skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what you’re missing is that I’m not disagreeing about the prevalence of sex trafficking, I never said anything that is the opposite of your observations and I don't know the advocates that you are grouping me in with that are doing what you’re triggered by.

I don't gauge efficacy of a public policy based on whether sex trafficking exists or not.

The other part I think is substantive to clarify is that there are far more similarities to all workers than there are differences. You don't need to rationalize to people why you are not being exploited, and it would be disingenuous if you tried to prove to everyone that you loved your job all the time. The reality is that sometimes it is fulfilling for you and other times it is a chore. If anything exploitative occurs there are power dynamics in play that compete with your willingness to address them. Labor rights issues that are completely valid to acknowledge and improve. The only thing being added is that sex workers should be equally included in that improvement.

Countries with more trafficking need to prosecute the traffickers and get better at that. I’m not willing to criminalize sex workers or make their life more difficult just because an area may be bad at finding traffickers. Criminalizing consumers is ineffective too and have been shown to be a primary confidant a sex worker confides in, unless the consumer cant report due to being criminalized, so I’m not willing to make their life difficult either. Any policy based on marginalizing sex work harms ability to access labor rights, if blanket statements like that bother you, I could be open to a currently unexplored combination of policies. I’m not open to pretending that a solution is a worker or consumer criminalization framework just because of a perception of less trafficking occurring, in comparison to a decriminalized or legalized framework.
OP is correct when a business decides against standardization.

> For example, one pitch in particular was for a product which promised to remove the need for me to write SQL in exchange for being able to set up all my dependencies from a drag-and-drop editor, with the sales pitch consisting of "You can get rid of thousands of lines of all that SQL you hate!" - no I can't, fucko, because your application is still connecting to Postgres so it's just writing the SQL for me with another layer of licensed abstraction on top of it. Why would I pay to have more abstractions designed for you to sell software to multiple clients, you blue-suited dementor? Eight times out of ten, I want to pay you to remove them from my codebase.

See, the problem is that you can't fully remove the original SQL. It's still there, in the code. The database is still there. So instead of having one interface to access the database - SQL - now you have two, the low-level SQL and this bastardized abstraction. Some of your employees will write SQL, and some other of your employees will use the abstraction. They use different tools, so the tools will fall out of sync, and the employees will fall out of sync, and you'll get discord.

Pick one tool. As far as it's technically feasible, pick one database, one programming language, one UI framework, one wiki vendor, one CRM, one ops visualization framework that is right for the business. Don't pick up some fad-of-the-day, and don't let your "artisan" engineers do "research" projects to see whether some other framework might suit their needs "better". Tell your engineers, here's the business problem, here's the pre-existing stack, solve the problem with the already-existing and already-supported tools. If the engineers are truly artisans - guess what, an artisan doesn't blame his tools. Pick new tools only slowly, deliberately, when you have no other choice, and only with a solid plan for standardizing the tool for full adoption across the enterprise.

Why? Because high-performing organizations ensure that they are always building upon prior work. Five engineers with five years' experience with React will be a stronger team - more productive, faster, more accurate at forecasting, have an easier time reviewing and supporting each others' code - than will John with 5 years React experience, Sally with 5 years Vue experience, Wang with 5 years Svelte experience, Cynthia with 5 years Angular experience, and Ilya with 5 years jQuery experience. If Ilya gets hit by a bus? The other engineers will have difficulty picking up the load. Not much of that React, Vue, Svelte, Angular experience will help with supporting the jQuery parts of the codebase.

Commodification requires a standard. We appreciate the value of standards when we succeed at establishing them - tabs vs. spaces, Docker containers, infrastructure providers, project management tooling - because they eliminate discussions that do not revolve around the more fundamental question of how to deliver value to users. Shouldn't you ask yourself, if you're evaluating a new language, tool, or framework, whether you really benefit from breaking the company standard?
I’m not sure why, but the internship role seems to be the only one listed that has an accurate list of our tech: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/29663a4b-c457-4a38-bbdf-069f18...

The article goes into a little more detail too, we haven’t significantly changed anything in the last 2 years.
The TheBloke Q4 is running on my 24GB 3090 with double context length (8192 tokens) even.
The Country School of Tomorrow
Which exacerbates the problem of users easily exceeding the minimum allowable bending radius.
The danger isn't that we put some malevolentAI in charge. It's that stupid people think what we have is worth listening to.

For example: it's fairly easy to imagine somebody asking an AI for medical advice, and gives their child the wrong medicine, poisoning them.

Now imagine that person is a busy political figure with no time to do proper research on a topic.
It seems to me that this course introduces Python devs to building gen text applications using Open AI's models on Azure. And I don't mind it - some folks will find it useful.
When browsing the page for MobileView, I was very pleasantly surprised by the lack of a subscription option.

Not because I don't think you should be payed for your hard work, but because the extension being free allows me to recommend to any of my students - some of which are very poor.

Thanks!
There is a program called Stripe Climate. Check it out. You can donate a percentage of revenue to carbon capture projects.
https://stripe.com/climate
Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed
If you do, take it out into the middle of nowhere first because you won't be able to put the fire out (unless you bring a Class D extinguisher--good luck finding one of those at your nearby hardware store). Don't put water on it because that just makes it burn hotter.
That's fine, but this post is for a course on developing generative AI applications.
You would need a new connector because dust can break the signal and a cable that needs a dust cap sounds like a horrible consumer product.
Surprisingly, jazz legend Charles Mingus wrote a book about how to toilet train a cat. He successfully trained his own cat, Nightlife.

https://www.charlesmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program
> If you already have cash into a bank account somewhere in the world then ... you most likely don't have the need to conceal it anymore

This is where you’re going repeatedly wrong. Most money laundering doesn’t involve cash.

If you embezzle funds, or defraud an investor, you wind up with dirty money in a bank account. While it’s there, it’s hot. You could do the crypto trade, but you’d still be in a position of holding cash (even in a tax haven, depositing loads of cash is expensive) and/or having a tainted account.

Running it through Apple yields a bank account tied to a developer entity that receives deposits from Apple. You can leave your money in that account without too many worries for extended periods of time, and produce KYC receipts to wary counterparties when asked to. That’s valuable.
Unfortunately, this used to be his situation but the blindness now limits all reading.
I'm really waiting on a new version of XDR to get one.
Have you played with the newest bend insensitive fiber? You can wrap it around a pencil and an otdr shows no or minimal loss. But I think you’re correct about damage from average consumers. They’d destroy the ferrule in no time.
You might want to do a bit more careful thinking and empirical verification before jumping to conclusions.
I do lots of greenfield PHP these days, and honestly I don't see why people would not consider it. It's an extremely pragmatic language and ecosystem to ship things with. By the time I set up a Java project, I'd already have a WIP made with PHP. Modern PHP is strictly typed as well, and actually quite similar to Java, except much faster to actually make things with.
Do you foresee a larger scale migration to Elixir in the future?

Or would you say that Elixir lends itself to some services and Python others?
None of those Wikipedia facts will prepare someone for death. Reciting what psychedelics are or describing color with words would yield the same result. Why would that knowledge help someone prepare for death?
Yeah, can confirm (6B model), it feels like I'm interacting with an untrained model, no fine-tuning.
> neural nets

Wavelets
The “fibre bearer” term that GP comment used does not imply OPGW
Yeah, they probably don't want their 'demo' links on the HN home page.
Living to 101 is definitely not representative.

My point really was that second one.

As I said, it's a rough time right now, we're going through a lot. But we passed environmental reforms before, we removed lead from gas, we invented vaccines, we set standards for chemicals, we've cured a few people of HIV, there is good to find out there.
Why? It's slang... from England.
Show HN: Vector Stores with Observability Built In
The fine-tuning is nice! It is only SFT, though, which may have limited its improvements. I tested it against the Zephyr 7B model (which used DPO) on a sample question:

How can I code p*log(p) in Julia in a way that doesn't return NaN for any probability value?

Yi gave:

function safe_p_log(p::Float64)
if p > 0.999 && p < 1.001 # or use a more precise threshold if needed
return 1 - (1 / p)
elseif p > 0.001 && p < 0.01 # or use a more precise threshold if needed
return log(p * 1e8) # or use another small number instead of 1e-8
end
return p * log(p)
end

It warned that it would not work for p = 0 or 1. After saying that probabilities can be 0 or 1, it added a `if p == 0.0 || p == 1.0; return NaN` at the start.

Zephyr answered:

function p_log_p(p::AbstractFloat) :: AbstractFloat
return (p <= 0.0) ? 0.0 : p * log(p)
end

Sometimes it returns an error or minus infinity (I also got `p * log(max(min(p, 1.0), 1e-10))`, which is cute), but it does follow the request.
If you really want to change the world, take the banger.

And give the banger to someone who really needs a car because cars change lives and good cars for cheap are hard to come by.

Sure that's probably not someone you know.

Changing the world isn't as easy as shopping.

Good luck.
Impression Management
Loading it with 4-bit quantization takes a total of 22G vram including the rest of Xorg for me (not really trying to eek out any extra megs here). As such, the 8 bit version is probably not for people on consumer GPUs. Inference speed on a 4090 is about the same as the web version of ChatGPT with GPT4. The generated output at 4 bit is good so far (no worse than llama2 at least), though I haven't really put it through its paces.
What is MoE?

Edit: Ah, Mixture of Experts. I hadn't heard this one yet. Thanks!
I don't think this course is for machine learning grad students, I think Microsoft is trying to create materials for someone interested in using ML/AI as part of developing an application or service.

I've only skimmed the course here, but I do think there's a need for other developers to understand AI tooling, just as there became a need for developers to understand cloud services.

I support those building with any technology taking the time to understand the current landscape of options and develop a high mental model around how it all works. I'll never build my own database engine, but I feel my learnings about how databases work under the hood have been worth the investment.
> This is the feeling I get everytime I see a comment that it will be only for the rich and powerful.

That's not a "feeling", that are words you put into my mouth, to then call it a "feeling" of yours. And that's the top voted reply. Just lol.
Your grandparents were trying to protect your parents from the racism they encountered as immigrants in the 1920s. It was vicious, inexcusable, and largely forgotten due to the success of Italian assimilation in the US.

Jacobson’s “Whiteness of a Different Color” goes into this in detail.
I was hoping that would be a card deck games making jam
Then don't just send a PR: maintain your own fork.

I think that's the bigger part of open source. You can fork it, change it to your needs, and not give a damn what anyone else thinks about your changes.
> We were concerned about the phrasing of Article 45, that lays down a requirement for browsers to recognize any certificate ...

So same as today but with less steps?

Most govs are already in you browser/OS CA list. And every single government force you to download their own cert and add to your browser at some point. There's no way to add that cert and say "limit this to gov.in only"! after you added that cert it is game over.

e.g. https://pki.treas.gov/crl_certs.htm https://www.bit.admin.ch/bit/en/home/themes/swiss-government... plus all the gov CAs already in your browser (looking at firefox source they include, guangdong, taiwan, honkkong, netherlands and Greece. IOS 16 contains spain, belgium, something called "Government Root Certification Authority 00 B6 4B 88 07 E2 23 EE C8 5C 12 AD A6 0E 06 A1 F2" :shrug, greece, hk, Netherlands, Switzerland.
Both, easily. I wish I could give my kids that advantage.
Mine puts his toys into my suitcase when I pack. Once, when we had a houseguest, I refused to feed him dinner twice. We found him packing his toys into our houseguest’s case.
The article states the wrong resolution for the Apple display and it’s an interesting mistake because these days there are actually 2 versions of 6K in consumer-marketed computer monitors: the one used by the Apple display (6016x3384) and the slightly larger one used by the Dell U3224KB 6K that came out earlier this year (6144 x 3456). In fact, an interesting thing people found out when they use the Dell 6K display on Intel MacBook Pros running Mac OS between 10.15 and 13.6 is that the Mac cannot do Display Stream Compression at the Dell's native 6144 x 3456, hence the Mac can only drive the monitor at 30hz instead of 60hz. However, if they can fool the Mac into thinking the display is 6016x3384 (same as the Apple display), DSC magically works and they get 60hz on the Dell (at the expense of sacrificing some screen real estate). Apple must probably hardcode the 6016x3384 resolution somewhere in their OS code. Thankfully people report that this problem has been fixed as of Mac OS 14.1 but that bug existed for 4 years.

Edit: this problem only seems to happen on Intel, not Apple silicon machines.
To be fair, this doesn't qualify as generic browsing. It's more like a CGI sequence from a remake of WarGames.
GBP and EUR volumes are pretty similar (just north of 500K atm). I find this interesting. How can one country equal sales of the whole Eurozone? Is that more showing of commerce activity or the popularity of Black Friday in those countries?
The most illuminating thing is all the so-called "fact-checkers" who rated this kill-switch mandate as "false". They should all be called "lie-certifiers".
Everyone + dog is adding "AI" to their products and "nobody ever got fired by buying Microsoft" so...
Not just a headline, the article is from the Dailymail, one of the most garbage publications in Britain. It's equivalent to linking to an article on Breitbart or TMZ in terms of trashiness.

The sole reason it made it to the front page so quickly is HN has an irrational obsession with the powergrid in Texas due to the politics involved.
Fun. Is there something like this for lifting to estimate leverages?
Easier to install.
Yup and as others have noted, this report comes from a jailbroken iPhone. I have nothing against people jailbreaking their phones, but it would be good to know if this issue also occurs on iPhones running up-to-date stock iOS.
Europe and United States have nearly equal land area of just shy of 4 million square miles. There are 24 official languages of the European Union and English as the lone, defacto language of the USA.

Why would anything else be expected from the American education system when, for example, you can travel the entirety of the US and most of Canada and not have to worry about finding someone who speaks English. The education system in the US is trash for a few reasons, but only teaching English to all is not one of them, and I say this as someone who lives in the US and speaks a few languages.
Weasel words. "Running additional security checks" is certainly going to mean the UI checks, not anything on the backend.

Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs. Petty territorial behavior. This looks like someone trying not to learn their lesson.
Doesn't TypeScript get compiled into JavaScript? I thought TSC actually does a compilation, hence the name, TypeScriptCompiler? But anyway, this also exists for PHP. Psalm (https://psalm.dev/) or PHPStan (https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) both offer static type checking.
Trust demonstration?

Demonstrating trust strengthens bonds. In the wild, that kid might be more likely to defend that cat’s interests when e.g. food ran short.
i write with a pencil...can erase it later.

i've also started illustrating books by printing pics from wikimedia relevant to the topic im reading. i just glue them in. its more 'destructive' than the pencil underlining but it can be fun to come back to such a book later or after many years.
I've never stated that I was contradicting you.

By the way, sex and sports are social activities that rank very high on enjoyability.
With Sam Altman's return, a shift in AI from idealism to pragmatism
NPCI is state funded and runs at a loss. i.e. your taxes are paying for it.
Second this! We started playing with fire long ago. One culture can never own AGI. AGI then to super intelligence. We had better hope our superAGI children are also far more emotionally intelligent than we are and we tolerate us and even teach us.
LLMs don’t have insight, these outputs cannot be assumed to be accurate.

Due to current hardware limitations it is not feasible to have a 1T parameter model without MoE.
Depends on your goal. If you want to simulate human intelligence, maybe you want to replicate constraints.

A fair chunk of AI work boils down to “make something that acts like a human.” On the other end of the spectrum is stuff that is more specialized, like very targeted classifiers; there is no reason to expect those would benefit from this.
The 6B model is unfortunately still a base text completion model. I've been waiting for the Chat version it to be open-sourced :). The 01-ai team is working on it! https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/issues/173
Yeah good intentions do often backfire (road to hell...), and this is one of the ways. Shaming folks for stuff they do normally when alternative is simply stop seeing parents and grandparents (for us this is currently way more carbon than all vacations combined). People simply shut off and go on to have a life, there is only so much existential dread you can pour on civilization before it becomes next norm, facts be damned.

I have 2 small kids, life is often a daily struggle in one way or another, I couldn't care less about current carbon footprint just like I don't care about another non-urgent bottom 500 priority stuff. Vote in politicians that will take care of that instead of focusing on smooth corporate profits if you want to send positive message and change, and motivate folks to do the same to increase impact.
Why is there about as much volume in GBP as is in EUR? Can this be true?
Holy shit, you are right. They probably have 10-100x the data used to train gpt-4. Decades of every text message, phone call transcript, and so on. I can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention that yet.

People keep saying we don’t have enough data. I think there is a lot more data than we realize, even ignoring things like NSA.
> Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs.

What would steelmaning EU regs have looked like? Not really sure what you mean by this.
Has anyone tried contacting them via email to apply for commercial use, and what was the result?

Or do we not really care about that?
hmmm..."Enjoy unlimited access to The Atlantic." I'm going with I'm special today
Sadly, I expect this to be a waste of money compared to just using GPT-4. It's hard get to SoA performance.
Most GPON is quite thin. Thinner and tougher than standard fiber patch cables.
dbrand: Turns out, we're not the only brand Casetify has been stealing from
> that the Mac cannot do Display Stream Compression at the Dell's native 6144 x 3456,

Can't, or won't? M1 MacBook pros for some reason can't do 4k120 over hdmi unless you buy a specific usbc-hdmi adapter and fool it into thinking it's displayport (or something like that, I'm paraphrasing. You can find info if you search for cablematters DDC 4k120 m1.)
If you open the hood on your Mercedes EQS, and the next time you drive it, ABS doesn't work or the speedometer goes blank, should that be considered your fault too and not evidence that the stock software is broken? (This example is not hypothetical. Mercedes actually tells you not to open the hood, and the EQS actually had a recall for those problems.)
Good news in a reply to that issue:

> We are working on an additional 4 lessons which includes one one prompt injection / security
Abusing and Reviewing Obsidian Publish
Well, there is Cardstock, which is a Hypercard-like in progress written in Python (and which uses Python as its language rather than a Hypertalk-like). It seems a bit more modern in that it isn't going for the 1980s Mac aesthetic.

https://github.com/benjie-git/CardStock
I wasn't going to comment because I thought it was only me but yes. I heard the fans and then it crashed.

Thankfully I wasn't doing anything important...
> He just realized he doesn’t have to get up from his comfortable spot just because I felt like calling his name

Something that becomes incredibly obvious if they react, e.g. twitch their tail, when you call their name but not another.
This always seemed like a bad idea to me. Better to breed a poison ivy that thrives in a radioactive environment...
My hardware is mine and it should especially never deliberately incriminate me. This is bad for the same reason that client side csam scanning is bad
Yup. I've heard many people express similar sentiments, it's like magic.

Even crazier is that you can take these mushy blends of AI and merge them together willy nilly yet get viable results with traits from both, with no regard to identifying logic or functions and how they'd interact together when merged. Just blended together in a pot and a new intelligence comes out. I've heard it affectionately been called alchemy rather than programming.
I’d learn the basics of a programming language enough and then go converse with a quality LLM about how to do $x in that language, and then Google what it tells me to check its soundness.

It can be hit or miss, but it’s usually hit (80-90%), and it’s a huge force multiplier.

This is basically what I do now even though I’ve been programming for >4 decades (albeit I’m an unremarkable programmer).
Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and Not a Spear?
sort of off topic sorry, but has the newly elected Dutch guy taken a stand on the US ASML affair?
I think it might be better to leave God (and atheism) out of it entirely, both of you.