skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone says, "I'm tired of dealing with X in Y," or, "I can't figure out how to do A in B," it may be appropriate to say Z or C will help. As for outright advocacy, it is poison. In the best case, it's adding a lot of noise for people who are trying to make a decision. In the worse case, it's forcing people in the other direction. There's a lot of reasons why it may be forcing people in the other direction. The article's author mentions exclusionary language/tone. In other cases advocacy diminishes the credibility of the message (e.g. they distort how good their choice is or how bad the alternative is). Plus, some people simply don't want to be associated with that type of culture.
From comments it seems like Google is enforcing around ~5TB/user. People using anywhere from 5.??TB all the way to 152TB (just how?) got the email.

EDIT: One user claims to have 2 PB stored. Wow.
Top comment here is how many I interact with react when they discover my love of VB. net. Some food for thought, then:

I wrote my first complete computer program in 1986. Since then I've programmed (or scripted) in Assembler, BASIC, C, C#, C++, COBOL, F#, HTML, Java, JavaScript, LOGO, Pascal, SQL, VBA and XAML. I don't mind C#. Or Java. The majority of the code I've written in my career was written in C#. And yet my preference remains VB.NET because -

VB.NET supports both static and dynamic typing.

VB.NET is a functional language, supporting local type inference, anonymous functions, monads, and language integrated comonads (even Lisp can be more complex and verbose than VB.NET with LINQ).

VB.NET does project-wide namespace imports. C# doesn't.

VB.NET is no more or less verbose than C#. Haskell and F# however, are indeed a lot less verbose.

There are also readability issues in Java and C# that VB.NET doesn't have (braces, == and =, ! instead of Not, seperate keywords for inheritance and interface implementation, and so on). I learnt Pascal before learning C (and prefer Pascal to C). The fact that Pascal and VB.NET share syntactical smilarities (type declarations follow variable and function names, the Not keyword) is probably not an insignificant factor.

Lastly, Microsoft announced that evolution of the VB.NET language has concluded, (although it will support .Net 5). This is welcome because it makes things predictable -- modernising legacy codebases takes ages.
"promote their own views as the truth (for whatever reason they have for doing that), and suppress all opposing views. "

Not everything is an opinion. For example my physical height is a fact. How many versions of truths are there about it?
Never seen Lit before, interesting technology. It is "lit" :P
Very thin frameworks can avoid the complexities of React and hooks and useEffect and whatnot. Here's an app written with a 500-line "framework", notice how readable and maintainable it is:
https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka
I've worked at companies with beer taps in the lunch room.
Thanks for the help. I'm a little confused. Now I get :"You're posting too fast. Please slow down."
I waited half an hour
Show images inline and have it scroll with other text. This is useful for working with programs that process images. For example, ImageMagick can render a PNG in the terminal like this:

convert image.png six:-

"six" means use Sixel format, and "-" tells it to write to stdout.

Demo (running on cygwin's mintty):
https://twitter.com/uguu_org/status/1631207051602042880
> People will go online and try and pick and choose their hardware for best performance for Linux

I don't do this - I just buy hardware I like and blindly assume Linux will work.
If we’re at the point where that’s the problem I think we won’t have a problem anymore

This isn’t an academic exercise, there are millions of people struggling while a small handful live in extreme luxury, the whole point is to fix this problem

The actual number figure is less relevant than having things rebalanced - greed based inequality is like ebola it rapidly destroys families and communities. Just eliminating that alone is a great start
I don’t know. If you define “AI” as having a great chatbot then probably no company has a moat anymore. But there are a lot more types of tasks which have nothing to do with that. Robotics, for one. Self-driving cars is another example. “AI” in the abstract is a meaninglessly vague concept but for all intents and purposes Google still has advantages over others in important areas.

Their perpetual disadvantage of course is comically poor product vision, which puts any of their actual advantages in jeopardy.
Ok understood, thank you very much!
While you are right, the amount of bot traffic is huge, from data scrappers, fake views (ie. YT video SEO, video ads, etc), to game miners and social media fake accounts which each scammer/spammer run by the thousands. That's not including the legal stuff like automated systems (web crawlers, media content generators, etc).
I tend to agree unless everyone else is using 32GB favicons on the default websites like me. Streaming takes up a massive amount of bandwidth. That and P2P torrent sharing is only increasing with all the streaming services going back to the cable TV payment plan models.

There are a handful of bots that mirror/archive multimedia content that is anonymously accessible. There is no way those bots have the storage capacity to mirror even a single pass of all the anonymous content.

What I have seen increasing exponentially is port scanning but that takes up almost no bandwidth. Even the broken scanners that in effect look like an amateur DDoS only utilize about 15kb/s using dozens of CIDR blocks at the same time. That does not even remotely hold a candle to streaming.

The link below [1] is talking about Netflix as a percentage of internet downstream traffic and this is only Netflix. There are now hundreds of streaming providers and according to Sandvine streaming accounts for 65% of internet traffic. [2] This does not include torrents and other file sharing.

Here [3] are some fun stats. One of them backs up the submission but it isn't clear if they mean requests or bandwidth. Given that Netflix or streaming alone is 65% of the bandwidth that would lead me to believe the issue of this thread is a lack of clarity around bandwidth vs requests. The wording on all of these sites is too Wibbly Wobbly.

Every day, the internet generates more than 2,183,908 tons of CO2 emissions.

Internet traffic statistics show that 51.8% of all traffic is generated by bots, while humans account for only 48.2%. I think they mean requests, not bandwidth.

[1] - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-much-of-the-internets-band...

[2] - https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/01/20/sandvine-video-data-ba...

[3] - https://dataprot.net/statistics/internet-statistics/
Wow you can run a 30B model on 16gb ram? Is it hitting swap?
yes, it's powering Bard and available as chat-bison@001 in GCP

It comes in 4 sizes, I've only seen two so far

https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden
> which also means nothing

"Secular jew" is not meaningless at all, it speaks about ethnic and cultural heritage.

Incidentally, before anyone says "if you're secular you're not Jewish" being "secular" does not exempt someone from prejudice, they would still be identified as "a jew" by racists, as this story of a Secular Jew, "born into a family of secular Jews" makes clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1933:_Emigrati...

> I like to say that I'm a "secular Christian"

You could say that. Although Christianity is less rooted in ethnicity than Judaism is, but if your family are predominantly Christian for many generations, and it is your cultural background, then it would be accurate. Even meaningful.
You can offload only 10 layers or so if you want to run on a 4GB card
Huh, what are we talking about here? Calculus does give exact results. What questions are we talking about? Fundamentally statistical questions are going to have inherent uncertainties, its got nothing to do with Calculus.
I see a lot of value in this take, and think pushing it to an extreme helps highlight the balancing act that is required.

Also GP's point refers to "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink, and from that title it looks fair to effectively imagine the extreme.

GP mentions how focusing on accountability changes the approach to failures, and I'd totally see people taking the wrong lessons from a project where they didn't stop a colleague from doing something that happened to be a bad decision.
I did a series on it on Medium. :-)

https://medium.com/gitconnected/getting-started-with-web-com...
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Nice, thanks. I knew there was a patch, didn’t know it was on shipping on standard distros
Given the prominent "What is Pharo?" it seems that the developers are spending their time trying to convince others of Pharo's value.

And that worked "got curious, downloaded and installed it" but then hit a bug "Lots of things to click on, and no text editor".

We can see that they are trying to explore using the knowledge they already have, as we might expect.
As an outsider, here's my take. The historic caste system included many restrictions on what people could do and who they could do it with. That's what was banned.

That said, there are a lot of ways to guess at caste if one is so inclined[1], and some people choose to use these guesses to discriminate. That's why it's a protected class --- it's not permissable to discriminate based on caste. There's also affirmative action for historically repressed castes, with all that comes with affitrmative action, for better or worse.

[1] caste related surnames and diet are the most easily understood by an outsider like me, but I think there may be caste related firstnames and other cultural indicators that I'm not aware of.
Less Framework and more Library it feels like.

Also, wondering if there are other tools for searching code and other internal Corp stuff on external services (GitHub/Lab, Google Drives, etc)
Big corporations have a limited time window to bring the drones back in the office. If the [job] market recovers and they do not finish the RTO bullshit, remote will become the default.

The drones are not stupid and once it's clear that offering remote work is a competitive advantage RTO is fucked.
By spending on luxury such as expensive restaurants and hotels, you cause the economy to allocate talent and capital toward the production of those luxury goods and services, rather than toward longer term investment. Making it so that old people burn up their built-up wealth in that way is not good. It would be much better to gather the equivalent amount of tax elsewhere, if you insist that we must do so (such as with a VAT on luxury goods and services!).
Indeed, but people in countries with lower cost of living are still workers, right?

It irritates me when people say things like "suppress worker wages" when they actually mean "pay less money to American workers living in San Francisco"

The people being hired in Bangladesh are not having their wages suppressed. On the contrary, they are making more and enjoying a higher quality of life than ever before.
> in what would be a rare bright spot for a sector which has endured a bleak year.

The only reason to believe Worldcoin would be a “bright spot” is if you did zero research and are taking the creators fully at their word. Worldcoin is a known scam.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

> Worldcoin executives said their approach tackles two problems raised by the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence: distinguishing between humans and bots, and providing a form of universal basic income which might offset job losses caused by AI.

A problem created by another Sam Altman company! Why would you trust them to solve the issue they started?
That dodecahedron featured in the first pic is swank af. Hats off to the ancients.

I've crafted a few in various media. Getting it right is tricky. Really makes you appreciate 3d printing.
Sad. Ignorance-based tribalism promoted by equally dumb far-right politicians and amplified by the lobbying dollars of Oil&Gas companies.

Musk should nip this stuff in the bud as it actually affects his ability to sell Teslas, but the dude has so much money he probably doesn't care. Probably gets off by it honestly.
Getting a leg up in life because your parents left you a big inheritance, is unfair to those who don't. There are many different types of fairness, not just one.
Generally we think things are far away when it takes a longer time to get to them. We have some reasonable assurance that the speed of light is immutable and so we can measure the distance in our frame of reference by bouncing light off of Pluto. Are you nerd sniping sir?
New software can verify how much information AI knows
For me this is more frustrating than twitter.
The system even persists today outside of the continent: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-11/how-big-t...
This isn't really what the above poster was saying, but "secular Jewish" can also refer to practically nonpracticing ("atheist" or "agnostic") or even practicing a different religion entirely. Since Jews are an ethnoreligious group, the identifier often refers to people with a Jewish ethnic background, vs people who are Jewish as a religion.
>> sentient birds

have you seen the problem solving of crows?

edit: vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gui3IswQ0DI
This is /r/datahoarders - makes total sense. That sub is full of entitled users that believe exploiting an “unlimited” storage loophole forever is somehow morally justifiable.
Free/Libre Software is not anti-corporate, it is pro-user's freedom to use, modify, sell and improve such software
What is the state of the art on evaluating the accuracy of these models? Is there some equivalent to an “end to end test”?

It feels somewhat recursive since the input and output are natural language and so you would need another LLM to evaluate whether the model answered a prompt correctly.
I think the previous comment is more interested in your experience with your large data: what are you doing with it?

I have similar hardware at home, so I wonder how reliably you can process simple queries using domain knowledge + logic which work on on mlc-llm, something like "if you can chose the word food, or the word laptop, or the word deodorant, which one do you chose for describing "macbook air"? answer precisely with just the word you chose"

If it works, can you upload the weights somewhere? IIRC, vicuna is open source.
Well, there a honest opinion of an unbiased engineer, ideally a researcher who was trained to filter his own biases, from the inside of the organization , speaking honesty is likely the best approximation that you can get for “an opinion of Google”.

It is important that the engineer is an insider, as from outside of Google access to its internal knowledge is limited.
How is an executable permission more secure than a hidden .exe extension that also enables it to be executed by "opening" it, and is also hard to see by default?
I once wrote a small utility for my team that ended up being the second or third largest API consumer in the company until someone yelled about it and I throttled back the polling significantly. I always think of The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence from Fantasia - while we sleep, our automatons labor, potentially unceasingly.

And I can certainly imagine bots fetching Netflix or Porn or whatever video for personal archival purposes (I use youtube-dl to protect a few videos I really like from the vicissitudes of Google myself).
Publications like The Walrus face a double threat.

The first is a shift in add spend that favors content aggregators like Facebook and Google. There's simply little interest in long form low quality content, therefore it attracts less eyeballs and companies would rather spend their advertising budget elsewhere.

The second is unfair competition by state media. While independent companies like The Walrus have to attract readers, the state medias like CBC and the BBC can simply get a check from the government no matter who's watching.
“The government” isn’t a fixed entity. It is what people want to be funded. Wealthy Americans donate enormous amounts of money to entities that would be publicly funded in many other countries: universities, hospitals, concert halls…

Everybody wants to give money to something where they get their name on a wall and the envy of their rich peers. Meanwhile projects that could be more beneficial to society but don’t have the prestige factor languish. An inheritance tax would level the playing field.
Ctrl-F free - Phrase not found

What a coincidence.

I'm not a card carrying FSF member but that seems like a deliberate omission from the admittedly brief history. However also fairly off-topic as criticisms go.

A maintainer willing to reject contributions is a good sign to me - BDFL with a vision prevents mission creep and associated ills. The right to fork alleviates most of the negatives.
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Why do we need to keep up?

When AlphaGo came out, it changed the landscape of competition.

But the game itself can train a human’s ability to make life decisions for themselves. It’s a discipline one enters to refine and grow their own capabilities, whether or not it makes someone the best players in the world. The pro players that lack this perspective, and only see this in terms of being the best players out there, dropped out.

When a person lets something outside of them write their narrative, it creates a kind of psychological dependency. That person cannot function as an adult. That person’s language starts orienting towards worship, appeasement, supplication, and whining. How could they not?
Thanks, I'll take a look :)
You’re likely making too many comments/edits too close to each other, which could be misconstrued for spam. Nothing to it, just wait a bit between posts.
be sure...at least

Keeping the angst going. What a life we lead these days.
MS would like to dissagree. There are bugs which are not closed after years (mouse registered double clicks, blacked out parts of GUI, programms starting on inexisting screens).
Well yes, that’s an aspect of the same idea I’m explaining. The meaning of ethno-religious is that their culture is intertwined with religion.
A not insignificant portion of my job has to deal with not traffic. It's such a pain.
> 152TB (just how?) got the email. EDIT: One user claims to have 2 PB stored. Wow.

Need to backup the giant unwatched porn and movie collection somehow, and paying for that would be expensive, so pushing "unlimited" offers by companies as far as possible is a favorite past time of these people.
I was referring to Elixir's blog post on static types where the creator of Elixir José Valim wrote: "The Dialyzer project, implemented in Erlang and available for Elixir projects, chose to have no false positives. However, that implies certain bugs may not be caught. At this point in time, it seems the overall community would prefer a system that flags more potential bugs, even if it means more false positives." [1]

From my experience with TypeScript, you really want your type checker to be eager about complaining about type issues, which is why so many people turn on strict mode. In fact, occasionally I'll have to suppress a false positive error with a @ts-expect-error comment.

But even assuming Dialyzer is as good as TypeScript, have you found that the libraries you use actually have quality type definitions? The few times I've used a JS library without type definitions it ended up breaking type inference, and infecting the codebase with the any type, which renders the type checker basically useless. How has your experience been in regards to that with Elixir?

[1] https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixi....
TIL that Twitter still exists
That is a "coach bus" (as Canada presumably calls it, a long distance bus or coach). Those do reach highway speeds etc, and at least in most of Europe they are fitted with seatbelts.

I note the article says some parents campaigned for seat belts on buses transporting sports teams, so presumably this bus didn't have them.
I work for very large multinational ISP operating in the majority of the OECD countries and the statement in the article is outright false.
Yeah, but it'll still weed out the goofers.
All of these media organizations are in direct competition with Facebook for advertising revenue (and are losing pretty badly).

They all have a vested interest in Facebook usage dropping.
You literally said that "the brain is the most complex object in the known universe", which is an incorrect statement. If you didn't wanna discuss complexity, maybe you should've phrased things in a way that doesn't discuss complexity, but rather actually says what you want to say. The brain is obviously not the most complex thing in the universe, and I can't even imagine why the hell would you think it is.

But nah, it's much easier to insult people for not understanding you, rather than try and make your point clear.
Does anyone give more than the minimum effort when they find themselves with a 2% to 4% raise, if any, in their yearly reviews, even if they are in the office?
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next?
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Agreed. The temple is built for "all of us", in as much as any public edifice is, but those who maintain it don't think of the readers' whims. The maintainers are too busy with the all-consuming, gradually-complexifying task of building the temple, improving the temple, improving those who improve the temple.

This protects both the temple itself from dabblers, but also the temple's caretakers from those who could be considered to care too little. The best example of this quasi-religious calling, IMO, has got to be the Star Trek Into Darkness thing [0][1], temple-politics which has earned a place in the temple itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Star_Trek_Into_Darkn...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1167/
because (cat ∧ box)?
It’s going to be very difficult to come up with any rigorous structure for automatically assessing the outputs of these models. They’re built using effectively human grading of the answers
I think there are bots to watch youtube and twitch to boost the viewership. I think that could consume a lot of traffic. I have no data or research to back that up and I am no expert.
I took a crack at explaining the Viterbi algorithm after learning about HMMs from a bioinformatics book I was reading. You may find it helpful, but that's assuming my interpretation of it is correct.

https://offbynull.com/data/learn/Bioinformatics/output/outpu...
'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats
With you. In 2021 53% of traffic was from 3 video platform - not counting countless other video providers and also not counting all other non-video content.

Our data show in the first half of 2021 bandwidth traffic was dominated by streaming video, accounting for 53.72% of overall traffic, with YouTube, Netflix, and Facebook video in the top three.

https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/Sandvine_Redesign_2019/Downlo...

And looks like Sandvine is very credible as countries relies upon it to censor internet in their countries.

American Technology Is Used to Censor the Web From Algeria to Uzbekistan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-08/sandvine-...
Using callback-based functions when the rest of the code uses Promises
Does ChatGPT ever say "I don't know"?
Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting
I have thought it was interesting that, Christians believe, God became human and of all the things in the universe he could choose to teach about, apparently more than anything it is all about love (of a particular kind, actually).
Some would argue lets keep cancer going steady, I say pump the breaks! This bozo says accelerate cancer, this is why we can't have nice things folks!
cancer cells are highly inefficient and have voracious appetite.