skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in new zealand men are not able to work as teachers or caregivers. which essentially means, men are not trusted with children. i don't think of new zealand as conservative or backwards, even though that attitude certainly is backwards, but that makes it tautological.
The trouble with many people today is that they use labels like “Nazi” and “Fascist” quite indiscriminately; it would be one thing to apply them to the Jan 6 rioter, but it’s not unusual to see them applied to the police department, mainstream politicians who don’t incite violence, anyone the users disagree with, etc.

If I ran a social network using any of those words would start a 24 hour cooling off period. (1) There are a lot of other words these people could use the same thing to describe post-1945 movements, and (2) even if you take away that word for pre-1945 movements the benefits of eliminating (1) are large enough to justify it.
LLM is to transformers like the Django ORM or SQLAlchemy is to the Python psycopg2 and MySQLdb client libraries.

It's a higher layer abstraction that runs on top of multiple libraries like HF transformers, in some case calling plugins that use transformers directly.
> under a very strict legal framework and behind a colossal amount of bureaucracy to authorize their use.

In other words we'll provide some comedy material for our "trusted agencies" to amuse themselves with, between writing their latest summary snooping system and sharing stolen nudes round the office
Related -- last month I wrote an implementation of something very similar to sshfs, but in Typescript over a WebSocket: https://github.com/sagemathinc/websocketfs
The fact this is hidden says something about the disparity here.
> 25% of men over 42 do not have children – 5% more than women of the same age group

In another generation, I believe this number will jump. That's mostly because of current economics. Two people making the most commonly earned wages can not afford housing (then add sharply increased costs of insurances and transportation).

Stated otherwise, most couples can't afford to be an independent couple.
Fast Analytics and Graph Traversals with Datalog
Is it possible, or better ask how is that possible ? Although graph databases and knowledge bases are becoming more and more popular for managing and querying complex interconnected data one has to consider the potential trade-offs they present in terms of scalability, performance, and maintenance. Most important, rules specifications and application must be utilized for business logic, data validation and quality, security and access control, automation and inference among others.

In the last decade, one approach that has gained traction in addressing the challenges of graph data management is leveraging Datalog to cope with the complexity of graph data modeling, data transformations and intricate queries. Since it is a declarative logic programming language, it also offers the ability to express rules, relationships and constraints in a concise and intuitive manner. But it is only recently that appeared on the scene production systems that are based on *relational knowledge graph data models with analytics capabilities* powered by elevated versions of Datalog.

There are two of them that have drawn my attention, Relational AI and CozoDB. The former is a proprietary commercial product that runs on top of Snowflake columnar DBMS and the later is an excellent open-source embed-able production ready DBMS with several storage engines where I spent some time investigating and exploring its features. Bottom line is that these relational graph Datalog systems are covering a huge gap between SQL, noSQL, newSQL, GQL query languages at one side and Prolog/Lisp logic programming languages at the other side. According to Ziyang Hu creator of CozoDB "composability" of Datalog is the main reason that drove him to adopt it as the query language and he is not alone.

In my opinion the main obstacle for a broad adoption of Datalog based systems in graph analytics and traversals is their performance on big datasets. Is it possible to utilize vectorized parallel execution either in-memory with a fast dataframe structure like Polars or on the disk with an equally fast columnar DBMS like ClickHouse ? Truth is that I have not seen any Datalog system implementation with columnar data processing but I have discussed informally this with developers and they found that it is an interesting idea. In the past, I attempted to import a file of several hundred megabytes and execute queries on triple store Datalog systems such as Datomic, Datalevin, XTDB and the performance was very disappointing. These are mostly transactional, not built for analytics and queries on big data. CozoDB performance is a lot better, but it is still several orders of magnitude behind columnar engines/dataframes. The URL of my question points to a little benchmark I wrote to compare CozoDB with ClickHouse and Polars.

I am very interested in that technology and I am also trying to understand any technical issues that prevents someone from combining Datalog with a columnar database/dataframe. Let me know what you think, I am also willing to contribute in such a project.
I know a few couples that don't have children by choice. In small talk, they are constantly being asked how their children are doing, do they have any children, are they planning on having kids, etc.

Even when it's not meant to be judgmental, those kinds of questions can get old after a while. Then, add in the fact that the line of questioning often is judgmental and you'll frustrate even the most patient person.

It doesn't take an overly sensitive person to get frustrated by that. Hell, I got frustrated by the attitudes and questions, and I actually wanted (and now have) kids.
From: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2366256/world (article linked to this submission)

"He began his life as a porter — carrying bags and selling soft drinks and, later, sewing machines — in Egypt’s bustling Alexandria ..."

So I didn't "invent it", it's a direct quote from the article. Whether you judge the Guardian as a more reputable source of information than arabnews.com, that is your personal preference. (also note: news are not facts, they are interpretations of events written by laymen on a salary and a time constrain)
Imagine being alive through peak humanity. Is it us?
These sure are interesting times.
Maybe. But there's also literally zero chance for us to know if he was ever actually a porter.

What we do know is he married the sister of a billionaire in 1953...
If you want PRISM to be evidence that you don't have to "pick one", you don't just need to demonstrate that the US could access encrypted content, you also need to demonstrate that no other nations could exploit any part of it.

That includes non-American courts making orders to use the same actual processes and procedures as PRISM, and which we might not even know about because those countries have not yet had their own version of Snowden revealing it.

One thing I wonder with "secret" courts (and court orders where you're de facto ordered not to discuss the order even with your attorney like Lavabit was):

How do you know if it's a legit court, and not an elaborate spear phish?
That's not what I was trying to convey, so I'll try again.

Humans generate a massive amount of natural language, and 99% of it never gets someplace where GPT/LLM training can consume it. If we can capture just a couple percent of that, then there will be no need for GPT/LLM to make use of content from those who don't want their writing to be consumed.
That looks promising; what sorts of things can you do with the board? What would one like to do with the board?
You do but nowhere near 100-150.
They try to upsell stuff indeed but luggage is not that expensive.
I have been pondering about this, hopefully it becomes a possibility.
I will suggest also having a look at new generation CRMs such as folk.app
- Al-Fayed started out over 60 years ago, in the late 50s and 60s, with a very different world than what we have today.

- These kind of "narratives" are about averages, and there's always exceptions. This is really just a variant of the ol' "my uncle chain-smoked his entire life and lived to be 89 therefore smoking isn't harmful!", "it was chilly this winter in Chicago therefore climate change is a hoax!", and similar non-arguments.

For these reasons I feel that any conclusion derived from Al-Fayed's life – positive or negative – are invalid. It doesn't prove "you can only become rich by being a crook" but also doesn't prove "anyone can get ahead with enough skills". It's a single data point, nothing more.

As for "trashing the man's legacy", Al-Fayed didn't exactly beat around the bush when it came to other people. I'm reminded by a Christopher Hitchens quote, which goes something like "I don't expect any kindness after my death, because I'm not dishing out any", or something along those lines.
I see it everywhere... not with "hundreds" of teams but enough teams over a 12 year career in consulting to make this not anecdotal.
Charybdis
>Do you feel it is more enlightening to investigate the tombs of the wealthy?

It was mostly a description of the graveyard in question, though I imagine they would face far more resistance trying to investigate the royal crypt.

Again, this is the seventeenth century. Famines and violence in the period have fairly significant records.

And if they're finding anything interesting, this article isn't mentioning it, though of course they can't be certain of that going in.
Cornell University has an excellent soil science course online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs7Y2nGwfz4HPoRAaB64c...
This is so wrong. Everything in this message is wrong.
To those have made the noble decision to sacrifice years of potential earnings to advance the frontiers of knowledge, yet are lazy enough to spend that time reading a novel, we salute you.
Showly.

Syncs automatically to trakt.tv.

There's also Letterboxd.

I am thinking of just moving to a G-Sheets document.
That wasn't the narrative I was referring to, and wasn't what I was questioning. I meant your apparent insistence that he was flawless and that any assertion of the contrary is "trashing his legacy".
I'd characterise it as blatant propaganda. What wasn't misleading was outright lies. When they're repeating verbatim a story from the Daily Mail you know there's something wrong.

Why do you ask? Has that enlightened you any further?
Student clubs at Yale are hyper-competitive.
Harman is one of the good guys in this regard. The research that they have funded has, e.g., resulted in a better method for subwoofer placement [1]. Considering the amount of woo-woo in especially 'high-end' audio, their approach is very refreshing.

[1] https://www.harman.com/documents/multsubs_0.pdf
https://openbuildservice.org/help/manuals/obs-user-guide/cha...
many earlier societies had traditions of inter-tribal wife-stealing .. farmer cultures with socially important grandmothers practiced social interchange.. meanwhile, opportunistic breeders often physically moved around and did not have stability patterns.. this is a massive subject, not possible to talk about without errant conclusions and misstated sub-parts, right?
That's literally how Dominion voting machines work.

And hand recounts are only for verification, you shouldn't rely on them because they're far less accurate.
I'm still trying to figure out the answer to that question myself.

The absolute easiest approach right now is to use Claude, since it has a 100,000 token limit - so you can stuff a ton of documentation into it at once and start asking questions.

Doing RAG with smaller models requires much more cleverness, which I'm only just starting to explore.
"5 months GDP is a reasonable cost" is not the argument in favor of nuclear power that you think it is.
Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
EA means effective altruist… like our boy Sam Bankrun-Fraud
I'm hoping the pendulum swings back toward the middle of things. A huge push for centralization and subsidization was to ensure domestic food security. Famine or blight in one region? Overproduce a bit in another and ship it to those people.

But somewhere along the way it flew way, way past that and created a huge opportunity for business profit. Excess production with subsidies...
Fingers crossed that both regulators and the general public can differentiate between very good tech rolled out very carefully (like Waymo, or to a lesser extent Cruise) and very buggy tech rolled out very recklessly (like Tesla FSD). Hard to predict public and government reactions, it honestly could go either way.
These vectors are lower-dimensional than traditional vectors though, aren't they? Vector embeddings are in the hundreds to low thousands range of dimensions (roughly between 128-1024), whereas TF-IDF has the same dimension as your vocabulary. It's also not just about being flat-out better, but about increasing the recall of queries, as you're grabbing content that doesn't contain the keywords directly, but is still relevant. You are also free to mix the two approaches together in one result set, which gives the best of both.
US farm subsidies come in two forms: crop insurance (for the major crops you list) that ensure farmers can have some bad years/crop failures and not lose the farm; and CRP where the government "rents" marginal land so that farmers don't attempt to farm it (in drought years they will allow taking one crop of hay).

At one time there were a lot more subsidies, but not anymore.
Wow!

Not the point of the article, but it is striking to see how mastodon is way better in terms of usability/aesthetic and general UX than Twitter or 'x'.

I've been mildly interested in mastodon for quite some time from a political perspective (remove large support of big companies where possible), but I didn't realize it was just sooo much better to use.
Indeed. In particular, the rail ticket I bought at the destination airport was about twice the price of the flight, even though it was a much shorter journey.
You should see the Ammosexual cults in Texas
> Well, when you say "our" you mean your own.

Hardly.

> it's impossible to raise grazing animals without being environmentally unfriendly. That is the part I dispute

Animal farming became unsustainable due to its massive environmental footprint, including deforestation, habitat destruction, pollution, and excessive resource consumption, which collectively strain the Earth's capacity to support such practices.

We cannot feed the population with the same version of American or European diets - we'd need 5+ Earths to do it.

https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability...

Beef has an energy efficiency of about 2%. This means that for every 100 kilocalories you feed a cow, you only get 2 kilocalories of beef back.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

We've deforested large swaths of habitable earth to make space for animal farming - it uses 80% of our agricultural lands.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

Deforestation is the leading driver of habitat loss ... and the leading driver of it is animal agriculture.

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

We've destroyed so many habitats and poisoned so much that we're driving almost a million species to extinction.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

"A 2017 University of Oxford study titled Grazed and Confused accepted that managed grazing systems could sequester some carbon back into the soil. It added, however, that this was only around 20-60 percent of the emissions that the cattle produced in the first place. What’s more, after a few years soil reaches carbon equilibrium, meaning it cannot sequester any more."

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...

Animal agriculture takes up an area as large as both Americas, yet provides only 18% of calories and 37% of proteins.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

If we were to reforest that area, we could sequester so much carbon that we would reverse the warming.

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/08...

Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable

A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a new study finds.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471
If one likes signing unfavourable contracts with the government, there are non-matrimonial ones available I am sure?
The main takeaways i get from this story are:

1. People are using false nazi accusations to justify violent infighting and harrassment between people on the same side of the political spectrum.

2. People on the right are largely unaffected because they have their own support structures that work independently

3. It's justified that figures like count dankula pitch rightward when faced with persecution and left-leaning public opinion turns on them. This is the only way they can sustain and get support. Attempting to stay true to your beliefs is self destructive in these cases. Therefore on the other side of the coin, the people on the left doing it are sabotaging their "side" to satisfy personal vendettas, and people caught doing it would in a perfect world become targets of public hatred instead of their victims.
They should focus more on finetuning I think. Finetuning is almost always better than pretraining, even if the pretraining dataset is very different than finetuning dataset. If I could train 30b model for $10 for few tens of million of tokens(basically proportional to current rate), I will definitely use it.
Can a New Genre of Eco-Thrillers Inspire Climate Action?
I wanted to build a basic local tool for managing a bunch of linux fine tuning parameters and a little screen where i can see the status of various things. I am lazy and didnt to do more than just click buttons (not even press the arrow key on a console to run a history command).

After considering electron for a split second, even with no framework, I legit went for Gambas.

I drew my UI, added event handlers, compiled it and that was the end of it. Easier than faffing around with the bloat of react, vue, node or electron.
I think it's a standard for news headlines to omit linking verbs like 'are'.
> "Allow end users to programmatically configure widget xyz"

That's an extremely poorly defined requirement, and I would say that's the ultimate source of the issue. Your team took that and made a crud api. Another team might have written a YAML based DSL. Another team might have created an even more complex scheme.

A BA/PM should have pushed back on that and gotten much, much better specificity as to what the users needed to do.

> And to be clear, of those 50 fields, maybe 3 of them mattered to the end user and the rest could have been inferred. But doing that inference is a lot more work as it takes understanding the domain.

Exactly -- except the part about "doing that inference is a lot more work". Compared to recovering from the wrong path the software has taken?
https://archive.ph/6GrCa
The large majority of Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up. And this number has been steadily ticking up. Geographic mobility is the lowest it’s ever been in the post war period.
Back when I used to do CTFs a common challenge was to set up a fake Instagram account and have the flag be the coordinates for the location in the image. Good skill to have, and to know how to protect yourself when you share images online.
Schuler Tuning
Well that tends to happen. People usually talk the most about things that are a big part of their life. So if someone wants to connect with you, they will inevitably try in certain point of life to ask if you have kids.

Nothing sinister here...
I have a container I inherited when a relative died filled with little drawers of random nuts, bolts, screws and other fasteners that has saved the day several times over the years when I needed something. Spending a few min going through those drawers has saved me days and days of waiting for parts/going to the store/stopping/starting a project again.

One thing that helps me when I'm disassembling something with an unfair number of fastener sizes is grabbing an egg carton, following a pattern I can replay, and using the carton to catch all the different sizes as they come out.
That's fair, thanks! Do you plan to integrate the cleverness into LLM, so we can benefit from it too? I'm not sure if LLM can be used as a library, currently, I've only been using it as a cli, but it would be great if I could use it in my programs without shelling out.
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Serious q - do you think all AI hallucinates
Value of Information
I've found struct fields that are pointers far more common than pointers to pointers to structs, so if nothing else it feels like *(p->target) is a more widely useful interpretation of *p->target than (*p)->target would be.

Regarding "n = -5", it would presumably be interpreted as "n=(-5)", same as today. Operators don't have spaces in them. So "n- -5" is "n-(-5)", rather than "n--5" (not valid).
Err... those are fictional characters?
Compared to the same car registered in Texas is <$75 a year, CA is highway robbery.
article from 2019 about a repo from 2013
I found this project recently which is really interesting: https://alex.macrocosm.so/download

They've embedded all papers on Arxiv and made the results available for anyone to use.

I believe they used the Instructor XL model - I need to build an LLM plugin for that.
Kyle Hill is a sensationalist? Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress are sensationalists? That is an accusation I have never ever heard sent Kyle’s way. Did you actually watch the video or read the article in the MIT press? Why should I believe you and not the authors at MIT?
https://archive.ph/PATMC
France went from choosing between new nukes and renewables (renewables were the obviously cheaper choice) to choosing between extending the life of the nukes it already has and renewables (no surprises, old nukes were cheaper). This doesn't contradict the suggestion that the high cost of new nukes is prohibitive when set against renewables.
Transforming spent coffee grounds to enhance concrete strength
How do they compare to Raspberry Pi 4B? Similar performance is Okay for many uses, somewhat faster CPU (so heavy websites like YouTube wouldn't feel like a turn-based game) would be excellent.