skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You basically described Hamilton Morris from Vice. He does a great job at covering psychoactive substances. Although he does at times seem to be an active proponent instead of giving an unbiased perspective.

Regardless, it's refreshing to hear qualified people give their opinion and reportings on things than it is to listen to those that don't understand what they are commenting on.
> how should voters decide how to vote? Unless your belief is that vibes are valid, then it should be science.

The questions raised by most political platforms are answered by personal values or personal preferences. These are completely inaccessible to the scientific method, and I doubt you or anybody else takes a scientific approach to voting.

> Have you considered that people get fact checked because they say some wild things without good evidence?

Scientists routinely do this too. The main difference being it’s only socially acceptable to scrutinise somebody if they’re not being venerated as an unassailable expert.
Everyone knows that fruit flies spontaneously generate.

My preferred method to get rid of them is with a black hole: I put a couple of pieces of fruit into my homemade Superconducting Apricot Collider, set it on high and then place the resulting black hole right above the compost bin. Works every time. Just be careful with the black hole because if you drop them they fall all the way to the center of the earth and are rather difficult to retrieve.
Unrelated, and sorry in advance if this is unwanted advice... but I see on your homepage that you say your name is pronounced /'rafau pastoohshak/. But that's an English interpretation and /.../ is typically used to refer to the International Phonetic Alphabet. (/.../ is approximate and [...] is the precise version.)

I think the IPA one is /rafaw pastuʂak/ (note: /ʂ/ is very similar to /ʃ/).
I read the code. Guidance seems designed to work well with OpenAI's chat completion API. When you ask Guidance to choose from a set of options, it breaks the list into a tree of tokens and then walks this tree, providing the next set of possible tokens in the logit_bias parameter with value set to +100.

For example, suppose that you specify this as your Guidance "program" and suppose (for sake of simplicity) that the token for "lea" is 1300, the token for "ther" is 1500, and the token for "ves" is 5300:

"armor": "{{#select 'armor'}}leather{{or}}leaves{{/select}}",

Guidance will send OpenAI a chat completion starting with

"armor": "

... providing a logit_bias map {"1300": "100"}. This bias forces the model to choose "lea" as the next token. Following this call, we have the prefix

"armor": "lea

... and now Guidance calls chat completion again setting the logit_bias map to {"1500": "100", "5300": "100"} to indicate that the tokens for "ther" or "ves" are equally probable and really the only tokens the model is allowed to select between, unless some other token is maximally probable given the context. OpenAI now replies with token "1500" (let's say) and Guidance completes the string as follows:

"armor": "leather

... because "ther" is represented by token number 1500. Guidance then tacks on the closing quote and other stuff specified by the user:

"armor": "leather",

... and it sets the value of "armor" to "leather" so that you can use that value later in your code if you wish to. Guidance is pretty powerful, but I find the grammar hard to work with. I think the idea of being able to upload a bit of code or a context-free grammar to guide the model is super smart.

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/d2c5e3cbb730e337b...
Big tech is much worse than big tobacco.

To calibrate, imagine if government and all public sector entities would include in all their commumications with citizens prominent mention of specific tobacco products and brands and actually inviting people to use them.

This incredible and abnormal capture of society is now the new normal. Check any public institution site and it explicitly advertises big tech services using links and invites people to engage using these specific, private, for-profit platforms. Picking winners, explicitly endorsing platforms that have turned users into products, track and model any and all behavior online etc.

People just dont realize how degenerate and dangerous our predicament. The fact that there are no reflexes to violently expose and terminate this collusion means there is basically no meaningful democratic muscle left.

Big tech is the tombstone of democratic society. 10x worse than big tobacco. Nobody will force you to smoke but increasingly it is impossible to be a normal member of society without conceding our agency to nefarious digital conglomerates.
The non unionized would have no recourse regardless. Except going outside the current game
Protest is easy and involves the ADA and COPPA.

1) You cannot all of a sudden provision content differently to a user who has an unapproved device with their preferred accessibility stack and/or hardware.

2) Even if attestation does not involve tracking, effectively forcing children into an ecosystem that tracks them can be deemed unlawful by the FTC. Providers cannot foreclose all means of access to content that are not in a tracking ecosystem, because it violates the rights of children.

The proposal is probably legally negligent because it does not exercise the ordinary standard of care expected of senior technologists. Providing a tool that affects hundreds of million of children and people with disabilities is not a joke.
ADHD isn't necessarily fast thinking, honestly, it is more accurate to call it an attention dysregulation. It might look like fast thinking because it can resemble someone with a regulated attention but who can context switch quickly. In actuality, it is more like someone who cannot control when their thoughts switch + their thoughts lose context suddenly. So it would be more like when you stand up, go to another room & forget what you went to the room to do but... everything, all the time.
Thought Emporium has made some excellent progress with a DIY version of this tech recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
Good times, that was my first distro, before Ubuntu then SuSE

All Mac for a while now
>The hardware in the Steam deck is a known parameter set and it's entirely feasible to optimize around it.

I'm saying that we can't agree on what is "most optimal".

- Do you prefer 30 fps, 60fps, or even higher? those are different ways to optimize it.

- Do you want a pure experience or would you prefer highest internal resolution?

- Do you perhaps want to add in post processing, maybe as a way to get around what would otherwise be visual glitches?

- Preference in renderer? I guess we eliminate DX11/12, but OpenGL vs. Vulkan will give different results, even if Vulkan is in theory the better graphics API.

- and ofc there are preferences on various other nitty gritty settings that some people will be opinionated on.

A switch user just takes what they get and either accepts or grits their teeth with these opinions. But since we're ultimately talking about PC users they will be much more opinionated, and fight amongst one another. Because those supposed "linux wizards" exist and are very loud. I'm sorry if you see this as talking past your point, but my point is that we can't agree. Which ironically enough reinforces my point, I guess.
This isn't true, it's a telephone game version of "it's a mixture of experts model" that was used to explain the impossible claim that "it's a 1 trillion parameter" in fall 22
He doesn't have to. It's not seriously in play.
It happened to me about that long ago too and I was just flattered, but it also wasn't done by some crappy scammer ripping random content to stuff it full of ads and SEO it to death hoping make a quick buck off of my writing. I have no desire to stop people from copying and sharing whatever they can, but when it's being done with a profit motive it feels a lot more exploitative and dirty.
China currently has the most stringent limits for LLMs available to end users because of concerns about their political alignment. So if you believe that it's the whole market competition part that's most important in getting the best results long term, they have shot themselves in the foot first.

Of course, the models that are developed for internal use by the Chinese government won't be so limited, regardless of what the law says. But then neither be the ones developed by Western three-letter agencies. So don't worry about the "Great Game"; they'll do just fine one-upping each other and screwing over all of us in the process.
Next stop - slap a body on it and call it RoboCop.
I'd buy that for $407K dollar.
Hey OP here, I'm glad you like them! Did you notice the Easter egg on the pricing table? ;)
A convenience feature in any inference API would be to specify a shortcut to a standardized grammar such as HTML, JSON, Python, etc. It is frankly strange to me that OpenAI have not already done this, considering the obvious effort they undertook to fine-tune the Code Interpreter model.
Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
Also important to call out that anytime you have a freeform string it's pretty much an open invitation for the LLM to go completely haywire and run off into all sorts of weird tangents. So these methods are best used with other heuristics to bias sampling once you get to free-form text territory (i.e. a repetition penalty etc)
Google are clearly trying to add levels of indirection here to pretend it’s some kind of standards forming, instead of a dictatorship. There’s nothing “to be fair” about.
Yes, I meant sampler, not tokenizer.
This is a badass barebones eGPU dock! Had no idea this kind of thing was available. So good, thats for sharing all!
His “Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems”, from a few years prior, is right up there too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_Theory_of_Secr...

IMO Shannon does an amazing job laying out the foundational ideas behind cryptographic security in a way that is very accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of probability.

The clarity and simplicity that he achieves is especially striking when you compare his approach to what you’ll see from modern cryptographers. No offense to those guys - they’re amazing - but accessible their stuff is not.
So Free, as in 4 random letters that were strung together.
So what, were you expecting them to solve every single problem the US faces in six months, and since they didn't clearly they just weren't actually trying and obviously the same as the GOP?
Quebec's public health insurer hangs up on Anglophone woman for speaking English
Thank you! I finally get what Guidance is doing now.
How do you feel about a Shopify approach where you use a pre crafted template, and have developers make tweaks to it if you need further features?
Draining has no rigorous meaning at all, and the reader can interpret it however they damn well feel like.

I am sure that the vast majority of people have had at least one day where social duties overwhelmed them. Extroverts, meaning people who are never ever drained by social interaction (for whichever meaning drained is given) seem to be vanishingly rare.
Sure, then a trivial example of a non-“promotable” input would be an input containing a problem whose solution requires more memory than any computer currently has. But I don’t think that’s what they were looking for.
I stopped supporting Hollywood years ago.
And given that the inference code has access to the entire vector, it's the logical place to put this filtering... OpenAI and other LLM APIs probably don't want to return the entire token probability vector to the user because it's a lot of data. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft has such access as part of their deal because of the obviously superior position this puts them in vs. regular API customers.
We also had prc-tools, a free GCC based toolchain. I used it to build a tweaked version of pssh and some other stuff. It was a lot more straightforward than modern Android or iOS development.

https://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/
"When you read documentation that makes you question your reading ability"

I didn't think this was for me but now I'm signing up for the Pro plan.
If my goal is to try to avoid vendors locking down what I can do with my computer, I don't think switching from Linux to MacOS is going to be an improvement.
I think this war is well and truly lost. Cashless systems are superior in every single way aside from privacy.
That's a cool series, thanks for sharing!

I didn't grow up during this era, so it was facinating to stumble upon a news article on the (lack of continued) funding for BSD - something I'd never really thought about.
Not necessarily.

The pending UPS strike is about improving the wages and benefits for non-union labor. Which in turn benefits the union labor because otherwise they're at risk of being replaced with cheap scabs someday.
Not qualified enough to give my own advice on this but I have been reading a lot on SaaS pricing so I'll drop a few resources that may help.

https://venturehacks.com/pricing
https://tomtunguz.com/the-100m-arr-deal/
https://tomtunguz.com/categories/pricing/
https://www.willingnesstopay.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@SaaSPricing/videos
https://www.priceintelligently.com/

(Look up more stuff from Patrick Campbell)
Holy cow, that's the perfect summary of what's been bothering me with Gibson's latest few series. Thank you for the insight.
The drama|documentary TV series Chernobyl?

Or the soviet era Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker based on the novel Roadside Picnic by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (who also wrote the screenplay)?

The later is unrelated to the Chernobyl accident (in any direct sense) as it concerns unfathomable alien technology left as waste on earth after a visitation (or alien picnic along a galactic roadside) with human 'stalkers' raiding the unknown like ants after sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
Why do you doubt his main contribution would be technical? I don't know much about him, but he definitely has the aptitude and the interest, so I would expect he could be a great contributor.
Neither role is well enough defined to make these kinds of statements.

The CTO could be the top of the IT org, and have nothing to do with research. There could be a Chief Scientist.

These roles are defined by the executive team as they are working. They are the only ones that can define them beyond a bunch of gross generalizations.
I actually pass on a $400 one as well. The quality of the physical only increases with price, after all!
We both were pretty messed up when we met, I got better, so did she somewhat but she didn't keep up.
To-go food containers are impregnated with plastic lining, leeching all sorts of crap into heated, acidic food.
but the new shows, written by those striking writers, aren't good - rings of power, she-hulk etc. etc.
A lot of people assume this, but with contactless EMV there is a whole transaction flow between the card and the reader going on.

You know those 4 lights on a contactless card reader? They indicate different transaction stages between the card and the terminal. I don’t find them that useful because it’s so fast they all appear to light at the same time, but that’s what they are!

If they were just passive tags, they wouldn’t be very secure, they have cryptographic processors onboard with private keys that can sign stuff for the terminal and your bank. The specs for the interaction are all public if you’re interested (I wouldn’t be!) and lookup contactless EMV.
I think the more matter of fact the influence, the more the original artist deserves compensation. See Waits v. Frito-Lay, Inc.

I do not not want something like this to happen to generative AI and make things more difficult for the technology to progress and flourish.
Spoilers for a 40+ year old book:

The conclusion of Illuminatus! is a level of indirection above that.
C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (2017)
> someone who might racially abuse them

Agreed, but note that "abuse" is the operative word here. It's possible to be racist and not be outwardly hateful, and it's also possible to be non-racist and horribly abusive to staff.
I just let them be. It’s fun to watch them.
I mean that in between them being solid machines, the amount of content that still gets put out around it, the custom hardware people are designing for it and homebrew software the scene is still very much alive.
Not sarcastic but you're probably right in terms of no real legal course. But here's the thing, you're getting fired anyway. Depending on company size, they may give you something nominal just so you sign a non-disclosure and don't create bad PR for them.
> Version 1.0 of Slackware was announced on the July 16, 1993

"Very good year. Nearly as old as I am!"
the ethical concerns are usually along the lines of "what separates neurons in a petri dish from the neurons in your head". sure, you can tell the difference now, but that may not be true forever
Do you have any particularly inside information here?
I’ll be honest and perhaps unkind. I do not know there’s anything to be done but lean into it and use the tool to help. Trying to fence it in and hope things never change because of it will be impossible and make things worse. By exploiting the tool and figuring out ways to make it an adjunct to human effort as quickly as possible is the only way forward. But disruptive things are disruptive particularly to those who resist it and put themselves against the change. Those who grab onto it and ride it will do well.

Large language models are most a threat to writers. But if you’ve used them enough you’ll realize it’s a tool shaped by the humans ability to write. Prompting to effect is not trivial, and the quality of the response is greatly informed not just by the intention but by the style of language and the quality of the words, the skillful manipulation of language that generates more language. These models have no agency or intellect, and their output is simply a likely continuation of the humans promoting. I imagine skilled writers can find they can do much more and better if they learn to master language tools, and they’ll still be the author and still be writing. People unskilled with language will be at an immense disadvantage using these tools.

However the delta will be much narrower, and people who are otherwise unable to convey themselves effectively but have great ideas will finally be heard. Those who are skilled at conveying themselves and manipulating through language but are poor in ideas will not be nearly as powerful. That will be a major realignment. And those who are in power now by virtue of their gift won’t give up ground to those who are elevated by the tool to take their place.

These are going to be painful changes for a lot of people. Pain is never good. But it’s too late to reverse, so those who adapt and learn will lead. And those who try to dig faster than the machine won’t.
> What do you mean by left-wing terrorist uprising?

A lot of the issues I stated - e.g. the rise of the authoritarian/far right, climate change, wealth disparity - are usually associated with the (far) left, or at least the left is the one pushing for reforms.

Generally, people don't become terrorists... if they don't have the feeling they have no other choice left. Israel is the closest to that tipping point, with soldiers threatening to hand in their papers (which is very unusual as it puts the country at a serious risk should any of its enemies attack), but climate change protestors in the UK and Germany have recently escalated their methods (and so has public response, including a lorry driver running over a protestor blocking a street here in Germany), and god only knows what will happen in the US should Trump gain a second term or, worse, DeSantis.

That is why I'm relatively certain at least some people will choose violence - the question is how many will follow them.
> policies that push people to work 40 hours a week when there are opportunities to work 70 then quality of life isn't going to go up.

Seems like we have very different definitions of quality of life, if you think working 70 hours/week is a path to it.

> You should be advocating that they have better opportunities to own and create capital. If labour is at a disadvantage, why encourage people to be labourers?

Because labour exists, and a world without it doesn’t. So someone will always be a labouror. All you’re advocating for is more little warlords, instead of a couple kings. Doesn’t sound better to me.
I am now fully convinced there is an alignment problem.
> Carbs create more energy for the body and proteins with fat make more food for the brain

I was under the impression that the brain, almost uniquely among human tissues, requires glucose for energy (whereas most other tissues can use ketones). How do carbs create energy "for the body" and not for the brain?
Can you cook eggs or stir fry on cast iron? Or should I get ceramic pans? I’m wanting to get rid of my “forever chemical” Teflon coated pans. Anyone knowledgeable please chime in.
This is exactly right. The article opinion is pretty much flawed has the CTO should thrive to focus all its efforts on achieving a competitive edge for the product. By means of tech advantages, good partnerships or any other technical related matter. Similar to how the CEO should do the same from a less technical perspective.

The VP of Eng is very important to take as many management efforts from the CTO as possible. Similar to how the CFO takes from the CEO.
All depends on which ones took the opportunity. Maybe disproportionately the most highly qualified, and who knows the talent level that replaces them.

It's not like USA IT firms deliver the talent they say they will when you sign the contract. The star shows up to the sales call, the fresh grads do the grunt work.

Wonder what happens if many of them are the Twitter H1-Bs that were stuck.
Oh by "Web Environment" you mean "my machine" lol!

I already got caught by this kind of thing - a https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier app wrapping Youtube Music doesn't work, because Google detects somehow that you are not using a trusted browser and refuses to serve.

This is sort of moving in the "zero trust" (as in let's use ML etc. to detect if we trust something. username/password is not enough), which I fear because it will break a bunch of stuff for genuine users and make things less reliable.
Racist IP Addresses: Anonymity and Identity Online [video]
The ethical concern here is no greater than the ethical concern of eating animals.
> The entire weekend was "make this change, type make $SOMETHING, then wait for 50m, then watch it fail to boot, then examine how far the bootloader got, then boot with previous image, then undo that change and repeat the process".

This is me still when I try to build Gentoo
You can use proxies from AWS that's not an issue

I need to scale, using a physical machine is not feasible
To first order maybe. Tobacco use obviously shortens life but tech is destroying society. In the grand scheme of things (which is where criticism of either industry really plays), shorter life expectancy is less of a big deal than having society ripped apart in the name of selling ads. Smoking didn't change the face of the planet the way tech has, even if it's acutely very bad.
When they said native, they actually just meant local.
Carbon released by processes in the US, or carbon released by consumption of Americans, including that released elsewhere?