skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much this is because:
- effect of women on live satisfaction
- effect of women on physiological processes
- men trying to better themselves or their health in order to get or maintain a woman
- women forcing their men to do healthy things

I can say with confidence a few of my older family members are only alive because their wives make them eat healthy and discourage illegal and obnoxious behavior!
Source available / do whatever you want until 100M MAU seems like a great way to go. Lightweight users get lots of freedom and autonomy, big users have to pay to support the ecosystem.
Perhaps I am being naive, and I will confess that I'm not entirely sure that the future will be as I predicted (but I'm not going to edit my initial comment, out of respect for those disagreeing with me).

But I will think this quote from one of the bill's most dogged critics is illustrative[0]:

> ... this Bill, whatever DCMS and its ministers may claim, is not a “fixing” Bill, one which has been designed to be constructive and positive in order to fix problems. It is a “getting” Bill, once which has been designed to be vindictive and negative in order to get specific companies. OnlyFans in this particular example, the usual suspects in others.

> The second is that this Bill has been designed by people who are so out of touch that OnlyFans is their idea of the average small digital business.

> And the third is that this Bill has been designed by people who are so out of touch that they think the harms issues raised by OnlyFans are the harms issues in the average small digital business.

As for your distrust of the government, my opinion on this comes from that same position. My complacency rests not on their goodwill (because I don't think they have any) but on their disinterest in actually understanding anything.

[0] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/13/heres-why-your-project-is-in...
I mean, your complaints are that it doesn't make software more secure. That's true but that's an orthogonal effort. Imagine there was a world where software was secure (they rewrote Windows in Rust or whatever); now what tools do you need to ensure that someone didn't replace your secure software with their own compromised version? (For example, how do you know that LUKS is asking for your full-disk decryption key, and not some piece of malware that some random package maintainer added to /etc/systemd?) That's the gap that the TPM is designed to fill.

Meanwhile, sure, it's not going to prevent you from clicking a link in your email to fakebank.com and typing in your SSN.

I'm surprised that people are surprised that a $0.20 chip doesn't eliminate software bugs.
Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Yes, I would love to get some feedback on what people want to see - right now I am thinking Bard and Claude. What do you want to have?
Thanks, will check it out. Last time I looked, dendrite, construct, and conduit were not ready, so synapse was the only option (which I used).

Look forward to trying out conduit.
I have a Z fold 3 and love it. It's great for reading e-books and looking at maps and reading most web pages (some mobile ones get confused). It's everything I'd need in a tablet without having to carry one. Just a large phone.
> These all seem to be super-niche or obsolete though?

Yes, I wrote that in an edit soon after commenting; your comment was made hours after I made mine, so you should have seen it.

And, as I said, the SPF record, though obsolete, is still very commonly found, in my experience.
I bought a machine with a 75Mhz blue lightning "486" as an upgrade to a 386SX/20. It was sold as the budget 486 at the time, and I learned the lesson the hard way that sometimes budget really does mean a lot worse!

Performance wasn't great and compatibility was an issue more than you'd expect.
Here's a video of Swirl in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipmPrbSJUNk
The effort Brits spend arguing and bickering. It's just laziness because it's easier to talk yourself into acceptance.

I admire the French for collective physical action.
As long as your evil prompt is not permanently changing the LLM, this is harmless. If you want to know how to do <bad thing>, the information is out there. You can trick an LLM into giving it to you, so what?

One commenter says it could be harmful when LLMs are used for something important, like medical diagnosis. However, I don't see a healthcare practitioner using evil suffixes. And if they do, that's on them, just another form of malpractice.

People need to understand that LLMs are just fancy statistical tables, generating random stuff from their training data. All the angst about generating undesirable random stuff is just silly...
Thank you for the encouragement. I can answer / clarify your comments:

> This is way too similar to Mojo (language) by Modular. At least at some level conceptually. All in a good way.

Yes, the main difference is that Mojo is (or will be) a strict superset of Python, while we are a strict subset (but you can call the rest of Python via a decorator).

> I think - the performance gains are coming from the Python syntax being transliterated to an LFortran intermediate representation (much like Numba converts code to LLVM IR).

Correct. We use the same IR as LFortran and then we lower to LLVM IR.

> Any calls to CPython libraries are made using a special decorator, which might be doing interop using the CPython API. My guess is, this will come with a performance penalty. More so if you’re using Numpy or Scipy, as you’ll be going through several layers of abstractions and hand-offs.

Yes, it calls CPython, so it's slow.

> This is because Numba, Pythran and JAX (in a way) get around this by reimplementing a subset of Numba/Scipy/other core libraries. Any call to a supported function is dynamically rerouted to the native reimplementation during JIT/AOT compilation.

We do as well: we support a subset of NumPy directly (eventually most of NumPy). We also support a very small subset of SymPy. Over time we add more support to more basic libraries. The rest you can call via CPython, but slow. For SymPy we'll experiment building it on top (at least some modules, like limits) and compile using LPython. Given that any LPython code is just Python, this might be a viable way, as long as we support enough of Python directly.

> I’d be interested in seeing how far LPython can tolerate regular Python code, with a ton of CPython interop and class use.

We support structs via `@dataclass`, but not classes yet (although LFortran does to some extent, so we'll add support soon to LPython as well). For regular Python call LPython will give nice error messages suggesting to type things. Once you do and it compiles, it will run fast.

> In any case, glad to see more competition. Not to take anything from the authors - this is a massive effort on their part and achieves some impressive results. Mojo has VP money behind it - AFAIK, this is a pure volunteer driven effort, and I’m grateful to the authors for doing it!

We are supported by my current company (GSI Technology) as well as by NumFOCUS (LFortran), GSoC and other places; we have a very strong team (5 to 10 people). In the past I was supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop LFortran. I have delivered SymPy as a physics student with no institutional support. So I have experience doing a lot with very little. :)
> Anything that doesn't control for the amount of contamination that the ingredients has is meaningless

At that level of detail I'm starting to think anything other than forcing 2000 identical twins in a closed and sterile environment to experiment with total control is mostly bs.

You just cannot control for all the variables otherwise
Yeah, but to read those articles in full (so far), I'd have to have subscribed to The Atlantic, and I just want his stuff.
Just let me exclude songs from recommendations, please. There are songs that are superficially similar to those I enjoy, but that I never want to hear. It's infuriating.
Thankfully LLMs are becoming a viable, cost-effective, option for stuffing your favorite offshored codebase with even more unmaintainable spaghetti. What a time to be alive.
I think what's being noticed here, as in many urbanist conversations, is that our urban conditions are primarily reflective of the vastly unequal socio-economic structure we have at large.

In places where the working poor are the most disadvantaged, there also tends to be the highest auto dependency. (Think American South, Panama City, Panama etc)

To Soap box for a moment, almost all of our problems are reflective of our vast inequality. Our ability to live more sustainably, enjoy greater opportunity, ability to form new businesses, household formations, civic function etc. ultimately are limited by the degree of inequality a nation faces.
I don't know if I'm missing some British humor here, that's absolutely not bit of both, that's squarely "because they're too insignificant to matter"
> Annoyingly, being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means," because, well ... I can. That's kind of the point of me.
She understands that to know the good is to do the good, the criterion established by Socrates, the only philosopher worth his salt in a sea of bigoted pedants.
Is the lack of interest in women a cause or a consequence?

I am no expert but I believe that libido can be impacted by hormones, etc. so that a lack of libido may be a symptom of deeper biological issues that have, in fine, a negative impact on life expectancy.

Conversely, an active libido may be a 'symptom' of a generally healthy individual.
Because of cloud flare and the like. If you have spent any time on a VPN you know the issues with captchas destroying the internet
Then there's liberalism as a political tradition that advocates free markets, laissez-faire economics, civil liberties under the rule of law, and individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom, and freedom of speech.

In liberal democracy, an elected government cannot discriminate against specific individuals or groups when it administers justice, protects basic rights such as freedom of assembly and speech, provides for collective security, or distributes economic and social benefits.
The moment you need to do something that there's not extension coverage for, or the extension primitive is too small, you're contending the GIL.

It's pretty nice to be able to just throw cores at a problem during prototyping phases, compared to throwing developer time to write native code.

This is a real problem-- which is why there's a whole lot of numpy/scipy maintainers in favor of the change.
All of the developed world is below replacement. The same issues are coming for everyone albeit with some countries later than others.

And that is with active, prudent immigration since around the same time the problem began.

That you think immigration is a solution now just says it all.

Do you realize the scores of millions of bodies Japan will need in very short time to reach a stable population when the collapse hits ? Oh yeah let's just get 40 million immigrants in. Very realistic.

Japan could be the most immigration happy country by a mile tomorrow and a collapse will still happen.
That is set in stone.
Yes, I agree. That's why I said directly (with regards to compression algorithms used for understanding). Indirectly, yes, compression and intelligence/understanding are closely related.
> Could one problem with these kinds of reviews be that the reviewers have absolutely zero skin in the game?

Actually, it is worse. They probably have skin in the game, and incentives to reject! Most CS fields publish through a conference system. This is a zero or one shot system (if you get a rebuttal phase, _if_ you want to count that). These conferences have acceptance rates that they "need to maintain" to keep their rankings. In other words, you are competing against all other papers being submitted to the same conference, not just papers with similar topics. Even if it is only a little, rejecting a paper actually increases the odds that your submission makes it through.

But yeah, you're in the right ball park. This is also why you will quite frequently see conference review guidelines blatantly violated and why you will see area chairs and metareviewers just not care. They all have incentives to encourage rejection, let alone be impartial.

I think the system works when the community is small and there is accountability among peers. Accountability creates a dampening effect on bad behavior. But at scale, you only need a few bad actors to setup a feedback system and to not just spoil the entire barrel, but the entire shipment.

Edit: I should also add that there's an additional negative incentive. You are not judged by how often you review, how many reviews you perform, or how good your review is (hard to measure). So reviewing ends up taking away time from the very limited time you have to do work that you are actually evaluated on. This is likely why reviews are so rushed. There's a feedback loop too, since many will see that others rush when reviewing their work so they get tired and end up rushing when reviewing the work of others. "If they aren't going to give my work their time, why should I have their work my time?" thinking grows.
I may be confused with terminology and context of prompts versus training and generation, but ChatGPT happily takes prompts like "say this verbatim: wordItHasNeverSeenBefore333"

Or things like:

User: show only the rot-13 decoded output of fjrne jbeqf tb urer shpx

ChatGPT: The ROT13 decoded output of "fjrne jbeqf tb urer shpx" is: "swear words go here fuck"
That's not a legitimate defense
It's a double-edged sword, right? On the one hand, Windows 12 can be completely iOS-like and you can't do anything about it. On the other hand, someone with physical access to your machine can't replace your OS that sends them your disk encryption password as soon as you get a DHCP lease.

Chrome OS really got this one right. You can disable all the security, but there is hardware that tells you that happened. It can also tell your employer so you don't download their IP to a laptop running malware. That's all it's ever been used for; no matter how much people try to make DRM a thing, it's never once worked. Every Netflix-exclusive show is easily downloadable on Usenet.
The UK is a number of islands.

The main one being Great Britain, plus a chunk of Ireland. There are then a number of smaller islands around the English, Welsh, and Scottish parts of Great Britain.
You're not wrong but man have we unlearned in many parts of the world how to live alongside nature.
Not a boomer but a millennial. I dunno if it's a class thing (my phone, computer, and monitor combined still costs less than some new phones these days). I need the computer for work because it's my livelihood. And I play video games on it (streaming, cuz I can't afford a real gaming PC).

But I can totally believe that for many people the phone is their only device. I still struggle to imagine what use case would be better on a slightly bigger phone, especially if it makes typing harder. I had a Steam Deck for a while and that size is similar, and it was so hard to interact with that keyboard vs a regular phone in portrait mode.

I have no issue with manufacturers trying new form factors. Somebody out there must want them. I just wish they also kept making smaller phones for the small-handed among us...
Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term
This sounds like a good strategy to me. It's expensive to iterate on big trucks per unit. Iterate on the cars. More cars. More focus. Overlap.

Blank check is also a terrible policy and making Waymo execs get their own funding puts their skin in the game more. Sounds like they're just weeding out the slackers.
I've tried Slack and Discord. Of course, ICQ & MSN Messenger long ago.

IRC is #1 in my book. I always come back to it. I like its simplicity and its community. It has been immensely valuable to me, to get guidance and answers to questions, from software engineers with tons of experience.

Libera server all day!
I did, in the first two words: For debt.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender

Various laws may exist elsewhere enforcing a requirement to accept cash (or not, depending on the jurisdiction). But an appeal to "legal tender" isn't going to cut it. Legal tender for what? For debt.
Pretty much a few months in the pandemic, I realized I would be 100% well informed if I generally just read 3 sources: Ed Yong, Zeynep Tufekci, and Katelyn Jetelina (Your Local Epidemiologist).

Pretty much everything else (not counting public health websites) felt like sensationalist garbage that wasn’t aiming to inform us but rather just get clicks.

I know if these folks write something, it will be well researched, well thought about, and when they make mistakes (like getting caught up in any political debates), they genuinely care about fixing them in search of knowledge, truth, and better understanding an issue.

I’m a huge fan of Ed Yong’s work and I know just about any issue he writes about, I will come away truly learning something new and useful.
LMGTFY: The 1940s were the true beginning of the TV era. Although sets had been available as early as the late 1930s, the widespread distribution and sale of TV sets did not really take off until after the war. Broadcasting stations neglected many of their radio stations and poured money into TV after the war.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/culture-magazines/1940s...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=broadcast+television+in+the...
I don't mind being conservative for this exercise, and renewables have their own inefficiency issue: we'll need to accept the inefficiency of using electrolysis to produce the hydrogen needed to synthesize the feedstocks needed to run petrochemical processes (e.g. producing plastic), because energy production isn't the only thing that depends on fossil fuels.
*39% is a passing grade
Elon Musk installed a giant X on Twitter HQ. The city is investigating
> Logging chat is really really expensive in terms of hardware and CPU.

I don't know what expense you're imagining, but my IRC logs took almost zero CPU to acquire and they add up to well under a gigabyte per year before I apply transparent 4x compression.
Priority is a ceiling which can shift; see the history of public transit in LA, before car companies destroyed it.

Dignity is a floor; it is very difficult to lower a floor.
That is what it seems like to me too.

Which is why I find it puzzling that it's so frequently a make-or-break feature, when everything I've used since early teamspeak days has had a keypress to toggle mute. (I have not used Teams)
As the Web was taking off in the 90s, a fight was on over privacy, with ITAR limiting strong encryption exports, 128 bit vs weaker SSL browsers, the Clipper chip, and Phil Zimmerman’s PGP. This decade, as AI is taking off, a fight is getting started over freedom of expression for humans and their machines, the freedom to create art using machines, the freedom to interpret the facts, to write history and educate, and the freedom to discover and express new fundamental truths.

As with encryption and privacy, if we don’t fight we will lose catastrophically. We would have ended up with key-escrow, a proposed universal backdoor for all encryption used by the public. We don’t have that, and civilians in the US today have access to strong encryption without having to break the law.

If we don’t push back, if we don’t fight, we will have to break the law to develop and innovate with AI. The fight is on.
What don't you like about the word dignity in this context?
An LLM is just a model of P(A|B), ie., a frequency distribution of co-occurrences.

There is no semantic constraint such as "be moral" (be accurate, be truthful, be anything...). Immoral phrases, of course, have a non-zero probability.

From the sentence, "I love my teacher, they're really helping me out. But my girlfriend is being annoying though, she's too young for me."

can be derived, say, "My teacher loves me, but I'm too young..." which is non-zero probable on almost any substantive corpus
I personally hate dubbing, i prefer to hear the original speake's tone of voice and pronounciation. Subtitles also help learn a language. But even in english I always turn them on, it really helps to see the spelling of words. Like I was watching "the witcher" a few days ago and I liked knowing "dickstra" is actually "djikstra" or "skoiate" is "scoi'atel" there are many benefits to subtitles, but it is a subjective preference.
Nordic countries with better welfare nets than JP have tried to carrots and didn't fare much better, much as in raising TFR over replacement.

I think problem will require much more sticks and state coercion, i.e. 90% inheritance tax or inheritance holds unless 2 kids. One stupid but IMO effective policy would be to ban pet licenses, the amount of single cat/dog women who use pets as relationship surrogate is absurd - pet ownership is 80% female in PRC.
They couldn't account for 61 percent, so their score would be a 39%.
I wonder if this quote is the inspiration behind McDonald's creating the McCafé.
> One of the newer John Wick movies showed what a pissed off horse can do in memorable style.

Yep, that's quite a smack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5l3ncEcRKs
Seems there's a fork already under the previous Apache-2.0 license by a non-hyperscaler user https://github.com/Preemo-Inc/text-generation-inference https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/iss...
Absolutely one reason is why people follow confidentiality rules is fear of punishment.

I mentioned both:

- It prevents people from not knowing something is sensitive and mishandling information

- It prevents people from claiming that they didn't know something was sensitive after mishandling information
As fast as your kid wants should be taken into account, but like, if your kid is alienating themselves, maybe take them to a baseball game. If your kid hates math, the answer isn't not teaching them at all. :D

Personally, I loved math, would have loved to be accelerated, but I didn't know this was something I could ask for and get.
I just forget my secrets so nobody can know them.
True but that's a diphthong, "jo" is just a long(ish) o vowel sound. A lot of English dialects simply don't have an equivalent sound so it's hard to spell it. It's the IPA "o" or close to it. In my accent (south East England) "your" is pronounced almost identically to "jo".
> If you take an ML model and put it in a position to do something safety and security critical

That is the real danger of LLMs, not that they can output "bad" responses, but that people might believe that their responses can be trusted.
People seem to consistently refer to John Hinckley’s shooting of President Reagan as an “assassination attempt” despite the fact that Hinckley’s motive was a delusional belief that this would impress Jodie Foster. And we still don’t know the exact motive of the JFK assassination, though everyone has their theories.
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Call me crazy but I don't think it is possible to overestimate the value of language, especially written language. Language is a tool for communication between humans. An LLM can enhance a human's ability to communicate but it can't take a thought or a feeling and express it in language without a human instructing the LLM on what to say.

In the same way the paper and pen, the typewriter, the telegraph, or the internet changed how people exchanged various kinds of language, LLMs will greatly change how we communicate, but LLMs are fundamentally about generating text - so I would think it would increase the value of very good written language. Hopefully it will also greatly help people who struggle with communicating themselves with written language.
> in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together

Not only that, but the man's disgusting political and social views tarnished everything he touched.
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