skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting topic.

When you are socially underdeveloped, the strange sheep, the sightly bullied, the not-taken seriously, well it’s not so bad to go twice around the globe a few years and come back.

There’s debate. I’ve lost a lot of social fabric. I’m workaholic because I don’t have enough friends. But I’m millionaire, own my startup, own my house, and I can get advice on how to manage at work, get a psychologist, etc.

It’s not ideal, and ideally people would have recognized talent at home and/or just included me because I was a living person, but they didn’t seem to have this ethics. Travelling the world taught me what was necessary to give me the social chances that everyone had at home. Now I have weight. I’m not sure I’d have anyone’s respect without money and travels.

So: When home is broken anyway, do follow some dream, yours or not, travelling wasn’t even a dream for me, it will make you a broken soul with broken social fabric, but with more experience.
What model?

How long's it been happening?

What apps are running?

Have you blown it out recently?

How is it positioned?
> ... doesn’t come with the risk of a nuclear meltdown.

I would love to see what they say about the ecology disaster from dam/hydroplant, air flow problem from wind mill, or dirty mining for solar panels.
Even more valuable info will be generated, and I don't think that we should just cram it there like that. We would be exposing this new info to information loss.

And someone might say "I won't post it there", but once the person leaves some info in that site, they're encouraging others to interact with it, and generate more info there, in that walled garden, instead of somewhere else.

Note that the potential of information loss in Reddit does not come just from users deleting their stuff. It's also mods (including automod) and Reddit Inc. itself. One day Reddit will decide "we're going to flush out old content!", and here goes your info anyway, no matter if you deleted it or not. Or Reddit itself will go off, and the info in it will be lost, just like the info from the forums that Reddit itself killed. That's the main reasoning in the link that I've provided, and you know what, I think that the author is 100% right.

Also note that there are ways to reduce the information loss. People can - and IMHO they should - migrate that info, before removing it from Reddit.

I think that you're looking at the info present there _now_ in a short-sighted way, without realising the consequences elsewhere.

EDIT: and as another commenter highlighted everything has been archived already. The info loss will be way, way lower than you think.
Third Time: a better way to work – LessWrong
Never do your opponent the favor of underestimating them.
WTF happened? how did they get access to so much?
I have a huge company internal dataset with domain specific knowledge. What you are saying is that I can just fine-tune an existing model with that data and be fine?

That was exactly our inital idea but from all I learnt when trying this is a dead end approach. From my understanding the consensus seems to be that fine-tuning works well to alter or restrict behaviour but very badly to teach additional knowledge. You can fine-tune a generic base model with generic chatbot but not into a domain expert.

That also seems to be the reason why people still use vector databases for large domain knowledge data. I'm aware that the vector database approach has different pros and cons but if fine-tuning the whole content would be possible we certainly would use it in addition to that.

I'm not an expert, so I'd appreciate any comments, hints, pointers and corrections if I'm mistaken in my understanding.

And my original question still stands. 100k$ is not a lot for a company, it must certainly be more than that?
I wonder how you plan to deal with certain types of content, like piracy, porn, gore etc.
> However if it's something that enough people agree is worth doing, why not just use your tax dollars to pay for it? Who's going to seriously oppose a bill for giving people the ability to see?

Unfortunately, I think the same people who oppose universal healthcare would also oppose this.

It’s also hard to draw the line on which things should be covered by the government, short of just covering all essential medical care. Curing blindness is definitely important, but people in the US literally die from not being able to afford other types of healthcare.
Attention is not money. Watching a YouTube video is not being charitable. You cannot just blankly assert that "their time is paying for the charity in the videos" without explaining why this is true. You will have a difficult time explaining that, because it isn't true.

As I said in the comment you replied to, but apparently didn't take the time to read, his viewers do not give him money by watching the videos. YouTube gives him money, which it gets from the ads which run on his videos, and I think he gets some money from direct advertising deals too. Those advertisers are not being charitable by giving him that money. They are conducting business deals: they want their image in front of his audience, and they're willing to pay for that. None of this has anything to do with charity.
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His business seems like a wonderful one. He’s figured out how to make money but also help people.

Seems like most businesses make money but are either a net neutral or negative on the world.

I remember years ago raising money for a company called the AIDS Ride.

Every participant had to raise around $2500 to participate. The aidsride kept around half to support the bike riders (a trip from NY to Boston), and they gave half to an aids charity.

Seemed like a wonderful business to do so much good in the world and also make money (and as a rider I felt like I also got a lot out of the experience).

This seems similar. It’s not a charity. It’s a business. But one that takes advertising money, keeps some of it, and uses the other portion to help thousands of people.
Is this the cynical hacker news version of that Friends episode where Joey tells Phoebe that her selfless good deeds aren't actually selfless because they make her feel good too?

Don't overthink it too much, yo.
CDK is the correct answer.
spacex, as far as i can tell, is a research company that launches satellites to fuel its space exploration research. the research side couldn't stand alone, as that's not a viable business in itself, so the satellite business is really the core "business" here. the making of rocket engines could possibly be outsourced (or turned into a separate business), but those customized engines are integral to its competitive advantage in more efficiently sending satellites into space than its competitors (and in sending people to colonize mars, its long-term mission). core competencies like that aren't separate businesses; they're the business itself. if spacex decided to write its own accounting software and then sell it to others, then you'd have a breach of the single business focus.

apple, however, is in something like a dozen different businesses that are completely viable as stand-alone entities that don't gain much from being consolidated (brand value, for instance, can be franchised if a unified brand face is desired, like mcdonald's does). incidentally, apple wasn't a hardware company that morphed into software, but rather, it was always a computer marketing business (then more broadly consumer electronics, and now encroaching upon consumer entertainment). nest is a good example of what a spin-out company in an apple breakup might look like.
This comment gave me a solid chuckle. I have things like this as well, but I've been low-key stewing on for years or decades, just waiting for the right moment to let the world know.
Python isn't annoying to use, at least for me and many I know. But it isn't known for speed. And or easy multithreading.
Pytorch (+GPU) dependency and python container type diversity are particularly bad. Programmers may not perceive this since they're already managing their python environment keeping all the OS/libs/containers/applications in the alignment required for things to work but it's quite complex. I couldn't do it.

In comparison I could just type git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp and make . And it worked. And since then I've managed to get llama.cpp clBLAS partial GPU acceleration working with my AMD RX 580 8GB. Plus with the llama.cpp CPU mmap stuff I can run multiple LLM IRC bot processes using the same model all sharing the RAM representation for free. Are there even ways to run 2 or 3 bit models in pytorch implementations like llama.cpp can do? It's pretty rad I could run a 65B llama in 27 GB of RAM on my 32GB RAM system (and still get better perplexity than 30B 8 bit).
I have already thrown out Cascading StyleSheets. The alternative is HTML. If I could throw out HTML and start from scratch is a better question.
Oops, sorry I've mixed that up. McEliece public-key encryption is a gold-standard post-quantum encryption scheme, but it is not homomorphic.

Homomorphic would allow computations on the encrypted data without decrypting it.
I think this is a pretty interesting idea. It would be great if the creator (seems to be "benmlevy"?) was in the comment thread here. There's a lot of interesting questions that come to mind. I think that nonprofit software companies could do a lot of good.
There is a happy medium... somewhere. After following Postgres development for the better part of a decade, I think it's definitely closer to the python side of things... But man they (python) do make it hard to like using that ecosystem.

The flip side is like you said... You will just have to reimplement everything yourself and then you can never worry about dependencies again! Just hope you didn't introduce some obscure security issue in your hashmap implementation .
> But I can almost guarantee the larger group of non-technical users will have never thought about the styling of their scrollbars for more than a few seconds.

So you argument in favor of breaking the UIs of the non-technical users - who don't know that it is not their computer working wrong, but rather the site operator deliberately making things inaccessible - is users don't know that it is you breaking things? Sounds rather horrible.
I've always joked they're spending more on graphic designers than brewers.
Great story :)

The same year I was working on various online music stores using Microsoft's Windows Media DRM. This would cause a licensing window to pop up in Media Player all the time when the license was missing or expired for someone's music. We would get various complaints emailed to us, and being head developer sometimes the thornier ones would end up in my inbox, and my friendly ass would be kind enough to reply and try to figure them out.

One time one of the senior execs was walking past my screen and peered over my shoulder to read a new email which said "EVERY MORNING YOU ARE ON MY COMPUTER GET OFF MY COMPUTER!!!". The exec leaned over, typed "GO FUCK YOURSELF" and hit reply.

The benefits of being the boss...
Well for poor people in the US, there is Medicaid.
For old people there is Medicare.

Most people have health insurance in the US (92.5% of Californians have health insurance, for example).

Things are not as bad in the US as people often claim.
I have been. I just find the prospect of a world where humans barely interact with each other and are even closer to universally lonely and even less engaged with real life than right now to be extremely, extremely concerning.

There's data to suggest that mobile phone use and social media in particular are responsible for vastly higher levels of mental illness than any bullying has ever been.

Cutting humans off from reality is an extremely bad solution to bullying. We can and need to do better.
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages 2nd edition [pdf]
Wow. Just... wow.

Thank you for this info, it's fucking great. This means that the info loss for whatever came before March/2023 will be exactly ZERO.
Just a waste IMO. Yes, sometimes I want a strong beer, but sometimes I want to spend an afternoon drinking and chatting with a friend. But I still want something that tastes good in that case!
Times like this I wish there was an airbnbreviews.com site (yelp?). Ofcourse DMCA and frivolous defamation suits will kill this before arrival! Plus how do you prevent malicious contnet (like so-and-so lives here and here are the plans).
Conda? Mamba? Or should I use Venv? What are the commands to “activate” an environment? And why do I have to do that anyway, given thats not needed in any other programming language? Which of those systems support nested dependencies properly? Do any of them support the dependency graph containing multiple, mutually incompatible copies of the same package?

Coming from rust (and nodejs before that), the package management situation in python feels like a mess. It’s barely better than C and C++ - both of which are also a disaster. (Make? Autotools? CMake? Use vendored dependencies? System dependencies? Which openblas package should I install from apt? Are any of them recent enough? Kill me.)

Node: npm install. npm start.

Rust: cargo run. Cargo run —-release.

I don’t want to pick from 18 flavours of “virtual environments” that I have to remember how to to “activate”. And I don’t want to deal with transitive dependency conflicts, and I don’t want to be wading through my distro’s packages to figure out how to manually install dependencies.

I just want to run the program. Python and C both make that much more difficult than it needs to be.
I'm not blessed, I have severe cognitive decline due to a combo of several health issues.
I guess I want people to at least acknowledge how privileged we are.

When you don't like your apartment in Ukraine because it only has two comfy seats and your dogs you brought from the USA have claimed them, at least acknowledge how lucky you are.
This is still common in Indian society. Even in cities, among well educated circles.
Right, that's on the individual level. You and I can donate to a medical organization that helps people 'see and hear' too. Or fund a go-fund-me to help that person. It's great that person got immediate access to the healthcare they needed with this money. We can do basically what Mr Beast does right now if we pooled our resources together.

The bigger issue is why that healthcare is inaccessible to them in the first place? How do you or I go about solving this? How are you and I gonna bring this attention to Congress, and get their asses to work on that issue? Unless we both quit our careers to go into politics, it's not really possible for a random no-name person to make that change for the greater population. How about the other 10k people who can't see or hear? What about them?

If I had Mr Beast's financial or influence level, the next step I would be doing is wondering why those 1k or 2k people didn't get their healthcare and then trying to patch that. We all know how much of a scam our current system is. Once that's patched, everyone gets to eat for life, not just a single batch of 1k people in my lifetime.

Individual contributions are great and welcomed, but temporary. Societal change is where things get real. Cmon bro. It's why we have 40 hour work weeks, why women can vote and get college education, why lgbt community is accepted. And it's not like individual contributions and making society change are mutually exclusive... So what' stopping Mr Beast from going to that next step?
This is insane! But it makes me wonder if we've reached a local maximum in AI where the current methods are great at generating still images but they're pretty much uncontrollable. Like if you ask the AI to generate a dog, is it really possible to prompt every single detail so it creates exactly what you have in mind, or is it more like a trust situation where you just accept whatever the AI generates for you?
Really impressive. The abstract claims sub 2 second generation times, but the youtube demo seems to show generations taking ~6 seconds. Not that I would complain about 6 second generations, my 12gb 3060 probably takes 3-4x as long running SD1.5; perhaps they're not counting the time to load the model, just the active inference time?
I do, yes! Honestly both mifhr be a product of my health conditions, one of which entails very poor sleep, another brainfog/inflammation.
I agree, though it’s still vendor lock-in. I think a lot of devs aren’t aware of how tightly integrated these frameworks are with the hardware. It’s not trivial to separate the two and the companies driving this tech have no motive to do so, while also being amongst a very small number of hardware designers.
Correction: hard work, clever people, and massive increases in computational power. I'm sure all three matter quite a lot here.

I'm not saying that if your goal is to come up with a usable general learning algorithm that it is just "as simple as neural network and done." What I'm saying is the converse: that the general learning capabilities of LLMs are most likely explained by the fact that, well, they are general learners, via the universal approximation theorem.

Your other comment, I think, suggests why we're just now starting to see more general learning capabilities out of neural networks, when the theory says that a single hidden layer is enough: with a single hidden layer, you really need to get all the weights pretty close to "right" to see general learning/universal approximator behavior. When you have more than one hidden layer, then some of your weights can be wrong, as long as the errors are corrected in later layers.

Now, I'm not an AI researcher or even anyone who works anywhere near this area, but I did take a course or two in grad school, and this seems at least intuitively plausible to me. If there are researchers in the field reading this, I'd definitely like to hear their takes, because I'm totally open to being completely wrong here. I'd rather be one of the lucky 10,000 than just have this half-baked idea that seems right. :-)
This is a very utilitarian way of viewing the world.

Under other philosophical frameworks, intentions do matter, not just consequences. For a deontologist, for example, thinking of Kant's categorical imperative.

My point here is that "who cares what the intentions are" is not really, at all, such an obvious thing. And there's a wealth of philosophy that's non-consequentialist. I honestly invite you to read a bit more on these kinds of ideas because they might genuinely give you a new perspective on morality.
> ... heapsort, which is kind of slow, but prevents adversaries from smashing your stack.

How does heapsort protect against a stack attack?
Good guess. It's not the only thing wrong with me, but yes, I have sleep apnea that I'm struggling to manage :-P
I've read through this article several times, and I am failing to see how this could possibly be used to form an attack.

Sure - taking the provider down is bad - but that happens due to unscheduled downtime every other day?
"more-or-less" is doing a lot of work there. It uses a cookie-based authentication system (in fact I think that's where web browsers got the word "cookie" from) but it was intended for trusted networks; when it's done in other situations it's via kerberos or over an SSH tunnel.

It's a pretty elegant setup, honestly, and one thing I miss when I'm on Wayland. The idea is you're at a small desktop on your University's network and you need to use some of the computing power of the big data servers they have. So you run e.g. a graphing program that does all of its computation on the big data machine but does its display on your little desktop (in this setup the big data machine is called the "client" and the tiny little desktop is called the "server" which confuses people a lot at first but makes sense when you get into the architecture).

X itself had been moving away from this for years by adding some extensions that don't work well (or at all) over the network, but there are absolutely still lab setups that use the old way because it's pretty much tailor-made for it.

The bigger security issue was that X programs could see and modify certain things about each other and about the system as a whole, so for example the program XEyes had a pair of eyes that pointed at the location of the cursor (it sounds silly but this was an accessibility thing). And a screenshot program could take a shot of the screen. And so on. Wayland got rid of all those capabilities, but there turned out to be a lot of baby in that bathwater so they're slowly adding back each of them, one at a time. In another decade a new crop of developers will no doubt say "What's all this needless cruft?! Let's start over!" and the cycle of life will continue.
From everything he has said, he is not and has never been in it for the money. He could have cashed out many times now (he certainly has had the opportunity to, many times now) and lived out the rest of his life with that money.

Is it technically possible? Sure. But he has made no indication that has ever been or will be the case so I don’t see why people are assuming it will happen.

We shouldn’t be assuming the worst in people when they have shown no indication that this is the case.
Or, you know, you sit down with them and talk about why they can't.
An inline search pane would be nice. Not because it's necessarily better, but it aligns with a lot of other tools that we use.
Presumably because somebody else has already written it..
Saw this comment and realized how long it had been since I listened to "Punk in Drublic", has to be at least 15 years. I immediately went to Scavenger Type but then to "Linoleum", "The Brews", "Don't Call Me White", and now "The Cause", brings back memories man :)
Change can bring happiness. I don’t know about blowing things up, but finding something that’s under your own control and doing something with it can help get out of ruts or create adventure.

Work/relationship/city sucks? Change it. Can’t or won’t? Find something else you can and will change. You might be looking for fulfillment in the wrong places. Make the choice to try some new things. It will keep you young.

Flip side: re-evaluate what you have. We are wired for novelty. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say. That doesn’t mean where we are and what we have is bad. It could be that you’d have been blown away at half your age to meet who you are today.

Anyway these are platitudes but they’re so well-trod because everyone faces this in some form or another. People blow up their lives and have all kinds of adventures, sure. But you don’t have to blow up your life to create adventures. Just, the next chance you get to do something you’ve never done before, go for it.
DDG on Android, but now it loads too.

When I commented previously I've got that stupid loading animation, site header, site footer and nothing more.

Which means the front page is served dynamically instead of from the cache and what there is no indication what there would be anything to be loaded (blank space instead).

Considering I received some updoots for the previous comment I presume I wasn't alone with a blank page.
Those Todo items only live for a day or two. It's ok to write them down, but write a new list imin a new page the next time you're doing something
I was under the impression "scrollbar = more to see" has been somewhat of a standard for a while now. The Mac example is just one of those classic UI fails.

The worst are the pages where the scroll wheel doesn't work, even when you can see the scrollbar just fine. I'm always baffled, since no simple page would have that problem. Clearly they developed it and didn't care for breaking it.

In html I would sometimes force the scrollbar to always show to prevent layout stuttering. But otherwise, changing the color of the scrollbar to match the fg and bg colors of the page shouldn't be too big of a deal. And I wouldn't mind if some browser skins would change the default scrollbar colors to match, either.

Scrollbars are already stylized across the web and across programs. Most users don't mind it. With options come the bad choices, which anyone can list on one page.