skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't. There's truth to your statement in the sense that there's now a generation of confused judges that think this is true. But the plain language of US antitrust statutes is pretty clear on this point, simply engaging in certain kinds of anti-competitive behavior is illegal, you definitely do not need to prove that the illegal behavior had specific effects.
No, not at all.

The previous imagined scenario was one in which AI began from logical first principles and the difficulty in defining rules was because of a strict interpretation.

The reality has been that we used collective human thinking like jumper cables to jumpstart black box neural networks that - like humans - aren't particularly logical or rules driven, which leads to frequently ignoring or overriding explicit rules and instructions.

It's a similar effect, but for exactly the opposite reasons.
The issue you’re missing is that for many people who prefer office work is that they prefer in-office work with other people in that office, not being in an office while a bunch of people are remote.

The remote workers’ cry of “We can work at home and you can work in the office” or “I don’t care where you work” is forcing the in-office coworker to do something they don’t want to do — work in an office with people who aren’t there.

Getting the exact work environment you desire isn’t a guarantee at work. And again, this is absolutely fine. It’s fine to love remote work and it’s fine to hate it. It’s fine for a business to make everybody come into the office, it’s fine for a business to make everyone work at home, and it’s fine to go hybrid or whatever.
> How is that not a matter for science?

It is a matter for science, but most scientists just want to do science, not engage with culture war fanatics who will literally camp outside your house and subject you and your employer to an endless internet hate campaign if you commit what they see as heresy.

The reluctance to push the topic is quite understandable when you consider how unhinged some of the people on the other side are.
> When I wrote the above, I didn't really realize what Wayland even was

This is an edit to the first section of the article. Seems like OP already had his mind made up about something he still doesn't properly understand.
I didn't realize my dad was on this board.
Well, good luck fixing X windows
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Simply launching another search engine, even if it's better, won't be enough. There needs to be a transformational change to get people to switch and I don't think llm integration is enough.
Part of the reason that developing-world investment has traditionally been hard is because it likely requires a longer perspective than most investors have. Build a decent rail network in Laos and it might take 75 years for them to leverage it to a level of development that pays it back, which gives you 75 years of risk it might all come crashing down. You can't float that meaningfully on the public markets, but a state can justify it, both because they can wait on the payback, and swallow the loss if they have to, and because they can value the economic cooperation and dependency it generates.

I wonder if an alternate route would be to use aid money as subsidy to attract private investment. Juice the yield on bonds to too-compelling-to-ignore, or offer backfill on short-term revenues if the project is speculative, and you could attract the world's financiers.

On the other hand, perhaps there's a hostility to existing finance to begin with. A lot of the developing world has had bad experiences with the mainstream Western financial system-- their banks and associated institutions are the ones coming in and demanding austerity, privatizations, and currency manipulations to settle their debts. Perhaps China just represents a fresh face: all they need to do is squeeze a little less to look good by comparison.
I've been working on things that basically do that for a decade. I mean I didn't really think of this specific application initially but I did kind of.... rotating parabolic ultrasonic arrays something something. I'm looking for partners and investors!

I recently threw up a hackaday for my development cyberdeck and am sifting through all the stuff from over the years to finally get this to market. With the new CloudFlare AI workers, a whole bunch of the infra I used to have to maintain is a moot point so I'm looking to really hit it hard in Q1 2024.

https://hackaday.io/project/192933-synesthetic-homunculus
I'd be extremely skeptical, as Apple has shown over time that this kind of large, data intensive software is not in their wheelhouse. I think Apple makes some great products, but if I had to make choose the shittiest products Apple makes, it would have to be Siri, Apple Maps and iCloud. These are all areas where I think the Google equivalent (Google Assistant, Google Maps and GDrive/Docs) are much better, and the these are all much more closely related to search.
Have the reason I like to use google services would be due to that “layer” being a good abstraction.

Only using 1 companies services seems like asking for trouble.
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If I understand you correctly, I think ParamSpec (since 3.10) is what you are looking for, especially if you want to be generic over the type of the inner function. The example from the docs (https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.ParamSp...):

from collections.abc import Callable
from typing import TypeVar, ParamSpec
import logging

T = TypeVar('T')
P = ParamSpec('P')

def add_logging(f: Callable[P, T]) -> Callable[P, T]:
'''A type-safe decorator to add logging to a function.'''
def inner(*args: P.args, **kwargs: P.kwargs) -> T:
logging.info(f'{f.__name__} was called')
return f(*args, **kwargs)
return inner

@add_logging
def add_two(x: float, y: float) -> float:
'''Add two numbers together.'''
return x + y
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It's just stupid. How do these people get to such senior positions?
That might’ve been true a year ago but today apples maps is a viable replacement for google maps as well as their Siri offerings.
Getting rid of 1031 would be a good start. But contrary to what most people/economists falsely proclaim, land value taxes are actually a regressive, punitive tax to those who commit the grave sin of living in an area that other people decide to gentrify. A complete non-solution to the problem.
Just use XFCE or KDE. They work just fine.
>The most amazing thing about it is how simple it really is

what gets me isn't the lack of complexity, but the lack of light. holding a prism to capture the sun's light or a flash light or whatever is simple since there's so much of it. even in telescopes, stars are mere pixels.
Not sure about the current situation but since Apple controls literally the entire stack, I can’t imagine it’s a big issue.

If they really need a new op, they add it.
> ... it would have to be Siri, Apple Maps and iCloud

Probably. And I think a large reason for that is because they don't like to solicit feedback for how their products work and for those types of products you NEED feedback.
re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746694

I've no idea why your comment was flagged and moved to [dead] - it seems fine as a comment to me.

That said:

> you're still talking about performing existing pieces from a very well-defined canon

My first comment in this thread could not have been "still talking" - and I contrasted two things, - reproductive orchestra performances by people trained in composition and improvisation two of whom considered themselves unable to read music (responding to the person above me) and

an "entertainer" considered by many to be a real musician (that's a whole thing in itself, isn't it) who also can't read, composes his own music, and improvises around his own work during nearly every performance.

I'm actually siding with yourself, the formalities in both mathematics and music are important and useful but they aren't fundemental for a great many with talent in those fields - they can intuit they way through to a large degree and teaching based on intuitve methods can make great inroads when introducing new students to these subjects.

Formalities can come later (or drilled in parallel), they have their place - but having a 'feel' for these subjects carries a great deal of weight, if not more.
> This session was going to be a "terf" train wreck

Yeah that's how they win. 'You will accept our religion or we will trainwreck your conference by mobilising a million zealots to call you names.'

You don't want them to win because they're not people who are operating on logic, they're operating on faith. That's not conducive to an orderly world.
Is hugging face just a model repository like GitHub is a code repository? Seems you can rent compute both cpu & gpu, but you are right that most models seem to be run elsewhere.
Yes, everyone has a voice. The amount of people who can convincingly act with said voice is remarkably small and requires a good deal of innate ability or training, generally both.
I suppose this makes me feel better about the clunky “enterprise” stuff that my former employer (another national retailer) used. I mean, at least it wasn’t just spreadsheets emailed around!
Sure, I was wondering if there were any other issues.

On my phone I just added Japanese as a language and it now prefers those. Windows seems to support it fine too, as does Chrome on Linux.

I guess there are problems if you try to use two languages in the same application.
Let me share my favorite: Plankton - Beggin'

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How does this relate to whole genome sequencing?
There are likely various factors at play.

Monochrome logos were expensive in past since colour printing (especially quality colour printing) was expensive. Apple was notorious for their colour logo, supposedly because they wanted to emphasize that they were offering colour personal computers. Ironically, they would introduce the black and white Macintosh a few years later.

At least with respect to user interfaces, many of the design elements were meant to emphasize the improved graphics capabilities. For example: the so-called "3-D" elements graphical elements of the mid-1990's, which were little more than shading to add the perception of depth, highlighted improved colour depth. I would imagine that something similar was at play when it came to product logos. So it's probably more of a case of more complex logos for more complex video.

Highlighting the improved graphics capabilities is meaningless these days, so there is little point in constraining themselves to colour logos, which gave an opportunity for simpler logos to return.
>I'm from Sweden and it is rapidly deteriorating. It saddens me greatly to say this, but I don't think my home country has a very bright future. When you hear the politicians talk it seems they finally realize that they have fucked up the country. But not to what extent, and their solutions are a joke. It will only get worse, and it will never be the same.

Context for others: Sweden has no language, income, employment, or skills requirement <https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...> for obtaining citizenship.

In completely unrelated news, Arabic is now the second most spoken language in Sweden <https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_po...>.
> “protecting the Australian aviation industry”

Australia has a very questionable history of this.

For decades imported cars have been hit with heavy import taxes to "protect the Australian Automobile manufacturing industry".

Now that no automobiles are manufactured in Australia (Ford and GM closed their plants), the heavy taxes have not gone away!

There is also the super-controversial "luxury car tax" of 33% on vehicles over approx. $80k.
Of course there is no luxury boat tax, luxury plane tax, luxury car tax, luxury watch tax or anything else of the sort.
Definitely the “IBM” of small business though, as in you’ll never get fired for choosing it. (Although AWS took over that title for enterprise)
> If you don’t let an attacker iterate your data, all they can tell is when the ID was created.

The ordering means that you can reconstruct the sequence if you have enough of them, though.
Thank you so much! We rig and animate for a general skeleton, but we have Unity and Unreal plugins that add controllers to our 3D models to make it easy to add the behaviour you want.

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Fascinating. Within the past 2 years, the US suffered 98 people killed in a condo collapse, and a fairly serious (though thankfully non-fatal) bridge collapse. There's also the especially egregious case a bit further back of the New Orleans levies failing during Katrina. Must have been undercover Confucians.

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

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1076343656/pittsburgh-bridge-...
> collateralizing those shares for debt

If you take a loan (collateralizing future income for money) should you pay taxes on that loan today? It isn't a tax loophole, it is insane to think that taking a loan should make you pay taxes on future income, it would cause so many issues for everyone. The taxes will be paid some day, you don't get richer or pay less by taking a loan. The reason these people take loans on their shares is to keep control of the company, but doing that costs them more not less.

And finally, the government already takes out loans on future taxes to pay for things today, so not having taxes today isn't an issue for them either. So rich people taking out loans on shares is a total non issue that people for some reason talks about a lot, it doesn't make a difference at all.
I would recommend championing municipal or coop fiber for your use case.
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> How do you avoid those test questions being spread around the internet and making their way into training data?

Purposely search for the big standardized ones in the training dataset and filter them out. If some scattered examples are reworded enough to be undetectable, thats probably not a big deal.

> Is there any reason to believe this issue is more inherent to Mistral, other than because Meta and the like have a larger reputation?

Its not any one specific smoking gun...

- Even with Mistral's recent code dump, the release is still so light on detail that its kinda sketchy to me.

- The base model beats llamav2 7B in metrics by a lot.

- There is zero information on how to reproduce these metrics. This was also an issue for Llama, as testers had trouble reproducing their scores.

- Mistral 7B doesn't seem to handle random questions completions as well as llamav2 7B base in my quick tests (though this is not true for the instruct model. Mistral 7B instruct "feels" quite intelligent).

I am not a data scientist, I don't want to point fingers. But there are llama finetunes from AI startups with similar red flags, and one I briefly tested autocompletes hellaswag questions suspiciously well, even with some of the "incorrect" answers from that dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Rowan/hellaswag/viewer/defau...

I have this sneaking suspicion that AI may have an "crypto moment" where everyone realizes lots of eval scores are fraudulent, and that significant parts of the training datasets are questionably legal.
$10/mo seems really reasonable if its actually that much better than google
Especially given complaints like "Wayland doesn't support X11 atoms", "X11 window managers aren't being ported to Wayland", and "xkill/xclip/xdotool don't work on Wayland".

Does OP think that Wayland is another X11 server, or are they just so accustomed to X11 being the only graphical user interface on Linux that they can't comprehend that it's being replaced?
I prefer Apple Maps to Google Maps in the San Francisco area. It looks better, the routes are on par, and it's not festooned with ads.
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I work remotely since 2006. To me, working remotely is the best - if no the only - way to keep myself mentally and physically healthy.
Most fun band. Lingus is so hot.
If they try this, and I'm not convinced they will, it won't be a general purpose search engine. It'll be something that only runs on their devices and in their ecosystem.
That's a tragic story regardless of the medical hope. I don't think I would want to trade that level of discomfort for a little more time with my partner, but I couldn't say for sure.
I've found as soon as I touch/disturb one, it excretes its stink oil onto my fingers. The smell also permeates the room a bit.

I beg to differ on the 'they don't want to be inside' bit. I think that's exactly what they want, since they tend to swarm enclosed structures in the Fall. I assume they prefer a climate controlled house during Winter like most other insects/animals would if given the option.
I haven't used Apple Maps much, but Siri is a total dog pile compared to Google Assistant.
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1. I believe despite the negative inertia patent have expired they have not implemented it which makes it really weird to use it.

2. I think Dell stopped doing that. Example: https://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/del... that's a Dell Precision. I think HP still has it but without the middle button it is really hard to use.
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Whoops I think I was lost in the context. I was mostly remarking on this dynamic in terms of businesses, not individuals. The dynamic doesn't work exactly for individuals (because individuals don't have "profit"), but tax incentives still rule the day in the individual side too (e.g. 1031 exchanges, 401ks, mortgage interest deduction, cap gains deductions on real estate, etc).
Crazy how important mitochondria are when you consider the evolutionary history.

Just so, so, so unlikely to happen to my small mind and stunning how far multicellular life has come with this symbiosis.
I share your concern, but I'm a bit ambivalent on this. I though the same of Apple TV: I don't want them wasting energy on things like bad movies/TV shows when macOS's got so many missing features and bugs.

It turns out, it didn't diverge their attention, at least from the outside, and they created good content.

Google needs a good push, that's for sure. I doubt Apple has the core talent now to compete when Siri is what is and has been for more than a decade, but who knows, they've got the money. Maybe they could buy Kagi.
My heartburn about "share what tools you're using to reduce cognitive load" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YWsGDr8mA&t=560> is that in my experience being a tool evangelist is exceptionally hard over the Internet because tooling seems to be a very, very personal thing and suggestions to just try a different tool are met with resistance

I would guess that trick may be contextually dependent upon "when asked for help ... THEN share ..."
Except that the US functioned for over 200 years without these particular forms of dysfunction. We had lynchings and civil wars and the red scare, but never politicians regularly refusing to pay our bills. The cause is more specific and more recent.

The debt has skyrocket thanks largely to Bush-era and Trump-era tax cuts. The GOP claims to want to reduce the deficit and yet constantly opposes any policy that would actually do so. For instance the Inflation Reduction Act is forecast by the CBO to reduce the federal deficit by $90 billion, yet it's supposedly wasteful spending that's going to drive us into default. Government shutdown brinksmanship (too gentle a word) has only ever been carried out by right-wing politicians. In this case it was largely the dumbest and loudest and most extreme, like Matt Gaetz, who were responsible. The Tea Party and its descendants have no use whatsoever for the truth and don't care what damage they have to cause to win.

This is a problem solely caused by the lunatics who have taken over the GOP. I won't hear any claims that this is business as usual or that politicians will be politicians.

EDIT: Apparently part of the reason is that government shutdowns did not happen prior to 1980 was that, in 1980, the Attorney General issued a new opinion on the consequences of funding lapses. Prior to that funding lapses occurred but did not lead to shutdowns. So this particular form of dysfunction may not have been possible before then, but that doesn't change who is responsible.
Yes, and now that I reread it I also see there’s a bit more emphasis than I perceived on first reading on the author speaking to people who do computational work to convince them that social science disciplinary knowledge is important to have. In other words, the author is saying to computational workers, “Don't pigeonhole us as totally outside academics” and to academics, “Don’t pigeonhole us as merely methods people.”

Of course, a manifesto proclaiming the independence and usefulness of computational social science will never get you as far as actually demonstrating its usefulness.
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The developers (me, in this case) ARE trying to give the best user experience, but Firefox feels it knows best what that experience is.

Splodging a big ugly and pointless Picture in Picture icon over a video is not the best user experience in all cases. As the application developer it should be up to me to make that decision, not Firefox.
Just use Llama-2 and not Llama-2-chat.

It's not like they are that wildly different in tone.

The fine tuning is certainly destructive, but the general tonal biases are typically reflective of the pretrained layers.

Imagine what the pie chat makeup of textual data that was used for training would be, look at the normal part of the distribution curve, and that's pretty much exactly what you end up getting with some contextual biasing around prompting.

The problem is less that the pretrained models are somehow sinister and more that they create output that is hyper emotional, stubborn, and quick to escalate - much like nearly every thread on social media. Which is contrary to user expectations from AI.

A large part of the alignment fine tuning has less to do with safety in terms of keeping a LLM from nuking the world and more to do with preventing a LLM from telling you to go die in a fire after saying its emo poem needed improvement.