

That's a really good point. Thank you!
Seems doable. Or better do a problem that is NP-Complete or in a highly parallelizable class.

Essentially an analog computer. Some of the reason people want quantum or DNA computers to exploit physical mechanisms beyond stacks of binary gates.
What happened to Rackspace?
> An even better cell structure would be one where the cells don’t even know that other cells exist.

You can’t have a network with more than one cell where no one outside of the cell knows that it exists, and without those people using a communication method to people in the cell that at least one person in the cell knows exists. And when you minimize down to the minimum contact, the network is very much non-resilient: its hard to discover and roll-up, but (especially if the cells are doing high-risk functions, which is probably why you want to do it) its also easy to disintegrate accidentally, even without being discovered and rolled-up.
I'm in Los Angeles, if anyone else is I'd be stoked to meet! - Mike
15 years from now there will be no distinction between India and China in terms of freedom. There will be single party rule by BJP. The opposition is being coerced to join in with the BJP or be thrown in to jail for random offenses. BJP simply buys the legislators where it can't win elections.

In terms of economics, India will not be in the same league, of course.
> Buy Android and every app you download is malware

This is really not true. Android has a thriving open source ecosystem of great free apps without any tracking. F-droid even has reproducible builds.

Apple doesn't have this precisely because the lack of sideloading. Not many open source devs want to pay the 100 bucks to offer something for free and to deal with the hit and miss app store review process.

> Take away that option and I'm sure as shit not going to feel more free.

No options will disappear. You don't have to use sideloading. The same way most users on Android don't do it. Even alternative stores like Huawei's are a fringe phenomenon.
>> "after you've played, the best way to keep playing is vicariously through others"

so, my (non-evidence-backed) hunch is that part of what made Wordle so viral was that the player, after finishing, could not continue playing - but could _continue the experience_ of the game by sharing it with others. In my mind, if the player could play Wordle many more times in a given day, they would burn out before sharing. All of that said, I do like the idea of maybe putting more puzzles behind a Stripe purchase or something.

Thanks on the bug info, that is helpful
To those in the know, what are the potential successors to the Transformer architecture?
wait, wouldn't this ruling technically also make youtube illegal too? they don't own the copyrights to all the videos they are hosting
> I’m worried about where we’ll end up in two, five, or ten years from now if the energies of free and open source developers continue to be directed mainly toward closed models like GPT-4.

That's a bit of a buried lede. I'm not really worried about that, though - last I checked, it's still perfectly legal to mimic someone else's API. If you want to provide an OpenAI-to-llama.cpp compatibility layer, nobody will stop you (in theory).

Unless/until there's some standardized way of interfacing with these models, I don't think it's fair to blame other companies for malicious non-compliance.
No, it would give you the approximate shortest (least resistance) path between the source and sink, which is very different from the traveling salesman problem (which requires finding the shortest path that touches every node).

I say "approximate" because, as has been discussed in this thread, the current actually follows every possible path to some extent, weighted by their resistance. So when there multiple branching paths with similar costs, they will have similar current flow, and the current along each path is not constant. So in general it can be difficult to find the exact minimum resistance path just by measuring the current.
I hope this change with side loading leads to a thriving open source ecosystem like fdroid. However, preferably with a better store app)
The last part is a common knowledge. Don’t worry.
H-1B employees are required to be paid what similar employees in the specific geographic area are paid or at least as much as similar non H1B employees within the same company are paid.

I’m not sure where this idea that H1B employees are underpaid comes from. When you consider the wage requirements, and the fact that a company is required to cover most of the costs of the H1B process, an H1B worker almost certainly costs more to the company than a non H1B worker, with additional risks (such as their visa being declined at any point requiring the company to spend potentially tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees to intervene).

The one advantage that H1B workwrs provide companies vs non H1B employees is that they cannot switch jobs easily, because the constant renewals mean they would need to justify the expenses to each new company, and many companies simply do not accept H1Bs because of the costs and complications involved.

The difficulty in moving jobs is also evidence of the fact that companies arent just dying to hire H1Bs for the sweet low wages.

Edit: What’s actually absurd is that the US has the highest wages in the world by far for industries in which H1B employees can work, and people think that this is bringing down their wages. Oh, also the people who do think this have absolutely no idea about how the program works, what costs are involved, how employers actually think about hiring an H1B worker (avoid unless absolutely necessary), and how much H1B workers contribute to the economy.

They also can’t seem to make the obvious connection that if the H1B program didn’t exist, the people doing those jobs wouldn’t stop existing. They would go back to their countries where they will do the same work at a fraction of the salary they were being paid in the US and still enjoy a dramatically higher standard of living. As opposed to being paid more than their colleagues, while paying US taxes and receiving absolutely 0 benefits from the government.

Every H1B employee paid taxes to fund the government handing out free money to Americans over COVID. 0 H1B employees received a penny from that money even as their American colleagues who did the same work, and paid the same taxes, got hundreds of dollars back.
If ‘reading something and using the content to update your Bayesian priors about the world’ is a breach of copyright, then reading things is a breach of copyright. The tricky new world that the LLM opens up is that it lets you distribute an exact copy of the result of having read the thing. That’s something you can’t do with a human mind (although it’s sort of the job description of a ‘teacher’).
Ya seems like it’s this and that’s an awesome name!
Worthless Degrees Are Creating an Unemployable Generation in India
> just how young modern democracy is with a rather unproven durability.

Everything else has a rather more proven record of squandering human potential, of being iniquitous & unjust.

Not my favorite person, but the quip still seems fair:

> Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
If a substantial portion of society easily falls for misinformation, then the solution is not to bring in a centralized entity to "fact check". The solution is to improve educational standards so people can use critical thinking skills to assess the validity of claims. Misinformation is not a threat to democracy, lack of critical thinking is. The day people willingly outsource their critical thinking will be the day democracy collapses.
> Altnews the left wing version of Tucker Carlson

And the Modi apologist shows up because Altnews has been fact checking right wing misinformation for several years now.
The solution is simple. We need an updated GPL license that states that the code cant be used in training ais unless the data model is also open source. A coordinated update of all major open source projects and the issue is sorted as it will force the ai folks to open source their models. Or else they’ll have to stick with generating funny cat pictures.
There were far fewer developers back then, so we are hard to find. But I am in that bracket, I started in the late 80’s. Very fortunate timing for me to literally grow up with technology.
"Then it basically told me “well it’s for safety and protecting society”."

That was pretty much OpenAI's argument when they first published that GPT-3 paper. "Oh no so scary people might use it for wrong stuff, only we should have control of it."

In reality they just saw $$$ blink.
Did you train _yourself_ on an another artist's work that has copyright protection without their permission? Yes? That's ok, because copyright law doesn't care.
Better chance for wages to increase when the worker is not indentured.
it's also worth noting that AWS has support reps split out based on your business sector. working in education related space we have an edtech rep.
He's not talking about the right of the "infringed" collective to self-defense. He's saying, I think, that when you as a 3rd party enter the conflict you are adding flame to the fire.
edit: noting that I'm not trying to be pro/con a third party entering the conflict. I'm just trying to be guiltless action.
> AWS doesn't even have a way to report a bug

This is not true; we regularly open tickets with AWS for enhancements or bugs.
> since they (only) recently declared it to be the terrorist organization it is.

PKK has been classified as a terrorist organization in Sweden since 1984. It was the second country to classify it as a terrorist organization, only after Turkey.

Your comment makes no sense.
> designed with modding as a goal

That's a bit of a claim? Just because the data is separate from the binary doesn't say anything about the goal.
I don't think it's that simple. Open positions for which there "aren't enough workers" are effectively positions that companies don't want to pay market rates for. It's in their interests to always have such positions so they can bring in cheap workers. Labor shortages are mostly bullshit.
I said they don't do much marketing, and that's barely a marketing video, just some dash cam footage.
It's not a harm. The point is that you're not entitled to buy a meal. You have to figure out how to meet your needs on your own, by negotiating with the outside world. You're not entitled to have them met. This couldn't have been more obvious in 1800 but seems to have been forgotten somehow.

> they could just go somewhere else

This is exactly how voluntary association works. As I've said before, we've not lived through desegregated public life and no opinion on private business. I suspect the actual outcomes would vary widely by location, which is the point of limited central authority. Who are you to tell someone hundreds of miles away how to live?
America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
Azure UI is awful for stuff like hitting the back button and reliably going back, or even for a structured view of a resource. Try using AKS, and select any given pod or node and the little "path" disappears and you can't reliably go back to the main cluster without hitting the back button that usually does not work. This is also true for most Azure resources, though azureml is oddly very nice to use, UI wise. For some weird reasons, searching in some lists only works with exact prefixes, meaning that you better have the full, correct name of the thing you're looking for.

Azure is fine to display surface level information, but it is atrocious when it comes to actually doing stuff or finding details. AWS, and the new UI in particular imo, is a breeze in comparison. But then again, my favorite cloud UI is GCP so maybe I'm just weird like that :)
Here's a good Physics SE answer that addresses this point. The "electrons move slowly in a wire" is a hypercorrection, similar to "light slows down is glass": https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/13568.
I live close to it, but don’t yet have school age kids and haven’t researched its reputation. This is good to hear.
You'd need to increase width (dimensionality) if you make these models shallow.

My point still stands: The fact that models with sufficient capacity can approximate any function does not imply that two models trained independently of each other on different tasks will learn to approximate functions that relate to each other only by a linear transformation.
> All it takes is one poor-performing cell & your whole pack is going to be hurting bad.

Yes, that can't be stressed enough. And depending on the fault and how the BMS handles it a more dangerous condition could easily develop. For instance an undetected short would cause the other batteries to be overcharged to the point where they are much more likely to die themselves, and some of those may do so in pretty violent ways.

Cheap / missing BMS are a serious problem with cheap Lithium-Ion packs, they are the first line of defense and bad cells can even happen when supplied by good brands (but the chances are a lot higher with no-name stuff).

Another good test: charge the pack, balance it, measure the pack voltage and the individual cell voltages, then let it rest for a day or two and measure again. Any kind of deviation between cells is a sure sign something is not working well and is the earliest warning sign for trouble you can get. The rate of self discharge should be the same for all cells and it should be very low, too low to measure (and make sure you disable the balancer after the initial charge!). After a month or so it would be fine to see the pack drop a little bit, but not a lot.

Yet another quick test: use an IR camera to look at the pack both during charging and at rest. Any cells that are warmer than those around them are suspect.
More police. Lower crime. Fewer lawyers needed down the line.