skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair criticism, and ChatGPT does better, but this isn't a great test of model quality. All LLMS that rely on tokenization struggle with being introspective on language. Try asking chatGPT to count how many e's are in a sentence, or to list all words that start with "to" and end wide "de".

I haven't heard anyone describe the phenomenon clearly, but I expect it is a challenge with reasoning over both intent of the prompt and specific token IDs.
I’m an American, but I lived a year in Kiruna (up north, mining town, part of Lapland) and it was a common thing among my friends from there. Common enough that I brought the tradition back to the US and enjoyed a cup of coffee-cheesed coffee just yesterday.
I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t some new startup using some Swedish word as their name.
http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif
LLMs make it much easier to make harder to detect spam...
For automatically dealing with the type of spam that is frequently seen in YouTube comments, I can't help but wonder if perhaps a continuously trained LLM would be well suited.

Youtube spam comments tend to have highly atypical patterns, using things like unicode characters to avoid triggering keyword and URL filters. Something along the lines of GPT should pick up on these things pretty easily, and could similarly pick up on the actions these comments are requesting of users "message me on telegram", etc. It could also probably detect when spammers are trying to impersonate youtubers.

It's not really the kind of thing that spammers can use LLMs themselves to work around, either. Any attempt to get past the anti-spam LLM is going to look quite unusual compared to the typical comment which would tip it off.

Strangely Google seems reticent to try something in this vein though…
No one who has spent any time actually studying the price fluctuations in Bitcoin would ever believe that a fixed currency supply helps with stabilizing coins. Bitcoin itself is probably the best proof that fixed currency supply doesn't help with reducing currency volatility.
This is missing Electrobody / Electroman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI

As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a differently looking version, all mostly black? Maybe v1? http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=20415&d=36&h=0
https://archive.is/a86yM
My brother's wife is no Sami, just a regular fin, and she, and her mother and sisters, actually use salt in coffee. To me as a regular Swede it's sort of insane.
I recently started a company, and ChatGPT has been surprisingly helpful if you go and verify its recommendations.

But you don't need to create a bank account or register a company! You're already a business (sole proprietorship). Go build things :)
Is this just academics having fun, or is there some additional context/purpose here?
Marginalia is a niche engine for now, yes, but what it does, it does correctly, unlike Google that has been silently rewriting my queries since before 2013: https://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with...
Beware of toxicity of unknown conductive sprays, especially in enclosed spaces.
I built a small websocket server [0] that helps me write simple multiplayer backends. It spawns a process for the first client in a room, and routes subsequent clients to the same process.

[0]: https://scalesocket.org
If you don’t want to use the phrase “the state,” that’s fine.

Whatever powerful entity that determines the laws has no obligation to the environment.
> version 1.0 Internet, that webmasters

“Webmaster” isn’t a title I’ve heard in about 20-years.
Still doesn't work in my experience. I personally don't have the time or resources to go after companies who still put ads in my mail box.
Rule one of politics: Don't train up your own replacements. Make sure you are always the most qualified person for everything. A good step to that is only hiring people without the qualifications they might one day use to replace you. How many representatives don't have college degree or at least don't claim to have degrees? Several do claim degrees they don't have, but I don't know of any that claim to have never
attended some sort of post-secondary education.
It makes perfect sense. Roads let people take a variety of vehicles and loads anywhere they want. Rail needs specific drivers who can strike, construction and maintenance people same, and a load of land and planning and budget to add any addition destination.
quite a bit actually

making two displays work properly with correct aspect ratio and refresh rate

buggy UI components that needed restart from terminal

Many features aren't fully accessible from the UI AFAIK

I actually tend to interact with Linux machine mostly via terminal because UI is so unreliable from my experience

If there's one thing that Linux does very poorly IMO, it is GUI (technically desktop environments but you get the point)
> You might want to look at the demographics of who police shoot in the US

Canadian police are also quite racist, but if you're arguing that "less educated American cops are more racist", that tracks pretty nicely with "please don't accept less educated cops"

> you are actually claiming that the reason American police shoot more people than Canadian police is because Canadian police have college degrees and American police do not?

Do you have a different explanation?

> Do some research on what percentage of US police have college degrees

According to [0], the breakdown of US officer max education of no college/college diploma/undergrad/grad is:

* 49/20/25/5

> and what percentage of Canadian police have college degrees

And, according to [1], for Canadian officers, it's:

* 19/51/29/1.6

Quite a disparity. Especially when you consider sources like [2][3], which argue that:

> "Studies have found that a small proportion of police officers – about 5% – produce most citizen complaints, and officers with a two-year degree are about half as likely to be in the high-rate complaint group"

Overall, I believe there's lots of evidence suggesting more educated police are better police and citizens, and none suggesting the opposite - that less educated police are better.

Across the board, Canadian police are significantly better educated, with the exception of less Graduated degrees.

Across the board, Canadian police are less deadly to their citizens.

Not a coincidence - go ahead and say some more stupid shit though.

[0]: https://www.nu.edu/blog/law-enforcement-education
[1]: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2015001/article...
[2]: https://theconversation.com/5-reasons-police-officers-should... Source of the quote
[3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472... Source of the info behind the quote, paywalled
Lived in the bay the whole time, did the same thing. Multiple sources, categorization, distances, etc. Chaining GPT for rating is a nifty feature add though.
Look at the conflict with Russia and tension with China. Look at Sudan. Do you really think humanity is ever going to reach a point where everyone gets along well enough with everyone that we have one kind of centralized digital currency? We're still arguing over borders and religion, mate.

Human beings are flawed, they are domineering.
I’ve experimented in the US since “real” kaffeost is hard to get ahold of, and I’ve found Wisconsin cheese curds to work the best.
FWIW, a client of ours got their office mail server off MS's blacklist a few years back. In less than a week. But that seemed to require their ISP (a mid-sized firm in the Midwest, with awesome customer service) going to bat for them with MS.
Most college education right now opens up very little in terms of "socio-economic advancement" besides being "ticks the right box" on an application. Which is basically the opposite of "think for themselves, challenge the established order."

The status quo there isn't great; the wealthy were getting very different college degrees anyway and going into very different jobs.
Would this be like an app on your phone, or something else?
I once had to rip VHS tapes from family to digital. I had a VHS deck and a spare laptop with a little RCA plug to USB dongle to ingest content. My first few test rips were awful quality, full of analog noise and weird banding and just unexplainable signal degradation. I couldn't understand, because when I was just playing with the dongle the signal was great.

Eventually it dawned on me: I sat the laptop, right on top of the VHS deck while running the rips. The VHS head ended up directly under the CPU and HDD, such that, CPU and hard drive activity were interfering with the tape reading! I moved the laptop off the VHS deck and everything worked just fine.
You can always tell it to shut up by using pointers and unsafe.
Do people normally remove the oxygen source with ICE fires? Wouldn't that be...the atmosphere?
That's smart, and there's so many very simple ways I could go about implementing that. Nice one, I might give that a go.
I am highly amused by this.

I lived in downtown Chicago for a bit, and did indeed consider buying a folding kayak to commute to work, since I worked in the Merchandise Mart where there was river access across the street.
XTDB is a deterministic, single-writer system that leans on existing tech to handle all the hard distributed & durability aspects (e.g. piggy-backing on Kafka for ACID + HA), so Jepsen would have relatively limited applicability but it couldn't hurt to sanity check that!

I generally sympathise with your cynicism though that distributed consistency is much harder to get correct than most people realise. My own attraction to niche databases is the promise of better abstractions - the world desperately need those.
I’ve heard that it has similar effects to Bulletproof coffee in that way.
Buy a better supported laptop and stick with Linux.

Last time I ran Docker on a Mac it was sooo slow. Not sure if they've improved that but something to be aware of... https://nodewood.com/blog/how-to-speed-up-docker-on-macos/
yess :)
i was focused on 8-bit mainly but there's a lot of pc-extravaganza titles to be preserved.
This just isn't true.

Our public education is very bad now in much of the country. The fact is what you get out of high school from a huge portion of the population is...not great.

No one is stopping anyone from hiring these people. If there is no difference, people will pay less for the cheaper labor.
Parking is impossible in San Francisco. It hasn’t helped.

Only an insane person would try to take the bus.
The Bart takes literally one line through the city. Doesn’t connect to Caltrain in any sensible way.
You can’t buy a monthly transit pass because some moron added a clause to the Bart authorization law requiring every segment to pay for itself which means it’ll never be possible to get a combined muni / Bart / Caltrain pass.

You could bike I suppose if you have a death wish. No route through SF is safe for bikes. Try it.

What’s left? Leave I suppose.

Oh, but if you want to actually fix it. Recognize that people need to move from A to B for several important things in their lives (work, groceries, healthcare, friends to name a few) and make viable alternatives to driving. You actually have to do the work to craft an alternative.
I've built a simple website to watch other People's mood around the world!
https://mymood.today/
What? There is no reason to think humans are "a stepping stone," there are plenty of dead-ends in evolution. There's certainly no reason to think that putting biological things on Mars will in any way cause them to evolve into Mars-robust creatures. Evolution is a slow, slow, slow random walk throughout which nearly all conditions have to be nearly-perfect.
Your presumption is that it will be immediately obvious to engineers and product managers at larger and more established firms that your approach is superior to their current implementation and whatever was in the roadmap they have presented to senior management. As a result, they will immediately abandon their current approach and any promises to current customers and prospects and copy your implementation.

I don't think I have ever seen that happen but you could be the first.

I would encourage you to pick a niche to prosper in, one that is most likely to benefit from your approach, and start executing. Your "defense" are business relationships you can establish with customers in your target market--at least for the first few years.
A Checklist for Real-Time Applications in Linux
Biology gives us many alternatives to the immune system, which is found only in vertebrates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system#Beyond_ve...
I'm team lead at Carper. This is correct. It's also just a project one of our engineers did over the course of a few days, so very low risk.

We will swap the base model out for StableLM as soon as we can and iterate from there. We just thought the community would enjoy this research artifact :)
That wasn't the comparison I was making. For the record, I'm all for fixing problems, but the OP asked why they were not being solved, so...yeah, money. is it a satisfying and good answer? no. Is it enough of the answer to have explanatory value, I think so.
Does it have Apple Health integration?
basically a law preventing the equivalent of a US dead hand. Its really interesting how the average person thinks that AI has just been “discovered”. With the advent of LLMs being able to emulate intelligence it’s made people alot more cautious of automated systems that have already existed for 20+ years. now that computers can talk they’re suddenly going to take over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
What a superb post. Thank you for this gem.
Related (hmm, three posts this month - must be some common trigger for this...)

Chicken chicken chicken [academic paper] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35506921 - April 2023 (2 comments)

Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35466792 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Chicken chicken chicken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18673716 - Dec 2018 (1 comment)

Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830497 - June 2013 (47 comments)
I think I know where I come from better than you, and it is my interpretation.
Runnable has one of the most beautiful APIs I’ve seen — everything is very carefully designed from the users perspective to make it as easy as possible. At the same time very flexible and powerful.
The problem is that these models do not have any working memory they could use to carry out such tasks, which are on a meta-level when seen from a language perspective. They can only go with their 'gut instinct' for selecting the next word, they can't 'consider and ponder the problem internally' first.
Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet-host YZ Ceti – Nature Astronomy
Just coordinating the 1:1 mapping I might want is fraught with challenges. Network delays, out-of-order execution, stampeding herd situations, poison objects, processors crashing (or being rebooted) at random times... I'm not seeing the benefit of a "bag" of objects to be processed whenever by whoever or whatever.

Perhaps this is attempting to solve a problem I've not come across. While it sounds interesting, I'm not sure I see the benefit? (Probably me just being short-sighted).
That's a product they sell. It looks like an audio cassette with an aux cord coming out of it. I used one for years in my old grand Marquis.
It's like a calculator for chickens. Useless though, since it says "duck" sometimes.
I'm not dead set, that's why I wouldn't waste time on writing a "this can take a little while to complete, because quite a large number of round trips are required to the source application, to get the information" in another bad language when it's much simpler to use Karabiner to send the offending keybind

By the way, what would I do with this menu info, is there another function to permanently rebind a given menu item?

I was just pointing a few fundamental flaws in this "surprisingly powerful" system
Can't modern heat pumps work even in crazy cold climates now? I seem to remember seeing that some are rated for -20F nowadays.
The Annotated Transformer (2022)
Thanks for sharing.

I'd encourage you to envision what you want your life (average day, average month) to look like in 10 years, and work backwards from there.

A long vacation might be the answer, but it's much easier to figure out what you need when you know what you want :)
When I lived in SF, I built a webcam with a raspberry pi which looked down on the street in front of my apartment and uploaded to a website if a parking spot was available. My friends could visit the page on the drive up to see me, and check if there was a parking spot available before they got to the house ... so they didn't have to circle around looking for other spots if there was a vacancy right in front.
When you say "right under my apartment", where exactly do you mean? Because I also have a train line going underground very near my apartment but it's not directly under. Could I capture such images? And I'm on the 4th floor.
I'm working on exactly this. I think we can use embeddings and langchain agents to do this.
All true.

I don't see any world where it matters in the slightest. When it comes to how we deal with currently available training data nothing will change, first because of politics but also because people want the LLMs superpower more than they want to protect IP of a few individuals. And I firmly believe that no human training data that has not been produced and publishes today will play any significant role in future AI development.

We are simply too slow.
Yeah, assuming autofacs (or similar) are actually created. :/
That's not a very good argument - those guns are concentrated in the hands of about 32% of the US population [0], whereas in Canada it's probably closer to 25% [1]. [1] says "[t]he overall rate of firearm ownership is at least 241 per 1,000 population and is comparable to ownership rates in other countries where hunting is a significant activity"

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own...
[1]: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/wd98_4-d...
The West invests money in things that it expects to see generate a return. Sometimes this results in the Marshall Plan, a massive development effort whose main strategic goal was to isolate newly allied Russia and China in the post-WWII era, and gave the foundation forward strongholds for capitalism could use to thrive at the doorstep of the powers challenging our assertion of a ruling world order.

(Never mind what Chiang Kai-Shek was doing to the citizens under his government-in-exile. Never mind that killing some 200k people in a nuclear conflagration in Japan was already known to be unnecessary, and that those people died as a simple show of force against the USSR. Never mind that the Korean War that devastated that country didn't have to ever be fought in the first place. The Bad Communists™ must be fought.)

Usually, the investments don't have those happy endings--I don't think anyone who frequents this site could be completely blind to the abysmal record US interventions have for world stability and economic development, that three relative successes in that mass of bloody failure counts as barely a drop in the bucket.

Finally, I think taking statements about the CIA or NED or the Open Society Foundation or Radio Free Asia or VOC (etc, etc, etc) doing the work they do as statements that "remove local agency" misunderstand how the "West" works: Nobody in the countries that color revolutions happen in has to be given orders from the CIA to make their own country a horrible place to live, the investment is always structured as finding the people _most_ willing to seek an extreme solution and amplifying their voice and reach further than it would get on its own, if left to itself in the local context. We always propagandize this as "supporting democracy", but we absolutely know that a reverse effort of a theoretical CPC-affiliated NGO funding some adventurist Commie group with millions in ad funding and logistical support would be treated as an enemy attack against our government, and that that treatment would _be correct_.
This was also done by Eddie Kohler: "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List"

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/11/21/7259207/scientif...
Any favorites with an Nvidia gpu?
ChickenGpt
How the data we feed AI determines the results
The median software engineer in the US makes an 86th percentile wage.
> Yeah mostly agree, why do government programs always result in so much misuse and fraud?

* Inefficiency from steps 3, 4.

* Money going to advocacy groups who are really good at advocacy, but not actually good at execution.

* Impossible to build execution-focused groups when funds appear one year, and go poof the next year.

* Lack of economies of scale. One group can manage 800 housing/shelter units for vastly less money than 80 different groups managing 10 housing/shelter units each.

Most of these problems are actually solved by having the government provide these services in-house, instead of subcontracting to 80 different non-profits, with each of them having a ton of overhead, waste, lack of continuity of mission, etc.

You also have direct democratic control of this, because council has direct influence, and can be held accountable for how the city's departments run.
Its a protocol like email. Not a platform like Twitter.
The Parking Lot Is Full:

http://j.aufbix.org/plif/
The new React docs are amazing and most of what they contain applies to React Native.
I’ve heard dark chocolate and parmesan make a nice pairing.
> Safe Rust cannot represent circular data structures which makes entire classes of algorithms and architectures unimplementable.

That's not accurate.
Safe Rust can represent circular data structures. It cannot represent circular data structures with 0 overhead.
But you can use Rc/Arc/Weak + RefCell for that and it is not very hard. Or use one of crates that expose ways of building self-referential structures in a safe way (of course they do use unsafe underneath, but the API is safe) like ouroboros.
Sam Harris interviewed the paper's author for his podcast, it is worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-xIbX3wIbA
You generally have to print money to recover from deleveraging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0&t=1470s
Soooo...education beyond the 3rd grade is irrelevant?

I know I'm being snarky, but c'mon man! It wasn't that long ago the same could be said (and was said) for education past the 3rd grade, then the discussion moved to education past the 8th grade, and now it's moved to education past the 12th grade. It's just a rehash of the same, tired argument justifying a poorly-educated populace which makes for a poorly-educated electorate, which tends to be more susceptible to populism.
Yeah, but the murdering was:

* Well motivated
* Tightly scripted and shot
* Had a lot of attention to mechanics, and attention to detail where it was important
One thing that I don't miss about using Commodore 64 in 90s Poland was trying to decipher it without Internet :D.

I sure do miss the games and the sheer entertainment that it provided though. I wouldn't be here messing with software and cloud if it wasn't for that.
If spam is killing independent email, as many of you have commented, then is the solution to fully and correctly implement SPF+DKIM?
> Fixed an issue with the up/down arrow keys not working correctly in the editor.

Great! That was really bugging me.
I have those too, but I'm familiar with all the IPs and I just got tired of adding DNS entries. Esp for some predictable ones in the "dynamic" range.

Also there are times I don't have DNS working. Often times at some console where copy/paste also isn't working or where I don't even have a mouse, and I extra appreciate the simpler typing :)