skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These common issues tend to prevent LLMs from being used in the wild:
* Data Leakage
* Hallucination
* Prompt Injection
* Toxicity

So yes it does include prompt injection, but is a bit broader. Data Leakage is one that several customers have called out, aka accidentally leakage PII to underlying models when asking them questions about your data.

I'm evaluating tools like Private AI, Arthur AI etc. but they're all fairly nascent.
Why should a prediction of demise (for whatever meaning of "demise" we care to choose, but we can start with the one you first mentioned, market capitalization) be required to be more precisely detailed about how and why than a prediction of thriving?

Someone could say "Many past novel currencies and securities have failed; any prediction of Bitcoin's success must explain precisely how and why it will still have worth in 50 years." To me this seems like the same argument you're making - belief that a trend will continue until proven otherwise - but I don't find either of them very convincing.

I think any argument either way should have more details than "it's worked so far!" or "it'll eventually fall over like Madoff!" but you seem to only be pushing the burden of proof in one direction.
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Fair enough. Was trying to make a constructive point, but clearly my bias leaked through.

Point is that it seems any discussion here is fruitless, just both sides digging in. I usually appreciate the discussions here. These are just frustrating.

Sure I don't have to click, but I still do.

Anyhow my 2c.
Continuous Approximations of Logical Functions
Is it really wallowing in mediocrity?

I mean, I don't see my work as work, I see it as working in interesting and new tech, getting to play with interesting stuff and solve complex problems; and I do it for fun. When the fun stops because I am forced into crud or boring stuff, I'll just leave.
My understanding is that anyone who thinks they can sell domains for more than the $185k(?) it costs to create one is a winning strategy. I don't know if there are any ICANN renewal costs, such that a gTLD could actually go bankrupt
Yes, reading between the lines on the US relationship to AU and NZ it appears that the US can pull military and intelligence strings with great efficiency but public political strings outside of these contexts are relatively more onerous.
> This implies either one of two things. First, that the Controller has to be specialized for the target widget. It's a TextController, with its own house key to the TextView

Yes, this appears to be the way it worked in Smalltalk-80 [1]. You had StringHolderView and StringHolderController which used a StringHolder as the model.

> Or second, that the Controller doesn't do anything useful at all

The controller in Smalltalk-80 controlled input focus. The view wouldn't be able to receive any input without a controller:

"Class Controller does include default scheduling behavior. It takes the point of view that only one controller is to be active at a time; that is, only one controller at a time mediates user input actions. Other views could be displaying information in parallel, but the user's actions are to be interpreted by a single controller. Thus, there is behavior in class Controller for determining whether a controller needs to receive or maintain control."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100921030808/http://www.itu.dk...
Good points, ideally I'd say the software should at least be non-proprietary or at least source-available, but in reality I would settle for anything where I can control at least the software (OS level) side of things.
"Very rarely is a Churchill quote actually a Churchill quote." - Churchill
Take a moment and go scroll through the examples at civitai.com. Does most of them strike you as something by people with jobs? Most of them are pretty juvenile, with pretty women and various anime girls.
Yup, that's part of it but I mean it bidirectionally - users can accidentally leak data to models too, which is concerning to SecOps teams without a way to monitor / auto-redact.
The florida keys. The houses don't go underwater. They just stop being insured and their value goes to 0.
> I was wondering how naval submarines work when they get in trouble.

Naval subs in trouble?

They go "forever on patrol." A naval sub is an espionage watercraft; signaling an emergency isn't exactly in the playbook for most of their mission cycle. ;)
OP you mentioned mojo, have you tried it yet? Jeremy from fast ai (one of their advisors) overhyped it so much I’m taking their claims with a grain of salt for now.
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Do the math for the weight of a string 2 miles long.

Then take a look at how much weight a string can hold up.

Then you're ready to be taking on space elevators
The idea of "buckets" here is purely to speed up search time, at a very low level. Don't think about it in the context of a web server or database storage, its way more base than that. Its literally just arrays in memory.

The idea is: if you don't have a Hash or Map already implemented in your language, how would you build a fast one? You cant write my_object['my_key'], that doesn't exist, you don't have Key-Value storage. You need instead to somehow store those pieces of information, and find them later.

Obviously, you could just stick every value inside one big array. Then when you call MyHash.get('key'), you simply do an array search. But that would be slow.

Instead, you can hash the 'key', stick it into a smaller bucket based on the hash, and then more quickly search for it later. In the future, you know the hash of 'key', so you know which bucket to look in.

The author does make it confusing, since in their example each bucket contains Entry (entry['value']), meaning they are already using a JS HashMap implementation in their rebuilding of a HashMap, but you could rewrite the example to do it without any objects. The code would be harder to read though.
As for your plug, that's cheap and easy to replace (literally the homeowner can do it in most jurisdictions, be safe) - the question is the size of the breaker/wire routed to the plug.

If your breaker is fifty amps, then changing for NEMA 14-50 shouldn't be more than $100-200 even if you hire a master electrician.

If the breaker is NOT fifty amps, then you have to carefully check that the wire is the sized correctly all the way from the box to the outlet (it can LOOK right coming out of the breaker box, and look right going into the outlet box, but somewhere hidden in the walls it changes to an incorrect size).
"Hi, depth charge here."
hello, gravypod. In the bootstrapped MVP, we lack the capital and therefore manpower to intergrate a vetted home inspector, but we recognize the need and ifand when we get some scale, it will attract human resources and capital. Your thought is spot on. Thank you.
JEP draft: Move the JDK to C17 and C++17
TBF we're not sure he's dead yet. They said the submarine has 96 hours of oxygen.
Revenues are modest in the submarine sinking business
The connector is open. Obviously the producer of the charging station can always determine the charge rate regardless of the connector, which is why most EA stations sit out there in a half broken state limited to 120kW.
One theory: TypeScript

Maybe tangential, but I have seen a pattern of projects that go all-in on TypeScript only to become overly complex & lose development steam. I'm not saying that is or will be the case with Codemirror but I do think there is some merit to the idea that JavaScript helps developers code effectively at the high-level whereas TypeScript has a way of taxing that process; detracting from what made the original project come together in the first place.

Of course, there are plenty of projects that have done exceptionally well after going all-in on TypeScript (or from the get-go) so take this with a grain of salt.
Their controllers are well known for being garbage. People that take video games seriously can tell you all of the different reasons why they "feel worse" or are just less reliable than OEM. It's a $30 controller where the "standard" option is around $60. The "premium" market where they are custom made for important use cases (ie, competitive Melee tournament) can easily reach into multiple hundreds of dollars, using components like hall effect sensors instead of resistive potentiometers that will lose accuracy over time.

Most people would refuse to play a video game with this controller, let alone use it as a critical component in a vehicle. Joystick drift in a videogame is frustrating. Joystick drift in a fucking submarine is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I react "backwards" to antihistamines... I took a hydroxyzine for a panic attack and was so wired I didn't think I'd ever sleep again. Of course if I take an Adderall, that makes me sleepy.
With all the talk about failure modes of carbon fiber, the scariest part of this article is the photo of the display and light held up by screws drilled into the side of the pressure vessel.
Because this was never about getting a cut in 3rd party app revenue. They want to be the only app in town, one single experience that all ads can flow into.

Now it begs the question: why not force 3p apps to show ads to non-premium users? I imagine control is the answer there. Easier to show to adverts how good one app is doing then verifying proper ad placement in every 3p app.
This is whataboutism.

The claim is that BTC surely isn't fraud because the chain is public knowledge.

This is irrelevant, because the vast majority of data is bullshit.

The gold market has been manipulated to and fro, even with regulations.

The idea that BTC isn't manipulated to oblivion JUST BECAUSE there's a public ledger (missing 99.99% of the data) is naive.
I can also confirm. A fifth-wheel trailer with the proper size truck is very stable; even in severe cross-winds.

I use a gooseneck adapter on my RV since my farm trailer uses that and it's a bit more difficult to hitch up but you get used to it quickly.

Before COVID used fifth-wheels were very cheap -- my current one is a 2016 model I bought used for $17k in 2019. Things are a bit more expensive now but I figure the used market will probably go back to normal by next year.
Both AU and NZ are very strong democracies, so this makes sense, for the same reason that Canada never extradited the founder of Huawei's daughter to the USA.
Tesla generates plenty of headlines every time one decapitates a driver or crashes full speed into large pretty much visible from space police/fire truck blinking all of its lights.
At Stripe, we believe that the burden of proof is on he who denies, not on he who declares.
Google Search: A paradigm shift for internet discovery
Sure but with Electron you don't have to worry about browser differences. And you can use experimental web stuff.

If your app is primarily a website and you want to wrap it as an app then I guess Tauri makes some sense. E.g. something like Slack or Gmail.

If you're just using it as a way to make a desktop app then it makes more sense to use Electron unless your UI is very simple and download size is very important (e.g. something like the Raspberry Pi Imager app; though that uses QtQuick).
I’m trying to get it to replace our Teams usage, but having Teams be the default when you create meeting invites is just too strong.
That's precisely what fiat currencies are. Currencies which can be created out of thin air. That's what 'fiat' means - "Let there be".

Fiat currencies are 'fiat' in stark comparison to wealth which can't be created out of thin air, e.g. gold or cryptographically-protected numbers.
> Anyone making new predictions of Bitcoin's demise must explain precisely how and why its distributed network would fail.

A systemic banking panic.

Everyone becomes worried about being able to extract money/value from the crypto ecosystem as a whole due to the failure of some exceptionally large entity (Coinbase or Binance or Tether failing).

They all run for the exits at the same time trying to cash whatever crypto they can into currency. With no sort of backstop, no FDIC, no government intervention, no failsafes, etc there's nothing to stop it from all unwinding to effectively zero in a panic. And panics aren't concerned about market efficiencies or intrinsic value or network effects or anything other than the ability to flee into some other unaffected liquid asset. The contagion would spread throughout the network with people trying to take any exit they could find until that exit was shut down.

Given that the crypto ecosystem in general doesn't believe in government regulations to prevent panics it is nearly certain that one will happen, which will bring crypto to a very sudden halt. The probability over time reaches 100%, but it will likely take some kind of precipitous drop from a sufficient height that no individual Billionaire will be willing to step in and buy it all up cheap (previously crypto has likely been "small enough" that a billion here and there was able to stop the crash in e.g. 2018).

It is impossible to predict when it will happen since it requires knowing how much systemic cash is available for withdrawals and how much can be raised, and the timing of financial entities failing, and the appetite for risk of anyone with deep enough pockets to try to bail it out.

And Bitcoin has never really been tested by a recession that would cause it any kind of problems. The V-shaped pandemic recession was cushioned by a lot of injected liquidity in the markets and people switched to greed almost right away after the first bit of panic waned. It has never been stress tested by something like 2001 or 2008 in the broader economy.
What kind of(and how much) data did you use to train your checkpoint?

I'd like to have a go at making one myself targeted towards single objects (be it car,spaceship, dinner plate, apple, octopus, etc). Most checkpoints are very heavily leaning towards people and portraits.
Your conspiracy explanation doesn’t pass the sniff test. There’s a much much simpler explanation: lack of demand.

Heck, you’d think people on hacker news would be all over open source alternatives to proprietary hardware, software, and services. Yet take a brief wander over to one of the many (many) recent Reddit crisis threads and you’ll find countless naysayers talking about how lemmy and the like will never succeed, despite gaining hundreds of thousands of users in a week and a half.
I think it's more that anxious people are essentially overthinkers.

Sometimes that makes sense and leads to good outcomes, but sometimes it leads to things like taking traditions built up over millennia and deciding that you can, via back of the envelope reasoning, treat them as being irrelevant.
Military provides a bunch of benefits until it's actually used for its purpose. Then you send a bunch of underage kids to die.
I’ll pop into Slack tomorrow to see if anyone can help me get it up and running. Using both the CLI and the GUI on Mac silicon with AWS, I haven’t been able to get a single instance working.

Even just an empty folder!
> the idea that we're going to find them bobbing around somewhere

It wouldn't actually make any difference, because the only way out of that thing is to unscrew 17 heavy duty bolts from the outside.

If they're floating around somewhere that doesn't make them safe; they're just suffocating at the surface instead of on the sea floor.

Also, the claimed 96 hours of "life support" was never properly tested, and there's no evidence the vessel was able to properly extract toxic gasses from its atmosphere, etc.
Exactly what's the issues, then?
Thanks, you said it better than I could have. I feel like engineers frequently get stuck in this “perfect or worthless” mindset. Putting your life on the line is a hell of an incentive.
"The longer Bitcoin survives, the more it will get adopted and integrated into the world's financial fabric,"

How long do we need to give Bitcoin a chance to gain mainstream adoption as its been 15 years already ? So far I don't see much real use except speculation, extortions, get rich quick scams and websites where you want to be anonymous. For the most part.
Other campgrounds besides KOAs offer 50 amp service.
Talk about a collapsing wave function! (Or don't)
It's funny, I had the same thought just a moment ago. I have decided that I will quit $BIGCORP and put my effort and mind into something actually useful for people. Maybe it's the place that i am, but given the evidence, I have updated my expectations over skill. I also don't have material needs, I might buy a cute top here and there, or a few books but that's it.
It's not a Nintendo controller.
I'm not grandparent commenter, but someone wrote a paper comparing satellite photos of the parking lot of a hospital in Wuhan, as well as Baidu search queries:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42669767/Satelli...

There was also news coverage of this paper: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wuhan+area+hospital+satellite+phot...
AFAIK after pro-union candidates swept elections the Confederacy invaded the officially neutral state of Kentucky. They even admitted Kentucky under a shadow government.
The family has been listed in the fugitive list since 2015 (See [0]), and the reason Chinese government gave is bribery.

[0]. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-04/23/content_205144...
My kids play with these controllers a few times a week, the latency is horrible and it's easy to accidentally hit the mode button which causes directional control to shift from the left joystick to the directional pad. The user can also switching between d and x mode and that would also cause the controller to stop working.
What about parents in China?
This is incredibly annoying. I migrated all my domains from Badger to Google Domains. I'm really losing any remaining faith I have in Google, they kill any products that are remotely usable.
Isn't this a trivial economic problem? Efficient allocation of scarce resources is one of the strengths of capitalism. If almond farming isn't viable in California due to water being scarce they should naturally just get priced out of the market, right? Why isn't this problem solving itself?
My main issue with Deno is to support monorepo, or generally how to use local packages.

NodeJS might not be the ideal, but it's useful enough to cover real world usecases. Deno is still not useful yet on the DX.
Forgot to mention that Fabrice Bellard has run lm-eval on a range of functional tests (lambada, hellaswag, winogrande, piqa, coqa) for q4, q8 (and unquantized on smaller) models: https://bellard.org/ts_server/

Losses appear to be in-line (possibly less) than increases in perplexity.

My intuition is that the dataset you use for testing perplexity (c4, wikitext2, wikitext103, whatever) shouldn't matter so much as long as its a representative sample of data it's read. You're calculating cross entropy loss, so you want to have data you know it's read to see how much each quantization gets more wrong.
I've been using Mac for 9 years consistently and it still is unpleasant. It's a bad system because it doesn't account for web applications being independent applications, as mentioned above. I'm hopeful for the Web Apps functionality, though it won't help for SaaS software that only supports Chrome - there is enough blame to go around there, though.

I hate that I have to meticulously order windows and keep a mental map of the order of my web browser windows instead of a more streamlined experience. It gives that unpleasant mental shock that bad user experiences do, and it happens on a weekly basis. After 9 years, that's not my fault and it's not just me.

And how is something like Rectangle still not built in?
I know you think this is some big gotcha that indicts the entire concept of climate change, but it is really just you desperately finding some factoid that backs up your idea where you can't see the forest for the trees.

The climate is clearly changing and it is really causing massive disruptions and costing trillions of dollars. The evidence is overwhelming and it is impossible to ignore at this point. This little gotcha doesn't change that or matter at all.
> Miners could just decide that they don't like you very much and refuse to process your TX.

Some miners perhaps. But others will like every tx that pays a decent transaction fee and these tend to eventually get your tx included.
I think your assumptions are unrealistic. A fiber optic cable weighing 4kg per km with no other reinforcement or protection would be extremely fragile.

According to my back-of-the-envelope math, using the density and tensile strength of typical glass, it would have a breaking load capacity of around 10 newtons (roughly 2 pounds of force). Even a steel cable with the same weight would only be about 20 times stronger.
That is the basic version. The EDU version which opens more API/interface to the user cost much more. Also training a whole-body (quadruped + robotic arm with gripper) to do something like picking strawberries remains challenging today.
that was the inspiration for building this into a turnkey tool!
Official response from NPM (a week later):

> You are correct, keygen is a stopword. We blocked users from using this word for security purposes.

> Apologize for the inconvenience and we highly suggest you choose a different word for your package going forward.
He's posted to r/DIY a few times I think.
I had not heard the term "lie flat" before, and immediately thought it was trying to make enough money so that whenever you flew, you could always fly business class in "lie flat" seats.
> A courageous member of the British parliament named Samuel Plimsoll tried for years to get legislation passed to improve safety and maintenance on ships, and to regulate the overloading of cargo encouraged by greedy owners to maximize profits at the expense of safety. He was stymied at every turn because many ship owners were MPs themselves and loathed passing new laws that would be to their disadvantage; they were making fortunes in the shipping business.

Looks like another example where the idea that private interests would ever be adequate for regulating safety is provably false.
Literally - I've had this nightmare. I was shook up for weeks. Can't even comprehend it actually happening.

To the OP: I am so very sorry for your loss.
This reads like it was written by someone who doesn't have the slightest idea about the reality of working in other "more virtuous, noble, artful things".

I have plenty friends who do art or art-adjacent things (such as design) as a full-time job, and some of them are actually doing quite ok financially (even among non-design people). Let me tell you, working a full-time employment in those fields tends to be a soul-suck to the level you cannot even probably imagine. You know, quite often (but not always), how exciting and fun programming for your own side-projects feels in comparison to programming for pay? With "more artful things", it is just like that, but with an even higher gap of suckiness. Of course, unless you are in the top 1% (or maybe even 0.1%) of the art world in terms of career success.

I am not saying that your child shouldn't choose "more virtuous, noble things" just because of what I said. Quite the opposite, I believe following what you truly want to do is the move (which is how I went into programming around a decade ago, back when both I and my parents had zero idea that it actually paid well and had good employment prospects). Can I claim that I enjoy my work all the time? No, but outside of a few short bad stretches due to a specific work environment I got myself into (and which wasn't representative of programming as a field in general), it has been generally ranging between "fine" and "interesting". If you expect any profession to be all entirely creative fun and joy, with no occasional "meh" component of work whatsoever, you are deluding yourself.

The grass is often greener on the other side of the fence. But it tends to become blinding neon green level of brightness when one doesn't have much (even second-hand) exposure to the realities of that other side.