skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a perfect example of why we should always consider the specific issue, as opposed to latching onto general concepts.

Religious writings’ sole purpose is to establish & promote a belief system, based on subjective values.

Anti-discrimination laws’ sole purpose is to dissolve the practice of belief systems that objectively cause interpersonal harm.

These are conceptual opposites in many ways. But if I generalize the concept “writing makes ideas immortal”, then I am able to conflate the two.
White man here, citizen of US. I actually think this could work to our long-term advantage. We get some laws passed that ban caste discrimination, not realizing that the same problems exist in other parts of US society and is not just a "SE Asia problem". And then eventually someone comes along and uses the caste discrimination laws creatively for some kind of civil rights / liberties win that is not related to SE Asia. I'm pretty sure that a fair amount of our civil rights / liberties progress came about through creative use of laws that were not expected to be used for that purpose.
No one is defending it. Being against the proposed legislation does not mean imply defending the practice. But the point is that the agenda of trying to fight so-called casteism comes from people who have little to no understanding of it, and what they are trying to do is to undermine a people as a whole, rather than the practice itself.
I am conflicted about prison labor. When I lived in SF I volunteered at Alcatraz and remember the things produced there in the distant past. Everyone has heard of license plates. I think labor for prisoners is a good thing if it produces something good for society.

However, in my opinion the conditions in American prisons are awful to bordering inhumane. America's penal system is grossly underfunded rendering most rehabilitation efforts meaningless. When the system is properly funded and managed I think labor will see a very meaningful component of that.
I really like this, it's such a fun idea and usually those never see the light of day so kudos for you to bring it to life, twice! Bringing your computer to a LAN was just annoying IMO.

I was curious maybe if you had some thoughts on the more social aspects of the project? Did you feel it made it easier to hang out on a whim for example?
In this particular case it didn’t save any clicks or do any highlighting that StackOverflow hadn’t already done. But even if it did save a little effort or time, which I could generally agree might have some value, I suspect it’s myopic to focus solely on the search effort. We lose something more important when AI inserts itself as the search engine; it prevents the searchers and the authors from having a conversation. Authors don’t get feedback, searchers can’t ask questions or follow up or seek out unrelated information from particularly knowledgeable or inspiring authors. I do want search to help me get to relevant and quality info, to sift out the things I wasn’t asking about, but I don’t want to trade my ability to interact with people for that or especially for slightly fewer mouse events. I’m also concerned about what happens when this starts to commodify after convincing people AI search is easier/faster… when ads and financial interests are allowed to guide the results — and that will happen — will it end up eventually being worse or harder to get true or relevant search results compared to StackOverflow or Google? Where do you go when the results don’t tell you where the information came from?
The community has fine-tuned some really good llama models (much better than llama-chat), but I get what you're saying.

I've been testing the best performing models on the huggingface leaderboard lately. Some of them are really impressive, and others are so bad that I second guess the prompt format or if the benchmarked model is actually the same one I'm testing.
They don't claim to be entirely open, and open isn't a regulated term regardless.
"Monetize but don't penalize" is one of the options for content holders on YouTube [1].

But in this case, the copyright strikes are for full episodes of the TV show Bewitched, which the copyright holder does care about and is currently selling for $1.99 per episode [2].

And I don't know about the whole mandatory licensing thing. There are certainly places where I would not want things I've written or photos I've taken to appear, even if they paid me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(system)

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.1ca9f72f...?
I mean, if we're talking television adaptations, the BBC Tinker and Smiley's People are hard to top; Alec Guinness is George Smiley.
>There’s probably quite a lot of complexity on the backend in sourcing the right model for the right query.

This isn't how Sparse MoE models work. There isn't really any complexity like that. And different models will or can pick each token.

Sparse models aren't an ensemble of models.
Protected categories = you can't refuse to hire someone because they're not white

Affirmative action = you can give someone an advantage in a hiring process because they're not white, with the intention of correcting historical discrimination

They are closely related in that they deal with race, gender, and class distinctions. But the ethics of the two are quite different. Banning discrimination by protected categories is uncontroversial. People have a lot more disagreements about affirmative action.
You're 100% correct. Google and Apple started this trend, and MS perfected it: just say you're creating "open source" products, but release a closed source version. These mega companies still benefit from the work of clueless software engineers who donate their time to the open source product, but what the mega corps deliver to end users is the closed source version.
But all your code is written in .svelte, a very much non-standard file format which undergoes compilation anyway..
On the floppy disk?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry

The point of this comment is that the telemetry is documented and able to be disabled.
Windows 95 has a monolithic kernel, which supports much, but not all, of the 32-bit NT API. It provides NT-style processes and 32-bit memory management (sort of), NT-style APIs for long file names (sort of), etc. There's also a lot of hacks, and no real kernel/userspace separation, for the extensive 16-bit compatibility. While most of the kernel itself runs in 32-bit protected mode, much of the OS was still 16-bit. That code runs in a 16-bit VM86 virtual machine, which is shared with 16-bit user application code, in a common address space. Sort of how Windows 3.x worked in 386 mode. There were procedures to call between 16 and 32 bit code, both in the kernel and in user applications. That shared address space with all the 16-bit code, is the source of a lot of the infamous instability. That dependency on that 16-bit mode is why it got called "DOS-based", similar to how Win 3.x worked in 386 mode. Part of the OS was still running in 16-bit mode, even if that 16-bit mode was being virtualized by a 32-bit protected mode kernel.
Museum, often, are 90% warehouse.

The idea that museums should have exhibitions and be open to the public was a later development.
It's the classic melting pot dissolving identities, making those depending on it for self worth super zealous.
Well it's relevant if you want to compare the model trained optimally using the same amount of compute and this one parameter-bound to see how much you're trading.
Pretty sure you're thinking of Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (understandable). Abrash was a developer on Quake and the GPBB has a couple of chapters on it at the end IIRC.

Whereas: this book was written by André LaMothe, who did not work on Quake. It predates Quake and AFAIK doesn't mention it.
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The problem is that it is already too late now. The fact that you have an API that can write text faster than a machine gun can empty its bullet belt… You don’t need all articles to be “hits”, when you are doing 1,000 per day… having 50-100 get regular clicks is already a net gain.

And this is going to make it so much harder for anyone new to become a successful blogger/writer because Google can always adjust the weighting of old sites vs new sites.

Why trust a new site when someone from a few years ago has the same article and is likely a much more reliable source?

I myself only browse “interesting” sites so bumping into AI content isn’t something I experience but I know it’s out there and it is out there in troves. Even Google News is overrun by sites that spin the same story 24 hours a day after it breaks, and it’s not being dealt with even though Google News policy says you can’t do that.
Another great article when a reporter went undercover. Private prisons are a vicious cycle of depravity.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-pri...
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Hey, Kenton! I had the honor of attending a few events at your house. How goes?

The gaming landscape has changed a lot in the last twelve years, and I'm now a Linux-first gamer. Are you considering trusting in Proton and using Linux as the primary OS for the new house?
Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Visual SourceSafe,
Looks much better than I expected. Hard to believe people are complaining about things this cool.
I find the fact that media keeps talking about cancer as one single disease unhelpful at best.

Look at what the title of the research article is: "Antioxidants stimulate BACH1-dependent tumor angiogenesis"

The researchers conclusion:
"We conclude that BACH1 is an oxygen- and redox-sensitive angiogenesis transcription factor."

Then compare how the author of the article put it.
I don't understand how educated people behave this way. I have seen this in illiterates but modern educated people behaving this way is absolutely mind boggling.
These books are famous for doing basically the opposite thing. I won't spoil the ending of this book, but, I mean, it couldn't really be clearer.
Yes, that race and gender are already protected classes, so discrimination against Asian men is banned.
But how much was manusmriti followed. I once believed l lower castes were not allowed to get education. But that was false. Dharmpal has clearly shown lower castes were well educated. Though discrimination might be stil there.

>in which it had been assumed that education of any sort in India, till very recent decades, was mostly limited to the twice-born amongst the Hindus, and amongst the Muslims to those from the ruling elite.

The actual situation which is revealed was different, if not quite contrary, for at least amongst the Hindus. It was the groups termed Shudras, and the castes considered below them who predominated in the thousands of the then still-existing schools in practically each of these areas

https://www.indica.today/reviews/dharampals-the-beautiful-tr...

https://www.amazon.in/BEAUTIFUL-TREE-DHARAMPAL/dp/8175310952
Could you try to explain how?

Do you generally oppose all race/gender/etc. based anti discrimination laws?
> You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons.

That's true. It's also true that there are plenty of professional contexts where people have to work together regardless of their personal feelings toward each other. Sometimes lives depend on it.
Ultimately, what is an API but a domain-specific language? This article could well have been written about that.

People often talk about Lisp as a language in which people specify DSLs, but that acronym was something I only encountered outside the Lisp community. The way it always felt to me was that I "simply" designed a set of datastructures and operations around the abstractions and metaphors of the problem domain and then manipulated them to solve my problem. Isn't that the essence of programming in any language?
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This is literally what the MIT license is for: it lets people take the source code, modify it, and then distribute that. As a paid product even, if that's what you want to do.

This isn't fraud, this is literally MS going "here's the MIT licensed version, and here's our own variant of that, based on obeying that license." And then they go one step further and say "We're not going to tell you that only our product exists, we are explicitly telling you where to get the MIT licensed source code, which isn't even an MIT license requirement".

This is exactly what good open source practices look like.
Your law will not and cannot stop it. The whole agenda is just a tool used by politicians to manipulate voters.
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For now. Who knows how long it be before it only runs against a signed Microsoft VSCode binary?
Industrial-scale copy-pasta is definitely a concern I have around LLMs, though in practice I'm not sure it'll actually be _so_ much worse than it is now. Consider, for instance, one team that aims to have good test coverage and productive code reviews, and one that doesn't, and assume that on both teams there are some developers who carelessly copy-paste whatever the LLM spits out. I suspect that the first team will still end up doing pretty well, whereas the latter will get more terrible. So one outcome might be a greater delta between teams these two types of teams, with the takeaway being that in the new AI world, practices around code testing and reviewing are more important than ever.
> Under that opinion, is it equally fair to ignore the law...

Law is not this simple. What the layperson understands as "the law" is what is written in statutes. To a lesser extent they understand case law is a thing. Case law is the interpretation of statutes by judges and juries ruling on cases. A judge or jury can "ignore" the law. By ignoring it, that becomes "the law".

"The law" is a matter of statutes, case law, prosecutor's opinion, judge's opinion, and popular opinion. As we age, we learn more about what is acceptable in society based on all these things.

Jury nullification can be a reflection of popular opinion. It is equally as flawed as any other aspect of society and government that forms "the law".
The title is overly broad. They mean a very specific set of infrastructure automation related DSL

I tend to agree on that point. I think CDK and related approaches are much easier. I also find just writing SDK based scripts faster and more reliable. I find very little advantage in things like Terraform, despite my driving a few megacorps to adopt it. (Listen, in my defense, I couldn’t sell the idea of just scripting things, and generally they were repurposing admins who had no programming experience and had a mental block against learning a real language - but somehow a configuration file like language was ok)

However I’ve written a ton of DSLs in my life. They’re always useful, because I write them when I find it cumbersome to not. The broad statement about DSL is of course absurd. However at one point in my life I built a system that made it easy to write DSLs in a monorepo, and it was a huge mistake. Everyone wrote dsls everywhere and you constantly encountered code in some weird language that you had to reverse engineer. So, there’s a DSL entropy principle to be aware of - DSLs are useful if they are bounded. But like anything too much of a good thing ain’t
Gotcha yeah that makes sense. It's as good a plan as any I've heard, trying to make like a walled biodome. What are you thinking about doing for fertilizer? Fish systems?
The files are named '.svelte' because each one encapsulates the relevant Javascript, HTML, and styles.

But why do you want the vdom exactly? Like, what does it give you? Seems like its presence is more an implementation detail of a framework than something a user of the framework would want, no?
I mean, until puberty is there really that much of a difference in muscle development?
Vitamin D deficiency isn’t great, but the health influencer industry really blew this out of proportion. The number of people taking excessive doses because they think more is better is getting scary.

You don’t need a lot of Vitamin D to avoid deficiency. Taking even 5000 IU for an extended period of time can cause Vitamin D excess.

Vitamin D confuses a lot of people because it accumulates over a very long time period. You can take the same dose every day but not approach overdose range for a year or more. It builds up if you’re taking too much, and there is a lot of overlap between “too much” and some of the regimens pushed by health influencers.
The Octopus is the de facto transport pass in Hong Kong (well, it's started by the major transport companies) and commonly used in many shops, it's also used by some for building access.

Octopus takes an 1.5% cut, I'm not sure if it applies to the founding transport companies but I assume the money will flow back to them anyway.

Recently, some transport services started incorporating Chinese e-wallets like Alipay and WeChat Pay which utilizes QR codes, and the agony of seeing people (mainly Chinese tourists) repeatedly scan and fail at the gates blocking the whole queue during rush hours is quite depressing after years of smooth access.

Cheers.
Why do you feel attacked? You aren't your ideas, and in this case you had a bad idea.

You said that people not having an IDE was "bridge too far" meaning that people should always have them. We already had examples of where that simply isn't true so your idea was demonstrated as wrong. Own it get a better idea and move on. I certainly had until I went through my past comments looking for childiah arguments and found one.
As a kid growing up in pre-computer/internet era, we did a bunch of things to engage our curiosity and learn and have fun. But in today's world with access such rich content at your fingertips, it's all very different. These days I spend hours watching interesting stuff on Youtube in the comforts of my bedroom. But I do miss the learnings I would have had through engagement with fellow students in an actual physical tour. So, I would say, do best of both worlds.
Is it really your local authoritarian government, or your local/city/state government bowing to your neighbours' (admittedly immoral) desires?
With the UHK I am already having difficulty typing directly on my MacBook. With the ortholinear this might only make switching back and forth harder. But it is intriguing.
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People of a certain age will remember the GEICO ad, "Collect call from Bob...Wehadababyitsaboy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
I just went through 6 cycles of 5-day IV chemotherapy (AIM) and I fasted for all of them, for a total of over 35 days of water-only fasting during the last 5 months. I can’t find the PubMed link right now but there were small studies that looked like healthy cells would go into kind of a suspend/preserve mode that lessened side effects, whereas cancer cells still experienced the intended cytotoxicity. I tolerated the treatments quite well, lost hair of course but only vomited twice during the whole time. Lost weight each time but was able to put it back on quickly during the following week for each cycle, though I do want to watch body composition (don’t want to trade muscle for fat).

Did it make a difference in effectiveness? I actually have my follow up scans tomorrow to find out. As you can imagine, I really really hope so.

https://news.usc.edu/29428/fasting-weakens-cancer-in-mice/
I switched to vscodium two years ago and I haven't had any problems
KVM automatically overprovisions memory. Probably other hypervisors do it too.

The utilization numbers only show that a particular administrator doesn't know how to use technology X, but knows better how to use technology Y or that the defaults in technology Y happen to work better for a particular benchmark (and the administrator doesn't know how to use either X or Y).

I believe that the later is usually the case. Compounded by laziness and lack of real financial incentive to optimize every last bit of the existing infrastructure.

The situation will, however, flip on its head if you want to build a reliable high-performance system. In this case Kubernetes will be an impendiment. Nothing it does it does well or can be optimized / configured to do well. When push comes to shove, you'll have to either get rid of Kubernetes, or lose the race.
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I think there is a case to be made against it. What is the difference between this and people allying up against any other perceived outsider? Which is something that I would say is wrong, but isn't something I believe should be illegal.

It's disappointing that companies lack the ability to deal with this issue in a mature way because having a policy and culture of inclusivity _should_ be enough to address this.

I realize this is all derived from an optimistic viewpoint, but I think it's still worth sharing.
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Yes. We want some good scolding from whales.
I'm wondering are there any truly ambidextrous tennis players who never use backhand at all?
> banning white supremacy amounts to limiting speech

I'm saying that I'm not threatened by the existing constraints on white supremacy: not limitations on speech, but the actual bans on discriminatory practices.
1) people can run a 1.6B model for free on consumer hardware

2) any model that's run on computational resources you are owning or leasing will have more privacy than an explicit cloud offering. running completely on your own local hardware will be private. this means you don't have to think twice about asking the LLM about the proprietary code or information you are working on.

3) smaller models gain the performance improvements from all the other improvements in interpreters and quantizing, allowing for even more consumer friendly offline use

4) oh yeah, offline use. could expand use cases to having LLM's baked into operating systems directly, including leading phones

5) showing what's possible, pushing towards the benchmarks of the best possible model while using less computational resources. this also makes the hosts of the best possible model realize that they could either A) be using less computational resources and increasing the bandwidth for their users B) further improve their own model because of competition. Basically if ChatGPT 4 was using similar improvements in technology across all areas of reasoning/whatever, there never would have been a rate limit on ChatGPT 4.

6) more demand for other computational resources. Nvidia is backordered till maybe Q2 2024 right now. If people realize AMD or even their ARM chips can offer same performance with the right combination of hardware and software, It alleviates pressure on other ventures that want computation power.
I think we're talking past each other. :) I fully agree with your comment. However, I was addressing your original comment[0] about the naturalness of the tensor product. My whole point was merely (and maybe I didn't phrase it particularly well) that you need to assume all the stuff we (now) know about quantum mechanics (vector space structure etc.) in order to conclude that the tensor product is pretty much the only option you have. Your comment didn't mention this and seemed to make a much broader claim. That was all.

(EDIT: I think your other comment[1] fully resolves any gripe I had with your original comment. :))

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37363347

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372225