skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starling-7B looks to be the new best of the tiny LLMs but it is a next-level hallucinator for things it doesn't know, by dint of being helpful to a fault I suspect.

>The phrase "to be railroaded" comes from the historical practice of "railroading" a train, which means to forcefully guide or manipulate the train's path. This practice was often used to get the train to stop at a specific station, even if the train's intended destination was elsewhere.

Another time it answered differently.

>The phrase is believed to have been derived from the practice of rushing a stolen train across state lines to avoid detection and prosecution.

That can't be right but sounds cool and plausible. Yi-34B gets closer to the current usage of the term given I don't think anyone knows where the exact real origin of "being railroaded" comes from anymore (land seizure, prisoner trains, working conditions, track metaphor).

>The phrase "to be railroaded" is an American English colloquialism that means to be treated unfairly or to be pushed into something against one's will, usually in a legal context. The origin of the phrase comes from the metaphor of being "run over" by a railroad, just as a train would run over anything in its path.

Apart from the leeway it grants itself to serve you I would say Starling-7B is very close to being competitive with Yi-34B because most answers are very similar.

Short live the new king in consumer LLM.
Did they really, though?

Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands.

In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!
Absolutely agree.

Especially with supervising professors.... The dumbest people... And Hr... Shit people..
I was just having this conversation at work…

How is it difficult to get web application authentication wrong at this point? It’s super well tread territory. Add your spices, a sprinkle of cookie crumbs, a token here or there, and then 2 hours in the oven and you’re done!

And that’s rolling it entirely by hand. Most web frameworks have middleware that get you going in minutes.
Or it might not... It might be that cultivated meat will never scale in price or match the structure and profile of real meat.

Still, Italy is in many cases on premium products so they would be last ones to die anyway...
This entirely depends on the amount and duration of the exercise. If you're just going to the gym for 30 minutes a day, sure your body (and your diet) are going to adapt to that pretty quickly. If you're doing 4-6 hours of sustained low intensity effort then you will lose weight unless you significantly increase your calorie intake. The "problem" with exercise and weight loss isn't that exercise doesn't work, it's that most people can't fit enough exercise into their schedule (or won't sacrifice their average amount of screentime for it).
EVs are expensive, so it's not surprising.
Stop using it. It really is that simple.
The filesystem already has a cache
Iran was at war with Iraq, not the US with Iran.
Oh! Now you’re talking my language! Since my disorder has a strong family history, I got into my genetics in 2014. What I’ve discovered in my genetics has helped me more than a doctor could’ve.

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adiaryofdespair@protonmail.com
I don't know why but this really makes me laugh
5. Your superior has deep previous relationships with other higher level people in your company.
See, this is deceptive because Champagne is more like a brand, not a type of product. The type of product is « sparkling wine », « méthode champenoise » or « méthode traditionnelle ». Using Champagne in the name is lying.

« Steak » is not a brand, neither is « milk » or « sausage ».

Another example would be « California Kobe steak », it doesn’t exist. « California wagyu » sure, go for it, but not Kobe.
Two things about why this is a perceptive observation: First, when looking at a systemic trend, look for systemic causes. For-profit, private sector health insurance is not a healthy market. Some markets need to die, before they kill more people.

Second, because the cause is likely systemic, don't blame or try to "fix" individuals.
TIL: Visiting Forbes without an ad blocker will trigger epilepsia.
>Eat exactly these seven plants in just the right ratios to get roughly the amino acids your body needs before crossing 2400 calories. No room for error.

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm 37 y-o, I've been vegetarian for 5+ years with a plant-based mediterranean diet (plus some cheese and eggs). Doctors say my health is great, and I've never been in better form. I bike a lot these days, and run a ultramarathon once a year.

I've read a few books about nutrition and find it pretty easy to meet my needs without supplements (except B12, one every two years but I'm not vegan so I could probably do without). I just had to reduce my caffeine intake to a more reasonable level, so I can absorb enough iron naturally.
I think the "myth" part here is believing this person is a net gain in productivity

When in practice some optimization or other gains that might be taken by his expertise are offset by just making everybody worse at their jobs
My only "agreement" going into a position is:

I'll do my best to make you look good, if you do the same for me and everyone else.[1]

Sometimes it works well. Sometimes it doesn't. It's not that I don't like the person per se. It's that that person typically likes themselves too much, and the rest of stand in that shadow (read: blind spot).

People talk about being nice and being kind, etc. at work. Sure, that helps. But first and foremost...Do. Your. Job. And don't neglect the team either.

[1] This work "agreement" is a more optimistic riff on another heuristic I have: When you expect more of me than you do of yourself, we have a problem.
It's trivial to solve the debate over free will:

Given a computer of infinite computing power, write a program that exhibits "free will".

You quickly realize that the only decision making tools you have are either deterministic, random, or some mix of the two.

There is no "free will" tool. And if there is, it has to be some kind of extra-dimensional transcendental property. Or perhaps if you're loose with definitions, you'll consider a stack of deterministic and random processes of arbitrary complexity to be "free will".
Both options are illegal in the EU.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
In Settings I have "Use PDF viewer provided by the browser" checked and then see the screenshot:

https://imgur.com/TIOv1kK
> I worked with a DBA

How is it always the DBAs.
Matrix said 1999 was the peak of humanity and most of us laughed. But looking back I am starting to wonder if they were right.
You can just as well be on an F1 and all the professor has to do is deny funding for a semester, and you've wasted years of effort.
I don't understand the obsession with Meta and ads here, because it seems so disproportionally overblown when compared with real issues. Ads are so much the least of our worries that I'm not sure what this fight means in the context of this dystopian century. Autistic escapism? A distraction?
I'm of the opposite opinion. Windows desktop GUI programming is almost trivial thanks to Lazarus. Getting a program written is just building the forms and hooking events and databases to them.

Here's a little utility I wrote to help me set up gear cutting machines. [1] I wrote it in about an hour, in Pascal/Lazarus, most of that time was writing it up for others.

I can't bring myself to try to dig through all the layers of cruft required to build a GUI version in a web app. Plus then I have to host it somewhere and worry/pay for that forever, which is nuts.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/GearFinder
That was my first thought as well.

On the other hand, it's hard to make these kinds of judgment calls when you're talking about a one-off piece of equipment that's only going to go through this particular testing cycle a single time.

In computing, there are a lot of similar "one-off" operations -- something you to do to the prod database or router config a single time as part of an upgrade or migration.

Sometimes building a safeguard is more effort than just paying attention in the first place. And while we don't always perfectly pay attention, we also don't always perfectly build safeguards, and wind up making similar mistakes because we're trusting the faulty safeguard.

In circumstances like the one in the story, the best approach might almost be the hardware equivalent of pair programming -- the author should have had a partner solely responsible for verifying everything he did was correct. (Not just an assistant like Mary who's helping, where they're splitting responsibilities -- no, somebody whose sole job is to follow along and verify.)
They've still got time given their reputation.

In 2024 it's borderline OK not to have an EV business. EV's are 10% of the American market, 25% of the European market and >50% of the Chinese market. The Chinese market is probably lost anyway due to the insane local competition, so concentrating in 2024 on the larger share of the market outside of China is reasonable.

Let's say that the flipover point is 2027.

And let's say it's 2027 and you're looking to buy an EV. You narrow down your choice to a 3rd generation Tesla, a second generation Ford or VW and a first generation Toyota or Honda. Reliability is the deciding factor. What do you choose? Lots of people are going to choose a Japanese brand despite any drawbacks getting a "bleeding edge" model entail.

By not ramping up EV production gradually they're setting themselves hard production and logistics problems. All new production processes have teething problems, and they're a lot easier to solve when production is in the 5 figures rather than when it is in the 7 figures, but if anybody can solve hard production and logistics problems it's probably Toyota.
https://archive.is/kbpFk
Nothing but some of the environmental triggers like electromagnetic radiation, air pollution, and the weather. I’m very sensitive to having episodes in high temperature and high humid environments.
What do you mean by “realize”. What does “realize” mean in a world without free will?
> [...] objective stock selection without human judgement.

That's not completely true. The indices can involve plenty of human judgement, the S&P500 does, for example.
I dunno it sounds entirely reasonable to me. Everyone was sad when Robin Williams left us. I was too, but given his dementia diagnosis I completely understood and respected his position
> It’s a sad existence when having fun is the only thing that keeps you going.

As opposed to what?
Nobody said "just buy a different CPU" anywhere in this discussion or the article. And they are pinning the root cause on AMD which is completely fair because they are the source of the issue.

Given that the fix is within the memory allocator, there is already a relatively trivial fix for users who really need it (recompile with jemalloc as the global memory allocator).

For everyone else, it's probably better to wait until AMD reports back with an analysis from their side and either recommends an "official" mitigation or pushes out a microcode update.
The moon program was extremely expensive and the return (scientific or otherwise) was rather small in comparison.
If you mean the claim that the beef, pork, poultry, eggs and milk represents a huge emissions footprint, then no. That's not in dispute and it isn't particularly hard to prove that by looking at how much of the agricultural output goes into producing these protein sources.

And that's _before_ you consider the emissions from raising cattle, swine or poultry.

It is also useful to consider the scale of these industries. In terms of biomass, livestock represents more than 30 times the biomass of land based wildlife. In terms of creatures living on land, our food completely dominates the planet.

And if you wonder: I eat meat (in moderation) and I plan to continue doing so as part of a healthy, balanced diet. But that doesn't mean I'm unaware of the environmental cost of what I eat. If we're going to keep eating animal proteins we can't ignore this as the global population grows, and even more importantly, as more and more of the global population is moving up the wealth ladder (see Hans Rosling's talks and how the global population is moving out of the lower income categories).
> You can be "depressed and", but the "and" part is up to you to discover and cultivate. My partner is "depressed and X" (for her, X=[kind, loving, funny, understanding, compassionate, on medication, outdoorsy, fun, and my favorite person]). For me, who's been with diagnosed with depression as well, the X might be other things (goofy, prone to dad jokes, reckless, adventurous, smart, friendly, whatever).

My first reaction (and I apologize since it's a bit rude) but

if you're depressed, how can you also be goofy + funny + making dad jokes? I thought depression is like "everything sucks, I'm in a bad mood I can't shake"
It's ok they called off the wedding.
What's nonsensical about it? Determining that we can't rationally hold people responsible doesn't mean that society is powerless to defend itself against bad actors. What it does is undermines the justification for moral indignation and our retributive tendencies. If someone contracted a contagious illness, we would quarantine them despite the fact that they're not responsible for their illness. There's no contradiction in defensive behavior and recognizing a lack of moral responsibility.
Companies breaking the law isn’t about individual using or not using it, if the service itself is illegal.

Facebook is likely in the same situation as drug dealers, prostitutes, assassins etc the existence of willing customers doesn’t make their business model legal. They can change their business model or change the law.

Of course if it’s possible that they win, but completely baseless lawsuits get dismissed.
GM was bailed out to save the jobs. And it’s got nothing to do with the “free market”. The “free market” is between GM and their customers.
From the linked 2022 article "Veev plans to add 100 employees to its Israeli R&D center and accelerate research and development initiatives." Startups in Israel are massive affected by the current conflict, aren't they? I only know three people living there, two of them drafted a month ago.
VW, the brand, has some very serious issues, not all of those are related to EVs as they started much earlier.

VW, as in VAG the enterprise, is doing quite well with brands like Skoda, Porsche and Audi.
yeah it would be pretty fucked up if I was recorded all the time, like in every store. Or like walking through a neighborhood and half the doorbells call out as you pass to inform your that they're recording. Or if you do anything slightly embarassing in public and there is a teenager nearby.
Sounds like you're talking about the difference between positive and negative rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
I am all for alternatives but they need to be tested properly. I think you are letting emotion take away reason.

"They are tested enough to say that they won't kill you immediately" so the pass test is eating something and not dropping dead?

"we know that animal-based meat is unhealthy and can cause cancer". A large study and a study of studies published last month showed that the claim that red mean can cause cancer is incorrect. And, in any case, if you read my original comment you will see that I specify that plant-based meat should be shown to be "at least as safe" as actual meat.
10-year-old ICE cars in its price range have the same features.

Base model of Dacia Spring EV and Citroen Ami have no touchscreens whatsoever, but these are low-low-end vehicles.
The way I describe mmap these days is to say it allocates address space. This can sometimes be a clearer way of describing it, since the physical memory will only get allocated once you use the memory (maybe never).
I'm not entirely sure when the gender entered the equation.
It's funny because that's how I think of most people going into management and above. They are smart, yet they will walk over you if you get in their way.
I reply because I have no choice.
Making changes to the body with mutilation and hormones increases risk of severe complications including cancer. This isn't a political question.
This is pure, uninformed speculation.

These aren't new treatments. Modern medicine looks pretty confident this is the best treatment for certain patients at the current time to a degree that the opposite of your guess is true.

You should become more informed about these things before commenting like this or people would be inclined to think you're just being inflammatory.
That sounds more like a Parent-Child relationship than Owner-Pet to me. I guess I take inspiration from the Culture series where AIs indeed have basically all the agency and "run" things but humans are not relegated to the status of pets.

>But who's going to be on the other side, arguing that listening to the AI advice is a net bad?

If an AI reached the point where it is objectively better than the human, across all intellectual metrics, to which it is giving advice would it be a net bad?
He may believe that people can't be held "morally" responsible for it but that doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks that we can't punish people or censure them. Like, you might not think that a 4 year old is morally responsible or "evil" for breaking his little sister's toys, but you still send them to time out anyway.
This claim is like saying that because the laws of physics are time reversible, that there is no difference between going forward and backwards in time.
I had the same thoughts a few years ago.

The winner will not be the first one to the market, but the one at the right time with the best car on the market.
Years ago, I had an issue with a coworker. My mentor told me to pray for them. I cursed him but did it anyway.
About six months later, a different coworker came to me and asked, "How do you get along with X? They really seem to respect you."
I told him that I prayed for X.
He called me an axxhole.
It makes a lot of sense to me, they just didn't execute. There is a huge blending of VFX technology and video games and always has been. Old person story: I remember interviewing an artist at Pandemic Studios (an old video game company in Los Angeles) and the artist's reel just had a shot from "Titanic" which was new then.

"That's just a shot of a man walking across the deck of a ship, what did you do."

"I animated the man."

I was dumbfounded. At that point our 3d graphics looked worse than Minecraft and I had no idea what CG they were sticking into practical shots.

(edited for spelling and I didn't catch all the errors I am sure)
Love the initiative. I'll get one once this starts mature.

Seeing things like this makes me think how badly companies like GE, Maytag, etc. all dropped the ball. Rather than innovating on making peoples lives easier - liberation from domestic toil - they just focused on squeezing out every penny by making Chinese crap with a brand name sticker glued, selling worse versions of products invented in the 1950s.

Somebody, please, just make a robot which folds my damn laundry!
This is not the same, and might not get house-mate approval, but I like writing little notes in-situ where I need them. For laundry, little checklists of things I forget to wash (bathroom rugs smh), how long each cycle takes. Houseplants can keep when they were last watered nearby. Only works for high-use areas but still useful
Isn’t their fundraising ability kind of valuable to your interests?

Is there a way you can help find some work for them to do? Like, hitting the pavement hard to wrangle up customers?

I dunno, just spitballing!
Or if you're on holiday - turn the lights on at certain points.

For top marks, have a train set with cardboard cutouts on and party music playing loudly every evening.
> Why is Russian army staffed by "evil nazis" exclusively, while actual Nazi army... wasn't?

What do you mean by 'actual'? Just because the russian ruling party aren't calling themselves National-Socialists doesn't mean they aren't 'actual' nazis. Search for "rashism". russia is even more evil than Nazi Germany because Germany had one very bad episode in 1933-1945, while russia has been committing atrocities, oppressing and occupying ever since the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
> 2. You are in a profession with limited opportunity (say, HR) and he is your boss.

Why is your example HR? Literally every company has an HR function and they're often quite large organizations. There's tons of opportunity to move away from a bad boss in HR.

A better example would be some company-specific niche role [1], where the only similar roles would be at a competitor located on the other side of the country.

[1] I could give examples, except those would give away more personal info that I want to
>If someone is highly intelligent, they will realize acting like a jerk is not helpful and causes them problems

That doesn't appear to happen for other unhelpful behavior. Plenty of brilliant people with severe issues with all sorts of other criminal or self-destructive habits.
What are “belief” and “arguments” in a world without free will?
I've worked at a place with mostly HB1 engineers and I've seen this lead to bad software because almost no one can say no to dumb requests. In these environments, no one challenges the higher ups and just do what they are told, no questions asked.
https://gdpr.eu/fines/

For Facebook is would be either 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, or 4% of said revenue.

A bit bigger than a rounding error.
Clickable and fixed link:

https://shellf.me/
Why make that assumption? Given that the tech field is predominantly composed of white men, it's not surprising to see panels reflecting this demographic, even without any discriminatory intent. If anything, you'd be more justified in raising that question when encountering a panel containing only black women, considering their underrepresentation in the industry. The probability of that happening randomly, absent of discrimination, is much, much lower.
The elderly people I’ve spoken to respond that they are a burden. No longer independent, can’t drive or not supposed to drive out of town especially at night, and once they become fall prone it gets very difficult to care for them.
I guess we can't read the actual letters here?
> This doesn't happen any more. Back then you could find companies with a cap that was LESS than the money they had in the bank. Those were no brainer deals.

For a while, Yahoo was famously worth less than its stake in Alibaba. But it was also not clear whether shareholders could get management out of the way to stop destroying value.
Or is the lesson to _always_ attempt such critical changes on a Friday? After all, in this instance the client didn't notice any problems, apparently because they were already off to their weekend.

For me personally the much bigger issue would be harming the client, their business or our relationship. Doing a few hours of overtime to fix my mistakes would probably only feel as well deserved punishment...
Yes, but plants are not breathing, feeling animals.
The question was about plant-based, not artificial animal-meat from a lab.