skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Most Mandarin words are disyllabic or longer, and 400×400 = 160k is enough combinations for a quite large vocabulary.

While true, I'd bet that some combinations dominate because they sound better/are easier to pronounce.

Also just because you can technically differentiate 160k sound pairs doesn't mean you can do it in a noisy environment.

Japanese and Korean have a similarly limited number of syllables and have very long words compared to English. I'm guessing because they don't have tones.

If you look at communication theory you don't only need distinct sounds, you also need error correction. Which requires extra bits of redundant information.

Tones just make it possible to carry extra bits.

Longer strings of syllables like in Japanese and Korean do the same.

More complex syllables, like in English, too.

It's just multiple different ways of carrying enough bits in speech to work in a noisy environment.

Another analogy could be password strength. You can have a very long numeric password (Japanese & Korean), A password with a mix of a-zA-Z0-9 of medium length (English). A password with weird special characters but shorter (Chinese), and they all end up having the same entropy (given that the password rules are known to the attacker).
If you want freedom of speech you must also be prepared to defend it for everyone.
It doesn't. Accuracy is a comparison between text and the real world. LLMs have no access to the real world.

Also RLHF screws up the logprobs.
Then again, the comment above also boils down to: "a one sentence strawman summary of an opinion I don't like".
>Software buyers expect to own the license forever, not necessarily to prove ownership the same way forever.

Because the license doesn't give them the right to revoke it if some arbitrary account transfer isn't completed by an arbitrary deadline.

>I have several old licenses that are accessed through a different system now but still get me what I bought.

Cool story bro.
In 2006/2007 I was paid for a project in e-gold[0]. Another currency backed by gold bullion. I never saw the gold, never touched it, but was assured it was there, really. The whole thing went tits up because it was a scam. Being in Texas and not Panama I guess this is slightly less scammy. But I suspect the people who want to hold gold will simply buy gold. And skip the questionably middleman.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
i still don't get why they would have to do that, if Santa brought the presents already
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Very few people exercise their fifth amendment right. That doesn’t mean people are tacitly agreeing to it being taken away.

I didn’t say it wasn’t popular. I’m saying people don’t realize how badly they are exposed because the hammer hasn’t dropped.

The market for PinePhone is weak because it’s “only for the pesky open source people”. It will stay that way a long time and we better hope they survive long enough for Google to keep screwing people into a big enough market.
It's Google tradition; on the software side being a TensorFlow user was a somewhat similar experience.
What no-code app builders are most relevant in 2023?
As a musician, to me the fact that Stairway's high note goes up while the low note goes down, is so substantial a change that it's not even slightly Taurus anymore, even looking just at the intro.
Somehow I'm sure he would keep the part of the Internet that allows him to distribute his self-important horsecrock with impunity.
Like a famous tweet expressed, if one needs the threat of eternal damnation to do good in life, they're not really good persons.
Also, what is the defacto or go-to no-code app builder?
Any time there's a Democrat in the White House, Texas gets antsy.
And is that a front end dev? So please tell me exactly, HOW you want your senior front end devs to solve the problems you assign to them. Lets forget about the WHEN and WHAT for now. Just let us know the HOW. Specifically, I mean the IDES or editors you expect them to use, the browsers you want them to test in, the static analysis tools you expect them to use, to unit testing libraries you want them to use, the e2e tools you want them to use, the plugins you expect them to install into there IDEs or editors, the OS they must use, what tools and apps they must use, what must be open in screen one, and what must be open in screen two, what keyboard shortcuts they must use, what snytax highlighting themes they should use dark or light, ... etc

Please, let me know how you micro-manage your senior devs.
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Ditto Canada. Even worse by proximity, in some ways. Worse still as the UK used to be the foil.
Thought experiment. You are confined to one room. You send orders for this to be done and receive confirmation. What has changed?
> Unlike tabs in makefiles, which is just something certain types of people like to complain about.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch15s04.html

Which "certain type" are Stuart Feldman and Steve Johnson?
Those things of utility, like having children, is going to fix themselves when the wet bulb temperature is high enough to impede mammal procreation.
I am running prism but I'm not sure that helps if you want to play on a private server (that has disabled auth checks, like I'm sure a bunch of private servers will do if Java dies officially) after the auth servers are shut down.

Edit: anyway, you don't have to deal with the curse client if you're comfortable with installing plugins by hand. Or so it was before i switched to Prism, i could download the jars off Curse without their client.
In my language we say "nobody is born taught / learned".
There are certainly authoritarian wings of the two main parties.

Though I can't help thinking that a big part of the creep is driven more by spineless pandering to various public constituencies and short term perceived vote winning rather than a particularly thought through desire to crush dissent.

Never mind the effect is much the same.
What’s your understanding based on?
You say “preferred” alot in your post.

Did a leader in your organization ask you to switch tooling and you declined?

I work in an organization where we cut deployment bugs in angular by a shocking 40% by consolidating our teams tooling into a consistent set of standards. If a developer started with us who after hearing this wouldnt agree to conform to those standards we would terminate them as quickly as possible.
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"15 minute cities" -- you mean, walkable, normal cities? Lord have mercy, I have a case of the vapors. What a silly thing to be upset about, and definitely the weirdest manufactured outrage of 2023. I for one hope they force us to walk at least 45 minutes or take a car!
The people they arrested for giving out rape alarms were part of a charity who are in central london every weekend giving them out to women at night - they were arrested the night before, i.e. a very weird time for them to be out if their intention was to protest, and I've not heard anything about the police having any actual reason to believe these people intended to protest at all?
Yet, some analysts have hinted that the UK might be even leaving the ECtHR, which I'd consider the chief European court on these matters.
Interestingly, the FACE Act in these United States ("Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances") provides equal protection to crisis pregnancy centers and other related pro-life clinics and counseling offices. The definition used by FACE covers pro-life and pro-abortion facilities alike, and so all types of pregnancy centers have the same buffer around them, protected from fanatics who would harrass vulnerable mothers who are about to make a momentous choice which affects them, their children, the father, and their whole family.
> reject any query that tries to fetch a domain name containing Unicode characters

What do you mean by that? What characters aren’t part of the Unicode Standard? Did you get here via the IP?
Cache expiration is just time based cache invalidation, one of the many ways you can implement invalidation.
India’s religious AI chatbots speak in the voice of god – and condone violence
Well, that's your interpretation of what they told you. Reading between the lines there might have been a bit more going on.

They told you you don't know how to use your tools. In other words that you were not being professional. Not that you are not allowed to use other tools. There's a subtle difference. You might think you know best (can't judge that) but your failure is actually convincing others of those amazing abilities and skills you have.

The fact that you are on HN complaining about this, tells me a lot. It's a bit immature behavior and you are burning a few bridges like that. That combined with a few things that maybe didn't go that well in your work in the first weeks would be a gigantic red flag for a manager.

I would recommend not doing acting out in public like this. It's unprofessional. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong. Nobody cares. This is probably a good learning moment for you as well. Somebody didn't see things your way and chose to let you go rather than work with you some more. You might want to reflect on what you could have done differently here.

Anyway, you wouldn't be the first opinionated junior developer that gets a reality check this way. They hired you to do a job and you managed to get yourself fired in 3 weeks. Not a good look. You should thank them for not wasting your time more than that and avoid a repeat of that with whatever you do next.
All the people wanting to profit off other people's work for free sind arguing in favor of Microsoft.

Crypto bros are now AI bros huh?
here's a good long article on it

https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-...

ah, linked and discussed previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790600
The media coverage has always been there, too. Even this particular instance is part of a long-running thread:

2021-10-31: UN launches International Methane Emissions Observatory https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/methane-...

2022-11-11: UN announces satellite-based Methane Alert and Response System https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-annou...

2023-01-19: Kayrros wins contract to supply the satellite data https://www.satelliteevolution.com/post/kayrros-to-supply-un...

2023-03-06: The Guardian publishes their first(?) article about data obtained from Kayrros https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed...

2023-05-09: The Guardian publishes the follow-up submitted to HN here.

Lots of long-running situations are like this, constantly getting reported on at a level below most people's awareness threshold, and then when you stumble across one such report, it suddenly feels like a flood. See also the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
No one here talking about the US being right behind, despite being an alleged democracy, with regulatory frameworks in place (supposedly), orders of magnitude more money invested in fossil fuel extraction, a much larger population, free press, etc. ?
>> Asking a question and finding that the answer is "yes, but not as bad as previously believed" is a contribution to our knowledge

Wait, that is not an accurate characterisation of the paper. "maybe yes, but maybe no" is more accurate:

Maybe yes:

- BLS data supports the proposition, but possible BLS data flaws are highlighted.

Maybe no:

- using other data instead of BLS allows a different interpretation
- perhaps asymmetric in favour of feedlot owners ("this effect is negligible, or cannot be captured by our impulse response-based test")
- perhaps symmetric ("Our preferred interpretation is simpler, with the relationship being symmetric").

>> It's researchers accurately reporting their findings. They aren't "pontificating". They are explaining the nuances of what they discovered when they tried to answer this question.

I'm not convinced that's what's going on here. Could it be that someone(s) has decided the existing literature weights too heavily in favour of a view they don't like. If the existing literature is broadly correct, one thing you could do is publish another paper which broadly agrees but leaves room for some doubt.

If it broadly agrees, could it be less likely to come under robust scruitiny - that could lead to outright public rejection by others.

Introducing a small amount of doubt with the broad agreement could have 2 effects:

1. there now exists some doubt when summarising multiple papers on the topic, a contrarian view has now been injected into the discourse. The contrarian view is not backed up by hard facts, it's reasonable conjecture but nonetheless, when summarising the available papers on a topic, its views should be included in that summarisation, thus unfairly skewing the summarisation view. A view from conjecture is summarised next to views more directly evidenced in underlying data.
2. you can count on someone misrepresenting your findings. In our conversation you said "yes, but not as bad as previously believed", something the paper doesn't actually give hard evidence for but does try to suggest.

To be clear, i don't claim that this is what's going on here, but going back to my original comment, the lack of weight of evidence for these findings does lead me to dismiss the paper.

>> our appetite for truth

I can only speak for myself here but my comment - misguided or otherwise - was in search of truth.
Isn’t iPhone almost the same size?
It says "a few python dynamic features are not supported" what are those?
What are other good options for smart TVs and/or streaming dongles? Are the offers with WebOS or Tizen able to keep up?
Has Open Source replaces Closed Source? Has Free Software replaces Paid Software? No, yes, maybe? There is no real answer to this, it depends; depends on the area and task and user. Companies have big money, or at least they have some money, and they can use this to speed up development. Volunteer work on the other side usually depends on free work, or donations, which then are used for hardware and other non-human-costs. So the focus and actions of volunteer-based open source-projects is different from the focus of money-flowing companies.

And yes, of course there are also many companies who invest in open source. Which is why, it depends. Will enough money flow into open source-AI, will there be some breakthrough which will allow open source-AI to compete with well trained Commercial projects. Will the Musk put some Small Elon Energy into Open Sourcing his Truth AI(?) to piss on OpenAI? It all depends.

Though, personally, I think in the long run Open Source will be a relevant force in that space, simply for the reason of transparency and the Technological Singularity. Because whether it can replace them this year or next year doesn't really matter. At some point all AIs will be powerful enough for any task, or even break through to AGI. At which point political reasons will become relevant.
The problem is that the EU is illegitimate and a circus clown shoe of pencil necked bureaucratic authoritarians.

I’m not even a fan of Apple look e for different reasons, but the very same reason Apple is likely not even engaging the EU clowns and their attempt at making Apple products worse with Micro USB (what a horrible design and technology because of it), it’s also the very same reason that the EU cannot ban Apple, because Apple is to god and the market leader in design and creating good products that people actually want.

I can assure you that Apple’s lightning connector has caused there to be less waste than any other manufacturer.

Case in point too; I just bought a temporary Nokia phone. And here it is, 2023, and they’re still using that horrible MicroUSB design plug that you have to look at every single time to make sure you get the plug in correctly. OUSD also discriminatory against the blind who have to feel they plug itself to figure out which way is up, whereas I can plug the lightning connector into any of the Apple devices in pitch black darkness because they go in the same every time.
Some students still struggle to learn reading in a phonics-based reading environment. Teachers or those with influence over the curriculum get sold on some other program that they are told is going to make things better, and it might for a few students, but as explained here, it’s not evidence-based that it’s going to be better for everyone.

A friend of mine lives in a well off school district that adopted a non-phonics approach. Her child was falling behind in reading, so she had to teach her phonics at home and then she caught up. She wasn’t happy that she had to do the school’s job for them.
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There was an interesting thread on Usenet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679#:~:text=The%20r....
> Anyone who enabled auto-updating for ACF would not be affected by this vulnerability.

Pedantic, but you would have been vulnerable if someone else also found the hole, but kept it secret?

Sure, when an exploit makes into metasploit or gets published things are worse if you don't patch - but just because the barn door is closed now with a patch, it doesn't mean you were secure when there was a big hole in the door...
I like Adam's explanations of such things he explains it well. Rick Beato also a musician and former music professor also has great explanations.
IBM intros a slew of new AI services, including generative models
The past few weeks have been intense. KubeCon, platforms, Kubernetes, Carvel, Buildpacks, Cartographer, OSS, conferences, and more.
Not quite. According to the protestors, they had ties that were supposedly going to be used to secure the placards to things as part of the protest (presumably to railings). Any tie that could be used to secure the pole on a placard to something could obviously be used by protestors to lock their own body to the same thing, and the Met are a bit twitchy about this due to having repeated problems with it over the last few years and especially months. (That's also why there's now a law allowing them to stop protestors before they lock themselves to things in the first place.)
When AI generated art hit the internet a few months ago, one of things that occurred to me was that this would scale/democratise/whatever the production of art. So things which required it commercially (movies, video games etc.) would be affected significantly. However, the producer of individual pieces would still need to do it for his own sake. Things like art therapy, medium of expression etc. all produce art finally but the process is the point and using an AI to do that wouldn't have the same effect. Perhaps there's some mid point where AI could just be seen as another brush or pen for the artist but that's a digression.

Going further on this line of thought, if we were successfully able to automate things so much that human effort is no longer necessary for most of our daily activities and we have a lot of leisure time (the promise that almost every tech. revolution has made), the existential question of what do we do with all this time looms. The answer, I think, given current trends, is to consume and distract ourselves so that we don't think about this.

One thing that's a huge part of human history is religion and while a lot of people can disagree on the truth of it, its personal utility for (or atleast effect on) individuals is pretty much a given. I don't know how effective an AI bot issuing blessings will actually have the "effect on the user" but that remains to be seen.

As a religious person myself, I feel it's kind of defeatist if there is no human being who has the time and interest to actually preach to his congregation and guide them on their spiritual journeys. I can personally say that listening to a bot deliver a sermon or a speech wouldn't have any effect on me and I'd probably stop going to wherever it's operating. Perhaps my background in tech. makes this transparent to me so I might be the exception but nevertheless.
> I wonder what this would look like if ants had free will and could choose how to live for themselves

What makes you think we have free will and ants don't? I can understand thinking there's no such thing as free will, I can understand thinking that all animals have free will, but how would you argue we have it and ants don't?
I would say that this essay is a good and thorough self analysis of how the author feels. It does seem to be connected to a larger work, so you might get your answer there, but I would just say that "technology is evil" is not the most important assertion here. Doesn't it seem to be more about what it means to think it is evil, however "emotional" the reasons are for thinking that? How to reckon with this force in any way considering its increasing implementation in everything around us?

In general, don't you at least think they say more than just "technology is evil"? Perhaps there is analysis to be made why you'd be so quick to dismiss a text that doesnt match one of your unemotional assumptions about the world! Because a lot of good thinking (and writing) comes from granting an assumption and seeing where that leads. Its never a failure of your unprejudiced intellect to connect with what a writer is actually saying, even if you don't agree with some belief of theirs.
It is not uncommon for resolvers to cache negative answers as well.
Yea, pretty often scrum masters are hired coaches that are let go when the team knows how to self-manage - or like you said - they coach multiple teams at the same time.
There's definitely a balance to be struck between allowing protests to take place and also preventing a minority of protestors disrupting the lives of ordinary people.

For instance – I worked in Belfast while a series of flag protests took place (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_City_Hall_flag_prote...) in 2012. In my view, these protestors had every right to make their views publicly visible and known.

But when they organised "rings of steel" around the city, preventing drivers from coming and going about their business, as they did on a few occasions, they had gone too far.

I don't know the full details of the anti-monarchist arrests, but unless they were planning to disrupt the events, I feel they should not have been arrested.