skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kids are great, but there's a reason we don't allow them to make major decisions.

At this point I would rather have kids in British parliament than the current lot.

> BRICS can take advantage of cheaper fossil fuels

This scaremongering is getting out of hand.

I just watched a BBC news broadcast about "how will the world get off coal if this family in the global south needs it to cook their food?" as if this miniscule consumption of coal is in any way comparable to out demands for energy and oil.

>90% of world's electric buses run in China. In UK, the train between 2 biggest cities runs on diesel because it doesn't have access to electricity. If you use an electric scooter in London instead of a car, the police will confiscate it and if they want to, they could charge you with driving without insurance (of course they cannot be insured). You would get a criminal record.

Every 6 months Daily mail writes an article about how bicycle riders have killed all the grandmas, and police get's out at Hyde Parks and start checking motor power of ebike motors and confiscating them. But we are still waiting for them to investigate a machete attach in our neighbourhood.

Just this month a car has maimed 3 people inside a building, and no one cares. Last month a Land rover ploughed into a school and sent 8 kids to the hospital and 1 to the morgue. If you kill someone with a car, you might not even go to prison.
Sounds more like corporate-fueld corruption than "people seeming happy with suicidal plans".
German manufacturing output is 90% higher than it was 20 years ago. Your worldview is seriously askew.
Which folder contains the .MD files?
I hate driving into Billings. Huge oil refinery or something right next to I94. Smells like poison.

Edit: found this link
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=MT#:~:text=Montan....
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not doing anything that calls itself 'zero to hero'. Would love some good resources (preferably textbook, or at least written) on LLMs though. I don't even understand the link to 'generative' image/video AI, which seems to have exploded at roughly the same time and surely isn't a coincidence.

I studied a little (literally 'intro to') ML at university, about enough to grok it as an application of stats, tie into things seen elsewhere, but not really more than that.

Every supposéd tutorial or explainer I've seen posted here or been able to find has been a weird (IMO) mix if simultaneously assuming a decent (at least greater than mine) ML background, but also really dumbed down clone this repo download that model switch between them like this, fine-tune them by cd'ing to this directory and ... Ok but what's actually going on?
I'm still struggling with my energy bill, racked up thousands in debt apparently when everything went bust... going to take a long time to clear this.
I figured the legislature prohibited considering greenhouse gas emissions in a roundabout way, but nope... From the law itself (emphasis mine):

> (2) (a) Except as provided in subsection (2)(b), an environmental review conducted pursuant to subsection (1) may not include an evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions and corresponding impacts to the climate in the state or beyond the state's borders.

Context: Subsection (1) just defines the general what and why of an environmental impact statement. Subsection (2)(b) gives only two exceptions: If the project is being done jointly with a federal agency and the federal agency requires it, or if congress amends the Clean Air Act to define carbon dioxide as a regulated pollutant.

Source: https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/HB0971.pdf
Looking back on the worst blackout in North America
I think the idea is that it’s easy to filter the result set to restrict to just valid JSON.
Not only that this looks like a toy.
Sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day will wreck your body too, don’t worry about that.

The happiest I’ve been in my life is spending about 2-3 hours a day at a desk. It’s a shit life but we don’t see it like that coz we love sitting on our ass.
ChatGPT versus the Human Voice in Literature
From the early days Vox and sites like Polygon and TheVerge were pretty open and proud about their custom CMS and publishing platform. It is pretty surprising to see them abandon Chorus. Also interesting that they think Coral, a tolerable-at-best comments platform, is appealing for other customers.

A glimpse at the recent history of Chorus as a stand-alone product: https://product.voxmedia.com/chorus
Montana also has a lot of coal reserves, which I assume they use some in state for power production. It’s funny because Montana also has lots of hydro.
Has enormous coal mines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_River_Basin
They have a large amount of cattle. Just read an article in the FT (would link but on mobile) about Ireland looking to cull 200k cows to help balance their methane emissions.
Such a license wouldn't be compatible with the Open Source Definition, but they could encourage cultural and other practices to enable sustainable FOSS production. The GPL is hard enough to get people to comply with and not outright ignore, Ethical Source licenses like what you suggest are going to have an even harder time enforcing compliance.
What they mean is code review prior to merging into what you'd call main or trunk or master or release, not for committing your WIP changes or whatever (unless you want those merged at that stage).
Agile/Scrum/etc are not meant to be positive for developers. They are meant to control developers.
Germany's a pretty extreme case.

You have to be some kind of economic stupid to shut down your nuclear reactors, plan your country completely migrate its energy sources in a few decades, and then rely on piped Russian natural gas to fill transition energy needs (with no seaborne natural gas terminals!).
Well, we existed for 10's of thousands of years before we ate bread, so yea not 30 years, but like a long time.
> Why isn't it possible to design LLMs that say "I don't know"?

You have to have an understanding of ‘I’ before you can make that judgement.
Join the discord and like talk to them... They're real human people.
Well, I've done both, and I've found parenting harder. I guess that's just my take.

Were you raising children or just "homemaking", which doesn't necessarily imply childcare?

You really can't think of any activities/interest people pursue that you can't do while toting a 2 year old with you? That's something I didn't think would require enumerating.
Anybody know why there doesn't exist a complete implementation? What makes the hardest portions so difficult to implement compared to the rest?
Ah the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’

Several people have stumbled upon Ferula Drudeana in Turkey and remarked upon the similarities.

It was a plant that could not be cultivated with ancient methods.

This is the third independent discovery I can remember in the last decade.
These are some great suggestions, now I feel spoiled by choice! If I told you I was most interested in anecdotes and hard-learned lessons from leaders in the space, which would you say most applies?

Thanks!
An American living in exile in Russia isn't free.
Internet Shutdowns
In my state UT is highly ranked nationally for many programs and estimated costs are $33k/yr to study engineering, or $130k total(source: https://admissions.utexas.edu/cost-aid/cost-tuition-rates/). That's for a great school in one of the most expensive cities in the state.

The largest component of that is $13k living expenses which you would spend anyway if not attending. If you want lower living costs you can attend a non-prestigious university in a smaller town like I did with lower tuition and noticeably lower living costs. Combine this with taking AP classes and CLEP tests in high school and using community college in the summer for the worthless "common core" college credits and the savings are much larger. You don't have to spend $200k!
Kiva seems more focused on selling good feelings than truly caring for those on the other side.

That is case for 99% of non profits.

I do not know if this is a new trend in US or it was always like that.

My opinion is that this is a human nature. I grew up under communism, where, despite the prevalent notion of equality (or whatever), party leaders often enjoyed disproportionate wealth and luxuries like seaside homes.
> Prior to Agile delivery, updates came once every 3 or 4 years and software languished in-between releases. If software shipped with a bug, that bug stayed around for a long time, unless it was lucky enough to get fixed in a service pack

It still would if you had to go print CDs. The internet changed all that of course. Now we have a business model based on continuous sales (like app stores instead of big launches) and subscriptions.
I’d play this
Engineering output doesn't even scale close to linearly, though. You _might_ grow revenue 1.5x but now you have 3x as much code/system and need 6-9x as the engineering headcount.

We probably just took a nice small/medium profitable business and completely fucked it.
Good speakers survive playing at 1.5X
It follows the arc of most things including Quora and somewhat generally other popular ventures like Snap, Facebook, MySpace, AOL/AIM, and CompuServe. The initial Cambrian explosion slowly changes from cool obscurity to hype as time goes on and the shine fades.

There's also a supply and demand problem of double-ended Q&A sites: there's rarely direct incentives to give away subject matter expertise. There are indirect incentives such as reputation, but behind nicknames, this doesn't necessarily translate into industry reputation. Furthermore, there are potential human language and subject matter terminology difficulties of throwing geographically-, and industry-diverse groups of users together. The platform should attempt to ameliorate language differences and steer user-contributed content away from devolving into ego battles, bikeshedding, nitpicking, or handwaving.
LLMs work by outputting a value for each token, then using those values to generate a probability distribution. Usually, this will be through a function like softmax [0], but there's nothing preventing you from doing some post-processing first. That post processing could be aware of the tokens that would be valid as the next token in a JSON format, and set the probabilities of all other tokens to zero. That way, even if the training data contains malformed JSON, the generator is still constrained to produce valid JSON.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function
This one is for babies. But I think it will suit any curious adult.

https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9781465491022-the-physics-book/
I have taught a course on quantum computing a few times, mostly to CS students who have no background in quantum mechanics. The way I proceed is to

* First introduce classical reversible computation. I model it using linear algebra, meaning classical n-bit states are 2^n length binary vectors, and the gates are 2^n x 2^n binary matrices acting on theses states. Exponential, yes, but a faithful model. The critical feature here is that you already need the tensor product structure. Rather than some unique feature of quantum.

* Introduce probabilistic classical computation. Now the states/vectors have real entries in [0,1] and obey the L1 norm (the critical feature). Similarly, the gate matrices.

* Now, argue that quantum computing just requires the same linear algebriac structure but we (1) work over the complex number field, (2) norm is L2.

The reason I like this development is that it takes at least some of the mystery out of quantum mechanics. It is not a strange model of computation, completely divorced from classical. Just a variant of it, that happens to be the one the universe runs on.

Peter Shor does discuss classical computation in two lectures, but from just the notes it seems detached from the rest of the course.
Yea, I was initially thinking they were dropping their CMS in favor of WP, but it looks more like the partnership is more about selling Vox tech on WP’s platform.
prediction is an essential part. basically between the state you have + the inputs from the sensors you generate a prediction. this prediction is compared to the "real world" and the state is adjusted until the prediction matches the output.
Wouldn't being underwater make you slower just due to the extra resistance of water vs air?
Still doesn't seem interesting. Companies change over time, with turnover and all. The people that were involved with those early decisions are likely not there anymore, and that's one of any possible reasons behind such a priority shift...
Regulation absolutely is a solution that should be pursued. Companies are responsible for what their automated services do. Your two examples are absurd red harrings and not at all comparable to this situation.
I felt the same, SWE with 20 years experience. Absolutely none of this is relevant to anything I’ve been paid to do for my whole career.

If someone on my team was doing things this unusually they’d probably be let go.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37128205
Typescript's unsoundness isn't a good thing, but it is way down the list of type-unsafe things inherent in the Boschian nightmare that is frontend development.

Compile-to-JS languages add a big impedance mismatch when you inevitably need to use JS libs. Typescript's JS + types philosophy helps with this issue (it still sucks though).
We’re considering adopting DBT or a similar tool for the orchestration of our data pipelines on Snowflake. But we also explored Snowflake Dynamic Tables, and they make it easy to build a complex DAG without having to describe it.

I’m curious if data warehouse features like materialized views or dynamic tables will end up making DBT or the like obsolete?

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/dynamic-tables-abou...
I have experienced nitrogen narcosis before. It was like getting drunk very fast, including the room spinning. I hugged myself and ascended maybe 2-4m above the rest of the group and got back to normal pretty quickly after that and was able to continue to the dive.
We've been studying humans for thousands of years and are no closer to answering those questions for them. Why do you think we'd have an answer for these newfangled AI agents?
Rc is reference counting, which is garbage collection, although not tracing garbage collection. Though optimizing RC throughput tends to involve deferral (and optimising tracing latency tends to involve more upfront work on the mutator) <https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2012-4610/reading/bacon-...>
While I strongly disagree with the length of copyright protection, after reading this and reading more about the case, from a purely legal perspective, I just don't see how IA has any defense. They basically just seem to be saying "these are old records, so we should be able to copy them. Also, our work is mainly for academic researchers." My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don't see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.

Would appreciate it if folks would abstain from responding with how the record companies are greedy bastards, or how the IA is doing great work, or how copyright protection has strayed from its original goals of encouraging innovative new works to become a victim of rent-seeking behavior, or that the law itself is unjust here. All of that I wholeheartedly agree with. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm just interested in trying to understand if they have any legal defense that isn't going to get laughed out of court.
Think of how stupid the average 16 year old is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
It is an idea that many floated as soon as Greta turned up in the news.

They didn't like the message, so they decided to attack her rather than the ideas. Use some media based pareidolia and they had a conspiracy to make the world seem right again.

It is easier to attack the person and the ideas of climate change, to stay pure in ideals and intent, than to accept dirty truth that we the people may have had any influence on the world that is even vaguely negative.
Yeah, the NEL will probably go down as one of the dumbest decisions in Internet history. The IA got away with a lot of stuff and then just decided throwing out all semblance of copyright credibility was the right call, for some reason. That's a cat they can't put back in the bag either, as long as the same people are running the show there's no reason to believe the IA won't do future stunts either.
I use ChatGPT for similar. I can spend time looking into various languages/libraries I don't use often and figure it out. Or I can ask an LLM and have an answer I can validate in the same amount of time I start browsing search results.
Well, that seems extremely reckless, but good job on not crashing and severely injuring your children I guess. Maybe we're thinking of different types of mountain biking.

And this is also a reason why listing specifics is a fools errand(which makes me a fool), because in the multitude there will always be someone who said "actually I did that and everything turned out fine".

I smoked crack while pregnant, and my kid went to Harvard. See, no issues there.
While agriculture makes up a larger percentage of Montana‘a economy industry overall is significantly lower as is the GDP per capita.

In terms of total GDP for each, Agriculture really doesn’t explain the discrepancy. What does is mostly transportation and heavy use of coal (44% vs 7%). Montana for example see a lot of out of state trucks cross the state. America is often praised for its rail network but it’s underutilized when you consider our geography and transportation needs.
With options, timing is essential.
No, see the earlier Axios article: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus

> Details: Vox Media will move its own websites off of Chorus and into WordPress VIP, the enterprise arm of the 20-year-old CMS company.
The biggest willful misuse of the "open source" phrase seem to come from those who haven't internalised the sentence "Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation".

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
The IA managed for years to cruise under the radar by mostly hosting things no publisher or label cared about and removing it if someone did care. But now that the ant’s nest is kicked up it’s easy to imagine a lot of things are now seen as fair game.
What a fascinating read, thanks for sharing that link.
Which is a grand total of a maximum of $275/week in my state.
You said Montana should declare war on China.

I can do things to make my state better, China is distant and far more powerful than even the Big Sky state.
Cataracts are fairly treatable, no?
I agree... you need discipline either way. It's just easier to wind up not realizing that you don't need to spend so much time on up-front optimization with Rust to produce a perfectly serviceable program. (Especially if you haven't internalized the whole "fearless refactoring" angle.)
Sure! So it’s hopefully clear that the notion of constrained grammar is not novel (see every comment on here of people name-dropping their implementation from two months ago).

The novelty here is “instead of checking whether every token is allowed” to create a finite state machine that defines which tokens are allowable at each generation step. This lets them not check every token at every step.

The trick of creating an FSM to efficiently check next-token grammar is what allowed FlashText to run circles around standard regex stuff. Even FlashText guy acknowledged the shoulders he stood on, etc.

Let’s be super clear here, none of these standards apply when you’re building good ole libraries. But putting out a paper really elevates what you’re on the hook for. Most folks that write papers are dying to acknowledge the shoulders they stand on - it’s part of the toxic humility we all engage in.

Again - shill OSS all day - I’ll upvote it.
I don't know about you but when I was five I was busied myself by picking my nose and playing my gameboy.
If given a soapbox I would probably voice something to the effect of being allowed to do the former with unlimited access to the later.

I suspect there may be a reason in that in the present (and past) children really don't get the final say on anything really.

Edit: I responded to your pre-edit comment. I don't live in the city, have any debts, etc. nor am I child so I don't know the social state they are in.
Funny how because these are "donation" and "lobbying" but not "bribe" there is no consequence for the receiving party and also no recuperation of the money.
We had a similar document that we had developed over time which I believe pre-dated this one. Ours may even have been the inspiration upon which this one was based.

For me, by that time AOL had become a sufficiently toxic place that we came to a mutual agreement that it was time for me to leave.

If it hadn't been for that, I would never have gotten a chance to work at Collective Technologies, where we had more O'Reilly authors on staff than any other company in the world!
That errors out when a library is missing, Soni figure out where to get it, how to install it and rerun configure, just to see something else is missing. And that then leads to a version conflict and then I mess.... only works well for projects with few dependencies and especially no uncommon dependencies.
This is a little meta but: it's great how you predicted a possible unproductive line of discussion that might result from your question and headed it off with a clarification. Props for communications skills.

I'm also a little sad that this disclaimer is even needed. I think it says something about how the character of HN has changed in the last ten years--there's no longer an assumption that the people on the other end of the wire assume curiosity and good will. There's a lot more heat here these days.
Microsoft is unlikely to _secretly_ do it, certainly; they would be sued into oblivion, and that’s before the EC gets to them (for GDPR enforcement grinds slow but exceeding fine, and also with exceedingly big fines). US regulators might also take an interest.

Also, modern Microsoft’s _whole thing_, more or less, is “we are your trusted enterprise partner who definitely won’t do bad stuff with the data you put in our cloud services”. They are unlikely to throw that away for a bit of flavour-of-the-month AI boosterism. Note that they’ve recently released a private ChatGPT thing; they can’t credibly acknowledge the problem with one hand and exploit it with the other.
Hayes Point (SF tower) construction suspended
How else would they have “skin in the game”?
> and having to reread everything—as a rebuild does—is a rather abnormal load.

Far from being an abnormal load, it should be a cron job. Backups need to be verified. Data at rest needs to be periodically checked for bitrot. Reading everything on the array and verifying parity and any checksums is important preventive maintenance and an early warning system.
Thats an interesting claim, do you have any details about how you found this out?
Oh, so, nothing satisfies you. I didn't say I was mountain biking. I was cycling on a mountain bike in city conditions because I only owned a mountain bike and I was happy to get some exercise that way.

But you want to insist I cannot be content with my life or if I am, I clearly must somehow be behaving badly.

You also cannot safely mountain climb while imbibing alcohol and any number of other things. Not everyone feels the need to do "reckless" things in order to feel content.
tech design meetings shouldn't have product.

and if this is a demo, then it should only really require stakeholders.

if the meeting is for product to share their vision or requirements, save the tech talk for later

its very tempting to get into the weeds of things, but this can be "parking lotted" as the kids say