skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is exactly titled like that for the reason you are feeling. Look at the “PATRIOT ACT”. You want to be against the PATRIOT ACT? Well, you must be a terrorist!
This place (commenters) is majority hard-left. Any perception that it's 'right-leaning' is because the moderators are tolerant of non-leftist viewpoints. This, as you may know, constitutes heresy in leftist circles.
There's nothing wrong with having a preference. In fact, keyboards and mice are one of the most common things where people have set preferences.

The thread will argue it, and they are welcome to, but you want what you want. :)
The biggest factor here is location, you can have unlimited choice if you’re in or near a major market (New York, Chicago, LA, etc), which you didn’t mention. If you’re in smaller markets, often times the larger providers still have some sort of presence but prices will be out of control. I would probably find a local managed service provider and see if they have any rack-level offerings, before going with the behemoths like Equinix or Digital Realty because they will bleed you dry if you’re not careful.

I have used Deft, Cyxtera and a handful of smaller providers in the past (and of course Eqx and DLR), but those met a particular project’s needs well and may or may not fit yours.

Where would you prefer to have this set up? What are your growth plans, if any? Will you be looking to grow into other PoPs as your product gains traction? Do you need access to a more diverse mix of transit providers? Are you bringing your own addresses? Are you looking for concierge-/fully-managed level service or are you going to manage all the aspects of the hardware yourself? Lots of questions to get to the bottom to before an ideal provider could be found.
What do you mean by "an argument with substance"? The reason to have nuclear silos is to have them act as a nuclear sponge. Make them conspicuous, well-known, that's the whole point. We don't have nukes to attack other but to deter wars and minimize casualties should someone be stupid enough to attack a nuclear superpower.
You are using your mind to determine what the proper usage is in this specific concrete instance, LLM's do not have your mind to perform that step. LLM's have to work at higher levels of abstraction, and there the multiple meanings of "is" (which is also very commonly used to mean it is my opinion that X "is" Y) makes sorting things out very difficult.

This problem exists for both LLM's and humans, I think it may be fundamental to reality itself, as it currently is at least.

I wonder if they changed the training data to consistently use "equals" where possible (even if it sounds weird to the reader) would make a difference.
And sometimes there is a "let's switch source control systems", which results in a wall of inaccessibility in the history.
Now this cute application button doesn't look that innocent anymore, does it?
> The only inconvenience I recall was some functions had tedious API, arrays/lists were hard, had to be created like kinda Collection.new(...).

Imagine what people would do if VBA was a better language and had a better IDE that wouldn't scream at you every time it found a syntax error in your code-in-progress.
Now there’s a business idea -figure out something to do with the 2-3 Billion pounds of waste chicken feathers produced annually.
> It is surprisingly hard to give yourself food poisoning if you cook for yourself.

It's not hard at all if you're cooking chicken. All it can take is reusing the cutting board without washing.

If you're careful about it, it's hard. But plenty of people aren't careful. They think the risk is "overblown", they assume salmonella in chicken is as rare as salmonella in eggs.

This makes it pretty easy. And then they think they caught a stomach flu or something.
NeXTSTEP 3.3 released on SPARC and other non-NeXT 68k platforms.
I hate the double-speaky ones like those especially. At the end of the day, wolves are going to create the "Love Sheep Act". Sure, they LOVE the sheep. Just not in any way that bodes well for the sheep.

"What do you want? You had a problem with inflation, so we created the Inflation Act because it worked so well, WE wanted more of it, despite the unfortunate collateral damage of YOU. We gotta look at the bigger picture/upper classes".

Between the Bigger Picture^TM and the Overton Window^TM, there's just never any space for the regular and affected

Edit: btw, nice on the S.H.R.E.-K, don't think I didn't see that aha ;) As always, I'm eventually get around to it aha
Fear mongering tbh, the containers can survive a direct train hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHtOW-OBO4
Love the all-caps in this flight plan or whatever this document is. Some very ancient computer must be involved somewhere in the loop, and apparently - still doing important stuff.
So, algorithms are not automatically (supposed to be) patentable like you suggest, quite the opposite. Although on both sides of the Atlantic people have been bending the rules one way or the other for quite some time.

US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...

EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...

Nevertheless, Software Patents do not appear to be suitable for purpose.

> "[open source, and thus public information!] is decades behind the state of the art"

It would appear that software patents are not actually actually incentivizing the disclosure of workable methods-of-the-art to society. In fact, I don't hear of people using software patent documents to make something, like mechanical people sometimes do. I would love to be shown to be wrong on this. AFAIK, a practitioner of the art cannot take a software patent and trivially implement it.

Unlike a patent, a practitioner of the art can take a unit of FLOSS code and implement and/or improve it. So, based on your view of the world, open source seems to be taking the niche that software patents should have been creating.

On the one hand, fortunately the situation isn't quite as horrible as you suggest, and there are in fact innovative FLOSS projects. In part because some companies are incentivized to release their work as FLOSS to begin with, or work with a central FLOSS pool. On the other hand, this is all voluntary. There are often good incentives to defect from many different voluntary IP arrangements, even those that do include use of patents (see the case of H.265 ).

I think -with regards to software- that we are going to need a very different way of approaching IP. The current patent system is quite clearly useless at getting people to actually disclose their secrets, so we'll need a different method.
Author here. You are spot on about the career break. Luckily for me, during my time I played poker professionally, I was also consulting with poker website to build out their matchmaking and fraud detection algorithms. I also built a small analytics tool for PLO professionals to study their game better.

Wrote more about it on my blog here: https://rnikhil.com/2022/06/15/gtoinspector-startup.html
Being the best search engine barely means anything at this point. Unless you're looking for something very specific that you know exists like documentation, or are looking for an opinion on reddit that hopefully isn't astroturfed, you're probably going to find garbage.

The issue is the internet just has too much garbage now. The SEO arms race has generated an insane amount of bot-generated garbage, mobile devices have made the internet is so accessible that it's filled with people generating garbage. It's garbage all the way down.

Have you ever watched a 0 view YouTube or TikTok video? I end up with them in my feed every once in a while and check them out and it's always garbage. And this is MOST of the content on these platforms! Back in the mid-aughts, YouTube was new and it was still somewhat novel to plug a camcorder into your computer and upload a video file to the site. Now every 8-year-old is walking around with an iPad wirelessly connected to the internet, and a YouTube app with a giant, idiot-proof button to start recording a video and upload it right from the app.

It blows my mind how much server space and bandwidth is being dedicated to host and transmit all this garbage around the world.
I made a new account last week – totally blank, new device everything. The default FYP so far is all anti-Jewish – not anti-Israel, anti-Jewish – and far left-wing anti-American stuff. it intersperse with really low brow celebrity stuff.

Pretty intense stuff. Lots of “Jews run the world, and hate you” stuff that reporting doesn’t seem to work on. Lots of “America is a nightmare place” aimed at teenagers.

Pretty sure thats the CCP whipping up internal unrest here.
> you elect people who you trust that will work the best for your interests

The EU explicitly works for collective interest, not individual interest.
Well, they shouldn't be.
> Though I'd be interested if setting VL<VLMAX improves performance.

It does for ara but not for all other implementations I could get my hands on (which all have a VLEN of 128 or 256, so relatively small).

I've been thinking in which direction implementations need to optimize vrgather to get the most benefit out of software.

My thinking was that as long as you've got 128 or 256 bit, and LMUL=1 vrgather working quickly you should cover most cases.

> For example, there's no endian swap instruction (in base V at least).

Yeah, but there you can just use multiple LMUL=1 vrgathers instead of higher LMUL vrgathers, because this is is inherently simpler since you don't need to cross full lanes anyways.

I think most lookup table uses of vrgather fit within 128 or 256 bits, 4 byte lut is greate for character matching.
The point is that you end up focusing your energies (often intentionally, but always by the nature of simply playing a lot) on exploiting gambling addicts.

If you make films you aren’t targeting “film addicts” that go to the theater all day 7 days a week. They have a minimal effect on your outcome.
Usually against editorializing titles, but could you fix the typo in "Sofware"?
Disappointing not to see anything listed yet.

My approach is to list a few already even as I am building the functionality for the site:

https://gipeties.com

Functionality I am currently working on:
- curation
- ranking
- discussion
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Author here. You are right. Doing hard things just for the sake it builds your confidence. Relevant article: https://blog.nateliason.com/p/proof-you-can-do-hard-things
I'm not sure I understand but I'll have to just look into it.
That's the new one. The old one is 90% direct dumps of C++ structs.
Copyright Leads to Internet Fragmentation
Security is the non-negotiable.

If they want to play with whatever tech tools to get their job done, have at it. They can ask for help when they really need it.

But if they are taking short cuts with the security of the data, that needs to be cracked down on immediately, as they are putting the entire company in jeopardy.
Fascinating!

Apparently human-composting is legal in the state of Washington (see: Recompose). Curious what the author thinks about this for "Green Graves." It seems like we're past the experimentation phase.
Optimizing LLMs in Production
What distinction are you making between 'acting X' and 'caretaker X'?

I'm British, not American, so I'm not assuming something like the vice president automatically becomes president, we don't have that either. If anything it's even less than Germany since (at least in theory and history, modern media etc. makes it a bit different in practice) there's nothing special about the PM, it's just the governing party's leader. I suppose though you could say the heir apparent to the throne immediately becoming the monarch on the death of the previous one is like vice taking over - but I don't think that detracts from my point because nobody would call that 'acting monarch', they just are.

'Acting X' means doing the necessary duties, but not any major decisions that can be avoided/deferred, while the 'real' replacement is found. Sometimes it ends up being the same person, e.g. the head of some division is 'acting CEO' for a while as the board searches for a new CEO, ultimately ends up going with that person and title changes to just 'CEO' - or they don't, and go back to old job, or maybe quit in a huff, and the person they found is just 'CEO' taking over from the 'acting'.
We've officially replaced trickle down economy with trickle up economy. Sustaining certain standard of living on private islands in Hawaii, Bahamas, and Fiji is expensive. The phones will be larger though, that's for certain.
> Browser hiding URLs is like an OS hiding file system structure from users, because files and directories are "too technioal" for them.

Yes, well, this is how mobile OSs behave and most people don't seem to care or even notice...
googles

Huh. I distinctly remember working with VBA-based systems like 20 years ago where that was a massive difference - like, I'd been writing code on mid-'90s VB4 and it had "on error goto" but VBA didn't like 10 years later. But maybe it was specific to one or two VBA-based platforms.

Either way, it was super infuriating since it meant the only non-catastrophic error-handling possible was "on error goto next" and then manually checking error codes.
Nope, we can't turn things around. With cheap russian gas gone and the last nuclear powerplants shut down energy is just to expensive in germany for it's manufacturing based economy.
I built my own at encyclopedia.marginalia.nu, but basically, yes.
N=1, I sleep better on stimulants than off them. No problem falling asleep after drinking coffee (usually it makes me more sleepy), or even taking a prescribed stimulant before going to bed.
Handy, although gotta say I hate to be that person but GPT 4 is light years better than this tool. You can provide it with a picture of an equation you'd like to obtain as LaTeX commands and it'll do its job. Done it 30+ times so far and it's been 100% accurate.
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Ah ok, so you're not actually claiming to be an expert on software patents. I was briefly confused because you mentioned you defeated an Alice motion.

I was hoping to get a different view on the matter from someone who had had a different experience to mine.
ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education
Well, you'd still be paying for it.

Authorizing use would be akin to the pre-Carterphone ATT model where only pre-approved uses would be allowed ('you can't attach your equipment to our network').

Thankfully, we eventually realized that was a dumb decision and moved to something closer to user freedom + network protects itself + zero trust.

Better to just guide behavior at the pricing level, and let people make their own decisions about use.
Yes and no. Logging is getting better and can be shipped off-site. Additionally, they would usually have to crack multiple passwords, to gain the access needed to all the devices that log. The firewall, for example, should NOT be Radius and should local auth, so if someone gains AD creds, they don't have access to the firewall, too.

In IT there are 1000s of ways to skin a specific cat, and everyone has their own, so I'm not touting mine as "The way". I'm simply stating that "cleaning up logging" isn't as simple as it sounds, when it really comes down to it.
Sure would be a shame if everyone at Gurner Group decided not to show up for work on the same day. Maybe then Tim Gurner would realize who actually keeps the wheels turning.

But more likely it would be a classic "no...it's the children who are wrong" moment.
What we do know is superficial at best, and tells us pretty much nothing relevant. And while there likely are structural differences (it'd be too amazing if the transformer architecture just chanced on the same approach), we're left to guess how those differences manifest and whether or not these differences are meaningful in terms of comparing us.

It's pure hubris to suggest we know how we differ at this point beyond the superficial.
WFH encourages scheduled meetings. It's a nightmare. I'd much rather just get an interruption out of the blue than have someone schedule a meeting to talk to me, because in the run-up to the meeting I won't try to start anything (what's the point if I've got a pending interruption?) At least my standups are first thing in the morning.
Between this and the payments to Apple, I wonder where Google would be if they invested another $30b into competing more aggressively... I guess these payments make sense if you believe you can't effectively deliver something good with that money.
> Ordinary in-line type hints won't lie or go out of sync without complaining somewhere though

This is demonstrably untrue with the default configuration of Mypy. It will silently ignore explicit hints, inline or not, in certain situations.
I'd argue that developers beyond a certain age are as guaranteed to have come into contact with VBA as with HTML/JS.
I’ve seen it, there’s a ton of evidence of it
Yep.

The core data should sit behind some kind of service that enforces legal, compliance, and security policies.

Then tools that access the data in a compliant way should be given a lot of flexibility for what tech stacks they use to process the data.
I think there’s a lot of people that’ll happily install it if it’s open source, and then do absolutely nothing with it. The same people wouldn’t pay $20/month for the same privilege.

The people to whom it is valuable are already paying.
That's called time-binding, and it actually predates Korzybski's coining "general semantics" in the 1930s. He wrote about it in his first book Manhood of Humanity, which is public domain[2].

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_binding>

2. <https://openlibrary.org/works/OL168124W/Manhood_of_humanity?...>
Doesn't provide an edit history in the article, though.
The flags just tell you that, on this CPU, rep movsb is fast so you don't need to use an SSE/AVX-optimized implementation.
It appears to be a custom licence, which, as stated on the page, is inspired by the MIT/X11 licence. The only difference from MIT/X11 appears to be the the part before the warranty disclaimer, which has been shortened. SPDX has a separate entry for it [1].

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/curl.html
Maybe stupid question, but.....

Would/could this be seen from google's financial statements? My naive understanding is that if the answer is no, then google must've made a conscious effort in financial engineering to hide it.
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It's an extreme version of reproductive optimization: a lot of animals have a reproductive strategy of "bank resources, then mate and die". Even things with complex neural systems like octopuses (who despite their intelligence, have no parents because they die after protecting their eggs).

So how you get here sort of makes sense in that context: if reproduction is more successful if you delay it to collect resources, then it also follows that discarding any biomass you don't need once you've got enough to ensure the reproduction happens quickly and successfully afterwards would lead to this sort of strategy in extremis.

A "prototype" caterpillar doesn't need to be able to fly - it just needs to do something which makes it more mobile and slightly more successful (and well, getting away from where you're born and spreading out is a good way to ensure the gene line isn't killed off entirely by one lucky predator).
It is mentioned at the bottom of the post that the images are generated by OpenAI‘s DALL-E.
LLM training teaches it that ‘Mary’,’Lee’, and ‘Pfeiffer’ are words that appear in association with ‘Tom’, ‘Cruise’, and ‘mother’. Probably also in association with ‘son’, and ‘family’.

But the association between the words ‘Mary’, ‘Lee’, ‘Pfeiffer’ and ‘son’ or ‘mother’ point to other words more strongly than they do to ‘Tom’ or ‘Cruise’. Sure, Tom Cruise is probably in there but so is probably John Henry Kelley (Michelle Marie Pfeiffer’s son), and George Washington Custis Lee (whose father was Robert E Lee and whose mother was called Mary).

A random piece of text containing the words Mary Lee Pfeiffer is just, based on its training, not likely to be about Tom Cruise. There’s nothing there anchoring it particularly to those words.

It’s possible that the ‘Pfeiffer’ in there screws it up more, as well - it’s like it vaguely knows there’s a Hollywood connection but of course it crosses its wires and thinks it’s probably Michelle Pfeiffer.

Be honest: if a pub quiz question came up asking “which Hollywood superstar’s mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer“, you’d probably not guess Tom Cruise either.

But here’s the thing: once we go beyond training into specific completions, if you ask GPT ‘who is Tom Cruise’s mother’, it answers correctly; and then once it has that A is B in context, you can ask it ‘who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer’s son?’ And of course it knows how to complete that B is A.

So I definitely agree with the piece here - there’s no ‘reversal curse’, there’s just asymmetric information relevance.
Author here. I also played PLO for a living. BTW, I made a small tool for professionals to study PLO. Check it out here: https://rnikhil.com/2022/06/15/gtoinspector-startup.html
Neat but..better to have them in this day than to need them and not have them. Americas'a enemies certainly have and want them.
The Commission is decidedly not the most powerful part! It is simply the secretariat for the EU, what in the UK is called the Civil Service. It is involved with policy formulation and implementation sure, but only at the behest of the other bodies.

The most powerful part is the Council, where each member government is represented and is the mechanism by which member states pool their sovereignty. Nothing happens without the (often required to be unanimous) agreement of the Council.

Recent case in point: an EU Commissioner stated that aid to Gaza would be cut in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks - this was quickly backtracked when a member state objected.
Still, Gravity's Rainbow has at least a semblance of a plot here and there, and distinct characters with motivations that have some kind of logic to them. Finnegan's Wake, far as I can tell, does not.

I also wonder if the fact that I found Gravity's Rainbow much easier going has to do with the fact that the culture I grew up in is much more like the one Pynchon grew up in (northeastern USA, mid-to-late-20th century) as opposed to Joyce's origin in early-20th-century Ireland. It's not _that_ much of a difference in terms of years, but I don't think I need to tell you that the 20th century was, as a rule, a very busy and chaotic time.

It's an interesting point about trollery being part of the art--I guess you could classify it as one of the performing arts like dance or theater. Maybe its closest relative is stand-up comedy.
I can plus one this. I thought it was the stimulant dosage in the afternoon that was keeping me up all night, but it turns out to be stress! Once that is relieved, things go back to normal.
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I additionally noticed an Apache license on their models at Huggingface, but the blog post states the work described by that blog post is open source for noncommercial use.