skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does affect the average Joe, because Joe is buying the products or services the private organisation creates. If Walmart, to pick a random example, has this phenomenon and spends extra money wastefully at the end of their financial cycle, that would mean that every product Walmart sells has to cost a bit more to pay for that, and Joe's monthly grocery bill goes up.
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> Simple: there's devs in India who can code well

Sure, without a doubt, there are exellent devs to be found worldwide.

But let's face the reality ...

Western corporates don't go outsourcing in India for the talent.

They go outsourcing in India because they want to wield the axe on what they perceive as the expense of Western developers.

So, if they're not willing to pay Western developers, they're not exactly going to be looking at the premium end of the Indian talent pool either are they !

Especially as a typical remuneration structure for senior management is that you are rewarded with a bonus based on the amount of cost-cutting you've achieved.
For background, there seems to be three things going on here.

First, the UK has deployed surveillance assets to support Israel.[1]

"The military package, which includes P8 aircraft, surveillance assets, two Royal Navy ships – RFA Lyme Bay and RFA Argus – three merlin helicopters and a company of Royal Marines, will be on standby to deliver practical support to Israel and partners in the region, and offer deterrence and assurance. "

Two, the UK is delivering bilateral military aid via Cyprus - the 30 transport flights pointed to in the article. We know nothing about what's included in these transports.[2]

Three, the UK regularly grants arms export licences authorising the sale of arms to the Israeli state, most importantly for essential components of the F-35s used in Israel's air campaign. According to Campaign Against the Arms Trade[3], which has been around for a long time and is reliable at what it does:

"UK industry provides 15% of the components in the F35 stealth combat aircraft that are currently being used in the bombardment of Gaza. The contract for the components is estimated by Campaign Against Arms Trade to be worth £336m since 2016.

Between 2018 and 2022, the UK exported £146m in arms sales via Single Issue Export Licences. However, a large proportion of military equipment exported is via Open General Export Licences. These open licences, which include the F35 components, lack transparency and allow for unlimited quantities and value of exports of the specified equipment without further monitoring.

According to the SIPRI Arms Transfer Database, Israel has ordered a total of 50 F-35s from the US, of which 36 have so far been delivered, up to the end of 2022. According to the detailed delivery database,114 a total of 6 were delivered in 2022. While the value of UK companies’ F-35 contracts with the prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, are not known, based on the 15% workshare and the estimated $80m a plane unit cost of the F-35, this would suggest that each aircraft involves around $12 million to UK industry. This would imply a value of $72 million (£58m) for total UK deliveries of F-35s to Israel in 2022, far higher than the value of Single Issue Export Licences, and around $432 million (approx. £336m.) since deliveries began in 2016."

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-deploys-uk...

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions...

[2] https://www.declassifieduk.org/raf-admits-to-making-17-milit...

[3] https://caat.org.uk/news/statement-on-uk-arms-exports-to-isr...

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/james-butler/up-in-a...
There's entire studies on it, I saw a lecture by some English professor who explained how the brain isn't fast enough to parse words in real time, so runs multiple predictions of what the sentence will be in parallel and at the end jettisons the wrong ones and goes with the correct one.

From this, we get comedy. A funny statement is one that ends in an unpredictable manner and surprises the listener brain because it doesn't have the meaning of that one already calculated, and hence why it can take a while to "get the joke"
My safety (of my group) is what really matters.
What's interesting about that one is I think that specific set of objects is part of its training set because when I have played around with swapping out a few of them it sometimes goes really bananas.
For me, it's a loud knocking on the door. It's as if impatient cops were knocking. It's not a pounding sound, it's knuckles to wood. I immediately awaken to check if someone is there, but no one ever is.

Happens once every few months. I've learned to check the response of my cat's. If they aren't looking at the door, it's in my head.
Gaslighting LLMs does wonders.
In this case, e.g., priming it by convincing it the tool is either inaccessible/overloaded/laggy, or here perhaps, telling it the python tool computed wrong and can thus not be trusted.
Most people on HN likely don't know who Murray Rothbard is and he didn't have any coherent ideology or philosophy so he's not interesting beyond being the guy who came up with the label.

Anarchism is by definition "left-wing". If flat earthers redefined "globe" to mean a saucer shaped object and the media started to run with that because flat earthers made for "good content", opposing that usage wouldn't be dismissed as "arguing semantics" either. Sometimes it's important that words mean things. Heck, the entire political right in the US has spent the past years making the changing meanings of words their main issue. Clearly "arguing semantics" matters sometimes.

Calling yourself "anarcho-capitalist" is like calling yourself "punk" because you're knee-deep in Sex Pistols merch. It's using a label as a fashion accessory, not a political statement. Clearly you think political labels have some use or else you wouldn't refer to "left-wing" anarchists.

There's no historical basis for the label "anarcho-capitalism". Ancaps claim they're building on individualist anarchism if asked to justify their label but even Stirner was to the left of them. "Anarcho-capitalism" isn't promoting individualist anarchism, it's promoting autocracy. Anarchism is the absence of oppression and power hierarchies, "anarcho-capitalism" is the absence of regulations and limitations on individual power, relying on The Market instead of Divine Right as a justifying cause.

"Anarcho-capitalism" is not only not "real anarchism", it's not any anarchism, just like throwing bricks at Starbucks windows is neither necessary nor sufficient (i.e. almost entirely orthogonal) for being an anarchist.
I've seen this happen when working in digital agencies towards the end of the tax year. Clients would reach out with budgets for projects purely because they wanted to spend the money on something so they could justify the budget for next year.
Maybe it takes a cult
and makes it more difficult to cross the road as a pedestrian

A five-lane road is already hard to cross, regardless of the traffic speed. I understand that this design is common in the US, but it boggles my mind that people would even consider crossing a road of that size as a pedestrian unless the traffic speed was 15 mph or less. Something like that would be solved by a bridge or tunnel in developed countries.
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Thankfully Joe has many other options than Walmart. But you only get one government.
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Bro, Look at this:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/#multiple-type-variable-tup...

Does this not exactly mean: "To make it arbitrary size you have to constrain it on a single generic parameter"
The filing out your buget so it doesn't get cut part is understandable. What makes less sense is cutting the max budget based on use wihout leaving any overhead to account for unexpected expenses. Why does that seem so common when it makes the incentives so obviously misaligned?
This is a mix of truth and nonsense.

> The Clinton administration’s objective, and that of the Democratic Party, was basically a class war against labor

I can believe there is an element of that - not uncommon for governments to want to reduce labour costs to reduce inflation (ministers in the current British government have said as much).

On the other hand there was a real belief in a post industrial economy of educated workers, the end of history etc. at the time. Many people still cling to parts of those beliefs.

Later on it loses contact with reality entirely:

> it’s China that is turning out to be the most democratic country
Other browsers like Brave have this feature for a while. It's another example of Firefox getting late to the party.
> abs(x) = x*sign(x)

True in 1 dimension, but not in higher dimensions, because, as you say:

> how would you define sign(x) in a higher dimension?

abs(x) is generally defined as distance of x from zero.

The fact that sqrt(x^2) or x*sign(x) happen to give the same result in 1 dimension doesn't necessarily imply that they can be applied in higher dimensions as-is to result in abs(x) with the same meaning. Although sqrt(x^2) is close, but the way to generalize it is sqrt(sum(x[i]^2)).
Robotic helpers leave humans switched off
How psychologists are using robots to study the "uncanny valley"
one language being the only option available on browsers and the other being a (replaceable) glue layer between _other_ programs? I also see minimalistic beauty in the fact that `[` is not even part of the shell. "do one thing and do it well" at its finest.
> No conspiracy needed, for example, it's very convenient that MSFT can politely "influence" OpenAI to spend back on their platform a lot of the money they gave to the non-profit back to their for-profit (and profitable) company.

Can you explain this further? So Microsoft pays $X to OpenAI, then OpenAI uses a lot of energy and hardware from Microsoft and the $X go back to Microsoft. How does Microsoft gain money this way?
> I quite agree and so would Wittgenstein

It depends on whether you ask him before or after he went camping -- but yeah, I was going for an early-Wittgenstein-esque "natural language makes it way too easy to say stuff that doesn't actually mean anything" (although my argument is much more limited).

> I think this is a fundamental problem with the "chat" style of interaction

The continuation of my argument would be that if the problem is effectively expressible in a formal language, then you likely have way better tools than LLMs to solve it. Tools that solve it every time, with perfect accuracy and near-optimal running time, and critically, tools that allow solutions to be composed arbitrarily.

Alpha Go and NNUE for computer chess, which are often cited for some reason as examples of this brave new science, would be completely worthless without "classical" tree search techniques straight out of the Russel-Norvig.

Hence my conclusion, contra what seems to be the popular opinion, is that these tools are potentially useful for some specific tasks, but make for very bad "universal" tools.
Yeah, this kind of pedantry isn't going to work in a legal setting. Obviously the intent was to deceive the person into thinking that the company had a large number of regular employees.
I agree with this conclusion and it's also why I'm not that afraid of the AGI threat to the human race. AGI won't end the human race if "superhuman persuation" or "deception-as-a-service" does it first.
Do trigger warnings work as intended?
> "Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

-- Agent Smith

But not to worry. I'm sure the Butlerian Jihad will solve the problem.
The bidiagonal matrix looks like a chain of binary terms.
Is there any relation to monads or possibly lenses, or am I making this up?
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Sounds like someone who would be sufficiently candid with his board to me.
Yeah that one's funny, it's either "that's a legitimate point of view" or "amazing that somebody can manage to hold such a ridiculous point of view", depending on tone.
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Might as well have called it "Linterbox"...
This article seems fairly straightforward: https://maelfabien.github.io/bigdata/ColabTPU/
I think the commenter may have been referring to VMWare rather than Broadcom.
These European efforts to create competitive LLMs need to know that.
When I was doing freelance training a company asked me how much it would be for a week's C++ course for X people, and when I told them they said that wasn't high enough. Yep, budget spend time. So I asked them, theoretically of course, how much they were expecting to pay (and then said that I was prepared to accept that figure, but only this once ;-)
In Google's defence:

Twitter shouldn't be considered a proper source anymore. It's closed without an account and the access is severely limited. You can't see follow-up messages, questions, or whole threads.

Also I don't have Walmart here but it does show opening hours from Google Maps which is often better than official websites.
Doesn't scale.

Too many years to max compute. All models limited lifespan inherent.

Avg $200k+ training cost over 18 year in house data center costs. More for reinforcement.

He's still 38. Gates took much longer. To stop working 24/7.
Out of curiosity, do you have any Meta apps installed? I've tried to kinda debug the issue by reading the system logs. In the end my battery life was greatly improved just by full removal of facebook, instagram and, especially, messenger. It also helps to disable background data for all the apps you don't explicitly want to run in background and to set "restricted" battery mode for them. I'm using grapheneos with sandboxed playservices by the way.
Perhaps you're not aware. Living in Beijing is not equivalent to "once eating a fortune cookie"

> it seems that Helen was picked by Holden to take his seat.

So you can only speculate as to how she got the seat. Which is exactly my point. We can only speculate. And it's a question worth asking, because governance of America's most important AI company is a very important topic right now.
Thx!

was expecting a networking primer
People would still buy on Steam to have it all in one place, and for the features that steam provides, like achievements and multiplayer with your steam friends.

That only really applies if the other platforms are as good as/better than Steam, which they aren't for most people.
I'm glad someone archived this. I had a feeling this was going to happen when I saw how new the posts were.
I've had this my whole life, though this popping up on here has made me realise that it hasn't happened in about 6 months. I also get ice pick headaches [0], would be interested to hear if anyone else here gets both.

[0] https://denveruppercervical.com/ophthalmodynia-periodica/
Growing up near Washington DC during the Reagan years, I might have described it as Nuking World Syndrome. Waking up suddenly from an explosion and immediately perceiving the light outside the window as a flash and being afraid that it was the flash from a nuclear explosion. Still happens occasionally. More visual but occasional auditory.

Criminals blow up ATMs in the Netherlands occasionally, but I usually sleep right through that. But they're a few blocks away and I'm not unlucky enough to live in an apartment right above them.
I'm going to assume that if one is using [ rather than [[ then one will also want to use expr rather than $(()).
Cisco has done well with Meraki and Duo, no?
The original comment said 85% of marine life on Earth was wiped by a gamma burst some time ago. Marine
Awww, I was looking forward to the replies from people who didn't read the fine article, and were deeply confused by comments like "I get this!" or "This happens to me every few months" or "God, It happens to me at least once or twice a month."

Spoilsport :-)
I feel this could be used in positive ways.

Superhuman pursuation to do good stuff.

That'll be a weird convo what is 'good'.
The page fully explains what they mean by this, showing results on benchmarks etc.
I'm amazed - I get this so often when I fell asleep that it's a trigger for my lucid dreaming; boom! and now I know I sleep.

I silently assumed that this is true for everybody, I'm amazed to find out it's rare, at least in your experience !
They might think, that just like on earth, nobody will backfire at them.
>Yes, and if Python had a better type system, I could write a more concrete definition. Why don't you understand that?

I understand everything. It's you who doesn't understand. What I described is for ALL type systems in general. Not python types.

>Of course it's possible, the type system even supports almost everything that's necessary. You can already define what I want with a single fixed-size tuple of arbitrary size, you just can't do it with multiple ones. Why do you have this strange fixation on calling this "wrong" and "impossible"?

It's not a fixation. It's because I know what I'm talking about.

Look just prove it to me. Define the type signature for concat function that will concat two tuples with variadic parameters in TS.

Make sure the return value has the exact required shape. Additionally don't resort to using Any. Also define the intersection function as well. Again, Don't use any. Should be trivial if what you say is true.
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I think this article, and your comment have helped me understand something that happened to me a year ago.

Just as i was falling asleep i heard the loudest bang i've ever heard. And was sure someone just bombed the neighbor or someone else down the street. But after having stayed awake for an hour checking the news, and no police or fire department arriving. I went back to sleep.

In the morning i tried to talk about this with my family, but no one had any idea what i was talking about.
> Why not output MIDI instead, and let the artist manipulate that?

This is not true at all, it all started with generating MIDI, and even the very link I shared is of a system that generates MIDI.
alas "TC is now official unmaintened, hoping for a fork"
https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/618
There are some domains that are in the twilight zone between language and deductive, formal reasoning. I've been into genealogy last year. It's very often deductive "detective work": say there are four women in a census with the same name and place that are listed on a birth certificate you're investigating. Which of them is it? You may rule one out on hard evidence (census suggests she would have been 70 when the birth would have happened), one on linked evidence (this one is the right age, but it's definitively the same one who died 5 years later and we know the child's mother didn't), one on combined softer evidence (she was in a fringe denomination and at the upper end of the age range) then you're left with one, etc.

Then as you collect more evidence you find that the age listed on the first one in the census was wildly off due to a transcription error and it's actually her.

You'd think some sort of rule-based system and database might help with these sorts of things. But the historical experience of expert system is that you then often automate the easy bits at the cost of demanding even more tedious data-entry. And you can't divorce data entry and deduction from each other either, because without context, good luck reading out a rare last name in the faded ink of some priest's messy gothic handwriting.

It feels like language models should be able to help. But they can't, yet. And it fundamentally isn't because they suck at grade school math.

Even linguistics, not something I know much about but another discipline where you try to make deductions from tons and tons of soft and vague evidence - you'd think language models, able to produce fluent text in more languages than any human, might be of use there. But no, it's the same thing: it can't actually combine common sense soft reasoning and formal rule-oriented reasoning very well.
Yeah I mean why would the just-was-CEO of OpenAI have access to secret AI.
Really interesting that HN has completely moved on from this drama to AI!
If I want to copy text from an app (often not allowed) I now take a screenshot and copy the ocr text from there. Same with badly coded websites etc. It saves a lot of time, and is always the same workflow.
This has happened to me a few times. Reminds me of sleep paralysis, in that people across time and cultures have identified this kind of strange experience as a paranormal event of some sort:

"Culture may be a major factor in shaping sleep paralysis. When sleep paralysis is interpreted through a particular cultural filter, it may take on greater salience. For example, if sleep paralysis is feared in a certain culture, this fear could lead to conditioned fear, and thus worsen the experience, in turn leading to higher rates." [1].

Finding a wikipedia article about the thing should have, I hope, the reverse effect :-).

--

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis#Cultural_signi...
There is a much easier solution to all of this. Children should stop learning to read.

The safest way to handle large language models is simply to have a more illiterate society.

It is disgusting people would talk about destroying data centers when we have such safer options like this.
Like the East German Cold War Stasi Era version of my Washington DC Reagan Era Nuking World Syndrome.

Great idea about the cats, I'll try that!

I'm still quite often woken up suddenly by Starving Cat Syndrome.
Since I have no influence on the outcome, I might as well be a hell of an optimist, so the Culture can't arrive soon enough.
For me, the accuracy of my predictions about world events and personal outcomes leads me to believe that my reality model is fairly accurate.

I do notice many don't seem to revisit their predictions for reflection though. Perhaps this happens more subconsciously.

I'm wrong regularly ofc.