skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> You mention that a language model can't model language, only text, because it
only observes examples of text, not language. However, I would argue that these
text examples are in fact representations of human language ability. The text
that language models are trained on is a product of human language ability. This
text, while not a perfect representation of language, is a direct outcome of
language use and thus carries within it the patterns and structures that
language models can learn.

The technical term for what you describe is latent variable modelling, which I
discuss in my comment above. Like I say in that comment, it is not possible to
do that for human language ability because we don't have examples of it.

Concretely, to train a latent variable model you need examples of both an
observable variable X and the latent variable Y that is correlated with X.
Without examples of both, you can't learn the correlation between them.

Consider the Viterbi algorithm. One use of Viterbi is to train Part-of-Speech
Taggers. This is possible because we can create a corpus of text where words are
annotated with their parts of speech. We can do that because we have a fairly
good knowledge of the parts of speech of different words (it's a human concept,
after all). We can't do that with language ability. We can't take a corpus and
annotate each sentence in the corpus with whatever sequence of operations in the
human mind produced that text. Because we don't know what that sequence, is.

Regarding Transformers' latent space- that refers to the correlation between
words in a corpus, not the latent relation between linguistic ability and words.
We can model the correlation between words, but we're still missing the hidden
variable that causes this correlation, i.e. human linguistic ability.

Regarding translation, language models can do that because there are examples of
parallel corpora (i.e. texts translated in multiple languages) in their training
data. The most obvious example is Wikipedia. No modelling of common structure
underlying structure is needed.
The idea is to protect against accidental sharing. A rogue employee can simply take dump and share on 4Chan no matter what tools you use.
Ask HN: Recent Thoughts on Windows for Developers?
Clearly Windows is trying to remove the stigma of using Windows for development, adding WSL fairly recently, acquiring GitHub (which has Co-Pilot), extending their relationship with OpenAI and along with this, creating their new dev home system - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/

What are your thoughts on Windows getting rid of this stigma?
Developers aren't lazy, packaging software is fucking bullshit.
Upgrading from Selenium to Cuprite
same with politicians tbh
Curious, are there any other fields with laws built to limit competition. Lawyers?
> by the traditional definition of the word.

Sure, but in computer programming “secrets” is also industry jargon for small strings of characters that enable authentication, like passwords or private keys, which have much higher standard of secrecy than the rest of the codebase.
They may not be able to accomplish that without backlash, but I believe that Reddit deep down would love if they could get rid of user run subreddits. Therea more profit to be had giving the keys over to big corporations to propagandize through their own "communities", just like how most tv/movie fan subreddits are at least partly managed by studios and production companies.
Yeah, they have the wooden outhouse, otherwise it would have been quite difficult.

What I can say about the hole is that it is more conducive to getting out faster whatever needs to go out, it seems like a more natural position.
GitHub Enterprise had (has?) an interesting loophole to discover the existence of private repositories.

Attempting to transfer ownership of a repository to another user was aborted if the user had a repository of the same name—even if it was private.

Public GitHub doesn’t seem to have this issue with the transfer request system, though. Maybe it did at some point?
Regardless of regulation, the same market shift has occurred in Europe. As someone who prefers low and light vehicles I can lament this, but we can only blame ourselves. Wagon and sedan sales have plumetted. Even the king of affordable cars, the hatchback is suffering, with mainstays such as the Fiesta and Focus being discontinued.
Did they? I understand then that users may still get the EPEL libreoffice.
I was at an author-reading of a book about female serial killers. Curiously, the ones covered in the book all had pretty amazing victim counts. From a dozen to really large numbers.

I thought, since serial killers are caught essentially at random, shouldn't the victim count follow a normal curve? Some caught after one or two; many at some median point in their career; a few after large numbers?

And I thought again, perhaps we don't believe women can be serial killers and so overlook them, allowing their careers to flourish over years or decades? Indeed the book listed several famous cases where the police, judge or jury simply refused to believe a woman had done all that.

Moral: there are possibly many women serial killers out there, undetected. A whole normal distribution of them.
I think it’s unfair to say that you’re not testing Waymo’s systems when they allow people to get in them to take trips. And while if it has a problem, it’ll try to pull over on the side of the road, it can also stop in the middle of the road if it doesn’t think it can pull over, which can be a safety problem on even 35/45mph zones.
This post is mostly FUD. Case in point, the following advice:

> So, if you’re worried about it: stop putting sensitive data into private repositories.

Most of the issues mentioned in the post (misconfiguration, phishing, mistakes, zero-days) apply to all software, including non-cloud software. So the above advice is equivalent to "stop putting sensitive data into computers". It's run-of-the-mill popular-security nonsense that conveniently ignores that the alternatives come with their own risks, including security risks, and doesn't even attempt to perform a cost-benefit analysis.

Less of this stuff, please.
Mind sharing what the diagnosis entailed for you to have such an impact? Medication, strategies, cognitive therapy? Relieve in the sense of "everything makes (more) sense now"?
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
Laziness is a desirable trait in programming: it gets you to do things smarter, not harder. Packaging once and installing everywhere instead of packaging `n` times for pointlessly conflicting formats is like that.

Sandboxing and optional static linking is a bonus. The paradigms we've been using date to times when memory was scarce and software was rarer (there was literally less of it for maintainers to worry about) more innocent (no crypto jackers) and simpler (with less dependencies). We don't live in those time anymore.
We wanted flying trains and all we got was a js compiler.
Windows has been great for development for a while. Once WSL became set-and-forget it was pretty seamless for me. I only needed SSH and support for a few Debian tools. Having that in a slim hypervisor is a godsend.

I since moved on to just using pure Linux, but I don't really lament using Windows like I used to. For personal use I avoid OSes that have ads built-in, but for development purposes Windows is "fine" now.
You could subtract both percentages by the baseline average risk of death for 5 years at the age group that people are most likely to get this type of cancer.
>we do not take random pictures of dogs

Sure we do. The vast majority of computer vision training images come from self-driving cars’ cameras. None of the streetscapes they capture are deliberately composed, as the portrait of a pet dog might be. Yet models trained on the random streetscapes captured by self-driving cars can easily classify objects, even if they are present merely as random background entities, and not the carefully and consistently framed subject of a photo.

>I think it's highly doubtful anything in ML (, modern AI) would work if pointed "open-camera" at arbitary parts of the world.

But it does.
Curious if you have a link
This is true for everything in the cloud that isn’t end-to-end-encrypted. There is the saying that the cloud is just someone else's computer. But in addition, you also have no control over your data on that computer not being leaked elsewhere, or the computer ending up becoming someone different’s computer.
Getting a bit tired of the anti-GitHub threads here ...
What are you using for your second brain?
If you want hydrogen for portable power, sure, but I'd you're just trying to move electricity short distances, that calls for a wire.
This is a great baseline, but it is often easier said than done.

For example, those repositories contain a lot of privately identifiable information, it is not that easy to get such a baseline ready for that _"should be treated as if they could be exposed to the world at any time any way."_

Depending on jurisdiction this can affect sensitive information that requires much stronger controls in place when you (rightfully!) expect the repository to become public despite it is a private one.
Your flippant attitude is encouraged by ignorance, not knowledge. I'd be happy
to help you address your lack of knowledge, but - flippant. Tant pis pour toi.
Why is it self-evident? If your argument is that people can drive with only vision let me stop you right there and point to the fact that people are terrible drivers and the bill is in millions of injured and dead a year.

The main argument after the collision? "I haven't seen them!".
There are two frameworks, Hypervisor.framework which is a low level abstraction of the processor's virtuazionation functionality, and Virtualization.framework which is basically a QEMU implementation.
Some folks use tools like https://github.com/mozilla/sops to store most secrets (besides the sops key, of course) in source control. Of course, you aren't committing the cleartext but if the repo gets published you should probably rotate your keys just to be safe...
Of all the cloud providers which one currently bests AWS? Google is a shit show. Azure is desperately still trying to catch up. Oracle cloud… lol.

The only real complaint majority of people have with aws is price and 95% of the time it’s because they can’t spend 10 minutes doing so math or building their setup right to not cost them.
You could also leak private repo names via GHCR: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/ghcr-private-repos-some...
A great story about an extremely impressive undertaking. For those wanting more about obsessive birding there's Mark Obmascik's non-fiction book "The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession". [0] The book was made into a charming movie "The Big Year" in 2011 which starred Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson. [1][2]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Big-Year-Tale-Nature-Obsession/dp/145...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053810/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBAP2wId5M&ab_channel=Rotte...
This is the link
again. In an comment it turns into a hyperlink:

http://github.com/michael-andreuzza/swissfolio Live ⏤ http://swissfolio.vercel.app
Living in europe where ~once a year storms bring massive amounts of super fine quartz sand from the sahara desert, you'd imagine the amount from railway ballast wouldn't be a concern...
https://archive.is/v8zue
I agree with you on this. I am curious what your thoughts are on Apple allowing a user to be created in the GUI beginning with a period and what the purpose of that might be.
AI has had a few step change events recently - AlphaGo, AlphaZero, now ChatGPT and StableDiffusion

we may very well get another step change soon

or we may never get another one!
Maybe this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178155
There are top performers that have ADHD, there are also people with addiction problems without ADHD. But research tells us ADHD correlates with low academic achievement and addiction.
Noted. I had to look at the article on my laptop for because I can’t load Forbes on the phone. Was basing my comment on the comments I had read so far and the threads on Twitter.
One thing encouraging to me is how much more data we have available now through things like eBird and radar, at a scale that couldn’t even be imagined before. Hopefully this leads to continued insight and action where needed.
> This is how the game is played

Is it? Twitter had a golden opportunity in its early stages to become the message bus of social media before it killed 3rd party apps. Looking at twitter today I can say for a fact that stunned their growth and now they are just a zombie.

Monetizing your service doesn't have to mean killimg 3rd party app. Also, keep in mind that the users of Reddit are what makes Reddit Reddit. You fuck with them and you'll end up with a ghost town. How are you going to monetize a ghost town?
I wonder why railway ballast is polluted...? Has someone been running trains for years which leak loads of oil or something?
I think 90s Microsoft could have something of a claim.

It made a lot of sharp business choices in that decade, but it also left a LOT of money on the table for developers, as part of a strategic goal to grow the platform.

Then the 00s came, platform growth slowed (because they were already running on everything desktop), and the "vs linux" decisions started coming.
How have poverty rates in low and middle-income countries changed in 2023?
As long as they don't take the dump on company time the developer should retain any intellectual property rights regarding photos they take of it.
A non-negligible percentage of corresponding members of Academy of Sciences of the USSR were born in rural areas [1] (look at these who were appointed at around 1970-1980, they most probably born in USSR).

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE... (Russian)

How do they come to such heights if applying to the study in large cities was restricted, is a complete mistery to me.
Or a theranos gets pulled, and all the data is BS
The U.S. Will Trade Seattle for Seoul
Try exercising and eating healthier if you aren't doing that already.

We underestimate how much poor nutrition and lack of exercise negatively affect or minds.
https://archive.vn/bnsOn
I watched the amount of video that it would take to read a comment here and it was not insightful. You'd have to summarize, nobody watches videos :P

That said, to expand my argument a bit

1) Vast majority of abuse of power in history has been done by governments.

2) Out of that, majority has been done by the govts that came by thru revolution by non-rich people, and/or were populist - i.e. based upon popularity among masses of non-rich people, and/or partially thru vote of non-rich people.

3) Even when rich people, excluding those rich because they are in the government in the first place, directly abused power (e.g. corporations like United Fruit), they usually did it mostly via a government that was either friendly to them or easy to bribe.

There are very few exceptions. Power concentration among rich men not in government is literally the last thing I would worry, by itself, about as far as power goes. The only problem with Bezos having lots of power is that he could buy the politicians and use their power. So, the best solution is to reduce their power.
Adding to this my own pessimistic take is that once $big_company that acquired $useful_service decides they have obtained a sufficient level of corporate capture with paid businesses then they may decide to add limits to non-paid repository counts, sizes, pulls, pushes and tighten those limits each year until the non-paying members have moved on. Something similar may be slowly happening with Gmail based on ask hn submissions.
Asserts character growth is essential to telling a story.

Sure for some characters and some stories. Consider: did SuperMan progress emotionally during the first 50 or 100 comic books? No? Did that retard the storytelling (reduce the sales)? No?

I find that 'emotional growth' happens in TV series these days at about the same time 'shark-jumping' happens. See, the essential plot devices of the series grow stale so they 'make it personal'. The main detective has a family crisis, or a crisis of faith, or goes bad, or turns a new leaf.

In some series this can be entertaining/engrossing. In others, it's damned annoying. Instead of being about superheroes or whatever, it becomes a silly sitcom/drama/soap opera. What happened to the heroes doing super things? Instead we get whole story arcs in a motel arguing about who's turn it is to wash the dishes.

Stories can be all sorts of things. The characters are sometimes like props, there to let us experience a novel situation or landscape or society. In that case, leave them alone, and write about the damn plot please.
TLDR: The first stanza, not necessarily the second:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
A bit apples to oranges, as they compare against raw LLaMA 65B, not the instruction tuned variants, or the now SOTA finetuned Falcon 40B[1].

1: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

Still, a competitive multilingual model is very cool.
Shouldn't this have been written in 2000?

>‘We used to build the future,’ Leslie Parks, who formerly directed redevelopment efforts in San Jose, once told me. ‘Then we designed it, now we just think about it.’

Please give the builders the credit they deserve for thinking and designing, too. It's more like: We used to think about, design, and build the future, then we thought about and designed it, now we just think about it.

I went to a "Hackers & Founders" meet-up once, and somebody sat down across from me and asked "Are you a developer, or an idea guy?" I answered, "I'm a developer, but I like to think of myself as capable of coming up with ideas too."

Ideas are the easy part. There are a lot of people who fancy themselves "idea guys", with no development or design skills, who desperately want to find some developers to implement their precious ideas for free or cheap on the promise of equity and visibility, and they insist you sign an NDA before they tell you their unique snowflake of an idea, because they don't realize ideas are a dime a dozen, everybody has lots and lots of them, it's easy to come up with them, the hard part is actually sorting through the bad ones and implementing the good times, and lots of ideas are actually a net negative distraction from sticking to working on one good idea for as long as it takes to follow through and implement it well.
Python bindings (and OpenAI API compatible server) for llama.cpp
Probably the former. So positively asserted @jack on Instagram can assert that he is not @jack on Twitter if the Twitter user is trying to claim to be the Instagram @jack.
Postits for passwords are better practice than memorizing passwords. If you can memorize it, it is a bad password. Password managers are better yet, but you still need the master password.

The problem is not keeping those passwords in a secure location, treat it like a stack of $100 bills.
California has mandated paid sick leave

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/California-Paid-Sick-Leave.html
Social media ML algorithms battled for attention, the new AI algorithms will battle for intimacy.
And yes, let us first go after "applying to the study was restricted" lie, then we go after a "applying for a job was restricted" and then we go after that "without passport" condition.
We are obviously talking past each other. On MacOS Mach provides all the resources. Mach was designed to abstract Operating systems from the underlaying hardware. It could also run more then one operating system at time since that was normal expectation.
It’s right there in the name: GitHub private repos are “private,” not “secure” or “secret”. That name was chosen purposefully.

When we moved our code from privately hosted SVN to GitHub 10+ years ago, folks at GitHub were quite clear that we should not trust private repos with secrets like private keys or passwords.

So why have private repos at all? It is to allow control of collaborators. GitHub originally allowed everyone to see and fork every repo—a true open source approach. Private repos were added basically so corporate codebase managers would not have to spend tons of time rejecting random PRs and responding to random people.

For a LOT of private software projects, everything secret can be easily stored in the database, environments, or a dedicated tool for managing secrets. GitHub private repos are great for those. If my entire codebase is a highly sensitive trade secret, I would not use GitHub private repos, personally.
> extracts ClaimsPrincipal

So are you storing claims about the logged-in user, like what role(s) they have, in a cookie, like ASP.NET's stock authentication system? I almost went with ASP.NET Core for a project, but I have a problem with that approach to authentication/authorization; it leads to stale claims. I figure it's better to store only the user ID in a signed (and maybe encrypted) cookie, and read all the needed info about the user from the DB on demand. I guess I should have used ASP.NET Core but written my own auth system, or maybe used an existing third-party one if I could find one that I like.
Sounds like a shitty situation, I’m sorry that it’s so hard for you.

If you suspect ADHD: get tested. If you have it you can start applying ADHD-specific strategies, one of which is medication.

I don’t have any tips for you but I do want to tell you that a lot of people struggle with this, you’re not alone. And if you’re at a challenging school I can only imagine the pressure.
Procrastination is an emotional problem not an organizational one. No amount of calendars, to do lists, apps or systems can fix an emotional problem.

When you come to a task such as studying a new difficult topic you feel discomfort. "Maybe I won't understand it", "maybe I want supposed to be a programmer at all" etc. So you replace the activity that causes discomfort with one that doesn't. Maybe that's flicking through videos on YouTube. Maybe that's tidying your room. Either one feels more comfortable than studying. Even though cleaning your room is 'work' you know you can do it and you get a feeling of accomplishment after you do it.

So, to address procrastination you need emotional tools, not organizational ones. CBT. Positive self talk. Reassurances that the discomfort of a task will pass. Breaking down a task into pieces that are small enough to not cause discomfort.

If you suspect you have ADHD I recommend talking to a professional. Medication is one of the most effective treatments around and you need a diagnosis to start down that path.
Dialogue does not bind earthly humans as fortold by the tower of Babel. For that an orbital ring must be built; building it will require thinking beyond rockets of the past. China's railway construction experience could be used to build the first StarTram and in doing so find a use for the fuel reserves in the Asian deserts other than war.
Couldn’t they just send their ads to the third party app feed APIs and require that third party apps show them and link to buy rewards?